WEBVTT 00:11.160 --> 00:12.420 It's good to be with you today. 00:12.560 --> 00:15.880 I want to talk about understanding Genesis, and that is something that's very 00:15.880 --> 00:17.740 close to my heart because it's very important. 00:18.680 --> 00:22.240 And few people really appreciate how important that is, so that's what I want 00:22.240 --> 00:22.800 to talk about. 00:23.260 --> 00:27.440 The importance of Genesis, understanding it, because, you know, we live in a world 00:27.440 --> 00:32.260 where people have become increasingly skeptical of the Bible as God's infallible 00:32.260 --> 00:32.820 word. 00:33.100 --> 00:36.740 I mean, it used to be because of our culture in the United States of America, 00:36.860 --> 00:39.640 because of our Christian heritage, people had a degree of respect for the 00:39.640 --> 00:41.540 Bible, even if they didn't profess Christianity. 00:42.220 --> 00:42.960 Times are changing. 00:43.940 --> 00:48.640 And one of the main ways that the Bible is attacked today is in Genesis. 00:48.980 --> 00:49.600 Isn't that the case? 00:50.080 --> 00:53.060 If you consider the United States, we have the most churches and seminaries, 00:53.160 --> 00:56.620 Christian colleges, Christian bookstores, Christian radio of any nation, 00:56.700 --> 00:58.780 all these different resources available. 00:59.440 --> 01:02.980 And yet for all of these Christian resources, it seems like we're becoming 01:02.980 --> 01:03.940 less Christian every day. 01:04.100 --> 01:05.540 Doesn't it feel that way in our nation? 01:05.600 --> 01:07.660 It seems like it's just astonishing. 01:08.060 --> 01:09.000 But how can that be? 01:09.620 --> 01:12.600 We're a nation founded primarily by Christians, certainly on Christian 01:12.600 --> 01:16.380 principles, with all of these Christian resources, and yet we're becoming a pagan 01:16.380 --> 01:16.780 nation. 01:16.880 --> 01:17.640 What is going on? 01:18.540 --> 01:20.400 And does this have anything to do with Genesis? 01:20.560 --> 01:21.740 And I suggest it does. 01:22.460 --> 01:26.660 If you think about it, every problem in our society can be traced back to a broken 01:26.660 --> 01:29.680 law of God, where people have decided that we're not going to do what the Bible says, 01:29.760 --> 01:32.080 we're going to do it this other way, and that causes problems. 01:33.160 --> 01:36.320 And why is it that people say, well, we're not going to do what the Bible 01:36.320 --> 01:36.660 says? 01:36.920 --> 01:38.660 On some level, they don't believe it. 01:39.200 --> 01:42.940 On some level, they've been convinced that the Bible is just fairy tales. 01:43.420 --> 01:45.780 And that really begins in Genesis. 01:46.060 --> 01:51.660 That's where people have placed their attacks on Scripture, those who deny God's 01:51.660 --> 01:51.840 Word. 01:51.940 --> 01:55.220 You see, the real issue behind all of these problems in society is the same 01:55.220 --> 01:58.140 issue as the creation versus evolution debate. 01:58.320 --> 02:00.520 It's really God's Word versus man's Word. 02:00.940 --> 02:02.120 That's really what it comes down to. 02:02.260 --> 02:05.200 You've got God's Word that teaches us about creation. 02:05.340 --> 02:07.600 It also teaches us how we are to live. 02:08.100 --> 02:11.780 And then you've got man's Word, which teaches something else, teaches us a 02:11.780 --> 02:12.520 different way to live. 02:13.280 --> 02:14.560 And which one are you going to trust? 02:14.600 --> 02:17.340 When there's a conflict between the two, who are you going to go with? 02:17.520 --> 02:19.400 Who are you going to ultimately place your faith in? 02:19.820 --> 02:21.820 In the Word of God or in the words of man? 02:21.900 --> 02:23.140 Those are really your two options. 02:24.140 --> 02:27.820 And this has been a problem since the beginning, because when God created Adam 02:27.820 --> 02:30.240 and Eve, He gave them some instructions. 02:30.380 --> 02:32.480 One of them was, if you eat from that tree, you will surely die. 02:33.480 --> 02:36.560 And their response effectively was, we're not going to listen to your word, 02:36.620 --> 02:38.460 we're going to determine truth for ourselves. 02:38.720 --> 02:40.840 And they ate from that tree and they died. 02:41.620 --> 02:43.120 Ultimately, God was right, they were wrong. 02:43.200 --> 02:47.040 But my point is, they decided that they were going to trust in man's Word rather 02:47.040 --> 02:47.800 than God's Word. 02:48.320 --> 02:52.600 And we have inherited that nature, that sin nature, from our forefathers. 02:52.780 --> 02:53.920 We have inherited that. 02:54.580 --> 02:58.940 And so I want to suggest to you that the loss of biblical authority is the root of 02:58.940 --> 03:00.120 the decline of Christian America. 03:00.280 --> 03:03.760 And that loss of biblical authority, where people say, we're not going to do 03:03.760 --> 03:07.280 what the Bible says because it's just nonsense, that begins in Genesis. 03:08.200 --> 03:11.280 That's the place where people have said, no, we know from science that that's 03:11.280 --> 03:11.740 wrong. 03:12.680 --> 03:16.780 And so you see, it used to be you could say, in the United States of America, 03:16.880 --> 03:19.520 you'd say things like abortion is wrong and homosexual behavior is wrong, 03:19.640 --> 03:20.260 adultery is wrong. 03:20.340 --> 03:23.400 And people say, of course, I get that because we had that Christian heritage. 03:24.280 --> 03:26.160 But today, well, the culture shifted. 03:26.300 --> 03:28.760 Today, you say abortion is wrong, homosexual behavior is wrong, adultery is 03:28.760 --> 03:28.860 wrong. 03:28.900 --> 03:31.520 People say, not according to my rules, because they have a different standard. 03:32.500 --> 03:34.380 That standard is not the Bible. 03:34.640 --> 03:35.540 It's not God's Word. 03:36.320 --> 03:41.500 It's been replaced with another idea that stems from evolutionary thinking. 03:41.560 --> 03:44.520 And by evolution, I'm referring to this idea that single-celled organisms 03:44.520 --> 03:49.100 eventually, through mutations and natural selection, diversified into all the 03:49.100 --> 03:50.420 different kinds of life we see today. 03:50.540 --> 03:52.820 You're related to broccoli in the evolutionary worldview. 03:53.380 --> 03:56.840 As I mentioned to a group of atheists one time, they didn't like that, but it's true 03:56.840 --> 03:57.740 in their worldview. 03:58.220 --> 03:59.740 I don't believe I'm related to broccoli. 03:59.800 --> 04:02.260 I believe we're related to each other because we're all descended from Adam and 04:02.260 --> 04:02.540 Eve. 04:03.700 --> 04:07.540 And that will have an impact on the way you think about other things. 04:07.820 --> 04:11.760 Your origins will have an impact on the way you think about other things. 04:12.340 --> 04:16.720 If God's Word is true from the beginning, then we have creation. 04:17.480 --> 04:23.160 We have a Creator, and so we would expect to have laws because there's a lawgiver. 04:23.760 --> 04:24.880 We're made in God's image. 04:24.940 --> 04:25.620 Where do we learn that? 04:26.100 --> 04:27.580 Oh, that's in Genesis, isn't it? 04:28.060 --> 04:29.280 Where do we learn that God's the Creator? 04:29.360 --> 04:30.100 Oh, that's in Genesis. 04:30.220 --> 04:33.400 Now, this is reiterated throughout the rest of the Scriptures, but it begins in 04:33.400 --> 04:33.680 Genesis. 04:34.600 --> 04:36.400 And where do we find the first laws given? 04:36.700 --> 04:40.380 In Genesis, where God gives His first commands to Adam and Eve, and where we 04:40.380 --> 04:43.000 learn about consequences for disobedience to those laws. 04:43.380 --> 04:44.660 Laws go back to creation. 04:44.840 --> 04:48.280 They're based on a Creator who has the right to make the rules because He's 04:48.280 --> 04:49.960 Creator, and we're the created. 04:52.500 --> 04:56.020 Marriage... where do we get this idea of marriage, one man and one woman united by 04:56.020 --> 04:56.640 God for life? 04:56.720 --> 04:58.020 Well, that goes back to Genesis, doesn't it? 04:58.080 --> 04:59.160 God created Adam and Eve. 04:59.220 --> 05:02.620 He instituted marriage in the beginning, and therefore, He gets to define marriage 05:02.620 --> 05:03.400 because He's the Creator. 05:04.420 --> 05:05.360 God defines marriage. 05:05.440 --> 05:06.640 Not the Supreme Court, by the way. 05:06.780 --> 05:07.680 God defines marriage. 05:09.020 --> 05:11.860 Standards, standards of behavior, standards of clothing. 05:12.220 --> 05:13.500 I noticed you're all wearing clothes today. 05:13.640 --> 05:14.420 I appreciate that. 05:14.520 --> 05:15.300 I'm sure you do too. 05:16.120 --> 05:17.220 There's a reason for that. 05:17.320 --> 05:18.780 It wasn't originally that way, right? 05:18.840 --> 05:20.600 But where do we learn about why we wear clothes? 05:20.640 --> 05:21.800 That's in Genesis, isn't it? 05:22.180 --> 05:24.380 That's the origin of clothing for human beings. 05:25.160 --> 05:31.200 Meaning of life... why is it that human life is valuable and is objectively 05:31.200 --> 05:31.660 valuable? 05:31.800 --> 05:34.220 It doesn't just say, well, I don't like that person, therefore, he has no value. 05:34.320 --> 05:37.600 No, he has value whether you like him or not, because he's made the image of God. 05:38.100 --> 05:40.200 And where do we learn that people are made in the image of God? 05:40.280 --> 05:41.380 That's in Genesis. 05:42.760 --> 05:45.880 Christian doctrines have their basis in Genesis, folks. 05:46.540 --> 05:49.100 All these things that we teach, these good moral principles that 05:49.100 --> 05:52.820 Christians teach, have their basis in Genesis, in creation. 05:53.680 --> 05:55.520 And by the way, Jesus understood this. 05:55.640 --> 05:58.940 He often, in his earthly ministry, alluded back to Genesis in some fashion 05:58.940 --> 06:02.580 when the Pharisees and Sadducees would challenge him. 06:02.780 --> 06:06.800 In Matthew 19, when the religious leaders asked Jesus about divorce, trying to trap 06:06.800 --> 06:09.920 him, he went back and quoted Genesis 1 and 2 as the foundation for marriage. 06:10.760 --> 06:11.480 He understood that. 06:12.560 --> 06:15.760 But you see, what's happened in our culture is there's been another set of 06:15.760 --> 06:18.740 standards that have come about because there's another foundation, evolution. 06:19.860 --> 06:21.920 We don't need God to explain life. 06:22.020 --> 06:22.600 We don't need that. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.540 We know millions of years of evolution is the way it happened. 06:25.640 --> 06:27.360 Well, they don't know that, but that's what they say. 06:28.020 --> 06:32.020 And if that's the case, why would you have laws, right? 06:32.800 --> 06:38.760 I mean, laws are all about protecting the weak from the strong, and yet evolution is 06:38.760 --> 06:40.240 about the strong dominating over the weak. 06:40.300 --> 06:41.460 That's how it's supposed to proceed. 06:41.960 --> 06:44.640 So why would you have laws in an evolutionary worldview? 06:44.820 --> 06:47.200 Why not do what you want with sex in an evolutionary worldview? 06:47.380 --> 06:49.560 If we're just animals, animals do what they want, right? 06:50.260 --> 06:53.560 Or why not abort babies, get rid of spare cats, get rid of spare kids? 06:53.620 --> 06:57.440 Same difference, if we're just animals, if we're just chemical accidents. 06:57.440 --> 06:59.520 What's wrong with getting rid of a chemical accident, right? 07:00.480 --> 07:02.960 I mean, you can see that, how that way of thinking could be justified. 07:03.240 --> 07:06.600 I'm not suggesting that evolution is the cause of all these problems that we have 07:06.600 --> 07:07.160 in society. 07:07.720 --> 07:09.080 Sin is the cause of those problems. 07:09.940 --> 07:13.800 I'm just suggesting that evolution gives people a try and justify that sin in their 07:13.800 --> 07:14.160 minds. 07:15.300 --> 07:19.720 Because these standards over here, these Christian standards, do not make 07:19.720 --> 07:22.980 sense on that foundation, because these are based on creation. 07:23.860 --> 07:27.920 They're based on the fact that we have a Creator, and that He has given us laws 07:27.920 --> 07:31.580 that we are to obey, and that there are consequences for disobedience. 07:31.880 --> 07:33.360 We see that in Genesis. 07:34.200 --> 07:38.200 So what's happened in our culture, that foundation and creation has eroded in 07:38.200 --> 07:38.960 the minds of people. 07:39.040 --> 07:41.080 They think, well, yeah, well, nobody believes that anymore. 07:41.220 --> 07:42.380 Nobody believes that God created. 07:42.500 --> 07:44.500 We know that evolution is the way life came about. 07:45.340 --> 07:47.560 Well, then why would you have moral laws? 07:48.300 --> 07:51.420 Why would marriage be one man and one woman for life, if there really wasn't an 07:51.420 --> 07:51.920 Adam and Eve? 07:52.220 --> 07:55.220 If that's just a fairy tale, what's the foundation of marriage? 