Participants: John Bradshaw
Series Code: IIW
Program Code: IIW001397A
00:06 [dramatic music] It has stood the test of time.
00:15 God's book, the Bible. Still relevant in today's 00:23 complex world. It Is Written, sharing hope@ 00:30 around the globe. 00:41 Thanks for joining me today on It Is Written. 00:43 I'm John Bradshaw. To hear some people tell 00:46 the story, if you believe that God created the earth, 00:50 then you're out of touch, stuck in the past, 00:53 ignorant of science and backwards thinking. 00:57 Which would mean, of course, that the Bible 00:59 cannot then be trusted. Its opening words say that 01:03 God created the earth and the opening chapter says 01:06 he did it in six days. It would also mean that 01:10 Jesus was out of touch, stuck in the past, 01:13 ignorant of science, and backwards thinking. 01:16 After all, Jesus believed the creation story. 01:21 He said in Mark 10:6, from the beginning of 01:24 the creation, God made them male and female. 01:29 Jesus believed that God made Adam and Eve, 01:31 plain and simple. And he believed that 01:34 God made the Sabbath day, which was given on the 7th day 01:38 of the creation week. Jesus said in Mark 2:27, 01:42 "The Sabbath was made for man." Made. In the beginning, 01:47 when God created the earth. John 1:3 says, 01:51 "All things were made by him." While in Mark 13:19, 01:57 Jesus referred to "the beginning of the creation 02:00 which God created." In the Bible, 02:03 Paul wrote about creation. Peter wrote about creation. 02:08 John wrote about creation. But a lot of people today 02:12 do not believe that God created the world. 02:16 Now, let's ask ourselves why that might be. 02:19 Is it because evolutionists are fools? 02:22 Well, I don't think that's the reason. 02:26 A lot of brilliant, well-educated people rejected 02:28 the Bible account of creation. In fact, many evolutionists 02:31 ask important questions about origins that demand answers. 02:36 So, how is it that the Bible can say the earth is young, 02:40 just thousands of years old, and a respected scientist 02:43 relying on accepted scientific principles and 02:46 practices, would say that the Bible is wrong and 02:49 not just wrong, but wrong by millions and millions of years. 02:54 Can intelligent thinking people be scientifically accurate 02:58 while still believing what the Bible says on 03:01 the subject of creation? To find out, 03:04 I visited the creation museum in Northern Kentucky. 03:07 A stone's throw from Cincinnati, Ohio. 03:09 The museum covers an area of 70K sq ft, a little less than 03:13 two acres, comfortably bigger than 03:15 a football field, and it's dedicated to promoting 03:18 the Biblical view of creation. I spoke with 03:21 Creation Museum president, Australian, Ken Ham. 03:25 And I started by asking him about theistic evolution, 03:30 the idea that evolution is a process used 03:32 by God to effect creation. Within the church, and 03:36 you know there are different denominations, and 03:39 so on, you will also find, as you know, different views 03:41 of eschatology dealing with end times, 03:45 different views even of baptism and 03:47 different views of other issues. By and large, 03:51 when you are arguing about such things as eschatology 03:53 or baptism or whatever it is, speaking in tongues, 03:57 or you know, a number of those different issues, 04:00 you are arguing from the Bible. It might be people's view of 04:03 the church or people's view of Israel, or people's view 04:05 of Daniel, or Ezekiel or Revelation, whatever it is. 04:07 Right. But you see, the reason 04:10 there are different views of Genesis, 04:12 like theistic evolution, for instance, is not because 04:15 you are arguing from Scripture, it's because you are arguing 04:18 outside of scripture. You are really taking 04:20 the secular view of the day and you add it to the Bible 04:23 in Genesis, and then you have to reinterpret the clear words 04:27 of Genesis, which means that the big issue for me is 04:31 it's an authority issue. You are unlocking a door 04:34 to say you don't have to take this as written. 04:36 You are not using God's word to judge man's word. 04:39 You are using man's ideas outside of Scripture, which 04:41 you don't get from Scripture. And then you are forcing them 04:44 onto God's Word. For instance, 04:46 the Bible makes it clear. God took dust and made a man. 04:49 So if you are going to believe in theistic evolution, 04:52 you are going to say God used evolution then the process 04:56 of some ape-like ancestor changing into humans, 04:59 even in Matthew 19 when Jesus was quoting Genesis when talking 05:04 about marriage, he was talking about the one flesh, you know, 05:06 the fact that Eve came from Adam. 05:08 See, if you are going to believe in evolution, 05:10 then Adam came from an ape-man and Eve came from an ape-woman. 