Worship Our Awesome God:A Macro & Micro Look at the Creation and the Creator who is Worthy of our Worship!

Sunday, September 16, 2009

Special guests: Ed Trenner & Novelle Kimmich with Phil Helfer

Los Altos Grace Brethren Church6565 Stearns St. Long Beach, CA 90815www.LAGBC.org

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;

the old has gone, the new has come!

All this is from God who reconciled us to Himself

through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

2 Corinthians 5:17-18

that God was reconciling the world to Himself in

Christ, not counting men’s sins

against them. And He has committed to us

the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:19

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,

as though God were making His appeal through

us. We implore you on Christ’s

behalf: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Who is this awesome God we represent?

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine

nature – have been clearly seen,

being understood from what has been made, so that men

are without excuse.

Romans 1:20  

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies

proclaim the work of his hands.  Day after day they

pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no

speech or language where their voice is not heard.

Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to

the ends of the world.Psalm 19:1-4 

"To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?"

says the Holy One. Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:

Who created all these? He who brings out the starry

host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because

of his great power and mighty

strength, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 40:25-26

Our galactic home: The Milky Way

Earth from Moon

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Mars

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Neptune

Betelgeuse in constellation Orion

Earth Twin Galaxy

A Light YearThe distance light

travels in one year in a vacuum

5,878,000,000,000 miles

Hubble

Cone Nebula

Hubble Monocerotis V838

Dwarf Galaxy

Whirlpool Galaxy M100

Dusty Spiral Galaxy

Hubble Deep Field

Hubble Stars as Sand

• In 2003 a group of astronomers calculated that the total number of stars within range of our most powerful telescopes numbers 70 sextillion.• Seventy sextillion is the number 7 followed by 22 zeros. That’s 70,000 billion billion.• It’s estimated that this number of stars is 10 times greater than the number of grains of sand on all the world’s beaches and deserts.

• One of the astronomers said,

• “Even for a professional astronomer used to dealing in monster numbers, this is mind-boggling. This is not the total number of stars in the universe, but it’s the number within reach of our telescopes. The real number could be much, much larger still – some people think it is infinite.”

He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Psalm 147:4

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place,What is man that You are mindful of him?

And the son of man that You care for him?

Psalm 8:3-4

One Awesome God

The very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Matthew 10:30

For You created my inmost being; You knit me together

in my mother's womb . . . Your eyes saw my unformed

body. All the days ordained for me

were written in Your book before one of them came to

be.

Psalm 139:13,16

I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:14

Inner space and the complexities of life

(God is an incredible designer!)

Nucleus: Where the DNA is.

Cytoplasm: Where everything else is.Where most proteins are.

Really Bad Drawing of a Cell

What are DNA and Protein like?

• DNA = Library of Blueprints–Contains instructions of how to build proteins–Just like a library – it doesn’t do anything

• It just sits there

• Protein = Machines and Structures–Do everything in the cell

Nucleus: Where the DNA is.

Cytoplasm: Where everything else is.Where most proteins are.

Cell is like a city

So What Needs to be Done?• Bring in food and raw materials• Make energy - Power plant• Build new stuff - Factories• Repair• Dispose of waste• Many specialized cell functions depending

on the tissue– Muscle – contracts– Nerves- send signals– Immune cells – fight infection– Glands – excrete stuff

Real life example

• Movie of cell division–Proteins move DNA into place, WAIT for

signal, and pull DNA into new cells

Bottom line• Proteins are machines that do a lot• Proteins interact with each other in

complex ways• Proteins are very detailed structures

–Many shapes–Many sizes–Many functions

Spiritual Conclusions

• We truly are “fearfully and wonderfully made”

• God designed you down to the atom–You are a work of art!

• Responses–Worship–See others as works of art, corrupted by

sin, and in need of Gods redeeming grace

One Awesome God

Good and upright is the LORD

He instructs sinners in the way

He leads the humble in justice

He teaches the humble His way

All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth

(Psalm 25:8-10)

The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They

are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

(Lamentations 3:22-23)

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him.

(Lamentations 3:25)

Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps

His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation.

(Deuteronomy 7:9)

This is how God loved the world. He gave His only Son, that

whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

(John 3:16)

God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we

were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(Romans 5:8)

God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining deliverance

through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are

awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

(1Thess 5:9-10)

He blessed us with every spiritual blessing

He chose us before the foundation of the world

So that we would be holy and blameless

He adopted us as sons

He freely gave us His glorious grace

He redeemed us

He forgave us

He lavished His grace upon us

Worship the LORD with reverence And rejoice with

trembling(Psalm 2:11)