WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.960 In your bulletin is a little insert, which will be a 00:06.960 --> 00:11.560 priestess of the scriptural sermon this morning. There's so much to talk about, 00:11.560 --> 00:16.160 and what I don't talk about, where you can peruse at your own discretion, and I 00:16.160 --> 00:20.480 hope that you enjoy it. Father's Day, man, that's a good day. Not as good as 00:20.480 --> 00:25.400 mom's day, maybe, but hey, the thing you know about the father who is in heaven is 00:25.400 --> 00:28.880 the father you might have had on earth, or the ideal father that you might have 00:28.880 --> 00:33.380 had on earth, and I pray that God gave you a rich and wonderful father. The thing 00:33.380 --> 00:37.040 that has been very exciting, everyone looks pretty tired, and we had a 00:37.040 --> 00:43.320 wonderful vacation Bible school, and we gave a room that would hold ten kids 00:43.320 --> 00:49.120 over 700, around 700 dollars. It's gonna be more than that, but that's pretty great, 00:49.120 --> 00:54.840 isn't it? And that's one of our girls who came right out of our youth group, and 00:54.840 --> 00:58.640 we just honor the work that they're doing, and they're looking after the little 00:58.640 --> 01:06.800 children of people who think they're in Babylon, and I am thankful to Lori. What 01:06.800 --> 01:13.360 a wonderful job she did, and I just, it was just a great service to the community, 01:13.360 --> 01:18.360 and to the house of God, and especially to your babies. My land, as long as they 01:18.360 --> 01:24.520 grow up teaching, and studying about missions, and the word of God, the church 01:24.560 --> 01:29.240 is safe. The church is gonna be alright. Our theme, if you will see on that little 01:29.240 --> 01:36.600 brochure there, is 1 Corinthians 3, 21 to 23, and I like to read it because it's 01:36.600 --> 01:42.080 such an extraordinary scripture, starting in 1 Corinthians 3, verse 21, 01:42.080 --> 01:47.320 therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, and that'll be the 01:47.320 --> 01:52.840 title. You'll hear that several times, for all things are yours. That's a great 01:53.120 --> 01:57.560 topic, isn't it? Whether it's Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or 01:57.560 --> 02:02.680 death, or things present, or things to come, all things are yours. I wonder why he 02:02.680 --> 02:10.520 repeats that. And ye are Christ, you belong to Christ, and Christ is God's. How 02:10.520 --> 02:17.320 much we are of one accord. You know, that famous prayer, our Father which are in 02:17.400 --> 02:23.680 heaven, didn't say Abba, he didn't say Papa, he said Lord God, creator of the 02:23.680 --> 02:29.080 universe. And he began that wonderful prayer that he taught us. When you look 02:29.080 --> 02:35.120 at a loving old father, a gray-haired man who spent his life loving his children, 02:35.120 --> 02:40.960 and his grandchildren, what an honorable thing it is. And I just am thankful for 02:40.960 --> 02:46.240 every man who stood faithful in the kingdom of God, as he taught his children, 02:46.320 --> 02:51.520 and the children of those outside of his own household. You know, God is an 02:51.520 --> 02:57.040 example to every one of us men. And we don't have to take Peter as an example, 02:57.040 --> 03:02.680 or Cephas as an example, or Apollos as an example. We can just take the model of 03:02.680 --> 03:08.080 our heavenly Father, who is the picture of how we ought to behave in our family. 03:08.080 --> 03:11.840 And I'm just thrilled with the church. They've got so many classes that deal 03:11.880 --> 03:17.880 with trying to be a spiritual husband, a spiritual mother, and spiritual children 03:17.880 --> 03:22.600 in the church, the kingdom of God. And I just think you're on the right track, 03:22.600 --> 03:28.880 and you will be a beacon lit high on a hill that all might see how men ought to 03:28.880 --> 03:32.840 live. And like anything, this is a transcendent. It begins with simpler 03:32.840 --> 03:37.400 things and goes up to the top with our Father. So let's begin at the very 03:37.400 --> 03:42.720 bottom with the Bible there. Father Abraham is an example to us, isn't it? 03:42.720 --> 03:49.480 And over in Genesis 18, let's see that 17 through 19, here's what he had to say. 03:49.480 --> 03:53.680 And remember, he took that young man once earlier and showed him the heavens in 