Name: Genesis 28:10-17 - The Perception of the Promise by Sure Foundation Lutheran Church
Duration: 22 min 53 s
Description: What happens when my perception of what is happening doesn't seem to match up with God's promises? Often that is the case. We know that God's promises are true, but our experience seems to tell an opposite story. Jacob had this very experience. We can learn from Jacob's story that God's promises are true and certain regardless of our perception.

Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Paul writes these beautiful words. How clean is your temple? Is it free from impurity or blemish? We'd like to think so. However, we know that there are things that God needs to cleanse from our lives as well. Just as Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem, so he cleanses our temples from impurity and makes us holy.

John 2:13-22 - Jesus, Cleanse My Soul

Sin is serious even if we try to convince ourselves that it isn't. The Israelites complained and complained about God and his blessings. This was a serious matter. God sent snakes as a punishment for the Israelites and you can bet, that got their attention. Just like the Israelites, God wants your full attention.

Numbers 21:4-9 - God Wants Your Full Attention

Why do we focus on the specific aspects of Jesus' pain and torture in his final days? It is not for pity, but it shows us the depth of love your Savior has for us. He was willing to pay the cost for us to live.

Hebrews 5:7-9 - The Cost of Living

Calling it "Good Friday" seems like a great contradiction. There doesn't seem to be much good that happens on Golgotha as Jesus dies. However, on this Good Friday we see the Greatest Contradiction. On a day where I should feel sad, I feel relief, because Jesus saved me from my sins.

John 19:17-30 - The Greatest Contradiction

Hope has 2 parts - 1) it needs to be based in fact or certainty 2) it needs to promise a brighter future. In Scripture we find that Jesus' resurrection fulfills both of those parts of hope. Because Jesus lives... Hope lives!

Mark 16:1-8 - Hope Lives

Love is more than just an abstract concept or some ethereal thing that you can't quite understand. Love is put into action. So it is great to see love as a characteristic and quality of God, but that is not enough. God's love would be of no practical value had he not put that love into action. His love would be of no value if there was no direct object of his love. Yet, we know that God's love is of the greatest value because he did put it into action through his Son and we are the direct objects of his love.

1 John 5:1-6 - Love Needs a Direct Object

Pentecost was a big deal for the disciples and all Christians in the Early Christian Church. It meant that God had fulfilled another promise and it meant that God was with them and helping them. Pentecost still has effects today!

Acts 2:1-21 - Boldness, Courage, Understanding

God inspires in us a different way to look at money and possessions. The framework is vital to living out your calling as a steward of God's gifts. This perspective starts with a very basic, but all-encompassing truth - The Universe is the Lord's.

Live Generously: The Universe is the Lord's

There are a lot of ways that we describe God, yet typically, one of those adjectives doesn't include reckless. But he is. Take a listen to this sermon to find out how!

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 -- Sermon July 26, 2020

What happens when my perception of what is happening doesn't seem to match up with God's promises? Often that is the case. We know that God's promises are true, but our experience seems to tell an opposite story. Jacob had this very experience. We can learn from Jacob's story that God's promises are true and certain regardless of our perception.

Genesis 28:10-17 - The Perception of the Promise

This is a sermon podcast from Sure Foundation and Pastor Craig Wilke.

Genesis 28:10-17 - The Perception of the Promise

Sure Foundation Lutheran Church

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