There is Yet One Man, Part 4

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There is Yet One Man, Part 4

November 7, 2012 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Hallelujah! Amen. Let's turn to Samuel this evening, and see what the Lord would speak to us. We are looking at the life of David and the call of God upon his life. What qualified him to be used as a man of God? I really believe that most of us in here want to be men and women of God, who can honor Him in these last days, who will be able to really say, "Having done all to stand, we are just standing." Amen? I believe that is in the heart of each of us; and I think that we need to look at the character of these men, and then (as I said the other evening) the things that caused them to be tripped up in their lives. All of these great men encountered at one time in their life a great failure. Don't be afraid to fail; amen? "A [good] man falleth seven times...and riseth up again," praise God. And one thing in this day that we will face is that the enemy is going to try to convince you to quit: "You're not going to make it. You're not one of the chosen. The way is too hard. Why bother?" "Because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world" (amen?), and, "He hath said, 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee'" praise God. "God is...a very present help in trouble."

And so we want to look at these men, and see them rise up and have great victories, and have to combat their own carnality. I guess, if we have done one thing over these last few years--and see if this rings true to your heart--I have been trying to help us to come to grips with our carnality, and who we really are. Probably, for the last 18 months, from so many angles, I have just been trying to get each one of us to truly realize our absolute necessity on His presence and His grace or we will fail; amen? Let's just say it another way: I have been trying to help us to not think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think (Romans 12:3)...

There is Yet One Man, Part 1

October 31, 2012 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Hallelujah! Let's turn to Ephesians. We've already addressed this subject some tonight in the utterances that have been given. It shows the mind of the Spirit and the harmony in the Spirit that should exist when we come as one--one heart, one mind--when we come prayerfully. We're just talking again about the age that we're living in. It's evil and a perverse generation; isn't it? But if Philippians tells us, since you're there--in Ephesians just really quickly look over a couple of chapters. As I shared that, the verses came to mind, Chapter 2, verse 13, "For ... God [is working in us] both to will and to do of his good pleasure. [And] Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world." It explains where we are; doesn't it? A crooked and perverse nation--we're as bad--no, worse--than Sodom and Gomorrah because of the godliness that has been given opportunity to a nation who has snuffed at it, who has mocked it, who knowing God chooses not to retain Him; amen? God gives them over to reprobate minds. We live in a nation of reprobates, people who have known God, who have known of God and have chosen to walk after their own lusts and not only do these things but take pleasure in them that do them and become inventors of evil things. Isn't that amazing that's where we're living today? It says, however, we're to shine as lights in midst of this. Do you feel weary sometimes? Just weary of the warfare, I'm not even talking about specific trials, but you just walk out into the midst of this society and there's a heaviness, there's a perversion, there's a darkness. The spirit is so offended by our nation's new religion, secular humanism, the worship of the creature more than the Creator. It becomes more and more acceptable and we become more and more vexed. I think that one truth we need to get a hold of, just like righteous Lot, is it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter...

There is Yet One Man, Part 2

November 4, 2012 • Pastor Star R. Scott

A couple more days and we'll have all of our questions answered as to what the political state of our nation will be. We just need to remind ourselves that whoever gets elected, God is in charge. Whoever gets elected isn't going to change the course that we're on, because this course has been established by prophetic utterance, by the heart and mind of God centuries ago. Do you really understand-I don't think any of us do-the hour that we're living in? We say that we do, but historically, what an exciting time to represent the church of Jesus Christ! Never a time like it: the generation that will most likely see the return of the Lord Jesus. We're it. We talk about it doctrinally, but can you imagine? I can only imagine what that voice is going to sound like. It's going to sound like a trumpet, but I mean that voice. Can you imagine just hearing, "Come up hither! Come on home! It's over. You've fought a good fight"? We can be those people. But He asks the question, "When I return, will I find faith on the earth?" We've been looking at that from a lot of different angles over the last number of months. The message on my heart, and I think we've been hearing it clearly is, as the bride is being prepared, are we conscious of the work in us? We're part of the bride of Christ. Are you conscious of the work that's going on in your life right now to prepare you for the coming of Jesus Christ? How many of you are even aware? Some of us, He's doing things in our lives we're not even aware of. If you're aware of what needs to change, you have a lot of work to do, because He's coming for a bride that is without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. But the most minute areas of our lives need to be pressed out, the minute areas that offend Him, that are not like Him. "Be holy, for I am holy." If the things that need to be dealt with are very clear to you, we have some work to do.

There is Yet One Man, Part 3

November 4, 2012 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Amen! Let's turn back to 1 Samuel and pick up where we left off this morning. That admonition for us to follow hard after the Lord, it's very unnatural to us, isn't it? It's funny that we, as human beings, are definitely crisis-oriented. Even Jesus prayed more earnestly. You'd think that the Lord would always pray to the full capacity with the full zeal that's available to us as men. He was the perfect man. He was in Gethsemane as a human, not as God. And as the battle intensified, He prayed more earnestly. How many of you have found that for your own lives? And I know in my own life, the prayers over the years. My prayer was with great intensity when I was in the throes of losing my wife and battling down that final stretch. Nothing else mattered. All of my time, all my energy, all my thoughts were consumed with the battle that I was in. The intensity when we were in Africa, and Greer, all of a sudden, was deathly ill. And we find ourselves in a hospital that was less than what we're used to. And the times that they were taking blood from her in this area of AIDS. And when you find your wife in that position, you pray more earnestly, don't you? When I was faced with prison here just recently and it was told by one of the most powerful attorneys in Washington, D.C., "You are going to jail," you pray more earnestly, don't you? As we've been faced and looking at the possibility of everything that we've had as a family here going away and possibly having to go rent some property and start again, you pray more earnestly, don't you? So where do you find yourself today? We don't have the crisis of a nation in absolute anarchy. We don't have the crisis of our freedom taken from us yet. We don't have the crisis of hyperinflation. And so, we don't pray. Oh, we play around. But what about the wrestling matches with God that, though they last all night, we say, "I won't turn you lose until you've revealed yourself to me." When He comes, will He find faith in the earth? Where are we in the midst of this war, and do we really truly believe that we can stand before God and say, "There's not an ounce of strength left in me that I haven't used in pursuit of you"? When we seek Him with all of our hearts, that's when we find Him, amen?...