Participants: Jim Burr
Series Code: HDS
Program Code: HDS000009A
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00:23 Welcome to Heavens Declare. 00:25 I'm Jim Burr. Today We're going to talk about the attributes of 00:30 God in the heavens and it's going to take two programs. 00:33 You know the Bible talks about many attributes of God connected 00:38 with the heavens and I've discovered 21, actually 21 00:42 attributes of God that have something to do with the 00:45 heavens. We see the love of God and the wisdom, the 00:49 understanding, his knowledge. By his knowledge he built, he 00:54 made the heavens, by his power, by his wisdom. We're told in his 00:59 presence there's fullness of joy, at his right hand are 01:01 pleasures forevermore. You know, I had a pastor one time that 01:06 said, heaven is kind of spiritual. I called him back. 01:11 It wasn't one of our pastors. But I called him back, he was 01:16 out in Seattle. Tell me more, what you mean, it's kind of 01:22 spiritual. You know heaven is not commercial, but it's 01:26 material and we're going to plant and eat, we're going to 01:31 build and inhabit, and we're going to long enjoy the works of 01:33 our hands. What do you like to do with your hands? I like to 01:37 build telescopes with my hands. I've build a couple of hot rods 01:41 in my life, a model T. Twice I built a model T hotrod from 01:45 scratch. I just got iron and a fiberglass body and engine, 01:49 transmission, rear end, a brass radiator and put together this 01:54 model T hotrod. One thing I would love to do is I would love 01:59 to build a V-8 motorcycle. We got the machine. I built a 02:02 telescope for NASA. We got machines, I could build you 02:06 probably a pretty cool motor cycle, V-8. Now another thing 02:10 I'd like would be a pipe organ. My wife, Bietta plays the organ. 02:14 We have a 16-foot cathedral ceiling. I could just envision 02:17 an organ and pipes up there, you know, that would just rattle the 02:23 rafters. Oh, I'd love that. But you know life is too short. 02:29 I've been around the sun, I'm on my 79th trip around the sun, one 02:32 of the benefits you get for living on earth is you get a 02:35 free trip around the sun every year. So I'm going around for 02:38 79th time. But I just don't have time. There's no time to build 02:41 a V-8 motorcycle. Don't have time to build a pipe organ. But 02:44 you know in heaven you're going to have a long time to enjoy the 02:48 works of your hands. So in the heavens we see God's goodness, 02:53 we see his justice. He inhabits eternity and he inhabits our 02:58 praise. This is an amazing attribute of God that he 03:01 inhabits our praise. We're going to see the riches of God, the 03:04 extravagant beauty of God. We're going to see his faithfulness, 03:10 his power and his mercy. You know, I think all three in the 03:15 Godhead were involved in the creation of the universe. In 03:20 John it says of Jesus, by him all things were made, without 03:24 him was not anything made. When we look in Genesis it talks 03:29 about the Spirit of God was moving upon the waters and in 03:35 fact if we look at Job 26 it says that by his Spirit has he 03:39 adorned the heavens or garnished the heavens. So I'm going to 03:43 show you just a few pictures here of the beauties of the 03:46 heavens. The first one we have coming up is V838. We don't even 03:50 know what this one is actually. They don't think it's an 03:53 exploding star although it looks like an exploding star. They 03:57 have watched this think change for a couple of years. At first 04:00 we thought the first evidence here that something was going on 04:03 in 2002 in January. It took until May to get the Hubble 04:07 turned over there because the Hubble had other assignments. 04:11 So then the Hubble photographed in May and then September and 04:15 December. This is a photograph later in 2004. It's in our 04:19 galaxy. They call it V838. They don't really know what it is. 04:23 They think it's a blast of light that went out and kind of 04:27 illuminated these clouds behind. What a beautiful sight that is 04:31 to see. The next one we have coming up is the cone nebula and 04:35 that's over just east of Orion, a beautiful sight to see. They 04:39 think that's out-gassing that the radiation from the stars 04:43 on the top there are causing that cloud, like a piece of dry 04:46 ice to out-gas and vaporize and so forth. But when you see all 04:51 these beautiful pictures I would just suggest that all three of 04:55 the Godhead were involved, I believe, in the creation of the 04:58 beauties that we see. This is known as the Crab Nebula. This 05:01 is a star that nobody noticed the night before and one night 05:05 July 4, 1054, this thing just blew and could be seen in the 05:08 daytime. It got very, very bright. These clouds are 05:11 traveling out at about 400,000 miles every second. They've 05:16 photographed that every 15 years and actually played it back on a 05:21 computer to verify the fact that it blew up on July 4, 1054. 