What Does God Want? | Week 1
The Story Of Rebellion and Rescue!
Rebellion #1 – Adam and Eve in Eden – Care, Continuation, Christ, Communication.
Genesis 3:21, Genesis 2:17, 3:3, Hebrews 1:1
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
-Genesis 3:15
Rebellion #2 – The “sons of God” Transgression that led to the flood.
Genesis 6:1-4, Numbers 13:33, Deuteronomy 2:10-11, 20-21
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.
-Genesis 9:8-10
Rebellion #3 – The Tower of Babel that scatters and separates.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9, Psalm 82, Ephesians 6, Genesis 11, 12:1-9; 15:1-6; 18:1-15
The coming of Christ!
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
-Colossians 1:15-22
His Empowering Spirit!
2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
-Acts 2:1-4
Sin is no longer your master!
14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
-Romans 6:14
Every spiritual power must answer to the power of the Holy Spirit!
21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
-Ephesians 1:21-23
The Sentinel Group: The Gates of Whiteclay, depicts God’s intervention through a lady named Norma Blacksmith in a small town nestled up against the sprawling Lakota Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge. Notorious for selling over 11,000 cans of fortified malt liquor a day to bootleggers and emotionally-broken Natives, the New York Times dubbed it “the Skid Row of the Plains.”
WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE
We believe the Lord is healing neck pain this weekend.
We believe the Lord wants to heal someone who is having hip pain. You have thought that the pain was not bad enough to come down for prayer and that you can just manage it, but the Lord wants to heal you today.