2020-03-15-LIVE OAKS - What's the Story

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Days weeks and months there will also be great joy, there will be great praise to you and just pray that you will use this time to glorify you and to strengthen us to share your message to encourage one another and knowing that you are absolutely Sovereign and in charge. We thank you for this time together. We just ask that you bless just block out the distractions around us. Let us be attentive to your word would it may be teaching us how to minister to us and all of these things we pray in Jesus name amen. So I stomped Aramark Milano. I have the privilege of being married father and also Tommy's father-in-law and this is my beautiful wife over here, Marianna of soon-to-be 43 years. She is the official timekeeper. This is normally a two-part message. So I'm packing a lot in One and she's going to flag me when I start going too long. And I promise we will be getting out will fall break for lunch. And then after that we'll go ahead and wrap up and then I'm not real sure back here is the official a manner. So in anyone else can join it in any time with with any affirmation affirmation or a men's and I'm pretty excited about this morning. But before I begin I just want to say on behalf of Marianne and I how much we appreciate Live Oaks the way you have come around Tommy and Mara the way you have loved them. Welcome them affirm them as a father-in-law as a father. It gives us great. Joy and just thank you for the many blessings that you have given Tamara in common.

So today's message is entitled. What's the story and and we are fascinated by stories. Aren't we want to know? What's the story? What's this person's story and the story is being told everywhere right within nature within events. We're right now caught up in stories that are going on our story began some 27 years ago when God moved us my wife my family 1500 miles from everyone and everything. We had known we were originally from Abilene, Texas. So that's where this accent comes from Deep West Texas. I like the comment West Texas is a great place to go if you're ever in need of sleep. There's just a lot going on in West Texas and its flap its arid and it's windy when we first moved here in the first tropical storm. We experience with winds at 40 miles an hour. West Texas on a calm day. So this is so we move 1,500 miles from everyone and everything to come here. I thought it was to get a better job. God had a better plan. He brought us to faith in him see before that. We were cultural Christians in Abilene, Texas is they had they boasted of having more churches than convenience store. There were churches on every corner and it's a very religious City 3 of church supported colleges. So when you lived in Abilene, you just went to church that's what you did didn't really matter if you had a relationship with Jesus or not you went to church so we went to church and when we it but we did not really have a relationship with Jesus. So when we moved here some Play seven years ago, when we first got here we discovered we were miserable compare why we did what we did. Well Mara, thankfully she suggested we should start going to checking out Church's or churches in Abilene. Let's go to church is here and God brought us to this wonderful church that we still think very highly of and strongly of Harborside Harborside Christian church. We met a group of people who were genuinely love with the Lord we got into something. We have never experienced before genuine Bible study. People are actually studying the Bible in our previous Church in Abilene. We have Bible studies, but there was no study. The Bible was just Fellowship. So we really learned how to start studying the Bible and we saw something special about these people about these two became our friends how they had this love this this desire this passion and within about three or four months Marianne enough, praise God both gave our lives to be Christ and let me tell you what that was the best thing that ever happened to us and it's just been a it's it was it was at The Life Game Changer now see I'm one of those analytical types. Once I came to Faith. I needed the proof text show me the diss. God is real. I didn't want to just do this on feeling and emotion alone. I needed something that proved it. Well, I was fortunate enough to have people around us and said it's in this book. It's in this Bible. This is the thing where you will really prove who God is through his word. So our story is we got to learn God Through the Bible through his word at that point. I became a passionate teacher of scripture and I've not looked back since so I've been teaching God's word for the past twenty-five years and in that is the greatest joy and pleasure of my life is being able to do this. So what I want to do is I want to talk about the story this story see the Bible. A book of literature. It is the greatest book ever written and it was written over a 1500 year. Of time. There are 66 different books. There are 40 different authors and it was written on three different continents. But when you put it together, it reads as one text. That is the most amazing to me. The biggest Miracle of the Bible is the Bible. How is put together? How was formed how was protected than this is normally two parts. So what I want to do now is I want to give you perspective and then we're going to talk about the story. So right now you got some hand out. So the first hand out I want you to look at is the time we're going to look at the time frame. There's two time frames involved. There's the time there's a time of what it's about and there's a time over which it was written. So now this is the narrative this book is the naira Did God telling through men his story this is not about the age of the Earth. This is not about how many billions of years old the Earth. Maybe this is the narrative about God's involvement with Mankind through human history through his story that makes sense. So the time frames are the time frames. So the time frame of the scripture is somewhere around 7000 BC and it closes the Old Testament at 400 BC. So you've got 7000 BC to 400 BC. That's the time of the writing. Then you have the time when it was written the author of the first five books. The first writings were done by Moses that was done in the wilderness after coming out of captivity in Egypt. So the time of riding is somewhere around 4:50 BC God Telling him all the events that have happened up to that point. So he's riding history and then he comes to contemporary in his riding going forward. So it's 450 BC to 1450 BC to 400. BC is the time of the writing and then what I've given you and we're not going to go through these trust me is you got your time. So if you want to look at this later, these are just major events that happened along the way. So give me a timeline. Okay, we good.

