WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:09.200 Father, we ask that the Holy Spirit would move with might and power and deep conviction in this service. 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:14.679 Father, we are so glad that we do not have to think, well, we've come and we hope that you show up. 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:20.620 That, Father, you are almost always more ready to move with power than we are to receive that power. 00:00:20.740 --> 00:00:23.420 You are always more ready to speak than we are to listen. 00:00:23.980 --> 00:00:26.519 You are always more ready to listen than we are to speak. 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:30.820 And that even our speaking and our listening is a gift from you. 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:37.420 So we ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit would move with power within us, that we might be honest about our questions, 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:44.560 that you might fan into flame within us a deep longing and yearning to know you and to be known by you. 00:00:45.100 --> 00:00:48.739 And we ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen. 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.359 Please be seated. 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:57.019 Some of you have never heard the Athanasian Creed before. 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:01.240 I like to call it, I should have had Matt give a bit of an introduction. 00:01:01.700 --> 00:01:05.280 We've switched our, I wanted to have that creed in it so we're not having a gospel text. 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:11.500 I'm preaching on the Colossians text, which Shane read so brilliantly, so powerfully. 00:01:11.500 --> 00:01:17.799 And if you listen to that text and it talks about Jesus, that creed is a bit of an explanation, 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:22.019 a further reflection upon what the Bible was teaching. 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.700 So if you're not familiar with it, you can Google it, Athanasian Creed. 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:27.359 It's well worth reflection. 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.980 So I don't know how many of you are listening very carefully. 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:33.480 It's not a test, not a quiz. 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:39.540 It's, as Shane read, Colossians chapter 1, verses 15 to 20. 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:50.920 But if you did, then for Canadians living today, when you hear this text, it is a very hard passage for Canadians. 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:56.300 It's a hard passage for some who've grown up in very conservative evangelical churches. 00:01:56.299 --> 00:02:08.460 It would be a main reason why many Canadians are not Christians, because the text, in fact, completely and utterly goes against naturalistic evolution. 00:02:10.139 --> 00:02:20.500 And, in fact, actually, it's almost like people, Christians are, just even for me to say naturalistic evolution and Christianity in many people creates tension, 00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:27.620 a little bit of worry, because it's one of those things that, for a lot of us Christians, we'd rather not think about. 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:32.639 We'd rather just sort of park it out there and not have to think about it. 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:39.500 But the fact of the matter is, is that given that naturalistic evolution, as taught everywhere, 00:02:40.659 --> 00:02:46.219 and this is how Canadians would think it, naturalistic evolution is taught in elementary school, high school, university. 00:02:46.219 --> 00:02:48.800 It's taught by the media. 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.560 It's taught by entertainment. 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:53.120 And it's viewed as being scientifically true. 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:59.259 Doesn't that mean that the text that we just read is wrong in a serious way? 00:03:00.979 --> 00:03:01.840 That's the question. 00:03:02.460 --> 00:03:07.740 Now, if you think I'm making this up or making it look more difficult than it is, let's open the Bible and have a look at it. 00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:13.300 And for some of us who don't have Bibles, if you need a Bible, by the way, there's Bibles here as a gift. 00:03:13.420 --> 00:03:17.820 You have to keep it if you take it, but we'd love it if you had a Bible, if you didn't have one already. 00:03:18.379 --> 00:03:19.360 Look at the text. 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:22.640 And I'll just read the text through once. 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:25.840 I'm going to draw out a couple of things from it. 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:32.600 But you'll see that it's not as if it's saying, in fact, it's a very inconvenient text for a lot of Christians. 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:38.840 Because it's not as if it says, you know, creation, and it sort of slips in there once. 00:03:38.939 --> 00:03:42.459 And you see it with a little quick, quiet voice, hoping that nobody notices. 00:03:43.299 --> 00:03:49.159 In fact, this doctrine of creation is trumpeted by the text. 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:50.560 So listen to it again. 00:03:52.199 --> 00:04:01.359 The sun, that's the he, the sun is the image or the icon, that's the Greek word, of the invisible God. 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.540 The firstborn of all creation. 00:04:03.740 --> 00:04:04.680 Now just pause there. 00:04:05.380 --> 00:04:12.320 Even the very word creation implies that there's a creation and that there's a creator who's created the creation. 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:19.759 It doesn't say he's the firstborn of the world or he's the firstborn of everything or he's the firstborn of the planet or anything like that. 00:04:19.819 --> 00:04:28.819 It actually uses this word creation, which implies, well, that everything that exists has been created by a creator. 00:04:29.139 --> 00:04:29.740 I'll read it again. 00:04:29.740 --> 00:04:33.439 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 00:04:33.860 --> 00:04:37.180 For by him, all things were created. 00:04:38.460 --> 00:04:43.360 And not only does he create all things, just to make it clear, the writer says, 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:54.080 He created in heaven and all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. 00:04:54.699 --> 00:05:00.540 All things were created, said another time, through him and for him. 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:11.920 And I'm not going to talk at all really about this during the sermon, but that little bit about thrones, dominions, rulers or authorities or four different ranks or classes of angelic beings. 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:12.939 Okay? 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:14.540 But we're not going to talk about that. 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:19.240 But we're going to talk about that in a couple of weeks when the topic comes back up later on. 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.420 But listen again, the end of verse 16. 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:25.220 All things were created through him and for him. 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:30.340 And he is before all things, which implies creation. 00:05:30.339 --> 00:05:37.039 And in him, all things hold together, which once again implies creation. 00:05:37.619 --> 00:05:48.379 And in fact, it actually implies something else because, you know, there's this wonderful Bible text in 1 Corinthians that says that if Jesus hasn't risen from the dead, we of all human beings are most to be pitied. 00:05:48.379 --> 00:06:05.620 And if, in fact, we have a text and we claim that a man who's dead is the one who holds everything together, to believe that a man who is dead holds everything together is another word for delusion and delusional. 00:06:07.139 --> 00:06:10.819 So this text is making a very, very, very stark claim. 00:06:11.420 --> 00:06:13.019 And then it goes to continue. 00:06:13.159 --> 00:06:15.399 It gets, in a sense, to the safer religious part. 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:22.819 But if you notice, and this is a very inconvenient truth, the text, and it's just like John chapter 1. 00:06:22.919 --> 00:06:24.659 It's just like Hebrews chapter 1. 00:06:24.739 --> 00:06:26.539 It's just like lots of places in the Bible. 00:06:26.859 --> 00:06:31.979 The Bible very clearly connects the doctrine of creation with the doctrine of salvation. 00:06:32.779 --> 00:06:36.319 So, in other words, if it's wrong about creation, it's going to be wrong about salvation. 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:41.819 If it's wrong about the resurrection, it's definitely wrong about all things being held together by him. 00:06:41.859 --> 00:06:42.859 Like, it's just wrong. 00:06:42.859 --> 00:06:45.159 I mean, that's what we have to say if we have a brain. 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.819 Listen to what happened. 00:06:48.899 --> 00:06:51.620 So it goes from the creation, very, very stark term. 00:06:51.679 --> 00:06:53.539 And by the way, this is Jehovah Witness. 00:06:53.979 --> 00:06:58.659 This is a Jehovah Witness graveyard, by the way, this whole text. 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:05.459 Because it's said in so many different ways very clearly this claim that God, the Son of God, is the second person of the Trinity. 00:07:05.459 --> 00:07:08.620 And then verse 18, 00:07:08.620 --> 00:07:12.919 And he, that is the Son, that is Jesus, is the head of the body, the church. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:18.419 He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 00:07:19.099 --> 00:07:20.159 Listen to verse 19. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:29.860 And the word there, dwell, is actually the same word for tabernacle. 00:07:30.280 --> 00:07:35.600 In other words, just as in the Old Testament it was believing that God was in some ways, in some sense, 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:42.260 present in the tabernacle in the middle of his people, that in fact, actually all of God's fullness, 00:07:43.320 --> 00:07:49.939 all of God's fullness, with nothing left over, in fact, dwells, tabernacles in the Son. 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:51.540 Read verse 19 again. 00:07:51.540 --> 00:08:05.200 And by the way, that's actually a very shocking thing. 00:08:05.300 --> 00:08:08.060 We'll talk about that at the end of the sermon. 00:08:08.540 --> 00:08:15.460 Going from these high, what we would consider to be abstractions of the creation and sustaining of all things, 00:08:15.640 --> 00:08:19.540 down to blood on a cross is a very jarring move. 00:08:19.540 --> 00:08:22.379 And it's intentional, obviously, by the author. 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:27.379 So, I mean, I don't have hours to talk about this, 00:08:28.220 --> 00:08:35.620 but the fact of the matter is that most Canadians would say that science has clearly settled the idea 00:08:35.620 --> 00:08:40.539 that science has discovered how all things have come to be. 00:08:41.019 --> 00:08:46.519 And all things have come to be, fundamentally, through a combination of randomness 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:52.659 and randomness working on the basic normal principles of matter. 00:08:52.779 --> 00:08:53.759 There's no direction. 00:08:53.899 --> 00:08:54.659 There's no purpose. 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:55.559 It's just random. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.039 And then once out of randomness life developed, 00:09:00.500 --> 00:09:05.519 then the continued development of all things is still randomness, 00:09:06.179 --> 00:09:10.059 but it's randomness connected with this mechanism called natural selection. 00:09:10.059 --> 00:09:14.819 And that accounts for the creation, for the existence of all things. 00:09:14.939 --> 00:09:16.539 That's just what would be taught. 00:09:16.959 --> 00:09:20.239 If I was to say that at Ottawa, you, people would say, yeah, that's right. 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.799 Say that in your high school biology class, they'd say, yep, that's right. 00:09:25.139 --> 00:09:27.479 Say it to the CBC, the National Post. 00:09:28.179 --> 00:09:29.679 Yep, that's right. 00:09:30.659 --> 00:09:35.939 But here the Bible is saying that all things haven't come about by such a mechanism. 00:09:36.299 --> 00:09:37.139 That's what it's saying. 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:38.699 So what do we do? 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:45.860 So I want to just think about a couple of... 