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What if the first step to understanding the meaning of life itself has been overlooked for thousands of years, and how could one decision about where everything began quietly reshape every law, every value, and every purpose we chase today? Only by stepping back into that original moment can the real answers to who we are and why anything matters finally come into focus.
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00:00Some of you have had the joy of purchasing something that reads
00:04some assembly required.
00:06And you get it home and you open up the box
00:09and the first thing that some of you do is this.
00:12You take the instructions and you what?
00:14Throw them away.
00:16Now all of you wives who are nudging your husbands right now saying,
00:19yeah, uh-huh, no.
00:20Yeah, yeah.
00:21Oh, yeah.
00:23Uh-huh.
00:25Hopefully you're not like that.
00:27Hopefully you read the instructions.
00:30At least they're there for a purpose.
00:32Now I question sometimes actually who wrote the instructions
00:35and which language they actually wrote it in
00:37because it doesn't seem to be English to me sometimes when I'm reading them.
00:41But one time I was assembling a shelving unit
00:45and I had gone through either four or five steps.
00:49Take me down just a little bit, Greg, please.
00:51Just a little bit on the mic.
00:52I was either on step four or five.
00:53Let's just say five.
00:55I'm on step five and I'm reading the instructions
00:57and the instructions are telling me to do something.
01:00And I'm looking at the instructions and I'm looking at the shelving unit
01:04and I'm saying, I can't get there from here.
01:08Something isn't right in this shelving unit.
01:10I can't do what they're asking me to do at this point in the instructions.
01:14And I thought they're asking me to do this and it is impossible to do that.
01:18So I said, huh.
01:21And I went back in the instructions to page one.
01:26And I noticed in the instructions that I overlooked the very first step in the instructions.
01:33The beginning step.
01:35I read some of the other stuff in step one,
01:37but the very first thing that I needed to do to make sure that when I got to step five,
01:41I could do what they were asking me to do in step five,
01:43I had completely overlooked in step one.
01:46So guess what I had to do?
01:49Tear it apart and start all over again.
01:51All of you people who responded there, you must know what I'm talking about, right?
01:55You've been there before?
02:02It is the very same thing when we talk about origins.
02:08Remember, every worldview answers the question, where did I come from?
02:12But if we don't go far enough back, if we don't go back to the very beginning,
02:16to very step number one, and we're looking over here down the road,
02:20thousands and thousands of years over here in step number five,
02:24and we're going, I don't know how I can possibly do step number five
02:29because it doesn't seem to fit in what they're asking me to do.
02:33Why?
02:34Because we have forgotten the origins.
02:37We have forgotten the very beginning.
02:39And if we go back to the very beginning, which is the very foundation for everything,
02:44then we will better understand how we can continue on in this life
02:47if we don't forget origins.
02:51Francis Schaeffer was right when he said that the question of origins
02:55is the most important question that must be answered.
03:00From the answer flows everything else.
03:04If we get origins wrong, we get everything wrong.
03:08Did you catch that?
03:10If we get the origins wrong, everything else is affected by the origins.
03:15And if we miss the beginning, we miss it all.
03:19It affects everything in our life.
03:21Let's go back to the beginning.
03:24Genesis chapter one.
03:26We will look at God's creative act here in Genesis chapter one.
03:31We will move through it rather quickly because Genesis chapter one is going to set the foundation
03:37on which we are going to build what we're going to talk about today.
03:41The foundation is here in Genesis chapter one, but we will move rather quickly through it.
03:46There won't be a lot of talking about each individual act here in Genesis.
03:50We'll just make mention of what God did on a particular day.
03:55Look at verses one and two.
03:57This takes us back to the very beginning, verses one and two.
04:01In the beginning, God created the heavens, or some translations say heaven, the idea of all
04:08together, the heavens and the earth.
04:10The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit
04:17of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
04:21The very beginning.
04:23The beginning of time itself.
04:26When the timeless God spoke the heavens and the earth into existence, He established time.
04:34Not only did He establish time, for there was no time before this.
