Were you
there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my
Lord?
Oh, sometimes
it causes me to tremble,
tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified
my Lord?
Were you there when they laid him in
the tomb?
Were you there when they laid him
in the tomb?
Oh, sometimes
it causes me to tremble,
tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him
in the tomb?
Were you there
when he
rose up from the grave?
Oh, sometimes
I feel like he's
lonely.
Were you there when he rose up from
the grave?
Only 112.
Thou alone, Lord Jesus, can true peace impart.
Thou dost know the sorrow of the human
heart.
112.
Thou alone, Lord Jesus, can true peace impart.
Thou dost know the sorrow of the human
heart.
Thou didst not call me here that I
should live.
And didst not forsake me there.
There is none like Thee, Lord.
There is none like Thee.
For the cross that I bear, There is
none like Thee.
Our brother Bill McDonald.
We turn in our Bibles tonight, please, to
2 Peter, chapter 3.
We'll begin reading with the first verse.
2 Peter, chapter 3, beginning with the first
verse.
If you do not have an outline, perhaps
your neighbor would share one with you.
Perhaps some couples who have two would be
willing to pass one along so that everybody
will have a copy.
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto
you, in both which I stir up your
pure minds by way of remembrance, that ye
may be mindful of the words which were
spoken before by the Holy Prophet, and of
the commandments of us the apostles of the
Lord and Savior, knowing this first, that there
shall come in the last days scoffers walking
after their own luck and saying, Where is
the promise of his coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that
by the word of God the heavens were
of old, and the earth, standing out of
the water and in the water, perished.
But the heavens and the earth, which are
now by the same word, are kept in
store, reserved unto fire against the day of
judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
In our past lessons together on the second
epistle of Peter, we've been introduced to false
teachers whom Peter prophesied, whom Peter predicted would
arise in the last days.
These men would arise not as enemies outside
the church attacking it, but as false teachers
inside the church undermining it.
We learned in the first chapter that one
of their great assaults would be in the
realm of the inspiration of the scriptures.
And we called some quotations from current literature
to show how very accurately Peter's predictions are
being fulfilled.
Then in chapter two, the first verse of
the chapter, we learned that these men would
bring in privilege, damnable doctrines denying even the
Lord God that bought them.
We didn't have to search very far to
find statements by well-known liberals and modernists
who did that very thing.
In that connection, I didn't mention, but I
could mention Bishop Kennedy, Bishop of the Methodist
Church in the Los Angeles area, a man
who not only denies the deity of Christ,
but says that it's a form of idolatry
to speak of Jesus as God.
Time Magazine recently had a big write-up,
a very favorable write-up.
It was one of the leading church men
in the United States today.
As we went on, we found that these
men were men who would defy public government
and authority, that they would be ringleaders in
organizations that would be subversive to the government
of the world.
And once again, we didn't have to look
very far to find this proof.
Recent investigations of the National Council of Churches
of Christ in the United States linking some
of its members with pink organizations.
Then we were introduced to the fact that
although these men were religious outwardly, yet they
were very immoral inwardly.
We learned that apostasy from the Christian faith
and immorality are partners and that oftentimes apostasy
finds its root in immorality.
That men fall into sin, turn around and
blame God for it, and then cast away
the Christian faith.
And then another distinguishing feature of these men,
we found, was their bold and blatant carousing
in the daytime.
They throw off the restraint in a very
unusual way, and they're more arrogant in their
sins than ordinary sinners are.
We learned that sometimes people who are most
privileged think the very lowest in the muck
and mire of degradation and immorality.
These men are carousers.
And then we also found another distinguishing feature
of these men were that they talked for
hire.
They were in it for what they could
get out of it.
Their God was their deli.
They were basically mercenaries at heart.
Now, Peter isn't through with these men, and
we're going to have some more revelations of
what they're like in this third chapter of
2 Peter.
If you look at your outline, you'll notice
that the first 16 verses of this chapter
have to do with the fact that believers
are forewarned of last-day scoffers.
Forewarned of last-day scoffers.
You know that word scoffer is very significant.
One of the great features of liberal, modernistic
ministers today is that they are basically scoffers.
Nothing to them is sacred, and their system
is largely a system of doubt and denial.
They don't have a positive message, but they're
very positive in doubting and denying the basic
fundamentals of the faith.
