Another mystery before the creation of the world - September 18, 2022: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Atheists and scientists religionists the media. Civil rulers they can’t do that they can’t predict you to you what’s going to happen 100 years from now 50 years from now or a thousand years from now remember. In God’s book God wrote that the earth was a sphere long before scientists discovered that the earth was a sphere long before. The science discovered that the earth was hung on nothing the scripture says the earth the earth was hung on nothing long before mankind knew there were ocean currents. Prophets in the Bible who had never seen the pacific or atlantic said there’s ocean currents.

▶ 0:54 That’s a God saying things and bringing it to pass when we get the knowledge of it it is God that said that life was in the blood they did not discover that until the late 18th century they used to drain people it’s blood to get them well. And. The Bible says that knowledge will increase in the last days and we’re living in those days where knowledge has increased both naturally and spiritually in this earth. We also have a God that said Israel would go into captivity for their sins and they did they went into 70-year captivity in Babylon the same gods that Israel was going to be scattered throughout the earth after the temple was this a God that said Assyria would become a nation.

▶ 1:50 And correct then he said Babylon would correct Assyria. Then he said Persia would correct Babylon and he named these nations long before they ever existed and then he said the Grecian empire would. overcome the Persian in power and that’s exactly what happened and then he named a fourth empire after Greece but he didn’t give the he didn’t give the name he just said another kingdom will rise and Christ will be birthed in that kingdom and that’s exactly what happened so folks God only wrote things before he created the earth but he brought him to pass so let’s look today at another. Statement that he made about.

▶ 2:45 The world before the world began. In second Timothy 1:9 the power of God. Don’t ever forget that christianity is based on the power of God not the intellectual mind amen. The power of God who saved us who called us with a holy calling not according to our works but for his purpose and grace given to us in Christ Jesus. Before. The world began. Wow. When was salvation given to us when were we called with a holy calling when did he do this stuff not according to our works when did he do this for his purpose and grace before the world began he knew he was going to create Adam and Eve they were going to have children and those children were going to have children and on down through the thousands of years people having children people having children until finally someone had you.

▶ 4:05 And he saw you before the foundation of the earth. And he’s going to offer you salvation he’s going to call you with a holy calling in spite of your works and nothing to do with your works and he’s going to do it for his purpose and he’s going to do it for his grace which some people say we’re in a dispensation of grace I say to you God proclaimed grace before he even created Adam and Eve grace has been from the beginning and it will be when he returned could that be an amen hallelujah. So let’s take a look and see how God backed this up well of course the first people God called God called to Abraham after the aid of the tree of knowledge of good and evil their works are bad they’re disobedient.

▶ 5:01 All right and he comes and says Adam. Where are you Adam because Adam heard God. In the garden and he hid himself. A lot of people think today they can sin in private and know and see God doesn’t see well I don’t know where are you and then he called the Eve Eve Eve what have you done. All right. And then he saved them by the skins to cover their nakedness those the covering of their nakedness was not their salvation like many people preached. They got the freedom from death by God killing an animal the first law shadow law that we find in the Bible.

▶ 6:03 God killed an animal. Treated those skins miraculously and covered them he had to treat them because he wasn’t rot and draw a buck okay and he covered their nakedness and they didn’t even know they were naked before. All right but God put the death he said they would die in that day and God put their death on that animal he killed signifying that he was going to put the punishment for our sins on Jesus Christ that was coming amen and he spoke it he said the seed your seed Eve your seed eat will destroy the power of Satan the Devil and so. Their works were evil when they were called.

▶ 6:56 Do you get it. Their works were not good I submit to you there’s another side of Ephesians 2:8. For by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself it is the gift of God and Jesus is the gift of God and Jesus is eternal life. And you can lose Jesus. If you turn from him you can lose him you can separate yourself from him. Not of works well what works their works were bad their works were good and then they were bad and he comes to them when their works or what. Disobedient works bad works aren’t you glad Jesus doesn’t let our bad works keep him from coming to us and calling us and saving us do you see that folks hallelujah we interpret this oh not of work you can’t go you can’t get saved by doing good ah yeah yeah it’s amazing how we distort scripture.

▶ 8:09 All right. Evil are good works. Doesn’t keep God from calling you as I said Cain was called too when he killed his brother and before he killed his brother God called to Cain and talked to him about sin and to overcome it after he killed his brother God came and called Cain where is your brother Cain where is your brother. But Cain rejected. God’s offer of his grace and salvation. Now the next one is God called to Abraham. And God used an angel to call to Hagar.

