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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to Simple Man Sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. Today's sermon is going to be called
What's your Problem? So what's your problem? Your job, money, women, men, persecution, relationships,
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whatever your problem is, keep it in mind. I'm gonna
read you some of the people in the Bible that
had problems. How about Acts sixteen twenty. Paul's in prison.
He's literally chained between two prison guards in prison. That's
a problem. Look at all the blind men in the
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New Testament who Jesus restores their sight being blind, that's
a problem. How about the big one. Look at Lazarus
John eleven thirty eight. Lazarus is dead. Lazarus has been
dead for four days. Now that that's a problem. If
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you're listening right now, you're not dead. All these problems,
they're real problems, they're big problems. But God solves them all.
Look at all these stories in the Bible. God delivers
all of them. You got a big problem, You got
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a bigger God. Now, if you're sitting there thinking, that's
easy for you to say, preacher man, no it's not.
If you've ever been down on your face, crying, screaming,
pounding your fists, praying that God will just get you
through one more day because you're barely hanging on. Welcome
(01:56):
to the club now. I don't want to turn this
into the Sergeant Milido. That's not what this is about.
This is about These sermons are about God. The Bible
is not about me. It's about God. It's not about you.
It's about God. Even your life, it shouldn't be about you.
It should be about God. And we may have had
some of the same struggles, and we may have had
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very different struggles, and I may not know exactly what
you're going through. But what I'm saying is we all
go through struggles. I'm not saying that you're not going
to go through struggles. And I'm not saying that what
you're going through right now isn't painful and it's not real,
and it doesn't seem huge and it's it doesn't seem
like everything's crashing down around you. That's not what I'm saying.
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I'm not trying to belittle your problem. That's not what
I'm trying to do here. What I'm showing you is
that all throughout the Bible. All the great heroes of
the Bible, they all have great problems, but they have
a greater God. Is a reading from John chapter sixteen.
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These things I have spoken to you that you should
not be made to stumble. They will put you out
of the synagogues. Yes, and a time is coming. Whoever
kills you will think that he offers God's service. And
these things you will do. They will do to you
because they have not known Me or the Father and Me.
But these things I have told you that when they come,
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you remember what I have told you. Now Here Jesus
is talking about the coming struggles that the disciples are
going to face, the men closest to him on this earth,
and how they are going to struggle. He says, We're
all going to struggle. Let's skip ahead the verse just
the same chapter, John sixteen, verse thirty three. These things
I have spoken to you that in me you may
have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation, but
(03:44):
be of good cheer. I have overcome the world, Jesus says,
right there, plainly, in the world you will have trouble.
He doesn't deny it. He knows that you will. He
know that trouble comes the great man and women of
the Bible. They have struggles, they stumble, they have persecution.
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And some of the great saints and great theologians are
great preachers. You know, if the last two thousand years
have had the same all the leaders of the church
for the first couple of hundred years were put to death.
Think about that. Let's look at Martin Luther if you
ever read history, he struggled a lot with faith and
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with depression and with doubt. And look at Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
one of the greatest Revivalist preachers, and he also struggled.
He struggled with long ballants of depression. If you ever
read anything by Joseph Prince, he's a contemporary alive today.
He talks about how he struggled with the struggles with
depression and condemnation and things like that. So just because
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you're a strong Christian, strong in your belief, that doesn't
exempt you from it. If anything, that means Satan's going
to attack you more because he sees the fruit that's
gonna come out of you. What I'm saying is I'm
not saying that you're not going to have struggle. I
wish I could just give you a sermon and free
you from all the trouble. But God doesn't promise you
a life without struggle and a life without trouble. Even
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Jesus struggled. It says he was tempted in all ways,
as we are tempted. He also suffered anguish. He also
looked at him in the garden at the beginning of
his passion. He was so stressed that he cried that
blood came out from his face and fell to the ground.
