WEBVTT 00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:03.669 All right, now we're going to do one more review 00:00:03.669 --> 00:00:05.669 of this information. We're going to do it as 00:00:05.669 --> 00:00:07.389 kind of a little fun activity. If you'd like 00:00:07.389 --> 00:00:11.529 to participate, you can stand now. And if we 00:00:11.529 --> 00:00:14.429 only have one person or up to two people standing, 00:00:14.529 --> 00:00:16.589 I'm going to give away sparkling apple juice. 00:00:19.190 --> 00:00:21.649 I'm going to read the question. I'm going to 00:00:21.649 --> 00:00:22.989 go around. I'm going to each person in order. 00:00:23.089 --> 00:00:24.210 You read the question. If you can answer the 00:00:24.210 --> 00:00:26.910 question correctly, then you stay standing. If 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:28.170 you fail to answer the question correctly, you 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:30.390 sit down. We're going to have three people participate. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:35.619 Anybody else? Going once? Not sparkling apple 00:00:35.619 --> 00:00:39.500 juice lovers? They're not hard questions. Nice 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:42.179 chance to join. Come on, Alex, you joining? He's 00:00:42.179 --> 00:00:44.219 debating with himself. His butt was off the chair 00:00:44.219 --> 00:00:47.820 for about half a second. Okay. All right, Caleb, 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.600 you're going to go first. Okay? So here's the 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:55.500 question. I'm going to... Okay, I'm going to 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:58.240 find my starting spot here. All right. I'm going 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.130 to... Start a statement, and you're going to 00:01:02.130 --> 00:01:05.829 finish it. One word. Okay? Everything that begins 00:01:05.829 --> 00:01:11.450 to exist has a... That's incorrect. Has a cause. 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:15.870 Sorry. God does not have an ending. We also didn't 00:01:15.870 --> 00:01:18.090 begin to exist, I guess, technically. Also, Christians 00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:20.769 don't technically have an ending. Okay, so who's 00:01:20.769 --> 00:01:23.890 going? Haley? Why does the Kalam argument say 00:01:23.890 --> 00:01:35.739 the universe needs a cause? It had a beginning. 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:41.040 Okay. Alex, what do we call something that depends 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:51.819 on something else to exist? Of all these questions, 00:01:51.859 --> 00:01:54.439 you got the hardest one, so I bet you're glad 00:01:54.439 --> 00:02:03.920 you got up now. Of all... What do we call something 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:08.099 that depends on something else to exist? That 00:02:08.099 --> 00:02:11.840 is correct. Okay, you got help from a friend. 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:18.080 Have a seat, Alex, sorry. Okay. Kishan, an infinite 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.979 chain of causes explains why anything exists. 00:02:23.099 --> 00:02:29.860 True or false? An infinite chain of causes explains 00:02:29.860 --> 00:02:34.840 why anything exists. True or false? That is false. 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.680 There is no such thing as an infinite chain of 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.120 causes. God explains why everything exists. If 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.659 you get this one right, you get a bottle of apple 00:02:44.659 --> 00:02:49.520 juice. What kind of being does the contingency 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:54.199 argument say must exist? What kind of being must 00:02:54.199 --> 00:03:00.669 exist? Not being. What kind of being does the 00:03:00.669 --> 00:03:08.270 contingency argument say must exist? That is 00:03:08.270 --> 00:03:14.930 correct. All right, we can go another round. 00:03:15.009 --> 00:03:17.349 Anybody want to go again? I got more questions. 00:03:18.129 --> 00:03:21.849 I refuse to admit defeat. I got one more bottle 00:03:21.849 --> 00:03:27.310 of sparkling apple juice. Okay. All right, I'm 00:03:27.310 --> 00:03:30.310 going to name, on this round, all of these ones, 00:03:30.389 --> 00:03:33.349 I'm going to name an object, and you're going 00:03:33.349 --> 00:03:35.889 to tell me whether or not that object is, if 00:03:35.889 --> 00:03:40.349 it is designed or not designed. If it is designed 00:03:40.349 --> 00:03:46.330 or not designed. Okay? Caleb, a wristwatch. Designed. 00:03:46.330 --> 00:03:51.229 Correct. Okay, who's next? Mike, a rock. Not 00:03:51.229 --> 00:03:53.870 designed. Very good. That was a tricky one for 00:03:53.870 --> 00:03:55.870 me when I first looked at it. I'm like, ah, gotcha. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:58.819 But a rock not really, I guess it doesn't have 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:01.780 that much design in it, okay? Natalie, the human 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:10.819 eye. What did you say? Okay, I'll give it to 00:04:10.819 --> 00:04:17.680 you. All right. Haley, a smartphone. Yep. Kishan, 00:04:17.899 --> 00:04:27.699 DNA. Design. Okay, we're back over here now. 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:34.540 Okay. I'm going to name an item, and you're going 00:04:34.540 --> 00:04:37.620 to tell me, is that item irreducibly complex 00:04:37.620 --> 00:04:40.699 or not? I'm going to give you the definition. 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:44.879 Irreducibly complex means, again, that it ceases 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.240 to function if it loses any of its parts. Okay? 00:04:48.379 --> 00:04:52.860 Got it? All right, here we go. A mousetrap. Irreducibly 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:56.529 complex or not? Not. I'm sorry. It is irreducibly 00:04:56.529 --> 00:05:00.389 complex. Have a seat. Yep. It is the simplest 00:05:00.389 --> 00:05:02.970 thing that you can get that is irreducibly complex. 00:05:03.230 --> 00:05:04.930 But if you take any part out of a mousetrap, 00:05:05.050 --> 00:05:08.149 it doesn't work. Okay, here we go. Mike, ready? 00:05:08.589 --> 00:05:15.110 A pile of sand. That is correct. Natalie, the 00:05:15.110 --> 00:05:22.189 bacterial flagellum. Say it again? Yes, it is 00:05:22.189 --> 00:05:27.459 irreducibly complex. All right. That's the tail 00:05:27.459 --> 00:05:29.279 that we talked about two weeks ago. Were you 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:30.459 in there? I'm not sure if you were in there. 00:05:30.740 --> 00:05:33.759 But it's a tail that is of a single -cell organism. 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.680 It goes forward, backwards, hundreds of RPMs, 00:05:37.699 --> 00:05:39.560 all that kind of thing, but it's all part of 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:44.779 one cell. Okay. All right. Haley, a bicycle. 00:05:45.819 --> 00:05:49.899 Yes. It is not. It is not irreducibly designed. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.470 Have a seat. Okay. For example, you can ride 00:05:53.470 --> 00:05:57.170 a bicycle without a... I'll explain in a second. 00:05:57.370 --> 00:05:59.230 You can ride a bicycle without a seat. You can 00:05:59.230 --> 00:06:01.149 ride a bicycle without a handlebars. Should you? 00:06:01.209 --> 00:06:05.509 Probably not, but you can. Okay? They're just 00:06:05.509 --> 00:06:07.750 playing a game based on the lesson from two weeks 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:10.850 ago. Gather information, and then we're going 00:06:10.850 --> 00:06:14.430 to go on to this piece in a second. Okay, these 00:06:14.430 --> 00:06:16.110 are true and false. Kishan, you get the first 00:06:16.110 --> 00:06:19.470 true and false question. The laws of physics 00:06:19.470 --> 00:06:22.870 could be slightly different and life would still 00:06:22.870 --> 00:06:27.750 exist. True or false? False. Have you made up 00:06:27.750 --> 00:06:30.750 your mind now? Final answer? It is false. That 00:06:30.750 --> 00:06:33.230 is correct. You're still standing. Okay, Mike. 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:36.889 Fine -tuning refers to how carefully balanced 00:06:36.889 --> 00:06:39.790 the universe is for life. True or false? True. 00:06:39.930 --> 00:06:43.129 That is true. Very good. Natalie. Fine -tuning 00:06:43.129 --> 00:06:47.850 suggests design rather than chance. True or false? 00:06:50.269 --> 00:06:53.069 Sorry, that's true. Don't listen to the people 00:06:53.069 --> 00:06:55.490 sitting down. You're getting the wrong answer. 00:06:56.029 --> 00:07:00.870 Kishan, gravity could be much stronger and stars 00:07:00.870 --> 00:07:04.269 would still form normally. True or false? False. 00:07:05.589 --> 00:07:11.050 That is correct, false. Okay. All right. We're 00:07:11.050 --> 00:07:14.610 down to Mike and Kishan. Sudden death, okay? 00:07:15.809 --> 00:07:19.029 All right, I'll start the sentence. You give 00:07:19.029 --> 00:07:22.089 me the final word. You ready, Mike? No helping 00:07:22.089 --> 00:07:25.730 from the sitting down people. Language comes 00:07:25.730 --> 00:07:31.629 from a... Give me the final word. Say it again. 00:07:32.009 --> 00:07:34.829 I'm sorry, that's incorrect. All right, Kishan, 00:07:34.870 --> 00:07:36.810 you have to get one more to win the bottle of 00:07:36.810 --> 00:07:44.279 sparkling grape juice. Computer code. comes from 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:57.560 a... I'm sorry, that is incorrect. It comes from 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.000 a mind. No sparkling apple juice for you, sir. 