Gentry Mangun - "Confidence In Crisis"

don't bring a little bit of craze this morning that's alright so can lift up your voice this Lord he's a great guy he's up she saw me through many trials [Music] this morning glory to God in the highest praise God it would be very easy to just allow service to go as it would and we can worship God but I believe what God has given me this morning flows with what the Spirit is saying God's going to restore some joy gonna give us some peace we're gonna put our confidence back in God here today he's seen us through every trial before he's gonna see us through what we're going through now no matter how big the mountain may be today we're gonna depend on the God that's got everything under control thank you for your worship this morning quieter thank you for tapping into the spirit and allowing God to use you Kevin so very glad to have you home let's remember in two weeks we have brother Tisdale that will be with us right after camp meeting but pastor is coming off of a camp meeting that he was just at in California he preached Thursday night he preached Friday night and Friday night they had a breakthrough service and deliverance service healing signs and wonders took place and God used pastor mightily but he didn't just use him for just that camp pastor wants me to let you know next Sunday morning if you know somebody that needs to be delivered you know somebody that needs to be healed you know somebody that needs to be set free not is going to use our pastor supernaturally next Sunday in Jesus name so bring people next Sunday that need to be healed delivered set free you can make your way back to your seats you can be seated you can take out your Bible and turn to Jeremiah 32 that's what we are going to go to the word of the Lord today not going to read a particular scripture but that's the story that we are going to look at today and what I believe God has given me I want to talk to you this morning on a very simple subject having confidence in crisis having confidence in crisis when there is a mountain that's in the way when there is something very difficult that is in our path that is seemingly too big for us to overcome we don't like to admit it ladies and gentlemen but crisis does enter into our lives in some form or fashion this day and age it's more popular to have the keeping up with the Joneses mentality of putting on the face and the facade of everything is OK my family is doing well my health is doing well my finances are booming even though I may be in tremendous debt I'm doing everything I can do to keep up with the Joneses and to show this world and to show my peers and friends that everything is alright and we put on this facade but the fact of the matter remains that our homes our personal lives can be attacked by crisis or some would say crises a crisis in maybe our finances a crisis in our physical bodies crisis with a loved one who may be bound by some chemical crisis in our marriages and I'm here to be honest with you here today no one under the sound of my voice not a single human being in here escapes crisis taking place in our life at some point not only does it attack us individually but if you just minorly pay attention to the news then there is no doubting that this world is in crisis school shootings seemingly every other month lavas destroying homes billionaires committing suicides political sign political these are strong lines in the sand staunchly defending them with lies and half-truths terminal illnesses are infecting people's bodies markets are up markets are down chaos crisis all consequences of the fall of man never intended to be like this but is the consequence of a choice that Adam and Eve chose to make we are living in a day full of chaos crisis socially and internally for each and every one of us we're facing it there's no hiding it no matter how big the facade no matter how nice the masks we all are facing some sort of crisis it's a day that we are living in that's not - very different from the one that Jeremiah saw I'm not here to compare day and ages and it's hard to compare a generation to another as I mentioned when I was teaching on Enoch a few Wednesday nights ago not really going to compare evil or which generation maybe worse or who has it better off or who has it worse not here - to discuss that but I will tell you that there are some similarities that Jeremiah faced in his day and age that we have to face you see the Book of Jeremiah was written against the backdrop of chaos and crisis people who are supposed to be in love with an Almighty God have walked away from him and they have turned their backs on him they're embracing the gods of pagan nations around them they've turned to idolatry they've turned to wickedness evil abounds in the land sin abounds in the land idolatry abounds in the land it's a time of chaos it's a time of crisis and it is in this atmosphere this backdrop that Jeremiah was sent to preach to teach and to prophesy and to do his priestly duties because he was a priest as well for 50 years or so you find Jeremiah reaching teaching three she begging doing everything he can to turn these people back to God he is doing all he weeps he laments he prays he fasts he teaches he preach he begs he please turn from your wicked ways turn from this idolatry turn from this crisis in this chaos that you are facing in your world you know he does this for 50 years and you look in