We don’t always understand why God works the way He does. But we can be assured that He is always in control. At such times, it’s helpful to remember that God sees the big picture. He’s always working to accomplish His purposes. In this message, Dr. Stanley outlines seven truths from Scripture to remind us that no matter what we see, we can trust God to fulfill all His promises and complete His perfect plan.
Dr. Charles Stanley: Every
once in a while, somebody will
say to me, “You know what?
You talked about how good God is
and when you trust Him as your
personal Savior, He enters your
life and you have the Holy
Spirit and things get better.
Well, I trusted Jesus Christ as
my personal Savior, and things
got worse.”
And all of us have probably said
that about some things.
We think when you trust Jesus as
your personal Savior and you
have all these promises in the
Word of God, and sometimes it
looks like real disaster comes
following what we think is a
promise of God.
And sometimes we can’t explain
what God is up to because we
want to do the right thing, but
somehow it doesn’t turn out
right.
And if you’ll think about Moses,
for example, from the time he
left the burning bush, he
listened to God, he was
absolutely stunned about what he
heard, what he saw, and so he
left the burning bush committed
to do exactly what God wanted
him to do, and he did.
And he was to tell Pharaoh that
he was to let the people go.
Well, instead of Pharaoh
listening to him, he doubled
their work.
Now, they couldn’t just make
brick, they had to find the
straw to make brick with.
And so, the number one enemy at
this particular point in the
life of the Hebrew children was,
of all people, Moses because
Pharaoh had doubled their
responsibility and his
requirements.
He was sure he did what God
said, and he did do what God
said.
But the outcome wasn’t like he
expected.
Now, all of us hit those things
in my our life where we think we
know exactly what God said, and
the same thing happens to us.
It doesn’t turn out like we
expect it.
So, when I look at this passage
of Scripture, I think this is a
passage of Scripture that
describes what happens to us.
We want to do the right thing,
we think we have done the right
thing, we think we’ve listened
to God, it doesn’t turn out that
way, and so we judge ourselves,
condemn ourselves and say, “God,
you weren’t listening at all,”
and we build this big pity party
up and accuse God.
So, what is the solution to all
that?
So, I want you to turn for a
moment, if you will, in the
third chapter of Exodus
beginning with the tenth verse,
“Therefore, come now,” he said,
“and I will send you to Pharaoh,
so that you may bring My people,
the sons of Israel, out of
Egypt.”
That was a big responsibility
and requirement.
“But Moses said to God, ‘Who am
I, that I should go to Pharaoh,
and that I should bring the sons
of Israel out of Egypt?’
And He said, ‘Certainly I will
be with you, and this should be
the sign to you that I–it is I
who have sent you: when you have
brought the people out of Egypt,
you shall worship God at this
mountain.’
Then Moses said God, ‘Behold, I
am going to the sons of Israel,
and I will say to them, “The God
of your fathers has sent me
to you.”
Now they may say to me, “What is
His name?”
What shall I say to them?’
God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I
AM,’ and He said, ‘Thus you
shall say to the sons of Israel,
“I AM has sent you.”‘”
So, when we look at that passage
of Scripture, and then see what
happens.
The same thing happens to us
sometimes.
We think we see the blessings of
God upon us, and all of a sudden
everything changes.
And we think, “God, where are
You?
Here’s what You promised.”
And we’ve learned to quote some
verses.
“My God shall supply all your
needs according to His riches in
glory.”
And you’ve got great needs.
That God will answer our prayer,
He’s sort of silent.
And so, we wonder: here’s what
You promised, but here’s what
happens.
What’s going on in our life.
So, what I want us to notice
here, I want you to jot down
seven things.
When trouble comes, we have to
remember His promises.
And those promises are as vital
as a part of our belief system.
And if you turn to Hebrews, for
example, and let’s look at a
couple of verses here, in the
tenth chapter, the tenth
chapter, the twenty-third verse,
the Scripture says, “Let us hold
fast the confession of our hope
without wavering, for He who
promised is faithful.”
And why is it here?
When he says, “Let us hold
fast,” that is hold on tight.
Because you have trusted Christ
as your Savior does not mean
that God’s going to answer all
your prayers or everything’s
going to be alright.
It wasn’t true of Moses, it’s
not true of anybody.
God doesn’t make that kind of
promise.
The twenty-third verse and then
that thirty-sixth verse, he
says, “For you have need of
endurance, so that when you have
done the will of God, you may
receive what He’s promised.”
So, I think all of us probably
had the idea when we were saved,
life’s really get ready to get
better for me.
