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R u bitter? Ep 2826 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Dear having the gracious God.
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  Speaker 2: As we come before your holy presence, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for who you are and who you continue to be
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  Speaker 2: in each of our lives. We thank you for what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ did on the Cross of Calgary, allowing us
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  Speaker 2: one day to be absent from the body and present
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  Speaker 2: with You, Lord, and to be able to see all
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  Speaker 2: the believers of the household of faith. It's gone before us,
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  Speaker 2: including loved ones. As we en read a message, we
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  Speaker 2: actually allow your Holy Spirit to take it and make
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  Speaker 2: it real, make it real into the listener, and continue
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  Speaker 2: to make it real for my individual life.
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  Speaker 3: In Jesus's name, we ask him.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, oh man, welcome back to Challenges of Faith
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  Speaker 2: Radio program. I'd Gary m chann's thank you for joining
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  Speaker 2: because the last time we.
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  Speaker 1: Looked at are you thirsty?
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  Speaker 2: And I know since then you've been able to answer
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  Speaker 2: that question for your own individual life.
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  Speaker 1: In Matthew chapter five.
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  Speaker 2: Verse six, the word geary says Our Lord said, Blessed
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  Speaker 2: are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they
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  Speaker 2: shall be filled.
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  Speaker 1: You know I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Thirsty as I.
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  Speaker 1: Grabbing my water.
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  Speaker 2: It's a challenging experience of every born again new believer
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  Speaker 2: who goes three days in the wilderness without water, My
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  Speaker 2: brother and love the household of faith. You might want
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  Speaker 2: to go back to the Red Sea that determined if
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  Speaker 2: you're really crossed it. You might want to go back
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  Speaker 2: to see whether or not you are redeemed. And if
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  Speaker 2: your God's child. Remember now I didn't say a creation
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  Speaker 2: of God. That said God's child. You know what John
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  Speaker 2: chapter one, verse twelve talks about. But if in fact
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  Speaker 2: you're God's child, you can't go through the wilderness of
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  Speaker 2: this world without water, and I get thirsty. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the first lesson you and I to learn from Israel's
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  Speaker 2: wilderness experience. And remember we kind of touched on Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen, verse twenty three, where their second trial, their
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  Speaker 2: second experience came to play. Now, when they came tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: they could not drink the waters tomorrow, for they were better.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore the name of it was called Marra, which means better.
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  Speaker 2: And think about when the people of Israel, more than
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  Speaker 2: two million of them at that time, come tomorrow, the
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  Speaker 2: water is bitter and they can't drink it. Remember that
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  Speaker 2: they're redeemed people of God. You remember that. Remember they're
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  Speaker 2: on the line of March. God had marked their root
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  Speaker 2: on the map, and they're following it. You notice they're
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  Speaker 2: not out of the will of God. You notice they're
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  Speaker 2: at Marrow because God sent them there. I been a
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  Speaker 2: household of faith. Those bitter, challenging experiences come to the
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  Speaker 2: child of God have to converge. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to explain it, but I know it happens. And
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  Speaker 2: the question is, how many times have you heard from
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  Speaker 2: a new follower of Jesus Christ. Why does God let
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  Speaker 2: this happen to me? The apostle Peter over in one Peter,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four, verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: He knew all about suffering.
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  Speaker 3: Do you?
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  Speaker 1: He said, beloved, do not think.
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  Speaker 2: It's strange concerning the fiery, fiery trial, which is to
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  Speaker 2: try you, as though some strange thing happened to you.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't write as if something was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote it in the present tense. He said, that
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  Speaker 2: has happening to you, new believers of a household of faith.
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  Speaker 2: You're having trouble, You're having challenging trials. Trials are gonna come.
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  Speaker 2: Remember now you're either in a trial, waiting for one,
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  Speaker 2: or coming out of one.
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  Speaker 1: I can't explain it. But I can give this word
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  Speaker 1: a comfort.
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  Speaker 2: God is not punishing you, and you don't need to
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  Speaker 2: ask why does God let this happen to me?
