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WE RESUME IN-PERSON SERVICES ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Sundays at 10:00am and Wednesdays at 7:00pm.
Please click the EVENTS page for more information about events and Live Streaming
HINDSIGHT IS 2020
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. – 1 Corinthians 10:11
2020 was a year to remember that many would rather forget. Many churches, business and individuals adopted the obvious theme “2020 Vision.” However, in all of the planning, preparation and vision casting for 2020, nobody expected the inevitable nightmare that was about to unfold.
If we had been told – we would not have believed
If we had been warned – we would not have prepared
If we knew what was going to happen we would have wondered if could make it
BUT MIDNIGHT CAME ON JANUARY 1st – AND 2021 BEGAN - GOD BROUGHT US THROUGH IT!
It wasn’t without a lot of pain
It wasn’t without loss and death
It wasn’t without a struggle
The most important thing is that we made it through 2020 and we are standing on the promises of God in 2021!
GOOD RIDDANCE!
There have been a lot of jokes but most people are serious when it comes to how they feel about the year 2020. GOOD RIDDANCE! Maybe you burned your calendar at midnight or shot it full of holes. The general concession is “let’s forget it ever happened.”
HINDSIGHT IS 2020
In 1 Corinthians 10, the Apostle Paul details the deliverance of Israel from Egypt’s bondage land and the subsequent provision of God for them through the wilderness.
Paul tells this story as a scholar of the Law. He tells it with attention to detail and a profound declaration that
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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.
In essence, he was saying, you need to learn from this example. All that God did for Israel during their deliverance becomes a lesson for us today! He brought them through the Red Sea on dry ground. He destroyed the armies of Pharaoh. He gave them water from a rock, manna from Heaven and quail to eat. But they viewed everything that God did for them as God simply doing something for them TODAY. In reality God was doing something for them today so they could believe what he could do tomorrow.
Asaph says this in Psalm 78. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy. - Psa 78:40-42 KJV
They could not believe what God could do today because they forgot what God did for them yesterday.
HINDSIGHT IS 2020
What we went through in 2020 was not just a day to day making it by the skin of our teeth. God was teaching us something. If I can bring you through this, I can bring you through what comes next!
What happened yesterday is preparing us for what happens today
What happens today is preparing us for what happens tomorrow
It’s not situational it’s not circumstantial, it’s all part of His plan
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… What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? - Rom 8:28 and 31 KJV
All things (pä's) meaning - of a certain definite totality or sum of things, the context shewing what things are meant:
Work together (sün-er-ge'-o) meaning - to assist, help (be serviceable to) one for a thing
For good (ä-gä-tho's) meaning - to advantage
Paul didn’t say everything that happens is good. He didn’t really say everything that happens is for our good. He said, when you look at what has happened or even what you are going through right now, understand this; the sum of what happened, shows me the purpose and assists me in knowing this ONE THING – God used it to my advantage!
Looking back, I can see that we need to pray more. We need to be in church more often. We are our brother’s keeper. The Lord is coming soon and we need to trust that God will help us make it to the end.
Hindsight is 2020!
2020 was a year to remember that many would rather forget. Many churches, business and individuals adopted the obvious theme “2020 Vision.” However, in all of the planning, preparation and vision casting for 2020, nobody expected the inevitable nightmare that was about to unfold.
If we had been told – we would not have believed
If we had been warned – we would not have prepared
If we knew what was going to happen we would have wondered if could make it
BUT MIDNIGHT CAME ON JANUARY 1st – AND 2021 BEGAN - GOD BROUGHT US THROUGH IT!
It wasn’t without a lot of pain
It wasn’t without loss and death
It wasn’t without a struggle
The most important thing is that we made it through 2020 and we are standing on the promises of God in 2021!
GOOD RIDDANCE!
There have been a lot of jokes but most people are serious when it comes to how they feel about the year 2020. GOOD RIDDANCE! Maybe you burned your calendar at midnight or shot it full of holes. The general concession is “let’s forget it ever happened.”
HINDSIGHT IS 2020
In 1 Corinthians 10, the Apostle Paul details the deliverance of Israel from Egypt’s bondage land and the subsequent provision of God for them through the wilderness.
Paul tells this story as a scholar of the Law. He tells it with attention to detail and a profound declaration that
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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.
In essence, he was saying, you need to learn from this example. All that God did for Israel during their deliverance becomes a lesson for us today! He brought them through the Red Sea on dry ground. He destroyed the armies of Pharaoh. He gave them water from a rock, manna from Heaven and quail to eat. But they viewed everything that God did for them as God simply doing something for them TODAY. In reality God was doing something for them today so they could believe what he could do tomorrow.
Asaph says this in Psalm 78. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy. - Psa 78:40-42 KJV
They could not believe what God could do today because they forgot what God did for them yesterday.
HINDSIGHT IS 2020
What we went through in 2020 was not just a day to day making it by the skin of our teeth. God was teaching us something. If I can bring you through this, I can bring you through what comes next!
What happened yesterday is preparing us for what happens today
What happens today is preparing us for what happens tomorrow
It’s not situational it’s not circumstantial, it’s all part of His plan
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… What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? - Rom 8:28 and 31 KJV
All things (pä's) meaning - of a certain definite totality or sum of things, the context shewing what things are meant:
Work together (sün-er-ge'-o) meaning - to assist, help (be serviceable to) one for a thing
For good (ä-gä-tho's) meaning - to advantage
Paul didn’t say everything that happens is good. He didn’t really say everything that happens is for our good. He said, when you look at what has happened or even what you are going through right now, understand this; the sum of what happened, shows me the purpose and assists me in knowing this ONE THING – God used it to my advantage!
Looking back, I can see that we need to pray more. We need to be in church more often. We are our brother’s keeper. The Lord is coming soon and we need to trust that God will help us make it to the end.
Hindsight is 2020!