this book and you can't find one single convert for Jeremiah 50 years he begs he reaches he pleads he teaches and years never recorded a single convert for Jeremiah to make matters worse on Jeremiah not only is his world in chaos not only is he seemingly unsuccessful but let's make matters worse a little bit he's prophesying he prophesized to the north kingdoms his real tells them you better turn or you're gonna be taken captive they're taken captive first his prophecy comes to fruition for them now he begins to prophesy to Judah to King Zedekiah the Chaldeans are coming the Babylonians they're coming for you they're going to destroy everything we're going to be taken into captivity needless to say King Zedekiah and Judah they don't like what the Prophet has to say so what they choose to do is throw him in prince in prison if you read in chapter 38 of jeremiah you read that they tried to kill him if you think that chronologically chapter 38 comes before chapter 32 they tried killing him before they put him in prison they threw him in a miry pit hoping that he would get stuck and starve luckily somebody heard about it and decided to save little ol Jeremiah but look at his life living in a world of crisis living in a world of chaos preaching teaching reaching disciple in teaching Bible studies going in making disciples doing everything seemingly right in the eyes of God and yet nobody listens to him he seems unsuccessful he's doing what God called him to do and what does he get paid for what payment they try to kill him don't kill him but they throw him in prison now he's in prison here in chapter 32 this could be a huge breaking point for Jeremiah God you place me in this crazy world god you're the one that called me I told you you shouldn't have called me in the very beginning I told you I wasn't good enough in the very beginning and now here I know I've been giving you my all I've been reaching for people I've been going after these people I've been doing what you called me to do nobody's listened to me and on top of that now I'm thrown in this muddy pit and they tried to kill me that didn't work but now I'm in jail I'm stuck I've got nowhere to go this is my payment for doing what you've called me to do what a huge breaking point this could have been I've preached for you a long time nobody's listening they've thrown me in this jail and then on top of that here's what God instructs you didn't answer his prayer with okay I'm I'm just gonna pull you out of this jail cell right now and you can go back to doing what you're doing here's what God said Jeremiah you need to go buy you a piece of land that's what God told him go buy you a piece of land that's what I want you to do your cousin's going to come to you he's going to offer you a piece of land I want you to buy it that's not what I asked for God I'm wanting to know how I'm gonna get out of this I've been doing your will for a long time I'm living in a chaotic world that's full of crisis crisis is now attacking me they're trying to kill me I'm in jail nobody's listening to me it's a crisis and you want me to go by and land that's what you want me to do you want me to go by land so Jeremiah does what God told him to do buys this piece of land he does as God instructs talk about confusion talk about crisis but God's thoughts are not our thoughts neither his ways are ways here's where it all begins let's go to verse 14 of chapter 32 thus saith the Lord of Hosts God of Israel take these evidences or these deeds this deed of purchase this evident evidence of purchase both which is sealed and this evidence which is over open put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days jeremiah this deed that you're purchasing for this land you better put it somewhere safe because there's a day coming you may not see it now in Jeremiah your mountain may seem high right now Jeremiah your valley may seem low right now Jeremiah but you make sure you buy this land and you keep the deed to this land safe because there's a day coming verse 15 for thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel houses fields vineyards they're going to be possessed in this land again Jeremiah there's better days coming so imagine with me just for a moment everything that Jeremiah must be thinking and that Jeremiah must be facing he's put his trust and his confidence in God for such a long time now all he can do is put his trust and confidence in God again he doesn't know exactly how he doesn't know exactly when he doesn't know exactly where that this crisis of his is going to end but what he does know is that God has got everything under control so he is trying to reason with all of this you have to imagine what he's facing you have to imagine what he's going through the crisis that the country is in the crisis that he is in so he begins to try to build confidence in his god I don't understand this process I don't understand what you're telling me to do god this is awful confusing for me but I've trusted you so far I'm just going to continue to do so but let me take a minute to build my confidence so I love what Jeremiah does Jeremiah 32:17 in the midst of this chaos in the midst of this crisis he begins to build his confidence in God ah Lord God behold thou has made the heaven in the earth by great power you've stretched out your arm and there is nothing too hard for you I'm in the midst of this crisis I'm in the midst of this chaos I've