Dr. Frank E. Ray @ Lilly Grove Baptist Church

uh ephesians chapter 6 verse 10 and 11. finally my brethren be strong in the lord and then the power of his might put on the whole arm of god that you might be able to stand against the wiles of the devil thank you so much help me be strong shout it again be strong the proper way of dealing with any texts that's in the word of god is that you must get familiar with several things the pensment of the text the purpose of the text the culture around the text it is really improper to begin a sermon in the middle of a conversation whenever you do that it is like passing a door and you hear a statement while passing and you draw a conclusion upon the statement what you would normally have to do is use your imagination because you don't have proper information but because of the time that is allotted to me tonight allow me to dive into this message in the middle of a conversation the verse began with the word finally you don't have to be rocket scientist to know that if you hear the word finally that that's not the beginning of a statement finally sound like a church word that we sit and we sit through worship service praise and worship and sit through the prayers devotional service the announcement the offering and the sermon we wait with anticipation to hear the man of god say finally i thought this is what paul had in mind when he placed this word in the text because of the geographical location of the text but the word finally in the greek is the word louie palm the word loipon means that it is not that that it is not over but he saved the best for less i had some problems with that because of what paul had already covered in ephesians because he started ephesians chapter one dealing with this matter of election election has baffled the mind of scholars for years it's hard for them to explain election when it comes to salvation but this is how it work it is like you're approaching the door and above that door the writing say whosoever will let him come as i approach the door it looked like it is my choice it looked like it is my decision to come to jesus but once i get through the door and look at the door from the other side except for whom he did for no then he also did predestinate [Music] to be conformed to the image of his son on this side it looked like it's my choice but when i get through and look at it from the other side i discovered it was a setup because ephesians chapter 1 verse 4 it's according to whom he has chosen the word chosen is in our tenth he admit that god acted alone without a supreme court without a board of directors it was his choice but it's not on an arrow tenth but in middle voice which means he acted by himself but for himself which means you was chosen by god but chosen for god but then you don't have to leave ephesians 4 and 1 to tell when the election took place he said it was before the foundation of the world that mean before my daddy knew my mama god had already chose me it's difficult for us to comprehend that because in human personality we have to cut time up in the segments to keep up with time yesterday today tomorrow one's eels and shelby but yesterday is in the tomb tomorrow is in the womb yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promise every note yesterday is history tomorrow is mystery yesterday is recollection tomorrow is speculation which means with god everything is in eternal now with god yesterday is now with god today is now with god tomorrow is now you see god never have to leave anywhere to get anywhere he is already where he's going and still where he was he can tiptoe and stand flat at the same time he can take a crooked stick and hit a straight leg talk to me somebody and so he deal with this matter of election but then in ephesians 1 and 5 he deal with this matter of predestination peruzio in the greek it mean he mocks off a boundary you think where you stand is an accident but god marked it off that's why when you get to a certain place you can't move when you want to because god has assigned you to talk to me somebody to be in a certain place at a certain time thank god he make the decision but not only deal with election and and pre-predestination he deal with this matter of adoption adoption run parallel to regeneration when i'm born again i have my father's nature when i'm adopted i have his name a man can can have a son prior to his marriage but the son looked like him he has his nature but don't have his name and then he marries someone else and this time he raised another family and sometimes this new family don't want to have nothing to do with this this outside boy talk to me somebody there and and the man can be a billionaire and die and the boy will never get a quarter but if he adopts the son regardless of what the rest of the family said part of the inheritance is yes god does something like that with us that he saves us and give us his nature he turned around and adopts us and give us his name so now i can say i'm an heir of god and a journey there with jesus christ not only does it deal with adoption he deal with this matter of being sealed because ephesians 1 13 said we're sealed with the holy spirit of promise now seal means security too many saved folks think that i i used to be saved and i'm lost no no you used to go to church and you don't go to church no more but you can't be saved and then lost you see any faith that fizzled before the finish had a flaw from the first [Applause] [Music] talk to me somebody if you're not saved now you never was saved john john 5 24 fairly real i say unto you he that believeth on him as the scripture has said have h.t.h in his word for hell eternal life mean that i don't get eternal life when i get to heaven i get eternal life the moment i'm saved [Applause] if i lose it that way eternal life that was time life [Applause] do i have a witness in this house he deal with this matter of being sealed with the holy spirit uh ephesians chapter 1 deal with the privilege of the believer ephesians chapter 2 deal with the pardon of the believer ephesians chapter 3 deal with the purity of the believer ephesians chapter 4 deal with the practice of the believer ephesians chapter 5 deal with the power