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Which is something I'd like to remind us all about this
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morning, you know, this time of the year.
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I don't know. I think a lot of us think more
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about kids and children than perhaps any other time of the
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year. One of my favorite times is to
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you know around Thanksgiving and Christmas is to hear Jason often
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times. Not so much talk or act like a
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kid, but He reads a lot of the cards from the kids and he has
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in years past about what our kids are thankful for.
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Isn't that one of the more amusing times of the year, when
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we get to hear him, read some thoughts from children.
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And when I think about the holidays and Thanksgiving
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Christmas and New Year's, you know, I think about kids a lot,
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and I guess, even more. Now that I have grown kids who
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come home that, I don't see as much.
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Much, but I see during this time of the year and not to embarrass
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my kids too much, but to see them.
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Maybe not the one who's here today, but maybe the two who
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aren't act a little bit more like children at times.
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I think there's someone in our house who may be close to 20,
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who still loves Legos. And you know, even his dad who
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is going to be 45 years old this coming year.
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So halfway to 90 and I still loved superheroes and I love I
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goes so, you know, just around the holidays.
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I think a lot of times we think more about kids and I'm not
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going to talk about this particular lesson today, about
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our God and about his majesty simply because it's the time of
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the year that I think adults often times, maybe think about
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and maybe more like children than any other time of the year.
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But we would have to agree especially in light of the
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teachings of Christ that it is very helpful.
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Sometimes to think back about what it was like as children in
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some of the more simple and yet astounding and amazing thoughts
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that we have had in should continue to have even as adults
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in busy times of life, where work takes is here and there
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where responsibilities where difficulties in life.
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Maybe various sufferings sometimes getting back to a very
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basic biblical message that can be.
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Very I think enjoyable to talk about can be very refreshing and
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very rewarding for us as Christians to remember our
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creator. Certainly, the main theme of
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scripture is the Salvation that is found in Christ Jesus.
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That is the message of scripture from the Old Testament to the
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new. Testament.
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It is the one who was is going to come and take away the sin of
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the world. Keith read for us this morning
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before the Lord's Supper before we / took of it.
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He read for us. From Genesis chapter 3 reminding
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us about Sin, entering the world.
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And since that time Genesis 3:15, we have the expectation.
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That one is going to come who's going to be bruised, but he's
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going to bruise or Crush. Head of Satan.
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And, and from that point onward, we read of prophecies and
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promises and see types, or pictures of the one who would
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come and take away John 1:29. The sin of the world, certainly,
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the main point and the main theme of scripture is Jesus our
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savior. At the same time, another
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powerful message of scripture is before Jesus became our savior.
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He became he was. And when you think about
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eternity, he eventually became our creator.
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And there's a very important reason to ponder on the creation
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of our God. Not only because the psalmist
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and others talked so much about the creation, the heavens, they
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declare, right? They declare the glory of God,
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and the firmament shows. His handiwork day unto Day,
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uttereth speech and night unto night reveals knowledge.
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There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
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They're lying or their voice has gone out through all the Earth
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and their words to the end of the world.
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It doesn't matter who you are, where you live.
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What language you speak? The heavens can be acknowledged,
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should be acknowledged whether we acknowledge or not.
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They declare the glory of God, their line or their voice has
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gone out through all the Earth, to the end of the world.
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If it is as if these inanimate objects proclaimed, testified to
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Our awesome God Chris read for us from Psalm 8, a few moments
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ago. You know, God is to be praised.
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For many reasons. One of those is that especially
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the psalmist, continually reminds us of one of those is
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because of his power and his might and His glory and His
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Majesty as seen in the creation. And we probably have to admit
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that, you know, the more we are. I hate to even use this word,
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kind of enraptured with caught up in mesmerized by.
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These things. And so much of our time and our
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thought so much of our quote-unquote meditation.
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Is spent in meditating on the world wide web and the internet
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and entertainment. And God says, and this is one of
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the reasons, brothers and sisters, who I love church camp
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because at least of the church camp.
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At at Indian Creek, youth camper, we have apologetics
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press week. And I think it back woods where
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Brent directs if I'm not mistaken.
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There is no cell phone usage. Now, you might say, how does a
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teenager deal? Go.
