1 00:00:00,465 --> 00:00:03,274 Well, I honestly believe 2 00:00:03,274 --> 00:00:12,185 that in all the number of times 3 00:00:12,185 --> 00:00:19,136 that I have stepped into a pulpit 4 00:00:19,136 --> 00:00:21,622 or stood forth to preach 5 00:00:21,622 --> 00:00:28,476 in my entire Christian life, 6 00:00:28,476 --> 00:00:32,688 I have never before had you open 7 00:00:32,688 --> 00:00:35,689 to Genesis 1:1. 8 00:00:35,689 --> 00:00:38,206 So let's open up our Bibles 9 00:00:38,206 --> 00:00:55,844 to the very first verse. 10 00:00:55,844 --> 00:01:01,414 Let's pray. 11 00:01:01,414 --> 00:01:11,076 Father, once again, we need help. 12 00:01:11,076 --> 00:01:15,479 Your people for whom Your Son has shed His blood, 13 00:01:15,479 --> 00:01:21,425 we need help. 14 00:01:21,425 --> 00:01:27,439 And if You offered Him up on our behalf, 15 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:30,077 then You've promised - 16 00:01:30,077 --> 00:01:33,295 You've promised to not withhold any other good thing. 17 00:01:33,295 --> 00:01:36,117 Not one. 18 00:01:36,117 --> 00:01:39,186 And so, Lord, this is Your Word 19 00:01:39,186 --> 00:01:40,635 and that's good. 20 00:01:40,635 --> 00:01:42,675 And we're here to hear it. 21 00:01:42,675 --> 00:01:50,127 And we pray that You would do a good thing for us. 22 00:01:50,127 --> 00:01:55,440 I ask in Christ's name, amen. 23 00:02:02,266 --> 00:02:04,603 "In the beginning, God created 24 00:02:04,603 --> 00:02:12,826 the heavens and the earth." 25 00:02:12,826 --> 00:02:17,637 When I got home last week, 26 00:02:17,637 --> 00:02:21,296 I was thinking - I was already thinking, 27 00:02:21,296 --> 00:02:26,038 I'm going to go to Genesis 1:1 next week. 28 00:02:26,038 --> 00:02:33,507 So, I opened up the doors on the cabinet 29 00:02:33,507 --> 00:02:35,116 that holds our TV 30 00:02:35,116 --> 00:02:45,348 and I brought up some sermons on creation. 31 00:02:45,348 --> 00:02:53,526 And I looked at a lot of different things. 32 00:02:53,526 --> 00:02:56,938 Ruby was listening throughout the week 33 00:02:56,938 --> 00:03:00,366 when I would have something up. 34 00:03:00,366 --> 00:03:02,456 I forget, maybe, two different days 35 00:03:02,456 --> 00:03:10,947 I brought things up - Sunday and another day. 36 00:03:10,947 --> 00:03:14,817 Good preachers. 37 00:03:14,817 --> 00:03:16,247 I only have limited time. 38 00:03:16,247 --> 00:03:21,756 I want to try to hear the best stuff. 39 00:03:21,756 --> 00:03:26,105 I brought up several messages 40 00:03:26,105 --> 00:03:32,497 and honestly, we heard several hours 41 00:03:32,497 --> 00:03:37,727 of quotes by Darwin. 42 00:03:37,727 --> 00:03:43,076 And in the end, my wife said, 43 00:03:43,076 --> 00:03:44,894 "That wasn't very profitable." 44 00:03:44,894 --> 00:03:46,156 And I felt the same way. 45 00:03:46,156 --> 00:03:49,954 I felt kind of empty after. 46 00:03:49,954 --> 00:03:52,756 Honestly, I'm not going to preach to you 47 00:03:52,756 --> 00:03:54,877 for the next hour about Darwin, 48 00:03:54,877 --> 00:03:58,477 because I don't believe that's what I'm called to do. 49 00:03:58,477 --> 00:04:00,202 If somebody else thinks that 50 00:04:00,202 --> 00:04:03,076 that's the best way to approach this, 51 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:07,367 I mean, we all have to figure out these things for ourselves 52 00:04:07,367 --> 00:04:08,996 before the Lord 53 00:04:08,996 --> 00:04:19,256 and in mind of what God has set forth in His Word. 54 00:04:19,256 --> 00:04:23,346 (incomplete thought) 55 00:04:23,346 --> 00:04:24,956 You can look at Darwin. 56 00:04:24,956 --> 00:04:28,247 You can look at what all these naturalistic, 57 00:04:28,247 --> 00:04:33,534 evolutionary atheists believe and tout. 58 00:04:33,534 --> 00:04:35,348 Obviously, we live in a country 59 00:04:35,348 --> 00:04:39,054 where 99% of the universities 60 00:04:39,054 --> 00:04:47,925 reject Genesis 1:1. 61 00:04:47,925 --> 00:04:51,856 We are the church of the living God. 62 00:04:51,856 --> 00:04:54,785 We are the church of Jesus Christ. 63 00:04:54,785 --> 00:04:59,317 And Scripture - 64 00:04:59,317 --> 00:05:02,116 all Scripture's given by inspiration of God, 65 00:05:02,116 --> 00:05:05,472 and it's the Scriptures that are able 66 00:05:05,472 --> 00:05:10,947 to sufficiently equip us. 67 00:05:10,947 --> 00:05:15,456 Doctrine, reproof, instruction, correction. 68 00:05:15,456 --> 00:05:16,712 It comes from this Word. 69 00:05:16,712 --> 00:05:20,221 This is where we get our doctrine. 70 00:05:20,221 --> 00:05:24,287 "In the beginning, God created 71 00:05:24,287 --> 00:05:28,146 the heavens (it's plural)... 72 00:05:28,146 --> 00:05:30,797 the heavens and the earth." 73 00:05:30,797 --> 00:05:34,266 And it's plural in the Hebrew. 74 00:05:34,266 --> 00:05:37,047 It's a basic statement. 75 00:05:37,047 --> 00:05:42,617 Let's think about this statement. 76 00:05:42,617 --> 00:05:44,566 We open up our Bibles. 77 00:05:44,566 --> 00:05:46,636 If anybody - anybody in the world - 78 00:05:46,636 --> 00:05:48,229 if you took a Bible to a Muslim 79 00:05:48,229 --> 00:05:50,031 and you said start at the beginning - 80 00:05:50,031 --> 00:05:52,107 (incomplete thought) 81 00:05:52,107 --> 00:05:54,480 Ruby and I just heard the testimony of a woman 82 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,047 who is wonderfully converted - Muslim - 83 00:05:57,047 --> 00:05:58,997 and she opened her Bible 84 00:05:58,997 --> 00:06:04,426 and she said it happened to fall out at John 1. 85 00:06:04,426 --> 00:06:08,137 We might very well guide somebody there, 86 00:06:08,137 --> 00:06:10,637 but the Bible itself starts 87 00:06:10,637 --> 00:06:18,287 when God first gives His first facts 88 00:06:18,287 --> 00:06:21,845 of revelation, 89 00:06:21,845 --> 00:06:24,327 this is what we find. 90 00:06:24,327 --> 00:06:25,662 And what the Bible does, 91 00:06:25,662 --> 00:06:32,435 is it starts by simply asserting God. 92 00:06:32,435 --> 00:06:36,189 Men in their pride, they come along - 93 00:06:36,189 --> 00:06:37,837 and believe me it's pride 94 00:06:37,837 --> 00:06:41,246 and we'll see that from Scripture itself - 95 00:06:41,246 --> 00:06:43,277 but men in their pride come along 96 00:06:43,277 --> 00:06:46,936 and it's like, "prove to me there is a God." 97 00:06:46,936 --> 00:06:50,326 Prove it. 98 00:06:50,326 --> 00:06:53,826 God Himself speaks. 99 00:06:53,826 --> 00:06:56,453 He doesn't prove Himself. He is. 100 00:06:56,453 --> 00:06:58,147 When He talks to man, He says, 101 00:06:58,147 --> 00:07:00,454 "I am that I am." 102 00:07:00,454 --> 00:07:06,896 He is that reality. 103 00:07:06,896 --> 00:07:11,737 In the beginning, God. 104 00:07:11,737 --> 00:07:13,307 It just asserts God. 105 00:07:13,307 --> 00:07:15,046 There's no proving, no arguing. 106 00:07:15,046 --> 00:07:17,317 First verse of the Bible. 107 00:07:17,317 --> 00:07:20,987 That's the fact that is declared to us. 108 00:07:20,987 --> 00:07:24,499 It declares there is a beginning. 109 00:07:24,499 --> 00:07:26,937 Not a beginning of God. 110 00:07:26,937 --> 00:07:28,856 It does not say that in the beginning, 111 00:07:28,856 --> 00:07:31,107 God was created. 112 00:07:31,107 --> 00:07:32,827 There are other verses 113 00:07:32,827 --> 00:07:34,758 when it speaks about creation, 114 00:07:34,758 --> 00:07:37,048 it sets God forth. Just listen to this. 115 00:07:37,048 --> 00:07:38,677 Isaiah 40:28, 116 00:07:38,677 --> 00:07:42,437 "The Lord is the everlasting God, 117 00:07:42,437 --> 00:07:45,036 the Creator of the ends of the earth." 118 00:07:45,036 --> 00:07:47,277 When it talks about God as the Creator 119 00:07:47,277 --> 00:07:50,706 He is the one who is everlasting. 120 00:07:50,706 --> 00:07:52,485 He is the eternal one. 121 00:07:52,485 --> 00:07:54,889 Revelation 10:6, 122 00:07:54,889 --> 00:07:57,038 "Him (describes God this way) - 123 00:07:57,038 --> 00:08:00,257 Him who lives forever and ever 124 00:08:00,257 --> 00:08:02,414 who created heaven and what is in it, 125 00:08:02,414 --> 00:08:04,037 the earth and what is in it, 126 00:08:04,037 --> 00:08:06,508 the sea and what is in it." 127 00:08:06,508 --> 00:08:10,248 What marks the beginning - you see it. 128 00:08:10,248 --> 00:08:11,548 Genesis 1:1 129 00:08:11,548 --> 00:08:13,299 "In the beginning..." 130 00:08:13,299 --> 00:08:15,287 What marks this beginning 131 00:08:15,287 --> 00:08:18,187 is that the already existing eternal 132 00:08:18,187 --> 00:08:23,059 everlasting, living forever and ever God, 133 00:08:23,059 --> 00:08:26,088 that God starts a new creation, 134 00:08:26,088 --> 00:08:30,720 which before this point, it didn't exist. 135 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:37,648 We often think about space, time, matter. 136 00:08:37,648 --> 00:08:43,730 Can you imagine none of this universe existing? 137 00:08:43,730 --> 00:08:45,837 Typically what we do in our minds 138 00:08:45,837 --> 00:08:48,350 is we empty space of everything, 139 00:08:48,350 --> 00:08:50,121 and now we just have space 140 00:08:50,121 --> 00:08:53,297 that goes on forever. 141 00:08:53,297 --> 00:08:57,638 Was there anything? 142 00:08:57,638 --> 00:09:00,614 What was there? 143 00:09:00,614 --> 00:09:03,284 All I know is this, 144 00:09:03,284 --> 00:09:04,401 there was a beginning. 145 00:09:04,401 --> 00:09:05,984 There was a starting point 146 00:09:05,984 --> 00:09:08,165 for this universe. 147 00:09:08,165 --> 00:09:10,082 The heavens and the earth 148 00:09:10,082 --> 00:09:12,034 had a beginning 149 00:09:12,034 --> 00:09:13,994 and they came into existence 150 00:09:13,994 --> 00:09:16,401 because God made them exist. 151 00:09:16,401 --> 00:09:19,444 There is cause and there is effect. 152 00:09:19,444 --> 00:09:21,863 And the cause is God. 153 00:09:21,863 --> 00:09:26,593 And the effect is this thing stood forth. 