Still, from all the events that happened from last week to this week, there's another undercurrent that's going on that I wanted to give us tools and an arms about, and I think I can't do it in one, so, but we can do it. We'll be in Ephesians four first, if you want to turn there. And this is just a practical, things to show you why we do what we do. Why do we preach expository? Well, we get a book at a time, we go through it a verse at a time, so that God brings up the topics. If not, I would cherry pick, I would. There'd be things I would avoid, there'd be things I'd wanna talk about, that'd be going out of the way, but this way, I pick a book, and then whatever God has brought up, that is for us. That is the best and healthiest way that I have seen from the scriptures to go at it. You know, going and letting God pick, letting God lead, and I mean, in doing that, I don't know how many times over the years I've been here, I've been just so shocked that the right verse at the right time and the right circumstance, that God has it right there for us. God is amazing. But sometimes we need to do a little bit of a topical, and that's what I want to do here in that we have a phrase that we say around here. It's been kind of our tradition. It would be at, you know, everywhere in the Bible is. absolutely true. It's not just something that we say, though. It should be something that we believe. I mean, it's not just something that we assent to, like, oh yeah, that's true. Do we mean it? Do we let it affect us? Do we let it guard us? Do we let it guide us? Do we use that phrase that every word in the Bible is absolutely true? Do we use it as we look at the news, as we watch things that are coming around? Do we use it as a filter to take everything that's coming down and saying, does that fit within the parameters of the Bible that I say is true, that God gave me? Are we using it as that forefront in our mind? It's supposed to be. As Christians, if God's word is true, which the Bible says, let God be true in every man a liar, And so we're gonna take and trust him over and above all. But I know, because I live in the same world that you live in. I was trained in a public school. I live in the world, work with guys for 40 years and all that, so it's like, I know the influence that creeps in, and you begin to like, eh, no. We need to fight for things that keep them in the forefront. So Ephesians 4.4, or sorry, Ephesians 4.14. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive us. This is the warning from scripture that we should be aware of. He expects us to grow and mature. Don't you be children anymore. Children are innocent for a reason. They don't know anything. We teach them, right? We teach them how they learn by experience. They begin to grow. They gain knowledge. They get wisdom if they listen to instruction. And we read books. We read stories. We pour it into them. But there's a time for you to grow up and quit being a child. and realize you have to make decisions, you have to do it. Don't be tossed to and fro about every wind of doctrine. There's doctrine out there that's good. There's doctrine out there that's bad. How do we determine it? Well, which one is absolutely true that goes along with God's word? That's the one we want to hold to, right? And so whenever I think of anything or see anything or hear anything, that's the filter I run it back to. Does the Bible agree with that? What does the Bible say about that? How can I discern that and interpret that with what the Bible says? I don't care what all the empirical evidence is or all the stories that they're telling. Does the Bible say that that is true? Because it goes on to tell us that there's slight of men. There's some guys that are pretty crafty. They'll pull one over on you if they can. If they can make a buck on it, even more so. If they can get power from it, they're going to do it. Cunning craftiness. But they are sharp. God made men in His image and we're smart. Some of them use it for good, some of them use it for evil. Sadly, more of them use it for evil than use it for good, right? You think of all these scams and all these different things that thieves do, you're like, if you just put the effort into a real job, dude, if you would just work on something that was good and decent and honest, why don't you? No, there's craftiness. And they lie and wait to deceive. They are ready to deceive us. So that should be our attitude as we go into anything in the world, that God is telling you, he's like, my words, the truth, and the standards you go by, everybody else is lying to you until you can prove it with scripture. But sadly, most of the time, I think, in the world, we bring it the opposite way. It's like, well, maybe I have to make some excuse for God's Word, or I have to bend it to make it fit, or is that in this context? No, we need to kind of pull it around. 