Participants: Pr. Stephen Bohr
Series Code: LLD
Program Code: LLD000003
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00:37 Shall we bow our heads for prayer.
00:44 Father in heaven, we thank You for the awesome privilege 00:47 of being in Your house. 00:50 It's kind of like an oasis in the middle of the desert 00:54 where we can get away and come together and 00:57 have fellowship, enjoy singing, praying, and the study of 01:02 Your holy Word. 01:04 We ask, Father, that as we open Your Book, 01:09 that You will speak to us through the ministration 01:12 of Your Holy Spirit. 01:14 I ask that You will give us glimpses of how much 01:17 You love us. 01:19 That in response, we will make a total commitment 01:24 to Jesus Christ as our Savior and as our Lord. 01:28 And we thank You, Father, for hearing and for answer 01:30 our prayer, for we ask it in the precious name of Jesus. 01:34 Amen. 01:38 I'd like to begin our study today in the book of 01:43 Colossians chapter 1 and verse 16. 01:48 Colossians chapter 1 and verse 16. 01:55 The main point that I want to emphasize in this verse 01:59 is the fact that everything that exists in the universe 02:03 was created by God the Father through the instrumentality 02:10 of His Son, Jesus Christ. 02:14 It reads this way, "For by Him," that is Jesus... 02:49 This text makes it very clear that Jesus Christ 02:52 was the Creator of everything which exists in the universe. 03:00 You'll notice that we're told in this verse that Jesus 03:03 was before all things. 03:07 Now this brings me to another very important point 03:09 as we set the stage for our study today. 03:13 And that is that Jesus was not only before all things, 03:18 but Jesus was eternally before all things. 03:23 He is eternal God. 03:26 Notice Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6 on this 03:30 specific point that Jesus not only created all things, 03:34 not only does He pre-exist all things, but Jesus also 03:40 eternally pre-exists everything in the universe. 03:45 This is a very well known verse. 03:48 "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; 03:54 and the government will be upon His shoulder. 03:59 And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, 04:04 Mighty God," and here comes the key phrase, 04:08 "Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." 04:15 In this verse, Jesus is called, the Everlasting Father. 04:21 Because He's our Father, because He created us. 04:27 Another interesting fact about Jesus is that Jesus created 04:32 the universe from nothing. 04:36 Now you try creating something from nothing. 04:39 You know, when we create, we use pre-existent matter. 04:44 But Scripture tells us that Jesus created all things 04:48 when He had nothing to create these things from. 04:52 Notice Psalm 33 and verses 6 and 9. 04:57 Psalm 33 and verses 6 and 9. 05:04 Here, the psalmist David is speaking and he says... 05:09 "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, 05:13 and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." 05:20 And then we go to verse 9. 05:22 "For He spoke and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast." 05:31 It's what theologians call, creation ex nihilo. 05:37 Creation from nothing. 05:41 And so we see Jesus, the Creator of the entire universe, 05:47 eternal God, creating everything from nothing. 05:55 Now I would like to take you on a little tour 05:58 of the universe today so that we can understand the 06:03 magnitude of the universe that Jesus Christ, 06:08 the eternal God who created from nothing, actually made. 06:15 What I'm going to share with you is going to boggle your mind. 06:19 But I'm only going to share a very few details 06:23 of the research that I have made on the magnitude 06:27 and the dimensions of the universe. 06:31 Allow me first of all to say that astronomers measure 06:35 the heavens in what is known as light years. 06:40 Basically, a light year is the amount of time that it takes 06:46 a ray of light to travel from point A to point B 06:51 at 186,282 miles per second in the course of that year. 07:02 Which means that a ray of light will travel in one minute 07:09 approximately 11 million miles. 07:15 In one year a ray of light will travel approximately 07:20 6 trillion miles. 07:23 In just one light year, 6 trillion miles. 07:29 I don't know if you're aware of it, but every time you take 07:32 two steps, light has traveled approximately 200,000 miles. 07:42 In one light year, the distance that a ray of light travels 07:49 would be equivalent to the number of miles that all of the 07:57 cars on planet earth travel during the same time period. 08:03 In fact, scientists have reached the conclusion that the 08:07 light year is far too small a measure to be able 08:11 to measure the heavens. 