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Mighty God
We are in a series entitled “Hope of Christmas”
Our key verse for the series is Isaiah 9:6
We are taking this verse that best describes the deity and humanity of Christ.
There are about 250 titles given to Jesus
Isaiah summarizes them all in just these 4 titles.
Today’s title is Mighty God
Translate the Hebrew El Gibbor
El is the name for God
Gibbor means warrior, hero, captain.
So the babe is a Warrior God, hero God, Captain God
We need a warrior, hero, captain today.
Would you agree that our world is in desperate need of hope this Christmas season?
We need a word or a touch from God.
We live in the most stressful metro region in the country
Do you think we might just a little bit of hope?
A. W. Tozer said, “The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.”
Does that sound true?
People want to know “Who is God?”
We have a deep down desire to know God and be in His presence.
That’s how God wired us.
A friend of mine said the cure for pitiful religion is that God’s presence is in us and we are in His presence.
There is a lot of depression during this season
People have worries, difficulties, hardships, unanswered prayers.
Yet, we should be happy at this time of year, but we are weighted down.
Hard to understand what it means to have God in your life.
That’s what we will try to answer today.
The Lord Is In Your Midst
The reason we celebrate is that God came into our world to be in our midst.
Get that Mighty God in the form of a baby came to be in our midst.
That should be a comforting thought for us.
God is in our lives.
Emmanuel = God with us!
You see from Isaiah that a baby was prophesied
Then the Baby was born
The world was wanting to know who the Messiah is
He was Jesus our Emmanuel.
We Celebrate The Fact That God Is With Us!
Look at what this says,
I will make my dwelling among you
I will be your God
And You/we will by My people
Did you get that?
God wants to be present with us and walk with us daily.
God designed the world to experience Eden daily
Where everybody would experience God and walk and talk with Him daily
But sin created a gap between us and God
No longer could we walk with Him
God saw our problem and sent or gave us His Son as a baby, the Mighty God, to bridge that gap sin created.
By believing in Jesus and placing our faith in Him we can walk with God.
God pursues you!
He pursues you more that you pursue Him.
He wants to be with you!
Reason we can find God is because God wants to be found.
He didn’t just create everything and then left it.
He is active and wants us to know Him.
Jeremiah tells us, “You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart.”
God wants to dwell with us, to make His home among us.
For that to happen He needed to restore what was lost to sin.
He did with Jesus
We must admit we are sinners for us to be restored in that right relationship with Him.
Zechariah 2:10, “Daughter Zion, shout for joy and be glad, for I am coming to dwell among you”—this is the LORD’s declaration.”
Proximity Matters To God
God wants to be near you.
He’s right here in our midst.
Now I know some of you say, “Well, I don’t feel Him.
God seems so far away.”
If there was a time when you were close to God, and God seems far away, somebody’s moved—and it wasn’t God.
It was you, because “the Lord God is in our midst.”
He wants to be found by you.
You not feel His presence, but He is not hiding from you.
Just look and you will find Him.
I love this verse.
I am able to live and move and have purpose is because I am in Him
In Him or In Christ is most repeated words in the NT.
Only way to know your purpose is in Him
Without Him you have no direction, no hope.
We need to reconcile, repent, confess to God our sins and seek Him
Will God go away?
NO
I Cannot Go Where God Is Not
His presence is in our midst.
We have constant communication with Him through Christ.
If we have God and nothing else, we have everything.
Have you ever talked to someone about Christ and they ask, “If I become a Christian what do I have to give up?”
That’s what most think - give up cussing, drinking, dancing, and chewing.
They want to know what I am going to give up.
But coming to Christ doesn’t mean giving up anything, but gaining the blessings of God.
That’s what it means to have a Warrior, Hero, Captain God.
That is the the God part of the title.
Mighty To Save
We can’t fully understand God, but we can have moments when we see how great He and His abundant power.
Like Wonderful from last week meaning incomprehensible, unknown, or miraculous
We may not fully comprehend our God, but there are those moment when you need a word or and answer to prayer and you get it.
You know that was a God Moment
Do you know what the main difference between a Christian and non-Christian is?
It’s Christ, the presence of God in our lives
You see both have bills to pay, kids to raise, homework, jobs, relationships, hardships, emotions and etc.
The main difference is that we as Christians have His might and power on our side.
And He acts on our behalf.
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