God’s Wonderful Creation!

In the beginning, God, God created the heaven. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form. The earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light. Let there be light. And there was light. There was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day. And the darkness, he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. The evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, God said, let there be a firmament, a firmament in the midst of the waters. Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. And let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament heaven, heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day, the second day. Verse 6, and God said, God said, let there be a firmament, an expansion of sky, an atmosphere. Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Now beloved, the earth, the earth is surrounded by layers of gases. The earth is surrounded by layers of gases. Each layer having its own unique composition, but mainly composed of nitrogen and oxygen, mainly composed of nitrogen and oxygen and held in position, held in position by gravitational attraction, by gravitational attraction. Now this atmosphere, this atmosphere protects the earth, protects the earth from harmful radiation. This atmosphere protects the earth from harmful radiation and absorbs. I'm going to have to ask someone to put that whistle off, even if it's a hearing aid. Please. This atmosphere protects the earth from harmful radiation and absorbs the sun's energy. It absorbs the sun's energy, maintaining an average surface temperature of 14 degrees centigrade, maintaining an average surface temperature of 14 degrees centigrade. Now beloved, when God, by his spoken word, said, let there be a firmament, an expanse of sky, an atmosphere, he created something not worth a billion scientists working out on computers. God, who has no limits, who has nothing of limitation in understanding, in need of time, of calculators of help, God, in that moment, in one moment, created something that made this earth the only known planet in all the universe that can sustain any form of life or vegetation. I want to repeat that. Without the help of any man or scientist, in one moment, as he spoke, without any need of calculation, God created something that made this earth the only known planet in all the universe that can sustain any form of life or vegetation. Verse 9, verse 9, and God said, God said, let the waters under the heaven, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, unto one place. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land, let the dry land appear. And it was so. That literally means it happened. It didn't take millions of years. It didn't take millions of minutes. It didn't take millions of valleys, one after the other. In one moment, it happened. God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. It was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters, called he seas. And God saw that it was good. God saw that it was good. Verse 9, and God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place. Now beloved, approximately 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water. Approximately 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, submerged. Submerged mainly beneath four huge oceans, known as the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, and the Arctic Oceans. The Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, and the Arctic Oceans. Now the Pacific is so vast that it covers approximately one-third of the whole world's surface. It covers approximately one-third of the whole world's surface. The Atlantic, approximately one-fifth of the earth's surface, and the Indian one-seventh of the earth's surface. God said, verse 9, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. Oh, I wish I could have seen that. The angels were watching something they'd never seen in all eternity. God was performing by his spoken word. Oh, the wonder of watching what they saw. Let the dry land appear, and it will show. It will show. Now land covers approximately 30% of the earth's surface. It is divided into seven landmasses. Divided into seven landmasses called continents, known as Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australasia. Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australasia. Now approximately 10% of the earth's surface is covered by ice. 10% of the earth's surface is covered by ice, 90% of which is found at the Arctic. Antarctica, being the earth's coldest planet, the earth's coldest continent, the Antarctic is approximately the same size as a continent as Europe, but it is covered, it is covered with a two-kilometer thick sheet of ice, reaching 4.5 kilometers in thickness at the continent center. The perfectness of God. You must always remember God is perfect. If man, through greed and losing his sensibilities, continues to do things that common sense tell us will affect the Antarctica, the 10%, there's no telling to the chaos that will come on this earth. There's no beginning to even comprehend the chaos that could result so swiftly if we go on our way to agree and define conscience and common sense. That 10% wasn't a mistake. It was the perfect God creating a perfect world that we dare not blame if chaos comes, sir. We dare not blame. But oh beloved, from the highest mountain peak that God created on that third day, as he continued to perfect and clothe this earth day after day, from the highest mountain peak called Everest, situated in the Himalayas of Asia, which is 29,028 feet above sea level, 29,028 feet above sea level, sweeping down to the lowest spot on the earth's surface, found at the Mariana Trench west of the Philippines, which measures 35,800 feet below sea level, 35,800 feet below sea level, to the deepest land basin, which is the Dead Sea, situated in Jordan and Israel, which measures 400 meters below sea level, though it's