We live in a world
that professes to be wise,
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but is it possible
that our scientific culture
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has become fools
because they refuse to allow
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a Divine foot in the door?
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Worship is the
big-time end-time issue.
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And of course, it
was the very first issue
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in the Garden of Eden.
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But it's surprising
in the book of Revelation
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how many times the
word, "worship," is mentioned.
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Not just mentioned, but
it's the centerpiece of this
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great controversy
between Christ and Satan.
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And those three angels' messages
in Revelation chapter 14,
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that first angel says something
that's very commanding.
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In verse 7 it says,
"...and worship Him..."
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And then it says,
"...and worship Him who made
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heaven and earth, and the
sea, and the springs of water."
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"...and worship
Him..." So it's like a command.
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I want to talk a little bit
more today about our culture
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that seems to have
robbed so many people
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of a relationship
with their heavenly Father
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who created them.
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The last time we
talked about evolution,
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I kind of ran out of time.
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So I want to bring a
few other points in here
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showing that once
again we're living in a world
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that has really
plenty of evidence that God
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is the Divine Creator.
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One of the things that is
very fascinating is, you know,
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the evolutionists
believe they have to have time.
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If you give them enough time,
they can make anything happen.
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Well, one of the things that
they've said is that dinosaurs
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are like 70 some
million years old.
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70 some million years old?
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Well there's plenty of evidence
that the world is a young earth,
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in one sense of the word.
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Maybe about 6000 years
old. Something like that.
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But coming back to these
70 million year old dinosaurs.
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By the way, there's
a circular reasoning
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that goes on with these folks.
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They say, "Well, how do
you know that the dinosaurs
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are 70 something
millions years old?"
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"Well, because we know the rocks
are 70 something millions year."
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"Oh, okay.
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Well, how do you
know that the rocks are
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70 something
millions years old?"
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"Well, because we know the
dinosaurs are 70 million..."
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Okay, okay.
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That is what we
call, circular reasoning.
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It doesn't prove anything.
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But they have just been for
a shock in the last few years.
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A lady in North
Carolina State University
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actually discovered that
these bones that they've been
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digging up of dinosaurs
actually has soft tissue in it.
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Well that is impossible
over 70 something million years.
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It was amazing how
people reacted to this.
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One person wrote her, one
scientist wrote her and said,
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"I don't believe it.
That data is not correct."
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Of course, it's
been substantiated
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by many others today.
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They're finding soft
tissue in dinosaur bones
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all over the place.
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But this individual said, "I'm
just not going to believe this."
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She writes back and
she says, "Well tell me,
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what data would you believe
that would convince you?"
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And he writes back
and says, "Nothing."
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In other words, he's
not willing to acknowledge
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that the
evolutionary model is really
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terribly, terribly flawed.
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Well it even gets worse.
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They found these, they
say 500 million year old,
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worm fossils in the ocean.
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And they found
soft tissue in that.
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Some of them are so
foolish as to come up and say,
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"Well, it must be able to
last for 70 some million years."
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Well, you know, we're not...
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The average man
can add and subtract.
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We can still read.
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You don't have to be
a scientist to get this.
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That's just absolutely
foolish and impossible.
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No, the earth is a young earth.
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John Sanford, who is part of
the invention of the gene gun,
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I think he was a
co-inventor of it,
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and he understands genetics and
all of those kinds of things,
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at Cornell University,
and he discovered something.
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He was an
evolutionist, by the way.
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He's become a Christian.
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And he's written a book about
all of this, Genetic Entropy.
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Which means this, simply this:
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That your genes, our
genes, are not getting better.
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In fact, the mutations are
always, just about always, bad.
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And so he's saying
that every generation
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is losing genetic
information in a negative way.
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Maybe one to two percent,
somewhere in that neighborhood.
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And it's bad news.
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It means the whole
human race is going down.
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It's not getting
better. It's getting worse.
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Just what we should expect
with the whole story of Genesis.
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Because God created it,
and then sin has come in.
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And sin has really
messed up the whole human race.
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So John Sanford says
the time is going to come
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when the whole human
race is going to collapse.
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It cannot hold off
disease any longer,
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it cannot hold off
the genetic defects.
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He says it kind of
goes down like this,
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and then it levels
out, and then it crashes.
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So the whole human race
is destined for destruction
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But I believe,
John Sanford believes,
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that Jesus will come, and
Jesus will rescue the human race
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before it collapses
from its own descending,
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deteriorating genetics.
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Now there's another thing
that some people have raised,
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and I think it's
really a good one.
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You remember that thing
about time, how evolutionists
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have to have all this time?
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"Just give us enough time."
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Well, they say that the
universe is like, I don't know,
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15 million years
old, billion years old.
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The earth is five
billion years, or four.
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Something like
that. These big numbers.
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But using their math.
