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How many have had a good week? Anybody have a good week? Okay, anybody have a

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week? Well, if you're here that means it's been a good week. Okay, we're thankful for

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it. Welcome to the Wrinkled Church. There's a, if you look at the bulletin, I

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could find mine, I'll look at it. It has something about the message, natural

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revelation. What's a revelation? Is it a revealing? Alright, it's a

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revealing. So we have Revelation, a book, Revelation the Bible, okay, and then we

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have a couple other revelations that I want to talk to you about. And before we

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really get into that, oh by the way, I'm not a preacher, I'm not a pastor, okay,

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I'm a teacher, so bear with me and maybe we'll all learn together. But if you

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have your Bibles, turn to John, turn to John chapter 1. I'm gonna be reading a

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few texts here and then we'll get into it. John 1, I'm gonna read all the way,

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all the way to 12, okay. It says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was

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with God, and the Word was God, and He was in the beginning with God. Who's the

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Word here? It's Jesus, it's Jesus. Okay, all things were made through Him, and

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without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was the life, and the life

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was the light of men, and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness

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did not comprehend it. Here the darkness is evil, it's representing evil. Therefore

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was there was a man sent from God, his name was John. This man came for a

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witness to bear witness of the light that all through him might believe. He was not

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the light, but he was sent to bear witness of the light. That was the true

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light which gives light to every man coming into the world. Now that's

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interesting, that's an interesting statement. I'll read that again. That was

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the true light, light which gives light to every man coming into the

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world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did

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not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as

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received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who

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believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor

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of the will of man, but of God. And then if you'll turn to Romans, okay, if you

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turn to Romans, and we'll go to Romans 1 and 20, okay, that's the text of the day.

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Romans 1, 20, and it says, For since the creation of the world, His invisible

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attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,

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even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Because

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although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful,

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but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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Professing to be wise, they became fools. That's interesting. So in the beginning

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was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Interesting. Now we have,

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I brought a little book with me right here. It looks like a Bible. It's not a

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Bible. But let's see what's inside. Let's see what's got. Okay, I'm gonna open this

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up. Oh, there's something in there. What do I have in there? Well, hope my wife

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didn't mind. I did a little pruning. We got some life. We got a plant, okay? Maybe

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some of you can identify that, okay? And these are pretty flowers that are growing

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in my wife's garden at the moment. It's interesting. So I call this God's first

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book, Nature. You could call it God's second book. It's up to you. But it's a

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book. And what does nature reveal? What is it? That's right. So that's what we're

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talking about today. That's part of the thing that we're talking about, natural

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revelation. Okay, natural revelation is God's creation, is what God has created.

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That's natural revelation. I brought some examples of some of that with me right

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here. I've got this little, actually it's not little, it's a pretty big bird. This

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is a raven. Of course, God created everything. Jesus created everything, and

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the ravens are magnificent. And I have the life cycle of moths and butterflies

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right here. Now this is interesting. The life cycle of moths and butterflies. Now

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this was, this is really special because this was

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done and all of those things were collected by my wife's uncle. Okay.

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And we've had this for a number of years and it's like it's museum quality.

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But after the service you can come up, or during the service it's fine, but you can

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come up and check this thing out. Have you ever wondered, have you ever looked

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at the egg that a moth or a butterfly would lay and put it on a particular

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leaf? Well it's right there from the very first beginning of life and it goes all

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the way through, okay, to the transformation. So you have this caterpillar and it

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goes through what? A metamorphosis, which is amazing. It's probably one of the most

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amazing, I think, things of nature because it goes through that metamorphosis and

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then it comes out a butterfly or a moth, which is absolutely amazing. And some of

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them travel for hundreds and thousands of miles on their migration, which is

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like, wow, who directs them? How does that work? That's what's quite amazing. Now we

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find some other texts that are interesting here in Colossians 1.16

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says, for in him all things were created, all things were created, all things,

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things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. You know that Jesus

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created invisible things? Have you ever seen invisible things? How many of you

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seen invisible things? Well there are a lot of invisible things. In fact, look

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around you. Look at your clothes. Look at the pew that you're sitting on.

