1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,800 Hi. 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:17,440 Before we get into this, I'm going to give everybody a piece of paper. 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,480 It's not to make an airplane or a crown. 4 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,280 We've actually got some cool stuff. 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,280 Cool stuff on there. 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:35,280 Then I'm going to do a little object lesson before we get into it. 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:45,280 Anybody wants extras? 8 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,280 I have extras. 9 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,280 I have a friend or something later. 10 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:57,280 First of all, I'm going to say to you that the world is not everything you think it is. 11 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,280 Most days, it's not everything that we perceive. 12 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,280 There's so much more going on. 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,280 Somebody else in the world looks just like you or almost like you. 14 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,280 Somebody else in the world might even have your same name. 15 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,280 Somebody just died in the last 10 seconds in a horrific way. 16 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,280 Here we sit peacefully in the chairs. 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,280 The world is not everything that we know that's going on. 18 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,280 So I'm going to just stretch your mind a little bit. 19 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,280 Do a little object lesson if you've ever seen this before. Don't ruin it for everybody. 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,280 I'll hold this pen up right here. 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,280 If I drop this pen, will it hit the floor? 22 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,280 Yeah. 23 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,280 Will you test this? 24 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,280 I'm happy. 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,280 Did it hit the floor? 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,280 It appeared in all observable phenomena. 27 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,280 I didn't hear it before. 28 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,280 It's pretty clear, right? 29 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,280 What if I told you that that is a mathematical impossibility? 30 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,280 What? 31 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:59,280 If I drop this marker from right here toward the floor, will it first pass halfway to the floor? 32 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,280 Yeah. 33 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,280 This marker will first pass halfway to the floor. 34 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,280 Then from that point, will it pass halfway to the floor again? 35 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,280 Yeah. 36 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,280 Sure. Then halfway to the floor again? 37 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,280 Yeah. 38 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,280 At what point will it stop passing halfway to the floor? 39 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,280 Oh, gosh. 40 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,280 When it hits the floor? 41 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,280 No. 42 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,280 What is the smallest space? 43 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,280 It's continuous over here. 44 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,280 It's infinite. 45 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,280 If it starts here and goes halfway to the floor first, and then halfway to the floor, and then halfway to the floor, 46 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:41,280 did you know that for the majority of the existence of mankind, zero did not exist? 47 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,280 It's a relatively new invention. 48 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,280 Okay, but if it's infinite, why does it bounce back at you? 49 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,280 I'd ask you the same question. 50 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,280 We observably know it hits the floor, and that's why it bounces back, right? 51 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:03,280 I would hypothesize, I don't want to get into this too deeply, because we're going to use it for this more than what we're talking about right now, 52 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:09,280 but I would hypothesize that eventually the space becomes infinitely small. 53 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:10,280 Does that make sense? 54 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,280 Right, infinitely. 55 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,280 If you divide it in half infinitely over time, then eventually the space becomes infinitely small. 56 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:25,280 And I would posit then, I'm making the statement that this is true, whether it's true or not, I can't prove it in this creation other than by what we observed, right? 57 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:31,280 But I would posit that infinitely small is the same as zero. 58 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,280 Now mathematically, that's not correct. 59 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:41,280 But if it's infinitely small, it's not the same as zero, right? 60 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:48,280 I want you to bear that in mind that as we look at a couple of things here, I've given you a handout, we're not going to go over all of this. 61 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:53,280 If there's one on here in particular in a minute, we're not going to be going that long, okay? 62 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,280 So if there's one on here in a minute that you particularly are interested in, then you can point out when that time comes. 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:05,280 And I have been hammering home in the last five minutes, three minutes, whatever it's been, is where it says Big Bang, universe begins. 64 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:13,280 So the scientists of the world, at one point in time, somebody hypothesized that the galaxy, the universe, everything that's created all matter, etc., 65 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,280 expanded suddenly from an infinitely small point. 66 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:24,280 I submit to you, if you'll follow this marker for one more time, I submit to you that infinitely small is non-existent. 67 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:35,280 So their argument is that everything expanded into being from an infinitely small amount of matter, infinitely small, and I submit to you infinitely small is zero, non-existent. 68 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:44,280 And if it's infinitely small, non-existent, and then suddenly became to be, then something caused it to be, because everything that happens has an effect, 69 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,280 and it is an effect, and it has a cause. 70 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,280 So the cause was, I like what the marker fell halfway, then halfway, halfway, halfway, halfway, again, 71 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:55,280 and eventually the space became infinitely small, and the marker impacted the floor. 72 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,280 The cause was, I dropped the marker, or as you said, gravity. 73 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,280 The speed is affected by gravity. 74 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:09,280 Also, by the way, this little scientific side note, we know that the speed is affected by mass and gravity, not error resistance. 75 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:16,280 So over a period of time, the falling object falls at 32 feet per second, per second, 76 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:21,280 and that is always the case, regardless of error resistance. 77 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:25,280 Now, there's glide, there's drift, that's the difference of this paper, that kind of thing, 78 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:31,280 but if the object is not sufficiently parachuting, let's say, that's glide and drift, right? 79 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:41,280 If the object is not sufficiently parachuting, then it will fall 32 feet per second per second, which means the first feet, first second, 32 feet, second, second, 64 feet, third second, 96 feet. 80 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:47,280 So you can actually calculate, if you drop something from 500 feet, exactly how many seconds it will take to hit the ground, 81 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,280 and it's a lot less than you think, by the way. 82 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,280 Okay, I want you to do that math. 83 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:58,280 So the bottom line is, they posit that the universe all began from an infinitely small point. 84 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:06,280 I totally agree that infinitely small point is non-existence, something had to cause it, that is actually a proof for God. 85 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:08,280 You follow? 86 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:11,280 So what we're talking about today is apologetics. 87 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:18,280 Apologetics, the science of apologetics comes from the Greek word, apologia, and it means a reasoned argument. 88 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:24,280 I can give you a good reason why we believe everything that we believe, everything we believe about God, 89 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:32,280 everything we believe about Jesus, everything we believe about creation, everything we believe about Moses, Abraham, Adam, Jacob, Isaac. 90 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:34,280 I can give you good reasons why we believe all of those things. 91 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:39,280 I cannot anymore, anyway, I could maybe years ago, but now it's all been dispelled, 92 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:43,280 give you a good reason why anybody believes evolution. 93 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:45,280 You say, well, yeah, they have good reasons, yeah. 94 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:49,280 Well, most of the good reasons that did exist have all now drifted away, right? 95 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:54,280 They had extinct fish, and now the fish have been found to not be extinct, 96 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,280 or they had what they said were middle forms between one form and another, 97 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:04,280 but then they later found those middle forms existing at the same time as both the former and the latter, 98 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:07,280 a hundred or a thousand or thousands of years later. 