Hello, friends, we're
diving into week four,
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that's lesson number four,
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and we're talking
about the Eyes of the Lord.
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We're also
going to be discussing
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the biblical worldview.
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So again, we encourage you
to get ready, get your notes,
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your pens, all
those things together,
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because this week
we're going to have
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an exciting Bible study,
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diving into some
important aspects
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of how to perceive God
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and the correct
biblical worldview.
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Hello, friends, and
welcome to another week
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of 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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As always, we're very thankful
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that you've taken
time out of your busy day
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to study with us
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because we here on this
panel, we love the Lord.
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And we love His
Word, we love truth,
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we're all about
truth here at 3ABN,
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and we're going to
continue to preach the Word
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and uplift the truth in spirit
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and in truth as
the Bible teaches us.
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And this week we're
taking on lesson number four,
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which is entitled
"The Eyes of the Lord."
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And kind of the
subtitle behind that
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is the biblical worldview.
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And so we're going to be
diving deep into some things
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that are very
interesting, exciting,
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and we're going to
be kind of dissecting
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what it means to
have a biblical worldview.
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Before we go any further,
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I'm going to go ahead and
introduce the panel today.
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To my direct left, we
have Miss Jill Morikone.
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And it's always a
blessing to have you.
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Thank you so much,
Ryan, privileged to be here.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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And, of course, hey,
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you haven't been with
us the last three weeks,
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but you're here now
and that's all that counts.
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We appreciate Pastor
John Lomacang with us again.
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I couldn't fathom
leaving you guys alone.
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I'm glad to be back.
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We got you.
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Praise the Lord.
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And then, of
course, to your direct left,
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we have Miss Shelley Quinn
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and again, we can't say enough
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of how excited we
are to have you back
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after a long hiatus
of you being not with us.
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But it's a blessing
to have you back here.
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It is exciting to be here.
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And I'm just so pleased
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because I always
learn from you all
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and it's just
exciting to be with you again.
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Thank you for
studying with us. Amen.
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Praise the Lord
and to your left...
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An empty chair.
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He has defied
the laws of physics
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and reality and science
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Pastor Kenny would be with us,
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but because of
certain circumstances,
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He's not able to
be with us this week.
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But Miss Shelley
Quinn is going to take care
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of Thursday's lesson.
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So we're still going to study
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and we're still
going to have a good time.
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Amen? Praise the Lord.
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Before we go any further though,
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because we have so
much to talk about,
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we need to ask the Lord
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to be with us and
to lead and guide us.
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So, Pastor Lomacang,
why don't you pray for us?
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Let's bow our heads.
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Gracious Father and loving Lord,
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what a blessing it is to
be able to open Your Word
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and to pray for Your Holy Spirit
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that we might rightly
divide the word of truth.
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Guide our hearts and minds
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that what we
communicate will be clear,
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and those who receive it
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will receive it for
Your glory and Your Honor,
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we ask in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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The eyes of the
Lord, lesson number four,
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the biblical worldview.
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Sabbath afternoon
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introduces to us our
memory text for the week.
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And it comes from Proverbs 15:3,
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and the Bible says,
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"The eyes of the
Lord are in every place,
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keeping watch on
the evil and the good."
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So there's many
text in the Bible
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that clearly communicate that
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you can't hide
anything from the Lord.
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He sees all, He knows all.
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And I like how the
lesson kind of opens up
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a little bit of a poetic wording
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to kind of get
us established here.
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Polish poet,
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and I hope I say
this right Czeslaw Milosz.
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Good job.
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Czeslaw Milosz, I
think that's correct.
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He wrote a poem,
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which began with his
writing about imaginary animals.
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So we're talking
about like talking rabbits
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and talking
squirrels and things of such.
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And he actually
says about the poem.
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He says, "They have as
much in common with real animals
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as our notions of the world have
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with the real world."
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Then to the end of
the poem, he wrote this,
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he says, "think
of this and tremble."
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So I'm going to
read that one more time
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because I kind of
stumbled on my words there.
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He wrote, he says,
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"They," speaking of
these talking animals
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that he wrote about,
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"have as much in
common with real animals
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as our notions of the
world have with the real world."
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And he says, "think
on this and tremble."
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And I think he's
emphasizing the fact
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that we live in a world
today of vast scattered opinions
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and ideas and
ideologies, perspectives.
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And when it comes to
worldview or in this case,
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we're studying the
biblical worldview,
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because that's
ultimately what we want
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to achieve is a correct,
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accurate biblical worldview
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according to what
the Bible teaches us.
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There are so many
different worldviews
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and as for have been
for thousands of years.
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For example, the best
educated people thought
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more than 2, 000 years ago
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that the earth or
over the last 2, 000 years
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up to a certain point
that the earth was flat,
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and also was the
center of the universe,
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some of the
best educated people.
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So they had kind
of a twisted worldview
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in that particular perspective.
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And, of course,
speaking of today,
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many of today's most
educated people believe
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that human beings
evolved from monkeys,
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or from all other
sorts of, you know,
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small microscopic life.
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And so and we tend to
see the world through filters
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that impact how we interpret
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and understand
the world around us.
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And, of course, this
is called a worldview,
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how you view the world
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and different aspects
of the world around you
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is what it is quickly
to find his world view.
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And that's what we
want to establish today.
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We want to adopt a
correct biblical worldview.
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And that's essentially
what the lesson is about.
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So I'm going to dive
into Sunday's lesson,
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and kind of just to set this up.
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As I was looking into
this lesson and studying,
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it kind of brought my
attention back to something
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that I saw a
couple of years ago,
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celebrity actor Jim Carey.
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Many people may
not know who he is,
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but he's a very
popular celebrity
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in the American nation.
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And he actually had an interview
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in which he
said of his worldview
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and his perspective in
kind of a twist on reality,
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he said, "We
don't really exist,"
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speaking of human beings,
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"we don't even matter," he says.
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And I thought
that to be interesting,
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but then I ran
across another interview
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with the chief
designer of Space X.
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And of course, the CEO of Tesla,
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his name is Elon Musk
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and it's interesting
because in a podcast,
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a public podcast interview,
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he said,
speaking of his worldview
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and his perspective of reality,
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he said, "We are most likely
living in an alternate reality
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or some kind of simulation."
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This was not,
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there was no
sarcasm, they were not,
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this was a real thing
where he was dead serious
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and his worldview
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or his picture
of reality is that,
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you know, right
now, as I'm speaking,
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and as people are
living and walking and talking
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and existing
around the world today
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that we're probably living
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in some kind of
alternate reality,
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or maybe we don't
even really exist,
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or maybe it's just
some kind of weird,
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you know,
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digital
assimilation of some kind.
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But, you know,
those are just examples
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of some of the modern takes.
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And some of the mentalities
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of what people are thinking
of in reference to the worldview
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and how the world
exists and what reality is,
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but at the end of the day,
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we need to make sure
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that we have a
proper biblical worldview.
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Even recently,
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an Oxford
University professor of chemist
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goes to the point
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that I was
making in the beginning,
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an Oxford University professor,
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I think the
lesson brings this out,
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has theorized that we,
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the world, and
everything around us,
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none of it is real.
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Instead,
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we are the digital
creations of a race of aliens
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with super powerful computers.
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And again,
these are real people,
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educated people with real ideas.
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And ultimately,
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what we need to ask is
what is the nature of reality?
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And really, it comes
down to two possibilities.
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Again, some people may think
more complex outside of this,
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but it comes down to two
foundational possibilities,
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as far as the realities
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that are out there today
in the average mind of people.
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And so the first
one is, and here it is,
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we've heard of this many times.
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The first is that the universe,
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okay, and all that is in
it, including us, just is.
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Nothing created
it, nothing formed it.
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It's just here.
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It is simply a brute fact,
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according to this
particular line of thinking.
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There is no God,
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there are no gods,
there is nothing divine.
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Reality is purely
material, purely natural.
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In other words, things just are,
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something
potentially came from nothing.
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But at the end of the day,
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it just is
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versus the second
true aspect of reality,
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which is where we
fall in line is that,
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you know what?
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There's a divine
being that created it all.
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There's a divine
intelligence behind it all.
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And there are
several biblical texts.
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This is where we kind
of get into what we believe
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to be the correct
biblical worldview.
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We have to go to the Word of God
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and ask ourselves,
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what does the Bible say
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and how can we
today as Christians,
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as believers fit our thinking
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and our understanding in harmony
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with what we know to
be the biblical worldview.
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And there's a few
texts that I believe
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help us line this idea out.
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Psalm 53:1, you
got to start there.
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Okay?
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Let's just make this
clear from God's perspective,
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from the divine perspective.
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Psalm 53:1 says,
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"The fool has said in his heart,
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there is no God."
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Okay, so let's just start there.
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"The fool has said in
his heart, there is no God."
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Yet we live in a reality.
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Pastor Lomacang
knows this very much
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as we get out
into the world today,
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and we begin to do evangelism,
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you're going to meet many,
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many more people
around the world.
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Some of the ideas that
come out of some people's minds
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is just amazing to me.
