"Let Me See Your Hands!"

“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,

1^st 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.”