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  THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH GOD'S GLORY
  by Alan Martin
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the evidence of God's glory displayed in
creation, urging listeners to actively seek out and study the
intricacies of the natural world as a means to know and appreciate the
wisdom, power, and creativity of the Creator. It highlights the
complexity and diversity of animal and plant life, the finely tuned
nature of our solar system, and the remarkable advancements of mankind
as reflections of God's glory. The message encourages contemplation of
God's handiwork as a pathway to recognizing His greatness and design in
all aspects of life.

Duration: 49:38 Topics: "God's Glory in Creation", "Appreciating Divine Wisdom"
Scripture References: Psalms 19:1, Isaiah 6:1, Psalms 8:3, Romans 1:18, Hebrews 10:26, Psalms 111:1

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This sermon emphasizes the evidence of God's glory displayed in
creation, urging listeners to actively seek out and study the
intricacies of the natural world as a means to know and appreciate the
wisdom, power, and creativity of the Creator. It highlights the
complexity and diversity of animal and plant life, the finely tuned
nature of our solar system, and the remarkable advancements of mankind
as reflections of God's glory. The message encourages contemplation of
God's handiwork as a pathway to recognizing His greatness and design in
all aspects of life.

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Psalms 1, Psalms 19, 1 through 4, says that the earth is filled with the
glory of the Lord in this way, the heavens declare the glory of God, the
skies proclaim the work of his hands, day after day they pour forth
speech, night after night they display knowledge. They have no speech,
they use no words, no sound is heard from them, yet their voice goes out
into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In Isaiah
chapter 6, verses 1 through 3, we read that in the year that King Uzziah
died, I saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on a and the train of his
road filled the temple, and above him were seraphim, each with six
wings, with two wings they covered their faces, with two wings they
covered their feet, and with two wings they were flying, and they were
calling to one another, holy, holy, holy is the Lord almighty, the whole
earth is full of his glory, and that means that the whole earth is full
of the glory of the Lord, are we seeing it? It's clearly full, we may
not see of it, it is full, and those who have eyes to see, see it.

