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This week we have Keith Daniel with his
message, The Creation in Genesis.
Let's have a prayer, please.
Can we just bow for a moment in
God's presence in prayer?
Our Father, we bless Thee, for Jesus the
Christ, our Saviour, whose blood has cleansed and
washed us, and saved us from hell and
damnation and judgment.
We bless Thee for Jesus above all things.
We bless Thee for the Holy Spirit, who
shall not speak of Himself, but His whole
work is to glorify Christ, to conform us
into the image of Christ.
And so we bless Thee that Thy Holy
Spirit, in faithfulness to Thy Word, will come
and make the Word of God living tonight,
though it comes through the basest and weakest
of men.
We bless Thee for Thy Father heart, and
compassion, and long-suffering and patience with me
and each one of us, whom Thou hast
saved and held and carried in Thine arms,
and lifted up countless times when we didn't
deserve it, and in love never given up
on us.
Oh, we love Thee.
Oh, we bless Thee that Thou art our
Father in heaven.
We bless Thee for every one that has
come to this convention.
We bless Thee that they've come in love
with Christ, longing for God to meet with
them afresh.
We bless Thee, dear God, that Thou hast
brought us safely, and that Thou wilt in
mercy bring those who are still to come
in safety along the roads and to us.
Prepare all of our hearts by the Holy
Ghost to create in us a thirst for
God, not just to be touched by God,
but to be so radically transformed that our
lives will stagger this world as we go
back in it.
Come, for we ask these things for Thy
glory.
Wash me especially in the blood afresh, the
blood of God, the Son.
Wash me that I might be a vessel
meet for the Master's use, for without the
blood I have nothing, nothing to show Thee
as to why Thou wouldst look on such
a man as me.
O God, fill me with the Holy Spirit.
Anoint me, annuncianize, quicken my mind and thoughts.
Cleanse the atmosphere with the blood of Christ
from the powers of darkness around this convention
and all the areas where the angels of
God, with swords drawn to do war and
battle against the powers of darkness, Thou hast
said we wrestle against and who oppose us.
O our God, have mercy.
Please, God, protect us under the blood now,
for Thy word's sake, not for my sake.
In Jesus, the Christ's name.
We all unitedly agree and ask these things
of Thee, our Father in heaven.
Amen.
In the beginning, God, in the beginning, God
created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void.
And darkness, darkness was upon the face of
the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved, moved upon
the face of the waters.
And God said, let there be light.
And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was
good.
And God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light day.
And the darkness He called night.
And the evening and the morning were the
first day.
And God said, let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters.
And let it divide the waters from the
waters.
And God made the firmament and divided the
waters which are under the firmament from the
waters which are above the firmament.
And it was so.
And God called the firmament heaven.
And the evening and the morning were the
second day.
And God said, let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together.
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place.
And let the dry land appear.
Let the dry land appear.
And it was so.
And God called the dry land earth.
And the waters called His seas.
And God saw that it was good.
And God said, let the earth bring forth
grass.
Let the earth bring forth grass.
The herb yielding seed.
And the fruit tree yielding fruit after His
kind whose seed is in itself upon the
earth.
And it was so.
It was so.
And the earth brought forth grass and herb
yielding seed after His kind.
And the tree yielding fruit whose seed was
in itself upon the earth after His kind.
And God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the
third day.
And God said, let there be lights in
the firmament of the heaven.
Let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven to divide the day from the
night.
And let there be for signs and for
seasons and for days and years.
And let there be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth.
And it was so.
It was so.
And God made two great lights.
The greater light to rule the day.
And the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon the earth.
And to rule over the day and over
the night.
And to divide the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.
God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the
fourth day.
And God said, let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature.
The moving creature that hath life and fowl
that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales.
And every living creature which the waters brought
forth abundantly after their kind.
And every winged fowl after his kind.
And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them saying, be fruitful and
multiply.
And fill the waters and the seas.
