Covenants - The Backbone of the Bible | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

you have your Bibles and stand with me today God is great God is greatly to be praised brother Schnitzer it's so good to have you back home and he has been in Africa dedicating a Christian School that this church had a huge huge part of and as a matter of fact and I I have to check uh with my front row board here can we be ready tonight for brother Schnitzer to give us a report on Africa how many like to hear about Africa tonight I'm excited I'm so I'm so excited about the work of God being involved in the work of the Lord today this service is being translated has been for many years into Spanish and we have good Spanish-speaking people in the states and around the world that watch us so Faithfully and give a shout out to all my brothers in Chile I love them brother Salinas and they say that I say that southern brother Salinas so good for them but we're also are translating this service into Mandarin Chinese and we have some precious people here today people of this church that speak that language and they're able to come and the word of God takes on a just a new world to them to Jennifer and Sue today God is doing a great God is doing a great a great work and I'm glad to be a part of it for a few moments today I want to invite your attention to the Book of Psalms chapter 147. in verse number five verse number 147. and verse number five I'm going to do something today that's going to really surprise you it's going to shock you actually Psalms 147 and verse number 5. why don't we read it together why don't we read it together I'll begin great is our Lord and of great power understanding is infinite Isaiah chapter 40 in verse number 28. Isaiah chapter 40. verse 28. hast thou not known it's a question hast thou not heard that the Everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the Earth faineth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding Romans 11. in verse number 33 and 34. somebody say praise the Lord oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counselor another verse Romans 16. verse number 27. again I want I'll start it I want us all to read it out loud read it with fervency in your spirit to God only wise be through June chapter one and verse number 25 once again once again I'm going to start it read it like you believe it you read it like you believe it you'll have more meaning Jude 125. 2 father I thank you today for your word God your word is telling us today that your wisdom that's your wisdom far exceeds our ability to comprehend Lord today as we embrace you and our faith is in you God help me for a few moments Lord to build faith in our hearts that you are the only wise God in Jesus name we pray amen amen you may be seated scripture setting today is telling us of an attribute of our God which we love it's an attribute brother Rodriguez of God that is referring to his wisdom his wisdom the Bible simply tells us that he is understanding his wisdom is infinite that were their infinite means without number in other words it's beyond it's beyond your ability to comprehend it's infinite we comprehend numbers a hundred a thousand a hundred thousand million but when we get into billions and trillions our mind begins to flutter a little bit he's wanting us to know by these scriptures today that his wisdom is without our ability to count be the prophet Isaiah that I read in your hearing that he just wanted to ask you haven't you heard that the Everlasting God he never faints he's never weary and there is no searching there is no volumes of books that can be placed brother white on a bookshelf that could say this contains all the wisdom all of the wisdom of God this must have been an attribute that the Holy Ghost wants the church to realize today if I could just simply put it in my simple vernacular of understanding because I always try to study the Bible if I can comprehend it promise me anybody can comprehend but I simply come up with this simple phrase today our God is smarter than the devil our God is smarter than the devil he um in several places in several places we're told even the New Testament to the to God only wise to the only wise God and on and on it goes and can I tell you God doesn't have wisdom so that he can display it in a plaque in his office so that you know how smart he is God today has wisdom for our benefit God has wisdom for us for our benefit for our for our purpose you know I I read about a man by the name of William James sidists Sid us this man spoke 25 languages had an IQ a hundred points higher than Albert Einstein's in 1898 the smartest man who ever lived was born in America of course I understand Jesus Christ his name was William James his IQ was eventually estimated to be between 250 to 300. a hundred point a hundred IQ is the norm his parents Boris and Sarah were pretty intelligent themselves Boris was a famed psychologist while Sarah was a doctor some sources say the Ukrainian immigrants made a home for themselves in New York City While others site Boston as their stomping ground either way the parents delighted in their gifted son spending until money on books and maps to encourage his early learning but they had no idea just how early their precious child would catch on when Williams was just 18 months old he was able to read the New York Times by the time he was six years old he could speak multiple languages including English French German Russian Hebrew Turkish and Armenian as if that was an impressive enough William also invented his own language as a child though it is unclear if he ever used it on an adult the ambitious youngster also wrote poetry a novel and even wrote a constitution for a potential Utopia government William was accepted to Harvard University at the humble age of nine years old however the school wouldn't allow him to attend classes until he was 11. while he was still a student in 1910 he lectured the Harvard Harvard mathematical Club on the incredible complex topic of four-dimensional bodies the lecture was nearly incomprehensible for most people but for those who understood it the lesson was a revelation William graduated from the legendary University in 1914 he was 16 years old when he graduated much speculation has been made over the years about William his IQ the records of testing have been long lost to time but the modern day historians are forced