The Power of In the Begining
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Title: The Power of in the Beginning!
I am convinced that we, the American church has no true understanding of the absolute power and authority of God!
Please bear with me… I did not come to chastise you, belittle you or castigate you.
This is the byproduct of the life that God has blessed us to be born into.
In this atmosphere of blessing that the Mighty God in Christ was revealed…
In this atmosphere of blessing that Jesus name baptism was revealed…
Very few of us have been in the situation where we truly have to rely of God for our health, provision or our safety…
We are a blessed people!
We have doctors and banks and police to help us navigate the chaos of our lives and we breath sighs of relief and thank God that he was there in the nick of time!
We say we believe that God can do anything, but many if not most have never seen a documentable miracle…
And we constantly find ourselves praying small, safe and even desperate prayers.
I have come to lift our faith!
Because of the blessings that we so enjoy, it has greatly increased our confidence in ourselves, our doctors, our financial advisers but decreased our confidence in God.
I have come to life your Faith!
To help you understand really how powerful God is, I want to take you back to the very beginning… and beyond.
There was a man by the name of Aristotle, a Greek who was born in 384 BC, posited the idea of the “unmoved mover”.
Unmoved Mover: that which moves without being moved
Nothing just happens… It must have an outside force
Let’s walk back through history to Genesis chapter one and verse one…
Before man would paten his greatest inventions…
Before man’s literarily, mechanical, medical and scientific accomplishments.
Before God would carve the Grand Canyon, push the Rocky Mountians into a heap…
Before the first movement, the first burst of light - there was one with creative power who started it all!
Trace all our ideas, thoughts and accomplishems back to the beginning
Walk the expanse of space and time to the ever shrinking moment when it all began…
Trace it all back; every star, every universe, every galaxy…
Walk back in time along the Milky Way to where everything that is, has shrunk to the exact moment of revelation…
That first explosion of brilliance!
The moment that everything that is appeared for the first time!
And pause the movie, wait for just a second… hit play again.
The colors fade from view…
Instantly the screen of your imagination goes black!
There is nothing there, there is nothing anywhere!
And there, before anything that is, was - is the Creator; Aristotle called him the Unmoved Mover!
The one which moves without being moved!
The one could look into nothing and call it all into being!
The one who was when there was nothing but himself
No raw material
No blueprint, no one to consult with besides himself… he began to create
He began to speak and from nothing everything appears!
Please understand the power of In the Beginning!
But I’m not worthy or look what’s he has already done y would he give more
God looked into nothing and saw everything.
God looked into chaos and spoke order.
God looked where there was no life and spoke productivity.
God looked at the impossible and made it all possible.
The greatest need in the world today is a fresh start, a new beginning!
Some of you are here because you sense that…
Your life is in chaos, family is falling apart, hopelessly addicted
You feel bad about your life, you feel hopeless
The creator is here for you!
God’s habit from Genesis has been to recreate…
Take what is there and make new…
He takes what is there, and make is new - not better, no improved model - HE MAKES IT NEW
Took Abram, and idol maker and recreated him into a His freind and Father of many nations
Too the Cheating lier Jacob and made him a patriarch
Took oil in hand and multiplied it to pay debts
He took a handful corn meal in the cupboard and fed the widow and her son for for years of famine
On day three of creation he caused dry land to appear, on day six he took what was on hand - dust - and made man
When you give God what you have… God turns you into something only his imagination could come up with!
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
You say I am not worthy… Of course you are not.
Thats the trick of the God of this world, playing with your mind!
Part of a new beginning is that God will take all your shame and guilt from you…
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Calvary Apostolic Church of Denver: Look around: what you see is just the foundation to what will be!
What has been built is stunning!
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
What is about to happen will take this city by storm!
Well able to possess the land