there we go we’re all set now so hello again and welcome back to another stream I want to explain first of all that the haven’t been able to do any videos back at the what’s the computer for a few days so than you armor of truths radio slash podcast shows will be back very soon about some technical issues back at the let me give some finger quotes studio if you will so we’ve been relegated to these mobile streams for a for about a week now ten days however long it’s been that’s alright so recently I’ve had the opportunity to be talking to some humanists or some atheist how’s it going and in doing so let me just say this I have in years past I’ve been critical of online ministers or maybe Christian youtubers who would who would engage atheists in debates and the reason I was critical because I had that mindset where I thought we only need to be preaching gospel to those with soft hearts to those who might receive it I was wrong I was wrong and I found out very quickly when I entered into the online part of this ministry when I deal with people in the community I seem to encounter well I’m I’m just in front of more believers because it’s not often that in the community you’ll have a group of secular humanists or or an atheistic fraternity invite a Christian apologist over to to make the case it doesn’t happen very much that’s never happened to me I do encounter non-believers sometimes in my daily work but that’s usually I don’t know if they’re atheists or not I just know that that’s a person in front of me and I don’t I don’t delve very deeply into those those beliefs I ask questions and listen and then wait for the opportunity to present the gospel you have to be very careful about presenting the gospel to people because you don’t know what their experience has been in the past it could be that they had just been you know just yesterday they could have been they could have had someone knock on their door and give them an awful hard time look a lot of I’ll tell you this too sometimes you hear he’ll hear atheists say Christians are so stupid they’re just so stupid to that you can reply you’re right Christians are stupid and so are atheist because stupid people are found everywhere it’s really no argument to say that people are stupid because they’re Christians it’s not really an argument at all but you don’t know what people have experience so they have to be very careful and and how you approach people with this message sometimes you run into a soft heart you preach the gospel and a decision is made you get a decision right there and you then you have the opportunity to explain repentance and regeneration in the new life sometimes the purpose it’s just to drop that little pebble in their shoe something for them to think about to take with them and think about them all over for a while we might be zealots we don’t always have to act like zealots we need to be careful we need to display the fruits of the spirit when we carry this message so today I want to talk about who can you trust is it is it is there anyone the trust is there a person that we can trust is there any being that we can trust does does God exist have covered that sufficiently lately here in this series known that of in the playlist series that I’ve titled a reasonable faith so today I want to offer a little more regarding that message so I’ll I’ll turn this thing around I’ll see Jessie in there what’s up Jessie I’m going to turn this around in the chat so greetings greetings Jessie it’s good to see ya so is there anyone we can trust let’s check out that cat here where I walk off and there are a lot of feral cats so we get to run into some wild animals there was once a very intelligent and inquisitive young atheist and he had seen the confusion and trouble in the world and was convinced that there was no God free the captives good to see you brother just his spots and free the captives lighten up the chat I appreciate it brothers so this young atheist was convinced there was no God for you no how could a God of love and order permit so much trouble and deceit and confusion and chaos in the world he said that he had learned well in his science classes at his very expensive and accredited university that God was just an invention of man so that man could help himself psychologically so have you ever heard that have you ever heard an argument I’m sure especially if you’re someone who hasn’t been in the faith all your life you’ve probably had that frame of mind like I did that’s that was that used to be my frame of mind I was one of those who believed that the Bible was a tool created by a man to control man of course I had never studied the Bible at all when I had that frame of mind I didn’t have any evidence to base that claim on at all this young atheist said that he had learned from his University that man had created God and religion for psychological purposes bitterness and unhappiness were evident he decided that there was no God but he still hadn’t found anything to take the place of God before we continue let’s check out the rock for today let’s see what we have to go for today let’s see this is the elementary school a million dreams for the world you’re gonna make from the movie the greatest showmen well that certainly is a pretty Rock so we’re convincing our children that we’re going to make the world here we go let me tell you a story about Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy you can find this online there’s a link to vaccines with Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy that’s very disturbing maybe I shouldn’t get into that right here on this stream well I’ll cover that later anyway a man whose children died after being vaccinated created the Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls you might want to look that up on YouTube and check it out for yourself it’s there afraid that might take up too much time here today but that’s a little piece of information for you so this young atheist was empty many people in this world are empty searching for something searching for some truth something they can hold on to something to grasp that doesn’t slip away or maybe someone someone strong enough to help them figure out what to do in their lives and solve their