Knowledge Is Impossible Without God

Jesus’ Miracles Reveal His Identity as Yahweh Among Us

So, it's Matthew 15, Jesus now has, of course, been notified about John the Baptist, the death of John the Baptist. Jesus then goes again into this desolate place by himself, which was often his practice to be alone with the Father.

And that's when all the crowds actually come and they disrupt his time with the Father. Jesus heals all their sick, he feels compassion for them, he's moved by compassion for them. Jesus performs these miracles of healing, and then, of course, we know the amazing miracle of all these hungry followers, probably closer to 20 ,000 followers, and Jesus takes the five loaves, the two fish, and he begins to create new things, right?

He's the creator of everything. He creates out of these five loaves and two fish new food for his people. He has them sit down, he provides for their needs, and it says that they are satisfied. And, of course, they collect 12 baskets full, very symbolic to God providing for Israel's needs and them being satisfied.

Jesus then, of course, has this amazing display of himself as creator by walking on water. He walks on the water, he shows who he is, he's Yahweh among us, he's God among us. Peter, of course, in faith, walks out towards Jesus, he wants to walk with Jesus on the water.

Jesus immediately invites him, he says, I want to trust you, and Jesus says, come on the water. Peter, of course, sees his circumstances, he gets his eyes off of Jesus, he stops trusting, he begins to sink.

They immediately know who Jesus is. Jesus rescues him from drowning. And then, of course, he goes, crosses over into the land of Gennesaret, and it says that people were coming to him just that they might only touch the fringe of his garment to be healed, just to touch the stuff on Jesus.

Now, all of this activity now is bringing this flurry of notoriety around Jesus, right? Jesus is in these towns and people are coming to him in droves, he's doing these miracles, and the miracles are pointing to the greater reality of who he is.

Again, I've said many times before that the miracles of Jesus are not just kind of David Blaine, Cris Angel kind of things that just stun you, but it's a trick. It's all about just that moment of astonishing you, right, like pulling frogs from your throat or making yourself levitate.

It's all trickery, but it's just for that. It's to make the person who's the performer look amazing. It's to wow you. Jesus isn't a performer. He's not a performer, he's not a magician. When Jesus walks on water, feeds almost 20 ,000, when he's healing the sick and the blind, when he's raising the dead, he's showing who he truly is, Yahweh among us, and he's showing us that he can be trusted.

He's displaying his nature, his character, and the greater reality of what he can do. For instance, when Jesus raises somebody from the dead, it's to display not simply that he can have this miraculous power, but it's showing that he's the one who's the giver of life.

He can actually raise the dead, defeat our greatest enemy. And of course now, all of this flurry of activity is drawing people to Jesus, and the religious leadership doesn't like it. So they're the ones that are trying to trip Jesus up.

They're the ones bringing coins to Jesus saying, what about the coin? Should we pay taxes or not? Trying to get him into trouble. They start asking him questions related to marriage. Jesus, Matthew 19, are you with Rabbi Hillel, or are you with Rabbi Shammai?

Do you believe that the law of God dictates how we get divorced? Or do you believe we can get divorced for any cause? So now they're following Jesus and challenging him, right? So Jesus does things like display that he's Yahweh, he controls the elements, he feeds people, walks on water, raises the dead, gives sight to blind people, hearing to deaf people, all these amazing things.

But he does other things too. For example, he displays who he is, Yahweh among us, God among us. It says Jesus, knowing their thoughts, answered them. Jesus searches their hearts. He knows what they're thinking.

Jesus says to people things like, you're forgiven of your sin. And their response was actually right on the money. They say, who can forgive sins but God alone? They knew what he was claiming. And of course, Jesus did it in those ways, like displaying that he was Yahweh and he had the actual power of Yahweh.

But he also took the prerogatives of Yahweh, like received worship, he forgave sins. All of that's taking place. And then, of course, the explicit reminder to people of exactly who he is, like for example, in John chapter 8, when Jesus says this, unless you believe, ego eimi, I am, he takes a subtuitance rendering of ahia in the Hebrew, I am, God's name, Yahweh.

And he says, unless you believe that ego eimi, I am, you will die in your sins. He says, before Abraham was, I am. And they knew exactly what he was saying because they picked up stones to kill him. Remember, in John 10, two chapters later, Jesus says, I and the father are one.

