Crossing Nation. How you doing?
It is so good to hang out with each and every single one of
you. I hope you had a great week of
ministry. It was wonderful, being able to
participate and enjoy Easter services with so many of you.
As we started our brand new sermon series called if and in
continuation of this sermon series designed to strengthen
the faith of those who have it and start the faith of those who
are looking for it. We have a A very special guest.
Ken Ham is the CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis, it is
highly acclaimed. The highly acclaimed Creation
Museum, as well as the renowned world-renowned Ark encounter.
He is the author of more than 25 books can and his wife, reside.
In Northern Kentucky, they have five children, 18 grandchildren,
suffice to say this means tired. But more importantly, this man
is smart. Art.
He loves Jesus and he's here this weekend with us.
Will you put your hands together and welcome our new friend to
the crossing Ken Ham? Well, thanks fighting straight
to be here. Of course, you did forget to
tell people that I came from Australia originally.
So I hope I still sound like that and actually, I find as an
Australian in America. People love the Australian
accent and they say, doesn't matter what you say.
We just love to hear you saying it so I can get away with
whatever. Well, I come from an
organization called Answers in Genesis and it's an apologetics
organization. And that's a word we're going to
talk about in this. This presentation apologetics
and I'll come back to that. It doesn't mean we apologize for
our faith, quite the opposite. We're showing people, we can
defend the Christian faith and giving answers to the skeptical
questions about age. We also build the two leading
Christian themed attractions in the world.
The ark encounter is a life-size Noah's Ark and we get thousands
of people coming in there every day and we have a conference
center. And virtual reality ride, a
carousel zoo, we have all sorts of interesting, Seeing things,
they're from a Biblical perspective Ziplines because
Christians can have fun too and you can walk through the arc,
sub 510 feet, long 3.3 million board feet of Timber and has 130
different exhibits in there and we answer all sorts of skeptical
questions that people have to help them to be able to defend
their faith. How could now get the animals on
the ark? And where's the evidence of the
flood? And how do you explain fossils
and all those sorts of things? We have live animal Alms as well
teaching from a Biblical worldview perspective because
when you go to the zoo, it's mainly Evolution that you hear
everything from an evolutionist perspective.
And so people pour in here, A whole emphasis to is helping
people understand that this event in the Bible was true
because the Bible's history is true.
And the message of the Gospel based on that, history is true.
And then the Creation Museum which really is like a whole.
Walk Through the Bible, we have beautiful gardens there and
children's playground and so on we have an animal experience
area as well. And zip lines are two again
because Christians can have fun and we have lots of other fun
things, we have a planetarium with a laser projection system
and also 4-D Theater and then a whole Walk Through the Bible,
answering all sorts of questions, explaining in the
whole history of the Bible. We walk through all the
different major events of the Bible.
We present the gospel based in that history.
We have a dinosaur exhibit Insectarium and we also have the
most powerful pro-life exhibit in the world.
And that has really had an impact on people.
We have a Borderland exhibit what happened between the Old
Testament and the New Testament. Christmas lights all sorts of
Christmas programming at both locations and now you all want
to come, right? A burst of scripture want to
start off with is First, Peter 3:15, always be prepared to make
a defense or answer. Now, defense or answer is
translated from the Greek word apologia from which we get our
word apologetics. What it really means is to give
a logical reason defense of the faith.
One of the things I find today in something that's missing from
a lot of the church. I find a lot of the materials
that are used is. Most people are not being
taught, how to answer the skeptical questions of the age,
when people come up to you and say, well, how did Noah get the
animals on the ark? Well, Why?
What about the age of the Earth? Well, what do you what do you
believe about Cain's wife or where did the different races of
people come from and so on and the Skeptics use those questions
to say? See the Bible's not true and for
a lot of people have been so impacted by the secular World in
evolutionary ideas, they doubt that you can really trust a
God's word. So, what I wanted to show you is
what a difference, it makes when we can go out there and defend
our faith. So some comes up to you and
says, well, how do we know there's a God?
Do you believe in God? Wildest science confirm an
infinite god. Well let me just give you one
little example here, DNA that molecule of heredity you know,
it makes up our chromosomes as jeans.
All the information that builds us as a human or builds a dog or
a cat or a horse or whatever. You know, that molecule of
Coretta. Tree was discovered in 1953 by
two British scientists Crick and Watson and they were atheists.
And when they discovered that model a build a model of it,
I've been over to London where you see the actual model of DNA.
You know what they said? They said this proves is no God.
