Don’t Waste Your Crisis - Part 1 of 2

The Baptist Bible lowered no gums to you under the direction of Elder Lucero Bradley Junior will and share Bradley Junior inviting you to stay tuned for another message of God's sovereign and in and in and will and and and and and and and and and will and will and in and join us for the broadcast today and would encourage you to write an additional to listen our drinks. Baptist Bible Auerbach 1737, Cincinnati, OH 45217, more convenient, you can make a donation in our website at this Bible, our Lord. Today our guest speaker is Elder Mike Stewart Pastor of Heritage primitive Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama, never let a crisis go to waste, is a statement that has emerged in the last few years to express the idea that the crisis comes, it can be an opportunity to accomplish something for perhaps could not be accomplished any other time in American politician who is credited to the saying is actually believed by many not to be the source of it.

It was said to be stated first by Winston Churchill.

The 1940s. At the end of World War II when an unlikely trio came together at Yalta, Ukraine, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill and they together became the catalyst of what we call the United Nations today. So in a crisis and opportunity was seen in our day. It's used in a rather negative connotation, meaning in a crisis and opportunity to advance a cause that may be rather unpopular.

Well want to do today is take that statement.

Modify and then apply it scripturally and spiritually. With this title.

Don't let your crisis go to waste my crisis. I mean, anything that is causing you difficulty or trouble or danger I waste. I mean to expand or to use carelessly or to know purpose. So in other words, when a crisis comes, don't use that crisis in a way that has no value and no purpose. Don't let your crisis go to waste. We could apply that first two. The major crisis of covert, 19, have you wasted this crisis. How could it be wasted. We can apply that to much smaller crises like a personal crisis a relational crisis, a marriage crisis or church crisis, a family crisis. Don't let your crisis go to waste. So first of all crisis is not being wasted when God's glory is your highest aim. You might say, that goes without saying, which I would disagree with that God does not go without saying in Scripture that his glory is his highest concern. In fact he says it over and over and over again. It's not some foundation that we assume it's always there. Every time we enter a crisis. In fact, I think you need to verbalize it. We need to say at one another. We need to remind one another that God's glory is to be the highest supreme goal and concern. If not, what becomes your major concern in a crisis future will be future assets future comforts future conveniences not suggesting those things don't have any importance, but they must always be secondary to the primary which is God's glory. If God's glory is not our greatest concern then you will likely waste your crisis someone 15 that was just read, not on to us. Oh Lord, not to us, give glory but to thy name for thy mercy and I true sake.

Wherefore do the heathens say where is now by God, what's the answer. Our God is in the heavens yet done whatsoever.

He hath pleased the contact is some crisis because that's why the heathen are mocking rude, where is your God now, some 42 my food, my tears have been my meet day and night while they continually say where is your God.

David is downcast. David is going through a crisis, a personal crisis, and the nations that even the pagan are ridiculing David why do the heathen ask such a question. Where is your God because their view of deity is man centered, that is if you have a God that cared for you.

You wouldn't be in crisis.

It would be over fast.

Your wealth would be to restored and none of this would be happening to you, David. So where is the God that you serve now. See if we beloved have a man centered view of God in our crisis than we will pose the same question to our God, where are you God needs you was the answer.

Our God is in the heavens yet done he is doing. He will do whatever he pleases and what is his pleasure. Verse one unto thy name.

Give glory for thy mercy and I truth's sake, God's greatest concerning your crisis is God and his name and the exaltation of his mercy and the et al. exaltation of the truth about God. So in covert or any other crisis now over a year later all things of settled there still much concern about the name of God is the exaltation of God in any crisis. The psalmist is echoing that the pleasure of God is his pleasure when he says not about us, not about us but to your name. Give glory that must be our greatest concern and I acknowledge it is not always our greatest concern isn't so when you moving to crisis that should be the first and foremost thinking in your mind what whatever decisions must be made. Whatever needs to happen whatever pain you're in, not unto me, Lord, not on the us Lord but unto your name. Give glory, for your mercy and your true sake. And here's the paradox of that statement. You may say what about me is he totally left out for the good of Israel.

The good of Israel must not be Israel's highest concern for the good of your marriage.

