Eleventh Hour Evidence

Creation Pt.1 Father God, Or Mother Nature?

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Participants: David Asscherick

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00:17 Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome
00:19 to another edition of the Eleventh Hour Evidence.
00:22 We're coming to you live from Battle Creek,
00:24 Michigan, my hometown. As you know this series
00:27 has been waking us up to the fact that Jesus is alive
00:31 I'm your host Pastor Jason Seiber and I'm so glad
00:34 you're joining us. Tonight we are going to be talking
00:36 about an amazing topic. It is a topic that has divided
00:40 the world right down the spiritual fault line.
00:42 The question of evolution, where did we come from
00:46 and what are the implications of that answer,
00:48 and I've got to tell you Buddy, I know something
00:50 about our good friend David Asscherick.
00:53 It turns out this guy hang on a wall like a monkey.
00:56 Are you aware of that? I mean this guy's an incredible
00:59 rock climber, how many people knew that David Asscherick
01:01 is incredible rock climber? You know I was doing
01:03 pull-ups with him outside, I'm lucky to be able to just
01:06 do a pull up, he does pull-ups and at the top he claps,
01:09 catches it goes back down. Apparently,
01:12 Louise Leakey is asking questions about whether he
01:15 might introduce some possibilities to the missing
01:20 link. And if you believe that it's not true,
01:23 okay don't anybody call 3ABN and ask about the
01:25 missing link, it not true. But we are excited about
01:29 this topic because we believe there are fantastic answers
01:32 to our origins and to the quality of the God
01:35 that we serve based upon those origins.
01:37 I understand you have a perfect song for a perfect
01:39 discussion for a perfect evening in Battle Creek.
01:49 Mr. Darwin, I address you to the subject of this song,
01:55 I hope you're not offended when I tell you that
01:58 you're wrong, but when you tell me that my ancestor's
02:02 flower or a tree. Mr. Darwin, I have to disagree,
02:11 you said that we were slimy ones and crawled out
02:15 of the sea and though I am no scientist I
02:18 know that wasn't me. I don't know just what possessed
02:23 you to say all the things you say,
02:25 when Jesus comes your face will surely be red.
02:30 For it was God that formed me from the dust
02:33 and gave my body a shape, it is he that I descended
02:37 from and not some hairy ape. It is he that loves
02:41 and cares for me this much I know is true and
02:44 Mr. Darwin, Jesus Christ loves you.
02:52 I have a little dog at home, he's got a lot to give
02:56 and though he is my little friend, he's not my relative
03:01 and when I go into the zoo to look at all the living
03:05 things, it's just a visit and not a family gathering.
03:08 For it was God that formed me from the dust and gave
03:13 my body a shape. It is he that I descended
03:17 from and not some hairy ape. It is he that loves
03:20 and cares for me, this much I know is true
03:23 and Mr. Darwin, Jesus Christ loves you.
03:32 I cannot condemn you for the things you tried to say.
03:35 All I know is you and I were never made that way
03:40 and though my little furry friends so similarities.
03:46 Lets not make a monkey out of me. Mr. Darwin,
03:52 when the life you led in Heaven's court is tried,
03:56 I hope you change the tune you're saying sometime
03:59 before you died. 'Cause when Jesus comes he is going
04:03 to take his children off the ground and
04:06 you're just going to have to stick around.
04:11 For it was God who formed me from the dust and gave
04:14 my body a shape, it is he that I descended from
04:17 and not some hairy ape. It is he that loves and cares
04:22 for me, this much I know is true and Mr. Darwin,
04:27 Mr. Darwin, Jesus Christ loves you.
04:40 Amen. Amen. How about that
04:41 Mr. Darwin, Jesus Christ loves you. How many of you
04:44 had a great dad in your lives.
04:46 I know not everybody has, but some of you like me
04:48 have had a wonderful dad that you really loved
04:49 and appreciated. My dad is out in Northern California,
04:52 he was a timber faller for a number of years,
04:54 worked on the highways for a number of years.
04:57 My mom used not like to take my sister and I
04:58 out to visit him because when we would go and see
05:01 him and bring him his lunch, my dad couldn't keep
05:04 his lunch to himself and by the time it was done,
05:06 dad got no lunch and my sister and I ate everything.
05:10 I don't know if you had a dad like that,
05:11 but that my dad for you, a very sharing person
05:14 and when you got sick, my dad was the kind that
05:17 held your head and comforted you and told
05:20 you it's all going to be okay.
05:23 Tonight, we're going to ask the question friends,
05:25 what kind of dad is God? Is he a dad like my dad or
05:32 better or is he a dad that strikes fear to the heart
05:35 of his creation. To answer that question
05:37 tonight Pastor David Asscherick.
05:39 Amen. Good evening everyone.
05:41 Good evening. Did you love that song? Yes.
05:46 That was hilarious. But it was not only hilarious,
05:49 it was very sound too. I mean that's what
05:52 I liked about it, is that it was funny and very sound
05:55 as well. Where did Buddy go? He said he was going
05:57 to sit with his family, I'm looking for him.
05:58 Oh, there we are excellent, great,
06:01 what a beautiful family. Where's your wife, oh! Hi,
06:07 nice to meet you. Well, I might invite you back up
06:09 to sing that song again Buddy,
06:10 maybe I'll just preach short and then I'll have you come
06:12 in sing that song again. Wasn't that beautiful? Yeah.
06:16 Oh! My heart is just encouraged by that song,
06:18 very nice. Now, before we go one moment further
06:21 I've been having great time staying at Jason's house
06:24 and he and I are sort of back and forth on correcting
06:27 one another and I'll say no you pronounced that
06:28 word wrong and he'll say, no you pronounced that
06:30 word wrong and we're back and forth,
06:31 always sort of trying to one up one another in good
06:35 humor and I think I'm way ahead of him though,
06:37 way ahead. Anyway I do need to make a public
06:41 declaration, I declared yesterday or maybe it was
06:45 two days ago that it was the Roman emperor Diocletian
06:48 who had put John into the cauldron of boiling oil,
06:52 it was not Diocletian as Jason reminded me,
06:55 it was Domitian and so I just wanna go on record
06:58 of saying Jason was right.
07:00 Amen Amen. Alright, well we have a wonderful
07:06 message in store for you this evening, it's
07:08 entitled Creation, Father God or Mother Nature,
07:12 Creation, Father God or Mother Nature and I think
07:15 you're going to find this message very encouraging,
07:16 very challenging and very stimulating and hopefully
07:20 you will also find it very motivating. Creation,
07:23 Father God or Mother Nature. Now before we get into
07:26 the message proper what is it our custom to do?
07:29 Pray. Pray. That's right. So, let's begin with a word
07:31 of prayer together. Father in Heaven, we invite your
07:37 presence to be with us now. Father,
07:40 you have set the stage for this meeting to take place.
07:42 The story that Jason has told about his father
07:46 and the way that he treated his children,
07:49 he communicated accurately a picture of you.