Stop by to pay the story of cell can be divided into six different sections and in this makes sense when we get into it. It talks about creation, which is God speaking the universe into existence. Then the story is about the fall. Then there's a segment about Redemption. There's a segment about fulfillment. There's a segment in which were involved which is the church age which is now and then there is consummation or completion which is a time to come that's Christ second coming. So this book thematically is broken up into those six sections now one more and then you're going to put these down so that the Bible is a composition of individual riding. They were done in Scrolls so that the Scrolls passed around keep in mind in Jesus's time. There was no new testament. The New Testament does not get rid until after Jesus. So the o, I think I have been is the Old Testament. The Old Testament is the Hebrew Bible now. I wonder sure you one thing about this Bible. There's a difference between respecting the tech and believing the text. I can tell you from an Integrity standpoint. It doesn't get any better than what's in the Bible this existed within a community of Believers. It was Garden zealously, it was protected zealously those who who were getting the Transmissions from God where affirming were reviewing we're reading we're passing on we're sharing so it would be very difficult to create forgeries if you will because these were really being protected. Do you have all of the Scrolls of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible was pretty much intact 250 years before the Advent of Christ. Then you have Jesus you have his Ascension and then you have all the writings that happened after he ascended into heaven, which is the New Testament. All of these individual ridings were finally collected somewhere around 480 a 400 years after Christ Church fathers got together and decided they need to put them into one grouping. It's called kodak's so they gathered all of these books all of them together and said now they're going to be in one one continuous volume of riding Old Testament New Testament do when they got together. They said how should we arrange these books? What would be the proper way and what order should we put these because they didn't want to give any more. Things from one book to the next. So what they did is they look how Jesus taught when Jesus taught he was only teaching from the Old Testament. He taught about the law the songs in the prophets the law the songs in the prophets. So when these Church fathers got together and decided how to organize this material. If you look at your hand out that says Old Testament they decided they would do it. The way Jesus said it should be done. They put together law or history. They put together songs, which is wisdom literature and they put together profits. So they arranged Genesis to Deuteronomy, which is the first five books books written by Moses and then they went Joshua down to Esther and that pretty much is in chronological order that follows the timeline and then they in the break of that. They said okay next after this will put in the wisdom literature wisdom literature or poetry Jobe songs. Ecclesiastes in Song of Solomon so that goes in the middle section that is not chronological order. It's just their back Jobe is the oldest book of the Bible written about the time of Abraham, but it's together as a group then they got to the prophets and they took all of the profits and they put them together and they put the profits with the with the longest amount of texts make all those the Major Prophets and they put those first and then they put the Minor Prophets. It's really difficult to say how they arrange those probably the Minor Prophets chronologically sort of but they put all the profits together so that your Old Testament so flip the page New Testament when the same church fathers got together and said, how should we put together the New Testament? That was a little easier plus this is a shorter. Of time the New Testament riding for somewhere from 50 to 78. With the latest being 95, which is the Book of John John's ridings was later the from 50 to 70 AD is when this is written so in the church fathers got together and said, how should we put these together? They said we should take the start with the gospels and we should take the gospels and put them in Reverse alphabetical order. That way you're not giving prominence of one to the other is just an arbitrary way of arranging them. The book of Acts is the history. That's the history of the church. That's the birth of the church that goes next and then all of these letters these epistle those were written to the churches and how they decided to arrange those was by author and by length of work of that author. So the guy who wrote the most with Paul his longest letter was Roman that went first is shortest letter was Philemon that went last and then follow that with James Peter Etc and that's how they arranged the New Testament and Revelation is the last book that is the climax and it's it should be put where it is. Okay, we good.

