Participants: Pr. Dwight K. Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP102106
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00:27 Dear Father, here we are in Your house.
00:32 We thank You and we praise You for Your mercy, 00:36 for Your patience and for Your faithfulness, 00:39 for Your call because You brought us here today, 00:44 Lord we thank You for these things in Jesus name, 00:48 because it is in Him alone that we are even able 00:51 to speak Your name, 00:52 let alone come into Your presence. 00:56 So it is in His name that we praise You 00:58 this morning please accept our gifts, amen. 01:16 In Christ Alone my hope is found 01:23 He is my light, My strength, my song. 01:28 This Cornerstone, This solid ground 01:34 Firm through the fiercest Drought and storm 01:39 What heights of love, What depths of peace 01:45 When fears are stilled When strivings cease 01:50 My Comforter, my all in all 01:56 Here in the love of Christ I stand 02:04 In Christ alone Who took on flesh 02:10 Fullness of God In helpless babe 02:15 This gift of love And righteousness 02:20 Scorned by the ones He came to save 02:25 'Till on that cross As Jesus died 02:31 The wrath of God was satisfied 02:36 For every sin on Him was laid 02:42 Here In the death of Christ I live 02:48 There in the ground His body lay 02:52 Light of the world By darkness slain 02:57 Then bursting forth In glorious day 03:03 Up from the grave He rose again 03:08 And as He stands in victory 03:14 Sin's curse Has lost it's grip on me 03:19 For I am His and He is mine 03:25 Bought with the Precious blood of Christ 03:52 No guilt in life No fear in death 03:58 This is The power of Christ in me 04:03 From life's first cry To final breath 04:09 Jesus commands my destiny 04:14 No power of hell No scheme of man 04:19 Can ever pluck me from His hand 04:25 'Till He returns Or calls me home 04:31 Here in the power of Christ I'll stand. 05:03 This is my desire you 05:08 To honor you Lord 05:15 With all my heart I worship you 05:26 All I have within me, 05:32 I give You praise 05:38 All that I adore is in you 05:50 Lord, I give you my heart I give you my soul 05:57 I live for you alone 06:01 Every breath that I take Every moment I'm awake 06:08 Lord have Your way in me 06:17 This is my desire you 06:22 To honor you 06:28 Lord, with all my heart I worship you 06:39 All I have within me 06:44 I give You praise 06:50 All that I adore is in you 07:01 Lord I give you my heart 07:04 I give you my soul 07:08 I live for you alone 07:12 Every breath that I take Every moment I'm awake 07:19 Lord have Your way in me 07:34 In the morning 07:39 When I rise 07:42 In the morning when I rise 07:50 In the morning 07:54 When I rise 07:57 Give me Jesus 08:05 Give me Jesus 08:11 Give me Jesus 08:17 You can have all this world 08:25 But give me Jesus 08:33 Isn't that our pray in this morning? 08:36 You can have all this world, 08:38 take it all, just me give Jesus. 08:42 I invite those of you to join us at front for prayer 08:45 as we sing that stanza again 08:47 "In the morning when I rise give me Jesus" 08:50 that's your pray and join us at the front. 08:54 Just slip out of your seats and come on down 08:56 and sing with us, "In the morning as I rise." 09:01 In the morning when I rise 09:08 In the morning when I rise 09:14 In the morning when I rise 09:21 Give me Jesus 09:28 Give me Jesus 09:35 Give me Jesus 09:42 You can have all this world 09:49 But give me Jesus 10:05 Let us kneel as we pray. 10:22 Our Heavenly Father, 10:26 Our merciful and all loving God, 10:30 we have come to praise You and to worship You. 10:34 We would see Jesus, give us Jesus. 10:40 As we turn our eyes upon Him, 10:43 and again look full into His wonderful face, 10:47 may the things of earth grow strangely dim, 10:51 in the light of His glory and grace. 10:56 So we wait before you now with reverent 10:58 and submissive hearts, 11:02 so that as we listen to Your Word, 11:04 beautifully and meaningfully spoken and sung, 11:09 we might be lifted above our dark valleys of pain, 11:13 into the comfort and peace of Your presence. 11:19 We uplift to You just now those who've asked to be 11:23 remembered in prayer today, 11:26 along with all in our worshiping 11:28 and listening audience, 11:30 who bring to You special thanks and praises. 11:34 And all who carry special burdens, 11:37 concerns and hurts even though they may be unspoken. 11:43 As we pause this movement, hear these many solemn prayer, 11:49 we pray. 11:56 Bless us, Lord, those who ministered to us 11:59 in music and spoken word 12:02 and thank You, Father for hearing our prayer, 12:05 in Jesus name, amen. 12:15 If I take the wings Of the morning 12:21 And dwell in the Uttermost parts of the sea 12:26 Even there Shall thy hand lead me 12:31 And they right hand Shall hold me 12:36 If I take the wings Of the morning 12:41 And dwell in the Uttermost parts of the sea 12:47 Even there shall Thy hand lead me 12:51 And hold me 12:56 If I climb up into heaven Thou art there 13:06 If I make my bed in hell Behold, thou art there 13:16 O Lord, thou hast Searched me and known me 13:22 O Lord, thou hast Searched me and known me 13:27 Hast searched me and known me 13:35 Thou knoest my down-sitting And my uprising 13:44 Thou understandest My thought afar off 13:55 Thou compassest my path 14:00 and my lying down 14:03 And my lying down 14:06 And art acquainted With all my ways 14:17 For there is 14:20 Not a word in my tongue 14:26 But lo, O Lord 14:29 Thou knowest 14:30 It altogether 14:39 Whither shall I go from thy spirit 14:47 Or whither shall I flee from thy presence 15:04 Lord, thou art there 15:08 Thou art there 15:14 If I take the wings Of the morning 15:19 And dwell in the uttermost Parts of the sea 15:25 Even there shall Thy hand lead me 15:30 And thy right hand Shall hold me 15:35 If I say, surely the darkness Shall cover me 15:45 Even the night shall be Light about me 15:54 Yea, the darkness Is no darkness with thee 16:04 But the night shineth As the day 16:12 Shineth as the day 16:17 Shineth as the day 16:24 If I take the wings Of the morning 16:29 If I take the wings Of the morning 16:34 If I take the wings Of the morning 16:39 Thou art there 16:42 O Lord, thou art there. 