8-3-22 - The Immutability Of God

Your Bibles with jump over the book of Malachi in order to be looking at chapter number three just highlighting really one verse tonight that I believe we need to sit on and kind study through tonight. So Malachi chapter 3 will read verse number six is just read this verse together in honor of God's word says in verse number six of chapter 3 or I am the Lord, I change not.

Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Father, we thank you for your words and I would enjoy it is to come together, Lord, and into study the word of God, thank you for the faithfulness of the dear people here at lighthouse and that I pray that you bless each one of the classes in in the teens and the kids ministries be with the youth that are over it splash camp this week. I pray that you would speak into those parts as I know there's hundreds of kids out there and that they are going to be hearing your word.

I pray that eternal decisions would be made in those lives in pray that you would bless the service tonight if anyone doesn't know Christ, that we would they would come to know Christ as their Savior and that we would be affected and impacted and comforted and encouraged by the truth of the immutability of God, help us to understand the Bible says about that wonderful promise. In truth we ask in Jesus name God's people said men you may be seated tonight.

Truth is the greatest thing that we actually possess and use you say I thought Jesus was the greatest thing we possess with Jesus that I am the truth so when you possess the truth. You possess Christ you cannot be one who possesses the truth and doesn't possess Christ because he is the truth and then salvation but Jesus said in John 17 verse one through three some very interesting words and in this is such a unique chapter John 17 is actually an entire chapter given to prayer and it says in verse one. These words pay Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and set father. The hours come. Glorify thy son that I son also may glorify the as thou has given him power over all flesh that he should notice what is this give eternal life to as many as thou has given him, and this is life eternal. So Jesus is getting ready to define what eternal life is. He says that they might know the, the, what's the next word only true God and Jesus Christ in dollars sent and so Jesus says here that he wants them to have eternal life, and that the way they have eternal life is by knowing God and and and and he says he is the only true God. Jesus according to Christ there is only one true God and in its God the father and also the way you know God the father is through knowing Jesus who was God the son and the Bible tells us here it says in verse three that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent God the father, God the son are one. The Bible says there separate persons, but one deity one Godhead there and so salvation is attached friends to knowing God. If you don't know God, you don't have salvation. Ignorance doesn't bring salvation, and so we we are called to bring people the truth about God and to deliver them that reality.

But here in Malachi 3.

One of the greatest attributes about God is highlighted in and we need to study these attributes because we didn't know who God is. We need to know what he's like and and really, the more we know about God, the more we know about reality, God is ultimate reality, he is truth. He is, is clarity. He is brings elusiveness to those hearts and minds would come to him his understanding. He is our wisdom or knowledge are life and lights.

If you would, but here in Malachi 3 there is an attribute that is a unique attribute it's highlighted in verse number six and it's what's known as the immutability of God, the unchangeable nurse of God.

The change less nests of God and tonight I want to look at the meaning of that uniqueness of God's immutability and then what are the results of that and so talk about the immutability of God. We don't use that were probably very often in our world today is everything changes but though though the word means the perfections of God that he changes not in character will purpose or a God is unchanging and he is unchangeable, we cannot cause God to be changed. You can go home and your kids behavior can cause you to be changed so timer circumstances do not change God.

This separates deity from humanity. This separates God from the creation we are constantly changing. We age we physically change we learn more. We forget things that we grow spiritually. We we can have backslidden situations were constantly changing the God is never changing.

He never stops possessing any of the divine attributes because if he did so, he changed from one point to another, then there would be a lessening of something or growing up something and that would cause God to become better or worse, but God remains eternally immutable.

Immutability is the perfection of Yahweh.

The changes not in character will purpose or pain.

Now the Bible herein. Malachi chapter 3 addresses this is the Lord is confronting the nation of Israel who was filled up with sin. They have rebuilt the temple after they've come back from the Babylonian captivity.

Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the temple.

The years have passed. The people turn from loving and worshiping God and at new Templeton now not wanting to worship God seen going to the temple as a bother what they once praise God for long, for they now don't want to have.

So instead of giving God. Their best. There literally bringing God the leftovers God asks for sacrifices worthy of a king worthy of the great King of heaven, but they brought sickly animals they became adulterous.

