The Night Time Ain't So Bad

INTRO

VIDEO Rocky III Clip

EXPLAIN Video Clip


- If you're going to survive the battles

- If you're going to survive what the enemy throws at you

- If you're going to survive...

1. You Need a Tribe You Won't Get Voted Off
2. Can't Go Over the Hedge
3. You Can't Curse Your Crisis
4. You Need a Power Partnership
5. You Must Forgive Yourself and Others
6. Realize You Don't Have to Survive
7. Recognize That the Night Time Ain't So Bad

- You've heard a handful of Survivors who took all the enemy threw at them

- And recognize that the Devil ain't so bad.

- You're wondering what that has to do with today's text.

- It was the night time

(TOUGH TIME)

* That brought forth the fruit of Aaron's Staff

- And I can't close this series without reminding you...

- That the dead things you possess need a night-time experience

* In order to live

- Some of you have been through battles that have left some things in your life dead as
* Aaron's Staff
* Broom Stick
- You're happy with parts of your life but other parts are dead

* Because of A Battle
A Hurt
A Pain
A Word
A Voice
A Person
A Disappointment

- But I want you to know that the miracle happens during the night time!

- In order for faith to effectively incubate

- It must germinate through a night time experience
EXAMPLE Planting my first garden this summer
- You need to remember during your dark situation

- That God does his best work in the night time

- Your day begins with darkness

- When God began to create

* He stepped into darkness and said, "let there be light".

- You show me a survivor living large and happy about life

- And I'll show you someone who has come through a night time.
Misery - Ministry
Test - Testimony
Pain - Power
- Because the night time ain't so bad

EXAMPLE Waking up in the middle of the night with an Asthma
attack

I was afraid of the dark

- You can't keep the night from coming

- But remember, joy comes in the morning
Psalms 30:5
...weeping may remain for a night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.
- And the night time ain't so bad!

- Even Jesus went through a night time

o Interesting that when Judas came to Jesus and kissed him

„X Putting him in a night-time
„X Jesus called him friend

o When Peter tried to keep Jesus from going through the night-time

„X Jesus called Peter a devil

ƒ{ In essence what Jesus was saying:

o If I have no crucifixion

„X I cannot have a resurrection

o At night-time it is hard to see

o But survivors use the flashlight of faith
ƒ{ Jesus is saying if there is no night time

* Faith can't incubate

- And the night time ain't so bad

- When you can't trace him keep on trusting him

- Because the night time ain't so bad


- Hear my Mother Night Time Ain't So Bad

- Hear Skip Night Time Ain't So Bad

- People in this church

Affair Ain't So Bad
Cancer Ain't So Bad
Abandonment Ain't So Bad
Drugs/Alcohol Ain't So Bad
Prison Ain't So Bad
Religious Abuse Ain't So Bad
Abused Ain't So Bad

- The Next Time

Battle Ain't So Bad
Crisis Ain't So Bad
Struggle Ain't So Bad
Hurt Ain't So Bad
Disappointment Ain't So Bad

- The Devil should have take me out when he had me down