[0:00] your Bibles, please, and find Romans 11. There's enough people here that haven't been up to date with what we've been doing here on Wednesday, so I'll just very quickly introduce and then catch back up to where we were. Romans 11. And I remember one thing I wanted to mention was I got a call the other day, or there's a voicemail, I should say, and I returned the call and ended up leaving another message. And the guy's looking for somebody else, for a church, for a family that's in the Sylmar area. I didn't really follow exactly what the details were, but he said he's looking for a Baptist church and wondered what kind of Baptist church we are, whether we're Southern Baptist and Free Will Baptist or you name it. And so really, in the voicemail I just recommended, he'd get on the website and listen to some sermons, enough information out there to answer their questions.
[1:00] I said, but really, the best thing to do is just show up Sunday and check us out. Just see what it's like. So it might be the worst thing that could happen for them, but we'll find out. I'm praying. That's why I'm mentioning it to you. I'm going to pray for whoever this family is in Sylmar that they'd show up Sunday. So just consider that as you pray and just ask the Lord to impress their hearts to show up. Check it out. So here we are, Romans chapter 11, and it's verse number 11. We'll just read 11 and 12. The Apostle Paul says, I say then, have they, meaning the nation of Israel, have they stumbled that they should fall? The answer is, God forbid. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come unto the Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy. Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them, the riches of the Gentiles, here's the statement, how much more their fullness? That's a question, I should say, not a statement. It's a question Paul's asking. How much more is it going to be when God brings them back and picks them back up and sets them back up and then fulfills all of this with that nation? So if it's so good now, as far as Gentiles beginning in on the grace of God and so forth, how much more their fullness? In verse 15, for if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead? And so we began a study that's taken, I think, three weeks thus far, three Wednesdays, studying what it is their fullness, that term their fullness, and taking a trip back into the Old
[2:37] Testament, primarily in the book of Isaiah. And we looked at two categories so far, the first one being that their fullness entails the return of the Lord. And we spent a Wednesday night running scripture and gave you four different points about what that's going to encompass. In the return of the Lord to this earth, He's going to be doing some things, and I'm not going to go over the entire outline again. The second category was the restoration of Israel. After Christ comes back, that nation is going to get lifted up out of the dust, and He's going to put them together literally out of the dust. The resurrection of the saints was the first point there. We went through eight different points in two Wednesdays describing the restoration of the nation of Israel. And we saw that their land's going to be rebuilt. We saw that the analogies of them being a servant, they're going to be bought back and brought back into their land. The analogy of them being married and divorced from God, going to be remarried and lifted back up. We saw how the nations are going to respect and revere that holy people and call them the holy seed. And so they're going to, it's going to be a complete flip for the nation of Israel. Now the third category where we're going to spend our time tonight in this, their fullness is going to be what I'll call the regeneration of creation.
[3:57] Now come to Matthew 19 first, and then we'll head back into the Old Testament. Matthew 19, and notice this as a biblical term, regeneration.
[4:13] The word shows up two times and only two times in the Bible. And the first mention is right here in Matthew 19, and it's a reference to the earth. The second time, Paul writes in Titus chapter 3, verse 5, describes the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Ghost. He's describing a spiritual thing, a rebirth spiritually. The word means to be reborn or a rebirth. And in this case, what Jesus Christ uses the word regeneration, talk about the physical planet. Verse 28, and Jesus said unto them, verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The return of Jesus Christ. Notice in verse 23, you see the phrase at the end, the kingdom of heaven. And we've been studying that in Matthew. Notice chapter 20, verse 1, for the kingdom of heaven. It's just, this is the whole context. There's no question about it.
[5:12] And the regeneration, a.k.a. the kingdom of heaven, a.k.a. the times of refreshing, as Peter calls it, or the restitution of all things in the book of Acts. This is the regeneration of creation.
[5:26] All right, now let's go back into that Old Testament. Start with Isaiah 51. And get your fingers ready, because we're going to move around. Isaiah 51.
[5:46] And this is only the heading here for tonight, the category. We'll give you three sub-points here that we'll chase around a little bit. First of all, this is the regeneration of creation.
[5:59] It's the rebirth of this earth. Isaiah 51. And look at verse number 3. We read this last week. I think it was last week or two weeks ago.
[6:10] But let me draw your attention to it again. Isaiah 51.3, For the Lord shall comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places. And He will make her wilderness like, notice the word, Eden.
[6:21] And her desert like the garden of the Lord. Now that's literal. That's God's intention toward this land. And He created it in Genesis 1, verse 1.
