wk 45: God of the Harvest
A Harvest of Thanks • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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22 “How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD?
Davids Defeated Enemies
Philistines - Gath and surrounding towns
Moab
Hadadezer - defeated by David (II Sam. 8:3-12).
Arameans from Damascus
1 After this, David defeated and subdued the Philistines by conquering Gath and its surrounding towns. 2 David also conquered the land of Moab, and the Moabites who were spared became David’s subjects and paid him tribute money.
3 David also destroyed the forces of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, as far as Hamath, when Hadadezer marched out to strengthen his control along the Euphrates River. 4 David captured 1,000 chariots, 7,000 charioteers, and 20,000 foot soldiers. He crippled all the chariot horses except enough for 100 chariots.
5 When Arameans from Damascus arrived to help King Hadadezer, David killed 22,000 of them. 6 Then he placed several army garrisons in Damascus, the Aramean capital, and the Arameans became David’s subjects and paid him tribute money. So the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.
7 David brought the gold shields of Hadadezer’s officers to Jerusalem, 8 along with a large amount of bronze from Hadadezer’s towns of Tebah and Cun. Later Solomon melted the bronze and molded it into the great bronze basin called the Sea, the pillars, and the various bronze articles used at the Temple.
9 When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had destroyed the entire army of King Hadadezer of Zobah, 10 he sent his son Joram to congratulate King David for his successful campaign. Hadadezer and Toi had been enemies and were often at war. Joram presented David with many gifts of gold, silver, and bronze.
11 King David dedicated all these gifts to the Lord, along with the silver and gold he had taken from the other nations—from Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek.
12 Abishai son of Zeruiah destroyed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. 13 He placed army garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. In fact, the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.
David Prays with Gratitude Not Arrogance
23 What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations and gods that stood in their way. 24 You made Israel your very own people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.
How about you? How Great is Your God?
We may say that God is Great, but we have not taken Him up on His Promises
“we haven’t brought our Umbrella to the prayer meeting to pray for rain.”
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Prayers for the Sick
Peace for the Hurting
Connection to people who Care
Deliverance for the Burdened
Encouragement for the Hopeless
Who is our God?
https://biblereasons.com/who-god-is/
“The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.” – William Ames
“If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.” Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.”—D.A. Carson
God is...
God is light and no darkness is in Him
The Lord will be with you
God is my helper
My salvation and My refuge
He is majestic in holiness
He is the King eternal, immortal, the only wise God
He Doesn’t change
The great I AM
His way is perfect
He is merciful
He is spirit not human
Never lies
A righteous judge
He is our shield
He is faithful
He is our deliverer
He is Love
His plans stand forever
He is not slow in keeping his promises (1 Cor 10:31)
He will give you REST!
5 things are we to God?
In Romans 11 we see We are Grafted into the Vine
In 1 Peter 2.9-10 You are A chosen people, God’s.
9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
10 “Once you had no identity as a people;
now you are God’s people.
Once you received no mercy;
now you have received God’s mercy.”
In Col. 1.12 We share in the inheritance.
12 always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.
Greater is He that is in You!
4 But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.
We are the sheep of His pasture
3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God!
He made us, and we are his.
We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
AMEN!