WHO DID THIS? GENESIS 1 - Pastor Shane Idleman

[Applause] [Music] i've been prompted this morning to maybe share this but why these songs about the holy spirit well you have to realize that the holy spirit leads the holy spirit directs the holy spirit convicts the holy spirit regenerates the holy spirit fills the holy spirit converts it i don't understand quite how it all works just like i don't understand how my truck works but it works and you know and i know you need that that the the holy spirit's power the holy spirit's fire quenching the spirit grieving the spirit surrendering to the spirit being led to the spirit uh so we look at the triune nature of god god is is one but he reveals himself as father son and holy spirit and so we're not over emphasizing that doctrine per se but we recognize that that is our only hope god has to fill his church with the spirit and bring a spiritual awakening if you're wondering what is it going to take to get america back on track and that's what it's going to take and i'm not necessarily convinced that you know we will get back on track it could just be a spiritual battle from here on out when god is working so is the enemy but i'm very encouraged when god is working because he's in control the enemy is not in control so i am excited to start the very first message in the series going through the entire bible now what that looks like is anyone's guess because i'm not doing verse by verse by verse even though i could it would take about eight years to ten years to do it that way that's i'm just being honest that's about what it takes um i'm gonna sometimes in genesis yes and other chapters verse by verse for sure but when you get to proverbs that's a little difficult you know he's all over the place and so and when you get to the minor prophets sometimes here's what hosea said here's what he spoke to and you can key verses you don't have to necessarily go through every single verse so i'm going to be open to what god wants to do but here's a few key reminders and i might remind you about this from time to time we need to always ask who is thinking for me because you're not necessarily thinking for yourself it's okay check your phones now make sure they don't vibrate uh you're not always we think oh i'm thinking for myself you're either being influenced by god and his word and his principles or you're being influenced by the pull of the world in the world system we're not neutral we're we're led one way or the other so listen to wednesday's message that i just gave i'm not sure how much longer it's going to be on youtube i will just tell you that right now they have been warned from a few people that that's probably coming down and so listen to wednesday's message it's on youtube on who thinks for you and the reason is so important because there is a civil war of ideas being fought right now the civil war in our nation that is being fought is a war of ideas the world views how people think and i like what i don't know who it is necessarily but i saw on facebook christy johnston i don't mean she goes here right his name sounds familiar may it never be said of me that i was silent in the face of fear and in doing so i passed the battle on to my children and so it's a key reminder and i know it's difficult i'm in the fight like you are not everyone likes what i do i know it's hard to believe but there is quite a bit of criticism quite a bit of demonic attack quite a bit especially when you get political um and you know you hit hot button issues boy oh boy this is a loaded gun we have we live in this this world and everything what you say is seems to be like a loaded gun all the time and then also we need to keep this in mind who you are speaks so loud that what you say can't always be heard so remember it's about who we are our character our character who we are how we act not about quoting scriptures all the time but but living out the scriptures and then when we speak them it gives it a lot more weight and then as we're in genesis especially questioning science is science never forget that questioning science is science and one of the issues out there you know if you know me i like to speak on what's going on and i don't have all the answers christians have a good pulse on things but we don't have a perfect pulse we've been wrong before and we have that's why i'm a lot more careful now to just kind of let's pray about certain things let's make sure that news story is correct amen and but science so it's going on with the vaccines or masks and different things it's good to it it demands questions and when they want to silence questions it makes you really wonder what is going on and so science question science it always has over the years and always especially i remember it was 150 a.d i believe it was uh one scientist i think it was um i don't remember his name i think i've ever written down he recorded and they taught and they believe they're exactly 1022 stars but what happened something was invented called the telescope and we we learned a lot more they they used to practice i think george washington one of our first president was used this remedy it was called blood leading where they would drain your blood to get rid of the disease i mean we can talk about ddt on your skin for mosquitoes right little kids and uh lead-based paint and it's okay for pregnant women to smoke and something called cocaine was in coca-cola and you know we we're not perfect scientists make mistakes god doesn't and so it's okay to question things and i want to encourage you i it's fine to question god's word as long as it comes from a right heart okay let me frame that up here if you don't have questions i'd like to talk to you afterwards if you understand genesis to