What About Angels

My faith is grounded on the Word of God, and the wonders of one.

I trust the finished work of Christ alone, I'm saved by wondrous grace divine. Hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! My heart keeps singing as I go.

I dwell in David, in the waiting night, and live where no cannot be found. My joy is boundless since in Christ I live, and all I live and now defend.

A refuge from the world of sin and strife, where heavenly blessings never end. Hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! My heart keeps singing as I go.

I dwell in David, in the waiting night, and live where milk and honey flow. My life has taken on a purpose true, since Christ is on the throne.

This spirit fills and gives me victory too, and now I live for him alone. Hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! My heart keeps singing as I go.

My dwelling, taken in the waiting night, and live where milk and honey flow. My life where milk and honey flow.

You can't honey flow. And a song of that same fervor and content is found on page 100.

God is so wonderful. I can't explain.

God is so wonderful. I can't explain. But I can say, glory, hallelujah, praise his holy name.

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It's wonderful because he saved me. It's wonderful that he forgave me.

It's wonderful, wonderful, so very wonderful, wonderful that he is mine.

Oh, God is so wonderful. I cast on him my every burden. Lay at his feet my every care.

It's wonderful, wonderful, so very wonderful, wonderful that he is mine. Oh, God is so wonderful. I can't explain. But I can say, glory, hallelujah, praise his holy name.

Okay, glory, hallelujah, praise your holy name. Oh, God is so wonderful, but I can't point to you. This is the only one of the things you have in the world. It is the only one of the things you have in the world. It is the only one of the things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. The things you have in the world. His name is wonderful, Jesus my Lord.

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Bow down before Him, love and adore Him.

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Amen. Amen. we're in the book of daniel and tonight again in chapter 10 but not staying there in totality it would be very easy for us to hurry on to chapter 11 because of the fact that's the chapter that seems to be the most prominent today and everybody is interested what's going to take place at the signs of the times and further information on the antichrist from daniel's first vision in chapter seven and second vision in chapter eight and it seems that chapter 11 is the one we're always running to when we get to daniel after we've gone through chapter eight and chapter nine but to me from a purely bible standpoint the 10th chapter of daniel is one of the most interesting in the book number one because it deals with so many different subjects we have studied at least two or three of those in the last couple of weeks and tonight the lord allowing we go on to a third one of the great teachings of the 10th chapter of daniel is how long do you keep on praying daniel was a very good prayer normally he prayed and got an immediate answer but in chapter 10 that didn't take place prayed for 21 days and didn't get an answer that was unheard of in daniel's prayer life we've studied an extent what do you do when answers to prayer do not come well if we're honest with ourself according to the word of god we look at ourself to see if there's any problem with us something between us and the savior and that's what you find in daniel 10 verse 12 that's what he did for three weeks he kept on praying kept on being persistent kept on being concerned the 10th chapter of daniel also speaks of the lord jesus christ twice i personally believe that verse 5 and verse 6 of the 10th chapter ties it to revelation for the very vision of christ that daniel saw except for one phrase is found in revelation chapter 1 so it is very possible that the events which follow the 10th chapter of daniel are more exclusively given to us in revelation chapter 5 through the end of the book for revelation deals with the world apart from the believer and daniel deals with the world apart from what we call the age of grace and therefore we not only see persistent prayer and we'll see that in a moment and why it wasn't answered but we see the lord jesus christ the next interesting subject in the 10th chapter of daniel is the subject of angels and demons now if you'll just cast your eyes for a few moments to pick up the thread my conviction is in verse 9 where we see yet heard i the voice of his words is the closing description of the lord jesus christ as he appeared to daniel in the old testament beginning with verse 10 i believe he is describing in his own words the angel which spoke to him of the answer to his prayer notice what it says and behold a hand touched me which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands i've told you for two weeks daniel could never get the message with his

