The subject tonight is the 60th article of our confession of faith. God sustains the global climate. It's a doctrinal statement that opposes the worldview of climate change. Seems to be an odd thing to discuss, but it's necessary. It's an article that we added to our Confession of Faith and the revision of the 1644-46 Confession of Faith, London Confession of Faith, Baptist Confession of Faith. Now that article Bear with me, I think it's important. The church, the brethren that met in committee thought it was important. And so please listen very carefully. You may be confused. I'm no different than probably a lot of men in my position. I hope I hit the target. I sometimes wonder if we are, but Lord, just praise directing us. This article reads, God sustains the global climate. The modern, and in parentheses, 20th and 21st centuries closed, the modern man-made climate change movement commonly known as global warming, is a lie. The Lord set the seasons in their places, declaring that while the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease. Therefore, There is no such thing as man-made climate change. And three scriptures footnoted to that oracle. So listen carefully. We've tried to have discussions with others along the way, and it takes a little bit of time to develop enough to bring us all into the same page, and we're trying to do that tonight. We're living in a day, believe it or not, when it's almost unlawful to publicly deny climate change. That's how seriously this issue is. The numbers that support this doctrine are increasing and they take it very seriously. So we should also take this matter very seriously, but for another reason than the world has. The Bible tells us that the scheme, the schema, the fashion or present form of this world is passing away in 1 Corinthians 7.31. Evolution, globalism, and climate change are all part of the fashion of this present age or world system. It directly contradicts God and his word. In a single statement, this is the doctrine of the world. Let me make it. It touches on three things, evolution, globalism, and climate change regulation. Man, through his natural reason, concludes that since the origination of this world was by pure chance, evolution, then man alone must unite together globalism, to do all that he can do to help ensure that this world continues to exist for posterity via climate change regulation. Such an expression represents the wisdom of this world and is a complete rejection of the divine revelation. This is foolishness with God. First Corinthians 1 20. It ought to be foolishness to every child of God. It is certain that the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. God is not honored as the creator Because he's not, he gives up man to follow after his vain imaginations. Though man claims he is improving, humanity has not become better, but worse. But for the day, for the time of the history of Noah's day, Mankind has never been so corrupt, defiled, morally putrid. Revelation 11, 18, I would refer you to that. Yes, we have read of societies, particularly, I wanna think of those in scripture, we have read of societies, Sodom and Gomorrah, in Genesis 19, 13. Nineveh, in Jonah 3, verse four. The nations, six of them in particular, that lived in the land of Canaan, that were put out of the land, dispossessed by the Lord in various ways. We have read of societies that have worshiped creation and the creature rather than God, but not on a world scale as we're witnessing today. No, it's not been like that before. And Jesus said in Luke 17, 26, As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. In the last days, the global society of men and women, which are fashioned after the lusts of this world, They are completely unregulated, marked by having unnatural lusts, one, two, toward another. Now you can read that, what Paul says about this society that we are in, in the last days, and that's the grim picture in 2 Timothy 3, one through four. Romans chapter one though, I want you to turn there, beginning at verse 20. reading through verse 24, gives the spiral downward morally of mankind. I've already said these things, but I want to read the scripture in Romans chapter one, beginning at verse 20. For the invisible things of him, of God, from the creation of the world are clearly seen. being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain, meaning useless. in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible men and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things, wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. And you could go on, but it's a downward spiral. The saints of God today are witnessing, and this has to do with climate change, the saints today are witnessing the sudden radical upsurge of a new global society. Evolution and climate change are part of the doctrines of this new world order. Or as it is otherwise called, you hear it all the time, as it is referred to as globalism. Man has usurped the place of God by thinking that the destiny of the world is in his hands. He is implementing policies on a global scale that affects population growth, of which abortion and euthanasia are a part. This whole scheme is the globalists' attempt to reduce the size of man's carbon footprint. The globalists assume, they assume from a godless viewpoint that since most or all of Earth's problems are direct consequences of man's actions, then if man's impact on the Earth can be minimized, the Earth, its people, and its climate all should improve. You've listened at all to what, if you've listened at all to what the globalists say, man is the reason for all of these problems, scorching heat in the summers. I can't remember the term they used this year, this past winter, they'll probably use it again, when remember the deep freeze went across the United States, remember that? That's man's fault. droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, rising of sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice, diseases and air pollution. I'm not denying that the actions of