Cross City Church - North
December 11, 2022 / Expectant / The God Who Intervenes
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The God Who Intervenes
intervene: (v.)
- to take a decisive role to modify or determine events or their outcome.
- to interfere with force.
- to disturb or hinder a course of action.
Divine Intervention:
- God asserting His sovereignty in the affairs of the world.
- It’s Him causing something to happen or preventing something from happening.
- to take a decisive role to modify or determine events or their outcome.
- to interfere with force.
- to disturb or hinder a course of action.
Divine Intervention:
- God asserting His sovereignty in the affairs of the world.
- It’s Him causing something to happen or preventing something from happening.
1. Adam & Eve learned His intervention was PRUDENT.
Genesis 3:21-24...
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:21-24...
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
His divine intervention here is PRUDENT.
- Careful and Reasonable
- Wise
- Judicious
A judicious sacrifice...
- Innocent for the guilty
- Covered their shame.
A reasonable relocation from the Garden.
- Not stuck in a perpetual sin-state.
A wise protection...
- Careful and Reasonable
- Wise
- Judicious
A judicious sacrifice...
- Innocent for the guilty
- Covered their shame.
A reasonable relocation from the Garden.
- Not stuck in a perpetual sin-state.
A wise protection...
2. Isaiah knew His intervention was PROMISED.
Prophetic Promises in Isaiah 53:5-12...
Promised Peace...
5 But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed.
Promised Forgiveness...
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Promised Empathy...
7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not His mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although He had done no violence, and there was no deceit in His mouth.
Promised Righteousness...
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him; He has put Him to grief; when His soul makes an offering for guilt, He shall see His offspring; He shall prolong His days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 Out of the anguish of His soul he shall see and be satisfied; by His knowledge shall the righteous One, My servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and He shall bear their iniquities.
Promised Prayer...
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the many, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Promised Peace...
5 But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed.
Promised Forgiveness...
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Promised Empathy...
7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not His mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although He had done no violence, and there was no deceit in His mouth.
Promised Righteousness...
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him; He has put Him to grief; when His soul makes an offering for guilt, He shall see His offspring; He shall prolong His days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 Out of the anguish of His soul he shall see and be satisfied; by His knowledge shall the righteous One, My servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and He shall bear their iniquities.
Promised Prayer...
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the many, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
3. Paul knew God’s intervention was POWERFUL.
Romans 8:1-4...
...His power erases condemnation.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
...His power frees us from sin and death.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
...His power allows us to walk in His Spirit and not in our flesh.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
...His power erases condemnation.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
...His power frees us from sin and death.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
...His power allows us to walk in His Spirit and not in our flesh.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
4. Paul knew God’s intervention was PERFECT.
- The word perfect is used 33 times in the New Testament.
- The Holy Spirit is always at work in us.
- His timing is always perfect.
- The word perfect is used 33 times in the New Testament.
- The Holy Spirit is always at work in us.
- His timing is always perfect.
Romans 8:26-28...
The Spirit’s intervention is always perfectly timed.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
27 And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
When you are at your whit’s end – He isn’t.
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
The Spirit’s intervention is always perfectly timed.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
27 And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
When you are at your whit’s end – He isn’t.
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
He is constantly at work perfecting us...
In our weakness...v. 26
He reminded Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9...
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
- In our prayer life...v. 26
- In knowing God’s will...v. 27
- In living out His purpose for our lives...v. 28
He goes on to say...
v. 31...tells us God is perfectly for us.
v. 37-39...says how...
37...in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In our weakness...v. 26
He reminded Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9...
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
- In our prayer life...v. 26
- In knowing God’s will...v. 27
- In living out His purpose for our lives...v. 28
He goes on to say...
v. 31...tells us God is perfectly for us.
v. 37-39...says how...
37...in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.