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 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama.

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! Our passion is to experience and express grace.

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 I'll say this, I don't know if you saw, there was a pastor that did like 96 hours in a row.

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 He preached for 96 hours, starting in Genesis all the way through Revelation.

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 So two hours from now, it won't seem so bad compared to that.

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 Let me, we're looking at really the issue of hasn't science disproven God?

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 And I want to start with two stories, two real simple stories.

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 I was on staff at a church and there was this elementary age girl that like, you know,

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 during, you know, showing up on Wednesday for worship on Sunday, if she saw me, she would walk up.

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 And only like how elementary age girls can do, she would go to me and she would say,

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 Bill Nye, the science guy, and then walk off.

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 Like, you know, and all the time.

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 Okay, I get it.

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 Bill Nash, Bill Nye, that kind of makes sense.

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 I am not a science guy.

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 Not even close.

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 Not even close.

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 Second story.

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 I moved to Huntsville with my family in the mid-70s, 1975.

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 And right away you could tell what was in Huntsville.

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 It's NASA, right?

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 It was really clear to me, even as a seventh grader at Whitesburg, that, you know,

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 there was something going on.

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 Because a lot of the kids in my class had parents that were engineers.

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 And every school book report was on some aspect of the space shuttle.

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 And I remember late 70s, I think it was probably the first time that they brought the space shuttle in

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 on the back of that 747 that we used to transport it.

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 And they flew it around town.

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 It was so cool.

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 I was so proud to be living in Huntsville.

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 And I'm still proud to live in Huntsville.

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 But if you are in Huntsville, there are a lot of PhDs, a lot of PhDs in this room.

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 There are a lot of very smart, smart people.

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 And it can be intimidating.

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 It can be extremely intimidating.

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 Because I'm not a science guy.

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 And I know maybe some of you feel intimidated to talk about your faith,

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 maybe with someone that's very intelligent, PhD, all that.

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 I used to feel that way.

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 But I found something.

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 And it's not so much answers, like being able to answer every question, every objection.

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 It's not so much that.

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 It's actually a posture.

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 It's a posture.

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 And it's very ironic that I would say that because I have terrible posture.

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 But it's a posture that we take because of who we are in Christ.

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 And that posture is something that I want to point out and show you.

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 So let's look at Psalm 14.

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 This is the...

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 Right now, we're going to look at the first three verses.

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 Then we'll look at the verse number four.

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 And at the very end of the sermon, two hours from now, we will look at the last verses.

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 But let's start here.

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 Let's start with verse one of Psalm 14.

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 The fool says in his heart, there is no God.

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 They are corrupt.

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 They do abominable deeds.

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 There is none who does good.

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 The Lord looks down from heaven and on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

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 They have all turned aside together.

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 All turned aside.

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 Together they have become corrupt.

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 There is none who does good.

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 Not even one.

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 I just want to stop there.

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 The word fool, right?

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 It seems like the psalmist is just, you know, calling somebody a name.

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 But in scripture, in the Bible, a fool is not primarily someone who cannot see the truth.

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 But someone who does not want to submit to it.

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 Another way of saying that they suffer from destructive self-centeredness.

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 And they respond to truth.

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 And they respond to truth.

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 God's truth.

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 Revealed truth.

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 They respond to that with an irresponsible gesture of defiance.

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 The fool isn't someone that doesn't have the mental capacity to understand.

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 The fool is somebody who does understand, sees it, but chooses to follow their own self-destructive heart on the matter.

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 Whatever it is.

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 Especially when God reveals his word.

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 That's what a fool is.

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 And that's what's being sort of mentioned here.

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 And so I could summarize verses 1 through 3 this way.

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 A fool knows the truth.

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 In this case, it's the law of God.

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 Because it says none do good.

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 How do we know what's good?

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 It's because God reveals what is good and what is evil.

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 And we have to trust what he calls evil is evil and what is good is good.

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 But a fool says no.

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 I will determine what is good and what is evil.

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 And so I am not going to listen.

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 I'm going to go my way.

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 It's an open disregard of God's word.

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 God's truth.

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 So in a commentary by Derek Kidner, he sort of ties it together this way.

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 He says the last word on atheism, you know, the fool says there is no God.

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 That's atheism.

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 The last word on atheism is said in Romans 1.22.

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 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

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 The judgment of that is vindicated in the sequence of verses 19 through 28.

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 What can be known about God is plain to them.

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 It's plain.

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 But they did not see fit to acknowledge God.

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 That is a fool.

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 Now, next part, verse 4.

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 So we see the fool that says there is no God.

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 They want their own way.

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 They're going to disregard God's word.

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 And now they're going to use people to get what they want.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 Have they no knowledge?

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 All the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord.

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 So there you have it.

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 If we don't treat people as image bearers and if we don't look after the well-being of other people, and if we're only looking after our well-being, other people can be used to get what we want.

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 And one of the ways that you can use people is you turn them into a caricature, meaning that, eh, that's just that.

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 That's just them.

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 That's how they act.

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 That's who they are.

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 And I can disregard them and I can use them however I want to get whatever I want.

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 You're not looking after the well-being of someone else.

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 And so in that regard, then you can just treat people like bread.

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 And you can eat them up if you want to and spit them out.

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 That's what's ultimately being said there.

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 And so where do you begin, though?

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 If that's what's going on, and I'm not a science guy, I'm naturally intimidated by those smarter than me, which is pretty much everybody.

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 So where to begin to answer the question, hasn't science disproven God?

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 So if we read those texts, those four verses, where do you begin?

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 You begin with yourself.

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 Start with yourself.

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 By seeing yourself in those four verses.

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 By seeing yourself as the fool.

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 Right?

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 Because we are practically an atheist when we know what God says is good and what he says is evil.

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 And we want our own way.

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 And so we're going to do the opposite of what is good.

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 We are functionally, practically atheists as well.

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 Does that make sense?

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 Right?

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 So we see ourselves in those first three verses, certainly.

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 And then we see ourselves as the evildoer, the fool in verse four.

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 Because when we don't look after the, oh, we only look after our own interest, but not the interest of others or the well-being of others.

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 We are practically atheists.

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 Because God's great command that Jesus said is love God with every ounce of your being.

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 And love your neighbor as yourself.

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 And so if we don't do that, we're the fool.

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 We're fools.

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 We're fools.

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 And we're practically atheists when we do that.

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 Because we're saying, I want my way, not God's.