problems I’ve been there let’s check out the second Rock the lady who paints these rocks is super talented that’s for sure and you can rent her services for ten bucks a week there to paint your rock if that’s what you need last week I was up here and if you saw that stream I don’t know if I got it on the stream or not we had a this rock was dedicated to Harry Potter and Raven’s claw sect or whatever I don’t know it was just interesting because I’ve never seen I’ve never yet I have yet to see one time anything to do with Jesus Christ on any of these rocks but you will see many many ODEs to Harry Potter which don’t you think that’s interesting our children and our public school systems are they’re allowed to love and exalt Harry Potter but probably not Jesus probably not Jesus it’s interesting the rock last week said something to the effect that telling the birthday child who had the birthday to work so hard that someday your signature will be called an autograph fraud pride and vanity pride and vanity and we teach it to our children right out of the womb like Hillary Clinton said it takes a village that’s what the village is teaching the children today pride and vanity so continuing with our the story of our young atheist some have come to similar conclusions as this young atheist many others have learned to know a very real God who is alive and well he’s living who lives outside of the creation but is that his will able to interact with it we’ve been able to trace God’s footprints through the universe and we have certainly found enough evidence of his existence and love so much so that we can trust him with our lives let me turn my page friends when you walk out at night or you know maybe in the afternoon today’s a cloudy day a couple days ago it was 97 degrees like 68 today when fall happens around here it happens like a it happens like falling off a log one day you can’t breathe outside the next day you’re shivering when we walk out at night look up at the sky we realize that what we see in front of us is it’s almost unknowable I mean we figured that out here in the past several years that when we look up at the sky we’re not really sure what it is that we’re looking at but that it is a creation nonetheless these lights that we see in the sky they’re numberless and the machinery that man has apparently invented to be able to appear way out into the vastness of what we call space we can’t see the end of it you know we’re that we’re so talented and we’re so creative and we’re so innovative or so so very tiny here on this planet and if you don’t believe there’s a creator then you believe that we were just here alone for no reason either that or you create your own God that fits your own lifestyle or your own vision of what’s going on around you and that my friends is the primary definition of idolatry but these movements that we see in the sky above us at night or even on the planet on this place where we live it’s so very organized we begin to realize if we’re honest with ourselves and we’re not caught up in secular humanism in it and and worshiping the intellect of man what we find out is there must be master intelligence at work obviously involved with the design and creation of this complex existence we find ourselves in understanding the laws of nature science knowing how to use observation and measurement does not should not do that admiration for the master designer and OP so let’s take an opportunity to meet him and cover some of those right now how does the Bible introduce this five words of Genesis and the last five words of Genesis at least in English translations in a coffin in Egypt that refers to the body of Joseph so we get an idea just from that it’s just interesting it’s not dogmatic it’s just an observation we got a we get we see the creation in the fall and the first and last words of the first book of the Bible the very first doctrine recorded in God’s Word is that there is a God here we find the foundation of all existence where all of this that we stand on all of this that we breathe and see where it all had its origin yet the Bible doesn’t attempt to prove God simply declares his existence God doesn’t attempt to prove God he simply declares his existence and the fact that he exists is overwhelmingly indicated by our own existence by the existence of all things we see around us creation witnesses to a creator the things that are designed certainly attest to the fact that there must be a designer folks friends that’s just logic when the atheists want to use logic to disprove God you you can only regress that so far until you come to the point building appeared out of nothing or do we logically assume someone built it when we look at this ground that we stand and walk on it’s very clear something put it here dr. Arthur Compton a Nobel prize-winning physicist commented on Genesis 1 in the Chicago Daily News said quote for myself for myself faith begins with the realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man it’s not difficult for me to have this faith because it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is a planner there is an intelligence and orderly unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement that is in the beginning God created so how long has this God existed if you’re witnessing we’re just you know just talking to if you’re talking to someone you’re you have an opportunity to witness it’s you don’t have to remember you have to behave as a zealot you just have to just have to witness witnessing takes on many forms romans chapter 1 verses 19 and 20 invisible things of him are clearly seen by the things that are made everything has it calls except for the ultimate creator the causeless cause that’s the part will you run into defiance but let’s deal with it this way think about the story of Robinson Crusoe probably not many people read that anymore but we find that he was concerned by some fresh footprints that he discovered in the wet sand by the footprints he knew that there was another person on the island even though he had not seen that person with his own eyes so let’s think about that for a moment in fact I just had a discussion with an atheist who laid it out very clearly at least in his mind