INCREASE YOUR HOPE IN GOD (9 OF 30)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:17-21
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Increase Your Hope in God (9 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 1:17-21
James Hammond was a plantation owner during the Civil War who served as a congressman as well as the 60th governor of the state of South Carolina. Besides defending slavery, Hammond was guilty of an unbridled sexual appetite. In 1839, Hammond purchased an eighteen-year-old slave named Sally, along with her infant daughter, Louisa. Hammond fathered several children by Sally, and then, when Louisa was twelve, he discarded Sally in favor of her daughter. The two had several more children throughout the politician's lifetime. Hammond's career in politics nearly came to an end when his brother-in-law, Wade, accused him of molesting his four daughters, ages thirteen through eighteen. What makes the story even more telling is that Hammond possessed the innate ability to overlook his own sins. After his wife left him and he lost many of his slaves and livestock through sickness, Hammond wrote the following in his diary: ''It crushes me to the earth to see every thing of mine so blasted around me. Negroes, cattle, mules, hogs, every thing that has life around me seems to labour [sic] under some fated malediction.... Great God, what have I done? Never was a man so cursed... what have I done or omitted to do to deserve this fate?''
Sin is deceiving disease and pride, especially is self-blinding. Like a person who thinks they can sing when everyone else knows that cannot, sin is frequently is camouflaged from our very eyes. ''Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you with you ever knowing it.''
Recently I sat down with a young lady who told me the heartache in her life. I hope she is here today. She talked about the pain of a husband of nearly twenty years that is drinking himself to death. She talked about the abuse that her two daughters had faced. She talked about her pain when she left him nearly two years ago now. This young lady spoke about the ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 1:17-21
James Hammond was a plantation owner during the Civil War who served as a congressman as well as the 60th governor of the state of South Carolina. Besides defending slavery, Hammond was guilty of an unbridled sexual appetite. In 1839, Hammond purchased an eighteen-year-old slave named Sally, along with her infant daughter, Louisa. Hammond fathered several children by Sally, and then, when Louisa was twelve, he discarded Sally in favor of her daughter. The two had several more children throughout the politician's lifetime. Hammond's career in politics nearly came to an end when his brother-in-law, Wade, accused him of molesting his four daughters, ages thirteen through eighteen. What makes the story even more telling is that Hammond possessed the innate ability to overlook his own sins. After his wife left him and he lost many of his slaves and livestock through sickness, Hammond wrote the following in his diary: ''It crushes me to the earth to see every thing of mine so blasted around me. Negroes, cattle, mules, hogs, every thing that has life around me seems to labour [sic] under some fated malediction.... Great God, what have I done? Never was a man so cursed... what have I done or omitted to do to deserve this fate?''
Sin is deceiving disease and pride, especially is self-blinding. Like a person who thinks they can sing when everyone else knows that cannot, sin is frequently is camouflaged from our very eyes. ''Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you with you ever knowing it.''
Recently I sat down with a young lady who told me the heartache in her life. I hope she is here today. She talked about the pain of a husband of nearly twenty years that is drinking himself to death. She talked about the abuse that her two daughters had faced. She talked about her pain when she left him nearly two years ago now. This young lady spoke about the ...
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