{"id":35794,"date":"2022-09-13T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-is-the-work-of-god-suffering-uganda\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:28:19","slug":"why-is-the-work-of-god-suffering-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-is-the-work-of-god-suffering-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the work of God suffering? (Uganda)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>&ldquo;For still the vision (<em>of Christ&rsquo;s kingdom)<\/em> awaits its time; it hastens to the end&#8211;it will not lie. <strong>If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay<\/strong>.&rdquo; Habakkuk 2:3 (RSV)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion: <\/strong>The work of God is <strong>not <\/strong>suffering or failing. God&rsquo;s work is succeeding! Isaiah 55:9, 11 (NIV), 9 &ldquo;As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. &#8230; 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:<strong> It will not return to me empty<\/strong>, but will <strong>accomplish what I desire <\/strong>and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Right now God is working to complete the Bride of Christ. And after almost 2,000 years, the Church is almost complete!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of God&rsquo;s work is <strong>demolishing<\/strong> the present unjust, unrighteous world systems. Christ is in charge of destroying the old order so that He can establish God&rsquo;s loving, righteous and just kingdom on Earth. Remember the Lord&rsquo;s prayer? &ldquo;Thy kingdom come. <strong>Thy will be done on Earth<\/strong> as it is in heaven.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These evil systems, run by unseen evil demons, are fighting to stay in power. They are fighting against Christ and His Church. That is <strong>why we see so much trouble<\/strong>. Revelation 19:11, 14, 19 (NKJV), 11 &ldquo;Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called <strong>Faithful and True<\/strong>, and in righteousness<strong> He judges and makes war<\/strong>. &#8230; 14 And the armies (<em>saints<\/em>) in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. &#8230; 19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to <strong>make war against Him<\/strong> who sat on the horse and against His army.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Bible assures us that <strong>Christ will be victorious<\/strong>. Psalm 46:10 (NKJV), &ldquo;<strong>Be still, and know that I am God<\/strong>; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!&rdquo; This is when the <strong>vision of Habakkuk<\/strong> 2:3 will be fulfilled! Soon, Christ will bring the times of restoration (Acts 3:20-21). He will give everyone the opportunity to be restored to sonship with God and to live in perfection, righteousness, and everlasting joy. (Isaiah 35)<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 67:2, 4, 6-7 (NKJV), 2 &ldquo;That Your way may be known on earth, <strong>Your salvation among all nations<\/strong>. &#8230; 4 Oh, let the <strong>nations be glad <\/strong>and sing for joy! For You shall judge the people righteously, And govern the nations on earth&#8230; 6 Then the <strong>earth shall yield her increase<\/strong>; God, our own God, shall bless us. 7 <strong>God shall bless us<\/strong>, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: &ldquo;For still the vision (of Christ&rsquo;s kingdom) awaits its time; it hastens to the end&#8211;it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.&rdquo; Habakkuk 2:3 (RSV) Discussion: The work of God is not suffering or failing. God&rsquo;s work is succeeding! Isaiah 55:9, 11 (NIV), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-is-the-work-of-god-suffering-uganda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is the work of God suffering? (Uganda)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}