Synoptic Gospels - Matthew 19:5

In you in our study in Matthew 19 Mark chapter 10 We've been going very slowly in this section because we've been addressing a wide variety of other topics That are raised here. Specifically Jesus is teaching on marriage creation male and female obviously very directly related to Much of what is happening in our society the redefinition of marriage Homosexuality and things like that and Hopefully some of that somewhat digression and expansion has been of some assistance to you.

Jesus on Marriage, Divorce, and Eunuchs

We continue on with the assertion made by the Lord. Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female and Said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.

The two shall become one flesh. They are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together. Let no man put asunder they said to him. Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to put her away?

He said to them for your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. I say to you whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another.

Commits adultery and.

Disciples said to him as such as the case of a man with his wife is not expedient to marry. But he said to them not all men can receive this saying but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been made so from birth.

Who have been so from birth. And there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men? There are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this let him.

Receive it.

Now we had gotten through to.

Verse.

7 in Mark 10 verse 5 in Mark 19 same.

Text.

We had seen the fact that male and female is a part of God's creative decree. It is not merely the just happens to be the way that blind.

Non.

Teleological teleological being. Having a purpose or goal the direction the non teleological Activities of natural selection working upon random mutation happen to end up favoring Mammals and a male-female sexual orientation situation.

That is the only meaningful Foundation for a naturalistic materialist to look at male and female roles. There can be nothing transcendent to that. For the person who really believes what they have been taught in our educational system today.

The only reason a man's a man is you is purely genetic and purely fortuitous and purely by chance. There is no transcendent meaning to your maleness. To being a man, there's no transcendent meaning to your femaleness and being a woman.

Motherhood just happens to be a biological function. Fatherhood for most men is Just the result of certain actions nothing more. You can't no matter what people come up with and and people will it's amazing to listen to naturalistic materialists.

Who believe that all that exists is what you can see and touch and taste and feel and measure on a electronic piece of equipment. Who really do believe that we are just the random pure luck result of natural processes?

They still have to try to come up with Explanations for what they feel When they Are married if they even bother with the formalities for what they feel if they're a man when their wife becomes Pregnant or what the woman feels when she feels that life within her they have to come up with something, but it has no Direct connection to their worldview.

They're demonstrating. They're creating the image of God. They know better than this, but their worldview just. It cannot provide a foundation. There is no made male and female it's just well male and female happens to be the the the route that that branch of Evolutionary development took and that's it you can't go beyond that.

I Think that's something needs to be pressed upon. People who you see. Many a modern-day liberal Who loves art?

Loves music.

And has absolutely positively no reason for so doing. What is the evolutionary advantage of music? Well could lower your blood pressure? Oh, okay? Well, that's only relevant and you know and and even at that that would not actually be a properly evolutionary response.

Because that's only relevant as to how long you live. How long you live is irrelevant from the evolutionary perspective all that matters is. That up through childbearing years especially for a guy as long as you can father kids then father kids.

Father women with as many women as possible. That's the evolutionary perspective. It really is. I mean they are trying Desperately to come up with moral systems based upon evolutionary thought and it is hilarious.

To watch them violating their own biological principles because they know they have to do it to try to explain. Why we behave the way we behave? It's just not you can't do it, but for all of her. For anyone who really understands how the evolutionary theory works even the lowering blood pressure thing wouldn't be relevant because vast majority of Young men do not die in their 20s from blood pressure issues, so that would be irrelevant.

And same thing with women so there's there's no there's no answer for that. It's just a well it gives us pleasure if it doesn't increase your genetic footprint in the next generation. And you can make up anything you want.

To explain your behavior you're acting inconsistently with your worldview.

But all of them do all of them do.

It was ironic and so she's here this morning Summer and I had the same biology professor in high school. It guess it wasn't a professor as a teacher, but anyway The same biology teacher in high school.

I had him The first or second actually I think the first year he started teaching and she had him the last year he was teaching so we sort of managed to catch him on both ends and So I learned He and I would I remember my my sophomore year in high school.

