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Jan 26, 2014

Change: When the Building Shifts

Passage: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: Building Families That Last

Category: Ecclesiastes

Summary:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-13; James 1:1-27

Detail:

Building Families That Last - #3

Change – When the Building Shifts

 

You Can Handle the Change That Marriage and Family Life Will Bring By Allowing the Changeless God to Change You

 

1. You Will Change

 

Eccl. 3:1-8 -

              

               The great mistake of young couples –

                                            

2. God Won’t Change –

 

Prepare for the effects of change on your marriage and family, by…

                              Mal 3:6

                              Heb 13:8

                              James 1:17

 

               God’s changelessness can help you cope with change in two ways:

 

                              It should comfort you because he is…

                                             He still

                                             He still

                                            

                              It should produce reverent fear and obedience because His…

                                             Hebrews 12:28-29

 

3. God Can Change You

 

You need to be changed to…

 

               The wrong way to attempt change – 1 Peter 3:1

              

God made a commitment to change your circumstances when necessary

 

  1. First you need a…..

2 Cor 5:17 –

 

               Then you need God’s power enabling you to…

                                             2 Cor 3:17–18  

 

God the Holy Spirit is doing it…but

Titus 2:11-13 11

               God makes a comforting promise to us in the face of all we need to change

 

1 Cor. 15:51-52