Now the Hebrew word for here, for glory here, is kavod, it has the idea
of an abundance, honor, splendor, grandeur, riches, it can be external,
or it can be the wealth of circumstances, it can mean awesome in
reputation, and this is the idea that is expressed in Psalms chapter 8,
verses 3 through 6, when I consider your heavens the work of your
fingers, the moon and stars which you have set in place, what is man
that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him,
you've made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with
glory and honor, you've made him rulers over the works of your hands,
you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, even the
beast of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that
pass through the paths of the seas, you know Jesus referred himself to
himself as the son of man, you know what I'm wondering if he was doing
in that, I am the one who God intended to be made, I am the man that God
made, I'm the son of man, the one that the Lord crowned with glory, this
is all other mankind had fallen into corruption, but here is a man,
fully man that God had made like he had originally desired for men to
be, Christ the son of man, yeah Rudy. Yeah right, he sure was, that's
right, now it's interesting the Greek word you can see here in toward
the middle of the page here, the Greek word for glory is the word doxa,
you've heard the term doxology, it's a song that we used to sing growing
up in church, praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all
creatures here below, praise him ye heavenly hosts, praise father son
and holy ghost, well the word doxa comes from the Greek root family
doceo, which means to think, so the idea of glory and the word doxa is
something that so arrests your attention, that it causes you to think
about it, you focus on it and to try to understand it, it's something
that grabs your attention and holds it so that you're thinking about it,
and that's the idea of the Greek word doxa, glory, so we see that the
earth is filled with things of splendor, grandeur, riches, and things
that capture our attention and cause us to think about the ability, the
knowledge, the wisdom, and power of the one who created them, beholding
and thinking upon the displays of God's wisdom and power is
contemplating his glory, so the earth is filled with things that are
created and designed to do this very thing, to cause us to think upon
them, and in thinking upon them we see the incredible wisdom and power
and ability and creativity of God the creator, and Paul so knew that
this was the reason for created things that he wrote in Romans chapter 1
here at the bottom of page 1 verses 18 and 20, Romans 1 18 to 20, for
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, now
what truth do you think they're suppressing, how about this truth, what
the heavens are declaring, what the skies are proclaiming day after day,
and what the nights are displaying, that God's power and his ability and
his wisdom and his understanding are on display, but men are suppressing
that in saying we can't know there's a God, these are just things that
come about by a process we can't explain, they call it natural selection
and undirected random processes, it is, and verse 19 it says, because
what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to
them, for since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and godhead, so that these men who are suppressing the
truth, even though the evidence is right there in front of them, they
see it, they're without excuse, so on page two that question again I
addressed that, what truth is being suppressed, the truth of God's
dynamic wisdom, power and ability to create and to sustain the universe
and all that's in it, and so although the universe and the earth is
continually proclaiming God's power and ability, these men suppress the
evidence and they develop all kinds of elaborate theories, don't they,
attempt to explain these complexities of life by using only natural
processes, there's not, they don't want to say there's anything divine,
they refuse to acknowledge that God created the heavens and the earth,
he brought into being that from nothing, so this is what Paul was
saying, Paul was saying that the visible things of creation provide
undeniable proof, undeniable proof to all mankind of the invisible
creative power and ability of God, and this is obvious, you look at a
beautiful painting and immediately what do you think, the skill of the
artist, you understand how skilled the artist was to be able to do that,
you don't ever think it just happened by itself, so what some paint fell
out of the sky, it happened to land on this canvas and it just happened
to take this shape, no one thinks that, when you see how things are put
together, you immediately know that the artist who put them together, it
was his talent and his ability that you're looking at, so Paul
continues, you're insane, Romans chapter 1 verses 21 and 23, he, well,
let me, before I read those verses, let's back up just real quick, Paul
does say that these men, they are without excuse, and the word without
excuse means is they have no defense, they have no logical defense to
explain their denial of the evidence, and we as Christians, we need to
be humble, but we do not need to be intimidated by this theory of
evolution, this theory that it just, it all began with some big bang,
not directed by anything, it just merely natural processes and after
billions and billions of years, somewhere back, the earth actually
cooled and actually formed and then water happened and then some, out of
some primordial soup, these proteins kind of came together and formed
the first organic living thing and from that simple organic living
thing, single-celled organism came everything we see, all forms of life
we see now, this, that is a, that is a theory that is just man-made
pride in the brain and a denial of the evidence that God has really set
forth, so Paul goes on in verse 21 and 23, because they knew God, or
although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were
thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts
were darkened, professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the
glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man
and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Now, I have a
thought about this portion of the passage, that this particular portion
of what Paul is saying might refer to the people of Israel, because they
knew God, God had revealed himself to the fathers, to Enoch, to Noah, to
Abraham, to Isaac and Jacob, God had redeemed the nation of Israel from
the land of Egypt and brought, called them into covenant with himself,
gave them his laws, other nations didn't have that revelation, and we
see in Jeremiah chapter 2, this is what the Lord told Jeremiah in verses
10 to 13 of Jeremiah chapter 2, for past beyond the coast of Cyprus and
sea, send a cadar and consider diligently and see if there has been such
a thing, has a nation changed its gods? See, that was the question then,
these other nations didn't change their gods, they kept the gods that
they thought, I mean, they weren't right, but they at least kept what
they thought was God, which are not God, but my people have changed
their glory for what does not profit, you see, changed their glory, the
glory of the invisible God for images, that seems to describe the people
of Israel most clearly.

Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and
four-footed animals and creeping things, so that's what I think refers
to God's people in particular, because they, you know that they knew
God, God revealed himself to them and they were the only ones who were
expressly forbidden, thou shalt make of me no graven image, do not
attempt to represent who I am by anything you imagine and create with
your hands, but they exchanged what they knew for graven images and
became like them, and the Lord said over and over, all who make them
shall become like them, deaf and dumb, they can't speak, they can't see,
and that's what happens when we develop these mad many theories, because
you know, after all, a graven image begins in one's imagination, you
imagine what God would be like and how he would be represented, so you
use your imagination, you picture something and you create an image
according to your imagination, and it is such a vain thing, and it is
really sad, because the Jews, they were experts in the law and also in
the history, and yet they allow themselves to follow the practices you
are talking about, and let me share with you a danger of particularly a
group of people who has received knowledge about God, look at what the
very bottom of page 2 in your notes, 2 Peter chapter 2, 22-22, for if
after they have escaped the pollution of the world through the knowledge
of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them
and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning, for
it would have been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness than having known it to turn from the holy commandment
delivered to them, but it has happened to them according to the true
proverb, a dog returns to its own vomit, and a sow having washed to her
wallowing in the mud, so do you see it's to know who God is, and to turn
away from what you have known is a far greater sin than not having
known, because God's judgment is based upon accountability, and Peter
actually says it here, it would have been better not to have known than
having known to turn away, so why would he say that the latter end is
worse than the first, well in the first you didn't know and you're
ignorant, but once God has revealed himself and made you know, he showed
you mercy and he forgave you, and he brought you into relationship with
himself, well having known that and having experienced his mercy and
escaped the corruption of the world, knowing that and turning away,
there's no hope, there's no reconciliation after that, the latter end is
worse than the first, at the first you could be saved out of that, but
consciously rejecting God when you know is unpardonable, there's no
pardon for that, that's something that I believe that we should not let
any systematic theology undermine, we should take the warnings in
scripture as serious as they are, because there are some systematic
theologies that churches have written and come together and men have
agreed upon that just make passages like this meaningless, well that's
really not talking about someone who's really knows the Lord, well Peter
uses the term it would have been better for them not to have known, they
knew the Lord, we just take the warnings of the Bible for what they say,
and Jesus himself underscored this same general truth about
accountability being the foundation for God's judgment, remember when he
talks about the servants, two servants, one servant who does not know
his master's will and does not do it, he's only beaten with few blows,
his punishment is less, but a servant who knows his master's will and
does not do it is beaten with many blows, and then he adds for to whom
much is given, much is required, and so from the book of Genesis all the
way to the end of the Bible, the revelation, you'll see that God's
judgment on people has always been based upon accountability for what
they know, he was never severe with his own people Israel until after
the prophets had pled with them for years and years and years and made
it very clear what they were doing wrong, pled with them to return to
him, and once it became undeniably clear that they were refusing to
receive correction, they just stiffened their neck and they rejected
every attempt he made, then his judgments were severe, and it's
difficult to even read the passages, some people reject the Bible
because they can't handle the severity of how God dealt with his own
people, sending foreign armies and laying siege to a city to the point
to where they were eating the dead who died from starvation, it was
severe acts of God, but only for the extreme conscience rejection of his
every attempt to turn them back to himself, and this is what Hebrews is
saying here, look here in Hebrews chapter 10 verses 26 to 31, for if we
sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, that's
what's critical here, if you sin intentionally on purpose consciously
after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sin, but a fear certain fearful expectation of
judgment and a fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries,
anyone who has rejected in the Greek it's atithemi, who said it not, to
take out of his place, and that's not sinning because you were trying to
keep it, this is a broad term, they rejected the entire law of Moses and
they decided we're going to live like what we want, we're going to
worship these idols, we're going to conform to how these people want to
live, and so to do that you simply had to reject the law of Moses, now
in our day people don't reject the law of Moses, they reject the
scripture, what they do is they just decide I am not going to live by
the Bible anymore, and it is a conscience intentional rejection, and so
the Bible is no longer the lamp to their feet or a light to their path,
it's they no longer hiding the word in their hearts that they may not
sin against God, it is a conscience turning their back upon the
scriptures so that they can live according to what they desire to do,
and they even find support, they look for men and teachers who actually
support these things, it's not a, so this sin of the people here is they
rejected the law of Moses, anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies
without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses of how much
worse punishment do you suppose will he be thought worthy who has
trampled the son of God underfoot, that means done acted in a way that
is trampling upon Jesus name, dragging it through the mud, making it
meaningless, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was
sanctified a common thing and insulted the spirit of grace, who we know
him who said vengeance is mine, I will repay, and God will do this for
the sake of his own name, so ultimately God is love, but when people
trample upon his name when he is attempting to love them and show them
mercy, what is he going to act upon, here he is concerned for his name
and he loves men, it's not always going to be, well he's not going to be
severe because he loves, there's going to come a time when though he is
loved, he will act for the sake of his name, that's why there is
judgment, that's why the future of the world for the ungodly and those
who refuse to repent and those who don't will not submit to the Lord,
will receive this kind of judgment, don't forget Luke, the gospel of
Luke, the parable of the talents, not in Matthew but in in the parable
of the talents in Luke, Luke remembered and remember Luke did the
investigation, so in Luke's investigation when he was asking the
disciples about that parable, here's what they remembered talking to
