Welcome to 3ABN's
Spring Camp Meeting 2017:
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Well, this Camp Meeting
has started off stupendously
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don't you agree? Amen!
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That was a great
sermon by Nathan Renner!
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And we've got an
exciting hour for you just now.
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We want to welcome
all of you who are here
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but we especially want to
welcome those who are watching
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us live from
Thompsonville, Illinois.
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This is our 2017 Camp Meeting
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and the title, the
overarching theme is
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Exposing The Counterfeit.
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You know, there are many
people who sincerely believe
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that the only
logical explanation for life
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is evolution.
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Many people believe that.
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But something
exciting is happening.
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In microbiology and many of
the other scientific disciplines
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there are new
discoveries being made
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that have started a
new scientific trend
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of Darwin-doubting scientists.
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Many scientists now are saying
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"Evolution isn't possible. "
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So it's an exciting
time to be a Christian
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because science is about
to prove that there had to be
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a Creator God. And that
is... Our topic of the hour
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is going to be: Can
Evolution Be Proven?
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And Pastor C.A. Murray
is going to deliver that
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message for us. I know that
many of you are familiar with
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C.A. He's not only a speaker.
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He is the general manager
of our Proclaim! channel.
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He is the
producer of 3ABN Today.
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He's an anointed
pastor and speaker.
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He's been an ordained
minister for over 27 years.
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He sings.
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He even roller
skates... did you know that?
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He came out here on
stage once on roller skates.
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But I know one thing about C.A.:
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he's a dear friend, and
God gives him great insight
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into the scripture, so I
believe this is going to be
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a wonderful hour.
But before C.A. comes
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to speak to us, another
precious friend of mine,
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a very godly woman
and somebody I love dearly
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as my sister Yvonne
Lewis. Yvonne, come on out.
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She is going to sing
one of my favorite songs
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from her new CD
project titled... Magnify Him
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is the project name.
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And that CD is going to
be available here, right?
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Yes! It's available.
And she is going to sing
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with that beautiful
talent God has given her
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Your Grace Still Amazes Me.
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My faithful Father,
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enduring Friend,
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Your tender mercy's
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like a river
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with no end.
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It overwhelms me...
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covers my sin.
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Each time I come
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into Your presence
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I stand in wonder
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once again!
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Your grace
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still amazes me;
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Your love
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is still a mystery.
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Each day
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I fall on my knees
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'cause Your grace
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still amazes me...
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Oh, Your grace
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amazes me.
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Oh patient Savior,
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You make me whole.
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You are the author
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and the healer
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of my soul.
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What can I give You, Lord?
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Oh, what can I say?
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I know there's no way
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to repay You...
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only to offer You
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my praise.
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Your grace
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still amazes me.
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Your love
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is such a mystery.
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Each day
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I fall on my knees
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'cause Your grace
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still amazes me...
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Your grace
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amazes me!
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It's deeper;
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it's wider;
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it's stronger;
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it's higher;
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it's deeper;
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so much wider;
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it's stronger
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and higher
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than anything
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my eyes can see!
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Oh, Your grace...
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it still amazes me.
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Your love
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is such a mystery.
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Each day
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I fall on my knees
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'cause Your grace
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still amazes me...
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Oh, Your grace
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amazes me!
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Your grace
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still amazes
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me...
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Oh, oh, oh.
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Amen!
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Amen and amen!
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Grace is so very very amazing.
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I'm going to ask you to turn
with me to the very first book
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of the Bible, the very first
chapter, the very first verse.
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Genesis chapter 1 verse 1.
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Shall we pray? Father God,
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be pleased now to teach us.
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Teach us Your
Word; show us Your will.
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Help us to
understand what truth is
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and to walk in the way of truth.
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In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen!
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The Bible says,
Genesis 1:1. I like to read it.
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I like to be seen reading it.
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The Bible says: "In
the beginning God created
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the heavens and the earth. "
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I read a couple of books
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to prepare for this message.
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The first one I bought in
2011. Read it several years ago.
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It's called
Science Discovers God:
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seven convincing lines of
evidence for His existence.
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So I used just a
little bit of this.
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Then... I'm reading now
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I Don't Have Enough
Faith To Be An Atheist.
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It's a real good book!
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And I like this book
because it confirms a lot of
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the things I've been preaching
almost all of my ministry
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or life so I read a lot of this.
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So what we're going to talk
about tonight is an amalgamation
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of this book,
this book, THE BOOK,
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and some of my own homespun.
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I should like to introduce
you to and refer you to
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Dr. Michael Denton.
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You may know the name.
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He is a M.D., a
Ph.D., and a biologist.
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I hasten to add
that Michael Denton
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is not a believer.
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He is a self-proclaimed atheist
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which he interprets as meaning
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he does not know God
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and he as a
Ph.D., M.D., biologist
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does not know if
God can be known.
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Michael Denton
says he is not sure
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that God exists.
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He doesn't know...
but what he DOES know
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as a Ph.D. doctor biologist
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is that natural selection
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evolution over creation
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has some issues.
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His thinking is that
he is an evolutionist
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who doesn't buy evolution.
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He doesn't accept it
yet he claims himself
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to be an evolutionist.
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What... what a conundrum.
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What an apocalyptic conundrum
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to be so smart,
to be so brilliant
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and yet be so confused.
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I mean, he knows that
evolution is fake news.
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Amen! I said "Amen! " Amen!
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Yet he is not sure about God.
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What a position
to find yourself in!
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But Michael Denton
attests in his writings
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that before Charles Darwin died
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he didn't believe
in evolution either.
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By the time the third
edition of Origin of the Species
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was published Charles Darwin -
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the father of evolution -
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didn't believe
in his own theory.
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He disavowed the baby
that he gave birth to.
