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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:11 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:13 I'm Mollie Steenson, 01:15 and I always appreciate you joining with us every day 01:19 as we bring our guests into your home. 01:21 And today, we're going to open up a Bible study. 01:25 And I've got two pastors with me. 01:28 And in the greenroom, 01:30 before we came out just a little earlier, 01:33 we were talking kind of the area 01:36 we wanted to take this program. 01:38 And something I realized these men 01:41 are so full of the Word of God, 01:44 they're just bubbling over 01:46 so you just prepare yourself for the most... 01:48 One of the most exciting Today programs 01:51 I believe we've had here at 3ABN. 01:54 We are going to be looking at creation, why creation? 01:59 Because that is a foundation 02:02 that we must believe in 02:04 to call ourselves followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. 02:08 Now, I want to lay a little foundation myself 02:11 before I introduce you to... 02:14 They're not guests, they are pastors here at 3ABN 02:18 but the foundation I want to lay is in John 8:44, 02:22 and these are words of the Lord Jesus Christ. 02:25 He is talking about religious leaders at the time, 02:30 who, were meaning to kill Him. 02:32 And this is what He says. 02:34 "You are of your father the devil, 02:37 and the desire of your father you want to do. 02:40 He was a murderer from the beginning, 02:42 and he does not stand in the truth, 02:44 because there is no truth in him. 02:47 When he speaks a lie, 02:48 he speaks from his own resources, 02:51 for he is a liar and the father of it." 02:54 Today we are going to look at lies 02:59 that the father of lies 03:01 has perpetrated throughout the centuries 03:04 to the negate the word of the living God. 03:08 He has a plan and a purpose, 03:10 we're going to look at some of these lies, 03:13 and bring truth in their wake. 03:16 So I want to introduce to you now John and John. 03:20 Pastor John Lomacang, 03:21 it's always a joy to have you with us. 03:23 And are you ready to tackle this subject? 03:26 By God's grace we are. Praise God. 03:28 Pastor John Dinzey, 03:30 it's a joy to have you with us as well. 03:31 It's a pleasure to be here. 03:32 And I would say the same, by God's grace we are. 03:35 By God's grace. There are areas... 03:38 Satan through his followers has deceived the world. 03:42 And we need to address these areas of deception 03:46 because areas of deception 03:49 are like our children having a broken glass, 03:55 a broken fruit jar. 03:56 Have you ever seen that, Pastor John? 03:58 They are dangerous evil looking things, aren't they? 04:00 And just put those in the hands, 04:02 a broken fruit jar in the hands of a child. 04:06 And think of the damage that poor child 04:08 can do to itself with that. 04:10 What you do when you see your child 04:13 with something that's going to do him harm? 04:15 You don't go snatch it away from him, 04:17 what would that do? 04:18 It would do harm as well. What you do? 04:21 Is you say, 04:22 "Honey, here is this nice rubber ball, 04:24 give me that broken fruit jar." 04:26 You replace, in our case error with truth. 04:32 And so before we go to the subject of creation 04:36 and these areas that the enemy 04:38 has so brought damage to humanity 04:43 with his lies and deceptions. 04:45 We've got Tammy Chance with us, 04:47 and she is going to bring us a beautiful song, 04:50 "Because of who you are". 05:01 You spoke the words and all the worlds 05:05 Came into order 05:08 You raised Your hands and planets filled 05:12 The empty skies 05:15 You placed a woman and a man inside the garden 05:22 And though they fell 05:24 They found compassion in Your eyes 05:30 Lord, I stand amazed at the wonder of it all 05:36 Yet a greater wonder brings me to my knees 05:43 Lord, I praise You because of who You are 05:50 Not for all mighty deeds that You have done 05:57 Lord, I worship You because of who You are 06:04 It's all the reason that I need to voice my praise 06:09 Because of who You are 06:18 One holy night You sent Your promise 06:22 From a virgin 06:25 And promise grew to He revealed to us 06:29 Your heart Enduring love displayed throughout 06:36 Your crucifixion 06:39 And through Your death 06:40 You tore the dark and grave apart 06:46 Oh, Lord, I stand amazed at the wonder of it all 06:54 Yet a greater wonder brings me to my knees 07:00 Lord, I praise You because of who You are 07:07 Not for all the mighty deeds that You have done 07:14 Lord, I worship You because of who You are 07:20 It's all the reason that I need to voice my praise 07:27 Lord, I praise You because of who You are 07:34 Not for all the mighty deeds that You have done 07:41 Lord, I worship You because of who You are 07:48 It's all the reason that I need to voice my praise 07:54 Because of who You are 08:00 Because of who You are 08:08 Because of who You are 08:26 Thank you, Tammy, because of who you are. 08:29 What an appropriate song for this program today. 08:32 Pastor Lomacang, we've addressed the fact 08:36 that it's the enemy 08:37 that has brought deception into the world. 08:39 And I want you to address 08:41 some of those areas of deception 08:44 that are most prominent in society today. 08:47 Well, there are various apologetics. 08:50 And those are simply 08:52 formulation of a system of beliefs 08:55 under which a person stands. 08:56 And the four common ones 08:58 that three of the common ones that challenge creationism 09:02 is you have atheism, evolution, and agnosticism. 09:06 Now we could eliminate one of them immediately 09:08 because agnosticism or an agnostic is a person 09:12 who hasn't decided one way or the other. 09:14 So they would be the yellow line on the highway 09:16 they're not going east or west, they're not going anywhere. 09:19 Because they haven't considered the evidence 09:21 in favor of or against 09:23 so elimination right away there... 09:24 So to say I'm an agnostic 09:26 because I believe is an oxymoron 09:29 because agnostics don't believe, 09:31 they just have not concluded what to believe. 