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OCTOBER 2015
VOL.9 No. 10
THERES AN ALL-SEEING
EYE WATCHING YOU!
Poem by Robert Burns
2 Chron. 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the
whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them
whose heart is perfect toward him....
KJV
What an awesome thought! We are never alone. Im reminded of Adam
and Eve and how they hid themselves when they realized they were naked. God
could see them, but they thought they were hid. Have we not been like Adam
and Eve and thought we hid ourselves from God? We cannot hide from God.
He will see everything we do in our life-time and we will give an account for all
those things. Not only does God see our nakedness of the flesh, but He sees the
wickedness of our hearts. He is concerned about both the flesh and the heart, but
the heart is where we communicate with God.
God is not just looking to see what we have done wrong; He is looking to
see if we are right in our hearts and usable to His kingdom. God wants to show
Himself strong in the eyes of this world, but He is looking for children whose
hearts are perfect (completely surrendered to His Will). He is looking for Daniels and Esthers. Are we usable servants?
If you are depending upon your good works to get you to heaven, you are
wearing fig leaves and are still naked in Gods sight. God has provided His robe
of righteousness for those who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ, and covered us
with His blood. We no longer have to hide. The wicked has said in his heart that
God has hid He face and He will never see him (Ps. 104:11 Ps. 94:7). He is so
wrong! My standing in Christ is settled. I am forgiven and clean in the sight of
God. My rewards or the results of whatever will go through the fire. When my
parents birthed me I became their child forever! Daily my actions determined the
GIFT IN MEMORY
OF
Connie Martichuski and
Juanice Davis
DEATHS
(Continued on page 2)
Not only does God see all things, He also sees the way we do all things.
He is watching to see how we work. Are we working with a right heart? Do we
serve people out of love for God and love for them, or do we do it to be thought of
as being good and respectful? Is our service to God and man from a willing heart?
Are we attempting to remove motes out of peoples eyes when there are beams in
our eyes? We cannot be affective unless we have right hearts and clean lives!
Ps 11:4
The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lords throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his
eyelids try, the children of men.
KJV
The trying of our faith is much more precious than gold. Until we have
been tried and proven, we do not know who we are. Trying reveals truths about us
and about what we believe. Pressure brings out whatever is inside. Our trying is
the very thing that God wants to use to show Himself strong in us. When we stand
by His Word and we overcome the trial, then the world sees that God is strong!
Most of us want to be used of God, but we sure do not like our faith being tried.
Our first thought usually is that God is mad at us or He would not allow us to go
through our troubles. The opposite is true. Because God can trust us He gives us
the testing. The reason it is so hard to go through the testing, is that Satan is mad
at us. Satan always tries to make us think that God is the enemy and Satan is the
friend. Wrong!!! God will never allow us to go through things to hurt us but to
turn them to our good. It may hurt for awhile, but the end is good.
Job 36:7
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: ....
Ps 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
KJV
Not only is Gods eyes upon us, but His ears are open to the righteous. He
is listening to us to hear our hearts cry. Our righteousness comes from the Spirit
of God and those who live and walk in the Spirit of Christ are righteous. They
have this promise. We never know when we may be in trouble. We need to know
that Gods ear is open to our cry, not only in trouble, but in prayer for ourselves
and others. When someone asks you to pray for them, they hope that God will
have His ear open to your prayer! In my flesh there is no good thing, but if I walk
in the Spirit of God, then God will keep His eyes on me and His ears open to me.
What a wonderful Father!
We know that Gods eye is on us, but what are our eyes fixed upon?
Matt 6:22-24
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body
shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body
shall be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that is in thee be darkness, how
great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon.
KJV
We cannot have our eyes fixed
on both God and the world and succeed. Jesus said He was the Truth, the
Way, and the Light. For His light to
completely light up your life, you must
have a single eye fixed on God only. If
God is seeing all and we are walking
in the Spirit of God and our eye is only
on God, then we should be able to let
Him do His work though our lives and
let the world see Jesus in us. Isnt that
what we want?
