Eleventh Hour Evidence

Does God Exist

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Participants: David Asscherick

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00:18 Welcome to Battle Creek. We will
00:19 continue, continue our Eleventh Hour
00:22 Evidence Seminar. It all begins tonight with our
00:26 friend, Buddy Houghtaling in his song "Hands on God".
00:43 There was nothing at all when He came
00:47 and He called out all that there
00:49 be. And there was light,
00:55 there was air, trees and stars everywhere,
01:00 He was so well pleased, Birds of every color,
01:09 Fish of every size and the mounts abounding
01:14 all the earth. He had spoken there,
01:20 He is the way with words,
01:26 but there is nothing to say, as He molded the
01:33 clay, His lips they fell siding
01:37 because He loved them too much just to speak
01:44 not to touch, He's a hands on God.
01:49 And you just couldn't bare not to hold not to
01:57 care, He's a hand's on God.
02:01 The joy of their Creator, The image of His dead
02:09 So much more then just some breath inside
02:14 They were the Children of
02:18 The hands on God. He could have run from
02:34 the room, When she poured the
02:37 perfume on her Savior. He could have taken a
02:46 seat instead of washing the feet of the twelve of
02:51 them. He could have gone
02:56 right back to heaven, When they shouted
02:59 crucified. Put His hands away from
03:04 that old cross, But He loved us too
03:10 much to deny us that touch.
03:13 He's a hands on God. And you just couldn't
03:22 bare not to hold not to care,
03:25 He's a hands on God. Still the joy of our
03:33 Creator. The image of His dead,
03:37 So much more than just breath and sought
03:43 With the children of, The hands on God
03:54 Still the children of The hands on God.
04:04 Thanks Buddy, we really appreciate your
04:21 gift in music. Friend, I want to try a little bit of
04:25 a quiz with you folks tonight here and with
04:27 you out there in the watching audience of
04:30 3ABN. Here's how the quiz goes, you ready
04:33 for a quiz? I want you guys to put on thinking
04:36 caps, I got my degree in history, so this is a little
04:39 bit easier for me than it might for you. Can you
04:41 tell me right now who was the most powerful
04:46 man here's the hint, the emperor of the world,
04:49 the Roman world in A.D. 27. Anyone able to
04:53 tell me that tonight? Nobody knows, I heard
04:56 somebody say Augustus. Actually, the
04:58 right word is Tiberius, the right name is
05:00 Tiberius Caesar. Can anyone name his mom?
05:03 I'm not getting takers on it. His mom's name was
05:10 Olivia. Can anybody name for me his three
05:14 closest friends? Again nobody, I'm not even
05:19 gonna try that one David. Can anyone tell
05:22 me something famous that he said? Again
05:26 nobody, hey this is the most powerful man in
05:28 the world folks. How come you know so little
05:30 about this person who is the ruler of the known
05:33 world in A.D. 27. Let's just try different one. Let's
05:36 try different one what you say. Let's go to the
05:38 back water region of the Roman world let's say
05:41 Judea, okay. And let's go to the back water region
05:46 of Judea. Let's try for instance Nazareth. Let's
05:53 go to the backwater part of Nazareth, a carpenter
05:56 shop and now I want to ask do you know
05:58 anybody that's working in a carpenter shop in
06:00 A.D. 27 in Nazareth? Hmm that's pretty good,
06:04 do you know his mother's name? Do you
06:07 know his father's name? Do you know three of
06:10 his closest friends? Can you repeat anything
06:15 famous that he said? Of course you can right.
06:19 What do you think you are. How do you know
06:21 so much about a guy from a backwater
06:23 carpenter shop in Nazareth and so little
06:26 about the man, who is the ruler of the known
06:29 world. That my friend's is a miracle. That is one
06:34 of the miracles that makes me believe that
06:35 Jesus Christ is alive tonight. Not yet
06:38 convinced oh! my friends. I like to
06:41 introduce to you tonight's speaker David
06:43 Asscherick will take a step closer to believing
06:46 that God loves us, that He is alive and that
06:49 Jesus is the name. Amen.
06:51 Good evening everyone.
06:53 Good evening. Did anybody here know
06:56 Caesar Tiberius' mother's name? I'm
06:59 glad he didn't ask me that question publicly.
07:02 How was your day today? Nice. Did you
07:04 have a nice Sabbath? Yes.
07:06 Amen. I want to thank Buddy again for that
07:08 song wasn't that beautiful? I love those
07:11 songs there are so, there are so rich, not just in
07:13 the melody, but in the lyrics, thank you
07:15 Buddy, God has definitely given you a
07:16 gift. Alright, we have a significant amount of
07:19 information to cover tonight. Our message is
07:21 entitled. Does God Exist; Does it Matter?
07:26 Does God Exist; Does it Matter? And because
07:29 we have such a stupendous amount of
07:31 information to cover tonight we want to
07:32 make an earnest appeal to you at the end of this.
07:34 We're going to begin right away by praying
07:38 and I invite you to do that with me as we
07:40 commence. Father in heaven, we
07:46 come just tonight and we marvel that we
07:48 knew so little and still know so little of Caesar
07:51 Tiberius and yet father we know so much of
07:53 Thee. Lord we come to you tonight praying
07:57 that in a very special way in a marked way
07:59 that you will speak directly to our hearts
08:02 into our minds. Father, we live in a world in
08:05 which many people are doubting your existence
08:07 and questioning whether or not you are
08:09 even there and yet father you are so near,
08:12 so there and tonight we ask that you please will
08:16 come into this room that you will speak to
08:19 our minds as well as to our hearts. And father
08:21 that we will have a stronger conviction that
08:26 this is in fact the Eleventh Hour and
08:28 there is a considerable amount of evidence to
08:30 buttress that assertion. Father this is the
08:33 Eleventh Hour, as we turn now to your word
08:36 into your spirit may you give us evidence. We
08:39 ask in Jesus name, Amen.
08:42 I like to invite you to go with me in your Bibles
08:45 to a very interesting text found in the Book of
08:49 Psalms, what book we are going to everyone?
08:51 Psalms. Psalms, right in the
08:52 middle of your Bible Psalms and we're going to
08:55 go to chapter 14, Psalm 14 and beginning in
08:59 verse 1, Psalm 14 beginning in verse 1,
09:03 our message tonight is entitled Does God
09:05 Exist? Does it Matter. What we are going to
09:09 do this evening is divide our message into
09:10 two parts, you notice that the messages put in
09:13 the form of an interrogative, it is not a
09:16 declarative. God exist and it matters, it is in
09:19 the form of an interrogative. Does God
09:20 exist that is the first question and the second
09:23 is the logical rejoinder. Does it matter. So we
09:26 are going to divide the message tonight into
09:28 two parts. The first half are probably about the
09:30 first 30 minutes, we will spend looking at that
09:32 question, does God exist and we're going to
09:35 look at some of the classical philosophical
09:37 and even theological proofs for God's
09:39 existence. We're gonna talk about science
09:41 tonight and so you'll need to take your
09:42 thinking caps and put them firmly on your
09:44 heads. You are not afraid to think, are you?
