Foundations of Faith: Genesis 1-11 as the Cornerstone of Christian Worldview

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[00:00:00] His ministry is worldwide and renowned.
[00:00:05] Decades ago, in fact, I saw him first speak when I was a brand new believer at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.
[00:00:15] He had a vision to create a scientific, biblically-based creation museum.
[00:00:23] He not only created a museum, if you've ever been to the creation museum in Kentucky, it is second to none.
[00:00:34] It is, I guess we would understand this locally.
[00:00:38] Disney's got nothing on it.
[00:00:40] It's that great.
[00:00:42] But that wasn't enough.
[00:00:46] He went with a massive vision of recreating the ark based upon the biblical measurements of the biblical cubit.
[00:00:58] When God gave Noah the measurements for the ark, you can come within a matter of inches of the two various scales by which you would measure what a cube it is from the elbow to the tip of the finger the reason why it's a unit of measurement is
[00:01:16] because it's so globally universal and common and ken ham embarked upon the reconstruction of the ark based upon the biblical measurements and he built what is now one of america's most featured sites, and I think it might even be Kentucky's most visited site. He'll give you the details
[00:01:41] on that. But Ken Ham is a founder of Answers in Genesis, which every single one of you must have their app on your phone. I mean it sincerely. I have it. I consult that app often. Answers in
[00:01:55] Genesis. He's highly acclaimed, as I said, the Creation Museum and the world-renowned Ark Encounter. You've seen the commercials, perhaps on TV. He's the author of more than 30 books.
[00:02:08] And what I love about Ken is that his books are authored in such a way from a scientific position, biblical apologetics. He's an evangelist. You wouldn't put these two together, but actually, when you look at the word of God, it makes perfect sense. God has blessed him tremendously.
[00:02:27] Malley, his wife, they live in Northern Kentucky. They have five kids, 18 grandkids. No wonder why he built an ark. He's got two grandchildren. But church family, listen to this. After Ken is done today, he leaves here immediately. I mean, immediately after third service, he goes
[00:02:49] directly to LAX and they fly to Australia. That said, you've got to buy all of their books.
[00:02:57] we don't want them to have to pack up their books and if you buy their books and if you don't like their book I'll buy the book from you that's how much I believe in this man and his ministry
[00:03:10] in these days of deception he's safe he's sound solid I have the utmost respect for him I thank God for him and his family and his remarkable ministry so his books are going to be available
[00:03:27] to your right in the at-home room over here on the courtyard and in the kiosk to your left.
[00:03:36] Please take him with you by buying his material on the way out. He's a rare treat. He doesn't make it out west very often. I am now going to get out of the way, and I'm going to ask you to
[00:03:48] give a warm welcome to the amazing Ken Ham. Well, good morning, everyone, and thank you,

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[00:04:08] pastor Jack for the opportunity of being able to speak here for those that haven't heard me before I do have an accent and it is not like yours thankfully so in fact I didn't even have an accent till I came over here and the
[00:04:28] good thing about the Aussie accent is people tell me it doesn't matter what you say we just love to hear saying it so I can get away with whatever well come from the ministry of answers and Genesis which is an apologetics ministry
[00:04:38] apologetics doesn't mean we apologize for our faith quite the opposite it means we equip people to be able to logically defend the christian faith and that is so needed uh today when so many people say how do we how do we challenge people concerning
[00:04:51] god's word and the gospel uh as uh pastor jack mentioned uh we built uh two christian themed attractions in kentucky uh the ark encounter it's the biggest christian themed attraction in the world actually and it's the biggest themed
[00:05:05] attraction in kentucky and uh so the i can can we have our own conference center there in fact pastor jack will be speaking there uh in in march and we also have training for young people
[00:05:18] uh we have a playground and then uh we go behind the arc we have zip lines because christians can have fun too but uh we have a carousel and we have a virtual reality ride and then behind the
[00:05:31] the ark is a zoo and we do live animal programs from a biblical worldview perspective and then you go inside the ark the biggest freestanding timber frame structure in the world 3.3 million board feet of timber one and a half times the length of a football field at the bow end it's
[00:05:45] 10 stories high we have 130 exhibits on three decks answering all sorts of questions pointing people to the truth of god's word and the saving gospel and at christmas we have spectacular lights spectacular christmas programs laser projection on the side of the ark but we're very evangelistic
[00:06:02] 30 of those that come to the ark are non-christians by the way and then the creation museum which is my favorite attraction is 45 minutes from the ark they're both in northern kentucky and we just opened a new zoo there and we do live animal programs we also opened the only
[00:06:16] conservatory in the world that exhibits the plants of the bible four big glass greenhouses four different climates actually and then we have ziplines there too because christians can have fun too and so then we have a plantarium and we have a special effects theater we have all sorts of
[00:06:34] exhibits teaching you about the bible and then we walk you through the bible from genesis to revelation we have daily teaching programs there as well and we have a number of specialty exhibits too an insectarium we have a dinosaur exhibit and we have a borderland exhibit what happened
[00:06:50] between the end of the Old Testament, beginning of the New Testament, setting up for the life of Christ, and then the fearfully and wonderfully made, the most powerful pro-life exhibit in the world, actually.
[00:06:59] And we just finished our Christmas program, so Christmas lights there are absolutely stunning.
[00:07:03] So how many of you now want to come out to Kentucky and see the Arkham Accretion Museum?
[00:07:09] Now, let me just show you something just to excite you, because I want you to understand what we do is really evangelism.
[00:07:15] What we're doing is pointing people to the truth of God's Word, answering the skeptical questions of the age that's what our ministry is all about and the research we've done year after year after year shows that at the ark encounter and we get over
[00:07:28] one million visitors a year there at least 70 000 say they become christians a year and then at the creation museum it's 30 000 that's a hundred thousand people a year who say they become
[00:07:42] christians as a result of those attractions and so i think that's an incredible incredible outreach Just want to mention to you, you know, something that I'm sort of talking to you about today is a brand new book just came out with, Defending God's Existence.
[00:07:55] If you want to be someone like a Charlie Kirk, only I think go to a much even higher level to know how to argue with people, point out logical inconsistencies, fallacies, and know how to argue foundationally, that is a very powerful book.