09:33 Then you have atheism, 09:37 atheism in and of itself is almost a minus, minus 09:43 which it eliminates itself 09:44 because atheism is the belief 09:47 that God doesn't exists 09:50 or more specifically 09:52 not only the belief that God doesn't exist, 09:55 but they say that the evidence 09:57 for the existence of God does not exist. 10:01 Now let me say that again, 10:03 the evidence for the existence of God does not exist. 10:06 Let me use an example. 10:07 If you say that you're robbed, 10:09 something was taken out of your purse, 10:11 then you would have to say to me what it was. 10:13 You can't say I was robbed and you don't have any evidence 10:15 of what was taken out of your purse. 10:18 So to say that atheism has a valid foundation, 10:23 the point of the matter is there is no argument 10:27 in favor of the fact that God does not exist 10:33 because they cannot prove, 10:35 they cannot give evidence that God does not exist, 10:38 and they cannot give evidence that God does not exist 10:43 so we come down to evolution. 10:45 And to go ahead and build us even further, 10:48 and I'll let Pastor Dinzey chime in here real quickly 10:52 because, you know, to deal with this topic 10:54 justifiably in the time we have, 10:56 I can't go through all the loops or all the hoops. 11:00 Say for example, all I need is evidence, 11:03 and what many people don't believe today, 11:06 what many people don't know today 11:07 is you don't need a lot of evidence 11:09 to prove the existence of God. 11:11 Case in point, in this studio, studio A, 11:16 if we came in tomorrow 11:18 and, you know, on the cooking set 11:21 where someone cooked the day before, 11:23 and I'm saying this 11:25 as a supposition not as a reality, 11:27 and you go to the toaster, 11:29 next to the toaster 11:30 and you find two or three little black dots 11:33 by the toaster, 11:35 you'll immediately call 11:38 housekeeping or an exterminator, 11:41 and you'll say, 11:43 "There is a mouse in the house." 11:47 And the atheist could say, "Have you seen him?" 11:54 No. 11:55 "Well, how do you know that he exists?" 11:57 In this entire studio, we say, well, he left three signatures. 12:02 Three little black dots which is his excrement, 12:07 that's all I need to produce the fact that he does exist 12:10 because nothing can exist in and of itself 12:13 except something put it there or something produced it. 12:18 Now, because I don't see the mouse, 12:20 it doesn't mean that he doesn't exist 12:23 because he left a little signature, 12:25 three little dots... 12:26 We've got evidence that that mouse was in the house. 12:28 Exactly. 12:29 So when you now look at atheism and say, 12:30 well, the evidence 12:32 was the non-existence of God exists, 12:35 atheists have no evidence for the non-existence of God. 12:40 So it in fact it's a platform that eliminates itself 12:44 in the simplistic form because, you know, 12:46 there are many loops they run through. 12:47 But I like to summarize that particular way, 12:49 and then you have evolution 12:51 which we're going to talk about in just a moment. 12:52 But, Pastor Dinzey, you want to add something to that? 12:54 Yes, you know, the interesting thing is 12:59 that all around us, 13:01 and I could almost say practically every day 13:04 people see evidence of God's existence. 13:09 They either see it or feel it. 13:11 So I would say to you that 13:15 perhaps some people had not made a decision 13:18 because they are not accepting the evidence that's there, 13:22 but there is plenty of evidence 13:25 but at the same time we can say 13:26 that for those that choose not to believe 13:30 God has left that as well open. 13:33 But at the same time I also want to add, 13:35 you mentioned that the devil is out there. 13:40 I could say to you 13:41 that there are a few hundred thousand perhaps 13:45 people that will even be willing to die to say, 13:49 yes, the devil that exist, why? 13:51 Because they worship the devil, they are devil worshipers. 13:55 But I'm glad to say there are millions of people 13:57 that say God does exist, 13:59 and they will stand on the witness stand and tell you, 14:03 Yes, God does exist, He has changed my life, 14:07 He has answered prayers, 14:10 or some people would say to you, 14:11 "Oh, yes, He told me this." 14:12 I'll tell you this, I'll tell you a story, 14:15 I heard on the radio if I may 14:17 because we're talking about does God exist. 14:19 This all boils down, does God exist or does He not? 14:22 Is He the Creator? 14:23 That's the root of the perpetration of the lie 14:26 to start with. 14:27 I was on my way to Chicago, and I'm listening to the radio. 14:29 And this man was saying on the radio 14:33 that God doesn't talk to people anymore. 14:35 And he was a Christian, 14:37 but he was saying God doesn't talk to people anymore. 14:39 And a lady called and said, 14:42 "I'm sorry, but I disagree with you, 14:44 God does talk to people. 14:46 Let me tell you what happened to me. 14:48 I was practically bankrupt, I had no hope in anyone, 14:55 I was about to take my life, I was an atheist, 15:00 I didn't believe in God." 15:02 And she says, "I was about to take my life 15:05 and God said to me, 15:06 'Don't do it, I love you, give me a chance, 15:09 and I will help you.'" 15:11 She said, "That totally changed my life, 15:13 I started to search for God, I became a Christian. 15:16 And I can tell you had not God spoken to me, 15:20 I will tell you that there is no God, 15:22 but He has proven to me over and over again 15:23 that He does exist. 15:25 So like this there are hundreds of thousands, 15:28 if not millions of people that will tell you, 15:29 God does exist. 15:31 So the first area that we addressed 15:34 that the enemy has deceived the world 15:36 is that of atheism that God doesn't exist, 15:40 but next you wanted to look at... 15:42 Well, let me just add one more thing to atheism 15:44 because if you talk about the fact that... 15:46 If I say to you, and I use this example. 15:49 If I say to you that there is no one in this 3ABN 15:54 that has the last name Hinkle. 15:59 Hinkle, okay. 16:00 Now what do I have to be able to do 16:01 in order to determine that? 16:03 I have to know the last name of everybody here. 16:06 I cannot leave out one individual 16:09 and make that a valid statement. 