If I could just use a personal illustration
in that regard, I remember when I was
going through college that I was at a
liberal school, and although we didn't run into
it too much in a religious sense, but
the dean of the school of religion called
me in one day.
He wasn't happy with an editorial I had
written in the school paper.
The editorial had to do with their compulsory
chapel service, and the thing that intrigued me
was that at a liberal school, the only
type of speakers they ever had was modernists.
So he called me into the office, and
his blood pressure was rather high that day,
and he took me to task for the
editorial.
And I said to him, I said, Dean
Skinner, I said, this is a liberal school,
isn't it?
He said, yes, it is.
Well, I said, now, the liberal viewpoint is
that you should hear every side of the
story, isn't it?
And he sputtered.
And I said, I've been here at the
school now for four years.
And I said, we've been attending a compulsory
chapel service.
But I said, the only type of men
I've ever heard speaking were liberals and modernists.
I said, how is it that we never
have a fundamentalist or an evangelical?
And he screwed up his face and he
said, fundamentalists?
I guess there are some of them.
That's all he said.
That's what the scripture says.
Conference would arise in the last day, and
I'll tell you, they show their true colors
when it comes to the gospel of the
grace of God.
Now, first of all, in the first two
verses, it says we have the scriptural source
of the warning.
Notice what Peter says.
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto
you, and in both of them, if it
will help, and in both of them I
stir up your pure minds by way of
remembrance.
Now, he says this is the second epistle
he wrote, and I suppose we would think
immediately, well, the other one's the first epistle.
Well, we're not too sure about that.
It might have been, and it might not
be.
Maybe Peter wrote another epistle that God in
his wisdom didn't see fit to, didn't see
wise to include in the sacred canon of
scripture.
The first epistle really isn't primarily dealing with
this subject.
It deals with a Christian suffering at the
hands of an ungodly world for his testimony
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
But anyway, he says that he did write
an epistle, and in both of the epistles,
his object was to stir up their sincere
minds by putting them in remembrance.
Of what?
That ye may be mindful of the words
which were spoken by the Holy Prophet and
of the commandments of the apostles of the
Lord and Savior.
Now, notice two things here.
You have the holy, you have the words
which were spoken by the Holy Prophet.
That's the Old Testament scriptures.
You have the commandments of the Lord and
Savior through your apostles.
That's the New Testament scriptures.
The apostle Peter here puts the New Testament
writings on the same level as the Old
Testament writings.
The inspired word of God.
What is he saying in verse 2?
He's saying what he has said all through
the epistle.
That the safeguard of the people of God
in a day of detention and apostasy is
get back to the Word.
Get into the Word.
Study the Word.
Get to know the Word.
You won't be tossed to a crow and
carried about by every wind of doctrine.
Then in verses 3 and 4 you have
the denial of Christ's coming and the doctrine
of and there's a big word there in
your outline.
Don't be afraid of it.
The doctrine of uniformitarianism.
Well, it sounds like a new religion, but
we'll take it up when we come to
it.
First of all it says, knowing this first,
that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, mockers, nothing holy to them.
They take the most sacred things and they
scoff at them.
They walk after their own luck.
They don't walk after the Holy Spirit.
They walk after their animal appetite.
They live for the gratification of bodily pleasure.
Now the first thing they say is, where
is the promise of his coming?
We notice the various forms of doubt that
they cast.
Now here's the next one.
The attack of the last day false teachers
on the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Where is the promise of his coming?
Now actually when they said where is the
promise, it means where is the fulfillment of
the promise.
The promise is in the Bible.
It's scattered in the Bible from Genesis to
Revelation.
But when they say where is the promise,
they really mean where is the fulfillment of
the promise.
You know, we've been hearing that all down
through the centuries.
Nothing has ever happened.
What's going to happen?
Nothing's going to happen.
And that's just exactly what they mean.
Now when they say where is the promise
of his coming, what do you think they
mean?
Do you think they mean the rapture?
Christ coming into the air to take his
waiting people home to be with himself?
They don't know anything about the rapture.
Do you think they mean Christ coming back
to reign upon the earth?
Well, they're not that well schooled in Bible
truth, perhaps.
What they really mean when they say where
is the promise of his coming, they mean
Christ's action at the end of the millennium
when the earth and the heavens as we
now know them are going to be destroyed.