And most of the time it does,
and probably in some way it
does, but oftentimes not the way
we expect.
People who’ve lived a life of
sin and disobedience to God,
just because you trust Christ as
your Savior does not
mean–listen carefully.
It doesn’t mean He’s wiped all
the consequences away.
It does mean your name is
written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life.
It does mean that your sins have
been forgiven.
It does mean you have a new
life, but that all the
consequences don’t disappear
simply because we ask Christ to
save us.
So, the–when trouble comes, we
have to remember His promises.
And His promises are always the
same.
He says, “I will never leave you
nor forsake you.”
Not if, and, but, if, what,
since.
No.
I’ll never leave you nor forsake
you.
He doesn’t say, “All your
troubles will be gone.
All your troubles will
be–everything’s getting ready
to be better in your life.”
Sometimes the very opposite
thing happens.
Here’s a divine promise and
assurance given to us by God,
that He will act in our behalf
if we trust Him.
It does not mean that there’ll
be no troubles, no heartaches,
no problems.
Secondly, He said to him, for
example, in the sixth chapter
and the first verse, He says
here’s what you can expect:
Pharaoh will drive the Hebrews
out of Egypt.
Well, that’s exactly what Moses
wanted to hear.
And this is a promise from God:
He’ll drive them out.
Now, notice something here.
He didn’t say when, nor did He
say how.
And oftentimes when we read a
promise and we’re going through
something, we think, “Well, God,
this is exactly what–this is
what I’m looking for.
Lord, this is exactly what You
need to promise me.
Thank You very much,” and we
wonder when it’s going to happen
and we say, “Well, God, where
are You?
Did I miss the message?”
No, He doesn’t tell us always
when.
He says He will bring the
Hebrews out of Egypt, bring you
out from under the burden, which
was slavery, to the Hebrew
nation.
God said to Moses, “I’ll make
you,” He said, watch this, I’ll
make you as God to Pharaoh.”
What kind of a promise was that?
He’s saying to Moses, “What I’m
going to do, only I can do.”
And then He says, “I will harden
Pharaoh’s heart.”
Well, now that changed the whole
story.
Here are the things You’re going
to do, and yet You tell me
You’re going to harden Pharaoh’s
heart.
Sometimes when we’re going
through difficulty, it looks
like that God’s working on the
other side.
It’s like He’s working in behalf
of the enemy.
But God always wants us to look
beyond the immediate
circumstance because God doesn’t
just work in a tiny molecule, a
tiny circle, He works with the
big picture in mind.
So, when He called Moses and
told him what He would do, He
said, “Remember when they ask
you who I am, you,” because they
had many gods in Egypt, “you
tell them that I AM sent you to
the Israelites, to the Hebrews.
Tell them I AM has sent you.”
Well, they didn’t go to a lot of
discussion in Scripture about
who I AM was, but of course
that’s God.
I AM in the past, I AM in the
present, so I AM in the future.
There’s no time when God is not.
Tell Pharaoh it’s going to be as
if God is speaking to him.
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart.
How does that fit in the will of
God?
In other words, if you’re going
to set them free–how are you
going to set them free and work
hardness in their hearts?
This is why you and I should
learn to listen to God
carefully.
God doesn’t make any mistakes.
And when He speaks to your
heart, sometimes people will
say, “Well, I guess I
misheard God.”
No, no, you didn’t mishear him.
You misinterpreted what He said.
He didn’t say, “I’m going to
make everything easy for the
Hebrews.”
He said, “I’m going to set them
free.
And I’m going to do so by
hardening Pharaoh’s heart.”
Well, you already know the
story.
Hardening Pharaoh’s heart caused
great havoc among the people of
the Hebrew nation.
And so, sometimes when God makes
us a promise, listen carefully,
He doesn’t give us the details.
Well, why doesn’t He?
Well, you’d have to ask Him
that.
You can’t–you can question God
if you want to, but listen, God
knows what His purpose is.
Now, watch this.
His goal is always for our good.
His purpose is always to work
something in our life that will
bring goodness, that will bring
joy in our hearts.
But sometimes it brings
difficulty and hardship and pain
and suffering.
There’s no promise in the Word
of God that guarantees we’ll
have a life without suffering
and heartache and pain.
And so, we have to remember who
we’re dealing with.
We’re dealing with a God who
loves us unconditionally, who
saves us from our sin,
He’ll never leave us nor forsake
us and answers our prayers, but
does not promise to save us from
all suffering, heartache, and
even unto death.