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Look at this podium. Look at the walls. Look at the light. Everything,

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everything is made of mostly invisible things. We can't see them. We can't see

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them. That's interesting, I think. Whether thrones or powers or rulers or

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authorities, all things have been created through him and for him. So all these

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things were created for him. Isn't that amazing? I think it is. Then in Psalms 91

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we read this, 91 and verse 1, says, the heavens declare the what? The glory of

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God and the firmament shows his his handiwork. Everyone can see this that has

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ever lived. And it says, let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad, let the

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sea respond, and all that is in it, let the fields be jubilant. Have you

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ever seen a field being jubilant? Wow. And everything in them, let all the trees of

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the forest sing for joy. Have you seen or heard trees that sing for joy? I think

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we're going to see that. In Psalms 96, 11, and 12 it talks about the psalmster knew

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that God's rule and authority were so evident that even nature worshiped him.

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Nature worships him. Amazing. So what is it called when God reveals himself in

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nature? It's called natural revelation. It's also called general

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revelation because everyone that has ever been born that has lived on this

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earth has revelation of some sort. It's general revelation or natural

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revelation. And what does that tell us? It gives us some characteristics

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of God. That's what it does. That's what it's meant to do. Now I'm just wondering,

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as some of you have experienced some of that, and we have a roving mic

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wherever the roving mic went, okay? So if you have something, okay, of a natural

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revelation experience you'd like to share with us, then I would like to hear. Oh,

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here we go. Right. So over there, Cindy's got it behind Cindy. There you go.

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We have two peony bushes beside our front door, our porch. One is white and

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one is a brilliant, beautiful red. And I got down and looked right inside this

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red peony and there was a crown. There was a round crown, golden crown, and it

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just reminded me of God. And then I have some beautiful pansies that have been

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really sustainable through the winter months and they're just, have just been

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beautiful. And I just praise God every time I look at either the peonies or the

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pansies and know that it's his handiwork. And I would say, God, how did you do this?

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Yeah. Especially feeling the petals and how soft and velvety they are. God, how

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did you do this? All right, thank you. It shows his handiwork. It shows some of his

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characteristics, which is amazing. Thank you for sharing that. Cindy's got something.

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One of my favorite things to do is stand on the top of the highest peak around.

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Now, I'm not so fond of getting there, but I like that because when you stand on

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the top, I'm thinking of Black Rock, close to Covalo, California. At the top of

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that rock, you can see the Pacific Ocean, though it's more than 50 miles away. You

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can see the valley, that's what we call it in California, the valley, the one that

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runs in the middle. And you can see Malchasta hundreds of miles away. And it

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just is awesome to see how vast God's creation is, even on planet Earth. Yes,

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wonderful. Wow. Oh, Paul's got something here.

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This morning before church, I was standing up on the driveway at Sabo Hill,

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and I was looking at the beautiful trees. I mean, they're so huge. They're large

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pine trees, and they're, you know, swaying in the wind. And I was looking at the

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clouds coming by and everything, and I thought to myself, God is so wonderful.

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He's made so many really neat things that renew themselves every year. Yeah,

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yeah, good point. Amazing. Kevin? I always marvel at how the complex code for life

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is embedded in the tiniest little parts of ourselves, or everything needed

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for, like, some of those beautiful trees you were just describing can be packed

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in just this tiniest of little, you know, seeds. How so much can come forth from so

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little. I see God's power in that. How else can that all be

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packed in the way it is, in such a complex, magnificent manner, all just in

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the tiniest package sometimes. Yeah, amazing. Thank you. And every cell

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carries a DNA. Wow, how does that work? Wow. Now, I remember being in

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Arizona. Anybody been to Arizona? I remember they used to have a magazine. It's

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called Arizona Highways. Anybody remember that magazine? No, okay. Y'all are younger

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than I am, I guess. But in Arizona Highways, they always would have some

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beautiful, beautiful pictures of sunsets. And I was at the right time, at the right

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day, the right hour to see one of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen.

