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The Star Maker, Part 1

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00:01 I'm John Carter in Moscow...
00:02 I'm now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
00:04 I'm John Carter in Petra...
00:06 Reporting from India...
00:08 In Columbia...
00:09 I'm John Carter.
00:11 Today, on the Carter Report,
00:13 John Carter talks about The Star Maker.
00:21 I couldn't be an atheist.
00:24 You know why?
00:26 I just don't have enough faith.
00:29 I really couldn't be an atheist because to be an atheist,
00:32 you've got to have
00:34 an extraordinary amount of faith.
00:37 Now let me just give you one little bit of evidence
00:41 why I couldn't be an atheist.
00:44 Astronomers have discovered in recent times
00:48 that the universe,
00:49 about 95% of it is composed of dark stuff.
00:56 So when we put pictures on the screen today
00:58 that show the stars,
01:00 that's not the dark stuff, that's the bright stuff.
01:04 And the bright stuff is only about
01:06 5% of the entire universe.
01:10 The dark stuff is made up of two parts.
01:13 This is important if you don't know this.
01:15 And then you see why I couldn't be an atheist,
01:18 why I don't have enough faith.
01:21 This dark matter,
01:24 that stuff that actually has a gravitational pull,
01:27 so it's actual stuff
01:30 but nobody knows what it is.
01:32 Nobody can see it, we know it's there.
01:35 And then there is another sort of stuff
01:37 that is called dark energy.
01:41 This dark energy
01:44 lives on the...
01:47 on the expanding face of the universe.
01:52 This dark energy
01:56 controls the expansion rate of the universe.
02:01 I want you to think about this.
02:03 We know it's a fact
02:06 that the universe is expanding out like this,
02:11 almost at the speed of light.
02:14 So this shows you
02:16 without getting into this theological dimension
02:18 that this universe cannot last forever.
02:23 It's a temporary thing.
02:26 The universe is exploding up,
02:28 one day the universe will expand
02:30 so far out that the stars,
02:34 we won't be able to see the stars.
02:37 That which determines
02:39 the expansion rate of the universe,
02:42 that determines our existence on the planet.
02:46 Did you hear this?
02:48 The expansion rate of the universe
02:51 determines whether we shall live
02:55 or whether we shall die.
02:59 The expansion rate of the universe,
03:02 like a lot of other things in the cosmos
03:04 is fine tuned...
03:09 to such an extreme amount
03:12 that I'm going to use this illustration
03:14 that I don't understand.
03:16 I want you to think of the whole
03:19 of the United States of America.
03:22 It's a big place,
03:24 about three million square miles.
03:27 And we're going to cover it with dimes.
03:32 Not to a foot, not to six feet but to the moon.
03:39 Is that a lot of dimes?
03:41 United States of America covered with dimes
03:44 that reach up to the moon.
03:50 Do it a million times.
03:53 A million United States of America
03:57 covered with dimes
03:59 that reach up to the very...
04:02 Almost touching the moon, hundreds of thousands of miles.
04:07 How many dimes? How many dimes?
04:11 It's only incomprehensible,
04:14 can't figure out a trillionth and trillionth.
04:17 One dime has got an "x" on it, only one dime.
04:22 So you're going to be blindfolded
04:25 and on a dark night you're told to walk out
04:28 and there is a million United State
04:30 dimes up to the moon and on the first go,
04:34 you pick out the dime with the mark on it.
04:41 What chances there are of that?
04:44 One in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion,
04:46 trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion,
04:49 that's how fine tuned the dark energy is
04:54 that is driving the expansion of the universe
04:57 that determines whether there will be
04:59 life on planet earth.
05:03 So...
05:06 I believe in a divine watchmaker.
05:11 I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
05:16 I don't have enough faith
05:19 to be an atheist.
05:21 Stephen Hawking,
05:24 millions of people quote him and they say now,
05:26 "He's given us the secrets of the universe
05:29 and he's shown that we don't need God."
05:30 He says this in his famous book,
05:34 A Brief History of Time, page 127,
05:38 "It would be very difficult to explain
05:43 why the Universe should have begun in just this way,
05:48 except as an act of a God
05:53 who intended to create beings like us."
06:01 The topic today is...
06:03 And I present it before you write down,
06:06 the topic today is
06:09 The Star Maker
06:13 or The Universe Maker.
06:19 The most important statement
06:21 that has ever been made in time and eternity
06:24 is Genesis 1:1.
