Is anything possible with God? Of course! The One who made the world and the laws that govern it is more than capable of helping us with broken relationships and the trials of life...but we have to let God in the mix. Lesson delivered to Highland Heights on January 31, 2016.
3. 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What is
the sign that the LORD will heal me, and
that I shall go up to the house of the
LORD the third day?”
2Kings 20:8-11
4. 9 Then Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you
from the LORD, that the LORD will do the
thing which He has spoken: shall the
shadow go forward ten degrees or go
backward ten degrees?”
2Kings 20:8-11
5. 10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy
thing for the shadow to go down ten
degrees; no, but let the shadow go
backward ten degrees.”
2Kings 20:8-11
6. 12 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day
when the LORD delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel, and he said in
the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand still over
Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of
Aijalon.”
Joshua 10:12,13
7. 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon
stopped, till the people had revenge upon
their enemies. Is this not written in the
Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go
down for about a whole day.
Joshua 10:12,13
8. 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea; and the LORD caused the
sea to go back by a strong east wind all
that night, and made the sea into dry
land, and the waters were divided.
Exodus 14:21,22
9. 22 So the children of Israel went into the
midst of the sea on the dry ground, and
the waters were a wall to them on their
right hand and on their left.
Exodus 14:21,22
11. “Too much of a good thing””
“If you have too much of a good thing,
something pleasant becomes unpleasant
because you have too much of it.”
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd Ed.
12. 9 And this I pray, that your love may
abound still more and more in knowledge
and all discernment, 10 that you may
approve the things that are excellent, that
you may be sincere and without offense till
the day of Christ,
Philippians 1:9-11
13. 11 being filled with the fruits of
righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to
the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:9-11
14. 9 But concerning brotherly love you have
no need that I should write to you, for you
yourselves are taught by God to love one
another; 10 and indeed you do so toward all
the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But
we urge you, brethren, that you increase
more and more.
1Thessalonians 4:9,10
15. 12 And may the Lord make you increase and
abound in love to one another and to all,
just as we do to you, 13 so that He may
establish your hearts blameless in holiness
before our God and Father at the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
1Thessalonians 3:12,13
17. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed
Him stricken, smitten by God, and
afflicted.
Isaiah 53:4-6
18. 5 But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement for our
peace was upon Him, and by His stripes
we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4-6
19. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned, every one, to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity
of us all.
Isaiah 53:4-6
20. 21 For to this you were called, because
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
example, that you should follow His
steps: 22 “Who committed no sin, nor was
deceit found in His mouth”;
1Peter 2:21-24
21. 23 who, when He was reviled, did not
revile in return; when He suffered, He did
not threaten, but committed Himself to
Him who judges righteously;
1Peter 2:21-24
22. 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own
body on the tree, that we, having died to
sins, might live for righteousness—by
whose stripes you were healed.
1Peter 2:21-24