“The Roller Coaster of Life” - Surviving the Highs & Lows
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INTRODUCTION.
Senior Adults have seen a lot.
The UPs and Downs / High and Lows of life.
Good Times / Bad times
No TV / TVs
Depression / rationing.
Birth of Children / death of loved ones.
The Changes of Life.
1 Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle. The things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the weary beast.
2 They stooped over, they have bowed down together; They could not rescue the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity.
3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb;
4 Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.
MESSAGE.
I. Created by MAN.
I. Created by MAN.
Bel - the principle deity of Babylon (Marduk).
East Semitic language = bel
West Semitic (Hebrew, Aramaic) Ba’al.
Title - lord or master.
Creation myths.
Nebo - a Babylonian deity associated with Mercury.
Assyrian and Babylonian god off wisdom and writing.
son of Marduk and Sarapanitun.
protection deity of hte ancient city of Borsippa, some 15 miles S-SW of Babylon.
Created by man for man.
They can do nothing for themselves.
1 Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle. The things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the weary beast.
They must be carried.
They have become owned by others.
17 Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
They can do nothing for you.
Isaiah 46:2 “2 They stooped over, they have bowed down together; They could not rescue the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity.”
You trust in your own things.
7 “For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princes.
II. Created by GOD.
II. Created by GOD.
3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb;
Created by God for God.
You have been born of water. (Flesh)
3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb;
God has helped and carried you all your life.
God will free you.
You have been born of Spirit. (Holy Spirit)
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
God can do everything for Himself.
God
Psalm 50:10 “10 “For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.”
God created us for us Glory.
6 “I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring My sons from afar And My daughters from the ends of the earth,
7 Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”
God can do everything for you.
God never changes.
4 Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.
God carries you.
From the womb - before birth.
Till the present.
“Even in the graying years.
In eternity.
God saves you.
CONCLUSION.
Will you have seen and been through the Highs and Lows of life.
11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
God is never changing.