We would sit out in the little Area there at Independence High School where you could buy these Master remember they look like and what they tasted like these absolutely Horrible burritos. I mean they were just I don't know what we were filled with, but I'm not even sure it was organic, but Anyway, we'd you'd get him in these little cardboard box things you know and we'd sit out there and he and I would argue about evolution and He would give me he would photocopy articles out of science journals and stuff like that because I was an advanced student and blah blah blah and didn't get to be in high school and all that choice up and so I learned You know college level presentation of near Darwinian micromutational evolutionary theory in in high school and fought that battle for for years and What he really drove home was the non Teleological nature of natural selection there is no goal when you see those trees and This leaves this this leaves list our minds say well the goal was to get here.

No it just it's just the way it was there's.

No.

Purpose teleology end. Teleops means end in Greek. So teleology is that there's a purpose a goal and end. There is no end. We just happen to be what we are from the evolutionary perspective. Um what. And I'm very thankful that I learned Evolutionary theory on a.

Deep level.

Because I went to a Christian College and all my professors at the Christian College of our department revolutionists. So I thought I was gonna get to stop fighting that battle once I got out of the public schools.

But it was not the case and I continued to fight that battle as a biology major. Completing my biology major as department fellow in anatomy and physiology. And was given a choice of taking my BS or my BA.

I should have taken the BS. They just called me on the phone one day woke me up from a nap. Which one do you want? You know and I Like well, I could have really used the time to think about that would have been a whole lot easier to go back and finish Up the extra credits you needed to get both degrees and get the BA then go back and get the BS, but anyway so I had to I Really had to delve into the evolutionary theory and thankfully understand it quite well and Hence the developments that have happened over the past ten years and fascinating the mapping of the human genome for example has just Thrown the whole field into its izzy because the whole methodology of Micromutational evolutionary theory it was before.

They map the genome, you know, I say to map the genome is there understand what I'm talking. I'm talking about. You've not heard of this over the past six seven years. You've had this finished up recently.

They did it a lot faster than expected to because of our advances in Technological understanding we have been able to go through the entire The sets of chromosomes in the human species and identify what each section of the DNA molecule is Coding for see the DNA molecule the double helix.

Is this incredible microcomputer? That contains multiple libraries of information in every single cell in your body. It's just absolutely amazing. We don't have anything come even close to it as yet. Even if we ever do all it will demonstrate is it took a whole lot of intelligence to get around that point.

But anyway, and We know that all the structures in your body all the the proteins and enzymes and and everything that regulates the Hundreds of millions and literally billions of chemical reactions taking place in your body every minute that all of that comes from what is coded in the DNA molecule and So what they've been able to go through is go through Identify exactly what all the base pairs signing by wanting Thymine, etc, etc.

And and what they code for and are able to figure out okay, this section on this chromosome this particular section codes for this protein and This codes for this protein, etc, etc. And so they've mapped the human genome which they thought Would answer all of our questions as to how we work and everything else.

Well, it certainly has led to advances and understanding in in many areas, but the one thing that it has has really done is thrown a Just a monkey wrench Into the majority of naturalistic theories as to how in the world we got here because while we've mapped it It doesn't answer the vast majority of our questions.

It doesn't tell us how in the world the cell knows. You are example we could we could figure out fairly easily. As most of you know, I do a lot of writing. I'm doing much more writing I've ever done before I sort of look like I'm doing much more writing though ever done before I'm getting back the way I look back in the 90s and I'm on pace for about well, actually right now I'm on pace for 8 ,400 miles this year.

I'm not gonna make that but anyway, one thing I want to do Before I do a ultra marathon ride in October 185 miles in one day Will is to go up to the flagstaff. Why would I want to go up to flagstaff? For a few days the week before or earlier in the week of the day I do that ride.

What's the altitude?

What's that?

7 ,000 feet up there. So what? More red blood cells. Why in the world I get more blood red blood cells. I go flagstaff. They sell them on the street corner. What's uh, they do sell them on the street corner.

Okay good. All right. I'm looking. There's less oxygen. Okay. So my red so how in the world does my body know there's less oxygen I don't even know. I mean I've got my iPad. My iPad doesn't tell me there's less oxygen up here.