16:45 O Lord, thou art there. 16:48 O Lord, thou art there. 16:51 O Lord, thou art there. 16:57 O Lord, thou art there. 17:00 O Lord 17:04 Thou art there. 17:11 O Lord, thou art there. 17:43 Let's pray together. 17:45 Oh, Father what beautiful, beautiful prayer. 17:48 We, we, we prayed it with the choir 17:49 as they sang Psalm 139... 17:55 if we fly with wings in the morning you are there... 18:00 in the depths of the darkest night Your were there. 18:04 You're not only Creator of the universe, 18:06 You are the sustainer, 18:07 Your finger prints are everywhere. 18:10 And that means Father, truly you are here. 18:15 All we need You to teach us today. 18:17 Let this teaching be clear, hide, 18:21 hide all the clamor that would distract us, 18:24 and may it be the voice of the holy scripture 18:28 that not only engages our minds 18:30 but we need you to empower 18:32 our hearts for the glory of Christ. 18:35 We pray in His name, amen. 18:41 I would like you to meet a friend of mine 18:44 his last name is Elton. 18:46 Give a warm welcome to Mr. S. K. Elton, 18:50 who I would like come out 18:53 and join me here on the platform, 18:57 S. K. Elton, skeleton, yeah. 19:02 Thank you Norm Paulo, one of our deacons. 19:05 This one of the deacons, who came late to first service. 19:10 Actually, actually this is from the biology department 19:12 thank you Dr. David Steen for loaning 19:14 this, this belongs to them. 19:17 I understand this is a biology major 19:20 who never graduated and so go into to good use. 19:24 Actually he's standing here today, 19:25 this skeleton because he represents 19:28 the system of 206 parts. 19:33 That's an average human skeleton, 206 parts. 19:37 How many different ways can a 206 part system 19:40 be put together, that' the question? 19:42 How many different ways? 19:43 Well if there were only one bone 19:45 and I happened to have in my pocket a clavicle 19:47 that would be what's up here will be 19:49 known as your collar bone. 19:51 I have clavicle here, 19:52 if there is just one bone in the system, 19:54 this can only put together one way is that right? 19:57 One, one times one equals to one. 20:00 If you have two bones, if I took both clavicles, 20:02 one times two equals two. 20:07 So there are deferent ways you can assemble it. 20:08 If there were three bones, one times, 20:10 two times, three equals, six yeah. 20:14 If there were four bones one times, two times, 20:16 three times, four equals 24 and so on, and so on. 20:19 So here's what mathematicians tell us, 20:21 you need to find-- if you want find out 20:23 how many deferent ways there are 20:25 to put a 206 part system together, 20:29 you just have to go one times, 20:30 two times, three times four times 20:31 all the way up to 206 and the number 20:33 is called 206 factorial, it's written 206 20:37 and a big exclamation mark after the six. 20:40 Now the number is gigantic. 20:43 The number is actually 10 to the 388th power. 20:47 That means you write the number one, 20:50 and then you write 388 thousand, 20:54 388 rather zeros after the one. 20:56 In fact let, let, let's just try it on the screen. 20:59 Here is what 388 zeros look like, 21:01 count real quick, quick, quick, quick, 21:03 quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. 21:04 We'll put them all the same screen. 21:05 All right here they are, 21:07 that is the number 10 to the 388th. 21:12 I read an essay the other day, got a book in Australia. 21:16 Essay written by a scientist Jerry Bergman, 21:19 he teaches at Northwestern Community College 21:20 in Archbold, Ohio. 21:22 His second PHD is in human biology. 21:27 He notes in his essay that the achievement 21:29 of only the correct general position, 21:31 not that is it, is it right side up or up side down, 21:34 don't worry about all that, don't worry about tendons, 21:36 don't worry about should it be 21:37 twisted little to right, to left. 21:38 Just get it, get these in order. 21:41 The achievement for only the correct general position 21:43 required for all 206 parts will occur only once 21:46 out that 10 to the 388 random attempts. 21:51 Let me put me the number back upon the screen. 21:52 If you had that many tries, 21:55 it's all right put it on the screen please 21:56 If you had that many tries, 21:59 it would take you, that many to get one, 22:02 just one for all of these are in the right position. 22:07 Not right angle, but just in the right position. 22:10 Now, how long would it take for us to do that? 22:15 Dr. Bergman goes on and he says 22:16 okay let's take all the time that scientists 22:21 will grant to the universe, astronomic time, 22:23 they're guessing that the universe is between 22:24 10 billion to 20 billion years old. 22:27 How many seconds is that, that would be 22:29 10 to the 18th number of seconds. 22:31 All right so that's the one with 18 zeros after it, 22:34 that's how many seconds in history, 22:36 in all of the universe. 22:38 If you could do this, if every second 22:42 you could take all 206 and do-- 22:46 rearranging every second-- 22:48 oh, I don't like that one-- 22:49 If you could do every single second 22:53 for the history of the universe, okay, 22:58 Dr. Bergman notes that the chance 23:01 of the correct general position 23:02 being obtained by random is less than 23:04 once in 10 billion years, less than once. 23:10 You say hey, well, Dwight, that's it. 23:11 That's all I wanted to know, can you get a skeleton 23:14 in 10 billion years, in the history of the universe, 23:16 can you get a skeleton? 23:17 Oh my friend don't get excited too quickly 23:20 because I remind you, that in order 23:22 to get skeleton you first have to have the bones. 23:25 You have to have all 206 perfectly formed, 23:28 ready to go and you have to start 23:30 at the beginning of the time, 23:31 you have to start 10 to 20 billion years ago. 23:37 Is it possible? 