09:46 I said, you are not afraid to think, are you?
09:49 No. So that would be the
09:50 first half of the message, does God
09:52 exist then what we are going to do is we are
09:53 going to do ask a very practical question. If it
09:56 is in fact true that God does exist then what,
10:00 what practical application would that
10:02 have for you and I and the here or now. Does it
10:04 matter, how does it matter and why does it
10:07 matter. So, number 1 does God exist and
10:09 number 2 does it matter. You are in Psalm 14
10:11 beginning in verse 1 and we find this very
10:14 interesting passage of scripture, Psalm 14
10:16 beginning in verse 1, it says "The fool hath said
10:20 in his heart," what does the fool say in his
10:22 heart? "There is no God." Friends that's the classic
10:26 synopsis of Atheism that's the two words A,
10:30 which is the negative and theos, which is
10:32 God. So when you are talking about an atheist
10:35 you are talking about somebody, who does
10:37 not believe in the existence of God. And
10:40 notice right here at the beginning, God says
10:42 those who don't believe in me are fools. Now
10:46 God is not just simply calling names you
10:49 know, nanynany booboo kind of a thing.
10:51 God is saying that the person that claims that
10:54 there is no God has made a foolish
10:57 proposition, a foolish statement and so he
11:00 says the fool has said in his heart there is no
11:02 God. He continues, they are corrupt, they have
11:06 done abominable works, there is none
11:07 who does good. The Lord looks down from
11:09 heaven upon the children of men to see if
11:11 there are any who understand, who seek
11:12 God. They have all turned
11:14 aside, they have together become corrupt, there is
11:16 none who does good, no, not one. The picture
11:20 that I have in my mind is I read this passage of
11:22 scripture is one of God looking down to
11:24 investigate the intellectual claim of the
11:27 atheist, who says with such pride there is no
11:31 God, he positively asserts that there is no
11:33 God and so God looks down from heaven He
11:36 leans over from the celestial rounds and He
11:39 is evaluating the claim of this atheist and the
11:41 first thing he says is the man is a fool. He then
11:45 goes on to say or the woman is a fool, He
11:47 goes on to say that there, there
11:49 denunciation of me, their lack of belief in
11:52 me is not an intellectual consideration. What is
11:55 He talking about the rest of verse 1 and 2 and 3.
11:58 These are all moral considerations. There
12:01 all what word did I say moral, look at it again
12:03 notice verse 2, the Lord looks down from
12:05 heaven upon the children of men, He is
12:06 investigating the claim that there is no God
12:09 perhaps there is evidence to suggest that
12:11 God doesn't exist, so God is leaning over to
12:13 see if the evidence is good. He says to see if
12:15 there is any who does not seek or if there any
12:18 who seek God verse 3 they have all turned
12:20 aside, they have together become corrupt, there is
12:23 none who does good, no not one. So God's
12:27 evaluation of the claim that there is no God, as
12:30 being a foolish claim is simply this. He is
12:34 saying that when somebody makes that
12:36 positive affirmation that God does not exist, the
12:40 atheistic affirmation, he is saying that this is not an
12:43 intellectual consideration this is a moral
12:47 consideration. It is what word did I say?
12:50 Moral. In other words they want to live the way they
12:52 want to live and God gets in the way of their
12:54 perversities and promiscuities and so they
12:57 find it's much easier just to say well God doesn't
12:59 exist after all if He does exist we would have to
13:01 give an answer and a response to the supreme
13:04 being of the universe. Are you understanding now,
13:07 yes or no? Now what I like to do is invite you to
13:10 turn your attention to the screen. Our message is
13:13 entitled Does God Exist? Does It Matter, The Bible
13:16 does not set out to "prove" God's existence.
13:19 It simply declares His existence. In other words,
13:23 the Bible does not set out to say God exist and here
13:27 is the syllogistic proof, here is the mathematical
13:29 proof, here is the scientific proof, it simply
13:32 declares that He exists. In fact, one of the first four
13:35 words in the Cannon, one of the first four words in
13:38 the Bible, in the beginning God.
13:42 Notice not a proof of God, but a declaration of
13:46 God, Genesis 1:1. Now continue with me here
13:50 there have been classically 20 lines of
13:53 evidence that have been advanced to prove God's
13:58 existence. These are philosophical proofs and
14:01 theological proofs and scientific proofs, the
14:04 combined weight of these apologetic proofs present
14:06 a formidable and convincing case.
14:08 Now I want you to hone it on that word apologetic
14:10 there, that word apologetic. Do any of you remember
14:13 that word from last night? How many of you remember?
14:16 Remember second Peter or first Peter chapter 3 in
14:17 verse 15, Peter said, but sanctify the Lord God in
14:20 your heart and be ready how often always to give
14:24 an answer to every man that ask you the reason of
14:27 the hope that is in you and with meekness in fear.
14:28 Now what was that word there that was translated
14:31 to give an answer. Do you remember? It was Pelagia
14:36 that exactly right, the word means to give an
14:38 answer to give a reason to give a defense and so
14:41 classically when philosophers and theologians and others
14:47 have sat down to try and prove the existence of
14:49 God, they have advanced approximately 20 lines of
14:53 evidence. Now we don't have time of course to go
14:55 into all 20 of those and so what we're going to do is
14:57 we're going to take a look at eight of them. The first
15:00 is the case from the beginning of life, the case
15:03 from the beginning of life this is what is referred to
15:06 by biologists as Biogenesis, Biogenesis.
15:11 Now this is very easy to understand, it is simply
15:14 two words put together inducts the position.
15:17 The first word is bios bio, the word means life.
15:21 What does the word mean everybody, life, so you
15:24 have the study of biology that's the study of living
15:26 things. Now what does the word Genesis mean,
15:29 means the beginning, so if you put these two words
15:31 together life and beginning the word Biogenesis simply
15:34 means the beginning of what everyone life.
15:38 Now I have a son, he is two-and-half years old.
