Katrina and Rita – Whose children are they, and why were they born?
Out of the destruction comes instruction, when viewed with biblical lenses.
-A- Preface: All discussion and instruction must be marked by sympathy and compassion. We must not be unfeeling nor unconcerned for those directly impacted by the destruction and devastation resulting from these storms.
-B- Reminder of basic truths related to these unusual providences.
-1- Our world is under the sovereign control of God at all times, in all places, and with respect to all things.
-2- Our world is under the righteous curse of God because of man's sin.
-C- We live in a world in which God has multiple purposes folded into his unusual visitations upon the physical world.
-1- Five purposes of God for his own people (not an exhaustive list) -a- to advance their conformity and love to Jesus Christ -b- to make his own people more heavenly minded -c- to make his own people the occasion for shutting the devil's mouth -d- to increase their ability to minister comfort to others -e- to use the deprivation of believers to draw out the compassionate benevolence of other believers
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Great Sermon! So blessed by this sermon. I shall listen to part 2 tonight.
God is sovereign. God is righteous. So few churches emphasise these aspects of God.
BWS (10/9/2005)
Relevant Sermon Consider, however, the fact that while God is sovereign, he makes use of wicked men, criminals, etc., to accomplish his decrees, which by no means clears them of their wickedness in so doing:
"[governments] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
Secty Defense W. Cohen, 4/97, Univ. of Georgia
Man is now playing God.
Cathy (9/26/2005)
from Australia
Great Sermon! Thankyou for a very thought provoking sermon on the sovereignty of God and our responsibility to respond with faith.
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