Genesis 42:10 – Sin follows you

“No, my lord,” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.” – Joseph’s brother coming to Egypt

2 Peter 3:9 God delay his second coming for people to repent

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

Psalms 90:10 – Our life is hardship

“Our days may come to seventy years,
    or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.“

1 John 4:1 – Test the spirit

“Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

1 Corinthians 11:4 – Different spirits

“For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.“

We do not have our way because it will not prosper and we will continue with futile wishes and prayers

James 4:3 Praying with wrong intension

“When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”

  • need to think what we go in front of God with

Proverbs 23: 4-5 Wealth

“Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    do not trust your own cleverness.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.“

Jeremiah 17:11 Money that is not earned

“Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
    and in the end they will prove to be fools.“

Oxygen cost £200 for 3 days, for a month more than £2,000 yet is a free resources that God has given us.

Why did not God forgive Adam and Eve in the garden:

  1. made them realise about their sin
  2. They did not take ownership of their sin

Clothing -> God’s grace -> A sacrifice was made to redeem from sin

Only one who have not sin, can tell other not to sin!

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.“

Romans 5:1

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”

Isaiah 53 prophecy about Jesus and his mistreatment