#1 God Is Looking For Interceders? Series

#1 CAN GOD FIND INTERCEDERS?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

DEFINE:

INTERCEDE, INTERCESSION

To be situated between things, To find away to get over or through difficulties.

To intervene on behave of another, to plead, prayer.

Mediate, to produce agreement or RECONCILIATION.

I. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SAD DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, THE CHURCH AND THE

FAMILIES.

A. GOD'S JUDGMENT IS SURE... ONE MAN-EVENT CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE...

B. God desires to have a HEDGE BUILT AROUND HIS PEOPLE...

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand

in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

C. Often times there comes LARGE GAPS in the HEDGE OF GOD'S PROMISES AND BLESSINGS...

One PERSON can make a difference and TURN AWAY THE WRATH OF GOD FROM MEN...

D. Many times in history God looked in vain for anyone who would build again the wall of righteousness

TO STAND AND TAKE THE LEADERSHIP TO INFLUENCE SINFUL HEARTS TO COME TO GOD'S

HOLY STANDARD.

II. JEREMIAH, THE WEEPING PROPHET HAD HOPE... WAS GIVEN SOME STRICT ORDERS...

JEREMIAH GET OUT IN JERUSALEM AND RUN UP AND DOWN THE STREETS OF THE CITY...

WHILE YOU ARE RUNNING LOOK FOR AN INTERCESSOR.

A. PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW AND RESPECT GOD'S LAWS AND RULES...

when people fail God they need some leaders to pick up the TORCH AND RUN WITH IT...

Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the

broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;

and I will pardon it.

B. When God can find INTERCESSORS TO STAND IN THE GAP AND MAKE A HEDGE OF

PROTECTION... JUDGMENT IS LESSENED...

III. IT APPEARS OFTEN TIMES INTERCESSORS ARE CALLED TO RUN...

A SENSE OF URGENCY... GRAB THE CENSER...

A. SIN AND REBELLION WAS IN THE CAMP...

B. A CENSER WAS A VESSEL THAT INCENSE FROM THE GOLDEN ALTAR WAS CARRIED IN...

It had burning coals of incense, sent a sweet smelling cloud upward...

Numbers 16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation;

and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement

for the people.

[48] And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

B. 14,700 DIED IN ONE DAY, BUT WHAT IF THE RUNNING OF THE CENSER HAD BEEN DELAYED?

C. WILL SOME ONE RUN WITH THE CENSER TODAY?

IV. THE FIERY SERPENT WAS A TYPE OF INTERCESSION...

A. THERE CAME GREAT JUDGMENT IN THE CAMP OF GOD'S PEOPLE...

They had been murmuring and complaining against MOSES and against God.

B. GOD ALLOWED A GREAT MULTIPICATION OF DEADLY POISONOUS SNAKES TO INFEST

THE CAMP OF GOD...

C. The hedge of protection was dropped...

MANY PEOPLE OF GOD DIED ... THERE WAS NO CURE ONCE BITEN...

Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass,

that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

D. MOSES WAS GOD'S MAN AND HE INTERECEDED TO GOD... RAISE UP A STANDARD...

GOD HAD MOSES COMMAND A BRAZEN SERPANT TO BE MADE AND RAISED ON A POLE...

How many died while the BRONZE SNAKE was made?

E. THE BRAZEN SERPENT WAS KEPT UNTIL HEZEKIAH'S DAYS...

WHEN THIS BRAZEN SERPENT BECAME A TRAP TO GOD'S PEOPLE...

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake

in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn

incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

V. MOSES BECOME A TYPE OF A GREAT INTERCESSOR --- MOSES OFTEN STOOD IN THE GAP...

WILL WE BE LIKE MOSES?

A. MOSES TAKES THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMBLE OF HIS DAYS...

BLOT ME OUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO BLOT THEM OUT.

Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book

which thou hast written.

B. The fire of God's judgment is destroying the camp... MOSES INTERCEDES...

Numbers 11:2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was

quenched.

C. FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS MOSES HAD BEEN MARRIED TO THE SAME WOMAN.

ALL OF A SUDDEN MOSES WIFE BECOMES AN ISSUE TO MIRIAM AND IN A DISCUSSION WITH

AARON OVER THE ISSUE OF MOSES WIFE THEY ATTACK MOSES AUTHORITY...

D. GOD CHALLENGES MOSES, MIRIAM AND AARON TO COME TO THE CHURCH...