revelation especially revelation no questions whatsoever you got it down love to talk to you it's okay to say lord i don't understand that i don't i love you i appreciate i just don't understand this but you're an errant you're wise you're all knowing you're sovereign i trust this that's actually what happened many of you know but some don't know that billy graham had a had just a almost real walked away from his faith probably when he's around 30 years old someone by the name of chuck templeton was much they said smarter better preacher than billy graham but he got educated went to university and began to doubt the bible begin to doubt things that were in it and begin to challenge billy how do you know this how look at this science proves this science says look at how and then he had a he had a just a struggle his faith he couldn't preach anymore he was he was considering going to that same university and one day he went up into the mountains out by palm springs and laid his bible on the on the stump of the tree and he said lord i don't understand everything but by faith i'm believing that this is your word and from that day forward he never had to have that challenge again so faith does play a role we don't check our brains at the door but we also have faith in who god is and in his word it doesn't it doesn't contradict itself as people think and then also another thing to remember again i'm just giving you this these key reminders for this series it's so important we must be tolerant but not tolerate sin and that is the challenge you hear that you're not intolerant you're intolerable no we're we're very tolerable and we're tolerant we understand people struggling we're tolerant of that but we can't be tolerant of sin we can't just you know throw things under the rug not talk about it just tolerate everything and that's that's a hard balancing act too because some things cannot be tolerated by what is happening in our nation what we're seeing but other things people struggling with sin we have to be tolerant of that and love them through it and help them through it so it is a hard balance to find i'm going to seek to find that balance and then number five one more the old testament is like a dimly lit room and the new testament shines a light on it so we're going to be using i'm going to be using both the old and the new talking and not talking to each other but but shedding this light onto each other it's all one word it's all god's word and if you want to know how do we get our bible how is it trustworthy how did it why do you say this is god's word and you need to go to our website and look at the message how we got our bible what translation is best that's what's called how we got our bible what translation is best and i talked about it for an hour on how we actually got the word of god and why we believe it is an error-inspired word of god and as we go through it i'm going to talk about uh each week probably some of the controversy or some of the things in question or some of the questions out there that some of our our teens sent in and some of you have sent in and then finally i love this one spurgeon said it no authority is more powerful than scripture for it is not only true but it has the force to support it so the word of god as we're looking at it and i have uh man i don't know how much to share with you or not because you know you get in trouble sometimes but there's i have pastor friends who actually makes the at least i know that i wouldn't say they're friends they say they make statements like well we i we can't really trust some of paul's writings you're already going down buddy you're already you just jumped on the slippery slope and you're heading down well that was back then shane that was the culture of their day and so now there are some things that are cultural that's why you have to look at the historical context of scripture the complete context the overall context the historical ramifications for example one of the things um on this on the issue of you'll read in the bible head coverings i personally that women must wear head coverings i personally believe that that was a cultural thing in the middle east that signified a submission to her husband like you see now they're covered up in the middle east if i would say morgan i just read the scripture get on that head covering every sunday don't it's not it wouldn't send the right message you missed the message the message is submission i submit to christ and die to christ love my family and then the the headship that we'll get into in a little bit too as we go through genesis so see that was a cultural thing it sends a certain message so some things i do believe were cultural but they not moral implications not the moral laws of god's word never change they are still the same and they're still consistent if god said thou shalt not he's not saying thou shalt now he doesn't he doesn't change in that area and so the title of the message is who did this who put all this together who created all of this and do you know there's millions of people even in america they teach in our universities that it all just happened it all just happened that's like me saying they're all going to put themselves in order a nice straight line okay it's going to go back to let's see anybody want to see it's going to make a nice straight orderly line all right let's who want let's do this let's pick it up and keep trying until it does anyone want to stick around why order cannot come from chaos there has to be a a create i need those bad guys don't take so that's the point who did this who who created all it just it just did not come from nothing something comes from nothing order comes from chaos let's just use our mind and the and when