Participants: David Asscherick
Series Code: EHE
Program Code: EHE000009
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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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