A New Year's Promise
Text: Psa 40:1-3 Theme: God’s has a promise for us and His promises are always true. I. INTRODUCTION.
I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened. [2] He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. [3] He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God.
II. BODY.
III. CLOSE.
A SUBJECTIVE person came along and said: "I FEEL for you, down there." An OBJECTIVE person came along and said: "It's logical that someone would fall, down there." A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST came along: "You only THINK that you are in a pit." A PHARISEE said: "Only BAD people fall into a pit." A MATHEMATICIAN calculated HOW he fell into the pit. A NEWS REPORTER wanted the exclusive story on his pit. A FUNDAMENTALIST said: "You DESERVE your pit." CONFUCIUS said; "If you would have listened to me, you would not be in that pit." BUDDHA said: "Your pit is only a state of mind." A REALIST said: "That's a PIT." A SCIENTIST calculated the pressure necessary (lbs./sq.in.) to get him out of the pit. A GEOLOGIST told him to appreciate the rock strata in the pit. AN EVOLUTIONIST said: "You are a rejected mutant destined to be removed from the evolutionary cycle." In other words, he is going to DIE in the pit, so that he cannot produce any "pit-falling offspring." The COUNTY INSPECTOR asked if he had a permit to dig a pit. A PROFESSOR gave him a lecture on: "The Elementary Principles of the Pit." An EVASIVE person came along and avoided the subject of his pit altogether A SELF-PITYING person said: "You haven't seen anything until you've seen MY PIT!!" A CHARISMATIC said: "Just CONFESS that you're not in a pit." An OPTIMIST said: "Things COULD be worse." A PESSIMIST said: "Things WILL get worse!!"
JESUS, seeing the man, took him by the hand and LIFTED HIM OUT of the pit.
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