Aware of God's Presence in Every Trial

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of god's presence is so important and to trust in god and in his awareness that he is in control and the first person i'd like to talk about from the bible is david um and we know david's life that he had many many tribulations throughout his life when he was going up against goliath as a kid and as he's growing up and he's next in line to be king and we know that king saul did not want this to happen so he was hunting david for many years throughout his life and even after that after he became king he also had many troubles and many worries throughout his life and i love how in the book of psalms he writes this uh it's probably one of the most famous words that david ever wrote down in the book of psalms popular and it says the lord is my shepherd i lack nothing he makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me beside still waters he refreshes my soul he guides me along the right paths for his name's sake and in the fourth verse i'd like for us to really pay attention to what he says here and david says even though i walk through the darkest valley i will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me now there are a few words that i'd like for us to really focus on he says for you are with me many times in throughout the bible he reassures them by using these words and telling them that he is with them we know that when noah when god told noah to build the ark he was getting persecuted him and his family and god still told him he said noah know that i am god and i am with you. and same with abraham when god told abraham he said go out of your homeland and i will lead you to a new place where you will call yourself a new home [Music] [Music] [Music] god told him he said moses go back into egypt the land where you came from zambia speak to pharaoh and joshua when he was taking moses's place he [Music] and he saw every single tribulation that moses was going through but god still reassured him and he said that he will be with him and in the story of gideon this is going to be i'm going to be kind of branching off from this story [Music] we know that gideon was one of the judges of israel but he was very skeptical of what god was asking him to do gideon still wanted to make sure that it was from the lord it says the angel of the lord came and sat down under the oak of ophora that belonged to joash the abazarite where the sun where his son gideon was threshing wheat in the wine press to keep it from the midianites when the angel of the lord appeared to gideon he said the lord is with you mighty warrior but sir gideon replied if the lord is with us why has all this happened to us where are all the wonders that our fathers tell us about when they said did did not the lord bring us up from egypt but now the lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand of the midian the lord turned to him and said go in the strength you have and save israel out of midian's hand am i not sending you but lord gideon asks how can i save israel my clan is the weakest in manessa and i am the least in my family the lord answered i will be with you and you will strike down the midianites together and so we see that even in here god still reassured gideon and told gideon that he is with him and we know that later on throughout the story as gideon tests god and keep testing god and he started gathering up men to take down the midianites and so he gathered about 30 000 men and god looked at what how many people showed up and he said to gideon this is too many people it means because and so gideon did exactly what god told him to and started dividing the army [Music] army and then at the end of it all gideon only had three hundred men aim his diamond and the lord said to gideon you have too many men for me to deliver midian into their hands in order that israel may not boast against me that her own strength has saved her yes so we see that god understood the hearts of the men that were gathered there he knew that if he were to send his entire army to take out the midianites the army would go out and boast of themselves not giving glory to god it is everything was very new to me i had no idea what i was doing and the first few weeks or even months of working for the post office i always every single day pray to god i always ask god god please help me to understand what i'm doing and please help me to do it the right way because i was spoiled and i asked god to help me to learn how to get faster and faster and better at my job switching but i stopped acknowledging god's presence with me and so that's the wrong thing in my life i found that out and one thing that we need to always remember is that the devil is a deceiver he is a liar and his biggest lie is telling us that we do not need god and his favorite trick test so that we would be focused on that instead of the most important thing which is god focus and that is why we need to remember to always always always remember that god is always within our presence which part of our life do you think that god is not interested in god is interested in every single aspect of our life [Music] and you know the hardest thing to do as a christian christian is to wait on god when we have a problem in our life when we have a tribulation even if we do acknowledge that god is within our presence so when we have a problem the first thing we do is pray farmer he was out in the field with his workers and then in the distance one of his workers sees smoke of them and so everyone comes to a conclusion that a part of the field is on fire [Music] and apparently and so the fire keeps growing and it gets closer and closer which is [Music] and they all start grabbing buckets and filling it with water and they run out to the fields just trying to try and stop the fire even if and the workers are saying to each other what is our farmer doing [Music] and the farmers are yelling at them they're saying go into the barn grab a bucket filled with water and start putting out the fire with us and the