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Trusting in Clean Water?
You may have heard the story of Naaman before.
He was the a commander of the Syrian army and he had a little Hebrew girl as a servant or slave in his household
Naaman, even though he was a commander, he had leprosy, a bad skin disease all over his body.
One day the servant girl said, there was a prophet in Isreal who could cure him.
Naaman wasted no time arranging a trip to Isreal to ask the king for help.
Eventually he got sent to see Elisha.
Now, before he got there Elisha sent word to Naaman that if he washed/ you know dipped himself 7 times in the Jordan river, he would be healed.
Naaman got mad.
The prophet didn’t come out himself and talk to him.
The Jordan didn’t seem like a special river and
The task seemed too simple.
It appeared he expected some really hard task to do before he won his healing from leprosy.
He almost went home without getting any help.
What was Naaman trusting in?
Was he trusting in God?
No, he was trusting in his own hard work to do a hard task
Throughout your life, there will be:
scary times,
hard times
where you don’t like what is happening.
That is when you have to decide if we are going to trust in God, or something else.
Naaman was persuaded to go try the dipping 7 times in the Jordan and when he did
God healed him.
Let me pray for you.
Psalm 46
Can you picture the scene?
You are walking or standing and
your not on solid ground.
There is a landslide trying to take you away and in the distance you wee a whole mountain just sliding into the sea.
Talk about scary.
The sea is shaking and foaming
and the mountains remaining are shaking.
But God is with you!!!!!!!
You don’t fall!
There are countless ways we can have a crisis and feel like the ground beneath our feet is giving way.
Yet God is our refute and strength
And He is not far away,
even when we don’t feel Him near
God is always near,
closer than a brother.
Many large cities are beside a large river or a lake.
It can be a source of drinking water, irrigation for crops and a method of transportation for people and goods.
The present and past Jerusalem,
is not beside a like.
No major river flows by it.
But God’s blessings were poured upon it greatly in the time of King David and King Solomon.
As long as the kings and the people were close to God, they were secure.
The New Jerusalem will have a river as you know.
and
In verse 6 we moved into political upheaval
There is reason today to be concern with the world scene,
multiple countries taking steps to help or hurt other nations,
in Eastern Europe and
Even in the lover Americas.
Should we all panic?
Or trust God
Sometimes wars end because of peace treaties.
Sometimes they end because God is in the fight.
Chariots have bogged down,
Equipment fails
Panic and chaos cause armies to fight each other
or to flee in terror because God amplified the sound of four lepers
walking to the enemy camp, desperate for food.
(2 Kings 7:3-5)
In the midst of all these big concerns,
what advice does God give?
In the middle of a crisis, it’s not easy to be still and
trust God.
That may not mean we do nothing
but we choose to trust in God and
when you see he is working for your protection
praise his name.
Martin Luther
The reformer Martin Luther had been a Catholic Priest,
but as he studied and learned from the scriptures we became convinced that men and women are justified before God, by faith.
Just like Abraham was in Genesis 15:6
Martin was a teacher and he wrote down 95 These or propositions that included a strong challenge to the selling of indulgences,
that is permission to sin.
The church authorities of his day, were alarmed
by what he wrote and called him from Wittenberg Germany to a trial in the Worms, Germany.
One man wrote
Luther’s ramshackle cart wobbled its way to Worms, Germany, in April of 1521.
He had been summoned to appear before the Emperor and Catholic prelates to give an account of this new “heresy” he was teaching called “justification by faith alone.”
The learned Johann Eck laid out all of Luther’s writings and then asked Luther if he was prepared to recant.
Luther retired to his room that night to think over his answer.
His Bible fell open to Psalm 46.
Luther returned the next morning to stand before his detractors.
In response to their call to recant, Luther responded:
“Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason—I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other—my conscience is captive to the Word of God.
I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
God help me.
Amen.”
The Reformation was off and running.
Psalm 46 was Martin Luther’s favorite Psalm.
During the dark and dangerous periods of the Reformation, Luther would turn to his trusted friend Philip Melanchthon and exclaim: “Let’s sing the 46th Psalm, and let the devil do his worst!”
It inspired his great hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.”
[ https://csbible.com/rest-psalm-46/
] 7/9/2022
When was God Israels stronghold?
when the king and the people walked close to him.
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