May I Present Jesus (Part 4)

The Bible says in Hebrews Chapter 11 that without faith it

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is impossible to please God. In other words, unless you

understand what it means to live a life of faith you you will

never please the true and living God.

So the question comes, what is faith?

Well, faith defined by two words is simply trusting obedience, or

defined by 4 words. It's believing absolutely and

behaving accordingly. You believe absolutely in all

the Bible says that he is, and you behave accordingly to all

that he says he is. That's called trusting

obedience. That's what faith is all about.

So the right of Hebrews says that without faith it's

impossible to please God. So those who who come to God

must believe that he is, He is what He is.

Everything he says he is, you must believe that He is, and

that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

So those who come to Christ by faith, they understand who he

is. They believe, excuse me, in who

he is. They understand who he is.

So John in his gospel begins to open up to us the identity of

the Christ. He says that many of the signs

that Jesus do, but these are written that you might believe,

and that believing you might have life in his name.

You might understand who the Son of God truly is.

That's John's purpose for writing that you might truly

have the faith to believe exactly who he says he is.

So John says these words in John chapter one in the beginning was

the word. In other words, in the beginning

continuously was the word. So you must believe it is

eternality. You must believe that he pre

existed before time. Then he says this, and the word

was continually with God or literally face to face with God.

In other words, this word, Christ Himself who lived

eternally, is face to face with the eternal God.

In other words, they stand equal together face to face.

In the beginning was the Word, and the word was face to face

with God, Speaking of the personality of the eternal

existence of the living God. So you must believe in His

eternality, and you must believe in His personality.

And then the Bible says, and the Word was God, or literally God

was the Word, you must believe in his deity, because the Word

became flesh and dwelt among us. And so the Word actually is God.

So you believe in the deity of Christ, that Jesus Christ is

100% God and 100% man, and you believe it wholeheartedly.

So he comes to God, must believe that He is, He's what he is

eternal, He is personal, He's God in the flesh.

And then he says this. He says he was in the beginning

with God. All things came into being

through him and apart from him, nothing came into being that has

come into being. Nothing exists without this

eternal word because God is the God the Father is the architect

of creation, and God the Son is the agent of creation.

Nothing came into existence without the eternal God bringing

it into existence. That's the Colossians 116 and

17, says First Corinthians 8 verse #6 recognizing that God is

the creator of all things. This is his creativity.

This is his activity. You must believe in who He is.

He's the eternal God who personally existed with God, who

is actually God, who created everything.

Unless you believe that you cannot be saved, because that's

what the truth of the Scripture say.

That's who He is. You can't believe in parts of

Jesus. You got to believe in all of

Jesus and who he is. He is Lord of all, He is King of

all. But he says that He brings all

things into existence that without Him nothing came into

being. In fact, it says that in verse

10, these words, He was in the world and the world was not, was

made, excuse me, through him and the world did not know Him.

What did the world not know about Him?

If the world didn't know Him and He came and lived among them,

what did they not know? They did not know that He was

creator. They did not believe in God as

the ultimate creator of all things and that Jesus Christ is

God in the flesh and he was the agent of all creation.

They did not believe that. And I wonder today if you

recognize Christ as creator, if you recognize him as the creator

of everything. In fact, it's so important that

you do because this is how, remember, we talked to you last

week. This is how God introduced

himself to the world in the beginning, God created.

This is how God wants to introduce himself to to the

world. And not only is this God

introduce himself that way, note this, this is so important that

when you get to heaven, this will be the subject of your

praise. Listen to Revelation 4 verse 11.

Revelation 4:11

It says that the church before living creatures, the angels

will say, worthy are you, O Lord our God, to receive glory, honor

and power. For you created all things, and

because of your desire they existed and were created.

When you get to heaven, your praise is centered on God the

Creator. That's how he introduced himself

from the very beginning. Genesis chapter one verse #1 And

when you die and go to heaven, you will be worshipping God, not

as the God who loves you, although he does, not the God

who was gracious to you or merciful to you, but the God who

created you. That's how you're going to

worship him. In fact, if you go further down

in chapter 5 of Revelation, it says this.

