THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT
PROGRAM AIR DATE: 8-18-19
LESSON TITLE: THE HALF WAS NOT TOLD ME - GOD'S POWER
WELCOME
LET ME WELCOME EACH OF YOU TO OUR PROGRAM ON THIS BEAUTIFUL LORD'S DAY MORNING. I HOPE ALL OF YOU ARE WELL AND THAT YOU ARE PROSPERING GREATLY, IN YOUR PHYSICAL LIVES ACCORDING TO WHAT YOU ARE GIVING TO GOD SPIRITUALLY. IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE A PART OF GOD'S FAMILY AND TO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES SUCH AS THIS TO COME BEFORE HIM AND LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS OF US, AS WELL AS PRAISING HIS NAME THROUGH SONG. AS WE BEGIN OUR HOMAGE TO GOD THIS MORNING, WON'T YOU BOW WITH ME IN PRAYER.
PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY OF LIFE. WE'RE THANKFUL FATHER FOR THE GREAT GIFT OF JESUS; THE SACRIFICE THAT HE GAVE FOR US FATHER AS WELL AS HIS DEATH, BURIEL, AND RESURRECTION. FATHER, WE KNOW THAT IT IS ONLY THROUGH THIS GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS THAT WE ARE THEREFORE RECIPIENTS OF YOUR GRACE - LOVE - AND MERCY. AND FATHER, WE ASK THIS DAY THAT YOU HELP US TO LIVE EVERY DAY WITH THESE THINGS IN MIND THAT WE MIGHT ALWAYS DO WHAT IS PLEASING AND ACCEPTABLE BEFORE YOU SO THAT YOU MIGHT CONTINUE TO BLESS US, NOT ONLY NOW BUT ETERNALLY, SO THAT SOMEDAY FATHER WE MIGHT LIVE WITH YOU FOREVER IN THAT PERFECT HOME. THESE THINGS WE PRAY IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.
MANY IN THIS LIFE QUESTION IF THERE IS A GOD OR IF THERE IS REALLY ANYTHING AFTER THIS LIFE AT ALL. OTHERS DOUBT THE FACT THAT JESUS EVER EVEN EXISTED OR THAT HE CAME TO THIS EARTH AND DIED FOR OUR SINS. HOWEVER, HISTORY AND REVELATION CONFIRMS FOR US THAT WE DO HAVE A GOD AND SAVIOR WHO DID ALL THESE THINGS FOR US. THIS MORNING, LET'S BEGIN OUR SONG OF PRAISE BY SINGING A HYMN THAT REMINDS US OF THE HABITATION GOD HAS BUILT FOR THE FAITHFUL. SO, WON'T YOU JOIN IN WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME AS WE SING TOGETHER THE SONG, "THERE IS A HABITATION!"
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
WHO DO YOU CALL WHEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. MAYBE YOU CALL YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER OR ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER. SOME MAY TALK TO THEIR BOSS OR COWORKER. OTHERS MAY CALL THEIR PREACHER OR THOSE WHO THEY CONSIDER TO BE ABLE TO GUIDE THEM PROPERLY IN SPIRITUAL THINGS. HOWEVER, THIS MORNING I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST SOMEONE ELSE WE CAN CALL ON IN TIME OF NEED. SOMEONE WHO IS ALWAYS THERE AND WHO WILL NEVER LET US DOWN. SOMEONE WHO CAN BE COUNTED ON AND WHO WILL DO WHAT HE SAID. SOMEONE WHO'S PHONE IS NEVER OFF OR WHO'S BATTERY WILL NOT RUN OUT OBVIOUSLY THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE IS GOD!
IN PSALM 55:16, KING DAVID MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT, "AS FOR ME, I WILL CALL UPON GOD, AND THE LORD SHALL SAVE ME." NOTICE HERE THAT DAVID SAID HE WOULD CALL UPON THE LORD IN TIME OF NEED. I MIGHT ASK, WHO BETTER COULD WE CALL ON EVEN TODAY? HOWEVER, CONSIDER WHAT THE VERSE GOES ON TO SAY. NOT ONLY CAN WE CALL ON GOD WHEN WE NEED HIM OR WHEN WE NEED HIS HELP OR ASSISTANCE, WE MUST ALSO CALL ON HIM UNTO SALVATION!
