1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,900 How are you doing, man? It's good to be with you guys. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,300 To those of you who are a part of our Crossing inside family 3 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:11,800 and to, those of you who served to make the crossing inside a 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,800 reality. God bless you. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,900 I absolutely love getting to see all of those baptisms and lives 6 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:22,100 changed because a lot of people would give up on them, but not 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,800 our God and not as people. And I want you to know, we are 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,000 in your corner on Easter weekend. 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,800 This year, we started a brand new sermons. 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,500 Series called, if we all have questions and here at the 11 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:38,600 Crossing, we believe that we all deserve answers this sermon 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,400 series. If we're being straightforward, 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,200 is designed to help those who have a faith. 14 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:47,100 Strengthened it to those, who have lost their faith, to help 15 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:51,900 them to find it and to those who want to Faith an opportunity to 16 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:54,400 start it. I don't want to welcome all of 17 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,400 you joining from all of our different locations. 18 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:59,200 Those of your part of our online family, as well, as those of you 19 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,500 who are part of the Crossing inside each week, we are doing 20 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,900 our best to navigate some questions regarding the 21 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,300 foundation of our faith in Jesus Christ. 22 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:11,700 And our goal is that as our faith is strengthened that our 23 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:16,300 love and Devotion to God would be deepened. 24 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,900 Now, while we're going through the sermon series, there might 25 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:21,800 be some of you with this new found knowledge. 26 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:24,700 Trying to go around thumping people with it. 27 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,700 Right? But listen what it says in First 28 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:30,800 Corinthians Paul says this knowledge puffs up. 29 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,500 While love builds up our Newfound knowledge and 30 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:38,700 understanding is not a license for you to go around. 31 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:41,200 Pummeling people with arguments and debate. 32 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:43,200 That's not how we're supposed to operate. 33 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:47,100 It should inform our ability and our approach to loving the 34 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:49,800 people around us but I don't want you going around clubbing 35 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,900 people. Well have you thought of this? 36 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:55,800 Okay that's not because listen as Christians those of you call 37 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,300 the crossing home, okay? Here's the deal. 38 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:02,000 Our goal is not to win arguments although we might win some 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,700 arguments but we're not trying to get into an argument. 40 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:08,699 Absolutely just Pummel somebody for the sake of an argument. 41 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:11,400 Okay, we're trying to do something better than that. 42 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,700 This is what we're trying to do. Our goal is to win people to 43 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:18,300 Jesus. Okay, let me put it this way. 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:24,800 Let me explain it. Have you ever won an argument? 45 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:27,700 Raise your hand, ladies. Married ladies. 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,700 Okay, we get it. All right. 47 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,000 Did it help? I'll give you, we're going to 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,500 try and get some stuff. Handled in. 49 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:45,000 Your marriage is winning the argument the best pathway or 50 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,600 maybe posing some questions and helping them navigate answers. 51 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,400 If you're wanting to get a better marriage, I would tell 52 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,800 you winning. Every argument. 53 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,600 Probably isn't the way, but how you navigate the arguments makes 54 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,500 all the difference in the world. Today, I want to talk to you 55 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:03,400 guys about some common sense, Arguments for the existence of 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,200 God. Now to those of you who are 57 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,700 Skeptics or Or atheists and you're joining us at one of our 58 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,000 locations. I am so glad that you are here 59 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:12,600 and on the outset, I want to apologize for calling them 60 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,700 common-sense arguments. I'm just not smart enough to 61 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,900 come up with a better term for it so it is not to say that you 62 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:23,000 like you're an idiot or you're weird for not seeing things the 63 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,500 way that that I see him or that other people seem, it's just 64 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:31,000 more about philosophical approach or philosophical 65 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:33,300 Arguments for the existence of God. 66 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:36,000 So today we're going to be taking a deep look at 67 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:40,700 Philosophical questions, concerning the existence of God 68 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,100 and I'm going to do so for the most part without talking about 69 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,800 the Bible or using the Bible and I'm going to do it for the most 70 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,800 part without talking about Jesus or referencing. 