99 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,280 So this didn't die out to make this, it just doesn't make any sense. 100 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,280 The bottom line is I can give you reasonable arguments for everything we believe. Go. 101 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,280 Maybe you could just give me an idea between what you think and what you think. 102 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,280 I just thought that I was cool. 103 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,280 Yeah, so there's a debate whether it's two or one. 104 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,280 I've heard somebody say one percent, but the bottom line is not much, is it? 105 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,280 Yeah. And actually, that sounds like a really big deal, 106 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,280 but do you know what the percentage difference in DNA between a man and a dog is? 107 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,280 Does somebody have their phone? 108 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,280 Google that, and we'll come back. 109 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:45,280 Yeah, what's the DNA difference between a man and a banana? How about that? 110 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Okay, so it sounds like crazy that we're so close to monkeys, 111 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,280 but once you look those numbers up, you won't be thinking it's quite as crazy, 112 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,280 or you'll be thinking it's all kind of crazy. 113 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,280 All right, anyway, DNA is the next thing we're going to talk about on this list. 114 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,280 As a matter of fact, it's coming. 115 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:09,280 All right, so DNA is the language that is written in cells that determines what they do. 116 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,280 50%? 117 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,280 50%. 118 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,280 With a banana? 119 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,280 With a banana. 120 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:14,280 What? 121 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,280 Yeah, some have estimated more than 60%, actually. 122 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:25,280 Now, I submit to you this a great argument right there, because why on earth would the DNA, 123 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,280 what would make any sense if the DNA would be similar between a man and a banana? 124 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,280 Why would that be? Banana is a completely different thing. 125 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,280 Why make the DNA and the cells function the same way? Look the same way? The same kind of... 126 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,280 25% for a dog. 127 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,280 We're less DNA with a dog than we do with a man. 128 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,280 I guess that's good, because they breathe and stuff. 129 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,280 So we are all basically vegetables. 130 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,280 In a way, we're cellular matter, carbon-based. 131 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,280 There are no non-carbon-based life forms really that are prevalent anyway. 132 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,280 So that's part of why. 133 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:05,280 But the question is, that indicates, if there is language, if I wrote instructions out to 134 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Solow on a piece of paper on what to do, and I wrote the same set of instructions out to Curtis 135 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,280 on a piece of paper, and I wrote almost the same instructions, but 1% off out to Josh 136 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,280 and give him a piece of paper, the three of you got together 137 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,280 without even knowing where those notes came from, you'd look at them and you say, 138 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,280 hey, these came from the same person. 139 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,280 The writing looks the same. 140 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,280 Your directions are a little bit different than mine, but clearly they still came from the same person. 141 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,280 That is DNA evidence. 142 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,280 DNA is composed of intense parts that form essentially like a pattern. 143 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,280 If you've probably seen that twisting helix thing that DNA makes. 144 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,280 And they're just in different order. 145 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,280 So if you take, I'll get you in one second, if you take different components 146 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:48,280 and you put them in different order to give directions, what's that called? 147 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,280 If I take different parts, sticks and circles and things like that, 148 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,280 and I put them together to give somebody directions, what's that called? 149 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,280 It's a sequence. Say it again? 150 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,280 Written language. 151 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,280 Written language, that's what it is, right? 152 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,280 Dots and spaces. 153 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,280 That's Morris Code. 154 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,280 But it represents letters. It's a language. 155 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,280 And people learn it like a language. 156 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,280 It's actually easier to learn than most languages, 157 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,280 but then you're still limited by your own vocabulary once you've learned it. 158 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,280 What words do you know? 159 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,280 And if you dot, dot, dot, dot in French and I only speak English, 160 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,280 I'm going to look, I'm going to look at what you're talking about. 161 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:27,280 I don't know what you're talking about. 162 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Because that's how it might have been a French word when I spelled that out. 163 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,280 It's got funny characters. 164 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,280 I got that in French and you wanted it first. 165 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:39,280 So the point is, DNA is language. 166 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,280 Language proves intelligence. 167 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,280 So now between the Big Bang Theory, 168 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,280 we had a cause that created everything, 169 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,280 started from nothing. Boom! Here it is, between that. 170 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,280 And at the same time as the boom happened, 171 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:57,280 language was written in all of the living objects of creation 172 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,280 that was essentially similar, 173 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:05,280 and it proves that an intelligent designer created every living thing. 174 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:10,280 Now most scientists who are basically okay with thinking, right? 175 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,280 Conclude that. Some don't. Go ahead, Sola. 176 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,280 Do you have a question? 177 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:24,280 So you were saying about how most living names have a certain shared amount of DNA, right? 178 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Yep. 179 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:32,280 How is it the case when we come from other humans and bananas come from trees? 180 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,280 So bananas get their DNA from their trees, right? 181 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,280 It's passed down. A banana is basically a seed, right? 182 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,280 It's passed down from a tree, right? 183 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:46,280 Which comes from the previous banana, seed, tree, and so on all the way back to the beginning. 184 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,280 And the DNA that was written in the living plant was written by God. 185 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:57,280 I think the bananas is like fingernails. You can kind of take the fingernail off. 186 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,280 A banana is kind of like that. I'm bringing her. 187 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,280 Okay. Arden? 188 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,280 An extremely simple explanation for how that works is that 189 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:12,280 roughly 90% of the DNA that you possess is a series of yes-no options. 190 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,280 If something is triggered yes, and you have that, 191 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,280 somebody triggered no, and you don't. 192 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:22,280 So banana, all of that DNA that we share with the banana is those series of yes-no options. 193 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,280 And there, yes-no options make them look like bananas, 194 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,280 and our yes-no options make us look like humans. 195 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,280 It's looks, it's texture, it's color. 196 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:40,280 So basically what you're saying is that God was doing multiple exams with multiple choice questions 197 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,280 and decided to press random eyes. 198 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:48,280 Well, I mean, that's really simple because DNA is not actually all yes-no, right? 199 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,280 It's a lot more than that. But you're getting the basic idea. 200 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,280 And languages like that, that's why you can get monkeys to type complete sentences. 