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Well, it's a pleasure to have Sue with me. She is always there working and helping. You

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know how she is. I count on her. She's a perfect partner in marriage and in ministry. I particularly

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like being in church with her because she won't reprimand or rebuke or whip me in public.

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So at least I get a stay there for a little while. Are you ready to worship the Lord? Oh,

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you're already worshiping the Lord. My God, Sandra, when we were singing that about how great our God

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is, I'll just tell you it felt like that something opened up and just a moment I began to realize

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that no matter how much I tried to imagine, He is more than that. He is great. Great is our God.

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Hallelujah. How great is our God. You can stand with us again if you like. I have a message that

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the Lord has just placed within my heart. Going to be reading in the book of Isaiah, the book of

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Isaiah, the prophet, and just trying to share God's word with you from Isaiah chapter 46 and verse 9.

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Something that God has just imparted and breathed into my spirit and I'm just anxious to declare

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what thus says the Lord this morning. I told someone recently, I said, Brother Terry, I'd like

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to say it this way because I had an uncle, Church of God preacher up in Indiana, he used to say it

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and I heard it and I thought that's me to a T. He said, I may not be a great preacher, but I sure

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feel great when I'm preaching. You know what I'm talking about, don't you, Pastor? Amen and amen.

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I can see Brian's eyes kind of light up there a little bit too. Amen. Thank God. Going to be

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looking into Isaiah 46 verse 9. Remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is

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no other. I am God, I'd like you especially note this phrase, and there is none like me.

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Hallelujah. I want to use for a subject this morning one word, incomparable. Incomparable.

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Can you say that with me? Incomparable. All great God Almighty, thank you for the sense of your

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presence that is already permeating and saturating this sanctuary. You are here. Dios esta aquí.

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We know that the presence of the divine is in his house today with his people today. Glory to God.

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Thank you for that, oh Lord. And just help us in your presence, worship and magnify and glorify you

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and you alone. Can you say amen? Amen. Praise God. You may be seated if you like. Hallelujah.

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And you can enjoy the rest because I mean you'll probably be sitting a couple of hours or so.

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Well, hopefully it won't be that. Listen, incomparable. Now just to give a little context to this verse of

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scripture in Isaiah chapter 46 and verse 9. These words come out in the 8th century BC,

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8 centuries before the Messiah came and Israel was in a particularly difficult point in their history.

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An upstart nation, the Assyrians, had come up and had just conquered everyone around them and they

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were oppressing other nations and Israel was caught right in the middle of it and being ground under

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they healed of their superior military might of the Assyrians and the Assyrians were worshippers of

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Asher. And Asher, as you know, was really a primitive form of Babylonian religion that later would

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expand and grow and become such a pivotal factor in the history of God's covenant people. But in

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this case something unique happens because Asher and the Assyrians were just taking over everywhere

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unstoppable it seemed like. And in the middle of that there's this long section where the Lord

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speaks to Israel and the only way to put it is he gave them a reminder. He reminded them that no

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matter how helpless or hopeless they felt that there is only one true and living God, their God,

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their Lord. And in the midst of all of that they could realize that he was who he is and he always

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is who he was. Oh it's amazing the way but God didn't simply state it if you read several chapters

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there in this section God didn't just simply tell them he showed them how it worked and he used two

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ideas brought together to show them who the true and living God is. He reminded them of their history

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and he reminded them of how that in advance of anything happening he had told them what he was

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going to do and then he did it and now he's telling them what he done. Glory to God he took them all

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the way. Remember the things of old go all the way back to eternity. He took them back to as far as

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our mind can take time and went to the creation and he went to have that happen and he reminded

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them of the great flood. He reminded them also of the patriarchs and he reminded them of the Exodus

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event and how it unfolded. He took them on up until he could tell them about the conquest and

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how the kingdom had developed and taken place. Oh he reminded them of everything that had happened

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and he told them how that in advance he always told them what he was going to do and how he was

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going to do it and then he did it and he let them know that there is only only only the one who is

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able to do this is worthy to be called God. Only the one who can get the testimony of history is

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unanimous. There is one God. There is one Lord. He is the true God. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac,

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and Jacob. He is the Lord of hosts. My God can somebody say amen again.

