I invite your attention back
to Genesis chapter 1. The title of my message this morning
is Creation. The first thing I would say is
that this book, the Bible, the inspired Word of God, is not
a science book. It's not a science book. There
is some science contained in it, but it's not a science book. Science is a study which requires
theory and proof, postulation and empirical evidence through
trial and error and proof that is based on getting the same
result being repeated over and over again. And science as we know it in
this western hemisphere had as its design in the beginning to
find ways to glorify God. That's what it was designed was.
The greatest theories that had been tested and proved, theories
that changed the world like pneumatics or hydrodynamics or electricity
or astronomy and such were studied and proven in an effort by believers
to honor God. Isaac Newton claimed to be a
believer. And these great theories or scientific
experiments that changed the world, and there were five or
six of them that were really big, all of them were designed
by the men who did it because they saw God had made the world.
And they just wanted to figure out how it worked. And in doing
so, honor God for his great plan and purpose. Now later, sites
became, men thought, a way to prove the existence of God. And
today, it's pretty much employed to prove that He does not exist. But this book before you is not
a book of science. The progress of humanity, the
wisdom of the world, is foolishness to God, and it's only fit to
prove the downward course of man, because the smarter he gets,
the less he acknowledges God. The wiser he gets at his own
conceits, the less he acknowledges God. And it's been that way since
the fall. Things are not getting better,
they're getting worse as far as humanity is concerned. Now this book and the thing it
declares and the things it says about God and His creation can
neither be understood nor can they be proven by scientific
endeavor. You can't do it. You can't do
it. Now I know of many fine authors, many of whom I have in my library,
who have written tomes to prove inspiration and disprove evolution. To use the Bible to attack science
is to negate the purpose of the Bible. It's that simple. It's
just a waste of time. Those who would have creationism,
taught in school along with evolution because they believe that's a
Christian thing to do, don't know what they're doing. First
of all, I don't want anybody to teach the Bible, save for
somebody whom God has raised up to teach the Bible. But secondly,
you can teach creationism all day and you will not disprove
evolution. I don't believe in evolution.
I believe God created the heavens and the earth. I believe that.
I believe evolution is a way a man uses to exalt himself. Because he can look at the creature
crawling from the primordial ooze and say, look how far I've
come. But if you know anything about
God, you look at God and say, look how far I've fallen. And
it's just the opposite view. This book is understood by faith. That's the only way it's understood.
It's understood by faith, and faith is given by God. And this book has a singular
theme and message, and that message is Christ. And his finish worked
on behalf of an innumerable company of his creatures. His creatures,
which resulted in what is called in the New Testament a new creation
or a new creature. And that's what this story is
about. Now we know it's true because
God said it's true. We believe it because God said
it's true. And we know and understand it by faith in no other way according
to Hebrews chapter 11. We understand by faith that the
worlds were formed from things that were not by the word of
God's mouth. We understand that by believing, you say, well,
believing don't make it so. And again, I say, if God gave
you the faith, it does make it so. And belief is where we get
our assurance, not the other way around. A lot of people look
for assurance so they can believe they're saved. We believe we're
saved, and that's our assurance. When Peter was addressed in John
chapter 6 about the disciples leaving, the Lord said, Will
you leave also? And Peter said, To whom shall
we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe
and are sure, and that's the That's how it runs. That's the
chronology of that. We believe and are sure that
thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Old Paul wrote
in 2 Corinthians in verse 5 about this thing called the new creation,
which is what the old creation is about. Now I preached on this
before and I'll probably preach on it again because I love the
subject. The 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17 says,
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. What does that mean? That as
he exists in this new creation, he did not exist before. Old
things are passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. And that's not some treatise on getting you to stop something
and start something new. whatever you were born with is
passed away and of no use whatsoever in your new birth, in this new
creature. And since the Scriptures speak
of Christ, and they all do, that's what this book is about. He said
to those who studied the Scriptures, you search the Scriptures, friend,
and you think you find eternal life, but they are they which
testify of me. The story of creation, which
is true in itself, is actually about new creation. That's what
it's about. a new creation and it's only
understood by God-given faith which relies entirely on the
Word of God, on the Word of God. If you can find something in
your life or about your life or something you've done or something
you've seen to support your view of God, that's a bad support
network. We believe what God has written,
thus saith the Lord. is the mantra and the banner
of the child of God. I preached on this many times
as I said over the years and recently while preaching in a
meeting at Brother Poole's down in Hendersonville, Brother Don
Fortner and I were sitting at the table and Don told me of
an old man he knew in England. He had just been over there and
this old man was above 80 years of age and he was a man who pondered
the Bible. He was a man who meditated on
the things of God. He pondered it. And he loved
to come up with questions that were designed to make men think,
to posit, to ponder. Don told me a question he had
posed about the first six days of creation and the seventh day. And a thing that was found in
the first six days that was absent in the seventh day. Well, you know me, when somebody
sticks something like that in my head, I can't get rid of it.
