DOES GOD HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE? (2 OF 4)
by Steve Jones
Scripture: Ephesians 5:17
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Does God Have a Plan for Your Life? (2 of 4)
Series: The Will of God and Suffering
Steve Jones
Ephesians 5:17
INTRODUCTION: On Monday night, (1.10.17) Clemson defeated Alabama 35-31 to win the college football national championship. The Tigers scored the winning touchdown in the last second of the game. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said: ''It's indescribable. You can't make this up, only God can do this.'' Did God do this? Did God win the game for Clemson? Was that winning touchdown a part of God's ''plan'' for Coach Swinney and the Clemson Tigers? Was losing the game a part of God's plan for Nick Saban and the Alabama Tide?
We're in a sermon series on the will of God. We're asking the big questions with special tie-ins to the difficulty and suffering that we all experience at various times in our lives. Last week we posed the question: ''Is everything that happens the will of God?'' You can go online to our website and watch that message. The answer was a qualified ''yes.'' Everything that happens is the will of God, but not in the same way. We looked at three categories of God's will:
1) That which God performs.
2) That which God prefers.
3) That which God permits.
We got comfortable with the idea that there are many things that happen in this world, and in our lives, that God neither caused to happen, nor necessarily wanted to happen, but he did permit them to happen.
Today we want to ask the next big question about God's will: ''Does God have a specific plan for my life?'' The emphasis is on the word ''specific.''
I. WE MUST START WITH A LESSON IN HERMENEUTICS.
Ephesians 5:17 ''So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.''
II Timothy 2:15 ''Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.''
To ''accurately handle the word of truth'' we want to follow certain rules of interpretation when we read the Bible. Let's ...
Series: The Will of God and Suffering
Steve Jones
Ephesians 5:17
INTRODUCTION: On Monday night, (1.10.17) Clemson defeated Alabama 35-31 to win the college football national championship. The Tigers scored the winning touchdown in the last second of the game. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said: ''It's indescribable. You can't make this up, only God can do this.'' Did God do this? Did God win the game for Clemson? Was that winning touchdown a part of God's ''plan'' for Coach Swinney and the Clemson Tigers? Was losing the game a part of God's plan for Nick Saban and the Alabama Tide?
We're in a sermon series on the will of God. We're asking the big questions with special tie-ins to the difficulty and suffering that we all experience at various times in our lives. Last week we posed the question: ''Is everything that happens the will of God?'' You can go online to our website and watch that message. The answer was a qualified ''yes.'' Everything that happens is the will of God, but not in the same way. We looked at three categories of God's will:
1) That which God performs.
2) That which God prefers.
3) That which God permits.
We got comfortable with the idea that there are many things that happen in this world, and in our lives, that God neither caused to happen, nor necessarily wanted to happen, but he did permit them to happen.
Today we want to ask the next big question about God's will: ''Does God have a specific plan for my life?'' The emphasis is on the word ''specific.''
I. WE MUST START WITH A LESSON IN HERMENEUTICS.
Ephesians 5:17 ''So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.''
II Timothy 2:15 ''Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.''
To ''accurately handle the word of truth'' we want to follow certain rules of interpretation when we read the Bible. Let's ...
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