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That's anguish, that is real torment. And Jesus suffered, and
he said, we will also suffer. And that's not a
happy thing to say, but I'm going to say it
because it's real and it's true. But what God says
is I will be with you in that struggle, and
I will bring you through it. And that is good news.
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Is happy. Look at Paul what he went through. Beaten, whipped, shipwrecked,
in the middle of the ocean, imprisoned, stoned. Paul had struggles,
Paul suffered, yet God still brought him through it and
made him one of the greatest preachers the world's ever seen.
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He spread Christianity throughout the known world at the time,
not without suffering, but with the suffering and through the suffering,
and God was with him, and God brought him through it.
He had big problems, he had a bigger God, and
so do you. You see, the whole world struggles and
has problems. Everyone does. I think today with all the
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Facebook and social media week kind of skewed view thinking
that our lives are worse than everybody else's. Remember, whatever
somebody's posting on Facebook or whatever, even if it's true,
they post the very best. They don't post their struggles.
Usually they post the good things, the fun things they're doing.
They don't post the anguish and the despair they felt
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the night before. Keep that in mind. The whole world struggles,
but we, as Christians, we suffer differently unlike others. We
should always have hope. The apostle Paul that I just
told you about all the afflictions he suffered. He wrote this,
and this is Second Corinthians four nine. We are afflicted
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in every way, but not crushed, perplexed but not despairing,
persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. And
you will be tempted. Even Jesus was laid out in
the wilderness and he was tempted as well. But this
is Paul again. And first Corincians the book before the
book I just read. No temptation is overtaking you, except
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that which is common to mankind. And God is faithful.
He will not let you be tempted beyond what you
can bear. First Corinthians ten thirteen. God will deliver you.
Go to him in the midst of your struggle. Be
real with him. It's not like he doesn't already know
what you're thinking, what you're feeling, if you have doubts,
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if you're having bouts of unbelief. So did people in
the Bible look at Thomas. Thomas said, I don't believe.
I can't believe unless I see proof. I won't believe.
When Jesus does, he say, well find then Thomas, just
go to Hell. I'm done with you. You walk with
me for three years and saw me every day and
you still don't believe. Is that what Jesus does to
Thomas know Thomas is having trouble believing. He comes to
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him and says, put your fingers in my hands, put
them in my side. He gives Thomas already requires to believe.
Thomas was honest with him, and he got what he needed.
Be honest with God. We all struggle with those times,
with those temptations to turn our back, to stop believing.
Don't run away from God. Run to God. He will
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get you through it. He will not tempt you beyond
what you can bear. Jesus says, whoever falls on this
stone will be broken, but whoever it falls on will
grind them into powder. Jesus speaking about himself, he is
that stone. He's saying, you may be broken, but you
come to me, and you'll never be crushed beyond what
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you can recover from. But Jesus says, if you don't
come to me, you will ultimately perish. Jesus is not
saying you won't ever be broken in life. What he's
saying is he can fix it. He restored sights of
the blind. He may lame men walk. He brought men
out of the grave that had been dead four days.
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Whatever your problem is, God's bigger than your problem. Jesus's
love is bigger than your despair. And that's Matthew twenty
one forty four. So don't give up. The apostle. Paul
compares it to a race. If you've ever been in
a long race. You know that you want to give
up sometimes, but winners don't quit. He says, you got
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to press on towards that prize. There's plenty of times
in a run when your ribs hurt, when your side hurts,
when your knee hurts, and you just want to give up,
but you don't. You keep pressing on, and you obtain victory.
You finish, you finish, you will be delivered. The devil
comes at you with those daggers, with that despair, with
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that hopelessness, putting those thoughts in your head. You don't
have this, you don't have that. You're never going to
do this. Look at you. You're a failure here, You're
a failure there. Just give up. You know whatever it is,
you're this, you're that. The devil comes to you with
those daggers. You come at him with a sword, And
what does God say? The sword is the sword of
the spirit, the word of God. You come to him
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with those scriptures, those powerful scriptures. That's what God tells
you to do. Come at him with the sword Isaiah
fifty four seventeen. No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
If God says it, it's true, and Satan can't say otherwise.