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It was so amazing. It was just such an awe moment, and it was incredible. It was

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it was not only in front of me, it was beside me, and it was behind me, and the

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whole sky was just brilliant reds and oranges, and it was absolutely out

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of this world. It was absolutely out of this world. I just sat there. I couldn't

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even move. It was so amazing. That's natural revelation that shows God's

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splendor, shows his creative power. Anybody else? Yes, here we go. And I

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forgot your name. Melanie. Thank you. It seems a little bit complicated, but I

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don't know how many of y'all have heard that the Christian author Steve Russell

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has talked about how Yahweh is coded into our DNA, that the Hebrew letters not

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only have their individual meanings, but they also have a numeric value. And so

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those numbers are 10 5 6 5, which make the Hebrew letters Yahweh, Y-H-W-H, and it's

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in every, it's coded into our DNA. So it's complicated, but yeah. Yeah, that's

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awesome to think about. Wow. Anybody else? Oh, Darren. It's not really, it's

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domesticated nature, but Mika helps me quite a bit with balance. I didn't

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realize how much until the other day I actually left her out at home because

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she was nasty dirty, and she and my other dog Molly got to playing, and

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she got nasty dirty, and I had to leave her behind, and I had to wall surf the

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entire time I was out just because I didn't realize how much she was actually

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helping with that. And then on top of that, when I get the sensory overload, she

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will help get me out of the building, and she'll guide me right through

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the crowd and out. So that's two ways that she helps me out. Yeah.

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Yeah, our pets. Don't our pets remind us or some of the characteristics of God?

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You know? I mean, I don't know about cats. I mean, I'm sure cats do. My

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wife is a cat lover, and they're nice. I prefer dogs, and everybody

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has their own preference, but they are so... I'm speaking about dogs. I'm sure cats

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do this as well, but you know, aren't they forgiven? Forgiving?

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Forgiving animals. They're caring animals. It's amazing, and it shows us some of

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the characteristics of God. That's natural revelation. Anybody else? I don't

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want to turn anybody down. You might have an experience of something to add to this.

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Yes, Julie? Well, I mentioned it a little bit in Children's Story at the zoo

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yesterday. This is the first time I'd seen baby tigers, and it was the first up

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close. You know, you see them in pictures, you see them in films and stuff, but the

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fact that they acted like house cats. You know, because when you have a litter of

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kittens, they play around, they tussle, they did stalk each other, they

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would bite their mother's tail, but the fact that this one, the mother tiger

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and all the babies, she was showing each of her babies individually. She would

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stalk each of them and grab them and throw them around and play with them and

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everything, and then they in turn would stalk her, and it was just... we stayed the

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longest in the tiger exhibit because it was so funny to watch something that you

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take for granted with house cats, but you don't see that playful attitude in the

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wild very much, because in the Atlanta Zoo, there's a tiger that has gone crazy

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and all it does is pace. It doesn't play with the toys. It just paces, which is

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one of the signs in tigers and wild cats that they're stressed and their

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mind is affected, but this mother tiger and her cubs, they were racing

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all over the place and just having... they were playing tug-of-war with bamboo.

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It was just a blessing to watch because you don't say, oh tigers, they

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play a lot, you know, and it also speaks that they were in a safe environment, so

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they felt completely okay to play, you know, in the wild. They may not be able

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to do that because it may not be safe, but this mother was comfortable with the

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crowds. The babies were comfortable with the crowds and they just had a grand old

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time and it was just a blessing to watch. Yeah, it must make God smile, makes us

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smile. I think God has a sense of humor. I mean, he made these animals and the

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monkeys and stuff. It's like, oh my, they just bring a smile to your face. Let me

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ask you a question and if anybody can answer this question, these are hard