71 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,200 Jesus. Now before any of you guys start 72 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,500 trying to email me, I am not saying that I don't believe in 73 00:03:56,500 --> 00:04:00,400 God or Jesus or the Bible, but if you are engaging in 74 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,300 conversations with people on the at the philosophical level, to 75 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:07,700 use the Bible and to you Use Jesus would be by their 76 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,500 definition circular reasoning. Okay? 77 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:13,800 And so I just want to kind of take you through these 78 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,000 philosophical arguments through a philosophical lens. 79 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:21,500 Here's why I'm doing this. Every year in the summer, a 80 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,800 group of my high school friends, get together for a two or 81 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,800 three-day camping trip. And every year around the 82 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,600 campfire, we end up talking about God. 83 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:39,400 And let me give you a little Context, one of my friends is a 84 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:44,000 believer in Jesus. But there is absolutely nothing 85 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,400 about his life that even remotely resembles him being a 86 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,400 Christian. In fact, he would be like the 87 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,500 worst example, okay? Like you almost want to be like 88 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:57,100 stop, stop talking about Jesus because that that you're not 89 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:00,600 helping the situation. He's the one who every part of 90 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,000 his life is always absolutely falling apart and he is always 91 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,700 making the wrong decision, like pick up $100. 92 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,100 Or run a nail through your hand. He will pick the nail through 93 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:14,300 your hand, every time. It's just, that's just how he 94 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:16,400 is, hardwired I love him but that's just him. 95 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,900 Another one of my friends has his life completely together, he 96 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:26,500 believes in Jesus, but Jesus to him is more of a Republican 97 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,200 president than Jesus on the cross. 98 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:36,800 And so his life from the outside looks very much like a Christian 99 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,100 but there's really nothing in his heart. 100 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:45,100 That is Jesus centered. And then I have a third friend 101 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:54,100 who is a full-blown atheist and about 11:30 at night on on a 102 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:58,200 Friday, they'll start going. So Clayton, tell us about God. 103 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:01,300 And you know, I don't which I'm thrilled because, you know, 104 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:04,200 sometimes it's like, hey, Clayton we can't drive anymore. 105 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,300 Can you take us to a strip club and I'm like, nope, we're not 106 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:09,200 doing that so they're like, all right, fine talk to us about 107 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,600 God. Like all right, God's better 108 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,100 than glitter so we and every year, when I'm getting ready to 109 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:19,500 go on this trip, I prep for it, I get all geared up. 110 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:22,100 I want to make sure that I'm ready to handle some of the 111 00:06:22,108 --> 00:06:25,300 questions that they're going to ask me and that's important. 112 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,400 I mean, second Timothy chapter 4 says this preach the word. 113 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,900 Be prepared in season and out of season. 114 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,700 And when I'm getting ready to go on that trip, I know that it's 115 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,600 going to be in season the problem for us as Christians. 116 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,800 Is you're going to have a lot of out-of-season moments. 117 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:47,100 Like I get a prep for this, it's already on my calendar, I know 118 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:50,200 what's coming but some of you you're going to show up at the 119 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,300 office tomorrow and tragedies going to hit somebody in your 120 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:57,500 office, somebody that you care about some of you, you're going 121 00:06:57,500 --> 00:07:00,500 to get a phone call this week. And because of things that are 122 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:02,900 happening in their life, they're going to ask you questions and 123 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:04,600 you're going to find yourself in an oak. 124 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,300 Go back, one second. In an out of season moment. 125 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,000 And as Christians, we need to be prepared in season and out of 126 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,700 season 1st, Peter says that this way. 127 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,900 But in your hearts, Revere Christ is lord, always be 128 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:23,000 prepared to give an answer to everyone. 129 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:29,200 Who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have you. 130 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,400 And I need to have a reason to answer for every person we come 131 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,700 into contact with for the hope that we have in Jesus Christ, 132 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:39,000 but there's a way that we're supposed to do it here. 133 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:44,200 Keeps going, but do this with gentleness and respect, keeping 134 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,500 a clear conscience which means that it's not just about being 135 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:49,900 prepared to talk to people about Jesus. 136 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,600 But the way we talk to people about Jesus matters is that as 137 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,900 our contacts, I want to walk you through some philosophical 138 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:01,100 Arguments for a belief in the existence of God. 139 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,800 Now these things that I'm going to walk you through our 140 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,400 questions that everybody has to answer. 141 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:08,200 These are not exclusively Christian questions. 142 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,300 They're not a theistic questions or skeptical questions. 143 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,100 These are questions that all of humanity has to answer. 144 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,000 And how you answer these questions will shape how you 145 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,800 live your life. It will shape your world view. 146 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,300 Here's the first question. How do we account for the 147 00:08:25,308 --> 00:08:30,500 beginning of the universe? How did the universe come into 148 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,400 existence? This is an argument of origin. 