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So we have before us a worksheet. If you look

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on the worksheet next to the picture there, there's

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a front and a back. The front says a ready defense

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on the upper left -hand corner, and it has the

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picture on the right, and it has the word list.

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So all the blanks, if you see all the blanks,

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they're all filled in with words from that word

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list. So some of the words, you have the first

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letter. Some you do not have the first letter,

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and some of them repeat, and some do not. So

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that makes it a little bit more enjoyable as

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far as a puzzle goes. So you won't get too bored

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and fall asleep on me while I'm talking to you.

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All the verses are listed on the page, or at

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least the meat of the verse that we need, so

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we don't have to go use the Bible because it's

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quite a few verses. So first of all, before I...

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go into it at all. Does anybody know what the

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definition of the word apologetics is? Going

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once. So apologetics is the science of presenting

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a reasoned defense for what you believe. So apologia

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is the Greek word that means a reasoned defense.

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Welcome. Come on in. Pull up a chair. Oh, Alex,

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you might be supposed to be with the kids. Yeah,

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you are. He's in memorization. He's in memorization

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with Kishan. Oh, he doesn't go in until then?

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So you don't go until Kishan goes, so he'll cue

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you when to go? Yeah. A couple of worksheets.

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You can pull up another chair and I can scoot

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over on the corner. Okay, that'll work. Okay.

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Anyway, so apologia is the Greek word that means

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a reasoned defense. Okay? So if you look at that

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first line, it says a ready defense. Then what

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do you think might go in that blank? Where's

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my one that has the blanks filled in? Okay, here

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we go. Frank. Frank? Frank is not one of the

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options. A faith defense, a teacher's defense,

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a preparation defense. Oh. A universe defense.

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How about a biblical lesson? A biblical lesson

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on apologetics. That's what goes in the blank.

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So that's how it's done. You can't mark it off

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because biblical will probably be reused. Did

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you get it? A biblical lesson on apologetics.

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But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. To

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sanctify is to set apart. So sanctify Christ

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as Lord in your hearts. Always being ready to

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make a defense to everyone who asks you to give

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an account for the hope that is in you, yet with

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gentleness and reverence. Okay, so the first

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blank on that page is biblical, Dom. So this

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is a biblical lesson on apologetics, and we've

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just read the verse. And so the reference is

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first what 315? Which one of those is a Bible

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book? First Heavens 315? Yes, first Peter 315.

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So apologetics is not about winning arguments,

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right? It's a reason defense doesn't mean that

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it's about winning arguments. Okay. And then

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it says F, which is a blank, fully explaining.

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So that's, yep, faithfully explaining. What's

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the T, do you think? Truth. Faithfully explaining

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truth. Defending the gospel. and honoring Christ

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with our minds. Scripture never calls believers

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to blind faith. Rather, it consistently calls

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us to thoughtful, reasoned, and humble confidence

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in what God has revealed. So, question. Does

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following God make sense? By committee, I got

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about one -third answering, and two -thirds not

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answering at all. So does following God make

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sense? Yes. How would you say that's true, that

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following God makes sense? Because you've got

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to believe in something. Okay, so you need to

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believe in something. You're going to believe

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in something. It may as well be something that

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works. Okay, so that's a logical decision, right?

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If God calls you to be crucified, does that make

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sense? No, not all the time. I mean, if God calls

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you to be crucified, Yes, you too. See how it's

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kind of hard to say that that makes sense, right?

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Because that's going to be the end of my natural

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life. My body is going to die, right? But this

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natural life is very short. So it makes sense

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in view of eternity, in view of God's character,

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in view of the truth about God. That's how it

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makes sense. Otherwise, believing and following

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God, like to somebody who doesn't know God, They

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don't know the truth about God. Maybe they know

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the Bible, but they don't believe it. They just

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read it like it's a normal book. Or maybe they've

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never even read it. Then following God doesn't

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really make sense to them. So our job then as

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Christians is to faithfully explain the truth

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so that it can make sense. So that they can see

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the sense that it makes to us as well. So scripture

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never calls believers to blind faith. Rather,

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it consistently calls us to thoughtful, reasoned,

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and humble confidence in what God has revealed.

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Then you have the Roman numeral one. You guys

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need a pencil. Pencil? Fill in the blanks. You'll

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retain it better if you write something. Apologetics

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is something that we should be prepared to do.

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If you're at a party, if you're on the job, if

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you're at school and you run into somebody that

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says that they do not believe that God exists,

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you should be equipped with good reasons why

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you believe that God exists. And I'm not trying

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to pick on anybody, but you got to believe in

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something isn't good enough because they're going

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to believe in something else. Right? I agree

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with that statement. You got to believe you're

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going to believe in something. Maybe something

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actually works. That makes logical sense to me,

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but they're going to choose something else because

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whatever that other thing is, it's going to apply

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to their simple nature. It's going to meet their

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desires. It's easier, right? Or whatever. So

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they're going to choose something else most of

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the time. So, the real thing that we're going

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to gain before we're done with this page, both

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sides, is to be able to make an argument that

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God exists. But the apologetics is so much more

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than that. Like, we should be able to explain

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how we know that Jesus Christ died on the cross.

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How we know that he came back to life three days

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later. How we know that he believed he was God

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in the flesh. And how we know that that's true.

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We should be able to explain all of those things.

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And if you can do those things, you're going

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to be able to lead people to Jesus. Humbly, we're

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not beating them up like, oh, you're so stupid,

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you don't believe in God. Let me tell you all

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the evidences and prove you wrong. We're not

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going to do that. But for people who are actually

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struggling with it, we should have the answers.

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So this is a what kind of command? Say it again.

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Somebody say it. Biblical command. It's a biblical

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command. It's not an optional hobby. So it's

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not a thing where you're going to go like, oh,

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I think maybe one of these days I'll pick up

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some arguments about how I know what I know.

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It's not like that. It's a biblical command,

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not an optional hobby. The apostle, who was the

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apostle that we just quoted? Peter. The apostle

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Peter assumes something important. Christians

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will be questioned. If you live long enough and

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live for Jesus, you will be questioned as to

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why you're doing the stupid things that you're

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doing. Why are you giving, serving, not getting

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anything back for it? Why are you loving people

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when they don't deserve it? Why are you being

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kind? Why are you being patient? Etc. Okay? So

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you will be questioned as to why that is. And

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then we're told, always being ready, same reference

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as above, to make a defense. 1 Peter 3 .15. The

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word defense comes from the Greek word apologia.

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A legal term meaning a reasoned answer given

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in court. Apologetics is therefore not aggressive

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or arrogant. It is prepared, thoughtful, and

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respectful. Believe it or not, every time you

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go to work, you're in court. Every time you go

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to school, you're in court. Every time you sit

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at the park and talk to a stranger, you're in

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court. Whether or not your faith is real is being

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tried, and whether or not you can show that it's

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real is being tested. Every time you get into

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a conversation. Okay? Other scriptures that reinforce

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this same calling. Jude 1 .3, which says, contend

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earnestly for the faith. Right. Contend earnestly

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for the faith. Acts 17 .2 and 3, where Paul reasoned

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from the scriptures. Everything he gave them

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was biblical, logical, came right out of the

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Bible, trying to convince people to believe.

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2 Corinthians 10 .5, taking every thought captive

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to Christ. Okay. So why something matters. What

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do you think we're talking about with a P? Peter.

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Nope. No Peter. Preparation. Why preparation

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matters. So the world is asking real questions.

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They don't want your dumbed down, super simplistic

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answer. Like, why are you a Christian? Well,

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because God saved my soul. I had a big day where

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I gave my life to the Lord. I've never been the

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same since. Those are truths. Don't get me wrong.

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They're true, but they're not good enough for

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a lost person to do anything with. They just

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you saying, I believe because I believe that's

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just cocky and arrogant to them. They want to

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know what, what, why, when they ask you, why

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do you believe what they're really asking is

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why should they believe? Okay. So skepticism

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is often starts with an S sincere, beautiful

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skepticism is often sincere, not hostile. So

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people are like, well, I don't know that I believe

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in God. That's skepticism. They're debating whether

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it's true or not. That's sincere to them. They

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could say to you, oh yeah, I believe in God,

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whatever. And just to try to get rid of you.

