Genesis Part 1: Day 1, Part 2

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I'm sure not thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Today's message is from a series I did on the Genesis account of creation the heavens and earth are introduced in a chaotic state without form and void what occurred. That turned God's once beautiful creation into this calamitous date learn this and more in part one, the re-creation of heaven and earth. Paul told us in Ephesians 612 that we need to put on the whole armor of God, he said were not wrestle against human flesh.

Amen.

But were wrestling against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age amen were wrestling against rulers, those who have power to disseminate darkness and wickedness in this age but just like God commanded in creation like be. He has commanded his light to shine in our hearts, our hearts that were dark, some of us there were dark because you are ignorant of God. You really didn't know you heard about God, you heard about Jesus, but you didn't know anything about the gospel but one day God commanded the light of the gospel to shine in your heart. Amen. Some of you may have heard about you might've even been taking the church as a child, but somehow or another you got out there in the world and you God's darkness in bondage in bondage from which you could not extricate yourself.

Maybe it was chemical substance abuse alcohol and all the drugs that are out there maybe was sexual perversion, whatever it may have been you are in bondage you are in darkness. You are in darkness, that you could not set yourself free, but one God commanded his light, he commanded his light shine in your heart and when the light shone in your heart you surrender to light the darkness. Definitely God gave man a separated darkness is not the light has come a little young God made a distinction he separated you darkness in your life and wickedness. Amen this slide is fast.

One way and that's in the face of Jesus Christ. There is no other way in the world today will tell you, you can say that that's intolerant. There is more than one way to God or to heaven they'll tell you that. But there is only one way the light shines and that's in the face of Jesus Christ, by whom we receive the knowledge of God to come.

Darkness Peter said in first Peter 29 darkness. Amen.

God has sent his son and where I had mentioned a moment ago about Hebrews 11 three about how the need of frame the world but is powered that 13 about how you oppose them. It says that Jesus is the express image of God is the express image, and the great words refer to like when they make coins you know pennies and nickels and dimes. They had a guy the call to die and they come down that metal and that dying is not, you know, the imprint of what they're going to make it.

It comes down that metal and cuts it and it looks exactly like the dye that cuts it will. That's what the word means. That is what it means Jesus the face of Jesus is the express image of God. Amen. And so there's only one way and that's through him. But when the light of the gospel comes to people not everyone comes out of darkness, not everyone comes out. Amen. I'll say the majority are still darkness now want you to think about something for a moment when God said in Genesis 13 like be God spoke, and his word is soundwaves went out there and begin to gather up all the atoms they begin to come together and he created all these things. Amen.

Were there any people out there dissenting God.

Were there any opposing voices were there any contrary objectors saying no, we don't believe in that. You're not going to do that you can't do that whether any people teaching and philosophizing against God's word.

You know like any TV speakers or university professors you know are bloggers or Facebook posters are all the forums and chat rooms denying God's word in his commandment. Now there were no opposing voices when God commanded Moises to stand up against the word of God and say we will you're not going to do that we will put up with that we will believe it.

But you see today when God commands his like to shine in the hearts of men and women whom he created his own image and likeness.

There are all these myriad of voices voices of doubt and unbelief of atheism and agnosticism. The pride of man in the flesh. Amen the fallen world and all its corruption pushes back against the voice of God. God sent his wife and his spirit to people's lives any scientist shine the light on the glorious gospel in their life of darkness, but his voice is not the only one they hear they hear all these dissenters you know what really breaks my heart so much is to see young men and women who were raised in church really raised in church and go to college go to university and come out. Unbelievers I tell you. It breaks my heart. And he also boils my blood. They go there and they get out of those professors who are atheists and agnostics and they hear all those voices and they go through a state about people and then they come out. Many of them and say I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe that stuff anymore.

I don't believe that Bible anymore. Amen. And it's even more prone if their parents before them did not go to college and do not have college degrees.

They kinda looked down what you didn't go to college what you know and now it's filtering down from college down in the high school and down, even to the lower grades I'm telling you you need to put the money aside if you got a sacrifice something you need to put your children in Christian school.

I'm telling you that we lose our children. We lose them to the world. Amen.

Because they hear all those competing voices whisper were the slanderer.

They accused Sir God said, just like he told Eve in the garden. But now, though, say you really do you really believe that foolishness it's the father of lies. Jesus said he was a liar from the beginning.

He's the father of lies and when he speaks, he speaks a lie because there is no truth in him. He is the Prince of darkness. So we read here that God has commanded his like to shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God.

God's light is knowledge. God's light trails.