[6:36] And then He makes this garden and puts man in the garden eastward in Eden. And that place was something special. And this is before a curse came onto this planet.
[6:46] So what He originally made, He's saying, I'm going to make something like that. I'm going to turn this barren wasteland into something spectacular. It's going to be like Eden.
[6:57] It's going to be like the garden of the Lord. This is the regeneration of this earth, this creation. This is not the new heavens and the new earth that we studied on Sunday. This is not that at all.
[7:09] All right, come to Zechariah. All the way to your right here toward the end of the Old Testament. Zechariah 14. And let's notice something here.
[7:38] I'll start in verse 7. Zechariah 14, verse 7. I don't have time to really cover context. And this is the return of Christ. Verse 1, verse 4.
[7:49] His feet shall stand in that day. He's on the planet. He's down here. So in verse 6, It shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark. And verse 7.
[8:01] But it shall be one day, which shall be known to the Lord, not day nor night. But it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea.
[8:20] Hinder sea, hinder sea, in summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth. Now this is not a, he's making a statement in summer and in winter.
[8:33] It's not going to dry up over summer. It's not going to be frozen in winter. It's not just going to be an ice melting coming down in the spring kind of thing. This is just going to be perpetual. God is going to send out waters out of Jerusalem and they're going to do something.
[8:47] What are they going to do? Let's take a look back at Ezekiel chapter 48. Come back to the prophet Ezekiel. He also weighs in on the future and the regeneration of creation.
[8:59] And this is Israel's fullness. Ezekiel 48. Not even close.
[9:10] 47. Wrote the wrong verse down. 47. Oh, you've read through this. If you read your Bible through, you've come through this place about this river that he measures so far and it comes up so high and he goes further and it comes up higher and then he can't even pass over it.
[9:29] The waters were risen. Waters to swim in in verse 5. A river that could not be passed over. Where's this coming from? Verse number 1. Afterward, he brought me again unto the door of the house.
[9:41] This is the temple, the sanctuary in the future. And behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward. For the forefront of the house stood toward the east and the waters came down from under, down from under, from the right side of the house and the south side of the altar.
[9:59] Now, we read in Zechariah that it's coming out of Jerusalem. More specifically, it's coming from the temple, from the presence of God. And this water is going to be doing something. It's not just flowing to nowhere.
[10:09] Verse number 7. It says, Well, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. And he said unto me, these waters issue out toward the east country and go down into the desert.
[10:23] Go down. It's coming off of that Mount Zion, an elevated place. And it's flowing downward and spreading out through the land, going down into the desert and go into the sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
[10:37] Now, if you need to know what that means, you run to Revelation. You read about during that time of Jacob's trouble of all the seals and plagues on the earth. And there's death everywhere, including in the sea.
[10:49] The waters are turned to blood in some cases. So there's a lot of, they need to be fixed. God's fixing them here. Verse number 9. And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the river shall come, shall live.
[11:04] This is the regeneration of creation. God bringing this planet back the way he intends it to be. There shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither and they shall be healed.
[11:15] And everything that shall live whither the river cometh. And here's one of my favorite verses in all the Bible. And it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi, even in Eneglium.
[11:26] They shall be a place to spread forth their nets. Amen. Their fish shall be according to their kinds as the fish of the great sea exceeding many. And he goes on to talk. All right.
[11:37] So this is the river flowing forth and just fixing, fixing, fixing, healing. And we'll see some more things. I wanted to get that picture in your mind first so that you can understand some of the language that follows the rest of this study.
[11:50] So we're going back to Isaiah now. And we're going to be there most of the night, but not exclusively. Isaiah, let's try Isaiah 41.
[12:10] Isaiah 41, the regeneration of creation. So in this, in God coming back and picking up Israel, he's doing some amazing things with this planet.
[12:26] Isaiah 41, verses 18 through 20. I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys. And I will make the wilderness a pool of water.
[12:38] Sounds like a pond or a lake out in the wilderness. And the dry land springs of water. And I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shiddah tree, and the myrtle and the oil tree.
[12:50] And I will set in the desert the fir tree and the pine and the box tree together, that they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this. And the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
[13:02] That's what God's going to do. And I mentioned it before. It's so hard not to mention it. Living in a dry climate and seeing dryness and seeing just nothing for soil. Just sand and grit and dust.
[13:16] And this is the kind of place that we're talking about. And he's going to bring water into that. He's going to bring life into it. It's going to blossom and bloom and things are going to go. So how do you think the world's going to respond to this?
[13:28] Look at Psalm 96. We're coming back to Isaiah, but let's catch Psalm 96. So category three is that we're studying the regeneration of creation.