What they mean is a climactic end of
the world.
And what they're saying is this, you fundamentalists,
you evangelicals, you're always talking about God coming
in and judging man and destroying the world.
No evidence of it.
We've been going along all of these centuries.
No evidence.
And it won't happen.
And what they really mean is we can
sin and get away with it and we
can do it with safety.
We can do it with impunity.
No fear of punishment.
That's what this scoffing has to do with.
It doesn't have to do with the rapture.
It doesn't have to do with his coming
to reign.
It has to do with the final destruction
of the heavens and the earth after Christ's
millennial reign.
Now let me just take a moment out
to explain something that might be helpful to
you in your study of the Bible.
I'd like to say a word or two
about the coming of Christ and how that
word is used in the New Testament, the
word coming.
Now, we tend to think of the coming
of the Lord Jesus as a single event.
Like I say, I came here last Friday
at midnight.
Well, when I say that to you, you
immediately think of a single event, a single
incident that took place Friday night at midnight.
But mind you, that isn't the way the
word coming is used in the New Testament.
The word coming means not only an arrival,
but a day following that arrival.
It means not only an event, but a
period of time characterized by certain things.
Let me illustrate it this way.
If I were to say to you, my
coming to Bristol has been a pleasant experience,
what do you think of then?
Do you think of an event that took
place last Friday night at midnight?
No, you don't.
You think of that event plus the time
that has elapsed since then.
And that's the way the word coming is
used in the New Testament.
The Greek word was used of the arrival
of a king, for instance, and his day
following that arrival.
And another word that could be used to
translate it would be the word present, present.
Now, in the New Testament, I can see
certain features of the coming of the Lord
Jesus.
The coming of the Lord Jesus has a
beginning, number one.
It has a course, C-O-U-R
-S-E.
It has a course, number two.
It has a manifestation, number three.
And it has a climax, number four.
And I think if you see something as
simple as that, you're going to be able
to take all the passages in the New
Testament concerning the coming again of the Lord
Jesus and fit them into their proper place.
First of all, the coming of the Lord
Jesus is a period of time characterized by
a beginning, a course, a manifestation, and a
climax.
Now, what I'd like to do is turn
to the Word of God and show you
these things in the Scripture.
First of all, the coming again of the
Lord Jesus has a beginning.
When does the coming begin?
1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
And beginning with verse 13, I would not
have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them
which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even
as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so them also which sleep
in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the coming of the
Lord shall in no wise precede them which
are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, and with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
And we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air,
and so shall we ever be with the
Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
Now this is the rapture.
This is Christ coming into the air for
the saints.
He doesn't come back to the earth.
He comes in the clouds of heaven, comes
into the air.
The dead saints are raised.
The living saints are caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord
in the air and take them back to
the Father's house which he has prepared for
them, John chapter 14.
We see the coming of Christ as a
beginning.
But the coming of Christ has a course,
too.
There's a period following that.
And as you study the New Testament, you
come to certain verses that describe rewards being
given to Christians.
The coming is used in connection with a
time of rewards for faithfulness and service down
here.
We believe that, of course, is the judgment
seat of Christ.
And so that word coming is often used
to describe the judgment seat of Christ.
And I could just give you one illustration
of it tonight.
1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 19.
Paul says, For what is our hope, or
crown, or joy, or crown of rejoicing, are
not even ye in the presence of our
Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
For ye are our glory and joy.
Now the saints have been caught up to
the Father's house.
The judgment seat of Christ takes place.
Paul is standing there at the judgment seat
of Christ.
There are the Thessalonian believers.
They've been won to Christ through his ministry.
He's nurtured them on the faith.
He said, What's going to be my crown
of joy and rejoicing on that day?
He said, You are.
I'll look at you and say, Thank God
for what the grace of God has done
in them.
So the coming of the Lord Jesus has
a course.
But the coming of the Lord Jesus has
a manifestation, too.
You know, when he came into the air
to take the saints home to be with
himself, it all took place in the twinkling
of an eye.
People can argue all they want whether the
rapture is secret.
That's a big argument that's going on today.
Does the Bible keep a secret rapture?
Well, you can call it what you want.
It takes place in a twinkling of an
eye.
How much will the world see of it?
But there is a time in connection with
the coming of Christ when he's going to
come back visibly, when every eye shall see
him.
