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God Gave The Increase
Greetings
in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus.
Today’s program is called God Gave The Increase. It’s taken from 1Cor 3:1-23,
Let’s go there, And
I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes
in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you
were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal.
For where there are
envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? For when one says,
"I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not
carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you
believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but
God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he
who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who
waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own
labor. This
chapter tells us what is wrong with the church.
Verse 9, For
we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building. According
to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid
the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he
builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is
laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will
declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each
one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a
reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself
will be saved, yet so as through fire. Verse 6, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave
the increase. Verse 7, So
then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives
the increase. We are nothing! It is God who
gives the increase.
Let’s go to Acts 2:1-4, When the Day of Pentecost had fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a
sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house
where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as
of fire, and one
sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. We see here, that
on the Day of Pentecost, the Lord Jesus, as He promised, sent the Holy Spirit,
and the disciples were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with
other tongues, and many people heard the sound and they were gathered together
to see what was happening. Let’s go to verse 14-21, But Peter, standing up with the eleven,
raised his voice and said to them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in
Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. For these are not
drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But
this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: And it shall come
to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of my Spirit on all
flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, your young men shall see
visions, your old men shall dream dreams, and on my menservants and on my maidservants
I will pour out of my Spirit in those days. Peter preached the Gospel to the people. Let’s
go to verse 32, Peter said, This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all
witnesses. Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received
from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you
now see and hear. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says
himself:
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your
footstool. Therefore
let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom
you crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to
Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and
brethren, what shall we do?" Then Peter said to them, "Repent,
and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the
promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as
the Lord our God will call. And with many other words he testified and exhorted
them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation." Amen! Then those who gladly received
his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. And they continued
steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread,
and in prayers. God gave the Holy Spirit to the disciples. Peter planted; he preached
the Gospel to the people, and then God gave the increase. Three thousand souls
were added to the church that day. They were watered as they continued
steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine. In verse 47 we read, And the Lord added to the
church daily those who were being saved. The Lord added. He gave the increase.
Let’s go to Acts 10. Acts 10 talks about the
centurion, Cornelius, who was a righteous man; feared God with all his
household, gave alms generously, in verse 2, to the people and prayed to God
always. Wow! He was a righteous man. And God sent an angel. The angel told him
to go and send for Peter. Peter came, he preached the Gospel, he planted, and
the Holy Spirit fell on all those that were gathered together at Cornelius’
house. God gave the increase. They were baptized. Peter stayed there certain
days and taught them and they were watered.
Let’s go to Acts 11:19-26, Now those who were scattered
after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia,
Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only. But
some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to
Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, (Greek speaking Jews), preaching the Lord Jesus. And the
hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the
Lord. I want to read that again, verse 21, And the hand of the Lord was with them, and
a great number believed and turned to the Lord. We see in Antioch
that the hand of the Lord was with them; God gave the increase. The gentile
church started in Antioch. They were first called Christians there. The Apostle
Paul was sent out from there. There were elders there. If we go to Acts 13:1-5,
we see, Now in the
church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas,
Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up
with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord and
fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work
to which I have called them. Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away. So we see here
that God had established the church. He gave the increase. And He established
elders, and they fasted, and they prayed, and they laid hands on them and sent
them away, verse 4, So,
being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to
Cyprus. And when they arrived in Salamis, they preached the word of God in
the synagogues of the Jews. They also had John as their assistant. And you can read on
and see how God moved. Paul planted and God gave the increase. This all started
with those few men that went to Antioch; and the hand of the Lord was with them,
and He gave the increase, and He established the church at Antioch, and much
fruit came from it, including the Apostle Paul’s ministry, including all the
churches that were established in Asia and in Greece.
Let’s go to Acts 16:13-15, And on the Sabbath day we went
out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat
down and spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named
Lydia heard us.
She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The
Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. And when she and
her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be
faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." So she persuaded
us. God
opened Lydia’s heart that she attended to the things spoken by Paul.