[00:08:08] There's nothing else out there that does it like that.
[00:08:10] And then this one, To Help Your Whole Family, 365 Darlene Riggins.
[00:08:15] This took me 50 years to write, actually.
[00:08:17] I took 50 years of articles and teaching and turned them into 365 daily readings and they have a really specific purpose and that is they're different because they involve science biblical worldview apologetics to point people to the truth
[00:08:31] of God's Word be able to defend the Christian faith but understand how to live in this culture that we're living in today so it's very unique it's not like a normal devotional so the topic of what I wanted to do today is Genesis 1
[00:08:43] to 11 is the foundation for everything and you know what I find a lot of people don't really understand that a lot of churches don't teach it and that's a problem when they don't but I just
[00:08:53] want to see how good you all are so you know what I was a teacher so we're going to start with a test okay you don't normally just start with a test do you at church on on Sunday here but we're doing
[00:09:05] that today so I've got a couple of really easy questions to ask you okay so you should get these That's right.
[00:09:12] So where was the Garden of Eden located, Australia or America in the area in the present Tigris-Euphrates rivers?
[00:09:16] We can't know.
[00:09:17] It's not important.
[00:09:18] Okay.
[00:09:19] Who would say Australia?
[00:09:20] That's sad.
[00:09:21] Okay.
[00:09:22] America?
[00:09:24] Definitely not America.
[00:09:25] Who says number three in the area?
[00:09:28] Oh, look at all the hands.
[00:09:31] Sorry to tell you this, but you're wrong.
[00:09:37] The correct answer is number four.
[00:09:39] Now, you see, here's what I want to be really emphasising today.
[00:09:44] If you understand what the Bible is, the Bible is not just a guidebook you add to your thinking.
[00:09:48] It's not just a book of spiritual things, moral things, relationships.
[00:09:51] You know what this is?
[00:09:52] A revelation from God who knows everything.
[00:09:55] And so he gives us the key information to build our thinking to understand everything around us.
[00:10:02] That's the emphasis I want us to understand.
[00:10:04] now if you start from the bible we read that there were four rivers where the garden of eden was from one source that is not what you see today at all right not only that underneath that area
[00:10:18] there are thousands of feet of flood sediment filled with dead things fossils well wait a minute um then you got death before sin because you got death under the garden the whole world's been destroyed by a global flood so it so changed the earth you wouldn't have a clue where the
[00:10:37] garden of eden was and you can't have all that supposed millions of years of death underneath the garden in fact in the fossil record there's evidence of cancer like this is a fossil dinosaur tumor from the carnegie museum in pittsburgh you're going to have cancer under the garden of
[00:10:54] eden none of that makes sense the bible says death came after sin and so we have no idea where the garden of eden was and there was probably one continent before the flood anyway because the
[00:11:05] bible says god gathered the waters together in one place the implication is the land was in one place it probably split up towards the end of the flood to form the continents that we have today so we
[00:11:15] wouldn't have a clue where the garden of eden was it's a whole changed earth and you know how we know that you can't look at today's world and look at the middle east today and say okay where was
[00:11:25] the garden of eden you got to look at the bible and you build your thinking to say the whole world's been destroyed by the flood it's all changed and then be consistent about that that was the easy question okay you ready for the second one okay so okay
[00:11:42] second ones it's it's pretty easy all right can you marry your relative yes no probably only after counseling okay who says and by the way you need to cooperate even though you were wrong the first time you need to cooperate okay
[00:11:59] who says the answer is a okay who says b so there's a lot of you're not cooperating you're worried you got it wrong who says c this is d okay the correct answer is a so
[00:12:18] you got it wrong anyway can you marry your relative people if you don't marry your relative you're not marrying a human then you have a whole different problem you see if we build out thinking on the bible god said there was adam and eve he made two people we're all descendants
[00:12:36] of those two people right he didn't make any others only one man and one woman and they had sons and daughters see what does the bible tell us that adam was the first man eve was given that
[00:12:51] name because she was to be the mother of all the living one man one woman acts 17 god made from one man every nation of mankind live on the face of the earth and then genesis 5 4 said adam had sons
[00:13:02] and daughters and jewish tradition has about 50 to 60 sons and daughters so therefore adam and eve sons and daughters the doctrine of marriage is one man for one woman so therefore originally close relatives married brothers and sisters married for instance now people say to me but but
[00:13:25] but you're not allowed to marry a close relative today well actually that principle comes from the bible because it wasn't till the time of leviticus that god said no longer can close relations marry right and why is that because abraham was married to his half-sister that wasn't a problem
[00:13:40] you see when god made adam and eve everything was perfect but then sin and the curse affected everything now the whole creation groans so now there have been copying mistakes mutations that add up over time causing all sorts of mistakes by the time of Moses God said no longer close
[00:13:57] relatives marry because here's the problem if close relatives married today they're more likely to have these mistakes that have accumulated because of the result of sin and the judgment of death where God withdrew some of that sustaining power so we run down so if we've got the same
[00:14:13] mistakes and they get together in fertilization cause problems in the offspring and that's why you're better marrying someone further away in relationship from you where one has a bad gene the other has a good gene it will mask the bad gene and so you won't have that same sort of issue
[00:14:29] the further back you go in history the less of a problem that is and provided it's one man for one woman for life which is what the doctrine of marriage is all about there's no problem with
[00:14:40] close relatives marrying in fact there's no difference between a man and woman getting married today and a man and woman getting married originally except in the closeness of the relationship. And it's interesting, you know, I was on a Christian radio station once and a man
[00:14:54] called up and he said, well, I'm an atheist. And if you believe that, that's immoral. First thing I said to him, sir, you're an atheist. You can't accuse anyone of being immoral because who's your
[00:15:05] authority? What do you base your standards of determining what's just and what's unjust? You can't do that. And besides which, you believe in evolution. You believe man's just an animal.