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:06.300 Okay, all right. So those arguments... All are 00:08:06.300 --> 00:08:10.040 designed to help us in conversations. When people 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:12.300 are asking, how do you know that there is a God? 00:08:12.500 --> 00:08:16.199 So you can go back over them. I'll give a copy. 00:08:16.300 --> 00:08:18.180 We did a quiz. I'll give you a copy of the quiz 00:08:18.180 --> 00:08:22.420 to each person that came in. So you don't have 00:08:22.420 --> 00:08:24.620 to fill it out now. Just keep it for yourself. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.440 All right, and then today's worksheet is coming 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.620 around. Where is today's worksheet? Here it is. 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:28.919 If you look on the back, you will see some written 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.000 words. The blanks are filled in with those words 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.220 as we go through. And then as you fill, we're 00:09:37.220 --> 00:09:38.500 going to do a little thing at the end. So as 00:09:38.500 --> 00:09:40.960 you fill in each word as we go through it, you 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.259 can put a hash mark in the back. I'll try to 00:09:43.259 --> 00:09:44.980 remind you each time because you're going to 00:09:44.980 --> 00:09:46.639 count the number of times that you use that word. 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:50.240 Okay. Also, you'll notice on the back that there 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.580 are three words that I have not given you. So 00:09:52.580 --> 00:09:54.139 at the end, you want to know what those three 00:09:54.139 --> 00:09:56.700 words are and how many times they're used. Okay. 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:58.419 So it's a little game that we're playing while 00:09:58.419 --> 00:10:02.690 we do the worksheet. If you don't like fun, you 00:10:02.690 --> 00:10:11.909 don't have to play. All right. So, and I apologize. 00:10:12.149 --> 00:10:14.070 The words are actually on the bottom of the front. 00:10:14.210 --> 00:10:15.769 So you should be looking at the part that has 00:10:15.769 --> 00:10:17.009 the words on the bottom. I might have said the 00:10:17.009 --> 00:10:19.190 back, but this is the front of the page. This 00:10:19.190 --> 00:10:23.590 is the front page. Okay. So the words on the 00:10:23.590 --> 00:10:27.080 front. Can you guys give me the name of the game 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:28.659 that we played the one time where I left early 00:10:28.659 --> 00:10:36.480 that day? I'll look it up. I don't know the name 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:39.080 of it either, but yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. 00:10:39.179 --> 00:10:41.480 All right. So here we go. We're starting on the 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:54.340 top page. It says, does law exist? A biblical... 00:10:56.660 --> 00:11:01.240 And moral case. Cosmological arguments for God's 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.980 existence. So we already did this. So this is 00:11:04.980 --> 00:11:07.779 just a review for you. Until we get down to a 00:11:07.779 --> 00:11:09.539 certain point. This is just a review for anybody 00:11:09.539 --> 00:11:13.500 who wasn't here. We should kind of know it. Everything 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:18.639 that begins to exist has a cause. It starts with 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:22.759 a U. The universe began to exist. Therefore, 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:26.700 that's another U. The universe has a transcendent 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:29.539 cause. That's a big word, transcendent. But what 00:11:29.539 --> 00:11:33.080 it means is that it's an outside cause. It's 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.240 not something that's subject to the rules of 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:39.659 the universe. Okay? So if it began to exist, 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:44.080 then something made it start. Yep, so those are 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:48.950 both universe. Okay? Then it says common cosmological 00:11:48.950 --> 00:11:50.730 arguments. These are the ones we just went over, 00:11:50.809 --> 00:11:52.789 we reviewed, and we're on the quiz, and we're 00:11:52.789 --> 00:11:55.669 just filling them in. So the Kalam cosmological 00:11:55.669 --> 00:11:58.629 argument says the universe began. That's another 00:11:58.629 --> 00:12:00.909 U. Don't forget to put your hash marks on the 00:12:00.909 --> 00:12:02.350 bottom to count the number of times you use the 00:12:02.350 --> 00:12:07.629 word universe. The contingency argument says 00:12:07.629 --> 00:12:15.269 that something had to be necessary. Nothing that 00:12:15.269 --> 00:12:18.169 exists is necessary, but something had to be 00:12:18.169 --> 00:12:19.870 necessary to start it. That's something he's 00:12:19.870 --> 00:12:22.649 got. The first cause argument says, you've got 00:12:22.649 --> 00:12:24.629 cause, effect, cause, effect, back to the beginning. 00:12:24.690 --> 00:12:27.210 The first thing had to be an uncaused cause. 00:12:27.350 --> 00:12:30.929 That's start, that's God. The Lebnizian cosmological 00:12:30.929 --> 00:12:34.490 argument says that everything has to have a reason 00:12:34.490 --> 00:12:38.389 outside of itself to exist. So you can't say, 00:12:38.450 --> 00:12:41.110 why does water exist? Well, water, that doesn't 00:12:41.110 --> 00:12:43.529 mean anything. That's not... That's not how reason 00:12:43.529 --> 00:12:46.169 works. Why does water exist? Well, because something 00:12:46.169 --> 00:12:49.470 made water. So everything has to have a reason 00:12:49.470 --> 00:12:52.169 outside of itself to exist, and that reason is 00:12:52.169 --> 00:12:56.309 God. The Thomastic argument from motion says 00:12:56.309 --> 00:12:59.830 that there are actual things, and all actual 00:12:59.830 --> 00:13:04.409 things were at one time potentially things, before 00:13:04.409 --> 00:13:06.330 they were actual things, and to move from potential 00:13:06.330 --> 00:13:10.409 to actual. Something has to do that. In creation, 00:13:10.649 --> 00:13:14.029 babies do not spring into existence. They are 00:13:14.029 --> 00:13:17.789 made a certain way. Arts and crafts made a certain 00:13:17.789 --> 00:13:21.309 way. So if you take a rock and you make a statue 00:13:21.309 --> 00:13:24.049 out of it, the statue is potential until the 00:13:24.049 --> 00:13:27.470 rock is made into the statue. But something has 00:13:27.470 --> 00:13:31.889 to make it into the statue. The watchmaker, irreducible 00:13:31.889 --> 00:13:36.409 complexity, fine -tuning as that D is? Design, 00:13:36.730 --> 00:13:39.259 yep. Information is communication between minds, 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:42.179 right? So even if, now we're getting into today, 00:13:42.340 --> 00:13:45.379 even if someone resists cosmological arguments, 00:13:45.419 --> 00:13:46.899 so even if they're arguing with you about, yeah, 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.799 I'm not sure about whether that's right or not, 00:13:48.940 --> 00:13:51.200 they still have to account for something that 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:55.039 every human lives with daily, and that is called 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:57.720 morality, okay? So now we're going to, what today's 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.620 argument, we're really into it now, is we're 00:14:00.620 --> 00:14:03.659 going to look at the moral argument for God's 00:14:03.659 --> 00:14:06.980 existence. And the statement of the moral argument, 00:14:07.179 --> 00:14:08.559 there's a bunch of times we're going to say the 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.440 word moral. Every time you see a capital M, it's 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.039 the word moral. The statement of the moral argument 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:18.960 is this. If objective moral values and duties 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.399 exist, then law exists. Objective moral values 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.470 and duties do exist, therefore law exists. Now, 00:14:28.549 --> 00:14:31.710 the law points to a lawgiver, right? And that's 00:14:31.710 --> 00:14:34.250 where we're going with this. But there is a push. 00:14:34.470 --> 00:14:37.110 There is a compelling argument. Something is 00:14:37.110 --> 00:14:39.450 causing these feelings that we have to go a certain 00:14:39.450 --> 00:14:44.190 way. Competing moral theories and why they fall 00:14:44.190 --> 00:14:47.230 short. So the first one is called relativism. 00:14:47.289 --> 00:14:51.090 The definition, moral truth, varies from person 00:14:51.090 --> 00:14:55.090 to person or group to group. So basically, you 00:14:55.090 --> 00:14:56.950 believe what you believe, I believe what I believe. 00:14:58.200 --> 00:14:59.980 what I believe is right, what you believe is 00:14:59.980 --> 00:15:02.460 right, even if we disagree. It doesn't really 00:15:02.460 --> 00:15:04.759 make any sense, but that's what they say. So 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:07.779 the problem with moral relativism is you can't 00:15:07.779 --> 00:15:11.539 condemn truth. Sorry. We did need a volunteer 00:15:11.539 --> 00:15:13.440 to go listen to Bible verses. Is it 7 .05 already? 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.679 Yeah, go ahead. And then you get the blanks filled 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:24.779 in later. Come back after. To listen to Bible 00:15:24.779 --> 00:15:41.459 verses. I think they're in the classroom. Okay, 00:15:41.459 --> 00:15:46.679 so what this does is it reduces morality to opinion. 00:15:47.220 --> 00:15:49.860 But if you check it out, like, that really isn't 00:15:49.860 --> 00:15:52.379 true. Like, you could say it's okay to kill somebody. 