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August 1, 2019 8:00 am
If you've ever wondered why I present Jesus to you is because Jesus died for you on across he's godson, he is God and God so loved the world that he gave us the Lord Jesus, and Jesus came to this earth, and he lived on this earth.
And then he was taken and crucified on the cross and when he died on the cross.
He took upon himself. Your sin and myosin and he died and when he died.
Your son and myosin died with him. Then, by the power of God.
He was raised on the third day, so that Jesus now is alive and when Jesus came out of the grave. He didn't bring Allison with him. Allison remained in the grave.
God has an encouraging word for you and me today to the Bible-based reading of Dr. Don Wilton and a message on staying the hand of God today's message and second Chronicles, we can adjust among the Dr. Don Wilton, to remind you that as we launch today's broadcast were available for you love to talk with you. Pray with you at 866899 word were available 24 hours a day, 866-899-9673 or meters online in The Encouraging Word.org. We are having record numbers of folks signing up both online and via text to receive the daily email from Dr.if you haven't done that you can just text right now the word daily, 30500. That's right just the word daily, 30500 will send you a quick link and you'll be signed up to receive that daily email from Dr. Wilton every morning now.
Today's message from Dr. Wilton really all going to need your Bible's morning so I want to give you full opportunity to open your Bibles to second Chronicles and chapter 32nd Chronicles chapter 30 while you all opening God's word. I want you to know that God has an encouraging word for you today through his word by his power, his spirit to speak to you when Moses encountered the living God, the burning bush. There is a real sense in which what God said to him was this Moses I have something for you to do and as long as you do what I tell you to do.
I'm going to keep my hand upon you, but I want you to know that when you do not do what I want you to do. I'm going to take my hand off going to ask you a question today as we study God's word because we are standing on holy ground. If you were to be on strike now would you say that the hand of God is on you all that God's hand is not on your I'm asking a very deep question before God. How would you want so that question. Do you believe God's hand is on you or do you just not know what you believe God has taken these hand from upon your.
Join me as we pray father my prayer this morning my prayer today is that you would speak to us.
This is serious business would not that we would ever find ourselves with the hand of God is being removed. Lord I wonder today where the we as Americans believe that God's hand is upon our nation all that he has removed these hand from us Lord regained some deep questions. What causes a man to live for the Lord and then all of a sudden run out and violate his marriage suddenly change in his demeanor. Is it possible that you remove your hand from that person.
Lord today as we study this passage. This part of our journey through the story through God's story. Please show us a picture of ourselves in relation to, and let us do what we need to do today to stay the hand of God. We pray this earnestly, we plea. This prayer in Jesus name, amen.
This is an incredible journey God's story and today we are on the subject that runs very deep and I want you to know I don't know how this is going to come out. I'm just going to tell you what God put in my heart when you get into this passage on the demise or the collapse the beginning of the end of the kingdom of Israel. We got a picture of God taking his hand off of people Israel, God's chosen people were blessed people, no question about nobody would dispute that at this stage in God's story, God just cookies handle for you.
Suppose he could do that to America could he do that to you but he do that to me. Where would we be of God. Cookies handle first and the question is this what causes him to do that and if God takes these handle fuss. How can we study the hand of God. That's my subject today. Staying the hand of God. You can, God gives to us the choice God invites us to stay his hand off skim not to remove his hand from us. Some of you are battling in your business, because God's taken these handle few business you messing around with God.
Some of you are battling in your own personal life your own conduct because your heart's not in the right place. And God is say that I've told you I'm just going to take my handle few.
You're on your own, you don't stand a Tron swing.
God takes these handle few you want to be on your you want to solve your own problems to fight your own battle. Is that what you want you want to pattern your own canoe God will say paddle me show you what you gonna look like without my hand on you don't stand a Tron's man. We have proved that to ourselves. Nations have proved time without number.
You cannot look at our world today and come to the conclusion that any personal any nation can survive without the hand of God on here in this bold specter. We've got the picture of the collapse of the kingdom.
This is the beginning of the information so blessed and into the scheme of things comes a man by the name of Hezekiah. Now the Zoloft in this picture because there are many battles and ups and downs it just looks like our lives rarely, if you study the story of Israel many ups many dons.
By the way, if I may just say this, the Christian life is not a perfect life. You and I will fail God. Many, many times, 13.
