TRUST THE PLAN? LEVEL OF FEAR VS YOUR LEVEL OF FAITH…
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (This is a 2 part lesson.)
The world is like a NURSERY SCHOOL where hundreds of perpetual babies are trying to teach others about WHO and WHAT GOD is without knowing God. They teach pleasure and happiness is a side effect of materialism and education.
*(Materialism: a tendency to consider material possession and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.)
BEWARE THERE IS A DECEIVING SPIRIT WALKING IN THE WORLD TODAY…BEWARE THERE GROWS AN ATTITUDE THAT IS DANGEROUS. HOW EASY IS IT TO BELIEVE A LIE AND BE DAMNED…
I have heard from many sources that EVIL HAS PREVAILED… This is a lie of hopeless people leaning on the flesh…
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Seems our society and many churches have purchased the lie that good is evil and evil is good. We have sold out
like LOT’S WIFE for a look back. We are redefining God’s word to buy pleasure as acceptable. WE ARE ALLOWING FEAR AND ANXIETY TO BE A SPIRITUAL OASIS. We are allowing a deceiving spirit to get us to refuse to trust that God is in control. We seem to enjoy walking in the flesh and bypass FAITH IN GOD’S WORD. We are buying into CNN, FOX, Headline News, ABC and MSNBC INSTEAD OF FAITH. This deceiving sell out says I can’t understand this so I think God has lost control.
DO WE REALIZE OUR EYES AND EARS CAN LIE TO US? OUR EMOTIONS CAN BE LIKE A YOYO? OUR HEARTS CAN BE EASILY DECEIVED.
WE CAN ALLOW A MISINTERPRETATION OF THE SIGNS OF THE TIME AND JUMPING TO INVALID CONCLUSIONS… IT IS AN EASY PROCESS WHEN WE TRY TO BYPASS FAITH… This distortion is rampant and enlarges itself to great fear, worry and WHERE IS GOD? Has God lost control? Is our faith and trust in God?
WHY DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO FIX THE DONKEY OR THE ELEPHANT? You are not a donkey! You are not an elephant. You are a sheep. Sheep know the voice of the SHEPHERD… TRUST THE SHEPHERD? OR TRUST THE SHEPHERD!
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
LET GOD ARISE… CAN WE TRUST GOD AND HIS PLAN? WHERE SHALL WE INVEST OUR TRUST? YOU CANNOT PLEASE GOD WITHOUT FAITH… FEAR AND FAITH CAN NOT COEXIST TOGETHER…
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
GOD TELLS HIS PEOPLE OVER AND OVER: FEAR NOT… The word fear is mentioned 385 times in the Bible. 58 times angels told humans: FEAR NOT ---trust God, look up… fear produces fear… faith kills fear.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE DAD…? WHAT’S GOING ON? WHERE IS THE LAMB?
WHAT’S GOING ON WHEN A TEENAGE BOY WALKS THREE DAYS UP A MOUNTAIN WITH HIS DAD?
Abraham was not leaning to his own understanding… Come meet an old man climbing a mountain. This old man is walking by faith not by his own understanding. I AM SURE ISAAC CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON? MY FATHER? Abraham declares: SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE A LAMB…
Genesis 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
God did not mess up! God had a plan… before they left their home.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? I HAVE A SPECIAL COAT… THE ORIGINAL MLK “I HAVE A DREAM.” MY FATHER AND MY BROTHERS WILL BOW DOWN TO ME. NOW THE DREAM FADES… JOSEPH IS LAYING IN A DARK PIT OF HOPELESSNESS… Where is your confidence boy? I thought you had a dream?
Genesis 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Joseph’s big braggart mouth helped him get in this pit? Joseph did not understand in his mind WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? His brothers pull him up and Joseph climbs out of the pit and he knows God has heard his cry? Now what’s going on? His brothers sold him to an Egyptian slave train? This can’t be God? Come on God? What’s going on? God is this your plan? What’s going on? There is the auction block for slaves? The highest bidder was POTIPHAR? Now God what are you doing? WHAT’S GOING ON? I am innocent? Jail? Come on, how does the moon look through the bars of a jail house? God, God where are you? EVIL IS PREVAILING? NO, God’s plan will be revealed… JOSEPH WAS 17 …
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
THE 13 YEAR TEST? JOE WAS 17, HE IS NOW 30… 13 LONG YEARS… WAIT THE DREAM IS STILL NOT FINISHED… 7 MORE YEARS…
Genesis 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? HAS EVIL PREVAILED? Absolutely not, GOD IS IN CONTROL…
HOW MANY CHILDREN OF GOD DIED IN SLAVERY? MAYBE EVIL HAS PREVAILED? GOD HAD A PLAN? MOSES WAS APPOINTED BY GOD AT THE BURNING BUSH… 40 YEARS IN PHARAOH’S PALACE AND 40 YEARS IN THE BACK SIDE OF THE DESERT…
How many children of God died while Moses was in the desert 40 years….?