In fact, when he was 86 years old Crick said at the 50th
anniversary of the discovery of that molecule, the god
hypothesis is rather discredited he'd need.
He says, his distaste for religion, was one of the Prime
motives in the work that led to that Sensational Discovery.
In other words, he said, one of the main reasons we set out to
find out about this, molecule of heredity, is to show people.
There is no God because Cuz he was an atheist and then when
they discovered that DNA molecule, they said here it is.
It's just a molecule life is built on chemistry, there is no
God. Well we've done a lot of work
since end on DNA. You know what we found out?
DNA is not just chemistry, you know what DNA is.
It's an information system in a language system.
See think about this for a moment.
If you have a piece of rope and you've got red and blue beads,
those red blue beads are spell out the word help you all know
that. Right?
If you know the morse code they spell out the word help.
If you don't know the morse code they're red and blue beads on a
route. But if you know that if you know
the language then you understand it.
Do you realize if we had enough rope and enough beads, we could
spell out the entire Bible using pieces of rope and Beads like
that. But, here's the thing, when I
would University, I remember a faster saying, look, there's no
God, just by chance random processes, all these molecules
came together course. The question is, where they come
from in the first place. Well they don't want to answer
that, don't worry about that but they all came together by chance
random processes to form DNA. Bingo, there's life and he
didn't experiment. He said, let's cut the letters
of the alphabet up, put them in a hat.
And then he handed the hat around the class and ask
students to pull out letters, three of them in a row pulled
out baat. He said, oh look, we got a word,
but we got a word by chance given enough time we could get
more words given enough time. Even though it sounds remote,
you must admit by chance. You could actually get
sentences. You could get the Yeah, I see
that's what happened. Millions years ago, it just was
by chance, just right Arrangement at the right time
and got life but that would be 80.
Is that a word to a Japanese or Chinese?
A Frenchman whose in a word to, it's only a word to somebody who
already has the language. When you look at my Bible here
it's in the English language but if I only spoke Russian, I
wouldn't be able to read it. You've got to know the language
to read it. And you know, here's the
interesting thing. When you look at DNA DNA, Like
all these molecules if you like base pairs and there are all
lined up in a particular order, but you've got to have a
language to be able to read them.
Well, you know, that DNA makes the language that reads the DNA
and other words, he's got the information to make the language
and it's got the information. DNA is like a whole library of
information with all these engineering diagrams, and all
the instructions on how to build a human or a cat, or a dog.
And then DNA has information to read the Structures to make it
work. And, you know, something that we
know for sure. No one has ever seen matter.
Produced one bit of information, do you know how much information
is in living things? Zillions, of bits of information
in living things? No one's ever seen matter.
Produced one bit of information. No one's ever seen matter
producer language language is only come from an intelligence
information. Only comes from an intelligence,
you're not a DNA, really cries out in the beginning.
God created is an exciting to be a Christian.
Wow, there's few people excited. And so hopefully a lot of you
excited courses excited to be a Christian.
Hey you know what? Romans 1:20 says for his
invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature
have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world
in that things that have been made.
So they are without excuse, can you see now?
Why the Bible says? If you don't believe in God, you
without excuse, because there's no way life could come about by
chance random processes. And yet, for those who don't
believe the Bible, they believe there was a big bang billions
years ago. They can't explain, where matter
came from, or a Thing like that. Why does time exists?
Why does space exists? They can't explain anything like
that. Somehow, there's energy.
There's matter. There's a big bang and somehow
this Earth forms, and then somehow molecules supposedly
come together and form information, and form a language
to enable one kind of animal to change into another.
As more information, is formed over millions of years where
we've never seen matter, produced one bit of information.
You see why the Bible says, if you don't believe you without
excuse, and in fact, the interesting thing, Is I have
people like atheist, who will say to me?
Oh, you Christians, you have a blind faith in God?
No, no, we don't have a blind faith.
We have an objective faith. We have a faith that makes sense
of the facts and actually science observational science.
Confirms, it is the atheist that has a blind faith.
Not only a blind. Faith is more than that, it's a
faith, that lacks credulity, because there's no basis,
whatever that they have for explaining how life could arise
by chance, random processes. And just to give you a little
example here, How inconsistent people are in regard to these
sorts of things? You imagine.
I'm sure you've seen programs on television where scientists will
go into a cave, and there's a look in this cave.
They'll find an arrowhead. And as soon as they find an
arrowhead, they'll say, ah, they're human beings here,
evidence of intelligence look, you can see from the card
Arrowhead. See, that's evidence of
intelligence. Then they look at DNA the most
complex information system in the entire universe and they
say, chance, chance chance. Chance yet, they look at an
arrowhead and they say, intelligence intelligent.
