What books that your life listens to your conversation watches how you live when they say no that s a real Christian Well let s face it most people who sit in church week after week after week do not necessarily look like what we just described rather than look so much like the world you can t tell the difference between a Christian and a dog Christian and so when you think about this inside in which we live it is aside it is drifting not toward God been away from God It is a site in which generation after generation has drifted away from the principles of the Word of God and the customs and the ideas that were based on biblical principles and so your question is what s the answer to this drift what s the answer to being God in the end I got listen age well I want you to turn to a little book in the New Testament Titus you know background Paul wrote to Titus giving him some admonitions about the church in Crete he sent him to a very difficult place the pastor a church and when you see
Cost of medical services assisted living or help their children with higher education how will negative interest rates affect their portfolios or will the stock market crash Christians literally rob God and sometimes their families over fear the future there s a growing mania for buffering ourselves against any possible future event but unless we depend on God will be like the man who built his house upon sand Jesus said the wise man built his house upon the rock Our faith must be rooted in our Rock Jesus Christ not in our material security otherwise fear will drive us in control us it will cause us anxiety and sleep loss unhealthy frugality marital stress bitterness and separation from God So I ask a simple question do you really trust God He promises to work all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purposes so no matter the size of your bank accounts you must trust God with it all how do you do it you release the past and believe that God h
You make sure we all come back in this story Jericho that I got out that got a job don t kill me can ya make him she s she s she s interceding for others she said can you make a deal with me swear to me make the old make a promise to me that when you when you guys come back that that you won t kill me my dad my mom my brothers my sister your Our family will be saved. Once again so it was good to say and forget about everybody I hate to see somebody come to the Lord and start looking funny at everybody else that s still not saying yes it s the worst thing we could do you know that week you know get all brand new on everybody else that you know you you just got say you know God s the shit daughter working a life and now you look at everybody else like I don t understand how they can do that he was doing it with them a week ago you know last year you was out there you know other people do that you know I used to work in a work in the lunchroom when I was going to Bible College and so who
How many of you know that one of the great things about being in the storm and knowing that God caused the storm is the realization that the one who caused it can shut it down too there s 2 places on the switch one says on and the other says off and he said control of both of them. And when they prayed into the Lord and cried out to him in their trouble he heard their prayer and he calmed the storm so that the waves are still I always think about this in connection with the stories in the New Testament about the Lord Jesus with his disciples the Lord I believe allowed things to happen in the lives of his disciples to teach them lessons they couldn t learn in any other way some lessons are not learned in the classroom Do you know that there are learned by experience as you go through things together do you remember the occasion when the disciples had gotten into the ship to go over to the other side and the Lord Jesus got in the ship with them and he crawled into the back of the boat a
Writers of scripture describes it this way he says the soul that has to wade through deep waters usually has to do it alone we have companions enjoy but in sorrow we have to face things by ourselves and Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote these famous lives which you have heard before laugh and the world laughs with you but weep and you weep alone there is something about problems that drive us into a feeling of being deserted now we usually are not it s usually what we think we re like Elijah who thought he was the only prophet left to believe in God and God had to remind him that there were just a few more than the one he thought was there but David felt deserted and then notice in verse 6 he feels depressed he uses an expression in his prayer he says I am brought very low I know that this is a touchy subject among some Christians that a Christian could ever be depressed. I ve actually heard preachers preach that if you re depressed you can t be a Christian because Christians don t get depres