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:47.559 Here's one of the things about me. 00:09:49.460 --> 00:09:50.779 Here's one of the things about me. 00:09:51.699 --> 00:09:54.199 And it's maybe just the peculiarity of me. 00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:57.559 Maybe it's the peculiarity of my vocation. 00:09:57.639 --> 00:09:58.779 And the sermon's not about me. 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:03.620 But I think it's important for Christians to recognize 00:10:03.620 --> 00:10:06.940 when they have either an oil or water view, 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.340 that they sort of have a little religious view, 00:10:09.620 --> 00:10:11.379 and then there's their science view. 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:13.399 And the Bible doesn't allow that. 00:10:13.539 --> 00:10:18.840 And it's best if we walk towards things that make us anxious about the biblical text. 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.200 In fact, that's partially what church should be about, 00:10:22.259 --> 00:10:23.779 not just the worship on Sunday mornings. 00:10:23.860 --> 00:10:25.519 That's why small groups are so important. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:30.559 That's why having mentoring and discipleship relationships are so important, 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.980 where you have a context, a safe place, 00:10:32.980 --> 00:10:35.539 where you can help people say, 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.899 you know what, to be honest, we have a fear around this, don't we? 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.639 Let's walk towards it so we can understand what the Bible teaches, 00:10:42.819 --> 00:10:44.659 and let's help each other to understand it. 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:46.159 That's once again why church is important, 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:47.480 why small groups are important, 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.620 that we can walk towards things that make us anxious. 00:10:50.620 --> 00:10:52.779 So here's the first thing. 00:10:54.060 --> 00:10:59.620 This doctrine or teaching of evolution is a challenge to all worldviews, 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:05.000 all religions, all spiritualities, and all ideologies, 00:11:05.539 --> 00:11:06.779 not just Christians. 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.759 Now this is something which nobody in our culture recognizes. 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.740 The way our, you know, people talk about social construction of knowledge. 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:17.740 Sorry, I just lost some of you for a moment. 00:11:17.740 --> 00:11:20.820 But the fact of the matter is that people think that that's, 00:11:20.899 --> 00:11:24.220 I've had this conversation time and time and time and time again 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:26.240 with people in coffee shops, 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.080 where they think that somehow applies to me but not to them, 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:30.879 as if somehow or another they're exempt. 00:11:31.620 --> 00:11:34.100 Or if they come up with a challenge to the Christian worldview, 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:36.720 that they somehow or other think that they don't have to come up 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:38.060 with an account of that reality. 00:11:38.539 --> 00:11:39.779 But the fact of the matter is, 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.919 just think about it for a second with the issue of racism. 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.080 If naturalistic evolution is true, 00:11:45.580 --> 00:11:46.960 why isn't racism fine? 00:11:47.740 --> 00:11:50.680 Like, why not? 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.120 If white people are in power, 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:56.820 why should I give that up? 00:11:59.080 --> 00:11:59.820 Like, why? 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:03.039 If naturalistic evolution is true, 00:12:03.620 --> 00:12:06.980 if human beings are just a product of accident, 00:12:07.220 --> 00:12:10.299 if human beings might not have developed, 00:12:10.419 --> 00:12:12.700 if randomness had worked in a particular way, 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.000 if there's nothing inherently special about human beings, 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.159 and in fact, if actually the fundamental thing that accounts for the reality of all things 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.340 is an account that the strong survive and the weak don't, 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.159 and that often the strong survive and the weak don't because the strong eat the weak, 00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:30.039 then why should we believe in, 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:31.679 why is racism wrong? 00:12:32.179 --> 00:12:34.039 Like, why are there human rights? 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:39.219 Like all critical theory, 00:12:39.299 --> 00:12:40.819 well, why don't they have to deal with evolution? 00:12:41.199 --> 00:12:42.639 Like native spirituality, 00:12:42.779 --> 00:12:44.159 why doesn't that have to deal with evolution? 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:45.179 Like, the fact of the matter is, 00:12:45.219 --> 00:12:46.980 is that this scientific account 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:50.659 is something that every system of thought has to answer. 00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:54.419 This is always an important thing for us to remember 00:12:54.419 --> 00:12:57.759 because sometimes when we try to account for the Christian faith, 00:12:57.819 --> 00:12:59.719 it might not sound perfect, 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:01.259 but you know what? 00:13:01.319 --> 00:13:03.980 I would suggest that every single time 00:13:03.980 --> 00:13:06.079 you'd give the Christian account of a problem 00:13:06.079 --> 00:13:08.120 and compare it to other accounts, 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:09.600 you'd end up saying, 00:13:09.819 --> 00:13:11.480 gosh, that's a good account. 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.159 That's the best account. 00:13:14.839 --> 00:13:18.439 I mean, native spirituality has no way of dealing with evolution, 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.600 nor does Hinduism or Buddhism, 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:21.920 nor does Islam, 00:13:22.400 --> 00:13:25.360 and definitely not Marxism and feminism 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.700 and transgender and social justice warriors. 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:29.600 None of those things. 00:13:29.640 --> 00:13:31.660 They've not even begun to ask those questions 00:13:31.660 --> 00:13:34.660 in terms of how you give an account in light of this. 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.540 So it's not just a question that Christians have to answer. 00:13:36.620 --> 00:13:37.560 Everybody has to answer it. 00:13:37.900 --> 00:13:38.980 And here's the second one. 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:42.500 The second thing is that naturalistic evolution 00:13:42.500 --> 00:13:45.540 is in trouble because of science. 00:13:45.539 --> 00:13:50.059 Naturalistic evolutionary theory is in trouble 00:13:50.059 --> 00:13:51.759 because of science. 00:13:52.199 --> 00:13:54.240 Because the more science develops, 00:13:54.339 --> 00:13:55.939 that particular account 00:13:55.939 --> 00:13:58.719 that everything is due to randomness, 00:13:59.059 --> 00:14:01.699 interacting with particular, 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.599 the properties of stuff, 00:14:04.219 --> 00:14:06.539 and then naturalistic selection, 00:14:06.779 --> 00:14:08.279 accounting for the growth 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:11.379 after life has developed randomly, 00:14:11.379 --> 00:14:13.539 the fact of the matter is 00:14:13.539 --> 00:14:15.120 is that as science develops, 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.500 that entire theory is problematic. 00:14:18.439 --> 00:14:19.500 You see, one of the problems is, 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:20.700 for instance, the Big Bang, 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:22.860 which is what science has now come to believe, 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:26.399 that combined with the well-known law 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.980 of the second law of thermodynamics 00:14:27.980 --> 00:14:29.439 that everything is running down, 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:30.799 those two truths 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.939 mean that you have to have a creator. 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:35.940 Like the Big Bang 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:38.980 means that things haven't existed forever. 00:14:38.980 --> 00:14:42.580 Part of the entire argument for evolution 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:43.920 is that if you have forever, 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:45.100 then anything can happen, 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:45.800 including this. 00:14:45.899 --> 00:14:46.740 But you don't have forever. 00:14:46.860 --> 00:14:48.340 Science has now shown that doesn't happen. 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:49.779 Things aren't forever. 00:14:50.500 --> 00:14:51.159 There was a beginning. 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:51.940 But the fact of the matter, 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:52.720 not only is there a beginning, 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:54.080 but there's this contradictory thing 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.060 that doesn't actually explain 00:14:56.060 --> 00:14:57.680 how you could ever have a Big Bang 00:14:57.680 --> 00:14:58.980 because the second law of thermodynamics 00:14:59.500 --> 00:15:01.300 shows that everything is running down. 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:02.740 And not only that, 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:04.500 and this is a far more important thing, 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.320 is that the further science goes to develop, 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:09.420 can take science between now 00:15:09.420 --> 00:15:11.560 and when naturalistic evolutionary theory 00:15:11.560 --> 00:15:13.260 was first propounded by Darwin, 00:15:13.660 --> 00:15:15.680 is the more that scientists study, 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:17.260 the more they see design, 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.120 and not just design, 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:21.080 but intricate design 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.760 that is irreducible. 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:25.400 A couple of weeks ago, 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:26.600 Daniel gave the illustration 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:27.540 of the mousetrap, 00:15:27.700 --> 00:15:29.280 and that's a very, very simple thing 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:30.700 of something which is irreducible, 00:15:30.820 --> 00:15:31.560 where you need wood, 00:15:31.660 --> 00:15:32.900 you need pegs, 00:15:32.940 --> 00:15:33.920 you need a spring, 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.259 you need a spring to be armed, 00:15:36.379 --> 00:15:39.779 you need an arm to keep the other arm down, 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:40.659 you need peanut butter. 00:15:41.059 --> 00:15:42.059 And the fact of the matter is, 00:15:42.099 --> 00:15:43.879 is that the more science studies things, 00:15:43.959 --> 00:15:46.379 they see something like a mousetrap 00:15:46.379 --> 00:15:47.599 already put together. 00:15:50.620 --> 00:15:51.219 In other words, 00:15:51.259 --> 00:15:52.539 you don't just find pieces of wood 00:15:52.539 --> 00:15:53.779 and pieces of metal 00:15:53.779 --> 00:15:55.079 and pieces of this and pieces of that, 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.479 but to have an actual mousetrap, 00:15:56.579 --> 00:15:58.620 you need it all to be put together and armed. 00:15:59.779 --> 00:16:01.259 And just talk to some of the people 00:16:01.259 --> 00:16:01.899 in the room here 00:16:01.899 --> 00:16:03.639 who are scientists and who are doctors, 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.500 and they'll tell you 00:16:04.500 --> 00:16:05.799 that you go into things, 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:06.579 what you discover, 00:16:06.740 --> 00:16:07.259 as science, 00:16:07.379 --> 00:16:08.699 as biology progresses, 00:16:08.899 --> 00:16:10.000 as genetics progress, 00:16:10.419 --> 00:16:11.439 what they find 00:16:11.439 --> 00:16:13.259 is irreducible complexity, 00:16:13.620 --> 00:16:15.000 and it's not just complexity, 00:16:15.199 --> 00:16:16.419 it's complexity that is 00:16:16.419 --> 00:16:18.079 clearly best understood 00:16:18.079 --> 00:16:20.639 as a design feature. 