08:17 Now the moon, that very close planet of ours, 08:24 is 240,000 miles from our earth. 08:29 Which means that the light of the moon that we see 08:32 took 1.3 seconds to arrive from the moon to planet earth. 08:40 Let's talk about the sun. 08:42 Our sun is 93 million miles from planet earth. 08:49 Which basically means that the light of the sun takes 08:52 8.3 seconds to arrive at planet earth. 08:57 Now let me put this in context for you. 09:01 If you were to hop on an airplane and you made up 09:05 your mind that you're going to travel from the earth 09:07 to the sun, at 600 miles an hour, not stopping 09:14 for any reason, to refuel, it would take you approximately 09:19 17 years to get from the earth to the sun. 09:25 And the sun is right around the corner. 09:29 Let's talk about Pluto, let's move out a ways. 09:34 You know, Pluto has been demoted. 09:38 It is now called a dwarf planet. 09:40 But dwarfs have rights too, I want you to know. 09:45 By the way, the jury is still out on whether 09:48 it's a planet or not. 09:49 Not all astronomers agree that it's just a dwarf planet. 09:53 But anyway, Pluto is 5.3 light months away from planet earth. 10:01 Which means that if you wanted to get to Pluto, 10:03 it would be very easy. 10:04 You just get on some type of aircraft and you travel 10:10 5.3 months at 186,000 miles a second. 10:16 186,282; I wasn't going to mention the change. 10:22 And low and behold, you are at the dwarf planet, so called. 10:27 Let's move out further. 10:29 The closest star to planet earth is Alpha Centauri, 10:35 which is 4.3 light years away from planet earth. 10:41 Basically, this is 24.3 trillion miles from our planet. 10:49 Let's go out still a little bit further. 10:52 Let's talk about our Milky Way. 10:55 Our very own galaxy that we live in. 10:59 Do you realize that if you wanted to go from one side 11:02 to the other side of our galaxy, it would take you 100,000 years 11:11 at the speed of light? 11:15 Just to cross from side to the other side of our very own 11:19 neighborhood galaxy, the Milky Way. 11:22 100,000 miles from one side to the other at the speed of light. 11:30 100,000 light years. 11:34 By the time you got from one side to the other, 11:37 you would have traveled 600,000 trillion miles. 11:46 And our galaxy is only one galaxy, according to 11:50 astronomers, among probably at least one billion galaxies 11:58 in the known universe. 12:01 Let's talk about Andromeda, our next door neighbor galaxy. 12:08 Andromeda is a very close distance from planet earth. 12:11 It's only two million light ears from planet earth. 12:15 Which means that if you wanted to visit our next door galaxy, 12:20 our neighbor Andromeda, you can take an aircraft, 12:24 or some type of air vehicle, and travel for two million miles 12:29 at 186,282 miles a second. 12:34 And low and behold, you would be there. 12:38 But do you know that Andromeda is the only other galaxy that 12:41 we can see with the naked eye? 12:44 It's calculated that Andromeda and the Milky Way 12:47 each have over 100 million stars. 12:54 You know, man has invented powerful telescopes 12:58 to try and grasp, at least in a small measure, 13:02 the dimensions and the magnitude of the universe. 13:06 For example, there's a telescope on Mount Wilson which is able to 13:12 discern stars at 500 million light years 13:17 away from planet earth. 13:20 We're probably all acquainted with the telescope on 13:23 Mount Palomar here in California. 13:26 According to astronomers, that telescope is able to see 13:32 heavenly bodies, stars, which are one billion 13:37 light years away. 13:40 But then the Hubble telescope was invented. 13:43 And it's actually the first telescope to look at the skies 13:47 from outer space. 13:50 And according to Tom Siegfried, who writes the scientific column 13:54 for the Dallas Morning News, he says that the Hubble telescope 13:58 is able to discern stars that are between 14:02 seven and ten billion light years from planet earth. 14:10 If you wanted to put that in figures, you would have to 14:13 put a nine with twenty-one zeroes after it to know the 14:19 number of miles where seven to ten billion 14:24 light years away is. 14:28 And what's more amazing is that the Hubble telescope has been 14:31 able to determine that the universe is actually expanding. 14:36 The universe is actually growing, they've discovered 14:40 through the study, for example, of quasars. 14:44 And we think of our galaxy, we say, "Wow, 100,000 light years 14:49 from one side to the other. 14:50 Two million light years away to go to Andromeda. 14:55 That's pretty large." 