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  Speaker 1: God is educating you. He's preparing you for something.
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  Speaker 2: Understanding the pathway of every believer of the household of faith,
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  Speaker 2: there's amorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Again. You're either in a trial, coming.
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  Speaker 2: Out of one, or waiting for one. The question is
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  Speaker 2: for your own life. Have you come to yours yet?
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  Speaker 2: And if you haven't, it's out there ahead of you.
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  Speaker 2: It's waiting for you. Many of you who are listening
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  Speaker 2: have been there, and some of you are right there today.
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  Speaker 2: But the good news is maorw isn't a place to live?
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  Speaker 2: Is simply a camping ground. God brings you tomorrow, but
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  Speaker 2: he won't leave you there. He'll bring you there and
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  Speaker 2: keeping that mind in the pathway of every believer of
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  Speaker 2: the house or the faith, there's tomorrow, Bitterness, don't.
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  Speaker 1: Look to a man, a woman, woman a man looked
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  Speaker 1: at God. Keep your eyes on Christ.
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  Speaker 2: You know the frustration or the disappointment, the bitter, challenging
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  Speaker 2: experience that comes to God's children.
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  Speaker 1: There are times, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: There are when the world, when.
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  Speaker 2: Society crushes in on you, and you wonder what to
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  Speaker 2: do next. And maybe somewhere in your life you had
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  Speaker 2: a challenging trial or challenging experience of the past, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe today that made you or making you better. God
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  Speaker 2: have mercy on you if you still hanging around Mara,
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  Speaker 2: because God never intended his children to stay there. And
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  Speaker 2: the question is what do you do with your marrows?
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  Speaker 2: How do you meet them? Do you notice what the
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  Speaker 2: children of his who did first? And the people complained
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  Speaker 2: against Moses, saying what shall we drink? How many times,
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  Speaker 2: my friends of the household of faith, when a challenging
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  Speaker 2: trial becomes bitter have you said the Lord, why do
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  Speaker 2: you let this happen to me? Why did these bitter
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  Speaker 2: waters have to be in my life? Do you notice
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  Speaker 2: what Moses did? So he cried out to the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord showed him a tree, and when he
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  Speaker 2: cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.
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  Speaker 2: There he made a statue and an ordinance for them,
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  Speaker 2: and there he tested them Exodus chapter fifteen, verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I believe this was a miracle. Did that tree turn
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  Speaker 2: the bitter waters into sweet? And the question is for
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  Speaker 2: your own individual life today? What is that for you today?
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  Speaker 2: What turns your bit of water?
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  Speaker 1: Sweep?
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  Speaker 2: That tree is across the Christ been the household of favor.
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  Speaker 2: I remember Christ has redeemed us from the curse of
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  Speaker 2: the law, having become a curse for us. Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: written curses everyone who hangs on a tree. And you
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  Speaker 2: can see that in the Galatians chapter three, verse thirteen. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my brother, my brother, and my brethren of the household
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  Speaker 2: of faith, Our Savior was falsely accused, He was lied on,
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  Speaker 2: he was blasphing, he was shamefully treated, and he bore
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  Speaker 2: every bit of it, and he bore the curse of
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  Speaker 2: sin for you and me, and me and you, And
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't his at all. And on that tree he
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  Speaker 2: tastes death for every member of the human family. Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember the record in John eighteen about the armed
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  Speaker 2: crowd that came to the c the seven to arrest
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  Speaker 2: the lord. Remember Simon Peter was so zealous for his
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  Speaker 2: lord and wanted to protect him the best he could.
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  Speaker 1: So he drew a sword, and he tried to use it.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when I saved, he said to Peter in John
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  Speaker 2: chapter eighteen, verse eleven, put up, put your sword into
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  Speaker 2: the sheep. Shall I not drink the cup which my
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  Speaker 2: father has given me. It was bitter. And every time
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  Speaker 2: I drink from the cup of community, I try to
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  Speaker 2: concentrate on the sweetness. And as I taste that sweetness,
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  Speaker 2: I think of the cup he drank. His was a
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  Speaker 2: bitter cup. That cup belonged to me. He took my cup,
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  Speaker 2: the bitter cup, that I might have the sweet cup.
