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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 Church 6565 Stearns St. Long Beach, CA 90815 www.LAGBC.org. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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)