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The National Center for Family
Integrated Churches welcomes Ken Ham with the message, Our
Declining Church and Culture, The Genesis Connection and How
to Continue a Godly Heritage. Oh, good evening. Well, you sound really excited.
Well, maybe I'm not loud enough. We'll try it again. Good evening.
Ah, okay, you are out there, that's great. Well, thank you,
Doug, and it's a thrill to work with Doug and his ministry. There's so much going on in the
world today and we just need so many more people out there
doing these sorts of things. How many of you have had the
opportunity to be at the Creation Museum, by the way? I know, wow,
that is fantastic. How many of you have not gone
yet? Okay, when are you going to repent of that sin and do
something about that? Well, for those of you that were
there, I know that yesterday, today, a lot of you out there
at the Creation Museum, you'll notice that it's not just about
creation evolution. It's really a walk through the
Bible. That's what it is. In fact, one of the things that
we've tried to do with our ministry is to position ourselves as not
as a creation evolution, age of the earth ministry, but as
a biblical authority ministry, because that's what the real
issue is all about. And so we walk you through those
seven Cs, the first four Cs, Genesis 1 to 11, really, the
history that's foundational to the whole of the gospel message.
And we use all sorts of different means to do that. As you know,
if you've been there with the theaters and the planetarium
and the various exhibits that you walk through, and even a
section of Noah's Ark, all the videos, the signage, that we
have there. Actually, the vision for the
Creation Museum goes back 30 years in Australia. When I and
one of our board members there knelt down and prayed for a Creation
Museum, we didn't know that the Lord would answer it 30 years
later in Kentucky. But that's what happened. God's
ways are far higher than our ways and His thoughts far higher
than our thoughts, as we all know. Also, I'd like you to,
if you remember to do this with your children, to be praying
for a special outreach. We're expecting up to 20,000
people, and we know that tomorrow's gonna be a little cold at night,
and on Saturday night, but it's the opening of what we call Bethlehem's
Blessings. It's our 2009 live nativity. And we have all sorts of costumes,
and people dressed up as Roman soldiers, and the same sort of
quality you see in the museum. We'll have there at the live
nativity is really quite something a whole marketplace. We the people
who designed our Exhibits at the Creation Museum, our on-staff
sculptors and designers and so on have put this together. I
don't think there's anything like it really across the nation.
I know there's lots of different live nativities, but this is
very unique. It's quite spectacular. And a lot of people bring their
non-Christian friends. So we would ask you to be in prayer
about that particular outreach. Tonight, I've entitled what I
want to present to you as the Genesis 3 attack. And in fact,
that verse of scripture I'm going to mention in a little while
has already been mentioned by the other two speakers tonight.
But the Genesis 3 attack in our era of history. And there are
a few Bible verses I want to bring to your attention tonight.
And then we'll go through each one of them in a little bit more detail.
First of all, 1 Chronicles 12 and verse 32, of the sons of
Issachar who had understanding of the times. They had understanding.
time for David to be king, but do we have understanding of our
times? And then the book of Judges,
when there was no king in Israel, everyone did what was right in
his own eyes. And then 2 Corinthians 11 3,
but I fear less by any means as a serpent beguiled Eve through
his subtlety, so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Christ. Paul has a warning for us, Satan
is going to use the same method on us as he did on Eve to get
us to a position of not believing the things of God. And then Psalm
11 3, If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous
do? We live in interesting times.
We live in very perilous times. I'm not just talking about economically,
but spiritually. In fact, a lot of people are
looking, you see on the news, at the economic problems in America,
but the economic problems pale into insignificance compared
to the spiritual problems in this nation. And that's what
we really need to be looking at. In fact, I don't know whether
you realize what's happening in this nation, but it's also
happening right across our Western world as we see where Christianity
was much more prevalent in the past, the Christian worldview
that permeated our Western culture, we see a collapsing before our
very eyes. And we see the atheists becoming
much more aggressive. One of the things that we've
noticed, the atheists of the past, well, for them, Christianity,
they would shrug their shoulders, and we don't believe that stuff,
and we don't believe what these Christians are doing, and it's
nonsense. But the atheists of today, such as Dr. Richard Dawkins
that Doug quoted in the last lecture, they're much more aggressive. And what they're out to do is
to attack Christianity and to make out that Christians are
people who are very bad, that they're child abusers, that they're
terrorists, and we have to do something about them. That's
how it's coming across. It's a much more aggressive culture
in that regard. And one of the things that we're
seeing, we're seeing the atheists being much more aggressive across
the whole nation. Since 2007, there have been atheist
advertising campaigns in 56 cities and 29 states. And advertisements have been
placed on billboards, buses, bus stops, subways, subway stations.
And you can see just a sample of some of them there, such as,
you can be good without God, and are you good without God?
Millions are. Don't believe in God, you're
not alone. Praise Darwin. Evolve beyond belief. And so
it goes on. In fact, let me just show you some of those. And this
is not just happening in America. It's also happening across the
world. For instance, in the Cincinnati billboard that went up just recently,
a couple of them now. Don't believe in God, you are
not alone. How about a Chicago billboard? Or what about this
one from Cleveland? This one from Columbus? How about
Dallas-Fort Worth? How about Iowa and an Iowa bus? Then the Boston bus and subway,
Portland bus, New York City subway, Philadelphia bus and subway,
Washington DC bus. Why believe in God? And this
one here from a Seattle billboard, yes, Virginia, there is no God.
In fact, just recently, the New York Times, just over a week
ago, an article, an unusual holiday message began appearing this
week in the nation's capital on the sides of buses and trains.
No God, no problem, reads the advertisement featuring smiling
faces of people wearing Santa Claus hats. Be good for goodness
sakes. And it went on to say in this
article, that over the next two weeks, 270 of the ads will go
up on city buses and trains in the Washington, D.C. area as
part of the holiday kickoff. These campaigns are sponsored
by secular groups in cities around the country and abroad. These
are the sorts of things that are going on in the era of history
that we live in. They have become very aggressive.
And in fact, at the same time, what do we see happening in our
world? You know, Europe is basically spiritually dead. The United
Kingdom is basically spiritually dead. What has happened over
there? Let me show you some photographs. Some of you have seen these already
in the book, Already Gone. That has really had quite an
impact in recent times. But we see here... What I want
to show you, this is not the exception, this is the rule,
and this is from primarily England. This church that was turned into
a Sikh temple, and this church that was turned into a rock climbing
center, and this one that was turned into a museum, and this
one that was turned into a theater, and this one that was turned
into an information center, and this one into a clothing store,
and this one into a habitat shop, this one here into a music store,
this one a liquor store, this one into a nightclub, this one
into a tattoo and piercing studio. What is happening in England?
