Propheliars Not Prophesiers

Jeremiah 29:4-13

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News FeedAn Experiential Exegesis of Things that Come UpTo Break You Down1. We sometimes feel

like Gideon: if God is for me why has all this mess happened to me?

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News FeedAn Experiential Exegesis of Things that Come UpTo Break You Down2. We sometimes feel

like the exiles: your predicament contradicts your promise

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An Experiential Exegesis of Things that Come Up to Break You Down

3. We sometimes

feel like the captives:

your harp is hung and

there is no happiness in

your harmony

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The Psychology of Emotions

A. If you let what

happens to you get in you, it will

poison your perspective

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The Psychology of Emotions

B. Whenever you are

weak and wounded,

you become

vulnerable to false

prophets

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Point 1.

• Some propheliars were declaring, “All you have to do is believe though you have not behaved.”

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Point 2.

• If you don’t think right you can’t live right, and if you aren’t faithful, you don’t really have faith.

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Thesis:

• God is not out to deliver us from our mess (by the rapture or a miracle), but deliver in our mess to his own glory.

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• There is not only difference-making faith, but disposition-making faith.

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• The Lord of hosts is captain and commander-in-chief of innumerable invisible angelic armies that operate on behalf of the believer in hostile enemy territory.

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Point 4.

• Once you process your past providentially, then God’s providence uses what came to break you to give you disposition-making faith, so you can turn the word of faith into a way of faithful living.

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News FeedWhat to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You1. Start where you are,

using what you have, to create the kingdom God intends, 5

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Definition:

• In this life, happiness is not something you find some place, some where, with some one, but joy is what you create by a correct relationship with Christ.

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Point 5.

• You receive happiness (“blessed”) after holiness.

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News FeedWhat to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You2. Build your family to

build this church to reach the community, 6

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• Getting a life is really rooted in ministry

running on the rails of relationships.

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News FeedWhat to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You3. To overcome present

stuff, there is past stuff you have to get over, 10-11

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News FeedWhat to Do Since Jesus Is Back Coming for You4. When life goes bad

recognize God is up to something good, and good will come when you call in prayer and seek him with all your heart, 12-13

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Point 6.

• True hope is based on your understanding God’s word, praying for God’s will, and seeking God’s ways.