07:52 And Father, the song that Buddy sang,
07:54 what a powerful song, what a poignant song that shows us
07:57 that we are not the descendents of some
08:00 primordial unicellular organism, but we are fresh
08:04 from the hands of the Creator. Father,
08:07 tonight as we discuss this potentially divisive
08:11 and certainly controversial topic.
08:14 We pray that our hearts would be surrendered to you
08:17 and that we would come to know at the close of this
08:19 meeting that we have a Creator and a Father.
08:23 Be with us now we ask, for we come to you in Jesus
08:26 name and everyone can say Amen. Amen.
08:32 Friends, I want to begin by letting you know
08:35 that our picture of God is informed by our,
08:41 how shall we say this? Our picture of our heavenly
08:43 Father would be largely informed by our earthly
08:45 father. Now as you look to the screen here you
08:48 will notice two of the most handsome boys
08:50 you have ever seen in your entire life.
08:52 I've never seen two more handsome boys
08:55 ever and these are my two boys here.
08:57 The one on your right is Landon, he is my oldest
09:00 and then the youngest is Jabel. Jabel is actually
09:03 named after a young man who is just 21 years old,
09:06 who is planting churches right now in Sudan,
09:08 and so we named him after Jabel hoping that he will be
09:11 that kind of a missionary worker for God.
09:13 Now, the picture I hope that I am communicating
09:17 to both Landon and Jabel of their heavenly Father
09:19 is one of love, one of kindness, magnanimity
09:24 and benevolence. My youngest son or my oldest son
09:27 rather is a very trusting person, ever since he was a
09:30 young boy and I'm sure some of the doctors
09:32 aren't going to like this very much,
09:33 but ever since he was very small I would you know
09:36 very gently start to sort of toss him into the air,
09:38 you know how we do where? Over the bed always,
09:41 mothers don't worry. Over the bed and then as he
09:44 got a little older and firmer and muscles got bigger
09:47 and stronger, you know, I toss him a little higher
09:49 and at first he be scared, but I'd catch every time.
09:52 Now the only problem is that now we have developed
09:55 such a bond of trust that I find my boy doing
09:59 things that probably are not in his best interest.
10:01 For example, he will have no hesitation in just getting
10:06 on top of the largest rock and jumping toward
10:09 me as quickly as he can, now most of the time
10:12 I catch him. No, I'm just kidding, all of the time
10:15 I catch him, but the point here is just this.
10:18 My oldest son and I, Landon we have developed
10:21 such a bond because I catch him in every instance.
10:25 When I throw him I'm there for him,
10:27 when we go walking I support him, I take care of him
10:30 and in doing this by the grace of God I'm trying
10:33 to give him a picture of the way that our heavenly
10:36 Father cares for us. There are many people today
10:38 that wonder what God is like? Some people wonder
10:42 if there even is a God at all? When Jesus came to this
10:46 planet he revolutionized the way that we think
10:50 of God. When Jesus came to this planet,
10:53 he showed that God was not some vindictive exacter,
10:56 not some creditor that was just out to tag you out
10:59 at every moment. He showed that God had a personal
11:02 interest in us, he said things like this.
11:05 The very hairs of your head are what?
11:09 Numbered. Numbered, isn't that remarkable? Amen.
11:11 He also said a sparrow does not fall to the ground,
11:14 except your heavenly Father takes notice now.
11:17 Now I take real consolation in that because
11:19 I am a bird watcher and my wife and I are birders
11:21 and so we love the fact that God is a bird
11:24 watcher too. Amen? Amen.
11:26 I love the song that says his eye is on the Sparrow.
11:29 Jesus himself said, consider the ravens and so Jesus
11:32 he turned the whole picture of what, what,
11:35 the picture that we have of God he turned it around.
11:37 He also said things like this, when his disciples came
11:40 to him and said Lord teach us to pray.
11:42 We want to pray like you pray, he said this is how
11:45 you should pray. What was the first words
11:47 that he said? Our Father, who art in heaven,
11:52 hallowed be the name. What Jesus did here is he took
11:55 God out of that sort of ethereal, nebulous,
11:58 heavenly realm and he brought him down into
12:02 the tangible, knowable reality. He brought him
12:05 down not in terms of condescension,
12:07 but he brought him down and he said he is not just
12:10 a God often the distance nether reaches
12:12 of the universe, but he is your Father.
12:14 He has a personal interest in you, in your family,
12:18 in your welfare and in your well being,
12:20 that's the picture that we have of God in the Bible.
12:24 You know friends what we are going to learn today
12:26 is that there are many things in the world that are,
12:28 that are purporting and are attempting to actually
12:31 take away that caring magnanimous picture
12:35 that we have of our heavenly Father.
12:37 Probably the single most powerful force that
12:41 is in the world today that is trying to rob us of our
12:44 picture of benevolent paternal Father the concept
12:49 and the theory of evolution. Our message title is
12:52 very pointed and I want to remind you of it again.
12:54 The message is Creation, Father God or Mother
12:58 Nature. I personally believe that there has been no
13:02 modern philosophy, no modern world view that has done
13:06 more to undermine our picture of God and his existence
13:10 than the world view and the theory of evolution.
13:14 So we must ask the question then is evolution true?
13:18 And if it is true, is it compatible with what the
13:20 Bible teaches and we're going to discuss that as
13:22 we commence this evening. Let's begin by noting here
13:25 on the screen that the Bible affirms in
13:28 unequivocal language that God is the Creator.
13:31 That God is what word did I say? The Creator.
13:33 The Creator, note with me in Genesis chapter 1,
13:35 lets go to a passage of scripture that we all know
13:37 very well. Genesis and what Chapter are we going to?
13:40 Chapter 1. Genesis chapter 1,
13:42 now I'm beginning in verse 1. Genesis chapter 1
13:45 and verse 1, you should have no problem finding
13:47 Genesis, it's the first book in the Bible.
13:50 Genesis chapter 1, beginning in verse 1 it says,
13:53 in the beginning God created the what?
13:56 The heavens and the earth, now notice that's
13:58 the very first introduction that we have to God
14:01 in the Bible. "In the beginning God created,"
14:04 here we see God as Creator, as what word did I say?
14:08 Creator. Verse 2 the earth was without form,
14:10 and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
14:12 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face
14:14 of the waters then God said, let there be light
14:17 and there was light. Right here in the opening verses,
14:21 the opening chapter of the Bible, we find God being
14:24 affirmed as the Creator, so note here on the screen.
14:27 The Bible presents God in unmistakable language
14:30 as the Creator of heaven, earth and everything
14:35 in them. Let us note a few other passages
14:37 that will help to buttress this idea that God is
14:40 in fact our Creator. Go with me from the book
14:42 of Genesis to the book of Psalms.
14:44 What book are we going to everyone? Psalms.
14:46 Psalms. Right toward the middle of your Bible
14:48 and we're going to Psalm 33. There are literally
14:50 100s of passages that we could sight,
14:52 but we're going to go to Psalm chapter 33,
14:56 Psalm 33 and I'm going to begin in verse 6.
14:59 Psalm 33 and verse 6, the Psalms writes these words,
15:03 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
15:06 the heavens were what everyone? Made.