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Jason? How do we go Kurt?
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We're whole week without cell phones.
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Kurt said that's why he goes to church camp, right?
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get away from the hustle and bustle of life, a little bit and
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just Think about things Ponder on things, meditate on the most
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important things, which include our awesome God, which is
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testified by if that's, even the correct.
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Way to say that b Creation. In fact in Psalm 33 and verse 6,
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the Bible tells us that the word by the word of the Lord.
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The heavens were made and all the host of them by the breath
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of his mouth. Verse 9 says, for he spoke this.
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He's so powerful. He's so awesome.
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He spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast.
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And those verses, if you look at that, as kind of a book in, in
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between those two verses you read, let all the Earth verse 8,
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let all the Earth fear, the lord, let all the inhabitants of
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the world stand in. Awe, of him, when you think
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about our amazing, not just our universe and not just our
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galaxy, but just one small, tiny part.
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Tiny, part of the Diverse and small part of our galaxy.
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We have our solar system and just the amazing design in this.
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As insane by, if you knew nothing else other than you,
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mean that there can be a rocket or a ship that takes off in one
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part of the United States and it can reach and intended location.
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Perhaps even like some of the Rover's have gone and been
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placed on Mars, while Earth is in motion, while the sun is in
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motion. While Mars is in motion and get
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to an intended spot at an intended time.
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While all of that is going on, you know how some very bright
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engineers and rocket scientist. And others can can predict all
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of those things, because there is an amazing design in our
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universe. And as the Earth orbits around
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the Sun at such a, an amazing path that astronomers tell us.
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It Parts. You know, I have a hard time
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drawing a straight line, without another line present, but This
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path around the Sun, you have the Earth that orbits around it,
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leaving a straight line astronomers.
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Tell us one ninth of an inch every 18 miles.
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And day in, and day out, we continue to function on this
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planet, like like there's nothing really big going on.
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Well, just get about ten percent closer to the Sun and see if
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there's not something big going on like burn up big or just.
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If the Earth just chose. If it could to leave this path
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by 1/10 of an inch, every 18 miles and just see how cold it
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might be on this planet, you know, there are those even who
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are unbelievers, like, Paul Davies who have said things like
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this, this amazing universe is uniquely hospitable remarkable.
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Ordered in an intelligible way, all the while apparently
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rejecting, the idea that there is an intelligent being in mind
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behind it. All, he admitted to the many
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examples of uncanny bio-friendly coincidences.
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He called them. And fine-tuned properties
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without admitting to a fine tuner, he then wrote like baby
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bears porridge in the story of Goldilocks.
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Our universe seems just right for life.
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It looks as if a super intellect, has been monkeying
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with physics. Maybe it looks that way because
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it it is that way. He said, if the universe came
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with any old bag, Old Rag bag of law, life would almost,
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certainly be ruled out. Indeed changing the existing
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laws, by even a scintilla could have lethal consequences and
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we're to believe that this is the result of mindless
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processes, and chance, and explosions over millions and
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billions of years. He said there is for me,
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powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it.
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All, it seems as though somebody has fine-tuned Nature's numbers
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to make the universe. The impression of design is
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overwhelming. Yeah, because because there is
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design. And what we know is that design
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Demands a designer that creation makes sense.
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Even there, even though there have been four decades
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unbelievers who have contended that evolution of the animal and
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plant world is considered by all those entitled to a judgment to
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be a fact for which no. Further proof is needed somewhat
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of an arrogant statement to be made.
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Would you not say I would suggest we all have a judgment
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to make, we all have a decision to make.
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We all have to look at the evidence and decide for
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ourselves. What the what it's telling us
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and what young people have been told for years in school is and
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not just young people, but adults too is how we allegedly
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evoke evolved from some kind of primate ancestor, millions of
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years ago. This is the cover of Time
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Magazine of Years ago, where they said that this is our
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great-grandparent guys millions of years ago.
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Ardipithecus ramidus kadamba. We'll just call him Bob for
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short. No offense to any Bob's today.
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They had a, an illustrator draw this and say, well, this is what
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our ancestors look like. And I remember as a kid
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thinking. Well, that kind of concern me.