149 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,600 It shows up in three parts. I'll walk you through them. 150 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,000 Okay. Whatever begins to exist has a 151 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,700 Cause Everything that came into existence how to cause something 152 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:49,200 caused it. You came into existence. 153 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,500 There was a Cause. It might have been Valentine's 154 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:55,900 Day. It might have been some dead 155 00:08:55,900 --> 00:09:00,300 flowers in a vase and might have been some country music or dimly 156 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:04,900 lit place but whatever begins to exist has a cause second thing 157 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:11,100 the universe began to exist. Science will tell you this, the 158 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:16,100 universe had a beginning. So the third part is the 159 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:23,200 universe has a cause what could cause a universe something, or 160 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,000 someone has to, cause the universe to come into existence. 161 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:31,700 That means that something outside of time, outside of 162 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:35,900 space, outside of matter, had to be the cause and for many 163 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,500 people, The Logical reasonable conclusion. 164 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,300 Is that there is only one thing outside of time, outside of 165 00:09:43,308 --> 00:09:44,900 space and out. Out of matter. 166 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:50,400 The name we give him is God in order for there to be a 167 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:55,000 beginning you have to have time space and matter all come into 168 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,200 existence at the exact same time. 169 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,400 Let me explain that a little bit more if you have time and matter 170 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,400 but no space. Where would you put it? 171 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:12,800 If you have matter and space but no time, when would you put it? 172 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,900 If you have time and space but no matter what began to exist, 173 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:23,600 the Bible answers. This question in the first 10 174 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,400 words of the Bible. Count with me. 175 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:33,000 Ready in the beginning, God created the heavens and the 176 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:37,600 Earth watch closely. In the beginning. 177 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,100 That's time. God, created the heavens that 178 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:43,800 space Earth. That's matter. 179 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:46,100 It gets a little bit more fun than that. 180 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:50,400 You have a trinity of Trinity's that show up, time is past 181 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,900 present and future space is length, width. 182 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:59,700 And depth matter is, solid liquid gas, you have a trinity 183 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:02,800 of Trinity's created by the Trinity, kind of weird thing 184 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,900 that happens there Now the second question we have to ask 185 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:11,400 ourselves is how do we account for so much design in our 186 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,300 universe? This is also kind of broken into 187 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:18,200 three categories. The first one is called 188 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:23,100 specified complexity, so if I were to take all of the parts 189 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:27,000 for an airplane, and put them in a big box, like Legos, we would 190 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,100 have complexity. We see complexity everywhere. 191 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,800 Specified complexity is the difference between all the 192 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,700 components for an airplane in a box and if we could put them all 193 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:42,300 together and we could find a pilot, we could go somewhere 194 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:46,200 nice and instead of living where we live, right? 195 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,300 We just need a pilot there. We have one in Macomb so we'll 196 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:51,700 make one big enough for all of us now. 197 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,200 What are the chances that a tornado could go through a 198 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,000 junkyard and assemble all of the pieces to make an airplane? 199 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:04,300 I would say slim to none. So, how do you account for so 200 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:10,400 much specified complexity? We are marveling right now at 201 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,400 some of the advancements, in Prosthetics that what hands are 202 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,200 being able to do that have been manufactured by mankind, or how 203 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,300 legs that are the prosthetics for legs and how much they're 204 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:26,200 able to accomplish. But it's taking all of our human 205 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,300 capacity and years of learning and deep research for us to 206 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:35,300 design a leg. That works, like, the leg we 207 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:38,900 already have. How do you account for the fact 208 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:44,100 that what we have by accident? Is so much better than what we 209 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:50,000 have by our human design. The second thing that we have to 210 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,700 navigate is irreducible complexity. 211 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:56,500 This is the difference between motorcycles and mouse traps. 212 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,800 So you guys are all getting ready for motorcycle season. 213 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,100 I've been hearing you guys crank them up in your garage and I'm 214 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:04,600 super happy for you. I'm glad you guys have those 215 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,900 work hours and while you guys are liking those things up. 216 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:11,700 Now the motorcycle as a means of transportation, you can take an 217 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:15,000 awful lot off of your motorcycle and it's still be a mode of 218 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,500 transportation. You can take those cool. 219 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:21,300 Saddle bags off and it would still work. 220 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,500 You could take the blinkers off, it would still work. 221 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,500 You could take the brakes off, it would still work. 222 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:30,200 You could take your foot pegs off, it would still work. 223 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,800 You can keep taking stuff off of your motorcycle and it's still 224 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,800 be a mode of transportation. You can even take some of the 225 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,800 bolts off, and I've seen a couple of you driving around, 226 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,900 and I'm pretty sure that motorcycle is missing a few 227 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:43,600 bolts, right? But it's still a mode of 228 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,100 transportation. However, a mousetrap cannot be. 229 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:54,000 Deuced whatsoever. It is irreducibly complex. 