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Series Code: ICJ
Program Code: ICJ190011A
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00:01 We live in a world that professes to be wise,
00:03 but is it possible that our scientific culture 00:06 has become fools because they refuse to allow 00:10 a Divine foot in the door? 00:37 Worship is the big-time end-time issue. 00:41 And of course, it was the very first issue 00:43 in the Garden of Eden. 00:44 But it's surprising in the book of Revelation 00:46 how many times the word, "worship," is mentioned. 00:49 Not just mentioned, but it's the centerpiece of this 00:52 great controversy between Christ and Satan. 00:55 And those three angels' messages in Revelation chapter 14, 01:00 that first angel says something that's very commanding. 01:04 In verse 7 it says, "...and worship Him..." 01:08 And then it says, "...and worship Him who made 01:11 heaven and earth, and the sea, and the springs of water." 01:17 "...and worship Him..." So it's like a command. 01:20 I want to talk a little bit more today about our culture 01:23 that seems to have robbed so many people 01:27 of a relationship with their heavenly Father 01:30 who created them. 01:32 The last time we talked about evolution, 01:34 I kind of ran out of time. 01:36 So I want to bring a few other points in here 01:38 showing that once again we're living in a world 01:41 that has really plenty of evidence that God 01:45 is the Divine Creator. 01:48 One of the things that is very fascinating is, you know, 01:51 the evolutionists believe they have to have time. 01:54 If you give them enough time, they can make anything happen. 01:57 Well, one of the things that they've said is that dinosaurs 02:01 are like 70 some million years old. 02:04 70 some million years old? 02:08 Well there's plenty of evidence that the world is a young earth, 02:11 in one sense of the word. 02:13 Maybe about 6000 years old. Something like that. 02:16 But coming back to these 70 million year old dinosaurs. 02:21 By the way, there's a circular reasoning 02:23 that goes on with these folks. 02:25 They say, "Well, how do you know that the dinosaurs 02:26 are 70 something millions years old?" 02:28 "Well, because we know the rocks are 70 something millions year." 02:30 "Oh, okay. 02:31 Well, how do you know that the rocks are 02:33 70 something millions years old?" 02:34 "Well, because we know the dinosaurs are 70 million..." 02:36 Okay, okay. 02:38 That is what we call, circular reasoning. 02:40 It doesn't prove anything. 02:42 But they have just been for a shock in the last few years. 02:46 A lady in North Carolina State University 02:50 actually discovered that these bones that they've been 02:55 digging up of dinosaurs actually has soft tissue in it. 03:00 Well that is impossible over 70 something million years. 03:05 It was amazing how people reacted to this. 03:10 One person wrote her, one scientist wrote her and said, 03:13 "I don't believe it. That data is not correct." 03:17 Of course, it's been substantiated 03:20 by many others today. 03:23 They're finding soft tissue in dinosaur bones 03:25 all over the place. 03:27 But this individual said, "I'm just not going to believe this." 03:30 She writes back and she says, "Well tell me, 03:33 what data would you believe that would convince you?" 03:38 And he writes back and says, "Nothing." 03:41 In other words, he's not willing to acknowledge 03:44 that the evolutionary model is really 03:47 terribly, terribly flawed. 03:49 Well it even gets worse. 03:51 They found these, they say 500 million year old, 03:56 worm fossils in the ocean. 03:58 And they found soft tissue in that. 04:02 Some of them are so foolish as to come up and say, 04:04 "Well, it must be able to last for 70 some million years." 04:06 Well, you know, we're not... 04:08 The average man can add and subtract. 04:10 We can still read. 04:12 You don't have to be a scientist to get this. 04:14 That's just absolutely foolish and impossible. 04:17 No, the earth is a young earth. 04:20 John Sanford, who is part of the invention of the gene gun, 04:25 I think he was a co-inventor of it, 04:28 and he understands genetics and all of those kinds of things, 04:32 at Cornell University, and he discovered something. 04:36 He was an evolutionist, by the way. 04:37 He's become a Christian. 04:39 And he's written a book about all of this, Genetic Entropy. 04:43 Which means this, simply this: 04:46 That your genes, our genes, are not getting better. 04:51 In fact, the mutations are always, just about always, bad. 04:56 And so he's saying that every generation 04:59 is losing genetic information in a negative way. 05:04 Maybe one to two percent, somewhere in that neighborhood. 05:08 And it's bad news. 05:10 It means the whole human race is going down. 05:13 It's not getting better. It's getting worse. 05:16 Just what we should expect with the whole story of Genesis. 05:21 Because God created it, and then sin has come in. 05:25 And sin has really messed up the whole human race. 05:31 So John Sanford says the time is going to come 05:34 when the whole human race is going to collapse. 05:37 It cannot hold off disease any longer, 05:39 it cannot hold off the genetic defects. 05:42 He says it kind of goes down like this, 05:44 and then it levels out, and then it crashes. 05:47 So the whole human race is destined for destruction 05:51 But I believe, John Sanford believes, 05:54 that Jesus will come, and Jesus will rescue the human race 05:58 before it collapses from its own descending, 06:03 deteriorating genetics. 06:07 Now there's another thing that some people have raised, 06:10 and I think it's really a good one. 06:12 You remember that thing about time, how evolutionists 06:14 have to have all this time? 06:17 "Just give us enough time." 06:19 Well, they say that the universe is like, I don't know, 06:23 15 million years old, billion years old. 06:26 The earth is five billion years, or four. 06:29 Something like that. These big numbers. 