on a landmass, on a continent 50 miles from the sea. On this third day, at this spoken word of God, God went on in the most amazing way beyond human comprehension to perfect his creation, his creation. Verse 11, and God said, God said, let the earth bring forth grass. Oh, I wish I could have seen that. I don't know about you, but I have been so enthralled reading through this book, I've wept my way through it, I've burst into worship and praise, I've been stuck on two verses sometimes for two weeks, I couldn't get past them, so amazed at God, what he's saying, I wish I could have watched this, let the earth bring forth grass. Now, he didn't go valley after valley, and you just see grass going, you know, Hollywood does that, because it's limited, God has no limits, don't box God into any limits, he's incomprehensible, he's unexplainable, he can do anything, he doesn't need time, he created time, and time will be no more soon, don't limit God to time like man is limited, that he needs time. But sir, if he went valley after valley, it would take probably a million years, but in one moment, don't doubt this now, don't doubt the greatness of God, don't ever limit God, he can do anything, but fail, the chorus is, and I believe the chorus too, God said, let the earth bring forth grass, in one moment, every valley, don't doubt this, or otherwise, chapter 1 is proved wrong, because then it would have taken more than 24 hours, which he did much more on that third day than this, it had to happen in one moment, or it isn't divinely inspired, and if you can't get past page 1, do you think you'll accept anything else in this book? If the devil can stop you, if you can't believe page 1, you won't believe anything that's coming, that you don't want to believe, but be careful, God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree, yielding fruit, after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so, literally, again, it happened, I believe that, I believe that, he's the God of this creation, he could do that, it happened, it happened, and the earth brought forth grass, verse 12, the herb yielding seed, after his kind, the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, and God saw that it was good, if God saw that it was good, how much more you and I, and the closer we are to God in this world, we look through different eyes, and see everything is good, in his creation, the further you look at God, the less you notice of anything, or appreciate, or respect, or have gratitude, for anything, anything, of his creation, and the evening, and the morning were the third day, verse 11, and God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so, how beloved, there are approximately 250,000 known, unique, living species of plant and vegetation, I want to repeat that, there are approximately 250,000 known, unique, living species of plant and vegetation, they say, that there's a further 100,000, a further 105,000 species of the species, now I don't have any problems with that, I don't know if you have problems with that, but I don't have problems with that, so that makes this, 355,000 living species of plant and vegetation, but 250,000 unique, living species, known, living species, I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his perfect variety, perfect colors, perfect forms, perfect colors, and I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his perfect variety, perfect colors, perfect forms, and I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his perfect variety, perfect colors, perfect forms, and I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his perfect variety, perfect colors, perfect forms, and I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his perfect variety, perfect colors, perfect forms, and I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his perfect variety, perfect colors, perfect forms, and I believe God, created everything, in one moment, with one spoken word, with his limited, in every single aspect, and yet so uniquely different, without any limitations, he doesn't need 250,000 minutes, to have one minute to say what color can I make? God, is so perfect, he is so beyond comprehension, he cannot be boxed in, he cannot be limited, man, is limited, but don't limit God, because man is limited to time, to one thing at a to even absorb one thing at a time, no. I believe 250,000 approximately unique living species in one moment with their perfect difference and perfect beauty, God created. In one spoken word, this God of mine, that I believe in with all my heart, can do that, did do that, or this book is not divinely inspired. Page one isn't anyway. You choose whether that cannot be possible because you limit God, or whether God as he says on page one did that, it was so, it was so. Verse 14, and God said, let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. Oh, I would love to have seen that as God said it, if you believe what this book says. Let there be lights, let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so, it happened. It happened, wow, I believe it, I believe it, it happened. And God made two great lights, verse 16 says. The greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also, he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness, and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. The evening and the morning were the fourth day. Now, beloved, on this fourth day, God created a universe that is so vast that it's beyond all human comprehension or finding, I want to repeat that in case there's a scientific intellectual sitting here tonight. He created on this fourth day in 24 hours, oh, this book is a lie, from chapter one. It's a lie, if you can't believe that. Even if there's 24 zillion things he created, he did it. He's not boxed in, you can't put him into an equation and say, there, now we can work out God. You'll never work him out, you'll never limit him. You either believe God can do that, though it's beyond comprehension or your soul is damned for eternity from page one. And we'll get to that as we look at the boast of his sermons and scriptures now, what God says about those who doubt this and why they doubt it. He created a universe that is so vast that it is beyond all human comprehension or finding. For in this universe, there is an unknown amount of galaxies, I love that, that the scientists write that down, an unknown amount of galaxies. There's never an ending, as soon as they find another one, they just get a little bit stronger telescopes, et cetera, and they find there's another one, a whole galaxy. Each galaxy containing a vast amount of stars, all similar to our sun. Now, our sun is 109 times the size of the Earth, they say. Almost exact, let's use the word approximately. 