God's Best! God's Way!
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· 5 viewsGrace Fellowship in Rusk, Texas Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 10:30 AM
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God’s Best! God’s Way!
God’s Best! God’s Way!
“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword”; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Do You Want God’s Best?
Do You Want God’s Best?
Of course you do!
We all want God’s best. We hope for God’s best. We pray for God’s best. We seek for God’s best. We all want to eat the good of the land!
Do You Want God’s Best—God’s Way?
Do You Want God’s Best—God’s Way?
Illustrations
A single person wants God’s best in a spouse but is willing to pursue a non-believer or live in an immoral relationship prior to marriage.
A married couple wants God’s best in their marriage but are unwilling to submit to God’s order and design for marriage.
A person wants God’s best in their life but is unwilling to accept God’s design regarding gender and identity.
A person wants God’s best in a job but is willing to take a job that compromises their convictions and responsibilities toward God and family.
A person who wants God’s best in a church grounded in the word of God, but seeks a popular church instead.
Parents want God’s best for their children but fail to train them up in the ways of the Lord or have them in church.
A person wants God’s best in a career but is absorbed in the pursuit of a career rather than in the pursuit of God.
A person wants God’s best in their emotional peace but is unwilling to forgive.
A person wants God’s best in victory over sinful habits but is continues to crucify the flesh.
A person wants God’s best in ministry but allows the ministry to take priority over God who called them into His ministry.
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
“If” establishes a prerequisite or condition upon which the promise is made.
The condition upon which one may eat the good of the land is two-fold:
Willingness (desiring God’s will)—This is a matter of the heart.
Obedience (doing God’s will)—This is a matter of doing what God says.
The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.
Doing things God’s way
Doing things God’s way
Let go of the past.
Don’t let the shortcomings and offenses of the past prevent you from embracing the future God has planned.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Set your mind on God’s best.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
The greatest enemy of God’s best is the second best.
Don’t trust your own wisdom.
There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Don’t trust your own heart.
This means do not to trust your fallen instincts and feelings that are corrupted by the deceptive influences of selfishness, self-centeredness, self-interest, self-preservation, and self-will.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.
Don’t follow ungodly counsel.
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.
Be obedient to God’s revealed will.
Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Depend upon God’s grace.
You cannot experience God’s best in God’s way without God’s grace.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Response to the Word
Response to the Word
Do you want God’s best?
Pursue God’s way!
Jesus is God’s way!
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;