Permission Can Be a Slippery Slope

Numbers 22:20-22 (KJV)

20And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

21And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

God told Balaam (if) the men come to call thee…

Remember- he (Balaam) had already turned them down-

Now God said (if) the men come back to call…

He would then give Balaam *permission to go!

(permission is different than the will of God)

Permission is often capitulation to someone’s Desires!

*There is a great difference…

But notice that Balaam did not *wait

Until they came-

Rather he saddle his animal first thing that morning and went-(the Hebrew words indicate that Balaam had desire now for the riches offered).

Thus the anger of the Lord!

God often finally *Permits or gives Permission

But the results could be devastating!

Example-(you might could marry someone that’s not the will of God, yet the consequences may not arise for years)…

Permission alone can be devastating…

Balaam’s judgement came later- it’s recorded that during battle the children of Israel slew him…

Permission could be a slippery slope!

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

1 Peter 4:11

Waiting

Psalms 62:1 (KJV)

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

Waiting…

⁃ Man’s hardest lesson

⁃ Man’s tallest mountain

⁃ Man’s greatest obstacle

Ask and Given the Choice

We can face sword and peril of life?

Lions and Bears-

But… Waiting?

The inability to not Wait has lost entire Armies the Battle…

The provision of Idle Playgrounds that have brought down Kings-without a sword being drawn!

Lost Marriages that would never be!

Ministries that would never become!

Waiting- is not natural

It is a God Thing-

It is a Virtue!

If you’re waiting on “Waiting”

It’ll never just arrive-

As with Wisdom and Understanding-

You have to Request it from God…

Salvation as well as Deliverance, comes to those that Wait on God!

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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His Purpose

Philippians 2:13 (KJV)

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Never think that your life is without Purpose…

The Aim of the devil is to minimize and even trivialize our lives as Non-Important or without Purpose….

This causes angst and defeat! As a life without Meaning and Purpose!

Don’t let the devil rob you of your Purpose-

It is His good Pleasure that He(God)- Is working in you!

Both to Will and Do “His Good Pleasure”

Never forget-

You Have Purpose…

Just relax and let the Master work (in you)

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Open House

Proverbs 9:18 (KJV)

-But he knoweth not that (the dead are there;)

and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

The House of the Dead-

Is Open for Business 24/7

365 Days a Year…

Pornography Has Become “Epidemic”

Greater Attended is the “House of Porn”

Than the House of God!

Her Congregation is More Faithful and Give More Money- Than All The Churches Combined…

Her House Has a Waiting Line of Addicts Pushing to Gain Entrance…

But… The Dead Are There-

Piling Up in a Place of Death and Destruction!

There’s Always Room for More-

For her guests are in the depths of Hell!

And according to scripture, (Hell) hath enlarged herself at *your coming…

Pornography must be addressed and identified

More as We See That Day Approach (the coming of the Lord).

Stay Away From That House!!!

Live a Clean Life Without Regrets…

It Feels So Much Better!

It May Be “Open House”

That Ends in an-

“Eternal Prison”

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Whose House You Live in Matters!

Mark 13:35 (KJV)

35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not (when the master of the house) cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

The Scripture is Indicative of a “Certain House”

Are You of The Divided House of Satan or

The Undivided House of God?

The Master of This House

Has Gone on a Journey…

Are you Honorable and Faithful or Not?

God Designed the “Absolute Return” of the Master-

Knowing the nature of men to procrastinate and postpone to the last minute…

The Mind Boggling Announcement-

The Master Will Return!

(ABSOLUTELY)

When? it Is a Secret Only the Master Knows-

What Us?

Stay Ready and Watch for Him…

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Action Not Words

1 Samuel 2:23-25 (KJV)

23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.

25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

1 Samuel 3:13 (KJV)

13For I have told him that (I will judge his house for ever) for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

Verbal Disapproval is Weak…

*Without Consequences…

Verbal Correction Needs

Physical Enforcement…

Words and Fireside Chats Will Not Always Be Enough…

Restrain- Means (You) as the parent are Responsible for your Children’s behavior!

Better to Train and Demand Obedience While they’re young and not wait until they’re Teenagers….

Proverbs 29:15 (KJV)

15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Don’t Say “No” if You’re Not Going to Enforce It!

Your Family Dynamics and Culture-

Do Not Override “Scripture”

You Could Very Well Be the Master of Your Family’s Destruction…

ACTION NOT WORDS

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Things May Not Be As They Seem

Mark 16:12 (KJV)

After that he appeared in (another form) unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.

Another Form…

The Disguise was used to hear their true thoughts…

*Often true as not, we adjust in the presence of those we esteem greatly!

This lesson wasn’t as much for Jesus’s (need to know) as it is for (their) and (our) admonition to learn…

Often Strong Emotional Feelings, Resulting from Extreme Crisis have a Tendency to “Blind”

Our Eyes to See Clearly…

⁃ When Our Trial Darkens the Day…

⁃ When the Pain Blinds and or Blurs Our Vision…

Look “Carefully Around” You

It Could Be That the Lord

Has Arrived (in another form) and is Even Now Speaking…

These two men later recounted the event and said,

“Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke”

Things Are Not Always As They Seem…

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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