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“TURNING POINT ”

JUNE 1, 2008

New Life Bible Church

Allen McLauchlin, Pastor

The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, `You have stayed long enough at this mountain.  Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country. Deuteronomy 1:6,7

TURNING POINT: A time when God’s forgiveness and love coincide with our desire and determination to make real positive change in  life’s journey.

1.  In many instances, our pre-turning point situation is the result of our ungodly behavior or actions.

So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants.  So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."        Numbers 13:32,14:4

Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. Numbers 14:33

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption.  Galatians 6:7,8

2.  Our faith to turn should  be based on who God is and what He has done in our lives.

"Then I said to you, `Do not be shocked, nor fear them.  `The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,  and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son.   Deuteronomy 1:29-31

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  fixing our eyes on Jesus.  Hebrews 12:1,2

3.  Fellowship is one of the keys to turning our situation around. 

I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear the burden of you alone. Deuteronomy 1:9

You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. Exodus 18:18

Iron sharpens iron,  So one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17

Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. 

Galatians 6:2

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not [just] please ourselves.  Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.  Romans 15:1,2

4.   Now is the time to make your turn, this window of opportunity may soon close.

And the Lord said to me, `Say to them, Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be defeated before your enemies.

Deuteronomy 1:42

As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.  Jeremiah 7:16

Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.  Genesis 6:3

"And he cried out and said, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'  "But Abraham said, `Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.  `And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.  Luke 16:24-26