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Hallelujah. What that means in a nutshell is there's no one like God. He's incomparable.

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No literally it means unable to be compared. A little more technically it means he is without

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equal or rival in extent or in kind. It means that he is the opposite of ordinary. He is the

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opposite of commonplace. I'm here to say something today that I believe there's some folks here

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already know there is nothing ordinary about our God. There is nothing commonplace about our God.

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He is incomparable. Look the world over with all its gods and goddesses and you won't find

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anyone that even comes close. He's totally different in nature and in extent. He is the

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incomparable God. He is the one that can say remember the former things of old for I am God

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and there is no other. I am God and there is none like unto me. My God look out devil.

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You know this is a theme that occurs again and again throughout scripture.

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Let me remind us of a proud prince in Exodus chapter 9 and verse 14. You know the account of

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Pharaoh and what happened. Let me remind us also that Pharaoh was a proud figure. A proud prince.

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He had been taught that he was God. Some spark rayed from Ra the sun god. He had been taught and told

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all his life that he was divine. That he was sublime. That he ruled by divine fiat. That he was

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the one. He had been taught that none could withstand his will and everybody around him acted like

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that was true until there was this raw bone figure came up out of the desert and said the Lord God

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of the Hebrews said let my people go that they may worship me. Oh my he was offended at the very idea

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that anyone would challenge him and so he began to resist. You know how the plagues came. Oh I love

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when we get to chapter 9. Oh glory to God in verse 6 because when we get there and other plagues have

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happened and another plague the plague of hell is about to begin and at that point God says the Lord

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says tell this to Pharaoh I am about to let the full force of my plagues on you. If you don't

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repent and you don't hear I'm about to I ain't holding nothing back is how we'd say it in Tennessee.

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You're fixing to find out and this is what he says in verse 14 that you may know that in all the

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earth there is no one like me. Pharaoh you may wear the crown of Egypt. Pharaoh they may put you

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on the pyramids. Pharaoh they may tremble when you walk in the streets but I want to tell you on all

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this earth you don't begin to compare to the Lord God Almighty of heaven and earth. He is incomparable.

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He is in my God. He is incomparable.

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One of my favorite I don't know why I've always liked it. One of my favorite accounts of the

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incomparability of God takes place in first Samuel chapter five and verses one through five.

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It tells us about a fallen figurine. Israel had gotten ungodly. Israel had compromised their

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covenant and because of that the Lord refused to go with them into battle and give them victory

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and on top of that the ark of the covenant their symbol of God's presence their visual reminder of

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their covenant was taken by the Philistines. Those pagan worshipers descended from the Phoenician

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wanderers, seafarers, worshipers of Dagon the fish god to see God. They took the ark and they made a

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categorical mistake, a categorical error. They made the assumption, well I love this one, they made

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the assumption that since they had captured the ark Dagon was greater than the God of the Israelites.

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He was greater than Yahweh. Oh they made the assumption that their God had conquered Israel

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had conquered Israel's God and they took the ark into Ashdod their city and took it into

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the temple of Dagon and they laid it in the altar. They placed the ark in the altar before

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Dagon as if to say we bring you this deity, this defeated deity and lay him before the mighty Dagon.

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Oh those priests had a spell. They sang and shouted a little bit. I imagine they did a little

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hand clapping and I'll imagine they got all excited and all enthusiastic and it kind of got late. They

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shut up the place and went home. They came back next day with the intention of starting their

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celebration all over again but there was a minor glitch in the plan

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because Dagon their God was lying down flat before the God of the Israelites.