07:55.340 --> 07:56.820 Well, marriage is a cultural trend then. 07:58.020 --> 08:00.800 And the culture changes, so why shouldn't the definition of marriage change? 08:01.780 --> 08:03.720 And you see, that's not just a hypothetical issue, is it? 08:03.720 --> 08:04.340 That's happening. 08:04.400 --> 08:06.680 That's what we're seeing in the world today. 08:06.860 --> 08:11.060 We're seeing these doctrines being challenged because their foundation has 08:11.060 --> 08:13.000 been removed in the minds of people. 08:13.800 --> 08:16.940 We need to understand our foundations are under attack, and if the foundations are 08:16.940 --> 08:18.680 destroyed, what can the righteous do? 08:19.520 --> 08:23.480 Even a lot of Christians, unfortunately, have kind of bought into this, 08:23.540 --> 08:26.100 and they've said, well, maybe, you know, God used evolution somehow, 08:26.600 --> 08:29.180 because there's a lot of smart people that believe in evolution and so on. 08:29.340 --> 08:30.860 We get intimidated by the world. 08:31.800 --> 08:35.840 But if God used evolution, then that means Genesis isn't really history, is it? 08:35.840 --> 08:40.280 It's not literal history, because Genesis gives us a different account of origins 08:40.280 --> 08:42.920 than the Darwinian evolution version. 08:45.360 --> 08:48.060 And so a lot of people have said, well, maybe Genesis is just, you know, 08:48.100 --> 08:49.640 it's kind of a poetic section of the Bible. 08:49.780 --> 08:51.860 It's true spiritually, but it's not literally true. 08:52.620 --> 08:53.680 Genesis isn't written that way. 08:53.740 --> 08:54.740 It's not written as poetry. 08:55.620 --> 08:58.640 You know those verses that you love to read before you go to bed, and so-and-so 08:58.640 --> 09:00.360 begets so-and-so, and they beget so-and-so? 09:00.680 --> 09:02.840 Those genealogies like you find in Genesis 5? 09:03.560 --> 09:05.040 Well, those verses are there for a reason. 09:05.140 --> 09:07.520 They're there to tell us these are real people that lived. 09:07.640 --> 09:10.540 It tells us their names, the names of at least one of their children, sometimes how 09:10.540 --> 09:14.000 long they lived before the first child, sometimes the age afterwards, and so on. 09:14.840 --> 09:16.460 Very specific details. 09:16.720 --> 09:19.340 That is not what you would include in a poem. 09:19.440 --> 09:20.320 That would be ridiculous. 09:21.380 --> 09:23.840 Or some people have said, well, maybe Genesis is like a parable. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.620 It's just a fictional story to illustrate a spiritual truth. 09:27.540 --> 09:29.860 Well, Jesus often used parables, right? 09:30.360 --> 09:31.860 But parables aren't written that way. 09:32.720 --> 09:34.720 Parables usually don't have specific names anyway. 09:34.820 --> 09:37.840 It's usually there was a certain man, or there was a king, or whatever. 09:38.480 --> 09:40.840 And you certainly wouldn't have a detailed genealogy in a parable. 09:40.900 --> 09:43.480 That would be pointless if you're trying to illustrate a spiritual truth. 09:43.560 --> 09:45.460 You want to keep it as succinct as possible. 09:46.240 --> 09:48.080 So no, this is not written in that style. 09:48.940 --> 09:50.520 It's not written in a poetic style. 09:50.740 --> 09:53.320 By the way, poetry is easy to recognize in the Bible. 09:54.700 --> 09:58.400 In English, we tend to focus more on rhyme and meter, but in the Hebrew language, 09:58.500 --> 09:59.840 they focused on parallelism. 10:00.620 --> 10:02.960 And so you would have a statement, and then you'd have a parallel statement, 10:03.060 --> 10:07.040 like the heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of His hands. 10:07.380 --> 10:10.840 Kind of says the same thing using two different ways of saying it. 10:11.340 --> 10:13.620 That is the key identifier of Hebrew poetry. 10:14.440 --> 10:15.800 And you do not find that in Genesis. 10:16.060 --> 10:16.660 It's not there. 10:18.140 --> 10:20.480 Genesis bears all the distinctives of history. 10:20.560 --> 10:22.860 If you think about it, this would be a terrible poem, wouldn't it? 10:24.040 --> 10:25.180 So and so begets so... 10:25.180 --> 10:26.080 No, that's not poetry. 10:26.200 --> 10:26.720 It's history. 10:27.480 --> 10:29.080 And Jesus referred to it as such. 10:29.980 --> 10:34.340 And by the way, those genealogies lead up to Jesus, and you can read about them in 10:34.340 --> 10:35.200 Matthew and in Luke. 10:35.760 --> 10:36.120 Yes. 10:36.680 --> 10:40.420 And so here's my question, then, for Christians who say, but I don't think 10:40.420 --> 10:41.400 Adam is a real person. 10:42.040 --> 10:42.840 But you're a Christian? 10:42.920 --> 10:43.520 Oh, yeah, I'm a Christian. 10:43.580 --> 10:44.160 I believe in Jesus. 10:44.580 --> 10:46.260 But wait a minute, Jesus is descended from Adam. 10:47.220 --> 10:48.220 You think Adam's just a metaphor? 10:48.400 --> 10:50.000 How do you have Jesus being descended from a metaphor? 10:51.260 --> 10:54.260 You don't have to be an expert on genetics to know a real person can't be descended 10:54.260 --> 10:55.620 from a metaphorical one, right? 10:55.680 --> 10:56.620 That's not going to work. 10:56.920 --> 10:58.220 That doesn't even make sense. 10:59.200 --> 11:04.420 It's important that Jesus is descended from a real, literal Adam, and so are we 11:04.420 --> 11:04.700 all. 11:05.380 --> 11:06.100 Why is that important? 11:06.240 --> 11:08.140 Well, it makes Jesus our relative. 11:08.800 --> 11:10.180 You are related to Jesus Christ. 11:10.260 --> 11:11.160 He is your brother. 11:11.320 --> 11:12.380 He is your relative. 11:13.200 --> 11:14.520 And you say, why is that important? 11:15.180 --> 11:17.900 Because according to biblical law, only a relative can redeem you. 11:18.780 --> 11:21.920 There's an important concept in the Bible, the concept of the kinsman redeemer. 11:22.260 --> 11:25.160 It's only a relative who can take your place on the cross. 11:25.240 --> 11:29.040 It's because we're all of one blood, the Bible says in Acts 17, meaning we're 11:29.040 --> 11:32.900 all descended from Adam, that Jesus' blood counts for us on the cross. 11:32.980 --> 11:34.260 It's because we're related to him. 11:35.220 --> 11:38.280 Unless, of course, Genesis is myth, in which case you might not be related to 11:38.280 --> 11:40.380 Jesus, and then you're not eligible for salvation. 11:41.160 --> 11:42.040 That's a problem. 11:42.820 --> 11:44.320 People don't think these issues through. 11:45.460 --> 11:47.840 Why is it the blood of bulls and goats can't take away sins? 11:48.020 --> 11:49.440 Hebrews 10-4 tells us that. 11:50.040 --> 11:54.440 Now, they were used symbolically in the Old Testament, the animal sacrifices to 11:54.440 --> 11:57.440 point forward to Christ so the Jews would know what to expect. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.360 They understood substitutionary atonement. 12:00.540 --> 12:01.660 That was just symbolic, though. 12:01.740 --> 12:03.200 The animals don't take away sins. 12:03.280 --> 12:03.580 Why? 12:03.680 --> 12:04.960 Because we're not related to them. 12:05.900 --> 12:08.560 Unless, of course, evolution is true, in which case that doctrine is gone, 12:08.620 --> 12:08.960 isn't it? 12:10.000 --> 12:12.440 You see, Christian doctrines go back to Genesis. 12:12.540 --> 12:14.320 Even the gospel itself goes back to Genesis. 12:14.480 --> 12:16.440 Where do we learn that death is the penalty for sin? 12:17.340 --> 12:18.440 It's in Genesis, isn't it? 12:18.460 --> 12:21.860 Now, that's reiterated throughout the rest of the Scriptures, but it's in Genesis we 12:21.860 --> 12:26.240 learn that the penalty for disobedience to God, who is life, naturally would be 12:26.240 --> 12:26.660 death. 12:26.800 --> 12:27.700 That makes sense. 12:27.820 --> 12:28.380 It's logical. 12:29.500 --> 12:32.440 Putting it another way, which Adam is non-essential to the gospel? 12:33.780 --> 12:38.100 We've got the first Adam that made it necessary for us to be saved, and we've 12:38.100 --> 12:41.900 got Jesus Christ, whom the Bible calls the last Adam, who made it possible for us to 12:41.900 --> 12:42.380 be saved. 12:42.640 --> 12:46.360 My point is that without the first Adam, why do we need salvation? 12:47.780 --> 12:49.520 And by the way, that's an issue. 12:49.580 --> 12:53.280 If you go around saying, trust in Jesus to be saved, a lot of times people in the 12:53.280 --> 12:55.000 world will say, saved from what? 12:55.120 --> 12:56.480 I'm basically a good person. 12:56.940 --> 12:59.960 Now, there's someone who doesn't understand Genesis or doesn't believe it. 13:01.000 --> 13:06.520 Because if you understand Genesis, you get a taste of the holiness of God. 13:06.860 --> 13:09.040 How many sins did it take to ruin the world? 13:10.080 --> 13:10.400 One. 13:11.660 --> 13:12.880 Have you sinned once? 13:13.520 --> 13:14.740 Yes, more than once maybe? 13:15.420 --> 13:16.520 You've got a problem then. 13:16.980 --> 13:21.260 God can't let you into the restored, the new earth, otherwise you'd ruin it 13:21.260 --> 13:22.180 just like you ruined the original. 13:23.480 --> 13:25.260 That's a problem for us because we've all sinned. 13:25.360 --> 13:27.240 See, that's a Genesis concept, isn't it? 13:27.760 --> 13:28.560 It's because of Adam. 13:28.920 --> 13:31.280 We inherited a sin nature from Adam. 13:31.400 --> 13:33.760 When he sinned, he became a sinner, and sinners beget sinners. 13:35.000 --> 13:38.120 And as a result, we're born into the world sinning, rebelling against God, 13:38.720 --> 13:39.520 needing salvation. 13:40.660 --> 13:45.720 It's the first Adam that makes sense of why we need a Savior, the last Adam, 13:45.780 --> 13:46.380 Jesus Christ. 13:46.700 --> 13:48.700 See, the Bible really is the history book of the universe. 13:49.360 --> 13:53.060 It begins in the beginning, God created, and it tells us the important events that 13:53.060 --> 13:55.640 have happened throughout history in terms of our relationship with God. 13:56.340 --> 14:00.580 And I find that a lot of people like the morality the Bible teaches, but they want 14:00.580 --> 14:01.360 to reject the history. 14:01.820 --> 14:02.300 Isn't that true? 14:02.300 --> 14:05.880 Even atheists like some of the morality the Bible teaches. 14:06.400 --> 14:08.480 They read, thou shalt not murder. 14:08.920 --> 14:09.740 Oh, yeah, that's a good one. 14:09.880 --> 14:10.580 They like that one. 14:10.680 --> 14:11.340 They don't want to be murdered. 14:11.780 --> 14:12.660 Thou shalt not steal. 14:12.920 --> 14:14.620 Yeah, the Bible got that one right. 14:16.260 --> 14:19.040 But those moral concepts come out of the history. 14:19.860 --> 14:21.140 Why is it wrong to murder? 14:21.760 --> 14:23.760 Because people have been made in the image of God. 14:23.800 --> 14:26.060 That's an historical fact, you see. 14:26.520 --> 14:27.900 And why is it wrong to steal? 14:27.960 --> 14:30.860 Because God is sovereign over everything, and he's apportioned to people as he 14:30.860 --> 14:32.420 wills, and he's commanded us not to do that. 14:33.100 --> 14:35.220 And so you see, the morality comes out of the history. 14:35.340 --> 14:36.740 It wouldn't make sense apart from it. 14:37.620 --> 14:40.240 If we're just rearranged pond scum, if we're just chemical accidents, 14:41.000 --> 14:42.360 chemicals do what chemicals do. 14:42.440 --> 14:43.860 There's no right or wrong about it, right? 14:44.360 --> 14:47.100 You mix the vinegar and the baking soda, and it fizzes up. 14:47.300 --> 14:48.520 That's just what happens. 14:49.000 --> 14:51.600 You don't get mad at it and say, bad baking soda, you shouldn't have fizzed 14:51.600 --> 14:52.400 up that way, right? 14:53.040 --> 14:53.880 That would be ridiculous. 14:54.500 --> 14:55.940 Chemicals just do what chemicals do. 14:56.000 --> 14:57.480 There's no morality if we're just chemicals. 14:58.140 --> 15:01.540 It's in the Christian worldview where historically we've been made in the image 15:01.540 --> 15:06.740 of God, and where God has given us freedom to obey or disobey, and we, because of our 15:06.740 --> 15:07.720 sin nature, we disobey. 15:08.860 --> 15:09.860 Jesus put it this way. 15:09.900 --> 15:10.840 He's speaking of Nicodemus. 15:10.940 --> 15:13.600 He said, if I've told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you 15:13.600 --> 15:14.980 believe if I tell you heavenly things? 15:15.980 --> 15:17.320 That's a pretty good question, isn't it? 15:17.340 --> 15:21.400 Jesus was masterful at asking probing questions to get people to think. 15:22.740 --> 15:26.820 You see, the Bible does talk about earthly things, history, science even. 15:27.340 --> 15:28.740 Yes, the Bible touches on science. 15:29.420 --> 15:30.660 It talks about the days of creation. 15:31.200 --> 15:32.800 It talks about Noah's flood. 15:32.900 --> 15:36.600 It talks about the confusion of tongues at Babel, matters of history, things that 15:36.600 --> 15:37.560 happened in time. 15:38.080 --> 15:41.120 And it talks about spiritual issues, morality, salvation. 