154 00:09:26,593 --> 00:09:28,293 The universe. 155 00:09:28,293 --> 00:09:31,803 Before this beginning, it didn't exist. 156 00:09:31,803 --> 00:09:33,324 It was not. 157 00:09:33,324 --> 00:09:36,113 It was uncreated. And what happened? 158 00:09:36,113 --> 00:09:38,323 God acted. 159 00:09:38,323 --> 00:09:41,492 God acted. There was a beginning. 160 00:09:41,492 --> 00:09:45,251 The very first truth in Scripture about God 161 00:09:45,251 --> 00:09:48,736 is this: God is the Creator. 162 00:09:48,736 --> 00:09:52,388 And if you follow that reality through Scripture, 163 00:09:52,388 --> 00:09:54,363 it is everywhere. 164 00:09:54,363 --> 00:09:59,492 God reminds man of that over and over 165 00:09:59,492 --> 00:10:01,402 and over again. 166 00:10:01,402 --> 00:10:05,882 The idea that God is a creator is not insignificant at all. 167 00:10:05,882 --> 00:10:09,894 His revelation of Himself to us starts here 168 00:10:09,894 --> 00:10:12,659 and it is repeated over and over. 169 00:10:12,659 --> 00:10:14,603 That means it's important. 170 00:10:14,603 --> 00:10:18,783 That means we ought to sit up and take notice. 171 00:10:18,783 --> 00:10:26,167 Now, this is set forth as fact. 172 00:10:26,167 --> 00:10:29,642 Listen, "In the beginning, God created 173 00:10:29,642 --> 00:10:32,533 the heavens and the earth." 174 00:10:32,533 --> 00:10:34,969 That is a factual statement. 175 00:10:34,969 --> 00:10:37,463 There is no allegory here. 176 00:10:37,463 --> 00:10:42,144 There is no poetry going on here. 177 00:10:42,144 --> 00:10:44,753 Brethren, listen to me. 178 00:10:44,753 --> 00:10:49,033 When you go to the New Testament authors, 179 00:10:49,033 --> 00:10:52,305 they assert this reality. 180 00:10:52,305 --> 00:10:58,873 They assert that God created in the beginning. 181 00:10:58,873 --> 00:11:02,194 John asserts that. 182 00:11:02,194 --> 00:11:04,364 2 Peter, Hebrews, Revelation, 183 00:11:04,364 --> 00:11:07,343 Colossians, Ephesians, 1 Corinthians. 184 00:11:07,343 --> 00:11:08,714 That's just to name a few. 185 00:11:08,714 --> 00:11:11,237 You can find passages in those books 186 00:11:11,237 --> 00:11:13,133 that specifically talk about God 187 00:11:13,133 --> 00:11:14,985 creating at the beginning. 188 00:11:14,985 --> 00:11:17,064 Nothing poetic, nothing allegorical here. 189 00:11:17,064 --> 00:11:18,586 This is set forth as a fact. 190 00:11:18,586 --> 00:11:23,834 And the New Testament authors took it as a fact. 191 00:11:23,834 --> 00:11:26,684 This is an actual historical event. 192 00:11:26,684 --> 00:11:28,014 We talk about history. 193 00:11:28,014 --> 00:11:31,193 History classes - we take American History 194 00:11:31,193 --> 00:11:34,194 or we take World History. 195 00:11:34,194 --> 00:11:37,603 History of our world began - 196 00:11:37,603 --> 00:11:38,859 it had a beginning point, 197 00:11:38,859 --> 00:11:40,812 and it starts here. This is it. 198 00:11:40,812 --> 00:11:42,674 You open up your Bible. Bang! 199 00:11:42,674 --> 00:11:44,425 There it is. 200 00:11:44,425 --> 00:11:48,814 This is a historical narrative by and large. 201 00:11:48,814 --> 00:11:50,504 Is there allegory in here? Yes. 202 00:11:50,504 --> 00:11:52,484 Is there symbolism in here? Yes. 203 00:11:52,484 --> 00:11:54,375 Do we have typology in here? Yes. 204 00:11:54,375 --> 00:11:56,336 Do we have parables in here? Yes. 205 00:11:56,336 --> 00:11:58,705 But by and large, you know what this book is? 206 00:11:58,705 --> 00:12:02,227 This book is a historical narrative 207 00:12:02,227 --> 00:12:05,080 of God's dealings with man. 208 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,783 By and large. 209 00:12:06,783 --> 00:12:08,773 That is what you find in this book. 210 00:12:08,773 --> 00:12:12,564 This is the book that declares Jesus Christ 211 00:12:12,564 --> 00:12:14,744 and His coming and rescuing man. 212 00:12:14,744 --> 00:12:18,923 You open it up and that's where history starts. 213 00:12:18,923 --> 00:12:26,759 Listen, if anything existed before Genesis 1:1 214 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:31,804 other than God, we are not told. 215 00:12:31,804 --> 00:12:33,613 You say what do you mean? 216 00:12:33,613 --> 00:12:35,265 Why are you saying that? 217 00:12:35,265 --> 00:12:38,774 Because God is not giving us 218 00:12:38,774 --> 00:12:41,914 the history of other realms of existence 219 00:12:41,914 --> 00:12:44,253 or other spheres or other creations 220 00:12:44,253 --> 00:12:46,574 or other dimensions. 221 00:12:46,574 --> 00:12:53,514 Listen, were the angels created before this? 222 00:12:53,514 --> 00:12:55,944 You can't prove that or disprove that 223 00:12:55,944 --> 00:12:57,362 based on this verse. 224 00:12:57,362 --> 00:12:59,193 What this verse is saying 225 00:12:59,193 --> 00:13:04,565 is these heavens and this earth 226 00:13:04,565 --> 00:13:08,664 were created in Genesis 1:1. 227 00:13:08,664 --> 00:13:12,344 Personally, I find it hard to believe 228 00:13:12,344 --> 00:13:14,106 that this everlasting God 229 00:13:14,106 --> 00:13:16,174 who has this power to create 230 00:13:16,174 --> 00:13:21,013 basically sat still for all of eternity 231 00:13:21,013 --> 00:13:25,974 until one day He decided to create this. 232 00:13:25,974 --> 00:13:30,235 But all this deals with is us. 233 00:13:30,235 --> 00:13:32,334 It deals with our universe. 234 00:13:32,334 --> 00:13:36,445 It deals with our heavens and our earth. 235 00:13:36,445 --> 00:13:41,955 This is where our world started. 236 00:13:41,955 --> 00:13:47,135 Now think about this as well. 237 00:13:47,135 --> 00:13:50,051 This is Scripture. 238 00:13:50,051 --> 00:13:51,714 You say we recognize that. 239 00:13:51,714 --> 00:13:53,268 Yes, but Scripture is this: 240 00:13:53,268 --> 00:13:56,514 Scripture is breathed out by God. 241 00:13:56,514 --> 00:13:58,444 We know from 2nd Peter 242 00:13:58,444 --> 00:14:00,073 that what the Holy Spirit did 243 00:14:00,073 --> 00:14:04,195 was carry men along - 244 00:14:04,195 --> 00:14:05,608 men like Moses - 245 00:14:05,608 --> 00:14:08,684 and they spoke from God 246 00:14:08,684 --> 00:14:11,234 as they were carried along. 247 00:14:11,234 --> 00:14:16,265 Scripture is breathed from God. 248 00:14:16,265 --> 00:14:18,384 You say what is that? 249 00:14:18,384 --> 00:14:20,485 (incomplete thought) Just this: 250 00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:24,984 Genesis 1:1 is God speaking to us. 251 00:14:24,984 --> 00:14:29,734 This isn't just simply a statement about God. 252 00:14:29,734 --> 00:14:33,704 This is a statement from God. 253 00:14:33,704 --> 00:14:35,174 The reason I emphasize that 254 00:14:35,174 --> 00:14:38,384 is because we could put it in the first person. 255 00:14:38,384 --> 00:14:40,436 God is saying, 256 00:14:40,436 --> 00:14:43,626 "I am the Creator. 257 00:14:43,626 --> 00:14:49,359 And the starting point in My revelation to you, man, 258 00:14:49,359 --> 00:14:53,737 is that I want you to know I made you. 259 00:14:53,737 --> 00:14:56,636 And I made all of this." 260 00:14:56,636 --> 00:15:00,674 That is the starting point of revelation. 261 00:15:00,674 --> 00:15:02,605 First person - actually, you can find 262 00:15:02,605 --> 00:15:04,705 verses in the Bible where God speaks to us 263 00:15:04,705 --> 00:15:07,514 in the first person about Creation. 264 00:15:07,514 --> 00:15:09,723 Listen to these. 265 00:15:09,723 --> 00:15:13,969 By first person, I mean first person pronoun. 266 00:15:13,969 --> 00:15:18,174 I, me. That's the first person pronoun. 267 00:15:18,174 --> 00:15:21,028 Where it's not just about God - second person. 268 00:15:21,028 --> 00:15:22,485 "In the beginning, God created 269 00:15:22,485 --> 00:15:24,210 the heavens and the earth." 270 00:15:24,210 --> 00:15:30,594 That's us seeing a fact about God. 271 00:15:30,594 --> 00:15:33,227 By first person, listen: 272 00:15:33,227 --> 00:15:36,713 "I am He. 273 00:15:36,713 --> 00:15:39,056 I am the first and I am the last. 274 00:15:39,056 --> 00:15:42,625 My hand laid the foundation of the earth, 275 00:15:42,625 --> 00:15:46,545 and My right hand spread out the heavens." 276 00:15:46,545 --> 00:15:49,336 That's Isaiah 48. In Isaiah 44, 277 00:15:49,336 --> 00:15:52,014 "I am the Lord who made all things, 278 00:15:52,014 --> 00:15:54,646 who alone stretched out the heavens, 279 00:15:54,646 --> 00:15:56,723 who spread out the earth by Myself." 280 00:15:56,723 --> 00:16:01,057 Grab those two words: "I alone." 281 00:16:01,057 --> 00:16:03,588 I by Myself. 282 00:16:03,588 --> 00:16:04,921 Nothing about big bangs. 283 00:16:04,921 --> 00:16:06,855 Nothing about evolution. 284 00:16:06,855 --> 00:16:09,714 "I stretched out the heavens like a curtain." 285 00:16:09,714 --> 00:16:12,456 I'm the one that did it. I called the hosts of heaven. 286 00:16:12,456 --> 00:16:18,333 They stood forth. I called them by name. 287 00:16:18,333 --> 00:16:22,224 God seems to want to dialog with us 288 00:16:22,224 --> 00:16:28,074 in the first person about creation. 289 00:16:28,074 --> 00:16:31,585 Listen to this. 290 00:16:31,585 --> 00:16:33,586 Again, this is Isaiah. 291 00:16:33,586 --> 00:16:40,894 "To whom then will you compare Me 292 00:16:40,894 --> 00:16:42,779 that I should be like him 293 00:16:42,779 --> 00:16:50,486 says the Holy One." 294 00:16:50,486 --> 00:16:52,115 You know what happens 295 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:54,866 when you have a world full of people 296 00:16:54,866 --> 00:16:57,046 touting evolution 297 00:16:57,046 --> 00:16:58,765 and basically saying that this thing 298 00:16:58,765 --> 00:17:00,107 happened by chance? 299 00:17:00,107 --> 00:17:02,682 You're saying that all this complexity - 300 00:17:02,682 --> 00:17:05,023 what you're doing is you're making 301 00:17:05,023 --> 00:17:07,729 the universe out to be an accident. 