06:28 Notice it in the Bible, Genesis 1:1,
06:32 "In the beginning
06:34 God created heavens and the earth."
06:38 The very first words of
06:42 the Jewish Christian Bible.
06:45 Listen to this.
06:48 Almost impossible to comprehend what I'm saying now.
06:51 Our universe, we know,
06:53 I've been saying this now for a few years.
06:55 Our universe is composed of 200 billion galaxies.
07:00 When I first started as a young man
07:02 to talk on this subject on the stars,
07:05 I told the people there were 500,000 galaxies,
07:10 500,000...
07:11 Then after a few years, I found million,
07:14 now they say, "No, it's not a million,
07:15 it's not a billion, 200 billion."
07:18 But just a few days ago,
07:20 NASA released a tremendous statement.
07:23 They said, "The universe is 10 times bigger than
07:29 we thought it was."
07:31 And so the universe now is not 200 billion galaxies
07:35 but 2 trillion galaxies.
07:42 I present to you the star maker.
07:46 In each galaxy,
07:48 there are around 2 trillion galaxies.
07:52 In each galaxy,
07:54 there are around 200 billion stars.
08:00 The question is...
08:02 I'll say it once again, I don't have enough faith
08:04 to be an atheist, I just couldn't do this.
08:07 Who made this wondrous, incomprehensible vast universe
08:11 that came into being in a millisecond
08:14 of light and energy?
08:16 It is now...
08:17 Listen, my atheistic friend,
08:20 it is now a scientific fact
08:23 that the universe came into existence
08:25 in blinding flash of light and energy.
08:28 There was nothing and then the universe was created.
08:34 Most scientists until relatively recently,
08:38 Einstein for instance believed
08:40 in the steady state of the universe.
08:42 It had always been there, infinite time, infinite matter,
08:45 therefore evolution could work, but it's not true.
08:50 Others have believed in the oscillating theory
08:52 of the universe in, out, in...
08:54 No, no, no.
08:56 It is a scientific fact that the universe
08:58 came into being
09:00 in a blinding flash of light and energy.
09:03 And the question is, who is the star maker,
09:07 who is the universe maker.
09:10 Come with me to John 1:1-3
09:14 and I'm glad that you've joined us today,
09:17 John 1:1-3, the Bible says,
09:20 "In the beginning was the Word,
09:24 and the Word was with God,
09:26 and the Word was God.
09:30 He was in the beginning with God.
09:32 All things were made through Him," this is Christ,
09:35 "and without Him nothing was made that was made.
09:39 He was in the world, and the world," all the cosmos,
09:43 "was made through Him,
09:46 and the world did not know Him."
09:49 The Bible teaches
09:52 that the universe was created by the Logos.
09:59 And the Logos is another word in the Bible for Christ.
10:05 Listen to this, my dear atheistic friend.
10:09 I want to please with all of us to be intellectual,
10:13 morally honest as we contemplate this.
10:17 Atheism teaches that the universe
10:19 started with chaos.
10:22 Richard Dawkins says it,
10:24 meaninglessness without mind or thought.
10:29 The Bible teaches, the universe started with intelligence,
10:36 with the Logos.
10:39 I'm going to put up here so you can notice it
10:42 what atheism teaches.
10:45 You've got to be honest.
10:48 "Nothing produced everything,
10:51 non-life produced life,
10:53 randomness produced fine tuning,
10:57 chaos produced information,
11:00 unconsciousness produced consciousness,
11:04 non-reason produced reason."
11:07 I would suggest to you that this idea
11:11 is the basis
11:14 of all the discontent in the world today,
11:17 and the meaninglessness.
11:22 I would call this today...
11:25 with all apologies,
11:27 this today is the new insanity
11:33 that is disguised as sophistication.
11:36 I don't have enough faith to believe it.
11:41 Now, I want you to come over here to Colossians 1:15-17
11:46 to the words of the Apostle Paul.
11:50 And speaking of Christ
11:53 in Colossians 1:15-17,
11:59 he says,
12:01 "He is the image of" the very, the very essence,
12:05 "of the invisible God, the firstborn," or the leader,
12:09 "over all creation.
12:11 For by Him all things were created
12:13 that are in heaven and that are on earth,
12:17 visible and invisible," dark energy,
12:20 dark matter, "thrones, dominions,
12:24 principalities or powers.
