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Good morning. How are you all doing today? Excellent. I'm doing very well, thank you

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so much. We always like to start our service by welcoming anybody that is here

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in our sanctuary for the first time or if you're watching online for the first

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time, welcome. We're so glad you're here to worship with us at Hosanna. I am

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Pastor Nathan and this morning we're gonna continue our look back to the

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beginning of our universe and everything that exists in it. You know last week we

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flew through the first half of the first verse in Genesis and today we're gonna

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make it all the way to verse 2 so buckle your seat belts, alright? You know in the

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first half of verse 1 of Genesis it says in the beginning God and we learned that

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God, what that teaches us is that God was, God is. God has existed before our

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universe existed and everything in it. We learned that the Bible teaches us that

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God is eternal. It uses phrases like God is from everlasting to everlasting,

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meaning back into eternity past all the way into eternity future. God is and will

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always be. God has always existed and all of that puts him outside of everything

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in this universe. It means that he's not subject to the laws of our universe, the

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the forces that exist in our universe because he created our universe

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including time and that's where we get the idea that God is timeless. God is the

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uncaused cause of everything that exists and we looked at how that's a comfort to

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us as believers. You know if we can believe and come to that place where

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we're settled in our spirit and our heart that God has always existed and

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God created everything that exists in this universe and everything that exists

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on this earth, he created you and me. If we can believe that and settle that in

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our hearts well then it's really easy to believe everything else his word says to

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us and everything that his word promises to us because he is God Almighty. And so

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it makes it easy for us to trust and to believe and to have faith in him in each

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moment of every day because man if he created everything what can't he do

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right? But there's a lot of pushback to the biblical creation narrative today

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and there has been since the very beginning. There's objections to the

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biblical narrative, there's speculations and theories and today we're gonna deal

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with some of those addressing the possibility of some of those theories

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that people have about what Genesis 1 & 2 has to say about creation. We're also

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gonna deal with the scriptural dismissal of some of them and just really look at

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what scripture says that kind of dismisses some of the ideas but really

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the idea today and my prayer for all of us is that we don't miss the application

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to our lives. That we don't miss the application to our lives that comes

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from what God did in the beginning. Let's pray. Father we love you. God we're so

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thankful for who you are and what you've done. Lord we stand at awe at your

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majesty. We stand it in awe at just your glory. God our minds can't wrap around

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the concept of you existing beyond time, before time. The very idea that you're

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the one who started the clock of the universe. But God your word teaches us

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that. And Lord what kind of God would you be if you were limited by time, space and

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matter and Lord you're you're almighty. And Lord that is what we rest our hope on.

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That is what we rest our trust on. That is what causes us to be able to read every

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promise you've given us in your word and to put faith and to trust those things

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for our life, our being and how we are and who we are. And so God continue to

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encourage us Lord as we study through Genesis this first book in your word God.

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That we continue to learn and be encouraged and even challenged if need

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be about the reality of what your word says about creation. What your word says

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about how everything came to be which ultimately comes down to Lord the

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question of how we came to be and who we are and why we are here. What is the

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purpose Lord? It all started in the beginning God and Lord we're blessed to

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be able to hear from you today. But God first we want to worship you as we do

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Lord because you are worthy. You are the creator. You are God Almighty. You are

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omnipotent. You are omniscient. You know all things. God who else could we put our

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trust in but you. So Lord we praise your name. We glorify you. Be blessed Lord and

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speak to us today. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. We are in Genesis chapter 1

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verse 1 and as I mentioned in the intro you know the the first verse of Genesis

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really gives us a short abridged summary of creation. It's really the ultimate

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bird's-eye view that is then detailed starting with verse 2 and then getting

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into verse 3 through the end of chapter 1 where we see a very detailed

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description of not the universe's creation that's just all summed up in

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verse 1 but the creation that takes place here on earth but the important

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part to understand about the beginning of Genesis here is the Bible just very

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simply and very straightforwardly declares the world did not create itself.

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The world did not come about by chance. The world did not evolve from some gases

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that absolutely just you know floated around indefinitely and then one day

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accidentally collided and accidentally combined in the right accidental way to

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accidentally make life and you know in an accident after accident after

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accident. That's not what the Bible declares. It wasn't some accidental

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coincidence of natural causes. What the Bible says in verse 1 of Genesis is in

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the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. That is a foundational

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truth that we rest our faith on. We believe that as Christians that God

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created everything he is deity. He is omnipotent. He is omnipresent. He is above

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and outside all things. He's God right? That's kind of what defines God. The

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characteristics of gods that man makes up is they always seem to be limited by

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things man is limited by right? You look into the different pantheons of Greece

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and ancient cultures and stuff and what you see is is these supposedly God

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creatures, God people having the same jealous squabbles that humans have and

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the same fights and the same they're just they're just stronger

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representations of who man thinks he is but the Bible the word of God just tells

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us God is God. God is God. It teaches us that God is the ultimate being. He is the

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ultimate being that exists independently of time space and matter but it's

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important to understand what that means. It means that the universe is not God.