So, when we look at this,
God’s promise to Moses was an
awesome promise, but He didn’t
say, “It’s just going to be
easy, it’s going to be a
wonderful exodus, it’s going to
be absolutely fantastic.
Moses, you’re going to be
sitting on top of the world.”
None of that.
So, the third thing I want you
to notice is this.
God is working to accomplish His
purpose when we don’t even see
it, when we don’t understand it.
And in the seventh chapter of
Exodus and the fifth verse, He
says, “The Egyptians shall know
that I am the Lord, when I
stretch out My hand on Egypt and
bring out the sons of Israel
from their midst.”
He says, “Here’s what’s going to
happen.
I’m not giving you all the
details, but remember this.”
“‘I am the Lord.
When I stretch out My hand on
Egypt, bring out the sons of
Israel from their midst.’
So, Moses and Aaron did as the
command–Lord commanded
them–and thus they did.
Moses was eighty years old,”
when that happened.
So, He’s assuring him of what’s
going to happen, but He doesn’t
give him all the details.
He says, “Here’s what I’m going
to do.”
So, think about this.
Listen to that verse again.
God says, “I’m going to release
them, and then what happens?
The Scripture says after He says
I’m going to release them, God
unleashed a series of plagues
from turning the rivers to blood
to the death of Pharaoh’s son.
How did that fit into the
promise, I’m going to set My
people free?
Then He says, “The Egyptians are
going to know that I’m God.”
And sometimes we see the
evidence of God at work and we
don’t understand always how He
does it.
God makes his promise.
You say, “Well, does He always
keep His promise?”
Yes.
Does He always give us the
details?
No, because that’s the way you
and I grow in our faith, by
believing Him, trusting Him when
I don’t understand Him.
God nowhere promises I’ll always
understand.
He promises to keep His Word.
He promises that He’ll be with
us in it.
He promises to provide our need,
but that I’ll–not that I’ll
always understand.
Sometimes we see the evidence of
God working in our life and
sometimes we can’t.
That is, Moses couldn’t foresee
what God had in mind.
And when He says, “I’m going to
use you to set them free,” then
he sees what happens, naturally
he wonders, “Well, God, here’s
what You said.”
But we have to remember that God
does not always give us details.
Did you hear that?
Well, a few of you did.
He does not always give us
details, amen?
So that’s where we find out
whether we trust Him or not.
And usually when God speaks
about something good He’s going
to do, here’s what we do.
Our mind jumps from today to the
good.
So, we don’t like to think about
what’s the difference between
the promise today and the good
tomorrow?
Lot of things can happen in that
space of time.
And so, what happens here is it
took the death of Pharaoh’s son
to convince him to let the
people go.
Well, that’s exactly what God
had planned.
He knew exactly what would have
to happen before Pharaoh would
let the people go.
So, think about all the plagues
and so forth that
happened–we’ll talk about those
later.
But God is working to accomplish
His purpose, but not always in
the ways we expect.
And I think about, I’m trying to
put myself in the place of
somebody who just got saved.
In the society in which we lived
and among the people in which we
live, and this crazy world we
live in, and all the wicked,
vile things that are going on.
And ask myself the question: How
would I respond if God says I’m
really going to bless you, and I
look around and think, well,
when?
And how?
And what do You have to do to do
that?
In other words, you can ask, and
it’s okay to ask God when,
where, and how, but He has the
right not to answer that.
He’s under no compulsion to
answer some of the questions we
rightfully ask.
He did not tell Moses everything
He was going to do or how He was
going to do it.
He says, “I’m going to set them
free.
And I’m sending you to Pharaoh
to tell him that.”
He didn’t give him the details.
First of all, Moses would
probably had a little difficulty
understanding all that himself.
And certainly, Pharaoh would
never have accepted that.
So, God’s working to accomplish
His purpose, whether we
understand it or not, whether we
see it or not, that’s not the
issue.
The issue is–and this is when
it comes down to whether we
believe Him or not.
So, what’s God’s ultimate goal
in all this?
God’s ultimate goal in all this
is to bring forth a nation of
people through whom Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, would
ultimately be the sacrifice for
all humanity.
So, this is just one step.
Because the Hebrews were and are
the nation through which God
sent His Redeemer.
So, the issue is this.
God is working to fulfill His
promise.
The question is: Am I willing to
trust Him when He’s working and
I can’t see it, I don’t
understand it, I can’t explain
it, it looks foolish to me, and
how in the world could it
possibly be true?
