Who is God? with Eric Hovind of Creation Today

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April 5, 2022

Eric Hovid of Creation Today TV series change with [email protected] about who God is and how big God is.

00:10: Good evening and thank you for joining us. Creation Fellowship in Santee has been meeting for 10 years, 8 years in person, and presently online for almost 2 years.
00:22: We're a group of people who come together to learn more about the six -day creation account that happened some 6 ,000 years ago.
00:30: You can find Creation Fellowship Santee as a public page and a private group on Facebook.
00:35: You can watch past presentations on our video platforms at YouTube, Rumble, and BitChute by searching
00:43: Creation Fellowship Santee or just CFS 2020. If you have questions or would like to get on our emailing list, send us an email at creationfellowshipsantee at gmail .com,
00:57: just like it sounds. I control the email and I do not spam.
01:03: I send out one email a week or if something inspires me, then I may send out one or two more.
01:09: We're doing a new thing this year. We're partnering with Throughout All Ages Ministries, and I'm going to pass this over to Stacey to tell us more about TAM and to open us up in prayer and to introduce our speaker.
01:24: Okay, Stacey. Thank you so much, Robin. That's all I have to say. Join me in prayer, please.
01:31: Oh Lord Jesus, thank you for this day and thank you for this time tonight as we dig into your word and learn more about you.
01:38: May you be with Eric, our speaker, and just bless him and the words that come from his mouth.
01:44: May it be glorifying to you and may we learn and just grow from the words that he has to say,
01:50: Lord. And I pray that everyone would be blessed and grow from this and go out and tell others,
01:56: Lord Jesus. Thank you so much in Jesus name. Amen. So, thank you so much for joining us today and my name is
02:07: Stacey Gaona. I am the CEO of Throughout All Ages Ministries. And what we do is go into the public schools to build up the students character to intellectually think about their worldview and weigh it with truth.
02:23: And so, and if you would like to learn more about Throughout All Ages Ministry, you can go to ThroughoutAllAgesMinistries .com
02:34: and we are 1530 Apologetics and we call it
02:40: TAME. So, I am super thrilled to introduce our speaker tonight. His name is
02:46: Eric Hoban. He was immersed in the world of apologetics and he one day heard the
02:55: Hell's Best Kept Secret by Ray Comfort and his life was changed at that point and he got involved with apologetics and started the
03:05: Creation Today and the Creation Today show that our family just enjoyed watching.
03:13: And recently, not too long ago, a few years ago, he came out with a film called
03:18: Genesis Paradise Lost. He lives, he has a ministry called
03:24: Creation Today and he lives in Pensacola, Florida with his beautiful family and he has done, been a huge impact on mine and my family's life and we are just so grateful
03:40: God brought him into our lives and my kids' lives because I'm just going to share this right now.
03:45: My kids grew up in the church, but once they heard Eric Hoban speak, they said,
03:51: Mom, I really understand and believe that the Bible's true and it was through the apologetics that Eric taught and our favorite show, even today, his beginning series, a
04:03: DVD that you can buy, but he has several DVDs. So, with no further ado, welcome,
04:10: Eric. Thank you so much. Oh man, Stacey, great to be with you and Grandma Connie, I see you too.
04:18: How you doing, girl? I am glad you guys are on here.
04:25: Hey, they are recording this, so Grandma Connie, can you just turn your camera off because they're going to want that off. Perfect.
04:30: As long as you can still hear me. Good, you didn't leave. Man, what a blessing to be with you guys today.
04:36: I'm wondering, and I've got to test out, for those of you that are live, if you're watching this, not live, go ahead and play along anyway and try to react to this.
04:45: You got a little reaction button there. Raise your hand if you have ever in your life questioned if God really exists.
04:54: If there was ever a time in your life where you just hover over the screen or tap it, there should be a little reaction button.
04:59: Okay, I see several hands going up. Anybody else, you're like, man, I've wondered before. Just click that raise hand button.
05:05: I've wondered, okay, a bunch of us. Is God real? Is He really there?
05:11: I mean, if He is, what's He like? I was raised in an incredible Christian home.
05:18: Great parents that didn't just kind of go to church every once in a while. They were heavily involved in the church.
05:25: My dad was a pastor, a youth pastor. My mom played the piano and the organ.
05:31: She could do the whole organ. Man, that takes some talent there. Two different keyboards and the feet at the same time.
05:38: I mean, wow, it was incredible. I was always amazed, standing there at church, watching her do that, going, that's pretty impressive.
05:45: The problem is, after growing up in a Christian home and attending a Christian school and attending
05:51: Bible college and claiming to be a Christian, I realized something about my life.
05:59: I had become the product of a Christian environment rather than a disciple of Jesus Christ.
06:09: And when tragedy came into my life, it kind of took me off guard because I prayed prayers.
06:17: I anointed with oil. We begged God and He chose to do something different than what we had asked.
06:27: And I began to ask myself, what do I really know about God? Who really is
06:35: God? On the journey, I discovered that while I knew a lot about God's attributes,
06:42: I knew a lot about God, I didn't really know God. And that realization radically changed my life.
06:53: And it was then that I began a quest to truly know the one true
06:59: God of the Bible. And I've got to tell you, having discovered this journey and as exciting as this journey is,
07:05: I just want to invite you to experience your own God quest, your own quest to discover the one true
07:14: God of the Bible. And I think you can know
07:20: God more. I got some things I want to share with you tonight, a couple of video clips I want to share with you tonight that I pray will be very helpful to you.
07:29: It was the psalmist that said, the heavens declare the glory of God. And I believe that as you see
07:35: God more, you will understand your divine purpose even more. And I think it will inspire you like never before to live your life for one reason.
07:48: See, many of us are living for the audience of one, but we've adopted a humanistic worldview inside of our
07:54: Christian bubble. And that audience of one is us and it's not God. And the reality is that we need to know
08:00: God and we need to live for the audience of Christ. Our ministry creation today exists because we want to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones on people's journey to know their creator.
08:11: I'm blessed to have been married now for 22 and three quarter years to an amazing woman named
08:17: Tanya. Tanya is originally from the Ukraine. So Tanya and I together are mourning over what is happening right now,
08:29: March of 2022, as this country has refugees fleeing all over the place.
08:37: As we know, Putin is coming in and you watch this, especially with family members over there.
08:43: You watch what's happening and you have to wonder, you know,
08:50: God, do you really have everything under control? I mean, are you really in charge?
08:59: When we see bombs hitting places where people are seeking refuge and where children are sheltered and that thought just kind of zips through your mind real quick.
09:12: Okay, you know, you're supposed to be in charge of the whole universe. God, do you really have everything under control?
09:21: And I'm convinced that if you see God the way he deserves to be seen, that even if you ask that question, you will come away with the real answer that yes,
09:31: God does have everything under control. Tanya and I are blessed with three amazing children.
09:37: My oldest, Stephanie, is going to be getting married on June 5th. So really excited about that as wedding plans come together.
09:45: And I adjust to having a fourth child in the house that can eat like nobody's business.
09:53: Our grocery bill has already gone up and they're not even married. I don't know if they're going to start cooking on their own or not when they get out.
09:58: But anyway, we'll see what happens there. My second daughter, Angelina, is my little angel and she is a senior in school, going to be graduating this year.
10:08: Truly incredible to watch her life and watch her invest in other people. My son,
10:14: Jordan, is 15 and is just the funniest, the most beautiful being.
10:20: I just love hanging out with my son, Jordan, and just who he is and who God is shaping him to be.