But God is the God of reconciliation and restoration brings us back. It's raining the story the ongoing story of the prodigal son. We may go off into a strange land. When we come to our senses. We look back to our father's house. He sees come on back home. I'm going to put my hand on you.
So the prodigal son Wendell if he was by himself and he ended up in a pig pen came to his senses, looked up, saw his father's house, went back to his father's house, and his father killed the fat to cough and put a ring on his finger welcomed him home's is what I want us to be able to really get a hold because this is true for your life in my life and for all of us.
It's true for us as a nation we had better be very careful in this nation you got awesome Don. Personally, I believe God is taking his hand off America. We better watch out Americans. It's not rest on our laurels greatest country in the world. Everything revolves around us.
It is changing so rapidly.
The biggest movements of God are no longer taking place here in America taking place everywhere else we will becoming owned by the rest of the world we not even respected like we once were. We can't even make up our minds who we all we become a divided nation. The very definition of the word nation means that we were of one heart and one mind, and our people are not of one heart and of one mind, that doesn't mean to say where the same people but nations are of one heart and of one mind and when it comes to the Lord. When you study the nation of Israel. There are some very deep truths God saying something and in the middle of all of this. You had the kings of Assyria coming against. They were wreaking havoc they were sending these people into exile and is a told you your life group leaders will give you a lot more detail that I'm giving you this morning. In these few months, but I want us to focus on what took place.
The nation was collapsing, the people were being divided and I were turning against God, and in the midst of this, Hezekiah shows up sewing Hezekiah chapter 30 I'm going to do something a little bit differently because I want you to see where I got the phrase hand of God from what prompted my thoughts as I was studying this. Just look at verse 12 of his or of second Chronicles chapter 30 and verse 12 the hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do. I just want to read that again the hand of God was on Judah, with the purpose of giving them one heart to do to be all that God wanted them to be the hand of God. What Hezekiah did was that he made a public proclamation to the people and this is what he said to them, and I'm going to just pick up at verse six of second Chronicles chapter 30 subcode areas went out throughout all of the United. I mean, I beg your pardon out all Israel and Judah with the latest from the king and his princes as the king had commanded sighing all people of Israel returned to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he might turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. Do not be like your fathers and your brothers who were faithless to the Lord God. They father's so that he made them a desolation as you see, do not now be stiffnecked as your father's work but you your selves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has consecrated for ever and serve the Lord your God that he's fierce anger might turn away from is not a beautiful state. What a powerful message conduct as we strive to serve the Lord God in every way. I pray that you would know that we are ready to pray through whatever situation Dr. Wilton insists we pause here in the middle the broadcast to let you know were available for you to talk with you. Pray with you. We can do that on the phone at 8668. That's 866-899-9673, but we can also connect online@theencouragingword.org it's our joy and privilege to just be available even at 3 AM in the morning.
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The numbers 866899673 or you can meet his keyboard to keyboard online@theencouragingword.org that's The Encouraging Word.org. Now back to today's message with Dr. Don Wilton staying the hand of God. If you return to the Lord your brothers and your children will find complete ship with a captors and return to this land for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not return away his face from you if you return to him. So the couriers went from the city to city throughout the country therefrom in Manassas and as far as Zebulun, but there were people out there that loft and Mark to school and what they were trying to do. However, some of the men of Asher Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem and the hand of the Lord was on them to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes come bonded them to do the word of the Lord accept powerful passages in almost seems raw. The somewhat redundant, that I would try to preach or explain just if I can have your attention for sick sin in the life of all people, causes God to take.
He's handle so guess what happened. God created people Adam and Eve.
He's hand was on. They lived in the garden of Eden. They were perfect they send God cookies handle said you're out then God gave to them. His plan for their redemption and he is done that through Jesus Christ. The Bible say is that the wages of sin is there when God takes he's handle few. You cannot live, you might survive in this life, but you won't live in him, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
That's why I want to invite you to give your life to Christ. Young give your life to Christ, God's hands. Not on you. He's omnipotent, powerful, loving, gracious hand. And so it is with nations. The story of Israel is our story. When nations live for God. They live lives. They operate according to God's precepts and principles. You cannot millions of babies through abortion and think God is just going to turn a blind eye. In Florida alone.
