surviving economic meltdown
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2 Corinthians 13
The Temple at Corinth
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Headlines:
500,000 new layoffs
DMV needs plan to stay open
Food stamp use up 31%
4500 new requests for emergency food boxes, up 13%
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1. Why you are going to get through this:
God is in control
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Isa 40:12,15
Who else knows the weight of the earth…yet He picks up the earth as though it were a grain of salt…
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Isa 46:4
I will be your God through your lifetime until your hair is white with age. I will care for you…I will carry you along and I will save you.
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Isa 48:9-11
I will rescue you for My sake…yes for My own sake. I will not let my reputation be tarnished
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Isa 54:7-8
For a brief moment I abandoned you but with great compassion I will take you back with everlasting love. I will have compassion on you says the Lord.
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2. HOW are you going to get through this?
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a. There are no SHORTCUTS.
You will get through this but how it turns out belongs to God. He has a plan. He is in control.
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b. Do not WITHDRAW from GOD or His representative the CHURCH.
i. Seek God’s FACE rather than His HAND
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b. (cont.) Do not WITHDRAW from GOD or His representative the CHURCH.
ii. God provided the CHURCH to ENCOURAGE us.
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c. Stop living by our own IDEAS.
i. IDOLS
..anything we say we need to be happy. We have idols because we feel Jesus alone will not satisfy…
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c. (cont.) Stop living by our own IDEAS.
ii. LIES
Good lies appear true and even work for a while…but ultimately fail…
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d. Strategies to overcome an economic meltdown:
i. Become a DISCIPLEii. PRAYERiii. Understand how you got off TRACK.
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d. Strategies to overcome an economic meltdown:
iv.Seek WISE COUNSELv. Manage your PERSONAL
LIFE.vi. Become a STEWARD of
what God’s given you.