SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's pray first.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we are so thankful to be here this morning.
SPEAKER_01: We're thankful to be in your church.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we're thankful to be in your presence.
SPEAKER_01: And God, we ask this morning as we jump into your word a little bit that you would open our ears and open our hearts and bless this time in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, you can see that uh I gave this the old Rocky and Bullwinkle thing, you know?
SPEAKER_01: Anyone remember Rocky and Bullwinkle?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, great.
SPEAKER_01: You know, they always had two titles for their shows.
SPEAKER_01: So, How to Ruin Your Day or Not a Care in the World.
SPEAKER_01: Here's what we're gonna do.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna look at Galatians.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, by the way, I'm starting a new series today.
SPEAKER_01: The next time I pick it up would be probably what, three years or so?
SPEAKER_01: Galatians 6, 7.
SPEAKER_01: Do not be deceived.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mocked.
SPEAKER_01: Mock can also be translated, you know that we have to deal with the English language.
SPEAKER_01: They had a different language in those times that they were writing in.
SPEAKER_01: A couple of different ones, actually.
SPEAKER_01: And mocked also meant to treat with contempt.
SPEAKER_01: Mocking God entails assuming that one can outwit or dismiss him.
SPEAKER_01: That's starting to sound very familiar in today's society, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01: That you can live in a secret sin or presume there will be no unforgivable sin is to dismiss God.
SPEAKER_01: So just note that it it doesn't say in that verse, God doesn't want to be mocked.
SPEAKER_01: God should not be mocked.
SPEAKER_01: God doesn't like being mocked.
SPEAKER_01: Doesn't say that.
SPEAKER_01: It said, God is not mocked.
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's very important.
SPEAKER_01: God is a very firm, he says some things very emphatically.
SPEAKER_01: And that's one of the things he says emphatically.
SPEAKER_01: God, he is not mocked.
SPEAKER_01: And we can see through history though some times where God stepped in and said, Yeah, okay, that's enough.
SPEAKER_01: But society today is literally hellbent on rejecting God.
SPEAKER_01: And I think we need to talk about that a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: Because it's infiltrating every part of everything.
SPEAKER_01: Dare I say it's even affecting the very elect Christians?
SPEAKER_01: Because it's just that constant drone in your ears.
SPEAKER_01: You know, I used to like to watch nature shows.
SPEAKER_01: I still do.
SPEAKER_01: But they aggravate me because they'll say, well, millions of years ago, this particular moth decided that if it looked more like a monarch, it wouldn't get eaten, monarch butterfly.
SPEAKER_01: Because monarch butterflies are very distasteful to birds.
SPEAKER_01: So they decided to change themselves and look like them.
SPEAKER_01: Do you really believe that?
SPEAKER_01: I mean, come on.
SPEAKER_01: Any one of you in here that's too tall, can you think yourself shorter?
SPEAKER_01: If you're too short, can you think yourself taller?
SPEAKER_01: Not gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01: Unless even a bug.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: It just doesn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_01: Adam and Eve attempted to deceive God.
SPEAKER_01: They attempted to mock him by hiding and covering their sin.
SPEAKER_01: The first part of that is how to ruin your day.
SPEAKER_01: I was in a uh one of those little convenience stores the other day, and very polite woman behind the desk, and she said, How's your day?
SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm always good.
SPEAKER_01: She said, Really?
SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, I didn't give her my typical answer here, but uh I did tell her, I said, Don't watch the news.
SPEAKER_01: Just don't watch the news.
SPEAKER_01: It's never good, and it's not always even correct.
SPEAKER_01: I think we've come to learn that now.
SPEAKER_01: That the news stations, I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, it's gonna be swayed one way or another.
SPEAKER_01: Don't watch it.
SPEAKER_01: All it does is just get you irritated.
SPEAKER_01: But the worst part, even beyond not listening or listening to the news, is believing it.
SPEAKER_01: Definitely don't believe everything you hear or believe everything you listen to on you.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna say this again every time I stand up here, I talk about YouTube.
SPEAKER_01: I apologize, but I don't.
SPEAKER_01: Be careful, be careful, be careful with YouTube.
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of random people saying random things because it came into their head.
SPEAKER_01: Don't know where it came from.
SPEAKER_01: You can't believe a weather forecast.
SPEAKER_01: You think you can believe a news report?
SPEAKER_01: You know, in the Old Testament, the Jews they were very careful about the scriptures.
SPEAKER_01: Very careful.
SPEAKER_01: How careful were they?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'll give you a couple of examples.
SPEAKER_01: Every scribe had to write on the skins of clean animals, which was biblically clean.
SPEAKER_01: Each skin must contain the exact number of columns, which is equal to throughout the entire manuscript.
