Undescribable

Great podcast from Pastor Bill Welsh, heard it on the radio, and it's titled "What's Up with the Resurrection? Or Who Gets the Girl?" It's a 2 part dated on 1/20 and 1/21 2010. He covers Mark 12:18-27.

This sermon closely ties to my last few blogs about how the fullness of Christ is infinite. Just because Heaven is inconceivable and above the capacity of our limited minds, It doesn't mean that only the empirical things of this world exist. There is way more to life that many are missing out on, and this life is found only in Jesus. Just listen to it. I'm thinking about checking out their church soon since its only in Long Beach.
"And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." - 1 John 5-11-11

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" -1 Cor 2:9

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." -John 1:1-5

"He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth" John 1:10-14

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I read a few pages from Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning, (Author of The Ragamuffin Gospel) Here's a short excerpt from him about God's character, holiness and being.
It is beyond our ken to withstand the unbearable intensity of God's holiness, power, and grandeur. God dwells in inaccessible light. (1 Tim 6:16) In the later Old Testament writings, the kabod Yahwed is revealed as God's manifest holiness, and the Israelites give glory to God by recognizing and acknowledging God's divinity.
The magnificent theme of kabod reaches its culmination in the Christian scriptures, as the kabod rests on the person of Jesus and he shares in the luminous brilliance of his Father. He is the Light who has come into the world. To glorify Jesus is to confess his divinity as well as his humanity. In short, Jesus is God.
The carpenter who walked the dusty roads of Galilee is "one who has been tempted in every way that we are, though he's without sin" (Heb 4:15); he is also, as the Nicene Creed stipulates, God from God, Light from Light, Kabod from Kabod, true God from true God, eternally begotten not made, one in being with the Father. He is more than a superior human being with an intellect keener than ours and a capacity for loving greater than ours. In his divinity Jesus is inexpressibly Other, absolutely incomparable.
Jesus is the power and wisdom and holiness of God Almighty. "In him all things were created in heaven and earth" (Col 1:6). He is creatively present 264 trillion miles from earth on the start Upsilon Andromedae. No thought can contain him; no word can express him. He transcends all human concepts, considerations, and expectations. He is the Beyond in our midst, and though in our midst, still beyond anything we can intellectualize or imagine. Jesus Christ will always be a scandal to the murky, immodest theory making of the intelligentsia, because he cannot be comprehended by the rational, scientific, and finite mind.
"Anyone who has been brushed by the divine kabod cannot but adore God." The only appropriate response is that of the apostle John, who laid his head on the breast of Jesus in the Upper Room. In the Book Revelation, when John saw dimly the glory of the risen Christ, he fell on his face, prostrate in adoration.
It is of immense importance to understand that every word spoken and written about God is delivered in the language of analogy. In any divine analogy, there is a similarity between the human words used about God and the reality of God himself; there is also, however, a radical dissimilarity. What is affirmed in one breath must be denied in the next. For example, we liken divine love to human love. The similarity induces us to think that we are getting a grip on God's love. And yet, though human love is the best image we have, it is utterly inadequate to express the love of the Infinite. Not because human love is too sugary and sentimental or because is is too passionate and emotional, but because it can never fully compare with that source whence it came the passion emotion love of the Totally Other.
The more we let go of our concepts and images, which always limit God, the bigger God grows and the more we approach the mystery of his indefinability. When we overlook the dissimilarity, we begin to speak with obnoxious familiarity about the Holy, make ludicrous comments such as "I could never imagine God doing such a thing," calmly predict Armageddon, glibly proclaim infallible discernment of the will of God, and trivialize God, trimming the claws of the Lion of Judah.
You are beautiful beyond description
Too marvelous for words,
Too wonderful for comprehension
Like nothing ever seen or heard.
Who can grasp your infinite wisdom,
Who can fathom the depth of your love?
You are beautiful beyond description
Majesty enthroned above.
And I stand, I stand in awe of you.
I stand, I stand in awe of you
Holy God to whom all praise is due,
I stand in awe of you.

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."-Ephesians 3:14-21
"..whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Matt 20:26-28

The Supremacy of Christ
"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant." -Colossians 1:13-23

"We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." -1 John 5:20