15:42.360 --> 15:46.140 And if you say, yes, but I don't think that those details in Genesis are exactly 15:46.140 --> 15:46.380 right. 15:46.400 --> 15:47.200 I think that's just a metaphor. 15:47.540 --> 15:50.760 If God didn't get the details right in Genesis, how can you trust that he got the 15:50.760 --> 15:52.260 details right on how to inherit eternal life? 15:52.820 --> 15:53.720 That's what I want to know. 15:53.820 --> 15:55.340 Does God know how to write a book or doesn't he? 15:56.560 --> 15:57.720 Really, that's the issue, isn't it? 15:59.540 --> 16:03.220 I think anybody who can speak the universe into existence can probably write a book. 16:03.960 --> 16:04.700 I've written books. 16:04.760 --> 16:05.980 It's not that hard, right? 16:06.100 --> 16:10.900 I think God can write a good book, a book that can be understood by the 16:10.900 --> 16:12.300 creatures that he made in his image. 16:12.800 --> 16:14.200 God's not the author of confusion. 16:14.340 --> 16:17.480 He's not going to write in a way that's confusing and perplexing, where you need a 16:17.480 --> 16:18.680 PhD to understand it. 16:19.600 --> 16:20.120 Not at all. 16:20.340 --> 16:21.020 He writes clearly. 16:22.220 --> 16:24.740 Now, that's not to say there aren't difficult passages in the Bible, 16:24.840 --> 16:27.420 but my point is the main themes of the Bible are meant to be understood, 16:27.740 --> 16:29.200 and God knows how to write a book. 16:30.480 --> 16:31.840 But we get intimidated, right? 16:31.860 --> 16:33.960 You got God's infallible word, man's fallible word. 16:34.020 --> 16:35.080 Why is it that when people... 16:35.080 --> 16:39.100 why is it people change the infallible one to agree with what they want, when they 16:39.100 --> 16:40.140 want these two things to agree? 16:40.300 --> 16:43.920 We want to be academically respectable, so we want to believe in evolution like 16:43.920 --> 16:45.140 all the scientists. 16:45.300 --> 16:47.740 Not that all of them do, but a majority of them probably do. 16:48.500 --> 16:51.660 We want to be accepted by that, so we modify the Bible. 16:51.660 --> 16:54.020 The Bible doesn't really mean that God created, not literally. 16:54.100 --> 16:56.220 It's just a metaphor for evolution and what have you. 16:56.840 --> 16:59.500 The one that you modify is the one you don't really have your faith in, 16:59.600 --> 17:00.060 by the way. 17:01.140 --> 17:02.140 That's something to think about, right? 17:02.160 --> 17:05.080 Your ultimate standard, you don't modify it because you'd need a greater standard 17:05.080 --> 17:07.720 to tell you how to modify it, in which case it wouldn't be ultimate. 17:08.660 --> 17:13.560 So that's very revealing about the way that we think in the world today. 17:13.940 --> 17:15.260 And this is not new. 17:16.420 --> 17:19.240 Oh, the religious leaders at the time of Christ's earthly ministry, oh, 17:19.260 --> 17:23.300 they were masterful at reinterpreting God's Word to match their traditions. 17:24.480 --> 17:26.220 And how did Jesus respond to that? 17:26.920 --> 17:28.380 How did he respond to the religious leaders? 17:28.640 --> 17:30.240 With modern political correctness? 17:31.380 --> 17:33.560 Well, that's not my personal opinion, but if you want to believe that, 17:33.620 --> 17:34.060 that's okay. 17:34.800 --> 17:38.060 He didn't respond that way, or, you know, it's not a salvation issue, 17:38.120 --> 17:39.400 so let's just agree to disagree. 17:39.520 --> 17:41.600 Let's all just hold hands and sing kumbaya, right? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.820 That is not the way Jesus responded in his earthly ministry. 17:44.920 --> 17:45.820 He responded with, it is written. 17:45.980 --> 17:46.660 Have you not read? 17:47.720 --> 17:50.800 Jesus stood authoritatively on the Word of God, and when people challenged that, 17:50.840 --> 17:55.000 when people had distorted God's Word, like the Pharisees and Sadducees often 17:55.000 --> 17:56.840 did, he would point them back to it. 17:57.040 --> 17:57.880 Haven't you read? 17:58.140 --> 17:59.100 Have you not read? 18:00.000 --> 18:02.940 And you do realize Jesus is using sarcasm there. 18:02.960 --> 18:03.780 Of course they'd read it. 18:04.320 --> 18:06.340 He's pointing out they hadn't applied it. 18:06.500 --> 18:08.380 They weren't thinking through the issues rationally. 18:08.380 --> 18:12.040 We don't think about Jesus using sarcasm, but he did on occasion, and he did it 18:12.040 --> 18:12.580 masterfully. 18:13.740 --> 18:17.660 You can think of the war that's going on today a bit like these two cities. 18:17.800 --> 18:19.620 You have the city of God, creation. 18:20.280 --> 18:21.100 Creation is truth. 18:21.180 --> 18:22.420 God's Word is true from the beginning. 18:22.800 --> 18:27.080 And you have the city of man, evolution, secular humanism based on evolution. 18:27.240 --> 18:29.220 Man, independent from God, determines truth. 18:29.860 --> 18:32.420 And how are we fighting this war? 18:32.520 --> 18:34.140 Perhaps not as effectively as we could be. 18:34.280 --> 18:36.780 We're arguing over issues that maybe aren't so important. 18:36.940 --> 18:38.720 We're shooting billboards, which is okay. 18:38.800 --> 18:41.560 I mean, you can point out that abortion is wrong and racism is wrong. 18:41.640 --> 18:42.080 That's okay. 18:42.180 --> 18:42.920 We should do that. 18:43.180 --> 18:43.520 We should. 18:43.800 --> 18:46.560 But my point is, if that's all we're doing, those issues are going to keep 18:46.560 --> 18:52.000 coming up because we haven't dealt with the root of the problem, the secular 18:52.000 --> 18:54.120 thinking based on evolution. 18:54.260 --> 18:55.880 Man, independent from God, determines truth. 18:56.560 --> 18:59.060 And of course, the worst thing we could be doing is shooting our own foundation, 18:59.780 --> 19:01.900 representing Christians who say, well, yeah, you don't have to believe in 19:01.900 --> 19:02.640 Genesis, zap. 19:03.500 --> 19:05.240 And that's not wise. 19:05.840 --> 19:06.700 It's not wise, folks. 19:06.780 --> 19:07.960 The secular humanists are smart. 19:08.040 --> 19:09.000 They're aiming at our foundation. 19:09.120 --> 19:12.060 They're saying you can't trust in the Bible because you can't trust in Genesis. 19:12.220 --> 19:14.220 God didn't even get that first chapter right. 19:16.000 --> 19:16.940 That's what they claim. 19:17.400 --> 19:19.960 Well, what's the solution then? 19:20.820 --> 19:22.020 It's fine to zap some billboards. 19:22.100 --> 19:23.000 We should do some of that. 19:23.060 --> 19:27.780 But we need to defend ourselves against these arguments for evolution that are not 19:27.780 --> 19:28.980 good arguments, by the way. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.120 I have yet to hear a logically cogent argument for evolution in the Darwinian 19:32.120 --> 19:32.520 sense. 19:32.600 --> 19:36.040 Yes, animals change a bit, but they don't change from one kind to another. 19:36.160 --> 19:38.240 They don't change on that fundamental level. 19:39.020 --> 19:42.000 We need to do some damage ourselves and point out that evolution is a bankrupt 19:42.000 --> 19:43.780 conjecture, scientifically bankrupt. 19:44.120 --> 19:46.740 It's not something that's well supported by evidence, not at all. 19:46.800 --> 19:52.640 We saw that if you were able to attend the men's conference, you saw evidence for 19:52.640 --> 19:52.940 that. 19:53.280 --> 19:55.040 It's how science confirms biblical creation. 19:55.080 --> 19:58.180 We want to repair the damage that's been done, show you you can trust in creation. 19:58.440 --> 20:00.140 You can trust in the Bible from the beginning. 20:00.240 --> 20:01.780 It's all the Word of God and it's all true. 20:02.960 --> 20:05.660 Everything the Bible affirms is true. 20:05.880 --> 20:08.400 And I like how this is illustrated, too, because you notice we're not aiming 20:08.400 --> 20:09.660 at the people. 20:10.160 --> 20:11.900 We don't want to destroy the people. 20:11.980 --> 20:13.100 We want the people to be saved. 20:13.920 --> 20:21.240 We want to destroy that idea, that imagination that exalts itself against the 20:21.240 --> 20:23.380 knowledge of God, secular humanism. 20:23.380 --> 20:28.180 That's what we want to cast out because that is false thinking and it leads to 20:28.180 --> 20:28.600 destruction. 20:29.160 --> 20:30.480 We want the people to be saved. 20:30.560 --> 20:34.100 We want them to jump off, swim over, and join us on the city of God. 20:34.140 --> 20:34.980 We want them to be Christians. 20:35.380 --> 20:36.920 And we're not bashful about that. 20:37.300 --> 20:42.180 Some people try to sort of cover up their Christian bias because they want to be 20:42.180 --> 20:43.160 neutral and unbiased. 20:43.420 --> 20:47.360 But, you know, we can talk about, I'll just show you that there's a God from 20:47.360 --> 20:48.140 science or whatever. 20:48.200 --> 20:49.400 We can leave the Bible out of it. 20:49.400 --> 20:52.780 But, well, I'm sorry, but the demons believe in God and tremble. 20:52.980 --> 20:53.820 It doesn't save them. 20:54.600 --> 20:59.180 And a creationist will end up in hell the same as an atheistic evolutionist if they 20:59.180 --> 21:00.760 haven't trusted in Christ as their Savior. 21:01.160 --> 21:02.260 We want people to be saved. 21:02.920 --> 21:06.120 And so I'm very upfront about my conviction that the Bible is true. 21:06.340 --> 21:09.000 You say, but what if so-and-so, what if the person I'm talking with 21:09.000 --> 21:09.940 doesn't believe the Bible? 21:10.680 --> 21:12.120 Well, that's their problem, right? 21:12.660 --> 21:13.260 They should. 21:13.560 --> 21:16.280 The Bible has been historically vindicated time and time again. 21:16.340 --> 21:16.980 It's the Word of God. 21:17.000 --> 21:17.800 They should believe it. 21:17.800 --> 21:20.580 And God has written His law in people's hearts. 21:20.780 --> 21:24.520 So when we read God's Word, bells ring, and we recognize that as the Word of our 21:24.520 --> 21:25.820 Creator, right? 21:26.080 --> 21:27.620 Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice. 21:28.220 --> 21:29.500 I know them, they follow me. 21:31.020 --> 21:32.400 So we're very upfront about that. 21:32.440 --> 21:33.500 We want people to be saved. 21:34.100 --> 21:38.500 Getting people to trust in God's Word, that's the means by which people are 21:38.500 --> 21:39.200 saved, you see. 21:39.880 --> 21:41.380 So it's not an academic game. 21:41.500 --> 21:44.540 It's not just, I'm not out here just because I like science. 21:44.580 --> 21:46.420 I mean, I like science a lot, don't get me wrong. 21:46.920 --> 21:47.640 It's fascinating. 21:47.820 --> 21:50.340 I think it glorifies God, but I want to see people saved. 21:51.100 --> 21:55.500 And science is one method we can use to show people that God's Word is true from 21:55.500 --> 21:59.520 the beginning because science confirms it, it lines up with it. 21:59.820 --> 22:01.200 What about the timescale of creation? 22:01.860 --> 22:04.120 There's some controversy there, although there really shouldn't be. 22:04.200 --> 22:06.420 The Bible tells us that God created in six days. 22:06.820 --> 22:09.160 It tells us what He did on each of those days of creation. 22:09.860 --> 22:11.520 Human beings are made on the sixth day. 22:12.120 --> 22:15.100 And from those genealogies that you love to read before you go to bed, so-and-so 22:15.100 --> 22:18.440 begets so-and-so, you add up the ages and you find something like a few thousand 22:18.440 --> 22:22.660 years, something like four thousand years between creation and Christ's earthly 22:22.660 --> 22:25.420 ministry, and that was about two thousand years ago, so something like six thousand 22:25.420 --> 22:28.560 years for the age of the earth, the age of the universe. 22:29.620 --> 22:34.000 And boy, that rubs people the wrong way because we've been taught in the secular 22:34.000 --> 22:37.800 world, the secular media, most public schools teach that the earth is 4.5 22:37.800 --> 22:40.620 billion years old, the universe is 13.8 billion years old. 22:40.680 --> 22:43.380 The numbers change a little bit from year to year, but something like that. 22:44.480 --> 22:47.420 And boy, that's what the science indicates, right? 22:47.500 --> 22:51.120 Because we find fossils, and the fossils were laid down over millions of years, 22:51.160 --> 22:51.420 right? 22:51.720 --> 22:53.020 Because you'll find it in the textbooks. 22:53.380 --> 22:54.560 See, there it is, millions of years. 22:54.700 --> 22:55.160 It's got to be true. 22:55.220 --> 22:55.880 It's in the book, right? 22:56.580 --> 22:57.660 I confirmed it on the internet. 22:57.760 --> 22:58.380 It's got to be true. 22:59.840 --> 23:04.700 Well, just because something's in a book doesn't necessarily make it true. 23:04.780 --> 23:07.760 And by the way, when you dig up a fossil, it doesn't come with a label telling you 23:07.760 --> 23:08.480 how old it is. 23:09.320 --> 23:10.220 It's just a fossil. 