2. Studies in John’s Gospel
Chapter 7
Lessons On Living

3. GOD DOES HIS WILL IN HIS OWN TIME.

4. Hebrews 12:7-8
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

5. Hebrews 12:11
All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

6. WE OFTEN ASK WHY….. ?
Sometimes it’s for discipline

7. Ecclesiastes 9:11
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. 

8. WE OFTEN ASK WHY….. ?
Sometimes it’s for discipline
Sometimes it is just chance

9. WE OFTEN ASK WHY….. ?
Sometimes it’s for discipline
Sometimes it is just chance
We cannot KNOW…

10. Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

11. Isaiah 55:8-11 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

12. WE OFTEN ASK WHY….. ?
Sometimes it’s for discipline
Sometimes it is just chance
We cannot KNOW…
But we CAN trust !

13. ANYTIME IS A GOOD TIME FOR SATAN.

14. Satan Stands Ready To…
Frighten
Deceive
Blind
And devour

15. Is It Possible to Resist him?
Ephesians 6:10-18 says so

16. Ephesians 6:10-17
11Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil…. 13Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, …14Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; …taking up the shield of faith…. 17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

17. Is It Possible to Resist him?
Ephesians 6:10-18 says so
James 4:7 says so

18. GOD’S SERVANTS WILL BE HATED.

19. The World’s Value System..
……….And don’t forget… “tolerance”

20. Matthew 6:24 indicates that one must make a choice….
And there WILL be consequences

21. 2 Timothy 3:12
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
1 Peter 4:4

22. 1 Peter 4:5
…but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this is why the gospel was preached …

23. APPEARANCE IS NOT A BASIS FOR JUDGMENT.

24. SOME ARE DECEIVED BY… Temporary pleasures of sin
Good works and/or ceremony

25. Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

26. SOME ARE DECEIVED BY… Temporary pleasures of sin
Good works and/or ceremony
The crowd
Salvation ‘schemes’

27. YOU CAN KNOW THE TRUTH.

28. “Willingness” is the Key !
You willing to accept God’s time?
You willing to have faith?
You willing to stand?
You willing to accept consequences?
You willing to look through appearance to the truth?