In today's troubled
world people are wondering
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where we are headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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Good evening, everyone.
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What a great
night we have tonight.
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One of the great
debates in modern society
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is the question of
creation and evolution.
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Many people are adamant.
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This world is the product
of evolution and that's that.
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God had nothing to do with
this world coming into being.
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Some maintain that God used
evolution to create the world
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and then of course there's
that matter of Genesis 1:1,
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"In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth."
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So what is it really?
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And then why
does it even matter?
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Find out in tonight's subject
"Creation versus Evolution."
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Please welcome the
presenter of Revelation Today,
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Ron Halvorsen.
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Let's bow our heads
in a word of prayer,
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let's seek the
presence of Christ.
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Gracious Father, I
thank You for this book
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because without it we would
have no anchor for our soul.
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Without this book there
would be total confusion.
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We would not
know which way to go
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and so we pray
that You will show us
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through the light of the word
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that we might walk in Your path,
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until we walk into the kingdom
with You in Christ's name.
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Amen and amen.
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Creation versus Evolution.
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Thanks to Darwin and
the Theory of Evolution.
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Naturalism has
become the dominant religion
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in our western
world and modern culture.
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Less than a century ago,
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Charles Darwin
popularized the credo
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of his secular
religion with the book
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their Bible
Origin of the Species.
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Naturalism has
replaced Christianity
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in the western world.
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And evolution has
become naturalism's
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principle dogma or doctrine.
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You see
naturalism is much a religion
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as Muslim or Christianity
because its entire philosophy
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is built upon a
faith based premise,
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its basic presupposition
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is rejection of
everything that's supernatural.
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So if you want to talk
about the supernatural,
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you want to talk about
that which cannot be explained,
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that which is a
step beyond reason
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into the area of
faith they're rejected.
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And yet they have
to take a deep step,
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a big step in faith to explain
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the way they explain the
creation of our universe.
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And so we think of that
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Charles Darwin there are three
important questions of life.
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By the way they can't answer,
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first of all,
where did we come from?
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That's still up for debate.
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Question is, why are we here?
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And then the question
comes, where are we going?
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I mean those three questions
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are the most
important questions about life
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and the great
conflict between Christianity
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and naturalism is over origin.
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And the Bible
states in Genesis 1:26, 27,
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"Then God said, 'Let
us make man in Our image,
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after our likeness,
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let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the
air and over the cattle'"
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and he goes on to say
"'and over all the earth
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and every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth.'
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So God created
man in His own image,
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in the image of
God He created him,
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male and female
He created them."
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And then he goes on
to say in Genesis 2,
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"And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground,
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and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
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man became a living soul."
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If you look at Genesis
the first and second chapter,
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you discover that God
spoke each day into existence
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but when He came to
the creation of man,
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He didn't speak
them into creation,
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He knelt down
and He formed them.
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He touched the
dust of the earth,
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He formed them, He
formed them with eyes,
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He formed them with ears,
He made them in His own image.
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This was the touch of God.
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He did not form the fish,
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He spoke the
fish into existence.
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He didn't form the birds,
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He spoke the
birds into existence.
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But when it comes
to man, He touches him.
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God has always
been in touch with man.
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From the very
beginning to the very end,
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God will always be in touch,
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will always be
in touch with man.
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Now when God created, He
created the first parents,
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He created them
in His own image,
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this is a literal history.
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This is not
symbolic, it's literal.
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Adam, Eve formed
in the image of God.
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Now listen to this.
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The creation of
Adam is literal history.
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If we did not fall in Adam,
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we cannot be redeemed in Christ.
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So we not only say
that He's not our Creator
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but He is not our Savior,
because if we reform in Adam
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we cannot be
redeemed on to Christ,
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"For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ" what?
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"Shall all be made alive."
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So this question of
creation and evolution
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in the mind of the believer,
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in the mind of the
Christian is important,
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it's important because we say
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that there is
salvation only in Christ
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that men and women, children,
young people need to come
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to acknowledge Christ
as Savior in their life.
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That's why the
church evangelizes,
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that's why we go to the
uttermost parts of the world,
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to share the good news
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that Jesus Christ
can and will redeem them
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and we feel it in our own heart.
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Haven't we,
this great experience
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of being redeemed in Christ?
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But if we reject
Him as the creator,
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we must out of necessity
reject Him as a savior,
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because first of all
a savior doesn't lie.
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A savior tells the truth
and we're going to see that
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as we look at this evening.
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The cosmic conspiracy is this,
"It is Satanic in Its Origin."
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It's a war against the
Creator you can understand that.
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If he can get you to
disbelieve a creator God,
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then everything
goes, anything goes,
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and so he says it's
satanic in its origin,
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this idea that we
were created not by God.
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It is deceptive
in its principle.
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The antichrist in Rome,
we are studying Revelation,
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we're not studying it
verse by verse on our timeline,
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you cannot study
Revelation that way.
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By the way, he doesn't deal it
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chronologically like
your western mind thinks.
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Not at all, he
begins sometimes in heaven
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that he brings them back
to earth, he brings them,
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he brings them into a
spiritual sanctuary in heaven,
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then he brings
them back to earth.
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So you see he
talks about the future,
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then he talks
about the church present.
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You see you got to
understand it in its pillars
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or its doctrine
notes, great themes.
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And one of the
great themes of Revelation
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is that God is the creator.
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That's the essential basic theme
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of the Book of Revelation.
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You cannot
understand who the antichrist
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is until you
understand who Christ is.
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Doesn't matter
who the antichrist is
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if you don't know
who the Christ is.
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And so we, we look at this
as deceptive in its principle.
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We're going to look at
that cosmic conspiracy.
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I'm gonna show
you the United States
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in Bible prophecy and
how it fits into this.
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I'm gonna show you
the Mark of the Beast
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and 666 and what it really says
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and it's not a number
on your license plate,
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believe me and 666.
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We're gonna
look at those things,
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but here we
look at the creation,
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the creation of
world, it's deceptive
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and it is
destructive in its results.
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What we're seeing in our world
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total rebellion
against God is the result
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of this kind of teaching.
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It's drawn us away if
we have no divine creator,
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then we don't have to pray.
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If we don't have
a divine creator,
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we don't have to, we don't have
to be honest with each other.
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It leads to a bitter end.
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The conspiracy is one
against the Word of God.
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We talked about that.
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I believe that the whole Bible
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is inspired from
Genesis to Revelation.
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I believe when God
speaks, He doesn't stutter.
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That His word is
fast forever and ever
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and no matter
what-- listen, you don't--
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you don't go to the
church to find the truth,
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you find the truth
to go to the church.
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We got it all messed up
and so here in the beginning
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we go to God to find out
what God says about creation.
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I want to ask the Creator
what He says about creation.
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I'm not gonna
talk to the creature
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and ask him about the Creator.
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I'm gonna go to the Creator
and ask about the creature.
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Amen, come on now say,
amen here in this play.
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But it's also
against the Word of God
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and it's against
the people of God
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and it's against the laws of God
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which we talked
about last night.
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Now how can the church
talk against the moral law
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and yet try to tell us
that we have to be moral.
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Why do you do
away with something
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that teaches us morality
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and yet call
ourselves-- believe me friend,
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I'm amazed how we fall for
things hook, line and sinker,
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with no biblical bases
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we fall for things,
hook, line and sinker.
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Let the Bible
be your foundation.
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It's against the laws of God,
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it's against the
government of God the conspiracy
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and it's all there in Revelation
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we're going to
see night after night.
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We're just getting into
it. You don't lose patience,
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you don't loose--
don't get tired with me.
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You hear what I'm
saying, don't get tired with me.
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You're gonna have
weeks to rest after I'm gone.
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But while I'm
here, you'll get no rest,
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day or night.
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So let's look at this together
the Bible is our thought,
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we are gonna go to the Bible
find out what the Bible says
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about this thing
called creation and evolution.
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"Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour" is
what? "Judgment has come,
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worship Him that made"
what? "Heaven and earth"
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he state straight
away, heaven and earth.
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Who said that, John.
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Well, John didn't say that,
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God said that to John
and John wrote it down,
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his pen was dipped in
the red blood ink of Calvary
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and he drops newfound
faith like golden pollen
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from stems of shaking lilies
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to sweeten lives
of men in every age,
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even us here in Charlotte.
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John writes on the inspiration,
the word comes to the angel,
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the angel brings it to John,
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John to Christ
to the angel to John
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and John brings it to us
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and I'm bringing
it to you second-hand.
