Jul 7, 2024
7/7/24 – Abiding – Susan Allen
By: Susan Allen
Series: Sermon Series
ABIDING
7/7/24 susan allen
ARE YOU a BELIEVER or an ABIDER?
John 15:1-12 NKJV "I am the true vine, (if there is a true vine there are false vines)
and My Father is the vinedresser. (Gardener, husbandman-God doesn’t mind the process, this is not an angry process)
2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 (NOW-kjv) You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (Eph 5:26)
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. (REMAIN) As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me, (disconnects) he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
-You can’t talk about growth without talking about PRUNING
--He prunes you because He sees what He can produce
--- HE BELIEVES IT IS WORTH HIS TIME AND EFFORT (Eph 4 gave gifts to you apostles prophets evangelists pastors teachers for the perfecting of the saints)
----THERE are facets of Himself that he wants to RELEASE to FLOW through YOU
-----This is your purpose and you will never be FULFILLED disconnected from your LIFE SOURCE
Acts 17:28 For in Him we live and move and have our being
WHAT/WHO IS YOUR VINE? What is the fruit of that connection?
What you are producing or not producing is from CONNECTION
Ps 119:37-38 NLT Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word. 38 Reassure me of your promise, made to those who fear you.
Ps 139:23- NLT Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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- Jul 7, 20247/7/24 – Abiding – Susan AllenJul 7, 20247/7/24 – Abiding – Susan AllenBy: Susan AllenSeries: Sermon SeriesABIDING 7/7/24 susan allen ARE YOU a BELIEVER or an ABIDER? John 15:1-12 NKJV "I am the true vine, (if there is a true vine there are false vines) and My Father is the vinedresser. (Gardener, husbandman-God doesn’t mind the process, this is not an angry process) 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 (NOW-kjv) You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (Eph 5:26) 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. (REMAIN) As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, (disconnects) he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11 "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. -You can’t talk about growth without talking about PRUNING --He prunes you because He sees what He can produce --- HE BELIEVES IT IS WORTH HIS TIME AND EFFORT (Eph 4 gave gifts to you apostles prophets evangelists pastors teachers for the perfecting of the saints) ----THERE are facets of Himself that he wants to RELEASE to FLOW through YOU -----This is your purpose and you will never be FULFILLED disconnected from your LIFE SOURCE Acts 17:28 For in Him we live and move and have our being WHAT/WHO IS YOUR VINE? What is the fruit of that connection? What you are producing or not producing is from CONNECTION Ps 119:37-38 NLT Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word. 38 Reassure me of your promise, made to those who fear you. Ps 139:23- NLT Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
- Jun 23, 20246/23/24 – God Is Committed – Susan AllenJun 23, 20246/23/24 – God Is Committed – Susan AllenBy: Susan AllenSeries: Faith & BeyondGod is Committed 6/23/24 susan allen His decisions are made. His WILL IS WRITTEN. Mark 9:21-NKJV So He asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him? "And he said, "From childhood. 22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us." 23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." (Believe: have faith, know it to be true, be persuaded of, place your confidence in, trust, entrust, to the point of committing) 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" 2 Peter 1:2-4 kjv Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises (self commital) : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Gen 17:1-NKJV When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless (upright and sincere) . 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly." 3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: 4 "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. Rom 4:17-KJV (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become (begin to be, receive being, cause to be, come into being) the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not (did not observe fully) his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:20 He staggered not (did not separate from, withdraw from, oppose or hesitate) at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong (empowered) in faith, giving glory to God;21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Heb 11:1 AMP NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. Rom 10:13-NKJV 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." 14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
