The Bible is in Genesis chapter
1. We'll be looking at day 5 of creation
this evening. That road to Emmaus. Those men
just tore all to pieces, weren't they? The cross hadn't revealed
Himself to them yet, but He walked with them. And he said, oh, you
fools, why are you so down? And he expounded all the things
concerning himself beginning at Moses. Would you like to hear that? They invited him to their house
to eat. I'd have said, you come to my house, I'll feed you too.
Somebody could see Christ in every line of the Scriptures.
What an amazing thing. Tell me more. How did you know
that? Well, a mentor of mine, a man
I've known for decades, he said, whenever I'm looking for a message,
I quit going to the Scriptures and trying to find a message,
and I want to learn something about Christ. What if we could see Christ in
the Scriptures, in Moses? Would that be suitable for some
folks? Would that be okay? That'd be something. It'd be
a miracle. Christ preached Himself from these things. They had Him
to the house and He ate. And when He had broke bread,
He revealed Himself. What do you think the topic of
those things was? He was speaking of concerning Moses and all that.
His broken body. The person and work of Christ. What He came to accomplish and
what was accomplished. The second He was revealed, He
disappeared from them. He didn't tell them just who
He was. He showed what He did. What He
did. We don't see everything. We see
through a glass darkly. The Lord gives us little glimmers
of light here and there. But boy, when we can see something
of Him. Remember the first time that brazen serpent. That's Christ.
Did you know that? What? That's Him. That's a person. That's my Redeemer. That's my Lord up there. First
time we saw the heart, that's the Lord? The doorpost with the
blood on it. God looked on the outside of
the door, not on the inside of them homes. Look on the outside of
it, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. What? That's exciting. Well, I hope it gives excitement
this evening. Genesis 1 verse 20. And God said,
let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life and the fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven. And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth, which the water brought
forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after
his kind, and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them,
saying, how did He bless them? He said, Be fruitful, multiply,
and fill the waters in the sea, and let fowl multiply on the
earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. It serves the creation of the
fish, the fowl, and the whale. On day one, we saw God created
the heaven and the earth. It was without form. It was void. Darkness was on the face of the
deep, all the way down. Deep. But God commanded. God said, let there be light. And there was light. And after
that Spirit moved on us, on us dark waters, a command was given
to see. And we saw the voidness, the
emptiness, the depravity that we are. And we saw a bright and
shining light. Christ our Lord. That's Him.
God purposed it. Christ performed it. And the
Holy Ghost witnessed it to us. In there in verse 5, it says,
And God called the day, the light day, and the darkness He called
night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. We
had never seen that before. Oh yeah, God made some light
and He did something with the earth that was void and now there's
something. The waters moved, there's some waves or something.
That's all we've seen before. God made this earth. We know
that. That's God saving His people. Or, I was blind to cross the
light and now I see. It was night time. It was dusk.
Couldn't see nothing. Now it's morning. That sun just
come up. The light just come on. Evening into morning was
the first day. On day two, God created the firmament,
the expanse, the arch of the sky. Yes, but that word means
pounded earth, covering, atonement. And that firmament, that propitiation,
that atonement, that Christ divided the waters. Some were covered. He was over them. Their head.
He covered those waters. He was the go-between between
the waters and the Holy God. And there's other waters that
had no covering. They had no atonement. They had
no pounded earth between them and God. And they evaporated.
like a fervent heat coming on water. Turn over to Genesis 15. Genesis chapter 15. The waters that were moved on,
they had light commanded in it, they were covered, they were
robed, protected, secure, made one with God by Christ. He protected
His people by taking the pounding that we earned, the wrath of
God in His body on a tree. And He is our reward. That's what our Lord is. He's
our Savior. He's our Redeemer. He's our reward.
He's our firmament and our reward. Look in Genesis 15 verse 1. After
these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield. I'm your firmament. I'm your covering atonement.
and the exceeding great reward. He is our shield. I need protection. I need security. He's our shield
and our great reward. We like security, don't we? A man goes and gets insurance
on his car, doesn't he? Why? He might wreck it. Get insurance
on your home. Why? It might burn down. Get
insurance on everything. You get insurance on dogs. Do
you know that? Teeth cleaning. But to be secure, like we say,
a man just finds insurance and a savior in case he might die.
