Another great sermon from Tommy Wallen.
Back in April, Morgan Wallen launched his very own radio station on SiriusXM, aptly titled “Morgan Wallen Radio.” With this, he joined the likes of Chris Stapleton, Willie Nelson, Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney, all of whom have their own stations on the broadcasting corporation.
Since debuting on April 7th, Morgan Wallen Radio has aired a plethora of different segments, and recently, his father, Tommy, spearheaded “Family Tradition With Tommy Wallen,” where he shares memories from the Wallen family, stories from Morgan’s childhood, his proudest moments from Morgan’s life and career and more.
And a few weeks ago, Tommy added another segment to his son’s radio station called “Tommy’s Sunday Seven,” which will serve as a seven-minute devotional each and every Sunday morning. Tommy is a preacher and Morgan grew up in the church, so it’s a very fitting new segment to add to his radio station:
In the first episode, he shared a lot about his own personal journey to salvation, explaining that he was given a “general other than honorable circumstances discharge” two years into his four years of service in the Marine Corps following a DUI he got on base at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He called it the one of the things he’s “most ashamed of” in his past, and after he was forced to leave the service, he spent years either “drunk or high” every day.
He shared a lot about his personal testimony and how he ended up in ministry, and last week, he got into the very beginning of the Bible and God’s creation. In the third week of the series, Tommy got more into the weeds, so to speak, on the verse that prove God spoke his Word into existence and makes the Bible a Divine creation:
“Last week, we looked at Genesis 1:1, at God, and the need to decide if there is a God. Today, we’re gonna look at Genesis 1:3, God said, or God‘s word. We only have seven minutes each week, so in these first few episodes, I am laying a foundation for those who are curious, but don’t have any knowledge about the Bible.
Again, I’m not trying to force what I believe on you. Just give you a chance to make an informed decision. For those of you who have some knowledge, in the future episodes, we will begin to dig a little deeper, so please be patient. We will get there. Once we decide there’s a God that created everything, our next decision has to be, is the Bible God‘s word? Did God speak? Does God still speak, and if so, can I hear him, and how? God spoke everything into existence.
The Word God said is used 10 times in Genesis:1, in verses 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26,28 and 29. Numbers have a meaning in the Bible, and the number 10 means Divine order, Divine completeness or Divine law. We may look at numbers and their meanings in significance in future episodes, so here we see, we have a complete creation account in Genesis:1.”
He provided several examples of accounts throughout the Bible of God speaking directly to people who wrote chapters in the Bible, or whose stories were featured in the scrip-tires, starting with Adam and Eve:
“We also see very clearly and importantly that God speaks. Not only did God speak everything into existence, but God spoke to people. We have many accounts given to us where God spoke to people throughout the Bible. I’ll give you a few. Genesis 2: 16-17, God speaks to Adam and Eve, ‘And the Lord God commanded the man, you are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you may not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it, you will certainly die.’
I find it interesting the first time God speaks to mankind, he’s giving them a choice. Remember in the first episode, I said that life is about choices, and the truth about choices is, we get to decide, but we don’t get to determine the consequences. Genesis 8:5, verse 15, God spoke to Noah. Chapter 12:1, he spoke to Abraham. Chapter 26:2 spoke to Isaac. Chapter 32:28, he spoke to Jacob, and he changed his name to Israel. 1 Samuel 2:3-4, he spoke to David, a shepherd boy who became King, and he used to write a lot of the Psalms.
And then finally in the New Testament in Matthew 3:17, God spoke these words about Jesus Christ, ‘This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.’ You may be thinking, well that’s all in the past, what about today? I’m glad you asked. I’m gonna give you a lot of verses from the Bible, so I would recommend that you write them down and then look them up later.
God speaks to us today through his word, 2 Timothy 3: 14-16, Paul is writing to a young Greek by the name of Timothy, who was a follower of Jesus and this is what he said, ‘But as for you continuing the things that you have learned and which you’re convinced holding tightly to the truth, knowing from whom you have learned them, and how that from childhood you have known the sacred writings, the Hebrew scriptures which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus surrendering your entire self to him, having absolute confidence in his wisdom, power and goodness. All scripture is God-breathed, given by Divine inspiration and profitable for instruction, for conviction and correction, and and for training and righteousness.'”
Tommy listed several other verses, with the last one being from 1 Corinthians, and he closed it out by saying next week will be he will look into the Spirit of God:
“1 Corinthians 2 9-15, ‘As it is written, no eye hath seen, nor ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived. God has prepared these things for those who love Him.’ Now, God has revealed those things to us by his spirit, since the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God, for who knows a persons thought except his spirit within him. In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God, except the spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit who comes from God. So that we may understand what is freely given to us by God. We also speak these things, not in words, taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. But the person without the spirit does not receive comes from God‘s spirit, because it’s foolishness to him. He’s not able to understand it since it’s evaluated spiritually, but the spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything.’
Thanks for tuning into Tommy Sunday seven. Next week, we’ll look at the spirit of God.”
I love how Tommy is breaking down each fundamental part of who God is and what the Bible is, and how everything is a choice. Like he mentioned at the beginning of the segment, he isn’t trying to force his beliefs on people, rather he wants them to understand the unshakeable Truths of the Bible and where it all comes from and what it means, so they can decide fro themselves to say ‘yes’ to God.
Tommy is still in ministry, though I don’t believe he Pastors a church anymore, but I’d love to hear a much longer message from him at some point because he is an incredible preacher. The seven-minute segments are much more digestible and makes sense for this platform, and I’m really starting to look forward to these messages every week.
You can listen to the full segment here, and I highly recommend it:
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