Amen. But not everyone has come out of darkness and I'll give you the reason why backed up to verse three but if our gospel be hid, it is paid to them that are lost, the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, that's the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. Satan's been successful. Amen. He said if our gospel be hid. You know what that word hid their means in the Greek the literal meaning is to hinder to hinder the knowledge of something to hide the truth and the knowledge from someone in them that are lost and that word lost their means destroyed and we know Jesus said in John 1010 that Satan is come to steal, and to kill and to destroy that his ML. That's how he operates always operates to that and he has different ways. He does it but it comes down to this.

He is going to try to hinder people from coming out of darkness into the light. So we blinds their minds. Amen. The word their world.

He's the God of this world. The Greek word is Evian and it actually means a period of time, like a long period of time and age so we could say that Satan is the god of this age.

He's the God of this period of time that we are in amen and he knows his time is short and he has come with all this wickedness because some people to remain in darkness. He's blinded their minds and that's with the word mind their means no way my major mental perceptions.

Your thoughts and your purposes. Those who believe not, who will not put their trust in God that the like. The illumination of the mind of the glorious gospel the revelation of God's plan of redemption should be known to them. Amen. He's succeeded in blinding the conscience and understanding of people and their lost in his lies. There is a very powerful verse in second Thessalonians 32 that says that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith now want to make sure that this is clear to you. I know that Romans 12 three says God is dealt to every man the measure of faith. Every person has the capability and the ability to believe to believe God, but people whose minds have been blinded by Satan. They still have faith, but they don't have the faith. Remember when I explained not too long ago about the faith as opposed to just faith it takes to be an atheist believe in evolution. Amen.

I mean how much faith is it going to take if I tell you that I had a bunch of springs and little metal pieces and little wheels and some numbers and a bunch of just metal stuff and was in a brown paper bag and I shall get up and out came his watch. Would you believe it know you don't have that much faith do you, but that's what they will have you believe. Amen. Now Paul who wrote these things fully understood them because he experienced them himself, and I'll just tell you the story you all know that before Paul became Paul he was Saul and he was a Pharisee, which was sect of the Jewish religious people and he was convinced that Christians were destroying the Jewish faith, and so he went on a campaign to round them up and he went to the high priest and got permission to round them up and bring them back down, beaten and bound to Jerusalem to be condemned so he got so into this so zealous under demonic inspiration that he even got permission from the high priest in Jerusalem to travel to Tim this which was in Syria, not even Israel to go there and round up Christians there and bring them back to Jerusalem bound to be condemned, so he was on his way to Damascus with his paper in hand, but on the way. Suddenly a light… Brought to light touch on all at the time, Saul. Amen.

And this light was so brilliant not any blinded his eyes. You know you never supposedly get the sun directly specially noon time in its brightest. Amen. And maybe burn down his eye lens or something, but he was blind and he fell down and a voice spoke out of habit instead.

So some why are you persecuting me. He said who are you, Lord and what he said, Lordy, doesn't mean like we say Lord like you're my master not belong to you. It was a term of respect like Sir. Amen. You I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

I can't even imagine what went through his soul. I can't even imagine what went through his spirit when he heard I am Jesus whom you are persecuting and we need to know this because we are being persecuted and we will be persecuted and I think it will be intensified, but when they persecute us there persecuting Jesus. Amen.

These poor Christians over there in Iraq and Iran and China and in Nigeria, where the burning them alive, and the mainstream news is not even showing it. Christians in Nigeria had been burned alive in their churches. The persecuting Jesus and he's not going to sit up there and take it likely either, but when he said I am Jesus whom you persecute. Jesus said it is hard for you to kick against the pricks is hard for you to fight against God, to fight against the truth. You inspired to fight Satan's blinded them their ignorant but they bought a against God and against his word against Jesus Christ fighting against Christians. I mean there on a campaign to tear down every cross they can. Amen. And it ripped from the public square.

Every reference they can to Jesus. Amen.

Oh it's hard it's hard to kick against the pricks. And when Jesus said that trembling and astonished.

Saul answered what will you have me to do, Lord, what will you have me to do Lord all that up blinding light.

What come down and pierce the heavens and knock some people off of their high horse. Amen. Pierce their darkness until they fall trembling to their knees and called on the law and that's what we've not been able try try to give them the gospel. You've tried to give them the truth, but they are just like Saul there fighting against it. Like when they stoned Stephen the first martyr of the church. They gnashed on him with their healthy stoning was part of the religion that you could stone a blasphemer. I mean I don't like the idea that, but let's put it this way. It was sanctioned for a blasphemer but gnashing with your teeth go up and start chomping on somebody with your teeth. Amen. You're making you do that. It's one thing to say.