SPEAKER_01: And the and God even set down how many columns there would be, how many rows there would be, how many letters in a row.
SPEAKER_01: It was very, very specific.
SPEAKER_01: And then when it came down to, this is the one that I always read, and I said, Wow, that's really incredible.
SPEAKER_01: Each time the scribe came across the Hebrew word for God, he had to wipe his pen clean.
SPEAKER_01: Then when he came across the name of God, Yahweh, Jehovah, he had to wash his entire body before he could write it.
SPEAKER_01: So you wonder why we know that the word of God is accurate as it's handed down to us.
SPEAKER_01: That's why.
SPEAKER_01: They were beyond careful.
SPEAKER_01: And there's whole things in there about if they made a mistake or something happened, even to the point where if a king walked in the room when they were transcribing, they couldn't, they couldn't look it up, couldn't even look up.
SPEAKER_01: Didn't matter if he was the king.
SPEAKER_01: God's word was held in the highest esteem.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure you've all heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
SPEAKER_01: Um there's just virtually no difference between those scrolls that were hidden for, I don't know, 1,500 years and the ones that we and the scripture that we have today.
SPEAKER_01: Because of this caution.
SPEAKER_01: Because of that.
SPEAKER_01: Yet people still say, well, that was just written by some guy.
SPEAKER_01: No, we know better.
SPEAKER_01: News and InterSiteNet sites are constantly trolling us and baiting us with misleading headlines and stories.
SPEAKER_01: How many times have you clicked on something?
SPEAKER_01: That looks really interesting, and you click on it, and whatever you want it to look at doesn't even come up.
SPEAKER_01: It's some ad.
SPEAKER_01: It's very frustrating and it's very misleading.
SPEAKER_01: Something else is misleading.
SPEAKER_01: ABC News reported the climate crisis is not a distant threat.
SPEAKER_01: It's happening right now and affecting what matters most to most of us.
SPEAKER_01: Hurricanes intensified by warming planet, drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities, rising seas and flooding are swallowing up our homes, and record-breaking heat waves are reshaping our way of life.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the fact is, over the past 30 to 170 years, same number of hurricanes, same intensity.
SPEAKER_01: Forest fires and tree cover hasn't changed much.
SPEAKER_01: Floods and droughts, pretty much the same.
SPEAKER_01: You can go through the entire list of all the things they tell you are a problem.
SPEAKER_01: Polar bears.
SPEAKER_01: Well, they found out there's actually more polar bears.
SPEAKER_01: Don't believe everything you read or hear.
SPEAKER_01: You can believe one thing.
SPEAKER_01: You know what it is?
SPEAKER_01: God's word.
SPEAKER_01: You can believe God's word.
SPEAKER_01: It has been proven over and over again to be true.
SPEAKER_01: We're told that the world started or the the universe started with the Big Bang.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the Big Bang doesn't.
SPEAKER_01: Where did the stuff come from for the Big Bang?
SPEAKER_01: What blew up?
SPEAKER_01: Well, they got a great explanation now.
SPEAKER_01: You ready?
SPEAKER_01: I'll read it to you so I get it exactly right.
SPEAKER_01: The Big Bang did not arise from some pre-existing material, but rather marked the beginning of all matter and energy in the universe.
SPEAKER_01: The subsequent cooling and expansion allowed for the formation of elements that make up stars, galaxies, and ultimately the universe as we know it today.
SPEAKER_01: So it heated up and expanded.
SPEAKER_01: I've heated up and expanded.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing new happened.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's that's the ultimate fairy tale.
SPEAKER_01: Anybody that reads that just has to say to themselves, you've got to be kidding me.
SPEAKER_01: That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
SPEAKER_01: They can't they can't duplicate it.
SPEAKER_01: They can't say that it's happening today because it isn't.
SPEAKER_01: Why would it have stopped?
SPEAKER_01: So my thought about that was first of all, where did the heating and expansion come from?
SPEAKER_01: How didn't it just decide to heat and expand?
SPEAKER_01: So we could have elements.
SPEAKER_01: And actually they started out as I believe the word is quarks, which is some kind of a subatomic particle.
SPEAKER_01: You know, that's nothing from nothing, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01: Even Mary Poppins knew better than that.
SPEAKER_01: You remember Mary Poppins, right?
SPEAKER_01: Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could.
SPEAKER_01: Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's always a result.
SPEAKER_01: There's always a result.
SPEAKER_01: The truth is, God did something good.
SPEAKER_01: That's the bottom line.
SPEAKER_01: He created the universe.
SPEAKER_01: Personally, don't believe any big bang ever happened.
SPEAKER_01: He just created it.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: This is very interesting.
SPEAKER_01: AI has made an interesting discovery under the questioning of a Christian apologist named Calvin Smith.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you ever had a chance to have stumbled across him on the internet.