Here's the new song ready. Worthy are you to take the book

and to break its seal. For you were slain and purchased

for God with your blood. Men from every tribe, tongue,

and people and nation. Verse 10 You ready for this?

You have made us. You have made us to be a Kingdom

and priest to our God, and we will reign upon the earth again.

Lord, you made us, You created us, You fashioned us, You did

this. God needs to be recognized as

Creator. It is so powerful, so important

for you to realize this. So John introduces Christ to us

because he wants you to believe in all that He is so that you

might follow him and serve Him. You must not just believe in his

eternal existence. You not, just must not just

believe that he existed personally with God, face to

face with God as God. You must recognize that He is

the agent of creation. And I wonder if you have

recognized God as your Creator. In fact, Psalmist says Psalm 95.

Listen to these words. Oh come, let us sing for joy to

the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to the

rock of our salvation. This come before his presence

with Thanksgiving. Let us shout joyfully to him

with Psalms. So what are you going to shout?

What are you going to praise Him for?

What are you going to thank Him for?

He tells you, For the Lord is a great God and a great king above

all gods, in whose hand are the depths of the earth, the peaks

of the mountains are his. Also the sea is His, for it is

it was he who made it, created it, and his hands form the dry

land. The psalmist knows that that the

creation of God is the central focus of his praise, for without

him there's nothing, because he's the creator of all things.

And you read through the Psalms and you go back and you examine

them and realize how many times the Psalms go back to the

creation from the very beginning.

Because it's all about how we're going to forever praise Him in

glory. But note this for six Come, let

us worship and bow down. Let us bow down before this

great God. Let us kneel before the Lord our

Maker. See the reverence there?

We talked about this in November of last year.

Yahweh Hassinu, the Lord our Fashioner, the Lord our Maker,

bowing down to worship God, to praise Him, to glorify His name,

is focused on God as Creator. Ever notice that when we bow

before God and we sing praises to His name, it's all about us

and not about Him? How many of the songs of today

focused in on us and what God does for us instead of who God

is and what He does? The Psalms recognize His

creative power. He is the God who forms us, who

creates us, who makes us, and we get to heaven.

It was we were purchased by your blood because you made us a

Kingdom of priests. Excuse me?

You created us to be in your Kingdom.

You made us this way. That's what you did.

So it says, come this worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God, and we

are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Today, if you would hear his voice, do not harden your

hearts. Don't harden your hearts against

what God is creator, God is fashioner, God is maker of all

things. This is crucial for us to

understand. And so this is how John

introduces Christ to us. For by by him all things came

into existence. All things were created by this

word, by this God, by this Christ, the word that became

flesh. This is who he is.

This is what he did. His creative powers sets a tone

for how you praise him. John wants us to recognize

Christ as Creator, as Maker, as fashioner.

Interesting that Solomon would say these words in Ecclesiastes

12 verse #1 Remember, Solomon writes Ecclesiastes at the end

of his life and he chronicles all the things that he did

during his sinful escapades. And the Ecclesiastes is like a

book of repentance for Solomon, recognizing that all the things

he went after and all the things he sought for never amounted to

anything. They were all empty, futile,

never brought him what he thought they would bring.

So he concludes his his book, his journal with these words to

his son, Rhea Baum to he might understand, remember your

Creator in the days of your youth.

It's almost as if he's saying, you know what?

I didn't do that. And I want to challenge you as

my son, to remember your creator in the days of your youth.

While you're young, while you have your whole life ahead of

you, you must act obediently to your creator.

You must follow your creator. You must understand your Creator

because if you do, it will change everything about how you

live your life. I didn't do that.

I don't want the same for you, my son.

Very next phrase is important. Remember now your Creator in the

days of your youth, before the evil days come.

In other words, the evil days are coming, the bad days are

ahead, temptations going to rise, trials are going to come.