302 00:17:07,729 --> 00:17:09,815 You're belittling it. 303 00:17:09,815 --> 00:17:11,335 You're making it a trifle. 304 00:17:11,335 --> 00:17:12,733 You're making it an accident. 305 00:17:12,733 --> 00:17:14,500 You're making it something that is 306 00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:17,243 the result of chance, 307 00:17:17,243 --> 00:17:22,406 impersonal, accidental randomness. 308 00:17:22,406 --> 00:17:25,987 Feeling purposeless, 309 00:17:25,987 --> 00:17:27,265 feelingless. 310 00:17:27,265 --> 00:17:30,197 It's just an accident happened. 311 00:17:30,197 --> 00:17:31,577 Something blew up 312 00:17:31,577 --> 00:17:32,996 and then at another time 313 00:17:32,996 --> 00:17:35,736 primordial slime basically became (incomplete thought). 314 00:17:35,736 --> 00:17:38,374 What you are doing is you are taking 315 00:17:38,374 --> 00:17:41,175 the absolute complexity - 316 00:17:41,175 --> 00:17:46,154 I understand that in microbiology classes in universities 317 00:17:46,154 --> 00:17:50,085 the professors have to keep reminding the students 318 00:17:50,085 --> 00:17:51,742 that there is no design. 319 00:17:51,742 --> 00:17:54,274 This looks like it has design. It has no design. 320 00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:56,816 This is so infinitely complex 321 00:17:56,816 --> 00:17:58,486 and it seems to be designed, 322 00:17:58,486 --> 00:18:00,143 but there really is no design. 323 00:18:00,143 --> 00:18:01,664 They have to keep saying that 324 00:18:01,664 --> 00:18:03,844 because there is such design. 325 00:18:03,844 --> 00:18:10,795 Listen, when God speaks about the creation 326 00:18:10,795 --> 00:18:13,876 He says this is a reflection of My glory. 327 00:18:13,876 --> 00:18:15,904 He says there is something in all of this 328 00:18:15,904 --> 00:18:20,377 that you need to see is true about Me. 329 00:18:20,377 --> 00:18:22,906 You need to recognize My understanding 330 00:18:22,906 --> 00:18:25,720 and My power when you look out there 331 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,524 at the mighty mountain ranges 332 00:18:27,524 --> 00:18:29,344 and as you watch that sunset 333 00:18:29,344 --> 00:18:31,644 and you behold these great oceans 334 00:18:31,644 --> 00:18:33,855 and you behold the tempest and the storm 335 00:18:33,855 --> 00:18:35,713 and the lightning and the thunder, 336 00:18:35,713 --> 00:18:38,326 and as you watch a bird soar through the air, 337 00:18:38,326 --> 00:18:41,326 or you imagine how it could possibly be 338 00:18:41,326 --> 00:18:43,586 that a man and a woman could come together 339 00:18:43,586 --> 00:18:45,127 and produce a child. 340 00:18:45,127 --> 00:18:48,935 Or you look at the workings of the human eyeball. 341 00:18:48,935 --> 00:18:51,635 Light - and it comes in 342 00:18:51,635 --> 00:18:52,978 and I'm able to see you 343 00:18:52,978 --> 00:18:54,368 and you can see me. 344 00:18:54,368 --> 00:18:58,237 And we've got this eye that's self-lubricating. 345 00:18:58,237 --> 00:19:00,604 Cut your eyelid - it heals. 346 00:19:00,604 --> 00:19:03,875 This eyeball is self-lubricating. 347 00:19:03,875 --> 00:19:05,144 It adjusts to light. 348 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:07,718 It actually based on the amount of light, 349 00:19:07,718 --> 00:19:09,479 you've got like a shutter in there. 350 00:19:09,479 --> 00:19:12,357 This thing is bigger or smaller. 351 00:19:12,357 --> 00:19:13,717 The light comes through. 352 00:19:13,717 --> 00:19:15,645 It's actually upside down. 353 00:19:15,645 --> 00:19:18,184 It goes through this optic nerve. 354 00:19:18,184 --> 00:19:20,005 Your brain takes this thing, 355 00:19:20,005 --> 00:19:21,717 spins it upright. 356 00:19:21,717 --> 00:19:24,026 See, that was one of the things - 357 00:19:24,026 --> 00:19:26,155 I will bring Darwin in here for a second - 358 00:19:26,155 --> 00:19:27,625 he said the human eye, 359 00:19:27,625 --> 00:19:30,806 if there was one thing that he thought 360 00:19:30,806 --> 00:19:32,699 rattled him, 361 00:19:32,699 --> 00:19:36,218 made him think that the whole thing 362 00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:37,448 (incomplete thought). 363 00:19:37,448 --> 00:19:39,514 When we look at this, 364 00:19:39,514 --> 00:19:44,502 how does a worm become a cocoon? 365 00:19:44,502 --> 00:19:46,865 And then become a butterfly? 366 00:19:46,865 --> 00:19:49,480 How does a worm do that? 367 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:54,158 Creation is actually miraculous. 368 00:19:54,158 --> 00:19:56,720 The fact that you would have a tree 369 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,495 and it knows what time of year it is 370 00:20:00,495 --> 00:20:03,227 and drops its leaves. 371 00:20:03,227 --> 00:20:07,545 And then the fact that they turn color. 372 00:20:07,545 --> 00:20:09,515 Color! 373 00:20:09,515 --> 00:20:11,980 God painted this thing 374 00:20:11,980 --> 00:20:13,367 and He gave it color 375 00:20:13,367 --> 00:20:14,856 and He gave us eyes. 376 00:20:14,856 --> 00:20:17,213 And you know what, this whole thing 377 00:20:17,213 --> 00:20:18,837 is so amazing, 378 00:20:18,837 --> 00:20:20,730 it is so miraculous, 379 00:20:20,730 --> 00:20:24,559 it so goes beyond our comprehension. 380 00:20:24,559 --> 00:20:27,765 It's like the further out we look 381 00:20:27,765 --> 00:20:32,806 and the further down we look, 382 00:20:32,806 --> 00:20:34,476 scientists (incomplete thought). 383 00:20:34,476 --> 00:20:37,215 But you know what? It doesn't take their breath away. 384 00:20:37,215 --> 00:20:39,086 Because they've so convinced themselves 385 00:20:39,086 --> 00:20:40,387 this is all by accident. 386 00:20:40,387 --> 00:20:41,960 They've taken all the miraculous 387 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,625 and all the marvelous out of it, 388 00:20:43,625 --> 00:20:45,730 that it's just random. 389 00:20:45,730 --> 00:20:47,545 (incomplete thought). 390 00:20:47,545 --> 00:20:50,225 Long periods of time. 391 00:20:50,225 --> 00:20:51,695 Long periods of time. 392 00:20:51,695 --> 00:20:54,645 See, naturalists. 393 00:20:54,645 --> 00:20:57,366 It's looking at everything that's natural. 394 00:20:57,366 --> 00:20:58,464 It's natural laws. 395 00:20:58,464 --> 00:21:00,157 Everything takes a long time. 396 00:21:00,157 --> 00:21:05,015 And you take all the miraculous out of it. 397 00:21:05,015 --> 00:21:07,045 Listen to how God speaks. 398 00:21:07,045 --> 00:21:11,219 This is very personal. 399 00:21:11,219 --> 00:21:15,969 "To whom then will you compare Me?" 400 00:21:15,969 --> 00:21:18,214 Okay, you just stop right there. 401 00:21:18,214 --> 00:21:21,145 This God speaks. 402 00:21:21,145 --> 00:21:25,660 To whom will you compare Me? 403 00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:34,438 Well, okay, what would we compare Him to? 404 00:21:34,438 --> 00:21:41,027 Allah? 405 00:21:41,027 --> 00:21:44,949 What would we compare Him to? 406 00:21:44,949 --> 00:21:48,826 Other gods? To us? 407 00:21:48,826 --> 00:21:51,767 To Mary? 408 00:21:51,767 --> 00:21:54,575 What would we compare Him to? 409 00:21:54,575 --> 00:22:00,326 Okay, we've got an idea about those things. 410 00:22:00,326 --> 00:22:02,085 We've got an idea about us. 411 00:22:02,085 --> 00:22:04,327 If we're going to compare ourselves to Him 412 00:22:04,327 --> 00:22:05,908 or our greatest minds to Him, 413 00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:08,678 but who is He? 414 00:22:08,678 --> 00:22:11,426 I mean, He says, who are you going to compare Me to? 415 00:22:11,426 --> 00:22:14,218 What is it about Him that He basically 416 00:22:14,218 --> 00:22:17,016 puts on the table that says: 417 00:22:17,016 --> 00:22:19,212 Look at this. 418 00:22:19,212 --> 00:22:22,317 Who are you going to compare to that? 419 00:22:22,317 --> 00:22:23,917 It's creation. 420 00:22:23,917 --> 00:22:27,479 You listen to how He speaks. 421 00:22:27,479 --> 00:22:31,701 "To whom will you compare Me 422 00:22:31,701 --> 00:22:34,380 that I should be like him 423 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:36,108 says the Holy One." 424 00:22:36,108 --> 00:22:37,876 Listen to what He says: 425 00:22:37,876 --> 00:22:43,711 "Lift up..." remember that eye we just talked about 426 00:22:43,711 --> 00:22:46,356 that He made? 427 00:22:46,356 --> 00:22:49,807 You know why He gave you that eye? 428 00:22:49,807 --> 00:22:52,704 He says lift it up. 429 00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:55,077 Not like you're looking at the ground 430 00:22:55,077 --> 00:22:58,617 and look at the trees. 431 00:22:58,617 --> 00:23:00,485 You know what He means? 432 00:23:00,485 --> 00:23:04,627 He means, no, you're already looking horizontally. 433 00:23:04,627 --> 00:23:09,338 He's saying go out into the night sky. 434 00:23:09,338 --> 00:23:11,237 That's exactly what He's talking about. 435 00:23:11,237 --> 00:23:14,016 Because listen to what He says: 436 00:23:14,016 --> 00:23:17,696 "Lift up your eyes on high 437 00:23:17,696 --> 00:23:23,266 and see who created these." 438 00:23:23,266 --> 00:23:25,056 He's talking about the heavens. 439 00:23:25,056 --> 00:23:27,076 He's talking about the stars. 440 00:23:27,076 --> 00:23:28,407 Listen to what He says, 441 00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:32,346 "He who brings out their hosts by number 442 00:23:32,346 --> 00:23:35,016 calling them all by name, 443 00:23:35,016 --> 00:23:37,117 by the greatness of His might 444 00:23:37,117 --> 00:23:39,946 and because He is strong in power 445 00:23:39,946 --> 00:23:41,836 not one is missing." 446 00:23:41,836 --> 00:23:43,933 You look out at that universe. 447 00:23:43,933 --> 00:23:46,086 You look out at those stars. 448 00:23:46,086 --> 00:23:48,816 You look out at the Milky Way as it crosses there. 449 00:23:48,816 --> 00:23:50,856 Go take your Hubble telescope 450 00:23:50,856 --> 00:23:52,705 and look at those pictures. 