05:13 But, the Bible makes it very clear and Jesus himself, 05:16 who is the Word, and who is the Son of God, 05:19 Jesus, quoted from Genesis, talking about your one flesh, 05:22 because the woman came from the man. 05:24 She did not come from an ape woman. 05:26 And so, really, for theistic evolutionists, 05:29 they are really undermining Biblical authority because they 05:33 are reinterpreting God's word by forcing man's ideas 05:36 on God's word. Secondly, they are really 05:38 destroying the whole basis of marriage, if you think about it, 05:41 and of course, that all relates too to Christ and his 05:43 relationship to the church in the New Testament. 05:46 But there is even something else as well, and that's this. 05:48 All the different positions on Genesis, they all have 05:52 one thing in common. What's that? 05:55 Putting millions of years in the Bible. 05:57 The idea of millions of years came from atheists, Deists, 06:01 people who believed in naturalism, who wanted 06:06 to explain life without God, wanted to get rid of 06:10 the flood of Noah's day, and they want to come up 06:12 with a way of explaining the world without God and 06:16 so back in the late 1700s, early 1800s, these people 06:19 postulated the idea that the fossil layers we see 06:23 over the earth's surface, were laid down over 06:24 millions of years, and that happened before man. 06:28 And so you'll find that every one of the compromised positions 06:31 is people trying to come up with some new sort of way or 06:35 different way to fit millions of years and/or evolution, 06:39 sometimes, into the Bible. And if you believe in 06:41 millions of years, here's my challenge for people. 06:44 If you take Genesis 1:29, 30, and you read it exactly the same 06:49 way that Jesus quotes from Genesis, then Adam and Eve ate 06:54 fruit, all vegetarian, and the animals were vegetarian, 06:59 they ate plants. Now man wasn't told 07:01 to eat meat until after the flood Genesis 9:3 07:04 when God allowed that out. But originally, 07:07 they were all vegetarian. In the fossil record, 07:09 supposedly existing millions of years before man, 07:12 if you believe in millions of years, as a Christian, 07:14 you've got lots of examples of animals eating each other, 07:17 fish eating each other, bones in the stomachs of 07:20 other animals, and so on. What are they going 07:24 to do with that? Ok. 07:26 Number two: Doesn't the Bible clearly 07:28 tell us in Genesis that as a result of the curse, 07:31 thorns and thistles came into existence? 07:35 That's correct. The fossil record, 07:37 said to be millions of years before man, right? 07:40 There's a lot of examples of fossil thorns said to be 07:43 hundreds of millions of years old. 07:45 Wait a minute! You've got all these thorns, 07:47 millions of years before man sinned? 07:50 Then thorns didn't come after the curse. 07:52 There are many examples of diseases in the fossil bones. 07:56 There are brain tumors. For instance, there's a 07:59 brain tumor in a dinosaur fossil, 08:01 evidence of abscesses, arthritis, cancer, 08:05 all sorts of diseases. In fact, there are even 08:07 medical researchers today who use the fossil bones 08:10 to help people understand how to look for certain diseases 08:15 and so on. Now, when God finished 08:17 creating everything, he said everything he made 08:20 was very good. So, if you are going to believe 08:23 in millions of years, God said brain tumors 08:25 were very good, cancer was very good. 08:28 See, from a perspective of Scripture, you can't have 08:31 brain tumors, cancer, arthritis, abscesses that you see 08:36 in the fossil record, animals eating each other, 08:38 thorns, supposedly millions of years before man. 08:41 And so, therefore, the whole fossil record has 08:43 to come after sin. And when you look 08:45 at the fossil record, you see these fossils laid down 08:49 in sedimentary layers over the earth. 08:52 How would explain billions of dead things buried 08:54 in rock layers, laid down by water 08:56 or over the earth. I mean, 08:58 70% of the earth's surfaces is covered in sedimentary strata. 09:00 You know what the Bible actually tells us? 09:02 What's that? That there was a global flood. 09:04 And if there really was a global flood, you'd expect 09:05 to find billions of dead things buried in rock layers, 09:07 laid down by water, all over the earth, and 09:09 that's what you find. And that's what you find. 09:11 And you know what you find? Billions of dead things, buried 09:13 in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. 