R705 The Declaration of Almighty God

The Declaration of Independence, a declaration of war.

Today Dr. Don's message is the declaration of an Almighty God, welcome to The Encouraging Word, featuring the Bible-based teaching of Dr. Don Wilton well-known author evangelist seminary professor and pastor and in these moments together will head to Hebrews chapter 8 to discuss this message.

The declaration of an Almighty God. While we do so we would encourage you to visit our website it's TE W online.org that's TE W online.org right now, you discover a remarkable series of messages you can hear today's message and any of Dr. Wilson's messages on demand right there. Tewonline.org you while you're there, sign up for the daily devotion to begin getting it in your email the next 24 to 48 hours.

That's tewonline.org. Oh RG, I'm writing to ask you to turn with me in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 8 and you know every year when I study the word of God and I lost the Lord to prepare my heart. It never ceases to amaze me how God knows just exactly where we need to be on the exact occasion when we need to be there, subject this morning is the declaration Almighty God. The declaration of Almighty God, our friends, I want you to get ready. You need to have your Bibles open as God is going to speak to our hearts. He's going to say something to you and me to America.

Let's open our hearts and listen. This nation will crumble and it is probably not want to say to you by 11 frames today that when God, the words that God wrote in Hebrews chapter 8 God was making a statement concerning the peoples of the will let me read it to you. Hebrews chapter 8 and verse.

I put God found fault with the people and he said time is coming, declares the Lord will and I will make a new copy of the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the comment I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand and lead them out of Egypt because they did not remain faithful to my covenant when I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the company and I will make with the house of Israel off to that time, declares the Lord.

I will put my laws in their minds. I will write them on their hearts. I will be the God and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor Manny's brother's I know the Lord because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, I will forgive their wickedness and I will remember their sins no more. Now by calling this competent new he has made the first one obsolete. And what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. You analyze the declaration of Almighty God, you gotta come to some conclusions yet they are number one. It was written by God. Now that's a profound Skype. It was written by God. God says I will founding fathers, and I'm not trying to draw unnecessary parallels but I'm going to tell you my friends that our founding fathers from Thomas Jefferson on down, they made no bones about the fact that God was involved in human history when it came to the declaration of God concerning his son, the Lord Jesus Christ then will cause no room for negotiation. As far as God was concerned. He made a declaration God so loved the world, God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to himself, and every time you come to the cross you going to discover that the sovereign God was inextricably bound into the heart of Jesus Christ that God was acting before the foundation of the world and he's sitting most of this declaration for all. Number two. It was different to the old cotton audit was radically different. Not that the old covenant was wrong or bad.

We looked at that in our study of Hebrews, God instituted this, according to the letter to the Hebrews was a much better cub why because it was a final government it is the covenant that we have in Jesus Christ. It is the greatest declaration that could ever be my in the old covenant.

There was so much legalism you have to go to the synagogue you have to write the law on your wrists.

You have to wear things.

Jesus himself was a Jew.

He understood these things, so I was a Jew. So many of these Jews had come to love the Lord Jesus Christ. They were confused.

You can come with me tonight.

My favorite trip in all the world is to go to Israel. I can't wait to go back there again. Come with me to the Wailing Wall. I respect those people so much. You see them standing there saying their prayers rapidly globulin religious garb following the Lord, to the letter of the Lord.

What did God say he said listen, I'm going to make a declaration it's going to come from the heart of Almighty God. My new covenant is not anything like the old covenant because I've come to set you free. You no longer come to me because you go to your priest or to a rabbi preacher you have to have permission to come into my presence. You no longer have to have your sins forgiven for every sin you commit you no longer have to do all these rituals.

It's not when you go to church or how many sermons you preach of the number of times you're saying you are so by grace through five not in yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast. Somebody say amen you folks want declaration I tell you people get standing on the head of the Declaration of Independence and we should do so. We celebrate America and we should do so. I tell you something. This direct declaration by Almighty God, my friend. It was written by God, it was different to the old covenant number three. It was given to the people you can go to Burstein universe site. The Bible says very clearly.

I will make this covenant with the house of Israel. In other words, you no longer are restricted by the Levites. You no longer are restricted by your agenda, because in Christ Jesus. There is neither male nor female. Neither bond nor free.

Neither Jew nor Gentile, Jesus Christ the son of God has drawn a line in the sand he has created all men equal with equal access and this announcement by God. This incredible declaration.

It was given to people that people might come to know Jesus Christ. There is not a single person who is excluded from this declaration by Almighty God in and through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Number four number four it was directed at the heart. The second part of this team in the Bible says I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts will.

How did they do that, according to the Old Testament.

They wrote the law on their risks.

They say prayers ad infinitum.

