You know, you have to be careful what
you say publicly, because, you know, in some
of my lectures I talk about American food.
And in one of my lectures I said
how I don't understand how you people can
eat olives, because anyway, any fruit that has
to be soaked for millions of years in
something before it's edible, there's something wrong with
it anyway.
So somebody came up and gave me a
glass jar of olives.
And also pickles, of course the Bible says
thorns and pickles came after the curse.
Thorns and thistles, that's right.
Actually, the Hebrew word is a mistranslation, it
really is pickles.
This particular session, all the content of this
session, plus a lot more, is in this
particular book, One Blood.
It was only released just over a week
ago at the CBA convention in Nashville, Tennessee,
and now should be distributed in bookstores across
the nation.
And I believe that this book is going
to have one of the greatest impacts of
all of our books.
And I trust you'll see why as I
give you a little introduction to it this
afternoon.
You know, when the Australian Aborigines were first
discovered in Australia, indigenous people there, anti-God,
spiritist culture.
But you know, according to the Bible, they're
my relatives, aren't they?
We all go back to Noah, back to
Adam.
All humans are descendants of one man and
one woman.
That's not true.
How can you take the gospel to every
tribe and nation?
And you know what's fascinating about the Australian
Aborigines?
They had stories handed down before they ever
met missionaries.
Dreamtime legends.
And they sort of go like this.
Woman was made while man was asleep.
And there was a boat and a great
flood and three sons that survived on the
boat.
And the boat landed on a mountain and
God put a rainbow in the sky.
And the army had a special tree with
some sweet honey and he warned man not
to eat from the tree, but he did.
And then death came into the world.
Have you heard a story like that?
You know, they sound like Genesis, don't they?
Changed a bit, but they sort of sound
like Genesis.
You know, those same sorts of legends are
in cultures from around the world.
The Hawaiians, the Fijians, the Eskimos, the American
Indians, the Babylonians of course had stories like
that.
Think of the epic of Gilgamesh and other
such legends.
And you know, I suggest to you that
the reason they have these flood legends and
they have creation stories that are very similar
and similar to the Bible is because they've
been handed down from the time of Noah
and they've changed them, but the real record
is in the Bible.
Because all human beings do go back to
Noah and back to Adam.
And that's a whole other area that you
could talk about, but I believe that's incredible
evidence that the Bible explains.
The sad thing today, I find in America
in particular, I mean there are racist attitudes
and problems all around the world, but I
find a particular form of racism and prejudice
in America that frankly I don't find as
much in other parts of the world, particularly
within the church.
And so this particular talk and this book
is meant to confront not just the culture,
but the church in America.
If I asked the average person how many
different races of people are there in the
world today, before I even talk on this
topic, most people would say, well there's a
lot of different races, six, eight, you know,
doesn't matter anyway.
Spoken before the American Association for the Advancement
of Science Convention in Atlanta, a scientist said
this, race is a social construct derived mainly
from perceptions conditioned by events of recorded history
and it has no basic biological reality.
You know what we're told in the secular
world, which I totally agree with, there is
no basis for different races in humans.
Biologically there's only one race.
Interesting how he goes on and says, curiously
enough, the idea comes very close to being
of American manufacture.
One of the things that's sad to me
is that it seems that the secular world
is leading the way in telling people the
truth about the fact that there's only one
race of humans and yet the church should
be leading the way.
You see, all human beings are called Homo
sapiens sapiens.
We're all the same genus, species and subspecies
and that means that there really is only
one race.
But why didn't we know that anyway?
I mean, we're all of one man, Adam,
aren't we?
Isn't that the biblical view?
We're of Adam's race.
How many races of people are there?
Biologically one.
I mean, if you knew your Bible you'd
know that.
And yet Christians don't seem to think through
these things.
I think it's because we've been so influenced
by evolutionary thinking.
And I have people who say to me,
now wait a minute.
People in the church who say, look at
how different these people are.
There are Bible colleges in America that actually
teach God made races of men and races
of women so you get all these racial
characteristics.
Nonsense.
God made one man and one woman to
start with.
We'll look at that as we go on
here.
Then they say, well, how do you get
all these different races?
Well, there are no different races.
Well, explain all these differences you see in
people.
Well, to do that we're going to start
with the book of Genesis.
In Genesis chapter 1 we read that God
made distinct kinds of animals and plants.
What I need to do is do some
little work here, a bit of basic genetics.
Now, you might say, well, I've never studied
genetics and I'm not a scientist.
Look, if you're married and got kids you've
studied genetics.
So this will be pretty easy, okay.
But in Genesis chapter 1 God made distinct
kinds of animals and plants to reproduce after
their own kind.
When I was a teacher some of the
other teachers would say to me, oh, look,
we can show you the Bible's wrong.
The Bible says God made distinct kinds of
animals and plants to reproduce after their own
kind, but we know animals change.
Well, let me ask you this.
Do animals change?
Do dogs change?
The answer is yes.
What do they change into?
Dogs, but they do change, right?
But see, we need to understand these changes.
When I was over in the Natural History
Museum in London, in fact I took my
wife there once, I took her to the
Charles Darwin exhibit in the Natural History Museum.
If anyone's got the evidence for evolution, you'd
think they'd have it there, right in Darwin's
home territory.
And as you walk in past the bust
of Darwin you read this sign.
Before Charles Darwin most people believed that God
created all living things in exactly the form
we see them today.
This is the basis of the doctrine of
creation.
Wrong.
How could God have a poodle in the
Garden of Eden and stand back and say,
and everything is very good?
There is no way there was a poodle
in the Garden of Eden.
That thing is a degenerate mutated mutt.
Now you see, but if you pick up
most Christian children's books and Christian bookshops, you
know what they, and they're all about creation
and they talk about God creating the animals
and what do they have?
One of these, you know, Jersey cows, you
know it can hardly walk and it's full
of milk and a poodle and some weird
looking cat and, but the thing is, what
we tend to do is look at the
animals we have today and we say, oh,
to our children, oh God made these animals.
No, actually he made the original ones, but
the ones we have today have changed a
lot, although they're still the same kind.
You see the interesting thing is on the
other sign in the museum said this, Darwin's
works support the view that all living things
have developed in the forms we see today
by a process of gradual change over long
periods of time.
This is what is meant by evolution.
Now of course they're indoctrinating the public here
to believe that any form of change is
evolution.
Well that's not true either.
Not evolution in the Darwinian molecules to man
sense.
See, what my wife and I did then,
we walked around the display.