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They picked him up. Priests are stubborn.

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Preachers in general, present company excluded, can be stubborn but no one is more stubborn than a pagan

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priest. They picked their God. Let me just say it this way. If we have a God we have to pick up.

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If we have a God we have to prop up. We need to get with another God.

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They picked their God up, propped him back up in his place, decided everything was okay. I can just

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hear some of them now. If it had been folks around today, must have been some sort of minor earthquake

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or tremor or whatever. They were just going to be in the temple of Dagon. They were going to be

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in the temple of Dagon. There was a tremor we didn't get. Probably just knocked him over. Didn't have anything to do

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with our religion or his deity or anything. It's probably something. There was a tremor I imagine.

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There was something. We'll just put him back up there, put him back in place.

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The ark seemed to be okay. We'll leave it where it is.

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Oh glory! Can somebody say amen? They came back in the next morning, switched on the light so

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to speak. When they walked in they found out that indeed things were different. They weren't like

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they were before. Well part of it was Dagon was lying face down before Yahweh but that wasn't all.

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His head was chopped off. His hands were chopped off. My God in that day the Philistines learned a

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lesson. There's nobody like God. There's nobody like God. There's nobody like God. There is only one

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true and living God. I don't want a little G God. I want the big G God. I don't want an idol that's

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broken and busted on the floor. I want the God of heaven and of earth. Can somebody give me a shout right now?

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Hallelujah!

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Our God is incomparable. Oh let me hurry and give you another example. There's so many I can't cover

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them but I want to get a couple. A devout dedication. This time we move over to 2 Chronicles

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and go to chapter 6. I'm going to hone in on verse 14 but before I do I want to tell you

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that when I was a young preacher I preached a lot on chapter 7 verse 1. Uh-huh and I still like it.

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You see chapter 6 is where they got the temple ready and Solomon goes in to pray and he stretches

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forth his hands toward God and verse 14 is where he begins the prayer but the last verse

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of chapter 6 the prayer ends and chapter 7 verse 1 opens with God saying amen.

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Did you ever pray and somebody says amen? Well God says amen. Well he says it a little different

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than we do. When God says amen to prayer, when God says amen to worship, when God says amen to

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what we offer him, he doesn't just say it he shows it. I tell you how it happened. The fire fell and

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the glory filled. The fire fell and the glory filled. The fire of God fell and consumed that

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sacrifice and the glory filled the house. The priests could not even stand to minister. They had

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to get out. They couldn't dwell in the midst of that glory. It was too much for them. I tell you

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when we offer God worship and we offer God prayer and God says amen the fire will fall. The glory

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will fill the house. Somebody hear? Let's give him something to say amen about. Let's give God

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something to say amen to. My God it feels like camp meeting up here. You're right.

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But lately as we ate, I mean mature,

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sometimes, oh Terry I know why you're laughing,

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we began to see further insights

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and now I begin to realize why that prayer could end the way it did.

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I begin to realize why that prayer could end the way it did.

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It's because in the very first verse, the very first words when Solomon began to pray,

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he stretched forth out his hands and he said oh Lord God of Israel there is no one in heaven or

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earth like you. My God he started out with incomparable. He started out with incomparable,

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unique, unable to be. He started out the God I'm praying to. He's not lined up in somebody's

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pantheon somewhere. He is the one, the one and the only one. You go through my God he told Pharaoh

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no one in earth but now he says no one in heaven or earth. There's no angel. There's no principality.

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There's no human. There's no demon. There's no one like God.

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You see one more example and this is my personal favorite

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because we move to John's gospel chapter 3 and verse 34. The Bible says there speaking it's been

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talking about Jesus our Messiah our Savior our Lord and it is talking about him and it says God

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gives the spirit to him without measure. Some translations say without limit.

