THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT<br> <br>

PROGRAM AIR DATE – 11-9-14<br> <br>



LESSON TITLE:  “DAYS OF CREATION.”<br> <br>



WELCOME<br> <br>

      TODAY WE ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD, THE BIBLE. THIS BOOK IS GOD'S LIVING WORD. IN ITS PAGES WE ARE TOLD “FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD.” IT IS IN THIS BOOK OF BOOKS THAT WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF MAN'S QUESTIONS AND NEEDS. THIS MORNING YOUR AREA CHURCHES OF CHRIST WELCOME YOU TO A PROGRAM COMMITTED TO THAT PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. AS WE PRESENT THE LIVING WORD. NOW HERE IS YOUR HOST RAY SULLINS.<br> <br>

      THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING, LET ME WELCOME YOU TO THE PROGRAM.  THE LIVING WORD IS A WORK OF OUR LORD, DEDICATED TO DOING GOD’S WILL IN HIS WAY!  AS ALWAYS, IT WILL BE OUR PRIVILEGE TODAY TO SING SONGS OF PRAISE AND TO STUDY FROM HIS WORD.  IN THESE ACTS OF WORSHIP, MAY WE ALL BE ENCOURAGED, BUT ULTIMATELY MAY WE EACH PRAISE GOD ACCORDING TO THE SACRIFICES TO OFFER TOWARD HIS THRONE.  IT WILL ALSO BE OUR HONOR THIS MORNING TO SPEAK WITH GOD THROUGH PRAYER.  WILL YOU BOW WITH ME AS WE TALK TO OUR CREATOR?  <br> <br>



      PRAYER:  OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS DAY AND THE MANY GREAT BLESSINGS THAT ARE GIVEN TO US IN THIS LIFE OF BOTH A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL NATURE. FATHER, WE KNOW THAT ALL WE HAVE IS ONLY BECAUSE OF YOU. AND FATHER, THE ONLY OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE TO OVERCOME THIS LIFE ARE THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE SACRIFICE THAT HE MADE ON THE CROSS. AND FATHER, HELP US THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY TO LIVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE MIGHT HONOR YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE AND ARE DOING IN OUR LIVES. THESE THINGS WE PRAY THROUGH JESUS NAME, AMEN.<br> <br>



      THERE IS NO DOUBT HOW MUCH OUR GOD LOVES EACH OF US.  THE QUESTION IS, “HOW MUCH DO WE LOVE HIM.”  AS WE MIGHT OFTEN SAY, THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING.  ARE YOU JUST TALKING THE TALK OR ARE YOU WALKING THE WALK?  OUR FIRST SONG OF THE MORNING DEALS WITH OUR LOVE FOR GOD.  SO, WON’T YOU JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME AS WE SING TOGETHER, “SWEETER THAN ALL.”<br> <br>



DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS<br> <br>

      ARE WE EVER GUILTY OF PUTTING OTHER THINGS BEFORE GOD?  MAYBE SOME OF US HAVE ACTUALLY GONE SO FAR (AT LEAST AT TIMES) AS TO HAVE MADE THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE OUR TRUE GOD!  HOWEVER, WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US AS HIS FOLLOWERS. DOES HE ALLOW US TO COMMIT SPIRITUAL ADULTERY AND TO PUT OTHER THINGS BEFORE HIM? THE ANSWER IS NO!  <br> <br>

      IN JOSHUA 24:19-20, WE READ, “BUT JOSHUA SAID TO THE PEOPLE, “YOU CANNOT SERVE THE LORD, FOR HE IS A HOLY GOD. HE IS A JEALOUS GOD; HE WILL NOT FORGIVE YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS NOR YOUR SINS. IF YOU FORSAKE THE LORD AND SERVE FOREIGN GODS, THEN HE WILL TURN AND DO YOU HARM AND CONSUME YOU, AFTER HE HAS DONE YOU GOOD.”  I THINK THIS PASSAGE HELPS US TO CLEARLY SEE THAT GOD ALONE IS GOD AND HE IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD WHICH MAN CAN FOLLOW.  IN THE BOOK OF JAMES, WE READ THIS INSPIRED WRITER SAYING THAT EVEN THE DEVILS KNOW AND BELIEVE IN THE ONE TRUE GOD, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 19.   SO THERE MUST BE MORE IN THE LIFE OF A TRUE FOLLOWER THAN JUST BELIEVING.  <br> <br>