04:40Also, we here see the beginning of matter.
04:43Matter is not some eternal substance where when God came along, however powerful He may
04:47be, He took the existing matter and formed it together in what we know as the heaven and
04:52the earth.
04:52No.
04:53The text very clearly says God created out of nothing everything that we see today.
04:59He didn't take created matter that is apparently eternal and form the heavens and the earth.
05:03No.
05:03He spoke matter into existence at this point.
05:07Hebrews chapter 11 says this,
05:08By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what
05:12is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
05:17He didn't take created matter and form it together.
05:19No.
05:20He created matter here at the very beginning.
05:22For God created the heavens and the earth.
05:24The Elohim, the plural in majesty, the creator, the sustainer, the provider, God of all life speaks
05:32the worlds into existence.
05:34Now, the Bible does not discuss the origin of God.
05:38He has always existed.
05:39It doesn't even deal with that.
05:41It says, in the beginning, when He made matter and time, He was already present.
05:44He was already there.
05:45So, it doesn't talk about the origins of God.
05:47And when He says heaven or heavens and earth, He's talking about the whole created order here.
05:52And then He gives us in verses 3 through 30, the rest of the creation story.
05:59Truth.
06:00God brings out of order, out of disorder, out of chaos, an order.
06:05He established it.
06:06Now, there's what's known as the gap theory that some say between verses 1 and 2.
06:11There's this gap of time, of unknown time.
06:14We don't have time in the sermon today to talk about the gap theory if you would like to talk
06:18to me later about that.
06:19The whole gap theory hinges on the word was, being translated become.
06:23And so, we're not going to talk about that today.
06:25But it is a theory that's out there.
06:28So, here we see in the beginning, God makes matter.
06:30God makes time.
06:31God speaks the worlds into existence.
06:33And so, now we're going to see exactly what He did day by day as He works through God's,
06:37as we work through God's creative days.
06:39Look at verses 3 through 30.
06:41We'll go each day, day by day.
06:44And God said, let there be light.
06:46So, the heavens and the earth are created.
06:48And then light exists.
06:49Not the sun or the moon, but the light exists.
06:51And there was light.
06:53And God saw that the light was good.
06:56And God separated the light from the darkness.
06:58God called the light day.
07:00And the darkness He called night.
07:02And there was evening.
07:03And there was morning the first day.
07:06Here, as we read through Genesis chapter 1, we need to understand this.
07:10Genesis chapter 1 is geocentric.
07:13You're saying, whoa, what does that mean?
07:15Simply means, it is from the perspective as if one is standing on the earth.
07:20Not from God looking down or from looking from the moon on down.
07:24But no, if we were standing on the earth, this is what you would see in Genesis chapter 1.
07:28So, it's geocentric.
07:29So, as God speaks, He's speaking as if one is watching from the earth.
07:33Think about it as we go through that.
07:35So, here, day one.
07:37As we go through Genesis chapter 1, we're going to see that God said over 10 times.
07:41God said, God said, God said.
07:42God spoke.
07:42God's word are powerful.
07:44By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made.
07:46And by the breath of His mouth, all their host.
07:49And all at once, light filled the universe.
07:52The great expanse of the universe that we cannot even measure, light filled it all.
08:00Well, here we see that God named the light day.
08:04By naming something in the Hebrew context, what it simply means is you have power over the object that you
08:09are naming.
08:10So, we see here the sovereignty of God over all of the created order.
08:13God calls the light day.
08:15He names it.
08:16He gives it its meaning.
08:19Then we see the evening and the morning were the first day.
08:23Now, I understand there are different theories out there about young earth, old earth, whether a day is a large
08:30period of time, thousands or millions of years.
08:33And that's how we understand when it says six days.
08:36It wasn't really six literal days.
08:37It was six periods of time.
08:39And we don't know how long they were.
08:41Well, let me give you a hint.
08:43In the Hebrew Old Testament, every single time the word day appears and before it an ordinal number stands, it
08:52is always a 24-hour period.
08:55Always.