15:09 Made, note also, all the host of them by the breath
15:13 of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea
15:15 together as a heap, he lays up the deep in
15:18 storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD, let
15:20 all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
15:24 Verse 9, For he spoke and it was done,
15:27 he commanded and it stood fast. Amen.
15:31 The picture that we have here of God is one
15:33 in which he creates and when he creates let me just
15:36 note quickly and carefully that when he creates
15:38 it is not through a process, but through an
15:40 instantaneous act of creation, notice that again
15:43 in verse 6, by the word of the Lord the heavens
15:46 were made and all the host of them by the breath
15:48 of this mouth, by the word they were made.
15:51 Now, notice verse 9, for he spoke
15:53 and it was set in motion. is that what it says. He
15:57 spoken was done, he commanded and it took a while.
16:03 It stood fast. It stood fast, so notice here not
16:05 only in Genesis, but also in the book of Psalms,
16:07 the great hymn book of the Old Testament,
16:09 God is, God is shown to us, he is pictured to us
16:13 as the Creator, as the what word everyone?
16:17 Creator. We're going to emphasize that again
16:19 and again this evening. Now go with me to the Book
16:21 of Isaiah, one of the major prophets.
16:23 Isaiah chapter 45, Isaiah chapter 45,
16:28 and notice with me just one verse here in Isaiah 45,
16:31 I'm noting verse 18. Isaiah chapter 45 in verse 18,
16:35 for thus says the Lord, who created the heavens;
16:40 who what the heavens everyone? Created.
16:43 Created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth
16:46 and made it, who established it, who did not create it
16:50 in vain, who formed it to be inhabited.
16:53 Why did he formed it everyone? To be inhabited.
16:56 I am the Lord and there is no other,
16:58 notice here again in Isaiah 45 in verse 18,
17:00 the Prophet Isaiah affirms in unequivocal,
17:04 unmistakable language that God created
17:06 and when he created, it was an instantaneous act,
17:09 he commanded it was done, he spoke and it stood fast.
17:14 This is the picture that we have not,
17:15 just in Genesis, Psalms and Isaiah.
17:17 This is the picture that runs as a thread through
17:19 the entire cannon of scripture from Genesis
17:22 to Malachi in the Old Testament and from Matthew
17:24 to Genesis or to Revelation in the New Testament.
17:27 In both testaments, God is presented as the Creator.
17:32 Now go with me to one of the most powerful
17:33 New Testament text to this effect and this is actually
17:36 from the Fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John.
17:39 And here the Gospel writer John does something
17:41 very powerful and something very theologically
17:43 significant. He actually enlarges upon the language
17:47 that we saw there in Genesis chapter 1.
17:49 He broadens that language and he incorporates a
17:52 significant element into it. John chapter 1 beginning
17:56 in verse 1, John chapter 1 beginning in verse 1.
17:59 Now remember, what were the first words of Genesis
18:01 chapter 1, what were those first words?
18:02 In the beginning, in the beginning and what
18:05 was the next word? God. God. Now notice what John
18:08 does in John chapter 1 beginning in verse 1,
18:11 it says in the beginning, there is the same three words
18:14 that's how he begins his even galleon.
18:16 In the beginning was the what? The word, the logos,
18:23 notice what he says about this word, this logos,
18:26 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God
18:30 and the word was, what's the next word there?
18:33 God. God. Notice verse 2, he was in the beginning
18:36 with God. Verse 3, all things were, what's the next word
18:42 Made. Made through him and without him nothing
18:44 was made that was made. What John is doing here is he is,
18:47 he is drawing on that powerful sublime language
18:49 of Genesis 1 and he is saying that Jesus was actually
18:53 the vehicle, the conduit through which God created.
18:58 Notice that again in verse 3, it says all things
19:00 were made what's that word there? By him.
19:03 Through or by him. So, Genesis 1:1 affirms that God
19:07 is Creator and John 1:1 affirms that God created
19:10 and the conduit or the vehicle, the mechanism
19:14 through which he created was Jesus Christ.
19:17 Notice here on the screen with me, God was the Creator,
19:20 but when he created it was through Jesus Christ.
19:25 It was what everyone? Through. Through
19:27 Jesus Christ, as a matter of fact if you remember
19:29 there in Genesis chapter 1 the first two verses it said,
19:32 and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
19:36 Not only was the Father involved in creation,
19:38 not only was the Son involved in creation,
19:41 but the Spirit was also intimately involved in the
19:45 act of creation, and so you have all three members
19:47 of the God head, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit working
19:50 together harmoniously, synchronously
19:53 to create the heavens and the earth.
19:55 Are you with me? Yes or no? We are.
19:57 Powerful, now you're still there in John chapter 1
19:59 and notice with me verse 10, John chapter 1
20:01 and verse 10. It says, he was in the world,
20:04 this is speaking of the incarnation of Jesus,
20:06 he was in the world and the world was made,
20:11 what everyone? Through him.
20:13 Through him and there it is again, and the world did
20:15 not know him, verse 11 must be one of the saddest
20:17 verses in all of the Bible, it says he came to his own
20:21 and his own did not receive him.
20:26 What is John trying to do here at the beginning
20:28 of his Gospel, he is, he is affirming number one
20:30 that God is Creator, number two, he is affirming
20:33 that the word was with God and that the word
20:36 was God and number three, he is affirming
20:38 that that word that logos, Jesus Christ in the
20:41 flesh was the Creator, the instrument through
20:44 which God created in the beginning. Amen.
20:48 Now, let's continue to unpack this, the significance
20:50 here is very important and I want you to go with me
20:52 from John to the other significant book,
20:55 one of the other significant books written by the same
20:57 author and that's the Book of Revelation.
20:59 Go with me to Revelation chapter 4,
21:02 Revelation chapter 4. Now if we had time
21:06 and I wish we did we could go into great detail
21:08 in Revelation chapter 4 about what's taking place
21:11 here, if you read Revelation chapter 4 through
21:14 you will note that the word that comes up over
21:16 and over again in that chapter is the word throne.
21:19 Is the word what everyone?
21:21 Throne and the whole context of Revelation 4
21:24 revolves around the throne, the significance
21:26 of the throne and him that sits on the throne.
21:28 It occurs a number of times, I think even more then
21:31 10 times. The throne, the throne, the throne,
21:34 the throne, now what I want you to notice is
21:36 beginning in verse 9 it says whenever
21:39 the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks
21:41 to him who sits on the, what everyone? Throne.
21:44 Throne. Who lives forever and ever,
21:46 the 24 elders fall down and worship him
21:47 who sits on the throne, throne and worships him
21:51 who lives forever and ever and cast their crowns
21:53 before the? Throne.
21:54 Throne saying, now notice what they say in verse 11,
21:58 why are they, why are they worshiping,
22:00 why are they, why are they adoring and giving
22:02 honor and glory to him who sits on the throne.
22:05 What is their reason and rationale, notice verse 11,
22:08 you are worthy, you are what word everyone?
22:13 Worthy. Take that word worthy and put it
22:16 on a shelf in your mind because we're going
22:17 to comeback to it in just a moment.