Am I willing to believe Him when
everything around me says that
can’t happen.
That just doesn’t happen.
That’s not the way life is.
And so, the fourth thing I want
you to jot down in all of this
is this.
We’re to trust Him to keep His
promise.
Our responsibility is not
necessarily to understand it
all, but to trust Him to keep
His promise.
That’s a requirement.
We’re to trust the Lord in all–
with all your heart, lean not to
your own understanding, in all
your ways acknowledge Him and
He’ll direct your path straight.
So, the more difficult our
circumstances, the greater our
struggle.
And in some trials we face, all
we have is His Word, we have the
Living Word of God, the Bible.
And what He said to Moses, what
He, you, and I have today in the
Scriptures are the same.
It’s the same God who made this
promise to Moses who makes these
promises to us.
And so, God spoke to Moses and
He expected Moses to follow what
He said.
And then, here are all these
Hebrews who’ve got lots of
reasons to question, first of
all, by what authority can you
tell us this?
And how do you know that
Pharaoh’s going to respond?
They had lots and lots of
questions.
So, Moses is in a tough spot.
Watch this carefully.
Because he’s in the same place
you and I are at times.
So, what did Moses have?
Watch this.
This is all he had.
And I’ll be with you.
And I’ll be with you.
Told him lots of things, but all
he had was I’ll be with you.
And I want you to think about
this.
That’s all you and I have.
Everything you and I have could
be lost in a second.
All of our plans could fail.
All the things we possess could
burn up or crash or whatever it
might be.
We have no guarantee of anything
as a believer but the presence
and the power and the love of
Almighty God.
That’s all we have.
And I think about people who
spend their life investing in
this and that and accumulating
and accumulating and
accumulating, and what they’re
doing, they’ll deny this.
They’re trying to get more
and more security.
Well, listen, security is not
found in the stock market.
It’s not found in the malls.
It’s not found in any of these
places.
Security can only be found in
the presence of the Living God.
That’s all Moses had.
When he went to see Pharaoh, all
he had, listen, think about
this.
This is the Moses who got
ejected out of Egypt forty years
before.
Now he’s forty years older,
there’s a different Pharaoh,
doesn’t know him except what
they know about him.
And he’s coming back, cross the
desert and telling Pharaoh, “You
must let the Hebrews go.”
Well, that was a joke.
In other words, think about
this.
You’re coming here with a
shepherd’s staff telling me to
free two million slaves who are
building all of my enterprises,
and you think I’m going to
listen to that?
Naturally they didn’t think so.
So, I want you to jot this one
down.
Number five: we must remember
God is the sovereign of the
universe and everything is
within His power.
And my favorite verse is the
Psalm one hundred and three.
And you’ll hear me quote it many
times, but I just want you to
turn there, and if I just quote
it, you won’t turn.
So, Psalm one-o-three, verse
nineteen, listen, “The Lord has
established His throne in the
heavens, and His sovereignty,”
which means His power, His love,
all that He is does what?
“His sovereignty rules over
all.”
That means the power of Almighty
God rules over all.
And remember one of the things
that God said to him before he
left to go to see Pharaoh.
I’ll be with you.
I will be with you.
And what he, watch this, what He
said to Moses, He has said to
every single one of us who is a
follower of Jesus.
I’ll be with you.
To the end of this age, beyond
that.
When you trust the Lord Jesus
Christ as your Savior, the Holy
Spirit comes into your life to
live, seals you as a child of
God.
And so, it’s not that we do this
in our power, it’s that we walk
in His strength and in His
power.
And so, it’s the power of God.
And so, whatever we’re asking
Him about, whatever we need in
our life, we, listen, He’s the
sovereign God of the universe,
which means He’s capable,
powerful enough, and able to do
anything that needs to be done
in our life.
Now, I think about people who
are not Christians, and they go
through all kind of
difficulties, I think how
foolish.
How foolish that you would
reject the God who has sovereign
power to control anything and
everything, all things, all
people, situations and
circumstances, pain, suffering
and heartache and blessing, and
you reject Him?
How foolish to reject Him when
that sovereignty of God can be
executed in your behalf through
the love of God.
So, the unbeliever doesn’t
understand that.
And sometimes I think many
Christians don’t understand it.
The issue is, is it the will of
God?
Now, watch this.
Think about this for a moment.
When you trusted Jesus Christ as
your Savior, you and I would
agree that He wrote our names in
His Lamb’s Book of Life, that He
came into our life through the
Holy Spirit and sealed us
forever as a child of God.
Can’t be lost, forever sealed.