You see why the Bible says, if you don't believe you without
excuse. But of course, then there are
people that say to me, well who made God then and you know,
these are the sorts of questions we need to answer.
How do you answer a nine-year-old or a six-year-old?
When they say, you know, mum dad who made God well, we need to be
able to have answers for what we believe.
That's what we specialize in & Answers in Genesis, helping us
to have those answers. That's apologetics I am boy come
up on stage once at a conference and he said mr.
Ham, who made God I said, well, son.
If somebody made God, you have to have a bigger God, right?
Well, yes sir, I said now we got a problem.
Yes, sir. Well who made the bigger God?
You don't have a bigger big guy. Who made the big guy to may God,
right? Oh yes sir, I said now you got a
problem. He said yes sir I said who made
the bigger bigger God, you have to have a big, a big, a big guy
who made the bigger be going to make the big God may God, right?
Yes sir. Now I got a problem.
I know who made the bigamy. Mm God.
Having a bigger bigger bigger bigger God.
Who made the bigger bigger? Bigger made the big a big yard
maybe going to make God, right? Yes, sir.
Well, now you got. I know, I know and I said, see,
you go back and you get the biggest God of all, you got to
keep going back and getting bigger and bigger.
You're the biggest guy out of all very first verse of the
Bible. In the beginning, God who exists
outside of time, nobody Creator, God, he is the Creator.
And that's the only thing that makes sense of what we see.
And there's always a faith aspect.
That's true without faith. It's impossible to please God,
because we're finite beings and we're created beings.
We can't understand a being who wasn't created because we are
created and we're created in time.
But when you take God's word, they claims to be the word of
the one, who's always been there.
He makes sense of what we see over and over again, we see
science, confirms what the Bible is saying.
This is the word of God. Let me give you another example.
What about the account of the flood in the Bible and Noah's
Ark seeing is just talked about the life-size art that we have
there in Northern Kentucky, does science confirm the account of
the Ark, you know, one of the most asked questions I've been
asked over the years is this, well, how could Noah get all the
land out of all kinds on the ark?
Well, he didn't get all the species on the ark because
species aren't kinds. I want to explain what I mean by
that when you come to the ark encounter, those are said, when
not if when you come to the ark encounter, you'll see we have on
the first deck, a little exhibit.
We say at the most only 1393 animal kinds on the ark, we
think it's much less than that. That it's an argument.
You know, that overestimates for that for the sake of argument,
but we think it's probably less than 1,000 animal.
Kinds not millions of species. A thousand animal kinds.
And we have a list of all kinds there and all the research that
we did to explain how we explain those kinds.
You see the Bible says in This is 124 that God made kinds
according to their kind kinds so we have to understand what a
kind is. And then in Genesis 6, it says,
two of each kind seven pairs of some but two of each kind of
land-dwelling air-breathing animals, not the sea creatures
was just a land-dwelling, everything animals went on the
ark. Now we have a classification
system. Kingdom phylum, class order,
family, genus species. And we would say this, our
research has shown and I'll show you how we came.
To this, that the kind in the Bible is more at the family
level of classification, not genus and species, mainly
family. If you take dogs there there's a
lot of different species of dogs and you can show that all those
different species are interconnected genetically.
In other words, this species bread, with this one, this one
with this one, this one with that one that one with this one
that one never bread with that one but they're connected.
And if you can breed them like that and they're all connected,
it means they're all the one kind.
So I would say that old dogs are the one kind and they're all the
one kind at the family level of classification.
So when God made the animals and we made humans he made the dog
kind. He made the cat.
Kind, he made the human kind right now.
We're not animals. We're different, we made in the
image of God and so when he made those kinds, he made them from
that DNA that molecule per entity, but it's filled with
With all sorts of information so much information, we call it
genetic diversity. That allows great variation
within a kind, if you look at the world today, 8 billion
people. And we all look a little
different to each other, but we're all human beings and we
all actually go back to Adam and Eve.
So all dogs, even though they look a little different from
each other, that reflects all that genetic diversity that God
built into their DNA in the first place.
Now, two of each kind, seven, pairs of some when I'm bored
Noah's Ark. So, There'll be two dogs that
went on the ark. They come off the ark, two of
the dog kind. And then what happens?
They get married have kids. I get married, have kids, I get
married had kids until you end up with, you know, your
homeschool family of dogs that we have there.
