Monday 021725
Together, you and I, let’s open the Word and study what we’ve ALL been freely given. Use me to help you open up your Bible and search what God wants for us to hear. We’re only going to follow what we find written in the Word that pertains to us and hopefully from what we find, we will be able to use it in our lives, not only for ourselves but hopefully for those that we love also.
The verses we are going to study tonight:
Colossians 1:16; Genesis 1:26-31; Jeremiah 25:2, 25:9-11; Isaiah 7:14, 9:6; Micah 4:2; Hosea 11:1; Isiah 53:4-5; Ephesians 2:8.
While the Bible doesn’t explicitly state a single reason why God created everything that we see, the basic theme throughout scripture is that God created for His own glory, to be praised and worshipped by His creation, with humans specifically created in His image to have a relationship with Him.
Think about it for a moment, who or what was going to tell God, NO you cannot create anything.
There is a verse found in the Bible regarding creation:
Colossians 1:16 ‘…for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
We have been created for God, by God, because God wanted us to be created.
Our lives are all because of what God wants, it has nothing to do with what another human being imagined that Darwin thought. It has nothing to do with what the television wants you to believe about aliens and visitors from outer space. It has nothing to do with anything other than it is what God wanted.
It is all because of God.
Genesis 1
vs26 ‘…Then God said, Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth…’
vs27 ‘…So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them…’
vs28 ‘…God blessed them; and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth…’
vs29 ‘…Then God said, behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you…’
vs30 ‘…and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food; and it was so…’
vs31 ‘…And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
There are so many today that do not believe what I’ve already written in this lesson.
To them, it is impossible to imagine what I am trying to portray.
Almost every one of these skeptics will voice their own, alternative belief. A belief that they want me to believe in because they think it’s the truth.
God gave us the Word, His written voice so that we will be able to survive this life we are living in.
Throughout the Word there are many prophesies that have been told of events that were going to happen and are yet still, remain to happen.
We don’t have enough time to list every event that mankind was foretold, before it happened, but I’ll list a few.
The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah foretold the destruction of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 25
vs2 ‘…the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying…’
vs9 ‘…behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, declares the Lord, and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins…’
vs10 ‘…Moreover, I will eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp…’
vs11 ‘…This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
The warning (prophecy) was written and given around 605 BC.
History records that the Babylonians (king Nebuchadnezzar), did indeed demolish Jerusalem in 587 BC.
There was the prophesy of Jesus’ birth. Ancient prophets foretold many events related to His role and mission. These prophecies were given so people would recognize Jesus when He came and have faith in Him as their Savior. Isaiah in the Old Testament wrote about Jesus 700 years before His birth.
Isaiah 7:14 ‘…Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will name Him Immanuel…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
He further declared two (2) chapters later:
Isaiah 9:6 ‘…For a Child will be born to us, a Son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
There were the prophesies of Jesus’ life. There were Old Testament prophets that foretold of Jesus’ life in remarkable detail. Micah knew the Savior would be born in Bethlehem.
Micah 4:2 ‘…But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will come forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His times of coming forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Hosea spoke of the time Jesus would spend in Egypt as a child.
Hosea 11:1 ‘…When Israel was a youth I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
The book of Psalms talks about how Jesus would speak in parables and would be rejected by His own people (see Psalm 69:8; 78:2).
Another of Isaiah’s beautiful prophecies spoke of Jesus’s role and sacrifice:
Isaiah 53
vs4 ‘…However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, and our pains that He carried; yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, struck down by God, and humiliated…’
vs5 ‘…But He was pierced for our offenses, He was crushed for our wrongdoings; the punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
There is the prophesy that was written of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus also.
God gave us the Scripture so that we would know what He wanted for us to know. There are those that don’t believe, but these people are in a large group of unbelievers.
From the time at Kadesh Barnea all the way up through today’s date, this world’s worst and most frequently used and unforgiveable sin has been mankind’s UNBELIEF in what God has done for us. And even more unbelievable is what God has tried giving to us, for free and most people are going to suffer Everlasting Torment because of it.
It has been mankind’s inability to believe what God has done for us. Of course, so much of this unbelief has been caused by Satan himself.
My most favorite verse in the Bible is found in Ephesians 2.
It had nothing to do with man’s churches, when they told us we needed to ‘tithe’ 10 percent of our income.
It had nothing to do with those that told us we needed to keep the Ten Commandments.
It had nothing to do with anything other than having the FAITH to accept the Gift that God tried giving to us that promised us Everlasting, Eternal Life.
All we had to do was BELIEVE.
Keep your Bibles open and continue studying the words of wisdom that God Himself has given us in His Word.
Lift your voices and let others know just how easy it is if they would only try.
I love every one of y’all. One day, we are ALL going to learn just everything that is involved in the little four-letter word L-O-V-E.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>