Are you having endless problems that are responding to no solution? Are you wondering where the current crisis came from? Are you trying to trace from where the rains started beating you? Are there situations you do not like that are not making sense? Think carefully seemingly unrelated things are related!
God does not excuse backsliders depending on what caused them to backslide. Regardless of what caused the backsliding, God tells us that they are liable to serious punishment. A backslider is a backslider. Some backslide in order to provide for the family. Some backslide because the church has bad members and leaders. Some backslide because they were so offended by someone. Some backslide because they do not want to be hypocrites like other members. Some backslide because of just laziness. Some backslide because they are angry with God.
Do it LORD, do it in my days, respond to the wicked who have made my life unbearable. Do it LORD, do it for my studies, my business, my employment, my social life, and ministry. Do it LORD, for the glory of your name, do what no one would believe even if they are told, unless they experience it. Do it for my health, do it for my finances, do it for my spiritual life. Do it God, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
The God of the Bible is good. The God that Christians worship is good. This God is much more real and powerful than all other gods. This God manifests Himself as greater than any other gods. He is the God of gods. Yet this most powerful God is not just great but good.
Preach against them? Is that professional? Preaching a sermon targeting someone? A sermon full of condemnation? Is it right? A sermon against a specific person or group of people? How should you react if a preacher deliberately targets you in their sermon? What options are available to you who is targeted by a sermon that is preached against you?
We care about our public opinion. We care about what people think and say about us. Even when we are advised not to care, we still care. One way we are controlled is by being told to mind what people will see and say. Since we must care, then it is good to find a way to influence what people think and say about us. We must know how to best influence public opinion!
Prophet Joel has received and is now reporting bad news that is coming upon the land of Israel. Disaster after disaster. What Joel is saying is scary and dreadful. The bad news flows uninterrupted until our text today brings the most desired interruption. From Joel, we learn how to interrupt bad news and events!
If God brought me here, I can’t worship you or treat you as if without you I wouldn’t be here. If God brought me here, I would not confuse you for God, even if you were instrumental for my being here…If God brought me here, I can’t hate you or revenge and harm your children. God allowed you to act as Satan’s agent in my life. How I got here? Not you not me but God!
To say that you are too young means, you think and believe you will do this work by yourself and therefore you need maturity and experience. Yet the work will be done by God through you. If God is working through you, it doesn’t matter how old you are. Therefore do not say that you are too young!