Creation, Gratitude, and the Hope of Eternity
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"Brethren, blue, you take a butterfly. Have you ever seen the kind of blue on a butterfly's wings that when you just change the angle of it, it seems like it shimmers? It changes in the blue intensity based on the angle. They took this thing down to the molecular level. The surface of the butterfly wing is literally covered with just an infinite number of little projections that look like Christmas trees." [00:41:14]
"Can you imagine he designed us with eyeballs to see that butterfly wing and he designed a sun out there to cast light down on it, to send it back to our eyes, and then he connected these eyes with this brain for us to be able to process that and look at that? And if that wasn't enough, I go back to that reality, that beautiful butterfly that now has the ability of flight, it came from a worm." [00:42:21]
"Listen to scripture, first Corinthians 4:7, what do you have that you did not receive? Nothing. That's exactly what Paul was looking for. It was a rhetorical question. He doesn't even answer it because it's obvious. If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" [00:44:15]
"Paul is telling us in this chunk of Romans 1 is that you know one of the marking characteristics of the lost man of mankind by nature, he doesn't have gratitude. He's thankless. He doesn't want to acknowledge God. And God is telling us here about how desperate man's condition is and God marks this down." [00:45:18]
"Be thankful. That's what he says, Colossians 3:15, be thankful. That's an imperative. He commands us to be thankful. That right away on it, something ought to resonate with you when you're being commanded to do something that it feels like ought to come from the heart." [00:49:02]
"Do not get drunk with wine for that is debauchery but be filled. Here's another imperative, a commandment, be filled with the spirit. Now think, think, be filled. Notice the tense, it's a present continuous. It means I'm supposed to be doing and it's a command. This is not passive." [00:51:06]
"Brethren, when we're dealing with thanksgiving right now and what I want you to see is there is a very close connection between being filled with the spirit and thanksgiving. And I can tell you this, thankless people are not filled with the spirit and clearly this is something Paul's telling us to do." [00:55:06]
"Brethren, gratitude comes from thinking. We complain. You know what ingrate means? It means ingratitude. It's a rough, you call somebody an ingrate. But brethren, this all comes down to a matter of truth. When we don't feel gratitude, it's because we're out of step with the truth." [01:01:02]
"I'll tell you hell is one of the biggest wake-up calls to ingratitude when suddenly it's all taken away and you recognize I took it all for granted. Never again, never again will I know water on my tongue, never again will I see a sunrise, never again will I hear the laughter of children." [01:04:54]
"Brethren, hell is a rude awakening to our ingratitude and all we take for granted. You have life, you have being, you have family, or health, marriage, a church. We have transportation, we have some degree of heat, there is the blue sky, there are forests and streams." [01:10:03]
"We hear Paul say thank, thank God for the unspeakable gift. And there's the prospect of glory before us. You know how David says it, he brought me out into a broad place, he rescued me, he delights in me. These things are as for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones." [01:12:45]
"Your hope is permanent, your hope is certain, your hope is forever, your inheritance is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, kept in heaven for you. This is the prospect that stands before us. It's there, it's certain, it's coming. And then what we don't want to forget is all these realities." [01:15:12]
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"Can you imagine he designed us with eyeballs to see that butterfly wing and he designed a sun out there to cast light down on it, to send it back to our eyes, and then he connected these eyes with this brain for us to be able to process that and look at that? And if that wasn't enough, I go back to that reality, that beautiful butterfly that now has the ability of flight, it came from a worm." [00:42:21]
"Listen to scripture, first Corinthians 4:7, what do you have that you did not receive? Nothing. That's exactly what Paul was looking for. It was a rhetorical question. He doesn't even answer it because it's obvious. If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" [00:44:15]
"Paul is telling us in this chunk of Romans 1 is that you know one of the marking characteristics of the lost man of mankind by nature, he doesn't have gratitude. He's thankless. He doesn't want to acknowledge God. And God is telling us here about how desperate man's condition is and God marks this down." [00:45:18]
"Be thankful. That's what he says, Colossians 3:15, be thankful. That's an imperative. He commands us to be thankful. That right away on it, something ought to resonate with you when you're being commanded to do something that it feels like ought to come from the heart." [00:49:02]
"Do not get drunk with wine for that is debauchery but be filled. Here's another imperative, a commandment, be filled with the spirit. Now think, think, be filled. Notice the tense, it's a present continuous. It means I'm supposed to be doing and it's a command. This is not passive." [00:51:06]
"Brethren, when we're dealing with thanksgiving right now and what I want you to see is there is a very close connection between being filled with the spirit and thanksgiving. And I can tell you this, thankless people are not filled with the spirit and clearly this is something Paul's telling us to do." [00:55:06]
"Brethren, gratitude comes from thinking. We complain. You know what ingrate means? It means ingratitude. It's a rough, you call somebody an ingrate. But brethren, this all comes down to a matter of truth. When we don't feel gratitude, it's because we're out of step with the truth." [01:01:02]
"I'll tell you hell is one of the biggest wake-up calls to ingratitude when suddenly it's all taken away and you recognize I took it all for granted. Never again, never again will I know water on my tongue, never again will I see a sunrise, never again will I hear the laughter of children." [01:04:54]
"Brethren, hell is a rude awakening to our ingratitude and all we take for granted. You have life, you have being, you have family, or health, marriage, a church. We have transportation, we have some degree of heat, there is the blue sky, there are forests and streams." [01:10:03]
"We hear Paul say thank, thank God for the unspeakable gift. And there's the prospect of glory before us. You know how David says it, he brought me out into a broad place, he rescued me, he delights in me. These things are as for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones." [01:12:45]
"Your hope is permanent, your hope is certain, your hope is forever, your inheritance is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, kept in heaven for you. This is the prospect that stands before us. It's there, it's certain, it's coming. And then what we don't want to forget is all these realities." [01:15:12]
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