God Isn't

And this doesn't seem right, not coming here in the morning. So, hopefully you're not tired of me yet. My mother said I still have a room in her house, and I have to go back home. And you're tired of me. But I think I'd like to stay. The title! And I'm going to do this.

Are you ready for it? Yes. The title is God Isn't. God isn't. Is that right this time? Strange title, maybe. God isn't. The story of a little girl in the first grade. The teacher on the very first day gives him my pad, a pencil, and some crayons. She said I'd like you to draw something, and then color it. She walks around the class looking at everything the little ones are drawing. Comes to this little girl, can't figure out what in the world she's drawing. She said, what is this that you're drawing? And she says, it's God. And she says, well honey, no one knows what God looks like. And she says, they will now. How would you describe?

How would you explain God? We know one scripture and we all know it, 1 John 4. They tell us God is love, or God is agape. But love or agape is an attribute of God. It helps to describe the character of God. You might even say agape is what motivates God.

But God is so much more than love. When we make a statement like God is love, we could be guilty of disrespect. To be clear, we would be limiting the unlimited. Guilty of putting God perhaps in a box. To try to tell you who and what God is is frankly impossible. Impossible. And in my view, I may get too close to blasphemy. Too close to creating God in my image, in my imagination.

Perhaps in your mind or imagination. Each and every one of us, we have in our mind this picture of God. And I dare say, 40 or so people here is probably different. If we were like the little girl to draw God in our minds. So today, I want to tell you who or what God isn't. Who or what God isn't. If our destiny is to one day be a part of the God family.

I guess we might need to know what we will not be at that time. And what we will not be in eternity. Because we are so human that too many times we want to put God in the human realm. And He is not human. When we talk to God, do we feel a closeness? Here describe who God is to you.

Would you say Father? Creator? Hopefully you would. He is both. I had a quote one time that said some people treat God like they do a lawyer. They go to Him only when they are in trouble. Hopefully we are not like that.

Because if you do that, sometimes you just see Him as a Creator instead of Father, Daddy, Dad, Abba, Father. As the Scriptures tell us. Great geographer Aaron Aerosmith said, that a heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, Where is God? The Christian answered, Let me first ask you, Where is He not? A.W. Tozer, P-O-Z-E-R, wrote a book over 50 years ago called, The Knowledge of the Holy. Anyone read that by chance? Yes? In the book, Tozer goes in and explains and uses these words that you will hear in religious speak, of describing God as being infinite, immutable, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent.

Big words that most of us do not use. And these words can sometimes keep God even at a distance from us. No matter how we try, it is very hard to get a handle on God.

I quote from page 33 of the book, As Tozer makes his statement. He said, Our common habits of thought allow for the existence of need among created things. Nothing is complete in itself, but requires something outside itself in order to exist. All breathing things need air. Every organism needs food and water. Take food and water from the earth, and all life will perish instantly. It may be stated as an axiom that to stay alive, every created thing needs some other created thing.

And all things need God. To God alone, nothing is necessary. To God alone, nothing is necessary. Tozer made this statement that I meditated on for quite a few days reading the book. I just had a problem with it, and it made me think about God in a totally different way. He wrote that God possesses perfect knowledge, and therefore has no need to learn. God has never learned and cannot learn. I thought that in my mind, and I said, Well, wait a minute. Are we limiting God? Cannot learn? When He just says, You cannot limit God?

Then I thought about Hebrews 5, verse 8, where it said that Christ learned from obedience, by obedience. And I realized that it was talking about Christ as a human. So let me tell you what God is not. Because it may help us to understand just how great He is. God isn't finite. God is not finite. According to Webster's, finite is having bounds or limits. Something that can be determined, counted, or measured. God cannot be measured.

God cannot be counted. He is boundless. Think about that. See, we can't even count all the stars in the universe. Just in our universe. And yet God says He numbered them and even names them. Isn't that amazing? We've had, according to statisticians, we have had living on this planet in the last 6,000 years, somewhere between 25 and 50 billion people.

There are 7 billion people living on planet Earth now. If we took every name of every person who has ever existed, we still don't have enough names to name all the stars. Yet God named them. Each one different. They don't know how many trillions and trillions of stars there are. They keep counting. They keep finding with the Hubble telescope. More stars! The universe is even bigger than they ever dreamed.

Puny. Humans, aren't we? Pretty puny. We can't even come with enough names to name his stars. If we did, we would run out of a lifetime.

