Saturday, May 17, 2008

TWG - May 17, 2008

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TWG - May 17, 2008
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Exodus 3; Psalm 13; Matthew 17

Today is May 17, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. TWG is a covenant to seek the LORD God with all our heart and with all our soul. If you seek Him, He will be found by you.

Another hot one is past, and another hot day is yet to come. Yesterday I worked in earnest on Sunday’s message called “Miracles Happen,” a message about how Jesus Christ changes lives. When you meet Jesus, expect a miracle! I also did music practice in the morning. I watered the front lawn and the amphitheater. Jayn was there watering the flowers. Susan came in and also did some watering. She also got the bulletin ready to go. The Amphitheater is beginning to look pretty good! While I was down at the Amphitheater, Evie and the Grand kids were in the creek swimming. I put a cute little picture of Evie by the creek on the blog at timewithgod.mypodcast.com. After work I ran to pick up our air conditioner and put it in the window. Boy oh boy did we ever need it. Susan had the wading pool set up in back where she was trying to cool off. Today is going to be a busy day. I have to pick up materials for a deck, referee a soccer game and then go to Susan’s surprise birthday party. See you there!

This week’s theme verse is Romans 1:19-20. What may be known about God is plain enough, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Men are without excuse. God has clearly revealed himself in His creation. All one has to do is look at the beauty of what has been made and we conclude “design points to a designer.” The heavens declare the glory of God. We are without excuse. All we have to do is look within, and we instinctively know there is a God… He has programmed Himself into our system. Our conscience bears witness that there is a God. We are without excuse. Just a cursory look into history tells us all we need to know. Every culture has both a flood story and a creation story. It is part of their verbal and sometimes their written history. While not all the details are the same, they all point to a real creation and real flood event, just like the Bible says. These are powerful evidences of God. We are without excuse. The universal laws of nature and the laws of the conscience clearly point to a universal law giver – God. If there are universal laws, there must have been a universal law giver. We live in a “uni-verse” not a “multi-verse.” If God did not exist, at the very least, we would expect that different places in the multiverse would have evolved with different physical laws. But even Star Trek with their odd laws in odd places has difficulty even imagining things that work inherently different than gravity, space, aging etc. Instead we find unified laws everywhere we look. That means certain things are right and certain things are wrong. Absolute truth points to an absolute God! We are out of excuses! Even atheists admit that a belief in God is reasonable except they don’t like it! They don’t want to be responsible to any higher power. Their stubborn spirit rebels! Yet even the atheist is surrounded by so much evidence for the existence of God that when the day of judgment comes and they stand before the God they don’t believe in, they won’t have anything to say in their defense. At that point, an “excuse me God I didn’t know you were there,” just won’t work, because God will replay the story of their life, and point out how again and again he not only demonstrated his existence, but sent messenger after messenger with a gentle but firm message, “there is a God!” As one fire and brimstone preacher once said, “turn or burn.” Not too tactful, but true none the less.

Dear Creator God. I believe that you are there. I know that one day I will stand before you. I want to be ready for that event, so I humbly submit my life to Jesus Christ my Savior. Thanks for dying for my sins. I trust you alone for my hope of eternal life. There is nothing as great as knowing you. Thanks for wanting me in your forever family.

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