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Now we realize that God didn't start giving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

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We moved into a new phase and age of God's gracious dealings with us at that point. We realized

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that throughout time there have been sporadic outpourings and episodic outpourings on individuals

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and groups but that is not even the point here because he gave him as the Messiah the Son of God

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the Spirit to accomplish his ministry here on earth but no matter whether it was pre-Pentecost

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no matter whether it is in the New Testament or no matter whether it's today with every case except

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one. Everyone to whom God gives the Spirit is limited. We're all finite. We're all, I'll put it

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this way, we're all measurable. We're all none of us are infinite. We are finite. The Holy Spirit as

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God is finite. He's inexhaustible. He's omnipresent and omnipotent. There's no limit. There's no

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end to him but God gives to each of us according to our capacity to receive which is always limited.

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When the Bible says we are filled it means we get as much as we can hold not as much as he can give.

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I hope somebody got a hold of that one. Glory to God. I'm telling you it is true that in the Spirit

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that in the Spirit-filled life as we continue day by day it's not just a once upon a time

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I got filled with the Holy Spirit. It's a matter of day by day growing and expanding and enlarging

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so that more and more and more and more of us can be filled with more and more and more of him.

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My God let him fill us today to the full until we just run over. But when he gave the Spirit to Jesus

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something incomparable was taking place because God the infinite one

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gave the infinite Spirit to the infinite Son of God.

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Are you with me here? Something happened incomparable. Something happened. The reception

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of the Holy Spirit was not dictated by limitations because there was no end and is no end to the

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the exhaustible of Jesus Christ or the inexhaustible of the Holy Spirit. So God gave the Holy Spirit to

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him without measure. I'm going somewhere with this but let's just go right here. One thing that that

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shows us is how incomparable Jesus is. Oh it took me a while to get there but I'm where I want to be.

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I'm here to preach Jesus. I'm here to preach Jesus Christ the Son of God. I'm here to preach Jesus

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the incomparable Messiah. The immeasurable I call this point the immeasurable Messiah. I want to

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talk about the immeasurable Messiah. There is no end. There is no limit. There is no measuring of

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him. He is the one. I'm here to tell you there's nobody like Jesus. I'm here to tell you he's

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incomparable. I'm here to tell you there's no religious founder or leader or thinker or speaker

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or writer or philosopher that's even in the same category or class. There's only one like Jesus.

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There's only one like Jesus. He's in he's in he's incomparable. My God somebody knows what I mean.

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Just worship your Lord and your Savior. The immeasurable Messiah.

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The incomparable Son of God. Oh a way of illustration.

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Recently the Southwest Research Institute has been using the Hubble Space Telescope

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to examine some uncharted areas and some uncharted objects. A short time ago they published in the

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scientific planetary journal, are you with me so far, an article about something they discovered

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that they had not ever ever seen before. There's a large asteroid belt that orbits between Mars and

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Jupiter which they knew but they found an object, a meteor within that. They named it 16 Psyche. 16

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Psyche. And their investigations and explorations of it indicate that it's unlike anything they

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have ever found. For one thing asteroids are usually made out of mostly bits of dust and rock

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compacted together with the force of gravity in our solar system or universe even. You know but

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here they found out that this asteroid 16 Psyche is made entirely of metal. Not dirt, not dust,

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not rock but metal and furthermore that it's made of iron and nickel. Anybody remember the nickels?

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It's made of iron and nickel and get this they've calculated its size and weight and constitution

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and they have estimated its value. 16 Psyche is worth 10 quintillion US dollars. Now in case

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quintillion is not a phrase you throw around every day like me, in case you're wondering well how

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much is that like a quintillion 10 quintillion is a 10 followed by 18 zeros. It makes millions and

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billions and all of that look like pocket change. In fact when the scientists were trying in their

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little journal to help the rest of us normal ordinary folks, non-scientific folks understand

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how much it was worth they put it this way. They said that that asteroid that meteor is so

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extraordinary because its value exceeds the total economic worth of the combined resources

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and economy of the entire planet earth.