They live they oppressed widows and foreigners they were divorcing their Jewish wives and marrying pagan women from other nations, they were robbing God and tithes and offerings they became cynical against God they proclaimed their innocence while believing that God was the one who is violating his word and in chapter 2 verse 17 we saw last time the prophet says to them you have wearied of the Lord with your words and exhausting him, yet he say, wherein have we wearied him like a child talking rebellious child under parent doesn't when you say everyone to do with evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighted in him or where is the God of judgment, and in what they're declaring here is that God is the one who has changed, not them that they are okay. The problems with God, and last week we looked at chapter 3 verse one through five were God tells them that you will send a messenger who will purify them and and refined them and that's a prophecy of the coming of John the Baptist, which happens 400 years later, in preparation of the coming of Christ. Then in verse six is a parenthesis in the middle of this call to repentance is calling them to repentance is this, they said, God is the one who changed God's response to them in verse six and says I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed God's saying basically the reason I've not consumed and destroyed you as a nation is because I've not changed. I've made a covenant with you and I keep my word. I don't break my word on not the one violating covenants. You are white with a solid is God's injustice was actually God being incredibly patient with them.

God then says even though they have rebelled.

He calls them lovingly to repent notice verse seven he said, even from the days of your fathers you're gonna wait for mine ordinances and have not kept in return unto me and I will return on the you say Florida hosts so he's calling them to this. The Bible declares that God does not change. He is immutable, eternally unchanging love what Charles Spurgeon writes about this he says it is well for us that amidst all the variableness of life. There is one whom change cannot affect one whose heart can never alter and on his brow. Immutability cannot make furloughs all things else have changed all things are changing the sun itself grows dim with age the world is waxing old folding up of the worn-out investor has commenced.

Talk about the expansion rate of the universe.

The universe is expanding and wearing down as the Bible says the heavens and earth must soon pass away.

They shall perish. They shall wax oldest of the garment but there is one who only hath immortality of years. There is no end in his person. There is no change the delight which the Marine or feels when having been tossed about for many a day. He steps again upon the solid shore is the satisfaction of a Christian when amidst all the changes of this troublesome life.

He rests his foot upon the faith and trust that God is the Lord, and he does not change and so we find here there is such a great comfort in a God who does not change. We see so many changes in our nation, and I think about every one of them have gone from bad to worse site can they not get something right. James 117 the Bible says of God, every good and every perfect gift cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither the shadow of turning.

Hebrews 13 a, let's read this verse together church Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever. Is that important. Jesus you read about in the Bible.

Do you want to meet that Jesus and him be the same as he was and what you seen in the Scriptures. I speaking of creation, the psalmist says in Psalms 102 26 they shall perish without shouting, Dori ate all of them shall wax old like a garment as investor shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed without are the same in the year shall have no went. Since this is literally talking about the second law of thermodynamics. The Bible lays out the second law of thermodynamics that the entropy affects everything that everything wears down is like a massive engine it's burning the fuel up and slowing down. That's what's happening to creation. Numbers 2319 says God is not a man that he should lie neither the Son of Man, that he should repent, as he said, and he shall not do it or hath he spoken, and it shall not make it good. And somebody may ask the question that I would like to addresses. If God is unchanging and why does the Bible say they got repentance which means to change your mind, which means to change your mind, it would affect your change in direction. So why does it say that Genesis 66. For example, says, and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart in Jonah 3 tennis is in God's other works that they turn from their evil ways. And God repented of the evil that he said he would do under them and he did it not so.

So how do you answer that.

Well, the answer is God's character who God is an essential nature does not change, but his attitude and his action toward men can change many times the word repent in the Bible is speaking about being sorrowful, being grieved over our sin that the godly sorrow work of repentance. The Bible says, but the repentant attitude in God doesn't involve any actual change in his character or purpose. He always states that he always loves righteousness is always grieved over evildoing. He always rejoices and what is right and so God's repentance is not a change in his character, but in his dealings with man, God's response to man changes in this is essential to know God's response to man changes as man read changes in his response to God when man turns from ungodliness to godliness, from disobedience to obedience as was true of the people of Nineveh, God will change and how he deals with that man. When a man bicycling against the wind turns about and goes with the wind. Instead of going against it. It may seem that the wind has changed the is actually blowing the same direction. He's just lined his life up with what is going on.

It can be said of all people that before we were saved. The wrath of God was abiding upon us. According to John 336 but after we receive salvation. God's dealings with us. The Bible says of change. We went from being under the wrath of God to be reconciled from being enemies to being friends from being sons of the devil to being sons of God from thing under eternal punishment that awaited us to now eternal pleasure in God's presence and so the immutability of God is a clear, clearly defined truth in the Bible. And secondly, on a look at the uniqueness of this, he says here simply I am the Lord, I change not in a God knows what he is. He knows about himself.