face to the ground there is a place for repentance there is a place for prostration but there is not a place for that if you're going to do something for the lord and so the angel says to him and he said unto me oh daniel a man greatly beloved and that's where we were last week why was he that because of his uncompromising position of his continual spiritual tone certainly of his prayer quality of the place he put god in his life his interest always to seeking christ first understand the words that i speak unto thee and stand upright for unto thee am i now sent in other words here we see that an angel is a messenger of god with an answer to prayer now we may not stop on that tone tonight but i would remind you in your bible reading that something might startle you of how many times in the bible god refers to angels as the messengers of answered prayer now in this day and age we do not pay attention much to that there is no doubt that when we pray and ask god for direction as the writer of proverbs says and as the writer of new testament timothy says god hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind there is no doubt that the holy spirit because he indwells us and infills us answers prayer given to god through christ through our very lives and yet we cannot turn aside from the fact that god uses angels now i think probably why fundamental believers have not paid much attention to the subject of angels is the fact that we've always pictured them sort of effeminate and we've always looked at angels as kind of being weird i'd like to have you think with me for a few moments tonight kindly notice something as i get you acclimated the angels angel speaks to daniel and said he was spoke sent to speak something to him verse 12 then said he unto me fear not daniel from the first day that you began to pray in other words when we speak of angels we have to find out something about them first of all i'm sure that all of us agree tonight and will agree that angels are beings which were created by god now we don't totally understand we have a lot of theories and we have a lot of conjecture about the creation of angels we have a great deal of misconception about angels first of all i would remind you that angels are limited very often we think of angels as synonymous with god that is not true i might say to you by my own conviction and i personally believe that an angel can only do one thing at a time an angel can only be one place at a time now it may be that an angel has some speed involved but he also is not as quick quick as the wink of an eye nor is he omniscient and omnipresent and omnipotent and i sometimes believe this is why we have stayed away from the subject of angels now you are aware daniel had a great deal to do with angels in the previous chapter when he had that long prayer of confession of sin when he was agonizing for israel when that great four-verse prophecy comes to us about the 70 weeks you realize it was an angel that brought him that message in answer to his longest prayer

that's recorded are you aware tonight that it was an angel that released peter from prison it was an angel that spoke to zacharias in the temple about the birth of john the baptist we forget that angels seem to have a singular mission to carry out when god sends them certainly we believe that angels were created before the creation which we know as heaven and earth now that's a debatable point but turn to job chapter 38 and look with me at verse 4 5 6 and 7 very slowly tonight i'd like to develop a little thought on angels now realize that not only is an angel introduced to daniel but the subject of demons and their area of operation is introduced to daniel three times in the 10th chapter now we're turning to job 38 if you have a commentary at home you can read these same words but i think it's very well that we look at this tonight very carefully now job is being questioned by god about his own knowledge he says in verse 1 then the lord answered job out of the whirlwind and said who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge gird up now thy loins like a man for i will demand of thee and answer thou me in other words he's going to question job on some godly knowledge where was thou when i laid the foundations of the earth declare if thou hast understanding now because we have a full bible we know more about creation than job knew but we do not know god's entire creative situation as well as we'd like to he has only given us enough to operate in the realm of the word of god and it's not necessary for us to know creation in its totality except it hinges on the fact of calvary and the gospel in the lord jesus christ i am very interested in the first three chapters of genesis as you were when mr greer was here last sunday morning we have a great debate going on nowadays about homosexuality and lesbianism i don't care what you say it's contrary to the word of god and i don't care if you call it intolerance or you call it any place else you have to face to the word of god yesterday we had a marriage in our family oh i forgot that some of you are angry with me all right somebody said to me how come you don't tell us when things are going on well how come you don't read the bulletin board yes the announcements of kevin's weddings been on a bulletin board for one month you don't read the bulletin board okay so we're even okay i was interested as i preach at all weddings and use genesis 2.

god gives the definition of marriage a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife and they too shall be one flesh now you say pastor what are you talking about in my introduction in describing the institution of marriage and using that i said to the audience i would have you notice that divine marriage is always between a man and a woman and it can be nothing else now let's get it straight we know enough about god's creation we like to delve into the philosophy and scientific aspect of creation but god has given us enough to accept by faith to see if we believe he is god now there's where job is and the interesting thing is he asked job where were you when the foundations of the earth were laid verse five who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the cornerstone thereof now all of that is questioning the magnificent creation of god which he did by the word of his mouth god spoke and it was so now all i'm leading up to is the next verse he says in this matter of my describing creation i would remind you that there was somebody already there that looked at it and that appreciated it and that sang now everyone agrees that verse 7 refers to angels there is no commentary liberal unorthodox orthodox or any place else that will argue the point that verse 7 refers to the fact that angels were there when creation took place as listed in genesis 1 1 they are called here the morning stars when the morning stars sang together it seems and i'm only saying this personally it seems that there are and i'll show you that in a moment again there are ranks of angels now notice something else in this verse when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of god now that has nothing to do with man two references in this verse refer to angels they are called the morning stars that sang whether that is a designated group with a purpose or a godly description of the eliteness and the brilliance of his creation before genesis 1 1 it doesn't make any difference secondly we have the reference to the sons of god now i'm not going to debate the point but everyone agrees that the sons of god here are angelic beings therefore it is not without bible comparison that the sons of god in genesis 6 are the same in type of individual a rank of angels so angels are created being in essence we don't know when they were created whether god in his threefold aspect and person a father son and holy spirit who has always existed at one time in their creative minds and a being which has power to do it decided to create beings that were for their own purpose we do not know now we do know that the bible teaches us one of the ministry of angels is to worship god