farmer simply just said i'm waiting and lo and behold it starts raining moments later and we need to remember as christians to be like the farmer christianity he not only acknowledged that god was there but he also trusted in god that he would help us and that's what we need to do in our lives we need to remember to always trust in god and to always know that he is presenting we are aware of god's presence how does that affect our lives for first thing it does is it changes our character s it helps us to realize and to know the actual attributes of god a few weeks ago pastor nick was actually preaching about this how god is omnipresent mudri if you think about it if you hold up an apple in your hand we look at the apple medium we only see one side of the apple batch he can go back in time and he can see when that tree was planted and the only strength that we have is we can only see one side of the apple store but our god is so wonderful and he loves us so much he cares about every single thing that goes on in our life the bible it says that there were 100 sheep and one sheep got lost and what did the shepherd do he went out and to go he left the 99 sheep and he went went out to go find that one missing one you should see pastor you know what do you think do you think the parable would be the same if there were a thousand sheep in order to find that one do you think that god would send himself down still to die on the cross for just your sins just yourself but we need to remember that god's love is that we ourselves can't even fathom how great his love is but what if we forget about god's presence what happened to the israelites israel they turned away from god they started worshiping other gods some of them even forgot what happened in the past what god did for their fathers and their fathers but because of what happened we read in judges 7-2 god said that if i deliver them with the multitude in front of gideon right then and there is they would not even realize that it was me who did the work [Music] [Music] the miracle would have been great and that is where god makes his biggest miracles we need to remember that the bigger the problem the bigger the miracle and that is how god wants to work in every one of our lives so we get prideful me and we draw further away from god and so that is not what god wants alice but sometimes it happens there was a woman who went to her pastor and she said to the pastor pastor i raised my children i disciplined them to know you to know god yeah and she said pastor i've been doing that for years and the pastor says not the prayers that you were praying pray to god and say god send them tribulations i've been praying the complete opposite yeah i was praying that for god to help them so that god would help them in whatever troubles they have in life that they get to a point where they realize that they can't do anything by themselves and that they realize they come to a conclusion we need to remember that every breath that comes out of our lungs it's all a gift from god and we need to remember that anything good that happens in our life we need to remember that it is god given to you and the last verse that i'd like to read from you if you could put it up it says every good and is from above coming down from the father of the heavenly lights who does not change like shifting means he chose to give us birth through the word of truth that we might be kind of first fruits of all he created and so at the end of this sermon i'd like for us to realize one thing that we are we don't have to acknowledge god's presence and if we are aware of god's presence no matter what happens in our lives whether it's tribulation or joys if it is tribulation and we are god's hand in everything and we do not rely on ourselves but we rely on god in the hospital let's go ahead and stand in prayer father god we come before you today and we humble ourselves we pray that you touch our hearts and we thank you for this word that you shared with us father god we pray that we ponder upon this day and night throughout every single day of our life that we remember that you are always in control no matter what happens in our life whether it's troubles where there is joys in our life that we give you all the glory we give you all the praise and we always remember how powerful you are and what you've done in the past and what we will continue to do so throughout the future father god we thank you for every single blessing that you give in our lives and we pray that we glorify you and we keep glorifying you day to day in our everyday lives lord jesus that we remember that no matter how small our problems no matter how small whatever is happening in our lives that we know that we can always go to you we can always talk to you and seek you out father god we pray that you strengthen our relationship with you lord jesus so that whatever happens in our lives we know that you are always in control lord god and we pray that you keep humbling our hearts and keep helping us to strive to be better lord jesus so that we could always be the uplifting encouragement that you want us to be for others p other people in their lives father god i thank you for everything you give us in your mighty name we pray amen foreign [Music] there is [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] and just like dennis mentioned god is really knocking that we can hear it clearly in our ears and it's for our own good privilege to god knows everything he knows everything perfectly yesterday what happened what has taken place and what will happen [Music] he knows how many seeds are in there what what tree he was how many uh fruits were on there he knows everything is and he also knows how many uh future trees or apple trees will grow out of the seeds from this particular yeah they do yeah how many of those uh trees will later produce and how many people will be holding those apples and it's all for us i'm going to read from the book of psalms chapter um [Music] is when i consider your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have