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THAT IS THE OVERVIEW.

YOU CAN ALMOST TELL WHERE THE

SNOW AREA IS JUST BY THE

DISABILITIES.

NOTICE HOW IT IS REDUCED ALONG

THE PIKE FROM WORCESTE TO

BOSTON, AS WELL AS LAWRENCE TO

CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

ONCE YOU HEAD SOUTH, YOU WON I

-- RUN INTO SLEET AND RAIN.

THERE IS A WARM LAYER COMING IN

UP ABOVE, AND THAT WILL GET TO

ABOUT THE PIKE TO BOSTON.

TOMORROW MORNING, IT WILL COME

BACK DOWN.

THE LAST PART OF THE STORM, WE

SEE THE RAIN-SNOW LINE DEBT.

THIS AREA HERE, YOUR SNOW A

CHELATION WILL COME TOMORROW

MORNING.

HERE IS A LOOK AT WHAT IS

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

WE WILL TAKE A CLOSER LOOK.

I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW BOSTON IS

33 WITH AN EAST WIND, BUT IF YOU

LOOK AT THE TEMPERATURES, EXCEPT

FOR WORCESTE WITH ELEVATION, IT

IS AT OR ABOVE FREEZING.

IT WILL KEEP SNOWING, ESPECIALL

NORTH OF THE PIKE, BUT A HEAVY,

WET SNOW.

WHEN YOU GET A LOT OF FAT, YOU

CAN RUN INTO PROBLEMS, AND THE

WIND WILL BE INCREASING OVER

TIME.

OUR TEMPERATURES LATE TONIGHT,

TOMORROW, LATE TOMORROW MORNING,

JUST ABOUT STAYING THE SAME.

WHAT CHANGES ARE THE

TEMPERATURES ABOVE US, AND THAT

IS WHAT TAKES THE SNOW-RAIN LINE

MOVE AROUND.

SPRINGFIELD AND HEART FOR --

HARTFORD ARE RAINING, BUT ON

EITHER SIDE SLEET.

YOU SEE SOME PINK IN WORCESTER

COUNTY.

THAT IS SLEET.

SOME SLEET IN RHODE ISLAND.

THEN THE SNOW AREA FOR NOW,

ALTHOUGH A VERY WET SNOW, IN AND

AROU BOSTON TO WAYLAND.

THE DEEP PURPLES FROM LEOMINSTER

-- LEOMINSTER HAS BEEN REPORTING

SNOW ACCUMULATION.

WE ALWAYS TELL Y INTENSE THE

PRECIPITATION, ELEVATION, ALL OF

THOSE ARE KEYS, AND MOVING INTO

NIGHTTIME, WILL AID THE SNOW IN

ACCUMULATING, ESPECIALLY ARIES

THAT'S A SNOW DURING THE NIGHT.

THIS IS THE TIMELINE.

WE SEE SOME MIX AROUND WORCESTE

, STILL SNOWING I BOSTON, THEN

THAT

GETS JUST ABOUT TO BOSTON

SATURDAY AT 6:00 A.M., AND CLOSE

TO THE PIKE, BUT MAY NEVER GET

NORTH OF THE PIKE.

THIS IS HEAVY RAIN, HEAVY, WET

SNOW, WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MAKES

WHERE THAT LINE IS.

THEN THE LIN MOVED SOUTH.

THIS ERA GETS MOST OF ITS NO

TOMORROW MORNING AND TAPERS OFF

FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST

DURING THE AFTERNOON.

THIS IS OUR BEST ESTIMATE, BUT

NO MATTER WHAT, IT IS HIGH

IMPACT BECAUSE OF HEAVY

MOISTURE, PARTICULARLY IN THE

SLEET AND SNOW AREA.

THE WIND WILL PICK UP.

LOOK AT THE GUSTS TONIGHT AND

EARLY TOMORROW.

THERE IS A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR

NANTUCKET, SO THE WIND WILL COME

INTO PLAY.

IT IS NOT IN PLAY YET.

CHECK IT OUT.

THIS IS THE RED SOX GAME.

THAT IS PLAYABLE WITH

TEMPERATURES IN THE 40'S.

THE SEA BREEZE WILL KNOCK IT

BACK INTO THE 40'S AFTER

TOUCHING 50.

IMPACT WEATHER TONIGHT, AND

CERTAINLY THE FIRST HALF OR TWO

THIRDS OF THE DAY TOMORROW,

BRIGHTER SUNDAY, DRY FOR THE RED

SOX, ANOTHER STORM WITH RAIN AND

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THE FOLLOWING TEAM IS MADE OF FOOTBALLERS WHO LIKE TO SPORT HEADBANDS

AT GOAL WE HAVE SWISS YANN SOMMER.

SPORTS HIS HEADBAND IN EVERY BUNDESLIGA GAME

AT RIGHT BACK, DUTCH DARYL JANMAAT

MANY SUGGEST HE SHOULD GET A HAIRCUT

ARGENTINE DEFENDER MARTIN DEMICHELIS MUST WEAR A HEADBAND TO CONTROL HIS MANE

THE OTHER CENTRAL DEFENDER, WITH A GREAT MANE, IS SERBIAN NEVEN SUBOTIC

HE'S ALWAYS HAD THE SAME HAIR STYLE

COMPLETING THE DEFENSE LINE, ATLETICO MADRID'S LEFT BACK,

FILIPE LUIS

AT MIDFIELD WE START WITH SAMI KHEDIRA, WHO WEARS A HEADBAND MATCHING HIS KIT

RICCARDO MONTOLIVO IS OUR CENTRAL MIDFIELDER

IS ONE OF THE LONG HAIRED ITALIAN FOOTBALLERS

CROATIAN LUKA MODRIC IS ALSO ALWAYS SEEN WEARING A HEADBAND WHEN PLAYING

WITH HIM WE COMPLETE THE MIDFIELD

IN ATTACK WE HAVE GARETH BALE, WHO LOVES TO WEAR A HEADBAND TO CONTROL HIS LONG HAIR

FROM GOING WILD DURING ONE OF HIS RUNS

IN CENTER FORWARD, THE MATADOR, EDINSON CAVANI

EVEN WITH A HEADBAND, HIS HAIR IS DIFFICULT TO CONTROL

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: GERVINHO

THE IVORIAN USES A HEADBAND TO TRY COVER HIS BALDNESS WITH THE REST OF HIS HAIR

THESE ARE THE PLAYERS USING HEADBANDS AT ALL TIMES, SO MUCH THAN WHEN THEY DON'T

THEY BECOME UNRECOGNIZABLE

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The End of the Universe, Part 1 (2 Peter 3) - Duration: 1:05:31.

It was a couple of weeks ago that I gave a message on the theology of creation and I

told you that I was intending to give you two messages, one on the beginning and another

one on the end.

The theology, if you will, of creation and the theology of uncreation, a message on the

beginning of the universe and then a message on the end of the universe, how it all began

and how it will all end.

It is God alone who knows how it all began because He alone was there when it was created.

It is God alone who knows how it will all end because only God knows the future and

not only does God know the future but God determines the future as He has determined

the past, is determining the present.

And so, in order for us to understand origins, beginnings, and for us to understand endings,

for us to understand creation or consummation, we have to turn to the revelation that God

has given to us.

All we know about creation is what God has told us.

And all we know about consummation is all that God has told us.

As you know, He has given us an explicit account of the creation of the universe in Genesis

chapters 1 and 2.

He has also given us explicit accounts of the destruction of this universe.

There are a number of passages in which reference is made to the destruction of the universe

in which we live, but one of them is most notable and most detailed.

It is in the second epistle of Peter chapter 3.

So, open your Bible, if you will, to 2 Peter chapter 3 and follow along as I read down

through verse 13.

Second Peter 3:1 through 13: "This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to

you in which I'm stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember

the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment spoken by the Lord and

Savior spoken by Your Apostles.

Know this, first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking,

following after their own lusts and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming?

For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning

of creation.'

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the Word of God the heavens

existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and by water through which the

world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

But the present heavens and earth by His Word are being reserved for fire, kept for the

day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as

a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward

you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a

roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will

be burned up.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you

to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of

God on account of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will

melt with intense heat!

But according to His promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which

righteousness dwells."

And so, in very clear, unmistakable, unambiguous language, the Spirit of God inspires Peter

to give us a record of the end of this creation.

Now to give you a little bit of a warm up to get to chapter 3, just let me remind you

that Peter's epistle is designed to warn about false teachers.

In fact, chapter 2 is a general denunciation of false teachers from beginning to end.

It is directly parallel to the epistle written by Jude.

It says essentially the same thing, the difference being in the tense of the verbs.

Peter says the false teachers are coming, and this is what they'll be like.

Jude says they're here and this is what they're like.

But chapter 2 is a detailed warning concerning false teachers.

When you come in to chapter 3 then, Peter addresses one of their favorite areas of attack.

That is, they attack the biblical truth that this world, this universe is coming to an

end and it will be destroyed by the return of Jesus Christ.

What I read you is unmistakably clear, it's unmistakably clear by the way about the beginning.

It says that creation came by the Word of God, that He spoke it into existence.

And it's also clear about the end, the end will also come by the Word of God.

God spoke it into existence.

He will speak it out of existence.

As I have often said to you, this is a disposable planet.

More than that, this is a disposable universe.

It has been around for about six thousand years and relative to eternity, it has a very,

very short life.

This planet is useful to God only for purposes of accomplishing His redemption and then it

will cease to exist.

But Peter knows there are false teachers who attack this notion, who don't want to believe

that there is a God who is judge, a God who is by nature holy, and therefore hates sin

and punishes sinners.

Obviously, people who are content with their sin don't want to believe that.

So Peter presents the divinely inspired arguments against the skeptics who deny the future judgment

that God will bring to this world through the judge whom He has ordained, namely the

Lord Jesus Christ.

And as we look then at this chapter, we're going to engage ourselves in the discussion,

if you will, that Peter has with the mockers and the scoffers and the deniers of the return

of Christ and the judgment of this universe.

But Peter begins, and this is where we'll begin, with the arguments of the scoffers.

What are the arguments that this world is going to continue the way it always has?

What are the arguments that there is no coming judgment, no coming destruction?

Well, there are just a few arguments and let's look at them, three of them to be exact.

First of all, go down to verses 3 and 4.

"Knowing this first of all that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking,

following after their own lusts and saying, 'Where's the promise of His coming, for

ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation?'"

The first argument that surfaces there is what you would call an ad hominem argument

which is an assault on the individual rather than a reasonable approach to the issue.

We would say this is argument by ridicule, this is argument by ridicule, intimidation

by scorn, emotional and not rational, playing on people's unrealized hopes and unrealized

expectations.

And what we read, first of all, then in verse 3 that is the last days mockers will come

with their mocking.

This is just plain ridicule.

Many, of course, in the early church were expecting the Lord Jesus to come very soon.

Certainly the Apostles assumed He would come in their lifetime instead of His Kingdom.

Paul talks about "we who are alive and remain" referring to the Rapture, will be caught up

in the air to meet the Lord.

And so he himself no doubt hoped and anticipated that Christ might come in his lifetime.

Jesus had said to them, "It's not for you to know the times and the seasons which

the Father has put in His own power, and yet they had anticipation of it.

Now Peter knew that he would not live to see the return of Christ because in John 21 Jesus

told Peter that he would die, that he would be arrested and that he would be taken and

killed.

That specifically was told to him by our Lord, so he knew that he would not live until the

return of the Lord.

But most Christians had this expectation.

Those who read the New Testament epistles in the early church were waiting for the moment,

the twinkling of an eye when they would be changed, they were waiting for the moment

when the voice of the archangel and the trump of God would be heard and the Rapture of the

church would take place.

