Participants: Jac Colon
Series Code: RNN
Program Code: RNN000007
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00:18 In Revelation 4, we discover
00:23 one of the two main reasons that we worship God. 00:29 In Revelation 4, John was envision in the spirit 00:35 and verse 2, he says, 00:36 "There before me was a throne in heaven 00:41 and someone was sitting on the throne. 00:45 He described him and went on to say, 00:48 in the center around the throne were four living creatures." 00:55 And verse 9, "Whenever the living creatures give glory, 00:58 honor and thanks to him who sat on the throne 01:01 and who lives for ever and ever, 01:04 the twenty-four elders fall down and worship him." 01:12 Now, why do they worship the one sitting on the throne? 01:20 Listen they say, verse 11, 01:25 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, 01:30 to receive glory and honor and power, 01:34 because you created all things, 01:39 and by your will they were created and have their being." 01:45 We worship God because He is the Creator 01:51 of the heavens and the earth 01:54 and all of the beings in heaven 01:59 adore and praise and honor God 02:03 because they know He is their Creator. 02:08 In Revelation 13:8, "All of the inhabitants 02:14 of the earth will worship the beast 02:19 except for those whose names are written 02:20 in the book of life belonging to the Lamb, 02:22 in the heavenly circles all living beings 02:26 worship the Creator, but on the earth 02:29 they worship the beast who is the creature. 02:35 And I want to tell you that, that is the focal point. 02:39 That is the issue of the Book of Revelation. 02:41 Read through the Book of Revelation 02:43 and over and over again, 02:45 this word appears, the word worship. 02:48 We worship the Creator and the issue in Revelation 02:52 is the worship of the Creator God 02:55 or the worship of the creature. 02:57 The beast is the creatures. 03:01 And practically the whole world worships the creature. 03:07 In the mid 1880's, modern science joined hands 03:15 with God's church, infiltrating the ranks of God's people 03:20 with a new philosophy that will undermine God's authority 03:25 as the Creator of the heavens and the earth. 03:28 In the mid 1880's, Charles Darwin 03:32 published his book, 'The Origin of Species' 03:36 popularizing the theory of evolution 03:40 and since that time neither the world 03:44 nor the church have been the same. 03:51 Satan knew that if he was ever to receive 03:57 the allegiance of those who want to be the people of God 04:02 he must somehow obscure the significance, 04:07 the authority of God as the Creator. 04:14 But God wasn't caught by surprise. 04:21 Revelation 14:6, "I saw another angel flying in the midair, 04:26 he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those 04:29 who live on the earth, to every nation, 04:32 tribe, language and people. 04:34 Every living being on this earth 04:37 and he said in a loud voice Fear God and give Him glory 04:41 because the hour of his judgment has come." 04:44 We are close to the very end. 04:46 This is God's special message crafted for the end times 04:50 and listen to what it says, "Worship him." Worship who? 04:57 "Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, 05:01 the sea and all that is in them." 05:04 Worship the Creator of the heavens and the earth. 05:08 At the same time that Satan is trying 05:10 to turn the attention of the world away from the Creator 05:14 towards man, towards himself. 05:17 God has a message, worship the Creator 05:25 of the heavens, the earth, 05:26 the sea and all that is in them. 05:28 You see the last book in the Bible 05:31 points us all the way back to the first verse in the Bible. 05:38 Look at it with me, Genesis 1:1. 05:45 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 05:50 The Bible tells us clearly, 05:52 "God created the heavens and the earth 05:56 and there was darkness over the surface of the earth, 05:58 And God said, let there be light and there was light. 06:04 And there was evening 06:05 and there was morning, the first day." 06:10 Now you need to understand something 06:12 that if you can read this in the Hebrew. 06:13 the Hebrew words are a Ereb, boqer 06:16 there was a ereb, boqer, evening, morning 06:20 the first day ereb, evening, the dark part of the day. 06:25 Boqer, morning, the light part of the day. 06:28 There was the dark part, there was the light part. 06:31 One day, there is no way 06:34 that God could have said it any clearer 06:36 that He is talking about the same kind of day 06:40 that we have today, a literal 24 hour day. 06:46 And then the Bible says, 06:47 on the second day God made the sky 06:50 and there was erab, boqer, evening, morning the second day. 06:54 And then on the third day, 06:56 God caused the dry ground to appear 06:58 and the trees and the plants, the vegetation, the flowers 07:02 and there was evening 07:03 and there was morning the third day. 07:08 Tell me something. 07:11 If there had been a team of scientists present on that day 07:18 and they saw this tree that God had just made. 07:24 And they walk up to the tree and drill into it, 07:28 extracting a core, counting the rings 07:31 how old do you think 07:33 the scientist would say the tree was? 07:40 You see science can't always account for the things of God. 07:46 I'm not putting down science but I'm lifting up God. 07:55 And then God created the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets 08:02 and there was evening 08:03 and there was morning, the fourth day. 08:07 God created the universe on the fourth day, 08:10 one evening, one morning 08:12 and then God filled the waters with the fish 08:15 and He filled the air with the birds 08:17 and there was evening 08:18 and there was morning, the fifth day. 08:23 How long did it take for God to make a bird? 08:29 One evening, one morning, fifth day. 08:36 And then on the sixth day God made the wild animals 08:42 according to their kinds. 