"Gifts From The Father Of Lights!"
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“Author of unique light, the God of the rainbow..”
James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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Genesis 7:11-24
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
(Brief Enlargement.)
I don’t know if Everest was the highest mountain pre flood, but whatever mountain was the highest must have been very high indeed, and very cold.
Even if it was possible for a would-be survivor of the flood to climb it without oxygen bottles and modern equipment, imagine what would must have gone through their mind as they desperately tried to escape the rising tide!!!
Even if they somehow survived the climb, the cold, the howling winds, the earth quaking movement of tectonic plates, IF and that’s a big if, then even the top of the highest mountain, Scripture says, was soon covered by 20 feet of raging water.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
It must have been an awesome experience, that first day back on dry land!
New Hope!!! New beginnings! A time of Sacrifice.
Genesis 9:11-17
11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
How about that? Your own personal contract with the:
Author of unique light” the God of the rainbow..”
Introduction:
A. ( Author of all light, Divine Notary.)
Genesis 8 and 9 record a contract, a covenant instituted with Noah which will remain in effect until the world is renovated by fire.
This was an unconditional covenant, guaranteeing that God would never again destroy the earth with water!
Now If I was to have a document or contract notarized, I would go to the nearest Notary, and for a fee, they would notarize that document with a special stamp.
But our God, the author of light, exhibits a certain style!
And so with the brush of creation, God painted on heaven’s canvas, seven ribbons of unique light, seven ribbons of color!
The divine notary stamp on this covenant, God’s stamp and signature, is a rainbow!!!
(Counterfeit)
In the almost five years that I have served here, you have never once heard me speak of any group of people in a demeaning or judgemental way. Not once, and I'm not going to start now!
But here’s the bottom line: The rainbow does not belong to any one political or social group!
The rainbow belongs to us all!
It was painted by God, the author of unique light!
He is the God of the rainbow!
He gave it to us! So today, I’m gonna take it back:
“ I want my token back!!”
“Give me my symbol back!!!“
C. (God revealed through creation.)
Just as the majesty of God is revealed each morning as the sun rises into endless sky, He communicates to the human heart, through the human eye, through Color...
Body
A. (The Purple of Kingship.)
A long time ago, in what today is Lebanon, folks discovered a sea snail that you could process into a deep, rich purple dye.
The process of making the dye was long, difficult and expensive.
Soon, it became the color of kings robes, nobles, priests and magistrates all around the Mediterranean.
Purple has symbolized royalty throughout the ages.
Regarding earthly royalty, In the book of Judges, chapter 8, we find that the kings of Midian were clothed in robes of purple,
Regarding heavenly Majesty, we remember God’s precise requirement of the color purple in the hangings and curtains of the tabernacle.
God wanted purple in His house!
38 times, Purple is mentioned in the Old Testament!
In the New Testament, only John makes mention of this color. Twice He mentions it in His record of Jesus’ great accomplishment:
John 19:1-5
19 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
It’s enough to make me fighting mad! These Romans are mocking the Lord of Glory!!! My Jesus!
But how incredible it is, that as Jesus authored both Purple and the eye to behold it, in His foreknowledge, He knew that the very thing of beauty still just a drawing on Heaven’s drafting table, would one day, be used to mock Him..
Knowing all that, He still tabernacled Himself in flesh! He still did what He did! For you!
Even at Creation, he knew that brutal peasants would rip the flesh from his back until flayed organs could be seen through pulped flesh!
He knew they would take His own masterpiece of light, this thing called purple, and use it to scorn Him, and mock His eternal Kingship!
But still He did it!!!
He was wounded for our transgressions! He was bruised for our iniquities!
Oh it cost Him, to make purple and fling it in the sky, but he didn’t mind, because He did it for you.
B. (Authority in blue.)
All throughout Scripture, there is meaning in color!
In the book of Numbers, God told His people to put fringes of blue on their garments.
It was to be a reminder of God’s Authority in their lives, and to live under His authority and protection!
Blue is part of the national flag of Israel, a reminder even today!
Blue signifies authority!
When an ambulance races by it has red lights, tow trucks have yellow lights, but when the blue lights of a police car go by, we all understand that it represents law.
(Glory in Amber.)
Weak and sinful kings led God’s people into serving idols.
They turned their backs on God!
They did worse things than even the pagans that surrounded them!
They brought that stuff even into the temple!!!!!
You too are a temple. But if you bring sin into the house, God will not stay!
So God left His own temple!
In the book of Ezekiel, we have a first hand account!
We see there, God’s mobile command center!
Ezekiel 1:4
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Ezekiel 8:2
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
Ezekiel 1:27-28
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord!
Amber, is the color of His Glory!
I’m just going to tell you what I’m all about: I am on a quest for the glory of God!