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 Because if we look at the life of Jesus, what did he do?

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 He fulfilled the law perfectly.

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 He was without sin.

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 He fulfilled it perfectly.

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 And he looked after the well-being of others.

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 He looked after my well-being, which I needed rescue.

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 You need rescue.

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 He looked after our well-being and went to the cross.

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 He lived out the opposite of a fool, completely and perfectly.

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 That's our Jesus.

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 And so truly, if we believe at all, because we were dead in our sins, as Alan said in his prayer, we were dead in our sins.

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 And God made us alive.

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 We were fools.

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 And God gave us new hearts and made us alive.

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 It's purely a gift that we even call upon the name of the Lord.

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 It's a gift completely.

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 And so you start there with your own heart.

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 Because you can relate.

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 Because if God rescued you, gave you a new heart, because you were a fool, lost, and never wanting anything to do with God,

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 he called you out of that by giving you a new heart.

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 If that's true, then there's hope for everyone.

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 The truth that we are as much an atheist when we disobey God's law, don't follow it, it humbles us.

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 But because we know God gave us a new heart and there was hope for us and we were lost, then we know there's hope for everyone.

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 And so in that regard, where do you begin?

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 You begin with your own heart.

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 But confess that you are often a fool and surrender in a posture of bold humility.

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 That's the starting point.

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 That is the starting point.

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 So now what is belief?

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 Or rather, how does anyone come to believe something?

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 Now I'm going to give you a big grand footnote here.

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 I'm going to tell you who I've been stealing from.

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 Stephen C. Mayer, he wrote the book The God Hypothesis.

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 He has a documentary out that I think everyone in this room should see.

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 It is fantastic.

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 It's spectacular.

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 It's called The Story of Everything.

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 All about what I'm about to say comes from that, except when I'm quoting Tim Keller, which is he's all over this too.

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 Because he did an amazing job, Tim Keller, synthesizing some of the things that we'll be pointing to that indicate there is a God that created all of this.

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 Okay, so there's my footnote.

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 You all ready?

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 We're going to start talking about science stuff.

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 For the past 2,500 years, there's been two stories, two predominant stories in our culture.

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 One story that has moved along through the years is that this is all there is.

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 It's a materialistic view of all that is, all the energy and all the matter that exists.

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 And all that energy and matter has just sort of fell in place.

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 We were just this lucky, lucky, lucky universe.

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 Everything just sort of fell into place.

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 It went from simple to complex.

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 And that's the materialist view, essentially.

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 And that's been a prevailing thought for, you know, many, you know, 2,500 years.

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 That story.

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 It's a story of the nature of reality.

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 The other story is that there was a creator, a mind behind everything.

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 The first story is that there was mindlessness.

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 There was nothing behind what is and what we see and what we touch.

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 Nothing.

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 It just happened.

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 Okay?

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 The other story is there's a mind behind it all.

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 There's an intelligence behind everything that's created that's out there.

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 That there was a mind that conceived and executed and planned and created.

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 And one of the major prevailing thoughts in our world is that of those two stories, only the one materialist side is true science.

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 Science only happens in that story.

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 That's the prevailing thought.

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 It's the social imaginaries, Charles Taylor would say.

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 It's kind of the accepted idea that science is just there.

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 Because when you start asking about an intelligent designer or a god, you're out of the realm of science.

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 And I don't believe that.

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 I'm going to show you why.

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 But that prevailing thought is so overwhelming.

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 The sort of the naturalist, materialistic science mascot of the world right now is a very brilliant man named Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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 And he says this.

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 He says, because this idea that science cannot determine at all, nothing, of whether there's an intelligent designer or even a god.

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 He says this.

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 I have no problem if as we probe the origins of things that we bump into the bearded man.

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 That's how he refers to God.

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 The bearded man.

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 If that shows up, we're good to go.

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 Okay?

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 No problem.

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 And this is what he said.

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 There's just no evidence.

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 There's just no evidence is what he says.

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 So you see, really, the idea is that science only happens on that story.

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 Now, I think this is helpful.

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 Sir Isaac Newton would not have referred to himself as a scientist.

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 And primarily because that word wasn't coined until a couple hundred years after him.

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 But in the late 1600s, early 1700s, he would have thought of himself as a natural philosopher.

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 And in fact, the four pillars of like education at the highest levels have always been philosophy, theology, law, and medicine.

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 When we lived in Atlanta, there was just a great pizza place across from Emory University.

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 That's not there anymore, which makes me so sad.

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 But in that pizza place, there were two paintings, two almost like life-size, six feet tall or so, of those represented those four pillars of education.

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 Philosophy, theology, law, and medicine.

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 And in that classical study, science would be under the philosophy heading.

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 And so would art.

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 And so for many centuries, there was just no idea that they weren't integrated somehow.

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 And now in our world, it's like, no, science is over here.

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 You really, the whole theology thing is separate.

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 Like, absolutely separate.

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 All right.

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 So how can we know anything?

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 That's a little bit of background.

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 But we have to ask the question, how can we know anything?

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 Well, there are three aspects of knowing something.

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 You have to have truth.

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 You have to see its relevance for your life.

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 See how it's relevant.

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 And then usually the experience as it's played out, you know, out in a practical way among people.

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 I mean, you could say the science thing is you look at truth.

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 Does it match up to how you're thinking about it?

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 And are there a bunch of other scientists that think the same way?

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 And that's one possible application of that.

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 But with all that in mind, let's go back to those two great competing stories.

00:17:11.139 --> 00:17:12.519
 Does everybody follow me so far?

00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:14.159
 Trying to keep everybody awake, okay?

00:17:14.419 --> 00:17:14.980
 Let's go.

00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:16.559
 Let's keep it happening.

00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.000
 So those stories are marching along.

00:17:22.159 --> 00:17:29.000
 And going into the 20th century, all the momentum was for one of the stories, the materialist story.

00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:40.880
 Because you have Darwin doing his thing, and it seems like this world has always been, and it seems like it goes from, you know, tiny, simple cells to very, you know, organized cells.

00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.880
 And things just grow and evolve, and it's been here a long time.

00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:48.740
 And that was the momentum going into the 20th century.

00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:57.599
 And what happened with the discoveries in the 20th century, actually the last 126 years, they were unexpected discoveries.

00:17:57.599 --> 00:17:59.759
 These were things that were not expected.

00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:04.819
 The narrative of that story, that there's all that there is, is just that it is.

