Participants: David Asscherick
Series Code: EHE
Program Code: EHE000010
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00:17 Good evening ladies and gentleman and welcome to
00:19 another exciting edition of the Eleventh Hour 00:22 Evidence coming to you live from, you know where, 00:25 Battle Creek, Michigan. We are beaming right now 00:27 all around the globe and you are part of the 00:30 audience. So, pull up your chair and get ready for 00:32 what's coming. Pastor Asscherick is loading up 00:35 even as we speak, but before allowed him to 00:38 unload on this congregation and unload 00:40 on those out there who are watching we have 00:43 Buddy Houghtaling standing by with a very special 00:46 song. What is the song tonight Buddy? 00:49 Tonight the song is called He and it will be sung 00:51 by Dan Grentz and I'll help him a little bit. 00:53 Amen, take it away, Dan Grentz 00:56 and Buddy Houghtaling. 01:04 He can turn the tides And calm the angry sea. 01:12 He alone decides Who writes a symphony. 01:20 He lights ev'ry star That makes our darkness 01:26 bright. He keeps watch all through Each long and 01:32 lonely night. He still finds the time 01:39 To hear a child's first prayer. Saint or sinner 01:46 call And always find Him there. 01:51 Though it makes him sad To see the way we live, 01:58 He'll always say, "I forgive." 02:10 He can grant a wish Or make a dream come true. 02:18 He can paint the clouds And turn the gray to blue. 02:26 He can touch a tree And turn the leaves to 02:32 gold. He knows every lie That you and I have told. 02:41 He still finds the time To hear a child's first 02:47 prayer. Saint or sinner call And always find 02:54 Him there. Though it makes him sad 02:59 To see the way we live, He'll always say, 03:06 "I forgive." Amen. You know, 03:20 I need to get some forgiveness right now. 03:22 Yeah, come over. I'm going to hug this guy. 03:23 I love you Dan. I'm sorry. I forgot to say your name 03:26 at the beginning of the program. This is not the 03:28 invisible man. This is Dan Grentz. So, we are talking 03:30 about, here we appreciate you brother. Well tonight 03:33 we have a wonderful message, we're gonna 03:35 continue the second part of David's last meetings, 03:39 and I'm not gonna tell you what that was because I 03:40 want to introduce this in a slightly different 03:42 manner. Before we get into that, I want to tell 03:45 you little bit about he Urbandale Seventh-Day 03:47 Adventist Church and people out there have been 03:48 are asking how did you come to be in the 03:51 Seventh-Day Adventist Church here in Urbandale. 03:53 And I wanna tell you that the church congregation 03:55 actually did not build this place, we just found it. 03:59 It's been here for quite a long time as it turns out, 04:02 best of our knowledge it's been blown together by 04:05 years of erosion, moving sediments, various wind 04:09 forces, and we think the glaciers had something to 04:11 do with it as well. If you don't believe a word of 04:15 what I've just said you're really going to like what 04:18 Pastor Asscherick has to say about Evolution just 04:21 about now, Pastor Asscherick. 04:23 Amen. Amen the same thing is true with Jason. 04:26 We think the erosions and glaciers had something to, 04:30 boom he just appeared. Good evening everyone. 04:34 Good Evening. Did you have a nice 04:35 Day today? Amen. Yes. Good how many of you had 04:38 a Day that on a scale of 1 to 10 was at least a 7? 04:42 At least 7? Least to 7? Good! Any 8's? Any 9's? 04:50 Anybody so bold us to say there Day was 10? Amen. 04:54 Ah, Amen! There is a few of you good. 04:57 Well, it's great to be alive, you know I don't 04:59 like it when I meet fellow Christians and I say to 05:02 them how are you doing and they say fine. 05:06 I quick, I'm quick to remind them that fine is 05:08 a texture. Amen. Fine is not an attitude, 05:15 it's not a condition of being a texture, and so 05:18 if I ask a Christian how he is doing, or how she 05:21 is doing, I would anticipate an answer 05:22 like this, I'm doing absolutely wonderful. 05:26 Friends, we have a savior Amen, Amen, and even if 05:31 you got a flat tire or if you got fired, or your 05:32 is too big or some terrible thing happened 05:35 you still have a savior; Amen? Amen. We have so 05:38 much to be thankful for and we should strive to 05:42 be the happiest most sun shinning people we can be. 05:45 Amen? Amen. You know a good friend of mine his 05:48 name is Denzel, and when I say hey Denzel how are 05:51 you doing? He says Oh! Fantastic, but don't worry 05:54 things will get better. Amen. Amen, Oh! Praise 05:59 the Lord. It's so good to be alive. I just feel very 06:01 alive right now. Our message as Jason has said 06:04 is the second part of a two part series entitled 06:07 Creation: Father God or Mother Nature, part 2. 06:11 Now originally, I was kind of contemplating, 06:14 just moving in to another section, another portion 06:17 of our message, but I've decided that we need to 06:19 understand a little better this idea of creation, 06:22 Evolution, and it's significance and 06:24 particularly how it reflects on our picture of God. 06:27 And so we are going to spend some more time on 06:29 that this evening and I think that you will be 06:30 blessed as we make a transition from the 06:34 creation, Evolution, debate and dialogue into the 06:37 book of Revelation and you will see just how 06:39 potent and how powerful this is right in the last 06:42 book of the Bible, the book of Revelation. 06:44 So, let's begin with a word of prayer and then 06:45 we will dive into our message proper. 06:49 Father in heaven we thank you for your kindness 06:51 and for your goodness to us that we do not yet, 06:53 cannot desire. Father you have given us a new 06:57 Day of life, you have woken us up, and Father 06:59 to be alive is so much better then the 07:01 alternative. Father everyday with Jesus is 10. 07:07 We've seen those bumper stickers that say a good 07:09 Day fishing is or a bad Day fishing is better than 07:12 a good Day of work. And Father may we always 07:15 remember that a bad Day with Jesus is better than 07:19 the best Day without him. Father in heaven give us 07:22 a renewed sense of Jesus as our creator, 07:27 our redeemer and our friend, as we open now 07:30 the Holy Bible pleas come and be with us we 07:34 pray in Jesus name Amen. Amen. 07:38 Now before we dive right into the message proper 07:40 I don't know if I told you this are not, but my wife 07:42 is actually in California right now with my two 07:45 boys Landon and Jabel and they have been 07:48 faithfully watching the program night by night, 07:50 and two nights ago they were watching the program 07:52 and Violetta was saying to my oldest boy Landon, 07:55 he is almost three years old, she said do you see 07:58 there is papa, there is papa and he said mom I 08:00 want to go in there. He pointed to the television 08:04 he said I wanna go in there, I wanna to be with 08:06 papa and so mom had to try and explain to him 08:08 that he can't just go in there, but I promised 08:12 Violetta that I would hi to Landon tonight. So, 08:14 I want to say hi Landon, he is watching right now 08:17 and Violetta said he will say hi to you, so I 08:19 wanted to be sure and do that. Our message is 08:21 entitled Creation: Father God or Mother Nature, 08:25 part 2. Now before we launch off into new 08:27 material, let's do a little bit of review. A little bit 08:29 of what everyone? Review! Review. So, go with 08:32 me to the screen as we do just a quick amount of 08:35 review before launching off into the new material. 08:37 Last night, I mentioned that they were four 08:39 reasons that I'm not an Evolutionist. We talked 08:42 about the four inadequacies of Evolution. 