how educational high now so hang on to this. This is this is good stuff. Now, let's talk about the store and see this is a work of literature and there is a story is a story being told and it's broken up into those six sex in the beginning God created. How did God create he spoke the universe into existence. So his word is very important key words. Speak word. Taught. Next one is itchy creative life. Why is very important? We see this throughout scripture. There is this difference between white and dark these shades are very important in the beginning God created a perfect biosphere. He created a perfect existence and he created all of the things that he did the last he was to create with man and woman as Howie Qualls and everything in this biosphere was designed to live forever. There was no death you are in front of the Living God Howard. Sade the god of the Bible is the only true life Source God is the only source of Life. He's the only source of light outside him. There is no life. There is only death. So when he created and he is amongst his creation, there's an abundance of Life everywhere and there's an abundance of light and then when he created man and woman and he charged them with a special special purpose in order so that takes it to Genesis 1 26 through 28 and in the beginning God when he created this he said let us make man in our image after our likeness the word image means representative. Let us make man is supposed to represent my heart my character in heat over this thing that I have created after our image and let them Have dominion over the fish in the sea over the birds of the heavens over the livestock over all the Earth over all the creeping things that creep. So God created man in his own image to be his representative. He created them male and female azco equals God bless them and said to them be fruitful fill the Earth to do it have dominion over the fish over the birds over the every living thing that moves. So it was intended to be. His word man and woman his creation and they were to have dominion and they were to be incomplete rulership with love compassion to reflect the heart and character of God. Everything was designed to live with ever. It was all good. Right but he also created us to have free will he did not want puppets. He wanted people that could choose to love him back. So he gave them a commandant. He said you can have anything. Anyone here, but you cannot eat of this one tree. It was the knowledge of Good and Evil cuz he knew when that happened they would become corrupt. So what happens is Satan being very cunning disguises himself as a preacher something that was supposed to be under the Dominion of man, right? He created as a creature is a serpent and came and tempted Eve and then tempted Adam that takes us into the second part of the story called The Fall so now we're in in Genesis. We don't know how long Adam and Eve were in the garden. They could have been there in a week. They could have been there 10000 years. They could have been there from Millennium, but we don't know all we know is the story goes from Perfection and blessed to Broken Us in just a couple of chapters with in the narrative. So there we see that because of man and woman Obedience all of a sudden what happened is they were sinful because they disobeyed God and nothing sinful can stand in front of a perfect. Holy just pure God. Nothing sinful can stand in front of God, it will burn up. So at that point. Innocence had to remove himself from his creation to go be in the Heavenly realm and he vanished man and woman out of from this Garden from this place of perfection, which by the way I think is still there. We're waiting for it to reappear and banishes them out. And then he makes a pronouncement if you would go to three of Genesis 3 15 through 19. So he makes a pronouncement of what now is going to happen in this is the key. This is the key to the story. He says I will put enmity what is immunity stripe anger friction fight contest between you he's talking to The Serpent and the woman and between your Offspring and her Offspring some translations use the word seed. So I will put that there's going to be this conflict between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent he shall bruise your head Christ will bruise the head of the serpent which is a deathblow and you shall bruise his heel which is just a temporary infliction. When did that happen? When Christ was martyred on our behalf. He went into the grave for 3 days, but