PART 2: Pestilence/Calamities to accomplish God’s righteous purposes on earth
A) Establish man’s righteousness (Job 2 )
Job was blameless, upright , one who feared God and shunned evil. Satan said that God had made a wall of protection all around him and his house ( including his family),his possessions. Satan challenges the righteous of Job. He goes on to suggest that if everything is taken away from Job, Job would curse God. God gives Satan permission to try Job’s faith by stripping him of his wealth , his family and finally his health. Bible tells us that “ Job did not sin with his lips” ( Job 2:10 )
We learn the following
a) God knows all. His decision is final. God is the author of all power of the universe.
b) When deep suffering threatens the foundation of faith, as was the case with Job, an assault on our faith can destroy us unless we are firmly rooted in God’s truth.
c) In times of tragedy,we face the temptation of blaming God instead we should live in humility and wait for God to reveal Himself and His purposes.
d) The struggle of faith is a personal one.
B) Works of God might be displayed (John 9)
Jesus passed by a man who was blind from birth.The disciples showed no interest in helping the man, but in discussing the cause for his condition. Jesus said that the man’s blindness was not caused by some specific sin committed by the man or his parents. (John 9: 2–3 )
1) Even the man’s physical disability was in the plan of God so that the works of God should be revealed in him.
C) God may be glorified through it ( John 11)
Lazarus of Bethany was sick. Jesus said that this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” When Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. Lazarus died. So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.Jesus prays at the tomb of Lazarus and raises Lazarus from the dead.
1. Sickness to bring glory to the Lord.
Lazarus died due to his sickness but Jesus raised him up and many who came to join in the sorrow of the grieving sisters believed in Jesus
2. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
D) Discipline of the Lord to the sons whom He loves (Hebrews 12:5–11, Psalm 119:67, 71, 75)
1. God’s chastisement is for our good
2. God’s chastisement is for the purpose that we may share His holiness
3. God’s chastisement is that we yield peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it
4. God’s afflictions corrects us to return from astray path
5. God’s afflictions helps us to learn to keep Your Word and statutes
PART 2: Pestilence/Calamities to accomplish God’s righteous purposes on earth
A) Establish man’s righteousness
B) Works of God might be displayed
C) God may be glorified through it
D) Discipline of the Lord to the sons whom He loves
We learn the following when pestilence/calamities comes to establish God’s righteous purposes.
- God knows all. His decision is final. God is the author of all power of the universe.
- When deep suffering threatens the foundation of faith, an assault on our faith can destroy us unless we are firmly rooted in God’s truth.
- In times of tragedy,we face the temptation of blaming God instead we should live in humility and wait for God to reveal Himself and His purposes.
- The struggle of faith is a personal one.
- Even man’s physical disability was in the plan of God so that the works of God should be revealed in him.
- Sickness to bring glory to the Lord.
- Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me,though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
- God’s chastisement is for our good
- God’s chastisement is for the purpose that we may share His holiness
- God’s chastisement is that we yield peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it
- God’s afflictions corrects us to return from astray path
- God’s afflictions helps us to learn to keep Your Word and statutes
We have learned from,
PART 1: Pestilence as a sign of God’s judgment on a nation or a group of people
PART 2: Pestilence to accomplish God’s righteous purposes on earth
We are going to see more about,
WHY DO PESTILENCE COME IN OUR LIFE ?
PART 3 : Pestilence as a sign that described the end times

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