you talk to people who like you you've watched videos with with hitchins or hawkings or these famous atheists they are just mad at god but there's no god but what are you mad at so it's an issue of the heart it's not really an issue of facts it's an issue of the heart i don't want there to be a god because this is absolutely i mean that's what i told pastor abram this week this is the most exhausting sermon series i've ever done because i you could just camp out at genesis 1 for three weeks when i started to look at the just the you can you can google all this make sure you find the right page though but the the probability of life on earth what has to happen with the nitrogen level and the oxygen level and the atmospheric pressure and it's like it just boggles your all the these perfect little things that have to happen to support life if it's even off balanced at one percent there's no life and so so all that come on come on who's really foolish here they think christians are foolish and oh you check your brains at the door you don't use intellect no you don't you think all this just happened that's that's you have greater faith actually you have greater faith than i do so who did this hebrews 11 now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen so see there is an element of faith in there i don't hide away from that of course you you take wisdom common sense look at what god has given us creation screams creator and then you place a place of faith in what god has done and is doing science and faith what i have found confirm each other they don't disagree why are there sea shells on the top of mountains global flood oh no that could have never happened well was the earth ever connected you notice how the connection and then great cataclysmic event and and the the deeps were open and mountains were formed and i mean i have no other explanation even one of the top atheists when he was pressured it was either hawkings or hitching hitchens i don't remember somebody was pressing him it's pressing him where did it come from and he finally just said like uh we came on well maybe we came on the back of crystals from aliens okay who who made the aliens it's just it's but they hate god they hate the concept of god they hate morality they hate anything to do with god because the darkness has bound them and they hate the light it's a battle it's a battle even darwinism if you've if you've researched that and most scientists even now are saying how could this even possible they can't there's no what they call the missing link right you don't see how you don't see species changing from from you don't catch that in the fossil record you catch nothing you see what you see in the fossil record i talked to atheists about this before and they agree you see a mass mass extinction in the fossil record just billions of animals laid out okay well where did that happen where how did that maybe a flood and so there is the the science and faith granted there are some things that don't line up i mean don't line up i shouldn't say that we just don't quite understand but there's so much there that where faith and science agree and so we're not reckless in this belief there is evidence i just saw this on facebook a quote when scientists cannot accurately predict the weather in their local community how can they tell us with assurance what happened in another galaxy 4 billion years away now so i don't come across too critical we love scientists we need scientists i think there's some scientists that come here maybe a rocket science just once came and so we love it appreciate it but you have to understand that that we're they're infallible i'm sorry they're fallible god is infallible they are they are with air we make mistakes uh if you look at what heart surgeons or what they used to do with hearts and different things 100 years ago and what they recommend now and you see that we're progressing we're learning certain things and without with even einstein's that what is that e equals mc squared energy equals mass something something times two you know you guys know the smart ones no out there but even that you know was was was he was challenged by certain people and we don't we're still learning that's all i'm saying and so some of there's been carbon dating testing where they said this is like a billion years old and they come to find out it was formed by a volcano about 300 years ago and it's just and so we ca my point is we cannot trust in science we can glean from it we can learn from it but i put it into the filter of god's word not the other way around and to me god's word makes complete sense in light of science well as mentioned his name is claudius who recorded 1022 stars in 80 150 and that was the standard that's what they because what did they do they saw blessed do not trust in your own understanding do not trust in your own understanding lean not on your own understanding but in all your ways acknowledge god and because we here's the thing with with faith faith is the evidence of things not seen so this see i see something how many of us are saying right now this is not going to work out well lord i see not too i'm not too hopeful on no september 14th if you can if you can rig a a national election you can probably you know you can probably play some games with the state election too sorry i won't go there but you can you see things i don't see i don't i don't see there's not a lot of hope i don't see things aren't going good and or your kids aren't walking with the lord i don't see see we look at how we see and what we think is going to happen god sees the big picture that's why he says trust in me have faith faith is the evidence of things not seen lord i can't see it but you can so i trust