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I've led a couple people to Christ over the years

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who did that. The first thing that happened when

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I talked to them was they said they believed

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in God. And I'm like, well, that's great. And

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you know what verse I'm thinking of is, well,

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the angels believe in God. I'm sorry, the demons

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believe in God. And they tremble. They tremble.

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And they're not going to be saved. So believing

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in God doesn't do you squat. In fact, the Bible

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doesn't even say that. It says that. For a person

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to have faith, you have to believe in God and

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believe that he rewards those who seek him. It's

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not just the believing in God that he exists.

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Big deal, right? So this first argument that

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we're helping them to believe, they're not being

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stupid about it. They're being sincere, and you

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could give them sincere answers that might actually

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help them a lot. So believers are called to love

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God with their minds. That's a reference from

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Matthew 22, 37. Obviously, it's heart, mind,

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and soul there, but minds are included. Prepared

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believers strengthen the church. Very good. And

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remove unnecessary stumbling blocks for seekers.

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So we get stronger. If one of you gets everything

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that I'm talking about tonight, then we'll have

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at least two. And the whole church will be stronger.

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If all of you get it, when we walk out of this

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room, our church is going to be stronger. Does

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that make sense? We're going to be able to answer

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and have answers. And so I can't be with Jaden

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when he's... you know, at home or in the neighborhood

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or at the store or whatever. I'm not going to

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be able to be with him all the time. God can,

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but God's not going to give you every single

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word you say. He's given it to you in the scripture.

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You need to be able to do it. And so if you can

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do it and I'm halfway across town and I can do

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it, what if there are two people that actually

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want to know at the same time? Jay can give you

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one place and I can be in the other. What if

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there's 10? Well, if we've all got it, we can

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be in 10 places at once. That's what makes us

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stronger. That and because we know we believe

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in for good reason. Alright, Roman numeral two

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there. Apologetics is a reasoned defense of what

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we believe. Okay? The F is faith and reason are

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not opposites. There are people that believe

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you can't believe in God and also keep your brain

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working. And that's not true. And reason are

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not opposites. Alright? So then we got the next

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one. Say it again. Sincere. Where? I got a B.

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I got an F. A blank and an F. Oh, you're talking

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about the first blank? Actually, it's biblical.

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Yeah, biblical again. Remember, they repeat.

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Biblical faith is trust grounded in... What's

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the T? Truth, not belief without evidence. God

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does not ask you to follow him blindly. If he

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was going to do that, then he would just shut

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your brain down at the moment that you get saved.

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Or if he would have gave you one in the first

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place, it would be so much easier to follow blindly

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if you didn't have to think so much. Right? And

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we think a lot. And so biblical faith is trust.

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So we trust God grounded in truth, not belief

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without evidence. So if somebody tells you, you've

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got to believe God said this, and they tell you

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to believe something that you know the scriptures

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say the opposite, then you can say, oh, no, I

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don't think so. Tim, we've got a seat right over

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here for you if you want. I've got a paper for

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you. I'm afraid you can cheat off my paper and

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get caught up even if you want. Okay. Come now

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and let us reason together, says the Lord, Isaiah

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118. Jesus appealed to evidence. So regularly

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throughout his ministry, Jesus used an argument

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from evidence that people could see. One was

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fulfilled prophecy. So in Luke 24, he talks about

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the prophecies that he is fulfilling as he is

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walking out following God. The next one is eyewitness

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testimony in John 20. He appeals to miracles

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as signs. He even says, if you won't believe

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me, then believe the miracles that I do. So he's

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given the evidences that are necessary. Biblical

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faith. Biblical faith is trust grounded. And

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then faith above it. Faith. Biblical faith. Okay?

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Yep. So then we're down to, so you appeal to

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evidence, fulfilled prophecy, eyewitness testimony,

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miracles as signs. The apostles reasoned publicly.

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They went around basically making these kinds

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of arguments with people that they talked to.

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You see it in Acts 18 .4, where Paul reasoned

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in the synagogue, and Acts 26 .25, where words

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of sober truth. So let's talk about what apologetics

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is and what apologetics is not. So apologetics

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is logical. So you can make an argument. You

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can say, well, here's some evidence based on

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this evidence. I expect you to believe this.

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That's called logic, right? You base one thing

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on another. It's scriptural. So it's allowed

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by the Bible and promoted by the Bible, and you

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can use the Bible to do it. All of those things

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exist. It's honest, right? People ask you, why

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do you believe what you believe? You can shut

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them down or you can give them reasons. Make

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sense? And it's humble. You admit, while giving

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the reasons, that these are your reasons. These

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are the reasons that I see. You can agree with

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my reasons or not, but it's not going to change

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what I believe. And you humbly accept that they

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may or may not accept the same reasons that you're

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giving them. And if they don't, okay, that's

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fine. It's not really fine in eternity, but for

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now, it's fine. Then apologetics is not hostile

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debate. And hostile debate looks like this. I'll

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be very clear about this. Somebody says, well,

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that's like when my uncle and you're halfway

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through the story and you cut them off because

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you already know the answer to the question that

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they're asking. That's hostile debate. You've

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seen it in the presidential debates, right? They

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won't let each other talk. So hostile debate,

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you're cutting the other person off. You're answering

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before they've really asked the question. You're

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raising your voice to make your point, right?

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It's hostile. We're not doing that. We don't

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do that. Don't do that, okay? It's not intellectual

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pride. See what I know? I know this. I've got

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the right argument for that question. It's not

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that. Don't do that. That's not godly. It's not

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replacing the Holy Spirit. If the person you're

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talking to is going to get saved, they're going

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to get saved because God is saving them. You're

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barely a part of the process. Now, you can be

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a bad part of the process. So you're a small

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cog, and you can be a bad small cog, which will

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stop the whole machine. They're going to walk

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away from you going, I'll guarantee you one thing.

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Based on the way that guy is, I'll never be a

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Christian. Or you can be a good cog that goes,

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well, the Holy Spirit's already convicting you

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to be a Christian and you could move in that

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direction and you have some nagging questions

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and I'll see if I can answer them. And that's

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what we're called to do. So we're not replacing

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the Holy Spirit. God's going to save them if

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he's going to save them. And then it's not arguing

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people into salvation. It is well said if you

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can convince somebody to be saved. sometime later

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someone will convince them to not be saved, which

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means they were never saved in the first place.

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So we're not trying to argue them to be saved,

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okay? So our role then is to remove intellectual

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obstacles. Only God changes hearts. So your arena

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is the brain, the mind, which is not, they're

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not the same thing. The mind and the brain are

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not the same thing, right? The brain is kind

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of part, it's the chemical piece, if you will,

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of the mind. The mind is all the memories, processing,

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logic. It's an emotional arena sometimes. It's

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all those kinds of things. Okay? And so your

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job is to influence or to open the way so that

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their heart, convicted by God, can influence

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their mind. Okay? We're in Roman numeral three.

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Have fun listening to scripture. Oh, yeah. Okay.

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So then it says in Roman numeral three, all creation

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testifies. So we're going to talk about how we

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know that God is real, and we start by realizing

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that all creation testifies. So God's world,

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the world around us, is an apologetic. It is

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a reasoned defense for God's existence. And then

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we have the H. The heavens are telling of the

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glory of God, and their expanse is declaring

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the work of his hands, Psalm 19 .1. For since

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the creation of the world, his invisible attributes

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have been clearly seen, Romans 1 .20. Creation

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does two things simultaneously. Creation provides

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an apologetic for God's existence. So it's always

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arguing that God exists all the time, not meanly

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or hurtfully or spitefully or overpowering, but

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it's always arguing that God exists, giving us

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a reason to believe that he exists. And we'll

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talk about some of those things in a second.

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And then it also testifies to God's attributes.

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God's attributes beginning with the P. What's

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the P? Power. Power. All right. And intelligence.

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And the O. Did I give you the O? I didn't give

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you the O. There is no O. Gosh, what's the O?