23:38 Here's Dr. Bergman's conclusion, 23:42 for all practical purposes, a zero possibility exists 23:46 that the correct general position, 23:48 only the position of only 206 parts could be 23:52 obtained simultaneously by chance, zero possibility. 23:55 Because guess what guys, there are more than 206 bones. 23:59 Let's take the cerebral cortex, right back here, 24:01 all right, the human brain 10 billion cells 24:04 in just cerebral cortex. 24:07 Each one, humanly speaking, infinitely complex. 24:10 And not just the cerebral cortex, 24:12 listen to this, there are 75 trillion cells 24:16 in a human being's body. 24:18 Seventy five trillion, so got to have 206, 24:21 and then got to, you got to get all 10 billion 24:24 of the cerebral cortex, and then you have 24:26 to put all 75 trillion cells 24:30 in the perfectly correct position. 24:32 Ladies and Gentlemen, 24:33 if it statically impossible for 206 24:37 can you imagine that it is zero, nada, 24:42 not possible, to put the human body together, 24:45 in the history of the universe randomly. 24:52 You say hey, preacher, big deal 24:54 so what's it has to do with the rumors from the east? 24:56 Ah you watch, you just watch here, 24:59 I want invite you to use some of your 10 billion 25:02 cerebral cortex cells and open your Bible 25:04 please to the Bible's last book, 25:06 watch this, this is incredible. 25:09 Bible's last book let's go 25:11 to the Book of Revelation, please. 25:14 Let's take a look, our teaching series 25:16 is called "Rumors from the East," 25:17 those of you who are joining us today for the first time, 25:20 we are delighted to have you by the way. 25:22 You'll be able to pick this right up 25:23 as if there hadn't been a sermon teaching 25:26 before this, this presentation. 25:28 Revelation chapter seven, if you didn't bring your Bible 25:30 please take the pew Bible, 25:32 it's right in front of you pull it out, 25:33 that's for you to use. 25:34 And it would be page, it would be page 826, 25:39 and by the way, before I forget, 25:41 before forget, I want you to jot 25:43 this numbers down real quick. 25:44 Get the numbers, while these are 25:45 still hot in our in minds. 25:46 Pull your pen out and take the study guide 25:48 that's in today's worship bulletin. 25:49 You have study guide waiting for you, 25:51 I want to make sure today everybody gets it. 25:53 In fact if you'd like to have 25:54 an extra one for a friend of yours 25:55 who's not here, hold your hand up 25:57 our ushers are going to put them 25:58 in your hands right now, all the way to the balcony, 26:00 I want to make sure choir, you have your study guide here? 26:03 Do you? Okay. 26:04 Now while the ushers are passing them 26:05 out I want say to those of you watching on television, 26:07 you can go our website. 26:08 In fact let me put it on the screen right now. 26:11 There it is www.pmchurch.tv. 26:13 Go to that website please, click on the teaching series, 26:17 its called "Rumors from the East," 26:18 this happens to be part 6 26:20 we're heading towards end of it. 26:21 This is part 6 and this one entitled 26:23 the "East Gate." 26:25 That'll become clear in just a movement. 26:27 Click on the "East Gate," where it says study guide, 26:29 boom you click there you will have 26:30 the same study guide that we have. 26:33 You can print it out or just leave it there 26:34 on the computer and follow this fascinating teaching. 26:38 All right everybody has it. 26:39 Let's get this numbers 26:40 while they are fresh in our minds, 26:41 jot them down please. 26:43 A random assembly of a 206 part system, 26:45 that will be the human skeleton. 26:47 Okay one times, two times, three times, 26:49 four times five all the way up to times 26:50 six equals ten to the 388th. 26:53 You know, you write in exponent, 26:55 come on you mathematicians. 26:56 You write it small you lifted up 26:58 little bit, all right. 26:59 10 to the 388, that means one with 388 zeroes after it, 27:04 that's, that's how many tries you would have 27:07 to make in order get one time, get this right, all right. 27:13 Keep writing here, rearranging these 27:14 206 parts once every second for all of astronomic time, 27:17 which would be between 10 to 20 billion years, 27:19 or 10 to the 18th seconds, just get that down 27:22 that's how many seconds in the history of the universe, 27:24 is a one out of 10, put this real small 27:28 388-18 minus one for every second 27:32 it it's a one our of 10 to the 370th possibility. 27:37 Now you scientists know all the stuff 27:39 and you majors in math specialists. 27:42 Now I want you to get this, this quotation 27:43 leading Dr. Jerry Bergman 27:46 form Northwest State College in Ohio. 27:48 Fill it in please "For all practical purposes, 27:50 a zero possibility exists 27:53 that the correct general position 27:55 of only 206 parts 27:56 could be obtained simultaneously by chance 27:58 and the average human has about 75 trillion cells! 28:03 Now here comes an extra sentence, 28:04 this illustration indicates that the argument 28:07 commonly used by evolutionists, 28:09 here's what the evolutionist scientists say, 28:11 given enough time, all right, given enough time, 28:14 anything can happen. 28:17 Dr. Bergman says, guess what? 28:19 given enough time anything cannot happen. 28:22 It essentially, it essentially takes this argument 28:26 and leaves it right wanting, it's bankrupt, 28:29 it's just as human, 28:30 it's statistically impossible to do. 28:34 That's all have to do 28:35 with the "Rumors from the East?" 28:37 All right, you have Revelation 7, 28:38 let's go, let's fly. 28:40 Revelation 7, let's pick it up with verse one 28:42 we will were last week 28:43 let's read the same verse again. 28:45 Revelation 7:1 "After these things 28:48 I saw four angels standing 28:49 at the four corners of the earth, 28:51 holding the four winds of the earth, 28:52 that the wind should not blow on the earth, 28:54 on the sea, or on any tree." 28:56 And then verse 2 28:57 "Then I saw another angel ascending from the east," 28:59 key word in this series we're looking 29:00 at the reference to the East and only three of them, 29:03 "having the seal of the living God. 29:07 And the fifth angel cried with a loud voice" 29:09 like a mega phone, "to the four angels to whom 29:12 it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 29:14 and he said" verse 3 "Do not harm the earth, 29:16 the sea, or the trees till we have sealed 29:19 the servants of out God on their foreheads." 