451 00:23:52,705 --> 00:23:54,685 Look at those spiral galaxies. 452 00:23:54,685 --> 00:23:58,046 Look out into the vast recesses of space. 453 00:23:58,046 --> 00:24:02,305 And He says, "I did that. 454 00:24:02,305 --> 00:24:04,547 And they stood forth by My word. 455 00:24:04,547 --> 00:24:07,925 And I called every one of them by name." 456 00:24:07,925 --> 00:24:10,215 Now who are you going to compare 457 00:24:10,215 --> 00:24:11,817 to that God? 458 00:24:11,817 --> 00:24:14,421 He's dialoging with us. 459 00:24:14,421 --> 00:24:15,536 He talks to us. 460 00:24:15,536 --> 00:24:20,216 Have you ever heard how Isaiah starts? 461 00:24:20,216 --> 00:24:26,115 "Come, let us reason together, saith the Lord." 462 00:24:26,115 --> 00:24:28,895 He wants to dialog with us. 463 00:24:28,895 --> 00:24:31,612 He says, "Behold." 464 00:24:31,612 --> 00:24:39,645 See, He is the invisible God, 465 00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:43,625 but He has done something that's visible. 466 00:24:43,625 --> 00:24:48,037 And based on the visible, 467 00:24:48,037 --> 00:24:54,246 that which He created at the beginning, 468 00:24:54,246 --> 00:24:56,186 He says that ought to be sufficient 469 00:24:56,186 --> 00:25:00,467 to tell you there is none like Me. 470 00:25:00,467 --> 00:25:02,347 None. 471 00:25:02,347 --> 00:25:05,341 Incomparable. 472 00:25:05,341 --> 00:25:09,008 Look at the stars. Look at it all. 473 00:25:09,008 --> 00:25:11,466 And you know what? He wants us to be staggered! 474 00:25:11,466 --> 00:25:17,058 He created it so big, so complex. 475 00:25:17,058 --> 00:25:18,996 He could have created it 476 00:25:18,996 --> 00:25:22,126 just out to the ends of our solar system. 477 00:25:22,126 --> 00:25:24,057 He could have. 478 00:25:24,057 --> 00:25:26,092 But He didn't. 479 00:25:26,092 --> 00:25:28,456 (incomplete thought) 480 00:25:28,456 --> 00:25:30,746 Did He have to create a worm 481 00:25:30,746 --> 00:25:32,207 that becomes a butterfly? 482 00:25:32,207 --> 00:25:34,117 Couldn't He have just made butterflies 483 00:25:34,117 --> 00:25:37,341 produce butterflies and that's it? 484 00:25:37,341 --> 00:25:39,279 I mean, isn't that what people do? 485 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:41,686 People make people. 486 00:25:41,686 --> 00:25:44,466 Butterflies make worms. 487 00:25:44,466 --> 00:25:48,616 He didn't have to do that. 488 00:25:48,616 --> 00:25:52,637 That's a picture of salvation if there ever was one. 489 00:25:52,637 --> 00:25:55,695 A worm. "Jacob, you worm." 490 00:25:55,695 --> 00:25:58,318 Have you ever heard that? 491 00:25:58,318 --> 00:26:01,266 But what does Jacob become? 492 00:26:01,266 --> 00:26:03,924 The butterfly Israel. 493 00:26:03,924 --> 00:26:06,346 That's a picture of salvation. 494 00:26:06,346 --> 00:26:08,846 It's recreation. 495 00:26:08,846 --> 00:26:12,218 What's going on inside that cocoon 496 00:26:12,218 --> 00:26:16,099 that a monarch butterfly is now going to fly away? 497 00:26:16,099 --> 00:26:17,997 Listen, I grew up in Michigan. 498 00:26:17,997 --> 00:26:19,626 We had all these milkweed plants. 499 00:26:19,626 --> 00:26:23,188 I used to see the monarch butterfly caterpillars. 500 00:26:23,188 --> 00:26:24,279 They're a worm. 501 00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:26,820 They eat milkweeds. 502 00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:33,697 These things were like white, yellow, and black. 503 00:26:33,697 --> 00:26:36,867 When that monarch butterfly came forth, 504 00:26:36,867 --> 00:26:37,856 how did I know? 505 00:26:37,856 --> 00:26:39,317 Because I'd take the leaf off 506 00:26:39,317 --> 00:26:40,947 if I found one of those cocoons. 507 00:26:40,947 --> 00:26:43,085 Take it inside, put it in a jar, 508 00:26:43,085 --> 00:26:44,748 and the butterfly would come out. 509 00:26:44,748 --> 00:26:47,027 The butterfly looked nothing like the worm. 510 00:26:47,027 --> 00:26:49,517 What was happening inside there? 511 00:26:49,517 --> 00:26:51,417 It's miraculous. 512 00:26:51,417 --> 00:26:55,717 And what God did was He designed the miraculous all around us. 513 00:26:55,717 --> 00:26:58,017 All you have to do is you go home 514 00:26:58,017 --> 00:27:01,656 and turn on one of these nature programs. 515 00:27:01,656 --> 00:27:03,917 Just one of the things about all the unusual 516 00:27:03,917 --> 00:27:06,266 creatures in the sea. 517 00:27:06,266 --> 00:27:08,268 Do you ever do that? 518 00:27:08,268 --> 00:27:09,590 And you're just blown away. 519 00:27:09,590 --> 00:27:11,352 It's like I didn't know that existed! 520 00:27:11,352 --> 00:27:13,145 I've lived 54 years 521 00:27:13,145 --> 00:27:17,817 and I never knew that existed. 522 00:27:17,817 --> 00:27:20,126 When Ruby and I went to the Caribbean 523 00:27:20,126 --> 00:27:22,109 for our 25th wedding anniversary 524 00:27:22,109 --> 00:27:24,398 just a few months ago, 525 00:27:24,398 --> 00:27:31,006 I almost didn't snorkel. 526 00:27:31,006 --> 00:27:33,477 I almost didn't. 527 00:27:33,477 --> 00:27:35,657 But we went to a place 528 00:27:35,657 --> 00:27:37,456 and you had 90 minutes for free. 529 00:27:37,456 --> 00:27:40,935 So I thought yeah, let's try it. 530 00:27:40,935 --> 00:27:43,468 Because when you look across the top of the water, 531 00:27:43,468 --> 00:27:46,148 it looks very boring. 532 00:27:46,148 --> 00:27:47,427 What's out there? 533 00:27:47,427 --> 00:27:49,316 Yeah, it's a nice blue color, 534 00:27:49,316 --> 00:27:51,918 but you see some dark things under there 535 00:27:51,918 --> 00:27:54,117 and it just looks like nothing. 536 00:27:54,117 --> 00:27:56,777 Probably like scientists used to think about the cell 537 00:27:56,777 --> 00:27:58,137 back in Darwin's day. 538 00:27:58,137 --> 00:28:00,418 It's just a blob of jelly. 539 00:28:00,418 --> 00:28:02,271 That's what it looked like out there. 540 00:28:02,271 --> 00:28:06,589 I put that face mask on 541 00:28:06,589 --> 00:28:11,779 and I mean I wasn't but in 4 feet of water 542 00:28:11,779 --> 00:28:14,087 and it just... 543 00:28:14,087 --> 00:28:19,168 I mean, you had fish of every color imaginable. 544 00:28:19,168 --> 00:28:20,469 I think I told some of you, 545 00:28:20,469 --> 00:28:23,433 I was swimming by this coral formation 546 00:28:23,433 --> 00:28:25,426 and a moray eel came out. 547 00:28:25,426 --> 00:28:28,498 I'm under water and I'm praising the Lord. 548 00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:34,556 It's like Lord, this is phenomenal! 549 00:28:34,556 --> 00:28:37,397 It's like from above (incomplete thought), 550 00:28:37,397 --> 00:28:40,278 but you go under (incomplete thought). 551 00:28:40,278 --> 00:28:42,756 This is all around us. 552 00:28:42,756 --> 00:28:45,027 I mean this is everywhere. 553 00:28:45,027 --> 00:28:47,896 God has created this creation 554 00:28:47,896 --> 00:28:50,208 that is so staggering 555 00:28:50,208 --> 00:28:52,466 and He meant it to be 556 00:28:52,466 --> 00:28:54,672 so that when we look at it, 557 00:28:54,672 --> 00:29:01,081 we say there is none like Him. 558 00:29:01,081 --> 00:29:04,216 Just go to scientists. 559 00:29:04,216 --> 00:29:06,827 Say create a machine 560 00:29:06,827 --> 00:29:17,627 that you can put cotton candy and potatoes into 561 00:29:17,627 --> 00:29:21,424 and it will grow - the machine will grow 562 00:29:21,424 --> 00:29:24,433 and be basically self-sustaining, 563 00:29:24,433 --> 00:29:26,707 self-repairing. 564 00:29:26,707 --> 00:29:30,516 If we get cut, it heals. 565 00:29:30,516 --> 00:29:32,347 I mean, I recognize, my wife has been 566 00:29:32,347 --> 00:29:33,803 struggling with this eczema, 567 00:29:33,803 --> 00:29:35,917 but you know what? 568 00:29:35,917 --> 00:29:44,176 She'll have it at one time, but it heals. 569 00:29:44,176 --> 00:29:49,287 Create a machine that you can throw 570 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,466 all sorts of different kinds of food into 571 00:29:51,466 --> 00:29:56,366 and this thing will basically maintain itself. 572 00:29:56,366 --> 00:30:00,999 And it will repair itself if it gets damaged. 573 00:30:00,999 --> 00:30:02,838 And it will self-replicate. 574 00:30:02,838 --> 00:30:06,113 It will make more machines just like itself. 575 00:30:06,113 --> 00:30:07,788 That's what God has done 576 00:30:07,788 --> 00:30:09,877 in designing the animal world, 577 00:30:09,877 --> 00:30:11,316 the plant world, 578 00:30:11,316 --> 00:30:17,451 designing humans. 579 00:30:17,451 --> 00:30:21,766 You can break a bone and it will heal. 580 00:30:21,766 --> 00:30:24,879 Our dog - this dog was a stray. 581 00:30:24,879 --> 00:30:27,616 It's leg when it first came 582 00:30:27,616 --> 00:30:30,461 was totally dangling. 583 00:30:30,461 --> 00:30:32,186 The bone was totally broken. 584 00:30:32,186 --> 00:30:33,568 We don't know what happened. 585 00:30:33,568 --> 00:30:35,816 He got hit by a car? 586 00:30:35,816 --> 00:30:37,676 We felt bad for it. 587 00:30:37,676 --> 00:30:39,057 Ruby took it to the vet. 588 00:30:39,057 --> 00:30:40,786 It was just a stray. 589 00:30:40,786 --> 00:30:42,317 They wanted a thousand dollars. 590 00:30:42,317 --> 00:30:45,706 We said, no, we're not doing it. It's a stray. 591 00:30:45,706 --> 00:30:49,126 The vet said let me tell you something - 592 00:30:49,126 --> 00:30:50,596 she wanted her $1,000, 593 00:30:50,596 --> 00:30:52,386 but she recognized it was a stray 594 00:30:52,386 --> 00:30:53,766 and so she had mercy on us. 595 00:30:53,766 --> 00:30:57,817 She told Ruby if you do nothing, 596 00:30:57,817 --> 00:30:59,326 it will be fine. 597 00:30:59,326 --> 00:31:01,468 Do you know that leg healed straight? 598 00:31:01,468 --> 00:31:05,600 Those bones mended themselves. 