CD 1661 “MARK OUT OR BECOME A MARK”

Don't Miss Out!!! (Victory Worship Center) with Pastor Greg Proctor

CD 1661 “MARK OUT OR BECOME A MARK”

(Marks of a Child of God)

Let me start by saying a true statement, we will either follow the teaching in the Word of God and succeed or not and fail! Let me add to that truth you will either be a mark of the enemy or you will mark out according to the teachings in the Word of God, more on that later.

It is amazing to me as I read the creation account in the book of Genesis. The Word of God tells us in Genesis 1:31 that God saw everything He had made and behold it was very good. God is a good God and His creation is from His goodness and the reality that He not only loves but He is love (1 John 4:8)! I said that to say this, God is a God of diversity and He has created all things and all peoples. We can see all the different races around the world and how they are each very unique and special but yet we are all very much alike coming from the Lord God Almighty! By listening to the way people talk or the way that they act reveals so much about them. Don’t get caught up on the outside, learn how to “mark out‘ the inside! So as blood-bought born again children of God we should do what the Bible says and mark out the traits of being saved through the blood of Jesus versus the traits of the lost!

The Bible is very clear that Satan the deceiver is very subtle and cunning in the way he works through counterfeits. So we need to mark those who are following the mark of the Lord Jesus Christ and those who are following the mark of the world:

*Text: Psalms 37:37-40 (KJV) “MARK” the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

*Text: Romans 16:17-18 (KJV) Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. [18] For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

*Text: Philippians 3:14-19 (KJV) I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. [15] Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. [16] Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. [17] Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. [18] (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: [19] Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

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*Reread Philippians 3:14-16 (KJV) I press toward “the mark” for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. [15] Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. [16] Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

We need to be teachable and be actively teaching others:

*Read 2 Timothy 2:1-3 (KJV) Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who s

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