2 Timothy 3.16. Some of these are core. But we need to see it. 2 Timothy 3.16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Again, how many, how much? All scripture is given by inspiration of God. It is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. It's inspired by God, it's profitable for doctrine. Doctrine is teaching, instruction, guidance. And so God has given us his word to give us a teaching, to give us instruction, to guide us in matters. For reproof, sometimes, Tells us, hey, you're doing wrong, buddy. You need to turn around for correction. Set you straight. The Proverbs have a lot of that. Don't be like a fool. Be like the wise man. We're gonna see it. He's giving you two options. Pick one. For instruction in righteousness, he's gonna tell us how to behave. Now look at chapter four, verse two. Preach the word. Be instant in season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and sound doctrine. He says you're gonna use sound doctrine. You're gonna use the teaching of the Bible. to preach the gospel and he tells us what season we're supposed to do it in, which season? Oh, in season, out of season, so all the time. He covers his bases. And he says we can rebuke, we can tell people wrong. Now we don't want to do it in an offensive way, we want to do it in a loving way. Hey, that's not right. God's word says. I was listening to a testimony of John MacArthur today and they were talking about when he was on Larry King. I don't know if any of you remember when that was because there'd been a TV preacher on who'd been given all these opportunities to share the gospel, never did. John MacArthur gave the gospel every opportunity, and even when they were throwing things at him to really get him up, he'd just be like, well. But the Bible says, never shook him, never rattled him, didn't get in a yelling match, just kind of like, well, my answer's always the Bible. The Bible says, and take it back that way, a good example for us. With longsuffering, say it a thousand times, you know, Jesus tells us to turn the cheek. All those times to the point where it's 70 times seven, you get some raw cheeks, but we also have some longsuffering. But we should know our doctrine. Verse three, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. There's gonna be a lot of false coming in that he already warned us about. But after their own lust, they shall heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. They're gonna tell me something that makes me feel good. Tells me something that makes me feel positive and encourages me and who I am and what I do and the whole self-help and I'm doing all right and I'm okay and you're better than everybody else and it's a power and positive message that goes out Those are fine, but it's not always what's right. And so we have to be aware of that. John 7, Luke 4, Mark 12, Mark 11, Mark 4, Mark 1, Matthew 22, Matthew 7, and a few others. It talks about Jesus and his doctrine. Jesus gives the doctrine. He says, I'll tell you the doctrine of the Pharisees, that they're hypocritical, and then they do it. I'll tell you my doctrine, which is love and patience and kindness. And he goes through, and he lays it all out, and the people are astonished by his doctrine. And man, his doctrine of the resurrection, his doctrine of this, they're always talking about the truth and the instruction that he's giving. And that's what Christianity's built off of, right? Christ's instruction. The doctrine of the Bible is called Bibliology. Bibliology, it sounds like it's Bibliology. It's the Bible, it's God's word. It's God breathed, God had given it, inspired men, they write it, it fits together, that's why we got what, 66 books over 1,500 years written by four different authors. It all compiles it all together from all kinds of backgrounds. And then we're to interpret it correctly, use the Bible to interpret the Bible. There's the doctrine of God, which is called theology. That's where we study God's attributes, how God reveals himself to man. There's the doctrine of Christ, which is called Christology. He tells us about his name, his nature, his life, his humiliation, his sacrifice, his crucifixion, his resurrection, his exaltation. It goes through and gets all these in about him. There's the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. It's called pneumatology. It's the third person of the Trinity, his past work, his present work, his future work, his gifts. The blasphemy against him, there's a lot of things you could study. There's the study of man from the Bible, it's called anthropology. There's the study of salvation, it's called soteriology. There's the study of the church, ecclesiology. There's the study of angels, angelology, or we call it Tim Tormund. No, sorry. Have you figured it out yet, Tim? Wise answer, wise answer. She's sitting right there. There's the study of last things, eschatology. There's Isrenar that we can be like, oh, how does that fit? They're talking about something. Does that follow the right teaching of salvation, of soteriology? Is that right? Or is the Holy Spirit really that way? What does the Bible say? And so we're checking and balancing. That's why we have these things. Whether you knew it was that organized or not, it is. We can come and we can do that. So it's the things that were instructed to us as doctrine. Things we know, core belief, the ones I just listed, those are core things that we should know and know about. Let's go core, core belief, theology, how God reveals himself. The first thing we always list is general revelation. Through the glories of his creation. That's how God shows himself to us. It's the cover of the book I would use as an example. Romans 1 20 talks about the invisible things from the creation that are clearly seen. They talk about his godhood. Reveal his nature. It tells his eternal power and his deity. Through what we can see and witness in the world just by observing his creation, the fingerprints of God. One of the things I was in Edinburgh with, The one that's Pentecostal say that it's not a Trinity, it's a God who pretends to be three different people. And I was talking about, one of my arguments was the fingerprints of God, that we have three on