Sunday Sermon by a Christian

Isaiah 41:10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you; don’t be distressed, for I am your God. I give you strength, I give you help, I support you with my victorious right hand.
Isaiah 41:15 “See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,and reduce the hills to chaff.

Question: Do you think life would be fun and interesting if everyone got whatever they desire?

If everyone would get whatever they desire whenever they desire it, life would lose meaning. So embrace your hardships as they will educate you, strengthen you, build you and you will discover your God given purpose; and you will be unshakable in your purpose because not only will you have God backing you but also indisputable experience.

She does not understand why – is it the wine? No. What is it then, what is the reason? And soon it does not matter, soon the why and the reason are gone, and all that matters is the feeling itself. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense, it is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is we are completely out of control. Causality. There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it.

JOSHUA 6:21-27 Under God’s direction, Joshua destroyed the entire city of Jericho…men, women, teenagers and infants…with the edge of the sword. The soldiers then pillaged the silver, gold, bronze and iron for God and burned the city.

JOSHUA 7:19-26 Achan took a robe and some money from the plunder. Joshua and the Israelites took Achan, the loot, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys , sheep and possessions to the Valley of Achor, where all were stoned and burned.

JOSHUA 8:22-25 God helped Joshua battle and slaughter 12,000 men and women in the city of Ai. None escaped.

JOSHUA 10:10-27 God helped Joshua slaughter the Gibeonites.

JOSHUA 10;28 With God’s approval, Joshua put the city of Makkedah" to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors."

JOSHUA 10:30 The Lord gave the city of Libnah to Joshua. Everyone in the city was "put to the sword."

JOSHUA 10:32-33 God gave his approval as Joshua killed every man, woman and child in Lachish with the sword.

JOSHUA 10:34-35 Everyone in the city of Eglon was killed by the sword of Joshua and his army.

JOSHUA 10:36-37 God approved as Joshua killed the king of Hebron, its villages and every citizen. "They left no survivors."

JOSHUA 10:38-39 Joshua took Israel’s army to attack Debir. They killed everyone.

JOSHUA 11:6 God commanded Joshua to defeat the enemy at the Waters of Merom. "You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."

JOSHUA 11:8-15 Joshua’s army, under God’s command, did not spare "anyone that breathed."

JOSHUA 11:20 "For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses

Ummmmm. Actually life would be super super super amazing if people could get everything they desired. Why not?

I don't understand why you want people to go through hardships when you say your god can give everybody what they desire. Am sure the guy in Mathare would like to have a warm house to come home to, why not? The guy who works mjengo would like to own his own business, the sick person would like to be well and be cured and on and on.

If your god can give us all our hearts desires, who cares if life would be fun or not, at least people would not have to suffer and that is all that would matter. We would all be happy and the essence of life is being happy and content. Everything else is secondary.

Everything would lose value, even life. Why would you need anything or anybody if you can command and have anything you want? If you command for 50kg of gold, I command for 100kg yet it is all useless since whomever I want to give it to can do the same. All will be vanity.

If God gave you all the desires of your heart, what would be your use in this world?

What is happiness yet even billionaires are not happy? Read on Steve Jobs and you'll realise that happiness is not in possessions.

really? let me give you some characteristics of a place
1) no more suffering?
2) no more death and tears?
3) no more hunger?
4) what about streets of gold?

does that sound like a certain place that is advertised?