[00:15:13] There's no such thing as marriage anyway. It's whatever you want to do, whatever you want to to define things any way that you want and you can do anything with any what or whatever whereas from a Christian perspective
[00:15:25] it's one man for one woman you've got the problem not us and help them understand that and then you know he said well isn't that incest well the word incest is a modern word right there was no word incest back then
[00:15:40] in fact it came about in the 13th century and we put a whole range of things today under the word incest some of which have some of which have always been immoral but not brother
[00:15:52] and sister marriage in the context of biblical history so that's what we've got to understand you know what I'm trying to teach us we all have a worldview right do you know what I mean by
[00:16:03] worldview a definition of worldview a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint you have particular beliefs that determine your worldview actually your religion determines your worldview you know a lot of people think that you can have religious
[00:16:19] and non-religious people not true people think that you can have neutral people not true the bible says you're either for christ or against you walk in light or darkness you gather or scatter you build your house on the rock or you build your house on the sand there is no neutral position
[00:16:34] atheists are not neutral people a lot of atheists will say we don't go to church we don't believe in god we don't have a religion yes you have a religion you believe everything is material you
[00:16:44] believe in naturalism that there's no supernatural so you can explain everything by natural processes you believe you can discern determine subjectively what you think people should do what's right what's wrong that's your religion everybody has a religion if you look up the definition of religion
[00:17:00] one aspect of it is a cause a principle a system of belief held to with ardor and faith which describes atheism and you know because many christians don't understand worldview and the fact that everyone has a worldview atheists have a worldview we have a worldview that depends upon
[00:17:15] what your religion is as i'll show you here in a moment and because of that what happens you have people like the freedom from religion foundation that group of bullying atheists from wisconsin that come in and say you can't have crosses and nativity scenes in public places because you're
[00:17:29] imposing your christian religion we say okay we'll take them out now they've imposed their atheism right and we need to understand there's no such thing as neutrality and that because so many Christians haven't been taught that then these bullying atheists can get away with what they do
[00:17:47] because we don't stand up as we should and challenge them concerning their religion you know ultimately there's only two religions in the world and this began 6 000 years ago in a garden when God came to the first man Adam and said test of obedience you can eat of all the trees just one
[00:18:04] not do it all because if you do you'll surely die and what happened well you see what God was saying was I'm the absolute authority right you are to obey me I created everything I own everything
[00:18:19] I set the rules determined right and wrong but along came the devil in the form of a serpent who said did God actually say and I want you to notice something the first attack was on the word
[00:18:30] of God, to get Adam and Eve to doubt God's word so that doubt would lead to unbelief. And you will be like God. You be your own God. You discern truth for yourself. You determine what you think
[00:18:42] you should be and act like. Your opinions, that's what you base everything on. And so in other words, obey man's word. And so a battle began between two foundations or two religions. That battle is
[00:18:57] raging before us today the battle has raged for 6 000 years we're seeing it manifest itself today in ways we haven't seen before but it's the same battle a battle between two foundations or two
[00:19:08] religions because in an ultimate sense there's only two foundations that build our thinking see as christians we have a book called the bible which claims to be the word of god that knows everything who's always been there who said i've given you the information you need to be able to
[00:19:24] build the right way of thinking in every area that's why I asked you those questions to try to get us trained that we always should be thinking from God's word right building our thinking if you don't start from God's word there is really only one other foundation and that is
[00:19:39] man's word and you know in our culture today what we're seeing is an incredible clash of world views up here but here's where we need to understand the real battle is down here and if
[00:19:51] you want someone to change from this secular worldview which is anti-God because there's no neutrality so secular really means what if you're not for Christ you are what against so it's anti-God worldview if you want someone to change from this one to this one they've got to change from this
[00:20:06] foundation to this one so the real battle is down here up here that's just a symptom of the battle the real battle and too many Christians fight the battle at this worldview level which creates a lot
[00:20:18] of emotional stress and then accusations of hate speech and so on. We really need to understand what the Bible actually is. It is the foundation for our thinking in every way. It's a revelation from God who knows everything. Let me give you another couple of quick examples. Over the past
[00:20:37] 50 years of ministry, I've found people ask many, many questions. And one of the questions I've heard over and over again is this one. Well, how do you fit dinosaurs into the Bible? And people
[00:20:46] get shocked when i answer them and say well you don't they say what do you mean you don't no you use the bible to explain dinosaurs in other words you can't start from man's interpretation
[00:20:57] of some bones he finds in the present man who has the foundation of man's word not god's word and he's interpreting these in an evolutionary millions of years uh way of thinking and then you're saying how do we fit that to the bible no you start from the bible and you know that
[00:21:14] dinosaurs word dinosaur was invented in 1841 that's why you don't find it in the bible by the way people say wasn't the word dinosaur in the bible the reason the word email is not in the
[00:21:23] bible it's the modern word too so then it came after the curse anyway but you see they found these skeletons they have certain features and there's about 80 different kinds when god made all the land animal kinds on day six of creation we would say and we have scientific research to
[00:21:41] say why this is so but we would say there's about a thousand land animal kinds could be up to 1500 but somewhere in there of distinct animal kinds 80 of those were dinosaurs and so we know when
[00:21:54] god created them there weren't any bones in the ground because death didn't come till after sin and then we know what they ate because genesis 1 30 says all the animals were vegetarian genesis 1 29 says man was vegetarian and then we know that two of each kind of land dwelling
[00:22:08] air-breathing animal went on board Noah's ark which would have included the dinosaur kinds those that didn't drown some of them turned into fossils oh that's why we find those bones today and Noah's flood was 4,300 years ago according to the bible's chronology not millions of years ago
[00:22:25] and then they came off the ark increased in number and over time many animals not just dinosaurs have become extinct because of the changing conditions on the earth and you're using God's word to explain
[00:22:35] dinosaurs. You're starting from that foundation to build your worldview. We need to be training ourselves to do that in every area because that's the only way you're going to be able to deal with what's happening in our culture and for you to be able to raise up your children to know what they
[00:22:51] should believe and why. You know, at the Creation Museum, we run you through the seven C's of history it's a it's it's a special centerpiece of the museum the first script I wrote where we say
[00:23:06] let's look at the history God has revealed to us from Genesis to Revelation a perfect creation he made the first man and woman two genders male and female first marriage man and woman everything was
[00:23:17] very good no death in the world then first man Adam rebelled against God origin of sin God said now you will die origin of death and origin of disease and so on then God killed animals and
[00:23:29] clothe them origin of clothing he set up the sacrificial system to point to the one who would be the ultimate sacrifice Jesus he promised a savior someone will come to pay the penalty for sin and that's in Genesis 3 15 then we have the flood of Noah's day and two we have the great
[00:23:48] ship that Noah built one door that's a picture of Jesus they had to go through one door to be saved remember Jesus said I am the door what we find in the fossil record is the graveyard of the flood
[00:23:59] by and large and that's why we have fossils all over the earth people eight people came out of the ark increased in number rebelled again at the Tower of Babel God gives different languages forming different people groups not races we all go back to Adam and Eve there's only one race
[00:24:13] God's son steps into history to be the perfect sinless son of God as the God man a member of human race to fulfill the prophecy of the promise of a savior back in genesis 3 died on a cross
[00:24:25] because death was a penalty for sin raised from the dead said it and then we read in scripture if you confess with your mouth the lord jesus believe in your heart god has raised him from
[00:24:33] the dead you will be saved and we are here in history right now waiting for this all this has already happened and the whole gospel message is based in that history but so is all doctrine based
[00:24:44] in that history and that's it that's the message of the Bible right there and you know what those first four C's that's Genesis 1 to 11 that's the foundation for your Christian worldview in fact it
[00:24:59] is the foundation for everything and you know there's another example I could give you you know how do you fit death and disease and suffering in the Bible a lot of times when there's tragedy and
[00:25:10] you watch the news and you'll even have some clergy on there we don't know why this happens and, well, where's God in all this?