08:44 Number 1 that it is not theologically sound and 08:47 that's what we spent our time on last evening. 08:49 We looked at theological obstacles to the 08:51 acceptance into the harmonization of the 08:53 Biblical account and the Evolutionary account. 08:56 Now what we're going to talk about tonight are 08:58 these other three that is also not scientifically 09:00 sound, neither is it geologically sound, nor is 09:03 it philosophically sound. Now we are going to do 09:06 that and as I've already discussed then we will 09:07 transition into the book of Revelation, into what 09:10 book everyone? Revelation! Revelation. 09:12 Now, lets quickly review the five theological 09:15 obstacles that we looked at last night, reasons why 09:18 it is unacceptable and even ridiculous, ludicrous 09:22 to try and harmonize the concept of Evolution. 09:25 Remember Evolution by definition is in 09:27 unsupervised impersonal natural process. 09:31 Those were the two operative words. 09:33 Unsupervised and impersonal and to talk 09:35 about a process that is unsupervised and 09:38 impersonal being supervised by a personal 09:40 God is talking about a squaricle, that is a 09:43 square circle, a non-meaningful sentence 09:46 or a non-meaningful figure of speech. And so 09:48 we presented five reasons why it is unacceptable 09:51 and impossible to try to harmonize the Evolutionary 09:54 account with a Biblical account. Let's quickly 09:56 review those. Number 1 is that there are no long 10:00 ages in Genesis 1 &2. Let's just talk about 10:02 briefly. If you remember from yesterday, 10:04 we discussed that Hebrew word that is translated 10:08 Day, do you remember what that word was? Yom! 10:10 Yom, that's right Y-O-M, Y-O-M, the Hebrew word 10:14 Yom and it's very much like our our word - Day, 10:18 it has a fluidity to it. You remember I told there 10:20 were three definitions of the word Day. The word 10:23 Day in the English language can mean a 10:25 24 hour period. It can also mean a what? 10:29 A 12 hour period, but what else can it mean? 10:32 An indefinite period, that's right. And we can 10:34 always know what we're talking about through the 10:37 context. For example, if I said today is the 10:41 dawn of a new Day for this nation. Which one is 10:43 that? That's an indefinite period. Isn't it? And if 10:46 I say I spent seven Days in Hawaii then that means, 10:50 724 hour periods. If I say I feel like I stood in the 10:54 line all Day today you would understand that to 10:57 me in the light part of the Day. So, too with the 11:01 Hebrew word Yom, there is a degree of fluidity 11:03 there. It's not a rigid word and in order to 11:05 understand what the word means in context, 11:08 we must read the words that surround it. Now when 11:11 we come to Genesis 1&2, we find in each instance 11:14 that word Yom is modified by a numeral, 11:18 and modified by what word? Numeral! A numeral, 11:20 by a number. So, let says the evening and the 11:22 morning were one Yom, the evening and the morning 11:24 were one Yom, the evening and the morning were 11:25 two Yom, three Yom, four Yom, five Yom and 11:27 by the same token the word Day in our English 11:30 language when modified by a number always means 11:33 a literal 24 hours solar Day, are you with me 11:37 yes or no? Amen. I was there six Days, you know 11:39 that means six 24 hour period, it's not 612 hour 11:41 period, 72 hours, it means a 24 hour period. 11:46 And so when we come to Genesis 1&2, Moses 11:49 communicates in very plain language, in the 11:52 Hebrew language that these were six consecutive, 11:56 six what word did I say? Consecutive! Consecutive 11:58 solar Days and so you will search in vain in 12:02 Genesis 1&2 for these long epochs of time these 12:05 long Eons and eras. Number two is that, there 12:08 are no long ages anywhere else in the Bible. You can 12:12 search from Genesis to Malachi in the Old 12:14 Testament, from Mathew to Revelation in the 12:16 New Testament, and you simply will not find any 12:20 place in there, there is no envelope of opportunity 12:23 to have multiplied millions and billions of years, 12:26 which means that to try and harmonize these long 12:29 ages almost eternally long ages with the Biblical 12:32 record is an exercise in futility, it is a fool's 12:36 errand. That's number two. Number three it 12:39 undermines the significance of the 12:41 Seventh-day Sabbath. Now let's go quickly to 12:43 Exodus chapter 20, we were there last night, 12:46 but let's just revisit it quickly. Exodus is the 12:48 second book of the Bible, and we're going to Exodus 12:51 chapter 20, Exodus chapter 20, and I'm beginning 12:54 to read in verse 8. Now to set the context here, 12:58 this is the codification or the giving of the law from 13:02 Mount Sinai, from where everyone? Mount Sinai! 13:05 Mount Sinai;ú you remember the story, 13:06 Moses is spending 40 Days and 40 nights to top 13:08 Mount Sinai's pinnacle; he is in a dialogue with 13:11 God, and the climax of that dialogue the 13:14 consummation of that dialogue is when God 13:17 actually gives the Ten Commandments written by 13:20 the finger of God on tables of stone to Moses. 13:23 Now one of those Commandments says this, 13:25 beginning in verse 8, "Remember the Sabbath 13:28 Day, to keep it holy. Note with me that this is the 13:31 only Commandment that begins with the word 13:33 Remember. The other Commandments begin very 13:35 differently, in fact 8 of the 10 Commandments are 13:37 thou shalt not, thou shalt not, thou shalt not, only 13:40 two of the Commandments are framed in the positive 13:42 and that's number four; remember the Sabbath Day 13:44 keep it holy and number five honor thy Father and 13:47 thy mother. Now let me just give you a quick 13:49 parenthetical remark here. It is very significant that 13:52 the only two Commandments that are 13:54 framed in the positive, not in the negative, 13:56 eight of them are don't do it, don't do it, 13:58 don't do it, in fact I say it this way sometimes, 14:00 a corpse can keep eight of the Ten Commandments. 14:04 Okay, but there are two Commandments that are 14:05 framed in the positive, in the positive, 14:08 and remarkably both of those Commandments have 14:10 to do with our relationship to our 14:13 creators. The fourth Commandment is our 14:16 relationship to your heavenly creator, and the 14:18 fifth Commandment is our relationship to our 14:20 parents, our procreators. There is salience 14:23 theological significance here. Now notice with me 14:26 in verse 8 "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it 14:29 holy. Six Days you shall labor and do all your 14:32 work, but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the 14:34 Lord your God, in it you shall do no work: you, 14:36 nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male 14:38 servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, 14:40 nor your stranger who is within your gates. 