GYC SE Spring Conference 2019

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GYC Southeast

Dee Casper

Is God Enough?

God in heaven, thank you for the privilege to pray, to serve you, to know you.

And Lord, I ask that you would speak to us 1 last time together as we address a topic that I think is very, very important to us.

You said, as it was in the days of Lot, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man, and remember Lot's wife." There must be lessons here for us in the context of the Second Coming that you want us to learn.

I have already covered some this morning.

We ask for your blessing, for your presence, and for you to teach us above all else.

I believe Jesus is coming soon to claim his bride.

I believe that scripture tells us that before this happens, there's going to be a time of great distress and a massive crisis that will come upon our earth.

And I believe that what we're about to cover can help us to better understand and prepare for that crisis.

Many of our people are wrestling with trust issues.

They're convinced that God is going to ask things of them that they really don't want to deal with, at least not right now.

We'll say, Jesus, I'll do whatever you want, but don't touch this.

I want to pay off my debt and retire first.

Some of us are just hoping against hope that Jesus will not cross that line of those things that we just don't want to deal with, at least not yet.

But it's not what God is going to ask of us that we really need to be concerned about.

Our first lesson is to learn the will of God, even though we pass through trying circumstances.

And then, knowing His will, we're to do what?

And then she says, such obedience will how frequently be rewarded?

So our primary objective as Christians is to find out what it is that God wants and to obey unquestioningly.

And when we do this, obedience is always rewarded.

Because sometimes you just wonder, like every time, because sometimes I felt like I wasn't real.

Maybe you're being rewarded in a ways that you don't appreciate right now, but you will appreciate later.

That doesn't mean you're gonna understand how you're being rewarded, but we are told that you will be.

So surrendering to The will of God is not what you need to be afraid of.

When God lets man have his own way, it's the darkest hour of his life.

It was like a freight train plowed into my bedroom when I first read this.

How many people can testify to that today?

I believe that these 2 principles of obeying unquestionably and always being rewarded and doing our own thing and going through some stuff, the darkest hour of our life, I believe this plays out very clearly in the contrasting lives of Abraham and Lot.

He's not Abraham yet, but I may fudge and call him Abraham before he's called Abraham and just chill out.

Genesis chapter 12, beginning of verse 1.

Now the Lord said to Abram, get out of your country, from your family, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.

So immediately there's some costs here, right?

God gives a call to Abraham and he says, he says, I need you to leave where you live.

I need you to leave your family and you're pulling up stakes before you even know where you're going to land at the end of the day.

How many people have been in a life situation like that before?

I literally stepped down from a job before knowing what it was that I would do next.

I just knew I was going to move to a geographic location, but I did not know what I would have employment wise.

I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing.

Now how many children does Abram have at this stage?

0 kids, but I'm going to bless you and give you a family.

I will curse him who curses you and you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Hey, that's a big call, isn't it?

Then we get to verse 4, Genesis 12 verse 4, So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.

And Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.

So when he's called out of Babylon, as was talked about this morning, he's 75, okay?

So Lot is with him, Lot is his nephew, but he's basically going to become a son to him because he's taking responsibility for Lot.

We get to Genesis chapter 13, we get to verse 1, and when Abram gets into Canaan land, the promised land that God has called him to, listen to this, then Abram went up from Egypt, so first, sorry, first of all, later in chapter 12, when they get to the promised land, there's famine in the land.

Now just imagine, you're following the call of God.

He says, go to a land that I'm going to show you.

He does show you, and the very place that God leads you can't even provide for you.

So he's in a situation where God calls him and there's famine.

And so he eventually has to go down into Egypt to be provided for for a span.

And as he's in Egypt, he ends up doing something that he shouldn't have done.

He says, to get himself out of trouble, he says that Sarai is my sister.

And you say, well, that is kind of a true statement.

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