09:14 So what should you think when a fossil is discovered that 09:18 seems to indicated human beings were on Earth millions 09:22 of years ago - when the Bible says 09:24 no such thing? In a way, that evidence 09:28 that we do have a Lucy is strong enough to actually 09:32 draw out a particular interpretation which is she 09:35 was some kind of ape. More in just a moment. 09:39 [Music] Your Father God, 10:00 Your Creator and originator is also the 10:03 God of the future. In His ability to tell us 10:05 what is still ahead, He reminds us of His 10:08 sovereignty and power over all things. 10:10 To help us trust Him, God has provided amazing 10:13 evidence of His reliability, and the reliability of His Word. 10:18 Today, I'd like to send you a booklet that demonstrates how 10:20 God foretold world events with absolute accuracy 10:23 thousands of years in advance. This booklet is called, 10:27 "Can God be Trusted?" and it's absolutely FREE. 10:30 Just call 1 (800) 253-3000 and 10:33 ask for "Can God be Trusted." If the line's busy, 10:37 please keep on trying. Or write to 10:39 It Is Written, P.O. Box 6, Chattanooga, TN 37401, 10:44 and we'll mail a free copy to your address in North America. 10:47 Our toll free number is: 1 (800) 253-3000 and 10:51 our web address is: itiswritten.com 10:55 This is It Is Written, thanks for joining me. 10:57 I'm John Bradshaw Today I'm discussing creation 11:00 and evolution with Ken Ham, the President of 11:02 the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. 11:05 Ken's been teaching creation for decades, so I asked 11:08 him about "Lucy". In 1974, Donald Johanson 11:13 an American anthropologist working in Ethiopia 11:16 discovered fossilized remains of what became known as "Lucy". 11:22 Lucy was actually about 40% of a skeleton. 11:25 Many people believe this skeleton to be several 11:28 millions of years old, and either a direct ancestor 11:31 of today's human beings, or closely related. 11:35 If Lucy is actually a human - or human ancestor - 11:38 and is 3 million-plus years old, there goes the idea of a young 11:42 Earth that is less than 10,000 years old. 11:45 So I asked Ken Ham if 40% of an old skeleton 11:49 gives enough evidence of human beings living 11:51 millions of years ago. In a way, that evidence 11:56 we do have of Lucy is strong enough to actually draw out 12:01 a particular interpretation that she was some kind of ape. 12:05 And it is interesting. See, when you dig up a skull, 12:09 you can make, by using artistic license, 12:14 you can make the head on that skull look ape-like 12:17 or human-like. You can take an ape skull and 12:20 make it look a bit human-like. You can take a human skull 12:23 and make it look ape-like. If you want Lucy 12:26 to be human-like, you want to have 12:30 short arms, because apes have longer arms. 12:32 And so, therefore, where the broken bones are, 12:34 they put them together but when you look at them, 12:36 they are tapered, indicating that they 12:39 should be apart. And so we put them apart to 12:41 where we believe they should be, showing she really had 12:44 long arms, right? Like an ape, which is what 12:47 the discoverer of Lucy said she was. 12:49 Then, when you look at the leg bones, well, 12:52 for the leg bones, they want the opposite 12:54 to happen. Because apes have shorter legs 12:57 so they want them to have longer legs, so for the leg bones, 13:00 they actually put those bones apart whereas when we look 13:03 at them, it looks like they should be together 13:06 and so, they do the opposite of what they should do 13:08 because they want to make it into something that it 13:11 really is not. But when you've just got 13:13 the bones and you don't have the flesh and the hair 13:15 and you can't see it and so that's how people 13:17 can be indoctrinated in evolution because 13:22 an evolutionist can take those bones and arrange them 13:24 in a particular way and you know, shorten the arms, 13:27 and lengthen the legs, or the rest of it, you know, 13:31 do what they want to do with them, and then put flesh 13:33 and hair on them and make it look sort of half human-like. 13:35 They can make the eyes look a particular way and make it 13:39 look a bit humanlike, and that's what they do. 13:41 I asked Ken Ham a question I think everyone has asked 13:45 at some time or another: how do you fit dinosaurs into 13:49 the Bible story, when the science tells us 13:52 dinosaurs lived millions of years ago? 13:56 You've got crocodiles, and the nautilus, 13:59 and horseshoe crab and so on. You've got these creatures, 14:01 that according to evolutionists, lived before dinosaurs, 14:04 and then must have lived with dinosaurs years ago 14:09 and then supposedly dinosaurs died out, then all these others 14:12 lived on and they are still living with us today. 