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Part 4 - The Confession Pillar Series
Contributed by Pastor Bruce A. Shields on Oct 27, 2006 (message contributor)
Summary: Part 3 of our House of Faith sermon series which will focus on the Confession pillar. We will see how once we have our thinking changed by God, and we read His Holy Word, it fills our heart to overflowing. The scriptures tell us that from the overflow of
The House of Faith
Part 4 – The Confession Pillar
Rev. Bruce A. Shields
House of Faith Ministries
www.PS127.org
WELCOME
† SCRIPTURE READING
21 The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
PRAYER
† We’ve talked about spiritual warfare. We understand that God hasn’t left us without means here on earth. We know that He has given His Holy armor to protect us and our families.
We are being bombarded daily with attacks from the devil.
Backbiting, gossip, lies, sickness, etc..
In fact, there were more backbiting, gossip and lies being told about me since I started preaching than all my years as a Christian before put together.
There are still rumors gossip and lies being spread about me right now.
But we have the shield of Faith that protects us from these attacks and extinguishes the devils flaming arrows.
Through God’s armor, we are capable of withstanding the attacks from the devil.
This is like a roof to our house of faith.
Try as they may, they can lie all they want, gossip all they want, they can say whatever they want, but because I walk in truth and the Holy Spirit, I have protection.
But to qualify for this protection, we must be saved. And our house of faith must be established by God.
† The foundation to our house of faith must have Christ as the cornerstone and the teachings of the prophets and apostles (which is the Bible) as the foundation.
Upon receiving Christ and making Him the foundation in our lives, God will grow us through the study of His word.
Our thinking begins to change as we read and study His Holy word.
† As God grows us, we start to filter the things we allow in our minds; we filter the trash from our thinking.
We filter the garbage of this world from our sight, ears and thought process.
This is like a pillar set on the firm foundation to hold up our roof on our house of faith.
As we continue to study and build our personal relationship with Christ, (like the prayer David prayed) God writes His word upon our hearts.
† His word begins to fill our hearts like a filing cabinet.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of the Lord.
And as we continue to fill our hearts with Him, our filing cabinet, or hearts, begin to overflow, and like we read a few weeks ago, a spring of living water will flow out from us.
The Holy Spirit will fill us to a point that He will begin to flow out of us and into this world through us.
A spring of living water, flowing from us into this world.
This is how God works in our world today.
Through us!
We are the Kingdom of God!
If you hear people say they just don’t see evidence of God in the world today, it’s because we’re not doing something right.
Rivers of living waters should be flowing from us everyday!
God works through us, His people, to reach the lost of this world.
And this river is the Holy Spirit.
Because nothing is possible without the Holy Spirit, and it is through the Holy Spirit in us that we do these good works.
This becomes our second pillar holding up our shield of faith which protects us.
† The Confession pillar is a result of what is overflowing from our hearts.
What we speak is from this overflow.
33“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. 34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. 35The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every idle word they have spoken. 37For by your words you will be acquitted (forgiven) and by your words you will be condemned.”
An apple is from an apple tree, and an orange is from an orange tree. If I hold up one or the other, you know without seeing the tree itself, which tree the fruit came from. You can tell the tree by the fruit it gives.
Do you have a river of life, living water, Holy Spirit flowing out of you and your mouth?
What fruit are you producing in your life?
Is it Holy Fruit?
Or, do you have sewage overflowing?