set in place what is man that you are mindful of him the son of man that you care for him you made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crown him with the glory and honor you made him ruler over the works of your hands and you put everything under his feet all flocks and herds and the beats of the fields the birds in the air and the fish of the sea all that swim path off the seas oh lord our god how majestic is your name and all the earth [Music] [Music] of a very special and unique creation this creation you see every single morning when you wake up in the morning when you go brush your teeth you look at the mirror that creation looks right back at you and that creation is called man [Music] the creation is so majestic and and special uh the god himself became a man um [Music] the word of god devotes a lot of time of the life and the the being of a man devotes a very special and the most important place [Music] on the same of the same importance after salvation the word of god that is being to us by god himself it is given to mankind that the man could understand its purpose in its time and in the in in its place what it's like to be a man uh and what happens with the man within that purpose in the book of uh genesis uh when it talks about the creation of the world uh it is written that man is a creation of god everyone went to school do we learn in school that man is a creation of god in my school where i went to they said no that uh that man he came up from this higher material they came from a smart species of monkeys he uh [Music] and you know that's what we've been taught and when i was a child i really liked this don't like it you mean and one of the reasons that i understood that there will be death and being born of a uh coming and being ancestor of monkeys did not give me any hope uh for after my death uncomfortable feeling and i remember like today what it would have felt like i was still growing up in the communist schools [Music] praise god that we ourselves understood and it's been revealed to us that we are his children and the word of god is reminding us that man it is the the the the highest creation of god they are not the highest creation of god not because they are so smart or beautiful because in man there is it consists of two separate natures nature that is completely different from one another and we will stop and discuss that a little further today we will just enter into this topic [Music] but later we will go into much deeper details in regards to that what really stands out in creation of man uh in light of other creations that would what took place before the creation of man is this um this console of that took place in heaven [Music] the book of genesis chapter one verse uh 26 through 331 if you can follow us on the screen you know it is a very short phrase here that says then god said let us make man in our image and we see this conversation this console that is taking place um you know when god was creating any other creations there was never that this console took place it was just simply what's being said and things just happen and from this phrase we can extract two lessons it confirms that god is trinity and the creation on man was so important that this council needed to take place where this agreement needed to be uh take place in is uh and the word of god is pointing that is a very important fact that is given this importance of a creation of man in the in the in the in the realm of creating things but he is given the the qualities that are only pres uh are uh unique to the creator uh and in the first book of uh the bible in first chapters we read the nature of god is there's two natures [Music] uh component material component it is the the salt the living salt apostrophe he is highlighting the three components of a man duke is highlighting that the the the spirit of the man is not material the spirit of the man is the carrier of spirit of god's spirit bible says that the the spiritual beginning of man is the most important the consequences for the actions of man uh let's open us first corinthians fitnastiglova chapter 15. first corinthians chapter 15 verse 39 through 49 apostle paul god is [Music] [Music] [Music] he is inviting and asking us to to carry the image of the eternal this piece we can see from derived from this passage that man has three natures material material which is flesh categories and then we know that man is being is there's a two different um um there's females and there is males that is [Music] god took a part of the bone and flesh from which the the part of adam that he was created we know that the atom was created from the dust material it was a dad material it was minerals that we can find in soil uh yesterday and now this miracle taking place this not living organism becomes alive and that's how it becomes late and then from this miracle who is adam this living organism out of there material gotta takes a part of this beer material and he creates a helper for adam the part of the living organism becomes his helper though that's exactly what we talked about she was taken out of man out of her husband adam was created by uh in a special way i and then adam says the following that i i think are prophetic words then adam he says but now we're going to be even though it was out of him but they going to be one again it is very interesting they were both naked and they were not shy with each other with the different social roles she is called to be a helper uh god gave her this ability to be a mother and adam he had his own role as a head secretary he was a provider for his family for his future his offspring and those roles they cannot be destroyed of course we know that man in its sinful nature tries to destroy those roles and we know it doesn't bring any blessing but instead many problems we see that god created them not just you know for them to be just just to be or for display do nothing but god gives adam a very clear mission is to to take care of the garden and to reign over every living thing uh and we see the creation