Finding Assurance In Uncertainties

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Pastor Vincent - 17 October 2013

Beware Of The Influence Of Sin

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Man often understand sin loosely. To many, sin is committing adultery, telling lies, taking drugs, murdering and more.. But sin is more than just the action of committing the wrong doings, it is the spiritual problem inside man that slowly creeps into us, without us knowing, that drives us away from the truth of God. It takes away our wanting to approach God fearlessly and stripping away our desire to come to Him. Sin is Satan's strongest weapon against evangelism. Because the moment you separate from the love of God, you lose the conviction in testifying for God. As a result, the world attracts you for it fulfills the desires inside you; the word gives you pressure and make you feel accused, for you know the truth but you cannot do it. Slowly, we are captured by fear than love. One day, we even lose the ability to love self and others. In fact, the most frightening thing in this world is not sinning but the unconsciousness of sins. It is through regeneration in Christ (born again) that one comes to realize the depth of our sins and the immense power of the finished work on the cross. If you want to overcome sin, you have to become a new person, born again in Christ. With a new life, there will be birth of new desire - and that is to seek God always and pursue Holy Living. Come to Lord and tell Him about your sins. Taste the sweetness of repentance today and leave Satan with no room in your heart to accuse you and toy your emotions. For Satan drives you away from God using the sins, God is still loving you and waiting for you to return, just like the prodigal son. Those forgiven much, love much. A person who has tasted the immense depth of God's love will hate sins and yearn to be in sync with God and testify for Him.

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Man dreads uncertainty because he has no control over it.

<Ecc 9> 11 I have seen something else under the sun:

The race is not to the swift
    or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
    or wealth to the brilliant
    or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.

12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.

  • Man cannot control Time and Chance <v11>.
  • God doesn’t give man full control  Man won’t be proud and self-reliant.
  • God wants to give us something better than Control  God Himself!
  • Uncertainty both a challenge and an opportunity.

 

Counter uncertainty with FAITH!

  • (NIV, 1984 version) Heb 11:1: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
  • Have greatest faith when there is least certainty/clarity.
  • [Standalone] Mother Teresa: “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.”
  • “Clarity” can become an idol that supplants our faith in God.
  • Do we prefer faith or clarity (certainty)?
  • Bible asks us to both trust and obey God.
  • Faith, not certainty, is what pleases God <Heb 11:6>.

 

What can we do by faith during uncertainties?

1）Find peace from God’s unchanging character and sure truth.

  • <Heb 13:8> Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
  • Often, our uncertainty is only a “felt” insecurity; God is still secure.
  • Build our peace not on the foundation of “known outcomes”, but on God.

 

2) Find out how God wants to change me through the uncertainties.

  • God is more interested in how I am transformed than how my situation changes.
  • Wrestle till can say, “Lord, not my will, but Yours be done.”

 

3) Focus on today, instead of worrying about tomorrow. 

  • <Mt 6:34> “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
  • Counting blessings today will give assurance for tomorrow.
  • “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength” – Corrie Ten Boom.
  • Worry means we care about something more than God.
  • Anxiety stops when we let God be the King in our concerns.
  • Bring specific worries to God in prayer.
  • Restore ‘assurance in the greater (God)’ to ease our ‘anxiety in the lesser’.

 

4) Make God’s kingdom our priority.

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Preacher Hui Jun
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Huijun serves as Secretary of The Blessed RUN Ministries. She is also the Preacher at The Life Church and Missions (Singapore). She graduated from Singapore Bible College and currently lives in Singapore with her husband, Chengji.

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