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- Is that not often the case with us as well, that the promises of God seem too good to be true? What we struggle with, in doubt, is the very question God asks Sarah.
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- Is anything too hard for God? You know what, we have to be able to answer that question.
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- The first thing we have to be able to...
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- To be able to answer that question, the first thing we have to affirm is that we actually believe God is there.
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- The Bible tells us, it says, to have faith begins with believing that He is there.
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- And sometimes that's the hardest part of all, because God's not coming to dinner tonight.
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- You're probably not going to receive a knock at your door, and there's probably not going to be three men standing there ready for you to go slaughter the fattened calf.
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- We're called to live by faith, and sometimes that's hard.
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- He who is saved must first begin that He is.
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- We must believe that God is, and that He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
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- That's first and foremost.
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- We have to know that He's there.
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- Then we have to know who He is.
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- And He is not only there, but He is the one who is there, who loves us and sent His Son to die for us.
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- You ever think about the fact that God loved you so much, that He sent Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, into the world? And those of you who have children, think of this.
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- He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him will not perish, but will have everlasting life.
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- And He says that's what you're supposed to believe in.
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- Whosoever believeth in Him will not perish.
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- I'm not telling you you're never going to struggle.
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- I'm not telling you you're never going to laugh.
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- I'm not telling you you're never going to fight a battle with anxiety, that you're never going to fight a battle or a struggle with doubt.
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- But I am telling you this, where you will find your peace and your comfort is not going to be in the latest psychological exercises or in some Oprah Winfrey program, but is in coming to the realization that there is nothing too hard for God, even saving a wretch like you and me.
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- In this world, we are not promised that we will always be healed of our diseases.
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- In this world, we're not always promised that we're always going to get through every problem unscathed.
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- Sometimes our friends die.
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- Sometimes our family dies.
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- Sometimes even we go into the hospital and don't come out.
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- So we don't put our hope in this life, but we trust in the Lord who said, I go to prepare a place for you.
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- And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself.
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- That where I am, you may be also.
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- And remember what he said, if it were not so, I would have told you.
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- When we struggle with doubt, let us remember that we serve a God with which there is nothing that is too wonderful for him.
