The book of Genesis, and if you
turn with me to the chapter one of the book of Genesis. Genesis chapter one. What a comfort
for God's people is found in verse one of Genesis chapter
one. In the beginning, God. Now, when I was not saved, that
wasn't very much appreciated, but when the Lord saved me, that
was greatly appreciated, that He provided this information
to me about Himself, and He didn't go through a long process trying
to prove it. It was simply a declaration.
He declared in the beginning, God. And we find there in Genesis
chapter one, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth. Now our message this morning
is going to be found in nine verses of scripture in this first
chapter, and we'd like to entitle it, And God Said. Now that's where our hope is,
what God has to say about it. That's where this man that knew
something declared. He declared the word of God.
He didn't try to make it better. He didn't try to doctor it. He
didn't try to put sugar on it. He just declared the gospel. And it was an offensive word
to me because I was so caught up in my own works. And in religion,
we are caught up in our works. We are working to approach God
on our own righteousness. And then after we're saved, we
find out that the Bible says our righteousness is as filthy
rags. It's not going to approach God.
We must have his righteousness. You know, he has to do something
for us about our sin. We don't go a day without recognizing
that we have some frailties and we find out that we are sinners
by nature and sinners by practice and sinners by choice. So something
has to be dealt with. Our sin has to be dealt with.
And we also must have a righteousness that is above our righteousness.
We must have the righteousness of Christ. And then we also need
a spiritual nature. Without it, we'll not see God.
You must be born again. That's what God said through
his servant John. You must be born again. Without
it, you cannot see God and you cannot see the kingdom of God.
So we must have a spiritual nature. Well, every bit of those three
things are tied up in the work and ministry of Almighty God. And we're not participants in
it. We're recipients of it. We are blessed by grace in Christ
Jesus. He takes care of all of those
three issues that are so needful for us to ever see God. We find
here in the book of Genesis chapter one, and I would like to read
there in verse three, nine times in this chapter, these words
are recorded, and God said. Then we'd like to spend a little
time in other places in the Bible that shares with us that the
word of God is really powerful. It is not just a suggestion. It is powerful. It is overcoming,
overwhelming. He does things by his word that
we can't even think about doing. Sometimes we mouth the words,
hoping that they will be as effectual as the word of God, but they
don't, they're not. So here in the book of Genesis
chapter one, verse three, and God said, now he didn't have
to vocalize it, but he recorded it as if he did. And he says
here something that is so powerful, let there be light. And you know the results of that?
And there was light. When God speaks, there is going
to be things happen. When God speaks here, he said,
let there be light. Now, in the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth, and it tells us in verse two that
there were some problems. I can't understand all that's
written in verse two, but I believe it, and I find the result is
God said, let there be light, and there was light. And then
if we look in verse six of the same chapter, and God said, let
there be a firmament. You know, as we go down through
here, we find exactly how God saves his people from their sins. He enlightens us and lets us
know that there is stability only in God. There's a firmament. There is a rock, a foundation
rock, a sound rock, a rock that he establishes upon. It tells
us in the book of the Psalms that he takes us out of a horrible
pit Now, the more we go through life, the more we find out what
a horrible pit we were in. If we're believers, we find out
that, oh my gosh, it's worse than I thought. When we read
the scriptures about the fall of man, it turns out it's worse
than we thought. It's more than just saying a
lie. It's more than just thinking something. It's our heart that
has a problem, and it cannot be taken care of by ourselves.
So it's a bad situation. Well, We find we must have a
foundation and he takes us out of a horrible pit and sets us
on a solid rock. Well, that solid rock, as we
are established in Christ Jesus, so it gives us a firmament. He
settles us. We're no longer on slippery ground. We're no longer on a slippery
slope. We're foundation upon the Lord
Jesus Christ, and he has established our goings and put a new song
in our heart. Well, there it says in verse
six, and the Lord said, let there be a firmament in the midst of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Now,
for me to explain all of that, I had someone say one time, I
think I'll build a model of the ark. I says, you can't do it
with the word of God. A lot of things left out. You know
why? Because if we could, we'd make
an idol out of it. There's a lot of things left
out in God. God let the children of Israel have a brazen serpent,
and that brazen serpent, in type and shadow and in reality, was
a deliverance to a lot of people that had been bitten by snakes.
