Beruflich Dokumente
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(Hebrews 1:14)
I. Introduction.
A. Orientation.
This morning,
John showed us that God in His mercy
Sent an angel from time to time
To stir the water at the pool of Bethesda
To grant the gift of healing to the first who got into that pool.
B. Preview.
This evening, lets consider:
What the angels are,
And what blessings He provides through them.
II. Sermon.
A. First, what are the angels?
The difference between a spiritual man and a natural man is simply this:
One has the Spirit
While the other has nothing of the Spirit.
Paul writes to the Corinthians,
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,
so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also
speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit,
combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not
accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he
cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is
spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For WHO
HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT
HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. And I, brethren, could not speak to you
as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ (1 Cor. 2:123:1).
The difference between the holy angels and the demons is the same:
One has the Spirit, the other does not.
Evil is the absence of good,
Even as cold is the absence of heat.
The Spirit is the love or goodness of God.
Without Him, there is only evil.
Man was made good,
But when he sinned in the garden, he lost the Spirit
He lost his original righteousness,
Moses writes in Genesis 1:1, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth.
This implies that in the beginning
Only God existed,
And being the only Being present,
He acted to bring into being everything there is.
God spoke, Let there be,
And whatever He commanded leaped into existence.
Meredith Kline believed that Genesis 1:1 speaks of the creation of the angels.
When Moses says that God created the heavens,
Kline believes the heavens here refers to the place God would dwell
Along with the heavenly host itself,
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Because he then goes on to tell us that the earth was formless and void
And what God did to organize it over the next six days (v. 2).
That organization included the celestial bodies
Or what we call the starry heavens.
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Jude writes, But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and
argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing
judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke you! (1:9).
We also read in Daniel 10:13, where Gabriel explains why it took him so long to
come in answer to Daniels prayer, But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was
withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.
When God made the angels, He made them all at the same time
Something that isnt true of us.
Angels, on the other hand, dont get married and have children (Matt. 22:30).
They were all created at the same time.
And so the Lord was able to try them all at the same time
He didnt have to do so through a representative, but personally.
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And the angels of God met him,
He named that place Mahanaim or two camps (32:2),
Because of the angels were camping alongside of him.
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