And I speak of that as the manifestation
of his coming.
And if you'd like to read it in
the Scriptures, it's in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2
and verse 8.
You can find chapter 8 for doing good.
I wish there were a chapter 8 in
a way.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 8.
It says, And then shall that wicked be
revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the
spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with
the brightness of his coming.
Now that word brightness really means manifestation.
That's what it means.
That's the way the Revised Version translates it.
Whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness
of his coming.
The manifestation of his parousia, it says.
Now this manifestation is also mentioned in chapter
1 of 2 Thessalonians.
2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 10.
It says, When he shall come to be
glorified in his saints and to be admired
in all them that believe, because our testimony
among you was believed in that day, wherefore
also we pray also and so forth.
The first chapter describes this same aspect of
the coming of the Lord, the manifestation of
his coming.
He said to the Jewish people of the
day, Ye shall not see me henceforth until
ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh
in the name of the Lord.
They shall look on him whom they pierced
and mourn for him as one born for
an only son.
And then finally, the coming of Christ in
the Bible, in the New Testament, has a
climax.
And that's here in the second epistle of
Peter in chapter 3.
This now takes you to the end of
the millennial reign of Christ.
And the judgment of the great white throne
is set up.
And one sits upon that throne from whose
face the heavens and the earth flee away.
The earth as we know it now is
gone.
The atmospheric heavens is gone.
The stellar heavens are gone.
And the eternal state is ushered in.
And Peter speaks of that here as the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's the climax of his coming.
And dear friends, I don't think there's any
reference to the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ in the New Testament that you can't
fit into one of those categories.
The coming has a beginning.
The coming has a course.
The coming has a manifestation.
And the coming has a climax.
Now it's this last part of it that
they're stopping at.
They're stopping at the end of the world
when God reveals himself in mighty devouring judgment.
When the element melts with fervent heat.
The earth and all that is in it
is going to be burned, they say.
Ha, ha, ha.
Now listen to what they say.
Saying, where is the promise of his coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation.
They base their arguments on a certain doctrine
they have, which I've chosen.
I made it up myself.
But it's a word that's actually used in
scientific circles today.
And it's called uniformitarianism.
And what that means in simple language is
this.
Look, my dear friends.
Nature has certain laws.
And everything has been following the laws of
nature for eras and ages and eons and
an indefinite amount of time.
This is uniformitarianism.
They say there are no miracles.
There's a natural explanation for everything.
And this doctrine of uniformitarianism is the doctrine
that lies at the basis of evolution.
Now you didn't expect to find evolution in
the third chapter of Peter, did you?
But it's there just the same.
It's there where they say all things continue
as they were from the beginning of creation.
Are the modernistic liberal preachers today interested in
evolution?
They're propagating it with all their might.
Here are two more doctrines that they're interested
in.
A denial of the coming of Christ in
the sense of a final judgment upon the
world.
And the doctrine of evolution.
Say now, just a minute.
That chapter doesn't say anything about evolution.
Well, let me just make a little explanation
and show you how wonderful the word of
God is.
I'm sure you know that there are many
different theories of evolution.
For instance, there's atheistical evolution where they're not
even willing to admit that God made the
first particle of matter.
They believe in some sort of spontaneous generation.
It just happens and then from then on
it works over, of course, millions of years
by natural law without any intervention of the
miraculous.
And finally man evolves.
Isn't that wonderful?
Atheistic evolution.
But then in recent years there's been a
theistic evolution.
They say, why sure, we acknowledge the existence
of God.
He created that first piece of protoplasm, and
then from then on he chose to use
the process of evolution as the way in
which he brought about man.
And Adam is the result of evolutionary process.
There are dozens and dozens and dozens of
different ways of presenting evolution.
They even have what they call today a
progressive creationism, which is a halfway house between
evolution and creation.
Very, very accommodating.
Now, if you set out today to refute
any of these views of evolution, people will
say, oh look, don't come to me with
that.
Nobody believes that anymore.
You see what I mean?
They have shifty grounds.
If I set out tonight with some great
scientist to disprove Darwinian evolution, what he'd say,
well, the scientific world has cast off Darwin
long ago.
And no matter what you might seek to
disprove in connection with evolution, they can always
shift their ground.
They say, well sure, well that was 20
years ago, but we don't believe that now.