In fact, Penguin Books released a book about killing God not
long ago. And they did their own survey
in England, and they found that nearly two-thirds of teenagers
don't believe in God and that religion has a negative influence
on the world, say 60% of these teenagers. I mean, before the
last war in England, 50% or more people attended church. Now it's
down to much, much less than that, with nearly two-thirds
of teenagers saying they don't believe in God. In fact, just
a few years ago, 2003, a news article in England said only
7.5% of the population went to church on Sundays. And in the
past 10 years, billed by the churches as a decade of evangelism,
for all the evangelism that was going on, church attendance in
England dropped by an alarming 22%. The article went on to say,
the Christian church in this country will be dead and buried
within 40 years. It will vanish from the mainstream
of British life with only 0.5% of the population attending Sunday
services. What is happening in England?
In fact, another news article in 2004 said, attendance at Britain's
mosque has outstripped the number of regular worshipers in the
Church of England for the first time. Some have predicted that
England could become a Muslim nation in five years, 10 years.
And in fact, when my wife and I were over in England in March,
I was speaking over there, We bought a newspaper the night
before we left to fly back to the States, and this was the
headline in the newspaper. It was a Muslim cleric stating,
I want to see the flag of Allah flying over Downing Street. Downing
Street is where the Prime Minister, the leader of England, lives.
And in fact, in that article, this cleric actually said this,
through jihad, we'll fly the flag of Allah above Downing Street. They're blatant about it. What
is happening to our world? Even in Australia, in 2002, a
professor at a university was quoted as saying, within the
next 10 to 20 years, most of the mainline churches will be
appropriately down on their knees praying for their own survival.
And then a quote from a newspaper, The Melbourne Age, in Australia
this year, in February this year, the number of churchgoers in
Australia is about 9% and dwindling. The diversity of spiritual belief
is flourishing and atheism is going off like a frog in a sock.
What is happening in our Western world? Let's take America. Here you have the largest number
of churches and seminaries and Christian colleges, Christian
bookstores, Christian resources, Christian radio, Christian TV.
You have more Christian resources right now at this time in history
than you've ever had. But let me ask you a question.
As a culture, is America becoming more Christian or less Christian
every day? It's becoming less Christian, and not only less
Christian, but the atheists are becoming much more aggressive.
And for a small group, and they really are only a minority, they're
imposing their views on this culture. Why is that? And, you
know, what we see happening in England is happening in America.
If you look up real estate listings, you see more and more churches
on those listings, not because churches are getting bigger and
moving out necessarily, but because they're closing down. For instance,
in the New England states, a church that was turned into a museum,
and this one into a town hall, this one into a martial arts
center, this one into a music store. Yes, the same sorts of
things are happening here. And then earlier this year, Newsweek,
the front page of Newsweek, the front cover, actually said the
decline and fall of Christian America, and inside there was
an article on the end of Christian America. They did a survey, and
they found that the percentage of self-identified Christians
had fallen. They also found that the number
of people willing to describe themselves as atheists or agnostic
has increased. People, what is happening in
this nation? For all the Christian resources
that we have, and all the megachurches, and all the praise and worship
programs, and all that goes on, all the literature, we're losing
this culture. We have to ask ourselves, why
do we understand the times? Even the President of the United
States, President Obama, in his autobiography published just
before the election, he made a similar statement in his inauguration
address. He said, whatever we once were,
we are no longer just a Christian nation. We are also a Jewish
nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, a nation
of non-believers. And by the way, he's not saying
we're a nation that has freedom of religion. What he's really
saying, and I'll substantiate that in a moment, what he's really
saying is we're not a nation that any longer builds our thinking
on the Bible. How do I know he means that?
Oh, you only have to look at many of his other statements.
For instance, in 2009, he proclaimed June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender Pride Month and called upon the people of America to
support that. At a human rights campaign dinner not that long
ago, which is really a gay rights activist dinner, the President
said he urged Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
And he went on to say this, and here's the President of the United
States actually speaking. My expectation is that when you
look back on these years, you'll see a time in which we as a nation
finally recognize relationships between two men or two women
as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man
and a woman. When the President of the United States of America
is saying that, you know, this nation is in trouble. Do we understand
the times? We see moral relativism pervading
this nation. We see the abortion issue, the
gay marriage issue, Christ and Christmas issue, nativity scene
issue, Ten Commandment issue, creation, prayer, Bible thrown
out of public schools. And in fact, I think what really
to me summarizes what's happening in this nation was illustrated
in an advertisement from the Gap clothing stores. Many of
you probably heard about this, but they had an advertisement
on television. And here are the words here,
two, four, six, eight is the time to liberate and so on. But
I want you to look at the last three lines. You 86 the rules. You do what just feels right.
I mean, do whatever you want to and to all a cheery night.
I want to show you how this has been played on television as
a commercial across this nation. No plasticity, no planetary,
no to avatary! You 86 the rules! You do what just feels right!
Happy do whatever you wanna do! And to all, a cheery night! Makes you want to go out and
buy black clothing right now, doesn't it? You 86 the rules. You do whatever is right. You
know what that sounds like to me? When they had no king to
tell them what to do, they all did what was right in their own
eyes. It's moral relativism. It's pervading this nation. Why?
Because by and large, this nation has rejected God, has thrown
out the Bible, and has said, we're going to decide truth.
We can decide truth for whatever we want it to be. And that ad
really sums up where this nation is at. And people, not only the
nation as a whole, but the church in this nation is in trouble.
You know, back in 2002, George Barnard did some research, did
some statistics, and he found that two-thirds of young people
are going to leave the church. He verified that again in 2006.
LifeWay has done similar statistics. In fact, one of the leaders in
the Southern Baptist denomination recently made the comment, if
we keep losing young people, the next generation, at the rate
at which they're leaving the church, Are we going to have
a church? What's the church going to look like in a couple of generations?