but we do know that angels were present at the creation of genesis the first chapter and that which is listed there in fact they sang at that creation and the sons of god the angelic beings shouted for joy now how many angels are there that's an interesting question we're just going to be simple we're not going through any difficult situations in this little study because we're still studying daniel turn to daniel chapter 7 where we when we've been before in the second vision that daniel gets or the first vision of his own which is not an interpretation of a heathen dream daniel of course saw the antichrist which we have already studied the purpose of the vision of chapter 7 is to show us that the ancient of days a picture of the lord jesus christ will take over the kingdom of the antichrist on earth you come to verse 9 i beheld till the thrones were cast down that's the thrones of those who rule the universe with the antichrist christ during the tribulation and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wool his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministered unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him no doubt a reference to a number of angels there is no word in the hebrew language for millions therefore whenever we want to see a multitude above that goes towards the million mark the hebrew has to lose this kind of a phraseology ten thousand stood before him and a thousand thousands ministered unto him and ten times ten thousand that is almost an incalculable number i wonder how big heaven is now your idea of angels is that they don't take any space that's not true angels do take space look if you will to hebrews chapter 12.

maybe we should have started in hebrews chapter one but we didn't hebrews chapter 12 in referring again to some of the old testament situation says in verse 22 but ye are come unto mount zion and unto the city of the living god the heavenly jerusalem no doubt speaking of heaven and its place again and to an innumerable company of angels again an undesignated number your reference bible and some of your new newer bibles translate it myriads well all it's saying is that's a great many turn to revelation chapter 5 and you will see the same thing in this chapter you're a little more familiar with look at verse 11. the little book is now going to be opened by the lamb of the lion of the tribe of judah and he says and i beheld and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beast and the elders and here's the same phrase as daniel which again gives me license to say daniel and revelation are talking always about the same things the angel described in the greek language are the same problem we have a little problem with a billion in greek of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands how many angels are there it almost seems apart from god and the mind that he has they are uncountable in our language now why is that necessary well because of what i said a moment ago an angel can only do one thing at a time if god created the angels before his creation of earth and man to worship himself and in the present economy of his creation he uses the angels which are still called good angels to do his ministry and he still wants worship of himself by the angels then there has to be a myriad of them to carry on turn to hebrews chapter one we very facetiously talk about guardian angels i don't believe we should be facetious in that subject if you have a reference bible hebrews chapter one verse 14 is always referred to in your reference bible and i'm not so sure that the references are always good there in speaking of the lord jesus christ you come to come to verse 13 but to which of the angels said he at any time sit on my right hand until i take make thine enemies thy footstool he never said that to an angel are they not now what's the next word all ministering what all right now notice something he would never compare evil angels or demons in a paragraph with the lord jesus christ therefore we conclude that his comparison of angels to christ here has to be only the good angels as we designate them such all right are they not all ministering spirits let me parenthesis it good angels and you realize something happened to the angelic creation where did we get evil angels where do we find and what happened to the angels that are presently bound that we find in jew where do we get demons were the angels at one time there was some upheaval in the angelic creation certainly we believe that isaiah 14 gives us some glimpse of that so that we presently have good angels