You know what they were doing 400 years later with that brazen
serpent? They were bowing down to it and
worshiping it. Hezekiah came along, grounded up and straddled
on the water and made him drink it. People are funny, aren't
we? We'll worship anything, and God
has a great way of preventing us from doing it. Let's just
share. I'll make an ark. Here's the length, the width,
the breadth, and how many floors it's going to have, and I'll
put a door in it, and I'll bring all the animals in it, and I'll
put all the humans that I want in it, eight people, and I'll
deliver them. Okay, God, thank you. That's
all the information I needed. Well, it goes on here in verse
4, verse 9 of this chapter, it says, God called the firmament,
verse 9, and God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together and unto one place and let the dry land appear and it
was so. God said, God said, nine times
in this chapter we find these words, God said. There must be
some glorious things about what God has to say about things.
It is far more important what God has to say than what we have
to say about it. because we'll always come to
a wrong conclusion if left to ourselves. All right? It tells
us there in verse 11, and God said, let the earth bring forth
grass and herb and yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind whose seed is in itself upon the Lord upon
the earth. And it was so. Let the grass
grow, let the trees grow, and they will bring forth after their
kind. Do you know He is stipulating
here a system that He will work all things by? Everything will
bring forth after its kind. When Adam fell, what could only
be, what is the only product that could be produced when Adam
fell? sons and daughters after his kind. They had the same fallen
nature. They were in the same condition
that Adam was, and that is dead in trespasses and sin. Now, we
have a problem by nature. We're dead in trespasses and
sin, and there is only one hope for us, and that's what God said.
Let's go on here for just a moment. It tells us in verse 14, and
God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
and divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and
for seasons and for days and for years. God said, let there
be stars, let there be planets. You know, some of the pictures
that we get back from, is it the Hubble telescope? There might
be another one. I mean, you cannot, in your mind,
cannot conceive how huge The universe is. It is absolutely
huge. Light years, it's unmeasurable. We cannot come to the end of
it. And yet out there in a place in space is an insignificant
sphere that has water and land and God put human beings on it
out of all the mass. He had a planet according to
the election of grace. Nowhere else is there anything
even comparable to it. Oh, we can have, maybe there
was life on Mars. We found some ice. Maybe there's
life here. Maybe there's life here. There's
life here on this earth because God put it here. And there is
only eternal life granted to people that are on this earth
because God put it that way. So let there be lights in the
heavens, just reflect on it from time to time. The heavens declare
the glory of God, the firmament showeth his handiwork, and only
the fool will say in his heart, no God. And then it says in the
next verse, that God looked down from heaven to see if there were
any that did seek after him, that would follow him. And this
is his commentary on it, not mine. He found none. So he's gonna have to do something
in order for anybody to ever be in the kingdom of heaven.
It's up to him because we cannot accomplish it. We're dead in
trespasses and sin. We have this blight and it is
so effective in us that we cannot think a spiritual thought. We
cannot read the Bible with any, make any sense out of it. It
must be by revelation, and that's what God does, all right? Here
in verse 20 of this chapter, it says, and God said, let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures. God said
it. And then in verse 24 of that same chapter, and God said, let
the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle
and creeping things. And it was good. And in verse
26 of that chapter, and God said, let us make man in our image.
after our likeness, and let him have dominion over the fish of
the sea." You know, when we get to the next chapter, we find
not only does God, Elohim, that's what God is translated from,
in the next chapter, we find Jehovah Elohim, and he describes
how he created man. He said he made man of the dust
of the earth, And he would have stayed in that condition till
this day if it had not been for the next few words, and God breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living
soul. There was no life in that person. And you know what? He didn't
take a vote about whether he wanted life or not. It was imposed
upon him. God breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life and man became a living soul. And then we find
out that God made a covenant with him. The day you eat, you
shall surely die. And when he ate, he died spiritually
instantaneously and darkness was upon the face of himself.
