Reformation Hope Church Brookfield WI Dr Wayne Sedlak

Our approach unto God is not to be by what we think or feel we should do. How God wants us to approach Him is given in His Word.

Pain is a blessing and it is our alarm system, without it we do not respond. Unless the Lord pains our hearts we will never get the changes in the soul necessary to respond to His Word.

The faith that will get you to heaven is the same kind of faith that will in fact will break Satan’s kingdom. The Spirit of God is sent in you because He will invest in your walk that you might destroy the works of the devil, which is to say, you will be planting works of righteousness.

We wonder “What are God’s reasonings in the matter?”. How He answers prayer is often completely different compared to what we think or would like the answer to be. God tells us in many places the His thoughts are not our thoughts and are far above and beyond our comprehension.

At a time when our nation is more and more in need of God and His Word, we reject it, drive it out of our schools, call good evil and evil good. If we lose the Word of God in our generation how many generations after us will continue in the dark apart from God’s Word? Is this where our nation is headed today? Will our nation be plunged into spiritual darkness as the Word of God cleans and elevates the nations around us? Will we heed the warning in Psalm 12? “ Ps 12:1 ¶ Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.”

Here was Abraham about to sacrifice his son, a child of promise that represented all of his life. Instead of being in a frenzy and fretting, he laid out the wood carefully, put out the stones carefully. There was none of that upset of character, that churning of the Spirit when sin or hardship affects us. We all know that feeling…there was none of that in Abraham. There was a quietness and an assurance, a calmness, that lay hold of his heart. Here was the son of Promise, he bound his son carefully, he picked him up and put him on the alter. Then he pulled forth a knife. When his son had asked him, “Where’s the sacrifice?”, Abraham’s reply was “ God will provide a sacrifice, my son”. The presence of God had been so strong in delivering him time after time that Abraham, by faith, knew God would provide.

Angels are present throughout the gospels. Does the Bible Command or even suggest that we worship angels? What was the angel thinking as he sat in the empty tomb waiting to deliver the message that Christ had risen? What does it mean in Job 4:18 “and his angels he charged with folly”?

Solomon’s Temple was glorious yet a new and far more glorious temple was promised. Is the hand of God moving towards taking away the lamp stand of today’s church? Is His judgment coming? Soon? What do we see in history that warns us about today? We must be careful about righteousness.

The graces that we have are not of this earth. The character and the virtues we are given are not of this earth, they originate in heaven as does the ability to obey the commandments of the Lord. Even worship falls into the “not of this earth” category.

The Church did not create Jesus. Jesus Christ, the Word of God, became flesh. He walked among us, was crucified died and rose again on the third day and has established His Church. There is more evidence for the resurrection of Jesus than for the existence of Julius Caesar.

The Romans Hated the Jewish people yet Tiberius nominated Christ as one to be worshiped as a god among the other Roman gods. Listen and learn more.