15:40 His name is Landon and he is becoming increasingly
15:42 curious and aware of the world around him and he
15:45 will occasionally ask interesting questions of
15:47 me and I'm just waiting for the day when he asks
15:50 this question. Papa, where did I come from that I'll be
15:54 very easy to answer, I'll say well you came from
15:56 mommy daddy and that will probably satisfy him
15:58 for all of about six months. And then their mind going to
16:01 continue to work and the synapses of firing,
16:03 the neurons are connecting and little while later he is
16:05 gonna say papa where did you and mommy come from.
16:08 Oh! That's an easy one to answer. We came from our
16:10 mommy and daddy and that might satisfy him for all of
16:13 about six minutes. Oh! Where did they come from,
16:15 where do they come from, where do they come from
16:17 and sooner or later my son is going to have a very big
16:20 question, where did Adam and Eve come from.
16:24 Now you might think that this is just a childish kind
16:27 of question that this is so easy, but friends listen this
16:30 whole idea of biogenesis the beginning of life puts
16:34 our finger on the poles of one of the profoundest,
16:37 most powerful proofs that God exists and the law of
16:42 biogenesis basically says this, life only comes from
16:47 life say that with me. Life only comes from life.
16:53 Now there was a day back in the dark ages in centuries
16:57 past, where they believe that if you had a pile of
16:59 garbage in the corner that if you left that pile of garbage
17:02 there long enough it would spontaneously produce rats
17:06 and mice and maggots and insects, but a men by the
17:09 name of Louis Pasteur, is that name
17:11 mean anything to you. Yes. Have you ever looked on
17:13 the side of you juice container and it says what
17:16 pasteurized. Louis Pasteur took sterile garbage if there
17:21 is such a thing he sterilized it, put it in the corner,
17:24 he made sure it had no existent life in it, no eggs,
17:27 no life could get in and they waited and they waited and
17:31 they waited and did life ever come out of it.
17:34 No, why because life only comes from what everyone?
17:38 Life. Life. Now go with me in your Bibles to Luke
17:41 chapter 3, in Luke chapter 3, this is what is referred to
17:46 as a Genealogy and you know the Genealogy so and
17:50 so began and so and so began so and so began so and so
17:53 so let's pick this up in Luke chapter 3 how about verse
17:56 34, we will begin there. Luke chapter 3 and verse 34,
17:59 it says the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of
18:02 Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of
18:04 Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,
18:07 the son of Shelah, the son of Cainan, the son of
18:09 Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of
18:11 Lamech, I'm in verse 37, the son of Methuselah, the
18:14 son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of
18:16 Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos,
18:19 the son of Seth, the son of Adam, notice this now the
18:24 son of God. Now friends this is very powerful,
18:30 very sublime because the Bible here entrancing this
18:33 Genealogy is actually giving a very potent and
18:37 compiling scientific proof for the explanation of life
18:42 on this planet. You see friends, if God doesn't exist
18:46 and there is no supernatural entity like the atheist
18:49 suggests, the fool suggest, then they have to surmount
18:52 this insuperable, this insurmountable obstacle
18:56 that says this life came from non-life. Yet friends
19:02 can life come from non-life, no it's a physical
19:05 impossibility in every single biological experiment, every
19:09 single scientific experiment since the dawn of science
19:12 has proved that it is an impossibility for life to
19:15 spontaneously generate from non-life and so we go
19:18 backward, where did you come from, from mommy and daddy
19:20 from mommy and daddy, from mommy and daddy and
19:22 the Bible gives us a powerful compiling answer to this
19:25 question of biogenesis, the beginnings of life.
19:28 The son of Adam, the son of what everyone? God.
19:33 God, so number 1 tonight are you living, are there are
19:38 others that are living Amen. So just in the, in the
19:42 existence of life we find a compiling proof for the
19:44 existence of God. Notice number 2, the case from the
19:47 existence of things including time itself and
19:50 this is referred to as the cosmological proof.
19:52 Now don't be afraid of those many syllabus,
19:54 it simply the cosmos or the universe, the existence of
19:57 the universe and notice this can be stated classically in
20:00 three short phrases. Number 1, everything that
20:04 begins to exist has a, what, cause, cause.
20:08 Now think about something in this room that exists,
20:10 what something that exist. Do you exist young man,
20:13 okay, did you have a cause, okay. He demonstrates
20:16 that's true, how about that light stand over there, does
20:19 that light stand exist? Was there ever a time that it
20:22 didn't exist okay, so something cause to exist
20:25 are you understanding, yes or no. Now how about
20:27 this podium, does it exist, sure it exists, was there
20:30 ever a time that it didn't exist. Now think about that
20:33 for just a moment, in order for it to come into existence
20:36 a podium maker had to fashion it and format and
20:41 created it, are you understanding, yes or no.
20:43 Everything that you can think of that exists at one
20:46 time didn't and it came into existence with one
20:50 exception. We will talk about that in just a moment.
20:52 Now number 1 everything that begins to exist has a
20:54 cause. Number 2, the universe itself began to exist.
20:59 Was there a time that the universe itself didn't exist.
21:03 The answer is yes, God created the universe,
21:08 who created the universe? God. God created the universe,
21:11 we just saw that in Genesis 1:1. In the beginning, what
21:14 everyone, God and God created the heavens and the earth.
21:19 Now notice number 3 here; therefore, the universe
21:22 has a cause and that uncaused cause of all things
21:27 is what everyone God. God. The only thing in the
21:31 universe that does not have a cause, the only thing in
21:34 the universe that has eternally existed is God.
21:39 Now friends, I wish I had time to go into very potent
21:42 scientific philosophical and even mathematical proofs,
21:45 but this is a very potent and very powerful proof that
21:49 God, got the ball rolling, God started this thing and
21:54 without the existence of God friends nothing else in
21:58 the universe could exist not even time itself.
22:03 Now let us continue, notice with me on the screen now
22:05 number 3 we're looking at our eight proofs for the
22:07 existence of God. Number 3 is the case from design in
22:11 the universe, the case from design in the universe; that
22:15 is what is referred to as the teleological proof, it comes
22:18 from the Greek Telos, which is design,
22:21 which is what everyone? Design. Design, now as you look
22:24 around you, as you look at your hands and as you look
22:27 at the world around you and the perfect sinquinicity and
22:30 harmony with which it operates do you see design
22:34 in the world around you? Yes or no.
22:36 Let me give you a very good example of design in
22:37 the universe take your hands and hold them up
22:39 just like this, try and experiment you see this
22:43 thing right here what do we call this?
22:44 Thumb. We called that a thumb, try this experiment at home
22:48 take that thumb and put it to your palm and tape it
22:51 there, alright now tape it there and do it to the other
22:55 hand too, you can have that somebody help you because
22:56 you won't even be able to tape the other thumb.
