Believing The Eternal God Isa 41 21 24
Believing The Eternal God Isa. 41: 21 -24
Believing The Eternal God Introduction: Review Bible Faith is the assurance of things hoped for. Bible Faith is the conviction of things not seen. Bible Faith is based on Truth? So faith is based on evidence. We read a story with two different kinds of faith! Why should we believe what God says?
How To Prove You’re God would know unknown things. Isa. 41: 21 -24 21 "Present your case, " the LORD says. "Bring forward your strong arguments, " The King of Jacob says. 22 Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;
How To Prove You’re God would know unknown things. Isa. 41: 21 -24 23 Declare things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together. 24 Behold, you are of no account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination.
How To Prove You’re God would know unknown things. Isa. 41: 21 -24 God’s relation to time. God created it. Gen. 1: 1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God must be outside of it. Rom. 1: 20 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
How To Prove You’re God would know unknown things. Isa. 41: 21 -24 God’s relation to time. God created it. Gen. 1: 1 God must be outside of it. Rom. 1: 20 God is not affected by it. 2 Pet. 3: 8 8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
How To Prove You’re God would know unknown things. Isa. 41: 21 -24 God is not affected by it. 2 Pet. 3: 8 God’s perception of it. Heb. 1: 10 -13 10 And, "YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS; 11 THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU REMAIN; AND THEY ALL WILL BECOME OLD LIKE A GARMENT, 12 AND LIKE A MANTLE YOU WILL ROLL THEM UP; LIKE A GARMENT THEY WILL ALSO BE CHANGED…
How To Prove You’re God would know unknown things. Isa. 41: 21 -24 God is not affected by it. 2 Pet. 3: 8 God’s perception of it. Heb. 1: 10 -13 12…BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT COME TO AN END. " 13 But to which of the angels has He ever said, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET"?
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Ammon Ezek. 25: 5, 7 5 "I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the LORD. " 7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and I will give you for spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will know that I am the LORD. "
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Ammon Ezek. 25: 5, 7 Look at Moab and Seir Ezek. 25: 11 11 "Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD. " Look at Edom Ezek. 25: 14 14 "I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance, " declares the Lord GOD.
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Ammon Ezek. 25: 5, 7 Look at Moab and Seir Ezek. 25: 11 Look at Edom Ezek. 25: 14 Look at Philistia Ezek. 25: 17 17 "I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the LORD when I lay My vengeance on them. "'"
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Ammon Ezek. 25: 5, 7 Look at Moab and Seir Ezek. 25: 11 Look at Edom Ezek. 25: 14 Look at Philistia Ezek. 25: 17 Look at Tyre. Ezek. 26: 6 6 'Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the LORD. '"
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Philistia Ezek. 25: 17 Look at Tyre. Ezek. 26: 6 Look at Babylon. Jer. 51: 29, 37; Isa. 13: 19 -22 29 So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants. 37 "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Philistia Ezek. 25: 17 Look at Tyre. Ezek. 26: 6 Look at Babylon. Jer. 51: 29, 37; Isa. 13: 19 -22 19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. …
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God. “That You May Know” Look at Philistia Ezek. 25: 17 Look at Tyre. Ezek. 26: 6 Look at Babylon. Jer. 51: 29, 37; Isa. 13: 19 -22 21 But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there. 22 Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And her days will not be prolonged.
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. Each is a means of failure. Deut. 18: 17 -22 17 "The LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well. 18 'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 'It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him….
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. Each is a means of failure. Deut. 18: 17 -22 20 'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. ' 21 "You may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken? ’…
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. Each is a means of failure. Deut. 18: 17 -22 22 "When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. God’s word is tested. Pr. 30: 5 -6 5 Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. 6 Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. Each is a means of failure. Deut. 18: 17 -22 God’s word is tested. Pr. 30: 5 -6 God’s word is tried. Ps. 12: 6 6 The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. His word is a shield. 2 Sam 22: 31 31 "As for God, His way is blameless; The word of the LORD is tested; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. His word is a shield. 2 Sam 22: 31 God’s word is sure. 2 Pet. 1: 16 -21 16 For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, "This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased"--
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. His word is a shield. 2 Sam 22: 31 God’s word is sure. 2 Pet. 1: 16 -21 18 and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. 19 So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
Why Should I Believe God. Evidence that God is God’s word is tested. His word is a shield. 2 Sam 22: 31 God’s word is sure. 2 Pet. 1: 16 -21 20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
We Can Believe Jesus’ word too. Jn. 14: 1 -4 1 "Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. 4 "And you know the way where I am going. "
We Can Believe Jesus’ word too. Jn. 14: 1 -4 Jesus is from eternity. Jn. 8: 53 -59 53 "Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to be? " 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God'; 55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word. 56 "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad. " …
We Can Believe Jesus’ word too. Jn. 14: 1 -4 Jesus is from eternity. Jn. 8: 53 -59 57 So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham? " 58 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am. " 59 Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.
We Can Believe Jesus’ word too. Jn. 14: 1 -4 Jesus is from eternity. Jn. 8: 53 -59 Jesus is from above. Jn. 8: 23 -24 23 And He was saying to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. 24 "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins. "
We Can Believe Jesus’ word too. Jn. 14: 1 -4 Jesus is from eternity. Jn. 8: 53 -59 Jesus is from above. Jn. 8: 23 -24 His word is our Shield of faith. Eph. 6: 16 16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Believing The Eternal God Conclusion: Those who “live by faith” put their trust in what God says because He has given us sufficient reason to do so. It’s not a blind faith without reason. Those who “live by faith” were baptized in Jesus to receive forgiveness of sins because they are trusting in Bible Faith. Are You?
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