03:54.680 --> 03:59.720 the earth. And he showed him the sands on the beaches. And he says, 03:59.720 --> 04:04.440 there are stars up there in the sky. And as there are greens of sands on the 04:04.440 --> 04:08.520 beaches of all the world, I will make your progeny who fall after you to 04:08.520 --> 04:14.720 prosper, and I will make you a man of many nations. And he was, he did. And 04:14.720 --> 04:19.360 every one of us are descendants of our Father Abraham, aren't we, among many 04:19.360 --> 04:26.240 things. What an exciting view of life that is, and all things belong to us. 04:26.240 --> 04:30.080 And here's what he says in Genesis 18, beginning in verse 17 through 19. 04:30.680 --> 04:34.520 And the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? 04:34.520 --> 04:38.840 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and a mighty nation, did he? 04:38.840 --> 04:42.920 Indeed he did. And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him, and 04:42.920 --> 04:49.400 they were, for I know him. I know him. God personally knew this Father, 04:49.400 --> 04:54.880 that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall 04:54.880 --> 05:00.040 keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring 05:00.040 --> 05:06.120 up on Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. Oh, he was going to have 05:06.120 --> 05:12.720 something special. That was some rancher, wasn't he? Man alive. He owned what 05:12.720 --> 05:18.480 would be equivalent to a small nation now, and he was the, he was the 05:18.480 --> 05:24.640 creator of a kingdom that would last forever. Father Abraham, what a neat 05:24.680 --> 05:30.840 example that really is. As you go on there, Matthew 24, 35, Jesus said, 05:30.840 --> 05:36.080 heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. That's cool, 05:36.080 --> 05:40.760 isn't it? I think the world is thirsty and hungering after some kind of standard, 05:40.760 --> 05:46.040 something because besides politics or something besides just consensus of 05:46.040 --> 05:51.600 opinion, because that changes from time to time, but we need an irrevocable code 05:51.640 --> 05:56.120 that we can live and raise our children by. Children need a framework. 05:56.120 --> 06:00.160 Adults need a framework. Us gray-haired folks need a framework. We still need to 06:00.160 --> 06:06.800 abide and keep his commands, don't we? We're hopeless without that. What a fruitless 06:06.800 --> 06:11.720 existence if there is no code of honor, no way that we ought to walk on the face 06:11.720 --> 06:17.440 of this earth, because there is a way, and we needn't guess about that. Of course, 06:17.480 --> 06:22.280 that leads us into a biblical view of the family, and of course, we're talking 06:22.280 --> 06:26.320 here now about a relationship called a priesthood. We're talking about a 06:26.320 --> 06:30.480 symbiosis where two disparate creatures may live together to a far better 06:30.480 --> 06:36.640 advantage than living alone, and that's a wonderful blessing. I know that's a big 06:36.640 --> 06:39.760 word, but now you all think about it. You hear it all the time. The green 06:39.760 --> 06:43.760 weenies are talking about symbiosis, and you better get hip because you're 06:43.760 --> 06:49.820 going to hear more about it, and I'm not one of those. Believe me. You know, we 06:49.820 --> 06:54.600 talked about the mama, and we talked about the tremendous advantage she has 06:54.600 --> 06:59.200 in raising children up in a holy way of life. The hand that does rock the cradle 06:59.200 --> 07:04.680 will surely rule the world. We know that, don't we? And look at the scriptures as 07:04.680 --> 07:12.400 they talk about mama. Ephesians 522 says, wives submit yourselves as unto the 07:12.440 --> 07:17.680 Lord. And I've had dear ladies say, well, Mr., you can't say that about me, or you 07:17.680 --> 07:24.960 can't have my wedding. And I said, great, because it's an unhappy thing if one 07:24.960 --> 07:28.440 isn't submission to the other. However, it's modified, isn't it? By the 07:28.440 --> 07:37.480 Ephesians 521, it says, submitting yourselves together as unto Christ. So 07:37.480 --> 07:41.440 it's modified somewhat, but still there is an authority there, and there is a 07:41.480 --> 07:48.280 level of caring for one another. And the husband is to protect, guide, exalt, 07:48.280 --> 07:55.120 sanctify the wife, protect her from this