29:22 John is curious now "and I heard" 29:24 he saying "the number of those who were sealed. 29:27 One hundred and forty-four thousand 29:29 of all the tribes of the children of Israel 29:31 were sealed." 29:33 Now let's pretend just for a moment, 29:34 ladies and gentlemen 29:35 that we have read these words before. 29:39 Even a cursory reading, 29:41 if this was the first time we heard them, 29:43 a cursory reading yield these four points, 29:45 jot them down please. 29:46 Point number 1, just a surface reading. 29:48 Number one, whatever is happening here transpires 29:51 just before the return of Christ, 29:55 write in the word return, happens just before the return. 29:59 In fact, just look at the last line of the chapter 30:02 just before these words, chapter 6:17 30:05 "For the great day of His wrath has come, 30:07 and who is able to stand?" 30:09 Second coming, boom, just before that transpires 30:12 this event in chapter 7 takes place, all right. 30:15 Number two, jot this down these 144,000, who are they? 30:19 They are, it's symbolic, it's symbolic number. 30:21 They are a symbol of God's friends, 30:24 write it in, at the end of time and the answer to the question 30:27 in chapter 6:17 30:29 "Who will stand up for God in the end?" 30:31 the question is who's going to be around? 30:34 These. 30:35 All right, number three, jot this down, 30:37 the symbolic seal in their forehead, 30:40 is the Father's name, Revelation 14:1 30:42 and it is a symbol of His ownership, 30:45 write those two words in. 30:47 Revelation 14:1, in fact let's, 30:49 let's just take a look at that for a movement. 30:51 "Then I looked, and behold, a lamb standing on Mount Zion, 30:53 an with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, 30:55 having His Father's name written where? 30:58 Written where? "On their foreheads." 30:59 So the seal and the name inter changeable, okay? 31:03 When you put your name on something, 31:05 refresh my memory, 31:06 what does it mean when you put your name on something? 31:09 When you put your name on book what's it mean? 31:10 It's mine, it belongs to me. 31:12 When you put your name on car, 31:15 deed or title, what's that mean? 31:16 Boom this book belongs, 31:18 this, this car belongs rather belongs to me. 31:19 When you put your name on a mortgage application 31:22 what is that mean? 31:23 Boom this house belongs to the bank. 31:24 That's what it means, doesn't belongs to you. 31:28 You think your house belongs to you? 31:29 You're crazy. You'll never own that house. 31:32 It belongs to the bank, 31:33 they bought it, the just trust you. 31:36 When you sign, how many weddings have I conducted, 31:39 when you sign your marriage certificate, 31:42 I've watched those marriage signatures, 31:43 then I've to mine. 31:44 When you sign your marriage certificate, 31:47 that spouse is saying I belong to you, honey, 31:49 I know I belong to you. 31:51 You belong to each other. 31:53 Once you put your name on means it belongs to me. 31:57 144,000 are a generation of radical, 31:59 loyal friends of God, who have chosen 32:01 to belong exclusively to Him. 32:03 All right, cursory reading you can figure these four out. 32:06 Here comes the final one, number four. 32:08 Jot it down please. 32:09 God has ownership because God is Creator, 32:14 that's Revelation 4:11, Jerry read it a moment ago 32:16 as our scripture reading, let's put Revelation 4:11 32:19 on the screen, "You are worthy, O Lord, 32:21 to receive glory and honor and power, 32:23 for You created all things, 32:26 and by Your will they exist and were created." 32:30 Ah, the whole universe belongs to God. 32:33 Look, look if you are created by God, 32:36 you belong to Him. 32:38 Which ladies and gentlemen, that's the rub, 32:42 that's the rub right there. 32:44 Some people say no way, Jose, I am not belonging to any God, 32:50 I am, I am all I need that's all and that's a rub. 32:54 Here is a geneticist his name is Richard Lewontin, 32:58 he is an atheist he made the statement about 33:00 evolutionary science materialism 33:02 that would be on God. 33:03 "materialism" is an absolute for we cannot 33:07 allow a divine foot in the door. 33:10 We just can have it, therefore no. 33:15 You know, it's really sad, I'll tell you why it's sad, 33:18 because the human race many, do not know what a friend 33:25 to the human race the Creator really is. 33:29 He's the best friend we got. 33:33 All right, here they are, four realities 33:35 we can know just from one time reading through, 33:36 we know these four. 33:37 Question but does the text more clearly identify 33:42 who these loyal friend of God are 33:45 and how can we identify them, 33:46 just before the return of Christ, 33:47 how are they identified? 33:48 Answer, there are 7 evidences. 33:50 I'm going to share now 7 evidences with you 33:53 and when the 7 are done I'm sitting down. 33:55 Drop jot this down please. 33:56 7 evidences, evidence number one. 33:59 Here's how we can know of whom these verse speaks. 34:01 Evidence number one, they, these people are sealed 34:04 with the seal of the living God, 34:07 write in the word living. 34:09 In fact let's just put Revelation 7:2 34:12 back on the screen. 34:13 "Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, 34:15 having the seal of the living God" 34:18 so I go to the Bible works, laptop, 34:20 computer or a program, okay. 34:23 Do magic it's incredible, and type in the word living God 34:25 find them all for me, boom, boom, boom, 34:27 30 times in all the Bible. 