HEAD 1 + Title: The Significance of Catastrophes

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Tracing: Preached September 13, 1992 PM at SDCC

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HEAD 1 + INTRO

Illus - man buying stubborn mule, 2x4, "Sometimes you have to get his

attention!"

Is God trying to get our attention? Aids (whack), Recession (whack), Drought

(whack), Hurricanes (whack, whack, whack!).

HEAD 1 + BODY

HEAD 2 + God's Use of Catastrophes

HEAD 3 + The Flood

HEAD 3 + The Plagues

HEAD 3 + War & Captivity

Judges Era, Babylonia

HEAD 3 + Famine - Joel

HEAD 3 + Economic Decline, & many others Dt. 28:15ff

HEAD 2 + Man's Response to Catastrophes

HEAD 3 + Ignore -- Modern Response

HEAD 3 + Protect -- Humanistic Response

HEAD 3 + Appease -- Pagan Response

HEAD 3 + Repent -- Christian Response! THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY P.217

HEAD 2 + Conclusions about Catastrophes

HEAD 3 + Catastrophes (in general) are a direct result of man's sin (in general).

HEAD 3 + Some Catastrophes are a wake-up call from God.

HEAD 3 + Some Catastrophes result from living in a fallen world

HEAD 3 + ALL Catastrophes should prompt us to self-examination!

HEAD 1 + CONCLUSION

Excerpt from "God's Controversy with New England" by Michael Wigglesworth:

"Our healthful days are at an end and sicknesses come on

From year to year, because our hearts away from God are gone.

New England, where for many years you scarcely heard a cough.

And where physicians had no work, no...

Read from THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY, Peter Marshall and David Manuel

HEAD 1 + COMMENTS

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Minister of Stokelan Drive Christian Church

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