And let fowl multiply in the earth.
Let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening and the morning were the
fifth day.
The evening and the morning were the fifth
day.
And God said, let the earth bring forth
the living creature.
Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind.
Cattle and creeping thing and beasts of the
earth after his kind.
And it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth
after his kind.
And cattle after their kind.
And everything that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind.
And God saw that it was good.
God saw that it was good.
And God said, and God said, let us
make man.
In our image.
After our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea.
And over the fowl of the air.
And over the cattle.
And over all the earth.
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
So God created man.
In his own image.
In the image of God.
Created he him.
Male and female.
Created he them.
And God blessed them.
And God said unto them, be fruitful.
And multiply and replenish the earth.
And subdue it and have dominion over the
fish of the sea.
And over the fowl of the air.
And over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
And God said, behold.
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed.
Which is upon the face of all the
earth.
And every tree in the which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed.
To you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth.
And to every fowl of the air.
And to everything that creepeth upon the earth
wherein there is life.
I have given every green herb for meat.
And it was so.
And God saw everything.
Everything that he had made.
And behold, it was very good.
It was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.
The sixth day.
In the beginning, God created.
Created.
The heaven and the earth.
The earth.
Verse six.
And God said, let there be a firmament.
Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters.
Now beloved, the earth is surrounded by layers
of gases.
Each layer having its own unique composition.
But mainly composed of nitrogen and oxygen.
And held in position, held in place by
gravitational attraction.
Now this atmosphere protects the earth from harmful
radiation.
And absorbs the sun's energy.
Maintaining an average surface temperature of fourteen degrees
centigrade.
Verse six.
And God said, let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters.
Verse nine.
And God said, let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place.
And let the dry land appear.
Now beloved, seventy percent of the earth's surface
is covered by water.
Seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered
by water.
Submerged.
Submerged mainly beneath four huge oceans.
Known as the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian
and the Arctic oceans.
The Pacific is so vast that it covers
one third of the earth's surface.
One third of the earth's surface.
The Atlantic one fifth.
The Indian one seventh.
God said, let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together unto one place.
And let the dry land appear.
Let the dry land...
Land covers approximately thirty percent of the earth's
surface.
Divided into seven land masses.
Called continents.
Known as Asia, Africa, North America, South America,
Antarctica, Europe and Australasia.
Now, the Antarctica contains ninety percent of the
earth's ice.
It's the earth's coldest continent.
Ten percent of the earth's surface is ice.
Ninety percent of that is at the earth's
south pole, known as Antarctica.
The Antarctica is roughly the size of Europe
as a continent.
But it is covered by a two kilometer
thick sheet of ice.
Two kilometer thick sheet of ice.
Reaching at its center of the continent, 4
.5 kilometers in thickness.
From the highest peak.
On land.
Which is Mount Everest.
In the Himalayas of Asia.
29,028 feet above sea level.
Reaching down to the lowest spot on earth.
Beneath the seas on the seabed.
Known as the Mariana Trench.
West of the Philippines.
35,800 feet below sea level.
To the lowest basin on land.
400 meters below sea level.
At the Dead Sea in Jordan in Israel.
Oh.
Verse six.
And God said.
God said.
Let there be a firmament.
Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters.
Verse nine.
And God said.
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together onto one place.
And let the dry land appear.
Let the dry land appear.
Verse eleven.
And God said.
Let the earth bring forth grass.
The herb yielding seed.
And the fruit tree yielding fruit.
After his kind.
There are approximately 250,000 species of vegetation
on the earth.
They say the species of the species make
it 350,000 species.
But I would say uniquely a species 250
,000.
Isn't that precious?
Not just one.
To look over and say beauty.
In one word.
God created 250,000 species of vegetation and
plant.
Oh hallelujah.
And God said.
Let the earth bring forth grass.
The herb yielding seed.
And the fruit tree yielding fruit.
After his kind.
