LIFTING UP A STANDARD

ISA. 62:8-12    (V.10)

 

INTRO:  V.10 -  IN ISA. 40:3 A REFERENCE IS MADE TO THE WAY PREPARED FOR THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, WHILE HERE IN V.10 IT IS THE WAY PREPARED FOR HIS PEOPLE.

---V.11—JESUS IS COMEING WHETHER WERE READY OR NOT (ARE YOU READY)

---WHILE I WAS STUDYING ON V.10,  ITS OUR JOB AS PASTORS & PREACHERS  TO GO THROUGH THE GATES AND THROUGH THE GATES THAT ARE KEPT SHUT TODAY IN OUR SOCIETY, AND THAT A LOT OF PASTORS AND PREACHERS DON’T ATTEMPT TO GO THROUGH , BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO (SO CALL MEDDLE) OR AFRAID THEY WILL JEOPERDIZE THEIR PASTORATE POSITION.     (NOW USE YOUR IMAGINATION)

--- I BELIEVE WE ARE FAILING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND THIS GENERATION BECAUSE WE ARE NOT PREPARING THE WAY  ( THE OLD TIME WAY)    ( THE OLD PATHS- TO WALK THEREIN)   BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THEY WOULDN’T WALK THEREIN.   BUT WE CAN STILL PREPARE THAT WAY.

--- WERE LIVING IN A DAY OF LOOSENESS IN OUR CHURCHES, HOMES, MORALS, STANDARDS.

---OUR JOBS AS PASTORS AND PREACHERS IS TO CAST UP, CAST UP THE HWY.   TO MAKE SURE THE PATH IS  KEPT CLEAN, PURE, WORKABLE (ONLY ONE WORKABLE PATH—JESUS)

--- WERE TO GATHER OUT THE STONES, ANYTHING THAT WOULD CAUSE A STUMBLING BLOCK AND MAKE US SHIPWRECK.

---(V.10)  WE NEED TO LIFT UP A STANDARD, A BANNER,  THAT THIS IS THE WAY AND MAKE IT PLAIN  AND STRAIGHT.  (JESUS SAID I AM THE WAY , THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE)

 

--- ALL OUR YOUNG PEOPLE  NEED IS THE WAY—NOT MY WAY, YOUR WAY, BUT THE WAY.

---THEY NEED ME AND YOU TO HOLD UP A BANNER, NOT JUST ANY BANNER, BUT THIS BANNER (KJV)   TO SET A STANDARD.

--- THERE ARE THOSE THAT WOULD TELL OUR YOUNG PEOPLE THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS TO CLIMB THE FINANCIAL LADDER OF SOCIAL LADDER.  BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IS TO  MAKE PROVISION FOR THE SPIRITUAL ( BE SAVED, BORN AGAIN) BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE IN LIFE.

 

--- I WANT TO LEAVE  BEHIND A CLEAR PATH FOR MY DAUGHTER AND THESE YOUNG PEOPLE:  THAT I BELIEVE IN THE ( KJV BIBLE), (THAT I LIVED HOLY),  (LIVED RIGHT),  ( THAT I DIDN’T COMPROMISE),  AND  ( THAT I LIVED BY THIS STANDARD-BIBLE)

 

--- DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR CHILDREN WANT DESIRE TO BE IN GODS HOUSE UNLESS, YOU HELP THEM SET THE STANDARD.   ( IF YOU LAY OUT , THEY WILL WANT TO LAY OUT)

---DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR CHILDREN WANT HAVE A  HUNGERING FOR GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, IF THEY DON’T SEE IT IN YOU.   ( AND WERE WONDERING WHY THIS YOUNG GENERATION IS FALLING AWAY ,  WHAT KIND OF  STANDARDS ARE WE  LIFTING  UP.     --- HOW ARE THEY GOING TO KNOW HOW TO ACT, DRESS, TALK, IF WE AS GODS PREACHERS START PREACHING SOME MORALS AND STANDARDS.

---DID YOU KNOW YOUR CHILDREN WILL END UP STRIPPED, BROKEN, RUINED IF WE  DON’T SET THE STANDARD.

 

---BY THE WAY ITS NOT MY STANDARDS- ALTHOUGH SOME MIGHT THINK THEIR YOUR STANDARDS.   (THE WORD TELLS US HOW TO LIVE)

---PREACHER HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS ONE OR THAT IS THE RIGHT STANDARD—( FIRST SEE IF THE BIBLE AGREES)

---OR THE YOUNG PEOPLE MIGHT SAY WELL HOW DO I KNOW IF IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO OR NOT:

 

1ST DON’T  GO BY YOUR FEELINGS--- THEY FLUCTUATE.