everything. Time, past, present, future. You know, calendar, you know, planting season. There's plant, there's the growth, and there's the harvest. I mean, it just goes on and on and on. You could do an atom, you know, the nucleus and the core and the other thing that spins around. You've got all the ... Water has three states. It's liquid, solid, gas. We have matter, liquid, solid, gas. We have all these things that have three all over it, the fingerprints of God that are there to show it. It's creation. Look at Psalm 19. One we know, but I want to hit these. Psalm 19 in verse 1 says, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. The firmament's the vault of heaven. I'm praying for a good dark night on the Feast of Booths campout, so we have a good light show. To be able to look in to see and to watch it. I mean, this church has such an amazing view of the sky. God displays himself in that. I mean, I look at him every time I go outside with the dog. It's captivating. For my 60 years, I go outside and look at the stars. Look at Psalm 8. Verse three, Psalm 8, verse three. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that thou hast visited him. For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet. That the heavens declare God's handiwork, show his handiwork. That the moon and stars are there to show it. They show the bigness, they show the vastness, they show the beauty, the inspire wonder. It's all out there to kind of be like, you look at the night sky and you see how big and wonderful and vast and beautiful and God's like, that's a little bit what you can see of me. Job 38, let's turn to that one. Turn to the left. Job 38, verse six. It says, whereupon, this is God asking Job after this whole book, you know, right, and he's talking out of the whirlwind. Job 38, verse six. He's saying here, when I was creating the world, morning stars, which are heavenly beings, and the sons of God, which are heavenly beings, And you just have to get that this is kind of God being poetic, because this is Judaistic parallelism that's part of their poetry when you say something twice in a little bit different way. He's saying, when I created them, they are watching me do this, as I put it on a display for them, they stood in awe and wonder. And how many angels does it say cheered and sang? All. So Lucifer's in this group. This is before the fall when he creates the world. And just to show you how practical it is. And so I was going through and I had all this ready and I get a call and they're like, hey, what do you think about the gap theory? And I'm like, you know, that they make verse one and there's this war and it all tears up and it's all going. I'm like, no, it says all the creation, you know, that Lucifer's there cheering. I don't think it happens then. It's not until after man, there's some time after man that Lucifer falls. I know we've all heard this if you have a Scofield Bible and I think it has it in the notes there and it talks about a whole race, hominids, and you have death and decay and all this stuff before the fall. Can't be. We're going to say the Bible is absolutely true. We have to take the Bible in the order in which he puts it. And this is first, Job 38, oldest book here, goes before that, and it says that all the angels were there. They all sing and they shout for joy. It's before Lucifer's fall. It's God showing his creative power. We get to see it again at the second creation when he makes the heavens and the earth again, the second time we are there. And we're gonna be going ooh and ah, just like these angels were, and we're gonna be shouting for joy as we see his power on display. And he makes it bigger and better, and we're gonna rejoice. So. How long do they watch this show? Six days, at least, right? Because we know in Genesis 1, he did it for six days that he has this, and they're cheering, because that's the creation, right? And so you can't separate, well, no, he took a big break in the middle. No, I mean, Andrews and Genesis has built a whole ministry on the ex nihilo and all that stuff, so that's 24 hours, I believe. We get the detailed account of this. Here, this is the poetic statement of how the angels or heavenly beings rejoiced to watch God do this, but in Genesis 1, let me go ahead and flip that way, is where God gives us the details. Day one, he makes light. Can you imagine the oohs and aahs? We all like a light show, and God's like, Day and night, day two, the atmosphere and he separates the water. Day three, land and plants. Day four, sun, moon, stars and seasons and months. And then day five, the fowl and the water creatures. Day six, the land animals. And that always sounds funny in my head. If you've ever heard Ken Ham say that so much, it's land animals. He says it funny. But in my head, it always sounds that way. The land animals and man. Look at verse 26 of chapter one. It says, and God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness. This is already implying the trinity here, the hour. