A View from Another World

Notes: World View: A View from Another World
Pastor Jack Graham
Worldview: Thinking and Living Biblically
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Hebrews 1:6, Hebrews 1:7–14

We are to set our minds on things above.

There are almost 300 references to angels in the Bible. Way more references than there are to demons.

Hebrews 1:14 ESV
[14] Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

That is for believers, we can celebrate the fact that angels are around us.

When we understand the ministry of angels, then we see that God is in control of the universe. Angels are to engage us in our lives to let us we are not alone.

God gives us angels to minister over us in ways we do not understand. They administer Devine blessings over us.

Angels were present before the creation. Here before Genesis.

Angels are there but never the actual topic of the story. The focus is what God is doing.

The more we study angels, the more we learn about God. It's not about them, it's always about Jesus.

When Jesus conquered Satan in the wilderness, it was an angel that showed up to minister to Jesus.

Only three angels are named in all of scripture, Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer before he fell.

The prophet Elijah prayed for God to open the eyes of the servant to see all of the angels around him. 

Revelation 4:8 ESV
[8] And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"

The angels pray to God in His great glory. We will praise God for His grace.

If the angels can rejoice in Christ, oh how we should rejoice in our salvation through Christ.

The Bible never references baby angels. They are only worshippers and warriors.

Prayer should be worship but is is also spiritual warfare.

We should pray and not give up.

There are times we can't figure out how we were protected from a tragic event, maybe it was an angel. 

We are not to worship angels, they are from God. We are to worship God.

When Jesus returns, Gabriel will blow a mighty horn.

Angels also execute judgment. As the angels did in Sodom and Gomorra.

We are witnesses of the grace of God in our lives. Even angels don't have that story to tell.
Acts 8:26-27 ESV
[26] Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is a desert place. [27] And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship

An angel took Philip to the man, but it was Philip that was the witness.

Somebody you know, needs to know Jesus and you are the one that needs to share the Gospel with them.