They were looking for the glorious appearing of our God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

living with what Paul told Titus was the blessed hope.

But at the same time, believers like Peter were dying.

Some were dying as martyrs, some were dying in illnesses, some were dying from accidents.

Some were dying of natural causes and there was a growing sense that they were missing

out on this wonderful future Kingdom.

And so the Apostle Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 17, "Don't worry about those who

die, they'll be raised first and caught up in the air to meet the Lord in the air

to ever be with the Lord."

They're not going to miss the Lord.

They're not going to miss the Kingdom.

They're not going to miss the glories of the future.

But when Jesus didn't come and establish His Kingdom and years went by and more years

went by, believers who were becoming wearied under the pressure of persecution, under the

disappointments of difficulties in life were easy prey to false teachers who would come

along and say, "So where is this Jesus that you're waiting for who is going to come

and bring this great Kingdom and gather you together and fulfill all His promises?"

So, Peter says, "First of all...first of all...priority is you must understand how

these scoffers operate.

They prey on your vulnerability."

Here we are two thousand years later, two thousand years later and the skeptics can

prey on us.

And they can do it very effectively, so effectively, seemingly in this period of the church's

history, that Christians have virtually lost all interest in the return of Christ.

This is nothing new.

"In the last days..."

What is that?

A common New Testament term meaning the age since Christ came, the time between the two

comings, now having reached two thousand years.

"In these last days," His first coming inaugurated the last days.

And through this age there will be saboteurs of sound doctrine, saboteurs of the Second

Coming hope, mockers will come, future tense.

Jude says, "They have come and they will come with their mocking, attacking the reality

of the return of Jesus Christ, preying on the disappointments and the impatience of

believers by sheer ridicule.

There's a second argument that they use, we'll call it the argument from immorality.

They're driven by ridicule and mockery but they're also driven by immorality.

Verse 3 says, at the end of the verse, "Following after their own lusts."

Now let's understand this word, epithumia, meaning evil desire.

What motivates them?

Scholarship?

No.

What motivates them is lust.

There's no lack of definition for this word.

Going back in to chapter 2, let me introduce you to the false teachers.

They, in verse 2, are sensual.

In verse 10, they indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority, anyone

who would try to stop them from that full indulgence.

They are daring and self-willed.

Verse 12 describes their lust in this way, "They're like unreasoning animals born

as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed."

Verse 13, "They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime.

They are stains and blemishes reveling in their deceptions as they carouse with you,

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having

a heart trained in greed, a cursed children," end of verse 15, "who love the wages of

unrighteousness."

Verse 18, "They speak arrogant words of vanity.

They entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality."

Verse 19, "They are slaves of corruption."

... "They are dogs that return to their vomit and sows after being washed to return

to the mire."

Pretty graphic stuff.

Mark it down, folks.

People don't deny the Second Coming because of some scholastic interpretation of Scripture.

They don't deny the Second Coming because they find it impossible to believe it.

They deny the Second Coming because it fits their immorality.

They don't want an accountable day.

They don't want a judge.

They don't want divine wrath.

They don't want the vengeance of God.

Bottom line, biblical eschatology doesn't fit their life style.

If in your journey through western civilization history you have yet to read Paul Johnson's

book The Intellectuals, I would commend it to you.

Paul Johnson, perhaps the finest current historian of western culture and history, has written

a book in which he devotes a chapter to all of the philosophical architects of western

civilization, a chapter for each of them.

And as you read one after another, after another, after another whether you're reading Rousseau,

or Haeckel, or Kant, or whoever you're reading, what is stunning to you is that their lives

were so filthy and corrupt and vile, they would make a black mark on a piece of coal.

You see, the same reason they deny creation is the same reason they deny consummation.

For if there is indeed a Creator God, then there is a God to whom they are ultimately

accountable.

Man-centered heathenism mocks divine judgment.

To put this in a very specific form, evolutionist Aldous Huxley, grandson of Thomas Huxley,

Aldous Huxley wrote a document called Confessions of a Professed Atheist.

He was very honest.

Here's what he said.

"I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning.

Consequently assumed it had none and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying

reasons for this assumption.

The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a

problem in pure metaphysics.

He's also concerned to prove that there's no valid reason why he should personally not

do just what he wants to do.

For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially

an instrument of liberation.

The liberation we desired was simultaneously a liberation from a person political and economic

system and a liberation from a certain system of morality.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom," end quote.

Don't give too much credit to philosophers...please.

Don't think of them as pure intellect.

Hedonistic, naturalistic, atheistic God-denying philosophers are driven by their passions.

There's the real reason right there for believing in atheism and evolution and liberal

theology.

The Bible if taken seriously interferes with your sexual freedom.

That's what Paul Johnson makes so vividly clear in The Intellectuals.

They must deny that God...the God who judges sin and sinners exists in order to free themselves

up to their lusts without restraint and without guilt.

So underneath the denial is the motive of ridicule and the motive of immorality.

There's one other argument that they make that Peter identifies, the argument from ridicule,

the argument from immorality, and thirdly, the argument from uniformity...the argument

from uniformity.

Verse 4, they say this, "Where's the promise of His coming?"

What do you mean by that?

Huh, where is He?

He's not here.

Most believers, as I said, thought He would come in their life time.

He didn't come.

He still hasn't come.

The false teachers capitalize on this, not only emotionally by ridicule, intellectually

they attempt to, I guess maybe, elevate themselves above their admitted immorality by saying

it's a bad kind of historical deal.

It's a bad historical perspective.

It's a bad philosophy of history because look, everything continues as the same...everything

continues exactly the same as it's always been.

"Where is the promise of His coming for ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues

just as it was from the beginning of creation?"

That is definitely a revisionistic history view.

Ever since the fathers fell asleep...meaning the Old Testament patriarchs, the people in

the very, very beginning, the first people all continues just as it was from the beginning.

Really?

This you would...I would call it immutable uniformitarianism...immutable uniformitarianism,

unchanging uniformity.

This comes from Thomas Lyle, this comes from Darwin, this comes from the Huxleys...father

and brothers.

But it didn't originate with them.

It originated with Satan.

The satanic lie is that there will not be a future catastrophic judgment.

The satanic lie is that divine intervention will not come into the created order, it never

has come.

All is always continuing exactly the same.

Everything moves at the same uniform natural pace, always has, always will.

This is like saying, "I've never died, so I never will."

Really?

I've never been sick, so I never will.

I've never had cancer, so I never will have cancer.

What kind of an argument is that?

This denies miracles.

This denies the Old Testament history of what I call judgment miracles, for the acts of

God in the Old Testament that were judgments of God that brought about death and disaster

were miraculous interventions by God.

Supernatural judgments.

Most miracles before Christ got here, the vast majority of miracles in the Old Testament

were miracles by which people died, not by which people were healed.

The skeptics want this evolved universe, this evolved planet, this closed system of natural,

inviolable, fixed laws to be impersonal and ongoing with no moral law and no moral lawgiver

in charge of anything.

Sensual sinners find their only hope for guilt-free sinning in the fable that everything continues

the same, judgment never comes.

It might be hard to convince a quarter of a million people in Indonesia after the tsunami

hits that all things continue the same way.

It might be hard to convince the hundred thousand people or so that died in a recent earthquake

that all things continue the same way.

I read a book this summer, fascinating book.

Once I started it, I couldn't put it down.

The title of it is The Great Influenza.

I don't normally read a book on the flu, never read a book on the flu in my life.

And when I started to read the book I was afraid I was going to get caught up in graphs

and charts and clinical jargon that I couldn't even comprehend.

But it is a brilliant book.

A best seller on the New York Times Best Sellers List, written by John Barry who is extremely

gifted as a researcher and a writer.

It is magisterial, it is monumental in what it accomplishes as a book, as an active research

and presentation, it's one of the tops that I've ever read in my entire life.

It's the story of the flu, the flu like you've never known the flu but like some

of your parents knew the flu.

Go back to the year 1918, the year of the great war, the First World War.

There's some pigs in western Kansas.

These pigs have somehow contracted a virus from birds, all flu viruses originate with

birds.

These pigs managed to pass this virus on to some young men.

Those young men are conscripted into the Army because America is amassing troops to fight

in World War I.

They're sent to camp in the eastern part of Kansas.

They go to the camp.

There's as many as forty thousand men jammed in there and the flu that they have infects

the men that are there.

Now remember, this is 1918.

There's never been an actual cure of a disease in the history of the world until 1885.

You understand that?

They didn't even understand the pathology of disease.

Nobody ever cured anybody of anything.

So the medical art is deadly, not life giving.

They don't know what to do.

They don't understand quarantine, they don't understand isolation.

They don't even understand the virus.

They don't even know what a virus is and what it does.

They don't know that a virus is not a living creature like a bacteria, it's a half-living

thing that attaches itself to the DNA of a living cell, encodes that cell with its own

DNA and then it spreads through the cell system.

There are so many different kinds of viruses, this just happens to be the most virulent

one in human history.

And before it was done running its course in twenty-four months, are you ready for this?

A hundred million people were dead...one hundred million around the world Some of your parents

lived through that, that's why you're here.

Horrendous.

Medical people didn't know what to do about it.

It's probably the greatest moment in American Medical history because in the horror of those

hours and those days and those months, all the great medical institutions of our country

were founded.

The greatest research in medical history in America was done as they tried to solve the

problem.

They never solved it, thirty years later they couldn't solve it.

They never believed it was a virus, they thought it was the bacteria.

Bacteria...the virus managed to mutate up to that level of virulence and since that

time it has mutated downward to a much less virulent form which we usually experience

during the flu season.

There's no reason to explain why it became so virulent then, and why it's less now.

But it could happen again.

The point being, all things don't continue the same way.

That little half creature that exists in a fallen world killed a hundred million people.

How fragile is life?

Who are you kidding?

Evolution is simply a tool, atheism is simply a tool, agnosticism is simply a tool to free

up the sinner to indulge his lusts.

Those are the arguments...ridicule, immorality, uniformity, everything continues the same

way.

That's revisionistic history.

We know better.

By the way, the Great Influenza of that twenty-four month period killed ten times the number who

died in Europe in the Black Death, the Bubonic Plague.

As far as we know, it was the greatest killer in human history.

On the other hand, you have the argument of the saints.

Those are the arguments of the scoffers, let's go back to the text.

What about the arguments of the saints?

How is Peter going to help us?

How is he going to equip us not to fall victim to these things, to ridicule, to uniformity,

immorality?

So Peter sets forth some arguments.

Arguments from the mockers, arguments for the saints.

First, from Scripture...from Scripture, verse 1, "This is now, beloved, the second letter

I am writing to you in which I'm stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder."

I love that phrase, "Your sincere mind...your unpolluted mind...your mind without wax...your

true understanding."

I am stirring up your pure faculty for spiritual discernment.

First of all, folks, we find our answer to the critics in the Scripture and we go to

the Scripture with a mind that has been transformed.

We have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2.

Romans 12, "We have had the renewing of our minds that we may know what is the good

and perfect will of God."

So Peter recognizes that as believers, contrary to false teachers, verse 12 of chapter 12,

who are like unreasoning, irrational, instinctive animals to be captured and killed, or verse

17, springs without water, mists driven by a storm, or verse 22, dogs going back to their

vomit or pigs wallowing in the mire, we have according to verse 1 been given a pure mind

that can be stirred.

And what is it that stirs that pure mind?

Verse 2, "I want to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder...what is that?...remember...what?...the

Word spoken before hand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior

spoken by your Apostles."