14:57 But do you know that there are galaxies in the universe 15:00 that are 60 times larger than our very own galaxy? 15:06 It's calculated by scientists that these galaxies have 15:10 at least 100 trillion stars. 15:15 What's even more amazing is that astronomers have been 15:19 doing studies about the universe and they 15:22 discovered that as much as 90% or perhaps even 99% of 15:27 the universe is composed of what you might call, dark matter. 15:33 In other words, it cannot be detected by the telescopes 15:37 that we have today. 15:39 Which means that our telescopes are only able 15:42 to see perhaps 10% or as little as 1% of the universe. 15:51 It's amazing. 15:53 You say, "How do they know that there's so much dark matter?" 15:57 It's because of the effects of gravity. 15:59 See, they can measure the gravity. 16:00 They know that the matter is there, but they can't see it 16:04 with the telescopes. 16:06 Surely, what Job said in chapter 22 and verse 12 of his book, 16:12 "Is not God in the height of heaven? 16:18 And see the highest stars, how lofty they are." 16:25 So this is the universe that Jesus created. 16:30 An amazing universe. 16:33 Practically infinite, not infinite, but close 16:36 to being infinite, in its dimensions, in its magnitude. 16:42 But the amazing thing is that Jesus not only created 16:45 this universe, Jesus not only is everlasting God, 16:50 not only did He create this from nothing, 16:53 but the Bible tells us that Jesus, each instant, 16:58 sustains this universe and keeps it functioning together. 17:04 Notice Colossians chapter 1 and verse 17. 17:07 Colossians chapter 1 and verse 17. 17:11 This is the verse after where we read that Jesus was the Creator. 17:15 It says there... 17:24 Or all things hold together. 17:26 Can you imagine the power necessary to keep 17:30 the whole universe functioning in perfect harmony, 17:35 in perfect synchronization? 17:37 It is beyond the comprehension of a human mind. 17:42 In Psalm 147 verses 4 and 5, we're told that not only 17:47 did Jesus create the universe, not only is the universe 17:51 practically limitless, but we're told there that God is actually 17:57 able to count all the stars. 18:01 Notice what we find in Psalm 147 verses 4 and 5. 18:10 Not only does He count the number, we're told... 18:24 Once again, Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 26. 18:28 We find the same exclamation as Isaiah is observing 18:33 the universe. 18:34 It says there... 19:00 So is the power and the greatness and the 19:04 magnificence of Jesus, the everlasting God, 19:09 the Creator who created out of nothing, 19:12 who created a universe which is almost infinite 19:17 with an infinite number of stars and an infinite almost distance. 19:22 We might say, "Well, the universe sustains itself." 19:26 No it doesn't. 19:27 Listen to this statement from Ministry Of Healing, page 416. 19:32 "It is not by inherent power that year by year the earth 19:38 yields its bounties and continues its march 19:42 around the sun. 19:45 The hand of the Infinite One is perpetually at work 19:50 guiding this planet. 19:53 It is God's power continually exercised that keeps the earth 19:58 in position in its rotation. 20:01 It is God who causes the sun to rise in the heavens. 20:06 He opens the windows of heaven and gives rain." 20:12 Amazing. 20:14 In fact, in another statement on the same page of 20:17 Ministry Of Healing, Ellen White says that it's not by accident 20:21 that the heart beats one right after another. 20:26 She says that God makes the heart beat. 20:30 He makes the lungs breathe. 20:32 He is actively engaged in sustaining life. 20:37 He's not like that unmoved mover that was 20:40 spoken of by the philosophers. 20:42 He is actively involved in His creation. 20:47 He cares for His creation. 20:49 Now do you know that the number of stars 20:52 is almost infinite? 20:54 We've talked about the distances. 20:56 You remember that God told Abraham to go out and 20:59 count the stars of he could. 21:01 Do you know that you can only count about 3000 stars 21:04 with the naked eye? 21:06 And yet it looked like there were a lot of stars out there. 21:11 Well, our galaxy has approximately one billion stars. 21:16 And remember that there are at least one billion galaxies. 21:20 This means that the number of stars in all of the galaxies 21:23 of the universe is 10 to the 22nd power. 21:29 Let me tell you how much that is. 21:31 It's ten thousand million trillion stars. 21:37 Just to give you a little idea of about how many stars 21:40 there would be, imagine all of the beaches on planet earth. 21:44 And imagine that each grain of sand on all of the beaches 21:48 of planet earth is one of the heavenly stars or one of 21:51 the heavenly bodies. 