00:16:21.659 --> 00:16:22.980 So the fact of the matter is, 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:23.860 and this is something 00:16:23.860 --> 00:16:25.199 which people don't want to talk about, 00:16:25.319 --> 00:16:26.600 but as science progresses, 00:16:27.379 --> 00:16:28.779 the theory becomes 00:16:28.779 --> 00:16:29.860 far more complicated. 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:31.779 The third problem is 00:16:31.779 --> 00:16:33.580 that we don't actually believe 00:16:33.580 --> 00:16:36.240 in the account of naturalistic evolution 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:37.480 anywhere else. 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:39.200 And it's sort of ironic 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.700 because the big, big, big, big, big thing 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:42.639 which we believe it in, 00:16:42.680 --> 00:16:43.820 when it comes to small things, 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:44.840 nobody believes it. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:46.060 Nobody believes it. 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:47.840 Not one single person on the planet 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:48.519 believes it. 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.060 Perfect illustration. 00:16:50.220 --> 00:16:50.960 I've used it before. 00:16:51.659 --> 00:16:53.379 Let's say there's a young man 00:16:53.379 --> 00:16:54.060 in this congregation, 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:55.600 and he's been dating a young woman, 00:16:55.700 --> 00:16:57.580 and he wants to ask her to marry him, 00:16:57.580 --> 00:16:59.240 and he knows that this young woman 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:00.460 loves going for walks. 00:17:00.560 --> 00:17:01.480 In fact, there's a particular, 00:17:01.620 --> 00:17:02.720 it doesn't matter if it's young or old, 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:03.759 just a man and a woman, 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:05.460 and they know that there's a particular place 00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:06.460 that they love to walk. 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.059 And so the man comes up with this idea, 00:17:09.140 --> 00:17:09.960 you know how I'm going to do it 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:11.180 to ask her to marry me in a way 00:17:11.180 --> 00:17:12.700 which is just, I think, just so cool. 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:14.000 You might think it's corny, 00:17:14.059 --> 00:17:14.940 but he thinks it's cool. 00:17:15.460 --> 00:17:16.860 How about me and a buddy, 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.019 there's this really lovely place 00:17:20.019 --> 00:17:21.700 where you come for a walk, 00:17:21.700 --> 00:17:23.180 and there's a bit of a green hill 00:17:23.180 --> 00:17:24.140 just on the side, 00:17:24.580 --> 00:17:25.779 and why don't you and I 00:17:25.779 --> 00:17:27.500 get some field stones, 00:17:28.140 --> 00:17:29.720 and with the field stones, 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:30.519 spell out, 00:17:31.120 --> 00:17:34.759 Sue, will you marry me? 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:36.140 Bob. 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:39.000 And so you think, 00:17:39.060 --> 00:17:40.200 well, that's the coolest thing in the world. 00:17:40.259 --> 00:17:40.840 Let's do it. 00:17:41.340 --> 00:17:42.400 So you go there, 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:43.860 you get the stones, 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:45.840 you know, and the field stones, 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:47.220 you make all that little pattern, 00:17:47.220 --> 00:17:48.420 so it's very, very clear. 00:17:48.420 --> 00:17:49.560 You know, you look, 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:50.640 people walk by and say, 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:51.060 what are you doing? 00:17:51.100 --> 00:17:52.660 You say, I want to ask this woman, 00:17:52.660 --> 00:17:53.400 Sue, to marry me. 00:17:53.460 --> 00:17:54.080 Oh, way to go. 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:54.980 Sounds cool, whatever. 00:17:55.140 --> 00:17:56.140 Sounds lame, or whatever. 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.320 And then, you know, you do it, 00:17:58.340 --> 00:17:59.700 and you keep your buddy in the background, 00:17:59.700 --> 00:18:02.920 so no person comes and moves all the stones, 00:18:03.500 --> 00:18:04.800 or something like that, you know, 00:18:04.860 --> 00:18:05.840 and says, you know, 00:18:05.860 --> 00:18:07.820 will you sue me, Bob, or whatever, you know. 00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:09.360 But it keeps the message, 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.080 the message in the right order, right? 00:18:11.100 --> 00:18:12.820 Because if you put Sue in the wrong spot, 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:14.640 it'll think you want to sue a person, 00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:15.400 you just can't spell. 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:16.800 But anyway, you know what I mean, right? 00:18:16.800 --> 00:18:17.519 Or you move the letters, 00:18:17.600 --> 00:18:18.700 it looks all completely different. 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:19.720 And so finally, 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:20.660 the man and the young woman, 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:21.040 they're coming, 00:18:21.120 --> 00:18:22.080 they're holding hands, 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.980 and as they come to the spot, 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.359 he sort of nudges her, 00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:26.519 so she looks over, 00:18:26.659 --> 00:18:27.899 and if she looks over it, 00:18:28.259 --> 00:18:31.919 and then keeps walking with no comment, 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:32.539 and then you say, 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:34.199 well, what do you think about that sign? 00:18:34.500 --> 00:18:34.939 She said, 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:35.939 you know, 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.259 there was an earth tremor the other day, 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:38.539 it's the weirdest thing in the world, 00:18:38.619 --> 00:18:41.099 that that earth tremor caused field stones 00:18:41.099 --> 00:18:42.799 to go in that pattern. 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:45.740 Like, who'd believe that? 00:18:47.019 --> 00:18:47.740 You know what? 00:18:47.819 --> 00:18:49.399 If that actually happened to you, 00:18:50.019 --> 00:18:52.839 you could get people buying you beer for years 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.680 just to tell the story of the crazy woman 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.500 who didn't recognize the field stones saying the message. 00:18:59.639 --> 00:19:00.119 Right? 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:03.440 And let me ask Jeremiah afterwards 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:05.899 how more complex DNA is to that. 00:19:05.900 --> 00:19:09.320 Like, it's not just like twice as complicated, 00:19:09.320 --> 00:19:13.120 it's like exponentially more complicated. 00:19:13.320 --> 00:19:15.180 Nobody believes the theory. 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:16.940 Anywhere else. 00:19:17.620 --> 00:19:19.780 If we got a message from space 00:19:19.780 --> 00:19:21.900 that was going beep, beep, beep, beep, 00:19:21.980 --> 00:19:23.160 in a certain type of pattern, 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:23.960 very, very simple, 00:19:24.060 --> 00:19:25.480 we'd know that there was something out there. 00:19:26.100 --> 00:19:28.500 And yet when it comes to the origins of all things, 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:30.340 we believe this theory. 00:19:30.339 --> 00:19:33.339 And here's the final thing I'd like to say. 00:19:34.139 --> 00:19:35.319 The fact of the matter is, 00:19:35.419 --> 00:19:37.099 is that this passage of Scripture 00:19:37.099 --> 00:19:40.059 is profoundly wise and wonderful 00:19:40.059 --> 00:19:43.919 and fits with science and the Bible 00:19:43.919 --> 00:19:46.119 and our experience 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:48.699 and in fact encourages science. 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.099 Now, I've said before, 00:19:53.939 --> 00:19:55.480 and I'm not arguing against 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:59.359 the literal reading of Genesis chapter 1, 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.259 but what I think is 00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:03.379 that the discussion between Christians 00:20:03.379 --> 00:20:04.659 and the world 00:20:04.659 --> 00:20:07.559 should have focused on texts like this 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:09.319 where John chapter 1 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:09.779 where it says, 00:20:09.879 --> 00:20:10.799 in the beginning was the Word 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:11.879 and the Word was with God 00:20:11.879 --> 00:20:12.839 and the Word was God. 00:20:12.919 --> 00:20:13.939 He was with God in the beginning. 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:15.759 All things were made through him 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.319 and without him nothing was made that was made. 00:20:18.419 --> 00:20:19.419 In him was life 00:20:19.419 --> 00:20:21.179 and the life was the light of men. 00:20:22.099 --> 00:20:23.119 And Christians should have had 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.599 our conversations with our secular friends 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:27.779 over John 1 00:20:27.779 --> 00:20:30.240 and Colossians 1 verses 15 to 20 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:32.420 and Hebrews 1 verses 1 to 3. 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:34.139 And that's where we should have had the discussion. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:36.480 And here's the wonderful thing 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:38.000 about the doctrine of creation. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:40.960 The doctrine of creation 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:45.839 tells us both that God creates all things, 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:47.299 but it doesn't tell us anything 00:20:47.299 --> 00:20:50.160 about how deep creation is 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:51.899 or how big the backstory is 00:20:51.899 --> 00:20:52.839 until we look. 00:20:53.460 --> 00:20:54.660 I'll give you two illustrations 00:20:54.660 --> 00:20:55.539 of what I mean by that 00:20:55.539 --> 00:20:56.839 because you probably don't understand it. 00:20:57.440 --> 00:20:58.720 This insight came in, 00:20:58.799 --> 00:20:59.299 and I don't know, 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:00.659 I can't really say this. 00:21:00.740 --> 00:21:01.839 Maybe we should turn it off for a second. 00:21:01.859 --> 00:21:03.079 No, don't turn it off for a second. 00:21:03.579 --> 00:21:05.000 You know, Andrew hangs around sometimes 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:05.799 after the service. 00:21:05.899 --> 00:21:07.059 He puts things on the screen. 00:21:07.099 --> 00:21:07.879 Am I allowed to say that? 00:21:07.899 --> 00:21:08.500 I'm going to get in trouble. 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:09.059 Anyway, he does. 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:10.200 He puts music or something. 00:21:10.700 --> 00:21:11.059 So maybe, 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:13.019 if those of you who know Star Trek 00:21:13.019 --> 00:21:14.539 and those of you who know Q, 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:17.279 go back and go on Google 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:18.119 or look on YouTube 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:19.819 for some episode in Star Trek 00:21:19.819 --> 00:21:21.079 where Q shows up. 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:22.039 And one of the things 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:23.599 that Q can do in that 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:24.899 is he makes everything, 00:21:25.059 --> 00:21:26.059 he makes a whole pile of things 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:26.500 out of nothing. 