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Be Brought Out!
 Written By: Evangelist Chuck Gibson
*Gen. 15: 12,13
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and Lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him, and he said to Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in land that is not their own, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years. * God here was giving Abram (who he later renamed Abraham) a prophecy of what was to befall Israel. (They became slaves to the Egyptians, a type and shadow of the slave to Sin that we need deliverance from) (Jesus being in the form of God was Teacher, Preacher, and Prophet) Then verse 14 says after ward they shall come out! With great substance they shall come out of bondage!
*HEB. 11:13 These all died in faith (they believed God and it was imputed or counted unto them as righteousness) Abraham staggered not at the promises of God, through unbelief (which literally means he did not stagger as a drunk man, his steps were made steady in faith) but was strong in the faith, giving glory to God! Who against hope, believed in such hope (when he came face to face with hopelessness his faith in his God prevailed) He was fully persuaded (just as we are to be) thoroughly convinced, that what God had promised, he was also able to perform. His faith was so strong that the Bible says that Abraham called those things that were not as though they already were! (Already accomplished in him)
*Mark 11:24 whatsoever things that you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them!
Now back to HEB. 11:14 these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them (thoroughly convinced) they embraced the promises of God, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (We too look for the promise of God, a place he has gone to prepare, I confess also that this world is not my home, Im only passing through, my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue, Im in search of a city whos builder and maker is God a city not made with hands, we are no more strangers and foreigners to the household of faith, but we have been made fellow-citizens. We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ!) Exodus 6:6 (exodus means to be shown the way out! To be taken to the exit, a place of escape! A way out of temptationa way out of the wilderness!) God promised to bring us out from under our burdens (no matter what you are going through he has promised to bring you out! Out from under the load that you carry! Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord shall deliver them out of them all! Not just some of them, but all of them! Hes not just good some of the time; hes good all the time! *Gods children so long have been burdened; they have slaved for the taskmaster (the world) for far too long, its high time we are brought out!
*What does it mean to be brought out? David said in Psalm 40: 1-3 I waited patiently for Lord, and he heard my cry. In another place he says that he inclined his ear, which literally means that he leaned over from his throne, bent down to hear what it was that David was saying! Just as an earthly father would do for his children, hes listening for the cries of the righteous! The Bible says that his eyes are over the righteous (he watches over us) and his ears are open unto their cries! This suggests that he never turns a deaf or tries to ignore us when we cry out to him. I admit that as an earthly father, I have been quite guilty of doing, on some occasions.
*He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay! He wants to lift you up and out of all your troubles just as an earthly father would do for his children. We want to do the best for our children, yet they go their own way, we like sheep have al gone astray, each unto his own way. *David went on to say, he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (When God brings us out from under something, he sets our feet upon the rock of truth because the truth makes us free! He plants our feet firmly, settled in the faith rooted and grounded, I shall not be moved!) The Rock of Christ, a solid rock not a stone of stumbling. Hes the tried stone, the precious cornerstone, its a firm foundation, one that cannot be moved or altered in any way. He never changes, the same yesterday, today and, forever I change not. He made straight paths for my feet to travel on. He established my goings, the places I used to go, dont go there anymore! *God hates feet that are swift in running to mischief, Proverbs 6; some folks run headlong into trouble and commit willful sin! The ways of a transgressor is a hard one, and becoming a slave to sin leads you down a path to destruction. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord! Why do people want to earn their way to hell, When all they have to do is accept the free gift that God so readily gives to all those who believe on his name. Thats is right folks will end up in a Devils hell because they earned the wages of death. Actually they will go there because they did nothing, they did nothing about Jesus, refused to accept the free gift of salvation, it is deliverance through the power of the preaching of the cross! Which is foolishness to them that perish, but to us who believe, it is the power of God unto salvation!
*Jesus said, Labor not for the meat that perishes with the using (food that once it is consumed, wastes away as Jesus told the woman at the well, If you drink this water you will thirst again!) Consider the Lilies, they dont toil or spin; yet we toil and spin for the material things of this life, things that will one day pass away. Being a veteran household relocation specialist, with a number of different moving companies and I can tell you that people in general amass great wealth, and at the end of their life they end up giving it away, usually to loved ones, who end up in a fight over it! You cannot take it with you when you go! The word of God says, a mans life does not consist of the things which he possesses, in other words your life is not made up of those things you possess, they do not build character, they cannot instill moral values or Godly principles, as a matter of fact, the love of money is the root of all evil! That is why Jesus said; where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. O but honey, Gods word (The Bread from heaven, the daily bread that we need to sustain us and get us through another day) will never ever pass away. It is forever established in the heavens!
* We labor and strive for acceptance, from our youth up, we are taught, be good and people will love you. We define our self-worth on the opinions of others; others, to feel good about myself, must approve of me. The fear factor associated with rejection, is attempting to please others at any cost. What you believe I am, I must be, WRONG! All this is another message God is in the process of laying on my heart.
*I believe thats why Jesus said again, Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden terribly burdened, carrying a heavy load) and I shall give you rest There is a rest for the children of God, but we must enter into that rest through faith in the son of God. Through the redemptive that he has done for us. Which brings me right back to the ton of peer pressure that our young people face on a daily basis, act a certain way, look like me and youll fit in, youll be one of us! But we were not made to conform to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds into what God would have us be.
*Thats why he said; take my yoke upon you (the collar that makes us all one, a unified body of Christ, one with the bowels of compassion one for another, fellow workers with God and pull together as a team!)
*The yoke of sin, and bondage has to be broken and cast offwe can only do that through and by the anointing that God gives to every believer! He wants to deliver those that are held captive, proclaim liberty to them that are bruised and battered by this wayward and sinful generation, he came to bind up the broken heartedhe set me free!
*Then he said; learn of me learn from me, let me teach you my wayslet me show you, how to be more like me! For I am meek, and lowly in heart. I will teach you how to humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he might exalt you in due time! So you might stand in the face of adversity so you can walk through the fire and not be burnedand Ill shut up the mouth of the lion so that he may not devour you!
*My yoke is easy, and my burden is light he will never (please allow me to reemphasize) he will never ever put more on you than you are able to barehe will with every temptation and every trialmake a way of escape out from under the burden!
*The Bible tells us; be careful for nothing, but in everything give thanks. (Dont be overly anxious or expect too much from people, as Martha did with Mary, she had chosen the better thing to do. She rested at the feet of Jesus).
*Dont be weighed down with too much carethe cares of this life can choke the word, and you become unfruitful!
*Dont be a worrywart (just dont worry about it!)(Dont worry be happy!).
*Anxiety as proven by medical doctors, brings on (stress) and stress brings with it worrydoubt, and fear and fear has torment! These are all negative emotions that riddle us with sickness and disease. Anything that is not of faith is sin.
*Bare one anothers burdens alsobe a burden bearer, not a beast of burden. (Us men could take a lesson from this one) learn to cast all your cares upon Jesus for he is the one who cares for us!
*Be brought out, and learn to rest in the fact that God loves you so very much, and so do we!
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Name: Chuck Gibson
