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Encouraging words. Thank you, ladies, for that. We get your Bibles today. Turn with is pleased the book of Job the Old Testament Book of Jobe is the oldest piece of literature in the world. There’s never been anything printed that predates the Book of Job that we’re aware of. He’s considered one of the Patriots, as we know those to be Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and a handful of other Old Testament characters.

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Job is among that group. And if you know anything about the story of the Book of Job, you know that Satan was permitted entrance into heaven and God basically questioned him, Why are you here? And Satan said, I’ve been going to and fro in the earth and I’ve been looking for those to try and those to tempt and those to accuse.

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And God recommended that Job, that Satan give Jobe a temptation. And it is the book of Jobe that we have that is the fruit of that dialog that took place between Satan and God. And as the temptations came one behind the other, behind the other light waves of the sea, Jobe lost his finances, Jobe lost his children. His marriage became even a very troublesome thing.

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And as the Temptations continued to forward, his health went into a nosedive. And it created an incredible amount of questions. I would imagine it would be that way for you. And I too, If those types of circumstances presented themselves in our lives, I’m sure I’d have a lot of questions. Lord, why are these things being permitted to happen to me?

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And Joe brought some of those questions, and when those questions were presented, God returned turned to Jobe, a list of questions to try to help put into perspective why it may not be helpful for us to question God’s purposes now. We’ve all done it. Can we admit guilt on that? Before we go any further, we’ve all asked God, why are you doing this?

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And when we do that, we potentially set ourselves up for a cross examination. And in the case of Jobe, that cross examination is in chapter 38, beginning at verse number four. So I’m going to ask you to stand in reference to the word we’re reading God is cross examination of Jobe and some of the wording here in our King James version may need some explanation to help us clearly understand it.

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So I’ll try, but I want you to read this with me, Job 38 beginning it, verse number four. And our theme that we’re looking for is Angels that we’re not talking about, Jobe, We’re not talking about Satan and God necessarily. Today we’re talking about the subject of angels. They are in our text, but they may not be as a parent to us because they’re called something different here than we have seen before.

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So I’m in Job 38, verse four. If you have your place there, church, we say Man Job, 38, verse number four. God asks where Jobe was. Now, when I laid the foundations of the earth, declare, or if now has two understanding verse five Job, who had laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who has stretched the line upon it, verse six, whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the cornerstone thereof, now look at verse seven very closely when the morning stars.

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That’s a reference to angels, when the morning stars sing together, and a second reference to angels and all the sons of God shouted for joy. So there are questions in verse four, five, six and seven, and Jobe doesn’t have an answer to those questions. Now I’m going to stop there and allow you to be seated this morning. And I wanna thank you for your referencing of God’s Word.

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What God does is he takes Jobe back to Creation Week. Now, you and I know Creation Week from Genesis one, two and three, and Creation Week was six days during which God created everything that we know now and anything that has come into existence since that original six day creation week came from the creation. And we’re firm on that in our church.

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We don’t believe in the age theory or creation or evolution or anything. We believe in a literal six, 24 hour day span of time in which God created the heaven and the earth that we now know. And when Jobe is asking questions of God, when Jobe is wondering about the whirlwind that took the lives of his children or the the struggles that he has gone through financially and personally in medical in the medical aspect.

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God comes to Jobe and he says, When you understand what took place during Creation week and you understand that God is the beginning of everything, and when you understand that there was an audience there, but you were not in it, then you can finally put into perspective the facts of God’s prerogative on things. Now I’m bringing all of that to our attention because I’m primarily interested in verse number seven.

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So he said in verse number four, he laid the foundations of the earth with a church name. In to that he says in verse number five, God basically says that he laid the measures thereof, and then he talked about stretching a line upon it. And by the way, we still have those longitude and latitude lines that God placed upon the globe.

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We have the equator and the prime meridian that God placed originally upon upon the globe. He didn’t give them those names. We gave him those names. But God is the one who created the Earth the way it is today. Isn’t that right? Church So God says in verse number six that He is also the one who who laid the foundations and built on the foundations of the earth that we know laid the verse six cornerstone of it.

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But he says in verse number seven, interestingly, that the angels whom he calls here to things morning stars and suns of God notice the lowercase is morning stars and sons of God were there during creation week. And what’s their response when they saw God create the earth that you and I live on? They verse number seven says, What?

