INVINCIBLE CHURCH 7-14-24

Invincible Church Sermon Notes
7/14/2024
Spiritual - Powerful - Simple
Our EXISTENCE is: SPIRITUAL - POWERFUL - and SIMPLE!
GOD CREATED EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING BELONGS to HIM!
Genesis 1:1 NIV - In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
GOD CREATED MAN from NOTHING to be in a relationship with HIM! Then GOD CREATED WOMAN from "The SIDE" of MAN to BE an "EQUAL PART" of the relationship!
Genesis 3:20 NIV - 20 Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all the living!
NO MATTER what "DIVISIONS" MAN tries to IMPOSE on THE WORLD's people, every person can be tracked back to EVE!
GOD is the: CREATOR – RULER – and PROVIDER! HE is PERFECT – SOVEREIGN – and HOLY! HE is : OMNISCIENT – OMNIPOTENT – and OMNIPRESENT! GOD wants HIS CREATION to LOVE HIM UNCONDITIONALLY for WHO HE IS NOT just for WHAT HE CAN DO for US!
GOD "CHOSE" to make "ADAM and EVE" in his image, to be in a "TRUE LOVE" relationship with HIM! GOD "CHOSE" The JEWISH people of ISRAEL to reveal himself to the WORLD! GOD sent JESUS to establish the CHURCH to do HIS WORK and, COMPLETE HIS PLAN to REVEAL HIMSELF to the WORLD!
GOD ALLOWS mankind the opportunity to "CHOOSE" to live according to HIS WAY of "OBEDIENCE and LOVE" or "CHOOSE" THE WORLD'S WAY of "SIN and SELFISHNESS"! "ADAM and EVE" chose "SIN and SELFISHNESS" Which set GOD's "RESCUE PLAN" in motion for HIS "FALLEN or SINFUL" CREATION!
GOD's PLAN "FUNCTIONS and OPERATES" on a system of 10 Commandments: BASED – GROUNDED – and FOUNDED on "UNCONDITIONAL LOVE"! HIS LOVE for US and our LOVE for "HIM and OTHERS"!
Because GOD is PERFECT and MAN is NOT there's ONLY: RIGHT or WRONG – GOOD or EVIL – LIGHT or DARK – BELIEVERS or PAGANS - SAVED PEOPLE or LOST PEOPLE! There's NO "IN BETWEEN"! When GOD's PERFECT PLAN for this "EARTH" is COMPLETE, ETERNITY STARTS and there's ONLY HEAVEN or HELL!
Because of GOD's INCREDIBLE: LOVE – MERCY – and GRACE for HIS CREATION HE GAVE us "A PLAN", so we COULD BE "RESTORED and RECONCILED" to HIM for ETERNITY in HEAVEN! HIS PERFECT PLAN to be RECONCILED to HIM ONLY goes through HIS PERFECT SON JESUS!! Who died a sacrificial death to PAY for the sins of the world!
HIS: BURIAL – RESURRECTION – and ASCENSION to HEAVEN COMPLETED the PLAN and allows us to SUBMIT to HIM as LORD – SAVIOR – and KING!
Once we decide to SUBMIT to JESUS we BELONG to HIM! Our IDENTITY is IN HIM! We're IN this WORLD but, we are NOT OF this WORLD! Our CITIZENSHIP is in HEAVEN! GOD has given us a plan to exist in this world and get his work done! It is why he leaves us here after salvation!
GOD is our: CREATOR – RULER – PROVIDER! JESUS is our: LORD – SAVIOR – and KING! The HOLY SPIRIT is our: ADVOCATE – COUNSELOR – and POWER! GOD's PLAN for US includes a government that is to"PROTECT and KEEP ORDER" and to "OPERATE and FUNCTION" by HIS STANDARDS NOT by POLITICAL PREFERENCES!
Some people say that politics should not be talked about in church but, that is like saying "SIN" shouldn't be talked about in church. Everything needs to be talked about in church at some point because we are supposed to be standing for what is right and to oppose what is wrong!
GOD's GOVERNMENT = FREEDOM and LIBERTY
MAN's GOVERNMENT = OPPRESSION and CONTROL
GOD's GOVERNMENT = PROTECTION and ORDER
MAN's GOVERNMENT = MANDATE and INTERFERENCE
GOD's GOVERNMENT = LAW ENFORCEMENT and CONSEQUENCES MAN's GOVERNMENT = TOLERANCE and PARDON
GOD's GOVERNMENT LEADER = HIGH MORAL STANDARDS and SACRIFICE
MAN's GOVERNMENT LEADER = CORRUPTION and SELFISHNESS
With that being said throughout the Bible, we see GOD using people who have defective motives or attitudes or both to get HIS work done and, accomplish his purposes! He has to because ALL have SINNED and FALL SHORT of The GLORY of GOD!
Paul even said in Philippians 1 that he REJOICES when The GOSPEL of JESUS is PROCLAIMED whether the motives are "GOOD or BAD"!
GOD's people and professing Christians have been letting JESUS down from the very beginning! So, we should be repentant people who are slow to judge that speck in somebody else's eye before we remove the log in our own eye! We have to be HUMBLE if we are going to be like JESUS!
NOW there are only 2 NATIONS that EXIST under the HAND of GOD's FAVOR! ISRAEL and the U.S.A.! GOD "CHOSE" ISRAEL! and The Founding Fathers "CHOSE" to "ESTABLISH" The U.S.A. based on the Biblical Principles of GOD's HOLY WORD!
WHY would GOD DO THIS-DON'T KNOW!! But in...
Isaiah 55:9 NIV - 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The WORLDS WAY is: KINGS – PHARAOHS – EMPERORS - DICTATORS – RULERS
Back in the day, Israel was "OPERATING and FUNCTIONING" as "ONE NATION UNDER GOD" but, the people just could not be content. They wanted an earthly King, so GOD gave them one! Nothing but Trouble!
The U.S.A. is set up to operate and function GOD's way, where the people are free to follow JESUS and the government works for the people but, the church failed to follow the instructions of JESUS! They became, TOLERANT – PASSIVE - and DISOBEDIENT to GOD's PLAN!
Which allowed pagans to get a foothold and have dishonored GOD again! So, why does GOD keep putting up with our foolishness!! I do not know the full answer but, here is what I do know...
John 3:16 NIV - 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
The reality is, that the crisis that our country is in right now is not political it is SPIRITUAL! It always has been! It is time for True Followers of Jesus to get back in alignment with GOD'S: PLAN – WILL – and WAYS!
Whether we like a certain leader or not, we need to recognize GOD's "HAND of PROTECTION" is ON "SOMEBODY"! It is evident that what happened yesterday, that GOD is not done with The U.S.A. We need to start living like we believe that and get busy doing HIS work!
Prophecy tells us that Israel will have an advocate in the End Times! I fully believe scripture points to the U.S.A. as that advocate!
Next week we will look at the ENEMY!! What we are faced with and what we need to be doing until Jesus comes back!!
Until then-
2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV - 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.