Luke, they remembered that Jesus included in the parable that a man went
off to be made king and a group of citizens followed him and said we
don't want this man to be king and that the man had given servants
talents and told them to be faithful when he would return, well the man
did return and after he finished dealing with the servants who had the
talents, which is similar to Matthew, Luke adds something that Matthew
doesn't have, after he finishes dealing with the servants he says and
bring those who did not want me to be king and slay them in front of me,
that is the severity that Jesus is predicting will happen for those who
conscientiously refuse to submit to him as Lord and this is what this is
his own words that we're going by, now I don't want that to be the focus
of our study but Paul makes this apparent, we don't see it as much from
in our English language as it is in the Greek because when Paul says
that the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all men
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and
unrighteousness, the word there is just, it's a simmering, it's not the
released fury, it's simmering, God simmers over this now and someday
it's going to come like a flood that is released, the dam is going to
break and what God has been containing himself for many many many
hundreds and hundreds of years, his wrath will break forth like a pent-
up flood and suddenly destruction will be swift and complete
annihilation of the ungodly and it's because of all that he has done,
all the goodness he's shown to man, all the evidence he has provided for
man, it's not arbitrary, it will be very judicial, righteous and God is
just in his judgment so in the middle of page three I think we are,
evidence of God's glory is on display everywhere on the earth, every day
and that evidence is a universal language heard by everyone, every
continent, every tribe, every people know from seeing the evidence that
there is a God who created it, everyone does, that's what Paul meant by
day after day creation makes its speech and night after night God's
knowledge is displayed and in addition to this Solomon under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit described wisdom as a woman, just it's
called a personification, so that you could picture in your mind this
elegant lady who goes out in attempting to influence men to turn from
how they're living and listen to her and here's what she says, does not
wisdom cry out and understanding lift her voice, she takes her stand,
look where she takes her stand, on the top of the high hill so that
everyone can see, beside the way where the paths meet, she cries out by
the gates at the entrance of the city, at the entrance of the doors and
what does she say, she says to you oh men I call, it's not just amen,
she's calling to many, I call and my voice is to the sons of men, oh you
simple ones, understand prudent and you fools be of an understanding
heart, listen for I will speak of excellent things and from the opening
of my lips will come right things, for my mouth will speak truth,
wickedness is an abomination to my lips, all the words of my mouth are
with righteousness, nothing is crooked or perverse in them, they are all
plain to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge,
receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than choice
gold, for wisdom is better than rubies and all the things one may desire
cannot be compared with her, this is the next chapter, Proverbs chapter
9, wisdom is personified again, here's the woman again, wisdom has built
her house, she has shewn out her seven pillars, she has slaughtered her
meat, she's preparing his feast, she has mixed her wine, she has
furnished her table and she has sent out her maidens, she cries out from
the highest places of the city, whoever is simple let him turn in here,
as for him who lacks understanding she says to him, come eat my bread,
drink of the wine I have mixed, forsake foolishness and live and go in
the way of understanding, so what you see here, what is God doing, why
does he give these kind of illustrations, why does he say creation is
calling out every day and every day during every night knowledge is
being displayed and why is he saying that his wisdom is like a lady seen
everywhere, at the highest point of the city, all where the paths meet,
the very entrance to the city, so that everyone is going to hear, what
he's establishing is, I am making myself know, so can I say something to
you, all of us have family members and if they're not walking in the
Lord, it's not because they don't know, they don't want to see, they
don't want to know, there is no excuse, don't think and now sin is
deceitful, we can say that, so they've deceived themselves into an
ignorance, but it is a self-imposed ignorance, they are willingly
ignorant and so don't think it's because they just don't know any
better, the reason they do not know better is despite the fact that
there's so much evidence of God's power everywhere, in every nation,
every continent, every people and that he causes his wisdom to be heard,
they just don't want to listen and it shows how much he wants to be
known, that's the good thing to me, he wants to be known, he is not
trying to hide from people and we don't want to think that because he
could not hold men accountable, if he had not gone to such lengths to
make himself known, done everything he could to make that. All right,
page four, Psalms 111 verses 1 through 4 and here's where we're going to
end our Bible study on this note, because knowing that God wants to be
known, all we have to do is respond and seek him out, you know, seek ye
first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, Psalms 111 through 4,
praise the Lord, I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the
assembly of the upright and in the congregation, the works of the Lord
are great, they are studied by all who have pleasure in them, I think
that King James says they are pondered by all who have delight in them,
the idea is they are sought out, that's the idea, the works of the Lord
are sought out by all who have pleasure in them, his work is honorable
and glorious and his righteousness endures forever and he has made his
wonderful works to be remembered, I mean they are there for us to
recall, so sought out indicates that a person actively makes the time
and effort to consider, to think about and evaluate, all right, you make
the time to do it, you choose to give what God has created a place in
your mind to ponder it, study it, think about it, concentrate on it, so
that you can get the message that is there in it, and as we
intentionally evaluate the qualities of the things that are visible that
we can see, they reveal the attributes of the invisible God who created
them, we get to know the author, we get to know the artist, we get to
know the creator, we get to know the builder, we get to know the
architect from studying what he has made, what he has painted, what he
has built, what he has designed, what he has created, and the evidence
of his wisdom, understanding, knowledge, skill, ability is overwhelming,
when we stop to think about it and we don't numb ourselves by TV shows
and other things that men do, you know, drugs and recreation and
following a sport, to just give their minds to these things, we could
spend time contemplating, getting to know who God is by thinking about
and focusing on the evidence that he's left us for who he is. So, let's
just discuss in this last little part of our study, let's discuss how we
can search out and evaluate the evidence of creation.