SPEAKER_01: But you all heard of Grok?
SPEAKER_01: GROK 6, that's Elon Musk's latest genius AI that can answer anything at a doctoral level or even higher?
SPEAKER_01: Well, Calvin Smith, while questioning it, it had to finally admit that the concept of a self-created universe is not possible.
SPEAKER_01: And here's a machine that has access to every single document written and every science document ever written, and it concludes, not possible.
SPEAKER_01: Couldn't happen that way.
SPEAKER_01: So when Calvin said to him, well then, what did happen?
SPEAKER_01: Grok said, intelligent design.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Oh, you mean like God?
SPEAKER_01: He says, Yes, exactly like God.
SPEAKER_01: That's a machine.
SPEAKER_01: Grok also admitted the same thing for the possibilities of evolution, saying it's mathematically impossible.
SPEAKER_01: No chance.
SPEAKER_01: Again, pointing to intelligent design.
SPEAKER_01: You know, we as Christians in the past years have been laughed out of everything.
SPEAKER_01: We've been laughed out of the media.
SPEAKER_01: Scholastic society and politics for making claims like that.
SPEAKER_01: Now machines constructed by liberal think tanks are admitting that, yeah, it had to be intelligent design.
SPEAKER_01: Like God.
SPEAKER_01: Romans 1.20.
SPEAKER_01: For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so people are without excuse.
SPEAKER_01: If you study any theology, that's called a teleological argument for the existence of God.
SPEAKER_01: The design in nature says, there's no way this happened by itself.
SPEAKER_01: And you know, you've heard all the other ones, you know, a watch, how could a watch make itself?
SPEAKER_01: How could a painting paint itself?
SPEAKER_01: No, there has to be someone that did it.
SPEAKER_01: And the intricacies in our universe and creation are unfathomably specific.
SPEAKER_01: It couldn't have happened by itself.
SPEAKER_01: Do you ever wonder why the godless gets so angry when you espouse anything like this or say anything that's against what they would call science?
SPEAKER_01: Why do they get so mad?
SPEAKER_01: Because they do.
SPEAKER_01: They don't want to have a debate.
SPEAKER_01: They want to hit you over the head.
SPEAKER_01: Because if you admit that this world and everything in it and all of the universe was made by God, then what you're saying is there is a creator.
SPEAKER_01: And he has ultimate power over us.
SPEAKER_01: It makes them subservient.
SPEAKER_01: They don't want that.
SPEAKER_01: They think they're the best thing.
SPEAKER_01: They get so aggravated that they've they've killed people over it.
SPEAKER_01: And we know that.
SPEAKER_01: A little story about what happens to people that don't want to admit there's a God.
SPEAKER_01: There was this woman, you maybe have heard this story before.
SPEAKER_01: Maria was at her lowest point, facing empty cupboards and mocking words from her atheist neighbor.
SPEAKER_01: His name was Daniel.
SPEAKER_01: He believed that prayer was a waste of time, and he wanted to show Maria that God didn't exist by highlighting her desperate situation.
SPEAKER_01: In an attempt to prove his point, Daniel filled a cart with essential groceries and left them outside Maria's door.
SPEAKER_01: He watched from the shadows, anticipating her disappointment once he revealed that he, not a higher power, was the source of the gift.
SPEAKER_01: When Daniel stepped out to take the credit and to mock her, Maria's response shook his world.
SPEAKER_01: God, my prayer was answered, and God even made an atheist pay for it.
SPEAKER_01: I think we've seen these things happen in our life that God just comes through unexpectedly.
SPEAKER_01: I've always said, you know, God has perfect timing.
SPEAKER_01: It's not ours.
SPEAKER_01: We always think, what are you waiting for?
SPEAKER_01: You know, can't you answer this prayer?
SPEAKER_01: Why are you making me wait?
SPEAKER_01: God knows when.
SPEAKER_01: And you gotta remember the day is as a thousand years, a thousand years is as a day to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: It's all meaningless.
SPEAKER_01: He created time for us.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't exist in time.
SPEAKER_01: God will have the last word.
SPEAKER_01: He will not be mocked, he will not be treated with contempt, ignored, outwit, or be dismissed.
SPEAKER_01: We live in very strange times.
SPEAKER_01: Very strange times.
SPEAKER_01: And I know we've had strange times like this in our past before, but this just seems to be over the top.
SPEAKER_01: The world is gasping its last breath with various, really social and moral perversions that are truly, if they weren't important and serious, would be laughable.
SPEAKER_01: We're expected to fall into lockstep and believe it all.
SPEAKER_01: My oldest son was very upset with the company that he works for because he was told he had to choose his pronouns.
