DOUBT LAUGHING VS LAUGH OF FAITH?
DENYING DOUBT AND SELF CHOICES ---
VS RUNNING OVER? DREAMING OF AN OVERFLOW...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
This is part two. Part #1 was: SHALL WE LIVE A LIFE BLINDFOLDED?
WILL WE ALLOW THE NEGATIVE TO DEFINE US...
I. WE CARRY A GREAT ABILITY OF DENIAL... SELF DENIAL HINDERS CORRECTION
AND REPENTANCE...
WE CAN NEVER CHANGE WHAT WE ARE NOT WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE...
WHAT DO YOU SEE? WHERE DO YOU FOCUS?
A. I purchased a SIESTA MASK, or a SLEEP MASK. ($1.99, I have often used this)
I put this BLIND FOLD on a person, and asked them to walk while wearing this.
I asked them to pick up a dollar bill...
B. THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE THAT REFUSE TO SEE...
1. Ask a person with a TEMPER PROBLEM?
2. Ask an alcoholic? Drug addict?
3. Ask an UNFAITHFUL PERSON?
I talked to a leader about missing church so often? They come once every 5 services?
They told me they never missed church?
C. Do we allow problems to define us?
Or do we define the problem and look for a solution?
It becomes so easy to RE-DEFINE OUR PROBLEMS TO MAKE US LOOK GOOD?
D. We PLLIATE and make light of WHAT THE REAL ISSUE COULD BE...
Exodus 32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought
so great a sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest
the people, that they are set on mischief. 23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go
before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him. 24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So
they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
E. AARON HAS SEVERAL EXCUSES TO DENY THE PROBLEM OF SIN IN THE CAMP.
1. I just took what "THEY GIVE ME."
2. I just did what "THEY SAID."
3. This gold god is the ONE THAT BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT.
4. DON'T BE MAD AT ME?
5. MOSES YOU KNOW HOW MEAN AND SINFUL THESE PEOPLE ARE.
6. They gave me...
7. I cast it in the fire ===> THIS CALK CAME WALKING OUT?
F. LOOK AT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ====>
Exodus 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears
of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them
unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he
had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
G. AARON HAS SEVERAL EXCUSES TO DENY THE PROBLEM OF SIN IN THE CAMP.
1. I just took what "THEY GIVE ME."
2. I just did what "THEY SAID."
3. This gold god is the ONE THAT BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT.
H. DOUBT: Doubt the leader ====> Doubt God ===> Doubt God's words and promises.
II. GOD HAS A PLAN --- HIS PLAN BUBBLING --- IS OVER-FLOWING
WE OFTEN ALLOW PROBLEMS TO DEFINE WHO WE ARE?
YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR CHOICES...
IT IS NOT JUST WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU --- IT IS WHAT HAPPENS IN YOU...
A. I AM DRINKING FROM THE SAUCER BECAUSE MY CUP OVERFLOWS...
Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my
head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of
my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Psalm 23:5-6 (NLT) You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me
by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings.
6 Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live
in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 23:5-6 (MSG) You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive
my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.
6 Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I'm back home in the house of God
for the rest of my life.
B. I HAVE SEVERAL MAGNETS WITH ME...
WE BECOME WHAT WE ATTRACT?
1. I have a several powerful magnets...
We discuss how OPPOSITES ATTRACT...
When you get married OPPOSITES ATTACK.
2. I use the magnets to REPEL each other.
Then I use the magnet to ATTACK AND PULL TOGETHER.
B. THEN I DISCUSS WHAT ARE YOU ATTRACTING IN YOUR DAILY LIFE?
C. I purchased a 4" MAGNETIC PARTS HOLDER...
It is a small bowl. I have a few washers and screws and instead of dumping the
washers and screws out, the metal pieces are STUCK FAST in the MAGNETIC BOWL.
How often do we HANG ON TO THINGS and they keep us upset.
WE HAVE TO LEARN TO LET GO!
E. QUIT FLIRTING WITH THE WORLD...
III. WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH?
THE TOUGH TEND TO QUIT...
A. ALABAMA HAD BEEN #1 MOST OF 2014-2015...
OREGON DUCKS WHIPPED ALABAMA.
B. Most of 2014 and 2015 had been a tough, long year --- INJURIES, the negative press...
THE OHIO STATE FOOTBALL never had a chance.