came out and he shall bruise your heel to the woman. He said I will surely multiply your pain in childbirth in pain. You shall bring forth your chip your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you and to add I said because you've listened to the voice with your wife and eating from the tree. I commanded you you shall not eat purses the ground because of you in pain usually eat all of the day's your life thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you. You shall eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face. You shall eat bread till you return to the ground and which you were taken out of and for you are dust and to dust you shall return so it's not necessarily what he's doing God is doing to them it's as a result of this this whole creation now because of mankind send is now broken and instead of having rulership over it man has lost the right of rulership very big point because from here we're going to the narrative is going to be looking for another rightful ruler. So man loses the right of rulership. He loses the right of dominion and now he's subject to the creation that he was supposed to have rulership over. And then the story changes in from here going into Genesis. We're going to start following the seed. We're going to follow the CD this woman. We're going to follow the seed of the serpent. We're going to see how this seed goes throughout. The rest of the narrative man has lost. The right of rulership man is banished now from the garden and the story really starts to break down in and get ugly. So that is the fall. Now God In His Infinite Wisdom knew this was going to happen and he institutes the third part of this called Redemption. The whole world now is anticipating. There will be another who will come there will be someone else who will come in Adams Place and write what Adam did wrong now what is in the scripture are hints going throughout this whole Old Testament narrative going and this is what these are is did the person who would come again would be part God and part man would be fully God and fully man. We get this from Genesis 315 that says from the seed of the woman will come this person. So that means there's Parts humanity and then and Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah. 7:14 says therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign behold the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and his name shall be Emmanuel, which is God amongst us. So you've got Seed of the woman but you don't have seed of man. You've got seed of something other than man. There's only other than one of the thing in that could be God. Number to a payment for man and woman's sin had to be paid the very nature of God being perfect. Holy and just demanded that a payment be made there had to be a perfect sacrifice. We get a glimpse of this in Exodus 12 Exodus 12 is the Passover. So in this Passover before the nation of Israel is being let out of Egypt they are instructed that they are to take a lamb without spot and without blemish. It supposed to be brought into their home for a. Of time then on the Eve that they will be let go released their to slaughter this lamb as a payment to God there to take and there to eat the lamb and they're to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the lintel and on the doorpost and when you look at how they do it, you've got two things of Blood on the side one on the top and that sort of looks like a cross. Funny how God wrote this into so much of the narrative and so you this Blood covering and so anyone who had this blood on their door the angel of death would pass over them. So the second thing of payment had to be made Exodus is a good example, then she also God talked about another Prophet a greater profit. So Moses in the book of Deuteronomy talking to the second generation of Israelis, who would be going in to take the promised land is getting them this great farewell speech in Deuteronomy, and we get to Deuteronomy 18 15 and an 18 through 19

I'm going to come back to that don't know what okay, we've got it up there. So this is what he says. He says the Lord your God will raise up from you a prophet like me from among you from your brother. It is talk to him. You shall listen. Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb and on the day of the assembly when you were said let me not here. Then the voice of the Lord my God, or see great fire. Any more lest I die. And the Lord said to them they are right what they have spoken.