[13:43] And the first point underneath that is that this is going to be the rejoicing of nature. The rejoicing of nature.
[13:55] What does that mean? Let's find out. Matthew, I'm sorry, Psalm 96 verses 6 through 13. Psalm 96 verse 6. Honor and majesty are before him.
[14:07] Like literally because you can see God on this planet. Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.
[14:21] Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. Bring an offering and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Fear before him all the earth. Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth.
[14:35] The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved. He shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad. Let the sea roar and the fullness thereof.
[14:48] Let the field be joyful and all that is therein. Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. For he cometh to judge the earth.
[14:59] He shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth. This planet is going to rejoice. It's going to break out. And I can't, I'll just read a few more verses.
[15:11] You try to draw a conclusion from this. Let's come to Isaiah again in chapter 14. The sea is called to roar.
[15:22] The field is called to be joyful. The trees of the wood are called to rejoice before the Lord. Isaiah 14. And verses 7 and 8.
[15:39] The whole earth is at rest and is quiet. They break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee. And the cedars of Lebanon saying, Since thou art laid down, that's speaking of the Antichrist, no fellers come up against us.
[15:55] Now this very well could be some figurative language because people are likened to trees very, very often. Nevertheless, we see trees rejoicing again and even boasting that since the Antichrist is removed and gone, things are good.
[16:11] This is going to be, when Christ comes back, it's going to be the rejoicing of nature. Look at chapter 35, verses 1 and 2. Isaiah 35, verses 1 and 2.
[16:23] Verse 1. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them.
[16:35] And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The desert?
[16:46] Singing? The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it. The excellency of Carmel and Sharon, and they shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God. What's all this talk about the wilderness and the barren and the solitary places?
[17:01] What's all this talk about the rejoicing of nature? Well, that's what this point is, the rejoicing of nature. One more, 55 and verse 12. Isaiah 55, verse 12.
[17:13] This one you know. You've heard this before. You know. You've heard this before. You know. Isaiah 55, verse 12.
[17:25] For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
[17:40] Isn't that some interesting language? Verse 13. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree. And instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree. And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
[17:54] So when the Lord returns, it's the regeneration of creation insomuch that nature is rejoicing. All of nature. We can't fully understand this.
[18:06] Not even close. But it will be relieved. It will be released when Jesus Christ comes back. This is about Israel, by the way. But this is their fullness.
[18:17] And when that happens, God is going to be changing some things and this planet is going to partake in it. Paul said that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
[18:30] The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain. This is going to be special when Jesus Christ returns. I believe that these trees, these flowers, this water, this physical creation is no longer going to be bound, no longer going to be restricted that the curse has been upon it.
[18:53] And it's going to show you, this world is going to show you what it can do. You haven't seen nothing yet. Let me say it like that. You haven't seen a thing yet. What God made these plants and trees and animals and all of it to do, it's been held back and restricted and its hands tied behind its back, so to speak.
[19:11] And you think it's something special now, do you? And it is. If you would spend any time in learning of anything, of botany, of biology, the hand of God is immaculate, incredible.
[19:25] And I believe it. We haven't seen any of it yet. It's going to be cut loose. There's not going to be any food shortages during this day. Not even close. All right, so this is the rejoicing of nature.
[19:39] All right, secondly, the regeneration of creation is going to be the retraction of curses. Where God rescinds the curse that He placed upon this land.
[19:52] And so, some more of the same language. Before we go through Isaiah on this, come back to Deuteronomy and chapter 28. And we think of curses, we think immediately of Adam and Eve in the garden.
[20:06] And that's where I go to. But that's not the only curses that have been placed upon mankind and upon this planet. Yes, there's been God-pronounced curses in Genesis 3 following the sin of Adam and Eve.
[20:28] And it came all the way down to the dirt, to the ground. But in Deuteronomy 28, the Lord promised some blessing to the nation of Israel when they would live in their land.
[20:44] And they got a taste of it. But they didn't get to stick around very long because of their sin. When the Lord comes back and gives them what Paul calls their fullness, this is the kind of blessings that's going to be dumped on them.
[20:59] And I'll show you on the other hand the curses that will be lifted. So in verse number 1, It shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee up on high above all the nations of the earth.
[21:15] And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
[21:26] Blessed shalt be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of the ground and the fruit of thy cattle and the increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be in thy comest din.
[21:36] Blessed shalt thou thee while thou goest out. Referring to battle, the Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against me to be smitten before thy face. Verse 8, The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses and in all that thou settest thine hand unto.
[21:50] And he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. He said to Abraham that I'll bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee. There's another blessing and cursing God offered forth to nations.