People, this nation is in trouble. And if the church keeps going
the way it is, it is in trouble. And we have to say to ourselves,
why? And that's one of the questions we asked, why? In fact, A lot
of statistical research has been done on how many go to church,
how many not go to church, how many call themselves atheist,
Christian. And we can look at some of the
trends. The number calling themselves Christian is decreasing. The
number calling themselves atheist is increasing. Two-thirds of
young people leaving the church. But we have to ask ourselves,
but why? Why is this occurring and when has this been occurring? And there's some of the questions
that we asked. Why are these young people leaving
the church and when does this really start to happen? I mean,
what is causing it? And when in their minds do they
decide they're going to leave the church? And so... In recent
times, we contracted with a respectable researcher, Britt Beamer from
America's Research Group, highly respected in the secular world
as well as the Christian world. And we contracted with them to
find out why. We said, look, two-thirds of
young people are leaving the church and we want to find out
why. And so here's what Britt Beamer did. He did some incredible
research for us. Now, he's one that you'll often
hear quoted on television about shopping trends and things like
that. He's done research for the secular world, for the Christian
world in all sorts of different areas. And he's a behavioralist,
and he's a market researcher, and he knows how to find out
what people are thinking. And so he formulated the questions
to ask them, and by and large, in most instances, he doesn't
give them alternatives. He lets them speak to him so
that he can find out the real, real reasons. He interviewed
1,000 people. To identify these 1,000 people,
they made 23,000 phone calls. These were people aged 20 to
29, half male, half female, who went to church regularly as children
but no longer go to church. And what made it a little harder
to identify these, they had to go to a conservative church.
And the reason we asked for that is because we wanted people to
know this is the best the results could be. These people went to
conservative churches. And we published the results
in the book called Already Gone. How many of you have already
read that book, by the way? There's a number of you. If you haven't,
I encourage you to do so. I believe it's a book for this
time, to understand the times. Basically, what we found out
was this. The revealing aspect, when are we losing these kids?
Many people in the church, many church leaders think, oh, we've
got to prepare them for college. When they go to college, that's
when their faith is going to come under attack and so on, so we've
got to prepare them for college. We found out from this research,
we're losing these kids way before college. We're losing them in
elementary school, middle school, high school, only a small percentage
in college. We'll come back to that in a
moment. And the main reason, you know what the main reason
given was? The main reason was hypocrisy. But when Britt delved
into what they meant by hypocrisy, you know what it basically comes
down to going to a church, being told to believe the Bible by
people who are authority figures in the church who compromise
the Bible in some way, particularly in Genesis. And they see it as
hypocrisy because the church authority figure is saying you
believe the Bible, trust in Jesus. But at the same time, and there
is a scripture, they're saying, but you don't have to believe
these bits. And people, as Britt delved further
into it, it really comes down to they weren't being taught
the Bible was history, weren't being taught how it connects
to the real world, and weren't being taught to defend their
faith and answer the skeptical questions of this age. 90% of people from church homes
and 90% of these people went to the equivalent of public schools.
In public schools, they've shown God, the Bible, prayer out. And
by the way, when they did that, they did not throw religion out.
You know, we've been duped in this nation. Many people have
been duped. Many Christians have been duped into thinking this
separation of church and state means that if you mention God,
you're religious. If you don't mention God, then
that's a neutral position. People, there is no neutral position.
You're either for Christ or what? Against. You either walk in light
or you walk in what? Darkness. You either gather or
you scatter. There is no neutral position. We've been lulled into
thinking that. And many people I see in this
nation, there are many people in the church that are almost,
it seems to me that they're almost ashamed to get out there publicly
and stand on the authority of the Word of God because I think
for many of them, they don't know how to answer the skeptical
questions of the age. And for many of them, too, they
think, well, that means I'll come across as biased or religious
or something like that. People, when they threw God,
the Bible, prayer out of the public schools, they didn't throw
religion out, they threw Christianity out and replaced it with the
religion of naturalism or atheism. And it's about time we started
to understand that. You know, when I was interviewed
by the secular media when the Creation Museum was open, we
had about 80 media there on one day. It was quite an interesting
time. We even had Al Jazeera there.
They interviewed me in three different occasions, by the way.
They've been more fair about reporting on the Creation Museum
than some of the secular media. What's interesting is, I think
it was a reporter from CNN who was standing in the main hall,
for those that have been there, where the waterfall is and the
two little animatronic dinosaurs and children there. And he was
looking at that and he looked at me and he said, sort of looked
at me with those beady little reporter eyes. And he looked
at me and he said, so what is your ultimate motivation? What
are you really trying to do here? So I look back at him with my
beady little creationist eyes. And I said to him, what do you
mean? He said, what are you really trying to do? What's your ultimate
motivation and purpose here? And I said, well, to stand on
the authority of the word of God, to preach the gospel of
Jesus Christ, to see people saved, one to the Lord, to be in heaven
with us. And then he looked at me and he said, so you admit
it then. And I said, admit what? He said, you admit that you're
really trying to get people saved. I said, absolutely, print it,
do whatever, tell people. But then he looked at me and
here's a secular reporter who obviously from other things he
said didn't seem at all to be a Christian to me. He looked
at me and he said, you know, that's refreshing. And I said,
why do you say that's refreshing? And he said, because we interview
many people in America, maybe associated with the Ten Commandment
issue, the creation issue in schools, could be the Christ
and Christmas issue, the abortion issue, the gay marriage issue,
nativity scene issue, whatever it is. And a lot of the people
we interview, we know go to church or claim to be Christian. And
when we ask them, what are you really on about? What's your
ultimate motivation? He said, the usual answer is
we're on about what's good for the culture. We're on about traditional
family values. We're on about what we really
should believe, we're on about what this nation was built on
or whatever. He said, why don't they come out and say we're on
about the Bible? People, it's a problem in this
culture. It's a major problem. And, you know, here we have this
research that shows These young people weren't taught how to
defend their faith. They weren't taught the Bible
is real history, weren't taught to stand on the authority of
the word of God. They saw compromise in regard
to the word of God. That's hypocrisy and they walked
away from the church. And in fact, one of the questions
asked, at what age did you really begin to question contents in
the Bible? Notice something. By the end of middle school,
40 percent of them are questioning the Bible. By the end of high
school, another 45 percent. People, we've lost them way before
college. Not only that, if you don't believe
the Bible, when did you first start to have doubts? They didn't
start to have doubts in college. 40% of them were having doubts
by the end of middle school. Another 44% or so by the end
of high school. And people, think about it, because
we asked the question, or a researcher did, would you say questioning
was the beginning of your doubt in the Bible? Oh, questioning.
And you see, we live in a world where the Bible is being questioned
in a particular way. You know, it doesn't matter what
culture, I go to around the world, what country I go to, I'm asked
the same basic questions, whether I'm in the secular world or the
Christian world. How do you know the Bible is true? Where did
God come from? Who made God anyway? How do you know those 66 books
are the right books? Why shouldn't there be other
books in the Bible? Why is Christianity better than Buddhism? And if
you believe the Bible, how do you explain the races of people
if we go back to Adam and Eve? And where did Cain get his wife?
