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Walk by Faith Ministries

Plenary

Dwayne Lemon

The Foundational Principle

The Practical Key to Victory Over Sin

Panel Q&A Discussion

We thank you so much for the privilege to come together as brothers and sisters in Christ, that we may press together in such a mighty way, that your spirit will speak to our hearts and that you would open our eyes and help us behold wondrous things out of your word.

I know every single 1 of us have come here with deep heart needs, needs that only you can truly satisfy.

And so I am praying that you would perform a miracle tonight and that you would take the spiritually dead and put within us your wonderful words of everlasting life.

I pray that you will help us to see that there is hope and there is victory, even in Jesus Christ.

And Lord, may we leave here at the end of this message different and courage, strengthened, and more built up than when we came in.

For this truly is our prayer that we do humbly ask in Jesus' name.

You know, 1 of the things that I enjoy studying, and I enjoy studying many things, but 1 of the things that I really enjoy studying is the subject of family.

My 3 favorite subjects of Bible study is prophecy, health, and the family.

And I believe we can hit all of those this weekend, because believe it or not, it's all intertwined, 1 with the other, believe it or not.

And so it is that when we study the word of God, God wants us to understand a very important principle.

And I want us to turn our Bibles to the book of Ecclesiastes.

I've often shared this verse when I would begin certain messages and to me this verse never gets tired because the more that I see What's happening even in the landscape of Bible prophecy?

I can see that this verse of Scripture never ever gets tired It's found in the book of Ecclesiastes We're going to Ecclesiastes.

We're going to consider chapter 1 and I want you to watch what the Bible says as we look at Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and When you get there, just let me know by saying amen And I want you to consider what it says in verse 9.

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 1 and verse 9, and it says, the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be.

And that which is done, is that which shall be done.

There's no new thing under the Sun the Bible lets us know that history has a tendency to repeat itself.

When you study the Bible it is a tremendous amount of sacred history that God wants us to understand that the stories that we read about are things that are going to in another manner take place in our very time.

The Apostle Paul put it another way in 1st Corinthians chapter 10.

In 1st Corinthians, 1 from the old, 1 from the new.

The Apostle Paul also says something that we would do well to consider.

The Bible says in the book of 1st Corinthians, we're now looking at what chapter?

Very good, we're going to chapter 10 and I want you to see what the Bible says in 1st Corinthians chapter 10.

Now as we prepare to look at this, I just want to give you a quick backdrop of the story.

The Apostle Paul noticed that there were many, many challenges in the Church of Corinth.

Almost every debased sin that your mind can imagine was taking place amongst the people of God in the Church of Corinth.

There were individuals who were practicing vile practices, self-abuse, individuals who were even sleeping with their own parents, individuals who were Fighting and fussing and threatening to go to civil powers to settle their differences and forgetting the power of prayer.

And communing 1 with another and trying to settle themselves amongst the family.

Lots and lots of issues in the Church of Corinth.

The Apostle Paul gets to a point that in 1st Corinthians 10 he begins to remind them of their history, their heritage, and as he walks them through their history and their heritage he starts talking about those incredible days when God did incredible things like parting the Red Sea.

And from verses 1 to 4, Paul starts talking about how God parted the Red Sea, brought the children of Israel through with a mighty hand, started to take them on their journey to Canaan land and gave them their beautiful water that they would drink from that rock, and that rock was none other than a representation of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ.

But in the midst of God providing so much unto his people, verses 6 through 10 shows how the people were responding.

They would complain and they would murmur and they would get caught up in fornication and various sins.

They were literally showing God how unthankful they were for his mighty deliverance.

And as they're walking through and Paul is just rehearsing history, he's walking them through history.

Paul gets to that wonderful verse in verse 11 and when right there in verse 11 that's the 1 I want you to read with me in verse 11 the Apostle Paul says now all these things as he gone through the history he says now all these things happen unto them for what?

The word and samples in the Greek means types.

And every time you have a type, you have to have an anti-type.

Whenever you think of type, think of shadow and symbol.

Whenever you think of anti-type, think reality.

He says all of these things happen unto them for shadows, for symbols.

He says all these things happen unto them for types, he says, but they are written for our admonition, and then he qualifies the hour.