14:15 So, the point is, these creatures are living 14:17 with us today so why is it even from an evolutionist 14:21 perspective, why is it so stupid to think that dinosaurs 14:24 could not live with people? Now most people have the wrong 14:27 idea about dinosaurs. They think they are all 14:29 great big monsters. A ha 14:30 Well the word dinosaur was first invited in 1841 14:32 by an Englishman, Sir. Richard Owen 14:35 and it comes from two Greek words, 14:36 Dino Sauros and translated, it means terrible lizard. 14:40 And so people get the idea that they are all great, 14:42 big monsters. The average size of a dinosaur 14:45 is only the size of a sheep, a shepherd dog. 14:47 That's the average size. There are many dinosaurs 14:50 as small as chickens. The mosasaurus when it hatched 14:53 out of an egg, was only the size of a mouse. 14:55 So we shouldn't get the idea that dinosaurs were all 14:58 great big monsters. Secondly, people think that they 15:01 were hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of different types of 15:04 dinosaurs. Actually, there is only about 15:06 50 families of dinosaurs, which means about 50 kinds. 15:11 Kindom, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species. 15:13 We would say, in most instances, not all, but most instances, 15:19 that the kind would be more at the family level 15:23 of classification. And we have actually had, 15:25 for instance, some scientists working on how many kinds of 15:29 land animals are there on the earth. 15:31 Not species, but how many kinds, actual kinds. 15:34 Because you know deer and moose are the same kind, alpacas, 15:38 llamas, one hump camels, two hump camels are all 15:41 the same kinds, zebras, horses are all 15:43 the same kinds. That's why at the petting zoo 15:45 here, we have a zorse and a zedonk and so on. 15:48 Actually our scientists believe there is probably about a 15:51 thousand kinds of land animals which means.. 15:57 50 odd kinds of dinosaurs And 50 kinds of dinosaurs, 15:59 well there's 50 families of dinosaurs, 16:01 so there are about 50 kinds. 16:03 We would say dinosaurs were made on day six because all land 16:06 animals were made on day six of the creation week. 16:08 We believe those days are ordinary days. 16:10 The Hebrew word Yom, when it's used with evening, morning, 16:13 number or night means an ordinary day. 16:15 24 hour period The only reason that 16:17 many Christians don't believe that is not because of what 16:20 the Hebrew words mean, it's because they are trying 16:22 to force millions of years into the Bible. 16:24 You take It Is Written, in fact, that's where our 7-day week 16:26 comes from, Exodus 20:11, the basis of the Fourth Commandment: 16:29 In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and rested 16:31 on the 7th day and God blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy 16:34 and so a seven day week is based upon the creation week. 16:38 You know, if God made everything in six million years 16:40 and rested for millions of years, 16:42 we could go into retirement now. Yes we could. 16:44 So you see those days are ordinary days. 16:46 On day six, God made the land animals 16:49 and he made the first two people, Adam and Eve. 16:50 Dinosaurs are land animals. Dinosaurs were beside 16:52 Adam and Eve. See, I have people say to me, 16:55 "but the word dinosaur is not in the Bible." 16:57 I say, well, of course not. You know, why isn't the word 17:00 dinosaur in the Bible? Well, the same reason you 17:02 don't have the word email in the Bible. 17:04 Right? It's a modern word. 17:06 Sure The word dinosaur is 17:08 a modern word. It was made up in 1841. 17:10 In fact, I do believe there is a dinosaur described in detail, 17:13 in the Bible, more than most other animals. 