in you not in our economy not in the military not in the news i trust in you and you alone i have faith in you and then you walk out that faith and by walking out that faith you respond to things you don't react you don't live like the world lives you don't live in fear you you you look to god in his word and then before i start genesis 1 the last scripture that's so important and i love reading the scriptures because a lot of people are really they don't know the scripture so when they see it really the light comes on but romans 1 20 is huge i did choose the english standard version i've memorized before the new king james and the king james for the invisible attributes are clearly seen and this one though really speaks to the issue as well for his invisible attributes god's attributes who he is namely his eternal power meaning what is his eternal power creation his ability to create and his divine nature have been vaguely perceived they have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made so that people are without excuse so here's your answer when people say what about that poor little boy in the jungles of africa who've never heard about jesus god's invisible attributes are clearly seen god will reveal himself no matter where a person is they're without excuse that's why a person is without excuse because god it's clear what people with a thinking mind can see i'm not god i'm a speck of dirt on this planet i need to know who you are and that's why god gives visions and dreams to many in the muslim countries or those in africa or the jungle they'll see they don't know exactly jesus's name but they see or god will reveal himself to those who are truly seeking they are without excuse but romans goes on to say but they suppress the truth in all ungodliness it's like pushing a ball under water they surpr you know that that have you ever done that in the pool and that boy i've got nailed a couple times right in the chin with the basketball and that's what we're gonna and so suppressing the truth the more you begin to suppress the truth god says i will give them up to a depraved and corrupted mind i began to compare what was on the media 30 years ago to now and it's demonic and perverted com it's it's it's unbelievable think about how far i mean let's go let's go 40 years i love lucy leave it to beaver bathing suits one piece from neck to ankle right the women were an ankle on their little umbrellas and and there was just but then they slowly and now you got little nas x on youtube saying he's pregnant putting his blood into his shoes and and billy i i sure or whatever her name these videos or weekend whatever and like i watch 10 seconds i'm like how do they want this is this is this is glorified perverted illicit sex and a demonic satanic atmosphere and we're worshiping it and we're welcoming people say why are we so depraved in america let me tell you why god gives them up to a debased and corrupted mind unless they turn back to him and so that's the foundation 20 minutes to get to the genesis 1. and on genesis i think it's important to read a lot of the scriptures that we're going to put them up on the screen it was a daunting process putting this together because i want to adequate i just don't want to throw something together you know i want to be prayed up lord what do you want to speak to us and probably 15 20 hours this week just pouring into this and verse by verse in this consent but then i also have a ellipses you know what that is those three periods and that's where maybe i'll take out a couple portions of scripture because it's kind of repetitive it's just saying the same thing and and so we get to the point a little bit quicker but genesis 1 opens with this genesis 1 1 in the beginning who god created the heavens and the earth so see if it has to start there that's where most people get off track or on track if you're off track in the very first verse of the bible the rest is going to fall apart well i don't know about that shane who you know i i can't quite buy into that well that's a fair question take it to god and let him reveal himself to you but in the beginning so there was a that tells me there was a beginning meaning when time started it wasn't beginning of god and i like my daughters like to ask well and can kids ask the best questions ever you're like they stump me more time like well let me get back to you on that one i mean a while back they said who created god then dad well no one well how no one how did he come you know there's a level of faith there god was always existed he actually exists outside of time he's not a time table or in a he's not he's not winding down he's not going to fade away he's he lives outside of time so when he created in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the time clock started how do i know that because they talk about and in the end so with the beginning you have to have the end so in the beginning period whenever that was god created the heavens and the earth and then verse two the earth was without form and void and i i did a hebrew word study on those basically means without shape without character without any type of of like we couldn't live on it that's for sure it was just this blob of darkness and and massive of of planets and different things and and so without it was without form it was void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of god we're just saying about the spirit of god it's in first second verse here the spirit of god is so important don't be afraid of the the holy spirit so many people say i don't want to get weird no you don't want to get weird but you want to get filled you want to get filled with the spirit of god that's biblical paul said be filled with god's spirit can