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This short Sermon Revisit clip begins with the question of why God would pour out judgment on the earth or allow particular things to happen. Pastor Keith Kirkpatrick acknowledges that human perspective is minimal, then points to the closing verses of the chapter as the answer: everything God does is an opportunity to glorify Himself, so that people would see He is perfect in all His ways. He concedes we do not understand this now but insists God is completely perfect in His justice toward everyone, including the earth.
Pastor Keith Kirkpatrick then describes the response of those who survived the plagues: they did not turn from the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood that cannot see, hear, or walk, nor did they turn from murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, or thefts. He compares them to Pharaoh in Egypt, who saw plague after plague and still never repented, trusted God, or admitted God was greater, but instead played the role of god and did what he wanted. The conclusion drawn is that history repeats itself and the enemy's ways are not new.
The final movement applies this to the present. Pastor Keith Kirkpatrick says what we are going through now echoes the same things in different forms, defining 'sorceries' simply as magic arts and linking it to pharmacia and drugs. He warns about addiction, alcoholism, and the availability of pot shops in the city, rejects debating medicinal versus not medicinal inside the church, and objects to a green cross sign near his home, ending on the claim that the finished work of Jesus is what heals.
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why why would god pour out his judgment on the earth we'd love to try to answer that question why does god do fill in the blank why did god allow fill in the blank why is god doing fill in the blank and we have such a minimal perspective but the last two verses of this chance chapter answer that question everything god does is an opportunity to glorify himself so that we would see he's perfect in all his ways i know we don't understand that now but he is completely perfect in his justice towards everyone including the earth look at verse 20 and 21 the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshipping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood
which cannot see or hear or walk nor did they repent of their murders or the sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts like pharaoh in egypt god sent a plague let god's people go he didn't do it another plague another plague you might think that after number five or six or seven you'd say this god is not a god to mess with but he never repented he never trusted god he never said you're greater than me god instead he played the role of god he did what he wanted to do history repeats itself the enemy's ways are not new ever what we're going through right now we could look back and see the same things happening in different forms sorceries the word just simply means magic arts and we see that done in so
many different forms through pharmacia we see it through drugs the addiction of drugs that you we would think in this age that we live in we'd kind of have things figured out right like why would why would we need meth or heroin or any other drug i'll tell you why because the enemy's tactics are not new one hit of heroin and you're addicted not two or three you're addicted and now you spend a lifetime fighting that addiction alcoholism that that follows generations i i look at our city this is captured by the enemy pot shops are everywhere and now we we justify it i realize that even in this church i don't want to have the conversation is this medicinal or not medicinal i'm talking about changing your brain by my house i drive by one that says green cross and it makes me sick to my
stomach that the cross would be associated with some medicinal person the finished work of jesus is what heals