of the believer ephesians chapter 6 dealing with the persistence of the believer and yet he says finally but then they say my brother the greek word for brethren is the word artifacts in the greek it means from the same womb it's quiet as is kept we're all related through the spiritual womb you see there are only five births in the bible that's what you call the soil birth the the surgical birth the sac birth the savior's birth and saint's birth genesis 2 74 man from the dust of the ground that's the soil birth after god made man he performed surge on him took a rib from him and made woman that surgical birth after adam knew eve impregnated her she brought forth cain able and sat in a sack every woman there after every time they get pregnant to carry a baby in a sack that's sac births [Music] talk to me somebody yeah the holy spirit leaps upon mary and she brings forth the savior of the world that's the savior's birth and the holy spirit brought us from darkness to the marvelous light give us new inspiration new aspirations start looking with new observations counting with a new calculation that's the same verb and when we're born again we are connected [Music] from the spiritual womb that means when you suffer i suffer but when you rejoice i rejoice finally my brother be strong now now he said be strong the word for be strong and the greek is in deuteronomia it's a compound with any time you see the e in any word it means that god want to live underneath the skin in other words you want to live on the inside of you that's why he tell us what to do with every member of our bodies when my eyes i'll take psalms 121 verse 1 and lift them toward the heels from which cometh my help my help comes from the lord when my ears i take matthew 11 and 15 he didn't have ears to hear let him when my mind take philippians 2 and 5 let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus when my heart i take romans 10 and 10 for with the heart man believeth on the righteousness with the mouth confession is made under salvation with my hand i take it please astic 9 and 10 whatsoever thou han found to do do it without might for there's no work no device no wisdom no knowledge in the grave whether i go it when my knees will take philippians 2 and 10. at the name of jesus every knee should bow with my feet i take hebrew 12 and 1 laying aside every weight and sin which do it so easily beside us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us with the rest of my body take romans 12 1 i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that you present your body a living sacrifice wholly acceptable under god which is your reasonable service in deuteronomy he says be strong greek word for strong is dunamis now it's that explosive power there are several powers in the bible matthew 28 18 jesus came and speaks of all power ich lucia yes sir which is authority acts 1 and 8 says ye shall receive power same word dunamis explosive power ephesians 6 and 10 final brother be strong in the lord and the power the great word is kratos that's demonstrative power he want us to understand that he has deposited power now the word strong is in the imperative mood which means it is a command he's not just recommending that i be strong he's not just suggesting that it be strong he's commanded me to be strong in other words it's not optional it's standard equipment but it's not only in parent to move it's in present tense which means continuing in action that i don't hear a woman just be strong on sunday i got to be strong on monday you see on sunday you had your best behavior it's the mundus that mess us up [Applause] do i have a witness imperative move present tense but as in passive voice passive voice mean this the subject is being acted upon which means he's telling me to do something i can't do not waiting man the preacher god gonna tell you something you can't do yes he will we said god won't put no more on you than what you can bear but he will he'll put more on you than what you can bear so he'll show you he'll bear it first [Applause] i need it i needed to know why did he recommend that it be strong it's because of this ephesian church you see the greek word for church is ecclesia iac means exit that mean that if you're part of a church is because you've exited out of something all of us in here we act something [Applause] ex-pimps prostitute x homogeneous x don't pad x x gamma x liars x cheat and some of us ain't 2x yet [Applause] that's why you can't be hard on folk that haven't made it to where you are yet we still have the stitch of sin hanging around us because we're in something the second part of the word word for church is kaleo which means to be called we were exited out of something but called into something and the call is a prestigious call we have been called by the lord which means only way you can be a part of church you got to be called and you come in through invitation you're not a part of a church if you're not a member you see it's members only [Applause] it's a private party [Applause] he said there's ephesian church here's a problem because you see the church had a lot of history behind it the ephesian church according to acts chapter 19 verses 1 through 20 was founded by the apostle paul it was later pastored by his young son timothy it had some famous people as being members of the church peter ministered that apollos was one of the converts priscilla aquila did evangelistic work there and john that penned the gospel of john first second third epistle of john and the book of revelation was a charter member and when jesus died at camera he willed his mother to john and wherever john went to church the mother of jesus [Music] was a member of that too can you imagine being a member of a church that's founded by the apostle paul and timothy pastor there and apollo the greatest preacher ever preached preached there priscilla aquila did evangelistic work there and the man that wrote the book of revelation was the superintendent of sunday school [Applause] and the president of the mother minister was jesus his own mother [Music] and whenever you got that kind of notoriety sometimes you get a little beside yourself and kind of stick your chest out a little bit