And what about carbon dating? What about the millions of years?
And what about dinosaurs? They disproved the Bible. Noah's
ark couldn't be true. He couldn't fit all the animals
on the ark. Put your hand up if you've heard some of those
questions. Oh, that's a shock. No, it's not a shock. Why? It's
the year of history you live in. And people, you know what
happens? Kids today have those questions. There's those accusations.
How many of you heard the accusation Noah couldn't fit the animals
on the ark? Put your hand up. Oh, yes. And you know what we
do in our churches and our homes and our Sunday schools? You might
teach a story about Noah's ark. But are we teaching them to defend
their faith? Are we preparing them for the
world they live in to give them those answers so they'll be able
to defend the Christian faith? You know what we do by and large?
We teach stories. And you know what we tell them? Trust in Jesus.
And they have all these questions. But what about carbon dating?
What about the millions of years? How do you know the Bible is
true? Where did God come from? Oh, don't worry about those,
Johnny. They're just red herring questions. Trust in Jesus. But the message
of Jesus comes from this book. And if I can't trust the authority
of this book in the beginning and in its words, how can I trust
the gospel that comes from this book? Second Corinthians 11 three,
Paul has a warning for us. You know, Paul is saying to us,
I want to warn you, Satan is going to use the same method
on you as he did on Eve to get you in a position of not believing
the word of God. And I call that the Genesis three
attack for our era of history. It's the Genesis three attack
that Paul is referring to in Second Corinthians 11 three.
It's already been referred to by the previous two speakers.
In Genesis 3, now the servant was more cunning than any beast
of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the
woman, did God really say? Did God really say? What was
happening here? There was a question to create
doubt in regard to the word of God. Remember, you can become
as gods. You can decide truth for yourself.
You don't have to listen to the word of God. You'll surely not
die. Oh, by the way, that's not much
different to you'll surely die. It's just a little change. Did
God really say, here's what I want us to understand. People, God's
word has been under attack since Genesis three. And that has never
changed. But you know what does change?
And this is where I believe we've missed it in this era of history.
What does change is the way in which that attack manifests itself.
See, let me explain to you. At the time of Peter and Paul,
they're preaching the gospel. Do you think anyone came up to
Peter and Paul and said, oh, it's all very well to talk about
the resurrection, but I've got a question for you. What about
carbon dating? Well, they didn't get that question.
Why not? Because carbon dating is a 20th century invention.
That wasn't an issue in their day. Do you think somebody came
up to Martin Luther as he nailed those theses on the door of the
church and say, all right, Dr. Luther, it's all very well to
nail those theses on the door of the church, but I want to
know, what are you going to do with dinosaurs? The word dinosaur wasn't even
invented until 1841. It wasn't an issue in those days. Do you
think anyone came up to John Wesley and said, Wesley, it's
all very well for you to preach this stuff, but Darwinian evolution
shows you can't trust the Bible. Wesley died before The Origin
of Species was published. It wasn't an issue in his day. It wasn't the same sort of issue.
And people, here's what I want us to understand. God's Word
has been under attack since Genesis 3. It's the same attack. We have a Genesis 3 attack today,
but it manifests itself in different ways in different eras of history.
And in this era of history, it's manifested itself in a particular
way that the church, by and large, has missed and has accommodated
to. No different than what the Israelites did when they took
the pagan religion of the age and mixed it in with their own
beliefs and so on, and came under judgment and destroying the word
of God. Psalm 113 says, if the foundations are destroyed, what
can the righteous do? Here is a barn that had a foundation
that was collapsing. And when that foundation finally
collapsed, the barn came down. When you look at that structure
of the collapse there, to me that represents the Christian
worldview in our Western world, across Europe, across the United
Kingdom, what's happening in America. When you look at that
collapsing structure there, we think of the increasing abortion
and gay marriage, the gay marriage issue, the increasing anti-Christian
sentiment in this nation. throwing Christ out of Christmas,
the nativity scenes, 10 Commandments, out of public places, creation,
prayer, Bible, out of the public schools. People, we see the collapse
of the structure. Why does a structure collapse
when the foundation is taken out? What foundation has been
affected in this nation? The foundation of the authority
of the Word of God. There's been a particular Genesis
attack, Genesis 3 attack on the authority of God's word in this
era of history, and it's particularly manifested itself in an attack
on the history in Genesis 1 to 11. When Jesus was asked about marriage,
what did he say? Matthew 19. And he answered and
said, have you not read? I like to put that in a common
vernacular for people. What is wrong with you people?
Don't you read your Bibles? Have you not read, He which made them
at the beginning made them male and what? Oh, male and female. You know what? We need to tell
the President of the United States about that verse. And Congress. And Senate. He made the male
and female. It's a quote from Genesis, chapter
one, verse twenty seven, and said for this cause or this is
the reason that a man is his father and mother cleaves under
his wife and they'll be one flesh, which is a quote from Genesis,
chapter two, verse twenty four. Jesus quoting from the history
in Genesis one and two concerning the creation of male and female,
a woman from the man. You become one because you one
flesh as the foundation for the doctrine of marriage. By the
way, you believe in evolution and the woman came from an ape
woman. You destroyed the doctrine of marriage. You see, the point
is that Genesis history is foundational to the doctrine of marriage.
When you've got a Congress and Senate today and the President
of the United States being told by many leaders in the church
that they don't believe Genesis is true, no wonder they don't
believe marriage is to be for a male and female, a man and
woman. And people, it's not just marriage.
Do you realize that ultimately every single biblical doctrine
of theology, directly or indirectly, is founded in Genesis 1 to 11?
Why did Jesus die on a cross? Genesis 1 to 11. Why is there
sin in the world? Genesis 1 to 11. Why do we die? Genesis 1
to 11. Why do you wear clothes? Genesis 1 to 11. I notice you're
all wearing clothes. That's great. I might say, why? You might say, it's cold out
there tonight. It's going to get down to 9, by the way, tonight.
Be refreshing walking out there tonight. Go back to your hotel.
By the way, if you wear clothes because it's cold, what do you
do when it's hot? You wear clothes because God gave clothes because
of sin. Why is Jesus called the last Adam? Genesis 1 to 11. Why
do we need a new heavens and a new earth? Genesis 1 to 11.
I was at a church recently in Florida and I said, can you name
one biblical doctrine that directly or indirectly is not founded
in Genesis 1 to 11? Come on, name one. One guy, one
smart guy, jumps up in the congregation and says, what about the doctrine
of election? I thought I better have an answer for him real quick.