No weapon formed against me shall prosper. It's not about
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what you feel. What you feel doesn't determine the truth.
The truth is the truth, whether you feel it or not,
say it, repeat it, choose to believe it, and eventually
you will feel it. He who is in me is
greater than he who is in the world one John
four to four. My God supplies all my needs. Say it.
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If you're feeling like you don't have enough, say my
God supplies all my needs Philippians four nineteen. And I'm
here to tell you might have to wait longer than
you like. Sometimes you will get that deliverance right away,
like Paul did when he was in prison, and he
sang and prayed and the chains were broken right away.
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And sometimes that will happen, and oh what a glorious
thing that is. But sometimes you have to wait. And
I know that's what you don't want to hear, and
I don't like to hear it either. We could all
use more patience. Remember how we talked about hope and faith.
I'm going to read you Hebrews eleven to one. Now,
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faith is the substance of things. Hope for the evidence
of things not seen. The Bible says, hope that is
seen is not hope. You think about that. Hope is
the assurance of things not seen. You believe that you
receive it before you have it. If you had everything
as soon as you prayed for it, you would never
grow in hope. You would never need hope because you
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would have everything that you ask for, and you would
never grow in faith. Think about going to the gym.
It's the things that are hard, the things that you
push through that make you bigger and stronger and faster
and healthier. At the gym. It's the struggle that makes
you stronger. Faith and hope are the same. You can't
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have hope for something that you already have because you
already have it. You don't need to hope for it.
That's the time to be thankful for what you have
because you already have it, hope and have faith in
the things you don't already have, knowing that God Will
has already manifested them, even if you haven't seen them yet.
I'm gonna say that again Hebrews eleven to one. Faith
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is the substance of things, hope for the evidence of
things not seen, and This is Romans eight twenty four.
For in hope we have been saved. But hope that
is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what
he already sees. But if we hope for what we
do not see, with perseverance, we wait eagerly for it.
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Like I said, I'm here to tell you that sometimes
you're gonna have to wait longer than you'd like. Look
at David, he was supposed to be king when he
was a boy. He waited years and years, was persecuted,
it fled from cave to cave. Read some of the
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psalms and proverbs. See the despair in his voice, See
the despair in his words. Look how long he waited.
Look at Moses. He would have been senior citizen by
today's standards, an ARP member. He waited for decades and decades.
Looking at his life before God saw him in the
burning bush, before God called to him, you would have
thought he was a failure, a murderer who fled and
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was tending somebody else's sheep in the middle of the wilderness.
He waited and waited and waited, I'm sure longer than
he would have liked. Look at Caleb and Jacob. They
wanted in the wilderness for forty years before they entered
the Promised Land, and they didn't even do anything wrong.
They were the two righteous ones. They waited forty years.
Look at Jesus. You've recorded the birth of Jesus in
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the Bible, and then I think only one story. We
needs a child, and then until he's thirty nothing is mentioned.
That doesn't mean nothing's being done by God. It says
that God grew him, and he grew and became strong
in the Lord, but it doesn't really tell you what for.
Jesus didn't begin his ministry until he was thirty. Think
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about that. Look at Joseph. Joseph was sold as a
slave as a boy. He spent years in prison. I'm
sure those years in prison he sat there thinking he
was tired of waiting. I'm sure he had times when
he thought, God, what's going on. I've been waiting so long?
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Like I said, your thoughts don't shot God. Don't run
away from God. When you have those thoughts. That's what
Satan wants. Run to God, say God, I'm struggling here.
I'm really struggling with patience. Please deliver me out of this.
I'm coming to the end of my rope. Be real
with God. Like I said, he already knows it. Talk
to him. He's there for you. Now let's go back
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from me that scripture that we've read in the beginning.