109 times the size of our Earth. It is a huge ball of flaming gas, believed to be hydrogen-infusing helium. Hydrogen-infusing helium creating energy and light that somehow extends and affects every known part of our own galaxy, now that's amazing. That's amazing. Our galaxy, in our solar system, our solar system comprises of our own sun, around which there are nine established planets. They say there's a 10th planet discovered two years and three months ago, two years and five months ago, sorry. And they call that planet Xena, X-E-N-A. This is off Pluto, 45 degree angle, a bit higher off the normal layer of the orbital range of our planets. But there are nine established planets, being Mercury, closest to the sun in proximity and distance. Mercury, orbiting around the sun, closest. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Now each of these planets, this is to me so wonderful, has its own unique orbit revolving around the sun, going at its own unique speed. There's nothing, nothing to explain that they have tried to work out the gravitational attraction of Pluto to Jupiter as to why such a thing, there is no explanation. Every planet in our own solar system has its own unique orbit around the sun, at its own unique speed, and that to me is thrilling to show the perfectness of God that man will never ever explain his greatness. Yes, he doesn't explain why, but he did it. He did it. Here we have these nine, sorry, 10 planets now that confirmed about three weeks ago, generally that this is accepted as the 10th planet, Xena, so let's say 10. Here we have these planets orbiting in their unique orbit, in their unique speed around our sun, in our solar system, our own galaxy. Now let's look at these planets. Jupiter is 1,300 times the size of the Earth. Our sun is 109 times the size of the Earth, but Jupiter is so vast, it's beyond comprehension. Why did God make one planet in our galaxy so big? He doesn't tell us, because he's God. He tells us what we need to know, but he made it, and then says, if you don't believe, you're a fool. That God did it, that it just happened, oh. And that God is great, and his greatness is seen in all his creation. Any doubt comes from evil, God says. Evil and sin that will soar for eternity. It's not the result of intellectual. It's not the result of academic achievement or intellectual acceptance in any, any academic achievement. It's fear, no, it's the result of damnable sin. Let's get to that. Either you believe the Bible, or you believe these people who are professors. Either you revere God's word, or you revere these people and don't revere God's word, you doubt God, you choose. You choose. To go even against your conscience, refusing to believe the truth that God gave them over to believe a lie. Be careful. You can believe what you originally know is a lie if you keep on listening to the wrong people. Closing your heart to the right thing. Be careful. Beloved, in these 10 planets, there are 61 moons. The Earth has its own moon, which is a quarter of the size, approximately the quarter size of the Earth's diameter. Our moon, orbiting by gravitational attraction, while our Earth, by gravitational attraction, orbits around the sun. Our moon has no light of its own. It reflects the light of the sun in a perfect way onto the night skies, onto the dark side of the Earth. That just happened. No thought behind it. Just happened. Goodness me. That's tragic. If you believe that. No. Saturn has 18 moons. Why? God doesn't tell us. But that doesn't mean I don't believe God because he doesn't tell me why. He's God. He's God. There are fragments, which many scientists claim to be moons, up to 15 now, all going around Saturn, but there's 18 full, fabulous moons that won't break off as other planets or part of the planet itself, no. But there's 61 moons out there in our own galaxy, many planets having a number of moons, such as Saturn. We only have one that God saw fit to give us in its perfectness, in its perfectness. And then, apart from the planets and their moons, God created in our galaxy comets. Comets. Comets. These amazing, huge, flaming balls traveling at extreme speed that cannot be worked out what creates or causes it or influences those speeds or its course in the galaxy. Comets such as the famous Halley's Comet, which every 76 years, its orbit brings it closest to the Earth in distance, which last happened in 1986, where we saw this amazing spectacle of what appears to be like a huge ball of flaming ice, with long, winding, sweeping tail, hurling across the night skies. You can spend a billion zillion American dollars on fireworks, and you wouldn't get a child or any human being to write in their mind with such awe and wonder at what one of God's created comets. You wouldn't be able to spend all that money on fireworks and create anything that can compare. This is one of God's amazing, why? Just to cry out, look at the greatness of God, and that this didn't happen, though he doesn't explain why. It's just to cry out to you, God. Comprehend, and only evil and sin could say this just happened. Only evil and sin, not intellectualism, no. Not according to this book, and we'll get to that. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Who's God speaking about? Read Romans 1, for lack of time, I won't read the whole chapter. You want to say you're wise, you've become a fool, God says, but your wisdom will not accept the viability of God, the concept of God. It has to be limited, and it happened, and there can't be a God. That's evil, sir, that's wicked, sir, according to this book, wicked. Apart from comets, there's asteroids. Now, these are amazing things, huge mountains of rock. A few hundred miles in width, they're not shaped and round, they look like mountains, just rock formation. They are hurling at such speeds that it's beyond comprehension that anything can reach such speed, apart from life itself. These asteroids, found mainly between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, hurl hundreds of thousands at the speeds that no one can work out whatever, where they came from, could it be a planet broken up? They still can't work that out, they're surmised. The theories are amazing, but there they are, where the science finds doesn't make me doubt God, it makes me wonder at the greatness, where's the ending of God's diversity, where's the ending of God's greatness being displayed in his universe? There's no ending, you can become as wise as you will, all you'll do is wonder at the next thing you find, but you won't explain, you either believe or you go to hell, what you find, every step you find. God is crying out to the conscience, every conscience, including mine, that I choose to believe and love him all the more, whatever science finds. Then they found in a further galaxy a star, now a star is not a planet, our sun is a star, but they found a star that they have called Antares, A-N-T-A-R-E-S, it is 64 million times the size of our sun. I want you to think of that, they have measured, they have remeasured, they took six years before they said they are finally sure they have not made the slightest, 64 million times the size of our sun, Antares, and that's nothing, while they're still trying to get over the shock of this, and how it happened, where it came from, why, they discovered another star, which they called Hercules, it is 100 million times the size of Antares, now our sun is 109 times the size of the earth, Jupiter is 3,200 times the size of the earth, Antares is 64 million times the size of our sun, Hercules is 100 million times the size of Antares, the more you find, the less there is of a possibility of explaining God, the more you find, the more you have to accept with no explanation by naked faith, for your soul is damned, further, as you find, if you want to reject the concept of God because of all these things, sir, you're in trouble, God will give you a zillion more things to find, if you want to say that just happened, that's marvelous, my, that's faith, sorry, my son, Samuel, he's sitting here tonight, he warned me, daddy, don't challenge the scientists, you'll get into trouble, one day, just stick to the scriptures, but I have thought about it, Samuel, I never told you this, my boy, how can you keep quiet, it's impossible not to look at them and say, how can you believe this has happened, by itself, you know, no thought, boom, it was there, oh, that's faith, that I don't have, sorry, I just don't have, verse 20, and God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly, he never said that before, so can you just begin to think what's about to happen, let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature, the first thing that had life that could move, not vegetation, but moving, with life, let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that has life, and all that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven, and God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind, and God saw that it was good, God saw that it was good, and God blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth, and the evening and the morning were the fifth day, the evening and the morning were the fifth day, verse 20, and God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that has life, now beloved, there are approximately 24,000 known unique living species of fish, now a fish is defined as a living sea creature that has a backbone and a skeleton, otherwise it's not a fish, science defines it as a living creature in the sea that has a backbone and a skeleton, there are approximately 24,000, sir, it didn't take 24,000 minutes for God to say, what other color can I make, or size, or shape, that's perfect, unique, beautiful, in one word, as God spoke, with no limits to time, with no limits to one thing after the other to think of the next thing, sir, there are six billion humans alive, God can look at six billion people's thoughts right now, and listen to every single thought that he has judged the thoughts of man, or he's not God, not the God of his book, you wanna limit him, you're in trouble, you're in trouble, 24,000 in one moment, how God is so great, from the smallest sardine to the greatest big whale, and don't you dare tell me that that sardine evolved to that whale, or sorry, if the whale evolved to that sardine, not in a six billion zillion years, sir, impossible, goodness me, how can you dare say you believe such a thing, I'm finding it so hard, and I'm sorry, Sandra, no, in one moment, 24,000. Now, that's just fish, but what about the multitudes, and I've worked out it would take me roughly 14 minutes to just give you the details of the various species of sea creatures, whether it's the shellfish, the various types, just the types, there's no ending to what God did when he said abundantly, in their perfectness, not just 24,000, that was just fish, but what of the multitudes and multitudes of diverse, unique species, in their billions, sir, in their billions, hallelujah, for such a God. You don't very easily get excited, do you? Well, you're all sitting there thinking this man's a Pentecostal, don't