The big questions of life...
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Where did we come from?
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Why are we here?
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And where are we going?
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Well in this session
we're going to talk about
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why I think that evolution
has one foot in the grave
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and another on a banana peeling.
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It's not able to answer
the big questions of life:
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Where did we come from?
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Why are we here?
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And where are we going?
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I'm telling you that the
evidence today that points
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back to the
Creator is more powerful
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than ever before.
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Evolutionists today
are being confronted
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with their own science.
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And many of them
don't know what to do.
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It's almost like there's a
religion of evolution out there
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that they're going to
defend it no matter what.
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But I believe that the Bible
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is really the
source of those answers.
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There's no conflict between
science and Christianity.
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It actually was
Christianity, the New Testament,
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that gave rise to investigation.
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Some of the greatest early
scientists, like Isaac Newton
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and others, were
great men of God.
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They loved the Lord.
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And they believed
that science was simply
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finding out
about God's creation.
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So today we want
to talk about that.
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Because the Bible
itself makes some pretty strong
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powerful
declarations about our origins,
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and about where we came
from, and how we got here.
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Genesis 1:1 is a very powerful,
a very powerful statement.
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It says, "In the
beginning God created..."
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So it says there's a beginning.
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"In the
beginning God created..."
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So obviously God had
to be before the beginning
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because He
created and started it.
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens," the universe,
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"and the earth."
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God created time
in the beginning.
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He created space, the heavens.
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He created matter, the earth.
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Science today will tell you
that they believe the universe
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is made up of
those three things:
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time, space, and matter.
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But Jesus is also declared
to be the great Creator.
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The apostle John makes
an astounding statement
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about Jesus in John 1:1-5.
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He says, "In the
beginning was the Word..."
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The Word, meaning, Jesus.
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"In the
beginning was the Word..."
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So He was there
in the beginning.
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He wasn't created.
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"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God..."
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So God and the Word are
with each other in the beginning
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as they create the
heavens and the earth.
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"In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God."
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Now that's a very
powerful statement.
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Can we understand this
great wonderful heavenly trio
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that expresses
itself as one God?
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We worship one God made
up of three unique beings
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who are united together.
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We sometimes
call them the Godhead.
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You know, God said in the
beginning when He made man,
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He made them male and female.
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Man expressed as two.
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The God of heaven
expressed as three.
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You can't explain how three
can be one and one can be three,
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but then there's a lot of
things I can't understand.
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My mind is just not big enough.
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I can't understand how
Jesus could come and be a man.
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I can't grasp that.
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But I praise God
for the results of it.
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Some things we just
have to accept by faith
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because the human mind isn't
able to explain everything.
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In fact, a lot of
people get into trouble
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with Scripture because
they try to explain things
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that cannot be explained instead
of just accepting it by faith.
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So in the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
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And John says that, "In
the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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"All things are
made through Him..."
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So God the Father and
Christ working together
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for the creation,
and the Holy Spirit.
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In the book of Genesis
we have the Holy Spirit
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hovering over the
face of the earth.
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And it says, "All
things were made through Him,
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and without Him..."
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These are very
powerful, totally inclusive
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statements, so to speak.
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"...without Him nothing
was made that was made."
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So first, all
things were made by Him.
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And then just to double down,
he says, "And there's nothing
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that's been made that
didn't have His hand making it."
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And then it says this:
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"In Him was life,
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and the life was
the light of men."
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The reason I have light
right now and I can talk to you
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is because that life
is not original with me.
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It was borrowed, it was
given to me from Christ.
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But in Christ, God the
Father, the Holy Spirit,
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our God is life
original and unborrowed.
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So as we think
about these great claims,
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we just are astounded
by these mighty claims.
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So I'd like to say, first
of all, that this means that
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there was a
beginning to the universe.
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And we can hear that in
the Scripture in Psalm 8:1-4.
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Listen to the Lord
say, "O Lord, our Lord,
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how excellent is Your
name in all the earth,
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who have set Your
glory above the heavens!"
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God is above space.
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He's above time.
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He can interject Himself
in a time or out of time.
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Can we understand that? No.
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We sometimes use a big
word called, transcendent.
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In other words, God
can be above the heavens,
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above the earth, above
the universe, above space,
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but He can also
transition Himself into it.
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He said, "...who have set
Your glory above the heavens!"
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"When I consider Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
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the moon and the stars,
which You have ordained..."
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Then he asked that
question, "...what is man
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that You are mindful of him?
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And the son of man
that You visit him?"
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Why is it that we
are so important to God?
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Why are we so precious to God?
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When we look at the
heavens and the earth
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and we seem so
small and so tiny,
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how is it that we are important?
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And yet, I want to tell
you that we are important.
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Our heavenly Father loves us.
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The Bible says that God
stretched out the universe.
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So that's kind of an
interesting statement.
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And I'll just read that.
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Isaiah 42:5 says,
"Thus says the Lord God,
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who created the heavens
and stretched them out..."
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So He stretched
out the universe.
