Where is The Power of God?

Where is The Power of God?

We are in a glorious Biblical season of time. One, that in a sense causes more unity in the church than any other time. Even though parts of the global body of Christ remember this season at different times. The reverence, and thankfulness for what Christ has done is equally remembered with worship, love, and prayers.

I am so thankful for the presence of God in our lives. For His love and grace. Thankful for the many prayers that have been answered, and for those prayers that are waiting, on His time.

Living long enough you will see several different cycles, or maybe I should say social and religious changes. Quote from Billy Graham November 1966 at the world council on evangelism.

“There is the universal feeling that history is running out, that civilization’s days are numbered, that the problems of the world are insoluble, that hope has reached its frazzled end.”

It is interesting that he said this. What interested me is that he didn’t live like he believed it. He would not accept it. For 40 plus more years before he retired he preached the Gospel of hope.

I have committed to the same. It ain’t over until God says it is. “WE NEED TO TELL HIS STORY!!!”

The Word of God was assembled and passed down to give us hope. Romans 15:4, “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” Hebrews 10:23, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

“Where is The Power of God?”

I want to quickly share some sobering thoughts from the OT.

Judges 2:6-10

6 When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land.

7 The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

8 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten.

9 And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

10 All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.

Psalms 78:5-8

5 For He established a testimony in Jacob And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they should teach them to their children,
6 That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, That they may arise and tell them to their children,
7 That they should put their confidence in God And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments,

8 And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

We can not blame God for the condition of the world. Generations have neglected to tell the story of Jesus to

children. Passing on respect for God. For their fellow man. Teaching them the Bible at home, and in church.

So what do we do. Obviously we pray, but there is more. Our words must be intensified by the power of God. What we say to ourselves, and what we speak to others means something. “What is that power based upon?” “What will empower our words?”

1 Corinthians 1:18-19

18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

“Before you can ever rise from the death of sin in your life. You must come to the cross.”

I think I read something about a cross somewhere else.

Matthew 16:24-26

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

25 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

I have to pick up the cross? The cross is an instrument of torture and death. Eph. 2:1 “ And you were dead in your trespasses and sins” “Dying to our ways”

“But it is also a symbol of commitment.”

He went. He didn’t have to. His response to a disciple cutting the ear of a soldier in the garden.

Matthew 26:53-54

53 Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

54 How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”

He took His purpose seriously. He could have went home. He chose to go home the hard way. That is the only way we live today, in the grace and love of a Savior who would not make His life His own. But gave it up for us. “The cross is the power of God to Salvation.”

You can not rise, until you die to your sins, and your ways.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5

4 and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

“What destroys the wisdom of the world? What is the power of God for Salvation?” Preach The Cross

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Will you come to the cross today? Will you die to sin?

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