Immediately she believed and was baptized; she and her whole house. God gave
the increase. Let’s go to verse 23-33, And when they had laid many stripes on
them, they threw them
into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. Having received such a charge,
he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the
stocks. But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to
God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great
earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately
all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed. And the
keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open,
supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill
himself. But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no
harm, for we are all here." Then he called for a light, ran in, and
fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and
said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" So they said,
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your
household." Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all
who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and
washed their stripes. And immediately, immediately, he and all his family were
baptized. God sent the earthquake and the jailer heard the Gospel; Paul planted;
and he and all his house were saved and baptized straightway. God gave the
increase.
John 15:5, Jesus said that without me you can do
nothing. Jesus is the vine, we are the branches. He starts the work. He gives
the increase as we plant and water in obedience to Him, being sent by the Holy
Spirit. As we abide in Him and obey Him, He will move through us. We cannot do anything
without Him! 1Cor 3:9-15, Let’s go back there. We see here that every man’s
work will be tried, of what sort it is. There is no other foundation that can
be laid but Jesus Christ. Verse 12, Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will
declare it, because it will be revealed by fire. Every
man’s work shall be tried by fire. If
any man’s work abides, verse 14, makes it through the fire, he shall receive a
reward. Verse 15, If any man’s work shall be burned he shall suffer loss; but he himself
will be saved, yet so as through fire. Every work through the flesh is worthless;
it is not valuable, like gold, silver, precious stones, and it shall be burned
up. Every work initiated by Jesus, our head, our Lord and Master, which we
finish in faithful obedience, bearing fruit that remains to God’s Glory, is
valuable and precious, and we shall be rewarded. Every man’s work shall be
rewarded. 1 Pet 1:17 And
if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each
one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that
you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your
aimless conduct received
by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without blemish and without spot. We should pass the time of our sojourning
here in fear. Those that work iniquity shall be destroyed. Personal ambition is
nothing but a hinderance. It causes us as ministers to work through our flesh
which profits nothing, in pride and self glorification. The Bible talks about
those who love the preeminence. So what can we do? We must allow the Lord to break us: Jesus
said, whosoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; so that He can
work through us by His Spirit; so that we know that we are
nothing; as Paul said, in 1 Cor 3, so that we know that all Glory belongs to
Him; so that we wouldn’t even dare try to do anything on our own, but we seek
Him with prayer and fasting to obey Him as He leads us; He initiates the work;
sends us to plant; and He gives the increase; and we water; and the fruit will
come forth to His Glory. We truly seek to bring Glory and honor to our God; to
His Holy Name, and not to ourselves any more. Then we will have gold, silver,
and precious stones that will make it through the fire. The fire is coming, and
all of us will be judged according to our works.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Alas Sinful Nation!
Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Today’s program is entitled: Alas Sinful Nation! Just as this was Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Isaiah the Prophet, this is America today: Turn with me to Isa 1:1-28, The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, oh heavens, and give ear, oh earth! For the LORD has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me. The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, My people do not consider. Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Unless the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah. Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says the LORD. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courts? Bring no more futile sacrifices; incense is an abomination to Me; the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD; Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them. Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies. I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy. I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her penitents with righteousness. The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
Verse 2, …I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me; Verse 3, The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not consider. America does not know, nor do we consider. We do not know God, neither do we consider Him. We have rebelled against Him; we have rejected His Word to our own destruction. We do not consider that He is God and our breath is in His hand. Verse 4, we have forsaken the Lord and provoked Him to anger. Verse 13, Bring no more futile sacrifices; I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn meeting. Bring no more empty, vain prayers and religious services. Verse 15, even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Why? YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD !!! Even now we continue to slaughter innocent babies by the thousands, every day !! Let’s go to 2Ki 24:3&4. This talks about King Manasseh who was the son of Hezekiah, a righteous king; but Manasseh did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did much evil, but the worst thing that he did was that he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood. Ladies and gentlemen we have filled our nation with innocent blood with the slaughter of these babies. We call it health care. We call it women’s choice. You can call it whatever you want, but it is murder. It’s murder of innocent babies. They haven’t even had time to do any evil or good, and they are snuffed out like some kind of inconvenience. See what the Lord said about Manasseh in 2Ki 24:3&4, Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon. The Lord would not pardon the shedding of innocent blood. Our land is defiled with innocent blood!!
