#256 What Not To Wear Series# 3, Clothed In Glory

#256 What Not To Wear Series# 3, Clothed In Glory
By: Pastor Karl Thomas

 Ephesians 6:10-13
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, … take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,…”

The Kingdom of God is eternal but DOMINION is generational.
Acts 13:36 ”For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep,…”
Psalm 115:16 “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given … children of men.”

Genesis 1:28 NKJV
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
TLV “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the land, and conquer it.”

“Subdue” (kabash):— conquer, subjugate, bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.
Kibosh :— to eliminate, terminate  “Put the Kibosh on that!”

Genesis 2:15  “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”
“Keep It” Shamar:— to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life and protect …
What are they guarding against? God’s Enemies.

Mankind is to protect the eternal purpose of God and to once and for all put the KIBOSH on enemies!!!
The devil wasn’t going to just sit back and let this happen … He attacked God’s plan right away.

Revelation 12:11  “And they overcame him (accuser) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
katēgoreō:— to make an accusation we get the word category he is a labeller, classification

Oxford Dictionary  RACISM:— Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.

Oxford Dictionary  RACISM:—The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races

James 3:16 “For where envying (zeros:— fanatical) and strife is, (eritheii:— party spirit, political) there is confusion (akatastasia:— disorder,anarchy) and every evil work (phaulos:— foul, exceedingly vile).

Rick Renner “For where there is a fierce desire to promote one’s own ideas and convictions to the exclusion of everyone else, it produces divisions so great that people end up taking sides and forming differing parties with conflicting agendas. This is a terrible event, because it creates great unrest among people who should be united. Ultimately, the whole situation becomes a stinking mess!”

2 Corinthians 2:10-11  “Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.” (Evil purpose)

The Charleston church shooting was a mass shooting that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States, on the evening of June 17, 2015.

As she stood in the courtroom addressing Mr Roof, Bethane Middleton-Brown, the sister of victim Rev Depayne Middleton-Doctor, said it simply:  “We have no room for hate so we have to forgive.”

Martin Luther King
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
“I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

Nelson Mandela
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”

Oprah Winfrey
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

Where the concept of honour has been corrupted shame begins to dominate. Romans 12:10
“Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;”

Eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought sin and death into the world.
A culture of judging, condemning and comparison.  Love alway honours and brings value to a person.

1 Samuel 16:7 “For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

2 Types Of Honour:
1. Achieved Honour — Based on my ability to perform at a certain level.
2. Ascribed Honour — ascribe righteousness, to someone by virtue of a similar quality in another.
Christ’s righteousness has been imputed to us.

2 Corinthians 5:21  “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
God dealt with the sin problem, once and for all, so that we could have restored righteousness.

John 4  “For you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; … The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ‘Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?’ Then they went out of the city and came to Him.”

JESUS FREAKED OUT HIS DISCIPLES BY GOING THROUGH SAMMARIA!!!!

Biblical Honour is ASCRIBED.
Psalm 62:7 “In God is my salvation and my glory;” kaw-bode’:— glory, honour, dignity, reputation.

Isaiah 55:5 “Because of the Lord your God, … For He has glorified you.”
Psalm 3:3 “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.”

John 17:22 “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:”
If we are all clothed in His glory and we recognize that fact in others we will be wrapped in DIVINE UNION!!!

John 5:44  “How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?”
They wanted to kill Jesus… He changed all the rules.  People still demand value

Romans 5:8  “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 1:29 “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

Genesis 3:21 “Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.”
Blood was shed!
Hebrews 9:7 “…not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins.”

Galatians 3:28
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 2:18
“For through Him we both (Jew and NonJew) have access by one Spirit to the Father.”

256 What Not To Wear Series# 3,Clothed In Glory

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