If I did I will raise up for them a prophet like you he's talking about Moses from among the brothers and I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak all that. He's picking them all that I've commanded him. So we have these for telling of A virgin birth, which means this would be part god part man. Holy God, holy man, a payment must be made. He would be a greater profit who would speak exactly the words that would give him and then in the New Testament, we also stayed later or in the Old Testament. We see that he will be falsely accused. He will be killed for the payment of sand and even though he's killed he will not see decay. All of this is being told in the Old Testament of this one who will come this one who will regain what Adam and Eve has lost the rightful ruler because of this the entire world now is looking and anticipating another one to come to regain the rulership to see the Salvation the cedar Redemption II Adam a totally obedient son one who will be the perfect payment for mankind sin and is the story unfold key people and countries will be examined to see if they are the As the story progresses, we follow the seed the story progresses we get into Genesis 6, I promise I will get a Genesis. We didn't to Genesis 6 and we see that at some point the world becomes corrupt sober up the dog chasing down to eight Shuman. He puts them on an art key floods everything out. He brings them back. Then we start to see that the world gets repopulated again. We see Noah come out of the Ark and he charges him with basically the same thing you did Adam which was to be fruitful multiply, but he does not give him dominion over the Earth that's been lost. So the world becomes repopulated. There are people everywhere. They start developing nations nation start growing at this particular Point. God is no longer going to find for himself a person but he's going to find for himself and Nation so he goes and he finds this this Chaldean this pagan. This gentleman by the name of Abraham and he says Abraham and choosing you and if you would go to Genesis 12 1 through 3. So he says now the Lord said to Abraham go from your country and your children and your father's house to the land that I will show you and I will make you a great nation. I will bless you make your name great so that you will be a blessing I will bless those who bless you and him who dishonors you I will curse and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed that he's making him a promise he repeats this promise again several other places in Genesis. He's going to make him into a night in mighty nation. Abraham has finally after many years of trying has a son who will be from which the seed of Salvation will come Isaac to further demonstrate. What must be paid Isaac Abraham is asked to sacrifice his son Isaac Wright Genesis 22, so he follows through with God's commandment. He does take Isaac. He puts him on an altar. He's getting ready to sacrifice him, but God stops it because that's not the plan instead. He has a better plan but he's demonstrating what must be done and and God comes to Abraham and says in the angel of the Lord called Abraham a second time from heaven and said by myself. I have sworn declares the Lord because you've done this which is willing to sacrifice his only son and I'm not withheld your only son. I will surely bless you and will multiply your Offspring is the stars of Heaven in the sand that are on the shore in your offspring. Possess the gates of his enemies and your Offspring shall all the nations the Earth be blessed because you've avoided my eBay my voice Isaac marries and has two sons Esau and Jacob Jacob has 12 son to become the tribes of Israel Genesis closes. There's an Entourage of 74 it go into Egypt they live there for 430 years 400 years of which are in captivity and finally after 400 years of captivity. God send Moses to deliver these people out and they come out and and then we're now to the time of Moses where he is teaching them everything that has happened at this point at the end of Moses tenure. If you will bear getting ready to go take the promised land the next person that comes up is Joshua. Joshua is a mighty warrior. He is who Jesus will be when Jesus return comes again on Mighty Warrior. His name actually is Hebrew for Jesus. So Joshua is elected to be the one who will take this newly-formed nation into the promised land and to take captive this Promised Land Joshua goes in and he takes over the promised land and and they live there and they finally take control to the promised land and they go through a. Of time where they are going through gray Prosperity. I just got to sign for my wife that I'm 30 minutes into this message. So I got to speed this thing up or we will be here till lunch hour or after so we're going to we're going to kind of are we good so far are we up? So at this hour good will go ahead and out. So. Joshua conquered the land and now the people have a nation but they're not happy there disgruntled. They look around at other nations and they say we want a king. What does God say to them. You're breaking my heart. I want to be your king. You don't need another king. All you need is me we can do this and be the Envy of the rest of the world if you'll just listen to me, but they do not listen to God instead. They want to have a King instead. He gives them judges. So we go through