10:26: So we find ourselves blessed. And at the end of the day, we exist because we want people to have answers. See, the reality is, if you're confused, you're going to lose.
10:36: And not only that, the people around you are going to lose. But it doesn't have to be that way.
10:42: You really can have answers. And I would say you should have answers because someone's eternity is going to be at stake.
10:51: And eternity is too long, way too long, for either you or a friend or a loved one to be wrong.
10:59: It's important to be right about these topics, especially about God. So that's what we want to do.
11:04: And there's a lot of people that say, well, I just don't understand God. I just don't understand the Bible. And they hear arguments and the Internet's great at bringing up arguments that were demolished hundreds, sometimes thousands of years ago.
11:16: They're brought up and people are just now coming across these arguments and they're like, oh, what do we do about this one?
11:21: What about evil and suffering? Oh, that's a really good one. How does the God of the Bible stand up to that one?
11:27: Look at what's going on in Ukraine right now. They have no idea that there are such amazing answers in Scripture that clearly tell us the truth and show us that Christianity is the only worldview that can make sense of existence, evil and suffering, and of everything else that goes on in life.
11:48: The Christian worldview is the only one that makes sense. So, like I said, we want to turn those stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
11:54: Now, there's basically two worldviews. When you boil it all down, there's the God and the not
12:00: God worldviews. And you get to choose which one you want to believe, either God in the beginning
12:05: God or in the beginning not God. And the two views here, they are kind of on a time scale so you can see them.
12:11: The two views say this about 6 ,000 years ago, according to the creation worldview, God created the heavens and the earth.
12:18: And the reality is, I believe God did that about 6 ,000 years ago.
12:23: And we can go into some science that helps demonstrate that. 4 ,400 years ago, there was a flood that destroyed the world.
12:31: And most of you know the story about the guy who built the ark.
12:58: Some of you are thinking two, but I've already got none. I've got a zero and a none in the chat, which is correct. Moses didn't take any animals on the ark.
13:05: Noah is the one who built the ark. So Noah took the animals on the ark. That was about 4 ,400 years ago.
13:11: 2 ,000 years ago. Who lived here? Put that one in there. Put that one in there. Come on. Who lived here 2 ,000 years ago?
13:17: You guys already know the answer to that. It's a whole bunch of people, probably about a quarter billion people. But the one we like to focus on is
13:23: Jesus. That's the one who lived here 2 ,000 years ago that we focus on. And now here we are today in the year 2022 waiting for the return of Christ.
13:31: Compare that to what the Evolution Worldview believes. The Evolution Worldview says somewhere between 13 and 20 billion years ago, there was a big bang.
13:39: Ah, here's another one for the chat. And by the way, I've only got two people hanging out in the chat with three.
13:45: Okay, you guys, come on. Carolyn, Brad, Diane, you guys got to get in the chat here too.
13:51: Okay. What was I going to say here? 13 to 20 billion years ago. Oh, yeah. What exploded for the big bang?
13:58: According to the big bang theory, a singularity came from something and then exploded. What did they say exploded?
14:04: Oh, you guys are in it now. Nothing. Terry, great job. Alan. Alpha. Alpha rat.
14:12: I'm going to have to get an explanation on that one later. So nothing exploded, created everything that we have in the universe today.
14:18: That's exactly right. Which, which, you know, I can't keep up with it. Years. Some of you would remember years ago from the scientific literature, it was
14:26: Jeff. Oh, Jeff, how you doing? That's awesome. In the literature, it was, you know, 18 billion years ago.
14:32: Then it went all the way down to 13 billion. Then it went up to 13 .4 billion. And today it's at 13 .8 or 13 .76
14:39: billion years ago. So it keeps changing. They're like, that's the beauty of science. We're making it more accurate. And I'm like, are you sure that's what's going on?
14:46: Anyway, a long time ago, nothing exploded, created everything that we have today. Then 4 .6
14:52: billion years ago was the next major event for the evolution review. 4 .6 billion years ago is when our ball of dirt planet earth formed, which
15:00: I think is interesting. They say, you know, gas clouds condensed on their own gravity, but, um, I don't mean to be inappropriate here, but, uh,
15:08: I think we all know gas doesn't condense it. Um, it expands, doesn't it?
15:13: And some of you are like, I wish it didn't do that, man. That would be nice. No, it does. It expands. And so I hear you laughing.
15:21: Who is that? That's funny. So it's going to expand. There's no way for it to condense.
15:26: Boyle's law says it's not going to happen. It can't condense on itself. It doesn't make sense. But anyway, gas clouds and things came together, condensed, uh, on their own gravity, which is impossible.
15:36: But again, they're scientists. So just trust them and created planet earth. And then nothing happened for quite a while, but it rained on planet earth and it rained for billions of years.
15:44: Now you probably with an intrigued mind and a, a very intuitive mind are wondering, well, hang on, where did rain come from to rain on the earth?
15:52: Listen, shut up. Okay. This is scientists we're talking about. Don't question them. Okay. That's the beauty of being a scientist.
15:58: You're not supposed to be questioned. It rained the rain from nowhere for millions of years just came and it formed the oceans.
16:05: That's how we get the ocean. See, doesn't it make sense now you've seen the oceans haven't you? Duh. So then it rained for millions of years and the oceans because of the waves.
16:12: If you haven't been there, you got to come to Pensacola. Check out our beaches. Best in the world. Sorry, San Diego. Uh, we got some awesome oceans here.
16:18: Beautiful white sand. Uh, it's technically gulf, but you know, it's all from the rain for billions of years.
16:23: And the rain caused the oceans, which mixed with the rocks and made something called soup.
16:29: And then that's the technical term for it. Soup. I don't get any better than that. Prebiotic soup. That's what they call it.
16:35: And then, uh, 3 billion years ago, something incredible happened. Lightning struck the soup.
16:42: And the soup came alive. And then it found someone to marry and something to eat.
16:52: Thankfully soup was right there. And, uh, they got married and had kids and it's kids had kids and the kids had kids and the kids had kids and the kids had kids.
17:01: And man, it was a wonderful life for billions of years. Eventually though, that little single celled organism, possibly an amoeba, it evolved and it changed its kids.
17:10: Eventually changed. They were like, we don't want to be like great grandpa and great grandma. We're going to be something different. So they turned into all kinds of stuff.
17:16: It started off as the fish. Then they turned into the amphibians. Then they turned into the reptiles. Then they turned into the mammals.
17:22: By the way, that's how you remember it. Farm F a R M fish amphibian reptile mammal. And today it's after turning into mammals, it finally turned into the ape like creatures.
17:30: And today the ape like creatures over the last about 3 million years have turned into people. Cause somewhere between two and 3 million years ago, a boy apes stood up and was like, yo,
17:40: I'm going to be different than all of y 'all. And a girl ape was like, I like that. And they were like, what can we do?
17:45: And the guy was like, I'm walking on two feet instead of all four limbs. And the girl was like, you look good when you do that.
17:51: Anyway, they got to marry it together. They got married. They had kids and they were the first human beings. And now here we are humanity after 3 million years of evolution and 3 billion years of, of, uh, evolution, uh, of life on planet earth and 3 .7
18:05: or 13 .76 billion years of history. So those are the two worldviews you get to choose to which one you believe in the beginning,
18:12: God, or in the beginning, nothing, whichever one you want to believe. One of them is a lot more scientifically plausible that somebody actually started it.
