God's Question That I Must Answer Series

INTRODUCTION

There is a question in the Bible asked by God to me and to you us that we must know the answer to at some point in our Christian journey. We are going to need to know that answer not in our heads but in our hearts. God makes sure we don’t miss the question, so He asked it twice. If God, ask me a question once, I need to pay attention, it must be important. But, if God asked me the same question twice, bells and whistles need to go off, this must be very important. And if God directly answer that same question that He has asked me twice, so I don’t get it wrong, it must be extremely important that I get the right answer. With the right answer securely placed somewhere in my head, now my job is to get that answer to my heart.

In Genesis 18, God is having a conversation with Abram about the birth of his promised child next year and Sarah who is in the tent nearby overhears the conversation and laughs because of her age. To which God replies to Abraham and Sarah with a question: Is anything too hard for God?

Then years later in the Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 32, Israel is in the Promised Land, but they have not obeyed the Lord and so God was set to send in the Babylonians to siege the city and take many captives. And in that conversation God ask Jeremiah: Is there anything too hard for Me?

And it also in that same conversation that God gives us the answer through the words of the Prophet Jeremiah: There is nothing too hard for you.

Now, we know the question: Is anything too hard for God? Now we also know the answer: There is nothing too hard for God. But the question to each one of us is: “When we are put to the test, do we know nothing is too hard for God in our heart? For a lot of us I don’t think that answer has made the (18) inch journey from our head to our heart. So, in the time that I have I want to try to help move that great truth to our hearts.

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TRUST.

TO MOVE SOMETHING FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR HEART, THERE MUST BE A TRAIL OF KEPT PROMISES SO THAT YOU CAN DEVELOP TRUST.

Think about dating, you might see someone, and your initial response in your head might be “I am interested”, and I want to see more of that person so I can know him or her better. So, you continue seeing that person over time, but you catch the person lying to you. Your friends start telling you stuff they found out about him or her. You ask that person to do something for you, oh, he or she says sure, but it doesn’t get done. If you are smart, you look at the trail of lies, the feedback from friends you trust, and the broken promises and you never let this relationship move from your head to your heart. Why, because that person has not proven himself or herself trustworthy. We move people or things to our heart that are trustworthy.

Now, listen to what the Lord says in Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)

19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

What God is saying, I give you no reason, (I don’t lie, I keep my promises) so that you can move what I tell you from your head to your heart. Think about your life, has God ever lied to you? Think about your life, is there a promise in the Bible that God had denied you? Nobody in this room can say God ever lied to them; nobody can say God didn’t keep a promise written in His Word given to them.

Let’s go back to Abraham. He was an old man and Sarah was an old woman when God told them next year, you are going to have a child. And when that proved true, Abraham moved from his head to his heart that nothing is impossible for God. Year later, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son on Mount Moriah and Abraham was willing to do it. Why? There is only one reason Abraham would offer up his son, Abraham knew in his heart that nothing is impossible for God. Listen to what it says in Hebrews 11:17-19 (NKJV)

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,