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"And swore by him who
lives forever and ever,"
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and devil "who
created heaven and earth
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the things that are in it,
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the earth and the
things that are in it,
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and the sea and the
things that are in it,
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that there should
be delay no longer."
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What Genesis
says, created by God.
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Revelation says created by God.
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He is the same
yesterday, He is the same today
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and He is the same forever
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and that's the
fact of God's word.
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That's the fact of God's
word. Well, we go look at this.
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It was one of
the kind of conflict
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that makes news headlines.
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Field reporters were
having a field day back then.
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The people involved
were national known figures.
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The issues were pure dynamite.
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You see, science
being taught in our schools,
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the issue was dynamite,
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the place was the
Tennessee court of law.
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The date was March 1925
and the state of Tennessee
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and by the way that was
the Butler Act of Tennessee.
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Tennessee voted that you
could not teach anything outside
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about the creation of
the world except the Bible.
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Wow, now, you can't teach
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anything that has
to do with the Bible.
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We've come a long way a
baby in the wrong direction.
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"It shall be
unlawful to teach any theory
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that denies the Story
of Divine Creation of man
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as taught in the Bible."
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That used to be the law
in the schools of Tennessee.
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But then remember
came the Monkey Trial,
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and that was two
men Williams J. Bryan
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and Clarence Darrow.
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Now William Jennings Bryan
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three times his
party's nominee for president,
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he was a godly
man, a Christian man
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and a believer in scripture
and he defended the law.
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Clarence Darrow
on the other side,
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I mean he was-- he defended
scopes, a science teacher,
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and he seemed to hold
the Bible up to ridicule.
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I mean this evolution
got its foot into the door,
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now we have a whole generation
that ridicules the Bible,
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whole generation that ridicules
creation and the creator,
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a total reversal of 1925.
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Why?
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Because there's a conspiracy
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against God and
against His word.
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A Christian cannot speak,
a Christian cannot witness
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right in anyway to
explain special creation.
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The subject of
creation in public school
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is you can't say
anything. Cosmic conspiracy.
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The question
tonight that we must ask
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is man still climbing
out of the dismal swamp.
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I have a little poem
here. Listen to this.
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"Once I was a
tadpole beginning to begin,
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Then I was a frog
with my tail tucked in,
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Then I was a
monkey in a banyan tree,
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now I'm a
professor with a Ph.D."
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Well that's
about the explanation,
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that's about it.
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The battle continues
between science and religion.
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Now, no Christian, no
intelligent human being
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is against the facts of science.
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But to the what end?
You see to what purpose?
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The scientists fully
can't explain anything
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answered in the
ultimate question about life.
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The ultimate question is
this, where did we come from?
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That's the ultimate question?
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The ultimate
question is why am I here
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and finally where are we going?
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That's the three
questions that we need to answer
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in our own
experience, in our own life.
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You see, we are like a
little kindergarten fellow,
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picking up pebbles on the beach
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you know and exploring
the outskirts of God's heaven,
00:15:09.95\00:15:13.56
but never really understanding
fully the depths of it.
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I can't comprehend it.
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Romans 1:20 says,
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"For since the
creation of the world
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His invisible
attributes are clearly seen,
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being understood by
the things that are made,
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even His eternal
power and Godhead,
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so that they
are without excuse."
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He says because what
the word says about this God
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and what God says
we are without excuse.
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An intelligent act or
unintelligent accident?
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That's the question.
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The question is, a
divine pronouncement
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or a divine predicament?
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That's what the question
is and we need to look at that
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if we're going to be honest.
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Now who has ever seen Him?
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He doesn't advertise Himself God
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and put a label
on every snowflake
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and say this comes from
the hand of the Almighty.
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He doesn't sign on
every rose bush reading
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this comes from
the courtesy of God.
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He doesn't put a
label on every summer, rain,
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shower like an advertises
of soap and detergent.
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You know whiter than white.
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He's always the
invisible, behind the visible.
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You see the mover behind
motion cause behind effect.
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You see every part of creation
shows an element of purpose.
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This motion
there must be a mover
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and He's the mover.
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Every living organism
and every individual cell
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has a bit of intelligence in it,
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something that came to our mind.
00:16:48.84\00:16:50.71
Something pushes a palm
tree to become a palm tree.
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It never becomes an oak.
00:16:53.60\00:16:55.92
It never makes a
mistake to become a pumpkin.
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From the moment the
seed touches the earth,
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from the moment it's watered,
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it begins to grow, I
mean it begins to grow.
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It lifts a hundred
tons of sap every season
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into its branches
to make its blossoms
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and its cluster of seeds
keeping palm trees coming on.
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Where is the
mind behind the mind?
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The power that does the pushing.
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We never see it, the
pusher never shows up,
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but you know He's
there come on, He is there.
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There is amazing
chemistry in the universe
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and yet the chemist
never shows up and takes a bow.
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This mathematical
order in the universe
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and I mean look at the stars
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going at the speed
25,000 miles an hour.
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It would take you a
hundred thousand years
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to the nearest star
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and you think God can't take
care of your little problems?
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He counts the stars you think
He can't count your family,
00:18:08.08\00:18:12.25
three children,
He hasn't covered.
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Listen to me, there's
artistry in everything,
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artistry in
everything, where is the artist?
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Order in everything,
where is the organizer?
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He dwells in mystery this
God I mean He remains hidden,
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this God until the day
comes and a baby is born
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wrapped in swaddling
clothes lying in a manger.
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A crib when He enters the world,
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a cross when He leaves the world
00:18:50.32\00:18:52.34
and a clip when He comes
to glory to rise up to heaven.
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When the baby is born that seed
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that word which became
flesh and dwelt among us.
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When that baby was
born he came to show us life
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in its fullest until the
sun until Bethlehem all mystery
00:19:07.57\00:19:11.44
and Jesus unravels the mystery
00:19:11.47\00:19:13.58
and He says "I'm the
word, I'm the Living Word,
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I am the Creator, the
Creator of all things."
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That's why the Bible tells us,
00:19:20.34\00:19:22.84
that it may remain a mystery
00:19:22.87\00:19:24.50
but all things were made by Him.
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That was not the only thing made
00:19:26.66\00:19:27.74
that was made
that He didn't make
00:19:27.77\00:19:31.56
because He is the great maker,
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He is the great maker.
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I mean all things,
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here's the
evolutionist formula for life.
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Nobody times
nothing is everything.
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I'll read it again you
didn't get that I mean,
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nobody times
nothing equals everything.
00:19:49.48\00:19:54.21
What an
explanation, give me a break.
00:19:54.24\00:19:56.94
I like what John
MaCarthur said, he said,
00:19:56.97\00:19:59.22
"If naturalism is true,
'We are no more than protoplasm
00:19:59.25\00:20:02.42
waiting to become manure.'"
00:20:02.45\00:20:06.99
Come on, give me a break here.
00:20:07.02\00:20:09.81
Let me just read
this text for you.
00:20:09.84\00:20:11.28
"Then God said, 'Let
us make man in our image,
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according to Our likeness,
00:20:13.92\00:20:15.83
let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,"
00:20:15.86\00:20:17.89
and goes on to say "on the earth
00:20:17.92\00:20:19.57
and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.
00:20:19.60\00:20:22.00
So God created
man in His own image."
00:20:22.03\00:20:24.92
Now let's look at this together.
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If naturalism is true, we
are no more than protoplasm
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when you become manure.
00:20:28.93\00:20:30.71
Because naturalists
say modern societies adrift
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we're witnessing the abandonment
00:20:33.31\00:20:34.84
of all moral standards
00:20:34.87\00:20:37.74
and the loss of
humanity sense of destiny.
00:20:37.77\00:20:40.16
You wonder why people
are acting the way they act,
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if they believe
you came from an animal
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you might as well act like one.
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Doesn't take a rocket
scientist to figure that out?
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You see there is a problem,
00:20:51.65\00:20:53.60
the problem for
Christians is this,
00:20:53.63\00:20:55.69
is Genesis reliable?
00:20:55.72\00:20:58.24
Is Genesis
explainable? Is it reasonable?
00:20:58.27\00:21:01.55
And the problem for
the evolutionist is,
00:21:01.58\00:21:03.18
is evolution reliable,
reasonable and factual.
00:21:03.21\00:21:08.70
Now let's look at this
Man is distinct from animals.
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He is distinct
first of all in bone.
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Man is distinct in bone.
00:21:14.54\00:21:16.72
You can see that
anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
00:21:16.75\00:21:20.45
And the fact is,
this in every way
00:21:20.48\00:21:22.82
and always man differs
00:21:22.85\00:21:25.98
in bone
structure, man walks erect.
