Title: Hand of God/Ezra 8:31-34
Contents Hand of God/Ezra 8:31-34, 1 Peter 5:6-7
The hand of God is to understand God by applying human characteristics to God as a personification.
What does the hand of God mean? God's work, God's diligence, God's protection
means etc. In our language, the hand was not just a hand, but meant the whole of life. Therefore, God's
The hand is not a hand as a part of God's body, but God's whole disposition. God's hand
He creates, blesses, disciplines and protects. Ezra says many times that it is the hand of God.
Repeated. With Ezra as their leader, they returned to their homeland from the second captivity and arrived in Jerusalem.
Let's feel the hand of God that we need to return to through the Word.
1. Even if you are saved by God's hand, your trials will continue.
The decree of Cyrus brings the Israelites back to their homeland, and Cyrus is the shadow of the Messiah. their
On the road to Jerusalem, there were enemies and ambush on the way. Even if you are saved by the hand of God, there are trials
Also, when there is a trial, we need God's hand. God's hand was with them when they were redeemed from Egypt.
And when he came to the wilderness, the first trial, the war against Amalek, gave him victory through the hands of Moses.
However, it was actually God's hand, not Moses' hand. who won the war in Jericho
It was also God's hand. Even if we are saved now, our trials do not stop. in the face of economic downturn
Even in the 10,000 dollar era, there are still trials. However, when the economy is difficult, the church grows. ordeal again
It is a hidden grace.
2. God's Hand Makes You Overcome Trials
The text contrasts the hand of God with the hand of the ambush. The hand of God is the hand of the ambush
you win We don't know how many ambush hands there are around us. No one but the hand of God
No one in the world can claim to be free from the ambush. God's hand that dried up the Red Sea
It is the hand that has dried up the waters of the Jordan and makes the wide and deep river before us dry up and cross.
We see the river before us and are afraid. We marvel at the mountain in front of us. Each time God
He tells you not to be afraid, not to be alarmed. The hand of God is the hand that saved us forever.
It is the hand that was pierced and torn on the cross to save us.
3. A gift was offered in return for God's hand.
The Israelites returning from captivity brought precious gifts to the temple in Jerusalem.
Had they encountered thieves looting valuables, they would have taken away the silver and gold from the temple.
When they return home, they bring no precious metal for themselves, but what they will offer to the temple.
brought it. Their devotion to God allowed God's hand to be with them. than ours
Faith is knowing how to take care of and give God's things. Ours when we are busy taking our share
God's hand will keep those who bring gifts to God in the midst of economic hardship.
will be. These people will say, “A beautiful crown in the hand of the Lord, a crown in the hand of your God,
(Isaiah 62:3)".