Amazing Facts About An Amazing God!

10/16/05

 

 

Rom. 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

 

We are more accountable now because of the tremendous information and knowledge God has allowed man to discover!

 

Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:

² “Who is this that darkens my counsel

with words without knowledge?

³ Brace yourself like a man;

I will question you,

and you shall answer me.

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?

Tell me, if you understand.

⁵ Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

⁶ On what were its footings set,

or who laid its cornerstone—

⁷ while the morning stars sang together

and all the angels shouted for joy?

 

There is nothing chaotic about God!  Look at the order of the universe.  The exactness.  For instance........

 

The earth rotates once every 23 hours 56 minutes 4. 09053 seconds.

 

The earth rotates at a speed of 1041.6 miles per hour.

 

The earth is also moving around the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.

 

The minimum distance from the sun is 91 million miles.

 

The maximum distance from the sun is 94.5 million miles.

 

Let’s try to grasp this.  Let’s take a trip.  We buy a jet that flies at the speed of mach 1 (speed of sound) (approx 717 mph).  We take off  for the sun without stopping for fuel, food or bathroom breaks, how long will it take us to reach the sun?  14.5 years!

 

The Sun's temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface and 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the center.

The diameter of the Sun is 870,000 miles, 109 times larger than the Earth's. Its volume is big enough to hold over 1 million Earths.

 

I really like the idea of God being in charge!

 

Amazing facts about the human body.

 

Ps. 139:13 For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you

 when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

¹⁶ your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

 

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been listening to this sentence!

 

In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.

 

Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.

 

In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.

 

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. In a year, a person’s heart beats 40,000,000 times.

 

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.

 

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

 

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

 

You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.

 

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

 

The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

 

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

 

Every person has a unique tongue print.

 

The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime.

 

The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.

 

You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.

 

The average human body contains enough Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

 

The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.

 

One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.

 

Our God never worries, never gets anxious, never frets.  He hears every person's words and thoughts at the same time (population 6,561,260,526 as of 5:12 a.m. this morning).  He never sleeps, never gets tired, is never uncaring or unloving.  There's not one sparrow that falls to the ground without His knowing and care.

 

Mat. 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. ³⁰And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

 

 

 

There is not anything God doesn't know or see or hear.

 

Ps. 139:7Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

 and the light become night around me,”

¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

 

The patience of God is beyond our understanding!

 

The oak tree.  Show the acorn.  It still takes the same amount of time to grow as when God first created it.

 

An article about the Live Oak Society appeared in the Times-Picayune newspaper from New Orleans. In there they mention that the largest certified Oak tree is one named "The Seven Sisters Oak" in Lewisburg, Mandeville, Louisiana. It measures 37 feet and 2 inches in circumference with a crown spread 150 feet. It is estimated that it is more than 1,000 years old!

 

2 Pet. 3:8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. ⁹The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

 

Gen. 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, ¹⁵and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

 

 

 

 

God is reliable, faithful and is the epitome of integrity!

 

Ex. 22:25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest. ²⁶If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it to him by sunset, ²⁷because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? When he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

 

What does Job mean by the expression “Though he slay me”? It figuratively means “No matter what happens to me, I still remain confident that I will be vindicated, for I know I am innocent and I know the character of God.”

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

 

The natural order of things is amazing...how much more the spiritual!

 

1 Cor. 15:35 But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” ³⁶How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

 

⁴²So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; ⁴³it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

 

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being” ; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. ⁴⁸As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

 

⁵⁰I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—⁵²in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. ⁵⁴When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

 

⁵⁵   “Where, O death, is your victory?

Where, O death, is your sting?”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

⁵⁸Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

 

Show the flowers.