Our Guest: Dr. Jerry Horner
Dr. Jerry Horner, a respected theologian and professor, is a divinely appointed teacher “in faith and truth.” Since being ordained as a pastor at the age of 18, he has served at churches in Tennessee, Texas, Missouri, and Alabama. He also enjoyed a career of 47 years as a university professor and administrator, including president of Bethesda Christian College in Anaheim. Dr. Horner preaches and teaches worldwide, and his extensive mission work has taken him to more than 100 countries on six continents and many islands.
Scriptures and Key Points:
- God never promised us it would be easy, but He promised us His presence.
- Jesus is not a bridge over troubled waters, but He is the pathway through troubled waters.
- And He promises us that He’ll be with us every step of the way.
Exodus 32:7-33:17 NKJV …And He said, “My Presence will go with you…
- Why would we want to endeavor anything without the assurance of God’s presence?
- God doesn’t want volunteers, He wants draftees.
- He appoints us, and He prepares the way.
- Keep your perspective and have a sense of humor.
“Always take God serious, but never take yourself so serious.” – Leonard Ravenhill
- Jesus had a sense of humor.
Proverbs 17:22 NKJV A merry heart does good, like medicine…
- We must never be frivolous in things pertaining to holiness and to the majesty of God.
- Sometimes we have to realize our own humanity, and not exalt ourselves.
- To attract God’s favor: First, remember to walk in holiness, the second is humility, the third is honor, and the fourth is honesty.
- Holiness is not an external piety. It is a place of recognizing the awe and holiness of God.
- The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are the stewardship of the riches and honor of life, not to pursue those things.
- The apostle Paul realized that he was not the best speaker, but he had the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that’s what he counted on.
- But he spoke the Word and let the Holy Spirit do the rest.
- We’re spokespeople for God, and the credit goes to the Lord. If we foul up, God will make it right, as long as our hearts are right and we’re speaking the truth.
The kingdom of God is not a democracy. God is despot.
- The only vote we have is a vote to obey or to disobey.
- God has already set the standard.
- People try to justify and compromise to make God fit into their world, rather than realizing He’s already come and given Himself for us.
- God has not changed, and truth is eternal.
- During renewals, God transcends denominations and calls us again to a place of repentance and holiness.
- God always has His messenger at the appointed time.
- Let’s promote the Lord Jesus Christ, instead of ourselves.
Matthew 28:19 NKJV Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- The Kingdom of God knows no boundaries.
Luke 4:43 NKJV But He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.”
- We are to make this announcement concerning the sovereignty of God, and not to entertain the notion that there are many paths to heaven, and we’re just one of them.
- And we’ll never understand church history and the history of Israel, until we understand the redemptive program of God.
- As Adam forfeited the authority that God had given him. God entrusted to him authority. He blew it and God restored it.
People are looking for something with substance, and most people are discerning.
- The message of the Gospel fulfills what it claims. Here is something so simple that this is why people find it difficult to believe.
- Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and a total surrender to the Lordship of Jesus is the answer.
“It’s always the wrong person on the cross.” – David Wilkerson, Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately
- We get stuck in a moment, rather than letting God bring us through those moments to be who God’s called us to be.
Romans 8:28 NKJV And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
“God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.” ― Charles Spurgeon
Isaiah 55:8 NKJV “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
God already has it worked out, and it’s for us to submit to it.
- He does nothing that is not beneficial to us.
- Believe what the Bible says, God desires only good for us.
- Hāṭā’: to miss the mark, ʿāôn: iniquities, peša: willful disobedience
- For God has a way of helping us work through those times we miss the mark, or the times that we have iniquities, the ʿāôns in our heart.
- Where we have the iniquities, He has to expose and bring us to a place of repentance when we are in rebellion against Him.
1 John 1:9 NKJV If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Isaiah 40:31 NKJV But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
Books:
- Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately by David Wilkerson
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