man can adversely affect some areas. I'm not denying that. But I am denying, and I believe this church would as we consider this, that it reaches to a global scale. And that's where the question really lies here. Is climate change real? Is it possible? Is it true that the world can become better if man simply reduces his carbon footprint on the earth? Will burning less fossil fuels, eating more greens and less meat, these are serious things. Limiting family sizes, the numbers of the family, in a family. Countries have been doing this for a long time. Eliminating the elderly and disabled because they lack a certain qualified quality of life. Moving everybody into the cities. Can this fix, can these things, will it fix, can it be fixed by man? It seems to me that like evolution, climate change pushes God further from the minds of men. How is that? According to the scriptures, and that's our concern, catastrophic events are acts of God, judgments designed either to move whole societies of natural man, human beings to repentance. But what I mean by that is reining them in from becoming exceedingly wicked. When they go beyond that point, God destroys a society. He'll destroy a city. That's the testament of the scriptures. Or he'll do that or he'll destroy completely that society, that city, that area. I want you to consider, first of all, that the Bible teaches that the Lord, not man, causes droughts and famines, pestilences and diseases, winds and storms and earthquakes. If we consider, for example, the nation of Egypt during the time when the Israelites were in bondage to them, all of those plagues water to blood, frogs, lice, diseases upon beast and man, hail, locusts, thick darkness, and even the death of the firstborn of Egypt were a result of God's judgment to move Egypt to repent and do what was the will of God, which was to release the people of God so that they could go out and serve him. The pattern of scripture is that God brings general judgments. upon men through means of natural disasters so that they repent from their societal immorality. It hasn't got anything to do with coming to faith in Christ. The gospel does that. These judgments are God's way of reigning in the wickedness of man. Man naturally is bent to sin. The Lord, through those means, natural disasters, the Lord might also send a messenger to warn them of impending judgment. You could read Jonah chapter three for yourself and find out that's the case. I think most of you know that enough. He sent the prophet Jonah into the city. Now Jonah took a long way around, but he went. And he told them, he went three days in that city. It was a large city of 120,000 children that didn't know the left hand from the right. That's how large this place was. And he was to tell them if they didn't repent that God was going to destroy that city. And they repented. They didn't come to Christ. They didn't come to the God of Israel. They turned from their wickedness and immorality. That was God's purpose upon them. And that's what he does in these judgments. In Joseph's day, a couple of Pharaoh's servants, and notice how this works, a couple of Pharaoh's servants began to have dreams. These dreams, the Lord used to elevate Joseph to a place of great authority. And Joseph had said this to Pharaoh, the dreams of Pharaoh is one. God has showed Pharaoh what he is about to do. In Genesis, I think that was Genesis 41, verse 25, and verses 38 through 40, Pharaoh said unto his servants, about Joseph, can we find such a one as this? A man in whom the spirit of God is. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, for as much as God has showed thee all this, that there is none so discreet and wise as thou art, thou shalt be over my house. And according to my word, I'm sorry, according to thy word shall all my people be ruled. Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. By these dreams, but there was more to it than that. The dreams were telling of seven good years, seven hard years, seven plenteous years, seven years of famine, terrible famine. Through Joseph's direction, time of plenty put Egypt into a predominant place among all the other nations. The time of famine was used, was what God caused, the time of famine was what caused Jacob, and his family to come down into Egypt, discover that Joseph was alive, and to preserve them through that famine. Genesis 42, verses one through three. When Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, why do you look upon one another? He said, behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt. Get you down thither and buy for us from thence, that we may live and not die, and Joseph's 10 brethren. went down to buy corn in Egypt. At the end of all that, they went down, the whole family of Jacob went down into Egypt because of a famine. And as best I could tell, the reason God brought that famine was to do this very thing. He caused it. To preserve his people, to accomplish his word concerning them. The Lord sends the stormy winds and seas, earthquakes, plagues, and pestilence against men. Not one time have I ever read in scripture that a man was the cause of any of these things, not one. We take that for granted, but don't because this is a serious matter. We're talking about who's in control here, God or men. In 2 Chronicles 7, verse 12 and 13, The Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain. Or if I command the locusts to devour the land. Notice what the Lord does, not man. Or if I send pestilence among my people. That's what the Lord does. In Psalm, turn to Psalm 107, and read, we'll, let me see here real quick. Let me just read verse, begin at verse 23. I've got this duplicated. 