to estimate that he had the IQ somewhere between 250 and 300 to help you understand to help you understand that Albert Einstein was a 160. Leonardo da Vinci was 180. and Isaac Newton was a hundred and ninety James Williams William James was estimated between 250 to 300. anybody with a high IQ will be happy to tell you it's meaningless but William was smart and that was smart was so smart that his IQ was the same amount but he struggled he struggled to fit into a world full of people that did not understand him after he graduated from Harvard at age 16 he told reporters I want to live the perfect life the only way to live the perfect life is to live in seclusion I've always hated crowds Williams said the boy wonders the boy wonders plan worked out about as well as you would think especially for a person who has already been famous for so long for a short period of time he taught mathematics at Rice University in Houston Texas but he was all but he was all but driven out partially due to the fact that he was younger than many than many of his students William got arrested at the Boston May Day socialist March in 1919. it was sentenced to 18 months in prison for rioting and assaulting a police officer but he had actually done none rest of his story simply says that he retired all by himself into a lonely room where the landlord in 1944. where the landlord found him laying in a rented room of which he was behind on the rent broke and dead when I read about this man the one word came to my mind what a waste what a waste of such wisdom what he could have done what he could have done with all that wisdom that if you'd like after church today go online study about him what this man could have done with his god-given gift of wisdom the lives he could have improved the people that he could have helped but because his wisdom was never put to good use he dies penniless in a rundown rented apartment room all that wisdom was put to rest sounds pretty impressive as we read being able to read the New York Times at 18 months and graduating and knowing language as multiple languages by six years old but can I parallel that and compare that today to the wisdom of the god that we serve that it pales in comparison to the wisdom that our God possesses the great wisdom that our God possesses today you're not just in the hands of a god who's powerful you're not just in the hands of a God who can turn water into wine and turn cancerous bodies into whole again but can I tell you today for a simple few more moments that your life is in the hands of a God who has wisdom that is far beyond our ability to comprehend he is a God today that can take anything and everything that happens to you and I as long as we are cradled and nestled in his love and in his faith I told someone the other day and I mean it from the bottom of my heart that my faith in my God is my comfort blanket my faith in my God is that which I cling to when life needs to fall apart because I want you to know today that my God can work all things together for the good to them who love God and who are called according to his purpose can I can I preach someone in the heart today and tell you now's not the time to grow cold now is not the time to question your God I know the scenery is not what you wanted it to be but child of God hold on Child of God keep on praying child of God Keep On Believing child of God keep on trusting Keep on Dancing Keep On leaping keep on witnessing because God is about to take come on give him praise in the house today in Proverbs chapter 8 and verse number 22. Proverbs chapter 8 and verse number 22 if you write in your Bible if you write in your Bible and your Bible has a timeline in it your Bible has the A.D the BC the timeline and the the your Bible has the A.D uh in the that's that's a Latin for in the year of Our Lord it starts at the birth of Christ if you have a timeline in your Bible and you write in your Bible I wish you would write above Proverbs 8 22. I wish you would write these words Genesis zero and zero Genesis chapter zero and Genesis chapter verse number zero because what I'm reading to you today Proverbs 8 22. is before in the beginning God created the heavens of the Earth what I'm reading to you today is how in wisdom the Earth was created in wisdom in wisdom in wisdom the Earth was created in wisdom we have the solar system of seasons and wisdom we live on a planet that we can breathe air and drink water in wisdom we live we live we live in a place that was created by a most wise God and so in Proverbs 8 22 the Lord possessed me it's as if wisdom is talking the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old I which is wisdom was set up from Everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was when there was no depths eye wisdom was brought forth when there was no fountains abounding with water before the mountains were settled before the Hills was I brought forth while as yet he had not made the Earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the Dust of the world when he prepared the heavens I was there when he set a compass upon the face of the deep when he established the clouds above when he when he strengthened The Fountains of the deep when he gave the sea his decree that the water should not pass his commandment when he appointed the foundations of the Earth then I was by him as one brought up with him I was daily his Delight rejoicing always before him rejoicing in the habitable part of the Earth and my Delights were with the sons of men now here for a few short verses God is telling you what took place in Genesis 1 1. how that the Earth was created by this wise God that we embraced today so wise is our God in Creation in nature and even in our bodies wisdom here says that the Delight though it never uses the word delight to describe a mountain it never uses the word delight to describe a fountain and never uses the word delight to describe a field never uses the word delight to describe the oceans but when it came to man in verse 31 wisdom had to say there is my delight there is what I Delight in as if to say wisdom was saying I didn't create an earth just to create an earth and I didn't create streams and rivers and oceans and Suns and clouds I didn't create trees and vegetation in life animals I didn't create it for any of these other for this one being called man I created all of this for man as a matter of fact