The Church at Ellerslie SUNDAY SERMON NOTES

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1 The Church at Ellerslie SUNDAY SERMON NOTES Eric Ludy Sunday, June 21, 2015

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3 The Gspel Delivery A Study in Leading Suls Frm Death Unt Life Part One Dedicated t Avy My Precius Father s Day Gift There is nthing better than being dressed up like a princess and spending the night in a htel with Mmma. But did yu knw what is even better than that? Being able t share abut Jesus with smene. Avy (6 years ld) I am witnessing daily the cnversin f sinners, I seldm g ut but Gd gives me sme Fruit. Jhn Oxtby (aka - Praying Jhnny) The fruit f the righteus is a tree f life; and he that wins suls is wise. Prverbs 11:30 The Fruit f the Righteus A Tree f Life Fr I determined nt t knw anything amng yu except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 1 Crinthians 2:2 3

4 Fr I determined nt t knw anything amng yu except (The Tree f Life). 1 Crinthians 2:2 He That Wins Suls is Wise He that wins suls is wise. Prverbs 11:30 G int the public assembly with a design t strike, and persuade sme suls there, int repentance and salvatin. G t pen blind eyes, t unstp deaf ears, t make the lame walk, t make the flish wise, t raise thse that are dead in trespasses and sins t a Heavenly and Divine life, and t bring guilty rebels t return t the lve and bedience f their Maker, by Christ Jesus the great Recnciler, that they may be pardned and saved. G t diffuse the Savur f the name f Christ and His gspel thrugh a whle assembly and t allure suls t partake f His grace and glry. Isaac Watts What is the Fruit f ur Lives? And are we really prving the wise? Yu have nthing t d but t save suls. Therefre spend and be spent in this wrk. Jhn Wesley Excerpted frm The Twelve Rules The Agny f Barrenness The beginnings f persistent prayer The Barren Wman is shamed by her fruitlessness and cries ut in anguish f sul. 4

5 The Barren Wman is mved t prayer t cver her shame f fruitlessness, begging Gd night and day fr life t frm within her. The Barren Wmen is supernaturally aided thrugh prayer t bear, nt a mere human, but a mighty man, a prevailing her f Israel. Sarah, barren until ninety years f age, begets Isaac Rebekah, barren, and then after Isaac s prayer, she begets twins, Esau and Jacb (Israel) Rachel, Jacb s wife, is barren and then begets Jseph, wh delivered the natin f Israel Manah s wife was barren and then she begets Samsn (anther deliverer f the natin) Hannah was barren and then has Samuel, a prphet f Israel Ruth barren and widwed, finds mercy, and begets Obed, wh begat Jesse, the father f David, f whse line is Jesus Christ Elizabeth, elderly and unable t bear children after the natural, begets Jhn the Baptist, f whm Jesus said there was n greater prphet brn f wmen. The Church at Ellerslie, barren until June f 2015, begets 7.16 billin If shame f childlessness had nt subdued these wmen, what mighty men wuld have been lst! Lenard Ravenhill NOTE: Are we shamed ver ur childlessness? D we weep in the anguish and shame f ur ministries that cnceive nt the new life, the new birth in thers? Are we nt grieved ver ur imptence, ur infertility, ur inability t beget children in the faith? Are we nt yet fed-up with ur weakness t pray and see liberty wn and captives set-free? Are we nt yet sickened that this wrld sees nthing marvelus r pwerful in ur lives t cause them t wnder what it is that we pssess? Are we nt shamed that this wrld sees us nt as a threat, but merely as a nuisance? May we, the barren in Israel, cry ut in supplicatin. May we ech the demand f Rachel unt ur Bridegrm Give me children r I die! The Welsh Revival The Picture f Faith and the Bat 5

6 Prayer and Cnfessin The Tw Hands Designed fr Rescue Wrk The Midwife ne wh assists in the prcess f birth And the children f Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them... (insert difficulty, pain, hardship here)... But the mre they afflicted them, the mre they multiplied and grew... (insert rder t kill all male Hebrew children at birth and sme Gd-fearing midwives here)... Therefre Gd dealt well with the midwives: and the peple multiplied, and waxed very mighty. Exdus 1:7,12,20 The Gspelteer ne wh assists the Hly Spirit in the prcess f New Birth Ten P s f Gspelteering 1. Gspel Prayer #1 - fr the unctin t Pray 2. Gspel Prayer #2 - fr the unctin t bldly Cnfess 3. Gspel Prayer #3 - fr the unctin fr thers t hear and receive 4. Gspel Pursuit #1 - Aggressively swing the seed f Jesus Christ 5. Gspel Pursuit #2 - Cnsistency and relentlessly watering the sil with Lve 6. Gspel Pursuit #3 - Bldly reaping the ready fruit 7. Gspel Pangs #1 - Thrughly bringing the ready sul thrugh unt Life 8. Gspel Push #1 - The Press t Baptize 9. Gspel Practice #1 - Immediate Discipleship 10. Gspel Practice #2 - The Pressing tward Prayer and Cnfessin 6