that's who came to daniel he was sent on the first day of daniel's prayer he didn't get there till the 24th day he had the answer to daniel's prayer what i want you to see in verse 14 is a very unique little phrase or word are they not all ministering spirit all good angels are ministering spirits now don't become involved in the word spirits that always scares you send forth to minister for them now he designates who good angels are ministering to and it's a strange phrase in our bible are they not all sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of total salvation i can make a bold statement good angels are never involved with unsaved people it's impossible it's impossible for example it is not an angel that convicts a sinner of sin it is the holy spirit it is not an angel that brings a message of salvation to a sinner it has to be a human being good angels are connected only to those who have accepted jesus christ as their personal savior if he had said here heirs of the gospel we would have had to inferred the salvation which the person receives by the gospel but he uses the word which you know is the word salvation it is not just getting to heaven it is not just eternal life it is an old testament and a new testament word which engulfs the gospel as the foundation romans 1 i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ for the gospel of christ is the power of god unto what class now salvation and the gospel are not synonymous the gospel is the vehicle which brings salvation and salvation does not just include eternal life in heaven it includes all that which god has though we cannot be dogmatic that every believer does have a ministering spirit a good angel whether it always is the same one i do not know but i do know this that in daniel's life only two angels were ever connected with him gabriel and michael and they are not ordinary angels so it would seem that it's very possible that as an heir of salvation there is a sign to you and angel a ministering spirit now that can either scare you or help you in daniel's case it was a very interesting situation go back to daniel 10 for a second i'm a little bit where i don't want to be but that's okay you will be interested i trust just because you're here i am concerned that we have some responsibility toward our angel now you never heard that before did you angels are certainly above the rank of men because christ was made a little lower than the angels when he took upon the form of man you understand that from hebrews right now angels do not change rank it is very unfair but they don't you see because an angel tried to take and change rank that's why we have the position of angels and evil angels and demons today lucifer tried to change rank and that's what caused the upheaval now theologically speaking class you have a real problem

if a higher creation is not allowed to change rank because god has put them where he wants them to be even though they had the privilege just as adam and eve to walk away from their rank then there is no right for us to believe that god does not have the privilege over us that he has over angels and we never think about that now notice daniel 10 the angel comes to him in verse 12 and remember now this is not michael or gabriel this is another angel then said he unto me fear not daniel from the first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy god thy words were heard now his prayer was being heard from the first day was it daniel's responsibility to stop praying daniel the man of god who never wavered did not stop praying he has told us he prayed for 21 days the same way to find in verse 12 what if he had stopped he would have defeated for the moment if you allow me a little personal imagery he would have defeated the work of his personal angel what did his personal angel had to do he had to go through the realm of the operation of satan now somebody's gonna say to me pastor you've mentioned this for three weeks i keep mentioning it because i think it's one of the most important things in our bible to learn i do not believe in studying demons i do not believe in studying satanism but i do believe we have to realize there are forces and created beings around us that can affect our lives and what we are doing and i'm convinced of this just as this morning when the word of god is preached the first thing the devil wants to do is snatch that away and that is not only true with the sinner that is true with the saint and for some reason or other and we know this to be true the angel that left heaven on the first day did not get to daniel with the answer to the 24th day because the realm of the demons fought with him and didn't want to let him through and i personally believe that if daniel had stopped praying his angel would have been defeated he would have had to turn back with the answer to his prayer now that's where you are in verse 13 he gives to daniel his reason not an excuse but the prince of the kingdom of persia now don't get involved in a lot of terminology if the liberal will agree with us on this we might be white for once because we don't have any problems with commentaries on this either if there are ministering spirits to the saved there are also ministering spirits to the unsaved and there are ministering spirits to every government and to every nation and it would seem that the power of the evil spirit of the demon is so powerful that it only takes one demon to control the government of one nation kindly notice he uses a singular word but the prince of the kingdom of persia a reference to an evil angel a demon appointed by satan to control the persian government the government now you've got two things and i don't want to confuse you did daniel live through the rule of the medes and the persians all right so you are talking about eye observation of a government of where daniel stood true

so he is talking about the ruler of persia the government of persia of which he could see was idolatrous and heathen and etc going with that in the atmosphere in the heavens is an evil angel or a demon i prefer to refer to a demon that controls from there although coming to here the government of persia it is hard for us to see that what's going on on earth is being influenced by what comes down from the prince of the power of the air the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me one and twenty days daniel prayed and he prayed and he prayed and he prayed and he prayed and then in very imagery god sent an archangel to help him why because of daniel's prayer now daniel's angel could not be defeated and destroyed because they now cannot change the bible gives us this by good conviction that wherever the angel is in authority or rank now it will never change but he can be defeated in his mission now i say that with reservation because some of you can become so emotional that you'll become more involved with angels than you are with god and i don't want that to happen now read further with me but lo michael one of the chief princes came to help me and i remained there with the kings of persia now he refers to the plural rulership of the princes that he came through again you see rank you follow me one is called the prince but over the prince are kings now you drop over so we will not forget our lesson to verse 20 the angel is speaking again now there's a discrepancy here with a lot of people i do not again believe that this is christ in form speaking i think this is an angel then said he knowest thou whereof i come unto thee and now i will return to fight with the prince of persia again i got to go back through that mess all i'm doing is imagining class to get daniel's answer down he had to fight through that mess and he had to get michael's help all right now the angel has to go back why doesn't he why doesn't the demonic force want him back in heaven because if he gets back in heaven and daniel prays again he can send back with another answer now he goes further than this now will i return to fight with the prince of persia and when i'm gone forth when i'm victorious over him and we get persia you remember that the medes and persians one came over the other and then we had alexander the great who came over the whole mess so fast that nobody he got sick of fact he couldn't have any more kingdoms to get rid of so he just killed himself all right now he compares the world again with the demonic force and he says and when i am gone forth victorious over the prince of persia then i'll have to um work through the prince of greece what's he say if you got persian rule today daniel and the persian king goes out of office because of the overrunning of the land by another king then the evil person or the demonic force of that government i'll have to fight with him and when that's finished if the area of greece comes into governing power then whoever is the evil angel in charge of the government of greece i'll have to get through him every time to get victory