I said, you wouldn't need such a doctrine if man hadn't sinned.
Genesis 1 to 11. So that kept him quiet. By the
way, here's what I want you to understand. You know, the seven
C's that we have there at the Creation Museum, just so you
understand why we have those seven C's, the first four C's
creation, corruption, catastrophe, confusion. That's the geological,
biological, astronomical, anthropological history of the universe as foundational
to the whole of the rest of the Bible. All of our doctrines,
everything is founded in that history. And see, here's the point. That
history. That's foundational to the rest
of the Bible is under attack in today's world, because what's
happening is we have whole generations in our public education system.
Ninety percent of kids from our church homes go to public schools
where they're being taught by and large. I know there are some
missionaries in that system, but by and large, they're being
taught a geological, biological, astronomical, anthropological,
archaeological history that totally undermines what the Bible teaches.
And they're coming along to church and they're asking questions.
Can the Bible really be trusted in this scientific age? Because
for them, the world, what I taught at school, TV, Discovery Channel,
Learning Channel, whatever it is, Nova programs, they've bombed
out the Bible, evolution, millions of years, ape men and so on.
And they're saying, what's the church going to do about this?
You know much of the church says, well, don't worry about that,
but trust in Jesus. As long as God did it, that's the most important
thing. It's like I've had people say to me over the years, I told
my kids they could believe in the Big Bang as long as God did
it, or they could believe in millions of years in evolution
as long as God did it. What's wrong with that? And I
said, you know what's wrong with that? It's not what God said
he did. The Big Bang has the sun coming
before the earth. The Bible has the earth coming
before the sun. Evolution has man and woman coming from ape
man and ape woman. The Bible has man from dust,
woman from his side. Millions of years has death,
thorns, disease, bloodshed, animals eating each other, millions of
years before sin. The Bible says originally they're
all vegetarian. Thorns came after the curse.
What God said doesn't fit with what man is saying. And here's
the problem. We have brought whole generations
up in our churches, and I can tell you, the majority of Christian
leaders in this nation, the majority of Bible colleges, Christian
colleges, seminaries, Christian schools, the majority will not
take a stand on Genesis, will tell students, you can believe
in millions of years, doesn't matter, as long as you trust
in Jesus. People, they see it as hypocrisy, they understand
the inconsistency. You put man and authority over
the Word of God, reinterpreted the Word of God, given up that
history in the first part of the Bible, eventually they give
up the rest. the Genesis 3 attack on the Word of God. And in this
era of history, it really began in the late 18th century, early
19th century, when deists and materialists, people who are
against the Word of God in England, wanted a justification for not
believing in the Word of God. And so they popularized the idea
of millions of years to explain the fossil record. See, at that
time, most people believed the earth was rather young and that
God created and Noah's flood really happened and most of your
fossil record came from the flood. But what happened was these dearsome
materialists started to popularize the idea of millions of years.
That's where the idea of millions of years came from. The belief
that the layers with the fossils took a long time to get there.
And you know what happened at that time in England? There were
church leaders who said, well, we can take the millions of years
and add it into the Bible. And they reinterpreted the days
and thus had to popularize the day age theory. I'm sure you've
all heard of that. There was another great man of God, actually,
Thomas Chalmers, the founder of the Free Church of Scotland.
He said, we can fit millions of years in between Genesis 1,
1, and 1, 2, and in came the gap theory. Then there are others,
and you'll see them in some of the commentaries in the 1800s.
They said, wait a minute, we've got a problem. If all those layers
were the fossils came from millions of years, then you can't have
a global flood. It would have ripped up all those
layers and redeposited them. So they started popularizing
the idea of a local flood, which doesn't make any sense. I've
actually read a commentary from the 1800s where the theologian
was actually saying God supernaturally upheld the waters like this for
the time of the flood. Now, God could do that, but that's
not what the Word of God says. And then along came Darwin, who
popularized his ideas of one kind of animal into another,
ape-like creatures into people. You know what the church said?
Oh, we can add that to the Bible and we'll say God used evolution.
And then along came the idea of the Big Bang. Sir Fred Hoyle
coined that idea and much of the church said, oh, we can believe
in the Big Bang and say God used the Big Bang. And people, you'll
be familiar with these. These positions arose in history,
particularly since the 1800s, early 1800s. And I go to churches
today, and they'll say, oh, our pastor is a theistic evolutionist.
Oh, one of our deacons believes in the day-age theory. Oh, we've
tended to teach the gap theory here. Oh, we have people in our
church who are progressive creationists. Oh, we believe in the framework
hypothesis. Oh, I know some of our people believe in the local
flood. And they say to me, what's your position? And I say, oh,
the biblical one. Because do you realize not one
of those positions comes from Scripture, They're all imposed
on scripture, and they have one common factor, and it's the millions
of years. And I want you to understand something here. See, as a Christian,
if you accept millions of years and you're going to add it into
the Bible, where are you going to fit it? You can't put it in those
genealogies. That wouldn't make sense. It
would destroy the history. There's really only one place
you can try to do it, and it has to be before the genealogy
start before Adam, which means the six days of creation. And
that's exactly what you see. People, the main reason most
people in the church today will not take a stand on a young earth,
not take a stand on the six literal days of creation has nothing
to do with what the Bible clearly says, but everything to do with
adding millions of years into the Bible. And I've seen this
common factor, you know, since the eighteen hundreds in particular,
early, late seventeen hundreds, theologians, Christian leaders,
seminary professors, ministers, Christian college professors
who will admit that if you take the word day on its own in Genesis
one, it means an ordinary day. But then they'll go on to say,
but it can't because of millions of years. I believe this has
been the Genesis three attack of our era. In fact, the millions
of years, I believe the millions of years and its accommodation
to scripture by church leaders has been the Genesis three attack
in this era of history that has undermined the authority of scripture
in a massive way to cause this massive problem in the church
today. Really, I believe it's this Genesis three attack that
has been integral in undoing what the Reformation did. Let me give you some examples
real quickly. Paddle pun from Wheaton College. I debated him
on Moody Radio once. He said, if you take the most
straightforward understanding of the Genesis record, God created
in six solar days, he doesn't believe that. He believes in
millions of years, believes in Big Bang, believes in a local
flood. But look what he said, without regard to all of the
hermeneutical considerations suggested by science, what he
means by science, if you read his paper, is Big Bang and billions
of years. He's admitting that if you take the word day in Genesis
on its own, it means an ordinary day, but it can't because of
the millions of years. By the way, if that is true, that the
word day in the literature means an ordinary day, but it can't
be in that because of man's ideas of millions of years, then you've
just said the Bible is fallible. You've just undermined the authority
of the word. Dr. James Montgomery Boyce, the late
Dr. Boyce, a great Reformed preacher from the East. He was a great
man of God. But when it came to Genesis, he didn't believe
in six literal days. You know what he said? The exegetical
basis of the creationists is strong. Their arguments from
Scripture are strong for six days. Why didn't he believe in
six literal days? Data from various disciplines
points to an old earth, an older universe. The late Gleason Archer. has some great stuff in regard
to material that he's published. But when it comes to Genesis,
he didn't believe in 624-hour days. He said a superficial reading
of Genesis 1, the impression would seem to be 624-hour days. He didn't believe that. Why not?