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Maybe it's twelve; I've got
it here a little bit better.
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They say the universe
is like 12.7 billion years,
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and the earth is about 4.5.
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Irregardless, they say, "Then we
have, this gives us enough time
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for all this evolutionary
stuff to take place."
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But it's interesting to note,
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and I want to
share this with you,
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think about this,
think about that big universe
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and all the suns and worlds.
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It's a huge universe.
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Our minds can't even
comprehend how big it is.
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But think about this.
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The scientists have
calculated that the atoms,
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the number of atoms in the
universe is somewhere around
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10 to the 70th, or
10 to the 80th power.
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In other words, it's a billion,
trillion, billions of trillions.
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It's a number so big that
you just can't comprehend it.
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Well somebody did a little
calculation about how much
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time, using probability,
it would take just to get
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a few proteins put into place.
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And listen, there's not
enough time in the universe.
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There's not enough time for them
to get all of this stuff done.
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So evolution really has
got a lot of major problems.
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The tragedy of evolution
is that it has robbed so many
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young people, and adults,
of their relationship with God.
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So there's this attitude
here of no open mindedness.
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I mentioned in my
opening here this fact that
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they just don't want to
let God's foot in the door.
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In fact, one person said
that, one scientist said that.
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He's a Marxist on top of that.
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But he also says, well
known geneticist, he says,
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"Materialism is absolute.
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We just cannot allow a
Divine foot in the door."
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So professing to become
wise, as the Scripture says,
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they have become fools.
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Worship is a
big-time end-time issue.
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What is worship?
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Worship is something
where we give glory and honor
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to someone who
is greater than us.
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Someone who is good
and worthy to be worshiped.
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And worthy of our
respect and our reverence.
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And this wonderful God
who created the universe,
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who created us
because He's a God of love
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and He wants to share.
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Love is like that.
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Love just can't
just stay to itself.
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Love wants to share.
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And so God wanted to
bring us into existence,
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make us His children,
fill our lives with happiness.
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And that brings
Him great joy as well.
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God is worthy to be worshiped.
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And according to the Scripture,
He's worthy of worship because
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He is the Creator.
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Revelation 4:11 says this.
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"You are worthy, O Lord..."
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There's that word, "worthy."
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"...worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honor and power;
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for You created all things,
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and by Your will they
exist and were created."
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You know, you can give
glory to God all day long,
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and He can receive the
glory of all of His creation,
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but it will not change Him.
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The problem with man is,
if you give them much glory,
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it changes them and
they get the big head.
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But God is always humble.
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He's always full of
self-sacrificing love.
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And so we can praise Him
and give Him glory and honor,
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but it never
will change who He is.
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Because He is the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
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Jesus is also
worthy of our worship.
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And the Bible says why
He is worthy of our worship.
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Revelation 5:12 says, "Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain
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to receive power
and riches and wisdom,
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and strength and honor
and glory and blessing!"
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Jesus gave Himself to us.
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He voluntarily came here.
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And the Father let Him come.
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The Father didn't force
Jesus to come here and save us.
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No, Jesus came of
His own free will.
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He came because He has
divine love, He is Divine.
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And He has that
same love for us.
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He has that same
care for the human race.
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So the Father, I
think with great reluctance,
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let Jesus come.
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And Jesus volunteered to come.
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There's no one
forcing anyone here.
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But Jesus is worthy.
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Worthy because He took the huge
risk of coming here to save us.
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And it was a risk.
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Jesus and the
Father deserve our worship.
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But there is someone
who also wants our worship.
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Someone who doesn't
deserve that worship.
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Someone who's not worthy.
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Someone who wants
to insert themselves
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and get that
worship, and take that worship
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that belongs to God
legitimately, to take it away
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and give it to himself.
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That person is
none other than Lucifer.
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We find in the book of
Revelation in chapter 13,
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and we're going to talk about
that in our next session more,
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the Bible says the
world becomes perverted.
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The world becomes
confused, as it were.
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And the Bible says, "And
they worshiped the best..."
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The beast from the sea?
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And they worshiped
the image to the beast.
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The beast from the earth.
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Why do they
transfer their worship?
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Why do they give
worship to something that
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doesn't deserve worship?
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Something that's backed
up by the great red dragon.
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It was Jesus who
made it clear that worship
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and serve go together.
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You know, in the
book of Romans it says,
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"For since the creation of
the world," Romans 1:20-25,
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"For since the creation of the
world His," God's, "invisible
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attributes are clearly seen,
being understood by the things
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that He had made, even
His eternal power and Godhead,
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so that they are
without excuse..."
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The apostle Paul is saying, "You
really don't have any excuse
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not to believe God."
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Because the entire
creation, your own creation,
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the complexity of
it, the beauty of it,
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the design of it,
all of that tells us
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that God is the one who created
the heavens and the earth.
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