it's the only smattering of scripture that we've got about this type of teaching so what do we have we have a creative force that came before god's creation now broken up into possibly three areas good angels evil angels that's a hard one to look at and demons they're incalculable in number they seem to have rank now let's look at that for a second turn to ephesians chapter one and you will disagree to start with we will not go too much further because you must have time to digest ephesians chapter one again speaking of the lord jesus christ you come to verse maybe 19 let's start there and get the flavor all right and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us word who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places now let's stop and be simple where is christ today class where he's in heaven you all agree with that he's sitting at the right hand of the father you agree with that all right now you notice verse 21 far above now you got a little word it's the next word all principality and power and might and dominion no reference to earth right now nothing is said here about any human beings all it says is that christ sits in the heavenly seas in heaven and we know this from hebrew and christ is presently above principality and power and might and dominion all i'm saying to you is our best thinking seems to indicate that those are ranks of angels look at colossians chapter one and you'll see it easier in a minute on the other side of the fence begin with me at verse 15 who is the christ again who is the image of the invisible god the firstborn of every creature for by him were all things created that are in heaven that are in earth visible and invisible now you have a designation again whether they be thrones now let me stop there is no doubt that lucifer was created with a special position and a special operation in god's economy before creation of heaven and earth i have my own theory on this we'll read it maybe next week in isaiah 14 my personal conviction is is that lucifer in his original created form as an angel was a merchandiser and if you read isaiah 14 you'll find it out his purpose was to take all the glory of the angels and hand it to god he merchandise the go-between between he and god the angel to give glory and honor and worship that was the creation and lucifer's rank was such that he took all the glory and the worship of the angels and he delivered it to god that was the purpose then he decided to merchandise some of it for himself and keep it so that if he got enough of the glory and the worship of the angelic force

he could merchandise himself as god now my personal conviction is that the angels that allowed him to keep their glorious merchandise are the ones that fell with him because they were cohorts in the merchandising and that's why lucifer fell in his ranks now all god does in ephesians colossians is to show us how above christ is about any other creative force thrones and dominions and principalities or powers christ is above that and these are ranks i remember in college i had an argument with a professor on this and i know he is right now and i should go back and apologize to him but he's died i never could see it i always look at thrones on earth well any dummy knows christ is above any throne on earth right power on earth any dummy knows that christ is above power on earth but why does he write it twice through paul by the holy spirit that christ is above thrones and dominions and principalities and powers because he's giving to us a picture of a rank of something that's not on earth now you turn to ephesians 6 and you all fall into place verse 10 finding in my brethren be strong in the lord in the power of his might put on the whole armor of god that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood people right now i don't like this verse my greatest problem is people all if i could get rid of people i could have a happy life your greatest problem is people or is it or is it people touched by a power outside of the human realm look at it he says to you i am not describing people what are you describing paul by the holy spirit why do i need the whole armor of god to help me with people no i don't need any help with people now you know what the rest is but we do wrestle against same words again principalities and powers and here he adds to us where the principalities and powers are and daniel's angels tell us where they are i had to come through that for 21 days and the angel was conditioned on daniel's prey for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but we wrestle against principalities against powers against the lords of this world against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies that's exactly what daniel's teaching us and there are ranks some are princes and some are kings and when he came through and argued and fought with the prince of persia and michael helped him he got to daniel but he says when i go back and if the evil angel of persia is defeated because persia is no longer in government then i'll probably have to fight with the evil angel of greece to get victory over him to come back so there are ranks all angels do not have the same position all demons do not have the same position all evil angels do not have the same position we see gabriel and michael referred to in the word of god especially in the light of the nation of israel it would seem if you'd like to read it that michael is the