00:21:26.01\00:21:28.34
Have you noticed that?
00:21:28.37\00:21:30.76
Man walks erect.
00:21:30.79\00:21:32.66
There's no animal that
stands and walks erect.
00:21:32.69\00:21:35.63
Now the anthropoid
rumbles and rushes to the forest
00:21:35.66\00:21:39.41
or through the
jungle on all forms.
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Man differs in countenance.
The Bible teaches us that.
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Man differs in countenance
00:21:48.56\00:21:50.19
the light intelligence
is in the face of man.
00:21:50.22\00:21:53.11
Man differs in
Osteological framework.
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No animal has the thumb
00:21:56.38\00:21:58.37
with fingers
only man has a hand,
00:21:58.40\00:22:01.23
a fish has fin
and a claw for a lion,
00:22:01.26\00:22:05.13
or hoof for a horse
and a claw for a bird.
00:22:05.16\00:22:08.73
Man is distinct,
he's different in mind,
00:22:08.76\00:22:12.47
What do you mean?
Well, his ability to reason.
00:22:12.50\00:22:15.20
Have you ever tried to
teach theology to an elephant?
00:22:15.23\00:22:18.68
Or teach astronomy to a bird?
00:22:18.71\00:22:22.16
Ever tried to
teach theology to a dog
00:22:22.19\00:22:25.61
and yet the most primitive
savage and I've been to
00:22:25.64\00:22:27.88
so many of those
primitive places in the world,
00:22:27.91\00:22:29.87
listen the most
primitive savage in the world
00:22:29.90\00:22:32.34
can learn all three,
he's different in mind.
00:22:32.37\00:22:37.01
Man differs in his soul.
00:22:37.04\00:22:39.89
He alone above all
creatures can learn to love.
00:22:39.92\00:22:43.38
He's the only one
that can turn to love
00:22:43.41\00:22:45.95
to learn to
love God and to obey.
00:22:45.98\00:22:48.61
The facts are
before us man is distinct
00:22:48.64\00:22:50.09
from all beast in every way
00:22:50.12\00:22:51.84
and what's the difference, much.
00:22:51.87\00:22:53.19
You see Walt
Whitman used to love
00:22:53.22\00:22:55.21
to write poetry about animals.
00:22:55.24\00:22:57.14
He could write about a cow
00:22:57.17\00:22:58.79
but a cow could never
write about Walt Whitman.
00:22:58.82\00:23:03.13
That's the difference.
That's the difference.
00:23:03.16\00:23:07.92
I mean, it's a big
difference, a big difference.
00:23:07.95\00:23:12.62
Man possesses infinite range,
00:23:12.65\00:23:16.07
I'm not, nor can I be
atheistic evolutionist.
00:23:16.10\00:23:19.71
I'm not, nor can I be a
materialistic evolutionist.
00:23:19.74\00:23:24.75
The theory is not factual
by the way it's not faithful
00:23:24.78\00:23:27.57
and it's not biologically true
00:23:27.60\00:23:29.50
and it's not
scientifically correct
00:23:29.53\00:23:32.04
nor is it demonstratable.
00:23:32.07\00:23:34.82
Any man who loves God,
00:23:34.85\00:23:35.88
loves his word
recoils at such a thought.
00:23:35.91\00:23:39.23
There are actually-- by the way,
00:23:39.26\00:23:40.52
there are actually
three where there is four,
00:23:40.55\00:23:42.30
but I'm gonna
just deal with three.
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But there are three theories.
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First of all life began what?
00:23:45.30\00:23:47.42
With the germ writing on a media
00:23:47.45\00:23:48.92
or whatever writing on a
piece of manner, fell down
00:23:48.95\00:23:51.06
and all we see
today is a result of germ.
00:23:51.09\00:23:53.68
That's a good one, a germ.
00:23:53.71\00:23:57.94
If that's
intelligent explanation
00:23:57.97\00:23:59.35
for life God help us.
00:23:59.38\00:24:01.13
Here we are, listen to me,
frail creatures of living dust
00:24:01.16\00:24:04.43
on a small out of the way planet
00:24:04.46\00:24:06.41
we must be
enveloped by atmosphere
00:24:06.44\00:24:08.38
and hemmed in by rigid
laws, limits of protection.
00:24:08.41\00:24:11.96
If we live at
all we walk a narrow,
00:24:11.99\00:24:14.12
we walk a narrow
path between extremities
00:24:14.15\00:24:16.22
we can't stand too much high,
we can't stand too much low.
00:24:16.25\00:24:20.96
I mean or too much cold,
00:24:20.99\00:24:22.91
body temperature
goes up ten degrees,
00:24:22.94\00:24:24.75
boom you're out of there.
00:24:24.78\00:24:26.35
Down ten degrees
most cases you're dead.
00:24:26.38\00:24:28.60
Why?
00:24:28.63\00:24:29.67
Life began as a germ that
is not reasonable explanation.
00:24:29.70\00:24:34.95
Secondly, life
began as a Green Scum.
00:24:34.98\00:24:38.48
I am almost amazed.
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.43
I mean, I'm
astonished at such thought,
00:24:40.46\00:24:43.50
Pasteur
demonstrated for all time,
00:24:43.53\00:24:46.73
there is no such thing
00:24:46.76\00:24:47.97
as spontaneous
generation of life,
00:24:48.00\00:24:50.37
it's true I can take a piece
of straw and drop it in water
00:24:50.40\00:24:53.16
and soon there will
be that stagnant water
00:24:53.19\00:24:56.13
is teeming with all
kinds of animalcules.
00:24:56.16\00:24:58.53
But I need life
to generate life.
00:24:58.56\00:25:01.53
There has to be
life that life was God,
00:25:01.56\00:25:06.28
that life was God.
00:25:06.31\00:25:08.27
Then of course
comes the Big Bang.
00:25:08.30\00:25:11.69
Now, if I was really
going to illustrate this,
00:25:11.72\00:25:14.08
I would throw a
granite out here and see.
00:25:14.11\00:25:17.39
Well, the explosion
should bring us all together.
00:25:17.42\00:25:20.15
If you want a
scientific experiment
00:25:24.90\00:25:27.33
put an egg in your microwave,
turn it on, step back.
00:25:27.36\00:25:32.14
Boom, I've never seen
00:25:32.17\00:25:34.45
a bomb fall on a
building and put it together.
00:25:34.48\00:25:38.59
I've never seen an explosion,
00:25:38.62\00:25:43.36
put it together
and yet they say,
00:25:43.39\00:25:46.49
boom the Big Bang
an accidental Big Bang.
00:25:46.52\00:25:51.66
And here we have a
universe perfect design,
00:25:51.69\00:25:55.08
the intricate balance.
00:25:55.11\00:25:57.43
Have you
noticed, fantastic beauty,
00:25:57.46\00:26:01.86
Big Bang an accident, an
accident who led the fuse,
00:26:01.89\00:26:07.90
yeah, well, God
didn't-- well, I'd-- Well,
00:26:07.93\00:26:11.29
He didn't light a
fuse and blows up He,
00:26:11.32\00:26:14.07
molded us and put
us together anyway
00:26:14.10\00:26:16.67
but it's preposterous.
00:26:16.70\00:26:18.54
Did you ever ride the Amtrak?
00:26:18.57\00:26:20.28
Now I want to
stay in here tonight
00:26:20.31\00:26:21.45
and tell you intelligent people,
00:26:21.48\00:26:23.50
that this
high-speed passenger train--
00:26:23.53\00:26:26.72
and I were to say to you
it was not an accomplishment
00:26:26.75\00:26:29.42
of contemporary engineers
but rather it mysteriously
00:26:29.45\00:26:32.59
assembled itself over
a long period of years
00:26:32.62\00:26:35.53
in abandoned automobile scrappy.
00:26:35.56\00:26:38.02
Come on now you
left me out of town?
00:26:41.04\00:26:44.76
Or if I were tell you,
00:26:44.79\00:26:46.54
do you have a copy
of the encyclopedia?
00:26:46.57\00:26:49.33
Wouldn't you lift an
eyebrow if you were informed
00:26:49.36\00:26:51.22
that this is not a
product of thousands
00:26:51.25\00:26:52.77
and thousands of
hours of research
00:26:52.80\00:26:54.65
but that it simply
came about a result
00:26:54.68\00:26:56.61
of an explosion in a print shop?
00:26:56.64\00:27:02.99
Look at the inner
workings of the computer,
00:27:03.02\00:27:06.76
amazing isn't it.
