Every Little Detail of Your Life Pt.3
JEREMIAH 29:10-11
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. (After 70 years of being in exile, God was going to perform His good word toward them and bring them back to their homeland of the inheritance that they had lost. And He would do that by supernaturally bringing to pass certain events within the details of their lives – just like the butterfly effect, God knows about the small things that will adjust the entire course of a person’s life, and so this is the realm that God deals in, He deals in the realm of every little detail of your life.)
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Each one of us are going through our “70 years” of captivity of this lifetime - of our lives here on earth – but we also have an inheritance that is to be restored to us.
But there are many times during our 70 years (just like with Isreal) when it can seem like that God is not really all that involved in our personal struggles and in the details of our lives – but we have come to know that that is the farthest thing from the truth because He is actually intently involved in every little detail of our lives, because His thoughts and purpose for us is to bring our lives to a peaceful and happy conclusion at the end.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
This word “expected end” means hopeful – of what we hope for of our dreams, of what we would have as an expectation for a happy ever after ending of the story of our lives and of our future eternal life.
Our subject is about how that God is in control of every little detail of your life, and that He guiding our every step in life in order to bring us to that expected end of a total satisfaction of all the deepest desires that He has placed deep within us.
Every Little Detail of Your Life Pt.3
***Last week we spoke about how that God had preplanned each of our lives from all the way back from our furthest ancestry. And He did this in order to give each of our makeups just the right “ting” and “tone” of the bell, so that we would have what it would take to be able to successfully complete our life’s purpose on earth of what He has raised us up to be.
**God had preplanned (since the foundation of the world) for each of us to be birth into the world on the exact day that we were meant to come here, and even right down to the very minute of the exact day, and also at a specific geographical location on earth so that your birth would line up at the correct angle of the different constellations of the stars of the heavens that God had designed to be in their exact positions in the heavens right at the very moment that you were born so that they would influence your life in a certain way.
Oh how he loves you and me…
PSALM 139:17-18
17 ¶ How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
EPHESIANS 1:11 (We read this scripture last week)
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Notice carefully here, “He worketh ALL THINGS after the counsel of His own will” in order to bring us back to our inheritance.
*Everything that God allows to happen to us during our lives here on earth is by the allowance and the purpose, and by the council of His own will.
**There are three main events of your life – your Birth, your Marriage, and your Death.
*You first begin your life on earth by being born, and then the next thing that happens after that is that your name is printed under the birth and deaths column of your local new paper.
And then as life goes on, then hopefully at some stage you get married and have children, and then that information also goes in the newspaper under the same column. And then once all that is done, and if you’re “lucky”, you may get to have a few years of “peaceful” retirement of where (hopefully) your health remains good enough for you to mostly enjoy it.
*And then after that, your name goes back into the local paper again under the births, deaths, and marriages column, but this time under the death section - and you’re done. And so what’s is all about?
JAMES 4:14
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
*But God has had a long time before you ever got to earth to plan your short life, and so there is a great importance for your life here on earth – because right from the exact moment of your entrance into this world, and of all the details of your life, to the exact moment of your exit from this world, God has been in every little detail of your life.
We ended last week with the thought of how that if since the “Big Bang” (of 13.8 billion years ago), if we did the math of the comparison to your lifetime on earth (of say 75 years), and divide your lifetime of 75 years proportionately into those 13.8 billion years, then 1 second of your life would equal around 5.83 years.
In other words – since the time of the creation of the universe of 13.8 billion years, God would have had 5 years and 10 months just to think about and plan the first second of your life, and then another 5 years and 10 months to plan the next second single second of your life, and so on.
And so God has had plenty of time to think about and to arrange every little detail and circumstance of your life in order to bring your life out right at the end according to His good thoughts and plans that he has for you.
*If we were to expand this scale of one second = 5.83 years out, then 1 minute of your life = 350 years. In other words, God has had 350 years of time for each minute of your life.
1 Hour = 21,000 years
1 Day = 504,000 years
1 Year = 184 million years
God has had 184 million years to plan just one year of your life – and that’s why, if His eye is one the sparrow, then I know He watches me.
**But then we know that God does not exist in time but in eternity, and so this scale is actually infinitely greater than that again.
**We know that God knows the end from the beginning, in other words, He can remember the future just as easily as remembering the past.
JEREMIAH 29:10-11 (opening scripture)
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
**And so the important thing that we want to notice here about this, is that there is something that God has place within the human heart and spirit that motivates man towards a certain goal – of a desire to end well.
Because it is amazing how that most people will work hard all through their lives with the hope and dream of coming to a place of achieving a nice ending to their lives – an ending of security and peace and happiness.
***And so the point here is that there is a reason for this, and that reason is because of how that God has place a deep desire within the human heart for us to hope for that – to hope that we will have an “expected end”. If God hadn’t put that desire in us, then it would simply not be there – and so that deep begins to call to that deep during our lives.