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Okay, let's look over here. Order. It's order.

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Yeah, I didn't give you an O, so you wouldn't

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have got that one, would you? Power, intelligence,

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order, and purpose. So these are the primary

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attributes of God that creation testifies to.

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God's not limited to those things. Obviously,

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love, for example, is not on the list. But God

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does have the trait of love. Pretty much is love.

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But creation doesn't really testify to God's

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love. But it does testify to his power, his intelligence.

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If you start to believe in him, you could maybe

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think of it testifying in love and like, well,

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see how God gave us what we need and it's really

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there and so on. But you would have to kind of

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already be moving along the path some to get

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there. So the design argument, evidence of a

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personal, starts with an I, intelligent designer.

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So realize that what we're about to look at now,

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these things that we're going to look at, are

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evidence that an intelligent designer exists.

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They point to his power, his intelligence, his

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order, and his purpose, but will they get a person

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saved? Does a person get saved by God's intelligence?

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No. Or order, or purpose, or power. What attribute

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of God does save them? What is it about God that

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gets people saved? Mercy, love. Say again? Kind

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of. Yep. So the truth of God is that he loves

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and he'll save you. by grace, by mercy, by forgiveness,

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by love, right? But it's not his intelligence

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or his order or his purpose. So if you manage

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through creation to help a person believe that

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there is a God, that doesn't mean they're going

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to get saved. Now, sometimes it does happen.

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There's a story about the Indian woman who was

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running away from the tsunami, and she had heard

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tales of the Christian God, and she knew Allah

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because she was Muslim herself. And she cried

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out to the Christian God. She didn't think Allah

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would save her. She cried out to the Christian

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God and said, if you'll save me, I'll live for

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you forever. And God put in her heart, run to

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the Christian church building. So she ran there.

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And even though it was on lower ground, it never

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flooded. And everybody that went there for safety

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survived. And the higher ground mosque flooded

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and everybody went there for safety died. And

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she lived for God for the rest of her life. I

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think she's still alive now actually preaching

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for Jesus. But the point is. Sometimes it happens

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because you really recognize God's power and

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you're like, okay, now what do I do? Okay, God,

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whatever you want is fine. Then God points you

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to Jesus and you wind up saved. It does happen

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sometimes, but these are not arguments that are

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going to get people saved. They're arguments

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that are going to help people believe in God.

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Okay. All right. So the Bible teaches that creation

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reflects intentional design. For example, in

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Ecclesiastes 3 .11, he has made everything appropriate

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in its time. So God set it all up and made it

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work. Acts 17, God sets the boundaries, etc.,

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etc. There's a bunch of them. So you're going

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to the other side. Same missing words, however.

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So I didn't put the list on the back. I was going

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to, and then I forgot. So there you go. That's

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what you get. Got what you got. Get what you

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get. Don't throw a fit. Modern scientific observation

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strongly supports this biblical truth. Beautiful.

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Okay. And here we go. Number one, there's a thing

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called the anthropic principle. Let me see if

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I can actually do these well or not. I don't

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know. Anyway, give it my best shot. The anthropic

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principle argues that the universe is finely

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tuned. That you is universe. A finely tuned universe.

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I just saw a meme yesterday on Facebook. of a

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guy who said he just found out that the sun is

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exactly 400 times bigger than the moon and 400

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times as far away. Exactly. That they're 400

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and 400. And he was like, wow, that's awesome.

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You know, that's a really incredible thing. And

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there are lots of things like that, but actually

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there's a really famous physicist whose name

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I didn't put on here, but he says that the universe

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operates with extraordinarily precise parameters

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and that there are 32 parameters. that must exist

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in exactly the right quantity, exactly the right

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balance in order for life to exist? 32. Some

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of them are gravity, electromagnetic force, nuclear

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forces, the expansion rate of the universe. There

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are 32 parameters that have to be perfect, and

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they are perfect on Earth. And so far, they've

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been found to be perfect nowhere else. So once

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you get through that list of 32 things that have

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to be exactly perfect in order for human beings

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to be living on the Earth, A simple example of

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this is if the Earth were six inches closer to

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the sun, it would not support life. It would

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be too hot, and the oxygen could not exchange

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with the crust properly, and it would basically

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burn up. It would burn to a cinder. And if we're

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six inches further away, it would freeze to a

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ball of ice in time. And so... We can find you

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a seat over there by the house. We'll make a

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way. We'll make a way. Did you get us an extra

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one, Dom? Yeah. I had to go do Bible memorization.

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We'll go this way. We'll all scoot this way.

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He's coming to you. That'll work. We got you.

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It's a team effort. Bottom line is if any of

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those things are out of balance, life does not

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exist, that argues for power, intelligence, order.

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You see, that's a strong argument for that. If

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any of these constants were altered even slightly,

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life would be impossible. This leads to a powerful

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conclusion that life is not an accident. The

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universe appears intentionally structured for

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life. So I'll go back to those blanks real quick.

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I went kind of fast there. So it leads to a powerful

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conclusion. Life is not an accident. And then

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the universe appears intentionally structured

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for life. Got them? And then I'll read the verse

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here. The verse says, For by him all things were

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created. And then there's that dot, dot, dot,

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ellipses thing or whatever, because words are

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missing in there. And it says, All things have

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been created through him and for him. That's

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talking about Jesus. It's Colossians 1 .16. So

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fine -tuning points not merely to intelligence,

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but also purpose. If you have a special feature

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in your car, let's say seat warmers. So you know

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what the purpose of seat warmers are. They're

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not meant to just make you fall asleep while

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you're driving, although they may help with that.

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But they are meant to... deal with cold seats

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in the winter. Someone thought, oh, wouldn't

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it be nice if you'd have a seat warmer or maybe

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a person had sore back, they could have warmth

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in their back. Somebody intended that to be there.

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If you got in your car and had seat warmers,

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you wouldn't go, no one ever meant for seat warmers

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to be in my car. You'd think someone meant for

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them to be there. They didn't happen there by

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accident. So whenever you see something finely

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tuned, that means somebody intended it that way.

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And that is an argument for knowing that an intelligent

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designer created everything. Two, irreducible

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complexity. Life requires simultaneous design.

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So think just very simply for a minute. You have

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predators and you have prey. So the animals,

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they eat the animals, right? If one of those

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does not exist, the other ceases to exist. If

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predators don't exist, prey grows out of control.

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Pretty soon there's not enough plants to support

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them anymore. and then they begin to suffer pestilence

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and disease and so on. And the whole environment

00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:17.640
changes, and vice versa. Predators and prey have

00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:19.819
to both exist at the same time. They have to

00:28:19.819 --> 00:28:22.500
start existing at the same time and in some sort

00:28:22.500 --> 00:28:24.680
of balance. They can be out of balance, but if

00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:25.940
they're too far out of balance, they'll never

00:28:25.940 --> 00:28:29.359
recover. That's one example, a simple one, but

00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.460
there are a couple that are more. For example,

00:28:31.660 --> 00:28:34.500
there's a thing called the bacterial flagellum.

00:28:35.059 --> 00:28:37.779
Those are words you probably, it kind of sounds

00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:40.769
like something you throw up. But anyway, bacterial

00:28:40.769 --> 00:28:43.609
flagellum is the part of the bacteria that moves

00:28:43.609 --> 00:28:45.789
it around. You would think it's like a tail.

00:28:46.250 --> 00:28:48.950
But it's designed more like an outboard motor.

00:28:49.609 --> 00:28:51.809
Now, mind you, these bacteria are single -celled

00:28:51.809 --> 00:28:54.529
organisms. So these are not made of a bunch of

00:28:54.529 --> 00:28:56.809
little Lego parts. They're a single -celled organism

00:28:56.809 --> 00:28:59.869
with a very complex tail. This tail moves at

00:28:59.869 --> 00:29:03.150
very high RPM rates, like higher than a speedboat

00:29:03.150 --> 00:29:07.450
motor ever goes. And then on top of that, it

00:29:07.450 --> 00:29:12.359
can go and... Forward and in reverse. What makes

00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:14.980
it go forward or reverse? Considering it does

00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:18.019
not have separate individual parts, how can this

00:29:18.019 --> 00:29:20.799
be, right? There's nothing it could have evolved

00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:22.819
up from. It's not other things that were put

00:29:22.819 --> 00:29:25.559
together to make it. It had to be created in

00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:28.400
that exact state in order to exist in that state.

