LIFE IF HARD (13 OF 14)
Scripture: Genesis 47:7-10
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Life if Hard (13 of 14)
Series: God Walks with Us
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 47:7-10
Johnny Winter is best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s.
It's a long, hard, rocky road,?Well it's dog, dog eat dog, and survival of the fittest, so I'm told.?No matter how hard you try, life is hard and then you die.
Everybody . . . got their own cross to bear,?Black or white, rich or poor you know the blues is everywhere?Just keep reachin' for the sky life is hard and then you die.
The phrase ''Life is hard and then you die'' first appeared on a T-shirt in 1984, but we are not sure who decided to use it. It expresses the truth that living is difficult in our sinful world.
Solomon expressed a similar thought in his journal in Ecclesiastes 2:11 I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
:22-23 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow.
Why is life hard? There are three reasons: 1. We live in a sinful world and therefore bad things happen. 2. We have a sinful nature and therefore make wrong choices. 3. We are affected by the sinful choices of others.
PERSONAL OVERVIEW :7-9 Blessing :7 Derek Kidner - ''Jacob is sovereign old age personified: unimpressed by rank.'' He views Pharaoh as his equal. Hebrews 7:7 The lessor is blessed by the greater.
Jacob blessed Pharaoh - pronounced a benediction in God's name for allowing the family to come to Egypt to live during the famine. Genesis 49:25 Later when he blessed Jacob he said, ''The Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, and blessings of the deep springs below and blessings of the breast and womb.''
In other words, would God bless them with the sun and rain for their crops to grow and also their famili ...
Series: God Walks with Us
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 47:7-10
Johnny Winter is best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s.
It's a long, hard, rocky road,?Well it's dog, dog eat dog, and survival of the fittest, so I'm told.?No matter how hard you try, life is hard and then you die.
Everybody . . . got their own cross to bear,?Black or white, rich or poor you know the blues is everywhere?Just keep reachin' for the sky life is hard and then you die.
The phrase ''Life is hard and then you die'' first appeared on a T-shirt in 1984, but we are not sure who decided to use it. It expresses the truth that living is difficult in our sinful world.
Solomon expressed a similar thought in his journal in Ecclesiastes 2:11 I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
:22-23 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow.
Why is life hard? There are three reasons: 1. We live in a sinful world and therefore bad things happen. 2. We have a sinful nature and therefore make wrong choices. 3. We are affected by the sinful choices of others.
PERSONAL OVERVIEW :7-9 Blessing :7 Derek Kidner - ''Jacob is sovereign old age personified: unimpressed by rank.'' He views Pharaoh as his equal. Hebrews 7:7 The lessor is blessed by the greater.
Jacob blessed Pharaoh - pronounced a benediction in God's name for allowing the family to come to Egypt to live during the famine. Genesis 49:25 Later when he blessed Jacob he said, ''The Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, and blessings of the deep springs below and blessings of the breast and womb.''
In other words, would God bless them with the sun and rain for their crops to grow and also their famili ...
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