05:26 A little side note: You know we have many Christians who say 05:30 this universe was made 6,000 years ago. Well how does the 05:34 light get here from all these galaxies if they're millions of 05:37 light years away. So they have all these theories and all these 05:40 ideas how light could've got here and one of them they say 05:44 well light used to be infinite, you know, God created infinite 05:47 fast, now light's been slowing down. Well I think any amateur 05:51 can go to the library and verify that that's not true. If you go 05:54 to the library and look up the Crab Nebula and look up how 05:58 they photographed that every 15 years. They played it back on a 06:01 computer and they verified that it happened when the Chinese 06:05 said it happened. So I think that'd be a thousand years ago 06:08 and I think that proves the speed of light hasn't changed, 06:11 because we weren't able a thousand years ago to measure 06:14 light, of course, like we do today. So we have an 06:21 illustration coming up I'd like to share with you. This is an 06:28 illustration of... This is Jupiter, this is going to 06:31 represent Jupiter, and the string is gravity that holds 06:35 Jupiter. My hand is the sun. Jupiter is held to the sun, you 06:38 know, with gravity. But when Jupiter goes around the sun, it 06:42 actually moves the sun off center, and you see my hand 06:45 wobble. What if I was spinning a bowling ball? You know, I could 06:48 not even do that. I'd need somebody up here to help me. 06:51 But Jupiter actually moves the sun 500,000 miles off center and 06:56 when Jupiter and Saturn gang up on the sun, when they're on 07:00 each opposite sides the sun comes back right almost back to 07:04 perfect center where you'd expect it to be. It's called the 07:09 Berry center of the rotation of three bodies. When Jupiter and 07:13 Saturn are on the same side of the sun, the sun moves almost a 07:16 million miles, when they're on opposite sides, the sun comes 07:20 back almost to the center. In the next graphic, we have an 07:26 illustration of what it looks like. Here's how the sun moves 07:30 as Jupiter and Saturn go around. See it's really doing a 07:36 tremendous amount of wobbling there as it goes around. I was 07:41 sitting in a lecture from a professor from the University of 07:46 Oklahoma talking about gravity. He was saying that when we have 07:50 three bodies, you can almost see it with all those lines, nobody, 07:54 no mathematician can ever give you a formula for the rotation 07:58 of three bodies that are different sizes, different 08:01 masses. If you had three equal, of course, they would be going 08:05 around perfectly, but three of different masses, and I verified 08:10 that. When I got home from this lecture I e-mailed him. I said, 08:13 Professor, before I repeat this in public, did I hear you 08:16 correctly? And he said yes; go to Wikipedia/Three body problem. 08:19 Nobody has ever... He said we can work on it, we can get close 08:22 The more we work on it the closer we get but nobody can 08:25 give you a formula for the center of rotation of three 08:28 bodies that are different masses He said we can simulate it on a 08:31 computer but mathematically we cannot write a formula. What 08:34 really impressed me was the fact that I've been showing audiences 08:38 what you're going to see in a little bit here for a few years 08:43 where the Hubble zoomed in on 10 million stars, the Omega star 08:48 cluster. It watched these stars for four years and you're going 08:51 see the motion of stars for the next four years. So I think we 08:55 are ready for that to roll right now as the Hubble zoomed in on 08:59 the Omega star cluster. The Omega cluster is part of our 09:03 Milky Way galaxy. We have hundreds of these we call them 09:06 globuloclusters of stars. There are hundreds of them in our 09:10 Milky Way galaxy. The Omega one we can't see from the northern 09:13 hemisphere where I happen to live. Southern hemisphere people 09:17 can see it, but we have one almost as good in the Hercules, 09:21 constellation of Hercules, called the Hercules cluster. 09:25 Now when it switches over to color, you'll see we have 125- 09:29 million-dollar camera on the Hubble and you see the beautiful 09:33 colors of the stars. The red ones, the yellow ones, are the 09:36 cooler stars. The blue ones and the white ones would be the 09:39 hotter stars. Those are blazing suns like our sun. These are all 09:42 blazing suns. And you see their motion, how they're going to 09:46 move over 10,000 years. And God's got it all controlled. We 09:51 can't... Nobody on earth can give you a mathematical formula 09:54 for three rotations the rotation of three, but God's got it all 09:58 figured out and we have 10 million in that cluster. So it 10:05 shows you that we have an incredible God. He calls them 10:09 all by their name. How would you like to name those stars? 