SPEAKER_01: I already got my pronouns.
SPEAKER_01: I know what they are.
SPEAKER_01: I don't need you to call me, you know.
SPEAKER_01: He was very frustrated with that.
SPEAKER_01: Yet we expected to fall into lockstep.
SPEAKER_01: Now the worldly system that is essentially shooting itself in the foot is still telling us they're not limping.
SPEAKER_01: And we're supposed to believe that too.
SPEAKER_01: You can see where some of the missteps they've taken have caused themselves problems because they won't believe God's word.
SPEAKER_01: It all comes down to sin.
SPEAKER_01: You know, whenever you see a problem and try to figure out what in the world are these people thinking?
SPEAKER_01: How can you even think that?
SPEAKER_01: Sin.
SPEAKER_01: Sin twists people's brain.
SPEAKER_01: You know, Pastor Favor used to say something that was, you know, he said it with regularity.
SPEAKER_01: And it was quite true.
SPEAKER_01: Sin will take you further than you ever want it to go.
SPEAKER_01: Because you just start, okay, that's not too bad.
SPEAKER_01: I think you can handle that.
SPEAKER_01: So you just take it a little more and a little more and a little more.
SPEAKER_01: I used to say that what one generation will tolerate, the next generation will accept as the norm.
SPEAKER_01: And then it just gets going further and further.
SPEAKER_01: So let's sit back for a minute and say lies, because Satan is the father of lies, and everything he says is a lie.
SPEAKER_01: Well, some lies are pretty obvious, right?
SPEAKER_01: In high school, this guy, this friend told him that he didn't steal his other friend's watch.
SPEAKER_01: And while he was asked about it, he was wearing it.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't steal that watch.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus speaking to the Pharisees in John 8, chapter 44, said, You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires.
SPEAKER_01: He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding the truth.
SPEAKER_01: There is no truth in him.
SPEAKER_01: When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
SPEAKER_01: Well, Jesus pressed a lot further than that.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'll read some of this.
SPEAKER_01: I think we have time.
SPEAKER_01: They responded, We're Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anyone.
SPEAKER_01: I'm surprised Jesus didn't say something then.
SPEAKER_01: Did you completely forget your time in Egypt?
SPEAKER_01: When you were slaves, how can you say that we'll be set free?
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I lost my place here.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus replied, Verily, verily, I say unto you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
SPEAKER_01: Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
SPEAKER_01: So the son sets you free, you are free indeed.
SPEAKER_01: I know that you are Abraham's descendants.
SPEAKER_01: You are looking, yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room in your world for me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, and what I have seen in the Father's presence, you are doing what you have heard from your father.
SPEAKER_01: Abraham is our father, they answered.
SPEAKER_01: If you are Abraham's children, he said, then you would do what Abraham did.
SPEAKER_01: So he concludes with, You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires.
SPEAKER_01: He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
SPEAKER_01: And the rest of what we said.
SPEAKER_01: So Jesus called him on the carpet, which he was very good at doing that, especially with the religious leaders of the day, because he saw that they knew the word.
SPEAKER_01: They were careful with the word and the law, but it wasn't in their hearts.
SPEAKER_01: It hadn't made an effective change in their life.
SPEAKER_01: It was just something that they did, and I'll use this word, religiously.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure people have said to you, Well, you're religious.
SPEAKER_01: I hope you correct them.
SPEAKER_01: Say, no, I'm not religious.
SPEAKER_01: I'm a born-again Christian.
SPEAKER_01: Big difference.
SPEAKER_01: Very big difference.
SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite verses in the New Testament, Ephesians chapter 4, verse 14.
SPEAKER_01: Then we will no longer be inferenced, tossed back and forth by waves and blown here and there with every wind of teaching or doctrine.
SPEAKER_01: And by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
SPEAKER_01: Guard what you listen to, guard what you hear, guard what you read and what you're told.
SPEAKER_01: Because not everybody has correct motivation.
SPEAKER_01: And some people's motivation isn't that it's incorrect, it's just ignorant.
SPEAKER_01: Not in a bad way.
SPEAKER_01: Just don't know.
SPEAKER_01: That's why I always say, watch out for YouTube.
SPEAKER_01: YouTube's great.
SPEAKER_01: I watch it all the time.
SPEAKER_01: I don't watch TV, I watch YouTube.
SPEAKER_01: But you just got to be careful, right?
SPEAKER_01: Others require a deeper understanding, such as how can someone say the earth is millions of years old to buy The Bible does not support this at all.
SPEAKER_01: Why is this information given such widely accepted consideration?
SPEAKER_01: Because it's promoted by godless thinking.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible is completely accurate.
SPEAKER_01: Archaeological discoveries of biblical locations.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there was a quite some time that archaeologists said, well, there was no such person as David in the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_01: He didn't exist.
