Participants: Pr. Jac Colon
Series Code: RN
Program Code: RN000007
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01:04 Open your Bibles to the 4th chapter of Revelation.
01:07 In Revelation Chapter 4, John writes, after this I looked 01:11 and there before me was a door standing open in heaven 01:15 and the voice I heard speaking before that sounded like 01:18 a trumpet said come up here and I'll show you what will 01:21 happen after this. Verse 2, once I was in the spirit and 01:27 there before me was the throne, now try to picture in 01:30 your mind what John sees as he is brought into the presence 01:33 of God in the spirit. Verse 4, surrounding the throne 01:37 were 24 other thrones and seated on them 24 elders. 01:42 In Verse 5, from the throne came flashes of lightning, 01:45 rumblings, peels of thunder, before the throne seven lambs 01:50 were blazing and these are the seven spirits of God and 01:53 also before the throne there was what looked like a 01:57 sea of glass as clear as crystal, in the center around 02:01 the throne were four living creatures. Day and night 02:06 they never stop saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord 02:13 God Almighty, who was and is and is to come." And when 02:18 other living creatures give glory and honor and thanks 02:21 to him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 02:25 the 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne 02:30 and they worship him. Why do they worship God? 02:43 Why do we worship God? The book of Revelation shows 02:49 two reasons why we worship God and we are 02:53 gonna look at the first one tonight in fact it's in the 02:57 next Verse, they throw down their crowns before the throne 03:02 and they worship God saying, "You are worthy our Lord 03:08 and God, to receive Glory and Honor and power for you 03:14 created all things and by your will they were created 03:19 and have their being." We worship God because he is 03:24 the creator of the Heavens and the Earth. We worship 03:29 God because he created all things. And the old dragon 03:37 who craves worship and wants the world to worship him 03:44 knows that as long as men and women acknowledge 03:49 that God is the creator of the Heavens and the Earth no 03:52 one will ever give allegiance to him. And therefore 03:58 somehow he must obscure the power, obscure the significance, 04:03 obscure the reality of God as the creator of the Heavens 04:07 and the Earth and in the mid 1800s the dragon began to 04:11 launch the final phase, the final thrust of his war against 04:15 God, in the mid 1800s he managed to seduce the church 04:20 into joining forces with modern science and 04:23 infiltrate the ranks of God's people with a new 04:26 philosophy that would undermine and obscure the 04:31 power of God as a creator of the Heavens and the Earth. 04:34 In the mid 1800s, Charles Darwin published his book, 04:38 the Origin of Species, making popular the theory 04:42 of evolution and since that time neither the world nor 04:45 the church have been the same. But God was not 04:52 caught by surprise. God always knows what's 04:58 coming and so at the very same time that the theory of 05:04 Evolution was beginning to take route, God launched 05:09 the final phase, the final thrust of his war against 05:13 the dragon and in Revelation Chapter 14, we see it in the 05:16 form of three angels messages, we're only going 05:19 to look at the first one tonight. In chapter 14 verse 6, 05:23 I saw another angel flying in the mid air, he had the 05:26 eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the 05:30 earth to every nation, every tribe, every language, every 05:34 people he said in a loud voice. 05:38 Sometimes people say preacher, why do you preach 05:43 so loud. Because every place in the Bible where God has 05:48 something important to say, he says it in a loud voice. 05:51 Amen. If you want to be like God, then make sure you 05:56 understand you've to wake up the sleeping saints sometimes. 06:01 So he said in a loud voice. "Fear God and give him 06:06 glory because the hour of his judgment has come," 06:10 now watch this, worship him. Who? Worship him 06:17 who made the Heavens, the Earth, the Sea and all that is 06:21 in them; worship God, the creator of the Heavens and 06:26 the Earth. In other words, at the very same time and I'm 06:29 gonna show you on another night at precisely the same 06:32 time that Darwin was launching the theory of 06:35 Evolution taking route, making it popular, God 06:39 raises up a message for the last days to counter act 06:42 Darwin's theory of Evolution and his call is to 06:46 every tribe, every language, every nation, 06:48 every people saying fear God, give him glory because 06:52 the hour of his judgment has come, worship the creator of 06:56 the heavens and the earth. In other words worship the 06:58 creator not the creature, worship the creator not the 07:01 beast. Practically the whole world, Revelation 13 says, 07:07 all the inhabitants in the earth will worship the beast, 07:10 that's the creature. Except those whose names are 07:14 written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb, be 07:16 sure your name is written in that book. So, I hope you're 07:22 beginning to sense that Revelation especially 07:26 Chapters 13 and 14, Revelation is a battle over 07:31 the true worship of the true God, the creator and the 07:35 false worship of a false God, the creature who is the beast. 