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So before we
address and/or redress
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evolution and try to
prove if it is provable
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I want to talk
to you about truth.
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Can I do that? Amen.
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I want to talk about truth
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and I want to use
a football analogy.
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Let's erect now
some immovable goalposts.
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You know what goalposts are?
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Those are those things at
the end of the football field,
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those uprights. They never move!
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My thesis is that
there are some realities
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in life, ladies and
gentlemen, brothers and sisters,
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that either are or they are not.
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Amen. Amen!
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You will forgive
my pejorative English:
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they either is or they ain't.
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There are some realities
in life: they either are
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or they are not. No
vacillation; no hesitation;
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no
equivocation; no reproachment;
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no detente; no propitiation.
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They either straight-up IS
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or they AIN'T.
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Either God did it
or He didn't do it.
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Amen? Amen.
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Either He did it or He didn't.
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Game, set, match...
close quotes, end of story,
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hallelujah! Amen.
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Amen!
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Someone said to me recently
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"C.A." and they
were very serious,
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"everybody can't be wrong. "
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And I thought about that.
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And the truth is...
I believe that's true.
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Everybody can't be
wrong, but I told him
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in response: "I also believe
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everybody can't be right. "
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Um-hmm.
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Everybody can't be right.
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You've got 4,200 different
religious classifications.
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Of those religious
classifications you've got
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tens of thousands of
religious belief systems.
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You've got 2.1
billion Christians.
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You've got 30,000
Christian denominations.
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In the Muslim faith you've
got Sunnis, Shias, and Sufis
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and 9,000 sub-classifications.
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You mean to tell
me everybody's right?
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It is true that
everybody can't be wrong
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but there... you will
forgive my pejorative English...
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ain't no way everybody is right!
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Amen? Amen.
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They cannot all be
correct and that, too, is true.
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Now I want you to stick with
me 'cause I'm goin' somewhere
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and when I get there I
want you to be right by my side.
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All right? Here's
something else that is true.
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Spiritually the
majority have never been right.
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Amen. Amen! God's not
looking for a majority.
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So if you're looking at
the history of the world
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the majority spiritually
has never been right.
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They weren't right in Noah's day
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and I suspect they
aren't right today.
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The Bible is unapologetically
apologetic on this point.
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Genesis 1:1:
"Bereshit Elohim bara"
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth. "
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True or false? True!
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Say it again.
True! Say it to my face.
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True! Say it with
my back turned. True!
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John chapter 1 verse 3:
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"All things
were made through Him
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and without Him nothing
was made that was made. "
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True or false?
True! True! True! Amen!
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Colossians chapter 1 verse 16:
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"For by Him all
things were created
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that are in heaven
and that are on the earth
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visible and
invisible. " True or false?
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True! Say it again. True!
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One more time. True! Amen.
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It's like that movie that
came out several years ago:
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A Few Good Men. Some
people can't handle the truth.
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Truth has nothing to do with you
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ontologically.
"Now what do you mean? "
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I mean truth is
discovered not invented.
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Um-hmm.
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God made man...
man didn't make God.
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True or false? True!
God knew who you were
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before you knew who He was.
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True or false? True! Um-hmm.
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In fact, God knew who you were
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before you knew who you were.
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True or false? True! Um-hmm.
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And the truth about God is
that everything that is true
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about God existed
long before we came
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into existence. God
said: "Let Us make man
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in Our image. " We are
made in the image of God;
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God is not made
in the image of man.
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So when you came
to the age of reason
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you didn't invent
God... you discovered Him!
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Amen? Amen! Yeah,
you didn't invent God.
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God was already
there... you discovered Him.
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Sometimes you hear
people say: "I found the Lord. "
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Well that's just jargon.
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You didn't find the Lord
'cause the Lord wasn't lost...
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you were!
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So you stepped into a conscious-
ness that has always existed.
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You discovered
God... you found Him.
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YOU were lost... not God.
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Now hold on a while because
I want to give you some truth
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about truth.
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Here's the truth about truth.
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All that is true about
God has always been true.
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Amen. Amen! Everything
that is true about God
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tonight has always
been true about God.
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There's nothing new
about God. God came complete
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in the beginning.
Since He has no beginning
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He's always been complete! Amen!
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So everything that's
true about God tonight
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has ALWAYS been true about God.
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That's the truth!
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Amen!
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Seven quick facets of truth:
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1. All truth
excludes the opposite.
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If it's true,
can't have the opposite.
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"C.A. has a lot of hair. "
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That ain't true!
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So truth excludes the opposite.
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If this is true,
that cannot be true.
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Amen? You cannot
have parallel truth.
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It's either true
or it's not true.
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"C.A. HAD a lot of hair. "
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That's true!
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2. Truth is
discovered not invented.
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I said that before.
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You discover truth
you don't invent truth.
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Truth is separate from you.
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3. Truth is transcultural.
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What's true in
America is true in China
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is true in Japan
is true in Africa.
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All real truth is transcultural.
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God made the
heavens and the earth.
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He made you and me.
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He made those
who believe in Him.
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He also made those
who don't believe in Him.
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Amen? Amen!
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So truth transcends culture.
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4. Truth is unchanging.
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Now what we think
about truth may change.
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There was a time when folk
believed the world was flat.
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Was it flat? NO! The
truth was it was round.
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So our belief
system had to change.
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But the truth was the truth then
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is the truth now. Amen?
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Amen! So truth is unchanging.
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5. A fact is not
changed by your belief.
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Just because you believe
something doesn't make it fact.
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And a fact isn't
changed because you believe it.
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A guy called me the
other day, told me how much
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he used to hate God
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because his wife died
and his then-pastor told him
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that his wife
was burning in hell.