Psalm 8. Like you turn there. I think we all think of that. Psalm 8, verse 3. Reading from the New King James. Psalm 8, verse 3. And I consider your heavens. David is laying this out. I'm sure he looked many times as he was a shepherd boy. As a warrior, laying out in the fields. I looked up at all the stars. And had a relationship with his Creator, his Father. He said, I consider your heavens the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars, which you have ordained. You put in place. David said, then I have to think. What is man that you are mindful of him?

How big is God? How big is He? Do you limit God? There's a scripture that says, the earth is God's footstool. Now, in the academic circles, that's called anthropomorphic, where you attribute human characteristics to God, and describe them to God.

But can you picture? Do any of you have a footstool at home? I have a table I put my feet up on.

So, are you saying, well, maybe your footstool is more like, it just represents something. That's not really it. Or is it?

Have you ever thought? That God is so large, the earth can be His footstool. He wants to put His foot, one foot, both feet, on top of the planet. Guess what? He can! And if we say He can't, we are limiting God, aren't we? We're limiting the unlimited.

Amazing. See, God is not finite. Which means, He is limitless. Right? He is limitless. There is a car. I don't have one. Maybe you've had one in the past, you see them on the road. It's called an infinity. Okay? Infinity means what? Limitless. Or no limits. The car has limits. It can't go 5,000 miles an hour, can it? It's not going to last forever, is it? But yet we ascribe that name to a car. And so, it kind of brings God down to a lower level, doesn't it? When we use some of these words.

It is impossible. I want you to grasp this. It is impossible for a limited mind to grasp the unlimited. That's us. I think you turned to Scripture. I quote it often. I love it. But I want to go a little bit past there today. It's 1 Corinthians 2.9. 1 Corinthians 2.9. Down through verse 14. 1 Corinthians 2.9. Verse 9 through 14. And it says there, what? I has not seen, right? I has not seen nor ear heard, nor has entered into the heart of man the things that God has planned for those who love Him. He said, you've never dreamed it. You've never seen anything so beautiful. Your mind can't even make it up. See, God lives in that realm. But then He says, but in verse 10. God has revealed them to us through... What? His Spirit. His Spirit. Not all of them. Because your little mind, my little mind, can't handle it. But we can begin to see a little glimpse. It's like looking through your finger here.

For the Spirit searches all things, yes, even the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of a man which is in Him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God. Now, we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God. That we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. So we can't grasp all the things that God wants to give us. Except by His Holy Spirit. Not the spirit in man, but God's Holy Spirit. These things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Talking deep here. This is not milk. This is meat. Meat we need to chew on. Meat we need to get closer to God. But the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God. That's what's wrong with the world today. They don't want the things of God. Because that's a natural man. For they are foolishness to Him. Nor can He know them because of spiritually discernment. You need God's Spirit. For God to open up your minds, to open up this book, for Him to talk to you, He has to do it through His Spirit. That's why so many people are spiritually sick today, even in the church. They don't read the book. This is how He reaches us. This is how He teaches us. This is how we know who He is. We know His power. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful.

God isn't limited by matter, space, or time.

God gives us a brain. We all have a brain. I know my mother questioned that when I was younger quite a bit. Whether I had a brain, I think she masked me.

But we all have a brain. But we only use, according to the greatest medical minds, we only use 3 to 5% of our brains. With a brain that impotent, how in the world can we understand the things of God? We can't.

Only through His Spirit can we begin to understand. And you know, even if we could use 100% of our brain, it still wouldn't matter. For God is greater than the mind itself.

God cannot be conceived by the human mind. His greatness isn't finite. Nothing on earth can define God. Because everything on earth is limited. God isn't. God isn't limited.

God's love and mercy isn't limited either. You turn back. Hardly ever turn to this Scripture. Matter of fact, I even told the speakers that no reason to ever turn to here. Turn to John 3 16 because we all know it. If we don't know it, you should know it. But I want to turn there because there is something amazing here about God's unlimited mercy and love. For God so loved the world. The entire world. Not just this room. Not just this country. That He gave His only begotten Son that whoever. Adolf Hitler.

The worst person you could think of.

Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Life eternal. So His mercy and His love is not limited. Can anybody here say that? I can't. You want to say it? I think I'll be justified in calling you a liar. We need that. One day, we will be that. Psalm 103. Psalm 103. Verse 17.