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And more and more from
the atheistic perspective,
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more and more
from the questioning,
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the skeptic mind
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of where did
everything come from
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and there's got to be
an answer for everything,
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and at the end of the day
it leads someone to question
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even the very reality
as we have clearly seen
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that we are living in.
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Proverbs15:3,
this is another one.
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And this is actually our
memory text for the week.
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"The eyes of the
Lord are in every place,
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keeping watch on
the evil and the good."
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So this is looking
into the omniscience
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and the all powerfulness of God,
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the all knowingness of God.
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God knows all, He sees all.
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And so, there is a reality
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in which God the
divine being created all.
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He knows all.
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There's an
intelligence behind creation
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and that's what the
biblical worldview teaches.
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John 3:16.
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Now this is
where we get into more
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of a spiritual aspect
of the biblical worldview,
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because we're not
talking about just some random,
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all powerful
being that's out there,
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we're talking about a real being
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that has real feelings
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that actually is much
different than the way
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the world portrays them.
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Notice John 3:16, "For God so,"
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that's an interesting word
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to use in
reference to a divine being.
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believes
in Him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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God loves.
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I grew up in school,
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or going to school
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I grew up
hearing year after year,
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they taught
this Greek mythology,
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Roman mythology.
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And the idea that these gods,
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you know, they're just
these all powerful beings,
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and they all have
different attributes
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and different powers.
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But the one thing
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that was consistent
with them all is that
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they really could care less
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if they had any interaction
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or any connection
with the human world,
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or the lesser
world of the humans.
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And so, you would,
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the common thing you
see in Greek mythology
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and even, you know,
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these polytheistic
religions around the world
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where they serve many,
many gods is this aspect
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that there's the
gods, they're out there,
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and then there's us,
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and they really
could care less about us.
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In fact, many of them
waged war against the humans.
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They tried to wipe
out and destroy humankind.
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But yet,
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Christianity is different
in the sense that right here,
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the biblical
worldview of who God is,
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He's not just some divine
God up there in the heavens,
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sitting on a
cloud with a, you know,
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powerful
lightning bolt in His hand
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waiting to just fry the earth,
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as you might see
in the story of Zeus
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and some of these other ones.
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But the Bible says that
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God so loved and
that's strange, right?
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Isaiah 45:21,
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"Tell and bring forth your case.
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Yes, let them
take counsel together,
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who has declared
this from ancient time,
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who has told it from that
time, have not either Lord,
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and there is,"
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he says, "have not I, the Lord,
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and there is no
other God besides me,
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a just God and a savior,
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there is none besides me."
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We serve a savior.
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So the biblical worldview,
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we have to also consider that
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not only is God the
divine creator of all,
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and that there's a divine
intelligence behind creation,
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but also it's
very, very important
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that we understand who God is.
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And I think that's
very, very powerful.
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And I have run out of my time,
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but I just want
to make this clear
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in the last few
seconds that I have here.
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Christians have a responsibility
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to make God who the
Bible says that He is.
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To really communicate who God
is from a biblical perspective,
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because many of us
are getting in trouble
00:14:20.59\00:14:22.22
in presenting God
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to be someone that He is not
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and it messes up the
worldview of who God is.
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Amen.
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Powerful lesson, Ryan.
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Thank you so much.
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Beautiful foundation
for the biblical worldview
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and who God is.
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On Monday, we have
"Leibniz's Question."
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Now, I hope I
pronounced his name correctly.
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Gofried Wilhelm Leibniz
was a German philosopher,
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logician and mathematician
of the enlightenment.
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He lived from 1646-1716.
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And his question,
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this is part of his argument
for the existence of God.
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His question is simply this,
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"Why is there
something rather than nothing?"
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That's the question
for Monday's lesson.
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Why is there
something rather than nothing?
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He says,
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"The sufficient reason
is found in the substance
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which is a necessary
being burying the reason
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for its existence within itself,
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meaning God has the reason
for existence within Himself.
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Why is there
something rather than nothing?
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This is the fundamental
question of metaphysics.
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Metaphysics, of course,
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is that branch of philosophy
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that examines the
fundamental nature of reality,
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which is what you
talked about reality,
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including the relationship
between mind and matter,
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and substance and attribute,
and potentiality and actuality.
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So why is there
something rather than nothing?
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This provides the
setting for our lesson,
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which is all about creation.
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Looking at creation,
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go with me to Genesis Chapter 1,
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as our biblical worldview,
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the lens through
which we view the world.
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There's four
points I want to make.
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First, God created
something out of nothing.
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Genesis 1:1.
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That's right.
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"In the beginning,
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God created the
heavens and the earth."
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The existence of
God is simply assumed,
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no explanation for
His existence is given,
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no reason for His origin.
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God is simply given.
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In the beginning,
God, God did what?
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God created.
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That word created in
Hebrew, I love that word Bara.
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The verb is used only
when God is the subject.
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God created.
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And it's always linked
to divine creative activity.
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Here it's used of God's ability
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to create
something out of nothing.
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It reminds me of Hebrews 11:3,
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Paul says, "By faith,
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we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God,
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so that the
things which are seen
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were not made of
things which are visible."
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It means that
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God made
something out of nothing.
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By what?
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By the Word of God.
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In the beginning, God,
in contrast to atheism,
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created alone, in
contrast to polytheism,
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He rules over creation,
in contrast to pantheism.
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Matter had a beginning,
as opposed to materialism.
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And the ultimate reality is God,
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not humanity.
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So point number one
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is God created
something out of nothing.
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Point number two, God spoke,
and it came into existence.
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That's right.
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Genesis 1:3, what did God say?
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God said, "Let there be
light and," what happened?
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"And there was light."
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The phrase God said
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appears nine times
in Genesis Chapter 1.
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God spoke and the
worlds were framed
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and things came into existence.
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It reminds me of Psalm 33.
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Let's jump over there.
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Psalm 33:6-9, "By
the," what's that?
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"The word of the Lord,
where the heavens made,
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and the host of them by
the breath of His mouth,
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He spoke, and it was done.
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He commanded,
and it stood fast."
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By the word of the Lord,
God spoke, and things happened.
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Light happened
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and plants and
animals and trees and flowers,
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you and I, God
formed us and created us,
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but everything else in creation,
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God spoke, and it was done.
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Point number three,
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all three
persons of the Godhead,
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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
were involved in creation.
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Genesis 1:1, we
already read that scripture,
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it clearly tells us
God's involved in creation.
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"In the beginning, who?
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"God created the
heavens and the earth."
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But some people say,
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"Well, God was involved,
but Jesus was not involved."
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He most certainly was involved.
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John 1, I love that,
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that comparison
between Genesis 1 and John 1.
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John 1:1,
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God."
00:19:16.55\00:19:18.15
Now who in the
world is the Word?
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The Word is the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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John 1:14, "The
Word was made flesh,
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and dwelt among us."
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In the beginning was the Word,
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meaning Jesus
preexisted from all eternity,
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"and the Word was with God,"
00:19:33.13\00:19:34.47
meaning Jesus is divine,
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"and the Word was God,"
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Father, Son
together in the beginning.
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Verse 3, John 1:3,
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"All things were
made through Him,
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and without Him,
00:19:47.15\00:19:48.48
nothing was made that was made."
00:19:48.52\00:19:50.92
That tells me that everything
that happened in creation,
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Jesus was involved in
00:19:54.42\00:19:56.16
and had an integral
part in that creation.
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Ephesians 3:9,
00:20:00.10\00:20:02.06
and to make all see
00:20:02.10\00:20:03.43
what is the
fellowship of the mystery,
00:20:03.47\00:20:05.23
which from the
beginning of the ages
00:20:05.27\00:20:06.87
has been hidden in God,
00:20:06.90\00:20:08.74
who created all
things through Jesus Christ.
00:20:08.77\00:20:13.48
God is the agent of creation,
00:20:13.51\00:20:15.08
but Jesus is the one who
actually made that happen.
00:20:15.11\00:20:18.98
Created the worlds
through Jesus Christ.
00:20:19.01\00:20:21.42
And as if that isn't enough,
00:20:21.45\00:20:22.88
Hebrews 1:2 tells
us the same thing.
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"God has in these last
days spoken to us by His Son,
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whom He's
appointed heir to all things
00:20:29.29\00:20:31.83
through whom also
He made the worlds."
00:20:31.86\00:20:35.43
Now the Holy Spirit was
present at creation as well.
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Genesis 1:2,
00:20:39.90\00:20:41.34
"This earth was
without form and void,
00:20:41.37\00:20:43.91
and darkness was
upon the face of the deep,
00:20:43.94\00:20:46.57
and the Spirit of God hovered
over the face of the waters."
00:20:46.61\00:20:51.48
Job talks about it
as well in Job 26:13.
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He says, "By His
Spirit, He adorned the heavens."
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Now point number four,
00:20:59.32\00:21:01.16
God created this
world in six literal days.
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That is an important world view.
00:21:06.80\00:21:10.40
We can have the
worldview that God created.
00:21:10.43\00:21:12.67
We can have the worldview
00:21:12.70\00:21:14.04
that God created
something out of nothing.
00:21:14.07\00:21:15.97
We can have the world view
00:21:16.00\00:21:17.34
that God the Father, Son,
00:21:17.37\00:21:18.71
and Holy Spirit were
involved in creation.
