1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,100 Tonight, I'd like to begin our series of meetings with sermon 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,200 about God. God is had a rough go the last 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,600 few years as far as its crunchy is concerned. 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,200 There are many people who no longer have respect or adoration 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,300 Aria reverence for God and I'm sorry to say there are people 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:23,100 within the Lord's House who do not appreciate who God is. 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:24,900 So I'm going to take our time tonight. 8 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,900 We're going to talk about who God is. 9 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:29,800 We're going to talk about the character of God. 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,900 God. And I'm going to stress the idea 11 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:34,200 over and over again because I think this is what we make our 12 00:00:34,208 --> 00:00:38,200 mistake. God is not like, man, he's not 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,500 like us, we're not like him. And I think I'm any times we get 14 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:45,400 to thinking that we're like God, or he's like us. 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,300 Anytime you do that, you're going to make a terrible mistake 16 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,300 because that's not the way that God is. 17 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:52,100 I'm going to use five little words. 18 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:55,100 I've written up here on the board and these five words are 19 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:56,900 getting up this. They all begin with the middle 20 00:00:56,900 --> 00:01:04,700 for letter prefix. Om in Now mni is the word Omni 21 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:09,700 and it just means all. What are we talking about? 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 God is all of it. Now that is without restrictions 23 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:17,100 he's all of it. I began to think about this 24 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,500 lesson sometime ago and the reason I did I had the 25 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:23,300 opportunity to study with a young man who was a preacher 26 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:26,700 want to be and we were studying a particular verse and I 27 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:30,300 happened to look up at him and just at the right time. 28 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,300 Time or maybe just at the wrong time, and he had his eyes roll 29 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:36,700 back in his head. It was obvious of all we were 30 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:39,000 talking about God. He just didn't believe it. 31 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,200 I don't, I don't even want to start in on that went across me 32 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,100 at that second because it was something, which is the most 33 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:47,600 aggravating thing I had to deal with in a long time. 34 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:53,000 The very idea that somebody could question what God can do. 35 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:56,300 So I decided, you know, we need to know better than that. 36 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,900 I'll tell you what it was in more detail when I get to it. 37 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:01,100 Here it again in a few minutes. Going to use. 38 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,900 For those of you that like to read along, it'll be easy. 39 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:09,100 We're going to use the 139th Psalm as a basis for our study. 40 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:14,000 First one, Oh, Lord, that I searched me and known me that 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,700 Louis, my down settings, in my uprisings, they understand my 42 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:21,300 thoughts afar off. Now, that's just a little 43 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:23,400 introduction. And we're going to talk about 44 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,500 God before we do though, we want to use our privilege of prayer. 45 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:28,300 We're going to ask you if you will do yourself in some 46 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:32,400 fashion, while the brother slept in words of prayer, I find in 47 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,200 general and this country anyway, that most of our society has 48 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,800 lost its concern about God. And you know what also 49 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,700 understand that That this nation is exceptional compared to the 50 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:46,000 rest of the world. The rest of the world, for the 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 most part, has no use for God whatsoever, but our country 52 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,600 which we used to be able to say, was a God-fearing country is no 53 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,800 longer that. Nowadays, we find that there are 54 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,000 many people who didn't do, everything they possibly can to 55 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 do away with the concept of God. Sadly, these people, if they try 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,700 hard enough, will convince themselves that there is no God. 57 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,500 I'd like to talk about this idea a little bit this evening and 58 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:12,800 showed you how mayonnaise. Degraded God and brought God 59 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,800 down to his level and that's a tragedy when you begin to do 60 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,000 that. I find out. 61 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,400 That the very name of God, nowadays is used by many people 62 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,500 as nothing more than a bad word, people curse. 63 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:26,900 And swear to the name of God, the Old Testament and Leviticus 64 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:30,700 and it chapter verse 12 says, you shall not swear by my name. 65 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:34,100 Falsely, neither shall thy profane, the name of thy God. 66 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:37,100 I am the Lord, the word profane. If you just look up it up, 67 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:40,900 dictionary means literally to use with a reverence with 68 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,700 Contempt to pollute. And here's the bad one to make 69 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,500 common. What do you do when you use the 70 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,800 name of God? Just as a Bible word when you 71 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,600 swear and curse for the name of God, you have for all practical 72 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,600 purposes made God common and God is most uncommon. 73 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:03,100 It is something which we begin to think that we are like God, 74 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:05,900 you're not find that there are people on the television. 75 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:09,400 We see them from time to time. So call Comedians and they laugh 76 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,400 and scoff at the idea of God, I don't know how you feel about 77 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,400 that, but you know what? They want to be standing next to 78 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,300 a person who's ridiculing, the idea of God, I wouldn't want to 79 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:21,800 be anywhere around somebody like that, and it's very common for 80 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,100 us to see things after that, press people who ridicule. 81 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:29,700 God, there are those who have no respect or adoration for God 82 00:04:29,700 --> 00:04:33,800 whatsoever, one night, and several years ago, quite a long 83 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,900 time ago. Now, I was coming home from a 84 00:04:35,907 --> 00:04:39,100 gospel meeting somewhere way law in the middle of the night and I 85 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:42,800 was listening to the radio and And I'm a big talk show, radio 86 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,600 person. And back in those days. 87 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:47,800 There was a radio station in Del Rio. 88 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,800 Texas at about 10:00 or 11:00 at night, it would come on. 89 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,400 Now, soon learned that this is sort of an outlaw station. 