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Introduction
Attention Getter: VBS’s Camp Ala-ta-iki - Our youth reached out in our own community to young people who desperately need the gospel...
We spent the week teaching them one important truth about God…that He is near.
Significance: Why is it so important to understand this about our God?
Main Idea: God is Always Near to His Own
Preview: Each day at camp was a different aspect of the nearness of God from a different portion of Scripture...
Transition into Main Point:
1. God is Always Near; Even When Nothing Is Happening ()
Brother Lawrence, born in 1614, wrote a book called “The Practice of the Presence of God” in 1693.
His idea is that we should consciously realize that God is everywhere present.
Reading this brings a sobering reality to how we live our lives.
This truth is for those who believe in God and for those who do not...
This Psalm that David pens is a beautiful reminder that God has an intimate knowledge of His entire creation, which includes you.
This Psalm clearly states this...
David then asks a rhetorical question in verses 7ff...
Psalm 139:
In fact, God doesn’t simply get to know someone, according to David, God is the creator of that someone!
What is the point?
David, as a believer can say assuredly that God is near him, around Him, by him every minute of every day!
This is what this Psalm is saying and this is not simply true for David.
B. What does this mean?
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If you are in Christ, Christ is in you.
You cannot escape His presence.
Certainly God is omnipresent, but through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, He is dwelling within you as well.
It does not matter where you are or what you are doing, God is there with you.
This foundational true is imparative to know and understand.
The God of the Bible is not a God who created this world and stepped away.
No, He is intimately involved in every aspect of His creation because He Is orchestrating the GRAND Symphony that will one day come to a magnificent and glorious conclusion.
And just as a conductor cannot step away from his position for the entirety of the symphony, So our God will stay at His until His song is complete.
He is with us during the exciting parts of the symphony as well as the mundane.
What a comfort.
Do you feel alone?
Do you believe you need to figure life out on your own?
Well, if you are a believer, you are never alone!
God says in His word...
God’s promise to His children is He will NEVER leave you.
Even during the mundane, unrelenting routines of changing diaper, getting kids ready for school, work, mowing the lawn, vacuuming the floors and cleaning the kitchen!
By the way, this becomes, for the Christian an opportunity to glorify God in all things.
Not just the mountaintop experiences, but the mundane, boring and plan dull.
Can you imagine doing the dishes to the Glory of God?
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Promise to claim?
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Example to follow?
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Command to obey?
e. Knowledge to know?
D. What’s your plan?
E. Illustrations -
Transition - 1. God is Always Near; Even When Nothing Is Happening
2. God is Always Near; Even When We Need Help ()
2. God is Always Near; Even When We Need Help ()
Phil
The Apostle Paul was an amazing man.
He started one hundred plus churches, led countless people to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wrote the vast majority of the theology of the New Testament and on and on it goes.
Yet he himself would tell you that he is the chief of sinners...
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Why would the great apostle Paul think of Himself in such a way?
Because He knew the truth about himself.
He knew what he was to the core and what he had done prior to becoming a follower of Jesus.
He was a killer!
He killed Christians.
But once He became a follower of Jesus, his life was radically changed for ever!
He was no longer the high and mighty Pharisee that was determined to stamp out Christianity.
He was now the very thing he was earlier trying to eradicate.
He was a Christian.
And as a Christian, life was not easy as you can imagine.
In fact God told Ananias (another follower of Jesus) what Paul’s life was going to be like...
Acts
Wow! Becoming a Christian doesn’t make life easier, I makes it far more challenging.
It’s not all doom and gloom, however, there is great benefit as well!
Eternal benefit!
But in this life Paul did have seasons of suffering and seasons of plenty.
This is what he says in...
And this is what the Apostle is telling his friends in Philippi.
Do you see what he is saying to his friends in Philippi?
God gives Him the strenth to handle life when he has an abundance of resourses and when he has very few.
God gave Paul the strength to be CONTENT!
Do you see what he is saying to his friends in Philippi?
God gives Him the strength to handle life when he has an abundance of resources and when he has very few.
God gave Paul the strength to be CONTENT!
Folks, being content is so hard and we need the Lord’s strength to help us “be content in all circumstances.”
By the way, contentment is more than just about money.
We can lack contentment in...Our job.
Our house.
Our family.
Our spouse.
Our Children.
Our ministry.
Our _____________.
C. Application –
Our job
Our house,
Our family,
Our spouse,
Our ministry...
o Sin to avoid?
o Promise to claim?
o Example to follow?
o Command to obey?
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