Speaker: Jack Deere
Date: October 23, 2011
Topic: Predestination, Theology
Excerpt:
We have been talking about predestination for the last 4 or 5 weeks. If you’re visiting this morning, you missed maybe 4 weeks of messages on this. I don’t want you to get offended because sometimes predestination is such an emotional topic – and you go, “why are you teaching emotional topics?” I just like a good fight! I was raised that way.
No, actually we’re teaching it because the Bible says so much about predestination – Jesus, the apostles, the Old Testament. It is talked about from the beginning to the end of the Bible. God puts a great value on it, and yet we have kind of shied away from it. I think it’s largely because of controversy and misunderstanding…
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Pastor Jack,
Thank you for this teaching on predestination and suffering. I am moved and touched.
I am pretty sure you won’t remember this, but 10 years ago you prayed for my son who had just received a diagnosis of autism then. We attended at that time a church called Vineyard of Hope in Walnut CA.
The last 10 years has been a time of trials, suffering, struggles, healing and awakening.
Like you said, it is a mystery as to why. But we are learning to press into the heart of God. Not there yet, still pursuing.
Thank you for the encouragement.
God bless and may His love be ever more real to you and your family.
Victor Wang