16:10 In other words a negative statement 16:12 is valid only when every possibility 16:15 has been exhausted to verify that the statement is true. 16:19 If I say there are no Toyotas in my entire organization, 16:21 and I sell cars from the east coast to west coast, 16:23 north to south. 16:25 I have to check every car dealership 16:28 to determine that under my organization 16:30 there are no Toyotas. 16:32 I can't make that statement 16:33 without exhausting every possibility of verifying 16:38 that my statement is backed up with evidence. 16:40 So to say that God does not exist, 16:44 you have to preclude that one you have gone every place 16:47 that God could possibly exist 16:49 to determine that He does not exist. 16:51 Well, ask ourself the question, how many planets are there? 16:54 And how many planets have we been to? 16:56 Well, we've been to the moon, 16:57 we haven't been to Mars yet and we are in 2018. 17:00 So if God exist on Mars, 17:03 then we can't say that God does not exist 17:05 because we haven't been to Mars. 17:06 And then you have my... 17:08 You have all the, you know, my very educated mother 17:10 just served us nine pickles. 17:12 Now, Pluto has been eliminated as a non-planet. 17:14 But let's just say God exist on Pluto, 17:16 you haven't been there 17:18 so you cannot say that God does not exist. 17:19 My point is for an atheist to say 17:21 that God does not exist, 17:22 he or she has to exhaust every possible place 17:25 that God could possibly exist. 17:27 That's just within our solar system. 17:29 That's just within the Milky Way one of them, 17:31 let's go to the other avenue of that. 17:36 How many galaxies are there? 17:38 Based on scientific and astronomical evidence 17:40 so far they said that, at least, 17:42 what they've discovered there are over 200 billion, 17:46 200 billion galaxies. 17:50 So my point is, 17:52 we haven't even gone to Mars yet, 17:54 let alone 199 billion more galaxies, 17:58 199 billion, 999 million, 999,000, 999... 18:03 We haven't even gone to all of those galaxies 18:05 yet to prove that God does not exist 18:07 so to say the evidence that God does not exist, 18:12 it doesn't exist. 18:14 You know, there is a French word bookoo. 18:17 There is an abundance of evidence 18:19 that God exists all over. 18:21 And I would say to people even inside you, 18:23 there is evidence that God exists. 18:25 And I'm going to read the scripture, 18:27 so we're going to share the scripture 18:28 so I'm going to read. 18:30 My first one is 1 Corinthians 15:19, 18:33 and this is Paul saying, 18:35 "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, 18:38 we are of all men most miserable." 18:41 Now Paul is talking to Christians, 18:43 and he is saying to some Christians 18:45 that believe that the only thing we had was this world. 18:48 And if that's it, we are really miserable. 18:51 So I would say to people that are atheists 18:53 or considering not believing in God, 18:56 you know, you owe it to yourself. 19:00 If you think this is all you have, if this world, 19:02 this life is all you have, 19:04 what you can possibly hope to... 19:07 What's the best you can possibly hope for? 19:10 Make as much money as you can, get the best house you can, 19:13 fortify it so nobody comes in, 19:16 and try to leave your life 19:17 to what you understand will make you happy. 19:19 If this is all you have, 19:21 there is a possibility of getting some disease. 19:24 I mean, you have to put gloves on, 19:26 and not to touch anything 19:27 because there is bacteria out there. 19:29 If in this life, if this is all you have, 19:32 you're going to be miserable. 19:34 But I say to you, look for God search for him 19:36 because you find God, you'll find hope, 19:39 you find God, you'll have not only hope, 19:41 but you'll find joy, and happiness, and peace 19:44 that begins in this world but continues forever 19:45 because God promises eternal life. 19:48 If at the end of all this, 19:49 if you choose not to believe in God, 19:50 if at the end of all this, you say, 19:53 "I'm going to choose not to believe in God." 19:54 At the end of all this you will die, 19:56 and then let's say I was right, 19:59 and God does exist, 20:00 you're going to come up in the resurrection 20:01 as the Bible says and see, 20:03 "Well, I was completely wrong, " 20:05 and you're going to miss out on all the wonderful things 20:08 that God has for you. 20:09 But if we are right, and we are, 20:12 then you give your life to the Lord what do you have. 20:14 Well, you're going to live life as the Bible says without pain, 20:18 suffering, sickness, nor death, no fear. 20:21 There's somebody is going to come 20:22 and take your things or kill you 20:24 because God is going to end all the evil in the world, 20:27 and it will be life of happiness without end. 20:30 So the best thing you could do for yourself is 20:33 search for the Lord, you owe it to yourself 20:35 to look for the evidence and, 20:37 but there is this aspect of you must believe that God is, 20:41 there is an aspect of faith. 20:43 That's right. 20:44 Because, you know, evolutionists and creationists 20:47 both have one thing in common. 20:49 Evolutionists never saw 20:51 the big bang that they stand on, 20:53 on one side. 20:54 And evolutionists never saw there is no... 20:58 You would think that over the course 20:59 let's say 3 million, 5 million, 15 million 21:01 they go back to this different ages that they... 21:04 As you go back to billions. 21:05 But they say that through the course of time, 21:08 this evolutionary process 21:10 through something called natural selection. 21:12 In other words, there is a term in Darwinism 21:15 called biological evolution 21:17 which simply in a nutshell says 21:19 this biological evolution happened 21:21 when these genes or allies as they refer to them 21:25 were took on mutation. 21:28 And the mutation decided 21:29 with interaction to the environment 21:32 what was needed to survive that environment. 21:35 Let's give an example, 21:36 let's say if you lives in an environment 21:38 where there was extreme cold, 21:40 well, they're saying that the gene 21:44 interacting with the environment 21:45 to determine this, 21:47 this is what you needed to survive in that environment. 21:49 But as millions of years rolled 21:51 then that evolutionary process continued 21:53 and the environment and the gene together 21:55 determined what you needed to evolve there. 