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I would see something like this on a magazine or on television.
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Think I would get this kind of have a hard time swallowing in
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my throat because is this true? Is this right?
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I mean They got a picture of it on the cover of Time Magazine.
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It's not a picture. It's And it's, it's an
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illustration by there was no one.
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There were no 35. Mm cameras, millions of years
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ago, right? There was no creation millions
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of years ago because the creation wasn't done until God
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specifically. Did it thousands of years ago,
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according to his word, not, millions or billions.
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All of those things are assumption are based on
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assumptions that unbelievers, who disregard the Biblical
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teaching of God and his creation.
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And listen, if anyone knows more about And then Jesus, I'd like
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to know who that is. Because before Jesus became our
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savior, he was our creator in the beginning was the word and
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the Word was with God. And the Word was God, the same
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was in the beginning with God, all things were made by him.
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And he didn't make us like this. He created us.
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In his likeness, according to His Image, whatever.
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All of that means. And that's a whole lesson in and
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of itself. We were not created to be like,
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animals to live like animals to think, like animals, but, you
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know what happens when people. Drift so far from thinking about
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God, as their creator. And they think we evolved from
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animals. What do they begin acting more?
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Like like the very creatures? They allege.
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We evolved from the less we become like God.
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You know, in this particular article, I'm going to move on
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very rapidly for the sake of time.
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But in this article you want to know young people if you were
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anything like me and you got kind of scared like way.
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That's not what I heard in Bible class, you know, what kind of
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evidence quote unquote evidence. They have for this kind of false
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teaching or they found 11 fossil specimens from five different
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individuals in a cluster of sites.
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So, what kind of evidence did they have for the cover of Time?
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Magazine ardipithecus, ramidus? Kadamba, they found one fossil
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specimen of the, the creek, the alleged creatures face just one
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and yet they Illustrated a whole face from one piece of the right
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mandible. And then they admitted, they
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found these fossils in a cluster of sites.
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And to allegedly prove that it walked on two legs.
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They found one toe bone that proved that Missy boo.
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You could tell me a little more probably better but I think
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there's something like fifty two bones in the two feet that we
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have. There are more bones in our feet
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than anywhere else in our body 26, unless you have an extra toe
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or two. You got 26 bones in each foot,
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if I'm not mistaken and allegedly from this one, toe
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bone. They found in a cluster of
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sites. It allegedly proves that this
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creature walked on two legs. Not only is it the toe bone
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separated in time. They admitted by several hundred
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thousand years, but it was also found some 10 miles away from
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the rest. Isn't that interesting?
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You know, when I was a kid, I used to think, well, maybe they
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just dug up all these things and you have the neck bone connected
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to the backbone and the backbone to the tailbone and so forth.
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They find these bones separated in different places different
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time periods, and they allege They come up with what is one of
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our ancestors. This presents a very low view of
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mankind. But you know, when we Ponder on
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on, man and God being our amazing Creator, it's a very
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high view of man. Indeed, design demands of
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designer complex functional design in the material, realm
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demands, an adequate explanation.
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It Demands a designer. There are.
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Little testifiers all over as scripture has reminded us about
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of our awesome. God.
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From the beauty that is singing. In the animal kingdom.
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That maybe you could even just see on your farm.
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I mean my dad grew up on a farm and I'm not going to say I was
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jealous of him because he had to get up at four o'clock every
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morning and milk cows. I'm kind of glad I didn't have
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to do that. I did have a paper out for a
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little while as a kid and I mean throwing papers in the dark at
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4:30 in the morning. Just wasn't my favorite thing to
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do. I much rather have an afternoon
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job if I could. Going to a farm or maybe it's
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going to our nice Zoo down in Montgomery in this area.
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And that's not where these pictures were taken.
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By the way. I mean, you see these amazing
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things that our God has created that testify.
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Maybe it's you looking outside of your window that testify to
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his glory. To his amazing power and
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magnificence, you know, an eighth of the first nine
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chapters of the Bible though not in anywhere close to the main
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theme of scripture. There's a lot said about the
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amazing. Animal Kingdom.
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And things that are God created. One of my favorite books, The
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Book of Job, one of the more unique interesting.
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Maybe the most unique book of the Bible in that.