So we've got an adaptation of that now.
And so how wonderful it is.
But the Bible doesn't take up any of
the dozens of views of evolution.
The Bible goes to the basic premise of
evolution, uniformitarianism.
And it cuts away at that, and it
disproves that, and when it does that, it
knocks the legs right from under evolution.
Don't you think this is a wonderful book?
I do.
I think it's a wonderful book.
The Bible doesn't refute a particular theory.
It just attacks the basic premise.
And this basic premise is uniformitarianism.
Everything's been going along for millions and millions
of years, and man is a result.
Now I'd like to make a few observations
to you tonight on this whole subject of
evolution.
Maybe about 11 of them.
I'm not refuting, I'm just making certain observations.
The first observation I'd like to make is
this.
You can't believe in evolution and the Bible.
Can't.
Now I know there are people who say
they don't.
But they either don't understand evolution, or they
don't understand the Bible.
And I could give you statements from reputable
scientists who know what the Bible says.
Ungodly men, and they're willing to go on
record as saying you've got to choose one
or the other.
But you can't choose both.
You can't believe in evolution and the Bible.
They're mutually contradictory.
And I think one of the great curses
of the day in which we live is
the way that Christians go fawning around the
evolutionists and try to get prestige and academic
status by adopting some modified form of evolution.
They might as well forget it, and go
back and take the Bible for what it
says.
Accept it as God's word on the subject.
The second thing I'd like to say is
this.
Evolution has never been proved, and is incapable
of proof according to the laws of science.
And I want to tell you there are
some great tumultuous things going on in the
scientific world today.
Just within recent years, a Jewish scientist named
Velikovsky came along with a great catastrophe view
of the universe that knocked evolution into a
crossfire.
But they're not willing to admit it.
Not willing to admit it.
And we're going to see that when we
come to verse 5, it says, for this
they willfully are ignorant of.
Willfully are ignorant of.
And so I'd like to say that tonight.
Evolution has never been proved, and it is
incapable of proof on a scientific basis.
The third thing I'd like to say is
this.
That evolution fails in this simple sense.
That evolution could never account for the existence
of the different sexes.
Now, for instance, supposing you were willing to
grant for a moment that somehow or other
Adam did evolve.
He evolved as a male being.
You tell me, on what basis could any
rational creature ever think of the female evolving
of that gender?
According to the laws of chance or probability?
Why, it's absolutely ridiculous.
And yet, reputable scientists will go on and
fool celestial states.
Evolution is absolutely incapable of explaining the two
sexes.
Absolutely.
And there's nobody that can deny it.
The third thing I'd like to say is
this.
Evolution has never explained the missing link.
And if you talk to people about that,
well, they just kind of shrug it off,
you know.
But they seem to forget that the missing
link is still missing.
And if there were such a process as
evolution, why don't we see it going on
today?
It isn't going on in the world today.
We don't have those interim forms today anywhere
in the world.
And evolution has never come up with an
answer to that.
The fifth thing I'd like to say is
this.
The Bible teaches that primitive man was of
a high moral order.
Not a low moral order.
The Bible teaches that primitive man was of
a high moral order.
And that through rejection of the knowledge of
the true God, he evolved, not evolved.
And if you want the scripture for that,
it's found in Romans chapter 1.
I wish I had time to go over
it tonight.
I don't.
But that's what it says.
It speaks about man in his pristine condition
with the knowledge of the true God.
He knew his eternal power and Godhead.
But he became vain in his foolish imaginations.
And he wouldn't worship the true God.
And so he started carving out to himself
idolatrous images.
And so God said, I'm giving you up
to your fate, nothing.
And what the chapter goes on to say
is that this heathen who rejected the knowledge
of the true God tended into the vilest
form of immorality such as we studied about
the other day in connection with Sodom and
Gomorrah.
And it's the very opposite of evolution.
The very opposite.
When will people ever wake up?
Another thing I'd like to say tonight is
that evolution depends upon fallible dating methods.
You know, they go and they dig up
a bone.
And they examine the carbon content of the
bone.
And then they tell you how many millions
of years that jackass was upon the earth.
Something like that.
You know, it would be very easy to
disprove that.
When God made a tree in the original,
could God have made a grown-up tree?
You say, yes.
How old was it when he made it?
How many rings were in the tree if
he cut it down?
