[Faith-talk] Requesting prayer for preaching this Sunday and sharing my transcript

[Poppa Bear]

Hello Erica, Thanks for the support and reading it, take care and blessings.
I will be sending up some prayers for you and yours. 

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I love that image of preparing for a trip!

Ericka Short
"What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."

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> On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:56 AM, Poppa Bear via Faith-talk
<faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Faith family, I am hoping that some of you will take some time 
> to pray for me over the next few days that I will be able to deliver 
> God's word with truth, grace and humility this Sunday. Also pray that 
> hearts would be moved and motivated to really live for Jesus and come 
> to find freedom and safety in his service. Below is the message that I 
> wrote, if you take the time to read then perhaps pray over it as well. 
> I am preaching to a small congregation of Alaska natives and have 
> tried to make things as plain as possible with small contrasting 
> statements and illustrations that they can relate to up here. I had to 
> shave about a thousand words off in order to fit the service time, 
> LOL. Blessings
> 
> Genesis 5: 9 through 22 Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the 
> people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three 
> sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
> 
> Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God 
> saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had 
> corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end 
> to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. 
> I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself 
> an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside 
> and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three 
> hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.  Make a 
> roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all 
> around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and 
> upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy 
> all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life 
> in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my 
> covenant with you, and you will enter the ark, you and your sons and 
> your wife and your sons' wives with you. You are to bring into the ark 
> two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with 
> you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every 
> kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be 
> kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and
store it away as food for you and for them."
> 
> Noah did everything just as God commanded him. The Lord then said to 
> Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have 
> found you righteous in this generation.
> 
> Prayer
> 
> Have you ever had something stole from outside of your home? You just 
> knew that you shouldn't have left it outside, but complacency and 
> laziness got the better of you and you just continued to leave it out 
> there and then one morning you came outside and noticed that it was 
> gone. A shovel, a gas can, fishing pole, a tool box in the back of 
> your truck? I remember one time my step father had a pair of brand new 
> winter tires in the bed of his truck. I had commented to my mom that 
> he didn't want to leave them there, she kind of shrugged it off, and 
> she imagined that he knew better, he could manage it, but the next day 
> when I talked to her the tires were gone. Those tires cost a thousand 
> bucks. It would have taken all of ten minutes to get the tires out of 
> the truck and bring them inside. At that rate he would have saved a 
> hundred bucks a minute. This is a picture of our attitude towards the 
> Lords coming. Often we think, or rather do not think that it is really 
> that serious. As Christians we know that He will come back for his 
> church at some point, but we for some reason just push that idea 
> towards the back of our mind and go on, business as usual, clock in, 
> clock out, another day, another dollar. Bills to pay, taxes, birthdays 
> and holidays. I want to challenge you; I want to ring the bell, the 
> alarm, I want to say, wake up. We need to wake up. As I heard a 
> preacher say recently, the Titanic has already struck the iceberg, the 
> world is already sinking. Now it's a matter of who will make it into 
> the life boats. If you have watched the movie the titanic you may 
> recall that as the boat is sinking, some on the ship just continue to 
> do what they were doing. The orchestra carries on with their songs, 
> dancers continue dancing and the people at the bar continue to get 
> drunk. That is a picture of what is going on today. It is the same 
> picture of life when Noah was building the ark and the flood came. 
> People were drinking, marrying and being given in marriage. They saw 
> Noah building this massif structure, I am sure that he was the talk of 
> many nations, I am sure that people traveled hundreds of miles to see 