14:41 Why God? What's the big deal about this Day? 14:44 Verse 11, for in six Days the Lord, what's the 14:48 next word? Made, made the heavens and the 14:51 earth. According to that first phrase there in 14:53 verse 11, and how many Days did the Lord make 14:56 the make the heavens and the earth? Six! 14:57 In six Days. Now notice this, the sea and all that 15:00 in them is and rest of the seventh Day. Therefore, 15:03 and remember when you see the word, therefore 15:05 ask yourself what it's therefore, therefore it 15:08 says the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day and hallowed 15:11 it. There can be no question that what God 15:14 is saying here in the fourth Commandment is 15:16 that he was our example in working for six and 15:20 resting on seven and he now commands us to work 15:23 for six and rest on the seventh. Now if that makes 15:26 sense say Amen. Amen. But, can we see that all 15:29 of a sudden, think about Moses, if Moses actually 15:33 believed that God had created through long Eons 15:36 and epics, multiplied millions and billions of 15:38 years. And now here is that same Moses who wrote 15:41 the book of Genesis standing at top Mount 15:43 Sinai summit and God says to him, Moses keep 15:47 the seventh-day Sabbath because I worked for six 15:50 and rested on the seventh, yet Moses believes that 15:52 God has created from millions and millions and 15:54 millions of years, friends that would make any 15:56 sense. Amen, Amen. What God said the Moses did 16:00 make sense because both God and Moses knew that 16:03 the account that Moses gave in Genesis was choo, 16:06 choo, choo, six consecutive solar Days 16:10 and he rested on the seventh Day and only in 16:12 that context is it meaningful for God to tell 16:15 us, to work for six and rest on the seventh. Amen, 16:19 Amen. But, if we take away, the literal six Day 16:22 creation friends, we do knew the seventh-day 16:25 Sabbath of any meaningful significance and so that 16:28 was theological obstacle number 3. Number 4 is 16:31 that the New Testament writers affirm the creation 16:35 story. The New Testament writers affirm the 16:37 creation story and yesterday we looked just 16:38 quickly at Jesus in Mathew chapter 19, who coded 16:42 directly from Genesis chapter two and said that 16:44 in the beginning God made them male and you 16:49 remember what else? Female! Female. What is 16:51 Jesus doing here? Jesus is endorsing the Mosaic 16:55 account of creation. Jesus didn't believe that 16:59 we were unicellular organisms that became 17:01 increasingly complex and became multicellular 17:04 organisms through a process of gradual 17:06 Micro evolutionary changes. Jesus affirmed 17:09 right in the beginning male and female, and then 17:10 he affirmed the marriage covenant as the 17:12 consummate relationship between a man and a 17:16 woman. Can you say Amen? Amen. Now if we 17:18 are going to try to say that what Moses meant 17:20 was long Eons of time then what we're in affect 17:22 saying is we understand what Moses wrote better 17:25 than Jesus understood. And we understood what 17:28 Moses wrote better than Paul who affirmed the 17:30 creation account and Peter who affirmed the 17:32 creation account. Never forget this friends, the 17:35 New Testament is the divinely inspired 17:38 commentary on the Old Testament. Does that make 17:41 sense yes or no? Amen. One theologian has put it 17:43 this way, the Old Testament is the New 17:45 Testament concealed and the New Testament is 17:48 the Old Testament revealed. It is impossible 17:52 for us to interpret the Old Testament in a way 17:55 that is different than Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, 17:58 Jesus, Peter, Paul, James and Jude did. If that 18:01 makes sense say Amen, Amen. And then number 18:03 five we, we, well I think say the best for last year 18:07 and that is, is that if Evolution is true and God 18:10 chose to create through the process of Evolution 18:13 and think about that for just a moment. The whole 18:15 idea of Evolution is that millions and multiplied 18:19 millions of generations have come and gone 18:22 passed off the scene through the process of 18:25 death and suffering and pain and parasitism. 18:29 You understand what I mean when I say 18:30 parasitism right? Parasites leaching off 18:33 of others, predation that is to say animals killing 18:37 others and ripping their flesh through these whole 18:39 process God supposedly was working a loving God. 18:43 The Bible says in first John 4:8 God is love and 18:46 supposedly we have this picture of God that he 18:49 created for millions and billions of years through 18:51 this process of bloodshed and predation and 18:54 parasitism only to arrive at a perfect Eden. 18:58 Does that make sense to you yes or no? 19:00 No. It makes no sense. And friends what it 19:02 actually does is a under cuts the very character 19:04 of God and it turns our loving, benevolent, 19:07 magnanimous God into a killer friends who has 19:10 actually crated through bloodshed, through death, 19:13 through parasitism and predation and I'll just go 19:15 on record to saying that's not the God I serve. 19:18 Amen. So, friends note with me there are several 19:21 five theological obstacles others could be sided and 19:24 this is basically review. Now with that in mind we 19:26 launch off into new material. As we suggested 19:29 last night, Christ on the cross, he is the one that 19:33 gives us the picture of what God is like. Amen, 19:36 Amen. And friends the God that we find there on the 19:38 cross is not a God that revels in bloodshed, pain 19:42 and in predation. Now let us move to these next 19:46 three obstacles that affirm the inadequacy of 19:49 Evolution. We are going to move through them 19:50 quickly and some of this will be rapid for some of 19:53 you but you just hang on as best as you can and I'll 19:55 do my best to make it clear. We're gonna look 19:57 at some scientific obstacles, some geological 19:59 obstacles, some philosophical obstacles 20:02 and then we are going to end up in the Revelation. 20:05 Let's begin by talking about some scientific 20:07 obstacles to the acceptance of Evolution. 20:09 It is not scientifically sound and we're going to 20:11 take each one of these and talk about them just 20:13 briefly. Number one, first of all Evolution is 20:16 not science by definition, it is a theory. It is what 20:20 word did I say? Theory! Theory, let's spend a few 20:23 moments on this. In order for science to qualify as 20:27 science that is definitional science it must meet four 20:31 qualifications. How many qualifications? Four, 20:34 four recite them with me. Number one is that it 20:37 must be demonstrable, it must be what? 20:40 Demonstrable! What do you think that means? 20:42 Means you can demonstrate it over and over again, 20:44 take for example we could do a little 20:46 experiment here with the dimmer. This is I used to 20:48 call the clicker, but the people in the 3ABN track 20:50 affirmed, no, no, no that's not the clicker 20:52 that's the dimmer and so we will do an experiment 20:54 with the dimmer. Now we could do a little 20:56 experiment on gravity and we will start throwing 20:58 this up in the air and we are going to develop a 21:01 hypothesis that when things go up they come 21:04 down at least four out off four times it has come 21:06 back down. Now can I demonstrate this yes or 21:09 no? Sure and how many times could I demonstrate 21:11 it? Until my arms got tired, right? So, we could 21:14 this is beginning to be beginning of real science 21:17 because it's demonstrable. Number two, it must be 21:20 observable. It must be what? Observable, 21:23 observable to talk about science something that 21:26 can't be observed is a non-meaningful statement. 