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He said: "I
stopped going to church;
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I was DONE with God
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because I thought
God was a mean God. "
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Now was that the truth?
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No... but that's
what he believed.
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Then he happened to watch
Proclaim! and he heard a sermon
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that I preached on
the state of the dead.
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And he realized that his
wife was NOT burning in hell.
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And he said it was like
the clouds just "rolled away. "
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Amen! He said: "For the
first time I could look at God
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as a loving God. So
when you got to the Sabbath"
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he said "that was no problem
because I knew God loved me
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so I was ready to give up
Sunday and keep Sabbath. "
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Upshot: he said: "Now
I'm a baptized SDA church. "
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Amen! So now he's in
love with a loving God.
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But when he hated God
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God was still a... loving God.
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So your belief
cannot, does not change truth.
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6. Truth is not
affected by the attitude
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of the one professing it.
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Truth is still truth whether
you've got a good attitude
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or a bad attitude.
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But it does have an
effect on how it is received.
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In other words, a
loving Christian person
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is a better
witness to a loving God
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than a mean person.
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Amen! Now God is still loving
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in the mouth of that loving
person and in the mouth of that
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mean person. The truth
is that the mean person
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is just a bad witness...
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but it doesn't
change the truth about God.
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But it CAN change how
the truth is received.
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7. All truth is absolute truth.
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There's no half
truth or 3/4 truth.
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All truth is absolute truth.
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You can have contrary beliefs
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but you can't
have contrary facts.
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Amen. Amen! Facts are facts.
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Now if you're
thinking... If you're a thinking
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one of those proactive persons
who examines sermons and tends
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to break them down and
you kind of think ahead,
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you've already
hatched two lines of reasoning
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that you probably think can
refute what I've just told you.
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And I'm ready for that.
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In fact, the first one I'm not
going to even bother telling you
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because I don't want to
jaundice your pure minds.
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But the second one I
want to spend a little time on
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because I've heard it
and you may have heard it
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and I want you to be prepared
the next time you hear it.
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I want to give you some
ammunition to fight back with.
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Let's talk about self-defeating
statements. What did I say?
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Self-defeating statements. Amen!
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We're going to deal with
self-defeating statements.
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A... these are... well
let me give you an example.
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A self-defeating statement
is: "There's no such thing
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as truth. " Anybody
ever heard that before?
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Folks kind of lay it on you:
"Oh, there's no such thing as
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truth. " It is a
self-defeating statement
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because it fails to
meet its own standard.
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A self-defeating statement is
a statement that fails to meet
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its own
standard. If a person says
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there's no such thing as truth
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rather than try to prove that
there IS such a thing as truth,
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what you need to do is
ask them: "Do you believe
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that that statement is true? "
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Um-hmm. Amen!
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Yeah, that statement is self-
defeating because it defeats...
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it fails to meet
its own standard.
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If you believe that
there's no such thing as truth,
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you're believing a lie.
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And you cannot believe
that because your statement
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by your own
words cannot be true.
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That make sense? So if you
say "there no such thing as
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truth, " you are saying
something that you yourself
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don't believe in. So
I don't have to prove
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to you that there is truth
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because you've uttered
a self-defeating statement
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that shoots itself in the foot.
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It cannot be true.
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Now here are some other
self-defeating statements.
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"All truth is relative. "
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You've heard that before.
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Relative to what?
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Relative to truth?
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The statement makes no
sense... it's self-defeating.
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"There are no absolutes. "
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Are you absolutely sure?
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"That's true for you
but it's not true for me. "
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Now try telling that to
the policeman the next time
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you're caught doing 80 in a 50.
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"That's true for you...
that's not true for me. "
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Try that and see
what happens to you.
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When you wrestle with evolution
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it becomes easier if you
believe in absolute truth.
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I believe in absolute truth.
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I believe there is absolute
unmovable, unshakeable truth
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to be found in this world.
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If you don't believe in
an all-wise, all-knowing,
00:28:19.79\00:28:24.03
all-powerful God -
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that is to say an
omnipresent, omniscient,
00:28:25.93\00:28:29.57
omnipotent Creator -
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then let me say this kindly:
"You have got a problem. "
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Amen. You see, I have
no problem with evolution
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because it's not a fact.
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Hello?
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Now some scientists
try to say that it is so.
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But this scientist -
Ph.D. - Ariel Roth says
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"most scientists have
to admit it's not a fact. "
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That's why in lay
terms it's hard to prove
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something like that.
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Now what does it mean to prove?
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We'll do this quickly.
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1. To prove something
means to establish the truth
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or genuineness by
evidence or argument.
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2. To establish
authenticity and/or validity.
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3. To subject to a
test, experiment, comparison,
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analysis or the like
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to determine the quality
or amount or acceptability,
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characteristics, etc.
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The problem with evolution is
00:29:39.74\00:29:42.21
all of those
scientific prerequisites
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go out the window
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because evolution doesn't meet
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any scientific prerequisites.
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So scientifically to
prove something as fact
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it has to be subject
to impirical observation.
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In other words, you've
got to see it and examine it
00:30:03.73\00:30:06.43
for yourself.
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In short, you've got to test it.
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That means you've got to
subject it to experimentation,
00:30:10.71\00:30:13.91
comparison, analysis,
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and those tests
must be repeatable.
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You can't say: "It happened
once it'll never happen again. "
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You've gotta do it again and
again to make sure it is fact.
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Now here's the theological
and philosophical challenge
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that evolution
at the start poses.
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It wasn't observed. Amen.
00:30:38.27\00:30:42.94
Nobody took a "selfie. "
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There's no video.
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You cannot
compare it to anything
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because even the evolutionists
say it only happened once.
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It has not been repeated.
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It is not being repeated.