▶ 9:03 After their own works. And after their own unbelief. If you don’t know the story. God came to Abraham and said Abraham I’m going to give you a son Sarah’s going to birth a son and he’s going to be the son of the inheritance that I’m giving you okay well. Sarah happened to be 90 years old. Past the age of childbearing even when they lived to be hundreds of years old child bearing age was still the normal time as it is today. And. Abraham. Sarah and Hagar got together.

▶ 9:56 And dreamed up this idea of giving Abraham a son because Sarah was barren and Sarah agreed to it and so Sarah let Abraham go into her maidservant Hagar and she had a son. Now God says it’s going to give a son to Sarah but here they are trying to work out God’s promise all on their own and that’s exactly what the scripture said yeah they they got together in unbelief. And their own works they are conniving this thing this is not the work of God it’s their own works all right. Now Abraham had already lied twice.

▶ 10:50 About Sarah being his sister and not his wife Abraham laughed at God when God said I’m going to give a son through Sarah. Abraham fell on the ground laughing how can this be my wife is 90 years old and I’m 120. How’s that going to happen and so they connived to make it work they figured they got to help God out how many of you tried to help God out in things uh yeah you don’t have to raise your hand you’re guilty yeah you figured it out on your own but Abraham left and I’m believing all these people that stand on Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness Abraham didn’t always believe God.

▶ 11:43 His belief was bad here isn’t that right his works were his own. But that did not hinder God from coming to Abraham and fulfilling his promise to Abraham and Sarah had a child but more than that folks God came to Abraham and called to Abraham and told him this after he unbelief after he had lied after he’d done these bad things his works his bad works his own works didn’t stop God from coming and calling him and giving him the promise of your seed will be a blessing to all the nations by turning them from their sins and iniquities your seed singular Jesus.

▶ 12:36 Now Abraham was not a Jew. Abraham didn’t come from Judah Judah came from Abraham. Are you there hallelujah. So. Christ came died on the cross and in Acts 3:25 it says that Jesus Christ was the blessing of Abraham that seed that blessed all the nations by turning them from their sin and the whole purpose of christianity is is knowing Christ growing in Christ but turning from our sin that was the promise amen and he can come and call us and he can come and deal with us in spite of our bad works or if we’re good works he still comes.

▶ 13:39 He doesn’t scoot over us because we’re doing good your good works will not hinder him coming to you and given you his purposes and his grace and his salvation could that be an amen hallelujah. Now let’s go to the New Testament. The disciples. Jesus called his disciples. Unto himself. And I can remember when someone preached this and my eyes were really enlightened I can still remember sitting in a church and a visiting minister quoted this verse and I got it just instantly. First we are called to himself. Can you say amen to that and I he didn’t first come and call you to be a minister or anything.

▶ 14:39 He had to save you to call you to himself. Israel was saved out of Egypt that wasn’t the goal their salvation from the bondage of Egypt their goal was God bring them to mount Sinai to himself. Amen. That’s the eternal life part. He is eternal life. And then he gave him the promised land and the goal the purpose of why he did it all are you with me judge hallelujah this is important stuff so he called his disciples to himself. And then he made him fishers of men. Follow me and I will make you fishers of men but we got to come to him and he gave him his purpose and that purpose was to go out and preach the gospel heal the sick and cast out demon.

▶ 15:41 And they did that. All right now. That’s the 12 apostles and all the apostles he called the Bible implies they were all good their works were good and it even says Andrew was a man with no guile are you there. Hallelujah he didn’t ask mary and Joseph to repent. Isn’t that interesting. See these people want to use all have sinned and come short of the glory of God they want to use it and and make it a blanket statement for everyone but Jesus said I didn’t come to call the righteous to repentance but the sinner if you’re doing things right he’s not looking for you to repent he’s looking for you to come to him and be used for his purpose hallelujah.

▶ 16:36 And the book of acts we find Paul was saved he was the chiefest of sinners. I mean his works were really bad that he this works for bad bad bad bad bad. Okay the chiefest of sinners no one can excel Paul. All right he was a religious guy he believed in God but he was persecuting people that followed Christ and he rejected the messiah when the messiah came Paul blaspheme. He did these things and his works did not prevent. Jesus Christ from coming to Paul and calling Paul for his purpose Paul got baptized the Bible says and these people say you don’t need to be baptized to be saved baptism doesn’t say well I hear Paul was baptized to wash away his sin.