See my body does know my body is able to tell by the amount of oxygen coming into the bloodstream When it starts falling each time I breathe and so my body initially begins to respond to that by making me breathe Faster because it takes time to build red blood cells.

Red blood cells are The mechanisms whereby oxygen is carried to the various organs of my body and the tissues of my body but it takes time to build them and so when you go to flagstaff and You decide to go up a hill to go take some pictures of pretty flowers you get the top.

They'll be like Yeah, I thought I was in better shape than this. Well, actually if you were down Phoenix you wouldn't be going Because we're at 1 ,200 feet here and there's much more oxygen there at 1 ,200 feet than there is at 7 ,200 feet.

Number of months ago. I rode my bicycle to top of Mount Lemmon. Mount Lemmon tops out at 8 ,300 feet and when I got to the top of Mount Lemmon. Not only because I just climbed 6 ,711 feet on a bicycle over 26 miles, but because it's at 8 ,300 feet and Then I went and that worked a lot better because I just been in Denver for a number of days and it made sure to ride real hard in Denver cuz where's Denver at 5 ,000 turn 80 feet.

Etc etc your body senses these things and over time. Creates more red blood cells to carry more oxygen based upon your normal breathing rate. Well, how does it know that? How do the cells in your body know?

Okay.

We need the building blocks of red blood cells because red blood cells have to have specific specific chemicals in them to grab hold of and hold on to oxygen but not so hard that it won't then release the oxygen to your tissues when it gets into the tissues and your tissues need the oxygen and The only reason your tissues need the oxygen is because of a whole different extremely complex system of Chemical reactions that allow you to live.

I mean the complexity of this stuff. To me whenever I hear I was just listening to this atheist. I'm gonna be debating at the end of August. He's the vice president the American atheists, you know, Madeline Murray a Harris group.

They're they're the radical most radical the radicals. They're the they're the well quite nasty I guess and I was listening to him and and and just that the religious dogmatic fervor of this man's revolution is Identical to the most King James only fundamentalist Baptist. I've ever met.

There's no difference between the thought process of the two. None cannot be questioned if you're a rational person you'd never question this and. Every time I hear that I just I Just chuckle in light of what I know about the biological processes of our body.

And if you're by the way, I wasn't to get in all this. I would have brought up my computer and showed you all sorts of neat stuff fun stuff. But if you're really interested in it in a good introduction of this understandable introductionist the book came out.

It's it's older now, but it's still excellent called Darwin's black box by Michael Behe and it goes through.

The the.

Incredible complexity.

Informational complexity designed. Complexity. A person has to turn their mind off to not see the design. What's going on your body right now makes this thing look like a stick and a rock? And this is my droid and if anybody knows droids they're pretty interesting little pieces of equipment, and this isn't anywhere near.

Capable of doing what's going on your body right now? You could tell me this just happened to evolve over billions of years. Don't think so little Korean guys made this. They know they're very proud of it.

So.

Yes, sir their standard response to that is well. You're presenting the god of the gaps. You're presenting the god of the gaps. What they mean by that is it used to be that when mankind was scientifically ignorant He would attribute to God Everything that we did not understand.

So lightning is Thor in heaven throwing lightning bolts at unsuspecting human beings who? Hide in all the wrong places. Now we understand exactly how lightning works and So God's no longer needed to throw lightning bolts.

And so from their perspective the the role of God used to be real big in mankind now. It's really small and all you're saying is well. We're going back all the way to the beginning and well Where are that original?

You know the the Super heavy particle that gives rise to the theories of what's it called the God particles. Hence I just I just was talking with somebody about this week actually there is an article about how an old old particle divider May have discovered the what's called the God particle.

They've been looking for for quite some time. This this that they theorize gives rise to the original particles etc etc and so that they they will say we don't yet know, but we have faith that science will find out and once we do You have no place left for God because God has no more reason to exist.

That's that's the mindset of the consistent naturalist materialist Darwinian evolutionary Hypothesizer anyway.

So.

Getting back to where we're going here, and I again I wasn't expecting this, but it is fascinating to me. The once you once somehow the proper Message gets through to the cells in your body that are responsible for the production of Red blood cells and as you may know those are in there the marrow of your bones.

