‘And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did ...
Looking for Light in the Darkness
Transcript of Looking for Light in the Darkness
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HOW LIFE FEELSThe Lenten Journey | Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles | 2016
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Ever found yourself in a really dark place?
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Looking for Light in the DarknessPsalm 23 & Psalm 38
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Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil;
for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
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“I believe that You’re with me, Lord. So no matter how dark this gets, no matter how hard it gets, I will not be afraid of this!” The Lord is
my shepherd.
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But there are other dark times where we don’t easily sense the Shepherd’s presence, where we really struggle not to be
afraid
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Psalm 389 Lord, all my desire is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You. 10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
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Psalm 3813 But I, like a deaf man, did not hear; and like a dumb man, did not open my mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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Psalm 3815 For in You, O Lord, do I hope; You will answer, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, “Lest otherwise they should rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.”
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Psalm 3821 Do not abandon me, O Lord; O my God, do not be far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
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The Original Plan (since 2014)
EBCLA
RETIRE from
Pastoring 6/16 or 6/17FULLER
AAI+FULLER
AAI
EBCLA
RETIRE from
Pastoring June 2016FULLER
AAI+FULLER
AAI
The Blown Up Plan (28 January 2016)
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Looking for the Light in the
Darkness๏ Lots of Questions Without Answers ๏ Lots of Competing Voices ๏ Uncertain and Disillusioned ๏ Where are you, Lord? Save me!
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The New and Approved Plan (as of 12 Feb ‘16)
EBCLA
RETIRE from
Pastoring June 2017FULLER
AAI+FULLER
Teach
RESIGN as Exec Dir
of AAI June 2016 EBCLA
Full-time Final Year
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We are never truly alone in the dark.
Trust the Lord.
Look for the light.
Reach for the
rope.