been doing your will a long time and I'm seemingly not having any results I'm confused I'm confounded I'm in jail I don't understand all of this and now what you've told me to do is something that I have no clue what it means to buy a piece of land but let me build confidence real quick in you and in myself God you created the heavens and the earth you've got all power in heaven and in earth at the very word you spoke you created everything Genesis wood and wood is one of the most powerful scriptures in all of the Bible in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth not a Big Bang not some theory not some crazy act of science that took place let me tell you who created everything that you see it was God and God all by himself we serve a God who that when you walk outside today and you admire the trees as they blow in the clouds and the Sun and everything miraculous that science one likes to try to explain just all the sudden appeared let me tell you where that came from that came from a god who's got all power in heaven and in earth and said let there be and there was solves 19 1 through 4 the heavens declare the glory of God the firmament showeth his handiwork day unto day uttereth speech night unto night sheweth knowledge there's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world in them happy set a tabernacle for the Sun you can go anywhere in the world you want to go you can speak any language you want to speak but the language at those clouds and that Sun and those stars speak speaks the language of a God created this God caused all of this Souls 8 1 through 4 Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is that name in all the earth who has set the glory above the heavens out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou has ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest steal or shut up the enemy in the Avenger when I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou has ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him you're telling me God that you created the heavens you created the earth the innumerable amount of stars that we look up at every night you know each one of them by name and yet you're telling me you think about me I'm on your mind you know exactly where L you know exactly what I'm going through you know exactly what I'm facing that's my god regardless of what crisis that has come against you this week this month this year I remind you this morning just as Jeremiah recalled in his moment of crisis crisis we serve a God who created everything out of nothing just by the spoken word out of his mouth you remember this morning heaven is his throne earth is his footstool and all power in heaven and earth belongs to him I remind you we serve a god that created it all this morning if he can create the heavens in the earth he can create a way of escape for you he can create light where there seems to be darkness surrounding you no matter what your crisis is this morning you put your confidence in a God who spoke everything into existence what a God so he looks at his creative power helps builds Jeremiah's confidence then he turns to God's character he puts his confidence in God because God has a high moral standard he's a God of great character 32 and 18 now show us loving-kindness under the thousands and recompense the iniquity of the fathers and the bosom of their children after them the great the mighty God the Lord of Hosts is his name he's great in council he's mighty in work for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of man to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings you've got to remember the day and age that Jeremiah is living in he's living in it in a time where all the people of God are sinning and they've turned from God and they're living in sin and he knows that judgment is coming towards them but here's what else he knows God I know the judgment is coming towards them and the iniquity of them is even going to last under their kids but you also show loving-kindness you also show mercy you are also great and mighty you are also great in council you're mighty in your work and you bless those God you reward each person according to their conduct and their deeds in other words God I know you're of great character I know you love me I know that you're gonna show mercy on me I know that you see me right where I am you know everything that I'm going through you see me in the midst of my crisis in my turmoil you see me right where I am and in the midst of this chaos in the midst of this evil world where there are those that are going to be judged I know that you're great I know that you're mighty I know that you're gonna show loving kindness towards me I know that you're going to counsel me through this crisis that I'm in you're going to direct me through this chaos that I'm in God you're great character you've got such great character if I keep showing you loving kindness they're going to keep showing me loving kindness if I keep my covenant with you you're gonna keep your covenant with me God you're gonna answer my prayers you're gonna hear my cry I'm gonna follow you I'm gonna serve you even when this world that's in chaos and is in crisis is turning from you they'll be judged for that everybody else may be judged by God I'm gonna keep my eyes set on you I'm not gonna look to the left I'm not gonna look to the right I'm gonna keep my eyes focused on you because your