God On The Move

GOD ON THE MOVE

I SAMUEL 16:1-13

• GOD HAS PLACES

• GOD SOVEREIGNLY SELECTS SCENES AND SETTINGS IN ORDER TO INSTITUTE AND INITIATE HIS WILL

• GOD IS GEOGRAPHICALLY STRATEGIC

• HE CONNECTS HIMSELF TO MAN

o NOT ONLY THROUGH HISTORY

o BUT ALSO THROUGH GEOPGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY

• GOD HAS PLACES

• PLACES HOWEVER DO NOT HAVE GOD

• ON MARS HILL PAUL SPEAKS TO THE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE OF ATHENS

o HE SAID “THE GOD THAT CREATED THE WORLD AND ALL THINGS THEREIN, SEEING THAT HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE BY HANDS.”

• GOD TRANSCENDS TERAFIRMA

• GOD CANNOT BE CIRCUMSCRIBED BY HIS OWN CREATION

• GOD CANN BE LIMITED BY LOCATION

• GOD CANNOT BE REGULATED BY LAWS OF LONGITUDE AND LATTITUDE

• GOD IS NOT CONTROLLED BY A COMPASS

• GOD IS NOT LOCKED IN BY N, S, E, AND W

• GOD CANNOT BE RESTRICTED BY BOUNDARIES OF BRICK AND MORTAR

• GOD CANNOT BE LOCATED BY A GPS

• IN FACT GOD IS OMNIPRESENT

o HE’S EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME

o ABSENT FROM NO WHERE AT ANY TIME

o HE MEETS HIMSELF COMING WHEN HE’S GOING

o AND GOING WHEN HE’S COMING

o HE EXITS WHEN HE ENTERS

o HE ENTERS WHEN HE EXITS

o HE’S UP WHEN HE’S DOWN

o AND DOWN WHEN HE’S UP

o THERE IS NO CONTROLING GOD

o HE IS

 BOUNDLESS

 ENDLESS

 LIMITLESS

 TIMELESS

 ETERNAL

 AND INFINITE

• GOD IS NOT SOME LOCAL DIETY

• GOD IS NOT BUDDAH THAT YOU CAN SIT AND PUT IN YOUR PLACE

• GOD IS NOT SOME MOON DIETY

• WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT GOD’S NAME IS JEHOVAH

o REPEAT

• HE NAME IS NOT

o BUDDAH

o BRAHMA

o ALLAH

o MUHAMMUD

• HIS NAME IS JEHOVAH

• HE IS THE ONE AND TRUE LIVING GOD

• NOT ONLY IS HE GOD BUT HE’S GOT A SON NAMED JESUS

• AND HE GAVE HIM A NAME ABOVE ALL OTHER NAMES

• THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS

o EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW

o EVERY TONGUE COFESS

o THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD AND HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED

• THE HEAVEN’S ARE HIS THRONE

• AND THE EARTH IS HIS FOOTSTOOL

• THE PROPHET ISAIAH REMINDS US THAT HE MEASURED THE WATERS IN THE HALLOW OF HIS HAND

• HE MEADED OUT THE HEAVENS WITH A SPAN

• HE COMPREHENDED THE DUST OF THE EATH IN A MEASURE

• HE WEIGHTED THE MOUNTAINS ON A SCALE

• AND PUT THE HILLS IN A BALANCE

• GOD HAS PLACES

• BUT PLACES CAN NEVER HAVE GOD

• GOD HAS PLACES THAT ARE ASSIGNED FOR THE UNVEILING AND UNFOLDING OF HIS PURPOSE

• I NEED TO TELL THE PREACHERS THAT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE GOD HAS FOR YOU

• HE WILL NOT ONLY GIVE YOU THE PURPOSE

• BUT HE WILL ALSO GIVE YOU THE PLACE

• AND IF GOD HAS PUT A WORD IN YOUR MOUTH

• YOU DON’T HAVE TO ASK ANYBODY TO PREACH

• YOU DON’T HAVE TO INVITE YOURSELF TO ANYBODIES PULPIT

• IF GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO PREACH

• HE WILL OPEN DOORS AND YOUR GIFT WILL MAKE ROOM FOR YOU

• GOD HAS PLACES

• SO IN EDEN GOD PUTS ADAM TO DRESS AND TO KEEP IT

• NOAH AND HIS FAMILY ARE ON A MOUNTAIN CALLED ARAFAT BECAUSE

• GOD HAS PLACES

• JOSEPH IS IN A PRISON ON HIS WAY TO A PALACE BECAUSE

• GOD HAS PLCES

• SAMPSON ‘S HAIR IS GROWING IN A PRISON BECAUSE

• GOD HAS PLACES

• ELIJAH IS BEING FED BY RAVENS ON HIS WAY TO A WIDOWS HOUSE BECAUSE

• GOD HAS PLACES

• JOHN THE APOSTLE IS WRITING A REVELATION ON THE PATMOS ISLAND BECAUSE

• GOD HAS PLACES

• GOD WORKS IN SPECIFIC PLACES

• AND GOD WORKS IN SPECIFIC PEOPLE IN THOSE SPECIFIC PLACES

• IMAGINE THE MINISTRY OF OUR MASTER

• COULD WE REALLY PREACH JESUS

• AND NOT PREACH ABOUT HIS PLACES

• CAN YOU REALLY TALK ABOUT JESUS AND

• NOT TALK ABOUT THE PLACES AND SPOTS THAT GOD HAD TAKEN JESUS TO

• THINK ABOUT IT

• JESUS IS SENT FROM A PLACE CALLED HEAVEN

• BORN IN A PLACE CALLED BETHLEHEM

• CONCEALED IN A PLACE CALLED EGYPT

• REARED IN A PLACE CALLED NAZARETH

• BAPTIZED IN A PLACE CALLED JORDON

• TEMPTED IN A PLACE CALLED THE WILDERNESS

• INTRODUCED IN A PLACE CALLED CANA OF GALILEE

• DISCOVERED IN A PLACE CALLED CAPERNAUM

• CONFIRMED IN A PLACE CALLED CAESAREA OF PHILLIPI

• REJECTED IN A PLACE CALLED GADERA

• TRANSFIGURED IN A PLACE CALLED MT TABER

• BELIEVED ON IN A PLACE CALLED BETHANY