08:56Sometimes you'll see the day of the Lord.
08:58That is a period of time.
08:59We don't know when it is.
09:00But when you put a cardinal number in front of the word day, every time in the Old Testament, it
09:03is a 24-hour period.
09:05It is a day as we understand it.
09:09Day two.
09:10God said, let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from
09:15the waters.
09:16And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above
09:21the expanse.
09:22And it was so.
09:23And God called the expanse heaven.
09:25And there was evening and there was morning the second day.
09:29The separation of the waters.
09:30God tells the waters where to go.
09:32He commands the waters.
09:34Doesn't that sound a little bit familiar when we come to the New Testament?
09:37Who's the one in the boat that said, be still, waters?
09:43And they were still.
09:45Jesus.
09:46God has power over the waters.
09:49So day three.
09:52And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together.
09:55So you see, he's separated the waters.
09:56He's going to gather them together into one place and let the dry land appear.
10:00Now, whether the waters went down or the land came up, I don't know.
10:03But dry land appeared.
10:04And it was so.
10:06And God called the dry land earth.
10:08And the waters that were gathered together, he called seas.
10:11And God saw that it was good.
10:13And God said, let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their
10:19seed.
10:19Each according to its kind.
10:22Remember that word.
10:23It comes up again.
10:24Each according to its kind on the earth.
10:26And it was so.
10:28The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds.
10:32And trees bearing fruit in which is their seed.
10:35Each according to its kind.
10:37And God saw that it was good.
10:41And there was evening and there was morning the third day.
10:44So the plants, the grasses, the grains, fruit, each having the seed in itself after its kind.
10:50So a orange tree is not going to produce apples.
10:54That's not after its kind.
10:56But an apple tree will produce apples.
11:00And God said, let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night.
11:05Now we see the sun, the moon, and the stars being created.
11:07First it was just light.
11:09Now on this day, on the fourth day, and let there be for signs and for seasons for days and
11:13years.
11:13And let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.
11:17And it was so.
11:18And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule
11:22the night and the stars.
11:23And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the
11:28day and over the night,
11:28and to separate the light from the darkness.
11:30And God saw that it was good.
11:34And there was evening and there was morning the fourth day.
11:38So here we see the creation of the sun, the moon, the stars.
11:42In other cultures, these become idols.
11:44These become things that are worshipped.
11:46But here we see the one who placed the sun, the moon, the stars in the expanse of heaven.
11:51For the one who places them is far greater than the objects themselves.
11:55Why bow down to the sun?
11:57Why have the stars direct your path in life instead of the one who made the stars and placed them
12:01in their appointed order?
12:04For the stars are not there to guide us, to guide us humans, but to declare the glory of God.
12:10Not only were the sun, the moon, and the stars there for a reason to declare the glory of God,
12:13they also brought about a way to mark feast days, a way to mark the rhythms of life.
12:20For we have summer, fall, and winter, and spring, the seasons that we have.
12:27For the signs and the times now mark the rhythms of life,
12:30the cycle of rest and work and worship that God establishes.
12:38Day number five.
12:42And God said, let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures,
12:45and let birds fly above the heaven, across the expanse of the heavens.
12:47And so God created the great sea creatures, some translations say monsters, Leviathan perhaps,
12:53and every living creature that moves with which the waters swarm according to their kinds,
12:58and every winged bird according to its kind.
13:00And God saw that it was good.
13:02And God blessed them.
13:04Here's the first instance of God blessing part of His creation.
13:06And God blessed them saying, be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas,
13:11and let birds multiply on the earth.
13:14And there was evening and there was morning the fifth day.
13:18Now, we come to the pinnacle of God's creation.
13:22We come to the very point where God does something different than He did up to this point with anything
13:27else on day six.
13:31And God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds.
13:36Livestock and creeping things, that beast of the earth according to their, again, kinds.
13:42And it was so.
13:43And God made the beast of the earth according to their kinds, and the livestock according to their kinds,
13:47and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.
13:50And God saw that it was good.
