Pilgrims Problems No. 11 Evolution — Willie Mullan

Where we were last Tuesday, we were at this evolution, and we were looking at evolution versus creation. And I said to the class last week, just in case there is a stranger here this evening, and we can't go into all the facts of last week, because we spent over an hour last week sort of getting this thing off the ground, but I said that evolutionists believe, this is what they believe, according to Sir Bernard Lovell, who is the director of the great laboratory at Jogrell Bank in England, some time ago he said that millions of years ago, there was an explosion in the atmosphere, and out of that explosion was left a molecule, or a proto-spam, and from that tiny little living molecule evolved all the plants and all the animals and all the fishes and all the humans, and this evolution is still going on, that's what evolutionists believe, from that one single molecule of life came all life that we know and they know.

Evolution Versus Creation

Now as believers we don't believe that, this book states what we believe, have a look at it again, it's Hebrews 11, Hebrews 11, the writer is Paul, and I could prove that quite easily, and this is what he is saying, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it the elders obtained a good report, through faith we understand, that is we believers understand, that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen, were not made of things which do appear, we are going to learn that God spake, and it was done, and I mean done, God spake and it was done, God commanded, the 33rd Psalm says, and it stood fast, and we believe that there was a whole creation, and what's more I'm going to force it this evening, it was a full aged creation, that's what we went into last week you know, we went into the rocks, we were looking at the rocks, the argument about fossils and rocks and trees, and sometimes the geologists, the professor of geology at Queen's showed me a rock one day, and he assured me by all the means he has to prove its age, that it was millions of years old, and I said I accept that, he says it knocks your theory out altogether, it doesn't do anything of the kind, you see what we need to get the hold of is this, that when God made man, that's what we were at last week, let us make man, and this is what the book says, God created man, in his own image, let's get the hold of it, he didn't create him a baby, Adam wasn't brought up on a bottle, and if I take the medical professor from Queen's down to Eden's garden, and we're allowed to look through the hedge, and I say to him see the man in the garden, he's a big man with a beard, broad back, you can see him, he's a real specimen, he's from the hand of God the creator, I say what age is he, now he knows a trick or two, because he's got a beard, because he's got build and broad, he says he's sixty, no he's not, you're off the mark, your science is letting you down, one second, did you get that, supposing I take the botanist down to the garden, and I say see the big oak tree in the corner, you know all these massive oaks, have a look at it, now he knows, now let's get it quite clear, you can read it, God planted trees in the garden, didn't sow seeds you know, he knows all about horticulture, say what age is the big oak tree, he says it's a hundred years old, it's not you know, just made, when I talk about God creating a full aged world, you know now what I'm talking about don't you, and if he made the man as old as he wanted, and made the trees as old, he can make the rocks as old, age doesn't matter, you can't argue from that, God just made it like that, I said to a scientist once who was an evolutionist and a very nice gentleman too, I said what do you think about the stars, have you ever seen any stars evolving, or has the star gazer seen any new stars evolving in any shape or form or way, and they haven't you know, just there as they've always been, I said you know when the stars were made, he says of course I do, on the fourth day, because he said I don't think the day was the day that you think about, you think it's 24 hours, and what length of the day do you think it was, oh he says I think it was 20 million years, because we proved last week when we were talking about the six days, we proved this couldn't possibly be true, if we give these seven days, six days of labour and the one day of rest, if we give them 20 million years each, then I said to a scientist once, and Adam was made on the sixth day, or part of the day, in the morning, afternoon or evening, and if it's 20 million years then at dinner time if he was made, he's 10 million years to go to the end of the day, and there's another day to go after that and that's 20 million and 10 and 30 million, and yet when it gives Adam's age, it gives his age is 900 and so many years, it's tripe they're talking, tripe, just plain tripe, just doesn't work like that, and I said to this scientist, how many billion light years is the farthest further star away from this earth, I'll tell you what they'll answer, the furthest star away from this planet of ours just now, it's one billion light years away, that's what they'll tell you, you ask them, read their books and it's there, it's alright, I wouldn't dare to quote anything that's wrong, and he said to me, it's one billion light years away, alright, so I made the stars on the fourth day, and you're talking about 