Sermon: Wrong Will Eventually Be Set Right

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Given 12-Aug-23; 63 minutes

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After our original parents' decision to sin, we, as their offspring have conflicting wills because of a carnal nature that is enmity against God's law and the will of God, something that cannot be achieved without the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. Our Lord and Savior follows exclusively the will of Our Heavenly Father, but the rest of us have a difficult time resisting the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, making us feel invulnerable when we are actually quite vulnerable. God Almighty has perfected the skill of turning things around with an element of surprise, defeating human will, replacing it with understanding of the benefits of His will. The story of our Patriarch Abraham is replete with false starts and dead ends. Both the Psalms and Proverbs are replete with examples of God's sudden reversal of the human will. Psalm 73 is a candid confession of someone who had seen the apparent blessing and prosperity of the elite evil (then and now) and the seeming difficulty God's saints experience in comparison. Calamities seem to fall on most of humanity, but not on the evil elite, who superciliously regard the rest of humanity as useless eaters. Consequently, doubts about the usefulness of trusting God seep into our discouraged minds. Asaph had his initial doubts, but after God revealed the end of the wicked, he strengthened his wavering faith from preference to conviction. God has chosen the foolish things to confound the wise so no flesh will glory in His presence. God is systematically reversing our carnal human will conforming it to His will.




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