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Thanks for watching. Welcome to
Heavens Declare. I'm Jim Burr.
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We're back on the air. This time
talking about our awesome God.
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Our God is an awesome God.
He reigns from heaven above.
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We're going to share more of the
heavens from that perspective.
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I'd like to share a
scripture with you...
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And I like Isaiah 40:25 and 26.
To whom will you liken me or who
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shall I be equal says the
Lord. When we see the heavens...
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You know people often say,
earth is so small. We show the
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large sun, we show the earth.
We could put a million earths in
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the sun and people often come up
afterwards and say the earth is
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so small. Why would God be
interested in us? As we talked
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before on our program here. God
is on trial here in this little
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world because the universe is
watching to see the results of
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the rebellion of Satan to see
how bad it is. God's on trial
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here. To whom shall I be equal,
saith the Holy One. Man is
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certainly like dust isn't he?
The nations are like small dust
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on the scale, it tells us in the
Bible. Lift up your eyes on high
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and behold who hath created
these things. Yes the heavens
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declare the glory of God. You
know Moses said to God, let me
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see your glory. He said, I'll
make my goodness pass before you
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So the Bible asks us to lift
up our eyes and behold who hath
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created these that bringeth out
their hosts by number. You know
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every day the sun comes out and
the stars disappear don't they.
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But then when the sun goes down
the heavenly hosts appear in the
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sky. And he calleth them all by
names. We see the stars. We're
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going to see a bunch today,
thousands and millions and
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billions and trillions.
How would you like to name the
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stars? That would be quite a
job wouldn't it, to come up with
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a name. How would you like
to create seven billion people,
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seven billion faces. You look
at the people on earth, seven
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billion people and they're all
different, aren't they? They're
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all different, they're all
special. So he calleth them all
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by their names. By the greatness
of his might for he is strong in
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power. Not one faileth. Then
Psalm 147 it is repeated again
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where it says he calls them
all by their names. We have the
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first graphic coming up. It
actually shows you the farthest
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galaxy that we've ever seen.
They tell us that that is about
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13 billion light years away That
little arrow is pointing to that
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little red dot which they say
is about the farthest we've ever
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seen and they think about 13
billion light years away. As I
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see that I think of what
the Bible has to say. We look at
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Isaiah 55 verse 9. It says as
the heavens are higher than the
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earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways and my thoughts
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than your thoughts. We cannot
compare with the Infinite God
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can we? And yet, we're created
in his image. When I see that I
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also think of what it says in
Psalm 103 starting with verse 10
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actually. And it says that he
has not dealt with us after our
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sin. We're thankful for that
that God doesn't deal with us,
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I'm reading from King James,
after our sin, nor rewarded us
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according to our iniquities for
as high as the heavens are above
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the earth that's how great his
mercy is. Can you comprehend 13
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billion light years. We cannot
comprehend that can we? I'd like
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to show you a demonstration now
and what we have here is I have
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a ball which is going to
represent Jupiter. My hand will
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represent the sun. And we've got
gravity where all the planets
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are held by gravity, tied to
the sun. When the sun moves they
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move. When Jupiter actually
spins around the sun it actually
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moves the sun off center.
