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God With Us
God With Us
Week 1
peace, hope, healing, and life to a lost and dying world.
This series explores
the Christmas story by examining the relationship between the book of Isaiah and the
purpose and work of Christ in the New Testament.
Because of Jesus, we can
experience the joy that comes through his finished work.
‘God With Us’ provides a
powerful guide for helping your people understand and apply the nativity story.
Week 1
Text:
Topic: Manger, Virgin Birth, Christ
a virgin birth that would heal a dark world.
Application Point: We will place our trust in God’s miraculous power in times of trouble
and doubt.
Intro:
For a christmas teaching this year I wanted to do something different.
Yes we’ve all heard the story and know it well…..but do we really?
Do we know at heart what the birth story really meant to the world 2000 years ago and do we know what it means to us now?
Jesus’s birth is a powerful display of God’s faithfulness to bring
peace, hope, healing, and life to a lost and dying world.
For this season Over the next few weeks we will explore the Christmas story by examining the relationship between the book of Isaiah and the
purpose and work of Christ in the New Testament.
Isaiah gives us detailed prophecies of not only the birth but also the work to be completed by Christ
Because of Jesus, we can experience the joy that comes through his finished work.
so Through this ‘God With Us’ I will prayerfully provide a
powerful guide for helping people understand and apply the nativity story.
Big Idea of the Message: God would bring a miraculous sign of his faithfulness through
a virgin birth that would heal a dark world.
Our text today is going to be
Application Point: We will place our trust in God’s miraculous power in times of trouble
and doubt.
Our text today is going to be
Our text today is going to be
interesting side sermon, in Ch7 of Isa we get the name of one of Isaiah’s sons.
So what better way to start than by what point number one is….
1.The Crisis
We open to a crisis for the kingdom of Judah.
The Hebrew people were split in two different kingdoms after the death of Solomon: Israel to the north and
Judah to the south.
Both kingdoms struggled to stay faithful to God, and eventually both were exiled.
shows the kingdom of Israel and Aram(nowSyria) planning to attack the Assyrian empire and they want to force Judah to join them.
But since King Ahaz of Judah refuses the other two kings they are now
trying to invade Jerusalem the capital of Judah.
King Ahaz of Judah is nervous about the thought of invasion.
Scripture says that the “hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind” (v.
2).
We know these situations all too well.
It doesn’t have to be an actual war.
Many things make us nervous.
This time of year it could be finances, family, depression, you name it.
Worried about not being good enough for people, not able to get the perfect gift etc.
We worry, get nervous, become “shaken as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
We start to listen to every voice except the voice of God.
And sometimes it overtakes our spirit so much we can no longer think on anything but said situation
which is where our next point comes in
2.The Instruction
It is at this point that God instructs the prophet Isaiah to go to Ahaz and tell him,
isa 7:4
“Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid” (v.
4).
“Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid” (v.
4).
Speaking of the invasion, God says, “it will not take place, it will not happen” (v. 7).
Speaking of the invasion, God says, “it will not take place, it will not happen” (v. 7).
Isaiah even tells Ahaz to test the Lord to show his faithfulness: “Ask the LORD your God for a sign” (v.
10).
Isaiah even tells Ahaz to test the Lord to show his faithfulness: “Ask the LORD your God for a sign” (v.
10).
isa 7:
Ahaz responds by saying, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test” (v.12).
Ahaz responds by saying, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test” (v.12).
Ahaz seems very holy sounding, but in fact he has no relationship with the Lord.
2 King 16 describes Ahaz: “He did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire”
That mirrors many of the good old deep south christians who sound holy in certain sentences but truly have NO relationship with God
Ahaz was not a good king.
He might have had the temple of the Lord in his land, but he also worshiped other gods.
He did not put his trust in God, and in the situation of possible invasion, he put his trust in the Assyrian Empire
Israel”
He sent a message to the Assyrians, asking for help and saying, “I am your servant and vassal.
Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram and the king of
The Assyrians made an alliance and destroyed Israel and Aram.
However, the relief brought by Assyria would not last;
Israel”
The Assyrians made an alliance and destroyed Israel and Aram.
However, the relief brought by Assyria would not last;
eventually the empire would turn against Judah
).
Man made plans failed in the long run.
Im pretty sure if Isaiah and King Ahaz had this same conversation in todays society Ahaz would have blown him off with an I Got This
which comes to point 3
3.If you have this who has you
We all have been in situations where God told us to trust him and we trusted
something or someone else.
We made alliances with our own empires;
we trusted ourselves to provide for our needs instead of the Lord to be our provision.
Have you ever tried to hold four things at once while going up the stairs?
Maybe
someone asked if they could help and you said “I got this” shortly before you
dropped everything because you tripped.
When we struggle to trust God, we can
tell him, “I got this” when we really don’t.
That lack of trust shows our continual
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