And he realized that he was naked. And we're in that condition today
without Christ. And then finally in verse, 29
of that chapter, it says, and God said, behold, I have given
you every herb bearing seeds, which is upon the face of the
earth and every tree in which the fruit of a tree yielding
seed to you and you shall be for meat. Nine times in this
chapter, God said, turn with me if you would to the book of
Hebrews chapter one. In the book of Hebrews chapter
one, we find some more said about what God said. What he has to
say is far more valuable. far more spiritual, far more
necessary than what we have to say. That's why a gospel preacher,
the preacher that brought me to the gospel, only used the
word of God. He never put in philosophy, he
never put in doctrine in the sense of, you have to have this
done to you, you have to have that done to you. You know, Apostle
Paul spent most of his time, after he was saved, talking about
the things that you don't need for salvation. You don't need
to be a Jew. You don't need circumcision.
You don't need all these things that everybody's telling you
about. You need Christ. You need the gospel. You need
Him. And here in the book of Hebrews, chapter one, we find
in verse three of that chapter, chapter one, verse three, these
words, it says, who, this is speaking about Christ, who be
in the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by what? By the word of his power. How does this world stay together? How does the atom stay together? How is it that this works out
like it does? Because God, it says here, he
upholdeth by the word of his power, he upholdeth all things,
natural things, physical things, spiritual things. He is the all
and in all that takes care of all things. Well, there's a bunch
of people right now that are scared to death about what's
going on over there in Israel. I was talking to a man the other
day, can you imagine what it was in 1914 when the entire world
went to war? And World War II when the entire
world went to war? What people were thinking about
that, you know, God has as much of an interest in electing a
dog catcher as he does what's going on over there. He has them
both in control. He knows exactly who's going
to be elected as dog catcher because he appointed it. And
he has knowledge of exactly what's going to go on over there. And
he says, you will not find comfort in your flesh, you will not find
comfort in your religion, you will not find comfort in your
family over these issues. You will only find comfort in
the Lord Jesus Christ when you realize that all of this is being
worked out according to his determinate counsel and foreknowledge. Somebody
is going to hear the gospel as a result of this. Everything
happens for the purpose of somebody hearing the gospel of God's free
and sovereign grace over every difficulty and everything that
has ever happened. Will he start a war that a lost
sheep could hear the gospel? The word is absolutely yes, he
will do that. A man in this congregation years
ago said he was down on some island in the Pacific and he
would have never, this is his words, God has a way of doing
things, but his word, I would have never have heard the gospel
except for World War II and my family that was in Holland got
me out of a hotspot. And eventually I got to the United
States, got to a place in California and heard the gospel. Now that's
not just one instance. God does everything that is absolutely
required to get all of his lost sheep to hear the gospel of his
free and sovereign grace. And he will do anything. He will
move any mountain in order to do that. So Christian friends,
don't be afraid. He's working out his good pleasure. He upholdeth all things by the
word of his power. Go back to the Old Testament
for just a moment, if you would, over here in the Psalms again.
In the book of the Psalms, Psalm 33. Psalm 33. And verse six. Psalm 33 and verse
six. By the word of the Lord. Did
you catch that? by the word of the Lord were
the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of
his mouth. He gathers the waters of the
sea together as a heap. He layeth up the depth in the
storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For
he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. He spake and it was done. That's
God. Have you ever wished you had
that power? Oh, sometimes with my kids, I wished I'd had that
power. Do what I say. Oh, I don't know. And I did the
same thing with my dad and mother, but God spake and it is done. I'm thankful that he's that God.
that is authority and also the power to deal with his authority. He can say something, I can say
something and have no emphasis at all to get it done. But God,
when he speaks, he has the power to get it done. And when he said
that he would save his people from their sins, How do we know
that? His name shall be called Jesus
for he shall save his people from their sins. He has the power
and authority to do that. So he spake and it was done. And then in verse 10, It says,
the Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught. He
maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of
the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all
generations. Blessed is the nation. And that
word nation should have been translated as people, because
I've had people say, well, since we're not a Christian nation,
we've never been a Christian nation. We may have had some
people that believed in Christian principles, but no nation has
ever been a Christian nation. But a people, notice here, blessed
is the people whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he
has chosen for his own inheritance. That's the blessed people, are
those he has chosen for his own inheritance. Well, let's look
at a few places in the scripture where God's spoken marvelous
things took place, particularly upon humanity. So if you turn
with me over to the book of Mark, the book of Mark chapter one,
the book of Mark chapter one, We find that the Lord spoke and
marvelous things takes place. God works all things after the
counsel of his own will. When he speaks, things take place.
