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"HOW DO WE KNOW
FOR CERTAIN..."
IS A QUESTION THAT MAN
HAS ASKED FOR A MYRIAD OF
THINGS THROUGHOUT TIME.
"HOW DO I KNOW MY
PURPOSE IN LIFE?"
OR "HOW DO I KNOW WHAT
COMES AFTER DEATH?"
OR MOST IMPORTANTLY "HOW
DO I KNOW THERE IS A GOD?"
A QUESTION LIKE THAT IS SO
INTRICATE AND IN-DEPTH,
HOW DO YOU EVEN
BEGIN TO ANSWER IT?
CS LEWIS COMMENTS ON THIS
IMPORTANT QUESTION SAYING,
"MY ARGUMENT AGAINST GOD
WAS THAT THE UNIVERSE
SEEMED SO CRUEL
AND UNJUST.
BUT HOW HAD I GOT THIS
IDEA OF JUST AND UNJUST?
A MAN DOES NOT CALL A LINE
CROOKED UNLESS HE HAS SOME
IDEA OF A STRAIGHT LINE."
SIMPLY PUT, IF THERE
WASN'T A GOD, THEN HOW
WOULD WE KNOW THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD
AND EVIL, RIGHT AND WRONG?
DR. KENNEDY POSES THIS
VERY QUESTION AND ANSWERS
WITH STRONG REASONING IN
HIS SERMON, "HOW I KNOW
THERE IS A GOD."
MAY WE HEAR NOW THE WORD
OF GOD AS IT'S FOUND IN
THE 14TH PSALM.
PSALM 14, VERSE 1.
MAY WE HEAR THE INSPIRED
WORD OF THE LIVING GOD.
AND MAY GOD SPEAK TO US
TODAY THROUGH THIS PORTION
OF HIS HOLY WORD, AND MAY
HIS NAME EVER BE PRAISED.
AMEN.
THERE IS NO MORE PROFOUND
QUESTION THAT YOU CAN ASK
THAN THIS: IS THERE A GOD?
MORTIMER ADLER, THE FAMOUS
SCHOLAR AND EDUCATOR,
EDITOR OF THE GREAT BOOKS
OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION,
SAYS IN HIS GREAT IDEAS
SYNTOPICON, WHICH IS THE
TOPICAL INDEX FOR THE
GREAT BOOKS, HE SAYS THAT
ALMOST EVERY WRITER IN
WESTERN CIVILIZATION HAS
WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF
GOD WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
A FEW PURE MATHEMATICIANS.
THE CHAPTER ON GOD IS THE
LARGEST IN THESE VOLUMES.
"THE REASON FOR THAT,"
HE SAYS, "IS OBVIOUS."
THAT IS THAT MORE
CONSEQUENCES FOR THOUGHT
AND ACTION RESULT FROM THE
AFFIRMATION OR DENIAL OF
GOD THAN FROM ANY
OTHER BASIC QUESTION."
INDEED, THE ENTIRE TENOR
OF OUR LIVES WILL BE
COMPLETELY AFFECTED BY
THE ANSWER THAT WE GIVE.
TODAY, I WOULD LIKE TO
SPEAK TO YOU ON WHAT MAY
SEEM TO SOME TO BE AN
AUDACIOUS SUBJECT, AND
THAT IS, HOW I KNOW
THAT THERE IS A GOD.
NOW, IN AN AGE WHEN MANY
PEOPLE FEEL THAT YOU CAN'T
KNOW ANYTHING, TO SAY THAT
I KNOW THAT THERE IS A
GOD, OF ALL THINGS, WOULD
SEEM TO THEM TO BE UTTERLY
PREPOSTEROUS, BUT I
BELIEVE THAT IT IS NOT.
I THINK THAT THE SCRIPTURE
VERY CLEARLY TELLS US THAT
WE CAN KNOW GOD.
IN FACT, IT SAYS THIS IS
ETERNAL LIFE THAT YOU MAY
KNOW GOD, THE ONLY TRUE
GOD IN JESUS CHRIST WHOM
HE HATH SENT.
