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Speaker 1: And now here's your message.
Speaker 2: You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope
Speaker 2: it inspires you to honor God and make disciples in
Speaker 2: your humanity.
Speaker 3: We are starting a new series today at the start
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 1: The title of this series is Knowing God.
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure what you wrote in your faith goals,
Speaker 3: but the fasting Normally we have four categories that we
Speaker 3: are praying for personal, professional, family, and your ministry, and
Speaker 3: so I don't know what you wrote, but I hope
Speaker 3: that this one will make it to your list. And
Speaker 3: if if nothing happens this year, if you don't get
Speaker 3: all of that that you wrote in your faith goal,
Speaker 3: then this year will be one of your best years ever.
Speaker 3: This is going to be one of the best years
Speaker 3: of your life if you only get this one, which
Speaker 3: is to know God better. If you know God better,
Speaker 3: then your life will change one hundred eighty degree.
Speaker 1: And really complete turning points.
Speaker 3: So for the next three weeks, that's what we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about.
Speaker 1: And our prayer is that as we go through the Word, that.
Speaker 3: All of us will go deeper in our understanding of God,
Speaker 3: and it will not only result for us getting more knowledge.
Speaker 3: That's the last thing we want to happen, to put
Speaker 3: more information in.
Speaker 1: Our over you know, over informed head already.
Speaker 3: But what we want to happen is that the more
Speaker 3: we know God, the more we will trust Him, the
Speaker 3: more we will worship Him, and the more that our
Speaker 3: relationship with Him will become real. So if you have
Speaker 3: your Bible with you, we're going to read from Psal
Speaker 3: thirty four, starting in verse one, and today we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about the goodness of God, the goodness of
Speaker 3: God some thirty four, verse one, and we're going to
Speaker 3: read through eight.
Speaker 1: Verse one.
Speaker 3: It says I will bless the Lord at all times.
Speaker 3: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul
Speaker 3: makes its boast in the Lord. Let the humble hear
Speaker 3: and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and
Speaker 3: let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord,
Speaker 3: and he answered me and delivered.
Speaker 1: Me from all my fears.
Speaker 3: Those who look to him are radiant and their faces
Speaker 3: shall be ashamed.
Speaker 1: How many of you want that promise?
Speaker 3: Those who look to him will never be put to shame?
Speaker 3: And in verse seven, this poor man cried, and the
Speaker 3: Lord heard him and saved them out of all his troubles.
Speaker 3: The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear
Speaker 3: him and delivers them all. Taste and see that the
Speaker 3: Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge
Speaker 3: in him.
Speaker 1: Lord, We thank you for your word.
Speaker 3: I pray that we would learn to bless you at
Speaker 3: all times. We pray that your praise will always be
Speaker 3: on our lips. And I pray Lord, that we will
Speaker 3: seek you this year and everything that we do, and
Speaker 3: like what you promise. We pray that you would deliver
Speaker 3: us from all our fears. Lord, and I pray that
Speaker 3: we will be able to taste and see that the
Speaker 3: Lord is good.
Speaker 1: Amen. Again, we're going to talk about God's goodness.
Speaker 3: And in verse eight it says, taste and see that
Speaker 3: the Lord is good.
Speaker 1: How many of you here you love to eat?
Speaker 3: Okay, you put your sporting event, you know, hobby. If
Speaker 3: you're stress, that's your way of escape. When you're victorious,
Speaker 3: when something good happens that's your way of celebration.
Speaker 1: It's part of your life. You know. Some people they
Speaker 1: eat just for the sake of eating.
Speaker 3: A workaholic, Uh, just so they will function and stay alive.
Speaker 3: But if given a choice, then they don't really look
Speaker 3: for it. So some people eat just for the sake
Speaker 3: of eating. But some people uh took it as an art.
Speaker 3: You but come on, anion grabbium pepper did young mala la.
Speaker 1: Young ingredients? Now you distinct taste? You know. My wife
Speaker 1: is like that.
Speaker 3: For me, I don't sometimes I don't know the distinction.
Speaker 1: I just eat.
Speaker 3: I don't ask how it was cool. I don't ask
Speaker 3: the ingredients they used.
Speaker 1: I just eat.
Speaker 3: Some people, what they are concerned about is their quantity, right,
Speaker 3: But lima raisiana ulam quantity. Some people are after for equality.