They pick up stones to kill him again. And he says, many good works have I shown you from my father, for which of these do you stone me? And they said, for thy good works we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and that you being a man, make yourself God.

They knew what he was saying. He displayed through his power and his activity in ministry, he's God among us. He took the prerogatives of God alone. He said that he was God, taking the divine name, I am, upon himself.

The Tradition of the Elders Versus the Word of God

And now, enter Matthew 15. Matthew 15, now these same Pharisees and scribes come to Jesus from Jerusalem, from the holy.

City.

And they say to him, why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat. Some of you mothers are like, sounds good to me. Right? Sounds like a good tradition to have.

Here's the thing, watch. There's a difference between law of God and law of the home. And it's really important we get that right. We can have the law of God understood, laid down, and we could draw from that general principles of wisdom to have laws in our homes, right?

But we have to know the difference between a law of God and a law of the home. So for example, you might have as a tradition in your home, you're not allowed to put your feet on the couch, right? And in your home, that's a violation of the law of the home.

In my home, not so important, right? But what we can't do is say, well, the law in my home is you can't put feet on the couch and you must wash your hands before dinner, therefore, that's true godliness.

That's true piety. We have to know the difference between a tradition that's just a healthy tradition, maybe it's wise in our circumstances, but it's not actually the law of God. What these people did is they actually raised up a tradition called Halakha, and that tradition later morphed into something called the Mishnah.

And what it was was seen by the Jews as sacred tradition, essentially divine. You got to get this, they weren't saying, say what Christians say today, reformed Protestants about say a catechism, where we say this catechism testifies to truth that are found in the Bible.

The catechism, the confession actually has its basis, the word of God. If it contradicts the word of God, it's to be thrown out.

We hold it loosely.

We say it's good, we say it's valuable, but we hold it very loosely saying the word of God's the ultimate authority. What they said about this tradition, catch this, was that this was divine tradition from God, from Sinai, from Moses that was essentially oral tradition passed down.

It wasn't scripture, it wasn't this, they knew what the Torah was, the Tanakh was, they knew the five books of Moses, the Pentateuch, they knew what it was. This important side note, I said it last week, I want to kind of emphasize it because it's so important you know it.

The Jews of this day, Second Temple Judaism in the first century, they had the entire Old Testament that you have right now in your Bibles, all the same books. They had laid up in the Jewish temple as the scriptures, the word from God.

They knew what the word of God was, they had the identical canon we have in the temple. They knew about the Apocrypha, the Apocrypha were other writings, they were historical writings that the Jews thought had valuable history in them, but listen, they did not believe that those were scripture.

Jesus nor the apostles ever quoted from the Apocrypha as though it was divinely inspired word from God. They were aware of the Apocrypha, they knew it existed, it was historical writings, but they knew it wasn't the word of God and they did not lay that up in the temple as the word of God.

Jesus and the apostles, I said last week, quoted copiously from the Old Testament writings to the degree that, listen, every book of the Old Testament canon is quoted in the New Testament save Esther, a very short book.

They knew what the word of God was, they had it laid up in the temple, here's what the divine tradition was, the Halakha, it was a divine tradition of the elders and what they were saying was, watch, not that it's a guide for conduct, but that it was oral tradition from God delivered down through the centuries and it is inspired tradition.

In other words, you must obey or you're sinning and so now enter Jesus and his followers aren't doing it.

Why? Why?

Because that tradition conflicts with the very words of God, the law of God. And Jesus, of course, at the end here says this, it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you. Jesus says, where's that go?

When you put something into your mouth, it goes through your system and then it comes out of your body as waste. That's not what defiles you. Jesus says, what actually defiles you is what's from within you, right?

Out of the heart, the mouth speaks and so Jesus says, this stuff comes from, if you're talking about defiling somebody, if you want to know what sin is to God, it's what's actually happening inside you, murderers, adulteries, thefts, all these things, that's from inside.

You.

Here's the deal, this is an amazing thing. You might think, you might be tempted to think, well, this is just some peculiar oddity of the past, right?

No.

One of my favorite musicians, modern musicians, was, is, and I think will remain, Modest Yahoo. How many of you guys like Modest Yahoo? I love Modest Yahoo. I love Modest Yahoo because so many of his lyrics are based upon even psalms in the Bible.