SO, HOW DO I KNOW
THERE IS A GOD?
LET ME SET FORTH SEVERAL
CLASSIC ARGUMENTS FOR THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD BROUGHT
UP TO DATE IN LIGHT OF
SOME MODERN SCIENTIFIC
FINDINGS THAT CERTAINLY
HAVE AN IMPACT UPON THEM.
ONE OF THE OLDEST, OF
COURSE GOING ALL THE WAY
BACK TO ARISTOTLE, IS
CALLED THE COSMOLOGICAL
ARGUMENT.
THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
IS BASICALLY AN ARGUMENT
THAT SAYS THAT FOR EVERY
EFFECT THERE MUST BE AN
ADEQUATE CAUSE.
YOU CAN REMEMBER THE
COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT IS
AN ARGUMENT FROM CAUSE.
IT MIGHT HELP YOU TO
REMEMBER THAT THEY BOTH
BEGIN WITH "C"- CAUSE AND
COSMOLOGICAL: COSMOLOGICAL
SIMPLY MEANS THE STUDY OF
THE COSMOS, THE UNIVERSE.
IF WE ARE LOOKING FOR
ARGUMENTS OR PROOFS FOR
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, THEN
WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOK
UNDER A TABLE OR IN
A CORNER SOMEWHERE.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
IS LOOK ABOUT YOU.
THE UNIVERSE IS THE
BIGGEST THING THAT THERE
IS, PHYSICALLY, AND IN
ITSELF IS THE GREATEST
PROOF FOR THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD.
THIS HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
OF THINKING MEN.
THE UNIVERSE IS THE
GREATEST, LARGEST ARGUMENT
FOR GOD.
NOTICE, IF THE UNIVERSE
EXISTS, AND WE ALL AGREE
THAT IT DOES, THEN
THERE ARE ONLY THREE
EXPLANATIONS FOR IT.
ONE, IT IS ETERNAL.
NOW, THERE WAS A TIME
WHEN THERE WERE MEN THAT
BELIEVED THAT, BUT
WITH MODERN SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES, IT IS NO
LONGER POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE
THAT.
SCIENTISTS, FOR THE LAST
150 YEARS HAVE BEEN
SCURRYING AROUND TRYING
TO AVOID THE PLAIN
IMPLICATIONS OF THE MODERN
LAWS THAT THEY HAVE
DISCOVERED THAT CLEARLY
INDICATE THE UNIVERSE IS
NOT ETERNAL.
THE GREAT LAW, WHICH
IS THE MOST THOROUGHLY
DOCUMENTED OF ALL OF
THE LAWS OF SCIENCE,
THE SECOND LAW OF
THERMODYNAMICS, THE LAW OF
ENTROPY, WHICH SAYS THAT
EVERYTHING IS RUNNING
DOWN.
EVERYTHING IS
LOSING ENERGY.
EVERYTHING IS WEARING
OUT- GROWING OLD.
SO, IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT
IF THE UNIVERSE WERE
ETERNAL, IT WOULD
ALREADY HAVE RUN DOWN.
THE UNIVERSE AND
EVERYTHING HAS A TENDENCY
TO DISTRIBUTE ITS HEAT
EQUALLY INTO ALL PARTS OF
THE UNIVERSE.
THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW
IS TRYING TO MAKE EVERY
SQUARE FOOT OF THE
UNIVERSE THE SAME
TEMPERATURE, SO THE SUNS
ARE GETTING COOLER AND THE
SPACE IS GRADUALLY
RECEIVING MORE AND MORE
ENERGY.
AS IF, IF YOU WERE TO SET
A GLASS OF HOT WATER AND A
GLASS OF FREEZING COLD
WATER DOWN ON A TABLE AND
COME BACK IN A DAY, YOU
WOULD FIND THAT THEY WOULD
BOTH BE THE SAME
TEMPERATURE.
AND SO IT WILL BE
ULTIMATELY, IF THE
UNIVERSE CONTINUES
LONG ENOUGH.
THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
WOULD BE THE SAME TEPID
TEMPERATURE.