I'm intrigued and like a dog with a bone, I cannot seem to
dismiss it or let it go. So I've been thinking about it
since the innocence of it. Now we'll look at this question this
old man posed in a bit, but suffice it to say the old saint was on
to something, was on to something about the new creation. And we're
going to look at this entire chapter, not expositionally, But this is the story of the
fall of man and the recovery of man in this new creation and
the grace of God, both prevenient and convenient, that accompanied
this new creation. As with all types and shadows,
there is a built-in insufficiency to declare the entire truth.
No matter what the type of picture, it's never fully representation
of the substance. And so we'll run into that as
we look at this. But Genesis 1, 1 through 2, 2, Genesis 2,
2, is the story of the fall and the recovery of man. The first thing we see is the
very first thing of all things and sets the course and theme
of all that is and was and is to come is simply this, in the
beginning, God. In the beginning, God. The first thing we see is the
first cause of all that is. And the God that's being spoken
of here is Jesus Christ, the Lord. Over in John 1, in verses
1 and 2, it says, In the beginning was the Word, the divine Logos. The Word was with God. The Word
was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. And we know that Colossians 2.9
says, In Christ dwelleth the fullness. all that God is, the
fullness of the Godhead in a body. Now God, the Lord Jesus Christ,
is the creator and thus is the creator in the new creation.
Creators don't change. There's just one creator. I know
we talk about Amanda as an artist, a sculptor, and we might say
that she's created that, but she really did. She took what
was already made and made some representation of it. That's
what art is. to make a representation of things
that are already made. We're not talking about creation,
we're talking about calling into existence something that did
not exist before. That's what creation is. And
there is but one creator in the old creation and in the new creation. In terms like old and new are
relative to time and that's for the benefit of creatures like
us because we are bound to time, we're bound to the concept of
time. The writer of the Hebrews wrote this, however, he says,
for we which have believed do enter into rest. As he said,
as I have sworn in my faith, they shall enter into my rest,
although the works were finished, the works were finished from
the foundation or prior to the conception of the world. Now
how could that be? If God purposes it, it's done. It might not have
come to pass yet, but it's already fulfilled and already accomplished.
And verse 2 here is a concise record of the fall of humanity. A concise record. In the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. That's
simply a concise way of describing the fall of humanity. That which
brought creation into darkness was Adam's sin and ruin. But even in that great catastrophe,
there is a word of hope because we see the presence of the Spirit
of God moving upon the darkness. As we see immediately in verse
2, the latter part, the beginnings of this new creation, the beginnings
of this process that God goes through to finally create this
new creature. And it begins with the movement
of the Spirit of God upon the face of the deep. The deep, we
know, is that dark night of Adam's sin. So we see in the latter
part of verse 2, "...and the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters." The face of the waters. Now we know what
the Spirit of God does, because our Lord told us what the Spirit
of God does when He was getting ready to leave this earth and
said, Behold, I send you another comforter, My Spirit, when My
Spirit shall come, or when I shall come and be with you. He will
take the things of Christ and show them unto you. That's the
job or the function of the third person of the Trinity, the Sovereign
Holy Spirit of God, is to teach us and tell us and show us and
reveal to us and guide us into all truth and we know that all
truth rests in the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Spirit of God is moving is moving in the beginning of the
new creation. Then in verse 3 is the first
mention of the Lord Jesus Christ. And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. Or He said,
Light be. This is a very interesting thing,
but it's explained quite readily for us in John, again back in
the Gospel of John. In verses 3-7 it says that all
things were made by Christ, and without Him was not anything
made that was made. And in Him was life, and the
life that was in Him was the light. of men, and the light
shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not. There was a man sent from God,
whose name was John. The same came to bear witness
of the light, of the light that all men through him might believe."