00:21:26.579 --> 00:21:27.599 I remember one clip, 00:21:27.899 --> 00:21:29.419 I'm not really a Star Trek person, 00:21:29.500 --> 00:21:30.460 I watch it occasionally, 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:32.079 that all of a sudden Q 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:32.960 would make it look like 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:34.659 the entire crew of Star Trek 00:21:34.659 --> 00:21:35.859 was like Robin Hood. 00:21:36.299 --> 00:21:37.059 All of a sudden, 00:21:37.139 --> 00:21:37.779 there are horses 00:21:37.779 --> 00:21:39.319 riding through the woods. 00:21:39.939 --> 00:21:41.759 Now, the viewer knows 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:43.740 that Q just invented that 00:21:43.740 --> 00:21:44.779 out of nothing 00:21:44.779 --> 00:21:46.220 three minutes earlier. 00:21:47.399 --> 00:21:49.139 But they're not riding on horses 00:21:49.140 --> 00:21:50.360 that are three minutes old. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:52.500 They're riding on 00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:53.480 five-year-old horses. 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:55.200 The trees that are all around 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.340 them aren't three minutes old. 00:21:56.420 --> 00:21:57.800 If you cut down a tree, 00:21:57.940 --> 00:21:58.759 it would have the rings. 00:21:58.860 --> 00:21:59.640 It would show that the tree 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:00.860 is in fact very, very old. 00:22:01.220 --> 00:22:02.259 In fact, part of the episodes 00:22:02.259 --> 00:22:03.780 are that the crew 00:22:03.780 --> 00:22:04.980 is always trying to figure out 00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:06.100 if it's an hallucination, 00:22:06.280 --> 00:22:06.980 is it a vision, 00:22:07.100 --> 00:22:07.759 what's going on, 00:22:07.780 --> 00:22:08.860 but the things they read, 00:22:09.100 --> 00:22:09.600 like, right? 00:22:09.660 --> 00:22:10.480 I have that right, right? 00:22:10.780 --> 00:22:11.980 Everything seems to work. 00:22:12.060 --> 00:22:12.759 Like, it seems to be 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:14.000 completely and utterly real. 00:22:14.420 --> 00:22:15.440 And what that means 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:16.800 is if you went into a world 00:22:16.800 --> 00:22:18.000 that a situation 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:19.380 that Q is just created 00:22:19.380 --> 00:22:19.980 out of nothing 00:22:19.980 --> 00:22:20.420 and you brought 00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:21.519 all of your science 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:22.660 and you cut down the trees 00:22:22.660 --> 00:22:23.579 and the trees might have 00:22:23.579 --> 00:22:24.220 80 rings, 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:24.940 100 rings, 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:26.200 150 rings, 00:22:26.579 --> 00:22:27.240 20 rings. 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:30.599 It's a certain time of the year 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:31.200 that, like, 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:32.759 there's stuff on the ground 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:33.680 because, you know, 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:35.140 the leaves and other stuff 00:22:35.140 --> 00:22:35.819 fell off the tree 00:22:35.819 --> 00:22:36.640 onto the ground 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:37.480 and yet it's only 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:38.480 three minutes old. 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:39.859 You see, 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:40.319 in fact, 00:22:40.380 --> 00:22:41.140 the matter is 00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:42.420 is that God could have 00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:43.440 created things 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:44.519 like this set, 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.339 but he didn't. 00:22:49.259 --> 00:22:49.619 Sometimes, 00:22:49.740 --> 00:22:50.160 when I have 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:50.980 one of my younger 00:22:50.980 --> 00:22:51.599 grandchildren, 00:22:51.779 --> 00:22:52.680 they get to a certain age 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:53.440 and they come to visit 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:54.279 from another city 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:55.519 and they come to church 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:56.799 and in some cases 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.400 they've asked 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:57.900 because kids, 00:22:58.059 --> 00:22:58.759 in case you didn't know, 00:22:58.819 --> 00:22:59.920 aren't allowed up on the stage. 00:23:00.059 --> 00:23:00.819 So they ask 00:23:00.819 --> 00:23:01.500 after the service 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:02.200 if they can come up 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:02.660 on the stage 00:23:02.660 --> 00:23:03.599 because they're curious 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.279 because they find it 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:08.339 so fascinating 00:23:08.339 --> 00:23:09.660 that a room 00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:10.819 that looks real 00:23:10.819 --> 00:23:14.079 that you can go behind it 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:14.939 and it's not real. 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:17.539 And God could have made 00:23:17.539 --> 00:23:19.200 a universe like that. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:21.679 He's God. 00:23:22.099 --> 00:23:22.939 If he decided to do it, 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:23.240 he could. 00:23:24.740 --> 00:23:25.740 But the fact of the matter is 00:23:25.740 --> 00:23:26.519 is that the doctrine 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:28.039 of creation implies 00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:30.419 it would be as if, 00:23:30.419 --> 00:23:30.579 you know, 00:23:30.659 --> 00:23:32.000 a set designer 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:33.240 makes not just a room 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:34.460 but a street 00:23:34.460 --> 00:23:35.419 and streets 00:23:35.419 --> 00:23:36.159 and a whole city 00:23:36.159 --> 00:23:37.059 or something like that. 00:23:37.439 --> 00:23:38.379 And the fact of the matter is 00:23:38.379 --> 00:23:39.019 is you don't know 00:23:39.019 --> 00:23:40.099 how big the creation is 00:23:40.099 --> 00:23:40.799 until you look 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:42.519 but the doctrine of creation 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:43.980 just like Star Trek shows 00:23:43.980 --> 00:23:45.519 it's an odd way 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:47.079 to comment on the Bible 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:48.000 but it's a good one 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.940 is that creation 00:23:49.940 --> 00:23:50.579 out of nothing 00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:51.839 can have something 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:53.319 which is unbelievably deep. 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:54.240 Why did God do it? 00:23:54.980 --> 00:23:55.379 Well, 00:23:55.659 --> 00:23:56.859 I don't know why God does it. 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:58.220 Those of us in the room, 00:23:58.379 --> 00:23:59.339 those of you in the room 00:23:59.339 --> 00:24:00.059 who are scientists, 00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:00.579 they can say, 00:24:00.659 --> 00:24:00.720 well, 00:24:00.740 --> 00:24:01.440 it's really cool, 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:01.859 you know. 00:24:02.399 --> 00:24:03.720 Like knowing this whole 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:04.740 back story 00:24:04.740 --> 00:24:06.480 and depth to creation, 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:08.379 that's how we figure out 00:24:08.379 --> 00:24:09.119 things that help us 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:10.119 to figure out diseases. 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:11.379 That's how we figure out 00:24:11.379 --> 00:24:12.539 things that connect 00:24:12.539 --> 00:24:13.659 animal research 00:24:13.659 --> 00:24:14.619 to human beings 00:24:14.619 --> 00:24:15.479 that allow science 00:24:15.479 --> 00:24:15.859 to develop 00:24:15.859 --> 00:24:17.779 and that's how we figure out 00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:19.399 things about the nature of light 00:24:19.399 --> 00:24:20.579 and that's how we figure out 00:24:20.579 --> 00:24:21.579 all of these things 00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:22.779 and the book of Genesis 00:24:22.779 --> 00:24:23.719 tells us that God 00:24:23.719 --> 00:24:24.459 created the earth 00:24:24.459 --> 00:24:25.439 so that we could 00:24:25.439 --> 00:24:26.239 tend the earth, 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.579 that we could be fruitful 00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:28.239 and multiply, 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:29.559 that we could tend the garden 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:31.879 and God designed creation 00:24:31.879 --> 00:24:32.659 whether he made it 00:24:32.659 --> 00:24:33.359 in six days 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:34.459 or in one second, 00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:35.079 whether he made it 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:37.219 5,771 years ago 00:24:37.220 --> 00:24:38.140 or whether he made it 00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:39.460 whatever the length 00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:40.039 of time is, 00:24:40.059 --> 00:24:41.420 is that once he created it, 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:42.680 it's deep, 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:43.759 it's thick, 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:45.799 it has a profoundly 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:46.960 huge back story 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.299 and you can't tell 00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:49.539 by looking at creation 00:24:49.539 --> 00:24:50.740 actually on one level 00:24:50.740 --> 00:24:51.700 in a sense 00:24:51.700 --> 00:24:53.259 how old it is. 00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:55.680 Like you can't. 00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:58.759 But does that mean that 00:24:58.759 --> 00:24:59.900 and so this is 00:24:59.900 --> 00:25:00.559 the wonderful thing 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:01.620 and in fact this is 00:25:01.620 --> 00:25:02.680 and it's only been 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:03.759 in the Christian worldview 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:04.600 that science 00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:05.500 was able to develop. 00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:06.900 there's always been cleverness. 00:25:07.019 --> 00:25:07.900 People have always been able 00:25:07.900 --> 00:25:08.500 to figure out 00:25:08.500 --> 00:25:09.200 how to do this 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:09.960 or how to do that 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:11.500 or how to do something else 00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:12.720 but science isn't just 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:13.420 being clever. 00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:16.599 Science is working on theories 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:17.960 and making connections 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:19.339 and from your theories 00:25:19.339 --> 00:25:20.019 and connections 00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:21.380 making new discoveries 00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:23.220 and that's what science is 00:25:23.220 --> 00:25:24.539 and science developed 00:25:24.539 --> 00:25:25.839 out of the Christian worldview 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.380 because they understood 00:25:27.380 --> 00:25:28.779 that it was creation 00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:30.799 designed by an intelligent creator 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:32.279 so you go looking 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:34.160 for reasons and connections. 00:25:35.500 --> 00:25:37.500 And if we understand 00:25:37.500 --> 00:25:38.819 that the real battle 00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:40.160 the real battle 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:41.519 is not over 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:42.299 whether the earth 00:25:42.299 --> 00:25:43.180 is young or old 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:44.460 that's a really good question 00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:45.180 but it's not that. 