There's some man named Jesus. I might ought to learn something
about him. I might die. That's not the Lord. This is our shield
and our exceeding great reward. That's who it is. That's a person.
Man wants to be rewarded. No, we want a wage in our works
to be rewarded with a trip to heaven. Oh, I don't want to go
to hell. Anything but hell. I want to
go to heaven. Well, of course you do. I'd rather
not get burnt by a scalding hot pot of water. It's just sane. It's logical. Heaven's a place. It's not a place, it's a person.
That firmament, God named it Heaven. Look back in our text
in Genesis 1 verse 8. And God called the firmament,
capital H, Heaven. What's that atonement you have?
Your covering, your protection against the Almighty God. Capital
H, Heaven. It's Christ. In the evening,
in the morning, or the second day. I've never seen that before. My eyes have been opened. I was
blind, now I see. Day three, the Lord revealed
Christ and His people. He gathered the waters together,
where two or three are gathered in My name. Who gathered them?
He gathered them. Who gathered the waters? God did. And the
dry land appeared. It was lifted up. Christ, the
fullness of the Godhead in a body, came to this earth and He was
made and lifted up on a cross for His people. He was exalted. In the hearts of His people,
in the preaching of His gospel, every time it's preached. Every
day in the hearts of His people. That woman that washed his feet
we read this morning. What's the feet of Christ? That's
the lowest part of Him. What's my hair? That's the highest
part of me. I take the highest part of me and I put it down
to the lowest part of Him. He's exalted. It says there in verse
12, and the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding after
his kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself
after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
Born again with that incorruptible seed, conformed to the Spirit
and image of Christ, the Father looks on us and says, good. That one I offended, that one
I was nothing but void and empty and dead. Without form, I went
against Him with rage and vanity and everything I had in me. And
He looks at me because that firmament's over me. Christ incorruptible
seeds Him in. He says, good. That's good. Well
done, my good and faithful servant. Verse 13 says, in the evening
and the morning were the third day. Day four, God set the stars
in the heaven. They were to be for signs and
seasons and for days and years. His steady, twinkling, small
little stars. His watchmen. They will not fail. They will not go away until the
last saints brought to know Christ. Until Christ is revealed in it.
They don't shoot across the skies. They don't dazzle. They're not
fancy. They just keep twinkling. Boom,
boom, boom, like a heartbeat. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom They may not be too bright, but they keep
on doing what God put their hand to do. And he says, and it was
so. And then on the fourth day, God created the sun and the moon.
It says in verse 16, God made two great lights, the greater
light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.
The stars also. Christ the sun. S-U-N-S-O-N. He was declared. He was revealed
on the fourth day. And the moon. The moon was too. The moon could be us. We can
look at it that way. We can preach it right. That
moon's us. We only possess the light that
Christ gives us. And every time this world gets
in the way, there's an eclipse. Every time the idols get in the
way, self gets in the way. Seems like that light dims, don't
it? Or the moon can properly be preached to Satan, too. He
has no warmth. He doesn't have any power to
grow. You can't grow plants in the middle of the night, can
you? He takes the scriptures, makes them look like his own.
Didn't he do that to our Lord? He didn't tell a scripture. What
a fool. That's a pride. That's a vanity. It says there at the end of that
verse, the lesser lot to rule the night, the stars also. Not all preachers are God's preachers.
That needs to be said. A man needs to hear that. My
family, my loved ones need to hear that. Not everybody with
a Bible and a tie, and they don't wear ties no more, they say the
word Jesus and some flowerly things, and they sing songs,
play guitar, do all kinds of stuff. To me, they're God's preacher.
Those stars, they're right along with that light of night in this
dark world. Verse 17 says, And God set them
in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, and
to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness, to declare what's light, to declare what's
darkness. And God saw that it was good.