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That little rock is worth more money than all we got.

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Now you know how scientists are they're you know so they realize that the universe is a big place

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so they start saying things in that little journal. 16 Psyche appears to be unique.

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It's possibly one of a kind. We suggest that nothing like it has been and to our knowledge

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doesn't exist elsewhere. Now they're doing well you don't have to be a scientist to know what

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they're doing. They're hedging their bets aren't they? They're hedging their bets because this is

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why they're hedging their bets. They're hedging their bets because they're hedging their bets

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because this is why they're hedging their bets. They know the universe is a vast expanse and they

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realize that it might be some time but with continuing exploration with continuing development

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of scientific abilities they may just may possibly find something somewhere sometime that's a little

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bit larger a little bit more valuable than maybe 16 Psyche is. So they want to say right now it may

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be unique it may be if you will incomparable but there's a possibility that somebody else may find

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something better or bigger or more valuable at some point in time and you know what I'll give

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them that. It may be that somewhere in all of this expanse of universe there is another meteor another

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asteroid belt that has one that has a greater value but today I am not going to play it safe

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and I am not going to hedge my bets and I'm not going to suggest anything. I'm going to declare

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thus saith the Lord. I'm going to say for I am God and there is no other I am God and there is

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no one like me. I'm going to say that the God that created all this there you're not you can search

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wherever you want to you can go wherever you like you're not going to find another God like this

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because he is God. He is incomparable. The Assyrians couldn't do anything with him. The

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Babylonians couldn't do anything with him. Nobody is the devil can't do anything with him. He is God.

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I'm here to say that he is God the incomparable one there is no one like unto him. Today we have

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the privilege of coming into this place and worshiping the incomparable God.

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Wow!

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You see he might have created a bigger better rock

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but he is the creator of it all

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and he is incomparable and I can invite and challenge us here today as well.

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You want to know if God's incomparable ask him to do something nobody else can do.

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Oh I'm not talking about playing games with God. He's not jumping off the temple

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to put on a show for the devil. No no no no I'm not but I'm talking about we got a need

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that nobody else can take care of. We got a prayer that nobody else can answer. Oh glory to God

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somebody here knows exactly what I'm talking about.

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I want to tell you right here today I felt the Holy Spirit in prayer before we ever came into this

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building today impart this into my spirit. There are those here today you have a need that nobody

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else can meet. They would if they could but they just fall short. They're finite they're immeasurable

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but oh there is one here today that told me that we'd come in here and come to him that we would

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find out that he is God and there is no other there is no one like him. He will hear his people

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and do what we need.

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If you believe it could you stand up with me now please. Glory to God.

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As our musicians are coming.

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Here's what the Holy Spirit says. I'm speaking to my people this morning says the Lord.

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I want you to know you think too small and you dream too small.

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And I say unto you even if your wildest dreams were to come true it would not be adequate

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because I have not come to make your dreams for me come true. I have come to make my dreams for you

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come true and my plans for you exceed all that you can ask or imagine or comprehend or even dream.

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For I the Lord your God had big plans huge dreams for my people says the Lord.

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Can we just worship the Holy Spirit and reverence his presence here a moment.

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Yes Lord thank you God have your way Lord praise God.

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The Holy Spirit says thus I will not speak to you in generalities.

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I will tell you specifically that I have placed you and I have planted you with full

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intents and purposes of what I will perform. For I say unto you I have called you together according

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to the fullness of my wisdom and counsel and I have determined to set up a barricade against

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the encroaching forces of worldliness and evil and I have looked for a church and I have looked for

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a ministry that still is enthralled with the beauty of holiness and I have found you to be so

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and I have chosen you to raise you up that holiness might spread like a banner throughout the land

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in a time when worldliness and wickedness and iniquity is the filthy garment and cloak you will be

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adorned as a bride without blemish or spot and all will see that God is holy and God's people are

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holy saith the Lord.