IF GOD...

[“If” Series #5]

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. IF GOD IS YOUR GOD WHY WORRY? [Matthew 6:30]

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?

II. IF GOD IS YOUR FATHER YOU WILL LOVE JESUS [John 8:42]

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

III. IF GOD IS YOUR GOD MAKE YOUR PLANS WITH HIM IN MIND. [Acts 18:21, 1 Cor. 4:19, 16:7; Heb. 6:1-3, James 4:15]

-But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

-But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will...

-For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

- Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit.

-For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that

IV. IF GOD BE FOR US WHY FEAR ANYONE, OR ANYTHING, ELSE? [Romans 8:31]

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

V. IF GOD BE GOD WHY COMPLAIN ABOUT HIS TIMETABLE? [Romans 9:22]

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

VI. IF GOD BE GOD UNDERSTAND HE WILL DEAL WITH THE LACK OF FAITH [Romans 11:18-27]

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

VII. IF GOD IS WILLING TO SAVE, WE SHOULD BE WILLING TO WITNESS [2 Timothy 2:25]

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

VIII. IF GOD BE GOD, HE WILL JUDGE THE WICKED [2 Peter 2:1-9]

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

IX. IF GOD IS OUR GOD WE OUGHT TO LOVE OTHERS AS GOD LOVES US [1 John 4:11]

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.