worry, I haven't become Pinkster, but I find it very hard not to get excited, so I'm sorry nobody's said amen yet to anything, we'll have to get you a bit further, I'll have to keep you here till midnight, like Paul did, when someone died, something's gotta happen tonight, all right, isn't it wonderful having such a God, and I'm his property, I'm his responsibility, and every promise in this book for good, he had me in mind to say it, as God, and I want to doubt, I want to doubt this God, is it possible? No, oh no. Verse 24, no, no, verse 20, God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth, the open firmament of heaven, now, beloved, there's approximately 9,000 known, living, unique species of birds, from the smallest little sparrow to the big ostrich, and don't you dare think that that sparrow became an ostrich, or vice versa, no, they were just perfect, and why so, just as a matter of interest, did some remain behind, and not all evolve? Think about it, all we'd have is ostriches at this time of evolution, and that would be hard, no, no, no, verse 24, and God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after his kind, and it was so, it happened, and God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creeped upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good, God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after his kind, and it was so, it happened, in 124, listen, there are approximately one million known unique living species of animals, one million, sir, some say it's a bit more now, because they're finding an amazing amount more animals that they never, unique species, by the way, even now, in the last month, if you've been reading the newspaper, unique, they've never, ever seen, they found five new species of animals in this last month, doesn't it thrill you? Unique, they've never been recorded, as having been found before in history, it's wonderful, oh, sir, one million, in one moment, from the little squirrel to the big elephant, do you honestly think the squirrel became an elephant? Sorry, oh, the elephant evolved to the squirrel, I don't know which way you want to choose, sorry, no, no, unique living species of animals, one million in perfect diversity and unique beauty, hallelujah, for such a God, there are approximately 4,250 known living unique species of mammals, there are approximately 6,000 known living unique species of reptiles, 6,000 known living unique species of reptiles, there are approximately 950,000 known living unique species of insects, do you know, if you weighed on a scale, they told me that about the end of last year, every living insect, it would weigh more than every single living animal, including the elephants, on the other side, there are so many insects, think about this, 950,000 unique known living species of insects, they think I'm a bit silly sometimes, you know, in America, I was standing with a very famous preacher and other preachers and I forgot about him because I saw a bumblebee, hmm, I suppose I am going a little bit silly in my old age, but have you ever seen a bumblebee, especially in America, I've seen some, this thing just flew past me and I'm expected to not look at it, I just left him and started, they had to run across the road to try and save me, and I looked at this beautiful thing about that size, the most amazing beauty of this bumblebee in America, you walk past it, sir, you walk past trees, I've stood in the countries of other side of the world, trying to prepare and I'm hardly able to contain myself in worship as I look at one tree, but I know virtually nobody on this earth ever stops and look, but I look at the beauty of these thousands of leaves are shaking with the sun in the background, and the perfectness of these dying leaves, and I do worship God, you walk past trees, you walk past everything, every creature, every small, you wanna be thrilled, put off the TV, go and sit at a ant heap, you've never seen any Hollywood blockbuster that'll so enthrall you, it'll make you gasp for breath, sit there just for one hour and watch that ant heap, watch what an ant can do, what those ants do do, you can't believe, oh, oh dear sir, as you walk past everything, God's done, verse 26, and God said, and oh I can just imagine heaven standing still because the angels must have known this is why all this has been done as they watched, and God said, let us make man. In our image, after our likeness, who's he speaking to, the angels? No, the triune God from chapter one, you either believe in the Trinity or you're damned from chapter one. I said to a Jewish rabbi, sir, page one, verse one proves of your Bible, God is more than one, though he's one, I can't comprehend it, nor can you, but I have to believe it, and I don't doubt it, I don't need any explanation, I just believe it because God says, and I don't doubt that God is three. From page one, and I said, listen sir, you know it's a very unique Hebrew word, the very first word in the beginning, God, Elohim, it's plural, in the Hebrew, why, I said to many, why does God make the first mention of his name more than one? Why? If you can't explain it, why don't you listen to what the rest of your Bible, the Old Testament, teaches us, we've never found another doctrine in the New Testament, other than it was given to us in the Old Testament, including the Trinity. God is three, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, verse two, the Spirit, capital S, anyone here who knows anything of the old Hebrew language, a person, otherwise it wouldn't be capital S. Why, why do you doubt that and say it's a force, it's a force of God, the Spirit, no, it was a capital, it has to be a person of the God, verse 26, let us, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, let us make man, I can't comprehend how old, I can't even begin to grasp what that means, but I believe it, I believe it, I believe page one, I believe chapter one, or I can't believe chapter two without doubting, whatever I want to, let us make man, God says, in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and of every creature, the creeping creature, the creeping homia. