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Isaiah prophesied to King Ahaz in 732 BC. The virgin will conceive…

We can be confident and still be very wrong. That can be insignificant, like when you get lost because you were confident a destination is in one place when it’s in another and you didn’t check your directions. Or it can be more serious, like being confident you turned the power off to a circuit you’re…

How many times have you heard or been told something to this effect, “you just need to trust the Lord”? How many times does God tell us to do this very thing in the Scriptures? It is one of the great themes of Scripture! 5 Commit your way to the Lord ; trust in him, and he will act. 5 Trust in the Lord…

How many times have you heard or been told something to this effect, “you just need to trust the Lord”? How many times does God tell us to do this very thing in the Scriptures? It is one of the great themes of Scripture! 5 Commit your way to the Lord ; trust in him, and he will act. 5 Trust in the Lord…

Are you aware of the Devils tactics? 4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 5 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?…

I. Israel is rife with conspiracies, 7:1-7. Every time the LORD longed to heal Israel, new evidences of her sins come to light. The warnings He sent through His prophets have not stemmed the tide of rebellion. The people have reacted to the prophets with rejection which led to further hardening of their…

Isaiah 36-39 Good evening church. Thank you for coming out this evening. Apparently we are going to get some more winter weather this evening. Open your Bibles with me to Isaiah chapter 36. I am going to try to move rapidly through this section without leaving any of the detail out. I won’t waste a lot…

*Let me know if you’ve been there and done that... I come home from the store - and I have 1 sucker... …but 3 kids. My oldest - Trey - he wouldn’t care. BUT - My 2 daughters... They would! SO - The sucker I was given was a gift - for Tia. So I give it to Tia. Tenley - seeing this play out - comes over…

As the 5th of the minor prophets, this book contains: four short chapters, 48 verses total, one each: colossal fish, reluctant prophet, and compassionate God, but lots of undeserving people. That is a lot of material for these few verses to cover. The content style of the book better resembles the narrative…

This Present Life The stories of Hezekiah speak to us today in so many ways. We seem to face similar challenges when it comes to following God. Will we trust? Will we obey? This present life will contain peaceful moments but also moments of testing, loss, and pain. Some may assume that God is only concerned…

Hezekiah REVERSED his father’s policies and REOPENED the Temple. 2 Chron. 29:1-11 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. He did what was right in the Lord ’s sight just as his ancestor…

TEXT: NAHUM There are 12 books that have been given this title of “Minor Prophets” Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi These 12 books cover a period of roughly 400 years. ILLUSTRATION : It’s hard to find a good sequel. As a kid I can remember when the…

Introduction It is the Christmas time. We have all read that passage in Matthew 1:23 ““The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).” taken from Isaiah 7:14 . Let’s Read the passage 10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your…

Introduction In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction. In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. And it will…

We are reminded that God graciously delivers us from suffering. We are encouraged to patiently endure.

1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did what was right in…

Isaiah 7-9 1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. I know that you can tell already that tonight…

Micah 5:2 is a famous passage because it predicts that Christ will be born in Bethlehem just as the Gospels record. But the passage has far more blessings then just a prediction. It describes our savior ruling with unprecedented peace and prosperity. It is a rule that will rescue and restore Israel, but will also be a tremendous blessing to the nations.

Please open your Bibles with me to the book of Nahum. We're in the middle of our short series on the Old Testament prophet's book. Last week we looked at the picture of punishment and the promise of peace powerfully displayed in chapter 1. Today, we will study Nahum's depiction of the destruction of…

INTRO Text Last week we looked at Hosea 4 where God began to spell out the charges He was bringing against Israel. For nearly 200 years Israel’s kings and priests led the people away from faithfulness to God. They exchanged worship and devotion of the one true God for the false gods of the neighboring…

Welcome & Opening Prayer Music Ministry Victory in Jesus (#473, #1&2) O, How I Love Jesus (#529, #1&2) The Blessing Intro to Service Topic Things are not always as they seem Things certainly are more complicated than they seem Today, we look back to the OT seeking wisdom seeking to understand “ Expensive…

We left off with the calling of Isaiah into prophetic ministry as he experienced the whoa, lo, and go. To understand the events of chapter 7 it is important to look back over the life of King Ahaz in 2 Kings 16 and 2 Chronicles 28 since that is who is in power and thus what is being referenced in this…

Theme: A God Who is Unique Word for the Week is Uniqueness: The quality of being without an equal. Scripture stresses the uniqueness of God and of the salvation that is available only from him. Jesus Christ is the unique mediator between God and humanity. Memory verse: Exodus 15:11 ““Who is like You,…

Verses 1-4 Azariah aka Uzziah He was a mostly good king who entered his time as king in a difficult time. remeber that we just saw his father Amaziah lose a big battle with Jehoash king so Israel. The loss was severe... And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home. And Jehoash king…