This is Peter's reference to Scripture, Old Testament and New Testament.

And Peter has already said, back in chapter 1 verse 19, "We have the prophetic word

made more sure by which you do well to pay attention to a lamp shining in a dark place

until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.

Know this first of all, no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

or origination.

No prophecy was ever made by an act of human will but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke

from God," that's the Scripture.

So, we have an inspired Scripture.

We take our purified minds that have been made pure by the work of regeneration.

We go back to the words spoken before hand by the holy prophets, referring to the Old

Testament, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior that came through the Apostles,

that's the New Testament.

Where do we go to rebut the skeptics?

We go to the Word of God.

You can go back to the Old Testament, you will read much about judgment.

Psalm 2, Isaiah 13, Isaiah 24, Isaiah 34, Isaiah 51, many of the minor prophets, Zephaniah,

Malachi, all kinds of places in the Old Testament where the holy prophets of old spoke concerning

final judgment.

There are prophecies in Isaiah about the end of this world as we know it and the creation

of a new heaven and a new earth.

And also, the commandment of the Lord, the entole , literally the law of the Lord that

was spoken and written by the Apostles meaning the New Testament...the New Testament, 23

of 27 books written by the Apostles themselves.

And they tell us a lot about divine judgment.

They tell us a lot, including Peter, about the end of the age, words like the words of

the Apostle Paul, "It is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict

you, to give relief to those who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus shall

be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to

those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus and

these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and the

glory of His power," promises like that, found in the Old Testament and found in the

New Testament as well.

So, we argue against the skeptics from Scripture.

Old Testament Scripture, New Testament Scripture gives us clear revelation concerning the coming

judgment which will be brought on men at the exploding final wrath of God mediated through

the one He has appointed judge, Jesus Christ.

Then Peter moves to an argument from history...an argument from history.

Verse 5, "When they maintain this," meaning all things continue from the beginning as

they were, immutable uniformitarianism, when they maintain that everything goes along the

same way, he says in a sarcastic fashion, "It escapes their notice....it escapes their

notice that by the Word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed

out of water and by water through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded

with water."

Oh, minor detail.

They overlook the fact of the Flood.

It escapes their notice that you can go to the top of the flat cliffs in the Grand Canyon

and find seashells and they're not just found by Christians.

I have one on my desk that was found about a mile from my house.

"It escapes their notice," literally in the Greek is they shut their eyes to the facts,

or in the Authorized Version, the King James, they are willingly ignorant of.

Here's the path of deliberate ignorance, convenient ignorance.

They seek evil.

They seek sin.

They seek freedom to be immoral and that colors everything.

They ply their deceptive lies in the church.

Romans 1 says they consider themselves to be wise and in reality they are fools, deliberately,

willingly ignorant.

I'm never surprised when a Christian believes the Bible can shut down the arguments of an

atheistic evolutionist.

That doesn't surprise me because their arguments are not reasonable or intellectual.

They willfully refuse to recognize this massive historic event that undermines the whole concept

of uniformity, namely the Flood, the universal world-wide Flood by which God destroyed the

entire wicked world except eight people.

How many people did He destroy?

I don't know that we can come up with a number, millions...millions.

And Peter's description of the Flood is remarkable.

Look at it.

Verse 5, "It escapes their notice that by the Word of God the heavens existed long ago

and the earth was formed out of water and by water through which the world at that time

was destroyed, being flooded with water."

He goes all the way back to creation.

"By the Word of God...by the Word of God everything was created, and by the Word of

God everything was destroyed in the Flood."

By His Word, the world was made and everything in it.

By His Word the world was destroyed and everything in it except for eight souls and the animals

gathered into the ark.

God spoke it into existence and He spoke it into destruction.

This is diametrically opposed to the idea of uniformity and evolution, everything goes

on in the same process.

Peter says there is God, God spoke the heavens and earth into existence, and God stepped

into the heavens and the earth and altered them dramatically causing the death of every

inhabitant on the earth except one family.

Now let me go back and take that apart a little bit because it's very, very important.

"It escapes their notice that by the Word of God the heavens existed long ago."

This speaks of creation...this speaks of creation.

The heavens existed long ago.

The Hebrew word for heavens is always plural, so Peter uses a Greek plural form.

And by that word, heavens, Peter means all the creation because the earth is part of

what is suspended in the heavens.

"Long ago by God's Word, not natural causes, not a piece of protoplasm floating in some

primordial muck but by the Word of God the universe was spoken into existence.

And the earth then was formed out of water and by water."

That's a very interesting statement...very interesting.

This means that when the earth was formed it was formed from a condition of a kind of

formless mass of H2O in some form, mist, water, we don't know.

Formed is a perfect participle of sunistemi , it describes the main thought.

God brought it into existence and by bringing it into existence, He formed the earth out

of water, out of a watery mass.

To understand this, go back to Genesis 1.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Now listen to this, verse 2, "And the earth was formless and void, tohu and bohu in the

Hebrew.

It was a formless mass.

But there's more.

"There was no light so darkness was over the surface of the deep."

It is a deep...it is a thick formless void, there's more...

"And the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the...what?...waters."

The original act of God was to speak into existence H2O in some form, in complete...complete

darkness without form, totally without shape...an uncontrolled, as it were, mass of watery substance

in the darkness.

It is formless.

The first three days then of creation form it into the earth, and the second three days

of creation populate it with plants and animals and people.

The first three days, God gave form to the earth.

The second three days, He filled it.

Verse 2 says, "The Spirit of God is hovering over, literally hovering over the surface

of the waters."

So it has a surface.

The Holy Spirit then moves this surface, pulling it together into a sphere in the first three

days by creating gravity which makes the water molecules cling to each other to form first

the surface and then a sphere.

God then creates light without objects to attach the light to...which is not a problem.

What is light?

It's the spectrum of waves and rays and all that is light.

And then after creating light, somebody might say "to see what He was doing," He shapes

the earth.

Verse 6, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters.

Let it separate the waters from the waters."

God made the expanse, separated the waters which below the expanse from the waters which

were above the expanse and it was so.

God called the expanse heaven.

God pulled some waters up, pulled some waters down.

The waters that went up provided a watery canape over the earth.

This defines the heavens that were long ago that Peter talked about, and it's called

heaven, called the expanse heaven.

The water above and water below on the earth.

So that the heavens had this watery content.

Verse 9, "God said, 'Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place.'"

The waters that were above created a canape literally around the whole earth.

The waters below were then collected into one place and then the dry land was created.

And God called the dry land earth and the gathering of the waters He called seas.

And God saw that it was good.

Perfect environment, by the way.

That's why people lived to be 900 years old.

The ultraviolet rays of the sun couldn't penetrate the misty canape.

Everything flourished.

The Garden of Eden, we can't even conceive of what that would be like, everything growing

perfectly and man living to 900 years.

But then, something catastrophic hit the world.

Genesis chapter 6, it's the Flood, let's go back to what Peter wrote now.

Peter, who has the exact right view of creation, says, "God by His Word created the heavens

that existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water."

What is most distinctive about the original creation was how much of it was water.

At first it was all water.

And then there was water above, and water below.

And the water below then seceded, as it were, into the oceans and the seas as the land came

forward.

"Through which," what does that mean?

What's the antecedent?

Water.

"Through which the world at that time was destroyed being flooded with water."

Bottom line, God built in to His original creation the agency by which He would destroy

it.

From the beginning, God built in to His original creation the very means by which He would

destroy that creation.

He formed the earth out of water and destroyed it with water.

The destruction of the Flood did not put the earth out of existence.

It did not put the heavens out of existence.

It just changed the old order.

And that is why Peter's language is very careful in verse 6, "Through which...not

the earth was destroyed...but through which the world was destroyed," the kosmos , the

system, the order, being flooded with water.

The Greek word for flooded with water, katakluzo , from which we get the English word cataclysm.

You can go back and read Genesis 6 and Genesis 7, read the description of the Flood.

God broke up the water above, suspended over the earth in the canape, water came crashing

down on to the earth from above.

God then broke up the fountains of the deep, fractured the earth so that the continents

which now exist were formed then and not before, shifting the tectonic plates of the earth

and the water that was inside the earth belched forth.

And when the earth cracked open, gas, dust, air, water exploded up into the atmosphere.

And the world has never been the same...never been the same.

The whole order of the earth and life on the earth, dramatically changed.

All of a sudden people had difficulty living for a hundred years.

Dinosaurs disappeared cause they couldn't live long enough to get that big.

The world changed dramatically...dramatically changed.

The Egyptians have a world flood creation...world flood destruction account.

The ancient Babylonians had a world flood destruction account.

The ancient Assyrians had a world flood destruction account.

There are creation stories and there are flood stories all across the globe.

These people willingly are ignorant of this because if it's true, then this powerful

God can step into human history and alter this planet.

And why did He do it?

Genesis 6 says because He looked at this world and saw that everything man did was only evil

continually.

And He repented that He had made man in the beginning.

The world, friends, has not always been the same.

The whole order of the heavens and the earth was dramatically altered by the Word of God

as He drowned the ungodly all over the earth.

And this is testimony that sin will not go unpunished and that the Lord does do things

that dramatically alter this universe in which we live.

We're worried about squirting hair spray into the air, as if somehow this is going

to bring down the planet.

There is One who will bring down the planet, it's not you and it's not us collectively.

All the fossil record, strata can be explained by the unbelievable cataclysm of a universal

Flood, catastrophe, not uniformity.

False teachers refuse to face the true history.

They become revisionists historians.

They deny all kinds of evidence.

Make up their own history without divine intervention so they can live immoral lives.

Things have not continued as they were.

The most cataclysmic environmental event that ever happened in this world was the Flood.

Just think of it.

Talk about an environmental disaster, everybody died.

All life was destroyed.

And God did it.

And that is the historical precedent for what is coming.

Look at chapter 3 verse 7, "But the present heavens and earth..."

Now the present heavens and earth, the one we know, the one we experience is not like

the one the people experienced before Noah, it's different.

It's the one that's been environmentally devastated by God, the present heavens and

earth by His Word are being reserved not for watery destruction but for fire.

This is the post-flood.

We're living in the second earth system, the second eco-system, if you want to use

that kind of language.

We're living in the second biosphere, the present world system since the Flood.

And it was by His Word that He brought the first system into existence.

And it was by His Word that He destroyed that system.

And the present heaven and earth by His Word are being reserved for a future destruction

by fire for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Once water, next time fire.

In fact, in the original creation there's no mention of fire, there's water below

and water above, no mention of fire.

Now we live on the crust of an inferno, ten miles below your feet is molten lava at a

temperature of twenty-four thousand, five hundred degrees centigrade.

Why?

And above you are flying around in the heavens fiery balls, some of them a million times

larger than this little planet.

Fire will be God's tool next time when He destroys the second heaven and earth.

He's given us a taste of what that might be like.

Genesis 19, Sodom and Gomorrah, two wicked cities characterized by homosexuality, lust

were destroyed by fire and brimstone belching out of the ground at the command of God.

The prophets of the Old Testament warn about this.

"Behold, the Lord will come in fire," Isaiah 66:15, "His rebuke with flames of

fire."

Verse 16, "The Lord will execute judgment by fire."

Daniel 7 says the same thing.

Micah 1 says the same thing.

Malachi 4 says the same thing.

John the Baptist said the same thing.

Second Thessalonians, I read to you earlier, that Christ will return in flaming fire, taking

vengeance on those who know not God and obey not the gospel.

Fire could come from the sky in fiery balls, ...Revelation describes that,, doesn't it?

Fiery balls coming out of the sky.

It can come from below.

We live on a fire ball.