21:57 The problem with that 21:58 that's something called in a simplistic way 22:02 it's called morphology. 22:03 In other words, my outward appearance 22:05 and my inward appearance 22:06 continued to morph until I got to a standard. 22:09 And here is the problem with that. 22:11 You've seen the picture of the ape 22:12 that eventually start changing inwardly and outwardly 22:16 until it stands up erect like a man. 22:18 The problem with that 22:20 is we still have chimpanzees today, 22:21 we still have apes today. 22:22 And so if you follow that train of thought, 22:25 it is in essence saying 22:26 that the presence of this chimpanzee 22:28 is evidence that eventually 22:30 in the course of millions of more years, 22:32 he's going to evolve into man. 22:35 As compared to what God has given us 22:37 you have the genotype 22:40 or more specifically the DNA 22:42 that determines what I'm going to be from the very outset. 22:44 Amen. 22:46 So we went from the lie of atheism 22:50 now to the lie of evolution. 22:54 The invalid premise of evolution. 22:57 In other words, we evolve to become what we are. 23:00 And the environment determines that 23:02 and this gene and the morphing of it 23:04 determining what this... 23:06 They call it the word that's used the phenotype 23:09 that means simply the environment 23:11 influence this genetic mutation, 23:13 and it determines what you eventually become 23:16 but the problem with that, Mollie and John, 23:19 is that this is called 23:22 through the whole process of natural selection. 23:24 And they say, well, natural selection is not coincidental 23:28 but the choosing of these genes 23:30 arise by coincidence. 23:33 And this is where they say that the strongest survives. 23:36 Right, the strongest survives 23:38 or more specifically the strongest survive 23:40 because in that environment 23:41 only as the genes determine and the environment determine, 23:45 this is what you need to be 23:47 so you survive in that environment. 23:48 If the strongest survive, 23:50 you know, what if according to that theory... 23:53 And we have to realize these are all theories. 23:55 If the strongest survive, we are the strongest. 23:58 Hey, we've survived. 24:01 Based on that theory. Based on that theory. 24:03 Darwin's general theory and we're going to look at 24:07 who Darwin was and his general theory 24:10 presumes the development of life 24:13 from non-life 24:15 that is his presumption life from non-life. 24:21 And what is the diametrically apposition of that, 24:24 what is diametrical opposition of origin. 24:28 Creation. Divine design. 24:31 That we didn't just happen to emerge, 24:36 everything was planned and calculated. 24:40 That's right. 24:42 And when you have that... 24:44 When you look at the two categories, 24:45 you have to come to some very serious conclusions 24:49 because either we are a biological anomaly, 24:53 coincidentally put together and our intelligence 24:56 is totally coincidental or there is a divine designer. 25:01 And if you look at coloring books, 25:02 I like this example, I saw this one person use, 25:04 they had a photo album 25:07 of some beautiful pictures of nature, 25:09 and they showed a person 25:10 who didn't believe in God, they said, "Are you atheist?" 25:11 They said, "We're atheists." 25:13 He said, "Look at my album, look at my photo album." 25:15 And they began to look at the pictures in the album. 25:17 And they said, 25:19 "Do you think that picture was made by 25:21 just color falling out of the sky 25:23 and just falling into place?" 25:24 He said, "No, somebody had to paint that. 25:26 Somebody had to put together." 25:28 The reality of it 25:29 is we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 25:34 Amen. 25:36 Not coincidentally and circumstantially developed, 25:40 evolutionarily we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 25:43 Psalms 139:14, 25:46 "Fearfully and wonderfully made." 25:48 So this theory of evolution, 25:53 why do you think the enemy, 25:56 and we've seen here that according to Jesus, 26:00 His own words, 26:01 the Satan is a liar and the father of lies. 26:06 Why would he perpetrate such a lie 26:10 that we weren't, aren't fearfully and wonderfully made 26:15 but and that we were a product of evolution, 26:20 not a product of creation, 26:23 why would he perpetrate such a lie? 26:26 Why would he sell that lie to so many of his followers? 26:30 Well, I'll give you one possibility. 26:32 And my understanding is 26:34 that he wants to get God out of the picture, 26:36 God does not exist, God did not create you, 26:38 don't worry about God, don't follow God, 26:41 live life as you please, do whatever you want, 26:43 do whatever it feels good, that's what you do. 26:47 That's one possibility, I would say, 26:49 and that's really what a lot of people are following. 26:52 Now I would like to say 26:53 something concerning the origin of species by Darwin. 26:57 And in that Origin of Species book, 27:00 he went to the Galapagos Islands, 27:02 and he observed the different animals 27:04 that are there. 27:05 Some of them look prehistoric from pictures I have seen. 27:07 I haven't been there myself. 27:09 But he observed and that kind of got him going on 27:13 what to write. 27:14 Now he did some research, 27:15 but he didn't do all the research 27:18 to understand how we are here. 27:20 And that is to read the Bible 27:22 and see that in the beginning 27:24 God created the heavens and the earth. 27:27 And there is a text that I would like to read 27:29 because he made some references to the animals 27:33 where we have already talked about, 27:34 Pastor Lomacang mentioned natural selection. 27:38 And he observed some things about the animals, 27:40 and he said that the animals made changes 27:44 according to climates and things like that, 27:46 they were then passed on to other generations 27:48 and on and on, and so on. 27:50 Now notice what the Bible says in Genesis 1:20. 27:55 "Then God said, 'Let the waters abound 27:58 with an abundance of living creatures, 28:00 and let birds fly above the earth 28:02 across the face of the firmament of the heavens.' 