00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:30.339
That's the only way it could be because it's

00:29:30.339 --> 00:29:33.400
not made of separate parts. If it had 17 parts

00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:35.200
and they could be assembled, then you could say,

00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:39.650
well, maybe, you know, By happenstance or whatever.

00:29:39.829 --> 00:29:41.930
But because it doesn't have any separate parts.

00:29:42.009 --> 00:29:45.069
It's just one thing. No parts. No separate cells.

00:29:45.390 --> 00:29:47.269
It's one cell. The whole thing. The whole body

00:29:47.269 --> 00:29:49.529
is one. Including the absorption of nutrients.

00:29:49.589 --> 00:29:53.289
That's all one cell. And including the excretion

00:29:53.289 --> 00:29:55.630
of nutrients that it doesn't use. All one cell.

00:29:55.890 --> 00:29:59.009
And so how do you get that? There's only one

00:29:59.009 --> 00:30:00.869
way you can get that. It has to come together

00:30:00.869 --> 00:30:03.450
at the time of its creation. It's not assembled

00:30:03.450 --> 00:30:05.269
from anything. So something had to make it that

00:30:05.269 --> 00:30:08.240
way. That make sense? So it testifies to power

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.619
and order. Blood clotting mechanisms, cellular

00:30:11.619 --> 00:30:14.440
machinery, and there's a whole bunch of science

00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:15.859
that you could get into if you want. You want

00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:19.220
to look up, just Google, you know, examples of

00:30:19.220 --> 00:30:21.400
irreducible complexity. But basically, things

00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.740
cannot be, they're things that could not be put

00:30:23.740 --> 00:30:26.220
together unless they were put together in perfect

00:30:26.220 --> 00:30:29.680
balance and already existing. Okay? All right.

00:30:30.259 --> 00:30:32.700
Partial systems then provide no survival advantage.

00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:35.599
If you had half of a single cell organism, you

00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:39.680
know what you have? It's like yuck. It's like

00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:42.500
a slime. It's a bit of nothing. It's worthless.

00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:44.400
It has no value. It doesn't move forward. It

00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:45.700
doesn't move backwards. It doesn't turn left

00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:49.059
or right. It doesn't have a high RPM tail. It's

00:30:49.059 --> 00:30:54.920
nothing. Theoretically. But that would be nothing

00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:57.920
if the cell were ruptured and destroyed. It would

00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:02.819
just be dead. Anyway, the point is... Partial

00:31:02.819 --> 00:31:05.099
systems provide no survival advantage. So the

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:07.339
example that people use here is you take an old

00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:08.839
-fashioned mousetrap. Have you ever seen one

00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:10.539
of those? It's got a little wood block. It's

00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:13.180
got the spring, and the bar goes back over, and

00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:14.400
you've got the little tab that you hold it with,

00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:15.619
and you put the cheese on the thing, and the

00:31:15.619 --> 00:31:17.680
mouse steps on the thing, and it kills the mouse,

00:31:17.779 --> 00:31:20.400
right, or breaks its leg. It's supposed to be

00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:21.759
humane. It's supposed to kill it instantly, but

00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.859
it depends on what happens. Anyway, what part

00:31:24.859 --> 00:31:27.480
of that mousetrap can you take out and have it

00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:31.660
still be a mousetrap? None. When it's loaded,

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:34.279
it's tense. It requires the arm. It requires

00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:36.660
the latch. It requires the button that the mouse

00:31:36.660 --> 00:31:38.500
is going to step on. It requires the wood. It

00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:40.599
requires all of its parts. So if you take a part

00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:43.880
out, you don't have a mousetrap anymore. So that's

00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:45.039
what we're talking about. We're talking about

00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.799
stuff that was created in such a way that there

00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:49.579
are no parts that you can remove and still have

00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:52.700
it work. And there are many, probably a thousand,

00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.380
maybe infinite number if we could look far enough,

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.940
examples of that in creation. And so there's

00:31:57.940 --> 00:31:59.960
only one way that happens. If it was created

00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:02.720
that way. It didn't arrive that way after steps.

00:32:02.900 --> 00:32:06.359
It had to be created that way. Okay? Random,

00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:10.119
undirected processes cannot build systems that

00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:12.920
require simultaneous interdependence. Now those

00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.079
are big words, but basically it just means only

00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.240
an intelligent designer can put something together

00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:22.680
that depends on itself. That is whole. That is

00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.660
not made up of independent parts. Okay? All right.

00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:31.019
I will give thanks to you for I am fearfully

00:32:31.019 --> 00:32:35.380
and wonderfully made. Psalm 139, 14. Three, the

00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:39.740
nature of information. So mind produces meaning.

00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.339
Okay. So I'm going to see who can I trick with

00:32:43.339 --> 00:32:48.119
my question. Let's go with, I already picked

00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:50.660
on Mike today. Haley, how much information would

00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:56.000
you guess is saved on this page? Take a look

00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:00.500
at it. Just what do you think? How much information

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:05.339
is on this page? Oh, what? That's what I thought

00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:08.480
you'd say. The actual answer is none. There's

00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.440
no information on the page. So where is the information?

00:33:12.019 --> 00:33:16.579
If it's not on this page, where is it? So it

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:19.339
was in my mind. When I made the marks on the

00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:21.920
page, I was thinking that if I arranged the letters

00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:26.170
C, A, N, N, O, T, That forms the word cannot,

00:33:26.450 --> 00:33:29.190
and it means cannot, and I know that people will

00:33:29.190 --> 00:33:32.190
know what that word means, right? So this is

00:33:32.190 --> 00:33:36.049
a transmission agent. The page, the dots, if

00:33:36.049 --> 00:33:37.869
we were in Russia having the same Bible study,

00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:40.190
it would not look the same. It would be in Russian,

00:33:40.289 --> 00:33:43.690
right? Or wherever else in the world. So language

00:33:43.690 --> 00:33:46.670
is a transmission agent, which is why when you

00:33:46.670 --> 00:33:48.450
don't have the proper transmission agent, even

00:33:48.450 --> 00:33:50.789
though you can think blue, the sky is blue, you

00:33:50.789 --> 00:33:53.180
don't know how to say it in French. You're talking

00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:55.180
to a French person. You say blue, and they think

00:33:55.180 --> 00:33:57.059
you mean something slightly different, right?

00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:58.880
Because blue in their language means something

00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.440
different, right? So you need a transmission

00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:04.460
agent to move the information from your mind

00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:07.480
to somebody else's mind. For that, we use language,

00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:13.079
okay? So if we have language moving information

00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.400
from one source to another, then we must have

00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:19.099
sources, right? We must have a sender and a recipient.

00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:22.269
Or the sender is just talking to themselves in

00:34:22.269 --> 00:34:24.070
a room all by themselves. No one else is getting

00:34:24.070 --> 00:34:27.469
it. That also would be fine, but then the language

00:34:27.469 --> 00:34:28.949
is not really serving any purpose. Maybe they're

00:34:28.949 --> 00:34:30.730
talking to themselves. So they're sending it

00:34:30.730 --> 00:34:32.650
out, they're receiving it, for example. Or they're

00:34:32.650 --> 00:34:34.469
talking to God. They're sending it out, God is

00:34:34.469 --> 00:34:37.190
receiving it. If Hannah and I are in a room and

00:34:37.190 --> 00:34:39.550
we're talking, I'm sending, she's receiving.

00:34:39.690 --> 00:34:41.550
Then when she talks, she's sending, I'm receiving.