00:21:18.74\00:21:20.68
But if we do not
have the worldview
00:21:20.71\00:21:22.88
that God created this
earth in six literal days,
00:21:22.91\00:21:26.61
there comes a
problem with our theology
00:21:26.65\00:21:29.32
as we go
throughout the Word of God.
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Let's look at that,
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God's creation in
these six literal days.
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I see first in Genesis 1:5,
00:21:36.96\00:21:39.13
God's reference to
evening and morning being a day.
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He references that,
Genesis 1:5, what does he say?
00:21:44.57\00:21:47.10
God called the light day,
00:21:47.14\00:21:49.10
and the
darkness He called night.
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So the evening and the
morning were the first day.
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And Hebrew, it reads literally,
00:21:55.98\00:21:58.01
evening was,
morning was day one.
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Now that's pretty clear.
Would you say that's clear?
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That's 24-hour period.
00:22:04.02\00:22:05.72
Evening was,
morning was day one.
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If you were to translate
into English, you'd say,
00:22:09.02\00:22:10.76
and there was evening, and
there was morning, one day.
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It says the same thing.
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.87
In fact, the New
Living Translation,
00:22:16.90\00:22:18.43
which we don't
usually quote from,
00:22:18.47\00:22:19.80
but it says,
00:22:19.83\00:22:21.17
"An evening past
00:22:21.20\00:22:22.54
and morning came
marking the first day."
00:22:22.57\00:22:26.21
We know that the
Jews understood this.
00:22:26.24\00:22:28.21
If you look in Leviticus 23:32,
00:22:28.24\00:22:32.01
the Jews calculated a
day from sunset to sunset,
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the same way that
we keep the Sabbath.
00:22:36.08\00:22:38.65
From evening to evening,
00:22:38.69\00:22:40.46
you shall
celebrate your Sabbath.
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We can also look at the
use of the Hebrew word for day.
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Now that word for
day in Hebrew is yom,
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and it's used for
two different things.
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Sometimes it's used
for literal 24-hour period,
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which we believe how it's
used in the creation account.
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Other times it could be used
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for an
indefinite period of time.
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But when that noun yom,
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this word for day
appears in the Old Testament,
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when it's used with a numeral,
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it always refers to a
literal 24-hour period of time,
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which is in the
creation account.
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It's always
connected with a certain day,
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day one of creation,
or day two, or day three.
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You also think
about the interaction
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as it were between
the days of creation
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What I mean by that is
the plants and vegetation
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were created on day three.
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Now if plants were created,
and it was eons of time,
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until the light was created
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until not light,
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but until the sun,
moon and stars were created,
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you would have a problem
if there was eons of time.
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That's how you
get photosynthesis?
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And how would plants survive?
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And how would anything survive
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without the sun
for eons of time?
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The other reason is
that we see the link
00:23:49.76\00:23:52.29
between the fourth commandment,
the seventh day Sabbath,
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and a literal
six-day creation week,
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that link's
clearly seen in Exodus 20,
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the fourth commandment.
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Exodus 20:8-11.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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"Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh
day is the Sabbath
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of the Lord your God.
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In it, you
shall not do any work.
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You nor your son
nor your daughter,"
00:24:17.02\00:24:18.59
it goes on, we
jump down to verse 11.
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It says, "For in six days,
00:24:21.09\00:24:23.39
the Lord made
heavens and the earth,
00:24:23.43\00:24:25.79
the sea and all that in them
is and rested the seventh day.
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Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
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and hallowed it."
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We see here the
connection between the six days
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in which we are to work,
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the six days of, six
literal days of creation,
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and the seventh day
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that God blessed and sanctified,
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set apart and made holy.
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We see that, of
course, in the Garden of Eden,
00:24:48.95\00:24:50.55
Genesis 2 when God finished
to the end of His creative work
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those six
literal days of creation,
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and the seventh day He
blessed and sanctified it.
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So why is there
something rather than nothing?
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It's because in the beginning
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God existed from all eternity
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created the
heavens and the earth.
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Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
Thank you so much.
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That was powerful.
00:25:17.11\00:25:18.45
You're always very thorough
00:25:18.48\00:25:19.81
and as I'm
watching your notes there,
00:25:19.85\00:25:21.18
it's like, man, you've
got so much to talk about.
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But that was a blessing.
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We're going to pass it
on to Pastor John Lomacang
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for Tuesday's lesson.
00:26:09.10\00:26:10.93
Thank you, Ryan.
00:26:10.97\00:26:12.30
And thank you those
of you who are tuning in.
00:26:12.33\00:26:14.40
Actually, I'm going to continue
on the biblical worldview.
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This lesson is
very, very interesting.
00:26:17.67\00:26:20.41
And if you haven't
received a copy of it yet,
00:26:20.44\00:26:22.11
I know that
you'll really appreciate
00:26:22.14\00:26:25.11
when we could really open up
00:26:25.15\00:26:26.95
and walk through the
Word of God together.
00:26:26.98\00:26:29.38
I'm on Tuesday, October
20, if you have your lesson,
00:26:29.42\00:26:32.15
just go along with me.
00:26:32.19\00:26:33.69
I'm going to read
briefly the introduction.
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Because worldviews,
00:26:36.69\00:26:38.23
something that I
really appreciate
00:26:38.26\00:26:39.89
having traveled
more than 60 countries,
00:26:39.93\00:26:42.76
I could sit here this
morning and recognize that,
00:26:42.80\00:26:46.50
you know, I know
what's going on in Australia.
00:26:46.53\00:26:49.27
I can understand
00:26:49.30\00:26:50.64
what people are
doing in New Guinea.
00:26:50.67\00:26:52.67
I understand.
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.54
We've been to Paris together.
00:26:54.58\00:26:55.94
And we've been
there more than once.
00:26:55.98\00:26:57.91
Parts of Asia, the Caribbean,
00:26:57.95\00:27:00.72
I just recently saw,
00:27:00.75\00:27:02.68
I had an opportunity to go
down to the Virgin Islands.
00:27:02.72\00:27:06.09
And when I saw
someone's picture on Facebook
00:27:06.12\00:27:09.49
of the Virgin Islands,
00:27:09.52\00:27:10.86
I immediately got sick,
00:27:10.89\00:27:13.70
because I said
I should be there.
00:27:13.73\00:27:15.96
And so my mind, I
could sit here and worldview,
00:27:16.00\00:27:19.63
it makes a difference
in how you communicate,
00:27:19.67\00:27:22.40
how we think
00:27:22.44\00:27:23.77
and how we are able
to put a lesson together.
00:27:23.81\00:27:26.68
We start considering cultures
and people how they think,
00:27:26.71\00:27:30.28
to be able to
structure together.
00:27:30.31\00:27:32.61
And in the introduction
of the lesson, it says,
00:27:32.65\00:27:34.68
"As said in the introduction,
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.95
none of us views the
world from a neutral position."
00:27:36.99\00:27:41.56
Nobody does.
00:27:41.59\00:27:42.92
One writer says,
00:27:42.96\00:27:44.49
when people say
that they are not biased,
00:27:44.53\00:27:47.86
that's not
possible. Everyone is biased.
00:27:47.90\00:27:50.37
Everyone has a
bias to something.
00:27:50.40\00:27:53.90
So when people
say have an open mind,
00:27:53.94\00:27:56.30
that open mind is filtered
by that person's worldview.
00:27:56.34\00:28:01.11
If we say how fast was he,
00:28:01.14\00:28:03.55
and I heard this example,
00:28:03.58\00:28:05.41
somebody talked about
a snail versus a rabbit.
00:28:05.45\00:28:10.69
And they said,
00:28:10.72\00:28:12.05
the snail said
that rabbit was fast,
00:28:12.09\00:28:14.12
then somebody else
compared a car to a bicycle
00:28:14.16\00:28:17.23
and said that car was fast.
00:28:17.26\00:28:20.23
Then somebody else compared
a Cessna 152 to a fighter jet
00:28:20.26\00:28:24.73
and they said that jet was fast.
00:28:24.77\00:28:27.27
You notice each
of the comparisons,
00:28:27.30\00:28:29.20
somebody compared
00:28:29.24\00:28:30.57
a high school
runner to Usain Bolt.
00:28:30.61\00:28:33.71
And they said he was fast.
00:28:33.74\00:28:35.61
So it all depends
on the comparison,
00:28:35.64\00:28:37.45
what you're comparing it to.
00:28:37.48\00:28:39.35
So what I like to,
what I like to dive into,
00:28:39.38\00:28:41.82
is I like to use the gospels
00:28:41.85\00:28:43.35
in the
comparison of the worldview.
00:28:43.39\00:28:45.49
A lot of people read the Bible
00:28:45.52\00:28:46.86
for the purpose of using it too,
00:28:46.89\00:28:49.42
as a tool to argue with
Christians and they say,
00:28:49.46\00:28:52.93
well, Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John
00:28:52.96\00:28:54.56
don't always jive together,
00:28:54.60\00:28:56.16
they have some differences.
00:28:56.20\00:28:57.83
Well, consider the thought
00:28:57.87\00:28:59.50
before I get into the lesson,
consider the following thought.