230 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:56,800 Now, what I'm talking about Mass traps, I'm not talking about 231 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,300 these Millennial mouse traps that are designed to protect the 232 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:02,000 mice's feelings or anything like that. 233 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,700 I'm talking Wham. I'm talking Mouse ending family 234 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:09,600 tree. Shattering mouse traps right? 235 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,900 You know, I'm talking about those real ones. 236 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:16,300 And if you take a regular mouse trap, every real mousetrap, 237 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,900 Christian mousetrap has five components that has the platform 238 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:22,200 that everything sits on. It has the spring. 239 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:24,500 It has the lock. It has the trigger and it has 240 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:26,400 the arm. Okay. 241 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:30,000 If you remove any of these things, it stops being a 242 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,300 mousetrap. if you remove the arm, it's just a really weird 243 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:40,100 Mouse feeder, Right? If you remove the lock, it's 244 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:45,700 just a custom device gets this thing right now. 245 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:47,800 Where does this show up in our lives? 246 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,400 Well, on easy one. To point two would be RI RI is 247 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,400 irreducibly, complex. It could not have evolved. 248 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,500 It shows up in order for it to exist. 249 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:03,800 It is irreducibly complex. For instance, the I cannot work 250 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,300 without the presence of the optic nerve to regulate, the 251 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:10,200 pressure of the fluid around the eye, the eye without eyelids 252 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,200 will not work for long because our eyes require continuous 253 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,900 washing and moisture. If you go further unless there's 254 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:18,900 an eye, there's no point in the duct. 255 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,000 That's around our eye, that produces the tears, or the duck 256 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,600 that passes through solid bone, that whisks that water away 257 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,200 where it dissipates in. Our nasal cavity as we breathe 258 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,700 all of those things have to be come into existence at the exact 259 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:37,700 same time for the eye to work. And then the third piece of the 260 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:42,800 design argument is fine-tuning as our understanding of science 261 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,600 continues to grow. We are becoming more and more 262 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,700 aware of how fine-tuned the Earth is for the sustaining of 263 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:53,700 life. And scientists have discovered 264 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:59,700 that there are about 150 constants that have to operate 265 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:04,200 in absolute perfection and balance in order for you and I 266 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:08,700 to be able to exist. One of the one of the 267 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,500 astrophysicists from Caltech Hugh, Ross is talking about the 268 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:16,700 ratio between the nuclear force and the expansion rate of the 269 00:16:16,708 --> 00:16:20,700 universe which is one of the constants and he says it has to 270 00:16:20,708 --> 00:16:26,000 be fine-tuned To 1 in 10 to the thirty seventh power. 271 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:29,100 Now that word are that number means nothing to you. 272 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:31,900 And it means nothing to me, I get it, we're not that kind of 273 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:35,900 smart people but let me explain to you visually what that would 274 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:39,300 look like 1 in 10 to the 37th power. 275 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:44,200 Here is explains it this way. You'd have to take a dime and 276 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,300 cover all of North America in one layer of Dimes. 277 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:53,300 Then you need to add a second layer and you would keep adding 278 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:59,400 layers until you reach the moon 238,000 miles away. 279 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,900 Then you need to do that on 1 billion additional countenance 280 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:09,000 and then take one dime and spray paint. 281 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,400 It red and put it somewhere in that mix Mix somewhere on the 1 282 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,700 billion. Continent stacked with dimes one 283 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,599 layer at a Time, 238,000 Miles High. 284 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:24,000 That is the level of precision for just one of the 150 285 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,800 constants necessary for you and I are constants necessary for 286 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,600 you and I to be in this moment right now. 287 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,600 Imagine when we land on Mars with humans and we discover a 288 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:42,500 pocket watch. Our natural inclination would be 289 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,300 somebody has been here. Because how do we account for 290 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:51,100 the design of a pocket watch? Unless there was some kind of 291 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:56,900 watch maker, maybe watches are too complex. 292 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,500 Let's get as simple as we possibly can take a look at 293 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:03,300 Stonehenge. Now you can go home. 294 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:06,200 You can check this. Wikipedia says that this way, 295 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,700 archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was built. 