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God, created he him, male and female, created he them, and God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdued, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth, and God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat, and to every beast of the earth, and every fowl of the end, everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat, and it was so it happened, and God saw everything that he had made, he didn't just have a general view like you and I do, he saw every single thing he had made to the smallest bumblebee, in one moment he looked, he's God, sir, he saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good, and the evening and the morning were the sixth day, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, Psalm 19 verse one, the heavens declare the glory of God, the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork, Psalm 14 verse one, the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God, there is no God, Romans one verse 20, 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, God says, Psalm eight verse three, when I consider, when I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man, what is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, thou visitest him, oh, wonder of wonders, can it be that God of creation is mindful of me, and would visit me, he thinks of me, and would visit me, would meet with me, yes, beloved, don't doubt that, just as God looked upon this earth, when it was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, and there was light, and so God looked upon me, when I was void of understanding, on spiritual concept, when I was in spiritual darkness, knowing I had been given life, knowing there has to be a God, but not knowing I was in spiritual darkness, not knowing why, I didn't have any understanding, I was in darkness, void of understanding, in my lost, helpless estate, God looked upon me in mercy, and by his Holy Spirit, he moved upon my life through the written word, and the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart, and as God spoke, not through his spoken word, as he spoke by the spoken word, the Holy Spirit wrought light, but through the written word of God, as powerful by the same God, with the same power behind it, God spoke to me in my darkened state, void of understanding, lost without hope, without understanding why I was given life, or what I would do when I died, God, by the written word, the Holy Spirit came and moved, just as the Holy Spirit moved by the spoken word of God, and life was wrought, physical life, so through the written word, the Holy Spirit moved, and light, spiritual light came, where there was darkness, oh, the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life to this book, I heard, when I heard this book preached in truth, suddenly light came, I heard from the pages of this book being preached, that God was manifest in the flesh, 1 Timothy 3, verse 16, God was manifest in the flesh, I heard that God was in Christ, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, 2 Corinthians 5, verse 18 I heard from the pages of this book, that light came, that he tasted death for every man, that he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, that the chastisement of our peace was upon him, with his stripes we are healed, oh, we like sheep have gone astray, we've turned every one to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all, for God so loved the world, I heard, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, I heard that by grace are ye saved through faith, that faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, and faith came, as I heard, and light came, and life came, I heard from this book, that he will in no wise turn away anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus, for he tasted death for every man, how could he turn away any man, he is incapable, it literally says, you know that, he will in no wise, he cannot, he is incapable of turning away anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus, how can he when Christ tasted death for every man, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, because he tasted death for every man, I heard, and I came, I came out of darkness into his marvelous light, I received by faith what God had said I embraced by faith and by grace, I was saved through faith, and the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, God's spirit bore witness with my spirit, that I was saved, I had become his child, I found peace that passes all understanding, joy unspeakable, and full of glory, for he that believeth on the Son of God hath a witness in himself, 1 John 5 verse 16, he that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son, and this is the record that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son, he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life, these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the, if you don't know that you have eternal life, you don't have eternal life, we know, we've passed from death unto life, 1 John 3 verse 20, we know, you must know, the Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit, for I came out of darkness into his marvelous light as God's Holy Spirit by the written word of God came and gave light, listen, listen to God's genesis account of my life, I'm in the Bible, did you know that? This Old Testament, nothing was meant to be read as history, of course it's history, but it was written for you and me, why, the intellectual, academic, liberal, unsaved theologian says it's history, that's all, to you and me who are saved, it's the living, vital, real word of God, and it's two thirds of the whole book of God, there's something vital here, to know the