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When Trouble Brings Hope Notes

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It’s amazing what a general look at today’s headlines reveals… nothing good is happening.  There are looming disasters, mushrooming problems, and a complete sense of hopelessness projects from our national leaders.  The good news is that, while God has allowed us to choose ungoldly leaders, He is not allowing those leaders to prosper.  If His present judgment on our nation is towards destruction, it’s very likely He would cause the present leaders to prosper, rather than to fail. 

Hebrews 12 speaks to God’s children… may it be understood by our nation:
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.