20 million years and you're talking about the light years being a billion, they never got light for a long time after that, did they, are you wakening up now, if the light years is one billion years away, 20 million years hardly counts, they didn't get light the next day, nor the next one, nor the next one, we're counting it out for them now, yes we are, I want to get you the hold of this thing, I'll tell you the greatest trait that's talked in this world just now is evolution, that's what it is, it just won't work if you try it round and round in every shape and way and form, it just won't work, now we want to get on with the subject this evening, and I want my doughnuts at number three on your notes if you have them, and it's evolution versus our finished creation, I want you to watch this very very carefully because here is the crux of the matter, now evolutionists believe, and this is the fundamental belief of the evolutionists philosophy, this is the fundamental, now I wrote this down out of one of their books, this is the fundamental belief of their philosophy, that the origin, I'll read this so I won't make any mistakes, that the origin and development of all things, just you follow me, the origin and development of all things can be understood in basic natural laws and processes, which can be studied in operation right now, that's what they believe, they believe that the origin and development of all things can be understood in basic natural laws and processes, which can be studied in operation right now, because they believe that from this molecule, all these laws and processes went into operation and are still in operation, and are operating tonight and can be studied in operation right now, I shall tell you this, that that just cannot be so according to this book, let's go back to Genesis, we're at Genesis chapter 2 tonight as we begin, book of Genesis, and we're at chapter 2, you see we've had a long long chapter in chapter 1, and bit by bit as we went through these days, and they were 24 hour days, because they were bounded by the words the evening and the morning were the first day, and you can't bind periods like that you know, oh I'm quite well aware that the word day is used for the day of salvation and it goes on for thousands of years, I'm quite aware that the day of grace has run for a long time, and I'm quite aware that the day of his wrath, and we'll be right in the midst of the day of his wrath when we come to the great tribulation period, I know it's a long time, but you can't use the words evening and morning for these periods, and in each day here in Genesis 1 the evening and the morning were the first day, and of course if you take them at 20 million years apiece, then you're going to be upset when you begin to count Adam's age, and remember he was made on the sixth day, now all this wonderful detail is given to us in chapter 1, and then it's safe in chapter 2, thus the heavens and the earth were finished, there's no process going on, oh no we're having to use the word finished, they say that this process is going on, that the origin and development of all things can be understood in basic natural laws and processes, which can be studied in operation right now, and a way back there, this mighty work of creation is finished, that's what it says, not going on, thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them, what's the next verse, and on the seventh day God ended, let's get the word ended, what does it mean, going on or ending, this is not a process that's going on, this is ending, this creation was ended, this is something that's ended, let's go to psalm 33 for a moment till you see, book of psalms, and we're at psalm 33, let's take in a verse or two, just to save the time here, verse 4, for the word of the Lord is right, it is always right and will be forever right, and all his works are done in truth, verse 9, for he spoke and it was done, did you get the word, he commanded and it stood fast, and I don't think that you can take this fundamental philosophy and put it beside this word finished and ended and done and stood fast, all that was finished back there, you see I think that there's a danger here of men who have this philosophy of stealing something, you know this creatorial work and we'll come to different parts of it in a moment, this creatorial work was finished, God spake, yes by the word of the Lord, the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear, actually the great fact is that God took nothing and made everything, just by a fire word and it was finished, great creatorial work was finished, it was a long time before God came to this earth to do another mighty work, you see there is the work of incarnation, you know that the eternal son was in the bosom of the father, the Unitarians argue with me sometimes, Unitarian said to me, look Jesus Christ began at Bethlehem, he was not before that, oh blathers, my dear friend I just quoted one verse and he couldn't see it, I said I'll tell you something, this book says, for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, this has got nothing to do with it, this has got nothing to do with it, all right, you say he began at Bethlehem and he was rich, tell me when he was rich, was he rich at Bethlehem, he was born in a stable I can tell you, was he rich in life, he was known as the carpenter's son, he was the stranger of Galilee, was he rich in his