So, we can learn about and study about the diversity and complexity of
animal life, just animal life. Is there something for you to think
about? You know, there are 8.7 million different forms of animal life.
Now, I want you to think about this, one mind designed every one.

Now, when you look at a new car, you love to study its features,
especially if you're interested in purchasing it, or a bike, you know,
whatever it is you're studying, you think about who made it, and how it
was made, and what's special about what it's made. 8.7 million
specifically designed forms of animal life. Every one of them amazing,
every one of them unique, and special, and you, there's no end, there's
no way you can think, you can think of one almost continually now till
the rest of your life, and you won't even get very far down the list.

There's so much to think about, when you, and especially if you study,
and in our day and time, we have the help of social media, we have
YouTube, we have a history channel, we have science, of course they're
always spouting, a lot of those are their evolutionary theories, but you
have a chance to see things through media that your natural eyes never
have seen. You can see animals in the ocean, in the rivers, you can see
animals from places on the earth that you don't have to visit anymore.
There's no excuse for us not to ponder the amazing diversity of God's
ability to actually design and create the animals He has done.

Because when you think about something, someone thinking about it, and
deciding, I'm going to make it this way, and bringing it about, who can
do that? That's just, that's amazing. And when you ponder that, it does
something in your heart and your spirit toward the Lord. You are
thinking, what you're studying has caught your attention, you're
thinking about it, that is glory.

You're seeing God's glory, because His glory means you, oh, that's my
thought, that's the creator, that's God, and that's what He's talking
about. The earth is full of His glory. It's full.

Everywhere you look, you see evidence of who He is. Just the animal life
is just one example. Plant life.

You can study the earth's plant life. There are 320,000 different
species of plant life. You can study just the way plants are built, how
they grow.

It's just, just, just, you could spend years just studying the different
plants in your own yard. Studying, everyone is this dynamically complex
and amazing. You know, in the 1800s, when some of the early theories of
evolution and natural selection were first written about and published,
they did not have the ability to see how complex life was.

Now, they keep thinking that they're going to come down to the base area
and find it when they study cells, and the further they go, the more
complex it appears. They're actually beginning to think that they may
actually discover an infinite complexity. They'll never figure it all
out.

It's because they have so much more, they've developed so many more
means to study in depth and see things that they couldn't see before.
Another thing we can do is we can study the earth's unique place within
the context of our solar system. I enjoy doing this.

What I mean by our solar system, so you understand that, is that that's
just our particular sun and the nine planets and their moons that are in
this particular solar system. Remember, our solar system is just one
little part of the Milky Way galaxy. It's just a small little section of
this galaxy.

Our solar system is so finely tuned, the earth is in the exact place it
needs to be distance-wise from the sun. It's in the exact orbital place.
Even the big planets, Jupiter and Saturn, do a job.

They're vacuum cleaners to keep all the asteroids that would come and
could destroy the earth. Every single planet has its special role to
help in our particular solar system. You might wonder, what's the odds
of there being another one like us? This is what they say.

Here's what happens. Because they see so many stars at first, they say,
it's got to be super likely because there's so many universes. But the
more they understand how finely tuned our own solar system, how
perfectly designed it is for life on earth, the more they say it's
unlikely that you'll ever find anything like this.