13:54And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness,
13:59and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens,
14:03and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
14:08So God created man in His own image.
14:12In the image of God created He, Him.
14:15Male and female, He created them.
14:17And God blessed them.
14:19Here's a second instance of blessing.
14:20And God blessed them, and God said to them,
14:22Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it,
14:26and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens,
14:29and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
14:32And God said, behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the
14:38earth,
14:38and every tree with its seed and its fruit.
14:40You shall have them for food.
14:42To every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens,
14:44and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has a breath of life,
14:47I have given every green plant for food, and it was so.
14:54So now we see that creation reaches its final climax.
14:58All of the other animals, none of the other animals have the markation of created in God's own image.
15:05The other beasts, the other animals, none of them were marked with this designation,
15:10created in the image of God.
15:13Man, formed out of the dust of the ground, and God breathes in him the breath of life,
15:18and he becomes a living being, a living soul.
15:21And no other animal was like that.
15:25The image of God was imparted to man.
15:27Now what is this image, this likeness of God?
15:29Well, it can't be a body, because God doesn't have a body.
15:32God is spirit.
15:33So it can't be this physical body that we have that communicates to the outside world.
15:37What is this image and this likeness of God that man has been created in?
15:42Well, it has the idea of an intellect, of being able to reason to think.
15:47It also has an understanding of moral nature,
15:50for man was created in original righteousness, pure, perfect, before the fall.
15:55So we have this moral nature in man as well.
15:58Man has the ability to communicate with others, as God does.
16:01Man has the power to create, and in man's sense, it's to rearrange the created order.
16:05In God's sense, it's to bring out of nothing, something.
16:08But he has creative abilities.
16:10He has an emotional nature that transcends the instinct of animals.
16:16That's the image and the likeness of God that God has placed into humanity, into us, as human beings.
16:23Since man is God's image-bearer, murder, therefore, merits the strongest retribution.
16:33Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.
16:37Why?
16:37For God made man in his own image.
16:43So we see, man says to, God says to man,
16:49now you, now you, you be fruitful and multiply, and you fill the earth up,
16:53and you subdue it, and that is a sense not that it's unruly, you need to beat it in subjection.
16:58That's not the idea.
16:59To subdue it means to bring out what is potentially there in the earth.
17:04Manage creation.
17:05Bring out what is there to my glory.
17:07In that sense, subdue.
17:08That's what man is to do.
17:11Now look at verse number 31.
17:13Conclusion.
17:15And God saw everything that he had made.
17:19Everything.
17:20And behold, it was very good.
17:26And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
17:33This is reality.
17:36This is truth.
17:38Now the problem is, if we don't understand origins,
17:42if we accept any other alien philosophy into our life,
17:46it dramatically affects the way that we think and act.
17:49If we set aside creation, this reality that God has established for us,
17:54and said, you know, it's a nice story, but I think it could have been this way.
18:01It will affect everything that we do.
18:05As a matter of fact, this is what we are being told today.
18:08Here's a great example of what you and I as Christians are being told today.
18:11A guy from USA Today, Tom Crottenmaker, this is what he says.
18:15He argues that Christians are fighting a losing battle when it comes to defending a biblical worldview
18:20in terms of creation.
18:22Just what we read right now.
18:24He says to us, you are fighting a losing battle when you talk about creation.
18:28His solution is this.
18:30He suggests this to us.
18:33Let science be science,
18:35and let religion prevail in the vast areas where science has little or nothing to offer.
18:42Let science be science.
18:45What he would consider truth or facts,
18:49and let religion prevail in the area where it's good at.
18:52That's values, belief, and faith.
18:55So what has he done to us in that statement?
18:57Look at this illustration up here.
19:00This is exactly what he's saying to us.
19:02There is a two-story way of looking at life,
19:05and that is, on the bottom story,
19:07are facts based on naturalism and evolutionary Darwinism,
19:12which are binding on everyone because they are truth, they are facts.
19:16But in the upper level, we have beliefs, values, faith,
19:21are all based on what?