23 through 25. They that go down to the sea in ships, In other words, they're going out into the water, into the deep, that do business in great waters. These, what? They see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves thereof. Verse 29. He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. That's what the Lord does. A man can't do that. In Hebrews chapter 12, there, earthquakes, whose voice then shook the earth, and he still does that, but now he is promised, saying yet once more, I shake not only the earth, but also heaven. In Psalm, again, 89 verses eight and nine, Psalm 89, verses 8 and 9. O Lord of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto Thee, or to Thy faithfulness round about? Thou rulest the raging of the sea. When the waves thereof arise, Thou stillest them. Job chapter 38, I won't go there, but that whole chapter, I believe, if I remember it correctly, refers to witnesses to the power of God, is it not man, concerning the wonderful issues that are in heaven and on earth. In Job nine, verse four and five, let's read four through six. He, in Job nine, verse four, He, referring to God, he is wise in heart, and mighty in strength, who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered, which removeth the mountains, and they know not. which overturneth them in his anger, which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Again, in Jeremiah, use this last reference here, Jeremiah chapter 10, Jeremiah 10, verses 12 and 13. He has made the earth by his power. He hath established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with rain. and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. I didn't read anything about men having any way to do anything of this sort. It has to be God alone that does it, and for his own reasons, sometimes in judgments. I want to share this. I dug around just a little bit. a couple of statistics that show, I think, a bias, the reason that there is such a strong influence of the globalists. What's going on? Showing the influence that false science has upon the unbelieving world. Now, I took these figures from a report from the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. In 1960, it's reported that 33% of the world's population lived in the cities. Today, that number has climbed to just over 55%. In the next decades, I mean within the 10 to 20 years, forecast that number to reach as high as 70%. In 50 years, I thought I saw a number of 80 and 90% of the world's population will live in cities. Even now, even at this day, a majority of the world's population is biased because they live in a place that they think is like everywhere else. For example, they suppose that the world is overpopulated because they live in areas that are overpopulated. It sounds funny, but it's a matter of fact. If it's that way there, they're thinking it's that way everywhere around the world. And if you're wanting to just go from city to city, that's all you see. And you think the whole world's like that, but it's not that way. It's not true. And that kind of idea, rising temperature, let me tell you something, if I parked, we did this, we parked a car in Texas one year, in Houston, Texas, a few years back, and we went into the zoo, the Houston Zoo. Had a great time, hot day, we came back and started the car, had to start it, and I don't remember if it was a remote or not. We started it and had to back off a little bit, let it cool off, because that car sat in an area, a large area of pavement. It's going to be pretty warm there. You get a lot of pavement like that in cities and such, there's going to be some temperatures affect. You know, there's regional areas, but it won't affect global, on a global scale. It can't. It just can't. I'm not denying that man may do bad things and it can adversely affect areas where we live. I understand when we clear cut a bunch of trees or lay down a lot of cement for sidewalks and pavement for parking lots and such and driving cars all together in a concentrated area that you're not gonna have, they're not gonna see effects of air pollution and that kind of thing. Good night. I remember we go down to, I think it was Bobby's house and we'd see, what city was that, Los Angeles? Was it in the distance in the smog? Yeah. I'm not denying that, but it's not having an effect on a global scale. It's not. It's not proof of a change in Earth's global climate. We have to remember that the Lord brought this creation into existence from nothing, that he maintains it like we discussed the last time, it continues to exist because he supports it, and that when it's finished, when God's completely finished, not because of man, but when God is done, he'll dispose of it. is 2 Peter 3, verse 10. Listen, I'm not losing a bit of sleep at any possibility that man's going to set off some kind of bomb and blow up the earth. It just isn't going to happen. It's never going to happen. That's not the danger. In 2 Peter 3, 10, the day of the Lord comes of the thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth, that was heaven. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. It's all gonna be burned up, dissolved. Everything that we know right now is gonna be gone, only when the Lord's finished. The sun, the moon, and the stars were set in the firmament of heaven by the Lord. They will not, they cannot be moved by anyone but God. In Jeremiah 31, 35, and 36, it says so. Thus said the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars, those rules, those regulations for them, the laws that govern their orbits or whatever they do up there. the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar. The Lord of hosts is his name. If those ordinances depart from before me, said the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me. What's the conclusion? It ain't gonna happen. It ain't gonna happen. The seas have their appointed place. People are worried that the land, it's gonna come underwater. It's a worry for nothing. Job 38, verse 11. The sea has its appointed place. We could refer to other scriptures as well. The Lord said to it, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud ways be stayed. There's a limit as far as the Lord will allow it. And that's as far as the water will go. I'm not worried about all the ice melting. I don't think you are either. I'm not worried about it. Now I know. I was here in 1964. In 65, I'm sure we went down to the place that is called Portage