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God is not the universe and that is one of the ideas that people have and some

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people even the church have today that that the universe is is God and we're

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all a part of him and no he's separate from his creation. He transcends his

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creation because he created it. He is not limited by time for he's eternal. That's

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what 1st Timothy 1 17 tells us. He's not limited by space or distance or matter

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because he's omnipresent. That means he's everywhere simultaneously. That's

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what Psalms chapter 139 verses 7 through 12 teaches us and so he's God and we

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dealt with that at length last week and so I'm not going to belabor that point

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because what I want to move on to here is what the rest of verse 1 tells us

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that in the beginning God created. He created and that word in the Hebrew

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language is bara. It's a very specific and special word because it means to

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create out of nothing. That's what this word refers to. Interestingly enough this

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word bara is only used of God in all of Scripture. You never see anybody but God

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bara creating. Only God truly creates and what that indicates to us is that God

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did not create the universe out of himself. He didn't create the

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universe or the world out of him. It's not a part of him. He's separate

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from creation. He created the universe and the world out of nothing and that's

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an important thing for us to understand because we as humans we can be

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creative right? We're pretty creative. We look around what people do in our

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culture and art and music and structures and buildings and stuff and yeah we we

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we're pretty creative but we can't create out of nothing. No human can create out

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of nothing. Matter of fact we don't create. Humans don't create anything nor

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can we create anything in the true sense of the word. What we do instead is we

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form. We fashion things. We synthesize things. We assemble things. The point of

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that is that we require materials of some sort in order to build something.

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That the creating we do as humans only comes from existing material and that

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and that applies across the board. You know you go music right? Mankind creates

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music. Well you need an instrument or a vocal cord. You need breath. You need

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something to create music. You don't create it out of nothing. Poetry. Man

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creates poetry. Well you need language. You need voice. You need mediums to put

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it together to become the thing we called poetry and then of course

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buildings you know and structures require concrete and wood and building

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materials and even our forming of life between man and woman when they come

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together. It requires the sperm from the man and the egg from the woman and that

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comes together and that creates life. But again there was materials required in

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order for that to happen but God is under no such constraints. That doesn't

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apply to God and this could be really hard for us to understand I think to

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wrap our mind around because most of us if we in our education in our science

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classes or some of you that that actually went into physics and stuff you

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know we've learned things in our life like the first law of thermodynamics

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right? Does anybody know what that is? First law of thermodynamics right? Most of

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us don't know and that was always one of the classes where I went why do I need

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to know this unless I'm going to be a physicist right? Okay but I'm going to

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share it with you. First law of thermodynamics matter and energy cannot

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be created or destroyed. Now in science when something is called a law that

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means we know that we know for a fact this is true. That's what a scientific

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law is right? Things don't become a scientific law unless it's been tested

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and proven and and so when we say law what we mean is we know this is true

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based upon study and mathematics and all this stuff right? So matter and energy

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cannot be created or destroyed it can only be converted. It can only be

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converted say from like a solid to a liquid or from gas to plasma and back

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and forth right? Essentially telling us that we know atoms the the building

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blocks of everything they we can't create them they can't be created from

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nothing that all the atoms in the universe that exist exist. Now we could

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split the atom right to great destructive force and that's that's

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nuclear bombs and things of that nature but matter cannot be created from

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nothing. It cannot be completely destroyed incidentally either it just

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converts from one form to another. Now we know that to be true

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scientifically so the idea here is that when we look at our understanding of the

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universe and the laws of physics doesn't apply to God. That's what the word is

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telling us. God created everything from nothing. Nothing. He didn't assemble

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previously existing materials. He didn't get any help. The word tells us what he

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said is he spoke and then it happened. Now we call that in our literature and

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our folklore wishes right? The stories of the genie in the bottle and give me a

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wish and money and fame or whatever just comes from nothing right? And and but

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God isn't a genie. God doesn't grant wishes in that sense and when he created

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it functioned very much like our understanding of that. It just came from

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nothing and it's really difficult for us to really wrap our head around that

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because it's not natural to us. It's not how our natural universe functions. It's

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not how we understand our natural universe and yeah it's not natural. It's

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super natural attributed to God. Now this assertion by Moses as he's writing here

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when he's basically asserting nothing existed before God spoken into existence

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it was an attack on the polytheism and the pantheism of Egypt which Israel had

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just escaped. It's commonly understood that that Genesis was written while

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Israel was wandering in the wilderness. That's that's pretty much the idea and so

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that idea is that Israel had been set free from Egypt. They had crossed the

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Red Sea. They were in the wilderness. They were in Egypt for 400 years

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surrounded by all the the many gods and the god of this and the god of the river

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and the god of the wheat and the god of the animals and the god of the sky and

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the god of the sun and and they were set free from this after 400 years and so

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Moses is now writing this to to answer their questions. Where did we really come

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from? Where did the universe really come from? If that is false what is the truth?

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Now we're gonna deal with that more as we go through the six days of creation

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because each one of those six days of creation specifically refutes one of the

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Egyptian beliefs about the creation of everything and the gods there and it

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also then refutes all of it down through the ages but today this idea that

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nothing existed before God spoke it into existence really answers the challenge

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or or comes against the ideas of what is called modern materialism and modern

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naturalism. The philosophy of materialism in our in our current culture is that

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physical matter is the only reality. That that physical stuff is the only reality.