Seems to run counter to modern scientific research which indicates
the planet Earth was created several billion years ago. A
great website in Texas that deals with ethical issues like, in
regard to cloning and stem cell research and so on, but they
make a comment about Genesis. The question concerning the age
of the earth comes down to a matter of interpretation both of science
and the Bible. Biblically, we find the young
earth approach of six consecutive 24-hour days in a catastrophic
flood to make the most sense. Wow, great. However, or here's
the but, we find the evidence from science for a great age
for the universe and earth to be nearly overwhelming. The great
systematic theologian, Charles Hodge, of Princeton fame. He
said this, if you take the account of Genesis by itself, that's
what he's talking about, it'd be most natural to understand
the word day, he's talking about here, in its ordinary sense,
which means an ordinary day. And then he goes on to say, but,
here's the but, if that sense brings the mosaic account into
conflict with facts and another sense avoids the conflict, it's
obligatory to adopt the other. He went on to say this, the church
has been forced more than once to alter her interpretation of
the Bible to accommodate the discoveries of science, but this
has been done without doing any violence to the scripture in
any degree impairing their authority. People, Charles Hodge, B.B. Warfield of Princeton fame, I'm
not just blaming them, but I believe, wittingly or unwittingly, I believe
they're great men of God, I believe they're in heaven today, but
you know what's happened? They unlocked the door, look
at Princeton today, look at those Ivy League skills, how many were
once Christian, How many are Christian today? People, what's
happened to them is what's happening to the nation. You unlock a door.
You don't have to take God's word as written. You can accommodate
man's ideas into God's word. It's a Genesis 3 attack. You'll
lose biblical authority. In fact, people have often said
to me, they've said, but but you agree that it's faith in
Christ that saves you, not whether you believe in a young earth.
That's true. It's faith in Christ. You can be an old earth Christian. That's true. There are Christians
who believe in evolution. And if you're truly born again,
you're a Christian. They say, see, so it doesn't
matter. Really, it might affect your salvation in that sense.
But you know what it does affect how the next generation view
scripture. And then how the next generation view scripture. And
when you unlock that door and that's what happened in England,
when the theologians unlock that door, what happened? The next
generation, they saw the inconsistencies. They pushed that door open further
and then further and then further. Look at England today. It is
spiritually dead, basically. People, it's happening in America.
I could go on and quote many others, Meredith Klein. to popularize
the framework hypothesis, very well known in reform circles.
But I always look for the motivation. In this article, I've advocated
an interpretation of biblical cosmogony according to which
scripture is open to the current scientific view of a very old
universe, and that respect does not discount the theory of the
evolutionary origin of man. and people, people even like
Bruce Walkie. I mean, there are many of these
great conservative theologians, Christian scholars that produce
the textbooks for the seminaries today. But as soon as it comes
to Genesis. The days of creation may also pose difficulties for
a strict historical account. Contemporary scientists almost
unanimously discount the possibility of creation in one week. And
we cannot discount the evidence of the earth sciences. People,
we're putting man in authority over God's Word. It is the Genesis
3 attack of this age. It has undermined the authority
of Scripture. And you know the sad thing? When
we take God's perfect Word and man's fallible opinion, when
we try to make them agree, which one usually gets modified? It's
usually Scripture, isn't it? What did Martin Luther say? In
his day, he had people who were trying to say it was one day,
not six days. He had the opposite problem we
have. And you know what he said? We must understand that these
days were actual days, contrary to the opinion of the Holy Fathers.
Whenever we observe that the opinions of the Fathers disagree
with Scripture, we reverently bear with them and acknowledge
them to be our elders. Nevertheless, we do not depart from the authority
of Scripture for their sake. And people, I'll go on record
as saying this, you can have great Christian men of God, great
Christian scholars, whether it's the Bruce Walkies or the Meredith
Clines, whoever we've talked about that I've referenced here
tonight. There have been many great men of God who write the
textbooks for the seminaries and influence them, but if they're
not taking a stand on the authority of the Word of God right at Genesis
1 to 11, as we have to, as we need to, as we should be doing,
and they're letting man's ideas undermine the authority of Scripture,
Regardless of all the rest of the great stuff they do, look
what's happening. We're losing this culture because
we are undermining the authority of the word and weakened the
church. By the way, when it comes to
the word day. Really, why should there be any debate? I mean,
it's interesting. The word day is used 2,301 times in the Old
Testament in the singular or plural form. And I know the word
day can have a number of different meanings. It can mean time. It
can mean daylight portion of a day, you know, in English,
in my father's day, for instance. Hebrew word for day has a number
of different meanings. But here's the interesting thing.
We know what the word day means everywhere it's used in the Old
Testament except Genesis 1. Why is that? You know why it
is? Because it's in Genesis 1 where
we have this problem of adding millions of years into the Bible.
I mean, if you take the leading Hebrew lexicons in the world,
for instance, Brown Diver Briggs, the first example of day being
an ordinary day is Genesis 1.5, the first day of creation. A
very modern Hebrew lexicon, Kohler Baumgartner, The second major
meaning of the word day, it says in bold type, it says in the
lexicon, day of 24 hours. The first example is Genesis
1.5. And you know why? Because whenever the word day
is used with a number, whenever you have the phrase evening and
morning, whenever the word day is used with evening or morning
individually, or whenever the word night is used with the word
day, it always means an ordinary day. And look how it's written
in Genesis chapter 1. It's almost as if God was saying,
these people in the 21st century are going to be so thick, I'm
going to qualify the word day over and over again to make sure
they get it. And they still don't get it. Oh, and then you have
those people that say, doesn't the Bible say a day is like a
thousand years? Well, read the rest of the verse.
