Let the Lord restore you!

[Simon Measures]

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Sermon: "High points, low points!"

Description: Sometimes you get it so right, sometimes you get it so wrong. How can you have more of the right and less of the wrong?

Key verses: Mark 8:22 - 33.

Duration: approx. 24 min.

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Responding well to life's knocks

by Pastor Simon Measures

Bible verse:

And He (Jesus) began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things...Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Mark 8:32 - 33 - NKJV

Reflection:

It's not what happens in your life that determines where you go from there but how you react or respond to what happens. It's all about the way you come away from something that happens, in your mind and in your spirit, that's going to determine where things are going to lead to from there. Peter got severely rebuked by Jesus for being totally out of order in response to what Jesus had said. Now, what this was going to lead to in Peter's life was going to be determined by how he reacted or responded to that rebuke.

Praise the Lord, Peter responded well. Peter resisted, and let drop, the temptation to be resentful, remorseful or in any way wounded in the long term over what had happened. As a result, he went on to teach the very things that he'd got all upset with Jesus for teaching. We read in his first epistle how he taught that the Spirit of Christ in the prophets spoke in advance of the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. So you see, after his folly and the rebuke, he picked back up his calling in Christ and walked on energetically and at liberty keeping himself close to his good Shepherd Jesus. Likewise, with some similarities, David the prophet and king refused to live in the long term in any way wounded by the events arising out of his relationship with Saul, the former king, but went on in his calling unhampered by debilitation. 1Pet.1:10-12. 1Sam.18-29.

How have you responded to the events of your past, both distant past and recent? Have you gone to the Lord with them, turned them over to him and let him mentally and spiritually set you free from any thing to do with them that would otherwise hamper your judgement in life or response to life? In life this is what you have to do constantly. John.8:36.

Let the Lord restore you!

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