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Welcome to Heavens Declare.
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I'm Jim Burr. Today We're going
to talk about the attributes of
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God in the heavens and
it's going to take two programs.
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You know the Bible talks about
many attributes of God connected
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with the heavens and I've
discovered 21, actually 21
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attributes of God that
have something to do with the
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heavens. We see the love
of God and the wisdom, the
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understanding, his knowledge.
By his knowledge he built, he
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made the heavens, by his power,
by his wisdom. We're told in his
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presence there's fullness
of joy, at his right hand are
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pleasures forevermore. You know,
I had a pastor one time that
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said, heaven is kind of
spiritual. I called him back.
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It wasn't one of our pastors.
But I called him back, he was
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out in Seattle. Tell me more,
what you mean, it's kind of
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spiritual. You know heaven
is not commercial, but it's
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material and we're going to
plant and eat, we're going to
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build and inhabit, and we're
going to long enjoy the works of
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our hands. What do you like
to do with your hands? I like to
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build telescopes with my hands.
I've build a couple of hot rods
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in my life, a model T. Twice
I built a model T hotrod from
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scratch. I just got iron and
a fiberglass body and engine,
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transmission, rear end, a brass
radiator and put together this
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model T hotrod. One thing I
would love to do is I would love
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to build a V-8 motorcycle.
We got the machine. I built a
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telescope for NASA. We got
machines, I could build you
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probably a pretty cool motor
cycle, V-8. Now another thing
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I'd like would be a pipe organ.
My wife, Bietta plays the organ.
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We have a 16-foot cathedral
ceiling. I could just envision
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an organ and pipes up there, you
know, that would just rattle the
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rafters. Oh, I'd love that.
But you know life is too short.
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I've been around the sun, I'm on
my 79th trip around the sun, one
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of the benefits you get for
living on earth is you get a
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free trip around the sun every
year. So I'm going around for
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79th time. But I just don't have
time. There's no time to build
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a V-8 motorcycle. Don't have
time to build a pipe organ. But
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you know in heaven you're going
to have a long time to enjoy the
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works of your hands. So in the
heavens we see God's goodness,
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we see his justice. He inhabits
eternity and he inhabits our
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praise. This is an
amazing attribute of God that he
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inhabits our praise. We're going
to see the riches of God, the
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extravagant beauty of God. We're
going to see his faithfulness,
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his power and his mercy. You
know, I think all three in the
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Godhead were involved in
the creation of the universe. In
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John it says of Jesus, by him
all things were made, without
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him was not anything made.
When we look in Genesis it talks
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about the Spirit of God was
moving upon the waters and in
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fact if we look at Job 26 it
says that by his Spirit has he
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adorned the heavens or garnished
the heavens. So I'm going to
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show you just a few pictures
here of the beauties of the
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heavens. The first one we have
coming up is V838. We don't even
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know what this one is actually.
They don't think it's an
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exploding star although it looks
like an exploding star. They
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have watched this think change
for a couple of years. At first
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we thought the first evidence
here that something was going on
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in 2002 in January. It
took until May to get the Hubble
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turned over there because the
Hubble had other assignments.
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So then the Hubble photographed
in May and then September and
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December. This is a photograph
later in 2004. It's in our
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galaxy. They call it V838. They
don't really know what it is.
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They think it's a blast of
light that went out and kind of
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illuminated these clouds behind.
What a beautiful sight that is
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to see. The next one we have
coming up is the cone nebula and
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that's over just east of Orion,
a beautiful sight to see. They
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think that's out-gassing that
the radiation from the stars
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on the top there are causing
that cloud, like a piece of dry
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ice to out-gas and vaporize and
so forth. But when you see all
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these beautiful pictures I would
just suggest that all three of
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the Godhead were involved, I
believe, in the creation of the
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beauties that we see. This is
known as the Crab Nebula. This
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is a star that nobody noticed
the night before and one night
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July 4, 1054, this thing just
blew and could be seen in the
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daytime. It got very,
very bright. These clouds are
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traveling out at about 400,000
miles every second. They've
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photographed that every 15 years
and actually played it back on a
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computer to verify the fact
that it blew up on July 4, 1054.