You wouldn't believe how far it
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moves off center. Now you
see my hand wobbling. Actually
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Jupiter causes the sun to
move a half a million miles off
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center when Jupiter goes around
the sun. When Jupiter and Saturn
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are ganging up on the sun,
if they're both on the same side
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of the sun, I mean, it's going
to move almost a million miles
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off center. When Jupiter and
Saturn are on opposite sides it
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comes right back, practically
back to center. So we're going
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to have an illustration that
will show you how far our sun
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moves as Jupiter and Saturn are
rotating. There it is. You see
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how our sun is actually wobbling
in space up to almost a million
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miles off center. So now we
have a roll coming up where the
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Hubble zoomed in on the Omega
star cluster. Now this is a
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cluster of stars, we call them
a globular cluster in our Milky
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Way galaxy. About, they think,
10 million stars in the Omega
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cluster. And the Hubble zoomed
in, zoomed in, zoomed in and
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you'll see you new tax dollars
at work there. They have a $125
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million camera put on the Hubble
and in a moment you're going to
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see it switch to color and when
it switches to color you'll see
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the new camera and all the
colors of the stars. These are
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blazing suns. We have 10 million
blazing suns. You know our sun
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is just kind of an average star,
nothing really special about our
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sun. It's just kind of an
average star of a 100 billion,
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200 billion in the Milky Way
galaxy. Look at the beauty and
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the color of those stars. Is
that not incredible. Now here
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they go. This is how their
motion will be over the next 10
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thousand years as they're moving
through space. Each one of those
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is doing like 30,000, 40,000,
50,000 miles an hour. They're
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so far away you can't appreciate
actually the speed but we see
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our God is an awesome God and
that's the title of this segment
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What an awesome God we have
to control all of this. What is
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man, you know, what is man that
he is mindful of us as we see
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the beauties of the universe and
stars without number. The Bible
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says wonders without number.
Coming up you're going to be
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able to see how our sun is
moving. Like all those stars are
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moving, our sun is moving at a
rate of about 45,000 miles every
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hour. Here you see it go pulling
the planets with it. There they
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are, all the planets going
around. That one at the top
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would be Pluto, which, of
course, they say is not a planet
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anymore. The one the farthest
out on the left actually.
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Pluto is doing 10,600 miles an
hour; it takes Pluto 247 years
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to go around the sun. In other
words our Earth goes around
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247 times by the time Pluto gets
around once. God's got this all
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under control. There's a motion
that can't be illustrated here
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on this clip because as I was
telling you Jupiter moves our
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Sun a half a million miles.
Jupiter and Saturn together make
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it move almost a million miles,
probably around 900,000 miles
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off center. All the planets are
connected by gravity to the sun.
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So if we could add one
more motion to that it would be
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incredible because everything
is tied to gravity, all the
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planets are tied to gravity,
so as the sun moves so do
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we. Now Jupiter goes
around every 10 years. So on a
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blackboard if you could,
depending on where you are
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in space, OK. So here's the star
but if you're looking at our sun
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from space and Jupiter's going
around like this you would see
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our sun going up and down. If
Jupiter's going across in front
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of the Sun it would be
pulling the Sun towards and
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away from us and you
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wouldn't sense that motion.
We could detect that with the
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Doppler shift actually moving
that to and away from us, it can
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actually sense that. But think
about this. If you're looking at
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our Sun from space at a distance
and Jupiter and the planets are
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going around this way, depending
on where you are in space,
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you're going to see a sine
wave as over a 10-year period it
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takes Jupiter 10 years to
move the sun up a quarter of a
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million miles and then back to
center and then down a quarter
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of a million miles, every
10 years. But then Saturn is a
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29-year. So now let's say they
are both rising on the same side
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you go up a quarter of a million
miles but Saturn's going to pull
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the sine wave up a half a
million miles. But that's going
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be a 30-year. So on a blackboard
you draw Jupiter and then you
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draw this big one for Saturn.
But then we've got Mercury.
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Mercury goes around every 88
days so now on this sine wave,
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this motion, if you're with me,
you'll see the sun being moved
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another couple hundred miles by
Mercury; every 88 days you have
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another sine wave superimposed
on that sine wave and then
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you've got Venus every 257
days which moves it at about 500
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miles. Then you've got Earth
that moves it 300 miles off
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center. So you've got all these
planets. I've read that they
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think our Sun has probably 35
different motions. God's got it
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all under control. You know,
you saw the motion of our sun in
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those circles. There's no
mathematician on Earth that can
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give you a formula for the
center of three when you have
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three bodies of different
masses it can't be done. Look up
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Wikipedia Three Body Problem.