He takes biblical scriptures and even sometimes he sings psalms and turns them into this amazing.

Music.

He's super gifted and talented. Well, years ago, Modest Yahoo has changed a lot now. What made him so interesting was he was this Hasidic Jew, right? So imagine you're in Brooklyn now or some part of the five boroughs in New York and you see a Hasidic Jew with, you know, the little twirly things and just looks completely odd and it's essentially an Orthodox Jew.

Well, now he's doing like reggae and hip hop and you're like, this looks so weird and it's wonderful, right? It's just really amazing. Well, I watched this video once of Modest Yahoo while he was on tour and it showed him going to his trailer and while he was in his trailer, he was sort of telling everyone what's in there and it was really, just a little piece of it, was all of that Jewish tradition coming out now.

He started talking about all the things that he does to keep himself clean. He started talking about all the ways that he keeps himself pure and he even had some stuff that he gargled with to actually keep his throat clean.

Why?

Because for them, there's a tradition connected to that, like if you can actually keep your mouth clean, then your mouth is clean before God. If your throat is clean, then your throat is clean before God.

Because for them, that tradition says that it's all external. It's all pointing to something. If your hands are clean, then you're not dirty, you're not foul. If your mouth is clean, you're not dirty, you're not foul.

This is not some oddity of the past that doesn't exist today. Human beings who are guilty before God and have shame before God, watch, they will always, always, always try to find some way to scrub away the guilt.

They will always try to find some way to find atonement for their guilt and their shame. When human beings are broken before God and they are guilty before God, they have a sense of that guilt before God and so what do they do with that?

They take it and they say, well, do I come to Jesus? No, not Jesus, but I'm foul, I'm broken, so what do I do? Clean myself. Wash myself. Get the sin off of me. Get all of the filth off of me. So maybe if I clean my mouth, then what comes out of my mouth is pure because I have a clean.

Mouth.

Maybe if I wash my hands, I wash my hands of the blood of the person that I slayed. Do you get the point? Human beings try to find some way to purify themselves and the Jews, rather than going to God in this day for cleansing, rather than going to Jesus, they said, you need to wash your hands before you eat because you don't want to defile your food so it goes into you and that defiled food goes into your belly and now you are defiled.

And so what does Jesus say? That's not how this works. What goes into you is irrelevant. It's just going to go out. If you want to know where this begins, it begins in your heart, it begins within you.

This is where it comes from, inside. You want to clean yourself, clean the inside of the cup, Jesus says, not the outside. He says you're experts at that.

You guys are.

Watch, Matthew 23, coming soon, a little trailer, whitewashed tombs, right? It looks so fine on the outside, it's clean on the outside, it's whitewashed on the outside, but inside you are full of dead, stinking, rotting, foul flesh.

That's what you are inside. You are a whitewashed tomb. You are focused on the outside of the cup, Jesus says, focused on the inside, but what he does, and this is where we get to it, Jesus is confronted by them, how come your disciples don't follow the divine tradition and do this?

You're all defiled. You guys are defiled. That's what they're accusing Jesus of, of being defiled, and Jesus, his response is epic, and it has to be the gauge for us.

He's Yahweh among us.

You want to ask the question, what does God want us to have as the standard of life if I've got two conflicting claims? What does God want me to do about that conflict? Jesus says this when they suggest he's defiled.

He answered them, and why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? That's it. That's it. We have to realize, watch, that is an epistemological statement. It's a claim about knowledge.

How do I know something to be true? Where do I go? Tradition? Where do I go? Experience? Where do I go? Pragmatism? Where do I go? Authorities? Where do I go? To the state? Where do I go? To the authority of the church?

Jesus says this, and why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? God among us in the flesh says this, here's how you resolve the conflict. You take your tradition, you compare it to the word of God, and you're going to either have something that matches the word of God, or you're going to have something that his words, ready, invalidate, void God's word.

Your tradition can wipe away the word of God, and that's where Jesus' starting point is. The foundation of knowledge, the foundation of wisdom is, in fact, the word of God. That's Jesus' approach to conflict, and he, of course, I'll just give it to you if you weren't here last week.