06:31 But using their math. 06:34 Maybe it's twelve; I've got it here a little bit better. 06:37 They say the universe is like 12.7 billion years, 06:41 and the earth is about 4.5. 06:43 Irregardless, they say, "Then we have, this gives us enough time 06:50 for all this evolutionary stuff to take place." 06:52 But it's interesting to note, 06:54 and I want to share this with you, 06:56 think about this, think about that big universe 06:58 and all the suns and worlds. 07:00 It's a huge universe. 07:02 Our minds can't even comprehend how big it is. 07:06 But think about this. 07:08 The scientists have calculated that the atoms, 07:13 the number of atoms in the universe is somewhere around 07:18 10 to the 70th, or 10 to the 80th power. 07:23 In other words, it's a billion, trillion, billions of trillions. 07:28 It's a number so big that you just can't comprehend it. 07:34 Well somebody did a little calculation about how much 07:36 time, using probability, it would take just to get 07:42 a few proteins put into place. 07:45 And listen, there's not enough time in the universe. 07:48 There's not enough time for them to get all of this stuff done. 07:53 So evolution really has got a lot of major problems. 07:58 The tragedy of evolution is that it has robbed so many 08:02 young people, and adults, of their relationship with God. 08:07 So there's this attitude here of no open mindedness. 08:12 I mentioned in my opening here this fact that 08:18 they just don't want to let God's foot in the door. 08:21 In fact, one person said that, one scientist said that. 08:24 He's a Marxist on top of that. 08:28 But he also says, well known geneticist, he says, 08:32 "Materialism is absolute. 08:34 We just cannot allow a Divine foot in the door." 08:38 So professing to become wise, as the Scripture says, 08:42 they have become fools. 08:44 Worship is a big-time end-time issue. 08:48 What is worship? 08:50 Worship is something where we give glory and honor 08:54 to someone who is greater than us. 08:57 Someone who is good and worthy to be worshiped. 09:03 And worthy of our respect and our reverence. 09:07 And this wonderful God who created the universe, 09:10 who created us because He's a God of love 09:13 and He wants to share. 09:15 Love is like that. 09:17 Love just can't just stay to itself. 09:19 Love wants to share. 09:21 And so God wanted to bring us into existence, 09:24 make us His children, fill our lives with happiness. 09:28 And that brings Him great joy as well. 09:32 God is worthy to be worshiped. 09:35 And according to the Scripture, He's worthy of worship because 09:40 He is the Creator. 09:42 Revelation 4:11 says this. 09:46 "You are worthy, O Lord..." 09:48 There's that word, "worthy." 09:50 "...worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; 09:55 for You created all things, 09:58 and by Your will they exist and were created." 10:01 You know, you can give glory to God all day long, 10:06 and He can receive the glory of all of His creation, 10:10 but it will not change Him. 10:11 The problem with man is, if you give them much glory, 10:14 it changes them and they get the big head. 10:16 But God is always humble. 10:18 He's always full of self-sacrificing love. 10:22 And so we can praise Him and give Him glory and honor, 10:27 but it never will change who He is. 10:29 Because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 10:35 Jesus is also worthy of our worship. 10:38 And the Bible says why He is worthy of our worship. 10:41 Revelation 5:12 says, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain 10:47 to receive power and riches and wisdom, 10:51 and strength and honor and glory and blessing!" 10:55 Jesus gave Himself to us. 10:58 He voluntarily came here. 11:01 And the Father let Him come. 11:02 The Father didn't force Jesus to come here and save us. 11:07 No, Jesus came of His own free will. 11:11 He came because He has divine love, He is Divine. 11:15 And He has that same love for us. 11:17 He has that same care for the human race. 11:21 So the Father, I think with great reluctance, 11:25 let Jesus come. 11:27 And Jesus volunteered to come. 11:29 There's no one forcing anyone here. 11:32 But Jesus is worthy. 11:34 Worthy because He took the huge risk of coming here to save us. 11:39 And it was a risk. 11:42 Jesus and the Father deserve our worship. 11:46 But there is someone who also wants our worship. 11:50 Someone who doesn't deserve that worship. 11:53 Someone who's not worthy. 11:56 Someone who wants to insert themselves 12:00 and get that worship, and take that worship 12:03 that belongs to God legitimately, to take it away 12:08 and give it to himself. 12:11 That person is none other than Lucifer. 12:14 We find in the book of Revelation in chapter 13, 12:20 and we're going to talk about that in our next session more, 12:23 the Bible says the world becomes perverted. 12:27 The world becomes confused, as it were. 12:30 And the Bible says, "And they worshiped the best..." 12:35 The beast from the sea? 12:38 And they worshiped the image to the beast. 12:42 The beast from the earth. 12:45 Why do they transfer their worship? 12:48 Why do they give worship to something that 12:51 doesn't deserve worship? 12:53 Something that's backed up by the great red dragon. 12:59 It was Jesus who made it clear that worship 13:02 and serve go together. 13:04 You know, in the book of Romans it says, 13:06 "For since the creation of the world," Romans 1:20-25, 13:12 "For since the creation of the world His," God's, "invisible 13:16 attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things 13:21 that He had made, even His eternal power and Godhead, 13:26 so that they are without excuse..." 13:29 The apostle Paul is saying, "You really don't have any excuse 13:32 not to believe God." 13:34 Because the entire creation, your own creation, 13:39 the complexity of it, the beauty of it, 13:42 the design of it, all of that tells us 13:46 that God is the one who created the heavens and the earth. |
Revised 2019-08-13