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Wouldn’t be great to know that you have God's favor this year?
To know that as you make decisions,
you live life,
when you fly and wonder if this turbulence is going to be the of your life
you parent your children,
you make important investments
and the list could goes on.
Wouldn’t be great to know that you have God's favor this year?
Last Sunday we looked at
Wouldn't it be great to know that you have the favor of the -
one who created it all,
who preserves everything by his Word.
But often we are trapped between two extremes – those who presume we have God's favor and those who unnecessarily doubt that we have God's favor.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years often causes people to consider the blessings of God.
Practically in our lives we ask the question –
And in the back of our mind - when we struggle seeing the blessings of God is to question -
What kind of person does God bless?
I am going to assume here that you want God’s blessings,
and I am not sure why anyone would not one good, great, mighty God to bless them.
>>>>Oh we might not say that out loud; but practically we are living out what we believe that answer is.
That question might not be a topic at the dinner table,
but how we respond to circumstances in our lives is often based on that question.
Our pride and our guilt often reflects the answer to this question.
Again I contend that many of us are caught between two wrong extremes about God's blessings.
(a) Many people believe a good person is the kind of person that God blesses.
{{{{I mean, surely a good person is a person who God blesses.
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According to a survey, 52% of American Evangelicals believe -
“Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.”
State of Theology survey (Legionier Ministries)
>>>>>>>>>>> And if you go outside and way from Evangelicalism - I am sure that number is going to climb.
So often, our culture assumes that we are good people.
Which often means, we assume we are the kind of people God blesses.
Which may I say as a side note,
This is why the first step in telling someone about the Gospel is helping them understand they are not Good,
but in fact exceedingly sinful and evil.
You can’t be saved by Christ unless you know you are a sinner.
But is this claim true ?
Is a good person the kind of person God blesses?
but in fact exceedingly sinful and evil.
But for many,
they believe they are the kind of person that God blesses
because they are Good people.
But Another common view on the other extreme,
(2) Is people will often believe they are not good enough for God’s blessings.
But understand this is the same theology.
So in other words, most people are good, which means God is going to bless most people.
It all involves assumption: that God decides to bless people based on their goodness.
It assumes that the person who is blessed by God is the Good person.
And as -
(3) Christians often think in the same way.
Although we recognize that we received the Gospel by undeserving love,
we often think that we receive the blessings of God based on their goodness.
We buy into this.
May I say,
And of course, God would never withhold his blessings to good people.
But is that true?
There underpinnings of that false theology is that most people are good by nature.
No person has ever received the blessing of God based on their goodness.
Goodness has nothing to do with with it.
You say, how do you know that?
And my answer could be -
So unless nobody receives the blessings of God, blessings are not because of our goodness.
Being Good doesn't qualify us for blessings.
And being exceedingly sinful doesn’t disqualify us from God’s blessings.
But instead of answering this by , may I explain it by the story Story of Abraham.
Surely, Abraham, t
Our text this morning is prayer that describes the unmerited blessing of Abraham.
>>>>>It is a prayer of people who realize that all of their ancestors received undeserved blessings.
The next two weeks - Nehemiah is going to point out that -
From our passage today,
PROP: We should trust in God as the Source of Undeserved Blessings.
TRANS: And this text will show us how God blessed undeserving Abraham.
Of all people in the Old Testament, surely Abraham, was somebody who received God's blessing because he deserved it.
I mean, what other name besides Christ, who is God, had more blessing then Abraham.
Even our New Testament repeats the name of Abraham many times.
Emphasizes -
Abraham was -
Chosen By God.
Brought out of a Pagan Nation.
Given A New Name.
Given Kept Promises.
Of a Vast Possession of Land, Wealth, and Prestige.
Man - it makes you wonder what Abraham did to receive so many blessings from God.
And the answer - Abraham didn’t do anything.
And if we were to go into his life,
Abraham was - Chosen By God.
Chosen as a person of God.
Our text, states now a second time, - “You are the Lord”
Which is meant to exalt the name of God as like no one else.
And proceeds to tells us why the LORD is like no one else.
It started with creation.
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The LORD is like no one else because he was the one who made everything.
And preserveses even today.
The LORD is like no one else because he was the one who made everything.
But now our text says,
You are LORD alone because of what you did to Abram.
God choose Abram.
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Abraham is known as the father of Faith.
Gal 3:67
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