19:24Individual choices.
19:25So if believing in Jesus is good for you, it may not be good for me.
19:29It's not binding on me.
19:30I mean, I'm glad that you believe that and it's good for you.
19:32It makes you feel good in life, but that's not binding on me.
19:34What we have done is we have made a dichotomy in the way that we live.
19:38And that goes into this next slide.
19:42This is what we are told.
19:44In the public sphere, we only want to hear about scientific knowledge.
19:48That is translated evolutionary Darwinism.
19:51In the private sphere, you can have all of the personal preferences that you like,
19:55all the values of beliefs.
19:56You just keep it where?
19:57In your private sphere.
19:59Don't you dare bring Christianity into the public sphere because we can't handle that
20:04because it's not based on fact is what they're trying to tell us.
20:08It's not truth.
20:10It's only faith, values, or belief.
20:13That's the duality that we're living in.
20:15That's what's being pressed upon us every day.
20:20Francis Schaeffer said this in an address to Notre Dame.
20:22It's going to come up on the screen.
20:23Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital T.
20:31Truth about total reality, not just about religious things.
20:35It's truth about creation.
20:38Biblical Christianity is truth concerning total reality and the intellectual holding of that
20:43total truth and living in the light of that truth.
20:47It's not about this idea of that, oh yeah, you can have these truths, these facts under above,
20:52and then what you believe in your public life, in your private life, that's good for you.
20:56It doesn't have to apply to me though.
21:00What does creation teach us?
21:02If we need to go back to the origin, what is it trying to tell us as we go through
21:06life?
21:07What is it trying to impart to us this total truth?
21:10The first thing it's trying to tell us is this.
21:13Creation provides the basis for accountability.
21:18For there is a sovereign creator God that man must answer to.
21:23If man as an individual being in evolutionary Darwinism would say that,
21:28we just come from a slimy, mucky thing in the sea and we crawled out eventually and came
21:33into what we know as man today, there is no person or thing that we're accountable to.
21:38Because it happened by random chance.
21:41But creation provides a basis for accountability.
21:45In evolutionary Darwinism, man is accountable to no one.
21:49He's not responsible to anyone.
21:52Does that look like today?
21:55Man says, I'm not responsible for that, that's my parents' fault.
21:58I'm not responsible for that, I don't have to give an account to you or any God.
22:06Two, creation provides for the rhythms, a basis for the rhythms of life.
22:12We saw it here.
22:14There were seasons, there were days, there were years, there were festival times.
22:18We have, we know in the fall, what we have is Thanksgiving.
22:21It's part of the seasons of life.
22:24It provides this rhythm.
22:25This idea of working hard six days and taking a day off of that time.
22:29So don't be a workaholic is what creation is trying to say to us.
22:33Make sure that you have that day to set aside to rest and to worship me.
22:37Work hard, but make sure you rest too.
22:39And when we mess up the rhythms of life, it messes up everything about us.
22:45Third, creation provides a basis for objective, universal morals.
22:51Think about this for a second.
22:53Man is created in the image of God.
22:56God is a moral being.
22:58He is righteous, he is holy, there's no imperfections in him.
23:01And we are created in his image.
23:04We are therefore moral agents.
23:06We understand morality because there is a standard by which we measure morality, and that is God himself.
23:13And creation provides the basis for this objective, universal moral.
23:17Because God never changes.
23:18It applies to all people of all time, of all ages, because the standard is God.
23:24And even the Ten Commandments themselves find the rationale here in the creation.
23:29God is creator.
23:30Don't worship idols.
23:32Man is made in God's image.
23:34So respect your parents.
23:36Don't lie.
23:37Don't murder.
23:38Don't steal.
23:39Don't sleep with your neighbor's wife.
23:41Why?
23:41Because man is created in God's image.
23:43All the rationale of the Ten Commandments are found in the creation.
23:47But you see, evolutionary Darwinism, naturalism, has no basis of morality.
23:54Think about it.
23:55If we just evolved, there therefore is no standard of morality.