this. Of Judges that last 350 years at the end of that judges things are not going well and at the end of the Book of Judges it says you have that judges 22 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did was right in his own side the people still ask for Kings. Finally. God says, okay. I'll give you a king to give them Saul Saul as the first king tall dark handsome. He's the kind of guy that you put him in a crowd and said who should be king. Everyone would vote on him by parents. The problem is solved had a very empty heart shawl at first had God's heart but his human nature took over and he became very corrupt. He was not a good King. God was very displeased with salt. He took away his Spirit from Saul and he gave it to David David was he was examined. Everyone was thinking that maybe David was the one is this the one is this the second Adam is this going to be the rightful ruler this man had a heart for God. Can you imagine that being your description? How do you like that on your gravestone this person had a heart for God. That's how David was described. This is somewhere around a thousand BC that the nation of Israel is at the Pinnacle of their of there being of their existence. David is the he is that the king ruling it doesn't get much better than this but he has a horrible moral failing. He has a an affair with mushy bananas that buddy has the sheba's husband killed. She's not the one but God promises through him. The seed will come he make promises to David that his throne will be in rulership forever and through that seed many that the Messiah will come through him after him Solomon great wise King he rules for about 40 years, but because of David's sin, This falls upon the nation of Israel the nation of Israel start spiraling down hill at this point at this point, we see that the nation splits into two different kingdoms. There's a Northern Kingdom of Israel. There's a southern Kingdom of Judah the 10 tribes are in the northern kingdom two tribes are in the southern Kingdom and the northern kingdom is completely rebellious. They have gotten away from God. They've gotten Pagan worship. They they've idolatry. They have a series of Kings going through the years and all of them are bad. And finally in the southern Kingdom, they have a few good at Kings, but for the most part bad, so now we're going to jump over to the sectional profit. And in the meantime. Is sending all of these profits to the nation of Israel to the nation of Judah and the prophets are getting in the king's face and saying you have to repent you have to stop what you're doing. You have to listen to dodge you have to return to him or things will not go well. They will raise up captors to take you out. So the prophets are coming to the Kings. They're employing them the northern kingdom doesn't listen in 77202. The northern kingdom goes into captivity by Assyria. Syria comes in there the first Brutal terrorists. They're the ones that invented terrorism when they would go March against the people they've there that sent the front line would be horseman with Spears with the heads of their captors on those fears. That was their first wave of breeding. So the syrians came they captured the northern kingdom in 722. They took a lot of people out and and their country never became the same the southern Kingdom did a little bit better, but in 586 BC they were taken captive by Babylon Babylon came to the southern Kingdom in the Captivity. They were in captivity for 70 years at the end of 70 years. They get to go back into the land and they started rebuilding they start rebuilding the temple. They start rebuilding the the walls around the city. There's a bit of a revival going on there. They're getting some of their your passion and spirit back that they Have lost they are still not in rulership of their land someone else rules their land but they are there there in the land. There's this priest Ezra he arrived. This is their record big platform Ezra the priest gets up and starts teaching all of the people all of the Gospel all of them and mean all of the scripture that their dad. He's reacquainting them with the Hebrew text a lot of which these people are not heard before we close the Old Testament somewhere around 400 BC. There's a bit of a Revival that is going on in the land. But unfortunately, it does not last long. So we have this. Of time now between the Testaments between the old and the New Testament. So what is happening now is the Great conquer and unify the Civilized world with art language and philosophy Rome follows next. They give a systems roads highways the Jewish people there. In this area, they start Gathering all their writings. They get reacquainted with the word of what with the law and with the word of God and some religious groups start bubbling up through all of this the Sadducees the Pharisees the scribes now keep in mind Jerusalem is in the smack dab middle of the East and the West all roads go through Jerusalem Allroad perfect place. So when the time is exactly right when the world is Unified with language with road with government when the religious leaders are in place. Decides, it's time for the Messiah to come it's time for the second Adam to reappear. So then we go into the fourth section of the tech called fulfillment. This is the section where we have the gospel messages and it starts out with John talking about