They said, look, here's the evidence.
The first sign you came across was a
sign over some weasels and it said this,
when weasels breed together, they produce more weasels
like themselves.
Marvellous statement, marvellous.
We really enjoyed that and then, and then
we saw a display of dogs and we
looked and said, yeah, dogs, you know, and
then we saw horses, and then finches, finches
and cats, cats and then moths and then
at the end it said, there it is,
the evidence for evolution.
You know, my wife said to me, did
we miss something?
So we walked around again.
We saw weasels and we saw horses and
we saw dogs and we saw cats and
we saw moths and she said, we must
have missed it again because what they were
trying to do here was to say, hey
look, weasels change.
I agreed with that.
Dogs change.
I agreed with that.
Horses change.
I agree with that.
Then they said, there it is, evolution.
Huh?
What they were saying was, you see, Darwin
understood that when you see those changes, like
changes within dogs, given enough time, one kind
is going to change into another.
Now, certainly we do know that you have
wolves, coyotes, dingo, collie, poodles, downhill all the
way down to there.
They just make it into the dog kind.
Almost lost it but, and people say, now
look, isn't this really evolution though?
Evolution, it's not getting better.
You're going to understand that.
Now, let me explain it this way to
you.
See, if you had two dogs, right?
God makes two dogs and they get married
and have kids and their kids get married
and have kids and you end up with
lots of dogs.
I went to public school, couldn't spell, but
people say, well I can understand that but
that doesn't explain how you get dingoes and
wolves and coyotes.
No.
Because you have to understand a little bit
about genetics.
Let's try to explain this.
You know that you get one set of
genes from your father, one from your mother.
I know if you study genetics, it's much
more complicated than this, but let's face it,
the basic principles are the same.
Hey, you know what?
One of the things that I've realised over
the years, you don't have to be a
PhD scientist to talk on these subjects because
even if you don't know all the technical
details, you know there are a lot of
basic principles that are real easy to comprehend.
There really are.
As long as you know the basic principles
and then you can refer people to materials,
to books if there are any left out
there.
How many of you come to this church
by the way, Grace Community Church?
Quite a number of you.
Because tomorrow morning, actually we're getting freighted in,
we call up the office and they're going
to freight out a few more boxes of
books for tomorrow morning.
We're really thrilled that this material is going
to get out in there and confront the
culture and stir the humanness up.
But most of all we want to stir
people to get back to the Word of
God.
But anyway, we're excited that so much material
is going to go out into this community.
But the basic principles here are these.
You know you get one set of genes
from the father, one from the mother and
then fertilization, you get the individuals and so
on.
Remember how at school you learn about big
A, little A, big B, little B?
Remember that?
Do you know how many atoms they estimate
are in the known universe?
10 to the 80th power atoms, right?
That's a one followed by 80 zeros.
Do you know how many children it's estimated
you could have from two people, any two
people, how many children you could have without
getting two looking the same, from one man
and one woman?
A one followed by 2,017 zeros.
That's an incredible amount of variability.
And see God built that variability into our
genes, in dog genes, cat genes, elephant genes
and human genes and so on.
And it's sort of like this, as I
said much more complicated but you know you
get these pairs of genes, millions and millions
of these and one set from the male,
one from the female but notice all these
genes they're all combinations from these two but
they're all a little different but they're all
100% what?
Dogs.
See look around the room.
You're all human beings, all descendants of Adam
but you're all a little different.
You all have a unique combination of information.
In fact any two of you actually are
different by about 0.2% genetically.
You differ from each other by about 0
.2%. See some of you have information for
brown hair, some for black hair, some of
you don't have information for hair.
Actually you do, it's just you're more like
poodles if you know what I mean.
That's really the problem.
And so over a period of time you
get variation within the dog kind.
Now you might say, well I can understand
that, all this variation but how do you
get those distinct groups, those distinct species like
dingoes, wolves, coyotes, etc.
Well if the event of Noah's flood was
true and it is and Noah's Ark landed
in the Middle East we know how many
dogs were on Noah's Ark.
They're unclean animals so how many dogs?
Two.
So two dogs get off Noah's Ark, they
get married, have kids, they get married, have
kids, again we end up with lots of
dogs but this time if you imagine we
have an empty world basically, lots of different
environments and if small populations, in biology this
is called the founder principle, if small populations,
sometimes just a pregnant female on her own,
move away from the main population and start
new populations, what's going to happen?
Due to processes called genetic drift and jumping
genes and so on.
See if you had little a genes in
here but none in here, when these move
away they've immediately lost the little a genes.
And so over a period of time due
to all these processes what happens is you
will get different combinations of genes moving in
different directions.
And imagine this, let's say there's an L
and S gene that together produce medium furling
for the dog.
Okay, medium hair length.
So those that get all the S genes
have short hair, those that get L genes
get long hair.
If these dogs move up towards a cold
climate and the short hair genes die out
of the population you're only left with dogs
that have long hair.
And by the way, their ancestors might have
had medium hair but they've got long hair.
That's not evolution.
It's like when somebody said recently, reading an
article, they said, look these fruit flies had
offspring that had longer wings.
That's evolution.
And I said to them, look my wife
and I have a son that's much taller
than both of us.
Is that evolution?
He didn't evolve.
Not at all.
He just happened to inherit genes for tallness
from me and I guess from my wife
and so on and the right combination and
makes him a giant up here somewhere and
costs a fortune to put shoes on.
see that's not evolution.
And so over a period of time, those
that move towards cold climates because of the
environment and who dies out you can end
up with long haired dogs.
The opposite down here in hot climates.
That's natural selection at work but you know
what?
It is not evolution.
You know why?
You see you can produce your different varieties
of dogs, your wolves, dingoes, etc.
due to different combinations as you've isolated them,
separated them out but it's actually the opposite
of evolution and the reason is because over
a period of time natural selection results in
loss of information, redistribution of information, not gain
of information.
Think about it.
For molecules to man evolution it's not a
matter of just redistributing genes.
You've got to have new genes.
You've got to have new information coming in
to give new characteristics that previously didn't exist
and it can't happen.
That's not what you see.
Remember from last night Dr Werner Gitts said
there is no known law of nature, no
known process, no known sequence of events which
can cause information to originate by itself in
matter.
It can't happen.
But then evolutionists say oh but wait a
minute, mutations.
Mutations can actually produce the new information.
Wrong.
Dr Lee Spetner from Johns Hopkins University he
was a fellow there wrote in his book
Not By Chance all point mutations that have
been studied on the molecular level turn out
to reduce the genetic information and not to
increase it.