07:39 The battle in the book of Revelation is an intense 07:43 spiritual warfare over who is going to be worshiped, the 07:47 creature or the creator, the beast or God. Fear God, give 07:54 him glory worship who made the Heavens, the 07:57 Earth, the Sea and the springs of water. I don't 08:00 know if you have connected it together or not, but the 08:02 book of Revelation the last Bible book takes us all the 08:05 way back to the beginning to the first book in the Bible in 08:09 the first verse in Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 1, in the 08:12 beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth, and 08:16 the Earth was without form and empty and darkness was 08:20 on the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was 08:24 hovering over the waters. Isn't it interesting that even 08:30 the Holy Spirit was present there at creation time. And 08:38 then in Verse 3 God said let there be light and there was 08:42 light, all he had to do is speak and it came into 08:45 existence and there was evening and there was 08:47 morning, the first day, how long was the first day of 08:51 creation week, evening and morning 24 hours. And then 08:56 on the second day the Bible says God created the sky, 09:00 and there was evening and there was morning, the 09:02 second day, and on the third day God created dry ground 09:06 and let the land produce vegetation and plants and 09:10 trees and there was evening and there was morning the 09:13 third day, how long did it take God to make a tree? 09:20 One day. He did it during the day. Doesn't take God long 09:28 to make a tree, all he has to do is say the word tree. 09:35 And his word has the power of the creator to make it 09:39 happen. Now that's power, Amen. And then on the 09:44 fourth day God created the Sun, the Moon, the stars, 09:48 by the way if these creation days took billions of years 09:54 and God made the plants on the third day and the moon, 09:57 the Sun on the fourth day everybody knows that the 10:00 plants require Sun in order to grow, how could there be 10:04 plants if there was no sun for billions of years. 10:08 On the fifth day, God said let the waters 10:11 team with living creatures, let the birds fly above the 10:15 sky and then on the sixth, by the way and there was 10:19 evening and there was morning Fifth day, how long did it 10:24 take to make the birds and the fish? One day. 10:30 On the sixth day, God said let the land produce living 10:34 creatures, livestock, animals that move on the ground 10:39 and then on the sixth day, in Verse 29, 10:43 God said let us make man in our image. 10:52 Who is the us? Who is the our? Who is man? 11:01 Chapter 2 verse 7, the Lord God formed the man from the 11:07 dust of the ground and he breath into his nostrils, the 11:11 breath of life and the man became a living being 11:19 and then Verse 2, by the seventh day, 11:23 God had finished the work he had been doing. 11:30 By the seventh day, he was done, he was finished. 11:34 What does that mean? He didn't need to create anymore, 11:37 creation was done, after the seventh day. 11:40 Seven 24 hour days, one week, evening and 11:43 morning actually six because he rested on the 11:46 seventh day, he was finished it did not take billions of 11:50 years. It did not take millions of years. It took six 11:53 days for God to make this world the way it is. 11:59 And you know the Bible writers loved to refer back to 12:03 the creation story. One of my favorite places is in Psalm. 12:10 In Psalm, 33 Verse 6, by the word of the Lord 12:15 were the heavens made and their starry host by the 12:19 breath of his mouth. In verse 9, 12:21 for he spoke, he spoke and it came to be. 12:25 He commanded and it stood firm. 12:27 When God wants a universe he just says the word 12:30 Universe and its there. Amen. Now that's power. 12:37 I saw on the news people lining up block after block 12:41 after block waiting to go and see the premier of Star Wars. 12:50 That's just fiction, this is true 12:54 and God can do more than anyone in Star Wars ever 12:58 thought about doing. Why do we get so excited about 13:02 fiction when we have a God who is all powerful, 13:05 Almighty who can do anything even create a universe. Amen. 13:10 No wonder we worship God. Because he is the 13:14 Creator of the Heavens and the Earth. 13:18 I, I believe in the Bible account of creation. 13:23 I believe God made this world in six days and by the 13:28 seventh day he finished his work, he was done, 13:31 I believe that. And I also believe that it's absolutely 13:36 essential to accept the Bible account of creation, if you 13:39 are ever going to understand the book of Revelation. 13:44 The last book is based on the first book and that's why we 13:48 are gonna take the time to examine the issues, because 13:51 what I have just read to you tonight is not very popular. 13:56 Most people believe something different from what we've 13:59 read and your children are being taught in public school 14:03 system something entirely different from what we've 14:06 read, this universe did not come into existence in the 14:10 hands of a loving God, but it came by accident 14:14 by chance, an explosion, they call it the Big Bang theory. 14:19 Hey, I believe in the big bang theory. 14:22 God said it and bang it happened. Amen. 14:30 Your children are being taught that there is no 14:34 creator God, and therefore they are being setup to 14:41 worship the creature instead of a creator. 14:47 It's time that somebody tells them the difference. 14:55 Most of time people that claim to believe in the Bible 14:59 account of creation are put down, ridiculed, 15:04 made fun of, when the debate broke out as to 15:10 whether or not they should include teaching of creation 15:12 in the science classes along with the theory of evolution, 15:16 Dr. Gerard at the University of Southern California said, 15:20 teaching the Bible theory in science class makes as much 15:24 sense as including the stork in classes on reproduction. 15:30 I don't know of any intelligent person who has 15:33 examined the evidence that doesn't believe in evolution. 