      THE NEXT CHALLENGE WE FIND FROM JOSHUA IS FOUND IN THE SAME CHAPTER, 24, BUT BACK UP TO THE STATEMENT MADE IN VERSE 15.  THERE WE READ, “CHOOSE FOR YOURSELVES THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE. BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD.”  YOU SEE OUR PURPOSE AS CHILDREN OF GOD IS ABOUT SERVING OUR GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WILL.  IT IS NOT ABOUT SERVING OUR SELF OR OUR OWN DESIRES.    <br> <br>

      OH, HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO REALIZE THAT OUR GOD TRULY IS A JEALOUS GOD AND HE EXPECTS US TO FOLLOW HIM AND HIM ALONE IN THE LIVES WHICH WE LIVE.  SO, LET ME ASK, ARE YOU STRIVING TO PUT GOD FIRST IN YOUR LIFE?  ARE YOU STRIVING TO MAKE HIM YOUR GOD AND THE ONLY GOD OF YOUR EXISTENCE?  

      AS FAR AS OUR STUDY THIS DAY - WE WILL BEGIN A NEW SERIES TODAY, WHICH IS ENTITLED, “THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR”  OUR SPECIFIC LESSON OF THE MORNING DEALS WITH “DAYS OF CREATION.”<br> <br>

      SO PLEASE STAY WITH US THIS MORNING AND AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER, I WILL LEAD US IN OUR MAIN THOUGHTS OF THE DAY.  NOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN IN OUR SECOND SONG OF THE MORNING, THE NAME OF THIS HYMN, “TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE.”<br> <br>



LESSON<br> <br>

BY RAY SULLINS<br> <br>

      “THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE. WE SHALL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT,” PSALM 118. CERTAINLY WHAT A GREAT AND CHALLENGING THOUGHT THIS IS FROM DAVID, THE PSALMIST HIMSELF. THE KING OF ISRAEL WHO HAD GOD WITH HIM - THE SPIRIT OF GOD ITSELF - AND CERTAINLY A MAN WHO HAD THE HEART OF GOD, THEREFORE WE KNOW THAT WHEN DAVID SPOKE OF THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD, THE GREAT DAY THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM, THAT NO DOUBT THERE WERE MANY GREAT DAYS IN HIS LIFE AS HE SERVED HIS GOD. WHAT ABOUT OUR LIVES? ARE THERE NOT ALSO MANY GREAT DAYS IN OUR LIFE? THINK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE DAYS ESPECIALLY AS WERE GROWING UP. SOME OF THOSE VERY SPECIAL AND EXCITING DAYS LIKE OUR BIRTHDAY OR MAYBE THE HOLIDAYS LIKE CHRISTMAS AND THE PRESENTS THAT ARE INVOLVED. AND THEN AS WE BEGIN TO GROW UP THERE IS GRADUATION AND THERE ARE MANY MOMENTS WHERE WE'RE EXCITED. MAYBE THE FIRST TIME WE GET OUR LICENSE OR MAYBE AS WE GET OLDER AND WE GET MARRIED OR THE DAY WE HAVE OUR FIRST CHILD. OH, HOW GREAT MANY OF THOSE DAYS ARE. HOW BLESSED WE ARE FOR ALL OF THOSE DAYS ARE DAYS THAT THE LORD HAS MADE. <br> <br>