So before the evil day ever comes upon you, Raybone, I want

you to remember your creator act obediently until your creator

act decisively according to all that he says, before the evil

days come. Because if you don't, when the

evil days come, you will not stand.

That's how important it is to remember your Creator.

So I wonder, have you recognized your Creator?

Do you even remember your Creator?

To act in obedience to His name? If you remember your Creator,

you will Revere your Creator. That's the psalmist says to

Psalm 95 verse #6 let us kneel and bow down.

Let's kneel and bow down. Let's come before his presence

with Thanksgiving, but let's kneel before him in complete and

total surrender in reverence to his name, because he is the one

who's fashioned us. He is the one who made us.

You know, like Israel was made, created.

The Jewish nation was created. Do you understand that?

Right. You've heard me say this before,

and I've said it to my Jewish friends.

You were me before I was ever you.

And they say, well, what do you mean?

I say, well, you were Gentiles before you ever became Jewish.

No way. Yeah, you were.

You were the original Goem. No, you weren't.

Yes, you were. Where was Abraham before he

crossed the river Euphrates? Early Chaldees.

Abraham was a Pagan Gentile. The word Hebrew means to cross

the river. So God called Abraham to the

Promised Land and caught on the cross over the river, the great

river Euphrates, because that would be a boundary line for the

Promised Land. And so therefore Abraham became

the father of a nation. What nation?

The Jewish nation. There were no Jews before

Abraham. And so Abraham became the father

of a great nation, the father of the Jews, and God created that

way. There are only two races in the

world, Jew and Gentile. Asian is not a race.

Black is not a race. Caucasian is not a race.

That's what the world tells you. That's not what the Bible tells

you. There are two races, Jew and

Gentile. That's it.

There is no other race. I'm not saying that to offend

you, understanding what the Bible says.

And so you have to understand that that that God has created a

Jewish race. Let's kneel before the Lord, our

maker, the one who fashioned us, the one who made us into a a

nation who fashioned us as a people.

We need to Revere him and, and worship him and honor him and

glorify his, his precious name, because that's who he is.

So I ask you, do you do you Revere your creator?

He's the Lord who fashions you. He fashioned your first Kingdom.

He made, He molded, He took and brought together everything that

you have because He's the ultimate fashioner of life.

Do you Revere him for that? See, if you recognize your

Creator, you will remember your Creator.

That is, act in obedience to Him.

Because the word remember in according to the Scripture is to

act decisively in obedience to God.

So Solomon says, remember now, son, you're creator of the days

of years, earth, your youth. Excuse me, before the evil day

comes, because they're coming. And if you don't remember him

and recognize him and obey him now, you certainly won't when

the evil day comes. And then make sure you Revere

your Creator, You bow before Him and worship Him, and humbly and

gratefully and joyfully thank Him for how He has fashioned

your life, how He's brought you into His Kingdom to glorify His

great name. If you recognize your Creator,

and you remember your Creator, and you Revere your Creator, you

will rest in your Creator. You will rest in your Creator.

This is how Peter says it in First Peter chapter 4, verse 12.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you which

comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing

were happening to you. Remember, he is speaking to Jews

who've been scattered abroad. He's speaking to Jews who have

gone through great suffering, persecution because of their

belief in Christ. And many of them were put on

poles and wrapped in pitch and set on fire to light Nero's

gardens. Others were thrown to to the

lions, wrapped in animal skins and eaten alive.

That that's that's suffering. Your hangnail is not suffering.

That is suffering. But Peter says, beloved, I don't

want you to think it's strange that this fiery ordeal and it's

truly a fiery ordeal. Would you not say because some

of them were really, really set on fire, this fiery ordeal which

comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing was

happening to you? Why do you think it's strange?

All those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer

persecution, right? So Peter says, don't think it's

strange. And Peter knows Peter's gone

through persecution. Peter's been in prison, Peter's

been beaten. He understands this is this.

But the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ keep on

rejoicing. So you also with the revelation

of his glory, you may rejoice with exaltation.

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed

because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

Make sure that that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief,

or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler.