Whose seed is in itself upon the earth.
Verse fourteen.
And God said.
Let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven.
Let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven.
Let there be lights.
Lights in the firmament of the heaven.
To divide the day from the night.
Verse sixteen.
And God made two great lights.
The greater light to rule the day.
And the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also.
Oh beloved.
This universe is beyond all human comprehension.
It baffles the scientists.
You want to know why?
God takes you at your best human.
And makes you baffled at his greatness.
Oh unable to comprehend.
Let alone act authoritative.
Because you've got a telescope now.
Oh no.
This universe is beyond all human comprehension.
There's an unknown amount of galaxies.
Unknown.
They can't find the end of the next
galaxy.
And nearly find another one.
Galaxies.
Each containing a vast amount of stars.
Similar to our sun.
In our galaxy.
In our galaxy the solar system, our sun.
Is one hundred and nine times the size
of the earth.
One hundred and nine times the size of
our earth.
It is a huge ball of gas.
Mainly composed of hydrogen.
Infusing helium.
To create energy and light and heat.
Reaching into our galaxy.
Into all parts of our galaxy.
It's beyond comprehension.
That God could have this sun.
Created around our sun.
Called the solar system.
There are nine planets.
Orbiting I suppose you could call it.
But each having its own unique orbit.
That doesn't make sense in many ways.
But it's amazing the orbit of these.
All around what we call our galaxy.
Our solar system.
That which revolves around our sun in their
own unique orbits.
They say there's a tenth planet now.
I believe them.
XANA.
X-A-N-A.
Discovered about two years ago.
They call it XANA.
But that's now making it ten planets.
And they'll probably discover more.
As they get a little bit more wisdom.
How to look deeper into God's universe.
But of these planets.
There is Mercury.
Venus.
Earth.
Mars.
Jupiter.
Saturn.
Uranus.
Neptune and Pluto.
Saturn.
Our solar system.
Is one thousand three hundred times the size
of our Earth.
Now that's beyond comprehension.
One thousand three hundred times the size of
our Earth.
That's nothing by the way.
Just to divert for a moment.
They found in further galaxies.
And this is no exaggeration.
They found it.
There's a planet they called.
A star sorry.
They called Antares.
A-N-T-A-R-E-S It
is sixty four million times the size of
our Sun.
They don't doubt it.
Nor do I.
Why should I?
God can do anything.
And he did.
This is nothing.
Sixty four million times the size of our
Sun.
They found in a further galaxy.
A star they call Hercules.
Which is one hundred million times the size
of Antares.
They're still trying to work out.
How that's possible.
How to even comprehend it.
Let alone put it down in writing.
Oh God is great.
His greatness has to be beyond all comprehension.
Because otherwise if we can explain God.
But he's not God.
He has to be beyond all human comprehension.
He has to leave men baffled.
But enthralled.
Because they can't deny this has happened.
It must be a creator.
Oh in our galaxy.
In our solar system.
Going around with these ten planets orbiting.
There's also comets.
Such as the famous Halley's comet.
Every seventy six years.
It's orbit which takes seventy six years in
the solar system.
It comes closest to the Earth.
Nineteen eighty six was the last time it
happened.
And you see this amazing ice.
This ball of ice shooting across space.
Amazing.
Comets.
There's comets.
There's asteroids.
These huge mountains of rock.
A few hundred kilometres in width.
Just shooting through space.
Mainly found between Mars and Jupiter.
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
These huge mountains of rocks.
Oh.
God is beyond comprehension.
Of what he did in one word.
In one word.
And man tries to put him in a
box.
Oh.
How could you?
How could your mind try?
Oh beloved.
Beloved it's precious to see God's hand in
everything.
Let's man just catch a glimpse of.
To see the greatness of our God.
The sovereignty.
The awe of a creator such as ours.
God said.
Let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven.
Verse fourteen.
Verse sixteen.
And God made two great lights.
