LIFE OUT OF CONTROL

JOB 1:13-19

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

When we think of life out of control we often think of situations out of our personal control [like a hurricane] but that is not the only way the Bible depicts a life out of control. Consider with me:

 

I. MOST PEOPLE LIVE UNCONTROLLED LIVES

1. An Unconcerned Life is an Uncontrolled Life [Lk. 12:16-21]

And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that loadeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

 

2. An Unbelieving Life is an Uncontrolled Life [Heb. 3:12, 19, 4:6, 11]

- Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

- So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

- Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein , and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

- Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

 

3. An Unconfessed Life is an Uncontrolled Life [Pr. 28:13]

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

 

II. THE WORLD IS INTERESTED [regardless of what they may say-they are interested]

 

1. The World is Wanting (in more ways than one) [Dan. 5:27, Amos 8:11]

- TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

- Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

 

2. The World is Watching [Mt. 5:16]

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

 

3. The World is Waiting (in more ways than one) [Micah 7:2, Lk. 11:54, Jn. 5:3, Eph. 4:14]

- The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

- Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

- In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

- That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness , whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

 

III. THE CONTROLLED LIVES OF FAITHFUL

 

1. A Controlled Life Requires the Saviour [Rm. 10:1-13]

 

2. A Controlled Life Requires the Scripture [Rm. 10:14-17]

 

3. A Controlled Life Requires the Sovereign [Rm. 14:9, 2 Corinthians 10:5, 2 Peter 3:18]

- For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

-Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

-But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever . Amen.