When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
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… it's presence shows there's light Isaiah 43 verse 2 when you go through deep waters and great trouble I will be with you and when you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown and when you walk through the fires of oppression, you will not burn up. The flames will not consume you. I don't know what valley you're going through but the antidote is Psalm 73, 28. As for me, God's presence is all I need. I've made the sovereign Lord my shelter and if God is the sovereign Lord of your life, he is your shelter. I don't need anything else. As for me, God's presence is all I need. Remember I'm not alone. Number two, second thing you need to remember when you're in a struggle and in a valley, remember that God has a good purpose for my valley. Remember that God has a good purpose for my valley. Remember this whole chapter, this whole psalm is on the goodness of God. God is a good God. …
But now this is what the Lord says, he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel, do not fear for I've redeemed you. I've summoned you by name. You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not set you ablaze for I I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead, since you are precious and honored in my sight. And because I love you, I give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life. Nations. So that's God's scales. We just got back from two weeks in Europe. And while we were there, we were at the Tower of London, where the jewels of London are kept. And then we went to where the jewels are kept, the crown jewels in Scotland, in Edinburgh. And of course, you've got the guards with the fuzzy Q-tip black hats. We kept trying to make them laugh and they wouldn't. They're guarding those jewels, the crown jewels of the UK. Those are priceless, estimated by historians to be priceless, but that's just the jewels of the country. That's not the land. That's not the gross national product. That's not everything that Scotland or England or Ireland, that's not everything. And God said, the entire nation, not just the jewels. I'm not just exchanging you for …
… I have called you by name and you are mine. And when you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not set you ablaze because I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, and you are precious and honored in my sight, and I love you. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark chapter 13, verse 31 says, Heaven and earth will pass away, but his word will never pass away. You see how the question becomes not should we listen to the Bible? The question becomes why would we want to listen to anything else? while we fill our worship with anything but this word. preacher's job is not to make the bible relevant the bible is relevant preacher's job is to show the relevance of the bible it speaks to contemporary needs about eternal promises fourth characteristic because of the word's magnitude and its authority and its relevance fourth because of the word's purpose because of the word's purpose now here's where I want us to really dive in deep into God's agenda in Scripture. We've talked some about agendas here at Brook Hills. We've talked about how if we have different agendas that we can yield our seats if that would be the best thing to do. I want us to look at God's agenda in Scripture. Number one, God's agenda in Scripture is to show us the glory of Christ. We talked last …
… See the comma? When you go through it, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. And when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. Nor shall the flame scorch you. I love this. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia, saving in your place. I love this part of this verse. Since you were precious in my sight. Somebody really needs to hear that today at our campuses watching. since you were precious in my sight, you have been honored and I have loved you. Therefore, I will give men for you and people for your life. Sometimes you need to hear Jesus say to you personally, you are precious in my sight. I've had him come into the room when I was going through it and speak to me, even when I was a teenager and I went through a trial that I wouldn't be in the ministry for if I had gone through it. …
… You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned. And the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. Our second reading is from Genesis chapter 1 and then a little bit out of chapter 2. Listen to these familiar words perhaps with new attention. Let's try that again. When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while the wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, let there be light. And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness and called the light day and the darkness night. and there was evening and there was morning the first day and God said let there be a dome in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters so God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome and it was so God called the dome sky and there was evening and there was morning the second day and God said let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place and let dry land appear and it was so …
… You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I'll be there. And when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle upon you, for I am the Lord. Now, what did that mysterious figure in the flames in Daniel 3 mean? Now we know what it means. You know what? Look, when Jesus Christ says, I have the keys to death and hell, Hades, what does he mean? I went into the fire. Our God doesn't just look at us in the furnace of affliction and feel bad for us and feel sympathy. Our God actually, in the form of Jesus Christ, came into this world and on the cross was plunged into the ultimate furnace. The ultimate furnace, what you've been looking at, is the judgment of God. The ultimate furnace is the loss of the face of the Father. It's the disintegration. It's the agony. He went into the ultimate furnace, hell. He got the ultimate persecution, the ultimate suffering. …