To uphold the authority of the Word of
God, beginning with the very first book of
the Bible, and the first verse of that
book, the first verse of the book of
Genesis.
In his time here in the valley since
Wednesday, through his time with us this morning,
he will have spoken to some 12,000
people.
And actually began his professional career back in
Australia 25 years ago as a biology teacher.
But for the last more than a dozen
years, he has really given great help to
people as he leads this organization to really
sort through the issue of the truth of
God as it relates to creation and other
related events that you find in the beginning
part of Genesis.
So it's great to have him here this
morning.
Would you please welcome with me Dr. Ken
Ham.
Well, for those of you who know me,
you know I don't speak American.
But you've got to get used to this
because you're going to speak it in heaven,
as I tell people.
You can't prove I'm wrong yet.
You know, it really is great to be
back here.
I appreciate the privilege of being able to
speak to you.
I was here actually 14 years ago.
I don't know how many remember that, but
we actually made a film with Films for
Christ, the Genesis solution on the importance of
the book of Genesis that has now gone
around the world, translated into a number of
different languages, and is the best-selling video
that we have on the importance of the
book of Genesis.
We have some copies out there with us
this morning, but that started in this church
14 years ago.
Isn't that something?
I really praise the Lord for that.
Well, I thought I should start off.
We're going to talk about Genesis, creation, evolution,
and so on.
But sharing with you that really we're not
all about creation, evolution, so much as we're
all about the authority of the word of
God as an organization.
I want you to see that this morning,
and to start off with, I really need
to ask you some questions because, you see,
I don't know about you, but I'm really
concerned at what's happening in America when you
see the increasing abortion and homosexual behavior and
lawlessness and euthanasia, suicide and school violence.
Do you think there's something wrong?
Certainly something wrong.
Well, we know what it is, sin, right?
But we're going to talk more about what's
happened here, and I want us to understand
the foundational nature of the problem.
To start with, I want to ask you
all a question.
This is an Australian question, so you've got
to get ready for it.
Does anyone here believe that kangaroos once lived
in the Middle East?
I see four or five hands.
Well, look, put your hands up if you
believe Noah's flood was a real event in
history.
Oh, very good.
Okay, put your hand up if you believe
Noah's ark was a real boat.
Okay, put your hand up if you believe
two of every kind of land animal, seven
of some, but including the kangaroos, got on
board that boat.
Okay, have a think about where it landed.
Now, this is pretty tough.
Now, okay, you ready?
Does anyone here now believe that kangaroos once
lived in the Middle East?
That's like the first service.
It takes ten seconds to change people's minds
in Arizona.
You know, I always enjoy asking that question,
and we have fun doing that, but actually
it has a very, very serious reason.
You see, I want to point out to
us that I believe all of us, myself
included, have been what I call evolutionized.
Now, by evolutionized, some of you might get
insulted and say, but I don't believe in
evolution.
You know, as one kid said to me,
Sir, evolution, isn't that apes and stuff?
Well, actually, many people when they think of
evolution, think of the idea of molecules becoming
some sort of living system millions of years
ago and one kind of animal changing to
another, ape-like creatures into people until you
get your average American up the top here.
And they look at that and they say,
that's evolution.
Actually, you know what?
That's not evolution.
Do you know what that is?
It's a mechanism.
See, Darwin popularized a mechanism as the so
-called scientific justification to defend the idea that
life arose without God.
But evolution itself is much more than a
mechanism.
It's a whole way of thinking, that man
by himself, independent of God, determines truth.
And you know where that started, don't you?
In the Garden of Eden, when Adam said,
I'm not going to listen to God's Word,
I'll decide truth for myself.
And that's our problem because we're all sons
and daughters of Adam and Eve.
And I suggest to you that that problem
is what I'm talking about this morning when
I'm asking questions even like kangaroos in the
Middle East.
And I'll tell you why.
Because I find that most people in our
churches, sadly, across this nation, around the world,
tend to think more in the Bible as
a book about religion, a book about salvation,
and not as a history book.
You see, if this is a revelation from
God who knows everything, then it must be
foundational to all of our thinking.
But what we tend to do is start
outside the Bible and take our thinking to
the Bible instead of starting from the Bible.
See, do you know what I call the
Bible?
I call the Bible the history book of
the universe.
Because Christianity is based in history, isn't it?
Is it based in stories or is it
based in real history?
It's based in real history.
