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Study Section 3: Chapters 7 - 8

3.1 Connect

How to you respond to life when things go wrong? We have all experienced the death of one
we love, or the loss of something precious to us. Perhaps you lost a job or even worse, lost a
child in death. Life can be pretty rugged sometimes! There is a common saying, “When life
sends you lemons, thank the Lord and make lemonade out of them.”

Sometimes God sends trials in our lives to reveal our true faith. Do we trust God in the midst
of trials, or do we complain and try to figure out how we can, in our own strength, resolve the issues?
We really have only two choices: trust our loving God to care for us OR complain and get bitter about
the raw deal we are receiving. Isaiah will look into that topic today….

3.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to discuss how God uses the crises of life to expose our true faith.

2. The student should be able to explain that people travel to their eternal destiny by two paths: one
of light and one of darkness.

3.3 Title of Course

Chapter 7 Main Idea: God uses the crises of life to expose our true faith.

One of life’s biggest questions: ‘In what do you trust?’ I would assume that most of us sitting
here would say ‘In God We Trust’, but how true is that in our daily walk?

Everyone we meet is either going through a crisis, just got through a crisis or there is a crisis
coming. When they come, do we trust in our savings accounts, our jobs, our families…or God.

Every single moment of our lives, we are trusting in something.

God will use different means to demonstrate to us that our faith is misplaced. Sometimes it’s through a
stock market crash (which I don’t think God causes, but He uses it to teach us) sometimes it’s through a
war or a famine.

V. 1-2 When King Solomon died, the people of Israel split into two kingdoms, because some of the
people weren’t satisfied with the new leader, so they separated themselves from those who followed
him. Sound familiar?

An already small kingdom was now split in two, and faced not just each other, but all the surrounding
nations. Assyria was described as ‘the big monster swimming in the small pool of the Middle East. They
were the Nazis of the ancient world’.

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