28:05 So God created great sea creatures 28:08 and every living thing that moves, 28:11 with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, 28:14 and every winged bird according to its kind. 28:18 And God saw that it was good. 28:22 And God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply, 28:25 and fill the waters in the seas, 28:26 and let birds multiply on the earth.' 28:29 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day." 28:32 And now I made some emphasis on kind, 28:35 and I don't know if Pastor Lomacang 28:37 wants to comment on that at this point. 28:38 Well, kind, nothing... 28:42 If you look at this whole idea of evolution, and once again, 28:45 you know, 50 billion there's such a astronomical figure 28:49 that's often applied to explain in evolution 28:52 how we got to where we are today. 28:54 But let's just start that with the amoeba, 28:56 a single cell 28:58 then the paramecium, 28:59 the duplication of that cell splitting off. 29:00 And then it continues to duplicate, quadruple, 29:04 until it all of a sudden form some kind of water creature 29:07 because, you know, the fact of the matter 29:09 is that any planet does not have water, 29:12 this is where this comes from 29:13 any planet that does not have water cannot sustain life. 29:17 So the evolutionists used that to say, 29:19 "Okay, well then, so the life began in the water 29:21 and eventually crawled up on land." 29:24 And morph, as I talked about this morphology, 29:27 the choosing of a gene, a phenotype, 29:30 interacting with the environment 29:32 to create another species 29:33 which then created another species 29:34 until we get to the point where, okay, 29:36 we have men and women. 29:37 Oh, we have birds and animals, 29:39 and if you think of the millions of species 29:41 and millions of types of creation 29:43 we have from fish, to birds, 29:47 to elephants, to gazelles, to tigers, to leopards, 29:51 they have some similarities. 29:54 But I'm not similar to a leopard 29:56 and neither are you, 29:57 but we have this DNA code that, in fact, determines 30:00 what we are to be 30:02 rather than incidental phenotypes 30:04 interacting with the environment 30:06 that we are existing in which evolution says. 30:09 The Bible says, 30:10 "In the beginning God created 30:13 the heavens and the earth." 30:14 And when you think about that another aspect of 30:18 the death of evolution as well as atheism 30:21 is the planet itself... 30:22 Let's just go to a different direction altogether. 30:25 Let's consider for a moment the Big Bang theory. 30:27 Can I add a little bit before you go to the explosion? 30:30 Okay, yeah. 30:32 I made emphasis on kind, and he addressed it. 30:35 And that is that he mentioned the word splitting, 30:39 you know, that was part of the explanation 30:42 that scientists have come up with in Darwin. 30:46 That here you have the species and eventually the environment 30:49 and something made this animal decide to split, 30:55 in other words, the next generation of that animal 30:57 had some characteristics from that one 30:59 and formed a new species. 31:02 And I used the word created, 31:03 but he said form the new species. 31:05 Morphology. Morphology. 31:07 So that's the premise of evolution 31:10 that everything comes from one common ancestor. 31:15 He made the mention of an amoeba. 31:17 If you're talking about those little one cell, 31:19 single cell, they are complex. 31:23 And they have all that is necessary to survive. 31:29 And now these are microscopic little creatures that God made, 31:33 but they are living creatures. 31:35 And the difficulty comes to evolutionists says 31:39 how did life begin, 31:41 and that's when he's going to talk about the Big Bang. 31:43 But before he goes there, I would like to say this, 31:46 in the early 20th century genetics was being discovered. 31:52 And what they have come to the conclusion is 31:55 that you do not pass physical traits on to a generation 32:00 where you do pass on is genes 32:02 with the DNA and everything that's there, 32:04 and you have family members 32:06 they have similarities in their nose, and eyes, and features. 32:09 But you do not have... 32:11 Let's say if a father decided, 32:14 "I'm going to build me some muscles." 32:15 And he builds some muscle, 32:17 the child is not born with muscles, 32:18 he has to work, he has to go to the gym, 32:21 he has to exercise, he's not born with muscles, 32:25 he has to work like the father did, 32:27 work the gym, work the gym, spend hours. 32:30 So these splitting off ideas, 32:33 genetics has proved that 32:35 there cannot be only genes are passed, 32:37 not physical traits. 32:39 I like the example that we have seen here 32:40 on 3ABN many years ago 32:42 and that is one scientist was explaining. 32:45 Now here is let' say 32:46 something that was a creature like a horse. 32:49 And, "Wow, look at those leaves the animal decides, 32:52 I wish I could reach them." 32:54 But they're too high for it. 32:55 So the idea of a giraffe 32:58 which has a long neck 32:59 and looks somewhat like a horse 33:01 was that some creature decided... 33:04 Some creature that look like a horse decided, 33:05 "I want to eat those leaves," 33:06 but couldn't because his neck was too short. 33:09 And so tried to stretch 33:10 and tried to stretch all of its life 33:12 that eventually the next generation 33:14 had a longer neck and it too decided, 33:16 "Boy, those leaves really look delicious, 33:18 I wish I could get," and kept going, 33:19 generation after generation 33:21 until eventually you have an animal 33:24 that has a long neck, 33:26 and could say, "I can now reach them." 33:27 So many generations have passed, 33:30 well, what do you need in order to get here? 33:32 You have to have the transitional species, 33:37 in other words, that each generation shows 33:39 longer neck, longer neck, longer neck, 33:41 and you do not have that in the fossil record, 33:44 you don't have that. 33:45 You have kind, 33:46 we have the animals remain the same animals. 