▶ 17:43 Is salvation from sin. Do we get saved from sin okay Peter said baptism does now save you see these people make up phrases and they coin statements that are just absolutely not true. And we got to understand this stuff we got to preach the real complete gospel of Christ so Paul got baptized to wash away his sin. You only need to be baptized once. Romans 6 tells us when we get baptized it’s putting to death that old man of sin and rising up coming out with that new man of righteousness. Now that happened to me in my water baptism I don’t know about your water bath then maybe you just got wet but I didn’t. I experienced the power of God in my water baptism and I didn’t know the scriptures.

▶ 18:41 And these people on the internet. Keep saying you got to have knowledge of this and you got to have knowledge of that I go I never had no knowledge when I accepted Christ I was convicted a sinner they they told me if I asked Christ to forgive me he’d forgive me I asked him to forgive me and lo and behold I found out he was really forgave me that load of sin lifted I didn’t even know I had I had no knowledge. When I was in the baptismal pool I had no knowledge that baptism is just an outward sign of an inward work no one told me that I didn’t have any knowledge. I got baptized and my sins washed away could I be an amen. Hallelujah. My goodness knowledge comes later.

▶ 19:34 You pursue God you pursue the word then we know the truth and the truth sets us free yeah we still need setting free after we get saved that’s a fact how many can raise your hand to that and say yes. Now. He came to the chief of sinners when he was bad. Paul’s bad works did not hinder Christ from coming to him and calling him to himself saving him from his sins and using him to reach the Gentiles and the Jews these people that say that Paul was just a apostle of the ten thousand you better read the whole book and you better hear the whole book about Jesus being only there to minister to the Jews he ministered to everybody even though he said I’ve come to the house of Judah.

▶ 20:31 Will come to the Jews first Jews first and he told his apostles go to the Jews first he didn’t say leave out the Gentiles did he see we read this Bible with our human intellect and we hurt a lot of people and confused them we need to keep the gospel of salvation and eternal life to the basic so people without understanding can experience. Eternal life experience salvation. Now. God sent him to reach others. So we conclude that good or bad works does not hinder God calling the 12 apostles. You don’t see anywhere in the Bible where he has the 12 apostles to repent before he called him.

▶ 21:28 Good works doesn’t mean you don’t need to be called. God has a purpose for you God wants to bring you to himself and though you are a good person you still need to let God come and call you summon you invite you. You still need to be saved rescued. See healed from sin and from your old ways and all that are you with me hallelujah don’t don’t stop seeking God folks because you’ve come to a place where you’re good. Don’t shut your ears off to him calling you where you’re at today. To himself we need to keep coming to himself. And he needs to keep enriching us for his purpose and his goals to influence other people could that be an amen.

▶ 22:34 Hallelujah and believe it or not I am done. But the point here is this. I don’t care where you’re at in God. I don’t care if you’re an unbeliever I don’t care if you are a believer I don’t care if you are a fallen believer. God is knocking on your door and calling you it says in Revelation behold I stand at the door and knock. Okay he’s knocking on all of our hearts door he wants you to grow more he wants you to have his image more than you had yesterday and he wants you to be an influence on those around you. And he is calling. And we need to open our ears to that calling.

▶ 23:30 And he saves us. Not only from past sin. He saves us from present sins. And he saves us from present problems. It it’s okay. God said I will supply all your needs according to your riches in glory all of us have different needs if you’re a baby in the womb you need someone interceding for you that you’re really born. Could that be true. If you’re a baby born. And can’t walk or talk yet you need someone. Interceding for you that God would help you get through that age if you’re a child now you can walk and talk and understand things and you’re in a home.

▶ 24:27 Where things aren’t very good. Your parents aren’t very good. And you need help I will supply all your needs I will come and help you no matter what you need I will come and help you. But the church has to get the word out so children understand right and wrong could that be true if we are silent how is the kids going to know what is right and wrong. If you’re a child and in a good home and your parents are bringing you up and the nurture and admonition of the Lord and the ways of God. You may need God’s help to obey those parents and follow those parents because the other kids in the neighborhood aren’t.

▶ 25:23 And you become a teenager oh wow the transition from childhood to adulthood. And the peer pressure is really high you go to public schools and the those kids come from all kinds of different homes and the peer pressure to do wrong and live wrong is strong and you need help to resist that and stand for God he is there calling to you. Wanting to save you wanting to heal you wanting to strengthen you wanting to meet your need. And especially if you’re a teenager in a home with the parents are not following God. You need help if you’re in a foster home from the statistics you need a lot of help the statistics shows that the majority of kids in crime and drug abuse and alcohol abuse and sexual abuse and all that come from foster home.