21:52 That would be close to the number of stars 21:55 in the universe. 21:56 Now you try picking up a hand full of sand 21:59 and counting all the grains of sand in that one hand. 22:03 It would be practically impossible. 22:06 And yet we find that this universe that Jesus created 22:10 was awesome. 22:12 Now let me ask you, how big do you feel this morning? 22:16 You know, sometimes we think we're so important, 22:19 and so significant, and so great. 22:24 And yet in the context of the almost limitless universe, 22:29 who is man? 22:33 In fact, David asked that question. 22:34 If you go with me to Psalm 8 and verses 3 and 4, 22:39 David one night was looking at the heavens 22:41 and he came back with this impression. 22:44 Notice Psalm 8 and verses 3 through 5. 22:49 He says... 23:14 "What is man," is what David is saying, 23:17 "in the context of the universe?" 23:21 And yet, listen up. 23:23 When this planet fell into sin, Jesus, the Creator 23:29 of all the universe, everlasting God, 23:33 who created everything from nothing, 23:37 who by His power sustains the universe and keeps it 23:40 functioning in order, He said, "I cannot stand the idea 23:46 of losing that little planet." 23:50 And so Jesus Christ, the Creator, bid farewell 23:55 to the angelic host in heaven to come down 23:58 to this little rebel planet. 24:03 He came and He was born with a body affected by 24:06 4000 years of sin. 24:09 He was born in the likeness of sinful flesh. 24:13 As a child He studied the Old Testament, 24:16 which He had given. 24:19 As Jesus grew, the hatred against Him grew. 24:24 Imagine Jesus placing Himself in the hands of His own creatures. 24:31 To have them slap Him, and spit in His face, 24:36 and kick Him. 24:38 And yet not opening His mouth when by His power 24:42 He created the universe. 24:43 He could have simply spoken the word and everybody 24:48 would have been instantly pulverized and destroyed. 24:53 But Jesus, the Creator, came to this world. 24:56 The great God who was in the form of God. 24:59 He did not consider equality with God as something 25:02 to be grasped, and He came down. 25:06 In fact, let's read that passage that we've read before. 25:08 I never tire at reading this passage in Philippians 2 25:12 beginning with verse 5. 25:14 Philippians chapter 2 and verse 5. 25:17 Here, the apostle Paul says this... 25:32 In other words, He did not consider equality with God 25:34 something to be grasped. 25:40 In other words, He emptied Himself. 25:50 And now notice. 25:52 In the likeness of a man, we're told that He humbled Himself 25:56 even more. 26:02 Folks, we can never really understand this sacrifice. 26:06 Did Jesus really need this world? 26:09 Not really. 26:11 He can subsist very well without this world, 26:15 and without each individual in this world. 26:18 But He loved the world. 26:20 And therefore, He came here to save this planet. 26:25 You know, you could imagine, to give you a little comparison, 26:29 you know, there's a lot of orchards here of almonds. 26:34 You know, sometimes when I drive north on 99, 26:37 you have acres and acres of almonds. 26:38 Can you imagine a worker someday coming to the owner of the 26:43 orchard, almond orchard, and saying, "Sir, sir. 26:47 I have some news to report to you." 26:49 And the owner says, "What?" 26:51 "Well, a leaf fell off of a tree over at acre 83." 26:59 What would the owner say? 27:00 "A leaf? You're kidding me. 27:03 You come to report that a leaf fell off that tree? 27:06 Who cares." 27:09 The same is true of this world. 27:12 You see, this world is like a leaf in the orchard of God, 27:16 in the universe of God. 27:18 And when it fell, Jesus didn't say, 27:21 "Oh, I've got a lot of worlds. 27:23 I've got a lot of loyal citizens. 27:25 I don't need that little world. 27:27 Let's just snuff it out of existence." 27:30 No. 27:31 Jesus, the Creator, became a creature. 27:38 Isn't that amazing. 27:39 The creator became a creature. 27:43 That's how much He loved us. 27:45 And by the way, folks, do you know that the Bible says 27:48 that He cares so much for us that He even cares 27:53 for the little sparrows? 27:56 Notice Luke chapter 12 and verses 6 and 7. 27:59 You know, sometimes I hear people really down on 28:01 themselves and say, "Nobody loves me. 28:03 Nobody cares about me." 28:05 Well whenever you think that, remember that there is someone 28:09 who loves you and cares for you, and would have come 28:12 to save only you. 28:15 Notice what we find in Luke 12:6-7. 28:29 In fact, in Desire Of Ages, Ellen White says 28:32 that when a bird falls out of the tree and dies, 28:35 it touches the heart of Jesus. 28:39 The death of a bird. 28:43 It continues saying... 