So much depth. Psalm. Psalm 103. Verse 17. It says, the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting.

Can we grasp that?

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. Look, there's a little cat out there, right? Upon those who fear Him. Upon those who revere Him.

So mercy never fails. We have a song, right?

And it says it will go on forever and ever.

Forever and ever. Eternal. Always. Do we understand it? I don't think so. When you're a little kid, you have your first crush, and you write these little notes, and you find them, I love you forever. Don't even know what forever means! But we use it!

That's amazing.

And then again, they help you understand why most people can't relate to God. Because they put Him in a box.

They confine Him to this little thing called the mind, the brain.

God isn't material. Okay? God isn't material. There's no organic matter. There's no carbon. Right? He can be here in this room. He can also be in a billion other places at the same time. And we can't find Him. And I guess you could say, He has no atoms. Or can we? Because we can't. Our minds can't handle the Spirit. We don't know whether the Spirit has atoms or not. We're not that smart yet! Yet He already knows.

Spirit can go right through that wall, and you never see it.

God isn't human.

Not in the least. And see, we have a hard time picturing anything that we can't understand. We just have to relate to this.

And that gets us in trouble because then we don't fully understand the power and the greatness, the awesomeness of God. Because we limit God. Because we are limited. You know, humans live in time. We do. God doesn't. That doesn't live in time. God created time for humans.

We can't understand that. Really, can we? Was there a time before this earth or anything else existed? There was eternity. Where did God... See, God doesn't have... Next year He doesn't say, Oh, let's have a birthday party. He doesn't have cake. He doesn't have ice cream. He doesn't have candles. Because He's lived forever. He's always existed. There is no birthday. He always existed. He will always exist.

All we know is, I might live 70, 80 years.

So where? Where?

Where do we begin? The study about the things of God. Only one place is book. Can we understand that He said, God said, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. Can you understand that? No! We can't understand that. We only live 78 years. Sometimes a week seems like a year. With God, a thousand years is like one day. And one day can be like a thousand years. He's in another dimension. A dimension He has promised to us.

And unless we can totally grasp the greatness of God, why would He want to give it to us? Why would He want to give it to us?

So that's it. It's that important that we grasp it.

Time marks the beginning of created existence. And because God never began, it doesn't apply to Him.

That's why He's called, and a couple of places in the Old Testament, the Ancient of Days. Because He's always been there. That's hard for our minds to wrap around. Eternal life, as we saw in John 3.16, what did He promise us? An eternal life where we will live forever and ever and ever, if we.

Just look at the book, read it, and live by it. And live by it. And trust in God.

Isaiah 51 verse 8, you don't have to turn there. Let's write it down. You can look at it later. But it actually says, My righteousness will be forever. God has been righteous. You know, I've had a couple of times in my life where I've actually felt righteous. Of course, it was bad on my part.

Kind of like the Pharisee went up to pray.

But my righteousness is not God's righteousness. See, God has been righteous. He's been right all the time. He's right every second, every minute. He cannot do anything wrong. And I've had days where I couldn't do anything right. Haven't we all? That's why whenever we're not right, we can get righteous with God. Close to the hymn.

Isaiah 57, if you'll turn there. Isaiah 57, verse 15.

Because I've often used this phrase, praying to God. It says, this says the high and lofty one. High and lofty. High and lofty. Do you get it? Isaiah's trying to tell us. He's way up there. And He's very large. High and lofty one. Who inhabits eternity. He lives forever. Isaiah 46, verse 9. Isaiah 46, verse 9. It says, For I am God.

And there is no other. I am God and there is no other.

I am God and there is none like Me. Declaring the end from the beginning. See, when this world came into being, He was there at the beginning. He'll be there at the end. And then there's time after that. He is the one that determines. You're going through a crisis. You're going through a problem. Guess what? He knows the beginning and He knows the end. You're not even there yet. It's time we talk to somebody who can see the future. And that's God.

Declaring the end from the beginning. These are deep words. I hope you can meditate on them during the next six days. Help you to see. Help us all to see as we draw closer to God by understanding God. Being on a God plane. It's interesting that it actually says in Psalm, So, teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Okay? We should number our days. I mentioned that at the funeral this past week. Our days are numbered. It may be next week. It may be 10 years. It may be 20 years. But cherish those days. Don't waste those days.

