(The Spiritual Man) the Law of Blessings — Denny Kenaston

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These messages are offered to all without charge by the freewill offerings of God's people. A special thank you to all who support this ministry. Greetings, dear young people this morning. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, how many of you got a good night's sleep last night?

Amen. I did too, and I thank God for it. I needed it. Let's bow our heads for prayer. Can you do that? Our Father and our God, we come to you in Jesus' name this morning, Lord, and we tremble in your sight, Lord.

Oh, we love you, Lord. Thank you for saving our souls. Thank you, Lord, for opening up to us so clearly the plan of God to make us spiritual men and women. It's so beautiful, Father. It's lovely. It's simple.

God, I pray that you will continue to unfold before us this beautiful plan. I pray for these young people, Lord, that you will stir them today. God, I pray that somehow something will click their wheels, that they will rise up and take the challenge.

The Spiritual Life Begins With Conversion and Growth

God, I pray that you will help me this morning. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. The title of the message this morning is, The Law of Blessings. Do you want to write that down? The Law of Blessings. I must admit, I haven't quite gotten over yesterday's message.

I don't know about you. That was profound. It was profound. Even for my own heart, it was profound. I have to go back and listen to that one. But I've been overwhelmed this morning as I was just kind of looking back through the week already, seeing how God has led and how beautifully all these things fit together.

God's plan, God's purpose, which He purposed in Christ for each and every one of us before the world began. And here we are. We're all sitting here. It's 1998. But God had all this in mind long before the world even began.

And He knew. He knew you would be sitting here. He knew it. I've been amazed to see how one builds upon the other. You know, you start with a clear conversion and how beautiful that is. Just to get a good glimpse of a clear conversion and hear the testimony of God saving grace, coming down into somebody and totally transforming them and giving them a new heart and putting a new spirit within their heart, that being the Spirit of the living God.

And there they stand, justified before God, cleansed, forgiven, redeemed, and a whole new creature in Christ Jesus. Glory! That's only the beginning. From that transformation, then God begins to brood over that life and He begins to fan the flames of desire inside of that new heart.

And those flames of desire rise up and begin to long for Christian perfection. I don't want to stay the way I am. I want to grow. I want to go on. And how beautiful that is as those desires begin to move in our hearts.

And then from there, God pours His Spirit upon us and we begin. We begin to walk in a consistent way by the grace of God, by the Spirit of God. And we find ourselves beginning to understand what Paul meant when he said, I am what I am by the grace of God.

Can you say that? Dear young people, that was not theology that Paul was giving. Now, it's good theology, but it wasn't theology that Paul was giving. He was giving his testimony. I am what I am by this power which was outside of me that has come into me.

I am what I am by this power that's working inside of me. Whoa, what a testimony Paul had. How these things just begin to build one upon the other. And this morning it's the same way. I want to get a bit more practical today.

Practical Obedience and the Law of Blessings

I know we were practical yesterday, but we're going to be practical again today. And I know that you want that. You know, the bottom line is that if your Christian life does not get practical, that means out of theory and down into reality.

You really don't have much Christian life, do you? You just don't have it. And so we want to get practical. This morning I would like to talk to you about practical obedience. And there are many ways that we could talk about obedience.

Many. And the Scriptures speak about obedience in many different ways. But today I feel led of God to talk to you about obedience through this subject, the title of my message, The Law of Blessings. The Law of Blessings.

Some of you, you may have heard some of what I'm going to say this morning already. But I pray to God that maybe peradventure this morning He will wake you up and you will get it. I want to tell you this story about Adam Clark.

The Lord has impressed it upon my heart yesterday and again today. And I know I'm supposed to share it with you. But Adam Clark, he was a famous Methodist. He was a church planter. A circuit riding preacher.

He was one of the Methodist theologians. And he also wrote a commentary on the Bible. It's about this thick. They say he wrote it on his horse, going from meeting to meeting. You know, sometimes it was two or three hours on the horse from one place to the other.

