I. EXORDIUM:
Do you have thorns in your life?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To identify the thorns in our lives and let GOD and the LORD JESUS CHRIST remove it from us.
IV. TEXT:
Isaiah 27:4 (Amplified Bible)
Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.
V. THESIS:
Let GOD, the FATHER and GOD, the SON remove the thorns in our lives
VI. TITLE:
Thorns in our lives
Word study: thorns or thorn
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz
B. Date written: 740 - 680 B.C. but uncertain
C. Purpose: To reveal that salvation, physical and spiritual is of the LORD
D. To whom written: Nation of Judah
E. Main themes: 7 everlastings
F. Keyword: salvation. Isaiah means "Salvation of Jehovah"
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. What is "thorns" in the Bible?
1. Definitions and usages of "thorns" in the Bible:
a. the wicked internal foe
Isaiah 27:4 (Amplified Bible)
Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.
b. wicked inhabitants of the land
Numbers 33:55 (Amplified Bible)
But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.
c. scrub or trash, wild growth of weeds and briers
Isaiah 5:6 (Amplified Bible)
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned or cultivated, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
d. springs from hills formerly cultivated and promotes fear
Isaiah 7:25 (Amplified Bible)
And as for all the hills that were formerly cultivated with mattock and hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where oxen are let loose to pasture and where sheep tread.
e. fruitless
Matthew 7:16 (Amplified Bible)
You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
f. Choker of the Word - cares of the world, pleasure, delight, glamour and deceifulness of riches
Matthew 13:7 (Amplified Bible)
Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.
Matthew 13:22 (Amplified Bible)
As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.
g. a humiliation, something to hurt you
Matthew 27:29 (Amplified Bible)
And, weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and put a reed (staff) in His right hand. And kneeling before Him, they made sport of Him, saying, Hail (greetings, good health to You, long life to You), King of the Jews!
Mark 15:17 (Amplified Bible)
And they dressed Him in [a] purple [robe], and, weaving together a crown of thorns, they placed it on Him.
h. If you have thorns, sometimes you will bear fruit but it will not be matured enough.
Luke 8:14 (Amplified Bible)
And as for what fell among the thorns, these are [the people] who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked and suffocated with the anxieties and cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not ripen (come to maturity and perfection).
i. withered at the front, point or prickle, figuratively a bodily annoyance or disability but not malignant
2 Corinthians 12:7 (Amplified Bible)
And to keep me from being puffed up and too much elated by the exceeding greatness (preeminence) of these revelations, there was given me a thorn (a splinter) in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to rack and buffet and harass me, to keep me from being excessively exalted.
B. GOD promised to remove the thorns
1. Let GOD, the FATHER burn the thorns
a. Destruction by fire
Isaiah 10:17 (Amplified Bible)
And the Light of Israel shall become a fire and His Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour [the Assyrian’s] thorns and briers in one day.
Isaiah 27:4 (Amplified Bible)
Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.
Hebrews 6:8 (Amplified Bible)
But if [that same soil] persistently bears thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
2. Let CHRIST wear the thorns not you.
John 19:2 (Amplified Bible)
And the soldiers, having twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple cloak around Him.
John 19:5 (Amplified Bible)
So Jesus came out wearing the thorny crown and purple cloak, and Pilate said to them, See, [here is] the Man!
C. How to know if we you have thorns in life?
1. If you are after physical treasures, riches and wealth rather than the Giver, and Blessor. GOD will make you rich not yourself but by His 100% Grace.
Matthew 13:22 (Amplified Bible)
As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.
1 Timothy 6:9-10 (Amplified Bible)
But those who crave to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish (useless, godless) and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction and miserable perishing.
For the love of money is a root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have been led astray and have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves through with many acute [mental] pangs.
2. If your fruit does not come to maturity and perfection
Luke 8:14 (Amplified Bible)
And as for what fell among the thorns, these are [the people] who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked and suffocated with the anxieties and cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not ripen (come to maturity and perfection).
IX. CONCLUSION:
Identify the thorns in our lives and let GOD and the LORD JESUS CHRIST remove it from us.
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