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Nothing exists outside of what is physical. Now because we can see atoms

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and we could see leptons and we could see quarks and all that so they go that's

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that's physical it's really there so nothing exists outside of that and

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scientists who subscribe to this materialism kind of philosophy said that

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even thoughts and feelings and in the mind in our will all of that can be

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explained by natural phenomena right where it ultimately comes down to the

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thoughts you have it's just some electrical impulse in the brain and then

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naturalism says all phenomena just everything that happens and can happen

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and will happen it could all just simply be explained in terms of natural causes

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and and and natural laws so that's kind of the idea that that drives the

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secular ideas in the scientific communities about creation that we can't

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ascribe it to any supernatural cause because that doesn't exist it has to be

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ascribed to something natural. In 1903 there was a scientist named Herbert

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Spencer who was an agnostic and mostly an atheist in that sense you know he was

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like there might be something out there but you know probably not but he said in

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1903 that everything that is knowable everything that is knowable every fact

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every law every does everything that is knowable can be categorized into five

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categories and he categorized all of this from the perspective that there's

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no God God can't exist right he was actually the guy that is credited with

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coming up to the coming up with the term survival of the fittest after reading

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Charles Darwin's origin of the species right so this is what he said everything

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that could be known and that ever will be known can fall under the category of

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time force action space or matter which is basically that the only explanations

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for anything that we can know and ever will know can fall under natural causes

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and effects now I don't know if anybody ever said this to him but I find it

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really funny because if you read Genesis 1 1 that's what he just described in the

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beginning time God the force not Star Wars force just the force created the

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action the heavens space and the earth matter so he's everything that is

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knowable and I'm like well I kind of agree with you sir in the beginning God

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created the heavens and the earth now despite the fact that we've had the Word

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of God and we have this here scientists still come along and they go wow look at

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what we discovered and in we have verses like Hebrews 11 3 right it says this by

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faith we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God so that

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what is seen was made from things that are not visible we've had that for a

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long time and yet one day scientists came up and they went we discovered

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atoms we can't see them but they make up everything Wow and we're like yeah we

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knew that this whole time now could we prove it we you know that that came

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along but faith is what the substance of things not seen God said I believe it

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that's a core of Christian faith right just because I don't understand it

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doesn't mean it couldn't have happened I mean am I that arrogant to reduce the

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power of Almighty God to the limitations of my mind that's the height of arrogance

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and so we believe by faith and what scientists keep discovering is oh yeah

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the Bible was right oh yeah Bible is right and so when it comes to the

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creation of the universe in the secular explanations based upon naturalistic

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presuppositions they always end up in the same exact place how was the first

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natural cause caused right one of the prevailing theories that started about a

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hundred years ago is the Big Bang Theory many of us heard of this many of us

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learned this in school and the Big Bang Theory simply says you know billions of

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billions of years ago a tiny tiny something very scientific right a tiny

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something exploded and everything that exists in the universe came from this

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explosion and as science marches on and studies things and and they keep moving

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forward and learning more about the expanse of the universe and the

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tininess of atoms and subatomic particles they keep end up keep

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discovering problems with the Big Bang Theory which has been the bedrock of

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scientific understanding for a while one of the problems that they've discovered

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is is well you know we we know that matter and energy cannot be created or

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destroyed it we also know it can't come from nothing well what did the Big Bang

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Big Bang out of nothing well that violates what you call a law if the Big

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Bang was true based upon current understanding of gravity and how gravity

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works the scientists are now saying that the Big Bang would have never expanded

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if gravity works the way we now understand gravity works formation of

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planets and stars and galaxies as we look around and in north our modern

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telescopes and stuff we see order order order over and over and over again not

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the random scattering that happens when something explodes and then the Big Bang

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Theory says that in this initial explosion of everything and I'm trying

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to keep this real simple to not get into a boring science class here and not that

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I even understand it all but when the Big Bang exploded that was energy that

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was converted into matter and so scientists say that that when energy is

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converted into matter what you have is both positively charged matter and

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negatively charged matter we call that matter and antimatter right you guys

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ever heard those terms so they go if the Big Bang happened and there was just

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energy that was suddenly converted into all the physical matter that exists in

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the universe there should be an equal amount of antimatter right guess what

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they can't find antimatter they're like it's supposed to be there but there's

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none and then you get into a whole bunch of other stuff that is just is

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interesting if you if you're wanting to look into it but one of the modern

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things they're saying now because all of the math and discoveries keep saying

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that the Big Bang is not true is one of the things scientists used to say is that

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before the Big Bang there was no time right because we understand that time is

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is a is a dimension of the physics of our universe right we understand that

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mathematically that that time is a dimension of physics and they go so

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before the Big Bang time couldn't have existed and now they're going well we

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keep discovering that that things are pointing to the fact that things started

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out of nothing right and so now they're trying to say well maybe maybe there was

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something before the Big Bang and they're calling it guess what the

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multiverse right stop reading comic books scientists right but but they're

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they're now saying that that there was a multiverse and in this multiverse

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universes are just constantly being created right and we're gonna get into a

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little bit the the the almost almost radically impossible odds that a

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universe manifested randomly by accident to exist like ours they go well in the

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multiverse there was an infinite amount of universes being created so there's a

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chance that one happened to be ours that created life and then yet they're going

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back to but this science and this math and this it doesn't support that and

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again let's say okay there is a multiverse what created that where did

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that come from here's the answer God created the heavens and the earth that's

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the answer now heavens and earth is a is a way in the Hebrew language it's a it's

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a phrase ology that basically means the entire universe right it's everything so

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when he says heavens there the the phrase heavens is referring to outs

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everything outside of the earth right everything outside of our planet earth

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and this is what a famous secular scientist Stephen Hawking said in his

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book a brief history of time he said our galaxy just the Milky Way galaxy is an

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average-sized spiral galaxy that looks to other galaxies like a swirl in a