00:28:59.53\00:29:03.30
You're standing on
one of the four corners
00:29:03.34\00:29:05.31
where an accident occurs,
and a large crowd gathers.
00:29:05.34\00:29:09.91
And what is
pertinent to the person
00:29:09.94\00:29:12.28
who was injured in the accident,
00:29:12.31\00:29:14.25
and the person who was
involved in the accident.
00:29:14.28\00:29:16.72
In America, we use
this phrase alleged,
00:29:16.75\00:29:19.32
we say alleged.
00:29:19.35\00:29:20.69
And in other words,
until it's proven it's alleged.
00:29:20.72\00:29:23.29
But sometimes that irritates me,
00:29:23.32\00:29:24.66
because you know,
00:29:24.69\00:29:26.03
you can see a video of a guy
00:29:26.06\00:29:27.40
mowing down people
with a machine gun.
00:29:27.43\00:29:28.76
And they say he
allegedly shot them
00:29:28.80\00:29:30.13
and I thought,
00:29:30.17\00:29:31.50
"Well, did he have a
stand-in, that's him."
00:29:31.53\00:29:33.30
So you get what I'm saying.
00:29:33.34\00:29:34.70
Now, now, my worldview
goes now to places like Dubai
00:29:34.74\00:29:39.94
or Abu Dhabi,
00:29:39.97\00:29:41.31
where in the very same context,
00:29:41.34\00:29:43.75
this is a kind of
a crude illustration,
00:29:43.78\00:29:45.78
but it was on the news,
00:29:45.81\00:29:47.25
where a person
with an extreme view
00:29:47.28\00:29:51.59
took the life of an
American school teacher
00:29:51.62\00:29:53.62
in a female's
bathroom in the airport.
00:29:53.66\00:29:56.83
And there were only
two people in the bathroom
00:29:56.86\00:29:58.63
and they saw this
person coming out,
00:29:58.66\00:30:00.00
the camera's caught
the face of the person.
00:30:00.03\00:30:02.36
They didn't use the word
00:30:02.40\00:30:03.73
she allegedly took
that person's life.
00:30:03.77\00:30:05.40
They said, "We got a video."
00:30:05.43\00:30:07.20
And she was hung
three days later.
00:30:07.24\00:30:09.77
No due process.
00:30:09.80\00:30:11.57
What a difference in worldview?
00:30:11.61\00:30:13.78
So when we went over to Dubai,
00:30:13.81\00:30:15.71
my wife was told,
00:30:15.74\00:30:17.15
leave your
pocketbook on the table.
00:30:17.18\00:30:18.61
We were in a huge
massive restaurant,
00:30:18.65\00:30:20.58
leave it right there.
00:30:20.62\00:30:21.95
My wife said, but my,
00:30:21.98\00:30:23.32
but all my bill,
they said it's fine.
00:30:23.35\00:30:25.02
Leave it right there.
00:30:25.05\00:30:26.39
We went in a restaurant,
there were hundreds of people.
00:30:26.42\00:30:28.09
She said,
"Leave it at the table.
00:30:28.12\00:30:29.46
Let's go to the
bar and get our food."
00:30:29.49\00:30:31.53
She said,
00:30:31.56\00:30:32.89
"Believe me, leave it
there, nobody will touch it."
00:30:32.93\00:30:35.06
Wow.
00:30:35.10\00:30:36.43
And no one touched it.
00:30:36.46\00:30:38.20
She said, "In this
country, if you steal something,
00:30:38.23\00:30:40.74
your hand is cut off.
00:30:40.77\00:30:42.97
In this country,
00:30:43.00\00:30:44.34
people take crimes seriously."
00:30:44.37\00:30:46.74
In America, they
allegedly took her purse.
00:30:46.78\00:30:49.64
In Dubai or in Middle
East, Oh, we got you on video,
00:30:49.68\00:30:53.35
three days later,
00:30:53.38\00:30:54.72
you won't be able to
wave goodbye any longer.
00:30:54.75\00:30:57.25
Not to make light of that.
00:30:57.29\00:30:58.69
But the worldview of
justice is quite different
00:30:58.72\00:31:01.19
when you think about the world.
00:31:01.22\00:31:02.72
They literally think
of an eye for an eye,
00:31:02.76\00:31:04.69
a tooth for a tooth.
00:31:04.73\00:31:06.06
So they said it's one
of the safest societies
00:31:06.09\00:31:08.23
in the world for women.
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.07
A woman could walk the street,
00:31:10.10\00:31:11.87
and nobody would even
considered bothering her
00:31:11.90\00:31:14.17
because they are
thinking of the consequences.
00:31:14.20\00:31:16.54
What a difference in worldview
as compared to America.
00:31:16.57\00:31:19.17
Now sometimes we think,
00:31:19.21\00:31:20.54
well, we wouldn't
mind having some of that.
00:31:20.58\00:31:23.45
But then again, boy,
00:31:23.48\00:31:24.81
it'll really turn
our world upside down.
00:31:24.85\00:31:27.22
So when we
think about worldview,
00:31:27.25\00:31:28.58
let's go to the Book of Jonah.
00:31:28.62\00:31:29.95
I want to show you
something and I'm kind of diving
00:31:29.98\00:31:32.42
in a completely different
direction than the writer.
00:31:32.45\00:31:35.72
Because these questions
00:31:35.76\00:31:37.09
that are asked in the
context of Jonah Chapter 1
00:31:37.13\00:31:40.23
are very pertinent
00:31:40.26\00:31:41.86
to developing a
person's worldview.
00:31:41.90\00:31:44.30
Now we know the story,
00:31:44.33\00:31:45.67
Jonah was told to go to Nineveh,
00:31:45.70\00:31:47.80
he went to Tarshish instead.
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.04
He went to the
opposite direction,
00:31:50.07\00:31:52.37
turbulence hit,
00:31:52.41\00:31:53.81
the mariners
couldn't control the ship,
00:31:53.84\00:31:56.08
the passengers knew
something was wrong.
00:31:56.11\00:31:59.18
And we start now verses 7 to 9.
00:31:59.21\00:32:01.98
And if you follow the story,
Jonah went down, he went down,
00:32:02.02\00:32:05.55
he went down, he went down.
00:32:05.59\00:32:07.56
The life of a person
running from the Lord.
00:32:07.59\00:32:10.29
But now verse 7,
00:32:10.33\00:32:11.99
"And they said to one another,"
00:32:12.03\00:32:13.93
trying to figure out
00:32:13.96\00:32:15.30
why the ship is
in such disrepair,
00:32:15.33\00:32:17.57
"Come, let us cast lots
00:32:17.60\00:32:19.67
that we may know
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.10
for who's caused this
trouble has come to us."
00:32:21.14\00:32:24.64
So they cast lots and
the lot fell on Jonah.
00:32:24.67\00:32:29.08
Then they said to him,
00:32:29.11\00:32:30.55
'Please tell us
00:32:30.58\00:32:32.18
for whose cause is
this trouble upon us?'"
00:32:32.21\00:32:36.32
Now, notice the questions.
00:32:36.35\00:32:37.69
These are all
worldview questions.
00:32:37.72\00:32:39.95
"What is your occupation?"
00:32:39.99\00:32:41.69
Okay.
00:32:41.72\00:32:43.06
Second one,
"Where do you come from?"
00:32:43.09\00:32:46.26
Third, "What is your country?"
00:32:46.29\00:32:49.23
Fourth, "And of
what people are you?"
00:32:49.26\00:32:53.34
And his sheepish
disobedient response,
00:32:53.37\00:32:56.54
"I am a Hebrew
and I fear the Lord,
00:32:56.57\00:32:59.51
the God of heaven,
00:32:59.54\00:33:00.88
who made the sea
and the dry land."
00:33:00.91\00:33:02.61
If that's in
fact the case, Jonah,
00:33:02.64\00:33:04.65
why are you going in
the opposite direction?
00:33:04.68\00:33:07.32
Not a good time to testify
00:33:07.35\00:33:08.68
about your
relationship with the Lord
00:33:08.72\00:33:10.05
when you're in club, partying.
00:33:10.09\00:33:12.75
Or when you are
at a magazine stand
00:33:12.79\00:33:14.16
looking at what you shouldn't
00:33:14.19\00:33:16.32
or when you're buying
something that has alcohol in it
00:33:16.36\00:33:19.26
and the person next to you says,
00:33:19.29\00:33:20.63
"I watch you on 3ABN."
00:33:20.66\00:33:22.66
Now that hasn't happened,
00:33:22.70\00:33:24.03
just want to make
that point very quick.
00:33:24.07\00:33:26.23
But I noticed I was in a store.
00:33:26.27\00:33:29.34
This is years ago in California,
00:33:29.37\00:33:31.07
I had on a cap, I
had dark sunglasses,
00:33:31.11\00:33:33.01
I had on shorts.
00:33:33.04\00:33:34.38
It was a Sunday,
long before 3ABN,
00:33:34.41\00:33:36.41
but I've been on television
on TBN with Heritage Singers,
00:33:36.44\00:33:38.95
and somebody said,
"Hey, is that you?"
00:33:38.98\00:33:41.25
And I turned around
startlingly, they said,
00:33:41.28\00:33:43.39
"Hey, I watch
you with Heritage."