This is the light spoken of because it's not the sun, moon, and stars.
They were created on a different day. This is light. This is light. This is understanding. This is
a divine communication from God from on high. And it establishes
the principle of how men understand and know, by light, by Christ. That's how men understand and
know, by God-given faith. Jesus Christ is that divine luminary
that teaches us, and He does so by the Spirit of grace. We understood that God is manifest
here. I first mentioned the word good. First time it's used in the Bible,
the word good. And we know God is really an
English derivation of the word good. We use the word God. His
name is Jehovah. His name is Elohim. His name is Adonai in the Greek
and in the Hebrew. But we call Him God. And the
best English translation or transliteration of the word God came from the
word good, because God is good. When He said what His glory was
to Moses, He said, the first thing, I'm going to make my goodness
pass before you. I'm going to proclaim the name
of the Lord before you. So God here speaks and says,
let there be light. Let there be light. And remember,
note well that He is revealed first of all by speaking. It's a spoken word. The first
gospel preacher was God Himself. Let there be light. That light
was Christ. Light be. Christ and His gospel
is a divine communication from on high. And we understand it
by faith. By faith. in what God has said. Christ is the divine luminary
and by Him what can be known and understood of God is manifest. That's the only way we know God.
Then in verses 4 and 5 we see the first mention of the word
good. As I said, none good but God
and the first concept of the election of grace. Verse 4 it
says, And God saw the light, and it was good, and God divided
the light from the darkness. He made a distinction between
the two. And God called the light day
and God called the darkness night. This is the first concept of
the election of grace. God divided or made a division
between the light and the darkness. They are opposites. We use them
in that kind of way. That's as plain as night and
day. You know, we understand that concept, that these are
opposites. And God set them that way. He set them that way. Our
Lord said this, Our Lord work while it is day, for the night
cometh when no man can work. Our Lord used those two terms
as separate things. Separate things. Referring to
the salvation of sinners, Paul wrote that Christ has brought
us from darkness to light. Darkness to light. From night,
or from day to night, or night to day. The truth of salvation
is seen in the description of the first day. And this was interesting.
The day of salvation. And in the next five verses that
follow, or the next five days that follow, It does not say
from morning to evening. That's how we express a day.
Isn't it? From dawn to dusk. That's the way our language runs.
But not God's. Look at this. It's from evening
to morning. Let there be light. He calls
the light day and the darkness night. And He says the evening
and the morning were the first day. What does that mean? Remember,
it's talking about the new creation. From darkness to light. From darkness to light. And he
repeats this for the first six days. Morning and evening were
the first day. Or evening and morning were the
first day. Now what follows until the new creation of man is a
picture of grace in preparation of all things for man to use
in his new life. And that's found in verses 6-8.
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Let
it divide the waters from the waters, and God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from
the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And
God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning
were the second day." The firmament above and below the earth is
water. That's what it is. That's the
firmament spoken of here. And the water in Scripture is
put for the Word of God over and over again, isn't it? So
below and above, there's a representation of the Word of God. God's doctrine
throughout Scripture is water. Water has to do with it. He said
to... Moses said in Deuteronomy 32, "...My doctrine shall destue
as the rain upon the tender herb." In Isaiah 55, the Word that will
not return unto God void, but will accomplish what He pleases,
He says, "...comes down from heaven as water." As if it were
water. It is also spoken, water is also
spoken as the thing necessary for the regeneration and the
new birth. We know it's the Spirit. So the Spirit is also pictured
as water and wind, but also as water. And the water is the Word
of God. The Spirit uses the Word of God.
In 1 Peter 1 it says, You are born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible, even the Word of God, which liveth
and abideth. Forever. That's how you're born again.