34:30 That little couplet "living God" appears, 34:32 I give you, in your study guide you see 34:35 Jeremiah 10:10-13 and Acts 14:15, 34:38 just two of them. 34:39 But what are these two tell us 34:41 fill your study guide and please, 34:42 "The living God is synonymous with the Creating God." 34:46 Synonymous, watch this, let's put Acts 14:15, 34:50 Paul and his buddy Barnabas are in Lystra 34:53 and these people, because they just hear 34:54 the laying man, the people are convinces 34:56 these are two gods, two gods have 34:59 come to earth and they start offering sacrifices 35:01 and Paul say hold it, hold it, 35:03 you realize what is going on here. 35:04 And so he cries out these words Acts 14:15 35:07 "And saying, Men, why are you doing these things? 35:10 We also are men with the same nature as you, 35:12 and we preach to you that you should turn 35:14 from theses useless idols to the living God, 35:18 who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, 35:21 and all things that are in them." 35:24 There it is you see, when you living God, 35:26 that means creating God. 35:27 The seal of God that goes 35:29 in the forehead of His loyal friends 35:30 is the seal of the Creator, Creator, all right. 35:34 Evidence number two, jot this down please, 35:36 evidence number two. 35:37 By the way before I evidence number two, 35:40 can I just hit the pause button for a second, 35:41 just, just, just one moment. 35:44 I've been reading John Aston's compilation of essays 35:48 entitled "In 6 six why 50 scientists 35:51 choose to believe in creation." 35:52 Got the book in Australia. 35:55 One thing that occurred to me, as I've read these essays 36:01 and that is, both theories of origin, 36:04 naturalism, which means no, no, supernatural no deity, 36:09 naturalism no God. 36:10 And supernaturalism says oh, yes, God, 36:12 God Creator. 36:14 Both theories of origin are philosophically, 36:17 key word, philosophically dependent upon a God 36:21 for the theory of their origins. 36:24 Listen to this, here's Jeremiah Walter 36:26 who teaches engineering 36:27 at the University of Pennsylvania. 36:28 He's observed "naturalistic evolution 36:32 is forced to marry the Gods of mother earth 36:35 and father Time in order to come up 36:38 with their hypothesis." 36:41 Here's the thinking given enough time, 36:44 the forces of nature, we don't know 36:46 how they do it but with enough time 36:48 the forces of nature are able to could create life. 36:52 So the time and nature become de facto God 36:56 who inexplicably are able to do what we cannot show. 37:00 We don't know how, they just do it. 37:03 Leading Stephen Jay Gould, 37:04 the late Stephen Jay Gould, Howard, 37:07 brilliant evolutionary scientist, 37:10 leading Gould to exclaim that humans, 37:11 listen to this, humans are 37:13 a glorious evolutionary accident 37:16 that required 60 trillion contingent events, 37:20 all right 60, trillion of them. 37:22 And even he went on, even 37:24 if evolutionary history earth repeated itself 37:26 a million times he doubted 37:28 were any thing like home sapiens 37:30 would ever develop again. 37:32 We are a glorious accident, 60 trillion factors, 37:37 variables all lined up, boom we got us. 37:41 And that's all-- 37:44 but if just noted with our skeleton here 37:47 there simply isn't enough time 37:48 and forces in nature put allow a 206 parts system 37:52 let alone a 75 trillion part system. 37:56 See, which is why whichever theory 38:00 you embrace, essentially becomes, 38:02 come on hear me out now, 38:03 essentially becomes a choice of God's. 38:07 You may choose Mother Nature, 38:08 father time or you may choose the living Creator, 38:11 God of the universe, but listen both theories 38:13 required an intervening force unknown 38:16 and unfalsifiable by men. 38:22 Scientists know what that means, unfalsifiable. 38:25 We can't prove it. 38:29 Evidence number two, jot this down please, 38:31 the angel that brings the sealing message 38:33 ascends out of the where? 38:35 East. Write that in please. 38:38 All right we're examining these three references to the east. 38:40 Remember, east is very significant 38:41 and by the way it's extremely significant 38:43 to what we've just read here. 38:44 You remember the principle 38:45 that we've been allowing to helps us 38:47 interpret Revelation, nearly every word 38:49 and phrase in Revelation is borrowed from where? 38:53 The Old Testament. 38:55 I'll tell you what, it's true again, right here, 38:56 and from the book of Ezekiel, once again, 38:58 from the book of Ezekiel, watch this. 39:00 Some of you've never seen these words before, 39:02 Ezekiel chapter 46 look at this. 39:05 Ezekiel 46 that would be in your pew Bible, page 592. 39:11 Ezekiel 46. 39:17 And just verse 1 and verse 3, 39:21 Ezekiel 46 look at this, "Thus says the Lord God, 39:28 'The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east'" 39:31 key word now, it's talking about the temple, 39:33 the new that they're going to build in Jerusalem. 39:35 "'The gateway of the inner court that faces 39:37 toward the east shall be shut the six working days, 39:42 but on the Sabbath, it shall be opened, 39:46 and on the day on the new moon is shall be opened.'" 39:48 Now drop down to verse 3, 39:49 "Likewise the people of the land shall worship 39:51 at the entrance to this gateway" 39:53 the one facing the east, "before the Lord, 39:55 on the Sabbaths and the new moons." 39:59 Would you write this down please, the east gate, 40:02 the east gate in Jerusalem's temple 40:05 was to be the Sabbath gate. 40:09 Please note that east is link to the Creator Sabbath, 40:12 not surprisingly so since the very word for the east 40:14 used in the Greek Old Testament, 40:15 the Septuagint, and in the New Testament 40:17 as well the Anatolia the word for east. 40:20 In fact, means the sun rising, means rising, 40:22 rising, rising, rising, rising, 40:23 so and did the scripture keep time, 40:26 the scripture keeps time by the what they called 40:28 the movement of the sun, sun set, 40:29 from sun set to sun set, from sun set to sun set, 40:31 sun set to sun set... you keep time. 40:32 Starts with the dark part of the day 40:34 and ends with the light part of the day. 40:35 From sun set to sun set, that's how the scripture 40:37 keeps the time. 40:38 So the Sabbath is marked, all time is marked by sun set. 40:41 So what Ezekiel's saying is there'll be six cycles, 40:44 six cycles of sun sets and then on the seventh cycle, 40:48 that gate is closed, on the seventh cycle, 40:50 the doors open, because it's the Sabbath now. 40:53 The gates that face east, 40:55 east and the Seventh-day Sabbath are bound together. 