God Intended YOU To Be HIGHER Than Angels

Audience: I recently used an illustration when I was preaching about Enoch. Enoch had nothing, none of the tools that we have today, yet he had a tremendous relationship.

That’s right. Our present-day faith…I know you’ve never thought of this…is built on the simple supposition that you have to be able to read and write to be a devout Christian. Now think about it. You cannot be a proper Christian unless you can read and write. That means that somewhere in eternity past, God decided that His faith that He would deliver would be of no effect unless man had the gift and ability of literacy. He could go into hieroglyphics, and from that to symbols for sounds, and from that, He would be able to write meaningful words and thoughts out of abstract drawings. Do you believe that? Do you believe that in order to know your Lord and Savior, it is absolutely necessary to be literate? Well, if you don’t believe that, then you have to ask yourself, can He be known outside of literacy? And if so, how? Enoch was a very primitive brother. 95 to 97, possibly 98 or 99% of all the people who lived in the days of Paul in the cities he preached in could not read or write, and yet in the 20th and 21st century, we stand back and look at them with jealousy. Well, they had something going for them. Oh my. Gene Edwards, have you no sense?

Audience: The same. This morning, I went for a walk and didn’t know where I was until I got here, but I still had faith. The map just confirmed that, yes indeed, I was here, but I got there without the map.

That’s wonderful. Alright, now, this is what we talked about the other day, and now we’re up to our day and time, and we’re here in this room, and we are seeking to find a way to know the Lord deeply and meaningfully. Now, all of that was a review. You got all of that last night, I’m sure. But I did it again this morning from a little different view, so that you could really know you know.

Now then, I think I would like to talk about the first Spirit there ever was, and the first life there ever was. We will move from that high point to understand our relationship with Jesus Christ today. Now I want you to imagine God, if you can, and I want you to imagine Him as the All. Now that means that there was nothing else but God. Now that’s impossible to understand because you have to see God as limited, and there has to be, therefore, God and a lot of nothingness around Him. But if we understand the scripture, there was a time when He was all, and you could not get outside His bounds; He was everything. Now what’s there? There is light, there is life, there is spirit, there is God. That’s all that there is God, but He is made up of many elements. I would take two. By nature, three, by nature, He was invisible. He did not weigh. He did not have measure. He did not have dimension. He did not have form, and if you had stood there in that primordial age, you couldn’t have seen Him even if you were looking for Him. He is by nature not visible.

To another spiritual eye, you could have seen Him, and you could have seen the light and all of that. Now, I may be sounding like I’m talking nonsense, but to the human eye, He is invisible. To His own eyes, He is seen, and He is there, and He is light, and He is life. What is His natural substance? He is invisible. His natural substance is spirit. That Spirit is a form of Life. Let’s put it that way, shall we? There is now a form of life in a non-universe. There’s nothing there but God; let us say the entire universe is God. That’s all there is in that universe, and that God is invisible and that God is spirit by nature.

If you look at my suit and you ask, “What is it?” You say, “Well, it’s cloth.” But press the point. What is it? It’s wool. God is God, but what is He? Well, He’s a living being, but what is He? Substance. He is Spirit. That Spirit was alive; there was also Life. Now He gave a name to His Life form. He called His Life form the eternal Life form. That is, He is eternal life. That is a very good choice of words because it means His life will always be, and His life always has been. There is no beginning to it, and there is no end to it. It has no origin. It has no termination. Now that’s different from everlasting life. Everlasting life begins but never ends. An angel has everlasting life. God has eternal life. Two different forms of life entirely. Can you see God as spirit and eternal Life?

Now, I’d like to change that a little bit and say, can you see that as a life form? Let’s put it on the biological scale. Where does it fall? Well, it falls at the top of the chart. He is the highest form of life there ever was or ever will be. He is at the top of the biological scale. God, who is spirit, who is invisible, who is Life, and His Life is called eternal Life. That’s the highest form of Life, and at that time, it was the only form of life. Now, later, He decided to create. When He decided to create, He created angels, and interestingly enough, He created them very similar to Himself. When He created them, He created them within a sphere for them to inhabit, and He created the sphere, also similar to His own being. The sphere was invisible, and the sphere was spiritual. It may not have been spirit, but it was spiritual. Then He put inhabitants in that. He gave them everlasting life. He gave them indestructible, everlasting, but nonetheless created life.

It came out of His fingertip, and now here they are. They are enclosed, limited beings of light and spirit. They are everlasting, and they belong to the sphere of the spirituals. They bear some kinship to, some reflection of, more a striking kinship to, some reflection of God’s life. The first time I ever went to an artist in my whole life to get some artwork done was in Houston, Texas. And when I went to the artist, the thing I noticed about this man was that he had the strangest arms. They were the shortest arms I ever saw on anyone his size. I asked him to do some figures for me, and he did, and when I got them back, everybody in the pictures had really short arms. There was a reflection of the artist in his creation. I’m sure you understand my point.

When God created the angels, and He put them in a spiritual sphere, and they were spirit beings, and they were light, and they had a life that went for a long, long ways, it was something of the nature of the artist being seen in what He had created. I don’t understand the relationship between angels and God. Don’t ask me to explain it; I have no idea how it works. If you do, write me a big paper on it. Send it to me, and I’ll explain it just like I learned it, and I won’t give you credit for it. I’ll put it in a book. I don’t understand the relationship of God to angels. I could tell you lots of things, but I don’t know how they communicate. I don’t know if they speak to one another. I don’t know if angels have a sense of humor. I can tell you one thing about angels: they consider us very slow. Every time you ever see an angel speaking to a man, he is saying, “Make haste.” He does. Look through the New Testament. And also, don’t be afraid, which shows how little we are acquainted with the other realm. Make haste. Go quickly, and no matter how fast we go, it still looks slow to them.

Well, now, let’s not see God here and not the angels, but let’s look at that sphere again. The sphere reflects something of the artist who created it. It is without dimension and limitless. I think that when I make that point, folks don’t know what I’m talking about. Why would you even bother to mention it’s limitless? I mean by that it’s not big or small. Now, if you go into it, it looks very, very big, but because it’s dimensionless, it could fit inside an atom. The entire heavenly realm can fit in a space smaller than the smallest element that we know in the material world. It is without dimension, and the reason I bring that up is that the entire spiritual realm could fit inside you. But if you happen to find the door to get into it, you would find it enormously large. Nonetheless, it can fit inside you.

I want you to see this realm now. I want you to sort of get acquainted with it. I want you to know that it seems to be itself limited and God seems to have put Himself within that realm and He seems to have limited Himself. The angels can now view Him. He has allowed something besides God to exist. There is God, plus; there’s God, plus this sphere, this realm, and there is God and the angels. So obviously, He has made room for something other than Himself.