And this is eternal
life that they may know you,
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the only true God
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and Jesus Christ
whom You have sent.
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Welcome to 3ABN
Australia Homecoming.
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Well, Tim, this
is the last program
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for Friday night.
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Right. And it
has been a full day.
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We have been here since like...
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This morning.
Early in the morning.
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So but it's
been a wonderful day.
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Yes, it has.
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Spending the day
in the Word of God
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is never wasted, right?
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Oh, no, it's very
good. And we've had...
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Who's enjoyed the
messages that we've had so far?
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I have.
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I see hands going up,
but not a lot of amens
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or praise the Lord.
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They're silent amens.
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Do you know that
opening, I really enjoyed that
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because there's a section
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where John is with our grandson,
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reading him the
story of Zacchaeus
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and when Diane's
there and she's praying,
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that pelican flew across
just to shoot his head up
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and so it was unplanned.
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So that wasn't planned?
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No. Unplanned.
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Not at all. Oh,
that's for the bird.
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I'm sorry, it was
a just... God just...
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That was for the birds.
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So God was really good.
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It's was just
exciting to have that happen,
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but right now we have someone
who's going to play the piano.
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Right. Do you
remember who that is?
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That is Henry Higgins.
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Henry Higgins.
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Henry Higgins, yes.
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Wonderful piano
player and pan flutist.
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Yes. And he
plays the double bass.
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Really?
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And I think the cello,
and he's a great musician.
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Awesome. Yes.
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And he will be followed
by our speaker this evening.
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Who is...
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Pastor Gary Kent from
the Incredible Journey.
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And do you know
what he's speaking on?
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He's preaching
on God, the Creator,
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knowing God as God, the Creator.
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That's right.
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And Henry is going to
play for us a beautiful song,
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a hymn that you'll
all know in the garden.
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So, Henry, I really
look forward to this
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'cause I love your piano play.
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Thank you. God bless you.
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Well, Henry, thank you so much.
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Friends, hasn't that music
been heavenly this evening?
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It's a privilege
to worship with you
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this Sabbath evening.
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Robin and I left Sydney early.
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We wanted to be here in
good time to hear the music
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and sharing the fellowship.
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But have you noticed,
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there seems to be
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so many more cars
on the road these days
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between Sydney and Newcastle?
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You know, we left
just after 3 o'clock,
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thinking that we'd
have plenty of time.
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We were in a traffic jam
literally over half the way
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but you know, we
didn't waste the time.
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We got our phones out
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and we were able to speak
to our daughter in Brisbane,
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a son in Singapore,
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another daughter in London,
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and a sister in America
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who's just
welcoming her granddaughter
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who was born today.
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All while we were
stuck in the traffic
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on the way up here.
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It's a reminder that we live
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in an age
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of tremendous
technology and knowledge.
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Isn't that right?
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Think of the knowledge
that makes it possible for us
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to speak to family
members all over the world
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and to know
what's happening there.
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We're also able to
check out some details
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about some information
we wanted to find out.
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We were able to
tap into the net.
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And, again, a reminder
that we live in an age,
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in an era of knowledge.
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We want to know
everything today.
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We want to know exactly
the moment that happens.
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That's our age.
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Do you know,
friends, how important
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in this age of
knowledge and knowing everything
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that we don't forget
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the importance of knowing God
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and keeping our
relationship strong,
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and vibrant, and vital.
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Let's bow our heads in prayer.
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Dear heavenly
Father, this Sabbath evening,
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we bow before You,
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acknowledging You as
the Master of the Universe,
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Creator of heaven and earth.
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And, Father, we
thank You that You love us,
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and care for each one of us,
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and are interested
in everything about us.
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We are so grateful
that You want to know us.
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And so, Father, as we
worship You this evening,
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we invite Your presence
and ask for Your blessing,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Over the centuries,
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the world's great men and women
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have tried to alter
the course of history,
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and their
actions and achievements
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have influenced millions
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and are still doing so today.
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Some have tried to
rule by might and power
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and we know their
names off by heart today.
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Some of them we even call great,
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Cyrus the Great,
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Alexander the Great,
Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan,
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Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler.
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Yes, they have
tried to rule by might,
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but their
empires have disappeared
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because you see,
friends, any ruler,
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no matter how
numerous their weapons
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must ultimately rule by means
other than might and power,
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by means other than force
if they are to retain power,
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authority and influence.
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If they are to
retain that influence,
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they must rule by persuasion.
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And that is why
those who have made
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the greatest impact on
our world are individuals
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who have
introduced concepts and ideas
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that have persuaded
that is, that have influenced
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millions of earth's inhabitants.
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And through their ideas,
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their concepts,
their philosophies,
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they have reached into
the minds of the masses.
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They've reached
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into the minds of
millions of people
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in their own generation
and in future generations.
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And, friends, by
influencing and controlling
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people's minds in a sense,
they have ruled the world.
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It's a reminder that the pen
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is mightier than the sword.
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Words, ideas,
concepts, philosophies
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can change the world.
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And we know
people who've done that,
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Buddha, Aristotle,
Plato, Jesus Christ, Mohammed,
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Galileo, Newton, Copernicus.