He said, that's good. That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take little tiny stars that you can't even see, you
can't count, you ain't got no name, and I'm going to use that
to light this dark world. Why didn't he just make everything
light and no darkness? Could he have done that? Of course
he could have. God can do anything he wants to. Why would he use small stars
to give light and then that's a sign for days and seasons and
years and all these things. It pleased him. God was pleased
to do it that way. He has chosen the foolish things
of the earth to confound the wise. Turn over to 1 Corinthians
1. 1 Corinthians 1 verse 18. For the preaching of the cross
is to them that perish, those that are going to die, Foolishness. But unto us which are saved,
it's the power of God. Why did Christ have to go to
that cross? The Lord done it another way? That's what pleased
Him. That's what His determinate counsel
and foreknowledge of His high holy command determined. That's
not foolishness if you see yourself put in there, is it? You see
Him doing that for you. Verse 21. For after that, in
the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believed."
I've had people tell me they just come to understand these
things, and they studied, and God spoke to them. If God didn't
send a preacher and make you hear this, you didn't hear it.
Verse 26, "'For you see your calling, brethren, that not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of this world.
to confound the wise. God has chosen the weak things
of this world to confound the things which are mighty. What's
the foolish things? What's the weak things? You're
looking at Him. You're looking at Him. This water
is put into an earthen vessel. A clay pot that's brittle and
a small child could knock it over and shatter it to pieces.
That's what God chose to do. Verse 28, "...and the base things
of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen,
yea, and the things which are not, to bring to naught the things
that are." Why? Why did He do that? Verse 29,
"...that no flesh should glory in His presence." Amen. That's right. That's where He
brings sinners He saves. I think I did something good. Look out. Back in our text here
in verse 19. Genesis 1, 19. And the evening
and the morning were the fourth day. You see the message constantly
repeated. Man was ruined in ourselves.
We were redeemed by the blood of Christ and the Holy Ghost
reveals these things to us. God comes to Him. He draws near
to His people. Reveals Christ in them. All flesh
is grass and salvation is of the Lord. That's all we can left
to say. We shout, we rejoice in that.
What a privilege. Day 5 begins here in verse 20.
The message ain't going to change. Genesis 1.20, And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life and the fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven. And God created great whales. And every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind, and God
saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters and the seas,
and let the fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and
the morning were the fifth day. One of the old writers said,
the work of creation not only proceeded gradually from one
thing to another, but rose and advanced gradually from that
which was less excellent to which is more excellent. That's so. We started with mineral life,
with rocks, dirt, then plant life. There's life in plants.
God sustained them, makes them grow. Animal life now. That's how we grow in grace and
knowledge too, isn't it? We don't show up on the scene as great
grandpas. We're babies. You don't give babies big ol'
steaks, blend it up, make baby food. You don't expect them to
grow overnight. Their bones would shatter. We
should be thankful God grows us slowly. Day one, what a growth
in grace, too. We started out without form,
without void, and God gave us Christ our life. Then we had
no covering. God gave us Christ our atonement.
We couldn't produce anything of ourselves. Christ was lifted
up in all His seed after His kind, that grass came, those
trees came. That's how we grew just like
Him. That's how He makes His people
grow. Then the sun was set above. And we had someone sent to tell
us of those seasons and those days and those years that are
of the Lord. Someone came to tell us who the message is. Somebody
asked me one time, what do you preach? I said, I don't preach
nothing. I preach who? I was hoping that would open an opportunity
to talk to them, but it didn't. We had Christ the light revealed
to us, Christ our atonement, Christ our heaven. He's the heaven. He's the light of the world.
Here in day 5 we see Him once again. How is Christ proclaimed
here in day 5, in the 5th day? Well first, first He is the Creator. All things were created by Him.
Creation declares His wisdom, His majesty of our great God
and Savior. Don't be flippant. Don't be dismissive
about creation. about natural things that God
made. Cats and dogs and birds and trees
and rainforest and weather systems. Don't be dismissive of that.
Don't be flippant of that. He's the God of creation and
He will be recognized as such. And we don't think that affects
us now because we've got walls and air conditioners and we're
not getting chased by them. We used to tell stories to our kids
about the big, bad wolf. Why? That way little kids didn't
think it was a dog and go pet it. It killed people. And now
we're trying to re-release them back and, oh, it's going to repopulate.