296 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:18,500 Anywhere from 3,000 to 2,000 BC. So let me get this straight, we 297 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:20,700 look at a bunch of rocks that have been stacked. 298 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:26,200 And we immediately think some guy did that. 299 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:30,100 But we look at all the complexities of the universe in 300 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:33,900 our hands and our cardiovascular system works and everything 301 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:35,300 that's happening inside of our brain. 302 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:39,600 And we think somehow that that evolved without the hand of God. 303 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,600 Now let me, let me show you what I mean by this. 304 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,700 You and I we look at things everybody, we look at things and 305 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:51,100 we instinctively know the difference between random 306 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:54,400 results and deliberate design. If you want to play a joke on 307 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,600 your neighbors this week on the middle of the night, go out let 308 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,900 off a couple fireworks about 2:00 2:30 in the morning. 309 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,300 And then in your driveway right next to your mailbox. 310 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:11,000 Stack o, put a rock up out there and then tomorrow night, that 311 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 off another firework about 3:30 in the morning. 312 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:16,000 And then put another rock on top of it. 313 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,800 And your neighbors are walking their bougie, dogs up and down 314 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,300 your street. Like what's going on out here? 315 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,200 Why are you stacking all these rocks? 316 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:28,400 Yeah we're not stacking rocks. We've been letting off 317 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:29,700 fireworks. If you've been hearing those 318 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:32,900 bangs last night? Well yeah, let him off in the 319 00:19:32,908 --> 00:19:36,500 front yard and these rocks just start stacking themselves in the 320 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:41,500 front yard You know what they would say to you, are you okay? 321 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:47,200 Is this a cry for help? They look at you little weird. 322 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,600 We look at stacked rocks and we assume someone stacked them. 323 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:55,500 But we look at a universe and our natural. 324 00:19:55,500 --> 00:20:01,200 Inclination for so many people is, it's just an accident. 325 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:05,600 It's just random. The final philosophical 326 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,300 argument, there's a lot more, but the final one that I'm going 327 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:10,300 to do for you today is an argument from morality. 328 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:14,800 It's the moral argument and the moral argument exists in three 329 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,400 parts, here's the first. If God does not exist, then 330 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,900 objective morals and duties, do not exist. 331 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:26,000 I'm going to unpack this way more in two weeks, so I'm just 332 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,300 giving you like the simplified version today, because in two 333 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:31,700 weeks, I'm going to talk to you guys about God and culture and 334 00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:34,500 how we as Christians are supposed to live in that 335 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,500 tension, but if God does not exist, then objective morals and 336 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:42,300 duties, do not exist. Then, the second part is this 337 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,700 objective morality does exist. There are things that we all 338 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:48,900 agree. Are objectively true 339 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,400 objectively? Right. 340 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,800 Objectively wrong. And then, the third part would 341 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:59,500 be therefore God exists. Let me unpack that when we hear 342 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:05,100 kids fighting in our house or when you go on your vacation to 343 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:09,400 the beach and you see you, you pick your beach chair. 344 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,300 And then somebody comes along and takes all of your belongings 345 00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:17,400 off of the beach chair. And then they take your chair, 346 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,800 we get into an argument with them about what is fair about, 347 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,800 what is right? How would you like it? 348 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,000 If somebody else treated you that way, we immediately begin 349 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:35,700 to appeal to a higher moral law and every time we discuss these 350 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:39,700 things we are talking about something that exists Beyond 351 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:43,400 ourselves. This basis for right and wrong 352 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,200 exists Beyond us. We believe that the person were 353 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:52,300 talking to knows that this is right and wrong as well that 354 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:56,600 they sense it. Because when you engage in the 355 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,300 argument, they don't argue about whether or not that is real or 356 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:04,000 not about whether or not they have violated this moral law, 357 00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:07,700 what they do whether or not the moral law exists, they spend all 358 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:11,000 of their time trying to show you how they didn't violate that. 359 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:17,900 At higher moral law. How can you fight about what is 360 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:21,100 right and wrong? Unless there is some level of 361 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:27,500 universal acceptance as to what is, right and what is wrong, and 362 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:32,200 anytime you start talking about, right and wrong, we are making 363 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:39,400 moral claims Imagine a country or a civilization where the 364 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:44,100 opposite of the virtues that we hold to be deer, were praised, 365 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,400 imagine a country were lying, was praised over truth-telling. 