00:27:06.79\00:27:08.13
Come on now a
contemporary computer.
00:27:08.16\00:27:11.40
What would your reaction be
00:27:11.43\00:27:12.47
if I told you this marvelous
electronic machine evolved
00:27:12.50\00:27:15.43
that of ancient
ruins of Greek library?
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.64
Impossible you say.
Yeah, it is impossible.
00:27:17.67\00:27:22.85
Have you ever
seen a mighty rocker?
00:27:22.88\00:27:25.03
The "Saturn V" 36 storey's high,
00:27:25.06\00:27:27.98
it took 325,000
people to build it.
00:27:28.01\00:27:31.51
What if I announced in reality
00:27:31.54\00:27:33.92
it had assembled
itself by chance,
00:27:33.95\00:27:36.67
out in space from
the Jettison hardware
00:27:36.70\00:27:40.53
of some unknown civilization?
00:27:40.56\00:27:43.48
You would've
left me out of town.
00:27:43.51\00:27:45.62
Have you ridden on
the beautiful 747 Boeing?
00:27:45.65\00:27:50.21
I've flown on many times
across the pond the ocean.
00:27:50.24\00:27:54.86
Listen to me, what if
I told you that exists
00:27:54.89\00:27:57.59
because two mechanics
when they were fighting
00:27:57.62\00:28:00.99
in the hangar
throwing nuts and bolts
00:28:01.02\00:28:03.41
and looming at them each other
00:28:03.44\00:28:05.45
and hammers and turned around
00:28:05.48\00:28:06.61
and there it was
00:28:06.64\00:28:10.75
Boeing 747, come on now.
00:28:10.78\00:28:16.24
What made the first
Woodpecker peck wood?
00:28:16.27\00:28:18.73
Well, you see evolutions
says, it grew its beak long.
00:28:23.04\00:28:25.81
What did it do starve
to death with a short beak,
00:28:25.84\00:28:28.07
give me a break here.
00:28:28.10\00:28:30.64
What made the first
Woodpecker peck wood?
00:28:30.67\00:28:35.61
What about the bumblebee by
the way when bumblebee flies
00:28:35.64\00:28:38.04
the scientist go
high because you see,
00:28:38.07\00:28:40.82
it's not supposed
to be able to fly,
00:28:40.85\00:28:45.48
with his body the way
it is little tiny wings,
00:28:45.51\00:28:47.53
it's not supposed
to be able to fly.
00:28:47.56\00:28:50.00
It flies, let me tell you.
00:28:50.03\00:28:52.86
What about the
salmon, little tiny salmon
00:28:52.89\00:28:56.79
it worked their way
down into the sea seven years
00:28:56.82\00:28:59.33
some of them seven
years they come back,
00:28:59.36\00:29:02.22
they make their way up
the river they fight that,
00:29:02.25\00:29:04.94
and they get by the bears first
00:29:04.97\00:29:06.69
and then they
get by the waterfalls
00:29:06.72\00:29:08.81
and then they get
and they keep going
00:29:08.84\00:29:10.46
and fighting
and dying on the way
00:29:10.49\00:29:12.37
they finally
make it back to that
00:29:12.40\00:29:13.92
little river where it was born.
00:29:13.95\00:29:17.80
What puts in the salmon's head
00:29:17.83\00:29:21.86
go home little child,
have your babies and die?
00:29:21.89\00:29:26.49
So you might regenerate,
new generations of salmon.
00:29:26.52\00:29:31.49
Come on now.
00:29:31.52\00:29:33.87
What about the miracle mitosis,
00:29:33.90\00:29:36.94
when those lore of heredity,
00:29:36.97\00:29:39.80
what about the
developing embryo?
00:29:39.83\00:29:42.07
It's so proof of the designer
and intelligence at work,
00:29:42.10\00:29:45.68
think about the miracle of
the multiplication of cells.
00:29:45.71\00:29:48.54
All cells differ brain cells
and lung cells and heart cells
00:29:48.57\00:29:53.17
and human cells
and animal cells.
00:29:53.20\00:29:55.27
I mean, everything is different.
00:29:55.30\00:29:58.48
There is mutation,
there is variation,
00:29:58.51\00:30:00.95
there is
change, there is change,
00:30:00.98\00:30:05.92
but a rose always be a
rose called by any other name.
00:30:05.95\00:30:09.91
A chicken be a dolphin,
00:30:09.94\00:30:14.20
a fish will always be a fish.
00:30:14.23\00:30:18.41
You can't make a
fish out of a bird.
00:30:18.44\00:30:24.29
They tell me one
time the crocodiles flew
00:30:24.32\00:30:26.17
I'm glad they don't, now
because I live in Florida
00:30:26.20\00:30:28.74
and they come up my
canal every now and then.
00:30:28.77\00:30:30.96
I'm glad they don't fly.
Now when I see them I fly.
00:30:30.99\00:30:37.61
And I don't think they fly.
00:30:37.64\00:30:40.37
But listen to me we quarrel
and we argue, and we debate,
00:30:40.40\00:30:44.46
and we debate
we try forget that.
00:30:44.49\00:30:47.80
Dismiss all the way--
we are not gonna argue it.
00:30:47.83\00:30:51.15
Why don't you just enjoy it?
00:30:51.18\00:30:53.75
Why don't you just enjoy nature?
00:30:53.78\00:30:55.97
I'm a fly-fisherman,
I love fly-fishing
00:30:56.00\00:30:58.98
and you don't
know it's so beautiful
00:30:59.01\00:31:00.92
when I get out on stream,
early, early in the morning
00:31:00.95\00:31:03.41
when the fog is lifting
and I'm out there in my waiters
00:31:03.44\00:31:05.85
and my fly and I'm
trying to match the hatch
00:31:05.88\00:31:08.30
and then I'm-- wow
and birds are flying
00:31:08.33\00:31:14.51
being the fly and
beautiful touch by nature.
00:31:14.54\00:31:19.89
Listen to me
the coolness if hay,
00:31:19.92\00:31:23.04
I'm a morning person.
00:31:23.07\00:31:25.36
If God comes in
the morning I'm ready.
00:31:25.39\00:31:28.58
It's by the end to of
day, I'm kind of grouchy,
00:31:28.61\00:31:31.08
you know I mean come
on anyway Genesis 1:5
00:31:31.11\00:31:35.97
"God called the light Day,
00:31:36.00\00:31:37.17
and the
darkness He called Night.
00:31:37.20\00:31:38.64
So the evening in the
morning were the" what?
00:31:38.67\00:31:40.53
"It was the first day."
00:31:40.56\00:31:41.64
By the way was the first day
00:31:41.67\00:31:42.76
of the first week of the
first month of the first year.
00:31:42.79\00:31:45.84
You see the canvas is
set God is about to do
00:31:45.87\00:31:48.95
the greatest
artistic work in the universe.
00:31:48.98\00:31:51.38
He's about to do the
greatest work in the universe
00:31:51.41\00:31:55.48
and its darkness is upon
the face other deep empty,
00:31:55.51\00:31:59.75
void, dark with
the flick of His hand,
00:31:59.78\00:32:02.15
God turns on light.
00:32:02.18\00:32:04.88
Light to see by, God turns on.
00:32:04.91\00:32:07.58
He turns on light. Light why?
00:32:07.61\00:32:11.89
Why just God turn on light?
00:32:11.92\00:32:13.10
Because He's
going to create man.
00:32:13.13\00:32:14.60
What could as
man created with eyes
00:32:14.63\00:32:16.39
if he can't see in the dark?
00:32:16.42\00:32:19.67
What could if
thousand budding flowers
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.55
if man can't see it?
00:32:21.58\00:32:22.98
And so God does
everything in order.
00:32:23.01\00:32:24.81
I mean He
creates, He creates light.
00:32:24.84\00:32:27.64
I mean so that we might
see the majestic mountains,
00:32:27.67\00:32:30.11
we might see the budding flower,
00:32:30.14\00:32:31.81
we might see birds, mountains.
00:32:31.84\00:32:34.09
If they're not seen by
man what could are there?
00:32:34.12\00:32:38.45
God created light
before He created life.
00:32:38.48\00:32:42.42
You cannot have
life without light.
00:32:42.45\00:32:46.14
The second day
unfolds the Bible says
00:32:46.17\00:32:51.12
about the second day,
00:32:51.15\00:32:52.63
"Then God said,"
Let there be a firmament
00:32:52.66\00:32:54.22
in the midst of the waters,
00:32:54.25\00:32:55.95
and let it divide the
waters from the waters.'"