21:29 How can we make any observations about 21:31 something that is non-observable? And so 21:33 number two, science must be observable and 21:35 anybody that's taken a chemistry class or any 21:37 sort of class where you went into the laboratory 21:39 in high school and or in college you know that you 21:42 had to observe the Bunsen burner and to observe 21:44 the little containers and to observe the chemical 21:48 reactions taking place and so it must be 21:50 demonstrable, it must be observable and it must 21:52 be repeatable. Amen, Amen. If we only have 21:56 the opportunity to throw this into the air one time 21:58 and that's all we have we really couldn't develop 22:00 any real hypothesis about it because it only 22:03 happened once. It would be an anomaly what 22:05 scientists call a singularity. In order for science to 22:09 be science we have to be able to do it over, 22:11 and over, and over, and again when we begin to 22:13 get consistent results, we then develop what we 22:16 call the law of science. Actually scientists don't 22:18 just deal in what they call laws they deal in 22:20 probabilities. In what word did I say? 22:23 Probabilities! So, think about that for just a 22:25 moment. It's demonstrable, it's 22:27 observable, and it's repeatable and so here 22:30 is our experiment with the dimmer can we 22:31 demonstrate it yes, can we observe it we are all 22:32 watching it, can we repeat it? The answer is 22:34 yes. So, could we develop a real scientific 22:37 experiment with the dimmer yes or no? Yeah we 22:40 might form a hypothesis that goes something like 22:42 this. When you throw it in the air, it seems to 22:45 always come back down. Now that's demonstrable, 22:48 observable and repeatable. Okay all true science must 22:53 meet at least these three qualifications. Now let's 22:55 plug Evolution into that. Is Evolution demonstrable 22:59 in a laboratory? Now you might not know the answer 23:02 of that but the answer is no, it's not demonstrable 23:04 in a laboratory it never has been demonstrated, 23:06 in fact what they try to do is take fruit flies and 23:09 fruit flies are very easy because the generations 23:11 go very rapidly and because they basically 23:13 mapped the genome of fruit fly and so they can 23:15 tweak it here, remove it here and make all sorts 23:17 of genetic modifications and they will have 23:19 literally thousands of generations in just over a 23:21 you know few years and we have not yet observed 23:24 a single incidence of what would be inarguable 23:27 Evolution in the laboratory. So, number one 23:30 it is not demonstrable. If it's not demonstrable 23:32 then by definition it's not what? Observable and 23:36 it's also not repeatable. We are told that Evolution 23:38 is something that has taken place and now it is 23:41 taking place, so slow, you never heard me talk 23:45 that slow have you? We can't see, makes me tired 23:51 just doing that. Friends it's taking place so slow 23:55 that allegedly we can't discern it or see it. 23:58 Now by those definitions and friends you just go 24:00 to any science textbook and you will find it must 24:02 be demonstrable, observable, and repeatable 24:04 in order to qualify as science and Evolution 24:06 meets not even of those criterion, which proves 24:09 that it is not science in the truest definition, 24:12 it is a theory or a philosophy. If this makes 24:15 sense say Amen, Amen. Okay number two, 24:18 so Evolution cannot explain the origin of life. 24:21 The origin of life we talked a little bit about this 24:23 on the second night. The word biogenesis means 24:28 the beginning of life. Bio is life and genesis is the 24:31 beginning. And we have learned through multiplied 24:34 millions of scientific experiments the life only 24:37 comes from life, Amen, Amen. For example if I 24:41 say where did you come from? I came from my 24:42 parents. Where did they come from? Their parents, 24:43 their parents, their parents, their parents, 24:45 and if you remember we went to Luke chapter 3 24:47 and we extrapolated all the way the back and it 24:49 says that Adam was the son of what? God and so 24:53 the source of all life must itself be alive. But this is 24:57 an instrumental obstacle for the committed 24:59 Evolutionist because for the committed Evolutionist, 25:02 life must spontaneously generate not from formal 25:06 life because that would only raise the question, 25:08 well where did that life come, but life must boom, 25:11 spontaneously generate from none life. And yet this 25:14 has never been proved. Not even the beginnings 25:17 ever proved; have even been put forward by the 25:19 scientific community in hundreds of years that 25:22 life can be spontaneously generated from non-life. 25:24 It's more like a Fairy Tale than science. The 25:27 proverbial princess who kisses the frog and boom, 25:30 turns into a prince, friends that's not science 25:33 that's Fairy Tales. Amen, Amen. And so this is 25:36 a scientific obstacle. Number three you cannot 25:39 extrapolate macro-Evolution from micro-Evolution. 25:42 Now that's very easy to understand, 25:45 micro-Evolution means small Evolution, it means 25:49 what everyone? Small. And macro-Evolution means 25:51 guess what large or big Evolution. Now let's try 25:55 to understand this. Has any one in this room ever 25:57 seen a Great Dane? Great Dane right, okay good so 26:01 Great Dane stands about that tall can stand about 26:03 that tall. Now, how about a Chihuahua? Every seen 26:06 one of these little hippie dogs? Alright, now people 26:08 actually love those dogs, why, is totally unknown 26:10 to me but people actually like them. But at least 26:13 people claim that there are people that like them. 26:15 Now here you have this little rat, I mean this 26:17 little dog and it's about that tall. Now you have a 26:21 Chihuahua here and a Great Dane here and then 26:23 you have whole bunch of intermediate dogs, 26:25 right up through the good dogs. You know your 26:27 yellows labs, and your black labs, and your 26:30 golden retrievers good dogs. What words did I 26:32 say? Good dogs. Anyhow I'm going to get myself 26:35 in trouble with all those Chihuahua lovers. 26:37 Now here is the point, even though you have 26:39 the Great Dane on this end and you have the 26:41 Chihuahua on this end they are all dogs. Yes. 26:46 They are what? Dogs, Dogs and what we have done is 26:48 that we have stretched these species through 26:51 breeding and hybridization, we have stretched these 26:54 species about as far as we can, dogs can't get much 26:56 bigger then great Danes and I hope they can get 26:59 much smaller then Chihuahuas. Okay and here 27:02 is the point. If it was physically possible every 27:06 one of those species can interbreed with the other. 27:09 So, a lab can be mixed with German shepherd. 27:12 A German shepherd could be mixed with the Great 27:14 Dane etcetera and because they can all 27:16 interbreed it shows they are members of the same 27:19 species. Amen, Amen. So, then when you have, 27:23 when you have variation within a species this is 27:25 called micro Evolution or small changes within a 27:29 species. Now the humans have obviously through 27:32 breeding and other things we have spread the 27:33 process up to suit our own needs. Some people like 27:35 big dogs, some people like small dogs. The point 27:38 here is just this, if the beak of a bird gets a little 27:41 bigger that's fine for the Christian, or that's 27:44 proving is that you can have adaptation within a 27:47 species, Amen, Amen and if the beak of a bird gets 27:50 a little smaller that's fine I've no problem with 27:53 that. That's what's called horizontal adaptation. 27:57 The problem that Evolution has run into is 27:59 that we can document horizontal adaptation that 28:02 is variation within a species, but they wanna 28:04 take that think in whoop and turn it on this axis 28:06 and say that if you go far enough, far enough, 28:09 far enough, within that species small change, 28:11 small change, small change, small change then 28:13 all of a sudden it equates to a large change and 28:16 instead of having a dog now we have a horse. 