22:58 Now what you have is you have eight fingers, but no
23:00 opposable thumb. Now do you think that you'll be able
23:03 to do much, no just try doing anything right there,
23:06 you know, I can't even pick up this clicker very easily
23:09 and if I wanted to click it up, I've to push it like this
23:11 you understand. Now look at this for just a moment,
23:14 the functionality of the hand increases exponentially when
23:19 you add an opposable thumb you understand that right.
23:22 So these fingers point this way, the thumb points
23:24 that way and now I can grab, I can open, I can
23:27 twist, I can pick up, in other words do you see design
23:30 when you look at the hand yes or no? Yes.
23:32 Absolutely, tremendous design how about the eye.
23:36 Does the eye exhibit the qualities of design, even
23:40 Darwin himself the grandfather of the
23:43 evolutionary theory, who wrote the book origin of
23:45 species in 1859. I have quotations on my files,
23:49 where he says the contemplation of the eye
23:52 would have evolved through micro-mutations
23:55 gradual changes he said made him sick to his stomach.
23:59 Friends the eye is such a beautiful construction,
24:03 think about these video cameras that are taping us
24:05 even now, think about, think about the sound
24:08 boards and all of these technological gadgets none
24:11 of them can do even one 1000th of what the eye can do
24:15 and yet it is contained in such a small package, it can
24:17 focus immediately on something close and then
24:19 quickly on something on the distant arisen.
24:21 It can go to something, it can step into a room that is
24:23 very dark and immediately the pupil expands to let it
24:26 more light and then if you walk out into the sunny
24:29 the sunny day and the snow is on the grounds or that
24:31 there is great radiant light what does the pupil do,
24:34 shrinks right down in just a moment. Friends, the eye
24:37 can do what even the most advanced television
24:39 cameras and photographic cameras can't even begin to
24:42 do and yet it is all contained in a package of about the
24:45 size of a marble, does that exhibit the
24:47 qualities of design, yes or no.? Yes.
24:50 If you and I were walking through the woods and we
24:51 stumbled upon the stone, we might just pick up that
24:54 ordinary stone and say you know this is the stone it's a
24:57 nice looking stone it has some nice curvatures
25:00 maybe it would be good for skipping, but a stone in an
25:03 of itself would not exhibit the qualities of design.
25:05 You wouldn't look at a stone and say there is stone
25:07 maker necessarily, but if you and I were walking
25:10 through the woods and let's say we found that clicker
25:12 you and I were walking through and as we came
25:14 along, Oh! Look a clicker, so we pick up the clicker
25:19 and we say isn't that remarkable must have
25:21 dropped that of a tree maybe there is a clicker tree
25:23 here right. Friends does this clicker exhibit the qualities
25:27 of design? Well it sure does, as a matter of fact it
25:31 has a nice little, I suppose this is clip, so I could put it
25:34 on my belt if I would like, there is a button here and
25:36 even a little red light to let me know that the clicker is
25:39 working. It's also conveniently sized right
25:42 into my hand and so this clicker exhibits the
25:45 qualities of what everyone? Design. So what do you
25:47 automatically assume about the clicker.
25:50 That it has a designer and friends look at the world
25:54 around you, look at your opposable thumb,
25:56 the incredible intricacies of the eye and even beyond
25:59 that the biosphere the entire ecosystem huge numbers of
26:03 galaxies billions upon multiplied billions of
26:06 galaxies swirling through the universe at break-neck
26:09 paces and all of this together friends indicates
26:12 clearly God had a hand in this. There is a designer and
26:18 where you see design you automatically assume there
26:21 is designer, who was behind it. Amen. Amen.
26:25 The atheist is at a total loss to explain design in the
26:29 universe and this is what is referred to as the
26:31 teleological argument. Now notice with me number 4,
26:35 the case from a life- allowing universe,
26:38 this is called the Anthropic principle,
26:41 the Anthropic principle. Now how many of you
26:44 know what the word Anthropos means,
26:47 Anthropos, man, okay means man that's right.
26:49 The study of anthropology is the study of man.
26:53 For example in Mark chapter 2 and verses 27 and 28
26:56 Jesus said the Sabbath was made for men and the word
27:01 is Anthropos, mankind. Now when we talked about
27:05 the Anthropic Principle please follow me very
27:08 carefully here in fact let's go right to the screen,
27:10 modern cosmology has identified not less than 40
27:15 measurable characteristics of the universe. Notice this as
27:19 we continue, each of these characteristics are
27:22 fine-tuned to such a degree that moving even one of
27:26 them in either direction only a fraction of a fraction
27:31 of a fraction of a percentage would make the existence
27:35 of life and notice this here anywhere in the universe
27:39 impossible. Now let me just give you a few of them here
27:42 I've, I've written some of these down and I want you
27:44 to hear some of these, these are just a few of these 40
27:47 plus measurable characteristics and keep in
27:50 mind that if even one of these was off by a fraction,
27:53 of a fraction, of a fraction, of a percentage it's not just
27:55 that life would be impossible here on planet
27:57 earth, but the life would be impossible in the universe,
28:00 we would live not in a life sustaining universe but in a
28:03 life prohibitive universe. Do you understand that,
28:05 yes or no. Yes. Now I'm gonna come back
28:07 to this just in a minute, but listen just to a few of these.
28:09 Number 1, a strong nuclear force constant. Number 2, a
28:12 weak nuclear force constant. Number 3,
28:14 gravitational force constant. Number 4, electromagnetic
28:16 force constant. Number 5, the ratio of electromagnetic
28:19 force constant to gravitational force constant.
28:21 Number 6, the ratio of proton mass to electron mass.
28:23 Number 7, the ratio of protons to the
28:25 number of electrons. Number 8, the mass density
28:26 of the universe. Number 9, the size of the relativistic
28:29 dilation factor. Number 10, the ratio of neutron mass to
28:31 proton mass, you're getting the feel for this?
28:35 You want the other 47? No You are right on time.
28:39 Oh! Yeah, sure the size of the relativistic dilation
28:41 factor, I'm with you pastor Asscherick.
28:44 Friends, the point here is just this, when
28:45 astrophysicist and cosmologist begin to
28:49 measure the measurable identifiable characteristics
28:51 of the universe they are noticing something very
28:54 interesting. They are saying wow this entire universe
28:57 not just Planet Earth beloved, the whole universe
29:00 is fine tuned to such a degree that if you took even
29:03 one of those measurable characteristics and it
29:06 scooted it just a bit this way or it just a bit this way,
29:10 life would be impossible in the entire universe.
