ADVENT

Searching for the Savior

December 12, 2010
Message Two

Career Ministry
Fellowship
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MIGHTY GOD
Isaiah 9:6-7

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF YOUR PRESENT POWERLESSNESS
1. Sometimes in our ________________________ we feel
powerless
2. Sometimes in our ________________ we feel powerless
3. Sometimes in our ____________ we feel powerless
4. Maybe you’re just a ____________ fan
and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the
heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel.
Psalm 118:23 This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvellous in our
eyes.
Jer. 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and
the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is
nothing too hard for thee:

2 Kings 16:7-8 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Point 1. Ahaz

Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save
trusted what he
me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the I. ILLUMINATION: THE
______; not what
king of Israel, which rise up against me. And Ahaz took the silver MINISTRY OF THE MESSIAH,
the prophet said
and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the 1-5
—and that is A. First Coming: To
treasures of the
always the Protect a Remnant, 1-2
king’s house,
and sent it for a challenge and B. Second Coming: To
THESIS help, present to the the choice for us. Enlarge a Kingdom, 3-5
II. IMMANUEL: THE MEANING
We have to because not king of Assyria.
OF THE MESSIAH, 6-7
be careful everybody’s 2 Chron. 28:3 Point 2. All your A. Born as a Human Baby,
where we help is Moreover he troubles have a 6
turn when ___________ burnt incense in ________ limit on B. Becoming a Divine
we need the valley of the them. Judge, 7
son of Hinnom,

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Point 3. The mighty God who has all
power wants to anoint us with
supernatural, circumstance-defying,
wonder-working power in order to be
his __________________ to the real
message of Christmas.
Point 4. If you are not struggling with
sin it’s because you’ve already
__________________ to it.
THREE KINDS OF POWER YOU NEED MOST
1. We all need _______________ power
2. We all need ______________ power
3. We all need ____________________
power
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of
the earth.
Rom. 7:18 For to will is present with me;
but how to perform that which is good I
find not.
Phil. 2:13 For it is God which worketh in
you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure.
Psalm 6:2-4 Have mercy upon me, O
LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me;
for my bones are vexed. My soul is also
sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save
me for thy mercies’ sake.
Psalm 91:1-2 He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say
of the LORD, He is my refuge and my
fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Isa. 40:28-29 Hast thou not known? hast
thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the
earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there
is no searching of his understanding. He
giveth power to the faint; and to them that
have no might he increaseth strength.
Don’t let the babe in the manger get
buried under tinsel & paper
1 Cor. 10:13-14 There hath no
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temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is faithful, who
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2 Cor. 1:3-5 Blessed be God, even the E. 67th Terr. (one block
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comfort; Who comforteth us in all our Gym Setup for Career
tribulation, that we may be able to Class, Sundays 8:30A.M.
comfort them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves
are comforted of God. For as the sufferings
of Christ abound in us, so our consolation
also aboundeth by Christ.
2 Cor. 12:9-10 And he said unto me, “My
grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength
is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities,
that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take
pleasure in
infirmities, in
reproaches, in Mighty God
necessities, in Isa. 9:6-7
persecutions, in
distresses for
Christ’s sake: for
when I am weak, then am I strong.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not
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perish, but have everlasting life. Prince of Peace, Isa. 9:6
Rom. 10:9,10,13 That if thou shalt confess www.kcbt.org/career
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whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved.
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