God Is Greater

Sermon - God is greater!

- As the spread of the Corona Virus was first taking off, I saw something I had

forgotten.

- A lack of faith & judgement towards those who have faith.

- Vice President Pence said Let’s pray about this virus, & immediately he was shunned.

- The thoughts were he won’t search for medical treatment for this virus. He foolishly

asks for God to take it away.

- The skeptics don’t believe in God. Let alone in His resurrecting power.

- The thing linked to this virus is a fear of death!

- There’s a very real danger in the middle of this outbreak, & it’s not the virus, it’s

the One many don’t believe in.

- Turn with me to Isaiah 10:1-6, To a time that faith in God was forgotten, strength in

religion was great, & their lives were filled with the thought of what more could we

want, we have all that we could need.

- It is the time of Northern Israel. They have great increase, but a stiff rebuke was

coming their way.

- It was a rebuke that could have been stopped, but it meant putting religion away,

& turning back to God.

- This is the same God they had been blessed by for so long.

Isaiah 10:1-6

1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Q- Who will you turn to when all your resources fail?

- My key verse is verse 3.

- Major catastrophes take place all over this world, & it leads people closer to the

Lord.

Q- What seems to be different about this catastrophe?

- I know we’re still in the middle of the storm, but we’re not hearing very many

people organizing relief, or having prayer vigils.

- Fear, & a lack of faith has gripped this world.

- Let’s show God we know Him, & trust Him, Let’s pray.

Prayer

- Isaiah’s message was one of awakening.

- He calls out for those who don’t believe, or who have forgotten how to believe, to

believe.

- When the times were dark for Martin Luther (the leader of the reformation)

- When the enemies of truth appeared to triumph; when disaster seemed to come

over the cause in which he was engaged, and the friends of the Reformation were

dispirited, disheartened, and sad, he was accustomed to say to his fellow-

laborers, "Come, let us sing the 46th Psalm."

Psalm 46:1-11

1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

- Be still, & know that I am God!