29:14 Now notice this not from the biblical point of view,
29:17 not from a Christian point of view, but strictly from a
29:20 cosmological point of view what cosmologists are
29:23 saying is this, the conclusion of modern
29:26 cosmology is that the universe appears to have
29:29 had man in mind! Now say that with me, man in mind.
29:36 In other words, it looks like the whole universe was set up
29:40 on the Anthropic Principle. The man kind principle,
29:45 the whole thing was put together in the same way
29:48 that my wife and I put our bedroom together for our
29:51 new little boy. We had gone to the hospital, he'd been born,
29:54 we had the room prepared, we had the crib there,
29:57 everything was in place and if you walked into that room
29:59 and you saw the pretty decorations and you saw
30:01 the crib and you saw all of the accoutrements that went
30:04 with the room you would conclude this room has
30:06 been designed for a baby. Are you understanding,
30:11 yes or no? By the same token, cosmologists and
30:13 astrophysicists they look at the universe and they say
30:16 wow the more we measure and the more fine-tuned that
30:19 we find these characteristics are we come to the conclusion
30:22 that the universe was designed for God's babies
30:26 namely you and I. Now go with me in you Bible to
30:29 Isaiah chapter 45, I appreciate the signs of
30:33 cosmology and astrophysics, but we could have save
30:35 them a whole lot of time if they would have simply
30:38 gone to Isaiah chapter 45, Isaiah chapter 45, by the
30:43 way just as a little point as an anecdotal point many of
30:47 the worlds foremost cosmologists and
30:49 astrophysicists are Bible believing Christians.
30:52 Did you know that? Many of the world's foremost
30:55 cosmologists and astrophysicists are Bible
30:57 believing Christians because friends they can
30:59 look out at the cosmos of the universe and they can
31:02 say somebody is out there. Albert Einstein's favorite
31:05 quotation was God doesn't play dice with the universe.
31:10 In other words it's not just chance, not everything just
31:13 randomly put together somebody is behind all of this.
31:17 Notice Isaiah chapter 45 and verse 18, I love this
31:20 verse of scripture, it says for thus saith the Lord who
31:24 created what everyone? Heavens. He created the
31:27 heavens who is God, who formed the
31:30 what's the next word. Earth. The earth and
31:32 made it, who established it and notice this last, these
31:35 last two lines here, it says who did not create it in
31:38 vain, he didn't create it what everybody?
31:41 In vain. In vain, the next line tells us why he did
31:44 created it, create it, says who formed it to be
31:49 Inhabited. Inhabited. Why did God created the
31:51 heavens and the earth everyone?
31:53 To be inhabited. To be inhabited in other
31:54 words he put it together with man in mind and that
31:59 is exactly what modern cosmology and exactly
32:02 what modern astrophysicist telling us, the whole
32:04 universe appears to have had man in mind.
32:09 Can you say Amen. Amen. Incredible brothers
32:11 and sisters. Now let us continue we've just gone
32:12 through four. Number 5 is the case from universal
32:17 morality; the axiological proof. It comes from the
32:21 word axiom is what is true. Now let's talk about that for
32:25 just a moment universal morality, what is morality?
32:32 Oh! Common, what's morality is that the way that
32:35 we should live, yes or no? Yes. Now if I say that
32:40 individual is an immoral individual you would
32:44 understanding that to mean that he or she is living
32:47 outside of the way that we believe they should live
32:50 does that make sense, yes or no? Yes.
32:51 You have, you've heard no doubt for example of the
32:54 moral majority, you've heard that phraseology
32:57 haven't you? So, when we're talking about
32:59 morality we're talking about a prescription, the
33:02 way that people should live. Now does the Bible have
33:05 anything to say about morality, yes or no? Yes
33:09 God has given us 10 great rules and yes I use that
33:13 word. We don't like rules in this day and age, but they
33:16 are rules friends that are for our own best good.
33:18 What are those ten rules? The 10 commandments not
33:21 10 suggestions, not 10 you know pieces of advising
33:25 council, but 10 what everyone commandments.
33:28 Now these commandments form the core of morality.
33:33 For example, is murdering wrong, yes or no? Yes.
33:39 Sure because the seventh commandment says thou
33:42 shall not what, oh! that's the sixth commandment,
33:44 thou shall not murder is the sixth, the seventh
33:47 commandment says thou shall not commit adultery.
33:51 So if somebody murders, we say that's an immoral
33:53 act, if somebody commits adultery we say that's an
33:56 immoral act, are you with me, yes or no? Yes.
33:59 Now here's the point across the world there are these
34:04 threads I want to emphasize this and please be thinking
34:07 with me. The world over there are these threads of
34:11 morality that go through listen carefully now every
34:15 single culture. What words that I say?
34:19 Every single culture. Every single culture, now
34:20 you've probably heard the exact opposite. In the day
34:23 and age in which we are living, this relativistic age
34:26 and this pluralistic age we're being told, well you
34:29 know every culture is different and what's okay in
34:32 your culture might not be okay in this person's culture
34:34 and we have these absolutely ridiculous
34:37 statements, where we say things like well that's true
34:39 for you, but it's not true for me.
34:42 Do you've heard anybody say that?
34:43 Friends listen that's in affront to the English
34:45 language something is not true for you and not true for
34:49 me it's either true or it's not true, Amen. Amen.
34:53 Jesus said I'm the way, the truth in the light.
34:56 He was making an absolute exclusive
34:59 kind of a statement. Amen. Amen.
35:02 So, we don't say, well Buddha is true for you friend and
35:05 Jesus is true for me not that might be the political
35:08 correct thing to say, buy it's not an accurate thing to say
35:10 are you understanding now yes or no?
35:12 Amen. Now think about this, in every culture is there a
35:15 moral thread, a moral truth that runs through it all.
35:20 In the age in which we are living they say no, no, no
35:22 the culture in Africa, their morals are so different than
35:25 ours and Asia, Oh! Their whole cultural social
35:28 system is so different and it is true that there are
35:30 variations, there are what word did I say?
35:33 Variations. But let me give you one of
35:35 the most powerful moral threads that runs through
35:39 every single culture that exists today and that is this.
35:43 There is no culture on the top side of the earth in
35:46 which it is considered honorable and desirable and
35:50 just to treat those with cruelty that have treated
35:55 you with kindness. You follow that, is there any
36:00 culture with that is considered appropriate,
36:02 no, no, no, you can go to Asia, Africa any of the
36:04 seven continents, you won't find any culture that says
36:07 that it's honorable to treat with cruelty and with
36:11 despite the very ones who have treated you
36:13 graciously Amen. Amen. Now think about that, that
36:16 is a moral thread that run's through every single
36:19 culture, where did they get it from?