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A little side note: You know
we have many Christians who say
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this universe was made 6,000
years ago. Well how does the
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light get here from all these
galaxies if they're millions of
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light years away. So they have
all these theories and all these
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ideas how light could've got
here and one of them they say
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well light used to be infinite,
you know, God created infinite
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fast, now light's been slowing
down. Well I think any amateur
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can go to the library and verify
that that's not true. If you go
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to the library and look up
the Crab Nebula and look up how
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they photographed that every 15
years. They played it back on a
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computer and they verified that
it happened when the Chinese
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said it happened. So I think
that'd be a thousand years ago
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and I think that proves the
speed of light hasn't changed,
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because we weren't able a
thousand years ago to measure
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light, of course, like
we do today. So we have an
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illustration coming up I'd like
to share with you. This is an
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illustration of... This
is Jupiter, this is going to
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represent Jupiter, and the
string is gravity that holds
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Jupiter. My hand is the sun.
Jupiter is held to the sun, you
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know, with gravity. But when
Jupiter goes around the sun, it
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actually moves the sun off
center, and you see my hand
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wobble. What if I was spinning a
bowling ball? You know, I could
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not even do that. I'd need
somebody up here to help me.
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But Jupiter actually moves the
sun 500,000 miles off center and
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when Jupiter and Saturn gang
up on the sun, when they're on
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each opposite sides the sun
comes back right almost back to
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perfect center where you'd
expect it to be. It's called the
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Berry center of the rotation of
three bodies. When Jupiter and
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Saturn are on the same side of
the sun, the sun moves almost a
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million miles, when they're
on opposite sides, the sun comes
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back almost to the center.
In the next graphic, we have an
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illustration of what it looks
like. Here's how the sun moves
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as Jupiter and Saturn go
around. See it's really doing a
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tremendous amount of wobbling
there as it goes around. I was
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sitting in a lecture from a
professor from the University of
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Oklahoma talking about gravity.
He was saying that when we have
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three bodies, you can almost see
it with all those lines, nobody,
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no mathematician can ever give
you a formula for the rotation
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of three bodies that are
different sizes, different
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masses. If you had three equal,
of course, they would be going
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around perfectly, but three of
different masses, and I verified
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that. When I got home from this
lecture I e-mailed him. I said,
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Professor, before I repeat
this in public, did I hear you
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correctly? And he said yes; go
to Wikipedia/Three body problem.
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Nobody has ever... He said we
can work on it, we can get close
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The more we work on it the
closer we get but nobody can
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give you a formula for the
center of rotation of three
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bodies that are different masses
He said we can simulate it on a
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computer but mathematically
we cannot write a formula. What
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really impressed me was the fact
that I've been showing audiences
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what you're going to see in a
little bit here for a few years
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where the Hubble zoomed in on
10 million stars, the Omega star
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cluster. It watched these stars
for four years and you're going
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see the motion of stars for the
next four years. So I think we
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are ready for that to roll right
now as the Hubble zoomed in on
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the Omega star cluster. The
Omega cluster is part of our
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Milky Way galaxy. We have
hundreds of these we call them
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globuloclusters of stars. There
are hundreds of them in our
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Milky Way galaxy. The Omega one
we can't see from the northern
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hemisphere where I happen to
live. Southern hemisphere people
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can see it, but we have one
almost as good in the Hercules,
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constellation of Hercules,
called the Hercules cluster.
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Now when it switches over to
color, you'll see we have 125-
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million-dollar camera on the
Hubble and you see the beautiful
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colors of the stars. The red
ones, the yellow ones, are the
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cooler stars. The blue ones
and the white ones would be the
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hotter stars. Those are blazing
suns like our sun. These are all
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blazing suns. And you see their
motion, how they're going to
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move over 10,000 years. And
God's got it all controlled. We
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can't... Nobody on earth can
give you a mathematical formula
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for three rotations the rotation
of three, but God's got it all
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figured out and we have 10
million in that cluster. So it
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shows you that we have an
incredible God. He calls them
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all by their name. How would
you like to name those stars?
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He calls them all by their name.
