Our Creator God

Shared July 9, 2023 at Breaking of Bread Service, Wellspring Bible Fellowship

I read Psalm 104 - again. It is an amazing psalm to read and meditate on again and again, as well as all of the Word of God.
 
We worship the Creator God of Psalm 104. The world does not know the God of Psalm 104. Their god is the creature and not the Creator.
 
We are literally surrounded with the work of His Will, by His Word and His Hands; ...a glorious picture of God as Creator and a sweeping view of the world God made. Nothing anywhere is untouched by His creation and wisdom. Because He wants us to see and take pleasure in Him, He not only creates, but He speaks through His creation.
Rom. 1:19-20 says, What may be known of God is clearly seen, for God has made it evident. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are seen and understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

Without the Shedding of Blood

1 Kings 8
I have read this chapter many times... with AWE!
Solomon had finished building the temple after 7 years. And after some additional time, they were sacrificing sheep and oxen while bringing the ark up to the temple....verse 5 says...
King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

Persistent Friend

Luke 11:5-9

5 And He (Jesus) said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves.
6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him.
7 And he will answer from within and say, Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you.
8 But I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
9 And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

Scofield's Notes on New Testament Epistles

Introduction to the Epistles of Paul 

The Epistles of the Apostle Paul have a very distinctive character. All Scripture, up to the Gospel accounts of the crucifixion, looks forward to the cross, and has primarily in view Israel, and the blessing of the earth through the Messianic kingdom. But "hid in God" Eph 3:9 was an unrevealed fact--the interval of time between the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ and His return in glory; and an unrevealed purpose-- the outcalling of the ecclesia, the church which is Christ's body. In Matt. 16, our Lord announced that purpose, but wholly without explanation as to how, when, or of what materials, that church should be built, or what should be its position, relationships, privileges, or duties.

All this precisely constitutes the scope of the Epistles of Paul. They develop the doctrine of the church.

How Is It?

(James Smith, "Manna in the Wilderness" 1863)

When we look around upon people and observe their ways, we see that there is . . .
not a sin prohibited, but they willfully commit it;
not a duty prescribed, but they cheerfully neglect it;
not a mercy bestowed, but they wickedly abuse it;
not an attribute of God's nature discovered, but they daringly insult it;
and that they have altogether become abominable, filthy, and condemned!

The Alarming Sentence!

James Smith, 1802—1862

"A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it — but did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard: For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree — and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil!" Luke 13:6-7

No place is as dangerous for an unconverted person, as the church of God. It is to be feared that many join the church before they are truly converted; and yet very, very few — are ever converted after.

How Spiritual Power Is Lost

One of the strangest and saddest stories of the Old Testament history is that of Samson. It is also one of the most instructive. He was by far the most remarkable man of his day. The grandest opportunities were open to him, but after striking temporary victories, his life ended in tragic failure – all through his own inexcusable folly.

Time and again it is said of him that "the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him," and in the power of that Spirit he wrought to the astonishment of his people and the discomfiture of the enemies of the Lord. But in Judges 16:19-20, we see him deserted of the Lord, though unconscious of it, his strength gone from him and he about to be taken into wretched captivity, the sport of the godless, and to die with the enemies of the Lord a violent and dishonored death.