18:20: But if you want to reject science and believe that it all started by itself, Hey, I, by no means, I'm somebody that can control what you believe.
18:26: I can tell you about it. I can tell you how foolish it is, but I cannot control what you believe. I hear a lot of people though.
18:32: They go, look, I just, I don't understand the Bible. You know, it's, this doesn't, this doesn't make sense to me.
18:38: I just don't understand the Bible. And it, it reminds me of people. Well, I mean, we could have some of you on here.
18:45: It reminds me of people that look at newfangled technology and go, I just, I just don't understand technology.
18:51: And it's like, well, I get it, but, but we can learn. We really can learn. And, and just like I'm having to learn new technology.
18:58: We can, we can actually learn about the Bible. And I don't think the, the excuse that we give
19:06: Diane, you're being called out by the way, in the chat, if you want to respond to Robin, I recommend it. The excuse that we give,
19:13: I just don't understand the Bible. I just don't think that's going to hold up when we stand before God. And He's like, look, I'm the creator of the universe.
19:19: I made everything. And then I simplified it all the way down to a book for you to understand what your purpose was in life.
19:25: And you're going to tell me you didn't take the time on earth to figure out why you were here and to read this and to get the instruction manual manual and to read the revelation from God that I delivered unto you.
19:36: And so I just don't think that's going to be a good excuse. And I know that's why you're here. Cause you're the cream of the crop, unless you're watching this on YouTube later, you should have joined the live, but, but you're the cream of the crop.
19:45: And you're like, no, Eric, I'm the person. I want to understand the truth about, about God and about his world and about his word.
19:50: I want to study science and scripture. So, so you guys are the best. You guys are my favorites out there.
19:57: You're really wanting to know this. And I love this. Now the humanist or the evolution worldview brings about a worldview called humanism and humanism says they'd have all been is the happiness of man.
20:07: The reason we exist is for our own happiness. And this is in direct contrast to Christianity.
20:13: Christianity says the end of all being is the glory of God. And that's the journey that I've been on ever since I knelt my knee to Christ and said,
20:21: God, I'm sorry. I'm tired of repenting to my brothers and my sister, my brother and sister, my parents, my youth pastor, my teacher, my pastor,
20:29: God, I want to repent before you and you alone. And it was, as Stacey said in the intro, it was hell's best kept secret by Ray Comfort that radically altered my understanding of scripture and my understanding of salvation and made me realize that I was the product of a church environment.
20:45: I was not a disciple of Jesus Christ and man, I bowed the knee to Christ and my life has never been the same.
20:51: I've been on a journey, a quest to know God like never before. I mean, there's nothing like saying,
20:58: I want to know God and who he really is. See, I grew up in church, so I knew a lot about God and I just didn't know
21:04: God. I mean, it's like knowing a lot about somebody, just not actually knowing that person. I can know a lot about the presidents of the
21:12: United States. I've just never met them in person. So I knew a lot about God and I wonder how many of us might know a lot about God, but we just don't really have a personal relationship with God.
21:25: And if that's you, I'm telling you, you need to go on a journey. The Bible says, work out your salvation with fear and trembling and the scariest verse in the
21:31: Bible. If you know where I'm going, put it in the chat right now. What's the scariest verse in the Bible? I mean, the one that should terrify us.
21:38: It's in the book of Matthew chapter number seven. That's the one,
21:44: Matthew chapter seven, verse number 21. Oh my goodness.
21:51: Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven.
21:58: Wow. And this is talking to people who claim to be believers, people who say, I've done all these things.
22:03: I did this, I did that, I did this, I did that. And he's going to say, depart from me. I never knew you, you worker of iniquity.
22:11: Man, we should be working out our salvation with fear and with trembling. Well, I knew
22:17: God was the creator of all things. My dad was a world famous creation evangelist. So I knew he was the creator of all things.
22:23: I mean, that's kind of obvious. God is in fact, the one that was not created.
22:32: The Bible says that through creation and through man's own conscience, that you would be a fool not to believe in God.
22:40: And therefore the Bible, it actually never attempts to prove the existence of God. It assumes his existence.
22:47: And then it says, everybody's without excuse. Everybody knows that God exists. But the
22:53: Bible also reveals a lot about the character and the nature and the work of God. And if we're going to think correctly about God, then
23:01: I'd say that's really important because, well, let me put it this way. I've often wondered, how much do you have to have rights about God to have the right
23:10: God? I mean, what happens if we have false ideas about God? I can't help but think that all of our false ideas about God have a negative corresponding consequence to that false belief about who
23:26: God really is. I mean, if you believe, like I was thinking that, man, if I just follow your formula, if I just do these things, you do what
23:37: I ask you to do. So I pray, I anoint with oil, I fast,
23:42: I do these things, and I have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of faith.
23:49: Well, you're just going to do what I ask you to do. And then tragedy strikes my life.
23:54: And I'm like, wow, okay. God, maybe you're different than I thought.
24:03: Maybe I've got some wrong ideas about you. I had a pastor tell me with great fervor that he knew, he knew the tragedy that was about to happen.
24:16: He knew it was not going to happen because God had told him it wasn't going to happen.
24:23: And lo and behold, a few months later, after driving in the car with this pastor and hearing this, a few months later, the very thing, this pastor said, man,
24:34: I know that's not going to happen. It happens. I'm like, wow. Okay, God, help.
24:43: How do I know you? And I guess the problem is for a lot of us,
24:49: God made man in his image. And so man decides to return the favor.
24:57: And we make God in our image. And we break the first and second commandment.
25:03: We make a God that suits our need. Humanism, by the way, the end of all being is the happiness of man, a
25:10: God that makes us happy. And we don't really worship the one true God of the
25:15: Bible. In Psalm chapter 50, verse 21, God rebukes the wicked man.
25:22: He says, you thought I was like you. You thought I was altogether like you. I mean, hold the phone.
25:29: God is separate. God is distinct. God is different. A good summary of the definition of God would be the supreme being, the creator and the ruler of all that is.
25:43: The self -existent one who is perfect in power, goodness, and wisdom.
25:51: Who is God? Well, we know certain things to be true of God. For one reason,
25:58: His mercy has condescended to reveal some of His qualities to us.
26:05: He doesn't have to do that. God is spirit by nature. He's intangible. According to John chapter 4, verse 24,
26:12: God is one, but He exists in three persons. God the Father, God the
26:17: Son, and God the Holy Spirit. A concept like the Trinity that our brains cannot fully understand.
26:23: Matthew chapter 3, verses 16 and 17 describe this. I heard an analogy given.
26:29: My dad has given this analogy. I've heard it several times. This analogy of what is it like to explain the
26:37: Trinity to people? And it's like, well, you can't do it. It's like having a 3D object trying to present itself to a 2D object.
26:47: My paper here, if it's just two -dimensional, it's got length and width, but it doesn't have height. Well, how would
26:52: I, as a three -dimensional character, how would I reveal myself to a two -dimensional object?
26:58: And I could poke my finger through a hole in the paper over here, and they would see a circle.
27:04: They would see a flat disk. And they'd say, oh, I know who Eric is. He's a flat disk. And it's like, that doesn't even come close to letting you understand who
27:12: I am. And over here, I poked three holes in the paper, and I put three fingers through the plane.
27:18: And one of you is watching over here, and you go, no, no, no, Eric is three different circles.
27:25: I know who Eric is. He's three, and yet you don't really know who I am. But how does a three -dimensional object, how does a three -dimensional person reveal itself to a two -dimensional object?
27:40: And the way the Bible describes God versus man, He says, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.
