“A Time to Build”
By Jesse Rairdon
March 7th,
2010
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Ecclesiastes
3:1, 3 …and a time
to build up;
This
message had three parts:
1.
What are we
building?
2.
Where do we
begin?
3.
Staying focused!
1.
What are we building?
We
are building God’s building…which is people. And if you’re going to build God’s
building you can only build on the foundation which is laid, which is Christ
Jesus.
Psalms
127:1 Except the LORD build the house,
they labour in vain that build it…
Just
like in last weeks message where God is the only one who can restore, God is
the only one who can build.
Ephesians
2:19-22 …the building fitly framed together…
In
this ministry we were built on the
foundation of the Pastor Davis who built on the chief corner stone of
the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pastor Davis
went to the streets and brought in those of most would have forgotten
about, he
was a wise materbuilder. He
brought in
people of the religious world had forgotten about, the out casts, down
trodden
of society….people like me, sinners like me. We
are in the ministry of building and
restoring people, giving God a place to dwell.
2. Where do we
begin?
Matthew
7:24-27 …a wise man, which
built his house upon a rock…
A
rock is something you can build on that will withstand the storms. Sand is something that won’t stand the trials
and fall hard. Remember the story of the
3 little pigs and the big bad wolf?
Matthew
16: 13-18 …upon this rock I will
build my church…
The rock was not Peter; the rock
was the knowledge of who Jesus was. We are to build on the knowledge of who
Jesus is, the knowledge can only come from God, and he chooses who He is going
to reveal it to.
Luke
24: 44-47 …that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in His name…
Verse 44 is that knowledge concerning Jesus. Verse 45 is the understanding of why and how
we build on that knowledge of Jesus. We
begin with building on 3 areas: Repentance, Remission of sins and His name… and truly understanding that
name being the rock, knowing who He is.
Acts
2: 36-38, 41 … Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins…
earlier Repentance, Remission of sins and His Name. We
begin to build with the understanding God
gives us. You can have all the knowledge and be able to quote verse
after verse,
but if you don’t have the understanding you cannot build.
3.
Staying focused!
Luke
14:26-30 …This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
We have to be in it to win it right from the get go. We have to be willing
to stay focused and build no matter what comes our way. And let me tell you things will come our way.
Because there is an enemy to who wants to discourage us, distract us… even try
to tear down what’s been built.
Nehemiah
2:18-20 …And they said, Let us
rise up and build…
Here we see them encouraging each other in what they are about to build, And
no sooner than they had decided to do this thing the enemy comes to try to
discourage them, even laughed at them. What
is this thing you’re going to do? Become the largest Jesus name ministry in the
world? It will never happen! What do you
mean have enough people to build a church building, or have the elders send us
a pastor again? I believe we can have
those things again, but not if God doesn’t build it, and if we don’t keep the
right foundation. We just need to remind
our enemies that God will use us to build, and build it even greater than
before! And our enemies, those who though we have failed and have come to
naught will have no place in what God is doing and have no right to be a part
of it!
Nehemiah
6: 1-3, 15-16 …let us meet together in some one of
the villages in the plain of Ono…
And now here we have the enemy comes in distract us, they couldn’t
discourage us, so let try distracting them!
It says the plains of Ono (OH NO)! For a reason, the enemy wants to get
distracted just enough so that you won’t build. Let just come down and discuss
it for a little while, let me tell you, church, once the enemy has you on his
territory and you’re not where your supposed to be, you have already quit
building. But we need to answer like the leader did here,
I’m too busy doing God’s work to come down. When our enemies see and here about what God
has done, then they will truly know that this work was of God, and God is with
us!
Hebrews
10: 37-39 …the just shall live by
faith…
Remember in the movie, “Field of Dreams” when the voice kept telling him,
“build and he will come.” The same is
with God, build His church and He will come!
James
5: 7-8 …Be ye also patient;
stablish your hearts…
Jeremiah
31:28 … I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
Sermon
notes by Pete Shepherd
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