Niagara on the Lake | DT on the Run

[00:00:00] Real Truth Daily. This is Daily Truths with Dave Ahlman.

[00:00:07] Good afternoon, Pastor Dave. Hey, Kent.

[00:00:09] This is amazing. What an amazing place this is. And yes, we are still in Niagara.

[00:00:16] What's this place called?

[00:00:18] Something in Ontario by the...

[00:00:20] No, Lake of Niagara by the Lake of Erie.

[00:00:26] That's the one. So don't look that up on the map.

[00:00:29] He might struggle with that.

[00:00:31] But it's gorgeous.

[00:00:33] It is. It's a beautiful, beautiful place. If you ever get the opportunity, give Pastor Dave a call and ask him where it's at.

[00:00:38] And I'll tell you unexplicitly where it is.

[00:00:41] Yes.

[00:00:42] It's somewhere in Canada.

[00:00:44] It's somewhere in Canada.

[00:00:45] Right.

[00:00:46] We were talking about it. You were talking about on the last day, you know, God's going to separate the sheep from the goats.

[00:00:53] Right.

[00:00:53] Well, first of all, I had to say, after seeing this beautiful, this beautiful little town and all these flowers in Niagara Falls, how beautiful and how powerful it was.

[00:01:04] How could you not believe in God?

[00:01:07] How could you not believe?

[00:01:08] Right.

[00:01:09] Now, you said that he's going to take the believers, the sheep.

[00:01:12] Right.

[00:01:13] With him, and he's going to leave the goats.

[00:01:15] Right.

[00:01:16] Well, if you ever visit a place like this and you don't become a sheep, there's something seriously wrong because this will make you a believer.

[00:01:26] And it's just awesome.

[00:01:28] It really is.

[00:01:29] You know, and I think about where we're from, obviously Colorado.

[00:01:33] And when people go to Colorado and they see the majestic peaks and the beauty and all of that, you know, that makes us realize the God who created that is the same God that's going to separate the sheep from the goats.

[00:01:45] And God created all of this so that we might understand that not only did he create that and he created us, he sent his son Jesus to redeem the world.

[00:01:54] And everything that is beautiful and gorgeous will have in the new heaven and new earth, but it's not going to be contaminated by sin.

[00:02:02] Right.

[00:02:03] And so people have to recognize the fact that when they repent of their sin and they put their trust in Jesus after seeing this beauty, then we're going to have this but so much more when Christ comes back.

[00:02:15] And we don't want to be a goat.

[00:02:17] We want to be a sheep.

[00:02:19] We want to be a sheep.

[00:02:20] That's right.

[00:02:21] And, you know, when looking at this place, looking at this place, you know, and we've said so many times, it's all his.

[00:02:29] Well, it's obviously all his.

[00:02:32] A man cannot make this or can be the beauty of this place.

[00:02:37] Well, and what makes me kind of questioning all of that is how in the world could this come from a blob of tissue or a slime bag back millions of years ago.

[00:02:50] Folks, you've heard me say many times the world is about 6,000 years old, right?

[00:02:56] And it's not any older than that.

[00:02:58] And things really changed after the flood.

[00:03:02] But all of this, all of this creation, especially this beauty that we see, all resonates with the glory of God's name and makes us realize, oh, my goodness, we need God in our life.

[00:03:12] We need Jesus, our Savior, because someday he's coming back to make everything even more beautiful than this.

[00:03:19] And everything will be new.

[00:03:20] And last but not least, when you talk about separating the sheep from the goats, we're talking about a lot of sheep, a lot of goats.

[00:03:29] That's a lot of people that he's going to be separating.

[00:03:32] That's exactly right.

[00:03:33] We talked about this today.

[00:03:34] If you think about all the people that are currently living and people who have lived before us, half the people who have ever lived are living now.

[00:03:41] So everybody who's ever lived is 8 billion people.

[00:03:45] And when you look at that, that means if three-quarters of the world down through history, only three-quarters of the world hasn't believed in Christ, only one-quarter does, that means there's going to be 2 billion sheep and 6 billion goats.

[00:03:59] Right?

[00:04:00] Right?

[00:04:00] So we've got work to do, folks.

[00:04:01] We've got to get the gospel out.

[00:04:02] And you can point to beautiful creation like this and say, somebody made that.

[00:04:06] And the same God that made that also saved your soul through his son, Jesus.

[00:04:10] And I pray that we turn that around to where we have more sheep than goats.

[00:04:15] And we pray that people will find, if they don't have a church home, we pray that they find a church home and get into Scripture.

[00:04:23] Amen.

[00:04:24] This is all there.

[00:04:25] All this beauty that talks about it.

[00:04:26] Amen.

[00:04:27] Well said, brother.

[00:04:28] Pastor Dave, blessings on your week and have a great time here in Canada.

[00:04:32] Hey, that sounds good.

[00:04:33] You folks, God bless you.

[00:04:35] Real good.

[00:04:36] God bless you real good.

[00:04:37] Hey.

[00:04:38] Hey.

[00:04:38] Take care.

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[00:04:42] Pastor Dave Allman is the pastor of Mount Hope Church in Boulder, Colorado.

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