Since Isaac Newton nobody has
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been able to give you formula
for the center of rotation of
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three bodies that are different
sizes; three body problem. Now
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I'm told by a professor from the
University of Oklahoma we work
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on it, the more we work the
closer we get, but nobody has
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ever been able to write an exact
formula. He says we can simulate
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it on a computer but nobody can
write an exact formula for the
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center of rotation of three
bodies that are different masses
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I sat in his lecture and I began
to get choked up because I've
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been showing audiences this
motion. You know we have a 100
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billion stars in the Milky Way
galaxy and they're all moving
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and God's got it under control
and we can't give you a formula
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for three. Yes, our God is an
awesome God. So we were reading
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that scripture from Isaiah
40 verse 25 and 26. It says: To
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whom will you liken me? God asks
the question who are you going
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to compare me with? And who
shall be my equal says the Holy
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One. There is no equal to God.
And he asks us, Lift up your
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eyes on high. There's the first
command to buy a telescope,
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folks. The Bible says life up
your eyes on high. God asks us
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to look. Lift up your eyes on
high and see who created these
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things. He's the one who brings
them out. He brings the host out
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by number. Yes, we saw the Omega
cluster, 10 million stars, in
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our galaxy depending on
which book you read, maybe a 100
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billion, 200 billion, some books
might even say 300 billion stars
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We can't really count the stars.
It's pretty much a guess. When
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they measure the stars as we
talked in our previous program,
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I think they do very well on
measuring distances, but you can
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get the series and see the
evidence of that. So who brings
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out their host by number. He
calls them all by their names.
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Yes he knows the sparrow that
falls, he knows the hairs in
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your head. By the greatness
of his might and the strength of
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his power not one is missing.
Yes, even we talked about this
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exploding star, these super
novas. In their best estimate
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that these biggest stars burn
up their fuel, like Betelgeuse,
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a billion miles in diameter.
Betelgeuse in Orion, that
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shoulder star in Orion, may have
already exploded into a super
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nova. It will take us between
600 and 700 years to find out
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because it takes that long for
that light to get here, so it
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may have already exploded. But
it's a billion miles in diameter
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It's a very good candidate for
a super nova eruption because it
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is so big and our theory is
that these stars as they burn up
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their fuel, like a balloon they
get to a point where they can't
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support the shell, so to speak,
and then outward goes this gas.
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We see an exploding star.
There's always a center star.
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In other words, these stars cast
off an outer shell which becomes
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the super nova, but there's
always a star in the center, a
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small star, some sort of a dense
star. A super nova explosion has
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a star remaining in the center,
always some sort of a small star
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remaining and the Bible says
that not one is missing. So even
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though we see stars explode,
we still see a remnant there and
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you can see in many of these
pictures like the Helix nebula
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you can see the solar wind
is still going out and causing
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streamers. The Omega looks
like a bunch of comets actually
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created by the solar wind. Going
on in Isaiah 40:28, 29: Have
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you not known, have you not
heard? The everlasting God, the
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Lord, the creator of the ends
of the Earth, neither faints nor
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is weary. His understanding
is unsearchable. We're certainly
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seeing that in this series
aren't we? The wisdom of man;
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they think they know how these
stars form. In this book Atoms
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to Einstein says this whole
universe started with a big bang
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and the big bang at the very
core of the big bang the little
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tiny, tiny thing as small as
a millionth of a millionth the
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size of the smallest atom and it
may have been a million, million
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million degrees and that's how
everything got here. That's the
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best they have and they try
with mental gymnastics to get a
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universe without a God and they
do that by saying... In this
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one book, Atoms to Einstein, Dr.
Picante says that you know we
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have all this energy in the
universe. The Sun is fusing 620
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metric tons of hydrogen
every second. So we have this
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tremendous energy in the
universe, 100 billion stars in
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our galaxy and 100 billion
galaxies. That's tremendous
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energy. But we also have
tremendous negative potential
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gravitational energy. So they
balance out so therefore, and
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Stephen Hawking agrees with this
the universe can make itself, he
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says or create itself, or create
it out of nothing. And you go
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like give me a break, OK.
