Boundaries

ON DAY THREE

As land emerges from the watery depths, GOD decrees its BOUNDARIES:

"And here your proud waves must STOP."
~ Job 38:8-11

"You have set a BOUNDARY that they may not pass over that they may not return to cover the earth."
~ Psalm 104:5-9

Consider now GOD's spiritual BOUNDARIES:

"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."
~ John 5:24

YOU ARE EITHER LIVING IN ETERNAL LIFE
or
UNDER CONDEMNATION

The Title Deed . . .

The TITLE DEED

Q: Who owns the earth?

"God called the dry land earth."
~ Genesis 1:10

"The earth is the LORD's."
~ Psalm 24:1

"Who laid the foundations of the earth?
~ Psalm 104:5

"While as yet HE had not yet made the earth nor the fields."
~ Proverbs 8:26

"All things were made by HIM."
~John 1:3

"The worlds were framed by the WORD of GOD."
~ Hebrews 11:3

". . . by HIM were all things created."
~ Colossians 1:16

"Thou hast created all things."
~ Revelation 4:11

A: GOD OWNS IT!!

Division . . .

DIVISIONS:

In Creation, we have divisions:

Day & Night

The Waters Above & the Waters Below

The Land & The Sea

These divisions are necessary for our life on earth.

Consider now CHRIST:

"He became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners."
~Hebrews 7:25

The WORLD's RESPONSE:

". . . there was division because of HIM."
~John 8:43

THE ULTIMATE DIVIDER "separates them as a shepherd separates sheep from goats."
~Matthew 25:32

PROMISE TO THE BELIEVER:

What can separate us from the LOVE of GOD?

LIGHT!

DAY ONE:

The unapproachable LIGHT creates light in the dark chaos.
~I Timothy 6:16

GOD sent JESUS to be the LIGHT of the world in the sin-darkened world.
~John 8:12

. . . But the dark world comprehends it not.
~John 1:5

Satan blinds people to the LIGHT.
~II Corinthians 4:4

Jesus commands believers to be LIGHTS (Matthew 5:16) in a crooked and perverse nation (Phil 2:15).

IF you believe the LIGHT of the Gospel you have LIFE & IMMORTALITY!
~II Timothy 1:10

The Brooding Spirit. . .

THE BROODING SPIRIT

“The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
~ Genesis. 1:2

The imagery is that of a mother hen BROODING over a nest of young.

“. . . under His wings shall thou trust.”
~Psalm 91:4

“Whose wings thou art come to trust?”
~Ruth 2:12

Consider now the words of JESUS:

“How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.”
~Matthew 23:37

ARE YOU UNDER HIS WING?

DNA & Creation . . .

DNA & CREATION

DNA is a substance found in EVERY living thing.

It does NOT arrive by chance.

It has a Source. The Source IS an Intelligent Designer.

Hence: Evolution is a spiritual, not a rational choice. Evolutionists do not want to be morally accountable to a personal/Holy Creator.

GOD’s WORD: “All flesh is not the same flesh; one kind of flesh of men; another kind of beast; another kind of fishes; another kind of birds.
~ I Corinthians 15:39

Void & Dark. . .

WITHOUT FORM. . .
and VOID & DARKNESS
WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP

Such was the earth till the Spirit of GOD moved and the voice of GOD began creating.

SO IS EVERY SOUL -- We are Void & Dark until the regenerating Spirit of GOD works and the soul receives the incorruptible Word of GOD.

"For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God."
~ I Peter 1:23

“Therefore if any man be in CHRIST he is a new creature:old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”
~II Corinthians 5:17

. . . in HIS Hands

HE’s GOT the WHOLE WORLD in HIS HANDS

“Who hath measured the waters in the hallow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span…”
~Isaiah 40:12

Now consider where the believer is:

“…they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my Hands. My Father, which gave them Me is GREATER than all. . . . no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s Hand.”
~John 10:28-29

ARE YOU IN GOOD HANDS?

A Higher Education . . .

HIGHER EDUCATION BEGINS LOW

"By humility & the fear of the LORD are riches, & honor & life.
~ Proverbs 22:4

Consider John the Baptist:

"He must increase, I must decrease."

Consider Job:

"I abhor myself."

Consider Isaiah:

"Woe is me."

Consider the Beatitudes:

"Blessed are the Poor In Spirit & Blessed Are Those Who Mourn."

Do you find yourself among these?

Brevity vs. Eternity. . .

BREVITY vs. ETERNITY

About GOD: From everlasting to everlasting THOU art GOD.

About man: The days of our years are three score & ten.
~Psalm 90

As Moses witnessed daily the death of his people in the wilderness, he was greatly impressed with the brevity of life.

But the GOD he met at Horeb, Sinai, & Mt. Nebo was eternal.

WISE APPLICATION: Teach us to number our days.

Use your brevity to prepare for your eternity.

Creationism Rx. . .

GODLY Rx:
a BIG DOSE of CREATIONISM!

When faced with life’s most horrendous trials & blamed by friends for his dire lot, Job turns his anger on the ALMIGHTY.

In patience, the LORD teaches Job who's REALLY in charge of all CREATION:

From the Cosmos to the Creatures -- from the inanimate to the animate.

Job repents, is restored, a new chapter opens in his life.

He is never the same.

Are you struggling?

Try a BIG DOSE of CREATION!

Regrets. . .

THE OLD SAGE & HIS REGRETS

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.”
~Ecclesiastes.12:1

In his search for satisfaction, Solomon pursued every interest under the sun.