36:20 Ten Commandments. They got it from the
36:22 Ten Commandments that's exactly right. Now let me
36:24 just give you something here very interesting to
36:26 think about. Does anybody in this room speak more
36:30 than one language, is there anybody in this room speak
36:34 less than one language. Anybody in this room
36:38 speak two languages or more? Okay, good three? Three
36:43 that little boy speaks three languages incredible.
36:47 Well, I heard this cute little anecdote I think you'll
36:49 appreciate it and it goes like this if you speak three
36:51 languages you're trilingual, if you speak two languages
36:55 you're bilingual and if you speak just one language
36:57 you're an American, Amen. Amen.
37:02 Now think about it this for just a minute all of the
37:05 languages the world over, all of the languages so
37:08 you're thinking about our own the English language
37:11 and then you have Spanish language, one of the Latin
37:13 languages and then we go to Europe and we have
37:15 Slovak languages the Germanic languages also
37:18 the Latin languages then we go up into like Asia and
37:21 China and those languages and then we go down to the
37:23 Sanskrit languages of India and the world over the
37:25 tribal languages of Africa then we go up into
37:28 Indonesia and Philippines and Japan all of these
37:31 different languages can you think of even one thread
37:34 that would run though all of those languages, some
37:37 threads, some commonality that every single language
37:40 group shares. The answer is no. Absolutely, not. Do you
37:47 say what's the significance of that, I don't understand
37:49 precisely this and please listen carefully. Language
37:54 is arbitrary, language is what word did I say?
37:57 Arbitrary. For example, we call this a
38:00 podium what do we call it. Podium.
38:03 A podium, but could we call, could
38:05 we have called this carpet? No. Could we've called this
38:08 carpet? Sure we could we. I could have said, I'm so glad
38:11 that the carpet is clear tonight, I like clear carpets,
38:13 right and you would understand if that's where
38:15 we assigned this where, we call this as speaker,
38:17 but we could've just as easily called it a bird.
38:21 Is that true yes or no? Yes. So, friends listen language
38:24 is arbitrary. We assign language meaning are you
38:28 understanding. That's why this culture calls this,
38:31 this and this culture calls this, this and this language
38:33 group calls this, this and there is no rhyme or reason
38:36 much between the different language groups.
38:38 Yet remarkably even though there is no thread in
38:40 the great languages of the world there is still that
38:43 moral thread every single culture what does it tells us?
38:46 It tells us that language is arbitrary, but morality is
38:50 anchored in the character of God. Amen.
38:55 Now friends, I stand by that. Morality is anchored
38:59 in the character of God. God is the one who says
39:05 what is right and wrong, what is fair, what is just,
39:08 what is noble, what is good, and what is magnanimous.
39:11 How many of you have understood this contrast
39:13 between no consistency, no commonality in the
39:16 languages and yet this one thread that runs through
39:19 every culture? How many of you have understood the
39:21 significance of that raise your hand? Then you've got
39:23 your fingers wrapped around this thing called the
39:25 Axiological argument. God is a moral being and he
39:29 calls upon us to respond to his moral law.
39:33 Now number 6 here is the case from the historical
39:36 proof of Jesus' resurrection. We are going to devote an
39:39 entire evening to that and entire message to the
39:43 historical proof for the resurrection of Jesus Christ
39:45 in just a few nights. So we are going to move over that
39:47 one. Number 7, is the case from the inspiration and
39:53 consistency of the Bible. How many of you hear this
39:55 evening believe that the Bible is the
39:57 inspired word of God. Amen. I believe that as well.
40:00 Let me tell you something remarkable though.
40:02 The Bible would be the inspired word of God
40:04 whether or not you believed it. Amen.
40:07 Amen, now what that means then is that the Bible
40:10 is objectively true. It's not just true because you
40:14 believe it's true, it actually is true and we are going to
40:18 devote an entire evening to going into the proofs to the
40:21 evidences to the historical authentication of the word
40:26 of God. Most people simply accept the Bible as being
40:29 the word of God. We are going to show you in an
40:31 entire evening, why you can have historical,
40:34 scientific, archeological, and every other kind of
40:38 confidence that this is in fact the inspired inherent
40:41 word of God, Amen. Amen. Alright, so notice this one,
40:45 our last one number 8, the case from your personal
40:50 experience and I want to undergird that, your personal
40:53 experience that is the experiential proof.
40:56 Friends listen to me very carefully, if you have an
40:59 experience with something, it is very difficult to
41:03 convince you that thing doesn't exist.
41:06 For example, how many people in this room have
41:07 ever been the Madagascar, ever been to Madagascar,
41:10 the island of Madagascar of the Eastern Coast of Africa
41:13 anybody that's funny every time I ask that nobody has
41:15 ever been to Madagascar buddy, interesting.
41:19 Now listen to this, how many of you believe that
41:21 Madagascar exists? Oh! Remarkably every
41:24 hand goes up well this is interesting isn't it.
41:26 Now one of us has been there yet we are all totally
41:28 convinced that it exists. Now imagine with me that you
41:32 take a trip to Madagascar and sure enough hear you
41:34 are, you're in Madagascar and you're enjoying,
41:36 I don't know if they have sandy beaches they are not,
41:38 but let's just pretend they do. So you're on the sandy
41:40 beaches of Madagascar and you get a telephone call
41:43 from your friend and he says hey how are you, oh!
41:45 I'm doing fine, I'm enjoying it here in Madagascar and
41:49 then he says or she says what, you are in
41:52 Madagascar, Madagascar doesn't exist, you would
41:58 respond by saying something like this what do
42:00 you mean Madagascar doesn't exists. I'm here right
42:03 now, I'm experiencing it, are you understanding?
42:09 Friends listen if you have a living active vital dynamic
42:14 relationship with the God of Abraham, Isaac and
42:16 Jacob with the God of the Bible you have proof,
42:21 you have what word did I say? Proof. Proof from your
42:24 own experience that he exists and no one could
42:28 ever take it from you. Amen. Amen. Brothers and sisters
42:33 it is important to grasp that there are many today
42:36 Christians even Christians sitting in the pews who
42:39 don't have confidence that God is their God.
42:43 They might say in some sort of ambiguous sense.
42:45 Yeah! God exists or I believe in higher power or
42:48 I'm spiritual, but they don't have a living, active, vital,
42:52 dynamic relationship with that God themselves,
42:55 but I want to tell this evening if you have a
42:57 relationship with God for yourself you have the
43:00 internal confidence, the experiential confidence that
43:03 he is not only a God, but he is your God, your father,
43:07 your savior, and your friend. Amen. And so friends, we have
43:12 presented to you 8 lines of evidence and we've given
43:14 you I believe a very compiling case that God
43:17 exists. Would we had time to go in to many of the
43:20 other evidences that prove this. Now notice with me
43:25 the second part of our message this evening is
43:27 Does It Matter? Does It Matter. Sure somebody
43:31 might say okay I can see pastor Asscherick you have
43:34 martialed some evidence here and I can see that probably
43:38 God does exist, but what's the big deal.
