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Steve Conway - Morning Devotionals

Steven Conway

As Precious As Christ

Nothing Between

Be Ye

“Arbeit Macht Frei”

I haven't missed a single 1 except for the first 1.

And I know every time I come it just keeps getting better and better.

I know that today you can expect a blessing because we have a wonderful lineup of speakers today.

You know, I have the privilege of introducing our speaker this morning, Pastor Stephen Conway, who happens to be a good friend of mine.

And I was just backstage with him a few minutes ago and I asked him, what can I say to introduce you?

And I don't want to embarrass him too bad, but I asked him some of his hobbies, and you know what he said?

So be careful around him because He might be observing you.

And I know he likes to eat too, but he likes to read.

He's an avid reader, and if you get a chance to pick his brain, he has some wonderful thoughts.

His favorite quote is from Desire of Ages, page 52.

And when, by the simple act of believing in God, the Holy Ghost creates the man anew.

I know I didn't say that right, but page 52, you can look it up.

Pastor Stephen Conway is a resident of Michigan.

He is happily married to his wife Tammy and they have 2 kids, Israel and Abby.

And it's too bad they're not here because if you could see them, they're the cutest kids ever.

And They would be friends with each 1 of you.

But today I don't want to take up his time.

I want to introduce him, Pastor Stephen Conway, to you, get to know him.

But before he comes out before his message, I will have prayer.

Loving Father in heaven, we're so grateful to you that you've brought us here.

And Lord, this morning we come confessing our need of you.

We want to humble our hearts before you so that we can hear you speaking to our hearts this morning.

And Lord, you also promise that those that seek you early will find you.

And we're here seeking you and seeking a blessing.

So we claim that promise that you will be found of us this morning.

Please speak the message that we need to hear to change our hearts, to change our lives, to reflect you.

And I pray a special blessing on Pastor Conway as he shares your word with us.

May you communicate clearly through him and help us to have understanding hearts.

We thank you for hearing and answering this prayer for we pray in Jesus name.

Amen Good morning everyone Happy Sabbath It's good to see you all out this morning.

Let me read something to you, very short, simple.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

That was penned by Martin Luther, great Protestant reformer who helped the Christian world to come out of a dungeon of darkness and experience, living by faith according to the promises of God's Word.

But Luther says here that the gospel is written in the stars.

What on earth can the stars tell us of the gospel?

Remember Paul says in Romans chapter 1 that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation.

The number of stars in the known universe is 70 sextillion.

That means as far as the most powerful telescopes that have been created here on planet Earth are able to see.

76 trillion stars, that's 7 times more than all the grains of sand on every beach and desert on the face of planet Earth.

The brightest star within 2, 000 light years, just for your information, a light year is almost 6 trillion miles so multiply that times 2, 000 the brightest star within 2, 000 light-years is Rikal The most luminous star in the galaxy is Cygnus OB2 number 12.

Listen when you compare our planet Earth with the sun, which is a medium-sized star, compare with the other stars, our sun is 330, 000 times larger than this planet Earth.

Just to help you to get a bit of an idea how big that is I was looking up some things I love these little numbers and stuff and I found out that the earth The earth weighs 13 octillion 200 septillion I Guess you say thousand maybe not pounds The weight of the Sun is 330000 times that the largest star that human telescopes have been able to to find is VV Cephe or Cephei That's 32, 000 times larger than our Sun Now our vote Albert Einstein told us that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared So every 1 of those 13 octillion, 200 septillion pounds of this planet Earth are laced or loaded with potential power.

And our sun, which is 330, 000 times the size of this planet Earth is loaded with power and the largest star in the known universe Which is 32, 000 times the size of our Sun is loaded with even more power Now if all of these things Contain this much power by the way the Sun lets out about 300 and some thousand gigawatts of Power I think that's by the hour It takes about a few thousand gigawatts to run everything here on the face of this planet Earth.

So I say to you again, these stars are simply loaded with power now if these stars contain such power what about the word that spoke them into existence there's power in the word there is power in the word Psalm 33 verse beginning with verse 6, By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

I say to you again, there is power in God's Word.

There is not only a an expansive universe for us to to understand and come up with all these wonderful calculations about But there is also a sort of universe within us.

Did you know that the bulk of the DNA in the human body is packed into chromosomes which are found in the nucleus of the cell?

This DNA is grouped into 23 pairs of chromosomes, so there are 46 strands of DNA in nearly every cell of our body.

There are about 10 to the 13th power, or 10 trillion cells in the human body.

Which means that there are about 460 trillion strands of chromosomal DNA in the whole human body.

Let me read to you what a scientist said.

Dennis Alexander and he's the chairman of the molecular immunology program at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, England.

He writes in a paper called the genetic engineering in God's world each of the 10 trillion somatic or non germline cells in our body contains 6 feet of DNA packaged with proteins to form 23 pairs of chromosomes If all the DNA in all the cells in a single human being were stretched out, it would reach to the moon and back 8, 000 times.

As millions of our cells divide, every second, each individual produces literally thousands of miles of newly copied DNA every minute.

Now if you were to take on a gargantuan task and you were to say, I am interested in reading the information on just 1 of those strands of DNA, You would have to read all 32, 640 pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica over 15 times just to be able to read all of the information on 1 strand of human DNA there are over 500000 pages of information just on 1 strand of our DNA and the Bible says in Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and here it is he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul so when God breathed into Adams nostrils those 500, 000 pages were filled immediately and instantaneously with information and man became a living soul.

There is power in the word and in the breath of God.

A shepherd boy named David who didn't understand anything about what I just said to you.

By the way, earlier this week I was sharing that with my little daughter Abigail.

She's 3 years old and I was telling her all these strands of DNA and 460, even 1 of your cells.

And when I completed this wonderful illustration, Would you like to know what my three-year-old daughter said to me?

She says daddy daddy But what about this?

Don't don't don't don't don't don't don't Okay, you missed it da na da da da da na na na na.

Those numbers didn't mean anything to her.

And they also didn't mean anything to a shepherd boy named David who was Sitting on a hill possibly or maybe in 1 of his palaces when he penned these words.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made With these thoughts in mind open your Bibles with me to the book of Romans.

And in Romans chapter 11, beginning with verse 33, we read, Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God.

How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways, paths, finding out.

I want you to answer me this, who have been God's counselor?

Who have first given to him and it shall be recompensed unto him again.

For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever.

Paul is contemplating on the depth of the knowledge, the unsearchable wisdom, the power of God.

And this is what segues him into what we read in Romans chapter 12.

I beseech you therefore because of the the wisdom and the wonderful power that God possesses because of the depth of his knowledge I beseech you I plead with you according to the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice which is your reasonable service and that word reasonable it means logical It's only logical to yield ourselves completely, totally, and wholly to a God like the 1 that we serve.

And be not conformed, be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Ladies and gentlemen, God wants not just our fingernails.

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