201 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,280 Because they just bang away at the keys. 202 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,280 And if they bang away at the keys for long enough, 203 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,280 it just happens to randomize into something that looks like language. 204 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,280 But in the case of God, it all looks like language. 205 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,280 There's no randomness to it. It all looks like languages. 206 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,280 So inside every living organism, I don't want to do all this too long, 207 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,280 because I have a couple more of these I want to hit. 208 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,280 Inside every living organism are cells. 209 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,280 Cells need directions on what to let in and what to not let in. 210 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,280 They need directions on how to replicate themselves and make more of themselves, right? 211 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,280 So basically birthing a new cell, how to split down. 212 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,280 And the way that works with DNA is they will literally replicate their DNA. 213 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,280 So the DNA is clenched together and it begins to come apart. 214 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,280 As it comes apart, the middle section is filled with the other section. 215 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,280 It's like if I had a right hand and a left hand clasping and as I pulled it apart, 216 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,280 a right hand formed here holding onto this and a left hand formed here holding onto this. 217 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,280 Now I've got double DNA. 218 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,280 Then the cell splits right down the middle between the two DNAs. 219 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,280 We've got two cells. 220 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,280 That's got to be programmed in the DNA for that to happen. 221 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,280 It's programmed in human DNA. 222 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,280 Right now, as you're sitting there, cells in your liver, cells in your bicep, 223 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,280 cells in your, not your hair, because technically your hair is dead, 224 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,280 but in your follicles, right? 225 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,280 But in all the parts of your body are replicating. 226 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:14,280 As you get older, they replicate less well beyond what we call time of life. 227 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:19,280 And your healing processes slow down and they don't divide as well and so on. 228 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,280 And things like your hair grays and your skin gets wrinkly. 229 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,280 Your liver stops working. 230 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,280 You got to go get dialysis or whatever. 231 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,280 You can still catch them. 232 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,280 You can take it off with relatively little pain, right? 233 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,280 Because there's no nerves in it. 234 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,280 The follicle that creates the hair is alive. 235 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,280 And it's, if I can say it this way, 236 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,280 your follicle is continuing to poop out your hair all day long. 237 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,280 Right? 238 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,280 I've never heard somebody de-mug science with science. 239 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:49,280 Oh, there you go. 240 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,280 So that's what we're doing today. 241 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:54,280 So apologetics is the reasons, arguments are reasons, 242 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,280 defense of what we believe. 243 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,280 So between DNA and Big Bang Universe begins, 244 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:05,280 you pretty well pretty much debunked evolution and all that good jazz. 245 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,280 You pretty well put... 246 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,280 Right? 247 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,280 So we're going to hit just one more, I think, off this top list. 248 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,280 I'll give you, but if you want more, if there's something there that catches your eye, 249 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:22,280 please point out because we won't be able to do all of these. 250 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,280 So irreducible design. 251 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,280 So when you're talking about evolution, 252 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,280 the point is that animals evolve based on their environment 253 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,280 and they get better at doing something and helps them survive better. 254 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,280 The ones that got better survived better 255 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,280 and the ones that didn't get better died off. 256 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,280 That's natural selection, right? 257 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:40,280 That's how it works. 258 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,280 And so then they say, this, that's how we got new species, right? 259 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:50,280 But the problem is there are species that exist that are irreducible. 260 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,280 There's a single-celled organism, a single-celled amoeba, 261 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,280 that has a tail. 262 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:01,280 I'll probably mess the exact number up, but it has a tail that has like 125 unique parts in its tail. 263 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:02,280 It's a single-cell. 264 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:03,280 How did that evolve? 265 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,280 What did that evolve up from? 266 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,280 It could not have evolved up from another living organism because it's a single-cell. 267 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,280 There's nothing smaller that's alive, right? 268 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,280 So to say that things evolved up into more complex life forms, 269 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,280 there it is, a single-cell organism that's super complex already. 270 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,280 So it didn't evolve up from something. 271 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,280 It was obviously created that way. 272 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,280 And humanized as an example of this is monstrously complex, right? 273 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:32,280 And it doesn't, nothing like it exists anywhere else in creation and so on. 274 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:37,280 So irreducible design is another argument for how, against evolution of for God's creation. 275 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,280 Yes, sir. 276 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:39,280 Okay. 277 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,280 Is everything in so complex? 278 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,280 Not everything is complex, but go ahead. 279 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,280 Why am I never able to hear anything across the street, 280 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,280 but my dog can hear anything within a 10 mile radius? 281 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:57,280 Yeah, so dog's hearings ranges different frequencies. 282 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,280 Sound, all sound is in frequencies, right? 283 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,280 And so if you have a sound that comes from far away, 284 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,280 the way sound works is it travels as a wave, like this, right? 285 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,280 High sounds, low sounds have different waves. 286 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,280 So high sounds will tend to travel differently. 287 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,280 Like they'll, like a clacking or even a gunshot has a bit of a clacking to it, something like that. 288 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,280 We'll travel a long way. 289 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:25,280 Well, dogs can hear a much higher range of sound than we can. 290 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,280 So the bits of, like if you, if you went outside right now and you yelled, you said, 291 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,280 Hey, really loud, right? 292 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,280 You would think that's bassy and loud. 293 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:38,280 To you, it would sound bassy and loud, but your voice spans a wide range of sound. 294 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,280 You're just not hearing the high end. 295 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:46,280 A mile away that your dog won't hear the hey, but he might hear the that goes with it. 296 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:47,280 Right? 297 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:52,280 And you hear, Hey, your dog hears, Hey, but he also hears, huh? 298 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:57,280 So that's, that's why, that's why animals respond differently because they're, 299 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,280 they're range and certain sounds travel much better. 300 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,280 So big sounds cause vibrations. 301 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,280 So actually they travel better through surfaces, through water. 302 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,280 That's if you go underwater, you're going to water and you hear underwater, you hear, 303 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:16,280 you can only hear those bassy noises because big sounds, big wave sounds travel through water. 304 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:20,280 As a vibration where the little sounds just bounce off the water. 305 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,280 So you don't hear the little sounds. 306 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:23,280 Okay. 307 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,280 So back on task. 308 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,280 All right. 