THIS GREAT SERVANT OF GOD REALIZED THAT SALVATION WAS ONLY IN AND COULD ONLY BE FOUND IN THE TRUE GOD OF ALL. FURTHER NOTICE HERE THAT HE DIDN'T SAY GOD MIGHT SAVE HIM OR ONLY THAT HE COULD SAVE HIM DAVID SAID, "THE LORD WILL SAVE ME!" CONSIDER THE CONFIDENCE WE CAN HAVE IN GOD WHEN WE ARE HIS TRUE AND FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS. HE IS THERE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVE, HE ASSIST WITH ALL OF OUR WANTS AND NEEDS, AND ULTIMATELY HE "WILL" SAVE US IF WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO HIS WORD.
ARE YOU CALLING ON THE LORD IN EVERY WAY YOU ARE REQUIRED? DO YOU HAVE THE CONFIDENCE THAT GOD WILL SAVE YOU WHEN YOU CALL ON HIM IF YOU DO YOUR PART! MAY WE ALL LEARN TO TRUST MORE IN OUR GOD AND HIS PROMISES. AS FAR AS OUR LESSON, WE WILL AGAIN BE CONSIDERING A TOPIC FROM OUR NEW SERIES ENTITLED, "THE HALF WAS NOT TOLD ME." OUR SPECIFIC LESSON OF THE DAY WILL FOCUS ON, "GOD'S POWER." SO PLEASE STAY WITH US AND AFTER OUR NEXT SONG TOGETHER WE WILL RETURN WITH THIS STUDY FROM GOD'S WORD. NOW LET'S RETURN TO OUR SINGING. THE NAME OF THE NEXT HYMN, "WHAT WILL YOUR ANSWER BE."
LESSON
BY RAY SULLINS
WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE CONTINUED WITH US THIS DAY AS NOW WE GO TO GOD'S WORD AND CONSIDER ANOTHER LESSON IN OUR NEW SERIES IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE HALF THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD TO ME. WE REMEMBER THERE THE QUEEN OF SHEBA AND THAT GREAT STATEMENT THAT SHE MADE WHEN SHE HAD BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE GREAT VAST WEALTH THAT GOD HAD REALLY BESTOWED UPON SOLOMON BECAUSE OF THE EARLIER THINGS THAT HE HAD ASKED IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE UNDERSTANDING OR WISDOM. AND GOD SAID THAT CERTAINLY HE WOULD GIVE HIM THE GREATEST WISDOM THAT EVER EXISTED AND ALSO THEREFORE, MAKE HIM THE WEALTHIEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED. AND IN ALL THOSE THINGS WE SEE THE QUEEN OF SHEBA IS A CONFIRMATION OF THE FACT THAT SHE WAS ABLE TO GO THERE AND SEE IT FOR HERSELF. BUT YOU KNOW HOW SOMETIMES WE LEARN OF SOMETHING AND WE SAY WELL, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT OR I DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ALL OF THAT. I COULDN'T SEE IT - AND SOMETIMES IT ACTUALLY TAKES US SEEING IT FOR OURSELVES. A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GO TO AFRICA WE WILL ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO GO WITH US AND SOMETIMES THEIR RESPONSE WHEN THEY GET BACK IS - I NEVER WOULD'VE UNDERSTOOD IT UNLESS I WOULD HAVE SEEN IT FOR MYSELF. WELL YOU SEE THAT IS THE IDEA OF REALLY THE SERIES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY THINGS IN THE BIBLE THAT PEOPLE SOMETIMES HEAR AND SOMETIMES THEY BELIEVE KIND OF HALFHEARTEDLY - BUT THEY REALLY DON'T FULLY BELIEVE OR FULLY UNDERSTAND IT. AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES FURTHER STUDY OR KNOWLEDGE OR LOOKING AT THESE THINGS TO HELP US TO ASSURE OUR FAITH AND TO BUILD IT UP AS IT NEEDS TO BE. WITH THAT IN MIND THEN I WOULD LIKE TO TALK WITH YOU THIS MORNING ABOUT THE POWER OF GOD.