90 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,000 They had their transmitter over and Old Mexico and they had 91 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,400 their programmer or the office over the in the United States. 92 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,700 The reason for that is in Old Mexico. 93 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:06,700 They could do anything they wanted to do, and that 94 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:10,100 transmitter come on, they just blow everybody out of the air 95 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,400 and they would go All night long, you could hear anything 96 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,400 you wanted to hear. If you just stay tuned. 97 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:21,900 Well, I was staying tuned and this person had a talk show and 98 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:23,800 he had a woman on there as a guest. 99 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,200 And this woman ran a house of prostitution, you know, they 100 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,500 were letting people call in and they were just he hollered and 101 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:33,500 having a big thing out of this. They'd call it a talk to this 102 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:36,000 woman and she was gross and she ridicule everything. 103 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,500 That was holy and upright and I'm riding along everything 104 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:40,700 head. When is somebody going to call 105 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:43,300 in? In and call her hand on this. 106 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,400 Well, finally, some little woman called me in and she said, what 107 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,900 do you think God thinks about the business you're in? 108 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:53,000 And you know what? I'm ready to say. 109 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,200 Yeah, whoo. There's somebody out there. 110 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,900 Who's a insulted by this? She said, what do you think God 111 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:01,100 thinks about the business? You're in and I thought that I 112 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:03,000 really gotta get back on that woman. 113 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:04,800 You don't just that quick. I mean, she never even 114 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,900 hesitated. She said, I don't care what God 115 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:10,300 thinks about my business. He could take care of his 116 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:13,600 business and Take care of mine. I thought you know it's the way 117 00:06:13,608 --> 00:06:18,000 people think that woman had no white oration of God, she had no 118 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 reverence respect for God. She didn't care what he thought 119 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,100 and I find that that's a general attitude, that a lot of people 120 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:27,000 have already told you about the little preacher. 121 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,900 Want to be rolled his eyes up in his head because he didn't think 122 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:32,900 God could do what we were talking about. 123 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,700 I'm afraid that we've missed the character of God because you 124 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:39,600 know it is something that we want to be pretty important 125 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,900 ourselves and I'm going to Try to illustrate this. 126 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:43,500 Just a little bit as we go along. 127 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,900 I'm going to begin again there. In Psalms 39 at verse 1, O, 128 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:49,200 Lord, thou searched me and known me that. 129 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,800 I know it's my down sittings and my Uprising there understands my 130 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,900 thought afar all of their compasses, my path and my lying 131 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:59,600 down and art acquainted with all my ways for there's not a word 132 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,400 of my tongue but low Lord thou knowest it all together. 133 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:05,700 Now, what is this? Well this is the one up here on 134 00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:08,100 Top. This is Omni all-omniscient. 135 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:10,900 Omniscient. Yeah. 136 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,300 He is all-knowing, God knows everything. 137 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:17,400 There is nothing that he doesn't know and when I began to study 138 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,200 on that, I thought now what does that mean? 139 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:22,700 He knows my uprisings, he knows my sitting down, he knows what I 140 00:07:22,707 --> 00:07:26,000 lay down, you know, that must be something figured him, there 141 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,800 must be some hidden meaning to that. 142 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,800 So I studied and I studied not try to find out exactly what the 143 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,400 education was and you to what I discovered I discovered that God 144 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,400 knows when you said and he knows when you get up he knows 145 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,000 everything about is simple things like that. 146 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,900 This is not some hidden meaning. It is just the idea that God 147 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:47,700 knows all about us and everybody else. 148 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,500 It is something which again is illustrated by these first four 149 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:55,000 verses that I just read, he understands my thoughts, afar 150 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,100 off the, I don't know what you're thinking about. 151 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:03,900 And believe me, I don't want to know, I'd like to thank that 152 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:07,200 everybody here, your minds, just rapped on everything I'm saying. 153 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:10,400 Now, I doubt that is the case, like I say, I would like for 154 00:08:10,407 --> 00:08:14,000 that to be the case, but whatever you're thinking about, 155 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,400 God knows it. And here's the catch to this, he 156 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,600 understand. If your thoughts are far off, 157 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,800 the next thought that hasn't run through your head, yet he 158 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,700 already knows it. In other words, he prinos 159 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:29,600 everything you're going to think about this is something which 160 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,400 you have a street. To me, God has an ability that 161 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,000 you and I can't even think about. 162 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,700 He knows our thoughts. Afar off the Bible, says he 163 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:39,200 compasses my path. You know what a compass is? 164 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,500 Don't you a compass? Is an ancient piece of 165 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,600 equipment. Basically, all the compass does 166 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:48,500 is show yet north magnetic door to be exactly. 167 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:50,900 Are this little needle? It's in this watch. 168 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:53,400 Look at thing. Is spins around and eventually 169 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,200 Point straight to North. Now the understanding is if you 170 00:08:57,208 --> 00:09:00,200 know which way North is, then you don't know, east west And 171 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,500 South and you can calculate your direction that away. 172 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,900 Well, the Bible says God, he Kappa compasses my way. 173 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,700 You know, I have people tell me all the time, especially young 174 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:13,900 people were several young people in this audience. 