08:47 I don't see room here for any kind of interpretation 08:51 that allows for millions of years of time to pass 08:55 with the survival of the fittest 08:57 and the struggle to survive with animals 09:01 living and dying and living and dying 09:04 and killing and struggling to survive. 09:06 I don't see anything like that. 09:08 I don't see randomness in this chapter. 09:10 I see order, I see a God of power, 09:13 who orderly brought things into existence, 09:16 not by chance but by design. 09:21 And then on the sixth day, in verse 26, God said, 09:26 "Let us make man in our image." 09:38 Chapter 2:7, "The Lord God 09:40 formed the man from the dust of the ground 09:44 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 09:47 and the man became a living soul." 09:57 You know, there is something that escapes us 10:00 if we don't know a little Hebrew. 10:04 You see in Genesis 1, the word used for God is Elohim, 10:11 a word that is filled with 10:14 an expression of the power of God. 10:19 But when we get to Genesis 2, 10:23 where it describes God forming the man, 10:27 He didn't just say tree and there is a tree, 10:33 sun and there is a sun, giraffe and there is a giraffe, 10:38 hippo and there is a hippo, 10:41 He didn't do it that way, 10:45 says the Lord God formed man. 10:50 He knelt down and with His own hands 10:53 tenderly, lovingly, shaped his body 10:56 from the dust of the ground, bent over 11:00 and gave it the kiss of life 11:04 and it became a living being. 11:10 What a picture of God and what you miss in the English 11:14 it uses a different word for the name of God, 11:20 it uses the Hebrew word that we think is pronounced Yahweh. 11:25 The covenant God, the loving God, 11:29 the God who would come and die on the cross 11:33 to save the creatures He had just made, what a God. 11:42 In Genesis 2:1, "Thus the heavens and the earth 11:46 were completed in their vast array. 11:50 And by the seventh day God had finished 11:54 the work He had been doing, 11:56 so on the seventh day he rested." 11:58 He put an exclamation point beside the word finish. 12:03 He rested, God was done creating after the seventh day 12:08 that does not leave room for millions and millions 12:11 and millions of years of evolution, 12:14 it's just supposed to be still going on today. 12:17 He was finished after the sixth day. 12:24 I believe the Bible account of creation. 12:29 I believe that God made this world 12:32 in six literal 24 hour days 12:36 and on the seventh day 12:37 God finished His work, I believe that. 12:43 And I believe that it's essential to believe that, 12:46 if you are even going to understand 12:49 the Book of Revelation, the last book. 12:57 Because God is going to recreate this world again 13:04 just like He intended for it to be at the beginning, 13:08 Bible writers all believed it and they all talked about it. 13:12 One of my favorite places is in Psalm 33:6, 13:16 "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, 13:19 the starry host by the breath of his mouth." 13:22 He spoke, verse 9, and he came to be he commanded 13:26 and it stood firm." What power? 13:32 I remember years ago 13:33 when the last Star Wars movie came out, 13:36 some of you-- you remember that? 13:38 They showed a news clip on television, people lining up 13:40 block after block around the block 13:42 waiting to get in to see Star Wars, 13:46 so you could see the force. 13:50 This is the force 13:55 a God whose very word has the power 13:59 to make that word happen. 14:04 If He wants a tree, He says the word tree 14:06 and in the word is the power for the tree to appear. 14:10 Now that's force. 14:13 He wants a universe He says universe and it's there. 14:17 Star War says nothing on our God. 14:25 I believe the Bible account. 14:28 I believe it's essential in order to understand Revelation, 14:32 but I want to tell you, it's not popular today. 14:36 In fact, your children are being taught 14:39 something entirely different in the public school systems. 14:45 Your children are being taught that life as we know it today 14:49 is not the result of an intelligent loving God 14:52 but it's a result of accident, chance, survival of the fittest, 14:56 living and dying and killing 14:58 and living and dying and killing. 15:00 You have heard of the Big Bang Theory. 15:03 I believe in the Big Bang Theory. 15:07 God said it and bang, it happened. 15:12 They don't teach it that way in the schools, 15:15 they just say it happened. 15:16 Well, what happened? What was the bang? 15:20 What was there before the bang? 15:21 What made it bang? 15:25 You see, they can't teach them that. 15:28 But we know and the tragedy is that 15:35 in teaching the theory of evolution 15:38 as though it were a scientific fact 15:41 and as though anyone else who believe, 15:43 anyone who believe something different was ignorant 15:48 is setting your children up 15:52 to worship the creature instead of the Creator. 15:59 And to take the mark of the creature 16:03 which is the mark of the beast. 16:05 That's why, folks, we are going to take some time 16:09 to divert our attention a little bit. 16:12 In the world today, 16:13 the issues that are threatening your children and even you 16:16 to divert your attention away from God's authority 16:20 as a Creator of the heavens and the earth, 16:22 we are going to take a little time. 16:25 Because anyone who tends to believe 16:27 anything other than the theory of evolution 16:30 is considered an ignorant, a moron. 