guardian angel of the guardian angel of the nation of israel one angel not a whole lot of them just one gabriel of course is always connected in revelation as an archangel so we seem to have ranks we have lucifer who had a rank and who presently has a rank above all the other evil angels and demons right he is called notice the phrase the prince of the power of the air that part between here and heaven which there is some space of which the angel has to go through now kindly remember something angels have bodies yes they do may i just give you this and we'll stop i'll pick it up next week and one more week on this and then i'm in daniel 11 okay 10th chapter of daniel's most important chapter in the bible when it comes to practical things of the word of god turn to luke chapter 24 we don't see it quite as clearly here as we will in a moment but i want you to see something angels do have bodies now my theology class understands this already so they have no problem in luke 24 i'm at verse 36 and as they thus spake jesus himself stood in the midst of them and saith unto them peace be unto you but they were terrified and affrighted and supposed that they had seen a spirit now that very often designates an angel and he said unto them why are you troubled why do thoughts arise in your hearts behold my hands and my feet that it is i myself handle me and see now notice what he says a spirit hath not flesh and bones but parentheses he asked something a spirit is not nothing in my theology class i always say when you say take this body away my spirit falls on the ground as a blob no it doesn't turn to first corinthians 15 now it's very possible because most of you are scholars that fallen angels or demons are disembodied spirits therefore in order to operate they have to have a body of some kind why did satan pick up the body of a serpent because he can't operate without some kind of a body first corinthians 15 with this we close we've come through the creation we've come through what the angels did at creation we've come through the number of them we've come through their ministering spirit we've come through their rank we've come through their bodies first corinthians 15 verse 38 but god giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and whoever exceed his own body all flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beast another of fishes and another of birds there are also celestial bodies bodies and terrestrial bodies but i want you to see something celestial or heavenly bodies are still bodies why didn't he just say there are celestial and terrestrial that's not what he said he added to it the word soma body there is a heavenly body although it's not flesh and bone he just said that how can a spirit have flesh and bone but he does say a spirit and angel if you allow me to take that translation

has a body a spirit is something now the problem you have is the only kind of body you can realize is this kind of a body he calls that a fleshly body but there is a heavenly body and i might say to you that you all have one too if this earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved we have a house not made with hands eternal in the heaven i'm being facetious if you die tonight and we put you in a box are you in the box yes or no where are you what what went there a blob huh and your spirit is not a blob your spirit has a heavenly body angels have bodies now i'll go on from that next week the angel came to daniel and said i had the word from the first day but i had a problem getting through the atmosphere with the prince of persia until michael came to help me i wasn't going to make it now i'm here but i had to fight him back to get back up there again it would seem that daniel teaches us a great deal about the construction of angels the ministry of angels the habits of demons and that which is above us called principalities power lords of the air and spiritual wickedness in the heavenly you have a ministering spirit because you are an heir of salvation heavenly father we have come very slowly tonight maybe to whet our appetites to realize that the bible has some things that maybe we ought to look at we are not here to become scholars on angels and demons but we ought to be aware that you have not only given us christ and the holy spirit but you have a myriad of messengers that's your beck and call for our benefit but we also realize in the economy of the present situation satan also has his messenger direct our attentions as we study together for these that have been here tonight in the savior's name amen all day i wanted to sing the little chorus which is number one in your little green book great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them it sort of fits our singing part tonight of the word of god and faith and the anchor and the ground and the resting place that we've been singing about may we close the day by singing this a couple of times great peace have they which love thy law let's stand together and sing great peace have they which love thy law great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them we bow in a moment of prayer and then we're going to sing this as a benediction or an invitation i would not try to translate a teaching message such this into salvation but i would just say to you i don't want to ever leave this room on sunday morning or sunday evening

if the lord leads to say to you if you have a spiritual decision to make you have opportunity to make it while you're here and i don't know what that might be we taught this morning that we sow the word and and we have to leave it with the lord and maybe the word's going to bear fruit tonight maybe something has grasped behold throughout this day in your life and you said i must do that tonight when i get to church i must make some inquiry i must make some decision and that's the opportunity you have our heads are bowed and we just ask the lord to do his work as we sing this little song once more through with our heads bowed we'll not sing again if you'd like to step from your seat with some need tonight some decision some testimony some praise just what's on your heart i'd remind you it's not of men it has to be of god this is our invitation just sing the little hymn with your head bowed as we begin to close they're with the great great great at the great day is so is is that in and lip and and and lip and and and and and and and

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