"AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST"........(Psalm 103:11-14)
(Sing the song, "My Sins are Gone")

In light of my anniversary trip to Hawaii tomorrow I have been asked if I had a message to match my vacation.  One person mentioned that I could preach on the rapture, and entitle it "I'M OUTTA HERE"!!!  But instead, I want to preach on this thought.  Tomorrow I'm gonna see if I can find out!  (We are in the EASTERN USA....Yet we are considered THE WESTERN FOLK to those in Europe and Arabia)

*Distance doesn't always mean REMOVAL.  For example:  A movie star decides to move to Europe to distance himself from a disgruntled ex-wife who demands more child support.....or.....A person has a terminal disease, so they find another doctor on the other side of the country to say what they want to hear.....or.....Maybe I man travels to the International space station to distance themselves from a war-torn planet, only to find that they must return back to solid ground and face reality!  You flush the toilet or take out the trash assuming that waste has disappeared from your world, etc.   Just because I will be 5,000 miles away does'nt change my bills back home; in fact it increases them!  The same chores will be waiting on me when I get back!  So, "the DISTANCE" didn't help in any of these situations!

HOWEVER, the distance God refers to ETERNALLY continues to separate itself!  When I get to heaven my BILLS, SICKNESS, DEATH, will not follow me because my SINS CANNOT FOLLOW ME!!!  Nobody wants to be FOLLOWED!  When a person says they are "being followed", that is a scarey statement!  The most scary of horror films is about evil things that creep behind you!---(SIN IS THE PRIME-THING to LEAVE BEHIND; for it is the root of all our troubles!)

ON EARTH and IN THE UNIVERSE, east and west are CONTINUOUS!!!-(One of the great mysteries of the heavens above is not so much it's infinite height as it is it's WIDTH!!!)

When the bible attempts to describe God's LOVE, MERCY, GRACE, PATIENCE, etc....it uses things known to us to go on forever without end!-(v.11)  (Micah 7:19 -He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.)  (Hebrews 8:12- For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.) (Ephesians 3:18-19- May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge...")

EAST AND WEST ARE LIMITLESS!--(They don't mix!)  Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

EAST AND WEST ARE ALWAYS POINTING TOWARDS THE LIGHT!--                                                  (Either the rising of sun, or following the sun)
EAST AND WEST SEPARATE LIGHT FROM DARKNESS-(That is God's design)
EAST AND WEST ARE THE GREATEST OF EXTREMES!  (Isaiah 38:17- Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.)