33:49 So eventually, the scientists or there was friend, 33:51 he said this, if that's all this animal 33:54 that try to grow a neck 33:55 and eventually after hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, 33:58 or maybe hundreds of thousands of years 33:59 managed to do this that would not be enough why? 34:03 Because God has created 34:05 within the giraffe 34:06 this complex system of circulation of the blood 34:09 because when he goes from here to say, 34:11 "I'm thirsty now, I'm going to drink some water," 34:14 when he does this 34:16 and doesn't have the circulation 34:20 develop like God said, 34:22 the head would explode you see 34:24 either from going to drink water 34:25 or to go up to the leaves 34:27 its head would explode so you see, 34:29 it all has to be there. 34:31 That's why God said after its kind. 34:34 And so the Bible has the information 34:38 we need to understand where we came from 34:40 and that God has a wonderful plan for us. 34:42 That's right. 34:43 Before you jump into that, 34:44 I just wanted to read something here. 34:46 Johnny, you were talking about 34:48 the single cell organism how that was... 34:51 Complex. All right. 34:53 Evolutionary scientists themselves 34:56 started looking at the odds 34:59 that a free living single cell organism 35:03 could result from a chance combining 35:05 of life's building blocks. 35:07 Now, that's what you were addressing. 35:08 Let me read this to you, it's from Sir Fred Hoyle, 35:11 a popular agnostic 35:13 who wrote Evolution from Space in 1981. 35:18 He proposed that the odds of this happening 35:22 were one chance 35:23 and it was like one billion, billion, billion, billion. 35:27 But because our finite minds can't grasp that those odds. 35:33 Here is what he said so we could understand it. 35:36 It's the same as the probability that a tornado, 35:41 now this is Sir Fred Hoyle an agnostic 35:45 who wrote Evolution from Space, the probability, 35:49 the same as the probability that a tornado 35:52 sweeping through a junkyard could assemble a 747. 35:56 The scientists themselves don't believe it. 35:59 And, Johnny, the point you were making is 36:01 science is disproving former scientists 36:05 and their theories. 36:07 And when you use the word science 36:09 that's the school 36:11 that guide your train of thought like a theism, 36:15 those of us who believe in God. 36:17 The school that guides our train of thought is God's Word, 36:20 the infallible Word of God. 36:22 See, if scientist, they work within a particular apologetic 36:26 to guide the way they think, 36:27 the problem that happens is some people say, 36:30 "Well, scientists cannot be creationists." 36:32 There are some scientists that are creationists 36:34 because the more they look into science, 36:36 the more they have to conclude 36:37 that somebody had to be a designer 36:39 because every scientist know, 36:40 you have scientists that put together, 36:42 scientists that work on the airplanes, cars, 36:44 the development of certain types 36:46 of chemicals, and drugs, and pharmaceuticals, 36:48 they all realize that in order for us 36:50 to come to a final product 36:52 somebody has to intentionally design it. 36:55 So you have the intelligent design that belongs to us, 36:58 we build a car 36:59 because our designing factories are intelligently guided 37:02 but you have divine design. 37:04 Now watch this, if I made a supercomputer, 37:07 this is the thought I heard before, 37:09 if I made a supercomputer, 37:11 is that computer smarter than me or I'm smarter than it. 37:14 I'm smarter than it because I created it. 37:17 Let's just say now all three of us 37:18 are physicists in the highest level of electronics 37:20 or magnetic scientists, 37:23 and the three of us made a supercomputer 37:25 better than the one I made. 37:27 Is that computers smarter than us 37:28 or are we collectively smarter than it? 37:31 Let's broadened that. 37:33 If all the people on this planet 37:35 every one of them were computer engineers 37:38 at the highest level of the PhD, 37:40 and we all got together and made a supercomputer, 37:43 is that computer smarter than all of us combined? 37:47 And the answer still is no. 37:49 So here's the point, 37:51 look at all of God's creation 37:52 from the beginning of humanity to the present 37:54 and combine them all together from one divine designer, 37:59 is the design collectively smarter than the designer? 38:04 No. It's never. Never. 38:05 The design and the end product is never smarter 38:09 than the one that created it. 38:11 That's why the Bible says, 38:12 "We are fearfully and wonderfully made." 38:14 What's the problem though? 38:15 Let me just give a scripture here 38:16 because I haven't done that so far. 38:18 One of the problems with this is that 38:20 men make an intelligent decision 38:22 to make an unintelligent conclusion. 38:25 Did you hear what I just said? I did. 38:26 They make an intelligent decision 38:28 to come to an unintelligent conclusion. 38:30 And here's what Paul says in Romans 1:20-23," 38:34 For since the creation of the world 38:37 His, that is God's 38:38 invisible attributes are clearly seen." 38:42 You cannot look up at the stars 38:43 and say they all... 38:45 We could identify from generation to generation 38:47 the Milky Way, the Sagittarius, the Leo, 38:50 all these different constellations, 38:51 the Betelgeuse, we could point 38:53 where the Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, 38:55 we could point them from generation to generation, 38:58 from Galileo to the very day, these things have not moved, 39:01 the only thing moving is our planet. 39:04 We are rotating in a consistency. 39:07 And when you look at that... 39:08 So the Bible says, 39:10 "Since the creation of the world, 39:11 His, God's invisible attributes are clearly seen, 39:13 being understood by the things that are made." 39:16 So if you look at things that are made 39:18 you'll realize somebody had to do that. 39:22 And it says, 39:23 "Even His eternal power and Godhead, 39:25 so that they are without excuse." 39:27 So I could say to an evolutionist, 39:30 "Okay, you see the evidence 39:31 for the existence of God is missing, look up." 39:33 And the Bible says David the Psalmist says, 39:35 "The heavens declare the glory of God. 39:37 The firmament shows his handiwork. 39:40 Day after day, night after night, 39:42 they pour forth speech." 39:43 There is no place, there's no location 39:46 where their language is not heard. 39:49 So creation itself continues to attest to the fact 39:52 that we're here, and we're not colliding, 39:56 Venus has not hit Earth, Mars has not hit Jupiter, 39:59 Saturn has not hit Pluto, we are all remaining. 