THE CREATOR’S CONSPIRACY

#810 June 14th, 2015Quincinera Year!!

“I Guess SomeOne has a CRUSH!”

• Chose us, Redeemed us, Us!, Saved us, Holy One that He is!

• Isaiah 43:4 “Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you…”-God Almighty

Isaiah 45-48 (4 chapters)Christians believe strange things!

This morning I want to affirm you in your faith, to remind all of us who believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, sent from heaven, born of a virgin, living a sinless life, dying a voluntary death, rising from the dead, ascending to the throne, returning soon as our King; what we believe is theTHE CREATOR’S CONSPIRACY!

Enlist you, draft you into a Divine Conspiracy

• Yet as we study these Book of Isaiah chapters, this conspiracy is not a quiet or secret one, back room movement; it is being played out in all creation!

• THE CREATOR’S CONSPIRACY has no whispered tones, as we’ll see.

Topic

• Is there a god? Are there more than one gods? Are the gods/idols/things I believe in going to matter when my life is over? How do I know which god is real? Isn’t life just all one big chance?

The Bible is a Christian’s Spiritual Authority

• A Pentecostal saying: “Thus saith the LORD…” GOD SPEAKS TO MAN! WOW!!!

Isaiah 45:1 “This is what the LORD says…”Isaiah 45:11 “This is what the LORD says…”Isaiah 45:14 “This is what the LORD says…”Isaiah 45:18 “This is what the LORD says...”Isaiah 48:17 “This is what the LORD says…”

Doubts doused

• The Bible is an ancient document, how relevant is it for the issues that we face today?

• “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.”44:24 “It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.” 45:12

The Prophet Isaiah, Forthteller

• Isaiah 44:28-45:1 • “Cyrus”, king of Persia is named three

hundred years prior to coming on the scene. • Ezra 1:1 “In the first year of Cyrus king of

Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia…”

Our God sets the future!

• “This is what the LORD says—the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come…” Isaiah 45:11

• “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times what is still to come.” Isaiah 46:10

Isaiah 45:20-21 Trust in the LORD’s forthtelling!

• “…Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save. Declare what is to be, present it—let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.”

Loud Conspiracy!!!!!!• “I am the LORD, and there is no other,

apart from me there is no God.” 45:5 “Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.” 45:14 “I am the LORD and there is no other.”45:18 “…there is no other apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me…I am God, and there is no other.” 45:21-22

LOUD CONSPIRACY CONT.!!!!!

• “I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness…” 45:19 “I don’t just talk to myself or mumble under my breath.” –The Message

• “To whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?” 46:5 “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.” 46:9

Slow Down, Pastor Jack!

Good Bible Study asks this:-What does the text say? Persia will come in 300 yrs. to restore Israel. Babylon thinks she’s all that, until Persia wipes her out! And God orchestrated all of it for His Glory!-What is the text saying? God controls popular culture, He permits powers and authorities to win, BUT His will prevails!

Persia and BabylonPopCulture and World Gov.

• To Persia: “For the sake of Jacob my servant, Of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me….I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me…” Isaiah 45:4,5

B a b y l o n Isaiah 46-48

• “rebels”, “stubborn-hearted”, “wanton creature”, “stubborn”, “treacherous”, “rebel”. “[Babylon] lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.” Isaiah 46:8 “You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you…A calamity…a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you. Keep on w/your magic spells& w/your many sorceries…astrologers…stargazers…” Isaiah 47

“The Church is in exile” –Dr. Miranda

• Sarah Winchester and her spiritualist/ medium/cultist.

• “Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you…” Is. 47:10

• Global warming/Drought/Immigration• Gender neutral potties/sexual revolution• The Bible as “hate speech”

THE CREATOR’S CONFIDENT CONSPIRACY

“How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another. Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first and I am the last.” Isaiah 48:12

Isaiah 45:23

“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is not other. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.”

The New Testament

• “It is written: “’As surely as I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’” Romans 14:11

• “Therefore God exalted [Jesus] to the highest place and agave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee would bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the LORED, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11

ACTS 17:24-31