15:38 Isn't that interesting? May be he never heard of a man 15:41 like Dr. Wernher Von Braun, father of American Space 15:44 program, who developed the space, the rocket ships that 15:50 propelled man into space and he said the more we 15:53 probe the vast mysteries of this universe, the more 15:56 convinced we become, that there is a creator God. 16:00 May be he never heard of men like 16:02 Dr. Wernher Von Braun or may be he never heard of 16:04 men like Dr. Robert Jastrow, Director of the Goddard 16:07 Space Institute that said, that new electronic devices 16:10 are proving that this world came into existence 16:13 suddenly and at a maximum of 20,000 years ago. 16:17 Some say even ten, or the Bible time period of 6000 16:21 years is more likely. May be he never heard 16:23 of men like Dr. Robert Jastrow or Dr. Paul Davies. 16:27 I don't know if you're aware of the Heisenberg uncertainty 16:30 principle, you're probably not, and you are not gonna 16:33 be able to understand it, not very many people can, 16:35 but we can understand this one thing. The Heisenberg 16:38 uncertainty principle is developed by Dr. Heisenberg 16:41 in 1927 and basically it goes like this, the more precisely 16:46 you know the position of a subatomic particle the 16:49 less precisely you can know its momentum. 16:52 In other words, you cannot know both the position 16:55 and the momentum of a subatomic particle, 16:58 momentum is the mass times of velocity. So, you cannot 17:02 know the mass, you cannot know the position, 17:05 you cannot know its velocity all at a same time. 17:10 So, therefore you cannot know where its 17:12 gonna go and the projection of where a subatomic 17:16 particle is gonna hit, is an estimation it's a guess, that's 17:20 the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Then once that was 17:23 accepted as quantum of mechanics by the physicists 17:26 then there were forced by the body of evidence to take 17:29 the next step and that is, that it is the observation 17:32 of the particle that determines where it goes. 17:37 Now you don't understand that, I don't understand it. 17:39 But that's where there are today, it's the observation, 17:43 observing the particle determines where it goes 17:45 and now once they've taken that step they are forced to 17:47 take the next one and that is this, that the particle does 17:51 not even exist until it is observed. Folks, that's not 17:58 science fiction, that's science. That's quantum 18:01 mechanics and Dr. Paul Davies said this in his book 18:04 the new physics, he says you can always claim that 18:07 everything you perceive is real because there exists a 18:11 larger system which collapses it into reality by 18:17 measuring or observing it. In other words, everything 18:22 that you see is real, because someone observed it and 18:26 collapsed it into existence. The quantum theory of the 18:30 universe however is a recent study being done by 18:34 physicists and by definition there can be nothing outside 18:37 of the universe to collapse this whole cosmic 18:40 panorama into existence, he says except, God. 18:49 Isn't that amazing? You may not understand 18:52 all of that, but you can understand one thing that 18:55 scientists are being forced into a box and if they are 18:59 going to be honest with the data that they are 19:02 discovering they are gonna have to come to the place 19:04 where they must conceive that there is a God, 19:07 it's happening in the world of molecular biochemistry. 19:11 Dr. Michael Behe has recently turned the scientific 19:14 world upside down, with what he calls the in 19:17 irreducibly complex system. Behe says that irreducibly 19:23 complex system is a system that is so complex, that if 19:26 you take away any single part then it no longer can 19:29 function, therefore it could not be the result of a gradual 19:33 evolutionary process, because if only one part is 19:37 missing it has no function and no way to exist anymore. 19:44 And an example that he gives is our friend the 19:47 bombardier beetle, you see the bombardier beetle is 19:51 called the bombardier beetle because he has in his body, 19:55 two chemicals hydro quinine and hydrogen peroxide, 19:58 that when they're mixed together and he squirts it out 20:01 of his tail they explode in the face of his enemy. 20:06 Now, you can ask the question why don't they 20:09 explode in his belly? Because there is a chemical inhibitor 20:14 in his belly that prevents them from mixing together 20:18 and exploding and once he squirts them out of the tail 20:21 there is an anti-inhibitor that neutralizes the inhibitor and 20:26 allows them to explode and mixed together and explode. 20:31 Now, here is the question, if evolution took place and all 20:39 of this happened as a result of natural selection choosing 20:43 between the stronger of two systems that already exist, 20:49 then which came first, the chemicals or the inhibitor. 20:57 If you say well the Inhibitor had to come first 21:00 then why is it there, what's it inhibiting? 21:05 If you say the chemicals came first well so much for 21:08 the bombardier beetles. And Michael Behe has become 21:17 so powerful that he concludes that his, his, 21:22 his discoveries are so powerful it forced him to conclude 21:25 that life on Earth at its most fundamental level, in its 21:30 most critical components is the product of intelligent 21:34 activity; in other words the conclusion of intelligent 21:39 design flows naturally from the data itself and not from 21:44 the sacred books, amazing. A friend of mine, a scientist 21:52 has attended several conferences where Dr. Behe 21:55 speaks and he said, you know whenever a scientist 21:58 presents his paper they open it up for questions and 22:00 answers and they have some pretty, pretty husky dialogue 22:05 going on, but when Behe presents his papers and 22:08 opens it up for questions and answers no one dares to 22:11 challenge him, because he chews them up and spits them 22:13 out. You can't confront the truth with anything but the 22:20 truth. Dr. G. A. Kerkut, Professor of Physiology and 22:27 Biochemistry at the University of Southampton, 22:29 England said the supporting evidence for evolution 22:33 remains to be discovered, we can, if we like believe it's 22:37 such an evolutionary system has taken place, but I for one 22:40 do not think it's been proven beyond all reasonable doubt. 