It says a thousand years are like a day. That just cancels
that one right out. And by the way, it doesn't say a day is
like a thousand years. It says one day with the Lord. That's got nothing to do with
defining the word day. The word day depends upon the
Hebrew language in Genesis. That's saying God is outside
of time. He's not limited by natural processes and time. By
the way, if you're going to say that, oh, we've got to interpret
the days meaning thousands of years. Well, what are you going
to do with Jonah and the great fish? Oh, he had to be in the
whale 3000 years. But days like a thousand years,
you know, see how ridiculous. You know, it's interesting. We
always use that that that Peter quote to attack the days of creation.
What about all the other times the word days use? We'll do anything
but believe in six days, because in this era of history, you if
you say to people, I don't believe in millions of years, you are
so radical. You're so against what the establishment believes.
You've got to believe in millions of years. And by the way, you
know why it's such an emotional issue for the evolutionists,
for the secularists. If you don't have millions of years, you can't
even try to postulate the idea of evolution. I love what Martin Luther said.
He said this. How long did the work of creation take when Moses
writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in
them in six days. Let this period continue have been six days and
do not venture to devise any comment according to which six
days were one day. But if you cannot understand how this could
have been done in six days, grant the Holy Spirit the honor of
being more learned than you are. And people, I want to show you
something. With the research we did with Already Gone, we
found out something else. When we divide them into subgroups,
those that often attended Sunday school versus those that didn't
go to Sunday school, we found that those that attended Sunday
school regularly in these conservative churches were worse off than
those that didn't, and you're better off if you didn't send
your kids to Sunday school. And what did we find? You can't
deny the statistics. Those that went to Sunday school,
more likely not to believe the accounts in the Bible are true
and accurate. More likely to doubt the Bible because it's
written by men. More likely to doubt the Bible because it's
not translated correctly. By the way, you know what that's
telling me? They weren't taught general Bible apologetics. More
likely to defend abortion, premarital sex, and gay marriage. How's
that for a shock? Much more likely to believe God used evolution.
And notice this, more likely to believe the earth is less,
more likely not to believe the earth is young. Much more likely
to question the Bible because of the age of the earth. Much
more likely to doubt the Bible because of the age of the earth.
More likely to question the Bible is young. More likely to believe
dinosaurs died out before people. That's an age of earth issue.
More likely to view the church as hypocritical. Believe the
Bible, trust in Jesus. You don't have to believe the
days of creation. Much more likely to become anti-church, more likely
to believe good people don't go to church. And notice this,
more likely to have heard a pastor or Sunday school teacher teach
Christians could believe in millions and billions of years. And you
see, then Britt asked them this question, which of these makes
you question the Bible the most? Those that often attended Sunday
school, the age of the earth was the big issue. Wasn't as
big an issue with those that didn't go to Sunday school, certainly
was with those that did. You know what's happening? We
teach stories. And by the way, we should stop
using the word story. In our day and age, it means
fairy tale. We're not teaching them Bible stories. We're teaching
them history. We're teaching them a real record, a written
record. And we tend to teach them stories. And they see what
we do at school is real. What you do at church are stories.
What we do at school, we learn about dinosaurs and fossils and
real stuff. What do you do at church? Spiritual
things, moral things, doctrinal things, relationships. People,
we've got the idea. You wouldn't put dinosaur bones
in a glass case in a church lobby or something like that. That's
for school. We've got the idea. Oh, at Sunday
school and church, you don't teach geology, biology, astronomy,
anthropology. That's for school. You know what
happened? Because of what happened in England, the church gave up
that history to the world. We clung to the spiritual things,
the moral things, the relationships, the heavenly things, if you like.
We gave the earthly things up to the world. They captured generations,
hearts and minds, of generations of our kids, gave them a different
foundation, a different worldview. That changed the culture, and
now we wonder why we've got a problem. It's interesting to note that
one of the 300 atheists that came through the museum recently,
we had a group of 300 atheists come through. It's fascinating
who God brings to hear the gospel. But one of them wrote this afterwards.
For me, the most frightening part was the children's section
in the Creation Museum. It was this moment that I learned
the deepest lesson of my visit to the museum. It is in the minds
and hearts of our children that the battle will be fought. The
atheists know you capture their hearts and minds and we'll win
the battle. And you know why they're angry
at the Creation Museum? These people, they're bringing kids
in and they're converting them and they're influencing their
hearts and minds. People, do you know what the
church by and large did? We handed generations over to the world
and let them capture their hearts and minds. We tried to impose
the structure of Christianity on a culture without a foundation.
And now we wonder why the structure is collapsing. One Peter 315 says, always be
prepared to give an answer. Do you realize that everything
we teach in Christianity, everything is anchored in the word of God,
it's anchored in those seven seas, that's Genesis to Revelation.
And what we need to be doing is teaching everything anchored
to that history. And then we need to be saying,
what is the world doing to stop people believing that part of
the Bible right now? We need to understand what the
Genesis 3 attacks are in our day, and we need to be equipping
them, teaching them with answers so they can defend their faith
and stand on the authority of the word. See, here's the bottom line.
If God's word's true, who's the absolute authority? God. Who sets the
rules? God. But if we bring generations up
to say it's man who's the authority, who decides right and wrong man,
then all is relative. See, we've got a conflict of
two worldviews, the absolutes of Christianity versus moral
relativism. But it's really a foundational
battle. God's word versus man's word. And what we see in America
is the collapse of Christian morality, increasing moral relativism.
You know why? Because foundationally, we've
changed in this nation. It's changed in the government.
It's changed in the courts. It's changed in the public school.
We've changed from God's word to man's word. And people, it's
changed in the church. Because when much of the church
takes man's ideas of millions of years, evolutionary ideas,
add them to the Bible, reinterpret God's word, you have made man
the authority. It's the Genesis 3 attack on
our day. You know, in England, when the Church of England saw
that Penguin Books survey, that the majority of teenagers don't
believe in God, what was their response? Many of these results,
said a Church of England spokesperson, point to the great spirituality
of young people today in the churches seeking to respond through
new forms of worship alongside traditional ones. As I travel
across America and around the world, you know what I see the
church doing? Watering down the teaching of the word, increasing
entertainment, making music the focus, not the teaching of the
word, to try to attract people in, and it's not working because
they're not giving the answers the world needs. And I sum it
up for you this way with these two diagrams. Here we have the
foundation of God's word, the castle of Christianity, those
doctrines, the foundation of man's word, moral relativism,
and you see those issues up here. The Genesis 3 attack of our day
has particularly been on the history in Genesis 1 to 11. What
has much of the church done? We don't need that. It doesn't
matter. We can accommodate to the world.