But do you know how we're brainwashed in
our public schools?
I'll tell you how we're brainwashed.
When I went to school oh but insects
become resistant to poisons.
That's evolution.
Actually insects do not become resistant to poisons.
In every instance studied in insect resistance the
resistance was already in the population.
When you sprayed the DDT you knocked out
the non-resistant ones.
The resistant ones survived.
They had the right genetic information.
That's not evolution.
Now that can happen with bacteria but bacteria
can also become resistant.
Why?
If you take the bacterium that can cause
stomach ulcers H.
pylori the way doctors fight that is to
give an antibiotic.
The antibiotic is absorbed through the cell wall
in that particular bacterium.
In the DNA there's information that produces an
enzyme for its biochemistry but that enzyme breaks
down the antibiotic forms it into poisons and
then it destroys the DNA and kills the
bacterium.
That's how it works.
But if there's a mutation that stops that
DNA producing that enzyme so it's lost the
ability to produce an enzyme it becomes resistant.
Why?
It lost the ability to do something.
That is not evolution.
But it's so easy for students to be
sucked in by what they're told and brainwashed
and think it is evolution when you study
it you realise it's not.
There are other mechanisms that can act with
bacteria as well but none of them involve
an increase in information.
There are even structures called plasmids that transfer
information to bacteria between bacteria but that's not
new information.
And you see unfortunately people are led astray
on this.
What we see mutations is doing is mostly
mutations are actually detrimental and normally they're weeded
out of a population because they don't survive
as well but of course with dogs we
like them and so we say oh look
at that dog he's got a mutation he
stuffs his mouth up into his face.
Oh look at that dog he's got a
mutation he stuffs his nose into his face
and then end up we breed this dog
you know and all it is is a
collection of mutations you chase it for two
miles and it goes and dies and we
think it's a wonderful dog.
I mean consider poodles here are just some
of the mutations in poodles.
Who would want a dog like that?
But you see what we do is that
we actually artificially select and because we artificially
select and we try to preserve what we
artificially select that's why we keep these things
alive so we only let this dog breed
with this one and so on actually with
our what I call purebreds of dogs we've
actually eliminated an incredible amount of variability and
maintained many of the mutations.
It's really what's happened and so over a
period of time we get our various domestic
varieties of dogs and you know you can
see this I mean you think about it
right if you own something like a poodle
now my wife has a bichon it's sort
of like a poodle you know it's I'm
embarrassed to tell you but and you take
these dogs you know these purebred little dogs
cost you hundreds of dollars to buy one
and then it costs you millions of dollars
to keep them alive.
I mean if they get a cold you
lay awake all night thinking it'll be dead
in the morning you've got to give heartworm
tablets every now and then if you take
it outside you don't show it it's way
back to the door it gets lost you
know and food you've got to try every
brand of food in the world until you
get the one that you know it doesn't
get sores and it likes and all the
rest of it and talk about high maintenance
but you know the mongrel dog down the
street that's a mixture of everything and licks
up its food out of the gutter and
feeds on dead and decaying stuff you run
over them in a truck and they get
up and wave and off they go see
they're more like the original the original kind
I think the original kind of dog was
more like a wolf kind and this jar
of jelly beans represents all the variability that
was there to start with the information see
over a period of time through natural selection
and artificial selection you can lose information and
you get mutations same number of genes but
you lose information you get to the stage
where there's not much information left but I
don't like cats either as you can tell
you know and then we have these one
jelly bean dogs it's incredible it's by the
way once you understand that you start to
understand something else when people scoff at you
for believing in Noah's ark oh he couldn't
have got all those animals on the ark
how many animals did he need he didn't
need dingoes wolves coyotes great dane little chihuahua
he just needed two dogs he didn't need
mammoths Indian elephants mastodons African elephants he just
needed two elephants cats we're not sure how
many cats he needed on the ark one
kind two kind three kind maybe if I'd
have been on the ark there'd be no
kind of cats they'd be overboard but you
know it's interesting you know here's a fascinating
thing you've heard of I've mentioned Dr. Hugh
Ross to you before well Dr. Hugh Ross
actually because he doesn't believe in because he
believes in millions of years and doesn't believe
in a global flood then he cannot allow
the kinds of animals to get off the
ark and then through natural selection and so
on you get your different species all over
the earth because he can't allow that you
know what he actually accuses us of he
says this creation scientists propose an efficiency of
natural biological evolution greater than the most optimistic
Darwinists would dare to suggest believing in natural
selection is not evolution it's not at all
and in fact he even goes on and
says something like this that we rely on
natural rapid processes of evolution to recover those
genes and species and he says that there's
no way there's no way that that happens
such rates of change would mean that biologists
today could witness thousands of animal species in
the field developing from others and he goes
on to say that this is not possible
and so on but you know what here's
the interesting thing I don't have time to
deal with this now just some of the
latest things about natural selection here's what evolutionists
themselves are saying a study in the latest
science journal shows that natural selection can reshape
organisms faster than even some diehard evolutionists might
have predicted so now they've been saying this
for quite some time in fruit flies they
talk about fruit flies they saw the same
increase in wing size in fruit flies and
as I said that is not evolution but
they do go on to say this that
this change is as fast as I've ever
seen I think this will shake up a
lot of people then they talk about the
stickleback fish about new species there the pinyon
pines about new species there and they go
on again to say these examples say that
natural selection can cause a population to change
very quickly and hint that speciation could occur
very quickly in other words even evolutionists are
admitting what Hugh Ross says is impossible that
speciation can happen quickly and you know why
you don't see a lot of it today
it's already happened see think about this some
people say well how did the fish survive
the flood you know a lot of fish
today would not survive the flood but their
ancestors did because don't forget the ones we
have today are the descendants of those that
existed four and a half thousand years ago
