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Treasures New and Old
Elkmont Baptist Church
Beloved: Grace and Peace
Cycles in Life
Types of Cycles: Message One
May God bless you all!
Maranatha Emanuel!
James 1:13-15:
"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."
Universe/Creation Cycles
- Electromagnetic frequencies
- Water, light, ground, earthquakes
- Weather
Prophetic Cycles
- 7 feasts in the Old Testament
- 3 days and 3 nights
- "Dispensations" (speical events) and covenants
Earth Related Cycles
- Day-night
- 7 day week
- Lunar cycles
- Four seasons
- Seed time and harvest
Human Cycles
- Circadian rhythm
- Cycles of life: birth-death & next generation
- Adolescent-adulthood-old age
- Grief cycle: 1. Denial and isolation,
2. Anger, 3. Bargaining, 4. Depression, 5. Acceptance
Ceremonial Cycles
- Holidays
- Baptism, marriage, graduations, retirement
- Honors, medals, recognitions
Business/Government Cycles
- Markets go up and down
- Startup, growth, peek, coast, decline, death
- Within a business: expansion, peak, contraction, trough
- Growth, loss
& long term growth with significant loss (crash)
Depression Cycles
- Loneliness at holidays/anniversary events
- Winter depressions
- Abortion depression/guilt
Sin Cycles
- Principles of reaping and sowing
- Book of Judges: Israel- 1. Walk with God, 2. Prosperity and blessing, 3. Apathy and sin, 4. Judgement
and bondage, 5. Repentance, 6. Deliverance, 7. Restoration
- Generational sin: the sins of the fathers are visited . . .
- Continuous
sinful habits
- Sin cycle: 1. Distraction (drawn away), 2. Seduction (enticed), 3. Conception (conceived), 4. Action (bringeth forth
sin), 5. Death/Destruction (bringeth forth death)
- Annual/seasonal/location sin cycles: When a sin habit is the strongest
- Certain movies/shows entice us to sin
- Locations (bars, certain stores, certain magazine counters, certain friends' houses, business
trips, various outings, etc.
- Several days of sin in May, for examples, will, without your thinking of it, produce very strong temptations
in May possibly every year
- Circumstances that appear similar to a sin you participated in will provide strong temptations to repeat.