[00:25:16] Well, you know, we don't really understand what's going on and how do you fit this with a loving God?
[00:25:21] Well, you see, you don't do that, right?
[00:25:23] You start from the Bible to understand, wait a minute, there was no death.
[00:25:26] Death is a result of our sin.
[00:25:28] As we look at this world, this is a fallen world.
[00:25:31] You can't try to fit that into the Bible.
[00:25:33] You use the Bible to understand why it is the way that it is.
[00:25:37] And the sad thing is, so many of our Christian leaders have accepted man's ideas of millions of years and built the secular worldview in regard to telling generations you believe in millions of years, then all the death and suffering
[00:25:50] you see there has gone on for millions of years.
[00:25:52] No wonder they say, where's God in all this?
[00:25:55] Because they didn't start from God's word to build the right way of thinking.
[00:25:59] And I want us to understand the battle that's going on today.
[00:26:02] As I said to you, we have a worldview clash because we have a foundational clash.
[00:26:08] And if you consider the Western world, consider America, the judeo-christian ethic that came out of the bible really permeated this culture right because people had a respect for the bible but now the secular anti-god worldview of moral relativism
[00:26:22] is permeating the culture why we've taken generations through an education system throwing god out bible out prayer out told them everything happens by natural processes the bible's not true they've gone to our churches and sadly many of our our pastors christian
[00:26:38] leaders and most of our Christian colleges Bible colleges not all but the majority have said you can believe what you're taught at school about evolution millions years doesn't matter Genesis is not important eventually they say well
[00:26:49] you can't trust the Bible they walk away from the church and then they build a worldview consistent with the foundation of man's word that they have and now we see a culture where moral relativism permeates that's really in a big picture
[00:27:01] what has happened and you know when you look at all these issues today and And you've seen the catastrophic change in America just in the last few years.
[00:27:10] And it has been catastrophic.
[00:27:11] It's happened quickly.
[00:27:12] The reason it's happened quickly because the foundation of God's word has been under attack in a big way ever since the late 1700s when you started to get atheists and deists popularizing naturalism, the millions of years, and then Darwinian ideas.
[00:27:27] And much of the church said, we can believe that.
[00:27:29] We don't need Genesis.
[00:27:30] It's like undermining the foundation of a house.
[00:27:32] and now we see the the walls and the roof collapsing right before our very eyes and you know there's a scripture that really sums it up in those days there was no king in Israel everyone
[00:27:42] did what was right in his own eyes in other words when people don't have an absolute authority except they believe they are the authority then everything's subjective then everything's relative and then they build a worldview from this foundation
[00:28:00] and therefore anything goes.
[00:28:02] We're living at a time where the majority of people have the wrong foundation and to them anything goes.
[00:28:08] You start from God's word, which starts in Genesis 1 to 11, you build a Christian worldview, then out of that comes the doctrines of Christianity.
[00:28:18] We know marriage is a man and a woman because God created marriage.
[00:28:21] We know there are two genders because God made male and female.
[00:28:23] we know we're made in the image of God and right from fertilization therefore we know abortion is killing a human being made in the image of God and God says do not murder we know we all go back to Adam and Eve there's one race
[00:28:35] there are not different races and so there you solve the problem of racism right there and so here's what's happening though we have this clash here and because this is now the dominant worldview and this used to be then
[00:28:50] And people over here, when you confront them or challenge them, they accuse you of hate speech, of being intolerant, or you're misogynist, or whatever.
[00:28:59] Because you know what else has happened today?
[00:29:01] I'll tell you what's happened.
[00:29:03] We just opened an exhibit at the Creation Museum on Friday called Radiance.
[00:29:07] It's about identity.
[00:29:09] Because the whole issue of identity, who am I, and what is my identity, and when you have a secular world that is telling people or what their identity should be, but it's not based on God's word,
[00:29:23] then their identity becomes what they believe.
[00:29:28] And when you challenge what they believe, today, you're seen as being violent against them as a person.
[00:29:36] How many of you have heard of Bodhi Bokum?
[00:29:39] Quite a number of you.
[00:29:40] You know, he passed away suddenly recently.
[00:29:42] And we've had him speak at the ARC conferences a number of times.
[00:29:47] He was a great friend of the ministry.
[00:29:48] But his last sermon, before he passed away, before he went to be with the Lord, he made a very insightful statement.
[00:29:54] Listen very carefully.

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[00:29:55] These are the ones.
[00:29:57] And by the way, here's what you need to understand.
[00:30:00] The game has changed.
[00:30:03] We don't debate anymore.
[00:30:05] You see, now we look at issues not through the lens of our underlying philosophy, but we look at issues through our identity and our lived experience.