16:33 In fact Richard Dawkins wrote, 16:35 he is a famous atheistic evolutionist, 16:38 he said, "If you meet somebody 16:40 who claims not to believe in evolution 16:42 that person is ignorant, stupid or insane." 16:48 And then he added, "Or wicked, 16:51 but rather not considers that." 16:53 Why not? Because he can't. 16:58 Because I'm going to show you if you believe in evolution 17:00 there is no such thing as wicked. 17:05 But that comes a little later, may be you had never heard of 17:09 Dr. Phillip Johnson of California, Berkeley, 17:12 who assembled the team of famous scientist 17:15 in June of 1993 at Pajaro Dunes, California, 17:20 these scientists, men like Jonathan Wells, 17:22 William Dembski, Michael Behe, 17:25 who wrote "Darwin's Black Box" 17:27 and stood the scientific world upside down 17:31 with his irreducibly complex system. 17:34 He discovered that life consists of systems that are so complex, 17:39 if you break them down to their basic pieces, 17:41 if you take away anyone of those pieces 17:44 it would cease to function therefore it was impossible 17:47 to be result of a gradual process of evolution. 17:51 There is still no good answer for irreducibly complexity today 17:55 they think they have, but they haven't. 18:00 May be you would have never heard of these men 18:02 who are dissatisfied with Darwin's approach to evolution 18:06 and left the Pajaro Dunes Conference in agreement 18:10 that life as we know it today 18:12 must be the result of an intelligent designer. 18:17 That's exactly what Michael Behe said. 18:20 He concluded in his book Darwin's Black Box. 18:23 "Life on earth at its most fundamental level, 18:25 in its most critical components, 18:26 is the product of intelligent activity. 18:29 The conclusion of intelligent design 18:32 flows naturally from the scientific data itself 18:36 and not from sacred books." 18:38 We didn't get it from the Bible, 18:39 we got it from nature and the study of science 18:42 pointing to an intelligent designer. 18:47 Are these men stupid, are these men ignorant, 18:50 are these men insane or evil? 18:55 And then may be our friend Dawkins 19:00 forgot about the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. 19:03 In 1927, the German scientist Heisenberg discovered 19:06 that you can't measure both 19:08 the position and the velocity of a subatomic particle. 19:14 If you measure its position 19:16 then you can't know its velocity precisely, 19:19 if you measure its velocity, 19:20 you can't know exactly where it is. 19:24 And therefore he said, "The measuring or observing 19:27 of a subatomic particle not only determines 19:31 where it's going to go but collapses it into existence. 19:35 The particle doesn't exist until someone observes it. 19:43 And it's forcing scientists to rethink some things, 19:50 Dr. Paul Davies wrote in his book the New Physics 19:52 in a chapter called the Quantum Factor. 19:54 You can always claim that 19:56 everything you perceive is real, is there 19:58 because there exists a larger system 20:01 which collapses what you see into reality 20:04 by measuring or observing it. 20:07 And this isn't science fiction, 20:09 this is science, quantum mechanics. 20:13 He said in recent years, physicists have been interested 20:16 in the quantum theory of the entire universe. 20:23 By definition, there can be nothing 20:25 outside of the universe to collapse 20:27 the whole cosmic panorama into existence except God, perhaps. 20:34 I could have told him that a long time ago. 20:37 Who is the observer? 20:41 If there has to be an observer, who is he? 20:44 The physicists conclude 20:46 there have to be observer to measure but who is it, 20:48 they don't want to talk about that. 20:52 But we are not afraid to. 20:55 We are not afraid to face the facts. 21:03 I don't claim to be able to prove to you 21:05 that the Bible account of creation is true. 21:12 I can't prove it. 21:16 Nobody was there when it happened, except God. 21:22 If you want to believe in the Bible account of creation 21:24 you have to believe it by faith. 21:27 Faith in God, faith in His word. 21:31 Now I believe the evidence points that way, 21:33 I believe that but you can't prove it. 21:39 I don't claim to be able to stand here 21:40 and prove the theory of evolution is false? 21:43 Because that can't be done either. 21:48 But I do want to show you that 21:50 if you want to believe in evolution, 21:51 you're going to have to believe it by faith. 21:55 Evolutionist start, Charles Darwin himself 21:59 started with the presupposition the basic fundamental principle 22:04 that life as we know it today through the process of evolution 22:08 happen without any supernatural input whatsoever. 22:12 Now how does he know that? He didn't know that. 22:17 He took that position by faith, 22:21 faith in chance, faith in miracles, 22:24 instead of faith in the loving, all knowing Creator God. 22:35 God warns us about things like the theory of evolution, 22:43 1 Timothy 6, Paul wrote, Timothy, 22:49 he said, "Be on your guard, Timothy, 22:53 with what is been in entrusted to your care. 22:55 Turn away from godless chatter 22:59 and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called science, 23:05 which some have professed 23:06 and in so doing have wandered from the faith." 23:10 Watch out for what is falsely called knowledge or science. 23:14 And I want to tell you tonight 23:16 that evolution is falsely called science. 23:22 And that's precisely what He is talking about to Timothy. 23:25 Watch out for those kinds of thoughts, 23:28 those kinds of philosophies, those kinds of ideas. 23:32 Now we find the answer to the question? 