23:10.560 --> 23:12.060 You don't know the age of it automatically. 23:12.060 --> 23:17.820 People think scientists are sort of like magicians, you know, they take the fossil, 23:17.960 --> 23:20.660 they scan it with their tricorder and measure the ageicals, and it just tells 23:20.660 --> 23:21.240 them the age. 23:21.800 --> 23:22.780 That's not the way it works. 23:22.860 --> 23:27.840 There are all kinds of assumptions that go into age-dating rocks and so on. 23:28.140 --> 23:30.640 And ultimately, they're making a guess about the age based on certain 23:30.640 --> 23:31.060 assumptions. 23:31.500 --> 23:34.840 But people get intimidated, and they think, but, you know, that most of the 23:34.840 --> 23:36.320 scientists believe in the millions of years. 23:37.080 --> 23:38.620 Well, they have to if they're going to believe in evolution. 23:38.740 --> 23:43.860 You need that, because even they would recognize that evolution is ridiculous on 23:43.860 --> 23:46.060 a thousands of years time scale. 23:47.440 --> 23:51.360 So they get intimidated, and we want to try to fit the millions of years into the 23:51.360 --> 23:54.400 Bible then, so that we can believe both, right? 23:55.620 --> 23:57.040 Well, where are you going to fit the millions of years? 23:57.560 --> 24:00.320 If you're convinced that the world's millions of years old or billions of years 24:00.320 --> 24:01.520 old, where are you going to fit the millions of years? 24:01.560 --> 24:05.360 You can't put it in between Adam and Christ, because that would destroy those 24:05.360 --> 24:06.620 genealogies, right? 24:07.520 --> 24:09.880 And some people say, well, maybe there's a, you know, few gaps in there. 24:09.960 --> 24:13.260 By the way, there's no evidence for that in the Old Testament anyway, for gaps in 24:13.260 --> 24:13.760 the genealogies. 24:13.800 --> 24:16.060 But even if there were, it wouldn't be millions of years. 24:16.120 --> 24:17.240 That doesn't make any sense. 24:18.880 --> 24:22.000 So people try to put the millions of years in the creation week, because that's the 24:22.000 --> 24:23.400 only place they can think to do it. 24:23.960 --> 24:27.000 And there's a few different ways they try to fit the millions of years into creation 24:27.000 --> 24:27.200 week. 24:27.280 --> 24:29.640 Some people have said, well, maybe the millions of years happens before the 24:29.640 --> 24:29.940 beginning. 24:31.020 --> 24:33.720 And that's pretty easy to refute, because if the millions of years happened 24:33.720 --> 24:37.720 before the beginning, then the beginning wouldn't be the beginning, right? 24:37.800 --> 24:38.960 It would be the much later. 24:39.720 --> 24:41.060 And that's not what the Bible teaches. 24:41.200 --> 24:43.620 The Bible teaches it's in the beginning that God created the heaven and the earth. 24:44.580 --> 24:47.020 And they say, well, maybe the millions of years happens before Genesis 1, 24:47.060 --> 24:49.320 1 and 1, or between Genesis 1, 1 and 1, 2. 24:49.420 --> 24:50.420 They get so-called gap theory. 24:50.460 --> 24:51.220 We'll come back to that. 24:51.700 --> 24:55.180 One of the most common is the idea that, well, maybe the days weren't really days 24:55.180 --> 24:55.440 at all. 24:55.500 --> 24:57.300 Maybe they were actually hundreds of millions of years. 24:57.400 --> 25:03.180 Maybe God meant to say in six ages He made the heavens and the earth, but for some 25:03.180 --> 25:05.700 reason He used the word day and hoped we'd figure it out. 25:07.100 --> 25:10.100 Well, I'm sorry, but the Bible just doesn't teach that. 25:10.220 --> 25:13.180 The Bible says six days, and it uses the regular Hebrew word for day. 25:13.780 --> 25:16.520 But some people said, oh, but maybe, you know, days are maybe different to God, 25:16.560 --> 25:16.740 right? 25:16.780 --> 25:20.180 Because the Bible says in 2 Peter 3, 8 that one day is what the Lord is a 25:20.180 --> 25:20.760 thousand years. 25:20.980 --> 25:22.680 So maybe those days were really long, right? 25:23.360 --> 25:26.180 I think it's funny, though, that they only quote the first part of the verse. 25:27.600 --> 25:28.840 What does the rest of the verse say? 25:28.920 --> 25:31.640 One day is what the Lord is a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day. 25:31.780 --> 25:32.900 Cancels that right out, you see. 25:33.520 --> 25:37.000 I find people only take the first part of the verse out of context to try and make 25:37.000 --> 25:38.220 biblical time longer. 25:38.360 --> 25:41.620 They never take the second part out of context to try and make biblical time 25:41.620 --> 25:42.800 shorter, right? 25:43.660 --> 25:46.440 Ever heard anybody say, well, the Bible indicates about 2,000 years between 25:46.440 --> 25:49.480 Abraham and Christ, but a thousand years is a day. 25:49.540 --> 25:50.540 It's really only 48 hours. 25:51.640 --> 25:52.700 Nobody argues that. 25:54.040 --> 25:57.240 It's not a conversion formula to convert from God's time to man's time. 25:57.300 --> 25:59.580 By the way, God is beyond time, and that really is the meaning of this 25:59.580 --> 25:59.840 verse. 25:59.900 --> 26:03.500 When you read it in context, it's explaining God's patience, why He's 26:03.500 --> 26:07.060 delaying judgment, at least delaying it from a human perspective, so that many, 26:07.180 --> 26:08.040 many people can be saved. 26:08.080 --> 26:10.020 All the people that God wants to save will be saved. 26:10.580 --> 26:13.760 He's delaying judgment, and He's able to do that because He's beyond time. 26:14.120 --> 26:15.680 He's patient because He's beyond time. 26:15.740 --> 26:18.740 God created time, and so He does understand how it works. 26:19.640 --> 26:21.120 He understands how to keep time. 26:22.100 --> 26:23.040 God doesn't need a clock. 26:23.120 --> 26:23.800 We need clocks. 26:24.600 --> 26:25.600 And so God made... 26:25.600 --> 26:28.460 that's one of the purposes of the universe is to keep time, to be for signs, 26:28.560 --> 26:29.420 seasons, days, and years. 26:29.420 --> 26:30.620 God does understand time. 26:30.740 --> 26:34.200 This is not giving you permission to take the word day everywhere you see it in 26:34.200 --> 26:35.580 Scripture and make it a thousand years. 26:36.340 --> 26:39.320 And by the way, that would make the earth 12,000 years old instead of 6,000. 26:39.380 --> 26:42.500 It wouldn't get you anywhere close to the millions of years that people think they 26:42.500 --> 26:44.340 need to add to Scripture. 26:45.900 --> 26:51.320 The Hebrew word for day is yom, and it's used over 2,000 times in the Old 26:51.320 --> 26:53.420 Testament of the Bible in singular and plural form. 26:54.040 --> 26:55.260 The plural form is yamim. 26:55.640 --> 26:59.860 And I find the only place people question what does day mean is in Genesis. 27:01.020 --> 27:01.720 Isn't that true? 27:01.960 --> 27:05.840 For some reason, people don't seem to have a problem understanding what day means in 27:05.840 --> 27:07.500 other books of the Bible, right? 27:08.140 --> 27:12.220 Have you ever had any discussions on, now, how long was Jonah really in the 27:12.220 --> 27:13.660 belly of the great fish? 27:13.840 --> 27:14.980 Oh, I think those were ordinary days. 27:15.040 --> 27:16.420 Oh, I think those might have been thousands of years. 27:16.500 --> 27:17.980 He might have been in there a very long time, right? 27:19.080 --> 27:21.000 You just don't have those kinds of discussions. 27:21.360 --> 27:21.900 Of course not. 27:21.920 --> 27:22.920 No wonder he repented, right? 27:22.920 --> 27:23.980 He was in there 3,000 years. 27:24.660 --> 27:27.680 How long did Joshua really take to march around the walls of Jericho? 27:27.920 --> 27:29.100 Oh, I think those were ordinary days. 27:29.180 --> 27:31.240 Oh, I think they might have been thousands of years each, right? 27:31.640 --> 27:33.460 He might have been marching for a long time. 27:34.900 --> 27:35.860 No, of course not. 27:35.920 --> 27:37.260 We understand what a day is. 27:37.800 --> 27:38.420 So does God. 27:38.520 --> 27:41.820 So do the men that God used to write His Word. 27:42.660 --> 27:46.240 And people say, oh, but Dr. Lyle, the Hebrew word for day can mean a period 27:46.240 --> 27:47.820 of time longer than 24 hours. 27:48.460 --> 27:51.340 Well, yes, when it's used poetically, yes, it can. 27:51.380 --> 27:54.660 But the main meaning of day is day, surprisingly. 27:55.380 --> 27:57.240 That's the main definition of yom. 27:57.280 --> 27:58.640 When it's used literally, it's a day. 27:59.140 --> 28:00.180 It can be used poetically. 28:00.300 --> 28:01.680 So can the English word for day. 28:02.160 --> 28:03.820 You might say, back in my father's day. 28:04.240 --> 28:06.180 That's a non-literal use of the word day. 28:06.320 --> 28:08.900 You do mean a period of time longer than 24 hours. 28:09.040 --> 28:09.600 I get that. 28:10.760 --> 28:13.640 But that doesn't mean day always means a long period of time, right? 28:13.900 --> 28:17.160 Back in my father's day, it took three days to drive across Texas during the day. 28:17.860 --> 28:19.880 So you got the word day used three times. 28:20.040 --> 28:23.120 And I'll bet you didn't have any trouble understanding it because you used context. 28:23.320 --> 28:25.540 You used the surrounding words to constrain the meaning. 28:25.700 --> 28:28.960 So back in my father's day, yeah, okay, that's a non-literal use. 28:29.060 --> 28:30.760 That would be a longer period of time. 28:30.980 --> 28:31.960 It took three days. 28:32.040 --> 28:34.160 One of those would be ordinary days because it's got a number with it. 28:34.220 --> 28:34.900 Three days. 28:35.340 --> 28:36.580 Wouldn't be three long periods of time. 28:36.680 --> 28:39.000 You wouldn't use the word in that sense. 28:39.060 --> 28:41.820 To drive across Texas during the day, that would be the light portion of an 28:41.820 --> 28:42.440 ordinary day. 28:43.940 --> 28:45.360 So that's how we understand. 28:45.540 --> 28:47.080 Most words have more than one meaning. 28:47.700 --> 28:53.560 And you use context to figure out which meaning is relevant in the given sentence, 28:53.740 --> 28:55.080 in the given paragraphs, and so on. 28:55.300 --> 28:56.300 It's the same way with Hebrew. 28:56.440 --> 28:57.580 It's the same way with any language. 28:58.900 --> 29:01.060 Words, the surrounding words, constrain the meaning. 29:01.620 --> 29:05.340 And so let's take a look at the Hebrew word for day, yom. 29:05.700 --> 29:09.500 Outside of Genesis 1, where we all agree what it means, we find, for example, 29:10.020 --> 29:13.100 that when day is used in context with a number, as in an ordered list, 29:13.100 --> 29:15.100 the first day, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, 29:15.100 --> 29:18.060 it always means an ordinary day. 29:18.140 --> 29:19.340 It's always translated that way. 29:20.160 --> 29:23.480 Of course, if I said, he went up to his city on the third day, you'd understand 29:23.480 --> 29:24.720 I'm talking about an ordinary day. 29:24.740 --> 29:25.680 It's got a number with it. 29:26.000 --> 29:27.360 Of course, that's an ordinary day. 29:27.400 --> 29:31.820 And people don't bother to argue it outside of Genesis 1 in all the historical 29:31.820 --> 29:33.040 narrative sections of Scripture. 29:33.880 --> 29:34.600 Evening and morning. 29:35.860 --> 29:38.680 Even if the word day isn't there, what's an evening plus a morning? 29:39.320 --> 29:39.880 It's a day. 29:39.960 --> 29:41.180 Those are the boundaries of a day. 29:41.600 --> 29:44.680 And so, if I said there was evening and morning, you'd know I'm talking about an 29:44.680 --> 29:45.220 ordinary day. 29:45.280 --> 29:47.400 That happens 38 times outside of Genesis 1. 29:47.460 --> 29:48.900 We all agree that's an ordinary day. 29:49.620 --> 29:52.660 If I said there was evening that day, you'd understand I'm talking about an 29:52.660 --> 29:53.220 ordinary day. 29:53.320 --> 29:54.160 Evening with day. 29:54.620 --> 29:55.760 Or morning with day. 29:55.820 --> 29:57.640 You'd understand I'm talking about an ordinary day. 29:57.740 --> 29:58.360 Morning with day. 29:59.020 --> 30:00.920 23 times each outside Genesis 1. 30:00.960 --> 30:02.380 We all agree that's an ordinary day. 30:03.140 --> 30:06.960 If I contrasted day and night, if I said there was day, then there was 30:06.960 --> 30:07.160 night. 30:07.220 --> 30:10.140 You'd know I'm We're talking about an ordinary day, an ordinary night. 30:10.740 --> 30:12.120 They constrain each other. 30:12.600 --> 30:17.000 So these are contextual clues that tell us that we're dealing with ordinary days and 30:17.000 --> 30:19.660 not the poetic figure of speech. 30:20.600 --> 30:24.080 So day with a number, evening and morning together, evening with day or morning with 30:24.080 --> 30:25.480 day, or day contrasted with night. 30:25.800 --> 30:29.180 So let's apply these contextual clues to Genesis 1 and see if we can figure out 30:29.180 --> 30:31.200 what God meant when He said He created in six days. 30:31.340 --> 30:34.400 Genesis 1, verse 5, and God called the light day. 30:34.500 --> 30:35.640 So there He's defining it for you. 30:35.680 --> 30:38.760 Day is when it's light out, that would be an ordinary day, right? 