Water - Creator, Cost, Coming

Bible to the prophecy of Isaiah, please. Just a very short meditation. Nice to leave a conference, not only being able to reflect upon what we've heard, but just to be reminded of the greatness of our God.

Nothing thrills the heart than to get a sight of Him. Just look what we read in Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40.

Look what we read here, verse number 11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom.

He shall gently lead those that are with young. You'd stop and you'd say, what a tender scene. Look what follows.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighted the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. It's beautiful how the Spirit of God will bring together these two works. We would almost think that verse number 12 is the greater, because we're looking at all the dimensions and the sizes of things.

But what is more precious to our God is you and I, dear child of God, redeemed by precious blood. I want you to take your hand and just naturally let it relax in front of you. And when you do that, you'll notice there's just a little tiny hollow right there.

Now you just let your mind drift over the oceans of the world. Atlantic, Pacific, you just go on and on and on. They tell us that there are depths 10 to 12,000 feet below the surface of the water.

They tell us that if the entire earth was flattened, do you know how much water you would have covering the surface of this earth? Over 8,000 feet would cover the entire earth. 75% of our earth is water, and the one that we know just in the hollow, just in the hollow of the hand. Isn't he great? Isn't he magnificent? Isn't it a privilege to know this one? And we've been encouraged today to serve this one, to represent this one.

So now that you got your hand like that, look at the next phrase, and meet it out, arranged or leveled heaven with the span. Do you know in the Hebrew what a span is? Just keep your hand like that, just take your baby finger and your thumb and just put them together. That distance, about six inches.

Think of the vastness of the universe. Man now with this new telescope that is generations above the Hubble. It's further out.

It's more mass of the lens. They've now discovered a star the farthest out. We found another one.

The universe just keeps getting greater. To man, the more intelligent he gets, the stronger his instruments get. It just becomes more infinite.

God says, that's all it is to me, just that. Isn't it wonderful to know him? I marvel at the foolishness of man, but we know so much. It's wonderful.

You go down there to NASA and they'll say, we know so much. Mr. Scientist, how much do you know of the universe? Oh well, we know just about everything there is to know. Could you put that into a percentage for me, please? With the science that we have now, electrons, neutrons, protons and all that sort of things, that makes up three percent of the universe.

Did you get that? Three percent. And they'll tell you this, the other 97% is something that we call dark matter and dark energy, because we don't know what it is. Oh, you've got a grasp of three percent and you stand there and say, well we know it.

I believe God has woven into his creation things that will continue to stupefy man, because we need to keep coming back to this Bible and we need to understand that man is nothing and God is everything. Get a sight of your God, dear child of God. He is a marvelous, marvelous person.

Then you come to the very next expression and comprehend it the dust of earth in a measure. How many people bake? You don't even use the eighth of a teaspoon or a sixteenth of a teaspoon. The recipe calls for a pinch of salt.

And you take your little finger, how many grains could you pick up as you just sort of pinch a little bit of salt? I don't know. Let's go to the high end. 20.

20 grains. Think of these big earth-moving equipment. You get a man standing by a tire and it's like how many more feet above him? And man stands back and he marvels.

We've been able to move this mountain in a month with these great earth movers. God says take them all together, all the dust, all the mountains, all the rocks. That's all it is.

Nothing more than that. Why wouldn't we give this person everything we have? Why wouldn't we just be full of devotion to him? The greatest person in the universe has redeemed us. We belong to him.

It's marvelous. Now with that in mind, go to John 19. I'm just going to end with two quick little verses.

This is for your further development. John chapter 19, further meditation. Only the gospel of John is going to record this.

John 19, the crucifixion scene and it's the fifth cry of the Lord Jesus. Look at what you read in verse number 28. John 19 verse 28.

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled said, I thirst. Now there's the cost of our redemption. The one, all the waters of this world are in the hollow of his hand.

Simply brought into existence by his word. And there he is. Can you see him? Impaled between his own heaven and earth.

We went over it this morning. We tried our best to get a little better apprehension of his sufferings. We can't even come close to it, can we? What it must have been for him, our brother Brody introduced us to John for? I will give you living water.

And now here is the very creator. I thirst. It wasn't said just to fulfill scripture.

I hope you understand that. You ever thirsted for water? He genuinely thirsted for water. Couldn't you just stop there and couldn't you just meditate upon that? That's linked with his sorrow.

Go to Psalm 110. This is where we'll end. Psalm 110 is actually, takes us to our brother William's message opening.

This is a millennial psalm. There's a number of them. This is a beautiful one.

If you want to get the chronological order correct, you could start reading in Revelation 19 and heaven opens. And just before heaven opens, the only four times in the New Testament where you have that word hallelujah appears. Hallelujah.

It's almost like the background choir of heaven. As the Lord of lords and the king of kings comes out of heaven riding upon a horse. We're with him.

And down into this world he will come at the end of the seven years of tribulation to set up his kingdom. There will be the final battle, the Battle of Armageddon. Now look at verse 1, Psalm 110.

The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

Look at verse 5. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen. He shall fill the places with the dead bodies.

He shall wound the heads over many countries. Notice verse 7. He shall drink of the brook in the way. Therefore shall he lift up the head.

The last time the Lord was on this earth. I thirst. Now he returns out of heaven.

Revelation 19. Sweeps down into this world. Destroys all of his enemies.

You could bring in here Psalm 25, 24. There's the city. It's all walled up, Jerusalem.

The place where he was crucified and rejected. And the king is now moving toward those eastern gates, the only double hung door. It's all bricked up now, but in that coming day those doors will be working.

And just before he enters into the place where he was rejected and humiliated. You know what the Word of God says? He shall drink of the brook by the way. Therefore refreshed he'll lift up his head.

And then there'll be those shouts from the city. Who is this king of glory? The Lord mighty strong. Who is this king of glory? What a day it will be.

I'm looking forward to it. When we will march with our bridegroom right into the city. The Revelation calls Jerusalem spiritually Sodom.

What a wicked place. Look at it today, dear child of God. So secular, so humanism.

Do you realize that Tel Aviv, part of Israel, is the homosexual capital of the world? That's the wickedness that exists there. What a day when from that place, the holy hill of Zion, he will rule this earth. And we're going to be with him, so let's serve him.

Let's give him everything we got, because in the coming day it will be worth it.