and have undergone four and a half thousand
years of natural selection and so whereas their
ancestors might have had the genetic variability to
survive ranges of salinity from this extreme to
this extreme now their descendants can only survive
this narrow range here it's very easy to
understand you see we've just got to understand
some basic biology here now the reason I
went through all that with you is because
I want to apply it to the human
race because you see God built up humans
on the basis of DNA now we're different
to the animals because we were made differently
and yet we have a body that operates
very much like a mammals body and so
how do we apply the basic genetics to
this well first of all if we're all
going to go back to Adam and Eve
as I've said to you earlier the most
asked question I get asked in the world
is where did Cain get his wife and
it is a very important question to answer
now to answer it to defend we go
back to one man I need to ask
you a question can you marry your relation
yes, no, probably only after counselling do you
know I have a lot of people in
churches who say you're not allowed to marry
your relation well I got news for you
if you didn't marry your relation you didn't
marry a human then you're really in trouble
when you get married you have to marry
your relation see we're all related you're related
to me whether you like it or not
this is just a great big family get
together here this afternoon all my long lost
relatives isn't this great you're related to everybody
you're related to President Clinton and you're more
closely related than I am because I'm an
Australian but let's have a look at what
the Bible says 1 Corinthians 15 45 Adam
was the first man the first man Adam
how many men to start with Paul makes
it clear one man Eve was given that
name because in the Hebrew it literally reads
she was to be the mother of all
the living so how many women to start
with one and don't forget in Acts 17
26 the basis of the title of our
book and Buddy's song Paul explaining the gospel
to the Greeks we'll do that in my
last session today God is made of one
blood he was explaining that we all go
back to one man we're all related we're
all one it says in the language so
we're all one we're all one blood one
man one woman so if you have Adam
and Eve then where did where did Cain
get his wife well I remember being over
in a restaurant in London when the chef
found out we're doing a creation seminar and
he came out and he said you believe
the Bible said yes we believe the Bible
said I don't believe the Bible you don't
believe the Bible no said why not well
it says there that God made Adam and
Eve and they had Cain and Abel where
did all the people come from then I
said oh Genesis chapter 5 verse 4 says
Adam had sons and daughters I already said
I didn't read that far well you know
it's a problem with a lot of people
they don't read far enough in the Bible
do they Adam and Eve had sons and
daughters Jewish tradition if you read Josephus there's
something like 23 daughters 33 sons and maybe
maybe it was something like that so without
any outside influences whatsoever just taking God's word
obviously originally brothers married who sisters but people
said isn't that incest wait a minute incest
is a modern word there was no word
incest back then and there are things under
incest that would always be immoral that's true
but rather than marrying sister originally that wasn't
a problem see the law against close intermarriage
didn't come until the time of Moses Abraham
was married to his half sister you see
you do marry your relation today it's just
you don't marry a close relation but generations
ago close relations could marry well what's the
difference well to understand it you have to
do what I call think poodle because you
see just as a poodle is full of
mistakes you and I are full of mistakes
look around the room I could well anyway
we won't do that but I want you
to think about this you see the more
closely related you are the more likely it
is you've inherited the same mistakes from your
parents so if brother and sister marry today
those mutated genes those mistakes get together you
can get a deformity in the offspring that's
why it's better to marry someone further away
in a relationship from you and you gather
different mistakes and degenerate anyway but as you
go back in history think about this towards
Adam and Eve to the time of the
curse would you expect more mistakes or fewer
fewer before sin how many none their children
would have had relatively few mistakes was there
any problem with brother and sister marriage originally
provided it's one man for one woman which
is what marriage is all about and the
answer is no and you see God brought
in that law against close intermarriage to the
time of Moses makes a lot of sense
doesn't it very easy to understand but then
I have people who say to me but
wait a minute ok so we all go
back to Adam and Eve then how come
we're so different what do you mean different
all the different races look let me explain
this to you those differences are so insignificant
you know the only reason we think a
lot of these differences are significant we've been
trained in the culture to think they're significant
if you weren't trained that way you wouldn't
think that way and besides which I want
to suggest that we abandon using the term
races anyway tell you why when Darwin published
his book in 1859 on the origin of
species by means of natural selection or the
preservation of favoured races in the struggle for
life maybe many people didn't realise it then
but it is true that Darwinian evolution inherently
is a racist philosophy because it does teach
and still teaches that some cultures are closer
to the ape-like ancestors than others now
it's true that there were racist attitudes before
Darwin there always will be racist attitudes when
people don't build their thinking on the Bible
and treat their fellow man the way God
tells us to but as Stephen J.
Gould from Harvard University an ardent evolutionist has
said biological arguments for racism may have been
common before 1850 but they increased by orders
of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory
and I want to share with you just
briefly and there's a lot more detail in
the book some of the influences of evolution
on our thinking here in America did you
know in 1924 the New York Tribune newspaper
that existed at that time published an article
on the missing links found in Australia the
Australian aborigines they were called the missing links
in history did you know that people from
America Germany England they sent certain scientists or
others to Australia they hunted down the aborigines
herded them over cliffs or herded them into
swamps they shot them they boiled up their
skulls they skinned them and sent the best
specimens to museums around the world and desecrated
it's estimated 5 to 10,000 graves for
specimens for museums all in the name of
evolution terrible, terrible part of our history did
you know back in the early 1900s in
Australia in fact the very early 1900s there
was a museum book from the Sydney Museum
that listed the Australian aborigines under animals and
that's how they were thought of in America
and around the world Governor Phillip when he
went back to England took a couple of
aboriginals back with him and you know what
the newspaper said?