10:14 He calls them all by their name. You know, he knows the sparrow 10:17 that falls, he knows the hairs on your head, he cares for you. 10:20 There was a statement I was reading... 10:49 We see them moving in a cluster but they are also moving around 10:52 the galaxy. So we have all these motions. I have been told that 10:57 our sun has about 30 different motions. Isaac Newton, you know, 11:02 the famous mathematician made a statement. Isaac Newton was one 11:08 of the most brilliant mathematicians and scientists 11:13 ever. In fact, we have tremendous men of science. We have Keppler 11:18 who was a most godly man and Newton was an authority in 11:23 prophecy and Bible, you know, studied his Bible. He said, 11:29 because of his creatorship we are therefore to acknowledge one 11:33 God, infinite, eternal, omnipresent, omniscient, 11:37 omnipotent, the creator of all things, most wise, most just, 11:44 most good, most holy. We must love him, fear him, honor him, 11:50 trust in him, pray to him, give him thanks, praise him, hallow 11:56 his name, obey his commandments. That was Isaac Newton. We have 12:02 Keppler. I was studying about Keppler. We are not going in 12:07 this series have time to go into the history of astronomy and all 12:11 these guys. That information is readily available. But Keppler, 12:15 what a man of God. I tell you today he'd have been suing 12:19 somebody. People came to Keppler and they said you know 12:23 Galileo, it's Galileo who was plagiarizing your work. What a 12:30 man of God. You know what Keppler said? If God is honored 12:38 let my name be last. Where do you see men like that today? 12:45 We have tremendous men of science we see, men of God. We 12:50 have a picture coming up of a most beautiful galaxy, two 12:55 galaxies actually, gravitationally bound 12:57 together. These are not really large galaxies. Actually to take 13:02 the light across from one to the other is about 100,000 years 13:05 So if you're on one galaxy on the right and you're trying to 13:08 make a phone call across there it's only going to take about 13:11 100,000 years to get the phone to right, and if that party says 13:14 hello it's going to take about 200,000 years to hear the hello. 13:18 You see they're gravitationally bound. You see that one arm 13:22 stretching out off to the left there so they're gravitationally 13:26 tied together. The heaven declare God's creativity. Who 13:35 created all these? Isaiah 40: 25 and 26, it says... 13:42 We're looking at again a remnant of one of those 13:48 exploding stars, a supernova remnant. As we've showed you in 13:52 earlier programs, the biggest stars seem to use up their fuel, 13:56 get bigger and bigger and bigger till they can't support the 14:00 shell, then we get this big blast, and it goes out and 14:03 gradually over time these clouds expand and shift, and expand and 14:07 shift. So this is just a beautiful nebula in our Milky 14:10 Way galaxy. Nothing special there. The next slide is called 14:15 the Crescent Nebula. Again we have hundreds of these in our 14:19 Milky Way galaxy. There are basically four different types 14:22 of nebulae in the galaxy. We have nebula that glow because 14:26 they're hot, we have nebulae that glow because there are hot 14:29 stars, bright stars in the that cause a reflection. We have 14:31 nebulae that are dark. We haven't gotten to the horsehead 14:34 nebula but that will be coming up. That's just interstellar 14:37 dust. Then we have these exploding stars which they call 14:40 planetary nebula. The reason they got their name as planetary 14:43 in the early days of telescopes they saw some of these things 14:47 that look like a planet. Every thing else, every star in a 14:50 telescope unless you're the Hubble, every star is going to 14:54 look like a star. I don't care how big of a telescope you can 14:57 afford you'll never be able to look at a star and see a star. 15:02 It's always going to be a point of light. Now the Hubble can 15:07 zoom in and you can actually see the disks on some stars from the 15:12 Hubble, the bigger stars, the closer stars. So looking through 15:17 a telescope they always look like stars. I don't care how 15:19 much you magnify it, what you're going to see is stars. But the 15:25 planets are always a big disk. So as astronomers looked out and 15:30 see these exploding stars, these supernova remnants, they are so 15:35 that you could actually see a disk in them. So they got their 15:40 name as planetary nebula. But nebulae are basically just a 15:45 Latin word for cloud. So we have those four basic types of 15:52 nebulae. In the attributes of God, how holy is God? We could 15:57 ask Manoah how holy is God. You know Manoah saw an angel and he 16:01 said to his wife, we're going to die, we're going to die, he saw 16:06 an angel. We could ask Job how holy is God. We could ask Daniel 16:13 He would tell you. The seraphims Isaiah 6, the angels who never 16:19 sinned, the angels who never sinned, cover their faces when 16:25 they speak God's name. We think of today how careless people are 16:29 in using the names, the Lord's name in vain. You just cringe 16:34 sometimes when you hear and you go, oh please don't use... The 16:38 Bible says the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh 16:42 his name in vain. So how holy is God? The angels... You know 16:46 Daniel could tell you how holy God is. Woe is me. He identified 16:50 himself with all his people as sinful. Isaiah did the same 16:54 thing. Martin Luther, Martin Luther said, you know, some 16:57 people talk to God like he was a shoemaker's apprentice. 