Right now, they consider it to be a 1 in 60 billion chance. 1 in 60
billion. That they could find another earth-like planet that would be so
favorable.

They're going to be looking. They figure that 1 in 60 billion is not a
very likely chance. They estimate that there are 200 billion galaxies.

That's all they can see so far. They don't know how far they're going to
be able to see. That's what this new satellite is going to hopefully see
even further.

Right now, they think there's an estimate of about 200 billion galaxies.
How many stars would there be? They say 200 billion trillion. 200
billion trillion stars.

What they're saying is, what they're realizing is that the laws that
comprise our universe and our solar system are so finely tuned that if
they were off even a fraction that is hard to even express
mathematically, if gravity was any stronger, it would suck. All planets
would be sucked back into each other. So the laws of energy and gravity
and motion are so finely tuned that the mathematical probability that it
could have just happened randomly is just, it's beyond.

Some atheists have come to the point to say it's not possible that it
was not designed. They're calling it the finely tuned or the
cosmological constant because these laws, and if you study it, and there
are ways on YouTube that you can go and find certain Christian science
institutes that speak with experts, and they will show you. They're not
afraid of the laws of physics, because what they see is they see the
power and wisdom and glory and honor of God in it all.

That's what they see. And basically, the reason I'm doing this is to
encourage you in this way. When you begin to search out and study and
focus on what the Lord has made, you're going to experience something
that the writer of the song How Great Thou Art did.

Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds thy
hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power
throughout the universe displayed. Then what happens? Then sings my
soul. Because you're overwhelmed to think, when you start thinking this
was designed.

At times I'm sitting, I'm on a hot summer day, and the evaporation, that
cool air blowing across your skin, and you feel the cool, and just to
think, someone designed that. That's not what happened, they designed
that. Or that feeling of that warm blanket on a cold night.

Someone designed that. You know, they designed soft and hard. Yes.

The scripture says, things that eyes have not seen are prepared for
those who love God. And when we focus on searching these things out,
what it's going to lead you to do, is where the writer of this hymn is,
you're going to just say in your heart, how great. I mean, God is going
to become great, great to you.

So this is what the scripture is saying. That's why I started this study
tonight. The earth is filled with his glory.

It's everywhere. The evidences, the visible things that he has made,
complexity, diversity, intricacy, power, just the elements that he has
placed there. And one last thing, and we'll close, in this particularly,
is evidence.

Just consider man, what I consider man, mankind. Our own country was
founded, you know, we became the United States. The colonies joined
together and declared independence in the 1700s.

So not quite 300 years, 250, coming on 300 years, they were starting to
sell the Americas, maybe the 350 years. So let's say we've known, we can
at least look back and 300 years, same horses are here, same dogs, bird
life. What have they done? What have they learned to do in 300 years?
What did they learn to do? You see any animals performing surgeries? You
see any animals making cars? And yet, one animal, man, in 300 years has
gone from just continue to develop and continue to grow and has
separated themselves in ability and knowledge and understanding and
capability leaps and bounds, leaps and bounds.

But if man is created in God's image, it cannot be an animal? Well, we
are a mammal, we are a mammal. And this affirms what the scripture says
that man was made in God's image and likeness and he was given dominion.
You can see it, you can see it, just don't be afraid to look.

We did not come from some kind of line of monkeys that just kept getting
smarter and smarter. I mean, look, men have been watching monkeys for
thousands of years, they haven't changed. And they think it's remarkable
that a monkey can pick a stick up and stick it in an ant hole and ants
get on it and eat it.

Look at that, how great that is. And in the same length of time, mankind
has gone to the moon. Mankind has developed cars that are so reliable
that we can zip down the highway at 75 miles an hour and not even think
about it.

And we have power and combustion and fire and cooling all going on at
the same time. It's incredible what men can do. And so that's just one
of my, what I want to encourage us tonight is contemplate what God has
made.

Contemplate the evidence of his creation. And it may be a good place to
start with your family members who no longer want to look at the Bible.
Maybe they're not open to the scriptures.

Man, can't you talk about the amazing complexity and diversity that is
evident everywhere? Because more and more scientists are realizing they
don't have the answer. And the likelihood that this dynamic creation
that we're living in just came about by happenstance, it's not likely at
all. We can't explain it.

We don't have all the answers, but neither do they. Anyway, we just
contemplate the glory of God.

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