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It's an inspired book. That is that most of the
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quotations in the book are from uninspired people and men as
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they're struggling with jobs suffering job himself suffering
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and saying things that weren't quite right that God later
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corrected him in throughout. The Book of Job job is wishing
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and wanting Answers for all of the suffering that's going on in
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his life. And God does not speak to him in
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chapter 1 and chapter 2, chapter 3, 4 5, he doesn't speak to job
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until Job. Chapter 38, where the Bible
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says. He speaks to him out of a
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whirlwind and job is wanting answers for why why?
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Why does that sound familiar to some of us?
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Maybe most all of us? Why is this happening to me?
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And it just it boggles the Mind almost to think about God's
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amazing response to job. Before chapters, he talks about
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his creation. His response to job was where
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were you when I laid the foundations of the earth, his
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response to job was spending some three chapters talking
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about four chapters, His Amazing Creation and three of those 477
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versus talking about animals to a man who suffering immensely
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the likes of which most of us. Probably none of us will ever
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come close to In this Physical Realm, like he did, and he wants
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answers. And God said, let me tell you
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about. Do you know about have you
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considered? The Lion, The Raven, the
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mountain goat, the wild donkey, the wild ox, to ostrich the
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warhorse, the hawk, the eagle. and in chapter 40 Behemoth and
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in chapter 41, Leviathan, And what's his point?
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Well, I think there are a few lessons that can be drawn from
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this, but one of those is simply job trust in The all-powerful
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all-knowing Sovereign creator of the universe.
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Why does the bible spend so much time reflecting on God as
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Creator as creator of the universe and as creator of not
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only mankind but also the animal kingdom and the plants and the
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trees and everything else in the universe.
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Because God knows the more we think about him and the more we
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think about those things which testify to his greatness, the
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more we will appreciate and respect.
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And reverence really fear our God.
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It's been I have a record. I'm sure Jason and other guys do
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to preach here. I have a record of every lesson.
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I preached here. It's been I think something like
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eight years since I've talked about some of these particular
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creation Evolution thoughts. But for the next few minutes,
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and before we offer the Lord's invitation, let me just remind
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us of some amazing creatures that are wonders of God's
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creation that testify of his greatness.
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You know, these have to be some of the most unusual-looking
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interesting-looking Critters on the planet.
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They're not really Critters. Oh, right.
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I mean, they're eight. They can grow to be 18 feet
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tall. They can have tongues that can
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grow to be 18 inches long. They can have Tails that grow to
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be. I mean, when you think about
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draft, you think about their next, not their tails, but their
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tails can grow to be 8 feet long, their babies.
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When they're born dropped to the ground about 6 to 7 feet and
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they eventually stand up. After they are born at 6 feet
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tall. Giraffes can drink more water,
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some scientists say than a camel can and one drinking session
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their necks. Their brains are about their
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next can be about six feet long in their brains about eight feet
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higher than their hearts. We think about that from just a
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blood circulation perspective. Your brain has to have blood in
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order to operate properly. If it doesn't, you will die.
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And if it goes without blood and the oxygen that the blood
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carries with it for very long at all.
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We can suffer brain damage. Have you ever thought about how
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a giraffe gets blood up to its brain eight feet Against
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Gravity? Well for us it what is it?
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Maybe a foot or a foot and a half from our heart to our
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brain? It's 8 feet Against Gravity.
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They have to have a pretty powerful heart and they do it
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can grow to be about two feet long and weigh about 20 pounds
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when full of blood, they have very high blood pressure
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something that we wouldn't brag about, but they have blood
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pressure. That's about three times that of
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the average human and twice as much as any other mammal.
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They've got to have some serious blood pressure to get the to get
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the blood up to his brain. What happens though?
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When the draft bends down to get a drink of water or to find
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Something else on the ground that it's eating at normally
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eats Acacia leaves up in the tree, but if it's bending down
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what happens to its what happens to all that blood, that is
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rushing toward the brain. Well, what happens to you and me
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when we've been down for just a few seconds.
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Well, we start feeling woozy. Maybe we are feeling like we're
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about to pass out. If we have anyone who would like
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to demonstrate this after worship today.
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Feel free. I do.
