Sunday November 6 2016

Sermon today "Persecution"

Pastor Kim's Sermon Notes.

Divide and Conquer - Adam and Eve
God's people removed from the garden
Cain kills Abel - One is excepted, one is not
Egypt and Exodus - Coming out of the world's (Satin's way)
Babylon, Persia, Assyria, Rome - Either scatter God's people or dominate them like Rome.

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your Head, And you shall bruise his Heel

The Fall Of Man

 Genesis 3:1-24 (NASB)
¹  Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
²  The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
³  but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'"
⁴  The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die!
⁵  "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
⁶  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
⁷  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
⁸  They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
⁹  Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
¹⁰  He said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
¹¹  And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
¹²  The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."
¹³  Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
¹⁴  The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;
¹⁵  And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."
¹⁶  To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."
¹⁷  Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.
¹⁸  "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;
¹⁹  By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
²⁰  Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
²¹  The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
²²  Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"—
²³  therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
²⁴  So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

Jesus time; Roman Occupation - living under human rule.

On going scattering, on going genocides up to the present.

Abortion - 50+Million!

Deuteronomy 4:20
²⁰  "But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be his people, an inheritance, as you are today.day.


 Deuteronomy 4:20 (NASB)
²⁰  "But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

Psalm 12:6
⁶  The words of the LORD are pure words; Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
 
 Psalm 12:1-8 (NASB)
¹
 Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
²  They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
³  May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;
⁴  Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?"
⁵  "Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in the safety for which he longs."
⁶  The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
⁷  You, O LORD, will keep them; You will preserve him from this generation forever.
⁸  The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

  Proverbs 17:3
³  The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.

 Proverbs 17:1-5 (NASB)
¹  Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.
²  A servant who acts wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, And will share in the inheritance among brothers.
³  The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
⁴  An evildoer listens to wicked lips; A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
⁵  He who mocks the poor taunts his Maker; He who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

 Isaiah 48:10
 ¹⁰  "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

 Isaiah 48:9-11 (NASB)
⁹  "For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.
¹⁰  "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹  "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.