Covenant of Hope
Ministries Sunday Sermon_8_25_2013
Good afternoon,
and welcome to this Sunday Sermon for Covenant of Hope Ministries. I am Rev.
Laura A. Neff, and the ministry knows me as the Rainbow Minister. You can find
us posted on Sundays. These are our locations online only:
Our Main Video Feed: Covenant_of_Hope
We have
email (instant messenger if you need me) through Facebook available every day, and
these are now extremely variable. We’re still working this out between the two
of us as to what will happen, our Elder, Cal Jennings and I. I will be informing
you further in regard to changes being made. These changes were made due to
health reasons. There will be live sermons, and the sermon length will be
shortened dramatically, but we are unsure as to when that might be.
Prayer List: We have many on our prayer list. Some wish to remain anonymous, and others only wish to have their first names mentioned. Our prayer list has grown from last week. This is our current prayer list for this week.
Prayer List: We have many on our prayer list. Some wish to remain anonymous, and others only wish to have their first names mentioned. Our prayer list has grown from last week. This is our current prayer list for this week.
- Continue your prayers for Phoebe Fair as she is in hospice.
She has her good days and her bad days. Her tumor has come back, and they don’t
know what will happen right now. She is at home with the hospice care, but it
is very hard on the family.
- Please keep my friend Heather in prayer for patience and safe
haven.
- Let us keep another friend, Jeff, and his family in prayer
after a disappointment that has them searching for answers.
- Please keep Jeff’s niece Jennifer and her baby in your
prayers. Jennifer was beaten within an inch of her life. Praise God she and the
baby have survived, bruised, but alive. Pray that she heals well. Her attacker
has been caught.
- Please pray for my mother’s neighbor whose house exploded
earlier this month. Pray for his health as he was diagnosed with cancer at the
same time.
- Please keep my whole family in prayer for the pain, suffering,
and chaos we are going through.
- Pray that the adversity and the pain we have seen around the
world would be relieved, and swept away. May we find common ground in many
ways, even if we start with just one step.
- Remember those who have been lost either violently or
peacefully this week.
- Keep the ministry in your thoughts, each member, no matter
their location, their circumstances, because a group of friends, a ministry,
should support one another.
- There are many in our ministry who are searching for more in
regard to our presence with my health, and with the health of others. We pray
that there would be health found once more, and that we have answers to all and
for all.
Prayer: Father in heaven, we
thank You for this day and for these who are here to share it with us. We bring
those who are ill, in sorrow, in fear, in pain, in disbelief and all the rest
up into Your arms knowing You are the Healer. We bring to you those who are
sick, and those who are lost. We bring those who are friends, family, and yes,
our enemies all that are in our hearts, up to Your arms. We pray for health,
faith, strength, and hope, in all things, everywhere, always. We do so in Your
Holy Name through our Savior Jesus Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit,
Amen and so it shall be.
Opening Song: Casting Crowns - All
Because of Jesus
Sermon: This week I read something very
interesting. It provides so much when you put it in the context of this
particular psalm, and in fact this particular segment. In this article it
shared how those with a lot would not just give it to their posterity. Like
them, they would earn it. The title of this sermon says earn it while you learn
it or lose it if you choose it. You can choose to earn and learn, or to lose.
It doesn’t mean you’ll win every time. It does mean you can have the hope to
first earn, then learn, and win, if nothing else, knowledge. They would give
away eighty or more percent of their net worth. The rest would go to their
families. What does this share? Well, it shows how good it can be when we
listen, hear, and understand. You’ll see part of that realization in our first
few verses in Psalm 49:10-13 KJV – For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and
the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for
ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after
their own names.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
beast that perish.
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their
sayings. Selah.
To all
generations it says, generation and generation, on and on, yet, just to give to
one part of the family, or simply the family is not what is wanted in God’s
eyes. At the end of these verses you see posterity approving the sayings, think
about it this way, they are gaining delight in their mouths. In other words,
they are only thinking of themselves and their families immediate, not all the
rest. You see it further when you look here in the next verse.
Psalm 49:14 KJV – Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
You see
this death feeding on them, their beauty shall consume them, their strength,
look at it this way, their strength in what they want actually would consume
them body, mind, spirit, and soul. We often think about judgment in one way or
another. What we don’t look at would in fact be that we aren’t to judge one
another, in place of judging one another, use your own good judgment. Let’s see
how that is shared in these verses.
Daniel 7:22 KJV – Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom.
The
kingdom, who will possess it? The
saints. Who will see this? The Jews and
the Gentiles will. While on that path there are those God and Jesus will follow
up with what has been shared here in Malachi 4:3
KJV – And ye shall tread down the wicked;
for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
this, saith the LORD of hosts.
We don’t
want to think about the possibility of being walked over, crushed under another
person’s feet. Yet, this is what very well could be in the view of truth and
fallacy versus liars, fools, and the rest of the wicked.
Luke 22:30 KJV – That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
I Corinthians 6:2 KJV – Do ye not know that the saints shall judge
the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge
the smallest matters?
II Timothy 2:12 KJV – If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:
if we deny him, he also will deny us:
These
three verses share quite a lot in regard to how we use judgement and how God
and Jesus would. There is a difference. It isn’t a pretty difference either. We
see it again here in Revelation 2:20 KJV – Notwithstanding I have a
few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which
calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit
fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
How many
times have we looked at something and decided I need it, when you truly just
want it. There is a difference. The
reference to Jezebel shares just how bad it could be should we do more than
stray, destroy that which has been built through the hands of God. When we
listen and hear good things can happen.
This is shared here in Hosea 13:14 KJV – I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will
redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy
destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
There are
so many things we could look at in regard to this particular verse. It is
taunting death. What is it also doing? It is proving that Jesus is coming. It
is validating faith, hope, and unconditional love, even in the midst of the
worst situations. We can only look at it with logic to determine the best route
to pursue. Listen up and hear what He’s saying. This is something that
translates through every generation. It is the same with inheritance, family
member to family member. When I was describing the article, the ones who have
chosen only to make sure their family can get by and given away the rest, they
did so on purpose. They gave back thanks
to us giving them the opportunity to see the best in a terrible situation. Now,
that’s something to think about as we pray in the prayer Jesus taught us
saying: After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13 KJV)
Closing Song: Mercy Me - You Are I
Am
~Shalom~
Covenant
of Hope Ministries
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