175 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,800 Maybe you've thought about this, too? 176 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:20,600 I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm here for. 177 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:22,900 I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. 178 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,500 I'm just sort of wandering around through life. 179 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,100 Well, you know, you may not know what you're doing and doing or 180 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:33,700 where you're heading, but God does he is aware of you. 181 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,800 He knows the direction you're taking and he is acquainted with 182 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,500 all of our ways, the Bible says, this is something which God 183 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:48,200 knows he understandeth. The words of my tongue again, I 184 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,500 don't know why you preachers and teachers in the audience with 185 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:53,400 you ever had. The experience that I have. 186 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,200 I have an experience once in a while. 187 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,500 I appreciate myself into a corner and Darlene who robs me 188 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:01,600 about this, she'd knows, whatever happens. 189 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:04,700 And she'll tell me after Services, you just couldn't wait 190 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:08,500 to hear what you had to say next, could you, I was at a loss 191 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:10,800 for thought. I wasn't for sure what I was 192 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,900 going to say, but God knows who He knew what I was going to say 193 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,200 before I said it. You see, he knows things like 194 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,600 this. Again, I would ask you this, as 195 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,600 I draw this idea, down to a close and by the way, each one 196 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,100 of these is going to have a summary done to end. 197 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:32,300 Does it hold any intimidation to you to be dealing with a God who 198 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:34,600 knows, more about you than, you know about yourself? 199 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,300 You know, the Bible uses indications like this one, 200 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:40,400 Matthew 10 verse 30, the very hairs of your head are all 201 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,700 numbered. Now, you know, we have me in who 202 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,200 have bushy heads, With lots of hair on their head, we have men 203 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,800 who have moderate sized about a hair on their head. 204 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,400 We have some who have a little, we have some who have less. 205 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,900 There was one person. Lord's Church who didn't have 206 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:55,800 it? Not, what Harold his whole body 207 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:01,000 is that important? Well, some people it is but it's 208 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,700 really not the important thing is God knows how many hairs are 209 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,400 on your head. The idea is he wants you to 210 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,700 understand, he knows about you, he knows how many hairs are all 211 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:18,900 in your head. Now, you know, I'll find out 212 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:22,400 that this is intimidating, as far as I'm concerned, it is 213 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,900 something which allows me to understand that God knows 214 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:28,400 everything about me, all the Shams, and all the hypocrisies 215 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,500 and all the put on. And all the fronts he sees right 216 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,700 through those things. You know, we may deceive each 217 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,500 other, occasionally we made. See people are on a regular 218 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:42,900 basis but you don't see God. He's not seed, he knows the real 219 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:46,000 you. Unlike anybody else? 220 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,400 God knows you. And I find this is our little 221 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,500 summary man. Who on many occasions has gotten 222 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:56,800 too smart for God, is dealing with a God who knows more about 223 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,900 him than he does about himself. God knows everything. 224 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,800 Let's go again verse 7. Whither, shall I go from thy 225 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,200 Spirit are whither? Shall I flee from thy presence? 226 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:10,700 If I Ascend up into heaven? Thou Art there, if I make my bed 227 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:13,600 in hell, behold Thou Art there. If I take the wings of the 228 00:12:13,608 --> 00:12:15,800 morning and One of the other most parts of the sea. 229 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:18,700 Even there shall die. And leave me and thy right hand 230 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:20,500 shall hold a now. What does he say? 231 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:23,500 He says, if I go off into Heaven, There are clear. 232 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:28,200 What are we talking about? Nadia is Omni present your. 233 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,300 That means. He's everywhere. 234 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:36,600 He's omnipresent. The writer says, if I went out 235 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,300 into heaven and you know, the Bible uses heaven in three ways 236 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:43,400 there is a heaven which is this atmosphere around us that were 237 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,300 said of your breathing? That that's the first habit. 238 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:48,800 There's a second, heaven is just what we called outer space. 239 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,300 And then there's another heaven where God lives, I believe the 240 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,000 psalmist is talking about, the idea of what we call, outer 241 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,300 space are the universe. And when I went to school, I was 242 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:03,300 a science major, I love science. But I didn't care anything about 243 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:07,000 the idea of the study, the moon, and the stars, and the universe 244 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,100 and the planets, and I just wasn't interested in astrology. 245 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:15,300 Nothing, nothing whatsoever. Astronomy is the word I should 246 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:18,600 use. I wasn't interested in that, but 247 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,600 you don't want to got to read anything about this lesson. 248 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,200 I went back and looked again and it is amazing. 249 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,100 This universe that you and I live Ian and the thing, which 250 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:30,300 first got my attention, it was something that happened a few 251 00:13:30,308 --> 00:13:33,900 years ago out in Mount Pleasant. Mark, California is the world's 252 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,500 largest telescope and there are scientists out there who are a 253 00:13:37,508 --> 00:13:40,300 regular basis, look out in space through this telescope. 254 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:44,200 And the best time to look is a dark night one dark night. 255 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,400 They had this telescope strain and out into the universe, and 256 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,600 it got it. Wound down to the highest power 257 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,800 they could get. You know what? 258 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,400 They sought another planet a planet past Pluto. 259 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,100 Now, when I went to school, the first find out there was Pluto, 260 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,400 there's another planet past Pluto, so they tied her down a 261 00:14:05,408 --> 00:14:07,400 little bit more. You know what? 262 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:12,000 This all they saw another planet past the planet past Pluto. 