22:44 Then why does he believe it? If it hasn't been proven 22:48 beyond all reasonable doubt why does he believe it. 22:50 Charles Singer frankly confesses his faith in 22:53 evolution, he says evolution is unique among major 22:57 scientific theories and that the appeal for his acceptance 22:59 is not that there is any evidence for it then why do 23:03 you believe it, because any of the proposed interpretation 23:06 of the data is just too incredible to believe. 23:12 Look I believe evolution, where is the evidence? 23:15 Oh! No evidence, why do you believe it? 23:16 Because, I can't believe that. 23:21 How's that for scientific reductions and conclusions, 23:26 Now I don't stand to claim to be able to stand here tonight 23:29 and to be able to prove that the Bible account of creation 23:34 is true. That can't be done, because you see there was 23:39 no one here when it happened except God. Amen. 23:42 If you want to believe in the Bible account 23:45 of creation you're gonna have to believe 23:46 it by faith in the word of God. Amen. 23:50 I can't claim to stand here and prove that 23:53 the theory of evolution is false, but I do want to show 23:58 you that if you choose to believe the theory of 24:01 evolution you going to have to choose to believe 24:02 that by faith too, faith in chance, faith in miracles. 24:08 And I think that I can show that it makes more 24:10 sense to believe in a loving creator God. Amen. 24:16 And furthermore we wanted to take a look at the motive, 24:19 the motive that men would have for choosing to believe 24:23 in the theory of evolution as opposed to the fact that life 24:27 as we know it today came from the hands of a loving 24:30 intelligent creator God. Why are they so desperate 24:36 to believe in evolution and what does that help us, 24:40 how does that help us in understanding the events 24:43 taking place on this world today 24:46 prophesied in the Book of Revelation. 24:50 The Bible warns us against the theory 24:53 of evolution in First Timothy Chapter Six, 25:00 in First Timothy the Sixth Chapter, I can find it here, 25:06 you see here this morning come on Timothy, 25:11 here we go, First Timothy, Chapter 6 in Verse 20. 25:16 Timothy: God what has been entrusted you can't turn away 25:18 from Godless chatter and opposing ideas of what is 25:24 falsely called knowledge or science, which some have 25:28 professed and so doing have wandered away from the 25:31 faith, turned away from what is falsely called Science. 25:41 You see here we have the answer to the question, 25:44 what should a Christian do, when the discoveries of 25:48 modern science contradict the word of God, the answer is, 25:54 it's not Science, but it's falsely called Science. 26:00 This book was given to us by God through his Holy Spirit, 26:04 God made this world, He knows more about 26:07 this world than anyone else could ever know 26:09 and He will never contradict Himself 26:12 about anything, you can trust this book. 26:18 Now, I'm not making fun of science, I'm not 26:21 putting down science, I believe in science, 26:23 I believe in the scientific method, I graduated 26:26 with a degree in chemistry, I did my graduate work 26:29 in organic chemistry and so I understand the scientific 26:32 method, I believe in science, what I'm telling you is 26:35 that Evolution is not a science, it's a theory, 26:39 it's a philosophy, but it's not science, 26:42 it's presented to your children as science, 26:44 it is presented as though it were a fact 26:47 when it's a theory, an unproven theory. 26:51 What is Evolution? Just for our purposes tonight 26:55 a quick and easy definition I know its complex and 26:58 there are many, many types of Evolution, but for tonight 27:00 lets call it anything that contradicts the Bible 27:02 account of creation and either time 6 days that it 27:05 took God to create the world or the manner of life 27:08 producing life each after its own kind, any theory, 27:11 any idea of the origins that contradicts the two 27:14 principles of 6 days to create this world, time or life 27:19 creating, life each after its own kind anything that 27:21 contradicts that we'll call the theory of Evolution, 27:23 what is the evidence? The evidence is by far 27:27 the body of evidence pointed to by Evolution is the 27:30 geological column, now that sounds complicated 27:34 but it's not, it's simple, you've seen pictures 27:37 of the Earth sliced in half, looks like an onion, 27:39 all the different layers and the idea is this that 27:42 the each layer forms a period of billions of years 27:46 and the deeper layers are the older periods 27:48 and the surface layers are the one's closer to the 27:51 surface or more later times and the fossils in those 27:55 layers are simple fossils and the deeper ones and more 27:58 complex as you move out towards the surface, 28:01 the problem is that there is no place on this Earth 28:04 that exist the way they put it in the science books. 28:08 In fact, there are millions and millions of acres 28:11 where it's just the opposite and there are 28:13 complex life forms in the deeper layers 28:15 and simple life forms in these outer layers. 