Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
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… He's feeling like, I don't know what to do anymore. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves. Why, why, why, why, why? that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God. Why? What's his resume? Why should we trust him? Who raises the dead? Can you do that? Didn't think so, right? So my case, Paul says, for why you should trust in God, not yourselves. When a blinking dashboard light on your soul goes off, saying, I feel like I'm an imposter. I don't feel like I have what it takes. Say, that's your cue to get on your knees and trust in God. Because guess what? He can do the impossible. Proof, case in point, he raises the dead. Verse 10, who delivered us from so great a death, past tense, hell, sin, the grave, he does deliver us actively, presently, currently, in whom we trust. He still will deliver us. He's good in the past. He's good in the present. He's going to be good in the future. …
… I give you this scripture and I want you to take this with you because the scripture has been great comfort to me. It's in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 4 through 10. I'm not going to preach it. I'm just going to read it to you. It is the Apostle Paul coming back from a trial that the history books don't even discuss. all we know is that it was so bad that the apostle who wrote most of the new testament went through depression so bad that he despaired of life itself he says about god who comforted us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort we're with. We ourselves are comforted of God. You cannot give to other people what God has not first given you. Sometimes God takes you through things to give you empathy. Don't get mad at people that don't have empathy. They haven't been through enough. When you go through enough, you will humble yourself. …
I. This is God’s ordinary way before great and signal expressions of his mercy and favour. He very commonly so orders it in his providence, and so influences men by his Spirit, that they are brought to see their miserable condition as they are in themselves, and to despair of help from themselves, or from an arm of flesh, before he appears for them, and also makes them sensible of their sin, and their unworthiness of God’s help. This appears from the account which the Scriptures give us of God’s dealings with his people. Joseph, before his great advancement in Egypt, must lie in the dungeon to humble him, and prepare him for such honour and prosperity. The children of Jacob, before Joseph reveals himself to them, and they receive that joy, and honour, and prosperity, which were consequent thereupon, pass through a train of difficulties and anxieties, till at last they are reduced to distress, and are brought to reflect upon their guilt, and to say, that they were verily guilty concerning their brother. God humbled them in his providence, and then an end was put to all their difficulties, and their sorrow was turned into joy upon Joseph’s revealing himself to them. Jacob, before he hears the joyful news of Joseph’s being yet alive, must be brought into great distress at the parting with Benjamin, and supposed loss of Simeon. He was reduced to great straits in his mind. He says in Genesis xlii. 36. “All these things are against me.” But soon after this he had these gladsome tidings brought to him, Genesis xlv. 26. “Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. ” And to confirm it, he sees the waggons and the noble presents, which Joseph sent to him: so that he was now brought to say, Genesis xlv. 28. “It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die.” And so with the children of Israel in Egypt. Their bondage must wax more and more extreme. Their bondage had been very extreme. But yet Pharaoh gives commandment that more work should be laid upon them, and the task-masters tell them they must get their straw where they can find it; and nothing of their work should be diminished. And quickly upon this was their deliverance. So when the children of Israel were brought to the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them, and were just at their heels, and they were reduced to the utmost distress, they see that they must assuredly perish, unless God work a miracle for them; for they were shut up on all sides: the Red sea was before them, and the army of the Egyptians encompassing them round behind. And they cried unto the Lord. And then God wonderfully appeared for their help, and made them pass through the Red Sea, and put songs of deliverance into their mouths. …