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All have made an
impact on the world
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and changed history
by introducing new ideas,
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concepts and philosophies.
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These great ideas
people, these thought makers
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have influenced the
minds of the masses.
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And so in their own ways,
they have conquered the world.
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The last two centuries
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have seen some of the most
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influential
thought makers of all time.
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Charles Darwin, Karl Marx,
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Albert Einstein,
Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi.
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Tonight, we are
going to consider
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one of these
great thought makers,
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arguably the most
influential of them all.
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He pinned the
most influential book
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written in the
last two centuries.
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Now, friends,
you think about it,
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think about the amount of words
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that has been,
have been written,
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the number of books
that have been written
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in the last 200
years, which one of them
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was the most influential of all.
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Well, friends, the
most influential book
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written in the
last two centuries
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was written by this man,
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Charles Robert Darwin.
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Charles Robert Darwin, his book
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"The Origin of Species,"
the most influential book
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written in the
last two centuries.
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This book has done
more than any other
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to shape modern thought.
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This book has changed
the way you and I live today.
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It's changed the
trend of religion.
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It's changed
theology, politics, philosophy.
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It's changed the
teaching of history,
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biology,
literature, and even morality.
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This book, "The
Origin of Species,"
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brought about a complete
change in our modern world.
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Charles Darwin came
from a wealthy family.
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His father was the
physician to the king
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to the royal household.
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And Charles Darwin decided
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that he was going to
follow in the footsteps
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of his father and grandfather.
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And so he traveled to Edinburgh
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and he enrolled in
the University there
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to study medicine.
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He was going to be a
doctor, but something happened.
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He couldn't stand
the sight of blood.
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Not good for a doctor.
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And so he had to
change his plans.
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He left Edinburgh
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and he traveled
down to Cambridge.
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And he decided that
now he was going to be
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a church minister.
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And so he enrolled
in the theology program.
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And he graduated from Cambridge
from that theology program
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in the year 1831.
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And at the age of 22,
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Charles Darwin was going
to become the Reverend Darwin
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in a small
Anglican country church.
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But then something happened
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that changed the
course of history.
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He was invited to
join the Beagle on a trip,
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a sailing trip around the world.
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He was a naturalist.
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He was interested in
the things of nature.
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And so, rather than becoming
a preacher of the Bible,
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Charles Darwin instead
accepted this invitation
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and became a
naturalist aboard HMS Beagle.
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They sailed the world,
circumnavigated the world.
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But of all the wonderful
places that they visited,
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the one of supreme
importance to Charles Darwin
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was the Galapagos Islands.
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Now, the Galapagos Islands
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are situated
about 1000 kilometers
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west of Ecuador
in South America.
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It consists of 13 main islands
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and a number of smaller islands.
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And so as he made that trip
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and saw all
these wonderful places,
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it was the Galapagos Island
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that made the
greatest impression on him.
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And, friends, on the
day that Charles Darwin
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step to shore on
the Galapagos Islands,
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a new epoch of
world history began
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because, you see, Darwin
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was immediately struck
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by the number of
unique plants and animals
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in this one place.
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And he wondered,
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how can all
this variety be here?
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How did all this variety
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come about in
this isolated place
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so far from everywhere else?
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He was particularly fascinated
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by the little finches,
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the different kinds of finches
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that lived on
the various islands.
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Although the birds,
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these little birds
all looked similar,
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their beaks were different.
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Their beaks were
different, a different shape
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on each of the islands.
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And the shape of their beaks
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depended on the
type of fruit available.
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On one island,
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the finches had very thick beaks
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because they lived on nuts,
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they had to crack the nutshells.
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But on other islands,
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they needed different
beaks to eat the fruit.
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And so they had
thin, narrow beaks,
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so that they could
easily feed on these fruit.
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Darwin was very
excited by his discovery
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and as he documented
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the various
finches in these islands
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with their funny shape
beaks, he began to develop
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the theory of evolution.
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He realized
that they had adapted
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to their environment.
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Oh, thank you very much, Aiden.
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Thank you.
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One of winter's gifts.
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A cold.
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So as he looked
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at these funny shaped
beaks on these little birds
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and saw how they had
developed different shaped beaks
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according to their environment,
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he began to develop
the theory of evolution.
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And little did anyone realize
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that the seed
sown in Darwin's mind
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on the Galapagos Islands
would divide history in half?
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You see, friends, before Darwin
belief in God, the Creator
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had been almost,
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well, believed by almost
everybody in the Western world
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before Darwin.
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After Darwin,
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faith in a Creator God
would become impossible,
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even irrelevant
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for most people
in the Western world.
00:21:09.70\00:21:11.70
And so when Charles
Darwin returned to England,
00:21:15.64\00:21:20.44
they spend a
little time in London,
00:21:20.48\00:21:23.65
and then he moved his family
to the little town of Down
00:21:23.68\00:21:30.49
in the county of Kent.
00:21:30.52\00:21:33.19
What a good name.