that there is no evidence for God that no one has ever seen or touched or heard God therefore God does not exist that’s his reasoning my response was not not flashy not overly intelligent just true think of that island yourself you you find yourself landed on an island that is believed to be uninhabited but you see fresh footprints in the sand human footprints in the sand well according to that man’s logic there is no other human on that island but according to the proper staircase procession of logic those footprints attest to the fact that there must be someone else another human on that island so those footprints that those of us who are believers see are the creation what you see all around you John Bunyan in pilgrims progress called it masters shoes that cover the whole world what are some of those footprints that we can see just like those footprints in the sand on that apparently uninhabited island what are some of the footprints that we can see around us hey how’s it going you Psalm 19 verse 1 the heavens declare they declare their there and show his handiwork folks if the sign if someone who who attests to science being the only source of truth in the world well science has seemed to have shown that that the universe has a beginning some call it the Big Bang most important point to take from that is the fact that it had it had a beginning and if we are to believe science that the universe seems to be expanding moving out from a point and it’s very easy to even use our own observations through science to see that the universe had a beginning that it’s not eternal therefore the universe therefore creation cannot be God if God is eternal the universe and the creation cannot be God that’s why it is [Music] and error to worship the creation as if it is God post up right over here for a minute all right Isaiah chapter 40 verse 26 says behold who has created these things Psalm 139 verse 14 says I will praise Him this creator because I am fearfully and wonderfully made that’s another testament to why it’s ridiculous to immediately take a child out of the womb and begin to shoot it up with chemicals now if you’re treating some illness it makes more sense but save that for a vaccination video job chapter 12 verses 7 through 9 the hand of the Lord has wrought this have made this have fashioned this nature speaks to our senses without ceasing the open heart will be impressed with the love and the glory of God as revealed through the works of his hands green fields lofty trees these flowers it’s not many out now but these trees these clouds rain the rivers the creeks the glories of the heavens they speak to us they reveal truth self-evident truth what statements does the Bible give us about God and the creation of his earth let’s look it once again Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth God said bring forth and it was so Genesis 2 verse 7 the Lord God formed man out of the dust in that verse we have the form for the creation of man we have we have the dust of the earth essentially we have the mud but then there’s there’s the divine spark that creates life which man would love to say he can create intelligence artificial intelligence he just can’t do it it’s God’s breath they own us DOS God breathed that’s what creates life and the fact that man can’t create intelligence or life is also another testament to the fact that we are not creators we are creation Jeremiah 51 verse 15 he God Jehovah has made the earth and what what is it that makes the god of the universe different from other gods that have been worshiped by man throughout time in Psalm 96 verse 5 we see all the gods of the nations are idols but the Lord made the heavens man is very quick to fashion his own God to create a God that suits him the God that suits his lifestyle a God that in his mind agrees with his own decisions man wants to create his own God because that’s convenient it’s inconvenient to find out that there is a creator it’s inconvenient to the mindset of an atheist to find out or to be told that there is a God who demands your obedience that’s inconvenient for someone who loves the world and loves the flesh and loves to live for right now those who love and exalt Mammon has divert you in their life that’s very inconvenient to find out that there is a God demands your obedience but he doesn’t demand your obedience because he’s a tyrant it’s because he’s eternal he has seen the beginning from the end and he knows what is to come and he he tells us that if we live in his will follow his word and his will in his way eternal life is our reward that’s good enough for me revelation 4 verse 11 why is god worthy to receive our praise and honor because he has created all things the duty to worship God is based upon the fact that he is the creator and that to him all other things all other beings oh their existence and wherever we see in the Bible his in the Bible his claim to reverence and worship above the gods of the heathen there is cited evidence of his creative power Psalm 100 verse 3 and Psalm 95 6 say do you not know that the Lord he is the god it is he that has made us and not we ourselves we haven’t made ourselves our intellect likes to tell us that we can handle it that we can create whatever we need you realize in order to create anything let’s say you want to create a rock what do you need in order to create a rock we need some dirt maybe some water no no no no that’s not good enough you’ll need your own space your own time and your own matter if you want to create anything all man is is a rearranger of things a rearranger of atoms we’re not creators we are creation it goes on to say it is he that has made us and we not ourselves let us worship and bow down to him well its new before that Lord the one that has the one that is our maker that’s a God worthy of worship so how does God’s Word how does the Bible characterize this creator 2nd chronicles chapter 2 God is great mark chapter 10 all things are possible with him Psalm 147 he heals the brokenhearted and calls the stars by name his understanding is infinite so there again we see he’s eternal he has no beginning he has no end Malachi chapter 3 verse 6 he does not change that is a being worthy of worship one that does not change