Ps 123:2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look
unto the hand of their masters, and as
the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the
Lord our God, until that he have mercy
upon us.
KJV
We are looking to God for mercy everyday. He said He would show
mercy to the merciful! With His eyes
fixed on us and our eyes fixed on Him
we can live in His mercy. What a wonderful knowledge. This knowledge
gives us hope and causes us to desire to
live by faith. This is a God who knows
everything about us and still loves us
and using us when our hearts are right.
What a mighty and loving God we
serve!
On the next page is a old, old
song that has stuck with me for years.
Maybe you will remember it.
-----Jerry Brewster
WATCHING YOU!
All along on the road to the souls
true abode,
Theres an Eye watching you.
Every step that you take this great
Eye is awake,
Theres an Eye watching you.
As you make lifes great flight, keep
the pathway of right,
Theres an Eye watching you.
God will warn not to go in the path of
the foe,
Theres an Eye watching you.
Fix your mind on the goal, that sweet
home of the soul,
Theres an Eye watching you.
Never turn from the way to the kingdom of day,
Theres an Eye watching you.
Chorus:
Watching you, watching you,
Every day mind the course you
pursue;
Watching you, watching you,
Theres an all-seeing
Eye watching you.
J.M. Henson
I wish Heaven had a phone so
I could hear your voice again.
I thought of you today, but
that is nothing new.
I thought about you yesterday,
and the days before too.
I think of you in silence, I
often speak your name.
All I have are memories and a
photo in a frame.
Your memory is a keepsake,
from which Ill never part.
God has you in His arms and I
have you in my heart.
----Gloria Brewster
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FAITH IS A LIFE:
Committed beyond its means.
Expecting what sense cannot certify.
Based on Gods promise.
Dependant on Gods supply.
Motivated for Gods glory.
Confident in Gods integrity.
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By
Gloria Brewster
INSPIRATIONS
If we will live to please our
God, we will be pleased with the life
we are given. There is no destruction
in the ways of God. His ways bring
life.
In the New Testament we read
about a STRAIT GATE and A BROAD
GATE. For years I thought of those
gates as heaven and hell, but that is not
what it is talking about. Its not speaking of salvation of the soul; it is speaking about salvation of the flesh. How to
live here and now, and find life! When
Jesus says, Follow me, He is inviting
you to enter the strait gate. His ways
bring life. To do it OUR way is entering the broad gate and it will bring destruction at some time in our life. Many
of us play around with Gods truths but
we wont walk the path of those truths.
You dont get benefit from knowing
truth. You get benefit from walking in
those truths. (Mtt. 7:12-14)
On the other hand, creation comes with purpose and an obligation to the
creator. The Bible reveals our God and His purposes for creation. Everything He
created the first six days have purpose and a job to fulfill. Oh yes, the seventh day
He rested and we are made in His image and just as He needed rest, so do we!
There are two truths in Gods
word that most people never submit
to or trust God to work those truths in
their lives. Those truths are that the
man is the responsible party in a union
of marriage between a man and a woman. The other side of that coin is that
women are to do their work through
the mans position in the family. The
woman, being created equal with man,
fights humbling herself in becoming
his servant. The man wants to run from
responsibility and the woman wants to
run the home. When this happens, the
home falls! We cannot do the work of a
family which produces life without doing it Gods way. Any other way is the
BROAD way! The way of destruction.
We are free to choose either. We need
to decide if we want life or destruction.
Man, male and female, is the only creation that was made in Gods likeness and image. God created them for His PLEASURE. (Rev. 4:11)
(Continued on page 6)
Jesus said, I am the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE! There is no Way
in evolution. It is constantly changing. There is no Truth in evolution because
there is no foundation in evolution. There is no Life in evolution because Life
is found in Christ and is lived through the Spirit. How has this generation swallowed evolution as a fact?
If you really want to serve God,
then find out what pleases Him! He desires us to bring Him pleasure. How
pleased do you think God is with your
life today?
