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Well, good morning and welcome to New Grace Baptist Church.

And we are so glad that you are here today.

And I hope everyone is had a good week.

Well, it's always an exciting day when we're going to start a new series from the Bible.

And today we are starting a new series that's going to run us all the way through Christmas to the first of the year.

And so what we going to begin studying today, that's what I've called Angels Messengers from God and so we're going to look at angels and all the different aspects of angels and what the Bible teaches.

So we can really understand why they're here and what they're doing.

There's just a lot of things that we are going to look at.

Now.

For some reason, the secular world has become very interested in angels really ever since the mid-90s.

There's been a crazed going on about angels and I can't even remember her in the mid-nineties, my wife and I we would watch I think it was a show in tight it on CBS Touched by an Angel, and I can remember that.

So this kind of been this Angel craze for the last two or three decades.

Now, why would that be well?

Perhaps?

It's because some are trying to feel that god-shaped hole in their life with something less threatening than God or perhaps.

It's because a lot of people are just longing for spirituality and they want to do something.

Maybe that's not so conventional.

So they turn to Angels or simply the angels are intriguing and there's plenty to read about them.

Now.

The only problem with that is a lot of the secular book on angels are not accurate.

The secular Market is more interested in the Fantastic aspect.

If you will, then they are in spiritual truth.

So Angels by their very nature, or spiritual their, Heavenly beings who were created by God, and they are commanded by Jesus.

So, to get a, a correct fix on them.

We need to consult God's book, The Bible and we're going to find out what God says about them.

In the coming weeks and Ma.

So there's plenty of information to investigate.

There's hundreds of references to angels in the Bible that they described on their appearances and their characteristics.

So we're going to begin by looking at the recent Angel, craze.

And today's sermon is entitled Angel Mania, what culture and the Bible says about angel.

So angels are intriguing but they're not worthy of our worship.

And where did they come from?

And what are they like with?

These are some of the questions that we're going to answer in this series and also some of the characteristics that's never mentioned in secular Books, A lot of people and perhaps, without realizing it, you know, we've heard of some of the specific Angels or the types of angels, you know, there's only two angel.

In the Bible who were mentioned by name, one was Michael and one was Gabriel.

And then, of course, there's different types of angels in the Bible.

Use a different wording that they talk about the host or host of God.

There's the seraphine and then there's the cherubim.

And then also, we're going to look at this concept of guardian angels.

This is a something that is never mentioned by that name in the Bible, but we'll look at the concept of guardian angels and where that belief came from.

And then we're going to see if it if there's a basis in the Bible for us to believe in Guardian Angels or is it more likely that we may have hundreds of angels looking out for us.

Now, there's one Angel who is doing the opposite of looking out for us and he's a fallen angel.

And his name, the Bible says, is Satan.

And a lot of times we give a lot of importance to Satan maybe more.

So then we should he is a formidable foe but Satan is an angel.

He's not a power that's opposite to God.

Just a little below.

He's an angel.

He was created as all the Angels were created.

And the reason for his fall we going to talk about that when we get to that section in a couple of weeks.

Because when Satan fell, the Bible says he took a third of the angels with him.

So, what do we call these angels?

Well, we would call them demon and they come in two categories.

The ones who are imprisoned and the ones who are not, those not in prison are free.

To possess unbelievers and oppress Believers.

And in one of our messages, we going to look at maybe several several different ways to avoid this oppression, but most angels in the Bible or a help, not a hindrance.

And matter fact, there are special help at the death of a Believer.

It seems the Bible teaches the Angels, come for believers in their moment of death and then carry them to heaven and will look about that as well.

But there's one special Angel.

We're going to look at and that's in the Old Testament.

It's called the angel of the Lord.

You ever wonder what Jesus was doing before his birth in Bethlehem.

Well, one of the things he was doing was making special appearances on Earth, as he was called, the angel of the Lord.

He was revealing God to those who would never know, God as Jesus, the son of, man, and think about it.

When Jesus was on Earth, the Angels appeared often they were there to announce his birth.

They ministered to him after he was tempted in the wilderness by Satan, they ministered to him in the Garden of Gethsemane.

They were there at the resurrection.

They were there when Jesus ascended back to heaven.

And the Bible says, when Jesus comes back to this earth, the second coming that they're going to be there with him then.

So any time the Bible talks about something that much then we as Believers, we need to understand the ministry.

And the reason for Angels, not know many of you have heard stories in the past of people who maybe they thought they saw.

An angel.

Or experience, maybe some something Angelic and their life.

Billy Graham reported that when his grandmother died.

He said the room scene to be filled with Heavenly.

Like he said, his grandmother set up in the bed and he said, almost laughingly said, I see Jesus and he has his arms outstretched toward me.

He said then she said I see being mean or being was her husband who had died a few years earlier and then she said I see the angels and he said when she said that that she slumped over in her bed absent from the body and present with the lord.

Well, they was the editor of leadership magazine and that was at 1 time a popular publication for church leaders.

He spoke about hit how his young daughter was comatose one night, and she was very near death.

And he said a hospital staff work or stop by her room in the door in her room was cracked and she was just looking in on her and said that when she looked in she witnessed this astonishing sight.

She said they were angels that were hovering over that little girl's bed and said by the following morning the daughter had amazingly recovered and was able to sit up in bed and carry on a conversation that he was not one to be prone to sensationalism.

But he didn't hesitate to believe, Angels had truly visited his daughter that night.

There was a missionary, his name was John G Patton and he was a missionary in Africa.

And according to his testimony.

He told a story one night that his mission headquarters were surrounded by hostile Natives and Warriors and they had planned on burning the building down and They were going to kill John and his wife.

Well his he and his wife didn't know what to do.

So they turned to God and they just threw themselves on his mercy and Grace and ask for delivery and he said they praised throughout the night.

It was only them to there and they had like a bedroom in the kitchen back in the back of the complex.

He said, when the first rays of sunlight came the next morning, he says, they looked out their windows and they were amazed not to see any of the Warriors or natives there.

And he said, about a year later the chief of that tribe that had surrounded his house.

He had become a Christian and patton asked the chief one time.

He asked him.

He said what why when you were leading this tribe, why did you not burn down our headquarters on that night?

And he said the chief said, well, we weren't.

We were we were going to do that and he said we were going to kill you and your wife.

He said but then we saw all those men that you had guarding the complex and Pat and looked at him and said with that, there was no men there.

He said it was just my wife and I and the chief and told Patton that he and his warriors were going to attack.

But they had seen hundreds of men standing guard outside the headquarters at night.

He said they were all dressed and Shining garments and had their swords drawn.

You see these guards, completely encircled to headquarters and the tribe fled away.