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pastry roll and that it is over 100,000 light-years across that is 600 trillion

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miles okay he says we now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred

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thousand million galaxies that could be seen using our modern telescopes each

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galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars pretty big common

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scientific understanding says that the average distance between each one of

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these galaxies these hundred million thousand infinite galaxies the distance

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between them is about 300 million light-years right yet they're going what's

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in that space well we think it's supposed to be this but they can't find

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it the more scientists study the universe the more they discover that the

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conditions in our universe appear to have been extremely fine-tuned to

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support life or another way to put that intentionally designed our universe is a

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just right universe again Stephen Hawking definitely not a creationist this

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is what he said the universe and the laws of physics seem to have been

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specifically designed for us if any of about 40 physical qualities had more

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than slightly different values life as we know it could not exist in the

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universe either atoms would not be stable or they wouldn't combine into

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molecules or the stars wouldn't form the heavier elements or the universe itself

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would just simply collapse before life can develop and so on and I'm like yeah

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bro you're right it was specifically designed for us the universe is a just

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right universe right if the gravitational force of the universe was

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was larger stars would be too hot and they'd burn out too fast and unevenly

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distribute heat in the universe and life couldn't exist according to the math and

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all of that if the gravitational force were smaller stars would remain so cool

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that nuclear fusion would never ignite and there would be no heat and light in

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the universe the universe has a just right speed of light if the speed of

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light were larger stars would send out too much light and we would be blinded

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because the light would just bombard us to the point of burning out our eyes but

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if it was smaller stars wouldn't send out enough light at all and we would have

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no idea there was anything up there in space the universe has a just right

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average distance between stars right if the distance between stars was larger

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the heavy element density would be too thin for rocky planets to form every

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planet in the universe would be a gas planet but if the stars were closer

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together the heat or planetary orbits would become destabilized because of the

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gravitational pull from other stars so if the star nearest to our Sun was closer

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all of our planets would get wonky and there would be no proper orbits the

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water molecule the polarity of a water molecule look how specific this is if

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the polarity of the water molecule was slightly different the heat of fusion

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and vaporization would be too great for life to exist anywhere if the

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polarization of a water molecule was smaller the heat and fusion of

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vaporization would be too small for life to exist anywhere it's exactly right for

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water to exist and we all know that we need water to to live right it's kind of

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like how God created us Donald Prince who works at the Princeton Institute for

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Advanced Science he calculated the odds based upon these 40 things that Stephen

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Hawking was talking about he calculated the odds of a universe randomly forming

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with all of these things in perfect precision to operate and the odds were

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one in 10 billion to the hundred and twenty fourth power now just to give you

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a reference point all right when a number surpasses one in ten to the

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fiftieth power not ten billion one in ten to the fiftieth power when odds get

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to that point the probability of it happening is so small that they call it

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mathematically impossible right what are the odds of something happen one in ten

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to the fiftieth power people go it's mathematically impossible okay so the

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universe one in ten billion to the hundred and twenty fourth power and yet

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people go yeah it's just it's it's it's ridiculous the conclusion is that there's

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really no chance that a universe like ours that's perfectly suited for us would

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happen apart from an intelligent designer putting things in place exactly

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as they need to be the Bible says this Psalms 19 1 the heavens declare the

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glory of God and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands right that's

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referring to the complexity of the universe as itself evidence of an

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intelligent designer it's just too precise and too complex to be by random

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chance Isaiah chapter 40 verse 25 it says to whom will you compare me or who

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is my equal asked the Holy One look up and see who created these things he

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brings out the stars by number and he calls them all by name because of the

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great power because of his great power and strength not one of them is missing

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so there's exactly as many stars out there that God wanted to be out there

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and that includes the hundred thousand million stars that occupy the hundred

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thousand million galaxies that exist in our universe wow our God is creative

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and all you got to do is look up into the night sky and you see the glory the

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strength the majesty of a creator who ordered all of this now when it comes to

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the earth he created right he said he did the heavens and the earth intentional

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design is not hard to see in creation either you know the other day I was at

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home and we were watching this video of this guy who has a YouTube channel where

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he restores watches right and you know people send him in these really old

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old watches and he takes them apart right and it's just like oops if you've

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ever seen someone take apart a watch like an old classic you know wind-up

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watch it's insanely complicated like multiple gears with the perfect amount

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of teeth that are perfectly set apart with this piece holding it down here and

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this and it's just so precise and I'm watching this video and I'm like how

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would anybody ever go that accidentally happened right and they go you know like

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one day there was a you know a molecule and an atom and it connected with

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another atom and made a molecule and then those molecules generated together

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and created elements and then those elements kept going accidentally

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colliding and then one day there was a metal and then yeah and then the metal

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formed and then one day it accidentally formed into a gear with the precise

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amount of teeth but there's multiple different size gears that accidentally

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formed and then this perfectly piece of metal to hold this gear down into because

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it all has to fit in this little thing and all just oops accidentally happened

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and yet that's exactly what people believe happened in creation when they

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look at the when they look at the complexity of life you know look around

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the earth and you'll find many many many life forms that are far more complex

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than a wristwatch and in we've all been through it in science class but from a

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creationist point of view you know you look at the complexity of the human eye

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and the human nervous system and our cardiovascular system and our

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reproductive capability in the skeletal system and the muscular system and all

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this together and there's volumes and volumes and volumes and volumes and