00:32:55.98\00:32:59.12
Genesis 1:6-8.
00:32:59.15\00:33:01.78
Firmament that
will hold flowers,
00:33:01.81\00:33:04.55
that will hold trees and stars.
00:33:04.58\00:33:07.41
He creates it first.
00:33:07.44\00:33:08.62
He don't create a tree say, oh,
where am I gonna plant it in?
00:33:08.65\00:33:10.99
He does it in order.
00:33:13.83\00:33:15.46
Everything you see in
universe is done in order.
00:33:15.49\00:33:18.24
I mean and the
second day unfolds
00:33:18.27\00:33:20.21
and He goes on and then He says,
00:33:20.24\00:33:21.90
and "God made the
firmament and divided the waters
00:33:21.93\00:33:24.10
from under the
firmament from the waters
00:33:24.13\00:33:25.70
which were on top at
the firm above the firmament
00:33:25.73\00:33:28.27
and it was so and God
called the firmament Heaven.
00:33:28.30\00:33:30.91
So the evening and
morning were the second day."
00:33:30.94\00:33:32.99
And then God creates
and notice he goes on,
00:33:33.02\00:33:35.01
it's a cycle it
goes on the third day,
00:33:35.04\00:33:38.07
the third day God moves
upon the face that is deep.
00:33:38.10\00:33:41.67
Notice what it says
about the third day,
00:33:41.70\00:33:44.08
and "God said, 'Let the earth
00:33:44.11\00:33:45.29
bring forth grass
and herb that yields seed
00:33:45.32\00:33:48.28
and fruit that yields
fruit according to its kind.
00:33:48.31\00:33:54.02
And this seed itself
on the earth and it was so
00:33:54.05\00:33:56.79
and the earth brought
forth grass, and the herd
00:33:56.82\00:33:59.36
and yields seed
according to its "what?"
00:33:59.39\00:34:02.30
"According to its kind."
00:34:02.33\00:34:04.09
The Bible says
00:34:04.12\00:34:05.27
"And the trees that yields fruit
00:34:05.31\00:34:06.67
whose seed is in
itself according to its kind.
00:34:06.70\00:34:08.72
And God saw that it was good.
00:34:08.75\00:34:10.23
And so the evening and
morning were the third day.
00:34:10.26\00:34:12.86
Listen, to what
happens on the third day,
00:34:12.89\00:34:15.37
and the green grass sprouted
and the little flowers blossom
00:34:15.40\00:34:18.71
and the pine tree
pointed its finger to the sky
00:34:18.74\00:34:21.40
and the oaks
spread out its arms,
00:34:21.43\00:34:23.11
and lakes cuddled down
in the hurdles of the glen,
00:34:23.14\00:34:25.86
rivers ran down to the sea.
00:34:25.89\00:34:27.78
And God said it's
good, God said it's good.
00:34:30.31\00:34:34.92
And by the way it
is good, it is good.
00:34:34.95\00:34:39.13
They have gold that
melted over the hillside
00:34:39.16\00:34:42.33
and ran right in the valley
00:34:42.36\00:34:43.84
and gold of apricot
with pale sliver leaves
00:34:43.87\00:34:46.46
and the purple of
grape and Hollyhocks.
00:34:46.49\00:34:49.34
Hollyhocks rose
red and yellow one
00:34:49.37\00:34:51.12
fill their
banners before they make,
00:34:51.15\00:34:53.13
and their work lilies pure
white as the character of God
00:34:53.16\00:34:56.45
and all these things
God speak it was done
00:34:56.48\00:34:59.17
beauty was everywhere.
00:34:59.20\00:35:03.06
But God's not done yet,
00:35:03.09\00:35:05.86
I mean, God's not done yet.
00:35:05.89\00:35:08.50
Listen, he goes
on there in Genesis
00:35:08.53\00:35:10.23
and explains the fourth day
unfolds in Genesis Chapter 1
00:35:10.26\00:35:15.21
"And God said, 'Let there
be lights in the firmament
00:35:15.24\00:35:17.33
to the heavens to
divide the day from night,
00:35:17.36\00:35:19.46
and let them be
for signs and" what?
00:35:19.49\00:35:21.18
"Seasons."
00:35:21.21\00:35:23.35
The Bible goes on to
say, "For the days and years
00:35:23.38\00:35:26.85
and let them be for light
in the firmament of the heavens
00:35:26.88\00:35:30.05
to give light on
earth and it was" what?
00:35:30.08\00:35:33.06
"So."
00:35:33.09\00:35:35.37
He sets the sun of
blazing in the heaven.
00:35:35.40\00:35:38.25
This God He sets the sun
of blazing in the heaven.
00:35:38.28\00:35:41.92
This God, sets the
stars in the heavens.
00:35:41.95\00:35:45.89
This God-- chains, accident,
00:35:45.92\00:35:52.52
the sun and then
comes the fifth day.
00:35:52.55\00:35:56.22
Think of it,
friend, the fifth day comes,
00:35:56.25\00:36:00.51
the whole world is
living through on the fifth day.
00:36:00.54\00:36:03.79
I mean, it's beautiful.
00:36:03.82\00:36:05.42
"Then God said,
'Let the waters abound
00:36:05.45\00:36:06.99
with an abundance
of living creatures,
00:36:07.02\00:36:08.44
let birds fly above the earth
00:36:08.47\00:36:09.78
across the face of the
firmament of the heavens.'"
00:36:09.81\00:36:11.77
I live in
Crystal River, Florida.
00:36:11.80\00:36:14.21
I swim with the
manatee all when along.
00:36:14.24\00:36:17.29
I try to swim
every day when I'm home
00:36:17.32\00:36:20.14
and you know beautiful
manatee we have the largest herd
00:36:20.17\00:36:23.61
a manatee in all
Florida, 450 in our herd.
00:36:23.64\00:36:26.62
They come in winner
and spend winter with me.
00:36:26.65\00:36:29.31
You tell me accident,
00:36:29.34\00:36:33.63
I swim in the springs beautiful.
00:36:33.66\00:36:37.66
Let me tell you, I've
been so most beautiful places.
00:36:37.69\00:36:40.38
I was in Tobago,
anybody from Tobago?
00:36:40.41\00:36:43.67
Anybody?
00:36:43.70\00:36:44.97
Well, you haven't been
there, you haven't lived yet,
00:36:45.00\00:36:46.61
you haven't seen a
little part of heaven.
00:36:46.64\00:36:48.49
I've been in
Tobago at the Nylon Pool.
00:36:48.52\00:36:50.96
You can look down thirty feet
00:36:50.99\00:36:52.81
and it's like it's
just you can reach down
00:36:52.84\00:36:54.70
and grab a pebble.
00:36:54.73\00:36:57.33
Everywhere was in
abundance of living creatures.
00:36:57.36\00:36:59.93
I go to Africa
and when I preach--
00:36:59.96\00:37:01.73
whenever I go to
Africa I tell them,
00:37:01.76\00:37:03.10
I got to go to the park,
Kruger Park in South Africa.
00:37:03.13\00:37:06.16
I got go there and animals,
I'd been in that in that park
00:37:06.19\00:37:09.35
I've seen every
type of animal in Africa.
00:37:09.38\00:37:13.18
I mean you talk about elephant
00:37:13.21\00:37:15.52
you see these
elephants in the zoo,
00:37:15.55\00:37:16.96
they are not African elephants,
00:37:16.99\00:37:20.15
they are Indian
elephants, they are not African.
00:37:20.18\00:37:22.52
It's like a house
coming at you boom, boom,
00:37:22.55\00:37:25.39
and I'm backing up
heading for the car.
00:37:25.42\00:37:27.38
I mean, I have seen a
lion take down a water buffalo.
00:37:27.41\00:37:29.89
I've seen the water
buffalo, I've seen white rhino,
00:37:29.92\00:37:31.89
I've seen the
leopard, I've seen the lion,
00:37:31.92\00:37:34.30
the pride's of lion.
00:37:34.33\00:37:35.65
Listen an
abundance but on that day,
00:37:35.68\00:37:38.21
they were created to
love each other and so are we.
00:37:38.24\00:37:44.76
Something's
happen something's happen
00:37:44.79\00:37:49.39
and He says this
00:37:49.42\00:37:50.72
"And so the
evening in the morning"
00:37:50.75\00:37:51.85
were the what?
00:37:51.88\00:37:53.10
"Were the fifth day."
00:37:53.13\00:37:54.16
But God is not done
and we go to the sixth day
00:37:54.19\00:37:57.37
and we find on the
sixth-day God comes down.