30:38.820 --> 30:39.540 He's defined it. 30:39.900 --> 30:43.300 And the darkness He called night, so you have night contrasted with day, 30:43.340 --> 30:44.720 that's got to be an ordinary day. 30:45.060 --> 30:48.220 And the evening, you've got evening associated with day, that's got to be an 30:48.220 --> 30:48.860 ordinary day. 30:49.160 --> 30:52.360 You've got morning associated with day, that's got to be an ordinary day. 30:52.700 --> 30:55.520 You've got evening and morning together, that constitutes an ordinary day. 30:55.540 --> 30:57.700 And you've got a number with it, got to be an ordinary day. 30:58.960 --> 31:00.460 That's pretty clear, isn't it? 31:01.240 --> 31:05.340 God used about every contextual indicator He could possibly have used to indicate 31:05.340 --> 31:08.260 that those were ordinary days, at least that first day. 31:08.480 --> 31:09.800 What about the other days of creation? 31:10.780 --> 31:12.340 Let's see if we can figure out what God meant here. 31:13.600 --> 31:14.760 Evening, morning, number, day. 31:14.860 --> 31:15.980 Evening, morning, number, day. 31:16.080 --> 31:17.120 Evening, morning, number, day. 31:17.200 --> 31:18.200 Evening, morning, number, day. 31:18.320 --> 31:19.400 Evening, morning, number, day. 31:20.540 --> 31:21.740 That's pretty clear, isn't it? 31:21.760 --> 31:23.460 It's kind of like God saying, see, they're ordinary days. 31:23.540 --> 31:25.140 In case you still don't get it, they're ordinary days. 31:25.220 --> 31:26.580 In case you're a little thick, they're ordinary days. 31:26.660 --> 31:28.760 In case you're really intellectually challenged, they're ordinary days. 31:30.600 --> 31:31.400 It's pretty clear. 31:31.400 --> 31:34.440 People say, oh, but the sun wasn't made until the fourth day, and that's true, 31:34.540 --> 31:35.440 but it's also irrelevant. 31:35.980 --> 31:39.000 It's primarily the rotation of the earth that controls the length of the day. 31:39.060 --> 31:40.240 The sun doesn't have much to do with it. 31:40.280 --> 31:41.920 The sun just provides a source of light. 31:42.300 --> 31:45.540 As long as you have a source of light and a rotating planet, you're going to have 31:45.540 --> 31:46.400 ordinary day and night. 31:47.280 --> 31:49.200 Did we have a source of light for the first three days? 31:50.020 --> 31:52.820 And God said, let there be light, and there was light. 31:52.900 --> 31:55.020 Yeah, we had a source of light, and God divided the light from the 31:55.020 --> 31:55.320 darkness. 31:57.120 --> 31:59.000 God called the light day, the darkness He called night. 31:59.000 --> 32:00.840 Of course we had... did you have a rotating planet? 32:00.960 --> 32:02.380 Yeah, we had evening and morning the first day. 32:03.000 --> 32:03.560 Of course. 32:04.380 --> 32:05.560 So there's no problem there. 32:08.930 --> 32:14.710 You know, all the other units of time have a basis in astronomy, but not a week. 32:15.570 --> 32:16.890 Where do we get the idea of a week? 32:18.150 --> 32:18.870 Seven days. 32:18.930 --> 32:19.930 Where does that idea come from? 32:20.710 --> 32:22.730 A day is a rotation of earth on its axis. 32:23.450 --> 32:26.150 A month is the amount of time it takes the moon to go through its phases. 32:26.150 --> 32:27.570 That's where we get the word month. 32:27.670 --> 32:28.310 It is a month. 32:29.310 --> 32:31.870 And of course, a year is the amount of time it takes the earth to go around the 32:31.870 --> 32:32.050 sun. 32:32.190 --> 32:33.770 Where do we get the idea of seven days in a week? 32:34.090 --> 32:35.970 That's how long it took for God to create and rest. 32:37.410 --> 32:39.510 And He tells us that explicitly in Exodus 20. 32:39.670 --> 32:41.390 You know Exodus 20, that's the Ten Commandments. 32:41.470 --> 32:43.810 We like to memorize that chapter or sections of it. 32:44.590 --> 32:46.310 Verse 8, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 32:46.390 --> 32:47.850 Then He gives the explanation. 32:48.030 --> 32:50.310 In six days you'll do all your labor, the seventh is the Lord's, etc., 32:50.310 --> 32:50.530 etc. 32:51.290 --> 32:56.110 Verse 11 is the explanation for why we have a seven-day week. 32:57.010 --> 32:58.710 Why do you work six days and rest one? 32:58.750 --> 32:59.690 Because that's what God did. 32:59.970 --> 33:02.550 God worked six days and He rested one. 33:02.850 --> 33:05.850 And by the way, He uses the same word for day there in the plural form, yamim, 33:05.910 --> 33:07.170 which is only literal. 33:07.310 --> 33:09.750 It's never used in a long time sense. 33:10.570 --> 33:13.870 So my point is, if God really had created over millions of years, you would have an 33:13.870 --> 33:14.770 awfully long work week. 33:15.710 --> 33:17.330 You'd never make it to the weekend, literally. 33:18.190 --> 33:21.430 Back in Martin Luther's time, there were some people who were trying to squeeze the 33:21.430 --> 33:25.410 days of creation into one day for various philosophical reasons. 33:25.490 --> 33:28.090 They thought God made in an instant, or in one day anyway. 33:28.610 --> 33:30.490 And I want to show you how Martin Luther responds to this. 33:30.550 --> 33:31.330 I think it's a great quote. 33:31.430 --> 33:33.290 He says, how long did the work of creation take? 33:34.070 --> 33:37.010 When Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six 33:37.010 --> 33:39.990 days, then let this period continue to have been six days and do not venture to 33:39.990 --> 33:42.130 devise any comment according to which six days were one day. 33:43.030 --> 33:43.950 I love this last part. 33:44.010 --> 33:47.250 He says, but if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, 33:47.430 --> 33:50.070 then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are. 33:52.470 --> 33:53.350 He's spot on. 33:53.830 --> 33:57.050 If you don't understand how God could have created in six days, that's okay. 33:57.510 --> 33:58.470 He's smarter than you are. 33:58.810 --> 33:59.510 It's not a problem. 34:00.630 --> 34:01.490 What about a gap? 34:01.710 --> 34:04.490 People have said, well, yeah, there's no doubt the days are ordinary days, 34:04.790 --> 34:08.070 but maybe we can stick millions of years in between two of them, right? 34:08.110 --> 34:11.310 And so in the beginning God created heaven and the earth, and then there's a gap of 34:11.310 --> 34:11.870 millions of years. 34:12.030 --> 34:16.290 Maybe that's when Lucifer fell, maybe there was a Lucifer's flood and all 34:16.290 --> 34:17.930 kinds of things, and the world became ruined. 34:18.110 --> 34:20.790 And they'd like to translate verse 2, and the earth became without form and 34:20.790 --> 34:21.050 void. 34:22.050 --> 34:24.030 You really can't translate it that way in that context. 34:24.430 --> 34:28.530 But you actually can't put a gap of time in between verse 1 and verse 2 based on 34:28.530 --> 34:29.530 the way it's worded in Hebrew. 34:29.630 --> 34:32.550 This is Genesis 1 in Hebrew, and Hebrew reads right to left. 34:33.290 --> 34:37.270 So now verse 2 uses a grammatical construction in Hebrew called evolved 34:37.270 --> 34:42.730 disjunctive, and that's where you have and followed by a non-verb like the earth. 34:42.810 --> 34:45.130 The earth is a non-verb because it's a noun, right? 34:45.530 --> 34:48.670 So when you have and the earth, that means you have evolved disjunctive. 34:49.230 --> 34:50.470 And what's evolved disjunctive? 34:50.590 --> 34:53.390 Well, basically, it's kind of like what we'd use parentheses for in English. 34:53.710 --> 34:58.670 It indicates that that is a clarification or explanation of what came before it. 34:59.990 --> 35:04.170 And so you can't put a gap of time between verse 1 and verse 2 because verse 2 is not 35:04.170 --> 35:05.290 intended to follow in time. 35:05.410 --> 35:07.590 Verse 2 is an explanation of verse 1. 35:08.270 --> 35:11.450 So in the beginning God created heaven and the earth, parentheses, and the earth was 35:11.450 --> 35:12.510 without form and void, etc. 35:12.890 --> 35:18.030 Verse 2 is describing the conditions that existed when God first created the heavens 35:18.030 --> 35:23.390 and the earth, and it's explaining that the earth was empty and formless because 35:23.390 --> 35:26.370 God had not yet shaped it and filled it. 35:26.710 --> 35:27.670 It makes perfect sense. 35:28.050 --> 35:31.330 Now the rest of Genesis is evolved consecutive where you have and followed by 35:31.330 --> 35:33.890 a verb, and said God, in the original Hebrew word order. 35:34.530 --> 35:35.650 And that does follow in time. 35:35.710 --> 35:39.790 But my point is people want to put the millions of years into a place where it's 35:39.790 --> 35:40.790 grammatically impossible. 35:41.470 --> 35:42.450 You can't do that. 35:43.190 --> 35:47.190 And really there's no basis for that because Exodus 20 says in six days the 35:47.190 --> 35:49.070 Lord made the heaven, the earth, the sea and all that's in them. 35:49.170 --> 35:50.890 So that means in the span of six days. 35:51.810 --> 35:54.510 Now there's a lot of science that goes along with this, and if you were able to 35:54.510 --> 35:56.230 attend the conference we covered a lot of these. 35:56.630 --> 35:59.750 I'll just mention one briefly, the fact that we find carbon-14 in just 35:59.750 --> 36:01.030 about everything that has carbon in it. 36:01.430 --> 36:04.950 Even things that evolutionists believe to be billions of years old have C-14 in 36:04.950 --> 36:08.890 them, and that's significant because C-14 has a half-life of 5,700 years. 36:09.210 --> 36:10.790 It cannot last millions of years. 36:11.590 --> 36:12.750 And yet we find it in diamonds. 36:13.790 --> 36:15.190 They say, well there's some kind of contamination. 36:15.390 --> 36:17.050 Somehow new C-14 got in there. 36:17.330 --> 36:17.670 But how? 36:17.730 --> 36:18.210 It's a diamond. 36:18.310 --> 36:19.170 It's the hardest substance. 36:19.750 --> 36:21.190 You can't get new C-14 in there. 36:21.230 --> 36:21.790 It's unrealistic. 36:22.350 --> 36:24.670 It must have been in there when it formed, and they must have formed recently. 36:24.970 --> 36:26.050 Lots of stuff like that. 36:26.970 --> 36:30.670 Fossils, when you use carbon dating, and yes you can use carbon dating 36:30.670 --> 36:34.310 sometimes on fossils if they have enough carbon in them, if they haven't fully 36:34.310 --> 36:35.150 permineralized. 36:35.150 --> 36:40.730 But every one we've tested has C-14 in it, which means they're not millions of years 36:40.730 --> 36:41.010 old. 36:41.710 --> 36:42.270 They're not. 36:42.310 --> 36:43.350 There's lots of stuff like that. 36:44.470 --> 36:46.530 But my question is, does it matter? 36:46.610 --> 36:50.370 Because historically what happened is the secular scientists came along and said, 36:50.470 --> 36:51.250 the Bible's not true. 36:51.410 --> 36:56.550 We know these rock layers are millions of years old, and you've got to trust me. 36:57.250 --> 37:01.390 And a lot of the theologians, not all of them, but a lot of them thought, 37:01.390 --> 37:02.630 well, maybe we can allow for that. 37:03.590 --> 37:06.710 I mean, these are smart people, and we don't want this to be a stumbling 37:06.710 --> 37:07.550 block to salvation. 37:07.670 --> 37:08.410 I think they're well-meaning. 37:09.350 --> 37:12.770 But they thought, well, maybe we can allow reinterpretations of God's Word to 37:12.770 --> 37:16.230 accommodate what these secularists believe. 37:17.150 --> 37:19.370 And that's a problem. 37:21.230 --> 37:22.930 People say, is it really important? 37:22.950 --> 37:23.990 Is it a salvation issue? 37:24.110 --> 37:28.210 Is the recent creation timescale really a salvation issue? 37:28.330 --> 37:32.130 Not in the sense that you are required to believe in six days to be saved. 37:32.230 --> 37:32.790 I know that. 37:33.210 --> 37:36.530 The Bible tells us we're saved by grace received through faith in Christ, 37:36.730 --> 37:37.810 and we don't want to add to that. 37:38.590 --> 37:42.830 God fortunately doesn't require us to have perfect theology to be saved, because then 37:42.830 --> 37:43.990 we'd all fall short, wouldn't we? 37:44.490 --> 37:48.230 But nonetheless, out of gratitude for our salvation, we ought to get our theology as 37:48.230 --> 37:49.190 correct as possible. 37:49.450 --> 37:50.870 We ought to submit to God's Word. 37:51.370 --> 37:56.470 And so I would argue that it's maybe not a salvation issue in the sense of essential 37:56.470 --> 37:58.310 for salvation, but it is an important issue. 37:58.850 --> 38:00.230 The age of the earth is an important issue. 38:00.290 --> 38:00.970 It's kind of like gravity. 38:01.070 --> 38:03.830 Gravity is not a salvation issue, but it's an important issue. 38:03.850 --> 38:04.490 Would you not agree? 38:05.250 --> 38:05.450 Right? 38:05.490 --> 38:07.750 You can not believe in gravity and you'll still go to heaven. 