Temple Baptist Church - 12-13-2017
2 Peter 1:3
Introduction:
A. I know that Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, but Thanksgiving is day by day, moment by moment, as we realize all that God has done for us and given to us. ALL things pertaining to our life and ALL things pertaining to our godliness.
B. Tonight, I want to take a short look at how good God has been good to us in this life. I know that counting our blessings could make for a long night, so I have just put down a few of the areas of God’s goodness in our daily life.
C. How exceedingly great are the promises of God are when we stop to consider the nature of the benefits offered and bestowed!
1. God’s power to provide is beyond our imagination. Our needs look very small in the light of our big God and His immense promises.
2. God’s promises are precious because they cover every conceivable human need, for time and for eternity. Whatever your need may be God has a promise that exactly covers that need (Phil. 4:19).
D. We believe the Bible and yet often remin fearful! During the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord spoke of our concerns and His ability.
Matthew 6:31-33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
1. When we seek “all these things “first, then God does not provide.
2. When we seek God first, He adds these things unto us.
E. What do you really need tonight? God has promised to give them to you if you seek Him first.
1. God provided us with salvation. How can we start without first mentioning our great salvation. God has made provision for our redemption through a finished work called the gospel. Hebrews 9:12, “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” Need salvation? God has provided it freely to all who come to Him by faith!
2. God provided us with the promise of not only life but abundant life. John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” A life that is full; a life that is blessed! I often say that “I had rather be an old time Christian than anything that I know!
3. God has made a perfect peace available in this present evil world. Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” As we learn to trust the Lord, we find that He who holds tomorrow holds us in His hand! Beloved, safety is of the Lord and everything will be alright!
4. God gives fulness of joy to His children. 1 Peter 1:8, “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:” A clear conscience still makes for a soft pillow!
5. God has promised complete forgiveness of sin to those who confess their sinfulness. Jeremiah 31:34, “And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
6. God has promised a sufficient grace for every trial that we will face. 2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
7. God has promised to meet all our daily needs in this life. Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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