Speaker 3: Now verse eight says, taste and see that the Lord
Speaker 3: is good. You know, when it comes to our relationship
Speaker 3: with God, some people go to church. Some people pray
Speaker 3: and read the Bible just for the sake of fulfilling
Speaker 3: religious obligation. While some people, when it comes to God,
Speaker 3: they are very particular with the quality of relationship.
Speaker 1: They are not just.
Speaker 3: They're not just contented with going to church every week. No,
Speaker 3: they want to know that they are going deeper in
Speaker 3: their relationship with God. And that's the invitation that's being
Speaker 3: given to all of us this year, as we start
Speaker 3: a new year, God is inviting all of us to
Speaker 3: taste and see that the Lord is good.
Speaker 1: Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Speaker 3: Can you please turn to the person say the next
Speaker 3: you tell that person taste and see.
Speaker 1: That the Lord is good.
Speaker 3: God wants you to experience him personally. You know if
Speaker 3: you are if you are here today, because every Sunday
Speaker 3: your parents are dragging you here, you have no choice.
Speaker 3: Or maybe you're the husband, you have no choice because
Speaker 3: your wife is dragging you here. I hope that your
Speaker 3: faith is not just something that your parents own. I
Speaker 3: hope that this year your faith will become personal. That
Speaker 3: you are here not just because your friends are here.
Speaker 3: You are here because you have a personal relations with God.
Speaker 3: Our faith in God is rooted in what we know intellectually.
Speaker 3: This December, during the Christmas break, I was reading this
Speaker 3: book Man Myth Messiah by one of our very own pastor,
Speaker 3: Rice Brooks, And this book is about proving the reality
Speaker 3: of Jesus that he is a real historical figure, and
Speaker 3: everything he did and everything he thought are well documented
Speaker 3: and verifiable. Amazing because some people are saying he's just
Speaker 3: a product of imagination, he never really existed. How can
Speaker 3: we know if he's real? In all of that, it's
Speaker 3: amazing if you read this book, how much evidence and
Speaker 3: documents and people, not even Christians, are giving this evidence
Speaker 3: that there is really a man who walked on earth
Speaker 3: named Jesus, who lived in who was born in Bethlehem
Speaker 3: and did all these things, who died on the cross,
Speaker 3: and all of these things are verifiable.
Speaker 1: It's documented.
Speaker 3: So the question of whether Jesus did exist is not
Speaker 3: a question at all.
Speaker 1: He did exist. So that's what this book is all about.
Speaker 3: So it's just encouraging to know that our faith is
Speaker 3: something that can be proven intellectually, proven historically, geographically, biblically,
Speaker 3: we can. But our faith in God is not just
Speaker 3: rooted in what we know intellectually. It is also rooted
Speaker 3: in what we know experientially. It's not that I know
Speaker 3: indeed Basa all a sel is a Bible. But you know,
Speaker 3: the reason I'm convinced is because I just don't. It's
Speaker 3: not only intellectually, but because I experienced it. I know
Speaker 3: that God is my redeemer because not only that he
Speaker 3: saved me and cleansed me from all my sins, but
Speaker 3: he took away my shame and my guilt and gave
Speaker 3: me a fresh start. I was a college student when
Speaker 3: I surrendered my life to Jesus, and I was wondering,
Speaker 3: Lord kaya Babah, of all the things I've done and
Speaker 3: how messed up my life is, can you really give
Speaker 3: me a fresh start?
Speaker 1: And now I know God is really our redeemer.
Speaker 3: Not only he forgave me of my sins, he redeemed
Speaker 3: my life. I know that God is my deliverer because
Speaker 3: I've been in trouble so many times, yet God delivered
Speaker 3: me from them all.
Speaker 1: I know that God is my deliverer.
Speaker 3: I know that God is my provider because God has
Speaker 3: provided for me, and God has been providing for us,
Speaker 3: me and my family until today. Every time we have
Speaker 3: a need, we will pray to God, and every time.
Speaker 1: We have a need, God come through. So I know my.
Speaker 3: My faith is not something that can only be proven intellectually,
Speaker 3: but also experientially.
Speaker 1: We know that God is.
Speaker 3: Good because all of us experience the goodness of God.