Neat place to carry stuff.

And.

They are told okay, you need to start Cranking out more because your body's producing them all the time because they get destroyed in various processes you bleed etc. Etc. They get old They break down and so you're having to produce a certain number of red blood cells normally.

But then when you go up the flagstaff for a few days That process kicks in of creating more red blood cells. Well How do they do that. Well there has to be all sorts of systems your body has to be bringing in the proper nutrients?

Transporting the proper nutrients to the proper tissues. But all of it comes down to eventually the coding for the complex molecules and They have to be very complex because most Most of the the reactions that take place in your body are due to a molecule.

I can't really do this in my hands, but having a certain shape That fits into another shape, so if you've got if you're one atom off. It doesn't work anymore. Enzymes for example incredibly complex things.

Far more complex than the keys that we use to open our doors. You know how the certain ridges well in enzymes far more complex than that and So there has to be an exact coding in an exact sequence To create each of the enzymes and each of the proteins Necessary for constructing anything whether it's brain tissue heart tissue.

Whatever.

The digestive enzymes that you use in your stomach to eat your lunch coming up in a few hours all those things are extremely Specific and they're all coded for in the DNA molecule. But the thing is How in the world does that teeny tiny little cell?

Know to start doing this and these smaller molecules. Our RNA tRNA messenger RNA. They go in and they unzip that it's a double helix so they unzip it in the middle at the exact spot where you need to start and start creating a mirror image and It only goes as far as it needs to go to the very end of that particular thing you need and then it stops and resets the thing up again and Then take the mirror image out connects it to a ribosome like a like a like a negative photograph and it connects to a ribosome and.

The.

Necessary components are attached to it in a row and off comes the enzyme of the protein that you need and then it's Transported out into the cell and into making what you do. You're sitting here looking at like there's no way that's happening.

My body. Yes, it's exactly what's happening in your body and. To say that all happened randomly.

No design.

Means that you get your gmail on your phone randomly. Nobody designed that it just happened it isn't it great. It's just absurd to me. So that's what I mean when they talk about we've For a long time.

What we thought was?

That you would just change one. You'd have what's called a micro mutation. See what happens is the reason that we're supposed to have. And it looks like brother Ed forgot this. Supposed to have sunscreen on our on our heads When we go out in the Sun.

Yes, or hat. You've heard that. Good. All right is Let's use brother Ed since he's already read. Anyways, he can't get embarrassed. So. So the Sun comes down on brother Ed's head. Where were you at a golf thing or something?

San Francisco.

The Sun still comes out in San Francisco even amongst all these strange people the Sun still comes out in San Francisco so solar radiation comes down in the form of ultraviolet light and Starts cooking brother Ed's skin and eventually what happens is some of that High energy Coming from the Sun that made it through the the thinning protective layer of the atmosphere ha ha ha comes down and enters into one of his skin cells and hits the DNA molecule and It causes corruption.

It causes a mutation. That's what cancer is is a mutation To where it changes what the cell produces and it's and normally what ends up happening is it starts producing Cells that just keep reproducing the cells and and poisoning the body etc, etc.

So Those little mutations 99 of the time are Deleterious, they'll kill the cell. They'll kill the host though. They'll whatever because It's damage and the damage is bad all the evolutionary theory runs on the idea that yeah, but 0 .001 percent of the time or so.

It won't necessarily kill you. Oh great and so the idea is you can come up with these positive mutations and let's say that Brother Ed gets a positive mutation from his experience in the Sun in San Francisco.

That results in his ability to run like the wind. He's gonna outrun what's that guy from Jamaica that's Thunderbolt or Bolt is that Thunderbolt or whatever the guy's name is. All right, and all of a sudden Brother Ed finds himself the world record holder in the 100 and 200 meter dash.

Because he's gotten this new mutation that has just made him uber fast well the idea is Then you pass that on in the next generation. Oops. It's probably not gonna happen now. But let's say that it did you pass on the next generation that then that spreads across because now I mean Who could ever rob Brother Ed if they try to rob him he can outrun the bullet.