That's the regenerating power of the Spirit. James 1.18, Of
His own will begat he us with the word of truth. It is on the
earth, this water, and the preaching of the gospel. It is in the heavens
as to its source. That's why you get words like
born from above. Born from above. There is no
new creature apart from the declared Word of God. No new creature. This is the second day. Evening
and morning. Then in verses 9 through 13,
that marks the third day. It says this, And God said, Let
the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place,
and let the dry land appear. And so it was. And God called
the dry land earth. And the gathering together of
the waters called he seas. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed
is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. And the earth
brought forth grass, an herb yielding seed after its kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after
its kind. And God saw that it was good.
in the evening and the morning were the third day. This marks
the third day and a place for man to stand and inhabit. You
see, the earth is not our mother. After all, the earth was made
to be inhabited and it was made to be inhabited by man. By man. It was made to be inhabited.
Man doesn't exist yet. I know God's preparing all this
for the guy that he's going to create. In the new creation. The earth was made for man. It
was made to be inhabited. You know what the word homo sapien
You know what the roots word that means? It means, it carries
with it the concept of looking up. Not only, when we're talking
about homo erectus, one who stands up, but the idea under, you know,
homo sapiens in the original language means to look up. To
look up. That's what man's designed to
do. He's designed to look up. Look up. That's not talking about
necessarily a vertical view, just the natural eye. It's talking
about looking to God. Talking about looking to Christ.
The new man is on the earth and he's told to look up. That's
why he's there. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the
Father. Set your affections on things above and not on things
of the earth. That's the direction. Why? Because that's what we're
made to do. That's why man was created, and that's why the new
man was created. New man walks by faith and not
by sight. Also on this day, the provision
for this new life begins. The life is not there yet, but
its provision begins. Grass and herb bearing seed after
its kind. And these are used in metaphoric
terms to represent many things in Scripture. Grass is representative
of man's mortality. All flesh is grass. And as the
flower of the field, it fadeth away, all flesh is grass. It
also speaks of the coming of Christ. He was called in Isaiah
53. Comes forth as a tender herb.
As a tender herb. And both of these bear seed after
their kind. And that's a very important phrase
too. It doesn't say bears its seed after its kind. It says
it bears its grass and herbs bear seed after his kind. Not its. His kind. And that's not a grammatical
error, and it's not just a strange use of language. It's an important
thing. This picture's imputation. Grass,
the imputation of Adam's sin. For the soul that sinneth it
shall die, as all flesh does. Christ's righteousness. Christ's
righteousness. He produces righteousness after
His kind. After His kind. And also, that
fruit produced is according to the vine. Our Lord's promised
His people, You shall bring forth fruit. But they do so because
they're in the vine. And the fruit they produce is
not dark fruit. It's not dead fruit. It's living
fruit because of the living vine. It's spiritual fruit. In the evening, in the morning,
or the third day. And it was good. On the fourth
day, God put illumination into the heavens. It says this in
verses 14 through 19, And God said, Let there be lights in
the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and let
them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
And men still, even to this day, plant according to those signs
and seasons. Because, you know why? They just keep going on. They just keep going on. God
has set these things. You know why medicine works so
well? Say if you get the flu and I get the flu, why do they
give us the same medicine? Because we're made the same way.
Medicine has just been a study of people and what they had and
the symptoms and they've got these symptoms down pat and what
worked here. Well, if it worked on that guy, it'll work on us
because we're the same. Produce after our kind. Produce after
our kind. These seasons and times are set
by God. And let them be for lights in the firmament and the heaven
to give light upon the earth. And it was so. And God made two
great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser
light to rule the night. And He made the stars also. And
God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light
upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night, to
divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good
in the evening and the morning with the fourth day. God put
illumination in the heavens. The sun represents the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's even called the sun. God
has called the sun. a couple of times in Psalms,
and Christ is called the Son of Righteousness, arising with
healing in His wings. The moon is the church. The moon
has no natural light. It's not a star. It cannot give
off light by its inward fire and gases. It is a dead rock, but it's a
good mirror. And so it reflects the sun. And
that's representative of the church. The church doesn't have
any natural light. The church reflects the light
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Stars are throughout scripture,
and also in our own language, and in historical language, stars
represent luminaries. Luminaries. There are stars in
the heavens. There are stars. There are those
who have gone on before who are luminaries, who are luminaries. Remember what it said of Abel.