mind of Christ, to know the heart of God, what he said to these people was me in mind, those warnings, those promises, that dealing's the heart of God, the cry to God is to me, to you, the whole thing, it's not history, it's to a people, to us as individuals, every promise, sir, we needed for our survival, we needed to know the heart of God, we would be in poverty without the Old Testament, we'd be in bondage without the new, but oh, don't bury me up, listen, to God's genesis account of my life, in Ezekiel 16 verse four, and I wept when I read this the first time after I was saved because I knew it was God speaking to me, as he was speaking page upon page to me, his voice crying out his heart to me, listen, Ezekiel 16 verse four, and as for thy nativity, Keith Daniel, that's how clearly God speaks when he speaks when you're saved, as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, none I pitied thee to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field, thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born, and when I passed by thee, when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live! Yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live, let there be light, and there was light, and God saw the light in my life, that it was good. It took a miracle to put the stars in space, it took a miracle to hang this world in place, but when he saved my soul, cleansed and made me whole, it took a miracle of love, and listen to this amazing chapter carefully, perhaps for the first time, listen from your heart, listen, John 1, verse 1, in the beginning, what do you think he was thinking of? Genesis 1, verse 1, he was spiritualizing, in case you don't think spiritualizing very spiritual. To those who are theologians, you might know what I mean, but in the beginning, he was thinking of Genesis 1, and he was spiritualizing it into this spiritual aspect of light and darkness, in the beginning was the Word, capital W, to those of you that know anything about it, a person, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God, all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made, in him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not, there was a man sent from God whose name was John, the same came for a witness, to bear witness of that light, that all men through him might believe, he was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light, that was the true light, which lighted every man that comes into the world, he was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not, he came unto his own, and his own received him not, but, but as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, not of physical birth, when you were born of blood, you became a child of your father and mother, you weren't made a child of God, you must be born again, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God, if you haven't been born again, all you are is a child of your father and mother, I won't go further than what else you are, but so, you must be born again, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, and the world was made flesh, oh, I love that, in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God, verse 14, and the word was made flesh, God was made flesh, and dwelt among us, dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth, now listen, beloved, just as God didn't stop when there was total darkness, there never, ever been physical light in eternity, and he created from total darkness, light, that wasn't the end of his creation, that was the beginning, he went on, day after day, daily, clothing this world, perfecting this world, and so with you and me, when God comes, and light comes, and we're saved, that isn't the end, that's the beginning, we have to go on to perfection, we have to be perfect through the word, always through the word, you see the power of the just, those who are right with God is the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day, God goes on now, once light has come through this book, to the degree you soak yourself in this book, to the degree God gives revelation in this book, and you yield continually to more and more, you are conformed, present continuous Greek, being conformed, there's no such a thing as boom, you are like Christ perfectly, you are always being more and more made into the image of Christ, being conformed, present continuous, more and more to that which was lost at the fall, God is busy now from the moment of salvation, you're saved, yes, you're saved, but oh, you must go on now, God doesn't stop at the light, he goes on perfecting, clothing, go on to perfection, don't end there, listen to this tragic chapter, 2 Peter 1 verse 4, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, that's amazing, that by faith in this, you can escape the corruption that is in the world through lust and be made partakers of the divine nature, but that's not the end, that's the beginning, listen, the next verse, and beside this, giving all diligence and to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, that's self-control, and to temperance patience, that's steadfastness, and to patience godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, you've got to work on that, brother, don't lie, you've got to work on that, and so has God, and to brotherly kindness, love, you want to read what God's got in mind, read 1 Corinthians 13, have you reached it? Since you were saved, suffereth long and is kind in your home, to brotherly kindness, love, for if these things be in you and above you, they make you that ye shall neither be barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, but he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins, he forgotten all God did to bring you to a place of repentance, wherefore there are the brethren diligence to make your calling and election sure, what, I've got something to do with election? Oh yes, otherwise you've never understood what election is, you've