God's Appointments - Part 4

In the java . . . . . . . . . . But, alas. What is our real response to this? that news. Sometimes I cannot even look at the news. It's too painful to me. That's how I react. As though I have a personal responsibility. Yes, God gives His children a personal responsibility. Because He has no pleasure in the death of the sinner. He wants us to see as He sees. You know, we are surveying around us, and I've got very much used to it, that a scene of desolation appears to be normal to us. And we think, no, this is the usual way of the world. Oh, I can do little about this. But, when we are talking of a risen Christ, a Savior who wants to teach us that all power belongs to Him, we must pray boldly. We need to pray, in a sense, great prayers. We ought to claim great things. But the shallowness of our faith, it seems to negate so much which could be done. No faith. Just a symbol. God is just a two-dimensional picture. A God who is really dependent so much upon me, that if I don't dole out a little money, oh, He is going to suffer. What is this? A pure, heathen idea of God. My God is the God of the impossible. He has appointed to me a kingdom. If you turn to Luke, chapter 22, and the 29th verse, the Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples, the Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples, 22 and 29, I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father has appointed unto me. As my Father has appointed unto me a kingdom, I appoint unto you a kingdom. Now, is there no appointment that you have received from God? You know, St. Paul says, When God visited him, he comforted not with flesh and blood. He comforted, but with a supernatural God. Now, what was your conversion? At what level? Are you conferring merely with flesh and blood? Or are you conferring with God? When God wanted to bring Paul into His appointment, when God wanted to bring Paul into His appointment, when it was His purpose to reveal Christ to Paul, He received the message by revelation. See, we can reduce everything today to natural reasoning, we think. You know, that's how people seem to feel in the scientific world and in America, for instance. Oh, the President did nothing about Katrina. Oh, the President did nothing about Katrina. That awful cyclone that struck New Orleans. Listen, that shows the measure of people's ignorance. That shows the measure of people's ignorance. You one cannot fight against God. The judgments of God are just. In His Second Presidential Address,