40:03 But let me give you one more point 40:04 that's a very powerful to me 40:05 because I began to look at some of these things 40:07 from an evolutionary as well as an atheistic perspective. 40:11 Let's just say the Big Bang theory was true. 40:14 Can you explain what the Big Bang theory is? 40:16 The Big Bang theory is nothing, plus nothing equals everything. 40:21 Okay. 40:23 You know, can you make a cake out of nothing? No. 40:25 Can you blow up a kitchen 40:26 and have a beautiful culinary assortment of cupcakes? 40:29 Absolutely not. 40:30 Nothing from nothing can never equal everything. 40:33 But if you look at the planet itself, 40:35 let's just say that universe just exploded 40:37 and it began to expand 40:39 at what point did it stop expanding 40:41 that this planet was at the perfect size, 40:45 the perfect weight of gravitational pull, 40:48 the perfect elementary composition for us to breathe, 40:52 the perfect elementary composition for water 40:54 for us to drink to sustain life, 40:56 how could everything become perfect 40:59 for the sustaining of life if it's all coincidental? 41:02 What law said to the universe, "Stop expanding. 41:07 Okay, that's the perfect size." 41:08 Listen to this, 41:10 the size of the earth and corresponding gravity 41:13 holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gas, 41:17 only extending about 50 miles above the earth's surface. 41:20 If the earth was smaller like the planet Mercury, 41:22 an atmosphere would be impossible, 41:24 if the earth were large like Jupiter, 41:26 its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen. 41:28 Earth is the only known planet equipped 41:32 with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases 41:34 to sustain plant, animal and human life 41:37 spinning 67,000 miles per hour, 41:39 it keeps the earth cool, 41:41 it is 93 million miles from the sun 41:44 the perfect distance for the sustenance of life. 41:47 If it was a half a million closer, 41:49 it would burn up, 41:50 a half a million further we would freeze to death. 41:53 That's right. 41:55 And then astrophysicist, 41:57 a self-described agnostic 41:58 by the name of Robert Jastrow, he stated, 42:00 "The seed of everything that has happened in the universe 42:03 was planted in that first instance, 42:05 every star, every planet, 42:07 every living creature in the universe 42:09 came into being as a result of evidences 42:11 that was set in motion 42:13 in the moment of the cosmic explosion." 42:16 Now he's saying the cosmic explosion 42:18 but the Bible is saying in the beginning God... 42:20 God said... 42:23 "By the word of the Lord 42:25 while the heavens made and all the host of them, 42:27 He spake and it was done, 42:29 He commanded and it stood fast." 42:31 He says, "The universe flashed into being," 42:34 and this is what 42:35 the self-described agnostic says. 42:36 And we cannot find out what caused that to happen 42:40 because as John said 42:42 did not reading the proper material. 42:44 One more. 42:47 The atomic accuracy in our universe. 42:50 Do you realize what atomic accuracy means? 42:53 Atomic accuracy means, 42:56 the greatest scientists have been struck 42:58 by how strange this is, 43:00 there is no logical necessity 43:03 for a universe that obeys rules, 43:05 let alone one that abides by the rules of mathematics. 43:08 Robert Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner, 43:12 he's a doctor of quantum electrodynamics, 43:15 he said, "Why nature is mathematical is a mystery, 43:19 the fact that there are rules at all is a kind of a miracle." 43:24 That's right. That's right. Absolutely. 43:26 And these guys don't acknowledge God. 43:28 They're saying, "We can't explain 43:29 where these things come from." 43:30 That's right. 43:32 And I'll let you talk about the ion in just a moment here 43:33 but anyway, yes, yeah. 43:34 Well, I want to add, you know, 43:37 when you look at the fossil record. 43:38 This is one of the concerns for evolutionists. 43:42 They don't have transitional species, 43:45 there are none. 43:47 And they may say, 43:48 "Oh, this one looks like that one..." 43:50 But you should have hundreds and upon hundreds 43:55 for all the different kinds of animals that there are. 43:58 You should have transitional species to show us 44:02 the different stages of how they came 44:04 from where they were to what they are now. 44:07 But they do not exist 44:08 because evolution is an invention, 44:13 a distraction that originated 44:15 from our understanding in the mind of the devil 44:18 to distract people from learning 44:20 about the Creator God. 44:22 The mathematical precision 44:24 that Pastor Lomacang talked about. 44:25 The earth being in the exact location for life 44:30 and also in its voyage 44:35 through the stars going around the sun, 44:38 maintaining a distance precise 44:41 so that we do not burn up or freeze up 44:44 in 365 year journey 44:47 plus a little bit around the sun. 44:49 It's perfect for life. 44:51 You're talking about oxygen that we need, 44:54 food on this planet that has to grow for us, 44:56 not only that, the system, 44:59 you chew your food, saliva is created, 45:02 the digestive system that God created to digest this food 45:06 so that it will become all that you need the cells, 45:10 and the muscles, and all this. 45:11 This is a miraculous creation that God has made. 45:16 What makes your heart beat? 45:19 Your heart is beating and this is a... 45:22 I don't haven't seen any explanation. 45:24 What makes your heart continue to beat throughout your life? 45:27 Why doesn't it stop? 45:29 It continues to beat, 45:31 blood continues to circulate throughout your body. 45:33 Do you know the amount of intelligence 45:36 required to design the bodies 45:39 so that it will continue its processes throughout life? 45:42 Self-healing. 45:44 Self-healing, I mean, imagine 45:46 even if there was a remote possibility of, 45:50 out of nowhere life starting, 45:53 and to say if you cut yourself 45:55 make sure that your blood coagulates. 45:57 Now this is an issue for the scientists, 45:58 they don't know why does blood coagulate. 46:01 How does it coagulate? Who tells it to coagulate? 