He knows the realities and he declares to us the absolutes of his nature, and so he says he does not change.

We live in a world again that is constantly changing. People grow old. Learn age so forth changes everywhere except with God when attribute the ties closely to the immutability of God is what's known as the E tonality of God. It's essential to understand the concepts, the tonality of God means that they that God exists eternally in both past, present and future.

This is probably one of those hard and difficult things for us to grasp because we are in a time space continuum and it's hard for us as created beings to consider and non-created being. People often say you know Weldon, who made God, but that doesn't apply to God because no one made God.

God is eternal, and in so like if you have somebody like where to creation come from and they just you just keep going back and is like woven the nothing created and and you say will somebody had to make this there's too much design the and of the teleological argument, which is the argument that goes from there.

There is design.

Therefore, there must be a designer of the cosmological argument that did there is a creation, therefore there must be a creator. These these arguments proclaimed that there has to be a genius and power that is is fueling that they created that an and and and and people say well you know what the universe is is eternal event. Well, they they found an exaggerated universe that there has to be a there has to be a starting point and that was proven through the Hubble telescope in the 90s and the ask again is a studied expense rated universe and so they people say well then if if if God is if God is greater than somebody had to make God to but but because he's outside of his creation. The creator is not confined to the same laws that we are we are created by God is not created. He is eternal. He's he's always been in so thing back as far as possible before the earth was created for oceans before mountains before the solar system or Milky Way galaxy before the universe there was God say what was he doing was eternally bored. You think God made us so he could have fulfillment. Does God really need me and you to be fulfilled. If God needed us to be fulfilled and something is lacking in God right doesn't make us because he needs something he made us for our benefit. Our benefit David Jeremiah's is before there was a clock or account calendar a water a day.

But there was God before there was history.

He existed before the creation he was and is in will always be the eternal. I am think about Genesis 11 is in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth were beginning in Genesis 11 is a time word.

It signifies the start of creation as well as the start of all that is in our created world time is attached to creation the laws of physics have shown us that time is a property you can literally speed up or slow down time based upon gravitational pull, doesn't that mess with your mind. Never try to study that out as like I was at work, you know, they make movies about people traveling out in space and less gravity, more gravity and it speeds and slows down time but has a physical property to that's why they came up with the speed of light.

But God is not material God is a spirit in exist exists outside of time, God created our four dimensional world three spatial and one time the God he exists outside of those dimensions.

He's not is not confined to them.

He transcends them. He made them literally wrote the laws and the reason that we have like mathematical laws and we can do science is because God wrote that into creation. The first all you know when when the scientific revolution unit who birthed the scientific revolution was Christians.

I preached on this couple years ago but there it was an atheist to produce days, the scientific revolution, like the advancements in physics and cosmetology. All that that doesn't work does it so cosmology and all these things, that it was it was God. It was the and influence of God upon the heart of people. They said if God is a designer, then there has to be designing creation and they went out looking for it and found it people like Sir Isaac Newton and so forth. But all these these the scientific revolutions that broke forth in all these different areas and disciplines of science really birthed from from the Christians and and that's why people say Christianity the say stuff like this. Christianity hinders true science and unlike Christianity is what produced it friends because they're the ones who promoted and sought it in and they don't they don't mess it up and tamper with it and then stuff it into some kind of ignorant place of evolution. That means nothing, plus something equals everything that's a impossibility so the Bible tells us in Psalms 90, verse one.

Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou has formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, thou turns me into destruction and say is return the children of men for a thousand years, and I cider but as yesterday when it is passed I can understand can you understand like how a thousand years could be like a day in any way comprehend that account cannot even be what is outside of time and we don't know what it looks like in that dimension, but it's but it's like a day is like is nothing he says man's life is like a breath or life is so such a favorite so we get so caught up in the vapor that sometimes we miss the eternal reality the gods working with and God's goodness is I said oftentimes is not based upon the vapors based upon eternity. One man said of eternity. It is duration without beginning and end existence without bounds or dimensions present without past or future is eternity is used without infancy or old age. Life without birth or death today without yesterday or tomorrow. How do you get that we can grasp. It is in a glorious, aren't you glad there's there's realities of God and you just can't even touch the hem of the garment is like where I can't wait to get to heaven and realize how much I have no understanding of and just be blown away you know any eternity you will be blown away forever. People say you know in heaven what are we going to do we get bored if if you think things on earth are enjoyable.