Now this is Jesus speaking the same thing already read,
but I'm gonna emphasize a different part these things. I've
spoken to you that in me you may have peace.
In the world. You will have tribulation, but be of
good cheer. I have overcome the world, Jesus says. You
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will have struggles in this world, But I, Jesus Christ,
have overcome the world. And like I quoted earlier, he
who is in you is greater than he that is
in the world. You will have problems. You will have
small problems, and you will have big problems. Whatever problem
you have, no matter how big it is, God is bigger.
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The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
shows as His handiwork. Now the point of that is,
if you ever feel like you got a big problem,
go out in nature. Look around the trees, the mountains,
the ocean, whatever nature you're near, the whole earth. Go
out at night and look at the stars, Look at
the moon. God created all that, and he created you.
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Think of the majesty, think of the grandeur, Think of
the power in that God. Whatever your problem is, God
is bigger. God is stronger, God is more powerful, And
he loves you. He's there for you. He loves you
so much. He loves you so much. He gave his
one and only son. He came down in the form
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of a man, Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word,
and the world was with God. That same God that
created everything came down in a man, Jesus Christ, and
he died for you. That's how much he loves you.
Whatever your problem is, whatever your despair is, God is love.
The Bible says one John four sixteen. God is love.
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That love is bigger than your problem. Like I said,
quote those powerful scriptures. What shall we say, then, what
shall separate us from the love of God that is
in Christ Jesus. Shall angels, nor demons, nor height, nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation can separate us from
the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. There's
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your hope, there's your joy, there's your peace. In the
midst of your struggle, God will get you through it.
He will not tempt you beyond what you can bear.
That's truth. You may not feel like it. That doesn't
make it not true. Remember it's not about what's your problem.
It's about who's your God. And remember your focus. Don't
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focus on that problem, focus on your God. You focus
on that problem, it's gonna seem big. You focus on
your God and his might and his power, and that
problem will seem smaller. Keep in mind, however you feel,
that doesn't determine your truth. Remember that you already have
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victory in Jesus Christ. If you're a Christian, I'm going
to read John one five, and this is about you
who believes that Jesus is to Christ is born of God.
For whoever is born of God overcomes the world. This
is the victory that has overcome the world our faith.
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How beautiful and reassuring it is that our victory is
not dependent on our strength on us, It's dependent on
Jesus Christ. He is our victory and the battle has
already been won. And that is good news. And that
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Also prayer request if you have them. I'll be happy
to pray for you and stick around at the end,
and I will go ahead and read some of the scriptures.
I might miss one or two, but I'll try and
go back and recap. If you want to go along
in your Bible and find the scriptures I was talking about.
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They are at sixteen twenty where it talks about Paul
being in prison. We're gonna go the story of Lazarus
is eleven is John eleven thirty eight John sixteen thirty three.
We're already quoted. We quoted it again, so I'll recap
it again. Also, and all these things we are more
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than conquerors Romans eight thirty seven, Hebrews eleven to one.
Hope that a singing is not hope whoever throws himself
when the stone will be broken, Second Corinthians four nine,
or I'm sorry, Matthew twenty one forty four. I was
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supported Second Corinthians four nine. No weapon formed against me
shall prosper Isaiah fifty four seventeen. He who is in
me is greater than he that is in the world.
One John four four. My God supplies all my needs
Philippians four nineteen and one John five. Whoever believes that
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Jesus Christ is born of God, and whoever loves a
father loves a child, is born. For whoever is born
of God overcomes the world. And this is a victory
that we have overcome the world our faith. Thank you,
and have a blessed day.
Hello, and welcome to Simple Man Sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. Today's sermon is going to be called
What's your Problem? So what's your problem? Your job, money, women, men, persecution, relationships,
(00:30):
whatever your problem is, keep it in mind. I'm gonna
read you some of the people in the Bible that
had problems. How about Acts sixteen twenty. Paul's in prison.
