BIBLE STUDY NOTES Sabbath, July 25, 2015 Bro. Cris Wellington
Topic: "A Broken Hearted God, a Broken Human Race,
and a Broken World"
GOD'S BROKEN HEART
BECAUSE OF HUMAN SIN, WICKEDNESS & SELFISHNESS
(1) "O Jerusalem, O
Jerusalem..." (Matt.
23:27)--Cry of a Broken Hearted Savior
(What was He Crying About?) Note: HOW
WE WEARY GOD Isaiah 1:113-15, esp. last phrase of v.15
(2) "And as it was in the
days of Noe..." (Luke 17:26-30) (What
was happening in Noah's days that we can see happening nowadays? What does all
this say about the nearness of Jesus' coming? What should we be doing about
this?)
(3) "Likewise also as it
was in the days of Lot..." (Luke 17: 28)
(4) "Remember Lot's
Wife" (Luke 17:32)/ "For what shall it profit a man...?" (Mark 8:36)/ "And
take heed to yourselves, lest...cares of this life..." (Luke
21:34).
HUMAN BROKENNESS
(5) "... Nevertheless when
the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke
18:8)--Human Cynicism: People in general
no longer hold to our sacred beliefs, BUT scoff at them & instead walk in
their own lusts (See 2 Peter 3: 3);
(6) "... a people laden
with iniquity... the hole head is sick, and the whole heart faint... from the
sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it..." (Isaiah
1:4-6)--not a pretty picture of human
condition represented by Israel's situation;
(7) "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots...?" (Jeremiah 13:23)--Humanity can't save/help itself;
(8) "...because iniquity
shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Matt. 24: 12)/ "For nation
shall rise against nation..." (Matt. 24:7)
A BROKEN WORLD
(9) "...the great dragon
was cast out...into the earth..." (Rev. 12:9)/ "...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth...for the
devil is come down unto you, having great wrath..." (Rev. 12:12);
(10) "For we know that the
whole creation groaneth..." (Rom. 8:22)/
"...and there shall be
famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" (Matt.
24:7)/
“Satan delights in
war, for it excites the worst passions of the soul and then sweeps into
eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite
the nations to war against one another, for he can thus divert the minds of
the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God.
Satan works
through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He
has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his
power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to
afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were
swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that
shields His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer” (Great Controversy, page 589,
emphasis/underlining mine).
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HOW SHALL WE STAND IN
LIGHT OF ALL OF THIS?
Point the people to Jesus and the hope that is in Him. Use
texts such as John 3:14-18; Matt. 11:28-30; Isaiah 1:18; 1 John 1:9; John 10:10.
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