The Message Brother Ken Wilson delivered to The Orchard Church on January 25, 2009.
MAIN SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Luke 3: 21 - 22
Lk 3:21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened
Lk 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
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The message Brother Ken Wilson delivered on January 18, 2009.
MAIN SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
LUKE 3:1-20
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
Lk 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—
Lk 3:2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the desert.
Lk 3:3 He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Lk 3:4 As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.
Lk 3:5 Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth.
Lk 3:6 And all mankind will see God’s salvation."
Lk 3:7 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Lk 3:8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Lk 3:9 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Lk 3:10 “What should we do then?” the crowd asked.
Lk 3:11 John answered, “The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same.”
Lk 3:12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
Lk 3:13 “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.
Lk 3:14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely —be content with your pay.”
Lk 3:15 The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John y might possibly be the Christ.
Lk 3:16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Lk 3:17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Lk 3:18 And with many other words John exhorted the people and preached the good news to them.
Lk 3:19 But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done,
Lk 3:20 Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.
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Brother Ken Wilson's message "I WANT TO WIN". This message was given on January 11, 2009.
Philippians 3:13-16
Phil 3:12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, l but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Phil 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, Phil 3:14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Phil 3:15 All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. Phil 3:16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
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