The events of Jesus Christ, birth, death, resurrection.
If they weren't literal events in history, how
can we be saved?
If there wasn't a literal man in a
literal garden with a literal fruit who literally
rebelled to whom we're all related and descendants
of, then why are we sinners?
Who are we?
Where do we come from?
You see, the history of the universe, according
to the Bible, is from creation to consummation,
these events in between.
Things haven't always been the same.
Things have changed.
There was a time when everything was perfect,
sin and death ended the world.
There was a time when there wasn't a
flood and then a flood destroyed the world.
There was a time when there was one
language and God gave different languages.
There was a time when Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, stepped into history to become
a man.
There's a time in the future when there's
going to be a new heavens and a
new earth.
And once you're over 40, you're really looking
forward to it, aren't you?
And you see, this is the history of
the universe from beginning to end.
And one of the things that I want
to get across to us is this.
As Christians, we need to be putting on
our biblical glasses and looking at the universe
through the Bible's eyes.
In other words, as I teach my children,
we use the Bible as a set of
glasses.
You put on your glasses and you look
at the world through the biblical glasses.
You see, asking the questions about kangaroos in
the Middle East, if we had on our
biblical glasses and we're thinking in terms of
history, we know a boat landed in the
Middle East with all the land animals, not
just kangaroos.
And so if we understand the history, we
have a way of understanding this world today.
And you see, I believe that that's by
and large what we've forgotten.
We tend to start outside the Bible and
add our ideas to the Bible.
And you know where I believe this shows
up in a big way?
I believe it shows up in the way
we teach our children.
You see, I think a lot of Sunday
school literature sadly misses the mark because what
we tend to do, we sort of live
in the past in a sense I think,
but we tend to teach Bible stories.
Now, you might say, but wait a minute,
those Bible stories are important.
Jonah and the great fish, the feeding of
the 5,000, Paul's missionary journeys, Jesus on
the cross, absolutely they're important.
My parents taught them to me.
But here's the problem, it's how we teach
them.
You see, what we tend to do today
is this, Bible stories, Bible stories, Bible stories,
but our kids go into the big bad
world and they go to public school and
they go to colleges and they watch TV
and they read books.
You know what they're told today?
That science has proved the Bible wrong.
You can't trust the Bible.
The Bible says there was a global flood.
There never was a global flood.
The Bible talks about Noah's ark.
Noah couldn't have got all those animals on
the ark anyway.
The Bible says the sun, moon and stars
were made on day four.
That's not right.
The big bang produced the sun before the
earth.
There's not enough water to cover the earth
anyway.
And the Bible says Adam and Eve had
Cain and Abel.
Where did Cain get his wife?
And where did the races of people come
from?
And the Bible doesn't talk about dinosaurs.
Well, dinosaurs we know are millions of years
old.
They were prehistoric animals.
You can't trust the Bible.
It's just a religious book.
And you know what we do in our
churches?
We teach Bible stories, Bible stories, Bible stories.
You see, one of the things that really
hit me was John 3, verse 12, where
Jesus said, If you can't believe me when
I talk about earthly things, then how can
you believe me when I talk about heavenly
things?
And you know what hit me?
If our children are really being told, in
a sense, that you can't trust the Bible
when it talks about geology, biology and astronomy,
why should they believe it when it talks
about morality and salvation?
We need to understand that the Bible connects
to the real world.
Because you see, the Bible does talk about
dinosaurs.
It talks about land animals on day six.
What were dinosaurs?
Land animals, right?
And the Bible does talk about the creation,
the sun, moon and stars after the creation
of the earth.
And the Bible does talk about a global
flood.
And we should be connecting the Bible to
the real world.
The Bible connects to the Grand Canyon.
It connects to death and suffering.
It connects to plants.
It connects to animals.
It connects to you and me.
If you ask the average Sunday school teacher
today in a lot of churches, Oh, do
you teach astronomy, biology and geology in your
Sunday school class?
A lot of people would say, Well, no,
we teach about Jesus.
See, therein lies, I think, a big problem.
That our children grow up thinking the Bible's
about Jesus.
It's about relationships.
It's about religious stuff.
But out here in the world, Oh, that's
what the world's all about.
And we have disconnected the Bible from the
real world.
But you see, the Bible connects to everything.
And where it touches on geology, it's right.
If not, why should you trust any of
it?
Where it touches on biology, it has to
be right.
If not, why trust any of it?
Where it touches on astronomy, it's right.
