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Behind the Scene
TEXT: 2Ki 7:3
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
All of life, so it seems, has a behind the scene. Life can be a charade, a mask, or veneer.
Movies
Music
Department stores
Samaria was besieged by the Syrian king Ben-Hadad. Samaria was surround by the Syrian army for so long that a famine had set in.
King of Israel was riding through the city when a woman cried out about her son.
Donkey’s heads were being eaten.
Joshua vs. the Midianites
Judges 7:16 ¶ And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, the sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
God had a plan behind the scene.
1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
With God working in the background who can be against us?
Ro 8:29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
What is God doing that we can’t see?
Ro 11:1 ¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Behind the scene
Lu 1:24
And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
Lu 1:39 ¶
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Elisabeth was past child bearing. Zacharias was so shocked he could not even speak. Has God done something for you so extra ordinary that you could not speak?
According to historians they say that Elisabeth is carrying a baby in her womb for six months that she fears is dead and that is why the bible says she was shut up.
Here everyone is talking about the old childless couple having a baby and there was so much excitement and here Elisabeth she is smiling and worried. Have you ever been smiling and worried? Thank you thank you, God bless, and then you go home a worry!
Six months she has been shut up in the house without a kick, a nudge, or a sign of life. Never knowing that across town that there was a young girl named Mary that was stopped on the road by an angel named Gabriel and he says to here, Hail Mary that art highly favored among woman and have been chosen to bear a child and His name shall be called Jesus for He will save the world from the sins.
Mary had to stop and ponder this for she was not married. So she goes to see her cousin Elisabeth because she feels like Elisabeth can relate to her situation. She came and knocked on the door and said Lizi, Lizi, I have to talk to about something. Because the best people to talk to is the ones who have been through were your at.
Mary came with the intention of talking to Elisabeth about their situation never knowing that their babies were going to talk. Here they come in the room to talk woman to woman never knowing it was going to be baby to baby.
As they went to salute one another something deep down inside of them, something on a different level began to happen, something behind the scene. God predestined this meeting just like He can and will predestine a meeting in your life. You go in thinking you are going to talk about something and you end up going a different direction and the doors began to unlock in areas of your life that you never imagined.
And that dead thing you have been carrying around is about to exploded in your life. The Bible says that the unborn babies began to leap inside the womb and communicate with one another.
We think that there is nothing we can do about our situation
We think that we are not educated enough.
Smart enough.
Good looking enough
Well enough
Rich enough
Wise enough
Abraham had no other sacrifice but his only son Isaac but God provide a ram
The children of Israel had no weapons to fight against the Egyptians but God provide a deliver
They had no bread and God provide manna
They had no water and God provide a rock that gave forth water
They had no shade in the heat of the day so God gave them a cloud
They had not heater at night so God gave them a pillar of fire
We had no Savior but God provided His Son
· We may have questions; I know the answer
· We may have needs; I know the provider
· We may have hurts; I know the Physician
It’s high time we quit worrying and start believing!