Now, we look at that and we say, okay, how'd you get you
different species? Well, what happens is and
particularly, After the flood, there's a diversity of
environments because the flood caused climate change, massive
climate change actually. And so did the Ice Age generated
by the flood. You got to understand the events
of history and the Bible. Do you even understand what's
happening in the world today? And so, as those animals moved
away from each other, those had that as they were breeding in
groups, moving away from each other, those that had
combinations of genes for longer hair, survive better in a colder
climate, those have combinations for shorter hair survive,
better, and hotter climate. You get the idea and so
depending on which bread with us, which died out how isolated
there were over time. You end up producing different
species of dogs. And so we look at all those PCS
today. And here's what we need to
understand, they weren't on the ark.
They didn't exist Before the Flood.
There are descendants of the two that went on the ark and it's
just a sorting out of the information that's already
there. See evolutionist you think about
it? They tell us that life evolved.
Well, how did they--how did you get all this information?
Well, it had to be new information form from matter
over and over again. Millions Aliens trillion
zillions of times. We've never seen matter.
Produced one bit of information. This fits exactly with what
you'd expect based on the Bible God made distinct kinds.
Great genetic diversity within a kind whom they belong A
variation. And after the flood is a move
away from each other, you can get those different species
forming and then you realize God didn't need the number of
animals on the ark. We think he didn't eat all the
species of cats. Just two of the cat kind.
He didn't need all the species of Two of the dog kind and so it
goes on, remember the humankind, all of us, we only go back to to
Adam and Eve and if we get time will quickly look at that as
well, but this science confirm the account of the flood.
Well, the Bible says, there was a global flood water, covering
the highest hills out of the hole of of heaven.
And it was about 4,300 years ago, according to the Bible, If
there really was a global flood, you'd expect to find billions of
dead things buried. Read in rock, layers laid down
by water. All over the Earth, by the way.
Do you know what you find? Billions of dead things buried
in rock, layers, laid, down by water, all over the Earth.
And as you look at the fossil record, here's what you notice.
The fossils are beautifully preserved and they had to be
buried quickly. See, fossilization is a
catastrophic process when an animal dies at normally.
Decays is not much left after a while.
How do you form an ichthyosaur fossil in the middle of giving
birth that had to be rather quick or a very long labor or
something? No rather La rather quick.
It had to be covered very, very quickly or fish like this.
This is from our Creation Museum.
When you visit notice, I didn't say if When you will see this
fossil a it's a fish swallowing another fish and he's having his
breakfast and suddenly look what happened to it.
You know when you go to the Grand Canyon and millions of
people each year, go to the Grand Canyon, you read the
signs. It says are over millions of
years. All these layers were laid down
and over millions of years and the Canyon was formed by the
Colorado River eroding at all. And so you'll hear the secular
scientists saying a long time and a little bit of water.
I'm the Grand Canyon. Well, I've got a different view,
a lot of water, and a little bit of time form the Grand Canyon.
What's interesting is, is when Mount Saint Helens erupted on
May 18th 1980. Many people don't realize this,
but as a result of that, eruption hundreds of feet of
sedimentary layers, will lay down layer upon layer upon
layer. That particular layer, in the
middle consists of thousands of individual layers and is 20 feet
thick, but it was laid down in a matter of just a few hours.
He didn't take me. Lindsay is it called Power
clastic Flows. In other words, a lot of those
layers, it's like you know, when you have a blizzard and you can
see all the layers of snow and you get out there, you dig down
through it. Now, normally people would
interpret that, you know, when you're digging down through ice
and getting ice cores and looking all the layers or
mustard, take a millions of years, those sort of things can
happen, very, very quickly, not only that.
But the tool North Fork of the toutle river actually flows
through a canyon And they're now that's all covered in vegetation
again today, that's called Engineers Canyon.
But when it, when it was first formed a Basalt layer in one day
form that Canyon but if you went there today and stood on the
edge of that cliff and looked down at the river down the
bottom there and now with all the vegetation there as well.
You can say how long did the river take to erode the canyon.
Well it wasn't a rotor by a river.
It was a mud flow that eroded the canyon to allow the river to
go through. We would say the same thing
happened at the Grand Canyon for instance, when you look behind
the Can you see evidence? They were once massive lakes and
there are dried up now. We see the evidence of those
Lakes. See the Bible seems to indicate
in Psalm 104 how guide end of the flood raised up the
mountains lower the ocean basins.
See people say there's not enough water to cover the Earth
for the flood. Actually if you smooth out the
Earth totally there's enough water right now.