you imagine the spirit of god controlling you in these dire times when you can walk into government officials and stand your ground and say things in love and know that persecution is coming know that the times are getting difficult but because i'm filled with the spirit of god the pressure on the outside is not greater than the strength on the inside i'm able to hold back the tide of darkness because the spirit of god is residing in those who love him and are filled with him that's how you change the nation that's how you change the church you're filled with god's spirits [Applause] and this the spirit of god was was hovering over the face of the waters now you're ready to get controversial how old is the earth every time i talk about this people send me books either from ken ham or hugh ross thank you we've talked about this before so they're both on fully different sides of the spectrum the age of the earth and actually believe it or not a lot of it has to do with what we just read there's something called the gap theory the gap theory meaning is there a gap because god lives outside of time so in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth he created so should it could it have kept like that for millions of years because he lives outside of time could it i mean that you know you want to know my thoughts don't worry i'm getting there i'm a little opinionated now well i'll just sum it up how's that it goes back to the question nobody has perfect theology i mean the best theologian in the world are divided could could it be a long period of time in this first verse i guess it could sure in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth but once god starts his creative order i see literal days because on the sixth day god seventh day god rested and he gives us a seventh day to rest the evening and the morning were the first day and so just the reading i've looked at the hebrew word yam could mean decades could be a period of time but i also look at the language the sentence structure the the order of things but then you get to part where like adam set and named named all the animals and couldn't find to help me it's like well that could you name all the animals and one day like that i mean there's so much you think you know there's some there's some thinking that goes on but in my opinion okay sure there could be a long long long period of time here do i personally think so no i don't personally think so i think i think god created the heavens and the earth and the earth without form and darkness and then god begin his creative order however it's not a hill to die on and some people have got really mad at me on shane you're if you think that then you're you're encouraging evolution no i'm not i'm not saying people evolved i'm i'm i'm just saying let scripture speak for itself and people say but look at how old the earth looks well how old did adam look when he was one second old let me grab the dust of the earth breathe in him became a living being how old does he look thirty he doesn't look nine months come on guys so god created adam like that so he looks 30 so if you see him go no he's got to be 30 years old so i'm not buying that how it looks of course it's going to god create something it's not going to look fresh and new necessarily it's going to look like his point of creation so my point is those who believe in like a gap theory or the earth could be millions or billions of years old it's not necessarily healed to die on now if they use it to promote evolution yeah that's not good and that's where ken ham always goes he always thinks that these guys are probably promoting evolution and i don't think that but then i read hugh ross and he gets a little out there and some weird stuff i don't quite understand where he's coming from a lot of things and so we have to realize both men are valuable god's word is not i just take it to mean in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth he knows how who i mean what does it got to do with why do we want to argue about it the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the earth and the spirit of god is hovering over the face of the waters okay and then is it interesting isaiah 40 22 said the circle of the earth the circle of the earth i don't know if i want to touch on this one should i touch on this one you guys know where i'm going don't you if i get another flat earth pamphlet mail to me my friends work at nasa now says not of the devil astronauts have taken pictures you see current pictures now from google earth you can see it's a spirit's round do i even need to go any further can you okay long as you know where i stand please do not start watching everything on the youtube earth is flat george w bush planned the twin towers i mean come on give me a break job 26 7 god hangs the earth on nothing isaiah 40 22 god stretches out the heavens like a curtain and they still think they have the the universe is expanding is it interesting the size of the universe and see i could have spent another two sermons here it's just so hard to find out where it's do you know how long it takes light to travel to the moon 1001 thousand two two seconds i think it's like 156 000 miles per second but to get to the end of the universe i don't remember i'm not going to say it because it's some a crazy number like 400 million years don't quote me please i'm just you know trying to go off but how the moon's right there and then how the the expansion of the universe is just incredible and so i'm not to have some scientist who is with air tell me he knows how to measure the speed of light across the entire universe and gauge how old it is i'm not quite trusting that i'm going to trust god and say lord whatever it is i don't