263 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,500 And I'm convinced if they ever get that painting sharp enough 264 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,000 and powerful enough, there's no telling what they'll see out 265 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,000 there. It is, unbelievable, outer 266 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 space. It is something which man is 267 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,400 just beginning to think about? And yet the Bible says if I were 268 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,100 able to go out there the furthest reaches ever have o 269 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,700 Thou Art there. Now, I want to emphasize, right, 270 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,000 right here. I'll say it again in a minute 271 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:43,400 notice it says God Thou Art there. 272 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:49,100 Not his influence, not his word, he is there. 273 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:52,800 All right. He says, if I went out to the 274 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,600 ends of the ocean, I don't know how much David seen the ocean. 275 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,500 I'm sure he'd seen a Mediterranean Sea. 276 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,300 You probably been to the ocean or you've been to some big lake 277 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,500 and you know, if you look at the Horizon a big lake, it just 278 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:06,200 looks like it goes on and on and on. 279 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:10,900 He said, if I got out there to into this, this ocean Thou Art 280 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:14,100 there and then he gets poetic about it. 281 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:18,500 He said if I could take the wings of the morning, Couldn't 282 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,900 get away from God. You know what, the wings of the 283 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:24,300 morning are. Well I'll illustrate like this 284 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,400 supposed next time you're out here in the country down on the 285 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,300 lake or out somewhere where you can see the Horizon, you're 286 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,300 waiting just for a few minutes to see the sun come up. 287 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,300 It is just about time for the sun to come up and you're 288 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:40,000 watching the Eastern Horizon and all of a sudden the sun peeks 289 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,800 Over the Horizon. How does the light come across 290 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,500 the Earth? Does it say? 291 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,500 Here Comes Here Comes and get there goes Is that the way it 292 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:51,400 does it? No, it didn't do it like that 293 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,000 had supposed to night. I had a this room, totally dark. 294 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:57,800 We're going to turn off all the lights and make it Pitch Black 295 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,600 in here. And I've got a good strong 296 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,400 flashlight and stand up here and I flip it on. 297 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,700 How does light travel across this room? 298 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,200 It says bitch and that bitch. Oh, bitch your honors flashes on 299 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,800 the wall. Whoo. 300 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,400 Whoo, it just hits along. How does it do that? 301 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:17,700 Well, it travels with the wings of the morning, You know what, 302 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:24,200 the wings of the morning are, is the speed of light 186,000 miles 303 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:29,400 per second. If I could run 186,000 miles per 304 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,900 second, I couldn't get away from God. 305 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,600 He'd be there. Now you see what this is telling 306 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,400 us, he is there. And again I emphasize he did not 307 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,100 say his influence, he did not see his word. 308 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:47,300 He said Thou Art, there it is, here that the young preacher, 309 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:51,100 wrote his eyes up. We were studying, Matthew 18:20 310 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,400 and the Bible says, for where two or three are gathered 311 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,900 together in my name? There am I in the midst of the 312 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:05,500 And he didn't believe that. Now I'll tell y'all tonight we 313 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:09,599 are gathered together here in the name of Jesus Christ, and 314 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:14,500 he's here. Not as influence, not his word, 315 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,900 he's here that made Oklahoma Riley of their meeting, same 316 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:22,099 time, you know, he's there if they're me to guy anywhere else 317 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:24,200 United States. He said, if they're meeting in 318 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,300 Africa, use their, if they're meeting anywhere on the face of 319 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:31,900 this Earth, he's there and don't you dare all your eyes up in 320 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:35,800 your head. If you do, that means you just 321 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,400 think God's like you are. And he's not like you are we 322 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,900 find out that this is something that ridiculing scoffing, man, 323 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:47,400 who occupies about 3 square feet. 324 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:50,800 And of course this depends on how big you are before the 325 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,500 compact you and how hard the compact you but it's me 326 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:58,200 something about that. That's all we occupy is dealing 327 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,100 with a God who occupies the universe. 328 00:18:02,900 --> 00:18:06,300 Again. I'm going to go on it, verse. 329 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,600 11. If I say surely the darkness 330 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,900 shall cover me. Even the night shall be light 331 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:16,300 about me. Yeah, the darkness I doth not 332 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:18,700 from the him but tonight shineth is the day. 333 00:18:18,900 --> 00:18:21,200 The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. 334 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:26,200 You know what that tells us God is Omni visual you season with 335 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,400 us. He said, you know, didn't matter 336 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,700 to God, which dark. He sees you, it's light. 337 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:33,100 He sees you. You know what? 338 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:36,100 Most of the crimes and most of the sins are committed in this 339 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:38,100 world. They're committed at night. 340 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:39,500 You know why they're committed night? 341 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:41,600 Of course, we don't see good at night. 342 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:45,300 Does that hinder God from seeing the crimes in the sins of man? 343 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,900 Not at all. It doesn't make any difference. 344 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:51,800 If it's not heard our day, it is all the same as far as he's 345 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,000 concerned because he sees everything. 