These people are from a lower order of
the human race that's what the people in
England were told in fact one of those
aborigines died and his body was dug up
from his grave under St. John's Anglican Church
in Kent and stolen by Charles Darwin's grandfather
to be stuffed and exhibited at the Royal
College of Surgeons see Charles Darwin's grandfather was
also an evolutionist here's a sad part of
your history here in America in the early
1900s I think it was 1904 the World's
Fair at St. Louis an explorer bought a
pygmy from the Congo back to America and
they put him on display at the World's
Fair to contrast his so called print of
culture with the advanced technology and then when
the World's Fair ended there was a deal
made with the director of the Bronx Zoo
and Otobenga this pygmy was put in the
Bronx Zoo in a monkey cage with an
orangutan all in the name of evolution and
became the most popular exhibit at the zoo
with thousands of Americans lining up to see
this relationship between this pygmy and an orangutan
very, very sad there's a whole chapter in
the book on that giving you all the
documentation and the evolutionary overtones of the whole
sad story imagine what this was doing to
people's thinking can you imagine here in America
back in 1907 reading the Scientific American Journal
you've all heard of Scientific American haven't you
you can buy it on the book stands
you know across America and reading this about
the Congo pygmies they are ape like elfish
creatures or imagine studying Ernst Haeckel's book remember
the man that popularized the idea of embryonic
recapitulation we mentioned this morning his book The
History of Creation was used in universities in
America and you would read things like this
at the lowest stage of human mental development
the Australian Aborigines some tribes of Polynesians Bushmen
Hottentots some of the Negro tribes in fact
some of the sad things that people were
reading thus for example a great English traveler
who lived for a considerable time on the
west coast of Africa says I consider the
Negro to be a lower species of man
and cannot make up my mind to look
upon him as a man and a brother
for the gorilla would then also have to
be admitted into the family you know I'm
almost ashamed to even read these out but
I think I need to read them to
let you know the influences that have occurred
in this culture and in talking again about
certain civilizations look the ape-like Negro tribes
on the upper Nile they stand far below
unreasoning animals the latter at least show signs
of affection towards those who are kind etc
etc again talking about people from eastern Africa
and Asia they live together in herds like
apes you see because of this influence I
want to suggest that we should abandon the
term races back in the time of Thomas
Jefferson when you talked about races you would
tend to think of the English race the
Irish race and so on but I suggest
to you because of the influence of Darwinian
evolution permeating the culture permeating the universities that
we should abandon the term races because I
think today consciously or unconsciously when we hear
races we really do tend to think oh
some people are not as good as us
it's the evolutionary thinking that's permeated our culture
and therefore I suggest to you that the
church should lead the way in this but
you know the sad thing the church is
not leading the way I have people in
the church talking to me about all these
different races and so on and prejudices that
they have particularly when it comes to skin
color in America I see that incredibly but
you know in the ABC news science page
we read this and these are secular scientists
more and more scientists find that the differences
that set us apart are cultural not racial
some even say the word race should be
abandoned because it's meaningless why isn't the church
leading the way in this and they went
on and said this we accept the idea
of race because it's a convenient way of
putting people into broad categories frequently to suppress
them the most hideous example provided by Hitler's
Germany and racial prejudice remains common throughout the
world Hitler used evolution to justify what he
did to gypsies to Jews and to others
and sadly many people in America have used
evolution to justify what they do to certain
people too or have done in the past
but then I have people who say to
me now wait a minute you're really saying
that all these different people here these different
people groups if you don't use races what
do we use I suggest people groups but
look at the differences how do you explain
those differences you know the secular world in
the past has divided the human population into
basically four racial groups sometimes five but these
are the main four Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, you
notice the Australian Aborigines on their own.
Those four main groups.
Now here's the interesting thing every human carries
about six billion base pairs the chemical rungs
of the DNA ladder that constitute our genes
and so on.
Our personal DNA code differs from that of
a random stranger by two rungs for every
thousand or point two percent of the whole
so you differ from the person next door
to you by about point two percent genetically
but we all came from one man and
one woman very easy to understand.
Now there's some research done by Cameron and
Wyckoff in fact I've got this particular issue
of the Journal of Counseling Development they say
there too the word race is meaningless and
ought to be discarded and they say in
the field of genetics researchers have concluded that
the genetic differences between the so called races
account for only zero point zero one two
percent of human biological variation.
Let me explain what that means.
Any two people from any people group anywhere
in the world or between people groups just
any two people from anywhere in the world
you differ genetically from each other by about
point two percent.
That's why you all look a little different
right?
But the so called racial differences like skin
colour, eye shape etc only constitute six percent
of that or point zero one two percent
which means the difference is insignificant.
It's minor.
It's not major.
There's more difference when you think about it
there's more difference between two people who would
call themselves Caucasian than between a Caucasian and
someone who would have black skin.
The differences are minor.
The only reason I suggest to you we
see them as major is because we've been
trained to do so.
Now you might look at this and say
but wait a minute look at those people
the differences there are phenomenal.
No they're not.
You only have been trained to see them
as different.
They're not different.
Let me show you why.
You see when it comes to skin colour
we all have the same colour.
We have a pigment called melanin.
There's two forms of melanin.
Eumelanin, pheomelanin.
There's a few other pigments but they have
very little to do with the overall skin
colour.
It's mainly melanin.
And if there are four genes there's probably
at least six from what I've read.
If there are four genes distributing the amount
of melanin in your skin and it gets
a little complicated but we're just doing basic
principles again.
If big A means lots of melanin, big
B lots of melanin, little A's little B's
lots of melanin, dark skin.
Little A's little B's little bit of melanin,
light skin.
Now to me that means this.
What shade of skin, notice I didn't say
colour, what shade of skin did Adam and
Eve have?
I don't think Adam and Eve would be
Caucasian white as most American books would picture
them because if they had all little A's
little B's their children would be.
I don't believe they'd be black with all
big A's big B's because then all the
children would be.
But if they were middle brown in the
middle with a general mix of those genes
you could get light through to dark in
one generation just like you see all around
the world.
In fact the majority of people are middle
brown in this world, much darker than I
am.
You know I had a couple come up
to me at a conference like this, they
were middle brown and they showed me their
son who was much darker than the parents
and a daughter who was much lighter than
the parents.
Very, very easy to understand.
In other words Adam and Eve could have
had children who were light through to dark
in one generation.
By the way that's why you see situations
like this.
In England a number of years ago twins
born, one dark one light.
You know people didn't believe they had the
same father.
How could that be?
Well that's because they don't understand some of
the basic principles of genetics and the fact
that we all have the same skin colour
anyway.
Why do some people have big ears and
some little ears?
Or big nose and little nose?
I won't point anyone out.
Now people say okay but why is it
then that some people only produce black people
and some people only produce light and so
on.
How can that be?
Can you think of any event in history
you know how do we get our different
varieties of dogs, different species of dogs?
You've got to split up a population and
stop groups mixing together and split them away
from the main population.
Can you think of anything that could have
done that in human history?
Yeah, how about the Tower of Babel?
God gives different languages, people can't live together
so they split up, move in different directions
depending on who marries who, who dies, who
splits again.
What could happen?
You could eventually end up with a culture
that only had big A's, big B's, only
produced black on their own.
Little A's, little B's only produced light on
their own.
These would have to mix with these to
get back the original variability.
As one researcher said, it's kind of like
if all of us are recipes we have
the same ingredients maybe in different amounts no
matter what kind of cake we turn out
to be.
And so I thought I'd illustrate this for
you.
Let's take the typical way that Americans make
cakes.
We buy a box, sorry about that, and
we mix up this mix, add water, and
we can make different cakes, same basic recipe
with slight variations.
You know, it's like that with the humankind.
We start with the original DNA recipe with
Adam and Eve where all the same basic
recipes just slight variations.
That's all it is.
Real simple to understand.
You know, we need to teach this in
our churches.
Boy, do we need to teach this in
our churches.
I want to ask you something and I
don't want to embarrass you by doing this.