41:00 Interestingly enough, the gospel of Luke 41:03 does the same thing. 41:04 Watch this, this is the evidence number three, 41:05 jot this down, the gospel, that would be Luke, 41:07 that calls Jesus the "Sunrise, 41:09 " if you were here last week, 41:11 we saw that in Luke 1:78, the gospel that calls Jesus 41:15 the sunrise, that's the Greek word for east, 41:17 is the same gospel that calls Jesus 41:20 the Lord of the Sabbath in 6:5. 41:28 See the Greek word for the sunrise, east, in Christ, 41:33 in Christ, this is the key point, in Christ, 41:36 east and Sabbath are joined together. 41:38 Lord of the Sabbath, Lord of the east, 41:40 Lord of the sunrise, in Christ they're joined together. 41:43 Now what do we know just from this 41:45 three pieces of evidence? 41:46 We know that the angel that arises out of the east 41:48 with the seal of the living God for His loyal friends brings 41:51 this seal of the Creator. 41:53 All right the seal of the Creator, 41:54 bring it from the east, which should 41:55 a sign of the Sabbath, and bring it through Him 41:57 who's the divine Lord of the Sabbath, 42:00 Jesus is the front and center all the way through it. 42:02 Front and center. 42:03 In fact, do know what John, the one who wrote 42:06 Revelation, makes the identical point. 42:08 Watch this evidence number four, jot it down, 42:10 John in Revelation links Jesus as Lord of salvation 42:15 1:5 and 6, to Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath 1:10. 42:22 This is fascinating watch, 42:23 let's put 1:5 and 6 on the screen. 42:27 John is giving a, a doxology to the trinity and he comes 42:31 to Jesus and he says, "And from Jesus Christ, 42:33 the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, 42:35 and the ruler over the kings of the earth. 42:37 To Him Jesus who loved us and washed us from our sins 42:40 in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests 42:43 to His God and Father, to Him, to Jesus, 42:46 be glory and dominion forever and ever. 42:48 Amen." 42:49 There is question in John that Jesus 42:51 is the Lord of salvation. 42:53 Now just lines later, verse 10 of the chapter one 42:57 John talks about Sabbath, watch this, 42:59 so put Revelation 1:10 43:01 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, 43:04 and I heard behind me a loud voice, 43:06 as of a trumpet..." and-- 43:08 there is a materialization of Christ Himself, 43:11 Christ actually comes down to John. 43:14 Would you jot this down please, 43:15 the intent of John in the Apocalypse is to accentuate 43:20 the divinity, the divinity of Jesus. 43:23 Keep writing, in an empire that worships the Caesar, 43:26 John will show all of heaven worshiping the Christ, 43:30 fill that in. 43:32 And that's why John, does not call the day of worship 43:36 what he call it all the way through his gospel, 43:37 written nearly in the same time, 43:38 just few years earlier. 43:39 John won't call it Sabbath, his friends Mathew, 43:42 Mark and Luke all call the Sabbath, john won't. 43:44 Only one time in all the New Testament does, 43:47 do these words, does this name for Sabbath appear 43:51 and John calls it the Lord's day. 43:55 In fact, we need to fill that in. 43:56 But in order to emphasize Jesus' divine Lordship over 43:58 all creation here it is, only here does John call 44:01 the Seventh-day Sabbath "the Lord's day." 44:03 Now you know, when you and I come that phrase 44:05 we think it's like this the Lord's day, 44:10 no, no that's not point I making this the "Lord's day." 44:14 And I'm using a phrase used no where else, 44:17 in order to make sure you understand. 44:20 I was in, I was worshiping on the Sabbath, 44:22 I was in worship when suddenly, on the Lord's day, 44:27 the Lord showed up to me. 44:30 That's his point, the divinity of Christ, 44:32 the Lord's day. 44:34 What day is the Lord's day, let's Luke 6:5 Jesus was clear 44:39 we didn't read just a movement ago, 44:40 I'll give them a movement for scramble back to it, 44:42 Luke 6:5 "And Jesus said to them, 44:44 'The Son of Man is also Lord I'm Lord, 44:49 I'm the Lord of the Sabbath day.' 44:53 "Like the rest of the New Testament 44:54 John exalts Jesus' both Lord of salvation and Lord 44:58 of the Seventh-day Sabbath. 45:00 In fact here's the little summery 45:01 would you fill that in please, so the seal 45:02 that goes on the foreheads of God's loyal friends 45:04 at the end of time is a recognition of Him 45:07 as Creator through the Sabbath, 45:10 the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. 45:12 Three more left. 45:13 Evidence number five, evidence number five, 45:16 the Old Testament confirms that conclusion. 45:22 Keep you pen moving, let me just run three line by 45:24 really quick, Psalm 40:8. 45:28 Hebrews 10 tells us, these are the words of Jesus, 45:30 Psalm 40:8 "I delight to do Your will, O my God, 45:33 and Your law," write it in "is within my heart." 45:39 I would expect Jesus to say that he was the law 45:40 giver in first place. 45:42 I would expect the law to be in His heart. 45:43 And love how God how describes His people, 45:45 in Isaiah 51:7 particularly, here in New Living translation, 45:50 God speaking "Listen to me, you who know right 45:52 from wrong and cherish my law in you hearts." 45:58 Very interesting one more line from the Isaiah, 46:00 jot it down, Isaiah 8:16, God speaking, "Seal, 46:04 "we've been talking about he seal so that word 46:06 catches our attention, seal, the Hebrew by the way 46:10 an official seal, "Seal the law among my disciples." 46:16 Hey have you ever seen an official seal? 46:18 Hebrew's clear, this is the official seal, 46:19 have you ever seen one? 46:21 The next time you see the president 46:23 giving the news conference you'll see 46:24 on the very front of his the little lectern you see 46:26 a little seal, won't you? 46:27 Every time the president gives the news conference. 