been taught in the wrong theological seminar, if you don't know you've got something to do with election, wherefore there are the brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if ye do these things ye shall never fall, for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now, just as God's spoken word created, this book tells me that by his spoken word he's gonna destroy everything, he created every planet, every star, Antares, our sun, Jupiter, Saturn, with all its circles, in one moment he is going to destroy it, why? Because, looking at the spiritualizing of it, which is all keeping you cast in it, listen, this temporal will also be destroyed to become eternal, listen now why God is going to destroy everything, he ever made including you and me our bodies, nothing, nothing sir, isn't going to be destroyed, listen, listen why, Revelation 21 verse one, John says I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, second Peter three verse 10, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversation and godliness, in all holy conversation, life, living and godliness, the book tells me holiness without which no man shall see God, I believe it, be not deceived, no unrighteous person shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, nor that defile shall enter therein, repent ye therefore and be ye converted, that your sins may be blotted out, who shall confess it and forsake it, the sins of the saints shall be saved, don't, don't lie now, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be, he's crying out to born again believers now, in all holy conversation, holy living and godliness, 1 Corinthians 15 verse 53, for this corruptible must put on incorruption, hallelujah, I don't want to live in this forever, this corruptible must put on incorruption, just like God has to make a new heaven and a new earth, destroy every single thing to make something that's eternal now, there won't be earthquakes, there won't be tidal waves, there won't be men messing things up with Antarctica, with our ozone layer, there won't be cancers and cursings as pestilence has come through man's wickedness, not God's, but there won't be sin, there won't be death, there won't be aging, there'll be a resurrected body in a resurrected world, a recreated world, a newly created heaven and earth, that nothing, nothing can defy, one John, two verse three, beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, it doth not yet appear what we shall be, that we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, and every man that hath this hope in him, purifiers himself even as he is pure, if you're saved and you are right with God, that is written across your heart, your mind, your being daily, every man that had this hope in what hope, of being like him when he appears so, do you want to know what poverty is, Christianity without any Christ likeness, seeing the life beginning in your home, your child won't want what you've got sir, your father will doubt what you've got boy, your worst enemy will hate you more sir, just through your religion, but Christ likeness, take that out of Christianity, you are in it sir, a grief to God, every man that had this hope in him, of being like him, for we shall see him as he is when he appears, purifier himself even as he is pure, he that sayeth he abideth in him ought himself also so, to walk even as he walked, there's a standard here, it says to me religion is a grief to God, but Christ likeness, can win the world beginning in your home, it can stagger the world every step he takes sir, every man sitting in this building that had this hope in him, the hope God says he puts in your heart, the desire and thirst to be like Jesus, purify himself, I heard a man say it's an immediate cleanse, boom, one moment, no, that happens at the cleansing, this also is something God has in our hearts always thirsting for, to be more like Jesus, there's a parable that says the talent was given, the man buried it, when he stood before God he said, oh I would fear you were a man that would be angry and cruel, I buried, but here take back what you, another was given two talents, another three, five, and they came and said, oh I didn't neglect what was held out to me, I took it and I gained, I want to tell you something that's going to shock everyone of you, if you are going to say that to God one day in heaven, which is the context of this parable, then you have to be very conscious that you are daily saying that to God, to come at the end of the day and say, I didn't bury all the moments I was given with a television program, it was too good for me to say no for, even if it was legitimate it wasn't sinful, and I neglected the Bible, I neglected prayer, I neglected spiritual books, I neglected God, 90% of my day had no thought of God, 5%, no, 0.5% just for conscience before I went to bed thought of God, so sir, you can't go to bed and say I have gained, I doubt that there's a man or a child that's going to say that to God, in the light of this parable, unless you say it daily, and if you disagree with me, let's see what becomes of your life, beginning in your homes, every man that has this hope in him, of gaining a resurrected body, in one moment that is like Christ, but is so like Christ at the appearing through the workings of God, through him not burying what God held out, but taking it and gaining daily ground, growing, what does 2 Peter 1 mean, when it says, he that lacketh these things, can we stand please, bow your heads please, sing with me, to God, or don't sing at all, for God's sake, O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all, the worlds thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the roaming thunder, thy power throughout, the universe displayed, then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee, how great thou art, how great thou art, then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee, how great thou art, how great thou art.