Sovereignty of God / Week #2

“… for such a time as this!” … Responding to a World In Chaos
Sovereignty of God as it Relates to You
Uniquely You

You are special!
Esther 4:14 / Job 1:19-22

How God made you unique: Things you had no control over at your birth

1. The generation into which you were born ( date and time )
“In the fullness of time”….
Gal. 4:4 Acts 2:1, Rom. 11:25, Eph. 1:10;
On your specific date of birth, more than 200,000 others were born somewhere in the world
In your specific century of time, hundreds of millions will be born.
However, You will know only a small fraction of them.
You will only be intimate with a handful of that fraction.
These ‘intimate’ people will influence you greatly
However, famous people worldwide such as leaders, etc will also influence you, people like Hitler, Stalin, Jonas Salk ( polio vaccine ) the Beatles, President Obama
2. Your parents, and family heritage

Sarah and son Isaac, ( Gen. 21:1-8 )
Manoah & Wife -Sampson, ( Judges 13:1-25 )
Hannah / Samuel, ( I Samuel 1:1-11 )
Susannah and Charles and John Wesley
3. Your gender
To the guys, … ever wonder why you weren’t born a girl?
Differences: Think of what these differences mean to you….


Discussion On Points 1-3
1. Timing is important, indeed crucial
Time is based upon the circuit of the heavenly bodies of the cosmos
Myron posed the question: If you could chose, what generation would you like to be born?
Esther … In the time of Jesus or Job
Dan … Noah will be knows in heaven as the ark builder.
What will I be known for?
2. Family and Heritage
Dan … Moses and Family, Joseph and family
Heritage is vitally important because of God’s love. God chose the family into
which you would be born because He loved you and wanted you to part of
that heritage. Even when our heritage seems rotten, there is a good purpose in
where you are because of God’s love.
Dan shared openly about struggles with his father and how he found victory.
James … Romans 3:1
Myron … love is good but what about God’s love in a tragic situation?
Kathy … Romans 8:28-30, Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6,
Rom. 9:8-22, potter and the clay
Myron posed the following case study:
Two couples who each adopt 2 Russian boys ages 3-4
The boys of one couple are fine
The boys of the other couple are born with fetal alcohol syndrome
All of these boys have two heritages, their natural birth Russian heritage
and the heritage of their new parents.
But there is a vast difference.
Question: How can we as Christians help the boys with their dysfunctional
birth heritage?
Kathy: respite care, prayer against spiritual strongholds, need a mentor for the children.
James … deal with the sin of the birth parent
Dan … they must be bathed in love
3. Gender - cross gender dressing / sodomy
Jake … Today I saw a transvestite on the HACC campus. I felt revolsuion
Dan … we must love
James … I feel like throwing up when I see one
Myron posed this question: how are we going to love when we feel revolted?
Dan … we are all guilty of a sinisim,
Myron … so we all have our individual lust or craving or dissatisfaction
And God expects us to control it and live righteously anyway.
Conclusion: We are to love the sinner while we hate the sin
and try to convert thesinner to God’s truth. We must be wise and loving in our confrontation
but we cannot compromise God’s truth on the matter. This takes much grace and prayer.
A very good evening of discussion
Those present were:
James Strickler, Rick and Kathy Fogie, Esther Shirk, Dan Moyer, David Fry, Jacob diets and Myron and Ruth
Next meeting on January 22 in the home of Rick and Kathy