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he him. Male and female created he them. Man and women. are God's highest creation. He gives them dominion, he makes them, it's the crowning achievement after all this where he makes the stars and the space and the planets and the sun and the moon and all this, and he's like, the animals and the fish, now here's man. And we get the benefit of being made in his image, an image bearer. That's what makes, when you watch someone shot, marring the image of God, that's something that resonates within our soul. Wrong, that's wrong, that's why it hits us so hard. Man's given dominion. That means he's to reign and to rule over God's creation. So he makes all this beautiful wonder and he gives it to us. This is probably when Lucifer's like, I wanted that job. I don't want Adam to have it. And that's when he rustles away the title deed and you get to Revelation 4 and 5, Revelation 4 and 5 where Jesus has taken it back. So it begins to make sense as you lock it all together because of doctrine. So doctrinally, so far, throughout the Bible as we've listed, doctrinally we have These beings, we have God, who is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, the highest, God of God, Lord of Lords, King of Kings. We have heavenly beings, which is broken down to morning stars, sons of God, angels, cherubs, seraphs, archangels, guardian angels, living creatures. They worship at God's throne. There's the host, which is God's army. There's the divine council of Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32. There's the watchers from Daniel. There's 24 elders that show up in Revelation four and five as well. I think those are the church, because I think the rapture had happened at chapter four and we go in there, but they're in heaven. There's spiritual powers and principalities that Paul tells us in Ephesians that, yeah, there's dark ones, but we know that there's the opposite. There's also good ones. And so there's all kinds of realms. We're just usually lazy and we're like angels. Angels is a job title, messengers. That's just kind of generic. We're supposed to be messengers too. So angels have that, we're supposed to be messengers, because we all have the great commission, go ye and spread the gospel, and so they were. So technically, all those creatures that live in heaven are called the Elohim. You can look in Exodus 20 and Exodus 82, where it's interpreted little gods. God is an Elohim because he lives in heaven and we usually know him by that name Elohim it also hints to his trinity but there's other creatures up there and I know if I say something you're like it sounds weird get with me I know I'm going fast but I'm trying to get a lot in here but that's it's like there's the heavenly beings We can call them heavenly or Elohim. And then there's us earthlings, all of us who live on earth. And that is like everything that lives in the sea. God just keeps these, like there's a lot out there and we still find new stuff in the sea all the time. So he says, everything that lives in the sea, that counts ones that breathe water and ones that breathe air. You know, however you want to break it all down. There's birds that fly in the air. He breaks that down. There's living creatures, that's everything from cows to bears to horses to dogs to raccoons, cats, that's everything. Then he goes down there and there's a whole bunch of insects. He calls them creeping things. He goes, I'm just going to call them creepy. They're insects. They breathe through the exoskeleton. They go through their skin, bugs, germs, and all kinds of things that aren't living creatures in that way. He breaks them down into kinds. Again, this is answered in Genesis pretty quick. Then there's man, male and female. That's Bible doctrine of the creatures that God has made. They're generally in those categories. And mind you, at this point in time, this list is because everything's good. At this point in time, everything I've listed is good. God's good order. After God's good order, the devil falls, and he tries to bastardize everything that God has made. He tries to corrupt it. He tries to pervert it. He tries to run at it. He pollutes it. We have a Nephilim, an angel-man hybrid. There's a Rephiam, which is a giant and a man hybrid. There's called the Shadim, or the shades, which are dead kings, probably the Old Testament equivalent to a demon. There's satyrs that are in the Bible, or caesareums, what's in Isaiah 13, Isaiah 34, and Leviticus 17. There's something called Lilith. It's called a night monster that's in the Bible. There's a whole thing outside the Bible that a myth that they've written up around that name, but the, Lilith is in there. There's a Yimin, which is a howling creature. There's 10 in them. That's dragons or sea monsters. There's a Okum, which is the howling creatures or demons. There's Daimonia, which is the demons. There's unclean spirits. There's devils. There's fallen angels. There's the beast, which is probably a hybrid. There's these frogs that come out of the mouths of these other creatures. There's a locust-like creature in the book of Revelation. There's kind of like a chimera, where things are getting mixed together in the last days, kind of like the days of Noah. And so it all lists these perversions that work on the other side. So there are corruptions, perversions. There are attacks on God's good creation. and there are attacks on his image bearers. I hate the image bearer. Let's attack them and make them confused in who they are, what they are, and genetically. That's what we're in the throes of in our world today, right? Who's a boy, who's a girl, and all that stuff. Let's back up to one point in the creation doctrine, back in Genesis 1. Genesis 1 and verse 14. So then God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so. And God made two great lights and a great light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night and he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. He makes what we see in the night sky. And God tells us early here in Genesis 1 why he makes