in John 1 1 through 4 in the beginning was the word the Word was God. The word was the word was with God. He was in the beginning and all things were made through him. And without him nothing was made that was made in him was life. And the life was light of men there. You have the life in the light theme again. He was the greater profit. He explains to them that he had come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it there are other references that we're not going to go into because we do not have time but his people rejected him and they believe that they were righteous because they had the law because they had lineage because they were part of Abraham's offspring but Jesus tells them you are not righteous because you don't have me they reject him just as scripture says they try him falsely. The accused him falsely de-rezzed a raise him up on a cross they crucify him. And they take him down and put him in a tomb and all of creation is holding their breath. Is this the one is he the one who will fulfill all of God's Commandments and all of God's edicts and all of God's description of this Messiah. And he is and 3 days later. He comes out of the Tomb. He's resurrected. He is the perfectly obedient son. He is the one that does what no other person can do he is the one that reconnects us with God. He is the one that we connect our Lifeline to the Creator. She is the one that now having faith in him. We have direct access to God we've never had that since Adam. This is the most amazing thing and this book has three climatic point. The first climax is the birth of Christ the birth of the Savior. The second climax is the resurrection to see without the resurrection. Our faith is Feud. There's no point to our faith. We would just be another whacked-out religion, but the resurrection is real and that's what proves that God is who God says in Jesus is who he says he is and then the Last Stand and probably most dramatic climax comes in the Book of Revelation. This is in Revelation. This is revelation 5 and this is where John is up in heaven. And he is witnessing in in. Revelation 4 he's describing the throne room of God. He's trying to describe the Indescribable. He's trying to describe something that is beyond words with just visuals and picture bogler mind and in five there. Is this scroll laying there. This is the title deed of God's creation display. The scroll is described. This is a legal document. It's sealed with Seven Seals on both sides. This is what Adam had lost it was held in abeyance up to this point and John is looking out this Gathering and start Sweeping in which is weeping. He's convulsing he's weeping soap because you said who is worthy to take the scroll. No one is worthy to take the scroll and one of the older says yes, the Lamb of God is worthy to take the scroll and he takes the scroll he breaks open the sealed and he claims the title deed to God's creation Kira claims the right of rulership. He's sitting up in heaven at the right hand of the father and he is in charge of all things. We are now in this. Called The Church age. That's the next part of this story. That's where we come into the picture. We are now in this church as we're in this. Of time known as the. Of delay we're waiting during this time. God is out purposely and in building his church. He's got this program going in at one point when his church is fully to level. He wants. Will will bring his son back which takes us to the last part of the story which is the completion Christ will come back. He will come back and absolute rulership. Unfortunately. The next time he comes is not going to be so kind and gentle as the first time was he will be coming back as a Warrior to judge a lost and falling World during this last time Millions upon Millions will come to Faith Millions upon Millions will not and it will be a time of fighting and it's going to be very ugly but at the very end God as God does succeeds and he wiped away everything that was painted and everything that was raw everything that was ruined and he will get rid of the old Heaven and the old Earth and he will bring for him a new Heaven a new or we will be back to the Garden of Eden. We will be back to that beautiful perfect environment where we live forever in eternity at the feet of the most wonderful benevolent caring compassionate gods of the universe. We will be before the one true. The one the only living I am and we will live there forever. Folks that's the story.

Let me let me close this in a word of prayer. We can't begin to express our adoration our our praise our thankfulness that you loved us to a point that you would even make a way out. You didn't have to do that. But out of an abundance of love for your creation for us and to glorify you you gave us a second chance you gave us a path you gave us a story man could not write this story on his best day. You gave us the truth of who you are. You gave us the truth of the scripture and you gave us the truth of your son at this time. We just pray your hedge of protection around all of us as we navigate some difficult times ahead some choppy Waters, but we get to take joy in knowing you are sovereign you are absolutely right. Pain control and everything everything will be done to your glory all these things. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you.

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