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PROJESUS.COM INFORMATION LETTER Autumn 2007 #9 Contact us on the web at ProJesus .com ; e-mailanswers@ProJesus.com

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WORRY!

“Do not worry about tomorrow.” This is not the promise of a trouble-free life. But it is a command, which implies that worrying is a choice. In Christ’s command there is the implication that I can become someone who does not worry but is peace-filled. But, I often do worry about tomorrow, because today’s troubles are nothing compared to what might happen next!

So how did Christ manage it, knowing what they would do to Him in the end? He wept and prayed as the hour approached, but that was the day it happened. How did he put aside worry all those years?

What is the secret to not worrying? The truth is that we suffer, and sometimes we suffer without ever seeing, on this earth at least, any good come of it. It’s hard not to worry. It’s hard to trust, sometimes, a God who would send His own son to death. And yet Christ having lived in our frail flesh, knows what we can stand.

Perhaps this is at least part of the answer, that the One who carried His cross up Golgotha out of love, the Savior who promises to blot out every tear, the man who wept for His dead friend Lazarus—this is the Christ who whispered, in plain view of His approaching murder: “Do not worry, beloved.” Christ didn’t promise deliverance on this earth from trouble, but deliverance in trouble.

We imagine the suffering ahead, and not His comfort in the midst of it. We forget to commune with Him here, so deluded as we are by an imaginary there in which He is indifferent.

Still worse, worry affords no room for grace. Sometimes the worst does not come to pass. Sometimes all that worry is wasted. All this grace ignored. I have overcome the world, says the Messiah. Do notworry about tomorrow.

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IS THE BIBLE RELIABLE?

"For since by man came death, by man came also the res urrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" (/ Corinthians /5:2/-22).

Modern evangelicals have found it fashionable to accommodate Scripture to the concept of a very old earth. These views all do serious harm to Scripture, including the current compromise of choice, the "framework hypothesis," which holds that the passages which seem to deal with science and early history contain only "spiritual" truth, but not factual content. Each such attempt to accept vast ages before the appearance of man has many flaws, but perhaps the most damaging to the Christian faith is the problem of death before sin.

The Bible plainly teaches that "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). Before Adam and Eve rebelled, animals ate only plants (Genesis 1:30). Death came as a result of sin and the curse: "For in the day that thou eatest thereof [the forbidden tree] thou shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17). The first death in all of creation occurred when God pro­vided Adam and Eve animal skins for clothing. Sin always brings death. "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Romans 5:12). Indeed "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Ro­mans 8:22). That this is not referring to spiritual death only is clear from our text, which deals with physical resurrec­tion from the dead. Just as Adam's sin brought death on all creation, so Christ's resurrection brings victory over death.

But here is the problem. If death existed before Adam, then death is not the penalty for sin. How, then, did Christ's death pay the penalty for our sin? If death is not tied to Adam's sin, then life is not tied to Christ's death and resur­rection, and the Christian faith is all in vain

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FOLLOWING CHRIST : Big Problems, Bigger Solutions!

As Joshua led the armies of Israel through the Promised Land, an axis of kings lined up against them. It was five-to-one, but God told Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand." As the battle waged on, Joshua cried to God for more daylight to finish the job, and the Lord answered in a miraculous way. The sun stood still over Gibeon, and the moon over the Valley of Aijalon.

Yes, that's a miracle. But it's almost as great a miracle when some of us "stand still" long enough to consider and claim the promises of God. Our lives are whirlwinds of worry and weariness, but how wonderful when we learn to be still and know that He is God.

Critics of the Bible ridicule the story of the day the sun stood still over Gibeon in Joshua 10; but if God spoke the world into existence, He's big enough to perform miracles as needed. His answers are bigger than our prayers, and His promises are greater than our problems. If He can make the sun stand still in its course, He can still our hearts, answer our prayers, and give us the victories we need.

To God, the sun never does go down.

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To show His love, Jesus died for me; To show my love, I must live for Him!