Now most everybody is familiar with
the popular stories of the Bible. Creation and the Fall, Cain and
Abel, Noah's Ark, those sorts of things. I want to start going
through those and looking at them individually. And I'm going
to try to do it every Sunday morning in the 10-15 hour. And we'll look at those and see
Christ in them. So I hope you'll come. I hope
you'll get you a pen, take some notes on these things. I'll send
you the notes. You can get you a binder if you
want to and keep them in that. Go along and look at these as
we go, and study them, and really try to see Christ in them. Now,
there's a lot of types and a lot of shadows in the scripture.
That's what all the scripture is written for, is to show us
Christ. The Lord said, search the scriptures, for they are
they which testify of me. He said, in the volume of the
book, it's written of me, and he's talking about everything
written in the Old Testament which was written up to that
time when he made that statement. And everything in the volume
of the book is written of him. We're going to be looking at
Genesis today and Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. And the Lord said, Moses wrote
of me. Everything Moses was told to
write, everything he was inspired to write by the Holy Spirit,
he was writing of Christ. Now today our subject is creation. Why did God make the world? Why did He create man? Why did
He make you? What's the purpose of this? Well,
the scriptures teach us that God will create a new heavens
and a new earth. It says, Behold, I create a new
heavens and a new earth, and the former heavens and the former
earth shall not be remembered nor come into mind. Peter said,
we according to his promise, according to that scripture I
just quoted to you, we according to his promise look for a new
heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Right
now you look at this world and you don't see righteousness.
You don't see justice. I watched a show yesterday about
farmers, migrant workers, working for farmers and because of the
big grocery stores, how they don't make above about $13,000
a year and they work about 12 to 14 hours a day. And they can't
even get public grocery store to give them a penny more a pound
for what they're doing. That's injustice. But you see,
all those things are distractions from the gospel. Because when
God saves His child, He gives them a new heart, makes them
one, so that His people take care of each other, provide for
each other, so that there's nothing to take our minds off of what
is the most preeminent, important thing, that one thing for which
the world was created, and that's the glory of God's Son, the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's what we're here for. That's
the purpose for which the world was created. He's going to create
a new heavens and a new earth. Now, in the first seven days
of creation, we see a shadow, we see a foreshadowing of how
God creates the new heavens and the new earth. That's what's
been going on in time. We see this in the first creation. Now, we begin in the first creation
and we see a shadow of the fall. Verse 1 says, In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was, or
became, without form and void, and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. Now, everything God creates is
perfect. And when He created the heaven
and the earth, it was perfect. And I don't know what happened
between verse 1 and 2, but the earth became without form and
void. And it's a foreshadow of what
happened in the garden. God created Adam upright. But
because Adam sinned against God, Adam became without form and
void. Darkness covered the face of
the deep. And so every child born of Adam
He's just like Adam. Without form and void. We have
no spiritual understanding by nature. We have all these jumbled
up ideas of who we think God is and how we think God ought
to be, but it's all based on how in our favor and how it will
exalt us and not condemn us. Because our minds are defiled
by nature. Proof of that is, men would rather say that God
did not create the heavens and the earth, that it just all came
into being from a bang, from an inanimate thing. But let me ask you this. When
have you ever seen life come from anything else but life?
When in your lifetime have you seen just inanimate objects just
create life? That doesn't happen. But that's
our depravity by nature, and that's proof of it. That we'd
rather say, rather than bow and say, yes, God created the heaven
and earth, we make up this theory that, well, living things just
came from dead things. That's not so. It can't be so. Like begets like. And so there's
the fall. We see an illustration of the
fall. Now here's day one. And what we're looking at is
the foreshadowing of how God is going to create a new heavens
and a new earth. Here's day 1. In this we see
Christ's incarnation. We see God the Son coming in
human flesh. Verse 2 says, The Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, Let there be light,
and there was light. The Spirit of God moved. How
was Christ's body formed in the womb of the Virgin? The Spirit
of God. Moved upon the face of the waters. The Scripture shows
that waters represent people. The Spirit of God moved upon
Mary. And God said, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh.