This is our diagnosis America, by the Prophet Isaiah, and it speaks still today! There is a cure! There is a real healing: verse 16, wash yourselves, make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, and the unborn, plead for the widow. Verse 18-20, Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD, Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. So, repent now! Turn from your evil ways! Come to your Savior Jesus Christ, who suffered and died for your sins, and let Him wash you and make you clean, and give you real life in Him. The only healing for America is to return to the God of our forefathers; to come weeping and mourning to our God whom we have forsaken and to His Son in true repentance, turning from the evil of our doings, being washed in the precious Blood of the Lamb of God. You cannot pick and choose scriptures and songs and try to justify your life of evil. The only way out is repentance; godly sorrow from the heart and returning to God with all our hearts. Then He will abundantly pardon and restore our judges as at the first, and our counselors as at the beginning. Then and only then shall we be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city; then and only then shall we be great again. No repentance; no forgiveness, and destruction will follow. America has been blessed and become great only because of the faith of our founders and the love and obedience which they lived toward our God; the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If we refuse to return to Him there will be no healing, but rather a great purging by Him of those who have rejected His counsel to their own destruction. Verse 28, The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
Isa 2:11-18, The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in
that day. There is a day coming: The Day of the Lord! For the day of the LORD
of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted
up—and it shall be brought low—upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and
lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan; upon all the high mountains, and
upon all the hills that are lifted up; upon every high tower, and upon every
fortified wall; upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the beautiful
sloops. The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day, but the idols
He shall utterly abolish. So let us humble ourselves now, all of us, before the
Great and Mighty God and come to His Son Jesus, who gave Himself for us a
living sacrifice for our sins, with fear and trembling and true repentance that
we may find grace in His sight; grace to help us in this great hour of need. We
must see our need as Jesus said to the church in Laodicea in Rev 3:17-22,
Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'—and
do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel
you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white
garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be
revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I
love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at
the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in
to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to
sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His
throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
It is not enough to do a little righteousness and pat ourselves on the back
while we continue to slaughter innocent babies and commit many other
abominations, quoting scriptures and trying to appear to be honorable in the
sight of men. That is not going to work! It’s a lie! It’s deceit! We must
repent now, while we still have a nation, while we still have breath, and turn
from our evil ways with all our hearts, with fasting and mourning and crying
out to God, like the people of Nineveh did at the preaching of the Prophet
Jonah. Let’s turn there, Jon 3:1-10, Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the
second time, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it
the message that I tell you. So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to
the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day
journey in extent. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk.
Then he cried out and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown! So
the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth,
from the greatest to the least of them. Then word came to the king of Nineveh;
and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with
sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published
throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let
neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or
drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily
to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is
in his hands. Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His
fierce anger, so that we may not perish? Then God saw their works, that they
turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said
He would bring upon them, and He did not do it. Do not be deceived people!
God’s judgement is upon us. If we will turn back to Him, perhaps He will pardon
us and repent of the evil that He has planned to bring upon us for our evil
ways. But if we refuse and continue in them we will be destroyed. Isa
3:10&11, Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they
shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with
him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Isa 1:9, Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small
remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like
Gomorrah. There is a remnant in America, a very small remnant of people who
really love the Lord. Thank God for them, otherwise we would be as Sodom and
like unto Gomorrah.
Sunday, January 17, 2021
One Accord
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Neither Do I Condemn You
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Nebuchadnezzar's Testimony