A Masterpiece in the Making
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Introduction:
It is so good to be here with you today.
I want to thank Tim and the elders from allowing me to come and speak to you today. Tim has been such an advocate of our new church plant called Reliant. We are just down the street in front of Seven Hills and God is really blessing.
We believe that we as the body of Christ are all in this thing together. Our community needs to see a united front of love and support from the churches as well as the different giftings and aspects that each congregation brings.
Tim has spoken to our people on a Sunday morning and now I am here because we are all in this thing together.
I would like to take a moment to pray over you and the work that God has called you to do here.
Pray
Have you ever asked the question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
I think most people have at some point in their life and even possibly about your own life.
po•et•ry noun 2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
Life seems to be full of questions with very little answers.
Why did God take my child?
Why was I born with this defect?
Why am in bondage to this sin?
Why did my spouse leave me?
Why can’t I make more money?
Why do they seem to get all the blessings?
And on and on it goes.
The poetical Books that we are about to study give us some God given insight into these difficult questions of life.
So what is a poetical book. Let’s see if we can’t come up with a working definition for today:
po•et•ry noun 2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
po•et•ic adjective 3: having or expressing the qualities of poetry (as though aesthetic or emotional impact)
writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
po•et•ry \ˈpō-ə-trē, -i-trē also ˈpȯ (-)i-trē\ noun
14th century
1 a: metrical writing: VERSE
b: the productions of a poet: POEMS
2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
po•et•ry \ˈpō-ə-trē, -i-trē also ˈpȯ (-)i-trē\ noun
14th century
1 a: metrical writing: VERSE
b: the productions of a poet: POEMS
2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
po•et•ic \pō-ˈe-tik\ adjective
1530
1 a: of, relating to, or characteristic of poets or poetry
b: given to writing poetry
2: written in verse
3: having or expressing the qualities of poetry (as though aesthetic or emotional impact)
A poetic life: A lifetime of good and bad orchestrated together by God to produce His maximum glory.
po•et•ry noun 2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
The good and bad of life orchestrated together by God to produce his maximum glory.
God is the masterful maestro that makes my life make since.
Your faithfulness to God is not dependent your knowledge of God
Your faithfulness to God is not dependent your knowledge of God
po•et•ic adjective 3: having or expressing the qualities of poetry (as though aesthetic or emotional impact)
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Your life as a child of God is about his glory, not your happiness.
Your life as a child of God is about his glory, not your happiness
Obedience in the secret to happiness.
True joy comes from bringing God glory.
Trials and testings are just a part of a bigger picture.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1:2
You must have the testing to produce steadfastness.
You must have trials to realize your progress.
Your response to the trials is where the glory can be seen.
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
Job 1:
As God orchestrates your life, the question “why?” becomes to big.
As God orchestrates your life, the question “why?” becomes to big.
As God orchestrates all the good and bad in the world, the question “why?” becomes to big.
Don’t let people replace the precepts of God in your life.
Job’s wife
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”
Job 2:
Job’s friends
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.
Job 8:5-
His own soul
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Self pity is never pretty.
When the trials come in your life do you practice what you preach to others?
Job 4:4-6
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
Are the scriptures you quote to others good for your life?
Romans 8:
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Only God has the power to ask and answer the questions.
Only God has the power to ask and answer the questions.
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God doesn’t expect you to know he expects you to trust (Job 38:1-4)
God is working out His glory which is your good.
The poetry of your life is a masterpiece in the making.
The poetry of your life is a masterpiece in the making.
Sometimes God restores
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42:10
Sometimes God redeems
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Sometimes God requires sacrifice, but is all a masterpiece in the making.