He's all powerful, almighty. He is in control. He takes things
seriously because he is a serious God and he has created all things
for his glory. Here in the book of Mark chapter
one and verse 40, it says these words, Mark chapter one and verse
40, and there came a leper. I've never met a leper. But from
biblical reading, I find out it is not a very pleasant disease. I think of the big C today is
comparable. Cancer. It's more comparable. It's something that I can think
about. I've never known anybody that was a leper, but I know
a lot of people that have had cancer and a lot of people that
have passed this world due to that. And it wasn't by mistake. Never think that it's a mistake.
God is working all things after the counsel of his own will.
Now, sometimes it chafes our flesh, but God is in control.
All right, here it says, there was a leper. There came a leper
to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto
him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Now this man has
had a lot of understanding. Someone has told him about this
man. Someone has been an evangelist and said, this man has great
power. Someone has come to him and said,
if you go talk to that man, you'll have maybe have something done.
Did you notice his words though? If thou wilt. He didn't say,
I've been told that you're going to fix me. No, he said, if thou
wilt. And that's how someone comes
to God. That's how someone comes to Christ.
If thou wilt, you can have mercy on them. Mercy is never demanded. Go into a court of law and demand
mercy. You're asking for mercy. Judge,
have mercy on me. I know I'm wrong. I've done wrong.
Have mercy on me. Now, it's up to the judge whether
he's going to have mercy on you or not. He could simply say,
no, I'm not. Or, you know, I've decided I'm going to have mercy
on you. I'm commuting your sentence. You're free to go. Well, here
a leper comes to the Lord Jesus Christ and says, if thou wilt,
thou can make me clean. He's a leper. He's got a terrible
disease. You know what he had to say to
the Lord before he could ever approach him? Unclean, unclean,
unclean, unclean. That's what he had to say. He
was a leper. And then Jesus moved with compassion,
put forth his hand and touched him and saith unto him, I will
be thou clean. And as soon as he had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was cleansed. What a statement we read. Just
the same power that God created the heavens and the earth is
the power that the Lord exercised in his own personal ministry
when he met people and healed them. By the word of his power,
he took a leper and cleansed him. This man no longer had that
leprosy in his body. It was the will of God that was
exercised here. If thou wilt, thou can make me
clean. I'd like to be clean, but it's up to you. Well, God
have mercy on my soul, if you please. Let's look at another
in the book of Mark again. Chapter four, Mark chapter four. In Mark chapter four, we read
these words. Verse 39. Mark chapter four, verse 39.
Have you ever wished you could stop the wind? We live in a very windy area. At Columbia Gorge, we either
have wind going from east to west, or west to east. And sometimes it's just a breeze,
and sometimes it's stronger than a breeze, and sometimes it's
very hard wind. And there, you know, you have
certain things planned. We had the U, the world, the
world, surfboard competition or what
do they call it parasail competition there at hood river because it's
windy all the time five days the wind didn't blow for five days they they had to
call it And other days we have wind and we wish, oh, wind, could
it settle down? You know, there is one person
that can take our troubledness. As we read here, verse 39, he
arose and rebuked the wind. What does he do with our troubledness
in salvation? He rebukes it. And he says unto
the sea, peace be still. You know what he said to Peter
after Peter denied him three times? Well, the next thing he
says to him is peace be unto you. The Lord brought peace. This is what he does. He speaks
peace to us. Oh, I spent years in agony in
religion, wondering whether I was saved or not. I used to go fishing
and Lord, if I'm saved, let me catch a fish. Isn't that silly? My goodness, you look back and
it's just plain silly, but it was serious business to me. I
was lost as a goose and didn't know anything about salvation
until I heard the gospel. And you know what? He has given
me peace. He settled the wind. He's put
me on a solid rock. He counsels me every day from
His Word. He comforts me every day from
His Word. And even when I'm not in His
Word, even in the night seasons, He comes and we get to thank
Him for His goodness to us that He's given peace. Settle the
issue. I'm no longer at enmity with
God. And he, I found out he had an
everlasting love for me. Never was his wrath against me.