▶ 26:28 Or a broken home. And God cares about the children the baby the teenager. Amen and so we as a church need to get that word out you and your daily job and at home and when you have family gatherings you need to find a way to share the word even if you just leave pamphlets laying around. Or people to read but unless that word comes to them they don’t have the knowledge that will give them the knowledge to call on Christ and he can save them like he saved us hallelujah. They don’t need to know about Moses’s tabernacle and the second coming in detail and all that they need to know Christ died for the sinner and if we call on him he hears us and delivers us from all our sins amen.

▶ 27:24 Or you may be an adult. And you may be an adult in the military and need the same help to live for God in the military you may be an adult in our nation. And the perplexity and the complexity and the disinformation. That is going on in America today has you totally confused about who to vote for and how to vote and everything God will come to you if you call on him and he will heal your understanding he will open up your understanding and you can get on the right side and a lot of people need to know that we can’t be a democrat or republican because our parents were and because we’ve been one all of our life we need to get on the side of right and a way to get on the side of right is let Jesus bring us to himself.

▶ 28:19 Teach us and send us out amen. And wherever you’re at today whatever need you have he come to heal all diseases he says I will heal all your diseases how many oh now folks there’s a time to die it’s appointed a man wants to die but until that day comes we have a right to go to God and ask God to heal the sick is that an amen. Hallelujah. So this morning if you’re wanting to open yourself up afresh and open yourself up again. Or you’ve been opening yourself up to God and you just want to do it because it’s a normal thing to do will you stand with me and let’s sing.

▶ 29:12 Out of the scriptures. Be it unto me according. To thy word. That’s the key. And God answered her prayer this is mary praying she was promised a son and she was a virgin she didn’t know a man and she said humbly be it unto me according. To thy word I will respond you call me you give me a purpose and I will respond. Let’s sing it and let’s ask God to do this and then we will have a time of prayer. To thee.

▶ 30:16 That. The other. S. Were spoken. Again oh nothing is impossible. It onto. According to thy word. My. Heart. Response to thee. That happy.

▶ 31:15 Which was spoken. For nothing is impossible. The Bible says he forgives all sin. And of here here today and you just you can be a believer that needs deliverance. And cleansing from sin. Just ask him in this prayer time I guarantee you he will come he will summon you he will invite you to come to him and he will cleanse you of any sin I don’t care what it is if you’re sick today and you have a disease that is incurable or arcurable God can still heal the curable disease as well as the incurable you can take that to God and in our prayers will be taken these with us we will be praying for those that are sick we’ll be praying for those in sin and if you have any need.

▶ 32:18 You know a teenager they got to worry about trying to find a why trying to find a job trying to find a husband trying to find a good boss. They got all these where did I go to college or where I don’t go to college they got all these things I guarantee you if you. Call on Jesus he’ll call you to himself. And he will meet your need whatever it is.

▶ 32:50 And as we enter into this time of prayer Mike’s going to come and lead us. I challenge you to pray for your own needs and then pray for the needs of others especially our nation and the condition of the church we are in today the church needs help and folks let me tell you if my people which are called by my name will humble themself and pray and seek my face the church I know has been doing that for decades since I’ve been saved but what we haven’t done is turn from our wicked ways the church is not correcting sinners it’s not correcting believers that sin it’s not approaching them and tell them and this is wrong everybody wants to be in harmony with everything but that cross and salvation from sin must be preached are you with me we need to pray for the condition of the church condition of individ the needs of everybody’s life individualized the needs of our nation and the needs of our church as might comes.

▶ 33:59 So the message this morning let first respond to the call that Jesus makes to us calling unto himself to follow me right now we’re going to lift up our voices and just commit ourselves to continue to follow him to continue to seek him not giving up as you know like he said when you’re when you become good and you’re doing what’s right doesn’t mean you quit so we’re gonna say to God right now Lord I be it unto me I’m going to follow you I’m going to come to you and when we do that let’s come out of our seats come forward and we’re going to exercise that this morning coming to him let’s lift up our voices just committing unto him Lord Jesus we come before you this morning God donald. The Lord sounds to you eugene foreign.