SPEAKER_01: They said this because they had not found anything yet, didn't mention him in their archaeological digs, referred to him, or even of the city that he was in.
SPEAKER_01: That changed.
SPEAKER_01: All of a sudden they're digging in some other spot and they find everything.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I guess he really did exist.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you mean the Bible's true?
SPEAKER_01: It's always been my contention that if the Bible is historically accurate, and as you can see by how the Jews would copy it and recopy it under such careful, careful, I mean, way beyond what we would do today, careful circumstances, that they would make up the history that goes with it.
SPEAKER_01: Or they would make up the things that Jesus did.
SPEAKER_01: Or the miracles throughout Old and New Testament.
SPEAKER_01: Doesn't make sense, does it?
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't stand up to any logical thought.
SPEAKER_01: There's many, many prophecies in the Old Testament, excuse me, about Jesus that were fulfilled.
SPEAKER_01: The number that you know you hear is basically 333 Old Testament prophecies about the coming Messiah.
SPEAKER_01: He fulfilled them all.
SPEAKER_01: Now, some of them you couldn't fulfill because you wanted to.
SPEAKER_01: They had to, it was life circumstances.
SPEAKER_01: He couldn't control where and how he was born.
SPEAKER_01: Even external, outside of the Bible, references to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Some people say, well, you know, I'm not sure I can really believe all that.
SPEAKER_01: That Jesus was who he said he was.
SPEAKER_01: But Spartacus, I knew he was real.
SPEAKER_01: Because all the history books talk about him.
SPEAKER_01: And I saw the movie.
SPEAKER_01: Has to be real, right?
SPEAKER_01: You remember who was starred in that movie.
SPEAKER_01: Anyone remember?
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
SPEAKER_01: See, so you know Spartacus was a real guy.
SPEAKER_01: You saw him.
SPEAKER_01: So he lived in the first century BC, reportedly led a famous slave revolt against Rome.
SPEAKER_01: He never wrote a thing.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe he couldn't, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: Nearly everything we come comes from later Roman historians, a lot later, like hundreds of years later.
SPEAKER_01: So it was passed down through oral tradition.
SPEAKER_01: You'll believe that, but you won't believe Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And the amount of documentation biblically and extra-biblically, that exists.
SPEAKER_01: We're told to follow the science.
SPEAKER_01: When it's convenient.
SPEAKER_01: But men can have babies.
SPEAKER_01: And if you don't believe that, you're wrong.
SPEAKER_01: You know I'm kidding, right?
SPEAKER_01: Well, you never know these days.
SPEAKER_01: Science has long since told us that the speed of light is one of the constants in science.
SPEAKER_01: You've probably heard that.
SPEAKER_01: 186,000 miles per second.
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
SPEAKER_01: It just always does the same thing.
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
SPEAKER_01: What they're finding out now by delving so much further into the universe out that sometimes the laws of physics that are here aren't out there.
SPEAKER_01: And they were able to test that theory in a laboratory by slowing the speed of light down to 38 miles per hour.
SPEAKER_01: And then they were actually able to stop it.
SPEAKER_01: I actually saw the video one night.
SPEAKER_01: It was amazing.
SPEAKER_01: We've been told to follow the science.
SPEAKER_01: But science is not always consistent or even correct.
SPEAKER_01: True scientists will tell you this.
SPEAKER_01: Question everything.
SPEAKER_01: And once you stop doing that, you're no longer a scientist.
SPEAKER_01: You're starting a cult.
SPEAKER_01: Since the world system has rejected God, it holds science.
SPEAKER_01: Really, as a pseudo-God, it's the most important thing to many people in society today.
SPEAKER_01: It's what they feel is actually true.
SPEAKER_01: You know, like if I take something, what have I got?
SPEAKER_01: I got nothing.
SPEAKER_01: I can't drop my phone.
SPEAKER_01: That would be a bad idea.
SPEAKER_01: I can drop this.
SPEAKER_01: It's my wallet.
SPEAKER_01: It's not worth much.
SPEAKER_01: Mathematics, which is, in some people's opinion, the most perfect science.
SPEAKER_01: And it says if I drop this, it never hit the ground.
SPEAKER_01: And the reasoning goes like this.
SPEAKER_01: Before it fell all the way, it fell halfway.
SPEAKER_01: And after it fell halfway, it fell halfway again.
SPEAKER_01: And then it fell halfway again.
SPEAKER_01: And you can divide that infinitely and say that, well, I guess it never really hit the floor.
SPEAKER_01: Is math perfect?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Science isn't perfect.
SPEAKER_01: Either my computer just died, or no, here we go.
SPEAKER_01: Or some things in science are flawed, and we know they are.