> him, this wild eyed crazy old man hammering on this boat and preaching 
> this message of repentance. I mean, he was gathering together an 
> entire zoo as well; it must have been like a modern day amusement 
> park. Over the hundred years that it took him to complete the ark he 
> may have even employed laborers to help build the ark, men who put 
> their own sweat, time and energy into help build this mammoth boat. 
> But still when the first drops of rain started falling how many 
> entered into the safety of the ark? The bible says that there was only 
> 8 in all that entered the ark when that door shut. Now this is what it 
> will be like when the Lord comes and takes his church. See the titanic 
> is the world, and there is a giant gaping hole in it and it is 
> sinking, but the life boat is Gods ark which is a picture of Christ 
> and whoever enters into it by faith will be saved. Here is something 
> that I thought was interesting, the ark as big and imposing as it was 
> had only one door, God told him to just put one door. That is against 
> every fire code in the book, but no not God's plan, He says Noah, just 
> one door to go in and out of. What God, how can I get thousands of 
> animals in one door? I'll work it out Noah, you just trust and obey. You
see, God only needs one door. What did Jesus tell his disciples and the
people about doors? He said in John 10:9 that "I am the door. If anyone
enters by me, he will be saved," There is only one door to enter into his
safety, He said in John, that he was the way, the truth and the life, not a
way, but the way.
> So in the ark we have the same thing, one door to enter into safety. 
> People will be playing their Xbox, browsing their face book, getting 
> ready to go out to a ball game and then, 1 Cor CH 15 says that in a 
> moment, a twinkling of an eye that we and those who have had their 
> earthly bodies laid in the grave will be taken up to heaven with Him. 
> The bible said that Noah was righteous, not perfect, but he was 
> righteous. Just like Abraham wasn't perfect, but by living by faith in 
> Gods promises and commandments, living by faith they walked as God's
friends.
> 
> I know that it is very hard to walk with God in this day and age. 
> Everywhere we look we see the Devils hand at work. You turn on the TV 
> and even the commercials are pushing sin, let alone the actual movies. 
> It is so easy to just go with the flow, relax, and loosen up. But 
> we're not called to just go with the flow; we're called to be 
> vigilant, Even when the world says come on, come with us, look at 
> everyone else their doing it, we dig in our hills and set are faces 
> towards the cross, towards the thrown of God. We don't go with the 
> flow, we are like the Salmon, and we fight to go up stream even when 
> the current is going the opposite way. When the world says sit down, 
> we stand up for Christ. When the world bows down to idols we bow down 
> to the living God. When the world says take as much as you can get, we 
> give as much as we can for the sake of the Cross and a love for 
> others. You see, we are different now, when you come to Christ a 
> change takes place, we become a new creation in Christ, all old things
have passed away, and behold, and all things are new. We don't do what we
did when we were living unsaved lives.
> Friends and family may try and get you to do what you used to do, but 
> we crucify the old man. The old ways are gone, we walk in newness of 
> life now,
> 1 Peter 4:3 through 5  in the Living Bible says, You have had enough 
> in the past of the evil things the godless enjoy, sexual sin, lust, 
> getting drunk, wild parties, drinking bouts, and the worship of idols, 
> and other terrible sins. Of course, your former friends will be very 
> surprised when you don't eagerly join them anymore in the wicked 
> things they do, and they will laugh at you in contempt and scorn. But 
> just remember that they must face the Judge of all, living and dead. 
> They will laugh at you. Yes, they may laugh at you but friends, Jesus 
> says, blessed are you when they persecute you for righteousness 
> because you will see the kingdom of God. I don't know about you, but I 
> want to see the kingdom of God, I want to be a citizen of that 
> kingdom. Some people save for years to go to New York City, visit the 
> statue of liberty and eat at the famous restaurants in grinige 
> village, some people dream about going to Paris, the city of lights, 
> fashion, perfumes, they dream about gazing on the iafole tower, 
> listening to the French accents. But I want to see the Kingdom of God; 
> I want to hear the voices of thousands upon thousands singing praise 
> to the Lamb. I want to cast my crown across the Chrystal floor of the 
> throne room at the feet of Jesus. I want to look in my Saviors face, 
> kiss his nail scarred hands. That is where I want to take a trip to. 
> And you know what? Just like when you plan for a vacation, you start 
> to imagine what it will be like, you tell your friends all about it 
> and you pack your bags, that is what I'm doing, I'm telling people 
