God With Us
Isaiah 7:1-14
Matthew 1:22-23, (NIV)
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"- which means, "God with us."
2 Chronicles 28:1-8, (NIV)
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD. He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and also made cast idols for worshiping the Baals. He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable ways of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree. Therefore the LORD his God handed him over to the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah — because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. The Israelites took captive from their kinsmen two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 28:17-18, (NIV)
The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners, while the Philistines had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah.
Isaiah 7:1-2, (NIV)
When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it. (This is another invasion) Now the house of David was told, "Aram has allied itself with Ephraim"; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
Isaiah 7:6, (NIV)
"Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it."
2 Chronicles 28:16, (NIV)
At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
1. When problems come remember you are His child
Isaiah 7:1-2, (NIV)
When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
Isaiah 7:6-7 (NIV)
"Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"thus says the LORD God: "'It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
John 1:12, (NIV)
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
2. When problems come the solution is spiritual not physical
Isaiah 7:3a-4, (NIV)
Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz...Say to him, 'Be careful, keep calm and don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood — because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.’”
Ephesians 6:12, (NIV)
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Isaiah 7:3a-4, (NIV)
Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz...Say to him, 'Be careful, keep calm and don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood — because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.’”
2 Chronicles 28:20-21, (NIV)
[The] king of Assyria came to him, but he gave him trouble instead of help. Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace and from the princes and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.
3. When problems come you must stand firm in your faith
Isaiah 7:9b, (NIV)
If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all"
4. When problems come God is with you
Isaiah 7:14, (NIV)
Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
ROMANS 8:31-32, (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:35-39 (NIV)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
