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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

Healing the Land

Father, we just thank you so much for this time.

And Lord, our heart's desire is that you would bless us.

God, I have a very special prayer request in the midst of all these other prayer requests, and that is today, Lord, you would apply the balm of Gilead.

We pray for healing to take place today We ask that the Holy Spirit would be present and thank you Lord that the name you've given to the Holy Spirit is the comforter Because that's what he does And so Lord send the Holy Spirit the great comforter to bless us to invigorate us to empower us that by the time we leave The service today.

We know you have spoken to us personally in Jesus name.

Amen All right, ladies and gentlemen, what is the name of the sermon today?

Now, I'm going to tell you a very interesting story, true story took place.

And so I was out in nature and I was out hiking and I was in this very rocky area where nothing was apparently growing.

And so as I was walking around in this rocky area thinking to myself, this isn't really delightful.

I want to go to a place where there's more green where you can see trees that are growing and you can see some wildlife there but I was in this really rocky area And as I was passing and going through this really rocky area all of a sudden I came upon this cavern and As I look into that cavern, you know what I saw it shocked me what I actually saw was green grass at the bottom of this cavern.

And there was trees at the bottom of this cavern.

And there was wildlife feeding at the bottom of this cavern.

And it blew me away because I thought to myself, wait a minute, here I've been looking for something else, and I'm walking around in this really rocky area, and here when I finally stop and I look, I discover a very lush area.

It was this small parcel that was located there.

It was quite strange, but I never forgot as I was looking at that site all of a sudden a Bible lesson came to me The Bible lesson was this many times when we read the scriptures will read the New Testament even the Old Testament We oftentimes pass by stories that seem of no benefit to us.

And so we'll just pass it by, we'll just peruse by, and we'll think to ourselves, well that's just Old Testament teaching.

There's really nothing beneficial for me there.

Something strange was going on with the laws or judgments.

And so we'll look at some of these stories and we'll think to ourselves, yeah, I'm just going to go read something else like the Book of Psalms today.

Ladies and gentlemen, what you will discover As we continue going on with this Bible story and that is that is this that some of the most difficult Bible stories?

Contain the most purest kind of gold Are you listening to me church family?

That the most difficult kinds of Bible passages may contain the most valuable things.

And so what we're going to be doing today is we're going to be taking a good look at a very difficult Bible passage.

And there are certain nuances to this Bible passage that may not make sense when reading it, but what we want to hone in on is the primary points and what God is saying to us.

This is a very amazing story, powerful lessons that are here.

It's more than just some ancient experience that took place in the life of David.

Something unusual was taking place in 2 Samuel chapter 21.

If you've been noticing, we've been covering sort of a loose series on the book of...on David's life.

And so David had been king for some time and as he is king all of a sudden a certain problem Develops in the land take a look at what the Bible says in 2nd Samuel 21 starting with verse 1 Now there was a what?

David had been king, been king several years.

God promised special blessings upon the land of Israel.

It seemed the prophetic structure that brought David to the land of Israel seemed complete, but all of a sudden, something bad started taking place in the land.

Now, a famine may not seem like a big deal, but here's the thing.

This famine continued for How many years?

And David began to recognize, wait a minute, this is more than just some natural phenomena.

I never forgot, I used to own this Jeep Cherokee.

And I would drive this Jeep Cherokee, and 1 day, the steering pump exploded.

And I thought to myself, something's not right here.

Opened up the hood, and I would Always make sure all the fluids were topped off.

But as I began to do a diagnosis on the engine of my car, nothing seemed wrong with the vehicle.

The steering pump should not have broken.

As I began to do some analyzing, I discovered why the steering pump finally broke.

The reason why was because the alignment of the vehicle was off.

And when the alignment of the vehicle is off, you know what's trying to compensate all the time?

And what started happening was, because the alignment was off, because of these huge, gigantic tires, oftentimes I would just wonder to myself, why is the fluid completely being drained really quickly so I put more fluid in and I keep putting more fluid in.

I wasn't really thinking, recognizing the alignment was off and this was causing the steering pump to have to compensate and overwork itself.

Eventually to the place where it finally broke.

So what David begins to discover is, wait a minute, it's not that there is a lack of good fertilizer in the land of Israel.

Year 1, year 2, year 3, he begins to think, wait a minute, something is strange here.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for how many years?

The Bible says in Deuteronomy that if you were not faithful, God would withhold blessings.

Ladies and gentlemen, in our life, when we have problems that keep reoccurring and we don't seem to understand what is the root of that problem, we need to go to the Lord.

And what we will discover is that there is another issue here.

And so David began to realize, wait a minute, this isn't about fertilizer.

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