You have no concept of how much greater it will be to be there. It will be so much further than anything in our life of a Paul said it right in Romans eight when he said the sufferings of this will donate worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. And so one writer says, at this very moment God exists at the same time he exists at the time of Abraham.

At the same time he existed in the time of future kingdom interesting God's existing right now. A million years from now is that you don't yes God is a million years into the future and is in the present and is in eternity past, so I can comprehend that, like a pair rate, you have the beginning of the parade 1 mile into it. There's a middle 1 mile ahead is the very end of the parade and so if you had the spray set up that you could be inside of that parade at some point, but if you're in a helicopter.

You could see the whole thing from the beginning to the middle to the end and God sits. The Bible calls him in the Hebrew tongue LOL along with the God who literally sits in eternity is what they called him the God of eternity. In Genesis 2133 Abraham planted it drove and there she even called thereon the name of the Lord, the everlasting God or the God of eternity. Psalms 90 verse two says before the mountains were brought forth her ever how that has formed them in the world, from everlasting to everlasting valor, God is of God's eternal realities. The grounds for his his uniqueness of being the God like the God is the eternal one God is the one who's been forever in Isaiah 5715 says her thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity like inhabits to it. It's a continual.

He dwells in eternity, whose name is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with him who is also is of a contrite and humble spirit revive the spirit, to revive Arctic contrite once, but he is the high and lofty one. There's no one beside him. He is unique in his eternal reality and his immutability. No one is like the Lord and and that's why the Bible says of Jesus sees the same yesterday today and forever. Think about in Malachi 52. In the Old Testament, Malachi. Not only has four chapters you known to be preaching on this book of that anomaly chapters that has the prophecy about Jesus's birth Micah 52 yes I a new start with an M. Okay, so Micah 52 says his goings forth have been from old, from everlasting talking about Jesus Christ. His goings forth have been from old, from everlasting and so what are some of the results of God's immutability and glitz of this third portion of the sermon. He says in verse six not notice the statement for I am the Lord, I change not. And then he says this networks the next word that he says therefore only get anybody else that were associated with the next reset. Therefore gadgets when Richard buys board so therefore, and in that's a term of conclusion whenever you see a therefore you need to pause in your reading the Bible say why is it therefore what's the reason that he put that statement in their and he says therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. That phrase consumed is used. The Hebrew word collide and its use about 200 times the Old Testament and it conveys them as such meetings as annihilation to destroy to devour the parish if God was mutable if he chains and Israel would already have been annihilated. I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore, you're not annihilated is what he saying the reason that you're not annihilated is because I have a change in the Septuagint, which uses which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew uses a that the Greek verb in this area is a Paco which is one meaning of which is to receive and for that which is due. Basically, Israel was due to annihilation.

They deserved annihilation. They deserved being totally destroyed. But God's covenant lovingkindness because of that, because he wouldn't break that covenant.

He wouldn't change he allow them to remain in and you know we sit in the same situation. If it wasn't for God's unchanging nature.

Our sin would provoke God to destroy us because he's made covenant with us through the blood of Christ, and we have eternal life. That's wonderful news. I meant and so Walter Kaser says, even when Israel had violated and profane the covenant of God. God refused to violate his promise. Think about Psalms 89 verse 34 God says my covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

When God speaks, he speaks hearing God's covenant name Jehovah is used in Exodus 6 verse three it says, and I peered onto Abraham and Isaac and under Jacob by the name of God Almighty by my name Jehovah or Yahweh, was I not known to them in that name Jehovah which which the router that is Yahweh. It is, it reflects upon God's faithfulness is unchanging. This changeable message. His continuance in the person that he is refers to him being faithful and in what's interesting here you have in verse six he says, for I am Jehovah, I change not. Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed you think about Jacob always known it will be Jacob known for Jacob and Esau was was Jacob like somebody you would want to work for you. You want to work for Jacob as guys name means assert planter means like a trickster, a rat is like this is the guy this like sleazy you know, bending the rules. This is over.

This again is guiding light in the Bible to his parents.