Speaker 3: How many of you hear you experience the goodness of
Speaker 3: God in your life. How many of you can testify
Speaker 3: that God is good? So this is not something that
Speaker 3: we just read. It is something that we're experiencing every
Speaker 3: single day.
Speaker 1: Every day.
Speaker 3: I experience the grace of God. Every day, experience the
Speaker 3: mercy of God.
Speaker 1: Every day.
Speaker 3: I experience the goodness of God so many times. You know,
Speaker 3: I will pray in the morning and I'll just I'll
Speaker 3: just thank God.
Speaker 1: You know. My practice is that.
Speaker 3: In the morning, I will thank God for everything that
Speaker 3: happened the day before, and I would try to be
Speaker 3: as specific as possible. I'll thank God for the clothes.
Speaker 3: I'll thank God for the food. I'll thank God for
Speaker 3: the means of transportation. I'll thank God for the safety
Speaker 3: and protection of our family. I'll thank God for our pillow,
Speaker 3: our blanket, and I would thank God every single day.
Speaker 3: And I'm just a mazing God below heid, It's overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Twenty four hours is not enough for me to go
Speaker 3: through the list of the things I need to thank
Speaker 3: You for. The air I breathed, the strength in my body,
Speaker 3: the ideas, the ability, the talent, the friends, the mentors,
Speaker 3: the family, the children, the marriage, on and on and on.
Speaker 3: I have so many things I need to thank God for.
Speaker 3: How many of you are grateful to God for your life? So,
Speaker 3: and here's one more thing about God, God's goodness. God
Speaker 3: is not only the ultimate embodiment of goodness.
Speaker 1: He is also a God who is obsessed with good.
Speaker 3: You know, in Genesis, in the book of Creation, after
Speaker 3: create I think everything that he created, God looked at
Speaker 3: his creation and he said it is good. And then
Speaker 3: day two, day three, day four, day five, after creating
Speaker 3: the world, he paused and then looked at his creation
Speaker 3: and said it is good.
Speaker 1: God is obsessed with good.
Speaker 3: The only time, the first time that he said it
Speaker 3: is not good is when he saw Adam alone. How
Speaker 3: many single people do we have in this room? How
Speaker 3: many of you are encouraged today? In the good Tuma
Speaker 3: is Adam. So he formed a woman and gave it
Speaker 3: to Adam. Because not good is not good. God is
Speaker 3: obsessed with good. That's why we can know. You know,
Speaker 3: some people are saying, ad bussy, if you're like the
Speaker 3: Lenham trouble, that's there. That's another preaching for another time.
Speaker 3: But God is not only the embOS audiment of good.
Speaker 3: He's obsessed with good. That's why we can be assured
Speaker 3: that whatever He is doing in your life, it is good.
Speaker 3: Whatever He is allowing in our life, it is good.
Speaker 3: When he closes a door, it is good when he
Speaker 3: opens a door. It is good when he says yes,
Speaker 3: It is good when he says no. It is good
Speaker 3: when he says wait, it is good. Everything that God
Speaker 3: is doing in our life it is good. Tell the
Speaker 3: person said next to you, it is good, my trialka,
Speaker 3: it is good. You're believing for something this year, no major, impossibly,
Speaker 3: but you know in your heart there's a witness of
Speaker 3: the spirit KaiA nilrd do. If you are facing a mountain, tell.
Speaker 1: That person said next to you, it is good.
Speaker 3: But in my mountains Amo you know why, because once
Speaker 3: God wants to give you a mountain, moving faith or else,
Speaker 3: every time you face a mountain you will be stuck.
Speaker 3: But I'm also aware that maybe for some of us
Speaker 3: here you are here today and you're hearing God is good,
Speaker 3: but you're struggling deep inside. You want to believe that,
Speaker 3: but you can't believe it with all your heart, maybe
Speaker 3: because of something that happened to you in the past,
Speaker 3: or maybe because of something that's happening in your life
Speaker 3: right now, And maybe you're thinking, Okay, I've been hearing.
Speaker 1: This that God is good, but every time.
Speaker 3: I look at my situation, it seems like it's inconsistent
Speaker 3: with the goodness of God. It seems like there is
Speaker 3: a disconnect. It seems like it's ironic that we're saying
Speaker 3: God is good, But then why did I went through
Speaker 3: that experience.
Speaker 1: We're saying God is good, Yet when I look.
