Kerwin Baptist Church Daily Broadcast

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the word of God spread throughout so that all may know join is now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church located in Kernersville, North Carolina Team verse 24 just gonna read a few verses here just three or four verses want you to look at it.

Verse 24 the Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, surely, as I have thought so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him underfoot. Then shall his yoke depart from all of them in his burden depart from all their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations for the Lord of hosts to have purposed, and who shall disenrollment and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back some Old Testament passage and we're going to apply this to our present day and even present situation and literally I think a daily battle that you and I have every day of our lives. Let's pray together is your home and I'm here and let's ask God to bless this time it really will take a miracle of God.

Over the course of time as we have to do these online services.

It will take a miracle of God for the truth of every message to somehow get into the ear of those who are listening with all the opportunities of distractions and all the things that are in the way of getting God's word as he's given it to the man of God to the listener.

There's all kinds of things that Satan now has opportunity to throw in the mines to throw in the situation. So let's pray and ask God to work a miracle because that's what he does. Let's pray Lord we love you and thank you for all you've done and Lord I needed this this week as I worked on this. Just some thoughts.

You laid on my mind and my heart, among other ones and Lord as you lead yesterday that this is what we would deal with today. God, I pray that you would bless the Lord, that you would overcome everything that the situation can put Norway Lord I pray that you would somehow allow those of us who desire your word right now that Lord you would help us to do everything we can do to keep Satan out of the way, Lord, I ask you to bind him limit his power when it comes to this right now, Lord, we know you're all-powerful, you are God you are sovereign you are King. We acknowledge that Lord I pray that you help and as I try my best to lay out before listener what you laid on my heart this week. In Jesus name we pray.

Amen. On many occasions and circumstances in my life I have found myself trying to make something happen you know if it.I know that I can't and I know that it is futile, but I still it with almost without even thinking about it will find myself at times, trying to figure a way to make something happen to fix a problem to meet a need to change a person to alter circumstances to manipulate and outcome. Whatever the case is I always seem to find myself in my mind at work trying to make things happen.

Spending time thinking plotting, manipulating, prioritizing any minute time stressing to find a way to make something happen. We do that, you know, we all do you at home right now you have your things right now. That's on your mind, you have things that are going to be happening this coming week. Things that have happened this past week and many times that has consumed our mind. How were going to fix this power to make this work. How were going to change this thing or this person and how were to make this fit into the plan that we think is best for our life right now even while many times the preacher is preaching our mind is off on some other issue some other problem I can't family times in life. If I thought about it, as many church services as I have sat through that.

So while somebody's preaching or somebody singing without even desiring to her meaning to my mind is active thinking how I can make something happen. I'll tell you how bad it can actually get. I have had times where I have been preaching and while on preaching on something. I am fighting my own mind at the time because it's going thinking of something else I need to fix this week and I got all the sudden idea how this can work and I'm trying to preach God's word.

It hits me while even preaching. That's how powerful I know this is in our flesh, and I have spent hours at times in the waiting room and even in a hospital room trying to figure out as we sat there with our youngest son how I could make something happen and fix something that I just couldn't fix. I've sat at the deathbed of my own mom I've sat at the deathbed of Mont dad and have spent time thinking what I could do to change this situation how I could make this happen, it just doesn't work that way. I've upset at my office here at the church.

I have four or five offices that I use here at the church and I like to keep people guessing where I might be late. Don't know from therefrom, not there. If I am there where I met and five staff is found out that usually I find out about things because I work in different places but I have spent time at my office at church and even laying in bed in the middle of the night thinking about this church thinking about things that are happening in this church. How I could fix it how I could make it happen.

How I could produce growth how I can somehow get our people to grab a new vision, how I could motivate people to get out and do things and here I am still trying to make something I can go on and on and on.

Describe the process and maybe you sitting at home today know exactly what I'm talking about.

It's just our human nature to somehow think that we got to make something happen as a chapter 14 verse 24 God is speaking here through Isaiah to Israel.

This is a time where they were literally in captivity and being bombarded by the Babylonian empire. The child in Empire and God had made a promise that that was going to be defeated and that they were going to move on to better things, but that just hadn't happened yet.