00:18:04.819 --> 00:18:05.539
 It's not created.

00:18:05.719 --> 00:18:07.059
 It didn't have a mind behind it.

00:18:07.439 --> 00:18:13.819
 The momentum there was, everything that came out really pushes against it.

00:18:14.619 --> 00:18:15.579
 They were unexpected.

00:18:15.779 --> 00:18:19.279
 This is Stephen Mayer, a philosophy of science.

00:18:20.019 --> 00:18:23.559
 He wrote the God hypothesis in the movie I mentioned, The Story of Everything.

00:18:23.679 --> 00:18:24.359
 This is the quote.

00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:31.099
 He said, no one expected that the physical universe of matter, space, time, and energy would have a definite beginning.

00:18:31.859 --> 00:18:39.299
 Going into the 20th century, people were moving away from the myth of what's in Scripture, the myth in quotes.

00:18:40.159 --> 00:18:45.859
 And there was no expectation that they would discover anything that really said this had a beginning.

00:18:45.859 --> 00:18:53.859
 And then no one expected that the universe would be finely tuned against all odds to make life possible.

00:18:54.799 --> 00:19:11.399
 Richard Dawkins himself, a famous sort of, you know, popular atheist, has confessed to being knocked sideways with the wonder at the miniaturized intricacies of the data processing machinery inside the cell.

00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:16.100
 Those, we are not living in a vast, meaningless universe.

00:19:16.460 --> 00:19:26.620
 From the forces holding the cosmos together to the instructions in the DNA in our own bodies, we see evidence that everything was intended for a purpose.

00:19:26.860 --> 00:19:30.540
 That the story of everything is not blind, pitiless, indifference.

00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.540
 But the unfolding of a design that all of us are part of.

00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:35.960
 And this is the great line.

00:19:36.060 --> 00:19:37.580
 This is at the very end of this documentary.

00:19:37.579 --> 00:19:43.199
 And surprisingly, perhaps it is science that has revealed this.

00:19:44.500 --> 00:19:53.339
 The contention of Stephen Mayer is that science is, made these discoveries, science is revealing a designer.

00:19:53.939 --> 00:19:54.960
 That's incredible.

00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:56.899
 Incredible thought.

00:19:57.879 --> 00:20:03.519
 Now, we're going to look at those three things that he mentioned and I break it out this way.

00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:09.460
 We're going to say, we're going to, these unexpected discoveries, and it's great to maybe think of them as clues.

00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:12.279
 We're going to look at a beginning.

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 And maybe the word I would have you remember is red light.

00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:18.000
 We're going to look at a Goldilocks universe.

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 And the word I would like for you to remember for that part is entropy.

00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.259
 And then we're going to see a designer.

00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.160
 And the word that might help you remember would be code.

00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:28.240
 So let's start with the first thing.

00:20:28.779 --> 00:20:30.680
 Let's start with a beginning.

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 So Einstein, right?

00:20:34.220 --> 00:20:36.100
 We all know who Einstein is, right?

00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:39.080
 Albert Einstein, brilliant man.

00:20:40.320 --> 00:20:46.380
 His general relativity theory and his books, early part of the 20th century.

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 He began to look at the universe.

00:20:55.060 --> 00:20:56.680
 And especially with gravity.

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 And one thing I've learned is to sort of maybe think about it like a trampoline that in the backyard, if you put bowling balls on a trampoline and the canvas is time and space.

00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:18.360
 And if the bowling balls represent, you know, large planets, stars that have a gravitational pull, you stick them on the trampoline, it bends time and space.

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 All right?

00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:25.220
 So he was looking at the universe and he said, man, gravity is this incredible force that's out there.

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 And it seems my equations are adding up to a beginning.

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 He didn't like that.

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 He came from that story that said, no, everything is all that is.

00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:39.900
 And, you know, he just didn't like this idea that his equations was pointing to a start.

00:21:39.900 --> 00:21:44.040
 So he threw in a fudge factor, which sounds exactly like what I did in math.

00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:46.180
 I would just throw in a fudge factor, you know.

00:21:46.280 --> 00:21:47.259
 Show your work, Bill.

00:21:47.540 --> 00:21:48.040
 You know.

00:21:48.780 --> 00:21:50.660
 Okay, here, I need a zero right there.

00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:51.860
 That will make it come to the answer.

00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:53.759
 But he sort of did that.

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 He called it a cosmological constant.

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 Because he knew that if all out there was just gravity, then that gravity would start pulling on each other.

00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:05.519
 And the biggest ball of gravity would start sucking all the other things in there.

00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:08.460
 And it would be an absolute mess in creation.

00:22:09.179 --> 00:22:10.000
 Absolute mess.

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 And so he had said, there must be some other force out there that gives it its static where it just stays where it is.

00:22:17.579 --> 00:22:19.839
 And so he threw in that fudge factor.

00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:29.859
 So across town, across the world, there was an astronomer that was looking at the stars, a guy named Vestos Slipher.

00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:32.799
 I wouldn't get any of these names on a test, by the way.

00:22:34.019 --> 00:22:35.339
 I wouldn't remember that.

00:22:35.699 --> 00:22:37.019
 But I do remember this.

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 As he's looking, this is the early, you know, 20th century.

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 The telescopes, not as good as they would be and keep getting better.

00:22:44.639 --> 00:22:46.379
 But he was looking up at, like, nebula.

00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:49.660
 And later on, they realized these were galaxies.

00:22:50.060 --> 00:22:54.500
 But they had, they were emitting, I guess, what's called the red shift.

00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:59.860
 And if you take a light and you shine it through a prism, it breaks up the light into colors.

00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:02.220
 And this is one thing I do remember from physics.

00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:03.800
 Roy G. Biv.

00:23:03.940 --> 00:23:05.040
 We all know what that is, right?

00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:08.340
 Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

00:23:08.339 --> 00:23:17.659
 But it turns out the red, which is like electromagnetic, on the electromagnetic spectrum, is the longest wavelength.

00:23:18.379 --> 00:23:26.959
 So that means that this Slipher dude, when he was looking up at the astronomer, everything was moving away because it was emitting that light, that red light.

00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:29.679
 And so he's going, hey, everything's moving away.

00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.840
 And Einstein, I don't know if he was aware of it, but just ignoring that.

00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:40.220
 But he gets in, in 1927, Einstein gets in a cab, or maybe it's the other way around.