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Two things saying together. And secondly, verse seven shouted for joy. Now I’m definitely interested in their shouting and their singing, but what I’m more interested in today is this gives to us some insight into how old the angels are. And so today’s word is going to be simply this justifying the creation of angels. We could add, maybe discovering and justifying the creation of angels.

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Angels had a beginning. Now, let’s say something early here that we can all agree on. God created the angels. I know that sounds elementary and simplistic, especially for our church, but God created these angels. That’s going to be an important fact throughout today’s word. It may seem redundant to us to admit that, but it needs to be repeated.

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We have the detailed account in Genesis one and two and three of Creation Week, and what is conspicuously missing in Creation Week is he does not tell us when he created the Angels. So that has left Bible students and theologians across the world and through eras of time, a lot of leeway and debate and speculation about when the angels were actually created.

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And the Bible does not tell us when they were created, but it does tell us that during creation week they were there. Now we must also consider another matter, and that is the Angel of the Lord. We’ll talk more about him in sermons ahead. The Angel of the Lord is an interesting Old Testament character. Now, remember, I’ve got a pastor friend in Plant City who was a friend of mine.

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And and I remember many, many years ago sitting down with him and having a debate over the lunch table about the Angel of the Lord, because I’ll tell you what I believe. I believe that in most occurrences in the Old Testament, the Angel of the Lord is what we call a Christopher Nee or an Old Testament manifestation of Christ before He was born in the manger, and I believe the Angel of the Lord to be Jesus.

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I believe it was Jesus who had a meal with Abraham before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. I believe it was Jesus who approached Joshua on the eve of the attack of the City of Jericho and told Joshua you to march around those walls, march around those walls, march around those walls. I believe that was Jesus. And I believe there are other Old Testament occurrences where the Angel of the Lord was Jesus with this dear pastor friend of mine in Plant City.

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He said, You’re wrong. And I said, Well, you can say I’m wrong, but you’re going to have to prove it. And he pulled a verse out of Hebrews that said, Where the Bible talks about he have never taken upon himself the form of an angel. And he tried to prove to me that Jesus was was never classified in the world of angels.

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He couldn’t prove it to me then I don’t think I’m I’m wrong even now. I think the Angel of the Lord is Jesus. Now, with that being said, I need to push down a marker right here and help you understand that Angel was never created. Jesus has always existed. So when we talk about the creation of angels, I want to say early, we’re not talking about the Angel of the Lord.

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However, all of these other angels, the good ones and the bad ones, the Holy angels and the demons, they are of the product of God’s creation. Now, as stated earlier, God created everything. The only thing that has never been created is you can see Him with me, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Everything else was created.

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And this fact is supported in the New Testament. Books like Colossians four by him were all things created and are that are in heaven visible. God created things visible. I see you. You see me, right? He created things visible. Are you in that group? The nobody invisible here today? Right. Okay, y’all look a little confused. Don’t be confused here.

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You’re visible. He created things visible. He created things invisible. They are things that are not in the material world that God also created. Now, there are things in this room today that are not visible to the naked eye. There are microbes, germs, antibodies, cells. They are all over your body and you can’t see them without a high powered microscope.

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So he created things visible. He created things invisible. Then he adds this in Colossians, Paul said, Whether they be thrones, God created those. God created the White House. God created the the mullahs, God created the God created the the royals, God created the dynasties. There are thrones. God created those. There are dimensions. God’s responsible for the creation of those.

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And then he has this. He is also the Bible. In Colossians one, 1616 says he created principalities and powers. Now the principalities and powers Rise refers to angels and demons and all things Colossians says were created by him and for him. So can we conclude together? God made it all, including the angels. Now this means that these created angels, I’ll say it again, had a beginning, but don’t appear to have any end now.

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It’s also important at this juncture to note the fact that Angels are not entirely supernatural. I know when we think about angels, we think about them almost strictly in terms of the supernatural. But don’t be misled on this. They were created just like you. And because of that, we often think of them differently. But they are they and they are supernatural in the sense that they possess the strength and powers that are granted to them by God Almighty.

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But that’s exactly what we are. Why do you exist? Because God created you. And because God gives you the strength and powers that you have. So they are very much like us in terms that they have been created. They are created beings like we are, and this prevents us. Stay with me now from overestimating their importance. They are creatures.