What nonsense. Finally got rid of them. Got
rid of them wolves. We ain't as amazed at creation
as we ought to be. I considered the fishes this
week. Think about how many variety of fishes there are. I mean,
fresh water, salt water, lakes, streams, ponds, everywhere. That's amazing. And I looked
it up. That we know of, that man knows of, there's 35,000
species of fishes. That's a bunch. And them after
their kind. They're sustained. Think of the
oceans, all those streams and lakes. Fullness there. Great
bounty. Great bounty. And it says, I'm
going to starve to death. The Lord teach you how to fish. There's somebody around you,
huh? Think of the birds. Look that up too. We know just
what man knows. 18,000 species of birds. That's not the subspecies and
the different colors and they call them different names. 18,000 species of birds. What
diversity! What colors! What beautiful songs that sang
to the Lord all around this world. That's amazing! That's amazing,
isn't it? These great whales. The largest
mammal on earth. Think how much that one said
that they ate 10,000 pounds of shrimp a day. or creel, not shrimp,
the little tiny ones. A great big old fish is fed by
a bunch of little tiny fishes that ain't that big. Could you
have come up with that? God did. What an amazing thing. God created. I've seen whales
jump up out of the water. And it's playing. We'll read
that in a minute. Well, you go on and read it, Job 41. But you
got on site and it's taking that thing that was 15 feet tall,
that flipper, and smacking it on the ground, on the water.
Just playing. Look what God made. That's amazing. Turn to Psalm
104. David has good commentary on
creation too. Psalm 104 verse 24. O LORD, how manifold are Thy
works! In wisdom Thou hast made them
all. The earth is full of Thy riches. So is this great and wide sea.
Oh, look at the ocean. Wherein are things creeping innumerable,
things swimming innumerable, both small and great beasts. There's little tiny fishes, there's
mid-sized ones, great big ones, whales. There go the ships. There is that Leviathan, the
whale, whom Thou hast made to play therein. He goes and plays. These wait upon Thee. They wait
upon the Lord, that Thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
They wait for the Lord to feed them. That Thou givest them,
they gather. Thou openest Thine hand, and
they are filled with good. You feed them, Lord. But thou
hidest thy face, they're troubled. If you don't feed them, they're
in trouble. Thou takest away their breath, they die and return
to their dust. He controls their bounds, their
days are numbered. Thou sendest forth thy spirit,
they are created. And thou renewest the face of
the earth. The glory of the Lord shall endure
forever. The Lord shall rejoice in his
works. In his words, the Lord created
and sustains all creation. Wow. That's amazing. That's something man can't do.
How small we are. One day, I know Don always wants
to take an RV around the US. I want to take a sailboat to
Hawaii. It will take me about 20 days. That's what I want to
do one day. Somebody said, you ought to have at least a 50 foot
boat. And I said, if you're out and you've got 1,500 miles to
the closest touch of land, it don't matter if it's 50 foot
or 100 foot or 1,000 foot boat, it's that big. It's tiny, isn't
it? The Lord's creation is amazing. And He controls everything in
it. He controls His creation. He doesn't just sustain it. He
doesn't just make it. He doesn't just keep it alive and tell it
when to die. He controls it. Remember whenever
the Lord multiplied those fishes and the loaves? for those thousands
of people waiting to see Him. His disciples, they were trying
to fish one night, and they couldn't catch anything. These were professional
fishermen, commercial fishermen. They didn't get nothing. And
He didn't just know where the fish were. He said, you cast
your nets on the other side of the boat. And He drew them fish.
He put them fish in that net, didn't He? Then it was tax time,
and these servants, they didn't have no money. They couldn't
pay tribute to Caesar. And Christ told Peter, He said,
you cast a hook, a hook, Not a lure. Not baited. A hook. A bare hook. And the first fish
you pull up, the first one you catch is going to have money
in its mouth. You take that and go pay. What would that prove? There was no bait. And it was the exact fish with
the money that was required. That's double proof. God made
that fish swallow a coin or put one in its mouth. I don't know
what he did. But he had a hook. with no bait on it, and the fish
that God commanded came to him. He made that fish, he sustained
that fish, and that fish serves him as he sees fit. That's an
amazing God. The birds, Elijah was told, him
and Ahab got into it. He headed out with the king.