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  Speaker 2: He did that for me. Paul, come write to you
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  Speaker 2: and I today. Oh death wears your stain, Oh grave,
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  Speaker 2: where's your victory over? In First Coinstance, Chapter fifteen, verse
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  Speaker 2: fifty five, no been the household of faith. Our Lord
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  Speaker 2: went to the cross and removed the bitterness. He wrote
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  Speaker 2: the courage he bore the curse. Listen to Simon Peter again,
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  Speaker 2: because you and I are going to.
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  Speaker 1: Have this challenging, challenging, challenging.
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  Speaker 2: Trial unless we put the Cross of Christ into the
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  Speaker 2: bitter experiences of our lives. But love greatly loved of God.
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  Speaker 2: Do not think it's strange concerning the fire, a feary
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  Speaker 2: trial which is to try you, or which has tested you,
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  Speaker 2: as though some strange thing happened to you. But rejoice
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  Speaker 2: to the extent that you partake of Christ is suffering.
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  Speaker 2: Then when his glory is revealed, you may also be
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  Speaker 2: glad with exceeding joy. And you can see that in
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  Speaker 2: first being here chapter four, verse twelve and thirteen, the
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  Speaker 2: fronds of the household of faith, You and I. When
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  Speaker 2: the bitter, challenging experience come, we're going to be made
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  Speaker 2: bitter unless we bring the Cross of Christ to bear
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  Speaker 2: in that experience. And the question is, must Jesus better
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  Speaker 2: across alone and all the world go free. No, there's
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  Speaker 2: a cross for everyone, and there is a cross from me,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what Thomas Shepherd shared. But the question is
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  Speaker 2: how we need to accept that and translate into life
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  Speaker 2: when the bitter experiences come to.
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  Speaker 1: You and you and you and you and me.
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  Speaker 2: And we look at the third willderness experience that the
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  Speaker 2: Israelites went through in Exodus chapter fifteen, verse twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Then they came to.
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  Speaker 2: Elam, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy
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  Speaker 2: palm trees.
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  Speaker 1: So they camped there by the.
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  Speaker 2: Waters, and Elam means palm trees and elm. They hit
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  Speaker 2: seventy of them. And besides that, they hit twelve wells
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  Speaker 2: of water.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that?
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  Speaker 2: And here you see that Elam suggests abundant blessings and
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  Speaker 2: fruitfulness after marrow.
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  Speaker 1: God always brings his.
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  Speaker 2: Children to a helum, and you can see that in
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  Speaker 2: Psalm chapter thirty, verse five. Weeping may endure for a night,
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  Speaker 2: but joy comes in the morning, and you can lock
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  Speaker 2: Peter in the enter prison. But you know what, an
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  Speaker 2: angel's gonna spring before morning. You can see that over
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  Speaker 2: in Act chapter twelve. Remember Paul and Silas may be
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  Speaker 2: beaten within the answer of their lives and put in
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  Speaker 2: a dungeon, but at midnight they're gonna sing praises to God,
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  Speaker 2: and the doors of the prison's gonna be flung open,
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  Speaker 2: like the word in Acts chapter sixteen. And God's gonna
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  Speaker 2: take you and I down by marrow, but he won't
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  Speaker 2: leave us there.
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  Speaker 1: There's an Elam ahead for.
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  Speaker 2: You and I today, because God, this plan of usefulness
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  Speaker 2: goes by marrow to elim It always has, and there's
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  Speaker 2: no exception. You remember Joseph as to grab another sip
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  Speaker 2: of my water. I know you remember Joseph the challenging
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  Speaker 2: trial and problems that he had, and maybe that's you today.
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  Speaker 2: But Joseph, when his brothers came to him, it was
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  Speaker 2: with fear that he take revenge on them. He said, wait,
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  Speaker 2: you minute for evil, but God meant it for good.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph's marble was when he was sold into slavery by
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  Speaker 2: these jealous brothers. But there was elim down the way.