      BUT YOU KNOW IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE WILL OF GOD THE BIBLE IS CHOCK-FULL OF GREAT DAYS - OF WONDERFUL DAYS THAT BEAR THE UTMOST SIGNIFICANCE AND THE PLAN OF GOD AND IN US REALLY UNDERSTANDING WHO OUR GOD IS AND WHAT HIS WILL IS FOR MAN. IN FACT, EVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE IN THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH; ONE OF THE LAST FEW BOOKS THAT ARE FOUND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. YOU MIGHT RECALL WITH ME THAT AS THIS PROPHET IS WARNING THEM ABOUT THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD THAT WOULD COME - A DAY THAT WOULD BRING MANY CHALLENGES FOR THE WICKED OR THOSE WHO REJECTED GOD BUT A DAY THAT WOULD BE A DAY OF BLESSING FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD FOLLOW GOD OR EVEN REPENT AND RETURN TO GOD. DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS THAT ZEPHANIAH SAID TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL? DO YOU REMEMBER THE CHALLENGE THAT HE GAVE THEM AS THAT DAY WAS DRAWING NEAR WHEN THE LORD AGAIN WOULD COME WITH HIS WRATH OR THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS BLESSINGS?THERE IN ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 1:14 THE BIBLE SAYS THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR. IT IS NEAR AND HASTENS QUICKLY. THAT DAY IS COMING. WE THINK ABOUT GREAT DAYS LIKE THE LORD'S DAY. EVERY DAY THAT WE LIVE, EVERY MOMENT THAT WE BREATHE WE ARE ONE DAY CLOSER TO THE COMING OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST AND THE JUDGMENT DAY. OH WHAT A GREAT DAY THAT WILL BE. <br> <br>

      I ALSO THINK OF OTHER GREAT PROPHETIC TIMES THAT THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF MANY OF WHICH HAVE BEEN FULFILLED SUCH AS THE GREAT DAY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD TO THE EARTH AND THE GREAT DAY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THE CHURCH ITSELF. AND THE GREAT DAY THAT WAS FOUND UNDER EVEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD - ISRAEL; SUCH AS THE SABBATH DAY. AND SUCH AS MANY OTHER GREAT DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE - SUCH AS WHEN THEY WERE GIVEN THE PROMISED LAND OR WHEN THEY WON BATTLE AFTER BATTLE AS GOD FOUGHT FOR THEM. YOU SEE, THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD IS EVER FOUND THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE HISTORY OF THE PLAN THAT GOD HAS SET IN MOTION BY HIS WILL EVEN BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. <br> <br>

      BUT THIS DAY WE WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN BY LOOKING AT THE DAYS THAT SEEM TO BE GREATEST OF ALL - AT LEAST MANY TIMES WHEN WE CONSIDER OUR ORIGIN OR WHERE WE CAME FROM. TODAY WE'LL CONSIDER THE DAYS OF CREATION. WHAT A GREAT DAY. WHAT A GREAT REVELATION IS GIVEN TO US IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1. THE ONLY PLACE TODAY IN OUR TIME THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO GO TO OR TO FIND AN ACCURATE AND CLEAR DESCRIPTION OF WHERE WE ARE FROM AND WHERE THE WORLD HAS COME FROM. FOR IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. AND YOU AND I READ TOGETHER THERE WHAT IS DESCRIBED AFTER GENESIS CHAPTER 1:1. AND ENSUITES EACH DAY. EACH DAY IS DISCUSSED ONE THROUGH SIX AS GOD CREATED ALL THINGS THAT WE NOW ENJOY ON THIS EARTH. AND THE FIRST THING THAT IS MENTIONED THEN IS IN VERSE 3, “THEN GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT.” OH, WHAT A BLESSING. THE POWER OF THE GOD WHO SPOKE INTO EXISTENCE LIGHT AND INSTANTLY THERE WAS LIGHT. AND BY THE WAY, THE SUN WAS NOT ACTUALLY CREATED UNTIL A LATER DAY - DAY FOUR. SO GOD CREATED LIGHT WITHOUT THE SUN CERTAINLY SHOWING HIS VAST POWER. AND WHEN AND HOW DID HE DO IT? OH MY FRIENDS, NOT OVER YEARS AND CENTURIES AND DECADES OR MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS. IT SAYS GOD SPOKE AND THERE WAS LIGHT. <br> <br>