The Word said, Let there be light. Christ is the light. And there
was light. There was light. Christ came
in the form of a man in the virgin's womb. Therefore, the angel of
the Lord said, that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall
be called the Son of God. If God is to be the creator of
the new heavens and the new earth, if He is to get all the glory
in creating this new heaven and new earth so that everybody that
dwells there are perfectly righteous, then God's got to be made flesh. He's got to come in the likeness
of men and He's got to obey His own law and fulfill His own law
and uphold His own justice so that He gets the glory and He
can save His people in a way that's in accordance with His
justice. That's the first day. God, verse 4 says, God saw the
light that it was good. God looked at His Son who is
the light. And God said, Lo, a voice from
heaven said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. God looked at Christ and said,
It's good. It's good. Genesis 1 verse 4
says, And God divided the light from the darkness. Now you know
who the darkness represents. That's me and that's you by nature.
That's who the darkness represents. Christ came to this world separate
from sinners, unlike sinners, holy, harmless, undefiled. God
separated the light from the darkness, and it's by that light
that we see our darkness. If you don't have Christ the
light, you can't see your darkness. Blind, without sight, we got
to have light. How do we determine the light
the day from the night? It's by light. And so we have
to have light to determine our darkness, to see it, to understand
it. Paul told the Ephesians, the
things that are reproved, all things that are reproved are
made manifest by the light, for whatsoever does make manifest
is light. And just like that light divided
the day from the night, Christ the light divides his people
from darkness. First Thessalonians 5 says, you
are the children of light and the children of the day. We're
not of the night nor of the darkness. You see the foreshadowing here?
And did you notice here too that this is when time began. When
the light came, time began to be as we know it. Verse 5 says,
And the evening and the morning were the first day. Time is marked
by Christ. The most adamant God-hater has
to write down from time to time the date, and he has to write
2015. And every time he writes it down, he's bearing witness.
Christ came. Christ came. That date is marked
from the day Christ went to the cross, the year of our Lord. Alright, day 2. Christ finished
work. Christ finished work. Verse 6
says, God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. There
was just waters. And God made an atmosphere within
the waters. An atmosphere where things could
live inside the waters. And God, when He did that, This
firmament made a division between the waters. There was a division
between the waters. Now, we know the waters typify
people. Revelation 17, 15 says the waters
are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. Christ crucified
is the great divider of men. He's the one that divides the
waters from the waters, men from men. He's the divider. God set
the firmament in the midst of the waters. Christ came and He
was crucified in our midst. Paul said, this thing wasn't
done in a corner. You know about it. It was done in our midst.
And Christ is the great divider and that was the purpose of God.
Notice here, God purposed and said, let it divide the waters
from the waters. And God, verse 7 says, God divided
the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament. by Christ. You ask somebody on
the street, ask 10 people on the street, what's the meaning
of Christ crucified? You'll probably get 10 answers.
Christ is the divider of men. And when you have the truth of
what Christ accomplished on that cross, when you tell folks truthfully
that Christ accomplished the redemption of a particular people
on that cross, you'll find out real quick Christ is the divider
of men. There's two kinds of people in
this world. Just like He divided the waters, there were two kinds
of waters. There's two kinds of people in
this world. The children of darkness and the children of light. There's
the seed of the serpent that God spoke of in Genesis 3, and
there's the seed of the woman, the seed of Christ. To the one
we're the saver of death unto death. The one hears this message
and says, He's dead, and He hears the message, and it just sounds
like more death to Him. It doesn't sound like there's
any life in it to Him, and it's death unto death. It just increases
His death. Everybody that doesn't bow, it
just increases their condemnation for not bowing. But to the other,
we're the saver of life unto life. Now that's the Scriptures.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.