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Are you with me now? We are not supposed to worship the creatures, whether they be angelic or demonic or human or plant or animal or whatever the case may be. Nothing gets worshiped unless it was uncreated, unless it had never been created. Go further. I know we’re getting a little bit of a deep water here, but stay with me.

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Trying to isolate the time when the angels were created is a little bit of a difficult thing to do. I believe that the Angels were created earlier in the six day creation week. I believe, according to Genesis chapter two verse number one, where the Bible says the heavens and the Earth were finished and all the host of them.

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I believe that reference to all the host of them means that during Create some time during Creation week, God created the Angels. Now I see that. And I’m also going to add there are people who disagree with me on that. For example, there are people like Mormons, for example, that believe in what is known as the prior exists in view.

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They believe that angels are like the Trinity. They never had a beginning. So that perspective argues that angels preexisted the creation of the heavens of the earth, and it suggested a different universe, a realm that God had pre previously created. And there are theologians who who rule that way. I’m not personally a believer that angels have always existed.

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Then there’s the second view, which is the implicit creation view. This is where I tend to to kind of land, is that God created them some time during creation week. And then there’s the weirdest of them all, which is known as the Gap theory Angelic creation view. Now the Gap theory is a really, really problematic. But I don’t want to bore you with the details.

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Some of you look bored already, so we might as well just go for it. There is a theory that there’s a gap between Genesis chapter one, verse one, and Genesis chapter one, verse two, Genesis Chapter one, verse one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and the Earth was without form. And then Genesis one two, and the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

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So there are people that look at Genesis one one and they say, Here’s God, but God’s nature would not permit him to make something nebulous where there’s darkness upon the face of the day. So the gap theory teachers stay with me now, because this gets weird. The Gap theory teaches that there was a pre a dynamic race and that pre a dynamic race had women that were romantic and sexual with angels.

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And so after Genesis one, one God destroyed that race and then created us as Plan B since I just don’t believe it. I think it’s I think if you believe that, you probably believe wrestling is real and Elvis is still alive and we didn’t land on the moon. What I believe is that during creation week, God at some undisclosed point filled the heavens with angels.

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Now, that leaves us to speculate on when did the one third of the angels fall? So the gap theory, people believe that that was when angels and women were sexual and romantic with one another. I’m just not in I’m not in on their. All right that don’t want hear what the Bible does not state specifically is that when God created angels what the Bible does say is that it’s important that he did create them.

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We don’t know when. But I got to be honest with you, I can’t imagine my world without angels in it. And I’m glad. I don’t know when he did it. I’m just glad he did it. And I would like to also add this. They’re different from us, although they’re similar in terms of creation. They’re different from us and they’re different from animals and they’re different from plants.

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And unless God specifically wants them to be seen, we will never see them. I know there are many, many witnesses who have come forward to said, I think I’ve seen an angel. I think I’ve been in the presence of an angel. Let me just pause a moment and say, I’m sure every one of us have because we have guardian angels.

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But unless God wanted you to see that angel, you had no idea that was an angel. That’s why Hebrews 13 says we’re to be careful to entertain strangers for their boss. Some have interesting angels unaware. So a lot of times we interact with angels and don’t even know that it was an angel. Here’s the fact They do have access to heaven.

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They act as God’s messenger. They glorify God in nonstop worship in His presence. They are militant servant warriors. They are God’s ministering spirits. All of those things are true. And I hope you’re in agreement with all of it so far. But now let me add this. The Bible also tells us they are obedient. Psalm 103 30 They are Holy Isaiah Chapter six, Verse three They communicate Revelation 14 six.

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We’ll talk more about that in a moment. They are intelligent. Psalm 89, five and seven. They are reverent. Nehemiah nine six They are. They have discernment. Second. Samuel 1417 They are they they do possess a restricted amount of knowledge. First, Peter, Chapter one, verse number 12. So there are qualities about angels that we admire. There are features of angels that we might even covet in terms of their relationship and so on and so forth.

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So just like they are largely unseen, we also see their work. I was this week doing my research and my study and so on and so forth, and I came across a story in Pennsylvania, you know, that West Virginia, eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, that’s coal mining country. And way back in the 1950s in western Pennsylvania, there was a coal mine collapse.