Spiritual. The spiritual life matters. After our days are numbered, guess what? Eternity. We can live forever. Eternity. Forever and ever and ever.

Or.

Like a match.

Our choice. God has never and will never be limited by numbers. We always will.

Because we, oh, even 5,000 years from now, we had a beginning. And we can live for eternity. But guess what? We're not eternal because God is the only one. Jesus Christ doesn't want us to live forever.

In time, God's time, we will understand all these things. But now it says that we can understand the deep things of God by delving into the Spirit. You may say, well, yeah, I've been reading God's Bible and following His truth for 30, 40 years. With everything you've got? No? None of us do. We can all do better.

God's not going to turn us loose when we're 16 years old with a Ferrari. It takes some time.

He's not going to give us that Ferrari in our bodies through the Spirit. So we can just go crazy. He wants us to learn, draw a close to Him and learn to be able to handle it, be mature.

I want to give you one scripture. And hopefully you can take from here all the way to the Feast of Tabernacles. I've used this theme of one, the Feast of Tabernacles, one year in the Caribbean. But it's in Isaiah. It's amazing what Isaiah tries to teach us. Isaiah 9 verse 7. Isaiah 9 and verse 7. Hopefully it will be a memory scripture because I suggest you read it every day for the next six days.

And then dwell on it. And it says, Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Okay? You ruminate on that? Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. This is talk in the future. Can your mind grasp that? That there is a time coming. What takes place in a government?

Territory? Law? Subjects? Oh! Subjects? It's never going to end. Think about that.

It's not going to reproduce more than the 50 billion that's ever lived here. That's what the verse says. Is it going to be on earth? Earth's going to be burned up. What's all those planets doing out there?

That's out there. But He wants us to get a glimpse of eternity and the building project that's going to go on. Of the increase of His government and peace. There shall be no end. Well, guess what? When it all comes to the end and God comes down.

And His throne is where earth was.

Then, that is the beginning. Because peace shall be no end. Is it possible? Is it possible that the first great experiment of humans on a planet will take place with no Satan and it works?

And man produces? That's up here. That's in your mind. That's in what God wants us to meditate on. He will open our minds. I don't know. I look at this and I realize God can't be limited. His plan is not limited. Our minds can't handle it.

Beautiful thing. That's all up ahead. God isn't needy. God doesn't need our help. Yeah? God is not up there saying, I wonder what Cairo thinks about what I'm about to do.

I wonder if Don Clemente would approve of what I'm going to do tomorrow. He doesn't care, Don. Right? Right?

He doesn't need us. Or anything. But yet, His whole plan is to get us involved. That's what's exciting.

God needs nothing. He is complete. God needs nothing from us. The word necessary is completely foreign to God. He has no necessity. Nothing is necessary to God. He has it all.

Nothing is above Him. Nothing is beyond Him. Everything is below Him. See, when we can get around this, we can begin to see just how awesome our God is. And our incredible spiritual potential. Our incredible spiritual potential. Human potential, we're limited. We're nothing.

But the future is a spirit. If every person on earth became an atheist, it would not affect the plan of God. If every person becomes an atheist, it wouldn't affect this plan.

And to make the point, He said, what? Stones. Stones. I can take these stones, and I can raise up stones. He did it with dirt. How could He do it with a stone? They could probably do a better job than us dirt bags.

It helps us to see. He is that powerful. It's amazing that John the Baptist said He can raise up stones. Christ didn't even need to say it. It was John the Baptist that said it. John the Baptist got it. He realized how powerful God was, and He doesn't need us. He doesn't need us, but you read this book, and He wants us. He doesn't need us, but He wants us. Incredible. See, God is Almighty. He needs no support.

And man's only claim to any importance is that He was created in the divine image. See, that's why we're important. We were created in His image. Of Himself, man's nothing. A piece of dirt. Right from dust we came, and to dust we were all returned.

See, we humans are needy. We need stuff. We need stuff! Just admit it. I can do without that. No, we need stuff.

We need others. We need family. But most of all, we all need God. That whole.

And God's plan is about the gift of eternal life. Wow. Incredible. Spiritual potential. God isn't getting wiser. God isn't getting wiser. God is all-wise. He knows all. He knows everything.

That's why I have to catch myself so many times. Thank you. Well, God, I don't know why you did this. How many times He would love to go...

I don't need your help! Chuck, sit down, shut up, and read my Word. And you'll get smarter.

