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God provides for his followers.
God provides for his folowers?
Jesus saw that the crowd did not follow for a handout, but instead for the right reasons.
Illus: A major theme in scripture is God’s provision for his people.
We need to be clear.... God does not exist to simply give us what we want.
He does not exist to make us rich.
There is a fundamental problem with this line of thinking, God does not exist for us.
He does not exist for our wants and desires.
Instead, as we follow God, God provides for what we need.
It is not God who follows our directions, but instead, we follow God’s directions and God provides for what we need.
We can’t become so callous to those who abuse the system that we do not have compassion for those God calls us to.
Illus: Confession time, when we look at others in need, how quickly do we judge the motives of people without an ounce of compassion.
Truthfully our hearts look for reasons not to help more than they look for reasons to help.
This goes for strangers, foreigners, friends, family.
Deep down we do not see the abundance God has given us as a way to give, but instead as a treasure to be protected from all abusers.
Illus: (CSB) 17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?
18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?
18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
Do you have doubt triggered amnesia?
The disciples should have had a Dej-a-vu moment here.
Illus: God is always faithful.
That said, every time life goes out of control we get the case of spiritual amnesia.
This is what I mean, we forget every time God has been faithful every time God has provided, every time God was in control.
Instead we make the problem in front of us far bigger than it actually is.
IN fact, we cease to look to God, because we become so consumed with the issue at hand.
It is not God who falters, it is us.
Illus:James 1:5–8 (CSB)
5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith without doubting.
For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord, 8 being double-minded and unstable in all his ways.,
Is your belief in God limited by your own doubts?
Illus: We are far more controlling of our lives that we realize.
We look for human solutions to problems because we have trouble seeing beyond ourselves.
This shows that we are not living by faith, but instead placing ourselves as the authority and power in our own lives.
God will take you to places where you cannot control the world around you so that you have to see a need for him.
When you get to that place, God will be there to show you that he is able.
Illus:John 20:27 (CSB) 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands.
Reach out your hand and put it into my side.
Don’t be faithless, but believe.”
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands.
Reach out your hand and put it into my side.
Don’t be faithless, but believe.”
In you faithlessness, God is faithful.
God never ceases to work.
Illus: Great news, our God is a God who is faithful when we are faithless.
He pulled peter out of the water.
He showed Thomas his scars.
He forgave Paul.
He gave grace over and over to the people of Israel.
He swallowed Jonah in a whale.
He brought Elijah out of his doubts.
He forgave peter of his denials.
He gives forgiveness and grace, because when we are faithless, God is faithful.
Illus:Lamentations 3:22–24 (CSB)
22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love
22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love
we do not perish,
for his mercies never end.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness!
24 I say, “The Lord is my portion,
therefore I will put my hope in him.”
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