In The Time Of Trouble

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+ T.S. Eliot “THE WASTELAND”

> APRIL is the cruelest month, breading Lilacs out of the dead land

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> University of Texas August 1, 1966, 15 people killed and wounded 31 others before the shooter was shot dead by Austin police

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> Oklahoma City bombing attack on April 19, 1995

- The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured. Until

- Sept. 11, 2001, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.[1]

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> Columbine High School massacre Tuesday, April 20, 1999,

- Killing twelve students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four others

+ Nickle Mines PA Oct 8/06

One of the five Amish girls who survived last month’s schoolhouse massacre is fully disabled from a severe head wound and unlikely to recover, and the other four probably have permanent disabilities,

+ Mon April 16/07

Virginia Tech

32 People Killed and One suicide

- Within days of the 8th anniversary of Columbine

+ followed by a rash of 15 states call in

+ MSNBC - Stand strong — there will be a brighter day

+ FOX NEWS - Questioning a Tragedy: Where is God?

+ We Are Saying Why but Why Not?

> We’re raising kids in a culture of violence from the get go?

> We’re reluctant to regulate Hollywood and the video gaming industry?

> We’re unable to regulate what and how much our kids are watching?

> We live in a world of instant gratification, an era where every one is a victim, and too many have a sense of entitlement?

> We live in a world of incivility, unable to have rational, dispassionate discourse?

> We live in a world where the music industry will promote anything that sells, including music and lyrics insanely hostile to women?

+ In The Time Of Trouble

> Jon 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled ye believe in God, believe also in me

> Jn 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

> Ps 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

+ Assured Confidence

- Hide is given twice

> Ps 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

> Hide A place unknown to others – Shelter, Protect, Shield,

> Corrie’s “ The Hiding Place”

Jdg 7:17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.

- Jud. 7:17 Gideon said

- When the LORD found him he was hiding from the enemy in a wine press thrashing grain

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• Watch me....

• Follow my lead....

• Do exactly as I do”

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+ He Shall Hide Me In His Pavilion

- Royal pavilion

> Erected in the center of the camp ,

> Surrounded it all times by mighty men

> Chess is to take the enemy and protect the Kig

- Guess who we are in v.5 – With the King

+ The Secret of his Tabernacle

- Was the Lord’s place

- Where we encounter him finding forgiveness & cleansing from sin

> Guidance in a darken world

> Provision for strength to go on

> A heart changed through worship

> Comfort and power from the promises in His word

+ He shall set me up upon a rock.

> Masada

> Petra

> This Rock

> Stability

> Shelter

> Stronghold

- Confidence and peace in the storm around us

+ Transformation Followed Tragedy

> In the pages of the Bible, human tragedy is almost always followed by miraculous transformation. Consider the story of the world-wide flood. When everything on the planet and everyone on it were destroyed by a flood, God brought about a new existence for mankind through Noah and his family. He wiped the slate clean through destruction and gave mankind a fresh start. Every rainbow is a reminder of this. This may be the biggest example, but there are countless more in the Bible...

> Through the ten plagues in Egypt God delivered his people from slavery

> Through the destruction of Jericho came the birth of a new nation in a promised land

> Through the death of Christ came the salvation of all mankind

> Through the horrific judgments in Revelation will come the Eternal Kingdom

+ Good Out of Trouble

> It draws people together