The greater light to rule the day.
That's the sun.
The lesser light to rule the night.
That's our moon.
A quarter of the size of the Earth's
diameter.
There are sixty one moons in the solar
system.
Our galaxy.
The Milky Way.
Many of these planets have a number of
moons.
We have one.
But there are sixty one altogether in our
solar system.
Verse twenty four.
And God said.
Let the waters.
Let the waters bring forth abundantly.
The moving creature.
That of life.
Let the waters bring forth abundantly.
The moving creature.
That of life.
And fall.
That may fly above the Earth.
In the open firmament of heaven.
There are twenty four thousand.
Known species.
Of fish.
Of course there's so many.
Living things in the sea.
But a fish is something with a backbone
and a skeleton.
Otherwise it's not a fish.
Twenty four thousand.
Species of fish.
Known to man.
That is precious.
God said.
In one word.
Let the waters bring forth abundantly.
The moving creature.
That of life.
And fall.
That may fly above the Earth.
In the open firmament of heaven.
There are nine thousand species of birds.
Known living species.
Of birds.
Nine thousand approximately.
Verse twenty four.
And God said.
God said.
Let the Earth bring forth the living creature.
After his kind.
Cattle.
And creeping thing.
And beast of the Earth after his kind.
Now beloved.
There's approximately one million species of animals.
That are on record.
One million unique species.
Of animals.
Known to man.
One million.
There's four thousand two hundred and fifteen.
Four thousand two hundred and fifty species of
mammals.
Known species.
Living species today.
There is six thousand species of reptiles.
There is nine hundred and fifty thousand species
of insects.
Nine hundred and fifty thousand.
In one word.
You can argue against it till doomsday and
say it's not possible.
Or you can say God can do anything.
Beyond our comprehension.
And believe it without any doubt.
Which I do.
With all my heart.
God is so great.
Hallelujah.
Oh.
Verse twenty six.
And God said.
Let us.
Make.
Man.
I love that verse.
Obviously God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The triune God.
The church is from verse one.
Right through the Bible by the way.
Elohim.
In the beginning God.
Elohim.
Plural.
They still can't work out why God put
the word plural.
It's not singular.
It has to be more than one.
And the Spirit of God.
Two verses later.
Capital S.
The second person of the.
The third person of the Trinity.
Let us.
Verse twenty six.
Make.
Man.
Oh.
In our image.
That to me is beyond comprehension.
But I believe it.
After our likeness.
When we shall see him.
John says we shall be like him.
Oh.
We shall see him face to face.
I believe that.
I can't comprehend it.
But I believe it.
Let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea.
Over the fowl of the air.
Over the cattle.
Over all the earth.
Over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
God said.
Let us make man.
For all this.
Man was now made.
For all this.
For this.
Was made.
Don't doubt it for me and you.
To love God.
To live in awe of every pickle.
Of the fact of life.
In vegetation.
There was nothing God didn't make.
To make you and me love him.
And live in awe and reverence of him.
And worship for fear.
Oh.
God.
Created man.
In his own image.
Psalm 19 verse 1.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
Don't they?
The heavens declare to the world.
There's a God.
Oh, you're a fool if you can't see
it.
Forgive me.
I can't say you're a fool.
But God says.
The heavens declare to you and me.
There has to be God.
This couldn't have happened by mistake.
Or by spasms and sparks.
You know.
Goodness me.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
And the firmament showeth.
Showeth his handiwork.
Psalm 14 verse 1.
The fool hath said in his heart.
There is no God.
Romans 1 verse 20.
For the invisible things of him.
The invisible things of him.
From the creation of the world.
Are clearly seen.
Being understood by the things that are made.
Even his eternal power.
And Godhead.
So that they are without excuse.
Paul says.
You have no excuse.
Sir.
You will be judged.
With such judgment.
That you allowed it to reach.
From some intellectual persuasion to your heart.
Fools.
