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GOD SUSTAINS YOU
Terry Cavanaugh
The phone call came unexpectedly.
I was unprepared for what was about to happen.
My good friend, a fellow pastor, said, “Terry, is it true?”
I had no idea what he was talking about.
I also had no idea how that phone call would change my life.
My friend continued, “we need to talk.”
He came over to the church I was serving.
I was totally unprepared when he told me that a member of my church, a highly respected local business man, was telling everyone I had confessed I was addicted to child pornography.
I sat there my hands trembling, tears pouring down my face, unable to response.
“Well, is it true?” he said.
“No, never,” I stammered.
“Well, I hate to say this, but, until we learn different, I have to ask you to step away from helping with the Emmaus community or Chrysalis.”
I was devastated.
I was humiliated, but more than humiliated, I was angry.
I knew there was no truth in it, but this lie was destroying my life.
But this was just the tip of the iceberg.
Over the next six months there was an investigation by my District Superintendent.
Several members of the church I was pastoring were questioned.
The rumor spread through our small community.
I watched helplessly, as my life, my ministry, my future, was being flushed down sewer.
During that trying time, my source of support was God, and my loving wife.
It came out at the end of 6 months that the man everyone was believing and was such a Good Christian was actually lying.
When confronted with the truth He said the reason no one else remembered my supposed confession was, I wiped their minds so they could not remember.
He also told people I caused him to have a heart attack, because he saw me across the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Now Gentlemen, I know I am not good looking, but I don’t think I am so shocking, that seeing me would cause heart failure.
Hi, My name is Terry Cavanaugh, and the title of this talk is God Sustains You.
Why would anyone invent a lie like that, because he was filled with hostility and maybe some fear.
He like, much of the world, was missing the mark in his life.
Let me see if I can explain.
Our world is filled with hostility, even hatred, just open a newspaper or turn on the news, and you can not miss the hatred.
Hatred for different races, different sexes, different religions fill every broadcast.
Which is sad, considering we are all made in the Image of God.
But even as we try to live up to that image we fall short.
Paul explained it this way.
Rom 7:15
Peter also struggled with falling short.
He wanted to be faithful, but here is what happened him.
Matt 26:34
Matt 26:
But Peter is not alone, we have all denied God in one way of another.
Even if we know that God is the center of our life’s, we still mess it up.
We let obstacles come between us and God.
These obstacles are called sin.
The Greek word used for Sin in the New Testament is harmartia.
It is an archery term that means, missing the mark.
Sin is anything that causes us to miss the target of God’s will for our lives.
Anything that comes between you and God is not only sin, but it becomes your God.
There are three main obstacles of sins that come between you and God.
There are three ways that we miss the mark.
The first obstacle or hindrance is not believing.
Unbelief is a challenge for Christians throughout their life.
When you believe in God, it means more than just believing God exists it means putting your trust in him alone.
Did you know that even the devil believes God exists, I am kidding.
As Christians, it is sometimes hard to trust God.
I confess, during that time when it seemed everyone was believing the lie, it was difficult to trust God with me life.
Matthew 3
It is also difficult to believe that God loves you.
We often feel worthless, unloved, without a reason to live.
The devil often whispers in our ears, you have no value, no one loves you, but he lies, he is a lier.
God loves you.
Let me repeat that God loves you.
God loves you so much he wants to forgive you.
God wants to erase your faults, or failure, past.
God wants to give you a new start, a clean slate, and do over.
The one thing that may be standing between you and God is your Not Believing what God wants to do for you.
If you don’t believe in God, you will find your self substituting something else for God.
You will put something else in God’s place.
Why, because as humans we will worship something.
Anything that comes before God is your God.
Let me repeat that, anything that comes before God, that comes between you and God, is your God.
The Bible calls this Idolatry.
If you are aiming at something less than God you are aiming at an idol.
An idol does not have to be a wood or stone statue, your idol might be your popularity, or it could be your girl friend, it might be money.
It can be anything, even your feelings, your anger, or resentment, or fear.
I meet people who have made drugs an idol.
What ever the idol is, it will suck the life right out of you.
Idols to do not give you hope or joy or forgiveness.
Idols take, and take, and take until they have taken complete control of your life.
Some people make themselves into the idol In fact they make themselves in to God.
They are completely self-centered.
Their idol is self-centeredness.
In their minds, they have remake God like them.
We will either believe in a God who made us in his image, or we will remake God in our image.
When someone remakes God in their image, the only thing that matters is them, their feels, their wants, their needs.
They really don’t care about other peoples wants, needs, or feelings.
They believe, like a little baby, the whole world revolves around them.
But this is not God’s plan for your life, he does not want you to be non-believing, Idol worshiping, or Self-centered.
Did you notice that if you rearrange the first letters of those three you get SIN.
S self-centered
I Idols
N Not Believing.
God does not want you to continue in sin.
Can I share with you some good news.
God wants you to live in GRACE.
G tells us Go to God
Don’t let you pride keep you from turning to God.
Don’t believe Satan’s lies that you are not worthy.
Don’t let anything stop you from Going to God.
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