We'll keep the rest of this book. We'll keep the rest of this.
and keep this structure, the gospel, the doctrines, people,
that structure needs a whole foundation to stand or it'll
collapse. And then we look up here and say, look at all the
problems in the culture. People, don't get me wrong, we need to
stand against gay marriage, abortion and so on, but they are not the
problems. They are the symptoms. For all the millions of dollars
we've spent in Christian organizations, in the church, in America, fighting
the social issues, for all the millions of dollars spent fighting
these issues, has it really worked? From a big picture perspective,
has it worked? No. And you know why? Because the
Bible does not say, go into all the world and change the culture.
The Bible says, go into all the world and what? Preach the gospel. People, here's the problem. The
atheists know, the secularists know. Hitler knew it. Give me
the kids for a generation, I'll have the culture. The secularists
know. Give me the kids, I'll have the
culture. We handed them over to them. We didn't give them
answers. We accommodated to what they
taught. The church did that. The church has done that in America.
You can believe in what the world teaches. You can believe what
you're learning at school. That's fine. Trust in Jesus.
This part of the book doesn't matter. How many times have I
heard in conservative churches? Well, Genesis is not that important.
This doesn't really matter. I thought we've already heard
tonight. All of it is the word of God. All of scripture is inspired
by God. And if we're guilty of saying
to our kids, well, this part doesn't really matter. Genesis
is not that important. What we're really saying before
a holy God is, God, I don't care about that part of your word.
And I just told my kids that we wonder why I've got a problem. You know what? We need to call
God's people back to the authority of God's word. We need to call
the church in America back to the authority of God's word.
And people, regardless of who the scholar is and how great
a Christian man they are, I like what Martin Luther said, you
can be one of the most famous Christian scholars in the world,
but we shall not depart from the authority of scripture for
their sake. That should be one of our battle cries out there.
And if it's not going to come from the leaders, it needs to
come from the people. Revolutions come from the people.
then we need to call the leaders to account in this nation. Now,
I want to close with just a brief statement here in a moment. And
my time is nearly done, but then again, a day is like a thousand
years. But I just want to mention to
you, and I trust you don't mind me doing this, but people, one
of the most important parts of our ministry today, I believe,
is one thing to come and help us understand issues. It's another
thing to say, how do I get the answers? How do I inform myself?
I just want to run through a few of our apologetic materials and
then make a statement and hand back to your leadership here.
If you haven't read the book already gone, I encourage you
to do so. There's a DVD that goes with it, and you can even
get that as a pack. People often say, what one book can I get
to help me with answers? I tell people these eight. Eight
basic books, you get a free plastic bag, and there they are. And by the way, in there you'll
find our biggest selling creation apologetic book, Answers Book
1. We also have an Answers Book 2. At the very minimum, get the
Answers Books. We also have Answers DVDs that
you can get in a pack. Kids answers books. They cover
a whole range of apologetic issues of general Bible apologetics
and creation apologetics. And we even have what's called
our answers pack that puts all those answers materials together
for you. People often say, I just need the best of everything.
There it is. The cream of the crop for teens and adults, a
free collector box. And you can sell it on eBay afterwards.
And then for children, we have basic children's packs. These books connect the Bible
to the real world and teach them how to defend their faith. And
then we put them together with others so that these are for
elementary, these are for elementary, middle school, and through to
junior high. Our museum DVD collection, the videos you saw at the Creation
Museum, you can get all those in a set. Incredible witnessing
opportunities. And if you get the two library
packs, we'll give you that free. One of my, I think, important
DVDs I did recently, The State of the Nation. And then we teach
you apologetics, ultimate proof, how to teach logic, how to understand
Christian logic. And you can get various packs
with that book. And Jason Lyle also did a series of DVDs recently
called Ultimate Apologetics. Brand new book on dinosaurs to
teach moms and dads called Dinosaurs for Kids, The Truth About Dinosaurs. If you want to see a debate between
myself, Jason Lyle, and Walt Kaiser, theologian, and Hugh
Ross, and also John Ankerberg, it was three against two, dealing
with the whole Genesis issue and see how theologians think
and the compromise in the church, man, that'll blow your mind.
But we have positive materials, creation apologetics materials
for teenagers and adults, a VBS program, apologetics one, for
next year, Egypt file. All sorts of issues that we have
available to you, like global warming, coming to grips with
Genesis, teaching Bible apologetics, one of the best books today dealing
with how do we know the Bible is true, and a series that goes
with it from one of my favorite speakers from England. And then
apologetics materials like our Answers magazine. I encourage
you to get that. It even has a little section
for children. And if you get that, we give you a free series
of DVDs as well. Apologetics is missing from our
churches. That's why I want to emphasize that. I wanted to show
you. Isn't it great? I never had any of those materials when
I grew up. Isn't it great we have them today? We have no excuse. And then I want to I want to
finish with this. I want to let you in a little secret here.
What we've really got to do, we've really got to get God's
people in the church back to the authority of the Word of
God. We have a campaign. We're starting in January, so
I'm giving you a little just forewarning here. And what we've
decided to do with this, we've often done campaigns using billboards,
TV advertisements. We're going to do this right
across the nation, and we're going to have t-shirts and all
sorts of things. And our campaign is entitled, I Am Not Ashamed,
and we have the website, IAmNotAshamed.org. And what we're going to do, can
you imagine a billboard that says, I am not ashamed, and then the topic
will be marriage, and all we're going to do is quote scripture.
He made them at the beginning, made them male and female. Abortion.
He knit me together in my mother's womb. The nation. Blessed is
the nation whose God is the Lord. Because scripture is sharper
than a two-edged sword. It's scripture that will not return
unto him void. And we're going to encourage
people across this nation to stand up and say, I'm not ashamed
to stand on the authority of the word of God. I think that
could have a big effect on this nation and it could embolden
people. And as we do that, let's also
go out there... Watch for that campaign starting
in January. As we do that, if we understand
the Genesis 3 attack on our day, maybe we all need to be Martin
Luthers tonight, and maybe symbolically, maybe not so literally, but let's
start nailing Genesis 1 to 11 on the doors of churches across
this nation, and call church and nation back to the authority
of the Word of God. Let's start a new reformation
in our culture today. I'll hand back. For more messages, articles,
and videos on the subject of conforming the church and the
family to the Word of God, and for more information about the
National Center for Family Integrated Churches, where you can search
our online network to find family integrated churches in your area,
log on to our website, ncfic.org.
Our Declining Church and Culture - the Genesis Connection
Series Sufficiency of Scripture 2009
| Sermon ID | 41411135146 |
| Duration | 1:02:15 |
| Date | |
| Category | Conference |
| Language | English |
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