Professing themselves to be wise.
Fools.
God says.
Not me.
God forbid the day will come.
That I can't say what God says.
But it might come.
Soon.
So let me say it now.
What God says.
And loud and clear to you all.
No matter what your persuasion right now.
Please.
Consider what God says about you.
If you can't see his handiwork.
Psalm 8 verse 3.
When I consider thy heavens.
The work of thy fingers.
The moon.
And the stars.
Which thou hast attained.
What is man.
That thou art mindful of him.
And the son of man that thou visitest
him.
O wonder of wonders beloved.
This God.
Of all creation.
Is mindful of me.
He thinks about me.
He has thoughts of me.
He thinks of me.
And would visit me.
He would meet with me.
God says.
It's beyond comprehension.
Just as God looked upon this planet beloved.
Just as God looked upon this earth.
When it was without form.
And void.
And darkness.
Was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved.
Upon the face of the waters.
And God said.
Let there be light.
And there was light.
So with me.
God looked upon me.
In my darkened estate.
In my lost estate.
When I was lost and without hope.
Or knowledge of what it's all about.
Confusion and spiritual darkness.
I had no idea what it was all
for.
Just as God looked upon me.
Void.
Meaningless.
Of my life.
Lost in spiritual darkness.
Pervading my whole being.
God in compassion.
By the Holy Spirit.
Moved.
Upon me.
Upon my darkened estate.
And God cried upon my heart.
Let there be light.
And there was light beloved.
There was light.
Hallelujah.
Oh.
Listen.
To God's account.
Of my Genesis chapter 1.
At least I believe.
I embrace it that way.
No matter how many doctrinal geniuses.
Might tell me.
Look this is about Israel.
But listen.
This was not history.
Everything was written for me.
And you.
For God's ray of money.
To reach and say what it's all about
in his heart.
Nothing was history.
It's the living word of God.
Now listen.
To God's Genesis of me in Ezekiel 16
verse 4.
And as for thy nativity.
In the day thou wast born.
None I pitied thee to do any of
these unto thee.
But thou wast cast out in the open
field.
To the loathing of thy person.
In the day that thou wast born.
And when I passed by thee.
And saw thee polluted.
In thine own blood.
I said unto thee.
When thou wast in thy blood.
Live.
Yea I said unto thee.
When thou wast in thy blood.
Live.
Oh.
God moved upon my darkened estate.
And God reached out and cried out.
Let there be light to this darkened heart.
And there was light.
God saw me lost.
And God reached out and embraced my life.
And made me his own.
And I was born again.
By the Spirit of God.
Spiritually.
Not physically now.
That left me in my darkened estate.
But now.
I had to become.
God's creation.
If any man be in Christ.
He's a new creation.
Is the literal word.
Not creature.
All things have passed away.
All things have become new.
And all things are of God.
If you're really saved.
Nothing from me apart from my yielding to
his known will and word.
Oh beloved.
It took.
A miracle.
To put the stars.
In space.
It took a miracle.
To hang this world.
In place.
But when.
He saved my soul.
Cleansed it.
And made me whole.
It took a miracle.
Of love.
And.
Grace.
Just.
As God's word.
Spoken word.
As he spoke.
Light was given where there was darkness.
Just as God's spoken word wrought light.
Light.
That pervaded the darkness.
So God's written word.
Wrought light to my heart.
It's as powerful.
As the word that was spoken in the
creation.
To create light now.
To darken hearts.
The letter killeth.
But the spirit.
The same Holy Spirit.
That moved.
Upon the face of the waters.
And said let there be light.
This spirit gives life.
To the letter that killeth.
The spirit gives light.
The written word now.
Reaching out to me.
By the Holy Spirit's revelation.
Illumination to my heart through it.
Brings light.
To darkness.
Spiritually.
Brings life.
Oh.
Let there be light.
He called us to come out of darkness.
Into his marvelous light.
And I did.
By yielding.