I'm going to ask you to put your
hand up in a moment.
It does not mean you believe what I'm
saying but I'm asking have you heard this
at some stage.
I want you to put up your hand
if you've heard of the curse of Ham.
Okay, I'm very sensitive to that, having a
name like Ham, you understand that.
I want you to also put up your
hand.
Doesn't mean you believe this, not at all.
And I don't even like to ask this
but I feel I must because I want
to make a point.
How many of you have heard somewhere in
your life that the curse of Ham is
related to skin colour?
Put your hand up.
See, you know what?
You know, America is the only place I
get that sort of response.
Out of any country around the world I
have never had that sort of response but
I do everywhere in America.
And I suggest to you and I'm not
saying any of you believe that here but
I suggest to you there are a lot
of people in the churches that do believe
that in America because I've met them and
I get mail from them.
In fact, the letters are burning as they
come into the office.
You know, after I wrote some articles on
this issue you wouldn't believe some of the
mail I got at the office from people
who call themselves Christians that certain people are
the beasts of the field and we should
have nothing to do with them and it
was incredible.
It just blew my mind.
I almost felt like I had guards on
my house.
You know when anyone says to me, what
about the curse of ham?
I was on Christian radio just last week
and one of the questions I got was
and we're talking on this issue of One
Blood and one of the questions I got
was this, well what about the curse of
ham?
I said, show me in the Bible where
it says ham was cursed.
Show me.
It's not there.
Ham was not cursed.
How come we've all heard this curse of
ham?
There is no curse of ham in the
Bible.
Now here's an interesting thing.
Back in 1958 the Mormons said, we know
the circumstances under which the prosperity of Cain
and later of Ham were cursed with what
we call Negroid racial characteristics.
Jehovah's W's, the JW's, Jehovah's Witness back in
1929, the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan
was the origin of the black race.
By the way, at least they got one
thing right.
Canaan was cursed, not ham.
You know, I've looked at this.
If you read Genesis chapter nine, I think
you'll find verse 18.
Coming off the ark there was Shem, Ham
and Japheth.
Then it says, and Ham the father of
Canaan.
And then it says, and Ham the father
of Canaan.
And then it says, cursed be who?
Where does it say cursed be Ham?
It doesn't.
It says, cursed be Canaan.
Now here's the interesting thing.
I often wondered, why does it single out
Ham?
See, notice it says Shem, Japheth, but who's
Ham?
The father of Canaan.
Who's Ham?
The father of Canaan.
Then what?
Cursed be Canaan.
Where does it say that's to do with
skin colour?
Has nothing to do with skin colour.
Nonsense.
And it's not a curse on Ham anyway
for skin colour because you see, Ham had
four children by the way, four sons I
should say.
These four.
But do you know what I believe it's
all about?
If we read the Bible, I think it's
there.
See, Canaan gave rise to the Canaanites, the
people of Sodom, Gomorrah, some of the most
wicked, rebellious people who hated God on the
face of the planet.
And God judged them.
And you know what I believe?
You ever think about this and you go
back and read it, this is what I
believe.
You know what the curse of Canaan is
all about?
Ham was disrespectful to his father Noah.
We know that.
Maybe, possibly some sexual connotation there, there's debate
about that.
But we know he's disrespectful to his father
Noah.
Do you know one of the things that
I've said over and over again when I
talk on families and fathers training children?
How many times do we often hear, oh,
bad tempered like his father, oh, domineering like
his mother, her mother, or whatever.
You know what I mean, don't you?
You know over and over again in Scripture,
you know what we see?
When the father rebelled against the Lord, often
the sons would be the same.
Because we look at our parents and we
become like them, don't we?
And you know what I believe the curse
of Canaan is all about?
That Noah saw in Canaan the same problem
in hand but it was much worse in
the next generation, which is often the truth,
isn't it?
And look what we see happening and of
course the Lord knew who would be the
descendants of Canaan.
And it was really, if you like, I
think, a prediction prophecy of what Canaan's rebellion
would lead to.
And I think the curse of Canaan is
a lesson that fathers need to train their
children in the ways of the Lord.
I think that's what it's all about.
Now, some people then say, okay but what
about eye shape?
I mean the person with an arm and
eye has a different eye to your eye.
No, it's the same eye, just like skin
colour, it's the amount of fat in your
eyelid.
That's all it is.
It's the same eye.
The difference is incredibly minor.
The genes in this person produce more fat
in your eyelid to give it that particular
shape but it's the same eye.
Again, the differences are minor.
And as these researchers said in the secular
world, what the facts show is that there
are differences among us but they stem from
culture, not race.
And you know, when you think about it,
there are conferences that are conducted across this
world and across this nation and people write
all sorts of books to try to combat
racism and so on.
Well, I guess we did too but we
wrote one.
It's the best one.
But, in essence, to solve racism, racial prejudice,
it's very simple.
I mean, actually, to solve all the problems
is very simple.
People believe God's word, right?
I mean, that's the bottom line.
You imagine if everyone in our churches, for
a start, I mean, we've got to get
our churches online for a start.
If everyone in our churches started believing that
all human beings are equal before God, we
all go back to Noah, back to Adam,
we all have the same problem, sin, we
all need the same solution, Jesus Christ and
every single one of us, no matter what
culture we belong to, even though there are
cultural differences, nonetheless, we should judge our attitudes
and behavior against the absolute authority of the
word of God and if we started to
do that and apply that in our thinking
to our fellow man and others, you'd solve
the issue of racism like that.
Very simple.
In other words, if we believe the right
history, we'll have the right understanding, the right
world view.
But you know something we also have to
come to grips with?
Evolution inherently still is a racist philosophy.
Now, it's not politically correct to say that,
they will deny that today when they teach
evolution in public schools, but it's true.
I remember when Walter Cronkite did that documentary
series on ape men, some of you might
have seen that on television a few years
ago, and where did they go back to
find out about man's ancestry to Africa?
Who did they use, who did they use
in that series to portray the human beings
as they're evolving?
The people from Africa.
Now, if you I mean, if I'd have
been from those cultures, I'd have been up
in arms, because there are underlying racist attitudes
there.
There's a professor in Canada, Professor Rushton, in
his book in 1997, Race, Evolution and Behaviour,
ranks the races along an evolutionary scale with
blacks at the bottom and Asians at the
top.
At least he's consistent, because that's exactly what
evolution does.
But there's another problem I want to deal
with, and that is this.