      AND THEN WE ALSO SEE THE SECOND DAY WHEN GOD MAKES THE FIRMAMENT OR THE HEAVENS IT SAYS AND HE DIVIDES THE HEAVENS FROM THE WATERS THERE THAT ALSO EVENTUALLY BECOME WHAT WE KNOW TO BE THE LAND. AND THAT CONCLUDES THE SECOND DAY. AND THEN HE GOES TO THE THIRD DAY AND WE SEE THERE THAT HE PLACES DRY LAND AND HE BEGINS TO IMMEDIATELY BRING FORTH EVEN VEGETATION ON THAT LAND. AND THEN THE FOURTH DAY, AFTER THE THIRD DAY IS COMPLETED, WE FIND BEGINNING IN VERSE 14 THAT IN THE HEAVENS HE PLACES GREAT LIGHTS TO RULE OVER THE LIGHT HE HAS MADE AND THE DARKNESS THAT NOW ALREADY EXISTS. AND HE PLACES THE SUN TO RULE OVER THE DAY AND HE PLACES THE MOON TO RULE OVER THE NIGHT. AND EVEN PLACES THE STARS WHICH ARE THROUGHOUT OUR UNIVERSE EVEN TO THIS DAY. AND THE END OF THE FOURTH DAY COMES TO PASS AND THEN WE SEE THAT IN VERSE 20 THE FIFTH DAY BEGINS. AND HE MAKES, IT SAYS, THE GREAT CREATURES THAT MOVE UPON THE FACE OF THE HEAVENS - SUCH AS THE BIRDS AND ALSO THE GREAT CREATURES OF THE SEA, WHICH MOVE IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 

      AND THEN WE BEGIN IN VERSE 24 TO SEE THE SIXTH DAY WHEN HE BEGAN TO MAKE, AS WE WELL KNOW, ALL THE BEASTS AND THE CATTLE AND THE CREEPING THINGS OF THE EARTH. AND HE ALSO MADE IN HIS IMAGE, IN HIS LIKENESS, VERSE 26 AND 27 SAY, MANKIND. MALE AND FEMALE - HE CREATED THEM - IN HIS IMAGE HE MADE THEM. HE MADE YOU AND I ON WHAT DAY? THE SIXTH DAY. NOT THE SIXTH DAY WHICH CONSISTED OF MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF YEARS BUT GOD SPOKE AND THESE THINGS WERE SO. OH, THE DAYS - THE GREAT DAYS OF CREATION. <br> <br>

      BUT THEREFORE HOW SAD IT IS THAT IN OUR WORLD, IN OUR RELIGIOUS WORLD TODAY, THAT THERE'S BEEN A DESIRE BY MANY OF OUR OWN FRIENDS AND THOSE WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN AND THOSE WHO WE HAVE OFTEN BELIEVED FOLLOW THE TRUTH. YET WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS THEY DESIRE TO BLEND THE IDEAS OF GOD FROM GENESIS CHAPTER 1 WITH THEIR ON HUMANITY AND EVOLUTION. FOR THEY SAY HOW COULD GOD HAVE CREATED THESE THINGS IN A SIMPLE DAY? HOW COULD GOD HAVE BROUGHT ALL OF THESE THINGS? AND SURELY IF MAN SAYS THAT THESE THINGS ARE SO, WE MUST BLEND THE EVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS WITH THE CONCEPTS THAT GOD PRESENTS. FOR MAN IS EQUAL TO GOD, IS HE NOT? HOW SAD! HOW SAD THAT THEISTIC EVOLUTION IS PUSHED IN MANY OF OUR RELIGIONS, AND IN FACT EVEN THE LORD'S CHURCH ITSELF TODAY. IT IS PUSHED BY THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE OUR BRETHREN AND THERE ARE MANY CONGREGATIONS, EVEN IN THIS AREA, WHO EMBRACE IT AND WHO EMBRACE THOSE WHO TEACH ERROR AND WHO BELIEVE IN THEISTIC EVOLUTION. <br> <br>