Speaker 3: At my situation, why is it that God is not
Speaker 3: doing anything about my situation? So I want to believe
Speaker 3: God good, but it seems like where I am today,
Speaker 3: what I'm going through, is inconsistent with the goodness of God.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the favorite arguments of skeptics people
Speaker 3: want to discredit God is that one of their favorite
Speaker 3: arguments is this, If God is good, if God is
Speaker 3: all good and all powerful, then why is there evil
Speaker 3: and suffering in the world. How many have you heard
Speaker 3: that argument before? If God is all good and all powerful,
Speaker 3: then why is there.
Speaker 1: Evil and suffering in the world.
Speaker 3: If He is good and wants to do something about it,
Speaker 3: but he can't do anything about it, then he is good,
Speaker 3: but he's not all powerful. If he is all powerful,
Speaker 3: he can do something about it. But he's not doing
Speaker 3: anything about it. Then he's all powerful then, but he's
Speaker 3: not good. If God is good, why is there so
Speaker 3: much evil and suffering in the world? Now, It's that
Speaker 3: sounds very logical and intimidating question. Explain you as a Christian?
Speaker 3: How do I explain? That sounds intimidating? But God is
Speaker 3: not intimidated by our questions. I came across this code
Speaker 3: that I want to show you, and I like it.
Speaker 3: It says God is able to handle our questions. The
Speaker 3: question is are we able to handle his answers. We
Speaker 3: can throw all kinds of questions to God, Lord, Why Lord?
Speaker 1: Why? Lord? Why? And I tell you God is an answer.
Speaker 3: But the question is can you handle God's answer to
Speaker 3: your question? Going back in Some thirty four as we
Speaker 3: as we look at the context of the chapter that
Speaker 3: we read, Son thirty four was written by David when
Speaker 3: he was a fugitive hiding in caves, not because of
Speaker 3: anything wrong he did. In fact, when he was serving
Speaker 3: under King Saul as one of the soldiers of King Saul.
Speaker 3: He served excellently. He was very loyal, he worked with integrity,
Speaker 3: yet instead of being rewarded for his excellent service. When
Speaker 3: his popularity started to spread, they started making writing songs
Speaker 3: about David Musa spotify in Nomatau song about David. David
Speaker 3: killed these thousands and Saul killed this hundred. So King solon,
Speaker 3: why are they giving more credit than my subordinate David,
Speaker 3: more than me the king. So King Saul became jealous
Speaker 3: of David. And since then Latna going to David guith
Speaker 3: magandha pang, it's a putting any King Saul. So he
Speaker 3: started making a plan of killing David instead of rewarding
Speaker 3: him for his good service. King Saul tried killing David.
Speaker 3: So because of that he was forced to run away.
Speaker 3: So for so for a long time he was. He
Speaker 3: went through lots of difficulties.
Speaker 1: And challenges, and he was.
Speaker 3: To the point he needed to cross the enemy territory
Speaker 3: because in his mind Atani King Saul, the problem was
Speaker 3: when he went to the enemy territory, even there he
Speaker 3: was famous. Sobs David Spotify Inmataik Goliath. So they took him,
Speaker 3: captured him and brought him to Akish. You can see
Speaker 3: that in Ps. Thirty four at the heading before verse one.
Speaker 3: It gave us the context of the som So they
Speaker 3: brought him to Akish and Sabiah, we captured David, the
Speaker 3: the this famous warrior of Israel. Now the Bible said,
Speaker 3: he changes behavior. He he pretended to be insane, so
Speaker 3: sucking up king or sab indeed, buta palasa. So why
Speaker 3: are you bringing this guy to me, sab you famous Dio.
Speaker 3: So they let him go, and that's how he was
Speaker 3: able to escape. And then he went back, got got
Speaker 3: out of the enemy territory, went back to the cave
Speaker 3: of Adelam, and that's where I believe David.
Speaker 1: Penned this song. And here's what he said.
Speaker 3: Amazing, I mean talking talk about in just this talk
Speaker 3: about evil and hardship in life. He was not doing
Speaker 3: anything wrong. He's a man after God's own heart. Yet
Speaker 3: he experienced injustice, he experienced evil, he experienced.
Speaker 1: Hardship and life.