366 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,500 We're stealing was valued above hard work. 367 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,900 What about running from Battle? Instead of staying in the fight, 368 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,300 that on Veterans Day. We didn't praise all of those 369 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:01,300 who served. But we praised all of those who 370 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:04,100 were dishonorably discharged because they ran from the 371 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:07,400 battlefield. Imagine that the father of the 372 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,800 year, award didn't go to the man who stayed and struggled, and 373 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,400 provided and and suffered along for his family. 374 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:19,300 Instead, the father of the year award went to the man who had 375 00:23:19,300 --> 00:23:24,600 abandoned the most kids. Imagine that kind of society. 376 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,800 She there are certain qualities that have Universal acceptance 377 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,800 as standards to be upheld and anyone who objects to these 378 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,200 standards will only object to them, until they are on the 379 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,800 receiving end of their absence. Somebody who steals from you 380 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:47,200 could make the moral claim stealing isn't wrong, but then 381 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,800 the moment they agree to that and someone steals from them, 382 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,800 they will not be going. That's totally fine. 383 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:57,100 They'd be gone. How could you do this? 384 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,200 Somebody says you don't have to, you can hit anybody, you want be 385 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,700 fine until they get punched in the mouth and then like, I don't 386 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,400 like that moral claim anymore. We all have to live under the 387 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,600 and we all know what these are these moral laws exist within 388 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,600 us. But they come from Beyond us. 389 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,500 There is something or someone pushing us towards a behavior 390 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,200 that at times is not in our best interest. 391 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:26,800 So it couldn't be Evolutionary. Here's what I mean. 392 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:29,200 God forbid on your way home today. 393 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,400 You see a car that has driven into are you, you watch a car 394 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,500 drive into a pond and you know that there are people in there 395 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:43,600 that are on the verge of drowning and instinctively, you 396 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,400 will find yourself caught between two worlds, knowing that 397 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,800 if you were to go into those Waters, you could get Dragged 398 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,800 In, you could get yourself caught up in the seat belts and 399 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:58,500 you could get drug down into the depth of the pond as well. and 400 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:02,500 at the same time, You feel this sense of? 401 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:09,400 I must engage to try to save. Where does that conflict come 402 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,900 from? Because all of us would 403 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:16,400 experience it some and greater degrees than others. 404 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,600 But in that moment, it is not about self-preservation that 405 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,900 were being called to were being called to something else. 406 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:30,900 Something deeper, there is something or someone pushing us 407 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:36,000 towards a behavior that at times is not in our own self-interest. 408 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,300 If this did not exist. If this moral law did not exist, 409 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:43,200 we would have no basis for the frustration. 410 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,400 We feel when people do us wrong or the guilt, we experience when 411 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:52,300 we know we do wrong. And where could this have come 412 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,900 from? It couldn't have come from our 413 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:59,500 laws because our laws are simply a reflection of what we already 414 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:03,500 know to be true. We don't need a law that says 415 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,900 stealing is wrong for us to know that stealing is wrong. 416 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,300 The law just simply recognizes what we all already know to be 417 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,100 true. And if even if there wasn't a 418 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:20,100 law, when somebody stole from us, it wouldn't Rob us or we 419 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,100 would, we would we would no longer not be under the pain and 420 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:25,900 the feeling of having someone steal from us. 421 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,500 So how do you and I move forward. 422 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,300 How do you and I navigate this tension? 423 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,600 Because if it's not coming from ourselves, then there must be a 424 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:42,500 moral law Giver who could judge between what is right and wrong 425 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:48,500 between us. Because if it was subjective If 426 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:53,700 it was just my moral claims versus your moral claims who 427 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:57,900 could judge between us, how do you choose, who is right? 428 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:01,800 And who is wrong, if all truth claims are all moral claims are 429 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,600 simply subjective, what right? Would we have to protest 430 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,700 slavery? What? 431 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:08,300 Right? Would you? 432 00:27:08,300 --> 00:27:12,500 And I have to object to sex trafficking. 433 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,900 What right? Did we have to fight against 434 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:17,900 Nazi Germany? In World War 2? 435 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:23,200 If there wasn't some moral law, that was governing us saying, 436 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,100 this is wrong and we must do something about it. 437 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,600 All of these arguments, the arguments of origin, the 438 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,100 arguments from designed, the moral argument are designed to 439 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:39,400 point us to a cause to a base Asus and logically. 440 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:43,600 In my opinion, the most simplistic and the most 441 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,900 sophisticated answer as that, there is a God who did the 442 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,600 creating the designing and forms. 