Glacier. When I was a little boy, we went there. It didn't matter in the summer or not. It was cold. And now you can't see the glacier anymore. It was right there when I was a child. And I mean huge humps of ice, blue, beautiful. It's gone. But it's not global warming. These things have been going on since the flood. There's a whole lot of other things involved here. When the Lord flooded the earth, which by the way, I believe is the next topic, the worldwide flood. Yeah, it's a worldwide flood. And a lot of things happen as a result. Lord willing, we'll try to touch on that. I'm not worried about all the ice melting either. It's not gonna flood the earth. It's not going to happen. God promised also the continuance of the seasons of the year. Genesis 8, 22, right there at the flood, right after this, while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. Everything that exists continues because the Lord sustains it. Now, I think these things are easy enough for every child of God to understand if they'll just believe what they read in the Bible. But that said, it shouldn't come as any surprise that the world stands opposed to you. of God's creation shall fail until the time when he has determined to remove it. Psalm 102, 25 to 28 says so. Of old, Psalm 102, verse 25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Well, we read in Peter, yeah, these have an end. All of them shall wax old like a garment. As of best year shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. The children of thy servants shall continue in their seed, shall be established before thee. There is coming a day when there will be more than a global fire. There's coming a day when the heavens and the earth are going to be burned up, but it won't be because of man. Man will not destroy himself. Man will not destroy this earth. God alone will bring that to pass. The real thing, aside from the, this is just the truth, I would ask, are we ready for that day? In 2 Peter 3, verses 8 through 14, 2 Peter 3, 8 through 14, there are some that, without Christ, this really isn't your concern. It makes no difference at all. You've got a greater concern, and that's, do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, that he came to this earth and died for your sins? Do you understand that? That's your issue. If you understand that Christ died for you, you can understand these truths. You'll come to enjoy them, you'll come, they'll be very precious to you. In 2 Peter 3 verse 8, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is what the Lord has a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promises, some men count slackness. But is long-suffering to usward, his people, the elect. not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to, all who? The us-ward. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, into which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat. The earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation in the manner of our lives in godliness? Looking forward, hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens. and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found in him, of him in peace, without spot and blameless, live for Christ. Have we believed that Jesus is the Son of God, come to die for our sins, for mine? There is a wrath to come from which, if you don't know Christ, you should flee to him. Immediately flee. Jesus Christ is that only safe haven for the soul. Believe that he died for your sins. Confess him as the only Savior of men, and you'll be saved. And after professing faith in Christ, yes, be baptized. Show that he died for you, that you died with him that day, you were buried with him, and you were risen with him because he's alive today bodily and at the right hand of the Father. What I miss, what I love to see, and you don't see it, very often anymore. You know, we talked a little bit the other day. People want what you have, but they don't want how we got it. They don't want it by believing in Christ. They don't want it by walking with him. They want it their way or no way. It's such a sad thing because I am persuaded that when one believes in Christ, believes to the saving of the soul, that you have a sense, a brand new sense of cleanness before God that you never sensed before because Christ has forgiven you of all your sins and cleansed us from all our unrighteousness. I remember I was just a boy of eight years old, but I was so happy. That day, he saved me, and I knew it. I was on cloud nine. I rode on that cloud for a good while, too, as a little boy. And here I am today by the grace of God. That's what it was like for me. And I know from hearing what you've said about your experience in Christ that you had the same things. You felt clean, you felt like a new person. Well, I'd say that you're also gonna have a hunger for the word of God. People that really are saved. Yep, I did the same thing. I had my own little Bible and I started reading it. A little boy, I really could hardly read, it seemed like at the time. I wasn't a very good reader, stymied, but I still took it and read it. You have a hunger for wanting to know the truths of the word of God. Little boys and girls. Satan will show that kind of hunger, but so will old people. You're gonna wanna identify with people like me and you. The church, you're gonna wanna walk with this people. You know why? Because God puts it in your heart to do that. That's evidence of one that's truly been born again. I think all the way through, there's no question about it to me. If you don't know the Lord, this is your concern. Global climate change, you can come to that later on, but your concern tonight is Christ, Christ alone. It's a right doctrinal position for us to take as a church, it's right. You're gonna be thought a fool for taking that position. That's okay. They'll think that about a lot of things that you believe. That's all right, but it's right. To take this position is correct for us as a church to stand here on this doctrine. So thank you so much for your attention.