Southview Baptist Church
Consider Your Ways: Hope in God
Pastor Nathan Wakefield continues the Malachi portion of the Consider Your Ways sermon series. This week, we learn that there are so many things in which we might hope, we need to make sure we hope in God! Video of the worship service is available beginning Sunday at 9:30 AM at https://southviewbaptist.org/live.
Locations & Times
Southview Baptist Church
3434 S 13th St, Lincoln, NE 68502, USA
Sunday 9:30 AM
1. Common Question: Why do good things happen to bad people? (2:17)
• A Related Question: Why has God not acted on my behalf yet?
• The question actually betrays a deeper, more dangerous question. Is God really just?
• Questions are okay, rebellion is not!
Action: Determine right now that when doubts arise you will face those doubts by crying out, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
• A Related Question: Why has God not acted on my behalf yet?
• The question actually betrays a deeper, more dangerous question. Is God really just?
• Questions are okay, rebellion is not!
Action: Determine right now that when doubts arise you will face those doubts by crying out, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
2. The Scary Answer: Because God has not chosen to judge them yet. (3:1‑3:4)
• God's timeline is on a scale we cannot comprehend. (1)
• God's actions are the actions of a refiner. (2‑3)
• God's goal is acceptable worship. (4)
Action: Pray and ask God for patience while also checking your own worship to make sure it is pure.
• God's timeline is on a scale we cannot comprehend. (1)
• God's actions are the actions of a refiner. (2‑3)
• God's goal is acceptable worship. (4)
Action: Pray and ask God for patience while also checking your own worship to make sure it is pure.
3. The Assuring Answer: God's children have no need to fear His judgment. (3:5‑3:6)
• God demands that people live according to a high moral standard and God will purge! (5a)
• The real problem is not so much a laundry list of sins, but a failure to revere God. (5b)
• Those who are called by God can rest confident in His immutability. (6)
Action: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as you patiently place your hope in God's timing.
• God demands that people live according to a high moral standard and God will purge! (5a)
• The real problem is not so much a laundry list of sins, but a failure to revere God. (5b)
• Those who are called by God can rest confident in His immutability. (6)
Action: Take some time to praise God for His promise of Salvation as you patiently place your hope in God's timing.
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