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questions, okay, but what is electricity? Can anyone really tell us what

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electricity is? Did you want to answer that? Okay. It's the flow of electrons. Okay, so we're

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describing what electricity does, okay, okay, but we... and let's go a little bit

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further. What is electricity? Power. Power. Power. Well, that's describing what

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electricity does, but it... yeah, Paul has a... When electrons are forced, electrons are forced through a

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wire or something that's least resistant. Okay, and that's what

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electricity does. That's a characteristic of electricity, but really no

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one really knows what electricity is. We can't. Isn't that amazing? So we all come up

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with what electricity does, how it acts, okay. Another question, okay, now you're

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going to be, you know, you're afraid to answer these questions now, but what

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about gravity? What is gravity? Would we come up with the same thing? We could

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give what? Examples of gravity, what it does, but nobody really knows what

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gravity is. Does that bother your mind somehow? It's something to think about,

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isn't it? So we have electricity, we have gravity, hmm, we could probably go on. Oh,

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Cindy. Oh, no, oh, I thought you... okay, I saw your hand move. Gravity, electricity,

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hmm. You know that you have gravity? Everything has gravity. It's interesting,

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isn't it? And the... do you have a magnet on your refrigerator that

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holds a note of some kind or a magnet someplace? You know that that little

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magnet has more power than gravity, earth's gravity. Isn't that interesting?

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It is quite interesting. Well, someday we're going to learn all of this, okay.

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What about... oh, anybody else want to share something here because we're going

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to close soon? Anybody else? Natural revelation? Yes, here we go.

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Could I say one more thing about the peonies? I don't cut them and take them

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into the house because the ants are the ones who open up the peony buds and get

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the petals loose so that they can be free. But when you look at a peony bush,

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there's ants crawling all over them. Wow. So I thought that was interesting. Yeah, I

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wasn't aware of that. How many of you knew that? Well, thanks for teaching all

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of us. Isn't that amazing? It is. Do you remember... and thank you for being a

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roving mic. Thank you. You remember when Job was asking God some

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questions? Did God ever answer Job's questions? He really didn't, okay. But what

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did he do instead? He asked Job 77 questions, and you can read them in Job

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and it's like, oh my, oh my. And all of those questions Job could not answer

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them. There isn't anybody that I know of could answer those questions even today,

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which is amazing, quite amazing. Now, everything is made out of invisible

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things, right? Matter, okay. And Einstein, you remember Einstein? Okay. Now he was...

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well anyways, I think I'd never met him, but anybody meet Einstein? Or seen him

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in live person? No, okay. All right. Because he hasn't been gone that many

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years ago, actually. But Einstein said this. He said that matter cannot be

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destroyed. Isn't that amazing? Matter cannot be destroyed, and everything's made out of

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matter. So if we can't destroy matter, then what happens to matter? What can we

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do? Where does it go? Right. So matter, we can change... matter changes into other

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forms of matter, okay. Well, we've got a little... I have a little experiment that

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we could... we can do, okay. And I have a pair of safety glasses. You always should

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carry those. And I have a piece of paper. Oh, here we go. I have a piece of paper.

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This paper made out of matter? It is, because everything is made out of matter.

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Even the air that we're breathing is made out of matter, okay. So can I destroy

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the paper? Yes, I can. Okay. In fact, I could... I could cut... I could tear the

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paper in half. Did that destroy it? No, I just have two pieces of paper now. Let me

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put one of those in my pocket, okay. If I really want to destroy the paper, what

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could I do to it? Burn it. You're a pyromaniac, no. But to burning things, I

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mean, when we burn things, I mean, they really are destroyed. Well, I can burn the

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paper, but what happens to... what happens to the energy that the paper has? Will the

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energy be destroyed if I burn the paper? No, it won't be destroyed. In fact, I'm

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not gonna burn it with a match. That would be too easy, okay. And so I'll put

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that in my pocket. Let's see. I've got something else that we could use. Just

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gotta find it. Hang on. Oh, here it is. It's a flashlight. Wow. Light. Is light

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energy? Light is a form of energy, and this light is extremely bright, and I'm

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gonna hold that light next to my paper. I'm not gonna touch the paper with the

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light, and let's see if we can destroy that with the light from this paper. So

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here we go. Let's turn this on. Well, there we go. You see my light? Okay. The Bible

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says that you and I are supposed to be the light of the world, right? We're

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supposed to be the light of the world. A lot of the world is in darkness, isn't it?