And he didn't want to waste his time, so he decided to work on a commentary. And so he wrote, worked on his commentary while he was riding on the horse. He's a brilliant man. God used him mightily. But you know, it was not always that way with Adam Clark.

When he was a boy, I hope I have this story all right. It's a while since I've read it. But when he was a boy, about ten years old, he was the class dummy. You know what that is? He was the dumbest one in the class.

He couldn't get his lessons. He just didn't seem to learn. He was at the bottom of the class. He found himself sitting in the dunce's seat, you know, in the corner, feeling embarrassed because he didn't get his studies.

He didn't like Latin. And in those days, you had to learn Latin at ten years old, mind you. You had to learn Latin, and he didn't like Latin. And so it was with Adam Clark. But one day, in Latin class, he tried to fake his way through the class, making the class and the teacher think that he did what he was supposed to do, and it utterly failed.

It was the most embarrassing thing he ever went through. If you can just put yourself in his place. The teacher reproved him openly in front of the whole class, and he shuddered with embarrassment. But in the middle of that class, something clicked inside of Adam Clark.

Something clicked inside that ten-year-old boy. And from that day forward, he was at the head of his class, instead of at the back of his class. Now let me ask you this morning, what do you think clicked in young Adam Clark's heart that day?

What do you think? The young brother says he put his will into it. That's right. He put his will into it. And I pray to God this morning, that something will click in some of your hearts. Let's turn to Deuteronomy chapter 28.

The Blessings Promised in Deuteronomy 28

We want to start in Deuteronomy chapter 28 and explain a little bit to you the law of blessings. The principle of the law of blessings in the Bible. You don't have to walk very long with God to find out that God has a law of blessing.

In Deuteronomy chapter 28, we're going to read verse 1 -12, but as we read, I would like you to visualize. This morning, don't just read these words. I want you to picture them. That's what meditation is.

It's not only that, but that's part of it. You visualize what you read. And I want you to visualize this morning while we read these verses, a young man or a young woman. And if you want to, put you in that place.

I want you to visualize yourself in the place of this person that we're reading about with a life that is blessed on every hand. I mean so many blessings that you cannot contain them. That's what I would like you to picture while we read these verses in Deuteronomy 28.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe and to do all his commandments, which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.

And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Now let's just stop for a moment. I want you to get the picture here. All these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, God says.

The word picture there, as you look at this verse, is a picture of somebody who is going down the road of life, and here comes all these blessings chasing after him as he is on the road of life. And he's on the road of life, and he's going down the road of life, and here comes all these blessings come running after him and come on him and overtake him and tackle him.

That's the picture. God is saying, if you hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God and keep all of his statutes and his commandments, your life will be tackled by blessings. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy ground. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket in thy store.

Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in. Blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seven ways.

The Lord shall commend the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses and in all that thou settest thine hand unto, and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The Lord shall establish thee and holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God and walk in his ways.

And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of thee. And they shall be afraid of thee. Now, as I look at these Scriptures, I see two blessings.

One is very clear in here, and the other one is a bit hidden, but yet it's not hidden, if you will listen to me. I'll explain to you. I believe the first blessing that comes upon this person who chooses to walk this way is found in verse 8 there, where God will command a blessing upon you.

And I believe what God is saying to us simply is this. You lay your life down on the line for Me. You sell out your life to Me, and I will command a blessing to be put upon your life. It's the blessing of simply yielding your life to God.

I tell you, some of you know what I'm talking about. But God is saying, if you will yield your life to Me, I will command a blessing upon thee. And listen, my friends, this morning when God commands a blessing, things happen.

It's the same God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness and there was light. It's the same God who said, let there be light, and there was light. And this same God will look down upon your life as you lay your life out before Him.

He will look down upon your life and command a blessing upon you. And young people, I want you to have that blessing. But there's another blessing here in these verses that God will cause to come upon you.