Why trust any of it?
And as I look around today, I see
in public education that, by and large, they've
thrown God out of science, haven't they?
They've thrown God out of the schools.
But do you know what we've done in
our churches?
We've divorced science from God.
You see, they've disconnected the Bible from the
real world and we tend to reinforce that
by just teaching it as a so-called
religious book.
And what we've got to do is get
back to understanding that the Bible is a
book of history.
Christianity is based in history.
The history is foundational to our thinking, connects
to the real world.
Well, let me ask you another question to
illustrate this.
This is an easy question.
How many of you saw those movies, Lost
World or Jurassic Park?
Those evolutionary, new age, humanistic, anti-God, atheistic
movies?
Well, I see a lot of you saw
them.
I saw it for research purposes only, I
want you to understand, but do you remember
Tyrannosaurus Rex, that dinosaur with sharp teeth?
This will be an easy question.
How would this dinosaur originally have been described?
Who would say plant eater?
Who would say meat eater?
Hmm, who doesn't know?
Who's not game to answer any of my
questions anymore?
You know, I find the majority of people
in churches would say it's a meat eater.
But in actual fact, when we put on
our Biblical glasses and think of the history
of the universe from the Bible, looking at
the world, see, when you look at the
world today, do you realise you're not looking
at the world God made?
Have I got you confused?
You're looking at the world God made, but
has suffered changes.
The changes because of sin, because of the
curse, because of the flood, because of the
Torah and Babel, changes.
It's a different world.
And you see, when you look out there
today, we see animals with sharp teeth eating
meat and we automatically think, oh well, animals
with sharp teeth always ate meat.
No, that's not true.
In fact, there are animals out there with
sharp teeth that don't eat meat too.
Just because an animal has sharp teeth doesn't
mean it's a meat eater, it just means
it has sharp teeth.
But if you look at the world through
the Bible's eyes, originally, Genesis 1, 29 and
30, God told Adam and Eve only to
eat fruits and plants.
He told the animals only to eat plants.
If we take God at His word, then
originally the animals and man were vegetarian.
Now, if you knocked off some dead chicken
this week, does that mean you're in trouble?
No, because in Genesis 9 after the flood,
here's another change.
See, things haven't always been the same.
Things change because God's revealed that to us.
After the flood, He said, just as I
gave you the plants, now I give you
the animals.
Do you know why I believe this is
important?
I believe if you take Genesis to Revelation
consistently, interpreting Scripture as Scripture, you can come
to no other conclusion than death, bloodshed, disease
and suffering is a consequence of sin.
I want you to think about this.
At the end of the sixth day of
creation when God stood back and said, everything
I've made is very good, do you think
the world was full of diseases like cancer?
That doesn't make sense, does it?
But friends, here's a challenge for us.
I know of many Christians, and they are
Christians, but I know of many Christians and
Christian leaders today who believe in millions of
years.
And I don't believe many of them have
thought through the consequences of this because many
of us allow our children to be taught
about dinosaurs millions of years ago.
There are many Sunday school teachers that tell
their children, oh, all dinosaurs could have died
out millions of years ago.
Whoa, wait a minute.
As soon as you believe in millions of
years, you've got all these millions of layers
of fossils like the layers of the Grand
Canyon before man.
And if you've got all these layers of
fossils before man, you've got death, bloodshed, diseases.
You know in the dinosaur bones there's evidence
of diseases like cancer.
In fact, the diseases we have in the
world today are prevalent in the fossil record
in all sorts of bones.
Thorns, when does the Bible say thorns came
into the world?
Before sin or after?
After sin.
But wait a minute.
According to the fossil record and the way
the evolutionists interpret it, you've got thorns hundreds
of millions of years before man.
Does that mean the Bible's wrong?
You see, death, bloodshed, disease, suffering.
When was the first bloodshed according to the
Bible?
You know in Genesis 3 when God took
an animal and killed an animal, gave coats
of skins to Adam and Eve and clothed
them, the origin of clothing, the first blood
sacrifice as a covering for their sin, a
picture of what was to come in Jesus
Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away
the sin of the world.
But if you had the shedding of blood
millions of years before Adam's sin, what has
the shedding of blood got to do with
the atonement?
You see, I believe that many people have
not thought through this.
That's why I understand what Paul says that
the whole of creation groans in pain there's
something wrong with today's world.
And you know, this is where a lot
of non-Christians misunderstand because I think we
Christians give the wrong idea.