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:46.460 The real issue is over 00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:47.160 whether or not 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:47.960 there is a creator 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:49.039 who has created all things 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:50.279 and sustains all things 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:51.400 and that that creator 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:52.299 is the triune God 00:25:52.299 --> 00:25:53.500 and only the triune God 00:25:53.500 --> 00:25:55.140 can possibly account for it. 00:25:55.779 --> 00:25:56.839 That and the alternatives. 00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:57.599 Once you understand 00:25:57.599 --> 00:25:58.700 that the doctrine of creation 00:25:58.700 --> 00:25:59.779 that God's created the world 00:25:59.779 --> 00:26:02.579 deep, wide, big, thick 00:26:02.579 --> 00:26:04.220 with a huge backstory 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:06.659 you are freed up to discover. 00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:08.659 You are launched. 00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:10.179 Go ahead and be a geologist. 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:11.439 Go ahead and be a physicist. 00:26:11.659 --> 00:26:12.720 Be an astronomer. 00:26:13.579 --> 00:26:15.059 Don't worry about those things 00:26:15.059 --> 00:26:15.859 because you're just looking 00:26:15.859 --> 00:26:18.359 at this wonderful profound world 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:19.399 that God has created 00:26:19.399 --> 00:26:21.299 with a huge backstory 00:26:21.299 --> 00:26:23.419 and he designed it out of love. 00:26:23.539 --> 00:26:24.839 He designed it with intelligence. 00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:25.939 He designed it with creativity. 00:26:25.939 --> 00:26:27.819 And look for design 00:26:27.819 --> 00:26:30.579 and rejoice in it. 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:33.259 And the fact of the matter is 00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:36.019 is that design shows 00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:37.079 that there must be a designer. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.439 Just as seeing 00:26:39.439 --> 00:26:43.139 Sue, will you marry me Bob 00:26:43.139 --> 00:26:46.460 implies that somebody wrote that 00:26:46.460 --> 00:26:48.240 and sustained it. 00:26:49.379 --> 00:26:50.759 And I spent a long time on this 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:53.139 because it's a big problem. 00:26:53.139 --> 00:26:55.139 I just want to suggest that 00:26:55.140 --> 00:27:02.100 this text propels us 00:27:02.100 --> 00:27:04.940 or grounds us 00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:08.160 to launch into mystery 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:09.920 and into coherence. 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:16.660 It grounds us as Christians 00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:19.420 to launch ourselves 00:27:19.420 --> 00:27:21.580 into the mystery of existence 00:27:21.580 --> 00:27:23.960 and into coherence. 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.539 Listen again to the text. 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:28.940 He is the image 00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:30.140 of the invisible God. 00:27:30.600 --> 00:27:32.380 Now, the word image 00:27:32.380 --> 00:27:34.000 is a technical word. 00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:35.420 It doesn't mean... 00:27:35.420 --> 00:27:36.039 It could be that 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:37.420 if that's all you had, 00:27:37.539 --> 00:27:37.900 you'd think, 00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:38.880 okay, well, there's God 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:39.759 and it's his picture. 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:41.120 Like, you know, 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:42.680 like Lisa would much rather 00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:43.500 have Andrew 00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:44.880 than a picture of Andrew. 00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:46.420 Like, the picture of Andrew 00:27:46.420 --> 00:27:48.259 isn't the same as Andrew. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:50.259 And it might be possible 00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:51.299 that we don't know 00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:52.680 the philosophical language 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:53.440 and you hear that 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:53.920 and you think 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:54.500 that it's just like 00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:56.100 a picture of God. 00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:58.279 But it's actually... 00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.580 It's actually really, 00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:01.320 really important. 00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.180 If you go back 00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:03.500 and read in Genesis chapter 1, 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:04.759 it talks about human beings. 00:28:04.840 --> 00:28:05.360 One of the reasons 00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:06.600 that racism is wrong, 00:28:07.299 --> 00:28:07.900 one of the reasons 00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:09.960 that anti-Semitism is wrong, 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:10.620 one of the reasons 00:28:10.620 --> 00:28:11.380 that all prejudice 00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:12.960 and discrimination is wrong, 00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:14.559 is that out of all 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.059 of the things 00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:15.660 that have been created 00:28:15.660 --> 00:28:16.200 by God, 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:17.259 only human beings 00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:19.380 are made in his image. 00:28:21.380 --> 00:28:23.000 And every human being, 00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:24.319 it doesn't matter 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:25.180 if you're from Asia 00:28:25.180 --> 00:28:26.180 or from Africa 00:28:26.180 --> 00:28:27.480 or from England 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:28.660 or Scotland or Wales, 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:29.440 it doesn't matter 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:30.400 if you're Inuit, 00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:31.299 it doesn't matter 00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:32.519 if you are 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:33.680 an indigenous person 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:34.200 in Peru, 00:28:34.360 --> 00:28:35.740 every single human being, 00:28:35.779 --> 00:28:36.519 it doesn't matter 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.019 who you are, 00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:38.440 it doesn't matter 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:40.000 how handicapped you are, 00:28:40.080 --> 00:28:40.500 it doesn't matter 00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.220 how young 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:43.019 or how elderly you are, 00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:44.339 you are made 00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:45.480 in the image 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:46.539 and likeness 00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:47.619 of the true 00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:48.920 and living God 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:50.299 and have an inherent 00:28:50.299 --> 00:28:51.920 worth and value 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.279 that is there by God, 00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:55.400 not something 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:56.859 the state gives you. 00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:59.940 The wise state 00:28:59.940 --> 00:29:01.359 recognizes it 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:03.019 and does not try 00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:04.680 to usurp to itself 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:06.099 the power to determine 00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:07.319 the worth and value 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:08.400 of human beings. 00:29:09.339 --> 00:29:10.319 It is a feature 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:11.639 of totalitarianism 00:29:11.639 --> 00:29:12.819 and evil to think 00:29:12.819 --> 00:29:14.079 that only the state 00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:14.799 can determine 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:15.599 your value. 00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:18.279 Christians have been 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:19.279 guilty of horrendous 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:19.799 racism, 00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:25.379 but they should not 00:29:25.379 --> 00:29:26.319 have read their Bible 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:27.240 and been led to that. 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:31.259 They cannot read 00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:31.720 their Bible 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:32.579 and be led to that. 00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:37.019 This particular, 00:29:37.339 --> 00:29:38.220 and so you notice, 00:29:39.099 --> 00:29:40.319 human beings are made 00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:41.319 in the image 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:41.960 of God, 00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:43.000 but God, 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:43.779 the Son of God, 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:44.599 is, 00:29:44.859 --> 00:29:46.159 he's not in thee, 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:48.439 he is the image. 00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:50.139 And it's a little 00:29:50.139 --> 00:29:50.939 tiny bit like, 00:29:51.159 --> 00:29:52.099 given that the word icon 00:29:52.099 --> 00:29:53.039 and you use icon 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:53.939 now for computers 00:29:53.939 --> 00:29:54.740 and you click on 00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:55.579 the icon the way 00:29:55.579 --> 00:29:56.599 that it doesn't matter 00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:56.879 what, 00:29:57.460 --> 00:29:57.619 you know, 00:29:57.659 --> 00:29:58.139 it's Apple 00:29:58.139 --> 00:29:59.919 or Microsoft 00:29:59.919 --> 00:30:00.439 or whatever, 00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:01.299 you click on the icon 00:30:01.299 --> 00:30:02.179 and you get the whole thing. 00:30:03.159 --> 00:30:04.000 The same sense 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:04.399 in the sense 00:30:04.399 --> 00:30:05.279 when you click on 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:06.240 the God, 00:30:06.339 --> 00:30:06.700 the Son of God, 00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:07.819 you get all of God. 00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:09.000 But it's not just 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:09.359 this phrase 00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:09.920 because it doesn't 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:10.480 just say this, 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:11.119 the rest of it 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:11.940 helps to make it clear 00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:12.559 that that's the way 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:13.359 you're to understand it. 00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:14.140 And listen to this. 00:30:15.099 --> 00:30:17.099 The Son is the image, 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:17.519 in other words, 00:30:17.539 --> 00:30:18.240 he's fully God, 00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:19.480 of the invisible God. 