But if anyone suffers as a Christian, he's not to be

ashamed, but is to glorify God in His name for his time for

judgment to begin with the household of God.

If it begins with us first, what will be the outcome of those who

do not obey the gospel of God? And if it is with difficulty

that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless

man and the Sinner? Therefore, those also who suffer

according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a

faithful Creator in doing what is right.

He says, look, you need to rest in your Creator.

Your Creator does no wrong. The one who fashioned you does

no wrong. You might be going through a a

fiery ordeal, but our God is the Creator of everything, and God

has allowed this testing to come your way.

So don't think it's strange about this fiery ordeal.

Instead, just keep entrusting your soul, keep resting your

soul in your faithful Creator, and continue to do what is right

before Him. The only ones who can do that

are those who recognize Christ as Creator, who remember the

Creator in the days of their youth, who Revere the Creator.

Those are the ones who will rest in their Creator.

If you're having a hard time going through that, what you're

going through, ask yourself if you recognize God as the Creator

of all things, and do you remember your Creator in the

days of your youth? And do you Revere your Creator?

Because if you do, you will rest in your Creator.

And then if you recognize your creator, you will always run to

your creator. You'll run to him.

Why? Where else are you going to go?

Who are you going to run to? Nobody else can help you, so you

run to your Creator. Listen to what the psalmist says

in Psalm 96. Sing to the Lord a new song.

Sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless his

name, proclaim good Titans of his salvation from day-to-day.

Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds

among all the peoples. For great is the Lord, and

greatly to be praised. He has to be feared above all

gods, for all the gods of the peoples are idols.

But the Lord made the heavens again.

See the psalmist goes back to the creative power of God,

spender and majesty before him. Strength and beauty are in a

sanctuary. Ascribe to the Lord.

O families, the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name.

Bring an offering and come into His courts.

Worship the Lord in the splendor of His Holiness.

Tremble before him all the earth say among the nations the Lord

reigns. Indeed, the world is firmly

established. It will be.

It will not be moved. He will judge the peoples with

equity. Let the heavens be glad.

Let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar and all it

contains. Let the field exult and all that

is in it. Then all the trees of the forest

will sing for joy before the Lord, For He is coming, for He

is coming to judge the earth. Interesting how the psalmist

talks about creation all throughout a Psalm about praise

and ascribing glory to the name of God because of his creative

power and what he does. In Psalm 119 the psalmist said

these words. Psalm 119 verse #32 I shall run

the way of your commandments, for you will enlarge my heart.

I, I will I will run the way of your commandments.

Why? Because when I do and understand

what you say and who you are, my heart grows strong, my heart is

enlarged. My, my heart is able to, to

handle all that's coming my way. So I run to your commandments

because I want you to enlarge and strengthen and fortify my

heart. Those who recognize their

creator, they run. They run the way of their

creator. They can't wait to get there, to

hear, to see what he says. He who comes to God must believe

that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently

seek him. He is what he's everything he

says he is. So John says he's eternal, He's

personal, He's God, He's Creator, that's who he is.

Run to him. Run to him because he's the one

who fashions everything. Those who recognize God as a

Creator, they rejoice in their creator.

Psalm 100 Again another Psalm. Shout joyfully to the Lord, all

the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness,

Come before Him with joyful singing.

Know that the Lord Himself is God.

It is He who made us, if you made us, and not we ourselves.

We are who we are because of Him, not because of us.

We are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

Enter his gates with Thanksgiving, His courts with

praise. Give thanks to him.

Bless his name for the Lord. As good as loving kindness is

everlasting, and his faithfulness to all generations.

He rejoiced as Creator. So who made us?

When was the last time you rejoiced and said, Lord, thank

you? I praise you for the way you

fashioned me, the way you made me, how you made me a part of

your Kingdom, how you made me the way I am.

You're, you're You're my creator.

You did this. And because of the way you

created me, I praise your glorious name.

Because I was formed in the inward parts of a mother's womb.

I was manufactured by hand by the true and living Creator of

the universe. God did this.