We say to people, we go to the
Grand Canyon, look at this beautiful place and
they look and say, well I see billions
of dead things buried in rock layers laid
down by water.
Because in reality, is the world a beautiful
place?
You know what?
You look out there, children die, people are
suffering, there are sorts of catastrophes, there's diseases.
I mean, there's a remnant of beauty in
the creation but at the same time it's
broken, isn't it?
Because of sin.
You see, that's why I think when we
sing that hymn, all things bright and beautiful,
the Lord God made them all, we should
have another verse, all things marred and mutated,
the Lord God cursed them all, so that
we understand the real nature of the universe.
And you see, often times we give Christians
a wrong idea when we say, look at
this world, can't you see there's a God
of love?
And they look out there and say, all
this death and suffering and disease, who wants
a God like that?
But you see, that's because of our sin.
Do you realise when we believe in millions
of years we're blaming God for the mess
of this world instead of our sin?
But there is a God of love because
even though we in Adam didn't want God,
He sent His Son to die on a
cross, shed His blood, be raised from the
dead so those who trust in Him can
spend eternity with Him.
Isn't that a great message?
Now, I want you to think through this
carefully because I want you to see what
a difference it makes if, for instance, in
our Sunday schools we were teaching the Bible
as history and so you see, you should
be teaching your children like this.
You know, when you come across a dinosaur
bone, you know what I do with my
children?
We put on our biblical glasses and we
say, okay, what do we know about it?
It's dead.
Okay, could that have existed before man sinned?
No, it could not have because there was
no death before sin, no disease before sin.
Well, how do you form a fossil anyway?
Well, you know, animals normally decay when they
die but if you cover something quickly you
can form fossils and how do you get
all the fossil layers of the Grand Canyon
and fossil layers all over the earth and
billions of dead things?
Well, you'd need a lot of water and
a lot of mud.
Is there anything in history that could tell
us how that could happen?
Ah, the flood of Noah's day and put
on your biblical glasses.
No death before sin, the flood of Noah's
day.
You know, I think you'd expect to find
billions of dead things buried in rock layers
laid down by water all over the earth.
You know what you find?
Billions of dead things buried in rock layers
laid down by water all over the earth.
You know, Peter warns us about this in
2 Peter 3.
Peter says this beginning at verse 3, In
the last days there are going to be
scoffers who scoff at those of us who
believe Jesus is coming again because the underlying
philosophy of the age is going to be
that all things continue as they have done
since the beginning.
Nothing's really changed.
What we see out there has gone on
for millions of years.
The death and the suffering and so on
has gone on for millions of years.
Nothing's really changed and they deny that God
created.
They are willingly ignorant verse 5 that God
created.
In verse 6 they're willingly ignorant that God
judged with a flood.
In verse 10 they're willingly ignorant or deliberately
reject that God's going to judge next time
by fire.
You see what Peter's saying?
In the last days the underlying philosophy of
the age is oh this world the way
we see it that's the way it's basically
always been.
It's going to be like that in the
future.
God didn't create.
God didn't judge with a flood.
He's not going to judge with fire.
But you know what the Bible says?
God did create.
God did judge with a flood and by
the same word He's going to judge with
fire.
Let me give you a practical example.
Do you know where that is?
It's not far from here.
The Grand Canyon.
I've been to the Grand Canyon with an
evolutionist.
We stood there and the evolutionist said look
do you realize a long time and a
little bit of water did this?
I stood there put on my biblical glasses
and I said do you realize a lot
of water and a little bit of time
did this?
See we have different views of the canyon.
He said but look those layers are obviously
millions of years old.
I said the only thing obvious to me
is they're there.
None of us saw the canyon form.
None of us saw the layers form.
How do we know how the layers got
there?
That's why God said to Job in Job
38 where were you when I made the
earth Job?
That's why I taught the children here this
week.
We had thousands of kids in this auditorium.
Next time somebody says millions of years ago
ask them the question God asked Job were
you there?
And when they say they weren't but you
either or you weren't either you say no
I wasn't but I know someone who was.
And he told me what happened.
Isn't it great being a Christian?
We know someone who's always been there who's
given us the answers.
And so you see that's why when I
look at the Grand Canyon I don't go
out to the Grand Canyon with my children
and say oh I'm not a geologist son
I can't tell you how the canyon got
there and I'm not a scientist.