38:08.190 --> 38:09.970 You'll probably get there a lot quicker that way, right? 38:10.350 --> 38:13.470 It's not a salvation issue, but it's an important issue. 38:13.510 --> 38:14.610 And it's the same way with the age of the earth. 38:14.670 --> 38:17.550 It's important for two reasons that I'm going to give you today, and perhaps many 38:17.550 --> 38:17.830 more. 38:18.310 --> 38:20.370 First of all, it matters, because it's what the Bible teaches. 38:20.810 --> 38:23.510 Yes, the Bible does teach that God created in six days. 38:23.930 --> 38:27.350 And it does give us the ages of the patriarchs, such that you can add it up 38:27.350 --> 38:28.370 and you find a few thousand years. 38:28.430 --> 38:31.210 Maybe you can't get an exact date, but it's not going to be millions of 38:31.210 --> 38:31.510 years. 38:32.410 --> 38:33.330 The Bible tells us that. 38:33.390 --> 38:37.530 In fact, the section of the Bible that says, in six days God created, 38:37.610 --> 38:38.830 that's part of the Ten Commandments. 38:38.910 --> 38:40.730 That was written by the finger of God in stone. 38:41.690 --> 38:43.430 I think that's interesting and significant. 38:43.570 --> 38:46.030 Most of the places, God used men to write His Word. 38:46.090 --> 38:47.150 It's inspired by God. 38:47.330 --> 38:47.830 It's all true. 38:48.230 --> 38:49.370 Everything the Bible affirms. 38:49.710 --> 38:52.770 I think it's interesting the place that people most want to compromise is the 38:52.770 --> 38:54.630 place where God didn't even use a human agent. 38:54.750 --> 38:57.210 He wrote it with His own finger in stone. 38:58.250 --> 38:59.310 And that's where you want to compromise. 39:00.850 --> 39:04.650 See, the same Bible that teaches that God created in six days also teaches a virgin 39:04.650 --> 39:07.810 birth of Christ, that Jesus walked on water, turned water into wine, 39:07.930 --> 39:09.930 calmed the storm, raised the dead, raised Himself from the dead. 39:10.210 --> 39:12.190 Doesn't the same Bible teach all of those things? 39:13.030 --> 39:15.910 And if you say, yes, but I don't think I'm going to believe in the six days, 39:16.290 --> 39:18.810 because most scientists say that's not possible. 39:19.130 --> 39:21.670 I think that's just... I'm going to reinterpret that section of the Bible. 39:21.770 --> 39:22.470 Well, I've got news for you. 39:22.510 --> 39:25.170 Most scientists would say virgin birth in human beings, not possible. 39:25.250 --> 39:26.450 Turning water into wine, not possible. 39:26.530 --> 39:27.710 Walking on water, not possible. 39:28.330 --> 39:29.670 Resurrection from the dead, not possible. 39:30.430 --> 39:34.370 You'd have to reinterpret those sections, too, to be consistent, right? 39:35.010 --> 39:38.150 Are you going to allow people who don't believe in God's Word to tell you how you 39:38.150 --> 39:39.290 ought to interpret God's Word? 39:39.370 --> 39:40.090 That's the question. 39:40.450 --> 39:42.750 Now, some people have said, oh, but wait a minute, Dr. Lyle, that list on 39:42.750 --> 39:43.810 the right, those are miracles. 39:44.450 --> 39:49.170 And so, you know, we don't have to apply the standards of science to those. 39:49.470 --> 39:51.350 But I'm thinking, wasn't the creation of the universe a miracle? 39:52.630 --> 39:55.150 If not, I'd like to see you do it, right? 39:56.670 --> 39:57.410 Of course not. 39:57.490 --> 40:02.050 We need to trust what God has said in His Word, even if it's contrary to our way of 40:02.050 --> 40:03.830 thinking, because our way of thinking can be wrong. 40:04.250 --> 40:05.050 God cannot be. 40:06.030 --> 40:08.630 There's another reason why you don't want to add the millions of years in, 40:08.690 --> 40:11.730 and that concerns these fossils that we find all over the earth. 40:13.210 --> 40:13.850 And it's... 40:13.850 --> 40:15.970 again, they don't come with labels telling you how old they are. 40:16.090 --> 40:19.490 The labels... maybe you've seen fossils with labels in museums and the like, 40:19.510 --> 40:20.570 but those are attached later. 40:20.570 --> 40:21.550 They didn't come that way. 40:21.850 --> 40:24.810 And they were attached by people who did not see the fossil form and therefore do 40:24.810 --> 40:27.530 not know when the fossil formed, at least not on their own authority. 40:28.150 --> 40:31.950 But people impose those ages on the fossils, and that leads to some 40:31.950 --> 40:32.950 theological problems. 40:33.650 --> 40:35.850 Because a fossil is a dead thing, right? 40:35.950 --> 40:38.730 You've got dead organisms trapped in rock layers. 40:39.310 --> 40:43.730 And if you have death, and you think that fossil is hundreds of millions of years 40:43.730 --> 40:48.290 old, that means you got death before Adam sinned. 40:48.290 --> 40:51.070 Because we all agree human beings don't go back hundreds of millions of years. 40:51.190 --> 40:53.950 Even the evolutionists can see that human beings are recent, right? 40:54.830 --> 40:58.150 But doesn't the Bible say that death came into the world as a result of Adam's sin? 40:58.250 --> 41:00.070 Isn't death indeed the penalty for sin? 41:00.970 --> 41:04.070 When Adam sinned, it brought death into the world, and because Adam was given 41:04.070 --> 41:08.250 charge over the world, death even spread to the organisms that were under Adam's 41:08.250 --> 41:10.510 control, under his dominion. 41:11.770 --> 41:16.070 But see, if the fossils are millions of years old, that means it's not by man that 41:16.070 --> 41:17.550 came death, it's by death came man. 41:18.690 --> 41:21.830 Those are logically contrary positions, you can't have it both ways. 41:22.350 --> 41:23.930 Is death the penalty for sin? 41:24.410 --> 41:27.470 Or is it something that was already in the world for millions of years? 41:28.150 --> 41:29.070 That's what I want to know. 41:29.970 --> 41:35.130 So you have the Garden of Eden, Eve saying God's creation is perfect, 41:35.250 --> 41:37.250 Adam saying God said it's very good, and he's right. 41:38.090 --> 41:38.850 Something like that. 41:39.810 --> 41:43.210 And by the way, it wasn't just the Garden of Eden, God saw everything he had made, 41:43.270 --> 41:45.330 and behold, it was very good, the Bible says. 41:46.370 --> 41:49.550 Now, if you believe in millions of years, if you believe the fossils are millions of 41:49.550 --> 41:55.250 years old, then that means the world had been suffering with death, disease, 41:55.530 --> 41:59.390 bloodshed, and so on for millions of years until God finally got around to finishing 41:59.390 --> 42:02.250 creating Adam and Eve and then called it very good, in which case you've got the 42:02.250 --> 42:04.730 Garden of Eden sitting on top of millions of years worth of death, suffering, 42:04.830 --> 42:06.050 disease, bloodshed, and so on. 42:06.730 --> 42:08.070 And God calling it very good? 42:08.970 --> 42:10.170 Is disease very good? 42:10.490 --> 42:14.050 Because we find fossils with evidence of disease in them, things like cancer, 42:14.170 --> 42:17.790 arthritis, and so on, in these fossil layers that are deep down. 42:18.250 --> 42:21.330 There's a whole field called paleopathology that studies disease in 42:21.330 --> 42:21.770 fossils. 42:22.650 --> 42:26.470 Now, were those diseases already in the world when God finished his creation and 42:26.470 --> 42:29.850 said, oh, it's very good, in which case cancer and arthritis and so on are very 42:29.850 --> 42:33.330 good, in which case why would you bother praying for your sick friend? 42:34.530 --> 42:40.490 But see, Jesus reversed the curse in his earthly ministry, temporarily at least, 42:40.930 --> 42:41.110 right? 42:41.130 --> 42:44.570 He healed the sick, and of course, he'll permanently reverse the curse at the 42:44.570 --> 42:46.650 second coming where death will be undone. 42:47.030 --> 42:51.030 But my point is, death, suffering, disease, bloodshed, these are things that 42:51.030 --> 42:54.130 are the result of disobedience to God, not obedience to God. 42:55.230 --> 42:56.150 They're not very good. 42:56.370 --> 43:01.170 They were introduced as a punishment for sin, and punishment by its nature is 43:01.170 --> 43:01.590 unpleasant. 43:01.590 --> 43:04.730 It's something that we don't desire, otherwise it wouldn't be punishment. 43:07.710 --> 43:10.590 Now, some people have said, oh, but Dr. Lyle, I think it's just human 43:10.590 --> 43:12.670 death that was introduced at the time of sin. 43:12.710 --> 43:15.250 I think animals had been living and dying for millions of years. 43:16.010 --> 43:18.470 But I don't think you can defend that scripturally, because if you think about 43:18.470 --> 43:24.550 it, when Adam sinned and God confronted Adam and Eve, he then sacrificed an 43:24.550 --> 43:27.250 animal, didn't he, to provide skins of clothing for Adam and Eve. 43:28.050 --> 43:31.050 And those would be animal skins, which means God sacrificed an animal or 43:31.050 --> 43:32.830 animals to provide clothing for Adam and Eve. 43:33.110 --> 43:35.670 And I think that was a symbolic covering for their shame. 43:35.770 --> 43:38.710 Of course, it's literal clothes, but it provided a covering for their 43:38.710 --> 43:39.030 shame. 43:39.450 --> 43:43.490 So God instituted animal death, animal death, when Adam and Eve sinned, 43:43.510 --> 43:44.630 and we see that in Genesis. 43:45.970 --> 43:48.070 And you say, why do animals have to suffer? 43:48.130 --> 43:49.930 Because Adam had dominion over them. 43:49.990 --> 43:51.150 That's the nature of authority. 43:51.670 --> 43:55.370 We've all suffered when our government officials who have authority over us do 43:55.370 --> 43:56.210 something stupid. 43:56.490 --> 43:59.130 We suffer because we're under their authority. 43:59.130 --> 44:00.710 That's the nature of dominion. 44:00.790 --> 44:01.950 That's the nature of authority. 44:03.050 --> 44:04.970 Now, some people have said, oh, but we got you here, Dr. Lyle, 44:05.050 --> 44:08.170 because we know there were death of plants before Adam and Eve sinned, because they 44:08.170 --> 44:09.990 would have been eating plants, or at least plant parts. 44:10.650 --> 44:13.690 And the interesting thing about that is, biblically, plants are not considered 44:13.690 --> 44:15.830 alive, and so they don't literally die. 44:15.890 --> 44:16.490 Isn't that interesting? 44:17.050 --> 44:22.470 The Hebrew word, nefesh, nefesh kai, or nefesh kaya, for living creature, 44:22.750 --> 44:23.990 it's applied to human beings. 44:24.030 --> 44:24.910 It's applied to animals. 44:26.070 --> 44:29.010 It's never referred to as nefesh kai anywhere in Scripture. 44:29.830 --> 44:33.050 They're not alive in the same way that we are, right? 44:33.790 --> 44:35.370 And therefore, they don't literally die. 44:35.570 --> 44:37.290 They're just recycled back into the environment. 44:38.210 --> 44:41.010 Now, we use the term somewhat metaphorically when we talk about, 44:41.270 --> 44:42.530 you know, a dead plant. 44:42.670 --> 44:46.250 Well, even biologists, modern biologists might classify plants as living. 44:46.350 --> 44:48.870 That's fine, but my point is the Bible is using different terminology. 44:49.010 --> 44:51.110 In the biblical terminology, plants are not living. 44:51.610 --> 44:53.570 They are food for living things. 44:53.690 --> 44:57.630 Granted, they're self-replicating food, which is awesome that God has designed the 44:57.630 --> 44:58.430 universe that way. 44:58.630 --> 45:00.670 But they're not alive in the same way that we are. 45:00.690 --> 45:01.510 And you know that, right? 45:01.550 --> 45:02.990 You know that plants are in a different category. 45:02.990 --> 45:06.410 We can talk about a dead plant, but it's different from a dead animal, 45:06.530 --> 45:06.850 isn't it? 45:07.070 --> 45:09.610 You can talk about a dead battery, but it's not really alive. 45:10.290 --> 45:13.830 It was never really alive in the same way that a human being or an animal is. 45:13.850 --> 45:14.290 And you know that. 45:14.330 --> 45:15.830 You come across a so-called dead tree. 45:16.670 --> 45:17.150 Well, that's nice. 45:17.210 --> 45:18.270 I think I'll sit on that for a little while. 45:18.330 --> 45:19.770 Let me take a picture of it, put it over my mantle. 45:19.810 --> 45:20.390 That's nice. 45:20.890 --> 45:22.950 If you come across a dead animal, you say, well, that's nice. 45:23.010 --> 45:24.910 I think I'm going to sit on that for a little while, take a picture of it. 45:25.550 --> 45:26.710 It's different, isn't it? 45:26.790 --> 45:27.030 Yeah. 45:27.830 --> 45:31.710 We recognize the difference between animal death, which is an intrusion into a world 45:31.710 --> 45:35.150 that was once good, and plant death, which is just part of the normal cycle. 45:35.210 --> 45:38.570 There'll be plant death in the eternal state, presumably, is that plant cycle. 45:39.150 --> 45:40.290 So the Bible is very clear. 45:40.370 --> 45:41.910 God made a very good world. 45:42.670 --> 45:45.650 It's not going to be full of death and suffering, even of the animals. 