Sermon Notes: 4/28/13
So I'll stand in trust, I'll stand in faith. I will not be shaken.
The increasing number of suicide:
- Most people who commit suicide weren't interested in it at some time.
- Suicide takes the life of nearly 30,000 every year.
- It's estimated once a minute someone attempts, and many succeed in taking their own lives.
- More people die from suicide than people who die in car crashes.
- For 15-24 years old, suicide is the third cause of death.
- From 25-65 is the average age of men that commit suicide.
- There are four males that commit suicide for every woman.
- In the military 2011-2012, suicide increased by 11 percent.
- More than 349 took their own life in the four branches of the military or one every 25 hours, more than the 295 who died fighting.
Something desperately wrong in a nation so educated and prosperous where so many people are taking their lives.
- Depression is the underlying cause of it.
- How can we live in a nation so progressive but that we can't get along with ourselves?
Read:
- Matthew 27: 1-5
1. Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. 2 So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3. When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.
4. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood."
5. "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility."
6. So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
- Have you ever thought of killing yourself? Has it ever crossed your mind? Do you know someone to whom it has happened to?
- There is a state of confusion, frustration, anxiety, and despair that is happening.
- There are many who are strong but there is a wide amount of people that are not.
- If you're one of those strong ones:
- Be sensitive to those around you who are in the process, who are thinking of the moment or day to where they will commit suicide.
Causes of suicide:
- Commitment to a cause or group:
- A love pact, for example.
- Life has become meaningless:
- For example: "I work eight hours a week, income home turned on the TV and all I hear is the bad things happening around in the world. I put on a comedy show and may laugh in the moment but then decide I don't want to listen to these lewd jokes and turned off the TV."
- They may say: "I don't have any sense of purpose in life, it's a never-ending circle that keeps going from bad to worst."
- The circumstances may seem hopeless:
- Maybe economically.
- Maybe you're undergoing a case in court or something of the sort.
- Unbearable Pain:
- Some people have been enduring through a pain for years.
- Carrying that weight on their shoulders.
- They say I don't want to die but I can't stand living.
- People in emotional pain feel unwanted, feel rejected, cast out, isolated. And that emotional pain maybe so bad that they can't handle it anymore and say I'm going to take my life.
- We don't understand the degree of pain some people go through and have to be sensitive about that.
- Retaliation or vengeance towards another person:
- They may say you did this to me now you see what I'm going to do to you, I will prove to you who I am.
Who is affected when a person commits suicide?
- The person who commits suicide.
- Family, friends
- Is suicide in my genes? If one of my family members committed suicide, am I deemed to die that way? No, it is not in your genes.
- When someone takes their life you can't say I'm sorry and are left thinking of what you could have done to prevent that.
- When a person commits suicide it's expensive, economically and emotionally for those left behind.
- Sometimes it comes by surprise and sometimes there is a little hint that a person is thinking of committing suicide.
- You can't ever bring them back, you would never know why.
- You ask a thousand times how did I miss it, what could I have done.
- The embarrassment that those left might undergo:
- For example, a kid goes to school and their mate said I heard your dad shot himself. That kid will never get over that.
- The community is also affected.
The tragedy of tragedy is that you can never get them back, to find out why.
- Guilt, frustration, anxiety is often left.
- Is suicide a sin?
- The sixth commandment: "Thou shall not commit murder" includes oneself.
- 55 million babies have been murdered. You can call it abortion or anything you want to.
- Somewhere along the way we have to wake up and realize what's being done.
- God will not ignore this, nor leave it unnoticed. Otherwise, he wouldn't be the God of justice, purity, and love that he is.
- God loves those babies as well as us.
- The reason some people are doing it is primarily for money. (Abortion)
- God's judgment will come upon any nation that does that or permits that.
- Those doctors doing this will have to respond to God.
We are seeing things in our nation that we have never seen before.
- Our moral system has fallen apart in pure corruption.
- And everyone wants to stay quiet and go along with the things happening.
- The Bible nowhere condones suicide or murder.
God is a God of faith.
- God does not change in any of his qualities.
- To change his mind, would mean he missed it somewhere and God does not miss anything, he knows what is going on.
- You were given the gift of life.
- The privilege to spend eternity in heaven.
- When you commit suicide you lose the reward God would have had for you.
- It's an expression of pure ingratitude for God.
- An expression of self-hatred.
- If you do something that violates the word of God there is a penalty to it.
- When God created you, he had a plan with you.
- If you take the gift of life God has given you and throw it away, you're rejecting his gift basically saying it's not good enough.
- When you do this as a way to escape your problems, you are telling God you're handling things your way.
- God allows pain and difficult time to cleanse us, to change our mind, and glorify himself in us.
- You can handle anything God sends your way, because he is there to surround you to be with you no matter what.
- God allows difficulties to come because he is in the process of teaching us something.
- You have to endure things until God tells you to.
- He knows what he is doing, Trust him and have faith in him.
- God doesn't want you to run, he wants us to stand.
- Stand in the truth of the word of God, which is the Bible.