27:54: And I want to talk about this today. Have you ever thought about how high the heavens are above the earth? Have you ever thought about how high above the earth, how far out they are?
28:04: I mean, that's how different God's ways are than our ways.
28:10: And yet, you and I have the audacity to go to the mat with God over issues.
28:22: You and I have the audacity to call God into question. You and I think that if we just pray a prayer the certain way, that we get to unlock
28:33: God's little treasure chest of goodies and of goodness, and all the blessings and all the love, and no, none of the bad stuff.
28:42: Guys, we've made a God to suit ourselves. We've said, oh, I know who God is.
28:47: Ah, this is how to get God to work. Here's how to get Him to move. Well, my friend, who has understood the mind of the
28:54: Lord? God is infinite, according to 1 Timothy 1 .17. He's incomparable, according to 2
29:00: Samuel 7 .22. He's unchanging, according to Malachi 3 .6. He exists everywhere, according to Psalm 139 .7
29:08: -12. He knows everything, according to Psalm 147 .5, and according to Isaiah 40 .28.
29:17: And He has all power and all authority, according to Ephesians 1 and Revelation 19. And yet, you and I try to fit the
29:26: God of the Bible, the creator of all things, into our little bitty three -pound brains. And the fact that God tolerates us trying to do that is pretty amazing.
29:38: It says a lot about God. If you choose the not -God worldview, well, then you have to get the world to make itself.
29:45: You have to come up with a concept that gets the world to create itself. And we know they came up with this idea years ago called the
29:52: Big Bang. It's actually not the technical name for it. It's an expansion. There's no bang. There's no boom.
29:58: There's no atmosphere. So you can't have a boom. It's just an expansion, okay?
30:03: So that's what happened. But they say it happens on the regular every 80 to 100 billion years.
30:11: These Big Bangs happen. And that's what they put in the textbook. They're still putting it in the textbooks today.
30:17: They're online now. But this book will assume that the universe is 15 billion years old.
30:22: It's changed again. That was 2001. So here we are 21 years later. It changed again. According to this theory, according to the
30:29: Big Bang theory, nothing existed before the Big Bang. There was no time, no space. But they say out of this nothingness, yeah, that's where the vast system of space, time, matter, and energy, that's where it all came from.
30:42: That's where the universe came from, from absolutely nothing. Now I believe that's absolutely absurd, but that's what they're teaching.
30:49: They put it in Scientific American. Here it is. The observable universe could have evolved from an infinitesimable region.
30:56: That means a dot. They say it's then tempting to go one step further and speculate the entire universe evolved from literally nothing.
31:05: They even put it in Discover Magazine. Where did everything come from? The universe burst into something from?
31:11: It's right there on the screen. I'm not making it up. Absolutely nothing, zero, nada. And as it got bigger, it became filled with even more stuff that came from?
31:19: I'm not making this up. Absolutely nowhere. How is that possible?
31:25: That is a good question. Ask Alan Guth, his theory of inflation helps explain everything. That's one humdinger of a theory if you ask me.
31:33: How did the universe come about? Well, they do teach the Big Bang and they put videos out, like on the
31:40: Discovery Channel and things like that. Matter of fact, I got a little video. I think it'll play for me. Here's them talking about the
31:45: Big Bang on the Discovery Channel. I'm not hearing that.
31:54: Are you guys hearing that in the chat? No, when you shared your screen, I think you had to check the box that said share the sound.
32:04: Oh, my bad, my bad. Hang tight. Anyway, this is good stuff right here. This is Discovery Channel.
32:10: Yes, all hail Discovery Channel. There we go. Okay. All right, so now, still no audio?
32:27: No. Oh, man, I got some great videos for you. Can you stop sharing?
32:33: And then when you share again, hit the share sound clip. Yeah, it's actually,
32:38: I'm doing it a different way. I'm using the OBS system. Oh, OBS, okay.
32:45: Yeah, sorry, I know you guys are recording. This is really good. Oh, hey, guys, just so you guys know, I was supposed to take out the trash in 10 minutes.
32:51: Okay, that was on the screen, wasn't it? Let me see here. I didn't see a thing.
32:56: My little notifications. Thursday nights, nine o 'clock. All right, there we go.
33:02: Audio input. There we go.
33:08: Okay. Now, let me try this. See if you guys can hear Discovery Channel talking about this. No. Man, I got some good videos.
33:22: I'm going to have to skip my videos here. No. You want me to do it?
33:27: Okay, let me change out and not use OBS real quick. Hang on just a second. Zoom.
33:35: I'll share a screen. There we go. And share sound. All right.
33:47: Now, who's the one who doesn't know what they're doing technology -wise? Get this, or they can't see it.
33:56: Move you guys over here. All right. Let's see if this works now.
34:03: It may not. We'll see. Still no audio.
34:22: Oh, man. Just because I have some really cool...
34:31: There we got it. All right.
34:47: So... Turn my volume up. So they really do teach this on the
34:55: Discovery Channel, and I thought, oh, this is how you teach your theory. You just have to...
35:00: You just have to make a video and put it on Discovery Channel and talk with a
35:09: British accent. I went, okay, I can do that. Let me see if this works. Pause recording again real quick.
35:25: If all you got to do... If all you got to do is make a video, talk with a British accent, and put it on Discovery Channel, I thought, well,
35:32: I can make one of those. Here's my video. All right.
36:06: Hmm. All right. They really do believe...
36:14: They really do believe that before there was life on Earth, like how evolution happened, that there were just this primordial soup.
36:21: I found some of it the other day at the grocery store, but the problem is you have to cook it for four and a half billion years, so it takes a little while.
36:28: I hope you're kind of patient to get life from something that's not alive, but there it is. But they say that this primordial soup literally just came into existence, and at some point, this is what they say.
36:38: This is from 2013. At some point, a few of these specialized molecules began replicating, and this self -replication scientist degree kick -started a biochemical process that would lead to the first organisms.
36:50: Then they say, but exactly how that happened, how those molecules began replicating, well, that's been one of science's enduring mysteries.
36:57: We don't know how that happened. I think that's a fairy tale. I go back to the truth that in the beginning,
37:04: God created the heavens and the earth, and then God said, let there be light. And let me tell you something. You did not want to be standing in front of the mouth of God when he said, let there be light.
37:13: Light is light. Light's booking, okay? I mean, we can only measure the speed of light kind of here, the one -way speed of light, as Dr.
37:21: Jason Lyle says, but light's cruising, man. Okay, put it in the chat. Who knows? What is the speed of light?
37:28: Somebody's going to do meters per second. Come on, give me miles. Like, use miles. What's the speed of light?
37:34: Somebody throw that in there. Fast, Robin, you are correct. It is fast. Anybody know the speed of light?
37:39: How fast is light traveling? Throw it in. Three -something. Three -something.
37:47: Three -something. 386 ,000 -something. Oh, 186 ,000 -something.
37:53: Oh, Alan got it. 186 ,000 miles per second.
38:02: Light can travel 186 ,000 miles in one second. That's the same as going around planet
38:10: Earth seven and a half times in one second. Guys, that's fast.
38:17: That's the same as 11 ,160 ,000 miles in a minute.
38:23: That's the same as 669 ,600 ,000 miles an hour.
38:29: That's the same as 5 .88 trillion miles in a year. That's booking.
38:37: Now, you guys do not understand the difference between million, billion, and trillion. Congress knows this. They take advantage of us all the time because we can't figure those things out.