On the surface of the Earth to cover to a depth of two miles,
we would say, the mountains, weren't as high in the oceans,
weren't as deep Before the Flood.
But what happened at the end of the flood, God raised up the
mountains, lowered the ocean basins, the water pours off into
the oceans where it is today and as it did left all sorts of
erosional features and left over water like these lakes here.
Now then we would say this because the sediment were still
soft and because of fracturing. And so on what happened was that
that the water then broke through the damn it.
Like there's a dam there and carved out the Grand Canyon
catastrophically. What is interesting when you go
Downstream from the grand, Canyon's you see, what are
called surge deposits. Showing you where all that
sediment was deposited. So it wasn't eroded slowly over
millions of years. And, you know, there's many
other evidences are at the Grand Canyon those those Rock layers
as they were lifted up. They actually were bent.
They were bent when they were soft and all the evidence points
to that, they couldn't have been solidified over millions of
years. They would have broken and
Fractured and so on. And so it all fits with what the
Bible says about the global photos Noah's day.
Really was an event that really occurred.
That's why you find fossils all over the Earth and thousands of
feet of sedimentary strata. But of course, a lot of people
believe in millions of years, can can Christians believe in
millions of years. There's a lot of Christians that
believe in millions of years. And I'm not saying they're not a
Christian because of that, but I would say You're really
believing something that man has devised and you're trying to fit
in The Bible you see back in the 1800's, they were atheists.
It said, we want to explain the fossil record without God and
they said, the fossil record had to be laid down slowly over
millions of years, supposedly reflecting Evolution millions of
years before man. And you know what?
We find in the fossil record, we find bones with evidence from
cancer and other diseases. It's a record of death.
You know what the Bible says death came because of our sin.
The Bible tells us that the first man Adam.
And against God. And that's where sin came from.
That's why we die. Everyone is going to die.
There's a, there's a great positive message for you for for
today, and that is, you're going to die.
But you know what? The Bible says, it is appointed
unto man once to die because of our sin, but then the Judgment
but you know, when man sinned, God also said that he had a plan
to save us from our sin and even in Genesis, he tells us about a
prophecy of one to come, who is going to die for our sin to be
raised from the Did the Lord Jesus Christ.
But if you believe in evolution and millions of years, you have
a problem because that means you got all this death before sin.
So it's not our sin that caused the death.
It means you blaming god for death, not only that diseases
like cancer in the fossil record.
After God made man. He said everything you made was
very good. Does God called diseases very
good. Does God.
Call death very good. No the Bible actually says,
death is an enemy, it's an intrusion and one day it's going
to be thrown into the lake of Of fire.
And so, if we believe God's word, then we can't have all
that death before sin, and makes sense that all the fossils had
to come after me and sinned. Oh, the event of the global
flood of Noah's day, that makes sense of the fossils.
But then I have people say to me, well, so you don't believe
in millions of years. No, I believe the universe is
only a few thousand years old. Well, can science confirm that,
well actually, it can see Assigned to say the Earth is 15
billion years old. And the universe of the earth is
5 billion years old. The universe is 15 billion years
old creation. Scientists.
We say the universe and Earth are about 6,000 years old.
See the Bible records. That God made everything in six
days and it's interesting that the Hebrew word for day, the
word yawm has different meanings, but when is qualified
by evening, morning, number or night, it means an ordinary day.
And in Genesis 1, the word day is qualified that way for each
of the day. Days of creation, which means
they're ordinary days. In fact, think about where our
seven-day week comes from. Why do we have a seven day week,
Exodus 20, verse 11, tells us the basis of the fourth
Commandment actually. In six days God made everything
and rested on the seventh day. That's why we have a seven-day
week if God made everything in six days.
And on day six, he made the first man Adam.
And you know in the Bible it tells us that Adam had a sunset
at 130 years old, and then South had a son in eyeshadow. 15 and
then Enos father Keenan at 90 and then he had a son at 70 and
it goes through and gives you all these ages Jared fathered,
Enoch 162 and you come down to Methuselah who fathered lehmer
code 187, who fathered Noah at 182 that we get to ham Shem and
japheth when Noah was 500, we get to Abraham, we get to the
Babe in a Manger. Jesus Christ coming up to the
present. All those dates, add up to 0.
Eighty-six thousand years. And so that's why we believe in
only thousands of years and there's nothing in observational
science that contradicts that because a lot of people point to
the dating methods that are used.
You know, the geological dating methods radiometric, dating
methods, not the dating methods with young people use, you know,
I'm talking about these sorts of dating methods but to help
everyone understand every dating method involves a process that
changes with time and you have to know what was there.