22:18 The reason they're worshiping, the reason
22:20 they're giving honor and glory and thanksgiving
22:22 to this God that sits on the throne is that he is worthy.
22:27 Now, we might ask legitimate question what makes
22:30 him worthy? Notice this in verse 11,
22:34 you are worthy O Lord to receive glory and honor
22:37 and power for, the word there means because,
22:42 because you what everyone?
22:45 Created. Created all things, you created all things
22:48 and by your Will they exist and were created.
22:53 Now a quick question very easily answered here,
22:55 according to Revelation chapter 4 and verse 11
22:57 why are those multitudinous, that multitudinous strong
23:01 worshiping him who sits on the throne,
23:03 why are they worshiping him?
23:04 Because he is worthy.
23:06 Because he is worthy and what makes him worthy?
23:07 Because he was the Creator.
23:09 He was the Creator. Now think about this for just
23:10 a moment. If Adam had never sinned,
23:14 if Eve and Adam had not been beguiled by the serpent
23:17 and they had lived in that Edenic environment,
23:21 a perfect God and perfect communion with a perfect
23:23 people and sin had not ever entered into this planet
23:26 and say that we are still, we are here now,
23:28 we are alive, we are the descendents of Adam,
23:30 but not the sin degenerate sins of Adam,
23:33 sons of Adam, we are living in a sinless world.
23:37 Now think about this for just a moment,
23:38 would we still worship God? Yes.
23:41 Yes or no. Yes. Would we still give praise to God?
23:44 Amen. Would we give honor to God? Amen. Why?
23:49 Because he is our Creator. Because he is,
23:50 you hit the nail on the head, because he is our Creator.
23:52 Why do the angels worship God? Because he created them.
23:57 Friends, think about that for just a moment,
23:59 if sin had never come into the world we would still
24:02 worship God, we would not worship him though as our
24:05 redeemer because redemption would be unnecessary.
24:07 We would worship him as our Creator
24:09 and he would still be worthy, are you with me now?
24:11 Amen. Now notice this incredible transition
24:14 as we move to Revelation chapter 5,
24:16 that's the very next chapter. Now in Revelation chapter
24:20 4, the preeminent word and the preeminent theme
24:22 is the throne, the throne, the throne, in Revelation 5
24:27 that emphasis switches and the emphasis is now
24:30 on the scroll, on the what word did I say? Scroll
24:33 On the scroll and notice with me now beginning
24:35 in verse 11, then I looked and I heard the voice
24:37 of many angels around the throne,
24:39 the living creatures and the elders and the number
24:41 of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and 1000s
24:43 of 1000s, what John is trying to say here is,
24:46 it was a large number, a vast, multitudinous and
24:49 innumerable strong. Verse 12 saying with a loud voice,
24:54 Worthy, there is that word. Worthy is who everyone?
24:58 The Lamb. Worthy is the Lamb who was,
25:02 what's the next word? Slain.
25:04 Slain to receive power and riches and strength
25:06 and honor and glory and blessing.
25:08 Notice the similarity with 5:12 and 4:11, let me read
25:11 them back to back. 5:12 says worthy is the Lamb
25:14 who is slain to receive power and riches
25:15 and wisdom and strength and honor and glory
25:17 and blessing. 4:11 says, you are worthy of Lord
25:19 to receive glory and honor and power for you created
25:21 all things and by your will they exist and were created.
25:24 Do you see similarities there? Yes or no?
25:26 Yes, Amen. There are so many similar words
25:28 and the concept is inescapable. God
25:30 is worthy to be worshiped, God alone is worthy
25:34 of our adoration, praise, honor, glory,
25:36 blessing and worship and in Revelation 4 it's
25:38 because he is a creator and in Revelation
25:40 5 it's because he is redeemer. Amen.
25:43 Now think about that for just a moment,
25:44 what John here is doing is as we see this scene
25:48 that transpired in the heavenly courts,
25:50 what John here is showing is that God as Creator
25:53 and God as Redeemer is the same God and these two
25:58 components, these two elements of his character
26:00 are inexorably intertwine. In other words you
26:05 can't wrestle them apart and say over here
26:08 I worship God because he is Creator and over he
26:11 is Redeemer, these two things have been joined
26:14 together and that God is joined together let not
26:16 man put this under. Amen.
26:18 Now you say well what's the significance,
26:20 I don't follow the significance,
26:21 let me do my very best to unpack it for you. Friends,
26:24 the reason that you and I worship God is because
26:27 number one, he created us and number two
26:30 he redeemed us, Amen. Amen.
26:32 Friends, if you begin to pull the rug out from underneath
26:35 God his creative capacities, in his creative faculties,
26:40 you are actually undermining the same God whom
26:43 we worship because of his redemptive capacities.
26:46 Amen. In other words to take away from God his
26:49 creative power, his creative majesty and significance
26:53 is just to pull the rug out from underneath his
26:56 redemptive power and his redemptive significance.
26:59 God is both Creator and Redeemer. Amen.
27:04 Now, think about that for just a moment,
27:06 if we say well you know God created,
27:09 but he created through long evolutionary long ages,
27:13 millions and multiplied billions of years.
27:16 Let's just pretend like that's the case,
27:17 I don't believe that's the case, I believe what
27:19 the Bible says, he spoken and it was done,
27:21 he commanded and it stood fast. Amen.
27:24 By the way the technical term here is Creation
27:28 Ex Nihilo, Ex Nihilo, it's the Latin from creation
27:32 out that's Ex, like you see a sign here, if it says Ex,
27:35 exit it means out of, that's what the prefix Ex means
27:39 in the Latin out of and Nihilo is nothing.
27:43 So the technical term for the way that God created
27:45 is he created Ex Nihilo out of nothing and the other
27:48 technical term Fiat creation it means instantaneous,
27:52 on the spot, immediate creation out of not
27:56 preexisting matter, but out of nothing. Amen.
28:00 He spoken and it was done, he commanded and it
28:02 stood fast, but let's just pretend like God did create
28:05 these evolutionarily long ages, how does that inform
28:07 our picture of God? Well, let me tell you something,
28:10 the next time you fall on your face and you make a fool
28:15 out of yourself and you commit a sin.
28:18 You never let the Lord down do you? No.
28:21 You ever let the Lord down friends? No.
28:23 Do you ever said oh Lord I'll never do that again only
28:25 do it before the cock crows three times. Amen.
28:27 Friends, think about that, the next time you come
28:31 to the Lord and you're kneeling down there by your
28:32 bedside and you say oh! Father you have promised in
28:35 First John 1:9, if we confess our sins, you are faithful
28:38 and just to forgive us our sins and he says okay
28:40 I'll forgive your sins, but I'm gonna let them evolve
28:43 away. It will take 4.5 billion years and your sin
28:48 will have evolved away into nothing.
28:50 Is that the God you serve friends? No.