28:20 Do you understand the difference yes or no? 28:23 Friends' microevolution is true, that is to say 28:26 adaptation does take place and that's perfectly 28:29 fine for the, for the committed Christian 28:31 because God has built that in the species so 28:34 that they can adapt to changes in their 28:35 environment. Amen. Otherwise certain species 28:38 would just be immediately wiped out if they couldn't 28:40 adapt. So, adaptation is fine but what the Evolution 28:44 is wants to do is extrapolate those 28:46 Micro changes into the macro level and move 28:50 beyond the species and there is no. There is what 28:54 word did I say? No, scientific evidence that 28:57 micro changes eventually yield a macro change not 29:01 one single incidence in the history of science, 29:05 alright, are we together on this yes or no? 29:07 Now number 4, Evolution then becomes like a 29:10 religion. It requires faith. It requires what; faith 29:15 and there is no question about that. Evolutionists 29:17 will tell you, that they have they won't use the word 29:20 faith, but they will say they have confidence that 29:23 the postulates and the presuppositions of 29:27 Evolution will eventually be supported. But it's 29:30 not demonstrated in a laboratory, they just hope 29:33 that it will be some Day and friends that's why 29:36 even I call faith. Amen. And number 5, is and this 29:40 is very important and this discourages me about 29:42 what's being done in many of our public high 29:44 schools and that is that there is no scientific 29:47 uniform, scientific consensuses. Now, let me 29:50 try to unpack that for you. There are numerous 29:53 different schools of Evolutionary thought, 29:56 there are numerous different what; schools, 29:58 now the scientist Evolutionary scientists will 30:00 agree broadly define; they will say we believe 30:03 Evolution took place. The problem is that that 30:05 you have a school over here that says it happened 30:08 very rapidly and these punctuated equilibriums 30:11 and then you have somebody over here that 30:12 says no like Darwin said, it moved so slow and 30:17 then you have people in between who say it 30:18 moves fast sometimes and slow at others. The point 30:21 here is just this, what's being presented to our 30:24 kids if they are in public schools and by the way 30:26 I want to let you know I stand firmly on the 30:28 side of Christian education. Amen. Amen. 30:31 But what's being communicated in our public 30:33 schools is that Evolution is a fact, but what's not 30:36 being told to either the public or to our children 30:38 that are in public schools is that there is really 30:41 very little consensuses in the scientific community 30:45 about how the fact of Evolution actually took 30:48 place. In fact the view of one person is 30:50 absolutely contradictory to the view of another, 30:53 but we are not being told this because it would 30:54 begin to undermine and erode the foundations of 30:57 the theory. So, it's making sense yes or no. So, 31:00 there is nothing like consensus in the scientific 31:03 community. In fact they just say broadly it's true 31:06 but they are debating heartily, fiercely about 31:10 the actual methodologies of Evolution. Now, 31:13 we move off of scientific obstacles and we move 31:15 to our next and that is Geological obstacles. 31:17 There are significant geological obstacles and 31:20 let's just go over these very quickly. Last night 31:22 we just mentioned in passing the Cambrian 31:25 explosion, with the showing of hands how 31:27 many people in this room understand what the 31:28 Cambrian explosion is. I want to know how much 31:30 I have to explain it. Okay, good. How many people 31:33 in this room understand what the geological 31:35 column is? Oh! Good scientific lesson. Here 31:38 we go, how many people know what the Grand 31:40 Canyon is? Ooh! Alright we are getting somewhere. 31:44 Now in the Grand Canyon you have several layers 31:47 or what are called Strata of rock, you follow that 31:53 right, this rock is called Sedimentary rock it's not 31:54 igneous rock, igneous rock used to be molten. 31:56 That's like granite. Igneous rock, sedimentary 31:59 rock is rock that has been laid down in sediments, 32:03 in what everyone? Sediments, now what 32:06 happens is, is that in these sedimentary rocks 32:08 for example if you go to the Grand Canyon and 32:09 you see those beautiful panoramas of sedimentary 32:12 rock they stack up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and in those 32:16 different sediments are different kinds of fossils, 32:20 different kinds of what everyone? Fossils! Now 32:22 the Evolutionist looks at that and says ah, look 32:25 we started down here and this is a record of history 32:28 a chronology of millions of years moving up 32:32 through the geological column from simple things 32:35 down here increasingly complex, increasing 32:37 complex until eventually we get to very complex 32:39 at the top. Now, it's really not that simple but 32:41 that's what they say. Are you understanding now 32:43 yes or no? Now here is the point what happens is 32:46 as you go all the way down to the bottom of 32:48 those geological strata you come to what's called 32:52 the Precambrian layer, the Precambrian layer. 32:56 Now don't be afraid of that multisyllabic word. 32:59 In the Precambrian layer there are no fossils. 33:04 There are how many fossils? No fossils. 33:06 They are just not there. There might be some you 33:08 know disputable, you know unicellular types of 33:12 organisms, but for the most part it's a practical 33:14 true to say there are no fossils Precambrian. 33:17 Now the next layer that you encounter as you 33:19 come up the geological column is the Cambrian 33:22 layer and you know what happens in the Cambrian 33:24 layer, you have this instantaneous boom 33:28 explosion of life and there are all different kinds 33:31 of life forms, I mean literally hundreds of 33:34 different kinds of life forms all fossilized in the 33:38 Cambrian layer yet remarkably the layer just 33:41 below that nothing. This is what is referred to as 33:44 the Cambrian explosion and what happens is, is 33:47 that it appears as though life just all of a sudden 33:50 didn't existed. No, gradual process is that lead up 33:55 to it, it just jumps on to the scene. Now that is 33:58 totally inconsistent with what Evolution would 34:00 anticipate. You understand that, right? Evolution 34:03 says no, no, no, gradual, gradual, gradual, gradual, 34:05 gradual and so we should see that we should not 34:07 see this instantaneous immediate explosion of 34:11 life. And you know that's exactly what the fossil 34:13 record shows. Number 2, is when we look at the 34:17 fossil record the species are firmly established in 34:20 the fossil record. Horses are still horses, dogs are 34:23 still dogs, whales are still whales I mean the same 34:27 kind of rigidity that you have with species today 34:30 you find in the fossil Record which leads us to 34:32 number 3. There are no and I want to underscore 34:35 that word there, no indisputable transitional 34:39 forms and there should be trillions of these things. 