7 Gspel Pursuit #1, #2, & #3 1. Aggressive Swing 2. Relentless Lving 3. Bld Reaping Gspel Pursuit #1 Aggressive Swing Always giving the Gspel... always! Key Principle Be the Bdy! Get that seed in the sil f their sul. Vilating the unspken American scial cde Talking with the uncmfrtable nes in the uncmfrtable situatins Lking fr the mst infamus in the rm It takes?? swings t fell this tree - will yu supply a swing? The Jack Philpt Scenari A Single Day in the life f an Unbeliever in Windsr, Clrad Charlie swings by his huse t fix a hle in his rf, asks Jack if he knws Jesus. Jack is shrt with Charlie and desn t care fr his wrds. Philip is sitting next t Jack at Dunkin Dnuts, and asks Jack where he stands with Jesus Christ. Jack is startled by the cincidence f such a questin. He is rude t Philip and appears unmved and unfeeling t Philip s inquiry, but is disturbed by the fact that in the past hur, he s been asked abut Jesus Christ twice. Rebekah sees Jack n the ther side f the King Spers' gas pump while pumping gas int her car. She says, Hi. Jack shudders at the friendliness f everyne in the twn tday. He mutters Hi back. Then Rebekah brings up Jesus. Jack turns pale, even sick. His resistance t Jesus is fading. He is being vercme with the pursuit f the Spirit f Gd. 7

8 Real questins are striking his sul - cnvicting questins. His answer t Rebekah is vague and hasty. He stps pumping gas, hps in his car, and gets ut f there. Adriane sees Jack walking ut f Wells Farg. He lks like he is hurting, like he is in real pain. She walks acrss the parking lt frm McDnalds and says, Are yu all right? Jack shrugs his shulders, and gives a dismissing wave f the hand. Adriane says, I wuld lve t pray fr yu, sir. The man stps and lks at her with wide eyed amazement. Pray? he grunts. Then he barks, I dn t believe in Gd! Adriane smiles and says, Well I knw what t pray fr then. I ll pray that yu wuld believe in Gd thrugh His Sn Jesus Christ. With that she smiles again and walks ff. Later that afternn Beau is ut walking with his family. They see Jack in his frnt yard trying t start his mwer. Beau knws he needs t talk with this man. When Beau reaches him, Jack attempts t wipe the tears away frm his eyes in embarrassment. He s ready fr the Gspel. Beau is n it. The Hly Spirit uses the Bdy f Christ. Each ne supplying the unique strength and unique pressure upn Jack s sul that the Spirit is directing. Gspel Pursuit #2 Relentless Lving Everything enflded in lve - always pursuing the salvatin f thse arund us, nt as irritants but as thse that genuinely care and are willing t suffer lss, even death, that they might live Key Principle Be cnsistently Jesus befre the wrld! Always jyful, always lving, always pure, always therly! The Tadples and the Pending Judgment Daddy s predicament: I ve gt an algae prblem. This stuff grws, well, like algae. I ve tried everything t keep these pnds clear, but nthing has seemed t wrk. It s time t bring in the strng stuff. Chlrine. But, there s a small prblem. Harper s Desperate Plea: Please let the tadples turn t frgs first, Daddy, befre yu stick the stuff in! 8

9 Daddy s Day f Judgment is at Hand: Hudsn, g tell Harper, Dub, and Avy that these tadples can still be saved if yu d smething immediately. G grab a spn and rescue them! Harper s Desperate Plea: Daddy, there s still anther ne in there! We need t save them all! Gspel Pursuit #3 Bld Reaping Pluck the ripe nes when yu see them. Dn t let the ready fruit turn bad. Key Principle Bldly ask the ready sul t bend its knee befre its rightful Lrd! Recgnizing the Readiness and Ripeness And plucking it! Thrugh Cnversin Gspel Pangs #1 - Thrughly bringing the ready sul thrugh unt Life He that gathers in summer is a wise sn: but he that sleeps in harvest is a sn that causes shame. Prverbs 10:5 Faithful is He that calls yu, wh als will DO IT. 1 Thessalnians 5:24 9