00:31:06.49\00:31:09.33
It only happened once
and nobody recorded it.
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It cannot be analyzed.
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It cannot be authenticated.
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It has never been repeated.
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But creation, brothers
and sisters, praise God!
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is different. That
event was witnessed
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and documented
by not one, not two,
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but three
individuals. Amen! Amen!
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Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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AND they left a record! Amen!
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Do you see why it says:
"I don't have enough faith
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to be an atheist? "
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It takes much more
faith not to believe in God
00:31:56.51\00:31:58.85
than it does to believe in Him.
00:31:59.25\00:32:00.75
Amen? Amen.
00:32:01.25\00:32:03.12
So scientists say:
"We've got a theory"
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and the Christians say: "Keep
your theory; we've got God. "
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Amen!
00:32:12.56\00:32:14.13
We believe God created
the world in six literal days.
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Six literal
morning/evening days.
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If you believe that, say Amen.
00:32:24.57\00:32:26.51
Amen. Now, He
created in six days
00:32:26.71\00:32:29.38
by fiat. Not the little car
00:32:29.54\00:32:32.75
but by the word of His mouth.
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F- I-A-T...
that means by decree.
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Amen? Amen! Psalm
chapter 33 verse 9:
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King James: "For He
spoke and it was done;
00:32:41.99\00:32:45.66
He commanded
and it stood fast. "
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That's fiat. He spoke
the world into existence
00:32:49.50\00:32:53.30
by the word of His mouth.
00:32:53.50\00:32:56.00
So our faith, ladies
and gentlemen, is based on
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and anchored in two realities.
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Who created us
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and how we were created.
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And they both go together.
00:33:06.92\00:33:08.85
If He - God -
created any other way
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than by fiat, He
could not be Almighty God.
00:33:13.56\00:33:16.99
So that not only
rules out evolution
00:33:19.56\00:33:22.16
but all the hybrid things also
00:33:22.36\00:33:25.73
like deism or
theistic evolution.
00:33:25.93\00:33:29.44
Theistic evolution
also called orthogenesis
00:33:29.64\00:33:33.51
or nomogenesis or
emergent evolution
00:33:33.71\00:33:37.25
or creative evolution.
00:33:37.65\00:33:39.25
They came from the mind
of a Jesuit paleontologist
00:33:39.45\00:33:43.12
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
00:33:43.32\00:33:45.65
who proposed that
God directed evolution.
00:33:45.85\00:33:49.06
It was evolution...
but God just directed it.
00:33:49.26\00:33:51.33
Came up with that in
the late 1800's, and then
00:33:52.33\00:33:54.63
George Frederick Wright
spoke of Christian Darwinism.
00:33:54.83\00:34:00.34
These were attempts to
harmonize and synchronize
00:34:01.30\00:34:04.74
Bible belief with what
they thought was science.
00:34:05.67\00:34:09.54
Let me go back to the
Anglican priest and botanist
00:34:10.45\00:34:13.05
John Ray. These men, I assume,
00:34:13.25\00:34:17.82
were honest, but they
were certainly misguided
00:34:18.22\00:34:21.96
in their attempts to
harmonize God and science.
00:34:22.36\00:34:25.69
But also they
tried to make God subject
00:34:26.56\00:34:31.33
or the servant of science.
00:34:31.73\00:34:34.67
Now here's the
truth: God uses science.
00:34:36.00\00:34:40.88
Amen. Amen. God created science
00:34:41.71\00:34:45.78
but God is above science. Amen!
00:34:46.75\00:34:52.42
God is not subject to science;
science is subject to God.
00:34:53.49\00:34:56.86
And when God chooses -
glory to God - He can throw
00:34:59.56\00:35:04.20
science out the window! Amen!
00:35:04.40\00:35:08.04
Do you know what it's
called when God throws science
00:35:08.44\00:35:10.34
out the window? I
heard somebody say it.
00:35:10.54\00:35:14.58
It's called a miracle. Amen!
00:35:15.61\00:35:18.48
Sometimes God just says: "I
don't want to be held hostage
00:35:19.08\00:35:21.92
to science. I want to do this.
And though it doesn't make sense
00:35:22.15\00:35:24.69
to the scientists
it makes sense to Me. "
00:35:24.89\00:35:26.82
So He throws
science out the window!
00:35:27.02\00:35:28.82
And you go to the doctor
and he says: "Yesterday that was
00:35:29.02\00:35:31.93
cancer; today it's gone! " Amen!
00:35:32.16\00:35:35.36
It's called a miracle.
00:35:36.00\00:35:37.33
God didn't need
millennia to make you and me.
00:35:38.70\00:35:41.24
He commanded it!
00:35:41.54\00:35:43.17
You see, if God
can't create by fiat
00:35:44.41\00:35:47.04
then ladies and
gentlemen He can't save by fiat.
00:35:47.44\00:35:52.05
If God can't call
you into existence,
00:35:52.88\00:35:54.95
He can't save you by
the word of His mouth.
00:35:55.15\00:35:56.99
So that means justification
- which is a declaration that
00:35:57.39\00:36:00.79
you are righteous
- is out the window.
00:36:00.99\00:36:02.79
That means the thief on the
cross, Christ can't say to him
00:36:03.59\00:36:06.59
"I say unto you right now
- today - you're going to be
00:36:06.80\00:36:08.83
with Me in paradise. "
00:36:09.03\00:36:10.37
That was done by
the word of Jesus.
00:36:10.53\00:36:13.30
Justification is by fiat...
Christ declares you righteous.
00:36:14.10\00:36:18.27
So if He can't create you by
the word He cannot recreate you
00:36:18.81\00:36:22.58
by the word. Are
you getting this? Amen!