**And so this is why that we can’t seem to help ourselves but to work for that purpose all through our lives, and not just for the purpose of the end of this temporal life, but also with a purpose of our hope for an eternal life.
MATTHEW 19:16
16 ¶ And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? (Look at what his deepest desire was)
TITUS 3:7
7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
I JOHN 2:25
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2
1 ¶ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (This life is full of deferent pursuits and purposes – and those pursuits and purposes are meant to be carried out at different seasons of your life)
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to invest during your life, and a time to cash in on that investment towards the end of your life at harvest time.
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**When we observe history, we notice that there is a general pattern of what follows on from the birth of a new nation - of the stages and phases of the growth of that nation.
We also notice how that the cultural mindset of people that are at the beginning of a new colony (that eventually grows into an established people and nation), of how that their mindset changes at each new stage of the development and advancement as they go along and as they seem to naturally transverse from the beginning of their pioneering stage and then on to their infrastructure stage and then eventually on to materialism and wealth and abundance and bread and circuses (entertainment) – that seems to be the natural flow.
And then after that they have achieved all of that, then we notice that that nation will usually begin to decline due to political and moral corruption until the entire nation crumbles and the cycle begins all over again with some of the remnant that survived.
*The Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813) came up with a list of 8 stages of the life cycle of the rise and fall of a civilization. He called it the eight stages of democracy
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency, greed;
6. From complacency and greed to apathy, moral degradation, and corruption;
7. From apathy, moral degradation, and corruption to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.
**And so what we notice from this, is that where things start going wrong with a nation, it is usually at a time of when the people of that nation have come into a period of abundance and plenty, just like this dispensation of the Laodicean age condition that is all around us now.
*The rich young ruler in the bible turned away from the council of the Lord because he was at this same stage in his life of wealth and prosperity. The bible calls it the deceitfulness of riches (Mathew 13). Money is like having power – but without the right sort of character, that power can become a dangerous and deceitful thing.
**Because unfortunately, abundance can often lead to complacency, and complacency to greed, and greed to laziness and boredom, and then that can lead further on into moral degradation and corruption - and from there it’s only a short step into dependence and to bondage.
REVELATION 3:17
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Look at the condition that the bible is describing that the people were in during this time of being rich and increased with goods, they were rich materialistically, but they were also in a condition of being in a terribly degraded mental state, and not even knowing that they were - of being wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
And that is not a good mental health condition for anyone to be in – and yet that is the reality of what we are seeing all over the entire world at this time.
345-3 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
God says this church of the Laodicean Age is "wretched". That word comes from two Greek words which mean 'endure' and 'trial.' And it has nothing to do with the trials that come to a true Christian for God describes a Christian in trial as "blessed" and his attitude one of joy whereas this description is phrased as "wretched and miserable". How strange. In this age of plenty, in this age of progress, in this age of abundance, how can there be trials? Well now, it is strange; but in this age of plenty and opportunity, when everyone has so much and there is so much more to be had, what with all the inventions to do our work and so many things to give us pleasure, SUDDENLY, we find mental illness taking such a toll as to alarm the nation. When everybody ought to be happy, with really nothing to be unhappy about, millions are taking sedatives at night, pep pills in the morning, rushing to doctors, entering institutions, and trying to drown out unknown fears by alcohol.
Yes, this age boasts of its tremendous stores of worldly goods, but the people are less happy than ever. This age boasts of better moral values and it is more corrupt than any age since the flood. It talks about its knowledge and science, but it is fighting a losing battle in all fields, for the human mind and soul and spirit cannot comprehend or keep abreast with all the changes that have come upon the earth. In one generation we have gone all the way from the horse and buggy age to the space age, and we are proud and boastful about it; but inside is a dark void cavern that is crying out in torment, and WITHOUT A KNOWN REASON men's hearts are failing for fear and the world is so darkened that this age could well be called the age of neurotics. It boasts, but it cannot back it up. It cries peace, and there is no peace. It cries that it has a great amplitude of all things, but it keeps burning with desire like an unsatisfied fire! "There is no peace," saith my God to the wicked.
*This cycle from coming out of bondage and then back to bondage again – we have also witnessed this with the rise and fall of churches and the ministers of those churches. We wouldn’t have to look very far to find ample supportive evidence for this.
**Many start out with good intentions, and then some 20 years or so farther down the road of life, they end up in some form of moral or financial degradation.
**Brother Branham talks about how that a preacher starts out humble, but then after a few years he finally gets to a place of where he become popular with the people, and he begins to prosper financially, and then he finds himself in the happy position of power and respect in the church - only then (after all of that) to fail – it’s the same pattern of how a nation falls.
