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But God
John Ogden Sr
May 20, 2025
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil” (Job 1:1, NKJV).
“Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys” (Job 42:12, NKJV).
Job went through many tests and trials. He was attacked in every area, from his family to his health and finances. There would be no hope for Job.
BUT GOD
God promised Abraham that he would be the father of many nations. What is interesting is that Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing. In the natural, there was no hope of Abraham being the father of many nations as he was childless and advanced in years.
BUT GOD
Three Hebrew children, who refused to bow down to the king, were sentenced to be thrown into the fiery furnace. This surely would have meant death for them.
BUT GOD
In the story of Daniel, King Darius signed a decree that whoever petitioned any god or man in the next thirty days other than the king was to be cast into a den of lions. Daniel, refusing to obey the king’s decree, continued to openly pray to God. Daniel was thrown into the lion’s den and would have been eaten by the hungry lions.
BUT GOD
Peter, a disciple of Jesus Christ with a hot temper, denied Christ three times. He would appear to be unfit as a leader in the Christian faith.
BUT GOD
Lazarus was a man who had been dead for four days and had started to decay.
BUT GOD
There are untold numbers of people in desperate and hopeless situations, people that the world has given up on, people the doctors have sent home with no hope, Christians who have backslidden on God, men and women who were greatly used by God at one time, who may find themselves in hopeless situations. May I remind you to take the hopelessness of your situation and place it in God’s hands. He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could ask or think.
WHERE WOULD WE BE, BUT GOD?
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