23:34 What does a person believe it 23:36 to discoveries of modern science contradict the word of God? 23:40 The answer is, it's not science. 23:44 If it contradicts the word of God, 23:45 it's not science, everything was created by God, 23:48 we know that, we believe that by faith. 23:50 By faith the evolutionist says no 23:52 it all happened without God, but he doesn't know that, 23:55 it's not science, it's a philosophy, 23:57 they put us down for bringing faith into the classroom 24:00 when they are doing the very same thing 24:02 on the opposite end of the scale. 24:07 I'm not putting down science, folks, I believe in science. 24:13 I believe in the scientific method. 24:16 I got my degree in chemistry 24:19 and I did graduate work in organic chemistry, 24:22 so I understand science. 24:25 I understand the scientific method. 24:28 What I'm telling you is evolution is not science. 24:32 It's a philosophy. 24:35 Now you may see a pile a bone fossils 24:38 and you may study them and scientifically analyze them 24:41 and come to the conclusion that those are dinosaur bones 24:45 but you cannot scientifically apply the scientific method 24:49 and come to the conclusion that, 24:50 that dinosaur came from a flying monster bird. 24:56 You can't know how they got there, that's faith. 25:01 Faith in chance and miracles. 25:07 By far, the largest body of evidence 25:09 that scientist point to in support of 25:11 theory of evolution is the geological column 25:13 and that's not really that hard to understand, 25:15 you have all seen pictures of the earth sliced in half 25:18 and its looks like an onion, all the different layers 25:22 and those layers are different periods, 25:24 different eons of time 25:26 and the further you go down into the earth, 25:28 the older those layers are and they show us 25:32 that the deeper you go, the simpler the fossils are 25:35 and as you move out to the top 25:36 the fossils get more and more complex until on the surface, 25:40 they are all the complex life forms right there 25:42 including the monkeys and men. 25:46 Now the problem is, there is no place on earth 25:48 that exists exactly the way they show it in the science books. 25:52 In fact, there are millions and millions of acres 25:54 where just the opposite as it is a case 25:56 and there are more complex life forms in the deeper layers 25:58 and more simpler life forms on the outer layers. 26:02 An impossible dilemma for an evolutionist 26:04 who says there could not be any complex life forms 26:08 in the deeper layers, an impossible dilemma. 26:14 And then, what about the Cambrian explosion? 26:17 In 1984, in Yunnan, China, they discovered 26:20 the most extensive and well preserved Cambrian layer 26:26 that confirmed what even Charles Darwin himself had seen 26:31 that the Cambrian layer contains virtually 26:35 all of the different phyla of life that exist today 26:39 already in the Cambrian layer with no transitory, 26:43 no fossils leading up to its simpler fossils 26:47 they just were there, they just appeared. 26:50 Where did they come from? 26:53 One scientist said, well, they must have 26:56 obviously evolved somewhere else. 26:59 But scientists had been looking 27:00 and looking and looking for over 150 years 27:03 and they are always saying, 27:04 well, it must have been somewhere else. 27:05 Evolution can't always be happening somewhere else. 27:12 No one has ever seen transition 27:16 of the different kinds of life that God created. 27:24 Cambrian layer is a real problem 27:27 for Charles Darwin, he knew about it. 27:30 And Charles Darwin said, 27:35 if this pattern holds, 27:37 It's a genuine argument against my theory. 27:41 Interesting, the pattern still holds 27:45 all the basic phylums structures 27:48 almost all existed in the Cambrian layer. 27:52 With all the body plans and parts, 27:55 a body plan is similar to a car. 27:59 All cars have the same basic body plan, 28:01 they have wheels, they have an engine, 28:03 they have a steering wheel, 28:04 they have fuel tank and an exhaust system. 28:11 My car has the same body plan as a Rolls Royce, 28:16 even though it's not a Rolls Royce, 28:19 it's a simple little Toyota, but that's the way life is. 28:23 There are different animals, 28:24 all have the same basic body plan. 28:26 And those body plans 28:27 were already present in the Cambrian layer. 28:29 The Cambrian trilobite is just as complex as a modern crab, 28:37 it was already there. 28:38 You see Darwin's theory is that life began with one cell 28:41 and it began to multiply and divide 28:42 and get more and more complex, he called it the tree of life 28:45 and out of the outer branches 28:47 there is a more complex forms of life. 28:49 It's a bottom up expansion of life 28:51 but the fossil said something else. 28:54 The fossil said, no, it's topped down not bottom up, 28:58 because the phyla already existed suddenly 29:00 without any gradual leading up to it, 29:02 it was preplanned by an intelligent designer. 29:09 The Hawkins agreed with Darwin. 29:12 He said without gradualness we are back to a miracle. 29:17 Welcome Dawkins, I wish he would just believe 29:22 and then there are more problems. 29:25 Number one, D.N.A. 29:30 See, D.N.A. is a double helix that actually determine, 29:35 it consist of amino acids arrange in double helix 29:39 that actually determine the production of protein. 