## Pay Attention To What We Hear - Stay the course - Don’t be led astrayseriousness of it. ## The Word Has Weight - It has been proven throughout history - Punishment is swift and just > You who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it. [**Acts 7:53**](https://my.bible.com/bible/59/ACT.7.53.ESV) ## There is no hiding from the truth - The Lord has spoken - The gift of salvation - It is upheld by those who heard > But they paid no attention and went off, one to...

> If God is unchanging, why did he flood the earth in the time of Noah and then "change" his mind? Or in 2 Samuel when he relented and did not destroy Israel. He seems to "realize" he shouldn't have done that, even though he knows all. - Genesis 6:6 - 2 Samuel 24:16 > All of these sermons have been very eye opening to me about how I did, should, and do think about God and through all of this I have been diving deeper and deeper into my prayer but I can't tell if He is responding. I...

## Our Hope is in God’s Unchangeableness - God is Immutable - We’re Not - We Need a Savior Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. - **Hebrews 13:8** "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on...

- God fully knows himself, every possibility, and every actuality, immediately and simultaneously. - God governs the course of history so that, in the long run, his glory will be more fully displayed, and his people more fully satisfied than would have been the case in any other world. - John Piper - ”God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and every spirit, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every...

- God’s “name” means his nature and character. - God’s Transcendence —> God’s nature of Awe-Filling Greatness - Transcendence only belongs to God. - Yahweh is my name and I will not share my glory with another. **Isaiah 42:8** - I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God… **Isaiah 45:5** - “Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am the LORD your God, And there is no other; And My people will never be put to shame. **Joel 2:27** - Now to...

- Genesis 3:15 - Det: 8:1-3 - Exodus 17:7 - Psalm 2:7-8 > Matter of comfort to all the saints. In the temptation of Christ it appears, that our enemy is subtle, spiteful, and very daring in his temptations; but it appears withal, that he is not invincible. Though he is a strong man armed, yet the Captain of our salvation is stronger than he. It is some comfort to us to think that Christ suffered, being tempted; for thus it appears that temptations, if not yielded to, are not sins, they...

# Confrontation of Christmas - Matthew 2:18-25 ### Advent confronts us with a personal God. ### People were just as shocked by the supernatural birth of Jesus then as we would be now. ### If God must think and act as you would, then instead of you worshipping God, God worships you. - Joseph loved Mary. - Joseph loved God. His fear kept him from genuine love. ### Joseph is more afraid of the dilemma of his circumstance than the dilemma of his existence. ### Jesus...

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2 Thessalonians 1 Christian Suffering in Proper Perspective - An attitude of thanksgiving - See the second coming as a simultaneous consolation, encouragement, and warning - We need prayer