Mrs. Pernie Harrell! How to you explain her? Her Christianity bubbled over into all parts of her life. She was in
her early 80s when we came to Galilean Baptist Church. She was 96 when she died.
She was our first ministry when we arrived at Galilean. Her husband was on his death bed as we arrived in town.
We went straight to her home and stood beside his bed with her as he died. We sung hymns in his last minutes of life. Mrs.
Pernie had a song in her heart. She had lost most of her hearing and did not know that she changed keys a lot while she was
singing, but everyone loved to watch Mrs. Pernie sing.
Mrs. Pernies first husband died many years earlier and she and her son spent some years alone. Later she remarried
and had a daughter. Soon afterward they came to Galilean Baptist Church, where Bro. Bob Keys was then pastoring. Bro.
Bod came to their home and led her husband to the Lord. They became active soul-winners and Mrs. Pernie never backed
off. When she had to go to a nursing home, she assumed that God had put her there to get the gospel to all in the house. The
administrator came to her room to introduce himself and get to know her. As they sat on her bed her first words were, Are
you a Christian? He said, Yes, I am. She said, No, I mean are you a blood bought child of God? She said you should
have seen how fast he got out of there! She was a bold compassionate Christian. She got right to the point and you knew
she did it because she cared about your life. She prayed for every member of the church every day!
Not long after her husbands death, she was in a grocery store and looked up and saw a young couple with a small
child in the basket. As she looked up, she read what was on the young fathers hat. She couldnt believe what she saw. She
walked over to the young father and asked, Young man, do you know what your hat says? He said, Yes maam, I do.
She said, Do you want your little boy to read that when he grows up? He said, No maam, I dont. She said, Then
take that hat off of your head. He said, Yes maam! Only Mrs. Pernie could get away with that because that young man
realized that she did it for his sake and the sake of his son. He thanked her for it!
Mrs. Pernie took a childrens Sunday School class and taught faithfully for over 40 years. Her class was upstairs
(and they are high stairs). I can still see her wearing her highhill shoes at 90 years of age and climbing those stairs to teach
her little students. Her helper, who worked with her for many years, Mrs. Glenda McMillian, is still teaching the little students. Love, compassion and faithfulness was Mrs. Pernie.
When we came to Galilean, the last two rows of the church were where our elderly jewels sat! They were ladies
who had been in this church from the early days. One, Mrs. Luna Hammans, was a charter member. The first two years we
took part in 40 funerals. I often told Jerry that God had sent him here to bury the saints. These saints had built and had kept
this church together all these years and they needed to be loved in their dying days. Oh, how I miss them when I look at the
back two rows.
Tell me! What will the church think about you when you die? What kind of a legacy will you leave behind.
job of the father to establish the commands for the home and it is the job of
the mother to see that the will of the
father is done. The children are there
to grow and learn how to live a full life.
This sounds simple. Why does it become so difficult?
The godhead works in unity
because there is no sin and the Word
and the Holy Spirit are committed to
doing the will of the Father! With man
there is the struggle of sin in the lives
of each one. Not only did our father
Adam bring death to each of us, but the
two of them brought us into judgment.
There was no judging until there was a
knowledge of both good and evil. Now
everything in life had to be judged as
good or evil.
The first law given to man was
Do not eat of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. A command is what
to do; a law is what not to do! Without law there is no sin. When a law
is broken, a sentence must be given.
There has to be a judge. You will never
find partnerships in the Bible. Partners
cannot always work. Two people will
not always agree and one must have
the power to make the final decision.
God gave that power to the father since
he was made in the image of God. To
produce a great work it must be done
through one will so it can be done as
ONE and in unity. Mans will is to be
submitted to Gods will. Womans will
is to be submitted to Gods will, which
is to work through her husband,s will,
AS UNTO THE LORD! If both allow
God to direct their lives they can have
a precious relationship with each other.
The problem is that sin of one or the
other creates trouble. We either conquer sin, or sin conquers us!
Next paper we will talk about
how to Conquer sin in the home.
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