Problems

We all have problems

Psalm 25:17 My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me

from them all!


“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Jean-

Jacques Rousseau

1. Impatient.


Numbers 21:4Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road

to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the

people grew impatient with the long journey…

1. The driving force behind impatience is control.

Psalms 115:3 Our God is in the heavens, and he does as

he wishes.

2. You can’t accelerate God’s blessings, but you can delay them.

1 Corinthians 10:10 and don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were

destroyed by the angel of death. 11 These things happened to them as examples for

us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.

2. Insolvent.


Proverbs 28:25 Greed causes

fighting; trusting the Lord leads to prosperity.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was

formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,

and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

1. Formless

2. Empty

3. Darkness

4. Deep

Average credit card debt in USA is $15,779.

Average number of credit cards per household is 3.5

But there is hope… “the spirit of God

was hovering over the waters”

3. Insecure.


Acts 15:11 We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of

the Lord Jesus.”

We are saved by grace through

faith, plus nothing. Period.

We are saved by grace through

faith, plus nothing. Period.

Why do we need

grace?

1. Unshakable peace.

Romans 1:7 I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved

by God and are called to be his own holy people. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ give you grace and peace.

2. Unlimited power.

Acts 6:8 Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and

power, performed amazing miracles and

signs among the people.

Main problem when Jesus is not central: Knowledge without power.

1. Knowledge without power is frustrating.2. Knowledge without power is dangerous.3. Knowledge without power makes secondary issues, primary.

Problems?

We have grace…

2 Corinthians 12:9 Each time he said, “My grace is

all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so

that the power of Christ can work through me.

Spiritual

Problems