24:00So who makes the standard of morality?
24:04Society.
24:05Or in the evolutionary view, the strongest.
24:08For the strongest will always overcome the weakest, and the weakest will die out.
24:13So the strongest makes the rules.
24:15There is no basis for morality in evolution.
24:18It's not there.
24:19What happens is we have morality by what's called a social construct.
24:25For example, when society says something is good, it becomes good.
24:28Because there's no standard of measure of it by.
24:31Whatever society says is good is good.
24:32Whatever society says is evil is evil.
24:34How can people rationalize human sacrifices where they cut people's hearts out?
24:41It becomes a norm in society.
24:42Why?
24:43Because there's no standard of morals to measure by.
24:46Society sets the standard.
24:48Look at what's happening to around us today.
24:50How many things that we know are absolutely wrong are being done in society today under the name of good?
24:56Why?
24:57Because society is setting the standard.
24:59Because society right now is living under the idea of evolutionary Darwinism.
25:03And not the biblical worldview.
25:07So we understand also, with those with a biblical worldview, we understand that all law, all law is rooted in
25:15the morality of God.
25:17Every law is rooted in the morality of God.
25:20So we make laws based on the morality of God.
25:23We don't want people to murder.
25:26It used to be a time to have adultery was punishable by more than just, oh, that was really bad.
25:32So we make laws based on the morality of God.
25:36But the problem with evolutionary Darwinism is law is also a social construct.
25:41Whoever's a powerful makes the laws.
25:44There's no standard whereby to judge whether law is good or bad.
25:47Simply they make it because society says, okay, this is good.
25:50Whatever works best is good for you.
25:53I used to like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the one appointed by Teddy Roosevelt to the Supreme Court in 1902.
26:00But I completely disagree with him.
26:02This is what he says.
26:04The justification for any given law is not that it represents an eternal principle.
26:10I disagree.
26:12Three, but that it helps bring out a social end which we desire.
26:20We make laws so we can shape society not based on the morality of God.
26:26Is that happening today?
26:31Four, creation provides the basis for human value.
26:36Why?
26:37Because we are created in the image of God.
26:40Every human is valuable.
26:43All unborn babies, not a glob of mass in a woman's womb, but it is a living human being.
26:50It's valuable.
26:54To love your neighbor as yourself.
26:55Why do we do that?
26:57Because people are created in the image of God.
26:59Human beings are valuable.
27:02There is no room in those with a biblical worldview for racism.
27:10It cannot exist.
27:11Why?
27:13Because we are all created in the image of God.
27:16You can't say this particular skin color is less of the image of God than this particular skin color.
27:22You can't do that.
27:24Human beings are created in the image of God.
27:26There is no place for racism.
27:28And you say, oh, in the church there's no racism.
27:32Our friend Dean Davis, some of you know him, was reporting to us at the churches of Louisiana.
27:39And he said flat out, they are racist.
27:45There's no room for racism.
27:46When we understand that every human being is created in the image of God, has God's image.
27:51But evolutionary Darwinism wants to say that value is not inherent in the person.
27:57In other words, you being in the created image, you are not, your value is not in you.
28:02But your value is in what you can add to society or what you can produce.
28:11Think about that for a second.
28:14Value is not inherent created in the image of God, but rather based on what one can produce for society
28:19or what one can add to society.
28:22I used to like, and this is a good demonstration of exactly what I'm talking about,
28:27I used to like also George Bernard Shaw until I heard him say this.
28:32I heard the actual video or the filming of this.
28:35He said, I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board,
28:41just as he might come before the income tax commissioners and say every five or seven years,
28:45just put them there and say, sir or madame, will you be kind enough to justify your existence?
28:54If you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more,
28:58then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive.
29:05Because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to you.
29:10I don't want to punish anybody,
29:12but there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill.
29:16That is evolutionary Darwinism to its extreme.
29:21There is no value in human life.
29:24Only what you can produce for society makes you useful.
29:28Those who can't produce are not useful in an evolutionary Darwinism worldview.
