Finding Hope in the Mighty God

"And so what we see is Isaiah, the prophet, through the inspiration of God, was answering his people at that time that question that they struggled with, that question that the people at the time that Jesus was born struggled with, and the questions that we struggle with today, God was addressing that. And as Isaiah writes his book, writes down what God has given him to say, God says, not only am I going to fulfill my promises, but let me tell you how." [00:02:23] (38 seconds)


"And then God goes further, not only saying how he's going to answer it, but he describes why this baby, who's going to be the Messiah, is one that we can trust. Why he's the fulfillment of all that God has promised. And he does that, by giving us four names. Four names that describe him and his character, who he is." [00:03:20] (28 seconds)


"And over the next few messages, we're going to study those four names. We're doing a series called His Name. And we're going to talk about wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. And I submit, I submit to you that these names are so vitally important." [00:03:40] (25 seconds)


"so we today we embark on a journey for the next few weeks it'll be next sunday it'll be our christmas eve service and it'll be the sunday after christmas where we'll be going together and each week we're going to study one of the different names of the messiah and look at what does that mean for us what does that tell us about god so before i dive into our name for this week let me spend time in a moment of prayer heavenly father we come before you today as a people in need of hope we come before you today confessing that at times we wonder where you're at we feel lost and we feel distant we wonder if you see us in the midst of our struggle and our pain lord i pray that you would speak through me today the hearts and minds of the people here that they would hear from you that message of hope that they would have a deeper understanding of your love for them as we study these names and learn about your character and so god i offer myself up to be for your service in jesus name amen so this week our first name that we're going to study study is going to be mighty god right what do we learn when we think of god as a mighty god and there are a couple of things that i think as we pull that apart when we use the term mighty mighty speaks to god's power and his authority mighty speaks to god's power and his authority and when we use the term god god speaks to god's divinity and his holiness god speaks to god's divinity and his holiness and so it's important we use this term right" [00:08:31] (128 seconds)


"We talk about we serve a mighty God. We sing carols at Christmas time with these names. But have we taken time to reflect and think about and absorb what does that mean for us that God is a mighty God? What makes God a mighty God?" [00:10:39] (18 seconds)


"And so there's a couple of things. We're going to start with God's power to create. Create. God's power to create. In Genesis 1 -1, it starts out the very first words of the Bible. It says, in the beginning, God created. In the beginning, God created. He spoke and things came into being. Out of nothing, there was something because of the power and authority of God. He could speak into creation." [00:10:58] (35 seconds)


"Create the very world and universe that we live in. In John 1 -1 -3, it says this. It says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was nothing, not anything made that was made. Without Him, there was not anything made that was made. It's referring to Jesus. It's referring to the Messiah. That everything created. Everything made came through Him." [00:11:33] (37 seconds)


"God is one who creates. Second quick aside, I had all my C's lined up for this section. And then late yesterday afternoon, I got an extra C. So this one's not in your bulletin. You're going to have to write it in for yourselves here. But His power and authority to command creation. His power and authority to command creation. We see this. We see this in Mark 4, verses 37 -41, where it says, A great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling." [00:12:09] (37 seconds)


"being Jesus asleep on the cushion and they woke him and said to him teacher do you not care that we are perishing and he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea peace be still and the wind ceased and there was great calm he said to them why are you so afraid have you still no faith and they were filled with great fear and said to one another who is this that even the wind and the sea obey him I think this passage is a great picture of what can happen in our lives the storm can be raging around us we can feel like we're about to be overwhelmed and we're in a panic and we're saying lord where are you and it seems like he's asleep in the back of the boat not even paying attention but when we wake him up he's like I got this he's in control he's got the ability to command and znaj quickly the water came to the house and Job because he was suffering muchsigh command His creation to deal with any problem we may be facing." [00:12:48] (61 seconds)