00:37:57.40\00:38:00.81
Listen, He formed
him and "Then God said,
00:38:00.84\00:38:03.91
'Let the earth bring
forth living creature
00:38:03.94\00:38:06.32
according to its kind,
cattle and creeping thing
00:38:06.35\00:38:08.14
and beast of the earth,
00:38:08.17\00:38:09.26
each according to
their kind, and it was so.
00:38:09.29\00:38:11.82
And then God said, 'Let
us make man in Our image,
00:38:11.85\00:38:15.11
according to our likeness
and let them have dominion
00:38:15.14\00:38:18.24
over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the air,
00:38:18.27\00:38:20.90
and over the cattle,'"
they were entrusted to us
00:38:20.93\00:38:23.92
"'and over all the
earth and every creeping thing
00:38:23.95\00:38:26.18
that creeps on the earth.'
00:38:26.21\00:38:27.30
So God created
man in His own image
00:38:27.33\00:38:29.76
in the image of
God He created he,
00:38:29.79\00:38:32.71
male and female
He created them."
00:38:32.74\00:38:36.05
And then because the love,
00:38:36.08\00:38:37.47
God took Eve from the side
of Adam to become prime rib.
00:38:37.50\00:38:41.90
Remember that man,
00:38:46.02\00:38:49.95
you may be the
head but she's the rib.
00:38:49.98\00:38:55.27
I almost said nothing
better than prime rib.
00:38:55.30\00:38:57.16
I don't know
about that, but anyway
00:38:57.19\00:39:01.22
He forms them with
eyes we might see and ears
00:39:01.25\00:39:03.89
that he might hear and
hands that he might touch
00:39:03.92\00:39:06.98
and heart that he
might love and Adam and Eve
00:39:07.01\00:39:10.27
I mean what a beautiful
00:39:10.30\00:39:11.62
scene that must've
been there's man created
00:39:11.65\00:39:14.16
in the image of
God perfect in all ways
00:39:14.19\00:39:17.26
and then family, love,
00:39:17.29\00:39:19.05
God intended family
and God intended love.
00:39:19.08\00:39:22.43
The conspiracy now to try
to devalue the family values
00:39:26.26\00:39:31.11
to try to devalue the family.
00:39:31.14\00:39:33.64
Listen to me,
there's nothing greater
00:39:33.67\00:39:35.49
in this world than
to have a godly family,
00:39:35.52\00:39:38.82
a Christian family
that loves God together
00:39:38.85\00:39:42.17
and worships God together.
00:39:42.20\00:39:44.10
Come on now. Come on now.
00:39:44.13\00:39:47.00
God works with us
in spite of it, amen.
00:39:49.98\00:39:53.93
God works with
us but He intended
00:39:53.96\00:39:56.52
something much better for us.
00:39:56.55\00:39:58.67
This day, I feel
sorry for the kids today.
00:39:58.70\00:40:02.25
I'm gonna give
you grandpa advice.
00:40:02.28\00:40:05.50
I really feel sorry for kids.
00:40:05.53\00:40:07.58
See in the old days,
00:40:07.61\00:40:09.02
you know you
started out holding hands
00:40:09.05\00:40:11.45
and you know and you know
00:40:11.48\00:40:16.47
and then you plan to
get married in your--
00:40:16.50\00:40:18.56
nowadays it's this,
all you have a red car,
00:40:18.59\00:40:22.63
I have a red car, we
have something in common.
00:40:22.66\00:40:24.94
Let's live
together. Come on now.
00:40:24.97\00:40:29.57
God values your life,
He values your family.
00:40:29.60\00:40:34.70
Amen. Come on now.
00:40:34.73\00:40:36.57
We need to get back to some
00:40:36.60\00:40:37.92
old-fashioned family
values don't you think.
00:40:37.95\00:40:39.87
Come on, give God, give
God recognition on this.
00:40:39.90\00:40:43.52
We need to get back
to some of those things,
00:40:43.55\00:40:46.09
but God creates, God creates
all these beautiful things
00:40:46.12\00:40:49.24
and He goes on the seventh day.
00:40:49.27\00:40:50.67
By the way God says this,
00:40:50.70\00:40:52.41
"Thus the heavens
and earth were finished
00:40:52.44\00:40:53.84
and the host of them
and on the seventh day
00:40:53.87\00:40:55.71
God ended his
work which He had made
00:40:55.74\00:40:57.49
and He rested on the seventh day
00:40:57.52\00:40:59.20
from all the work which
He had done or He had done
00:40:59.23\00:41:01.98
and rested on the seventh day."
00:41:02.01\00:41:04.59
Now the Bible goes on to say,
00:41:04.62\00:41:06.05
"From all his
work which He had done.
00:41:06.08\00:41:08.06
Then God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it,
00:41:08.09\00:41:10.73
because He
rested from all His work
00:41:10.76\00:41:11.99
which God had created and made."
00:41:12.02\00:41:14.00
And then He goes on
00:41:14.03\00:41:15.47
"He creates a special
day called the Sabbath day."
00:41:15.50\00:41:20.23
Now I want to
tell you something.
00:41:20.26\00:41:22.01
God's not tired.
00:41:22.04\00:41:23.65
That's not that kind of rest,
00:41:23.68\00:41:25.58
but it's like when the
artist finishes the canvas
00:41:25.61\00:41:28.71
and I do
acrylics, I paint acrylics.
00:41:28.74\00:41:31.98
And when I get
done with my artwork
00:41:32.01\00:41:34.10
I step back to look at it.
00:41:34.13\00:41:35.61
I have to go way back.
00:41:35.64\00:41:36.97
I step way
back. That's the rest.
00:41:40.16\00:41:44.36
You see when the
carpenter builds the house
00:41:44.39\00:41:46.16
he steps back, he looks at it.
00:41:46.19\00:41:48.28
That's the rest, you
see, that's the rest.
00:41:48.31\00:41:50.77
He-- I mean, the
musician finishes the symphony
00:41:50.80\00:41:54.98
and there it is, the last note.
00:41:55.01\00:41:56.59
He steps back.
00:41:56.62\00:41:59.68
And even in music
there's a rest note.
00:41:59.71\00:42:03.06
In the music of the heavens,
00:42:03.09\00:42:04.47
the earth, the sea, the
sky, there's a rest note
00:42:04.50\00:42:07.63
and he calls it the Sabbath.
00:42:07.66\00:42:09.50
I wish I could have
jumped over to the seventh day.
00:42:09.53\00:42:12.72
Come on, we easily
just jump around it.
00:42:12.75\00:42:15.15
You see, God does
everything in order.
00:42:15.18\00:42:18.72
You see, He does not create fish
00:42:18.75\00:42:20.97
and then run
around to create water.
00:42:21.00\00:42:24.71
He doesn't create birds
00:42:24.74\00:42:26.31
and then run
around to give them a sky.
00:42:26.34\00:42:29.68
He doesn't
create a day of worship
00:42:29.71\00:42:32.06
until He creates the worshiper.
00:42:32.09\00:42:34.10
How can you have a
worship day any day
00:42:34.13\00:42:36.17
than after the sixth day
00:42:36.20\00:42:37.62
because He
doesn't make the worshiper
00:42:37.65\00:42:39.39
until the sixth day?
00:42:39.42\00:42:40.91
I don't know why
so many reasons people
00:42:45.09\00:42:46.45
get angry at that?
00:42:46.48\00:42:47.95
I really don't.
00:42:47.98\00:42:49.21
I don't know why
you'd get upset with it.
00:42:49.24\00:42:51.12
That's the cycle of God.
00:42:51.15\00:42:53.45
That's God saying, I
want to give people--
00:42:53.48\00:42:56.35
I wish we could take
that rest serious, friend,
00:42:56.38\00:42:58.97
you would be a
happier person, believe me.
00:42:59.00\00:43:01.77
We'd be happy if
you could get some rest.
00:43:01.80\00:43:03.51
Today, we don't even get
rest on the weekend do we?
00:43:03.54\00:43:05.52
Come on.
00:43:05.55\00:43:06.85
That's why we want to make
up for the rest of the week.
00:43:06.88\00:43:09.74
But He blessed
it, He sanctified,
00:43:09.77\00:43:11.27
He did is something very--
He does everything in order.
00:43:11.30\00:43:14.59
He made it for worship
00:43:14.62\00:43:16.52
and He rested,
blessed, sanctified.
00:43:16.55\00:43:19.50
He did all this, He did all this
00:43:19.53\00:43:22.64
and He said, all this is good.
