The Sheep Dog
Bro. Terry Mays
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20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
I. God is able!
I. God is able!
A. He is able to deliver!
A. He is able to deliver!
1. The 3 Hebrew boys faced a fiery furnace because they would not bow down to a false god.
1. The 3 Hebrew boys faced a fiery furnace because they would not bow down to a false god.
2. They were brought before the King Nebuchadnezzar and the king said I’ll give you one more chance.
2. They were brought before the King Nebuchadnezzar and the king said I’ll give you one more chance.
i. These guys didn’t hesitate to answer the king because they knew that God is able!
i. These guys didn’t hesitate to answer the king because they knew that God is able!
17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
3. King Darius was conned into signing a decree that said the only one to be prayed to was King Darius. If caught they would be thrown into the Lion’s den.
3. King Darius was conned into signing a decree that said the only one to be prayed to was King Darius. If caught they would be thrown into the Lion’s den.
4. King Darius asked a question to Daniel the next morning:
4. King Darius asked a question to Daniel the next morning:
20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
i. Is thy God able?!
i. Is thy God able?!
21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
B. God is able to save!
B. God is able to save!
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
1. If you fall away from God He is able to let you back into the family!
1. If you fall away from God He is able to let you back into the family!
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
2. He is able to give you an inheritance among the sanctified and to build you up/raise you up!
2. He is able to give you an inheritance among the sanctified and to build you up/raise you up!
3. When you fall God is able to make you stand!
3. When you fall God is able to make you stand!
4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
i. God is able to make all grace abound toward you!
i. God is able to make all grace abound toward you!
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
a. This tells me that God doesn’t want to see ANY of His people fail!
a. This tells me that God doesn’t want to see ANY of His people fail!
b. He’ll provide the strength you need to make it!
b. He’ll provide the strength you need to make it!
II. How is He able to do these things?
II. How is He able to do these things?
A.Through His Spirit!
A.Through His Spirit!
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
B. How do we start walking in the spirit?
B. How do we start walking in the spirit?
1. By being born of the Spirit.
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
C. You are going to find that God is always there no matter what your situation may be.
C. You are going to find that God is always there no matter what your situation may be.
1. The 3 Hebrews:
1. The 3 Hebrews:
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
2. Daniel also had company:
2. Daniel also had company:
22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
3. God can turn the things that were meant to hurt you on themselves.
3. God can turn the things that were meant to hurt you on themselves.
i. For the 3 Hebrews the men who cast them into the fire were immediately destroyed.
i. For the 3 Hebrews the men who cast them into the fire were immediately destroyed.
ii. For Daniel, after the king pulled him out those who had conspired were thrown in.
ii. For Daniel, after the king pulled him out those who had conspired were thrown in.
iii. Vengeance is God’s!
iii. Vengeance is God’s!
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
D. He can do Exceeding, Abundantly, Above what we can ask or think!
D. He can do Exceeding, Abundantly, Above what we can ask or think!
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
1. This is all for His glory!
1. This is all for His glory!