But to them which are saved, it's the power of God. There's
two kinds of people in this world. We either fall into one of those
two camps. That's the two kinds of people. And when we believe
on Christ, I always want to prepare folks, new believers for this,
because when you believe on Christ, and you're excited about what
God's shown you, and you want to go, and you want to tell your
family, and you want to tell your girlfriend, or your boyfriend,
or your husband, or your wife, or whoever it is, you'll find
out real fast, they're not going to be near as happy about it
as you are. The Lord said, think not that I came to send peace
on the earth. His kingdom's not of this world. If it was, He'd stop all the
injustice and create peace right here on this heavens and earth.
But He's making a new heavens and a new earth. His kingdom
is of a new heaven and a new earth. And He said, so don't
think I came to send peace on this earth. No, no. I came, He
said, not to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a
man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her
mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A
man's foes shall be they of his own household." Christ is the
divider. Alright? Day 3, Christ's resurrection. Verse 9 says, And God said, Let
the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called
the dry land earth. And the gathering together of
the waters called he seas. And God saw that it was good.
Alright, here comes our shadow. Our foreshadowing of Christ.
Coming out of the grave. And God said, let the earth bring
forth. Let the earth bring forth. What
did it bring forth? Life. Let the earth bring forth
grass. The herb yielding Producing seed. And the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind. You don't see apples making oranges.
Apples make apples. Let the fruit tree yield fruit
after his kind, whose seed, all the fruit that's going to come
from that apple, is already in the apple. It's seeds in itself. That's where it's coming from.
And he says, and it was so, verse 12, and the earth brought forth
grass, and the herb yielded seed after his kind, and the tree
yielded fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind. And
God saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning were
the third day. On the third day, the same day as Christ came out
of the grave, on the third day, God said, let life come forth. And in that we see a picture
of Christ, the resurrection and the life coming forth out of
this earth. And now the fruit tree yields
fruit after His kind. Christ yields fruit after His
kind. When He creates His child anew,
it's fruit after His kind. And when Christ came forth from
the earth, just like when the herb came forth from the earth,
all its seed was in it. And whenever the fruit tree came
forth from the earth, all its seed was in it. Well, when Christ
came forth out of the earth, all his seed was in him, all
his children. Everybody that's going to be
produced by him, born of him, all the fruit that's going to
be yielded by him was in him when he came out of this earth.
God hath raised us up together, the scripture said, and he's
going to make fruit after his kind. That's because he satisfied
justice on the cross. Look at Romans 6. Hold your place in Romans. I'm
going to come back here in a moment. Romans 6 and verse 9. Knowing that Christ, being raised
from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over
him. For in that he died, he died unto sin one time. He gave
sin what it demanded. He gave the law what it demanded.
That's death. And he did that one time. But
in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye
also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. That's what he says to every
believer. And it was so, it was sealed, it was procured, it was
settled when Christ finished that work at Calvary and rose
for our justification. Now, day four, we have Christ's
ascension. Christ's ascension. That was
Christ's resurrection. He came out of the grave and
then later He ascended. Forty days later, He ascended. Here's day four, Christ's ascension. Genesis 1.14 says, God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night. Now God directs our eye to heaven.
He directs our eye to heaven because that's where the God-man
is seated, at the right hand of God, in the heavenly. Our
great high priest, by his own blood, entered in once into the
holy place, into God's presence, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. He's the light of the world,
the scripture said. The lights that God put in the
heavens were to fulfill a purpose. He put them there to fulfill
a purpose. Verse 14 says, let them be for
signs. The proof and the sign that all
God's elect were justified by Christ is that Christ ascended
to the right hand of the Father. That's the proof. That's our
proof. He was raised again for our justification. That's the proof. And then it
says in verse 14, "...and for seasons, and for days, and for
years." Just like the sun and the moon are there and have an
effect on days and seasons and years, Christ the Lord, by His
resurrection, it's by Him, by His ascension, it's by Him that
we experience. All His elect in this world in
time shall experience the season of His love. They shall experience
the day of His grace and they shall experience the year of
Jubilee. That's when all your debts are
forgiven and you go out free. That's what happens when He gives
us life and brings us to faith in Him. Verse 15 says, And let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth. And it was so. The Son of Righteousness Christ
our Lord is seated at God's right hand to give light on the earth.