443 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,900 The basis of our moral understanding that God is 444 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,200 writing these codes on our hearts. 445 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,700 Why does this matter? I'll tell you my opinion, this 446 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:03,800 means there is a God. And if there is a God, that 447 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,200 means that I was created by him. And so, were you that you were I 448 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,300 mean by him that there are standards that he will hold you 449 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:16,200 and I to if God exists then I must know him and so must you I 450 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,300 must follow him and so should you it demands? 451 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:24,600 My full acceptance and my complete adherence, I'm trying 452 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,600 to say this. If God exists, I believe that he 453 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,800 would preserve his word that he would make sure that you and I 454 00:28:30,808 --> 00:28:34,500 have access to the truth and his word states. 455 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:37,800 That there is a life after This life. 456 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:43,200 And those that this life is not all that there is, and that 457 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,500 those who do not have a relationship with him at the end 458 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,300 of this life. Hell, awaits. 459 00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:52,100 And to those who are in this life, who have an intimate 460 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,300 personal relationship with Jesus Christ on the other side of it 461 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,300 Heaven. Awaits, which means that as 462 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:02,900 Christians, this becomes our mission to make sure that 463 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:06,900 everybody everywhere comes to a knowledge of Jesus Christ. 464 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,200 Look what it says in mark. I mean, he said to them, this is 465 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,700 Jesus. Go into all the world and preach 466 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:17,400 the gospel to all creation. What's the gospel that God sent 467 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,800 his one, and only son to die on the cross for the Forgiveness of 468 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,800 our sins. Why do we tell this gospel? 469 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,600 I'll tell you why, because whoever believes and is 470 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,600 baptized, will be every say this word saved. 471 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,600 This is our mission. This is why we do what we do, 472 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,100 but whoever does not believe Will be condemned. 473 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:43,600 There is good news here. If you can see that God is real, 474 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,000 if you can believe that Jesus is Alive. 475 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,300 If you can believe that he died on the cross for your sins, 476 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:53,900 three days later Rose from the grave, what that means is you 477 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:56,400 can come into an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus 478 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,800 Christ. You don't have to do life alone, 479 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:04,900 you have purpose and meaning, and significance, and dignity. 480 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,100 You are more than just the sum of your parts. 481 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,400 You are an image bearer of God and if you're a Christian, these 482 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,500 become our marching orders, this becomes the thing that focuses 483 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:20,000 all the other things in our life and I hope you'll do that. 484 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,500 We're moving to a time of decision. 485 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,900 So a while back. Jennifer and I when we moved to 486 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:36,100 Quincy, we moved in this neighborhood and our 487 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:40,800 neighborhood is kind of serious about their yards, a little too 488 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,000 serious. If I'm if I'm being honest with 489 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,200 you about 6:00 in the morning, you'll see people out there just 490 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:56,200 that one leaf was really out of whack, the raking all the time, 491 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:03,100 they're mulching all the time. There, striping their yards. 492 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:07,900 And then there's us. And we're just kind of like, 493 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,700 should we mow it this month? Okay. 494 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:17,600 And we started out and I was, I was pushed mowing it, but I 495 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,900 always worried that like, if I became skinny, people would see 496 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:23,700 me as even more vain than I already am. 497 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:26,500 And so, I just made the discipline decision to just keep 498 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,500 this body. So that way people would lust 499 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,800 more and focus on Jesus more. So I bought a riding lawnmower 500 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,000 man down. Yeah. 501 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:41,400 Actually I financed it and put it in my wife's name so my wife 502 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:47,000 has a lawnmower and and I started mowing my yard more 503 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,400 frequently but it still didn't look as good as everybody else 504 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,100 in the neighborhood and in part that's because we have jobs. 505 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,200 And they have a lot of free time. but I was like, how do I 506 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,800 how do I dominate my neighbors? I was like, who has the 507 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:14,100 best-looking grass on my baseball parks, professional MLB 508 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:15,700 Parks. They have great looking yard. 509 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:19,500 So I hopped on YouTube and I was like, how do they do it? 510 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:22,600 How do they stripe? And they were talking about, you 511 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,100 know, people edging. So I went and borrowed Denny's 512 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:32,100 edger and I edged. My yard looks fantastic. 513 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,300 And then I'm watching this YouTube video about how you edge 514 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,600 your yard and the guy who does one of the baseball field says 515 00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:40,800 if you want to have really straight lines. 