Wait! Don't Try to Help God

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Bible Hope vs. Worldly Hope (hoping and praying, hoping for the best

Confident expectation of good

Hope a protection for our thought life

Enemy personalize

I'm no good a failure 

Nothing good happens to me

I don't think I have what it takes

I'm unattractive

Galatians 5:5 NKJV

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

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have a confident expectation of good because we are righteous by faith

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wait for the good to happen

Galatians 5:4 KJV 1900

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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No effect - not because of sin, but because you are trying to be justified by the law

No effect - when you are trying to be justified by the law

Trusting in your strength, obedience, ability, works efforts

God wants to do it for you in you and though you

Try hard - Jesus not working in your life

Fallen from Divine, underserved favor

Healing power was of effect in the lives of sinners

Pharisees - self-righteous, don't need Jesus

Many are having problems because You're trying your best to overcome it; trusting in your own strength

🛌My part is to relax and enjoy Him

Lord, this child is your problem

Trusting in your in strength - doing your best to overcome it

Abraham & Sarah

Sarah represents the heavenly Jerusalem

Galatians 4:21–26 ESV

Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Genesis 16:1–4 ESV

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

Sarai - name means domineering

Ishmael can sometimes produce faster

Law can produce instant results

Grace seems slower

Law produces behavior modification

Areas where you aren't trusting God - areas of repeated frustration

Romans 5:1–5 ESV

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

3 relations God has with man

3 relations God has with man

God for you 

God with you 

God in you