SPEAKER_01: You know, one time they believed that the earth was flat.
SPEAKER_01: Don't tell me you believe that.
SPEAKER_01: That the earth was flat.
SPEAKER_01: Yet all the other planets are around.
SPEAKER_01: And um they weren't right.
SPEAKER_01: It's been proven they weren't right.
SPEAKER_01: Since the world system has rejected God, it holds science as a pseudo-god.
SPEAKER_01: They are preaching at us through every venue possible.
SPEAKER_01: And it starts in elementary school and goes all the way through college and into all forms of media.
SPEAKER_01: We're attacked.
SPEAKER_01: Remember, I told you earlier that it's this constantly in your ears from everywhere.
SPEAKER_01: I don't care what you're reading or what you're looking at or what you're hearing through the internet, news channels.
SPEAKER_01: It's all filtered through their exact idea of what it should be.
SPEAKER_01: Not God's idea.
SPEAKER_01: You know, it wasn't that many years ago that it was.
SPEAKER_01: God's word is accurate.
SPEAKER_01: Don't be deceived.
SPEAKER_01: Science is not God.
SPEAKER_01: It's just theories.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mocked, dismissed, made light of.
SPEAKER_01: God's word is accurate, filled with truth and wisdom.
SPEAKER_01: Luke chapter 19, verse 40, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out, oh come on.
SPEAKER_01: Well, they have.
SPEAKER_01: They already have.
SPEAKER_01: Has anybody here heard of NVIDIA?
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever heard of NVIDIA?
SPEAKER_01: Al, I know you know what it is.
SPEAKER_01: NVIDIA is a is a, you know, you can invest in it on the on uh on the stock exchange.
SPEAKER_01: But NVIDIA is a chip maker.
SPEAKER_01: And they make the fastest, best chips, hands down in the world.
SPEAKER_01: As much as the Chinese have tried to copy it, they haven't been able to.
SPEAKER_01: It's a phenomenal chip.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody wants them that has anything to do with AI.
SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
SPEAKER_01: That's the same AI that had to admit there is a God.
SPEAKER_01: What's it come from?
SPEAKER_01: Sand.
SPEAKER_01: Silica.
SPEAKER_01: And what's sand?
SPEAKER_01: Oh, little rocks.
SPEAKER_01: The little rocks inside the Nvidia chips are crying out that there indeed is a God.
SPEAKER_01: We serve a mighty God.
SPEAKER_01: We serve an awesome God.
SPEAKER_01: We serve a God that knows everything that needs to be known.
SPEAKER_01: And it's amazing.
SPEAKER_01: The more we discover, the more we realize just how extensive that really is.
SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 9.6.
SPEAKER_01: This sounds a little like a Christmas verse.
SPEAKER_01: For unto us a child is born, unto us, a son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulders.
SPEAKER_01: And we'll call him wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace.
SPEAKER_01: Mighty God.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: This is what the world would promote: lust, selfishness, anger, conflict, jealousy, cruelty, unfaithfulness, impatience, and empty pleasures.
SPEAKER_01: What's the Bible promote?
SPEAKER_01: Self-control, love, gentleness, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, long-suffering, and joy.
SPEAKER_01: Recognize that?
SPEAKER_01: Maybe?
SPEAKER_01: Words are a little different.
SPEAKER_01: I use synonyms.
SPEAKER_01: It's Galatians chapter 5.
SPEAKER_01: The works of the flesh versus the fruit of the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So let me read them side by side.
SPEAKER_01: Lust, self-control.
SPEAKER_01: Selfishness, love.
SPEAKER_01: Anger, gentleness, conflict, peace.
SPEAKER_01: Jealousy, kindness, cruelty, goodness.
SPEAKER_01: Unfaithfulness, faithfulness, impatience, long suffering.
SPEAKER_01: We see that with God.
SPEAKER_01: He is long suffering because he puts up with us, right?
SPEAKER_01: And then empty pleasures.
SPEAKER_01: God wants us to have joy.
SPEAKER_01: Joy is not something that's a happy feeling.
SPEAKER_01: Joy is an inner part of the peace that God gives you when you become a born-again Christian.
SPEAKER_01: You have a peace within you that, as the Bible says, surpasses all understanding.
SPEAKER_01: Say, how can I be peaceful and how can I have joy when all these bad things are happening around me?
SPEAKER_01: Because God gave it to you.
SPEAKER_01: It's classic world versus the Holy Spirit and what he wants to do with you for you.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mocked by this foolishness.
SPEAKER_01: So we can clearly see the world is mocking God.
SPEAKER_01: What will be the outcome of that?
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's for God to decide.
SPEAKER_01: We do have scriptures that talk about, you know, in end times.