More devastatingly, fire can come from the splitting of the atom.

We understand a nuclear holocaust.

Well, when God decides to split all the atoms in the universe, the thing will incinerate

instantaneously.

There's a fire storm coming.

This world will not continue, will not continue the way it is permanently.

Its judgment was built into its original creation with water.

Its judgment is built into this recreation with fire.

And so, he says in verse 7, "The present heaven and earth by His Word are being reserved

for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men."

It's coming.

It is coming.

Now, that's only the first argument from the saints.

There's a lot more but our time is gone.

So we'll save those for next time.

But I'm going to give you something to think about, okay?

I hope I've given you a lot of things to think about, this is one more thing to think

about.

Look at Genesis 8.

After the Flood...after the Flood, verse 2 of Genesis 8, "The fountains of the deep,

the floodgates of the sky were closed."

You remember I told you the water came up from below and down from above, God shut off

the water.

The rain from the sky was restrained.

The water receded steadily from the earth, decreased, months went by, finally, as you

remember, verse 13, "It came about in the six hundred and first year and the first month,

the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth and Noah removed the covering

of the ark, looked and behold, the surface of the ground was dried out."

God said to Noah in verse 15, "You can leave the ark."

And then Noah built an altar to the Lord in verse 20, and gave Him an offering.

And the Lord said to him, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man for

the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth, I will never again destroy every living

thing as I have done."

And how did God make that promise visible?

With a rainbow.

So when you see a rainbow, that's a reminder that God will never destroy the world again

by water.

By fire, yes.

But look, folks, verse 22, listen to this, this is God's promise.

"While the earth remains..."

Did you read that?

Or, "As long as the earth remains," and who determines that?

God.

"As long as the earth remains, seed time, harvest, cold, heat, summer, winter, day,

night shall not...what?...cease."

That's a great promise, isn't it?

We're not going to kill the planet.

This is a divine promise.

This planet is here for man to use and as long as it is here, God will sustain it for

our use and our good and our joy and our praise to Him.

So don't worry about it.

As Rick says, "Step on the grass, shoot a deer, drill for oil."

All right, the rest next week, let's pray.

It's so wonderful, Lord, to be able to turn to Your Word and to find the answers to the

things that seem to be so difficult for the society in which we live to comprehend.

We're so grateful, Lord, Your Word is so amazing, so powerful, so consistent, so true.

You are such a great God, how privileged we are to know You and to be loved by You and

to serve You.

May we be faithful in all things, giving honor to You in Your Son's name.

Amen.

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The Theology of Creation.

Creation is a theological issue, not a scientific issue.

Theology is the only source from which we have any information about creation.

Any study of creation must come in the framework of theology because it is a word from God.

Theology, by the way, used to be called the queen of the sciences.

It was called the queen of the sciences because in the final analysis the ultimate reigning

truth is theology.

Biblical theology, the revelation of God in Scripture, trumps all other sources of information

and knowledge.

And so, for centuries creation was a theological issue, not a scientific one.

And then came Darwin and Darwin confiscated the subject of creation out of the realm of

theology and tried to put into the realm of human knowledge and did no service to mankind.

If we want to understand creation, if we want to understand origins, if we want to understand

how the universe came into existence and everything that is in it, we have to look at theology,

not science.

And the source of theology is the Word of God in which God speaks.

The Bible is not theory, the Bible is fact.

The Bible is reality.

The Bible is truth no matter what subject it addresses, but particularly with regard

to origins since no one was here when God created, we have only His eyewitness account.

And when the Bible speaks with regard to creation, or when it speaks with regard to origins,

it speaks truly, it speaks factually.

And Scripture begins in Genesis 1 and 2 with a very straightforward account of the origin

of the universe and the earth and everything on the earth.

Scripture opens with one very clear unmistakable statement, it is this, Genesis 1:1, "In the

beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

That is not an ambiguous statement.

That is not an unclear statement.

That is frankly not a statement that needs any explanation.

Pre-Darwin, no one was confused by it.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

From there the first chapter of Genesis proceeds to tell us that in six twenty-four hour days

God created everything that exists.

It is so simple and so clear and so unmistakable that even a small child can understand Genesis

1.

But as simple as even the first statement, "In the beginning God created the heavens

and the earth," is, it is at the same time an illustration of the profundity with which

God speaks in simple language.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, a child can understand it.

And yet in those simple, clear, unmistakable words there is massive, massive, profound

data.

Herbert Spencer, a non-Christian scientist, hailed as one worthy of many prizes in science,

died in 1903.

His greatest achievement, Herbert Spencer, was that he discovered the categories of the

knowable.

That is to say he determined that everything that exists fits into one of five categories.

This was hailed as a massive, massive cataloging of realities.

Spencer said, "Everything fits into one of these categories, time, force, action, space,

matter," and was hailed by the scientific community.

Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning," that's time, "God," that's force, "created," that's action,

"the heavens," that's space, "the earth," that's matter.

Everything that Herbert Spencer discovered in 1903, or before that, was in the first

verse of Scripture.

The Bible says that God created everything, and in saying that, the Bible gives us all

the categories that exist.

And He did this out of and from nothing, that is with no preexisting material, and He did

it in six days.

Now, because the Bible is so clear about this in Genesis 1, and then giving us an even further

and more detailed look at this creation, rehearsing its elements in a broader way in chapter 2,

you face a test at the very outset of the Bible.

You're not going to get past the first verses of the Bible, you're not going to get past

the first verse in the Bible, the first chapter in the Bible, the first two chapters in the

Bible without facing a test.

And the test is this, do you believe the Scripture?

Do you believe the Scripture?

That is the test.

No one gets past the opening verses of the Bible without having to face the test of whether

or not that person believes the Bible to be the authoritative Word of God.

Do you submit to Scripture?

Genesis 1 is your first test.

Now I'm going to give you three words to think about tonight and we're going to kind of unpack

these words and they'll be sort of little categories that we can put our thoughts in

so we can understand them a little more clearly.

The first word is fidelity...fidelity...fidelity, faithfulness.

Either you believe what the Bible says or you don't.

That's the test.

You can accept what Genesis says, or you can reject it.

You can't change it, you don't have that privilege.

In fact, were you to add to Scripture or take anything from it would be added to you the

plagues that are written in it.

There's no need for you to edit God.

There is nothing lacking anywhere in Scripture and that's true of Genesis 1 and 2 which somehow

needs you to embellish it.

You either accept it or you reject it, you have those two options.

You say, "What about science?

Don't we have to apply science to the Genesis account to be intellectually honest?

Don't we have to bring the vast scientific knowledge that we've accumulated in the modern

world to bear upon the text of Genesis in order that we may have a true understanding

of it?"

Well there are a lot of people who believe that and there are a mass of people who call

themselves Christians who believe that Genesis is an inadequate presentation of what happened

and we have to marry it with scientific discovery in order to get to the truth.

Let me help you, folks, let me help you.

Get past that notion and you will free yourself from needless doubts and endless confusion.

Get past the idea that science, listen, makes any contribution to an understanding of creation.

It makes none.

Now this may shock you.

There is no such thing as the science of creation.

There is no such thing.

It does not exist.

Why?

Because there is no scientific way to explain creation.

It was not a natural event or a series of natural events.

It was a brief series of monumental super-natural events that cannot be explained by science.

And so again I say, there is no such thing as the science of creation.

All science is based on observation and no one observed creation.

All science necessitates verification by repetition and creation cannot be repeated, and thus

it cannot be verified.

Creation had no observers and cannot be repeated.

It is not observable.

It is not repeatable.

It did not happen by any uniform, predictable, observable, repeatable, fixed, natural, laws.

None of it happened according to any of those things.

It is just the opposite of that.

Creation was a series of supernatural instantaneous, inexplicable miracles...supernatural.

That is why there is nowhere in the Genesis account any place where evolution is mentioned

or even hinted at.

There are no natural processes in creation.

They are all supernatural.

Evolution was not the means or a means by which God created, it was all supernatural

and miraculous.

There's only one record of creation, Genesis 1 and 2.

You can believe it or you can reject it, but that's all there is.

You say, "Well wait a minute.

Don't creatures change?"

Yes.

"Don't plants change?

Don't animals develop and mutate within species and isn't there progress in growth?"

Yes and all of that is true and has absolutely nothing to do with creation...nothing.

How the created material reality operates we can observe.

How the created material functions we can discern.

But watching the way it functions and the way it operates gives us...listen to this...no

information about its creation, none.

It doesn't tell us anything about how it came into existence in the first place.

Let me give you an illustration.

Let's say that you lived in Jerusalem at the time that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead

and you met Lazarus.

"Hi, Mr.

Lazarus, nice to meet you."

You felt his hand, and wow...you were dead, huh?

You're alive, right?

Yeah.

Could I hang around you a little bit, I want to kind of observe that like do a little analysis

of you?

Sure.

And you followed Mr.

Lazarus walk around.

You watched the way he walked.

You watched the way he talked.

You watched the way he scratched his head.

You watched the way he ate and you observed him.

You kept a little record of all the things that he did.

You could keep observing Lazarus as he did his daily living for the rest of his life

and it would tell you nothing about how he came back from the dead, nothing because his

resurrection had nothing to do with any of those natural processes.

It was a supernatural miracle.

Or let's say you were in Galilee the week after Jesus fed the five thousand men, plus

women, plus children, the loaves and the fish and you wanted to know where in the world

did He get that ability to do that?

How did He do that?

How did He feed those people with loaves and fish, how did He do that miracle?

And you decided that you were going to go up there and you're going to interview all

those people and you're going to ask them about what they felt while they were eating

it and how it was digested and any experiences that they might have had after having that

meal.

It wouldn't do any good if you were in the process of that investigation trying to figure

out how Jesus made fish and bread out of nothing.

You see, that is analogous to the issue of creation.

You can observe the way things are now but that doesn't tell you anything about how they

became what they are.

Creation cannot be understood any other way than by believing the revelation of the creator.

And that's your first test when you open your Bible.

I am absolutely astounded at how many people who call themselves Christians who lead large

and effective Christian ministries don't have any position on Genesis 1 and 2 except that

they find it hard to believe it.

And I ask them, "At what chapter do you kick in?

When do we finally get you on board?

Is it Genesis 3, do you buy that?

Or maybe 4?"

What I'm saying is, creation has no connection at all to science anymore than the behavior

of Lazarus could in any way reveal how he was raised from the dead.

Creation is not a scientific event, cannot be explained scientifically as if natural

law played any part.

Creation was a massive supernatural miracle to be equaled by the future uncreation when

in a lot less than six days God destroys everything He created.

Neither event, creation or uncreation, can be explained by any natural fixed laws.

So, all that is left to the reader is the opportunity to believe...fidelity, faithful

trust in the Word of the Creator.

That's all we've got.

People say, "Well couldn't God have used evolution?

Couldn't He?"

That's a ridiculous question.

Could a frog fly?

It's irrelevant.

It's intrusive.

But the answer is no.

He couldn't have used evolution because God doesn't equivocate with Himself, He determined

to create miraculously which is the only way that it could have happened because it's the

way it did happen.

And He did it all in six days.

This is either true, or it's not.

If it's true, then Scripture is true.

If it's not, then Scripture is not true.

So you can see at the very outset of the Bible, you face a formidable test.

In Job chapter 38, I love this chapter, the Lord is trying to put Job in his place.

"And the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and reminds him of his silly ideas and the

equally ridiculous ideas of his friends, and He says, 'Who is this that darkens counsel

by words without knowledge?'"

Here are counselors doing nothing but obscuring truth.

"Now gird up your loins like a man.