THE HALF HAS NOT BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE POWER OF GOD AND WE FIRST OF ALL CONSIDER THERE THE FACT OF GOD AS THE CREATOR. IN THE VERY BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL ABOUT GENESIS CHAPTER 1 IS THAT WE HEAR THAT GOD SAID: LET THERE BE LIGHT. AND THERE WAS LIGHT. THEN WE GO THROUGH MANY OF THE GREAT PROPHETS AND MANY OF THEM ARE REFERRING BACK TO THE CREATION AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE WONDER AND THE MAGNIFICENCE AND THE GLORY OF GOD AND ALL THAT THESE THINGS SHOULD MEAN TO US AND BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND JUST HOW PRECIOUS THAT GOD IS. I REMEMBER DAVID THERE IN PSALM 19 AS HE RECALLS THE GLORY OF THE CREATION OF GOD AND HE MAKES THIS STATEMENT IN VERSE ONE. HE SAYS - THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE FIRMAMENT SHOWS HIS HANDIWORK. DAY AND THE DAY UTTERS SPEECH AND NIGHT AFTER NIGHT REVEALS KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS NO SPEECH NOR LANGUAGE WHERE THEIR VOICE IS NOT HEARD. THEIR LINE HAS GONE OUT THROUGH ALL THE EARTH AND THEIR WORD TO THE END OF THE WORLD. YOU SEE HERE DAVID IS ACKNOWLEDGING THE GLORY OF GOD'S CREATION. AND NOT JUST THE EARTH BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. GOD IS THE CREATOR AS THE BIBLE TELLS US OF NOT JUST OUR SOLAR SYSTEM BUT OF MANY SOLAR SYSTEMS. BUT EVEN WITHIN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM; THE SUN AND THE MANY PLANETS AND ALL THE INTRICACIES AND REQUIREMENTS, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO SUSTAIN LIFE ON THIS PLANET BECAUSE EXACTLY WHERE IT IS IN PROXIMITY TO THE SUN IN OUR SYSTEM ITSELF. AND THEREFORE, THE ABILITY FOR US EVEN IN OUR SYSTEM TO LOOK UP IN THE NIGHT AND SEE VAST AMOUNTS OF STARS AND OTHER THINGS. OH - THE GLORY, THE MAGNIFICENCE, AND THE WONDER OF GOD - NOT JUST TO MAKE THE EARTH BUT TO CREATE THE UNIVERSE. YOU SEE, THAT DESCRIBES FOR US - DEMONSTRATES FOR US AS THE BIBLE SAYS THE CONCEPT OF THE POWER OF GOD. IT WASN'T ONLY JUDAISM OR CHRISTIANITY THAT HAD A DESIRE TO ANSWER THE COMING ABOUT OF THE WORLD IN SUCH WAYS - MANY RELIGIONS OVER THE AGES HAVE REALLY SPOKEN ABOUT A CREATOR OF ALL THINGS. AND WHY? BECAUSE WHEN WE LOOK AT CREATION WHAT DO WE SEE? WE SEE THAT THERE IS CLEAR DESIGN WITHIN CREATION. THE SAME WAY THAT WE LOOK AT A VEHICLE AND WE SEE THAT VEHICLE HAS A DESIGNER AND WE KNOW THAT WAS MADE BY SOMEONE OR WE LOOK AT A WATCH AND WE SEE THAT IT WAS MADE BY SOMEONE WHO HAD A DESIGN. WE KNOW THAT THINGS HAVE TO HAVE A CAUSE IF THERE'S A OUTCOME OR RESULT OR AN EFFECT. AND SO THEREFORE IN THE FACT THAT SOMETHING SHOWS DESIGN IT IS MADE BY SOMEONE AND THE EARTH CLEARLY SHOWS THAT IN THE FACT OF THE INTRICACIES AND THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE CREATION ITSELF AND THE DELICACIES OF HOW ALL THINGS MUST WORK TOGETHER. WHAT ABOUT OUR BODY? WHAT ABOUT THE POWER OR THE GLORY OF OUR BODY; THE MANY SYSTEMS THAT MUST FUNCTION AS CONTROLLED BY THE MIND EVEN WITHOUT OUR THOUGHTS. CONTROLLED BY THE MIND SO THAT OUR BODIES CAN EXIST IN LABOR AND WORK AND BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN OUR LIFE AS WELL AS HEAL THEMSELVEs. OH, SUCH THINGS ARE AMAZING TO SEE THE POWER OF A GOD. IF GOD, AND HE DOES, HAS THE ABILITY TO CREATE...OH, HIS POWER IS MAGNIFICENT. HIS POWER IS LIMITLESS. HIS POWER IS A GLORY AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE A GLORY TO ALL OF US.
