Do You Have A Supersized God?

DO YOU HAVE A SUPERSIZED GOD?

Isa. 40:12

INTRODUCTION

A. HUMOR: A HAIR CUT LESSON

1. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. The man & the barber talked about various subjects.

2. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said, "I don't believe that God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

3. "If God exists, why are there so many sick people? Why are there abandoned children? If God exists, there should be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

4. The customer disagreed, but didn't want to start an argument. After he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He had his answer.

5. He returned to the barbershop and said, "You know what? I don’t believe barbers exist." "How can you say that? I am a barber; and I just worked on you!"

6. "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there’d be no people with long hair or untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

7. "Ah, but barbers DO exist!" answered the barber. "What happens is, people don’t come to me!"

8. "Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "God also exists! What happens is, people don't go to Him and let Him help them!"

B. TEXT

Isa. 40:12 (BBE), “In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has gathered together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?”

C. THESIS

This morning I’m asking the question, “Do You Have a Supersized God?”

I. CONNECTION BTW VISION & FAITH

A. THE IMPORTANCE OF VISION

1. It's been said that, "No man/woman lives beyond their vision." The bigger your vision, the greater your potential!

2. Helen Keller, who was completely blind, was once asked, "What would be worse than being born blind?" She responded, "To have sight, without vision!"

3. Do you have a vision of what God wants to do with your life? Proverbs 29:18 says, "Without a vision, the people perish." The NIV adds, “the people cast off restraint."

4. The problem of Samson wasn't that he didn't have anointing, but that he didn't have vision. As a result, he fell into the pattern of the world!

5. God wants to raise our expectation level about what He will do, but that requires you get a bigger vision of God Himself.

6. If you can believe, you will receive; if you doubt, you’ll miss out! We’re satisfied with too little; we’ve settled for minimum Christianity! God is challenging that.

7. Jesus said to a man who had staggering faith, “All things are possible to him [her] who believes” Mk. 9:22-23.

8. The power of an Unlimited God is available in UNLIMITED QUANTITY if we believe God is who He says He is, and will do what He says He will do!

B. EXPANDING OUR VISION OF GOD

1. The Milky Way galaxy is vast. Even at the speed of light, which can travel 5 trillion, 874 billion, 904 million, 512 thousand miles in one year – it still takes 100,000 years – at the speed of light - to cross the Milky Way galaxy! That’s big!

2. But God’s far bigger than that! Astronomers now estimate that the number of galaxies in the observable universe is between 200 billion and 2 trillion, with recent estimates suggesting there could be between 6 and 20 trillion galaxies!

3. Get a grip on your chair. Astronomers recently discovered a wall of galaxies 1 billion light years across, larger than anything else ever identified in the cosmos! This supercluster of galaxies is being called the BOSS Great Wall. It is made up of 830 separate galaxies that gravity has corralled into four superclusters, connected by massive filaments of hot gas, Joshua Sokol reports for New Scientist. Lurking 4.5 to 6.5 billion lightyears away, the BOSS has an estimated mass 10,000 times greater than our own Milky Way!

4. God says in Isaiah 40:25-26, (HCSB) “Who will you compare Me to, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One. “Look up & see: who created these? He brings out the starry host by number; He calls all of them by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.”

5. This same Creator is the personal God who sent down His Son to die for us (to demonstrate His love) and has given us great & precious promises in His Word to encourage us. He challenges us to believe and act on His promises!