know how old it is exactly i'm looking at your word i would assume that these are literal days when god said let there be light verse 3 there was light and god saw the light and it was good and god divided the light from the darkness and god called the light day and the darkness he called night so the evening and the morning were see i can't put that in a million year beers there's just no way i can do that personally so the evening and the morning were the first day and again i already talked to you about this god gave his example of resting on the seventh day in our example to rest on the sabbath so many other things i mean i could have spent probably another 15 minutes on on the age of the earth but i don't think it's where we need to spend our time right now then verse 6 then god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and god called the firmament the heavens so the evening and morning were the second day so this nobody's clear either but we it appears that there was some type of canopy some type of expansion of the sky there there is something different because even though as in the flood the great deeps the great deep opened up there's a cataclysmic type of event that happened and then god said let the waters under the heavens so the waters be gathered together into one place and then let the dry land appear so it appears that the waters were one place and the land was one place look at a globe what does it look like the land was created so you can't see and when you take tectonic plates and those plates move on a massive scale god opens the deep and the these plates move what do they do they push against each other and form something called mountains folded mountains or box mountains or different volcanic mountains can form as well so you see all this is consistent with creation that's why i mean god's it's just it's just amazing for example let's just take an example you take the book of mormon you can't find one single location mentioned in the book of mormon not a piece of weaponry not a city nothing it's almost like it's a fable and please hear my heart people get upset that might upset somebody why why do you mean to people that's not mean that's telling the truth you better get your definition correct because we are living in times right now where the line of demarcation is being drawn in the sand and we've got to speak the truth in love that that's actually i believe it's cowardly not to say anything if you say with the right heart with the right motive with the right tone of course you can be poking and making fun and that might have came across a little too making fun but my point is there's nothing to substantiate that zero and they put the book of mormon above the bible yet there's nothing in it and and when you go into teaching the secret ceremonies of the wedding uh that you'll be a god someday like god and rule a planet and have celestial sex and have spirit children that's apostate that's unbiblical and so we should speak the truth and love i want to shock somebody so much they shock them out of that religion because they test it and they check it jesus did it shane when i am the only way i am the only truth i am the only life nobody nobody nobody comes to the father except through me not buddha not muhammad not harry krishna i'm not joseph smith now bring him young nobody comes to the father except for me not the papacy not the roman catholic church you want to keep going it's i am the only way right there that's the line of demarcation in the sand if god would fire you up with the holy spirit you'd be bold as well because you have to you have to tell people the truth i don't know when it was but i was thinking it comes up a lot you know in our conversation with our kids and you know why i say things people ask why do you say things man you're gonna government's not gonna like this i'd rather die bold and loving the lord than live a coward live all of my life a coward now i want to use wisdom i don't want to go before my time but i can't live because the spirit of god will not live let you die cowardly he can't it's it's bubbling up the kid's singing that song of vbs can't get out my mind bubbling up bubbling up you know it's it's the holy spirit bubbling up inside of you it comes boldness how and i a lot of these stories you know you don't know what to believe out there but there are some reputable sources that like entire churches were wiped out in afghanistan i don't know if you know this but the recordings on the phone of just going in and just just shooting them and they would not deny jesus christ that's boldness that comes from the filling of the holy spirit the thing the people mock is the thing they need that feeling of the spirit and then verse 11 then god said let the earth bring forth so actually what you see here is three days creating and then three days filling the earth or so close to that then god said let the earth bring forth grass here comes the grass here comes the herb here comes the the yield seed the fruit trees that yield fruit according to its kind and so god created all the grass all the herbs all the trees all these things so the evening and the morning were the third day okay so he's getting it ready now here comes the creation then god said let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and seasons so see seasons are good for days and for years then god made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser night to rule the night so we have the sun and the moon so the evening and the morning were the fourth day then god said let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures if you think if you if you're starting to think too highly of yourself just keep this in mind you weren't even created yet