SPEAKER_01: But he's been very long-suffering.
SPEAKER_01: Just look at the past.
SPEAKER_01: Look at some of the things that took place in World War II.
SPEAKER_01: It was horrific.
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely horrific.
SPEAKER_01: Genocide of almost an entire race.
SPEAKER_01: They did their best.
SPEAKER_01: Thankfully, they did not succeed.
SPEAKER_01: We still have many Jews with us today.
SPEAKER_01: God is very patient.
SPEAKER_01: Very patient.
SPEAKER_01: Just think of all the other many historic events that have taken place, and you say, how could God let that go on?
SPEAKER_01: Think of the crusades.
SPEAKER_01: You've all heard of the crusades.
SPEAKER_01: Many people don't have any idea what the crusades were about.
SPEAKER_01: They just know that whoever started the crusades is a bad person because they killed people.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I read several different little articles on the crusades, and it was very interesting because it always took, I'll just say the wrong side, and I'll read what it says.
SPEAKER_01: First Crusade was called by Pope Urban II at the Council of Claremont in 1095, marking the beginning of these military campaigns.
SPEAKER_01: The Crusades aimed to stop the expansion of Muslim states and recall reclaimed territories that had been Christian.
SPEAKER_01: Even the way that's worded, even the way that's worded is, you know, they wanted their land back.
SPEAKER_01: That's not really what happened.
SPEAKER_01: They wanted to stop the Christians from being slaughtered by Muslims.
SPEAKER_01: Very different.
SPEAKER_01: Each crusade had a varying degree of success and impact on the region evolved.
SPEAKER_01: This article, I don't remember where I got it from.
SPEAKER_01: You know, the internet, Temple of Truth.
SPEAKER_01: And uh it's skewed.
SPEAKER_01: It's actually, I would call it sanitized.
SPEAKER_01: Many, including myself, have deduced that Islam is not a religion, but a political movement disguised as a religion, aiming to take over the world.
SPEAKER_01: We're next in line.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna leave that there.
SPEAKER_01: Abraham Lincoln.
SPEAKER_01: Has anybody ever been to Disney World and gone to the Hall of Presidents?
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure some of you have.
SPEAKER_01: Well, when Abraham Lincoln stands up and gives a speech, it's the Lyceum speech, or address actually, when he spoke at Lyceum, and this is a synapsis or a little piece of it.
SPEAKER_01: At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
SPEAKER_01: I answered, if it ever reach us, it must come up from among us.
SPEAKER_01: It cannot come from abroad.
SPEAKER_01: If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be the author and finisher.
SPEAKER_01: As a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
SPEAKER_01: He was 28 years old when he gave that speech.
SPEAKER_01: He's a very young man, especially from my perspective.
SPEAKER_01: What insight to know that the only thing that's going to destroy the, you see our military power now, it's actually frightening.
SPEAKER_01: It's just, I mean, Russia, China, they've got to be looking at some of the things that the United States have done militarily and say, oh, I don't want to mess with them.
SPEAKER_01: We don't have anything close to that.
SPEAKER_01: And they don't.
SPEAKER_01: When I was in high school, I remember reading in my Western civilization book about Russia and how they were saying that making televisions is a very complex process.
SPEAKER_01: And they weren't easy to make.
SPEAKER_01: This was they're making an excuse for not having televisions in every home, which we had by that time.
SPEAKER_01: And I said to myself, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_01: You can actually go to the store and buy a heath kit today and put one together yourself.
SPEAKER_01: How tough is that?
SPEAKER_01: I've long held that the Russians don't have everything they say they have.
SPEAKER_01: They may have, you know, thousands of nuclear weapons.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna guess that they don't work very well.
SPEAKER_01: My opinion only, based on no facts whatsoever, just based on what I see them do in history.
SPEAKER_01: We have now been influenced by a torrent of misinformation.
SPEAKER_01: It's just, like I said before, it's like a flood washing over this entire world of wrong information, wrong facts, which are just opinions, leading many to fall over a cliff.
SPEAKER_01: Don't get caught up in it.
SPEAKER_01: Guard your life, guard your ears, be not deceived, God is not mocked.
SPEAKER_01: So let me ask you this: have you allowed some of today's spin to infiltrate your life and sway you to be deceived?
SPEAKER_01: Guard your thoughts.
SPEAKER_01: Satan is out to disqualify you, as he has been doing for years.
SPEAKER_01: I said this when I was, oh, I guess that was a long time ago, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_01: I was like 30.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, you know, I don't think we're gonna face the same type of persecution that they did in the early church.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be put to the place where we just consider this as irrelevant.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what they've tried to do to us, make us irrelevant.
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01: You know, they're just carrying around their Bibles and thumping their Bibles.
SPEAKER_01: They don't know anything.