00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:53.840 You might think it's okay to kill somebody. When 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:55.100 it comes to be you, you're going to disagree. 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:56.919 There's something going to change your mind. 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.539 It's not okay to kill me, right? So moral, like 00:16:00.539 --> 00:16:03.080 that relativism, that doesn't really work. But 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.059 that's what people are trying to say works, but 00:16:05.059 --> 00:16:08.600 it doesn't. Cultural relativism is next. So moral 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.600 standards are determined by societal norms. So 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.740 this means like what everybody in society thinks 00:16:13.740 --> 00:16:15.960 is okay, that's what's okay. And what everybody 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:18.100 in society thinks is wrong, that's what's wrong. 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:19.879 And it's like a cross section of what everybody 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:23.220 thinks. The problem is cultures cannot be morally 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:26.059 corrected. So the murder cultures, for example, 00:16:26.059 --> 00:16:27.860 where it's okay to murder people to take everything 00:16:27.860 --> 00:16:29.799 that they want. Somebody else goes in there and 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:31.899 you can't help them because now they think it's 00:16:31.899 --> 00:16:33.340 okay to kill people and take whatever they want. 00:16:36.539 --> 00:16:39.720 Reformers then become immoral by definition. 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:44.360 So Jesus would be immoral. Gandhi, immoral. Mother 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:47.899 Teresa, immoral. Martin Luther King, immoral. 00:16:48.179 --> 00:16:49.679 It doesn't make any sense because these are all 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.659 reformers who are trying to help society be better. 00:16:51.820 --> 00:16:54.779 So based on cultural relativism, they would all 00:16:54.779 --> 00:16:57.399 be horrible villains. And we know that's not 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:01.370 true. So that doesn't hold. Then there's called 00:17:01.370 --> 00:17:04.410 conventionalism. So morality is created by laws 00:17:04.410 --> 00:17:06.769 or social agreements. So if we make a contract, 00:17:06.910 --> 00:17:09.049 we make a law, we have a constitutional amendment, 00:17:09.269 --> 00:17:11.349 whatever, that determines what's moral. We have 00:17:11.349 --> 00:17:13.049 that in Ohio right now where abortion is illegal. 00:17:13.549 --> 00:17:19.269 So Ohioans, by law, think it's okay to have abortions 00:17:19.269 --> 00:17:24.869 for any reason. But that's not really moral, 00:17:25.109 --> 00:17:28.619 that's law. Okay? That's the government's rules. 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.420 And so if the government ever makes a rule, like 00:17:31.420 --> 00:17:33.660 you have to bow down to this gold statue every 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:38.299 time someone plays music, we would say no. That's 00:17:38.299 --> 00:17:41.180 what Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego did. And 00:17:41.180 --> 00:17:45.019 we would be thrown into a burning furnace. And 00:17:45.019 --> 00:17:47.900 that's not the kind of society that God wants 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:50.640 us to live in. Okay? The problem with this is 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:54.180 that laws describe power, not moral truth. Unjust 00:17:54.180 --> 00:17:56.680 laws expose the flaw. So whenever that comes 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.660 out, we know it's wrong. Then there's ethical 00:17:59.660 --> 00:18:02.880 subjectivism. So the definition, moral judgments 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.180 express personal feelings or preferences. So 00:18:06.180 --> 00:18:10.339 basically, whatever you really think. Disagreements 00:18:10.339 --> 00:18:14.019 become meaningless. Then we have a word that 00:18:14.019 --> 00:18:18.960 starts with a W. Wrong just means I dislike. 00:18:19.390 --> 00:18:24.509 So when somebody says, I think raping small children 00:18:24.509 --> 00:18:28.210 is wrong, somebody else can say, well, that just 00:18:28.210 --> 00:18:31.390 means you don't like it. That's not right. So 00:18:31.390 --> 00:18:35.970 disagreements become meaningless. Then we have 00:18:35.970 --> 00:18:38.109 the one that we kind of believe in. It's called 00:18:38.109 --> 00:18:41.289 objective morality. The definition is moral truths 00:18:41.289 --> 00:18:45.309 exist independent of human belief or opinion. 00:18:45.869 --> 00:18:47.970 So they are what they are. It doesn't matter 00:18:47.970 --> 00:18:49.829 what you think about them. You may disagree today, 00:18:49.930 --> 00:18:51.910 agree tomorrow, and disagree next week, but they're 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:54.829 not going to change, okay? And you can argue 00:18:54.829 --> 00:18:56.450 this, right? If you're talking with somebody, 00:18:56.490 --> 00:18:59.970 even if their moral truths are frayed, like if 00:18:59.970 --> 00:19:01.970 they don't quite get it, they're not sure what 00:19:01.970 --> 00:19:03.950 to think about certain things, they're still 00:19:03.950 --> 00:19:06.109 going to have some things that they think are 00:19:06.109 --> 00:19:08.170 wrong. And that means that most of the other 00:19:08.170 --> 00:19:09.630 ones that we just talked about are ruled out. 00:19:09.910 --> 00:19:14.250 There has to be objective morals that exist that 00:19:14.250 --> 00:19:17.950 people agree with. So this matches our human 00:19:17.950 --> 00:19:22.430 moral experience. It allows real right and wrong. 00:19:22.769 --> 00:19:26.390 So we can have real right and wrong. So all non 00:19:26.390 --> 00:19:30.150 -objective views lack logical wholeness. They 00:19:30.150 --> 00:19:35.190 cannot explain moral obligation, blank, or moral 00:19:35.190 --> 00:19:37.430 authority. So what do you think that blank in 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:39.069 the middle there might, what word would you put 00:19:39.069 --> 00:19:43.519 in there? You don't have the first letter. So 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:45.240 what is the other thing that they can't explain? 00:19:50.019 --> 00:19:52.339 I got Tim said law. Somebody else said something 00:19:52.339 --> 00:20:00.279 else. Could be conscience, but since I gave you 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:06.400 that one, it shouldn't be. Morals. Okay. So the 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.140 word I, when I wrote it, the word I thought of 00:20:09.140 --> 00:20:11.759 was guilt. People feel guilt about doing wrong. 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:15.339 Right? So you did something wrong, then you feel 00:20:15.339 --> 00:20:17.339 guilt, and you don't know why you feel guilt. 00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:21.640 And we're going to... Or shame. Shame would be 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:24.519 the same thing. Right? So I agree. Those things 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:26.099 are close enough together. They're not the same 00:20:26.099 --> 00:20:27.539 thing, but they're close enough together. It 00:20:27.539 --> 00:20:30.500 also would not explain shame. We wouldn't have 00:20:30.500 --> 00:20:32.539 any reason to feel ashamed if we can set our 00:20:32.539 --> 00:20:33.880 own standards. You just change the standard every 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:36.759 time you start to feel bad. So, okay, now we're 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:38.460 going on to the back. So this part's harder because 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:40.220 you have to flip back and forth to use the words. 00:20:40.380 --> 00:20:46.319 Sorry about that. Okay? Alright, so A. What morality 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:50.660 is and is not? So morality is prescriptive. Do 00:20:50.660 --> 00:20:52.299 you know what that word means? Like when you 00:20:52.299 --> 00:20:54.400 get a prescription from the doctor, for example, 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.339 what is the doctor actually saying? What does 00:20:56.339 --> 00:21:00.500 the prescription do? Well, that's the end result, 00:21:00.579 --> 00:21:02.279 hopefully, if it doesn't screw you up, right? 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:06.980 Treat the symptoms sooner than that. What does 00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:09.039 it literally do? The doctor writes the prescription. 00:21:09.140 --> 00:21:12.220 What do you do with it? You take it to the pharmacist 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:14.359 to get it filled, right? So what the doctor is 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:17.099 doing is the doctor is directing the pharmacist 00:21:17.099 --> 00:21:19.359 what medicine to give you. That's what the prescription 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.240 actually does, right? The medicine does all of 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.740 the other things once you get it. But a prescription 00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:29.119 tells somebody what to do. And what we are arguing 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.000 is that moral rules are prescriptive. They tell 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.799 us what to do. It makes sense. As in, don't torture 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.859 small children, for example. run over your neighbor's 00:21:40.859 --> 00:21:43.380 car with your 10 -speed or your neighbor's dog 00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:45.400 with your truck. Certainly don't do it on purpose, 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.500 right? So we have moral rules where they're prescriptive. 