> about it, I'm reading the brochure, the Bible, I'm packing my 
> Spiritual bags and I'm ready to blast off like a rocket when that 
> Trumpet calls me home to Glory.  Let me ask you something? Does a 
> thief make an announcement ten minutes before He makes off with the 
> snow blower in the middle of the night, does he come and bang on the 
> door and say, by the way I was just passing by and I am going to slip 
> your weed whacker in my trunk, thanks? No! He doesn't do that. Jesus 
> isn't going to say, "Hello earthlings I am going to take all my 
> children home today at 3 o'clock don't forget to pack a lunch. He has 
> been telling the world that he was coming back for the last 2 thousand
years. The thief comes when everyone is a sleep, when people are distracted
and comfortable and unconcerned about anything. But Christ says, be on
watch, the apostle Paul says wake up sleeper. Are you watching, waiting?
> Right now the water is rising, the titanic is slowly sinking, what are 
> you going to do? Is there any excitement or anticipation of the Lords 
> return that bubbles up in your heart when you think about the rapture? 
> The apostle Paul, who spent much of his ministry in prison, on the run 
> or being persecuted said this,  that to live is Christ, but to die is 
> gain, to live and walk with the Spirit of God is great, but to die and 
> walk in glory, see the Master face to face, now that's hitting the 
> jackpot! If the bible describes the Lord and his life, death, his acts 
> of compassion, thoughts about religion, sin and love, his sacrifice 
> for us in such forceful and enduring words and you have no desire to 
> open the Bible up or hear it being preached on a consistent basses, 
> then you might have to ask your self do you really even want him to 
> return?  if you claim to be a new creation who has been crucified with 
> Christ, redeemed by his blood, sealed and marked by His Holy Spirit, 
> get your head out of the world's toilet bowl, stop playing in the pig 
> pen and acting like his death on the cross was on the same level as 
> some movie on the hallmark channel that made you tear up. That is a 
> sad reality. I once heard a story about an older woman. Her family 
> invited her out to a secular movie and she said no thanks she would 
> pass on it. Her son and law asked her why she didn't want to go and 
> she said because if the Lord decided to come back for his Church that she
just didn't want to be watching a movie like that. Wow! What if that mind
set was in all of God's children.
> I am not saying that all secular movies are bad, but I am saying that 
> most of the time that we never give anything like that a thought. In 
> Revelations 3:15'16Jesus says, "I know your works, that you are 
> neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, 
> because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you 
> out of my mouth. Does that seem harsh? He said it. You know why? He 
> gave everything on that cross, he left the magnificent Glory of 
> heaven, the worship of angels, his kingdom  to come down to this ball 
> of dirt, be spit on, beaten, whipped to the point that he was not even 
> recognizable as a man and then say, "Father forgive them for they know 
> not what they do. Then he threw off the chains of death to show us 
> that he was the giver of life, then he promised us eternal life, gives 
> us his holy Spirit, gives us a bible that thousands of people have 
> given their blood by being burned at the stake, crucified, flung into 
> lion pits for entertainment, hunted down like dogs, all so that we can 
> have his word, his promises, warnings, examples of love. We have that
heritage of faith and we want to be Luke warm? Are you watching, waiting
hoping? The water is rising.
> are you lounging around, feet up tossing potato chips in your mouth, 
> popping open another soda pop, channel surfing wondering why life 
> feels like it has no meaning? Don't keep wondering, there is no 
> purpose in that life, at that point you're like a zombie, you're 
> moving, breathing, but you're really dead. Without Christ and the new
birth, the bible says that you're what?
> You're dead in your trespasses and sin. If the son doesn't give you 
> life, the life that you get in his name then you have no life. Jesus 
> said that you can only serve one master. He didn't say that either 
> you're the boss or I'm the boss, it's either the devil or God. Who's 
> your master, who are you serving? You don't have to justify yourself 
> to me, you don't have to defend your spiritual life to me, open up 
> Gods word, dust off your bible and find out.
> 
> This isn't a guilt session, this is an intervention on the behalf of 
> your soul, you could walk out this door and for some reason never see 
> another sun rise again. In the time that I have preached this message 
> hundreds of people in this world just stepped into eternity and guess 
> what, most of them probably planned it when they stepped out of bed 
> this morning. The water is rising, which boat are you on, who is the
captain of your ship?
> 
> Closing prayer and invitation
> 
> 
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