00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:45.460
 This guy named George LaMatra, a Roman Catholic priest, Belgian priest, that was a scientist.

00:23:45.820 --> 00:23:49.360
 He gets in a cab with Einstein, which sounds like the start of a joke, right?

00:23:49.940 --> 00:23:51.820
 A Belgian priest gets in the car with Einstein.

00:23:51.819 --> 00:23:51.939
 Einstein.

00:23:52.639 --> 00:23:57.679
 But he's there, and this priest, scientist, he speaks up, and he goes, hey, hey, Einstein.

00:24:00.639 --> 00:24:06.879
 He goes, I've done your equations, and they add up to a beginning.

00:24:07.679 --> 00:24:09.639
 And he said, you know what helps me accept that?

00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:15.099
 He said, they are discovering that these galaxies are moving away.

00:24:15.339 --> 00:24:16.819
 They're emitting that red shift.

00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:19.359
 And Einstein shut them down and said, beat it.

00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:21.319
 You know, I'm Einstein, you're not.

00:24:22.679 --> 00:24:24.659
 He dismissed it.

00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:27.799
 Four years later, he gets invited to go out to California.

00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:34.399
 Hubble, Dr. Hubble, he invites them out, and he goes, I want you to, you know, come take a look at what we're seeing.

00:24:34.639 --> 00:24:39.819
 Because they had better telescopes, and they were charting every galaxy they could see.

00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.259
 And all of them were emitting the red shift, the red light.

00:24:44.879 --> 00:24:46.019
 Everything's moving out.

00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:49.539
 So Einstein looks through there, and he admits.

00:24:50.039 --> 00:25:00.779
 He said, he acknowledged that his fine-tuning of the cosmological constant, that fudge factor he had to stick into his equations, was the greatest blunder of his scientific career.

00:25:00.779 --> 00:25:05.180
 So our universe had a beginning.

00:25:05.180 --> 00:25:06.399
 Everything's moving out.

00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:07.539
 Now the next thing.

00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:16.240
 It turns out that we live in a Goldilocks universe, that everything is just right.

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.660
 Not too hot.

00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:18.420
 Not too cold.

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:19.839
 Not too big.

00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:20.299
 Not too little.

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:23.400
 Everything is just right for life.

00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:25.359
 For life.

00:25:25.779 --> 00:25:33.980
 And even Fred Hoyle, who, a famous scientist, pressed this idea of a steady state, that no, it's everything static and fixed.

00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:38.259
 He had to change his mind when he started to look at the carbon.

00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:39.579
 There's this thing that he did with carbon.

00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:40.660
 We don't want to talk about that.

00:25:41.220 --> 00:25:44.500
 But he has this famous quote, and it goes this way.

00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:54.680
 He said, a common sense interpretation of the evidence suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics and chemistry to make life possible.

00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:57.599
 Now he went from being an atheist to agnostic.

00:25:57.720 --> 00:25:59.940
 He just goes, it's just, boy, it just seems this way.

00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:01.599
 Somebody monkeyed with it.

00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:07.359
 But we do see fine-tuning in our universe.

00:26:08.659 --> 00:26:15.159
 But even more interesting, at least for me, and I want to hopefully make it interesting for you, is this idea of entropy.

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:19.599
 The idea of entropy is that things are disintegrating.

00:26:20.299 --> 00:26:25.019
 Things are going from order to disorder in our universe, and we can see that.

00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:31.379
 But it's amazing to think, like right now we're looking at a universe, and it's perfectly fine-tuned for life.

00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:40.519
 And if you reverse everything and you start heading back that way, the law of entropy says things are going to get more and more ordered as you go further and further and further back.

00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:44.579
 That means, and it's so interesting, and Jay Richard says this.

00:26:44.660 --> 00:26:52.039
 He said, but there's another type of fine-tuning, and that's the fine-tuning of the initial arrangement of matter at the very beginning of the universe.

00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:53.139
 Right?

00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.220
 You take all the matter, you go back to the universe.

00:26:55.220 --> 00:27:04.559
 And if you thought the idea of a big bang was one of order emerging from chaos, he said, get that out of your mind.

00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:06.019
 It's exactly the opposite.

00:27:06.600 --> 00:27:10.720
 What we have is the initial moment of exquisite precision and order.

00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:14.440
 At the point of creation, precision.

00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:17.700
 That's like a concept, right?

00:27:17.819 --> 00:27:18.460
 It can be measured.

00:27:18.460 --> 00:27:20.340
 But, like, how do you get precision?

00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:22.240
 That comes from a mind.

00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:24.019
 That comes from an intelligence.

00:27:25.340 --> 00:27:30.900
 That points, even again, to a creator.

00:27:30.900 --> 00:27:34.620
 And then the third thing, a designer, a code.

00:27:36.460 --> 00:27:38.259
 We, you know, I love, I'm proud of Huntsville.

00:27:38.340 --> 00:27:39.740
 Now we've got Hudson Alpha, right?

00:27:39.800 --> 00:27:40.400
 The genome.

00:27:40.800 --> 00:27:42.540
 All this cool stuff that's going on there.

00:27:43.100 --> 00:27:52.640
 You go back to Crick and Hudson, who, you know, sort of formulated and expressed how the DNA molecule, how that is ordered.

00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:54.580
 And how it's structured.

00:27:55.060 --> 00:27:56.120
 The double helix.

00:27:56.540 --> 00:27:59.180
 But even more important, they got the Nobel Prize for that.

00:27:59.180 --> 00:28:07.880
 But Crick, one of the two dudes that discovered all that, he was a World War II code breaker.

00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:14.519
 And so he's looking at the DNA molecule and he is seeing these chemical subunits.

00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.380
 They're functioning like alphabetical characters in a written text.

00:28:19.080 --> 00:28:24.080
 And so he's seeing this and he's able to decode and see how things are in order.

00:28:24.180 --> 00:28:26.620
 And if you do it this way and not that way.

00:28:26.619 --> 00:28:33.179
 He was pointing to a genetic code that is currently being looked at now.

00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:39.559
 But you can have alphabets in a range.

00:28:39.639 --> 00:28:42.679
 Like if you had monkeys typing away on a typewriter.

00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:45.840
 What they type out is improbable.

00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.220
 Because you couldn't have predicted whatever they type out.

00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:49.019
 But it's gibberish.

00:28:49.620 --> 00:28:53.039
 But when you have something that's typed out and it has a function.

