One of our
ongoing 2Timothy 2:15 labors is searching out and applying sound doctrine.
Recently in
listening to a Christian music group I noticed their matching shirts emblazoned
with “God can . . . and will deliver you”.
Is this public
statement sound doctrine?
Your workman’s
responses will be published Sunday.
EBB4
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
There are only two responders. This week I will address
the questions.
EBB4
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If you want sound
doctrine on deliverance from suffering you must study the life of our saints;
"who are watching you from the bleachers and cheering you on."
Many of them had terrible lives of suffering followed by dying a horrific
death.
Our first martyr
was Stephen, who was stoned to death. Then there was Saint Peter and
Paul, plus too many to list. More recently, would be the life of Joan of
Arc. She was imprisoned, then tormented by relentless requests by her
captors to deny she seen messengers from God. They decided she was
hearing from demons, thus sentenced her to be burned at the stake. After
they lit the fire, she asked someone to remove a cross from a wall and hold it
up to her at eye level. God did not deliver her from it, but somehow got
her through her horrific death.
As some of you
know, I was molested for years by a neighbor boy. I remember hiding from
him in our hayloft. I was scared he would find me, because I was
breathing so hard! For years after that I have suffered with
anxiety/depression, which manifested with an eating disorder. I wanted to
disappear! I hated it. As a teenager, it brought my family shame
and showed weakness, so I hid it in Jesus, by trusting Him and His Church.
I was taught in
our church to bring my sins to Jesus, via repentance and the Sacrament of Holy
Communion. As I ate His true body and drank His blood (which was poured
out for me) I became more like Him and less like me!
As an adult, I
thank God for His Son, who showed us how to experienced suffering and death.
His sacrifice....and willingness to die for me, has drawn me closer to
Him. "When I am weak, He [who is in me] is strong!"
Whenever, I am going through something that seems unbearable, I thank
God, minute to minute, for this Son, because living in Jesus is based on our
trust in Him.
One of my
favorite songs is, Trust In You, by Lauren Daigle. If you have time,
watch it on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aVFVveJNs.
Enjoy!
Love In Christ,
Diane
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Yes...IF the
person being spoken to has first trusted in God, sought Him, turned to Him for
help.
Otherwise God
loves us enough to leave us to experience the result of our own choices.
"Ifs"
can't be ignored.
All below verses
given in ESV, highlighting added.
(Of course this depends on our definition of
deliverance. Sometimes God's way of deliverance happens when He leaves us
to struggle, at least for a time. I'm defining deliverance here in an
eternal and Biblical peace-based sense, not necessarily deliverance from
troubling circumstances.)
Psalm 34:17
When the righteous cry
for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their
troubles.
Psalm 107:6
Then they cried to the Lord in
their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
Psalm 50:15
And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver
you, and you shall glorify Me.”
Psalm 34:4
I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered
me from all my fears.
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you
the desires of your heart.
John 15:7
If you abide in Me, and
My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for
you.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish
but have eternal life.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If My people who are
called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their
sin and heal their land.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves
therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their
hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves...
Psalm 14:1-3
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does
good.
The Lord looks down from heaven on all
mankind to see if there is any who understand, any who seek God.
All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
David
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