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But joyful are those who have God as their helper...
This is already our third week of Advent.
This represents joy or the Shepherd’s Candle.
Is Jesus an important person in history?
He is the most recognized name in all of history, and He alone has the power to save people from their sins.
What does AD mean?
We live in 2022 AD
Anno Domini - the year of our Lord
As much as people want to rewrite history, we can’t change the fact that Jesus Christ has changed history.
We can call it BCE and CE, but for any that don’t believe that Jesus was a person in history, I find it interesting that He is the one on whom our year is set.
After Jesus ascended into heaven, there were 120 people that met in an upper room.
God used that group of people to turn the world upside down.
Let’s look at our Scripture from Psalm 146.
We’ll read the chapter, but focus most of our time on verses 5-10.
Placing our trust in people
There have been powerful people in history to whom people placed their trust, some out of fear, and others out of adoration, but regardless, after they have died, so have their dreams and much of their influence.
Men like Alexander the Great or Napoleon were powerful generals.
They led armies that conquered many nations, and yet they met their demise.
Alexander the Great was 32 when he died.
His empire was split up and later defeated by other nations.
Napoleon met his Waterloo in a battle with Duke Wellington in modern Belgium.
After this he went into exile, and later died at the age of 51.
We live in a democracy.
This means that we have the right to vote for the party that governs in our country.
We don’t vote directly for the Prime Minister, but we do have the right to vote.
In Canada, we have had 23 Prime Ministers, and if the Lord prolongs his coming, there will be more.
There is only one who has not beginning or end and that is God.
But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper...
The NIV puts it this way,
To know that God is for you in time of trouble, to know that He is there for you no matter what, brings great comfort.
We can place our hope in the Lord our God because He is with us.
There is no place that we can go where God is not.
We can have friends that can help us, but there will come a time when they won’t be able to be reached, but Jesus is as close as mentioning His name, “Jesus!”
Why can we put our hope in God?
1. He’s our creator
I’m not sure that we fully grasp this.
We have telescopes that can see amazing distances.
We find it hard to imagine how big the universe is, but when Moses wrote this, He says, “He also made the stars.”
Our sun is really small in comparison to stars like Canis Majoris.
It’s radius is 981.89 million Kilometers.
We are 150 million Kms from the sun.
It’s 4892 light years away from earth.
Light travels 300,000 kms per second.
multiply that by 60 X 24 X365.25 X 4892.
Now that is a big number.
How Great is our God?
He is our creator.
The earth is huge, but it is small in comparison to the universe, and yet God cares for us.
He not only made the heavens and the earth, but God made the oceans and seas, and everything that is in them.
A blue whale can be one hundred tonnes.
That’s huge!
It’s bad enough to run into a deer that weighs 3-400# let alone a blue whale.
Then the Psalmist makes this statement,
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He keeps every promise forever
We can depend on God.
We’ve been looking at some of God’s promises.
What are some of these promises?
This sounds a lot like the Scripture from Isaiah 61 that Jesus stood up and read in the Synagogue in Nazareth.
The promise is that God keeps every promise forever.
These promises have been fulfilled in Christ.
Hebrews 9:22 (NIV)
...without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
This refers to every part of our lives: physically, spiritually, emotionally, etc.
He is our healer.
What do you need from the Lord?
He keeps His promises forever.
He heals broken hearts.
He takes care of orphans and widows.
He gives sight to the blind.
He set captives free.
What do you need from the Lord?
His promises are from everlasting to everlasting to those who love Him.
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He will reign forever
Queen Elizabeth reigned over the British Empire for 75 years.
She was the longest serving monarch in the history of the British Empire.
She was loved by many and yet her reign came to an end.
Kingdoms reign and kingdoms fall, but we serve the King of kings, and the Lord of Lords, and His reign will have no end.
This morning, I want to conclude with the first two verses.
Praise the Lord!
God has blessed us in abundance, and we have much reason to praise the Lord!
The Psalmist says, “Let all that I am praise the Lord.”
God has made you special.
There is no one that is quite the same as you.
Yes the are some that are very alike, but there are no two that are exactly alike.
You are created in God’s image and He has created us to have relationship with Him.
He longs for us to praise Him to our dying breath.
This week as I was thinking about how we can praise the Lord, something that I found interesting was that God uses us to bless others and to bring joy to them.
How can I bring joy to others?
How can I be a blessing?
Let’s ask the Lord to make us a blessing to others this week.
He can use us to feed the hungry.
He can use us to encourage people who are down.
God may want us to help someone get free from the changed that have them imprisoned.
Let’s pray!
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