God Was With Them, God With Us...

GOD IS WITH US... IMMANUEL

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

I. I HAVE NO GREATER JOY IN THE WORLD THAN TO BE WITH SOMEONE...

A. Some of my greatest joys in life have been just being WITH SOMEONE...

To hear their heart, to feel their pain... to laugh, to cry together...

B. I love to play music with others. Sometimes the music is awesome as it all comes together, the all the music is WITH THE OTHER MUSICAL

INSTRUMENTS.... wow... with...

C. Have you ever sat down with a friend? Skipped rocks across the water?

Ate a meal together?

D. WITH...

Association, company,possession, like-minded, agreement

E. UNITY

ONE, HARMONY,SIMILAR, SOLIDARITY, ACCORD

F. I want to be WITH GOD!

II. JESUS IS THE SON OF MAN THROUGH MARY AND THE SON OF GOD

THROUGH OUR HEAVENLY FATHER...

A. GOD HAD A PLAN... GOD WANTED TO RESTORE FALLEN MAN...

MAN’S FALL HAD BEEN A DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE CREATOR.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

B. I WANT MORE THAN TO BE WITH GOD...

I WANT GOD TO BE WITH ME...

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

III. GOD LOVED HIS CREATION, GOD LOVED TO VISIT AND BE WITH HIS

MAN AND WOMAN IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING...(Move quickly on these points)

A. GOD MADE MAN AND SAID: IT IS GOOD...

Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,

it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

B. THEN ONE DAY GOD SOMETHING HE DIDN’T LIKE...

Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should

be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

C. GOD MAN WOMAN FROM ADAM’S RIB...

HOW BEAUTIFUL... A HELP MATE TO BE WITH MAN...

D. GOD ALLOWED ADAM TO NAME THE ANIMALS...

GOD CALLED EACH ANIMAL FRONT AND CENTER TO ALLOW ADAM

TO NAME THEM...

IV. GOD DESIRED SOMEONE TO BE A FRIEND,

GOD WANTED TO BE WITH MAN...

AND GOD DESIRED MAN TO WANT TO BE WITH HIM...

Gen. 1:26 God said: LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE...

A. God would leave His busy schedule to come down and walk and talk with

His creatures --- man and woman...

Genesis 3:[8] And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

B. HOW SPECIAL THOSE EVENINGS MUST HAVE BEEN WITH THE CREATOR

AND HIS CREATURES...

C. GOD AND MAN TOGETHER...

D. When Adam and Eve sewed together the fig leaves --- they were trying to bypass God’s plan and substitute MAN’S REPAIR SYSTEM...

E. GOD’S REPAIR SYSTEM POINTED TO THE BLOOD OF A REDEEMER...

Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

V. ONE OF THE FIRST DYSFUNCTIONS OF THE FIRST FAMILY HAD TO

DO WITH REAL WORSHIP VS. DOING THINGS MANS WAY...

ABEL WAS WITH GOD...

A. THE DYSFUNCTION OF CAIN HAD TO DUE WITH WORSHIP STYLES...

God made proviisions for grain offerings... the issue is attitude:

OF THE FRUIT OF THE GROUND VS. FIRST???