Title: Are You Proud? God Moment by Moment Upholds You
Meta: What are you tempted to be proud of tonight? Are you girls tempted to be proud of your beauty? Do you realize you could lose that in a second? Are you proud of how smart you are? One little thing and it could be gone and you can't even put sentences together. - Charles Leiter
Tags: providence,pride,Charles Leiter,upheld,alive,Christian,God,Lord,universe

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How should this truth of the Providence of God affect our lives?(P)

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First of all:

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This ought to fill all of us with great humility.

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Great humility.

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Everything we have.

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Everything we are.

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Everything we have accomplished.

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Even the fact that you are alive here tonight,

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sitting here tonight,

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is hanging from the slenderest thread of God's merciful providence.(P)

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You have a strong body?

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So did Christopher Reeve, Superman,

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till he got thrown from a horse

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and became a quadriplegic

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who had to be on a breathing apparatus for the rest of his life.

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You have good eyes?

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So did Fanny Crosby till the doctor put the wrong thing in her eyes

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when she was a little girl,

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and made her go blind.

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Are you athletic?

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So was Joni Eareckson

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until she jumped into that water that was too shallow

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and broke her neck.(P)

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Mona and I were in a coma unit

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a number of years ago,

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and there was a fellow in there maybe in his forties.

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We said, "What happened to him?"

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Well the wife and husband were out riding their bikes

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and they got tangled up somehow and fell down.

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They were not going fast.

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They were just out for a little bike ride.

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Fell down he hit his head on the pavement

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and he'd been in a coma ever since.

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One little chance accident.

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You have financial prosperity?

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There are so many people in human history

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that thought they had it made,

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they lost everything just like that.

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And you could too.(P)

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Paul says in in 1 Corinthians 4:7

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"What do you have that you had not received?"

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And we might well add to that,

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and what would be what have you received

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that God hasn't sustained moment by moment

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or you would have lost it by now.(P)

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So I want to say to you beloved:

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What are you tempted to be proud of tonight?

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You tempted, you girls, tempted to be proud of your beauty?

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Do you realize you could lose that in a second?

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Are you proud of how smart you are?

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One little thing and it could be gone

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and you can't even put sentences together.

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Beloved we're being upheld by this slender thread of providence

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all the time.

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Everything,

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everything you have,

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everything you are,

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everything that you've accomplished,

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it's been accomplished through grace,

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grace, grace

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all along the way.

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And every little individual little things

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that have kept you alive to get you here tonight.(P)

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If you're not a Christian,

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don't go out of here without crying out to God.

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If you are a Christian,

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God have mercy on you

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if you've got pride welling up in you.

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Moment by moment sustained

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by unspeakable, slender thread of providence.