[00:30:21] So when someone is taking a position on political issues today, oftentimes because of this neo-Marxist ideology, this oppressor-oppressed ideology, because the way we sort of divided the world, we look at it through that lens.
[00:30:37] And so this is not just my political opinion or position.
[00:30:42] This is my identity, and this is my lived experience.
[00:30:48] So we can't have a debate on that.
[00:30:54] For you to have a debate on something that I have declared as my identity and my lived experience is for you to negate my identity and to negate my lived experience. And by the way,
[00:31:09] we've already decided that words are violent. So if your words are violence and they are violence against my very identity it's reasonable that I would respond to your words with actual violence

[00:31:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:31:29] think about what's happening in our culture right now right there's this justification that oh you are disagreeing with us we can be violent against you because he summed up why that is so and you
[00:31:45] know that a part of the problem for Christians is they don't know how to deal with all of this because many Christians look at all these issues and they say to me but how do we deal with all
[00:31:54] those there's just too many problems well here's the point if you understand worldview they're all the same problem right they're all they're different symptoms of the problem the problem is they have the wrong foundation and what they need to understand is they need to have the right
[00:32:11] foundation right and so because these are symptoms of this foundation over here these are out workings of this foundation and so we've got this clash here but the real battle is down here this is what we have to come to grips
[00:32:30] with as Christians to know how to deal with what's happening in our culture and the point I want to make is if they are all the same problem those moral issues then they will have the same solution they do and that that's what should
[00:32:44] should should help you as a Christian to say wait a minute I don't have to fight all these different separate issues they will have the same solution and what is it it's always being God's Word in the saving gospel in Genesis 3 15 I don't
[00:32:58] have time to talk about that it's written in cryptic language but it's talking about because of sin there's going to be a spiritual war enmity between you and the woman and there's going to be this battle between the
[00:33:07] the devil's offspring and and her offspring her is talking about a specific offspring too and that is Jesus and it says he the serpent will bruise his heel the devil will wound him on the cross
[00:33:19] but he shall bruise your head but Jesus will crush the head of the servant when he was raised from the dead realize that's the whole message of the bible in one verse isn't that amazing and that was
[00:33:29] given 6 000 years ago the prophecy concerning Jesus and the gospel and so you see the other thing we need to understand is god's word begins with genesis 1 to 11 which is a foundation for
[00:33:40] the rest of the bible for our christian worldview for all doctrine for the gospel for everything genesis 1 to 11 is the foundation for everything it really is and if you're going to deal with
[00:33:50] any issue you have to start with genesis 1 to 11 if you want to deal with gender gay marriage racism age earth abortion climate change fossils euthanasia if you want to deal with any issue
[00:34:02] any issue any issue you have to start with Genesis 1 to 11 because it's the foundation for everything and yet it's come under incredible attack in our time because of the teaching of evolution millions of years we don't believe Genesis and so on so what can we do we need to raise up
[00:34:22] generations thinking foundationally trained with apologetics apologetics always be ready to make a defense, an answer. The word defense or answer comes from the Greek word apologia, from which we get a word apologetics, which means to give a logical reason defense of the faith. When someone
[00:34:38] says, oh, if there are only two people, where did Cain get his wife? Got an answer for you. How to explain dinosaurs? Got an answer for you. And so it goes on. And that's a part of our ministry is
[00:34:47] specializing in apologetics to equip you so you've got those answers. Then at the same time, we need to be raising up generations who are thinking foundationally because if you're going to deal with any issue any issue you start from Genesis 1 to 11 because it's the foundation for everything
[00:35:05] and so here's what we're going to do for the rest of this time by the way that's the introduction I'm now sort of starting my talk okay so you can reset the timer this is where it actually starts
[00:35:16] right now so I'm going to ask you some questions and I want you to give me the answers out loud Now, you might say, how will I know the answers?
[00:35:27] Well, number one, there's only one answer.
[00:35:30] It's the same answer for every question, and I'm going to put it on the screen.
[00:35:34] And actually, it's on the screen right now, and you're going to remember this today.
[00:35:41] So when I count to three, I want you to say with me, you start with Genesis 1 to 11.
[00:35:47] You ready?
[00:35:47] One, two, three.
[00:35:49] You start with Genesis 1 to 11.
[00:35:51] Remember, Genesis 1 to 11 is a revelation from God.
[00:35:56] It's a history in geology, biology, astronomy, anthropology that God has revealed to us as the foundation for everything.
[00:36:02] And if you want to deal with any issue, any issue, I mean any issue, you have to learn to think foundationally because then when you're talking to someone who doesn't have the same worldview as you,
[00:36:12] you're saying, ah, they have a different foundation.
[00:36:15] I need to challenge them on that and help them understand why I have a different worldview to them.
