Executing The Credentials of SalvationGreetings and welcome to all present and online, in America and abroad. Straight Gate Ministries and Pastor Teacher Landis Fisher have recently merged with their original commissioning Pastor Jimi Gwynn III, the Chief Servant of the Hope of Glory Baptist Church. With this merger these Ministers of the gospel and the official staffs of the two are pleased to send forth the message today as an encouragement to those in the body of Christ who have been waiting to be energized and sent to operate in their God ordained rolls and gifts in the world. Listen prayerfully as Pastor Landis Fisher teaches his initial message to this unified body he has titled: “Executing The Credentials of Salvation” .
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Isaiah 51:1 – 8 (NASB)
Isa 51:1 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, Who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the quarry from which you were dug.
Isa 51:2 “Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him.”
Isa 51:3 Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
Isa 51:4 “Pay attention to Me, O My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation; For a law will go forth from Me, And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples.
Isa 51:5 “My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My arm they will wait expectantly.
Isa 51:6 “Lift up your eyes to the sky, Then look to the earth beneath; For the sky will vanish like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a garment, And its inhabitants will die in like manner, But My salvation shall be forever, And My righteousness shall not wane.
Isa 51:7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart is My law; Do not fear the reproach of man, Neither be dismayed at their revilings.
Isa 51:8 “For the moth will eat them like a garment, And the grub will eat them like wool. But My righteousness shall be forever, And My salvation to all generations.”
New Testament Scripture Reading: Romans 8:28 – 39 (KJV)
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Transforming Power Statements:
#1) The patriarch Abraham is Isaiah’s model of true unmerited salvation with equal power in the Older Testament, as is that of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament who relied on the foundation of all the OT Prophets i.e. Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc. All of whom prophesy of the Messiah Jesus and the reign of His promised and delegated authority from The Father to execute justice and earn righteousness for the human family at the Cross.
#2) Credentials are official documentation or seal of the authenticity and authority of one to represent and execute with official status on behalf of the commissioning entity, Who in our case is God; Who has predestined, called, sanctified, and glorified each believer in Jesus Christ and sent us forth with full authority to operate on His behalf!
#3) When this amazing legacy is realized by the called, and as an act of the will you decide to take off the stained garments of the past and place up on you the garments of His salvation having your loins girded about with truth, the breast plate of righteousness, the feet shod with the Gospel of Peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, The sword of the Spirit, Fervent prayer, all these are invisible things of God that we possess as our “Credentials” but they are clearly seen by the watching world of the lost who are in desperate need of the same. (And guess what? God has an endless wardrobe!)