28:23 And two scientists, two Italian scientists 28:25 in August 1958 published a paper 28:29 reported in Time magazine, they discovered the skeleton 28:33 of a man, in a coal vein, now coal exists in a level 28:42 that was supposed to be billions of years before man 28:46 could ever have time to evolve and the very fact 28:50 that they find the skeleton of a man in a coal vein 28:54 in layers billions of years before man had time to 28:58 evolve proves without a doubt that man cannot 29:02 be the result of billions of years of Evolution 29:04 yet they go on believing anyway, why? 29:09 More recently a lady breaking open a piece 29:13 of coal to put in her furnace broke it open 29:16 and found a gold linked chain embedded in the coal, 29:21 how do that get there billions of years before man? 29:30 Or in 1922, a farmer was plowing his field and he 29:36 plowed up a tooth and so he took it in and gave it 29:42 to the scientists and from that tooth they constructed 29:45 what the jaw must have looked like and from the jaw 29:49 bone they constructed the skeleton, the skull, the face 29:54 and from the skull they constructed what the body 29:57 must have looked like and they called him the 30:00 Nebraska man, he was the missing link 30:02 and by the time it got to the British museum there was 30:05 even a Nebraska mom within there, until several years 30:10 later they found another tooth just like it 30:13 in the same area, this time it was 30:15 attached to the jaw bone but it was jaw bone of 30:19 a wild pig and yet Nebraska man is still a missing link, 30:26 Why they deny the reality of the facts 30:32 that contradict the theory of Evolution? 30:35 Why they so desperately want to believe? 30:37 God is never embarrassed by the evidence. 30:41 In the little book of Joe the 12th Chapter Verse 7, 30:44 ask the animals and they will teach you, the birds 30:46 of the air they will tell you, speak to the earth 30:48 and it will teach you, let the fish of the sea 30:50 inform you which of all of these does not know 30:53 that the hand of the Lord has done this. Amen. 30:56 Study nature, study the animals, 30:58 look at the squirrels, look at the birds, 31:00 look at the fish, how can this thing be anything but 31:06 the result of an intelligent loving creator God. Amen. 31:10 God is never embarrassed by the evidence, 31:12 the flood and can easily explain the geological column, 31:17 because small particles will settle down to the bottom 31:20 quicker than the larger particles creating the 31:22 geological column, any exception is easy to 31:25 understand, but one exception is an impossible 31:28 dilemma to a scientist who says that life 31:31 could not be that complex in those deeper levels 31:35 before Evolution had time to occur; 31:38 an impossible dilemma, yet they go on believing. 31:44 You know anytime we take a look at the 31:46 theory of Evolution verses Bible account, 31:48 the Bible account of creation we always have to ask two, 31:52 I call two ultimate questions and the first one is that if 31:58 life as we know it today begin with one single cell 32:01 and that cell begin to multiply getting more and 32:03 more complex until the cell finally get evolved into fish 32:08 and the fish into reptiles and the reptiles into birds, 32:12 the birds into mammals and the mammals 32:14 into monkeys and then along comes man 32:17 at the end of the list, probably didn't get the 32:20 sequence right, but you understand what I'm saying. 32:27 If all of life came from one cell then with all of the 32:35 millions of different life forms around us today and 32:40 all of modern technology and trained technicians 32:44 we should see Evolution exploding all around us. 32:50 But, no one has ever seen one change 32:54 of the species to another, not one. 32:57 In fact, Charles Darwin himself lamented 33:00 at the close of his life there is sufficient field 33:04 with two or three millions species on earth one might 33:07 think for observing, but it must be said today in spite 33:10 of all the evidence of trained observes not one change 33:13 of the species to another is on record, not one. 33:19 God is never embarrassed by the evidence, 33:22 God said let the earth bring forth living creatures 33:25 each after its own kind and its always been that way. 33:28 No one has ever planned to have potatoes 33:30 and got a crop of tomatoes, no one has ever 33:33 bred cattle and got a horse, now we laugh, 33:36 no one really believes that a horse had a cow. 33:41 They teach that it was such a long gradual period 33:44 of time that the change was imperceptible. 33:48 But the point is no matter how long 33:50 it took to happen somewhere along the line 33:53 the horse had to stop being a horse and 33:55 start being a cow and it has never happened. 33:59 God is not embarrassed by the evidence. 34:06 And, then there is another question, 34:11 I call it the ultimate, ultimate question, 34:15 if life as we know it today is the result of 34:18 one single cell multiplying and dividing and becoming 34:21 more complex then where did that one cell come from? 34:26 If you say, by accident, by chance both the lightning 34:33 struck a pool of slime and it turned into a living cell 34:37 then where did the lightening come from? 34:41 Where did the pool of slime come from? 34:44 If you say well God made them, God made 34:48 the cell and you may as well believe what else 34:52 God says about what He made, Amen. Amen. 34:57 If you say no it happened by chance then you've got 34:59 to believe in the theory of spontaneous generation. 35:03 Spontaneous generation is that life can spring 35:07 forth from non-living matter. That's what they used 35:12 to believe in the Dark Ages, they used to believe that, 35:17 they used to believe in fact, that if you left dirty filthy 35:20 rags in a dark closet for a long time 35:22 they turn into mice, it's a fact, 35:27 I mean they used to believe that as a fact. 35:31 Until Galileo looking through the lens of the 35:35 microscope and they discovered that those mice 35:40 didn't come from the dirty filthy rags anymore. 35:44 Now, the evidence was pretty good, 35:46 dirty filthy rags left in a closet 35:48 for a long time mice would appear 35:52 and now we know they did not come from the rags, 35:54 they used to think that body filth, left on the body 35:58 for a long time turned into lice. 36:01 Again, the evidence was pretty good. But, now we 36:06 know that the lice don't come from the filth. 