- Jun 9, 20246/9/24 – The Fear Of The Lord Is To: _______ – Susan AllenJun 9, 20246/9/24 – The Fear Of The Lord Is To: _______ – Susan AllenBy: Susan AllenSeries: Faith & BeyondThe FEAR of the LORD is to:______ 6/9/24 susan allen * the Fear of the Lord is clean-pure and endures forever…. We found it to be a TRUTH in both the Old Covenant and the NEW *That the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, knowledge, & instruction *Last we week we learned that it is a sensitiveness towards the LORD/WORD. TO HAVE a real sense and awareness of His being and presence TODAY: Prov 8:12 KJV I wisdom dwell with prudence (good judgement) , and find out knowledge of witty inventions (good discretion) .13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. HATE: to hate, to be an enemy to EVIL: bad, unpleasing (hold place in Prov 8) Rom 12:9-NIV Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Job 28:20-NKJV "From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of all living, And concealed from the birds of the air. 22 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a report about it with our ears.' 23 God understands its way, And He knows its place. 24 For He looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole heavens, 25 To establish a weight for the wind, And apportion the waters by measure. 26 When He made a law for the rain, And a path for the thunderbolt, 27 Then He saw wisdom and declared it; He prepared it, indeed, He searched it out. 28 And to man He said,'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding.'" DEPART---avoid, remove, turn aside from, come to an end, and decline a WRONG WAY sign! PROV 8:13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. PRIDE Isa 14:12- kjv 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Rom 1:21-NIV For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. 28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. 2 tim 3:5 says Having a FORM of godliness but denying the power there of FROM SUCH TURN AWAY. Prov 22:4 True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.
- Jun 2, 20246/2/24 – Understanding The Fear Of The Lord – Susan AllenJun 2, 20246/2/24 – Understanding The Fear Of The Lord – Susan AllenBy: Susan AllenSeries: Faith & BeyondUnderstanding the FEAR OF THE LORD 6/2/24 susan allen NOT EVEN LOVE WILL MAKE GOD COMPROMISE HIS HOLINESS Heb 12:28-nkjv Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire. NT:2124 Godly fear from VINE’S: "that mingled fear and love which, combined, constitute the piety of man toward God; the OT places its emphasis on the fear, the NT... on the love, though there was love in the fear of God's saints then, as there must be fear in their love now" IT doesn’t make us want to HIDE, but IT makes us want to be exposed to the Holy Loving God It’s HOLY FEAR Ps 34:1-KJV I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
- THE FEAR OF THE LORD… there are strange conjunctions in the Word of God which make this interpretation impossible. What an amazing companionship is to be found in these words: -- "Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice! .... The fear of the Lord" is sensitiveness towards the Lord. It is the opposite of hardness, unfeelingness, benumbment. The soul that fears God is like a sensitive plate exposed to the light, and it records the faintest ray. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Sensitiveness towards God is the beginning of wisdom. Sensitiveness in music is the beginning of musical ability; sensitiveness in art is the beginning of artistic competence. Sensitiveness towards .God is the beginning of expertness in the knowledge and doings of God. This sensitiveness towards God is one of the roots of the blessed life. To thrill to His faintest breathings, to hear the still small voice, to catch the first dim light of new revelations, to be exquisitely responsive to the movements of the Father, this is the great primary rootage of a full and blessed life. This sensitiveness towards God is a gift of God. "I will put My fear in their hearts." Jer 32:40
- May 19, 20245/20/24 – God Is God & He Is Right – Susan AllenMay 19, 20245/20/24 – God Is God & He Is Right – Susan AllenBy: Susan AllenSeries: Faith & BeyondGOD IS GOD and HE IS RIGHT 5/19/24 susan allen Wrong teaching of the FEAR OF GOD resulted in people being afraid to be close to God. It was focused on sin consciousness not GOD CONSCIOUSNESS Prov 1:7 KJV The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Ps 111:10 KJV The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. Prov 15:31 KJV The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility. Gen 3 she FEARED what she might be missing rather than FEARING that what GOD had said was THE TRUTH. YOU SHALL SURELY DIE. Our growth will be stunted if we do not correctly understand the FEAR OF THE LORD 2 Tim 3:15-17 NIV Paul’s writing to Timothy … and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. The correct understanding of the FEAR OF GOD should give me a TEACHABLE SPIRIT. He is THE good FATHER. Ps 19:7- The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the Lord are sure and altogether righteous. 10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. 11 By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