Have you not known, have you not
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heard, the everlasting God, the
Lord, the creator of the ends
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of the Earth neither faints nor
is weary. His understanding is
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unsearchable. He gives power to
the weak, to those who have no
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might he increases strength.
In the next graphic we have a
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picture of a galaxy coming
up and the fact that we were
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talking about how far Jupiter
moves our Sun. So all the
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planets are being held by the
Sun. But when I look at a galaxy
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like the one coming up now, I'm
wondering what is at the center
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of the galaxy that holds it
all together. In the background
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there's a galaxy. So we have a
100 billion stars in the galaxy.
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Something's holding them all
together. And if the sun wiggles
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and wobbles that much when
the planets go around what would
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happen to the center of the
galaxy. When you see our Sun,
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and we've got the big Sun and
we've got the tiny little earth
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and the planets are moving the
sun what would be in the center
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of the galaxy? Well they claim
it's a black hole. You remember
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in one of our programs we quoted
from a magazine article that
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said people that study black
holes are cosmic magicians. They
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need to coax a great deal of
meaning out of precious little
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information. In other words,
something's got to be pretty
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massive in the center of
the galaxy. If you've got nine
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planets moving the sun and
it's like really big, a thousand
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Earths would fit in the sun,
1300 Jupiter's would fit in the
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sun and yet Jupiter moves
it half a million miles, if you
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think this through logically,
what would be in the center of
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a galaxy that could hold
100 billion stars as they are in
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orbit? I don't think black holes
are the answer, but I think the
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answer is in Colossians 1 verses
16 and 17 where it says all
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things hold together. Another
scripture I love along this line
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Psalm 103 verse 17 says: But the
loving-kindness of the Lord is
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from everlasting to everlasting.
He is from everlasting to
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everlasting, without beginning
or end and those that fear Him
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and His righteousness to the
children of men. Romans 11:13
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says: O the depths of riches
both of wisdom and knowledge of
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God, how unsearchable are his
judgments and unfathomable his
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ways. The heavens blow us away.
They blow me away and I've been
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talking about these for 25 years
I think we started at 3ABN our
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first series, Christian Concerns
1995 or 1994 and you think it
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get old because I'm out almost
every week talking about this.
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But I'm still blown away. I have
to have to fall and weep at the
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feet of Jesus. O the depths
of riches, both the wisdom and
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knowledge of God.
How unsearchable are His
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judgments and unfathomable His
ways for who has known the mind
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of the Lord or who became his
counselor. Romans 11:13. As we
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move on to some graphics, we've
got some beautiful pictures of
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some of the galaxies I intend
to share with you and I may be
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getting behind on bringing those
up. I think the next one we have
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is actually an edge on galaxy.
The galaxies we see as round
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but when we see them sideways
they're very long and stretched
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out. That galaxy doesn't have
a name. It's NGC4565. One of my
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favorite galaxies in the spring
of the year in the constellation
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up by Virgo in the realm of the
galaxy, you see a bulge in the
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center where we have stars right
in the center of the galaxy.
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We've got another galaxy coming
up. To illustrate the size here
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you see an arrow at the top and
an arrow at the bottom. If you
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were living at the bottom of
this galaxy and you decided to
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take a vacation and travel
across the galaxy and you got
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to the other side of the galaxy
and decided to make a phone call
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and you dial up your phone
to call home and actually radio
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waves from your cell phone are
traveling 186,000 miles every
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second, it's going to take you
100,000 years to get the phone
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to ring. At 186,000 miles every
second, the speed of light, it's
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still going to take you 100,000
to 200,000 in some bigger
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galaxies to get the phone to
ring. If your mama says hello
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it's going to take 200,000 years
to hear the hello. How big is
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God? We've got another galaxy
coming up and that is the tad
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pole galaxy, a beautiful galaxy
that appears to be pulling in
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stars from another galaxy. It
kind of looks like a tad pole.