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We’ve seen these on the news. And you know what happens with that when the opening of of a coal mine is closed off and miners are trapped inside, the whole nation goes into a spirit of prayer, praying for us to be able to get those coal miners out of those mines. You all have experienced that before and you’ve seen that before, haven’t you, on this particular occasion, back in the 1950s when these coal miners were trapped in this Pence Pennsylvania mine, they bought a whole straight down into where they thought the mine would be, hoping to be able to get some sustenance to them and communicate with them and so on and so forth.

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But because of the nature of the drilling, it took them days and days and days to get that hole down into that mine. Well, once they finally got it down in there and dropped the pipe into that mine, it was miles under the surface of the earth. And basically the only communication they had with them in the 1950s was the miners were tapping on that pipe.

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And they would do that regularly in shifts to let the people on the surface know we’re still down here and we’re still alive. Please don’t give up on the search. So as days came and when it turned into a long time, a week and a half, two weeks, and the tapping on the shaft got less and less and the searchers began to give up, They decided we’re not going to be recovering miners.

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We’re now probably going to be recovering bodies. But they kept pulling away from the mouth of that mine and kept taking away all of that material until finally over two weeks later, they had a breakthrough. And when they got into the mine, guess what they found two miners still alive, living well inside the darkness of that mine. And the Pittsburgh newspaper headline signed the next morning read God has done a Miracle at the Mines.

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And those two miners were taken out, rescued from those mines. And when they interviewed them, the headline the next day was Miners Suffer Insanity. Miners Suffer from Delusion. And the reason they said that is because when they interviewed the miners, they asked them, how did you make it over two weeks in that mine? And both of them said Angels came here and ministered unto us and kept us alive.

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Now, listen to this. In the first headline, they said Miracle that the mine God did a miracle at the mine. In the second headline, they called the miners insane because they believed the angels were ministering to them.

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I do believe that on occasions God sends his angels to minister to us. My son Oliver and I, we were we went to the woods yesterday to enjoy some summer time father and son together. And while we were out, while we were driving there, Interstate four. Come on now. Hello, Interstate four. Here’s a guy texting on his phone and a black Chevrolet pickups, always a Chevrolet drivers.

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And here he comes up, he’s texting, he runs off into the grassy median, loses control, never even touches his brakes. Then when he realizes what he’s what he’s doing, he jerks. The wheel overcorrect goes off, cross all three lanes. Oliver is here. He can tell you all three lanes of Interstate four bounces that Chevrolet pick up around several times and then regains control, gets right back into the fast lane and takes off again at 85 miles an hour.

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Now, I was telling Oliver this morning, I said, Oliver, thank God this was just this was just two or three car lengths ahead of us yesterday. And I was pulling a trailer and I said, Oliver, thank God we weren’t up there because we were in the slower lanes. And if he had cut across and hit that trailer or cut across and hit the side of my pickup, Oliver and me might not have even been here today.

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Now, I don’t know if Angels protected us, but what I do know is we’re alive. And and I do know that God on occasion sends invisible angels to defend us and sends invisible angels to protect us. I think you get the point. Now, let’s get down to the work. There are only two things today I want to talk to you first about Angels without God.

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And then I want to talk to you about angels and the Word of God. Just those two things, and we’ll be done quickly. Angels without God. Somebody help me. If you think you know, the answer equals nothing. Angels without God have no orders, no power have no manifestation. Angels without God are angels without holiness. They could be interpreted as demons potentially.

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But what we are talking about here is the fact that every reference to angels in the Bible is incidental to some other topic. You never see God showcasing an angel. It’s always a human with a problem and the angel is sent into the story. It’s always God with orders and an angel is sent into the story. But we do not find the Bible raising angels.

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Two points of worship. They are not showcased by themselves. God’s revelation never aims at informing us regarding the nature of angels. He does not want us knowing much more about them than we know right now. We have limited knowledge and I think God wants it exactly that way. The church, when they are mentioned, it is always to inform us further about God.

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Listen to that closely. When an angel is mentioned, it is always to further showcase an attribute of God. Apart from God, angels can do nothing and are nothing. They’re very food and drink is to do God’s will and accomplish his work. There is biblical evidence of angels being tempted. There’s biblical evidence of angels falling, and there’s a discussion that could be had there.

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But I want to make the simple point Angels without God equals zero. Are you with me now? That’s going to lead us to our second point. How many did I tell you we had? Just two. This is going to be quicker than the storm. I want to talk to you not only about angels without God, but secondly, I want to talk to you about angels and the word of God.