So that means he's gonna have more opportunity of having kids and his kids are gonna survive better because now their predators can't catch them robbers, whatever. And so that becomes the new norm. For the species of Ed see Ed becomes predominant.

That's how the evolutionary theory allegedly works. There's one little problem. We've discovered in mapping the human genome.

Genes don't work like that.

We've discovered that in some instances you can you can play around with all Sections bunch of sections of a chromosome won't impact what it produces at all. We discovered that genes actually exist over entire sections now.

And sometimes they're highly sensitive sometimes they're not and so micro mutation doesn't really work the way we thought that it did and Trying and so what that means is to make a positive change. That gives you some new I mean think about the development of the eye think of all the micro mutations.

It would have had its take to go from accidentally developing some light sensitive chemicals to Accidentally developing a way for the little brain of some little creature to understand light sensitive chemicals and do Accidentally developing lenses and accidentally putting it out on the outside of the body working this tech light and accident accident accident accident over over over again.

It was one thing it was it absolutely boggled the imagination to think of it working Under the old rules, but now we realize to do that. You've got to change not just one little thing, but a whole bunch of things all at the same time in the same way and Then even when that happens what happens that guy still gets eaten by his predator now you guys do it all over again.

I Mean, let's say brother Ed becomes the fastest guy in the world he's not fast enough to get out of the way of the speeding guy in the SUV who takes him out and Now it hasn't been passed on anybody else.

So we've got to wait for somebody else to go to San Francisco and forget his sunscreen. To develop this new super-fast breed of human and how many times would that have happened? It absolutely boggles the mind the irrationality of it just makes me go.

Wow, and yet there are so many people standing up there in their white lab coats. Just telling us for certain that it's true. And I and I just sit there and go yeah, okay, all right. That's why I said this whole thing about male and female.

They have no grounding in their worldview for attaching any meaning to it it's just simply the.

Natural result of.

Natural processes over an incredibly long period of time. And to read anything more into it. Which they have to do. Because they feel love. They feel amazement. The creation of life to be a true naturalistic materialist Is to be a person who recognizes you're nothing but an animal.

And there is no meaning. And what a lousy life that is. I think we're seeing the result of this in European society and our own society. People just throw their lives away. Because what does it matter?

There's there's no meaning here. Why should I worry about leaving this world a better place for somebody else? Let me use. Let me make the biggest carbon footprint in the world. Because I don't care. And.

Yet they don't even they don't even take a real naturalistic Darwinian perspective. Because you'd you'd think. They'd realize I should have the most kids I possibly can to have the biggest impact in the future.

Because the only impacting it has a biological one. But they don't. What has been the natural result of secularism. Who cares about the family? Because he once you have kids you have to take care of them.

It's such a pain.

So.

What's what has happened in secular societies. The number of children.

Plummets.

Why. Because you don't want to bother? I mean if you don't have kids man you can. Most of us earn a fair amount of money. You're not buying sneakers and taking them to the doctor and man just think what mr. See you would have if he hadn't had to feed These behemoths, I mean, I mean he would live in Scottsdale and drive a Lexus just off the just off the money on food.

And so.

Once you stop worrying about having a family in the future you don't worry about things like your nation. Patriotism values none of that stuff. You just live for you. That's the only logical thing you can do.

Now I'm not saying that every naturalist materialist lives their lives that way. I'm saying they're inconsistent if they don't and I know they try to come up with answers for all this. Well, I just think you know, it's better to you know, follow the golden rule.

Why?

Does your worldview? Necessarily leads you to that. It doesn't it doesn't. Now how anybody gets that out of Matthew chapter 19 verse verse 5 or 4. I have no earthly idea, but hopefully it was of some.

At least entertainment value to you if if nothing more. But hopefully there was actually some information there for you. That would.

That would be interesting.

And.

This rate we're gonna fill up two more notebooks just on two verses if I if I keep doing this, but anyway. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife And the two shall become one flesh.

We talked about this last week. Obviously, we have here the recognition on Jesus part of.

The.

Foundational character of the family.

And.