If you are like a Dr. Hugh Ross,
or some of these other Christian leaders that
believe in millions of years, and you accept
that the dating methods give the millions of
years, and you've got to trust in the
millions of years, then you have a major,
major problem.
Here's the major problem.
Those same sorts of dating methods also date,
and I'm just going to give you a
list of these.
I don't expect you to read them.
You won't be able to, because I won't
leave them up there long enough for you
to read them.
You get the idea.
This is just to make an impression.
It's also because I'm running out of time.
Now actually, do you realise there are hundreds,
and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds
of human skeletons, they're called humans, that date
back to almost two million years.
What are you going to do with them?
Because you see, you can't put them in
those genealogies between Adam and Christ, because that
would destroy them.
So, if you're a person like Hugh Ross,
what do you do with all of these
skeletons, human skeletons, and you believe in these
dating methods, you've got to somehow fit this
in with the Bible, so here's what he
does.
I remember a couple of years ago, he
said that as a result of being focused
on the family, 10,000 families signed up
to get his newsletter, and if you took
your children to his material, this is in
one of his children's books, and it's in
his other books as well for adults, he
says this.
Starting two to four million years ago, God
began creating men like mammals or hominids.
These creatures stood on two feet high, had
large brains, used tools, some even buried their
dead, painted on cave walls, however they were
very different from us, they had no spirit,
they did not have a conscience like we
do, they did not worship God or establish
religious practices.
In time, all these man like creatures went
extinct, and 10 to 25,000 years ago,
God replaced them with Adam and Eve.
Now, here's the interesting thing, he pushes Adam
and Eve back about 25 years.
He says 10 to 25,000 years, right?
Lately, he's tried to push it back a
bit more, and I'll show you why, because
you see, the Australian Aborigines are dated by
the same sorts of dating methods back to
40 to 60,000 years and they're trying
to push that back more and more and
the same for the American Indians.
That would mean the American Indians and Australian
Aborigines are not descendants of Adam, so we
shouldn't take missionaries to them.
Do you see what happens when you compromise
the Word of God?
Do you know who else believes that, by
the way?
Basically, Fleece and Archer.
You read his book, Survey of Old Testament,
and he talks about these pre-Adamic creatures
and he says, well, they probably didn't have
souls because they existed before Adam and Eve
because he believes in the dating methods that
get the hundreds of thousands, millions of years.
And by the way, because Hugh Ross does
not accept natural selection as a means of
rapid speciation, because he doesn't believe Noah's flood
was global, because he doesn't believe there were
only 8 people saved on that boat, so
not only does he not believe the animals
that we have today, the land animals, could
go back to Noah's ark, you know what
he says about the so-called races?
He says God may have done more than
diversify language at the time of the Tower
of Babel, he possibly may have introduced some
external changes, those we recognize as racial distinctives.
I would call that a racist philosophy.
Now, just before we finish, if I just
left it there, 5,000 people come up
to me, well there's not 5,000 people
here, but, and they all say to me,
okay, if that's true, what do you believe
about interracial marriage?
And I say, well, so, let me answer
the question, and then I'm catching a flight
out of here, because boy, when I wrote
an article on this in Creation Magazine, I
was starting to x-ray my letters, before
I opened them.
And it was Christians who were supposedly Christians
sending me these letters, absolutely incredible.
But I've got another talk to do, so
I've got to stay here anyway, but if
there's any bodyguards out there, I'd appreciate some
help, but what I want to do is
this, I want to tell you what I
tell my own children, okay?
If you disagree with me, that's fine, but
don't come up and give me your opinion,
I am not interested.
But if you come up to me and
show me from the Scriptures something, I'll listen,
but I'm not interested in your opinion.
You know, I couldn't believe, you know, this
week, this past week, I don't even like
to tell you this, but just the prejudices
out there, a lady calls up and she
said, you know what, I agree with you
on this, it makes so much sense, but
another lady in my church, she's against interracial
marriage because she said, you know, people with
different colour of skin, they're not as intelligent
as us.
What do you think of that?
What do I think of that?
That's an opinion and that's ridiculous.
I said, what about, who was the man
that invented all those things with peanuts, do
you remember that?
I forget his name.
Ah, George Washington Carver, of course, okay.
He was a brilliant man, brilliant man, and
we could point to many others.
See, doesn't that show you the prejudice that
exists out there?
I said, that's not in the Bible.
That's ridiculous and besides which, that's an evolutionary
view.
Do you see that that's an evolutionary view?
Those people are back here, they haven't evolved
as much as us, they're not as intelligent
as us.
See how evolution has affected our thinking?
What I want to do is this, I
want to teach you what I teach my
children and I have tried my hardest to
build my thinking on the Bible and get
rid of outside influences.
Here's a challenge for us this afternoon.
Maybe some of us here this afternoon believe
something just because our parents told us, because
our church told us.
I want to challenge us, let's judge our
thinking against God's word and get rid of
those outside influences and maybe some of us
this afternoon have to get on our knees
and repent.
I've had people come up to me and
say, I just realised sitting there in the
pew, I have to repent before the Lord.
And maybe some of you do.
You see, when people say to me, what
about interracial marriage?
The first thing I say is, there's no
such thing because there are no races, biologically.
There's only one race biologically.
So, biologically there's no such thing as interracial
marriage.
Before we can talk about marriage though, what
I want to do with my children is
to teach them the priorities in marriage.
Malachi 2.15, why did God make two
one?
Because he sought godly offspring from your union.
Not just offspring, what sort of offspring?
Godly.
Did you know the family is the first
and most fundamental of all human institutions which
God ordained in Scripture?
Think about it.
The family is the first and most fundamental
of all human institutions which God ordained in
Scripture.
You know why?
The family is the educational unit of the
nation.
Because the family, you are to train up
godly offspring who influence the will for Jesus
Christ will train godly offspring who influence the
will for Jesus Christ will train godly offspring.
And how are you going to do that?
I mean, Paul and Jesus in the New
Testament talk about you become one because you're
one flesh.
And of course, Paul teaches us the word
of God, be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness, what communion hath light with darkness, over
and over again.
Saved are not to marry unsaved.
Now, some do and all sorts of problems,
we'll talk about that in a moment, but
don't deliberately save, marry unsaved.
Be ye not unequally yoked.
Do you know what blows my mind?
I can't believe the number of people I've
met in America who are more concerned that
their children not marry someone from a so
-called different race than whether or not that
person is a Christian.
That tells you there's a problem.
There's a priority missing there.
The wrong priority.
Actually, you know what the Bible says about
interracial marriage?