He's literally chained between two prison guards in prison. That's
a problem. Look at all the blind men in the
(00:52):
New Testament who Jesus restores their sight being blind, that's
a problem. How about the big one. Look at Lazarus
John eleven thirty eight. Lazarus is dead. Lazarus has been
dead for four days. Now that that's a problem. If
(01:14):
you're listening right now, you're not dead. All these problems,
they're real problems, they're big problems. But God solves them all.
Look at all these stories in the Bible. God delivers
all of them. You got a big problem, You got
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a bigger God. Now, if you're sitting there thinking, that's
easy for you to say, preacher man, no it's not.
If you've ever been down on your face, crying, screaming,
pounding your fists, praying that God will just get you
through one more day because you're barely hanging on. Welcome
(01:56):
to the club now. I don't want to turn this
into the Sergeant Milido. That's not what this is about.
This is about These sermons are about God. The Bible
is not about me. It's about God. It's not about you.
It's about God. Even your life, it shouldn't be about you.
It should be about God. And we may have had
some of the same struggles, and we may have had
(02:16):
very different struggles, and I may not know exactly what
you're going through. But what I'm saying is we all
go through struggles. I'm not saying that you're not going
to go through struggles. And I'm not saying that what
you're going through right now isn't painful and it's not real,
and it doesn't seem huge and it's it doesn't seem
like everything's crashing down around you. That's not what I'm saying.
(02:39):
I'm not trying to belittle your problem. That's not what
I'm trying to do here. What I'm showing you is
that all throughout the Bible. All the great heroes of
the Bible, they all have great problems, but they have
a greater God. Is a reading from John chapter sixteen.
(02:59):
These things I have spoken to you that you should
not be made to stumble. They will put you out
of the synagogues. Yes, and a time is coming. Whoever
kills you will think that he offers God's service. And
these things you will do. They will do to you
because they have not known Me or the Father and Me.
But these things I have told you that when they come,
(03:20):
you remember what I have told you. Now Here Jesus
is talking about the coming struggles that the disciples are
going to face, the men closest to him on this earth,
and how they are going to struggle. He says, We're
all going to struggle. Let's skip ahead the verse just
the same chapter, John sixteen, verse thirty three. These things
I have spoken to you that in me you may
have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation, but
(03:44):
be of good cheer. I have overcome the world, Jesus says,
right there, plainly, in the world you will have trouble.
He doesn't deny it. He knows that you will. He
know that trouble comes the great man and women of
the Bible. They have struggles, they stumble, they have persecution.
(04:07):
And some of the great saints and great theologians are
great preachers. You know, if the last two thousand years
have had the same all the leaders of the church
for the first couple of hundred years were put to death.
Think about that. Let's look at Martin Luther if you
ever read history, he struggled a lot with faith and
(04:29):
with depression and with doubt. And look at Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
one of the greatest Revivalist preachers, and he also struggled.
He struggled with long ballants of depression. If you ever
read anything by Joseph Prince, he's a contemporary alive today.
He talks about how he struggled with the struggles with
depression and condemnation and things like that. So just because
(04:52):
you're a strong Christian, strong in your belief, that doesn't
exempt you from it. If anything, that means Satan's going
to attack you more because he sees the fruit that's
gonna come out of you. What I'm saying is I'm
not saying that you're not going to have struggle. I
wish I could just give you a sermon and free
you from all the trouble. But God doesn't promise you
a life without struggle and a life without trouble. Even
(05:13):
Jesus struggled. It says he was tempted in all ways,
as we are tempted. He also suffered anguish. He also
looked at him in the garden at the beginning of
his passion. He was so stressed that he cried that
blood came out from his face and fell to the ground.
(05:36):
That's anguish, that is real torment. And Jesus suffered, and
he said, we will also suffer. And that's not a
happy thing to say, but I'm going to say it
because it's real and it's true. But what God says
is I will be with you in that struggle, and
I will bring you through it. And that is good news.
