Thursday, May 29, 2008

TWG - May 29, 2008

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TWG - May 29, 2008
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Exodus 12: 31-51; Psalm 23; Matthew 23: 13-39

Today is May 29, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. We are doing something of eternal significance. We are redeeming the time. That is one of the basic premises of TWG. We believe that what we do every day is so important that we must do the important things each day. That is why we read the word every Day

I think yesterday has to go into the record books as the busiest day of my life! The phone was glued to my ear from 8:30 till about 2:30. I kid you not! I don’t think I got to put it down at all! Every phone call was either interrupted by “call waiting” or just as I ended it, I got another one! I think I need to have the doctor check to see if I have Phone Ear! John called from Sacramento. We had a good long talk. Marcia called about the Worship page on the net. Phil from KGRV called to invite me to tennis. Beverly from Hermiston called to say her daughter Marjorie Harris had just died and we had a long talk about the memorial service this Sat at 4:30. Pastor Mike Miller called to talk about the service. Lamont W called to talk about the Glide 4th of July celebration. Do you get the idea? There is more! There was Lorraine, a salesman from HT Deopot, Karen, Gerald, and a few phone calls I missed! Hey, but that’s what the ministry is about sometimes! God is in control! I got an email from Daniel C who passed one of my TWG devotionals on about evolution to an agnostic relative and I got some fan mail back. She wasn’t happy about the satire I did on Evolutionists. Pray for her. She needs the Lord! Last night when I got home Chris, the son of a long time friend spent the night on the way to a job in LA. He’s a Christian going into the movie making business! Keep him in prayer! I put a picture of Dave’s hand blocking the camera on the blog at timewithgod.mypodcast.com. check it out. I don’t think Dave wanted his picture taken!

This week’s theme verse is John 3:16-18 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

God gave his only begotten son! Now that is love! To sacrifice the one you love the most is certainly the highest measure of love! God gave His dear son! His only son! He was given to pay the ultimate price to purchase our salvation! Just who is this Jesus? The NIV says that he is “His one and only Son.” The NKJV says he is “His only begotten Son.” Both capture the essence of His identity. Years ago it was written in The Council of Chalcedon that “He was begotten not made.” That is an important distinction. Jesus is the uncreated God, but the Father said to Him, “you are my son, today I have begotten you!” The Bible teaches that Jesus and the Father “are one.” They are closer than Siamese twins! They are one in nature and in essence. Neither had a beginning and will have no end. They are both eternal and all powerful. One is the exact image of the other in every way. If you saw them together under the right circumstances, you could not distinguish one from the other. They have the same power, character and nature. If you hurt the one, the other feels the pain. If you pray to the one, the other hears the prayer as well. There is only ONE God. Yet, for all their oneness they are separate persons. The Father reveals Himself to us in one form, and the Son in yet another. No man has seen the Father and lived to tell about it. But whoever has seen the Son has seen the Father. About the best we can do in human terms is to say that in Eternity Past the Father and Son decided on the plan of the ages. The Son was the Son from all eternity. The Son is the one who appears in human form in the old testament to the Patriarchs. In theological terms we call these Theophanies. Yet in our human way of thinking the Son was begotten at the moment of conception in the virgin birth. To be begotten is not the same as being created. In creation, the first thing, matter, was made from nothing! “Ex nihilo” as we say. But the Son was conceived from the virgin’s womb implanted by the Father because the Holy Spirit “overshadowed” her. Man begets man, cat begets cat, seal begets seal… every one of us begets after our own kind and God begets God! Amazing! Incomprehensible! The God / Man was given to pay the price for my sin. The Eternal God! The All Powerful God! No wonder we call it Love!

Dear Jesus, thank you for coming in the form of a man to love me and save me! Dear Father. Thank you for sending your dear Son Jesus. Dear Holy Spirit, Thank you that in your power you caused the virgin to conceive! I know that you love me because of this ultimate love gift of yourself. I am amazed that there could possibly be that much love for a sinner like me! Thank You!

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