That's what He's there for. And these two great lights, you
know, are the sun and the moon. We see in verse 16, God made
two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the
lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. Now Christ
is pictured here in the sun. He's the greater light and He
rules the day. He rules over all things. All
power in heaven and earth is given unto Him. He rules all
things. Who's going to stop the sun from rising in the sky? Who's
going to say, you can go this far but you can't go any further?
Who's going to say, now you can't go down and hide light from people. You can't leave men in darkness.
Who's going to tell the sun that He can do that? Nobody. And nobody
is going to tell the SUN of righteousness that he can't do it either. He
can do it as he will because all power is his. And his church
is represented by the moon. The moon doesn't have any light
in itself. The moon gets its light from the sun. And the church
has no light in itself. We get all our light from the
sun. Now, you know when you look up there and you see the moon
and the moon is just a little quarter moon The problem is the
world has come between the sun and the moon and it's blocking
the light. That's the problem. And whenever
you and I have a problem where we can't see Christ and we're
walking in sin or we're walking in rebellion or whatever it is,
the problem is the world has come between us and Christ the
light. That's the problem. And we need
to make sure that doesn't happen by keeping our affection set
on Christ because He's given us light for a purpose. Look
here, verse 17 said, God set them in the firmament of heaven
to give light upon the earth. And we get light from Christ,
and he's given us this light for the purpose of ruling this
night that we live in, this world, this dark, dead, sin-dead world. That's what the believer's here
for. He said, you're the light of the world, and we're here
to give light on the earth. Now remember, we don't have light,
we get it from Christ. And we're not to walk around
like we're little candles that lit ourselves, like we're little
sparklers that have some spark in us. We got it all from Christ.
And we did glorify Christ. Listen to the Scripture. 1 Peter
2, 9 says, you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a peculiar people. That, here's the purpose, that
you should show forth the praises of Him. that you should give
Him all the glory, that you should give Him all the honor in everything
you do, because He's the one who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light. This week, Emma was having trouble
one morning, and I said, Emma, you believe the Lord Jesus Christ
came and laid down His life for His people, that He suffered
on that cruel cross for His people? And she said, I do. And I said,
the Scripture says, then whatsoever you do, do it as unto the Lord. He didn't want to go to that
cross. That wasn't something that he was just naturally delighting
in to do. He did it, he delighted to do
it for his people and for the glory of God, but it was a suffering
cross that he endured, a shameful cross that he endured. So when
you get up in the morning and you don't want to face that day,
remember, this is one of those things He said, do it as to the
Lord. Do it remembering what He did for you. That's what we're
to do in everything we do in this world. All right, let's
go to day five. This is the day of grace, day
five. Now remember, we're just looking
at shadows here. They're just trying to see glimpses
of Christ in this. Verse 20 says, God said, let
the waters. Now remember the waters represent
people and nations and tongues. Let the waters, this is a type
of God's elect scattered in the sea of humanity. Let the waters,
God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature
that hath life, that hath life. And the fowl that fly above the
earth and the open firmament of heaven and God created God
said, let there be life in the sea and God created life. He created great whales and every
living creature that moves. And the waters brought forth
abundantly after His kind. Now this happened after the sun
was set in the sky. After Christ ascended to the
right hand of the Father, He said, let the seas bring forth
life. And He let them bring forth life
abundantly. On the day of Pentecost, Christ
looked into this sea of humanity that did not have any life in
it, and He said through His gospel, let it bring forth life. And
He brought forth life abundantly. He saved over 3,000 that day.
at Calvary. And he's been doing it at Pentecost. And he's been doing it ever since.