The Lord said, you go over closer to the Jordan. Go by that brook,
and you can have water to drink from the brook, and I'm going
to send ravens to bring you meat and bread every day. A man asked
me one time, he said, how are you going to eat? How are you
going to make a living? I said, Lord, send birds to feed me. I ain't worried
about it. I ain't one hungry yet. He commanded the birds to
bring meat and bread to him. Fed his prophet. He feeds the
birds. Not a sparrow falls to the ground
without the Father. Christ is the creator and the
sustainer and the commander of all life, period. That's just
who He is. On day five, what do we see?
We see who He is. My friend Maurice once said,
if man had any sense, he would stand back and say, what a God.
What a God we have. But this day five also gives
us a picture of what the Lord Jesus Christ did. That's who
He is. Here's what He did. Fish. What's these fish He's talking
about? He created. That's us. We're born out of troubled waters,
weren't we? Waters of wrath. Men are fishes. The Lord called
some commercial fishermen. to be His apostles. And He said,
I'm going to make you fishers of men. Fishers of men. We swim in wrath. We drink iniquity
like water. Don't even know we're wet. We're
scaly. We're slimy. We can't even walk
on land. That's us. And birds, that ain't us. We're not birds, are we? They
fly in the heavens. They don't have skin and scales. They're
robed in feathers. The Lord robed them in feathers. After John baptized Christ, the
Holy Ghost descended in the shape of a dove and landed on his shoulder. It said in Matthew 23, O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathereth her chicks under her
wings? And ye would not. The Lord is described as an eagle.
Turn over to Obadiah. You got Daniel, Hosea, Joel,
Amos, Obadiah, and if you get to Jonah, you went too far. I had marked it so I could get
there quick, and then I found it and forgot I marked it. Did all right. Obadiah, just before Jonah, only
21 verses. But here in verse 3, Obadiah
3, it says, "...the pride of thine heart hath deceived thee,
thou that dwellest in the cliffs of the rock, whose habitation
is high, and saith in his heart, who shall bring me down to the
ground?" Oh, what lofty thoughts! What proud thoughts! High and
mighty thoughts! Verse 4, "...though thou exalt
thyself as the eagle, That's just what man tries to make himself,
isn't it? Make himself God. Bring himself up. Though thou
exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among
the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. Every high place is going to
be knocked down. I just pray the Lord does it for His people
while we're on this earth, while we're alive to see it. If not,
it will be eternal. What must be conquered for a
fish to be made a bird? For a wretched man to be made
in the Spirit and image of Christ? Death must happen. Do you know
that? The whale. That's the only animal
mentioned by name. Adam named all the animals. God
said, this is the whale. I made fishes, I made fowl, and
I made a whale. Here's what Christ did for those
He was made one with. Turn over to Matthew chapter
12. Matthew 12, verse 38. Then certain
of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we
would see a sign from thee. Show us something more. But he
answered, said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign. And there shall no sign be given
to it but the sign of the prophet Jonas, of Jonah. For as Jonas
was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, in the
grave, we know that, don't we? So shall the Son of Man be three
days and three nights in the heart of the earth, in the tomb. That's where he had to go. That
whale was necessary. That grave was declared. All
mankind's facing a grave. Christ faced it for His people.
It says in Revelation 1, When I saw Him, I fell at His feet
as dead. And He laid His right hand upon
me, saying to me, Fear not. I am the first and last, the
Alpha and Omega. I am He that liveth and was dead.
And behold, I am alive forevermore. That's Christ. He walked this
earth. He died. And He's alive forevermore. He
says, Amen. And I have the keys of hell and
death. He's conquered it. He has the keys to it. He owns
it. It is. He earned it. Paul told us, he
said, for he must reign till he hath put all his enemies under
his feet, and that last enemy shall be destroyed. He's conquered
it, but it shall be destroyed is death. Death. Read Job 41 one time. It's the
whole thing's about that Leviathan, the great whale. And you read
that as the grave. Go home and read Job 41 and you
read that big old monster, that big old whale as death. You're
going to see some things. You're not going to make a deal
with the grave. Old Ralph Stanley used to sing,
oh death, won't you spare me over for another year? You ain't
going to make a contract with it. You ain't going to deal with
it. There in Job 41 it says, will
he make a covenant with thee? Will thou take him for a servant
forever? This death is coming. We don't play with the grave.