. . . wine, woman, wealth, music, etc…

Without God in life’s equation, all was “vanity of vanities.”

In his aging, worn-out body, he delivers this conclusion:

“Fear God…”

Do not pursue things “under the sun,” but HIM who is over the sun.

Is HE Welcome?

THE CREATOR. . .
Is HE a Welcomed Visitor?

Psalm 8 says. . .
“When I consider THY heavens, the work of THY fingers… the moon & the stars, which THOU hast ordained… What is man, that THOU are mindful of him? Or the son of man that THOU visitest him?

*For the Christian, HE makes His abode within (John 14).

*For the Laodicean church He is knocking (Rev. 3).

*For the godless world, a dreadful day of visitation awaits (Psalm 2).

Sacred Scriptures vs. Scoffers. . .

SACRED SCRIPTURES REFUTE the SCOFFERS

The Scoffer’s Argument:

"All things continue as they were.” (i.e. Uniformitarianism)

The Scripture’s Answer:

“They are willingly ignorant…”

The Cosmos is Divinely Created and Divinely Controlled; the Sovereign Creator can interrupt the Cosmos with catastrophe and bring Creation to a Divinely consummated end.
~II Peter3:1-14

Is God slow to show His promises?

He wants people to REPENT.

Everything From A to Z . . .

EVERYTHING FROM A to Z

“I am Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”

These two titles constitute the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, hence our LORD’s application,

"I am the first & the last."

But HE is not only our A and Z. . .

He is also everything in between:

Creation --> Revelation --> Redemption --> Personal experience -->

Jesus is the beginning and the end.

None is before Him as A. . .

None can follow as Z. . . .

Creation's Verdict. . .

CREATION’s Verdict

“For the invisible things of Him from the Creation of the world are CLEARLY seen being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and godhead; SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.”
~Romans 1:20

To reject the truth of Creation is a certain pathway into depravity.

(See the remaining verses of Romans Chapter 1 --> HERE.)

Creation's Endless SERMON. . .

Creation’s Endless SERMON

“The heavens DECLARE. . .
the Glory of God.

The firmament SHOWS. . .
His handiwork.

Day unto day utters SPEECH.

There is no speech nor LANGUAGE where their VOICE is not heard.

Their LINE is gone out through all the earth, and their WORDS to the end of the world.
~Psalm 19:1-4

Creation speaks 7/24/365!

Nondiscriminatory, multi-lingual, & universal!

What is the message?

“The Hand that made me is DIVINE.”

Evolution & Foolishness . . .

“The fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God.’"

~Psalm 19:1

“Evolution is as irrational as it is amoral. In place of God as Creator, the evolutionist has substituted chance. . . . Chance is the engine most evolutionists believe drives the evolutionary process.”
~ John MacArthur

“By the word of the Lord . . . were the heavens made.”
~Psalm 33:6

“…but He that built all things is God.”
~ Hebrews 3:4:

The Origin of the Universe . . .

The Origin of the Universe

Big Bang or Big GOD?

The Book of Genesis emphasizes "FIAT" Creation: The Omnipotent ability to bring someting into existence out of nothing.

"By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the WORD of GOD, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. (Hebrews11:3)

Genesis 1:1 . . .

The first ten words of Scripture defy all human philosophies, (i.e., atheism, pantheism, materialism, evolution, humanism, fatalism, etc. . .)

If you do not accept Genesis 1:1, you cannot accept John 1:1-3.

And therefore you cannot accept CHRIST.

"In the beginning was the WORD, the WORD was with GOD, and the WORD was GOD. The same was in the beginning with GOD. All things were made by HIM...."

The Cry of the True Christian

The unceasing and unpleasant task of warning the wicked of their doom.

"Are we beseeching them in God's stead to be reconciled to Him?" (II Cor. 5:19-21)

. . . If only ours could be a passionate passion for souls! Tell some perishing soul today that Jesus died to save from sin and hell. . . .

Good Friday . . .

GOOD FRIDAY

An historical event?

A tragic end to a great prophet?

OR . . .

GOD's plan to redeem YOU!

"For He hath made Him (CHRIST) to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Cor. 5:21)

The blood that flowed from the Cross was the precious price of our redemption.

Have you applied it by faith to your life?

BEHOLD THE LAMB
THAT TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!

Folly . . .

FOLLY OF MAN

Imagine telling CHRIST:
"Thanks for dying for me; but it's not enough."

GOD's WORD

"But to him that works not, but believes on Him." (Romans 4:5)

"Not of works lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:9)

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to HIS Mercy." (Titus 3:5)

"And if by grace, then it is no more of works." (Romans 11:6)

". . . if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Galatians 2:21)

Passover . . .

FIRST PASSOVER

An innocent lamb's blood was spilled, spread upon the doorpost . . . and it brought protection.

BELIEVER's PASSOVER

CHRIST - God's Lamb - spills His blood and repentant sinners are protected!!

"...Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." (I Cor. 5:7)

"....our Lord Jesus ...through the blood of the Everlasting C...ovenant." (Hebrews 13:20)

"...worthy is the Lamb that was slain." (Rev. 5:12)

Nonexistence. . .

NONEXISTENCE IS BETTER THAN ETERNAL HELL

"Jesus said , It would have been good for than man [Judas] if he had not been born." (Matt. 26:24)

"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul." (Mark 8:36)

"I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that . . .I am He, you shall die in your sins." (John 8:24)