34:43 Now what do you think I mean when I say 34:44 transitional forms? You've got it. Evolving, going 34:49 from one species to another. Now if Evolution 34:53 true that this is a process remember of 34:56 Micro revolutionary change little change, little 34:58 change, little change, little change, little change, 35:00 eventually yielding a macro change, but think 35:03 of it this way. Could I travel ten million miles 35:06 one inch at a time if I had enough time to do it 35:08 yes or no? Sure, now what Evolution is positing 35:11 is, is that these changes are so small and so 35:14 gradual and so minute on the micro-level that you 35:18 have these transitional forms that should be 35:22 replete in the fossil layer. We should find literally 35:25 millions and even trillions of these sorts of 35:28 quasi-half reptile; half amphibian, half mammal, 35:32 half reptile, half bird, half lizard; we should 35:35 find all of these sorts of strange anomalous things 35:38 in the fossil record. Yet that's not at all we find 35:40 in the fossil record in fact to take this a step 35:43 further the scientific community in years of 35:46 excavating the geological column has not found 35:54 a transitional form. Amen. And friends there should 35:57 be trillions of these things, but what we find 36:00 in the geological column is that things are locked 36:03 in very much the same way they are locked in, in 36:06 the Day and age in which we live. Amen. In fact, 36:09 I have some really cute statements from Darwin 36:11 where he talks about he says well, you know the 36:13 noble science of geology has been corrupted by 36:16 the inadequacy of the fossil record. In another 36:18 words what he is saying is, it's just too bad for 36:20 those geologists that they fix such a bad 36:22 branch of science. So, instead of reevaluating 36:24 this theory on the basis of inadequate geological 36:27 support, he says well you know that geology they 36:28 are all messed up, interesting. So then 36:31 number 4, Evolution is true 'despite the fossil 36:36 record, not because of it'. Do you understand 36:39 that point yes or no? Yes. They have committed 36:42 themselves to the truth of this Evolution and the 36:44 fact that the fossil record flies in the face 36:46 of their presuppositions and flies in the face of 36:49 their predictions doesn't throw the theory of the 36:51 window it just causes them to adjust their 36:54 theory. Yet friends, the fossil record proves. 36:56 In fact some of Darwin's greatest critics were not 36:59 from the clergy, not from the churches, they were 37:01 geologists who were saying but wait a minute 37:03 Mr. Darwin; the fossils just don't match up. 37:06 Amen. Powerful! So, we looked at geological 37:08 obstacles and then finally Philosophical Obstacles. 37:11 Now for those of who like to think how many of 37:15 you in this room like to think. Okay good this part 37:18 is only for you the rest of you can take about a 37:19 seven minute nap. For those who would like to 37:22 think put that thinking cap on. Number one, 37:26 Evolution is a pre-commitment to an 37:29 unproven ideology not a commitment to the 37:33 evidence. Now listen carefully here, the 37:36 ideology of Evolution is that there is no God, 37:42 you understand me yes or no? And if there is no 37:45 God there is nothing supernatural? There is 37:49 nothing what two words that I said, supernatural, 37:52 everything is just natural. It simply matter 37:56 in motion it's what everyone matter in motion. 38:00 Molecules being moved upon by the forces energy 38:04 that in the Evolutionary picture is all there is. 38:07 There is nothing supernatural that's over 38:10 and above the natural there is only the natural. 38:14 Now, think about that for a just a moment, 38:16 they then defined science as naturalistic 38:20 explanations for the world around us. Now, follow 38:23 me carefully here. If we defined science as 38:26 naturalistic explanations for the world around us 38:29 then it should it come as any remarkable surprise 38:32 to us that we find naturalistic explanations, 38:36 the answer is no. Because listen very carefully if 38:40 at the outset before we even began to look at the 38:43 data at the outset we have already committed 38:45 ourselves to the fact that God doesn't exist and 38:48 all things natural can be explained by things 38:50 natural. When we get a little bit down into our 38:53 observations it's no big surprise that they say, 38:56 oh we found a naturalistic explanation. Of course 38:59 you found a naturalist explanation, you have said 39:01 only naturalistic explanations by definition 39:04 are allowed. Do you understand that yes or no? 39:07 Yes. So, then what happens is Evolution is 39:09 always true. It's not a commitment to the evidence 39:13 friends it's a pre-commitment to the 39:15 ideology of materialism and naturalism. Are you 39:19 understanding now yes or no? Yes. I wish I had 39:21 time to go in to it more. Number 2 will help us to 39:24 sort of unpack and I am sure I'm gonna teach you 39:26 a word here that you may have never heard before. 39:28 It will be interesting to see with the showing of 39:29 hands how many know this word. Number 2, 39:32 Evolution is a tautology, that is to say it is true 39:36 by definition. Now, with a rising of hands how 39:39 many people in this room know what a tautology 39:40 is? You have heard of that before? Oh! This is 39:43 going to be very fun. Okay, let me give you a 39:46 very simple tautology. A widow woman, okay do 39:52 you understand that, yes, why do I, why do I say 39:54 that's a tautological statement because a widow 39:58 is always a woman. Here is another one, a male 40:03 bachelor. Now the only exception here is Karen 40:06 Bachelor who is a woman and a bachelor. 40:09 A male bachelor right, because a bachelor by 40:13 definition is a male. So, listen very carefully it's 40:18 true by definition, it's true at the outset and 40:23 nothing that you say that you uncover can disprove 40:26 your theory because it's true by definition. 40:29 Why is Evolution true by definition? Because they 40:32 have defined that God does not have a place in 40:35 the picture he is not allowed in and so when 40:37 they, dig up fossil they say, exactly what we 40:42 expected to find. Of course it's what you expected 40:45 to find. That's what the theory necessitate is 40:47 found and if they, if they found another fossil, 40:50 they say, exactly what we expected to find, it's true 40:55 by definition and everything always supports 40:58 the theory, but listen carefully, a theory that 41:01 proves everything proves guess what? Nothing and 41:06 a technical term for this is that is non-falsifiable, 41:09 non-falsifiable. Let me explain that to you very 41:11 quickly. Remember our experiment with the 41:13 dimmer we are throwing it up, we are throwing it 41:15 up, and it's always doing what, when I throw it 41:17 up what's it always doing, coming back; coming 41:19 back down. Now, we have developed our hypothesis, 41:22 and our hypothesis is that when we throw up 41:24 the dimmer it comes back down. Now, can you 41:27 think of some scenario, something that would 41:29 happen that would disprove our hypothesis? 41:32 Yeah that's exactly right so we are throwing it; 41:34 that's always coming down so have developed our 41:36 hypothesis, the dimmer always comes down but 41:38 then one time I throw it up and it just levitates 41:41 up there. Like that right, is this gonna disprove 41:46 our hypothesis yes or no? Yes or no? Yes. Yeah, 41:49 it would utterly disprove our hypothesis, it would 41:51 utterly disprove our predictions and friends 41:53 listen very carefully, there is nothing like that 41:57 when it comes to Evolution. Every single 42:00 thing that they find they say, this is exactly what 42:03 we expected to find, this is exactly what we 42:06 expected to find there is nothing that can prove 42:09 the theory false because it's true by definition 42:13 Do you understand that yes or no? 42:15 It's non-falsifiable and that is to say, it's a 42:18 tautology. And number 3, strict materialism is 42:21 incompatible with how we actually live. Now, 42:24 let's break that down for just a minute. How many 42:26 of you in this room have children that you love or 42:27 a spouse that you love. You feel like you actually 42:29 have experienced love, okay I agree. When I look 42:32 at my little boy and I say come here Landon. 42:36 He will make all those funny noises as you know 42:38 we do with kids. You actually are pretending 42:40 like you love that child. I mean you are under 42:42 the impression that you have some sort of 42:44 meaningful thing called love or with your spouse 42:46 you know romantic dinner and you are there on 42:49 the beach and you are gazing into her eyes and 42:51 she is gazing into yours and you have that warm 42:53 fuzzy feeling, you still have that don't you. 42:56 Amen. Listen, in a strictly materialistic 43:02 universe if everything is just molecules in motion. 