great character God is going to see me through you love me too much to let me fail you love me too much to let this crisis overtake me your character is too high to let this destroy me God you've got too much care for me you've got too much mercy for me god this crisis will not destroy me God your character depends on it I put my trust in you I put my confidence in you you're gonna kill me you're gonna guide me through all of this God it's your character that's on the line if I do my part God your character is too high you've got to do your part so he puts his confidence in God's creative power he puts his confidence in God's character and he puts his confidence in the fact that God's power has been on display in times past you get to 21 and 22 of Jeremiah 32 and has brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders with a strong hand with a stretched out arm and with great terror and hath given them this land with this land which thou did is swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey I take confidence God in the fact that you've delivered us before I take confidence God in the fact that you've answered prayers before I take confidence today God in the fact that you've acted before on others behalf and on my behalf he didn't know I was going to do this and I'm coming to a few more this man's Egypt in times past was drugs and alcohol fleeing from a childhood of pain and misery it was a crisis he sits here today a preacher of the gospel because God saw him through because God pulled him out he had a gun in his mouth ready to take his life but there was a God who stepped in in towns fast my God has come through in times past my God has pulled people out of Egypt before my god is good signs and wonders and miracles in Egypt before let me tell you he can do it again today you battling drugs and alcohol my God can pull you out of that crisis today right now this very second my God can do it are you living in the land of crisis of a prodigal being gone a prodigal far away from home I show you right here a family of a prodigal that has come home in times past God has moved God has moved in this situation let me tell you to those of you who may have a prodigal in the house God has moved in Egypt before he's moved in times of crisis before my God can move again my God could do it again he's done it before he's shown signs and wonders in Egypt before he can do it again is my buddy brother Terry Westbrook you struggling in your marriage have you had a marriage that is seemingly fall into pieces many people may not know this and if this you can correct me later you can get on to me later for those of you that don't know this he involved were married once they got a divorce they divorced completely separated estranged from one another they're married today why because my god can move in times of crisis is your marriage in shambles is your marriage falling to pieces let me tell you my god has fooled people out of Egypt he's still doing it today my god is still operating today my god is still moving today he's done it before he'll do it again he'll do it again uncle Larry they had a flourishing business he and his father you battling financial situations here today is there a financial crisis had a flourishing furniture business stripped away from him in an instant bankruptcy lost everything everything stripped away from everything financially taken from him what did he do I'm just gonna keep my confidence in God I'm just going to keep my trust in dollar believing that God is going to somehow someway see me through this crisis you can talk to him about his financial situation today I have no clue what it is but I do know that he's a business owner in this community and seemingly God is blessing it from what I can tell you got a financial situation let me tell you what God has done before and what God can still do today he's pulled people out of Egypt before he can do it again today whether in their finances whether in your marriage whether in drugs or alcohol some sort of chemical whether you got a prodigal let's cover the big one here today that everybody faces is there a terminal illness that's coming against your body here today I know reports just this week there are great reports that I have heard of just this week well let me tell you what God has done in Egypt before let me show you some signs and wonders that God has done in Egypt before on his deathbed cancer ready to take his life in the midst of a crisis however God stepped in and said I'm going to get the victory in this situation I'm gonna get the glory in this situation that God moved in Egypt before I can move today I build your confidence today that God has moved in times past and God can still do it today my God can still move today he's the same yesterday today and forever my God never changes so if he's touched one person with chemical issues he can touch another if he's brought one prodigal home he can bring home another if he's put one marriage back together he can put another if he's blessed someone financially he can bless you if you're battling something physically today he can touch you and restore you that's my god that's my god have confidence in it have trust in me have belief in it have confidence in your crisis today we serve a great guy do you want to come to the music I'm a winder hallelujah have confidence in your dog today have belief in your God do they have trusts in your dog