00:43:22.67\00:43:24.98
And I want you to follow me.
00:43:25.01\00:43:26.59
The first day, creates what?
00:43:26.62\00:43:32.08
Light, darkness.
00:43:32.11\00:43:34.63
And He goes on down creating
everything in order, you see.
00:43:34.66\00:43:39.78
You see, when a fish
swims it gives glory to God.
00:43:39.81\00:43:44.67
When a bird flies,
it gives glory to God.
00:43:44.70\00:43:49.69
When an animal
rumbles through the jungle
00:43:49.72\00:43:51.95
and through the
forest, he gives glory to God.
00:43:51.98\00:43:55.19
And when man comes
in the presence of God
00:43:55.22\00:43:57.90
he worships to give God glory.
00:43:57.93\00:44:00.38
That's what it's all about.
That's what it's all about.
00:44:00.41\00:44:05.76
That's what it's all about.
00:44:05.79\00:44:08.85
You see, I'm reminded
every Sabbath day every time
00:44:08.88\00:44:12.70
I commit myself
to a spiritual rest.
00:44:12.73\00:44:15.36
God is there and God is here.
00:44:15.39\00:44:18.34
In every voice of thunder,
in every roar of the wind,
00:44:18.37\00:44:22.45
in every roar of the
wave, in every cry of the baby
00:44:22.48\00:44:26.22
and the voice of
love and He made us
00:44:26.25\00:44:29.03
and then in a
special way He brought us.
00:44:29.06\00:44:31.15
I think about the little boy
00:44:31.18\00:44:32.81
the little boy
who had a sailboat.
00:44:32.84\00:44:35.47
He made it with His own hand.
00:44:35.50\00:44:36.90
My brother and I once made a big
00:44:36.93\00:44:39.22
one of these
Balsa Wood Airplanes.
00:44:39.25\00:44:42.69
We had a save a long time
to get enough money for that
00:44:42.72\00:44:46.09
and it was a kind with
you know the papers are thin,
00:44:46.12\00:44:49.27
almost like tissue paper
and we covered with the wings
00:44:49.30\00:44:52.14
and hoof got everything
in place and the wings
00:44:52.17\00:44:56.58
and my brother
got a brilliant idea
00:44:56.61\00:44:59.50
just as we finish he says,
well the glue is taking so long
00:44:59.53\00:45:02.46
let's put it in the oven.
00:45:02.49\00:45:03.89
Well, you got a idea about
the Halvorsen's here, right now
00:45:09.22\00:45:12.43
and my brothers are watching
me now, do you hear this one.
00:45:12.46\00:45:15.43
I'm just telling them
you hear this one Halvorsen?
00:45:15.46\00:45:17.70
Okay, they are hearing.
00:45:17.73\00:45:20.20
So my brother Billy
he had a brilliant idea,
00:45:20.23\00:45:22.00
let's put it in the oven.
00:45:22.03\00:45:23.54
So we put the
wings in the oven first
00:45:23.57\00:45:29.30
and that was the end.
00:45:29.33\00:45:30.86
By the way that was
the end of our creativity.
00:45:30.89\00:45:35.67
But anyway this little
boy he worked hard on that,
00:45:35.70\00:45:38.04
that sailboat I mean
he worked he painted it,
00:45:38.07\00:45:40.51
he had a-- I mean the
sails were different colors
00:45:40.54\00:45:44.44
and he painted whole blue
00:45:44.47\00:45:46.98
and he couldn't
wait to get to the lake
00:45:47.01\00:45:49.47
and he got a big ball of string
00:45:49.50\00:45:51.63
and he tied to
it to his sailboat
00:45:51.66\00:45:53.53
and he sent the sailboat
out he kept letting out string
00:45:53.56\00:45:57.00
and the sailboat
can you bring it back
00:45:57.03\00:45:59.81
and take it home and
he was proud of that.
00:45:59.84\00:46:02.28
Not only because
I mean, he had that
00:46:02.31\00:46:05.09
he had made with his own hands
and he had a lot of fun with it
00:46:05.12\00:46:08.32
and he would bring it down lake
and he would let out the string
00:46:08.35\00:46:11.33
and go further and further
and further and further out.
00:46:11.36\00:46:16.62
And then one day,
00:46:16.65\00:46:18.21
as he was
leaning out over the bank
00:46:18.24\00:46:20.27
you know kids, another foot
00:46:20.30\00:46:25.04
and he was leaning
over and he boom fell in,
00:46:25.07\00:46:31.42
let go the sting
00:46:31.45\00:46:33.99
and the wind took the
sailboat out of the lake.
00:46:34.02\00:46:37.74
Kid climbed out, soaking wet,
looking for its set was gone.
00:46:37.77\00:46:45.05
He went home heartbroken.
00:46:45.08\00:46:46.38
You can imagine I mean
you put all those hours,
00:46:46.41\00:46:48.67
put all those minutes
everything into that sailboat
00:46:48.70\00:46:51.69
and he had more
fun with that sailboat
00:46:51.72\00:46:54.61
and now it's gone.
00:46:54.64\00:46:55.67
He went home to his daddy cried,
00:46:55.70\00:46:57.84
and he says,
daddy, I lost my sailboat.
00:46:57.87\00:47:00.98
One day he was walking downtown
00:47:01.01\00:47:02.30
and he came to one of
those used furniture places
00:47:02.33\00:47:05.78
and he noticed in
the window was a sailboat
00:47:05.81\00:47:10.11
and he said five dollars.
00:47:10.14\00:47:12.76
The kid ran in and said,
"Mister, that's my sailboat."
00:47:12.79\00:47:18.55
He said, no son,
that's my sailboat,
00:47:18.58\00:47:21.57
you pay five dollars
and that your sailboat.
00:47:21.60\00:47:24.04
He said, but
you don't understand
00:47:24.07\00:47:25.16
you see I made that
boat let me told about that
00:47:25.19\00:47:27.73
you know little
defects of that boat,
00:47:27.76\00:47:29.76
the man looked and sure
enough it was the boy's boat
00:47:29.79\00:47:32.03
but now was the man's boat.
00:47:32.06\00:47:34.43
You had it, you lost it.
00:47:34.46\00:47:37.72
And so he says you five
dollars and so he went home
00:47:37.75\00:47:39.76
and crying with daddy
and his daddy said well,
00:47:39.79\00:47:41.50
you work for it son, and
you work around the house
00:47:41.53\00:47:44.32
and cut the lawn
and I'll give you
00:47:44.35\00:47:46.11
and when you get you
five dollars you go and you.
00:47:46.14\00:47:49.49
So that boy work hard,
00:47:49.52\00:47:52.18
works sweating in the hot sun
00:47:52.21\00:47:54.64
mowing and mowing
finally he got five dollars.
00:47:54.67\00:47:59.76
And he ran right
down to that store
00:47:59.79\00:48:02.55
sure enough the sailboat
was still in the window.
00:48:02.58\00:48:05.77
And he ran in and he said,
00:48:05.80\00:48:07.57
"Mister, I want that
sailboat. Five dollars."
00:48:07.60\00:48:13.55
And the man went to the window
00:48:13.58\00:48:15.14
and got the sailboat
and laid in the boy's arms
00:48:15.17\00:48:19.56
and boy started a
smile and he was so happy.
00:48:19.59\00:48:25.05
As just walking out
the man heard and he says,
00:48:25.08\00:48:28.03
I made you and I bought you,
00:48:28.06\00:48:32.26
you are doubly mine.
00:48:32.29\00:48:35.49
You are doubly mine.
00:48:35.52\00:48:38.55
Don't you know that God made you
00:48:38.58\00:48:44.55
and then God came into
this world 1,900 years ago,
00:48:44.58\00:48:49.10
so that He might touch you again
00:48:49.13\00:48:52.07
and He climbed a
hill called Calvary
00:48:52.10\00:48:55.45
and there He hung
between life and death
00:48:55.48\00:48:58.97
and He said,
Father, forgive them
00:48:59.00\00:49:02.26
for they don't know what they do
00:49:02.29\00:49:04.92
but I come to buy them back.
00:49:04.95\00:49:07.58
And the Bible
says "Jesus Christ pay
00:49:07.61\00:49:09.52
the ultimate price
for your soul and mine,
00:49:09.55\00:49:14.03
He paid the
ultimate by giving His life.
00:49:14.06\00:49:17.20
He made you, He
bought you and He loves you."
00:49:17.23\00:49:24.32
God bless you and I'll see you.