He's been saying, let them bring forth life. And there's a dead
sinner who's just a water droplet in this whole sea of humanity
that has no life in him. And God says, let there be life
there. And he brings forth life in that.
He creates life there. And it's after his kind. It's
after his kind. Psalm 68, 18 says, Thou hast
ascended on high, Thou hast led captivity captive, Thou hast
received gifts for men. For the rebellious also, that
the Lord God might dwell among them. Blessed be the Lord who
daily loatheth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.
He that is our God is the God of salvation, and unto the God
the Lord belong the issues from death. Christ arose with gifts
to give to His people. We see another foreshadow of
this same thing in verse 22. Look at this. And God blessed
them. This is, I'm sorry, this is where, this is, yeah, God
blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters
and the seas. And that's what God does to His
child. He blesses us. And He sends us forth with the
gospel. And His charge to us is, through the preaching of
that gospel, let them multiply. Let them bring forth an abundance.
Through His power, that's what He's doing in this earth through
the gospel. Okay? Day 1, we saw Christ's incarnation. Day 2, we saw Christ's finished
redemption. Day 3, Christ's resurrection.
Day 4, Christ's ascension. Day 5, this day of grace that
we're in right now. Day 6. Day 6 is the day of restoration
and restitution. Look here now. There's coming
a day that Christ is going to create this sin-cursed earth
anew. He's going to make it all new.
He's going to burn up this sin-cursed earth. He's going to make a new
heaven and a new earth. And we get a glimpse of it here
with all this new life that comes forth in the earth. Watch. God
said, verse 24, God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts
of the earth after his kind, and it was so. Verse 26, And
God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness. and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, over the cattle,
over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth. And so God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him, male and female, created he them,
and God blessed them. One day soon, I want you to be
turning to Romans 8. One day soon, God is going to
raise His people and He's going to create us perfectly in the
image of the triune God in Christ Jesus. This day of grace will
be over then. Be no time then, no knocking
on the door then for God to open. It'll be too late then. Men that
sat and had their arms crossed and sat and heard the gospel
preached and pouted and didn't want to be there and wouldn't
open their Bible and said, I don't have nothing to do with that.
When hell's licking your feet, you're going to wish you'd have
paid attention. I guarantee you that. I guarantee you that. But
it'll be too late then. This is the day of the restitution
of all things. We see in these all these different
kinds of cattle and creeping things and all these different
forms of life that God brought forth. We see in that a picture
of all the different kinds of sinners that God saved. Jew and
Gentile, bond and free, male and female, rich and poor. It
doesn't have anything to do with us. It's all by grace. all by
grace. And in Him creating man after
His image, we see Him creating all His people anew in that day,
in His image, perfectly in His image. And then that day, we'll
have dominion over the earth, just like Adam did in the first
creation. Adam, in that first creation, there was no sin, so
there was no reason for the animals to be afraid of man. A lion would
walk up to Adam, and they'd sit there and pet him like you pet
your dog or your cat. because there was no sin. They
had no worries of being killed or anything like that. When Christ does this, it's the
day of restitution of all things. It's the redemption of our bodies. When we'll be redeemed out of
the earth, He'll come back and take that purchased possession
that's His. Now look here in Romans 8.18. I reckon that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us. That's a big statement,
you know, because there's a lot of suffering in this world. And
he says here, whatever we suffer, it don't matter how bad it is,
it's nothing compared to the glory that shall be revealed
in us. Now look, for the earnest expectation
of the creature, and this word is creation, He's personifying
the whole creation. He's personifying, He's given
human thought and reason to animals and birds and plants and everything
in creation here. It's just personification. And
he says, the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons
of God. They're on their tiptoes just waiting to see when God
calls out His last child and this thing's over with. He says,
for the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but
by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope. God subjected. This tells us right there that
it was God who subjected creation to vanity. It was God who made
us subject to sin and death. Now, the instrument that did
it, that was guilty of doing it, was Adam. But it was all
in God's purpose. Because He's the same God who
made us subject to hope. And that was the purpose of letting
sin enter in. And He says here now, Look at verse 21, "...because
the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."
