Doubt: An Unwanted Guest

Doubt: An Unwanted Guest

George Iles:- Doubt is the begining, not the end, of wisdom

A couple were off to a friends place. The morning was pleasant, and they enjoyed themselves until they happened to remember a certain bridge which was very old and probably unsafe, “I shall never dare to go over that bridge”, said the wife “and we can’t get across the river any other way”! “Oh” said the man, “I forgot that bridge, it is a bad place; suppose it should break through and we would fall into the river and be drowned!” “Or” said the women, adding to his complaints, supposes you should step on a rotten plank and break your leg; who would became of me and the baby?” “I don’t know responded the husband, “what would become of any of us, for I couldn’t work, and we should all starve to death.”

There they stood not going forward not going back

Until someone came along and told them that the bridge had been replaced with a new one.

Their doubts had been worse than useless.

- How do you know that God gives a flip about you?

- Doubts are like a rocking horse they will give you

something to do but they won’t get you anywhere.

DOUBT the unwanted guest

DOUBT will pester you

DOUBT will criticize you

DOUBT will irritate you

DOUBT will lie to you

DOUBT will kick the stool out from under you and

refuse to help you up

DOUBT will never offer solutions but only raises

questions

DOUBT always comes in our darkness & confusion

- Though God’s people may forget Him

- God will never forget them

- He keeps His Word

- God never gives up

Recognizing Doubt

D

ishonners God

- We operate with our senses and our own strength

O

mits the Word of God

- Yes the Word is read & even understood but never trusted

- If trusted it would be obeyed

U

nwilling to trust the Power of God

- To think who Christ is

- To know what Christ did

- Not to trust Christ is the Greatest sin we can commit

B

lames the World of God

- Other people

- Circumstances

- Even ourselves

T

errorizes the Work of God

- It Fears - The future

- What man will do

- Want

- Health

- Old Age

- Though God’s people may forget Him

- God will never forget them

- He keeps His Word

- God never gives up

- When Joseph was dropped into a pit by his own brothers God’ did not give up

- When Moses said “Here I am send Aaron

God’ did not give up

- When the delivered Israelites wanted leeks & onions instead of milk & honey

God’ did not give up

- When Aaron was making a Golden Calf at the very moment Moses received “thou shalt have no other god

God’ did not give up

- When only 2 of the 10 spies thought that their creator was more powerful than giants

God’ did not give up

- When Samson whispered into Delilah.s ear

God’ did not give up

- When Saul roared after David

God’ did not give up

- When Israel was taken by Babylon

God’ did not give up

- When He became flesh and had an assassination attempt on His life before He was 2

God’ did not give up

- When people from His own town tried to push him over a cliff

God’ did not give up

- When His own brothers ridiculed Hi,

God’ did not give up

- When He was accused of blaspheming God by people who didn’t fear God

God’ did not give up

When Peter worshiped Him at the supper and cursed him at the fire

God’ did not give up

When people spat in His face & a whip split his back

God’ did not give up

- When human hands fastened divine hands to a cross

God’ did not give up

So Why Should God Give Up On You?

- So the next time that unwanted guest walks into your life

- Escort DOUBT out to the hill called Calvary

- Point out the cross and say to him, “God gave up his son so that He would never give up on me

How To Rid Ourselves Of Doubt

Mk. 9

• Saturate yourselves with the Word of God - v.18

Mark 9:18

And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

Psalm 43:1-5 (KJV)

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.