SPEAKER_01: Not us.
SPEAKER_01: We do know.
SPEAKER_01: And here's some of the things the lies, the father of lies, would tell you to persuade you from being effective as a Christian.
SPEAKER_01: God only loves me when I'm doing everything right.
SPEAKER_01: False.
SPEAKER_01: If I'm suffering, I must be out of God's will.
SPEAKER_01: False.
SPEAKER_01: God helps those who help themselves.
SPEAKER_01: No, he expects to help you.
SPEAKER_01: God can never use someone like me.
SPEAKER_01: I just would challenge you to go back into the Old Testament and look at some of the people God did use.
SPEAKER_01: Just go right to David.
SPEAKER_01: Not exactly a cherry past, as many.
SPEAKER_01: Saul.
SPEAKER_01: My past disqualifies me from God's purpose.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Paul in the New Testament.
SPEAKER_01: I have to fix myself before I come to God.
SPEAKER_01: Well, first of all, you can't fix yourself.
SPEAKER_01: Some have tried to fix other people.
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't go well either.
SPEAKER_01: If I'm struggling, I must not have enough faith.
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
SPEAKER_01: God is disappointed in me.
SPEAKER_01: I have never read any of that in the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: Never.
SPEAKER_01: God loves you, He cares about you, He wants to help you, and He wants you to live a life that follows Him.
SPEAKER_01: None of that.
SPEAKER_01: That's all lies, lies, and more lies.
SPEAKER_01: And there's more than that.
SPEAKER_01: Don't fall for Satan's tricks.
SPEAKER_01: None of us are worthy.
SPEAKER_01: We know that.
SPEAKER_01: In Psalm 14 it says, the fool says in his heart, there is no God.
SPEAKER_01: They are corrupt.
SPEAKER_01: They are an abominable deeds.
SPEAKER_01: There is no one who does good.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God, and they have all turned aside.
SPEAKER_01: Together they have become corrupt.
SPEAKER_01: There is none who does good, not even one.
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's a little discouraging.
SPEAKER_01: But God intervened, sent his son through the redemption that made us worthy.
SPEAKER_01: We are worthy because he made us that way.
SPEAKER_01: We have been adopted into the family of God.
SPEAKER_01: The band come back up, please.
SPEAKER_01: The word has, the word, the world has mocked God.
SPEAKER_01: Don't mock yourself by belittling what God has done in your life already.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there's an old, old Sunday school song, count your blessings.
SPEAKER_01: Don't count everything you did wrong.
SPEAKER_01: If you ask God to forgive that, any sin that you committed, anything that you did wrong, if you've asked for his forgiveness, he forgets about it.
SPEAKER_01: Literally.
SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, that's something we can't do.
SPEAKER_01: But God literally will forget your sin.
SPEAKER_01: Don't belittle yourself.
SPEAKER_01: Or a friend.
SPEAKER_01: Say, oh that person, you know.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: First Peter says, casting all your care upon him, he cares for you.
SPEAKER_01: Care?
SPEAKER_01: What does it mean?
SPEAKER_01: Worries and anxieties.
SPEAKER_01: Don't worry.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to what it says in what Jesus said in Matthew.
SPEAKER_01: Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
SPEAKER_01: Each day has enough trouble of its own.
SPEAKER_01: I'm kind of guilty of that.
SPEAKER_01: I'll be honest.
SPEAKER_01: That's a that that you know, I'll be laying in bed at night thinking, oh, do you know what I have to do tomorrow?
SPEAKER_01: Stop worrying.
SPEAKER_01: How would the today go?
SPEAKER_01: Encount your blessings for what you did today and what God did through you in you today.
SPEAKER_01: God will take you through all of it.
SPEAKER_01: Don't ruin your day.
SPEAKER_01: Don't have a care in the world.
SPEAKER_01: And don't have any cares in the world.
SPEAKER_01: Our focus needs to be on what Christ has done for us.
SPEAKER_01: How he's made us a new creation, a new creature, how he's changed our lives.
SPEAKER_01: That's what we focus on.
SPEAKER_01: Anyone can focus on the negative.
SPEAKER_01: It's easy to find fault.
SPEAKER_01: It's easier to find fault in yourself, and it's easier to find fault in someone else.
SPEAKER_01: Anyone can do that.
SPEAKER_01: I used to tell my sons we would be working on something, and uh one of my sons would get rather, he was young, rather easily discouraged.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember saying, okay, anybody can find a problem.
SPEAKER_01: But what God wants is problem solvers, not problem finders.
SPEAKER_01: They're too easy.
SPEAKER_01: Solve the problems.
SPEAKER_01: Speak to God.
SPEAKER_01: And He will open up your hearts and open up your minds and help you solve those problems.