Troublesome Times Are Here

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Troublesome Times Are Here
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• Comforting Verses
• WHYMES
• Why did God do this to ME?
• Why is it so much worse for ME?
• Why do these things happen to ME?
• Conclusion

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Comforting Verses

• Psalms 234 Yea, though I walk through the valley
  of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for
  thou art with me thy rod an thy staff they
  comfort me
• Romans 831 ...If God be for us, who can be
  against us?

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Why Me?(Why did God do this to ME?)

• Are we, as Christians, excluded from troubled
  times?
• Are we, as Christians, excluded from pain?
• James 113 Let no man say when he is tempted, I
  am tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with
  evil, neither tempteth he any man
• Matthew 545 ...God maketh his sun to rise on
  the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the
  just an on the unjust.

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Why Me?(Why did God do this to ME?)

• Matthew 724-27 Therefore whosever heareth these
  sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him
  unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
  rock 25. And the rain descended, and the floods
  came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that
  house and it fell not for it was founded upon a
  rock. 26. And every one tht heareth these sayings
  of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened
  unto a foolish man, which built his house upon
  the sand 27. And the rain descended, and the
  floods came, and the winds blew, and beat uon
  that house and it fell and great was the fall
  of it.

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Why Me?(Why is it so much worse for ME?)

• Do we, as Christians, have more severe troubled
  times?
• Do we, as Christians, endure more pain?
• 1 Corinthians 1013 There hath no temptation
  taken you but such as is common(or moderate) to
  man but God is faithful, who will not suffer you
  to be tempted above that ye are able but will
  with the temptation also make a way to escape,
  that ye may be able to bear it.
• 2 Corinthians 417 For our light affliction,
  which is but for a moment,...

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Why Me?(Why do these things happen to ME?)

• James 12-4, 12 My brethren, count it all joy
  when ye fall into divers temptation 3. Knowing
  this, that the trying of you faith worketh
  patience. 4. But let patience have her perfect
  work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting
  nothing. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth
  temptation for when he is tried, he shall
  receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
  promised to them that love him.

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Why Me?(Why do these things happen to ME?)

• 1 Peter 16-7 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though
  now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness
  through manifold temptations 7. That the trial
  of your faith, being much more precious than of
  gold that perisheth, though it be tried with
  fire, might be found unto praise and honour and
  glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ
• 2 Corinthians 417 ...worketh for us a far more
  exceeding and eternal weight of glory

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Why Me?(Why do these things happen to ME?)

• Romans 817-18 And if children, then heirs heirs
  of God, and joint-heirs with Christ if so be
  that we suffer with him, that we may be also
  glorified together. 18. For I reckon that the
  sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
  be compared with the glory which shall be
  revealed in us.
• Romans 828 And we know that all things work
  together for good to them that love God, to them
  who are the called according to his purpose.

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Conclusion

• 1 Peter 4
• Jobs Life
• Why did God do this to ME?
• Why is it so much worse for ME?
• Why do these things happen to ME?
• IT IS NOT ABOUT ME!
• Ecclesiastes 1213-14