I go out there and say well you
know what I'm not a geologist but I
do have the word of God and I
know those layers couldn't have been laid down
before sin and they're full of dead things
and I know there was a global flood
and I know Psalm 104 indicates at the
end of the flood God raised up the
mountains and sank the ocean basins.
That makes a lot of sense you know
because if you level out all the mountains
and the ocean basins today there's enough water
to cover to a depth of two miles
the Kaibab plateau is raised up so if
that raised up at the end of the
flood formed a big dam and then the
water broke through and gouged out the canyon
to allow the Colorado River to come through
boy that makes a lot of sense.
I'm putting on my biblical glasses and then
you imagine if the park rangers were trained
by Answers in Genesis.
Miracle of miracles but you could imagine and
when the tourists come and instead of being
told this is a result of millions of
years of earth history imagine if they were
told look at these layers they're full of
dead things that's a reminder that death came
after sin and look at those layers that
were probably laid down during the flood of
Noah's day which was a judgment because of
the wickedness of man and it's a reminder
that God provided an ark of salvation for
Noah and the people had to go through
a doorway to be saved and there's a
judgment to come by fire and God's provided
an ark of salvation to Lord Jesus Christ
he said I am the door by me
if any man enter in he will be
saved get down on your knees and repent
boy wouldn't it be great if the park
rangers said that because you know something that
is the message of the Grand Canyon but
only if you have your biblical glasses on
because some people say to me but some
of those layers at the canyon consist of
thousands of individual layers they would have taken
millions of years no when Mount St. Helens
erupted a little rinky dink volcano all sorts
of catastrophic processes laid down hundreds of feet
of layers this layer here 30 feet thick
thousands of individual layers layer upon layer upon
layer it took 3 hours now if a
little rinky dinky volcano could do that in
3 hours what could fountains of the great
deep breaking open all over the earth tidal
waves earthquakes water on the earth for months
and months I think you'd find billions of
dead things buried in rock layers laid down
by water all over the earth you know
what you find billions of dead things buried
in rock layers laid down by water all
over the earth of course you know I
have people say to me I have young
people sometimes and you're just getting a little
summary here today but we had a whole
seminar here in the weekend and sometimes I
have people say Mr. Ham look if the
Bible's right and there really was a flood
and God created and the world's not millions
of years old and if it's so obvious
as you say why don't the majority of
scientists believe it you know I'd be surprised
if the majority did believe it you know
why the heart of man is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked there's more in
the broad way than the narrow way men
love darkness rather than light would you be
surprised if the majority agreed with the Bible
you see we have to understand the nature
of man and you know Peter talks about
this he says look they are willingly ignorant
they deliberately reject creation they deliberately reject they've
got blinders on they don't want to see
the evidence the essence of the way this
is written here in the Greek is they
don't want to see the evidence they refuse
to see the evidence they refuse to believe
in a flood they refuse to believe in
creation why hey if the Bible's true and
there was a flood it means God is
judge it means God owns you it means
you're accountable to Him and by the way
when you think about this they're willingly ignorant
of the flood remember if there was no
death before sin you can't have fossils of
animals or man until after sin don't you
think it makes sense that the flood of
Noah produced much of the fossil record billions
of dead things buried in rock layers laid
down by water all over the earth and
you know as you think about that let
me show you something here by the way
some people think it takes millions of years
to make a fossil well here's my favourite
fossil just to show you it doesn't take
millions of years it's not a relation of
mine or anything like that maybe evolutionists want
to see me like that but this was
a ham somebody left on a table in
a village in New Zealand and after volcanic
eruption the village was covered with ash years
later they dug it out and found it
petrified didn't take millions of years did it
not at all but see I was really
interested when the Pathfinder mission went to Mars
do you remember when the Pathfinder mission was
up on Mars that little thing running around
up there remember that and back in the
70s the Viking lander was up there do
you know there are canyons on Mars larger
than the Grand Canyon do you know what
the scientists propose they're eroded by water now
here's the intriguing thing do you know what
they said in our local newspaper a flood
of biblical proportions occurred on Mars they don't
believe a flood of biblical proportions occurred on
Earth but they're happy to have one on
Mars and in fact when you think about
it here's the intriguing thing scientists propose a
massive flood not a global flood but something
almost like a global flood on a planet
that has no liquid water but they refuse
to have a global flood on a planet
that's mostly covered by water now why do
you think that is do you know why
it is because if there's a global flood