28:52 Friends listen, the moment that we begin to
28:55 doubt that God could have created in a moment,
28:57 in a second instantaneously, Ex Nihilo, Fiat creation,
29:01 we are going to be begin to doubt his ability
29:04 to forgive us instantaneously. Friends,
29:07 the act of creation is almost synonymous with the act
29:11 of redemption, in fact David actually married
29:13 these two concepts in Psalms 51 in verse 10
29:16 when he said, create in me a clean heart oh!
29:20 God and renew a right spirit within me.
29:22 Dave marries these two terms,
29:24 David marries these two terms of creation
29:27 and redemption. The creation of what kind of a heart?
29:31 A pure heart or a clean heart.
29:34 Now let us continue to unpack this,
29:37 but go with me to the screen as we do our very best
29:41 to set stage for what we're discovering this evening.
29:43 Evolution is at odds with the Bible on many fronts,
29:48 including: these are just a few, the age of the earth,
29:53 the creation of man, and the nature of death.
29:57 Evolution is at odds with the Bible on many fronts,
30:01 well you say, what is evolution? Let's define it.
30:06 This is actually taken from an official statement,
30:08 a 1995 official statement from the National
30:10 Association of Biology Teachers,
30:12 Biology and Science Teachers in North America.
30:14 This is the scientific, one of the officially agreed upon
30:18 scientific definitions of evolution and here it is.
30:22 The diversity of life on earth is the outcome
30:25 of evolution: an unsupervised, impersonal,
30:30 unpredictable and natural process of temporal
30:35 descent with genetic modification.
30:37 Now the two words I really want you to hold
30:40 in on there, are these two words, unsupervised
30:44 and what's the next word there? Impersonal.
30:46 Impersonal, do you see what they are communicating?
30:48 Yes or no? The whole concept of evolution
30:51 is that there is a process, what word did I say?
30:55 A process. What kind of a process.
30:59 An unsupervised and impersonal process that has
31:03 been moving down through ions and millions,
31:06 multiplied billions of years, nobody is in charge
31:09 of the process, nobody set the process in motion,
31:13 motion, the very definition of evolution is that it is
31:16 unsupervised and impersonal. Now think about this
31:20 for just a moment, some people are telling us
31:23 that God created through evolution,
31:27 we'll talk about that in just a moment. The actual
31:29 technical term here is theistic evolution,
31:33 theistic evolution and that's just the juxtaposition
31:36 of two words, Theos, which is God and Evolution,
31:39 which is the process that we've just described here.
31:41 So, it's God centered and God initiated evolution.
31:45 Friends, what I'm trying to tell you right now
31:46 is this is a non-meaningful statement. Amen.
31:49 To talk about an unsupervised, impersonal process
31:52 that is supervised by a personal God,
31:54 that's a non-meaningful statement. That's right.
31:57 Do you understand? Yes or no? Amen.
31:59 We're dealing here with squircles.
32:02 You say what's a squircle? A squircle friends is a
32:06 square circle. Right, in, in, in, in Euclidean geometry,
32:13 that is to say plane geometry, a square is a geometric
32:19 figure that has four right angles and four equal sides.
32:22 Are you with me on that? Right.
32:23 Now a circle is a geometrical figure and again
32:26 in Euclidean geometry, a planar geometry,
32:28 where you put a point in the middle,
32:30 the epicenter and every bit, every space on that
32:34 geometrical figure is equidistant from the center.
32:38 Right. Now if you have a circle and then you have
32:40 a square, these are mutually exclusive geometrical
32:43 figures. Do you understand that? Yes or no?
32:46 So, the concept of a square circle or a squircle
32:49 is non-meaningful. That's exactly what we are talking
32:53 about when we say theistic evolution.
32:56 God supervised evolution, the very definition
32:58 of evolution is that it is unsupervised and impersonal,
33:01 it's like trying to take a square and a circle and call
33:04 it a squircle. Friends you can call it a squircle,
33:06 but it doesn't mean that the actual geometrical
33:08 figure is a possibility. Amen.
33:10 Are you understanding? Yes, Amen.
33:12 Now you say well why does it matter,
33:14 I don't understand, what's the significance?
33:16 Notice this second definition from George Gaylord
33:18 Simpson, he said "Man is the result of a purposeless
33:23 and natural process that did not have him in mind."
33:28 What do you think is the operative word there?
33:31 Purposeless. Man is the product of a purposeless
33:35 and natural process that did not have him in mind,
33:38 friends this is the definition of evolution.
33:42 It's the what word did I say? The definition of evolution,
33:46 now note here with me. According to evolutionary
33:49 psychology, this is actually taken from an article
33:51 in Time Magazine, August 15, 1994 and the title
33:54 of the article was actually the cover article,
33:56 Infidelity: It May Be In Our Genes.
34:00 Notice this quotation from the article.
34:01 According to evolutionary psychology,
34:03 it is 'natural' for both men and women at some times,
34:08 under some circumstances to commit adultery.
34:11 Do you understand what's being communicated here?
34:14 What's happening is, is that if evolution is true
34:18 friends, it's not just like saying, well
34:20 God created through millions and multiplied billions
34:23 of years. It totally changes the landscape of our picture
34:27 of God, our picture of society, our picture of
34:32 reality. Do you understand how different it is to say that
34:34 our loving God in Eden stooped down and formed Adam
34:38 out of the dust and picked up that lifeless corpse
34:41 and in an act of intimacy breathed into his nostrils
34:45 the breath of life, how different that is then there
34:48 was a unicellular organism that became a multicellular
34:50 organism, that eventually became by some miraculous
34:54 manifestation an amphibian, and then a reptile,
34:56 and then a bird, and then a mammal,
34:58 and boom you and I popped out. You see how different
35:02 these processes are? Yes or no. And friends
35:05 if we tell our kids and we tell the world
35:07 and we ourselves believe that we are just
35:10 the byproducts of some evolutionary process,
35:13 some mistake on the ladder, then it's going to stand
35:17 a reason friends that we're going to do all kinds
35:20 of debouched, depraved, and sinful things mainly adultery
35:24 and then we'll justify it by saying well it's in my genes.
35:28 Evolution has hard wired me this way,
35:31 yet the Bible says in clear language,
35:33 in the Ten Commandments, I quote for you the
35:35 Seventh Commandment. Thou shalt not commit what?
35:40 Adultery. Adultery. Are you seeing how these two
35:43 world views are at odds? Do you see that, yes or no?
35:46 That's the whole point tonight friends.
35:48 That you can see that it's not well a little here and a
35:51 little here, we'll mix it all together and
35:53 we'll bake the cake. No, no, no, it's one or the other.
35:58 That's right. Now you say why I'm still not clear
35:59 why could not God have created through long ages
36:02 and there many good Christian folk that hold to this view,
36:05 I'm going to do my best tonight to show you that, that
36:07 is a ridiculous preposition and not only that,
36:09 that it will totally undermine and undercut
36:12 the very picture that we have of a loving God.
36:16 Let us continue here, notice this remarkable
36:19 statement of Dr. Henry Morris, the respected scientist,
36:21 untold damage has been wrought,
36:23 especially during the past century by this dismal
36:26 doctrine that man is merely an,
36:29 what are the next two words? Evolved.