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years and years and years of classes and study for people to to learn all this

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stuff it's so complex and then on top of that you just have the complexity of

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ecosystems right like if there was no plants on earth guess what there would be

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no oxygen but if there was no humans breathing out co2 there would be no

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plants which one evolved first they depend on each other and you have these

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types of things where one system depends on another system and the question is

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always well if you're gonna say things evolved one piece at a time which piece

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evolved first but when you say it was God that's where most people scoff oh I

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can't be God it can't be supernatural and the modern mind believes that that

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like things like evolution that's a it's a closed case it's a done deal right you

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talked to people today and they just evolution is of course true right it's

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of course true and it can't even be argued and if you do try to argue the

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evolution you're just an idiotic fundamentalist right and you know and

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they say everybody knows and you know it's a fact and it's it's not it's not

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a fact now when it comes to debating you know that type of thing you got to be

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careful because you know there's there's you got to define terms right micro

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evolution which is small-scale changes within a population of organisms yeah

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that exists right there's a bunch of different types of dogs but guess what

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they're all dogs right that's micro evolution just small changes of things

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but but they're still the same species but scientific evidence does not support

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what they call macro evolution right macro evolution is that an unguided

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process of natural selection and random mutations is what accounts for the

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complexity of life it's the idea of a fish becoming a bird no evidence they've

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never discovered evidence it's just a postulation in fact one scientist said

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this the evolutionary theory is still as it was in Darwin's time a highly

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speculative hypothesis entirely without direct factual support now there's

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circumstantial stuff that kind of looks like but direct factional support none

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exists and when Darwin wrote his book the origin of species he knew the

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greatest problem with his theory was the fossil record right like if things

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evolved over time the fossil record should show this and and it doesn't and

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it didn't in his time and there's these huge gaps in the fossil record and

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there's no transitional fossils but he said this he's on record saying ah time

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will vindicate me we just haven't discovered enough stuff to discover the

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proof of my theory well it's been over 150 years since Darwin wrote his book

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and one curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago said this we

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are now over 120 plus years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record

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has been greatly expanded we now have a quarter of a million fossil species but

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the situation hasn't changed much there are now even fewer examples of possible

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evolutionary transition than we thought we had in Darwin's time right the more

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they discover the more their theories go out the window how about we move on to

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verse 2 all right now the earth was formless and empty darkness covered the

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surface of the watery depths and the Spirit of God was hovering over the

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surface of the waters and so now we're coming from that snapshot the whole

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universe the span of creation and the majesty and the size of it we're coming

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down to to earth level here because really what this book this Bible is

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about is not let's give you a scientific treatise on how a hundred million

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thousand galaxies exist it's it's the point of this book is God and you that's

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the point of this right so one verse the universe now we come down to earth and

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it says it's formless and empty in the Hebrew language it's kind of a melodic

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term it's tohu wa bohu tohu wa bohu that's formless and empty right the idea

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of this phrase is that that the earth here in verse 2 it says was unfinished

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in shape and uninhabited by creatures incidentally that's the exact opposite

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of where it will end up after six days of creation now there are some and I

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said earlier I just want to deal with some of the theories people have about

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some of this stuff there are some people that see a historical gap between

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Genesis verse 1 1 chapter 1 verse 1 and verse 2 it's this idea they call it a

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gap theory right and it really is is an idea that that that people came up with

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to account for the fact that when we look at the geological strata of the

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earth and we're looking at rocks and stuff they're really old right and and

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so they're like gosh you know it's it's really older than what the biblical

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account says and so people go maybe there's this gap and the idea is that

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in verse 1 God created the heavens and the earth in perfect complete beauty

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right the earth was fully formed everything was perfect and beautiful and

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and Isaiah chapter 45 tends to support this because in Isaiah 45 it tells us

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that God did not create the earth to be a wasteland or in other translations it

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says he didn't create it in vain so people read Isaiah 45 and they go God

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didn't create the earth formless and empty right but then before verse 2

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happened there was something that happened that caused the earth to become

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formless and empty and dark and reason people point to this is when it says now

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the earth was formless and empty that word was can be translated became right

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the Hebrew word can also mean became so some people read it and go now the earth

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became formless and empty so it was created perfect and then it became

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something else now the something that happened is typically attributed to the

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fall of Satan that the universe was created and it was God and his angels

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right and then we know that Satan fell you go into Isaiah 14 and all these

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other places he said I will be like God and God's like no you're not and then he

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was cast down to the earth and then when he was cast down to the earth that's

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when the earth was was made formless and empty and kind of became you know dark

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and all this stuff because darkness is often associated and connected to Satan

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one of the other reasons people think that is that word formless can also be

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translated ruined so verse 2 would say now the earth became ruined and empty

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right and so the idea is that what we have in verse 2 through the rest of the

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chapter is God remaking the earth in a sense taking it away from Satan

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recreating it to give it to mankind as a gift for them to inhabit it now there is

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some biblical interpret biblical support for an interpretation such as this

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pastor Gary about five years ago did a study that you could still find on

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YouTube where he goes into detail on this type of stuff you go to our YouTube

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channel and it's a study called Genesis has a gap so if you're interested to dig

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deeper in that I encourage you to do that he did a great job explaining the

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foundations in the gap theory and like I said some use the gap theory to account

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for the the age of the earth the geological strata and the fossils and

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carbon dating and they go all these things earth has to be billions and

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billions and billions of years old and so maybe it is billions of year old and

