P.Joey 12/15 x3 Series Promise forfilled: Character

Gods Character

Introduction:Thank you for joining us

Sermon Series: Promises forfilled

-Last week we looked at the why we celabrate Christmas.... The birth / promises forfilled /

During our mid-week have been working with our kids Ministry K- 6th grade

I asked the Question, Why do we celabrate Christmas-???????? Se-eanna

Title: Gods character

The promises of God / are nothing more / than God’s covenant / to be faithful to his people./

It is his character / that makes these promises valid.

Jerry Bridges

Isnt it ironic, / when we get tired, /we give up,/ we push people away, / We stop fighting

“But God” Never stops for

It is not in his / charactor to stop pursuing his creation

Deuteronomy 20:4 (ESV)

for the Lord your God/ is he who goes with you / to fight for you / against your enemies,/ to give you the victory.’

In Context: here in V4 At the critical time before the battle, it was the duty of the PRIEST To encourage the Soldiers to trust in God.

Issistration: The Presence of God

Its like when we come to church and its WAS of those weeks, and we just need a word!

That word up lifts us, Strengthen us, Encourages us

There are moments in Life when we have been so beaten down From the:

Conflicts; doesnt conflict drains you???? sucks the energy out of you

After so many battles, we can just get discouraged

Isaiah 40:29–31 (NIV) Says:

He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

John 1:14 (ESV) The Word became flesh and dwelt among us

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

A.) God’s character / to fight our battles / He doesnt, only / fight our battles / has given us through the victory / Through Christ

The Lord told Joshua fear not, for i am with you be strong and Courages

B.) He is a Loving God, compassionate, Merciful..... Thank God that he is Merciful???

Psalm 136:1–4 (ESV) No matter how many times / we mess up / his Mercy Endures / for a life time

1Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

2Give thanks to the God of gods,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

3Give thanks to the Lord of lords,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

4to him who alone does great wonders,

for his steadfast love endures forever;

Compassionate:

Exodus 33:19 (ESV) Show’s us of his goodness and how it goes before us

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’

And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV) He is in our mist more than we Realise

The Lord your God is in your midst,

a mighty one who will save;

he will rejoice over you with gladness;

he will quiet you by his love;

he will exult over you with loud singing.

C.) Momma bears out there..... If someone hurt your child or grandchildren its on the gettho will come out

How much not more our heavnely father

Psalm 147:5 (ESV) Great is our Lord;

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;

his understanding is beyond measure.

Malachi 3:6 (ESV)

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

There is so much to understand on God’s Character

Point 2 From a small clan came the Messiah

Here in the book we see roughly another 700 year Phrophecy

Micahs Name Means: who is Like God

Proclaims: the Assrian captivity of the Northern Kingdom and the Distruction of Jersulem

He Prophesies Bethlham as the birth place of the Messiah / from Juda from the family Line...

Message of future deliverence

A reminder of Gods promises to Abraham and Isreal

He is sent to speak words of Judgement, against the idolity and corruptions and injustice.

He warns of gods mercy, and gives them oppurntity to Repent and be reconciled to him rather then to distoy them without warning.

Micah 5:2–5 (ESV) You O Bethlehem / Reminding them how they mite see themselves / Through there clan would come one who is to be a Ruler

2But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,

who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,

from you shall come forth for me

one who is to be ruler in Israel,

whose coming forth is from of old,

from ancient days.

3Therefore he shall give them up until the time

when she who is in labor has given birth;

then the rest of his brothers shall return

to the people of Israel.

4And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord,

in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.

And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great

to the ends of the earth.

5And he shall be their peace. Stop

When the Assyrian comes into our land

and treads in our palaces,

then we will raise against him seven shepherds

and eight princes of men;

Point 3 The Hope that was coming

The Definition of Christian Hope:

The Confidence that, / by integrating God’s / redemptive acts in the Past / with trusting human responses in the present, / the faithful will experience / the fullness of God’s goodness / both in the present / and in the Future.

Romans 15:13 (ESV)

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

In this Season we must keep our hope in the one who we prepare to Celabrate...

He is our

Micah 7:7 (ESV)

But as for me, I will look to the Lord;

I will wait for the God of my salvation;

my God will hear me.

A.) We dont wont look at the situations infront of me

Psalm 123:1–4 (NIV) David says: I lift up my eyes to you

1 I lift up my eyes to you,

to you who sit enthroned in heaven.

2As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes look to the Lord our God,

till he shows us his mercy.

3Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,

for we have endured no end of contempt.

4We have endured no end

of ridicule from the arrogant,

of contempt from the proud.