When he does it, he skips over their challenge. You notice that? He went right to the jugular, but he skipped over their challenge. He deals with the challenge later, but he demonstrates to them that a tradition is conflicting with God's word, and here's what he says.

God commanded, honor your father and your mother, and whoever reviles father or mother must surely die, watch, but you say. Here's what God says, but you say, contrast, God's word, your claim. If anyone tells his father or mother, or his mother, what you would have gained from me is given to God, that's the Korban rule, he need not honor his father or mother.

What's that mean? In the Old Testament, God said this, you must honor your father and your mother and care for the needs of the elderly, for your parents. We spoke a moment ago about God's order, social order, blessing the world, right?

When we do it God's way, we don't need these social programs, we don't need to extort people, we don't need to take money through coercion and unjust taxation. If we follow God's law, we have a social order that blesses the world.

They distorted it, because they said this, Jesus, Korban rule, everything I have, ready? Look how spiritual this sounds, is given to the Lord.

That's the rule.

You see, Jesus, I can't really honor my father and my mother and take care of their needs, because all my stuff is dedicated to temple. All my stuff is dedicated to God. You see, here's the deal, God, all my stuff, it belongs to you, not to my mom and dad.

Who's more important, God, mom or dad, or you? You're more important, and so I'm not obligated to care for their needs, because everything's dedicated to you. And so what Jesus says is this, your tradition has invalidated God's word.

You're in conflict with God's word, because of this tradition you've set up. And so Jesus has as the foundation, the word of God. Now let's talk for a minute, just for a moment, about the foundation of knowledge, and I want.

You to see it.

Go to Proverbs chapter one. Proverbs chapter one, what does God's word say about knowledge? How do we know things? How do we know what's true? Proverbs chapter one, verse seven, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Now it's possible for us as Christians with all these amazing grand statements in the Bible to read a passage like that and just skip through all the implications.

I admit at times to reading God's word and being completely light-headed, mellow-headed, never taking in the implications of something like that, but just consider for a moment that verse in a secular philosophy course written on the blackboard.

I'm sorry, I'm dating myself. On the whiteboard, right? So imagine you walk into a philosophy course today in a secular university, and it's a course on epistemology, or the basics of philosophy, or knowledge, and you're learning about different ways people try to approach how we know something to be true.

And you walk into this secular university, and it says, the fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge. Now I'm sure if the atheists walked into the room and the agnostics walked into the room, they might have a problem with what's on the board.

Let me ask you a question.

How long do you think it would take for the secularists, the humanists, say the unbelievers in the crowd, how long do you think it would take them to start speaking up about what was on the board, right?

Whatever do you mean that fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge? You're saying that I have to start all of my pursuit of knowledge with fear of the biblical God that, watch, that's the beginning of knowledge, that I can't actually get myself up into the air, I can't start flapping my wings, I can't actually get off the ground until I first start with fear of God?

Someone says, what's it mean to fear God? Well, in the Hebrew text of Proverbs 1 -7, fear of Yahweh, it means fear.

That's it.

Someone says, well, like, you're afraid of God, like of something He could do, like morally bad to you? Well, no, of course not. God is holy and just. The foundations of God's throne are just as God is holy.

He's not like you and me. He's not untrustworthy. Even His wrath is His settled opposition against sin. It's not something that is out of character for God. When we talk about fear of God, we're talking about, yes, reverent submission and awe before God, but it's fear before God.

And it says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. You want to know something to be true, you have to start with God. You have to start with reverent submission and awe before God. He's the reference point.

Watch.

Remember the beginning of today's service today of worship. Remember what I did. I pointed to Cornelius Van Til, and Cornelius Van Til talks about how we know something.

This is huge.

When you grasp this, you'll find the beauty of the biblical worldview. If a human being refuses to start with fear of God for knowledge, and you say, no, I won't start with your own self-knowledge, God, before I move to knowledge of myself, no God means I have to find knowledge in myself.

And if I start with myself, and what do I know, well, I have to admit to my limitations. Here's the question I have for you. If you started all of your thinking without God, and you buy into the modern mythology about human beings, that all of us come from highly evolved societies of bacteria, that all of our ancestors were fish, if you believe we're just highly evolved bags of protoplasm in a universe that doesn't care, let me ask you a question.