36:31 An evolved animal. Friends, if man is just an evolved
36:34 animal, do you see how that would inform the psyche
36:37 of our children, yes or no? I mean they'll look
36:39 at the way that their dog behaves and say hey,
36:41 if I am just one of those. Notice as the statement
36:44 continues, racism, economic imperialism,
36:47 notice this friends, communism, Nazism, sexual
36:50 promiscuity and perversions, aggressive militarism,
36:53 infanticide, genocide, and all sorts of evils have
36:56 been vigorously promoted by one group or another
36:58 on the grounds that since they were based on
37:00 evolution, they were scientific and,
37:03 therefore, bound to prove beneficial in the long run.
37:08 Amen. Friends did you, did you read the list there?
37:11 Communism, Nazism, aggressive militarism,
37:13 infanticide, genocide, all being promoted
37:16 in the name of evolution. Now friends,
37:20 I want to try and unpack the significance for you
37:23 of this as we continue, now note this.
37:27 Note this with here, with me here,
37:28 there are four reasons that I do not accept the
37:31 truthfulness of evolution. I find evolution to be
37:34 inadequate for four reasons; number one,
37:37 evolution is not theologically sound.
37:39 We're going to talk more about that this evening.
37:41 Number two, evolution is not even scientifically sound,
37:45 it's being promoted as science,
37:47 but it is not science, it is a theory and more than
37:50 that it is a philosophy of naturalism.
37:52 Number one, not theologically sound, number two,
37:55 not scientifically sound, number three,
37:56 it's not geologically sound. Some of Darwin's greatest
38:01 critics friends were not the clergy,
38:04 some of Darwin's most vociferous critics were
38:06 not the ministers and the clergy in those days,
38:09 it was the geologists who said wait a minute
38:12 Darwin what we find in the fossil record doesn't
38:14 square with what you're saying we should find.
38:18 And friends since Darwin published his seminar
38:21 work there in 1859, the origin of species,
38:23 the fossil record has only gotten worse for Mr. Darwin,
38:26 not one bit better. By the way I could quote,
38:29 I could quote at length evolution,
38:32 evolutionary geologists, that is geologists
38:34 who are committed to evolution who say you know
38:36 we're just not finding what you would think
38:38 we would find on the Darwinian model in the
38:41 evolutionary record, we don't find lots of transitional
38:43 forms, we don't find this gradual increase
38:46 from complexity or from no complexity to complexity,
38:49 we find boom, instantaneous existence of organisms,
38:53 this is what is called the Cambrian explosion,
38:55 where they go down, they go down,
38:56 they go down the geological column and just out
38:58 of nowhere? Here is all this life in the bottom
39:01 most layer of the geological column,
39:02 nothing preceding it, it just boom explodes
39:06 on to the scene. This is antithetical
39:08 with what Darwin would have predicted
39:10 and then we don't find these sort of you know
39:12 half bird, half reptile sort of creatures.
39:15 We find stasis, what word did I say? Stasis,
39:19 where kinds in the geological column
39:21 are just like the kinds we find today,
39:23 sure there are variations, but we can put them
39:25 into compartments, into genealogical
39:28 compartments and they are not these transitional
39:30 forms. And so even in Darwin's day he began
39:33 to scratch his head and say, well you know
39:34 when more of the geological record is uncovered
39:37 then we'll see that it will support my theory,
39:39 but friends over the last 150 years the geological
39:42 column has not gotten kinder to Darwin it has
39:45 actually become even more difficult for his theory
39:48 to try and explain away. So, it is not geologically
39:51 sound, number three, number four it is also not
39:54 philosophically sound and I wish I had time to
39:56 go into that and we may spend a little more time
39:58 on this tomorrow evening, but those are the four reasons
40:00 that I reject evolution. It is not theologically
40:03 sound, it is not scientifically sound,
40:05 it is not geologically sound and it is not philosophically
40:08 sound. Let's talk about number one there,
40:10 It's not theologically sound. The Biblical account
40:14 of origins and evolutionary account of origins
40:17 are mutually exclusive in their claims.
40:19 They cannot both be true, if that makes sense,
40:23 say Amen. Amen.
40:24 It's a piece of cake to understand this friends.
40:26 Now, there are some people with, with high degrees
40:29 and, and elevated degrees that will try to tell you
40:31 that the two can be harmonized, but just remember
40:34 that theistic evolution or God supervised
40:37 evolution is a squircle. The whole definition
40:41 of evolution is that it is impersonal and unsupervised
40:44 and to say that a personal God supervised
40:46 an impersonal unsupervised process is a
40:49 non-meaningful statement. Are you with me, yes or no?
40:51 Amen. What's the picture that we have of evolution?
40:55 The picture that we have of evolution is unicellular
40:57 organisms eventually increasing in complexity
40:59 and a little more change, and a little more change,
41:01 and a little more change, boom a frog.
41:03 And then a little more, little more, little more,
41:04 boom a reptile, boom. You see, that's the process of
41:07 evolution, but the picture that we have of the
41:09 created order and of the created origins in the Bible
41:11 is instantaneous, immediate God spoke
41:14 and it was done. Amen. Do you see that these two
41:17 are not easily harmonized? I would go so far as to say,
41:21 they're not only, not easily harmonized,
41:23 they're just not harmonizable, they cannot
41:25 both be true. Untold damage has been wrought
41:29 especially during the past, that's we have already
41:31 gone over that will. You have to give me the
41:33 next one, we've been over this. The biblical account
41:39 okay, great. Now, I need the next one, there we go.
41:41 Some liberal and creative Bible scholars have sought
41:45 to harmonize evolutionary theory with Biblical model.
41:49 Their efforts have proved unimpressive and strained.
41:52 Now, let me tell you why? What some scholars
41:55 are trying to do is, in order to retain what they call
41:58 the relevance of the Bible. After all we don't wanna
42:02 live in the dark ages they say.
42:03 The Bible must remain relevant.
42:05 And the only way to make it relevant is to incorporate
42:08 and inculcate the scientific model into what the
42:13 Bible teaches. Now, let me say something here.
42:16 All true signs will uphold and affirm what the Bible
42:19 teach, amen, amen. And by the way just a survey,
42:22 a quick survey of the great scientists of old will
42:26 utterly affirm that most of them were committed
42:29 Bible believing Christians. Let me just give you a
42:32 few names, you tell me if you've ever heard this men.
42:35 Isaac Newton, amen, ever heard of that name? Friends,
42:38 the whole concept of modern physics is based on,
42:41 on Newtonian physics. And he, he not only was very
42:46 Well known and renowned as a scholar in,
42:49 in the area of physics and the sciences.
42:51 He wrote a commentary on the Book of Daniel.
42:54 Did you know that? He was, he wrote one of the most
42:57 respected in his day commentaries on the Book
43:00 of Daniel. He was a theologian and a scientist.
43:02 So, for Isaac Newton, there was no you know,
43:04 irreconcilable difference between his commitment
43:07 to God and his commitment to science,
43:09 because he understood that the God of the Bible,
43:11 the God of Revelation was also the God of
43:13 nature and of science. Amen.