00:49:24.35\00:49:27.20
I'm glad to be able to bring you
00:50:02.38\00:50:03.84
some answers to
your Bible questions.
00:50:03.87\00:50:06.40
Thank you for asking,
pray for me as I answer.
00:50:06.43\00:50:10.50
We want the Holy
Spirit to speak to us
00:50:10.53\00:50:12.24
and bring us His Word.
00:50:12.27\00:50:14.33
Our question is this.
00:50:14.36\00:50:16.58
"I have been told
Christians don't have
00:50:16.61\00:50:17.81
to obey the law of God.
00:50:17.84\00:50:19.12
Is that true?"
00:50:19.15\00:50:22.26
Well, I could
give you the answer
00:50:22.29\00:50:23.69
to that question in one word
00:50:23.72\00:50:26.23
and if I did the answer
to that question would be no.
00:50:26.26\00:50:30.34
It is not true that Christians
00:50:30.37\00:50:31.56
don't have to
obey the law of God.
00:50:31.59\00:50:34.74
Do Christians have
to obey the road rules,
00:50:34.77\00:50:37.60
the laws of the land?
00:50:37.63\00:50:39.15
Do Christians have
to get building permits?
00:50:39.18\00:50:41.11
Isn't that interesting
00:50:41.14\00:50:42.67
if you have to
get building permit
00:50:42.70\00:50:44.51
you're going to
get a building permit.
00:50:44.54\00:50:46.26
But then there
might be someone who says,
00:50:46.29\00:50:48.24
I'm a Christian and I
need a building permit
00:50:48.27\00:50:50.26
to build a shed or garage.
00:50:50.29\00:50:53.72
But as a Christian I
don't have to obey God's rules
00:50:53.75\00:50:58.00
or what's that
other word ordinances,
00:50:58.03\00:51:02.14
county ordinances
and city ordinances.
00:51:02.17\00:51:04.70
No, no wait a minute.
00:51:04.73\00:51:06.47
It isn't a question of whether
we obey or not of course we do.
00:51:06.50\00:51:09.42
Thou shalt not kill, is
that one up the grab somehow.
00:51:09.45\00:51:12.18
Thou shalt not commit adultery
00:51:12.21\00:51:13.55
and unfortunately
there are some who like
00:51:13.58\00:51:15.09
to get away with
breaking that one.
00:51:15.12\00:51:16.80
God says that's one
of the Ten Commandments,
00:51:16.83\00:51:18.43
remember Ten Commandments,
not ten suggestions.
00:51:18.46\00:51:21.88
Bowing down to graven
images. Is somehow that okay?
00:51:21.91\00:51:24.90
No, somehow that's not
okay, because God said no
00:51:24.93\00:51:28.71
and God didn't say no
00:51:28.74\00:51:30.53
because He was
trying to take away.
00:51:30.56\00:51:32.39
God said no because He was
trying to add to our lives.
00:51:32.42\00:51:34.97
Now it's not a question
00:51:35.00\00:51:36.34
of whether we
should or shouldn't,
00:51:36.37\00:51:37.81
that's it that's
a settle question.
00:51:37.84\00:51:39.26
The question is,
what's our motivation.
00:51:39.29\00:51:42.45
The question is
also is obedience somehow
00:51:42.48\00:51:49.22
something we do
to earn salvation,
00:51:49.25\00:51:53.08
those are the questions.
00:51:53.11\00:51:54.83
So let's consider it.
00:51:54.86\00:51:57.08
What's a person's
motivation for obeying God?
00:51:57.11\00:52:01.19
You know, the
Prophet Micah said,
00:52:01.22\00:52:02.82
"He hath shewed
thee, O man, what is good,
00:52:02.85\00:52:04.36
and what doth the
Lord require of thee,
00:52:04.39\00:52:05.79
but to do justly, to love mercy,
00:52:05.82\00:52:08.78
to walk humbly with thy God?"
00:52:08.81\00:52:11.28
God wants us to live right.
00:52:11.31\00:52:13.06
Why? Because He loves us.
00:52:13.09\00:52:15.62
What difference does it make?
00:52:15.65\00:52:16.70
Well, when we love Him
we want to do His will.
00:52:16.73\00:52:21.51
So obedience the motivation
for obedience is love for God.
00:52:21.54\00:52:26.60
When we have love
for God in our heart,
00:52:26.63\00:52:28.01
obedience comes naturally.
00:52:28.04\00:52:29.95
It isn't something
that we have to say,
00:52:29.98\00:52:31.37
oh, man, ever since
I became a Christian,
00:52:31.40\00:52:34.50
boy, what a hard thing up.
00:52:34.53\00:52:36.48
I've had to quit killing people.
00:52:36.51\00:52:39.98
No, since I met Jesus,
00:52:40.01\00:52:43.05
I don't want to lose
my temper with anybody.
00:52:43.08\00:52:45.89
Since I met Jesus, I
don't want to cheat anymore.
00:52:45.92\00:52:49.41
Since I met Jesus, I
don't covet like I used
00:52:49.44\00:52:52.94
to because I've
learned that contentment
00:52:52.97\00:52:54.98
that comes with knowing
God and having His blessing.
00:52:55.01\00:52:58.41
So when Jesus
comes into your life,
00:52:58.44\00:53:00.38
you love the
things that He loves
00:53:00.41\00:53:01.88
and one of those things
that He loves is obedience.
00:53:01.91\00:53:04.44
How do we know?
00:53:04.47\00:53:05.73
If you love me He
said, keep My commandments.
00:53:05.76\00:53:08.51
And that wasn't
00:53:08.54\00:53:09.57
if you love me, go
ahead prove it that wasn't--
00:53:09.60\00:53:11.64
if you love Me here's
what's going to happen.
00:53:11.67\00:53:14.50
You'll be
keeping My commandments.
00:53:14.53\00:53:15.88
So it's a promise
of what God will do
00:53:15.91\00:53:18.84
in the life of the
person who loves Him.
00:53:18.87\00:53:22.21
You don't obey God
because you say, okay,
00:53:22.24\00:53:24.03
now if I keep
the Ten Commandments
00:53:24.06\00:53:26.81
that will get me to heaven.
00:53:26.84\00:53:29.12
There's only one way to heaven,
00:53:29.15\00:53:30.78
that's by grace
through faith in Jesus Christ.
00:53:30.81\00:53:34.86
But what does grace do?
00:53:34.89\00:53:36.17
Grace works
obedience in a person's life.
00:53:36.20\00:53:38.92
What does faith do?
00:53:38.95\00:53:40.54
Faith takes hold
of the Word of God
00:53:40.57\00:53:42.34
and lets the Word of God be
worked out in a person's life.
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You meet Jesus,
obedience starts to happen.
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Obedience isn't
what earns you salvation.
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Nothing earns you salvation.
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Meeting Jesus gave
you the gift of salvation.
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Obedience is what happens
in the life of a saved person.
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Now another Bible
question and here it is.
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Is the lack of
respect for God's law
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a sign that
we're in the last days?
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That sure is.
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You know the Bible
says that in the last days
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there would be
somebody the Word of God calls
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a man of sin, the man of sin.
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And another way of
translating that man of sin
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is man of lawlessness.
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Who do you think is behind
disrespect for the Word of God?
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Satan?
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Who do you think is behind
disrespect for the law of God?
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Satan.
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When you're
confronted with temptation
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and let's say it's the
temptation to tell a lie.
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The Holy Spirit will
come and speak to you
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and say, oh, no, don't go there.
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Don't do that.
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But Satan is the
one who's gonna say
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go ahead, tell that lie.
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Think of how much
further ahead you can get.
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Think of what you can get
for that how much you can gain.
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This lack of respect
for God and God's word
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and God's law
is I believe a sign
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that we're getting
close to the end of time.
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The Word of God says
about the devil it says
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the devil has come down
to you having great wrath
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because he knows that
he's only got a short time,
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Revelation
Chapter 12 it says that.
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The more time that passes
is the less time Satan has
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to drag people away
from God and into sin.
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Yes, as we see this disrespect
for God's word and God's law,
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I believe it's
one of those signs
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that we're living
in earth's last days.
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Remember Jesus
said, a sign of His coming
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would be the false christs
and false prophets shall arise.
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A prophet is someone
who speaks in behalf of God.
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If there are more
and more people saying
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they speak in behalf
of God but they're saying
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you don't have to obey God,
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you can toss the law
of God out of the window.
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I mean, people who do that
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in a civil sense we
call them anarchists.
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There's no need
for spiritual anarchy
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as we get ready to go to heaven.
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In Matthew 4:4
the Word of God says
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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