599 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,918 See, we become so used to it. 600 00:31:07,918 --> 00:31:11,915 And the scientific world out here 601 00:31:11,915 --> 00:31:13,438 telling us so often: 602 00:31:13,438 --> 00:31:15,406 it's just evolution. 603 00:31:15,406 --> 00:31:17,014 It just all happened by chance. 604 00:31:17,014 --> 00:31:18,936 We were primordial soup and slime 605 00:31:18,936 --> 00:31:21,194 and lightning must have struck it or something, 606 00:31:21,194 --> 00:31:22,336 and life came out 607 00:31:22,336 --> 00:31:23,868 and survival of the fittest 608 00:31:23,868 --> 00:31:25,285 and this whole thing evolved. 609 00:31:25,285 --> 00:31:27,375 And you know they pound that into heads, 610 00:31:27,375 --> 00:31:28,472 pound that into heads, 611 00:31:28,472 --> 00:31:31,915 that there's nothing special, nothing special, nothing special. 612 00:31:31,915 --> 00:31:35,427 When God is saying, oh no, 613 00:31:35,427 --> 00:31:41,348 this is so spectacular. 614 00:31:41,348 --> 00:31:46,456 And that's just My handiwork, 615 00:31:46,456 --> 00:31:50,535 so says Psalm 19. 616 00:31:50,535 --> 00:31:54,751 But He says it declares My glory. 617 00:31:54,751 --> 00:31:58,524 And you do well to lift up your eyes 618 00:31:58,524 --> 00:32:00,736 and look at it. 619 00:32:00,736 --> 00:32:02,362 Have you ever been there 620 00:32:02,362 --> 00:32:06,233 where you've looked up at the stars at night 621 00:32:06,233 --> 00:32:09,450 and your mind begins to go out there 622 00:32:09,450 --> 00:32:12,495 further and further and further? 623 00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:16,816 There's galaxies and there's stars. 624 00:32:16,816 --> 00:32:18,542 The bigger the telescope, 625 00:32:18,542 --> 00:32:19,843 the farther we can look, 626 00:32:19,843 --> 00:32:21,311 the more we see. 627 00:32:21,311 --> 00:32:23,415 We've never seen the end. 628 00:32:23,415 --> 00:32:28,286 The better our electron microscopes become 629 00:32:28,286 --> 00:32:31,266 and the smaller we see. 630 00:32:31,266 --> 00:32:33,222 In Darwin's day, they really did think 631 00:32:33,222 --> 00:32:35,631 that the cell was basically 632 00:32:35,631 --> 00:32:39,802 just this little thing of jelly. 633 00:32:39,802 --> 00:32:42,142 You've seen it. 634 00:32:42,142 --> 00:32:44,972 If you haven't, you need to not just look 635 00:32:44,972 --> 00:32:49,112 at what the Hubble telescope can see. 636 00:32:49,112 --> 00:32:53,608 Look at the inner workings of the cell. 637 00:32:53,608 --> 00:32:57,522 I'm sure many of you have done that. 638 00:32:57,522 --> 00:33:01,574 What is happening in each one of your cells 639 00:33:01,574 --> 00:33:03,253 is so complex. 640 00:33:03,253 --> 00:33:04,753 You know what, as an engineer 641 00:33:04,753 --> 00:33:06,764 I recognize this: 642 00:33:06,764 --> 00:33:08,682 (incomplete thought) 643 00:33:08,682 --> 00:33:11,213 The more difficult the task, 644 00:33:11,213 --> 00:33:14,272 if you were trying to design a machine 645 00:33:14,272 --> 00:33:19,343 to do things like replicate itself 646 00:33:19,343 --> 00:33:21,693 or repair itself, 647 00:33:21,693 --> 00:33:24,712 you get into realms where the complexity 648 00:33:24,712 --> 00:33:26,862 becomes so great 649 00:33:26,862 --> 00:33:28,562 that it's just never going to work. 650 00:33:28,562 --> 00:33:31,343 You're just going to run into such problems of complexity 651 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:32,823 that nothing works. 652 00:33:32,823 --> 00:33:34,575 Everything has to align perfectly. 653 00:33:34,575 --> 00:33:36,913 Everything has to work together perfectly. 654 00:33:36,913 --> 00:33:38,892 Do you realize that's what has happened 655 00:33:38,892 --> 00:33:40,613 when God has designed us? 656 00:33:40,613 --> 00:33:42,544 And not only that, 657 00:33:42,544 --> 00:33:45,103 He breathed life into us. 658 00:33:45,103 --> 00:33:46,971 We have a soul. 659 00:33:46,971 --> 00:33:50,194 We have an ability to think. 660 00:33:50,194 --> 00:33:52,013 There are such things going on. 661 00:33:52,013 --> 00:33:56,318 Each DNA is so marvelously complex. 662 00:33:56,318 --> 00:33:58,553 Have you ever seen? 663 00:33:58,553 --> 00:34:01,063 You've got these machines in each cell. 664 00:34:01,063 --> 00:34:05,573 It's like these stamping, like these presses 665 00:34:05,573 --> 00:34:13,684 and they're forming these bits of what? 666 00:34:13,684 --> 00:34:16,533 I'm trying to think. 667 00:34:16,533 --> 00:34:19,418 You've got little things that walk around. 668 00:34:19,418 --> 00:34:22,483 Have you seen those little things that walk? 669 00:34:22,483 --> 00:34:27,422 You've got the DNA that basically is in a spiral, 670 00:34:27,422 --> 00:34:29,783 but you've got this little machine that comes 671 00:34:29,783 --> 00:34:32,423 and spins the thing straight and separates it 672 00:34:32,423 --> 00:34:34,142 and reads the code. 673 00:34:34,142 --> 00:34:36,744 And one side, the code is written right, 674 00:34:36,744 --> 00:34:38,313 and on the other side, 675 00:34:38,313 --> 00:34:40,042 the code is written opposite. 676 00:34:40,042 --> 00:34:41,482 It's written like the Hebrew. 677 00:34:41,482 --> 00:34:44,621 And the thing actually has to read the code on the left, 678 00:34:44,621 --> 00:34:48,437 and it has to spin the code... 679 00:34:48,437 --> 00:34:53,270 It's like the closer in we look... 680 00:34:53,270 --> 00:34:56,266 And you know what God is saying to us? 681 00:34:56,266 --> 00:35:01,373 I did that. 682 00:35:01,373 --> 00:35:05,489 Who are you going to compare to Me? 683 00:35:05,489 --> 00:35:12,143 I did that by My greatness. 684 00:35:12,143 --> 00:35:15,964 I'll tell you, brethren, 685 00:35:15,964 --> 00:35:19,408 He has created this universe 686 00:35:19,408 --> 00:35:21,575 to put Himself on display. 687 00:35:21,575 --> 00:35:25,413 I highly commend that you look at it. 688 00:35:25,413 --> 00:35:27,754 Because the more you look, 689 00:35:27,754 --> 00:35:31,393 we have a God who's interested in beauty. 690 00:35:31,393 --> 00:35:36,132 We have a God who has done such great things. 691 00:35:36,132 --> 00:35:37,685 He is saying to us: 692 00:35:37,685 --> 00:35:40,343 I am like no other. 693 00:35:40,343 --> 00:35:41,704 Look at it all. 694 00:35:41,704 --> 00:35:44,021 You can't comprehend it. 695 00:35:44,021 --> 00:35:47,865 Have you ever seen these octopus 696 00:35:47,865 --> 00:35:50,823 that basically come over and in a moment: poof! 697 00:35:50,823 --> 00:35:53,214 They can change color like that. 698 00:35:53,214 --> 00:35:54,433 On the spot. 699 00:35:54,433 --> 00:35:56,435 They can swim in front of something else 700 00:35:56,435 --> 00:35:57,991 and just woosh! 701 00:35:57,991 --> 00:36:03,843 They just change color. 702 00:36:03,843 --> 00:36:12,266 Look with me at Romans 1. 703 00:36:12,266 --> 00:36:17,464 What we observe happening 704 00:36:17,464 --> 00:36:23,020 99% of the universities in the United States 705 00:36:23,020 --> 00:36:26,594 reject Genesis 1:1. 706 00:36:26,594 --> 00:36:35,319 And more than that in Europe likely. 707 00:36:35,319 --> 00:36:37,198 Do you know what happens 708 00:36:37,198 --> 00:36:40,105 when you look at the vastness of all of this? 709 00:36:40,105 --> 00:36:44,420 The breathtaking spectactular things 710 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:46,588 that God has done? 711 00:36:46,588 --> 00:36:49,949 And you say: 712 00:36:49,949 --> 00:36:51,870 evolution did that. 713 00:36:51,870 --> 00:36:55,180 Big bang did that. 714 00:36:55,180 --> 00:36:56,760 It's an accident. 715 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,160 It's chance. 716 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,843 All proud man. 717 00:37:03,843 --> 00:37:07,429 Romans 1:18 says this: 718 00:37:07,429 --> 00:37:08,750 "The wrath of God..." 719 00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:12,790 Listen, I want you to see where I'm going with this. 720 00:37:12,790 --> 00:37:14,586 More than that, I want you to see 721 00:37:14,586 --> 00:37:17,480 where Scripture goes with this. 722 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,131 What God is saying right here is this: 723 00:37:21,131 --> 00:37:24,833 I have wrath and I have wrath towards man, 724 00:37:24,833 --> 00:37:30,913 and it has everything to do with My creation. 725 00:37:30,913 --> 00:37:32,361 You say what? 726 00:37:32,361 --> 00:37:34,780 God's wrath to man 727 00:37:34,780 --> 00:37:36,200 has to do with His creation? 728 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,061 You better believe it does. 729 00:37:38,061 --> 00:37:40,118 And when man looks at that creation 730 00:37:40,118 --> 00:37:44,670 and he says chance did that, 731 00:37:44,670 --> 00:37:50,082 God burns with wrath. 732 00:37:50,082 --> 00:37:53,016 "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven 733 00:37:53,016 --> 00:37:56,492 against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men." 734 00:37:56,492 --> 00:37:59,006 Now if we just stood right there we might say, 735 00:37:59,006 --> 00:38:01,259 you know, man's sexual immorality 736 00:38:01,259 --> 00:38:08,710 and man is a thief. 737 00:38:08,710 --> 00:38:10,589 But do you know what unrighteousness 738 00:38:10,589 --> 00:38:12,679 He specifically has in mind? 739 00:38:12,679 --> 00:38:16,932 That the wrath of God is being revealed against? 740 00:38:16,932 --> 00:38:19,201 "...Who by their unrighteousness 741 00:38:19,201 --> 00:38:20,540 suppress the truth." 742 00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:22,522 Ok, now if we just stopped right there. 743 00:38:22,522 --> 00:38:24,857 Well, they suppress the truth. 744 00:38:24,857 --> 00:38:28,244 Okay, what truth? 745 00:38:28,244 --> 00:38:32,153 Yeah, we could deny that we're actually sinners. 746 00:38:32,153 --> 00:38:33,502 We could deny that truth. 