he's creating grass comes before us and and herbs and trees and but see he's getting it ready he's getting the earth completely ready for his creation it's just amazing if you really ponder everything all of you need to remember in case i forget this but some you are created in god's image let that encourage you maybe you're maybe you're you know but but i've been adopted or i'm in the foster care system or this or that or i just can't i have no suicidal thoughts you are created in the image and likeness of god almighty that should be enough encouragement to see you through because that image of god that is in creation god's creative work and his redemptive work on the cross it's just amazing and then verse 20 then god said let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures and let the birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of heaven see there's a distinction there again so the evening and the morning we're the fifth day okay so everything is getting ready correct then god said let the waters abound with the abundance of living creatures the birds everything and this was the fifth day verse 24 let the earth bring forth living creatures according to its kind then god said let us make man in our image wait a minute what is our image and see this is where we see the first hint of the trinity all those people say there is no trinity you're teaching false doctrine god said let us make man in our image well how did i know it wasn't a translator because you can look at the hebrew word that is elohim and that is the plurality plural nature of god you have e-l-l single ella duel and elohim god said and not me now do i understand it no way hear o israel the lord thy god is one but let us make man in our image the spirit descended the father spoke and the son was baptized three in one you you take it by faith there's no other way to take it you don't worship three different gods you worship god elohim the image is not the original correct and according to his likeness so some type of of image of god the his character maybe his nature maybe the dominion over the earth where there's so many things there's an image that that god puts the his image in the human race in the dna and and if you ever study the human body have you ever studied kinesiology or now with immune immunology with immune system and in this skeletal system and the muscular system and the it's just the hormonal system it's just the human body is amazing absolutely amazing and god spoke that into existence and so i've created you in my image and let them have dominion over the fish over the birds over the cattle over the earth over everything on the earth man is to what not dominate that word dominion dominate it is to lead to be over to stewart so when when people say for example christians or you're you're against environmentalists i'm i'm christians should be very really good environmentalists in the right term the right term we go up in the high sierra mountains i tell the kids we're going to leave here cleaner than when we got here you see a little piece of trash you don't we take care we should be the best stewards of god's environment that are that's out there because we understand we have been given dominion over these things and it's interesting have you seen any those clips on you know those big big windmills like the the the thing is the size of this building almost and and when those break they have to go and bury them in the dirt and you see a big d10 it's the biggest bulldozer they make covering all all of these white big what do they call those blades yeah acres and acres and so much for green energy how is that good and how much how much energy it takes to make an electric car or the battery i mean it's just it's just mind-boggling because a lot of these things are an agenda so just just be careful so have dominion over it so god created man again verse 27 he's repeating it in his own image in the image of god he created him male and female i think that's pretty important he goes out of his way to say that so you again are created in god's image not the original which would like the mormon mormon church would teach that god was once like us and as he followed certain things he became god and they take one scripture that said that when jesus said you are gods and actually in the bible it's lowercase g if you look the word up in the original it's magistrates you are you are less than even the angels you are to rule over so to take these things and make a false doctrine out of it is alarming and so we represent his nature his character and he commands us to rule over it so i want to with this closing i want to encourage you be encouraged be encouraged i like what spurgeon said oh the value of a soul when both god and the devil are after it be encouraged this morning being young adults get this message out to young adults put it on tick tock on instagram let them know you are created in the image of god stop listening to this garbage on the tv that tells you you are nothing you are you should kill yourself you are nothing but the product of evolution and remind them no you are created in the image of a living god and i know i know for many of us it's hard to embrace that because we say but i'm damaged goods do you ever feel that way i've shared before i don't think i should be up here we feel but god i'm damaged and norman geisler great theologian said during the fall our god's image in us was effaced not erased so the image has been damaged but it's not gone it's been marred it's been abused but that image of god that that that dna he creates something in you there's there's that image of god that's why we believe in the sanctity of life that's why i believe in those who have no voice and remember