He being dead, yet speaketh. And so God fills the heavens
with light. And it's good, he said. And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day. So God has done
all these things so far for man, the new man, but he does not
yet exist. He has not yet been created. Then in verses 20 through 25,
God made every typical beast that would be useful to the new
man. There's this, and God said, let
the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven. 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. There again, it's after
its kind. Like produces like. When Adam sinned in the Garden
of Eden, everything that proceeded from his loins was a sinner,
just like him. When Christ made His people righteous
by His work on the cross, everything that proceeded from Him was righteous
because of the work of the cross. And God blessed these creatures,
saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters and the seas,
and let fowls multiply upon the earth. And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day. God made every typical beast
here. And after the fall, we know that men would consume many
kinds of beasts, but the new man lives on every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And the gospel, it talks
as if we're eating beasts. Not only are we eating the fruits
and the vegetables and the herbs, but it also talks of us as consuming
beasts. The gospel sets forth that in
Scripture. The gospel is called a feast
of what? Fat things. Feast of fat things. It's called
the fatted calf. We eat the grapes of escrow and
the wine on the leaves well refined. The new man is also given dominion. You don't feel very dominant,
do you? Well, if you're a new man, you are dominant. You have
dominion over all things. You know why? Because Christ
has made us kings and priests unto our God. We're kings and
priests. That's the new man, not the old
man. Not the old man. That's the new
man. Then after God had graciously prepared all these things, all
this prevenient grace, all these things already prepared, already
done, then He made man. Verse 26-31,
And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God
created man in his own image, and in the image of God created
he him, male and female created he them. God blessed them, and
God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replace the
earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth. God said, Behold, I have given you
every herb, bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth,
and every tree, in which is the fruit of the tree, yielding seed
to you. It shall be for meat, and to
every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and
everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life.
I have given every green herb for meat. And it was so. And
God so everything that he had made. And behold, it was very
good. That's the first time he says
very. But it was very good, and the evening and the morning were
the sixth day. Now the new man is a spiritual
man. So he is conformed to the image
of Christ. It says that God made of the
dust man and breathed breath into his nostrils. Now God is
spirit. He has no hands, but God has
hands. Jesus Christ has hands. Jesus
Christ is the Creator. He molded man and gave him life. And He's the Creator of the new
man. And that man is not natural.
The way you're born is natural. The way you're born is carnal.
The way you're born in this world is natural and carnal. But your
new birth is not natural. There's nothing natural about
it. There will never be anything natural about it. It is spiritual. It is the difference between
Night and day. The difference between light
and darkness. That's this new man. He's conformed
to the image of Christ. And who is Christ? He's the image
of the invisible God. Let us make man in our own image. And the reason we're not to kill
men is because men still bear the image of God. The new man
cannot be seen. That's right. The new man cannot
be seen. I can't see the new Jenny. I can't see her. I see Jenny,
but I can't see the new Jenny because the new Jenny is spiritual,
invisible, made in the image of God. The making of a natural
woman from the rib of Adam takes place in chapter 3, and that's
more of an explanation of what happened in chapter 2. But chapter
1 is not talking about the old creation. Chapter 3 is also about
the new, but chapter 1 especially is talking about the new creation. Here in this creation, man and
women are created alike and in the same manner. Because in the
new creation in Christ, there is neither male nor female. according
to Scripture, Galatians chapter 3. So we find Him creating mankind, a man and a woman alike,
alike. And God gave them, after He created
them, all those days of preparation up to this time. He said, all
this is yours. Didn't He say that? You say,
well, they got a tithe. Well, not until Sinai. Abraham didn't tithe and never
kept a Sabbath as far as we know. That didn't come until Moses'
time. Moses' time. But God gave to the new man everything
that He had prepared for him and told him so. Now, the man
didn't do anything. He was created. The new man is
created. And he doesn't do anything to
get anything. What he finds out when he is given life by God
is that God's already prepared everything for him. Everything
that he needs is prepared for him. And God simply says, this
is yours. Use it. Subdue it. Dominate it.