them. Verse 14, lights. To separate lights. As a matter of fact, there's two. There's a main light and a lesser light. We have the sun and we have the moon. For where? What are these lights for, the sun and the moon? They're for Earth, right? They're for us. It's called luminaries. It's like if you went to the luminary section of Lowe's, there are gonna be all the light section. You can feel the heat go up in the summer. You go, why do they have them all on? It's just that much hotter as they go by. Luminaries, that's what we have. I brought my moon just because it is a nice, good night light as it glows. Nope, it just turned fall on us. It's a good luminary, the night light of the moon. There's days when you can go out. This is like daytime. You can run around. Wars have been battled, fought all around it and about where it's going to be and how it's going to be. And so you can plant a seed, which they do, and God puts it in this order, and then tomorrow they'll still be okay. And so you can't have a day age where a day is a thousand years. You can't plant a seed and a thousand years later, wait for a sun to come for it to grow. God's smart in how he does this. He's like, you can't have that. It's 24 hours. And he even tells us, it's an evening and a morning. How do we reckon time in an evening and a morning? Well, this is the first day, this is the fourth day, this is the fifth day. And so, the second thing he says, well, it has to be a luminary. I'm gonna let that go, because it looks cool. And verse 14, the next part it says is that he made them for signs. What's a sign mean? It's a signal. It's a distinguishing mark, a remembrance. It can also be a token, or they'll talk about An omen or a warning, it depends on where it's used. Like, ooh, this is a sign, it's a warning. Just how the word's used. At night, we have phases. And we can seasonally track where we are because of it. We have these signs and signals. We have the stars, and we're the moon, and we're the planets. And where we are, we can say, oh, this is what season we are in. And we know where we are. We have the light, and we have these signs. And then he even tells us, I'm going to give you specific seasons. And we're going to be able to map those seasons. You'll know a place and time for the feasts and for the meetings and when we're going to do it. And I give you a sign and a signal to tell you when it's going to come. When to plant the corn, we use that with a farmer's almanac if you buy it. Plant your corn on this day because the moon will be in this phase and the peas take so long. People have been watching, they've martyred it down and God said I gave you time for signs and seasons and when to do these things. We also map it out to days and years. We have a solar calendar. Jews had a lunar calendar because from the sun point of view, it's just always the same. Well, there goes the sun. There goes the sun. There goes the sun. We don't see it. Stars, they're slow when they change as it moves around. We're getting closer to when Orion's belt will be visible again. That's the main one I know that comes up in the winter and we can watch him as he gets lower throughout the winter and it gets ready for spring. But then you can track the moon, how it comes. You can tell if it's the beginning of the month, at the end of the month, or the middle of the month, by whether it's a new moon, or a quarter moon, or last part of a quarter moon, or waxing and waning, and all. You can map it all. So basically, God says, I put you all these things in the sky as a giant clock. So you know where you are, when you are, I was gonna have your meetings with me when I've asked you to have Passover when I've asked you to have the Feast of Booze what I've asked you to have I'm gonna have all this for you and that's why they'd have somebody watch for the sign of the season so the moon is like the second hand on this giant clock you know you got a quarter moon full moon last quarter and the new moon when the month begins when the month ends in the middle it's a faster change look at the Psalm 19 again we were there earlier but Psalm 19 and verse 4. Psalm 19 verse 4 says, He's speaking of the stars and stuff and says their line has gone out Through all the earth their words to the end of the world and them hath he set the tabernacle of the sun So the sun runs through the vault of the sky verse 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber So I don't know how a Jewish wedding was we always have the doors open up the bride comes apparently they had the guy come And so he says, this is what the son is like. He runs onto the scene. And then what's he do? He's like a strong man. So he comes out of his chamber and he rejoices as a strong man to run his race. So in the morning he pops up, there he is. Then you watch him run all across the sky. His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it. And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. He goes all across the sky and nothing stops him. And he runs strong 24 hours and he dips down the other side. And so the son runs that course. I just think it's God's genius how he built this big clock. And so who are the signs, the season, the days, and the years indicators for? Earth, right? Man. Mankind, the Earth. That's Bible doctrine. The sun, the moon, the stars, all the heavenly hosts that are up there is for us. For our signs, for our seasons, to know where we are so we can know when to meet with God, when he tells us when the Sabbath comes, and so we can do all this. It's all up