I every time I have been asked to speak on the subject of the perversion of marriage. That is taking place.

In.

European countries and in the United States in various locales in Regards to the perverted expansion of the concept of marriage to two men or two women or Logically and by necessity Eventually if the Supreme Court allows that to happen will have to be including one man and three women.

One woman and three men I mean logically once you've opened that door there is no Logical grounds to argue against polygamy this isn't. You'd have to allow that to happen and You really start wondering about one man and one dog one man and one horse one woman and 47 cats.

I mean are there not people that we know of who if it was allowable I mean are there not people who leave millions of dollars to their pets. If the option of marrying that thing was around something tells me that that would happen to.

It is it is a perversion of an institution that is a creation ordinance. And this isn't just well the Christian view is as if that means it's one view amongst a million Absolutely equal competing views.

That's how our society deals with things. What we're saying is God made every single person Christian or non-christian and therefore the owner's manual that came with you Says A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and The two shall become one flesh.

They're no longer two, but one flesh, but therefore God is joined together. Let no man put asunder. We've all heard that in the old Anglican created Prayer book wedding ceremony what what God hath joined let no man put asunder and yet What that means is?

This is the basis upon which you say that marriage and Its nature its form is Not under the authority of the civil magistrate. Because it does not say what man has joined together let no man put asunder.

It says what God has joined together.

Let no man put asunder. In other words, there is divine elements Because it is a part of the divine Purpose and I would suggest you that's why the corruption of marriage. The interruption of marriage the destruction of marriage is so painful To everyone who has experienced it because it speaks to our very created nature as creatures.

Once we lost in our society the view of marriage as a divine act therefore it could be entered into Lightly and easily and Then exited out of in the same way. Just ask the folks who live about four and a half hours that way with their little wedding chapels along the strip and so.

The the.

Degradation of marriage has come from very clearly a Collapse in having a Christian worldview even though Many people in the society were not Christians. You can be raised with the elements of a Christian worldview you'll rebel against.

You may not like them. But you can be raised to the Christian worldview and when people say that this was a Christian country That's the only way you can put that way. There's always been non-christians.

There were non-christian founding fathers. It didn't want this to be a quote-unquote Christian nation all the rest that stuff. But the fact matter is the prevailing view in the society was based upon Judeo-christian Thought and a Christian worldview.

You can't read the founding documents Outside of that context. It's just it requires a postmodern deconstructionist mindset where you don't have to worry about original context. Which is now we're dealing with.

So there was a recognition of God's presence. Remember what else was a part of that old Anglican? Wedding format. Before God and these witnesses it was assumed That God was present in a special way When marriage takes place and And that the vows being exchanged for being exchanged before God and These witnesses God the more important of the two.

But but.

The witnesses were not unimportant. Even today you're supposed to have witnesses. Now it's just for the rather Blah reason that well we need to make sure it's really happened. For legal purposes just like you have to have somebody to notarize something.

But the witnesses originally.

Functioned much in a much more important way in That these witnesses to to make vows in front of other people. There used to be a saying and I know it's it's almost like smallpox or measles. We've gotten rid of these things in our in our modern world, but there used to be something called shame.

Now for younger folks I need to spell that sh am e and It's an old-fashioned concept that a person would blush and would Have an elevation of their their heart rate and and would lower their heads and Would feel separated from the group of society because of their behavior.

What it required is that people would actually believe that there was good and bad behavior and that there were some things you do That would bring shame. And we've gotten rid of that. Interestingly enough the only people that are now using that term that I know of.

Have you noticed this the homosexuals. The homosexuals did you see the video last year of the Christians in San Francisco? But it was dark that was an advantage they had over you and it was it was dark so they didn't get sunburned but they were in a bad area and the cops had to form a cordon around them to get them out of that bad area and Between the four-letter words that were being used regularly.

The thing that amazed me and the same thing happened remember the little old lady back when prop 8 was being voted on. Who walked into the middle of a demonstration with a cross in her hand. They knocked the cross out of her hand stamped on the cross knocked her around little old lady and What were they chanting same thing they were changing those Christians when the cops were dragging about San Francisco?