28:48 And let me tell you, Jesus has to adjust the account 28:51 with my head every day. 29:03 Notice Matthew chapter 6 and verse 26. 29:05 You know, this is not comprehensible to us 29:08 because we're selfish. 29:09 You know, we're not into this idea of serving 29:12 and helping other people. 29:13 We're into the idea of serving and helping ourselves, 29:16 and have other people us. 29:18 We have the problem of upward mobility 29:21 that we've been talking about. 29:22 Jesus showed that the principle of life, 29:25 the great principle of life, is downward mobility. 29:28 To serve. 29:30 No matter how great you are. 29:32 The greatest law of life is a law of service. 29:36 Matthew 6 verse 26, Jesus says... 29:57 Do you know what the great passion of Jesus is? 30:00 The great passion of Jesus is to have us where He is. 30:07 He showed that passion when He was about to suffer 30:11 death on Calvary. 30:14 He says, "I'm leaving, but I'm going to come again. 30:18 And I'm going to receive you unto Myself. 30:20 That where I am, there you may be also." 30:25 In fact, Jesus, just a few minutes perhaps after this, 30:29 or at much a few hours after this, He uttered that prayer 30:33 to His Father, that wonderful intercessory prayer 30:36 of John chapter 17. 30:39 And at the climax of the prayer, Jesus shows what His great 30:43 passion was. 30:45 John 17 verse 24, I'd like to read this. 30:47 And by the way, as you're looking for this text, 30:50 Ellen White says that this verse is on the lips of Jesus 30:55 on five different occasions. 30:58 The first occasion, of course, is when He prayed this prayer 31:02 in Gethsemane. 31:03 The second time was on Sunday morning when He resurrected 31:06 and He went to heaven to make sure that His 31:08 sacrifice was accepted. 31:10 He went in and spoke these words to His Father. 31:13 The next time was 40 days later when He went to heaven 31:16 and He was going to be enthroned as our High Priest. 31:19 Once again, He uttered these words. 31:22 The next time, she says, is at the time of trouble 31:24 when God's people are about to be wiped out 31:26 from the face of planet earth. 31:28 Jesus will speak these words to His Father. 31:32 Obviously, Jesus wants us to be there. 31:36 And she actually says that these words are on the lips of Jesus 31:39 now when Jesus intercedes for us in heaven. 31:44 What are the words? Notice... 32:05 What is the passion of Jesus? 32:07 That we be where, what? 32:09 Where He is. 32:12 And then He says... 32:21 Jesus constantly brings this prayer to His Father. 32:25 "Father, I want My own to come and to be with Me." 32:30 Do you realize that it would have been almost an 32:33 infinite humiliation for Jesus to take Adam's nature 32:36 before the fall? 32:38 Allow me to read you this very significant statement, 32:40 Desire Of Ages, page 48, where Ellen White explains the 32:46 great sacrifice of Jesus. 32:47 "It would have been an almost infinite humiliation..." 33:01 Imagine Jesus becoming a creature even in 33:03 the perfection of Adam. 33:05 But then she says... 33:40 You see, Jesus is the great exemplar. 33:44 He could have said, "I don't need this world. 33:47 I've got lots of other worlds with loyal citizens 33:50 who never sinned." 33:51 And yet He chose, in spite of all of His power 33:54 and greatness, to come down and save the human race. 33:59 A few years ago, actually many years ago 34:02 when I was teaching in Columbia, I had an evangelistic crusade 34:06 in the city of Medellín. 34:09 And at that time we would show movies that were produced 34:13 by Moody Bible Institute. 34:15 And one them was called, The City of the Bees. 34:18 And I showed the 20 minute little movie. 34:22 16 mm back then. 34:24 And you know, I was captivated by it. 34:27 I usually would preach afterwards. 34:29 And I was captivated by that movie, because it showed 34:33 basically a bee that was kind of, you know, 34:38 struggling and scrambling on the ground and couldn't fly. 34:42 And they said that little bee, the reason why he couldn't fly, 34:46 is because he had miscalculated the amount of nectar that 34:49 he needed to drink from the flower to be able to 34:52 make it back to the beehive. 34:55 And so he didn't have enough energy to make it back. 34:59 And they showed on that movie that if that little bee 35:03 was given a little bit of honey, or water that was sweet, 35:09 the bee would restore its energy and it would fly off 35:13 and be able to make it to his destination. 35:16 You'll never guess, but about two days later 35:18 I was coming out of home on my way to class. 35:23 And I was late for class. 35:25 Not as usual. 35:26 I was usually on time for class. 