      OH WHAT DOES GOD SAY? IT SAYS THAT HE CREATED ON THE FIRST DAY. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD DAY IS IN THE HEBREW? YOM. AND AS WE CONSIDER THE CONCEPT OF YOM, THAT WORD IS USED COUNTLESSLY THROUGHOUT THAT FIRST CHAPTER. AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, AS I MIGHT SAY TO YOU, THAT YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND THEN BEFORE YOU GO TO BED YOU ENTER INTO THE EVENING PERIOD. <br> <br>INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH AT THE END OR CONCLUSION OF EACH DAY IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1 THE HEBREW ALSO IDENTIFIES FOR US THAT THE EVENING AND THE MORNING ARE WHAT THE DAYS CONSISTED OF. WHEN'S THE LAST TIME THAT, I WOULD SAY TO YOU OR SOMEONE WOULD SAY TO YOU, THAT I GOT UP IN THE MORNING AND WENT TO BED IN THE EVENING AND YOU CONSIDERED THAT MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF YEARS? WELL YOM, WHAT DOES YOM MEAN? WELL, I'LL SUBMIT TO YOU THAT THERE ARE TIMES THAT WE MIGHT USE A FORM OF THE WORD AND IT MIGHT SAY WELL, IN THOSE DAYS OR IN THAT AGE OR THAT PERIOD. THERE MIGHT BE SOME CONTEXT THAT INDICATES TO US THAT THERE MIGHT BE A DIFFERENT IDEOLOGY GIVEN. BUT WHAT IS IT SAYING HERE? WHAT IS IT CLARIFYING TO US WHEN IT SAYS THAT THE FIRST DAY, THE SECOND DAY, THE THIRD DAY, THE FOURTH DAY, THE FIFTH DAY, THE SIXTH DAY HAD AN EVENING AND A MORNING AND THEY WERE WHAT? DAYS, SINGULAR DAYS WITH 24 HOUR PERIODS.<br> <br> 

      YOU SAY I'M SORRY PREACHER, I STILL DON'T BELIEVE YOU. MY PASTOR, OR MY DENOMINATIONAL FRIENDS, OR SOME BIG-NAME MAN, OR SOME RELIGION, OR EVEN SOMEONE WHO'S COME TO MY CHURCH AND PREACHED HAS SHOWN ME THE LIGHT AND I BELIEVE MORE WHAT MAN SAYS THAN WHAT GOD REVEALS IN CHAPTER 1 OF HIS BOOK. WELL, MY FAVORITE PASSAGE TO GO TO AND WHAT I WOULD CHALLENGE YOU AND ENCOURAGE YOU TO ASK THESE MEN OR YOUR PASTORS OR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TRYING TO MISLEAD YOU WITH ERROR TO TURN OVER TO THE SIMPLE BOOK OF EXODUS CHAPTER 20 WHERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE FOUND. THEY'RE GOING TO SAY THEY BELIEVE IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT WERE GIVEN TO ISRAEL. THEY'RE GOING TO PROFESS THE CONCEPTS THAT THEY BELIEVE HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE BECAUSE GOD INCLUDED THEM IN THE LAW THAT HE GAVE TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND THOSE WHO WERE LED BY MOSES AND THEY'RE GOING TO EVEN PROBABLY CONFIRM THAT ALL BUT ONE OF THOSE ARE REITERATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF AND THEREFORE THE ONLY ONE THAT WE DON'T PRACTICE TODAY IS THE SABBATH DAY BECAUSE TODAY WE PRACTICE THE WORSHIP OF GOD ON THE LORD'S DAY - THE DAY THAT THE LORD RESURRECTED WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK NOT THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK OR THE SABBATH DAY. <br> <br>