You know, he knows the sparrow
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that falls, he knows the hairs
on your head, he cares for you.
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There was a
statement I was reading...
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We see them moving in a cluster
but they are also moving around
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the galaxy. So we have all these
motions. I have been told that
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our sun has about 30 different
motions. Isaac Newton, you know,
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the famous mathematician made a
statement. Isaac Newton was one
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of the most brilliant
mathematicians and scientists
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ever. In fact, we have
tremendous men of science. We
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have Keppler who was a
most godly man and Newton was an
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authority in prophecy and Bible,
you know, studied his Bible. He
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said, because of his creatorship
we are therefore to acknowledge
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one God, infinite, eternal,
omnipresent, omniscient,
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omnipotent, the creator of all
things, most wise, most just,
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most good, most holy. We must
love him, fear him, honor him,
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trust in him, pray to him, give
him thanks, praise him, hallow
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his name, obey his commandments.
That was Isaac Newton. We have
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Keppler. I was studying about
Keppler. We are not going in
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this series have time to go into
the history of astronomy and all
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these guys. That information is
readily available. But Keppler,
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what a man of God. I tell
you today he'd have been suing
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somebody. People came to
Keppler and they said you know
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Galileo, it's Galileo who was
plagiarizing your work. What a
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man of God. You know what
Keppler said? If God is honored
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let my name be last. Where
do you see men like that today?
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We have tremendous men of
science we see, men of God. We
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have a picture coming up of
a most beautiful galaxy, two
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galaxies actually,
gravitationally bound
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together. These are not really
large galaxies. Actually to take
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the light across from one to
the other is about 100,000 years
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So if you're on one galaxy on
the right and you're trying to
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make a phone call across there
it's only going to take about
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100,000 years to get the phone
to right, and if that party says
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hello it's going to take about
200,000 years to hear the hello.
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You see they're gravitationally
bound. You see that one arm
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stretching out off to the left
there so they're gravitationally
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tied together. The heaven
declare God's creativity. Who
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created all these?
Isaiah 40: 25 and 26, it says...
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We're looking at again
a remnant of one of those
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exploding stars, a supernova
remnant. As we've showed you in
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earlier programs, the biggest
stars seem to use up their fuel,
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get bigger and bigger and bigger
till they can't support the
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shell, then we get this
big blast, and it goes out and
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gradually over time these clouds
expand and shift, and expand and
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shift. So this is just a
beautiful nebula in our Milky
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Way galaxy. Nothing special
there. The next slide is called
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the Crescent Nebula. Again
we have hundreds of these in our
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Milky Way galaxy. There are
basically four different types
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of nebulae in the galaxy. We
have nebula that glow because
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they're hot, we have nebulae
that glow because there are hot
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stars, bright stars in the
that cause a reflection. We have
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nebulae that are dark. We
haven't gotten to the horsehead
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nebula but that will be coming
up. That's just interstellar
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dust. Then we have these
exploding stars which they call
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planetary nebula. The reason
they got their name as planetary
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in the early days of telescopes
they saw some of these things
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that look like a planet. Every
thing else, every star in a
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telescope unless you're the
Hubble, every star is going to
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look like a star. I don't care
how big of a telescope you can
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afford you'll never be able to
look at a star and see a star.
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It's always going to be a point
of light. Now the Hubble can
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zoom in and you can actually see
the disks on some stars from the
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Hubble, the bigger stars, the
closer stars. So looking through
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a telescope they always look
like stars. I don't care how
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much you magnify it, what you're
going to see is stars. But the
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planets are always a big disk.
So as astronomers looked out and
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see these exploding stars, these
supernova remnants, they are so
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that you could actually see a
disk in them. So they got their
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name as planetary nebula.
