Pasian tungah Kiko a huhngetna

John 11:39-40

Zeisu in na upnak leh Pasian vangliatna na mu ding hi.

1 Chronicles 4:10

10Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

 

Lazarus sih ni 4 pha, kivui uihta, (gamsa sisa gei na namkha ngei uh hia?) Zeisu in thei aihhang ni 2 thuhilh thugen veve. Ama adingin vaisahlo.

 

Lazarus’ name meant “assistance of God”, pointing to the fact that, no matter where we live, we live only by the help of God. (We have no power to do anything without God’s help.)

2 He lived in the town of Bethany which means, “the house of song; the house of affliction”.

Job 14:1, "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble."

I WE ALL HAVE OUR BETHANY! No one is immune to the attacks of Satan or the troubles and trials of life.

 

There has never been a problem that looked big to God

 

Isaiah 55:8-9, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Satan’s greatest lie that he always whispers in the spiritual ear of everyone in distress is that “it’s over and there is nothing that God can or will do about it now.”

1 If he can get you to give up on God, then the he has accomplished his goal. But  we should realize that God’s answer is still coming in his own time and in His own way.

 

Bangtawh muatcip, sumtawh, thanemna, lungkiatna, a himah ding hi cih a lungkiatna….

 

Satan has wrapped you up in doubt and fear.

a He has blinded your faith, bound up your hands and feet from working for the Lord, aa rolled a stone of unbelief across the door to your heart and has now convinced you that your attitude,

b your heart and your life stinks to God so it’s time to quit and walk away. He has shrouded you in a cloak of darkness and your spiritual grave is sealed and your life is over and hopeless.

3 You can always tell Satan has brought the sickness of sin into the life of a man or woman.

a The first thing that happens is that they get stinking thinking. They start the blame game, blaming everything and everyone else for the sin in their lives.

c Then they get “excusitis”, and find a multitude of reasons why they can’t or won’t serve the Lord.

d Then they get hard or impossible to talk to about the things of God. e Finally they bury themselves in their own lives, working, kids, home, etc. and it’s as though the church no longer exists for them.

Why then did he instruct those who stood by to move the heavy stone instead?

I think it was to let us know that the heavy stone of unbelief, doubt and fear that seals us in our tomb of troubles must be removed by lifting our eyes toward Jesus. God does not bless a heart of unbelief. Fear is doubt, the opposite of belief.

We must believe God, trust in God and look to God before he will speak resurrection power into our circumstances of life.

Hebrews 3:12, "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God."

A fox cut of his leg for life Mark 9:43-47

“43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into

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 Luke 4:18,19 He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, ¹⁹   to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

 

Can we see as satan sees?

Acts 13:4-12 But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, ¹⁰ “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind for a time, not even able to see the light of the sun.”

Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. ¹² When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord.

I. EVIL AND PAIN

A. I have wrestled with the final clause of this prayer for several weeks trying to decide whether or not to divide it into two lessons. At first glance it seems as though there are two separate thoughts here, "O Lord keep me from evil" and "O Lord keep me from causing pain." But I have come to the conclusion that it is one continuous thought.

1. Evil and pain are synonymous with one another. There is always a price to paid when evil takes control of a person’s life, and often time that price is exacted in agony and suffering. The Bible is full of examples. Noah’s generation is remembered for having the intents of the thoughts of their hearts filled with evil all the time. They were consumed with wickedness, so God destroyed them with the great flood.

2. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were so wicked that not even ten righteous people could be found between them. That is all the more striking when you consider that there were five people in Lot’s family. All that needed to be found were five more out of over a million people. God destroyed those cities, and their inhabitants, with fire and brimstone because of their wickedness.

3. Three men named Korah, Dathan and Abiram started a rebellion against God and His spokesmen Moses and Aaron. They were determined to overthrow Moses and Aaron, even God, take control of the people and return to Egypt. As a result God opened up the ground beneath their tents and swallowed them up along with all their belongings, their families and their followers.