because i'm a member of the ephesians church i asked the lord i said are there some problems with the church he said they are he said in ephesians chapter 4 verse 25 said they're doing entirely too much lying [Applause] he said in ephesians chapter 4 verse 26 said again angry and staying mad too long peace in ephesians chapter 4 verse 27 so they're giving place to the devil he said they're lying in 25 getting angry in 26 giving place to the devil in 27 so they'll start stealing in verse 28. [Applause] so the lion in 25 again anger in 26 giving place to the devil in 27 stealing in 28 said going to kirsten in verse 29. he said in line in 25 getting angry in 26 giving place to the devil in 27 stealing in 28 kirsten and 29 grieving the spirit in verse 30. he said in line in 25. getting angry in 26. talk to me somebody giving place to the devil in 27 stealing in 28 kirsten in 29 grieving his spirit and 36 got bitter in verse 31. he said there are some problems [Applause] a witness she says in ephesians 6 and 11 put on [Applause] is the greek word endure you see the same word in luke 24 49 he should wait until you have been endured with power from on high in other words he should wait until you have been girded with the holy ghost talk to me somebody there so the holy spirit got to wrap you up before you can be effective put on the whole armbar of god that you might be able to stand the greek word is history for stan it means stand the erect without bent back and drop droop shoulders stand that you may be able to stand against what against this greek word prospers uh it means face to face you see the same word in gen in john 1 3 he said in the beginning was the word the word was with same greek word cross face to face it means that god the father and god the son they were always face to face only time there was not face to face was when jesus was on cabaret and the reason it was not face to face then because my sin got in the way anytime sin getting anything that create division talk to me somebody the word cross in the greek language the same word for the word prayer the greek word for prayer is pros uk same good word face to face when you pray you become face to face with your heavenly father y'all don't hear that's why i said in second chronicles 7 14 seek my face you got to come face to face with god the second part word for prayer you can't mean wish or desire that you come with him to him with your wish and your desire and wait on god to respond do have a witness now the reason you need to become face to face with your heavenly father because sooner or later you're gonna come face to face with your enemy and if you have been face to face with your heavenly father when you run into your enemy your enemy can't help you do i have a witness put on the whole arm of god that you might be able to stand against the wiles wilds greek word methodia is where we get our english word method form which means satan come with his methods satan come organized [Applause] satan has used the same tricks throughout creation he still use them now the lust of the eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of life the reason he keep use them because they keep working i was young ahead black and tan hound female her name was so blue blue would if i and daddy wouldn't let me have but four shells to go hunting and i had to come back with four rabbits i couldn't miss one but men blew we served as a team if i finally missed one she was so fast she would catch him from there but blue got hit with a car and it broke one of her legs she couldn't run as fast but she was smarter and whenever she would jump a rabbit she would run him until he got tired when he got tired he would start seeking and zagging if she didn't catch him in the zig [Applause] [Music] she would catch him in the tank that's the way the devil do us he keep running until you get tired when you get tired you start seeking and sagging and if you don't catch in the jig hill [Applause] do well [Applause] a witness methadea mean method he come with his methods you see the devil no scripture [Applause] matter of fact he used the same scripture for his mission statement that jesus uses for his mission statement john 10 10 a thief cometh not but but to steal kill and destroy the lord take the same verse for his mission statement i come that you might have life in heaven more abundantly this word methodia mean with a road don't make much sense to me with the road with your what sis does that make well god saw the devil one day in the book of job he said what you up to joe where you coming from he's a two and fro he said i'm on a road seeking who i can devour you see here's how the devil he watched you you used to be faithful and now you're backing up you said reach your bible every day now you read it once a week you should pray every night before you go to bed now you just jump up in the bed you used to pay your tithes now you're tipping god the devil is watching and when they see you backing up with god he stepped forward because you ain't got nothing to fight him back with the less words you got the weaker you are have i got a witness you can't maintain good faith if you don't have a word because romans 10 17 have faith come by hearing and hearing come through by the word of god he's on the road see who can devout do i have a witness first thessalonians 2 verse 18 paul said i would have come to you but satan hindered [Music] [Applause] it's the idea of you running a race and your opponent run right beside you when they get right beside you he elbow you out of the race satan see you running and he run right beside you he elbow you i don't think y'all like me in this house tonight anybody here ever been elbowed by the devil when you look up you don't have enough strength to get back in the race again because the devil elbow you [Applause] second corinthians 2 11 be not ignorant of satan's device greek word is no imma it's from the root word nueo from the writ word noose [Music] noose mean man in other words the devil is after your mind [Applause] because when you're serving god he wants your mind he should meditate to meditate you need your mind [Music] he said think to think you need your mind steady you need your