today when we think about what we're doing right now born again Blood Bought water baptized in Jesus name filled with the Holy Ghost was not and he is not an afterthought of God for before there was ever a Genesis 1 1. there was a God in his massive wisdom in his infinite understanding that's beyond Counting a God that already a God that had it already mapped out he had it already mapped out listen to Jesus in Matthew Chapter 13 Verse number 35 listen to him for a moment that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying I will open my mouth in parables I will utter things which have been kept secret from the Foundation of the world Jesus came and began to talk about Parables and begin to explain the kingdom of God and he said let me tell you something I had this in my mind before the foundations of the world Matthew chapter 25 verse number 34 listen to this verse then shall the king say unto them on his right hand welcoming people into heaven then shall the king say unto them on his right hand come you blessed of my father inherit the kingdom do you see this today Church inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the what foundation of the world look at Ephesians chapter number one Ephesians chapter number one wrote to the church the apostolic church at Ephesus Ephesians chapter number one verse number four according as he hath chosen Us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and Without Blame before him in love that's not talking about individual choosing it's talking about the church before there was ever a star to twinkle before there was ever a brook to run or a sun to shine God already had us in his mind doesn't that do something to you today that God already had us in his mind a holy people are called people it was already there in God's mind let's go further to First Peter chapter one verse number 18 First Peter chapter 1 verse number 18. oh friend this has got a hold of me today because when I begin to think how wise the God is and whose lie in whose hands I have committed my life I have to go back to my simple praise today motherly God is smarter than the devil he is smarter First Peter chapter 1 verse number 18. for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptable things as silver and gold from your vain conversation or manner of Life received by tradition from your father but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was foreordained before are you seeing this he was for ordained before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in these last times for you before You've Got Confidence in the Sun that it's shining right now you've got confidence that tomorrow will come You've Got Confidence in in all of creation can I ask you today to please remove your confidence Confidence from it alone and put it on a God that before there was a ball of Fire in the Sky called the Sun God had his blueprints laid out in heaven and he was saying I'm going to become like man I'm going to shed my blood I'm going to redeem man out of sin I'm going to fill man with my spirit and one day I'm coming back to Earth to get man to take man to the place where how revelation chapter 13. Revelation chapter 13. verse number eight and all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship Him whose names are not written in the book of the life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world what a wise God we serve this morning what a wise God I'm here today that I I am not one bit I am not one bit concerned of the response today because you have already given your response to the spirit of God but your response to the word of God will not be displayed only by an amen on a pew it would be it will be it will be displayed in an emergency room when you just have to lift up your hands and believe God is still in control it'll be on a phone call that you got in the middle of the night that you'll have to lay the phone back down and say God you are the most wise God I don't know how and I don't know when but I do know God that you are smarter than my adversary and as long as I stay attached to him brother Ericson Sister Erickson I want you to come back up and I want us to go back into that song at my bidding on he is so easy to love he is so easy to love would you come right now just brother Erickson and Sister Erickson everybody else all the other singers all the other singers just remain seated right now just brother and sister Erickson it says in Genesis in Genesis chapter number one Genesis chapter number one and I believe I am looking for verse I am looking for verse 26. and God said let us make man in our image in our likeness and let man have dominion that man have dominion over all the Earth I hope you can connect the two today we have local Representatives that we elect we have local Representatives we elect them we have state representatives that we elect them and um these men and women that we elect their name befits them they represent or maybe I should say they should represent the will of the people they're powerful people once they're put in office once they're put in office they are powerful people because they make the decisions that make laws that affect our lives when Adam made the decision because we all came you can go to any ancestral .com you want to go to but I can just save you 19 right now we all came from Adam we all came from Adam every last one of us came from Adam and Adam stood that day every nationality and Adam stood that day all Humanity he becomes the Divine representative on Earth the Divine representative on Earth of humanity whatever decisions he makes and you know where I'm going when Adam made the decision ate from the fruit we don't become sinners when we committed the first sin we are made Sinners by the decision of Adam we were made sinners he was the Divine representative on Earth and when he yielded to Satan he yielded to Satan he not only lost his image but he also transferred his representative power to Satan that's why Satan is called in the scripture the god little G of this world because he is he is the God of this world how do you how do you become the god of this world Adam gave it to him Adam made the decision when Adam when Adam ate of the fruit all of Adam's Dominion all of Adam is transferred into him and now Satan is the God of this world as a matter of fact when he tempted Jesus Christ the third and final temptation of Jesus