has preached more from the book of Job in the last three weeks than I have heard anybody ever preach from it, in my entire life. IT IS TIMELY to say the least.
When you are thinking: Why me? I didn't do anything wrong. I love God. This shouldn't be happening to me/us/my family etc, we did things right, why us? AND BELIEVE THIS, those days are coming sooner than you think and lots of people who don't know any better are going to be asking those questions. Somehow in the last 40 years or so we have went from "pick up your cross and follow me" to "God wouldn't do that to us." The first statement is from God in the flesh himself, the second one is the work of Satan near the start of the end.
Luke 4:25-26
25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent tto any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
That was right after Christ had announced his ministry in his hometown synagogue.
Do you think the Jews of Elijah's time, in the middle of a sever drought, thought that God would send his prophet to an outcast, pagan, baal worshiping widow (read, lowest of the low) in the land of Jezebels (Had all the Jewish prophets killed mind you) father? I assure you they didn't think he would, they were the anointed, they they were the chosen, surely he wouldnt do that.
LOTS OF PEOPLE IN CHURCH ARE ABOUT TO MAKE THE SAME EXACT MISTAKE TODAY. OH HOW FAR WE HAVE PROGRESSED.
Just go read the last 4 chapters of Job and understand that you are not supposed to understand, in fact we are simply not even capable of understanding infinite wisdom. So who are we to question God will for us?
All of that being said?
Quotes that resonated from yesterdays sermon:
"The story isn't your story.
Its a part of it.
But it's MY (God's) story.
Gods story is much bigger than ours,
but we are in it."
As soon as she said:
"The story isnt your story."
This graphic came into my mind.
(Need the 6 ft x4 ft wall size poster BTW lol, hint hint :-)
Pretty sure it's every Verse.
Guy was a graphic designer (draftsman) and taught at the school of the blind and was a Baptist preacher.
The two witnesses are highlighted in orange.
Our parts may seem large and important to us
but to God?
It's but a small piece of the overall puzzle as it were.
"To deny suffering is to deny Christ."
Where are all the preachers preaching that timely message these days?
I know where one is:
"A mighty fortress"
indeed.
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