Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 26, 2022
Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 26, 2022
This sermon talks about the fact that in the office as the Son, “unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given”, the Almighty God reminds us that He is just like us.
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same”. He came to this earth and took on flesh and blood, just like us. This is Isaiah 9: 6: “The mighty God, The everlasting Father” being born as a child: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given”.
“Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren”.
ANGELS AND THE ELECT – “Men have often wondered when their bodies are glorified and changed how will they rank with the angels? – In the world to come, the righteous are equal to angels! (Luke 20: 36) – In some respects and ways the redeemed will excel angels; for the overcomers will be the ‘very bride’ of Christ! – A privilege which is not given to angels! There is no higher position for created beings than those in the Bride of Christ!” (Rev. 19: 7-9)
We were on earth, made a little lower than the angels, but believed in the Lord God Almighty who also became a little lower than the angels to die for our sins, whose name is Jesus, “whose name is Holy”: Whose name and very name is just holy, not corrupted with this world or any parts of any universe.
You will not find any creature with a higher position than us, no matter where you go throughout the entire universe, where there is no end to the kingdom of God.
2 Peter 1: 11: “For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” There is an entrance, and when you get into that entrance, into that door, it is an eternal ministering that will always be before the Lord. Isn’t that wonderful?”
An entrance shall be given unto us, abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our eternal God where we will have “an eternal ministering that will always be before the Lord”.
We will be the lead voice in praising the Lord, in ministering before Him, for eternity, because no other creature will be higher than us. We are His brethren, we are His friends, for eternity.
What a honour that we can worship the Lord from our heart while we are on earth and to know we will be able to worship before Him throughout eternity as the highest group in heaven. What an awe to be in His presence.
You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, June 26, 2022
We listened to a sermon titled “The Formula”, CD # 1052, preached by Brother Neal Frisby on 5/8/85 (PM).
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
When you go to church, what you want to do, is to come worship the Lord. That will be on your record book and He keeps a record and that will be on your book – how you loved Him, how you praised Him. And you say: “He is going to put that all down?” He already has it down; let’s see you fulfill it.
He knows from the beginning unto the end. He knows all things.
When you praise Him and you worship Him, each time you come to church and you love the Lord, that is something that is going to stand for you.
Remember, each time that you praise the Lord, you love the Lord, you worship the Lord, there is a record.
The Bible says: He that listens to the words of Christ is a wise man (Matthew 7: 24).
In the Bible, Jesus said I saw Satan fall like lightning (Luke 10: 18). Now, He saw him fall like a fiery light. Right from the beginning, the Lord is telling His people that Satan has already fallen. You have power now over him. Behold, I give you power over all of the power of any kind of enemy (Luke 10: 19).
2 Peter 1: 11: “For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” There is an entrance, and when you get into that entrance, into that door, it is an eternal ministering that will always be before the Lord. Isn’t that wonderful?
Isaiah 26: 4: “Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength”.
Psalm 90: 2: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”
All the sinners and everybody upon this earth with the breath of God, we are here to make a decision as we pass through this place.
Jeremiah 10: 10: “But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.”
Revelation 11: 15: “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER.”
1 Samuel 2: 6 – 8: “The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes , and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.”
Psalm 97: 9: “For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.”
The formula is to find out first how great He is with your salvation. When you get salvation, you know that He is great. But as you seek out the Lord in trueness in your heart, then He adds to that by His Holy Spirit. He gives you some of His mind for a moment, some of His power for a moment and your mind can penetrate the infinite nearly.
Realize His presence around you all the time. Realize how vast, how great, how infinite, where His Kingdom, there is no end. Man can never find end to His Kingdom.
Then when you begin to see how powerful and how great it is and all of His wonders, then you are establishing something, a foothold, a foundation. You are building on the Rock. “You are listening to Christ’s words, saith the Lord.” All power is given to me in heaven and earth. There is no other such power, but my power and I gave it up for a moment that I may save this earth and redeem it back to me.
Psalm 93: 1 – 2: “The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.”
He has been around where it never started. He was around before it ever got started.
Romans 14: 11: “For it is written, AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.”
Every tongue shall confess who God is.
Hosea 6: 1: “Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.”
Ephesians 5: 14: “Wherefore he saith, AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPEST, AND ARISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST SHALL GIVE THEE LIGHT.”
Isaiah 57: 15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
“whose name is Holy”: Whose name and very name is just holy, not corrupted with this world or any parts of any universe.
“to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones”: that is your revival. When the high and lofty One from eternity steps in more, entrance into, we have a ministering eternally with Him, when we enter that door.
Psalm 126: 5 – 6: “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
Isaiah 28: 5 – 6: “In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people. And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.”
In all of your work, all of what you do, you shall come rejoicing.
In His formula, you have salvation to start and the power of the Holy Spirit based upon His word. Then you have praise in this formula, you have prayer in the formula for the anointing and prayer for miracles. You have patience, you have forgiving heart, you are determined and positive and your heart is set and will not change. Your believing in Him is eternal in your heart. This is the formula.
You have soul belief, reaching out of the physical and out of the flesh into what you cannot see, but you know He is there. There is faith, otherwise we could never call it faith and those who feel God has led them to fasting, that is in the formula too. And the forgiving and the giving – do not leave that out because that is part of the formula. God loves people that give unto Him.
Galatians 5: 22 – 23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
That is a formula of success in itself, the fruit of the Spirit. “It will take you into eternity, saith the Lord.”