Beginning and understand all those changes and problem is all
those assumptions can be shown to be invalid.
Give me an example in Australia, there was a Basalt layer and
scientists discovered this Basalt layer actually mining
Engineers. So it was like a lava flow and
they found trees embedded in the lava flow.
So the lava flow flowed over the forest.
And when they dated the basalt using radiometric dating method
data, 45 million years old, but the wood through carbon dating
data. To 45,000 years old, 45 thousand
Euro would in 45 million year old.
Basalt doesn't make any sense, because there's all sorts of
problems. We don't have time to talk about
them. There's all sorts of
assumptions. There's only one dating method
that can be trusted. It's God's daily method is
survival because he was there, he knows everything and we've
got that recorded history in his word.
Even when you look at Mount Saint Helens, we mentioned that
before where mounts on Was rough to do nine and nineteen eighty,
then in 1994, the lava Dome was sampled because what happened?
After the volcanic eruption, a lava Dome started to form in the
80s to seal up that volcanic core there and so there was a
scientist Who sampled the lava Dome.
Now we know it was formed in 1980 so we know that that rock
was formed in 1980 and they actually use potassium-argon
dating by grinding up the Whole Rock and on other minerals and
using those dating methods and look what they got point. 35
million years point nine million years, 2.8 million years but
wait a minute, we not formed in 1980 and we know that those
daily methods have problem because potassium argon is a
radiometric dating method. And what happened was Argon came
up in the magma already. They're making it look old when
it wasn't. And that just shows you the
problems we have with a lot. Of these dating methods.
Of course, I could go through a lot of other examples like that
as well, but let's answer one more question here.
Just science, confirm one human race.
See if the Bible's history is true and we have the six
thousand years of History. Then God made the first two
people, Adam and Eve on day, six of those creation days and it
says in Genesis 5 verse 4 they had Sons and Daughters, right?
They didn't ingest have three sons sons and daughters and then
By the time of the flood, they could have been millions of
people but only eight, trusted God, Noah and his family God
said the world was so wicked that he judged with his going to
judge with a global flood. And for Noah to build a great
big ship and only eight people went on that ship and the kinds
of the land animals went on board and we already talked
about that earlier then they came off the ship and as people
increased in number, they rebelled against God again about
150 years later. And God gave different languages
to force them to split up and move away from each other.
Forming different people groups not races.
Do you realize if the Bible's history is true, here there's
only one human race. There are many different races
and we shouldn't be talking about races.
What's interesting is in the year 2000, the human genome
Genome Project where it was headed by an atheist octave
enter, where they went around the world and obtain DNA from
All these different people, groups to sequence, the human
genome, the human DNA, and they release their findings to the
world in the year. 2000. You're not.
They said they put together. This is from The New York Times,
graft of the entire sequence of the human genome and unanimously
declared. There is only one race the human
race. Wow, who would have ever thought
of that? But there's science confirming
exactly what you'd expect based on the Bible.
There's only one human race. See when Noah and his family
came off the arc. During the eight people that
came off the Earth and Noah's, three sons and three wives, and
knowing his wife and says in Genesis 9, the sons of Noah who
went forth from the ark Shem ham and japheth these three were the
sons of known from these that people on the whole earth were
dispersed. So the Bible tells us that we
all go back to the three sons of Noah, there was the event of the
Tower of Babel causing people to split up and move away from each
other going to different places. And resulting in different
ethnic groups and and depending on who married who died out
depending on what combinations of genes survived in particular
groups. You end up with certain
characteristics, dominating the different groups and so we have
different people groups but not different races were all one
family, we're all One race. You know why that's important to
understand? Because God Son stepped into
history, to be a member of the one human race to die for the
descendants of Adam because All One race.
We're all one family, and he died on a cross because death
was a penalty for sin. He was perfect.
We're all descendants of Adam and we're not.
We're Sinners. So a sinner can't pay for sin.
Death was a penalty for sin, but he died on a cross was raised
from the dead. So all those who put their faith
and trust in him will spend eternity with him and I don't
have time to go into this in detail, but the Bible History is
true. And so then people have trouble
explaining Well, how do you, how do you get black people, and how
do you get white people? That's a whole nother area to
talk about, but actually, there are no black people in.
There are no white people and I can prove it to you because
people think I'm a white person, but hey, in less than a second
there. I proved, I'm not a white
person, right? We actually all have the same
pigment called melanin. It's a brown pigment.