309 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:26,280 Okay, go. 310 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,280 I'm good for questions, bro. 311 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,280 This is what this time is about. 312 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:35,280 You said, um, you said that it's bassy sounds travel through the water while the high pitch 313 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,280 sounds travel off of the water. 314 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,280 Kind of, yeah. 315 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:44,280 If you're underwater, how does the high sound get the chance that I was off of the water? 316 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,280 Well, if you're underwater and you create a sound, you probably would only create low 317 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:49,280 sounds. 318 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,280 If you create high sounds, they will travel through the water. 319 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,280 They're just not going to travel as far, right? 320 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,280 All sound will vibrate anything. 321 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:01,280 Like if I play a, if I play the string on this bass guitar, you wouldn't know it, but 322 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,280 this paper right next to it is vibrating. 323 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,280 But it isn't only my sound that's vibrating, right? 324 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,280 But the thread, this cord is designed to vibrate and it's designed to produce a sound 325 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,280 so we can hear it. 326 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:12,280 That makes any sense. 327 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:13,280 So all sounds create vibration. 328 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:18,280 In fact, by the way, what you're actually hearing is the vibration that's created in 329 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:23,280 the tiny bones in your ear and then it recreates the sound inside your ear and your brain interprets 330 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:24,280 it. 331 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,280 Okay. 332 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:32,280 This is not a lesson about inner ear. 333 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,280 So we disagree about the anatomy of the inner ear, but yeah, they're very, very small. 334 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:43,280 The bones are here, here, okay. 335 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,280 Yeah, you can get all that kind of stuff. 336 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,280 All right. 337 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,280 So a couple of arguments. 338 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:57,280 Someone says, someone says, I just, frankly, don't believe in God unless I can see him. 339 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:02,280 Unless I can see God or experience God firsthand, I wouldn't believe in him. 340 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:03,280 Well, there's miracles. 341 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,280 There's testimony and there's the complexity of creation. 342 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,280 There's plenty of evidence. 343 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:13,280 You're not going to see God ever the way you see another person because God, as the Bible 344 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:14,280 explains, is spirit. 345 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,280 Can he take a physical form and do physical things? 346 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,280 Sure, he can, but he is spirit. 347 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,280 And so light does not bounce off of spirit. 348 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:29,280 So that whole idea of, oh, we're going to go in the old prison that closed down and we're 349 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,280 going to shine ultraviolet light and detect ghosts and whatever. 350 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,280 That's all a bunch of hooey. 351 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,280 Light doesn't bounce off of spirits. 352 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:42,280 So you might see a semi-physical form of a demon or something because that could actually 353 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,280 reflect light, but the bottom line is spirits are invisible to the naked eye because all 354 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,280 the eye is just picking up the light that's bouncing back off of stuff and making an image 355 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,280 in your brain. 356 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,280 That's all that's happening. 357 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,280 Okay. 358 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,280 People say, what about suffering? 359 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,280 This is one of the worst arguments that people use. 360 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,280 How can God be? 361 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:07,280 If God exists and he is all powerful and he is all loving, then how can there be suffering? 362 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,280 And the answer to that is free will. 363 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,280 People create the suffering. 364 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,280 In fact, we've been creating, we've been really, really good at it. 365 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,280 We're creating suffering for thousands of years now. 366 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,280 Probably six to 8,000 years, not millions. 367 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,280 The earth has probably been here for under 10,000 years, but you can do that science 368 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,280 on your own is really good arguments for under 10,000 years. 369 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,280 Yes, sir. 370 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,280 It brings on always bad behavior. 371 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,280 No. 372 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:36,280 Because before out of the need, like, you know, animals would eat trees for and stuff like 373 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,280 that, but then God, in His great mercy, gave us protection. 374 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,280 Animals had to survive. 375 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,280 They no longer could have what they had. 376 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:49,280 So they have to eat other animals and people had to start to fight him. 377 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:55,280 And with suffering, for instance, let's say if you would cut yourself and you were bleeding, 378 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,280 but you did suffer. 379 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,280 I mean, you really could just keep bleeding not knowing what's going on. 380 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:06,280 Yeah, actually suffering actually is actually, that's a good thing, but sometimes levels of 381 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,280 suffering is what allows healing, is allowed warning, allows protection. 382 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,280 Not to make it all good, but in a way suffering is not always the same. 383 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:22,280 Nobody likes this thought, but the truth is your suffering protects you from worse suffering. 384 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,280 Your suffering protects you from worse suffering. 385 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,280 Yeah. 386 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:31,280 So, okay, so we're going to skip down to the next slide, which I didn't grab the thing 387 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,280 I'm about. 388 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,280 Somebody's back there. 389 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,280 I'm not doing all these, but if you see one that I'm not doing that you really want to 390 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:42,280 talk about, that's fine because we're piling through this and you get to take paper home. 391 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,280 Okay, so we'll talk about the resurrection. 392 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,280 So someone will say, yeah, Jesus was just some famous guy that lived. 393 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,280 Most people do not argue that Jesus lived. 394 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,280 He is a historical character. 395 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,280 There is a gazillion points of testimony. 396 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,280 In fact, there's probably more testimony, more written and eyewitness recorded and that kind 397 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:07,280 of thing, testimony about Jesus having lived and most of what he did in his lifetime. 398 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,280 Then there is anything that happened more than 500 years ago. 399 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:15,280 Yeah, there's that. 400 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,280 So, there's eyewitness testimony. 401 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:23,280 There were people who saw him dead, people who saw him alive. 402 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:28,280 If you went into court, not knowing you got served on a jury and you don't know anybody 403 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,280 that's involved, but there was eyewitness testimony that says, yeah, I saw Bob alive. 404 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,280 I saw Brenda go in the room with Bob with a gun. 405 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,280 Brenda came out. 406 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,280 I looked in the room. 407 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,280 Bob was dead. 408 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:40,280 I looked in the room. 409 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,280 You would assume Brenda killed Bob, right? 410 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,280 Because there's eyewitness testimony that makes it fit. 411 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280 It's just logical, right? 412 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,280 So you have, in order to not believe in the resurrection, people have to be willing to 413 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,280 throw out eyewitness testimony. 414 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,280 They might do that based on the fact that it's so old. 415 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,280 That doesn't work in a court of law, right? 416 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:05,280 So a reasonable, in a court of law, you're looking for a reasonable belief that the person is not guilty. 