346 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:56,100 Now, I'm going to add something to this, and this just keeps 347 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:58,000 getting better. You look a little further on 348 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,100 down. This is going to go with the 349 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,000 same category. The psalmist said, my Summit, my 350 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,600 substance was not hid from thee. When I was made in secret and 351 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,200 curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth than eyes did 352 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:17,400 see my substance yet being in perfect, and in thy book, all my 353 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,100 members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when, 354 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:24,400 as yet there was none of them, that sounds like a riddle, 355 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,600 doesn't it? You know, what he's saying 356 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,800 there? God saw me when I was nothing 357 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,900 but the substance of a man, the substance of a human being. 358 00:19:34,900 --> 00:19:37,300 You know, I don't think the David knew anything about 359 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:41,700 genetics but he wrote the inspiration and we have learned 360 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:46,100 in the last few years that the what we are physically speaking. 361 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:51,800 And mentally speaking is determined, by our genes big 362 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:57,500 deal about that now and we talked about DNA and RNA You 363 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:01,500 know, he uses the term where curiously wrought now, I'm not a 364 00:20:01,508 --> 00:20:06,200 Hebrew scholar, but I looked at up and it means that we are 365 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:12,500 woven. We are curiously, woven in order 366 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:16,800 to even being starts as a conception a system of ribbons. 367 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,400 We've got these ribbons Mama furnishes. 368 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,300 A half a day to encourage your staff and of these ribbons have 369 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:25,500 got genetic codes all up and down. 370 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:29,200 They tell you how tall you're going to be what color your hair 371 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,100 is going to be more close. Your eyes going to be, I smart, 372 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:33,400 you're going to be everything about you. 373 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:38,400 Everything about you is on these ribbons that are woven. 374 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,700 Together. I couldn't put that in layman's 375 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:44,200 terms and do any better than that. 376 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,700 And these things are written down, hundreds and hundreds of 377 00:20:46,708 --> 00:20:49,000 years. Before man ever had any concept 378 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,400 of that the elements of a human being, you know, this is 379 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,200 something again, which I have to take a little tangent on right 380 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,200 here. We're living in a very sad time 381 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,500 when literally hundreds of thousands of babies are killed 382 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,200 before. They have a chance to be born. 383 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:15,200 And you know, the people who believe this is, all right, and 384 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,800 I'm amazed that United States, the pagans we got in this 385 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:20,800 country is ready to kill their babies for their own 386 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,200 convenience. That's all it amounts to this 387 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,500 little thing that we abort. You know what, they call it. 388 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:33,100 It's a baby. No, no, no. 389 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:37,000 It's not her baby. It is a human being. 390 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:42,700 No, it's not a human being this thing. 391 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:45,200 We tear out of The Mamas woman. Throw it in the trash. 392 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:51,600 Can it's a little boy. No, it's not a little boy. 393 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:58,700 It's a little girl. And we sure don't do that to 394 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:01,400 little girls. We love little girls. 395 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:08,300 What is it? It is a fetus and they spit that 396 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:10,400 word out like they're talking about Iraq. 397 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:16,400 You know, what a fetus is, a fetus is a human being. 398 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:22,200 It is a little boy or a little girl, it's a baby. 399 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:27,400 The something I learned about this, what I'm studying about 400 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,400 it. Y'all remember a few years ago 401 00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,000 the Surgeon General for the United States was dr. 402 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:38,700 G Edward Coupe. Bless his heart, I meant to look 403 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:41,200 up dr. Cooper for I preach this again, 404 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,000 I forgot to, I don't know if he still lived or not, but dr. 405 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:50,600 Koop said the only difference between a fetus and an adult He 406 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,800 just a little time. Just a little time. 407 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,500 And when it, when is he become a human being, and then people 408 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:00,700 arguing it take his, has to take its first breath. 409 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:03,100 And that's a, that's not true either. 410 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,200 The Bible says, when I was nothing more than the substance, 411 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,200 a human being God, wrote me down in his book. 412 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:21,000 Lord and me, he wrote me down. He saw me when I was nothing but 413 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,500 the substance human being that ought to call all of us to sit 414 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,000 back on her haunches and think about that just a little bit, 415 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:31,800 The Casual way in which the world treats our babies. 416 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,700 It is something which is quite amazing far as I'm concerned. 417 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,900 And they're going to be people who answer for that. 418 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:42,300 Very thing. It is something which again and 419 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:44,900 if you look up here I'll show you how this is. 420 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,700 I'm going to use the front of this appropriate. 421 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:50,400 Here's my Ian, see this corner out here. 422 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,400 I'll just use my cell for an example. 423 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,000 This is me. This is me when I was conceived 424 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,900 in my mother's womb, when I was a substance, I'm a human being. 425 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:01,600 You see this corner over here? That's me. 426 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,700 You can you see that across there? 427 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:07,200 That's the way God sees me if he wants to, he sees me for the 428 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,900 time. I was conceived till I take my 429 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:11,700 last breath on this earth. Now, let's get bigger than me. 430 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,200 I started, you know we're in this corner this corner. 431 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,900 Now is Genesis 1. Verse 1. 432 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:18,500 In the beginning God created heaven and earth. 433 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,000 That's it right there. See this corner over here. 434 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:24,800 This is revelation 22. When the angel said it's done. 435 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:32,900 Beginning to done, God, sees it all. 436 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:40,700 He sees it all God sees everything and man who scarcely 437 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:45,500 can see all the end of his nose is dealing with God. 438 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:48,800 Who sees it all. Let's try another one, I'm going 439 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,500 on a verse 14 we skipped over back up to verse 14. 