And believing.
And now I faith.
In the word of God.
For faith cometh by hearing.
And hearing by the word of God.
Wrought light.
And salvation.
Eternal life to my heart.
Jesus said.
I.
Am the light.
Of the world.
The dark and spiritual darkness he's talking of.
Listen to John.
Listen to this amazing John.
John 1 verse 1.
In the beginning.
That's wonderful that he uses those words.
To think he wasn't thinking of Genesis 1.
In the beginning.
Was the word.
Capital W.
That's a person.
And the word was with God.
And the word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him.
And without him was not anything made that
was made.
In him was life.
And the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness.
And the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God.
His name was John.
The same came for a witness.
To bear witness of the light.
That all men through him might believe.
He was not that light.
But was sent to bear witness of that
light.
That was the true light.
Which lighted every man that cometh into the
world.
He was in the world.
And the world was made by him.
And the world knew him not.
He came unto his own.
And his own received him not.
But.
As many as received him.
To them gave he the power.
To become the sons of God.
Even to them that believe on his name.
Which were born.
Not of blood.
Nor of the will of man.
Nor of the will of the flesh.
Nor of the will of man.
But of God.
And the word.
Capital W.
Was made flesh.
Hallelujah.
And dwelt among us.
And we beheld his glory.
The glory as of the only begotten of
the Father.
Full of grace and truth.
Great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh.
Hallelujah.
To save my soul and yours.
And that amazing revelation to the word of
God.
Wrought faith.
Wrought light.
As I read from this book.
As I heard it being preached.
The written word being illuminated.
That he was wounded for my transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The satisfaction of our peace was upon him.
With his stripes we are healed.
Like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned every one to his own
way.
And the Lord had laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
God so loved the world.
He gave his only begotten son.
That whosoever believeth in him could not perish
but have everlasting life.
Hallelujah.
Everlasting life through Christ.
But wake now beloved.
Just as God did not finish his work
on this earth.
When God came in the void and chaotic
state of the world.
When it was without form or void.
And God moved upon the darkness.
And God wrought light.
And God brought order from the chaos of
that moment by his Holy Spirit.
Just as God did that.
You must take note.
That was not the end.
God went on.
Clothing.
Clothing in tenderness.
Clothing in love.
Bringing out beauty and perfection and awe that
is beyond comprehension.
Just as God went on to perfect this
earth.
So, when God came and lightened my heart.
When God came and wrought light and salvation.
And I was born of God.
That was just the beginning.
That wasn't the end.
God has to go on to perfect me.
And he will perfect that which he began
a work in.
God says.
He will conform me more and more into
the image of Christ.
It doesn't all happen in one moment.
Oh, that's why Peter says in 2 Peter
1 verse 4.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises.
You see, it's the Holy Spirit again.
The word that continues to close us.
That continues to protect us as we apply,
as we yield to light.
That God gives more and more.
For the path of justice is a shining
light that shineth more and more unto the
perfect day.
It isn't all just in one moment.
More comes through God's word.
God's Holy Spirit.
Revolution.
Revelation coming through this Holy Book.
Oh, just as God wrought perfection.
Oh, on and on.
Next.
Mighty.
Miraculous.
Beyond comprehension.
Change.
In the perfection of the earth.
So in my heart.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises.
That by these he might be partakers of
the divine nature.
Having escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust.
Now that's a wonderful testimony.
But that's not the end.
That's just the beginning.
Because the next verse says, And beside this.
Beside being made a partaker of the divine
nature.
And escaping the corruption.
That you are partakers of the divine nature.
That's just the beginning.
Beside this.
Giving all diligence.
Add to your faith.
Virtue.
And to virtue knowledge.
And to knowledge temperance.
That means self-control.
And to temperance patience.
That means steadfast.
And to patience godliness.
And to godliness brotherly kindness.
And to brotherly kindness love.
For if these things be in you and
abound.
