Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/2_18_2018_Cure_For_Judgment.mp3</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><br> <a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/2_18_2018_Cure_For_Judgment.mp3</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> The Cure For Judgment –<br> Call A Sacred Assembly<br> <br> Encouragement last week / Conviction this week<br> <br> INTRO: LEADING to WED. – Judgement is God Responding to Sin [Broad term]<br> <br> We are to respond BEFORE it comes, but we’re also given grace AFTER it comes.<br> <br> <br> <br> WARNING LABELS: warning the user about risks associated with the use of.<br> <br> <br> <br> A person is not to wait for judgment; they are to remove the cause.<br> <br> Arthur Wallis, “If lukewarmness and apostasy are predicted for the endtime, it is not that we might apathetically await the fulfillment, but that we may be forewarned and strive to advert it.”<br> <br> ACT Before – to avoid / ACT After – to establish and reconnect with GOD<br> <br> <br> <br> Ironically, the response is often the same: “God is slow to anger, patient & kind.”<br> <br> <br> ____________________________________<br> <br> <br> God is not worried about what people think.<br> <br> <br> <br> We don’t want to hear about the penalty, but the pardon. Don’t tell me about pain, I want pleasure. Don’t tell me about judgment, give freedom.<br> <br> <br> <br> On Screen: In 2 Timothy 4:1-2, “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.”<br> TELL THEM ABOUT THE PAIN, but also the PROMISE…ABOUT THE JUDGE but also the PARDON.<br> <br> Martin Luther – “Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.”<br> <br> Reminder: Paul is saying to preach the difficult truths as well as the joyful ones; preach the cross and the new life; preach hell and preach heaven; preach damnation and preach salvation; preach sin and preach grace; preach wrath and preach love; preach judgment and preach mercy; preach obedience and preach forgiveness; preach that God “is love,” but don’t forget that God is just.<br> <br> <br> <br> This should sound an alarm in the the heart of every pastor—are we encouraging sin by SILENCE?<br> <br> <br> ______________________________<br> <br> Regardless of where you’re at [our nation] – Joel offers the cure for Judgement<br> <br> <br> <br> IN THIS CASE, JUDGMENT ALREADY CAME<br> <br> <br> <br> On Screen JOEL 1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.2 Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.<br> <br> <br> <br> ACKNOWLEDGE IT – OWN IT – PASS IT DOWN<br> <br> <br> Who are we to soften God’s blow?<br> Who are we to ease the pounding of the hammer?<br> Who are we to silence the trumpet that God is blowing to get our attention?<br> <br> I WANT TO SEE MY CHILDREN CRYING OUT TO GOD – Weeping under the magnitude of their sin – seeing that they are lost with...