29:44 No protein can be made without DNA, 29:49 but DNA is a protein, where did it come from? 29:56 And furthermore DNA can form the protein 30:00 but it can't organize the protein into body plans 30:04 and major parts, in a cell 30:07 in a egg the cells begin to multiply 30:11 and as they accumulate they migrate out 30:14 towards the outer membrane, 30:16 they line up around the outer membrane of the cell wall. 30:20 And then without any kind of information from the DNA 30:26 they suddenly begin to migrate 30:28 to the different parts of the body 30:30 that they are going to become 30:32 a foot, a hand, a eye, a heart, a brain, 30:35 it's like a band scattered all over a football field 30:39 with a trumpet here, and a trombone there, 30:41 and a drum here, and a violin here, 30:43 and a flute there and all of a sudden 30:45 the drum master gives the signal 30:47 and they all come in to line in a perfect formation. 30:50 They are the cells, they are out there, 30:52 the signal is given and they all go 30:54 to right where they are supposed to be 30:56 and that information is not stored in the DNA alone, 30:59 no one knows where that information comes from. 31:03 It has to come from God. 31:11 God is never embarrassed 31:14 by the evidence like evolutionists are. 31:17 In Job 12, the little book of Job 12. 31:25 Look at it with me. 31:32 Verse 7, "Ask the animals, and they will teach you, 31:35 or the birds of the air, and they will tell you 31:38 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, 31:40 or let the fish of the sea inform you. 31:42 Which of all these things does not know 31:44 that the hand of the Lord has done this?" 31:48 Study the animals, study the fossils, 31:51 study the fish, the birds, study nature 31:55 and see if it doesn't point to an intelligent Creator God. 31:59 Dr. Wernher von Braun, father of the American space program said, 32:02 "The more we explore the far recess of the space 32:05 the more convinced we become of the Creator God." 32:10 God isn't embarrassed by the evidence. 32:13 The Bible flood explains the geological column, 32:17 different layers with different sediment rates, 32:20 any exceptions to that? 32:22 Complex life form in a deeper layer, 32:25 simple life form in a outer, that easy for us to understand, 32:29 but it is an impossible dilemma for someone saying 32:33 if there was no complex life form 32:36 during the time of those deeper layers. 32:40 God's never embarrassed by the evidence. 32:44 Now I'm not trying to say that 32:47 there is no kind of evolution at all. 32:51 I believe in microevolution for example, 32:58 variation among the species adaptation 33:01 that's happening, we see it, can't deny that. 33:06 Somebody asked me, 33:08 what about the salamander ring in California, 33:10 they are different kind of salamanders. 33:13 I say, yeah, they are different 33:14 they change but they are still salamanders. 33:19 We don't see them becoming monkeys or something else, 33:23 they are still salamanders, 33:25 each produces after its own kind. 33:28 There is variation, I don't believe 33:31 and may be I'll get in trouble for this 33:33 but this is what I think. 33:36 I don't believe that God made St. Bernards 33:39 and Chihuahuas, and Poodles. 33:42 I think he made a dog, 33:45 and through the process of mutation and variation, 33:47 we've got all the different kinds of dogs. 33:51 But they are still dogs, they are not cats. 33:54 They are still dogs. 33:57 Each producers after its own kind 34:01 just the way the Bible said it would be. 34:07 And there is another thing about imitations, change. 34:11 A mutation always subtracts information from the gene pool. 34:17 It never adds information, it subtracts 34:23 in order to become a more complex live form 34:25 it would have to add information 34:27 that no one has ever seen that happen. 34:32 Study the earth, study the animals 34:34 and see if this isn't the work of an intelligent creator. 34:37 And by the way, if you believe in evolution 34:39 that life began with one single cell, 34:41 they got more and more complex until we have man living today, 34:45 where did that cell come from. 34:48 No, they don't want to talk about that. 34:50 They will say that's origins, not evolution. 34:53 If you are going to believe in evolution 34:54 there has to be an origin, you can't separate the two. 34:57 Where did it come from? 34:59 Well, bolts of lightning stuck a pool of slime 35:02 and it become a cell. 35:05 Where the lightning come from, 35:06 where the pool of slime come from? 35:10 It's not an explanation. 35:14 If you say, well, God made it 35:15 and then He guided the evolutionary process. 35:19 If you believe God made the first cell, 35:21 why don't you believe everything else God says about creation. 35:25 In six days He finished His work, 35:27 on seventh day He rested. 35:36 Evolution is a faith, faith in chance, 35:43 faith in miracles and we can't compromise it 35:47 with true faith in the word of God. 35:52 Dr. Charles Singer confessed his faith and he said 35:57 "Evolution is perhaps unique among major scientific theories 36:00 and that the appeal for its acceptance 36:01 is not that there is any evidence for it, 36:04 but that any other proposed interpretation of the data 36:07 is just too impossible to believe." 36:14 Amazing, isn't it? Why? 36:18 Why do they want to point 36:21 to a pool of slime as the origin of life, 36:25 instead of the hand of a Creator God? 36:29 Why, what's the motivation behind it? 36:38 Not all scientists believe that. 36:42 Dr. John Moore, university, of Michigan State University 36:47 after a debate spoke to my father-in-law and told him 36:52 you can face anyone in this earth 36:53 with the fact that there is no experimental evidence 36:55 whatsoever for evolution to have occurred. 36:59 Evolution is a faith, a faith in chance, 37:01 a faith in miracles and it cannot be compromised 37:03 with the one true faith for all Christians in Christ, 37:06 faith in the wonderful words from Genesis to Revelation. 