They make you that ye shall neither be
barren.
Nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind.
And cannot see afar off.
And hath forgotten that he was purged from
his old sins.
Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make
your calling and election sure.
For if ye do these things ye shall
never fall.
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto
you abundantly.
Into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
Don't think it ends there friend.
When God saves you it's the beginning.
Of what he expects you to let his
word do.
As faith brings more light.
And you yield to it.
And become more and more by the word
and the spirit of God through his word.
Conformed into the image of Christ.
To perfection.
For this is what is in his heart
before the foundation of the world.
In spite of what he knew evil would
do.
To bring men back.
If they of their own free will would
respond to his sovereign grace.
Work that out.
To those of you that know what I'm
saying.
But praise the Lord it's true.
And then there's something strange to consider about
the earth.
There's a time this earth will pass away.
God says.
The whole universe.
In one amazing moment of a word from
God.
Who created it all.
God will let every single thing be devoured
in the most terrifying awesome language the Bible
can give.
That we can catch a glimpse and fear
what's coming.
And it could happen tonight.
Well don't you think that's possible.
Oh beloved.
Listen.
Just as this earth must cease.
Must be destroyed.
So you and I are going to be.
This mortal must put on immortality.
It has to be.
We don't live forever on this earth.
Thank God.
As beautiful as is the fall is made
of it.
There has to be.
Oh we cannot endure this for eternity.
Please don't let that be so.
Thank God this mortal must be destroyed.
To put on immortality.
Corinthians tells me.
Just as the earth.
Revelation 21 verse 1.
John says.
And I saw a new heaven.
And a new earth.
2 Peter 3 verse 10.
But the day of the Lord.
Will be.
As a thief in the night.
No one.
No one knows the moment.
Not even the angels.
Just God the Father.
The day in which the heavens.
Shall pass away with great noise.
And the elements.
Shall melt with fire and heat.
The earth also.
And the works therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then.
That all these things.
Shall be dissolved.
What manner of persons ought ye to be.
In all holy conversation and godliness.
God asks you and me.
Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved.
What manner of persons ought ye to be.
In all holy conversation.
And godliness.
Oh, because you and I brother.
Like the earth.
Like the heavens must be destroyed.
Must.
Leave this mortal.
To put on immortality.
We must.
The whole creation groans.
And surveils.
Paul tells us in Romans.
Longing for the redemption of the body.
Should they all set the prisoners of the
earth free.
God says.
That's all we are.
Until God delivers us.
We also.
Within ourselves grow.
Within ourselves waiting.
For the adoption.
That is the redemption of the body through
Christ.
Oh.
There's a moment of deliverance from this earth.
There's a moment this earth will be delivered.
From all the devil did.
And the universe will be devoured.
And the elements shall melt.
And we beloved must be godly.
Conscious that this is coming.
This is coming soon.
And he shall appear.
We shall be like him.
But we shall see him as he is.
And every man that has this hope in
him.
Purifies himself.
Even as he is pure.
Now that's beyond my understanding doctrinally.
But that's God's word.
There's something in us.
Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved.
What manner of persons ought ye to be
in all holy conversation.
That means living.
And godliness.
Oh beloved.
Beloved.
I hope.
Your whole being.
Cries out.
Let me be.
In all holiness.
Godly living.
Godly living in conversation.
When thou disappear.
Now little children.
Abide in him.
That when he shall appear we may have
confidence.
And not be ashamed before him that is
coming.
Don't tell me that's a doctrinal statement.
That's just the word of God.
Forgive me for quoting it.
Can we stand please.
Can you bow your heads please.
Father in mercy.
Help every one of us.
To endeavor as never before.
To worship God.
To be perfect worshippers of God.
Not to bypass the flowers.
Because we're strong men.
But to look at that because God made
it for me.
To see in everything.
That which makes me worship God himself.
For his greatness.
And that in his greatness.
He stooped to me.
To save my soul.