I will ask you...God says sarcastically...you instruct Me, you tell Me, you've got all the

answers, huh?

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?"

I want to say that to every evolutionist.

Really?

You're going to tell me how it happened, are you?

Well God has a word for you, "Where were you when I did it?

You were nowhere.

Tell me if you have understanding.

Who set its measurements since you know?

Who stretched the line on it?

And what were its bases sunk?

Who laid its cornerstone?

And when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Or who inclosed the sea with doors, boundaries, and bursting forth it went out from the womb?

When I made a cloud its garment, thick darkness its swaddling band and I placed boundaries

on it, I set a bolt and doors, lightning bolt, and I said, 'Thus far you shall come but no

farther.'

God put borders on the water and stopped the proud waves."

"Have you ever in your life commanded the morning?"

I love the sarcasm.

"Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place that it might take hold of the ends

of the earth and the wicked be shaken out of it?

It is changed like clay under the seal; rolled on an axis is what that means.

Have you ever entered...in verse 16...into the springs of the sea?

Have you ever walked in the recesses of the deep?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Have you understood the expanse of the earth?

Tell me if you know all this.

Where's the way to the dwelling of light and darkness?

Where's its place?"

Verse 22, "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?

Have you seen the storehouses of the hail?"

And He goes on like this.

Where does the ice come from?

Where does the lightning come from?

Where does the thunder bolt come from?

Where do glaciers come from?

Verse 30, "Water becomes hard like stone and the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

And what about the constellations?

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?

Can you hold a constellation together or break one up?

Can you lead a constellation in its season as it moves across the sky and guide the bear

with her satellites?

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens or fix their rule over the earth?

Can you lift your voice to the clouds so that an abundance of water may cover you?

Can you send forth lightning?"

I mean, this is just humiliating...humiliating.

"Can you hunt the prey for the lion?"

Verse 39, "Can you satisfy the appetite of the young lion?"

It just keeps going like this.

It goes like this through chapter 39.

And eventually Job gets the point and he realizes this is ridiculous.

In chapter 40 and verse 3, "Job answers the Lord and said, 'I am insignificant, what can

I reply to Thee?

I lay my hand on my mouth."

Smart guy.

You weren't there and nobody else was there, only God was there and told us how He did

it.

You can either believe it or you can reject it.

If it's true, the Bible is true.

If it's not true, the Bible is suspect.

If you look at it the other way, if the Bible is true then this is true.

The issue, friends, is fidelity to the truth.

This is theological.

I'm very much aware of the interesting creation research.

I'm very interested in science that is being done today by Christians who believe in creation.

But I think there's a very large missing component, and that is the biblical theology of creation.

They seem to always be trying to prove their point that evolution doesn't exist by using

some scientific method.

And while nothing in the world supports evolution, nothing, nothing in the world supports evolution

now or in creation, disproving evolution now doesn't necessarily disprove it in creation

because there is no scientific explanation for creation.

So we don't gain any ground by somehow saying that because evolution doesn't exist now,

it couldn't have existed then.

God did not use evolution because it is clear in Genesis that He created everything in six

days.

Furthermore, look at Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 3.

"By faith...here we go, fidelity, faith, trust...by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared

by the Word of God."

We have to do this by faith, right?

We weren't there.

No one was there.

It is by faith.

"So that...this is very critical, verse 3...what is seen...what is seen, the material creation...was

not made of things which are visible."

In other words, God made everything that we now see from what is invisible.

That is to say He made everything out of nothing, ex nihilo .

Hebrews 11:3 is telling us what Genesis records, that God created everything that exists in

the universe out of nothing, from no preexisting material, obviously, that obviates evolution.

There are honest non-Christians who recognize the impossibility and non-existence of evolution

in the world today and have honestly said that evolution is not an explanation of present

reality and therefore it can't be an explanation of prior reality.

It isn't happening now.

It doesn't happen, therefore it hasn't happened.

I'm glad for that.

I'm glad for that kind of honesty in the scientific world.

But while they are admitting that, they are not embracing the account in Genesis because

if you embrace the account in Genesis as true, then you embrace the Bible as true and the

God of the Bible as the true and living God and you get not only a Creator but you get

a lawgiver and a judge.

And so, they would love to find another alternative except the Creator God of Scripture.

So you have the development of this new kind of science called ID, Intelligent Design,

in which people acknowledge that there is behind this great reality of the universe

a mind that is intelligent from which it all springs, but they are unwilling to acknowledge

that to be the God of the Bible and Genesis to be the accurate account of creation.

So they come up with this non-threatening middle ground safe halfway zone called I.D.,

Intelligent Design.

By the way, far from safe, deadly dangerous to reject the God of Scripture as Creator

and therefore as Judge and as Redeemer.

Why do they do this?

Well let me quote from my book.

You know you're in trouble when you start doing that.

I wrote a book called Battle for the Beginning.

"Evolution was invented in order to eliminate the God of Genesis and oust the lawgiver and

obliterate the inviolability of His moral law.

Evolution is the latest means fallen sinners have devised to suppress our innate knowledge

of God and the biblical testimony to Him and that we are accountable to Him."

So even if you reject evolution, there's not a mad rush to embrace the God of Scripture

because that brings to bear upon the sinner way too much responsibility and accountability.

Evolution is not happening, it has never happened observable in the world in which we live and

there is no reason to assume that something that doesn't happen and never has happened

was the way in which everything was created, particularly since no one was there and since

the one who was there and who did it all has given us a complete revelation of exactly

how He did it.

So I say to you, Scripture is the test then of what you believe about origins.

Scripture is the test.

And we come to the formidable battleground on this issue and it is a formidable one.

Even Paul recognized it when he said this to Timothy, 1 Timothy 6:20, "Guard what has

been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of

what is falsely called science which some have professed and gone astray from the faith."

Watch out for false knowledge, false science.

These are the things which Paul writes about in 2 Corinthians 10:3 to 5, these are the

ideologies, every high idea raised up against the knowledge of God.

So the first word to consider in the theology of origins is the word fidelity, trust in

Scripture.

The matter of origins is the foundation.

It's the starting point of all reality revealed in the Bible.

It is your first opportunity to believe the Bible or to reject the Bible.

But understand that whatever you do with Genesis 1 and 2 sets the tone for your attitude toward

Scripture.

There's a nationalministry that not too many years ago was having one of the greatest impacts

on this country of any ministry in terms of numbers of people influenced ever.

That ministry affirmed the gospel of Christ, the authority of Scripture, said it was Bible

based, Christ proclaiming, gospel centered.

A letter was written to t he president of that organization to ask the position of the

organization on origins.

Here's the written answer.

"Our ministry takes no stand on such secondary issues.

Our efforts are designed to bring people together based on the historically essential doctrines

of orthodox Christianity.

Creation is one of those secondary doctrines and we believe it falls into the category

of non-essentials like spiritual gifts, eternal security and the Rapture, etc."

All of a sudden we have an organization that's now decided what the second class doctrines

are.

Amazing.

We don't get into secondary issues.

There isn't any issue more primary than this because it's the first one you're confronted

with when you open your Bible and get past the title page.

Amazing.

I would like to suggest a sort of basic test for any Christian ministry that you might

be drawn toward, either to participate with them, to support them in some way.

I would suggest that you ask any ministry, any so-called Christian ministry, especially

a Christian college, Christian seminary that you're thinking about going to, or sending

your friends or your children to, or church that you might attend, one question.

And here is the first question you should ask them.

Write it in a letter and send it to them next time some ministry solicits money from you.

"Do you believe completely in the literal interpretation of Genesis chapter 1 and chapter

2?"

Ask them that.

There are 106 Christian colleges in what is called "The Christian College Coalition."

Five would say yes to that.

A hundred and one would say no.

Just exactly does Genesis 1 and 2 mean then if it doesn't mean what it says which even

a child can understand, then how are we to know what it means?

And at what point can we trust anything that the Bible says?

The answer to the question, "What is your view of Genesis 1 and 2?" will reveal the

attitude of any organization, any ministry toward Scripture.

And if they believe that Scripture is inerrant and authoritative and complete, you'll get

the right answer.

If you get the wrong answer, then they have a weak view of Scripture.

And if they reject Genesis 1 and 2, then you can ask them the other question that I posed

a little while ago, "Just exactly where do you start believing the Bible?"

Oh some will say, "No, no, wait a minute, we believe in a literal Adam."

Oh really, literal Adam, that God created a literal Adam and a literal Eve in the middle

of this long billions of years of evolution.

Well this involves a very severe and a very arbitrary change in your principles of interpretation

when you get to chapter 1 verse 27, chapter 2 verse 7, all of a sudden now you've got

miraculous instantaneous creation of a man in the middle of an evolutionary process.

There's nothing in the text itself that would allow you to do that.

If everything else is symbolic, if everything else is some kind of myth, if everything else

is some kind of poetry, if everything else is some kind of extended allegory, then why

would you all of a sudden change all your principles of interpretation and say the creation

of Adam was in instantaneous miracle in the middle of an evolutionary process?

That betrays a lack of fidelity to Scripture in a very arbitrary way of interpreting it.

So, the first issue is fidelity.

Let me give you a second word, a little category, simplicity...simplicity.

The Genesis account is by all honest consideration simple, plain, clear, perspicuous, uncomplicated,

unmistakable, unambiguous.

It is what it is and a child can understand its simplicity.

Or, John 1, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God the Word was God, He

was in the beginning with God, all things came into being by Him and apart from Him

nothing came into being that has come into being."

Is that complicated?

Nothing exists that He didn't create.

Or Colossians 1 and verse 16, "For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens

and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,

all things have been created by Him and for Him."

Deuteronomy 4:32 speaks of the day that God created man on the earth.

Scripture is simple in its clarity.

Look at Psalm 104...Psalm 104, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, Thou art very

great, Thou art clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Thyself with light as with

a cloak, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.

He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters.

He makes the clouds His chariot.

He walks on the wings of the wind.

He makes the winds His messengers, flaming fire His ministers.

He established the earth upon its foundation so that it will not totter forever and ever.

Thou didst cover it with the deep as with the garment.

The waters were standing above the mountains, at Thy rebuke they fled."

This is describing the creation.

"The mountains rose, verse 8, the valleys sank down."

Verse 10 talks about God sending forth springs in the valleys that flow between the mountains

to give drink to every beast of the field.

Verse 14, "He causes the grass to grow for the cattle and all the vegetation for the

labor of man.

He creates the high mountains for the wild goats," in verse 18, and on and on and on

it goes.

Verse 19, "He made the moon for the seasons, the sun knows the place of its setting."

Verse 24, "O Lord, how many are Thy works?

In wisdom Thou hast made them all."

How simple is that?

How unmistakably clear is that?

Coming to the end of or toward the end of the Psalms, Psalm 148, "Praise the Lord, praise

the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the heights, praise Him all His angels, praise

Him all His hosts, praise Him sun and moon, praise Him all stars of light, praise Him

highest heavens.

Let the waters that area above the heavens, let them praise the name of the Lord, for

He commanded and they were created.

He has also established them forever and ever, made a decree that will not pass away.

Praise the Lord from the earth, sea monsters and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and clouds,

stormy wind, fulfilling His Word, mountains and all hills, fruit trees and cedars, beasts

and cattle, creeping things and winged fowl, kings of the earth and all peoples, princes

and all judges of the earth, both young men and virgins, old men and children, let them

praise the name of the Lord for His name alone is exalted, His glory is above earth and heaven."

All creation praising the Creator.

This again is the unmistakable simplicity of biblical testimony.

It is not complicated.

Isaiah 40:28, "Do you not know, have you not heard, the everlasting God, the Lord, the

Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired."