His wrath is against those without Christ. He chose me in the council
halls of eternity and wrote my names down in the land books
of life. And he says, I'll promise I'll never have any wrath towards
you. I'll pour out all my wrath that you deserve on my son on
the cross. And he will take my wrath. He will take my indignation.
He will take my punishment. And that's exactly what he did.
And he is a savior that actually saves his people from their sins. Peace be still, and the wind
ceased, and there was a great calm, and golly, we thank God
for it. Oh my. I'm not upset all the
time anymore. You know, we get concerned. But
we don't have to be upset because we think, where do I stand? Where do I stand? Oh, let's look
at another one. Oh, again, in the book of Mark.
Mark chapter five. Just the next chapter here, Mark
chapter five. We read these words, Mark chapter
five and verse 41. And God said, here it says in
Mark chapter five and verse 41, and he took the damsel by the
hand This young girl had died. Boy,
if there's any any place. She was physically dead. Just
like we're spiritually dead. And there was no ability in herself
to ever raise her out of that condition. Spiritually speaking,
there's nobody that can raise us out of this condition that
we're in by nature. We go to religion for it, we
go to a preacher for it, we go to a priest for it, we go to
this, we go to that, we get involved in church, we clean up the yards,
we do all those things hoping. And then the Lord shows us that
there's only one place where we can have this. And it's found
here in this verse of scripture, verse 41, he took the damsel
by the hand and said unto her, Now, he didn't ask her to repeat
anything. He didn't ask her to come forward. He didn't ask her
to bow down. He didn't ask her to do anything.
You know, we find often in the scriptures, there may be an entire
crowd around the Lord Jesus, but he is alone with one individual.
That's how he does his business, is alone with us. Get alone with
God, alone. And this is what he said. Talitha
Kumai, which is being interpreted, damsel, young lady, I say unto
thee, arise. And look at the next verse. And
straightway the damsel arose and walked, for she was the age
12 years, and they were astonished with great astonishment. I've often wanted to ask these
guys that say they can heal people, go down to the mortuary, then
I'll think about it. They never go there. They know it's impossible. With the Lord, it is possible.
Nothing is impossible. And by his word, he said unto
her. Now that translation there is
Chaldean. You know, the Lord is, he speaks
to us in our language, where we are. That man that was from
Ethiopia out there in that chariot reading the book of Isaiah, we
find that Philip went up to him and where he was is where he
met him. And he met him and he said, do
you understand what you're reading? He says, how can I know anything
unless someone teach me? And he got up there and read
the 53rd chapter of the book of Isaiah, or part of it, and
said, beginning at the same place, he declared unto him, Jesus. That's the key. The scriptures
declare Christ. And so this one Christ, by the
word of his power, raised a young lady from the dead. That's what
he does when he saves us from our sin. He really spiritually
raises us from the spiritual death and gives us that spiritual
life that we absolutely need in order to meet him. We have
to have the sin problem dealt with, and he dealt with the sin
problem at the cross. We have to have our righteousness
dealt with, and he imputes his righteousness to us, and we have
to have a spiritual being in order to meet God, and he gives
us that spiritual being when he says, you must be born again,
and those that are are created a new spirit in Christ Jesus. A new spiritual in Christ Jesus. All right, look with me if you
would in chapter nine of the book of Mark and verse 25. Mark
chapter nine and verse 25. When Jesus saw the people came
running together, he rebuked the foul spirit. You know, a
lot of, A lot of movies deal with demonology and a lot of
people are involved in demonology. And I've ever even been around
preachers that, oh boy, I was in one of those things where
they cast out demons. You know what? There's only one
that can do that. And he deals with our demon.
He deals with our nature. He deals with us. And the person
who says, I was not a demon before, I was not disturbed before, is
a liar. We are. our own worst enemy. We, by nature, are our own worst
enemy. We will not bow. We will not
come. It takes God to do that, and
then we thank him. But here's an instance where
a demon is dealt with. It says, when Jesus saw that
the people come running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying
unto him, thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out
of him and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried and
rent him. No, God, what he does for us
when we're saved, he takes care of every problem that we have.
Everything that we've ever inherited in Adam, he takes care of it.
Oh, foul spirit. We never had a clean thought
about God. We never had a clean thought about his word. We never
had a clean thought about God's people. And he comes and demands,
he commands, thou foul spirit come out. That's what happens
when we're born again. He takes care of all the issues.