00:33:43.42\00:33:44.89
And I said to my wife,
00:33:44.92\00:33:46.25
you know, now, our
slogan is we cannot dis...
00:33:46.29\00:33:49.46
We can't be disobedient
anywhere in the world
00:33:49.49\00:33:52.99
because you never know
00:33:53.03\00:33:54.36
we are surrounded by a
great cloud of witnesses.
00:33:54.40\00:33:56.83
So when you think about that,
00:33:56.87\00:33:59.87
think about the
questions asked to Jonah.
00:33:59.90\00:34:02.94
And that when you begin
to answer these questions,
00:34:02.97\00:34:05.17
you begin to understand
the impact of your life
00:34:05.21\00:34:07.74
on a world stage.
00:34:07.78\00:34:09.44
Because Jonah's life,
what is your occupation?
00:34:09.48\00:34:13.11
I know years ago,
00:34:13.15\00:34:14.48
the question was asked
to a pastor on an airplane,
00:34:14.52\00:34:16.42
what do you do?
00:34:16.45\00:34:17.79
And he said to the person,
00:34:17.82\00:34:19.15
"Hey, I'm a
motivational speaker."
00:34:19.19\00:34:22.72
What he didn't know,
00:34:22.76\00:34:24.09
well, that person was
going to the same place he went,
00:34:24.13\00:34:25.79
and they both ended
up at a camp meeting.
00:34:25.83\00:34:28.16
And that lady who
was not a Christian said,
00:34:28.20\00:34:31.30
I saw him on the plane.
00:34:31.33\00:34:32.67
He told me he was a
motivational speaker,
00:34:32.70\00:34:34.04
but he's a pastor.
00:34:34.07\00:34:35.40
What is your occupation?
00:34:35.44\00:34:36.77
Are you a
Christian all the time?
00:34:36.81\00:34:39.37
Are you a
Christian all the time?
00:34:39.41\00:34:41.51
When you think
about our responsibility,
00:34:41.54\00:34:43.35
I can't be a pastor
only when I'm in a church.
00:34:43.38\00:34:46.15
I've got to be a
pastor all the time.
00:34:46.18\00:34:48.52
So I'm challenging you as
a person who is a Christian.
00:34:48.55\00:34:52.75
Most of you
watching are Christians,
00:34:52.79\00:34:54.62
many of you watching
our Seventh-day Adventists.
00:34:54.66\00:34:56.69
You must understand
00:34:56.73\00:34:58.06
your position mindset
of who you are all the time
00:34:58.09\00:35:01.70
must be
applicable to the witness
00:35:01.73\00:35:04.43
that you give of Christ
00:35:04.47\00:35:05.80
because the way
that you demonstrate
00:35:05.83\00:35:08.70
would affect people's
worldview about your occupation.
00:35:08.74\00:35:12.47
The other one,
where do you come from?
00:35:12.51\00:35:13.84
Now, this is a
very challenging one,
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.21
because West Indian people,
00:35:15.24\00:35:17.05
I know that if
you say to a person
00:35:17.08\00:35:18.41
that's from Jamaica,
00:35:18.45\00:35:19.78
they're from
Trinidad, it's an offense.
00:35:19.81\00:35:21.15
Or you from Puerto
Rico and they're from Spain,
00:35:21.18\00:35:23.52
it's an offense.
00:35:23.55\00:35:24.89
People look at
where they're from
00:35:24.92\00:35:26.55
as highly a thing of pride,
00:35:26.59\00:35:29.99
but the Christian must
look at where they're headed.
00:35:30.03\00:35:32.89
So that shapes my worldview
00:35:32.93\00:35:34.66
more than where I'm from
00:35:34.70\00:35:36.03
because as you can tell,
00:35:36.06\00:35:37.40
I go to the Virgin Islands
00:35:37.43\00:35:38.77
and come back
with a tan like this.
00:35:38.80\00:35:40.30
And many, many shades darker
00:35:40.34\00:35:41.67
and people think I'm from India,
00:35:41.70\00:35:43.71
as somebody once said,
"Is your husband from India?"
00:35:43.74\00:35:46.61
No.
00:35:46.64\00:35:47.98
"Well, what is he?"
00:35:48.01\00:35:49.34
And my wife went
through the litany.
00:35:49.38\00:35:50.71
He's Filipino, white,
black and Native American.
00:35:50.75\00:35:53.28
They said, "Never mind."
00:35:53.31\00:35:55.48
But my worldview
is, I am a Christian,
00:35:55.52\00:35:57.55
Where am I from is not as
important as where I'm headed.
00:35:57.59\00:36:00.02
The third one,
what is your country?
00:36:00.06\00:36:01.92
As a Christian, the
answer is very simple.
00:36:01.96\00:36:04.73
My citizenship is in heaven,
but my location is on earth.
00:36:04.76\00:36:10.80
So when we
consider our citizenship,
00:36:10.83\00:36:12.83
once again, it
affects our worldview.
00:36:12.87\00:36:14.90
That means we
should be Christians
00:36:14.94\00:36:16.27
wherever we are,
00:36:16.30\00:36:18.14
and we never
know who is watching.
00:36:18.17\00:36:20.21
So make sure that
you're representing
00:36:20.24\00:36:21.98
the citizenship of the kingdom
00:36:22.01\00:36:23.55
where you're headed
00:36:23.58\00:36:24.91
rather than where you came from.
00:36:24.95\00:36:26.55
And also finally,
what people are you?
00:36:26.58\00:36:29.38
What people am I?
00:36:29.42\00:36:30.79
I am a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian.
00:36:30.82\00:36:32.79
Now I take that
with a sense of spirit.
00:36:32.82\00:36:35.69
Is there such
thing as spiritual pride?
00:36:35.72\00:36:37.66
Be careful.
00:36:37.69\00:36:39.03
Be careful, that's a tightrope.
00:36:39.06\00:36:41.76
Maybe I should say appreciation.
00:36:41.80\00:36:44.47
Appreciating the foundation
of my spiritual conviction
00:36:44.50\00:36:49.70
allows me to appreciate
everyone else's conviction,
00:36:49.74\00:36:52.47
because Jesus says
your worldview affects
00:36:52.51\00:36:55.14
how you communicate with others.
00:36:55.18\00:36:57.05
Other sheep I have
that are not of your fold.
00:36:57.08\00:37:00.18
So keep that in mind
00:37:00.22\00:37:01.68
when you represent the Christ
of what people you are of?
00:37:01.72\00:37:05.19
Shelley.
00:37:05.22\00:37:06.55
Amen. Thank you.
00:37:06.59\00:37:07.92
You know, I was thinking
00:37:07.96\00:37:09.29
as you were talking
about this comparison,
00:37:09.32\00:37:11.96
part of our
problem, even as Christians,
00:37:11.99\00:37:15.00
is that we have been infiltrated
00:37:15.03\00:37:19.27
with Greek thinking,
00:37:19.30\00:37:21.64
you know, we're
trying to prove something.
00:37:21.67\00:37:24.14
This book, the Bible is a
Hebrew document primarily.
00:37:24.17\00:37:29.74
So Hebrews, you know,
00:37:29.78\00:37:32.41
when it starts
off in the beginning,
00:37:32.45\00:37:34.38
God, it just tells
it assumes God existed,
00:37:34.42\00:37:38.69
doesn't try to
prove that He existed.
00:37:38.72\00:37:41.66
But the first 11
chapters of Genesis
00:37:41.69\00:37:46.56
cover 2, 000 years of history,
00:37:46.59\00:37:49.73
but then the next 39
cover 150 years of history,
00:37:49.76\00:37:56.10
heavily weighted
toward the Abrahamic Covenant.
00:37:56.14\00:38:00.64
So this is a book of covenant.
00:38:00.68\00:38:03.98
And, boy, our worldview,
00:38:04.01\00:38:05.78
if we don't look at this
from a Hebrew perspective,
00:38:05.81\00:38:10.22
we're going to miss a lot.
00:38:10.25\00:38:11.59
Now, I have Wednesday's
"Worship the Redeemer."
00:38:11.62\00:38:15.12
Jill, you covered pretty well,
00:38:15.16\00:38:16.52
we were supposed
to cover John 1:1-14,
00:38:16.56\00:38:20.70
"In the beginning
was the Word," was.
00:38:20.73\00:38:23.57
He was eternal, "and
the Word was with God, "
00:38:23.60\00:38:27.34
that means He was
distinct from God.
00:38:27.37\00:38:30.41
You've got two persons
of the Godhead right there,
00:38:30.44\00:38:33.21
"and the Word was God,"
00:38:33.24\00:38:35.94
He is divine,
He always has been,
00:38:35.98\00:38:38.68
"the Word became
flesh, and He dwelt among us."
00:38:38.71\00:38:43.08
I want to take you
to Philippians 2:5-8,
00:38:43.12\00:38:46.79
because if we think
about worshiping the Redeemer,
00:38:46.82\00:38:51.79
we've got to
recognize who this Redeemer is.
00:38:51.83\00:38:56.16
Jill did such a beautiful job
00:38:56.20\00:38:58.90
of covering Him as creator.