WITH THESE THINGS IN MIND I WANT US TO GO TO A PARTICULAR EXAMPLE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND I THOUGHT OF THIS ONE BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES THERE IN THE BOOK OF MARK CHAPTER 9. AND AS WE LOOK HERE A FATHER COMES TO JESUS. AND AS THIS FATHER COMES TO JESUS WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THIS FATHER COMING TO JESUS HE HAS A SON THAT IS SICK. AND THERE'S NOT ANY OF US AS PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS WHO REALLY WOULD NOT ALMOST DO JUST ANYTHING FOR OUR CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN IF THEY WERE SICK..WHO LIKES TO SEE THEIR CHILDREN SICK? ANY OF US WOULD GLADLY BEAR THAT SICKNESS OR THAT BURDEN OURSELVES BECAUSE OF LOVE AND COMPASSION THAT WE HAVE FOR THOSE ESPECIALLY WHO ARE CHILDREN; OUR VERY OFFSPRING - AND SO NO DOUBT THIS FATHER IS DISTRAUGHT. WHY? BECAUSE AS WE READ THERE IN VERSE 17 THIS CHILD IS A MUTE. HE SAYS MY SON IS A MUTE. HE IS UNABLE TO TALK BUT HE ALSO HAS THESE SEIZURES. AND HE SAYS THESE SEIZURES CAUSE HIM TO BE THROWN DOWN. AND IF YOU READ VERSE 18 IT SAYS HE FOAMS AT THE MOUTH AND GNASHES HIS TEETH AND BECOMES VERY RIGID. WE SEE WHAT IS TAKING PLACE HERE - THIS MAN IS DISTRAUGHT. WHY? BECAUSE HIS CHILD IS SUFFERING IN SUCH A WAY AND IS UNABLE TO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE. AND THEREFORE WHAT DOES THE FATHER DO? HE THOUGHT I WOULD DO ANYTHING AND I WILL DO ANYTHING AND I'M GOING TO EVEN TAKE HIM TO JESUS BECAUSE I'VE HEARD THAT JESUS IS ABLE TO HEAL. AS WE SEE THE THINGS TRANSPIRE AND PLAY OUT WE SEE THAT HE ACTUALLY FINALLY DOES SPEAK TO JESUS. AND AS HE COMES TO JESUS AND THEY BRING HIM THERE AND HE SEES THEM I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THAT HE SEES WHAT THE CHILD IS DOING IN VERSE 20. IT SAYS IMMEDIATELY THE SPIRIT CONVULSED IN HIM AND HE FELL ON THE GROUND AND WALLOWED AND FOAMED AT HIS MOUTH. JESUS SAW IT FOR HIMSELF HE WAS TOLD THESE THINGS AND NOW HE KNOWS FOR HIMSELF THE CONDITION. AND NOW THE FATHER THEN IS PRESENT AND JESUS SAYS HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HAPPENING TO THIS CHILD? AND THEN THE FATHER SAYS FROM CHILDHOOD. NOW WHAT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE IS THE COMPASSION OF JESUS. NOTICE THE REACTION THAT HE HAS AND THE DESIRE THAT THIS MAN HAS TO BELIEVE. IT SAYS OFTEN THEN (VERSE 22) HE HAS THROWN HIM BOTH EVEN INTO THE FIRE AND THE WATER THAT HE MIGHT BE DESTROYED. IN OTHER WORDS, THESE CONVULSIONS SOMETIMES HAVE EVEN THROWN HIMSELF INTO THE WATER OR FIRE THAT HE MIGHT BE BURNED OR EVEN DIE FROM THIS PROBLEM. BUT IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING HAVE COMPASSION ON US AND HELP US. YOU SEE HE BELIEVED HE HAD HEARD HE KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING POSSIBLE BUT HE WAS UNSURE. NOW LOOK THERE AT VERSE 23. JESUS SAYS: IF YOU CAN BELIEVE ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. IF YOU CAN BELIEVE. IF YOU REALLY CAN BELIEVE THAT I AM