In chapter seven of the book of Luke, chapter seven of the
book of Luke. In chapter seven of the book
of Luke in verse 14, we have again, There is somebody, this
is a young man, I've said this I think a thousand times, but
I'm going to say it again, and I may have said it here. There's
many ways that we have of describing things. That's a good thing,
that's the best thing, and that's good thing, best, and best. We
qualify. But you know what? When it comes
to debt, we never have to qualify anything. Nobody is dead debtor
and debtest. We don't have to qualify. We're
all graveyard dead when we're dead. And here again, God deals
with a dead person. Now he's showing us that he deals
with dead people. He's by demonstration, by spiritual
application, he's showing us that even though in our youth,
in our middle age, or in our old age, The only one that can
bring life to us is God Almighty. The only one that can breathe
life into us is God Almighty. And he does that here, and he
says, and he came and touched the beer. Now that's the thing
they're carrying this young man out to the graveyard. He's uncovered, he's probably
got some clothes on, and he's probably got some flowers on,
and this is their culture. They take him out to the graveyard
and bury him however they did it in their culture. But on the
way, to his final resting place, we call it. The Lord Jesus came
and he said to him that bare him, stood still, and he said,
young man, I say unto thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and
began to speak, and he delivered him to his mother. What a miracle,
and that's the grace God gives to everyone he ever saves. He raises us from the dead. And you know, the one that just
speaks volumes is over in the book of John chapter 11, a man
by the name of Lazarus. This man's been dead so long,
even his sister says there's no hope until the final resurrection
because already he stinks. You know, the Bible tells us
that our sin is a stench to the nostrils of God. We stink. There's not a good thing that
we can do, and there's not a good thing that we can do. God must
do it. Well, let's just look here, a
couple other places of scripture, and then we'll close. Here in
the book of John chapter 11, verse 43. You know this account, read this
whole chapter at your leisure, but verse 43. John chapter 11, verse 43. It's interesting, Lazarus is
sick. He gets word of it. He's healed
people from a long distance before, but he doesn't. He doesn't leave
early to get over there in time before he dies. He stays there
for two more days. God is sovereign. He works all
things after the counsel of his own will, and he's gonna just
let Lazarus die. Now, his disciples, he tells
them he's asleep, and they said, well, he's doing better if he's
sleeping. No, he goes ahead and says, he's dead. So let's go. And there it says in verse 43,
and when he thus has spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus
come forth. And he that was dead came forth
bound hand and foot with grave clothes. And his face was bound
about with a napkin. And Jesus said unto them, loose
him and let him go. You know what they wanted to
do with Lazarus now? They wanted to kill him. They
plotted to kill Lazarus. Why? Because he was a demonstration
of God's almighty power. The world cannot stand God in
action, God doing things that he determined to do. And so they
plotted against him. Well, he's alive, just like God
raises us from the dead. There was a preacher up there
just across the river in Washington from us that said this in a sermon.
Lazarus had to consent to be raised from the dead. Can you imagine how idiocracy
that is? Man doesn't understand death.
Lazarus didn't have any consent in the matter. He's just like
us. If a consent was for us to make, we'd never make it. We're
thankful that God gets involved and takes care of business and
then raises us and then says, we say, thank you, Lord. Thank
you. Lord, you know, in John chapter
19 and verse 30, the Lord spoke again and he said, it is finished. Redemption is finished. It's
over. Nothing else is to be added or made in any way. God, the
son declared it. God said the work, all the work
is the Lord's. He left nothing undone. No work
of mine. A songwriter put it, complete
in thee, no work of mine could take, dear Lord, the place of
thine. Thy blood hath pardon bought
for me, and I shall stand complete in thee. God said, let there
be light. And God said, Lazarus, arise. God is active and doing his bidding. And when he says the last time
to the last lost sheep that is in this world, born or unborn,
he'll wait, because he's long suffering to us. We're not willing
that any should perish. He will wait till that last one
is born. And when that one comes to an
age that hears the gospel, this is going to be wrapped up like
a curtain. And it doesn't matter whether they build a temple.
It doesn't matter who's at war. That will be the end. And the
church says, thank you, Lord. I don't have to worry about it
anymore.