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WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?
Introduction:
1963 Hollywood movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”
Q. What in the world is going on?
A. It’s not what I think, it’s not what you think - but it’s what God knows
1. THE POSITION
Eccles. 3:2 “A time to be born, and a time to die”
Eccles. 1:4 “One generation passes away, and another generation comes”
Eccles. 1:5 “The sun also rises, and the sun goes down…”
1 Tim. 6:7 “...we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”
Eph. 2:12 We are “...without Christ...having no hope and without God in the world.”
1 John 5:19 “the whole world likes under the sway of the wicked one.”
Rom. 3:22-23 “...there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Note: “sin” lit. = “missing the mark”
Example: arrows at target/lawn bowls (bias)
2. THE PLAN
1 John 4:9 “...God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.”
1 Tim. 1:15 “...Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”
John 12:47 “I did not come into the world to judge the world but to save the world”
John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world...God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world…”
3. THE PROMISE
Rom. 10:13 “...whoever calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
John 16:33 “...In the world you will have tribulation, but cheer up, I have overcome the world”
John 14:27 “...My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Matt. 28:20 “...look, I am with you always, even to the end of the world (age).”
Heb. 13:5 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”