Understanding His Love and Care The Conclusion For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future Jeremiah 2911 ID: 313799
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God’s Punctuation
Understanding His Love and CareSlide2
The Conclusion
For
I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future
.
Jeremiah 29:11Slide3
GOD’S PLAN FOR ISRAEL
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.
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
.Slide4
Israel’s Despair
Defeated by Enemies
Loss of Inheritance
Servitude
Destruction of Homeland
No Earthly AdvocateSlide5
Waiting on “something”
Bethesda – “In
these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water
.”
John 5:2-3Slide6
What’s the Expectation?
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another
steppeth
down before me.Slide7
More Losses than Victories
1831 - Lost his job
1832 - Defeated in run for Illinois State Legislature
1833 - Failed in business
1834*
- Elected to Illinois State
Legislature
1835 - Sweetheart died
1836 - Had nervous breakdown
1838 - Defeated in run for Illinois House
Speaker
1843 -Defeated
in run for nomination for
party
1846*
- Elected to
Congress
1848 - Lost re-nomination
1849 - Rejected for land officer position
1854 - Defeated in run for U.S. Senate
1856 - Defeated in run for nomination for Vice President
1858 - Again defeated in run for U.S.
Senate
1860 * - Elected PresidentSlide8
The Finality of the “PERIOD”
A
period
, also known as a
full
stop
…the
end of a sentence.
It
shows that an idea has
finished
.Slide9
CONTINUATION OF IDEA
THE COMMA –
Greek
(
κόμμ
α
)
– “
something
cut
off”
U
sed
to separate parts of a sentence such as clauses and lists of three or more things.Slide10
IS HE REALLY FINISHED ?
DON’T PUT A PERIOD WHERE GOD PUTS A COMMA