man likes to think that he’s consistent God is the same yesterday today and tomorrow his words tells us and in the general Epistle of James Jesus song brother chapter 1 verse 17 all good gifts are from him there is no variableness with him with a God like this in control of the world what do you have to fear when you have the truth what do you have to fear romans 8 verse 31 says if God be for us who can be against us fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge what does the Bible say that God is says that God is the spirit we get that but we also get in first John chapter 4 god is love and when we hear the term love mentioned in the Bible we don’t need to get in our heads that is this idea of love that man has created this sickly sentimentalism that we where we think we can create some emotion inside ourselves that’s going to matter like I decide I’m going to love this person that’s folly love the only real version of love is the one that is a gift from the Creator that we share not something that we create how much does God love John 3:16 so much so that he gave His only begotten Son the matchless love of God for a world that did not love him back still still gave His only begotten Son the more we study His divine character in the light of the Cross the more we see mercy tenderness and forgiveness the more we study and find ourselves in God’s wills the more the look the easier it is for us to live and express the fruits of the spirit love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness meekness temperance Jeremiah 31 verse 3 tells us that God’s love will continue to everlasting that that’s worthy of your worship what can separate us from God’s love when we are in Christ what could separate us from that love Romans chapter 8 tells us that neither death life angels principalities powers nor any creature can separate you from God when you are in Christ how did God describe himself to Moses Exodus 34 since I’m the Lord God merciful gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth if there is a truth movement at all it has to start with God because outside of God there is no truth God is the truth and in that with that thought in mind who does who does this God extend his grace and his love to to all God extends his love and His grace to the evil and the good the just and the unjust because there there there are no good people there’s not even one righteous person in the world God makes his grace available to all again that’s a being worthy of your worship what is it that keeps us from being destroyed every day now this is where the arrogance of the mind of man the natural man comes into play we believe that we have some control we like to think that we have some control over what’s going to happen tomorrow or five minutes from now limitations three verse 22 tells us that it is only the Lord’s mercies that allow us to breathe just very breaths the one that you just took you take because God is merciful because we’re all fallen we deserve death that’s the gospel truth we’re all fallen and we deserve death but God is merciful and he’s given us he’s given us a lifeline what is this ultimate relationship like that God plans for all of us first John chapter 3 verse 1 to be sons of God he wants us to be with him to be part of his kingdom what you believe about the God that you love and serve will influence every action of your life if it happens to be that your God is Mammon or your God is success or gain that’s going to show up in your life your god is uh it’s a football team perhaps it’s gonna show up in your life and the bobble we discover a God who is bigger than our ability to fully comprehend him again that’s a being worthy I’ve been worship he is the creator of everything you see a God of miracles who uses his limitless power to provide for the needs of us his creatures all the things he has made he provides for unlike the gods worshipped around the world today the Creator is concerned with the happiness and well-being of his creatures and he is ready and eager to save and not destroy God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked he doesn’t wish to destroy all but that is the plan for those who will not follow him so ask yourself these questions as a little thought experiment who is the most dependable person in your life describe what that relationship means to you how do you feel when you are or were with that person and how did spending time together make you feel then imagine that on a scale that is beyond your comprehension the things that the law has prepared for those that follow him for those that love him can’t even be conceived by the human mind is what the Bible tells us and ask yourself today would you like to see your relationship with that being becomes stronger in fact I should be our only desire in life is to have a stronger relationship with the one who created us and the one who has the plan for eternal life and for those who are like I was and think that it’s just nonsense I just ask you to be honest with yourself and take up a study of what God’s word has to say about the world we live in today there are people who will say no prophecies of the Bible have been fulfilled I dare say those people have not actually studied what the Bible has to say about the world we live in today the Bible speaks very clearly of the world that we live in today and thank God that it does because in that we know that we have the truth and that we know we can trust that plan of salvation that God has made available to any whosoever that’s the tournament used whosoever will have faith in Jesus Christ but is that enough is it is it enough to make the decision is it enough to ask Jesus into your heart that’s the first step but as the the repentance video on this channel says there must be a change there must be a change seen in the life for the justification to be sincere and it’s not a change that you can make happen the change that comes through prayer and study so free the captives I appreciate you being in a chat and dropping those verses in here and greetings and hello – Jesse spots it was in the chat earlier if you folks don’t mind hit that like button get that subscribe 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