36:10 And nobody believes in, in 36:12 spontaneous generation anymore, do they? 36:20 Dr. Wald, a Scientific American in 1954 36:24 said this, the most complex machine man has ever 36:28 deviced, say an electronic brain or a computer 36:31 is child's play compared to one simple living cell, 36:35 the most complicated computer you could 36:38 ever think of is nothing compared 36:40 to one living cell, he says and then he goes on 36:45 with refreshing frankness to admit that one has only 36:50 to contemplate the magnitude of the task 36:55 of building a single cell to concede that spontaneous 36:59 generation of living organisms is impossible. 37:04 Too complicated, that's just one cell, 37:08 too complicated, impossible, did you hear that? 37:13 Now, hold on to your seat belts, because you're not 37:18 ready for this, he goes on to say 37:22 yet here we are the result, I believe of spontaneous 37:27 generation, ain't that amazing? 37:31 One single cell so complicated 37:33 that's impossible to come from spontaneous generation 37:36 folks, too complicated yet here we are, the result is 37:40 spontaneous generation. Maybe that's the kind of 37:43 thinking it takes to be an Evolutionist. 37:49 Both creation and Evolution are a matter of faith 37:55 and we've choose which one we want to believe. 37:59 The late William Baston wrote even though 38:01 we cannot see any origin of species our faith in 38:05 Evolution remains unshaken. Why? 38:11 Dr. Moore from the University of Cincinnati 38:14 said the more one studies the fossils the more 38:17 certain one becomes that Evolution is based 38:19 on faith alone, exactly the same sort of faith 38:22 with which it's necessary to have when one 38:25 encounters the great mysteries of religion. 38:27 The evidence from the fossils 38:29 is for creation and only by faith 38:31 and imagination, is there any Evolution. 38:34 I believe that as Christians we can stand straight 38:40 and tall, look the Evolutionist in the eye 38:42 and say you don't have a leg to stand on. Amen. 38:46 But, I want you to notice that we must choose 38:50 by faith, the one that we want to believe. 38:55 I believe that makes more sense to believe 38:56 what God says. Amen. Imagine walking down 39:01 the beautiful beach one day and you see a 39:06 pile of shells, all stacked in a pile, 39:12 now you can decide either someone intelligent put 39:15 them there or the waves washed them up and they 39:19 got put up in a pile, we can choose either way, 39:25 but as you walk a little further you start seeing 39:29 something that looks like it could be a footprint 39:33 in the sand and then you see some shells 39:39 lined up in a straight line, those footprints 39:43 get a little clear, you could say well 39:48 you know some birds fluttered around there 39:51 and it looked like a footprint, 39:52 waves washed those shells in a perfect straight line 39:55 that could happen, you could believe that, but then as you 40:00 go a little further those footprints get pretty clear. 40:06 And, you stop to look down and you see the shells 40:10 arranged in the sand, in such a way, 40:15 that it says Jac Colon, I love you. 40:24 At some point it starts making 40:27 more sense to believe that an intelligent 40:30 person did that then it had happened by chance. 40:36 Look around at nature and the message is 40:39 loud and clear, I love you, signed God, 40:48 the creator of the Heavens and the Earth. 40:54 Dr. John Moore from Michigan State University 40:57 said you can face anyone on this Earth, 40:58 with the fact there is no experimental 41:00 evidence whatsoever for Evolution to occur 41:02 and it cannot be compromise with the one true faith 41:06 for all Christians in Christ that faith in the wonderful 41:09 word of God from Genesis to Revelation. 41:12 So, then the question is, should a 41:16 Christian believe in any kind of Evolution? 41:18 Many Christians are being taught today from the pulpit 41:21 that the Book of Genesis is poetic and those days are 41:24 expressions for long periods of time where 41:27 God was guiding the Evolutionary process, 41:30 but Jesus said in John 15:47, if you 41:34 don't believe what Moses said, you can't believe me. 41:38 Jesus believed it and by the way I'm aware of Theistic 41:45 Evolution, is being taught in many churches today. 41:49 Theistic Evolution is simply God guiding 41:52 the Evolutionary process and each of those days 41:55 represents billions of times, years of time 41:58 where God is guiding the process, 42:02 but you can't accept Theistic Evolution 42:05 and the Bible at the same time, because the Bible says 42:09 before sin came, there was no death. 42:15 Survival of the fittest could not have happened 42:18 before Adam and Eve sinned. No, it just makes 42:24 more sense to believe what the Bible says. 42:27 Then, what is the real issue? Why is it that men and 42:30 women so desperately want to believe in the theory 42:33 of Evolution instead of the Bible account of creation. 42:36 Peter tells us, in Second Peter Chapter 3, Verse 3, 42:40 first of all you must understand 42:41 that in the last days, that's now, 42:44 in the last days scoffers will come scoffing 42:47 saying where is this coming that 42:49 he has promised ever since our father died, 42:51 ever since our father has died everything 42:54 goes on as it has since the beginning of creation. 42:58 In other words, the end time, the return of Jesus 43:01 is intimately linked with creation. 43:05 And so they're saying well, how can this be? 43:07 Where is he? Why hasn't he come yet? 43:11 Verse 5, but they deliberately forget 43:14 that long ago by God's word, the heavens existed 43:17 and the Earth was formed out of water and by water, 43:21 and by these waters also the world 43:23 of that time was deluged, then destroyed. 