- If you say well I'm not a believer, so why am I going through this? God wants to be so miserable that you would come to him.
- God would do anything to save his kids, and if dragging you to him is what it takes, then he will do just that.
- Romans 8:28:
- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- God only you can help me through this, and he always will and always has.
- When you take your life and deprive the life of those around you it is a selfish act.
- It hurts your testimony and the testimony of Christ.
- If you're a Christian and you do that what a non-believer would say is if your God didn't help you through that I'm not wasting my time because he sure is not going to help me.
- Give God time to work in your life.
- Is suicide an unpardonable sin?
- No, but there is a penalty to it.
- Jesus died for ALL sins.
- There are many disappointments in our life but we have to trust God and that he will take us through it.
Suicide:
- It is not the will of God.
- It is a sin.
- Is it an unpardonable sin? No
- A person who takes their own life loses their reward.
- We have to think in terms of eternity.
- The Bible said we will die and that after this world is judgment.
- Matthew 12
- The only unpardonable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
- They will not be forgiven in this age or the age to come.
- We are saved because the Holy Spirit enables us to become a believer.
- When you say I don't believe Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit I will have nothing to do with that, and they continually reject the word of God, after a while in their mind they become committed unbelievers.
- When you close Christ and the Holy Spirit out you can't be saved, because the Holy Spirit is what saves us and motivates us to change our way of life and come to God, it is what purifies us.
- That is the only unpardonable sin. (Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit)
- Suicide is pardonable but horribly destructive.
- God does not condone suicide.
- There are people who love God but have come to some area in their life where they think they can't handle it and take their life.
- Suicide is forgivable but the consequences are disastrous.
- You can't name something God won't help you through if you trust him.
- God is always there to help you no matter what you're going through.
- You have to trust God.
- Just because a person says I'm Christian does not mean they're indulging in the word of God.
- Read the word of God and seek comfort in him.
- If someone mentions suicide to you once or joking around, take it seriously!
- Remind them God can help them through it. He's willing you to walk with you step by step.
- First, you must invite him as your friend and savior into your life.
- Trust Jesus Christ as your savior. When you accept him he forgives you of all your sins.
- You have God to help you through whatever you're facing.
- Don't destroy what God has created.
- Say: No, I'm not taking my life. I'm going to find out what this awesome God has in store for me.
- My God will never leave me or forsake me.
- Don't be ashamed to ask for help.
- Ask for help and God will help you.
- Do you know someone who has talked about it just mention it or jokes about it? Encourage them to come to God and seek help.
-God is never late, He is right on time-
So I'll stand in trust, I'll stand in faith. I will not be shaken.
The increasing number of suicide:
- Most people who commit suicide weren't interested in it at some time.
- Suicide takes the life of nearly 30,000 every year.
- It's estimated once a minute someone attempts, and many succeed in taking their own lives.
- More people die from suicide than people who die in car crashes.
- For 15-24 years old, suicide is the third cause of death.
- From 25-65 is the average age of men that commit suicide.
- There are four males that commit suicide for every woman.
- In the military 2011-2012, suicide increased by 11 percent.
- More than 349 took their own life in the four branches of the military or one every 25 hours, more than the 295 who died fighting.
Something desperately wrong in a nation so educated and prosperous where so many people are taking their lives.
- Depression is the underlying cause of it.
- How can we live in a nation so progressive but that we can't get along with ourselves?
Read:
- Matthew 27: 1-5
1. Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. 2 So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3. When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.
4. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood."
5. "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility."
6. So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
- Have you ever thought of killing yourself? Has it ever crossed your mind? Do you know someone to whom it has happened to?
- There is a state of confusion, frustration, anxiety, and despair that is happening.
- There are many who are strong but there is a wide amount of people that are not.
- If you're one of those strong ones:
- Be sensitive to those around you who are in the process, who are thinking of the moment or day to where they will commit suicide.
Causes of suicide:
- Commitment to a cause or group:
- A love pact, for example.
- Life has become meaningless:
- For example: "I work eight hours a week, income home turned on the TV and all I hear is the bad things happening around in the world. I put on a comedy show and may laugh in the moment but then decide I don't want to listen to these lewd jokes and turned off the TV."
- They may say: "I don't have any sense of purpose in life, it's a never-ending circle that keeps going from bad to worst."
- The circumstances may seem hopeless:
- Maybe economically.
- Maybe you're undergoing a case in court or something of the sort.
- Unbearable Pain:
- Some people have been enduring through a pain for years.
- Carrying that weight on their shoulders.
- They say I don't want to die but I can't stand living.
- People in emotional pain feel unwanted, feel rejected, cast out, isolated. And that emotional pain maybe so bad that they can't handle it anymore and say I'm going to take my life.
- We don't understand the degree of pain some people go through and have to be sensitive about that.
- Retaliation or vengeance towards another person:
- They may say you did this to me now you see what I'm going to do to you, I will prove to you who I am.
Who is affected when a person commits suicide?
- The person who commits suicide.