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there was a gap then there was a reforming and then we have our modern

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history but even within that there's variations of ideas because some people

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go well yeah the fossil record seems to be billions and billions of years old so

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maybe God created the earth with animals and animals existed and died and that's

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where we get the fossil record and then later on God created mankind the problem

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with that is that the Bible tells us death didn't exist in creation until the

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fall some people say oh in this gap there's a pre-ademic race right there was

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a race of humans that Satan ruled over on earth and in the you know so Adam and

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Eve weren't the first ones right you guys ever heard of Lilith right in the

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in Jewish Jewish histories there was this woman Lilith who was Adams first

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wife and that didn't work out and so God had to make a new one right really

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strange stuff people come up with but Jeremiah chapter 4 verses 23 through 25

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refutes the idea that there was any humans in existence before Adam and Eve

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and so like I said the the idea of trying to use a gap theory to say why

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the fossils are old there was no death there was no death until Adam and Eve

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fell so that really kind of refutes that but you know I will say that that the

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gap theory idea it is a plausible way to account for the apparent age of the

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geological evidence right not the fossils but the geological evidence but

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then again you know those who oppose the idea of a gap theory say God could have

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just made the earth already aged and people go well that's dumb didn't he

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make Adam as a full adult fully aged fully capable of thought and speech yes

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he did so can God make an earth that looks aged for whatever reason in his

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wisdom he chose to do that it's not beyond him it's not beyond him to do

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that and so other opponents you know they'll to the gap theory will say you

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know you when you look at the geological time scales and the fossil ages and all

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that stuff it's all dependent on highly big assumptions right you know the way

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they date the fossils as they go well what strata of rock is the fossil found

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in and then they go well how old is the rock and they go well what fossil was

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found in it you see the circular reasoning there well this fossil was

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found in layer 8 so it must be a billion years old well how do we know layer 8 is

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a billion years old well because that fossil was found in it that's that's how

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they date these things you're like that's silly that's what's carbon dating

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they go carbon dating we use that to prove things are billions of years old

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00:43:11,780 --> 00:43:18,100
look it up carbon dating is really only accurate to 70 80 thousand years right

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00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:21,660
is the way the math works in the carbon dating and then again that whole thing

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is based on an assumption without getting into all the details they go well

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there was carbon in the atmosphere and when people breathe they get carbon in

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their system and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but the whole thing is

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based upon well we're gonna assume there was this much carbon at this time and

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then from that they start dating things well what if you're wrong what if your

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assumptions wrong then your whole dating process is wrong anyways okay don't want

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to get into all that stuff so what they end up with is when it says the earth is

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without form and void opponents to the gap theory just simply say it's an

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expression of the progress during day one that God was just starting with the

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earth that way as he gets into the six days of creation and so the truth is this

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and I'll just say it this way there's no irreconcilable theological

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contradictions between Christianity and believing that the earth is old or

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believing that the earth is young there's there's no contradictions and in

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the basis of this is we really don't know for sure either way right kind of

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like Revelation right remember the arguments about Oh pre tribulation

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rapture mid tribulation rapture post tribulation rapture well we're gonna

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look at what the scripture says but we don't know and we'll find out when we

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get there well as the Bible says as God said to Job where were you when I formed

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the earth none of us were there and it doesn't really affect the theology of

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God and man and sin and salvation so I spent all this time talking about

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something that I'm really saying don't argue about it because we don't know and

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then Paul in his writings he said to the church don't argue or cause dissension

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in the body over things that aren't detailed by God in his word so yeah we

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can suggest things we could talk and it's pretty interesting to to evaluate

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some of this but but not to the point of division okay so God created the heavens

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and the earth and it says the earth's surface was covered by darkness the

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verse there or the word there just means a place without light that's what

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darkness means a place without light and so it's it's emphasizing the the void

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emptiness of the earth at this point that nothing was there Psalm 139 12 says

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this though even the darkness is not dark to you the night shines like the

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day and darkness are light darkness and light are alike to you speaking of God

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so even though there was darkness there God was there and he could see clear he

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saw the state of the earth he saw everything and then he's gonna do

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something about it and it says in and under that darkness that the earth was

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covered by the watery depths the indication there is that the entire

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surface of the planet was just water at this point okay like a primeval ocean

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and one famous commentator Umberto Casuto said just as the potter when he

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wishes to fashion a beautiful vessel takes first of all a lump of clay and

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places it upon the wheel in order to mold it according to his wishes so the

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creator first prepared for himself the raw material with a view to giving it

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life afterwards through order and life it is this terrestrial state that is

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called the Tohu Wabohu right however above the primeval chaos and the

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darkness and all this kind of foreboding thing we have unspeakable beauty

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floating there it tells us that the Spirit of God hovered over the waters so

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here at this moment universe is there the earth is being created and the

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Spirit of God is there and it says it's hovering it's a very beautiful word that

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that word hovering is a picture of a mama bird fluttering over her nest you

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ever seen that you know they just kind of flutter and hover and they're

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watching over the the baby birds you know and and that's the idea that the

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that the Holy Spirit was fluttering like a nurturing bird over the dark formless

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earth in preparation of day one what's also interesting is the word spirit

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there in the Hebrew so Spirit of God that word spirit in in the Hebrew

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language can also mean breath right we were seeing it in worship earlier it's

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your breath in my lungs right it's it's the very power of God the animating

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force of God if you will as it says in the in the Gospels where he breathed on