of a living soul it's one of the components um you need component doing something he's preparing he's planting and getting something ready for adam um there's many points that i would like for us to stop and focus god has planted a tree of light in the middle of the garden and the the the tree of the uh understanding of good and evil it is a very big uh example for us and uh for us and i would like to stop for a second and many people like to point fingers and say adam he made a very bad decision and that's why he had a choice a tree of life and the the knowledge of good and evil we see later when god kicked out them out of the eden uh the garden of eden he says we'll put protection so nobody can go back and eat out of tree of life but for some reason adam and eve they are choosing from the tree of knowledge of good and evil probably for the tree of life but let's translate it into our time there is this idea that's being proposed that you can live a life without god uh you can live by the idea of humanism where you are the center of the universe as a human being or maybe you both you and me we have an opportunity for a decision in the garden of eden man had a uh he had a choice to make and we have same today he did not know the consequences of sin he did not know that when he was not ballistic maybe it's easier to forgive him because he did not know any of that atlanta for humanity the consequences is war is death sickness more correctly they don't select the tree of life to turn back to christ praise to god that god called us to call us and we turned and we made that right decision we took the fruit from the tree of life we tasted the christ is great and he is blessing his eternal he is life us back into this garden of eden for the fellowship to have with him it is a tremendous blessing i just wanted to step aside and remind us from based on this passage that we just read he planted this garden these three wonderful trees um and i don't think it's written here about those rivers being split there's it's it's a tremendous territory there is nothing god knew that you know the eve will be creating she'll be the mother there'll be children first maybe the garden will be filled with it's not just a little tiny area this area is huge and it's humongous immediately you might think about our backyard you know you have so little areas there is a plenty of work for you there is a plenty of land for you and your and your ancestors god called the man for his specific mission [Music] and this creation needs to have a connection with its creator and god is creating something unique material it is not material which has its soul which includes the part of its creator and in this creation that he calls man materials new materials and he puts it in the middle of something that is between material and and god it is [Music] and through the man god's plan was to bring his harmony into the the physical world through the image being created in the image of god they're having the ability to be connected with creator ikeda's and it is written that all the earth is cursed because of you through the fall of disconnect through the the breakup of this connection this breakup that's taking place between the creator and the physical creation and this the disruption taking place and then it says the the earth will start uh growing weeds you will be [Music] change took place where the the fittest started to live off of each other as far as animals stronger eating the the weaker ones and you can see how important was this connection of a man with being connected with the rest of the world of creation spectacular we will talk about the the humanity and the biblical uh purpose of a man maybe we will get closer into the the the the creation of the the beginning of man or we will also talk about what are the components of a man it is a wisdom will [Music] [Music] out of all of these components what's most important [Music] we will look at the man and and the uh all these components of a man [Music] there's also different um beliefs of uh in christianity based on those components we will talk about the the the the creation or the beginning of the soul uh uh [Music] we will talk about the man coming from one from ancestors [Music] we will also discuss more deeper the the image of god god he cherishes man he values man so much [Music] [Music] will free will uh but this free will has uh and its consequences have uh have affected and god he as as a person he took it upon himself you know how man how god he values man how gentle he is with man uh that jesus christ was on the cross and if you're the son of god get off the cross um people say that if he would to listen and do exactly what they asked him people would definitely believe he is the son of god maybe the price for the sins would not be will not be paid but when it comes to those people's faith it was a tremendous miracle and people would believe it can you stand it you know it's easy for god to bring people to repentance you know let's say the sun doesn't rise tomorrow and i say 99 of the people there will repent and come to know him he doesn't coerce people in their free will of course it is so easy with the miracle to bring a person to repentance but god doesn't do that god wants us that we are voluntarily nasty and according to this free will he is working with the man and we will conclude our study today and we will revisit and continue next week [Music] we might not be able to answer them today but in our future studies we will definitely have the answer for that yes the question is how did the adam know that the the man will leave the mother and father and they will become one flesh how did he know the the the concept if he didn't have a mother or father yes it's mentioned that he didn't maybe did not know himself but was like a prophetically that he is speaking that's what will be uh after him that man will leave a woman will leave their mother and father and they'll become one flesh good question m be foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] hey [Music] ah [Music]