God's in charge. He's the Creator.

He's the one we trust. He's the one that we believe in.

And so you rejoice in your Creator.

Why? Because you simply run the way

of your Creator. Why?

Because you Revere your Creator. Why?

Because you remember Him. And why do you remember Him?

Because you recognize exactly who He is and therefore you

simply trust and rest in your Creator.

How about you? How's your rest today?

Is your heart enlarged because you've run the way of your

Creator? Does your heart have the energy

to continue on because you rest in your Creator and continue to

do that which is right before your Creator.

It's always good. This is the next point is to is

to read about your creator. I mentioned this last week

Matthew chapter 19 Christ says have have you not read that male

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and female created he them? Have you not read I?

I find it always interesting how the Lord indicts the religious

establishment on how they don't read right or or or they read

but they but when they read they, they miss the Christ and

Christ says if you read my word and you miss me, you didn't read

it right. Go back and read it again and

obviously they didn't read it right because they missed the

Christ in their reading. So he says to them, have you not

read male and female created he them.

God is the Creator of all things.

So read about your creator, spend time in the Word, read the

Word, memorize the word, meditate upon the word that you

might understand the creative power of God who reigns and

rules over all things. If you have not recognized your

Creator, if you have not remembered your Creator, if you

do not Revere your Creator, if you don't read about your

Creator, if you don't rest in your Creator, if you don't

rejoice in your Creator, it's time to repent and return to

your Creator. It's time to do that.

Remember Job. That's what Job said.

So interesting. Remember, God revealed himself

to Job. God never explained anything to

Job but why he was the way he was or what happened to him.

Never explained anything to him. What did he reveal to Job?

He revealed his creative powers to Job.

That's all he did. Went back and revealed how he

created everything. I was in charge of everything.

Listen to what Job says. Job 40 the Lord said to Job,

will the fault Finder contend with the Almighty?

Job was the fault Finder. God says to Job, you want to

continue to find fault with me. Job, after you understand how

I've created everything upon the planet I formulated all

together, how I hold it all together, and you want to find

fault with me, your creator, let him who reproves God answer.

Job, you have an answer. Next time you want to argue with

God about his creative power, you want to argue about what he

is, how he's fashioned you and formed you, and what he's

created to come into your life. Next time you want to argue with

God about those things, read what Job says.

Job says, Behold, I am insignificant.

I'm a nothing. I'm a nobody.

Oh, by the way, the reason you find fault with God is because

you think you're somebody, that when you realize you're a

nobody, there's no fault with God, He says I'm insignificant.

What can I reply to you? What can I say?

I laid my hand on my mouth once I've spoken, I will not answer

even twice and I will add nothing more.

How did Joe get to that point? How did he for 39 chapters ask

the question why, what is going on in my life?

And God comes to him and reveals his creative power by speaking

to Job. And Job says, I got nothing to

say. You're everything.

I am nothing. And then Job listens to God

again through chapter 41. In chapter 42, he says, I repent

in dust and ashes. I got nothing to say.

I was wrong. I should not have questioned my

God. I should not have questioned my

Creator. And John comes along and says,

I'm going to show you the word of God.

This is what it is. And I'm going to show you the

God of the Word. That's who He is.

He brought everything into existence.

He is the Creator. Do you believe that?

For he who comes to God must believe that He is.

He is everything He says He is. He's a reward of those who

diligently seek Him. He reward you because you want

to truly be like him, for you see him truly as he really is.

In the Scriptures, John says, I've written these things that

you might believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.

Do you believe? Let me pray with you, Lord God,

thank you for today. We are reminded once again of

the power of Your Word and how it's so instrumental in all of

our lives. Forgive us, Lord, for not

remembering You as our Creator, not recognizing You as our

Creator, especially not revering you as our Creator.

Oh Lord, please, if there be one among us today who does not know

You, may today they come to the true and living God.

Repetitive sins and follow Christ, the Creator of the ends

of the earth. Pray this in Jesus glorious

precious name was coming again. Amen.