37:09 I agree with that scientist, what do you say? 37:13 What about Genesis 1 in science, mean it? 37:16 Moses, Moses wasn't a scientist they say, 37:20 may be he didn't know what he was-- 37:22 he was just writing poetically 37:24 to describe the process of evolution, 37:26 it doesn't sound like it when you read it. 37:31 And Jesus didn't believe that. 37:34 Jesus said, "If you don't believe Moses, 37:36 you can't believe me." In John 5:47. 37:40 Jesus believed Moses. 37:43 In fact, when they challenged Him 37:46 about marriage and divorce and remarriage, 37:49 Jesus said, "Haven't you not read 37:51 that he who made them from the beginning, 37:53 made them male and female 37:55 and said a man shall leave his father and mother 37:57 and cleave into his wife 37:59 and the two would become one flesh." 38:00 Haven't you read that? 38:02 Jesus quoted Moses as an authority 38:05 to support his argument, I believe Moses. 38:11 Did you know Jesus was the only human eye witness to creation 38:17 and He didn't think it was important to change one word 38:19 that Moses wrote, so why should we. 38:24 I trust Jesus or may be those days were just symbolic 38:29 of long periods of time 38:32 and God was guiding the evolutionary process, 38:38 may be that's what was really happening. 38:44 Well, I'm going to show you 38:47 that if we take that approach 38:49 as many Christians are trying to take 38:53 that you will virtually abolish the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 39:01 So, don't go to sleep, 39:05 I'm going to come back to that point in a moment, 39:08 but I want to answer the other question 39:10 that we asked first, and that is why is it, 39:13 why do men desperately want to believe in a theory of evolution 39:19 instead of life as a result of a Creator God. 39:23 What's the driving motivating force? 39:25 Peter tells us, if you look with me in 2 Peter, 39:29 2 Peter 3, Peter answers that question. 39:36 2 Peter 3:3, "First of all, you must understand 39:42 in the last days scoffers will come, 39:44 scoffing, following their own evil desires 39:46 and they will say, 'Where is this coming' 39:48 that he has promised?" Now watch. 39:51 "Ever since our fathers died, 39:52 everything goes on since it adds at the beginning of creation." 39:58 But they deliberately forget, 40:03 that long ago by God's word the heavens existed, 40:05 the earth was formed out of water and by water 40:07 and by these waters also 40:09 the world at that time was deluged and destroyed. 40:12 By the same word, present heavens 40:14 and earth are reserved for fire, 40:16 being kept for the Day of Judgment 40:18 and the destruction of ungodly men." 40:22 You see if you choose to believe in the Bible account of creation 40:28 then you have to believe God made us 40:31 that He knows more about us than anyone else 40:35 including ourselves that He put within us certain laws, 40:41 He drew those laws around us as a circle. 40:44 And He said if you want to be peaceful and have joy 40:47 and happiness in your life, live according to these laws. 40:51 These are the principles that I made for you, 40:53 they define what it means to love. 40:56 But if you break them and step out of bounds, 40:58 then you are going to hurt 41:00 and other people are going to hurt 41:01 and this whole thing is going to collapse. 41:04 If you believe in a Creator, then you got to believe 41:07 in their obligation to believe and obey that Creator. 41:13 And so those who choose not to obey a Creator 41:17 would rather point to a pool of slime 41:21 as the origin for their life 41:24 than a loving God to whom they are created to 41:26 but to me it makes a lot more sense to believe in a Creator. 41:31 If I'm walking down the beach one day 41:33 and I see something there 41:34 that looks like a washed out footprint, 41:37 I could say, I think there was a human here 41:40 but I may not know that 41:43 and I walk along a little further 41:45 and I see a bunch of rocks strung out along the beach 41:48 and I say look at those rocks they are kind of organize 41:51 may be there was a human here 41:53 and I go a little further and I see those rocks 41:56 lined up in a pile, all stacked up a bunch of rocks. 42:01 Somebody had to do that, the waves couldn't, could they? 42:05 May be, but I walk a little further 42:10 and I see a bunch of rocks all aligned in a way 42:13 that says Jack Colon, I love you. 42:21 Now, if I would to say to you that the waves did that. 42:28 You would think, man he is either stupid 42:34 or ignorant or insane, 42:39 or he is trying to avoid something 42:43 because if I believe that someone out there that loves me, 42:48 and I need to know who that one is, amen. 42:53 It makes more sense, look at us, look at life, 42:57 look at the miracles all around us, 42:59 it just make so much more sense to believe 43:01 that we are the result of the Creator God. 43:04 I want to shift our attention now. 43:06 This last part of what I want to say 43:08 the results of believing in evolutione. 43:10 What happens when people shift away 43:13 from the Creator to the creature? 43:15 You are going to be surprised about this. 43:16 Romans, it's kind of lengthy but bare with me, 43:18 Romans 1, in Romans 1, 43:23 "Since the creation of the world," 43:25 verse 20, "God's invisible qualities, 43:27 his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, 43:30 being understood from what has been made." 43:32 Study nature you will understand the creator God. 43:36 Verse 24, "Since they rejected that 43:39 God gave them over 43:41 in the sinful desires of their hearts 43:43 to sexual impurity for the degrading 43:45 of their bodies with one another. 43:47 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, 43:50 and they worshiped and served created things 43:54 rather than the Creator. 