Speaker 3: But rather than complaining, rather than turning his back from God,
Speaker 3: rather than raising his fist and said God beca lord,
Speaker 3: sying him particil because of the Lord, put not God
Speaker 3: worship and a manas church tastas Lord, my lucky Lord.
Speaker 3: You know, instead of complaining to God, instead of being
Speaker 3: bitter toward God.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said. Here's what he wrote.
Speaker 3: In verse one, he said, I will bless the Lord
Speaker 3: at all times.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Good times, praise God. Bad times, praise God. Time of abundance,
Speaker 3: praise God. Time of lack, praise God. Time of health,
Speaker 3: praise God. Time of sickness, Praise God. He said, I
Speaker 3: will bless the Lord at all times? How can you
Speaker 3: do that? Sometimes? How many of you here would be
Speaker 3: honest to admit that sometimes you don't feel like praising God.
Speaker 1: You don't feel like praying to God? The will im
Speaker 1: TiO bro.
Speaker 3: How many of years sometimes you don't feel like reading
Speaker 3: the Bible?
Speaker 1: How many of years?
Speaker 3: Sometimes you don't feel like going to church. It's okay
Speaker 3: as long as you don't do it. So I will
Speaker 3: bless the Lord at all times. How can you do that?
Speaker 3: You can only do that if you believe that God
Speaker 3: is good. You can only bless the Lord at all
Speaker 3: times and praise God. If you believe that God is good,
Speaker 3: then you will see his goodness in your life and
Speaker 3: your situation maybe indeed good just it suation to my own.
Speaker 3: But I can praise God today. You know why, because
Speaker 3: I'm convinced God is good. And God will do good
Speaker 3: in my situation. If you have that confidence, even if
Speaker 3: the answer is not yet coming, you will be able
Speaker 3: to praise God. I mean, have you here, you want
Speaker 3: to be able to praise God at all times? Pero
Speaker 3: we can pray, we can praise God.
Speaker 1: Is as well. You know.
Speaker 3: I like what David said and Son twenty seven, verse
Speaker 3: thirteen to fourteen, New King James version.
Speaker 1: I like how he said it.
Speaker 3: I would have lost heart Upindan, no, gabiive up. I
Speaker 3: would have lost heart unless I had believed that I
Speaker 3: would see the goodness of the Lord in the land
Speaker 3: of the living. Wow, Inde, No, I'm convinced. I will
Speaker 3: see the goodness of the Lord in the land of
Speaker 3: the living in my lifetime. We will see the goodness
Speaker 3: of the Lord. I will see the promises of God fulfilled.
Speaker 3: That's why, but give up shindition to give up because
Speaker 3: he's convinced. So here's what he said in verse fourteen.
Speaker 3: Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he
Speaker 3: shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord.
Speaker 3: Just because you don't see the good yet doesn't mean
Speaker 3: there is no good in it. You know, I saw
Speaker 3: this picture one time of a cop showing two angles.
Speaker 3: One is front view, one is aerial view top. And
Speaker 3: when I saw that, I realize, every time you look
Speaker 3: at the SIXU, there's really a different, different angles perspective.
Speaker 3: And many times, you know when every many times when
Speaker 3: we look at our situation, we only see the here
Speaker 3: and now, the front view, anraqita along your present, anraquito
Speaker 3: along young current, anraquita along young.
Speaker 1: Today front view. This is a good reminder for me
Speaker 1: that there's another way to.
Speaker 3: Look at my situation, that God actually have a higher view.
Speaker 3: There is an aerial view, There is a bigger story,
Speaker 3: and there is a bigger plan and purpose for my life.
Speaker 3: That is why, you know, I know that God's purpose
Speaker 3: is not always make me happy, to make sure I'm happy. No,
Speaker 3: we don't even do that to our own children. Sometimes
Speaker 3: we allow our children to go through some difficulties because
Speaker 3: we know it's good for them. There's a bigger picture.
Speaker 3: I'm not just looking at my kids right now. I
Speaker 3: have a seven year old. I'm not just looking at
Speaker 3: her now as a seven year old. I'm considering what
Speaker 3: shall become when she's eighteen, twenty thirty, or the years
Speaker 3: to come. So what we're doing now is connected to
Speaker 3: the bigger story? Are you iman of your following? There
Speaker 3: is a bigger story. There is another way to look
Speaker 3: at our situation. First Corinthians, Chapter two, verse nine, it
Speaker 3: says no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and
Speaker 3: no mind has imagined what God is prepared for.