17:01 Disrespect for God. So we want to respect the name of God and 17:06 think about his holiness. The Bible tells us, you know, there 17:10 is a holiness without which no one will see the Lord and that's 17:14 when you have the righteousness of Christ, then you have the 17:20 holiness with which you can see the Lord. Let's see, we have the 17:26 next picture coming up, this is the antennae galaxy. It's 17:30 actually two galaxies gravitationally bound 17:32 together... 17:38 As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride so shall thy God 17:41 rejoice over you The Bible talks about the beauty of holiness. 17:46 That is a beautiful sight. In Psalm 36 it says, your loving 17:51 kindness extends to the heaven, your faithfulness to the skies. 17:57 The Bible says God is faithful, he is faithful. Every day he 18:02 brings the sun up, doesn't he? Every day the sun comes up, the 18:06 stars come up at night. Every day he is faithful. The Bible 18:09 talks at least a dozen times about God's faithfulness it says 18:13 there in the heavens. Some of the scriptures would be Psalm 89 18:18 verse 2. It says... 18:25 The stars come over and we set our GPS by the stars. We've been 18:29 setting our clocks by the stars for years. In Psalm 36 verse 5 18:33 it says... 18:37 Psalm 89 verse 5... 18:44 And we see God's faithfulness in the heavens. 1 John 1:9... 18:53 God is rich, the Bible tells us, he is rich in grace and mercy 18:59 in kindness, in tolerance, in patience. He owns the cattle on 19:05 a thousand hills. If you will Google Diamond star you'll find 19:11 some diamond stars. HD-97048, it has 100 thousand... that's 19:14 the one on the screen, it has 100 thousand to a million 19:18 trillion tons of diamonds. Lawrence Livermore National 19:21 Laboratory tells us that HD97048 the carbon, diamonds are highly 19:26 carbon, carbon, the temperature, the pressure, everything is 19:31 right to make diamonds. HD-97048 a diamond star, maybe a 100 19:35 thousand to a million trillion tons. Now there's another one 19:40 coming up here and this is BPM 37093, another diamond star. 19:45 The interior is a white dwarf with a diameter of 4,000 km. It 19:51 has a hundred billion trillion trillion carats of diamonds. 19:56 Our precious Savior trod weary the sandy trails of old 20:00 Palestine that we might walk with tireless feet on the golden 20:03 streets of the New Jerusalem. You see, the Bible says the New 20:07 Jerusalem has streets of gold, gates of pearl. No problem for 20:11 the Lord. We see that he has stars which we would consider 20:18 fantastically valuable. In Ephesians 1 verse 9 it says 20:22 In him we have redemption through his blood for the 20:27 forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of 20:31 his grace. So one of his attributes is his riches in 20:35 grace, but he's also rich in mercy and kindness and tolerance 20:41 We ought to go to the farthest galaxy that we have. This, they 20:48 tell us would be about 13 billion, where the little arrow 20:51 is. They believe this would be in the very edge of the universe 20:56 13.7 billion light years away. A light year is about 6 trillion 21:02 miles. About 13 billion light years away. When I see that last 21:06 galaxy I go back to Psalms. I think of what it says in Psalm 21:11 103 starting with verse 10: and it says that God doesn't deal 21:14 with us after our sin. Are you thankful the Lord doesn't deal 21:18 with us according to our sin nor reward us according to our 21:22 iniquity. We're thankful for that. God doesn't really give us 21:25 what we deserve does he, as long as we trust in him. What does 21:29 the Bible say for he doesn't reward us according to our 21:34 iniquity for as high as the heavens are above the earth 21:38 that's how great God's mercy is. Can you comprehend that last 21:43 last galaxy at 13.7 billion light years away. You can't 21:46 comprehend that. Can you comprehend a billion, can you 21:49 comprehend a light year, six trillion miles. You see we can't 21:53 comprehend how great God's mercy is. What's the next verse say? 21:58 As far as the east is from the west, that's how far he has 22:02 removed our transgressions from us. Can you comprehend how far 22:06 the east is from the west? It's incomprehensible. That's