SOME DWELLERS IN THE WILDERNESS! #1

HAGAR

[7]Now the Angel of the Lord found her ( HAGAR) by a spring of water in the WILDERNESS, by the spring on the way to Shur.

[10]Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.”

Genesis 16:7,10

Genesis 21:13-14

[13]Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he (Ishmael)is your seed.”

[14]So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

ISHMAEL 

Genesis 21:7,13-14, 20-21

[7]She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.” Hagar and Ishmael Depart

[13]Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.”

[14]So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

[20]So God was with the lad (Ishmael); and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer

[21]He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. A Covenant with Abimelech.

ISRAELITES 

Exodus 3:15, 18

[15]Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’

[18]Then they will heed your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt; and you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’

Exodus 14:3,10-12,29,31

[3]For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’

[10]And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.

[11]Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?

[12]Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

[29]But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

[31]Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.

RESURRECTION & PROPHECY FULFILLMENT!

PROPHECY:

Deuteronomy 21:23

His body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury Him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

FULFILLMENT:

Galatians 3:10,13

[10]For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

[13]Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),

PROPHECY:

Psalms 22:18

They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.

FULFILLMENT:

Matthew 27:35

[35]Then they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: “They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.”

John 19:23-24

[23]Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

[24]They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things. Behold Your Mother.

PROPHECY:

Psalms 34:20

He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken.

FULFILLED:

John 19:33

But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

PROPHECY:

Isaiah 53: 5

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

FULFILLMENT:

1 Peter 2:24

[24]who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

PROPHECY:

Isiah 53:7

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

FULFILLMENT:

Matthew 27:12

And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.

PROPHECY:

Zechariah 11:13

And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.

FULFILLMENT:

Matthew 27:1,9

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced.

PROPHECY:

Zechariah 12:9-10

[9]It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Mourning for the Pierced One

[10]“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced...

FULFILLMENT:

John 19:34, 37

[34]But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

[37]And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.” Jesus Buried in Joseph’s Tomb.

PROPHECY:

Psalms 22:1

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?

FULFILLMENT: 

Matthew 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

PROPHECY:

Psalms 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

FULFILLMENT:

Matthew 27:34

They gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.

John 19:28-29

[28]After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”

[29]Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.

TODAY'S PRAISE SONG:

AT THE CROSS, HILLSONG

https://youtu.be/icmHBODALrQ?feature=shared

 

PALM SUNDAY!

 

PALM SUNDAY PULPIT FLORAL DECOR!

Matthew 21:1, 4, 8, 9

[1]Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

[4]All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

[8]And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

[9]Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!”

TODAY'S PRAISE SONG:

https://youtu.be/NoM0AT8fBvs?feature=shared

BIBLICAL COLORS: GREEN, #2

GREEN HERBS:

Genesis 1:30

Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every GREEN HERB for food”; and it was so.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the GREEN HERBS

2 Kings 19:26

Therefore, their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the GREEN HERB, As the grass on the housetops, And grain blighted before it is grown.

Psalms 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the GREEN HERB.

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore, their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the GREEN HERB, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.

TODAY'S PRAISE SONG:

POINT OF GRACE: GOD'S GREEN EARTH:

https://youtu.be/cwGC3i4s9Bc?feature=shared

BIBLICAL COLORS: GREEN

TREES/ WOOD:

Genesis 30:37

Now Jacob took for himself rods of Green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees...

Deuteronomy 12:2

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, 

on the high mountains and on the hills and under every

 Green tree.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every Green tree.

 2 Kings 16:4

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every Green tree.

2 Chronicles 28:4

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every Green tree. 

Job 8:16

He grows GREEN in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden.

Job 15:32

It will be accomplished before his time, And his branch will not be Green.

Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native Green tree.

Isaiah 57:5

Inflaming yourselves with gods under every Green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 2:20

...And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’ When on every high hill and under every Green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.

Hosea 14:8

“Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’ I have heard and observed him. I am like a Green cypress tree; Your fruit is found in Me.”

Luke 23:31

For if they do these things in the Green wood, what will be done in the dry?”

TODAY'S PRAISE SONG:

TREE OF LIFE: SHAWNA EDWARDS MUSIC:

https://youtu.be/onWySyWZPR0?feature=shared