747 00:38:33,502 --> 00:38:35,692 We could deny that Jesus is really the Savior, 748 00:38:35,692 --> 00:38:39,232 that He really went to the cross to die for sinners. 749 00:38:39,232 --> 00:38:42,802 And undoubtedly sinners do suppress those truths. 750 00:38:42,802 --> 00:38:46,672 But look at the very truth 751 00:38:46,672 --> 00:38:49,572 that God has in mind here. 752 00:38:49,572 --> 00:38:54,673 "For what can be known..." - 753 00:38:54,673 --> 00:39:01,242 what man can see to be truth about God - 754 00:39:01,242 --> 00:39:04,992 "...what can be known about God 755 00:39:04,992 --> 00:39:11,712 is plain to them." 756 00:39:11,712 --> 00:39:13,422 And do you know what's amazing 757 00:39:13,422 --> 00:39:15,332 is people in this world run around 758 00:39:15,332 --> 00:39:18,701 and say it's not plain. 759 00:39:18,701 --> 00:39:24,652 They say it isn't. 760 00:39:24,652 --> 00:39:28,280 None of this is plain. 761 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:33,615 But isn't it interesting God says it is plain. 762 00:39:33,615 --> 00:39:35,488 Men say no, it's not plain. 763 00:39:35,488 --> 00:39:43,083 God says it is plain. 764 00:39:43,083 --> 00:39:45,943 "...Because God has shown it to them." 765 00:39:45,943 --> 00:39:48,252 You know why it's plain? 766 00:39:48,252 --> 00:39:52,032 Because God did do such a thing in creation 767 00:39:52,032 --> 00:39:55,193 that it reveals things to man 768 00:39:55,193 --> 00:39:58,173 that make it plain. 769 00:39:58,173 --> 00:40:02,003 For you to say chance did this, 770 00:40:02,003 --> 00:40:07,714 that is so utterly foolish. 771 00:40:07,714 --> 00:40:10,499 That is purposely being blind. 772 00:40:10,499 --> 00:40:12,788 Do you know what suppressing the truth means? 773 00:40:12,788 --> 00:40:15,180 It means you're putting your own eyes out. 774 00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:17,124 It means you won't see. 775 00:40:17,124 --> 00:40:20,372 You don't want to see. 776 00:40:20,372 --> 00:40:22,645 That's what suppressing the truth is. 777 00:40:22,645 --> 00:40:24,046 "God has shown it to them." 778 00:40:24,046 --> 00:40:28,090 Where has He shown it to them? 779 00:40:28,090 --> 00:40:29,623 Excuse me. 780 00:40:29,623 --> 00:40:32,003 Not specifically at the cross. 781 00:40:32,003 --> 00:40:37,752 Yes, God shows things to us at the cross. 782 00:40:37,752 --> 00:40:39,432 But what's amazing here 783 00:40:39,432 --> 00:40:43,225 is God goes back to the beginning. 784 00:40:43,225 --> 00:40:45,891 This is Genesis 1:1. 785 00:40:45,891 --> 00:40:47,911 "For His invisible attributes..." 786 00:40:47,911 --> 00:40:49,573 In other words, God is invisible. 787 00:40:49,573 --> 00:40:51,379 We can't see Him. 788 00:40:51,379 --> 00:40:56,392 That's true. We cannot see Him. 789 00:40:56,392 --> 00:41:02,778 Man by his first sin put those eyes out. 790 00:41:02,778 --> 00:41:06,059 He's invisible. 791 00:41:06,059 --> 00:41:07,502 "His invisible attributes, 792 00:41:07,502 --> 00:41:11,004 namely His eternal power and divine nature." 793 00:41:11,004 --> 00:41:13,778 So His power - eternal power. 794 00:41:13,778 --> 00:41:15,525 Infinite power. 795 00:41:15,525 --> 00:41:17,904 Power that He's had everlastingly. 796 00:41:17,904 --> 00:41:22,201 His divine nature - who He is like. 797 00:41:22,201 --> 00:41:24,583 "...They have been clearly perceived." 798 00:41:24,583 --> 00:41:26,330 You get this: 799 00:41:26,330 --> 00:41:29,526 What can be known about God is plain. 800 00:41:29,526 --> 00:41:32,154 God has shown them. 801 00:41:32,154 --> 00:41:35,343 It's been clearly perceived. 802 00:41:35,343 --> 00:41:38,026 Where? 803 00:41:38,026 --> 00:41:40,490 Ever since the creation of the world. 804 00:41:40,490 --> 00:41:41,839 Well, you might say, 805 00:41:41,839 --> 00:41:45,056 ever since the creation of the world - 806 00:41:45,056 --> 00:41:49,632 but see, He gets even more specific. 807 00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:52,151 The reason He alludes to creation of the world 808 00:41:52,151 --> 00:41:54,649 is because at the creation of the world 809 00:41:54,649 --> 00:41:59,567 God created the heavens and the earth. 810 00:41:59,567 --> 00:42:02,475 Those are the things that have been made. 811 00:42:02,475 --> 00:42:05,631 And see, it's those things 812 00:42:05,631 --> 00:42:07,265 that have been made. 813 00:42:07,265 --> 00:42:09,514 You see, this is what He says in Isaiah. 814 00:42:09,514 --> 00:42:13,181 He says look up. 815 00:42:13,181 --> 00:42:16,127 The heavens declare My glory. 816 00:42:16,127 --> 00:42:19,239 You know what it says? 817 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:26,527 It says there's speech day to day. 818 00:42:26,527 --> 00:42:29,590 It's speaking to us all around us. 819 00:42:29,590 --> 00:42:32,603 It speaks. 820 00:42:32,603 --> 00:42:40,018 It's saying something to us about who God is. 821 00:42:40,018 --> 00:42:41,306 It's saying something to us 822 00:42:41,306 --> 00:42:48,651 about His greatness. 823 00:42:48,651 --> 00:42:52,331 And then it says this: 824 00:42:52,331 --> 00:42:57,142 They are without excuse. 825 00:42:57,142 --> 00:43:01,362 God's wrath is burning for this reason: 826 00:43:01,362 --> 00:43:04,653 This creation - man can look at himself 827 00:43:04,653 --> 00:43:06,581 in the mirror 828 00:43:06,581 --> 00:43:10,989 (incomplete thought). 829 00:43:10,989 --> 00:43:15,738 Some things that we so simply take for granted - 830 00:43:15,738 --> 00:43:19,329 a child has teeth 831 00:43:19,329 --> 00:43:21,729 and all the teeth fall out. 832 00:43:21,729 --> 00:43:23,190 Why? 833 00:43:23,190 --> 00:43:25,403 Because their head grew. 834 00:43:25,403 --> 00:43:27,591 And they need bigger teeth. 835 00:43:27,591 --> 00:43:29,482 If you kept the small teeth in there, 836 00:43:29,482 --> 00:43:32,143 you know what it would look like if they spread out? 837 00:43:32,143 --> 00:43:34,552 You'd just have these little daggers. 838 00:43:34,552 --> 00:43:37,724 But God has them all fall out. 839 00:43:37,724 --> 00:43:40,223 And He gives a whole new set. 840 00:43:40,223 --> 00:43:43,244 That doesn't happen 3, 4, or 5 times. Why? 841 00:43:43,244 --> 00:43:45,845 Because you're a child once and then you grow up 842 00:43:45,845 --> 00:43:47,215 and then you're an adult. 843 00:43:47,215 --> 00:43:51,784 And then you don't grow anymore. 844 00:43:51,784 --> 00:43:58,065 "Oh, that just evolved." 845 00:43:58,065 --> 00:44:00,508 We can smell. 846 00:44:00,508 --> 00:44:06,275 And not everything smells nasty. 847 00:44:06,275 --> 00:44:08,614 I mean, we can smell. 848 00:44:08,614 --> 00:44:10,304 We can see. 849 00:44:10,304 --> 00:44:14,310 And God forms a rose. 850 00:44:14,310 --> 00:44:19,886 And it's beautiful and you can smell it. 851 00:44:19,886 --> 00:44:24,565 If you think, we sleep. 852 00:44:24,565 --> 00:44:28,187 God designed rest into this thing. 853 00:44:28,187 --> 00:44:30,608 Where did that come from? 854 00:44:30,608 --> 00:44:33,404 So many things we just take for granted. 855 00:44:33,404 --> 00:44:39,365 And God says you don't have any excuse. 856 00:44:39,365 --> 00:44:40,565 "Although they knew God, 857 00:44:40,565 --> 00:44:43,483 they did not honor Him as God." 858 00:44:43,483 --> 00:44:44,616 You see that? 859 00:44:44,616 --> 00:44:46,035 "Although they knew God, 860 00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:47,445 they did not honor Him as God 861 00:44:47,445 --> 00:44:48,546 or give thanks to Him, 862 00:44:48,546 --> 00:44:50,516 but they became futile in their thinking. 863 00:44:50,516 --> 00:44:52,204 Their foolish hearts were darkened. 864 00:44:52,204 --> 00:44:54,261 Claiming to be wise they became fools." 865 00:44:54,261 --> 00:44:56,929 And these people are running around claiming to be wise. 866 00:44:56,929 --> 00:44:59,845 They've got all their degrees. 867 00:44:59,845 --> 00:45:03,375 They're professors at what university? 868 00:45:03,375 --> 00:45:06,625 And you have a Ph.D. in what? 869 00:45:06,625 --> 00:45:08,655 Oh yeah, they'll rattle those off. 870 00:45:08,655 --> 00:45:11,797 They're very wise in their own eyes. 871 00:45:11,797 --> 00:45:14,814 But God says they're fools. 872 00:45:14,814 --> 00:45:16,427 And they've suppressed the truth 873 00:45:16,427 --> 00:45:19,756 and the wrath of God is abiding on them. 874 00:45:19,756 --> 00:45:25,118 And it has to do with what God created. 875 00:45:25,118 --> 00:45:27,175 And I'll tell you this 876 00:45:27,175 --> 00:45:29,702 and you know this, you can deduce this, 877 00:45:29,702 --> 00:45:32,125 but if God made it all, 878 00:45:32,125 --> 00:45:35,125 He owns it all. 879 00:45:35,125 --> 00:45:37,066 And Scripture says, 880 00:45:37,066 --> 00:45:40,545 "The heavens are Yours, 881 00:45:40,545 --> 00:45:42,554 the earth also is Yours, 882 00:45:42,554 --> 00:45:45,164 the world and all that is in it. 883 00:45:45,164 --> 00:45:47,416 You have founded them." 884 00:45:47,416 --> 00:45:48,940 Very simple logic. 885 00:45:48,940 --> 00:45:50,336 You made them. 886 00:45:50,336 --> 00:45:52,244 You founded them. 887 00:45:52,244 --> 00:45:54,395 You own them. 888 00:45:54,395 --> 00:45:56,714 God says if I were hungry, 889 00:45:56,714 --> 00:45:58,935 I wouldn't tell you. 890 00:45:58,935 --> 00:46:05,485 The world in its fullness are Mine. 891 00:46:05,485 --> 00:46:07,438 I don't need you. 892 00:46:07,438 --> 00:46:09,625 In fact, Scripture tells us we are His. 893 00:46:09,625 --> 00:46:12,087 "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, 894 00:46:12,087 --> 00:46:15,935 the world and those who dwell therein." 895 00:46:15,935 --> 00:46:20,643 You see, we belong to Him, 896 00:46:20,643 --> 00:46:25,607 and He's got a right to tell us how to live. 897 00:46:25,607 --> 00:46:27,825 And we know full well 898 00:46:27,825 --> 00:46:29,634 the doctrine of evolution 899 00:46:29,634 --> 00:46:32,342 is meant to kill God. 900 00:46:32,342 --> 00:46:35,305 But it is so suicidal. 