foul world, and look after her, and look 07:55.120 --> 07:59.400 after the babies that you two bring forth together. How important and 07:59.400 --> 08:05.440 significant that really is. Matter of fact, when we talk about the Father 08:05.440 --> 08:10.680 Ephesians 525 says something that has always been a mystic mystery saying of 08:11.320 --> 08:17.080 a hard to understand saying, husbands love your wives. And that ought to be the 08:17.080 --> 08:21.120 simplest thing in the world, isn't it? Then you ought to see these beautiful 08:21.120 --> 08:28.880 brides come down the aisle. Wow. What an assignment. You love her for the rest of 08:28.880 --> 08:33.160 your life, but you love her with an integrity and an honor that is far 08:33.160 --> 08:40.480 beyond that which just titillates the eye. Oh my, that is true, isn't it? And you 08:40.520 --> 08:44.440 know, that's the role of the priest. I really believe that with all of my 08:44.440 --> 08:48.440 heart. And if I had to say, well, where does it say that? Well, I think that 08:48.440 --> 08:53.560 Ephesians 5 says that the husband is the priest, the head of his household, the 08:53.560 --> 08:57.840 goal between, between the Heavenly Father's commandments, the church, the 08:57.840 --> 09:03.480 word of God, and his precious babies, his family, his mama, the loved ones that 09:03.480 --> 09:09.640 are part of his household. In 1 Corinthians 11-7, this was said, for the 09:09.640 --> 09:15.440 woman is the glory of man. That's something to be proud of, isn't it? She is 09:15.440 --> 09:22.960 the glory, and therefore you honor her because she makes of you something 09:22.960 --> 09:28.400 more than you are. And what a blessed relationship that. His head is uncovered, 09:28.400 --> 09:33.000 remember, in the early view of the church, but her head was covered signifying 09:33.000 --> 09:38.840 that she was under the discipline and had submitted to the precepts of her 09:38.840 --> 09:44.320 husband's life and in the way their children would be raised. Now, it is 09:44.320 --> 09:54.240 axiomatic, that means to say that it's just a supreme basis of logic, that when 09:54.240 --> 09:59.720 you say the Father, see, you're talking about something pretty special, aren't 09:59.720 --> 10:07.040 you? Because he is the priest in the household of God, isn't it? Really is. And 10:07.040 --> 10:12.880 if we believe that, and if we honor authorities, then it will follow that, 10:12.880 --> 10:18.480 honoring God's commandments like Father Abraham was blessed, we shall be blessed 10:18.480 --> 10:23.760 in our daily lives together. And oh, it's just wonderful when you see a couple who 10:23.760 --> 10:29.600 are united in how they shall live, and the purposes to which they will put their 10:29.600 --> 10:36.440 very assets of love, integrity, work, and labor, and concern for the future with 10:36.440 --> 10:41.640 their children and with each other, then we know that they were going to have a 10:41.640 --> 10:47.120 good relationship and that it will be profitable. The world has sought other 10:47.120 --> 10:53.200 ways, haven't they? Other relationships between man and woman, I tell you, will 10:53.200 --> 10:59.680 never work. And when he says, all these are yours, that's one of the things you 10:59.680 --> 11:08.040 may possess, a happy home life, integrity, honor, blessing, encouragement, love, real 11:08.040 --> 11:16.040 love, that lasts and lasts and lasts. It doesn't grow old as we get quite hair, 11:16.040 --> 11:21.960 do you see? And then, of course, people are so much into leadership, aren't they? 11:21.960 --> 11:26.560 There's a charisma about a dynamic leader. Well, the church should have been 11:26.560 --> 11:32.640 satisfied with that dynamic leader who is Christ. He's the noble one. We somehow 11:32.640 --> 11:37.840 have forgotten the idea that there is a power structure in the church, though, and 11:37.840 --> 11:44.560 that hurts some people. They don't like to have anyone be over them, but that's 11:44.560 --> 11:49.240 unscriptural. And you should be glad that there's someone who lays awake at night 11:49.240 --> 11:53.400 and worries about you. And there are folks not here today, and we're worried 11:53.400 --> 11:58.280 about them. And don't you want that? Isn't that what you would have? Could you be a 11:58.280 --> 12:04.520 father and not worry about a wandering child? Not a good father. You couldn't, 12:04.520 --> 12:09.440 could you? And an elder is just simply an authority. And I think that many of our 12:09.440 --> 12:13.800 churches in Wyoming have stayed small, and they will stay small, and they have 12:13.800 --> 12:18.760 no potential for growing because they simply will not have anyone over 12:18.760 --> 12:25.400 authority for them. Like the lady that said, I'm gonna say I'll submit to you 12:25.400 --> 12:33.240 big boy. I'm brighter than you are. I'm prettier than you are. I'm more clever 12:33.240 --> 12:37.480 than you are. And you can't say that. God's people can't say that about God. 12:37.480 --> 12:42.800 There is a way when you talk about leadership. Remember that Romans 13 12:42.840 --> 12:49.360 once said, let every soul be subject unto higher powers. For the powers that be, 12:49.360 --> 12:54.840 they are ordained of God. If there is an authority, God will bless that authority. 12:54.840 --> 12:58.920 You know that you can't live without rules for living. You can't have a 12:58.920 --> 13:04.400 household without telling children how their life is to be framework. And we all 13:04.400 --> 13:09.520 need that. We all need that discipline. And there is a higher authority. And it is 13:09.520 --> 13:12.800 blessed by God. Part of that higher authority is right out here, isn't it? 13:12.800 --> 13:18.720 It's a stoplight. And you can't just run a green light anytime. Well, you can sure 13:18.720 --> 13:26.240 run green lines. But running a red light means the Geheimischtatpolitzai, the 13:26.240 --> 13:33.400 Gestapo, are going to come and get you. And properly so. Because we all don't have 13:33.400 --> 13:38.720 the right to make the rules that will cause us to perish. Though sometimes we 13:38.720 --> 13:44.680 don't like rules, we must live with them. And it is a purposeful thing to have it 13:44.680 --> 13:51.080 for powers that be are ordained of God. And you know, sometimes we have to live 13:51.080 --> 13:56.840 with that. And sometimes we have to decide what is the authority that will rule my 13:56.840 --> 14:01.600 life. For I believe this is one of the things that we have. You have more than 14:01.600 --> 14:07.320 Peter and Paul. You have more than the Word of God. And one of the things he 14:07.360 --> 14:11.680 says here is that there are leaders who are going to live out their life as 14:11.680 --> 14:16.680 Christ lived out his life for you in the kingdom of God. And I think that will be 14:16.680 --> 14:23.120 who of us all to follow those rules. And I pray that your elders remain strong. And 14:23.120 --> 14:27.920 I can't conceive of a church that's strong without a strong eldership. It just 14:27.920 --> 14:32.200 isn't going to happen. And there will be no permanency to that group. Because 14:32.200 --> 14:37.120 pastors can come and go. But if there's no elderships to back him up, he won't have 14:37.120 --> 14:40.640 a good church while he's there. And when he chooses to leave, you'll have less 14:40.640 --> 14:45.560 than you had. That's for sure, isn't it? As long as we are strong and united, men 14:45.560 --> 14:51.480 of God, fathers of God, fathers of the church, so to speak, will be strong. And 14:51.480 --> 14:56.600 I'm thankful for our leadership. I really am. And then the world. My, I love the 14:56.600 --> 15:02.040 world, don't you? Out there in my green meadow for the last two weeks have been 15:02.040 --> 15:08.880 about 75 big orange red poppies. Why, they're that big. And in that green 15:08.880 --> 15:13.200 grass, those wild poppies are so beautiful. I just go up there and I talk to 15:13.200 --> 15:18.120 them. Maybe that's why I'm killing them. But they're dying off now. And you know 15:18.120 --> 15:22.720 something beautiful has left the world for me. And I look at Wyoming. Aren't you 15:22.720 --> 15:28.160 glad? Did you see the sunset not long ago? It was staggering. You just had to pull 15:28.200 --> 15:33.200 your car off and watch it diminish and turn purple and finally dark purple. And 15:33.200 --> 15:36.800 I thank God for the beauty of the world that we live in. But it's a practical 15:36.800 --> 15:41.120 world too, isn't it? And I'm thankful that I live here in it. I got to have a 15:41.120 --> 15:47.120 choice to stay here because this is where my heart is. And this is the land that I 15:47.120 --> 15:51.920 love. The world is a fabulous place. I think of why Jesus thought of the world 15:51.920 --> 15:57.720 in John 12, verse 46. I am come alight into the world that whoever should believe 15:57.760 --> 16:02.800 on me should never abide in darkness. Remember the word abide means dwell. 