some of the best hymns we we sing them from time to time some of the best hymns come from damaged goods i've i don't know why and it just blows my mind but god often uses the damaged goods more than the goods that think they've got it all together oh i've graduated uh uh highest in my class i've got this and i don't do anything and i'm god god says i'm looking for the damaged goods and that's where the hymns come from that's where powerful worship comes from that's where powerful sermons come from that's from powerful ministries come from they come from damaged goods and creator bringing them back what about the him amazing grace how sweet the sound the what that saved a wretch like me john newton was a slave trader he killed men he abused men yet he sat there on that massive vessel and years later wrote i was blind but now i see i was lost but now i'm found oh amazing grace how sweet the sound to save a wretch like me and those amazing hymns it is well it is well with my soul do you ever sing that one it is well as see billow's role it is well it is well with my soul do you know he pinned those lines over the atlantic ocean right where the vessel went down that took his four daughters or prone to wander lord i feel it prone to leave the god i love written by written by robert robinson he was a drunk he was a prodigal he left the lord after he wrote that hymn and he was on a stagecoach and this lady was all excited go listen you got to read these lyrics prone to wander lord i feel and he began weeping she's like what's wrong he said he said lady i'm the unhappy fellow who wrote those lyrics oh if i could just come back to the savior if i could come back to him again oh what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of jesus we've got to get back to the old truths the passion the call and i spoke earlier of charles templeton billy graham who walked away from the lord it was interesting interesting that lee strobel interviewed him near the end of his life and they began to talk about jesus and begin to cry then this hardened agnostic said but i do miss him but i do miss him all the way my savior leads me you know that's a hymn too all the way my savior leads me fanny crosby blind since birth wrote it along with seven thousand other hymns a hundred a year for seventy years all the way my savior leads me cheers each winding path i tread gives me grace for every trial feeds me with living bread though my weary steps may falter and my soul a thirst may be gushing from the rock before me a spring of joy i see the greatest weapon you have often is your brokenness and your damaged goods take that to god and let him rebuild it he rebuilds it stronger so you must answer this question this morning who did this who put all this together i don't know where you're at this morning but you you've got to make that decision if you've drifted from god it's time to come home don't live in that prodigal state if you've never made that decision make it today how in the world did all this just happen something the size of our planet just hangs in the universe just enough distance from the sun so we're warm but not an iceberg if it was a little little closer we'd be we'd be just everyone would be fried literally it's just just a little little further that couldn't support life who holds that together and you're going to fear the government you're going to fear what's going on begin to begin to get at six a.m morning worship that should be the busiest service of the day i'm just telling you true i'm just shooting you straight or wednesdays get into god's house and begin to worship him they sang a song just be and said just be just be here at your feet i just had this spot of being under can you imagine being there under the cross at calvary and you watch you watch calvary's blood run down you watch the savior's blood run down on the ground on the cross can you imagine being at that that scene i can't even comprehend it the weeping that would happen and that's what we do at a time of communion we remember the cross this is a time where believers or those making a profession of faith today the bible says repent and believe in the gospel repent don't just don't intellectual knowledge repent heart knowledge repent and believe in the gospel remembering that the blood was shed for me remembering the body that was broken and something that i i want to ask god someday maybe i don't know but why why couldn't he just die quickly without the shedding of blood there's no remission of sin just shed the blood but there was a bruising there was a beating there was a denying there was a mocking there's a slapping there's a spitting on there's a whipping his creation is killing the creator his body was broken for our transgressions bruised for us and so as we go into that communion that's a time to remember get our hearts right paul says don't take it in an unworthy manner make sure the heart is right make sure that there's full repentance last thing you want to do is take communion sound but i'm going to continue in my sin that's blasphemous and that's why paul said many of you are sick or dead because you take the lord's supper without examining your heart we come up and we say thank you lord for dying for me and for shedding your blood for my sin but i'm going to go home and not change a thing how sad it is but be encouraged nobody goes home perfect including me but there's a difference we've seen somebody says lord help me i want to stop it's like the pig and the lamb both find their way to the mud the lamb hates it it cries out in its miserable condition the pig loves it and wall is in the sin that's the difference [Music] pieces

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Published: Mon Sep 13 2021