43:06 Adam is in motion, operating under the forces 43:08 of nature, love is simply a bio-chemical reaction 43:12 that takes place in the brain very much like 43:15 indigestion. No, seriously think about this 43:20 for a just a moment. If there is no 43:22 supernatural, if there is nothing above and beyond 43:25 the matter that this world is made up there is no 43:28 material difference, no substantive difference 43:31 between gas in your intestines and the love 43:33 that you feel for your wife. They are both simply 43:35 biochemical reactions that are taking place in 43:37 the body and in the brain. You understand that 43:40 yes or no? Yes. But friends you don't live that way 43:42 do you? And listen Evolutionists don't live 43:45 that way either. Evolutionists love their kids 43:48 they love their wives and friends the way that we 43:50 live shows that there is something powerful. 43:52 Something transcend and something real in the 43:55 human experience. Amen. So, these are significant 43:59 obstacles to the acceptance of Evolution. 44:01 We could spend even more time if we wanted to, 44:04 but it is not theologically sound, it's not 44:06 scientifically sound, it's not geologically sound 44:08 and it's not philosophically sound. Well, how then 44:10 do we explain the existence of things 44:12 particularly life. Well, the Bible says in the 44:15 beginning God created the heavens and the earth 44:18 and the earth was without form and void and 44:20 darkness was upon the face of the deep and the 44:22 spirit of God moved over the face or hovered over 44:24 the face of waters and God said let there be 44:27 light and there was what everyone. Light, friends 44:30 we have a creator, we have a God who not only 44:33 created us but a God who redeemed us. 44:35 The Bible presents God in unmistakable language 44:38 as the creator of heaven and earth and everything 44:40 in them can you say Amen. Brothers and sisters 44:42 we have tonight a creator we are not the process 44:45 of some long Evolutionary age. We are not the 44:48 process of some mindless impersonal unsupervised 44:53 force and last night we learned that the vehicle, 44:56 the conduit through which God created was Jesus 45:00 Christ. Was what word everyone? Go with me to 45:02 the book of Hebrews very quickly I want to 45:04 just show you another text to that effect. 45:07 Hebrews has found in the New Testament, 45:09 in the which testament, New Testament, we are 45:11 going to the book of Hebrews you can find 45:12 it after all the teas. After the Thessalonians 45:15 and the Timothy's and Titus we come to Hebrew 45:18 chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1, and notice with 45:21 me beginning in verse 1, Hebrews 1:1 it says 45:25 God, who at various times and in various ways 45:28 spoke in the past to the Fathers by the prophets, 45:32 has in these last Days spoken to us by his son, 45:35 by his who everyone? Son, whom he has 45:38 appointed the air of all of things notice this now 45:41 through whom also he made the what? Worlds! 45:46 Through whom he made the worlds. According 45:52 to verse 2, there through whom did God make the 45:53 worlds? Through Jesus, so Jesus becomes that 45:55 conduit through which God created all of the 45:57 beautiful and sublime things that we see around 45:59 us. Evolution not only undermines God as creator 46:03 it also then undermines our worship of him as 46:06 creator. If God is not the creator then it's non 46:09 meaningful it's senseless to worship God as the 46:13 creator. Do you understand that yes or no? 46:15 Yes. And you say well I am not understanding 46:17 what's the significance of this. Revelation clearly 46:20 points to worship as the dividing issue at the end 46:24 of the time. We also discover an unmistakable 46:27 call to worship God notice these next two words as 46:30 creator at the heart of revelation. Go with me in 46:34 your Bibles to Revelation chapter 13. Let us 46:37 buttress these two points that we have made here. 46:40 First that Revelation says that the dividing issues 46:43 at the end of time will be the issue of worship, 46:45 the issue of what every one? Worship. We're gonna 46:48 go to Revelation chapter 13, very quickly we are 46:51 going to do a survey of the word worship in 46:53 Revelation Chapter 13, now this is the antichrist 46:56 chapter and there are two beasts in this 46:58 chapter. The first is the antichrist and second is 47:00 the false prophet. Now, notice with me in verse 47:02 three of Revelation 13 very quickly. And I saw 47:05 one of his heads as it had been moderately 47:07 wounded and his deadly wound was healed and all 47:09 the world marveled and followed the beast. 47:11 Verse 4 so they worshiped, notice that word they 47:14 worshiped the dragon. Who is the dragon 47:16 everyone? Satan. So, they worshiped Satan who 47:19 gave authority to the beast and they worshiped 47:21 the beast saying who is like the beast who is able 47:23 to make war with him. Notice two times there 47:25 the word worship jump down to verse 8. All who 47:28 dwell on the earth will what's the next word? 47:30 Worship him. Jump down to verse 12 and he 47:33 exercises all the authority of the first beast in his 47:35 presence and causes the earth and those who dwell 47:37 in it too what's the next word. Worship the first 47:41 beast whose deadly wound healed. Notice 47:42 verse 15, he was grant to power to give breath of 47:44 the image of the beast that the image of the 47:46 beast should be speak and cause that as many as 47:49 would not what's the next word? Worship the image 47:52 of the beast should be killed. Now, does it strike 47:55 you that this worship issue is going to be a 47:57 fairly significant issue yes or no. Friends if they 47:59 are saying you don't worship in a certain way 48:01 and the certain objective worship in a certain way 48:05 that you will be killed that strikes me as a 48:07 significant issue. Amen. Now you go into Revelation 48:10 Chapter 14, and notice verse 9, then a third angel 48:13 followed them saying with a Loud voice If anyone 48:15 worships the beast and his image, and receives 48:17 his mark on his forehead, or in his hand, he 48:19 himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath 48:21 of God, that sound pretty serious, yes or no. Yes. 48:25 So, when you read Revelation 13 and 14 again 48:27 and again worship, worship, worship, worship, 48:30 worship and that's why we safely conclude that 48:32 according to the book of Revelation at the end of 48:34 time the dividing issue between the followers of 48:37 Jesus Christ and the followers of antichrist, the 48:40 followers of the kingdom of God and the followers 48:42 of kingdom of Satan will be the dividing issue of, 48:47 you tell me? Worship. That's what the book of 48:50 Revelation says. Now, notice the second part 48:52 here we also discover an unmistakable call to 48:55 worship God as creator right in the heart of 48:58 Revelation. Notice with me Revelation Chapter 14 49:01 beginning in verse 6. Beginning in Verse 6 of 49:04 Revelation 14, the author John finds these three 49:08 angels, streaking through the midnight heavens, 49:12 each one with a very powerful salient message 49:15 for planet earth right at the end of time. And 49:18 remember this series is entitled the 11 hour 49:20 evidence. So, these messages are for us note 49:23 with me the first message it says in verse 6, then I 49:27 saw another angel the word angel simply means 49:29 messenger I saw a messenger flying in the 49:31 midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to 49:33 preach for those who dwell on the earth to 49:34 every nation, tribe, tongue and people. 