16:02.800 --> 16:09.000 It means living in a tent. And I hope that you always will never live in a dark 16:09.000 --> 16:13.160 tent in a dark world. You remember there's one stage of our life when 16:13.160 --> 16:18.480 Christians lived in catacombs as deep as 450 feet below the surface of the 16:18.480 --> 16:23.480 earth. They let down there in a dark graveyard in which air could not freely 16:23.480 --> 16:30.160 circulate over a column of 400 feet. And I just think of the life without light, 16:30.320 --> 16:35.760 but they did have an inward light, didn't they? They had the spirit of Jesus 16:35.760 --> 16:40.080 Christ and the communion was served there. I've seen it etched on the walls, 16:41.160 --> 16:46.200 the loaves and the bread. And there they preached the word of God in the 16:46.200 --> 16:51.040 darkness. And so they weren't totally in the darkness. They might have dwelt in 16:51.040 --> 17:01.840 a tent of darkness of decaying bodies and chip travertine, but man, they had the 17:01.840 --> 17:08.360 light like few churches have ever had. You know, in the world we have something 17:08.360 --> 17:14.960 of value, though the world we can't love it and worship it, can we, in that sense 17:14.960 --> 17:20.240 of the word, or honor it more than God himself or the thing created can't be 17:20.240 --> 17:25.600 more than the creator. And we bow down to the one who created the heavens and the 17:25.600 --> 17:31.600 earth. And in Genesis two, six, he said, God saw everything that he had made. And 17:31.600 --> 17:38.520 he saw that it was very good. How good? Very good. God was happy with the world 17:38.520 --> 17:45.640 which we made. It is us folks who have made the world put upon. We've hurt the 17:45.640 --> 17:51.000 earth. We've made a desert out of much of it. We've eroded it. We've weathered it 17:51.000 --> 17:59.600 away. It's great black fields of Babylon, of the Garden of Eden, of 17:59.600 --> 18:05.120 Paradise is now a bitter gray and sear desert, isn't it? We have done that. It 18:05.120 --> 18:09.920 wasn't God's will for us. But the world was designed to produce so many rich and 18:09.920 --> 18:15.080 good things for us. You know, he made oil and gas, good or bad. You couldn't live in 18:15.120 --> 18:20.720 Wyoming without oil and gas, could you? And it will contend you to get rarer as 18:20.720 --> 18:25.720 there is only so much. It will peak within 10 years, the maximum production of the 18:25.720 --> 18:29.760 earth. So I think God has given us other treasures in the earth, especially down 18:29.760 --> 18:35.040 here at Green River. We have the world's largest version of soil of carogen or 18:35.040 --> 18:40.560 primal asphalt that can be made into oil and gas just like black oil. And God put 18:40.600 --> 18:44.840 that in the earth. I don't know how long ago for our benefit. Enjoy it. Grow rich 18:44.840 --> 18:50.200 on it. Be strong in it. You can't live in this state without warmth, without energy. 18:50.480 --> 18:54.880 And when that runs out, I'm convinced that uranium and or other things will be 18:54.880 --> 19:01.360 found because God saw that the earth was good and he made it for our enjoyment. 19:01.360 --> 19:08.920 Enjoy the world because God wanted you to enjoy it. Sometimes in the summertime, 19:08.920 --> 19:13.240 we forget a little bit and enjoy the world too much. I tell you what, put God 19:13.240 --> 19:19.200 first and enjoy the world. It's possible to do both things. And then life, life. 19:19.200 --> 19:23.960 Jesus said, I am come that you might have life. And in having it more abundantly, 19:24.720 --> 19:29.560 God wants you to have an abundant life. And we don't think of Christianity. We 19:29.560 --> 19:35.960 don't, do we? As being a roomy nose and purple nose and bitter and cranky old 19:35.960 --> 19:40.360 folks that try to put everything down that's called fun for us young people. 