2 Corinthians 13

The Temple at Corinth

Headlines:

500,000 new layoffs

DMV needs plan to stay open

Food stamp use up 31%

4500 new requests for emergency food boxes, up 13%

1. Why you are going to get through this:

God is in control

Isa 40:12,15

Who else knows the weight of the earth…yet He picks up the earth as though it were a grain of salt…

Isa 46:4

I will be your God through your lifetime until your hair is white with age. I will care for you…I will carry you along and I will save you.

Isa 48:9-11

I will rescue you for My sake…yes for My own sake. I will not let my reputation be tarnished

Isa 54:7-8

For a brief moment I abandoned you but with great compassion I will take you back with everlasting love. I will have compassion on you says the Lord.

2. HOW are you going to get through this?

a. There are no SHORTCUTS.

You will get through this but how it turns out belongs to God. He has a plan. He is in control.

b. Do not WITHDRAW from GOD or His representative the CHURCH.

i. Seek God’s FACE rather than His HAND

b. (cont.) Do not WITHDRAW from GOD or His representative the CHURCH.

ii. God provided the CHURCH to ENCOURAGE us.

c. Stop living by our own IDEAS.

i. IDOLS

..anything we say we need to be happy. We have idols because we feel Jesus alone will not satisfy…

c. (cont.) Stop living by our own IDEAS.

ii. LIES

Good lies appear true and even work for a while…but ultimately fail…

d. Strategies to overcome an economic meltdown:

i. Become a DISCIPLEii. PRAYERiii. Understand how you got off TRACK.

d. Strategies to overcome an economic meltdown:

iv.Seek WISE COUNSELv. Manage your PERSONAL

LIFE.vi. Become a STEWARD of

what God’s given you.