What do you know about the world? How much knowledge, of all the knowledge that is possible, do you think you have? Of all, watch, of all possible knowledge in the universe, not just our galaxy, of all the knowledge in the universe, how much knowledge do you have?

How much do you know? Less than 1 That'd be a high number, I think, right?

That'd be pretty high.

That'd be a little bit liberal there, right? Maybe less than 1%. So, watch, if you start with your own self-knowledge, and you say, how much do I know, you have to admit to your limitations and say, I know actually very little.

Which is to say, if you don't have exhaustive knowledge about everything in the universe, then you can't claim to know anything at all. Because if you say, I know this to be true, it's possible that you haven't experienced an instance where that thing is actually not true.

So, the truth is, without God's self-disclosure, we don't know anything, nothing. We have no true justified belief, which is to say this, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. If we have God, who knows all things, and perfectly knows himself, if he discloses himself to us, what he tells us, we can be certain about.

Example, people say today it's perfectly acceptable to have a home where you have three dads, no moms, two dads who are in intimate physical relationship with each other, and you don't.

Need a mom.

You can make that claim today, and that claim is made today. And you can say, that's a good thing. That's the kind of knowledge you can get to. Or you can have the kind of claim that was made this week, I posted about it, of a woman who's in love with a chandelier, and she calls it love, wants to marry a chandelier.

That's a claim to knowledge, that's acceptable behavior. Well, if you don't start with God, ready, sky's the limit. Beyond that, it's not just the sky's the limit, everything is up for grabs. How do you know something to be true?

You don't without God. But if you start, watch, your knowledge of yourself coming from the derivative knowledge that God gives to you about himself and you, you can be certain. For example, let's take a simple Christian belief, greatest commandment, second, is love your neighbor as what?

You love yourself. We take it for granted as Christians, that's such a basic thing. You ought to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Our society has been shaped by that, why? Because the Christian worldview has impacted every nook and cranny of our world, and so people today who are even humanists adopt the Christian morality of love your neighbor as you love yourself, but that comes from God.

Well, if we lived in a world where we rejected God's self-revelation, and now we're left in a world of our own making, and if we are the masters of our universe, the captains of our own ships, if I am the source, the principium of all knowledge, then it might be possible to say in some civilizations that the standard is eat your neighbor, and.

We laugh.

We say, oh, that's graphic, and that's to the extreme, Pastor Jeff. Nobody believes eat your neighbor, and then I want to invite you to Papua New Guinea or any other tribes around the world where they actually do believe that it's virtuous to kill another human being and to eat them.

You see, we take it for granted as Christians that because of God's own self-disclosure, we can know that the standard is to love your neighbor as you love yourself, and to love your enemies, and to do good to those who persecute you and mistreat you.

That comes from God, and you can't simply say, well, that should be obvious to all of us because, brothers and sisters, watch this, it is not obvious to all of us. And if you don't believe that, then I want to invite you to take a trip with me not too far from here to Florence, where we have a building that's guarded by people with automatic weapons and deadly weapons, where there are people in cages there because society has said you have violated fundamental laws of morality, and here's the question.

Apart from God's self-disclosure, how do you know something is a moral failing? How do you know, apart from God and His character as the foundation, that something is a moral.

Failure?

Is it wrong to be in a physical relationship with an animal? Is that wrong? Okay, you guys took a little while to answer that one, and I'm kind of worried.

Well, think about it.

Is it wrong to be in a physical relationship with animals? Well, our laws used to reflect that in the United States. We actually had laws that quoted from the Old Testament law that said you shall not engage in bestiality.

And now, of course, we live in a society that's ordered in such a way where we say not God is the reference point, I'm the reference point, so now we actually have people questioning whether it actually ought to be immoral and a criminal act to engage in that kind of activity with animals.

And here's the thing. You might say, well, isn't it obvious to us that we ought not to? And the answer is no. It is apparently not obvious to us that we ought not to.

Why?

Because there are human beings who engage in such activities and actually say, argue for people to be free to do this sort of a thing. Or how about the people right now we have in cages not far from us for kidnapping people, engaging in violent physical assaults on people?

Who are we to say that that's against the law? Somebody might say, watch, here it is. Yes, but Jeff, that's against nature.

Okay, I'll bite.