516 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,200 So that way you can you know crosshatch it and checkerboard 517 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,200 it and put cool stripes in it. You got to pick something off in 518 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,600 the distance. And you got a focus on it and 519 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,900 you drive your mower to it. He goes, if you look at the 520 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:58,900 wheel, your lines are going to get all out of place. 521 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,500 If you look just a couple of feet in front of you, your lines 522 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:03,500 are going to get all over the place. 523 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:05,400 You got to, you got to pick something in the distance and 524 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,000 you got to focus on it and drive to it. 525 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,300 Here's what I think. The moral argument, the argument 526 00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:17,900 from design, the argument of origin is God going. 527 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:23,700 Look at me. I'm real. 528 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:29,100 Look at me come to me and I will make your path straight. 529 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,800 God is saying hey if you're out there and you're looking for 530 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,600 meaning, look at me, you're looking for purpose. 531 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:37,200 Look at me, you're looking for some Direction. 532 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,900 Look at me, you want some hope. Look at me. 533 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:42,100 You want some hope or help? Look at me. 534 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,700 If you're looking for salvation, for rescue for forgiveness, for 535 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:48,900 grace, for Mercy. Look at me, if you're looking 536 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:52,300 for love, look at me. You and I were looking at her 537 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,300 life. Lives and they're not straight 538 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:57,800 but maybe it's because we've been looking at the wrong thing 539 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:02,000 and God is crying out to you philosophically. 540 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:08,000 Look at me and some of you, some of us. 541 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 We kind of get done with our lives and we've been Mowing and 542 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,500 our lines are all jacked up. And then we get mad at God at 543 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,699 the results of Our Lives. But we were never looking at him 544 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:29,699 to direct our life. And then we blame God for the 545 00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:35,199 sum of a math question that we didn't invite him in two. 546 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,699 If you're here today, I've got great news for you. 547 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,199 If you've never started a relationship with Jesus Christ, 548 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:52,100 He is a master at Lon Rejuvenation, he can make the 549 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:58,600 Crooked lines straight. He can take years of damage and 550 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,400 he can restore it. In fact, I've seen our God 551 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,600 restored things in such a beautiful way. 552 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:10,100 That people will say. I mean, I never would want to go 553 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:13,700 through that again, but I got to be honest because I went through 554 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:15,500 what I went through. I'm in a place. 555 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:18,900 I never thought I'd be. That is how good our God 556 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:21,500 redeems. So if you've been spending your 557 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:25,800 whole life, not looking at God, you can start looking today. 558 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,200 If you're going, I want the hope of Heaven in my life, you can 559 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,200 believe and you can be baptized, and you can start an intimate 560 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:40,200 personal relationship with him. And so just a few moments, 561 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,200 there's gonna be some people over there by the baptistry that 562 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,100 would love an opportunity to talk with you about that. 563 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:49,800 Now to the rest of you in the room, you already have your 564 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,600 relationship with Jesus Christ. Kind of level with you. 565 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:55,400 I mean, I love being your password, but can I level with 566 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,600 you sometimes? We're like fat people giving 567 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,500 diet advice, We're chunky people giving Fitness advice. 568 00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:08,300 We're trying to tell our neighbors how to mow their yard. 569 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:12,000 We've never even paid to have our dandelion sprayed, like, 570 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,500 we're trash and we know it, but we're just not admitting it. 571 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:22,000 Like, well, you know what you should do as Christians. 572 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,200 How can we be telling everybody else to look at Jesus in the 573 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,200 problems in their life? And not look at Jesus and the 574 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:36,500 problems of Our Own This is what Paul says, Paul says, to a group 575 00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:39,900 of people follow me as I follow Christ. 576 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,800 Tough question here. if you were to talk to somebody who didn't 577 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,400 know Jesus and you were to tell them to follow Jesus, like you 578 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,900 with their life, be any better, Will they be making any 579 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:55,700 different decisions? Or do they just have a different 580 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:57,500 calendar appointment on a Sunday morning? 581 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,800 It's got to be more significant than that. 582 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,600 And so here's what I'm asking you to do. 583 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:05,200 If you're a Christian, I'm asking you to pray that God 584 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,100 would help you to start truly following him, truly trusting 585 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:14,000 him, the God would use you as a city on a hill, a lamp on a 586 00:37:14,008 --> 00:37:17,500 stand to point people to draw people to the love of Our 587 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:18,800 Savior. Jesus Christ.