We're all actually Brown, and it's just a matter of your
genetics as to how much Brown you have a little bit or a lot.
And as people were sorted out up the terror, Abel some ended up
with a lot of mountain and some not so much.
And so it's easy to understand, hey, you know, what's exciting?
Whether it's biology, anthropology, geology,
biochemistry over and over again, it confirms God's word
because God's word is true, the history.
And the Bible is true. And why does it matter?
Because what you believe about where you came from, affects
your whole world view, do you realize because Genesis is True.
We know what we believe and why is Christian's the doctrine of
marriage is based in Genesis not just marriage but every single
biblical Doctrine and theology directly or indirectly is
founded in Genesis 12, 11 Genesis is the foundational book
of the entire Bible and you see here's the problem in our world.
When you start from God's word, we know there's one race for
man's word, different races. Supposedly evolved God's word.
Marriage is a man and woman. Man's word, you define Anyway,
you want God's word to genders male and female man's word.
Well, do whatever you want. Defined it the way you want,
man. God's word abortion, where made
in the image of God, right? From fertilization abortion is
killing a human being man's word.
We're just animals, it doesn't matter.
Get rid of spare cats, get rid of spare kids and we're seeing
today, the collapse of Christian morality and increasing moral
relativism because we're seeing Generations who have been
indoctrinated to believe that science disproves the Bible, the
Bible is not true but the Bible is true.
It's God's word is history as true.
And that's why the message of Christianity based in that
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want you to think about this. You know, the message I really
given you and we've only just Glanced at things very quickly.
The history in the Bible is true.
That's why the message of the Gospel based in that history is
true. And it is true.
And that's the most important message of all that I trust that
everyone here has responded to to know where you're going to
spend eternity. And so now we're going to move
to a decision time. Everybody still good.
Take a deep breath, I love it. I mean there's just so much just
good teaching in there for some of you that might be the first
time. You kind of heard that just and
detail. And I know just him like
Wednesday night he was here and he went a little bit on greater
lengths and spend a lot more time, divulging some of those
things. And that was like, he couldn't,
he couldn't stop talking. Like he just had to keep going
because he has so much good stuff to say.
But what we're about to come into in this time of decision is
what I love every single week. We opportunity to just consider
the things that we just heard and start figuring out and
reflecting on what areas in our life.
Do we need to adjust what areas in our life.
Do we need to surrender over to the Lord?
That's what this time is all about.
And so, for those of you in this room or maybe you're watching
online right now, you don't have a relationship with Jesus.
You don't have one that's intimate.
You don't have one that's personal.
We're not talking about religion, we're talking about a
relationship. Maybe there was something today
that you heard and Ken's message, that may just really
helped confirm your faith or maybe it brought some clarity to
your faith today. Maybe when you walked in this
room or when you came into this message online, you started
wondering like, hey and is the Bible true.
Is it reliable? Can I can I count on it and
today you heard the claims and what God's word says about
itself? But also with what Ken was
talking about that your foundation, our foundation, my
Foundation should be built on his word, which never fails,
which hasn't been proven false like it's everything science.
Cannot prove it to be false. Like it's true.
It's the foundation it goes against what, what man's word
says. And what Culture even says.
And so here's what the truth is, is that every single one of you
listening to my voice right now, you were made in the image of
God. Every single one of you.
And if we know if God's word is true, not only are we made in
the image of God, God's desire is that he has relationship with
each and every single one of us. But we know because of Adam and
Eve, and because of the sin that came into this world, we are so,
we were separating that moment. But Jesus made a way God sent
Jesus, his son to come in our likeness down to this earth, and
he lived a perfect life, and it led him to a cross even though
he didn't Deserve it. He paid the penalty of your sin
and my sin when he went on the cross.
And he was crucified and three days later after he's put in a
borrowed tomb, he rose from the dead, which is what we
celebrated last Easter, which we celebrate every single day, and
every single week here at this church, he did that to rescue
you. He did that to redeem you to
bring yourself into relationship with him.
And so, if you are in that position today, in this moment
right now, were you You want to start that relationship one?
That is intimate, one, that is personal.
You can do it in a moment. That's what I love about God.
We, you know, think we might have to get all this stuff
together. We have to get it all figured
out and what he says is knowing you believed in me when you
believe in Jesus when you know that he's the way and the truth
and the life, you can enter in that relationship right now in
this moment. And really if you look down your
Isles, around your rows of people behind you in front of
you, wherever it may be There are so many stories represented
right here at this Campus of people who have met Jesus their
lord and savior their life and it's completely changed their
life. And they're not going to be
people who say hey I have it all figured out, I'm all put
together because listen I'm not all put together.