417 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:10,280 If there's any reasonable reason, any logical reasonable reason that he could not be guilty, 418 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,280 then you find him not guilty, right? 419 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,280 Murder has no limits. 420 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,280 There's no, what do you call it, statute of limitations on murder, right? 421 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,280 So if somebody murdered 200 years ago and they had eyewitness testimony from 200 years ago, 422 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:27,280 nobody's alive anymore, or even a thousand years ago, right? 423 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,280 They could convict somebody and say, yeah, he murdered them based on that, but they have no problem with that, 424 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,280 because eyewitness testimony does not fade. 425 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,280 And we have eyewitness testimony to the fact that Jesus was alive, he was crucified, 426 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,280 and then later, on the third day, he was alive again, right? 427 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:49,280 The reliability of the witnesses in Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection are better than you'll ever get. 428 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,280 In a court of law, they will look at the witnesses and they will say, 429 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,280 does this person have a reason to be telling the truth? 430 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,280 Does this person have a reason to lie, right? 431 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,280 So the disciples, testifying about Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection, 432 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,280 were immediately in danger of being put to death. 433 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,280 So what should they have done? 434 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,280 They, by all rights, should have shut up. 435 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,280 This is called adversarial testimony. 436 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,280 It means they testified, no it's not, I got that wrong, I apologize, 437 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,280 it's the other one, I'm about to talk about it with that. 438 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:26,280 Anyway, they testified that Jesus lived, was crucified, and rose again, and they died for it. 439 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:34,280 People will die for a lie, but only if they truly believe it, right? 440 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:41,280 If they don't believe it, they would have to have some very, like, for the life of their family. 441 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,280 Like, if you don't die for this lie, then I'm going to slit your daughter's throat or something, right? 442 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,280 Those would be the kind of, only those kinds of things where people die for a lie. 443 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,280 They have to really believe it, or they have to really something to be at stake. 444 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,280 And for them, it was nothing, they were fishermen, they could have went back to fishing, right? 445 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,280 Or they were tax collectors, they could have gone back to tax, collecting taxes. 446 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:06,280 But they stayed to the end, and they died to a man, despite the fact they would be put to death, 447 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,280 because they knew it was true. 448 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:14,280 Because if I'm put to death for this, I'm going to come back to life, just like I saw Jesus do. 449 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:15,280 See? 450 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,280 So the reliability of the witnesses in that case is amazing. 451 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,280 The adversarial witness, the people who hated Jesus. 452 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,280 There were people alive in Jesus' day who hated him. 453 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:31,280 And yet, they wrote in journals, they recorded in history, they spoke publicly about the fact that he lived and died and rose again. 454 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,280 People that would never have admitted it. 455 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,280 Admitted it. 456 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,280 Josephus, who was a non-Christian Jewish historian, recorded, 457 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:45,280 about that time there was a man named Jesus Christ, people thought he was the Messiah, he lived, 458 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:51,280 they eventually crucified him, and then later he was seen again amongst his disciples doing miracles. 459 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,280 That's the recorded history that Josephus wrote, and he was not a believer. 460 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,280 And so if you can get every kind of reliable eyewitness testimony, then it happened. 461 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,280 That's the bottom line. 462 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:07,280 Also, Jesus' life, death, burial, resurrection was confirmed by prophecy. 463 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,280 There are hundreds of Old Testament prophecies. 464 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,280 Does anybody know one Old Testament prophecy, solo? 465 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,280 Solo. 466 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,280 Do you know one Old Testament prophecy? 467 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:24,280 Anything in the Old Testament that was told about Jesus that actually happened. 468 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,280 You said Old Testament? 469 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,280 Yep. 470 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,280 How great that happened to you? 471 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,280 That happened. 472 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,280 That has nothing to do with Jesus. 473 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,280 Oh. 474 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:32,280 Well, that's not true. 475 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,280 Jesus was there and had everything to do with him, but I'm talking about Jesus' life. 476 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:40,280 Was there something in Old Testament that you know that the prophets said would happen that happened in Jesus? 477 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,280 Yeah. 478 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,280 How did he have to say it? 479 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,280 RJ? 480 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,280 Born of a virgin. 481 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:47,280 Born of a virgin. 482 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:48,280 Classic, right? 483 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,280 Okay. 484 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,280 And then the easy ones on the paper, he would be crucified. 485 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:58,280 Did you know that when he was prophesied over 500 years before Jesus' birth that he would be crucified, 486 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,280 that at that time crucifixion had not yet been invented? 487 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:11,280 So before Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, the method of his death had not yet been put in place. 488 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,280 Is that not amazing? 489 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,280 He was hung on a tree. 490 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,280 Now, you could say, well, they just meant hanging by a rope, right? 491 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,280 But that's not what it says. 492 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:23,280 All right. 493 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:28,280 Also, it says his bones would not be broken. 494 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,280 No bones would be broken. 495 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,280 I also said he'd come back to life specifically on the third day. 496 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,280 And the list just goes on. 497 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,280 There are over 300. 498 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,280 This is what's cool. 499 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:47,280 If to just fulfill a very small amount of those prophecies, for one person, we'll fill them all, right? 500 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:48,280 What's the number? 501 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,280 Let's say a dozen. 502 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,280 To fulfill a dozen of those prophecies perfectly, which Jesus fulfilled over 300 of them, 503 00:28:54,280 --> 00:29:00,280 but to fulfill a dozen of them would be impossible. 504 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,280 The odds of that are crazy. 505 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,280 Astronomical, right? 506 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:14,280 They did a mathematical calculation for Jesus to fulfill 40, 40, not 400, but 40, 40 of those prophecies, 507 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:22,280 would be the same as if you took quarters, stacked them on the state of Texas, big state, state of Texas. 508 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,280 And it goes three feet deep, right? 509 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:32,280 Then flew over Texas in a jet at 5,000 feet or whatever, and dropped a coin out the window, a quarter out the window. 510 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:40,280 Then flew back home, got a good night's sleep, and then flew back to Texas and picked up one quarter, and it was the one you dropped. 511 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,280 That's the odds. 512 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,280 It's impossible, right? 513 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:48,280 So Jesus was who he said he was, and he did claim to be God while he was alive. 514 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:54,280 God in the flesh died, was buried, rose again on the third day, walked with his disciples for 40 days after that, 515 00:29:54,280 --> 00:30:00,280 and initiated the church of which we are a part, if you have accepted Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior. 516 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,280 People say Jesus did not claim to be God. 517 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,280 Jesus said, I and the Father are one. 518 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:07,280 Right? 