how far 22:10 he's removed our transgressions from us. Now folks there are 22:15 many people that's all they want to hear is grace. They just want 22:17 to hear grace. I mean you can drive right through the Bible 22:21 belt and you see the marquis. Most of them are grace, grace, 22:25 some form of grace, you see, all about grace. But the Bible does 22:29 have some instruction for us. The Bible does tell us straight 22:32 is the gate and narrow is the way and few there be that find 22:36 it. In America, you know, we're a Christian nation. Everybody 22:39 going to heaven. No everybody's not going to heaven. Everybody's 22:43 not going to heaven I want to tell you. The Bible says love 22:48 not the world. I have a real concern for Christians. I'm sure 22:52 we've got some viewers out there Christians who can't get through 22:56 the weekend without a Hollywood movie, a blockbuster movie. 23:00 Folks what would that mean - we have overcome the world. Love 23:05 not the world. What would be the things of the world? Hollywood? 23:10 Wouldn't that qualify? Materialism? What else would 23:16 qualify? Sports, they call them fans. What's the real word? 23:23 Fanatics. I think that if there may be some people that get so 23:28 involved with the world heaven would be a torture to them. So 23:31 we need a balance between law and grace. Our time is running 23:37 out but one of the attributes of God is... Well C.S. Lewis had 23:40 a problem as he was reading Psalms, praise the Lord, praise 23:43 the Lord. And C.S. Lewis is going why does God need all this 23:48 praise? Then he kept studying and he realized that praise 23:52 completes our enjoyment and the Bible tells us God inhabits our 23:56 praise. All enjoyment spontaneously overflows in 23:59 praise. Now this was an example. One morning I walked into the 24:03 shop. The shop foreman and I go in early usually. And not every 24:07 body was there, but the shop foreman was there. And he didn't 24:10 even say good morning. He said did you see the game last night? 24:14 Did you see the game? I had no idea what the game was all about 24:18 and I had no idea who was playing. And I realized that the 24:21 shop foreman was going to have to suffer for two hours because 24:25 his good friend the production manager gets in and these guys 24:28 know the game, they know the teams, they know their averages 24:31 they know their salary, they know everything about these 24:34 players and he was going to have to suffer for two hours because 24:36 he gets in about six and Tom gets in about eight. He's going 24:40 to have to suffer for two hours till Tom gets in so they can 24:44 relive this game and praise their team and go over the plays 24:47 you know. In fact, I was thinking the other day with the 24:51 super bowl, Denver was in the super bowl and I thought what 24:54 did it cost me the next day because everybody was talking? 24:58 about the super bowl and not working. So the Bible tells us 25:02 God inhabits our praise. As I thought about this shop foreman 25:06 who had to wait two hours so he could have the joy of reliving 25:10 the game and sharing the game, I was thinking, do we praise the 25:14 Lord? Because C.S. Lewis says all enjoyment spontaneously 25:18 overflows in praise and God is enthroned in our praise. To say 25:24 that God inhabits our praise of his people is to say that his 25:28 presence is best felt when we praise him. O that men would 25:33 praise the Lord for his goodness and his wonderful works to the 25:38 children of men. Psalm 107. God tells us 36 times to rejoice in 25:44 the Lord. So our joy is consummated in praising the Lord 25:52 So my appeal to you as we wind down this program again, I hope 25:57 you'll join us next time when we come back with Heaven's Declare. 26:01 But seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he 26:06 is near, let the wicked man forsake his way and the 26:09 unrighteous man his thoughts. Friend if you are involved in 26:14 the world, I plead with you love not the world. Spend your 26:17 time in the word of God. How much time do you spend in the 26:20 world, the music of the world, videos of the world, Hollywood, 26:25 you know, movies. Folks if you are a Christian, you believe in 26:28 God but you're so involved in the world, you will not enjoy 26:32 heaven because we have talked about the holiness of heaven and 26:36 if you are careless with God's name. A lady I know, she's a 26:39 praying, wonderful praying lady but everything that surprises 26:44 her, it's oh my... and she uses God's name in vain. And you see 26:48 the Lord will not hold her guiltless. We need to overcome 26:52 the world. The Bible says love not the world because this world 26:56 might just get you out of heaven even though you may be a 27:00 believer you would not enjoy heaven if you love the world. 27:04 So we'll see you again next time on Heaven's Declare. |
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