45:45.750 --> 45:49.430 God cares about the animals too, not to the same extent as those creatures 45:49.430 --> 45:50.230 He's made in His image. 45:50.390 --> 45:53.370 But nonetheless, He has a plan for them as well. 45:53.770 --> 45:56.210 It was a very good world, not full of death and suffering. 45:56.410 --> 45:58.890 We ruined it by rebelling against God. 45:58.990 --> 46:02.330 And the world would be made perfect again in the future as a result of Christ's 46:02.330 --> 46:02.630 obedience. 46:02.770 --> 46:06.810 And we can be part of that only by Christ forgiving us of our sins and paying for 46:06.810 --> 46:07.770 our penalty on the cross. 46:08.510 --> 46:11.870 You see, if you believe God created over millions of years of death and suffering, 46:12.330 --> 46:14.030 then death and suffering are God's fault. 46:14.730 --> 46:16.630 And when somebody dies, you can blame God. 46:16.690 --> 46:18.070 And people do, by the way. 46:18.550 --> 46:21.250 People who have an evolutionary worldview, their friend dies, and they say, 46:21.330 --> 46:23.810 some God of love you are, why did you allow this? 46:25.190 --> 46:28.090 And there's a person who doesn't believe in Genesis or doesn't understand it. 46:28.790 --> 46:32.170 Because if you understand Genesis, you realize, wait a minute, death is not 46:32.170 --> 46:32.770 God's fault. 46:33.230 --> 46:34.170 It is our fault. 46:34.750 --> 46:35.850 We sinned against God. 46:35.890 --> 46:37.850 And when that happened, the world became broken. 46:39.550 --> 46:41.130 We live in a fallen world. 46:42.170 --> 46:43.610 It's not very good anymore. 46:43.870 --> 46:45.350 There's still a lot of good in the world. 46:45.590 --> 46:46.470 Don't give me wrong. 46:46.730 --> 46:49.410 God's still... His grace is still present in this world. 46:49.690 --> 46:53.770 But it's not the very good world that it was when it began, because now there's 46:53.770 --> 46:54.930 death and suffering in it. 46:54.950 --> 46:55.610 There's the curse. 46:56.930 --> 46:59.810 And so, if you understand that, and when somebody dies, you need to 46:59.810 --> 47:01.090 remember, it's not God's fault. 47:01.150 --> 47:02.430 It's our fault. 47:04.290 --> 47:10.170 And the only reason that God did not look at all your sin as you were sleeping last 47:10.170 --> 47:15.010 night and justly kill you in your sleep for your rebellion against Him is because 47:15.010 --> 47:15.670 of His grace. 47:16.850 --> 47:20.810 And so, when somebody dies, we need to remember, that's what I deserve, 47:20.850 --> 47:23.930 and I deserve it a million times over because of all my sins against God. 47:23.950 --> 47:25.990 I deserve an eternity of death. 47:26.890 --> 47:30.350 And praise God that even though I'm going to die physically, He's going to resurrect 47:30.350 --> 47:33.870 me, and I'm going to experience eternal life because of what Jesus did for me. 47:33.930 --> 47:34.530 That's awesome. 47:34.930 --> 47:38.130 That's what we should be thinking when a friend dies. 47:38.530 --> 47:42.710 We need to recognize that this is the horrible effect of rebellion against God. 47:42.750 --> 47:43.630 It's not God's fault. 47:43.950 --> 47:44.710 It's our fault. 47:44.810 --> 47:49.170 And the only reason I'm able to take my next breath is because of God's grace. 47:50.250 --> 47:51.870 How many breaths have you taken today? 47:52.530 --> 47:53.350 You don't deserve them. 47:54.070 --> 47:55.790 We live in a very entitled society, right? 47:55.830 --> 47:57.430 And I think that's because of evolutionary thinking. 47:57.870 --> 47:59.070 I deserve free health care. 47:59.130 --> 48:00.150 I deserve free education. 48:00.810 --> 48:03.090 Understand, biblically, what you deserve is death and hell. 48:03.710 --> 48:05.910 Anything you get that's better than that is by God's grace. 48:06.810 --> 48:10.130 And that produces a different kind of attitude of the heart when you recognize 48:10.130 --> 48:10.510 that. 48:11.810 --> 48:14.370 You know, there's another thing, though, that people don't think about 48:14.370 --> 48:18.630 often when considering the age of the earth and things of that nature, 48:18.670 --> 48:20.210 and that's the extent of the flood. 48:20.330 --> 48:23.150 The Bible talks about a worldwide flood, does it not? 48:23.210 --> 48:28.190 In Genesis 6, 7, and 8, the flood where Noah took two of each kind on board the 48:28.190 --> 48:28.910 ark and so on. 48:29.870 --> 48:34.330 And it turns out you can't consistently believe in a worldwide flood in millions 48:34.330 --> 48:38.450 of years because either the fossils were deposited primarily by that worldwide 48:38.450 --> 48:38.630 flood. 48:38.670 --> 48:40.750 A worldwide flood would deposit a lot of fossils. 48:40.870 --> 48:44.830 It's going to kill organisms, bury them in sediment, and I believe that's what is 48:44.830 --> 48:46.350 responsible for the majority of fossils. 48:46.690 --> 48:49.350 A few of them afterwards, but most of them during that worldwide flood. 48:50.050 --> 48:53.090 But if you believe in millions of years, if you believe that fossils were deposited 48:53.090 --> 48:55.930 gradually over millions of years, then there's no room for a worldwide flood 48:55.930 --> 48:58.710 because it would destroy any previous fossil record anyway. 48:59.230 --> 49:03.530 Therefore, those people who believe in millions of years can't consistently 49:03.530 --> 49:04.550 believe in a worldwide flood. 49:04.730 --> 49:08.050 I'm thinking of one teacher in particular who goes around, he's a professing 49:08.050 --> 49:11.730 Christian, but because he believes in the Big Bang and millions of years and so on, 49:11.750 --> 49:16.030 he teaches that Noah's flood was a local event limited to the Mesopotamia Valley. 49:16.950 --> 49:19.590 He just thinks all human beings were living in Mesopotamia at the time. 49:20.150 --> 49:22.170 Well, what does the Bible have to say about this though? 49:22.870 --> 49:25.050 What does the Bible have to say about the extent of the flood? 49:25.110 --> 49:25.690 Well, let's take a look. 49:25.810 --> 49:30.410 Genesis 6, 17, God says, and behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon 49:30.410 --> 49:33.190 the earth to destroy... what, a few things here and there? 49:34.130 --> 49:38.170 No, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from... what, the local 49:38.170 --> 49:38.930 Mesopotamia Valley? 49:39.970 --> 49:42.210 No, from under heaven, that would be under the sky. 49:42.450 --> 49:44.010 That would be pretty much all of the earth, wouldn't it? 49:44.050 --> 49:45.610 It says, and everything that is in the earth shall die. 49:45.650 --> 49:47.170 That sounds like a global flood, doesn't it? 49:47.910 --> 49:48.590 Well, let's read on. 49:48.650 --> 49:52.750 Genesis 7, 19-20, and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the 49:52.750 --> 49:54.630 high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 49:55.930 --> 49:57.510 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail. 49:57.590 --> 49:58.810 The mountains were covered. 49:59.890 --> 50:01.390 Folks, that's a global flood, isn't it? 50:02.430 --> 50:05.670 A flood that covers the high hills, that's going to be a global flood. 50:06.210 --> 50:10.350 All flesh died that moved upon the earth, every creeping thing, every man, 50:10.530 --> 50:13.810 all in whose nostrils was of the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land 50:13.810 --> 50:14.370 died. 50:14.790 --> 50:16.330 Every living substance was destroyed. 50:16.390 --> 50:18.530 God just goes on and on to explain, this is global. 50:18.790 --> 50:20.330 Everything except those that were... 50:20.330 --> 50:22.510 Noah only remained alive and they were with him on the ark. 50:23.070 --> 50:27.610 The Bible is very clear, that was a global flood, one in which all the high hills 50:27.610 --> 50:28.690 were covered. 50:28.890 --> 50:32.470 By the way, you can't have high hills covered by a local flood. 50:32.730 --> 50:34.350 Think about that, what would it look like? 50:34.910 --> 50:37.390 It would look like this, right? 50:38.170 --> 50:39.490 Water seeks its own level. 50:40.250 --> 50:42.310 You can't have a local flood covering the high hills. 50:42.710 --> 50:43.890 And what was the purpose of the rainbow? 50:44.870 --> 50:48.470 God's promise never to send another local flood? 50:49.530 --> 50:52.910 If it was a local flood, then God's broken His promise thousands of times because we 50:52.910 --> 50:57.770 do have local floods, sometimes with a rainbow, reminding us that God brings His 50:57.770 --> 50:58.070 promises? 50:58.890 --> 51:03.590 No, God promised never to send another global flood and He hasn't and He won't 51:03.590 --> 51:05.490 because God keeps His promises. 51:06.050 --> 51:07.070 What was the purpose of the ark? 51:07.590 --> 51:10.810 Why would you build an ark the size of an ocean liner and take two of every 51:10.810 --> 51:15.630 air-breathing land animal, including birds by the way, for a local flood that you 51:15.630 --> 51:16.110 knew was coming? 51:17.230 --> 51:18.250 Why not just move? 51:19.170 --> 51:19.350 Right? 51:19.430 --> 51:20.690 That would be a lot easier, I would think. 51:21.830 --> 51:24.110 I mean, you knew it was coming, had a hundred year warning. 51:26.150 --> 51:28.310 I'm an astronomer, we have to do a little bit of astronomy here. 51:28.370 --> 51:30.070 Here's a picture of the surface of Mars. 51:31.030 --> 51:33.650 And we've actually sent a number of spacecraft to Mars that have gone around 51:33.650 --> 51:35.530 and analyzed the rocks and so on. 51:35.570 --> 51:37.370 It's pretty amazing we can do that sort of thing. 51:37.830 --> 51:41.170 And they've actually, based on the types of rocks that they find here, they 51:41.170 --> 51:43.250 actually believe that some of these are flood plains. 51:43.870 --> 51:44.490 That's interesting. 51:44.630 --> 51:48.530 In fact, a quote from a newspaper here says, a flood of biblical proportions 51:48.530 --> 51:51.710 enough to fill the Mediterranean Sea gushed down from the highlands of Mars a 51:51.710 --> 51:52.670 billion or so years ago. 51:52.970 --> 51:55.070 The latest pictures from the Pathfinder confirmed Monday. 51:55.610 --> 51:59.090 Now, the interesting thing about this is not that there was flooding on Mars, 51:59.130 --> 52:00.870 because I think there is some evidence of that. 52:01.210 --> 52:04.650 But I think it's funny that secular scientists are willing to believe in a 52:04.650 --> 52:09.290 flood of biblical proportions, and yet Mars does not have any water on it 52:09.290 --> 52:09.630 today. 52:10.250 --> 52:11.090 It is dry. 52:11.650 --> 52:13.970 It's got a little bit of water vapor, a little bit of frozen water. 52:14.510 --> 52:18.110 And yet scientists are willing to believe in a flood of biblical proportions on a 52:18.110 --> 52:23.090 planet that has no liquid water, and yet those same secular scientists will 52:23.090 --> 52:26.990 say about the earth, which is currently 71% covered with water, oh, you can't have 52:26.990 --> 52:27.910 a global flood on the earth. 52:28.050 --> 52:28.730 That won't work. 52:29.570 --> 52:32.350 Isn't that interesting and counterintuitive? 52:32.450 --> 52:33.750 But they'll believe in a flood on Mars. 52:34.050 --> 52:36.390 And this is exactly what the Bible predicted would happen. 52:36.470 --> 52:40.590 It says that, knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, 52:40.670 --> 52:43.110 walking according to their own lessons, saying, Where is the promise of his 52:43.110 --> 52:43.410 coming? 52:43.810 --> 52:46.610 For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the 52:46.610 --> 52:47.370 beginning of creation. 52:47.610 --> 52:49.010 That's uniformitarianism. 52:49.410 --> 52:51.270 Everything is today as it was before. 52:51.410 --> 52:52.170 No worldwide flood. 52:52.890 --> 52:55.870 It says, For this they willfully forget that by the word of God the heavens were 52:55.870 --> 52:59.250 of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by which the world 52:59.250 --> 53:01.250 then existed perished, being flooded with water. 53:01.450 --> 53:04.890 So it says they willingly forget, or they're deliberately ignorant of the 53:04.890 --> 53:08.550 fact that the world was flooded by water, and that pre-flood civilization was 53:08.550 --> 53:10.370 destroyed by water. 53:10.670 --> 53:12.070 That's exactly what we're seeing today. 53:12.690 --> 53:19.270 So it's funny, the people who try to critique the Bible and argue against it by 53:19.270 --> 53:22.390 saying there was no worldwide flood prove the Bible is true because the Bible 53:22.390 --> 53:23.450 predicted they would say that. 53:24.190 --> 53:24.850 It's kind of interesting. 53:26.190 --> 53:27.990 I want to sum it up with this cross series. 53:28.170 --> 53:31.010 The church is preaching a message, Come to Jesus, come to the cross and be 53:31.010 --> 53:31.250 saved. 53:31.350 --> 53:32.070 That's the right message. 