May I suggest to you this morning that there's another blessing in here, and it's the blessing of obedience. It's the blessing that comes upon your life by obeying the principles of the Word of God. It is the blessing that comes upon your life, the individual blessing that comes upon your life for every act of obedience that you choose.

Many people don't know this. I'm giving you a secret this morning. Many people don't know it. But in every principle, young people, in every principle in the Word of God, God has hidden inside of that principle a blessing.

In every one of them. It's the cause and effect blessing that is hidden in every principle in the Word of God. It's the law of blessings. You see, God in His love has given us His Word. And sometimes we don't look at that right.

Just like Brother Philip challenged us the other evening that we don't look at repentance right. Sometimes we don't look at God's Word right. We look at it and think, Oh no, something else I have to do.

You don't see it right, see. But inside of every one of God's principles He has hidden the blessed effect that comes upon your life when you obey what God says. When you obey what God says. It's the law of blessing.

It's the principle of hidden blessing in every commandment. David knew this law very well. That's why he could say, just looking at the Old Testament, he could say, Oh how love I thy law. They are my meditations all the day long.

Oh how I love Leviticus. Oh how I love Exodus. Oh how I love Genesis. They are my meditations all the day long. That's why he could say that. Because David knew, and if you read through the Psalms very much, you'll know what I'm talking about.

He knew the treasure that was hidden in every one of those statutes that God gave to Israel. He knew it. It's the law of blessing. Now turn with me to Proverbs chapter 4. David knew this, and David passed it on to his son Solomon, and Solomon knew it.

Wisdom, Understanding, and Applying God's Word

And Solomon recorded this blessing in the book of Proverbs. And we want to look at it. Proverbs chapter 4 verse 1. Hear ye children the instruction of a father, and attend to no understanding. For I give you good doctrine.

Forsake ye not my law. I give you good doctrine. God says, for I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. And remember Solomon is writing this. And he's talking about his father David.

And listen to what he says. He, my father David, he taught me also. And said unto me, let thine heart retain my words. Keep my commandments and live. Solomon, if you can just picture it, David, he's a father.

He has his children around him. And Solomon is one of them. One of his boys. He taught him. And what did he tell him? Solomon, get wisdom. Get. What is wisdom? Solomon, learn. Solomon, learn how to live.

Solomon. That's what wisdom is. Well, there are many definitions of wisdom that we could give you. Brother John would say, wisdom is what you would do if you had all the information. If you had all the facts.

Wisdom is hindsight, you know. You look back on it and you say, now that everything has happened, this is what I would do if I had it to do over again. That's a good definition of wisdom. Wisdom is seeing all of life from God's perspective.

That's a beautiful definition of wisdom. But listen to the definition given for the word wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Wisdom is insight into the true nature of things. Wisdom is insight into the true nature of things.

How things work. How God's word works. How God's principles work. And understanding. That is also a Bible word and you'll find it almost sisters every time. Wisdom and understanding. Wisdom and understanding.

They come together. They're sisters. Understanding is applying those insights to my life. It's one thing to get insight into the true nature of things. It's another thing when it dawns upon your heart and you say, mine.

Mine. And you take that thing home and you do something with it. Ah, now you've got an understanding. You've got an understanding. And Solomon was saying, when I was a little boy, I sat before my father and my father said to me, and I believe David said it over and over and over again, Solomon, get wisdom.

Find out how to live, Solomon. And when you find out how to live, get understanding. Take that thing and apply it to your own heart and your life. And oh, it's so beautiful, you know. Solomon, he listened well to his papa, didn't he?

He listened well because there came a day in Solomon's life when he was tested greatly. And I wonder how we would pass this test if the same test came our way. But one night in the middle of the night, God came unto Solomon and said, Solomon, what do you want Me to do for you?

I'll do anything you want, Solomon. Imagine that. God coming to you in the middle of the night, young people, and waking you up and saying, what would you like Me to do for you? What would you say? Would you pass the test?