Ephesians 3:9, "God created all things."

Colossians 1:16, "By Him all things were created."

Turn to Revelation for a moment, Revelation chapter 3...verse 14, "To the angel of the

church in Laodicea write, 'The amen...this identifies Christ...the amen, the faithful

and true witness...then this, so wonderful...the beginning of the creation of God says this..."

That could be translated "the beginner, the originator of the creation of God.

John 1, "All things were made by Him."

We never forget as the church of Jesus Christ that the Christ that we worship is the Creator

who made everything.

"And without Him was not anything made that was made."

In the fourth chapter, the glimpse goes from earth to heaven and we see the hosts of heaven

worshiping.

Verse 11, "Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power

for Thou didst create all things and because of Thy will they existed and were created."

Eternal praise offered to God in heaven for the work of creation....for the work of creation.

Chapter 10 of the book of Revelation, "Saw an angel...in verse 5...standing on the sea

and on the land, lifted up his right hand to heaven, swore by Him who lives forever

and ever."

That's God...that's God.

Further described as, "The one who created heaven and the things in it and the earth

and the things in it and the sea and the things in it."

Chapter 14, "Heavenly praise having been offered to God as Creator, we who proclaim Him in

this world will also then proclaim Him as Creator."

In the future time of the Great Tribulation, there will be an angel flying in the mid-heaven,

verse 6 of Revelation 14, and he'll have an eternal gospel, an everlasting message of

good news to preach to those who live on the earth and to every nation and tribe and tongue

and people.

And what is the message?

What is the everlasting message?

What is the message that will be preached, is being preached, has been preached?

It is this, "Fear God and give Him glory."

That's the timeless message, "Fear God and give Him glory because the hour of His judgment

has come and worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters."

And therein, dear friends, lies the rub with the evolutionists.

If He is the Creator, then He is to be worshiped for the God that He is.

He is to be feared because He is holy, is to be loved because He is gracious.

The eternal gospel is the good news of salvation to be preached to the world.

It's the same message preached now, preached in the past.

There is a God, He is a holy God.

We have violated His Law.

We need to fear this God and we need to worship Him.

The means by which we can come to worship Him is through Jesus Christ.

Sinners over the world have always been commanded the same thing.

"Fear God, give Him glory, worship Him or die, or perish."

And who is this God?

The one who made the heaven and the earth.

There are all kinds of examples of this.

Read Psalm 33.

All kinds of examples of this, worshiping God as the Creator.

There's no question about the fact that the writers of the New Testament affirm the Genesis

record.

There are 165 passages in Genesis directly quoted or referred to in the New Testament.

Genesis has alluded to 200 times, 165 of them are quotes or direct references.

They're all clear.

They're all simple, straightforward affirmations of the book of Genesis and the simple account

of creation that is contained there.

Every New Testament writer, every New Testament writer refers to Genesis.

Universally the writers of the New Testament affirm the reality and the truthfulness of

Genesis.

According then to the plain meaning of Genesis 1:1 in the original Hebrew, the infinite,

personal, eternal God at a particular chosen point in eternity created all reality outside

of Himself out of nothing.

The verb in the Hebrew in the kal stem bara(????) has a much more limited use than we would

use the word "create" in English, and it means to bring something into existence out of nothing..

ex nihilo(??)

.

This has been the universal confidence of God's true people through history.

Let me give you an illustration of it.

Nehemiah 8...Nehemiah 8 and you remember the great story of the revival when the Word of

God was recovered and Ezra, the scribe, brought the book of the Law, chapter 8 verse 1, that

would be the Pentateuch...that would be Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy

starting with Genesis, starting with the creation account.

And you remember that the Word of God was read

and it was read daily through seven days.

And on the eighth day, according to the eighteenth verse of chapter 8, there was a solemn assembly

in response to the reading of Scripture.

Chapter 9, "On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the sons of Israel assembled with fasting

and sack cloth and dirt upon them, and the descendants of Israel separated themselves

from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins in the iniquities of their fathers.

And while they stood in their place, they read from the book of the Law of the Lord,

their God for a fourth of the day and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped

the Lord their God.

And all of the Levites on the platform are named there and they said this..." go down

to verse 5, "Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever.

O may Thy glorious name be blessed and exalted above all blessing and praise.

Thou alone art the Lord, Thou has made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their

hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.

Thou dost give life to all of them and the heavenly hosts bows down before Thee.

Thou art the Lord God who chose Abrahm and brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees and

gave him the name Abraham.

Thou didst find his heart faithful before Thee.

Let's make a covenant with him, give him the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, Amorite,

Perizzite, Jebusite, Girgashite, to give to his descendants and Thou hast fulfilled Thy

promise for Thou art righteous."

And then the recitation of the history of all God's mighty deeds which are factual taken

out of the Pentateuch.

And then verse 17, "But your people were stubborn, they refused to listen.

Didn't remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed."

We do a great dishonor to God to deny Him as the Creator.

They read the Genesis account and they extolled God as their Creator and their Redeemer.

Were they somehow lame in their understanding of reality?

Were they and every other one who devoted his life to the true and living God and put

his trust in Him, before Charles Darwin worshiping God in some kind of ignorance?

Were they in thinking that God had wondrously, miraculously, gloriously created everything

in six days misinformed and thus their praise, the praise of those that are ignorant?

And what about the church of Jesus Christ through the centuries the pillar and ground

of the truth, the guardian and proclaimer of the true God, have they also been captive

to some kind of simplistic naive notion about creation?

Or do the people of God have it right?

Do they have it right?

To reject the Genesis account is to reject not only Old Testament worship but New Testament

worship and the worship of the church of Jesus Christ through the subsequent centuries when

the believers put their confidence in their God and their Christ as the Creator.

So fidelity and simplicity rest together.

But there's one more word and one more category.

The creation account is not something to trifle with.

It is not something secondary.

It is not something arbitrary.

It is preeminent.

It is primary.

It is essential.

It is critical to the main theme of divine revelation and the eternal purpose of God.

So let's use the term priority...fidelity, simplicity, priority.

What is God's priority?

What is His purpose for which He made everything?

What is the goal in the end and the reason?

What is the divine priority?

Obviously God created with a clear end in mind.

God didn't create and hope some meaningful plan evolved.

He created with a very specific scheme in mind.

He created with a very defined ultimate purpose that would be brought to its fulfillment.

And God orchestrates the array of circumstances, contingencies, changes and revolutions from

person to person, day to day, nation to nation, era to era, toward some certain fixed goal

to which everything moves inexorably.

Jonathan Edwards put it this way.

"Providence subordinates all changes in the affairs of mankind."

That's a great statement.

Providence subordinates all changes in the affairs of mankind and they're all subordinated

to a divine plan.

Everything from creation to consummation is part of one great divine plan being worked

by God's powerful providence.

There's not one hostile molecule that operates outside of that plan.

History will end exactly the way God wants it to end.

The actual end of history will be the end of history which He Himself brings to pass.

This universe is not eternal, it will come to an end.

It will implode in a nuclear implosion and go out of existence.

That's what Scripture says.

But not until and only when God's scheme is complete and He has no further use for this

universe.

Meanwhile, divine providence, divine purpose, subordinates orders, overpowers controls all

things to achieve God's end.

There are lots of places in Scripture where we have insight into this.

Perhaps one you might not think about but is critical to our understanding is found

in Isaiah 46 verse 9.

"Remember the former things long passed.

I am God, there is no other.

I am God, there's no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient

times things which have not been done saying, 'My purpose will be established, I will accomplish

all My good pleasure.'"

As we read in Colossians, "All things created by Him and for Him."

And what is this grand design?

What is this grand purpose?

What is God doing?

Why did He create this universe?

Why did He create the earth?

Why did He put on the earth all these creatures?

Why did He make man?

What is the point of all of this?

And the answer is, "The grand design is redemption."

The grand design is the gathering of a redeemed people into eternal glory for the purpose

of worshiping Him forever and ever.

And all God's works of creation and providence and consummation are all associated with the

work of redemption.

The work of redemption is not incidental, it is the reason why the universe exists.

It is the reason why there is an earth.

It is the reason why there is a supporting life system for man.

Every part of the creation is intended to focus on the purpose of redemption.

Even the heavens are declaring the glory of God so that men might be led to redemption.

Even the beast of the field gives Him honor so that men might be led to the God who created

the beast of the field that they might see Him as not just Creator but Redeemer.

Every molecule in the created material universe, every spiritual entity be it a demon or a

human fits somewhere into the subordinated purposes of God under the great unfolding

plan of redemption.

In Ephesians chapter 3, just to show you this quickly, in Ephesians chapter 3 and verse

8, Paul says, "To me the very least of all saints, the grace was given to preach to the

Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ and to bring to light what is the administration

of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things...listen to

this...He created all things, He created all things in order that the manifold wisdom of

God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly

places.

This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord."

That is just profound.

Why did He create all things?

In order that He might put on a display of manifold wisdom for all the angels of heaven

to see and for which they would forever praise Him.

He created to redeem, to display His glory to the holy angels.

So, when you look at creation, you must understand that in creation is the very beginning of

the purposes of God in redemption.

The New Testament makes those kinds of connections as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all

be made alive.

Romans chapter 5, I think, very familiar to us, verses 18 and 19, draw parallels between

creation and redemption.

So then through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, meaning Adam's sin,

so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

Through one man's disobedience many were made sinners.

Through the obedience of one, many will be made righteous.

You go back to Genesis 3 and the Fall and even in the Fall there is a clear connection

to the work of redemption.

We're familiar with that.

But that also is not just limited to those categories of fallenness.

First Corinthians 15 says, "Adam was given life but the second Adam is a life giver."

First Corinthians 15:21 says, "The first Adam brought death, the second Adam conquered death."

Revelation 2 says, "Adam lost paradise."

Revelation 22 says, "The second Adam brings paradise."

First Corinthians 14:47 says, "The first Adam was earthy.

The second Adam is heavenly."

First Corinthians 15:48 and 49, "The first creation is in the likeness of God and the

new creation will also be in the likeness of God."

All kinds of salvation analogies are drawn not only out of the parallels between Christ

and the fallen Adam, but between Christ and an innocent Adam.

But perhaps the riches analogy between redemption and creation is in 2 Corinthians 4, and I

want you to look at that and this is where we'll kind of tie our thoughts together.

Second Corinthians chapter 4, "For God who said, 'Light shall shine out of darkness.'"

Now we'll stop right there.

What's that referring to?

What's it referring to?

Creation.

God said, "Let there be light."

And so, Paul sees in the original creation of light a picture, an analogy of the light

of salvation.

For God who said light shall shine out of darkness.

Do I need to remind you about that?

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," Genesis 1:1.

But verse 2 says, "And the earth was without form and void and...what?...darkness was over

the face of the deep."

It was formless.

It was lifeless.

It was empty.

It was a void of darkness until God said, "Let there be light."

And the rest of the verse, "It is that God who spoke light into the primaeval darkness

who is the One who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the

glory of God in the face of Christ."

Folks, God creating light in the midst of the darkness by His sovereign instantaneous

power is a picture of what He does in the darkness of the sinner's heart.

If you introduce some convoluted concept of evolution into the book of Genesis, you tamper

with the sovereign, divine, instantaneous miracle of God who gives life to a dark universe

as parallel to God who gives light in an instant to a dark heart.

Jonathan Edwards saw this here and pursued the idea all the way through the first chapter

of Genesis and suggests that the light dawned and the darkness was gone but things had not

taken their form yet and day after day of creation things began to take form and take

shape and become clear and the earth became richer and fuller and finally very good.

And then came rest.