00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:56.000
 And if it has a function.

00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:01.299
 Then that indicates a mind.

00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:04.940
 The arrangement of characters in a specific to perform a function.

00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:08.480
 In fact, whenever we see information like that.

00:29:08.779 --> 00:29:10.080
 We see information.

00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:11.799
 We trace it back to a source.

00:29:12.779 --> 00:29:15.039
 Information always goes back to a source.

00:29:16.120 --> 00:29:19.320
 Whether we're looking at software code or hieroglyphics.

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:21.500
 A paragraph in a book.

00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:25.519
 If we trace the information back to its ultimate source.

00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:27.140
 We always come to a mind.

00:29:27.299 --> 00:29:29.200
 Not a material process.

00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:33.539
 Because the discoveries in science in the 20th century.

00:29:33.620 --> 00:29:35.120
 The last 126 years.

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:41.100
 Are all pushing towards a designer behind all of this.

00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:42.680
 Okay.

00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:45.000
 Deep breath.

00:29:45.600 --> 00:29:46.480
 Where are we on time?

00:29:46.600 --> 00:29:46.819
 Okay.

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:47.840
 So far so good.

00:29:49.259 --> 00:29:51.740
 Let's go back to the three aspects of knowledge.

00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:58.680
 All the scientists for the past 126 years.

00:29:59.180 --> 00:30:02.259
 Have access to that information.

00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:03.799
 It's out there.

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:04.680
 These theories.

00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:05.960
 Everything is out there.

00:30:07.019 --> 00:30:08.000
 It's peer reviewed.

00:30:08.259 --> 00:30:08.839
 It's all this.

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.880
 You know, it's out there.

00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:12.380
 The question really is.

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:14.680
 With these unexpected discoveries.

00:30:15.940 --> 00:30:17.620
 What do you do with it?

00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:18.880
 What do you do with it?

00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:21.099
 Richard Dawkins.

00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:25.539
 He's famous for being part of what I refer to as the boy band.

00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:26.480
 The New Atheists.

00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:29.879
 In the early 2000s.

00:30:29.980 --> 00:30:32.019
 He had a book called The Blind Watchmaker.

00:30:32.019 --> 00:30:36.899
 This is how he dealt with those unexpected discoveries.

00:30:37.539 --> 00:30:37.799
 He said,

00:30:37.879 --> 00:30:42.839
 Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.

00:30:43.419 --> 00:30:44.339
 Just the appearance.

00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:45.719
 He also said,

00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:47.139
 Far from pointing to a designer.

00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:52.620
 The illusion of design in the living world is explained by Darwinian natural selection.

00:30:53.259 --> 00:30:54.100
 So here's the deal.

00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:55.440
 They come to a fork in the road.

00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:57.340
 Two stories.

00:30:58.060 --> 00:30:59.600
 They come to that fork in the road.

00:31:00.280 --> 00:31:01.480
 One group of scientists.

00:31:01.620 --> 00:31:01.880
 And they say,

00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:02.540
 If you're a scientist,

00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:03.700
 You'll probably go,

00:31:04.020 --> 00:31:04.340
 I don't know,

00:31:04.360 --> 00:31:05.020
 To the right.

00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.500
 My left.

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:10.200
 But then there's the story that says,

00:31:10.259 --> 00:31:11.660
 This has all been done by a creator.

00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:13.619
 There's the intellectual mind behind all of this.

00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:14.359
 And they go to the right.

00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:15.180
 How is that?

00:31:18.019 --> 00:31:18.359
 You know,

00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.200
 What do we do with that?

00:31:19.259 --> 00:31:21.539
 Is one science and the other one not?

00:31:21.539 --> 00:31:23.299
 Well,

00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:24.440
 There's this great illustration.

00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:26.539
 Let's see if I can do it justice.

00:31:26.859 --> 00:31:27.960
 It's done by Luke Barnes.

00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:30.019
 He's a PhD astrophysicist.

00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:31.180
 And this is how he said it.

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:31.539
 He said,

00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:33.339
 Imagine you were a detective.

00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:34.539
 Okay.

00:31:34.659 --> 00:31:36.259
 And you get called down to this bank.

00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:37.639
 It's just been robbed.

00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:40.339
 And they've got the security video.

00:31:40.579 --> 00:31:43.099
 And you sit there and you watch the security video.

00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:45.180
 And you see the bank robbers come in.

00:31:45.420 --> 00:31:46.659
 They go up to the safe.

00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.500
 And on the right is this,

00:31:48.579 --> 00:31:49.000
 You know,

00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:50.000
 Security code.

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:51.940
 And they walk straight up to it.

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.400
 Punch in an eight-digit number.

00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:54.000
 And boom.

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:55.160
 The safe opens.

00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:58.480
 You have two things you can think.

00:31:58.980 --> 00:31:59.259
 Either,

00:31:59.420 --> 00:31:59.660
 Man,

00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:00.359
 That was lucky.

00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:01.279
 Those guys,

00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:02.339
 They just walked up and said,

00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:05.259
 I'm just going to think of the first eight-digit number.

00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:06.279
 And I'm just going to punch it in.

00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:07.519
 And it worked.

00:32:07.579 --> 00:32:08.400
 That's one theory.

00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:09.599
 The other theory is,

00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:11.319
 It was an inside job.

00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:13.099
 Somebody told them the code.

00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:15.000
 And they went in and punched it in.

00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:16.000
 Now,

00:32:16.099 --> 00:32:16.700
 Here's the deal.

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:17.640
 He said,

00:32:17.779 --> 00:32:18.920
 In his analogy,

00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:19.400
 He said,

00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:20.160
 Now,

00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:21.400
 What happens?

00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:22.280
 And what are you thinking?

00:32:22.380 --> 00:32:23.440
 What are your expectations?

00:32:23.600 --> 00:32:28.280
 If you're the part of the first theory that it was just dumb luck that they did this,

00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:30.580
 Right before they punch in the code,

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:31.920
 If you pause the video,

00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.460
 You would,

00:32:33.560 --> 00:32:34.660
 The question is,

00:32:35.140 --> 00:32:36.140
 What would you,

00:32:36.340 --> 00:32:36.840
 Would you,

00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:42.140
 What would be your expectation of them putting in the right code the first time?

00:32:42.780 --> 00:32:44.660
 Your expectation would be,

00:32:45.060 --> 00:32:45.759
 No way.

00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.019
 Your expectation.