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I'll do a stopped clock and see how long you can last the draft
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can bend down for several minutes.
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They have three times your blood pressure in mind.
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How does the brain not pool with blood?
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How does it not burst being overcome and flooded with the
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blood? Because of time and chance and
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millions of years of evolutionary, random processes.
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Or because our God knew exactly what the giraffe kind needed and
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provided for a these intricate valves in its main aorta, that
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carries blood from its heart to its brain that closed off as the
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draft bends down. And yet the draft can stay down
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for several minutes drinking and drinking and drinking and yet be
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very aware of its surroundings. Because underneath the brain,
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the draft has this network of blood vessels.
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The network of the Carotid, I believe is what they call it.
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That slowly allows a just and appropriate amount of blood to
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get to his brain. And this is one and just one
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Wonder of Our God's creation. Anybody know what this is.
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And he'll, what kind of deal do you think?
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It is an electric eel, you know electric eels.
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I mean, wouldn't it you ever look at animals and think I,
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kind of wish I had. That ability.
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Wouldn't it be fun to shock people?
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I mean, listen, I got the shock of my day yesterday.
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I was in those who know, me know, I like to stay warm.
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And so I was kind of covered up with a blanket and I was
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listening to something on my computer and it had the little
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earbuds or whatever you call them in and then I took this
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blanket off and they there was like all this static
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electricity. I thought I was about to be
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shocked to death with just these little earbuds.
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I don't know what was going on. It was kind of crazy feeling.
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Can you imagine being able to do what an electric eel?
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Do it's not made anything like us.
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God specifically made a creature that can produce enough volts of
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for lack of a better term electricity that it can stun a
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horse shock a human. If you want to see some
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interesting video footage just type in something online.
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You got to be careful when you do this, right?
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But type in, you know, being shocked by age.
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And see what you find an electric eel.
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I saw years ago a crocodile or alligator chomping down on
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electric eel, and how this massive hundreds and hundreds of
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pound creature died because of an electric eel.
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That has battery like muscles that take up about 80% of its
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body that they don't contract like normal muscles, but they
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can send these amazing signals throughout its body and yet,
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never shock itself. That's what I think is pretty
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amazing. Can you imagine the alleged
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evolution of the of the electric eel?
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I mean, what happens the first time, it's never shocked, you
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know, it has this insulation around it so that it doesn't
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hurt itself, but it can harm predators and prey as well.
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And yet if it never had this ability and it never had this
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shock absorbing material, this tissue around this body.
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How did they ever get what it got?
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If it wasn't created specially as an electric eel to begin with
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design demands, an amazing designer.
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You know, scientists tell us. Next time, you, you look at a
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spider, making a web. You know, we think, like bildad
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in the Book of Job. Thought that, you know, the
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uninspired build a thought. Well, you know, the web is just
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easy to remove, he refers to it. I believe it's in Job chapter 8,
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you know, we don't want a house that's built on just mere
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webbing. Right.
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Unless the webbing is a lot thicker than it is because, you
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know, the spider's web scientists.
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Tell us that if it was as thick as a pencil that a large webbing
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could, A jumbo jet in midair. I mean, you think about a small
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web right now? When a fly is maneuvering like
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it does or maybe it's a grasshopper that's moving up in
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the air and get stuck in a web. Think about how small that
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webbing is. That captures.
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There are some spiders that with their webs, they even capture
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and eat birds. By Amir spider web in webbing.
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Scientists tell us that spider webbing at least some of it is
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three to five times stronger than steel pound for pound and
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it's made biologically by some amazing animals.
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We call spiders or what about the Komodo dragon, which doesn't
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resemble the dragons of some of our fairy tale book, but here's
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an animal that can grow to be 10 feet long way, over about 200
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pounds. Can eat 80% of its body weight
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in one meal? Take a Komodo dragon to
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McDonald's and buy them. 320 Quarter.