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the disciples receive ye the Holy Spirit and so it's God's creative breath we see

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here hovering over the water about to speak light and life into reality and we

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see that in Psalms chapter 33 verse 6 where it says the heavens were made by

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the word of the Lord and all the stars by the breath of his mouth he gathers

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the water of the sea into a heap and he puts the depths into storehouses let the

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whole earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe

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of him for he spoke and it came into being he commanded and it came into

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existence now next time we get together we're gonna go through the six days of

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creation as they're detailed here in Revelation or Revelation Genesis chapter

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one and all of it starts as the Spirit of God is hovering there and we talked

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about last week how all three God the Father God the Son God the Spirit are

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all a part of creation here as God as one speaks light into existence speaks

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light into the darkness that existed there and so but I want to close this

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with application right because a lot of this is like okay possibilities and

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science stuff and hey that's cool okay but what do we walk away with this type

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of stuff to apply to our lives right this isn't a Bible college class this

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is church right we come here to study God's Word that we would leave and be

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able to live God's Word right and so Paul the Apostle kind of made application

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of this creation narratives in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 6 he said

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for God who said let light shine out of darkness who shone in our hearts to give

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the light of knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ so it's the God

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who said light let light shine out of the darkness has shone in our hearts

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you know without God and this is the application without God in our lives if

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you're here this morning you don't know God you have never accepted God received

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God is is your personal Lord and Savior if you're watching online and you don't

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know God right maybe you're evaluating maybe someone brought you here I don't

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know what it is maybe you know God you call yourself a Christian but you're in

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a period of struggle and doubting right without God we have to understand that

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we're in the darkness of sin our hearts are the darkness of sin and the Bible

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describes that darkness as empty and desolate that word formless that is also

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translated to ruined that is our lives without God that we are desolate we are

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ruined we are empty and the reality of today is that the Spirit of God is still

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hovering he is still fluttering over this world like a dove looking for where

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he could land desiring to land on any life that would receive him in John

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chapter 16 verse 8 it told us that the work of the Spirit here in this world

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it says when he comes he will convict the world about sin righteousness and

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judgment and if you're here today listening to this this study or watching

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it later and you're convicted right now that the truth of who God is and that

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God created everything and that all these ideas of man-centered naturalistic

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creation stuff you're going yeah none of that makes sense and God is convicting

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your heart of sin that you're a sinner he's convicting your heart of

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righteousness the word goes on to say it's the righteousness of Christ that

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he led a perfect sinless life and you haven't and he's convicting you of

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judgment to come that's the work of the Holy Spirit in the world today and just

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like the dove that Noah sent out when he was on the ark and the rains had stopped

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and the water was beginning to recede from the watery flood of judgment that

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covered the entire earth that dove it tells us in Noah's story flew out and

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was looking for a place to land and the question the application is will you let

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God land in your heart today your life might be a formless ball of darkness and

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sin yet God hasn't departed from you he's fluttering in front of you saying

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hey listen yeah you've sinned but yeah I came to this earth my name is Jesus

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Christ I died on the cross for you receive me and you'll avoid the

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judgment to come on sin God is saying that to you today he's looking for that

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place and the question for you is will you become a new creation today will you

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be born again out of the darkness and the formlessness the emptiness of life

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will you let the Lord into your life and be forgiven of all sin past present and

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future God wants to redeem and to restore your your broken life that's what

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he does he wants to forgive you he wants to take your empty life and fill it with

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purpose and reason and joy and peace he wants you to know that he is here right

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now hovering before you the very breath of God saying I love you I created you

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and although you've sinned I want to forgive you I want to restore you I want

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to change you all you have to do is believe in me and the moment any person

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takes that step to say God I believe in you God says in that person's life let

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there be light you know John chapter 1 verses 1 through 5 it says in the

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beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God he was God

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in the beginning all things were created through him and apart from him not one

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thing was created that has been created in him was life and that life was the

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light of men that light shines in the darkness and yet the darkness did not

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overcome it Jesus Christ the word of God God himself it says the creator of

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everything is the light of this world he is the light of our lives and when you

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respond to him when you receive him when you say God I believe Jesus I believe

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you are God I believe you died I believe your sacrifice pays for all my sin I

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receive that be my Lord be my Savior when you do that and put your faith in

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him the darkness no longer overcomes you when you put your faith in him the power

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of sin and death is defeated forever and instead of emptiness and formlessness

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and desolation you're gonna find grace you're gonna find mercy and you're

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gonna find forgiveness and the truth of what Paul said in second Corinthians 5

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17 will apply to your life where it says therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a

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new creation the old has passed away and see the new has come that's the

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application of Genesis 1 & 2 into your life today as we're gonna see through

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the account of creation God creates beauty God creates life God restores

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everything we need he creates man and he sees man needs woman and he creates

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woman and it was perfect but we messed it up we messed it up by sinning and

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then everything else we have in the Bible is all about what God did about

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that he died for you he died for your sins that you could be saved that's what

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all this is about as though God is speaking you today I encourage you to

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listen to him receive him respond to him because if God created the heavens and

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the earth and he did and everything he says is true including the fact that one

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day he's gonna be done the timeline is gonna be done and he's gonna come and

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judge the earth for its sin and if you don't know Jesus Christ is your Lord and

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Savior you will fall under that judgment and it'll be an eternity paying the price

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for your own sins but he offers you in exchange as paradise heaven perfection