The good of your marriage must not be the highest concern for the good of the church the good of the church must not be the church's highest concern and for the good of society. The good of society must not be societies greatest concern when we have that formula plugged in our thinking. What happens then our good is placed where it should be when were aiming for God's glory, then your own good is brought into view when you're not your own good is never brought into view, that's paradoxical but that's the truth of Scripture. So number one crisis is not being wasted your crises were talking about all the crisis we may go through.

Whether it's something major like a pandemic or something on a smaller scale, which is no less painful. Personally is God's glory, your grace, concern, number two, your crisis is not being wasted. When your crisis is working for you was covered 19 your servant or your master, that's the question. No man can serve two masters. He will love the one and hold to the other hate the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and men now crisis is not a master.

What a crisis does is it reveals your mastery is that is who your loving and holding to and who you're hating and despising and how crisis reveals that is your disposition. When the crisis comes. If you're continually experiencing anger, wrath, frustration, depression, anxiety and fear to the point where they rule you in the crisis has just revealed your serving in that moment now. In any crisis, those emotions are going to be struggled against something.

Who would hear say that in a crisis. There is never any fear never in anxiety and never knew those emotions, but you see when the crisis is your servant than the crisis reveals something to you that God aims for you to know about your own disposition that the crisis revealed I was there when everything was going fine, but the crisis revealed something about yourself she would not of known unless the the trouble. The difficulty had not hit your home. Paul said, but our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for me.

He says us, but includes himself.

Paul's affliction is crisis, which was, not really light in our estimation it wasn't for a moment it seemed most of his life was in the service of Paul. It worked for him to give Paul a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while he looked at that was eternal, not that which is temporal to the idea under this point is that because God in his sovereignty in his providence, he is causing everything to come into the service of the counsel of his will. Ephesians 111.

The most sweeping statement of God's sovereignty. Perhaps the entire Bible and who also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated, according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, that we should be to the praise of his glory. There's a story who first trusted in Christ, in whom ye also trusted when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation Jews. We first Gentiles second all coming to the church of God.

What is Paul saying the sovereign counsel and will of God with no constraints nor external force nor influence whatsoever is at work to bring about everything according to that counsel. In keeping with the purpose. What is that purpose, you should be to the praise of the glory of his grace that you should fire the glory of God.

That purpose is according to predestination, which is the guarantee of the inheritance. So when God predetermined to give his chosen an inheritance in the purpose of that would be we would experience something that would bring about the praise of God's glory which God now is making everything at the universal statement he is bringing about here is making sure that everything is brought into the service of that purpose. According to his sovereign counsel and will when we had that view of a crisis.

That means your crisis fits that service the pandemic is in the service of God to bring about his divine purpose of predestination that we should be to the glory of his grace does not fit all things that universal your crisis moment, no matter how small it is relationally marital family church is in the service of God that it would bring forth the praise of the glory of his grace to how does that happen what what has to happen then is we have to see those idols the don't praise God's glory right those idols that we hold onto that we serve that sometimes master us.

God with the million things he does in a crisis. One of them is which. He's he's revealing to us the idols of the heart that express themselves when when something is ripped out of our hand. We love that we like our response to that pain and sorrow can be indicative of a heart that's attached itself to something rather than God and God's gracious purpose is aiming. Predestination is adoption.

The inheritance of which is God the father and everything that comes along with that in heaven you had to separate those two whatever heaven brings its God the father in all the comes with it and I gracious purpose of predestination. According to Romans eight is that we be conformed to the image of Christ. That means crisis is the servant of God in your life inform you more to his blessed image because being conformed is how we bring praise to his glory like Christ listened. Romans 835 four Paul poses the question, who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, danger or sword. That's just a holistic crises covers the gamut almost as danger, persecution, sword, that's for death as it is written, we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Psalm 44. I think Paul brings that in to show that the crises is not owing to a particular sin, because in Psalm 44.

They were serving God. They kept the covenant they had not gone backwards, and yet God was slaughtering them all the day long. Other words God was doing the killing read it. Psalm 44 one snow wasn't because God was after them.

They were serving God and yet they were being slaughtered. What will God's sake.