38:45: They don't fit in the human mind. But if they did, it would be really helpful. Do you know how much a trillion really is?
38:51: How much is a trillion? Let's use $100 bills. I got a $100 bill right here.
38:57: Matter of fact, if anybody messages me on Instagram and sends me your address,
39:03: I will sign this $100 bill right here and I will send it to you the first, not anybody, excuse me, the first one that messages me on Instagram and gives me their address,
39:11: I'll mail this $100 bill to you. It's just Eric Hovind is my Instagram. I'm gonna see everybody dropping off Zoom here in just a second.
39:20: But how much is a trillion? If I had $100 bills enough to get to a trillion dollars, what we're spending and what our current president wants to spend, another $2 .8
39:30: trillion right now, just throw it in there. Just deficit spending, borrow it from the grandkids.
39:36: They'll be dead before they're here. How much is a trillion? If you had a half inch thick stack of $100 bills, you would have $10 ,000.
39:47: This right here is what 10 grand looks like in $100 bills. That is also what one tank of gas in California looks like in $100 bills right there at the current rate.
39:58: If you had a hundred of those, you would have a million bucks. That's what a million dollars looks like in $100 bills.
40:06: So if that's a million, what does a billion look like? What does a billion look like in $100 bills?
40:14: If that's a million, what's a billion look like? Ladies and gentlemen, here's $1 billion in $100 bills.
40:24: Is there a difference between million and billion? Oh, yeah. Well, if that's a billion, then what's a trillion look like?
40:35: Well, you would multiply that, not times 10, not times 100, times 1 ,000.
40:41: This is what a trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills.
40:49: Oh, my goodness. We are going to run out of trees very soon at the rate that Congress is printing money.
40:59: Wow. Now, you got to understand something. So light, it travels 5 .88 trillion miles.
41:06: I'll sign this right now because otherwise I'll forget. Light is traveling 5 .88
41:12: trillion miles every single year. That's for somebody.
41:21: Light's traveling 5 .88 trillion miles every single year. 5 .88
41:27: trillion. And guys, guys, guys, when astronomers are looking out at space and they're studying the heavens and they're measuring how far away these bodies, these stars are, they're not measuring their distance in inches.
41:43: They're not measuring their distance in feet. They're not measuring their distance in yards.
41:49: They're measuring their distance in light years. 5 .88
41:57: trillion mile is like the inch out there in space to tell how far away things really are.
42:04: You're already familiar a little bit with space. I'm sure we've got the sun, which is like the big giant star in our solar system.
42:11: And if you're not familiar with it, we've got, we are in, planet Earth is inside of a solar system, which is the sun and eight planets.
42:18: Used to be nine. They kicked Pluto out of the club. Some people want Pluto back in. I know, whatever you think.
42:23: Okay, well, that's our solar system. Our solar system is inside of a galaxy called the
42:29: Milky Way galaxy. And then our galaxy is one of the galaxies in the whole universe.
42:36: It's big, so it echoes. It's like we're, it's one of the many, many galaxies in the universe. And when we think about it, the sun, that's only 93 million miles away.
42:47: It's like eight and a half light minutes away. But you look at the size of our solar system and you think, oh my goodness, the sun is massive.
42:56: I mean, the sun's huge. Well, here's the planets next to each other. Pluto down there is the little one they kicked out.
43:03: You got that one, there's planet Earth. You got the planet of Neptune. And well, they really ought to rename that other planet.
43:08: There's no good way to say that one. Jupiter and Saturn, we see the planets there. Well, if you zoom out and put the sun inside of this picture, that's what the sun would look like compared to the stars out there.
43:21: Excuse me, compared to the planets in our solar system. And that's nothing. That's nothing compared to the really big stars out there.
43:29: They have discovered stars out there that are way, way bigger than the sun. So you got the sun, which is a million times bigger than the earth.
43:38: But there's other stars out there that would dwarf our sun.
43:44: I mean, stars out there that make the sun look like nothing, make it look like a speck of dust.
43:51: And just when you think you've discovered something big, you discover another star that's even bigger.
43:57: That one's Betelgeuse. You can see that one with the naked eye from planet
44:02: Earth. It's inside the galaxy. And then this is
44:08: Arcturus. Oh, my goodness, a billion times bigger than our sun.
44:13: And we think our sun is big, and we realize when we start looking out in space, it's a big world out there.
44:19: And people start to wonder, people that are looking out there, they have to ask this question, what's it doing?
44:26: Why is it there? What's really happening? And they begin to ask themselves the question, if all that space, if all that stuff is out there just for you and for me and the other 7 billion people on the planet, 8 billion now people on the planet, what's it doing?
44:45: You know, David the psalmist figured it out. He said, the heavens are declaring the glory of God. He said, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
44:58: And I got to wonder, knowing that David the psalmist was right, I got to wonder, what comes into your mind when you think about God?
45:11: I mean, is He the big creator of all things? The all powerful one? Or is He the one that fits in a little bitty genie bottle for you that you rub and He comes out and does as you command?
45:24: A .W. Tozer said, what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
45:33: So what comes into your mind when you think about God? On my
45:41: God quest, on my journey to discover the glory of God, man, I went through Romans, and man,
45:46: I'm reading through Romans, Romans chapter 11, oh man. You get all the way through the beginning of Romans and you're like, wow, wow, wow.
45:53: You get to Romans chapter 11 and he goes, hey, oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God.
46:01: God is like really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really smart.
46:08: I don't know if you got that, but He's like genius level, okay? He's past genius level. I don't know if it's ever dawned on you, but God is so smart that nothing's ever dawned on Him.
46:18: That's how smart God is. I mean, He knows everything. How do you sneak up on a guy like that?
46:23: You can't. And it says, how unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out?
46:30: How unsearchable are His judgments? How unsearchable are God's judgments?
46:37: Unsearchable. And yet, what do you and I try to do in life? We try to figure out what God is up to.
46:43: Hey, God, what you doing? What's going on? You know, oh, God, the reason you did that was so that, and then
46:49: I would in that way, and okay, I got it all figured out, God. No, you don't. His ways are unsearchable.
46:55: You and I aren't going to understand these things. He goes on and says, who hath known the mind of the Lord? Does anybody truly understand the mind of God?
47:02: Who's counseling God? Is anybody counseling God? And this is where, if you were honest, you'd have to say, yeah,
47:08: I've given God a little bit of counsel, or attempted to anyway. I've tried to counsel God, and God says it'll never work.
47:15: There's no counseling God. I mean, not even Dr. Phil could counsel God. Then it says, who's given to God?
47:24: Has anybody ever given anything to God? Have you ever given something to God? You think, yeah, I gave, you know.
47:32: I donated. I sent. I helped. That would be really nice if you could give something to God, but you can't.
47:40: All you can do is give back to God what already belongs to Him. You can't give anything to God, because that means
47:45: He'd owe you, and He doesn't owe you. He doesn't owe me. The only thing He owes us is justice. It's what we really deserve.
47:52: Then verse 36, oh, when I got here, I was like, wow. For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are, say it out loud.
48:00: If you're sitting in your car, if you're sitting at home with your spouse, for of Him, and through Him, and to Him are what?
48:09: All things. All things. Some things? No, no, no, no, not some things.
48:17: All things. For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things.
48:23: Why does everything come from Him, go through Him, and go back to Him? To whom be glory, so that God will get glory, so that God will look good.
48:45: To put it in your own vernacular, to put it in our own humanistic thinking, I could say
48:51: God is stuck on Himself, and your immediate reaction is, no, that's a bad thing to be stuck on yourself.