on Earth then the Bible's right and if
the Bible's right then there are lots of
implications because you know what the implications are
if God made the first man Adam we're
all descendants of Adam who owns us God
to whom are we accountable God who sets
the rules God but if we're all descendants
of some ape like creature some animal and
there's no God to whom are we accountable
no one who sets the rules we do
what do you think would happen if you
take whole generations of children through an education
system and teach them there's no God and
you're just a product of matter eventually they
would do whatever they want to do because
hey if there's no absolute I can write
my own rules do you think that's happening
absolutely see do you know why I believe
what I do if you believe marriage is
a man one man and one woman for
life why you know the only reason is
because Genesis is true in Matthew 19 when
Jesus was asked about divorce and concerned marriage
you know what he said haven't you read
then he quoted from Genesis 1 and 2
he made them male and female for this
cause from man to his father and mother
cleave unto his wife twain will be one
flesh you become one because you're one flesh
the woman didn't come from an ape woman
and the man from an ape man the
woman came from the man from his side
you become one physically and spiritually because you're
one flesh it's a man and a woman
and not a man and a man why
it's very simple you know God made a
man and a woman not a man and
a man that is pretty simple don't you
think but you see it's only simple if
Genesis is true if the history is true
do you see how important it is to
understand the Bible as history and teach it
as history because if there wasn't a literal
man in a literal garden who literally rebelled
a literal woman who was made from his
side in history who are we where do
we come from why are we sinners but
you know it's not just marriage try to
name one biblical doctrine of theology that ultimately
directly or indirectly is not founded in Genesis
1-11 in the history of Genesis 1
-11 why are we sinners Genesis 1-11
why is there death Genesis 1-11 why
do we wear clothes Genesis 1-11 why
did Jesus die on the cross Genesis 1
-11 why are there thorns Genesis 1-11
why does man have dominion Genesis 1-11
seven day week Genesis 1-11 why do
we need a new heavens and new earth
Genesis 1-11 why is Jesus called the
last Adam Genesis 1-11 you get the
idea you think Genesis 1-11 is important
absolutely it's the history that's foundational to the
rest of the Bible to all of our
doctrine it connects the Bible to geology to
astronomy it connects the Bible to biology it
connects the Bible to morality see think about
that if you don't teach the children that
the Bible is right when it talks about
geology, astronomy and biology and you let them
be taught what the world is teaching and
you don't counteract it then why should they
connect the Bible to morality because you see
if God's word is true there's a basis
for right and wrong marriage is one man
for one woman we wear clothes because of
sin there's a rightful place for sex within
marriage but the more people believe we determine
truth man by himself and evolution is the
justification for that write your own rules do
what you want with sex, abort babies get
rid of spare cats, get rid of spare
kids what's the difference and you know what
we see happening in America today we see
the collapse of Christian morality and the increase
in humanist philosophy you know why because the
Bible has been disconnected from the real world
the Bible was disconnected in geology, biology and
astronomy and now they've disconnected it in morality
and they've replaced it with man's opinions determining
truth so man's ideas connect to the real
world and we have a whole different structure
that's the whole issue of Christianity versus humanism
at a foundational level it's creation versus evolution
you know take school violence when Al Gore
who's an ardent evolutionist by the way was
interviewed on Larry King Live not long ago
and asked about school violence he said I
think that violence has that capacity because of
our evolutionary heritage because of the laws of
nature truth and fame well Mr. Gore you're
only partly right there is a connection between
evolution and school violence but it's not because
it's our evolutionary heritage it's because it's being
taught as our evolutionary heritage and the more
children are taught that they're just an animal
materialism is absolute properties inherited it didn't matter
that's how you got here the bible is
not true throw out the ten commandments throw
out the bible man determines truth should we
be surprised that kids start acting in accord
with that foundation you see I sum it
up this way with two castle diagrams here's
the foundation of creation God's word is truth
the structure of Christianity foundation of evolution man
determines truth humanism those issues abortion etc the
humanists are very clever how do you get
rid of Christianity you don't go firing at
the castle straight off you knock out the
foundation how do you do that you get
rid of the history you disconnect the bible
from the real world get rid of Genesis
1 to 11 this will collapse and that's
what's happening and even Christians are helping that
sadly and what do Christians do shoot at
each other shoot into nowhere shoot themselves at
the foot take pot shots at the issues
you know what I mean by that too
many of us think that abortion is the
problem in this nation and homosexual behavior is
the problem and pornography is the problem they're