This posterior 65,000 abortions officially report babies murdered. What does God say about life and about the sanctity of life not want to recite orders Roe V Wade sire what is a Supreme Court site water people say oh what's the public opinion. What's politically correct. What does God say I'm just talking about one issue the story of Israel is very clear. Everything about Israel. And when you get to this point in time where the kingdom begins to collapse there. There are things that can be said about Israel.
At this point in time the time of Hezekiah that are unequivocably and post when he's son. We haven't even got David when he son gets into power. It gets even worse, you talk about in exile. No wonder that going to be costing to exile in Babylon.
No wonder they going to be. They going to be disbursed across the universe. No wonder they land is going to be given to foreigners. No wonder they going to be by everybody else. Everything about God was under attack when it came to Israel. Number one they rejected the very name of God. God's name is holy God made that very clear from the beginning. Be very careful what it is that you do regarding my because it's not that we need will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ alone is Lord I might've mentioned just a week ago preaching at Genesis, the most popular phrase even among Christian young people today is OMG and I'm hearing young people say OMG and OMG stands for short. God and even Christian young people today are trying to get around the issue of desecrating the name of God by just simply sign MG it's not just what we speak.
It's what we believe these people rejected the very name of God. They rejected the very word of God.
God spoke to Israel time without number. He said this is the way walking and not giving you my word and they said we will not accept your word does God through his word have anything to say about the manner with which we conduct ourselves, our lives, our speech, attitude, heart does God have anything to say about marriage does he have anything to say about business.
Does God have anything to say about what does God have anything to say through his word about us. Oh yes he does. Israel rejected the very word of God, but they also rejected the very people of God. This passage makes it very clear even when God spoke in the king came in. He presented the facts to them and he begged them there were those that scoffed at the people of God. I've made this statement before and I will make it again. We're facing a presidential election in two years in the United States of America. This the greatest nation that has ever existed. This beautiful land from sea to shining sea. This place, that is been so blessed God is poured out his blessings upon us in every regard.
I should imagine that in the next several years. Who knows. With all that goes on in our world.
Is it possible that a Muslim could be elected president of the United States. I daresay if somebody you ran for president in this country stood up and made a statement that they were an atheist, they could be elected President of the United States and agnostic. I wouldn't be surprised if this could get elected President of the United States. I wouldn't be surprised if I could be elected president of the United States, but if a man a woman were to run in this nation and where to stand on the platforms and go before the microphones inside.
I want to be president, and I will be president. The people in this great nation. But I want you to know that I didn't believe in my heart that in this beautiful nation, that person is just themselves electable in these United States of America.
That's what Israel did. They rejected the people of God, you better not anymore in this country claim to know Christ to be a Christ follower and think you going to get elected to something. They rejected the very worship of God. How pathetically unpopular it became the people would go to the temple how rapidly everything else became important. So what was Hezekiah doing God was demonstrating to the people of Israel that he was removing his hand from them. Listening to Dr. Don Wilton and the reality of any of us when we reject the word of God.
There are consequences.
But here's the great joy in the great truth of today's message from Dr. though we have rejected God in the past, his arms open wide. His mercy covers even our harsh rejected of who he is a loving father pursuing us that in fact we believe God is using this very radio station this very radio broadcast to pursue you to let you know he loves you and has a plan for your life. Would love to speak with you about it. Our prayer line is 86689. It's also our connect line a number of ways. It's just a way to get a hold of us, 866899673. We would love to pray with you, pray for you as a matter fact before we do that, would you take a minute and hear these thoughts from her pastor Dr. Wilton.
God has spoken to you hesitantly and you ready to give your heart to Jesus. I'd love to help you right now.
Would you pray this prayer with me and accept Jesus into your heart and life. Dear God, I know that Arneson I know that Jesus loves me and died for me on the cross right now, I repent of my sin and I can face my sin to the Lord Jesus Christ coming to my heart and save me today and forgive me for my sin.
In Jesus name I pray a main if you pray that pray we'd love to get along side of you and celebrate with you and send you some literature and help you as you begin to grow and I want you to know that I love you very very much.
And by the way, don't leave, don't go away. What ever you do is I'll be right back.
If the Lord has spoken to you and change your life today.
If you have given your heart to Jesus you turned your life around and this is a brand-new day of rededication for you.
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