"...for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." Isaiah 26:9b
-A- Preface: All discussion and instruction must be marked by sympathy and compassion and not be unfeeling and unconcerned for those directly impacted by the destruction and devastation resulting from these storms.
-B- Reminder of basic truths related to these unusual providences.
-1- Our world is under the sovereign control of God at all times in all places with respect to all things.
-2- Our World is under the righteous curse of God because of man’s sin.
-C- We live in a world in which God has multiple purposes folded into his unusual visitations into the physical world.
-1- Five purposes of God for his own people (see message #1)
-2- Five purposes of God for the unconverted -a- to awaken sinners to the terrifying reality of his irresistible power and future judgment -b- to soften sinners by his discriminating mercy manifested amidst death and devastation -c- that his sudden and tragic cutting off of some would constitute a clarion to repentance to others -d- to bring the gospel to many—a gospel validated by the tangible manifestations of selfless, sacrificial, self-giving love of Christians -e- to show to men the utter folly and futility of an idolatrous trust in man
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