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| How big is Your God
Song: Introduction 11 One thing God has spoken, 28 Do you not know? Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26). God’s power to save God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption 1 Who is this coming from Edom, “It is I, proclaiming victory, 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.” (John 8:1-11). “Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.” (Hebrews 7:25). God’s power to give victory in temptation “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20). “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” (1 Peter 2:9). “Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” (Hebrews 2:18). 14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. 16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:14-16). “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13). Preservation in persecution 1 But now, this is what the LORD says— 17 no weapon forged against you will prevail, Read Daniel 3:1-30 Provision of all needs ‘Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’” (Jeremiah 49:11). “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! (Isaiah 49:15). “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19). Healing of all Sickness 1 Praise the LORD, my soul; “He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.” (Psalm 107:20). “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12). Deliverance from demonic power Read Mark 9:17-27 “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” (Luke 10:19). “He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us,” (2 Corinthians 1:10). Protection in all circumstances “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31). “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4). Read Psalm 91 He is my refuge: a refuge in every time of trouble, outward or toward; a refuge when all others fail; and is himself a never failing one, a strong refuge, which none can break through and into, and in which all that have fled thither and dwell are safe. And my fortress: what fortifications, natural or artificial, are to a city and its inhabitants, that is God to his people, and much more; he is round about them, as the mountains were about Jerusalem; his salvation are walls and bulwarks to them; yea, he is a wall of fire about them, Psalm 125:2: “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore.”, they are kept by his power, as in a garrison, 1 Peter 1:5: “who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.” My God, in him will I trust: his covenant God, his God in Christ, and who would ever continue so; and was a proper object of his trust and confidence, both as the God of nature, and the God of grace; who is to be trusted in, both for temporal and spiritual blessings, and at all times; to which his loving-kindness, power, and faithfulness, greatly encourage and engage. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,” (Ephesians 3:20). “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done.” (Psalm 118:17). Conclusion So how big is your God? In His Vineyard JB Oseh |