Seven Perspectives on Times of Trouble

i want to do something a bit different with you this evening. There are times when to understand a passage of scripture, you need to wor your way through ah the particular words of the passage in order to draw out their sense. But there are other times where the only way to make sense out of a passages of scripture is to look at the larger teaching of scripture and bring it to bear on the account that you are now looking at. Well, i want this evening very quickly to give you seven perspectives on times of trouble that are very, very important for you responding in god's way to these mante that enter all o our lives. Here's the first one. In times of trouble