Title: God the Creator Ⅱ (October 18, 2009)
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Word: Jeremiah 18:5-10
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 I cannot do to you as this potter does, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
Can you not? O house of Israel, you are in my hands as clay is in the hands of the potter.
7 Let me say that at any time I will choose, destroy, or destroy a certain nation or nation.
8 Of the calamity I thought I would bring upon him, if the people I spoke of would turn from their evil.
I will change my mind
9 Let me say that at any time I will build or plant any nation or nation.
10 If they do what is evil in my sight and do not obey my voice,
I will change my mind about the good I told him to do for him.
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One day, God commanded the prophet Jeremiah to visit the potter and watch the work site. The reason was that there was a message that the people of Israel wanted to hear through the potter making the vessels.
First, it says, 'The people of Israel are in the hands of God'.
Among the things that the Bible emphasizes, the most important thing is God's absolute sovereignty.
It is said that God created, ruled, judged, and saved.
Saying you are in my hands has two meanings.
1 Because it is in the hands of God, it is safe, happy, and enjoyable.
2 It is said that there is nothing that goes beyond the hand of God.
Anything in the world has meaning when it is in God's hands.
Money, power, and popularity are all in vain. However, such things have meaning and value when they are in God's hand, but when they are out of God's hand, they have no meaning or value.
We are people in the hands of God.
We must be in God's hands.
Because there is prosperity, blessing, and life in it.
Second, we learn the lesson that if we turn, God will also turn.
If I go on a bad path and change my mind and turn to a good path, God will punish and judge him, and he will give me blessings and grace.
However, if you break the promise to believe well and live right, God will bless you if you take the wrong path.
It means that he will turn away from his promise to show grace and judge and destroy it.
That's why it's an important issue in which direction to turn.
We must make wise and wise judgments. It is whether you are in God's hand or out of His hand.
Everyone!
If you go out of God's hand, you are free for a while, but you are forever unhappy.
However, I pray in the name of the Lord that if you live in God's hands, you will believe in eternal happiness even though the start is frustrating and inconvenient.
And, let's believe and confess like this!
I am in the hands of God.
I am in the hands of God. Amen