43:27 Why do they deliberately forget, 43:30 by the same word the present heavens 43:32 and earth are reserved for fire being kept 43:34 for the Day of Judgment and destruction 43:36 of ungodly men, that's why because 43:39 if you accept the fact that God is the creator 43:42 then you have to believe that a loving God 43:45 and a loving creator would communicate with 43:47 those that he made and tell us what is best for us 43:50 and we have an obligation to worship the creator 43:54 and obey the creator, the one who made us. 43:59 If you don't want to obey the creator then you've gotta 44:01 come up with another source, an origin for life 44:05 and that's why men would rather point to a pool 44:08 of slime or a pile of garbage into to the hands of a creator 44:12 God, because if you accept the fact that 44:15 He made us then you got to believe what 44:17 He said to us, that He loves us and 44:19 He tells us what's best for us. That's the answer. 44:26 The result of Evolution, we find the result 44:28 of Evolution in the Book of Romans, 44:30 the First Chapter in Verse 20. 44:32 Since the creation of the world, 44:34 God's invisible qualities, His eternal power, 44:38 His divine nature have been clearly seen being 44:42 understood from what has been made, 44:44 so that man are without excuse look at nature, 44:47 study nature, you have no excuse for rejecting 44:50 the creative power of God, that's what he is saying, 44:53 but then in Verse 22, although men claim 44:56 to be wise, they became fools. 45:00 And, they exchanged the glory 45:02 of the Immortal God for images made to look 45:06 like mortal men and birds and animals and reptiles, 45:10 in other words, they began to worship 45:12 the creature, instead of the creator. 45:18 The result, Verse 24, therefore God 45:23 gave them over in the sinful desires 45:27 of their hearts to sexual impurity, for the 45:29 degrading of their bodies with one another, 45:32 they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and 45:35 they worshipped and served created things 45:38 rather than the creator, who is forever praised. 45:43 Washington Post of all newspapers, 45:46 put in their headline, the number one problem 45:49 in the world today is the declined immorality 45:56 and the declined immorality is the direct result of the 46:00 failure to acknowledge that God Almighty 46:03 is the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth. 46:07 And, when we reject the creator, we will inevitably 46:12 worship the creature, who is the beast. 46:16 And that's how your children are being setup 46:20 to take the mark of the beast, that isn't all. 46:27 In Verse 26, because of this God gave them 46:31 over to their shameful lust, even their women 46:36 exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 46:40 In the same way, men abandoned 46:43 natural relations with women and were 46:46 inflamed with lust for one another. 46:49 Men committed indecent acts with other men and 46:53 received in themselves to do penalty for their perversion. 46:59 And, folks I'm not a homophobe. 47:03 I don't hate homosexuals; but homosexuality is a sin. 47:12 God did not create us that way. 47:16 God made a man and a woman and 47:19 He said man should leave his father and mother, 47:21 cleave unto his wife and the two of them 47:26 will become one flesh, that's the way God made us. 47:30 And when we go outside of the parameters 47:33 that God made us, we're going to suffer 47:36 the consequences that inevitably result. 47:41 Now, if you accept the theory of Evolution then 47:44 it doesn't matter, it's simply a matter of choice 47:47 or preference what God made, what God suggest 47:51 is best for us, it's not important because there 47:54 is no God, you are only an accident that happened 47:57 to come along at this point and therefore what you 48:00 desire is the thing that decides what is best for you, 48:07 but the Bible says homosexuality is a sin. 48:14 Now, I don't believe in coming down on 48:18 homosexuals and ridiculing and putting them down 48:22 because you see it's no worse than any other sin, 48:26 including gossip, folks, in fact I'm gonna 48:30 show you it's right in there with gossip. 48:33 Just a minute, instead of pointing the accusing 48:37 and derogatory fingers at homosexuals, we need 48:41 to reach out to them with the cross of Jesus Christ 48:44 because it's the only hope that any of us have, 48:46 for anything better then what we have right now. 48:53 Verse 28, furthermore since they did not think it 48:55 it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God 48:57 He gave them over to a deprived mind 48:59 to do what ought not to be done, 49:01 they become filled with every kind of wickedness, 49:03 evil, greed depravity, they are full of envy, murders, 49:06 strive, deceit, malice and they are gossipers. 49:10 Right in there with the murderers, yeah sometimes 49:13 we think Oh! What terrible people and we go around 49:16 gossiping about the terrible people, and they're right 49:21 in there with them, slanderers, god haters, 49:25 insolent, arrogant, boastful, invent ways of doing evil, 49:29 disobey their parents, ruthless, senseless, 49:31 faithless, heartless, although ruthless terrorists. 49:35 You wanna stop terrorism, then get the whole world 49:39 to worship the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, 49:41 it's free. Amen. Simple, although they know 49:46 God's righteous decrees and that those who do such 49:49 things deserve death, they not only continue to do 49:52 the very things but they approve of those who 49:54 practice and it sounds like reading today's newspapers. 49:59 The results of Evolution, Evolution is more than just 50:04 a science, it's infiltrated the ranks of the way that 50:07 we think and it's provided a whole new world view. 50:11 Because Evolution is based on the idea of survival with the 50:14 fittest, the natural selection, and the strongest survive. 50:19 And as it moves beyond the world of science and 50:22 into the arena of ideas, there is no such thing 50:25 as right or wrong, simply two opposing ideas 50:30 and out of the opposition of these two ideas, 50:32 something new emerges and that's what best and right. 