Renew Your Mind: God's Protection

Isaiah 41:13; 1 Peter 5:10

What are all of the main ideas/concepts/points in each of these passages?

I am God, look it is me

I love you, even though you have blown it,

I am the LORD you God, I am with you

Fear the world vs fear of the LORD

tenderness of this image within the context of war,

can’t fight with right hand in God’s - he is the one fighting for us

Tension - we feel embattled, the world is raging against us, around us

tension - i have been protected even when I don’t see it, I often have not seen it

John Perkins - being beaten by racist police officers

how do we reconcile God’s protection when we experience unprotection, the wickedness of this world around us

God did not protect Israel, the temple was destroyed, the people were carried off into captivity

1 Peter

God might me the agent of our suffering? but in these verses (verse 8) the devil is the agent of our suffering

suffering because we are in Christ

God himself, will restore you & make you strong

glory focuses back on God

God protects us through the suffering

the main thing: I am God & I am with you - and nothing can take that away

I will protect you from those things that will pull you away from God (hatred, etc)

protects us from the enemy of ourselves

compassion - to suffer with, he is with through the pain and suffering

Jesus has endured suffering, rejection, pain, abandonment,

for a little while - our timing and his timing are two different things,

2) How do the passages contribute to an overall treatment of the main topic of this particular message?

3) Are there important points that need to be made that can NOT be anchored in one of these primary texts? Will addition references be needed?

4) What background will be needed to make sense of these passages (historical or textual)

5) What are questions or issues that we face today that this message (these passages) are addressing? (Uncovered Tension)

6) What is the ONE main point we should be highlighting and applying?

a) What do we want them to know, and why do we want them to know it?

b) What do we want them to do, and why do we want them to do it?