B. Evil and pain are inseparable. I have no doubt that Jabez knew that as a fact and that he knew by heart these stories we have just reviewed. He was an honest and honorable man. His heart’s desire was to be found faithful in God’s sight. Therefore he sought God’s protection from evil and causing pain. He did not want to be a wicked person, nor did he want to inflict pain in any way.

C. The Bible says that God granted his request. Jabez would go on to a live a life that was protected from evil and would not cause any pain. Why, because he had the faith and faithfulness to ask.

1 Petern5:8 "Satan prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. We do not recognize them until we are in their jaws.

 

THE BOY JUST UNTIL HE SEE COOKIES.

 

Paul Harvey told about a 3-year-old boy who went to the grocery store with his mother. Before they entered the grocery store she said to him, "Now you’re not going to get any chocolate chip cookies, so don’t even ask." She put him up in the cart & he sat in the little child’s seat while she wheeled down the aisles. He was doing just fine until they came to the cookie section. He saw the chocolate chip cookies & he stood up in the seat & said, "Mom, can I have some chocolate chip cookies?" She said, "I told you not even to ask. You’re not going to get any at all." So he sat back down. They continued down the aisles, but in their search for certain items they ended up back in the cookie aisle. "Mom, can I please have some chocolate chip cookies?" She said, "I told you that you can’t have any. Now sit down & be quiet." Finally, they were approaching the checkout lane. The little boy sensed that this may be his last chance. So just before they got to the line, he stood up on the seat of the cart & shouted in his loudest voice, "In the name of Jesus, may I have some chocolate chip cookies?" And everybody round about just laughed.

Some even applauded. And, according to Paul Harvey, due to the generosity of the other shoppers, the little boy & his mother left with 23 boxes of chocolate chip cookies.

 

 

Matthew 6:13 NIV - And lead us not into temptation

 

2 Peter 2:9 KJV - The Lord knoweth how to deliver 

 

 

Palm 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry for help

 

 

1 Chronicles 4:10

10Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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How Great Is Our God 

In Acts 17, as the apostle Paul approached the great city of Athens, he came not as a sightseer, but as a soul-winner. He arrived with open eyes and a broken heart. Athens was in a period of decline in the early first-century. It had a famous university and numerous beautiful buildings, but it wasn’t the influential city it once had been. The city was given over to a “cultured paganism” that was nourished by idolatry, novelty, and philosophy.

The Greek myths spoke of gods and goddesses that, in their own rivalries and ambitions, acted more like petty humans than gods; and there were plenty of deities to choose from! Someone once said that in Athens it was easier to find a god than a man. There was even an altar dedicated to “the unknown god” (sort of like our memorial to the Unknown Soldier) just in case they had missed one. Paul saw that the city was “wholly given to idolatry”—to the worship of false, non-existent gods—and it broke his heart.

Taking center stage in the Areopagus, Paul cleared his throat and announced: “Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every way, for as I was walking along I saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: ‘To an Unknown God.’ This God, whom you worship without knowing, is the one I’m telling you about” (Acts 17:22-23 NLT).

Paul’s audience that day consisted of primarily two schools of thought—the Epicurean philosophers and the Stoic philosophers. The Epicureans believed in a deity that was distant from humanity. They were materialists at heart who thought that the universe and everything in it was eternal—it’s just always been here. The Stoics were somewhat pantheistic—that is, they believed that the universe and everything in it was god; that the universe itself was a sort of sentient being. But Paul boldly affirmed what Moses penned long ago: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth!” God made the world and everything in it. He is not a distant God, divorced from His creation; nor is He an imprisoned God, locked inside creation. He is a creative God—the Creator of heaven and earth.

We live on a very privileged planet. The Earth is just the right distance from the Sun so that water can exist in its liquid state, which is vital for life to exist. If the Earth was 5% closer, our atmosphere would be more like Venus with temperatures up to 900º F. If it were 5% more distant, then it would be more like the frozen planet Mars. Our Moon stabilizes the Earth’s axis, thereby giving us the seasons and the tides which are vital to life. Our atmosphere is rich with the oxygen needed to support life and it blocks gamma rays, UV rays, and x-rays. The light that does penetrate is just what is needed for life. Even our address in the Milky Way is located within the relatively narrow subdivision beneficial for life to exist.

