2024-08-04 Sermon Notes1
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Psalm 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
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- God produces all the Earth's food. Man does not and cannot create food.
- We rely on God to grow food.
- This should humble us.
- This should cause us to thank God.
- Genesis 1:29 God gave every green plant to us for food
- God also provides the grass for the cattle and the cattle for man.
- On the other hand, this world is blind to the works of God.
- This world speaks of natural laws but laws themselves cannot act upon themselves. Something must act, something must create and enact the laws and govern the world and conform the world to those laws.
- Today we say It rained, whereas the ancients would say God rained on the Earth.
- This kind of language is our meager attempt to forget that it is God who is in command of the weather and the universe.
- Psalm 104:3: God makes the clouds His chariot. We should see God in the clouds and throughout the universe.
- Nothing works by itself, apart from God.
- The trees don't grow by themselves, the sun doesn't shine by itself, the jet engine doesn't spin by itself.
- God's power, and wisdom sustains and propels all things.
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- Our God is an untiring worker.
- We ought to see God even in common things.
- God makes grass to grow. Yes God is even in the grass.
- He's in your every day life.
- Do not say I must see a miracle, in order to see God.
- Really, every single part of creation is a manifestation of God. God is at work in it all.
- The little things in life are often the greatest troubles. Yet God is present in it all.
- God makes every single part of the universe live and grow and move.
- Even the grass growing, high in the mountains, far off the trail, where no traveler has ever seen.
- Are you oppressed, beaten or forgotten? Do not fret. God has not even forgotten you.
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- God is also a great caretaker:
- The works of God care for His creation, providing for our needs.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9-18
- God's command that you shall not muzzle the ox shows that God cares for all the animals of the field
- It also shows that God wants His servants to be provided for by their labor.
- Psalm 147:9: God even provides for the defiled ravens.
- God cares for the beasts of the field even when they are too dumb to speak. Even though they shed no tears for repentance.
- ⭐ How much more does God care for us, whom He died for and made in His own image?
- God cares for us, even when no one else does.
- God even cares for us by providing suitable food to us.
- God provides grass for the cattle, just the sort of food that the cattle need to grow and thrive.
- God is not merely trying to help. He is actually helpful. Actually meeting our needs.
- He cares enough to want to help, cares enough to know precisely how to help, cares enough to do the work necessary to actually help.
- So let us see God's hand of providence.
- Let us see his providence, not only in times of plenty, but even in times of lack.
- Trust in the LORD's gracious and bountiful provision for you and all creatures.
- God provides
- 2 Samuel 9:7, 23
- Psalm 23:2
- In The Lord’s Supper, God feeds us, not only with physical food, but the spiritual food that we desperately need.
- God feeds you and cares for you. He has not forgotten any of your needs.
- You can trust God's good and perfect plan
- Every winter precedes a time of growth and abundance.
- God is providing for us even when we don't see it. Even when we don't understand. Even when we experience lack, pain, or adversity.
- Isaiah 55:9: His ways are higher than our ways
- Romans 8:32: God who gave us His own Son, How would He not also freely give us all things?
- God is not against us. He is for us, and if He is for us, who could be against us.
- Therefore, we ought to thank God not only for the blessings but even for the adversity He sends.
- Sooner or later we all experience such great pain that we feel that no one else could understand. Take it to Jesus. He understands, and He cares.
- Sermon on the mount:
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