Podcast: It's so easy for God to accomplish HIS purpose

 

 

 

Every word and purpose of God will come to pass, from the beginning of time to the end of time.

To try to accomplish his own purpose, man schemes, connives, works to figure out how to get other men to accomplish his own purpose. And often fails in the end.  It is an incredibly hard yoke.

When God spoke to Abraham, God told Abraham what would happen.

Genesis 12

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him;

God said what HE would do.  Man thinks, "HOW?"

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Genesis 15

1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

5 And HE brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and HE said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

(Sarah was barren at the time God spoke this.  HOW? can this be, says Abraham?  We have to know, if God says something, it will happen.)

6 And he believed in the LORD; and HE counted it to him for righteousness.  

We don't have to try to figure out how to make it happen.  God already knows HOW it can be done even before HE speaks.  God knows the end from the beginning.

All we do is to believe what God says to us about the situation.  God has a way to accomplish HIS purpose.  When it comes to pass, we look back and understand how the pieces fit and marvel at God's work.

But when we as humans try to make something happen we often become very twisted and even evil.

When it is so easy for God to make what HE want to happen happen.

Rarely would we have chosen God's way to go, and yet we see it work.

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I Corinthians 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

So as we read the Old Testament, we see the way God operates in the situation.  

And often we come to understand God has the answer before the question arose.  And we learn to follow God and rest in this knowledge that God has everything under control and things will be done according to that which God shows us.

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God shows Joseph what will happen.

Genesis 37

Dream # 1:  And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

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9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

The brothers hated Joseph and envied Joseph.  They sold Joseph into slavery and Joseph was taken down into Egypt as a slave when he was 17-years-old.  Joseph had only the clothes on his back.  But God is with Joseph.  Everything Joseph touches prospers because God is with him. God is able to turn disasters into gold mines, and God puts Joseph exactly where he wants Joseph to cause Joseph to rise to 2nd in command only to Pharaoh.  And by this, Joseph will be able to deliver the nation of Israel during the 7 years of famine.

Joseph did nothing except go through the door God opened for him.  Joseph didn't make it happen.  Joseph just did that which God set before him.  Joseph didn't have to figure out how to get there.  Joseph just did that which God showed him to do and everything worked out and the purpose of God was fulfilled for his life.

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