00:34:41.690 --> 00:34:43.449
That is the nature of communication. And the

00:34:43.449 --> 00:34:48.150
language is the medium. So DNA is not merely

00:34:48.150 --> 00:34:52.110
chemical. We have now mapped the human DNA, human

00:34:52.110 --> 00:34:56.449
genome, they call it. It has language. It is

00:34:56.449 --> 00:34:59.190
made up of individual parts. If you could write

00:34:59.190 --> 00:35:01.929
in DNA, for example, you would know the parts

00:35:01.929 --> 00:35:04.110
of DNA, and then you could write it on a page

00:35:04.110 --> 00:35:05.869
and make it say what you wanted it to say. It

00:35:05.869 --> 00:35:07.949
would be like learning. You could go in Duolingo

00:35:07.949 --> 00:35:10.329
and learn DNA language, for example, which you

00:35:10.329 --> 00:35:12.309
can't, but if you could, then you could write

00:35:12.309 --> 00:35:14.590
things in DNA. You could tell cells how to act.

00:35:14.690 --> 00:35:17.750
You could tell cells how to reproduce and things

00:35:17.750 --> 00:35:21.230
like that. Okay, so DNA is not merely chemical.

00:35:21.710 --> 00:35:24.809
It's information. It is a language -like structure.

00:35:25.070 --> 00:35:29.230
It includes instructions. It has coding and error

00:35:29.230 --> 00:35:31.690
correction. So when things are going wrong, it

00:35:31.690 --> 00:35:34.570
knows how to fix itself. And when a cell is failing,

00:35:34.809 --> 00:35:39.150
the DNA contains the code to fix the cell, to

00:35:39.150 --> 00:35:41.829
activate the immune system response. If it has

00:35:41.829 --> 00:35:46.449
one, not all of them do that kind of thing. Known

00:35:46.449 --> 00:35:49.730
experience, information comes from a mind, not

00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:55.449
from randomness. So if you take a carp and flop

00:35:55.449 --> 00:35:57.929
it on a keyboard, you're never going to get the

00:35:57.929 --> 00:35:59.469
word encyclopedia. It doesn't matter how many

00:35:59.469 --> 00:36:01.449
times you flop the carp on the keyboard until

00:36:01.449 --> 00:36:03.829
it dies, it's never going to form the word encyclopedia

00:36:03.829 --> 00:36:07.710
because that's a random experiment and the odds

00:36:07.710 --> 00:36:10.090
against that are too infinitely high for that

00:36:10.090 --> 00:36:11.969
to ever happen. Now you might get the word I

00:36:11.969 --> 00:36:15.429
or A, right? Because those are just one letter.

00:36:15.869 --> 00:36:17.610
But it might also not have a space afterwards,

00:36:17.750 --> 00:36:19.329
so it might be part of something else, that kind

00:36:19.329 --> 00:36:22.210
of thing. But the point is, this information

00:36:22.210 --> 00:36:25.050
that we're talking about comes from a mind, not

00:36:25.050 --> 00:36:28.289
from randomness. Like a supercomputer. Yeah.

00:36:28.449 --> 00:36:32.050
So in the beginning was the word John 1 -1. Did

00:36:32.050 --> 00:36:33.469
I say something? You said something? Monkeys

00:36:33.469 --> 00:36:36.469
and typewriters. Yeah. So they have often done

00:36:36.469 --> 00:36:38.409
experiments with monkeys where they taught them

00:36:38.409 --> 00:36:41.090
to bang the right keys even and make the right

00:36:41.090 --> 00:36:43.170
words, or they just let them bang on a keyboard

00:36:43.170 --> 00:36:44.710
long enough that they eventually did produce

00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:49.159
words. But they're very limited, very limited

00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:51.880
actual linguistic capabilities. People train

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.260
dogs to press the right color button on the floor

00:36:55.260 --> 00:36:57.280
to get a bone. If they press the right, they

00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.440
spell B -O -N -E. It's red, green, blue, whatever.

00:37:00.659 --> 00:37:02.719
And they press those four, they get a bone. Do

00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:04.840
you think that the dog has learned the word bone

00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:06.800
because it learned to press the right thing to

00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:08.800
get the bone? No, it hasn't learned the word

00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.579
bone. It's just learned that those four letters

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:14.519
in a row results in a bone. But even that is

00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.099
something. He's communicating at a very base

00:37:17.099 --> 00:37:19.659
level. He wants a bone, right? As if there was

00:37:19.659 --> 00:37:21.739
ever a time that a dog didn't want a bone. But

00:37:21.739 --> 00:37:24.059
anyway, you get the point. Okay, so now we're

00:37:24.059 --> 00:37:26.619
over in the last column, the last section. We've

00:37:26.619 --> 00:37:31.539
got the U. The universe is not only ordered,

00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:36.920
it is meaningful, pointing to a personal, intelligent

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:40.920
source. Okay, so we already have several arguments

00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.119
for how we can conclude, come to that conclusion.

00:37:45.339 --> 00:37:47.639
So if you get in a room and you're talking with

00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:48.760
somebody and you're like, I don't really believe

00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:51.880
that God exists. You say, well, why not? What's

00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.199
your thought process? Well, there's not enough

00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:57.239
evidence for God. Well, now you can, not in a

00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.139
mean way, you can share some evidences for God.

00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.179
You can say, well, this is how we know that there's

00:38:02.179 --> 00:38:04.679
an intelligent designer. It's not going to result

00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:06.320
in them getting saved. They might go, oh, yeah,

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:07.699
it does make sense there's an intelligent designer.

00:38:08.059 --> 00:38:09.980
Then their next question might be, well, what

00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:12.719
of it? And then you might need a little bit more

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:14.579
to be able to tell them how this intelligent

00:38:14.579 --> 00:38:17.659
designer connects to Jesus, right? So we're in

00:38:17.659 --> 00:38:21.280
four. So why randomness cannot account for life?

00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:25.639
Random and undirected forces. So an undirected

00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:27.400
force is something that someone is not controlling

00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.019
which way it goes. Random and undirected forces

00:38:30.019 --> 00:38:34.659
cannot produce specified complexity. So random

00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:37.679
undirected forces can produce complexity. You

00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:43.119
pile... straw in a corner when the wind is blowing.

00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:44.860
And you look at it and you go, wow, the straw

00:38:44.860 --> 00:38:46.659
is piled all over top of each other and some

00:38:46.659 --> 00:38:49.000
of it's even kind of twisted together and something

00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.380
put it there. So randomness can provide some

00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:56.039
kind of complexity, but not a complexity that

00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:58.699
is needed to be part of a larger system or depends

00:38:58.699 --> 00:39:01.699
on other things. Does that make sense? So that

00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:05.420
pile of straw is like if an animal needed that

00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:08.800
pile of straw to survive, then the wind would

00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:11.340
have to do that all the time, and it doesn't.

00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.099
Or if it needed that straw to be a certain way

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:16.599
to survive, then the wind would have to do it

00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:20.719
a certain way, and it doesn't. So specified complexity

00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:22.900
is complexity that's needed by someone or something

00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:26.559
else, and randomness cannot provide that. It

00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:29.219
cannot generate meaningful information, like

00:39:29.219 --> 00:39:30.679
the monkeys on a keyboard. You're not going to

00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:33.380
get the word encyclopedia or a sentence or a

00:39:33.380 --> 00:39:36.019
logical thought process or a book. It cannot

00:39:36.019 --> 00:39:39.960
be presented by... just randomly pounding keys,

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:43.139
it's not going to happen. And then cannot explain

00:39:43.139 --> 00:39:47.420
purpose driven systems. So even if randomness

00:39:47.420 --> 00:39:49.760
could do something amazing, and I think it probably

00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:52.980
has, right? Even if you could do that, it's not

00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:55.820
going to explain how you have systems of things

00:39:55.820 --> 00:39:58.500
that rely on each other that show purpose. Like

00:39:58.500 --> 00:40:02.550
for example, predators that exist on prey and

00:40:02.550 --> 00:40:04.670
only the predator and only the prey exist in

00:40:04.670 --> 00:40:06.329
a certain part of the world and nowhere else

00:40:06.329 --> 00:40:09.789
does that predator exist on any other prey. Nowhere

00:40:09.789 --> 00:40:12.889
else does that prey exist except where it's as

00:40:12.889 --> 00:40:16.190
part of the lunch, if you will, of the prey.

