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God Keeps to the End
What a promise we have at the end of this section.
Verse 5 tells us to say confidence
When you realize what this verse means, it puts the rest of this section in perspective.
Be content not envious
We have no reason to be envious of others if we know the Lord is going to provide for us.
We have no need to worry about giving to others who are in need since He will provide for us.
We need to care for our brothers and sisters in Christ who have are going through rough times and minister to them with what God has blessed us with.
If we are satisfied with what we have, then we won’t be concerned with what others have.
We will be content with where we are.
What does it mean to be content?
content - noun-a state of satisfaction.
adjective - in a state of peaceful happiness.
When we want something others have, it can cause a lot of anxiety in our lives.
We are trying to figure out how we can have what others do with what we have.
When we become envious or covet what others have, we lose our satisfaction with what God has blessed us with.
We will constantly think about how we can get what we want instead of being okay and enjoying what we have.
Claim this promise, and you have your fortune
If we can claim this promise given to us in verse 6, we have everything we need.
We will have our fortune.
God will see fit to take care of us.
He will give us everything we need, not what we want.
What we need.
Now let’s take a look at the actual verse.
We’ve talked a lot about it, but there is something lost in our interpretation from the Greek to our language today.
If we were to read the last part of this verse and use the actual Greek meaning it would read like this.
“He himself said, I will never, never desert you, and I will never, never, never abandon you.”
When we are trying to put this into English, when we use a double negative, they cancel each other out.
In Greek, they emphasize the negative even more.
The five negatives in this sentence are supposed to build on each other letting us know our God is never going to leave us.
It may seem He might hide His face from us for a little while, but He will never, never, never, never, never abandon us.
Worship the Unchangeable Christ
Why should we worship Christ?
He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
He will never change.
He is the solid rock we can build our faith on.
We know what He expects from us.
And in knowing His expectations, we also know He will forgive us.
Once again referring back to the previous section, we know He will never leave us nor forsake us.
If He has said it, then this will never change.
For those of us who are believers, we have this promise.
Joyfully bear Christ’s reproach
As we build our faith on the Rock which will never change.
We look at the one who built their house on the Rock, they were able to withstand the storms which came against it.
However, the person who built their house on the sand in the scripture, their house was unable to stand against the storms which came.
If we have built our faith on the Rock of Jesus Christ, the Cornerstone God provided for us, we will be able to stand the things the world throws at us.
We must have our faith built on this Rock so we can make our stand for our God when we are confronted with what the world wants to do.
We must go outside the walls of the city, of the church, and stand for our faith.
Our city here it temporary.
We long for the city which will be our permanent dwelling place.
Why should we care about what the sinful world cares?
Our reward lies not here, but in an eternal place where we will be able to take those rewards and lay them at the feet of our Father God.
Let’s go back to the Old Covenant where the bull which was offered for the sins of the people.
All the priest used of the bull was it’s blood.
It was the blood of this animal which was offered as atonement for the peoples’ sins.
The carcass had to be carried outside of the camp and every part of it burned until there was nothing left.
it was up to the priest to see that this was done.
The distance it was carried is said to have been around four miles.
Where was Christ crucified?
On a hill, outside the city walls.
Did it just so happen that this was the way the Romans would handle this punishment.
The sin offering that was offered in the New Covenant followed suit with the old.
God’s plan from the beginning of time to when Christ offered himself for us.
I have made the point before that when Christ took on our sins, His Father had to turn His back on Him.
It was the first time in history that Christ was alone.
Through the shedding of His own blood we have redemption.
Praise God continually with a childlike faith
This is the reason we need to praise God with a child-like faith.
Children take everything we tell them and they will believe it.
April Fool’s Day with kindergarten when I was student teaching.
When I told the kids I had a holes in my shoes, they were sad.
You could see the look on their face immediately change.
They were all about “getting Mr. Morgan” to “we need to go this man a pair of shoes.”
They will take you at your word.
They don’t need proof.
They believe automatically.
Somewhere that changes to when we are adults, we are skeptical about a lot.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke talk about this kind of faith specifically.
We as believers need to take God at His Word.
We don’t need to question.
We need to know He is the God who will never change.
Once again, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
We see what He has done through out the history of the Bible, as well as through the history of the church.
We have so many people who have laid down such a great legacy for us, why should we question?
Just a really quick side bar:
What type of legacy are we leaving those who follow us?
We need to make sure we are sharing with the next generation of how God has worked through and in our lives.
I’m not just talking about your children who need to hear from you as parents.
I’m talking about all the people of our church sharing with our kids how God has worked in and through your lives.
If we don’t do this, they won’t see this importance and the legacy begins to crumble.
Try to Glorify God
In the final words of this book, the writer is trying to remind the readers that God has equipped them with all they will need in order to do what He has called them to do.
I living out our lives as children of the almighty God, we should do what we can with our lives to glorify Him.
He is the One who will guide us through our lives if we will depend on Him and listen to the sweet still small voice which is there.
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