Participants: David Asscherick
Series Code: EHE
Program Code: EHE000002
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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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