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How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God?

How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God?. The heart of man left alone will follow the flesh! (Rom 3:10-18, 23). How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God?.

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How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God?

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  1. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • The heart of man left alone will follow the flesh! (Rom 3:10-18, 23)

  2. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • Romans 3:10-18 (NKJV) - As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one….”

  3. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • Romans 3:23 (NKJV) - for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

  4. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • Even when men praised Jesus He knew what was in man! (Jn 2:23-24)

  5. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • John 2:23-24 (NKJV) - Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men,

  6. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • It takes a mighty power to change this stubborn heart. (Jer 13:23-24)

  7. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • Jeremiah 13:23-24 (NKJV) - Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil. 24 “Therefore I will scatter them like stubble That passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

  8. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • What kind of power was used to change your heart?

  9. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • The conversion of Paul illustrates how God uses suffering to bring men to Him.

  10. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • The conversion of Paul illustrates how God uses suffering to bring men to Him. • When Paul was struck blind and then allowed to think about matters in a helpless state God described Paul’s previous attitude as kicking “against the goads.” (Acts 9:3-5)

  11. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • Acts 9:3-5 (NKJV) - As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” 5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”

  12. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • kentron ¤ AV - sting 3, prick 2; 5 ¤ 1) a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts…2) an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden 2a) hence the proverb, "to kick against the goad", i.e. to offer vain and perilous or ruinous resistance.

  13. How can God take a rebellious man and turn him into a son of God? • One of the greatest blessings man might find is a “goad” from God.

  14. What kind of furnace does God use? • The nation of Israel was reminded of the fact that God used a furnace. (Deut 4:20; 1 Kings 8:51; Jer 11:4)

  15. What kind of furnace does God use? • Deuteronomy 4:20 (NKJV) - But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

  16. What kind of furnace does God use? • 1 Kings 8:51 (NKJV) - (for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace),

  17. What kind of furnace does God use? • Jeremiah 11:4 (NKJV) - which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,’

  18. What kind of furnace does God use? • kuwr ¤ from an unused root meaning properly, to dig through; ¤ AV –furnace 9; 9 1) furnace, forge, smelting furnace or pot v 2) (Qal) to bore, pierce, dig, hew.

  19. What kind of furnace does God use? • Here it is a smelting furnace that denotes a purifying refining process. This is not a furnace used to cook or heat a home.(Prov 17:3; 27:21)

  20. What kind of furnace does God use? • Proverbs 17:3 (NKJV) - The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the Lord tests the hearts.

  21. What kind of furnace does God use? • Proverbs 27:21 (NKJV) - The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, And a man is valued by what others say of him.

  22. What kind of furnace does God use? • God often had to get His furnace out when dealing with the nation of Israel. (Isa 48:10)

  23. What kind of furnace does God use? • Isaiah 48:10 (NKJV) - Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

  24. What kind of furnace does God use? • The destruction of Jerusalem and the ensuing captivity would bring a different people in time! (Ezek 22:18, 20, 22)

  25. What kind of furnace does God use? • Ezekiel 22:18 (NKJV) - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver.

  26. What kind of furnace does God use? • Ezekiel 22:20 (NKJV) - As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.

  27. What kind of furnace does God use? • Ezekiel 22:22 (NKJV) - As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out My fury on you.

  28. What kind of furnace does God use? • This furnace was one of testing where the true character can be shown and true faith can be built!

  29. What kind of furnace does God use? • This furnace was one of testing where the true character can be shown and true faith can be built! • Was the captivity a bad event for Daniel and his friends? NO!

  30. What kind of furnace does God use? • Jesus was put through the furnace and His true character clearly shown to us.(Rev 1:15)

  31. What kind of furnace does God use? • Revelation 1:15 (NKJV) - His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;

  32. How did God build a nation? • Consider the beginnings of God’s people in Egypt. (Gen 46:31-34)

  33. How did God build a nation? • Genesis 46:31-34 (NKJV) - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’

  34. How did God build a nation? • 33 So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

  35. How did God build a nation? • God wanted a separation and a purity of his people.

  36. How did God build a nation? • God wanted a separation and a purity of his people. • For many years the people did have favor with Pharaoh and they lived in ease.

  37. How did God build a nation? • God wanted a separation and a purity of his people. • For many years the people did have favor with Pharaoh and they lived in ease. • When a king arose that did not know Joseph then the comfort ended. (Ex 1:8, 12-14)

  38. How did God build a nation? • Exodus 1:8 (NKJV) - Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

  39. How did God build a nation? • Exodus 1:12-14 (NKJV) - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

  40. How did God build a nation? • Many in the church are afraid of this separation and the suffering that goes with it! (Gal 6:12)

  41. How did God build a nation? • Galatians 6:12 (NKJV) - As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

  42. How did God build a nation? • How do you stand when applying for a job? Choosing your friends?

  43. How did God build a nation? • The furnace helped the people to see that their only hope was in God! (Ex 2:23-24)

  44. How did God build a nation? • Exodus 2:23-24 (NKJV) - Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

  45. How did God build a nation? • During this time a generation of male babies were slaughtered. (Ex 1:13-16)

  46. How did God build a nation? • Exodus 1:13-16 (NKJV) - So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

  47. How did God build a nation? • 15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

  48. How did God build a nation? • Finally the desire for Egypt had been boiled out of them in “the iron furnace!”

  49. How did God build a nation? • Now and only now are they ready for deliverance.

  50. How does God bring a man to Him? • Like Paul, a man must be first brought down to his knees. (Acts 16:25-29)

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