He lives in and through us, each
one of us individually, His will
through the power of the Holy
Spirit.
We have that relationship to
Him.
That means we have tapped into
the presence and the power of
God for every single aspect of
our life.
We don’t have any reason to
doubt God.
We may have some human thinking
about it, but no biblical reason
to doubt Him.
So, when the Scripture speaks of
His presence with us, you and I
have confidence that no matter
what happens, watch this
carefully, think about this for
a moment.
No matter what happens in our
life, you and I can never have
another experience in life
alone.
You cannot.
Somebody says, “Well, I feel
real lonely.”
That’s what you feel.
“Well, I don’t see any–I just
don’t see the presence of God in
my life.”
You’re just not looking.
You have the sovereign God of
the universe, the same one who
walked with Moses to see
Pharaoh, who could have
obliterated him in a split
second if he’d have chosen to.
But when God said I’ll be with
you, Pharaoh couldn’t do
anything to Moses because God
was with him.
And sometimes we forget who we
have within us and what we have
because we have Him.
So, we have the confidence that
He’ll keep His Word.
The sixth thing I want you to
jot down, God oftentimes has an
unexpected plan to meet our
needs.
Jot that one down.
God oftentimes has an unexpected
plan to meet our needs.
So, when I think about that and
think about what the Scripture
says in Romans.
And in Romans chapter nine and
verse seventeen.
Listen to what he says, “For the
Scripture says to Pharaoh: ‘For
this very purpose,'” now watch
this, “For this very purpose I
raised you up, to demonstrate My
power in you, and that My name
might be proclaimed throughout
the whole earth.”
So, if somebody says, “Explain
all that stuff in Exodus,”
that’s the verse right there,
look at that.
“For the scripture says to
Pharaoh: ‘For this purpose I
raised you up, to demonstrate My
power in you, and that My name
might be proclaimed throughout
the whole earth.'”
Then, past, now.
So, look at these two men.
Here’s Pharaoh who rules over
everything, two million enslaved
Jews, he thinks he’s somebody.
But God says, “I’m going to show
him who I am.”
And so, what did He do?
In one event, He took his son,
it took that to convince Pharaoh
that God was God.
Did it make a believer out of
him?
No, because he tried to finally
obliterate the Hebrews at the
Red Sea.
You say, “Why didn’t God just
take his son to begin with?”
In other words, why did He do
that?
Here’s a beautiful example of
the grace of God.
Now, He knew what was going to
happen, but He gave him a little
trial over here with this plague
and this plague and this plague
and this plague and this plague
and this plague, and then He
told the Hebrews, “Paint your
doorposts with blood, for the
death angel is coming through,
all through Egypt tonight, and
you’re going to be set free.”
What–why did God do all that?
Here’s what God was doing.
He was demonstrating His awesome
power against what and who was
the most powerful person on
earth at the time.
And so, God isn’t just up to
doing this and that and the
other.
God always has a reason and a
goal and a purpose.
And one of the reasons He allows
you and me to go through
difficulty, hardship, and pain,
rejection, and all the rest is
that He’s teaching us to trust
Him.
He’s teaching us that the most
difficult times of our life, the
most painful times of our life,
God is doing something good in
our life.
So, you may ask a Hebrew back in
those days, when the plagues
were coming and things were
happening all around them,
“Well, is God a good God?”
They didn’t fully understand
everything that was happening.
Moses knew what was happening.
Because what did God have in
mind?
Well, what did God do?
He didn’t just let them go.
When they went, the Bible says
they plundered the Egyptians.
That is, they took their wealth
with them.
And sometimes we can’t see what
God is up to.
Think about what happened.
God warned them and warned them
and warned them.
He knew before He warned them,
they weren’t going to answer His
request.
And so, He sent them enough, but
there was one more.
The ultimate enemy, as far as
the Egyptians were concerned,
was the power of life and death.
All those frogs and insects and
bloody rivers and hail and
storms, but the last plague was
the plague of death.
So, you say, “Well, why didn’t
God do that in the very
beginning?”
I’ll tell you why.
The same reason that God spoke
to you and me many times before
we were saved.
And we were saved by the grace
of God who was patient with us,
until we finally got our eyes
open and realized that we needed
to be saved, we needed to
surrender our life to God.
Some of the things that God does
are actually love and grace and
goodness and kindness and
patience with us.
It was the last plague.
For the Hebrews, it was the
death of the firstborn in every
Egyptian family, even Pharaoh’s
son.
And so, they would never have
figured that out.