***And so this is what we have to be on guard against, and we do that by keeping ourselves walking humble before God and before man.
MICAH 6:8
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
INFLUENCE_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-6 SATURDAY_ 63-0803E
61 I'd say this, respects. We got men today on the field, young men, and middle-aged men, and old men, who started out on a good run, and tried, and made a good showing to God. But we find them, today, out yonder, alcoholics, and broke up, out there in the other, away from us. Some of them backslid, altogether. Some of them have went money crazy, and some went woman crazy and married other women that wasn't their wives. And--and all the things and disgrace that's been brought on, every denomination. We, one can't call the other one bad, because we're all guilty, the whole, or every denomination. We've found men like that, that's once been influenced by God and had a great influence to the people. And yet when they felt self-sufficient...
62 When a man gets a place where he can influence for God, he ought to humble himself, all the time, constantly.
63 And we find out, this king died in disgrace, a leper (this is king Uzziah). Then, he was a lesson to the young prophet (Isaiah), not to put his hopes upon any man, but to look to God only. When he begin to look at to a man for an example, this man failed, yet being a good man.
64 So it's a lesson to us, tonight, to keep our minds upon God, regardless of what man it is.
*This pattern of failure of what took place at a time of greatness of king Uzziah life is also a pattern of the lives of many individuals of when they come into a time of blessing also.
This is why we need to keep humbling ourselves, and to keep staying in our own “lane” of where the Lord has allowed His blessing to flow onto us and of what he is causing us to be a blessing to others.
**We don’t ever want to come into a place of where we have so much abundance that it would cause us to become idle and bored – and this is why that God will (by His sovereign grace) keep you at a certain struggle level in your life for your own safety.
EZEKIEL 16:49
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
*And this is why that we all need a purpose that is greater than ourselves – a purpose driven life of what God has raised us up for in this season of time. And the truth that God has sent to us for this hour is that purpose.
ESTHER 4:13-14
13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
*Esther was born into the world for a purpose that she was called to express during her lifetime – and God had watched over every detail of her life.
WHAT.IT.TAKES.TO.OVERCOME.ALL.UNBELIEF.OUR.FAITH_ YAKIMA.WA FRIDAY_ 60-0729
E-60 Now, there is a time that a man can come to a place where he can have a purpose. It's something that will change him.
When we can truly realise our purpose that God has raised us up for as believers in this hour and as the end time gentile bride of these last days - then that is what will drive our spirits to a greater commitment to the things that God has revealed to us in this hour.
**Our first and foremost purpose that God has called us to as believers in this day, is for us to realise that we have been called to believe the message that God has sent to us through His seventh angel - and God has actually designed us with the capacity to fulfil that purpose at the level of what He has call each of us to be.
SHALOM_ PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0119
(He had just been talking about the great symphony of Peter and the Wolf)
150 Now, if you don't understand a symphony, it's a big bunch of racket to you, if you don't understand it. You've got to understand what it is. It's all done by signs and motions, but it acts out a drama in this symphony. Now, we notice, the only one that understands a symphony is the composer and those who are interesting in knowing it, knows its changes, knows what takes place.
151 The composer knows every move, from the end to the beginning, from the beginning to the end. Did you know that? The one who wrote it up, he composes this, he knows every little junction.
The word “orchestrate” means to carefully plan and organize a series of complex events or situations to achieve a specific goal and outcome.
**God has watch over every detail of our lives way back from our ancestry right down to our parents and even to the very minute of our entrance into this world, and then all the experiences that we would go through in He has orchestrated each one of them in order to form us into the exact vessel that He had had in his great eternal mind for the eternal purpose that He has for your existence.
LETTING.OFF.THE.PRESSURE_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0513E
145 …Nothing happens by chance; everything is ordained of God. No matter what happens, all things are going to work together for good.
***And so God wants us to have confidence that as we go down throughout the journey of our lives, that He is in full control of every little detail of our lives, and that He is using each and every event of all that often seems so wrong to us to shape us and form us into the exact vessel that He has had in His great eternal thoughts for us to be – and that is why that nothing ever happens to us by chance.
Because thou hast chosen the narrow path, the harder way; thou hast walked in your own choosing.
Thou hast picked the correct and precise decision, and it is My Way.
Because of this momentous decision, a huge portion of Heaven will await thee.
What a glorious decision thou hast made!
This in itself is that which will give and make come to pass the tremendous victory in the love Divine.
WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0221E
117 Being Eternal with Him, at the beginning... The Eternal Life that you had, His thought of what you was, only, He wanted you to... He wanted me to stand in the pulpit, say. He wanted you to set in the seat tonight. Then we are serving His Eternal purpose. And the one that left home, only come to the earth to serve His purpose. Is that right? All right. Then, after it's finished, it's brought back in a glorified state; it's matured and brought back again.