mind and you see the mind and the heart they write together your mind is here the noose the noose cadilla is the heart is here as a man thinking in his heart not the pump in his chest so is he the devil loved to play mind games and can i tell you if you get in your mind he got the rest of you the devil take out some folk just by getting in their mind [Applause] y'all don't like me in this house when the devil got ready to tip eve he dealt with her mind never got a witness matter of fact when it challenged jesus in the wilderness he was dealing with his mind because the bible say took jesus to the mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world in the matter of seconds how can you do that unless it's in the when the devil deal with you he's working with your mind that's why sometimes you go to the doctor doctor says you got six months to live and you leave in five years you say i understand that no doctor is that smart to know exactly how long you got to live when i understand that reverend doctor told me my mama wasn't gonna live she she lived five months she was gone i can tell you why you can live you can live weeks without food bees without water but only minutes without hope that when your hope is gone you get ready to check out of here that's why my hope [Applause] is built on nothing less than jesus blood and his on christ [Applause] the silent rock i stand oh other crown is sinking i got to go and let y'all go put on the whole arm of god you may be able to stand shout stand one time against the wives of the devil finally my brethren be what i love about it is that god will aid you in being strong [Applause] romans 8 and i'll let you go romans 8 28 saying we know [Applause] romans 8 26 say we know not [Applause] and now paul do we know i do we don't know he's in romans 8 28 we know that all fakes work together for good to them that love god and to them who are the call according to his purpose but romans 8 26 that we know not what we ought to pray for as we ought but the spirit happens greek word for hepatitis lumbotimide trium compound word the word soon mean you named it when you're born again you're united with the godheads creation is god behind us bethlehem is god with us carries god for us pentecost is god in us he was donated at bethlehem demonstrated a carrot but illustrated at pentecost talk to me somebody second part word of unteach and mean over against i go to the gym when i'm at home and i spend time doing my pressing and weight lifting just in case if somebody grabbed that [Applause] i lisaken put up a fight i got this young lady that's a woman preacher real s built i mean and and and she know how to get the best out of me she said to me all right reverend let's do some weight lift and i get down i do about 10 reps trying to impress her [Applause] she's all right rest a minute i rest her mind she's all right give me 10 more i do 10 more she's all right rest two minutes next time she put some loads on each ass give me 10 more reverend i start i get up to about seven moms start locking up on me she look at me so don't quit on me now i do buy one more she's all right i'm gonna spot you that means while i'm under the load [Applause] pushing she's above the load pulling and once i get through she pat me on the shoulder tell me i told you you could do it [Applause] but sometimes god put us on a load and sometimes the load is too much for us to handle bearing mama that's a heavy load losing your job that's a heavy load going through a divorce that's a heavy load and you get so far don't look like you can go no further god said don't quit on me now have i got a witness yeah and when it looked like you can't go no further god so i'm going to spot you have i got to witness that so while you're pushing god is pulling [Applause] last part of the word it means to take that means he take the load off of you and give you credit for handling the load have i got a witness here can i give you one more and i'm going romans 8 37 say with more than conquerors greek word for conquer mean to bear nakaku mean to conquer it's the olympic race men and women would climb the mountain some would stop along the way some get almost to the top and give up but if you made it to the top of the mountain they'd raise your hand so you are a cockerer you would go back down again but that time they put a load on you and you would climb the mountain with a load some people wouldn't make it very far they'd quit others would climb all the way to the top if you made it to the top with a load on you they'd raise your hand and say you're more than a conqueror have i got a witness i see folk bragging about how far they have come but i want to know did you have a load on you have i got a witness that you have to buy something to get to where you are just shake one hand so honey i'm glad the god i serve [Applause] i gotta quit y'all june 24 said now normally now it's a conjunction but in june 24 instead of being a conjunction instead of being an adverb it's a conjunction now unto it's a preposition that a preposition of the pre-possession preposition meaning where i am now is not where i'm going up it's a comma instead of a period have i got a witness now under him him is a pronoun but it is an objective pronoun the next word is that which is a subjective pronoun the nominee in the english language you don't have objective and subject it together it's either of never bothering have i got a witness here but i wanted to find out what the original language said about it now the king james is saying now under him that's about but in the greek text that read like this him able [Applause] that's all i got for you hear me but can you shake just one hand say honey [Music] he may not come when you want him behind but he's always right on time weeping may endure for a night but john john will come in the morning grab a hand one more time say neighbor have you laughed any rivers that you cannot tunnel to have you any mountain that you cannot climb chair of god specializes in things that are impossible he will do what no other [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] foreign [Applause] you

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Published: Fri Nov 26 2021