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forever with him in eternal glory simply by receiving what he did for you in a

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moment we're gonna pray and if God is speaking to you and you need to receive

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him I'm gonna give you an opportunity to respond to that I pray you do let's

648
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pray father we're so grateful that you sent your son to die for our sins

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and Lord we're so grateful that the Spirit of God is in this earth convicting

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of sin and righteousness and judgment and God we know according to your word

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that it says when we respond to what you did on the cross that you come and dwell

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within us making us a new creation that just like the earth was this formless

653
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empty dark shapeless just gosh just broken that Lord is we're gonna read you

654
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made something beautiful perfect reflecting your glory out of all of it

655
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and that's what you want to do in people's lives today Lord there are some

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in here that that feel that they are dark that their life is darkness that

657
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they're covered in darkness Lord maybe the sorrow of tears has made them feel

658
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like they're drowning in an ocean of tears or maybe they feel empty and

659
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without purpose but yet God you have spoken to them this morning as you

660
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hover before them as the breath of God speaking to them of their need for you

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so while we're praying right now with all heads bowed and eyes closed I just

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want to give anybody in this room an opportunity to receive Jesus Christ as

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your Lord and Savior you've probably been trying your own way for so long

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resisting the fact that you know I need to get right with God and God is speaking

665
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to you many different ways and he's spoken to you again today you need to

666
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stop resisting him you need to stop denying him let him do the most

667
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wonderful beautiful work you will ever experience let him save your soul let

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him fill you with his spirit and change your heart and change your life forever

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and change your eternity forever and so while we're praying with heads bowed and

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eyes closed just where you're seated if you know that you need to receive Jesus

671
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Christ this morning I just want you to raise your hand where you're seated so I

672
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could see it and let me pray with you this morning to receive Christ God wants

673
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to do a work in your life he wants to change everything for you and he will

674
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there are so many people in this room that have experienced that change but it

675
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takes the first step of faith to say God I will believe in you so anybody in this

676
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room got to speak in you this morning just raise your hands I could pray with

677
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you if you're watching online and God is speaking to your heart this morning

678
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obviously I can't see you but if you just let us know in chat just say I want

679
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to receive Jesus Christ this morning or you click the button there on church

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online that says I want to receive Christ we will pray with you but I

681
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encourage you even if you're online to pray this prayer right now if you know

682
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you need Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior anybody else in this room all

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right let's pray father God I thank you for sending your son I know I've sinned

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I know I've sinned against you I've sinned against others and I've tried to

685
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ignore you I've tried to explain why I exist through evolution the Big Bang and

686
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Lord but today you've spoken to me and you've shown me that those sciences

687
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that I trust in Lord that try and make you not exist Lord are ultimately flawed

688
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and so God instead of exercising logic instead of exercising what I think I

689
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know without setting any of that aside God I choose to exercise faith I believe

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in you I believe in who you are I believe Jesus that you are God that you

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came to this earth 2,000 years ago that you died for me I believe that way back

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in the beginning of time you were there as part of the the Godhead Lord that

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you were the word in the beginning and that not one thing was created apart

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from you and that includes me so I invite you into my life to be the light

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of my life thank you for dying for my sin thank you for paying the penalty for my

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wrongdoing thank you for giving me victory over the darkness teach me how

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to live for you teach me how to be who you've created me to be and nothing

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else thank you for loving me so much it's in Jesus name I pray amen now if

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you prayed that prayer this morning even if you didn't raise your hand that's

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okay it still counts you know you've you've joined the family of God and and

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you've joined a body of people who believe in Jesus Christ for their

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salvation and we want to help you just to grow in that and so if you prayed

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today and if you prayed online today we have a little white envelope up here in

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the front and out in the back and if you're online we can mail it to you it's

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called a new believers packet it's just some some tools and resources to help

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you start growing in this relationship with Jesus you know we want you to grow

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we want you to know him more that's that's what this is all about this is

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why we gather together this is why we serve together this is why we we

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do what we do as Christians and so please come forward and get one or get

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one on the way out today if you prayed that prayer if you're online let us know

711
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in chat we will get it mailed out to you but for the rest of us you know there

712
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are so many people around us every single day that are perishing

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spiritually and you all have an opportunity you have an opportunity to

714
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share the gospel with them you have an opportunity to invite them to church

715
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take those opportunities you know we provide tracks and stuff for you guys

716
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one of the ones we make it says God cares on the front it's just an

717
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invitation to church a real simple thing to say hey I'd like to invite you to

718
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church what are they gonna do throw it on the ground so what pick it up give to

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someone else right we're just called to get the message out there and I just

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encourage all of you that the Spirit of God would just just grow in your life

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that the fires of passion for who Jesus is and and based upon what he's done in

722
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your life saving you from hell would just drive us to let people know to

723
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invite them here somewhere you know we got opportunities coming up like Harvest

724
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Crusade man use these opportunities Calvary Downey is hosting a freedom

725
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festival on July 4th we're gonna be getting more information about this

726
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because we want to give these opportunities for you guys to get

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people to the message so that they too would come to know Jesus Christ they

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too would be saved amen we're gonna close in worship I pray God would bless

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you guys richly that your lives would be just full of him that the spirit would

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fill you to overflowing that you would know your giftings and your callings

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that you can go out in the Spirit of God the Spirit of Christ the power of God

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Almighty and tell other people about him so that their lives would be changed too

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amen all right God bless you guys