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*/Presented for: the Joy Christian Center’s /*

*/Men’s Prayer Breakfast 05~/30~/2009/*

Here is an uplifting Story I thought you all would like.

It comes from /The Inspirational Bible/.

In the shop of a blacksmith, there are three types of tools.

1)    There are tools on the junk pile:

a.     outdated,

b.     broken,

c.      dull,

d.     rusty.

They sit in the cobwebbed corner, useless to their master, oblivious to their calling.

2)     are tools on the anvil:

a.     melted down,

b.     molten hot,

c.      moldable, changeable.

They lie on the anvil, being shaped by their master, accepting their calling.

3)    There are tools of usefulness:

a.     sharpened,

b.     primed,

c.      defined,

d.     mobile.

They lie ready in the blacksmith’s tool chest, available to their master, fulfilling their calling.

Some people lie useless:

a.     lives broken,

b.     talents wasting,

c.      fires quenched,

d.     dreams dashed.

They are tossed in with the scrap iron, in desperate need of repair, with no notion of purpose.

Others lie on the anvil:

a.     hearts open,

b.     hungry to change,

c.      wounds healing,

d.     vision clearing.

They welcome the painful pounding of the blacksmith’s hammer, longing to be rebuilt, begging to be called.

Others lie in their Master’s hands:

a.     well-tuned,

b.     non-compromising,

c.      polished,

d.     and productive.

They respond to their Master’s forearm, demanding nothing, surrendering all.

We are all somewhere in the blacksmith’s shop.

We are either on the

a.     scrap pile,

b.     on the anvil,

c.      in the Master’s hands,

d.     or in His tool chest.

e.      (Some of us have been in all three.)

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From the shelves to the workbench, from the water to the fire.…[1]

\\ *Scriptural Text:  2 Timothy 2:14-26*

*Introduction:*

From the beginning of Joy Christian Center’s Men’s prayer breakfast, the one main theme has been “The kinds of tools God gives us to live the life he wants for us.”

However, instead of talking about the tools God gives us, I would like to take the opportunity and share with you just a few of the “main” tools He uses.

(As this question):  Does anyone know what kind of tools God uses?

He uses us right?

We are the tools He uses to reach others with the Good News of His Grace, Mercy, and Love.

He uses us to bring others back to Him.

I would like to share with you only three of the tools He has used in the past and today to help us see that we can be the tools that are ready, willing and able to be the new, repaired and remade tools that He will use ‘if’ we are willing to be used, to reach others for Him.

Two from the Old Testament and one in the New as examples we can fallow.

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Body of Message: 

       I.

The First tool we will look at is Enoch.

Enoch is an The Example of what kind of Tool we need to be for the Lord.

a.     Enoch was one of the Grandsons of Adam and Eve.

From the line of Jared.

(Gen.5:18.)

b.

Even though the Bible is silent about how Enoch lived we can glean from God’s Word some very valuable information on what kind of a tool he was for God from (Gen.

5:21,22, 24)

                                                             i.

At the age of 65 years Enoch became the father of the oldest known man to have ever lived, Methuselah who lived 969 years.

ii.

Enoch walked with God for 300 years (Gen.

5:22, 24)

We can walk with God to by having a personal relationship with His Son Yeshua (Jesus).

(Just as the twelve disciples had done)

                                                        iii.

Enoch please God (Hebrews 11:5)

We can please God to, remember the Bible spells out for us what God expects or wants from us.

(Have someone read Psalm.

51:16-17; 1 Tim.

1:5; 2 Tim.

2:22; 1 Pet.

1:22)

                                                        iv.

Enoch witnessed for God (Jude 14)

We are God’s witnesses; we are commanded by Yeshua to go and be His witnesses of what He has done for us and to share His Good News to all men.

(Acts 1: 8; John 1:14)

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The second tool God used is Noah (Genesis 6:9—9:29)

a.     God used him during a time of great wickedness and evil, not unlike today right?

(Genesis 6:1-8 11-12)

b.     Noah was not perfect he was just like you and me.

However, he did have faith in God.  (v.

9) from this verse we can see;

                                                                                           i.

Noah was a Righteous man, not spotless, innocent, or without sin but he had faith in God this is counted as Righteousness.

He was justified by his faith.

(Hebrews 11:7)

                                                                                         ii.

Noah was a blameless among his people (NIV)  NKJV says perfect in his generation

                                                                                      iii.

Noah also walked with God, this means he had a personal relationship with God just like Enoch did

We know how God used him to save a remnant of humanity and two of each of the land animals and also the birds as well to replenish the earth.