It's against nature? Do we see any other creatures in the animal kingdom eating other animals in the animal kingdom? And the answer is what? We certainly do. So if we're going to do what's according to nature, why don't we do what the animals do?

Do you know what animals don't do? They don't ask for permission before they mate with another creature. Should we do what the animals do? How about this? Animals copulate openly without private places to do it.

Should we do what's according to nature? How about this? Animals use the bathroom publicly without private places to do it. Should we do what's according to nature? People say things like this. Well, Pastor Jeff, homosexuality is even seen in the animal kingdom.

You know, you can't just say it's immoral. Animals do it. And my answer is exactly.

That's right.

They do.

And we are not merely animals, we are in the image of God. Do you see now why the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge? If God isn't the source, if he's not the principium, if he's not the starting point, then you can't truly know anything.

And we just take it for granted as Christians. We have the Word of God. We have a society that has been built by and established by Christians and the Bible. And unbelievers today just can't shake their Christianity loose.

But they're trying mighty hard these days, amen? Yes, they're trying. The cultural Marxists and all the rest are trying to distort and destroy the foundations of this nation and the West. And we have to start with the self-attesting Word of God.

Christ, the Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge

One more verse to go to for this. And then I'm going to give you some things to think about in terms of application for.

Today.

Go to Colossians. Colossians. Small book in your New Testament. You're going to go past Corinthians, past Galatians and Ephesians, Philippians, and get to Colossians. And I want you to go to Colossians chapter 2, and this will be a foundation marker for us once again.

Here it is.

Colossians chapter 2, verse 1. For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ.

Ready?

The mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For although I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit according to the human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, here it is, and not according to Christ.

So for Paul, in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And he says, I say this to you so you will not be taken captive. Watch, the word that he uses there is robbed. I don't want you to be robbed by philosophy and human tradition that is not according to Christ, which is to say this, there is a philosophy which is according to Christ.

And how do you know that it is? Because it's rooted in Christ as the treasure of wisdom and knowledge. So here's the question I have to ask us as a church. We see Jesus operating on the principle that the word of God is the final standard.

It must be the thing you rest on and stand on to test every claim. Jesus says in John 17, 17, thy word is truth. It's the plumb line. It's the standard. And it says in scripture, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Here's the question.

Is it true?

You can answer. Yes, okay. Is it, is that true that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ? Is that true in your marriage? Is it true that when you have conflict in your marriage, husband and wife, is it true that in Christ you will have the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and how to work these things out?

Watch, here's how it applies, because here's how it works. You have a conflict as a husband and a wife, you have a debate, you have an argument over something that you ought to do or ought not to do. Maybe you have as a wife questions about where your husband is trying to steer the ship.

Maybe he's wrong. Maybe he's wrong. But the only way that you know that he's wrong, and as a wife you can lovingly demonstrate it to him, is by going to the treasury. Is by going to the place where the wisdom and knowledge is settled.

You see, when you have conflict in your marriage, the only way you're going to actually heal and be renewed and transformed and come out of that conflict to the other side of it, is if you actually bend your will to the standard of God's word and say, what does Christ say?

What does the word of God say?

How do we heal?

You see, this matters in every detail of your life. Here's the question again. Is Christ the, is, are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Jesus?

Yes?

Is that true for science? Yes. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. You can't even apply the scientific method and principles apart from the biblical world.

View.

Consider it for a second. If you don't believe that the world is ordered by God, sustained by God, upheld by God, carried along by God, if you don't believe that God has given the universe a fixed order and then he sustains it, then what gives you the idea that you can actually apply the scientific method and that the future will be like the past?

How do you know the experience, the experiments you're doing today in Arizona and the conclusions you come to are going to be the same for Iceland and England, even in Canada? Believe it or not. You see, watch.

If you don't have Christ, you don't have a basis to tell the truth when you actually do scientific experiments and discoveries. What if, watch, we say, no God, no Christ, I don't want God, no fear of the Lord.

I think I can actually make a lot of money off of scientific theory, a heck of a lot of money. But in order to make a lot of money with a new scientific theory, I have to actually.

Lie through my teeth.

Now if you don't have Christ, there's no foundation, thou shalt not lie. There's no reason not to abuse other human beings. Why not get quick rich with a scientific theory? Who cares about the fallout?