Christ Diplomat (Exhortations)

TEXT: Psalms 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.  MESSAGE : I'd tell you the only reason why you are weighed down. All the while you have been looking down. That's why you were weighed down. You were looking at yourself. You kept considering yourself. The one that failed in his commitment to God kept saying "how could I?" You think it is godly sorrow. But godly sorrow should only lead to repentance and once you have repented, any other sorrow thereafter is not godly but deadly (2Cor 7:10). It is the idolization of the self which in itself is a sin! He who thinks he has gone through a lot cries "why me?" He is weighed down because he thinks he's alone in his trial. He forgets that God is in it with him not allowing him to be tested beyond his strength (1Cor 10:13). He forgets that God is waiting to stablish, settl...

TEXT 1Thes 4;16-18  16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words MESSAGE Someone dies, at least so he c laims, and goes to hell, sees some great men of God are in hell alongside some horrible sinners. Then he sees a very infuriated God because there is non righteous. "Blow the trumpet!". He orders. Then Jesus falls to his knees begging for a postponement because everyone would go to hell if God ends it all now. He weeps profusely such that his Calvary wounds begins to bleed again. God finally agrees. Jesus quickly dispatches angels in one last frantic effort to warn men and allows some dead men including himself to resu...