17:15 In the book of Job, Job 40:15, he says "behold, Behemoth," 17:21 talking to Job and about this animal that lived with him, 17:25 he said he was a chief of the ways of God. 17:28 The Hebrew language there implies it's the largest land 17:30 animal God made and the largest animal we 17:32 know of that lived on the land from what we found is one 17:35 of the Sauropod dinosaurs. Now they did grow very large, 17:38 by the way, but even they had some eggs, 17:40 which would not have been much bigger than the size 17:42 of a football. That's the biggest egg we found, 17:44 you know, dinosaur eggs. But, Behemoth, everything about 17:48 it is big and strong. Has a tail like a cedar tree. 17:52 You know. And some of the Bible notes, 17:54 I notice in some of the Bibles say it was an elephant or 17:57 hippopotamus. Have you ever seen an 17:58 elephant's tail? It looks like a piece of rope 18:00 dangling down. Or if you see a hippo tail, 18:03 you know, it's like a flap of skin. 18:05 You know, a cedar tree? No, I don't think so. 18:08 It's more, we believe the description of a 18:10 Sauropod dinosaur. You see, people say, well what 18:13 happened to the dinosaurs? Well, why aren't you interested 18:15 in the dodo bird? What happened to the dodo bird? 18:17 What happened to.. what? 18:20 The Moa? The Moa in New Zealand. 18:21 That's right. Great big bird, 9 feet tall. 18:23 It's gone now. Gone. 18:25 I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds 18:27 of animals that have become extinct. 18:28 But people think it's the dinosaurs that are 18:30 the big mystery but there are lots of animals 18:32 that are becoming extinct. Because of changing conditions 18:34 and I mean that's why we have endangered species programs. 18:36 I tell people the reason dinosaurs became extinct is we 18:39 didn't start our endangered species programs early enough. 18:43 This is It Is Written. I'll have more with Ken Ham 18:46 in just a moment. [Music] 18:59 Every Word is a one-minute Bible-based daily devotional 19:03 presented by Pastor John Bradshaw 19:05 and designed especially for busy people like you. 19:08 Look for Every Word on selected networks or watch it on-line 19:11 everyday on our website: itiswritten.com. 19:15 [Music] There are some remarkable 19:24 statements in the Bible, including this one. 19:26 "And all the days that Adam lived were 19:28 nine hundred and thirty years: and then he died." Genesis 5:5 19:32 But the fact is, Adam's nine hundred and thirty 19:35 years weren't an achievement. They were a failure. 19:38 He was created to live forever. It was different back then. 19:42 Adam's world was fundamentally different to ours. 19:45 There was no sin, before the fall and huge 19:47 changes occurred when the flood took place. 19:50 The world we live in now is as much like Adam's pre-sin 19:53 world as a bi-plane is like the Space Shuttle. 19:56 The good news is, it is going to be different again. 20:00 We get to live in a place where someone Adam's age would be 20:02 considered a spring chicken. And I'm glad that day 20:06 is coming soon. I'm John Bradshaw for 20:10 It Is Written. 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I asked Ken why what a person 21:24 believes about creation and evolution really matters at all. 21:29 Do you believe Jesus Christ bodily rose from the dead? 21:31 Oh yes I do. Where did you get that from? 21:34 Right out of the Bible. Out of the bible? 21:36 Yeah. So you take that as the 21:38 authoritative Word of God. Most definitely. 21:40 So you believe in the virgin birth too? 21:42 Sure, it's right there in the Bible. 21:44 Now wait a minute, wait a minute. 21:46 Secular scientists say that you can't have a man rising from 21:48 the dead, and you can't have a virgin birth. 21:51 You know, if I was to go through the Bible and what I call 21:53 our mainline churches, and I was to say: 21:56 Do you believe fed thousands of people is a miracle? 21:58 Oh, they'll say yes, sure. They'll say yes. 22:00 How do you know? The Bible says. 22:02 Do you believe Jesus walked on water? 22:04 Oh yes. How do you know? 22:06 The Bible says. Do you believe that a man was 22:08 swallowed by a fish? And lived in a fish for three 22:10 days? How do you know? 22:11 The Bible says. As soon as you get to Genesis in 22:14 this day and age, and even in the church and you say, 22:16 what God created in six days, man was made from dust, 22:18 woman from his side, there was a global flood, 22:20 death came after sin, here is what we hear. 22:21 Oh no. Why not? 22:23 Well because outside of scripture here, because these 22:25 ideas of millions of years, because of evolution. 22:27 You've got to reinterpret the days, you've got to do this 22:29 and here's the point. What is happen is this. 22:33 If we don't take a stand on the creation account in Genesis 22:36 and we allow outside ideas to reinterpret that, 22:42 we are unlocking a door and the door we are unlocking 22:44 is we are telling coming generations that you don't 22:47 have to take God's word as written here. 22:49 It puts them on a slipperly slide of unbelief through 22:52 the whole of Scripture. You tell me to believe this bit 22:55 of the Bible over here, but this bit doesn't matter. 