“Let Me See Your
Hands!”
Put your hands where
God and man can see them!
“Hands nailed Jesus to
the Cross, Love for us kept Him there.”
Hands are the tools we
use to accomplish what we want to do.
Try getting up, getting
dressed, getting fed, getting to work, working, going home, getting to bed,
without your hands.
One hundred percent of all
that we do we do it with our hands.
Almost every thought that
comes to your mind is executed by your hands.
Try “doing” something
without your hands.
When a gun is fired by
you, they look for gunshot residue on your hands, not you brain or mouth, etc.
One of the most famous
times hands were used is when Abraham stretched for his hand to slay Isaac
which is a time of God sending His only begotten Son to the cross.
Genesis 22:11-12 “And the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said,
Abraham, Abraham, He answered Here I am and He said, do not lay your hand on
the lad or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear and revere God,
since you have not held back from Me or begrudged giving Me your son, your only
son.”
When God looks at your
hands raised to Him, what does He see?
Blood/Guilty Hands
Genesis 4:11,
“And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to
receive your brother’s shed blood from your hand.” (God curses Cain for
shedding innocent blood.)
Characteristics of Blood/Guilty Hands
·
Failure to Walk
in Obedience to God’s Word (Wrong Decisions and Actions)
·
Possessing Wrong
Attitudes and Convictions,
1st Corinthians 15:33, “Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communication,
associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.”
·
Failure to Walk
in Love Toward all People
Romans 13:8.
“Keep out of debt and owe no man anything, except to love one another.
Entrusted Hands
Genesis 24:10-,
“And the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking some of
all his master’s treasures with him; thus he journeyed to Mesopotamia [between
the Tigris and the Euphrates] to the city of Nabor [Abraham’s brother].
What have you done with
what God has entrusted to your hands?
God Entrusts Us With:
·
His Word
·
Family/Friends
·
Our Enemies
·
Provision/wealth
·
Lost Sinners
Blessed Hands
Psalms 90:17,
“And let the beauty an delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes the work of our hands, confirm
and establish it.”
Raised/Strengthened
Hands
Exodus 17:11 &12, “When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and when he lowered
his hands, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’
hands were heavy and grew weary. So [the
other men] took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on
one side and one on the other side; so his hands were steady until the going
down of the sun.”
·
Whose hands are
you holding up?
·
Who is holding up
your hands?
Doomed Hands
Exodus 17: 13 & 16, “And Joshua mowed down and disabled Amalek and his
people with the sword. …And he said, because theirs is a hand against the
throne of the Lord, the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to
generation.”
·
Disobedience to
the word of God
·
Touching God’s
Anointed
·
Not walking in
Love
God Gives to Righteous Hands:
The wealth of the
sinner
Genesis 39:6,
“And Potiphar left all that he had in Joseph’s charge (hand) and paid no
attention to anything he had except the food he ate…”
Proverbs 13:22,
“A good man leaves an inheritance [of moral stability and goodness] to his
children’s children, and the wealth of the sinner [finds its way eventually]
into the hands of the righteous, for whom it was laid up.”
Deliverance/Justice
Exodus 7:4,
“But Pharaoh will not listen to you and I will lay My hand upon Egypt and bring
forth My host, My people the Israelites, out of the land of Egypt and bring out
the Israelites from among them.
Psalms 18
A psalm of deliverance
from the hands of enemies by God
Power/Authority
Luke 10:18-19, “An He said to them, I saw Satan falling like a lightning [flash] from heaven. Behold I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you.”
