Have you ever told God you were going to do something, and the day passed away, you got busy, and you didn’t do it?  Or maybe time wasn’t the issue, maybe you just forgot.  Or maybe you plain ‘ol just didn’t do it.

Many of us make comments to God —"well I’m going to change! Today’s my day"  — "I’m going to get to know you more, God." — Or something like this "Man, they need to hear about Jesus.  Next week…yeah…next Monday I’ll talk to them."

So many times, on different occasions, we come to God and we make promises but we never follow through.

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This morning I was sitting here just looking at how far God has brought me personally in the past year. This past Monday, May 5th, Dusti and I celebrated our first full year in ministry here at First Assembly. And the first thing that has come to mind this morning is the scripture I’ve sort of been chewin’ on the past few days.

Yet today I want to back up just a bit and give a little more detail:

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1 Kings 6:2-7

 2 The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. 3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple. 4 He made narrow clerestory windows in the temple. 5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms. 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven. He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

 7 In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

Wow what a site to see.  I bet that people wept when they saw the completion of this temple.  There was so much anticipation, time, sweat, and dedication poured into this project, I’m sure people dropped to their knees at the site of this massive building.

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This morning I have been reading Jeremiah 29.  Many of us know this chapter infamously.  "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord…" –If we don’t know this by heart, we’ve probably heard it from at least 10 different preachers.

While that verse will never weather with time, another line caught my eye as I read right over it. Verse 13.  " You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity."

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So here lately I have been doing a little bit of studying on a movie that had come out within the past few years or so.  It opens up an idea, or a conspiracy that leads only, in my opinion, into the den of a snake.  What do I mean?  As to deviate the plans of the devil I will not give the name of the film, but only to give you an idea of its internals:  The movie gives an idea that God is not real.  That Jesus is the same "figure" as in many other religions. And a conspiracy that the reason for Christ is the a fascination of the government.  And much more…but as I studied the "evidence" they had given, it was no evidence at all.  Many of their facts were no facts at all. Conspiracies conspiracies conspiracies…yada yada yada.

This is my rant on the fact that people can spend their life trying to disprove God, but have never succeeded.  Generation after generation. Two millennia, people have tried to disprove and shoot down God, but have never done it.

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