And the last statement is this:
God is never late with His
deliverance.
Never late.
We may pray a long time about
some things.
We may go through some
difficulty, heartache, whatever
it might be, but God is never
late with His deliverance.
He may be late according to my
timetable, but not His.
The Hebrews, listen to this,
waited four hundred years.
You say, “Well, that sounds late
to me.”
Not in God’s mind.
Because the question is: What’s
the purpose of God?
And here we are with the Lord
Jesus Christ as our personal
Savior within our hearts.
The assurance and awesome
presence of Christ in the power
of the Holy Spirit in our life.
God knew what He was doing.
And so, at the first sign of
trouble, Moses was ready to give
up.
But I want you to remember this.
God is an on-time God.
He is never late.
Now, if you’re a young
Christian, or maybe you’re not a
believer, you’d think, “Well,
looks like to me God’s late.”
That’s the way it looks to you.
But remember who’s doing the
looking and who has the power.
Almighty God sees every one of
us, and individually as His
children, dwelt and sealed by
the Holy Spirit of God.
And these people who tell you
that you can be saved and lost,
saved and lost, saved and lost,
what they’re saying is you can
be saved, but sin can take you
out of the promises of God.
No, it can’t.
So, listen, those four hundred
years, God had a reason for it.
What was He doing?
Remember they started with just
the family of Joseph, and now
they have become almost two
million people.
So, they didn’t just grow up
under slavery and just have a
bad time.
God was doing something.
He was, watch this, He was
demonstrating to the nation of
Israel, and that is the Hebrews,
demonstrating there’s something
to them they would never forget.
They would tell their children,
children’s, children’s,
children’s up to the
twenty-first century and on
until Jesus comes again, that
the God of the Hebrews is the
one true God, Jehovah, and He’s
the sovereign of the universe.
That’s the God in whom we
believe and whom we serve.
And that’s why we can sing and
shout and praise God and be
unashamed that we believe Him in
every circumstance of life.
So, if you will recall, when
trouble comes, we trust Him.
We don’t try to figure it out.
God’s made all these promises in
His Bible.
The question is do I believe
what He’s given in black and
white?
I will never leave you nor
forsake you.
I’ll be there for you no matter
what happens.
I’ll provide your needs and I’ll
take you through the storm, and
you have eternal security.
Do you know how blessed you are?
You think about all the
complaining we do, how blessed
we are.
And the promise is not by
somebody, it’s by the sovereign
God of the universe who has the
power to bless you the way He
wants to bless you, grow us all
up in the faith and make our
life an example and a testimony
to the unbeliever who’s
struggling.
And you may be one of those
persons who’s struggling this
morning.
Maybe you don’t know whether you
believe in God or not.
You can’t give me a good reason
for not believing in Him.
Here’s hundreds of pages,
written Word of God for
believing in Him.
And He says, “Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.”
Not might be, shall be saved.
This goodness of the God in
whom we serve and in whom we
believe is a God of grace, love,
and forgiveness.
And I challenge you, if you’ve
never trusted Jesus Christ as
your Savior, surrender your life
to Him, maybe you don’t
understand a lot of things in
the Bible.
There are some things I don’t
understand.
I may not have done it this way,
that-a-way, the other, but it’s
God’s way.
It’s a perfect way, for God knew
what He was after.
He’ll forgive you of your sin,
if you’ll ask Him, not because
you’re going to be better, not
because of the promises you
make, but because His Son died
on the cross, shed His blood and
saves any and every person who’s
willing to call upon Him.
Just like the death angel passed
through Egypt, you didn’t have
blood on the door post, there
would be death.
Today, you don’t trust Him as
your savior, you don’t believe
in the blood of Jesus, you don’t
believe in the crucifixion, you
don’t believe in the crucified
Lord, one of these days you’ll
stand before Him and give an
account, and all your excuses
will be null and void.
And I invite you, ask Christ
to save you and let Him change
your life today and govern your
life forever.
Amen?
Let’s stand together.
Father, we love You and praise
You and thank You for the
awesomeness of the Scripture,
for the way You worked in the
life of Your servants all
through from Genesis to
Revelation.
And I pray that You will remind
us again and again, Lord, when
we need to be reminded You never
change.
You said You didn’t change and
You don’t.
We have the awesome privilege of
calling upon You in any and
every circumstance of life.
You don’t have a deaf ear to
Your children.
We thank You and bless You and
praise You today that we have
the privilege of calling upon
You and the assurance that You
will hear us, in Jesus’s name,
amen.