43:16 People like Johannes Kepler or Lord Kelvin and
43:20 Johannes Kepler and James Clerk Maxwell;
43:23 I mean these are the great names in science.
43:25 And most of them were Bible believing Christians.
43:28 Amen. Incredible, so this idea that there is a
43:32 dichotomy or a paradox between Christianity,
43:35 Bible believing Christianity, what some people
43:38 would try to marginalize and call fundamentalism.
43:42 That there is a paradox between that a contrast,
43:45 an irreconcilable difference between that
43:47 and what the Bible teaches. No, no, no friends,
43:50 science and the Bible will be harmonious because
43:53 the God of science is the God of the Bible. Amen.
43:57 Now, let's talk here about why I believe that,
44:01 that there are theological obstacles.
44:03 Why it is impossible to harmonize the,
44:07 the Biblical record with evolutionary long ages.
44:09 Lets take number one, there are no long ages
44:12 in Genesis 1 and 2. Let's just go quickly to Genesis
44:17 chapter 1 and let us note a phrase that occurs
44:20 numerous times in the First Book of the Bible.
44:23 Genesis chapter 1, I'm in verse 5. Genesis chapter 1
44:28 and verse 5, And God called the light day and the
44:31 darkness he called night. So, the evening
44:34 and the morning, were the what? First,
44:37 what's that word? Day.
44:39 Day, the first day. And notice also in verse 8.
44:42 And God called the firmament heaven,
44:43 so the evening and the morning were the?
44:46 Second. Second day, verse 13. So,
44:48 the evening and the morning were the third day.
44:50 Verse 19, so, the evening and the morning were
44:52 the fourth day. All the way of through, the sixth day.
44:55 Now, the word that is translated day here in
44:58 the Hebrew was the word Yom, YOM, Yom and it
45:02 is very much like our own word day.
45:05 Now, listen very carefully. I'll do my best to explain
45:07 this as quickly as I can. The English word day
45:10 can have three meanings, three meanings.
45:13 Number one, it can mean a 24 hour period.
45:16 Number two, it can mean the lighter part of the day,
45:19 a 12 hour period. And it also can mean an indefinite
45:23 period of time. Let me give you some examples,
45:25 if I say, I was there for three days, which definition
45:30 applies there? Is that the 12 hour period,
45:33 the 24 hour period or the indefinite time.
45:36 24 hour period. That's the 24 hour, isn't it?
45:37 I was there for three days. Now if I said, we spend
45:41 all day at the beach, which definition there?
45:44 The 12 hour put day or at least the lighter
45:47 part of the day. Now, if I said, today is the dawn
45:50 of a new day for this nation. What am I saying now?
45:55 Indefinite. Indefinite period, or if I say today
45:56 is the day of reckoning. Do I mean today is the
45:59 24 hour period of reckoning. What am I saying?
46:03 Its the period of reckoning. In other words,
46:05 it means an indefinite time period. Are you with me
46:08 now, yes or no? Amen. Now, the Hebrew word Yom
46:11 is almost the same in its fluidity, it can mean any
46:14 of those three things, but here is the catch.
46:17 Every time the Hebrew word Yom is modified
46:20 by a number. By what word did I say? Number.
46:24 A number just like in the English language it means a
46:28 24 hour period. Let me give you an example,
46:31 if I was there for two days, you know,
46:34 I'm not talking about an indefinite period, amen.
46:36 Amen. Oh! He was there for 16 years. No, no, no,
46:39 if I say, I was there for two days you know,
46:41 you understand I was there for 48 hours.
46:42 So, to in the Bible says, the evening and the morning
46:46 were the one Yom. The evening and the morning
46:49 were the two Yom. The evening and the morning
46:51 were the three Yom. Every single time in the
46:54 Old Testament, when Yom is modified by a number
46:58 and a numeral. It means a literal 24 hour solar day.
47:04 Amen. Are you with me? Amen. Friends that's inescapable.
47:08 Now, let me give you something here that I'm moving
47:09 rapidly, but I hope you can get your fingers wrapped
47:11 around this. You know who Martin Luther was, right,
47:13 raise your hands if you know who Martin Luther was?
47:15 Martin Luther had a right hand man.
47:17 Does anybody know what his name was?
47:18 Melancthon. Melancthon, that's exactly right.
47:20 One of the great reformers of old,
47:21 a man by the name of Melancthon.
47:24 And listen to what Melancthon said, carefully.
47:25 Melancthon said the Bible must first be understood
47:28 grammatically before it can be understood theologically.
47:33 The Bible must first to be understood grammatically
47:36 before it can be understood theologically.
47:38 What does that mean? It means we must first determine
47:40 what the words say? Before we decide
47:43 what they mean? Amen. You understanding? That's right.
47:47 In other words we can't say, Oh!
47:48 I, I believe this and so about the Bible
47:50 and then force the Bible into our construct,
47:52 force the Bible into saying what we want it to say?
47:55 We must first say, well, what do the words say?
47:57 And then when we determined what the words actually
47:59 say only then can we say what do the words mean.
48:04 Amen. You understand the difference,
48:05 yes or no? Amen. So, let's ask the question
48:06 Genesis 1 & 2, what did the words say?
48:08 The evening and the morning were the first 24 hour
48:11 period. The evening and the morning were the second
48:13 24-hour period. Read Genesis 1, read Genesis 2.
48:17 And ask yourself, is there any place in here for
48:20 4.5 billion years. Friends, what is happening is,
48:25 is that evolutionary scientists are trusting
48:28 their interpretation into the Biblical record,
48:31 but if we allow the Bible to be the arbiter of science
48:34 and if we allow the Bible to stand on its own,
48:36 you cannot get those long ages in the Book
48:39 of Genesis. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now,
48:43 what about in the rest of the Bible.
48:45 The answer is no. In the Old Testament and in the
48:48 New Testament, you will search in vain for millions
48:51 and multiplied billions of years. They simply are not
48:54 there. Number three, this would undermine the
48:59 Seventh-Day Sabbath. Now, I wonder about that
49:02 Seventh-Day Sabbath. Let's go to Exodus chapter 20.
49:06 That's where we find the codification, that is to say,
49:10 when God codified the law on the Mount
49:12 Sinai Pinnacle. In Exodus chapter 20 beginning
49:15 in verse 8, he gave his commandment concerning
49:18 the Sabbath. I'm in Exodus chapter 20
49:20 and I'm beginning in verse 8. What verse am I in?
49:22 Verse 8, he says, remember the Sabbath-Day.
49:26 Now, why does he say remember friends?
49:27 The reason he says remember is because he had
49:30 already given them the Sabbath and where
49:32 it was that? Where it was that in creation?
49:35 That's exactly right, because created in how many
49:37 days? Six and then rested on the Seventh. And
49:41 the Bible says, he blessed that day and he hallowed
49:42 that day, he sanctified it. Now notice this,
49:46 Exodus chapter 20 and verse 8.
49:47 Remember the Sabbath-Day to keep it holy.