That’s what our cities need!
Describe the glory!
The blue cloud, the Store where sarah got the HG
Prayer breakthrough at CLC.
(Black is not in the rainbow...)
When the author of light spoke it into existence, black was not included.
Darkness is the absence of light.
Darkness was the result of rebellion.
Lucifer chose that darkness and there was war in heaven!
Adam and Eve made a compromise one day, they chose their own way over God’s way.
The darkness that came over them was almost suffocating!
We need to be careful parents!
The things we do in moderation, our children will often do in excess!
Imagine the darkness of despair, when they found out what had happened between Cain and Abel!
It is the same darkness that envelops mankind like falling night....
It is the soul disease of sin!
The sentence was pronounced back at the garden!
And today, Humanity is living under a judgement of darkness! The results of our own disobedience...
God hates sin because it removes us from Him and if the disease is not dealt with, it will drag us to hell.
God never designed it that way, that’s not what He wanted! He wanted to commune with Adam and Eve, he told them to stay away from the tree but they wouldn’t listen!!!
And now Isaiah tells us that there was no more room in that place originally designed for fallen angels. Now hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure...
No, God did not author black, but I am thankful He chose to counter it with red.....
E. (God chose to counter black with red...)
Sin requires covering, blood had to be shed from that first time to today.
Genesis 3:21
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Like the first red thread of a persian rug, Crimson is first weaved through time with the death of a faultless sacrifice.
Again and again on the the loom of Scripture is woven the crimson thread!
Each time the levite would prepare the sacrifice to burn, and blood was let once more at the base of that brazen altar, another thread was woven on the loom of Scripture.
Over and over, it had to be blood!
When death passed over Egypt, as life was snatched from countless firstborns, only those homes with the shed blood of a perfect lamb painted on the doorposts were passed over!!
Hundreds of thousands of animals were sacrificed on the Altar of God, but all throughout the OT, that blood only served to roll ahead the sin for another year.
Basically, the balance of sin was just transferred to a new credit card, same APR, same everything, just extended.
But then the thing happened, Jesus Christ himself, became the Passover lamb!!!
Matthew 27:50-51
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Hebrews 9:12
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us!!!
That’s why I love my Jesus so much!
See, I was lost! I was stewing in my own sin!
I hated myself, I hated everything about myself! My soul was dark, I was loathsome! But before ever the earth was formed, God looked down through time and saw me and He saw you and knowing that we would fall, He put into action, the great plan of redemption!!!
Oh I am thankful for that crimson stream of blood!!!
When I truly repent of my sin, When I am baptized in His Name, Baptized with His Spirit, I am reborn!!
It is the blood that of Jesus Christ that cleanseth us from all sin!!!!
We have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins!
So the next time satan starts to play back all your sins and wrongdoings, tell him to scram!
“I’m covered by the blood!!!!!!
“Satan, You’ve got no power over me pal! You got nothing on me!” The blood of Jesus cleanseth us from all sin!!!!
F. (Whiter than snow.)
Finally, the Author of unique light, reveals Himself in the purest form of light!
Revelation 1:14
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Revelation 4:4
4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Finally, the time arrives, Jesus, who is always true to His word, delivers on a promise made through the prophet Isaiah so long before:
Isaiah 1:18
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Revelation 7:9
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Revelation 19:11
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Revelation 19:14
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Conclusion (Music)
So here it is:
At some point in your life, you will need first hand knowledge of His majesty. At some point, you will need to bow to Him and submit to His mighty hand. You will need to experience the purple majesty of God.
Then as you progress in The Way, you will need to recognize His absolute authority and the authority of the Word of God. You cannot deviate from the blue print and make it! everything must square with the Word of God!
One day, you may be in the charge of the service, when the demon possessed come slithering down the center aisle.. You will need the Blue authority of God....
There will be times when God’s presence is so real to you, Strong and assertive! You will feel as though heaven is already your home.
But then trails come, the refining fire comes and when all hell is breaking loose, when you have to look up to see bottom, it is in the prayer closet, at a place of desperation, that He’ll give you another glimpse and remind you of His amber Glory..
The darkness of sin will always try to lure you, it will be your enemy as long as you breathe, But no matter which battles you fight with darkness, remember that our intercessor, our Great High Priest, has already sprinkled His blood on mercy..
And the goal, on that great gettin’ up morning, is a robe of pure white, no more sin, no more sorrow, only communion now, with the author of unique light!
Altar Call:
I don’t know what color you need from Him today,
Maybe it’s Purple majesty,
blue authority,
Maybe It’s Amber Glory or Crimson Red,
Whatever it is that you need, you will find it in this altar. Please come.
IF you want real llight Jesis is that light John 8:12
1v john 1:5-9 Ps 139:7-13 He brings us out of the dark
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.