00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:51.019
 The highest degree of certainty that you could say is,

00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:52.059
 There is,

00:32:52.180 --> 00:32:54.900
 There are millions of combinations.

00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:57.379
 The fact that they would be lucky for that first one,

00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:59.039
 Your expectation is,

00:32:59.139 --> 00:32:59.299
 No,

00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:00.759
 They'll punch in the wrong code.

00:33:01.099 --> 00:33:02.119
 That's your expectation.

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:04.059
 And if that's that theory,

00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:05.200
 It's just been dumb luck,

00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:06.259
 Hmm,

00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:07.220
 That's a toughie.

00:33:07.619 --> 00:33:10.160
 But if you knew there was an inside job,

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.259
 What would you be your expectation as the finger is hovering over the code?

00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:15.839
 Your expectation would be,

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:16.879
 They would punch it in perfect,

00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:18.079
 And they would open it up,

00:33:18.099 --> 00:33:18.599
 And it would be done.

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:20.680
 So,

00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.259
 All that to say this,

00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:23.079
 Right?

00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:24.900
 We got two people come to the fork in the road,

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:25.440
 One says,

00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:26.700
 This is all science,

00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:27.180
 This other one,

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:27.720
 You guys are,

00:33:28.259 --> 00:33:29.339
 The God thing,

00:33:29.420 --> 00:33:30.000
 That's crazy.

00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:32.099
 All right,

00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:32.440
 Again,

00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:33.700
 Maybe a little lengthy quote here,

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.580
 But it's possible,

00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:35.779
 This is from Stephen Mayer,

00:33:35.860 --> 00:33:37.900
 It's possible by random means,

00:33:38.500 --> 00:33:39.720
 That some process,

00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:44.400
 Would have stumbled on exactly the parameters needed to create a life-friendly universe.

00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:44.940
 Right?

00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:48.200
 That's what the materialists are hoping for when they go,

00:33:48.299 --> 00:33:48.480
 Well,

00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:49.680
 It's just dumb luck.

00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:50.880
 We're going that way.

00:33:52.380 --> 00:33:52.620
 He said,

00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:52.980
 But,

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:54.680
 Our overwhelming expectation,

00:33:55.620 --> 00:33:57.519
 If we consider the odds,

00:33:57.900 --> 00:33:59.299
 Is that without guidance,

00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:01.900
 We would get a life-unfriendly universe.

00:34:02.860 --> 00:34:03.340
 Right?

00:34:03.339 --> 00:34:04.559
 That's the expectation.

00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.079
 If you just know it's all random,

00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:08.420
 And there's nothing behind this,

00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:09.159
 There's no intelligence,

00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:11.400
 The expectation is,

00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:13.099
 This would be an unfriendly universe.

00:34:14.340 --> 00:34:14.819
 But,

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:16.519
 That's not the kind of universe we see.

00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:16.940
 Instead,

00:34:17.179 --> 00:34:19.539
 We see the kind of universe we would expect,

00:34:20.019 --> 00:34:22.099
 If it had been intentionally set up for life,

00:34:22.619 --> 00:34:24.539
 Suggesting that it was intended.

00:34:24.900 --> 00:34:26.759
 Fine-tuning implies a fine-tuner.

00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:28.719
 So,

00:34:28.819 --> 00:34:30.360
 While chance is logically possible,

00:34:30.779 --> 00:34:33.179
 Design or intention becomes the most reasonable,

00:34:33.179 --> 00:34:33.659
 Inference.

00:34:34.399 --> 00:34:35.919
 And scientists in the room,

00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:39.000
 Every scientist looks at the data,

00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:40.879
 And they infer certain things.

00:34:41.759 --> 00:34:42.279
 They just,

00:34:42.399 --> 00:34:42.759
 They do.

00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:44.819
 And that's part of it.

00:34:45.699 --> 00:34:46.500
 And so,

00:34:47.339 --> 00:34:48.879
 And this is to paraphrase Keller.

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:49.980
 Guys,

00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:51.079
 We're getting close to the end here.

00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:52.159
 Just stick with me.

00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.719
 He said it this way.

00:34:55.779 --> 00:34:56.599
 As proof,

00:34:56.839 --> 00:34:57.159
 Again,

00:34:57.339 --> 00:34:58.139
 As proof,

00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:00.059
 As proof,

00:35:00.539 --> 00:35:02.259
 You have a finite beginning argument,

00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:04.819
 The Goldilocks fine-tuning argument,

00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:06.460
 The existence of information,

00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.199
 Are rationally avoidable.

00:35:09.500 --> 00:35:11.039
 You can rationally avoid them.

00:35:12.099 --> 00:35:12.579
 Rationally.

00:35:13.319 --> 00:35:13.659
 Okay,

00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:14.179
 You can say,

00:35:14.259 --> 00:35:15.559
 I think it's luck.

00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:17.019
 Multiverse,

00:35:17.139 --> 00:35:17.859
 Whatever you would say.

00:35:17.860 --> 00:35:18.420
 However,

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.360
 As a clue,

00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:22.660
 This is the difference.

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:23.940
 Is it proof?

00:35:25.120 --> 00:35:25.880
 It's true.

00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.260
 Science can't prove or disprove God.

00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:29.620
 The existence of God.

00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:31.599
 That's just not in its realm.

00:35:32.420 --> 00:35:33.280
 But are there clues?

00:35:34.140 --> 00:35:39.460
 Are there clues that would give you reasonable expectation that there's a designer behind all of this?

00:35:40.260 --> 00:35:41.139
 In that case,

00:35:41.220 --> 00:35:41.539
 Yes.

00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:43.820
 So we don't have to say,

00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:51.380
 Seeing the clues and saying there's a designer behind this is not outside the realm of science.

00:35:51.940 --> 00:35:53.440
 It's totally inside of it.

00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:55.099
 The question really is,

00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:56.940
 What are you going to believe?

00:35:57.920 --> 00:35:58.460
 And so then,

00:35:58.539 --> 00:35:58.639
 Now,

00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:01.460
 If we go back to the idea of,

00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:01.679
 Like,

00:36:01.699 --> 00:36:03.039
 What are the aspects of belief?

00:36:03.740 --> 00:36:04.860
 So you have your friend,

00:36:04.980 --> 00:36:06.240
 This person that's a,

00:36:06.240 --> 00:36:06.720
 You know,

00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:07.519
 A scientist,

00:36:07.820 --> 00:36:09.019
 Or just somebody that's very smart.