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It's got a long tail to that
galaxy. The next slide we have
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I believe is Saturn. We talk
about the rings that are almost
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170,000 miles across but
very, very, very thin. You could
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really appreciate how thin those
rings are here. You see the
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shadow the sun causes there
on those rings. We have one more
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graphic coming up and this one
is an artist's conception. We've
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discovered a couple thousand
planets out there. So you see
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in the magazines these artists'
conceptions. We've just got a
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beautiful planet with rings. It
might have rings, it might have
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water, it might have life. We
discover a planet and the artist
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goes to work describing what
we have seen. The next graphic I
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want to show you what we
actually discover. On the screen
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if you look over on the right
side you'll see a large box and
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that shows you the motion of the
star for two years from 2004 to
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2006. But right above that
is a tiny little box. That's the
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actual image of a planet. You
see the problem that we have is
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we look at a star and we're got
this incredible brightness to
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deal with and the planets
have no light. They only reflect
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light from the star. And they're
so small. Our Earth is a million
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times smaller than our sun, you
can put a million in the sun. So
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trying to see planets is really,
really difficult. In fact, there
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are only a few that we've
actually imaged. That is an
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image of the planet. You can see
how it's moved over two years.
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Typically we discover planets
when they go in front of a star
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and they dim. They can tell
something about the planets as
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they pass through the star light
They can look at the spectral
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lines and it tells some of the
elements that are present there
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but I just think it was kind
of fun because we see all these
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pictures, oh we've discovered
a planet and it did look like
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this, but actually it helps us
to understand how difficult it
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is to actually image something
like that. One reference here
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that I thought was good. It says
that all the glories of God in
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the heavens and everything
lovely in our Earth is to give
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us a correct knowledge of the
character of the giver. In thy
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presence is the fullness of joy,
at thy right hand are pleasures
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forevermore. We have another
graphic coming up of the whirl
00:24:48.95\00:24:51.85
pool galaxy. The whirl pool is
located right by the handle of
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the big dipper, very close
to the end of the handle of
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the big dipper.
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It's quite interesting because
it has a little companion galaxy
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with it and is gravitationally
tied together. In fact, you'll
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see the arms of the whirlpool
that you would expect to wrap
00:25:09.24\00:25:14.14
tightly around the
galaxy, you'll see them actually
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attached to the little galaxy on
the left there. In fact, because
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they're rotating, we tend to
think that the arms that you see
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stretched out on the right side
to kind of balance the stars on
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the left side. But what's
interesting is the whirlpool
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galaxy is 37 million light years
away and if you go to the center
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of the whirlpool you'll see that
there is a cross in the center
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and that's our next image, a
cross in the center of the whirl
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pool galaxy. It's called
Einstein's cross. Then our last
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graphic in this series is
laminen and in your body is...
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the rebar
00:25:56.08\00:25:57.82
of your body, the cell adhesion
molecule. There is a molecule in
00:25:57.85\00:26:02.32
your body called laminin and it
is in the shape of a cross and
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if we look at Colossians
1:17 By Him all things are held
00:26:06.83\00:26:12.10
together. Lamanin is a protein
molecule that holds your body
00:26:12.13\00:26:16.71
together. Yes, Christ on the
cross is the one who saved us.
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In this illustration, God
apparently has put these cells
00:26:21.14\00:26:25.45
millions of cells in your body.
Lamanin, which is basically the
00:26:25.48\00:26:30.65
cell adhesion molecule that
holds you together. Well it's
00:26:30.69\00:26:35.32
just exciting to share the
heavens. Our time fast slipping
00:26:35.36\00:26:39.86
away. But what an amazing God
that we worship. It just blows
00:26:39.89\00:26:44.70
me away. The more I learn about
the heavens, the more I learn
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about the genetic code, the
DNA and the RNA and all of that,
00:26:48.90\00:26:53.48
it just speaks of an incredible
creator. He invites us to get
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to know Him. When Jesus comes
He says, come ye blessed of my
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father. We want to be among that
group. Thank you for watching
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Heavens Declare.
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