440 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:54,900 You see his, I will praise thee for, I am fearfully and 441 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:57,800 wonderfully. Made marvelous are thy works and 442 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,900 that my soul knoweth, right, well, And this is my favorite. 443 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:11,700 One of these, God is omnipotent. Preach this wants when I first 444 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:15,200 started preaching it. And after service is a teacher, 445 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,600 came around to me. Now, don't misunderstand me. 446 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,000 I love teachers don't like teachers are special calling, 447 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,700 and there's nothing. Teachers would teachers can do 448 00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:24,300 wonderful things in people's lives. 449 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:29,100 What a teacher came around to me, and she said, You made that. 450 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:33,400 But up, by the way, she was an English teacher at even made 451 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:36,300 better. She said you made that with us 452 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:39,700 said, there's no such word as I mean, if he and I said, well, I 453 00:25:39,708 --> 00:25:42,400 appreciate the compliment. But when you get home, you look 454 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,000 it up and she come back the next night and sheepish. 455 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,800 And she said, yeah, you're right. 456 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,900 That it is a word. You know what that word means? 457 00:25:52,500 --> 00:26:00,500 All creating God is all creating and he says, I am fearfully and 458 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,800 wonderfully made. I am so are you? 459 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,100 You know, we are distinguish. When all the rest of creation, 460 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:13,000 we're not like inanimate objects, we're not like rocks 461 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,300 and trees and the dirt, we're not like beasts and birds and 462 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:20,200 fishes, we're not like creeping things. 463 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:24,700 We're human beings. The human body is the crowning 464 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:28,700 Glory of God's creative ability. There's nothing quite like a 465 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:30,600 human body. That man. 466 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,100 I've been studying the human body almost since the beginning 467 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,600 of time, there are still studying the human body and you 468 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,200 know, we have several MDS in the church now and they're not the 469 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,600 only ones I've asked other doctors about this question. 470 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,200 I said, what do you think about what you know about medicine now 471 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,300 and they'll still say there's more? 472 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:53,300 I don't know than I do know. Because the human body is a 473 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:57,900 miracle, that's the best I can put it, it is a miracle and I 474 00:26:57,908 --> 00:26:59,500 believe I could describe it to you. 475 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:03,000 Have you ever wondered why doctor say that they're 476 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,200 practicing medicine? A doctor may have been doctored 477 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,800 for 50 years but he still practicing medicine. 478 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:13,800 Does that bother anybody? But me, you know, I've been 479 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,100 preaching for this is going on 51 years and just to be honest I 480 00:27:18,108 --> 00:27:19,900 don't feel like a practicing tonight. 481 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,200 But if a doctor's been working at Madison for 51 years, he's 482 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,500 still practicing, now I'm just using this with the point. 483 00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:31,600 Don't misunderstand this, I had the greatest appreciation, the 484 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,100 world for the medical profession, my family is full of 485 00:27:35,108 --> 00:27:42,200 nurses and so I appreciate it, but suppose you're sick and 486 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,000 you're feeling really bad, battle have to go to the doctor. 487 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:49,700 So you go to the doctor. Now, if your doctor's like mine, 488 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,100 the first thing you have to do is diagnosed yourself. 489 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:59,800 And get this, you're paying the big money to her and you're 490 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:05,000 diagnosing yourself. Well, they diagnose, you you 491 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,800 diagnose yourself and they say, yeah, you're pretty sick. 492 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,200 I'm gonna write you a prescription and I'll call it 493 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,200 down at Walmart and you go down and get it. 494 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,900 Now, this little pricey this is $89 but is is good medicine. 495 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:19,600 So you go get to $89 medicine and you take it for the week. 496 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,200 At the end of that week, you are really sick. 497 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,500 Now, you just thought you too, sick a week, Go. 498 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,100 Now your re-secure feel so bad, you don't even want to go to the 499 00:28:27,108 --> 00:28:29,500 doctor. So you call down to the doctor 500 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:34,600 and you tell him what's wrong. And he says, Well, we got to do 501 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,300 something, throw all that medicine away, and I'll call you 502 00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:41,000 another one. Now, this was just $29. 503 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:46,100 So you go get to $29 and you take $29 medicine, you take it 504 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:48,300 for the week at the end of the week. 505 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,500 You are genuine said, now you don't even feel like lift your 506 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,900 head off the pillow. You don't even want to get up. 507 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:59,200 So you cut get somebody to call for you and tell him what's 508 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,800 going on Doctor. He's really gets excited now. 509 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:04,300 He says well let's do something else. 510 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,000 Said, go down there and get this medicine. 511 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,800 It's just a $9 it maybe it'll work. 512 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:10,700 So you go get there. Have somebody go get the nine 513 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:15,900 dollar medicine you take it for a week and you're well now you 514 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,700 two probably been well anyway in three weeks but you know what? 515 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:20,800 The doctor does. The next time he sees somebody 516 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,000 kind of like you were to start with, he gives them the nine 517 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,200 dollar medicine. If it worked for you, maybe 518 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,600 it'll work for somebody else. That's called practicing 519 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:38,500 medicine. you know what, I find that the human body is awesome 520 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:46,900 in a way, which was it confounds me, I was raised up BC now if 521 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:49,800 you don't know what that is that's before computers and I 522 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,600 was hanging around with some of the young preachers and they all 523 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,900 had computers and they were showing me how they could bring 524 00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:59,600 up a, write a sermon and change it and move it around ad versus. 