{"id":881,"date":"2015-09-20T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=881"},"modified":"2015-11-06T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:22:41","slug":"god-believes-in-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/god-believes-in-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD BELIEVES IN PREPARATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-881-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/081615GodBelievesInPreparationPM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/081615GodBelievesInPreparationPM.mp3\">https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/081615GodBelievesInPreparationPM.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/081615GodBelievesInPreparationPM.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><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">1. GOD&#8217;S PREPARED FOR EVENTS INVOLVING YOU.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. GOD PREPARED A REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR HIS CHILDREN. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">THEY CAN PASS OR FAIL. THEIR CHOICE. HE WILL CHASTEN THOSE HE LOVES. IF YOU DON&#8217;T GET ENROLLED IN THIS SCHOOL, YOU AREN&#8217;T ONE OF HIS CHILDREN.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Jonah 1:17<\/strong> <em>\u00a0&#8220;Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Jonah 4:6-8<\/strong> <em>\u00a0&#8220;And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.\u00a0\u00a0But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.\u00a0\u00a0And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. GOD HAS PREPARED FUTURE JUDGMENTS ON EARTH. THE WEATHER. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Psalms 147:8<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Who covereth the heaven with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Joel 2:30<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Luke 21:11<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. GOD HAS PREPARED TO JUDGE HIS CHILDREN. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">HE HAS MADE PREPARATIONS. HE HAS HIS THRONE. HE HAS PREPARED A PLACE, HE IS PREPARED FOR WHO WILL BE THERE, HE HAS PREPARED FOR THEIR TRANSPORTATION. HE KNOWS THE BASIS FOR JUDGMENT (what we have done), ETC. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Peter 4:5<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">2. GOD HAS PREPARED THINGS FOR OUR FUTURE WITH HIM.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. GOD HAS PREPARED THINGS BEYOND OUR ABILITY TO IMAGINE THEM. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 2:9<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. GOD HAS PREPARED PLACES FOR US TO LIVE.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8211;A CITY. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Hebrews 11:10<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8211;A TABERNACLE, OR NEW HOUSING FOR OUR SOUL AND SPIRIT.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>2 Corinthians 5:1<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8211;A HOUSE WHERE OUR NEW BODY CAN DWELL. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>John 14:2-3<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;<em>In my Father\u2019s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.\u00a0\u00a0And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">3. WE MUST FOLLOW THE LORD&#8217;S EXAMPLE OF PREPARING.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. GOD HELPED NOAH TO PREPARE BY GIVING INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT WAS TO COME AND HOW TO PREPARE. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Hebrews 11:7\u00a0<\/strong> <em>&#8220;By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. JESUS GENTLY REMINDED PETER THAT HE HAD WORK TO DO YET. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">PETER THOUGHT HE WAS ALREADY STRONG ENOUGH, AND THOUGHT HE WAS READY. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Luke 22:32-34<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>&#8220;But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. 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Jonah 1:17 \u00a0&#8220;Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. 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