I'm not I don't have it all figured out but here's what we
all share, those of us who have relationship with Jesus.
We would say we know the one who holds it all together.
The one who Created us in His image, the one who rescued and
redeemed us. And so for those of you in this
room, if you want to step in that relationship, you can do it
in a moment. There's gonna be somebody right
by the baptistry, that would help you take that step of faith
today, whether it's just exploring what it looks like the
start relationship with Jesus or whether it's like man, I'm
diving in. I'm going to get in the
baptistry today and I'm going to identify with Jesus, death,
burial and Resurrection. I'm going to come out of the
water and I'm going to be made new because that is what God
does through. And I'm encouraging you, if you
don't have that relationship, that's the very best thing you
can do today and for the rest of us in this room for all of us
who have claimed that truth, who are walking in relationship with
Jesus. For those of you who are
following him, I know that maybe this message for you is maybe
just more confirming for you is encouraging.
Maybe right now you have an opportunity to decide to though.
Because as Christians we have this decision time for us as
well because when In God's word is preached.
We have to respond to it. There's not a let's just read it
and then let's just walk out and we got it.
No, James is very clear. When we look at God's word, we
listen to God's word. We should be changed.
We should be doers of God's word and so for you you might be
having your own conversation with God right now and I'm just
getting in the way and just a little bit.
Maybe you just want to continue that conversation with him on
the steps, getting on your knees and letting him just continue to
talk to you and press on your Convict you and change you
because he's doing that work right now.
You can have that conversation with him but I also know there's
people in this room you heard today's message in one of the
things that might be hitting you is there's people in your life.
You have conflict with people in your life, you having troubles
with and you just need a simple reminder that they also were
made in the image of God and that God desires to be in
relationship with them. And so as Christians, one of the
coolest of things but also I get it.
I'm not going to discount it. One of the hardest things is to
come up here and pray for them by name that they would
encounter Jesus. That they would have a radical
change in their life because of what God's word says and they
would start following him. And so in this moment I'm asking
as Christians would you be bold enough to pray for that person
or that group of people? But I know for me, here's where
I was at. I was Watching this message.
And I just kept thinking, how can I be a better?
Dad. How can I continue to lead?
My kids to understand that God's word is the foundation that the
world is going to speak to them pretty loudly.
Cultures going to speak to them and attack them, pretty, pretty
fiercely. But how can I step in the gaps
for them and let them know that my life is built on Christ and
his word and so I'm like I want to die.
I just want to go to battle. I want to keep praying.
God, would you help Empower me to be the dad for my kids to
continue to pray for the generations that are coming
behind us and the generations that are to come and maybe
you're in the same boat? You have kids, you have
grandkids, you have nieces you have nephews, you have kids in
your life. But let's just go to battle for
them and just pray for them and say, listen, we want God's word
to be the foundation of their life, not man's word, not what
culture says. And so, In This Moment, It for
us. Let us just be a decision time
where we move because we all make decisions.
Some of us decide. We could just stay here and we
could leave and go out the same people or we could step in the
gaps. We could draw closer to Jesus in
this moment and we could ask him to lead us this week.
What you guys do that in this moment?
Would you stand with me? Would you pray with me as we go
into this moment of decision, God right now, I lift up every
single Person in this room those who are watching online, God,
the way they, I love how when you're a personal God, you
personally interact with each of us, which means you don't talk
to us the same. We don't get the same message,
necessarily got every single person could get a different
message the way that you're speaking them.
Holy Spirit, would you just continue to move?
And God, I pray that when we hear you and we receive a word
God that we are changed and that we move towards that, that we
put feet and legs through our action.
God that Just continue to just impress Upon Our Hearts and our
minds, what we should do. As followers of you, I pray for
that person or the group of people who are men just, they're
trying to do things on their own, they're trying to do life
on their own strength. God, I pray that today as they
here, just your Good News, your gospel, your word being
preached, that it is the Firm Foundation.
God, I pray that you will just give them the boldness to
respond to you today. That they would just feel the
weights fall off of them as they They decide that they're going
to trust you Jesus what an incredible name?
What a beautiful name? What a powerful name and that is
the name that is above every other name and we worship you
right now, in this moment in Jesus name.
Amen. They decide that they're going
to trust you Jesus what an incredible name?
What a beautiful name? What a powerful name and that is
the name that is above every other name and we worship you
right now, in this moment in Jesus name.
Amen.