HE. IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT I HAVE THE ABILITY ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. AND HERE'S WHAT THE FATHER DOES. HE CRIES OUT. HE CRIES OUT AND HE SAYS - LORD I BELIEVE! HELP MY UNBELIEF. WHAT WAS THIS MAN ASKING FOR? SOMETHING SIMILAR TO ME THAT THE QUEEN OF SHEBA WAS ASKING FOR. HELP ME TO SEE. HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND. HELP ME TO HAVE THE EVIDENCE. HELP ME TO KNOW. HE BELIEVED. HE BELIEVED WHAT HE WAS HEARING. HE UNDERSTOOD IT. HE PERHAPS EVEN HAD CONFIRMATION AND WAS ABLE TO SAY WELL, I KNOW THAT OTHERS HAVE BEEN HEALED. BUT NOW TO SEE IT WITH HIS OWN EYES. YOU SEE, WHAT WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO NOT ONLY FOR OURSELVES BUT FOR OTHERS IS TO HELP OTHERS TO SEE THE POWER OF GOD WITH THEIR OWN EYES. AND HOW DO THEY DO THAT? WELL IT'S CLEAR THAT IN OUR ILLUSTRATIONS TODAY THAT THE QUEEN OF SHEBA HAD TO SEE IT PHYSICALLY TO BELIEVE IN IT. AND NOW EVEN THIS FATHER AS HE COMES HE APPROACHES JESUS, NOT FOR HIS OWN SAKE BUT THE SAKE OF HIS CHILD, AND WHAT IS HE ASKING JESUS TO DO? TO INTERVENE AND TO PHYSICALLY HEAL HIS BODY. AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT NO MAN CAN DO THAT. NO MAN TODAY OBVIOUSLY BUT CERTAINLY IN THE DAYS OF JESUS AND THE APOSTLES WHOM THE COMPLETE POWER WAS GIVEN DO WE SEE SUCH THINGS HAPPENING. BUT NOT TODAY. THOSE THINGS ARE PASSED ACCORDING TO FIRST CORINTHIANS 13. WHAT THIS EXAMPLE SHOWS THEY WANTED TO SEE THE POWER DEMONSTRATED OVER PHYSICAL THINGS. NOW, WHAT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WITH ME IS THAT THIS NOT ONLY MAKES GOD THE CREATOR HAVING POWER OVER ALL CREATION BUT IT PROVES IT. BECAUSE JESUS GOES ON TO HEAL THIS YOUNG BOY COMPLETELY, INSTANTANEOUSLY FULLY. AND NOT GO TO THE DOCTOR AND YOU'RE GOING TO START FEELING BETTER OR DRINK THIS AND MAYBE IT WILL HELP YOU SOME. COMPLETE INSTANTANEOUS FULL MIRACLE PERFORMED. AND THIS BOY IS MADE WHOLE. SO WHAT DID THAT DO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE POWER OF GOD? IT CONFIRMED GOD AND THE POWER OF GOD BECAUSE IT SHOWED THEM THAT - OH YEAH, NOT ONLY IS THERE A CREATOR WHO HAS MADE ALL THINGS BUT THAT CREATOR STILL HAS COMPLETE AND FULL POWER OVER WHAT? HIS CREATION. IN RELATIONSHIP TO WHAT? EVEN THE BODY. IF GOD MADE OUR BODIES WHY WOULD HE NOT BE ABLE TO HEAL OUR BODIES? ISN'T THAT WHY WE STILL PRAY TODAY? MAYBE IT'S NOT IN RELATIONSHIP TO AN INSTANTANEOUS MIRACLE AS WE FIND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BUT ISN'T THAT WHY WE PRAY TODAY? THAT SOMEONE MIGHT GUIDE THE DOCTORS OR BE WITH THE DOCTORS OR THAT THEY MIGHT HELP SOMEONE WHO'S ON SOME SORT OF TREATMENT OR ARE TAKING MEDICATIONS OR SOMEONE WHO IS STRUGGLING WITH CANCER. WE'RE PRAYING BECAUSE WE WANT GOD'S INTERVENTION. WE KNOW THAT GOD HAS WHAT? POWER. A GOD WHO MADE ALL THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE, WHO CREATED US, WHO GAVE US BREATH OF LIFE - HE HAS THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE THINGS.