Speaker 1: Those who love him. Wow.
Speaker 3: I like that verse. No eye has seen, no ear
Speaker 3: has heard, and no mind has imagined. You have no
Speaker 3: idea what God wants to do in and through your life.
Speaker 3: My book has pabalrd. Can I really say the future
Speaker 3: is bright? But my projection call Lord three to five
Speaker 3: years projection malab Lord Sabina Bible. No eye has seen,
Speaker 3: no ear has heard, and no mind can imagine what
Speaker 3: God has prepared for you. That's why you can really
Speaker 3: say with conviction the future is bright.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Can you encourage the person sit next to you, Tell
Speaker 3: that person the future is bright when you get to
Speaker 3: the next chapter of your life. Here's our confidence, here's
Speaker 3: our conviction. If we walk with God, if we, by
Speaker 3: the grace of God, consistently walk with God in the
Speaker 3: midst of inconsistencies in our lives, we will get to
Speaker 3: the next chapter of our life and We're going to
Speaker 3: look back and we're going to look at the tears
Speaker 3: we've sown, and we will be able to say to God,
Speaker 3: you are right.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 3: Weeping may last for a night, for a night, but
Speaker 3: joy will come in the morning. Tama, Lord, you are good.
Speaker 3: We're going to look back and we're going.
Speaker 1: To say that God is good. Last thing I want
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: In verse two, it says, let's humble ourselves before God.
Speaker 3: If God is good, let's humble ourselves before God. If
Speaker 3: you're going to boast, don't boast about yourself, Boast about
Speaker 3: the Lord. Boast about the goodness of God in your life. Godi,
Speaker 3: blifess the Lorgian business.
Speaker 1: I'm in this year.
Speaker 3: Of all the crisis, the challenges. Praise God. This is
Speaker 3: the biggest sale we ever had. And it's not because
Speaker 3: of our careful planning and accounting. It's all about the
Speaker 3: goodness of God. If you're going to boast, boast about
Speaker 3: the Lord. Verse three, let's magnify him. Don't magnify your problem.
Speaker 3: Let's not magnify our weakness. Let's not magnify the crisis.
Speaker 3: Let's magnify the Lord. It's not that we deny the
Speaker 3: bad things that's happening, but I refuse to focus on that.
Speaker 3: I'm choosing to focus on God. If God is good,
Speaker 3: I have to focus on what God is doing.
Speaker 1: And verse four it says, let's seek him.
Speaker 3: And that's what we want to do is starting tomorrow,
Speaker 3: as we start the year, we want to seek God
Speaker 3: for his ways are better and his thoughts are higher.
Speaker 3: Now God is sovereign, he can use even our pain
Speaker 3: to do us good.
Speaker 1: I had a.
Speaker 3: Flu shot before, and it was painful, but it was
Speaker 3: a temporary affliction. Bao in flu shot, you know, when
Speaker 3: I realize what it can do for me, I realized
Speaker 3: that the pain is worth it for me to be
Speaker 3: protected for what the flu can actually the trouble that
Speaker 3: the flu can do to me, this is temporary. This
Speaker 3: this pain is not going to really cripple me. In fact,
Speaker 3: it's going to protect me. And sometimes we are mad
Speaker 3: that God for the shot when God is trying to
Speaker 3: protect us protect a handkitten. Congindica, you're not break last year.
Speaker 3: You're in for a big trouble, Hindi kungnatulo young business
Speaker 3: dil nayan.
Speaker 1: You will be in for a greater trouble.
Speaker 3: If you did not wait for the timing of God,
Speaker 3: you will be in for a greater trouble. Sometimes the
Speaker 3: pain that God is allowing in our lives is really.
Speaker 1: Meant to protect us, not to injure us.
Speaker 3: So God is sovereign. God is God can use even
Speaker 3: the pain to do us good. And sometimes, but Lloyd
Speaker 3: been a ala, I'd rather see you cry now than
Speaker 3: see you.
Speaker 1: Suffer for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: God is a great plan for your life. And God
Speaker 3: is a good father, will do everything to protect us.
Speaker 3: And sometimes the best way to protect us and for
Speaker 3: us to listen is through pain. My pain, defiant, rebellious
Speaker 3: name and your.