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:51.000 They're not descriptive. Descriptive means they 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.839 just, like, tell what it looks like, right? So 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.920 these rules tell us what to do is the point, 00:21:57.019 --> 00:22:00.519 okay? And there it is. Morality starts with a 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.980 T. What's the word? Tells us what ought to be 00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:07.000 done, not merely what is. They are commands, 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.869 not suggestions. So you may think of the speed 00:22:11.869 --> 00:22:14.829 limit as a suggestion. The speed limit is not 00:22:14.829 --> 00:22:19.470 an example of a moral law. Therefore, in a sense, 00:22:19.490 --> 00:22:22.430 it is a suggestion. You say, no, no, no, no one 00:22:22.430 --> 00:22:26.049 should ever speed. I was taking my wife to the 00:22:26.049 --> 00:22:28.970 hospital to have our fourth child. We know how 00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:31.730 that goes, right? You go from three centimeters 00:22:31.730 --> 00:22:36.009 dilated to like 11 in about 15 minutes. And the 00:22:36.009 --> 00:22:38.009 next thing you know, you're taking the seatbelt 00:22:38.009 --> 00:22:39.410 off to have the baby in the front seat of the 00:22:39.410 --> 00:22:41.990 car. I'm telling you, I was speeding. And I'll 00:22:41.990 --> 00:22:43.490 also tell you that if a police officer stopped 00:22:43.490 --> 00:22:46.130 me and I had said, I'm speeding because my wife 00:22:46.130 --> 00:22:47.930 is literally having a baby in the front seat, 00:22:48.089 --> 00:22:49.690 he'd have led me to the hospital, let me go. 00:22:49.890 --> 00:22:51.690 He may or may not have given me a ticket. And 00:22:51.690 --> 00:22:53.210 if he had given me a ticket, I would have readily 00:22:53.210 --> 00:22:55.769 paid it and not felt bad about it at all. Speed 00:22:55.769 --> 00:22:59.710 limits are not moral laws. Moral laws are prescriptive. 00:22:59.710 --> 00:23:02.150 They are commands. We should follow them. They're 00:23:02.150 --> 00:23:07.230 oughts and shoulds and like that. Not. descriptions. 00:23:07.990 --> 00:23:13.089 So moral laws bind even when inconvenient. So 00:23:13.089 --> 00:23:16.309 if you break the moral law, you're hurting whether 00:23:16.309 --> 00:23:18.410 you like it or not. I submit to you that when 00:23:18.410 --> 00:23:21.210 somebody murders somebody else, it marks their 00:23:21.210 --> 00:23:25.809 soul. It affects them. They can act like nothing 00:23:25.809 --> 00:23:27.549 happened, but the truth is they did something. 00:23:27.769 --> 00:23:30.250 And it's bad. And according to what God says, 00:23:30.470 --> 00:23:33.369 the wages of sin is death. So it's terrible. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.400 to moral laws bind even when inconvenient. They 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:39.539 are universal in scope, which means they are 00:23:39.539 --> 00:23:42.279 broad across the whole world. All thinking people 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:44.819 ought to understand that these things are wrong 00:23:44.819 --> 00:23:47.299 and these things are right. And there it is. 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:50.019 It applies to all people, all places, all times. 00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:53.119 So again, the speed limit only applies when there 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:55.079 isn't a better reason to go ahead and speed. 00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:58.779 Right, but not murdering your neighbor applies 00:23:58.779 --> 00:24:01.700 at all times It doesn't matter now if it murder 00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:03.680 is to kill somebody in anger if your neighbor 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:07.380 is trying to kill you then you Then murder doesn't 00:24:07.380 --> 00:24:09.440 apply because that's not self -defense is not 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:13.940 murder, right? But it but murdering would always 00:24:13.940 --> 00:24:17.779 be wrong Okay, so they are objective which means 00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:21.900 someone Sees them outside their emotional reality 00:24:21.900 --> 00:24:24.859 basically and it says right and starts with a 00:24:24.859 --> 00:24:30.309 W and exist regardless of beliefs. I cut it off 00:24:30.309 --> 00:24:35.829 the picture. They are authoritative. We are obligated 00:24:35.829 --> 00:24:40.470 to obey. Very good. We are obligated to obey. 00:24:40.890 --> 00:24:45.210 Okay, we're going to read Psalms 19, 7 -9. I'm 00:24:45.210 --> 00:24:46.750 going to whip it out here real quick. Let me 00:24:46.750 --> 00:24:56.099 get this. Psalms 19. The law of the Lord is perfect, 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.200 restoring the soul. The testimony of the Lord 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:02.799 is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.519 of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:08.160 commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:14.839 the eyes. See it? And then Psalm 51. That was 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:21.650 1979. I said the wrong thing. And the next one 00:25:21.650 --> 00:25:25.930 is actually Ecclesiastes 12 .13. If you get there 00:25:25.930 --> 00:25:28.690 before me, you can read it if you want. You might. 00:25:32.390 --> 00:25:38.509 I just saw it. I just passed it. Ecclesiastes 00:25:38.509 --> 00:25:48.109 12 .13 says, This conclusion, when everything 00:25:48.109 --> 00:25:52.210 has been heard, is fear God and keep his commandments 00:25:52.210 --> 00:25:59.329 because this applies to every person. So that's 00:25:59.329 --> 00:26:01.990 the truth of it. We now understand what moral 00:26:01.990 --> 00:26:03.690 law is. So this is what you would do. Let's say 00:26:03.690 --> 00:26:05.509 you're sitting with your friend and you just 00:26:05.509 --> 00:26:07.230 went through the cosmological argument. You made 00:26:07.230 --> 00:26:08.869 an argument for why you know there is a God. 00:26:10.250 --> 00:26:11.970 Like, for example, they said, well, I don't know. 00:26:12.089 --> 00:26:14.730 Why do you think there is a God? Well, let's 00:26:14.730 --> 00:26:16.150 say you're walking in the desert and you found 00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:19.210 a stopwatch laying there. Push the button, starts 00:26:19.210 --> 00:26:21.009 to count the time, got a little battery, little 00:26:21.009 --> 00:26:23.109 digital readout, whatever. Would you just assume 00:26:23.109 --> 00:26:26.630 automatically that that just sprang into being? 00:26:26.710 --> 00:26:28.190 Or would you think, well, somebody created that? 00:26:28.769 --> 00:26:30.309 They'd say, well, somebody created that. I know 00:26:30.309 --> 00:26:31.769 somebody created that. They'd say, well, the 00:26:31.769 --> 00:26:34.789 universe has fine -tuning. It has irreducible 00:26:34.789 --> 00:26:37.740 design. So I know that somebody created that. 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:39.400 Don't you think somebody created that? You think 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:40.960 somebody created the stopwatch, but you don't 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:42.940 think somebody created a world that needs 300 00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:48.160 variables to exist? A world where the sun is 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:50.240 400 times the size of the moon and exactly 400 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:54.019 times further away? A world where DNA contains 00:26:54.019 --> 00:26:57.220 the language that speaks to every cell? Don't 00:26:57.220 --> 00:26:58.640 you think an intelligent designer exists? And 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:00.740 you're like, I mean, yeah, I get what you're 00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:03.240 saying, but it's just not enough for me. So then 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:05.809 you say, well, what about morality? And they 00:27:05.809 --> 00:27:08.150 say, well, you know, morality is different from 00:27:08.150 --> 00:27:09.950 person to person. Some people think this is right. 00:27:09.990 --> 00:27:11.789 Some people think that's right. And you say, 00:27:11.829 --> 00:27:14.470 well, no, in actuality, that doesn't actually 00:27:14.470 --> 00:27:18.069 work. Here's why relative morality doesn't work, 00:27:18.250 --> 00:27:20.269 right? And they say, okay, well, morality is 00:27:20.269 --> 00:27:22.069 what the government says is right. And you say, 00:27:22.130 --> 00:27:24.269 well, no, let me tell you why that doesn't actually 00:27:24.269 --> 00:27:26.250 work. And you get to the point of explaining 00:27:26.250 --> 00:27:30.869 to them that morality is the prescriptive commands. 00:27:31.049 --> 00:27:34.029 It's what we must do, right? It's what's right 00:27:34.029 --> 00:27:37.559 to do. So let's say you get that far. Now you're 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.359 going to say what morality requires of its source. 00:27:41.619 --> 00:27:44.640 So since we now know we have morality, then where 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.980 did morality come from? They're going to say, 00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:50.660 well, somebody figured it out. No, because it's 00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:52.559 prescriptive. It exists everywhere. It was before 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:54.240 anybody figured it out. Where did it come from? 00:27:54.640 --> 00:28:00.180 So morality deals with purpose and that's one 00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:03.119 that you didn't get a letter for. What else does 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:10.660 it deal with? Purpose and... Okay, could be guilt. 