He deceived us. This is family is dad I mean is this is this is a cunning guy and in a bad way but but so you have Jehovah who is faithful Jacob who is unfaithful of the trustworthy versus the deceiver and so he wants love, Jacob did not cease to love his sons even though they were ones who violated his word, and so the immutability of God gives comfort. He gives assurance to the believer that his promises will not fail. Also God's attitude toward sin never changes. God cannot be coerced or manipulated to compromise and change of any way and then also ponder the significance of this truth in light of what we talked about what is it mean that God is love is. Is it it is it important to know that God does not change in the fact that God is love. What is the truth of the immutability add to the truth that God is love. Below are just some thoughts. I would like to share about Spurgeon is says in the first place. We have known that God's love to us is undeserved. Another thing we can bear testimony to is that this love that God has his unconquerable we strove against God's love, but it conquered us, we can say concerning his love that it has never been diminished by all the sins we have ever committed.

Since we believe we have often revolted, but we have never found him unwilling to forgive because God is loving and he is merciful and he doesn't change, and that not also think about God's word in his immutability of his word is his. If the word came from God and the word also does not change and that's why Psalm one 1989 says forever Lord thy word is settled in heaven.

Psalm 119, 160, thy word is truth from the beginning everyone of the righteous judgments endures forever. Jesus said in Matthew 518 of heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law to lawful fields of God's word doesn't change.

Is that important. I know when when when talk to people inside the construction for lecture this before the date there was have new updated rules or things that they get a deal with specially in the technical area or electric area is different.

Different requirements and regulations but with God's word. If you learn John 316.

It'll be true today to be true when you're 70 to be true when you're dead and gone. If that's why that's why when you give yourself to the Bible, you never waste time studying it because what you learn will be true next week and next month the next year and a thousand years from now.

I can never stops what what a great investment of your mind. What would a worthwhile thing to dive into God's truths do not change his word doesn't change his truths. Sin is still sin.

No matter what the culture says marriage is still between one man and one woman.

Boys are boys and girls are girls. Life starts in the womb.

God loves holiness. He hates the enemy. These are these are all same thing I was really known our daily bread and the Manning Paul Van Gorder says probably guilty of the spaces I am dubious of the accuracy of our bathroom scale.

They said I learned manipulated in a self satisfying manner.

The little adjustment knob serves the very the register and if that becomes too much bother. I just learned to lean a certain way hated by not on site about we put that on the Christian you know when it's on hard surfaces like men at a reading right and later I got a get a guy get some insulation underneath that thing gives them the United 5 pound difference area. We live in an age when many people believe that there is no absolutes that we want to be self-serving when it comes to God into God's truths that we want to we went tilt the scales and say you know God's okay with this, God will accept this but God scales don't change.

He is immutable within the pound is a pound right is right and wrong is wrong. He is the Lord he does not change. So for us as believers. This puts Theo into her backbones.

We can have confidence when we come to God's word. We can hold to it. We do not waver on these things and I love that I want to be certain you feel the same way I want to be certain about things I don't want to be like.

I don't know why don't you have a politicians they change every other month a day that I go for me. Another this this and this. You go from there. Like now that word that I got your vote now modify some of the things it and the answer, thankfully, God doesn't do that when he he he holds to the truth all the time.

The gospel will not change the other God's plan of salvation doesn't change, it's always by grace is always by faith. It's always through repentance. It's always through trusting Christ as Lord Jesus that he is the way the truth and life.

No one comes the father but by him.

That's the truth you say what about people in other countries who haven't come through Jesus Christ will one day go to heaven if they've never heard if ignorance leads to salvation. Let's bring all our missionaries home if if if they don't. If not, hearing the gospel will save you if ignorance equal salvation. And don't tell anyone because their ignorance will bring them salvation. You see his lie. That is, ignorance doesn't save us. The Bible says, how shall they hear without a preacher. Now this or they preach, except they be sent.

So we must proclaim the gospel.

We must send missionaries that we must go to them is our responsibility. But God also reserves a remnant if you we been studying through Romans 910 11 and God will send the message out.

God will accomplish the gospel message in of the gospel message is honestly not dependent upon you and me. I think sometimes it's an Arminian viewpoint in a week if if we don't tell him you know it's never going to get accomplishable God's the race of people to tell you what is going to get Revelation 7 is to raise up 144,000 Jewish men that don't happen, then God's word is not to be fulfilled yet. Then you can also that note that if you told him not God's going bring the gospel you doing in Revelation. He's actually going to preach the gospel from heaven by an angel will go through the heavens, preaching the Bible says the everlasting gospel praise God that his work will be accomplished. I can tell you. The question is will you be involved in, or will you not even enter into the labor filter sit on the sidelines.