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Pounders, excuse me, Kurt And yet this animal, one of the most
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curious things about it, is that it loves to have leftover food
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particles in its mouth, unlike our kids who are told to brush
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those teeth, because you don't want cavities it enjoys the
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leftover food particles because then bacteria particular kind of
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bacteria grow on them. That does not harm the Komodo,
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but harms, whatever the Komodo B, and that's why they're their
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bites are deadly. The amazing Komodo dragon
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though. I don't really care to be near
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many of them. They testify to our amazing
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design designer, our creator cuttlefish have eyes like
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something out of a Batman movie. They have bluish-green blood and
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they can spew out black ink like a squid or an octopus most
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amazing as their camouflage abilities State.
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They can actually manipulate their skin to look like the
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Barnacles of the rocks that swim near them they can act The
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seaweed they are swimming around.
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In fact, there were scientists who who studied these creatures
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and put them in fish tank, some with vertical lines on the fish
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tanks and the Cuttlefish began to move their tentacles,
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vertically to imitate the vertical lines of the fish
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tanks. They put them in other fish.
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Tanks that had horizontal lines in them and the Cuttlefish begin
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to move their splay. Their tentacles out.
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Horizontally to imitate the lines of the fish tank.
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But most amazing is like certain other animals.
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This animal also has the ability to change its actual skin color
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to some 40 different color colors in.
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Just a fraction of a second. And some scientists as bizarre
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as this sounds. Some scientists believe that
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this animal is colorblind and yet knows how to match the
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colors of things that are around it.
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The psalmist said in Psalm 104 verse 25 and then verse 24, this
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great and wide sea in which are innumerable.
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Teeming things, living things, both small and great.
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Oh Lord, how manifold are your works and wisdom.
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You have made them all. Anybody know what this is.
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You ever heard of a duck-billed platypus?
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I mean. There's a sense in which
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scientists don't know what to do with this out.
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I mean it is about the size of a house cat.
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It's got fur. That's thicker than that of a
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polar bears. It can store food in his mouth
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like a chipmunk. It's got a beaver like tail and
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webbed feet. Like an otter.
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It has a bill like a duck. Duck and Spurs, like a rooster.
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And it lays eggs, like a turtle and produces Venom.
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Like a snake. And it feeds, its young milk
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like a mammal, but it doesn't do it in a normal way.
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It basically kind of sweats out milk that it's babies partake of
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Some people have said that, God may have made this animal kind
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of like a joke, just to confuse everybody and trying to classify
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the animals. I'm glad he did.
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I don't know why he did. Other than to say this is
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another amazing creature. That declares the glory of our
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God. I think one of the most
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fascinating things about the duck-billed platypus that
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oftentimes gets overlooked, is the fact that it has this
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leathery bill that when it dives into murky Waters, especially
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Flea in the Australia area that it closes, its eyes closes, its
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ears, and then begins to look for.
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And since the electrical impulses, the very, very, very
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faint. Electrical impulses of tadpoles
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and shrimp and other little animals often times even below
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the mud a little bit and the sand and is able to sense them
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with this amazing, for lack of a better term. tro receptor
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duck-billed snout that it has I'm reminded in The Amazing
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throne room scene of the picture that John paints that Jesus
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talks about there in Revelation chapter 4 that we see those all
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of those beings who are represented as being in heaven,
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including the elders who were there falling down before?
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The Throne of God exclaiming you are worthy O, Lord to receive
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glory and honor and power for. And then there is a reminder of
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God being our creator for you created all things and by your
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will they exist and were created.
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Paul said, in Romans 1:24, since the creation of the world his
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God's invisible attributes are clearly seen.
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Being understood by the things that are made.
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Even his eternal power and godhead.
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So that they are without excuse. I love the summertime and these
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parts where you see lightning bugs and in fireflies, you know,
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Beatles are the most common bug on the planet, but some of those
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beetles are quite remarkable. I mean, I know we don't really
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like boll weevils, and we don't care to talk about dung beetles.
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There are such things as dung beetles.
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Okay, we kind of like ladybugs, right?
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I hear there's a club. Faulkner, that has a ladybug as
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their, what their symbol or something like that.
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That's their their favorite bug, I suppose.
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And then you got lightning bugs and Bombardier beetles.
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Have you ever heard of a bombardier?
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Beetle? Some of you had if you've been
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to a p camp we've talked about these before.
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Here's a beetle that just like its name says it's like it
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produces kind of a bomb in its belly.
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And as we think about this for just another few minutes.