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:22.220 Weird, but could be. Okay, I submit to you that 00:28:22.220 --> 00:28:28.200 you could use any word like direction, control, 00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:32.579 right? Anything like that would work. Okay, so 00:28:32.579 --> 00:28:38.180 laws imply intention. Purpose and direction come, 00:28:38.259 --> 00:28:40.559 if that's the word you chose, come from minds. 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.039 Okay, so somebody, if I go out in the hallway 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:46.140 and I find a note, first thing I'm going to go 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:47.680 is, well, somebody made the note, right? It's 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.279 a note. So somebody had to make it. It didn't 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:51.240 just spring into being all by itself. Then I'm 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.119 going to take the note and I'm going to crumple 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:53.180 it up, throw it away and not read it because 00:28:53.180 --> 00:28:54.680 I don't want to know what they told me to do. 00:28:55.140 --> 00:28:56.759 No, actually, I'm probably going to read the 00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:58.079 note. So I look at the note and I read it and 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:01.259 it says, go to the cafeteria, turn on the light. 00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:03.599 Now I'm curious as to why I should go to the 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:06.299 cafeteria and turn on the light, but okay, fine, 00:29:06.420 --> 00:29:07.539 I'll go to the cafeteria and turn on the light. 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:09.140 And I go in there and everybody else, surprise! 00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:11.480 And it's my surprise birthday party, right? The 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:16.839 point is, the direction came from a person, right? 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:19.680 So these laws, these moral code that we're talking 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.119 about, it comes from a person. And so that's 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:26.640 the moral argument in its simplest. If we have 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.509 direction, from someone outside us than there 00:29:29.509 --> 00:29:31.710 is someone outside us. Does that make sense? 00:29:32.650 --> 00:29:34.269 It's not your pastor, it's not your teacher, 00:29:34.430 --> 00:29:36.769 it's not your doctor, it's not your police officer, 00:29:36.970 --> 00:29:38.730 it's not your governor or your president or your 00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:41.710 king, because even they have moral bindings. 00:29:41.730 --> 00:29:43.329 Somebody's telling them what they have to do. 00:29:43.710 --> 00:29:45.289 There's prescriptive. They're not allowed to 00:29:45.289 --> 00:29:48.349 murder either. That kind of thing. So if there's 00:29:48.349 --> 00:29:49.930 purpose and direction, that comes from minds. 00:29:50.349 --> 00:29:53.109 So impersonal matter cannot comprehend. Rocks 00:29:53.109 --> 00:29:55.980 don't comprehend. Or command, rather. Rocks don't 00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:58.180 command. Trees don't command. Stars don't command. 00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.480 Minds, body, people, they command. Authority 00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:05.079 belongs to persons. Moral obligation requires 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.420 a lawgiver. So this is the argument. If there 00:30:08.420 --> 00:30:12.180 are moral laws that are outside people, then 00:30:12.180 --> 00:30:14.480 there is something outside people that's giving 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.279 those moral laws. So now if you went through 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.720 the cosmological argument with your friend, and 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:21.400 they're kind of teetering on the edge, but they're 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:24.140 not sure. Now you can make the moral argument. 00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:26.799 The moral argument is, do you recognize what 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.779 morals are, that they exist outside you personally? 00:30:29.900 --> 00:30:31.940 They're not subjected to you. They're not based 00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:35.960 on laws, right? There are rules to creation that 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:39.079 exist outside of us. That if there are rules 00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:42.279 and they exist outside of us, someone created 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:44.839 them, right? It's an argument for God. This is 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:47.900 another way that we know that God exists. All 00:30:47.900 --> 00:30:49.779 right, so that brings us to our conclusion then 00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:53.420 and some of what I just gave you. Morality must 00:30:53.420 --> 00:30:58.079 come from a transcendent personal mind. A being 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:03.680 with blank purpose and authority. What do you 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.559 think? Okay, put that in there. Control would 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:14.240 be good. Say it again. Authority would be good. 00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:32.579 Right? Okay, let's read James 4 .12. James 4 00:31:32.579 --> 00:31:36.599 .12 says, gosh, this is a relatively new Bible. 00:31:37.859 --> 00:31:43.339 Okay. There is only one lawgiver and judge, the 00:31:43.339 --> 00:31:47.180 one who is able to save and to destroy. But who 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:51.140 are you judging your neighbor? Okay. So this 00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:57.819 is a person with... Authority, design, personality, 00:31:58.440 --> 00:32:04.079 purpose, and authority. Okay? The blank of blank. 00:32:07.059 --> 00:32:14.180 We're on C now. Okay, so under C, you've got 00:32:14.180 --> 00:32:18.799 the blank of blank. So T not tells. That was 00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:26.819 weird. Okay. I'm not sure what the T was supposed 00:32:26.819 --> 00:32:36.039 to be, but... So... We're talking about guilt, 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:38.460 so I'm not sure what the T was supposed to be. 00:32:38.500 --> 00:32:39.759 I'm confused. It was probably supposed to be 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:44.819 a G. But anyway, or... The second blank is guilt, 00:32:44.940 --> 00:32:48.460 and then it's guilt is universal. Okay? Humans 00:32:48.460 --> 00:32:52.420 feel accountable, not merely embarrassed. Guilt... 00:32:52.970 --> 00:32:58.509 presupposes a law. A law presupposes a lawgiver. 00:32:58.589 --> 00:32:59.710 I'm going kind of fast because we're running 00:32:59.710 --> 00:33:02.789 low on time, so if I go too fast, stop me. A 00:33:02.789 --> 00:33:09.910 law presupposes a lawgiver. Guilt owes its force 00:33:09.910 --> 00:33:13.230 to the authority of the lawgiver. So this is 00:33:13.230 --> 00:33:17.950 what they're saying. If you make rules yourself 00:33:17.950 --> 00:33:22.140 and break those rules, you will feel bad. Let's 00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:25.000 say one New Year's Eve. You say, I'm going to 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.200 lose some weight. I'm going to start working 00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:28.579 out and eating right. January 1st, you start 00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:30.119 working out and eating right. And you're doing 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:33.900 great. Lost 10 pounds, whatever. And then January 00:33:33.900 --> 00:33:37.039 15th, you stop working out and eating right and 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.079 you gain it all back. Now, God did not require 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:41.880 you to work out and lose weight. You required 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:44.220 yourself to work out and lose weight. So at first, 00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:46.319 you're going to feel kind of like, oh, that sucks. 00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:48.039 I shouldn't have quit. I was doing good. You 00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:50.380 feel bad. You might feel some guilt. But pretty 00:33:50.380 --> 00:33:52.500 soon, you're going to put that away. You're just 00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:53.579 going to move on with your life. It's not going 00:33:53.579 --> 00:33:55.700 to be a big deal because it wasn't a big deal. 00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:58.940 Now, let's say you kill somebody. You decide, 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:00.980 I can't pay my rent this month. You go rob a 00:34:00.980 --> 00:34:02.559 bank and you shoot the teller in the head by 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:04.259 accident. Your gun just goes off. You didn't 00:34:04.259 --> 00:34:06.700 mean to do it. You're not putting that away anytime 00:34:06.700 --> 00:34:09.900 soon, right? You're going to be attacked. There's 00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.940 guilt that's going to come along with that. You 00:34:11.940 --> 00:34:15.699 might go to jail. You might go to the death chamber, 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.280 right? If it's a state that has capital punishment. 