A little girl asked her mother, “Where did people come from?”

The mother answered, “A long time ago, God made Adam and Eve and they had children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren—until the whole world was filled with people.”

A couple of days later, the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, “Well, we’re actually descended from apes, who evolved over millions of years into human beings.”

The confused girl returned to her mother and said, “Mom, why did you tell me God created people but Dad said that people come from monkeys?”

The mother answered, “Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his.”

King David once praised God, saying, “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it” (Psalm 139:14 TLB). That was written three thousand years ago. Today, with all the scientific knowledge and technology of the ages at our fingertips, how much more amazed should we should be then at the marvelous workmanship of our Creative God

Don’t you wish that were true for all of us? We just don’t seem to age as well as God does, do we? In fact, I heard a story about a little girl who climbed up on the lap of great-grandmother, looked at her white hair and wrinkles, and then asked, “Did God make you?”

“Yes,” she said. Then she asked, “Did God make me, too?” Grandma said, “Yes.” “Well,” said the little girl, “Don’t you think He’s doing a better job these days?”

First, God has a “weak” memory.

• WEAK MEMORY

I heard about an elderly man who moved into a retirement community and it wasn’t long until he had made a number of friends among the other residents. There was one lady he was especially attracted to and she was attracted to him, too. They spent a lot of time together. Finally one evening he proposed, asking her to marry him.

The next morning he woke up remembering his proposal, but he couldn’t remember her answer. So he went to her and said, “I’m really embarrassed to admit this, but I know I proposed to you last night but I can’t remember if you said ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”

“Oh, thank goodness!” she replied. “I remembered saying ‘Yes’ to someone but I couldn’t remember who asked me.”

Well, if you’ve ever walked into another room and forgot why you were there, don’t worry—the Bible says that even God has a few laps in memory. God says, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more” (Isaiah 43:25 NIV).

God has a “weak” memory—he just cannot remember forgiven sins.

This was the prayer of the ancients: “Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions...” (Psalm 64:9 NKJV). All through both the psalms and the prophets, God promised “forgetfulness.” Jeremiah received this joyful message: “I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins” (Jeremiah 31:34 NLT). God reiterated the promise in the New Covenant: “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more” (Hebrews 8:12 NIV).

God’s forgiveness is so complete, it’s forgetfulness

But, when Israel offered God unacceptable sacrifices, God suddenly developed “smelling problems.” He warned that if they continued to worship lesser gods, “I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices” (Leviticus 26:31 HCSB). Many years later, it happened that Israel continued in their disobedience and the Lord said, “I hate, I reject your festivals, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies” (Amos 5:21 KJV). The NLT has a more in-your-face translation: “I hate all your show and pretense—the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies” (Amos 5:21 NLT).

The Lord just cannot stand the smell of hypocritical worship.

A man sat down to supper with his family and said grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of all life. But during the meal he complained about the freshness of the bread, the bitterness of the coffee, and the overcooked roast. His young daughter questioned him, “Dad, do you think God heard you praying?”

He answered confidently, “Of course.” Then she asked, “And do you think God heard what you said about the coffee, the roast, and the bread?”

Not so confidently, he answered, “Why, yes, I believe so.”

The little girl concluded, “Then which do you think God believed, Dad?”

The man was suddenly aware that his mealtime prayer had become rote, thoughtless habit rather than an attentive and honest conversation with God. By not concentrating on that important conversation, he had left the door open to let hypocrisy sneak in. God will not accept hypocritical worship—he just cannot stand the smell!

God once told Isaiah, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me” (Isaiah 29:13 NLT).

So the question is—where is your heart? When your lips sing “How great is our God,” does your heart sing along? I’m glad that God has a “weak” sense of smell because it forces me to look within, to search my own soul, to take off the mask, lay aside the pretense, stop putting on a show—and truly worship him for how great he is!