It's not just merely believers, but he says, and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world shall come.

That's dealing with the believers of the last days.

So again, Paul says, when you look at history, there is a repetition, types.

There are things that happened in the past that we're gonna see manifested in a 2018, 19 and onward version.

But they're all built off of the same principles.

And this is why whenever you study the Bible you must understand that even when you're reading the Old Testament, even when you're reading the past, you're actually studying present truth.

You're studying truths from the Word of God that apply to you and to me in these very last moments of Earth's history I don't know if we're really paying attention to the landscape of what's going on in our world right now.

1 thing that God is reminding me through the consistent scenes of events that are taking place is that this world has a guaranteed death sentence.

This world cannot continue in the way that it exists right now.

And what makes it even worse is that the Bible actually shows that the things that are happening in this world are not just merely happenstances but they are things that are going to get worse and worse.

The Bible spells it out very powerfully in the book of 2nd Timothy.

I want you to go to 2nd Timothy chapter 3.

In 2nd Timothy the third chapter, Paul begins to tell us about last day events.

That's how he starts the chapter off actually.

But I want you to see what Paul says in verse 13 of 2nd Timothy chapter 3, just so we can understand that in the last days Paul made it very clear how things were gonna get because sometimes we see things that are happening in our world and we wonder what's next what's gonna happen next is it gonna get better well the Bible already answered that question it's interesting in the book of 2nd Timothy chapter 3 right there in verse 13 notice what the Bible says it says but what kind of men it says but evil men and seducers shall wax how worse and worse deceiving and being deceived The Bible is very clear that things are gonna get worse, no matter how much people try to prophesy peace and safety.

We are told that this world has a guaranteed death sentence.

And I thank God for it, because every time I see the realities of what's happening in our world, I am learning that my affections for this world are truly being detached.

I don't know if you realize it, but some of us still have too much affections for this world.

There are still places and things and all sorts of stuff that we want to do and accomplish and we forget that God has a whole existence waiting for us that is so beautiful, so powerful, so holy, sanctified, and actually, watch this word, pleasing.

That God says no matter how good you can imagine it, it's better than that.

And if only our minds could be broken from the things of this world.

You see, God did it for me, I'm gonna be honest with you, God did it for me.

I Have lost my passion and my affections for the things of this world in a very marked manner But I'm gonna tell you you know what it took for me It took my chest being split open It took an open-heart surgery experience I Lied to you not it's like 1 of the best things, it's strange what I'm about to say, but the best thing that's ever happened to me in recent times was open heart surgery.

It's almost like I would want to recommend it to you.

But I know many of you would say, nah, I think I'll pass on that.

Now, God wants to do an open heart surgery.

You see, the word heart in the Bible means mind, and God wants to open your mind.

God wants you to, he wants to show you wondrous things out of his word.

He wants to ignite our minds with so much heavenly bliss that we no longer sing it, but we actually believe it, that the things of this world will go strangely dim, and we will literally begin to long for heaven.

How many of you right now sit down and talk about what you're gonna do when you get to heaven?

I want you to think about that, praise God.

I remember when my family and I, when we were living in Georgia and we had our little country property, and I remember we were there.

And we had a Sabbath day where we were together worshiping the Lord.

And then we came back home, and we just enjoyed some time on our land.

And when we were on our land, I remember I told my children, I said, OK, I said, let's go into the world of imagination.

What are you going to do in the new heaven and the new earth?

And I remember how 1 by 1, my children would start talking about, oh, daddy, I'm going to ride an elephant.

My son Jared, who was in love with all these animals, these beasts of the field, Jared was like, I'm gonna ride a lion.

And then others were saying about, I can't wait to fly to other galaxies.

We spent at least an hour and we were all just sitting down and talking about what we're gonna do when we get over on the other side.

The Apostle Paul says, set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth.

For you are supposed to be dead, and our lives are supposed to be hid in Christ, in God.

And the reality is, is that as much as God's counsel is so clear, many of us are still planning a lot of things.

Many of us wake up, go throughout our day, and all we do is we work and we imagine for the temporal while we forget the eternal.

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The Foundational Principle

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