00:36:09.539 --> 00:36:10.759
 We just can't believe,

00:36:10.780 --> 00:36:12.059
 I just can't believe in a God.

00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:12.860
 You can say,

00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:13.320
 Well, look.

00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:15.759
 You explain as much as you can.

00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:16.039
 You go,

00:36:16.139 --> 00:36:17.000
 It is a rational,

00:36:17.259 --> 00:36:20.239
 It's rational to accept Genesis 1-1.

00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:21.759
 That in the beginning,

00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:24.119
 God created the heavens.

00:36:24.219 --> 00:36:25.800
 He created everything there is.

00:36:26.460 --> 00:36:27.300
 It's rational.

00:36:28.659 --> 00:36:29.920
 And if that's rational,

00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:31.519
 Now you go to the second thing.

00:36:32.300 --> 00:36:32.480
 You know,

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:33.719
 Personal experience.

00:36:34.340 --> 00:36:35.139
 You want to get,

00:36:35.259 --> 00:36:36.840
 Whoever it is that's questioning like that,

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:37.920
 Get them into the word.

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.159
 Because this is how God's revealed himself.

00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:41.180
 That God,

00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:43.119
 That is rational to believe in,

00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:44.880
 Has revealed himself,

00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.980
 In his written word,

00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:46.760
 And in the word,

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:47.240
 Jesus.

00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:48.579
 And even John,

00:36:48.659 --> 00:36:49.579
 The apostle John,

00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:51.280
 In the beginning was the word.

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:52.280
 Right?

00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:53.579
 Going all the way back to Genesis,

00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.639
 And he writes that amazing opening lines,

00:36:55.700 --> 00:36:56.280
 To his gospel.

00:36:57.539 --> 00:36:58.240
 And so,

00:36:58.380 --> 00:36:59.659
 You get them into the word,

00:36:59.700 --> 00:37:02.000
 To show how relevant this is to their lives.

00:37:02.200 --> 00:37:03.099
 And then you invite them,

00:37:03.099 --> 00:37:04.079
 To hang around with us.

00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:05.639
 You bring them into the community,

00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:06.920
 To see how it's lived out.

00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:08.819
 Do you see your role in all of this?

00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:10.039
 It's not to answer everything.

00:37:10.420 --> 00:37:12.840
 It's for you to bow your knee completely to Jesus.

00:37:13.819 --> 00:37:15.480
 To listen to him,

00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.559
 Experience him through his word,

00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:19.519
 Through his preached word,

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:20.599
 Through his written word,

00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:21.840
 Through prayer,

00:37:22.019 --> 00:37:22.340
 Meditate,

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:23.219
 All of that.

00:37:23.659 --> 00:37:25.500
 And then to go and be in the community.

00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:30.940
 Because we become clues for the world of Jesus.

00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:34.300
 And there's your posture, right?

00:37:36.340 --> 00:37:37.159
 John Lennox,

00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:38.159
 Famous mathematician,

00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:39.239
 Brilliant man,

00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:39.699
 A Christian.

00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:41.739
 He was on a very popular podcast.

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.019
 And he was answering all the questions,

00:37:44.019 --> 00:37:46.260
 That I've been attempting to sort of do here.

00:37:46.739 --> 00:37:48.019
 But the podcast host,

00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:49.920
 Very famous guy.

00:37:51.139 --> 00:37:52.820
 I was not familiar with him,

00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:55.160
 But John Bartlett,

00:37:55.620 --> 00:37:56.480
 He said,

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:56.800
 You know,

00:37:57.140 --> 00:37:58.539
 I've had lots of Christians on,

00:37:58.820 --> 00:38:00.180
 And you all do the same thing.

00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:00.519
 He said,

00:38:00.740 --> 00:38:02.300
 You have peace.

00:38:02.620 --> 00:38:03.840
 I can see it in you.

00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:06.580
 It's not all the great answers you gave me

00:38:06.580 --> 00:38:08.519
 That's telling me something about

00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:09.940
 What you believe.

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:10.680
 It's you.

00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:12.240
 You exude hope.

00:38:12.720 --> 00:38:13.840
 You exude peace.

00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:16.400
 Your soul is anchored in something

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:17.539
 Deep

00:38:17.539 --> 00:38:18.780
 And hopeful.

00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:21.320
 See,

00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:23.760
 That's where we want people to meet Jesus.

00:38:24.940 --> 00:38:25.920
 In that world.

00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:26.860
 Because it's relevant.

00:38:27.080 --> 00:38:27.540
 There's hope.

00:38:27.700 --> 00:38:28.200
 There's meaning.

00:38:28.340 --> 00:38:28.820
 There's purpose.

00:38:29.540 --> 00:38:30.600
 That's what we give.

00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:31.580
 So,

00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:32.820
 And that's our posture.

00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:35.080
 I said it was a posture, right?

00:38:35.300 --> 00:38:36.280
 Not giving answers.

00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:37.060
 It's a posture.

00:38:37.220 --> 00:38:38.000
 It's what Jesus,

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:39.600
 The Holy Spirit in us.

00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:40.640
 Okay.

00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:41.920
 And so let's wrap this up.

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.160
 Let's look at the last,

00:38:45.660 --> 00:38:47.000
 Verses five through seven.

00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.519
 Psalm 14.

00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:52.099
 There they are in great terror.

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:54.599
 For God is with the generation of the righteous.

00:38:55.019 --> 00:38:55.619
 Very simply.

00:38:55.739 --> 00:38:57.079
 It just means God is with his people.

00:38:57.320 --> 00:38:58.039
 God's with us.

00:38:59.119 --> 00:38:59.639
 Verse six.

00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:01.760
 You would shame the plans of the poor.

00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:02.920
 That's talking about the fool.

00:39:03.059 --> 00:39:04.719
 The fool would shame the plans of the poor.

00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:06.679
 But the Lord is his refuge.

00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:08.400
 See, the Lord is our refuge.

00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:09.739
 We have everything.

00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:10.860
 The Lord is our shepherd.

00:39:11.019 --> 00:39:12.800
 We have everything we need.

00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.780
 Jesus became poor that we would become rich.

00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:17.680
 Being poor is,

00:39:18.420 --> 00:39:19.760
 We have the kingdom of God.

00:39:20.120 --> 00:39:20.340
 Right?