525 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:03,200 And I thought oh that's wonderful and I got tapped me 526 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,000 one of those. So finally I got brother Bill 527 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,300 Curtis I don't know him or not he's a computer wizard who lived 528 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:12,200 at more for a long time or Oklahoma. 529 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,100 Emma. I talked to Bill, he said, yeah, 530 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,000 well I'll get you one. I'll help you get started. 531 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,800 So in about three months, he calls me. 532 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,400 So you got your computer yet? No, no, I'm waiting. 533 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:21,900 They get them. Thanks perfected. 534 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:23,800 He said they won't ever get a perfect. 535 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,300 It you just got to dive in so darling. 536 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:31,000 And I went down and got us a computer and we bought a little 537 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,400 bit. Yes to save it on and we set it 538 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,000 on a desk. We walked around admiring it 539 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,200 like two monkeys looking at the moon. 540 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,200 We couldn't even turn this thing on. 541 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:47,400 So we decided we needed to get some education so we went to 542 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,000 college and we got a woman who was a computer teacher and she 543 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,500 had a computer sitting up there. We could all see it and she was 544 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:59,300 really into it as she been asking computer a question and 545 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:03,500 then she would sit there and she'd sit there and Pat it while 546 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:07,500 he was groaning and moaning and get the answer on the screen and 547 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:10,900 she'd say he's really working in me and he was and we're all 548 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:14,200 blown away, you know? Look what this thing can do. 549 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,300 Well, I got home and struggle with hurt again. 550 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,800 But I wasn't going to let the machine get the best of me. 551 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:29,200 I decided, you know, this just can't happen after all. 552 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,800 I have a brain and everything in that machine was put in there by 553 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,400 a human brain. Your brain is wonderful. 554 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:41,900 You ever seen a brain. Most of you seeing some kind of 555 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,900 a brain. It is a human. 556 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:49,000 Brain is about size of two fish and it's a real mushy fleshy 557 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,500 material. It has all kinds of Of 558 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:56,900 convolutions and wrinkles and in it and this brain, remembers 559 00:31:56,900 --> 00:32:00,700 everything you've ever done, you know, you can smell something, 560 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:03,100 it brings back a memory. You can hear something, reminds 561 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:04,900 you of something. You can see, something reminds 562 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:06,500 you of something, you learn something. 563 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:09,800 You think I need to know you can call it back, you don't have 564 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,100 those that. What is it really easy. 565 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,700 Apparently your brain. There are little up electrical 566 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,700 poets. And you want to remember 567 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:28,100 something it just fires around. Fans, unitherm World wrinkles 568 00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:34,300 and brings it up. Well really, it's not, the 569 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:38,300 electrical is chemical. We got all those little chemical 570 00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:41,200 stations around on her brain and you're trying to think of 571 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:46,200 something. And it's these chemicals are You 572 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,100 know, I don't understand it, I have never been able to 573 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,500 understand how you could store thought in a piece of meat. 574 00:32:55,500 --> 00:33:00,700 How is that possible? It is something that is a 575 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:03,300 wondrous thing. You know, the simplest human 576 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:05,700 mind is superior. The most complex computer. 577 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,400 I'm going to ask you to all three questions. 578 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:12,300 I don't want any show of hands or anything, but I would like to 579 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:14,400 think about it, long as it takes. 580 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:20,900 What's your first name? We got that. 581 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,700 What state in the United States? Are we in? 582 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,300 And how's the weather outside? Did you have any trouble? 583 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:33,000 Those, I didn't either you're not going to get the answer. 584 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,600 All those quick. As I could ask the questions. 585 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,100 Did you hear any moaning and groaning, or no? 586 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:41,100 We just knew the answers. Now, how was that possible for 587 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,700 us to do? That is possible because we have 588 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:50,300 a brain that God gave us Man is never duplicated it. 589 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,900 He is used it for many, good things, but the human mind is 590 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:01,300 unbelievable. You know, furthermore, I find 591 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:05,300 out that man has never created anything. 592 00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:08,900 You know, what word create means it means to make out of nothing. 593 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:13,900 There's a lot of brouhaha going around nowadays about cloning 594 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,199 and I understand, they put on the little sheep, I believe they 595 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:20,800 did. I think they clone some dogs, I 596 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,600 believe. They probably did that but you 597 00:34:22,607 --> 00:34:24,300 know how they put on that little sheep. 598 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:25,699 Did they close that little sheep? 599 00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:29,000 Make it out of nothing? No, you know what they had to 600 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,699 have to start with they had to have a living cell and I 601 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:38,500 influence emphasize the idea of living that cell from that 602 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:42,500 little sheep had to be living who put to life in that little 603 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:47,800 cell some scientists know. God is on and do that. 604 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,600 And that little sell out of that little that sheep was put it a 605 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,500 little petri dish and encouraged to grow. 606 00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:58,900 And it grew. Like they wanted it to It. 607 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:05,800 Produced another sheep. Now, what vandu fed living cell, 608 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,500 that's all he did. Who gave the life God did. 609 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:15,900 I won't go on record right now as saying man and all of his 610 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:17,900 wisdom will never create anything. 