46:02 And so God has created this to help us survive. 46:06 And so anyway, 46:08 I have the information here you talked about 46:10 the mathematical impossibility. 46:13 A few years ago Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe, 46:19 I'm sorry if I mispronounce it, 46:20 professor and chairman of the department 46:22 to applied mathematics and astronomy 46:23 at University College Cardiff Wales 46:25 became interested in 46:27 the problem of the origin of life 46:28 both had been evolutionists and lifelong atheists, 46:31 after making certain assumptions 46:33 about the requirements 46:34 for the origin of the simplest cell imaginable, 46:37 they calculated the probability of the necessary proteins, 46:40 enzymes arising by chance 46:41 on this planet in 5 billion years, 46:44 the probability turned out to be 46:47 1 chance out of the number 1 46:49 followed by 40,000 zeros. 46:54 In other words, it's impossible. 46:55 It's impossible. 46:56 And one last thing I want to add 46:58 go back to God's Word 46:59 because here's what we're talking, 47:00 we're creationists, we believe in the Bible. 47:02 We're not even trying to come up with the idea 47:03 that, well, maybe we should believe in the Bible, 47:05 we believe in the Bible for this very powerful reason. 47:08 You know, when you look at astronomical time, 47:10 you have the day 24 hours. 47:13 That's you can see the rotation of the earth on its axis, 47:16 sunset to sunset 24 hours. 47:18 We could look up in the skies and see that. 47:20 Then you have the month, the lunar month, 47:23 the rising of the different from full moon, to quarter, 47:25 to three quarter, to half, to all the way. 47:27 That's continually happening, 47:29 that's where we get the 30 days from. 47:30 We have the 365 day a year. 47:32 We could look up in the skies and see the changing season, 47:34 the four seasons. 47:36 But, you know, Mollie, the only place 47:38 you can find a seven-day week is in the Bible. 47:42 That's right. That's right. 47:43 Every atheist, agnostic, 47:45 evolutionist live under a seven-day week. 47:49 And secondly, they live in the context of time, 47:52 because this is 2018 AD, anno Domini, 47:55 in the year of our Lord, 47:57 deny it but you live under it. 48:00 Seven-day week you cannot find it 48:02 evolutionarily established anywhere, 48:05 it's not established evolutionary, 48:07 evolutionarily it's established divinely by God. 48:11 And we go back to the foundation 48:13 Satan through his followers has deceived the world 48:17 in all of these areas. 48:18 And, Johnny, I asked you the question earlier 48:22 why the deception, 48:23 and you gave an accurate, fairer 48:29 explanation of that 48:30 because if the enemy 48:32 can't discredit the creation account... 48:36 And I'm going to read that to you here in just a moment. 48:39 Then, you know, what he's discrediting? 48:41 He's discrediting 48:44 the truthfulness of the Word of God. 48:47 So he discredit... Toss the Bible. 48:50 He's discrediting the veracity of God Himself. 48:54 Out goes God. 48:56 And he's discrediting the Ten Commandments, 49:00 the law of God. 49:01 So in his effort to perpetrate all of these lies 49:08 that pull out the foundation of the creation week 49:13 then what he has done, 49:15 is he has totally nullified the Word God 49:20 and the purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ. 49:24 Let me read, I'm going to read, 49:25 Johnny read some of the creation week. 49:28 I want to read, it's Genesis 1, I'm going to start in verse 26, 49:33 "Then God said, 49:35 'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness." 49:38 That's where you came from. God spoke it. 49:43 "Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 49:46 over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, 49:48 over all the earth, and over every creeping thing 49:50 that creeps on the earth. 49:52 So God created man in His own image." 49:55 How were you created? 49:57 God created you in His own image. 49:59 "In the image of God He created him male and female, 50:02 He created them and God bless them. 50:06 And God said to them, 50:07 'Be fruitful, and multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. 50:10 Have dominion over the fish of the sea, 50:12 over the birds of the air, 50:13 and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'" 50:17 Then God saw everything that He made and it was very good. 50:21 I'm going to go on down now to 2:3. 50:24 "Then God blessed the seventh day, 50:27 and sanctified it 50:28 because in it He rested from all His work 50:32 which God had created." 50:33 This is divine design, it's not a theory. 50:39 This is fact. 50:41 Everything was planned including you and calculated. 50:46 Nothing was random, arbitrary or by chance. 50:50 The scripture leaves no room 50:52 whatsoever for a chance in the process of creation. 50:57 That's right. 50:58 Now, I know we're going to take a short break 51:01 here in just a few minutes. 51:03 But I want to read you something. 51:07 And if this is something from Darwin himself, 51:12 it's about the eye. 51:14 And scientists did a great study 51:17 on just the complexities of our eye. 51:22 And actually when I read it, 51:24 it was several pages long 51:26 but this is what Darwin said 51:30 the man that wrote the book the Origin of The Species. 51:35 And so in the book 51:37 the Origin of The Species 51:39 by Means of Natural Selection, 51:41 of the Preservation of Favored Races 51:43 in the Struggle for Life in 1859 on page 155, 51:47 here is what Darwin confessed. 51:50 "To suppose that the eye 51:52 with all its inimitable contrivances 51:56 for adjusting the focus to different distances, 51:59 for admitting different amounts of light, 52:01 and for the correction 52:02 of spherical and chromatic aberration, 52:05 could have been formed by natural selection," 52:09 this is what Darwin says, 52:11 "seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." 52:16 He didn't even believe his own theory. 52:20 That's right. He didn't. 52:22 Because of the complexities of an Almighty God. 52:25 Well, we've got to take a short break. 52:27 Here's some very important information for you. 52:30 We'll be right back in just a minute. |
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