What's God's highest concern in your crisis for God's sake we are being killed.

That's his ultimate concern when it is then your.

His concern all those in Christ once answer that question, who shall separate us nothing.

They know and all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us, rather than the crises separating us from the love of God comes in with the crises and we become more than conquerors through death or persecution of the trial. The crises, how a conqueror just simply subdues his enemy, but a more than a conqueror.

That's one word in the Greek subdues the enemy and the enemy then serves the best interest of the conqueror.

This is how crises serve us see when tribulation or crises comes into your life. It reveals something of the idols of the heart. Then, by the grace of the Lord Jesus and the love of God.

The sword of the Spirit is taken and then it subdues that sinful disposition. The anger, the wrath, the frustration the bitterness the resentful attitudes and then by the spirit of God.

We put to death.

Colossians 3 Romans eight those sinful dispositions and then the crises became our servant rather than our master because it actually moved us closer to God rather than away from God is your crisis, your servant or your master. I don't mean do you have any idols.

Beloved, we do. I mean her view, viewing it from the divine perspective so that your crisis is not wasted because God is revealing things about your own heart through your words, your attitudes through your relationships of what he aims for the crisis to reveal so that you could be more to the praise of the glory of his grace is that gracious of God, isn't God good is the merciful number three. Your crisis is not being wasted. When your crisis is working.

Patients endurance James chapter 1 verse two my brethren counted all joy when you fall into divers temptations knowing this, that the trying of your faith is bringing about a working patients, but let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Patience means endurance, steadfastness, perseverance, the testing of your faith is bringing about perseverance now to have your faith tested means to prove something. It's like proof of a test in school.

The proof of a test or test itself does not create intelligence right near tested. You don't gain any knowledge. It's proven with its they're not when you're tested faith doesn't come into existence.

It's proven as to its genuineness. How do you know it's genuine because you endured the crisis.

What's the opposite of endurance drawing back moving away from God is not a potential crisis ever thought about just giving it up in crisis, it's over for me had ever been tempted to lose heart, to the point we say it's too hard is too much.

I can't take it anymore God is graciously testing your faith is showing here. Genuineness by your perseverance.

That's why James says she's accounted joy accounted joy me to leave before the mind. It's it's a similar expression. Although different words to what Jesus did, who had joy set before what that means. This is not joyful crisis is not easy. It's not fun. The cross was not a joy for Jesus. It was excruciating pain and he was separated from his father, but he had joy or he counted it all joy because it was leading his mind, he counted joy when you're counting it joy. The crisis comes, it will help sustain you because genuine faith produces joy that sustains you in the crisis. He was 1035 cast not away your confidence, which have great recompense of reward. What was there confidence you took joyfully the spalling of your goods because you know you know in heaven. You have an enduring and abiding substance other words they had counted all joy when they lost the possessions. Why did legs apart from God because they were counting it joy in heaven. My choices treasures. Why is with the thinking therefore that away because the pressure was getting so great summer departing don't throw that confidence to counting it joy. Why, for you have need of patients. Note the connection you need to endure what can help you endure. Keep your confidence what your confidence keep counting it all joy. If you throw that away and loose side of eternity in your hope. What happens you lose your confidence and you stop enduring. How massively critical joy of faith is beloved of a crisis is going to strip from your hands.

Things of joy as I don't mean that's all bad things that God says you can enjoy a crisis will strip it right. How of your hands.

What will you do then what did Kovic take away from people that was joyful, took away family members did not tickle her loved ones whom they enjoy took away businesses took away all the benefits of that vacations and homes took away athletics joy was stripped from your hands now happens that your ultimate joy will fall away, but if you counted all joy cast away your confidence because you need patience so that after you do the will of God, then you receive the promise. What's the promise eternal life really will come will, will not carry now the just shall live by faith, and he the draws back my social have no pleasure in him. We are not within the draw back into perdition but then did believe to the saving of the soul.

So what James is saying the testing of your faith produces patience because were counting it all joy is then going to lead us to want perfection all along and in law is an ear speaker today has been elder Mike Stewart, pastor of Heritage primitive Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama now until next week. At the same time in the Lord richly bless you all.

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