      BUT IN CONNECTION TO THAT, DON'T YOU FIND IT INTERESTING AS THESE COMMANDMENTS ARE BEING GIVEN THAT SOMETIMES HE DESCRIBES WHY. HE EXPLAINS CLEARLY WHY THIS COMMAND FITS IN PLACE. FOR INSTANCE, HE SAYS WELL, HAVE NO GRAVEN IMAGES OR DON'T PUT ANYTHING BEFORE ME OR WORSHIP ANY OTHER GODS. AND THEN HE SAYS LIKE THOSE THINGS CREATED WITH HANDS OR THOSE THINGS THAT YOUR FATHER'S....YOU SEE, HE CLARIFIES AND HE GIVES AN EXAMPLE. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WITH ME WHAT IT IS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THIS TEXT OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS EXODUS 20 THAT IT BEGINS TO DEAL WITH IN VERSE 8, THAT SABBATH DAY SPECIFICALLY. IF I WERE TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE SABBATH DAY AND I WERE TO SAY WHAT DOES THE SABBATH DAY MEAN? WELL, YOU'D KNOW IT WAS A 24 HOUR PERIOD. IT WAS THE LAST DAY OF THE WEEK AND THE ISRAELITES CELEBRATED IT AFTER THE GIVING OF THE LAW EACH AND EVERY SATURDAY THAT EVER EXISTED AFTER THAT TIME. THERE ARE STILL SOME JEWS TODAY THAT OBSERVE THE SABBATH DAY. THERE ARE SOME RELIGIONS TODAY BESIDES EVEN THE JEWS WHICH OBSERVE THE SABBATH DAY. WELL, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE AS HE'S TALKING ABOUT THAT WHAT HE THEN SAYS. HE SAYS SO, VERSE 9, FOLLOW THAT DAY SABBATH DAY. KEEP IT HOLY. SIX DAYS HE SAYS YOU SHALL WORK AND YOU SHALL DO ALL OF YOUR WORK. AND THEN IN VERSE 10 HE SAYS BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY. DO YOU HAVE ANY OF A DIFFICULT TIME CONSIDERING WHAT THAT MEANS? AND I ASK YOU I SAY WELL, IF HE SAYS THAT YOU WORK FOR SIX DAYS AS ISRAEL DID AND ON THE SABBATH DAY YOU REST, DO YOU HAVE ANY CONFUSION THAT THE WORD DAY THERE MEANS A 24 HOUR PERIOD AND INCLUDES THE EVENING AND THE MORNING? CERTAINLY WE WOULDN'T AND NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD. <br> <br>

      BUT SOME PEOPLE STILL WANT TO SAY THOSE EVENING AND MORNING 24 HOUR DAYS IN GENESIS ONE COULD BE MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF YEARS BECAUSE GOD REALLY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN POWERFUL TO SIMPLY JUST SPEAK IT INTO EXISTENCE. THEY MAY NOT SAY THAT BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE IMPLYING. THEY'RE SHOWING A LACK OF FAITH. WE'RE NOT DONE YET THOUGH BECAUSE RIGHT AFTER HE SAYS THAT THE SABBATH DAY WAS AFTER SIX DAYS OF WORK AND THEN THE SABBATH DAY WAS THE SEVENTH DAY I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THE VERY SAME WORD THAT HE USES IN VERSE 11 AND THE PROOF TEXT OR THE EXAMPLE THAT HE SAYS AS TO WHY THAT THERE'S SIX DAYS OF WORK FOR ISRAEL AND MAN AND THEN THERE IS A DAY OF REST OR A SABBATH DAY. READ VERSE 11 WITH ME. FOR IN SIX YOM - THERE IT IS AGAIN, DAYS. THAT'S THE SAME WORD  IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1. “FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, THE SEA AND ALL THAT ARE IN THEM AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY. THEREFORE, THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT.” OH, YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT GOD SET THE SABBATH DAY BASED ON THE FACT THAT HE HAD CREATED IN SIX DAYS THE EARTH AND RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY. THEREFORE, HE SAID THAT MAN WAS TO WORK SIX DAYS AS HE HAD WORKED SIX DAYS TO CREATE THE EARTH AND THEN ON THE SABBATH DAY THEY SHOULD REST. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS. <br> <br>