It is God writes this passage in Isaiah verse 24 as he's giving this promise once again to his children.

Notice the verse we read. He says the Lord of hosts have sworn, saying, surely, as I have thought so shall it come to pass. I have found something about God. God can make it happen. God said, as I have sworn in as I have thought it will happen and God says this is I have purposed, so shall it stand.

I wanted just talk briefly today to you about the subject of making it happen in this passage of three or four verses.

I see some principles in their very very simple principles, but I got a lot the God laid on my heart for me to give you today and I'm to do it very quickly. Timely fashion. Number one in this passage and want you to see God's promise.

God's promise. Verse 24 says is the Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, surely notice that passage that God here has sworn he's made a note. He's made a promise and then he uses this word surely that means God will surely do what God has sworn what God says God follows through with.

You see, it was almost 200 years since God had predicted and told the children of Israel, that they were going to be free of this particular bondage that they were in, but it had been 200 years.

I mean, a promise sounds great. And just because God said it. Yeah, that's wonderful and and thank God for it. But if you gone 200 years and what God said was going to happen. Still, as it happen. It's going to create some doubt in your mind, and it might've been that as Isaiah through the inspiration of God is for getting giving this promise.

Once again, to the children of Israel made it might've been that they follow what is this to us.

I mean how do we know this is going to happen. We've heard this before.

How do we know we can count on it. When is God ever going to do it. And may I say, dear friend. We see in this passage that God is reminding them that is made up wrong and I want to remind you today that God has made some promises and what God promises God does the promise of God, the Lord of hosts hath sworn you see what God was getting ready to tell them would be a present comfort, but it would give them future hope. You see, God is to his people the same today that he was yesterday, and God will be the same yesterday and today that he will be hereafter he will forever be the same that he has been and is and if you're sitting at home, your body like what you just say I am telling you this, that God was God is in God, always will be the same God of yesterday is the God of today and the God of today will be the God of tomorrow and of God has made a promise and God's put it in his word and if God has spoken it, then God will do it God's promises cannot made this observation before going to the next simple thing there been times in my life or I made a statement there been times in my life or I made a promise. There've been times in my life that I was going to make something happen and so I felt this is what's going to happen. Somehow, someway to make this happen because I know that I just believe that I can and I have said something I have made a promise or I have given the illusion that this is going to happen. I've done here church listen we put out a calendar for 2020. We worked hard laid things out had meetings scheduled things ahead. And God sure took care that did man say this, that in reality my word is really only so strong.

I mean my word is only as strong as I am. And may I say that I'm human and I have weakness and I'm frail and I'm flesh, but what God says God does. You can count on it. What I might promise or what I might say there's going to be some stipulations there might be some circumstances that come up out of my control that I just didn't foresee and that might change what I have said or what I have promised what I have committed to. But there is absolutely nothing that will come up unforeseen in God's eyes. He's already seen it all. God's promise what you know to secondly in this passage, God's plan. Look at verse 24 the Lord of host have sworn, saying, surely, as I have thought so shall it come to pass. He's a preacher. What this passes. What is this have to do with us. This passage was not written to us. It was written to Israel, but this passage was written for all of us. And as God was writing to Israel at this particular time.

For this particular circumstance, the principal is still the same God is reminding them. I made a promise and even though you're tired of waiting. Even though you got impatient even though you haven't seen things happen the way you think they ought to happen. I have made a promise and I've got a plan and you gotta trust me with it and that is applied to every area of our life.

Now at this passage we have two words, we got a look at the first one is the word thought. Look at verse 24. This what God says. Surely, as I have thought so shall it come to pass this word thought is the Hebrew word, it literally means to devise to consider to plan out, it means is that God says what I have planned will come to pass as I have thought or as I have planned.

As I have considered. As I have devised so shall it come to pass. God says if I've planned it. I will make it happen. Let me just say this morning that God has his plans and you and I have our plans. Sometimes our plans are different than God's plans. Sometimes we think our plans are better than God's plans. So then we have a decision to make those plans. Are we going to go with. Are we growing weary of waiting for God's plan to unfold and have we now decided that we gotta come up with our own plan and we gotta figure some way to make that plan happen in our lives.