THE POWER OF GOD

Have you ever stood outside on a clear evening and gazed up at the awe inspiring beauty and majesty of the stars up above? Those gleaming lights twinkling against a black velvet sky are overwhelming not just in splendor, but in number. Have you ever tried counting the stars? Three hundred years ago astronomers believed there were just over a thousand stars in the universe, today we know that there are over 300,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy alone, which is just one of billions more galaxies stretched across the cosmos.

Yet, the Bible says, “He counts the stars and calls them all by name. How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!” (Psalm 147:5 NLT). He counts the stars and knows them by name. I don’t want to overwhelm you with billions of stars, so let me just tell you about three. Can we handle three stars?

The first one is easy because it’s our star and it’s called the sun. Here’s an image of it t’s a little fiercer than we often imagine it, but what I want you to notice is how big it is! It’s about a million times bigger than the earth. Let me share a little illustration I learned from Louie Giglio during the How Great is our God tour.

If the earth were the size of a golf ball, then the Sun would be 15 feet in diameter. It could hold 960,000 of our earths inside of it. That’s enough golf balls to fill a school bus! So what I want you to do tomorrow is go to Wal-Mart and get yourself a golf ball, then drive out to the school and hold your golf ball up next to one of the school buses! That’s how big our Sun is—it’s a huge, massive star and it’s just one of hundreds of billions of stars in our little neighborhood, called the Milky Way galaxy.

But let me tell you about another star. Its name is Betelgeuse and it may not look as fierce, but this photo was taken from 427 light years away (427x5.88 trillion miles away). Betelgeuse is twice the size of the Earth’s orbit around the sun! If the earth were a golf ball, Betelgeuse would be the diameter of the Empire State Building stacked on top of itself six times! So here’s what I want to you to do Tuesday—you’re going to take your golf ball, get some plane tickets, fly to New York City, place your golf ball at the foot of the Empire State Building, back away until you can see the entire building, then imagine five more Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. That’s Betelgeuse! This is the Earth! And somewhere, you’re on it. You could fit 262 trillion Earths inside Betelgeuse. If the earth were a golf ball, that’s enough golf balls to fill up the Superdome… 3,000 times.

believe to be the biggest star in the Milky Way. It’s called Canis Majoris. [Next Slide] Here it is veiled like the glory of God behind a rainbow-colored nebula. If the earth were a golf ball, Canis Majoris would be the size of Mount Everest—six miles high! So apparently, you’re going to have to fly from New York to Katmandu Nepal. It’s the highest point on the planet and I just dare you to climb up there, unzip your parka and pull out your golf ball. You can fit seven quadrillion of our earths within Canis Majoris. Let me help you understand that number, because this star is crazy big. Who can tell me the equivalent of a million seconds ago? 12 days ago. How about a billion seconds ago? December 1980. What about a trillion seconds ago? 29,000 BC. But a quardrillion seconds ago? 31,688,764 years ago! And you can put seven quadrillion earths inside Canis Majoris. If the earth were a golf ball, that’s enough golf balls to cover the entire state of Texas 22 inches deep in golf balls! That’s how big Canis Majoris is!

And all this takes on new meaning when we read Psalm 33: “The heavens were made by the word of the Lord and all the stars by the breath of his mouth” (Psalm 33:6 NLT). In other words, God didn’t lift a finger when creating these stars; rather he simply breathes them into existence! Just a glance into the universe that God has made ought to remind us this morning that we are worshipping an unrivaled, uncontested God of infinite might and power and glory and awe! There is no one like him! He is indescribable.

But God doesn’t stop there. Not only does Psalm 147 tell us that the stars proclaim the awesome power of a star-breathing God, but it also describes the abundant provision of God.

He wants to be our Father. Like children, we are so small, and frail, and weak. We are one of 6.5 billion people on this golf ball sized planet in this massive universe that God has made! And yet, God’s greatest pleasure—the thing that brings joy to the heart of our star-breathing God—is the love, and trust, and respect of his children—you and me. If you’ve accepted Jesus as your forgiver and God as your Father, then you are the child of a star-breather.

Jesus said that the most important command in the Bible is this: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37 NIV). Loving God with every fiber of your being is the most important thing you will ever do with your life. He already loves you. And when you look at the world around you, the universe that he made for you, how can you not love him in return?

 

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