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:20.819 It's also telling us 00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:21.680 that the God 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:23.160 who by his very nature 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:24.339 is invisible 00:30:24.339 --> 00:30:27.200 has revealed himself. 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:29.140 We can't figure out 00:30:29.140 --> 00:30:30.299 the invisible God. 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.059 Only the invisible God 00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:33.380 can reveal himself 00:30:33.380 --> 00:30:33.980 in a way 00:30:33.980 --> 00:30:35.259 that we can understand it. 00:30:35.259 --> 00:30:36.200 that's reason 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:39.099 to think 00:30:39.099 --> 00:30:41.920 that by my mysticism, 00:30:42.180 --> 00:30:43.440 by my technology, 00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:44.599 by my poetry, 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:45.759 by my thinking 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:46.879 that I can figure out 00:30:46.879 --> 00:30:47.519 the invisible 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.440 is foolish. 00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:50.900 The invisible 00:30:50.900 --> 00:30:52.559 must be made visible. 00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:54.619 The invisible 00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:56.960 must make himself visible 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.640 for me to have a sense 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:00.660 of the fullness 00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:01.920 of the invisible God. 00:31:02.460 --> 00:31:03.619 That's what the text says. 00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:04.359 He is the image 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:05.339 of the invisible God. 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:06.539 The firstborn 00:31:06.539 --> 00:31:07.479 of all creation 00:31:07.479 --> 00:31:08.179 implies that 00:31:08.179 --> 00:31:09.619 before creation was, 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:10.819 there was the Son. 00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:11.699 Go back and listen 00:31:11.699 --> 00:31:12.819 to the Athanasian Creed. 00:31:12.939 --> 00:31:13.539 The relationship 00:31:13.539 --> 00:31:14.579 of the Father to the Son 00:31:14.579 --> 00:31:15.739 is not that he is made, 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:16.579 but begotten. 00:31:17.239 --> 00:31:17.939 And even the language 00:31:17.939 --> 00:31:18.759 of firstborn, 00:31:19.219 --> 00:31:20.819 which Jehovah Witnesses 00:31:20.819 --> 00:31:21.759 might want to talk about, 00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:23.379 but here's the entire thing, 00:31:23.479 --> 00:31:25.039 is we beget 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:26.699 what has our nature. 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:29.339 There's three women 00:31:29.339 --> 00:31:29.919 in the congregation 00:31:29.919 --> 00:31:30.519 right now 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:31.779 who are expecting a child. 00:31:31.899 --> 00:31:33.000 The child will be human. 00:31:33.619 --> 00:31:37.699 The child will be human. 00:31:41.439 --> 00:31:42.079 Begotten. 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:43.479 Not made, 00:31:43.979 --> 00:31:44.739 but begotten. 00:31:46.379 --> 00:31:47.079 And firstborn 00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:48.759 also implies preeminence. 00:31:49.159 --> 00:31:50.059 For by him, 00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:52.179 all things were created 00:31:52.179 --> 00:31:54.059 in heaven and on earth, 00:31:54.159 --> 00:31:55.339 visible and invisible, 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:56.399 whether thrones 00:31:56.399 --> 00:31:57.179 or dominions 00:31:57.179 --> 00:31:57.779 or rulers 00:31:57.779 --> 00:31:58.559 or authorities. 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.339 all things were created 00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:01.399 through him 00:32:01.399 --> 00:32:03.259 and for him. 00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:03.980 In other words, 00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:04.819 there's a purpose. 00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.440 It isn't just one 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.179 dang thing after another 00:32:08.179 --> 00:32:09.299 and then you die. 00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:10.519 And the human race 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:11.559 has one thing, 00:32:11.679 --> 00:32:13.259 dang thing after another 00:32:13.259 --> 00:32:14.019 and then eventually 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:16.139 the sun becomes 00:32:16.139 --> 00:32:17.799 a huge ball of fire 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:18.639 that obliterates 00:32:18.639 --> 00:32:19.960 all life. 00:32:20.419 --> 00:32:21.539 It isn't just one 00:32:21.539 --> 00:32:23.200 dang thing after another. 00:32:23.339 --> 00:32:24.099 There is in fact 00:32:24.099 --> 00:32:25.379 a story with a beginning, 00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:25.779 a middle, 00:32:25.779 --> 00:32:26.420 and an end. 00:32:27.399 --> 00:32:28.399 And if there is a story, 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:29.259 there is a possibility 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:29.980 of meaning. 00:32:30.700 --> 00:32:31.619 And if we are made 00:32:31.619 --> 00:32:32.099 in the image 00:32:32.099 --> 00:32:33.299 of the invisible God 00:32:33.299 --> 00:32:35.019 and have a worth 00:32:35.019 --> 00:32:36.220 and a value 00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:36.940 and a dignity, 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.399 it means that there is 00:32:39.399 --> 00:32:39.859 in fact 00:32:39.859 --> 00:32:40.680 the possibility 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:42.660 of a meaning 00:32:42.660 --> 00:32:43.200 and purpose 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:44.019 for your life 00:32:44.019 --> 00:32:44.779 and for mine 00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:46.420 that cannot be found 00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:46.899 apart 00:32:46.899 --> 00:32:48.319 from our creator. 00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:50.419 and he is before 00:32:50.419 --> 00:32:50.960 all things, 00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:51.679 verse 17, 00:32:51.879 --> 00:32:52.519 and in him 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:53.700 all things 00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:54.879 hold together. 00:32:56.639 --> 00:32:56.960 You see, 00:32:57.019 --> 00:32:57.519 that's what I mean 00:32:57.519 --> 00:32:58.139 by on one hand, 00:32:58.240 --> 00:32:58.859 this text, 00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:00.039 it's a very small text, 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:00.980 a very simple text. 00:33:01.059 --> 00:33:02.039 You can memorize the text. 00:33:02.099 --> 00:33:03.299 You should memorize the text. 00:33:03.539 --> 00:33:04.700 But it launches us 00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:05.879 into this mystery 00:33:05.879 --> 00:33:07.619 of the bigness 00:33:07.619 --> 00:33:08.679 and the largeness 00:33:08.679 --> 00:33:10.819 of the world 00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:13.119 and also the coherence. 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:15.559 You see, 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:17.480 social construction 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:18.079 of knowledge 00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:19.059 and social construction 00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:19.599 of reality. 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:20.460 What is hidden 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:21.519 from most Canadians 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:22.480 but they feel it 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:23.339 at some level 00:33:23.339 --> 00:33:25.099 is the fundamental 00:33:25.099 --> 00:33:27.000 incoherence of things. 00:33:28.919 --> 00:33:30.019 You have one way 00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:31.139 of counting for existence 00:33:31.139 --> 00:33:32.759 which is naturalistic evolution. 00:33:33.259 --> 00:33:34.700 You have a completely different, 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.819 completely and utterly 00:33:35.819 --> 00:33:36.779 separate from that, 00:33:36.919 --> 00:33:37.899 different understanding 00:33:37.899 --> 00:33:38.779 of what it's like 00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:39.859 after you die 00:33:39.859 --> 00:33:40.399 and you become 00:33:40.399 --> 00:33:41.319 some wispy, 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:42.059 ethereal, 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:43.519 spiritual type of thing. 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.379 And in the meantime, 00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:47.419 you have all of these things 00:33:47.419 --> 00:33:48.319 if you see the beauty 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:48.940 of the world 00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:49.819 and you see 00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:51.019 your own longings 00:33:51.019 --> 00:33:52.179 to either create beauty 00:33:52.179 --> 00:33:53.700 or enjoy beauty 00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:56.720 or communicate beauty 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.259 and you have that. 00:33:58.339 --> 00:33:59.399 But how does that fit in 00:33:59.399 --> 00:34:00.099 with anything else? 00:34:00.139 --> 00:34:01.179 And then apart from beauty, 00:34:01.259 --> 00:34:02.980 you have this whole other thing 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:04.279 of a concern for justice. 00:34:04.779 --> 00:34:05.279 And then you have 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:06.720 this whole other thing 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:07.720 about trying to have things 00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:08.400 like families 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:09.000 and friends 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.079 and social gatherings 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:10.739 and nations 00:34:10.739 --> 00:34:11.559 that hold together. 00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:12.779 But that's not connected 00:34:12.779 --> 00:34:13.320 to evolution 00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:14.320 and that's not connected 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:14.940 to the end 00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:15.820 and that's not connected 00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:16.360 to beauty 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.519 and that's not necessarily 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:18.460 connected to justice 00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:19.240 although it is 00:34:19.240 --> 00:34:20.519 in a certain type of a way. 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:22.220 And the fact of the matter is 00:34:22.220 --> 00:34:24.100 is that most Canadians 00:34:24.100 --> 00:34:24.880 live in a world 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:26.200 which is incoherent 00:34:26.200 --> 00:34:26.720 and broken 00:34:26.720 --> 00:34:28.039 and has no mystery. 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:33.219 You hear the Bible's profound messages 00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:34.699 the same God 00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:36.619 who created all things. 00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:38.920 The Father, the Son, 00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:39.900 the Holy Spirit, 00:34:40.059 --> 00:34:40.800 three persons, 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:41.539 one God 00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:43.019 who's created through the Son. 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:44.800 That same God 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.860 reveals His existence 00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:48.739 in the person of the Son 00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:50.320 in a way that can be seen. 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:51.599 And the same God 00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:52.619 who's created all things 00:34:52.619 --> 00:34:53.559 is the same God 00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:55.320 who holds all things together. 