Sunday, October 5, 2008

I love the concluding verses in Revelation 5... "To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and and honor and glory and dominion for ever and ever. And the four living creatures kept saying, Amen, and the elders fell down and worshipped".

My passion is to see and help others see God and know and worship God in such a manner.

I preached on Cain and Abel today at our service. What a great contrast in individuals. One, Cain, the "gotten one" expected by Adam and Eve to be the deliverer that they were looking for, the one who had everything going for him and so didn't think that he really needed God and so offered him a sacrifice merely out of obligation and not really from his heart's longing for relationship with this God. Such is mere religion. It destroys people. Then there was Abel, named "meaninglessness" maybe because he really didn't matter because the one who did was Cain, the deliverer and consequently his self-recognized desperate neediness in the sight of a holy God which compelled him to offer to God an offering that would bring him in right relationship with that God. He recognized his neediness and his hope in God alone. He longed for God. To know God. This is real LIFE!! This is what God made us for.

This is my passion and purpose...to know HIM! GLORY!!

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