{"id":817,"date":"2015-08-20T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=817"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:45:09","slug":"almost-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/almost-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMOST GONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-817-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/071915AlmostGone.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/071915AlmostGone.mp3\">https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/071915AlmostGone.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/071915AlmostGone.mp3\" target=\"_self\" class=\"emd_dl_blue_four\" download>Download<\/a>\r\n        <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four {\r\n        -moz-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #3d94f6), color-stop(1, #1e62d0) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #3d94f6 5%, #1e62d0 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#3d94f6', endColorstr='#1e62d0');\r\n        background-color:#3d94f6;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topleft:0px;\r\n        border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topright:0px;\r\n        border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomright:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        text-indent:0;\r\n        border:1px solid #337fed;\r\n        display:inline-block;\r\n        color:#ffffff !important;\r\n        font-family:Georgia;\r\n        font-size:15px;\r\n        font-weight:bold;\r\n        font-style:normal;\r\n        height:25px;\r\n        line-height:25px;\r\n        width:90px;\r\n        text-decoration:none;\r\n        text-align:center;\r\n        text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #1570cd;\r\n    }\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four:hover {\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #1e62d0), color-stop(1, #3d94f6) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #1e62d0 5%, #3d94f6 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#1e62d0', endColorstr='#3d94f6');\r\n        background-color:#1e62d0;\r\n    }.emd_dl_blue_four:active {\r\n        position:relative;\r\n        top:1px;\r\n    }\r\n    <\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>&#8220;WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU GET CLOSE TO A MELT DOWN ?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">WHEN PEOPLE GET LOW ON SUPPLY OF SOMETHING MATERIAL, THEY OFTEN PANIC AND FIND A SCAPEGOAT.\u00a0\u00a0 <b>BUT WHEN THEY GET LOW ON SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, THEY MERELY ACCEPT IT<\/b>.\u00a0 IT IS HUMAN NATURE TO WORRY.\u00a0 IT IS THE NEW NATURE THAT OVERCOMES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OLD NATURE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">One of the world\u2019s greatest hypochondriacs, bumped into his doctor\u00a0one day at the supermarket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u201cDoc!\u201d the hypochondriac exclaimed, \u201cI\u2019ve been meaning to tell you, remember those voices I kept on hearing in my head? I haven\u2019t heard them in over a week!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u201cWow! What wonderful news! I\u2019m so happy for you!\u201d his Dr. exclaimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u201cWonderful?\u201d asked the dismal looking hypochondriac. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wonderful about it. I\u2019m afraid my hearing is starting to go now!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">GOD REWARDS FAITH.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">IS THERE A REASON FOR US TO BE CLOSE TO A MELT DOWN ? \u00a0 WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE CLOSE TO ONE, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED ONE.\u00a0 THEIR EXAMPLE SHOULD TEACH US SOMETHING.\u00a0 EVERY DAY WE HAVE SOMETHIGN TO BE THANKFUL FOR !<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalms 118:24\u00a0 <\/b><i>This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">HAVE YOU CHANGED THIS INTO A NEW VERSION THAT SAYS INSTEAD . . . &#8220;This is the day the Lord hath made, and I will be afraid of what it holds for me&#8221; ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>1. FEARING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">This is a major strategy of Islamic terrorists today. They make it appear as if terrible things MIGHT happen tomorrow.\u00a0 So, people keep that forefront in their thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">ISRAEL CAME INTO THE WILDERNESS WITH FOOD, BUT NOT WATER, EXCEPT THE LITTLE THEY HAD IN FLASKS AND BARRELS IN WAGONS. THAT WAS SOON GONE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THEY WERE BROUGHT INTO A DESERT.\u00a0 IMAGINE THEM SEEING FOOD AND WATER DISAPPEAR EACH DAY.\u00a0\u00a0 THEY ANTICIPATED STARVATION.