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:56.920 And the same God 00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:57.940 who's created all things 00:34:57.940 --> 00:34:59.400 who holds all things together 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:00.840 is the same one 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:01.860 who will bring 00:35:01.860 --> 00:35:03.880 is central to the purpose 00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:05.180 of all things 00:35:05.180 --> 00:35:06.260 and the end 00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:07.480 of all things. 00:35:09.580 --> 00:35:11.580 And all of the Greek words 00:35:11.580 --> 00:35:12.519 that use 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:13.960 the telos word 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:14.900 implying an end 00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:16.059 are the same words 00:35:16.059 --> 00:35:17.019 in the original language 00:35:17.019 --> 00:35:17.440 of Greek 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:18.460 that's used for beauty. 00:35:18.460 --> 00:35:23.699 that the end of all things 00:35:23.699 --> 00:35:24.360 is beautiful. 00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:26.119 Like it's beautiful. 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:29.099 Beauty isn't something separate. 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:32.720 Beauty is woven into everything 00:35:32.720 --> 00:35:33.579 and we know that 00:35:33.579 --> 00:35:34.500 but it's coherent 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:36.220 within this Christian worldview. 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.380 And since all things 00:35:39.380 --> 00:35:40.619 are held together through Him 00:35:40.619 --> 00:35:42.099 that means that justice 00:35:42.099 --> 00:35:42.860 and mercy 00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:43.539 and goodness 00:35:43.539 --> 00:35:44.400 and truth 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:45.820 and beauty 00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:49.519 and family 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:50.160 and friends 00:35:50.160 --> 00:35:50.780 and neighbors 00:35:50.780 --> 00:35:51.380 and nations 00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.900 that there is this possibility 00:35:52.900 --> 00:35:53.800 that there is 00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:55.000 at the heart of all things 00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:56.120 broken and marred 00:35:56.120 --> 00:35:56.880 by the fall 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:58.360 by sin and evil 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.019 which has come into the world 00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:01.539 through human beings 00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:02.840 through Adam and Eve 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:04.019 and then for every single 00:36:04.019 --> 00:36:04.960 other human being 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:06.380 that adds to the bentness 00:36:06.380 --> 00:36:07.120 and the brokenness 00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:07.660 of the world 00:36:07.660 --> 00:36:10.059 but before all these things 00:36:10.059 --> 00:36:11.240 at the end of all things 00:36:11.240 --> 00:36:11.940 and held together 00:36:11.940 --> 00:36:12.800 even now 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:14.000 in brokenness 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:14.780 and scarring 00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:15.960 is this same God 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:17.820 who holds all things together 00:36:17.820 --> 00:36:18.780 the Father, the Son 00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:19.680 and the Holy Spirit 00:36:19.680 --> 00:36:21.080 and the same God 00:36:21.080 --> 00:36:22.700 who creates and sustains 00:36:22.700 --> 00:36:24.160 the same God 00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:25.440 who is the source of beauty 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:26.080 and of justice 00:36:26.080 --> 00:36:26.700 and truth 00:36:26.700 --> 00:36:27.260 and mercy 00:36:27.260 --> 00:36:27.900 and love 00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:28.560 and community 00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:29.300 and friendship 00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:30.160 and life 00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:31.800 who is the God of life 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:32.880 is the same God 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:34.380 the very same God 00:36:34.380 --> 00:36:35.420 who redeems 00:36:35.420 --> 00:36:37.500 and no Christian 00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:38.540 has to choose 00:36:38.540 --> 00:36:40.220 between being saved 00:36:40.220 --> 00:36:41.620 and being smart 00:36:41.619 --> 00:36:43.559 between being saved 00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:44.859 and doing art 00:36:44.859 --> 00:36:46.500 between being saved 00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:48.000 and pursuing justice 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:49.920 between being saved 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:51.359 and working in the government 00:36:51.359 --> 00:36:53.119 to see a just social order 00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:54.199 or in business 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:55.839 to create a just economy 00:36:55.839 --> 00:36:57.339 you don't have to choose 00:36:57.339 --> 00:36:58.079 between things 00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:59.519 because the same one 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:00.500 who saves 00:37:00.500 --> 00:37:01.960 is the same one 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:03.279 who is the source 00:37:03.279 --> 00:37:05.000 of creation 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:06.639 the source of beauty 00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:07.119 of meaning 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:07.739 of truth 00:37:07.739 --> 00:37:12.319 and that's too big 00:37:12.319 --> 00:37:13.659 for any one person to do 00:37:13.659 --> 00:37:17.119 there's this mystery 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:18.319 this mystery 00:37:18.319 --> 00:37:19.379 profound mystery 00:37:19.379 --> 00:37:20.539 of coherence 00:37:20.539 --> 00:37:21.799 of this 00:37:21.799 --> 00:37:24.000 unending vistas 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:25.639 that we can enter into 00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:26.779 and it's the same one 00:37:26.779 --> 00:37:28.379 who opens our eyes 00:37:28.379 --> 00:37:29.579 to these unending vistas 00:37:29.579 --> 00:37:31.359 and grounds our longings 00:37:31.359 --> 00:37:32.019 and our yearnings 00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:33.719 is the same one 00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:36.679 the same one 00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:37.839 who takes on flesh 00:37:37.839 --> 00:37:39.739 and dies a death 00:37:39.739 --> 00:37:40.839 of crucifixion 00:37:40.839 --> 00:37:42.579 at a point in time 00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:43.299 in history 00:37:43.299 --> 00:37:46.759 and sheds his blood 00:37:46.759 --> 00:37:48.339 in the mystery 00:37:48.339 --> 00:37:49.139 of the gospel 00:37:49.139 --> 00:37:52.279 can't you see 00:37:52.279 --> 00:37:52.980 it's only if you 00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:53.919 understand this 00:37:53.919 --> 00:37:54.619 that you understand 00:37:54.619 --> 00:37:55.339 how it is 00:37:55.339 --> 00:37:56.699 that this one death 00:37:56.699 --> 00:37:58.279 can fix 00:37:58.279 --> 00:37:59.759 all creation 00:37:59.759 --> 00:38:02.159 listen to verses 18 00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:03.719 and he is the head 00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:04.159 of the body 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:04.699 it goes from 00:38:04.699 --> 00:38:05.639 these wonderful things 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:06.119 he is the head 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:06.559 of the body 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:07.119 what is the body 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:08.000 it's the church 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.820 this means it's 00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:10.239 in a sense 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:10.940 it's the church 00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:11.719 it's the same church 00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:12.880 you and I 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:13.820 have a local church 00:38:13.820 --> 00:38:14.539 but we are connected 00:38:14.539 --> 00:38:15.659 to other true believers 00:38:15.659 --> 00:38:16.440 in Christ 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:17.519 in all the other 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:18.539 gospel shaped churches 00:38:18.539 --> 00:38:19.699 and we're also connected 00:38:19.699 --> 00:38:20.539 to the true believers 00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:21.059 in Christ 00:38:21.059 --> 00:38:22.019 that have worshipped 00:38:22.019 --> 00:38:22.779 today in Sydney 00:38:22.779 --> 00:38:23.380 Australia 00:38:23.380 --> 00:38:24.619 in Nairobi 00:38:24.619 --> 00:38:25.360 in Nairobi 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:26.000 in Kenya 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:26.920 and in Singapore 00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:28.360 and in Beijing 00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.400 and in Vancouver 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:31.699 later on in the day 00:38:31.699 --> 00:38:32.980 and in Japan 00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:34.360 we're all part of that 00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:35.019 not only that 00:38:35.019 --> 00:38:35.579 but we're also 00:38:35.579 --> 00:38:36.719 we're part of the same 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:37.800 body as Augustine 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:39.019 who's been dead 00:38:39.019 --> 00:38:41.000 hundreds of years 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:41.679 and Calvin 00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:43.940 and Mother Teresa 00:38:43.940 --> 00:38:45.360 and Francis of Assisi 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:46.179 and Billy Graham 00:38:46.179 --> 00:38:47.719 just one body 00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:48.179 the church 00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:49.820 but he is the head 00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:50.440 of that body 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:50.800 the church 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.940 he is the beginning 00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:52.880 the first born 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:53.460 from the dead 00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:54.619 because the God 00:38:54.619 --> 00:38:55.719 who truly does exist 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:56.579 is a God of life 00:38:56.579 --> 00:38:57.480 not a God of death 00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:59.900 death is a result 00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:00.380 of sin 00:39:00.380 --> 00:39:01.220 and God saw 00:39:01.220 --> 00:39:01.800 our death 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:02.320 and our sin 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:03.180 and our inability 00:39:03.180 --> 00:39:04.200 to deal with it 00:39:04.200 --> 00:39:05.519 and out of love 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:06.059 and justice 00:39:06.059 --> 00:39:06.539 and mercy 00:39:06.539 --> 00:39:07.200 and compassion 00:39:07.200 --> 00:39:07.940 acted 00:39:07.940 --> 00:39:11.160 to do what we could not do 00:39:11.160 --> 00:39:11.840 for ourselves 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.860 but to reconcile us 00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:13.280 to him 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:17.000 that in everything 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.119 he might be preeminent 00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:19.019 for in verse 19 00:39:19.019 --> 00:39:19.539 for in him 00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:20.840 all the fullness of God 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:21.900 was pleased to dwell 00:39:21.900 --> 00:39:23.220 and such a wonderful phrase 00:39:23.220 --> 00:39:23.380 right 00:39:23.380 --> 00:39:23.740 look