      SO EITHER MOSES IS LYING HERE OR MOSES IS LYING IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1. EITHER THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MISREPRESENTING THE SPIRIT WHO IS GOD HIMSELF AND MISREPRESENTING THE TRUTH OF GOD HERE IN EXODUS 20 OR HE IS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1. WHICH IS IT? ASK YOUR PASTORS THAT. ASK YOUR MINISTRY THAT. YOUR FALSE TEACHERS WHO HAVE TOLD YOU THESE THINGS THAT QUESTION YOU. FOR AS GOD MADE THE EARTH IN SIX DAYS AND RESTED ON THE SABBATH DAY, YOU ISRAEL SHALL WORK FOR SIX DAYS AND REST ON THE SEVENTH DAY. DON'T YOU THINK ISRAEL WAS HAPPY THOSE DAYS WEREN'T THOUSANDS OF YEARS? THEY WOULD'VE HAD TO WORK FOR MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE THEY EVER GOT ONE REST. THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE. PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN LIVE EVEN IN THE VERY BEGINNING TO AT LEAST THE OLDEST BEING 900 AND SOME ODD YEARS OLD. AND THEN AFTER THE FLOOD THE LIFESPANS WERE  ONLY IN ABOUT 100 AND 120 TO 150 RANGE. YOU TELL ME HOW THEY COULD'VE WORKED FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS AND YET THEN REST FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS AFTER THAT. WELL I THINK YOU CAN SEE HOW SILLY, HOW WRONG, AND WHAT ERROR IS SPOKEN OF. NOT ONLY BY THOSE WHO WOULD PROFESS THESE THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE BUT THOSE THINGS THAT REALLY ARE EVEN CONFIRMED FOR US IN NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS. <br> <br>

      I RECALL WHEN JESUS TALKED SOMETIMES TO THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES AND OTHERS WHO WOULD ASK HIM QUESTIONS EVEN IN LUKE CHAPTER 13:14. THEY'RE REFERRING TO THE SABBATH DAY AND THEY'RE EVEN MAKING THE POINT THERE THAT THEY WERE COMMANDED BY GOD TO WORK SIX DAYS AND ON THE SABBATH DAY THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO REST. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING? THEY WERE TELLING JESUS ON THE DAY OF REST - THE 24 HOUR PERIOD THAT HAS THE MORNING AND AN EVENING - THAT DAY WE ARE NOT TO WORK AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WERE FUSSING WITH THEM ABOUT? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO HEAL SOMEONE ON THE SABBATH DAY. YOU THINK THE JEWS WERE CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT GOD HAD REVEALED IN MOSES' PLAN? CERTAINLY NOT. SO WHY DO WE TODAY FIND CONFUSION IN WHAT IS CONFIRMED, NOT ONLY IN THE OLD COVENANT BUT THE NEW COVENANT, AS BEING BEING SIX DAYS OF WORK AND A DAY OF REST? <br> <br>

      OH MY BRETHREN, HAVE FAITH IN GOD BUT NOT THE FAITH THAT MAN WANTS YOU TO HAVE. HAVE FAITH IN GOD TO BELIEVE EVEN THOSE THINGS THAT GOD HAS SAID WHICH ARE BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING. WHY? BECAUSE WE ARE MERE HUMANS AND WHEN GOD SAYS THAT HE SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED MY FRIEND. AND THEN THE EVENING AND MORNING WERE THE VERY FIRST DAY 24, HOUR PERIOD BEFORE THE NEXT DAY BEGAN WHEN HE CREATED YET AGAIN. FOR IN SIX DAYS GOD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. PROPHET AFTER PROPHET CONFIRMS THAT. AND THEN ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED. IS GOD'S WORD NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU? WOULD YOU NOT RATHER BELIEVE IN GOD AND WHAT HE CONFIRMS THROUGH THE HEBREW AND GREEK TEXT RATHER THAN A MERE MAN? ISN'T YOUR SOUL SALVATION WORTH PUTTING THE CONFIDENCE IN GOD? - THE ONLY ONE WHO CREATED YOU AND GAVE HIS SON FOR YOUR LIFE. BELIEVE GOD TODAY AND GOD ALONE AND NEVER PUT YOUR HANDS IN A MAN WHO MIGHT DECEIVE YOU.<br> <br>



CLOSING COMMENTS<br> <br>

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      PRAISE GOD FOR THE MANY GREAT DAYS HE HAS GIVEN US AS THE CREATOR OF ALL.  FURTHERMORE, MAY WE ALWAYS HAVE THE FAITH TO BELIEVE WHAT GOD REVEALS TO US IN HIS WORD.  ARE YOU READY FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD? <br> <br>