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2 Corinthians 13 The Temple at Corinth

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Page 1: Surviving Economic Meltdown

2 Corinthians 13

The Temple at Corinth

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Headlines:

500,000 new layoffs

DMV needs plan to stay open

Food stamp use up 31%

4500 new requests for emergency food boxes, up 13%

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1. Why you are going to get through this:

God is in control

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Isa 40:12,15

Who else knows the weight of the earth…yet He picks up the earth as though it were a grain of salt…

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Isa 46:4

I will be your God through your lifetime until your hair is white with age. I will care for you…I will carry you along and I will save you.

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Isa 48:9-11

I will rescue you for My sake…yes for My own sake. I will not let my reputation be tarnished

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Isa 54:7-8

For a brief moment I abandoned you but with great compassion I will take you back with everlasting love. I will have compassion on you says the Lord.

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2. HOW are you going to get through this?

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a. There are no SHORTCUTS.

You will get through this but how it turns out belongs to God. He has a plan. He is in control.

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b. Do not WITHDRAW from GOD or His representative the CHURCH.

i. Seek God’s FACE rather than His HAND

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b. (cont.) Do not WITHDRAW from GOD or His representative the CHURCH.

ii. God provided the CHURCH to ENCOURAGE us.

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c. Stop living by our own IDEAS.

i. IDOLS

..anything we say we need to be happy. We have idols because we feel Jesus alone will not satisfy…

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c. (cont.) Stop living by our own IDEAS.

ii. LIES

Good lies appear true and even work for a while…but ultimately fail…

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d. Strategies to overcome an economic meltdown:

i. Become a DISCIPLEii. PRAYERiii. Understand how you got off TRACK.

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d. Strategies to overcome an economic meltdown:

iv.Seek WISE COUNSELv. Manage your PERSONAL

LIFE.vi. Become a STEWARD of

what God’s given you.