Would you think about it? What would you say? Oh, Lord, I'd like to have a new car. Would you give me a new car? I hope you wouldn't say that. But God came to Solomon and said, Solomon, what do you want?

And I don't know, I like to imagine this, but I think the voice of his father came ringing in his heart. Solomon, get wisdom, my boy! Get wisdom! Learn how to live, Solomon. Learn how to live. And it's very interesting that Solomon said to God, Oh, God, would you please give me wisdom?

I'm a young man, and I don't know how to go out and come in before this great people. You know what he was saying? I don't know how to live before this great people. Give me wisdom, Lord. I don't know how to live.

So Solomon says to us in the book of Proverbs, And I say to you this morning, young people, Get wisdom. Get understanding. Forget it not. Continue in it. Neither decline from the words of God's mouth.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee. Love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing, young people. It is the most important thing. It is the most foundational thing. It is the most important thing that you can get.

It's the most important thing that you can apply your heart and your life to. Wisdom is the most principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom. And with all thy getting, get understanding. Once you've gotten some insight into the true nature of something in this book, don't stop there.

Don't stop there like the seminaries do, and fill your head with a bunch of things, but go from there and make it practical in your own life. Amen? Practical! Then you will have riches untold when you start to make it practical.

Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom. And with all thy getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee. She shall promote thee. There's that hidden blessing. She shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her.

Yes, she shall give to thine head an ornament of grace, and a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. Hear, O my son and my daughter, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be many.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom. I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straightened. And when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Wouldn't that be a blessing?

Thou shalt not stumble, but you'll be able to walk in God's ways. Do you ever feel like you're going through your Christian life running into one wall after another, you know, stumbling along, making big mistakes?

You don't have to live that way. You do not have to live that way. May I give you a definition of the fullness of wisdom? The fullness of wisdom is knowing how to live in every situation. Do you know that it is God's will for you young people that you learn how to live, that you know what to do in basically every situation in life?

Now, I'm not saying that you're never going to make any mistakes, but you can get to the place where you basically know what to do. And that is fullness of wisdom. And I believe what God would say to us this morning is somehow that He would stir our hearts, that we would rise up and begin to pursue this wisdom with all of our heart.

Listen, throw your other goals aside. I don't know what kind of goals you have. Maybe you want to make a lot of money. I tell you, that stuff is junk compared to what I'm talking to you about. It's junk!

You want to have a whole bunch of money in your pocket. Maybe you've got this car in mind you want to get. Or maybe you have these other goals that you want to go after. Wisdom is the principal thing.

It is the most foundational thing that you can do with your life, young people, is learn how to live. And it's all in this book. Every bit of it. This precious book is full of it. It's here. It's hidden in here.

And for me, how does this law of blessing work out in a spiritual man and a spiritual woman's life? How does it work out? Let me give you a few examples. And oh, my prayer to God this morning was that somehow God would use this to stir your hearts and cause something to click inside of you that you will walk out of here and say, I'm doing it.

I'm doing it. And please, I say that with all three of the other messages that I've preached under me. I don't want you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and go out of here and think you're going to go do something.

No. You need to walk with God and do it. That's the only way it will work. But it will work. So how does this law of blessing work out in a spiritual man's life? Some examples. Let me give you some. The Bible, this book called the Bible, talks about the principle of fasting.

Fasting as an Act of Obedience

That's in the Word of God. Jesus said, when ye fast. He didn't say if ye fast. He said, when ye fast. And so, you study it for yourself, but I tell you, this book is filled with the principle of fasting.

So, here comes a principle from the Word of God. Now, everybody has to do something with that principle. The principle of fasting. The teaching in the Word of God about fasting. And we live in America, you know.

It's the land of plenty. It's the land of McDonald's, billions and billions of hamburgers. And so, us Americans, you know, we come up to this principle of fasting and we look at it. Everybody does something with it.

Some look at it and say, I get too weak. And so, they go around it that way. And others look at it and say, I feel sick when I fast. And so, they don't fast because of that. Others look at it and say, that doesn't seem very healthy to me.