00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:21.000 and you're going to have to deal with for the 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.260 rest of your life that you accidentally shot 00:34:23.260 --> 00:34:26.159 that person, didn't mean to, and you accidentally 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.179 did, and that you robbed a bank. You're going 00:34:28.179 --> 00:34:31.699 to deal with that, right? Why? You said it was 00:34:31.699 --> 00:34:33.900 okay for you to rob the bank. You decided it 00:34:33.900 --> 00:34:36.679 was okay to rob the bank. And then you didn't 00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:38.719 mean to kill the person. I mean, you don't hang 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.500 on to stubbing your toe for 40 years. But now 00:34:42.500 --> 00:34:44.219 you accidentally killed this person and you hang 00:34:44.219 --> 00:34:45.940 on to it. It's going to affect you psychologically. 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:49.840 You might have PTSD, anxiety, depression from 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:52.079 it. The bad things we do hang on to us. Why? 00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.880 Because we have guilt. A guilt that comes from 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:59.699 a source that's not us. It's not just that we 00:34:59.699 --> 00:35:02.460 broke our own rule, which is true. There is a 00:35:02.460 --> 00:35:06.500 moral law giver. We broke the law. Now we have 00:35:06.500 --> 00:35:10.599 guilt. Okay? We feel guilt not merely because 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:13.800 we broke a rule, but because we offended a person. 00:35:14.579 --> 00:35:17.219 So when you say something mean and a person is 00:35:17.219 --> 00:35:23.260 hurt, you might feel bad because of what you 00:35:23.260 --> 00:35:25.940 said, but you feel more bad, you realize you 00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:28.579 hurt them with your words. That's where the guilt 00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:31.380 really comes in. If you say something bad about 00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:34.070 somebody, Bob offended you. You're going to go 00:35:34.070 --> 00:35:36.289 cuss out Bob. So you practice in the mirror and 00:35:36.289 --> 00:35:38.150 you cuss out Bob in the mirror. Then you actually 00:35:38.150 --> 00:35:39.949 get to Bob and you treat him kind of nice. I 00:35:39.949 --> 00:35:41.150 mean, you're like, look, you really shouldn't 00:35:41.150 --> 00:35:43.469 have done that because you blew off all the steam 00:35:43.469 --> 00:35:45.570 already, right? You might feel bad about what 00:35:45.570 --> 00:35:47.849 you said in the mirror about Bob, but not really 00:35:47.849 --> 00:35:49.889 because you didn't really hurt Bob. Now you go 00:35:49.889 --> 00:35:52.670 say the same thing to Bob. Now that hurts. That 00:35:52.670 --> 00:35:55.010 affects who you are. It affects who he is. It 00:35:55.010 --> 00:35:56.670 affects your relationship with him because you 00:35:56.670 --> 00:36:01.289 said it to him. You did it to him, right? Tim, 00:36:01.309 --> 00:36:02.469 make sure that door is unlocked so you can get 00:36:02.469 --> 00:36:06.329 back in. That door is open. Okay. All right. 00:36:06.809 --> 00:36:09.250 We never unlock this one. All right. So we feel 00:36:09.250 --> 00:36:11.269 guilt not merely because we broke a rule, but 00:36:11.269 --> 00:36:14.289 because we offended a person. Where do God's 00:36:14.289 --> 00:36:16.690 moral laws come from? So that's the next question 00:36:16.690 --> 00:36:18.630 they're going to say. So where did God get the 00:36:18.630 --> 00:36:21.329 moral law from? Anybody got an idea? What would 00:36:21.329 --> 00:36:24.590 you say? If I said, where did God get the moral 00:36:24.590 --> 00:36:26.409 law from, what do you think would be the answer? 00:36:27.610 --> 00:36:34.820 Did he make it? He made it up. Is the Ten Commandments 00:36:34.820 --> 00:36:37.340 an exact copy of the moral law based on what 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:41.179 we have been talking about today? No, it's just 00:36:41.179 --> 00:36:43.659 a small part, right? It's not an exact copy. 00:36:43.860 --> 00:36:46.519 Does the whole Bible contain all the moral law? 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:48.579 If you memorized the whole Bible from beginning 00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:50.679 to end, would you have all the moral law memorized? 00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:57.079 No. It's just a part, right? It's just a part. 00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:01.510 Because you have moral decisions to make. In 00:37:01.510 --> 00:37:03.510 this Bible, you will not find anything about 00:37:03.510 --> 00:37:07.929 how you should specifically treat Bob or how 00:37:07.929 --> 00:37:09.750 you should talk to Bob. Bob's never mentioned 00:37:09.750 --> 00:37:12.889 in this Bible, right? So you have to extrapolate 00:37:12.889 --> 00:37:14.949 from what you get in the Bible how you should 00:37:14.949 --> 00:37:17.489 act every single day and your leadership from 00:37:17.489 --> 00:37:19.769 the Holy Spirit. And that's why the Holy Spirit 00:37:19.769 --> 00:37:22.690 is so important because he can bring to us out 00:37:22.690 --> 00:37:25.250 of the word and out of our experience that which 00:37:25.250 --> 00:37:28.730 is not written therein. So the Holy Spirit can 00:37:28.730 --> 00:37:31.449 say to you, look, what you said to Bob, That 00:37:31.449 --> 00:37:33.730 was wrong. You need to ask him for forgiveness. 00:37:34.110 --> 00:37:36.269 You need to confess your sin. And you need to 00:37:36.269 --> 00:37:38.489 not do that anymore. Turn from it and follow 00:37:38.489 --> 00:37:40.969 me instead. None of which is written in the Bible. 00:37:41.210 --> 00:37:43.269 It's written there prescriptive on how to deal 00:37:43.269 --> 00:37:45.530 with sin, but Bob has never mentioned, right? 00:37:45.650 --> 00:37:47.949 So you could go, well, you know, Bob hurt me 00:37:47.949 --> 00:37:49.909 first, so I feel justified in the way I treated 00:37:49.909 --> 00:37:53.250 him. But now the Bible says, no, you shouldn't 00:37:53.250 --> 00:37:54.809 treat anybody that way. Love your neighbor as 00:37:54.809 --> 00:37:56.789 yourself. So now the Holy Spirit convicts you 00:37:56.789 --> 00:37:58.070 and says, well, love your neighbor as yourself 00:37:58.070 --> 00:38:00.469 means you should confess to Bob, you should ask 00:38:00.469 --> 00:38:02.570 for forgiveness, and don't do that anymore. See 00:38:02.570 --> 00:38:04.969 the difference? So the moral law goes way beyond 00:38:04.969 --> 00:38:07.710 this. So the question is, where did it come from? 00:38:07.869 --> 00:38:12.750 And I'm going to answer the question. So that 00:38:12.750 --> 00:38:16.010 is what I just asked you there. It's called the 00:38:16.010 --> 00:38:18.469 euthyphro question, because that's the guy who 00:38:18.469 --> 00:38:21.769 first thought of it. Are things good? Because 00:38:21.769 --> 00:38:24.429 that's supposed to be a G, because God commands 00:38:24.429 --> 00:38:27.579 them. So are things good because, you probably 00:38:27.579 --> 00:38:30.320 said lawgiver, because the lawgiver or God commands 00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:33.539 them? Or does God command them because they are 00:38:33.539 --> 00:38:35.920 good? That's the question. Does the lawgiver 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:40.239 command them because they are good? Or does God 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:44.760 command them, are they good because God commands 00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.719 them? So here's the biblical resolution of the 00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:51.460 question. God's moral laws flow from his nature, 00:38:51.619 --> 00:38:55.780 not arbitrary commands. So let me give you an 00:38:55.780 --> 00:38:58.639 example of how this works. And my family, my 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:02.239 family, my kids, my in -laws, my mom, know that 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:07.340 I follow God. So when I'm in the room, the conversation 00:39:07.340 --> 00:39:10.480 changes. Not because I always talk about God. 00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:11.840 I talk about whatever everybody's talking about. 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.599 It's not that. But then when we're having a conversation 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:16.760 and we start to go toward gossip, somebody starts 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:20.559 to gossip about somebody, I usually don't even 00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.690 have to clear my throat. Right? But if it gets 00:39:23.690 --> 00:39:25.550 that far and I clear my throat, it always stops. 00:39:26.030 --> 00:39:28.610 Because people know who I am. What's like that 00:39:28.610 --> 00:39:32.710 with God? These laws are not laws because God 00:39:32.710 --> 00:39:35.710 spoke them or wrote them. They are out of his 00:39:35.710 --> 00:39:39.150 character. Which is why we have success in living 00:39:39.150 --> 00:39:43.110 by the moral laws of God when we embrace God. 00:39:43.449 --> 00:39:46.250 When we intake the word, when we pray, when we 00:39:46.250 --> 00:39:48.570 meditate, when we spend time with him, when we 00:39:48.570 --> 00:39:50.949 worship him, when we serve and we give. You think, 00:39:50.949 --> 00:39:54.010 well, how can serving and giving help me do the 00:39:54.010 --> 00:39:56.989 right thing when it comes down to me and Bob 00:39:56.989 --> 00:39:59.650 fighting it out, right? Well, the reason is because 00:39:59.650 --> 00:40:02.769 serving and giving changes who you are in reflection 00:40:02.769 --> 00:40:05.250 of who God is. You become a little bit more like 00:40:05.250 --> 00:40:07.230 God when you serve and give. What is God? He's 00:40:07.230 --> 00:40:09.449 a server and a giver. The God of the universe 00:40:09.449 --> 00:40:10.989 who created everything chose to be a servant. 