00:38:58.93\00:39:03.51
There are people even
in the Christian world
00:39:03.54\00:39:07.01
who think of Jesus,
00:39:07.04\00:39:11.18
the person of Jesus
Christ as the Son of God,
00:39:11.21\00:39:14.12
they think of the Son of God,
almost in a secondary sense,
00:39:14.15\00:39:18.05
like there is priority.
00:39:18.09\00:39:19.75
God the Father, God the
Son, maybe then the Holy Spirit.
00:39:19.79\00:39:23.56
But let's look at
this, Philippians 2:5,
00:39:23.59\00:39:26.59
"Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus,
00:39:26.63\00:39:32.17
who being in the form of God,"
00:39:32.20\00:39:35.04
and the word there in the Greek
00:39:35.07\00:39:36.97
for form denotes an essential,
00:39:37.01\00:39:40.64
unchanging
character of something.
00:39:40.68\00:39:44.01
So Paul's right here saying,
00:39:44.05\00:39:45.58
hey, Jesus
eternally has been God.
00:39:45.61\00:39:49.28
He said He did not consider
it robbery to be equal with God,
00:39:49.32\00:39:54.36
because He was God.
00:39:54.39\00:39:56.16
"But He made
himself of no reputation
00:39:56.19\00:39:58.09
taking the form
of a bond servant
00:39:58.13\00:40:00.93
coming in the likeness of men
00:40:00.96\00:40:02.86
and being found in
the appearance of a man,
00:40:02.90\00:40:05.20
He humbled Himself
00:40:05.23\00:40:06.57
and became obedient
to the point of death,
00:40:06.60\00:40:09.64
even the death of the cross."
00:40:09.67\00:40:13.81
Jesus Christ crucified,
00:40:13.84\00:40:17.31
resurrected is at the
center of all we believe,
00:40:17.35\00:40:21.75
so it's important for us
00:40:21.78\00:40:24.52
to understand
the Triune Godhead.
00:40:24.55\00:40:28.99
To me when we say, 1
John 4:8, 1 John 4:16 says,
00:40:29.02\00:40:33.70
"God is love."
00:40:33.73\00:40:35.06
This is the
essence of His being.
00:40:35.10\00:40:38.10
But you know,
00:40:38.13\00:40:39.47
to love you have to
have a recipient of love.
00:40:39.50\00:40:42.24
If God were just...
00:40:42.27\00:40:44.41
We don't believe that it's God,
00:40:44.44\00:40:47.24
one plus one plus one
that would equal three,
00:40:47.28\00:40:50.25
but it's God the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
00:40:50.28\00:40:54.52
one times one
times one, one cubed,
00:40:54.55\00:40:58.65
one to the third power,
00:40:58.69\00:41:00.86
and His presence is in the cube.
00:41:00.89\00:41:03.22
Think of the Holy
of Holies was a cube,
00:41:03.26\00:41:06.19
that the New
Jerusalem coming down is a cube.
00:41:06.23\00:41:10.03
So to me that's
excited to understand
00:41:10.07\00:41:14.80
that God came down to
become the Son of Man,
00:41:14.84\00:41:20.84
to become the Son of God.
00:41:20.88\00:41:24.48
It was God who
went to the cross.
00:41:24.51\00:41:26.95
Why should we
worship our Redeemer?
00:41:26.98\00:41:29.35
He is our Creator.
00:41:29.38\00:41:32.39
Matthew 1:23
00:41:32.42\00:41:35.12
repeats the
prophecy of Isaiah 7:14.
00:41:35.16\00:41:40.80
Says, "Behold,
00:41:40.83\00:41:42.26
the virgin shall be
with child and bear a Son,
00:41:42.30\00:41:44.37
they shall call
his name Immanuel,"
00:41:44.40\00:41:48.77
which is translated God with us.
00:41:48.80\00:41:53.44
It was God,
00:41:53.48\00:41:55.58
who came to
earth to become a man.
00:41:55.61\00:41:59.11
Hebrews 1:8 says,
00:41:59.15\00:42:01.52
"To the Son, He
says, "Your throne, "
00:42:01.55\00:42:05.65
this is the Father
speaking to the Son,
00:42:05.69\00:42:08.52
interesting language,
00:42:08.56\00:42:10.09
"Your throne, O God
is forever and ever,"
00:42:10.13\00:42:15.90
speaking to the Son.
00:42:15.93\00:42:18.37
You see, our
Creator became our Redeemer,
00:42:18.40\00:42:23.81
and He paid the price
00:42:23.84\00:42:26.51
to free us from
the bondage of sin.
00:42:26.54\00:42:31.51
What happens according,
I love this scripture.
00:42:31.55\00:42:34.38
Now that I've done
more study on it, I really,
00:42:34.42\00:42:37.29
1 Corinthians 15:45.
00:42:37.32\00:42:40.66
1 Corinthians 15:45
00:42:40.69\00:42:44.09
will help us understand
the person of Jesus Christ.
00:42:44.13\00:42:50.13
It says,
00:42:50.17\00:42:51.77
"The first man, Adam,
became a living being.
00:42:51.80\00:42:56.97
The last Adam is a life,
became a life-giving spirit."
00:42:57.01\00:43:03.38
It's wrong to call
Jesus the second Adam.
00:43:03.41\00:43:06.41
He's the last Adam.
00:43:06.45\00:43:08.75
See, it is this
covenant language.
00:43:08.78\00:43:14.69
Adam was called the Son of God.
00:43:14.72\00:43:19.49
When God came down to
become the Son of Man,
00:43:19.53\00:43:22.70
when He was
incarnated, born of a woman,
00:43:22.73\00:43:26.27
He became the Son of
Man, and the Son of God.
00:43:26.30\00:43:30.11
He was the last Adam.
00:43:30.14\00:43:32.77
The covenant is all about
00:43:32.81\00:43:35.38
a succession of covenant sons.
00:43:35.41\00:43:41.18
When we think of the words,
the Son of God, as I said,
00:43:41.22\00:43:46.79
Adam is called the Son of God,
00:43:46.82\00:43:48.52
David was referred
to as the Son of God,
00:43:48.56\00:43:51.79
the Son of God
is a covenant term.
00:43:51.83\00:43:55.13
So God in the
person of Jesus Christ
00:43:55.16\00:44:01.60
became the Son of
God as the second,
00:44:01.64\00:44:05.14
the last Adam, excuse me.
00:44:05.17\00:44:08.31
When we use the word firstborn,
00:44:08.34\00:44:12.98
in the covenant language
00:44:13.01\00:44:15.62
it doesn't necessarily mean
00:44:15.65\00:44:18.15
the order of a chronological
order of your birth.
00:44:18.19\00:44:23.73
As a matter of
fact, in Exodus 4:22,
00:44:23.76\00:44:27.56
let's look there.
00:44:27.60\00:44:29.53
Exodus 4:22,
00:44:29.56\00:44:31.83
this is God
speaking, and he says,
00:44:31.87\00:44:36.30
"You shall say to
Pharaoh, thus says the Lord,
00:44:36.34\00:44:42.38
'Israel is my son.'" What?
00:44:42.41\00:44:46.31
This is covenant language.
00:44:46.35\00:44:48.38
Israel was the Son of God,
00:44:48.42\00:44:50.65
he says, "My first born."
00:44:50.69\00:44:54.52
See, firstborn just simply means
00:44:54.56\00:44:58.46
it's the channel
00:44:58.49\00:44:59.89
through which covenant blessings
00:44:59.93\00:45:01.96
are going to pass.
00:45:02.00\00:45:03.37
Israel wasn't the first nation.
00:45:03.40\00:45:06.13
But God chose them
for a covenant purpose.
00:45:06.17\00:45:09.70
Look at Deuteronomy 32:18.
00:45:09.74\00:45:13.78
And the reason I'm
wanting to stress this,
00:45:13.81\00:45:16.54
I hope I don't confuse you.
00:45:16.58\00:45:18.51
This is just to
introduce you to this concept.
00:45:18.55\00:45:23.05
But in Deuteronomy
32:18, God says of Israel,
00:45:23.08\00:45:29.39
or speaking of God, He says,
00:45:29.42\00:45:31.39
"Of the rock, who begot you, "
00:45:31.43\00:45:37.37
begotten, yes, the word can mean
00:45:37.40\00:45:40.54
that you've
given birth to a child.
00:45:40.57\00:45:44.17
But in covenant language,
00:45:44.21\00:45:46.51
when it is used, did
God give birth to Israel?
00:45:46.54\00:45:50.55
No, it means they're set apart
00:45:50.58\00:45:54.25
for a covenant purpose.
00:45:54.28\00:45:57.59
So when it's talking
about Jesus being when He said,
00:45:57.62\00:46:01.36
the Lord said to Him,
00:46:01.39\00:46:02.72
"Today, I have begotten you."
00:46:02.76\00:46:06.66
The important
point is to remember,
00:46:06.70\00:46:09.86
it was God, who
went to the cross for us.
00:46:09.90\00:46:14.14
It wasn't some
secondary situation here.