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That means that a lot of the world don't know about Jesus' love for them, and of

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course that's our job, isn't it, to share Jesus' love with them, okay. But this

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light, this little flashlight, has three different brightnesses, okay. If I push

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it again, oh, there we go. Is that a little bit brighter? I won't blind you with this

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light. It goes one more. We got one more set of brightnesses, okay. It goes through

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about 4,000 lumens. Really, really, really, really hot light. Let's do it one more

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time. Okay, there we go. I think that's about it. Okay, so I'm going to take this

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and let's see if we can destroy the paper with this very, very bright light.

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Let's check this out.

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Oh, what happened to the paper? Was it destroyed? Yes, the paper was destroyed.

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What happened to the energy that the paper had? Einstein said that energy

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cannot be destroyed. So some of that energy went where? Where? Into heat, that's

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right. Did you feel it? I felt it. I was holding the paper. That was heat. Heat is

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a form of energy. Where else did it go? Did you see the light? I mean, the

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flames was light. Light is also a form of energy. Then we put some stuff

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into the air, didn't we? Put some carbon, we put some probably some water molecules

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into the air, and maybe even some hydrogen, okay. So we put some chemicals

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into the air. But energy cannot be destroyed. I think that's interesting,

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isn't it? Energy cannot be destroyed. Now what does that tell us? What does that

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tell us about our Creator? What does it tell us about God? What does it tell us

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about Jesus? Can somebody come up with a spiritual application there?

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We might need our roving mic again. I'm sorry.

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Okay, well let's put you on the mic. Oh, the mic's up here. Oh, I'm sorry.

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All right. Yeah, yeah, Medina. There you go. He is immortal and everlasting. Yeah,

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which is amazing, amazing, absolutely. Anybody else have something else before

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we actually close and we'll read a couple couple of other texts? Oh, here we

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go. Here we go. God gives us the energy to live. I'm sorry, say that again. God

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gives us the energy to live. That's right, God gives us energy to live. Every

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morning I thank God for energy, thank Him for life, health, and strength, and energy.

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And it all comes from Him. Every moment comes from Him. Sometimes we forget about

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that and it's something that we need to be reminded of. Okay, all right, let's see.

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I've got a couple things here. All right, a couple things I wanted to to read and

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we'll close. All right, see what we got. And then, Joe, I'm just going to read this

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quickly. Joe 12, 7 to 10. It says, but ask the animals and they will teach you, or

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the birds in the sky and they will tell you, or speak to the earth and it will

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teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not

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know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In His hand is the life of every

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creature and the breath of all mankind. Amazing, absolutely amazing. And then the

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actual text that we read, okay, and that comes from Romans, okay, Romans 1, 20,

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says, for since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes are clearly

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seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and

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Godhead, so that they are without excuse. So is anybody without excuse about

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knowing about a creator God? It says no one is without excuse because although

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they know God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful, but became

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futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing

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to be wise, they became fools. Interesting. I don't want to become a fool.

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Do you want to become a fool? I don't. All of these things that relate to natural

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revelation, we see all of the things of nature, like all the people that

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have ever lived. Some of the people that lived before Christ, okay, they had

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natural revelation, okay, that they responded to, okay, but we have

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natural revelation and we also have another. We have special revelation and

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the special revelation comes from the Word of God. It comes from God and it

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comes from the Word of God. Now Job had both, didn't he, because God spoke to him,

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okay, that's interesting. Wow.