{"id":396,"date":"2015-03-10T02:10:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-03-10T02:10:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:10:31","slug":"psalm-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/psalm-15\/","title":{"rendered":"PSALM 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This entry is part 13 of 65 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/series\/psalms\/\" class=\"series-7\" title=\"Psalms\">Psalms<\/a><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <em><strong> PSALM CHAPTER 15 &#8211; PART 1<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>MAINTAINING HAPPINESS:<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> GROWING THROUGH FAITH <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong><em>Who Is Going To STAY Close To The Lord ?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. GOD WANTS PEOPLE TO ABIDE &amp; DWELL WITH HIM. <\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<i>*SOME ABIDE OR DWELL ONLY DURING CRISIS.<\/i><br \/>\n<b>A. GOD WANTS PEOPLE TO ABIDE, OR DWELL, WITH HIM. PS. 27:4,<br \/>\nJOHN 15:4-10 <\/b><i> ABIDE=\u201cREMAIN, NOT TO DEPART.\u201d<br \/>\nDWELL=\u201cREMAIN, STAY AT THE SAME PLACE.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2. IT TAKES EFFORT TO BE WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO BE. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><b><br \/>\nA. IT REQUIRES THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DO THE WORK.<br \/>\n\u2014BUT, WE MUST YIELD OURSELVES TO HIM FIRST. ROM. 6:13-19<br \/>\nB. WALK UPRIGHTLY. ACCORDING TO GOD\u2019S WORD ! GAL. 2:14.<br \/>\nC. WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS. (INCLUDING GETTING THE GOSPEL<br \/>\nOUT) I COR. 15:34. FALL SHORT ? GAL. 3:6.<br \/>\nD. SPEAK THE TRUTH IN HIS HEART. IT IS AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE.<br \/>\nI JOHN 3:18<br \/>\nE. DOES NOT BACKBITE. SIGN OF THE LOST. ROM. 1:30.<br \/>\nF. DOES NOT DO EVIL TO NEIGHBOR. HEB. 13:16, <i>IF NOT:<\/i> JAS. 4:17<br \/>\nG. DOES NOT TAKE UP REPROACH (SHAME) AGAINST NEIGHBOR.<br \/>\n<i> i.e., DOESN\u2019T HAVE A CRITICAL ATTITUDE AGAINST OTHERS.<\/i><br \/>\nH. VIEWS VILE PEOPLE AS CONDEMNED BY GOD.<br \/>\nI. HONORS THOSE THAT FEAR GOD. PHIL. 3:17, I COR. 11:1<br \/>\nJ. KEEPS COMMITMENTS. PS. 50:14.<br \/>\nK. DOES NOT LOAN MONEY FOR INTEREST. MATT. 5:42.<br \/>\nL. DOESN\u2019T BETRAY THE INNOCENT. I JOHN 3:16.<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>HE THAT DOETH THESE THINGS SHALL NEVER BE MOVED.<\/i><\/span><\/center><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr width=\"70%\" \/>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"> PSALM CHAPTER 15 &#8211; PART 2<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/i><\/center><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF COMMITMENTS.<\/span><\/span> \u00a015:4<br \/>\nA. THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE CLOSE TO GOD. 15:1-2.<br \/>\n\u2014MAKE THEM WITH THAT PURPOSE IN MIND. PS. 132:1-5.<br \/>\nB. THEY ARE REQUIRED TO REFLECT GOD\u2019S TESTIMONY.<br \/>\n*(GOD MAKES AND KEEP ALL HIS COMMITMENTS). WHAT IF THE<br \/>\nCHRISTIAN MADE VOWS, THEN CHANGED THEM, OR TOOK THEM<br \/>\nBACK ? HOW WOULD THAT REFLECT GOD ? JUDGES 11:30-40<br \/>\nC. THEY ARE OFTEN USED BY GOD TO REVEAL<br \/>\n\u2014HIS POWER. I SAM. 1:11.<br \/>\n\u2014THE JOY HE BRINGS. PSALM 56:12, 61:8.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2. THEY ARE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY GOD.<\/span><\/span> \u00a0HEB. 10:29. NUM. 30:2.<\/b><b><br \/>\nA. MONDAY MORNING RE-THINKING IS WRONG\u2014 PROV. 20:25.<br \/>\n\u2014VOWS OF YOUNG PEOPLE. NUM. 30:3-5.<br \/>\n\u2014VOWS OF THE WIFE. NUM. 30:6-8. SILENCE CREATES AN<br \/>\nOBLIGATION FOR ONE IN AUTHORITY TO SUPPORT THE VOW.<br \/>\n\u2014ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA AS EXAMPLES. ACTS 5:3-5.<br \/>\n\u2014JONAH\u2019S RECANTING. JONAH 2:9.<br \/>\nB. OUR WORD IS OUR OATH\u2014JUST AS GOD\u2019S IS. JAS. 5:12.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3. THE ONLY WAY TO CONSISTENTLY FULFILL THEM IS BY YIELDING<br \/>\nTO THE SPIRIT OF GOD.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><b><b><b><b><b><b><br \/>\n*PAUL\u2019S DILEMMA ANSWERED. ROM. 7:25.<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>HE THAT DOETH THESE THINGS SHALL NEVER BE MOVED.<\/i><\/span><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This entry is part 13 of 65 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/series\/psalms\/\" class=\"series-7\" title=\"Psalms\">Psalms<\/a><\/div><p>PSALM CHAPTER 15 &#8211; PART 1 MAINTAINING HAPPINESS:\u00a0 GROWING THROUGH FAITH Who Is Going To STAY Close To The Lord ? &nbsp; 1. GOD WANTS PEOPLE TO ABIDE &amp; DWELL WITH HIM. *SOME ABIDE OR DWELL ONLY DURING CRISIS. A. GOD WANTS PEOPLE TO ABIDE, OR DWELL, WITH HIM. PS. 27:4, JOHN 15:4-10 ABIDE=\u201cREMAIN, NOT TO DEPART.\u201d DWELL=\u201cREMAIN, STAY AT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}