00:46:14.17\00:46:20.41
1 Timothy 3:16 says,
00:46:20.44\00:46:22.04
"Great is the
mystery of godliness,
00:46:22.08\00:46:24.18
God was manifested in the flesh,
00:46:24.21\00:46:27.02
justified in the spirit,
00:46:27.05\00:46:28.95
preached among the
Gentiles, believed in the world,
00:46:28.98\00:46:31.55
and received up in glory."
00:46:31.59\00:46:35.32
He is the eternal person,
00:46:35.36\00:46:37.63
the second
person of the Godhead,
00:46:37.66\00:46:40.30
who became the last
Adam and died for us.
00:46:40.33\00:46:43.77
I think that is amazing.
00:46:43.80\00:46:45.47
Now, let's... We
want to tie that in.
00:46:45.50\00:46:49.20
And I really didn't
have much of a chance
00:46:49.24\00:46:51.01
to look at the
lesson for Thursday.
00:46:51.04\00:46:53.98
But the Thursday's lesson
00:46:54.01\00:46:57.01
is talking about the law of God.
00:46:57.05\00:46:58.98
Let's begin with Exodus 3:2.
00:46:59.01\00:47:02.95
Just turn in
your Bibles to Exodus,
00:47:02.98\00:47:05.95
I hope I can get where
I want to go with this,
00:47:05.99\00:47:09.49
but Exodus 3:2 says this,
00:47:09.52\00:47:15.53
"The angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a flame,"
00:47:15.56\00:47:18.33
to Moses,
00:47:18.37\00:47:19.70
"in a flame of fire
from the midst of a bush,
00:47:19.73\00:47:21.74
and he looked, and behold,
00:47:21.77\00:47:23.54
the bush was burning with fire."
00:47:23.57\00:47:25.61
The angel of the Lord,
00:47:25.64\00:47:26.98
the word angel
there means messenger.
00:47:27.01\00:47:29.98
It means, who's
in this burning bush?
00:47:30.01\00:47:33.98
Take off your shoes,
you're on holy ground.
00:47:34.02\00:47:36.52
This is God.
00:47:36.55\00:47:38.69
This is Jesus Christ,
who is in the burning bush,
00:47:38.72\00:47:42.92
the angel of the Lord.
00:47:42.96\00:47:45.46
Now, also, we know
that if you turn to...
00:47:45.49\00:47:49.60
I've got, I did
write a note down
00:47:49.63\00:47:51.40
somewhere here real quickly.
00:47:51.43\00:47:53.60
If you turn to Exodus 19:4,
00:47:53.64\00:47:59.24
let's turn there.
00:47:59.27\00:48:01.48
In Exodus 19:4,
I love this verse.
00:48:01.51\00:48:05.61
God says,
00:48:05.65\00:48:06.98
"You have seen what
I did to the Egyptians
00:48:07.02\00:48:10.95
and how I bore
you on eagle's wings
00:48:10.99\00:48:13.59
and brought you to Myself."
00:48:13.62\00:48:15.86
This is covenant love language.
00:48:15.89\00:48:18.86
God had already
redeemed them from Egypt.
00:48:18.89\00:48:24.07
He had already brought them out,
00:48:24.10\00:48:26.03
He had saved them,
00:48:26.07\00:48:27.40
they come through the Red Sea.
00:48:27.44\00:48:29.20
Now they've come to
that He's telling them,
00:48:29.24\00:48:31.94
"Gather before
Me on Mount Sinai,"
00:48:31.97\00:48:33.84
and what does God do?
00:48:33.88\00:48:35.21
He comes down with shocking awe.
00:48:35.24\00:48:38.45
Pyrotechnics,
there's fire, there's smoke.
00:48:38.48\00:48:41.42
He's going to show them,
they've forgotten who He is,
00:48:41.45\00:48:44.95
that He is good,
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.32
that He is
just, that He is holy.
00:48:46.35\00:48:48.46
And when He speaks
His Ten Commandments,
00:48:48.49\00:48:51.06
it's not in that
tone of thou shalt not.
00:48:51.09\00:48:54.86
I'm sure, the voice of the Lord,
00:48:54.90\00:48:56.80
they say is like
many rushing waters.
00:48:56.83\00:49:00.67
But these are 10 promises.
00:49:00.70\00:49:02.94
He's going to
show them His love.
00:49:02.97\00:49:05.67
And on the first
tablet, He's saying to them,
00:49:05.71\00:49:08.51
hey, when you're in
covenant relationship with Me,
00:49:08.54\00:49:12.45
My saved ones,
00:49:12.48\00:49:14.55
you will not have
other gods before Me.
00:49:14.58\00:49:17.69
You will not make
idols like they did in Egypt.
00:49:17.72\00:49:21.89
You won't bow down to those,
you won't take My name in vain.
00:49:21.92\00:49:25.59
You are going to be so
excited about the Sabbath,
00:49:25.63\00:49:28.53
you will remember the Sabbath,
00:49:28.56\00:49:30.30
you will come to
Me to fellowship,
00:49:30.33\00:49:32.80
you will not,
00:49:32.83\00:49:34.60
you will honor
your mother and father,
00:49:34.64\00:49:36.64
you won't murder, you
won't commit adultery,
00:49:36.67\00:49:38.61
you won't steal, you
won't bear false testimony,
00:49:38.64\00:49:41.64
and you're not going to covet.
00:49:41.68\00:49:44.25
Why?
00:49:44.28\00:49:45.61
Because that's what covenant
relationship with Me is like.
00:49:45.65\00:49:49.15
You know, I want you
to look at the preamble
00:49:49.18\00:49:52.95
to these Ten Commandments.
00:49:52.99\00:49:54.96
God speaking them,
00:49:54.99\00:49:56.69
He says, "I am the Lord
00:49:56.73\00:49:58.09
your God who brought you
out of the land of Egypt,
00:49:58.13\00:50:03.20
out of the house of bondage."
00:50:03.23\00:50:05.73
Oh blessed be
the name of the Lord.
00:50:05.77\00:50:08.94
He is telling
them, "I'm your Savior."
00:50:08.97\00:50:12.37
So they're not
going to have to obey
00:50:12.41\00:50:14.04
these Ten
Commandments to be saved.
00:50:14.08\00:50:16.91
They're going to obey them
00:50:16.95\00:50:18.28
as an expression of
covenant love and loyalty,
00:50:18.31\00:50:22.78
because He's already saved them.
00:50:22.82\00:50:25.15
Now, this is interesting.
00:50:25.19\00:50:27.52
We know that James tells
us, James, what is it 2:8,
00:50:27.56\00:50:32.19
that if you break
one, you break them all.
00:50:32.23\00:50:34.50
The Ten Commandments are
linked together as a body.
00:50:34.53\00:50:40.14
You can't break a
chain in the middle
00:50:40.17\00:50:43.24
and still be
keeping His commandments.
00:50:43.27\00:50:46.71
So let's look at
the fourth commandment
00:50:46.74\00:50:48.74
because the very
one that God's says,
00:50:48.78\00:50:51.91
remember, it's the
one everybody forgets.
00:50:51.95\00:50:54.72
In commandment number
four, this is Exodus 20:8.
00:50:54.75\00:50:59.09
This is the longest commandment.
00:50:59.12\00:51:01.82
He says,
00:51:01.86\00:51:03.19
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:51:03.22\00:51:05.26
Six days you shall labor,"
00:51:05.29\00:51:07.06
some people need to hear that,
00:51:07.10\00:51:08.86
"six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
00:51:08.90\00:51:11.17
but the seventh
day is the Sabbath,
00:51:11.20\00:51:14.60
the Lord your God."
00:51:14.64\00:51:16.24
I want to pause,
00:51:16.27\00:51:17.61
Genesis 2:2-3 mentions
00:51:17.64\00:51:21.04
the seventh day
three times in creation.
00:51:21.08\00:51:23.55
It says, "God
rested on the seventh day,
00:51:23.58\00:51:26.88
God blessed the seventh day,
00:51:26.92\00:51:29.35
God sanctified the seventh day."
00:51:29.38\00:51:32.12
Only God can sanctify a day,
00:51:32.15\00:51:34.92
setting it apart
for holy purposes.
00:51:34.96\00:51:37.86
And then He goes on to say,
00:51:37.89\00:51:40.00
"In it, you shall do no work,
00:51:40.03\00:51:42.56
you nor your son,
nor your daughter,
00:51:42.60\00:51:44.17
nor your male servant,
nor your female servant,
00:51:44.20\00:51:46.84
nor your cattle,
nor your stranger
00:51:46.87\00:51:48.80
who was within your gates."
00:51:48.84\00:51:51.57
I remember, I didn't
grow up as a Sabbath keeper.
00:51:51.61\00:51:57.05
I was 50 years old
00:51:57.08\00:51:58.61
when God called me
to full-time ministry.
00:51:58.65\00:52:01.75
He told me, I'm
praying and said,
00:52:01.78\00:52:04.65
"Lord, you got to show me
what You want me to teach."
00:52:04.69\00:52:08.12
And you know what
00:52:08.16\00:52:09.49
the Lord
impressed on my mind is,
00:52:09.52\00:52:12.16
"Come sit at My
feet, I will teach you."
00:52:12.19\00:52:14.26
He started me on the
study of the sanctuary.