Well, listen, if you want to admit that
God could make a tree with age characteristics,
he could make a coal mine with age
characteristics too.
What does that do to their carbon dating
methods?
You tell me.
They find an awful lot of carbon in
the coal mine.
And I'm not sure it would stack up
as far as their dating methods are concerned.
Another thing is this.
Evolution depends upon fossil reconstruction.
Fossil.
They go, as I said before, and they
find a bone.
And they take that bone, and they say,
ah, the femur of a prehistoric man.
And so they get some plaster, and they
mix it up.
And mind you, from the femur, they begin
to tell you what his jaw looked like,
and what the shape of his skull looked
like, and how far it receded, and all
the rest.
Now, you tell me how any rational man
can tell from a femur what the shape
of a man's skull is.
And I want to tell you this that
a scientist by the name of Huxley at
Harvard University who was never noted as being
a fundamentalist or an evangelical, one of the
most blatant atheists of our day, and yet
he wrote these words, Put not your trust
in reconstruction.
Put not your trust in fossil reconstruction.
The next thing I want to mention is
this, that evolution, as far as I can
see, is best explained by a verse in
Romans chapter 1.
I'd like you to turn to that verse.
I think this is crucial.
In the whole investigation of the evolutionary hypothesis,
Romans chapter 1, verse 28, it says, And
even as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge.
Now, I believe that explains a lot.
They did not like to retain God in
their knowledge.
That's what makes such facts out of Christians
when they try to accommodate themselves to the
theory of evolution.
This is an attempt on the part of
natural man to get God out of the
picture.
That's what it is.
If they can get God out of the
picture, they can live without restraint.
And so they devised a theory of evolution.
And I want to tell you something, especially
to the young people here, evolution is more
than a scientific theory.
It's a philosophy.
So a lot of scientific theories, they don't
fight about the way they do them.
A lot of scientific theories, they don't cram
down people so that there's more to it
than that.
And it's not by chance that the Atheistical
Association in New York pushes evolution.
And it's not without chance that communism pushes
evolution.
It's not without chance that liberal socialism pushes
evolution.
Even as they did not like to retain
God in their thought.
Now, I'd like to say this too.
There are many Christians who are scientists in
the United States today who do not believe
in evolution, but who are afraid to come
out and tell what they do believe, because
it would be suicide for them in the
academic world.
It's impossible, I shouldn't say impossible, it's almost
impossible, it's almost impossible to get a Ph
.D. degree today anywhere in the United States
in biology, zoology, paleontology, and those subjects, if
you are known to believe or disbelieve in
evolution.
If you are known to disbelieve in evolution,
it's almost impossible for you to get a
Ph.D. degree today.
There are a few scientists who have come
out and have openly stated that they do
not believe it.
One of them is a man by the
name of Henry Morris, and he recently wrote
a book, The Twilight of Evolution.
I just thought I'd have brought along a
supply to box them and drop them along,
but I didn't.
But it's a good book, and some of
you young people who are interested in this
subject might well get a hold of that
book.
And he takes the second law of thermodynamics
and disproves evolution from the second law of
thermodynamics.
The Twilight of Evolution by Henry Morris.
And then the final thing I'd like to
say about the theory of evolution tonight is
this.
Christians who bow at the shrine of science
and try to accommodate themselves to the theory
of evolution find themselves in the embarrassing situation
of believing that the Lord Jesus Christ is
a product of an evolutionary process, because he
was perfect man.
And I think that's a very embarrassing position
for anyone who loves the Savior to adopt.
What do you say?
Now, let's turn back just briefly.
Our time is just about gone, but just
to see how wonderfully the Word of God
handles this.
I think it's beautiful.
It says, the scoffers say, where is the
promise that is coming?
For since the Father's fellowship, all things continue
as they were from the beginning of the
creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant.
Mine gets hard to sit there in that
science class with that professor who knows so
much and to think that he's willingly ignorant
of certain facts, and yet that's what the
Bible says.
And, dear friends, it's absolutely true.
Absolutely true.
Willingly ignorant of what?
Well, it says they're ignorant of the flood.
Do you know how the Bible attacks uniformitarianism?
It proves a catastrophe.
And, dear friends, if you can prove a
great worldwide catastrophe took place in the history
of the universe, it upsets the whole theory
of evolution.
