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Help is On the Way! (#987)

Help is On the Way (#987)
Good morning. Last time we talked about how reliable God is, and we’re going to continue that theme by looking at how God helps His people. He’s is so reliable that He provides help whenever we need it. So the title of today’s teaching is: “Help is On the Way!” We’ve all seen those shows in the old Westerns, they used to wait for the Cavalry to come charging over the hill. There are all sorts of things in fiction where people are in big mess and then the hero shows up at just the last minute and saves the day. And those are fun, but they’re fiction. But in real life, God is that hero that shows up when we need help and He is amazingly wonderful. So we’ll read a number of record that we haven’t read for awhile here about that. II Chronicles chapter 14…
As taught by Bruce Mahone 20200223.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
II Chronicles 14:1-15      Asa & the Ethiopians: from a million adversaries to an abundance of spoil (vs. 11)
II Chronicles 18:28-34    Jehoshaphat & Ahab: help from God is better than deception (vs. 31)
II Chronicles 25:1-9        Amaziah & the Israelites: better to get help from God than from the ungodly (vs. 8)
II Chronicles 26:1-8        God helped Uzziah against the Philistines (vs. 7)
II Chronicles 32:1-8        Hezekiah: with us is the Lord our God to help us (vs. 8)
Psalms 3:1-3                   Many say there is no help in God, but he is a shield (vs. 2)
Psalms 46:1-2,10-11      God is a very present help; be still and know that He is God (vs. 1)
Psalms 146                      Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help (vs. 5)
Isaiah 41:10-13               I will help thee and uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness (vss. 10, 13)
Acts 26:12-23                  Having obtained help of God, I continue unto this day (vs. 2)
Teaching
Help is On the Way! (#987)

Most Reliable (#986)

Most Reliable (#986)
Good morning!  We’re going to talk today about one of the great truths we all know, that God is the most reliable.  Reliability is something we all deal with.  I was explaining earlier that my pretty-nice car that had driven well for the first 226,000 miles, all of the sudden stopped.  The engine just freezed-up for no apparent reason.  It has maintenance, it had been checked, it had been to the shop, it had all its fluids, but it just quit.  And that happens.  Just when you think: ‘this car is indestructible; it will go another 200,000 miles’ it just quit.  And we know that about people.  We all deal with people in business relationships, and with things like a car, do you trust your mechanic, is he reliable?  In your personal relationships; some people are very reliable, some people are totally unreliable, most people are somewhere in between. 
So we enjoy people, but one of the first things that I do is if I’m going to have any kind of interaction with a person that is going to be more than saying hello on the street, is I need to find out how reliable they are and I don’t ask them, because they will tell me whatever that want.  I just sort of watch.  And after awhile you find out this person is always there.  You know I’ve had friends that you didn’t believe they were going to show up until you saw the whites of their eyes.  And once you know that you’re fine.  Because, if they show up – great, and whatever we’re going to do, we can go do.  If they don’t, well, you have a backup plan because they don’t show up have the time.  I have some neighbors that are getting their house redecorated; the guy has been working on it for like a year because he is not very fast.  I hope he’s good and cheap, because he is certainly not fast.  But they have come to live with that; no matter what he says, add a month to it.  And I’ve have places were you go to some building a lot and they say they’re redecorating this or you know they’re refurbishing or redoing part of the building and you come to find out that like a hotel that is near my house, that is an old historic place that they were redoing and when I asked the staff how long it would take to reopen, I usually had to add about three months to it, because I had noticed that whatever they told me it would be going on a couple of months.  So, when they told me it would be done in February, I thought OK; I will come back in May.  And that is about what it took; it got done eventually. 
So, we all have to deal with the concept of reliability.  Is the equipment reliable, are people reliable, are other things reliable?  Sometimes they are, often they are not.  And the more we come to understand that, and not rely on those things, but the less we will be frustrated and upset about our plans falling through.  So, I’m glad I wasn’t planning to visit that; I used to like to plan on going to lunch at that hotel, but I took about six-months off.  But that is OK, there are other places to eat lunch.  So, it is OK, but had I been all upset at them for being slow in their construction, I would have just had a miserable six months, but I didn’t – I just find it very amusing.  Of course, I chose to find most things amusing; it seems easier to live that way.  But God is so reliable we don’t have to have that; we don’t have to have to say: “I’m going to find out if God is reliable, then take it from there.”  You know, adjust.  You know here is a great coffee cup Mary-Rose it says: “Death before Decaf” that’s cute.  Let’s go to II Chronicles chapter 13…
As taught by Bruce Mahone 20200209.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
II Chronicles 13          The children of Judah prevailed, because they relied [Heb. Sha-an: to rest, rely, lean upon, support oneself] upon the LORD God (vs. 18)
II Chronicles 16          Thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied [Heb. Sha-an] on the LORD thy God (vs. 7)
Psalms 34:22               None of them that trust [Heb. Chasa: seek refuge, flee for protection, put trust in, confide or hope in] in him shall be desolate
Psalms 118:5-9            It is better to trust [Heb. Chasa] in the Lord than to put confidence in man (vs. 8)
Proverbs 3:5                Lean [Heb. Sha-an] not unto thine own understanding
Isaiah 31:1                   Woe to them…stay [Heb. Sha-an] on horses…but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel
Isaiah 50:10-11           Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay [Heb. Sha-an] upon his God
Daniel 3:28                 God delivered his servants that trusted [Aram. rechats: set one’s trust on] in him
Romans 12:10-14       Patient in mental pressure, continuing instant [steadfastly, faithful, persevering, be constant] in prayer (vs. 12)
II Corinthians 1:8-10   We should trust in God which raiseth the dead
(Titus 1:9                       Holding fast the faithful word)
Teaching
Most Reliable (#986)