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Now, in your lap or in your hand, you have a copy of God’s holy word. I want to ask you, how did you get it so well, I went to the bookstore, went online. I bought none. I’m not talking about there. How did we get the inspired word of God and what I’m going to do today? I may say some things that you did not know.

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Maybe you do know. But what you should know after today is that angels are God’s messengers. I don’t know if you’re aware of this. Even pastors are called angels at that. Felt good coming out of my mouth to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus. To the Angel of the Church of Smyrna. To the Angel of the Church of that word.

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Angelus there is referring to messengers, is talking about the pastor of the church. So just like I’m standing up here today communicating something to you, that is what angels are also responsible for. They communicate for God on behalf of God. Now, there are nuances to this that’s going to be important to point out, and we’ll do that as we go when angels give enlightenment, it’s God’s enlightenment.

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When angels give encouragement, it’s God’s encouraged. Angels do not encourage, angels, do not enlighten, God enlightens, and he sends it through the angel. When angels, God, God’s guiding, when angels protect who gets the glory for it, it’s God who’s protecting. When angels comfort, it’s God who is comforting. When angels bring judgment, it’s called God’s judgment. So a right understanding of angels must take us back to God’s character.

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Angels should never be a distraction. Can I get a witness? Church angels should never be a source of worship. Now I’m going to show you something that I hope will be helpful. They have a unique role in communicating to us for God. The delivery of the Book of Revelation is a good example. If you’ll take your Bible and turn over there with me, I’ll just show you very quickly all the way back to Revelation chapter one.

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I actually want you to see two verses in the Book of Revelation, the first one in Revelation chapter one, and the second one, I’ll point out toward the end of the book, but turn with me there to Revelation one and let me direct your attention to verse number one, the revelation. I’m going to start reading you catch it with me.

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Okay. Revelation one one The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him to show under His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And what does it say at the end of verse one? And he sent and signified it. By what church? By his angel unto his servant, John, stay with me. It came. I have a visual.

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If it’ll be helpful for you today. Well, excuse me for. Let me. Let me skip to it here. The angels gave to us the revelation. It came from God. Look at the sequence to Jesus. Look at the sequence to an angel, then to John. Then became Scripture and then it became ours. Look at that again from God to Jesus through the angel to John becoming Scripture.

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And then it becomes the possession of you. And I see if that matches. Verse one again, the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave under Him to show under His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified it by his angel. And then what? To his servant John. And then we get it. But an important stop in this sequence is the word is communicated through angels.

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Now stay with me, because this is an important point that I need to make. Go with me over, if you would, please, to Revelation 22 just to support Scripture here. Since it’s raining, we don’t have to rush Revelation 22, and I’d like to direct your attention to another verse, Verse number six, Revelation 22, verse number six. Now this is the closing of the Book of Revelation.

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Look at how it matters. And he said to me, These sayings are faithful and true, and the Lord God of the Holy Prophet sent what church his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Listen to me. No human could have ever received the Book of Revelation in the format that it is in, and been able to deliver it to us as effectively as it was delivered without the assistance of an angel.

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Angels get it right every time. Are you all me on that church now? They are, let me point out, are always, always, always one way Messengers. The message always comes from God to angels and then down the chain to us. But we are forbidden to try to get angels to tell God something for us. Did you get that?

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Did you get that important point? It’s always a one way street. They are God’s messengers to us and never our messengers to God. And this again tells us. Why. Is that the case? Because you, if you understand this with me, church, you don’t pray to something that was created, right? You don’t pray to the woods. You don’t pray to the animals.

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You don’t pray to other humans. They got this bungle up bad in Roman Catholicism. You don’t pray to or through other humans. And I’m going to add that since angels were created, we don’t pray to or through them either. So if we’re going to get a prayer to God, how are we going to get it there? Well, I have great news, the Bible tells us, and Hebrews 915 and first, Timothy two five, there is one mediator between God and man.

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And what does it say it is the man, Christ Jesus. So we do not pray to angels. We do not listen to this. We do not channel worship through angels. We don’t say, Hey, Mr. Angel so-and-so, will you go tell God I love him and I praise him. No, no, no. You can do that yourself. And by the way, angels also want to be involved in their own worship of God, their own praise to God.

