33 | Blessed to Bless
2 Samuel 7 | Blessed to Bless
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Slides:
Theme: The Lord has blessed us with Himself, so that we can share Him with others.
David was active in asking, “What can I do for God?”
All that God has done should strengthen us to trust all that He will do!
Jeremiah 23:5-6
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute righteousness in the earth... Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Isaiah 9:6-7
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder... Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it... from that time forward, even forever.
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Peter 2:22-24
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
The blessings of the Lord should make us overflow with praises to the Lord.
It is pleasing and glorifying to God for us to ask Him for what He has offered.
Genesis 12:2
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
1 Peter 2:5, 9
You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ... But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Isaiah 11:10
In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
Psalm 67:1-2
God be gracious to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us—
So that Your way may be known on the earth,
Your salvation among all nations.
“It is precisely because God, from his own glorious fullness, fills us with joy in him that we begin to bubble over with it to those around. This is the theological dynamic of mission. The wellspring of healthy, happy mission is God himself…It is our knowledge of God and our enjoyment of him that fills us up and sends us out with his own life, love, and happiness into the world to communicate and bless as he does.” Reeves