12:26 All things were created through Him and for Him.
12:31 And He is before all things,
12:35 and in Him all things consist."
12:40 The Bible teaches my friend that Christ is the star maker.
12:46 Before the creation of the universe,
12:49 Christ, the Logos existed.
12:53 This...
12:55 mighty God.
12:57 Come with me now over here to John 8:56-59
13:04 in the scriptures,
13:06 John 8:56 and onwards
13:13 which records a conversation
13:16 that Christ had with the religious leaders
13:20 of His day.
13:22 He said, "'Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day,
13:26 and he saw it and was glad.'
13:29 Then the Jews said to Him,
13:31 'You are not yet fifty years old,
13:33 have you seen Abraham?'
13:35 Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you,
13:39 before Abraham was..."'
13:42 Not I was, "I AM."
13:48 And these people were not fools,
13:50 they knew what He was saying.
13:51 "Then they took up stones to throw at Him,
13:53 but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple,
13:56 going through the midst of them,
13:58 and so passed by."
14:02 Jesus took
14:05 the unique Hebrew expression
14:09 that refers to almighty God, the star maker.
14:14 And if you compare this expression,
14:17 I AM, that is found in the Gospel of John,
14:19 over here with the passage about the burning bush.
14:22 In Exodus 3:1-6,
14:27 this is the passage about the burning bush
14:32 and how Moses actually meets the Almighty God.
14:35 "Now Moses was tending to the flock of Jethro,
14:38 his father-in-law, the priest of Midian.
14:42 He led the flock to the back of the desert,
14:45 and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
14:49 Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him
14:51 in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush.
14:55 So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire,
15:00 but the bush was not consumed.
15:03 Then Moses said, 'I will now turn aside
15:05 and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.'
15:09 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look,
15:12 God called to him from the midst of the bush
15:15 and said, 'Moses, Moses.'
15:21 And he said, 'Here I am.'
15:24 Then He said, 'Do not draw near this place.
15:26 Take your sandals off from your feet,
15:28 for the place where you stand is holy ground.'
15:32 Moreover He said, 'I am the God of your father,
15:36 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
15:38 and the God of Jacob.'
15:40 And Moses hid his face,
15:42 for he was afraid to look upon God.'"
15:46 And so, out of the midst of this burning bush
15:50 that burned but is not consumed
15:52 came the voice of the star maker,
15:55 the person who said, "I am the almighty God."
15:58 Now, my friends, if you come down little further
16:01 and if you come down to verse 14,
16:04 "And God said to Moses,"
16:05 because God has a conversation with Moses,
16:08 the servant of God.
16:10 "God said to Moses, 'I AM who I AM.'
16:15 And He said, 'Thus you shall say to the children of Israel,
16:19 'I AM has sent me to you."'
16:21 This unique expression...
16:24 Not the "I WAS" but the "I AM"
16:28 is the name that is given to the self-existent God.
16:34 This is an awesome truth
16:38 that the God who spoke out of the burning bush
16:40 that was not consumed.
16:42 This person, my friend, was Yahweh, Elohim.
16:47 Now Jewish scholars
16:49 because of their reverence with God
16:51 will never pronounce this name.
16:53 Were not absolutely certain how the name is said.
16:56 This is the tetragrammaton.
16:59 The four letters of the Hebrew language,
17:03 YHWH, Yahweh
17:06 and as you know it's written in this way across here,
17:11 this person is called in the scriptures, the Creator,
17:15 the mighty God, He is the star maker,
17:18 He is the universe maker, He is the great I AM.
17:23 And Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews,
17:27 "Before Abraham was, I AM."
17:31 No wonder they took up stones to stone Him.
17:37 Now, if you come to 2 Timothy 1:9,
17:41 you come to a provocative text in the Bible.
17:44 And this is a good text for those who don't believe,
17:49 those who are unbelievers and those who are atheists.
17:53 2 Timothy 1:9, it says, speaking of Jesus it says,
17:59 "Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,
18:04 not according to our works,
18:06 but according to His own purpose and grace
18:12 which was given to us in Christ Jesus..."
18:20 Scientists didn't believe this until relatively recently,
18:24 "before time began."
18:29 Which makes foolish the question,
18:33 where did God come from, how long has God been there
18:37 because when the universe was created,
18:42 a number of things came into being, my friend.
18:45 This is scientific.
18:47 A number of things came into being
18:50 which had not existed before.