Be ashamed when they would stand before God and realize that we were unfaithful or we gonna be faithful and serve God and preach the gospel proclaim Christ it was that what about those Old Testament saints went they saved by bringing sacrifices and what they saved by keeping the law no no no no, but it was Romans four say what shall we say then that Abraham our father, you guys know… Read it to go yet on memorizing what shall we say then that Abraham, our fathers pertaining to the flesh of pound for Abraham were justified by works. Abraham halfway of the glory for God, he would boast in himself and then Paul asked the vital question, but what safe the Scripture. Abraham believed God, and it was a computer accounted to him for righteousness legitimizing it's it's it's a term in the Greek there accounted used many different ways and in the Romans is reckoned or considered or counted to but it but righteousness was placed on the account of of Abraham because Abraham had faith that goes back to Genesis 12 so so faith is always been the way of salvation it's placing your faith in the truth of God is he's revealed it to you and and and grace is poured out upon such assault. Genesis 6 states, as Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. He didn't earn salvation by building an ark because he was state. He trusted God and he built an ark because works evidence the root of true salvation, not our salvation also doesn't change the gospel as a change in our salvation is a change in unthinkable that the first John 513 remains these things have I written to you that believe on the name of the son together, you can know you have eternal life, and I don't live every day one about what I'm going to heaven or not.

I'm thankful for that Lord's return will not change.

Revelation 17 behold, he comes with clouds, and every eye shall see him, that's going to happen that won't change. It doesn't matter what happens on this earth. Christ will come back. He will Victor eternal glories of heaven will not change. Listen to what Revelation 21.

This is such a vote.

Verse section it says and I heard a great voice out of heaven.

Revelation 21 three, saying, behold, dwelling place of the tabernacle of God is with men.

He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, God himself shall be with them and be their God, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Isn't that comforting. There shall be no more death or negatively great day. In other dear family and our church in Chillicothe when we started the church, there are 18 or so years ago.

They they were one of the founding families to jump on board with this we moved there, buzzing, Crystal Zeisler and they have a son named Brad just went home to be with the Lord is. I think 40 years old or so, but he just recently got saved and I think probably the last couple years year and 1/2 or so, but he got cancer just reeled his body of a monumental baby so you pray for that. There is ice the family, but but praise God he's in heaven he's with the Lord Jesus Christ were sat on earth to see their loved ones pass but what a blessing and they'll be no more death no more is says neither sorrow, nor crying, you know, in heaven you'll never feel the pain of insecurity loss, physical injury, heart ache, disappointment, all of that's forever gone with a day that will be right that is says, and neither shall there be any more pain. Anybody have any level of pain today has back pain like seriously like videos like they do is let it as a work is that with a worse resident irregular migraines like videos of migraines, urinary unit get a bad migraine is like your your day is not going to be like this is fantastic is just like you not a headache. A couple weeks ago so I can get a draw from the thousand is just you know just the physical ailments in the things we deal with. Says all that's going to be gone. We just think about it pain free existence eternally pain-free.

Imagine we come back with Jesus and he says his kingdom.

Often I'll be a battle against Satan and his cohort.

Nothing. Nothing the enemy can do to you can ever hurt you pretty awesome like fearless note no fear, no worry verse five it says and he that sat on the throne said, behold I make all things new. You wanted something new and you is had by something used. You get everything new like I rings and it all the time. Brand-new, this is a brand-new eternal addition to mutable what I have to replace nothing will never have to change tires, elbows joints, hips, corrective lenses will be gone semiauto eat so many pills in the morning. I know how you breakfast like all that's gone is gone right yet. He got on the train the gliders vitamin it's it's incredible sometimes me been around wherever you know they got mandated and related almost laid out is like you are trying to cram that thing down like might want to you. I got lunchbox that I don't know 30 lunchboxes and is a little out there that that's that's what awaits us in and when you read about that you can say you know what that's coming that's that's for sure. That's definite that that I can take that to the bank.

Eternal horrors of hell.

Also, not only will heaven not change with the eternal words of hell will not change.

Revelation 2015 says whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast like a fire in a people that were and how ingenious they were still in hell today. Your neighbors don't know Christ will be in hell forever.