They quoted they read from books they went to their synagogues and Lake churches. They did all kinds of things God said no. The declaration of Almighty God considers your heart a boys and girls. What happens when you give your life to Jesus we say to one another want to invite Jesus to come and live in your heart and that special Wilson Wildman came in early serves a real early this morning 815 this morning a long time ago. I mean, Wilson Wildman came. I just love them so much and he came up and stood with me and I told everybody in early morning worship service.

I said this is my friend Wilson and he has given his heart to Jesus. You see, God no longer resides on the tablet or wall is not a picture postcard is not something that we do ease my personal Lord and Savior, and he lives within my heart and within your heart. Number five, it was highly personal. God love this part.

It was highly personal. He tells us in verse 11, they will all know me. Did you know that Jesus Christ knows you did you know that. In fact, when the Lord Jesus came to this earth used the analogy of sheep.

I've often wondered about that because God calls me a sheet by being around a lot of sheep folks. They can be pretty dumb sometimes I'm just telling you that every time I get a little but more highly than I ought to be. I just think about the fact that God calls me a sheep all right you know the Bible says I know my sheep my sheep know me. I know them by name. You know the Bible tells us that God has numbered even the very hairs upon our heads in his presence.

You know that he made you he created you and you know that the relationship that you have with the Lord Jesus is no different to the relationship you have with your absolute best friend my best friend in all the world is my wife. She really is. She's my favorite person we knew everything together we been married for a long time. We love each other. She's my best friend. You know the Bible says that when Jesus comes into my heart that I can enjoy the same relationship means I'm never alone is never far.

He's always with me, even sometimes when I feel pretty awful when I'm down in the dumps. I'm lying in a hospital bed or something goes wrong, I can always know that Jesus Christ is there with me because the declaration of Almighty God is highly personal.

It's one-on-one but there's another one. Number six.

It was based on the opportunity for all men to be set free. Another hallmark of the declaration of Almighty God and I look back at our founding fathers, and I know it could never happen but don't you sometimes wish that you could get into a time machine like some of those movies and go back to the future. You not love to just go back to the future just just for directors. Not any more than that, but I'd like to just go back to the future on octagon set on Plymouth Rock and just watch how the boys arrived. You're not. I'd love to see what went on. Can you imagine the content of the conversation in the debate that was going on.

Can you can you see those farmers running around and arming themselves in, and what people talked about you know something.

They were striving for freedom. They wanted to be free from the British Empire.

They wanted to be on the right. They own rules call themselves their own people. I wanted to be independent.

That's what they wanted. You know something the Lord Jesus Christ came to set us free. That incredible he came to set us free. He tells us yet exactly how it happens in this declaration. He says in verse 12, I will forgive their wickedness and I will remember their sins no more. Guess what happens soon has separated us from God through the declaration of Almighty God concerning his son, the Lord Jesus when I trust him and receive Jesus Christ into my heart. I am forgiven of my sin, my sin is taken and coughed as far as the east is from the West. The trains are released.

I'm sick free then mobile shackles. I'm no longer in bondage. I'm sick free. I'm a free man.

I no longer walk around with this big load on my shoulder.

I wonder if there's someone here today worshiping with us you got just a big load on your shoulder. Maybe nobody can quite see it. Maybe it's in your heart that blood is in your heart and you got this big old bag of junk. I mean, your marriage went wrong. Your family went wrong, your finances went wrong what you said went wrong. Everything about your life, you just got an accumulated whole lot of hurt might you put pain in your heart.

Maybe you lost a loved one that you love very much you carrying the burden you just carrying burdens. You know that Jesus Christ sets us free. Folks, that doesn't mean to say that we just walk around with a smile on our face. JR lost one of my dearest friends in all the world this past week was Hazel Norris entrée you can't find a more precious lady, I'll be preaching her funeral service softening at 2 o'clock she would sit right there faithful. What a precious lady love you with all my heart.

Listen the pain that we have in our hearts. The hurt the things that we go through we struggle with those things because because we human beings, but we been sick free.

You see the Bible salesman burdens are lifted at Calvary.

He takes out burdens and he carries them for us. It takes arsenic cost as far as the east is from the waist. He remembers it no more. What a powerful God we serve the chooses to forget our sins after he's forgiven your listing to Dr. Don Wilton don't go away. He'll be back to complete today's message. The declaration of an Almighty God in just a moment Dr. Don Wilton to remind you they were here for you connecting 24 hours a day on our prayer line at 866-899-WORD. That's 866-899-WORD 9673 knowing we would be thrilled to pray with you and for you, but we also would love to connect with grand resources that are available. You'll find them. Also, in TW online.org again, that's our website TE W online.org or feel free to call us at 866-899-6738. Yes, we still have available copies of Dr. Don's latest book call Saturdays with Billy about his 20+ years of being the pastor to Dr. Billy Graham gets online@twonline.org or call about getting your copy at 866-899-WORD 9673 now back today's teaching from Dr. Don Wilton number seven, it was absolute. It was absolute by the way, did you know something about declaration of independence, and more specifically about the Constitution, might you not love. Did you know that the Constitution of the United States of America is absolute and I put that into modern-day terminology.