(06:00):
Is happy. Look at Paul what he went through. Beaten, whipped, shipwrecked,
in the middle of the ocean, imprisoned, stoned. Paul had struggles,
Paul suffered, yet God still brought him through it and
made him one of the greatest preachers the world's ever seen.
(06:24):
He spread Christianity throughout the known world at the time,
not without suffering, but with the suffering and through the suffering,
and God was with him, and God brought him through it.
He had big problems, he had a bigger God, and
so do you. You see, the whole world struggles and
has problems. Everyone does. I think today with all the
(06:49):
Facebook and social media week kind of skewed view thinking
that our lives are worse than everybody else's. Remember, whatever
somebody's posting on Facebook or whatever, even if it's true,
they post the very best. They don't post their struggles.
Usually they post the good things, the fun things they're doing.
They don't post the anguish and the despair they felt
(07:10):
the night before. Keep that in mind. The whole world struggles,
but we, as Christians, we suffer differently unlike others. We
should always have hope. The apostle Paul that I just
told you about all the afflictions he suffered. He wrote this,
and this is Second Corinthians four nine. We are afflicted
(07:30):
in every way, but not crushed, perplexed but not despairing,
persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. And
you will be tempted. Even Jesus was laid out in
the wilderness and he was tempted as well. But this
is Paul again. And first Corincians the book before the
book I just read. No temptation is overtaking you, except
(07:53):
that which is common to mankind. And God is faithful.
He will not let you be tempted beyond what you
can bear. First Corinthians ten thirteen. God will deliver you.
Go to him in the midst of your struggle. Be
real with him. It's not like he doesn't already know
what you're thinking, what you're feeling, if you have doubts,
(08:14):
if you're having bouts of unbelief. So did people in
the Bible look at Thomas. Thomas said, I don't believe.
I can't believe unless I see proof. I won't believe.
When Jesus does, he say, well find then Thomas, just
go to Hell. I'm done with you. You walk with
me for three years and saw me every day and
you still don't believe. Is that what Jesus does to
Thomas know Thomas is having trouble believing. He comes to
(08:38):
him and says, put your fingers in my hands, put
them in my side. He gives Thomas already requires to believe.
Thomas was honest with him, and he got what he needed.
Be honest with God. We all struggle with those times,
with those temptations to turn our back, to stop believing.
Don't run away from God. Run to God. He will
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get you through it. He will not tempt you beyond
what you can bear. Jesus says, whoever falls on this
stone will be broken, but whoever it falls on will
grind them into powder. Jesus speaking about himself, he is
that stone. He's saying, you may be broken, but you
come to me, and you'll never be crushed beyond what
(09:22):
you can recover from. But Jesus says, if you don't
come to me, you will ultimately perish. Jesus is not
saying you won't ever be broken in life. What he's
saying is he can fix it. He restored sights of
the blind. He may lame men walk. He brought men
out of the grave that had been dead four days.
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Whatever your problem is, God's bigger than your problem. Jesus's
love is bigger than your despair. And that's Matthew twenty
one forty four. So don't give up. The apostle. Paul
compares it to a race. If you've ever been in
a long race. You know that you want to give
up sometimes, but winners don't quit. He says, you got
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to press on towards that prize. There's plenty of times
in a run when your ribs hurt, when your side hurts,
when your knee hurts, and you just want to give up,
but you don't. You keep pressing on, and you obtain victory.
You finish, you finish, you will be delivered. The devil
comes at you with those daggers, with that despair, with
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that hopelessness, putting those thoughts in your head. You don't
have this, you don't have that. You're never going to
do this. Look at you. You're a failure here, You're
a failure there. Just give up. You know whatever it is,
you're this, you're that. The devil comes to you with
those daggers. You come at him with a sword, And
what does God say? The sword is the sword of
the spirit, the word of God. You come to him
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with those scriptures, those powerful scriptures. That's what God tells
you to do. Come at him with the sword Isaiah
fifty four seventeen. No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
If God says it, it's true, and Satan can't say otherwise.