00:21:33.22\00:21:34.56
And there he began to
further develop this theory
00:21:38.19\00:21:44.00
that he was
cooking up in his mind.
00:21:44.03\00:21:47.10
This theory that
he was developing
00:21:47.14\00:21:49.37
that he was building.
00:21:49.40\00:21:52.54
And then in a letter to
his friend Joseph Hooker,
00:21:52.57\00:21:57.28
written on the
11th of January 1844.
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Darwin first expressed his
theory of natural selection
00:22:02.62\00:22:08.09
as a driver of evolution.
00:22:08.12\00:22:12.33
It was all
beginning to fall into place.
00:22:12.36\00:22:16.00
And then in the spring of 1844,
Darwin wrote a 200 page essay
00:22:16.03\00:22:21.20
with nine chapters
that outlined very clearly
00:22:21.24\00:22:24.37
and more carefully
his theory of evolution.
00:22:24.41\00:22:28.41
It became known
as the essay of 1844.
00:22:28.44\00:22:34.68
And was the first
relatively complete outline
00:22:34.72\00:22:39.82
of Darwin's theory of evolution.
00:22:39.85\00:22:43.56
That same year, on
the 5th of July, 1844,
00:22:43.59\00:22:46.96
Darwin wrote a
letter to his wife
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and in this letter he said,
00:22:49.53\00:22:51.47
"I have just finished my sketch
00:22:51.50\00:22:56.20
of my theory on the species,
00:22:56.24\00:23:00.94
the Origin of the Species."
00:23:00.98\00:23:04.78
But he didn't publish it.
00:23:04.81\00:23:06.88
He didn't publish it that year,
00:23:06.92\00:23:09.28
because he was
afraid of the controversy
00:23:09.32\00:23:13.56
that these radical
new ideas would create.
00:23:13.59\00:23:18.83
And so instead, he
spent the next 15 years
00:23:18.86\00:23:23.93
collecting the evidence
to support his new idea.
00:23:23.97\00:23:30.14
And then in the year 1859,
00:23:30.17\00:23:33.44
he pinned and
published his book,
00:23:33.48\00:23:39.21
"The Origin of Species,"
00:23:39.25\00:23:41.22
the most influential
book in modern history,
00:23:41.25\00:23:45.95
"The Origin of Species,"
00:23:45.99\00:23:48.52
and on the first
page of that book,
00:23:48.56\00:23:51.43
it says, "It
was in the year 1844
00:23:51.46\00:23:58.03
that I first made a
sketch of my conclusions
00:23:58.07\00:24:02.10
regarding the
origin of species."
00:24:02.14\00:24:06.84
In his book,
Darwin's theory of evolution,
00:24:09.91\00:24:14.12
suggested that
life on planet earth,
00:24:14.15\00:24:17.69
all plant and animal species
evolved gradually over millions
00:24:17.72\00:24:22.62
and perhaps even
billions of years
00:24:22.66\00:24:25.19
through a series of changes.
00:24:25.23\00:24:26.66
Behind the theory of evolution
00:24:29.70\00:24:35.10
lay a challenge.
00:24:35.14\00:24:37.84
A challenge to
what the Bible said
00:24:37.87\00:24:43.08
about how the earth was created
00:24:43.11\00:24:47.85
in six days.
00:24:47.88\00:24:50.89
You see, there
were now two views,
00:24:50.92\00:24:53.82
two views on how
the earth was made
00:24:53.86\00:24:57.43
and how humans fitted into it.
00:24:57.46\00:24:59.83
There was the Bible's view
and there was Darwin's view.
00:24:59.86\00:25:06.43
Now, before long,
the scientific community
00:25:06.47\00:25:09.04
largely
accepted Darwin's theory,
00:25:09.07\00:25:12.07
Darwin's view of
the origin of species.
00:25:12.11\00:25:14.94
And then it was accepted
by the wider scholarly world.
00:25:14.98\00:25:19.91
Today, my friends,
almost every school,
00:25:19.95\00:25:24.35
college and
university in the world
00:25:24.39\00:25:29.29
teaches the theory of evolution
00:25:29.32\00:25:30.99
as if it was an
established fact.
00:25:31.03\00:25:32.79
The theory of evolution
00:25:35.90\00:25:39.77
has influenced
millions around the world
00:25:39.80\00:25:43.51
to reject the idea
00:25:43.54\00:25:46.94
of a Creator God and
to believe rather that
00:25:46.98\00:25:53.35
man evolved over
millions of years
00:25:53.38\00:25:59.25
because of Darwin we
live in a different era.
00:25:59.29\00:26:04.49
We live in a different world.
00:26:07.46\00:26:09.86
You see, friends, before Darwin,
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.13
God was the answer
to life's big questions.
00:26:12.17\00:26:17.54
After Darwin,
00:26:17.57\00:26:20.18
most people today
00:26:20.21\00:26:22.21
look to evolution for the answer
00:26:22.24\00:26:24.71
to life's big questions.
00:26:24.75\00:26:26.75
Where did we come from?
00:26:26.78\00:26:28.68
Why are we here?
Where are we going?