18:54 Time was one of them, and space, and matter,
19:01 these things had never existed before,
19:03 it is a scientific fact
19:06 that there was a 'time",
19:12 when there was no time.
19:14 And the Bible talks about the time
19:17 about Christ Jesus before time began.
19:24 And before time began in a place far away,
19:29 beyond time and space
19:32 and everything that we think is important,
19:36 there was a person who was called the Logos.
19:42 And He is called in scripture, "The great I AM, Yahweh,
19:46 Elohim, El Shaddai, the Almighty God."
19:50 And He spoke with His own mouth
19:54 and the energy was of such consequence
19:58 that where there was nothing,
20:00 all of a sudden there was a universe being born.
20:06 And we now know this universe
20:08 consists of
20:11 two trillion galaxies.
20:16 The person who did this,
20:17 we call him affectionately today,
20:21 the star maker.
20:25 Then there came a day in time
20:29 when the "I AM" became a human being.
20:33 A man whom I got to know many years ago in Texas
20:36 down at nameless valley ranch.
20:39 He was a great US astronaut,
20:42 a man of great courage and decency,
20:46 Colonel James Irwin.
20:49 When he put on a slideshow for us,
20:52 he didn't show pictures of his children,
20:54 he showed pictures of walking around on the moon.
20:58 That's a little bit, you know,
21:00 what are you going to follow that up with?
21:03 But Colonel Irwin made this remark,
21:08 "The most significant achievement of our age
21:11 is not that man stood on the moon,"
21:13 like he did.
21:17 Wonderful man.
21:21 "The most significant achievement of our age,"
21:23 said Colonel James Irwin,
21:25 "is not that man stood on the moon
21:27 but rather that God in Christ stood upon this earth."
21:31 That's the most amazing thing
21:34 and this is what the colonel said to me
21:37 as we walked around the hills in Texas.
21:41 And he shared his faith in Christ
21:44 and he talked about looking back
21:45 and seeing the earth rise over the moon.
21:52 And he said that his mind came pulsating the words,
21:56 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
22:00 My friend, I could not possibly be an atheist.
22:04 I don't have enough faith, you see.
22:10 I cannot believe
22:11 that which I consider to be irrational, illogical,
22:16 and pardon my saying it, nonsensical.
22:22 But around 2,000 years ago,
22:24 a young woman accompanied by her husband
22:28 gave birth to a baby boy.
22:32 This happened outside a hospital
22:35 without doctors or nurses.
22:39 It happened in the shed,
22:41 at the back of an overbooked motel
22:43 in a small town by the name of Bethlehem.
22:47 Most women today would have been appalled,
22:51 even terrified by the circumstances.
22:55 But here is a slip of a girl, just a young girl,
22:59 most likely a peasant girl.
23:03 And she is a long way from home,
23:05 and from family, and friends.
23:08 And she is with her husband
23:10 who has been given the honor
23:12 of taking care of the mother of our Lord.
23:17 And one night...
23:20 Can you believe this?
23:22 Because if you can believe this,
23:24 nothing will be impossible to you.
23:28 Amid the lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep,
23:34 the star maker was born,
23:38 most likely with tears, and crying,
23:41 and maybe with blood.
23:45 Most women today
23:47 would be afraid of the lack of hygiene.
23:49 He was born in a shed at the back...
23:55 of an overbooked motel six.
24:03 The baby was the Lord of the universe,
24:06 the star maker.
24:08 He had many names.
24:12 He was called Almighty God, El Shaddai,
24:17 the Creator, the I AM,
24:22 the word that we say with great reverence,
24:26 the word that the Hebrew scribes will not say.
24:33 When I was in Jerusalem with a Hebrew scribe
24:36 and said the name...
24:39 the man trembled, he said,
24:42 "Do you know what you've said?"
24:47 So what we are talking about?
24:48 We are talking about this person,
24:50 the I AM, Yahweh,
24:54 Elohim, the Lord.
24:58 His parents called Him Jesus.
25:07 And when Mary took this little baby boy,
25:12 maybe eight pounds,
25:15 nestled Him,
25:18 and gave Him His first drink of warm milk.
25:26 She was holding...
25:28 incarnate...
25:33 the Creator of the universe,
25:37 the Logos who would come down...
25:44 to save us.
25:49 This tells me that the star maker
25:53 must be a very nice person.
25:59 We'll be back with more and more amazing truths
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