Title: I'm Going from Oppression to My Blessing
Text: Jeremiah 50:33-34
Author: Darrow Perkins
INTRODUCTION: Have you ever felt like somebody was trying his or her best to keep you down and out? Have you ever felt like people were always out to get you? Do you know what it's like to try to get ahead but feel like there's something out there always trying to keep you behind? I've said before and I'll say it again that not everybody wants you to be successful and want things to work out in your life. They will do whatever they feel they need to do to stop you. Maybe you can reflect back on your job or at school at how somebody was scheming against you so they can get ahead. Their idea was to keep you oppressed so you won't succeed. The word oppression by definition means, "A feeling of being heavily weighed down in mind or body or the act of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power" and that's just what the devil wants to do in your life. He wants to keep you oppressed, wants you to be weighed down both in mind and body and if he can, he will. We need to know that the only way the devil can oppress us is if we let him. 1 Peter 5:8 tell us, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." Peter tells us that even though he's after us, we have control over him. I may be going through, but I'm on my way to my blessing!! I'm going from oppression to my blessing!
BACKGROUND/TEXT. Jeremiah is our writer and he spends his time talking and preaching to a rebellious people. The Babylonian captivity has taken place and now God is using Jeremiah to let the people know what it is He is able to do. Dr. Finis J. Dake gives this description of the Book of Jeremiah: "The prophecy of Jeremiah might be considered the great book on backsliding and the danger of apostasy. Apart from this only one other book even mentions the word backsliding (Hosea). He was the first prophet hav ...
Text: Jeremiah 50:33-34
Author: Darrow Perkins
INTRODUCTION: Have you ever felt like somebody was trying his or her best to keep you down and out? Have you ever felt like people were always out to get you? Do you know what it's like to try to get ahead but feel like there's something out there always trying to keep you behind? I've said before and I'll say it again that not everybody wants you to be successful and want things to work out in your life. They will do whatever they feel they need to do to stop you. Maybe you can reflect back on your job or at school at how somebody was scheming against you so they can get ahead. Their idea was to keep you oppressed so you won't succeed. The word oppression by definition means, "A feeling of being heavily weighed down in mind or body or the act of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power" and that's just what the devil wants to do in your life. He wants to keep you oppressed, wants you to be weighed down both in mind and body and if he can, he will. We need to know that the only way the devil can oppress us is if we let him. 1 Peter 5:8 tell us, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." Peter tells us that even though he's after us, we have control over him. I may be going through, but I'm on my way to my blessing!! I'm going from oppression to my blessing!
BACKGROUND/TEXT. Jeremiah is our writer and he spends his time talking and preaching to a rebellious people. The Babylonian captivity has taken place and now God is using Jeremiah to let the people know what it is He is able to do. Dr. Finis J. Dake gives this description of the Book of Jeremiah: "The prophecy of Jeremiah might be considered the great book on backsliding and the danger of apostasy. Apart from this only one other book even mentions the word backsliding (Hosea). He was the first prophet hav ...
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