00:26:28.72\00:26:31.32
They look to Darwin
and the theory of evolution
00:26:31.35\00:26:34.02
for their answers.
00:26:34.06\00:26:37.86
Now, my friends,
the two positions,
00:26:37.89\00:26:41.10
the Bible's position
and Darwin's position
00:26:41.13\00:26:45.53
are radically different.
00:26:45.57\00:26:48.00
Evolution and Bible
creation are incompatible.
00:26:48.04\00:26:52.57
Evolution and Bible creation
00:26:55.61\00:26:57.81
are diametrically
opposed to each other.
00:26:57.85\00:27:03.75
I want you to notice
with me the progression
00:27:03.79\00:27:07.16
when the theory of evolution
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.66
is carried to its
logical conclusion,
00:27:08.69\00:27:11.43
follow me.
00:27:11.46\00:27:13.06
Once the theory of
evolution is accepted,
00:27:13.09\00:27:17.50
the first three
chapters of the Bible
00:27:17.53\00:27:21.94
that tell us about creation
00:27:21.97\00:27:25.64
become nothing
but a series of myths.
00:27:25.67\00:27:29.94
Follow the conclusion with me,
00:27:29.98\00:27:31.95
the logical
conclusion regarding evolution.
00:27:31.98\00:27:35.82
Evolution says there is no God.
00:27:35.85\00:27:39.42
Certainly not
the God of Genesis.
00:27:39.45\00:27:42.82
If there is no God,
there is no creator.
00:27:42.86\00:27:48.50
If there is no
creator, there is no Adam.
00:27:48.53\00:27:53.84
If there is no
Adam, there is no Eve.
00:27:53.87\00:27:57.17
And my friends,
if there is no Eve,
00:27:57.21\00:27:58.94
there is no fall into sin.
00:27:58.97\00:28:00.61
If there is no sin,
there's no need of a Savior.
00:28:04.85\00:28:10.72
If there is no
Savior, there is no gospel.
00:28:10.75\00:28:12.72
If there is no gospel,
there is no divine law.
00:28:12.75\00:28:15.52
Darwin's theory of evolution
00:28:18.93\00:28:23.93
has influenced
millions of earth's inhabitants
00:28:23.97\00:28:27.20
and is dramatically changed
the thinking of our society.
00:28:27.24\00:28:32.87
The theory of evolution
has largely been responsible
00:28:32.91\00:28:35.48
for the decline of
Christianity in recent years.
00:28:35.51\00:28:38.81
In England where
the theory was launched,
00:28:42.55\00:28:48.62
less than 7% of the
population attend church today.
00:28:48.66\00:28:54.60
Here in Australia,
it's virtually no different.
00:28:54.63\00:28:59.67
Only 7.8% of our population
00:28:59.70\00:29:03.57
attend church
regularly each weekend.
00:29:03.61\00:29:06.81
And so, as the
theory of evolution
00:29:06.84\00:29:10.48
has been accepted, and as grown,
00:29:10.51\00:29:12.91
and become more
popular and accepted,
00:29:12.95\00:29:15.12
there has been a
simultaneous decline
00:29:15.15\00:29:19.95
in the number of people
00:29:19.99\00:29:21.89
who believe the
Bible who worship God,
00:29:21.92\00:29:25.13
and attend church regularly.
00:29:25.16\00:29:26.86
Darwin's theory of evolution
has been accepted by the masses
00:29:30.67\00:29:36.87
and is played a
leading role in people
00:29:36.91\00:29:39.94
no longer believing
in God or worshiping God.
00:29:39.97\00:29:46.48
So, friends, how does God
00:29:46.51\00:29:50.55
respond to this
devastating attack?
00:29:50.59\00:29:54.82
What is He to do?
00:29:54.86\00:29:56.66
What is God's
answer to evolution?
00:29:56.69\00:30:00.30
In the Book of Revelation,
Bible's, the Bible's last book,
00:30:06.47\00:30:12.24
God has a special message.
00:30:12.27\00:30:15.84
A message that is
to go to all the world,
00:30:15.88\00:30:20.72
and that is to
prepare men and women
00:30:20.75\00:30:22.88
for the soon coming of Jesus.
00:30:22.92\00:30:25.42
I want to read it to
you. Revelation Chapter 14.
00:30:25.45\00:30:28.76
Notice with me if
you have your Bibles
00:30:28.79\00:30:30.59
or follow with me on the screen.
00:30:30.63\00:30:32.73
Revelation 14:6.
00:30:32.76\00:30:35.40
Here it says,
"Then I saw another angel
00:30:35.43\00:30:38.73
flying in the midst of heaven,
00:30:38.77\00:30:41.57
having the everlasting
gospel to preach to them
00:30:41.60\00:30:44.07
that dwell on the
earth to every nation, tribe,
00:30:44.11\00:30:47.18
tongue and people,"
00:30:47.21\00:30:48.54
he has God's message,
00:30:48.58\00:30:52.45
"Fear God, and
give glory to Him,
00:30:52.48\00:30:54.15
for the hour of
His judgment has come,
00:30:54.18\00:30:57.05
and worship Him who
made heaven, and earth,
00:30:57.09\00:31:01.72
the sea and springs of waters."