00:36:22.78\00:36:24.51
So that means when the
thief said, when the thief said
00:36:24.91\00:36:27.65
"Uh, umm... remember me"
00:36:27.85\00:36:31.29
Christ would have to
say: "OK, you need to hang out
00:36:31.99\00:36:34.22
on this cross for a
couple million years
00:36:34.42\00:36:36.16
while I do My evolution thing
00:36:36.36\00:36:38.79
and I'll get back to you. "
00:36:40.80\00:36:42.26
So if God can't create by
fiat He cannot recreate by fiat
00:36:43.87\00:36:47.44
He cannot save by
fiat. So we serve, then,
00:36:47.64\00:36:51.21
a powerless God.
00:36:51.41\00:36:53.78
So... how long does
it take to re-create you?
00:36:59.65\00:37:03.65
So the next time
someone goes to a doctor
00:37:06.59\00:37:08.92
with some mysterious syndrome
00:37:11.16\00:37:13.70
and the specialist
says: "We don't know
00:37:15.76\00:37:19.33
what that is let
alone how to treat it
00:37:20.17\00:37:24.41
and we don't
know how to cure it"
00:37:25.17\00:37:27.78
do you think God
has to say: "Well...
00:37:29.08\00:37:33.15
science has no
cure. Nothin' I can do? "
00:37:34.15\00:37:38.55
Since when is the Creator
00:37:43.43\00:37:46.59
subject to science?
00:37:47.60\00:37:50.90
Now let's look at the
eschaton and work our way back.
00:37:53.20\00:37:56.17
Time's gettin' away
from me. Let's look at the
00:37:56.37\00:37:58.11
eschatological point
and then work our way back.
00:37:58.41\00:38:00.54
I Corinthians
chapter 15 verse 52.
00:38:00.74\00:38:02.78
I Corinthians 15:52.
00:38:03.38\00:38:05.41
The Bible says: "We
shall all be changed
00:38:05.71\00:38:09.62
in a moment... in the
twinkling of an eye. "
00:38:09.82\00:38:14.56
The Amplified Bible says this:
00:38:14.96\00:38:17.16
"We shall be completely changed
and wondrously transformed;
00:38:17.56\00:38:22.83
the perishable
becomes the imperishable. "
00:38:23.03\00:38:26.87
Now how long does it take
00:38:27.07\00:38:29.27
for God to give
you a brand new body?
00:38:29.47\00:38:33.04
"In a moment! In the
twinkling of an eye! "
00:38:36.14\00:38:39.58
So God is going to do
it at the end in a moment.
00:38:41.02\00:38:45.85
Now how is He able to do
it at the end in a moment?
00:38:46.05\00:38:50.33
Well hello! Because He
did it at the beginning
00:38:50.53\00:38:55.90
in a moment! Amen!
00:38:56.10\00:38:57.87
He's got practice!
00:38:58.07\00:39:00.17
He's done it already
and He's done it many times.
00:39:00.37\00:39:04.21
He created the
world and Adam and Eve
00:39:04.41\00:39:09.74
by fiat. And in a
moment these old bodies
00:39:10.15\00:39:15.32
are going to be made brand new
00:39:15.85\00:39:18.09
instantaneously! AMEN!
00:39:18.49\00:39:22.39
Re-creation is no
problem for the God of creation.
00:39:24.89\00:39:30.83
God creates through
the power of His word.
00:39:31.53\00:39:34.47
I believe in the power of
the word of God. Don't you?
00:39:35.00\00:39:38.74
Amen! Psalm chapter 138 verse 2:
00:39:38.94\00:39:40.81
"God honors His
word above His name. "
00:39:41.01\00:39:44.48
The Greek tells us the
position that God believes
00:39:45.45\00:39:49.12
and that He puts His
word in. So the word of God
00:39:49.32\00:39:52.05
is live and living
and it gives us power.
00:39:52.25\00:39:56.06
Now let me promenade down the
corridors of your imagination
00:39:56.66\00:39:59.23
for just a
moment. The gospel of John
00:39:59.43\00:40:01.16
we call - well, I
call - a touchless gospel.
00:40:01.36\00:40:05.67
I've talked about this before.
00:40:06.13\00:40:07.57
Here's what you find
in the gospel of John.
00:40:07.77\00:40:09.70
All of the miracles
in the gospel of John
00:40:10.51\00:40:14.58
are by "remote control. "
00:40:14.78\00:40:16.64
Um-hmm. Every one of them.
00:40:18.21\00:40:20.78
There is no touching
in the gospel of John.
00:40:20.98\00:40:23.69
Look it up for yourself!
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.35
They're all remote miracles...
it is a touchless gospel.
00:40:26.55\00:40:30.46
There's no putting on of hands,
00:40:30.66\00:40:31.99
there's no laying on of hands.
There no touching in the gos...
00:40:32.03\00:40:33.96
All the miracles are touchless.
00:40:34.13\00:40:35.46
Check it out! It's true.
00:40:36.33\00:40:39.50
They are remote
miracles. No laying on of hands.
00:40:39.70\00:40:43.00
All of the miracles
are done by the word!
00:40:43.41\00:40:48.84
That's why John starts out
by saying: "In the beginning
00:40:50.38\00:40:52.81
was the Word; the Word was
with God; the Word WAS God.
00:40:53.01\00:40:54.55
The same was in the
beginning with God. "
00:40:54.75\00:40:56.08
And then he goes on to
recount a series of miracles
00:40:56.25\00:40:59.05
all done by the word.
00:40:59.25\00:41:01.02
Now I know, you're thinking: "OK
well what about John chapter 9
00:41:01.22\00:41:03.86
where Christ made
saliva into mud and put it on
00:41:04.06\00:41:07.40
the person's eyes? " Well the
miracle didn't take place then.