519 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:14,280 And another number of statements he made basically saying, in fact, what they said, what they eventually wanted to kill him for, 520 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:20,280 he claimed to be God, and then that's when they picked up stones and tried to stone him, but then he walked away at that time and later was killed. 521 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,280 Right? 522 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:30,280 So the bottom line is if Jesus claimed to be God, he's either Lord, he is God, he deserves to be Lord, liar, or lunatic. 523 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:36,280 You're going to look at his life and the things that he did, and he's no liar, and he clearly wasn't nuts. 524 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,280 Therefore, he deserves to be Lord. 525 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,280 Okay? 526 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:51,280 And then if you look to the right at the truth, if you want to talk about truth, this really, so 20 years ago, started something called the postmodern movement in the world. 527 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,280 30 years ago. 528 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,280 And people began to question truth. 529 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,280 Is truth relevant? 530 00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:59,280 Is your truth my truth? 531 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,280 Whatever. 532 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,280 Do we agree? 533 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,280 Do we have to agree? 534 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,280 We're all going to disagree to disagree. 535 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,280 I think there's gravity. 536 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,280 I don't think there is gravity. 537 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,280 Well, I dropped the pen. 538 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:07,280 I think it hits the floor. 539 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:08,280 I don't think it does hit the floor. 540 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,280 Everybody has different truths. 541 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,280 Right? 542 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,280 That began. 543 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,280 And it created a ripple that is now going on today. 544 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,280 The bottom line is this. 545 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,280 The truth is an absolute. 546 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,280 By definition. 547 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,280 We got up in the dictionary. 548 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,280 It is what it is. 549 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,280 It's true. 550 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:25,280 You know, it's testable. 551 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,280 It's reasonable. 552 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,280 It's examable. 553 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,280 It's true. 554 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,280 It's true. 555 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:36,280 So then they say it's offensive to claim that Jesus is the only way. 556 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:37,280 Right? 557 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,880 Except that that's pretty much what all religions say. 558 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,280 They tell you how to get to God. 559 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,280 The nature of a religion. 560 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,280 A religion is a thing that tells you how to get to God. 561 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,280 Jesus said, I am the way and the truth. 562 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,280 No man comes over the Father except by me. 563 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,280 Jesus said, I didn't say it. 564 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,280 Jesus said it. 565 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,280 So we're just quoting Jesus when we say he's the only way to heaven. 566 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,280 Right? 567 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,280 So all religions tell you they're the way. 568 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:57,280 Even atheism. 569 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,280 Just try to argue with an atheist about whether or not there is a God or not. 570 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,280 They're pretty stubborn. 571 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,280 They want you to believe there is no God. 572 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,280 Right? 573 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,280 And they know they're right and they're the only one that's right. 574 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,280 Right? 575 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,280 But then they'll in another context, we're not talking about whether there's a God or 576 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,280 not, they'll debate your truth. 577 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,280 They'll say, well, your truth is fine for you, but it's not fine for me. 578 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:20,280 Okay. 579 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,280 But they'll adamantly say you're wrong if you're not agreeing with their atheism. 580 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,280 And all truth is exclusive. 581 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:31,280 The bottom line is if something is true, its opposite is untrue. 582 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:38,400 But more so than that, if something is true, any variant of it is untrue. 583 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,580 If I would say to you, my car is in the parking lot. 584 00:32:41,580 --> 00:32:47,720 It's a 2010 Dodge Caravan white with a slightly painted fender in the front left. 585 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,520 Because I had to patch it because I already bumped the dumpster. 586 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,680 And it's got some dirt on the top that I've been cleaning off because it's like from the 587 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:56,680 tree to the fraudster. 588 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:57,680 And I did all of that. 589 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,680 Is what I just said true, does anybody know my vehicle? 590 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,680 What? 591 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:03,680 Is it true? 592 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,680 It's wrong. 593 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,680 It's not. 594 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,880 Because I said the damage was on the front left bumper, but it's on the front right. 595 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,080 It only takes one aspect. 596 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,160 The difference is you may not know the one aspect, right? 597 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,280 You didn't know it was on the front right, so the front left, whatever. 598 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,280 But that's it. 599 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:21,280 Jesus didn't do that. 600 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:22,880 Jesus didn't play around. 601 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:23,880 And they killed him for it. 602 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,360 The bottom line is it's true. 603 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,680 He's true. 604 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,280 And truth is exclusive. 605 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,440 It only takes one little thing to be different and you're out. 606 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,560 So my assertion and the assertion of any Christian really should be that upon close and personal 607 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:42,760 open-minded examination of the facts surrounding and including in the Gospel, any person might 608 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,640 conclude that Jesus is indeed the way, the truth, and the life. 609 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,560 If you refuse, you are not refusing on grounds of logic. 610 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,760 Don't play with me. 611 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,000 All right? 612 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,520 We'll figure it out. 613 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,920 If we're still discussing it, that's one thing. 614 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,960 But if you won't believe the truth, that's on you, right? 615 00:33:58,960 --> 00:33:59,960 It's the truth. 616 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:01,640 It is what it is and you won't believe it. 617 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,640 That's on you. 618 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:07,440 So, same way with your friends, same way with your family, same with your coworkers where 619 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,840 if they won't believe the truth, there's something more going on there. 620 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,640 Unfortunately, because of this whole post-modern era that started, people started taking the 621 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,720 Christian truth, the truth that Jesus taught, and tweak it a little bit. 622 00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:22,600 Like I love Jesus. 623 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,240 Jesus is my Lord, I'm living for Jesus, but it's okay that I insert whatever that thing 624 00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:28,640 is that you do that you really shouldn't do. 625 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,320 Sleep with my girlfriend, steal money from my mother's purse. 626 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,840 Because Jesus is my Lord and I'm going to heaven anyway. 627 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,840 He'll forgive it. 628 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:37,840 He'll forget it. 629 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:38,840 It'll be fine. 630 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:39,840 I can do these bad things. 631 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,280 That's not Christianity. 632 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,280 Jesus said, if you love me, you follow my commands. 633 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,240 So you do what it is that Jesus has to do. 634 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,360 That's why it's such a problem, right? 635 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,560 And Jesus said, not everyone who says unto me, Lord, Lord, we'll get into heaven. 636 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,760 But those who follow the commands of my Father, who is in heaven. 