48:57: No, no, it's bad for you to be stuck on yourself. It's bad for me to be stuck on myself. God doesn't have a choice.
49:04: There's nobody above Him. He can only be stuck on Himself because He is the Supreme Being.
49:10: Matter of fact, it's right for Him to be stuck on Himself. It's right for Him to do things for His glory alone.
49:19: And this is where humanism conflicts with Christianity, and you have a war inside your soul when things happen, and you're like,
49:27: God, why? It's because you want God to be stuck on you. And God says,
49:33: I'm not going to be stuck on you. I'm stuck on Me. I'm stuck on the Supreme Being.
49:39: He says over and over, you cannot read Scripture without getting this over and over and over throughout the Bible. He goes,
49:45: I'm the Lord. That's My name and My glory will I not give to another. I'm not going to give My praise to a graven image.
49:51: And you should be thankful for that. You should be happy about that. He goes, remember the former things of old?
49:57: I'm God. There's none else. I'm God. There's none like Me. He said, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
50:06: My counsel is what's going to stand. I'll do all My pleasure. I'll do whatever I want to do. In Colossians, we read,
50:12: For by Him all things were created. What things? All things were created. Things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.
50:21: And it doesn't matter what it is, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things, get this guys, get this, all things were created by Him and don't forget the last part, and what?
50:33: And for Him. All things were created by Him and for Him.
50:43: Is that the God that you serve? The God that no matter what comes into your life, you say, thank you, this glorifies you.
50:52: Thank you, this honors you. Daniel, the people of the earth are regarded as nothing.
51:00: He does as He pleases with the power of heaven and the people of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him, what have you done?
51:08: But I get it, we're fallen, we're finite. We once asked that question, God, what have you done?
51:20: And I think if you listen carefully enough, God puts up with you asking that question, even though it doesn't do any good to ask it, but He puts up with it.
51:29: And I think you would say, I've done this for my glory.
51:38: I've done this to make me look good. And we're thinking, how, how does that work? Well, let's put ourselves in perspective for a second here.
51:48: Let's take our solar system and shrink it down to the size of a quarter. So the quarter is our entire solar system.
51:55: I mean, George Washington's earwax, that's the sun, okay? And the orbit of Neptune or Pluto is the edge of the quarter.
52:03: Okay, so that's it. And we're all in that little bitty speck called earth, going around that little bitty speck called the sun. And we're all in our cool little technology, our cool little gadget, driving in our cool little car, or maybe hanging out in our cool little bitty house that we paid a lot of money for, or we're renting and it's costing us a lot of money.
52:17: And there we sit and we're thinking, man, you know, we got it made, we understand a lot about God. If this was our solar system, the size of a quarter, how big would our galaxy, the
52:29: Milky Way galaxy be? I'm in Florida, think of it in Pensacola, Florida. You think it'd be as big as like our entire town here,
52:36: Pensacola, Florida? Not big enough? Maybe San Diego where Stacy's at, maybe San Diego, maybe that's how big the
52:43: Milky Way galaxy would be. And we throw a quarter in San Diego and we're like, that's our solar system compared to the galaxy, the
52:50: Milky Way galaxy, San Diego. That wouldn't do it. California, would that do it?
52:55: Not hardly. Texas? No, gotta be bigger than that. Hold it. Ain't nothing bigger than Texas, boy.
53:01: Sorry, sorry. Bigger, okay, bigger than Texas. Throw a quarter in Texas and that would not represent the
53:08: Milky Way galaxy compared to the solar system. United States of America? Uh -uh, not big enough.
53:15: You would have to have the entire North American continent, Mexico, United States, and Canada to get the size of the
53:24: Milky Way galaxy compared to our solar system if our solar system was the size of a quarter.
53:30: That's the comparison. If you traveled at the speed of light, what was that speed again? What was that speed? 5 .88
53:36: trillion miles every year? And you have no idea how big that is, but okay. 5 .88 trillion miles a year, it'd take you 100 ,000 years to go from one side of our galaxy to the other side of our galaxy.
53:49: Scientists have looked up into space and they put a Hubble telescope, they zoomed in on a section of the sky where they thought there were no stars at all, so they zoomed way in.
53:58: The size of the sky they zoomed in on was the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.
54:04: They left the shutter on the camera open for 11 days. They wanted to see any little image, any little pixel of light.
54:09: They thought in that little speck of the sky, nothing existed. It was complete and total darkness.
54:15: After 11 days, they got an image back, and this is what they saw from that speck in the sky.
54:24: Hey, hey guys, I know if you're on a phone, you're trying to look at that really carefully and you're putting the glasses on and you're squinting a little bit, but let me just share something with you.
54:32: Those little things that you see, they're little dots of light. Those are not stars.
54:42: Those are galaxies. Each one of those filled with billions of stars.
54:51: It's been estimated there are enough stars on planet Earth so that every single person on planet Earth could own 11 trillion of them, 76 trillion stars.
55:04: And we're supposed to believe that 76 trillion stars evolved by themselves over the last 13 .4,
55:10: 13 .8 billion years. Do you realize how fast you'd have to make stars to get that many stars in that amount of time?
55:17: You realize you'd have to be making stars at the rate of 165 ,000 per second for the entire 13 .4,
55:26: 13 .8 maybe billion years? We don't see that happening. It's not what we see taking place today.
55:34: We live in Pensacola, Florida. Like I said, come on over. I'm not lying. Some of the best beaches in the world. It's gorgeous.
55:39: My family's here. We love it here. They calculated the number of grains of sand on Pensacola Beach.
55:48: Had to be a government project, didn't it? One, two, three, four.
55:54: Lunch break. I have no idea the number they came up with. I just know they added that number to the number of grains of sand on the next beach,
56:01: Navarre, and kept going down, Panama City, all the way down to Miami, all the way back up the other coast, went around America and around every other country and every continent of the globe, calculating the number of grains of sand on all the beaches of the world.
56:16: They didn't stop there. They had a little extra money, so you got to spend it when it's from the government. So they calculated the number of grains of sand in all the deserts of the world.
56:26: The number of grains of sand on planet Earth has been calculated to be somewhere around, plus or minus a couple,
56:33: I'm sure, seven and a half quintillion. Like, oh, that sounds like a lot.
56:42: Yeah, that's a lot. But wait a minute. Is that a lot?
56:49: Is it actually a lot? I mean, seven and a half quintillion, wait a minute. That means there's more stars in the sky than grains of sand on planet
57:01: Earth. Whoa. That means if you come to my beach here in Florida and you go to the sand and you enjoy it and then you go to the shower and you shower off, but you never get all the sand off, one inevitably gets stuck right back there and you feel it with every step you take and you're like, ah, it bothers you.
57:18: That one grain of sand represents 9 ,333 stars in the sky.
57:24: What? Oh, it gets better. It gets better. God says
57:29: He calls them by name. He calls the stars by their name.
57:36: He's the one who metered, where we get the word meter, to measure. He measured heavens with His span, the distance from the tip of your finger to the tip of your thumb, pinky to the thumb.
57:46: And He calls the stars by their name. Whoa. He says,
57:51: O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth, who has set
57:57: Thy glory above the heavens. When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which
58:05: Thou hast ordained, what is man? Who are we compared to God?
58:15: I mean, who are you compared to God? Are you ready to be done with humanism?
