The Lord Is The Maker Of Them All

No Respector 9 4 2016

September 4, 2016
Amazing Life Church
Proverbs 22:2 NASB
“The rich and the poor have a common bond,
The L ORD is the maker of them all.”
Greet People
It seems the roller coaster has continued for another
week. Actually I never tire of God and His awesome
purpose. Even when Betty and I are called to do a home
going service it is an honor to serve others and do the
work of the Lord.
I am continually humbled that God could speak words
of hope and love through such a flawed vessel. His
grace and mercy have always been my source for the
hearts of those whom God puts in my path.
I love Him so much. My mission always is to help
someone who feels unloved and flawed beyond use,
know that God loves them with a passionate love.
He is not mad at you. He is patiently waiting to embrace
you with His arms of love and grace.Page 2
I want to share some thoughts today that I have titled
with a scripture. Proverbs 22:2. “The rich and the poor
have a common bond, The L ORD is the maker of them
all.”
This message came to me late in the week. Someone
must have prayed for me so that God’s word for the day
would get through. Before I get into the message I want
to share a paragraph from a very old writing by St John
Climacus. He was a Syrian Monk born in Syria around
579 and He died in March 649. He died on Mt Sinai.
Little is known about him except for this book or
training manual if you will, titled, “The Ladder of
Divine Ascent.” On the 1 st page there is a paragraph I
found very poetic and it is in agreement with the title of
my message.
“God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all,
the salvation of all—faithful and unfaithful, just
and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and
dispassionate, monks and seculars, wise and simple,
healthy and sick, young and old—just as the diffusion
of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of
the weather are for all alike; ‘for there is no respect of
persons with God’.”Page 3
1 Peter 1:17-21 NASB
17 If you address as Father the One who impartially
judges according to each one’s work, conduct
yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable
things like silver or gold from your futile way of life
inherited from your forefathers,
V18-Message
“It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end,
empty-headed life you grew up in.”
19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished
and spotless, the blood of Christ.
20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the
world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake
of you
21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised
Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your
faith and hope are in God.
After I read these scriptures the word reboot came to
mind. The Writers of the New Testament were often
reminding people of where they came from and who
brought them out.
“I asked myself why?Page 4
Reboot is generally used as a computer term that means
turning the computer off and then on. In doing this the
system fixes things. It uploads new versions of software
installed on the system It will also update the operating
system of the computer.
I suspect the scriptures I read and the word reboot speak
to our relationship with Christ.
Preach-Sometimes we grow cold-satisfied-
discouraged.——We look beyond our relationship
with Christ and try to find contentment in people,
places, and things.
The Apostles reminded people then, and by extension us
today. That who we are and what we have is all because
of Jesus.
Isaiah 64 is a prayer for mercy and help. In verse 8 the
prophet reminded God of their relationship.
Isaiah 64:8 NASB
But now, O L ORD , You are our Father, We are the clay,
and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your
hand.Page 5
Preach the work of His hand-Job Said in 34:19 “Who
shows no partiality to princes Nor regards the rich
above the poor, For they all are the work of His
hands?”
All of this brought me to this somewhat familiar
passage.
Jeremiah 18:1-4 NASB
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the L ORD
saying,
2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I
will announce My words to you.”
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he
was, making something on the wheel.
4 But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled
in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another
vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.
Jeremiah 18:4 Message
Whenever the pot the potter was working on turned out
badly, as sometimes happens when you are working
with clay, the potter would simply start over and use
the same clay to make another pot.
Preach-Same ClayPage 6
What an awesome thought. God can make us over and
over again. Using the same flawed clay and makes it
fresh and new. A vessel that will hold His presence,
formed in His will by hands of love.
A vessel that will honor Him. A vessel with a destiny
that is exceptional to each vessel He has formed.
A destiny that only you can fulfill.
There are those here today who need a reboot. Maybe
another turn on the Potters wheel. Preach