29:33But the Bible says, no, that's not true.
29:36The truth is man is created in the image of God.
29:41Five, creation provides a basis for true science.
29:45True science.
29:46True science is this.
29:47God created and made order in this universe.
29:50He established laws of the universe and we discover those laws.
29:54We discover that order.
29:55We discover God's creation as we study it as good scientists.
30:00If we start at the wrong point and say, oh, everything just evolved,
30:04then whatever we're viewing, we can put whatever we think into that.
30:07If we forget the origins.
30:10True science is based on creation.
30:13It's observable ordered laws that can be discovered through science.
30:17I guarantee you if I climb the bell tower and I step off the bell tower,
30:21what's going to happen?
30:22I'll fall.
30:23Why?
30:24There's an order in this universe.
30:26It's called gravity.
30:27I will be sucked to the ground.
30:32Now, let me show you a couple of slides.
30:34If I was walking along and I came across these rocks, this little mountain,
30:40I could look at it and I could say, you know,
30:43if I didn't have a biblical worldview, I could say, well, you know,
30:46maybe over time and the wind and the rain and erosion, you know, over time,
30:54you know, maybe that could have appeared or be made the way that it looks right now.
31:00I mean, that's possible.
31:03But if I came to this mountain and I looked at this mountain,
31:10no rational human being would ever say, oh, it was just a matter of time and wind
31:16and erosion and water and all of a sudden this came about.
31:21No rational human being would say that.
31:23What would they say?
31:24There is somebody behind it that designed those faces.
31:29And then they had the power and the ability to shape those faces on that mountain.
31:34They had the ability to make that.
31:37No one in their right mind would say that just happened.
31:40No one would say that.
31:42And as we look at God's ordered creation,
31:44as we look into the depths of the DNA of man
31:48or into some of the bacteria that we can study with microscopes, big, big microscopes,
31:54we can look into it and we can see an ordered creation.
31:57We can see that somebody designed this.
32:00It just didn't happen.
32:01It was designed.
32:03There has to be an intelligence that's greater than whatever it is that was designed to make what it is.
32:11Fifthly or sixthly, I lost track.
32:14Creation provides the basis for human purpose.
32:17Human purpose.
32:19God told the man and woman,
32:21be fruitful and multiply
32:23and order the earth and its inhabitants to yield its riches and accomplish God's purposes.
32:28What he said to them is this.
32:30Establish a society, civilization if you want to call that, or a culture.
32:34Establish that.
32:35As a matter of fact, when God told them to tend the garden,
32:37the word in Latin is cultivate.
32:40Cultivate the garden.
32:41Create a culture.
32:44So we call that the cultural mandate.
32:46Man has a purpose.
32:48He's to go out as an image bearer of God, knowing morality, knowing the creation,
32:53and to establish a culture that reflects God and God's morality and God's wisdom and God's might.
32:58That's what he's supposed to do.
33:00But you see, evolutionary Darwinism, there is no purpose.
33:05Because why?
33:06We came from the sludge in the ground,
33:08and we just over billions of years walked out of the sludge and walked around,
33:13stood up straight, and we walk around.
33:14We have no purpose.
33:17And that's the problem with many of our teenagers and many adults today.
33:22They do not have a sense of purpose in their life
33:25because they have been fed evolutionary Darwinism from birth.
33:30They misunderstand the origins.
33:36In evolutionary Darwinism, everything is chance, random.
33:39It's deterministic.
33:40There is no free will because the evolutionists tell us
33:44you are instinctively reacting to something,
33:47which means you have no free will in evolutionary Darwinism.
33:52Now, creation gives us all of those things.
33:56It provides a basis for everything.
33:58This is what I say in conclusion to that.
34:01It is time.
34:03We need to go on the offensive in our society.
34:10We need to go on the offensive and compel evolutionary Darwinists
34:15to face the logical conclusions of their own premises.
34:20One who says, law is just law by whoever makes the law.
34:24There is no standard of morality.
