Have High, not Hard, Thoughts of God

Seven Ways that May Tempt us to Have Hard Thoughts of God, Continued (all seven listed below, temptations five through seven focused on in today's sermon):

1. A legalistic/self-righteous performance of duty
2. Wrongly Regarding the LORD's Chastisements & Afflictions Sent
3. Doubting the LORD's Provision
4. Doubting the LORD's Smiling Countenance When Under Persecution
5. Impatience/Wearing Out in Prayer & other Spiritual Services
6. When We Do Not Receive the Expected Degree of Gifts/Graces/Victory over Sin from God which Others Apparently Have
7. When We Hear the World's Sermon To Us (e.g. "You Deserve Better/More")