00:41:07.60\00:41:10.03
The miracle took place when
Christ said: "Go and wash. "
00:41:10.23\00:41:13.13
And so the miracle took
place out of Jesus' sight.
00:41:14.80\00:41:17.37
Same remote miracle. Amen.
00:41:17.57\00:41:20.18
No touching...
it's a remote gospel.
00:41:20.38\00:41:22.91
Now why did He do that?
00:41:23.11\00:41:24.55
He did it for this reason:
00:41:25.05\00:41:26.48
because by the time John wrote
00:41:27.08\00:41:29.28
Christ had been dead
and resurrected 60+ years.
00:41:29.48\00:41:31.79
John wrote in the late
90's just before 100 AD.
00:41:31.99\00:41:34.96
Everybody that
walked with Christ...
00:41:35.16\00:41:36.69
remember, John was the
youngest of the disciples.
00:41:36.86\00:41:39.46
Everybody that walked
with Christ had already died
00:41:39.76\00:41:41.60
and those who they
knew had already died.
00:41:42.50\00:41:45.97
John's audience - the
only audience that he had,
00:41:46.67\00:41:50.04
the only
connection that they had -
00:41:50.17\00:41:51.61
with Jesus was through the Word.
00:41:51.81\00:41:54.88
They didn't see Him;
they didn't touch Him;
00:41:55.28\00:41:58.11
they didn't know anybody
who saw Him or touched Him.
00:41:58.51\00:42:01.12
The disciples were all dead.
00:42:01.32\00:42:02.68
So their connection to Jesus
was the same as your connection
00:42:02.78\00:42:08.19
to Jesus. Amen? So
John didn't just write
00:42:08.39\00:42:11.99
for them... John wrote for you.
00:42:12.19\00:42:15.60
Amen? Amen! So John
talks about "The Word. "
00:42:17.33\00:42:20.54
And John's message is this:
00:42:20.74\00:42:23.27
even though you
have not seen Him,
00:42:24.27\00:42:27.08
even though you
have not handled Him,
00:42:27.68\00:42:30.15
even though you
have not touched Him
00:42:30.45\00:42:32.85
when you got the Word
00:42:33.25\00:42:36.22
you got all power and
you've got all you need. Amen!
00:42:36.72\00:42:41.26
That's the message
for us this very night.
00:42:41.76\00:42:43.66
So when you've got the Word
00:42:43.86\00:42:45.49
you've got all
you need of Jesus.
00:42:45.69\00:42:47.23
And you latch onto
that Word through faith.
00:42:47.60\00:42:49.56
So John's message is
when you've got the Word
00:42:50.27\00:42:54.04
you've got what you need.
00:42:54.24\00:42:56.97
So: theistic evolution no deism,
00:42:57.17\00:43:01.81
which says that God got it
started and just let it run
00:43:03.61\00:43:06.85
no interference like
the Sadducees believed.
00:43:07.05\00:43:09.92
John is saying
that Christ is present
00:43:10.25\00:43:14.06
and active in your life today
00:43:14.26\00:43:17.26
re-creating just like He created
the heavens and the earth.
00:43:17.46\00:43:21.96
Amen? Amen.
00:43:22.16\00:43:23.67
Philippians chapter 2 verse 10.
00:43:23.87\00:43:25.40
That I may know Him.
00:43:27.50\00:43:29.04
Lastly, if God
didn't create mankind
00:43:30.74\00:43:35.74
then
00:43:37.38\00:43:39.01
the heart of our
faith is ripped out.
00:43:40.02\00:43:44.22
We struggled in
the early 1860's.
00:43:45.82\00:43:48.86
And on May 1, I
think it was, 1863
00:43:49.06\00:43:51.73
God was pleased to give us the
title Seventh-day Adventists.
00:43:52.13\00:43:56.43
There were a lot of conflicting
titles. In fact, James White
00:43:57.60\00:43:59.83
wanted us to be
called the Church of God.
00:44:00.30\00:44:02.04
And Ellen White said:
"No... I don't think so. "
00:44:02.40\00:44:05.47
She said: "That name
hides as much as it reveals.
00:44:06.91\00:44:09.64
We need something a
little closer to the truth. "
00:44:10.05\00:44:11.81
And so God gave us
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:44:12.01\00:44:16.02
If God didn't create us
00:44:17.85\00:44:22.32
in six literal days,
00:44:23.86\00:44:26.49
then the seventh
day is out the window.
00:44:27.36\00:44:30.63
That make sense?
00:44:31.60\00:44:32.93
Yeah. What is the
Sabbath a memorial of?
00:44:33.20\00:44:36.20
Creation. Um-hmm.
00:44:36.60\00:44:38.34
Yeah, it is.
00:44:39.57\00:44:40.94
So if God didn't create us
00:44:41.48\00:44:43.24
then the Sabbath is a lie.
00:44:43.65\00:44:45.88
And if God didn't create us
in 7 literal 24-hour periods
00:44:46.88\00:44:52.75
then what is the Sabbath?
00:44:53.36\00:44:55.82
Is the Sabbath
millions of years?
00:44:58.26\00:45:00.76
Does that make sense?
00:45:01.66\00:45:03.47
Does God have to go
through death to create life?
00:45:03.93\00:45:07.77
Every time you keep the Sabbath
00:45:08.77\00:45:11.21
you are reaffirming that
God made us in several...
00:45:11.41\00:45:15.41
seven literal days.
Can you say amen? Amen!
00:45:15.61\00:45:19.98
Yeah! That's what
the Sabbath re-affirms:
00:45:20.38\00:45:22.08
that I came
from the hand of God.
00:45:22.48\00:45:24.52
Now if you came from God,
00:45:25.05\00:45:27.32
then you've got an
assurance when you die
00:45:27.99\00:45:30.33
that you're going back to God.
