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OUTLINE FOR SUNDAY MESSAGE, 6-21-26
“IT STARTS AT HOME, PT. 2,”
DEUT. 6:1-9 (KJV)
Deuteronomy 6:1–9 (KJV):
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Those early years are so important in instilling values and traditions in our children. We learn how to get along with family members, work together with others within the family, confront challenges together, and cope with tragedy together, etc. We learn how to manage hurt and rejection. We learn respect. We start developing interests in different areas that attract our attention. We learn to manage disagreements, build relationships, & grow together. It’s in the home environment is where we learn about right and wrong. Deut. 6:2, 6,7 (Amplified Bible): “That you may [reverently] fear the Lord you God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in you [own] minds and hearts; [then] You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.” Our character is starting to be developed in those early years of our lives and which way that character is developed starts at home. Our attitude towards God, work, higher learning, the world, other people different from us, the Bible, the Holy Spirit, angels, Satan, demons, etc., will begin to be developed at home. It’s at home that we begin preparing for this life. They learn about respecting authority, beginning with the highest authority, God. Children first must respect that authority that’s right in front of them and that’s their parents. Parents teach them to respect the highest authority, God. This, to me, is so critical, because if we neglect our responsibility in teaching our children that the highest authority is God and they, in turn, don’t respect the highest authority, then I am convinced that the erosion begins. If we send them out into this world not respecting the highest authority then they will not respect any authority, parents, teachers, police, pastors, etc. We need not look far to see the consequences of a world without God, leaders without God, parents without God, and the chaos that follows as revealed in God’s Word, Romans 1:16–32 (KJV): 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. God sees generationally and teaches us to think generationally. What am I leaving to the next generation? How I am preparing generationally to set up the next generation for success, Deut. 6:2, 6,7 (Amplified Bible): “That you may [reverently] fear the Lord you God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in you [own] minds and hearts; [then] You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.”
Exodus 20:1-6 (KJV)
20 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
God commands us to begin teaching our children at home how to walk by faith, Romans 1:17 (KJV): 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Environment is key to teaching our children at home how to walk by faith which is a process and those who are taught early on to walk by faith are blessed because they get to experience the blessings of the faith journey. Romans 10:17 (KJV): 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Also the Bible reads in James 1:22 (KJV): 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Also James 2:26 (KJV): 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. It’s more than just going to a religious service, but it’s believing God to the point of action on what you believe and it’s at that point that we find Him to be our salvation, the God who supplies all my needs, my Healer, my Peace, a present help in the time of need, my Joy, my Hope, (names of God). But, it all starts at home (Current events). The evil in our politics, the confusion in Christendom. We are truly in the last days, 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (KJV): This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Come Lord Jesus, come.
OUTLINE FOR BIBLE STUDY MONDAY, 6-22-26
“THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER,”
JAMES 5:13-18 (KJV)
James 5:13–18 (KJV)
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Believers pray from their hearts, out of their spirits, James 5:16B. We pray prayers of faith, Ephesians 6:18 (KJV):
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
Jude 20 (KJV)
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
Romans 8:26–27 (KJV)
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
James 5:15–16 (KJV)
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
1 Chronicles 4:9–10 (KJV)
9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
The prayer of Jabez, as it is well known for being called, has been a popular prayer used by many saints for their own comfort. It is revealed by scholars that Jabez also had a town named after him according to 1 Chronicles 2:55 (KJV): 55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Therefore Jabez prayed according to the will of God and specifically to what he desired from God, 1. Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed (This is God’s will for all of His people, Luke 12:32 (KJV): 32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.), 2. And enlarge my coast (Scholars also reveal that Jabez’s prayer concerns the conquering of the Canaanites in their immediate vicinity. It was the will of God that the Israelites possess the land, Exodus 33:1–3 (KJV): And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: 2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.), 3. And that thine hand might be with me, (Joshua 1:1-5 (KJV): 1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, 2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. 5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.), 4. And that thou wouldest keep me from evil (Matthew 6:13 (KJV): 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.), & 5. That it may not grieve me (Jabez means “grief” as implied in v. 9 according to Jabez’s mother. She named him after the experience she had while having him.). His faith was in his God to deliver that which he asked God for. He prayed in faith as also our text reveals the power of the prayer of faith. It is also a testimony to the relationship that Jabez had with his God by faith. He believed in the God of Israel. Jabez had faith in God, Mark 11:22–24 (KJV): 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
James 5:13–18 (KJV)
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
1 John 5:14–15 (KJV)
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
John 14:12–14 (KJV)
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
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