22:57 I can take mans ideas and reinterpret here, 23:00 but I am not allowed to do that over here. 23:02 It's hypocrisy. God's word came under attack at 23:05 the beginning and that attack has continued down through 23:09 the ages. It's never abated. 23:11 It's the same attack yet it manifests itself in different 23:15 ways and different eras of history. 23:17 For instance, when Peter and Paul were preaching 23:19 about the resurrection, did they ever get the question: 23:21 Hey, that's all very well, preaching about 23:23 the resurrection. What do you do with 23:25 carbon dating? Did people like Martin Luther, 23:27 when he nailed the thesis on the door of the church, did someone 23:29 come up to him and say that's all very well to nail those on 23:32 the door of the church. I want to know about dinosaurs. 23:34 Well, the word dinosaur was not invented until 1841. 23:37 My point is this. There is a particular Genesis 3 23:41 attack in our day. People in past ages had to deal 23:46 with all sorts of attacks on the Bible. 23:48 Gnosticism and all sorts of heresies and so on. 23:50 I believe today that the teaching of evolution, 23:54 millions of years, big bang and so on, 23:57 that permeates the world, wherever you've got an education 24:00 system, access to the internet, access to television, 24:04 people have heard of evolution millions of years. 24:06 It permeates museums around the world, zoos around 24:10 the world, just about everybody has heard about evolution 24:12 of millions of years. I believe that it is the 24:15 Genesis 3 attack of our day. You know, your salvation is not 24:19 conditioned upon the age of the earth of whether you believe in 24:22 evolution or the days of creation. 24:24 The condition is upon faith in Christ, right? 24:26 But believing in evolution for millions of years doesn't 24:29 necessarily affect your salvation. 24:31 There are many Christians that believe in millions of years. 24:33 Many Christians that believe in evolution. 24:35 But what it does affect is how the next generation views 24:39 Scripture itself. What I have given you is a long 24:43 answer to get back to the fact that the issue is one of 24:47 authority. Who is the authority? 24:49 God or man? And when you let man be an 24:52 authority over God's word and reinterpret God's word because 24:55 of outside ideas you are unlocking a door so the next 24:58 generation tend not to believe the Scripture as much and the 25:01 next generation doubt and disbelieve even more and as time 25:05 goes on, you would expect to see more and more in 25:09 the younger generations of leaving the church, 25:13 walking away from the church as exactly what we see. 25:16 That's what we see today. [Music] 25:39 Today, I'd like to send you a booklet that demonstrates 25:41 how God foretold world events with absolute accuracy 25:45 thousands of years in advance. This booklet is called, 25:48 'Can God be Trusted?' and it's absolutely FREE. 25:51 Just call 1 (800) 253-3000 and ask for "Can God be Trusted." 25:57 If the line's busy, please keep on trying. 26:00 Or write to: It Is Written 26:02 P.O. Box 6, Chattanooga, TN 37401, 26:07 and we'll mail a free copy to your address in North America. 26:10 It Is Written is a faith-based ministry and your support 26:14 makes it possible for us to share God's good news 26:17 with the world. Your tax-deductible gift can be 26:20 sent to the address on your screen, or through our website 26:24 online at ItIsWritten.com. Thank you for your 26:27 continued prayerful support. Our toll-free number is 26:30 1 (800) 253-3000, and our web address is 26:35 ItIsWritten.com. [Music] 26:50 What a wonderful subject: Creation and evolution. 26:53 Why don't we take a moment now and pray. 26:55 We'll pray to the God of creation and ask his blessing 26:58 and guidance. Our Father in heaven, 27:01 I thank you for the Bible. The Bible that reveals 27:04 to us that In the Beginning, God created. 27:07 Lord, I look forward to your continuing creative power. 27:10 The Bible tells us that you will recreate this earth. 27:14 We will dwell in a new earth some day. 27:17 The Bible tells us that you are the God who can recreate a 27:21 broken, human heart. Lord, would you do that work 27:24 for us? We thank you today and we pray 27:27 praising you, in Jesus' name, Amen. 27:52 Thanks for joining me today. I look forward to seeing you 27:54 again next time. Until then, remember: 27:57 It is written, man shall not live 28:00 by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds 28:03 from the mouth of God. |
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