50:36 There is no such thing as a God defining right from 50:39 wrong. It's just which idea is stronger than the other. 50:47 Herbert Spencer wrote in the 1800s of poverty 50:49 of the incapable to starvation of the idle, 50:51 the pushing aside of the weak by the strong, 50:54 a decrease of a large and farseeing benevolence, 50:57 in other words all of this is good. It's the survival with 51:00 the fittest and the strongest are overcoming the weakest 51:05 and humanity is becoming better and better. 51:08 I don't know how they measure that, 51:10 but it doesn't look like it to me. 51:14 In the process, racism began to burst forth 51:22 on the scene like never before. 51:25 In fact, Charles Darwin himself wrote 51:28 and you'll never see this on television 51:31 or in the text books today. Charles Darwin wrote 51:35 at some future period, the civilized races of man 51:39 will almost certainly exterminate and replace 51:41 the savage races throughout the world. 51:44 I'd like to ask Mr. Darwin, who are the savage races? 51:50 Why don't we hear this in the science books in 51:53 science classes today, because the theory of 51:56 Evolution gives birth to the idea and process of racism. 52:01 A powerful world leader in the late 1930s grasped 52:05 the theory of Evolution and the survival of the fittest. 52:08 He believed it. He accepted the idea 52:10 that man was not created, but came 52:13 into existence by Evolution, by survival of the fittest 52:16 and he wrote the law of nature must take 52:19 its course in the survival of the fittest. 52:22 The Christian notion of charity and love 52:25 should be replaced by the ethic of strength 52:27 over weakness signed, Adolf Hitler, 52:30 result, the gas chambers, he began to systematically 52:38 eliminate those races that he thought were weaker 52:41 in order to establish the super German race. 52:45 Now here is the question. Who can say that he was 52:50 wrong, if you accept the theory of Evolution? 52:56 How can you say that he was wrong? 52:59 You can't say that he was wrong. 53:02 You can simply say I have a better idea 53:04 and hope that you are stronger than he 53:06 was and praise God, it happened that way. 53:10 In fact, Professor Robert Simon in 30 years of college 53:14 teaching said in article in Reader's Digest, 53:17 I have never met a student who denied that the 53:19 holocaust has happened, but he says what I see 53:22 is increasingly worse. Students who acknowledge 53:25 the fact of the holocaust, but they cannot bring 53:28 themselves to say that killing millions of people 53:31 is wrong. While these students may deplore what the Nazis did, 53:37 their disapproval is expressed as a matter of 53:40 taste or personal preference, not moral judgment. 53:45 One student said of course I dislike the Nazi's but 53:48 who am I to say that they were wrong? 53:52 Well I'll say it, and he will say, well 53:56 what makes you think they were wrong. 53:57 I will tell you why they were wrong because 53:59 they ignored the fact that man is created in the 54:03 image of a loving God and that we are made to love 54:07 one another, as God loves us, that's why it was wrong. 54:10 Amen. But if you don't have the Bible 54:14 and you don't believe in creation, you can't even 54:17 say Hitler was wrong. You can't even say that 54:21 Osama Bin Laden crashing his planes into 54:24 the world tower, trade tower was wrong and notice 54:27 that many are not even saying that today. 54:35 Now, Hitler is out of the way, but we're still moving 54:39 in the same direction, they called it Euthanasia, 54:47 and when a person gets old enough to where somebody 54:49 feels like they are not very valuable anymore. 54:51 Let's just put them to sleep and get them out of the way, 54:53 it's just murder. How do you know God doesn't have 54:57 something special in store He had for that person, 55:00 who knows the mind of God except God. 55:04 A baby about to be born and scientists say he's got some 55:07 undesirable characteristic, let's just get rid of him. 55:13 Let's build a super race, let's just have 55:16 people here that are desirable. 55:17 Genetic engineering and cloning we can select, 55:20 scientist can select the desirable qualities and 55:23 characteristics of life and we can shape the beings 55:26 that we, that come into existence today. 55:28 It sounds good, but who decides which characteristics 55:32 are desirable? The politicians in Washington, God forbid. 55:44 Former First lady at the first inauguration said we must 55:50 redefine what it means to be human in the 20th century? 55:59 And I say, no. We must rediscover 56:06 what it means to be human in the 21st century. 56:11 Man created in the image of a loving creator, God. 56:17 That's the solution to the problems today. 56:20 And the greatest tragedy of the theory 56:22 of Evolution is that it denies Jesus Christ. 56:29 In the little book of Colossians Chapter I 56:31 in Verse 15, he Jesus is the image of the invisible God, 56:36 the first born over all creation, for by Him all 56:39 things were created in evident on Earth, visible and 56:42 invisible, all things were created by him and for him. 56:46 Who is the us, that said let us make man in our image? 56:50 Who is the our? Let us make man in our image. 56:54 The Holy Spirit was there. The Father was there, but 56:57 the one kneeling over the body of man and breathing 57:00 into that body the breath of life was the Son of God, 57:03 Jesus Christ before he became a man. 57:06 He created man. All things were made by him and for him. 57:11 He is the one who formed the world. 57:13 He is the one who said let there be light. 57:15 The God that made you is the God 57:18 who died on the cross to save you. 57:23 The Book of Revelation begins with the words, 57:26 the Revelation of Jesus Christ. 57:31 Worship him, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth. |
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