at this 00:39:23.740 --> 00:39:24.240 how it goes 00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:24.980 for in him 00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:26.180 all the fullness of God 00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:27.200 was pleased to dwell 00:39:27.200 --> 00:39:27.880 and through him 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:29.119 to reconcile to himself 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:29.800 all things 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:30.500 whether on earth 00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:30.940 or in heaven 00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:32.019 making peace 00:39:32.019 --> 00:39:32.980 by the blood 00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:34.840 of his cross 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.980 only the creator 00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:39.160 can count 00:39:39.160 --> 00:39:40.480 for all of the creation 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:42.700 only the gospel 00:39:42.700 --> 00:39:44.039 is the means 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:44.519 by which 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:45.220 a human being 00:39:45.220 --> 00:39:45.940 can be made right 00:39:45.940 --> 00:39:46.460 with God 00:39:46.460 --> 00:39:48.840 by faith 00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:49.680 and trust in him 00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:51.500 and to receive 00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:52.280 the gospel 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:55.000 you go 00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:55.380 and you look 00:39:55.380 --> 00:39:55.900 at the world 00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:57.860 this is my father's 00:39:57.860 --> 00:39:58.320 world 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.019 I wonder about 00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:01.720 quarks 00:40:01.720 --> 00:40:04.039 I wonder about 00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:04.519 DNA 00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:06.680 I wonder about 00:40:06.680 --> 00:40:07.340 dance 00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:08.660 I wonder about 00:40:08.660 --> 00:40:09.280 business 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:10.019 I wonder about 00:40:10.019 --> 00:40:10.680 government 00:40:10.680 --> 00:40:12.280 I wonder about 00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:13.300 how I can speak 00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:14.340 against racism 00:40:14.340 --> 00:40:16.760 I wonder how I can 00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:18.380 act against abortion 00:40:18.380 --> 00:40:21.860 I wonder what I can do 00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:22.440 to make things 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:23.420 more prosperous 00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:24.680 I wonder about 00:40:24.680 --> 00:40:25.700 how I can bear witness 00:40:25.700 --> 00:40:26.420 to Jesus 00:40:26.420 --> 00:40:29.680 I wonder how I can 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:30.119 share 00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:31.740 how wonderful it is 00:40:31.740 --> 00:40:32.700 that he died on the cross 00:40:32.700 --> 00:40:33.280 for me 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:34.380 and wants you to 00:40:34.380 --> 00:40:35.059 receive him too 00:40:35.059 --> 00:40:37.740 that's the world 00:40:37.740 --> 00:40:38.320 you enter into 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:38.900 friends 00:40:38.900 --> 00:40:41.420 please stand 00:40:41.420 --> 00:40:43.300 Andrew if you could 00:40:43.300 --> 00:40:43.920 put up the general 00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:44.579 thanksgiving 00:40:44.579 --> 00:40:49.039 thanksgiving 00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:49.599 I think this general 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:50.199 thanksgiving 00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:50.980 was written by 00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:51.559 Cramner 00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:53.659 back in the 00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:55.659 1540s 00:40:55.659 --> 00:40:56.380 that's a long 00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:57.039 time ago 00:40:57.039 --> 00:40:57.619 and I think 00:40:57.619 --> 00:40:58.239 in many ways 00:40:58.239 --> 00:40:58.599 we're going to 00:40:58.599 --> 00:40:59.239 say this prayer 00:40:59.239 --> 00:40:59.619 we're going to 00:40:59.619 --> 00:41:00.199 pray this prayer 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:00.920 every Sunday 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:01.599 at the end of the 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.119 sermon while we're 00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:02.500 going through 00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:03.059 Colossians 00:41:03.059 --> 00:41:04.000 I think it 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:04.440 brilliantly 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:05.239 encapsulates 00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:05.860 so much 00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:06.420 of the Christian 00:41:06.420 --> 00:41:06.779 message 00:41:06.779 --> 00:41:07.519 and so much 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:07.880 of what the 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:08.179 book of 00:41:08.179 --> 00:41:08.619 Colossians 00:41:08.619 --> 00:41:08.980 is trying 00:41:08.980 --> 00:41:09.480 to communicate 00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:10.159 for us 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:11.480 so I invite 00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:12.079 you to pray 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:13.059 it with me 00:41:13.059 --> 00:41:13.440 and then I'll 00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:14.039 just say an 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:14.679 extemporaneous 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:15.159 prayer in 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:15.519 closing 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:16.059 before 00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:17.579 I think it's 00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:18.039 Matt who's 00:41:18.039 --> 00:41:18.399 coming up 00:41:18.399 --> 00:41:18.799 to lead the 00:41:18.799 --> 00:41:19.440 intercessions 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:20.460 let's pray 00:41:20.460 --> 00:41:22.119 join with me 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:23.699 almighty God 00:41:23.699 --> 00:41:25.139 father of all 00:41:25.139 --> 00:41:25.759 mercies 00:41:25.759 --> 00:41:26.739 we than 00:41:26.739 --> 00:41:27.239 unworthy 00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:28.000 servants 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:28.779 do give you 00:41:28.779 --> 00:41:29.559 most humble 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:30.159 and hearty 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:30.679 thanks 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:31.779 for all your 00:41:31.779 --> 00:41:32.239 goodness 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:32.819 and loving 00:41:32.819 --> 00:41:33.339 kindness 00:41:33.339 --> 00:41:34.039 to us 00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:34.619 and to all 00:41:34.619 --> 00:41:35.039 people 00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:36.619 we bless you 00:41:36.619 --> 00:41:37.039 for our 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:37.679 creation 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:38.440 preservation 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:39.579 and all the 00:41:39.579 --> 00:41:39.960 blessings 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:40.440 of this 00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:40.840 life 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:41.900 but above 00:41:41.900 --> 00:41:42.500 all for 00:41:42.500 --> 00:41:42.679 your 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:43.480 inestimable 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:43.960 love 00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:44.519 in the 00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:44.960 redemption 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:45.360 of the 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:45.699 world 00:41:45.699 --> 00:41:46.159 by our 00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:46.440 Lord 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:46.760 Jesus 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:47.320 Christ 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:48.139 for the 00:41:48.139 --> 00:41:48.480 means 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:49.099 of grace 00:41:49.099 --> 00:41:49.659 and for 00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:50.059 the hope 00:41:50.059 --> 00:41:50.639 of glory 00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:51.720 and we 00:41:51.720 --> 00:41:52.539 beseech you 00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:53.199 give us 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:53.740 that due 00:41:53.740 --> 00:41:54.199 sense 00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:54.679 of all 00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:54.920 your 00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:55.539 mercies 00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:56.320 that our 00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:56.659 hearts 00:41:56.659 --> 00:41:57.139 may be 00:41:57.139 --> 00:41:57.840 unfaintedly 00:41:57.840 --> 00:41:58.380 thankful 00:41:58.380 --> 00:41:59.199 and that 00:41:59.199 --> 00:41:59.659 we show 00:41:59.659 --> 00:42:00.300 forth your 00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:00.920 praise 00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:01.599 not only 00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:02.059 with our 00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:02.460 lips 00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:03.179 but in 00:42:03.179 --> 00:42:03.340 our 00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:03.880 lives 00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:04.780 by giving 00:42:04.780 --> 00:42:05.599 up ourselves 00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:06.079 to your 00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:06.599 service 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:07.639 and by 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:08.139 walking 00:42:08.139 --> 00:42:08.900 before you 00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:09.539 in holiness 00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:10.380 and righteousness 00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:11.119 all our 00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:11.619 days 00:42:11.619 --> 00:42:12.239 through 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:12.619 Jesus 00:42:12.619 --> 00:42:13.119 Christ 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:13.400 our 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:13.800 Lord 00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:14.559 to whom 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.000 with you 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:15.259 and the 00:42:15.259 --> 00:42:16.039 Holy Spirit 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:16.460 be all 00:42:16.460 --> 00:42:17.000 honor and 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:17.380 glory 00:42:17.380 --> 00:42:18.440 world without 00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:18.980 end 00:42:18.980 --> 00:42:19.679 amen 00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:21.199 father thank you 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:21.960 for the gospel 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:23.300 thank you for your word 00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:25.560 thank you for science 00:42:25.560 --> 00:42:31.560 thank you father for those in this room who you've blessed with fine minds for science 00:42:31.560 --> 00:42:42.920 for mathematics for medicine for government for good public service for good business for art 00:42:42.920 --> 00:43:12.900 thank you for 00:43:12.900 --> 00:43:25.900 various vocations for various vocations to live in such a way that we are always thankful for jesus and can bear witness to him and all this we ask in the name of jesus and all god's people said amen 00:43:25.900 --> 00:43:27.760 thank you so much for Ciao被 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:44.019 my