[00:36:20] so I got a question for you let's see how good you are how would you deal with the topic of gender excellent answer actually very good so God created man his own image male and female male and female
[00:36:39] male and female there's only two options have you noticed that all through the old testament male and female male and female jump over to the new testament when when Jesus as the God man was
[00:36:51] asked about marriage he said haven't you read the authority of the word who made the beginning made them male and female by the way he's attesting to the historicity of genesis 127 the truth of
[00:37:05] genesis 127 real history is recorded again in mark 10 in other words if you start from god's word alone get rid of outside influences even when they say what about this or that just get rid of
[00:37:16] all so-called exceptions whatever if this is the word of god you build your thinking on this and you really believe this, how many genders of human beings did God make? Two, male and female. We have a problem today in that the secular world has said biological sex is now
[00:37:33] separate to gender. Your biological sex is what you're born with. Your gender is what you feel you are. We'll talk about that in a moment. Here's some apologetics. We're made of 23 pairs of chromosomes and we have a pair of sex chromosomes. Males have an X and a
[00:37:49] females have an X and an X. Amazing. Science confirms two genders. Isn't that amazing? We can go to Washington DC and tell some of those women politicians we can define what a woman is. It's XX. Pretty simple. Now of course today we
[00:38:13] have the issue of people saying well can you you know but what about if I feel that even though biologically a male I feel that I'm really a female right and this is what's happening in our public education system secular education
[00:38:33] system secular means anti-god anti-god education system and we we can ask a question okay well how do we deal with this as Christians can we trust our feelings what do you think the answer is start with Genesis 1 to 11 because of
[00:38:48] the entrance of sin the Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick or desperately wicked that's why you know our parents taught us bible verses like psalm 119 11 your word have i stored up my heart so i might not sin against you in other
[00:39:02] words they said to us you always judge your feelings your behavior what you believe against the absolute authority of god's word because whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool and i want you to understand something else how do you reach these young people how do you reach them to
[00:39:16] tell them that they can't trust their feelings they're only going to understand that if they change their foundation from man's word to God's word in other words the solution for them is God's word in the saving gospel because until they have that heart and mind changed they're not going to
[00:39:30] understand and then they can overcome every temptation in Christ because God promises that well let's go on here I'm just running through this quickly just to give you idea how we should be thinking and training our children and how we need to be thinking as we talk to others
[00:39:48] in our culture. Okay, I have a very hard question for you. How would you deal with the topic of marriage? Amazing, you remembered that. That's really good. Okay, so let's do that. God created man in his own image, male and female, only two. And then how did God make the animals? Let the
[00:40:08] earth bring forth the living creatures. How do you make man? Let us make man in our image after our likeness and have dominion over the animals. Very important. Not for the creation to have dominion over man, as a lot of your government officials in California do, and then God made
[00:40:28] man of dust, from dust, you know, you have people and professors in colleges, Bible colleges, seminaries, saying, well, God took previously existing animals and turned them into Adam and Eve. Like if you've heard of William Lane Craig, for instance, he says that sort of thing. It
[00:40:48] impacts a lot of people, sadly, in some of our colleges. Well, the Bible says we came from dust and we're going to return to dust when we die. We don't return to an animal when we die. God said
[00:40:58] that man was alone, not lonely, alone, which means there was no one else like him made in the image of God. That's why God brought the animals to him to name, to show there was no one like him. He
[00:41:08] didn't look at a female chimp and say, you know, she's close enough, I could date her. And then from the man he made the first woman she didn't come from a previously existing animal she came
[00:41:21] from man's side and in the new testament twice in first corinthians 11 paul says woman came from man you can't add evolution to the bible and then we come to this verse therefore a man shall leave
[00:41:33] his father and mother and how fast to his wife and there'll be one flesh do you know what that is the creation of marriage marriage comes from no other place except god's word in genesis
[00:41:44] i'm going to ask you a couple of very simple questions who created marriage therefore who defines marriage not the president united states the supreme court justices the governor of california it's god who defines marriage and there's only one marriage he defines
[00:42:05] and in the new testament when jesus asked about marriage he said male and female that's genesis 127 then said therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and whole fast to his wife and there'll be one flesh there he is quoting the historicity of what we read in
[00:42:19] Genesis about the one flesh attesting to the truth of Genesis 2 24 the history in Genesis is foundational to marriage but not just marriage do you realize every single biblical doctrine of theology directly or indirectly is founded in Genesis 1 to 11 why did Jesus die on a cross
[00:42:36] Genesis 1 to 11 why is he called the last Adam takes the place of the first Adam Genesis 1 to 11 why is there death in the world genesis 1 to 11 sin genesis 1 to 11 why does man have dominion
[00:42:45] genesis 1 to 11 why do we have to work and work hard now because of sin genesis 1 to 11 why do we have a seven-day week genesis 1 to 11 marriage genesis 1 to 11 why do we wear clothes genesis 1
[00:42:57] to 11 do you think genesis 1 to 11 is important it's the foundation for everything so if you want to deal with topics like abortion what do you do so what do we read god made the animals saying let
[00:43:13] the earth bring forth the living creatures but he made man in his own image why is that important because we're not an animal and I've had young women say to me you get rid of spare cats get
[00:43:27] rid of spare kids what's the difference we're just animals so we don't have any value more than an animal and you know what reinforces that and I'm going to challenge every Christian teacher here you see we're told to teach six kingdoms of life and the animal kingdom has man in it because
[00:43:46] we have a body like a mammal's body but you know what that does it puts you on the same level as animals you see if you use the criterion made in the image of God man should be in a separate
[00:43:55] kingdom so we're telling the world man is special because Jesus died for the human race he didn't die for the animals he didn't become an animal he became the god man to die for the human race
[00:44:11] now i'll tell you why this is important because of the evolutionary teaching that permeates our education system and even many of our churches and christian colleges sadly they believe man evolved from animals um the cincinnati zoo is across the river from the creation museum
[00:44:25] the cincinnati zoo is in ohio and if you go to visit the chimps and the apes they tell you and your children you're visiting your family and they actually have a sign that says when not after all
[00:44:38] the only beings with personalities rational thought and emotions there is no sharp line dividing us from the chimps and other apes we are a part of not separate to the animal kingdom see that's why we need to be emphasizing no man is separate right and you know when they say there
[00:44:52] there's no sharp line dividing us from the chimps and other apes every zoo i go to has a really sharp line and you know why I'll tell you why because the animals are amoral creatures the
[00:45:04] bible says we have a conscience God put the law in our hearts Romans 2 they do not have such a conscience also after the flood God put the fear of man in the animals in a world permeated by sin
[00:45:16] these amoral creatures affected by the fall you can't trust them and you know when you understand man is made in the image of god then you understand in reproduction you get dna from the male dna from the female and when you have fertilization you have a unique combination of
[00:45:34] information different to any other human being ever and as that cell then divides to build our body no new information is added all the information that builds you is right there at fertilization god created man his own image in psalm 139 we read you knitted me together in my
[00:45:56] mother's womb fearfully and wonderfully made while your body wasn't formed but was forming it's still you you your eyes saw my unformed substance but what does this mean right from fertilization we are made in the image of god therefore abortion is killing a human being right from fertilization
[00:46:14] not from six weeks or anything else right from fertilization and abortion is murder you see god has given us that foundational principle and by the way just as a practical application i want to challenge us as hard as is living in a fallen world god has given us
[00:46:32] foundational principles we cannot negate and so kids in schools and so on well they'll be people will bring up the topic of so what about rape and incest and there are many in our churches
[00:46:44] say well there should be exception for that let me let me just ask you this do we have a right to kill a human being made in the image of god there's a foundational principle we can't negate you said
[00:46:54] but that's not fair well it's not fair that those children died in minnesota from a school shooting it's not fair those children died in texas from a float it's not fair in this world this is a sin
[00:47:06] cursed world and as hard as is as emotional as is as as tragic as it is we are living in this fall and world and we're not above the effects of the curse of the fall in god's judgment but we
[00:47:18] can't negate the principles god has laid down for us and by the way then you can apply those same principles to certain birth control methods to discussions of ivf do we have a right to kill
[00:47:31] a human being made in the image of god think about those issues and see and by the way when people come through our creation museum fearfully one of you made exhibit we also have a section helping
[00:47:43] them understand god is a god of love and grace and forgiveness and if you confess your sins he'll forgive your sins and he'll remove our sins as far as from the east is from the west so we want them
[00:47:53] to understand that too which is very very important by the way and then we have this issue of my body my rights my body my rights a fertilized egg is not part of a woman's body i mean if it's
[00:48:05] If it's a male, where'd the Y chromosome come from anyway?