- Family, friends
- Is suicide in my genes? If one of my family members committed suicide, am I deemed to die that way? No, it is not in your genes.
- When someone takes their life you can't say I'm sorry and are left thinking of what you could have done to prevent that.
- When a person commits suicide it's expensive, economically and emotionally for those left behind.
- Sometimes it comes by surprise and sometimes there is a little hint that a person is thinking of committing suicide.
- You can't ever bring them back, you would never know why.
- You ask a thousand times how did I miss it, what could I have done.
- The embarrassment that those left might undergo:
- For example, a kid goes to school and their mate said I heard your dad shot himself. That kid will never get over that.
- The community is also affected.
The tragedy of tragedy is that you can never get them back, to find out why.
- Guilt, frustration, anxiety is often left.
- Is suicide a sin?
- The sixth commandment: "Thou shall not commit murder" includes oneself.
- 55 million babies have been murdered. You can call it abortion or anything you want to.
- Somewhere along the way we have to wake up and realize what's being done.
- God will not ignore this, nor leave it unnoticed. Otherwise, he wouldn't be the God of justice, purity, and love that he is.
- God loves those babies as well as us.
- The reason some people are doing it is primarily for money. (Abortion)
- God's judgment will come upon any nation that does that or permits that.
- Those doctors doing this will have to respond to God.
We are seeing things in our nation that we have never seen before.
- Our moral system has fallen apart in pure corruption.
- And everyone wants to stay quiet and go along with the things happening.
- The Bible nowhere condones suicide or murder.
God is a God of faith.
- God does not change in any of his qualities.
- To change his mind, would mean he missed it somewhere and God does not miss anything, he knows what is going on.
- You were given the gift of life.
- The privilege to spend eternity in heaven.
- When you commit suicide you lose the reward God would have had for you.
- It's an expression of pure ingratitude for God.
- An expression of self-hatred.
- If you do something that violates the word of God there is a penalty to it.
- When God created you, he had a plan with you.
- If you take the gift of life God has given you and throw it away, you're rejecting his gift basically saying it's not good enough.
- When you do this as a way to escape your problems, you are telling God you're handling things your way.
- God allows pain and difficult time to cleanse us, to change our mind, and glorify himself in us.
- You can handle anything God sends your way, because he is there to surround you to be with you no matter what.
- God allows difficulties to come because he is in the process of teaching us something.
- You have to endure things until God tells you to.
- He knows what he is doing, Trust him and have faith in him.
- God doesn't want you to run, he wants us to stand.
- Stand in the truth of the word of God, which is the Bible.
- If you say well I'm not a believer, so why am I going through this? God wants to be so miserable that you would come to him.
- God would do anything to save his kids, and if dragging you to him is what it takes, then he will do just that.
- Romans 8:28:
- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- God only you can help me through this, and he always will and always has.
- When you take your life and deprive the life of those around you it is a selfish act.
- It hurts your testimony and the testimony of Christ.
- If you're a Christian and you do that what a non-believer would say is if your God didn't help you through that I'm not wasting my time because he sure is not going to help me.
- Give God time to work in your life.
- Is suicide an unpardonable sin?
- No, but there is a penalty to it.
- Jesus died for ALL sins.
- There are many disappointments in our life but we have to trust God and that he will take us through it.
Suicide:
- It is not the will of God.
- It is a sin.
- Is it an unpardonable sin? No
- A person who takes their own life loses their reward.
- We have to think in terms of eternity.
- The Bible said we will die and that after this world is judgment.
- Matthew 12
- The only unpardonable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
- They will not be forgiven in this age or the age to come.
- We are saved because the Holy Spirit enables us to become a believer.
- When you say I don't believe Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit I will have nothing to do with that, and they continually reject the word of God, after a while in their mind they become committed unbelievers.
- When you close Christ and the Holy Spirit out you can't be saved, because the Holy Spirit is what saves us and motivates us to change our way of life and come to God, it is what purifies us.
- That is the only unpardonable sin. (Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit)
- Suicide is pardonable but horribly destructive.
- God does not condone suicide.
- There are people who love God but have come to some area in their life where they think they can't handle it and take their life.
- Suicide is forgivable but the consequences are disastrous.
- You can't name something God won't help you through if you trust him.
- God is always there to help you no matter what you're going through.
- You have to trust God.
- Just because a person says I'm Christian does not mean they're indulging in the word of God.
- Read the word of God and seek comfort in him.
- If someone mentions suicide to you once or joking around, take it seriously!
- Remind them God can help them through it. He's willing you to walk with you step by step.
- First, you must invite him as your friend and savior into your life.
- Trust Jesus Christ as your savior. When you accept him he forgives you of all your sins.
- You have God to help you through whatever you're facing.
- Don't destroy what God has created.
- Say: No, I'm not taking my life. I'm going to find out what this awesome God has in store for me.
- My God will never leave me or forsake me.
- Don't be ashamed to ask for help.
- Ask for help and God will help you.
- Do you know someone who has talked about it just mention it or jokes about it? Encourage them to come to God and seek help.
-God is never late, He is right on time-