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Pharaoh forgets Moses… but God says trust me: THE GREAT I AM… My own people will not listen? Pharaoh will not listen… WHAT’S GOING ON? EVIL PREVAILS? Moses first 40 years he thought he was something. Moses next 40 years Moses thought he was a nobody. Moses’ last 40 years Moses learns GOD IS EVERYTHING…
The Passover? Pharaoh chases? What’s this? The Red Sea mess? Where are you God? Moses own people turn to kill him? The golden calf? God where are you? THE GREAT I AM SAID: TRUST ME! HAVE FAITH IN THE PLAN. God prevails…
WHAT’S GOING ON? EVIL SEEMS TO PREVAIL AGAIN… DANIEL IS PROBABLY AROUND 70 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS THROWN IN THE LIONS’ DEN… HE PRAYED 3 TIMES EVERY DAY… DANIEL FACED TOWARD HOME WHEN HE PRAYED…
What is going on when evil men plotted against Daniel and he ended up in the lions’ den?
Daniel 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Those that plotted against God and God’s man became cat food, here kitty, kitty?
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE GOD? DID GOD LOSE CONTROL? WHEN THE THREE HEBREW CHILDREN WERE THROWN IN THE FIERY FURNACE HEATED 7 TIMES HOTTER THAN EVER BEFORE?
GOD REALLY MESSED UP THIS TIME, SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO? The men that threw them in the fire died?
Daniel 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
GOD KNEW THE 3 BOYS HAD FAITH NOT FEAR… HOW MANY DID WE THROW IN? 3, LOOKS LIKE 4 TO ME?
POOR OLD SAMSON WAS SO STRONG THAT A LITTLE SISSY TRAPS HIM? EVIL HAS PREVAILED? SAMSON IS JUNK? WHAT IS THAT HORRIBLE SMELL?
IS THAT SMELL BURNED HUMAN FLESH? SAMSON’S EYES WERE BURNED OUT OF THEIR SOCKET…. 3,000 OF THE LEADERS GATHER TO LIFT EVIL… IN ONE DAY 3,000 EVIL LEADERS DIE AS SAMSON GETS ANOTHER CHANCE.
ESTHER I GUESS EVIL HAS PREVAILED? THE JEWS WILL ALL DIE? ONE MAN NAMED HAMAN IS SO BITTER AND HATE FILLED… GOD PUT MORDECAI AND ESTHER TO KEEP EVIL FROM PREVAILING…
Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
IT APPEARS AHAB AND JEZEBEL’S EVIL REIGN WILL KILL PREACHER ELIJAH… EVIL PREVAILS?
Elijah runs for his life. ELIJAH’S BIRDS QUIT BRINGING HIM FOOD, HIS CREEK DRIES UP… WHAT’S GOING ON? Elijah by faith trusts God’s plan… there is a poor widow woman… There is a cloud the size of a man’s hand. Hear the rain and Elijah out runs the chariot of the King for 18 miles..
DID EVIL PREVAIL? STEPHEN WAS STONED ---
JESUS WAS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER… JESUS WAS MOVED TO COMPASSION…. Evil never prevailed. Stephen saw Jesus standing at the Father’s right hand. Stephen you are a winner.
DID EVIL PREVAIL? THREE PREACHERS WERE IN JAIL…
1. PETER WAS IN PRISON AND THE KING WAS GOING TO KILL HIM… THE CHURCH PRAYED AN ANGEL OPENED THE PRISON BARS… ACTS 12.
2. A SUDDEN MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE BROUGHT A RELEASE FROM PRISON. PAUL AND SILAS WERE RELEASED. ACTS 16.
3. THEN THERE WAS THE RELEASE FROM PRISON OF JOHN THE BAPTIST… HEAD FIRST…
JOHN TELL US ABOUT THIS:
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
CONCLUSION: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD WITHOUT FAITH. EVIL CAN NEVER PREVAIL. GOD IS IN ABSOLUTE CONTROL. I DO NOT CARE WHAT CNN, MSNBC OR FOX REPORT. I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU READ ON FACEBOOK AND THE COMPUTER. GOD IS IN ABSOLUTE CONTROL. WAIT AND SEE… I READ THE END OF THE BOOK.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (This is a two part lesson.)
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