#1 When It Boils Down? Trusting A Sovereign God!

WHEN IT BOILS DOWN? TRUSTING A SOVEREIGN GOD! PART #1

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

DO WE UNDERSTAND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD? YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES: FEAR VS. FAITH. YOU DECIDE? WHEN IT ALL BOILS DOWN, WHAT REALLY MATTERS, THE CONCLUSION? WHAT IS THE MAIN THING? IN WHAT DO WE INVEST? WHAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE? THE FINAL WORD?

Have we ever invested in worthless junk? Remember the story of MOBY DICK? Moby was a great big prize whale. A man named CAPTAIN AHAB hated Moby Dick because he lost his leg trying to catch this trophy whale. So CAPTAIN AHAB spent his life’s every effort to catch MOBY. This bent the Captain’s attitudes, his whole motivation was to get even… REVENGE BECAME THE DICTATOR OF EVERYTHING CAPTAIN AHAB DID. Night and day AHAB was driven by revenge.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

What is your bottom line? When the pot boils down, what is your motivation? What drives you? Que sera sera, What will be will be? The future is not ours to see? Que sera sera? When you take your last breath and the undertaker is called what will matter then?

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (MSG) The last and final word is this: Fear God. Do what he tells you.

14 And that's it. Eventually God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it's good or evil.

One day you will rest in your grave. You will have a blanket of sod. The flowers will fade. The saying: from dust to dust, earth to earth, ashes to ashes will be fulfilled… What will YOUR CONCLUSION BE?

ONLY ONE LIFE, TWILL SOON BE PAST. ONLY WHAT’S DONE FOR CHRIST WILL LAST.

Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

ARE WE SEARCHING FOR OZ? UTOPIA? THERE USED TO BE TEARS? WE LIVE IN A DAY WE DON’T LIKE LISTENING VERY MUCH… TO LISTEN HAS ALMOST BECOME A LOST ART? HEAR THIS: GOD IS SOVEREIGN, HE WILL NEVER ANSWER TO YOU! ASK JOB?

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Seems in the USA we will pay $85.00 an hour to get someone to listen to us. We used to sit on the back porch and catch lightning bugs. We would laugh and play. We listened to each other. Then came along a neat invention. It was called TELEVISION. We had rabbit ears and foil. We received 3 stations. The children were the remote control. When we really got up town we had an outdoor antennae and we would have to run outside and turn the antennae when we changed channels. We would yell to find when we had it right.

Then came PARTY LINE telephones. It was so fun to listen in on others. We were advanced like city folk when we finally had private lines. Then came color TV, 150 channels? The TV brought families together as we watched together. Then came the day we had several TVs. Mom was in there watching the soaps. The men were in the other room watching sports. The TV brought division. BE QUIET I AM WATCHING MY SHOW? The more TV rooted into the home the LESS TIME WE HAD TO LISTEN TO EACH OTHER.

Then came the damnation of LISTENING, the cell phone, the computer, the internet. The world became much smaller. We talk to old friends, we even talk to 100’s of people we have never met and will never met? While all the TIME WE GROW MORE AND MORE DISTANT FROM THOSE THAT LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE? How sad? Kids and couples running away to somewhere OVER THE RAINBOW, UTOPIA? Utopia? Anything beats here?

THE ALTAR has been eliminated along with the Hymns for polished upbeat bands singing songs we have never heard. People sleep through the sermons because they were up all night watching movies they have seen before. Kids sleep at school, they want to stay up all night and sleep all day? Have you ever noticed how many don’t sing the worship songs? We play pick-a-boo at prayer time and watch how many are self-absorbed with a blank look where there used to be tears WITH HANDS UP-LIFTED??

I GUESS COMMON SENSE “AIN’T TO COMMON ANY MORE?” We must never forget GOD IS SOVEREIGN!

IS THE QUESTION GOD’S WILL OR WHAT I THINK? HOW CAN GOD’S WILL NOT ALIGN WITH MY WILL? WHERE IS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOVEREIGN WILL OF GOD?