901 00:46:35,305 --> 00:46:36,515 I mean, think about it. 902 00:46:36,515 --> 00:46:38,343 You're standing on the train tracks. 903 00:46:38,343 --> 00:46:39,785 The train's coming behind you. 904 00:46:39,785 --> 00:46:41,967 You plug your ears. 905 00:46:41,967 --> 00:46:47,365 And you say, "there's no train there." 906 00:46:47,365 --> 00:46:49,245 The thing's blowing its whistles, 907 00:46:49,245 --> 00:46:50,967 and even then, those airhorns 908 00:46:50,967 --> 00:46:53,194 get through your fingers plugging your ears. 909 00:46:53,194 --> 00:46:56,444 So you basically take screwdrivers 910 00:46:56,444 --> 00:47:00,894 and you just rip your eardrums out. 911 00:47:00,894 --> 00:47:03,682 And you can still feel the vibration. 912 00:47:03,682 --> 00:47:11,433 So you put tennis shoes on so you can't feel it. 913 00:47:11,433 --> 00:47:13,577 It's stupid. 914 00:47:13,577 --> 00:47:15,224 It's suicidal. 915 00:47:15,224 --> 00:47:21,904 And yet, we know what 2 Thessalonians says. 916 00:47:21,904 --> 00:47:27,946 Men love to believe a lie. 917 00:47:27,946 --> 00:47:32,046 But how foolish is that when death is coming. 918 00:47:32,046 --> 00:47:33,544 It's like Charles Leiter said 919 00:47:33,544 --> 00:47:35,384 at the Denton Conference this year. 920 00:47:35,384 --> 00:47:37,693 You have a test and it seems like 921 00:47:37,693 --> 00:47:39,182 it's way off in the distance, 922 00:47:39,182 --> 00:47:42,086 and bang! It's there before you know it. 923 00:47:42,086 --> 00:47:44,945 And I remember when graduating in 1983 924 00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:50,245 seemed like, oh, that's so far away. 925 00:47:50,245 --> 00:47:54,526 And now I'm so far beyond it. 926 00:47:54,526 --> 00:47:56,954 It's like death is going to take men. 927 00:47:56,954 --> 00:48:03,495 And it is so foolish 928 00:48:03,495 --> 00:48:07,825 to suppress this truth. 929 00:48:07,825 --> 00:48:13,206 But, "In the beginning, God created 930 00:48:13,206 --> 00:48:16,797 the heavens and the earth." 931 00:48:16,797 --> 00:48:19,061 There's one Person here. "God created." 932 00:48:19,061 --> 00:48:21,542 You weren't there. I'm not there. Job wasn't there. 933 00:48:21,542 --> 00:48:23,344 Do you remember what He said to Job? 934 00:48:23,344 --> 00:48:27,493 "Job, where were you when I laid 935 00:48:27,493 --> 00:48:28,945 the foundation of the earth? 936 00:48:28,945 --> 00:48:30,736 Tell me if you have understanding." 937 00:48:30,736 --> 00:48:32,322 And I find that very interesting. 938 00:48:32,322 --> 00:48:33,941 God is not asking Job if Job laid 939 00:48:33,941 --> 00:48:35,356 the foundation of the earth. 940 00:48:35,356 --> 00:48:36,844 He's simply asking Job: 941 00:48:36,844 --> 00:48:40,811 Job, where were you when I laid the foundation? 942 00:48:40,811 --> 00:48:42,770 And I think we could ask anybody that. 943 00:48:42,770 --> 00:48:44,883 We could ask all these folks 944 00:48:44,883 --> 00:48:47,269 that run around these dogmatic natural 945 00:48:47,269 --> 00:48:49,903 humanistic evolutionists: 946 00:48:49,903 --> 00:48:54,264 Where were you? 947 00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:58,767 You know what's so important about that question? 948 00:48:58,767 --> 00:49:02,832 Science requires observation. 949 00:49:02,832 --> 00:49:05,333 Where were the scientists? 950 00:49:05,333 --> 00:49:07,754 Where were they? 951 00:49:07,754 --> 00:49:09,711 Job, where were you 952 00:49:09,711 --> 00:49:12,865 when I laid the foundation? 953 00:49:12,865 --> 00:49:16,364 Scientists, professors, 954 00:49:16,364 --> 00:49:18,622 biology professors at the universities 955 00:49:18,622 --> 00:49:22,703 that so dogmatically declare, 956 00:49:22,703 --> 00:49:26,315 where were you? 957 00:49:26,315 --> 00:49:28,333 You see, none of us - 958 00:49:28,333 --> 00:49:31,045 we were nowhere. 959 00:49:31,045 --> 00:49:35,972 Science - if it's legitimate science - 960 00:49:35,972 --> 00:49:40,257 has to observe. 961 00:49:40,257 --> 00:49:43,661 But you know the thing about creation? 962 00:49:43,661 --> 00:49:46,004 It was a miracle. 963 00:49:46,004 --> 00:49:49,257 And even if the scientist is there 964 00:49:49,257 --> 00:49:50,613 when a miracle takes place, 965 00:49:50,613 --> 00:49:52,272 he's got all of his instruments, 966 00:49:52,272 --> 00:49:53,980 it doesn't work. Why? 967 00:49:53,980 --> 00:49:57,234 Because what is the nature of a miracle? 968 00:49:57,234 --> 00:49:59,559 It transcends the physical laws. 969 00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:01,934 That's basically what a miracle is. 970 00:50:01,934 --> 00:50:04,090 It's supernatural. 971 00:50:04,090 --> 00:50:05,771 You have what's natural - 972 00:50:05,771 --> 00:50:06,853 the natural laws, 973 00:50:06,853 --> 00:50:08,394 the natural way things work. 974 00:50:08,394 --> 00:50:11,241 Supernatural means outside that realm. 975 00:50:11,241 --> 00:50:15,564 Beyond, above. 976 00:50:15,564 --> 00:50:20,016 Creation was a massive miracle. 977 00:50:20,016 --> 00:50:22,443 I'm just going to say this 978 00:50:22,443 --> 00:50:24,133 as we wrap up today. 979 00:50:24,133 --> 00:50:26,842 There's much more about this verse 980 00:50:26,842 --> 00:50:30,802 that I want to say. 981 00:50:30,802 --> 00:50:34,265 But Scripture says this, 982 00:50:34,265 --> 00:50:36,497 "By faith (Hebrews 11:3), 983 00:50:36,497 --> 00:50:39,454 By faith we understand 984 00:50:39,454 --> 00:50:41,342 that the universe was created 985 00:50:41,342 --> 00:50:42,734 by the Word of God, 986 00:50:42,734 --> 00:50:45,924 so that what is seen was not made 987 00:50:45,924 --> 00:50:48,057 out of things that are visible." 988 00:50:48,057 --> 00:50:49,443 Did you catch that? 989 00:50:49,443 --> 00:50:52,370 By faith. 990 00:50:52,370 --> 00:50:55,267 It's not by science. 991 00:50:55,267 --> 00:50:57,479 It's by faith. 992 00:50:57,479 --> 00:51:01,395 Science has nothing to say about creation 993 00:51:01,395 --> 00:51:06,322 because no scientist was there. 994 00:51:06,322 --> 00:51:11,463 And creation is a massive 995 00:51:11,463 --> 00:51:16,338 supernatural miracle. 996 00:51:16,338 --> 00:51:19,283 And science has no answer for that. 997 00:51:19,283 --> 00:51:20,947 Science has no more answer for that 998 00:51:20,947 --> 00:51:25,830 that it has for the Red Sea parting. 999 00:51:25,830 --> 00:51:30,333 Do you know that in the days of Joshua 1000 00:51:30,333 --> 00:51:33,864 God stopped the sun? 1001 00:51:33,864 --> 00:51:38,204 What can science say about that? 1002 00:51:38,204 --> 00:51:39,914 Science can say: 1003 00:51:39,914 --> 00:51:41,836 Well, we know the laws of physics. 1004 00:51:41,836 --> 00:51:43,070 If you take the earth - 1005 00:51:43,070 --> 00:51:44,244 and my understanding is 1006 00:51:44,244 --> 00:51:46,363 that out at the very edge of the earth 1007 00:51:46,363 --> 00:51:48,714 it is spinning round and round and round 1008 00:51:48,714 --> 00:51:52,444 at about 500-something miles an hour. 1009 00:51:52,444 --> 00:51:53,873 Is that right? 1010 00:51:53,873 --> 00:51:56,212 I think that's the speed. 1011 00:51:56,212 --> 00:52:00,072 If you just bang! You just stop it. 1012 00:52:00,072 --> 00:52:05,586 What's going to happen? 1013 00:52:05,586 --> 00:52:07,807 Well, just imagine 1014 00:52:07,807 --> 00:52:10,244 you don't have your seatbelt on, 1015 00:52:10,244 --> 00:52:12,184 and you're driving home 1016 00:52:12,184 --> 00:52:13,976 and dad just slams on the brakes. 1017 00:52:13,976 --> 00:52:15,773 You're only going 30 miles an hour. 1018 00:52:15,773 --> 00:52:17,453 He just slams on the brakes. 1019 00:52:17,453 --> 00:52:19,620 What's going to happen? 1020 00:52:19,620 --> 00:52:20,903 That's 30 miles an hour. 1021 00:52:20,903 --> 00:52:23,705 That's not 500 miles an hour. 1022 00:52:23,705 --> 00:52:25,545 What happens? 1023 00:52:25,545 --> 00:52:29,284 You continue going and it stops. 1024 00:52:29,284 --> 00:52:31,466 I mean, see the scientists would say, 1025 00:52:31,466 --> 00:52:34,234 oh, that's impossible! We'd all be thrown... 1026 00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:37,173 Have we never heard 1027 00:52:37,173 --> 00:52:40,157 that He who created all in the beginning 1028 00:52:40,157 --> 00:52:44,905 sustains it all by the power of His Word? 1029 00:52:44,905 --> 00:52:47,336 Is He able to stop this thing 1030 00:52:47,336 --> 00:52:50,331 without the laws of physics 1031 00:52:50,331 --> 00:52:52,307 carrying us all, 1032 00:52:52,307 --> 00:52:57,177 launched at 500 miles an hour out into space? 1033 00:52:57,177 --> 00:53:00,054 That's what He did. 1034 00:53:00,054 --> 00:53:01,526 Do you know in another day - 1035 00:53:01,526 --> 00:53:05,244 what was it, the days of Ahaz? 1036 00:53:05,244 --> 00:53:08,527 The sundial went backwards. 1037 00:53:08,527 --> 00:53:10,245 Or is that the days of Hezekiah? 1038 00:53:10,245 --> 00:53:11,945 That was Hezekiah I think. 1039 00:53:11,945 --> 00:53:17,153 It went backwards 10 degrees. 1040 00:53:17,153 --> 00:53:20,503 That happened. And God can do that. 1041 00:53:20,503 --> 00:53:22,885 Can science explain that? 1042 00:53:22,885 --> 00:53:27,504 Let me tell you on another day, 1043 00:53:27,504 --> 00:53:30,844 the sun just went out. 1044 00:53:30,844 --> 00:53:33,414 Remember that day? 1045 00:53:33,414 --> 00:53:35,974 How are you going to explain that? 1046 00:53:35,974 --> 00:53:37,575 How are you going to explain 1047 00:53:37,575 --> 00:53:41,475 an ax head floating? 1048 00:53:41,475 --> 00:53:44,591 How do you explain Jesus, not floating, 1049 00:53:44,591 --> 00:53:47,864 but walking on the water? 1050 00:53:47,864 --> 00:53:54,827 Brethren, we have for us our Savior, 1051 00:53:54,827 --> 00:54:00,254 the God of the church of Jesus Christ, 1052 00:54:00,254 --> 00:54:05,305 our God is the God of the miraculous. 