43:42 Friends listen to me very carefully every person
43:45 we have been speaking to your mind, now let me
43:47 spend the last several moments speaking to your
43:49 heart, speaking to you what? Heart. Heart, every person
43:55 in this room in fact every person outside of this room,
44:00 every culture, every country, every philosophy,
44:05 every world view, every single culture, social group,
44:10 governmental agency that you can think of all of these
44:13 must answer four inescapable questions,
44:19 four inescapable questions. And I guarantee that each
44:23 of you sitting in this room tonight have wrestled with
44:25 one or more probably all of these four questions.
44:31 Friends, I want to tell you tonight Christianity is the
44:34 thinking man's religion. Amen. Amen. God as we said last
44:38 night God did not come to disable men's minds.
44:42 God came to set free the mind of man and to enable
44:46 men's mind and women's too. Amen. Amen. That's why
44:50 he came, Christianity is a religion that causes us to
44:54 think, it not only causes us to feel that I'm all for
44:57 feelings Amen. Amen. I said amen. Amen.
45:00 I'm all for feelings, but you can't have your whole
45:02 life driven by emotions, your whole life driven by
45:05 feelings, there must be some intellectual continuity
45:08 there in order to keep us interested.
45:11 Friends the Bible is an intelligent book that speaks
45:13 to intelligent people and the God of the Bible is an
45:16 intelligent God that created an intelligent people.
45:19 Amen. Amen. Now our minds are numb
45:21 and dull through sin, I freely admit this, but if we
45:24 will surrender our powers and we'll surrender our
45:26 lives to the God of the Bible, we will find that our
45:29 mind will broaden that it will begin to see new
45:31 horizons and new vistas and the whole world will
45:35 open to us up to us in a way we had never seen before.
45:40 Now notice this four inescapable questions.
45:42 Origin. Meaning. Morality. And Destiny.
45:47 Every single person on the top side of the earth and
45:49 every person in history must wrestle with these
45:52 four questions origin; where am I from,
45:57 meaning; why am I here, have you ever asked
46:00 yourself that question yes or no? Be honest.
46:02 Yes. Sure you have. What about the third one
46:05 there morality how should I live? And number 4 destiny
46:10 where am I going? Friends these are the very questions
46:15 that the Bible sets out to answer. Let us begin by
46:18 looking at number 1, where am I from, go with me to
46:21 Genesis chapter 2, Genesis what chapter
46:24 are we are going to? Two. Genesis chapter 2 and
46:27 notice here in Genesis chapter 2, we find a very
46:30 powerful statement, a very powerful verse that links us
46:35 inexorably to the creative hand of God. I'm in
46:38 Genesis chapter 2 and I'm beginning in verse 7 and
46:41 the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
46:44 who formed man everyone? God. God formed man.
46:47 He is not the process in the result of some you know
46:50 evolutionarily long ages you know, microevolution,
46:54 microevolution, microevolution, of me, but
46:56 to monkey to reptile boom and all the sudden you have
46:58 man the Bible says God made man. Can you say, Amen?
47:04 Amen. That's what Buddy's song was all about tonight.
47:06 Amen. He's a hands on God friends.
47:09 Amen. Amen. Now notice what it says here it goes beyond
47:12 that and the Lord God formed man of the dust of
47:14 the ground any he breathed into his nostrils notice the
47:16 intimacy there. If you are going to breath into
47:18 somebody nostrils you have to get close he is not a
47:23 distant God, he is not a God that just spoke and we came
47:27 into existence that's what he did with the other things
47:29 I love that, that element in Buddy's song there, where he
47:32 said the other things you know where spoken to
47:33 existence, but when it came time to create this creature
47:36 made in his own image he stooped down in the mud,
47:39 he formed him out of the mud and then an intimate
47:41 act, a powerful act, he leans forward and breaths into
47:45 our nostrils the breath of life and notice what it says
47:49 and man became a living being. No place for
47:53 evolution here friends. God made man in his own
47:57 image. That answers question number 1, where
47:59 am I from? The answer is you are from the hand of
48:02 God made in the image of God to love God and know
48:06 him and enjoy him forever. Amen. Amen!
48:08 By the way go with me from the first book of the
48:10 Old Testament to the first book of the New
48:12 Testament, Mathew chapter 19, Mathew chapter 19 and
48:16 we are going to verse 4, Mathew chapter 19
48:19 and what verse everyone? 4 Now notice this, Jesus here
48:24 is speaking, who is speaking everyone, Jesus,
48:26 Jesus is speaking. And it says in verse 4, Have you
48:31 not read that he who made them at the beginning made
48:35 them male and female, how did he make them at the
48:38 beginning everyone. Male and female. Male and female
48:41 this is an obvious reference to the creation story verse
48:43 5, and said for this trees in a man shall live his father
48:45 and mother and rejoin to his life and the two should
48:48 become one flesh so then they are no longer too but
48:51 one flesh therefore what God has joined together.
48:54 Let not man put separate, do you know what Jesus is
48:56 doing here? Jesus is endorsing the Old
49:01 Testament creation account. Amen. If we would have
49:05 to bring Jesus on to the platform this evening, if he
49:07 would come to sent the commend to this room,
49:09 we would ask him, we would say to Jesus do you
49:11 believe evolution he say I don't believe in evolution
49:13 that's not how my father creates. My father creates
49:16 instantaneously and he affirms here that when he
49:19 made him in the beginning he made a male and female.
49:21 Jesus believed in Moses account of instantaneous
49:25 creation. Can you say Amen? Amen. Now friends' evolution
49:28 is that war with biblical creation and we're going to
49:31 talk about that in the future nights. But question
49:34 number 1 has been answered for us where
49:35 am I from? I can remember 7 years ago almost 8 years
49:38 ago I was in a cold room Laramie Wyoming,
49:40 my whole life had apparently fallen apart and
49:43 I was beginning to ask these kinds of questions
49:45 and there was a pain in my soul, an anguish in my soul,
49:48 tears running down my cheeks and I thought.
49:50 Oh! Where am I from anyway. Now do you think
49:54 that the answer to that question will have
49:55 significance on the way I'm going to live my life.