I remind you, just briefly this morning that Sampson had his own plans now. God had plans for Sampson's life got even told Sampson what his plans were for Sampson's life, but Sampson had his own plans and he ended up lined and grinding grain in a prison.

May I say this that David had his own plans now. God had a plan for David. David was a man after God's own heart through David's lineage and through his seed.

God was going to continue the line for the Messiah, but David had his own plans and David ended up repenting with bitter tears, having become a murderer and an adult how to David's plans for himself work out good.

I bring up another one this morning.

Jacob had his own plans. Jacob was, not the firstborn in obviously he saw his older brother was but God had a plan for that but Jacob had his own plants and Jacob ended up lying to his own dad deceiving his own father, and running for his own life and ended up wrestling with an angel of God, and lost. What about Abraham.

Abraham had his own plans. Abraham thought well I gotta get my child on the to get my son on that I have my seed.

Abraham I can't even describe some of the things that Abraham produce, but may I say this, his plans ended up producing eternal unrest in the Middle East that you and I watch every day on our television know what is interesting just about the four that I've mentioned out of 100 that I could mention in God's word. What is interesting is that in all of these instances and all of these people's lives in all of these circumstances. Are you listening to me right there. The house God eventually did what he planned anyway. You see, if God has planted he is going to do it with or without your help and without your help and if we make our own plans were going to produce some circumstances and some things that will greatly be adverse to our life. But if God planned it. He said it shall come to pass. God says that surely as I have thought so shall it come to pass. You must understand today that God already has a plan for your life. If you're a teenager babysitting at home watching reluctantly with mom or dad or both, or whoever, or maybe for some reason your self-motivated young person on your own phone your baby watching this or however it might be on you to understand something God already has a plan for your life before your life ever even start. May I challenge you moms and dads. It might be watching God already has a plan for your children. God's plan is not being put together as circumstances unfold every day. God said this. Surely, as I have thought God's plan was in place before your present circumstances ever happened.

God has been thinking about you since the beginning of time, God's plans are not changed by a virus or by a pandemic God's plans are not altered because of updated new information.

God formulated a plan and took into account where you would be how you would feel and everything that you would possibly go through May I give you a bit of advice today if I can out of love in and out of concern and even to myself. We need to let go of some injustices that might've been done to us in the past by some person or some family member or some boss at a job or some pastor at another church or some employer somewhere where you used to work and we walk around as though that rule into some successful master plan of your life. Everything was going fine until this person did this so they fired me from this so they let me go from this church till they did this till they did that and dear friend.

May I challenge you. God has a plan God had a plan and God will accomplish his plan in your life if you trust him. God said this as I have thought that I challenge you today God has put a lot of thought into his plans for your life not have three boys at home hope with her, watching the taste. Some of done a lot of thinking about my three boys I've set in times by myself in the morning, late at night I been out of the woods sometimes sit and thinking. I've been preaching other meetings and places and get some time alone in all think about my sons and pray for my sons and just begin to think of some of the plants that God might have for their life.

I think a lot about it and I see a lot of potential, and I see all kinds of ways that God if they would let him that God could use just in this entire picture. My three sons, but I had never even come close to give it as much thought about my sons and my plans for their life. I've never come close to thinking about it. Near as much as God has thought about them. God said, as I have thought. Listen, I know you waited 200 years for this limitation on my did make a promise haphazard. I thought about it way before I ever promised you that this would take place. I never said when it would. I never said how it would. I never said all the circumstances, it would in Israel as much as I've done for you. I know the Babylonians and the child is. I know that they're creating havoc in your life right now and this is not what you would like.

And this is not what you would want and I know that this is not what you would have plan but God says, as I have thought.

I thought about this before you every minute.

I will think about this after you're gone.

I know everything that's happened in the past. I know everything that will happen in the future, as I have thought and thought and thought about this.