No weapon formed against me shall prosper. It's not about
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what you feel. What you feel doesn't determine the truth.
The truth is the truth, whether you feel it or not,
say it, repeat it, choose to believe it, and eventually
you will feel it. He who is in me is
greater than he who is in the world one John
four to four. My God supplies all my needs. Say it.
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If you're feeling like you don't have enough, say my
God supplies all my needs Philippians four nineteen. And I'm
here to tell you might have to wait longer than
you like. Sometimes you will get that deliverance right away,
like Paul did when he was in prison, and he
sang and prayed and the chains were broken right away.
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And sometimes that will happen, and oh what a glorious
thing that is. But sometimes you have to wait. And
I know that's what you don't want to hear, and
I don't like to hear it either. We could all
use more patience. Remember how we talked about hope and faith.
I'm going to read you Hebrews eleven to one. Now,
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faith is the substance of things. Hope for the evidence
of things not seen. The Bible says, hope that is
seen is not hope. You think about that. Hope is
the assurance of things not seen. You believe that you
receive it before you have it. If you had everything
as soon as you prayed for it, you would never
grow in hope. You would never need hope because you
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would have everything that you ask for, and you would
never grow in faith. Think about going to the gym.
It's the things that are hard, the things that you
push through that make you bigger and stronger and faster
and healthier. At the gym. It's the struggle that makes
you stronger. Faith and hope are the same. You can't
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have hope for something that you already have because you
already have it. You don't need to hope for it.
That's the time to be thankful for what you have
because you already have it, hope and have faith in
the things you don't already have, knowing that God Will
has already manifested them, even if you haven't seen them yet.
I'm gonna say that again Hebrews eleven to one. Faith
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is the substance of things, hope for the evidence of
things not seen, and This is Romans eight twenty four.
For in hope we have been saved. But hope that
is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what
he already sees. But if we hope for what we
do not see, with perseverance, we wait eagerly for it.
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Like I said, I'm here to tell you that sometimes
you're gonna have to wait longer than you'd like. Look
at David, he was supposed to be king when he
was a boy. He waited years and years, was persecuted,
it fled from cave to cave. Read some of the
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psalms and proverbs. See the despair in his voice, See
the despair in his words. Look how long he waited.
Look at Moses. He would have been senior citizen by
today's standards, an ARP member. He waited for decades and decades.
Looking at his life before God saw him in the
burning bush, before God called to him, you would have
thought he was a failure, a murderer who fled and
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was tending somebody else's sheep in the middle of the wilderness.
He waited and waited and waited, I'm sure longer than
he would have liked. Look at Caleb and Jacob. They
wanted in the wilderness for forty years before they entered
the Promised Land, and they didn't even do anything wrong.
They were the two righteous ones. They waited forty years.
Look at Jesus. You've recorded the birth of Jesus in
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the Bible, and then I think only one story. We
needs a child, and then until he's thirty nothing is mentioned.
That doesn't mean nothing's being done by God. It says
that God grew him, and he grew and became strong
in the Lord, but it doesn't really tell you what for.
Jesus didn't begin his ministry until he was thirty. Think
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about that. Look at Joseph. Joseph was sold as a
slave as a boy. He spent years in prison. I'm
sure those years in prison he sat there thinking he
was tired of waiting. I'm sure he had times when
he thought, God, what's going on. I've been waiting so long?
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Like I said, your thoughts don't shot God. Don't run
away from God. When you have those thoughts. That's what
Satan wants. Run to God, say God, I'm struggling here.
I'm really struggling with patience. Please deliver me out of this.
I'm coming to the end of my rope. Be real
with God. Like I said, he already knows it. Talk
to him. He's there for you. Now let's go back
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from me that scripture that we've read in the beginning.