53:32.190 --> 53:32.990 We want to be preaching that. 53:33.030 --> 53:33.590 That's the gospel. 53:33.910 --> 53:34.570 That's important. 53:34.670 --> 53:35.410 That's what we're all about. 53:36.330 --> 53:39.330 But there's been an attack in the form of, well, millions of years. 53:39.390 --> 53:42.090 That's one of the attacks on God's Word. 53:42.110 --> 53:42.890 And it impacts. 53:43.270 --> 53:46.010 And most of us, you know what we think when we see that millions of years impact, 53:46.090 --> 53:47.070 we say, well, that's a miss. 53:47.230 --> 53:48.010 That didn't hit the cross. 53:48.090 --> 53:48.910 Not a salvation issue. 53:48.990 --> 53:50.350 I don't have to worry about millions of years. 53:51.210 --> 53:54.550 And what we fail to recognize often is that millions of years is an attack on 53:54.550 --> 53:54.830 Genesis. 53:54.850 --> 53:58.590 Because if millions of years is true, then Genesis isn't literal history, 53:58.830 --> 53:58.970 folks. 53:59.130 --> 53:59.750 It can't be. 54:02.130 --> 54:02.770 Satan's crafty. 54:02.830 --> 54:06.670 If he were aiming at the cross and saying there was no resurrection, we understand 54:06.670 --> 54:07.390 that's important. 54:07.450 --> 54:08.370 That's a salvation issue. 54:08.430 --> 54:09.970 You can't be saved apart from the resurrection. 54:10.090 --> 54:10.670 There's no hope. 54:12.950 --> 54:14.150 But Satan's crafty. 54:14.530 --> 54:15.630 He aims at our foundation. 54:15.870 --> 54:17.150 And we think it's just a side issue. 54:17.290 --> 54:18.550 It's a foundational issue. 54:19.470 --> 54:22.330 Is the Bible really true from the very first verse? 54:22.910 --> 54:24.950 Is it really the authoritative Word of God? 54:25.410 --> 54:27.870 If it is the Word of God, it would have to be true from the first verse. 54:27.970 --> 54:28.750 God doesn't lie. 54:29.410 --> 54:30.690 He doesn't deny Himself. 54:32.010 --> 54:35.570 These different attacks came historically, naturalism, evolution, eight millions of 54:35.570 --> 54:37.210 years, no global flood, and they impact. 54:38.730 --> 54:42.870 And we think it's a miss, when it's really a direct hit. 54:43.290 --> 54:44.530 It's a question of authority. 54:44.630 --> 54:46.650 Who are you going to trust, God's Word or man's? 54:47.530 --> 54:49.750 And then these different symptoms happen. 54:50.670 --> 54:52.210 Newsflash, prayers outlawed in schools. 54:53.010 --> 54:57.530 We say, trust in Jesus, which we should do, but we're not necessarily doing what 54:57.530 --> 54:58.370 He's commanded us to do. 54:58.450 --> 55:00.170 Newsflash, creation outlawed in schools. 55:00.270 --> 55:01.730 And we say, well, Jesus is going to return. 55:02.750 --> 55:06.030 Yes, He is, but He's told us to do some things in the meantime, like make 55:06.030 --> 55:09.250 disciples of all nations, like be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks a reason 55:09.250 --> 55:10.010 of the hope that's in you. 55:10.450 --> 55:11.710 The Bible is outlawed in schools. 55:11.850 --> 55:13.490 And we say, well, let's get the Bible back into schools. 55:13.930 --> 55:18.050 And don't get me wrong, I'm all for doing politically what can be done, but my point 55:18.050 --> 55:20.670 is our nation won't be won back politically. 55:21.010 --> 55:23.470 If it's going to be won back at all, it will be by the proclamation of the 55:23.470 --> 55:23.790 gospel. 55:24.390 --> 55:27.990 And that will only make sense to people if they understand that God's Word is true 55:27.990 --> 55:28.590 from the beginning. 55:30.030 --> 55:31.850 Newsflash, Ten Commandments outlawed in schools. 55:32.390 --> 55:34.090 Well, let's concentrate on worship. 55:34.630 --> 55:37.950 And the church can be doing lots of good things, but in our culture what's happened 55:37.950 --> 55:41.650 is the gospel message has become obscured by unbelief because people no longer 55:41.650 --> 55:45.350 believe in the Bible starting with the Genesis, which is the foundation of the 55:45.350 --> 55:45.650 gospel. 55:46.090 --> 55:48.150 That's where we learn that that's the penalty for sin. 55:48.610 --> 55:50.170 That's where we learn that we need a Savior. 55:50.630 --> 55:54.710 That's where we learn that we're born sinners rebelling against God because of 55:54.710 --> 55:57.570 the sin of our parents and their sins and so on. 55:58.210 --> 56:01.890 Well, this problem, this is why I founded the Biblical Science Institute. 56:02.090 --> 56:03.330 We want to come alongside the church. 56:03.430 --> 56:06.410 We want to repair the damage that's been done, show you you can trust in the Bible 56:06.410 --> 56:07.050 from the beginning. 56:07.150 --> 56:08.030 You can trust Genesis. 56:08.910 --> 56:12.330 And when these different attacks come, we want to warn you that these are attacks 56:12.330 --> 56:13.110 on the Christian faith. 56:13.190 --> 56:14.670 They're not just irrelevant side issues. 56:15.610 --> 56:17.490 They're not just matters of science. 56:17.590 --> 56:19.650 There are spiritual issues at play here. 56:20.050 --> 56:22.710 And then we show you how to defend the faith against all those different attacks 56:22.710 --> 56:25.870 with the various resources that we produce at the Biblical Science Institute. 56:26.110 --> 56:27.690 And ultimately, we'd like to be in the background. 56:27.810 --> 56:31.030 We'd like everybody in the church to recognize that these are attacks on the 56:31.030 --> 56:33.850 Christian faith and be able to defend the faith against these issues. 56:33.950 --> 56:35.850 And it's not something you have to go out and get a Ph.D. 56:35.870 --> 56:36.430 to be able to do. 56:36.570 --> 56:39.690 God calls a few of us, very few of us, to go out and get a Ph.D. 56:39.710 --> 56:44.050 and specialize in a particular field and then bring the information back and show 56:44.050 --> 56:46.690 the rest of His people how science confirms the Bible. 56:47.010 --> 56:49.350 But He's called all of us to be ready to give an answer. 56:49.610 --> 56:50.630 Everybody needs to do that. 56:51.050 --> 56:54.030 And then the church can say, come to Jesus, come to the cross and be saved. 56:54.430 --> 56:55.590 And people say, oh, I get it now. 56:55.650 --> 56:55.990 I understand. 56:56.110 --> 56:57.070 It's because of what Adam did. 56:57.750 --> 56:58.810 Adam rebelled against God. 56:58.950 --> 57:00.050 Death is the penalty for sin. 57:00.090 --> 57:01.490 We live in a world that's fallen. 57:02.050 --> 57:02.770 I need a Savior. 57:03.330 --> 57:07.430 I would ruin the new earth the same way Adam ruined the original if I were let 57:07.430 --> 57:09.290 into there in my sinful state. 57:09.330 --> 57:10.010 I need a Savior. 57:10.730 --> 57:12.050 That's what it comes down to, folks. 57:12.110 --> 57:14.770 Now the message of the gospel makes sense. 57:15.510 --> 57:18.690 And to help people make sense of it, we produce a number of resources. 57:18.810 --> 57:20.010 We have some out in the lobby. 57:20.090 --> 57:21.030 I hope you'll check that out. 57:21.650 --> 57:22.910 A number of resources you can get. 57:23.150 --> 57:26.670 The book that best covers what I talked about today is called Understanding 57:26.670 --> 57:27.070 Genesis. 57:27.730 --> 57:30.810 And it's going to show you that, yes, the Bible really does mean what it 57:30.810 --> 57:31.490 says in Genesis. 57:31.670 --> 57:32.590 It really is history. 57:33.190 --> 57:37.370 And I'll deal with some of the arguments that, you know, theistic evolution and 57:37.370 --> 57:39.970 millions of years and things like that are dealt with in that book. 57:40.370 --> 57:42.870 This presentation, you can get it on DVD if you like. 57:43.510 --> 57:46.450 We have a little different title for it, Relevance of Genesis, but it's the same 57:46.450 --> 57:46.910 presentation. 57:48.470 --> 57:50.830 Some other resources, The Ultimate Proof of Creation. 57:50.970 --> 57:54.990 People have said, can I get one bulletproof argument that just refutes 57:54.990 --> 57:55.350 everything? 57:55.550 --> 57:56.150 And this is it. 57:56.570 --> 57:59.950 There is an argument that absolutely is irrefutable that demonstrates biblical 57:59.950 --> 58:00.410 creation. 58:00.530 --> 58:03.710 It's very different from the kind of argument that most people have heard. 58:04.390 --> 58:07.510 This book is going to train you to think and debate the way that Jesus did in his 58:07.510 --> 58:08.190 earthly ministry. 58:08.830 --> 58:11.390 And Jesus was not the sort of person you wanted to debate against. 58:11.750 --> 58:12.890 He was pretty good at it. 58:13.510 --> 58:16.690 And we won't be as good as he is, but we can get pretty close as our 58:16.690 --> 58:17.950 thinking becomes more and more biblical. 58:18.450 --> 58:22.370 We have DVDs on this topic as well, Nuclear Strength Apologetics, showing you 58:22.370 --> 58:24.390 how to give a bulletproof argument for biblical creation. 58:24.450 --> 58:25.410 That's a two-volume set. 58:26.250 --> 58:29.470 Discerning Truth, How to Spot Logical Fallacies and Arguments that Evolutionists 58:29.470 --> 58:29.750 Make. 58:30.430 --> 58:31.390 Stargazer's Guide to the Night Sky. 58:31.490 --> 58:32.990 I'm going to talk about this evening. 58:33.130 --> 58:35.670 If you come back to the session, we're going to see how astronomy reveals 58:37.190 --> 58:38.910 God and the mind of God and so on. 58:39.150 --> 58:42.050 This is really just how to better enjoy the night sky from a Christian 58:42.050 --> 58:42.550 perspective. 58:42.730 --> 58:46.430 If you've ever wanted to know about the constellations and what you can see and 58:46.430 --> 58:49.490 when's the next meteor shower and when's the next eclipse and things like that, 58:49.570 --> 58:51.310 this book will tell you how to do that. 58:51.350 --> 58:53.470 If you want to get a telescope, what kind you might want to get, 58:53.550 --> 58:54.850 how to use it, what you can see in it. 58:55.090 --> 58:59.230 But even stuff you can see in binoculars like Saturn, it'll show you how to find 58:59.230 --> 58:59.490 that. 58:59.910 --> 59:02.630 Taking Back Astronomy, this one's more of the apologetic resource. 59:02.750 --> 59:06.170 This one's going to show you how the universe confirms the Bible and not a Big 59:06.170 --> 59:07.310 Bang or billions of years. 59:07.310 --> 59:11.370 Keeping Faith in an Age of Reason answers 420 alleged Bible contradictions. 59:11.490 --> 59:12.190 That's kind of interesting. 59:12.550 --> 59:15.330 Physics of Einstein, it's exactly what you think it is. 59:15.390 --> 59:20.990 It's a layman's level book on how to better understand things like black holes 59:20.990 --> 59:23.730 and time dilation and things of that nature. 59:23.830 --> 59:26.690 It's really interesting and it's glorifying to God when it's done properly. 59:27.450 --> 59:31.230 Very recently, we've produced a new curriculum called Introduction to Logic, 59:31.430 --> 59:35.470 and it's designed for homeschoolers, but you could use it at a Christian school 59:35.470 --> 59:35.890 as well. 59:36.470 --> 59:38.870 And it shows how logic is rooted in the Christian worldview. 59:39.410 --> 59:41.250 It teaches logic from a Christian perspective. 59:41.330 --> 59:42.430 Very valuable resource. 59:42.570 --> 59:45.270 And there's also a teacher's guide that you can get with it as well, or you can 59:45.270 --> 59:47.710 just get the book separately, whatever you like. 59:47.730 --> 59:48.790 We have a number of DVDs. 59:48.870 --> 59:51.110 Created Cosmos takes you on a tour through the universe. 59:51.230 --> 59:51.830 That's pretty neat. 59:52.530 --> 59:54.270 Creation Science Confirms the Bible is True. 59:54.310 --> 59:56.110 We did that at the conference. 59:56.270 --> 59:59.690 If you weren't able to attend or if you'd like to get the DVD, we have that there. 59:59.690 --> 01:00:05.510 Creation Evangelism, how to use creation to better teach people about the gospel, 01:00:05.630 --> 01:00:06.130 and so on. 01:00:06.350 --> 01:00:09.450 We've even got one on dinosaurs in the Bible, and kids love that one. 01:00:09.650 --> 01:00:12.250 That's a neat way to get them excited about the Bible, because the Bible does 01:00:12.250 --> 01:00:14.950 have some things to say about dinosaurs, interestingly. 01:00:15.430 --> 01:00:17.830 You can get all the DVDs together for a discounted price. 01:00:17.910 --> 01:00:19.490 You can get all the books together for a discounted price. 01:00:19.570 --> 01:00:22.210 You can get all the DVDs and the books for an even better 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can. 01:01:12.930 --> 01:01:15.570 Remember how Jesus divided the fish into loaves? 01:01:15.610 --> 01:01:16.190 It's pretty neat. 01:01:16.350 --> 01:01:18.030 And I've seen that in this ministry. 01:01:18.130 --> 01:01:23.630 We're very small, but God doesn't mind using small ministries and small people to 01:01:23.630 --> 01:01:24.950 do wonderful things. 01:01:25.470 --> 01:01:27.290 So I want to thank you very much for having me out to speak. 01:01:27.370 --> 01:01:28.230 I really appreciate it.