Speaker 1: Nigh from Melissa.
Speaker 3: If a pain, it makes us attentive, it makes us humble,
Speaker 3: it makes us cooperative. Sometimes Gods allowed because God is
Speaker 3: a great plan for our life. You know, the Cross
Speaker 3: is the ultimate proof that God is good if you're
Speaker 3: looking for a proof, if you ever find yourself in
Speaker 3: a situation again.
Speaker 1: Which we all we we we all are.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we have this proclivity to still doubt Godhai moment
Speaker 3: that was after one week may problaim and Lord doesn't
Speaker 3: to talk about. We have this proclivity to forget God
Speaker 3: and forget the goodness of God in our life. But
Speaker 3: if ever we find ourselves again in that place, in
Speaker 3: that position where we are doubting, we're dama bato.
Speaker 1: Lord tutu lao.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for a proof of the goodness of God,
Speaker 3: just look at the cross, because the cross is the
Speaker 3: ultimate proof that God is good. When we look at
Speaker 3: the Cross, we are reminded that even in the midst
Speaker 3: of great evil, of great injustice, God was accomplishing something good.
Speaker 3: He was brutally murdered, He paid for the crime he
Speaker 3: never commit.
Speaker 1: That was injustice, that was evil.
Speaker 3: Yet now we know because of what Christ is done
Speaker 3: for us on the cross, salvation is possible for all
Speaker 3: of us. In fact, if not for the Cross, you
Speaker 3: and I won't be here today. How many of you
Speaker 3: are grateful for the Cross and for what Christ has
Speaker 3: done for us. So if you are here today you're
Speaker 3: asking why Lord, or why are you allowing me to
Speaker 3: be afflicted? Remember that there is purpose for the cross.
Speaker 3: There is purpose for the cross. And whatever you're going through,
Speaker 3: whatever is breaking your heart, let's all remember God is working.
Speaker 1: And doing something good. Because God is good.
Speaker 3: If you believe that, if you believe that God is good,
Speaker 3: give him a clap and a praise.
Speaker 1: Even right now, God is good? Can we all stand.
Speaker 3: Because we end our time together? Lord, we declare today
Speaker 3: that you are good. You are good at all times.
Speaker 3: You are worthy of our praise, You're worthy of our trust,
Speaker 3: You're worthy.
Speaker 1: Of everything we have.
Speaker 3: Lord, I pray today we will have greater confidence that
Speaker 3: we are serving a good God. That you are good
Speaker 3: in everything that you do. You are good in everything
Speaker 3: that you allow. You are good in every situation we
Speaker 3: find ourselves in.
Speaker 1: You are good in every season.
Speaker 3: You are good, and we are confident, like David, we
Speaker 3: will see your goodness in our lifetime.
Speaker 1: We will see your goodness.
Speaker 3: In the land of the living, not only when we
Speaker 3: die and be with you in heaven, but even here
Speaker 3: we will see your goodness of God. So thank you
Speaker 3: for assuring us I we would learn to trust you
Speaker 3: more and more. I pray we would learn to delight
Speaker 3: ourselves in you like David Guy Dian and I'm in
Speaker 3: mainteen the hand. Lord, what's happening? Lord, I pray like David,
Speaker 3: we will choose to praise you. We will choose to
Speaker 3: sing praises to you and worship you. We will give
Speaker 3: you a sacrifice of praise.
Speaker 1: Because you are good.
Speaker 3: I pray for those of us here today who are
Speaker 3: going through a difficult situation. Lord, I pray we would
Speaker 3: learn to wait and to have courage to wait on you, Lord,
Speaker 3: to wait on you, Lord, and be of good courage.
Speaker 3: Father that I pray that you will impart strength. I
Speaker 3: pray that you will impart joy. That there will be
Speaker 3: joy in waiting God. There will be peace in waiting,
Speaker 3: there will be faith in waiting, Lord God. We will
Speaker 3: not be paralyzed Lord by our situation.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 3: Rather, Lord God, we would learn to rise above our situation.
Speaker 3: We would learn, Lord God, to praise you, not based
Speaker 3: on our situation, but we would learn to praise you
Speaker 3: based on who you are, based on what you've done
Speaker 3: for us on the cross. We will not just look
Speaker 3: at the present situation. We will look at the cross
Speaker 3: and we will be reminded that God is good.
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