49:58 Amen. Friends if I think that I'm just the descendent
50:01 of some you know infinitely long evolutionarily
50:04 long, ages of time and the descendent of some
50:07 monkey you think that might have an influence on
50:09 how I live my life. Friends, if I'm descendent from
50:12 monkeys, I'm gonna act like a monkey.
50:15 But, if I'm created in the image of God by Him to
50:19 know Him, to love Him and to enjoy Him forever.
50:24 That is going to have a transformative
50:26 effect on my life. Amen. How about number 2,
50:30 why am I here? Why am I here? Who put me here?
50:36 And for what purpose? Go with me in your Bible to
50:39 second Peter toward the end of the New Testament,
50:41 first Peter rather toward the end of the new testament
50:44 we're going to First Peter chapter 2,
50:46 First Peter what chapter? Two. First Peter chapter 2,
50:50 if you find the book of James towards the end of
50:52 the New Testament the next book is First Peter chapter 2
50:55 and I'm reading in verse 9, First Peter chapter 2 and
50:58 verse 9, the Bible says but you are a chosen
51:02 generation, what kind of generation?
51:04 Chosen. A chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
51:07 a holy nation, His own special people, why did you
51:11 make us this way God? That you may proclaim the
51:13 praises of Him, who called you out of darkness into His
51:18 marvelous light. Amen. Why did God create us,
51:22 so that we could proclaim His praises the One who
51:24 called this out of darkness, out of ignorance, into His
51:27 marvelous life friends? God created you, so that you can
51:31 know Him, so that you can love Him and enjoy Him
51:34 forever. The God of the Bible is all about
51:37 relationships. Friends it is relationships that gives life
51:42 significance, it is relationships that gives life
51:45 meaning. Can you say Amen? Amen. There is no such thing
51:47 as meaning in life apart from relationships.
51:49 If you came to the end of your life and you were
51:51 driving the best car and you lived in the biggest house
51:53 and you have the most successful company on
51:57 Wall Street. If you came to that position in your life
51:59 and you didn't have children, you didn't have
52:01 loved one, you had no meaningful relationship
52:03 you have missed the whole purpose and significance
52:06 and meaning of life. Amen. Friends, God created us to
52:10 have a relationship with us. He created us so that we
52:13 would show forth the praises of Him who called
52:15 us out of darkness into His marvelous lights.
52:19 Now notice that question number 2 is why am I here?
52:22 We have answered that question we are here to
52:24 glorify God, to know Him and to show forth His
52:27 praises. How should I live? How should we live?
52:32 Jesus said in John chapter 14 and verse 15 in very
52:34 simple language easy to understand even a child can
52:37 grasp this. He said if you love me keep
52:41 my what everyone? Commandments.
52:43 Commandments. Does God have commandments?
52:45 Yes. Friends God has commandments and there
52:47 are ways that we ought to live Amen.
52:50 And there are ways that we are not to live.
52:53 God here rejects this idea of situational ethics.
52:57 Well you know maybe murder is okay under
52:59 certain circumstances. God rejects this out of hand.
53:03 He simply says thou shall not murder and there is no
53:06 find print at the bottom of that. Amen. Amen.
53:08 And yet right at the, at the heart of the law is, is love
53:12 friends that's in Romans chapter 10 teaches us that
53:14 the fulfilling of the law is love. How should we live
53:20 by the two great golden rules. Do you know what
53:22 those two rules are? Number 1, you shall love
53:25 the Lord your God with all your heart and your mind
53:29 and your soul. Notice that, your heart and your mind.
53:33 Friends when you become a Christian, you don't turn
53:35 your mind off. Amen. Amen. That's what the series is all
53:38 about, are we're gonna speak to the heart of course,
53:40 we're going to speak to the heart, but we must also
53:42 speak to the mind. So many sermons that we hear today
53:45 and even many of the books that are being published
53:47 require you to turn your mind off and not on.
53:50 Others are doing your thinking for you friends,
53:53 but we are to love God with all of our heart.
53:55 Amen. Amen. And our minds and our soul and Jesus said
54:00 the Second Commandment is like unto it you say it
54:02 with me thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself, is
54:06 that easy or difficult? Friends listen it's easy to
54:10 love the ones that love you, Amen. Amen.
54:13 See I love pastor Jason Seiber and when I get to
54:16 heaven and I say, but Jesus I loved pastor Jason with all
54:20 of my heart, I loved him as best as I could, he is gonna
54:22 say big deal. Jason' is easy to love, you understanding?
54:29 What about all those unlovely people friends?
54:32 What about the ones that are tough to love, God calls
54:34 us to love them. What about that person who
54:35 wronged you. You ever been wronged, ever had
54:39 somebody turn on you, stab you in the back
54:42 and everything inside you just wants to boil up and
54:46 get back at them, but God says no you love them.
54:48 Amen. How should we live morality and last, but not
54:51 least, where am I going? Friends, I'll tell you tonight,
54:54 where I'm going. Jesus was speaking to His disciples in
54:56 John chapter 14 and he said let not your heart be
54:59 troubled, you believe in God believe also in me and
55:02 my father's house have many mansions if it were
55:04 not so, I would have told you I go and prepare a
55:06 place for you and if I go and prepare place for you.
55:08 I will come again and receive you unto myself
55:12 that where I am you may be also friends, you know,
55:15 what we are had it. Do you know what our destiny is?
55:17 Our destiny is heaven and eternity with the Lord
55:22 Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Friends' that speaks to the
55:24 heart and it speaks to the mind. Each of these four
55:27 questions powerfully answered, does God exist
55:29 of course he exists, compiling evidence
55:31 demonstrates that origin, meaning, morality, and
55:34 destiny. Origin where am I from? Meaning why
55:38 am I here? Morality how should I live in? Destiny
55:41 where am I going? Friends, I'll tell you where I'm going.
55:43 By the grace of God I'm going to that kingdom.
55:45 Amen. That's Celestial Kingdom.
55:47 I want to walk, I want to walk on streets of gold,
55:50 but not by myself friends. I want to walk with Jesus.
55:52 Amen. How about you? As we close tonight, I want
55:56 to ask two questions. Number 1, has tonight's
56:00 message been clear, have you understood the
56:02 message? If that is the case raise your hand
56:04 high to heaven. Amen. You have turned your mind
56:07 on and you've understood the second question is
56:09 tonight how many of you, how many of you want to
56:12 make that full, total, and complete surrender of your
56:14 life and your heart to Jesus Christ why don't you raise
56:17 your hand? God bless you all. Friends this is a
56:20 decision you will not regret, this is the greatest decision
56:23 you can make and tonight I urge upon you to continue
56:26 to live in that decision that's my
56:29 encouragement to you, God bless you all.


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