not the problems they're the symptoms they're the
symptoms of a change in foundation you see
when Christian thinking and God's word permeated the
culture and you say you're a sinner people
say yeah I know what you mean abortion
is wrong yeah you're right but when it's
this foundation you're a sinner what are you
talking about abortion is wrong no it's not
you see that's why even in this post
Christian culture we have today you can't use
the same method of evangelism with all people
certainly it's the same message about Jesus on
the cross but the more they have a
different foundation the more they won't understand that
message until you start and restore the foundation
from the beginning and the solution as we
say to people is to get out and
preach the authority of the word of God
but you know what the problem is today
when you go out there to preach God's
word people scoff at us they say God's
word the Bible that's just a religious book
and besides which it's wrong in geology it's
wrong in astronomy it's wrong in biology and
Noah couldn't get all the animals on the
ark and dinosaurs proved the Bible's wrong and
there's not enough water for the flood anyway
and carbon dating proves the Bible's wrong and
where did Cain get his wife and they
ask all these questions and what do we
do we sort of retreat oh trust in
Jesus trust in Jesus if I can't get
it right in those other areas why should
I trust it there you see that's why
we need answers and that's why we need
to be training our children right from they're
born to connect the Bible to the real
world it's a history book giving them answers
in biology geology astronomy so they understand what
it's talking about in morality is true and
salvation is true the Bible is a very
special book and you know what the more
I've studied this area the more I can
tell you that where it touches on biology
is true where it touches on astronomy it's
true where it touches on geology it's true
and we should use the Bible to judge
man's opinions and not the other way around
where it talks about salvation it's true the
message of salvation is dependent upon the history
in Genesis well I could go on for
millions of years but there's going to be
millions of people trying to get in for
the next service so just before we close
one of the most important parts of our
ministry is to provide resources for people and
I don't look on this as being commercial
friends we need resources I look on these
as tools to equip us if you're on
the internet we have some flyers out there
look up answers in genesis.org by the
way if you missed out on the seminar
this weekend you're saying I should have been
there next Saturday I believe look up our
website we're going to replay all the talks
that we did here for the seminar in
fact Chris the sound man graciously recorded them
all a mini disc for us and we're
going to replay those so the whole world
can hear them Grace Community is going to
be famous next Saturday actually we have 6
,000 people a day accessing our website at
the present time so you can be praying
for that my book The Lie Evolution here
are some just basic materials real quickly for
you my book The Lie is a very
very important book I believe because it deals
with what I did this morning the foundational
nature of the book of Genesis our connection
to morality, why Christians can't believe in evolution
and so on and then this one this
is a brand new book 20 of the
most asked questions people ask in this area
answered tremendous resource to help you equip you
so you can equip others and answer skeptics
where did Cain get his wife what about
the races what about dinosaurs what about carbon
dating what about continental drift how did animals
get to Australia after the flood this is
a real important question as you can see
where did the water come from it's a
tremendous resource it's one of our most popular
resources this one here refuting evolution the major
scientific evidence is used in public schools and
colleges to teach kids evolution refuted by a
man who is a scientist tremendous witnessing tool
and what we do is we offer those
three together basically you get three for the
price of two we want so much for
everyone to get that basic set of books
every teenager upwards we believe should read those
we produced another book just last week did
you know that National Geographic has to apologize
to the world this month it had a
big article in November about a feathered dinosaur
all in color and we now find out
the fossil was a hoax and that's happened
before with National Geographic but you know we
need to teach our children the truth a
great missionary witnessing tool and if you want
to get that a lot of you I
noticed some of you didn't get it but
a lot of you got a sheet as
you came in the door they're on the
tables anyway if you subscribe to the magazine
today we'll give you a free CD of
our singer Buddy Davis because we so want
people to get that tool, tremendous tool Buddy
sings songs based upon our lectures it's one
way to teach children the content of our
lectures and don't forget if you want a
video of a message similar to this morning
was done here in Grace Community it's a
collector's item there that's the Genesis Solution we
have some of those out there on the
table as well and I just pray and
trust that you recognize that what the creation
evolution issue is all about ultimately is the
authority of the Word of God and I
want to challenge us that maybe there's some
people this morning have to repent of adding
man's ideas to the Bible instead of building
our thinking on God's Word and judging man's
opinions accordingly and I'll hand back to you
Pastor