49:49 It doesn't say to make it holy, it already was holy
49:51 and he says; now you just keep it that way,
49:54 amen. Amen. Verse 9, six days you shall work and do
49:58 all your, six days shall you labor and do all your work.
50:00 But the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
50:02 your God. In it you shall do no work.
50:04 You nor your son nor your daughter, nor your male
50:06 servant, nor your female servant,
50:08 nor your cattle nor your stranger,
50:09 who is within your gates, why? What's the big deal God?
50:11 Verse 11, for, what's that word. For. For.
50:14 What does the word mean? Because, because
50:16 in six days the Lord the made the heavens and
50:19 the earth, the sea, and all that is in them
50:20 and rested the Seventh Day therefore and remember
50:24 when you see the word therefore, ask yourselves
50:26 what it's therefore. Therefore,
50:29 the Lord blessed the Sabbath-Day and hallowed it.
50:33 Now, why did God bless the Sabbath-day and
50:35 hallowed it? Why did he ask us, ask us to keep it?
50:38 Because he worked for six days and rested
50:41 on the seventh. And he says, on the basis of my example,
50:45 on my what everyone? Example. Example,
50:47 you do the same. Now, can you imagine how ridiculous
50:51 it would sound for God to say? Keep the
50:54 Seventh-Day Sabbath because, six days and resting
50:58 on the seventh, but I really created through
51:00 millions and multiplied billions of years.
51:03 Does that make any sense? No. Not only does it not
51:05 make any sense friends, listen carefully,
51:07 it makes God out to be a liar. See, now you have
51:10 a lying God on top of Mount Sinai, who says,
51:13 I want you to keep the Seventh-Day Sabbath.
51:15 I want you to work six and rest the seventh because
51:18 I created in six and rested on the Seventh,
51:19 but friends if what some of these liberal theologians
51:22 are telling, telling us is true that really Genesis
51:24 has millions and millions of years.
51:26 Then God on top of Mount Sinai is a liar and not only
51:29 is he a liar, he is not as smart as modern day
51:31 theologians. You understanding now, yes or no?
51:35 Yes. So, friends number three, it undermines
51:38 the Seventh-Day Sabbath. Number four;
51:40 this is the nail in the coffin for people who believe
51:43 that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
51:45 How many people here who believe that Jesus
51:46 was the Son of God? If you believe that friends
51:49 then this boom puts the nail in the coffin for
51:52 evolutionary theory being harmonized with what
51:54 the Bible teaches. Go with me to Matthew
51:56 chapter 19 and I'll explain. Matthew chapter 19,
52:00 the first book of the New Testament.
52:04 Matthew, what chapter are we going to? 19.
52:06 19, Jesus is speaking and notice what he says
52:10 in Matthew chapter 19. Beginning in verse 4,
52:16 the Pharisees have asked a question in verse 3.
52:17 The Pharisees also came to him testing him and said
52:19 to him, is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife
52:22 for just any reason. Now notice verse 4.
52:25 And he answered and said to them.
52:26 Have you not read that he who made them at the
52:28 beginning, made them male and female. Made them,
52:31 what everyone? Male and female.
52:33 Male and female verse 5, and said for this reason
52:36 a man shall leave his father and mother and the two,
52:38 and shall be joined to his wife and the two shall
52:41 become one flesh. So, then they are no longer two,
52:43 but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined
52:46 together let not man separate.
52:47 Question for you? Where is Jesus quoting from?
52:53 Is any of that language sound familiar,
52:54 therefore shall a man leave his, does that sound familiar?
52:58 He is quoting from Genesis 2 friends.
53:01 And notice what he says there in verse 4.
53:03 He says, that he made them in the beginning
53:05 made them unicellular amoebas. No. What did he make
53:11 them? Male and female. Male and female,
53:13 do you know what you have here friends;
53:14 you have Jesus endorsing the Mosiac account of creation.
53:21 Amen, amen. So, if we were to ask Jesus and say,
53:23 Jesus what do think about Moses account of creation?
53:26 Did God create through multiplied millions of years?
53:28 He would say, let me tell you what I believe.
53:30 In the beginning God made them male and female
53:34 and they performed a marriage ceremony.
53:36 Friends, you're not marrying amoebas, amen. Amen.
53:39 There is no commitment there. We could go to Peter
53:43 and we could show that Peter affirmed Moses
53:46 writing in terms of the creation story.
53:49 Paul affirmed Moses writing in terms of the
53:51 creation story. The New Testament is the divinely
53:54 inspired commentary on the Old Testament.
53:58 Let me say that again. The New Testament
54:01 is the divinely inspired commentary on the
54:04 Old Testament. Amen. Have you understand that,
54:06 say amen. Amen, amen. Now, listen how did Jesus
54:09 understand the Old Testament. He
54:11 affirmed the creation story How did Paul understand
54:14 the Old Testament? He affirmed the creation story.
54:16 How did Peter understand the Old Testament?
54:18 He affirmed the creation story of Moses.
54:21 So, you know, what you have friends.
54:23 When you have liberal Christians and liberal
54:25 theologians say, well you know, Moses really meant
54:28 long ages of time, what they're saying is?
54:30 They're smarter than Jesus. They're smarter than
54:32 Paul. They're smarter than Peter, and they understand
54:34 the Bible better than them. You comfortable
54:37 with that? No. Friends, if it's good enough for Jesus,
54:39 it's good enough for me. That's right. Amen. Amen.
54:42 And number five friends, it turns our loving God
54:44 into a killer. Think about this for just a moment.
54:48 My Bible teaches that the wages of sin is what?
54:52 Death. But in evolutionary, in the evolutionary
54:54 world view, in the evolutionary context,
54:59 sin does not result or death doesn't result from sin.
55:03 Death is taking place for millions and millions
55:06 and millions and millions and millions of years
55:07 working up gradually building, building, building, toward,
55:11 towards Eden and then God has Adam and Eve
55:14 in Eden as the perfect couple in perfect communion
55:17 with a perfect God. Yet, there have been ions
55:19 and multiplied billions of years before that,
55:21 all death and disease and predation and parasitism
55:25 working up to God's perfect creation in Eden.
55:29 No way. Friends, the wages of sin is what? Death.
55:31 Death, but if you believe in evolution that it can
55:33 be harmonize with the Bible, you have death before sin.
55:38 And friends the whole atonement,
55:40 Jesus dying on the cross for my sins and your sins.
55:43 The entire idea of the atonement is predicated
55:47 on the idea that the wages of sin is death.
55:51 And Jesus came to set us free from the wages of sin.
55:54 Amen. Amen. Jesus came to set us free.
55:59 And friends, as you look at the cross,
56:01 you see there a God, who died to set you free from
56:05 the wages of sin, which is death. If death preceded
56:08 Adam and Eve friends there, there is no meaning
56:10 to the cross. The cross is a meaningless gesture.
56:16 Friends, I have given you many reasons tonight
56:17 to believe that evolution is not theologically sound.
56:20 My first question for you tonight is has this message
56:23 made sense, yes or no? Amen. My second question
56:27 is how many of you want to receive God as your
56:29 Creator and Redeemer?


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