And Jonathan Edwards says, "What a magnificent picture of the life of a believer.

In the darkness and in a split second the light shines in his heart and he lives in

the light but the process of sanctification just begins and he flourishes and he becomes

richer and fuller until one day he enters into everlasting rest.

This is the picture, don't tamper with it.

This is the glory of redemption tucked in to the testimony of creation.

Father, we thank You for the picture that You have given us, even in the beginning,

first chapter, of how You bring light to the darkness.

And then it's a cycle of the evening and the morning, light and dark, light and dark, light

and dark, and even that is like our lives, the light shone in our hearts, the light of

the glory of the gospel of Christ shining.

The darkness was dispelled when we were saved, but still our lives are cycles of dark and

light and we find ourselves struggling with sin while loving holiness, embracing the light.

And yet the darkness clings.

But as the days of our lives progress, the new creation flourishes, becomes more beautiful

and more beautiful.

And one day we enter into final and eternal rest.

A vivid picture of the redemption that is the reason for the creation.

May we trust Your Scripture in every word beginning to end because this is right and

this gives You glory.

We thank You that You have opened our eyes through Christ, the work of the Spirit, to

understand these truths.

We desire to honor You and to worship You as our Creator and in all aspects of our lives

as our Redeemer.

Redeem us continually from every remaining vestige of our sin and some day take us into

that eternal rest which we have tasted now but will fully enjoy in Your presence.

Thank You for Your gift to us, for all the elements of that gift which will be ours forever.

In the name of Christ and everyone said...Amen.

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DIFFICULT FOR HIS WIFE OF 60

YEARS, LOUISA.

>> SHE'S AT A HOTEL WITH MY

SISTER-IN-LAW BECAUSE IT'S

EASIER TO GO BACK AND FORTH TO

THE HOSPITAL.

>> LOUISA WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE

IN WITH HER SO AND

DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, BUT FOR NOW,

THE MULLOY'S ARE THANKFUL FOR

EACH DAY.

>> I WANT TO THANK T

FIREFIGHTERS, THE BROCKTON FIRE

DEPARTMENT.

THEY ARE AMAZING PEOPLE.

I'M SO GRATEFUL TO THEM, THE

WHOLE FAMILY IS SO GRATEFUL TO

>> THEM.

MR. AND

>> MR. AND MRS. MULLOY HAVE

RENTER'S INSURANCE BUT ARE

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Police: 19-year-old woman dies after being attacked outside home - Duration: 1:05.

WEINSTOCK IS LIVE

FROM MOUNT WOLF WHERE

THE

ATTACK HAPPENED.

ED: POLICE ARE TELLING US THAT

THIS WAS NOT A

RANDOM ACT.

POLICE SAY THIS WOMAN, THIS

YOUNG WOMAN WAS TARGETED

OUTSIDE HER MOUNT

WOLF HOME

AROUND 3:00 A.M. SATURDAY

MORNING.

NORTHEASTERN REGIONAL POLICE

ARE NOW INVESTIGATING THIS AS

A POSSIBLE

HOMICIDE.

ACCORDING TO POLICE,

19-YEAR-OLD ASHANTIANA JOHNSON

WAS BEATEN ON THE

HEAD BY ONE

OR MORE ASSAILANTS.

POLICE BELIEVE THEY WERE

INVOLVED IN A HOME INVASION AT

THE

VICTIM'S HOME RIGHT BEFORE

SHE WAS ASSAULTED.

SHE DIED FROM HE

INJURIES

THURSDAY.

>> THE PEOPLE THAT WE BELIEVE

EITHER WITNESSED THE CRIME OR

WERE PRESENT WHEN THE CRIME

HAPPENED.

ED: OKAY.

SO HAS ANYONE BEEN

ARRESTED IN

CONNECTION SO FAR?

>> NOT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.

ED: POLICE SAY

THE VICTIM

NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS.

SHE WAS NEVER ABLE T

TELL

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How to Survive School Without Going Insane! - Duration: 10:19.

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on when you are watching this.

Forget about the chicken at the beginning of this video, that literally has nothing

to do with this video other than I wanted to show you me holding a chicken.

So, what is the point of this video?

I think we need to ask ourselves, "Just what are we trying to do with this film?"

Well, if you read the title, you'd know that this is about surviving school and remaining

sane.

And I'd like to say first, I am not the most qualified person to talk about this.

But I have been through High School, and I did graduate.

So that is part of what I consider as my credentials for being able to talk about this.

So, listen to me if you will.

You can take this advice, or you don't have to.

Some things that helped me through school was the idea of...um...

Something that helped me through school was the mental mindset.

We need purpose.

You're not gonna use the caliber of math that you learn outside of school.

You're probably not gonna need to know MLA format, and if you do, you can learn it not

in school.

A lot of things that bugged me going through school is just knowing, like, I could learn

all of these things better, faster, more efficiently, and all that kind of stuff...just like all

around better, by actually doing the job.

Uh, not enough entertainment value.

Not creative enough.

So that really frustrated me.

But my dad told me that it is not about learning real life skills, it's actually about growing

your brain.

Which makes a lot of sense to me, because why else would you learn that kind of stuff.

So that helps a little bit, but, you know, it's...*sigh*

It's like I could be growing my brain other places, doing better, more interesting things.

It's just...it's hard getting that motivation.

Not enough imagination.

That mental mindset, so something that helps me, is I think of it like a game.

School is a game, that, uh, some people have the high score on, and it's literally just

you get the most points that you can, and you finish the game.

It is not the most exciting game to play, but there are good things about it.

What do I mean by game?

It's...not...

Well, let me tell you one thing I mean about it.

When you write a paper, or when you do literally any assignment.

The...okay...

Professor James!

I'm Professor James.

Can you please make, like a, a graph for me?

I'm Professor James.

Okay, take a look at this graph.

The bottom scale is the amount of time put into said assignment.

And the left scale is the grade you get.

If you notice, there's diminishing returns really fast.

Really fast.

So let's say that you have an assignment, and if you spend ten minutes on it you get

a C, if you spend a half-hour on it you get a B, and if you spend an hour on it you get

an A. I would say go for the A, but if you don't

have that time, time manage your stuff.

Instead of getting all overwhelmed by the shear amount of work, for one, take into account

what is most important, which grade matters to me the most, actually care about getting

good grades because it does help you later on.

I actually got a scholarship for good grades.

Boom!

Money.

You think you're smart, dont'cha?

Good stuff.

Get good grades, but don't get held up by them.

Don't, don't go to school.

Go play the game.

This isn't for everyone.

Um...some people have this motivation naturally and that's awesome.

I don't.

I had to play the game.

I had to play it like a game.

When I play a video game, I look for the secrets, I look for stuff that other people don't know,

and I look for a way to exploit the game.

And school can be exploited.

And that's one of the ways to exploit it.

Knowing the graph of the work to grade output.

So people who are A students, probably, I don't know, have to work twice as hard, or

whatever, than the people who are B students.

Let's just say twice as hard.

That's a nice number.

And then twice as hard as C, and then twice as hard as D.

When you get to the F, you're not working at all.

So, like, actually put in some work, and you could literally, easily scrape by with a B

or a C, like, throughout your whole high school career by putting in not that much effort.

Because, teachers look for effort, and they look for stuff, but trust me, you can write

an essay, and if it is just garbage, like literally just, you threw it together on a

page, you'll definitely get a better grade than if you do nothing.

If you take ten minutes to just throw up onto a piece of paper and hand that in.

Like, you'll do so much better.

And if you take that extra amount of time to actually write something that makes sense.

You'll do awesome, honestly.

Play the game.

Exploit the game.

I'm not saying this to be lazy.

Don't be lazy.

But school is not about talent.

It is not about who is better at something naturally.

People who do great in school are the ones who put in the work.

So don't be lazy.

Do the work.

Put in the time.

Put in the effort.

And literally you'll do great.

You don't have to be a genius to go through school.

Perhaps a long time ago, that's what it was.

Not anymore.

There are definitely kids who are smarter than A students who get B's and C's, because

they don't put in that work.

Another part where the "play the game" works as a metaphor is not only the exploiting the

grade system, which is fairly easy to do.

Teachers and staff in general, get to know them.

They're real people.

Don't be a jerk, don't just...

What do you want me to do?

Curtsy when I come to school?

Make good relationships with people.

It helps, so much.

You will go so far, and it is not hard, and it will make your life so much better.

It'll make your life so much easier.

Exploit it.

Play the game.

Don't make fake relationships.

Don't do it for the perks or whatever.

And trust me, there are.

It is great having a friend as a teacher, not only for like having that relationship

with them, and getting to know them, and learning from them.

But they will help you out.

They'll be more likely to do so.

And this is something I've found out.

There are teachers who are jerks, just the worst people.

But that is very, very often not the case.

I have met some wonderful teachers.

And...that are just...

They helped me so much.

They were looking out for me.

Just great people, so I don't know your situation, but

There are awesome teachers, so use that.

They're really doing their best to help you.

Play the game.

Literally, it is a game.

And just like the game of life, or whatever, this is a game as well.

The game of school.

And I guess just know that you're not...

Know that you're not alone.

School is boring, often.

School...

It feels contrived at times.

It feels pointless at times.

And sometimes it probably is, but know that school is really, really good and try and

stick with it.

I've made it through, and I just wanted to share some of these things to help you make

it through, because it's...it's...it's hard.

It's really hard.

And it's not even the work that got me.

It's the motivation to do the work.

I think this ties in a lot with life, though.

I've kind of slowly started to find that people who are successful, they're talented, sure,

and they have that natural talent, but a lot of times, the people who are successful are

the ones who work hard, and they work the hardest.

So, go that extra mile, and work hard at something.

And just, do it.

Exploit the things that you can, like the grade system.

Literally, life will go on, and ten years later, it is very likely not gonna matter

to you what score you got on that quiz.

What score you got on that test.

Whatever, it doesn't matter.

That's no excuse.

All the more reason to do it.

Some things just literally don't matter enough to not do them.

Quick aside about Minnesota weather.

It's really nice out today.

I know there's snow on the ground, but you know.

I actually had to turn the heat off in the car today.

It's crazy during this time of year when it's just cold and then it's warm.

Two days ago it was cold and now today it's warm...eh...whatever.

Have fun in school.

Make good relationships with not only the teachers but the students.

And...you'll...

It'll be much more enjoyable.

I've seen people who don't do that, and it's just like if you literally just took ten minutes

you're life would be so much easier.

I understand the feeling of, like, why am I doing this.

There's literally no point.

You're right, there's literally no academic point of doing lots of the stuff we do in school.

That's okay.

It's a game.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who would disagree with me.

So I don't know if this'll help you, but it helped me just thinking of it as a game, rather

than an actual, like, learning experience.

I learned to play the game.

So I hope this video helps a little bit. I don't know.

This is just stuff that I've learned going through life, and school particularly.

Um, yeah, I guess just to sum up, work hard, make good relationships, and think of it in a different

way.

Because it really isn't about the school, it's about the work.

And so if you just take the time to do a little bit of work, you'll, you'll get those returns,

and it'll be great.

So, that's really all I want to say, and just encourage you to keep going at it.

I know it's hard.

End of the school year, it's difficult to find...

especially for seniors.

*chills* Don't need that again.

Anyway, keep going hard.

You're gonna make it.

It's gonna be great.

And you'll be glad that you worked hard.

If you like this video, you can like it.

If not, then dislike it.

If you wanna see more videos like this, you can subscribe.

Or you don't have to.

See yah next Friday, so thank you for watching.

God bless!

This, right here, is a 500 year-old Red Pine tree.

Just thought I'd show you.

