Title Beginning and result (Job 8:7)
In Job 8:7 it says, “Your beginning was feeble, but your end will be exceedingly great.”
Today, I would like to deliver a message under the title of Beginning and Results through the words recorded in Job 8:7. I hope it will be a great blessing to each other.
Just as all things have a beginning and a result, God's work also has a beginning and a result.
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God started the work of exodus by calling Moses to save the suffering people of Israel who were working in Egypt. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who did not know the work of God's power, began to challenge God's work, and God through Moses started the history of
The beginning of King Pharaoh, who challenged God, resulted in disastrous failure, but Moses' beginning, which began with obedience in God's power, brought calamity to Egypt, parted the Red Sea and passed through the wilderness, confirming God's power in the work of God. You can see that the result of the victory into Canaan was obtained.
We all start doing things in our lifetime, but there must have been some good results and some bad results.
I hope that you will get a good result by comparing what kind of start got good results and what kind of start got good results through today's text.
1. The Beginning and Consequences of Jesus
The beginning of Jesus was the weakest beginning.
When God sends Jesus to this earth, He can also send Him as a young man, not a baby. You could also have them be born into a wealthy family or into a family of honor and power. But Jesus came through a betrothed woman, not from a strong man, not from a wealthy and powerful family, and was born in a stable, not in a man's house. How weak have you come?
This was the beginning of Jesus.
In this way, although Jesus started the weakest in the history of the first class, he became the main character of the great history of saving the first class by saying, “I am the Lord, the way, the truth, and the life.” In this way, it is not simple without effort until Jesus achieves good results. God the Father personally led him by the Holy Spirit, put him in the valley of the devil in the wilderness, and allowed him to be tested by the question of eating, wonders and miracles, glory and authority. you have guided,
2. Startup and results of the project
It is called success to start small and get great results, rather than starting big and getting small results. I've seen it fail a lot. This beginning is not the beginning of the lessons given in the Bible.
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In John 2, there is a story about the lack of wine at the wedding feast. It is not because we prepared too much, but because we prepared too little. However, when there was a great lack of faith in obeying the words of Jesus, the preparations for the feast were meager, but the feast was filled with praise, and a magnificent wedding was accomplished with blessings.
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The miracle of the two fish is recorded in the Bible because it is not a great history among many, but a great history among few, and it is a hope for us today.
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The great work of the widow's house, which was worked through Elisha in 2 Kings 4, did not happen among many, but through the oil remaining in a very small bottle of oil.
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A lot of people ask me about starting a business.
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Getting the light of others, setting up other people's collateral at the bank, and getting a loan to start a very grand business, but not long after that, the business doesn't work and can't pay interest. see. Business in our country went wrong from the start. In a country called Japan, small and medium-sized enterprises are families. Even in countries like the United States, in small offices such as very small officetels, in the past, fax phones were installed, and now, business is done through information communication called the Internet from computers. do
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Even in preparation for the famine to come in Canaan, God hardened the hearts of his brothers so that the child Joseph was sold to Egypt without anyone’s help. You can see that they created a magnificent history of saving people.
3. The Beginning and Consequences of Politics
Ladies and gentlemen, even in our country, some governments started out loudly calling for globalization, but you must have seen that 4 or 5 years later, they fell into the worst situation.
4. The Beginning and Consequences of Faith
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The start of the life of faith is important, but the result is more important.
The beginning of ministry is also important, but the result is even more important.
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Look at Park Tae-sun. As an elder of a healthy church, he was a person who enjoyed God's grace more than he did, but he had a terrible start due to a wrong start.
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King Uzziah and Samson were those who received the grace of God, but they brought disastrous results due to their wrong start. Our faith must also have a good beginning, so that good results will come.