00:52:14.30\00:52:17.23
I found out His Ten Commandments
00:52:17.27\00:52:18.97
are written on
stone inside the ark,
00:52:19.00\00:52:22.10
that meant permanence.
00:52:22.14\00:52:23.81
Then I found out that
the book of the covenant,
00:52:23.84\00:52:26.54
all of the rest
of those regulations
00:52:26.57\00:52:29.01
in which the Ten
Commandments was the heart
00:52:29.04\00:52:31.81
was on the side
pocket of the ark.
00:52:31.85\00:52:34.58
And all of a
sudden, I'm going, "Oh,
00:52:34.62\00:52:37.22
there's only one commandment
that I'm not keeping."
00:52:37.25\00:52:41.42
And I studied the
Sabbath commandment.
00:52:41.46\00:52:45.66
I have never been so excited
00:52:45.69\00:52:47.46
the first time that
I celebrated a Sabbath.
00:52:47.50\00:52:52.90
The Sabbath is a
memorial of God as creator.
00:52:52.93\00:52:56.30
But the one it's a memorial
00:52:56.34\00:52:58.11
that He is the one
who is recreating us
00:52:58.14\00:53:00.98
in the image of Jesus.
00:53:01.01\00:53:03.98
It's a memorial
that He is our Redeemer,
00:53:04.01\00:53:06.88
that He is our Savior.
00:53:06.92\00:53:08.42
The Sabbath,
00:53:08.45\00:53:09.85
also God says in Exodus 31:13,
00:53:09.88\00:53:14.06
He said,
00:53:14.09\00:53:15.42
"My Sabbath I
gave to You as a sign
00:53:15.46\00:53:18.79
that I am the one
who sanctifies you."
00:53:18.83\00:53:22.90
If you don't know
00:53:22.93\00:53:24.27
what the word sanctifying means,
00:53:24.30\00:53:26.47
actually, it's a
synonym for holy.
00:53:26.50\00:53:29.17
But both of those words
00:53:29.20\00:53:30.77
just mean to be
set apart for God.
00:53:30.81\00:53:34.51
So, all of my life,
00:53:34.54\00:53:37.25
I had grown up in a
New Testament Church,
00:53:37.28\00:53:40.62
then I had gone into a
full gospel type church,
00:53:40.65\00:53:45.39
a non-denominational church.
00:53:45.42\00:53:47.96
But you know what?
00:53:47.99\00:53:49.32
All of my life I
performed for God.
00:53:49.36\00:53:53.80
I tried to earn His favor.
00:53:53.83\00:53:56.73
It was not until
00:53:56.77\00:53:59.17
the day that I began
celebrating the Sabbath.
00:53:59.20\00:54:03.17
I remember that
first Sabbath day.
00:54:03.20\00:54:05.07
As it rolled
in, I was just like,
00:54:05.11\00:54:08.81
Lord, thank you that
I am not only justified
00:54:08.84\00:54:13.28
by grace through faith,
00:54:13.31\00:54:15.32
but you're the one that
is going to sanctify me.
00:54:15.35\00:54:18.49
You're the one as
Philippians 2:13 says,
00:54:18.52\00:54:21.39
who is working in me to will
00:54:21.42\00:54:23.02
and to do your good pleasure.
00:54:23.06\00:54:25.13
You are the one as
Philippians 1:6 says
00:54:25.16\00:54:27.96
that is going to
complete the good work
00:54:28.00\00:54:30.03
You've begun in me.
00:54:30.07\00:54:32.83
You know, I have to say
this to my friends out there.
00:54:32.87\00:54:36.47
1 John 3:4 says,
00:54:36.50\00:54:40.74
"Sin is the
transgression of the law."
00:54:40.78\00:54:44.38
If God intended to
do away with His law,
00:54:44.41\00:54:48.08
if He would have
changed His Sabbath day,
00:54:48.12\00:54:50.89
we know that
Daniel 7:25 says that
00:54:50.92\00:54:53.96
there is going to be a power
00:54:53.99\00:54:55.39
who thinks to take
change times and laws.
00:54:55.42\00:54:59.39
The only time that
we find in God's law
00:54:59.43\00:55:01.40
is the Sabbath time.
00:55:01.43\00:55:03.13
But if God intended to do that,
00:55:03.16\00:55:06.07
He would have
announced it and He never does.
00:55:06.10\00:55:09.07
The New
Testament is the outworking
00:55:09.10\00:55:12.54
of all of God's
covenant promises
00:55:12.57\00:55:15.81
and He promises you
00:55:15.84\00:55:19.11
that you will walk in
loyalty and obedience,
00:55:19.15\00:55:23.89
if you just understand
how much He loves you.
00:55:23.92\00:55:26.86
Amen. Amen.
00:55:26.89\00:55:28.22
Wow! Praise the Lord.
That was powerful, Shelley.
00:55:28.26\00:55:30.13
Thank you so much.
00:55:30.16\00:55:31.49
Well, we have just a
little over two minutes left.
00:55:31.53\00:55:34.30
Let's get some final
thoughts from the panel.
00:55:34.33\00:55:36.33
I had Monday Leibniz's Question,
00:55:36.36\00:55:38.93
"Why is there
something rather than nothing?"
00:55:38.97\00:55:41.07
And why is that?
00:55:41.10\00:55:42.44
'Cause in the
beginning, God created,
00:55:42.47\00:55:45.24
and He not only
created this world,
00:55:45.27\00:55:46.98
but He sent His
Son Jesus to die for us
00:55:47.01\00:55:49.61
because He wanted to redeem us
00:55:49.64\00:55:52.45
so that we could
spend an eternity with Him.
00:55:52.48\00:55:56.75
Okay.
00:55:56.79\00:55:58.12
And mine was on
the biblical worldview.
00:55:58.15\00:56:01.02
When I narrow it down
to the biblical worldview,
00:56:01.06\00:56:04.86
I think that is so easy
00:56:04.89\00:56:06.39
when we talk to people
00:56:06.43\00:56:07.76
that may not
believe what we believe,
00:56:07.80\00:56:09.50
we can narrow it down to say,
00:56:09.53\00:56:11.33
here's the reality of
the biblical worldview,
00:56:11.37\00:56:14.47
as we all are born,
00:56:14.50\00:56:16.17
we all die, and
we all need a Savior.
00:56:16.20\00:56:19.31
And when we approach
it from that perspective,
00:56:19.34\00:56:22.04
people will begin to see
00:56:22.08\00:56:23.48
that it's not your
viewpoint nor your opinion,
00:56:23.51\00:56:25.65
but we are at that
beginning point of birth,
00:56:25.68\00:56:28.08
on the same plane,
00:56:28.12\00:56:29.45
and each one of us
is in need of a Savior,
00:56:29.48\00:56:30.99
Amen.
00:56:31.02\00:56:32.35
And mine was
Wednesday, Worship the Redeemer.
00:56:32.39\00:56:35.16
Why should we worship
Him? Because He is our Creator.
00:56:35.19\00:56:38.19
Remember the covenant language,
00:56:38.23\00:56:40.50
when we talk
about the Son of God,
00:56:40.53\00:56:42.36
it's the son of the covenant,
00:56:42.40\00:56:43.90
the firstborn is the preeminent,
00:56:43.93\00:56:46.40
it doesn't have anything to do
00:56:46.43\00:56:48.24
in covenant language
about the chronology,
00:56:48.27\00:56:51.97
and begotten
doesn't mean to be birthed
00:56:52.01\00:56:56.58
but to be set aside for
chosen for covenant purposes,
00:56:56.61\00:57:01.38
and then the law of God.
00:57:01.42\00:57:03.52
Oh, this is God's way
00:57:03.55\00:57:05.82
of putting boundaries around us,
00:57:05.85\00:57:08.52
so that we will
walk in His blessings
00:57:08.56\00:57:11.49
and avoid sin's consequences.
00:57:11.53\00:57:14.90
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:57:14.93\00:57:16.26
There was a section
from Sunday's lessons
00:57:16.30\00:57:17.93
that I didn't
get a chance to read,
00:57:17.97\00:57:19.57
but I want to read it now
00:57:19.60\00:57:20.94
because I think it
ties everything together.
00:57:20.97\00:57:22.30
It's essential to
any Christian education
00:57:22.34\00:57:24.54
is the reality not just of God,
00:57:24.57\00:57:27.38
but of the kind
of God that He is.
00:57:27.41\00:57:30.41
A personal God who loves
us and who interacts with us.
00:57:30.45\00:57:34.38
And I think that's powerful.
00:57:34.42\00:57:35.98
When we know who God is,
00:57:36.02\00:57:37.39
we have the
correct biblical worldview,
00:57:37.42\00:57:40.16
then everything comes
together and make sense.
00:57:40.19\00:57:43.16
So thank you so much
for joining us this week
00:57:43.19\00:57:45.43
on 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
00:57:45.46\00:57:46.90
We hope that you
join us next week
00:57:46.93\00:57:48.36
for lesson number five,
00:57:48.40\00:57:50.13
"Jesus as the Master Teacher."
00:57:50.17\00:57:53.03
So you have a blessed day
00:57:53.07\00:57:54.44
and we will see you
right back here next week.
00:57:54.47\00:57:56.77
God bless. Amen.
00:57:56.81\00:57:58.14