Here, I'll hug the tree. *chuckles*

Class dismissed.

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Upscale with Prentice Penny - Reviving the Cocktail Party | truTV - Duration: 3:17.

so I came here to talk to you

about having some cool party gifts, all right?

But I just have to ask, how does somebody even get into

the world of party gifts?

My whole family's southern.

Mm-hmm.

My dad's from Louisiana,

my mom's from the mountains of Virginia,

and my grandparents, both sides, very poor.

So everything was about getting together

with little or nothing.

That's awesome man, well, I have to be honest.

If you come to my house, take a few pics,

we put them on Facebook

and there's a big bottle of Jack Daniels I got at Costco.

I'll put some chips in a plastic bowl--

that's basically how I've entertained before.

You know, a party gift is usually like

a full belly and some drink... and get the hell out.

And you don't remember the party until three days later

on Facebook when they send you a little reminder.

Right, but I'm upscaling for everybody else.

All right, so at least we'll work on party gifts.

All right, all right.

Let's take a look.

Do you need know what kind of party I'm having?

Does theme matter?

What happens when we become adults

is you have these parties around--

somebody's getting engaged, somebody's getting married.

Big milestone type things, right.

But those are always so big and so huge

that everyone gets lost in the shuffle.

So what I think is lost,

and I think you're bringing back, is like, really

the art of the cocktail party.

Yeah.

There's a limited number

of people that you really connect with,

like, a close number of friends, um,

and you're taking it one step further

by wanting to give them something to take away.

Right.

Which I think is brilliant.

Now, something like this, a candle.

Always a good option, super safe,

everyone uses them.

Sounds good.

So we want to find something

that's going to represent you as a person.

Okay.

General enough that everyone

can appreciate it but still be memorable.

Got you.

Now, so what's this?

A little hangover potion.

Oh, okay.

Then all the women at that party,

the next morning when their husbands aren't

able to take care of the kids--

Sure.

Not gonna appreciate that.

I don't think we need any of that.

You know, one thing, obviously, I think, is, is budget.

You don't-- and that's not how much you can spend,

but I think if you spend too much on a party gift,

it feels odd for the person receiving it.

Okay.

You can do something like, you know,

this is the right price point,

a little thought that you might enjoy a little bit of Monk Oil.

People don't know how to use Monk Oil, it's like,

what is this?

Something you said earlier made me think.

You were talking about Facebook.

Mm-hmm.

You have a party, a whole bunch of photos end up that night,

the next morning.

Right.

But then, like, eight hours later, it's gone.

You totally forget about it.

Right, so let's change that, let's kick it old school.

Have a camera at your place, give people the camera

to have people take photos...

Oh.

Print them out right there

and then just get an inexpensive little frame.

They can pop the photo in.

I like that.

They take this home, sits on the kitchen counter, on their desk.

It's a sort of memory.

"That was the night that Prentice's party

was better than my party."

[laughing] Well, that is yet to be seen.

We can only...

That's why I'm talking to you,

so I can stop people and they won't even know it.

"Oh, this brother...

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Upscale with Prentice Penny - Make the Perfect Old-Fashioned | truTV - Duration: 1:13.

We are.

What can we make today?

All right, so I'm going to go ahead and make a...

bourbon Old Fashioned.

Okay.

I like to showcase the great spirits that we're using.

So I do it very minimal preparation.

Make one.

Let's make one, all right.

What I would do is I take a sugar cube,

put it in the glass, add aromatic bitters,

soak that sugar cube...

It feels like the guy's been doing this for a while.

I've had a few Old Fashions, it's true.

It's true, I have.

What I recommend if you're doing your own Old Fashioned bar,

have everything set out for people

so it makes it easy for them.

I feel like Isaac from "Love Boat" now.

It's like I just talked to you and I can be that.

Now, what else do we need?

One large ice cube in.

All right, now, why do you go with the big cube?

It melts slower.

Got you.

Orange goes beautifully with bourbon.

The sweetness compliments it better.

And you take it and you slide it back in

right next to the ice cub, and that's an Old Fashioned.

Cheers, man, this is a...

Thank you so much, Eric.

It was pleasure.

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Video: Catoctin HS threat suspect arrested - Duration: 0:52.

STAND

IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED.

ANDRE: SHE WAS RELEASED FROM

FREDERICK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT 9

A.M. THIS MORNING AND DETECTIVES

SERVED HER WITH AN ARREST

WARRANT.

SHE IS CHARGED WITH --

POSSESSION OF AN INCENDIARY

MATERIAL AND EXPLOSIVES.

HER FATHER CALLED POLICE LAST

WEEK AFTER HE FOUND REFERENCES

TO THE COLUMBINE AND NEWTOWN

SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN HER DIARY.

THE DIARY SHOWED SHE WANTED TO

CARRY OUT THE ATTACK ON APRIL 5

AND SHE INTENDED TO DIE IN THE

ATTACK.

WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION WERE

FOUND IN HER HOME.

SHE WAS IN COURT THIS AFTERNOON

FOR A BAIL REVIEW AND THE JUDGE

RULED HER NO BOND STATUS REMAINS

INTACT PENDING AN EVALUATION.

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DA: Mount Joy Township couple dies in murder-suicide - Duration: 1:06.

IN MOUNT JOY

TOWNSHIP AND NEWS 8'S BARBARA

BARR IS LIVE WITH THE LATEST

FOR US.

BARBARA: INVESTIGATORS SAY

78-YEAR-OLD

GLENMORE RIS SHOT

AND KILLED HIS 76 YEAR OLD

WIFE AND THEN TURNED IT THE

GUN ON HIMSELF AND THEY ARE

LOOKING FOR A MOTIVE IN THIS

CASE.

A NEIGHBOR FOUND THE COUPLE

INSIDE THEIR

BEDROOM ON

HERSHEY ROAD IN MOUNT JOY

TOWNSHIP LATE THURSDAY

AFTERNOON.

NEIGHBORS HAD BECOME

CONCERNED

AFTER NOT SEEING THEM FOR A

DAY OR TWO.

>> WE'RE STILL TRYING TO LOOK

INTO WHAT TRIGGERED THIS

EVENT.

THERE WAS A VISIT TUESDAY FROM

A CLOSE RELATIVE FOR A

BIRTHDAY FOR

MR. MORRIS, AND

THERE WAS NOTHING APPARENTLY

AWRY OR ANYTHING SEEMED

UPSETTING WITH THE

COUPLE.

BARBARA: THE LANCASTER COUNTY

CORONER SAYS THE MORRISES DIED

OF A

GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE

HEAD, AND INVESTIGATORS SAY

THE GUN DID BELONG TO

MR. MORRIS

AND NEIGHBORS DID

TALK TO US OFF CAMERA

EXPRESSING THEIR SHOCK AND

SADNESS.

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Upscale with Prentice Penny - How To Pronounce Charcuterie | truTV - Duration: 2:22.

Great question. Let me show you.

'Cause usually when I think of charcuterie,

people don't really even know how to say the word.

I think I went to high school

with a black girl named Charcuterie, so, uh...

People see it on a menu, they go charcute, is she cute?

I don't know how to say this, so sort of, what is it?

So the word "charcuterie" is a French word.

Okay.

It means

the art of processing meat.

Okay.

So, a piece of steak is not charcuterie.

Right.

So when you process a meat,

like when you make salami out of it, chorizo out of it,

or even something like this,

a cured leg of Iberico de Bellota ham.

It comes from the Iberian raised pigs

that have been primarily fed acorns.

[pigs grunting, chewing]

I want to sort of marry this thing.

This just-- I just want to curl up in a bed with a knife

and just like, lay there, getting fatter

and slicing meat while I, like,

binge watch something on Netflix.

Just stuff in my bed.

So, what typically goes on a charcuterie tray?

Mainly harder cheeses.

Of course, bread, crackers...

Uh, olives.

First, the most important thing at my table, the wine.

You can't-- you definitely can't miss on the wine.

That's right.

So where are we going now?

We're going to go inside the plant.

Okay.

Oh, this is...

A lot meat, huh?

This is our processing room.

This is where it all goes down.

This is all natural mold.

This is penicillin.

Why does it have mold on it?

It's absolutely necessary for it to be able

to get that taste and flavor.

Really.

How long have they been in here for that whole process?

Great question.

This particular log was inside the drying room

for about 45 to 50 days.

Wow, is that sort of standard?

No, it depends on the diameter of the product.

Okay.

You want to head back there?

It smells so good.

This is...

Oh, wow!

...put in a couple of weeks ago,

they're at different stages of preparation.

Let's say you were to, like, go check on some salami

and this accidentally slid itself in my pocket,

I would be okay.

You'd really have to wait another couple of...

a month and a half.

I don't want to wait! This is beautiful.

There'll be plenty more.

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HOW TO MAKE THE PERFECT PIZZA - Egg and Bacon Aussie Pizza 🇦🇺 - Duration: 3:40.

Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen.

We are still here in Italy and we've

been doing a series on bread making so

I've been making a lot of pizza bases

and whilst I've got my pre-made pizza

bases in the freezer, I'm actually going

to share with you a classic Aussie recipe.

The Aussie Pizza, a little bit different

and really tasty. Now taken one of

those bases out the freezer, it's still a

little bit chilled, one of the biggest

differences is we don't use a tomato

base on the Aussie Pizza, we're going

with a barbecue sauce. So I'm going to

put a liberal amount of barbecue sauce

on the pizza base, take my ladle and

we're just going to spread this out

about an inch away from the outside edge.

I've got some diced onions here, just

going to sprinkle those over the top.

I've also got a little bit of garlic

salt which I'm just going to, not too

much, just pop that over the sauce. Bacon

is one of the key ingredients in an

Aussie Pizza, I've got it finely diced

here, I'm going to sprinkle half of it

underneath the cheese. Now I should just

say bacon goes really well but I also

quite often use cubed ham underneath

the cheese and next we're going to take

a nice mozzarella. Now again in Australia

we would probably go with a mozzarella

and a tasty cheese mix, I'm going for

pure mozzarella here. Not enough there,

I'm going to grate some more. Now this is

a beautiful soft buffalo mozzarella but

I'm still going to grate it because this

is an Aussie Pizza after all. Don't under

do the cheese you really want a decent

amount of cheese on this pizza. Again I'm

going to top this with my bacon. Now you

could use rashers of bacon that can look

like cool actually but I can only find

diced bacon here in Italy, so I'm going to

use their diced Bacon. Now very shortly

our Pizza's are going in the oven, so make

sure you preheated it to 220 degrees

Celsius or 430 Fahrenheit, nice and hot

because just before it goes into the

oven we're going to break three eggs

onto here. So first of all, what I want to

do is make a little bit of a dam, push

some cheese towards the outside edge,

crack our egg

and I'm just going to break it in on top

of the pizza. So it's basically a bacon

and egg pizza. I'm going to do this with

three eggs. Now our Pizza is ready to go in

the oven, we're going to bake this

between 12 and 15 minutes until it's

lovely and golden brown. Now take a look

at this gorgeous aussie pizza and don't

be afraid to cook it for the full 15

minutes, we want it to flirt a little bit

with being burnt on the edges like that.

Put that out onto my board so whilst

it's still fairly hot I'm going to get

myself a slice of this pizza, ordinarily

when I'm back in Australia I'd cook this

on my pizza stone but this has worked

out pretty well just as it is. Let's give

it a try well that's a blast from down

under, Pizza with barbecue sauce

absolutely lovely. If you're making

pizzas at any time or if you're

following the bread series and make your

own pizza bases give this a try and let

me know in the comments what you think.

Share the love, give this a thumbs up and

I will see you very shortly, take care