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But what we do know for certain, without doubt, is that God has given them as messengers to us. And then we respond to the message that they have given to us, and we give worship and praise to God Almighty. Look at the sequence again. If you’ve missed it from God to Jesus through angels to John turns into Scripture, and then it is delivered to you and to me, I don’t ever want that chain to be interrupted.

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I love the fact that angels are involved because they I want to say it again, get it right every single time. Now, let me point something out and we’ll close. Why did God create them? Now we know he did. We don’t know when he did for sure, but we know God created angels. So why do we need them?

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Understand with me that there is the God here. I’m going to reach up as high as I can. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Look at me to get the illustration. Not Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Coequal. That’s the Godhead. They were not created. They’ve always existed in perfect unity as a family. Since eternity past, we cannot quantify the age of God because God is timeless.

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Father, Son, Holy Spirit, you are with me. And then right below them is the angels. Now somebody has to be in that role because help me if you know the answer, if you’re confident, who’s right below the angels, that’s you and me, right? That you and I. And then who’s right below you and I? Well, that’s the animals.

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They have blood. And some speculate that they have a soul. I can’t say that confidently, but I do know for a fact animals are different than plants, which are the lowest on the chain. Now, just think how ridiculous it would be if I were to worship this beautiful plant we have here. This thing is not even reef right?

00:45:24:17 – 00:45:47:20
It looks good from there. But we haven’t wandered it, fertilized it, we haven’t repotted it so it can grow. It hasn’t grown a single instance. It’s been in our church. It’s kind of like some of our members and, and it is a nice little parting shot there. It’s just not real, right? It’s just not genuine. It’s not real.

00:45:47:22 – 00:46:06:19
Now, stay with me. I want you to see something. If I were to worship a plant, you have a right to call me an idiot. In a fool, right? Well, what about the next one? What about an animal? Do I have a right to worship an animal? No, that’s food. My. Can I get a witness on that? Yeah.

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I’m not a I’m not a member of the traditional PETA, you know, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. But I’m a member of that other PETA creatures eating tasty animals. That’s that’s the one I’m a member of. I’m a meat eating all my friend. So you have plants and you have animals we can’t worship or adore either.

00:46:25:15 – 00:46:59:07
They’re for our sustenance because they’re beneath us. And then you have humans and then you have angels and then you have God. Now, let me close with this. The Bible says in Hebrews that Jesus made himself a little lower than the Angels. That means Jesus became flesh. Jesus became human for the purpose of our redemption. And He is the only one who has ever had a human body that we are permitted to direct our worship to.

00:46:59:09 – 00:47:38:12
And the reason why is because he is the head of the Angels and a member of the Trinity. I’m counting on God. Keep an angels active in my life. They bring messages, comfort, they bring encouragement, they bring protection. I love the positive direction that this series is going in now. It may take another negative tone at a later date, but I love the fact that God has gifted us with angels and I’m just hoping he’ll let me put in my request that when I get to heaven, I want to meet my guardian angels.

00:47:38:14 – 00:48:15:19
I want to meet them and thank them for protecting me on interstate four and thank them for protecting me from infidelity, protecting me from besetting sin, protecting me from protecting me when the government was against us. The angels are watching and observing and they’re under orders from God to keep us safe. When that surge in does his work or her work, I don’t believe they do it alone.

00:48:15:21 – 00:48:41:13
Are you listening? Well, when that doctor does his or her work, I don’t believe they do it alone. I believe those angels are with God. And God says it’s not her time to go. So the angels go. And I believe, especially supervise every finite detail of our lives to make sure that we’re protected. Would you stand with us together, Father, I want to thank you.

00:48:41:15 – 00:49:14:07
And I want to give you glory for the great and numerous gifts that we have. And I want to pause before you and this wonderful congregation hoping that we’ll all be in agreement that what you have given us is so awesome. It’s hard for us to take it all in. And I feel like John in the apocalypse, Father, I see the work that angels are doing in my life, my family’s lives.

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I see the work that angels are doing in the lives of our church people. And I stand in all I stand in amazement, Father, that you would give such incredible, incredible gifts unto us. Let us pause and thank you that you have helped us, father, to adore you more and more. And we’re going to thank you for that, too.

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In Jesus name, we pray. Now, do you need to visit the altar? If you do, you’re welcome to or maybe some for prayer, special needs, special burdens. And if you need to come, your own body. There is no resistance to that. If you need to come, I certainly want you to come.