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I'm amazed to think about the alleged evolution of the
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bombardier. Beetle.
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I mean if it if one time it did not have this ability.
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How did it ever get this ability?
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They take chemicals, like, hydroquinone and hydrogen
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peroxide and when they are agitated by some other animal,
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or maybe a human being or in this picture, a scientist
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probing device. They take these two chemicals
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from one storage chamber. They push them into another
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heart-shaped storage chamber. That they then mix with these
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amazing enzymes that heat up to 212 degrees.
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Fahrenheit, which is 100 degrees Celsius, which is the point at,
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which Janet tells me at, which water boils.
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I know that because I know how to make oatmeal and I know you
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need boiling water before you put the oatmeal in right
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Bombardier beetles in Time Magazine a few years ago.
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They had this article where they said, this generates a noxious
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spray of caustic. Benzoquinone owns, Which explode
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from its body at a Boiling 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
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What is more? The fluid is pumped through twin
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rear nozzles, which can be rotated like a b-17s gun turret
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to hit a hungry, aunt, or frog with Bullseye accuracy.
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The amazing intricacy of the bombardier beetle.
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You know, when I think about the beetle, I wonder how it could
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be. Truly ever said to be evolved.
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In this way. I mean, how do you go from
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having a beetle that doesn't have a bomb in its belly to one
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day saying, I don't like so and so I want to put a hundred
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degrees Celsius noxious spray on him.
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And by the way, I want to shoot it out like with machine gun
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accuracy. I mean that's like a child's
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dream, right? I don't like my brother.
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Give me at least a water gun. That shoots really hard and
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really fast. It's a dream world to think that
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such a creature evolved by time and chance.
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But it's perfectly rational and absolutely astonishing to think
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about. Here's a small little
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approximate 1 inch or so bug. That testifies to Our God's
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greatness. This this coming month in
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January, Rob, Rob designs Discovery Magazine for us.
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We write it and he makes it look a lot better than it would.
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Otherwise we talk about the Woodpecker.
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Here's a little bird that repeatedly thousands of times
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millions of times throughout its life bangs, its head with
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purposeful intention in wood and other things.
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Some of you are shaking your heads like you have some of
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these that you may think are a little bit of know, Being
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outside of your house, occasionally.
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Bang, it said, you know, it was years ago and I can tell the
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story because Bo is not here today.
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He's worshipping up in Tennessee with some friends and years ago.
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Some of you may have been there. Norman Dean was Norman's not
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with us today. I don't think, but we were
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standing outside where there used to be this nice, big pecan
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tree. I remember the nice pecan tree.
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We used to have outside before the winds and the rain and the
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tornadoes or whatever, took it away from us.
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There was a big pecan tree and the kids used to.
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I don't know if they still do but they used to play some Kitt
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ball outside and you know what first base was, don't you?
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It was the pecan tree second base.
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I think was a flip-flop Third Base was maybe a paper plate and
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home plate was the water grade or whatever you call that out
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there, but I mean, first base is the tree.
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And bow, kick the ball. And I remember standing at the
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fence just watching them and he's running full speed.
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He's about, I don't know, six or seven years old running full
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speed to the pecan tree and he looks inside of the diamond to
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see if whoever's playing, you know, the serious shortstop
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position, if they caught the ball, and if they're going to
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throw him out at first base, and then he just smacks the tree
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with his head. I must say as a dad.
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There's always a part of me that says, I'm kind of glad.
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He has some knocks and bruises and stuff.
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He needs to, you know, you know, I think kids raising up to be
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tough as a good thing. But there's also a very big side
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of me that said, is he going to die right now?
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I mean, we are made. Human beings are created in an
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astonishing. Amazing way.
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And we declare the glory of God, even if we don't even if man
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refuses to utter God, the praise is that he so richly deserves.
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We are testimonies of his greatness.
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Even as Chris read for us, from Psalm 8 this morning, but, you
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know, a woodpecker. A woodpecker when it bangs his
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head against the tree, it is moving and stopping and starting
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at 1,000 times the force of gravity and 250 times the force
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at which an astronaut feels when he goes into outer space, at
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least that's what some scientists have claimed in their
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study of the woodpeckers. These animals have this amazing
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shock absorbing material between their beaks and their craniums.