It's quoted. The Word of God is the foundation of all knowledge. The Word of God is the foundation of all knowledge. I thought about that, and I just feel like that sentence is incomplete. I feel like it's an incomplete statement. Because the Word of God is... I can say this... Is the only true knowledge in this world. The Word of God is the only true knowledge of this world. Not the foundation. It is the only thing. It's the only thing that came from God. God breathed.

See, when you study what God is, isn't. When you study what God isn't, you'll see just how great He is.

God is a petty and cruel. Many, even in church, just ask of Me. Because they say, God isn't fair. They question God's fairness. They even bring it out about Scripture. When you turn to the Scripture about Jericho. And He says, I want you to go in, I want you to wipe them out. Every man, women, and even little children, and I want you to kill them. All these little kids, they didn't do anything. Why would God do that? So cruel. He's going in and killing those children. He's not fair.

We're smarter than God.

You see, God knows compassion like no one else. God's compassion, God's fairness is like we can't even understand it.

That's a scary statement that God isn't fair. Because I'm questioning the Almighty, the all-powerful, the all-knowing, the all-loving, the all-caring Creator and Father. And that's not my place. I'm not worthy to do that. I'm not smart enough with my little 3 to 5 percent use of my brain. In Matthew 23 verse 23, Matthew chapter 23 verse 23, something's laid out, I'd like you to hopefully remember. And it's three initials. There seems to be a continuation through the Old Testament into the New Testament. A theme runs through there. If we want to be like God, we have to keep these initials in the forefront of our mind. J.M.F. J.M.F. J.M.F. Justice, mercy, and faith. Jesus Christ said they're the weightier matters of the law. Which means, as a living translation, they are the most important aspects of the law. Justice, mercy, and faith. Micah even talked about it in Micah 6-8 when he said to do justly. Right? To have mercy and walk humbly with your God. Which is faith if you can walk with your God. Justice, mercy, and faith. It's what has to guide us. It has to drive us. Because that is what God is all about. Justice is interesting that in the Old Testament, the translators would often use the very same word for justice and righteousness. Because justice, what's just to God is righteousness. That's how we guide. That's how we look at things. When we make a decision, it's what? It's either right or wrong. If we're right, we're like God. When we're wrong, we have to go to Him and pray for mercy.

And then, once that mercy is granted, we have the faith that we carry on. Because we've been purged of our unrighteousness. Justice, mercy, and faith. They should drive us. They should motivate us.

I'm going to wrap this up. Eight minutes. Eight minutes. Discipline. There's a chapter I'd like you to turn to. We in Psalm. Practice Psalm 147.

Psalm 147 helps us to get out of this mindset and helps us to understand a little something. Now, I will, from the New Living Translation, I love what it says, but I just want to read a couple of things from the New Living Translation. Because it says, His power, God's power is absolute. Absolute.

His understanding is beyond comprehension. Beyond comprehension. And I love how it says it in verse 8 through 10. It says, He takes no pleasure in human might. God looks down on these humans. He made in His image. And He loves them. But He takes no pleasure in the things we do. You're saying, bolt. If you're saying, bolt, you could run the two-minute mile. God wouldn't take pleasure in it. He'd say, what? You little. Look, you're nothing but two-minute mile. I travel a million times the speed of light. And you can too.

Tomorrow evening is a Super Bowl. And you're going to see somebody score a touchdown, and they're going to look like they just became God. And God's going to look at this piddly little... He ran a ball past other guys running after a ball. And you're making like, I'm really great. Can you imagine? I got last when this guy dunks the ball, and he's just standing there like, I'm God!

