Acts 9:1 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?" 5 And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads." 6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" Then the Lord said to him, "Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
When we think of the term ‘creation,’ we are left with some awesome assumptions. One of those assumptions, (which really goes beyond assumption,) is that you are here. Since you have not always been here, you being here now means that something brought about your creation. In other words, you were ‘nothing,’ and now you are, well, you.
From ‘nothing’ to ‘something.’
Evolutionists are completely defeated on this point, by the way. They have no answer - nor as far as I can tell - do they seek the answer, to the question of how something sprang from nothing. All of their notions of evolution begin with some amount of matter. Their concept of the ‘big-bang’ begins with a tiny extremely condensed particle of matter from whence all matter proceeded. Yet they fail to answer where the tiny extremely dense particle of matter came from.
That really matters.
At some point, you must answer the question, “How did something come from nothing?” If you fail to seek an answer to that question you are denying the essential truth of the matter.
We rest in the truth God has creation power. He spoke the worlds, the heavens, you, me, and all of creation into existence. God can take nothing and make something of it. Man cannot. Nor can man change his essential nature.
Our Creator God can take a stark raving Christian-hating man like Saul and change his mind, his heart, and everything else about him. Nothing is too hard for the Lord. Saul to Paul? Not a problem for God. And now, in this reformation of Saul’s essential nature, God has created THE principle example of His grace to all mankind. The old man is dead. The new man will lead millions upon millions to the same change of essence, which is the reformation into the very image of God.
- Pastor Bill
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