[22:03] Here this is to the Jews in their land should they decide to seek the Lord their God and obey his voice. When Christ comes back, I'm not going to run you through the scriptures but he says I'm going to put my law in their hearts.
[22:17] They're going to obey me. You know what's going to happen by their obedience? It's the blessings that they had right at their fingertips it's going to just overtake them was what the verse said.
[22:30] Now the curses, verse 15, they had a choice and they chose pretty much the wrong thing most of the time. Verse 15, It shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.
[22:48] And you can skim through it's the same thing that he offered to bless he promised to curse if they refused to obey him. And you can skim these verses and see you'll see there's diseases, pestilences, there's consumption and fevers and there's death, there's enemies, there's the botch in verse 27 and several other things.
[23:15] And you can come out of there and come back to Isaiah chapter 11 now. Now, the regeneration of creation is going to be the rejoicing of nature but secondly, the retraction of curses.
[23:28] Of the curses that God has pronounced whether it's because of Adam and Eve's sin or whether it's because of the nation of Israel's sins in their land, it's going to be lifted.
[23:40] And watch what happens. The regeneration of creation is what happens. Chapter 11, Isaiah 11 verses 6 through 8. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them.
[24:01] We've got a few little children that come here Sunday mornings. You'll see little Hudson. He's pushing two years old or something like that or is he two? Whatever.
[24:13] Three. They grow up so fast. So he's three. Can you imagine this little guy grabbing a hold of a lion by the mane and saying, come on, come on. Yeah.
[24:25] Well, it should be. I mean, you know, a little kid, a younger kid doesn't have that fear of everything. Some of them do, but they're not going to need to. They're not going to see an animal and be like, ugh.
[24:36] They're not going to have that fear on them. They're just going to play. Verse 7, the cow and the bear shall feed and their young ones shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox and the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.
[24:54] So there's poisonous vipers and that just makes me think of little Bailey walking around stumbling upon a snake and just sticking forth her hand.
[25:05] Nothing to sweat. Nothing to fear because the curse is gone and the fear of this as well. Look at chapter 29. This is reality, folks.
[25:17] This is the world that God's going to live in. It's not the one that he's out of right now and that we're dealing with. When he comes down here to live, things are going to change.
[25:30] His creation is going to change. Chapter 29, verses 17 through 20. Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest and in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book?
[25:53] Well, what a day that will be for them. And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel for the terrible one is brought to naught and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off.
[26:15] It's going to be a different world where diseases are gone, where disabilities cease to exist. You know why Jesus Christ showed up healing everybody?
[26:26] Showing signs of the kingdom. Do you see it now? Come to Isaiah now chapter 32. Do you see how those healings connect to this kingdom? Do you see how those healings connect to this kingdom?
[26:41] Isaiah 32 verses 14 and 15. Because the palaces shall be forsaken, the multitude of the city shall be left, the forts and towers shall be for dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks, until, until their fullness, until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
[27:12] Well, that's exactly what we just read. Look at chapter 33 and verse 24. 33, 24. This is the retraction of curses.
[27:22] Verse 24 says, Then the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick. No. No more. The sicknesses are gone. The blindness is gone.
[27:34] The dumbness, the deafness, gone, gone, gone. The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. So those curses that we read in Deuteronomy are just kind of glanced at for their sins and the things that they would come upon the people and they'd be plagued with, lifted, removed.
[27:52] Chapter 35, verses 5 through 7. Chapter 35, verse 5. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
[28:05] Then shall the lame man leap as an heart and the tongue of the dumb sing. For in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert and the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water and the habitation of dragons where they each lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
[28:25] This is going to be a beautiful, blessed place. Curse is gone. One more reference on this. Two more. 55, 13. Isaiah 55, verse 13.
[28:42] We just read that, so I'll skip it, but instead of the thorns shall come up the fir tree. Thorns, going back to Genesis 3. A curse, evidence of the curse. Well, that's going to be gone.
[28:54] 55, 13. And then the last one is 58, verse 8. 58, verse 8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily.
[29:10] That's health. The sickness is gone. And health in the place of the curses. So the curses that were pronounced upon man, upon the earth will be rescinded or retracted or revoked and no longer in effect.
[29:29] That's defects, diseases, death, blessings in the place. A total reversal for man, for animals, for plants, for the land.
[29:40] You better believe the landscape is going to change when Jesus Christ comes back. Take a look at, you can keep your place, we're really close here, but go to Amos.
[29:51] Go to the right a little bit to Amos. And chapter number 9.