611 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:20,800 You'll never create anything, man. 612 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,700 All of his wisdom will never give life to the smallest, 613 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:28,500 little one cell organism. He'll never do that because 614 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:33,400 that's not something man can do. Now hear things about, you know, 615 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,800 it's artificial life you ever think about that? 616 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:41,400 That's one of those oxymorons, like, jumbo shrimp, there's no 617 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,700 such thing as artificial life. It's either Libor, it's not, 618 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,300 that's all. There is to that. 619 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,600 We hear people talk about different types of life. 620 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:56,500 Only God can give life man and all of his worldly wisdom. 621 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:59,000 As we said is never created one atom of anything. 622 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:02,100 He has never given life to the simplest little one cell 623 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:07,500 organism and he never will God gives life God creates last of 624 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:10,100 all for tonight. Verse 17. 625 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:14,200 How precious also are thy thoughts on Me O. 626 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,500 God. How great is our? 627 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:19,600 Some of them I love you. This is the word omnipotent. 628 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:23,200 You know what that means? All powerful. 629 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,700 He is not limited to knowing everything are being everywhere 630 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:29,800 are seeing everything are created. 631 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,700 Every thing he is all-powerful Almighty, you know, right here. 632 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:38,600 And I've thought about this a lot, I have been listening to 633 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,000 our Brethren, pray for a long time. 634 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,400 And you know, I understand by the prayer of example Jesus gave 635 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,900 us that it's a proper thing to begin our prayers by praising 636 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:51,300 God, you remember that. And they the prayer that Jesus 637 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:54,100 gave, he said, Hallowed be thy name. 638 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:58,300 Another word Holy Is Thy Name. I really there's a lot of ways 639 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,100 to open your prayers and our you as our brethren. 640 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:04,000 We know how to open a prayer to God. 641 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,900 We could speak to him. In terms that we praise him and 642 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:12,100 praise His name, but it seems to me like our old brother and used 643 00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:18,800 to pray a whole lot to God almighty Our almighty God, I 644 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,800 rarely hear that anymore. What's wrong with getting down 645 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,900 on your knees and seeing our almighty God. 646 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,900 Why is that hard? If it is, is that hard, I think 647 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:35,100 it's hard sometimes because we think we're pretty Almighty 648 00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,100 ourselves. Why is it hard to say, almighty 649 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:41,200 God? It may not be for you. 650 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:46,400 Some people, I believe it is, God is Almighty. 651 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:48,300 When Jesus was here on this Earth. 652 00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:54,900 In Matthew the eighth chapter, he ran up on a Roman Centurion. 653 00:37:56,100 --> 00:37:59,300 Now, you know, I wrote the book, the commentary on the book of 654 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:03,900 Acts, and I got to know him several centurions every single 655 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:07,600 Center in, in the New Testament is a man of ethics and 656 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,200 principle. I believe you had to be that 657 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,000 kind of a man to get to be a captain of 100 Roman soldiers. 658 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,500 That's what a centurion was. All of them are men of 659 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:21,500 principle. Well, Jesus meets Us in Torreon 660 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,300 in Matthew chapter 9 and is centering our chapter 8, 8 verse 661 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:32,900 9 and the Centurion comes up to the Lord and He said, My servant 662 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:37,800 is sick. You just give the word and he 663 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,700 will be healed. He said I am a man of authority 664 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,700 myself. I tell my soldiers to go and let 665 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:46,600 go. I tell them to come and they 666 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,700 come. All you got to do is give the 667 00:38:48,707 --> 00:38:51,700 word. You know what Jesus said. 668 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,000 Not at all of Israel. Have I seen such faith? 669 00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:01,700 But that's injury, you know. He knew Authority was best shown 670 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:06,700 by the fact that you could just give the word What do you know 671 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:09,200 by the word of God? Heaven and Earth and all things 672 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,200 therein with created by the word of God, Heaven and Earth and all 673 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,900 things therein will be destroyed by God's word kingdoms were 674 00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:20,900 raised by God's word kingdoms have been destroyed by God's 675 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,700 word. Men have been raised for the did 676 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:26,300 by God's word, meaning to drop dead by God's word bread fed, 677 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:31,000 all the Sky by God's word fire rained, out of Heaven, by God's 678 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,800 word, that the Earth that the end was was drown in the 679 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,800 Universal flood by. By God's word Earth that now. 680 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,800 Is it going to be burned up? How's he going to do? 681 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,300 All that by his word? How can he do that? 682 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,800 Cause he's almighty. God He's almighty God. 683 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,400 I had to tell you one other thing, man, Hardy as he is, and 684 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,900 blustering about his power is dealing with an all-powerful. 685 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:02,500 God is all powerful. God loves you. 686 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:07,900 He loves me. He loves us so much, that he 687 00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:11,200 gave the greatest gift in heaven, and this is the part. 688 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,700 I don't understand. So we can go to heaven and leave 689 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:18,400 with him. You think about that? 690 00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:23,400 This God we've been describing this almighty God. 691 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,500 Has done all. He can to get you to heaven with 692 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:30,200 you. He gave you that opportunity. 693 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,400 To go and live with him. That's amazing in it. 694 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,800 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 695 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:44,500 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 696 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,700 would like any additional information or you would like to 697 00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:50,800 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 698 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,200 Please email us at info at True Church of Christ 699 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:59,200 Bakersfield.com. Our service times are on Sundays 700 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:04,800 at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 701 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,000 Please make plans to join us. We would love for you to be our 702 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:09,900 honored guest.