19:40.880 --> 19:47.000 No, no. God wanted us to enjoy life as well as the world. That's why he put 19:47.000 --> 19:50.760 light because light is the basis of photosynthesis. And that's the basis for 19:50.760 --> 19:58.320 all life beyond the plant world. It's just awesome what he did. And you know, we 19:58.320 --> 20:05.720 had a little baby born last week and little Rhodes baby and that little round 20:05.720 --> 20:13.120 face girl. Just think there's hope in life. And as long as you have the babies 20:13.120 --> 20:16.920 coming along, as long as the children are learning the faith, as long as they're 20:16.920 --> 20:21.520 gathered around a faithful teacher, even if there's three of them, how much more 20:21.520 --> 20:25.520 magnificent would be if there were 3,000 of the little children around a great 20:25.520 --> 20:29.840 teacher? But I tell you what, you're honored of God when you teach the babies 20:29.840 --> 20:33.800 and the little guys because that's the hope for the future. And that's why I'm 20:33.800 --> 20:38.240 convinced that the strength of the churches in this coming generation can't 20:38.240 --> 20:43.560 put them down. There's just no way you're going to put them down. And you know, 20:43.600 --> 20:48.440 maybe that little round face baby will be the first woman president. I pray to 20:48.440 --> 20:54.400 God she will think of the potential that maybe maybe she'll be a great servant 20:54.400 --> 20:57.600 in the house of God. Maybe she'll just be a faithful mama that raises her 20:57.600 --> 21:02.080 children at home and does whatever she wants to do and raises them up as 21:02.120 --> 21:07.160 proud warriors in the kingdom of God and makes suitable citizens. Maybe they'll 21:07.160 --> 21:10.440 be the best salesman in the world, whatever it is that God wants them to 21:10.440 --> 21:15.240 be. Think of the hope that's in that tiny child. Think of the hope that there 21:15.240 --> 21:20.040 is in the church. In eternity and time, this is a little trickier one, but time 21:20.040 --> 21:24.920 sees something that's on your hands. Unless you're interdigitating with your 21:24.920 --> 21:30.400 sweetheart, time goes by pretty fast. If you're memorizing English poetry, time 21:30.400 --> 21:35.400 goes by slow for me. And so that word, which I'm going to read in 1st 21:35.400 --> 21:41.960 Timothy 619 says, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against 21:41.960 --> 21:49.040 the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life and laying up a good 21:49.040 --> 21:53.960 foundation in verse 18. He had said something about do good works, honor the 21:53.960 --> 22:00.080 work, the work of God, serve the house of God. He said, do good works. And then 22:00.080 --> 22:06.560 he says, you lay up for yourself treasures unto heaven or something to 22:06.560 --> 22:11.000 come unto the about to me is what that word means unto the about to be. It's 22:11.000 --> 22:14.160 about to happen. You know how kids can't wait to grow up? That way they can get 22:14.160 --> 22:19.880 in debt. They can buy a house and go further in debt and they can do all 22:19.880 --> 22:24.440 these problem things and they're independent at last and they work 14 22:24.440 --> 22:28.320 hours a day and it's just great to grow up, isn't it? You might try to slow the 22:28.320 --> 22:31.720 kids wanting, but you see they just can't wait till they can get a car and they 22:31.720 --> 22:35.040 don't realize there's obligations to a car, isn't it? Sometimes you have to put 22:35.040 --> 22:40.000 some payments down on some of those things. And but see for them time is 22:40.000 --> 22:46.160 just, it just goes forever, doesn't it? As you get a little bit older, you will 22:46.160 --> 22:51.160 notice the time goes by awfully fast. It just seems like we slow these days down 22:51.160 --> 22:54.640 a little bit. They are so precious. See it's kind of a relative thing. 1st 22:54.680 --> 23:00.440 Timothy 6.16 says, who alone hath immortality, speaking of God, and dwells 23:00.440 --> 23:07.040 in a light no man can dwell in. And you know, he says, O King of King and Lord 23:07.040 --> 23:15.160 of Lords, O holy despot, dictator, who alone dwelleth in eternity. He dwelleth 23:15.160 --> 23:22.640 in life. He dwelleth in eternity. And 1st Timothy 1.17 says this, now unto the 23:22.640 --> 23:31.120 King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God be honor forever and forever. 