I started the sermon:
When you go to church, what you want to do, is to come worship the Lord. That will be on your record book and He keeps a record and that will be on your book – how you loved Him, how you praised Him. And you say: “He is going to put that all down?” He already has it down; let’s see you fulfill it.
He knows from the beginning unto the end. He knows all things.
Remember, each time that you praise the Lord, you love the Lord, you worship the Lord, there is a record.
The Lord has a record, already written, of how you worshipped Him while you were on earth, how you loved Him, how you worked for Him, how you testified about His goodness and how you told the truth to others of who He is, the eternal God who came to die for our sins, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The formula is to find out first how great He is with your salvation. When you get salvation, you know that He is great. But as you seek out the Lord in trueness in your heart, then He adds to that by His Holy Spirit. He gives you some of His mind for a moment, some of His power for a moment and your mind can penetrate the infinite nearly.
Realize His presence around you all the time. Realize how vast, how great, how infinite, where His Kingdom, there is no end. Man can never find end to His Kingdom.
All power is given to me in heaven and earth. There is no other such power, but my power and I gave it up for a moment that I may save this earth and redeem it back to me.
Galatians 5: 22 – 23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
That is a formula of success in itself, the fruit of the Spirit. “It will take you into eternity, saith the Lord.”
Romans 14: 11: “For it is written, AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.”
Every tongue shall confess who God is.
Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
It means every tongue will eventually come to confess that Jesus is God, “The mighty God”, “The everlasting Father”. Blessed is the person who now recognizes this fact.
Isaiah 57: 15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
“whose name is Holy”: Whose name and very name is just holy, not corrupted with this world or any parts of any universe.
Matthew 6: 9: “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.”
When the Lord Jesus, who is the Almighty God, the everlasting Father, tells us that His name is “Hallowed”, it means just that. It means the name “Jesus” is hallowed. His name is “Holy”. It is “not corrupted with this world or any parts of any universe.”
Hebrews 2: 5 – 17: “For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place testified, saying, WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM? OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT THOU VISITEST HIM? THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; THOU CROWNEDST HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOUR, AND DIDST SET HIM OVER THE WORKS OF THY HANDS: THOU HAST PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Saying, I WILL DECLARE THY NAME UNTO MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CHURCH WILL I SING PRAISE UNTO THEE. And again, I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM. And again, BEHOLD I AND THE CHILDREN WHICH GOD HATH GIVEN ME. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”
In the office as the Son, “unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given”, the Almighty God reminds us that He is just like us.
He became a little lower than the Angels, just like He has created us a little lower than the Angels. He put on flesh and blood and died for our sins. He tasted death for every man.
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”
This is He, the eternal God, “for whom are all things, and by whom are all things”.
He is the Creator of all things, the Almighty God, and yet, He is “not ashamed to call” us “his brethren”.
He “WILL DECLARE THY NAME UNTO MY BRETHREN”. The eternal God has declared His name, Jesus, unto us who are His brethren.
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same”. He came to this earth and took on flesh and blood, just like us. This is Isaiah 9: 6: “The mighty God, The everlasting Father” being born as a child: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given”.
We can also rest assured that the Almighty God has destroyed for us he “that had the power of death, that is, the devil”.
“Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren”.
What a honour that the Almighty God will call you and me His brethren.
We are joint-heirs with Him who is eternal.
Romans 8: 17: “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ”.
We will sit with Him on His throne for eternity.
Revelation 3: 21: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”.
Psalm 91: 14: “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.”
The Almighty God sets us on high because we have known His name. He will set us as the highest group in heaven throughout eternity, higher than the Angels.
I read from Scroll # 154:
ANGELS AND THE ELECT – “Men have often wondered when their bodies are glorified and changed how will they rank with the angels? – In the world to come, the righteous are equal to angels! (Luke 20: 36) – In some respects and ways the redeemed will excel angels; for the overcomers will be the ‘very bride’ of Christ! – A privilege which is not given to angels! There is no higher position for created beings than those in the Bride of Christ!” (Rev. 19: 7-9)
I continued with the sermon:
We were on earth, made a little lower than the angels, but believed in the Lord God Almighty who also became a little lower than the Angels to die for our sins, whose name is Jesus, “whose name is Holy”: Whose name and very name is just holy, not corrupted with this world or any parts of any universe.
He paid the ultimate price for our sins, by giving His life for us, and now we are His friends for eternity.
You will not find any creature with a higher position than us, no matter where you go throughout the entire universe, where there is no end to the kingdom of God.
Revelation 21: 7: “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”
We can therefore see that the Lord will indeed set us on high, higher than any Angel or any other creature, for eternity because we have known His name, Jesus, that is “Hallowed.”
2 Peter 1: 11: “For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” There is an entrance, and when you get into that entrance, into that door, it is an eternal ministering that will always be before the Lord. Isn’t that wonderful?”
An entrance shall be given unto us, abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our eternal God where we will have “an eternal ministering that will always be before the Lord”. This reminds us of Isaiah 6: 1 – 4 and Revelation 4: 8 – 11.
Isaiah 6: 1 – 4: “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.”
Revelation 4: 8 – 11: “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
We will be the lead voice in praising the Lord, in ministering before Him, for eternity, because no other creature will be higher than us. We are His brethren, we are His friends, for eternity.
Revelation 5: 11 – 14: “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”
It means we will also be there praising the Lord because it states every creature will be there: “And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen.”
What a honour that we can worship the Lord from our heart while we are on earth and to know we will be able to worship before Him throughout eternity as the highest group in heaven. What an awe to be in His presence.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
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