00:40:16.650 --> 00:40:18.809
Things like that. That's a simple form, but there

00:40:18.809 --> 00:40:20.530
are lots of other places that you can use that

00:40:20.530 --> 00:40:24.250
same logic. Okay, so scripture affirms this intuition

00:40:24.250 --> 00:40:28.369
saying he did not create it a waste place, but

00:40:28.369 --> 00:40:31.530
for but formed it to be inhabited. Isaiah 45,

00:40:31.829 --> 00:40:35.110
18. The evidence points beyond matter and energy

00:40:35.110 --> 00:40:40.769
to a transcendent cause beyond the universe.

00:40:41.409 --> 00:40:43.809
So why does it need to be a transcendent cause

00:40:43.809 --> 00:40:46.530
beyond the universe? Based on what we've been

00:40:46.530 --> 00:40:48.469
talking about, how does the evidence point to

00:40:48.469 --> 00:40:51.610
something that is beyond the universe? Because

00:40:51.610 --> 00:40:53.030
that's going to be the next question, right?

00:40:53.190 --> 00:40:55.130
Somebody's going to ask, well, if God created

00:40:55.130 --> 00:41:00.380
everything, then what? Who created God, right?

00:41:00.420 --> 00:41:02.800
That's what everybody says. If God created everything,

00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:06.360
well, then who created God? So no matter, let's

00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.760
say, for example, you would say, well, God created

00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:12.239
everything. Well, who created God? Well, Bob.

00:41:12.380 --> 00:41:14.940
Bob created God. Well, who created Bob? Tom.

00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:18.059
Who created Tom? Aliens. Who created aliens,

00:41:18.340 --> 00:41:20.800
right? When you get to the end of the line, you

00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:22.920
have to have somebody who started it. It's a

00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:25.699
cause and effect thing. To have an effect, yeah.

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:27.500
To have an effect, you have to have a cause.

00:41:28.090 --> 00:41:30.389
And you go effect, cause, effect, cause, back

00:41:30.389 --> 00:41:31.630
to the beginning. And what's it going to be,

00:41:31.670 --> 00:41:34.809
an effect or a cause? It's going to be a cause.

00:41:34.989 --> 00:41:36.710
It can't be an effect because in order for it

00:41:36.710 --> 00:41:38.929
to be an effect, it has to have a cause. That's

00:41:38.929 --> 00:41:40.789
the definition of an effect. It was caused by

00:41:40.789 --> 00:41:43.130
something. So you're going to go back to back

00:41:43.130 --> 00:41:44.690
to back to back all the way to the beginning,

00:41:44.849 --> 00:41:46.170
and you're going to come up with a cause. And

00:41:46.170 --> 00:41:49.130
whatever that cause is, that's God. Make sense?

00:41:49.550 --> 00:41:53.190
So they can argue who created God and say, well,

00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:54.949
it doesn't even matter. Because if somebody created

00:41:54.949 --> 00:41:58.309
God, whoever that is, that's actually God. By

00:41:58.309 --> 00:42:00.730
asking me who created God, you're just accepting

00:42:00.730 --> 00:42:03.389
that somebody had to have done the creating.

00:42:03.510 --> 00:42:05.550
That's all you're doing. And that's the whole

00:42:05.550 --> 00:42:07.309
argument. That's what we're trying to get them

00:42:07.309 --> 00:42:09.610
to the point of saying is that somebody created

00:42:09.610 --> 00:42:14.269
all this. So you need a transcendent cause that's

00:42:14.269 --> 00:42:16.010
outside the universe because in order for it

00:42:16.010 --> 00:42:18.170
to be inside the universe, limited by the universe,

00:42:18.309 --> 00:42:20.949
it has to be an effect, not a cause. God is not

00:42:20.949 --> 00:42:23.829
an effect. God is a cause. And so would be the

00:42:23.829 --> 00:42:25.610
first thing. The first thing has to be a cause.

00:42:26.259 --> 00:42:29.780
So that is a personal cause showing mind and

00:42:29.780 --> 00:42:32.019
intention. Why does it need to be a personal

00:42:32.019 --> 00:42:36.159
cause that shows mind and intention? Based on

00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:37.739
what we've been studying, why does it need to

00:42:37.739 --> 00:42:39.860
be a personal cause that shows mind and intention?

00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:43.280
Can anybody answer that question? This would

00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:45.739
be the equipping moment. Based on everything

00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:48.079
we just went through, the intelligent designer

00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:50.079
who created everything, evidence points that

00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:53.699
they must be a personal cause, have mind and

00:42:53.699 --> 00:42:58.800
intention. Why is that? Right. Because the evidences

00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.179
that we just went through show intelligence.

00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.820
Right? So a dog can be intelligent, not as intelligent

00:43:04.820 --> 00:43:07.239
as, say, a horse. A horse can be intelligent,

00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.380
not as intelligent as, say, a child. A child

00:43:09.380 --> 00:43:11.280
can be intelligent, but not as intelligent as,

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:14.980
say, a man. Right? And so on. But the evidences

00:43:14.980 --> 00:43:18.739
show intelligence. So we need that. Thank you.

00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:21.300
Yep. Have a nice night. Yep. Have a good night,

00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:24.679
man. So you need a personal cause, mind, and

00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:27.320
intention. And then the next one says, and starts

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:33.039
with an I. An intelligent cause, design, and

00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:37.960
order. And so if you look at everything that

00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:39.760
we've been through, we talked about what part

00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:42.199
of it did we talk about that it requires design

00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:48.300
and order? Yes. But more specific. Pick one.

00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:51.260
What part of everything we talked about requires

00:43:51.260 --> 00:43:59.539
design and order? Say it again. Okay, so it's

00:43:59.539 --> 00:44:02.940
a cause. Okay, I need something a little more

00:44:02.940 --> 00:44:05.719
specific. I'm agreeing with both of you. I need

00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:07.440
something a little more specific. Okay, how about

00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:14.400
DNA as language? That requires design and order,

00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:17.219
right? Someone created the language. Someone

00:44:17.219 --> 00:44:20.690
is communicating to... The cells, right? How

00:44:20.690 --> 00:44:25.730
about the irreducible complexity of design? Someone

00:44:25.730 --> 00:44:28.489
had to put that cell together with that tail

00:44:28.489 --> 00:44:31.349
motor thing that goes forward and backwards and

00:44:31.349 --> 00:44:34.510
thousands of RPMs and the whole cell is just

00:44:34.510 --> 00:44:37.250
one piece. There's no individual parts. Someone

00:44:37.250 --> 00:44:39.190
had to do that. It had to be made in that state.

00:44:39.489 --> 00:44:42.449
So that requires order and design, right? Okay.

00:44:42.530 --> 00:44:44.690
That brings us to our conclusions. I would encourage

00:44:44.690 --> 00:44:48.469
you to go back over these. So that if I or someone

00:44:48.469 --> 00:44:50.769
would ask you that question, that you have answers.

00:44:50.989 --> 00:44:54.530
That is the goal. So when you're in that conversation,

00:44:54.730 --> 00:44:57.550
you have the answer to be able to say why you

00:44:57.550 --> 00:45:00.429
believe that it's true. So apologetics leads

00:45:00.429 --> 00:45:04.389
us to worship. Apologetics does not replace faith.

00:45:04.690 --> 00:45:08.130
Beautiful. It strengthens it. Creation does not

00:45:08.130 --> 00:45:12.429
save, but it points us to the Savior. So you

00:45:12.429 --> 00:45:15.449
can worship a tree. Trees are awesome. but they

00:45:15.449 --> 00:45:18.130
won't save your soul. You can worship a job.