We don't tempt the Lord. Wilt thou play with him as a
bird? Wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Is that going to
be your pet? The grave's come for us all,
and we have no weapon of defense in and of ourselves in our natural
state against it. Ain't nothing we can do. He says,
darts are counted as stubble, and he laugheth at the shaking
of a spear. That's one we looked at this
morning. The Lord laughs. I heard a man say one time, he said,
I wouldn't let somebody kill me. I wouldn't let the Lord kill
me. I laugh out of pity. What a shame. And there's a sting
of death. There was. There is for mankind,
isn't there? It says in Job 41.30, sharp stones
are under him. He spreadeth sharp pointed things
upon the mire, upon the mirey clay. How can he stab dirt? I
don't know, but it can. How can he stab mud? It can. That's death. Turn over to Romans
6. Romans chapter 6. In the person of Christ and in
His work we are robed in His righteousness. We'll be with
Him in the heavens forever. And sin and death and hell have
no more dominion over us anymore. Look here in Romans 6 verse 3.
Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into His death into His well, into His grave
with Him. Therefore we are buried with
Him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness alive." He's living now. For me to live is
Christ, isn't it? For me to die is gain. For if
we have been planted together in the likeness of His death,
we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. We shall.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that body
of sin might be destroyed, and henceforth we should not serve
sin. For He that is dead, if we're dead with Him, we're freed
from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe also that we shall live with Him. knowing that Christ, being raised
from the dead, dieth no more. Now death hath no more dominion
over him, over us, does it? For in that he died, he died
unto sin once, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves
to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ
our Lord. The One who created, sustains, and rules all things. Those majestic things that just
amaze us. He's conquered sin, death, and
hell for His people. What about my sin? God put it
as far as the east is from the west. What about hell? Hell ain't
got no claim to me. I'm the Lord's. I'm His son.
I'm His child. What about death? That's just
shedding this old body. I want rid of it anyway. I don't
want to sin no more. I want to be with Him. Be made
like Him. Whatever that is. If I look like
a bird and I'm flying in heaven, that's fine. But He says I want
to be made like Him. I want to be conformed to Him,
His Spirit and His image. I believe Him. That's a comfort. That's a blessing. If the Lord reveals Himself to
somebody, that's a blessing. That's a blessing. Christ's done
it all. He went to the grave for us. He's conquered all these
things for us. I ain't nothing but a slimy old fish. I'm going to be made like Him.
Have His Spirit and image. What a thought. That's a blessing.
Turn back in our text. We're in Genesis 1. I'll let
you go. Genesis 1 verse 22. This is the
first time this is mentioned in the Scriptures. And God blessed them." Boy, if
that's happened to you, Christ has conquered your sin, death,
and hell. You're blessed. That's the blessed
man. God blessed them, saying, He spoke. Be fruitful, multiply, and fill
the waters and the seas, and let the fowl multiply the earth."
Because of the worthiness of Christ, who He is, the Creator
and Sustainer of all things, and Him conquering the grave,
and sin for His people, dying for us, rising again. Because
of all that, who He is and what He did, we are blessed. We're blessed. And His seed,
after its own kind, it multiplies. Everything this old fish makes
is going to be fish, ain't it? Everything the Lord uses me to
call His people out, it's going to be His seed. That incorruptible
seed made just like Him because it's His. And it sustains. It doesn't diminish. That gene
pool doesn't get watered down. It's the same. Verse 23 says,
"...and the evening and the morning were the fifth day." I never saw myself. People put
fish under the bumpers, don't they? So everybody can know they're
a Christian, and then they cut you off and honk. Don't act like
one, do they? Ain't very loving. There's just
no fish. There's a whale about to eat
me. Gonna get me. Lord conquered that whale. toward
asunder. Death has no claim on me. And
I'll be in the heaven, the firmament, Christ forevermore. What a thought,
huh? That's amazing.