there for him. We need this in our core knowledge. I think right now we need to have this refreshed in our core knowledge. Because every word in the Bible is absolutely true, right? And we hold that, we believe that. Man is made in God's image. It's his highest creation. With the sun, moon, and the stars and the signs for seasons and for lights. It's for here on us, for us, here for us on the earth. Heaven's declared God's glory, it's his splendor, it's his reputation, it's his riches, it's his abundance. It's his vast uncomprehendableness as we see it. Is there an edge or something beyond it? I don't know, you'll keep yourself up all night trying to imagine what's past space and God's like, nothing. And I can hold it all in the span of my hand. I can measure it with my fingers, the scripture says. Isaiah 40 says it. It's beautiful and it's fantastic. And in God's Bible timeline, if you started at Genesis 1 and we started counting all the birthdays and going through it, Gerald and I just met with a guy that went through and did all that. He says 2025 is the year 6026, so 6,026. So the world is 6,000 years old and he can prove it all kinds of different ways and he'll take the time to tell you. And he'll show you all the different ways scripturally how this all lines up, but that's the year we're in. Is that what the world tells us? That the world is 6,026 years old? No. So who do we believe? Do we believe the world? I heard it argued this afternoon. Well, God doesn't lie. It looks old. And so would God be lying to us if he made it appear old? Maybe he made it look like it was supposed to look. How do we know? It wasn't supposed to be old what young earth would look like. We've only seen the fallen one. God wants us to look at the sky. He wants us to study the sky. He wants us to stand in awe of the sky. He wants him to get the praise for the sky. He wants us to study and observe and to look And we might even wax poetic like David in Psalm 8. What is man, you know, that you, me, and the son of man that you would consider me. He's ordained these things, he's fixed them, they're set up purposeful. Every word in the Bible's absolutely true. We should believe it. And if we do, there's not life on other planets. Because they're not for that purpose. They are for signs and for seasons for us. Man is the chief glory. There's not like some other creature out there that's light years ahead of us, and we're just some stupid backward thing. Backward world, that's not true. There's not. And because God doesn't tell us there are, he doesn't, because there's not, because he gives the focus is you in all kinds of way. It's part of, it's, let's go back. In the heavenly realms, out of those 15 things he listed, he told us about them. Did he tell us everything about them? No, I'm curious about the living creature and the watchers and all that. I'm curious about all that. All he tells me is like, there's some that are out there. Don't pray to them. They are on your side and they'll assist you. So he tells us about them, but do you have something? Yeah, he flips the script, right? Worship the sun, worship the star, worship the... Yep, and God has something where he addresses every one of those, don't do that, don't do that. He tells us about everything in the earth, he says don't worship that either. Even when we say the word universe, una, one, verse, single spoken sentence, we have one single spoken sentence. I think that single spoken sentence was, let there be. And God creates the universe and it flies out, it's right there. It's made as a clock for the earth as we go through a home, a vast space of home that he puts us on in a world where we have plenty of room. We talk about overpopulation, it's just because everybody lives in a city. Drive through Georgia, you'll be like, there's plenty of room for everybody. That's just one state, you know, and it's along the highway. How big is it and vast in between? To keep seasons, to keep months, to keep days, to keep years, signs and indicators for man. In Psalm 102, I'm going to quote these to you just because for time, it talks about creation dying. It's wearing out, it's running down like a garment would wear out, like your shoe, like your clothes. In Isaiah 51, I've got this one, Mark. Do not skip, look up, so let's look it up. I knew how I'd be at the end, and so I made myself one. Isaiah 51. Isaiah 51 in verse six says, lift up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the earth beneath, for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke. and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in the like manner, but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. It's like if you come to God for salvation, you will live forever. The universe is dying. The universe is waxing away. The universe is like smoke. When we look back in the millennia in the future, we're gonna look back and like, wow, remember that little bitty time back in nursery school where it was all this, I mean, it's gonna seem so long ago. It's like, we're gonna pass away. Romans 8 says that it's dying as well, and they observe it, that it groans, all creation groans. And we see this, we observe it. Supernova is a star that dies and explodes. In 1054, they had one that blew up that created the Crab Nebula, but it was so bright it was invisible during the daytime for an extended amount of time as a star went nuclear and then blew up. And we still observe them. There's the white dwarfs, too. These are ones that explode. They make nebula, so whenever you see a nebula in