00:45:18.170 --> 00:45:20.550
You can have a great career and love it. You

00:45:20.550 --> 00:45:22.090
can worship your family. You can have a beautiful

00:45:22.090 --> 00:45:25.230
wife and children or a handsome husband, or as

00:45:25.230 --> 00:45:29.690
the Spanish, guapo. You can do that, but that

00:45:29.690 --> 00:45:33.210
won't save your soul. This is just a creation

00:45:33.210 --> 00:45:36.989
leads us to worship the creator who then sent

00:45:36.989 --> 00:45:41.750
his son, Jesus. For the foolishness of God is

00:45:41.750 --> 00:45:44.650
wiser than man, 1 Corinthians 1 .25. So when

00:45:44.650 --> 00:45:47.750
we engage in apologetics, we honor God with our

00:45:47.750 --> 00:45:51.610
minds. We serve seekers with clarity. So people

00:45:51.610 --> 00:45:53.730
who are looking for God, we give them the tools

00:45:53.730 --> 00:45:55.590
they need to make the right decision, basically.

00:45:55.630 --> 00:45:57.389
And we overcome barriers for them and that kind

00:45:57.389 --> 00:46:00.809
of thing. And we proclaim a creator who has spoken

00:46:00.809 --> 00:46:04.570
finally and fully in Jesus Christ. Understand

00:46:04.570 --> 00:46:07.150
that for thousands of years before Jesus came,

00:46:07.429 --> 00:46:12.010
creation was testifying of God. So what Bible

00:46:12.010 --> 00:46:16.920
did... moses read that led him to jesus the new

00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:20.920
testament did not exist the old testament and

00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.400
it was actually moses wrote the first five books

00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:25.840
right so he really wrote those five books so

00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:28.460
the answer is he didn't have one he made one

00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:31.960
he made one so he listened to the testimonies

00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:33.780
of the people he heard the stories that were

00:46:33.780 --> 00:46:36.059
handed down by generations he saw creation around

00:46:36.059 --> 00:46:38.380
him A lot of people think that a lot of it came

00:46:38.380 --> 00:46:41.260
from the stars. There are 12 major constellations

00:46:41.260 --> 00:46:43.880
and they tell the story of the life, death, burial,

00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.380
resurrection of Christ. The constellations do.

00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:50.480
And so you can read the Bible in the stars if

00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:54.619
you know how. And there's a lot more than that.

00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:57.000
He could never see single cell organisms to know

00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.920
about the flagellum. But he could see the way

00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:03.760
ants struggle, the way clouds work, the way the

00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:07.960
sun. hangs in the sky, and the moon rotates around

00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:11.940
the earth. He could see the order and go, there

00:47:11.940 --> 00:47:14.699
clearly is an intelligent designer. I don't know

00:47:14.699 --> 00:47:17.300
how he wants me to be saved, but however he wants

00:47:17.300 --> 00:47:19.460
to save me beyond this life, I submit myself

00:47:19.460 --> 00:47:21.360
to him. That's all Abraham did. Abraham just

00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:23.920
said, okay, God, however you want to do it. And

00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:25.840
God already knew how he was going to do it. He

00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:27.340
was going to do it through Jesus. And God said,

00:47:27.380 --> 00:47:29.320
okay, you said however, so here's your however.

00:47:29.539 --> 00:47:31.199
I'm going to save you through Jesus, who won't

00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:33.260
be born for a thousand years, but that's how

00:47:33.260 --> 00:47:35.510
I'm going to do it. And he did. And Abraham went

00:47:35.510 --> 00:47:39.289
to heaven. And that's how it works. So we honor

00:47:39.289 --> 00:47:41.909
God with our minds. We serve seekers with clarity.

00:47:42.050 --> 00:47:44.190
We proclaim a creator who has spoken finally

00:47:44.190 --> 00:47:46.590
and fully in Jesus Christ. And then notice that

00:47:46.590 --> 00:47:49.650
our defense is not merely logical. It is Christ

00:47:49.650 --> 00:47:52.010
-centered. So even though these things all are

00:47:52.010 --> 00:47:54.570
based on reason, even though you're going to

00:47:54.570 --> 00:47:56.550
give them some good reasons to believe that there

00:47:56.550 --> 00:48:00.789
is an intelligent designer, fundamentally, our

00:48:00.789 --> 00:48:02.769
relationship is with God through Jesus Christ,

00:48:02.769 --> 00:48:07.260
his son. And so it could happen. We're going

00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:10.900
to do more on other. And this is also the most

00:48:10.900 --> 00:48:17.539
scientific, most laden with scientific terms

00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:19.300
and things like that. The others won't be so

00:48:19.300 --> 00:48:23.079
much that. But we're going to look at different

00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:25.019
reasons why we know we believe different things

00:48:25.019 --> 00:48:28.239
based on Scripture to keep giving you tools so

00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:29.699
when you're in those conversations, you'll be

00:48:29.699 --> 00:48:32.550
able to answer those questions. That's the plan.

00:48:32.809 --> 00:48:35.670
Probably every other week, opposite faith for

00:48:35.670 --> 00:48:37.889
us, we'll do that, and then we'll continue to

00:48:37.889 --> 00:48:40.070
do the thing like we did this last week when

00:48:40.070 --> 00:48:47.449
we had the kids in there. But ultimately, I'll

00:48:47.449 --> 00:48:51.730
close with this illustration. Aaron and I went

00:48:51.730 --> 00:48:54.130
to visit a guy who lived over on Old Curtis,

00:48:54.309 --> 00:48:58.070
between Woodville and New Curtis, basically by

00:48:58.070 --> 00:49:01.119
Myers. They had a pretty nice house. It was up

00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:03.579
for sale, and he had come to one of our events,

00:49:03.639 --> 00:49:05.739
and I prayed with him, and he filled out a visitor

00:49:05.739 --> 00:49:07.219
card or whatever, so we went and visited him.

00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:11.039
And he was a doctor. He was probably like 60,

00:49:11.179 --> 00:49:14.539
and he was extremely intelligent. Like his vocabulary,

00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.239
he was using regularly words that were hard for

00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:19.179
me to understand, so I was parsing out some of

00:49:19.179 --> 00:49:21.380
what he was saying. Aaron was kind of dazzled

00:49:21.380 --> 00:49:23.280
by him because Aaron was a teenager at the time.

00:49:23.659 --> 00:49:28.079
Young teen, like 13. And he asked me questions

00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.800
I couldn't answer. like questions about the Bible,

00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:34.900
questions about science, questions about literature.

00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.659
And I answered what I could, you know, and I

00:49:39.659 --> 00:49:41.119
was asking him to be saved. I shared the gospel

00:49:41.119 --> 00:49:43.019
to ask him to be saved. He wasn't saved. And

00:49:43.019 --> 00:49:47.920
ultimately, God led me to say, here's the bottom

00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:50.360
line. I mean, I don't have an answer to every

00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:51.619
one of your questions, but here's the bottom

00:49:51.619 --> 00:49:53.699
line. Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for

00:49:53.699 --> 00:49:56.739
sins and then rose again on the third day. Based

00:49:56.739 --> 00:50:00.559
on that, what are you going to do about it? based

00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:01.699
on that truth, what are you going to do about

00:50:01.699 --> 00:50:03.000
it? And he said, well, I'm not sure I believe

00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:06.099
that. And I said, well, I believe it with all

00:50:06.099 --> 00:50:07.539
my heart. I've been changed. I've experienced

00:50:07.539 --> 00:50:09.000
the Holy Spirit, whatever. And I can give you

00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:11.059
some reason to believe it or whatever. But you're

00:50:11.059 --> 00:50:12.440
asking questions I don't know the answer to.

00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:14.440
It all comes down to this one thing. What are

00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.739
you going to do with Jesus? We went back one

00:50:16.739 --> 00:50:19.579
time later and saw him about a month later. And

00:50:19.579 --> 00:50:21.820
in the interim, he had accepted Jesus Christ

00:50:21.820 --> 00:50:23.920
as Lord and Savior. We weren't there. But in

00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:25.960
the interim, he had decided to follow Jesus.

00:50:26.179 --> 00:50:28.300
And then he came to New Heights. We were meeting

00:50:28.300 --> 00:50:29.780
in high school at that time. He came to New Heights

00:50:29.780 --> 00:50:32.659
once, worshipped with us, made a public decision.