I don't know Christ are children or parents or loved ones. There should be a motivation to say you know what I want to get the gospel to them anybody in your life that because you can't save anybody that's God's work which you and I can tell. So it's and I don't want you to consider for a moment. Is there anyone in your life that you know that's not say that you've not yet told II made a point in my life. Years ago that it did family members) of the people around me.

I just never want to have people in my life that I never told about Jesus out I would be willing to lose a relationship over that I would be willing to tell them in loving grace and kindness. And if they hate me for that. I'm willing I love them enough to lose our relationship for I would love them enough to tell them how you need to know I need to tell you this so it's an act of love. It's an act of grace is it's it's it needs to be motivated by the reality that there they're going to spend forever away from God in and in the presence of eternal suffering and in we never want to be guilty of saying you know I never told them when not when I lay my head on my pillow when I'm aged and I have not much life left in me. I want to have known that I told everyone of my life that I could have about Jesus Christ and in whether they got saved or not, you know, I will pray for them and one for that but but I at least want to have given them the message, and sometimes it can be a difficult situation. Maybe some of that estate may be a phone call was not always that was comforting situation.

I would encourage you to write out your testimony you what folks do every Sunday me. John got up your insured's testimony Sunday when a good got Sunday's great and the and in right out.

You learned right if you sat on how to write my test and I got our foundations class they will show you how to write your testimony is due for that purpose. You sick say why you did this because I want to get my testimony down zone to be able to mail this to my cousin brother love one out-of-state. I wanted him to send this to somebody and say ice want you to hear Jesus is done in my life and I want to tell you how you can be safe through my testimony.

Whenever a great, great, if we flooded even the social media with our testimonies like write your testimony on and set it on social media and say I just wanted to share a post. It's more important than even the media and all the craziness he goes on the world want to share with you. I can tell you people will read that they'll read the whole thing though they may not listen to you talk about Jesus, will you tell them about your life. What Jesus done in your life to listen.

The whole thing though, read the entire thing so just just consider what are some possible ways you can do that in so just denied. If if God could change if self existence became dependent existence. If eternity became timed and God would no longer be God. It is God's immutability that assures us that his perfections will not change God's immutability assures us that both God's justice and mercy will be upheld in a world is filled with change. God doesn't change.

Immutability marks and affects everything outside of God. And it's an incredible comfort for us were altered by changed or altered by our RR environments by entropy by godless men in our own sins, God who is faithful to his people will forever be faithful the good Shepherd will always be the good Shepherd when you read in Luke 15 about the father of the prodigal son he still the good father of the prodigal son that's still who he is. The Holy Spirit dwells in us will forever dwell with us. The Bible tells us he is the same yesterday and today and forever. So in a world the waves are tossed back and forth with change in what we just live in, consuming change right now we can step back and say praise God we serve a God that doesn't change the night I would close with the words of Christ in Psalm 46 verse 10 he says be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I'm that I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth goes on in verse number 11. Maybe that's the last verse number seven that we have that comfort tonight only Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge and neither is will Morris and so tonight I don't know where your hearts that I don't know what may be trouser in your life. Sometimes. Sometimes you see changes in your kids or grandkids you see things going on the world. It can cause us to get unsettled about.

I think just like Spurgeon said we can be. This people that see the can, and land our feet up on the solid ground of God's unchanging truth maybe denied there something in your heart. You just need to resettle back down say God I know it's everything to be okay because you don't change you have this you have this all taken care of and if death were to come knocking at my door. You still sit on the throne in perfect immutability and perfection. I can trust every one of your words. Amen Saul stance and I has galvanized closed and the altars open. Maybe just want to come and spend a moment in prayer are welcome to do that tonight you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ and you don't know if tonight you would be with him. We have men women down front ticket. Talk with you for your side and Roman share with you from the word of God. How you can know you could have eternal life friend tonight. I don't know where your heart is in and in with the trials of life we are going through. Maybe everything's going great and I would encourage you to evaluate. Is there anyone in your life.

Is there any family member, neighbor, friend, don't. Don't let it be that that our neighbors, the people live next to us and we never walk, never invite him the church ever told him about the let that be true that gospel witness give for father. We are so thankful for mercy and grace.

We think that the marital noon glorious resurrection of our King and Savior Jesus Christ think tonight, maybe we would apply these truths in his trials of life, that we would reflect badly. God doesn't change when life seems unstable. God is on. We find such peace and glorious numbering for your blessing now Jesus thing