[30:11] Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah. Amos 9, this is a very popular verse here that this fits right into this thought about the retraction of the curses.
[30:26] Verse number 13. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed and the mountain shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt.
[30:45] And he describes them building the waste cities again. Verse 14. Inhabiting them, planting vineyards, drinking the wine thereof, gardens, eating the fruit thereof.
[30:57] This land is going to be putting forth, like I said, like you've never seen. So much so that it's going to be what God expects out of them. And I mean it that if the creation is groaning and travailing and paying together until now, they are just waiting to be released.
[31:13] They're waiting to show you what they can do. If you think that Brother Eric can grow a big pumpkin over there in his backyard, you wait to see the kind that can come out in this one.
[31:26] You wait and see. So the retraction of the curses. And then there's one more thing I want to say tonight, we'll close, is the third thing is going to be the resumption or the renewal, you might say, of longevity.
[31:41] Come to Isaiah 65. Remember back there before the flood, these men were living 900 plus years. That's how God set the thing up and even after sin and the curses, they're still living these long, lengthy lives.
[31:59] And then after Noah's day, he's like, your days are going to be 120. That's it. You're topping out at that. And it's gone downhill since. It just makes sense.
[32:10] Everything else, God's touching here and he's fixing, that's one he's going to bring back to, the renewal of longevity. Look at chapter 65, Isaiah 65. And notice verse number 20.
[32:25] There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days. For the child shall die an hundred years old.
[32:36] A hundred years old and you're still called a child? Really? But the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. And we'll continue on a little bit. They shall build houses and inhabit them.
[32:49] They shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build another inhabitant. They shall not plant and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of my people and mine elect shall long enjoy, long enjoy the work of their hands.
[33:04] They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth for trouble. For they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer. And while they're yet speaking I will hear.
[33:16] And the wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's meat. Something didn't change there. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountains saith the Lord.
[33:30] So long life is resumed on this earth like it seems like the days before the flood. The curses are lifted. It's not, those things are not going to have the effect on the human body that they have.
[33:43] Everything we eat comes out of the ground. You say, well I'm not a vegetarian but the animals that you eat what they eat comes from the ground. And if they are carnivores and they eat other animals they're eating animals that eat what comes from the ground.
[33:58] So whatever you put in your mouth that's where it's coming from. And you don't have to know biology too well to know that what God put on this planet reminds me of Solomon.
[34:11] Nothing can be put to it or anything taken from it. It's been here in one element or another. It's been here and it dies and it goes back to dust and you partake of a plant that just draws those nutrients out of the ground and does what it's told to do and produces a fruit that's way bigger than itself and then you partake of the fruit and just the cycle of all of this it's still the same elements.
[34:36] Is that the right word? Elements from the periodical table of elements? It's the same elements nothing's changing and departing the earth it's all still here in one way or another.
[34:49] And so what we eat comes from curses what we put in us is from curses and we ourselves the wages of our sins death and we're killing ourselves with our sin if you live after the flesh Paul said you shall die and all of this is just going to be ripped away from us and it's going to be something where it's cleaner and more right and holy and this is of the Lord I think there's going to be such a major change to health of the human body and to strength and to mental capacity I think some I mean you're not going to miss it the human race is going to change and sin is still going to exist and we're going to study that a little bit next Wednesday just like it did early in Genesis it existed and death did show up eventually but what a difference it'll be on the planet in that day so the fullness of Israel this is where we get in on what they've got promised from God and get to enjoy that the fullness of Israel is going to be category three tonight the regeneration of creation so next week then we're going to study the reformation of civilization and where God is going to come back and rectify what has got completely out of hand when he gave it over to man and man just made a mess of it and man has tried to govern man but how do you govern a wild man who's prone to sin and prone to wonder and even now the government in our life and the people that we know as government where they just frustrate you don't they the choices they make the decisions they make the decrees they make and they sound so noble but so foolish and so pointless and so much hot air and fluff and lies and blah blah blah that's going to change praise the Lord the whole society is going to change sin will still exist but I'll show you from that book of Isaiah it's going to be put down pretty low sinners are going to hide sinners are going to tremble they're going to walk lightly because there's going to be a reason a consequence should they get caught and so we'll study why man is why there's so many ways we could look at it why why punishment is good you can take that away from it next week and how regulating society like that with threats is worth it it's going to help everybody do what's right stay in line so we'll do that next week let's pray together and we'll be dismissed and then Lord willing get to that please again I remind you to pray that that family if you're so inclined that they'd show up Sunday that's just something
[37:33] I'm going to pray for I ask you to pray with me about that too coming this Sunday Father