43:56 That's what Revelation is all about. 43:58 Those who worship the beast worship created things 44:02 rather than the Creator of the heavens and the earth. 44:06 So what's the result of this creature worship? 44:10 Here it is, verse 26, "Because of this, 44:12 God gave them over to shameful lusts. 44:16 Even their women exchanged 44:18 natural relations for unnatural ones. 44:21 In the same way the men 44:23 abandoned natural relations with women 44:27 and were inflamed with lust for one another. 44:31 "As a result of rejecting the Creator God, 44:35 men abandoned natural relations, 44:38 noticed, the link, men and woman, 44:41 but they abandoned that 44:43 and they were inflamed with lust for one another. 44:46 "Men committed indecent acts with other men, 44:49 and received in themselves 44:51 the due penalty for their perversion." 44:55 The theory of evolution, forgetting the Creator 45:00 results in the different kinds of things 45:05 that we see happening all around us, 45:09 if you don't believe that God made the man and the woman 45:13 and the man is to leave his parents, 45:15 cleave unto his woman, 45:19 then what's wrong with evolution. 45:23 It's just another choice, an alternate lifestyle. 45:30 But God didn't make us that way. 45:34 And before you get too loud with the amens, 45:39 I want to make it clear what I just read is not popular 45:43 and the time is coming 45:44 when I'll probably be considered criminal 45:46 for reading what I read to you a few moments ago, 45:49 they are already considering it in Canada. 45:53 And I know that the only hope they really have 45:55 is the same hope that you and I have 45:57 and that's to cling to the cross of Jesus Christ 45:59 and that's why I don't like loud amens 46:01 when we get to this part, folks. 46:04 Because they are no more sinful than you and I. 46:07 In fact listen to this. Paul has a list. 46:11 "Furthermore, since they didn't think worth while 46:13 to retain the knowledge of God, 46:15 he gave them over to a depraved mind, 46:17 to do what ought not to be done. 46:18 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, 46:20 evil, greed, and depravity. 46:22 They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. 46:25 They are gossipers." I don't hear amens now. 46:34 "They are gossipers, slanderers, God-haters, 46:37 insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventing ways of doing evil, 46:41 they disobey their parents, they are senseless, 46:43 they are fruitless, they are faithless, 46:46 they are heartless, murderer." 46:48 Gossiper right in there next to murderers. 46:53 You see, all I'm trying to say is that 46:55 when we reject the Creator God 46:59 and turn to a theory of evolution, 47:03 then things change in us and in the world 47:07 and there is a blur distinction between right and wrong anymore. 47:13 Who can say to a homosexual that what they are doing is wrong 47:19 when they are gossiping about homosexuals 47:21 to everybody else in the church. 47:27 No wonder they resent and resist coming to church. 47:31 May be we need to change our attitudes a little bit. 47:35 God doesn't like the sin but He loves the sinner. 47:39 if He didn't like the sinner, we all be in trouble, amen. 47:46 Evolution not only changes 47:49 what's taught in the science classroom, 47:53 but it changes our whole perspective on life in the world 48:01 Richard Overman discovered in his research paper 48:05 comparing origins of belief and moral views. 48:09 In his surveys he discovered 48:11 the more the subject believes in creation, 48:14 the less he or she is willing to morally accept 48:16 sexual relationships between two unmarried consenting people. 48:21 In other words those who believe in creation 48:23 are not nearly as likely to get involved 48:26 in sexual relationships outside a marriage 48:28 than those who do not believe in creation. 48:32 Now, that an interesting correlation 48:35 because evolution becomes not only a science but a world view. 48:39 For years and years scientists believe 48:41 that God created the universe with laws, to function by laws 48:45 and He created the humans to function according to laws, 48:48 it was the job of science to discover what those laws were. 48:53 Herbert Spencer in the late 1880's wrote, 48:56 "The poverty of the incapable, the starvation of the idle, 48:59 the pushing aside of the weak by the strong, 49:01 are all decrees of a large, farseeing benevolence a love. 49:09 Funny way to describe love, 49:12 trampling the weak into the dust 49:16 and that kind of thinking gave Marquis de Sade 49:20 the inspiration to say as nature has made us men 49:24 the stronger we can do with her, woman as we please. 49:29 How many women want to be evolutionist now? 49:34 And in the early 1990s a very powerful world leader 49:39 emerged to embrace the theory of evolution 49:42 and survival of the fittest. 49:47 He said, The law of nature 49:49 must take its course in the survival of the fittest, 49:53 the Christian notion of charity should be replaced 49:56 by the ethic of strength over weakness. 49:59 Adolf Hitler resolved the gas chambers 50:03 as he tried to exterminate 50:05 the weaker races and eliminate them. 50:11 Darwin gave credence like no one ever before 50:17 he gave credence to the basis form of racism. 50:24 Charles Darwin himself wrote on the Descent of Man, a quote 50:28 you don't see in the science books today. 50:31 At some future period, the civilized races of man 50:34 will almost certainly exterminate, 50:36 and replace the savage races throughout the world. 50:42 And he lined them up according to the color of their skin, 50:48 that's what evolution is all about. 