49:36 So, this message is a universal message. 49:39 What kind of a message? How many people is it 49:41 for? For everyone! Notice the message the content 49:44 of the message in verse 7. Verse 6 is the scope of 49:47 the message and verse 7 is the content of the 49:49 message saying with a loud voice fear God, and 49:53 glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has 49:56 come: and what's the next word; worship him who 50:01 made. Let me say that again, worship him who 50:06 made. Now you read Revelation 13, worship the 50:09 beast, worship the beast, worship the beast, worship 50:11 the image of the beast, even Revelation 14 verses 50:15 9 to 12 worship the beast, worship the beast, and 50:16 then right here in the middle of all this calls to 50:17 worship the counterfeit beast here is a single 50:20 call, a clarion call, a powerful call to worship 50:24 God as creator and notice what he goes on to say 50:30 worship him who made heaven and earth the sea 50:32 and springs of waters. How many of you were 50:36 aware that of the 404 verses in the Revelation 50:38 270 are taken directly from the Old Testament. 50:41 How many of you knew that? 404 verses in 50:43 Revelation, more than two thirds taken directly from 50:46 the Old Testament, you want to know something 50:47 remarkable though. The single largest quotation, 50:51 verbatim quotation of any Old Testament 50:54 passage is right there in Revelation 14 in verse 7, 50:57 you just read it. Let me read it to you again; 51:00 worship him who made the heaven, the earth, 51:02 the sea and the springs of waters. Now, you tell 51:05 me where is John quoting from, this is the single 51:08 largest quotation from the Old Testament in the 51:11 book of Revelation, you tell me Bible students 51:13 who already read it tonight so it's a give 51:14 away, where is he quoting from? Exodus! He is 51:17 coding from Exodus Chapter 20, verses 8-11 and 51:21 you tell me what takes place in Exodus 20, 8-11 51:24 the Sabbath Commandment. Oh friends, we're gonna 51:28 spend a moment here listen very carefully in 51:30 the midst of all of these false calls to worship; 51:33 in the midst of these counterfeit calls to worship 51:36 the beast and the image of the beast here comes 51:38 this clearly and resounding message from 51:41 God and he says stop, don't worship the antichrist 51:46 or the counterfeit Christ or the image of the beast, 51:49 worship me as creator and then He quotes the 51:53 Sabbath Commandment. Now, friends what do you 51:55 think He is trying to say? He is pointing us back to 51:59 the one Commandment that begins with the word 52:04 remember you've got it. Now, think about that for 52:07 a just a minute. If God is calling us to worship him 52:09 as creator what do you know by implication and 52:13 by definition that they would be a significant 52:16 thrush that the end of time to undermine God as 52:21 creator. Amen. I mean come on think about it for 52:24 just a second here. The only reason that God 52:26 would call us back to worship him as creator in 52:29 the midst of this all these counterfeit calls the only 52:31 way that that could even make sense is if people 52:33 were beginning to not worship him as creator and 52:35 his creative power was being undermined. Amen. 52:39 Now, think about that what an absolutely 52:42 remarkable statement here we are being called to 52:44 worship the God who said let there be light 52:46 and there was light, right in the midst of the book 52:48 of the Revelation God is calling us back to worship 52:51 him as creator and then quotes the Sabbath 52:54 Commandment. The seventh Day Sabbath is 52:57 the sign of God's creative power and love. When we 53:01 keep the Sabbath we worship him, what are the 53:03 next two words, as Creator, as Creator. 53:06 We might legitimately ask Lord you've told us in 53:09 the book of Revelation to worship you as creator 53:11 how do we do it? And he would respond by saying 53:14 keep the memorial of my creation working for six 53:19 resting on the seventh. Amen. It's powerful. 53:23 By the way think about this, a Buddhist, 53:25 or a Muslim, or a Hindu, can keep most of the 53:29 Ten Commandments. They can abstain from murder 53:31 and adultery and thievery and robbery, but no 53:34 Buddhist can keep the Sabbath Commandment 53:36 because the Sabbath Commandment says I 53:38 worship the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and 53:42 Moses who created the world in six and rested on 53:45 the seventh. It's the Sabbath Commandment that 53:48 identifies the God that you are worshipping. 53:51 Amen. There is a reason its right in the heart of 53:53 the Commandments. So then, Evolution robs God 53:57 of His power as creator and thus undermines the 54:00 memorial of his creation the seventh-Day Sabbath. 54:02 Yet revelation calls us to keep it and honor it. 54:05 Amen. Amen. Quoting it right there in the middle 54:08 of all these counterfeit calls to worship and so I 54:10 give you tonight 10 reasons, 10 significant 54:13 facts about the Seventh-Day Sabbath and 54:15 note them with me carefully. Number one it 54:17 was created by Jesus before sin, created by 54:21 Jesus when, before sin, notice how Jesus is at 54:23 that centre of each of the reasons. Number 2, 54:26 it was commanded at Mount Sinai and by Jesus 54:29 to Moses, written with the finger of God on 54:30 tables of stone. Number 3, it was kept and honored 54:34 by Jesus in his life. If you wanted to find Jesus 54:37 on the Seventh Day you went to the Synagogue 54:39 the Bible says in the Luke 4:16, so he honored it 54:42 as a man. He created it in the beginning, he 54:45 commanded it at Sinai and he honored it in his 54:48 life. Number 4, all of Jesus Old Testament followers 54:52 kept the Sabbath. How many of them? All of them 54:55 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph all the descendents 54:58 of Joseph Elijah, Isaiah all of the prophets Adam, 55:02 Noah every single Old Testament follower of 55:05 God was a Sabbath Keeper. Remarkably 55:07 though, all of Jesus New Testament followers were 55:10 also Sabbath Keepers, every single one of them. 55:14 All of the disciples all of the apostles, even the 55:16 gentiles that Paul was preaching to in Acts were 55:19 Sabbath keepers. Notice this way. God rested on 55:22 the Sabbath in creation just as he did in salvation 55:25 when Jesus rested in the tomb it was on the 55:27 Sabbath. Number 7, it was changed by the Roman 55:30 Church in the fourt century. Yet the Sabbath 55:33 will be kept in heaven number eight. Number 9, 55:36 it is a sign of both creation that God created 55:38 us and that he saved us. The Bible says in Ezekiel 55:41 Chapter 20, the Sabbath is a sign that I am the 55:44 Lord that sanctifies you and Number 10 in 55:48 Revelation Jesus calls us to remember it and to 55:51 honor it. Ten reasons while you should seriously 55:54 and soberly consider keeping the Sabbath. 55:56 Friends and I, when you look at the cross you find 55:58 a God who loves you and cares for you not a God 56:00 that works to the processes or predation 56:02 and parasitism to create you, but a God who 56:04 stooped in the mud to create you and breath into 56:07 your nostrils the breath of life. Amen, I am so 56:10 happy to report you tonight that contrary to 56:12 popular Evolutionary theory, contrary to popular 56:15 scientific opinion, true science upholds, true 56:19 religion upholds, Jesus Christ as creator and 56:23 redeemer and in the book of Revelation we are 56:25 called to keep his Sabbath. Friends has tonight's 56:29 message went clear yes or no? Praise the Lord. |
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