Jeff Mikels * Lafayette Community Church

Almighty Sustainer

Week of July 6,2014 • Message 3

VIDEO BUMPER • PRAY • ACTS 17:26-27

Review

* God wants to be found.

* God is Holy, completely different from everything else.

* Everything we know about God is "wrong."

* God exists as one essence sustaining three co-eternal persons.

AN ATTRIBUTE WE SKIPPED OVER • ISAIAH 6:3

God is almighty

What does "Almighty" mean?

tsabaot: HOSTS " (armies, warfare)

PSALM 33:6 • ISAIAH CHIASM • WHY TRANSLATE IT “ALMIGHTY”

Consider the Hubble Deep Field...

VIDEO FIRST, THEN SHOW THE IMAGE

Consider the Hubble Ultra Deep Field...

DISCUSS THEN SHOW IMAGE SLOWLY ZOOMING OUT

Consider the Nanocrystal Flowers...

EXPLAIN “SPONTANEOUS, SELF-ASSEMBLING STRUCTURES”

UNIVERSE IS LARGER • MORE BEAUTIFUL • ENERGY IS GREATER • AND

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made , their starry host by
the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 NIV

To say that God is Almighty means that he can

DO ANYTHING he WANTS to do.

ISAIAH 14:27 • ANYTHING HE WANTS? THAT’S SCARY • PAPER WADS IN SCIENCE, HOLIDAY EATING

What does God want to do?

REALTHEOCACHING... NEHEMIAH 9 • CONTEXT OF TEMPLE, RETURN, WALL, CELEBRATION!

* Nehemiah 9:1-6 • God chooses to GIVE LIFE .

* 7 • God chooses to establish RELATIONSHIP .

* 9-11 • God chooses to RESCUE .

* 12-15 • God chooses to PROVIDE .

* 16-18 • God chooses to FORGIVE .

* 19-21 • God chooses to SUSTAIN.

God uses his unending power to

GIVE and SUSTAIN LIFE.

Take it Home

WE TEND TO LOOK AT GOD AND EITHER FORGET HIS POWER OR HIS SUSTAINING CHOICE
WE CAN DENY HIS MIGHT, OR WE CAN DENY HIS CONCERN, BUT WE WOULD BE WRONG EITHER WAY.

Consider John 3:16

Consider John 10:10

Consider Nehemiah 9:38, 10:30-39

The Almighty God has chosen to give and sustain life, so
we receive it with GRATEFUL OBEDIENCE.