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Introduction: Two Faced
The month of January is named after the mythical Roman god Janus, who was pictured as a man with two faces, one looking backward and the other forward.
New Year’s Day provides a valuable time to ponder the past while anticipating the future.
Transition: Our looking backward at 2018 while looking forward to 2019
Some of you today as you look back and reflect on 2018, you are looking forward to the this year ending within the next few days.
The year of 2018 has not been a Crystal Stair for you.
Yet as you look forward towards the dawn of 2019, you do not see a lot of reasons to be hopeful.
You see yourself carrying a lot of old excess baggage into 2019.
You have a lot of unresolved issues still sitting on the plate for 2018.
For many of you, 2019 will be business as usual like EPMD’s third album in December of 1990.
In 2019 you are going to keep doing what you have always been doing because you cannot see things any more differently or getting better for you and your situation.
Your vision is blurry.
You are not sure if you have a WORD from the LORD for 2019.
But says:
It is within the book of Isaiah, that a prophetic vision from the LORD is revealed to the people of God known as Israel- the nation whom the LORD God has contended- had to fight with.
By the time we arrive at Isaiah chapter 43, the LORD God is attempting to re-orient His people’s vision of the future...
And I believe it is fitting for us at this time of the year to re-visit our vision for our lives versus the LORD God’s Holy vision for His people
Body
Seeing The LORD As God: Creator Of Your History ()
Moves History for His people
Gets Glory in History and Through History
Seeing The LORD As God: Peerless In Time ()
Stands the scrutiny of time- His words prove true
Chooses flawed (blind and death) people for His Glory
people with issues
people who lack spiritual vision
people who lack spiritual hearing
Savior- declared, saved, & proclaimed (witnessing)
Seeing The LORD As God: Redeemer Of Broken People ()
Holy One
Creator of Israel (whom I have contended)
Creator of Israel (whom I have contended)
King
King
Seeing THE LORD As God: Doer Of New Things ()
Stop living in the past (glory)
The LORD God will make a way where there is no clear way forward
The LORD God will make a way where there is no clear way forward
Where there is no natural relief and refreshment, the LORD provides
Where there is no natural relief and refreshment, the LORD provides
The LORD God Of Sin’s Burden (Isaiah
Seeing The LORD As God: Bearer Of Sin’s Burden ()
The LORD God Of Sin’s Burden
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When the people feel that serving and worshiping the LORD God is a burden
And when the people are weary of the LORD
For the LORD to redeem us, He must bear the burden of sin
We weary the LORD God with our iniquities
Yet he:
blots out our trangressions
Why? for His own sake
Does not remember our sins
Transition
So put the LORD God in remembrance
Conclusion
Adam sinned
Abraham sinned
Jacob sinned
Religious leaders sinned
You have sinned
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