But nebulae are basically just a
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Latin word for cloud. So we
have those four basic types of
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nebulae. In the attributes of
God, how holy is God? We could
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ask Manoah how holy is God. You
know Manoah saw an angel and he
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said to his wife, we're going to
die, we're going to die, he saw
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an angel. We could ask Job how
holy is God. We could ask Daniel
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He would tell you. The seraphims
Isaiah 6, the angels who never
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sinned, the angels who never
sinned, cover their faces when
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they speak God's name. We think
of today how careless people are
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in using the names, the Lord's
name in vain. You just cringe
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sometimes when you hear and you
go, oh please don't use... The
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Bible says the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that taketh
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his name in vain. So how holy
is God? The angels... You know
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Daniel could tell you how holy
God is. Woe is me. He identified
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himself with all his people
as sinful. Isaiah did the same
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thing. Martin Luther, Martin
Luther said, you know, some
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people talk to God like he
was a shoemaker's apprentice.
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Disrespect for God. So we want
to respect the name of God and
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think about his holiness. The
Bible tells us, you know, there
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is a holiness without which no
one will see the Lord and that's
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when you have the righteousness
of Christ, then you have the
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holiness with which you can see
the Lord. Let's see, we have the
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next picture coming up, this
is the antennae galaxy. It's
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actually two
galaxies gravitationally bound
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together...
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As the bridegroom rejoices
over the bride so shall thy God
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rejoice over you The Bible talks
about the beauty of holiness.
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That is a beautiful sight.
In Psalm 36 it says, your loving
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kindness extends to the heaven,
your faithfulness to the skies.
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The Bible says God is faithful,
he is faithful. Every day he
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brings the sun up, doesn't he?
Every day the sun comes up, the
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stars come up at night. Every
day he is faithful. The Bible
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talks at least a dozen times
about God's faithfulness it says
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there in the heavens. Some of
the scriptures would be Psalm 89
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verse 2. It says...
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The stars come over and we set
our GPS by the stars. We've been
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setting our clocks by the stars
for years. In Psalm 36 verse 5
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it says...
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Psalm 89 verse 5...
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And we see God's faithfulness
in the heavens. 1 John 1:9...
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God is rich, the Bible tells us,
he is rich in grace and mercy
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in kindness, in tolerance, in
patience. He owns the cattle on
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a thousand hills. If you will
Google Diamond star you'll find
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some diamond stars. HD-97048,
it has 100 thousand... that's
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the one on the screen, it
has 100 thousand to a million
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trillion tons of diamonds.
Lawrence Livermore National
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Laboratory tells us that HD97048
the carbon, diamonds are highly
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carbon, carbon, the temperature,
the pressure, everything is
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right to make diamonds. HD-97048
a diamond star, maybe a 100
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thousand to a million trillion
tons. Now there's another one
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coming up here and this is
BPM 37093, another diamond star.
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The interior is a white dwarf
with a diameter of 4,000 km. It
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has a hundred billion trillion
trillion carats of diamonds.
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Our precious Savior trod
weary the sandy trails of old
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Palestine that we might walk
with tireless feet on the golden
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streets of the New Jerusalem.
You see, the Bible says the New
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Jerusalem has streets of gold,
gates of pearl. No problem for
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the Lord. We see that he has
stars which we would consider
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fantastically valuable. In
Ephesians 1 verse 9 it says
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In him we have redemption
through his blood for the
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forgiveness of sins in
accordance with the riches of
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his grace. So one of his
attributes is his riches in
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grace, but he's also rich in
mercy and kindness and tolerance
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We ought to go to the farthest
galaxy that we have. This, they
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tell us would be about 13
billion, where the little arrow
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is. They believe this would be
in the very edge of the universe
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13.7 billion light years away.
A light year is about 6 trillion
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miles. About 13 billion light
years away. When I see that last
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galaxy I go back to Psalms. I
think of what it says in Psalm
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103 starting with verse 10: and
it says that God doesn't deal
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with us after our sin. Are you
thankful the Lord doesn't deal
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with us according to our sin
nor reward us according to our
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iniquity. We're thankful for
that. God doesn't really give us
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what we deserve does he, as long
as we trust in him. What does
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the Bible say for he doesn't
reward us according to our
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iniquity for as high as
the heavens are above the earth
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that's how great God's mercy
is. Can you comprehend that last
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last galaxy at 13.7 billion
light years away. You can't
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comprehend that. Can you
comprehend a billion, can you
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comprehend a light year, six
trillion miles. You see we can't
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comprehend how great God's mercy
is. What's the next verse say?