today I don't know that it's going to happen instantly but I know that he may tell you to go by field I don't know but he's gonna see you through we get to verse 24 25 Jeremiah has been building his confidence in God God you've got great power God you've got great character God you've moved in times past you can do it again but he's still struggling with this whole what did I buy this land for issue behold the mounts this is 2425 Babylon is starting to siege against judah behold the mounts they are coming to the city to take it the city is given unto the hand of the Chaldeans of the Babylonians that fight against him because of the sword and of the famine of the pestilence what thou has spoken God has come into past behold you see it everything you spoke unto me it's coming true I see it and you see it God and here's where he gets to question it a little bit that I said unto me here here comes the Babylonians like you said they're starting to overtake the city like you said and you told me to go by field you told me to go spend money and to make sure I got the deed and I hold on to it I don't understand because this city is now being handed over to the Babylonians I don't get it God it's okay to question God sometimes that's alright even Jesus as pastors mentioned many times question God my God my God why it's okay to not fully understand God's plan it's okay to not understand why you're maybe in the midst of Christ and says somebody else is it that's okay but let me tell you what's not okay thinking that we could have done it better on old thinking that if somehow God would have given us full sovereignty over our life that we could have kept this chaos off of us thinking that our plan and our ways are better and higher than his he's got a plan through it all he's got a reason for everything and I don't know why you're in your crisis and I don't know how bad it is big or small it is and I don't know what is aids sir to you today is as I mentioned it may be something crazy like go buy a field but he's got a plan verse 26 right after he's just questioned God God speaks to him then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah saying behold I'm the Lord I'm the God over all flesh is there anything too hard for me he then spends the next ten verses setting us up God talking to Jeremiah here's what's going to happen Babylon is going to come in they're gonna destroy everything you're headed to captivity we're taking Judah Judah is going to captivity they're going to have to join the northern tribes who have already been there it's a bad ugly situation ugly picture that God is painting for Jeremiah over these next ten verses but in verse 37 let me tell you why I told you to buy that field Jeremiah it may have seemed crazy to you you may not have understood the whole plan the whole crisis that you were in but let me tell you something behold I will gather them out of all countries whether I have driven them in my anger and in my fury and in great wrath I will bring them again under this place I will cause them to dwell safely they shall be my people and I will be their God I will give them one heart in one way that they may fear me forever for the good of them and of their children after them and I will make an everlasting covenant with them then I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me yea I will rejoice over them to do them good I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul for thus saith the Lord like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them and fields shall be bought in this land well you may say right now it's a desolate place it's without man and it's full of being it's without man or beast it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans but let me tell you someday men are gonna buy these fields again for money and they're going to subscribe evidences and seal them and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin in the places about Jerusalem in the cities of Judah in the cities of the mountain in the cities of the valley in the cities of the south for I will cause their captivity to return saith the Lord I wanted you to buy that field Jeremiah so that one day your descendants would be able to have that Jeremiah you may never see the full fruition of my plan and they seemed like complete chaos in crisis right now but I've got a plan Jeremiah one day I'm going to restore my people one day they're going to get their land back one day I'm going to bless them again they're gonna love me and I'm gonna love them let's all stand together late 1940s after just coming through the Holocaust six million Jews have been annihilated there's only about a half a million or so in the Middle East surrounded by millions of Arab countries who are doing everything they can to keep them from obtaining the land that was promised to them but God Almighty somehow someway got half a million Jews back in their land surrounded by millions of errors and that fight has continued till today where there's about six and a half million Jews that are facing about 400 million arrows that are doing everything they can to steal that little piece of land away from them and they can't do a thing about it why because God said there's coming today go ahead and buy your deeds there's coming today where it's coming back to you there's coming a day where I'm going to bless you again if he's willing to do that for his fleshly people the people of his