00:39:21.080 --> 00:39:22.640
 And that posture,

00:39:23.100 --> 00:39:25.200
 That place where we rest in Jesus,

00:39:25.860 --> 00:39:28.580
 That posture is everything.

00:39:28.580 --> 00:39:29.800
 Because we have peace.

00:39:30.380 --> 00:39:31.880
 Because we have looked at the evidence.

00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:33.200
 It plays out in our lives.

00:39:33.340 --> 00:39:34.900
 And I have seen it in other people.

00:39:36.300 --> 00:39:36.940
 And then verse seven.

00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.240
 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion.

00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:41.840
 When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people.

00:39:42.180 --> 00:39:43.320
 Let Jacob rejoice.

00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:45.019
 Let Israel be glad.

00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:47.280
 Zion is another word for Jerusalem.

00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.179
 Jerusalem was set on a hill.

00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:51.300
 And outside of Jerusalem was another hill.

00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:53.179
 With the cross of Jesus.

00:39:54.059 --> 00:39:56.300
 And that's where he took our sin.

00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.000
 It says in scripture that the day went dark.

00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:01.059
 Midday.

00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:03.759
 And I couldn't help but think,

00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:05.699
 This is new creation.

00:40:06.179 --> 00:40:06.780
 It is.

00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:10.860
 It's playing out just how God created everything.

00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:12.660
 From the darkness.

00:40:14.660 --> 00:40:18.560
 All the gravity of sin.

00:40:19.720 --> 00:40:21.620
 All the gravity.

00:40:22.620 --> 00:40:24.580
 All the gravity of our sin.

00:40:24.579 --> 00:40:28.599
 All the gravity and matter of our sin.

00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:30.179
 Concentrated on Jesus.

00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:32.679
 Who if we take the sort of the law of entropy.

00:40:32.819 --> 00:40:33.519
 He's perfect.

00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:36.500
 He's perfect at that moment of new creation.

00:40:37.059 --> 00:40:39.000
 You know, where from him.

00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:43.420
 Is the salvation and the forgiveness of sins.

00:40:44.380 --> 00:40:47.199
 And it's as if like the,

00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:49.179
 He's perfect.

00:40:49.340 --> 00:40:52.519
 And it just goes out from him through us.

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:56.320
 We become the image bearers.

00:40:56.539 --> 00:40:58.820
 The clues to this new creation.

00:40:58.820 --> 00:41:00.380
 And I would even say,

00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.559
 You know, the whole idea of the red spectrum.

00:41:03.080 --> 00:41:04.500
 Where do we see red on the cross?

00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:06.360
 In the spilt blood of Jesus.

00:41:07.100 --> 00:41:08.920
 It covers our sins.

00:41:09.980 --> 00:41:12.940
 And all placed on one man.

00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:14.180
 Like all concentrated.

00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:15.620
 And then this explosion.

00:41:15.780 --> 00:41:18.180
 That now we go out as image bearers.

00:41:19.720 --> 00:41:21.539
 To give clues to other people.

00:41:21.640 --> 00:41:22.840
 That point back to Jesus.

00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:26.460
 And Jesus, you know, experienced.

00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:28.800
 Essentially with the relationship.

00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:30.340
 With his father was broken.

00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.100
 It was like the disintegration of his soul.

00:41:32.200 --> 00:41:33.220
 But he did that for us.

00:41:33.260 --> 00:41:35.080
 So that we don't have to experience that.

00:41:35.900 --> 00:41:37.260
 And you know, there was a code.

00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:39.019
 Written at that moment too.

00:41:39.720 --> 00:41:42.820
 Because that moment was planned.

00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:45.180
 From before the foundations of the world.

00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:47.019
 Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

00:41:47.080 --> 00:41:48.160
 In the happy land of the Trinity.

00:41:48.260 --> 00:41:49.240
 Above all worlds.

00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:51.120
 They executed a plan.

00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:52.640
 To come and save you and me.

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 So where do you stay?

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 This is the last point.

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 At the foot of the cross.

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 Seeing the beauty and wonder of God's love.

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 I want to close with this.

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 I know it's long.

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 Hang with me just a little bit more.

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 There is a huge problem in evolutionary biology.

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 It's called gratuitous beauty.

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 There are things out in the world that are so beautiful.

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 And they have nothing to do or are relevant for the survival of that species.

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 It's just gratuitous beauty that's out there.

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 Charles Murray in his book, Taking Religion Seriously.

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 This is an atheist all his life.

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 Very brilliant man.

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 Came to Christ.

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 Just recently.

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 Wrote a book.

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 That would be a good book to give an intellectual friend of yours, by the way.

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 He said when things began to change for him and he began to wonder.

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 Because he just accepted.

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 He was in academic circles.

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 And no one believed that stuff of Christianity.

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 That was all myth.

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 But something his wife said when she was holding their firstborn.

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 She said this.

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 She said her empathy was that she had trouble distinguishing where she stopped and baby Anna began.

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 Her epiphany was that she loved Anna far more than evolution required.

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 There is gratuitous beauty in the new creation.

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 If we look at the cross of Jesus, it's referencing how he created everything.

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 And what we are seeing is new creation.

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 For Jesus, through us, we expand out into the world as image bearers and clues of a creator and savior.

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 Jesus atones for sin and brings new creation.

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 Our God is a kind God.

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 He took on flesh to rescue us from ourselves.

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 He left his fingerprints everywhere to feed our souls.

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 So we can be his fingerprints and feed souls through loving well.

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 Surrender all.

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 That's what I would tell you, guys.

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 Bow.

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 Bow.

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 The creation just points to an amazing God.

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 The detail in the cell.

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 He can handle and manage your details in your life.

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 So go ahead and surrender.

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 Surrender everything that you have.

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 Your will.

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 Your way.

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 Your life.

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 Begin again today.

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 We serve a powerful, loving, and wise God.

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 He has rescued you.

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 You have nothing to prove, protect, or lose.

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 He's making all things new.

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 And the best is yet to come.

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 Let's pray.

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 Father, oh, Lord, that we would see the gratuitous beauty of just the lavish beauty of Jesus.

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 Father, if there's been any confusion or anything that I've said, Holy Spirit, correct it somehow, maybe in the next hour.

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 But, Lord, we bow a knee.

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 We are just astonished at your creation.

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 And it speaks of you and your detail and love for us.

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 It's amazing.

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 It really is.

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 Thank you, Father.

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 Amen.

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