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Dwayne Lemon

I Can’t Breathe? 8/46, 360

Again, The title of our study this evening is I Can't Breathe?

And I'm sure right now, that may not make much sense to you at all.

As much as we're able to, let's go to our knees for a word of prayer.

Our Father in Heaven, we are very grateful, Lord, for the blessing to be able to come together as brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of God, that we can study to show ourselves approved unto you, that we can be workmen and workwomen that need not be ashamed, for we have rightly divided your words of truth.

We ask for your Holy Spirit to be our guide.

We pray that you might take your words and make it very plain to our hearts, and that you might minister to us in such a way that you will actually open our eyes and help us behold wondrous things out of your law.

And this is our prayer that we do ask with the forgiveness of our sins in Jesus name, amen.

1 of the things that you'll find in the Bible that God would equate himself to at times, you know, go to the book of Romans chapter 1.

In Romans the first chapter, the Bible talks a lot about, you know, the realities of the condition of God's people, but at the same time, God's still reaching out, pleading with the heart, trying to draw us to himself.

And I want you to see something that he says here in Romans chapter 1.

He gets to a place, Paul, he's explaining the reality of who God is and how the creation should acknowledge him for who he is, but they were struggling to do that.

And Paul got to a point in Romans 1 as we consider verse 20.

In Romans 1 and verse 20, it says, For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly what?

Clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

1 of the ways that God proves himself is through nature, the things that he's made.

And the Bible talks about how God, though he is invisible, the Godhead is invisible.

There's things that are invisible that we can't understand.

And God is so compassionate towards humanity that he allows us to understand him by the things that are visible.

And that's why it talks about the things that are made.

We can understand things about God, his eternal power, even his Godhead, by studying and looking at the things that are made.

There's 1 thing that I thought was a highlight for me.

Quite honestly, It was at a GYC Atlantic that I got a chance to listen to a dear brother, Brian Sylvester, wonderful man, enjoy him very much, he's a good brother.

And he gave a beautiful sermon and he says something about God.

And what he said about God, I said, man, I like that.

I said, I never thought about God like that.

I want you to notice something in nature that God equates to himself.

God equating himself to something that helps us understand who He is just a little bit better.

And I just want you to see what the text says.

In Malachi the fourth chapter, just starting right there at verse 1, the Bible says something about God, of which God equates himself to, something created, something in nature.

And it says, for behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble.

And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

But unto you that fear my name shall the what?

Now notice, it is the S-U-N, not S-O-N, right?

So what is God equating himself to in this verse?

So here it is that the Bible clearly says that, "'But unto you that fear my name "'shall the Son of Righteousness "'arise with healing in his wings, "'and you shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall." God equates himself to the Son at times.

Just as a second witness, if you look at Psalms 84, you see God do it again.

In Psalms 84, you will see that God again likens things about his character, things about who he is.

And I think that is very important for us to understand it.

In Psalms 84, I want you to see what the Bible says as we look at Psalms 84 and verse 11.

Once again, we see a second witness to it.

In Psalms 84 and verse 11, the Bible says, for the Lord God is a what?

No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." There's things that we can learn through nature about God.

Now the reason why this is important is because God wants us to be like him.

It was very much in the beginning of time that when he made man, he said, let us make man in our image after our likeness.

God wanted man to be a reflection of himself.

When you read 1 Peter and you look at chapter 1 and verses 15 and 16, God makes it clear, as I'm holy, I want you to be holy.

In Matthew 5 and verse 48, God says, as I'm perfect, I want you to be perfect.

So the Bible is a very, very clear testimony of God's will as it relates to you and I.

So when I began to look at this thing about the son, I said, what is it about the son that God would equate it to a part of his character, who he is?

Somebody comes to you and says, God refers to himself as a son of righteousness with healing in his wings?

What do you think God wants us to learn When we look at those things created, that we might understand him better.

Sunlight gives life, especially to the wonderful plant kingdom, right?

Whenever that sunlight and the plants turn towards that sun and receive the appropriate nutriment so that it may grow, flourish, and produce fruit.

So in like manner, when we look at the sun, amen, we see 1 who loves to illuminate our minds with all sorts of beautiful light to dispel the darkness in this world.

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