00:31:01.76\00:31:05.93
And it continues
saying with a loud voice,"
00:31:05.96\00:31:09.80
you notice,
00:31:09.83\00:31:11.97
"Fear God give glory to Him,
00:31:12.00\00:31:17.14
the hour of his
judgment has come,
00:31:17.17\00:31:20.91
worship, worship Him
who made heaven and earth,
00:31:20.94\00:31:27.22
the sea and the
springs of waters."
00:31:27.25\00:31:31.42
All my friends,
in our modern age,
00:31:31.45\00:31:34.96
in the age of evolution
that has led millions of people
00:31:34.99\00:31:38.86
lead the masses to believe
that there is no Creator,
00:31:38.89\00:31:43.90
God sends a message,
00:31:43.93\00:31:49.80
He sends a
message urging all people
00:31:49.84\00:31:53.38
to return to Creator worship.
00:31:53.41\00:31:56.68
But how does He do it?
00:32:00.15\00:32:02.78
How does He get
the message out there?
00:32:02.82\00:32:04.65
How does God send
his end time message
00:32:04.69\00:32:07.96
to all the world?
00:32:07.99\00:32:11.49
Well, my
friends, in the year 1844,
00:32:11.53\00:32:16.26
the very year that
Charles Darwin influenced
00:32:16.30\00:32:19.37
and launched the
concept, the idea of evolution,
00:32:19.40\00:32:25.97
God raised up a movement.
00:32:26.01\00:32:28.71
A group of people
00:32:28.74\00:32:30.08
to proclaim the
everlasting gospel
00:32:30.11\00:32:33.28
and to call people
to worship the Creator.
00:32:33.31\00:32:36.72
My friends, in an age
00:32:40.76\00:32:42.09
when the theory of evolution
has taken the scientific world
00:32:42.12\00:32:46.53
by storm
00:32:46.56\00:32:48.10
and it's been
accepted by the masses.
00:32:48.13\00:32:52.47
God has a people,
that people who know him.
00:32:52.50\00:32:57.61
God has a people
00:33:01.21\00:33:02.54
who are to
proclaim this message,
00:33:02.58\00:33:07.12
His message,
00:33:07.15\00:33:09.05
calling people to
worship the Creator.
00:33:09.08\00:33:13.05
How can we
acknowledge God as our Creator?
00:33:16.69\00:33:20.80
How can we worship Him,
00:33:20.83\00:33:23.16
Who made the
heavens and the earth,
00:33:23.20\00:33:24.90
the sea and the fountains?
00:33:24.93\00:33:26.84
How do we do that?
00:33:26.87\00:33:29.40
Well, friends,
let the Bible answer.
00:33:29.44\00:33:31.71
It's found in the
very heart of God's law,
00:33:31.74\00:33:34.78
the Ten
Commandments given at Sinai.
00:33:34.81\00:33:37.38
Notice what it says
here in Exodus Chapter 20.
00:33:37.41\00:33:41.72
And I'm going to
start reading at verse 8.
00:33:41.75\00:33:43.79
Exodus Chapter 20.
00:33:43.82\00:33:46.32
Notice with me verse
8, it says, "Remember,
00:33:46.35\00:33:51.79
Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy,
00:33:51.83\00:33:55.30
six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
00:33:55.33\00:33:58.77
but the seventh day
00:33:58.80\00:34:00.14
is the Sabbath of
the Lord your God,
00:34:00.17\00:34:02.77
in it you shall do no work,
00:34:02.80\00:34:04.94
you nor your son, your daughter,
00:34:04.97\00:34:08.08
nor your manservent,
nor your maidservant,
00:34:08.11\00:34:10.61
nor your cattle,
nor your stranger
00:34:10.65\00:34:12.88
who is within your gates."
00:34:12.91\00:34:14.62
And then it says why?
It gives us the reason.
00:34:14.65\00:34:18.49
Why?
00:34:18.52\00:34:21.02
"For in six days
00:34:21.06\00:34:23.06
the Lord made the
heavens and the earth,
00:34:23.09\00:34:24.86
the sea and all that is in them,
00:34:24.89\00:34:28.16
and rested the seventh day.
00:34:28.20\00:34:30.97
Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day,
00:34:31.00\00:34:36.74
and hallowed it.
00:34:36.77\00:34:38.11
The Sabbath
00:34:43.65\00:34:47.42
is a day for remembering.
00:34:47.45\00:34:52.52
It's a day for remembering
and acknowledging our Creator.
00:34:52.55\00:34:59.49
The Creator who has
been so carelessly challenged
00:34:59.53\00:35:05.70
by our generation,
00:35:05.73\00:35:08.24
challenged by the
theory of evolution,
00:35:08.27\00:35:12.17
the theory that had its origins
in the mind of Charles Darwin
00:35:12.21\00:35:18.81
as he watched the little finches
00:35:18.85\00:35:24.22
on the Galapagos Islands.
00:35:24.25\00:35:27.26
The Sabbath is a day
for remembering that no,
00:35:27.29\00:35:32.23
we do have a Creator God.