[00:48:08] And you know, your body, a woman's body, looks on fertilised egg as foreign tissue to reject, like if you had a kidney transplant, your body will do the same, you have to take anti-rejection drugs.
[00:48:19] But God inbuilt into the reproductive system an anti-rejection mechanism because we're fearfully and wonderfully made.
[00:48:29] And make sure you come visit that exhibit when you come to the Creation Museum.
[00:48:34] it is an absolutely stunning exhibit.
[00:48:37] You know, here's what's happening in our culture.
[00:48:40] Culture's redefining morality.
[00:48:42] You know, I've come to really understand what Isaiah, Isaiah 520 means, when it says, "'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, "'substitute darkness for light, light for darkness, "'bitter for sweet, sweet for bitter.'"
[00:48:56] What it's really saying is that what we're going to do is to take everything that God has defined and we will define it in the opposite direction.
[00:49:08] Because you see, God created everything, so God defines everything.
[00:49:12] Man wants to be his own God, Genesis 3, 5.
[00:49:15] But man can't create, only God is the creator.
[00:49:19] Therefore, man has to take what God has created and then define it the way he wants.
[00:49:25] And we see that happening in our culture as he redefines marriage and gender and dominion and sin and the family and redefines good and evil and right and wrong that's what's going on because they don't have the foundation of god's word got the foundation of man's word
[00:49:41] letting our sin nature master over us we want to be our own god so we want to define things the way we want that's what's happening and it's a reminder that this is a foundational battle let
[00:49:52] me deal with just one more real quickly issue of death suffering and disease and i already did that at the beginning a little bit but you obviously do what start with Genesis 1 to 11 the origin of
[00:50:05] death that second C as you go through the creation museum corruption everything was very good exceedingly good is what it means no death disease or suffering Adam if you disobey you will die Adam disobeyed origin of sin origin of death now your bodies will die we don't we have an immortal
[00:50:21] immaterial soul we live in our bodies as a tent the apostle Paul says that's what it's like when your body dies you go to be with the lord or separated from god for eternity and because of
[00:50:32] sin god promised a savior that was fulfilled four thousand years later when god's son stepped into history to be the god man god killed animals include adam and eve it's the origin of clothing and that really is the first blood sacrifices as covering for this sin a picture of what was to
[00:50:50] come in jesus christ the lamb of god who takes away our sin and at the creation museum when you see the sacrificial scene, it was a setup of the sacrificial system, but it was pointing
[00:51:03] to the one who would be the ultimate sacrifice.
[00:51:06] Those skins, clothing, reminds us that we have a temporary covering for sin, but we need to be clothed in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ that takes away our sin, and that was fulfilled when Christ died on the cross and raised from the dead.
[00:51:20] For those who trust him, they're clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:51:24] and so Hebrews tells us without the shedding of blood there's no forgiveness of sins the life of the flesh is in the blood because death was a penalty for sin there has to be the giving of
[00:51:34] life the shedding of blood to take the pay the penalty for sin blood but the blood of bulls and goats can't take away our sins because we're not an animal a man brought sin and death into the
[00:51:45] world that's why a man needs to pay the penalty well there's only one man to start with and one woman and we're all descendants of that one man and one woman and none of us can pay the penalty
[00:51:54] for sin because we're all sinners so god steps into history in the person of his son born of a virgin to be the god man the perfect sinless son of god to be a member of the human race and
[00:52:06] he stays the god man right to to be our savior and the redeemed are called the bride of christ and we will dwell with him for eternity wow think about that now if you believe in millions
[00:52:24] of years as a Christian I'm going to challenge you because so many people think it doesn't matter if you believe in millions of years well you see the idea of millions of years came out of atheism
[00:52:33] of the late 18th early 19th century from atheists others deists who are saying how do you explain the fossil record without God it happened over millions of years but in the fossil record there's lots of examples of animals eating each other bones in their stomachs the bible says originally
[00:52:49] Adam and Eve and the animals are all vegetarian. We as humans were told after the flood, just as I gave you the green plants, now I give you everything, which means you can eat everything.