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Exodus 15:22 <\/b><i>So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Numbers 17:12 <\/b><i>And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. WHAT SHALL WE DO WHEN THE PHYSICAL NEEDS SEEM TO BE ALMOST GONE ? <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Matthew 6:25 <\/b><i>Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Matthew 6:31 <\/b><i>Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed<\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. WHEN YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY EXHAUSTED. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">WHAT SHALL WE DO WHEN THE SPIRITUAL RESOURCES SEEM TO BE ALMOST GONE ?\u00a0 PEOPLE PANIC AND BECOME AFRAID.\u00a0 THEN, THEY CANNOT GO IN FAITH.\u00a0 GOD BLESSES FAITH, NOT WORRY.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Matthew 10:19 <\/b><i>But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. ASAPH THOUGHT HE WAS DOOMED SPIRITUALLY BECAUSE HE NO LONGER COULD SEE STRAIGHT.\u00a0 <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">HE WAS THINKING IN TERMS THAT GOD HAD LET HIM DOWN.\u00a0HE EVENTUALLY GOT CONVICTED, AND BECAME STRONG AGAIN. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalms 73:2 <\/b><i>But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped<\/i>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>2. MAKING\u00a0ASSUMPTION\u00a0AS IF YOU WERE A PROPHET<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. ANTICIPATING THE WORST IS A COMMON SPIRITUAL CRIME TODAY.\u00a0 JESUS WARNED AGAINST IT IN THE BEATITUDES.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <b>Matthew 6:25-31<\/b>\u00a0 <i>Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?\u00a0 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet <\/i>your <i>heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?\u00a0 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?\u00a0 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:\u00a0 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.\u00a0 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?\u00a0 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed<\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Luke 12:31-<\/b><i><strong>32\u00a0<\/strong> But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. <\/i><b><i>Fear not, little flock<\/i><\/b><i>; for it is your Father\u2019s good pleasure to give you the kingdom<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">3. \u00a0<b>FEAR CAN BE HABITUAL<\/b>&#8230;.BUT CAN BE OVERCOME WITH JOY. <\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Habakkuk 3:18 <\/b><i>Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Luke 15:10\u00a0 <\/b><i>Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Romans 14:17\u00a0 <\/b><i>For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. WE NEED TO TRAIN OUR SOUL TO THINK BY FAITH, NOT NEGATIVE ASSUMPTIONS THAT ARE USUALLY WRONG. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalms 62:5\u00a0 <\/b><i>My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. PAUL EXPECTED HIS JUDGMENT TO GO WELL.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">WHY ?\u00a0 HE KNEW HE WAS DOING RIGHT.\u00a0\u00a0 DO YOU ?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Philippians 1:20\u00a0 <\/b><i>According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. ABRAHAM\u00a0SHOULD HAVE HUMANLY BEEN WORRIED WHEN HE WAS PHYSICALLY TOO OLD TO HAVE CHILDREN.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Genesis 15:2 <\/b><i>And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Genesis 18:10 <\/b><i>And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Genesis 18:14 <\/b><i>Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">D. EVEN WHEN ATTACKED AND THREATENED, IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO BEND. STAND STRONG.\u00a0 <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalms 119:87 <\/b><i>They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">&#8211;MOSES COULD SEE THE GROWING RAGE AGAINST HIM.\u00a0\u00a0 EACH DAY HE COULD SEE THEM MORE ANXIOUS TO KILL HIM.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Exodus 17:4 <\/b><i>And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">E. JESUS SAW HIS PHYSICAL STRENGTH DETERIORATE OVER 40 DAYS. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">DID HE PANIC ?\u00a0\u00a0 THE DEVIL THOUGHT HE WAS WEAKEST THEN.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Luke 4:2 <\/b><i>Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days He did eat nothing: and when they were ended, He afterward hungered<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">F. WHEN YOU THINK YOUR TROUBLES ALMOST HAVE YOU<b>&#8230;.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Isaiah 26:3 <\/b><i>Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalms 37:4 <\/b><i>Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">WHEN RELATIVES AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU ALMOST HAVE YOU GOING TO HELL WITH THEM&#8230;&#8230;. 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