BUT NOT ONLY DOES HE HAVE THE POWER OVER CREATION BUT THE EXAMPLES OF THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS AND THE EVENTS FOUND THERE CONTINUE TO SHOW US THE POWER OF JESUS AS GOD IN THE FLESH. AND WE KNOW THAT TO BE TRUE. HE DIDN'T JUST HAVE SOME POWER - HE HAD ALL POWER EVEN OVER THE ELEMENTS. REMEMBER HOW MANY OCCASIONS HOW MANY STORIES THAT WE SEE JESUS ON THE WATER? AT TIMES THERE WHEN THE STORMS WOULD RAGE WHEN HE CAME WALKING TO HIS DISCIPLES AND HE STILLED OR CALMED SUCH. OR THE OTHER TIME WHEN THEY WERE THERE IN THE BOAT AND JESUS FELL ASLEEP AND THEY CAME TO HIM - MASTER OF THE TEMPEST THE WAVES ARE RAGING WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE! AND WHAT DID HE SAY? PEACE BE STILL. WHEN WE START THINKING ABOUT THE POWER OF GOD WE ARN'T JUST TALKING ABOUT JUST THE ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING OR LITTLE OR EVEN A LOT. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE POWER TO CREATE THE UNIVERSE. THE POWER TO CREATE THE EARTH. THE POWER THEREFORE TO HAVE CONTROL COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE CREATION. THE ELEMENTS,ALL OF THE ELEMENTS. THE PHYSICAL BODIES. THE MANY THINGS THAT WE SEE AROUND US. ANY AND ALL THINGS WHICH LEADS US THEN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT JEREMIAH PROCLAIMED. WHAT ISAIAH PROCLAIMED. WHAT DAVID PROCLAIMED CONCERNING THE GLORY AND THE MAJESTY AND THE WONDER OF GOD. THAT GOD HIMSELF IS AN ALL POWERFUL GOD. HIS POWER IS OMNISCIENT IN THE CONCEPT THAT IT IS UNLIMITED. HE IS A GOD WHO IS AND CAN DO ALL THINGS! FOR GOD IS. GOD WAS AND GOD IS EVERYTHING IS FROM GOD AND ONLY EXIST BECAUSE OF GOD. THEREFORE, GOD HAS CONTROL AND POWER OVER WHAT HE HIMSELF HAS CREATED. AND THEREFORE WHAT EXISTS. FOR NOTHING EXISTS. NOTHING WAS MADE, JOHN CHAPTER 1 VERSES 1 THROUGH 4 SAYS: NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE WITHOUT HIM. SO THEREFORE, IF HE CREATED ALL THINGS AND THE SCRIPTURES INDICATE THAT HE DID, HE THEREFORE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS. SO THAT IS THE CHALLENGE I GIVE US TODAY IN UNDERSTANDING PERHAPS THE HALF HAD NOT BEEN TOLD. I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND SUCH POWER OF GOD AND THEREFORE I DIDN'T KNOW THE POWER OF GOD. WON'T YOU RESPOND TO THAT POWER BY DOING WHAT GOD ASKED YOU TO DO KNOWING THAT A LOVING GOD HAVING DONE SO MUCH FOR YOU NOW OFFERS YOU THE OPPORTUNITY OF SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE. YOU CAN RESPOND TO THE RECIPIENT OF THAT POWER AND THAT WONDER AND THAT MAJESTY THAT NOW GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO NOT ONLY KNOW JESUS BUT TO FIND SALVATION THROUGH HIM AND SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE WITH HIM IN HEAVEN SOMEDAY WHEN THE END COMES.
CLOSING COMMENTS
IT WAS CERTAINLY GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US TODAY. THANKS BE TO GOD FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE HAD TO COME BEFORE HIS THRONE THIS MORNING. PLEASE REMEMBER, YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AT 7:30, AS WE JOIN TOGETHER IN THIS SERVICE TO GOD.
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ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW THE POWER OF GOD? FOR IN UNDERSTANDING HIS POWER WE KNOW THAT HE HAS TRULY DONE EVERYTHING WE BELIEVE BY FAITH AND ALSO THAT HE CAN DO ANYTHING HE HAS PROMISED IN HIS WORD. PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HIS UNLIMITED POWER!