ministry, when he was ministering he had to turn round when he's going to illustrate, he says to the crowd show me a penny, he hasn't got a penny, was he rich in life, was he rich in death, he died on the cross, he was buried in another man's grave, you just find him between Bethlehem and Calvary, when was he rather questioned, oh my dear friends, you know the pre-existence of the Lord Jesus is proved in this book, when he prays, he prays to the father, he says father, give me the glory which I had with thee before the world was, when we call him the Lord of glory we're not magnifying a wee fellow that was born at Bethlehem, well let's get the hold of this, but there came a time when the eternal son who was in the bosom of the father who was worshipped by myriads of millions of angels, when the fullness of the time was come he stepped out of heaven into the virgin's womb, don't ask me too much about it, I don't understand properly the wonderful things that went on in the virgin's womb, but I know that in the virgin's womb he took upon himself the form of a slave, I know that he was God the son, and I know that he didn't cease to be what he always was, but I know he became what he never had been before, he is now God manifest in flesh, that is incarnation, that was another mighty work that God did, I shall tell you this, there is another mighty work that God has done, I want to tell you this, look at 2nd Corinthians with me, chapter 5, now this is what I think we are in danger of missing at times, 2nd Corinthians, chapter 5, just reading verse 17, therefore, he is just arguing from all he has said in the chapter and I don't want to take the whole chapter, therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, in the margin of some of your Bibles it will say this, he is a new creation, yes, they are nodding all over the place, that's a new creation, oh that's a very wonderful thing you know, I don't want you to get the whole of this, you know there are little phrases here you should look at, if any man, you see the whole world of mankind do you, black and white and red and yellow, and learned and illiterate, and kings and paupers, and high and low, and rich and poor, and protestant and catholic, and Jew and Arab, it doesn't make a matter who you are, if any man, it goes for any one of us, if any man, let's get this straight, if any man be in Christ, if he comes to this place in life, where he steps by faith, into Christ, the way that Noah stepped into the ark, you know that Christ used the illustration, I am the door, by me if any man enter in he shall be saved, you can see the any man can't you, you know there's a sameness about it, be in Christ, there's a blessedness about it, he is a new creature, a new creation, there's a positiveness about it, that's the work that God's doing, I think you can see that God finished the creatorial work, I think you can see the mighty work that God did, not only at creation but in incarnation, I think you can see the mighty work that God does in regeneration, because that makes you a new creation, and I'll tell you it's not finished yet, because when by his grace I shall look on his face, that will be glory for me, that's the finish of the article, I'm not a finished article yet you know, but one day I shall be like him, that's glorification, oh I don't think that the evolutionists, can stand with this nonsense against the word finished, it's not going on at all, that creation was finished, but we'll get down to it a little bit finer than that, just in a moment, have a look at this next bit, evolution versus fixed kinds, you know I said to a scientist, I was given lectures in Edinburgh, and there were one or two of these gentlemen there, mind you they believe they're saved, and I believe they're saved, but they've got this notion, and I said to one of these scientists, who's a very dogmatic evolutionist, I said, is this really true, that all kinds, mark the word kinds, all kinds of plants, let's take the plants, you must know some of them, I don't care what you take, you can take wallflower, you can take roses, you can take any other plant you like, all kinds of plants, I said to him, is this really true, that all kinds of plants, and all kinds of fish, and you know how many different kinds, and all kinds of animals, and you can take lion, and leopard, and elephant, and so on, whatever you like, and all kinds of humans, now let me try to get the hold of this, all kinds of plants, and fishes, and animals, and humans, have they all just one ancestor back there, is that what you're teaching, you're teaching, they have just one ancestor, is that it, ok, ok, we'll find out just now, I shall tell you, you're going to find it's nonsense, let's go to 1st Corinthians chapter 15, 1st Corinthians chapter 15, one or two things to establish here, and you'll have to be patient with me, 1st Corinthians 15 verse 12, Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, I'll say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead, because there are people who say there is no resurrection, the Sadducees, didn't believe in a resurrection, that's why John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress said, that his sins have gone into a Sadducean grave, they would never be resurrected again, no more forever, clever old Bunyan, yes, I want you to get this, verse 13, but if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen?