Christ Satan even says to Jesus Jesus look at the world look at the glory of the world look at everything in the world all of this I will give you if you'll just fall down and worship me you'd just fall down and worship me it'll all be yours but aren't you thankful that that second Adam made a decision and because that second Adam made a decision to say get thee get me behind me Satan and that second Adam that second man that God created that second God man died on a cross one Adam brought us to ruin the second Adam Jesus Christ brings us to Redemption but what a wise God we serve what a wise God we serve because in Genesis 3 15 it's my final verse for the day in Genesis 3 15. God says Eve you aided the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil there was the knowledge of Good and Evil in that tree listen to this wise God Genesis 3 15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman he's talking to Satan now I will put enmity God says Satan I will put a wall of hatred between you and the woman between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise your head and thou shalt bruise his heel what a wise God I want you to see this he says Eve I want you Satan I want you to know something you just played into my hand because I have already have the Plan of Salvation laid out already have the blueprints laid out in heaven I've already got the remedy when I created man I went ahead before I ever breathed in his nostrils I already had a method of redemption what a God we serve I already had the method of redemption I already had blood atonement I already had water and baptism I already had Spirit baptism I already thank you our God is smarter than the devil I already had it mapped out how can one God give one promise everybody say one God if I say one promise it's got two different effects one side of the promise says I'm going to Doom you hell I'm gonna Doom you I'm going to crush your kingdom I'm going to destroy your head I'm going to bruise your head one promise two parts One Promise says what you've read what you've ruined I've redeemed One Promise says one seed is coming and that one seed is going to be the means of your total Destruction you do not fight the devil alone you fight him through not the name of the first Adam not your first name Kenny you don't fight him through your first name you fight him through your second name and that second name is Jesus the first name got defeated Adam but the second name Jesus has never been defeated oh stand with me right now oh mighty God I hope you see this today how can one God take one promise if the car one God takes one promise and says I'm gonna give you one promise and here it is Satan the seed of the woman is gonna bruise Crush destroy your head but the seed of the woman is going to be the channel the Gateway the ability for a fallen man to come back into my presence what a wise and an awesome God way one seed now follow this closely follow this and we're done that's why the devil fights small seed planting because when his ears perked up that day whenever demon in Hell met and said we have got to watch the seed the seed the promises coming through a seed that's why when Cain and Abel were worshipers we're worshipers you know why Cain Cain was an evil based on some kind of of of satanic involvement you know where you know why Abel made it and Cain didn't is because Satan saw came change the way he worshiped when he saw Cain going from giving God everything just saying God you'll accept what I give you Satan said right there I can get into that that's why Satan that's why Satan is always after your seed your decision to start living for God this morning I got news for you Satan will fight you with everything that he's got Satan will fight you with every if you've been coming to this church for the last several months you see a little Carpenter I came here because I was having struggles but it seems like I'm having more struggles now can I tell you what that is the enemy would try to pluck at a twig then try to pluck at a tree he would rather pluck at a small little twig and so I can I can pluck that up I can get that out of the ground because if that seed stays in the ground his wife's going to get in the church his kids are going to give him a church his co-workers are going to get him to church One Promise Satan you're doomed but not through my first name you're doomed through my second name and my second name is Jesus Christ I received it water baptism that second name of Jesus Christ today I want to invite the entire church today just to flood up around the altars for just a few more moments today let's bask in the wisdom of God God you're going to outsmart the adversary God you are smarter than the adversary God your wisdom is far greater than the adversary's wisdom God I pray today Lord over this congregation I pray over them right now over I pray over this congregation right now that God that somehow by the word today that we can see Lord that you are smarter you're you're far more intelligent than the adversary when men have come and gone God your your wisdom will stand oh when men have come and gone your wisdom will stand push up around the altar just a little bit today we're just gonna bask in the love of God and the mercy of God oh yes God yes God yes God yes God oh God come on Commit whatever that situation is to God right now come on Commit whatever that situation is to God right now committed to God come on Commit it to God right now whatever that situation is whatever that discouragement is in your life you've been told no so many times is God behind that no is God behind this right now is God working it all out I believe yes I believe yes I believe yes he is come on right now come on right now just have faith in a God that has it all together today Mighty God Mighty God Mighty God Mighty God Mighty God come on love him with all your heart right now love him with all your heart right now love him with all your heart right now that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it Oh Brother Carpenter oh brother Carpenter I'm understanding now why I was given this lot in life I'm understanding now why these things are happening there's a God that's working it all out behind the scenes right now come on let's spend a few moments before I go to Erickson comes and dismisses us let's spend a few moments just talking to God right now thank you Lord