There won't be clear cuts and there won't be pollution and
there won't be trash and there won't be any of that that you
see in creation. It's going to be delivered from
all of that when you have a perfect heaven and earth with a perfect
people that can never fall because Christ's work is complete and
it can't be undone. It's eternal. Now look, he says,
they're going to be delivered into that glorious liberty of
the children of God. That glorious liberty is talking
about that liberty in the glory, in the heaven's glory. He says,
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
together until now. And not only the creation, but
ourselves also. which have the first fruits of
the Spirit, you who are believers, even we ourselves grown within
ourselves waiting for the adoption to wit, the redemption of our
body. That means, I thought we'd already
been redeemed. We have. He's talking about we're
waiting for all things to be made new. We're waiting for this
new creation. That's what we're waiting for.
That's our hope, to be with Christ forever, to dwell with Him forever,
to be perfect without sin, to be with Him forever. in a sinless
world. Now look, verse 7, I'm sorry,
here's the seventh day. When this new heavens and this
new earth is finished, and all his people are delivered into
it, what's going to happen then? Genesis 2.1. Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished, and all the host of them were
finished. There's not going to be one member
that's supposed to be in this new heavens and new earth that's
going to be left out. just like He created all the host of them
in the heaven and the earth in the beginning, He's going to
do it in that new heavens and new earth. He's not going to
lose one of His people. And on the seventh day God ended
His work which He had made. It was done. And He rested on
the seventh day from all His work which He had made, and God
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it He had
rested from all His work which God created and made. Christ
is going to finish calling each and every one of His redeemed
people. He's going to do that. He's going to call every one
of them. He's going to finish raising each of us in His image. And He's going to finish glorifying
us together with Him. And when that's done, He's going
to bless us to rest with our Lord Jesus Christ for eternity. Nothing that troubles us now
will be there. No sign of sin or corruption
or the devil or any such thing or death will be there. Nothing. Now, 2 Peter 3. Let's go there
and let's see how this applies to us. How does God apply this
to you and me? 2 Peter 3 and verse 7. The heavens and the earth which
are now by the same word, the word of God are kept in store,
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men. Right now we're in the day five,
we're in the day of grace. And there's coming a day when
this day of grace is going to be over and this earth right
now that you dwell upon that you think is so solid and so
substantial and the end all be all to everything in your life
is going to burn up. and everything in it. Verse 8,
But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing. One day is
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day.
That means the Lord's not slack concerning His promise. Just
because you don't see Him coming back now, don't mean He's not
coming back. He's long-suffering to usward, to His people, to
the elect, because He's not willing that any body He died for should
perish. He's purged their sin, He's redeemed
them, He's justified them, and He's not willing that one of
them will be lost because if He does, it's going to diminish
His glory and His justice will be for naught. He says, but He's
willing that all should come to repentance. That means they're
going to. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night. How does a thief in the night come? You don't know
it. You don't know it. That's how he's coming. And then
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works
that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then all these things
shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be?" You don't go out here and hold
on to this world and perish with it. What manner of persons ought
you to be in all holy conduct and godliness. That means separate
from the world, not conformed to the world. Looking for and
hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with
the fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to His promise,
look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
One more place, Revelation 21. I want to show you this new heaven
and new earth. What's it going to be like there? Revelation
21-1. Revelation 21-1. I saw a new
heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away and there was no more sea, no
more division. And I, John, saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And he
that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write, for
these words are faithful and true. You believe him? There's only one of two conclusions
from that. Either you believe God is faithful
and true or you call him a liar, a bald-faced liar, one of the
two. I pray he make you He said, God's
true. This is true. This gives me some
purpose to this world and I understand why it's made and I see what
God's doing in it now. Without it, you're just a pig
in slop waiting for the day to be slaughtered. Amen.