00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:14.380 Right? So then you go, oh, well, God chose to 00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:15.940 be a servant, so if I'm going to be with God, 00:40:16.019 --> 00:40:17.820 I'm going to be a servant. And I don't see how 00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:19.659 me cussing Bob out for what he did is serving. 00:40:20.099 --> 00:40:23.039 So it changes who you are because of his presence, 00:40:23.139 --> 00:40:25.840 and that's why we have a greater success. Okay? 00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:29.119 So God is essentially good. The Lord is essentially 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.340 good. Psalm 119, 68. I'll read it, even though 00:40:32.340 --> 00:40:35.300 we're running a little bit low on time. God's 00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:39.400 word is that important. We'll read it. Side note, 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:42.579 Psalm 119, the entirety of Psalm 119 is essentially 00:40:42.579 --> 00:40:45.719 about the Bible. And it is the longest psalm. 00:40:45.780 --> 00:40:47.900 So if you want to know about God's word, there's 00:40:47.900 --> 00:40:50.860 a place you can go look. Psalm 119. Psalm 119 00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:55.099 .68 says, You are good. You do good. Teach me 00:40:55.099 --> 00:40:58.760 your statutes. Spoken to God. He is good. He 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.320 does good. Teach me your statutes. Notice those 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:04.480 are not the same thing. Knowing that God is good, 00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:08.690 seeing that God does good, we ask God, okay, 00:41:08.849 --> 00:41:11.369 how do we do good? See that? Isn't that neat? 00:41:11.909 --> 00:41:17.269 Okay. So God's moral laws flow from his nature. 00:41:17.449 --> 00:41:20.869 They are not arbitrary commands. God is essentially 00:41:20.869 --> 00:41:25.269 good. Moral law reflects God's holy character. 00:41:25.550 --> 00:41:27.130 And we won't go there and read those two verses, 00:41:27.150 --> 00:41:30.150 but I encourage you to do that on your own. but 00:41:30.150 --> 00:41:32.510 they're very direct verses that speak to what 00:41:32.510 --> 00:41:33.849 we're talking about. And then the conclusion 00:41:33.849 --> 00:41:38.389 of this is morality is grounded in who the lawgiver 00:41:38.389 --> 00:41:43.550 is or who God is, not merely what he says. Understand? 00:41:43.929 --> 00:41:50.829 So the Ten Commandments. Are you with me? We're 00:41:50.829 --> 00:41:52.210 going to end up on this point. I've just got 00:41:52.210 --> 00:41:54.869 three lines left or whatever. Okay. The Ten Commandments. 00:41:55.409 --> 00:41:58.329 Thou shalt not kill. Raise your hand if you agree. 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:02.420 Okay. Does the Ten Commandments say thou shalt 00:42:02.420 --> 00:42:06.000 not kill? Now, think about it for a second. Now 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.139 raise your hand if you agree. Okay, see how that 00:42:08.139 --> 00:42:10.820 goes? The Ten Commandments say thou shalt not 00:42:10.820 --> 00:42:14.019 murder. Not thou shalt not kill. Anybody here 00:42:14.019 --> 00:42:17.099 eat steak? Anybody here eat steak? You kill. 00:42:17.260 --> 00:42:19.199 You may be paying somebody to do it for you, 00:42:19.260 --> 00:42:22.619 but you're killing. Okay. Anybody here that would 00:42:22.619 --> 00:42:25.400 kill a man if he came in your house and tried 00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.760 to hurt your kids? Yeah. God's not telling you 00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.260 you can't do that. So the problem is we look 00:42:34.260 --> 00:42:37.940 at God's Word and we function under our best 00:42:37.940 --> 00:42:40.500 current understanding as led by the Holy Spirit 00:42:40.500 --> 00:42:45.619 of God's Word. So then if we don't catch the 00:42:45.619 --> 00:42:47.420 disconnect and we say thou shalt not kill and 00:42:47.420 --> 00:42:49.199 we go around and go, oh, I'm a pacifist. I would 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:50.659 never hurt anybody. You want to rape my wife? 00:42:50.699 --> 00:42:56.159 Go ahead. No. God didn't say that. So we have 00:42:56.159 --> 00:43:00.250 to walk with God. have the Holy Spirit, live 00:43:00.250 --> 00:43:02.030 for the Lord, be part of the church community, 00:43:02.170 --> 00:43:04.809 be part of the kingdom, to learn and continue 00:43:04.809 --> 00:43:07.710 to increase our best understanding of the moral 00:43:07.710 --> 00:43:10.730 law of the Lord so that we walk it out. And then 00:43:10.730 --> 00:43:15.030 we will have success. But if we instead just 00:43:15.030 --> 00:43:17.829 continue to function our best understanding, 00:43:18.010 --> 00:43:21.110 the names of some people, for example, remember 00:43:21.110 --> 00:43:24.590 back on the beginning, the relativism stuff? 00:43:25.099 --> 00:43:27.159 If you look up some of the famous people who 00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.719 believe in relativism or cultural relativism, 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:33.000 both of which don't work, they're failed systems, 00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:34.900 they don't actually work. We're talking about 00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:39.099 famous people. Famous Christian, supposedly, 00:43:39.179 --> 00:43:44.440 people. Yeah. And so, you can't just follow what 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.760 other people, you have to follow God. Right? 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:48.659 You have to walk with the Lord. Don't follow 00:43:48.659 --> 00:43:51.139 me. When I get it right, go ahead, follow me. 00:43:51.179 --> 00:43:52.780 When I don't get it right, don't follow me. It's 00:43:52.780 --> 00:43:56.429 your job. Right? But really follow Jesus is the 00:43:56.429 --> 00:44:01.530 key. Okay, so the universe points to a... This 00:44:01.530 --> 00:44:02.650 is all the way back to the beginning. Everybody 00:44:02.650 --> 00:44:05.110 should have this piece. You can put a couple 00:44:05.110 --> 00:44:06.329 different things in there, but the universe points 00:44:06.329 --> 00:44:12.670 to what? A lawgiver, a God. Go. You need another 00:44:12.670 --> 00:44:15.769 paper? We're like at the very end. You're going 00:44:15.769 --> 00:44:19.130 to have a lot of work to do now, girl. All right. 00:44:20.829 --> 00:44:22.610 I love you, and I know you will do an awesome 00:44:22.610 --> 00:44:28.039 job, and you will enjoy it. Okay? Yeah, so the 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:29.940 beginning thought, the cosmological arguments 00:44:29.940 --> 00:44:32.780 that we made, the universe points to an intelligent 00:44:32.780 --> 00:44:38.559 creator. Right? An intelligent designer. Arguably, 00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:42.920 right? Arguably, there are some people who follow 00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:45.860 religions that believe in an intelligent designer 00:44:45.860 --> 00:44:50.219 but are not saved because they've never met Jesus. 00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:55.130 So two examples are Islam. They believe that 00:44:55.130 --> 00:44:58.750 God created the world, the universe. God, as 00:44:58.750 --> 00:45:00.989 best they understand, created everything. But 00:45:00.989 --> 00:45:03.590 they just don't believe in Jesus, which means 00:45:03.590 --> 00:45:10.130 they're going to hell. I mean, you have to go 00:45:10.130 --> 00:45:11.889 by their profession. We're not allowed to judge 00:45:11.889 --> 00:45:14.130 what they believe. But yeah, if they say they 00:45:14.130 --> 00:45:16.730 believe in Jesus, I know some Muslims, a friend 00:45:16.730 --> 00:45:20.380 of mine passed away at like 92. And he was a 00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:22.860 practicing Muslim, sort of. In fact, he was one 00:45:22.860 --> 00:45:24.400 of the first 12 men to help build the mosque 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:27.059 in Perrysburg. And he was our landlord for the 00:45:27.059 --> 00:45:29.400 church when we were over on Main Street. And 00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.820 we went to a meeting at the library to try to 00:45:31.820 --> 00:45:36.780 get an event at the International Park. And he 00:45:36.780 --> 00:45:38.400 shared Jesus with the people at the meeting, 00:45:38.500 --> 00:45:40.679 just like he was a Christian. You'd swear he 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:42.639 was a Christian. And I asked him, I said, what 00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:44.099 are you doing still going to the mosque? He said, 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:47.260 well, I built it. That's why he still went there, 00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:51.150 because he built it. But he was a Christian by 00:45:51.150 --> 00:45:53.170 his profession. Born again, just like you or 00:45:53.170 --> 00:45:56.210 I, but he was still practicing in their faith. 