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As far as the east is from
the west, that's how far he has
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removed our transgressions from
us. Can you comprehend how far
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the east is from the west? It's
incomprehensible. That's how far
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he's removed our transgressions
from us. Now folks there are
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many people that's all they want
to hear is grace. They just want
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to hear grace. I mean you can
drive right through the Bible
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belt and you see the marquis.
Most of them are grace, grace,
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some form of grace, you see, all
about grace. But the Bible does
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have some instruction for us.
The Bible does tell us straight
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is the gate and narrow is the
way and few there be that find
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it. In America, you know, we're
a Christian nation. Everybody
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going to heaven. No everybody's
not going to heaven. Everybody's
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not going to heaven I want
to tell you. The Bible says love
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not the world. I have a real
concern for Christians. I'm sure
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we've got some viewers out there
Christians who can't get through
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the weekend without a Hollywood
movie, a blockbuster movie.
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Folks what would that mean -
we have overcome the world. Love
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not the world. What would be the
things of the world? Hollywood?
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Wouldn't that qualify?
Materialism? What else would
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qualify? Sports, they call
them fans. What's the real word?
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Fanatics. I think that if there
may be some people that get so
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involved with the world heaven
would be a torture to them. So
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we need a balance between law
and grace. Our time is running
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out but one of the attributes
of God is... Well C.S. Lewis had
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a problem as he was reading
Psalms, praise the Lord, praise
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the Lord. And C.S. Lewis is
going why does God need all this
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praise? Then he kept studying
and he realized that praise
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completes our enjoyment and the
Bible tells us God inhabits our
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praise. All enjoyment
spontaneously overflows in
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praise. Now this was an example.
One morning I walked into the
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shop. The shop foreman and I go
in early usually. And not every
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body was there, but the shop
foreman was there. And he didn't
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even say good morning. He said
did you see the game last night?
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Did you see the game? I had no
idea what the game was all about
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and I had no idea who was
playing. And I realized that the
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shop foreman was going to have
to suffer for two hours because
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his good friend the production
manager gets in and these guys
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know the game, they know the
teams, they know their averages
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they know their salary,
they know everything about these
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players and he was going to have
to suffer for two hours because
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he gets in about six and Tom
gets in about eight. He's going
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to have to suffer for two hours
till Tom gets in so they can
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relive this game and praise
their team and go over the plays
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you know. In fact, I was
thinking the other day with the
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super bowl, Denver was in the
super bowl and I thought what
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did it cost me the next day
because everybody was talking?
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about the super bowl and not
working. So the Bible tells us
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God inhabits our praise. As I
thought about this shop foreman
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who had to wait two hours so he
could have the joy of reliving
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the game and sharing the game,
I was thinking, do we praise the
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Lord? Because C.S. Lewis
says all enjoyment spontaneously
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overflows in praise and God is
enthroned in our praise. To say
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that God inhabits our praise
of his people is to say that his
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presence is best felt when
we praise him. O that men would
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praise the Lord for his goodness
and his wonderful works to the
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children of men. Psalm 107. God
tells us 36 times to rejoice in
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the Lord. So our joy is
consummated in praising the Lord
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So my appeal to you as we wind
down this program again, I hope
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you'll join us next time when we
come back with Heaven's Declare.
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But seek the Lord while he may
be found, call upon him while he
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is near, let the wicked
man forsake his way and the
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unrighteous man his thoughts.
Friend if you are involved in
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the world, I plead with you
love not the world. Spend your
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time in the word of God. How
much time do you spend in the
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world, the music of the world,
videos of the world, Hollywood,
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you know, movies. Folks if you
are a Christian, you believe in
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God but you're so involved
in the world, you will not enjoy
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heaven because we have talked
about the holiness of heaven and
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if you are careless with God's
name. A lady I know, she's a
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praying, wonderful praying lady
but everything that surprises
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her, it's oh my... and she uses
God's name in vain. And you see
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the Lord will not hold her
guiltless. We need to overcome
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the world. The Bible says love
not the world because this world
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might just get you out of
heaven even though you may be a
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believer you would not enjoy
heaven if you love the world.
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So we'll see you again
next time on Heaven's Declare.
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