Help is a good thing!  In times of stress, frustration, and burden, it is so nice to hear someone offer their help.
Everyone needs help at times… except God.
God actually does not need your help.  God is self-existent and self-sufficient. He is not going to fall apart if you aren’t around.. He actually does not need you.
Ouch that sounds harsh.. Even harsher is what our value as human beings is through a natural lens.  If you boiled our bodies down and sold off our chemical makeup like scrap material it would be worth $4.50. Yikes!
In the relationship between God and man… Man needs God. God does not need man.
BUT EVERYTHING CHANGES when the self-existent, self-sufficient God of the universe looks to mankind and calls for our help.
The God who doesn’t need our help created a plan that includes us.  In this we find we are worth so much more that $4.50.

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Help 1 – God Calls
Help Bumper
Welcome to Redemption Church. My name is Chris Fluitt.
1) Help is a good thing
If you have ever been overwhelmed by work, stress, the weight of countless moving boxes… only to have someone offer their help… You will definitely agree that Help is a good thing.
There are times when the smallest act can help us greatly.
Psalm 121:1-4 (NIV)
I lift up my eyes to the mountains- where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
 
2) Everyone needs help at times
We need advice. We need people to listen and care. We need new ideas. We need reassurance. We need someone else’s strength at times.  We need an extra pair of hands occasionally.
Everyone needs help… except God.
God has all power. He doesn’t NEED your help lifting heavy things. He has all power in His hands (Matt 28:18)
God has all knowledge. He doesn’t NEED your advice. He knows and understands everything. (1 John 3:20; Psalm 174:5)
God is everywhere. He doesn’t NEED you to go across the room or across the world to talk to that person. He is actually already there.  Where could you ever go to get away from His Spirit? (Psalm 139:7)
God owns everything.  He doesn’t NEED your stuff or your money.  Everything is made by Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16; Psalm 50:12)
 
3) God does not NEED your help
 
If God needed our help then He would not be God.  No one needs to cook Him a meal or he will starve. Your worship of Him is not NEEDED so that God will have a healthy self-esteem. You don’t NEED to talk to Him or else He will become lonely or bored.  God does not NEED your money or else Heaven will fall into foreclosure.
If God needed you to do something or else the world would fall apart… or do something or else He ceases to exist… then He would not be God.
4) God is Self-Existent & Self Sufficient
Self-Existent – Existing independently of any outside source. Only God is self-existent.
Self-Sufficient – Needing no outside help in satisfying one’s basic needs. Only God is self-sufficient.
 
When it comes to the relationship between God and man it is evident that man needs God and God does not need man. And as a part of mankind that can feel bothersome. We like to think we are important. We like to think that we matter.
Stick with me as I say something difficult to hear..
Intrinsically, in and of ourselves, we are not important and we don’t matter.
When you look at us in the NATURAL eye we don’t hold much value.