▶ 35:19 Your life for us Jesus we’re here. Lord and following you for all my names Jesus Jesus Jesus king of kings Lord God. We come for you this morning we commit ourselves our lives to you Jesus thank you Lord Jesus. To me to me according. To the thy word. My heart. To thee. Let.

▶ 36:15 Me. See my performance. Of that which was spoken. For nothing is. Impossible. With God. As he stated before we’re gonna pray for the church. The church worldwide the church in our in America the church in our city our county state. That we would turn from our wicked ways we need to pray that God would come and just draw the church draw it out of sin draw it to himself away from our wickedness we need to hear his word of repentance and turning from that sin they need to pray for the church that we would together turn from wickedness us that of our voices right now asking God to do that word Lord Jesus God we pray for such conviction by the Holy Spirit Lord to go across the church of America and throughout the world.

▶ 37:29 State government Lord that you would come Lord God that you would come with your spirit that you draw people and yourself draw them away from sin gone Lord Jesus. Speak to them Lord Lord your word never returns boy Jesus Lord their word sets us free God. Came after you God we need to have that in our nation today church comes down to you they lay aside the weight of sin they lay aside all things Lord have come to you God we pray that we would turn. Pray for the church. When you come to church sovereignly Lord and work in the church Jesus Lord draw us unto you God Lord we need you this morning please.

▶ 38:33 Please. Foreign. Fill me till I. Wanna.

▶ 39:25 Know. Here’s my I lifted. Up Lord make me. Lay hands on one another we have some folks that are going through some. Problems their help. Are just going to pray together as a body for those that are sick for those that are in bad health and those who are recovering that God would come and sovereignly help them recover.

▶ 40:24 I think I would do a work in their bodies. And that we’re going to lift up our voices for one another right now and if you have a need just raise your hand and we’ll pray for that need this morning as well so let’s pray for one another right now we’re going to just lay hands on one another Lord Jesus we come before you this morning we pray for our brothers and our sisters God Lord we lift him up right now in prayer God we pray for those that are out and Lord they have their health problems Jesus Lord we ask Lord you’re the great physician the king of kings the creator of all things the Lord you are the great God of all the world the God almighty God we pray for our brothers and sisters now God we ask Lord wherever their bodies are at God that you would come to them Lord helped him heal in their bodies Lord that they would recover from the sicknesses they have Jesus please Lord we lift them up in prayer Jesus right thank you Lord Jesus right now while you have your hands on your neighbor we’re just going to pray for our name that we would come to God that we would come to God together that we would serve him wholeheartedly that we would live for him and that we would do with the great commission says and go go ye therefore each everything that he’s commanded us to teach and make disciples of all nations well let’s lift up our voices for one another God we pray for each other Jesus this morning Lord

▶ 41:55 God that we would open up our times Lord Jesus to share the scriptures to share the truth God Lord Jesus God make us Lord make us wise. Lord Jesus. Name I still want that for God we pray Lord we need this. Jesus. Foreign.

▶ 43:18 As long as there is love we will stand. Invite one of you to close in prayer this morning that God would. Convict us throughout the week and remind us to come to him come to himself not just stay where we’re at but seek after him wholeheartedly something just please let your voice up and closing this morning. Foreign. Jesus. David prayed a prayer created me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me. The Lord there was so much more to that prairie said then shall I.

▶ 44:11 Transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee and that’s my cried I know it’s the cry of everyone in this heart Lord we would have a spirit that is renewed. Lord a spirit from the from the Lord that renews our purpose that gives us courage and boldness that gives us the eyes Lord that you have. To have. Restored. And to build your kingdom here Jesus in us and each. And each right spirit not only in our hearts but in the churches in the pastor’s heart. Thank you Jesus we love you.

▶ 45:10 Used Noah. You used Abraham. Lord I knew you with all this is always. Folks. Can still be used with God today but Lord you use David as a teenager and Daniel is a teenager yeah the Lord brothers were older brothers. Open our ears to your calling draws to yourself. Prepare us make us and send us out for your purpose we ask this in a menu of your son Jesus Christ. We’re gonna take up the offering.

▶ 46:12 I have mr Daigle pray for the offering would you pray for the offer mr Daigle stan. Lord we just thank you for this day and Lord we’re just thankful for the ability to be able to give back to you what you’ve given us Lord we just pledge you bless this day amen. Those online thank you for joining us we trust that you’re going to go come to Jesus yourself follow him and serve with him all your heart and if you need his cleansing he died on the cross for you he can change your life God bless you thank you for joining us.