And so, they get around it that way. And there's all kinds of ways to get around it, amen? I wonder which ones you used. But somebody sees that principle in the Bible and says, I'm going to do it. God said to do it.

I'm going to do it. And you know what happens to that person? To that one and only that one, a beautiful flower of blessing begins to open up before their very eyes. As they begin to experience the blessings that come upon them, the cause and effect of fasting.

They begin to experience them. And young people, I tell you of a surety. I could stand up here for an hour and tell you how many ways your life would be blessed just by living by this one principle. I could spend an hour telling you about it.

See, God doesn't do that. He didn't fill this book with volumes and volumes and volumes and volumes to tell you that. He just put the principle in there. And some take it. And some leave it. And some leave it.

The ones who take it find a great blessing that comes to fall upon their life. The blessing that comes by the obedience of fasting. So let's just pick this blessing up here this morning and we'll put it over here in a nice little pile.

Because it is a blessing to fast. I tell you, you have no idea. You have no idea if you've never fasted. You have no idea if you do not consistently fast what that blessing is. But it's a big pile, I assure you.

Quiet Time With God

Let's go on. The Bible teaches so clearly in God's Word. God teaches us to spend time alone with Him. This morning we'll call it quiet time. You can call it devotions. You can call it your time alone.

You can call it closet time. But what it is, is spending time alone with God in prayer and in His Word. And may I say, in the morning, early in the morning. So, we live in America again. Oh, good old America.

You know, there's so much going on in America. Just running around and so many things to do. And all the evenings are full. And, you know, we fall in the bed at 11 o 'clock at night, you know. And we have to get up and go to work the next day.

And so, we look at these kind of principles and we say, Well, I won't be able to do that because I stay up too late at night. I have too many other things going. So, some miss it that way. Some look at it and say, I'm not a morning person, I'm a night person.

And so, they miss it that way. Others look at it and say, I just have too many other things going on in my life. And so, they don't do it for that. But some people look at it and say,.

God said to do it. I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do it. And oh, if I could somehow get it in your heart that you would look at it that way and not, I'm going to do it. But, there's a big difference between the two of those. Amen? A big difference.

I'm going to do it. God said to do it. And I'm going to do it. And so, some few rise up early in the morning, begin to seek the face of God, and they set the time aside, not for their five minute Bible reading, but they soak themselves in this book.

Morning by morning they do. And they spend time alone with God in prayer. And they begin their days that way. And to them, a beautiful flower of blessing begins to open up. And they find their life being blessed in so many ways because of just this one thing that they've begun to do.

That again, I could stand up here for an hour and tell you how many blessings would come rolling upon you that would tackle you on the road of life if you would just live by this one principle. And understand me this morning, young people, I'm not preaching on these principles.

We're just looking at them. I may say more about it tomorrow. But we're just looking at it. Some say, I could never do that. And they never know. They never know. It's hidden. It's deep down inside of that heart of obedience.

And you will not taste it unless you obey the blessing of taking some quiet time day by day. And you know what I've learned? If you set yourself to get up early in the morning, you'll feel strangely led to go to bed earlier at night.

It'll take about three days. Just three days. And I mean, you will. You'll feel very much led to go to bed. How many believe that? The Bible says, here's one for you, He that winneth souls is wise. He who wins souls has learned how to live.

He who wins souls has tapped in to one of the most exciting ways to live you can find. That's what the Bible says. And that falls on all of us, like Daniel challenged us last night a little bit. We've been reconciled that we might have the ministry of reconciliation.

But people do all kinds of things with that. Some people say, well, I'm too shy. And so they get around it that way and don't do it. And others say, according to my theology, that's for the preacher. And so they get around it that way.

And others would say, well, I'm just not gifted to do those things. Somebody else that's more gifted will do that. I'll work in the kitchen. But some say, wait a minute, God told us to do this. And so they embark on a life of obedience, of winning souls.