It's the law. Now, folks. There's a whole Lotta lawyers and attorneys that have risen up over the years. There are judges and justices. There are people like you and me who are doing everything we can to try and interpret the Constitution cannot just tell you something about it's the little there's nothing that you and I can do about it except but did you know that the Congress of the United States of America has the power to change the Constitution and you believe that I don't know it's happened very often, but do you know that with all the laws and everything in place in the states operating arming it's very common that Congress can actually change the Constitution. Folks, let me make an announcement.

The declaration of Almighty God can never be changed.

You could send it to the Supreme Court.

It wouldn't matter or amount to a hill of beans you can get every lawyer you've ever had, you can make every decision you can get the school board to vote God out on going anyway you want me to tell you why this is the declaration of Almighty God is unchangeable. This is six full-time and full eternity. This declaration, which was made possible in the person of the Jesus Christ. It is example will time and eternity. That's the kind of God who loves us and then number 8% to beginning immediately when Jesus died arming immediately. That's what verse 13 tells us, it says the obsolete will soon disappear the moment Jesus died. What happened folks on the cross, all I love to quote the words of Jesus. What he say is hanging there on the cross. He said it is finished. Nothing more to be done.

That's why Jesus Christ is superior. That's why he's the one is the one who loves us completely, folks. It's all centered in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It began immediately. It was set in motion immediately and how long will time and all eternity. Do you know as long as you and would break to breathe. We got an opportunity to give our hearts to Jesus you bow your heads with me this morning, Lord Jesus.

As we come to this time of invitation this morning.

If there is one person within the sound of my voice who doesn't know Jesus. Please Lord let them open their hearts and give their heart and life to you today.

Right now, father surely there can be nothing more important than knowing you. In Jesus name I pray you know something as I've traveled from time to time, particularly when I have an opportunity to be overseas.

Every now and again I have somebody come up to me, Steve, I say to me when you found and of course I tell them, well, I'm from America. No, I say yes I am.

I'm an American know there is no way you come from oxidative, I say to them know I'm an American, you know, I often think about their often think in my own life. What this country is mean to me this country that adopted somebody like me. I could never repay America but you know what the truth is there. Steve is not about my American citizenship. Did you know that when you give your heart to Jesus Christ neutron sandal boundaries. You become a citizen of the kingdom of heaven where there is neither juvenile, Greek, neither male nor female. Another bottle you know what you discover when you give your heart to Jesus you can be traveling in Africa, China, Australia, the United States, South America, Great Britain, you gonna run into people everywhere got the same citizenship they took hold of the same declaration of Almighty God. When they did, Jesus Christ say thing free. You know the Lord Jesus, you given your heart and life to him the best friend you will ever have a promising don't hold on for someone here to values holding on holding back is the time for you to let go and I wish I could save you many times when I preach. I wish I could walk down get someone say you say I don't have the right of the powder knew that only Jesus can do that.

My responsibility is the same as yours. It's just to share with you that what Jesus Christ has done for me he would do exactly the same thing for you so I want Oscar today would you give your heart to Jesus, I'm an Oscar to get up out of your seat make your way to the front and take one of us by the hand and allow us the privilege of praying with you so that you to be set free. When Jesus comes in your heart, your marriage will never be the same. Your family will never be the same. You're hurting your pain will never be the same tomorrow will never be the same because he will set you free. I want to invite you to come today.

God is moving in this place. Don't go through life without a church family folks are unaware I'd be without you. I don't know where we'd be without one another. God is given us to one another. What a precious gift. I just invite you to come on in our house to do that. I don't go chasing off to you our common knock down your door and give you the impression I'm just come to visit you so you can become a member of the church ought undo that I believe God will put it in your heart. When he does there's no holding you back. I want you to come I'm jealous for you to come I want you to know how the time of teaching and preaching Dr. Don Wilton but in these next few moments he stepping in the studio to not only wrap up today's message but perhaps to share with you is most important question of the day. Are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm so happy to hear that.

Why don't you pray this prayer with dear God, I know that you love me very, very much and I know that the Lord Jesus Christ came and died on the cross so that I might be forgiven of my sin. Today, I repent of my sin. I confess my sin to you, and I invite you to come into my heart and into my life by faith in Jesus name I pray, if you prayed that prayer.

Let me be the first want to welcome you to the family of God. This is wonderful.

I hope that you know how much I'm going to be praying for you and how very important this is for me. Call us so that we can talk to and connect to the right place so you can begin this wonderful journey. And in just a moment I'm in a come back. Perhaps you've heard more than the voice of Dr. Don Wilton on today's edition of The Encouraging Word. Perhaps moments ago Dr. Don Wilton salvation gave your life to Jesus for the very first time you dedicate your life to Jesus.

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