I got a plan and I will accomplish that plan. God's plan dear friend. Whatever God plans. He can make it happen what you notice. Thirdly, in this passage and is only for them to show some almost have to is God's purpose God's purpose no limit to say before I even read the verse that oftentimes you and I will have no ideal of what God's purposes might be in our life. Verse 24 as God once again through the pen of Isaiah and the voice of Isaiah. He says, is the Lord of host at sworn, saying, surely, as I have thought so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand little different. There, in fact, in two verses verse 26, God says this. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole or if you see this brings us to the second word that we got a look at to understand this passage. The first word was thought and God said, as I have thought we know that word means plan that that God devised a plan that God considered everything and he's got a will that he wants to accomplish and we understand that, but we now need to look at this other words, the word purpose.

This is a Hebrew word which means this to determine to deliberate.

Two reasons, all this means that if God has planned it, then God will do what it takes to do it.

And in doing so, God will accomplish his sovereign purpose. As I have thought God came up with a plan. So shall it come to pass, if God has a plan God can make that plan happen, but God always has a purpose for the plan that he plan to see you and I oftentimes don't know what that purpose might be. You see, God made a promise that he was going to defeat the Babylonians and the child he is.

God made a promise that he was going to free them from that God made a promise that he was going to give a victory, but it had been 200 years and they didn't understand why it had been 200 years and may I say a 2020 yesterday and Audrey has no idea why God waited 200 years, but I know this, that God had a purpose because he had a plan and God has a plan, then there is a purpose for it and I don't know in 2020 why we can't be together in this building and I don't know why this virus has hit America and all over the entire globe.

I don't know why these things happen know why these mandates are in place. I don't know what possible purpose, God might have for allowing it. But I know this that of God's allowed it.

God has a plan and God has a purpose for that plan.

That is why God says this in verse 24 as I have purposed, so shall it stand. That means God says this I had a plan that plans going to come to pass and when that plan comes to pass. There's a purpose that I had in mind that entire time and when that plan is done then it will accomplish my purpose and that will stay interested you and I may I say this may choose to go with our plans but you and I need not be surprised when those plans do not end up accomplishing all that we thought they would accomplish cannot tell you how many times in life. I came up with a plan and I thought, hey this is Bess and I need to do everything I can do to manipulate this to motivate Vista to figure it out.

To make it happen and I've done that so many times and what is all said and done, it did not do what I thought it would do.

It did not accomplish what I thought it would accomplish and it is not bringing things and causing things in my life that I never foresaw God says what I plan something. I'll do it and what I plan something and do it. I have a purpose for it, and when God does it. You wait and are patient and trust him and allow God to do it.

God has a purpose for and that purpose will remain superrich or what is your point here.

God says that what he plans. He does and what he does remain strong. You can count on it. It's stable. It doesn't move. You see, God has a purpose for the plan that he makes. Nothing is by accident.

Whatever God allows dear friend, God has any carnal purpose for our purposes not give me this morning. Our purposes are temporary superrich what you mean we make our plans often based on what we think is best for us at the present time, based on the information that we have. After all, how else could we make a decision. How else could we make a plan.

We have to make a plan based on what we think is best at this particular time in our life and we gotta make decisions based on the information that we have that may I remind you, you and I have no idea what the future holds. We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone tonight and God has that information, you and I don't so the best plans that Daniel Patri could ever make what at best be temporary may say this the best plans that I can make for my family for my son's at best would be temporary. The best plans that I could make for myself. I have no idea what the future hats and I have no idea why God might not be doing something right now the way I think he should but I got a trust because not only does he have a plan, but he has a purpose for that plan. You and I do not know all things we are not in all places. We do not have all power. Last time I checked, God does verse 26. That's why God says this. This is the purpose that is purposed notice this phrase. If you have your Bible, upon the whole earth. God takes all things into account.

Listen to me this morning. It is purposed on the whole earth God's purposes aren't just limited to your life or to my life. God's purposes accomplish a master will a master plan that God has. It is not just about you and me and it is not about our desired income. It is about God's will about God's master plan and about what God wants, because whatever God wants. He has a purpose for that that will last for an eternity. Thank you for listening to you receive the blessing from our broadcast Baptist Church is located at 4520 Old Hollow Rd. in Kernersville, NC may also contact us by phone at 33699351924 Kerwin Baptist Church.com enjoy our services live molar medium on her website and church. Thank you for listening. Kerwin broadcast God bless you