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That take all of this pounding day after day, month after month
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and year after year. I think that some woodpeckers
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can live up to 10 years long. If man could produce the kind of
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shock absorbing material, can you imagine what we could do
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with that? If we could manufacture that
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amazing, you know, we make bumpers for cars and they
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function, okay. I suppose pretty well and we
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have football helmets for football players and they do
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okay, but they could do better, right?
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I mean, if we could manufacture this and put it all around our
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cars, we might be able to put it on the bottom of airplanes and
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just fall out of the sky and bounced and hit the ground and
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come right back up. I don't know.
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All I know is 250 times the force at an astronaut feels.
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Is it takes off into outer space?
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That's what they are going through.
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As they're banging their heads and they choose to do it not
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because they evolved from other Little Birds by time and chance.
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Who at one time were taking? Little Critters and worms from
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the ground, but they have purposefully been created by
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God. To testify of his glory.
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Now. Let's close this lesson and just
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ask two questions. Number one.
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Let's remember that God's creation.
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It's not to be worshipped. Romans chapter 1.
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It's not to be unnecessarily focused on.
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I was reading an article Years Ago by an evolutionist who said
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he felt like he needed to get down on bended, knee to it to
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admire animals that he believed arose by evolutionary processes
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over millions of years. That's not why we should focus
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on God's creation. But so that we might continually
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be impressed. With and that our minds might be
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continually focused on the greatness of our God as seen in
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part, by maybe, in large part by his creation.
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By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made, and all the
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host of them by the breath of his mouth.
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And so, what are the psalmist say to do fear the lord?
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Honor him, trust him, respect him live every day of Our Lives.
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Thinking you mean the same God I'm serving as the same.
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God who is so powerful that he could create the entire universe
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with the breath of his mouth. And the last point of
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application I would make was just this.
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Every house is built by someone you built.
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All things is God. Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 4.
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God, built this place this house.
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This universe. And he did it, exquisitely.
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No doubt because of the second law of Thermodynamics, which he
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instituted created things, go from an estate of order to
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disorder, especially in a fallen world.
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But I would just like to ask us what kind of spiritual house?
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Are you building? God's physical house is
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Magnificent the spiritual house that he created in Christ Jesus.
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As we talked about an Ark Bible class here in the auditorium.
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This morning is of Eternal significance and importance.
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Your personal spiritual house and your house as a husband and
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wife, mom, and dad and children. What kind of spiritual house are
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you building up? Let's imitate our awesome
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creator. Who built all things, including
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his physical and spiritual houses and let's do it with
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purpose. Let's do it with intelligently.
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Let's think about it. Let's not go through life as
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zombies. Let's look at God's creation and
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honor the Creator. And let's look at his word, his
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special Revelation which leads us in the paths of
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righteousness, which leads us to be motivated and to be informed
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about building. The in a sense that perfect
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spiritual house because it's based upon and built upon the
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perfect Creator savior, who is the foundation of the church.
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If you're not a Christian this morning, if you have not begun
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honoring God with your life by being separated, from the sin
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that we have, willfully engaged in and being being brought
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together by God's grace, by the blood of Jesus, by the spirits
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word that we can have fellowship with him.
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If you are not in fellowship with God this morning, and if
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you're not a Christian, you're out of fellowship with God, if
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you've reached an age of accountability of mental
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maturity and sin is in your life, and it is because all have
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sinned and fall short of the glory of God, then you're out of
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fellowship with God. But Jesus came to bring the good
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news that you can, that we can all be in fellowship with God.
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But we must respond to the grace of God in compliance with his
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will confessing faith in Jesus Christ.
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The one who saves us, the one in whom we put our trust.
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Are you trusting in Him? Are you believing in him?
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Have you repented of your sins been immersed in water for the
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Forgiveness of your sins? Just as our new brother Harold,
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obey the gospel of this last week.
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Won't you consider obeying the gospel today?
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If you are a Christian, but you realize you've spent too much of
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your time and your Wandering in darkness right now, praise God,
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for his grace, his Mercy, which indoors forever.
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He is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should
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perish but that all should come to repentance today as we stand
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as we sing.