And that's what the Bible does.
The Bible hacks away at uniformitarianism by telling
us about a worldwide flood.
It's wonderful.
A great upheaval, a great catastrophe that took
place in the history of this world and
this religion.
Was it such a catastrophe?
Must have been.
Must have been, because in recent years they
dug up some mastodons up there in the
northern part of Russia.
These were great, huge animals, and they didn't
decay.
Their bodies didn't turn to dust.
They were preserved by a quick, frozen process.
Something happened in the history of the world
so that all of a sudden these animals
were just frozen as they were.
And, do you know, they dug them up
in the northern part of Russia, and they
defrosted them, and they fed some of the
meat to the dogs, and the dogs relished
it.
Now, there must have been a catastrophe of
gigantic proportions to ever produce anything like that.
So the Bible says, look, my friends, it
would be a great catastrophe took place on
the earth at one time.
And this upsets all your dating methods.
It upsets all your measurement of pressures and
all the rest.
And unless you're willing to take account of
catastrophe, you'll never know the story of the
creation in this world.
And that's why I think it's interesting that
this man named Velikovsky, a Jew and unconverted
Jew, who recently came out of Time Magazine
has great articles about it.
Doesn't mean that he acknowledges the Bible record,
but he acknowledges that this earth was visited
by catastrophe at one time.
Now, in the will of God, tomorrow night,
we'll continue with this and see how the
Spirit of God works away at that.
But isn't that wonderful?
Here are the stops.
They deny the coming of Christ, and they
teach the doctrine of uniformitarianism, that the Spirit
of God could look.
Once there was a catastrophe on the earth,
that upsets your evolution.
And if it happened once, it can happen
again.
And if the earth was destroyed by water
once, it can be destroyed by fire the
next time.
May the Lord bless through our hearts.
In the reading of his word, may he
save our young people from the vicious anti
-Christian teachings that are abroad today.
Shall I close by singing number 102?
102.
My faith has found a resting place, not
in device nor creed.
I trust the Ever-Living One.
His will for me shall plead.
I need no other argument.
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died, and that
he died for me.
Number 102.
My faith has found a resting place, not
in device nor creed.
I trust the Ever-Living One.
His will for me shall plead.
I need no other argument.
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died, and that
he died for me.
It is enough for me that Jesus laid
his life for me and died.
Of his love, O I confess, he will
never cast me out.
I need no other argument.
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died, and that
he died for me.
My heart is speaking of the Word, the
vivid Word of God.
Telling what my Savior said, telling the truth
in God.
I need no other argument.
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died, and that
he died for me.
Shall we stand on the fourth stanza, and
then we'll remain standing for prayer with our
brother Dick Andrews.
The fourth stanza, please.
My salvation is a strength.
The only thing to save.
For he is dead, and I am saved.
For faith I became.
I need no other argument.
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died, and that
he died for me.
Brother Andrews, we close in prayer, and we
would like to have you remain standing for
just one brief announcement.
Our gracious Father, we thank you tonight for
the living Word of God that we've had
the privilege of sitting and listening to.
We thank you for thy Holy Spirit that
applies this to our hearts, and enables us
to say that the Lord Jesus Christ himself
is argument enough for us, and his Holy
Word gives us all the substantiation we need,
for all that we need in this life,
and for life evermore.
Father, our only prayer tonight is that we
might get hold of these things, and that
they might get hold of us, that as
we continue at Bristol, and as we go
home, that we'll quit being the lackadaisical type
Christians that so often we are, even afraid
ourselves sometimes to take thy Word in our
hand and use it as it can be
used, partially because of our ignorance we confess,
partially because we do not read it nor
understand it as we should.
And so our confession tonight is that of
needing, Father, to know more of thy Word,
and more of thyself, and walking closer to
thee, that we might be the kind of
ambassadors for Christ that we ought to be
in this present evil world.
Now we ask you to dismiss us from
this service with our blessings.
Again, we remember our boys and girls who
are in the care of our Brother Murphy,
thanking you for the ones that are saved
there, thanking you for the work you've done
among our young people here, and asking you
that we might yet see the climax of
this conference as we seek Christ in all
of our activities.
And for all this, we'll give thee praise
and glory in his own lovely and precious
name.
Amen.
Now, just this brief word in regard to
the activities downstairs.