637 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,320 You want to go be with God? 638 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,820 Follow God's rules. 639 00:34:58,820 --> 00:35:03,400 Not his rules, but his pattern for your life, which he's willing to walk through with you. 640 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,920 So the bottom line is, I submit to you and I would like you to take this opinion that 641 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,720 if any person wants to talk about it, and they really honestly, and I'm going to give 642 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:17,760 you one story to close on, they really honestly want to look at it, then they will come to 643 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,960 a logical conclusion that Jesus is real. 644 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,880 And if they don't, it's okay. 645 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,160 Their personhood should be respected. 646 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:25,160 Their opinions are respected. 647 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,160 You don't have to be mad at them. 648 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,880 You don't have to argue with them. 649 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,040 You present it like it is, and if they won't accept it, then they just won't accept it. 650 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:36,640 But sometime later on in life, maybe they will. 651 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,400 I'll share this one story and then we'll be done. 652 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:44,400 So back years ago, I taught youth vacation Bible school at East Lidl Baptist Church, 653 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,400 and there was a young lady there who was coming and she invited a bunch of friends from high 654 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:48,400 school. 655 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,800 She was a popular cheerleader, so she got a bunch of friends to come. 656 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:56,680 And one of the guys that came, a young man who was 15 I think, and he was a devout Muslim. 657 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:01,560 And he come to Christian vacation Bible school for the youth. 658 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:07,880 And we're sitting there afterwards and we had had our lesson and we had had our ice 659 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,280 cream, I think we're having for snack. 660 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,600 He said, he's sitting across the table from me. 661 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:18,160 And he just started asking me, he said, you know, how do you know that what you're talking 662 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,160 about is true? 663 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,160 How do you know it's true? 664 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,680 And I said, well, I can tell you how I know it's true. 665 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,920 And I listed off a whole bunch of things like I, for the Holy Spirit, speak to me. 666 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,480 I felt his presence in my heart. 667 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,920 I turned my life over to the Lord. 668 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,120 The experience I had when I became a Christian, I had to walk away from so many things that 669 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:39,280 I was doing or who I was before and being somebody new and miracles that I had seen. 670 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,280 I could tell you stories of miracles. 671 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,240 I mean, we'll do that another time. 672 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:46,560 But even then, I had seen enough to know, these are all, it's how I know it's true. 673 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,880 He said, but I haven't seen any of that. 674 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,120 I haven't experienced any of that. 675 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,160 God wants me to believe and I haven't experienced any of that. 676 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,880 And he said, if God would, this is what he said, if God would only send somebody to talk 677 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,800 to me about Jesus, I would believe. 678 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,120 And I said, well, what am I, a chopped liver? 679 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:06,520 When we sit here talking for 20 minutes, and he goes, oh, you mean God said you to talk 680 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,520 to me about Jesus? 681 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,240 And he goes, yeah, I see what you're saying. 682 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,240 I guess that's kind of true. 683 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:14,280 He said, but here's the thing, if I had said Jesus, my family, you know, they'll kick me 684 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,280 out of there. 685 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,280 My dad would never have it. 686 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,280 I'd have to hide it and steal it. 687 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:18,280 I wouldn't be able to sleep in my bed at night, whatever. 688 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,400 He said, it's really going to be rough. 689 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,160 You just don't understand how hard it can be. 690 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,720 I said, no, I do, but I don't. 691 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:28,280 I mean, I don't know your personal situation, but I know how bad it will be. 692 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,280 I got an inkling of how bad it will be if you don't accept Jesus. 693 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,680 And he said, well, if God would just show me something, God would just do something in 694 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:41,640 me, affect me, then I would accept Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. 695 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:47,160 And I said, to which I would say back to you, the moment you just sink, you're ready to 696 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,800 believe, just believe the littlest bit, God will do something in you. 697 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,320 And then you'll know, and you'll never have to look back. 698 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,720 I said, but I'll tell you what, you're afraid to believe that least little bit because then 699 00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,480 when God does something in you, you'll have to run with it. 700 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,600 And you don't want to have to run with it because of all those things you just said. 701 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:04,920 But here's the reality. 702 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,000 People are not, not following God for any good reason. 703 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,520 They're not, not believing for any logical reason, right? 704 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:20,400 Because there is a reasoned defense for every kind of question about why God is the way 705 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,360 He is, how, how did He do it, what did He do, when did He do it? 706 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,640 It's all that most of it's in the Bible. 707 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,880 And people are just digesting what's already there. 708 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,360 There is a reasoned defense. 709 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,360 This makes sense. 710 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,840 But you can't reason your way to heaven. 711 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,440 You have to believe. 712 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:42,160 And if you believe, then you shouldn't be afraid of people who won't, right? 713 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:43,720 Who are, quite have questions. 714 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:45,560 You should be like, okay, I'm here. 715 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:46,840 I'm not saying I have answers. 716 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:47,840 I'll tell you your questions. 717 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:48,840 I'm going to try. 718 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,160 I'll try to come up with, I'll try to figure it out. 719 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,280 I'll walk with you until you can figure out. 720 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,240 And then, you know, you might spend a couple of years with them talking back and forth 721 00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:00,600 and whatever, and they might finally say, no, I'm not going to follow Jesus. 722 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,240 And it won't matter in your life. 723 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:05,000 It'll be sad. 724 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,760 But you did what you were supposed to do. 725 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,480 And you'll get the blessings and the reward for that because you did what you were supposed 726 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,480 to do. 727 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,280 And you've so indoctrinated them with the basic understanding of what you believe and 728 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:16,960 your reasons behind it. 729 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,000 Someday they'll have everything they need. 730 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000 And on their deathbed, they may wait until they're dying. 731 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,120 On their deathbed, they may accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 732 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,120 So whatever it takes. 733 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,120 Did you have a statement or a question? 734 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,120 Yeah. 735 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,120 And I'm going to ask you to pray for us because we're going to be done. 736 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:35,640 Something else that I've heard a lot of people say on why they don't want to come to Christ 737 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,640 and why it's hard to follow these because they're afraid of change. 738 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,640 Oh yeah. 739 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:46,640 And for my own personal experience, I guess that's better. 740 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:51,640 But the reason we're afraid of change is because we're comfortable. 