A Sign!!!

• A sign:– may warn us– may guide us– may help us

• A sign acknowledges something is there

Detours of our faith

Sickness

Death of a Loved One

Divorce

Loss of a job/ Financial Worries

Confusion about Religion

Lack of Faith

God, Just Show Me A Sign!!!

Judges• Book of the roller coaster of belief and

unbelief of the children of Israel.

• 12 Judges/Leaders appointed to lead

• A book of Gods patience with us

Just Show Me A Sign!!!

Just Show Me A Sign!!!Judges

Chapter 6-7• Children of Israel do evil ( 6:1)• Attacked by the Midianites ( 6:1-7)• Gideon is told he would save Israel from the

Midianites (6:11-15)• Gideon asks for a sign to be sure (6:17)• Gideon asks for another sign (6:37)• Gideon asks yet for another sign (6:39)

STOP Asking

For A Sign!!!

• We are blessed everyday from God• Family• Friends• Jobs

• Look at what all we have been given, and what makes us think a SIGN, would change the way we think.

• What makes you think you would change how you believe?

• Many had signs (miracles) in the old and new testament, but still would not believe………

If GOD gave us a sign today…Would You Really Believe????

• Healing The Withered Hand (Matt 12:10-13)Response: Matt 12:14 Then the Pharisees went out,

and held council against him, how they might destroy him.

• Healing of the possessed, blind, and dumb

(Matt 12:22)Response: Matt 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard

it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

If GOD gave us a sign today…Would You Really Believe????

Response: Matt 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

If GOD gave us a sign today…

Would You Really Believe????

The Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-13)

Response: Act 2:13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

If GOD gave us a sign today…

Would You Really Believe????

• Pharaoh does not believe when rod changes into a serpent (Exodus 7:9-14)

• Peter Walking on the Water (Matt. 14:28-30)

• Judas betraying Jesus (Luke 22:47-48)

• Jews say they will believe if Jesus will remove himself from the cross (Matt. 27:42)

• John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.

If GOD gave us a sign today…Would You Really Believe????

The Lord tells Gideon to go to the Midianites Camp.

Response: Judges 7:9-11 Gideon is still afraid!

We need to stop asking for a sign, because waiting for a sign will not guarantee that your faith will increase or get stronger

depending on the situation you are in with GOD.

You Seek after a Sign!

• Mat 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it,…………except

The sign has already been given, and the sign is his SON!!!!

• Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Are you asking for a sign?•GOD has already given us his sign.

•Instead of asking GOD to show you another sign, how about you show GOD a sign.

•A sign of confession, repentance, and obedience in baptism.