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WYC 2010: Morning Devotions

Alan Parker

The Sand Reveals Its Secrets

The Four Laws of Marriage

George Jackson

Revelation’s 411 Foundation

Nicole Parker

The Valley of Achor

Father in heaven, it's good to be here on a Sabbath morning at a special meeting here of people that are committed to doing your will.

We pray that as we usher in the meetings today on your holy Sabbath day that we will all gain a blessing, that your angels will be here, that your Holy Spirit's presence will be felt here in a mighty way.

We just pray that as we contemplate of your creative power, if we contemplate about you as our creator and your creative power, may our hearts be lifted up to heavenly things.

May we be determined to serve you and be faithful to you.

Bless every participant here, each 1 of us that face struggles and the attacks of the devil, we just pray that we'll be empowered by your grace and your power to resist and stand for you.

Speak through me as we look at words of truth this morning in the scriptures and the spirit of prophecy.

And we just pray that our minds will be focused on heaven today in Jesus' name, amen.

It's a little early in the morning, but at least it's cool.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm George Jackson.

I work here at Weimar College, chair of the Health Sciences Department.

Some of you may have been in my breakout session.

For those that have been in my earlier sessions, there'll be a little bit of a review.

We've covered some of these points in the other sessions.

But I've got to admit, I don't think I've ever sung that hymn that we just sang.

Well today is a day dedicated, it appears, to creation.

And we're looking at the talks that will be occurring today.

And that's a good thing, because this is the Sabbath.

It's a good day to talk about creation on the Sabbath, the very day that commemorates and culminated, well, basically the culmination of creation and commemorates God's creative works.

And it's a time that we all need to be fortified in our minds when we face other things that want to take us away from what God has taught.

When people ask me what I believe, I like to say, well, go to Patriarchs and Prophets, read chapter 2, the creation, and read chapter 9, The Literal Week, and that's what I believe.

If you want some, if you want to protect your mind and just fill your mind with the correct perspective on things.

But then go on and read chapter 2 and chapter 9 in Patriarchs and Prophets.

And read it a number of times, because the information there is unequivocal how we got here, how God did it, and how He is our creator.

Creation is a reoccurring theme in the Bible, and We'll just hit a few of those as we look today at our short presentation.

And if you start reading the chapter, the creation, chapter 2 in Patriarchs and Prophets, this will be the first sentences that you get in.

She starts with scripture right from the beginning.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

He laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed forever.

And that's how she starts, right from the start, talking about scripture and how God is our creator.

Now, I have spent more of my life overseas in Australia.

When I was a teenager, I went to Australia.

And I thought I was never coming back, because that was my new home.

So I've spent more of my life in Australia than I have in the US.

And my wife and my children are Australians.

But I was told, and I didn't know this, that if you dial 411, it's kind of an information hotline in this country.

Well, you can dial 411 hotline in Revelation as well and find out some important information.

But let's just look at Revelation 4.10 first.

And we got this vision in heaven where it says, "...the 4 and 20 elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, " now what did they say?

"'Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, ' why?

"'For thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

I might just mention that I'm a biologist.

I've spent most of my career as a scientist, as a researcher, as a marine biologist.

So issues of creation are kind of close to my heart.

And I faced, of course, issues of pagan and Greek philosophies being taught to me as I was doing my learning.

So when I'm looking at creation, I'm looking at it from a perspective of a biologist.

And that was my work, has been a biologist prior to coming here to Weimar, but I'm still a marine biologist, although it's the first time in many, many years that I haven't lived near the ocean.

But I like the mountains too, so that's okay.

6 literal days, we can turn, if you have your Bibles, you can just glance through your Bible in Genesis chapter 1.

And as you glance through those, you look at your eye comes to Genesis chapter 1 and verse 5, and it says, and the evening and the morning were the first day.

And then you glance down to verse 8 and it says, the second day.

And then you get to verse 31, and it says, and God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.

So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

So Genesis can't be any clearer how God, where we came from and how it started.

But then of course we get to the seventh day, and we're commemorating that today, the culmination of creation.

Or it was all brought together at the end by the Sabbath.

And in Genesis 2, 2 and 3, it sort of says, thus, so thus, now that we've done, now that God has done all this, thus, the heavens and the earth and all the host of them, everything, were finished.

And on the seventh day, God ended his work, which he had done.

And he rested on the seventh day from all his work, which he had done.

It's even repeating it, so you don't miss the point.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

Because in it, he rests from all his work, which God had created and made.

The Bible keeps telling us over and over.

God rested because he created all things.

That's why we're here on this Sabbath, to worship our creator and commemorate the Sabbath, because that's what he asked us to do.

And so creation in Genesis commemorates the Sabbath.

And then as we go through the theme of the Bible, we come to the time when God hands down the 10 Commandments there on Mount Sinai.

And God tells specifically and writes it down what those 10 Commandments are to the children of Israel.

And we find that in Exodus 28 to 11, and it's in fact a reminder of what God did.

Now, We all know Exodus 28 to 11, but it's nice to read it because it makes a point.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

Series

WYC 2010: Morning Devotions

Revelation’s 411 Foundation

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

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