00:35:32.26\00:35:35.43
A God who made the
heavens and the earth,
00:35:35.46\00:35:37.83
the sea and the
fountains of waters.
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.77
Friends, the Sabbath
00:35:44.51\00:35:47.28
is God's answer to evolution.
00:35:47.31\00:35:52.45
In 1844, the
very year that Darwin
00:35:52.48\00:35:56.89
launched the
theory of evolution,
00:35:56.92\00:35:59.25
God raised up a people
00:35:59.29\00:36:00.72
to proclaim his
end time message,
00:36:00.76\00:36:03.32
and call people back
00:36:03.36\00:36:06.13
to worshiping the Creator.
00:36:06.16\00:36:12.47
And so you see,
respecting the Sabbath
00:36:12.50\00:36:17.64
is God's appointed
way of acknowledging Him
00:36:17.67\00:36:23.41
as the Creator.
00:36:23.45\00:36:25.81
In our modern age of evolution,
the Sabbath calls us back
00:36:25.85\00:36:30.09
to the worship
of God our Creator.
00:36:30.12\00:36:33.46
That's why, friends,
00:36:36.86\00:36:39.19
if you go right
back to the beginning,
00:36:39.23\00:36:42.16
right back to
the creation story,
00:36:42.20\00:36:48.94
the Bible begins
with these words.
00:36:48.97\00:36:52.94
Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning,
00:36:52.97\00:36:59.18
God created
00:36:59.21\00:37:02.18
the heavens and the earth."
00:37:02.22\00:37:07.06
And then it goes
through the whole story,
00:37:07.09\00:37:09.82
the record of creation,
what happened on day one,
00:37:09.86\00:37:13.50
two, three, four, five, six.
00:37:13.53\00:37:18.27
And as God comes
00:37:18.30\00:37:20.24
to the climax of His work,
00:37:20.27\00:37:26.54
as He creates
man in His own image.
00:37:26.57\00:37:32.91
You know, it's interesting
when you come to the end
00:37:32.95\00:37:35.65
of each creation day, it
says, this is what was created
00:37:35.68\00:37:39.55
on the first day and God
looked and He saw it was what?
00:37:39.59\00:37:43.56
It was good.
00:37:43.59\00:37:44.93
And He comes to the second day,
00:37:44.96\00:37:46.43
He created and He
looked and He saw it was good.
00:37:46.46\00:37:51.00
He comes to the third day,
He looks at the end of the day
00:37:51.03\00:37:54.37
upon His handiwork,
and He looks and He says,
00:37:54.40\00:37:56.64
"It is good."
00:37:56.67\00:37:58.47
He comes to the
fourth, the same thing.
00:37:58.51\00:38:00.71
He looks out over and
He said, "It is good."
00:38:00.74\00:38:03.45
He comes to the fifth day
00:38:03.48\00:38:05.68
and all the wonders of creation,
00:38:05.71\00:38:08.48
He looks, and He
says, "It is good."
00:38:08.52\00:38:11.52
And then at the
end of the sixth day,
00:38:11.55\00:38:15.59
when He's created us,
00:38:15.62\00:38:20.26
when He's
created us in His image
00:38:20.30\00:38:24.03
He looks and He
says, it's not good.
00:38:24.07\00:38:28.27
It's not just
good. It is very good.
00:38:28.30\00:38:33.81
Because you see,
friends, God made us
00:38:33.84\00:38:38.28
to have a relationship with Him.
00:38:38.31\00:38:42.08
That's why we
were made in His image.
00:38:42.12\00:38:45.35
And so I want you to
notice what happens next
00:38:45.39\00:38:47.49
as we come to Genesis 2:1.
00:38:47.52\00:38:50.96
It says, "And thus
the heavens and the earth,
00:38:50.99\00:38:53.70
and all the host of
them were finished."
00:38:53.73\00:38:56.53
2:2.
00:39:01.40\00:39:02.74
"And on the seventh day
00:39:02.77\00:39:05.61
God ended His
work which He had done,
00:39:05.64\00:39:09.41
and He rested on the seventh day
00:39:09.44\00:39:12.05
from all His work
which He had done."
00:39:12.08\00:39:14.58
2:3.
00:39:14.62\00:39:16.62
Genesis 2:3, "Then God blessed,
00:39:16.65\00:39:21.76
God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it,
00:39:21.79\00:39:25.49
because in it He
rested from all His work
00:39:25.53\00:39:28.60
which He had created and made."
00:39:28.63\00:39:30.60
Friends, do you notice,
00:39:33.67\00:39:36.44
Adam and Eve's
first day on planet earth
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was spent with God
and with each other.
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God wanted to get to know them,
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and He wanted them
to get to know Him.
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Their first full day
of life on this planet,
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they spent with God.
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And, my friends,
that is God's plan.
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That's His intention.
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The Sabbath is a memorial.
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It's a sign that
He is the Creator.
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It's a time to get
to know God better.
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It's a time to
spend with each other.
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It's a time for worship,
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worship of the
great Creator God,
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Master of the
Universe, the One who made
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the heavens and
the earth in six days
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and rested on the seventh.