741 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:58,640 And I'd say most people don't like stepping out of that comfort zone because it makes 742 00:39:58,640 --> 00:39:59,640 them feel awkward. 743 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,640 And they have to do something different or do stuff they don't like. 744 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:09,640 But what I've noticed just like I said in my own life is the fact that change is usually 745 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:10,640 a good thing. 746 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,640 There's been a lot of times where I've changed things and it's worked out very beneficial 747 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,640 even though I thought it was going to be completely the opposite. 748 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:20,640 Yeah. 749 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:21,640 I would take that with you in one step. 750 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:22,640 I agree with you. 751 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:23,640 Everything you said. 752 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,640 And I would take it even one step further. 753 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,640 Change feels like, yeah. 754 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,640 That's what it feels like. 755 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,640 Just try this. 756 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:37,640 Say, I'm going to lose 20 pounds and gain 10 pounds of muscle and get up tomorrow morning 757 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,640 and do 1,000 anything. 758 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:40,640 Push up, sit up, whatever. 759 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,640 And then do that before you go to bed tomorrow night and every day morning and night for 760 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:45,640 the next week. 761 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:46,640 You won't feel dead. 762 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:47,640 It's going to hurt. 763 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,640 Now you may get stronger but you might hurt yourself in the process if you do too much. 764 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:52,640 That's what it's like. 765 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,640 You start going, oh. 766 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:59,640 But if I have to say this, then they might say this. 767 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,640 You worry, you regret. 768 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,640 It feels like death. 769 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,640 And with Jesus it is exactly that. 770 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:13,640 Paul wrote, 2 Corinthians 5, he died for us and if he died for us then we all died. 771 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,640 So the moment you gave your life over to Jesus and earn us, you died. 772 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:17,640 He owed you died. 773 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:18,640 It really was death. 774 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,640 And that's the change that we're looking for. 775 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,640 But when you're in the world and you start thinking about, like people go, well I think 776 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,640 I'm going to start going to church. 777 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:32,640 And then one thing after another gets in the way and you have to really overcome or drop 778 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:33,640 things. 779 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,640 What if you have to not watch football on Sundays to be able to go to church or not sleep in 780 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,640 to be able to go to church. 781 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:40,640 It feels like death. 782 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,640 It feels like it's all falling apart. 783 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,640 And the truth is we are dying. 784 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,640 Our cells are dying off and they're being renewed. 785 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,640 And the older you get the more you do the dying off and the less you get the renewed. 786 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,640 You feel like you're dying. 787 00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:01,640 And so as we get older and we're a little more comfortable with a hard decision, it is a 788 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,640 little easier to go, well I'm going to follow Jesus no matter what it costs. 789 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,640 Or if you're real poor. 790 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:14,640 Or if your health is real bad and so your outlook isn't very good, then it's a little 791 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,640 easier to say I'm going to let all that slide. 792 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,640 I'm going to turn it all over to Jesus and just see what he does. 793 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,640 I talked to a man today, he said 1145, December 31st, 2017. 794 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,640 He was at a crossroads. 795 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,640 He wasn't thinking about taking his life. 796 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:33,640 But basically he was either going to go back into his old way to live and do all these 797 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:38,640 things that he had done before which was basically be a con man, scammer, lie and even whatever 798 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,640 he could do to keep his success. 799 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,640 Or he was going to live for Jesus. 800 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,640 And he had to make a choice. 801 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,640 And he'd done all that before. 802 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:52,640 So it was go back to being everything he'd done before which had landed in the spot that he was in. 803 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,640 Or choose Jesus. 804 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:55,640 So he chose Jesus. 805 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,640 And he said it's the best decision he ever made. 806 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:04,640 Because he got beyond what your uncomfortable feeling of change, the feeling of death, that 807 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,640 feeling of oh no panic or whatever. 808 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,640 And he just said you know what? 809 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,640 What's worse for me is if I would not change. 810 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,640 What's worse for me if I would go back and be what I was before? 811 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,640 I already tried that. 812 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,640 Real quick, word of encouragement. 813 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,640 So intelligence design, we design something. 814 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,640 We create something even though it's not selfish. 815 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,640 We create something for others. 816 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,640 But the design itself, it'll rust and fail. 817 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,640 We don't actually put that into it. 818 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:41,640 When God creates something, His design is not to use it, misuse it so that we're just talking about the banana. 819 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,640 There are three fun facts about banana one. 820 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,640 They have to be born out there. 821 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,640 They have to be in a special place for the twilight of the tree. 822 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,640 Because humidity itself is what helps it grow. 823 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:51,640 Because heat rises. 824 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,640 If you put it down low it never grow. 825 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,640 Also when you look at banana it looks weird. 826 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,640 But when you pick it up the first thing you notice is that it bends towards you. 827 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:00,640 So you can eat it. 828 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,640 No other fruit do you open where it actually comes right to the mouth. 829 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,640 It's made for that reason. 830 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,640 And then three is it's a brown banana which is called plantines. 831 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,640 They're good for the brain. 832 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,640 Brown is good for I think, green is for the brain. 833 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:21,640 So different stages of the banana is nutrients for different parts of God. 834 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:28,640 And so our amazing God, I've always told people, and I want to let them know. 835 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,640 Because it's okay not to believe. 836 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:36,640 I mean it's okay to feel that, to freely think that. 837 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,640 Because it forgots the love of the world that he gave his one only son. 838 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,640 And so when we have this idea that I got to put it all in God. 839 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,640 I got to believe in God. 840 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,640 It's that God put it all in. 841 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,640 It's that God truly believes in what he says he is. 842 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,640 It's that God who he is is nothing like us. 843 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,640 He recreated himself as human. 844 00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,640 None of us can recreate ourselves. 845 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,640 We go through things, we think of things, but God himself came in flesh. 846 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,640 He recreated himself so that he could be a servant, so he could be love, 847 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,640 so he could be hope, so he could be the Word. 848 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:15,640 For any person, even today, through his flesh, through his Word, he speaks to us. 849 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,640 Just the Word of encouragement, as I always told people, 850 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,640 it's really not about what you believe, it's that God believes in us. 851 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:34,640 Yeah, man, RJ would be close to some prayer then.