space, they say it's from a star that died. They have Newtonian stars, the famous Newtonian, or no, sorry, neutron stars. Yeah, the most famous one's Jimmy, Jimmy Neutron. No, but they have neutron stars and black holes. These are stars that they say collapse in on themselves, and you can only see them with an X-ray. It was a very bad Disney movie. I remember seeing the black hole. So our sins, when man sinned, it affected more than just us. Yeah, man died. He started to age, got old, and men die. One out of one, right? And creation began to die and be marred. And not just the earth where man lives, but the sun and the moon. And all the other plants begin to die and to burn out and to fall apart and begin to fling. It begins to wear out. It begins to die a heat loss death. You know, all these things that science talks about. It goes back to the, man was made for man and man's dominion all falls apart because man sinned. And so the doctrine of every word in the Bible is absolutely true. Tells us that God is the creator. Not evolution, not blind chance. special creation, that man is the highest creating being made in God's image, that there is spirit realm creatures, but the good ones stay good, and they don't show themselves this way. Stars and moons are made for man, made for Earth. The universe is a victim of man's sins, so there is no other life out there, no matter how much they purport it and say things about it. Stars are for us, not for Kryptonians. That's a fiction story based off Moses. It literally is. Instead of putting him in a bulrush, they put him in a rocket and sent him to Earth, instead of putting him in the Nile. The authors were Jewish. He made it in six days, and it's only 6,000 years old. Star Wars is a pretty cool story, but it was not a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. There's just stars. There's not people. There's not battles going forth. There's no Wookiees. Sorry, Judah. He likes him a good Wookiee. So there's no being more advanced than us. in the physical universe in that way, in the 3D realm, I'll say. And if they're dying, they hate us, because Adam sinned on a planet far, far away, and they're all dying, and their suns are burning up, and their civilization are crashing, and they have no hope. They have no hope, because Hebrew 10 tells us Jesus was offered once and for all for sin. He's not going to every other little planet, hopping around, dying for their sins. Bible says no, and if every word in the Bible is absolutely true, God doesn't lie. Jesus died once and for all. He's not dying for other planets. This is where soteriology or the doctrine of salvation and the doctrine of Christology comes into play. Jesus became a man. He became, he took on the form of a servant of no reputation, Philippians 2. Part of the humiliation of Christ that he be made one of his creatures, man. He was not made an angel. He was not made a cherub. He was not made a Nephilim. He was not made a satyr. He was not made a seraph. He's not an alien gray. He's not a Nordic. He's not any of these things either. He was a man and he died once. And the scriptures reiterates this time and time again. It talks about as the priesthood, he went after he redeems us and he sat down. The priesthood is satisfied. Hebrews 10, 12, his work is done. I'm no longer saving anymore, I've done the saving. Tetelestai, the debt is paid in full. Salvation is full and free for all it's meant to. Men and women on earth. He says men, boys and girls. Not aliens, not Martians, not Kryptonians, not angels, not chimeras. In Revelation 7 it talks about the lamb that sits on the midst of the throne. That's the most shocking thing in the universe. When we look on the throne, the throne of God has a man sitting on it because he loved us enough to come down and die for us. that he would suffer and put himself within that humiliation throughout all eternity. I think some of us will be amazed throughout all eternity as we look upon him, especially when we see the scars and we try to appreciate the pain. A man, Jesus Christ, sits on the throne, all else is lies. Doctrine makes this easy. If we have doctrine, we're able to put these things in the right category and say, well, that can't be, that can't be, that can't be. No matter how many lights and bells and whistles and Things they show us, and so God's the creator, it's not evolution. Purge it from our mind. Is that easy? No, because they keep it in front of us all the time and everything, right? So we have to work at it. Do people see stuff? I think so. That's why I knew it'd be two weeks, and so we'll pick that up next week. And so we'll talk about what that might be, but again, and then how to use some of this practical doctrine knowledge on how to interpret what is going on so that you can expose it. When they start using their words of faith, and they're using it a lot because they have their words of faith, they sell it as it's solid, it's rock, they put everything behind it, but it's faith. Well, we have faith founded on God's word that can be demonstrated to be 100% true because God is true, because God gives us prophecies and all these other things, statistics to show that I am him. I demonstrate it. I show it time and time again. I'll answer a prayer for a girl who's trying to pass the test. I'll intercede on a nation. I'll tell the world who's desperate that God loves them enough that he would wake them up through the death of one of his own to try to shake people and get them spiritually awake Seems like we're in the midst of a revival.