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That's why the Sabbath
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is God's sign.
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That's what He says
in the Book of Ezekiel.
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Ezekiel 20:12.
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Ezekiel 20:12.
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I want you to
notice what it says here.
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Very simple, very plain
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and very important.
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Ezekiel 20:12.
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God says, "Moreover I gave,
I also gave them My Sabbaths,
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to be a sign, to be a
sign between them and Me,
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that they may know that
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I am the Lord
who sanctifies them."
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So, friends, the
Sabbath is God sign.
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It's His memorial.
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We build memorials to
remember, isn't that right?
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You can look at every town
in Australia and New Zealand
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and I guarantee you,
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every one of them
will have a memorial,
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isn't that right?
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There is an Anzac memorial
in every town in our country.
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Why?
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Because we want to remember
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those memorials are
designed specifically
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so that we will not forget,
so that we will remember.
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Now, friends, God
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could have built His memorial.
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He could have built
it on the Mount of Olives
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in Jerusalem.
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He could have
built it out of crystal.
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He could have built His memorial
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on the slopes of Mount Everest.
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He could have
built of a pure gold.
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Memorial of His
creation, but, my friends,
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God did not build His memorial
out of crystal, gold or silver.
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God built His
memorial out of time.
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Time.
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And He did it for two reasons.
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For two reasons.
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One, so that we
could all access it.
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We all live in time.
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And secondly, friends,
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God built His memorial in time,
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because it takes time
to build relationships.
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You think of the most important
relationships in your life.
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The most important
relationships are those
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that we invest time in.
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Is that not right?
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You can't have a close
friend or a close relationship
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without investing
time in that person,
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in that
relationship, and God knew that.
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And so He built His
memorial out of time.
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Why?
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Because God wants to know us
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and He wants us to know Him.
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And so He's given us the
Sabbath as a special time.
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Oh, yes, we should be in
touch with God every day.
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But He invites us to set aside
the seventh day of every week,
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so that we remember
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how we got here,
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why we are here
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and where we're going?
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And, friends, the Sabbath
reminds us of all those things.
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It answers all those questions.
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It answers them all.
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The Sabbath reminds us
that God is our Creator.
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We're not here
because of an accident
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because of chance.
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We are here
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because the Almighty
God created us in His image.
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The Sabbath reminds us
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how we got here,
where we come from.
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It reminds us of
the power of God,
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the great Creator who
hung the stars in space.
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The great Creator who
set the planets in motion.
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The great Creator,
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who made the
heavens and the earth.
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He is our God.
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After creating for six days,
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He rested when He had
completed His work of creation.
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He rested on the
Sabbath, the seventh day.
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The Sabbath is the
reminder of that power.
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And, friends, the Sabbath
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is a reminder of God's love.
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Because when the Son of
God came to this planet,
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and He completed
His work of redemption,
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the work of
redemption on the cross,
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when He finished
that phase of His work,
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He rested on the Sabbath.
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He rested on the Sabbath.
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And so not only does
the Sabbath remind us
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of God's power,
00:46:49.37\00:46:52.24
it also reminds us of His love.
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How God Himself
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came and died
on Calvary's cross,
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because He wants to
spend eternity with you and me.
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You see, friends,
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when Jesus died on the cross,
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God didn't give the best
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that heaven had to offer.
00:47:25.11\00:47:28.24
He gave everything
heaven had to offer.
00:47:28.28\00:47:31.71
He gave heaven itself
00:47:31.75\00:47:34.18
because heaven wasn't
heaven when Jesus wasn't there,
00:47:34.22\00:47:39.19
and God was prepared
to sacrifice everything
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so that HE could spend
eternity with you and me.
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And so, friends, the Sabbath
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reminds us of God's power.
00:47:53.27\00:47:56.67
And it also
reminds us of God's love.
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The fact that He was prepared
to give His only begotten Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life.
00:48:12.02\00:48:16.36
And, my friend,
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God has built a mansion for you
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in His Kingdom.
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It's got your name on it.
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It's the exact
color you would choose.
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The color scheme is perfect.
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He knows your
likes and your dislikes.
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Because you see, He
knows all about you.
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You are everything to God.
00:48:47.86\00:48:49.66
If you were the only
sinner on planet earth,
00:48:53.96\00:48:56.80
if everyone
around you was perfect,
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Jesus still would have come
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and died on
Calvary's cross just for you
00:49:09.78\00:49:16.35
because He wants to
spend eternity with you.
00:49:16.38\00:49:21.06
He wants to get to know you,
00:49:21.09\00:49:25.36
not just in heaven but now.
00:49:25.39\00:49:31.03
God wants to know us.
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And, friends, how
important that is to know God.
00:49:38.01\00:49:42.14
It's one of the reasons
He's given us the Sabbath
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that we will come to know Him
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that we will start
preparing for eternity
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because, friends,
when we do get to heaven,
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we're going to
worship on the Sabbath.
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Sabbath worship will continue...
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Pardon me.
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You know, friends,
it's quite interesting
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when you consider
this aspect of time.