23:31.120 --> 23:36.560 Why did he put so much emphasis on that? Just forever and ever and ever and it 23:36.560 --> 23:42.520 never ends, and that's eternity, isn't it? That I shall be immortal without death, 23:42.520 --> 23:49.080 without body, in that sense of the word. I shall dwell with God forever. Isn't 23:49.080 --> 23:54.920 that a beautiful promise? How super that promise is. And then next, the last is 23:54.920 --> 24:02.760 Christ. And a Christ, of course, means anointed one, Messiah, priest, as those 24:02.760 --> 24:10.080 three connotations for all three were anointed with Holy Spirit and with oil. 24:10.080 --> 24:18.240 All three of those Christ, our Savior, our Redeemer. 1st Timothy 2.5 says, for 24:18.240 --> 24:26.240 there is one meaty hater between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. And we have 24:26.240 --> 24:32.960 him, don't we? We sure do have him. I was just looking here, in Hebrews 4, verse 24:32.960 --> 24:38.640 14, as we get ready to conclude. Verse 14, Hebrews 4, seeing then that we have a 24:38.640 --> 24:43.040 great high priest, a great one, that means you had a lesser one, doesn't it? That is 24:43.040 --> 24:46.800 passed into the heavens. Jesus, the Son of God, let us whole fast our 24:46.840 --> 24:51.080 profession. For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with a feeling of 24:51.080 --> 24:56.400 our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 24:56.400 --> 25:00.320 That was the subject of Larry Sermon a week ago. This fits together so 25:00.320 --> 25:06.200 beautifully, doesn't it? He was tempted, but he didn't fail. He was tempted, but he 25:06.200 --> 25:10.400 didn't commit a sin. That's the kind of priest I want. That's the kind of priest 25:10.400 --> 25:16.680 I must have if I'm to live forever. The very Son of God, the very flesh of 25:16.760 --> 25:21.400 God, so to speak. Let us therefore come boldly into the throne of grace that we 25:21.400 --> 25:27.680 may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Isn't that power? All 25:27.680 --> 25:32.760 things are yours. The permission to come boldly before the throne, before the 25:32.760 --> 25:37.200 Father who is in heaven, that he might hear your petition, that he might answer 25:37.200 --> 25:42.080 your prayer. Come boldly. Well, that's going boldly where no men have walked 25:42.080 --> 25:48.480 before, but your prayers go before you, doesn't it? To boldly go where you've 25:48.480 --> 25:57.560 never walked before. And he is the God that is a meaty ator, an intercessor, and 25:57.560 --> 26:04.640 one who answers your very needs, which leads us then to Father. Father, now not 26:04.640 --> 26:16.880 Abba. This is not Abba at all. Papa, beloved daddy. No. No, this is Lord God, 26:17.320 --> 26:27.120 Elohim God, creator of the universe. Panto Kretor is the literal word. Power of 26:27.120 --> 26:36.400 the universe is your heavenly Father. All these things are yours. When I was a 26:36.400 --> 26:45.120 little boy, I had such a wonderful daddy. Oh, I made mistakes. But he came to the 26:45.120 --> 26:52.720 Lord and I get to embrace him one of these days and say, Oh, Papa, you made it. 26:53.680 --> 27:00.280 You made it, Papa. He always honored our being able to go to church, what little 27:00.280 --> 27:08.240 bit we did. And you know, don't put it off and gamble like that. You know, these 27:08.240 --> 27:15.680 blessed babies being raised. Oh, man, they know from the beginning. I wasn't 27:15.680 --> 27:22.640 baptized till I was 23. And a little Mouthey, Texas woman showed me the way. 27:22.640 --> 27:30.880 And that's a gamble. You know, that's a gamble. Because there are all kinds of 27:30.880 --> 27:37.280 leaders, but there is one real leader. And my Papa had a barrel chest and big old 27:37.280 --> 27:42.440 biceps and he'd throw us little boys up in the air. And we'd just giggle and 27:42.480 --> 27:50.000 squeal and he was 64 before the two of us could put him down. He was 64 before we 27:50.000 --> 27:56.000 could sit on our Papa. The two of us, my brother was far bigger than I was. I'm a 27:56.000 --> 28:01.760 runt in the family, doesn't that figure? And that scripture, Revelation 19 said, 28:02.480 --> 28:10.960 Alleluia, it's literally allel to Yah, which is praise be to God, the Lord God 28:10.960 --> 28:18.360 Almighty, reigneth. And that's our Heavenly Father. I bless this message to 28:18.360 --> 28:22.760 your hearing. And I pray that if you had a godly father, give him a hug or say a 28:22.760 --> 28:27.200 prayer in his memory and teach the little ones how to be a daddy like that as 28:27.640 --> 28:34.640 their Heavenly Father is the Holy Father. Let's stand and let's sing our hymn of 28:34.640 --> 28:35.400 invitation.