58:22: Are you ready to be done with creating a God in your own image, a God that does what you want, a
58:27: God that you're allowed to call into question, a God that you're allowed to tell what to do, a God that, man, if you just figure out the magic ingredient, have enough faith, is that really what it's like?
58:37: Is that the God that you serve? What comes into your mind when you think about God? It's the most important thing about you.
58:49: Let me ask it this way. Can God take the circumstances of your life and mold them into something for His glory?
59:01: Is that possible? Can God take the good that you think you've done that is not good, it's wickedness compared to His goodness, and the bad that you've done that is still not good, can
59:17: God take that and mold glory for Himself? Well, we know
59:23: He created the universe perfect. We know everything was perfect without sin, and then we know sin came into God's perfect creation and destroyed it, and sin brought something with it.
59:35: What came as a result of sin? Death.
59:44: Death came into God's perfect and holy creation.
59:51: You say, can God redeem that?
01:00:03: Yeah, God can redeem that. He's that big.
01:00:11: He's that powerful. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things to whom be glory forever, so that He'll get the glory.
01:00:28: Some of you will remember. I would ask you to raise your hand, but that would give away your age.
01:00:34: Some of you remember 1978. They launched the very first space shuttle,
01:00:40: Voyager. Not the first, I'm sorry. They launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but it was the first attempt to kind of go into deep space and take pictures of deep space.
01:00:50: As they launched Voyager, they had to be a little bit patient.
01:00:56: It takes a little while to get out there. But Voyager went up, and we were kind of mesmerized at the things that Voyager would send back to us.
01:01:07: It wasn't long before Voyager was sending us pictures of Jupiter and Jupiter's moons. And we started getting these, you know, what seemed like personal portraits of these planets that we'd only seen from a telescope from a distance.
01:01:24: And as it went by, it sent us these images, and scientists are like, wow!
01:01:29: I mean, for the first time ever getting to glimpse these things. Then later, like a year later, it went by Saturn, and we got to see the rings of Saturn close up like never before.
01:01:41: We watched several of Saturn's moons, and we got to see these images close up.
01:01:49: And then as it continued to travel away from the earth, on its journey traveling at 44 ,000 miles an hour,
01:01:58: Voyager, after 13 years of traveling away from the earth, Voyager, getting close to the edge of the corridor,
01:02:07: Voyager was given a command that they thought would be one of its last commands. They said, we need you to turn around and take a picture of what you're leaving behind.
01:02:18: And this is what they saw. Now we see the sun inside this picture from the
01:02:24: Voyager. But then as we go over to the left of the image and we zoom way, way, way, way, way in, you start to notice a faint object kind of trapped in a sunbeam.
01:02:38: And as we start to play around with the image and polarize it to kind of see what's going on, you realize, oh my goodness, that little bitty speck is here.
01:02:51: That's planet earth. The image has been titled the pale blue dot.
01:03:03: It's an image that I believe you should reflect on in times of your life, good and bad.
01:03:15: Hey, if you got any kids watching, I'll make this easy for us. When you look at earth from this perspective, does it matter who sits in the front seat of the car?
01:03:28: Does it matter what kind of car it is or how fast it goes or how much it costs to keep it running? Does it matter what driveway that car parks in?
01:03:36: No, no, no, no, no. What matters is are you using that car for the glory of God?
01:03:44: That's what matters. Carl Sagan had a famous quote about the pale blue dot. I won't read the whole thing, although it's worthy of you thinking, meditating on his quote.
01:03:54: He was the world's most famous atheist. He's now a believer, but that's because he passed away.
01:04:00: It's a really bad way to become a believer. I do not recommend that way. Definitely not a good way to become a believer.
01:04:07: But Carl Sagan said, hey, if you look at it, you look at that pale blue dot, if you look at it, all you see is a dot.
01:04:14: That's here, that's home, that's us. On it, everyone you've ever heard of. And he lists the people that you would have heard of, everybody.
01:04:22: They lived right there on a moat of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
01:04:28: Then he said, you know, think of the rivers of blood. Think about what's happening now.
01:04:34: Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
01:04:51: He said, think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on sacredly distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot.
01:05:06: Then he said, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
01:05:17: Carl Sagan said, nobody's coming to the pale blue dot. I got news for you.
01:05:28: You know that little bit of speck called planet Earth that was going around that little bitty earwax of George Washington called the sun that was on that little bitty quarter called the solar system that's in that little bitty galaxy called the
01:05:37: Milky Way galaxy that's in that universe that God created and stretched out with the span of his hand? That creator, that creator came to that pale blue dot.
01:05:56: He took the worst thing that could ever happen. Sin entering into creation and said, watch this. I'll use that for my glory too.
01:06:03: And the Bible records what happened. It records God's reaction to man's sin. It's found in the book of Philippians chapter number two.
01:06:11: It's talking about Jesus who being in the form of God thought or not Robert would be equal with God, but instead he made himself of no reputation.
01:06:19: Well, that's different than us, huh? We want a reputation. We want to make ourselves somebody. God came and said, I'm not going to make myself a reputation.
01:06:26: He took upon him the form of a servant. He did hang on. What? Mankind messed up.
01:06:32: And so he's going to come teach everybody a lesson. And he takes on the form of a servant. Yeah. And he was made in the likeness of men.
01:06:38: What? The traitors. The traitors. Yeah. And then not only that being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself.
01:06:45: How far? Well, he became obedient unto death and not just any death. He became obedient to the death of the cross.
01:06:52: So Eric, nobody would do that. Exactly. You have no idea who you're dealing with.
01:07:01: Why would God do that? Now your knee jerk reaction is mine.
01:07:06: It's humanism. It's crypt in. He did that for me. Oh, it's all about me.
01:07:12: Oh, God loves me. He died on the cross for me. Guys, guys, guys. He goes on. He tells us why. Wherefore God is highly exalted.
01:07:19: Not me. Him. Jesus. And given him. Not me. A name that's above every name.
01:07:26: That at the name of Jesus. Not your name. Not my name. At the name of Jesus. Every knee should bow of things in heaven and things on earth and things in the earth.
01:07:34: And every tongue is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Why? To the, say it out loud if you're reading it with me.
01:07:41: Every tongue is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the. Why? To the glory of God, the father.
01:07:53: God did that for his glory. Carl Sagan had another quote.
01:08:00: Powerful. What God could teach us through this atheist. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, this is better than we thought.
01:08:10: I mean, the universe is bigger than our prophet said. It's grander. It's more subtle, more elegant.
01:08:17: God must be even greater than we dreamed. Instead, they say, no, no, no.
01:08:22: My God is a little God. I want him to stay that way. Who is
01:08:29: God? Specifically, who is God in your life? Is he the
01:08:36: God that deserves all the glory and all the credit no matter what? Is he the God that can mold the circumstances of your life like putty in his capable hands to give him glory?
01:08:48: Or do you have a humanist God that needs to make you look good rather than him? What kind of a
01:08:54: God do you serve? I mean, you do realize all have sinned and come short of the, fall short of the glory of God.
01:09:07: So I guess my question for you tonight is, what are you doing for the glory of God? What are you doing that's going to matter for him?
01:09:18: How are you living your life in a way that glorifies him?
01:09:26: Let me put it this way. What on earth are you doing for heaven's sake?
01:09:33: What are you doing that's going to matter for God? Are you living this life for you or are you living it for him?
01:09:40: I'm not asking you not to live in this life.
01:09:45: I get it. But while lay not up treasures on earth where moth and rust hath corrupted, where thieves break through and steal, lay up treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, and where thieves cannot break through nor steal.