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We are people in
the Western world
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who are driven by
time, isn't that right?
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I mean, I've even
got a clock up the back,
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they ticking down every second,
00:50:21.58\00:50:23.99
telling me how
much time I've got left
00:50:24.02\00:50:27.02
because time is important to us.
00:50:27.06\00:50:29.82
We've got to get
these time programs,
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these programs timed right.
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And as a television
evangelist and presenter,
00:50:34.06\00:50:36.87
I know that better than anyone.
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Time is important
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and so we have all these
time measurements, don't we?
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Seconds ticking away up
there, the minutes, the hours,
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the days and so on.
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When you think about
these time measurements,
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all of them are
determined by the movement
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of the heavenly planets.
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60 seconds make a minute.
00:51:07.16\00:51:10.57
60 minutes make an
hour, they're all determined.
00:51:10.60\00:51:13.90
Every one of
these are determined.
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You know, the day is determined
00:51:16.40\00:51:18.91
by the movement of the planets.
00:51:18.94\00:51:21.04
The month, the
year, all determined
00:51:21.08\00:51:24.25
by the movement of
the heavenly bodies,
00:51:24.28\00:51:27.45
every one of them,
with one exception.
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The week.
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The week is not determined.
00:51:34.39\00:51:39.19
It's our only time
or measurement of time
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that is not determined
00:51:42.63\00:51:44.10
by the movement of
the heavenly planets.
00:51:44.13\00:51:46.37
Friends, there's only...
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And let me say this,
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it doesn't matter
where you go on this planet,
00:51:52.14\00:51:57.38
they keep the week, don't they?
00:51:57.41\00:51:58.75
The weekly cycle.
00:51:58.78\00:52:00.28
And, friends,
00:52:00.32\00:52:01.65
that's because the weekly
cycle is ingrained in our DNA.
00:52:01.68\00:52:07.92
It comes way back from creation.
00:52:07.96\00:52:10.89
It's the only answer
to the origin of the week.
00:52:10.93\00:52:14.20
Time.
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God made His memorial in time
00:52:20.74\00:52:26.57
because He wants
to spend time with us.
00:52:26.61\00:52:32.11
And so, friends, as
we prepare for eternity,
00:52:32.15\00:52:37.39
let us remember the
Creator who has been scorned
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by our modern age.
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The Creator who
has been forgotten
00:52:45.66\00:52:48.56
and replaced by eons of
time, billions of years.
00:52:48.60\00:52:55.37
Friends, you and I
are not here by chance.
00:52:55.40\00:53:00.18
We didn't evolve due
to a series of mutations
00:53:00.21\00:53:04.45
or mistakes or accident.
00:53:04.48\00:53:07.62
You and I are here
00:53:07.65\00:53:08.98
because we are the
handiwork of our loving
00:53:09.02\00:53:13.25
and Almighty God
00:53:13.29\00:53:16.79
who's coming
back soon to take us
00:53:16.83\00:53:20.56
to live with Him forever.
00:53:20.60\00:53:24.87
And I say again, friends,
there's a place for you,
00:53:24.90\00:53:28.10
a mansion with your name on it.
00:53:28.14\00:53:31.34
Right color, right
design, right everything
00:53:31.37\00:53:34.21
because God knows you, loves you
00:53:34.24\00:53:38.38
and wants to
spend eternity with you.
00:53:38.41\00:53:41.22
And that is my
prayer that when Jesus comes
00:53:41.25\00:53:44.75
as King of kings
and Lord of lords,
00:53:44.79\00:53:47.72
that each one of us here
00:53:47.76\00:53:49.76
will be found ready
and waiting to meet Him
00:53:49.79\00:53:52.53
to spend eternity with Him.
00:53:52.56\00:53:55.06
May God bless You. Let us pray.
00:53:55.10\00:53:59.10
Dear heavenly Father,
we thank You for Jesus,
00:53:59.13\00:54:04.94
our Lord and our Savior,
00:54:04.97\00:54:08.21
and the Creator
of heaven and earth.
00:54:08.24\00:54:11.81
And, Father, tonight
00:54:11.85\00:54:14.55
we bow before You
and we acknowledge You
00:54:14.58\00:54:16.99
as the great creator,
Master of the Universe.
00:54:17.02\00:54:23.66
We worship You, we adore You.
00:54:23.69\00:54:27.83
We commit our lives to You.
00:54:27.86\00:54:30.90
And, Father, we
look forward to the day
00:54:30.93\00:54:33.77
when Jesus will come
00:54:33.80\00:54:36.27
and we will be
reunited with You again
00:54:36.30\00:54:39.47
to spend eternity with You.
00:54:39.51\00:54:42.41
Father, may that
be our privilege.
00:54:42.44\00:54:45.11
May we be ready to meet
You as unbroken families
00:54:45.15\00:54:49.22
to spend
eternity in Your kingdom,
00:54:49.25\00:54:51.85
in the mansion You
are preparing for us,
00:54:51.89\00:54:54.89
we ask these things in
Jesus' name and for His sake.
00:54:54.92\00:55:00.90
Amen.
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