Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “God’s Great Masterpiece”.
A masterpiece can be defined as is a work done with extraordinary skill and is of such quality and other attributes that it makes it usually special and unique that endures and transcends generations. The word is applied to certain artistic works especially by that of a select group of artists.
While we classify some of their work as masterpieces, creation itself can be called a masterpiece of God. It is a masterpiece on a cosmic scale, a work only someone like God can do. Just as humans can create great works with their hands, so God has created a great work with his hands.
Just as we have taken paint and brush and applied it to a canvas to create great works of art and have taken ideas from our minds and made them reality, so has God taken the material that forms our universe and created it and mankind as part of it. Our universe is like God’s painting or masterpiece.
God has taken what He has endowed us with the ability to do but has done it on a universal scale that forms the reality in which we live and breathe. This concept is difficult for many to grasp and understand. David attempted to canonize it in the 19th Psalm.
A masterpiece complete with a universe that may not ever be fully explored and sentient self-aware beings capable of exploring it. Beings made in the image and likeness of the master painter or creator.
But as difficult as it may be to recognize and understand creation as a masterpiece of God, even more wonderful is for certain of those within the masterpiece to leave it and join the Master who created it and them. This is the good news of salvation.
That those who are part of the painting are granted the ability and power to leave the canvas and join the Creator. This offer is made possible by the forgiving blood of Jesus to all who love and fear God, the Master behind the masterpiece.
We are gods in as much as we can imitate the works of Him who made us. And given enough time, in another millennium, humanity will be able make their own incomprehensible masterpieces to us today.
If we find ways to stop killing each other and learn to live with differences and share this great masterpiece of a world God has put us in, then the unimaginable will be realized. And if humanity will or can achieve the unimaginable, just try to image the awesome power of the one who set humanity within His masterpiece of a universe and world.
And truly from our perspective, the world and universe we find ourselves within is the highest form of master craftmanship, for the Master who created it, it might be considered a light or small thing. In other words, this great masterpiece may only represent the smallest fraction of what God is capable of doing.
There is so much we don’t know about God, but He has revealed much to us through the prophets, through Christ and through the world He has made. For those who believe and want to leave the canvas, He has promised we can. To all the rest, their fate lies in the fate of the canvas which the bible says will be burned and all in and on it and something new shall take its place.
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Pastor Jordan