Saved people shouldn't marry unsaved people.
See, let me put up a picture for
you.
I do this deliberately as a little shock
treatment.
According to the Bible and not your opinions,
just according to the Bible, the biblical principles
alone, which impending marriage here does God counsel
against?
This one, this one, this one.
Which does the Bible obviously counsel against?
This one.
You cannot point to the others.
But now I'm going to tell you something.
Actually, there is such a thing as interracial
marriage.
Because you see, even though there's only one
race biologically, the Bible tells us there are
actually two races spiritually.
And the real interracial marriage is when a
child of the last Adam, Jesus Christ, marries
a child of the first Adam.
In other words, when a regenerate child marries
an unregenerate child.
That's the true interracial marriage.
See, biologically, biological fact, one race.
However, spiritual fact, all humans are divided into
two races.
And so, what is the difference between the
two spiritual races?
It's the direction in which they are racing.
The broad way and the narrow way.
Now, I do have a caution though here.
It's very, very important.
And it's this.
If two people from two totally different cultures
wanted to get married and came to me
for marriage counseling, actually, I wouldn't come to
me for marriage counseling.
But, even though I have a wonderful wife
and we have a wonderful marriage, that is
not my area.
Okay?
But, if they did, but they're from different
cultures, I would immediately counsel them to be
very careful.
You know why?
If you're from a different culture, you will
think differently.
And there has been a lot of cross
-cultural communication problems.
I have a great friend.
He's an American married to a Japanese and
he said, even though they're wonderful Christians, he
said they've had some rough times in the
past because they couldn't communicate properly because they
just grew up differently.
Different way of thinking.
Nonetheless, even though I would counsel very strongly
and warn about how children might be viewed
in the culture from such a mix and
all the rest of it, the bottom line,
if that couple love the Lord with all
their heart, both of them, and are convinced
that they're to get married, there's nothing in
the Bible that I can say to stop
them doing it.
Now, when I speak on this, and by
the way, let me give you an example
here.
If somebody comes from China to America and
they have children here and they have the
physical characteristics of say a Chinese, but they
grew up in American schools and the American
culture, what are they culturally?
American.
See, think about that.
Now, I always get objections.
Here are the main objections that I get.
Wait a minute.
The Israelites were not told not to marry
the people around.
In fact, if you remember, you know, for
Isaac, you know, they had to go and
get people of his own kind.
No, from his own family.
Why?
Because the people around were pagans.
I should say for him, I'm talking about
Jacob there, aren't I?
And what did Esau do, by the way?
Didn't he marry a couple of women from
around?
And deliberate sort of rebellion actually, and trying
to please his father in a way too,
but you see, I want you to think
about the example of Rahab.
Did you know that Rahab was a descendant
of Ham?
She married a descendant of Shem.
And that, they are in the line leading
to Jesus Christ.
God never condemned that.
Because you know what the difference is?
It wasn't that Rahab was a Canaanite.
It's that Rahab trusted the true God, which
is why she could marry an Israelite.
Because they were one spiritually.
That's the importance.
You know, right through the Bible, right through
the Bible as I see it, you know
one of Satan's ploys to destroy the human
race?
Is to destroy the family.
Do you remember the council of Balaam?
Do you remember when Balaam wasn't allowed to
curse the Israelites?
Do you remember later on in Numbers it
talks about the council of Balaam?
What was the council of Balaam?
Ah, get the men to marry the Midianite
women.
And there was another group there too, I
forget who they were, but get the Israelite
men to marry these pagan women because he
knew that once they bring their idols and
their pagan worship, that will destroy the family.
You know one of the problems we've got
today?
You know what really, really, I don't know,
it really stirs me up in America today.
You have these people in churches who have
racist attitudes and prejudices and all the rest
of it, but there are people out there
who haven't taught their children what it means
to not be unequally yoked when it comes
to the spiritual aspect of marriage.
And I see mums and dads who let
their kids date just anybody.
Well, is Bill a Christian?
What's that got to do with it?
It has everything to do with it.
Oh, but if they've got a different colour
skin or different eye shape or some other
differences, oh that's terrible.
But what about who we are spiritually?
That's what's important.
We've lost the priorities.
You know, Ruth was a Malabites.
Remember, I want your God to be my
God.
And she's in the line of Christ.
But do you know what's actually taught in
America today at some Christian colleges?
It's actually taught that we shouldn't agree with
what they call interracial marriage because it will
help bring in the one world rebellious government.
Now, wait a minute, why would Christian marrying
Christian bring in a one world rebellious government
anyway?
Think about that.
And besides, you know, and people often point
to Acts 17 26.
But it says there, And God hath made
of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on the face of the earth
and hath determined the tithes before appointing the
bounds of their habitation.
See, they're not allowed intermarry.
That is not saying that.
You know what that's saying?
God's in charge of the nations.
God is sovereign in history.
That has nothing to do with marriage.
He raised up the Babylonians to do this
and he raised up the Assyrians to do
that and Cyrus, my servant.
That's what that's talking about.
It has nothing to do with marriage.
Not at all.
And besides which, if you think about it,
what caused the nations to be split up
in the first place?
Languages.
So, if you really wanted to be against
bringing nations or people back together, what should
you be against?
Learning other languages.
Now you've got a problem.
Go into all the world and preach the
gospel to every tribe and nation.
I'm not allowed to do that.
Why?
I can't learn any different languages.
You see the problems?
No, remember the example of Rahab, a Canaanite
who married an Israelite.
Why?
Because she trusted in the true God and
you know what the Israelites were supposed to
do was to be out there to influence
the world, not let the world influence them
and that's what we've got to be doing.
Romans 10, For there is no difference between
the Jew and the Greek, for the same
Lord over all is rich unto all that
call upon him, for whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus.
And where there is neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free,
but Christ is all and in all.
What a difference it makes when you start
from God's Word to build your thinking, instead
of starting from man's opinions and end up
with the wrong thinking.
And I pray this afternoon as we finish
this session and we're going to break here
now until three and then Dr. Parker will
be back, after that I'll do my session
on Creation Evangelism, probably the most important talk
that I ever want to give.
Maybe there's some of us this afternoon that
do need in their heart to repent of
having a wrong attitude or prejudice or because
of something we absorbed instead of building our
thinking on the Word of God.
All of that is in the book One
Blood plus a lot more.
I would love to see that book given
to pastors and teachers and people in churches
all across America and let's confront people with
what the Bible says and let's get back
to building our thinking on the absolute authority
of the Word of God.