Well, the law says we can stop by Famers. Here is my stone. It's another thing when you go up and start chomping on a young man whose face is shining with the glory of God. I mean, the devil, Stephen, and he wasn't even an apostle or preacher what he was a deacon highway or on tables was one of the one supposed to stop the fight. These women that you gave them not, and they chose seven men did you take care of this. We got to study the word and pray and he was one of them, but he was full of the Holy Ghost. Amen. And the Holy Ghost was all over him.

He was doing miracles under the anointing of God and the devil hated him and they chomped down on him with their teeth and who was standing there holding their coats, Saul stood there held the coats of the stoners. Amen. And he was so blind I can imagine that came back to visit him many times mentally. Amen.

All that God would send up blinding light on some of our loved ones.

Some of our loved ones that we just can't seem to get through to that God would pierce their darkness with the blinding light that would shake shake them to the core of their being like you said somewhat fair documents. They Lord open their eyes. So Paul was physically blind for three days but during those three days Wally did you get a spiritual transformation revelation took place in his spirit so when God sent his servant Ananias to come and lay hands on him.

The Bible says there fellas that were scales from his eyes and he could see again. I look that word up scales and it says like a covering, that you would have to peel off a covering, that you would have to peel off and I think that's what it was but some people get very dense cataracts and it really obscures their vision and they have to go with Aaron peel them off. Amen.

And then their site is restored and so he received his natural site. After three days when the servant of God laid hands on him, but all it was during those three days that he was blind that he did meet and he didn't drink, I'm telling you, you talk about being in the crucible. I mean that's being in a crucible, but all God was opening up his spiritual eyes. God was taken aback through the Scriptures, I believe, and take him back to the law of Moses and the prophets and the sounds and he was seeing the Messiah and all of those verses and he was saying that Jesus is the Messiah and he fulfilled them now. Later on, much, much later. Towards the end of this life. We know he was imprisoned.

The couple times in acts 22 in acts 26, he's called to give a testimony of why he's in prison and why he's being tried, and I love to read them in connection with acts nine. The original story because he tells you some things, especially in chapter 26 that are not told in chapter 9. For instance, acts 26 verse 16. He's standing at this point before King Agrippa, but rise, and stand upon your feet.

For I have appeared on to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things, what you have seen, and of the things in the which I will appear unto you now this is Jesus talking to him. He's telling you more than we saw in acts nine, delivering you from the people and the Gentiles onto hell. I now send you now that is a huge thing because none of the apostles were sent to the Gentiles. In this way, but look at verse 18. I love to open their eyes had to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in you so Paul stood before Agrippa said I'll tell you exactly why I am now Christian and everybody knows full well my history knows what I was like as Saul the Pharisee and how I hated the Christians and had been condemned to death, but all day on the road of the mask is when a bright light hit me and blinded me for three days. I could not see, but during that time Jesus appeared to me he spoke to me and he said I am not going to set you for your gonna stand before kings and princes of this world to the Gentiles because Gentiles were Steve S Steve darkness they were serving the sun and stars Susan Jupiter and all those other mythology. I'm gonna send you to send you that message that you're going to get.

That is… Open their eyes and they're going to come out of darkness into Satan. That's what the light does it brings people darkness but it also brings Satan. Amen. Paul said I was not disobedient, basically. Troubled the day that that's why I was not disobedient everything Christ glory is not small.

One time I said I was doing, but now I'm trying to bring people doing the small motivate when trying to go. People amen. I hope you're enjoying this comprehensive study from my Genesis series part one the re-creation of heaven and earth, the Genesis account begins with the heavens and earth and a state of chaos that does not match the beauty of the unfolding creation of which God said seven times. It is good. Something calamitous occurred between verse one and verse two of Genesis chapter 1 that turn the earth into a dark expanse covered with water. The prophet Jeremiah uses the identical language to describe the earth without form and void and had no light.

He said there were no animals, no birds, no humans, and the cities were destroyed. This describes what occurred on earth as stated in Genesis of the first two verses there was a traumatic event that plunged the earth into the state. Lucifer's rebellion. If you want more of this teaching the entire three-part series is available on three CDs for your love gift of only $20 or more for the radio ministry you will receive part one the recreation of heaven and earth part two recreation days two through four and part three recreation days five through seven. Send your middle love gift of $20 to sound of faith PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 request SK777. You may order online@thesoundoffaith.org or MP3s are available, but to order the Genesis series.

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