34:26And yet, the evolutionary Darwinist loves the Ten Commandments.
34:29You say, well, how can that be?
34:31That's ordered by God.
34:32That's given by God.
34:33I'll tell you how it is.
34:35No evolutionary Darwinist wants to be murdered.
34:37I guarantee it.
34:39No evolutionary Darwinist wants his wife or his daughter to be raped.
34:43I guarantee that.
34:45And what they're trying to tell us is,
34:46we want to live by your standard of morality that's there.
34:49We want the benefits of that.
34:51But we certainly don't want to claim that there's any objective universal standard of morality in life.
34:55We want to do our own thing.
34:57Yeah, but they surely appreciate the laws that are based on what?
34:59We want God's morals.
35:02You can't have it both ways.
35:04And it's time for us at the water cooler.
35:06It's time for us in our neighborhoods or even in our own households to go on the offensive.
35:10It's time for us to start doing something that we don't like to do sometimes as Christians.
35:15I know it's a bad word.
35:16I know it is.
35:18Think.
35:22Think.
35:22We need to think.
35:24We need to stop letting society tell us,
35:26your private life is your thing.
35:28Don't bring your Christianity to the public sphere because it's only based on beliefs, values, and faith.
35:34And we're going to come to them and we're going to say, no, it's not.
35:36It's based on truth.
35:37It's based on fact.
35:39It's based on total reality.
35:42And it's time for us to go on the offensive.
35:44It's time for us to change the society.
35:46Why do we have so many millions of babies being killed every year?
35:51Because evolutionary Darwinism says they have no value.
35:54They have no purpose.
35:55They don't serve my mother or the mother or the father.
35:59They're an inconvenience to them.
36:00Get rid of them.
36:02That's what we're told.
36:04For it truly affects everything that we do.
36:08Our laws.
36:10Our education.
36:13Our morality.
36:15It's all wrapped up in the origin of creation.
36:21You know, if I was thirsty, I would go get a glass of H2O, which is water.
36:28And it would satisfy my thirst.
36:30But let's say I couldn't find any H2O.
36:34But I was rummaging around and I found a bottle of H2O2.
36:40And I said, well, that's pretty close to H2O.
36:43I mean, that's just one atom off.
36:45It's sort of H2O as an O1 oxygen atom.
36:49It has two oxygen atoms.
36:51I mean, come on.
36:51That's not a big deal.
36:53H2O2.
36:54It's really close to H2O, isn't it?
36:56I could just drink that.
36:58I mean, come on.
36:59It's just one more oxygen atom.
37:05Well, H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.
37:08In small amounts, you can gargle in your mouth.
37:10But in full strength, if you drink it, it can be lethal.
37:14Just one little bit off.
37:16Just a little bit.
37:18And it becomes deadly to me.
37:21If we don't get origins right, it is deadly.
37:28Ask all the babies who have been aborted.
37:32Look at the history of man and look at our society today and tell me how important it is for
37:39us to understand origins.
37:41It affects everything in our lives.
37:44Father, I am so glad that you have revealed yourself in your word.
37:49I do have you as an eyewitness to understand creation.
37:52You were there.
37:53You created.
37:54You're telling me how it went.
37:58I was not there.
37:59I did not see it with my eyes.
38:00But as I look around your creative order, I can see your fingerprints all over the place.
38:08I can see your design in so many things.
38:12To me, there is the evidence of the reality of a creator God because your fingerprints are all over the
38:19place.
38:20I thank you, Father, that creation is truth.
38:23It is not error.
38:24It is not just faith or values or beliefs.
38:28It is total truth whereby I can live my life on.
38:33And I pray for us as a society that we would move away from evolutionary Darwinism and back to the
38:40origins,
38:41back to the creation and understand all of those things that are wrapped up in the creation
38:46so that our society can be exactly what you wanted it to be,
38:50a culture of people with a morality based on who you are,
38:55loving their neighbor as themselves and serving one another.
39:00Father, bring us back to the beginning so that we can understand.
39:04In Jesus' name, amen.
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