[00:52:59] It's the reason you eat a hot dog, because it is everything, right? If you want to understand a hot dog, you start with Genesis 1 to 11, exactly. See, it's the foundation for everything, even the
[00:53:12] foundation for hot dogs, it is. If you believe in millions of years, you know what's in the fossil record evidence of cancer tumors all sorts of diseases that's a tumor that i showed you earlier
[00:53:23] fossilized dinosaur tumor from the carnegie museum in pittsburgh if all these diseases existed before man and then god said everything is very good you've got god calling cancer very good to believe in millions of years is an attack on the character of god and it undermines the gospel and it
[00:53:40] undermines the authority of the word of god because it undermines the gospel because then death has always been here the bible says death is a judgment because of sin that's why jesus died on the cross and by the way there are thorns in the fossil record said to be hundreds of millions
[00:53:55] years old the bible says thorn came after the curse very definitive these two can't be true at the same time and if that's right how do all layers of fossils get there well how would you
[00:54:05] understand fossils you start with genesis 1 to 11 if there was a global flood you'd expect billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth and then you do the
[00:54:16] same with racism you start from genesis 1 to 11 that 4c confusion god made adam and eve sons and daughters eight went on that great big ship through one door into the ark of salvation picture of
[00:54:28] jesus came off the ark increased in number rebelled at the terror of abel god gave different languages forming different people groups not races we're all one family and science actually confirms that by the way and also you know people say well how do you get black people and you get
[00:54:44] white people, well actually we're all the same skin tone, we're all brown and it's a pigment called melanin, it's a matter of how much or how little you have and so that's understandable because of what happened at the Tower of Babel. Incidentally there's lots of examples of twins
[00:55:01] in the world like that, one dark one light, how could that happen? It's to do with what's in your DNA, the genes that you have and the combinations that can result and so Adam and Eve were probably
[00:55:12] middle brown and in one generation you end up with all shades which can happen if you've got the right combination of genes hey what here's what I'm saying if we raise up generations who have the right foundation know what they believe and why the right worldview equipped with answers
[00:55:30] apologetics to defend the Christian faith we pray and trust they would survive that tornado of moral relativism that's permeating the culture and so the devil knows how do you attack Christianity you attack God's word and in our day the attack has specifically been focused on Genesis 1 to 11
[00:55:48] from outside and inside the church which is why so many people don't know how to deal with these issues or don't deal with them the right way and what our ministry is all about the books that we
[00:55:57] have the ark the creation museum is to help raise up generations who have the right foundation right worldview know what they believe and why and equipped with apologetics answers to be able to defend the Christian faith know how to argue foundationally down here only then can we begin
[00:56:17] to deal with those issues up here and people that's where we need to be it's sort of an introduction for you as to as to how we need to argue foundationally how we need to think
[00:56:27] foundationally that we need to be equipped with apologetics and I'll tell you the more that we're equipped you'll find you'll more boldly preach god's word in the gospel you'll more boldly contend for the faith you'll more boldly teach god's word without compromise and so just let me
[00:56:42] give me a couple of minutes here before we finish to say look we we brought with us out here to california some of the cream of the crop is what i call them of our apologetics worldview materials
[00:56:54] i mentioned this one to you and that is a daily readings book it does what i did in this presentation to practically apply apologetics worldview to our culture in daily readings to equip us in our family wonderful way to do devotions with your family it's a really unique
[00:57:12] devotional book this one is a brand new book to teach you how now there's other books out there answers books to give you specific answers to specific questions this teaches you how to argue and that's what most christians don't know how to do it how to argue foundationally and how to point
[00:57:28] out those uh logical inconsistencies and uh how to uh also point point out logical fallacies and and so on if anyone's interested in the whole history of our ministry by the way i wrote a book
[00:57:42] it's a whole journey and it's a very unique biography it even teaches you it's got teaching throughout it also teaches you how do we know how god is leading us in life and my wife and i
[00:57:53] testimony and how the museum came about all the battles that we had it weighs four pound by the way just let you know okay so I'm sure if the governor Newsome do that he'd tax it some way but hey the core message of our ministry is this
[00:58:09] book what I did today is in this one and then this one which is a sequel to it and also this one a commentary on Genesis 1 to 11 and what we've done we put together some special packs for you the cream of the crop of our worldview
[00:58:22] apologetics books for teens and adults i've mentioned a number of those already this is one on the family roles of men and women how to produce godly offspring evangelism death and suffering from practical examples from our own lives our personal lives actually answering
[00:58:37] questions in a way many have not seen those sorts of ways of doing that foundationally and then this one two of our five answers books answering the most asked questions we have today and you get a
[00:58:52] free box by the way you can see there it's nice color blue so this is a pack for children and most asked questions they ask the gender issue dinosaur salvation one blood you can get them in a special box but if you want both of
[00:59:05] those together answers TV is we have a streaming platform has 7,000 programs on it and if you get both of them together called our super library pack you'll get a free subscription to our answers TV streaming platform has 7,000 programs on
[00:59:22] there and programs for children lots of spanish programs by the way and so i encourage you to consider that it's an instant library for your home or church and there's some other materials that you'll see out there as well including a book on climate change for the family from a
[00:59:41] biblical and scientific perspective and we also have all sorts of curricula you can get online for church biblical world view apologetics curricula church home school christian school Our BBS is one of the most powerful in the world.
[00:59:55] And I know a lot of people watch online, and you know what's interesting?
[00:59:58] What's interesting is that I do meet and greets at the ARC and the Creation Museum, I travel all over America, I've spoken in all 50 states and other parts of the world, and one name that keeps coming up over and over again is,
[01:00:11] oh, do you know Jack Hibbs?
[01:00:14] People watch him online just about everywhere, I think.
[01:00:17] And so many people have said to us, hey, how do we get those same books?
[01:00:20] you've got them there in california uh at the church well you can scan that qr code and uh we will ship them to them free uh because we we want people who watch here to be able to get those
[01:00:34] as well hey you know what there's a hand back to pastor jack to uh close you know what we we've got to understand this is not just an ordinary book this is the history book of the universe
[01:00:46] that god has given us it's not a book you add to your thinking it's the foundation for our thinking in every area and i'll head back yes awesome we're gonna have the worship team come on out everybody

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[01:01:02] and let's all stand right now if you would who's visiting from far away but you're up front you're in the front row how far away boston australia really are you visiting from australia or were
[01:01:16] were you born in Australia? Were you, you're really from Australia? Here you go. God bless you. Oh my goodness. You guys, we're going to get you out of here. You trust me. You're going to
[01:01:31] want to buy these books. And again, if you don't, if you don't like, if you read the book and you don't like the book, I'll buy the book back from you. It's awesome stuff. If you don't know Jesus
[01:01:41] Christ, you better have a really good reason, but guess what? You're not gonna. The God who created you is the God who created Jupiter. He's the God of life. His signature is on science and the Bible
[01:02:00] and you. It's the same God. That's why biblical truth and scientific discovery have never contradicted each other. Think about that. Jesus died on the cross for you and rose again from the grave. Don't miss heaven because you were too proud. Trust him.