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain, if Christ is still in a grave somewhere, on the hills of Jerusalem, then I think we should close the meeting, and I don't know who you would vote for tomorrow after that, we lose that, we've lost everything haven't we?

The Bodily Resurrection and Christian Faith

Yea, and we have found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not, for if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised?

He's gone back over the argument again, good old preacher, and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins, and when the Russellites maintain, that Christ was not raised bodily from the grave, they're telling you, you're still in your sins, and we listen this clap clap don't we?

And I'll tell you what some of you need to know, this book says shun profane and vain babbling, you don't go to dabble in this, you shun it, like the plague, that's what the book says anyway, whether you will obey or not I don't know, you don't listen to that, they're just saying you're still in your sins, now I want you to get this, verse 17, if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins, then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished, your mother, if she's dead, she's perished, you don't like people to say that, that's what they say at your door sometime, no wonder I threw them out, I shall not let people come round the door, saying my mother is perished, that would bitter me, I know my good old mothers in heaven, if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable, but now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept, now we're going over the chapter a bit to verse 35, but some man will say, how are the dead raised up, cause they'll shift the ground of their argument, and with what body do they come, thou fool, that which thou sourced is not quickened except it die, and that which thou sourced, thou sourced not that body that shall be but bare grain, it may chance of wheat or of some other grain, but God giveth it a body as it hath leased him, you would know the difference in the grains wouldn't you, I don't think you're so far away, if I gave you a handful of barley, I have a feeling that the most of you would know what barley was like, and if I gave you wheat on the other hand, I think you would know what wheat is like, and I'm positively sure you know what corn is like, I don't need to go into lentils and all the other things, and there's a man in the meeting who owns a bird shop up the street, and he's got old bags of seeds all round, and I go in and plunder food, and the birds don't mind me handling the food at all, and I don't know all the seeds that's in there, they're all different, now I'll tell you this, you can sow them in whatever country you like, but they'll just produce the same kind, not a different kind, I want you to get this, this is a fixed thing you see, these kinds are fixed, now watch this because this is most important, see these grains of wheat or of some other grain, verse 38 says, but God giveth it a body as it hath leased him, and to every seed his own body, all flesh is not the same flesh, that's just where we're going to have a bit of an argument with the evolutionists aren't we, because they say it's all the same, it's all coming from the same one spot isn't it, the same ancestor, common ancestor, for plants, for fish, for birds, for animals, for humans, all flesh is not the same flesh, I would think you would know that, you see there is one kind of flesh of men, another kind of flesh of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds, I'm sure you know that, you know the story of the farmer's boy who worked at the farm, and you know the old cow died, and the old farmer shed his blood, and all ripped off his hide, and they were eating the cow for weeks, and then you see after that was gone the donkey died, and he ripped off the hide, and they were eating the donkey for weeks too, and then after that the grandmother died, and the young fellow took his cards and left, he thought he knew the difference in flesh, yeah, oh there is a difference, and the surgeons know the difference now, you see you cannot transplant anything you like into anyone you like either, because there is something in there that rejects it sometimes, even though it came from a human, and that's going into little intricacies now, we are not doing that, I want you to go back to Genesis, let's go back to you see, we are at Genesis chapter 1, now you'll find this again and again and again, and I mustn't take too much time with it, verse 11, and God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, watch it, after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so, look down at verse 21, see 21, and God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, mark that bit, and every winged fowl, after his kind, see verse 24, and God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature, after his kind, cattle creeping things, the beast of the earth, after his kind, never after a different kind, there is no evolving, I tell you, with an apple tree, in whatever way you like to work, I've seen the best horticulturists in the country, trying to graft, trying to graft, I was there when it was done, trying to graft plums, onto apples, it won't work I tell you, it's a different sap altogether, it won't even grow, won't take on, oh no, you can't make an apple tree bear plums, you can't make a donkey bring forth piglets, won't work, no I know that human beings produce things, that's very wonderful at times, never mind, I'll tell you it's a fixed kind, it's fixed, oh no it's not a common ancestor at all, I'll tell you this is all fixed, you see how can evolution verse fixed kinds, you just can't do it, let's go on to the next one till you see, see what it says, evolution versus the wisdom of God, I was reading just this very day, it's one of Darwin's books, mind you he worked hard, and he went up alleys, and he worked for years on those alleys, always to come to a sort of cul-de-sac, and there were so many errors, and so many misfits, so many evolutionary blind alleys, just didn't work, now let's think about this, this is what one of the evolutionists said, he said that when this evolution got underway, and we came into animals, in the prehistoric world, these dinosaurs, they came along, and of course there has been fossils found of these, and there's no problem about this at all, we went into this last week, where Satan wanted to take over, and God turned the world upside down, you know some of the believers won't accept this gap theory, because they say it was done by the flood, that the rocks were turned upside down by the flood, and therefore there are fossils found in the rocks, because of the mighty flood, now there have never been a human fossil found, not one, and if this came by the flood, I would think we would find thousands of them, oh there were humans here when the flood came, no this was before humans, now this is what I penned out of this book, this gentleman said, that the dinosaurs were here, for 100 million years, before there was another movement, in this evolution process, 100 million years, I want you to get that, God was moving