flesh how much more for the Bride of Christ do you think God wants to see you through your chaos in your crisis Jeremiah didn't understand it all his world was in chaos his world was in crisis he was facing a crisis but he just put his confidence in God god I don't understand it God I don't know why I'm going through this God I don't know why I'm facing this and I still don't really get it while you told me to buy some land but I'm just going to put my confidence in you I'm just gonna put my trust in you I'm gonna put my hope in you I'm gonna put my belief in you because you're gonna be a god who continues to stand by your promise and let me tell you what your promise is here today I can't promise you that whatever crisis has come against you I can't promise you that right this very moment God is gonna pull you out of it I can't promise you that but what I can promise you is that if you will join me here in just a moment at the front and you turn it over to God and you give it to God he may give you the craziest instruction in the world he may tell you to walk out of here and go buy some land but if you just keep trusting anything if you keep believing in it God is going to see you through your moment of crisis believe on him trust in him is anybody facing a critical situation anybody can I see a raised hand I'm facing a critical situation why don't you come join me at the front those of you that have raised your hand if everything's great with you if there's nothing going on in your family your world your finances your life I understand it I'm glad God's blessing you to God be the glory but to those of you that are battling a crisis in your finances in your home in your marriage in your body there's a sickness coming against you come turn it over to God come give it to God this morning come give it to the God who spoke the worlds into existence come give it to the God who's a God of great character who's not going to let you down who loves you too much who's desiring to show you loving kindness who's desiring to show you mercy who's desiring to pull you out of the miry clay his character is too high to let you fail his character is too great to let you be destroyed by your crisis come turn it over to the god of all out come turn it over to the god of great character come turn it over to the guy who's already pulled people out through something you're going through whatever you're going through God has already seen somebody through it before there is no temptation taken you but such is common demand there's nothing you're going through that God hasn't already seen turn it over to God give it to God your need isn't too big your need isn't too great he's seen it before and he's shown mighty signs and wonders before he's pulled people out of Egypt before and he's gonna pull you through in the name of Jesus [Music] give it to God this morning put your trust in him put your confidence back in God in the midst of your crisis it's so easy for us as humans to put our confidence elsewhere and anything but God that's our human nature we look for answers everywhere but God put your confidence back in God this morning put your confidence back in the God of all power and all authority in all dominion put your confidence in the one who's a great character put your confidence in the one who's pulled people out of Egypt for [Music] see us through today God hear our prayer today God hear our prayer yeardley [Music] you answer Jeremiah answer us God hear our prayer hear our cry hear our plea today there's people that have signified today God they're in the crisis I'll remind you today God that you pulled Israel out of Egypt before pull us out God you've done mighty acts before you can do it again [Music] do it for Scott do it for scar [Music] why don't we join together as the body of Christ put your hand on the somebody's back maybe man the man or lady the lady let's join together as the body of Christ here today there's somebody next to you that's in the midst of turmoil it's in the midst of chaos that's in the midst of crisis [Music] see us through God hear our cry here are we [Music] you've never repented of your sins if you've never been baptized in the name of Jesus and you've never received the gift of the Holy Ghost evidence it's speaking in other tongues then your world is in chaos your world is in crisis that's the only answer repent of your sins get baptized in his name get filled with his Spirit we invite you to come prepare yourselves we invite you to come be baptized in the name [Music] we invite you to come seek the gift of the Holy Ghost seven is speaking in other tones [Music] while hope is in you more confidence is in you there's nowhere else to put our hope and our trust under the new god you've proven it before you're gonna prove it again you've done it before you're gonna do it again [Music] in Jesus name in Jesus name Jesus [Music] hallelujah before we leave I wish we would lift our voice in science lift up a hallelujah to our great God he's gonna see us through Let's Plays helmeted name let's go on fire in advance glory to our God we cry out [Music] we we give you blue we give you we give you what god bless you 5:30 in the player six o'clock doing my thing tonight service [Music] it's gonna do [Music] [Applause] you [Music] you

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Length: 47min 24sec (2844 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 27 2018