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.33
Um-hmm. But if you don't
know where you came from,
00:45:33.66\00:45:37.50
if you came
from "I don't know, "
00:45:38.30\00:45:40.47
when you die where'ya goin'?
00:45:41.07\00:45:43.54
"I don't know. "
00:45:43.84\00:45:45.24
See, the only chance we have
of believing in a future life
00:45:51.61\00:45:54.82
is the fact that
we came from God.
00:45:55.02\00:45:57.49
If we came from God, then
I know I'm going back to God.
00:45:57.69\00:46:00.36
To believe otherwise
you've gotta believe that
00:46:00.52\00:46:02.82
Daddy was a gorilla,
Mama was a chimpanzee.
00:46:03.02\00:46:05.43
I don't buy that.
00:46:05.63\00:46:06.96
The Bible says in
Exodus... let's see,
00:46:14.84\00:46:19.51
13:31. Nope,
it's Exodus 31:13...
00:46:19.71\00:46:22.78
that we are sanctified through
the keeping of the Sabbath.
00:46:24.15\00:46:28.02
That every time we keep
the Sabbath it is a sign that
00:46:28.68\00:46:31.49
we are sanctified by God.
00:46:31.69\00:46:33.89
It is a re-affirmation
00:46:34.09\00:46:37.29
that we came
from the hand of God.
00:46:37.59\00:46:39.33
You know, if
everybody kept the Sabbath
00:46:39.53\00:46:41.30
there would be no
atheists in this world.
00:46:41.50\00:46:43.20
Amen!
00:46:43.40\00:46:45.27
You can't keep the Sabbath
and worship on the Sabbath Day
00:46:45.77\00:46:47.67
and then go out and
say that we came from a...
00:46:47.87\00:46:50.21
something crawled out of
the ocean and became a fish
00:46:50.57\00:46:52.87
and became a man and
became a this and became a that.
00:46:53.07\00:46:54.71
Became a that and then
one day it walked up and stood
00:46:54.91\00:46:56.58
upon its feet. Makes no sense.
00:46:56.78\00:46:58.51
Now in New York some
of the scientists say that
00:47:00.38\00:47:02.38
SUPER roach is part of
the evolutionary process.
00:47:02.58\00:47:08.52
SUPER roach is this roach
that they have in New York City
00:47:08.72\00:47:10.96
that is DDT resistant.
00:47:11.16\00:47:13.36
Now that's not
evolution... that's adaptation.
00:47:15.03\00:47:17.83
You spray enough DDT around
00:47:18.70\00:47:20.17
after a while the
roach gets tired of that.
00:47:20.37\00:47:21.94
Tell you the truth. One
day I was visiting an apartment
00:47:23.41\00:47:26.11
and SUPER roach was
crawling up the wall.
00:47:26.61\00:47:29.31
And the lady in the apartment
00:47:29.74\00:47:33.65
threw her shoe
and hit the roach.
00:47:33.85\00:47:35.45
And the roach said: "Phew! "
00:47:36.08\00:47:38.79
So SUPER roach is not evolution.
00:47:49.83\00:47:52.37
It's adaptation. Amen!
00:47:52.67\00:47:54.77
There is no evolution.
00:47:56.37\00:48:00.04
And every time
we keep the Sabbath
00:48:01.64\00:48:04.28
we re-affirm
00:48:04.78\00:48:06.72
that we came
from the hand of God.
00:48:07.22\00:48:11.32
In three places:
Matthew chapter 12,
00:48:11.92\00:48:14.69
Mark chapter 2,
00:48:15.09\00:48:17.73
and in Luke... I
think it's chapter 18?
00:48:18.13\00:48:21.50
Is it chapter 6?
Yes. It's 6. OK... 6:5.
00:48:22.10\00:48:26.90
Mark 2:27-28,
00:48:27.27\00:48:29.34
Matthew 12:8.
00:48:29.97\00:48:32.01
All of them say the same thing:
00:48:32.21\00:48:33.84
Jesus Christ is
Lord of the Sabbath.
00:48:34.18\00:48:37.95
They all say the same thing.
00:48:38.68\00:48:40.28
He is Lord of the Sabbath
and He's Lord of our lives.
00:48:40.58\00:48:43.99
And every time we surrender
to the Lord of the Sabbath
00:48:44.19\00:48:46.72
we are saying that we came
from the hand of the Lord. Amen?
00:48:46.92\00:48:50.49
Amen! So these words are
full of instruction and comfort.
00:48:50.66\00:48:54.03
Because the Sabbath was made
for man, not man for the Sabbath
00:48:54.23\00:48:57.10
it belongs to
Christ... WE belong to Christ.
00:48:57.60\00:49:01.07
"For all things were
made by Him and without Him
00:49:01.27\00:49:03.87
was not anything
made that was made. "
00:49:04.04\00:49:07.81
Since He made all things,
00:49:08.78\00:49:11.21
since He made the Sabbath,
00:49:11.61\00:49:13.78
since He set it apart as a a
memorial of the work and week
00:49:14.18\00:49:18.22
of creation then we are
- by keeping the Sabbath -
00:49:18.42\00:49:23.32
making a statement to the world
00:49:23.63\00:49:25.96
that we came from
the hand of a loving God.
00:49:26.36\00:49:30.33
It points us back to God
00:49:30.83\00:49:34.50
as Creator and Sanctifier.
00:49:34.70\00:49:38.57
And every Friday evening
when you bring in the Sabbath
00:49:38.97\00:49:42.44
you are
re-affirming not only that God
00:49:42.84\00:49:47.45
made you but that that same hand
00:49:47.85\00:49:52.35
is now active in re-creating you
00:49:52.55\00:49:56.79
and that you are a new and again
00:49:58.33\00:50:01.43
a child of the Most High God.