towards making man, and the dinosaurs are here, and this is just one little department we're taking, for 100 million years, that's quite a long time isn't it, is that like the wisdom of God, if God is moving towards making man, what's all this time loss about, that's not like God at all, that's like confusion, and this book says that God is not the author of confusion, I think they're wrong in their dates, they seem as the rocks and the trees and everything else, I don't believe that this would work at all, when God says, let all things be done decently and in order, when it says in this book, that the king's business requires haste, what's the 100 million years of the hold up for, I don't accept that at all, I don't think that would work, I don't think that works beside the wisdom of God at all, look let's come down to this last one on the page this evening, and it's evolution versus death, and decay, you see the talk from this evolution philosophy, is that things are getting better and bigger, and all the rest of it is growing and all the rest, I can tell you friend, that old Henry Light was right, you know the old minister, Church of Ireland minister, dying of TB, in days long ago when there was no hope for him, and in his last hours, he scribbled on a piece of paper, this immortal hymn, sing it at football matches now even, abide with me, fast falls the even time, the darkness deepens, Lord with me abide, when other helpers fail, and comforts flee, help of the helpless, abide with me, in one of the verses he penned this, death and decay, in all around I see, I can tell you that this book says, that the grass withereth, that the flower fadeth, that the earth shall wax old, that it shall fold up like a garment, how can you bring death and decay, to be on the same terms as evolution, I can tell you, in the very third chapter, in the very second chapter, that God cursed the earth, the earth was cursed, it's the third chapter of Genesis, have a look at it, Genesis 3, Genesis 3 and 17, and unto Adam, he said, God said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee saying, thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground, for thy sake, I can tell you there is a curse upon, let's go over to Romans chapter 8, I think you must see this, before we close the meeting, Romans chapter 8, here is a bit of real preaching for you, Romans 8, and I think everybody knows 28, but I think you ought to know 18 before 28, Romans 8 and 18, Paul writing said, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us, for the earnest expectation of the creature, and the word there is the same word, as we had in 2nd Corinthians, the earnest expectation of the creation, waited, the whole creation is waiting, for the manifestation of the sons of God, for the creation that is made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope, because the creation itself, also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, that is not evolution, that is the bondage of corruption, that is death and decay, I don't think you can stand beside it even, I don't think that evolutionists, has a foot to stand on, beside death and decay, and it's all around us, and every one of us knows something about it, I want you to get the whole of this, he goes further than that, he says verse 22, for we know that the whole creation, there's your word, they put it right that time, the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain, together until now, why we've come down the years suffering, and death and decay has been with us all the way, and not only they, not only the whole creation, but ourselves also, the believers, which are the first fruits of the spirit, even we who are indwelt by the Holy Ghost, we ourselves groan within ourselves, my this whole body is going down, last week I worked all week at a message, and God filled and filled my heart, and then Sunday morning came, and I was hardly able to stand here, and I had to call on Jeffrey, who's sitting there early in the morning, and he came along and preached better than I'll ever do, I mean that son, yes, because I'm done, really done, I don't think you believe that, but if you felt what I feel sometimes you would, how there's no evolution about me, I'm dying, yes, so are you too, some of us more dead than the rest of us, take it carefully now, you see what I see, in this whole argument, bless my friends who argue with me, they're all so kind to me, so kind at Queen's too, once say this, I can see the devil coming in through a thing like this, and he wants to take the glory of the creator away, oh I'm not allowing you to do that, all things were made by him, our Lord Jesus, and without him was not anything made that was made, and you're not allowed to take away the glory of the creator, but I see them not only taking away the glory of the creator, I see them taking away the glory of the savior, oh yes he came to save, through the blessed virgin Mary he came to save, what a wonderful savior he is, I want you to get this bit, I see them taking away the glory of the creator, and the glory of the savior, I see them taking away the glory of the redeemer, ah there's a redemption that's coming, it'll be the redemption of this body, and it'll be the redemption of this whole groaning creation, just have a look at him tonight, thank God he's the creator, thank God he's the savior, thank God he's the redeemer, don't let anybody steal his glory, I hope you've got something out of this, may God bless you, let's bow together, we'll not sing anymore, we'll just have a word of prayer, Lord we bow at thy feet, we thank thee for this book, we thank thee for the wonderful words that thou hast placed in this book, for the truth that's here, Lord we thank thee for thyself, we thank thee that this book declares that thou art a faithful creator, and with a fire word you brought this whole thing to be, we bless thee Lord that thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands, and there was a moment when you finished it and it was ended, that great creatorial work, Lord we thank thee for the time when you came to earth, and took upon thee the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man to go to Calvary to die for us, what a savior, thank thee that you'll come again, we're waiting for the adoption to wit, the redemption of this body, when the bondage of corruption, that's upon this whole creation just now because of sin, when death and decay will go forever, and there'll be a new heavens, and a new earth, Lord Jesus, we thank you for yourself, take us into the depths of the truth that thou hast for us, our Lord part us in thy fear, take us home in safety, remember us through this night, remember our policemen and all our security forces, and all who stand between us and the wicked foe, and on the day of these elections, when maybe murderers would be abroad, Lord remember the men of this assembly, who are in between us and the enemy, preserve their going out, and their coming in, part us in thy fear, with thy blessing for thy name's sake, Amen.

949, when all my labors and trials are over, and I am safe on that beautiful shore, just to be near the dear Lord I adore, will through the ages be glory for me,. 949 please.