As a Dread Champion

This is God’s very practical purpose, to so apply His word to your life that you will be transformed as a Christian. The Lord Himself is with you as a believer in Jesus Christ. The Lord will never fail you, nor forsake you. But there are certain powerful experiences which the Lord will bring into your life which will radically impact what may be a casual view of what you think that it means to be a Christian, or what it means to be a faithful minister of Christ Jesus. Jeremiah’s experiences, I believe, will go a long way to show us how God makes us over into the image of His Son when once we have been converted. The truth that I bring before you this morning flows to us from verse 11 where Jeremiah says: “But the Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome One.” (“As a Dread Champion”, it says in the New American Standard version) And so the central truth that I want you to bring away with you from this text today is this: The Lord Himself is with me as a Christian when I experience the most overwhelming difficulties and experiences of my life. He is with me in order to change me, to make me over into the image of His dear Son. I want us to look a 4 of these powerful transforming experiences in order that we might rejoice in the strength and wisdom of our God.