That's what we do. See, with God, it means nothing. He said, if you'll just have a little bit of what I've got, you can walk on water. Peter did. If you'll just have a little bit of me in you, you can move that mountain. And to me, that's piddly. That's nothing. Amazing. It's interesting here. In verse 4, he counts the numbers of the stars, and he calls them by name. God is our Lord, and might He empower. His understanding is infinite. He lifts up the humble. In verse 15, he said, he sends out his command to the earth, and his words run very swiftly. He gives snow like wool. He scatters a frost like ashes. He casts out his hail like morsels. Hmm. Cast his hail like morsels. Like fragments of food. Or like little stones. See, it's nothing for him. Who can stand before his cold? Do you think it's cold? It's cool this morning? I talked to somebody yesterday at the home office, and I have today because it's three degrees this morning. That's cold. Is that cold to God? No! He's not limited. When I was a teenager, I had to work with a neighbor, and he artificially bred cattle and horses. He would go over, and I would watch it being done. It's not something to get all excited about. The interesting thing, when he had the semen before he inserted it into the cow or the horse, it was put in this container of liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen. And he had to be very careful. He had to have these gloves because liquid nitrogen is how cold? Around 330 degrees below zero. So if your finger touched it, guess what? It'll break. He had to be very careful. Well, what is the coldest temperature ever? Or what is the coldest temperature possible? Any of you engineers? Absolute zero. Absolute zero! That's 400 degrees below zero. And that's according... absolute zero is a theoretical lowest temperature according to the law of thermodynamics. Scientists have achieved temperatures close to absolute zero. Four hundred and sixty degrees below zero. Was that the law of God? No, that's a human law! God can make something... that's the lowest anything can get. Four hundred and sixty degrees below zero. God can make it a million degrees below zero. And some day, we can see that. But those are limited to our minds. God isn't poor. God isn't poor. He doesn't need your money. He owns everything. He owns everything anyway. He doesn't need your money. But He wants to see what you're going to do with it. Well, imagine, if God loves a cheerful giver, what do you think He feels about stingers?

And see, God isn't us. Not even close. God has no doubts. He has no doubts. He has no insecurities. He feels no pressures. He has no negativity. But God isn't us. God isn't a made-up fairy tale.

Things seen are proof of things unseen. And the more you study science, the more you will see God in this creation. Because if you have creation, you have to have a creator! Heck yeah, people are going. Big bang! Big bang!

No! Big God! That's what it is, big God! He didn't need a bang. He did it all. However He did it, we'll find out. We're too stupid to understand it now.

So why does this book make non-believers so angry? It does! I've read science books. They don't make me angry. I don't go off on people. I'm a getting go, oh man. But this book, there's something about it that makes non-believers very angry.

It means there's a creator. Look, meditate on stuff rather than you'll see the creation. When you see the creation, you'll see the creator. Wonderful to see that. Intelligent design, maybe the most inane statement ever made. He's beyond intelligent. They're using intelligence in our realm.

God said it. I believe it. That should settle it for most of us. The wisdom of man is foolishness to God. See, there's truth and there's absolute truth. God's book is absolute truth. We just need to see where we are and how little we are and how great He is. It's kind of like the book of Job, as my friend Nameth in the back always says.

Hey, little man. Nameth always goes on and goes, hey, little man. And it just makes me think, we're just a little man. We're just little bitty. Dust. We're dust.

See, God isn't death. Death. Bring this back to earth. God isn't death. Not in the least bit. He's not hard of hearing. And He's listening 24-7 to you. And He's listening to me. And we have that power on hand. We have that power to call upon Him.

And He loves to hear His children's voice. He loves to hear His obedient children's voice. He loves to hear His call to my mother when she's not here. She's up in his seat. She enjoys it when I call her. At least she acts like she does.

Now, growing up, not so much. Okay? Because I was the original ADD, HDD. I was that child. Okay? Hyperactive to no end. And she would say, can't you just be quiet for five minutes? Okay, when's five minutes up? Oh, what is five minutes? Tell me what five minutes? I need to know what five minutes. You want me to be quiet for five minutes? Well, when do I have to be quiet for five minutes?

But as I got older with plenty of belts, I began to mature. My wife will say I doubt that yet. But you do! And so now, we have a good conversation.

The world is not turning to God. They're turning away from God. They're not talking to God. We need to make sure He hears it. We're down here. And it needs to be quite a bit of conversation. We are pursuing Godliness. And God needs to hear it. And God needs to hear we need more help. God, I need your help. Can't do this alone. Help me. Help me become more like you. Help me. God isn't deaf. He's listening. So, pray and draw close to God. He was, He is, and He will always be there. And finally, last point, God isn't done with us yet. God isn't done with us yet. In His plan, we shall be like Him. We still have work to do. Our training ground is called Earth. Our boundary, Earth for now. Paul said it, and I love it. When was 8? For I consider that the sufferings of this present age, this present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us. What a blessing. God isn't done with us yet. So, if someone asks you who or what God is, hopefully you can say, I don't have the words to describe. But I can tell you what He isn't, because when you study what God isn't, you can truly see how great God is.