00:50:01.63\00:50:05.17
You are
re-affirming the power of God.
00:50:05.37\00:50:07.14
Twice created by God, and
ready to be created a third time
00:50:07.54\00:50:12.51
on our way to the kingdom.
00:50:12.91\00:50:15.61
That will be the final creation.
00:50:16.64\00:50:19.48
Now let's answer the question
that is part of this sermon.
00:50:19.71\00:50:24.35
I need to say this.
00:50:24.55\00:50:25.89
All of this that we've been
talking about is just preamble.
00:50:25.92\00:50:28.79
This is not the sermon.
00:50:28.99\00:50:30.43
The sermon is coming right now.
00:50:30.83\00:50:32.36
This is just
ecclesiological obenedictum.
00:50:36.73\00:50:39.50
Just
eschatological gastroenteritis.
00:50:40.54\00:50:42.77
I'm sneezing in your
faces hoping you pick up the...
00:50:42.97\00:50:45.31
the virus.
00:50:45.51\00:50:46.84
Here is the sermon:
00:50:47.24\00:50:48.68
Can the theory of
evolution be proven
00:50:53.72\00:50:59.42
which some scientists call fact?
00:51:01.72\00:51:06.19
Here then is my apologetic...
00:51:07.50\00:51:11.23
unvarnished,
perhaps unscientific
00:51:12.27\00:51:16.40
and maybe even
lacking in sophistication.
00:51:16.81\00:51:21.44
Certainly devoid of
hubris or hyperbole.
00:51:22.81\00:51:26.15
If it could have been proven
00:51:27.52\00:51:30.99
it would have been proven
00:51:32.12\00:51:35.86
and perhaps
should have been proven.
00:51:37.29\00:51:41.96
But it hasn't been proven
00:51:43.03\00:51:46.10
because it can't be proven.
00:51:46.60\00:51:50.77
So really... the
sermon is very short
00:51:52.14\00:51:57.08
because the
answer to the question
00:52:03.28\00:52:07.42
as asked is NO!
00:52:07.56\00:52:11.89
Amen. Amen!
00:52:14.50\00:52:16.60
Say it one more time. Amen!
00:52:16.80\00:52:18.70
Um-hmm. One last text.
00:52:19.40\00:52:23.64
Well... two last texts.
Romans chapter 1 verse 20.
00:52:23.84\00:52:26.31
Romans chapter 1 verse 20.
Have you ever asked yourself
00:52:27.68\00:52:29.88
"Why is there animosity
from the non-religious community
00:52:30.08\00:52:36.05
to those of us who believe that
we came from the hand of God? "
00:52:36.25\00:52:38.55
Why is there such hate? I
was listening to a British
00:52:39.65\00:52:41.92
scientist, an eminent eminent...
he's got a long list of letters
00:52:42.12\00:52:44.89
behind his name... and he
said: "You know, creation is so
00:52:45.09\00:52:47.86
boring. So boring to
think that God made us and just
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spoke us into
existence. That's so boring. "
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Any my question is... Irma and
I were sitting on the couch...
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what's boring
about knowing the truth?
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What's boring about
knowing things as they are?
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How is that boring?
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How is it more exciting
to know that you came from
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an ape than it is to know that
you came from the hand of God?
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What's boring about that?
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Roman chapter 1,
I'm reading verse 20
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and I'm almost done.
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Romans 1:20. "For since
the creation of the world... "
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For since the
what? Creation. The what?
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"For since the creation of the
world His invisible attributes
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are clearly
seen, being understood
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by the things that are
made. " So the Bible is saying
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we can tell a lot
about the invisible God
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by looking at the
stuff He made. Amen?
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When you look at the beauty
of the flowers and you look at
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the diversity of... You
know, I like the fact you've got
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white, you've got black,
you've got brown, you've got red
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and all kinds of
colors in between.
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You know, our family... I
married into Irma's family.
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She had two children. I
am black, they are white.
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But our grandsons
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are blonde head, blue eyes.
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And I love to go out
with those little grandboys
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and just blow everybody's mind.
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"What? You don't
see the resemblance? "
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So you can tell a lot
about who God is and what God is
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by looking at what He's made
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and the way He
treats what is made.
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So... the Bible says:
"His invisible attributes
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are clearly
seen, being understood
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by the things that are
made. Even His eternal power
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and Godhead so that
they are without excuse. "
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Amen? So you
don't have any excuse
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for rejecting God
because if you open your eyes
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"the heavens
declare the glory of God
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and the earth shows
forth His handiwork. "
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Just look around!
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It didn't come by accident.
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Why is it that we've
got two eyes in the front
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and two ears on the side
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and one mouth by the way?
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Think about it.
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Came from the hand
of God. That was design,
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and design
presupposes a Designer. Amen?
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Amen! You've got design
because somebody designed us.
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Now we don't look as
good as we one day will look
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but we're doin' all right.
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The Bible says:
"Because that when they knew God
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they glorified Him not as
God, neither were thankful
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but became vain
in their imagination
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and their foolish heart was
darkened, professing themselves
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to be wise they became fools. "
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And "the fool
has said in his heart
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there is no God. "
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See, it's not just
a scientific thing...
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it's a spiritual battle.
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It's a battle
between darkness and light,
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error and truth.
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It is Satan's design and desire
00:56:46.30\00:56:49.60
to erase God from
the minds and memories
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and hearts of those
that Christ came to save.
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Amen!
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I end with the very same text
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with which I began.
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Genesis chapter 1 verse 1.
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And if you don't believe this
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then you might as
well close the book
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because everything
else is based on the fact
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that "In the beginning God
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created the
heavens and the earth. "
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Amen.
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