The Text:
(The Lord Said…) “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name…” - 2 Chronicles 7:12-14a
POINT: This is really more about God’s
POINT: We also notice, in this “appearance, in the night”, that God is very, very
- God has a response to
- So, God is taking sin
POINT: God’s “people” are KEY to a
Remember Jesus said…
“Go into all nations and make disciples and baptize them and teach them to obey everything I have commanded” - Matthew 28:19-20
1.) God’s people are arrogant and fall into sin.
2.) What God’s people should do when they do…AND…
3.) what God promises when we do it.
1.) God is
2.) He is very clear about
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” - Isaiah 7:14
And Isaiah calls Him”Immanuel”, which means “
Immanuel came to dwell within us by His
God is both
- God is also
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