46:29 So let's just take our present presidents, 46:32 George W Bush. 46:34 The seal has three ingredients, it has number one, 46:36 the name, George W Buss, number two, the office, 46:39 let's put that picture up please, number two, the office, 46:41 president and his jurisdiction 46:44 of the United States of America, 46:45 he's not the president of the world, 46:46 he's president only of the United States of America. 46:49 Isn't that right? That's the jurisdiction. 46:52 Now look, I want to you to take look at the Decalogue, 46:55 that'd be the Ten Commandments. 46:56 There is only one of the Ten Commandments 46:58 that has the three official ingredient of the seal in it. 47:03 Take look, go back to, go back to the Ten Commandments 47:06 of the Exodus Chapter 20. 47:10 I'd like you to see this for yourself, Exodus 20, 47:12 the Ten Commandments, thank you pastor 47:16 for your testimony just a movement ago about 47:19 how your Church every, every Sunday it repeated 47:22 the Ten Commandments, isn't that right? 47:23 Repeated the Ten Commandments, 47:25 in fact you did mentioned, Jerry that you two are 47:26 students together in the theological seminary, 47:29 because here you are attending the seminary now 47:30 is that correct? 47:31 Yeah good to have you. 47:35 But here is what is read in many churches every, 47:38 every worship, weekly worship. 47:41 Let's go down to the fourth Commandment, 47:42 drop down to the verse 8 "Remember the Sabbath day, 47:47 to keep it holy. 47:49 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 47:53 but verse 10 the Seventh day is the Sabbath 47:56 of the Lord your God. 47:57 In it you shall do no work, you, nor you son, 48:00 nor your daughter, nor your male servant, 48:03 nor your female servant, nor your cattle, 48:04 nor your stranger who is within your gates." 48:06 One more verse 11 "For in six days 48:09 the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, 48:11 and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. 48:15 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 48:20 Jot it down please, the only one 48:23 of the Ten Commandments 48:24 that contains the three ingredients 48:25 of an official seal is the fourth Commandment. 48:29 The fourth write it in, the fourth. 48:30 What are the three ingredients 48:32 again pastor let's put them on the screen. 48:33 Ingredient one, you have to have the name, 48:35 "the Lord you God, there it is, the Lord your God." 48:38 You have to have an office. What's the office? The maker. 48:41 Now its say he made, we have turn that verb into a noun 48:44 He's the maker, the Creator, and what is His jurisdiction? 48:46 Ah, what did we put, fill it in please "the heavens 48:49 and the earth, the sea and all that is in them." 48:53 I.e. the entire universe is the Creator's jurisdiction 48:57 true or false? 48:59 But of course. 49:02 Clearly, just as the New Testament 49:04 does the Old Testament links the seal of God 49:07 with His office as Creator as memorialized 49:11 in the Seventh-day Sabbath, 49:14 the day both Old and New teach the day Jesus is the Lord of. 49:19 Just two more, jot them down please number six, 49:21 evidence number 6, the sealed ones are given 49:25 a global mission, a global message 49:26 that proclaims, fill it in, 49:28 "Worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea 49:31 and the springs of waters." 49:33 You know it's amazing, John describes Revelation 14, 49:35 he describes these 144,000 this final generation 49:38 and as soon as he get that description out his mouth, 49:41 he immediately takes his pen to describing the massage 49:45 they will take, they are raised up God to take this 49:47 massage to the entire plant and what's the massage? 49:51 Let's, let's put it on the screen first 49:53 "Then I saw another angel" 49:55 this right after he describes the seal, 49:57 "I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, 50:00 having the everlasting gospel to preach 50:02 to those who dwell on the earth. 50:03 To every nation, tribe, tongue, and people, 50:05 and He said with a loud voice," there's you mega phone again 50:08 "'Fear God and give glory to Him, 50:10 for the hour of His judgment has come, 50:12 and worship Him who made heaven and earth, 50:14 the sea and springs of water." 50:16 "Would you write it down please? 50:17 and 7 are clear, 50:20 are clearly a call to earth's inhabitants 50:23 to return to the Creator, return to the one who made 50:27 heaven and earth and the sea, 50:29 return to the Creator and his Seventh-day Sabbath. 50:32 You say I don't see a word about that, 50:34 let me just tell me something, 50:35 the language in the Greek in verse 7 of Revelation 14 50:38 is the identical language in the Greek, 50:41 in the Greek Old Testament Septuagint 50:43 in the Fourth the Commandment. 50:44 The same language, it's the Sabbath 50:47 and the Creator. 50:49 That is the passion of that appeal. 50:52 Finally the evidence number seven, 50:55 evidence number seven, the one who seals 50:57 God's friends, 50:58 write it down, is the Holy Spirit, 51:01 whom Jesus called in John 16:13 "The Spirit of truth." 51:08 Whatever the Spirit seals into you it's going to be true, 51:10 it's going to be the truth. 51:12 And by the way, there are three great verse Ephesians 1:13, 51:15 Ephesians 4:30 and 2nd Corinthians 1:22, 51:17 all describe the Holy Spirit as the one who seals. 51:19 Let's put Ephesians, yeah, Ephesians 4:30 on the screen. 51:23 Paul writes "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, 51:26 by whom you were sealed, 51:28 the Holy Spirit is the one who seals you, 51:30 by whom you were sealed, for the day of redemption." 51:33 Write this down please, "The very Spirit 51:36 that John was in the Lord's say on," 51:38 remember he said I was in the Spirit 51:39 on the Lord's day, the very Spirit 51:42 is the one who seals the Creator's name 51:45 and the Creator's day upon the minds 51:47 and hearts of an end-time generation. 