Joel Engelsma

so he was talking about I Jesus standing at the right hand of GOD not sitting but standing there saying he is my man he was standing up for Stephen it was about where Stephen makes his speech to the sandhidrin and then he is dragged out of the palace and stones and he fell asleep

so this was a midweek service it was on Tuesday and it was about trials its passage was psalm six and David was in some trials coase i think this is around the time where Absalom has betrayed and they are running away and they are going down this canyon and there is this person that is cursing David from above and somebody asks if he can go up there and strike his head off but David said no beacose he said GOD has told him curse David

so he had this one thing where this person sold drugs and he is from Scotland and he sells drugs makes quite a bit of money off it well one day he is talking to this one drug dealer about business and things when he falls dead i front of him that happened 2 times then he goes back to Scotland became a Christians got salvation and turned his life the right way

a time of great tribulation some Christians are afraid they have to have intense suffering they are told we are going to suffer but be of good there for i have them in my hands when we suffer them faithfully and trials help strengthen your faith

why did Jesus say that what it does indicate that GOD has forsaken by disclosing that he was not fully there he was experienced the abandonment of GOD his presence is no longer in the sense of blessing and outpouring the wrath that he had he was experiencing in a way any time before

god is not the person that tempt us he cannot do evil and cannot do sin he is separate he is holy holy holy be holy for i am holy Christ and GOD cannot sin he does not tempt people but he is able to control but he takes sin and coordinates all of that to accomplish

so my dad preached at a new church today so the passage was the stoning and sermon he did before he died and after the end of the sermon he looked up and he said he saw the Son of GOD standing at the right hand not sitting but he was standing and my dad said he like was standing up for Stephen and testifying for him beacose Stephen was no light preacher he said that the Sanhedrin where stiffknecked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears

get up and be baptised and wash away your sins baptism now saves you a lot of people have taken it that baptism now savess o no not thw washing you in water but whith the holy spirtit we have been emersed whith christ but water is the public decleration that you are going to be saved

but of that day no one knows but if Jesus is Christ how does he not know that he emptied himself of the independent yous of people atitute if i wanted to i could call for a legion of angels

if you are week you have to belive in GOD to be strong simple as that but if you are strong you are weak beacose you belive you can do anything without gods help therefore you are weak but if you are weak you are strong sipmle as that