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"...who spread forth the earth
and that which comes from it,
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who gives breath
to the people on it,
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and spirit to
those who walk in it."
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So God, how He
did it, we don't know.
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And I'm not here to defend the
Big Bang or not the Big Bang.
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I can only tell you
what the Scripture says.
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And it says that God took
the heavens and started it
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like a, kind of like a
curtain, if you please.
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And of course, you know
when you spread a curtain
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out across your window.
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And He says, "I did
that to the universe.
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I spread out the heavens."
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Now God created
everything for a purpose.
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There's nothing God does.
Love has always got a purpose.
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And we need to
understand that purpose.
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We need to
understand why we're here.
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A lot of people
lose purpose in life.
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You know, some people
commit suicide because
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they lose purpose.
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They don't think there's
any reason for their existence.
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And that's what
the evolutionists
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and the atheists will give you.
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If fact, we've got a
bunch of new atheists today.
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They really don't
have any new information,
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they're just more
militant than ever before,
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and they hate Christianity
and they hate the Bible.
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And they cherry pick
stuff out of the Bible
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and they don't
let the context work
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and they don't
see the whole thing.
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They make all kinds of crazy
claims about the God of heaven
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that are not true.
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And they have, unfortunately,
along with evolution
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destroyed the
faith of so many people,
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so many young people today.
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They just say, "Well, you
know, science tells me..."
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But let me tell you, science
is giving them false science.
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It's making claims about things
they don't know anything about,
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like the
origins of the universe.
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They weren't there, by the way.
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Well, let's go back to the
Scripture for just a moment.
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We're created in God's image.
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We have a purpose.
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We have a purpose like Him.
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You know, God wants children.
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That's why He created
us; He wants a family.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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That's what love is.
Love doesn't want to be alone.
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Love wants to share.
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So God says in Genesis 1,
"Let us make man in Our image,
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according to Our likeness."
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He says it twice.
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We're made in the image of God.
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"Let them have dominion..."
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Now dominion means power.
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So God gives us as human
beings power to do things,
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to go places, to create things.
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To do all kinds
of wonderful things.
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"Let them have dominion..."
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Dominion over what?
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Well let's listen to it.
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It says dominion
over the birds of the air.
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God meant for there to
be a special relationship
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between us and the creation.
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"...over the birds of
the air, and over the cattle,
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over all the earth,
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and over all the creeping
things that creep on the earth."
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Do you think that
dominion was ever meant to be a
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selfish dominion, to be a hard
dominion, to take advantage?
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No. It was meant
to be a kind dominion.
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It was to be an
unselfish dominion.
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A dominion that
brought happiness and joy
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to those under the
leadership of human beings.
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But sin has
disrupted all of that.
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It's brought misery
to the animal kingdom.
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The apostle Paul says in another
place that the whole creation
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groans waiting
for its redemption.
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And that includes the animals.
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I think about what
the animals go through,
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and all the
difficulty everywhere.
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And everything today, the
whole system has been changed
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because of sin.
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Everything has to die in
order to make room for the
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next part that's coming along.
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But some day when Jesus comes
that's all going to change.
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It's all going to change.
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So God created
man in His own image.
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God is our
Father, He wants a family,
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and He created us for His own
enjoyment and for our pleasure.
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He wants us to be happy.
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And it says that God
formed it. He created it.
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Well the claims of
the book of Revelation
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are very much the same.
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The claims of the
book of Revelation says,
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and we've talked about
this earlier just a little bit,
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Revelation 4:8 is a song
we don't have the music to,
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but we have the
words, "Holy, holy, holy
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Lord God Almighty, who
was and is and is to come!"
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And verse 11, "You are
worthy, O Lord, To receive glory
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and honor and power."
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And here's the reason.
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"For You have
created all things,
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and by Your will they
exist and were created."
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There's three discoveries
of modern science, I believe,
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and many other people
are saying the same thing,
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that prove the existence of God.
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So let's start talking
about those three things.
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First of all, there was a
beginning to the universe.
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Now the reason I'm
telling you this is because
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there used to be
that people would say,
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the evolutionists would
say, "Oh no, the universe has
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been here forever.
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The material things,
you know, matter and energy
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can be
interchanged, so it's eternal.
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It's been here since eternity.
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It will be here for eternity."
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But then there came a discovery.
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A discover by a man
by the name of Hubble.
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Have you ever heard
of the Hubble telescope?
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Well it's brought marvelous
pictures of the universe.
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And it was named after this man.
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He was an astronomer.
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And he discovered something
as he observed the universe.
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He observed that the
universe was actually expanding.
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That's right.
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It wasn't still.
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It wasn't just static.
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It was expanding.
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Now that means,
if it is expanding
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then you could also go backwards
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and figure out
that it had a beginning.
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This was an astounding
discovery by Mr. Hubble.
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But it fit right in,
of course, with Genesis.
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Genesis, "In the
beginning God created
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the heavens and the earth."
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Everybody knows the
universe had a beginning.
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