Urban Meyers head coach knew the struggle ahead.
Braxton Miller #1 Quarter back hurt... out for the season.
J.T. Barrett#2 Quarter back hurt...out for the season.
C. THE THIRD STRING QUARTER BACK ONLY STARTED TWO GAMES ---
CARDALE JONES...
Ohio State was the UNDERDOG in the FIRST NATIONAL TITLE GAME, 2015...
D. JONES THREW FOR 242 YARDS, MADE A TOUCHDOWN ---
The buckeyes buried the #1 rated Oregon Ducks 42 to 20.
CARDALE JONES FROM THE BENCH TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY
THE PREACHER IS CALLED TO PREACH IN A VERY DARK SEASON...
THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY... THE FIRE BURNS BRIGHT ---
OUT OF ADVERSITY TO VICTORY... WE MUST TRUST GOD AND PRAISE HIM!
A. Jeremiah was a descendant of the great priest in David's day: ABIATHAR.
B. Jeremiah lived a lonely life, buried in frustration after frustration...
God told Jeremiah to not marry, and have no children, few friends.
He was not appreciated, not applauded, and his message was UNHEEDED...
His messages was more of DOOM than HOPE for today.
C. Jeremiah was known as THE WEEPING PROPHET ---
He had a heart of GREAT COMPASSION...
In great hurt Jeremiah decided to quit ---
Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his
name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was
weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
D. JEREMIAH LEARNS TO PRAISE AND TRUST GOD EVEN WHEN THERE IS LITTLE
REASON OF HOPE.
He can not avoid his call even when the people reject and refuse him.
YOU HAVE A MIRACLE IN YOU!
THERE IS A GREAT RUNNING OVER TREASURE TO LIFE...
WE MUST REFUSE TO ALLOW THE NEGATIVE TO HINDER OUR GRASPING
THE TRUTH --- WHAT IS IN YOU?
THERE IS A MIRACLE IN YOU...
A. Abraham LAUGHED at the PROMISED MIRACLE...
BOY, THERE IS A MIRACLE IN YOU!
B. God, I am 100, Sarah is 90?
You think I will go to Wal-mart and buy diapers?
C. GOD WE HELPED YOU OUT, YOU MEAN HAGAR AND ISMAEL (FLESH)
Genesis 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name
Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea,
I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto
him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
B. THE IS A MIRACLE WAITING TO HAPPEN...
A SPIRIT MIRACLE NOT A FLESH MESS...
Genesis 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt
call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,
and with his seed after him.
C. LAUGH OF DOUBT? DENY YOUR LAUGH ---
BUT YOU CAN NOT STOP THE SPIRIT MIRACLE THAT IS WITHIN...
Genesis 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I
have pleasure, my lord being old also? 13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did
Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according
to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou
didst laugh.
D. MY FRIEND, THE MIRACLE OVERFLOW IS COMING...
THE LAUGH OF FAITH WILL DROWN THE NEGATIVE
Genesis 21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh
with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given
children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. 8 And the child grew, and was weaned:
and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
CONCLUSION:
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
GOD'S PROMISE ARE SURE. THE MIRACLES CAN COME FROM WITHIN...
THE SPIRIT OF GOD BIDS US COME... God's has a plan...
There comes more than just barely enough --- or JUST ENOUGH...
THERE COMES AN OVERFLOW...
Did you know that chapter, verse and punctuation are not in the Hebrew Bible.
Move the coma and change the whole meaning.
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from
the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood(,) the Spirit of the LORD
shall lift up a standard against him.
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from
the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in (,) like a flood the Spirit of the LORD
shall lift up a standard against him.
EVER SEEN A DOG THAT HAS CHAINED ALL HIS LIFE?
He knows when to stop running ---
I WAS AT A CIRCUS, I saw a worker place a little metal rod in the mud, he hooked the
chain to the elephants leg. I said: LOOKS LIKE THAT ELEPHANT COULD PULL HIMSELF
LOSE. The training said, HE CAN! ANYTIME HE WANTED TOO...
HE JUST DOES NOT KNOW IT... LAUGH BY FAITH...
Take the blindfold off...
REFUSE THE MAGNETIC PULL TO BAD... REACH HIGHER --- LAUGH BY FAITH...
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