And a beautiful flower begins to open up before them that you will never know until you taste. You will never know. I think of dear sister Tammy. She's sitting in the front. She went to Africa on the last team.

She got to be involved in winning a soul to Christ. First one. It changed her whole life. Her perspective will never be the same. That one time has so sanctified her life that she will never be the same.

And she only won once. Only once. So some say, I'm just not gifted that way. And some say, I'm too shy. And they will never know the blessings that will fall upon them and sanctify them and touch them and change them if they would just begin to walk in this one principle.

Just one. So let's gather it up. And oh yes, we forgot the one over here of the quiet time. So we'll carry this. All the blessings of a quiet time. And we'll put that on the pile over here. And we'll gather up all these blessings of winning souls and the effect that comes upon a life when they do that.

And we'll put them on the pile over here. And let's go a little bit further. The Bible says also, and I'm just taking a few, but the Bible says that we should sing. That we should sing. Singing to yourselves in songs and hymns and spiritual songs.

Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. The Bible says that. Some people look at that and say, I can't sing. And so they don't. God doesn't care how you sound when you're singing. He wants to hear your heart.

But some do, I can't sing. I'm tone deaf. God doesn't care if you're tone deaf. And so there's all kinds of things where people get around. You know, they say, I've got too many things to do. My life is very busy.

I don't have time to be singing all day long. I'm doing this. I'm doing that. But somebody sees that principle and says, now God said to do it. I'm going to do it. And to them, I'm sure you've gotten it by now.

You know what happens. Their life begins to be blessed.

In ways they never even imagined. See, many times you don't know.

What the blessing will be. That's what makes it such an adventure. You don't know what the blessing will be. And you don't need to know what the blessing is. And God oftentimes doesn't even say it. He just says, do it.

But oh, if you'll do it, then the blessing will begin to open up.

Like a beautiful flower to you. And so we'll pick up all those blessings and we'll put them over here and put them on the big pile. It's getting big.

Submission, Servanthood, and Other Biblical Principles

You study in the Word of God and you will see without a doubt, you will see the principle of authority in the Word of God. Authority. Submission to authority, you know. Obeying your parents and honoring your parents and respecting your spiritual leaders and being open to their counsel and yielding your heart to their desires.

And all those things are in the Bible. And everybody has to look at those. All of us independent Americans, we have to look at them too. And so some people look at them and say, like one lady said, I'm not going to submit to that jerk about her husband.

Fine. Suit yourself, lady. Or a young person will say, my dad, he's not very spiritual. He's not very spiritual. He's not very spiritual. And so I don't have to honor him and respect him. And there's all kinds of ways around it.

But some people look at it and say, God said this. I may not understand why God said this, but God said it and I'm going to do it. And you know what happens. And I tell you, I could stand up here for two hours and tell you how many ways your life would be so blessed if you began to walk in this principle of authority.

I could tell you so many ways. But let's just pick all that up and put it over here on the pile. Amen? Just put it on the pile. Time would fail me to keep on going. The principle of servanthood, the Bible says, He that is greatest among you, let Him be the servant of all.

Oh, we look at that and we say, I'm no servant! I'm no servant! Somebody else looks at it and says, I am going to lay my life down to serve others. And a beautiful flower begins to open up before them and only them.

Only them. The Bible talks about the blessings of a large family. Some explain that away. Others do it. And taste so richly and deeply so many blessings for following those principles in the Bible. So many teachings in the Word of God about giving and how it will affect your life.

And some say, I can't afford it. And others say, I'll do it. And they find riches untold. Time would fail me to talk about self-denial, the principle of suffering, mastering your tongue, and on and on and on I could go.

The question that I have for you young people this morning is, how much do you want? How much do you want? Because in every principle in the Word of God, the law of blessing rests upon that principle.

And in that principle, hidden in the obedience of that principle, is a beautiful effect upon your life that will bless you like you can imagine. You know something? You sit here and look at me, but the older men and women are shaking their heads behind you.