That I can walk like Enoch with God.
And be like Abraham the friend of God.
And like David the man after God's own
heart.
And like Daniel greatly beloved.
Greatly beloved.
And like John the disciple whom Jesus loved.
Oh God help us.
For all thy greatness.
That has reached our hearts.
To walk with God.
In worship and wonder.
Keeping ourselves.
Pure.
Keeping ourselves unspotted from the world.
And abiding in him.
That when he shall appear we may have
confidence.
And not be ashamed before him it is
coming.
Come God.
And let all these scriptures work faith.
And carefulness.
And wonder.
And worship.
In our hearts.
In a way we've never known before in
our lives.
That the word of God shall not return
unto thee void.
Even the words we considered tonight.
Let them accomplish the purpose for which they
were sent.
For us.
Take what's left of this convention.
And make it holy.
Visit us.
Let thy thoughts that thou dost have toward
us.
Thy longings.
For us to be thine.
And to be absolutely surrendered.
And felt controlled by God the Holy Ghost.
And to walk with God.
Let these things happen to such a depth
in every one of our lives.
As we yield to God.
As we come in this building thirsting for
God.
For us.
Keep us safe tonight in this convention center.
From all the powers of darkness keep us
under the blood of Christ.
Hedge us in like that is hedged.
Job in that Satan can get near.
Please God come and protect us.
By the risen resurrected power of Christ and
the Holy Spirit.
Brood upon this place.
And draw us closer to God.
Come bless us in our quiet times.
Alone with Jesus.
The most precious moment of life each day.
Is to be alone with Jesus.
Otherwise we miss the mark totally every day.
Help us to have a good time with
Jesus.
Help us to have peaceful sleep.
Help us to come tomorrow morning with thirst
and longing and joy.
At the consciousness that God wants to mold
me more into his image.
And light and life.
Come help the preachers.
Help my darling wife as she speaks and
addresses the ladies and the girls.
Give that which she has prepared herself for
months and a lifetime.
And share it through her.
In a way that everyone that hears her
speak.
Will never be able to be the same.
Their consciences won't allow them.
Give her liberty.
And let us all sense the presence of
God.
As she ministers.
Those who gather to hear her.
And my son Roy as he ministers to
the men.
And the boys.
Come anoint his young life.
And speak to the depth of every heart.
In the most precious way that will be
of eternal value.
Not just to stir us for a moment.
Please God.
Anoint him.
Prepare him.
And visit through him.
And our fellowship.
Let it be sweet.
Through tomorrow.
Tomorrow night.
Dear God visit us.
And everyone that comes on these grounds.
Don't let them come with a wrong atmosphere.
A wrong spirit.
Let them come.
Conscious that all of us are just.
Throbbing.
In our love for Christ.
And our longing to be all he wants
to do.
Come let them be conscious of that.
And let them join in.
In seeking God with all the heart.
Come visit us tomorrow night.
Visit us.
That we may never.
Ever recover.
Only God can do that.
No man.
So we look away from men.
Our expectation is in thee and thee only.
But we want it.
We want it with a pure motive.
For no glory of man or movements or
churches.
Just for Jesus Christ's smile.
Which is all we live for.
Nothing else.
Come do these things.
For thy glory.
Strengthen those who are weary.
Like brother Don and Vicky.
Sister Vicky and their children.
And brother Randy.
Kaufman and his wife and children.
And everyone else Lord.
Everyone.
Involved in the organizing.
The love.
The tenderness of the meals.
And the preparation of the hall.
And the flowers.
And everything that's everywhere.
Must have taken effort and time.
Strengthen them.
Touch their bodies.
Their minds.
And lift them up.
And honor them.
Honor them.
Honor them God.
Because they seek all these things for God's
glory.
We all ask these things in the name.
That we love.
And that we live for.
In the name we would gladly die for.
In the name of Jesus.
Our Savior.
And dearest friend.
Amen.
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