Now this is Jesus speaking the same thing already read,
but I'm gonna emphasize a different part these things. I've
spoken to you that in me you may have peace.
In the world. You will have tribulation, but be of
good cheer. I have overcome the world, Jesus says. You
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will have struggles in this world, But I, Jesus Christ,
have overcome the world. And like I quoted earlier, he
who is in you is greater than he that is
in the world. You will have problems. You will have
small problems, and you will have big problems. Whatever problem
you have, no matter how big it is, God is bigger.
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The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
shows as His handiwork. Now the point of that is,
if you ever feel like you got a big problem,
go out in nature. Look around the trees, the mountains,
the ocean, whatever nature you're near, the whole earth. Go
out at night and look at the stars, Look at
the moon. God created all that, and he created you.
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Think of the majesty, think of the grandeur, Think of
the power in that God. Whatever your problem is, God
is bigger. God is stronger, God is more powerful, And
he loves you. He's there for you. He loves you
so much. He loves you so much. He gave his
one and only son. He came down in the form
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of a man, Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word,
and the world was with God. That same God that
created everything came down in a man, Jesus Christ, and
he died for you. That's how much he loves you.
Whatever your problem is, whatever your despair is, God is love.
The Bible says one John four sixteen. God is love.
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That love is bigger than your problem. Like I said,
quote those powerful scriptures. What shall we say, then, what
shall separate us from the love of God that is
in Christ Jesus. Shall angels, nor demons, nor height, nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation can separate us from
the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. There's
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your hope, there's your joy, there's your peace. In the
midst of your struggle, God will get you through it.
He will not tempt you beyond what you can bear.
That's truth. You may not feel like it. That doesn't
make it not true. Remember it's not about what's your problem.
It's about who's your God. And remember your focus. Don't
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focus on that problem, focus on your God. You focus
on that problem, it's gonna seem big. You focus on
your God and his might and his power, and that
problem will seem smaller. Keep in mind, however you feel,
that doesn't determine your truth. Remember that you already have
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victory in Jesus Christ. If you're a Christian, I'm going
to read John one five, and this is about you
who believes that Jesus is to Christ is born of God.
For whoever is born of God overcomes the world. This
is the victory that has overcome the world our faith.
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How beautiful and reassuring it is that our victory is
not dependent on our strength on us, It's dependent on
Jesus Christ. He is our victory and the battle has
already been won. And that is good news. And that
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I'll end the sermon. If you like simple man sermons,
please share it. The gospel is meant to be shared.
If you'd like to contact me with critiques, whatever you
think about the sermons, anything at all. You can contact me.
My personal email is m I L I t O
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two two seven at gmail dot com. M I L
I t O two two seven at gmail dot com.
Also prayer request if you have them. I'll be happy
to pray for you and stick around at the end,
and I will go ahead and read some of the scriptures.
I might miss one or two, but I'll try and
go back and recap. If you want to go along
in your Bible and find the scriptures I was talking about.
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They are at sixteen twenty where it talks about Paul
being in prison. We're gonna go the story of Lazarus
is eleven is John eleven thirty eight John sixteen thirty three.
We're already quoted. We quoted it again, so I'll recap
it again. Also, and all these things we are more
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than conquerors Romans eight thirty seven, Hebrews eleven to one.
Hope that a singing is not hope whoever throws himself
when the stone will be broken, Second Corinthians four nine,
or I'm sorry, Matthew twenty one forty four. I was
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supported Second Corinthians four nine. No weapon formed against me
shall prosper Isaiah fifty four seventeen. He who is in
me is greater than he that is in the world.
One John four four. My God supplies all my needs
Philippians four nineteen and one John five. Whoever believes that
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Jesus Christ is born of God, and whoever loves a
father loves a child, is born. For whoever is born
of God overcomes the world. And this is a victory
that we have overcome the world our faith. Thank you,
and have a blessed day.
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