It's yours. It's yours. That's what it says
in Scripture. 1 Corinthians 2. You're familiar
with this. 1 Corinthians 2, But it is written,
I have not seen nor heard, neither hath entered the heart of man
the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Prepared
for them. It prepared. When you hear the
Gospel and God sends it home to your heart, what you find
out is what God has given you and done for you, not what you
are to do. Was Adam left with some work
to do? Not until the fall is the word work even used. Life
was a privilege and a pleasure, and if you're a new creature
in Christ, life is a privilege and a pleasure, and full of joys. Joy unspeakable and full of glory,
saith the Scripture. Don't mean the flesh is always
going to be happy, but the spirit is always happy. The new man
is always happy. But it is written, I have not
seen nor heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things
which God has prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed
them to us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth
the things of man, sayeth the Spirit of man which is in him?
Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit. But remember
it says the Spirit has revealed them to us, and look what it
says. Now, we have received not the Spirit of the world, not
the new man, he doesn't have the Spirit, though he hasn't
received the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God,
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of
God. That's what happened in that
garden. That's what happened in that chapter 1 of Genesis. God created
man and said, look what I've done for you. God created the
new man and said, look what I've done for you. That's the new
creation. That's the new creation. And it's very good. Not just
good, it was very good, very good. And that was the evening
and the morning of the sixth day. Then our Lord, having finished
the work of the new creation, rests on the seventh day. The word for rest is Shabbat
or Sabbath. Sabbath. And it simply means
rest. And we know Scripture says Christ
is our Sabbath and is our rest. He is our rest. And when He had
created us anew, He, entering into His rest, sat down on the
right hand of the Father. Why? Because He had what? Finished
the work. After He had by one sacrifice
perfected forever them that are sanctified, He sat down on the
right hand of the Father. And we come to the question put
forth by the old man about what was not said about the seventh
day. Do you see it? Look at chapter 2. Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And
on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made, and
He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had
made. You know what you don't see? Evening and morning. It's a day. It's a rest. But there's no evening and morning.
Every other day starts with an evening and a morning, after
God saying it's very good, or saying it's good, it has an evening
and a morning. An evening and a morning. It's just a day, evidently. No
evening and a morning. There's no marking of time because
the new man is what? He's an eternal being. Now in
the flesh we mark time. But in the Spirit, we're in heaven.
We're in the very presence of God. We're an eternal creature. We're not going to die. Now our
physical bodies are going to die unless God calls us home
in another way. But we're eternal beings. Eternal. There is no setting or dawning
of the sun because Christ. is the new creature's light. And the new creature is said
to be light in Christ. The new creature is in heavenly
places in Christ. The new creature has entered
into rest and he rests eternally in Christ because the work of
his new creation is finished. No night and day. That's time
for working, isn't it? It's time for God to work when
there was morning and evening and evening and morning. If you
ain't got no evening and morning, ain't no time for you to work
either. It's time for you to enjoy what
God has given you. It's all yours. It's all yours. Over in 1 Corinthians chapter
3, God says all things are yours. Life, death, the future, the
past, all things are yours. You are Christ and Christ is
God's. All things are yours. And there in that eternal state
where you exist, that is state of joy and glory, there is neither
distinction nor necessity nor existence of evening and morning. Not to the spiritual man. Not
to the spiritual woman. Revelation 22, and I'll quit. Here's the description of it.
You say, well, that's talking about heaven. Well, you're already
there, ain't you? Aren't you already there? You
mean I can't have this? I've got to wait until I die
to get this? No, I've got it. If you've got eternal life, this
is yours. Revelation 22, verses 1 through 5. He showed me a pure
river of water. Water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the
midst of the street of it, on either side of the river, there
was a tree of life. Sound familiar? Water, trees,
bear every manner of fruit, and yielded her fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
All that's about Christ. He's the tree of life. And there
shall be no more curse. When was the curse removed? It
was removed on Calvary. Christ was made a curse for us.
Therefore, we're not cursed anymore. No more curse. That's the new
man's life. But the throne of God and the
Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They
shall see His face, and His name shall be in their foreheads.
There shall be no night there. They need no candle, neither
light of the sun. For the Lord giveth them light,
and they shall ever reign, or they shall reign with Him forever." Become an eschatologist. Study eschatology and come up
with that meaning somewhere in the future. But I'm telling you
right now, if you're a new creature in Christ, you already have these
things. This is your estate in Christ.
No morning. No evening. Only day. And Christ is the light thereof.
Father, bless us through our understanding. We pray in Christ's
name. Amen.