51:51 God says, hey, I belong to them, I'm their Creator, 51:54 they belong to me they're my Creation. 51:58 There they are ladies and gentlemen, 52:00 seven of them, seven compelling evidences 52:03 that the sealing of the Revelation 7 52:05 describes a loyalty to the Creator God 52:08 that will be evidenced by the observance of his 52:10 Seventh-day Sabbath. 52:12 I don't know about you but I'm, when I'm thinking, 52:14 you know, would I like a little seal on me, 52:16 I tell what, if that seal means that I belong to the Creator, 52:19 if that seal means His name on my life, 52:22 I want that seal, I mean, don't you? 52:24 I mean, come on, it's a no brainer, isn't it? 52:26 Is that a Christian on earth who would not want 52:28 the seal of God in his or her forehead? 52:30 I can't think of a Christian alive 52:31 who wouldn't say now seal me, 52:32 put the Creator seal right, nothing is going on the skin. 52:36 It's going in side my life as symbol of my commitment 52:40 to the one who owns me, as it were, the one created me. 52:45 Hey this much I know, and then I'll sit down, 52:46 this much I know. 52:50 It is no accident, that this particular rumor from the 52:55 east is shown in the apocalypse to be 52:58 on the ascendancy at very time in the human history, 53:03 there's never been an hour like this, 53:04 at the very time in human history 53:06 when the notion of God as Creator 53:08 is under the most withering attack 53:10 it has ever suffered. 53:12 It's no coincidence that at this time, 53:16 God raise up a generation and says, boy, 53:19 you belong to me, no coincidence. 53:23 The secular post-modern culture that rules academia, 53:27 it rules the entertainment world, 53:29 it even rules mainline religion, 53:32 that culture is a vowed in his opposition 53:36 to the notion of a Creator God. 53:38 And I tell you what, the, the forces of political 53:41 correctness are exactly in heavy, 53:44 heavy toll to anybody, who would out there stand up 53:48 and say wait a minute I don't, I don't believe that, 53:50 I do not believe that. 53:53 I believe, I believe 53:55 in a living God, who created me. 53:59 I tell you what it's huge toll to stand up out there 54:03 with that confession. 54:06 But I tell you, I, tell you also this in my last breath. 54:11 You look at, look at this, get the camera here please. 54:15 You look at this guy, take a careful 54:17 look at him please, 54:18 our silent friend reminds us that without the Creator 54:23 this is all we have to look forward to. 54:27 Take a look, that's it baby, that's your destiny, girl, boy. 54:33 That's your eternity. 54:35 Take a good look, take a good look. 54:39 Darwinism, naturalism, evolutionary scientists 54:43 and philosophy have nothing to give you 54:45 except the cold hand of death. 54:51 Hey, you laugh, you laugh, it's true. 54:55 This is all get. This is all you get. 55:03 According to the apocalypse, 55:05 there will a generation at the end of time 55:07 that in the face of overwhelming 55:09 public resistance, the generation will stand up 55:12 and say you know what... 55:16 this much I know, this much I know. 55:21 I was blind but now I see, I was lost 55:25 but now I am found, this much I know, 55:27 somebody has put His name on my life. 55:30 And I belong to him and if it's a choice 55:33 between two hands, if it's a choice 55:35 between this hand and a nail scared hand, 55:39 there will be generation at the end of time 55:41 that stands up and says you can have that hand, 55:43 I will take the nail scared hand in my hand, 55:46 and I will live, I will die for my Creator. 55:52 Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to be over 55:54 dramatic here, but you know what, 55:56 there're only two hands to choose from, 55:59 there's no third hand, there's no third hand. 56:02 You can, you can't say, I'm going to hold this hand 56:04 because I'm really kind of keep in touch with those people 56:07 and I'm going to hold this hand over here. 56:08 You can't hold two hands, there's isn't a marriage 56:12 on earth that'll allow you to hold two hands. 56:14 Trust me, you can't hold two hands. 56:17 You have let go of one hand and only clasp the other, 56:21 you can choose this hand. 56:24 Or you can choose the nail scared hand 56:26 of the living Creator, who by the way 56:28 if understand this book correctly, 56:29 not only offers us his hand, 56:30 not only offers us His heart but if the book is true, 56:34 also offers us His home one day. 56:37 And when He describes that home 56:39 in Isaiah 66, he says, 56:40 let me tell you what it is like home folks, 56:42 from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come 56:47 and worship before me. 56:50 I want to be part of that reunion, don't you? 56:53 I want to hold the living hand. 56:55 I don't what your choice is but as for in my house 56:57 we will serve the Lord. 57:01 Amen. 57:05 Before you go I just want to take one more moment 57:07 to let you know how glad I am you share this hour of worship 57:10 and Bible teachings with us. 57:12 Living in the world that we do now, 57:13 a civilization surviving on the edge of constant 57:16 upheaval and change, I'm grateful that we have 57:19 bed rock hope of Jesus, aren't you? 57:21 And I'm thankful that you and I can partner together 57:23 to reach this generation the world over, 57:25 through the satellite telecast. 57:27 So please know that I thank God and you for the generous way 57:31 you partnered with us. 57:33 Your tax deductible gifts are being multiplied 57:35 all across the earth for such a time as this. 57:38 If you'd like to order a DVD or a video tape copy of this 57:41 teaching today, or make a donation 57:42 on your credit card, 57:44 please call our friendly operators 57:45 at the numbers on your screen, there it is 877-HIS-WILL. 57:49 Just the two words 877-HIS-WILL and I promise you, 57:53 we will invest every penny 57:54 of your generosity in God's mission 57:56 to reach this final generation now. 57:59 Thank you for that partnership. 58:01 And I will see you here again, next time. |
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