1053 00:54:05,305 --> 00:54:08,748 He's the God of the supernatural. 1054 00:54:08,748 --> 00:54:10,454 Don't you dare let the scientists 1055 00:54:10,454 --> 00:54:12,051 try to take that away from you, 1056 00:54:12,051 --> 00:54:13,433 because I'll tell you what, 1057 00:54:13,433 --> 00:54:15,563 God being a Creator and God being a Redeemer 1058 00:54:15,563 --> 00:54:17,967 is brought together time and again in Scripture. 1059 00:54:17,967 --> 00:54:21,414 And we'll look at that, just not today. 1060 00:54:21,414 --> 00:54:22,434 Faith. 1061 00:54:22,434 --> 00:54:24,613 It's by faith we understand 1062 00:54:24,613 --> 00:54:26,288 that the universe was created 1063 00:54:26,288 --> 00:54:28,801 by the Word of God. 1064 00:54:28,801 --> 00:54:30,841 Charles Darwin could read that. 1065 00:54:30,841 --> 00:54:32,779 Steven Hawking could read that. 1066 00:54:32,779 --> 00:54:35,498 University biology professors can read 1067 00:54:35,498 --> 00:54:38,263 that "in the beginning, God created 1068 00:54:38,263 --> 00:54:39,896 the heavens and the earth." 1069 00:54:39,896 --> 00:54:41,588 Most of our children can read that. 1070 00:54:41,588 --> 00:54:43,613 The issues is not the complexity and depth 1071 00:54:43,613 --> 00:54:46,024 of perception needed to read that statement, 1072 00:54:46,024 --> 00:54:47,775 understand what's being said. 1073 00:54:47,775 --> 00:54:49,225 It's plain what's being said. 1074 00:54:49,225 --> 00:54:50,947 The issue is this: 1075 00:54:50,947 --> 00:54:54,675 the issue is faith. 1076 00:54:54,675 --> 00:54:56,316 Do you have the faith to believe 1077 00:54:56,316 --> 00:54:57,665 what is being said? 1078 00:54:57,665 --> 00:54:58,844 That is the issue. 1079 00:54:58,844 --> 00:55:00,289 It's not an issue of science. 1080 00:55:00,289 --> 00:55:01,621 It's an issue of faith. 1081 00:55:01,621 --> 00:55:05,803 You either believe this or you don't. 1082 00:55:05,803 --> 00:55:12,293 But listen, to all mankind God says this: 1083 00:55:12,293 --> 00:55:15,991 He says, "Believe." 1084 00:55:15,991 --> 00:55:18,144 And He says My wrath is against you 1085 00:55:18,144 --> 00:55:20,967 if you suppress this truth. 1086 00:55:20,967 --> 00:55:24,576 But He says it, look up. 1087 00:55:24,576 --> 00:55:28,325 He says the heavens declare My glory. 1088 00:55:28,325 --> 00:55:31,265 And He says day to day pours forth speech. 1089 00:55:31,265 --> 00:55:34,606 Listen to it. 1090 00:55:34,606 --> 00:55:36,383 Day to day pours forth speech. 1091 00:55:36,383 --> 00:55:38,236 That's right there in the context of: 1092 00:55:38,236 --> 00:55:41,948 it declares My glory. 1093 00:55:41,948 --> 00:55:43,772 Listen to it. 1094 00:55:43,772 --> 00:55:47,319 Look around. 1095 00:55:47,319 --> 00:55:51,503 All of this, all of that. 1096 00:55:51,503 --> 00:55:56,793 In a moment, this God - 1097 00:55:56,793 --> 00:55:59,482 there is such power. 1098 00:55:59,482 --> 00:56:02,325 If you have ever been close 1099 00:56:02,325 --> 00:56:05,053 to one bolt of lightning... 1100 00:56:05,053 --> 00:56:06,730 Have you ever noticed? 1101 00:56:06,730 --> 00:56:08,933 Men are very confident, 1102 00:56:08,933 --> 00:56:11,624 but let one bolt of lightning 1103 00:56:11,624 --> 00:56:15,084 strike close to a man. 1104 00:56:15,084 --> 00:56:17,523 You remember what it did to Martin Luther? 1105 00:56:17,523 --> 00:56:19,238 The guy's like repenting 1106 00:56:19,238 --> 00:56:21,039 and calling upon one of the saints 1107 00:56:21,039 --> 00:56:22,955 and dedicating his life - why? 1108 00:56:22,955 --> 00:56:25,823 That's what one bolt of lightning does. 1109 00:56:25,823 --> 00:56:29,057 It's so terrifying to man! 1110 00:56:29,057 --> 00:56:32,252 Let it strike by one of these evolutionists 1111 00:56:32,252 --> 00:56:35,200 or these biologists, by these professors. 1112 00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,397 It terrifies them! 1113 00:56:37,397 --> 00:56:43,333 That's one bolt of lightning. 1114 00:56:43,333 --> 00:56:45,101 God created all of this 1115 00:56:45,101 --> 00:56:49,282 by the Word of His power. 1116 00:56:49,282 --> 00:56:53,250 It says He spoke 1117 00:56:53,250 --> 00:56:57,732 and it was there. 1118 00:56:57,732 --> 00:57:02,141 And God says: 1119 00:57:02,141 --> 00:57:05,251 Your Redeemer is He 1120 00:57:05,251 --> 00:57:08,642 who created all this. 1121 00:57:08,642 --> 00:57:14,137 It's like, wow! I need a Redeemer like that. 1122 00:57:14,137 --> 00:57:16,480 Because I need somebody to break the laws, 1123 00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,441 the physical laws that held me - 1124 00:57:18,441 --> 00:57:23,342 do you know there is a law of sin and death? 1125 00:57:23,342 --> 00:57:24,672 That's a natural law. 1126 00:57:24,672 --> 00:57:28,625 It's a spiritual law, but it holds men. 1127 00:57:28,625 --> 00:57:30,872 They need a supernatural God. 1128 00:57:30,872 --> 00:57:35,032 I need a God that is so strong! 1129 00:57:35,032 --> 00:57:37,623 We have a God of the miraculous. 1130 00:57:37,623 --> 00:57:39,465 That's the God of the church. 1131 00:57:39,465 --> 00:57:41,442 The God who acts. 1132 00:57:41,442 --> 00:57:44,262 The God who can do anything. 1133 00:57:44,262 --> 00:57:47,360 And Scripture constantly wants to bring those together. 1134 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,140 He created. He's your Redeemer. 1135 00:57:50,140 --> 00:57:52,772 There's one place where He says: 1136 00:57:52,772 --> 00:57:58,471 Who are you that you fear men? 1137 00:57:58,471 --> 00:58:05,321 I am the Lord and I created all of this. 1138 00:58:05,321 --> 00:58:08,871 Sometimes we just have to stop and say: 1139 00:58:08,871 --> 00:58:13,592 who are we? 1140 00:58:13,592 --> 00:58:18,241 We are the people 1141 00:58:18,241 --> 00:58:22,560 who are in the palm of this God 1142 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:27,501 and kept. 1143 00:58:27,501 --> 00:58:31,371 When Jesus says nobody can pluck you from there, 1144 00:58:31,371 --> 00:58:33,682 it's like look up. 1145 00:58:33,682 --> 00:58:35,681 Look around. 1146 00:58:35,681 --> 00:58:39,503 That is no small statement. 1147 00:58:39,503 --> 00:58:43,971 We have such a God who can say, 1148 00:58:43,971 --> 00:58:46,253 "Let there be light." 1149 00:58:46,253 --> 00:58:50,633 Poof! 1150 00:58:50,633 --> 00:58:56,903 Let there be sun and moon and stars. 1151 00:58:56,903 --> 00:59:01,932 Poof! 1152 00:59:01,932 --> 00:59:06,173 That's so... poof! 1153 00:59:06,173 --> 00:59:11,412 But look out there at night. 1154 00:59:11,412 --> 00:59:15,764 Get the Hubble telescope pictures. 1155 00:59:15,764 --> 00:59:21,142 He just by the Word of His power... 1156 00:59:21,142 --> 00:59:26,772 And He says, "I am your Redeemer." 1157 00:59:26,772 --> 00:59:33,701 Who are you that you're afraid of men? 1158 00:59:33,701 --> 00:59:35,850 Who are we? 1159 00:59:35,850 --> 00:59:40,152 Well, Lord, we're pretty small, 1160 00:59:40,152 --> 00:59:44,252 insignificant and weak. 1161 00:59:44,252 --> 00:59:47,374 When He says, "Who are you?" 1162 00:59:47,374 --> 00:59:51,582 He's saying, "You are My people." 1163 00:59:51,582 --> 00:59:53,951 And it's the M-Y in there 1164 00:59:53,951 --> 00:59:57,251 that you ought to sit up and take notice to. 1165 00:59:57,251 --> 00:59:59,322 You are My people. 1166 00:59:59,322 --> 01:00:01,090 And you need to remember who I am 1167 01:00:01,090 --> 01:00:02,782 and if you belong to Me, 1168 01:00:02,782 --> 01:00:04,922 who are you? 1169 01:00:04,922 --> 01:00:07,932 We're the people of the God 1170 01:00:07,932 --> 01:00:11,892 who created all of this. 1171 01:00:11,892 --> 01:00:14,558 We are the people who belong 1172 01:00:14,558 --> 01:00:19,723 to the God of the miraculous. 1173 01:00:19,723 --> 01:00:27,023 "In the beginning, God..." 1174 01:00:27,023 --> 01:00:37,172 Father, may we live constantly - 1175 01:00:37,172 --> 01:00:39,171 Lord, help us to live constantly 1176 01:00:39,171 --> 01:00:41,454 remembering who we are, 1177 01:00:41,454 --> 01:00:43,411 who You are, 1178 01:00:43,411 --> 01:00:45,461 where we are, what we are, 1179 01:00:45,461 --> 01:00:47,146 what we've become, 1180 01:00:47,146 --> 01:00:50,313 what You've made us. 1181 01:00:50,313 --> 01:00:52,909 We think of those people 1182 01:00:52,909 --> 01:00:57,854 who suppress the knowledge of You, 1183 01:00:57,854 --> 01:00:59,732 and specifically the apostle says 1184 01:00:59,732 --> 01:01:06,332 they don't give thanks. 1185 01:01:06,332 --> 01:01:08,723 Lord, thank You. 1186 01:01:08,723 --> 01:01:10,612 Thank You that in all Your vastness 1187 01:01:10,612 --> 01:01:12,491 of power and wisdom, 1188 01:01:12,491 --> 01:01:15,884 You didn't crush us like fleas. 1189 01:01:15,884 --> 01:01:20,710 You didn't just throw us on the dung heap. 1190 01:01:20,710 --> 01:01:22,500 You didn't deal with us and treat us 1191 01:01:22,500 --> 01:01:24,434 according to our sins, 1192 01:01:24,434 --> 01:01:27,721 and sin falls short of the glory of God 1193 01:01:27,721 --> 01:01:31,658 and we sought to desecrate that glory by our sin. 1194 01:01:31,658 --> 01:01:35,154 With high hand, we rebelled 1195 01:01:35,154 --> 01:01:37,173 and we spit on You, 1196 01:01:37,173 --> 01:01:39,230 and we would have in our natural state 1197 01:01:39,230 --> 01:01:43,091 killed Christ just as they did in that day. 1198 01:01:43,091 --> 01:01:45,022 And You spared us. 1199 01:01:45,022 --> 01:01:48,982 Mercy - oh, there is mercy. 1200 01:01:48,982 --> 01:01:51,963 You are a God that shows mercy. 1201 01:01:51,963 --> 01:01:55,271 You didn't just terrify us with Your power. 1202 01:01:55,271 --> 01:01:57,691 You melted us with Your love. 1203 01:01:57,691 --> 01:02:02,569 And we thank You for that. 1204 01:02:02,569 --> 01:02:06,925 We thank You in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.