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  Speaker 2: God brought Joseph to the oasis where they were in
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  Speaker 2: effect palm trees, an abundance of water. Remember you can
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  Speaker 2: see that in Genesis thirty seven through fifty. You remember
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  Speaker 2: David the shepherd boy. Remember one day Samuel appeared and
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  Speaker 2: poured the annoying oil on him. You remember after that,
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  Speaker 2: David was brought into the palace of Sault, and it
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  Speaker 2: looked like everything was going to be easy, and some
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  Speaker 2: said that it shouldn't to be easy for God's man.
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  Speaker 2: Do you really think it should be easy for God's man,
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  Speaker 2: a woman, woman, a man of God. One day David
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  Speaker 2: was before the king. Remember remember he was playing his
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  Speaker 2: heart to soothe him. Remember what Saul did. Saul through
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  Speaker 2: his spirit him. Saul tried to kill David because he
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  Speaker 2: hated him. And from that day on, David took to
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness and the caves and anything like that happened
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  Speaker 2: in your own life since you came to know the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ. But you remember David while he was
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness and the caves, and maybe you can identify. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: he even cried out to God. He said, I'm hunted
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  Speaker 2: like a partridge. Think about there's always a closed season
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  Speaker 2: on birds, but there's no closed season on David. Because Saul,
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  Speaker 2: when you read the account, hunted him constantly. David lived
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  Speaker 2: like apartress in the mountains. But there came a day
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  Speaker 2: when God placed David on that throne.
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  Speaker 1: And he became the king of our Israel. He's God's
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  Speaker 1: man like you are, and you are and you are.
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  Speaker 1: He went down by marrow, but God brought into Elam.
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  Speaker 2: Paul said, over and Philippians, chapter four, verse twelve, I
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  Speaker 2: know how to be a base, and I know how
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  Speaker 2: to think about it. In this influent and comfortable society
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  Speaker 2: in which you and I live, we may know how
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  Speaker 2: to a bound. But the question is how many of
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  Speaker 2: us today know how to be a base? My beloved
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  Speaker 2: brethren of a household of faith, How we need to
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  Speaker 2: be a base? But the question still remains. Has God
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  Speaker 2: brought you down by morraw because you thought he made
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. Maybe you thought you were out of the
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  Speaker 2: will of God. But he did it for a purpose,
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  Speaker 2: because he takes all of his children down by morra. Why,
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  Speaker 2: my brother and of the household of faith, get up,
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  Speaker 2: don't stay there, don't live there in bitterness, ir respect
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  Speaker 2: of what the challenging trial has been. Take the cross
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  Speaker 2: of Christ and put it into those bitter waters. And
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  Speaker 2: the question you got to still ask and answer, have
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  Speaker 2: you been mistreated because our Savior was mistreated?
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  Speaker 1: Have you been lied on? He was lied on?
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  Speaker 2: Have you been unable to defend yourself? Our savior chose
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  Speaker 2: not to and when he was falsely accused, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: open his mouth. Do you feel there's been injustice in
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  Speaker 2: your life? And if you've read the account of his trial,
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  Speaker 2: they nailed him to a cross, the greatest crime of history,
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  Speaker 2: Your little mar my little nothing compared to his. But
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  Speaker 2: put their cross into your experience, and it turned your
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  Speaker 2: bit of waters to sweep. And then go to Elam,
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  Speaker 2: because there's seventy palm trees there and twelve springs of water.
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  Speaker 2: Rest in the shade, my brethren of the household of faith.
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  Speaker 2: And while you're resting, sing sing your heart out praise
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  Speaker 2: to God, you'd open Psalm chapter thirty four, verse eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: The word not Gary the Lord. The Lord is near
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  Speaker 3: to the broken hearted, and he saves those crushed in spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I love you and praise you God for who you
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  Speaker 1: are and who you continue to be
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  Speaker 3: In my life.