35:29 But I came down the steps of the house, 35:32 and low and behold, what do you suppose I saw? 35:35 A bee. 35:36 And it was on the ground, you know, it was alive. 35:39 But it's struggling and it couldn't fly. 35:42 So I said, "I wonder if this bee has the same disease 35:44 as the one that I saw in the movie?" 35:48 So even though I was late, I went up into the kitchen. 35:50 I got a little bit of honey on a spoon, and I brought the honey, 35:55 and I put it next to the little mandible of the bee. 35:58 And I could tell that the bee was sucking away. 36:01 Nothing happened. 36:03 A couple of minutes went by. 36:04 I said, "Well, it must be suffering from cancer or 36:07 tuberculosis, or something like that. 36:08 Obviously, he doesn't have this disease." 36:11 But then all of a sudden, like he was shot out of a gun, 36:16 this little bee took off into the air and just flew away 36:20 and disappeared. 36:24 You know, as I was on my way to class, 36:27 I started reflecting and thinking about this. 36:31 You know, that little bee is kind of like us. 36:36 It had a fall. 36:38 Because it disobeyed a fundamental law of the bees. 36:42 And that is, that you get enough nectar where you're at 36:46 in order to make it to where your destination is. 36:50 We had our fall. 36:52 And like that bee, without external help there's no hope. 36:59 You know, I could have done one of three things with that bee. 37:03 I could have stood there and lectured him. 37:07 "Serves you right. 37:08 You disobeyed the law, and now you pay." 37:11 And I could have walked off and let him die. 37:15 The other thing I could have done is look at the bee and say, 37:18 "You broke the law. Tough luck. 37:21 But I see your suffering, so I'll put you 37:22 out of your misery." 37:25 God could have done that with us. 37:27 God could have ignored us, 37:29 Jesus could have forgotten about us, 37:30 or Jesus could have put us out of our misery. 37:33 But He didn't. 37:35 You see, I didn't need that bee for anything in the world. 37:38 I'd be alive today if I hadn't helped that bee. 37:45 But even though... 37:46 And I like to imagine, you know, I know bees can't think, but 37:49 if he could think, he'd say, "Whoa, that's a big guy. 37:54 Important guy. I hope he doesn't step on me." 37:58 That's kind of like us looking at God, 38:00 "Wow, what a great God. 38:03 Would He actually save me?" 38:04 Well, you know, when this bee was in need, 38:07 I actually stooped down and came down to his level, 38:12 and gave him honey. 38:14 And he flew off into the distance. 38:17 He was saved from certain death by someone who didn't 38:22 need him at all. 38:24 So it is with us. 38:27 When we fell, Jesus could have ignored us. 38:30 He could have put us out of our misery. 38:31 But He came down to our level, even though He didn't have to, 38:35 so that He could save us from our sins, 38:37 and so that we could fly off into the skies and end up 38:40 in the heavenly kingdom with Him. 38:44 And you know what's even more amazing? 38:47 Is the fact that heaven is going to come down here. 38:51 Have you ever stopped to think that this is going to be the 38:54 headquarters of the universe? 38:57 That actually the New Jerusalem, the capital of God, 39:00 is going to come down from heaven and it's going to 39:02 rest on planet earth. 39:03 And this is going to be the center of the universe. 39:07 And we are going to have the privilege of living here 39:10 on planet earth with the Father and with Jesus 39:14 throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. 39:17 What a privilege to live with Jesus forever 39:22 and ever on planet earth. 39:28 Do you know that Jesus would have done it only for one? 39:32 There was only one lost sheep, there was only one lost coin, 39:36 there was one lost son. 39:40 If there had been only one sinner, Jesus would have 39:42 come to save that one sinner. 39:44 I'd like to end by reading a statement that we find 39:47 in the book, God's Amazing Grace, page 173. 39:52 "The wealth of earth dwindles into insignificance 39:57 when compared with the worth of a single soul 40:01 for whom our Lord and Master died. 40:04 He who weigheth the hills in scales and the mountains 40:07 in a balance regards a human soul as of infinite value." 40:11 Now listen up. 40:12 How do you buy something that is of infinite value? 40:14 The only way you can do it is by paying an infinite price. 40:18 So Jesus bought that which was of infinite value 40:21 by paying an infinite price; the blood of Jesus. 40:25 Oh folks, let's not walk away from here this morning 40:30 saying no to Jesus. 40:32 Let's walk away saying, "Jesus, I receive You as my Savior 40:35 and as my Lord." |
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