01:09:56: You know the best way you can give God glory, the very first thing you can do to give God glory? First step, trust.
01:10:04: Trust in him. Trust in him for salvation. I love the way Ray Comfort put it in Hell's Best Kept Secret.
01:10:10: It's like putting on a parachute. You're going to have to jump out of a plane. That heartbeat of yours, that's the drumbeat marching to your death.
01:10:18: The day you've got to jump out of that plane, baby. You're going to have to jump one day. Chances are, like most of us, you're getting pushed out.
01:10:25: You don't want to go. But what if you had a parachute? Wouldn't that make a difference?
01:10:31: The Bible says put on the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a guy that was a skydiver named
01:10:39: Ivan McGuire. Ivan was around when skydiving, of course, it was popular.
01:10:47: He was an expert at that. But Sony had just invented or just gotten the rights to use the lithium -ion battery and create the
01:10:55: Sony Handycam. Some of you guys will remember, man. Man, you no longer had this big old giant thing.
01:11:01: You had a little bit of camera, a little Handycam. It's like, whoa, lithium -ion chain revolutionized everything.
01:11:08: Well, Ivan said, you know, I got this idea. I want to start going up, and I want to start videotaping people jumping with my new
01:11:15: Handycam. And, dude, he was excited. He got up there. I mean, he had this brand -new technology, and he's going up there.
01:11:22: And he actually videotaped people jumping out of airplanes. I got a clip of him doing it here.
01:11:29: He's videotaping people jumping out of airplanes. And so they get on the side, and he's all excited. He's got his Handycam battery fully charged, ready to go.
01:11:35: All right, let's go, let's jump. And he jumps, and the people jumping with him, they're doing a tandem jump.
01:11:41: They jump, and he's videotaping this, and it's all cool. And he lets them free fall for a little while, while he free falls upside down, videotaping them.
01:11:48: It's like, dude, nobody's ever done this. They pull their ripcord. He turns over, does the maneuver to turn over, and he reaches around to the right -hand side where the ripcord is.
01:11:56: He's going to pull his ripcord, and he can't find his ripcord. He goes to the left, and it's not there.
01:12:02: And all of a sudden, he realized in his excitement to videotape the jump and his excitement for the new technology he had forgotten to put on his parachute.
01:12:17: And that day, Ivan McGuire videotaped himself falling to his death.
01:12:26: And I just wonder, are there any of you documenting your own destruction?
01:12:43: Are there any of you that's so fascinated with this world and the new technology and whatever else the pleasures of the world has to offer that you forgot to put on your parachute?
01:12:56: For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. First thing you need to do is trust in Christ as your
01:13:04: Savior. You need to say, God, I'm sorry. I am a sinner.
01:13:09: My good deeds are bad, and my bad deeds are bad compared to your righteousness. You need to repent. You need to change your mind.
01:13:16: See your life the way God sees it, and then say, God, I'm sorry. I'm begging you.
01:13:22: Forgive me. Save me. I want you to be the leader of my life, and I just want to give my life to you.
01:13:30: And I want to trust in what you did on the cross, in the grave, and through the resurrection, stepping out of that grave, the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ for my salvation.
01:13:41: It's pointed out a man wants to die, and after this, the judgment. At that judgment, you're going to wish you'd put on the parachute.
01:13:48: You've got to do it while you're alive. You can't do it when you're dead. Hey, if you haven't done that,
01:13:53: I'd encourage you to go to creationtoday .org. I've got under the learn button on the top of my website, the menu learn how to be saved.
01:14:02: I'd love you to read that gospel message that myself and my friend Mark Spencer wrote. How to be saved.
01:14:08: Most important thing about you. Hey, Christian, what are you doing for the glory of God? Can we stop wasting our time?
01:14:15: Can we stop wasting our life now? Can we invest in things that really matter? Can we live our life for the one who created us?
01:14:24: Can we do what God has called us to do? That'd be my encouragement to you today.
01:14:30: Man, Stacey and Robin, I want to thank you for letting me, hopefully allowing
01:14:37: God to just expand our view of who he really is. That was very good.
01:14:44: Make us ask the question. Yeah, who are we really living for? Well, what are we really doing?
01:14:50: Are we living for the glory of God? And I can't help but hope that yes, we're living for God's glory.
01:14:56: So thank you guys for letting me be here. Did that guy really jump without a parachute?
01:15:03: I even did. He died that day. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, that's terrible.
01:15:12: Thank you very much for that presentation. It was very good. I had a question about the universe.
01:15:27: Why do you think God made such an expansive universe if we can't go walking around there?
01:15:36: Well, I don't know what Elon Musk has planned. And if God plans on using Elon Musk's and his rockets to go to other planets, but David the psalmist figured it out.
01:15:46: That is just simply declaring his glory. It is saying, have you not seen God? Have you not checked out
01:15:51: God? Do you not realize exactly who God is? Do you not realize how big and expansive he is?
01:15:59: I mean, to me, to declare his glory. To declare his glory. I'm not a
01:16:04: Mormon. I don't believe that these other planets are places that we're going to go inhabit one day and we're going to become
01:16:10: God. And just like Jesus became God, so we can become God. I don't buy that.
01:16:17: Wait, the Mormons believe that? Because I thought it would be a good idea. But if the Mormons think that, then I'm going to rethink my good idea.
01:16:24: I thought it would be kind of cool after the rapture we could go live on another planet or something. We are going to be around.
01:16:32: We are going to be around for a long time. No doubt about that. I know a lot of people who are just thinking, okay, just got to make it through this life. No, no, no.
01:16:37: This is just the beginning. We got forever to go. I mean, we're going to live. We're going to rule and reign with Christ.
01:16:43: We've got a lot going on. It ain't over when you die.
01:16:48: That's just the beginning. That's why it's really important to figure out the right steps here. Excellent.
01:16:55: Do we have any other questions? Terri, were there any questions in Facebook Live? No, no questions from Facebook.
01:17:06: Stacey, did you track any questions? Yeah, I have about 20.
01:17:15: Okay, really? I'm getting them all off my phone right now.
01:17:22: Okay. Should we end live stream and recording? That would be fine.
01:17:28: Yes. Eric, would you like to close us out in prayer? I'd be honored to.
01:17:35: I'd be honored to. Heavenly Father, just using that terminology, no matter what we have experienced with an earthly father, the perfect heavenly father, wow.
01:17:52: You are God. God, if we were to learn to pray, hallowed be thy name.
01:18:00: Oh, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I thank you for giving us today our daily bread.
01:18:08: Thank you for loving us. Heavenly Father, would our minds be consumed with your glory?
01:18:18: Would our lives be consumed with making you look good? Would we look at the circumstances of our life through your perspective and not ours?
01:18:32: Would we trust in you? Thank you for the conversations that we're able to have tonight.
01:18:39: Thank you for loving us. Thank you for loving sinners like me.
01:18:46: As we, as we end this, God, may people learn more. May they go and may they learn more.
01:18:51: May we be on a quest for the rest of our life to know who you are and to love and serve you with everything we do in your precious and holy, holy, holy name, the name that is above every name, the name of Jesus Christ, we pray these things.
01:19:07: Amen. Amen. Before we turn off the recording,
01:19:30: Eric, do you want to go ahead and share one more time about your ministry and where people can find you? Our desire is to just help people have answers at Creation Today.
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01:20:15: We'd love to send that to somebody. Hope already claimed it. Oh, did she? Yeah, those, if you guys can make those online webinars, they are amazing.