00:45:58.150 --> 00:46:00.690 So that's a problem, right? And you probably 00:46:00.690 --> 00:46:02.550 would find Baptists and Methodists and whatever 00:46:02.550 --> 00:46:04.110 that don't believe in Jesus aren't born again, 00:46:04.230 --> 00:46:06.730 or they say they do, but they probably won't 00:46:06.730 --> 00:46:09.190 be in heaven either. But my point is, so the 00:46:09.190 --> 00:46:11.550 universe points to an intelligent designer, and 00:46:11.550 --> 00:46:14.050 people should be able to believe that, okay? 00:46:14.389 --> 00:46:21.300 And then C points to a lawgiver. We didn't use 00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:23.000 this word the whole time, so it's got to be the 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:26.800 word. Conscience. Conscience points to a lawgiver. 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:29.420 The fact that people can understand that there 00:46:29.420 --> 00:46:32.639 is a moral law and that they have broken it or 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:35.280 that they should not break it points to a lawgiver. 00:46:35.820 --> 00:46:38.019 So now if you have somebody who created the universe, 00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:41.300 and that's God, and you have somebody who gives 00:46:41.300 --> 00:46:43.920 us the transcendent moral law, and that's God, 00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:45.880 we're starting to get a picture of who God is. 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.039 And you haven't met him yet through Jesus at 00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:50.619 that point. But this is how you prove to some 00:46:50.619 --> 00:46:52.780 of the ways, there are other ways, but there's 00:46:52.780 --> 00:46:55.159 some of the ways that you prove to somebody that 00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:57.599 God exists. So they argue, well, I don't think 00:46:57.599 --> 00:46:59.599 God exists. And you say, well, you know, here's 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:01.340 some evidence that proves. So, well, if there 00:47:01.340 --> 00:47:03.139 was some evidence, right, I can't believe that 00:47:03.139 --> 00:47:04.699 God exists. You can't see him. You can't prove 00:47:04.699 --> 00:47:06.880 to me, whatever. Well, you can make it good. 00:47:07.019 --> 00:47:10.900 It takes a lot because these evidences present 00:47:10.900 --> 00:47:13.409 it beyond a reasonable doubt. So they have to 00:47:13.409 --> 00:47:16.349 really rebel to not accept it. Moral obligation 00:47:16.349 --> 00:47:20.010 and guilt point then to a personal God. Scripture 00:47:20.010 --> 00:47:22.650 confirms what reason already shows, and it says 00:47:22.650 --> 00:47:24.170 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 00:47:24.469 --> 00:47:28.130 Okay, so we're done. If you did it and you marked 00:47:28.130 --> 00:47:31.570 the boxes, you should know how many times we 00:47:31.570 --> 00:47:36.130 used the different words. And you should have 00:47:36.130 --> 00:47:38.349 three words in those three blanks that you didn't 00:47:38.349 --> 00:47:40.980 have previously. And then there's binders in 00:47:40.980 --> 00:47:42.260 the back. If you don't already have a binder, 00:47:42.340 --> 00:47:44.780 you can get a binder and start collecting worksheets. 00:47:45.059 --> 00:47:47.219 And if you collect the one from last week and 00:47:47.219 --> 00:47:50.860 the quiz from today and this one, you can go 00:47:50.860 --> 00:47:53.880 buy a book for about $30 that goes through all 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:55.320 the stuff I'm going to go through in the next 00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:58.380 three times we meet. Or you can just get it here 00:47:58.380 --> 00:48:01.360 for free. And it will be in your binder. For 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:05.820 free! Like a red Ferrari. Any questions? It's 00:48:05.820 --> 00:48:07.960 a lot. I understand. We'll do a review first 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.679 thing in two weeks. And maybe make a game out 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:13.980 of it or something again. Okay? But really, we're 00:48:13.980 --> 00:48:15.659 trying to equip ourselves so that when you're 00:48:15.659 --> 00:48:17.059 talking to somebody and they say, I'm not sure 00:48:17.059 --> 00:48:20.239 I believe in God, that you have reason -type 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.519 arguments. You can't probably admit to it, but 00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:26.159 you have reason -type arguments. One of the things 00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.380 that I, even like long before I considered coming 00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:33.519 out of high school, I argued for like 45 minutes 00:48:33.519 --> 00:48:36.760 with my science teacher. because I called him 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:40.139 out on something he said here in class, and one 00:48:40.139 --> 00:48:41.960 of the things was, like we were talking about 00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:43.940 how the universe was creating everything, and 00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:46.239 he made the statement, you can't create something 00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:49.860 from nothing. Right. So I called him out on it, 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.320 and he told me that the universe was created 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:55.380 from nothing. Exactly. Yeah, that's an example. 00:48:55.539 --> 00:48:58.559 Perfect example. So every law of science says 00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:02.039 you cannot bring anything to be actual without 00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:05.250 something actual doing it. You can't change one 00:49:05.250 --> 00:49:06.650 thing to another. You can't create something 00:49:06.650 --> 00:49:09.130 new. You can't do that. It's breaking the laws 00:49:09.130 --> 00:49:11.309 of science. But then you find all these scientists, 00:49:11.510 --> 00:49:13.570 and it's not all. Most scientists conclude that 00:49:13.570 --> 00:49:16.769 there's an intelligent designer. About 65 % of 00:49:16.769 --> 00:49:18.309 scientists conclude that there's an intelligent 00:49:18.309 --> 00:49:21.909 designer, the statistics say. So that's a lot. 00:49:23.409 --> 00:49:26.449 All right, let's pray. Here we have snacks and 00:49:26.449 --> 00:49:28.389 cafeteria, and a little bit of time to fellowship, 00:49:28.570 --> 00:49:31.409 and I'm around for any questions. Father in heaven, 00:49:31.489 --> 00:49:33.650 thank you so much for just being there for us. 00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:36.380 Lord, I thank you for the none -too -subtle reminder 00:49:36.380 --> 00:49:39.760 today that while your word is good and our study 00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.159 skills are important and our time in prayer and 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.059 meditation are great, they are a gift from you 00:49:45.059 --> 00:49:46.639 and we should really delve into them, that there 00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:49.920 is nothing at all that compares to your presence. 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.199 That you being with us, in us, at work in us, 00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:56.340 changing us, growing us, helping us step up, 00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:59.699 calling us out. Lord, that you put everything 00:49:59.699 --> 00:50:02.250 old behind and made everything new. These are 00:50:02.250 --> 00:50:05.210 all things that no one but you can do. Not by 00:50:05.210 --> 00:50:08.110 any amount of effort. And I just pray, Lord, 00:50:08.170 --> 00:50:11.050 that we would always remember that and walk it 00:50:11.050 --> 00:50:15.449 out. And that we would be not terrified, not 00:50:15.449 --> 00:50:17.369 even afraid or anxious when somebody says, well, 00:50:17.389 --> 00:50:18.750 how do you know for sure that there is a God? 00:50:19.070 --> 00:50:21.469 And it will always be easiest for us to say something 00:50:21.469 --> 00:50:23.630 like, because I have personally experienced Him. 00:50:23.690 --> 00:50:26.230 I have the Holy Spirit in my heart. I gave my 00:50:26.230 --> 00:50:27.889 life to the Lord and He's done so many things 00:50:27.889 --> 00:50:29.929 and shared from our personal testimony and that's 00:50:29.929 --> 00:50:32.869 all good stuff. But for a lost person who refuses 00:50:32.869 --> 00:50:35.750 to hear it, we want to be able to make a reasoned 00:50:35.750 --> 00:50:39.650 defense, a good argument for why we know that 00:50:39.650 --> 00:50:42.710 anyone should accept that God is real. Then we'll 00:50:42.710 --> 00:50:44.030 get around to, we're going to get there in a 00:50:44.030 --> 00:50:47.090 couple weeks, get around to, based on you existing, 00:50:47.349 --> 00:50:49.389 what does that mean we should do with Jesus? 00:50:49.789 --> 00:50:52.829 What does that mean that we should do with God 00:50:52.829 --> 00:50:56.849 in the flesh? And there's no question that you 00:50:56.849 --> 00:50:59.389 should be Lord of everything. and especially 00:50:59.389 --> 00:51:02.090 of us and of our hearts and of our minds and 00:51:02.090 --> 00:51:04.269 whatever we can do for the rest of our time here 00:51:04.269 --> 00:51:06.349 on earth. We praise you for all of it. If there 00:51:06.349 --> 00:51:07.949 happens to be somebody in this room who has not 00:51:07.949 --> 00:51:10.550 surrendered their life to you in earnest, and 00:51:10.550 --> 00:51:12.070 they're wrestling around with whether or not 00:51:12.070 --> 00:51:13.610 they would ever talk to somebody about Jesus 00:51:13.610 --> 00:51:16.349 or whether or not they would submit to a moral 00:51:16.349 --> 00:51:18.550 law or whether they have lived their life the 00:51:18.550 --> 00:51:21.650 way they think they should as opposed to the 00:51:21.650 --> 00:51:24.130 way you say they should, then I just ask you 00:51:24.130 --> 00:51:26.869 to help them repent and turn to you and be saved.