2ND DON’T PUT YOUR TRUST IN  FRIENDS--- THEY WILL FAIL YOU.

AND THEN ASK YOURSELVES SOME QUESTIONS:

 

  1. WILL THIS DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?

---1COR. 3:16,17---“KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU?   IF ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY; FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YE ARE.”

---WILL IT CAUSE YOU TO BE UNCLEAN, DIRTY, WILL IT VIOLATE OR TARNISH YOUR CHARACTER THROUGH SIN.

---WILL IT BRING REPROACH ON YOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE BY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

---WELL NOBODY KNOWS IM DOING IT.   (GOD DOES)  ( BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT)

---YOU WOULDN’T BELIVE THE LIVES THAT ARE BEING DESTROYED BY PORNOGRAPHY (MEMBERS)     WELL MY CHILD DON’T HAVE ACCESS, YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED WHAT YOUR CHILD CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON.     (IT DESTROYS. DEFILES)      (ITS FILTHY)      (YES IT DEFILES THIS TEMPLE)

 

2- CAN YOU DO THIS KNOWING THAT THE HOLY GHOST LIVES INSIDE YOU?

---1COR. 6:19-“WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YE HAVE OF GOD, AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN?”

--- WHAT EVER YOUR DOING CAN YOU DO IT KNOWING THAT JESUS IS LIVING IN YOU.

---CAN YOU CURSE  AND TAKE GODS NAME IS VAIN AND NOT FEEL BAD.  THEN YOU BETTER CHECK UP.

---CAN YOU SIT AT THE COMPUTER AND LET ALL KIND OF FILTH FILTERATE YOUR MIND.  CAN YOU HONESTLY DO THESE THINGS KNOWING JESUS LIVES WITHIN YOU.    ( YOU HAVE TO PUSH GOD OUT  TO DO THESE THINGS)

 

3- CAN YOU DO THIS KNOWING  THAT YOU BELONG TO GOD?

---1COR.6:20—“FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY, AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GODS.”

---WOULD GOD HAVE ANY PART OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING OF GOING TO DO.

 

4- WILL THIS CAUSE A WEAKER CHRISTIAN TO STUMBLE?

---1COR. 8:9-13  (BIBLE)

--- ARE  YOUR ACTIONS CAUSING ANYONE TO STUMBLE.

---HOW ABOUT YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR LIFE THAT YOU LIVE.

---DO THEY LOOK AT YOU AND SAY WELL IF THEIR A CHRISTIAN , IM ONE.

---WHAT DO YOUR SCHOOL FRIENDS THINK OF YOU, CAN THEY TELL YOU’RE A CHRISTIAN OR ARE YOU LIVING A DOUBLE STANDARD AND THEREFORE CAUSING THEM TO DOUBT , GOD, SALVATION, AND DOUBT YOU.

--- IS ANOTHER CHRISTIAN STARTING TO STUMBLE, BECAUSE THE LIFE THAT YOU LIVE.

5- DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?

---1COR.10:31  “WHETHER THEREFORE YE EAT, OF DRINK, OR WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.”

--- SO THE THINGS WE FIND OURSELVES DOING, DOES IT GLORIFY  GOD.

---YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE THE PEOPLE THAT THINK DRINKING ALCOHOL IS ALRIGHT. 

---PARTAKING OF ALCOHOL DOES NOT GLORIFY GOD.  THE BIBLE SAYS WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING AND WHOSOEVER IS DECIEVED THEREBY IS NOT WISE.

---DOES GOING TO THE HONKY TONK GLORIFY GOD.

---IF IT DOES NOT GLORIFY GOD , THEN ITS NOT A GOOD STANDARD.

 

6- WOULD YOU WANT TO BE CAUGHT DOING THIS WHEN JESUS COMES?

---1COR.15:50-52  (BIBLE)

---ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT IF ITS RIGHT OR WRONG OR A GOOD STANDARD, ASK YOURSELF WOULD I WANT JESUS TO COME WHILE DOING THIS.

---EVERYTIME YOUR TEMPTED WITH THAT BOY OR GIRL ,  ASK YOURSELF THAT QUESTION.

 

CONCLUSION:   ARE OUR STANDARDS TO HIGH?     NO!

 

NOT IN LIGHT OF ETERNITY!    LIVE RIGHT TO DIE RIGHT!

NOT IN LIGHT OF THE BIBLES HELL!    WEEPING,WAILING,NASHING OF TEETH!