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solution

Said 58 times, in 29 of 378 sermons, across 14 Sundays. Spoken as 2 forms: solution 52, solutions 6.

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Romans 37 21
Let Us 1 1

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d at the worst situation, and I start inserting myself as the solution , as the one that bears all the burdens. Well, I guess we're g
y to reconcile. We try to process. We try to come up with the solution on our own. Asaph says, I tried to do that and it was just a
ry horizontal. It's all very temporary. Please hear this. The solution is always up. Always. The answer in whatever we go through, w
tever we go through, whatever you're going through today. The solution is not to keep staring down into it, not to keep going over w
has happened, not to keep thinking of what could happen. The solution is not to continue to analyze. It is not even to look side to
y to find help from people or from places or from things. The solution is to look side to side. It's not to lift your head up. It's
look for help with these non-physical problems with physical solutions we're gonna say if I just had money I could throw finances at
ere are all these different physical solutions these palpable solutions world solutions to spiritual problems and so we look and we s
e different physical solutions these palpable solutions world solutions to spiritual problems and so we look and we say we have to lo
pt i eternally need to be kept from evil i eternally need the solution and we see this as paul preaches or as paul teaches the roman
I thought, oh, like that's what we need to hear. That is the solution . And in verse two, the song and the psalmist are singing back
says from this time forth, forevermore, he is not a temporary solution . He is the eternal solution. And that is the God that we serv
orevermore, he is not a temporary solution. He is the eternal solution . And that is the God that we serve. And if anyone here today
of this, of man, my life is really tough right now. He is the solution . Your, your body of believers here today, your, your peeps, y
things in my life turned upside down unexpectedly. He is the solution . He is the answer. He is Jehovah Jireh, my God, my provider,
with self, throw it out the window. As a believer, he is the solution . Will you pray with me today? Dear heavenly father, I thank y
ved, otherwise he wouldn't have came to God, that God was the solution to the problem. I believe sometimes we pray, or maybe we don'
at was his first response. He's actively turning to God for a solution for his problem. And David, while he's describing his trouble
ten don't know what God's plans for us are. And so what's the solution for us when we don't know what God's plans for us are? When w

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sness focus on praying for her and loving her and this is the solution right and so you start to do that and then things start to ch

romans

1:1-17
me say something to you. If sin has a stronghold on you, the solution is not for you to try harder. The solution is, is to look at
nghold on you, the solution is not for you to try harder. The solution is, is to look at and to understand and to believe grace. If
l person, if you're wrestling with feeling hopeless, the only solution to those things is salvation in Jesus Christ. Belief in the g
0, 9 says, There's forgiveness for sin through Christ. So the solution , this whole thing, that when we've said, I know better than G
ent that you had. In that argument, were you trying to find a solution ? Were you trying to find peace? Or were you trying to support
our hearts, there's still problems. The law didn't provide a solution to sin, just a knowledge of it. The law couldn't save. He say
d, thank you so much that you're the answer. Lord, you're the solution . You're the provider. But Lord, thank you so much, Lord, that
d do its own thing. And so that is why you say, so what's the solution ? Well, that is why there is a third person living in you. Tha
lls me this is every Christian's struggle. But amazingly, the solution , that Paul will give us is also every Christian's solution an
he solution, that Paul will give us is also every Christian's solution and it's beautiful. So Paul says there in verse 15, I don't u
me changing question for the person that is caught in sin the solution is not to double down on your effort to free yourself it is n
e law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. God's answer, His solution to the problem, quite frankly, to the human sin problem, God'
o the problem, quite frankly, to the human sin problem, God's solution is this: "I'm going to send you My Son in the likeness of sin
just, "Oh, yeah, that sounds really great." No, that is God's solution to our problem. God said, "Listen, I understand. "I understan
be able to live "like you need to. "So I'm going to create a solution "to solve your problem for you. "And I'm going to send My Son
e He did. Jesus, in every way, He understands. This was God's solution . This was His promise to us as this Christ. I love this in 2
walk a spirit filled life is to recognize that we are not the solution yet. We are 100% the problem. And once we get there, we have
gure out, okay, I'm wrong. He's right. He's the fix. He's the solution . Now, how do I walk in that? It's actually very simplistic. I
nd typically what happens is all we can do is look inward for solutions . We try to solve it on our own power. It lacks any type of ho
lacks any type of hope. And all we can do is look inward for solutions . And often what it does is it leads to bitterness and anger a
are today. Are we alive? Are we actually growing? If not, the solution is very simple. We must admit it. We must go to the Lord and
Testament, you see there's this constant picture towards this solution that's coming. This eternal solution that's coming, and that
ant picture towards this solution that's coming. This eternal solution that's coming, and that solution we know is Christ. And so wh
that's coming. This eternal solution that's coming, and that solution we know is Christ. And so what Paul says here is, he is the f
and had nothing else good or bad. So it's saying God makes a solution . Election here. And the Bible says that, that Esau was born f
ss. And if everyone is lost, it denies his love. And so God's solution is his sovereign grace. Different than mercy, his sovereign g
s so much more in a positive way than what we deserve. So his solution to this problem is his sovereign choice. Romans 9, picking up
doesn't leave us in that problem. He doesn't. He moves to the solution . And that's where we're going to focus most of our attention
he men and women who serve in that capacity there is only one solution only one message that changes human heart and it's not not ju
, I look at the problems in their life and I see Jesus is the solution to these things. I look at their quest for all these things a
he number of trays, and no problem. Their goal is a practical solution to the problem. The person with the gift of giving will say,
through trouble with him. It's the only answer. It's the only solution . And man, is it a solution? Man, is it an answer? He is our h
t's the only answer. It's the only solution. And man, is it a solution ? Man, is it an answer? He is our hope. He is the tower that i
them a blanket solution for that hurt. That's not always the solution . Yes, we preach the truth and the love and the comfort and en
y when someone is hurting to just try and give them a blanket solution for that hurt. That's not always the solution. Yes, we preach
ation to look down and the temptation to judge. Now, the easy solution , as I mentioned already, would be to divide. Divide the churc
and division and all these things, but that would be the easy solution . Instead, Paul's pushing us to do something far more noble an

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