00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:34.420
Let everybody know that this is a doctor for

00:50:34.420 --> 00:50:36.760
60 years old, professional. Let everybody know

00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:38.480
that he had made his decision to follow Christ.

00:50:38.739 --> 00:50:41.199
And then he, and that was actually at the ICE

00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.460
event, the day of the ICE event. I think it's

00:50:43.460 --> 00:50:45.300
when he came, which was like an evangelism event

00:50:45.300 --> 00:50:46.940
that we did, went around, talked to people about

00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:49.280
Jesus. And then they sold their house and they

00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:51.539
moved out of state. So I never saw him again

00:50:51.539 --> 00:50:55.960
after that. But this is what I learned. The apologetics

00:50:55.960 --> 00:50:58.619
will only go so far. Ultimately, it comes down

00:50:58.619 --> 00:51:01.039
to what they're going to do with Jesus. But if

00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:02.880
you can imagine somebody saying, well, I just

00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:04.800
don't really know. Is there any evidence for

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.900
God? What is the evidence? You can't see God.

00:51:08.019 --> 00:51:09.699
I can't taste him, can't touch him. I only believe

00:51:09.699 --> 00:51:11.780
in things I see, taste, or touch, right? Then

00:51:11.780 --> 00:51:14.760
you can use arguments like this to say, but there

00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.380
is a good reason to believe. There is evidence.

00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:20.760
If you deny all the evidence, then there's nothing

00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.019
I can do for you, really. I can't really help

00:51:23.019 --> 00:51:24.659
you. We'll talk some more when you're ready to

00:51:24.659 --> 00:51:26.360
accept some evidence or whatever. But if you

00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:30.480
would say you're willing to talk evidence, then

00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:32.239
I'll try to give you some. Does that make sense?

00:51:32.900 --> 00:51:37.059
Okay. So we'll be back. Questions? All right.

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:39.960
I'm going to ask a couple, and then we'll be

00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:44.539
done. Okay. Without looking at the page. Don't

00:51:44.539 --> 00:51:47.269
look at the page. Somebody give me one example

00:51:47.269 --> 00:51:52.750
of irreducible complexity. I mentioned it at

00:51:52.750 --> 00:51:57.489
least twice. What is something that is irreducibly

00:51:57.489 --> 00:52:03.110
complex? I don't understand it. What is something

00:52:03.110 --> 00:52:07.349
that has no smaller parts but is very complex?

00:52:11.010 --> 00:52:15.170
Cell? Yep. Give me a little more. You got it,

00:52:15.250 --> 00:52:19.710
Haley? Yep. Single cell organism. Bacterial legilum

00:52:19.710 --> 00:52:21.550
is the actual words, but you don't have to remember

00:52:21.550 --> 00:52:23.969
those words, but the tail of a single cell bacteria.

00:52:25.170 --> 00:52:27.750
It's like an outboard motor, except it's part

00:52:27.750 --> 00:52:31.510
of a single cell. Hundreds or thousands of RPMs.

00:52:33.349 --> 00:52:36.530
Works in reverse, works forward, turns left and

00:52:36.530 --> 00:52:39.590
right, but it's all part of a single cell. There

00:52:39.590 --> 00:52:49.449
are no parts. All right. What is... Okay. Looking

00:52:49.449 --> 00:52:52.989
at this page, Haley, how much information is

00:52:52.989 --> 00:52:57.170
contained on this page? None. That's right. Very

00:52:57.170 --> 00:53:00.329
good. So the information travels via the page

00:53:00.329 --> 00:53:05.150
from my mind, if you will, through my keyboard

00:53:05.150 --> 00:53:09.429
or whatever, through the page to your brain.

00:53:10.730 --> 00:53:12.650
We could sit here and be like, you could go to

00:53:12.650 --> 00:53:14.250
school and someone could teach you that the word

00:53:14.250 --> 00:53:16.170
produce only has to do with fruits and vegetables.

00:53:16.269 --> 00:53:19.429
And you might look at cannot produce specified

00:53:19.429 --> 00:53:21.610
complexity and totally not be able to understand

00:53:21.610 --> 00:53:23.690
that question. Like that doesn't make any sense

00:53:23.690 --> 00:53:26.449
to me at all. How can that be produce? It's fruits

00:53:26.449 --> 00:53:28.469
and vegetables. Cannot fruits and vegetables

00:53:28.469 --> 00:53:30.289
specified complexity doesn't even make any sense

00:53:30.289 --> 00:53:33.329
because you didn't learn the language the same

00:53:33.329 --> 00:53:35.250
way I did. And that's the struggle that we have

00:53:35.250 --> 00:53:38.889
as humans. And so we can all share in that struggle.

00:53:39.449 --> 00:53:41.969
But the bottom line is DNA is the communication

00:53:41.969 --> 00:53:45.969
of an intelligent being to the mitochondria,

00:53:45.969 --> 00:53:50.170
to the center of cells. Interestingly enough,

00:53:50.269 --> 00:53:52.570
by the way, when a cell replicates, the DNA in

00:53:52.570 --> 00:53:54.449
the middle of the cell splits to make an exact

00:53:54.449 --> 00:53:57.010
copy of itself. So it splits right down the middle,

00:53:57.110 --> 00:53:59.670
reproduces the other side, and it becomes two

00:53:59.670 --> 00:54:01.510
copies. So the new copy goes in the new cell,

00:54:01.550 --> 00:54:03.969
and the old copy stays in the old cell. That

00:54:03.969 --> 00:54:08.449
alone is... incredible evidence for an intelligent

00:54:08.449 --> 00:54:11.150
designer to make that process. Why would that

00:54:11.150 --> 00:54:14.250
ever happen? That doesn't make any sense. Okay?

00:54:16.429 --> 00:54:18.610
I'll give you one more and then we'll be through.

00:54:27.469 --> 00:54:30.590
All right. What is the relationship between faith

00:54:30.590 --> 00:54:35.329
and reason? You don't have to get the exact words.

00:54:35.449 --> 00:54:36.989
Just tell me. You can say it in your own words.

00:54:37.070 --> 00:54:38.590
What's the relationship between faith and reason,

00:54:38.710 --> 00:54:43.449
anybody? Perfect. They are not opposite. They're

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not mutually exclusive. We believe. And once

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you believe and start to see how it all fits

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together, it makes perfect sense. Right? So the

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truth is, if you're baffled, if you are a follower

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of the Lord Jesus Christ and you're still a little

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baffled, like people say all the time, God works

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in mysterious ways. If the ways that God is working

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are really, truly mysterious to you, then I would

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probably dig in a little bit. Study your Bible,

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listen to God, because it really isn't. It's

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couched in God's love, his perfect design. Acts

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17 says that God orchestrated where you live,

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when you are, your challenges, everything you're

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going through, all of it, so that you will grope

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around for him. And having done so, you will

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find him and realize that he was never far away

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in the first place. That is a perfect design

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for your life, not just for a moon and a sun

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and stars, but for your personal existence. And

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so it really isn't that baffling. 1 Corinthians

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2 says that we are gifted with the mind of Christ.

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So we know what we can think the thoughts of

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Jesus, essentially. Now, it's growing. We grow

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into it, right? You don't just all of a sudden,

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boo, I get everything that Jesus has given me.

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You've got to be renewing your mind, and that's

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what Romans 12 says. And renewing your mind allows

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you to know the good and perfect will of God.

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And then when you know what God wants from you,

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then you do what God wants, right? Because you

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love him and want to be obedient. So there is

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a process. We're growing into it. We can. And

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it really isn't that baffling. He loves. He's

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going the extra mile. He's doing miraculous things

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to try to reach people for him. Okay. All right.

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So let's close in prayer. And we'll be through.

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And we've got to find some snackages before the

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young ones come in here looking for a snack.

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Chris, you want to lead us in prayer as we close?

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Please and thank you. Sure. All right. Please

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do. Lord, thank you for this time. Thank you

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for everyone that's here. Thank you for the leaders

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in the other room, the children, and the lessons

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that they've learned. I hope that everybody in

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here learned something and that we use this in

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our daily life to bring people to you. In Jesus'

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name, I pray.