50:54 No one believes that, do they? 50:56 Or ask Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 51:00 he believes that the Jewish race should be 51:02 extinguished and wiped out today. 51:05 In fact Professor Robert Simon said this in Readers Digest 51:10 in 30 years of college teaching 51:12 he said, "I have never met a student 51:13 who denied that the Holocaust happened. 51:16 But what I see increasingly is worse 51:19 students who acknowledge the fact of the Holocaust 51:22 but they can't bring themselves to say 51:24 that killing millions of people is wrong. 51:27 Oh, yeah, it happened 51:29 but who am I to say that it's wrong, 51:32 of course I dislike the Nazis, one said 51:34 but who is to say that they are morally wrong? 51:36 How can he if he believes in evolution 51:39 because there is no absolute standard of right and wrong, 51:42 it's strength over weakness, survival of the fittest. 51:48 That's where we are today. 51:51 I was watching an interview on the O'Reilly Factor 51:56 just after Littleton, Colorado, you remember that story? 52:01 And they were talking to one of the parents, 52:07 Brian Rohrbrough the child who was killed 52:09 and the parents said, the opportunity 52:11 to witness a video that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold 52:16 had prepared before the incident, 52:18 It's unreleased and others can't see it 52:21 but this man was on television telling us what he saw 52:25 and here is what they've said, 52:27 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold said 52:29 and the reason we are doing this is because of evolution. 52:34 It's time to kill off the weak 52:35 and evolution gives us the right even the obligation to do it. 52:41 Interesting, isn't it? 52:43 Now no evolutionist would ever teach that, 52:45 Charles Darwin never would 52:47 but the point is who can argue against it 52:52 unless you are stronger than they are. 53:01 Evolution is Satan's ultimate weapon 53:06 against the people of God. 53:10 Remember the two points of attack, 53:13 the commandments of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 53:18 If you believe in the theory of evolution 53:20 you are going to eventually do away 53:24 with the commandments of God 53:27 because strength will rule over weakness 53:30 and there is no absolute standard anymore. 53:35 The two can't go together. 53:40 A lot of people don't know this, 53:43 but the theory of evolution is not invented by Charles Darwin. 53:50 The first indication that we have of it 53:54 was the venerated catholic scholar 53:59 St. Augustine of Hippo in the fourth century 54:04 when he wrote, that God should have made use 54:06 of natural, evolutionary, original causes 54:09 in the production of man's body, is not improbable. 54:13 Darwin just made it popular 54:17 John Paul 2 confirmed the theory of evolution 54:20 saying the gist of the theory of evolution 54:22 is a scientific hypothesis. 54:23 It is in perfect agreement 54:25 with the Christian conception of the universe 54:27 for scripture does not tell us 54:30 in what form the present species of plants 54:32 or animals were originally created by God? 54:35 He would do away with the commandments of God 54:38 and the gospel of Jesus Christ. 54:40 But I want to show you that the theory of evolution 54:43 subtlety takes away the cross of Jesus Christ. 54:48 Romans 5, "Therefore," verse 12, 54:53 "Just as sin entered the world through one man, 54:55 and death came through sin 54:56 and in this way death came to all men." 55:00 How did death come into the world? Through sin. 55:06 Death is the result of sin. 55:12 But if you accept the geological column 55:14 as it's explained by the evolutionists 55:16 you have millions and millions and millions of years of life 55:21 living and dying and becoming extinct 55:24 and living and dying and becoming extinct 55:27 of fighting and struggling to survive of dying 55:30 and dying and dying and dying until finally man evolves. 55:38 So, if you believe in evolution 55:41 then death cannot be the result of sin 55:48 but the Bible says that it is. 55:52 Death came into the world through sin 55:56 but if death had been happening 55:58 through the ages, through the centuries, 56:01 through the process of evolution 56:03 then death cannot be the result of sin 56:05 because sin didn't happen until Adam and Eve ate the apple. 56:13 Furthermore if death is not the result of sin 56:22 then Jesus Christ couldn't had paid the price for your sin 56:27 when He died on the cross. 56:31 And evolution, suddenly but thoroughly 56:35 pulls the rug out from underneath 56:37 the gospel of Jesus Christ. Two points of attack, 56:42 the commandments of God and the cross of Jesus Christ. 56:50 In John 1:1, the Bible says, "In the beginning was the word 56:57 and the word was with God and the word was God." 57:02 And who was the word? Verse 14. 57:04 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. 57:08 The word was Jesus Christ, He was present with God 57:14 He was God, He made us in the beginning 57:17 all things were made by HIM, the word 57:20 and nothing was made without Him. 57:23 who was the God who said let there be light, 57:26 and there was light? 57:27 It was the Son of God who would later become Jesus Christ. 57:31 Who was the God who said, let there be birds, 57:34 let there be animals? 57:35 Who was the God who knelt down 57:38 and breathe into that body the breath of life 57:40 and watched it become a living being? 57:43 It was Jesus Christ, the Son of God 57:46 who would one day become a man and die on the cross. 57:53 Worship the Creator of the heavens and the earth. |
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