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New foyerSermon 6-24-07 God is: part 3 2 corinthians 1:1-11
We continue our series on the character of God…..
Week 1
He is not gender male, not human but a spirit.
God is omni present………
He is trustworthy
Week 2
He is our father
Today: He cares about you. He is a God of comfort.
This doesn’t seem like rocket science, but you cannot believe the number of people that I run into that evidently believe that God is a real ogre.
The death of a child
I was talking to someone about a couple that had a baby die in child birth. The comment was, why would God do this to them?
Is that what you think of God, that he decided to kill your child?
Where does this kind of thinking come from?
At the death of an adult
I have stood in many homes where the family is grieving the loss of a loved one. Inevitably someone will say, it must have been Gods will.
Really, God just reached out and killed that girl in ohio?
What kind of a God do we believe in?
Does God really decide all of this. Everything?
Then what of free will?
We cant have it both ways…….
What kind of a God do we believe in?
God is out to get me
I talk to people who think that God is after them all the time.
That he is just waiting to find a reason to send them to hell.
They are constantly asking for forgiveness because they believe that if they sin and die w/o asking forgivnesess, they will go to hell.
Who taught them that God was like this?
God is not looking to catch you on a technicality. He loves you.
People get hung up on so many silly things………
At the pearly gates, you lived a good life, but you were baptized the wrong way…..cant come in…..
People that believe such things about God tend to live very neurotic and fearful lives.
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of adoption, where by we cry out Abba, Father. Romans 8
Our lives can sometimes mirror what we believe about God.
If you think he is out to get you, and catch you on a technicality, then you are probably not going to be a very happy person. No point in asking for prayers tho, God probably doesn’t care.
God is a God of comfort.
That’s what he is.
And he doesn’t change who he is to accommodate your way of thinking.
You think he is mean? Sorry.
You think he throws people away, sorry.
God loves you and he cares very deeply for each of you.
God is a god of comfort
· Look at all the sick people that Jesus healed
· How about the woman caught in adultery
· How about the woman at the well
· At the tomb of lazarus, Jesus wept
We are asked to be people of comfort………
Leave our comfort zone to touch others…….
Missions trip this week.
Miss Judy’s story
They need comfort.
One thing I saw this week.
I expected to see that Miss Judy needed comfort, what I did not expect to see was this………….
We need comfort.
Picture of people’s church
Story of the Thursday night chapel service at people’s church.
Young people need the comfort of God
Roger ward, thank you God for my friend, and for my pastor. This is so hard. Bless him.
This is hard for us.
The hearts of people are waiting to be loved, to be cared about, to be comforted.
Something amazing about reaching out to care about someone else, when you do it, you are healed.
16 A gift opens the way for the giver and ushers him into the presence of the great. Prov 18:16
Is your soul dry? Do you feel as if you are going thru the motions of faith? Go give away some love. God will refill you in the process.
God is a god of comfort and he asks us to comfort one another with the same comfort that we receive from him.
Let us pray.
If you are here today, and you have never met the God that cares for you, let’s talk to him right now.
O Lord God of love, God of comfort, reveal yourself now to each one who needs you. Let the truth of who you are sink down into the depths of our souls and fill us with your love and peace. In jesus name. amen.
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