THERE WOULD BE NO FREEZING
SPACE, THERE WOULD BE NO
BLAZING SUN.
YET, THE UNIVERSE HAS NOT
RUN DOWN, THEREFORE, IT IS
NOT ETERNAL.
EFFORTS RECENTLY TO HAVE
AN OSCILLATING UNIVERSE TO
AVOID THIS HAVE ALL FALLEN
AFOUL OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES WHICH MAKE IT
ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT
THE UNIVERSE
CANNOT BE ETERNAL.
SECOND POSSIBILITY- IF
IT'S NOT ETERNAL, MAYBE IT
IS SELF-CREATED- THAT IT
CREATED ITSELF OUT OF
NOTHING.
WELL, THERE IS ANOTHER
SCIENTIFIC LAW, SOMETIMES
EXPRESSED IN THIS WAY, "EX
NIHILO, NIHIL FIT," WHICH
MEANS, "OUT OF NOTHING,
NOTHING COMES."
NOTHING PRODUCES NOTHING,
AND THE UNIVERSE CANNOT
HAVE PRODUCED ITSELF
OUT OF NOTHING.
IN FACT, THAT FLIES INTO
THE FACE OF THE FIRST LAW
OF THERMODYNAMICS WHICH
SAYS PRECISELY THAT-
THAT NOTHING PRODUCES
NOTHING.
A THIRD POSSIBILITY IS
THAT IT WAS CREATED BY
SOMEONE WHO IS HIMSELF
ETERNAL, AND THAT IS THE
FIRST STATEMENT OF THE
BIBLE THAT "IN THE
BEGINNING, GOD CREATED THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH."
THAT IS THE MOST
SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT THAT
HAS EVER BEEN MADE
ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE
UNIVERSE.
SO IN LIGHT OF ALL OF THE
MODERN DISCOVERIES ABOUT
THE UNIVERSE, IT IS
BECOMING INCREASINGLY
CLEAR THAT THE UNIVERSE
ITSELF IS A GREAT ARGUMENT
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
EVEN DR. ROBERT JASTROW,
ONE OF THE LEADING SPACE
SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD,
THE HEAD OF THE US
INSTITUTE FOR SPACE
STUDIES, THE FOUNDER AND
HEAD OF THE GODDARD SPACE
INSTITUTE FOR NASA, I HAVE
HAD DINNER WITH DR.
JASTROW AND WE HAVE
DISCUSSED THESE THINGS,
AND HE HAS SAID IN HIS
WRITINGS, THAT MODERN
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
MAKE IT EASIER AND EASIER
FOR THE SCIENTIST TO
BELIEVE THAT HERE IS A
GOD- IN FACT, MAKE IT
HARDER AND HARDER FOR
ANYONE TO BELIEVE THAT
THERE IS NOT.
SECONDLY, AND BEYOND THE
UNIVERSE, THERE IS THE
PRESENCE OF LIFE ITSELF.
STILL, FROM A COSMOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE, AS THE CAUSE
OF LIFE, WHERE DID
THIS LIFE COME FROM?
THE WORLD TEEMS WITH LIFE.
THIS SANCTUARY IS PACKED
WITH LIVING CREATURES.
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
WELL, IT USED TO BE
HELD THAT LIFE AROSE BY
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION-
FLIES, MAGGOTS COMING INTO
EXISTENCE ON PUTRID MEAT,
AND FROGS COMING OUT OF
THE SLIME OF BOGS.
WELL, THAT WAS PROVED TO
BE FALSE BY PASTEUR AND
REDDI.
AND SO THAT WAS ABANDONED-
THAT LIFE WAS NOT COMING
INTO EXISTENCE FROM
NON-LIFE TODAY AND SO THEY
RETREATED TO THE DIM PAST.
AND THEY SAID THAT THOUGH
LIFE IS NOT SPONTANEOUSLY
COMING INTO EXISTENCE
TODAY, IT DID DO SO
MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO- IN
FACT, 2 BILLION YEARS AGO,
THEY LIKE TO SAY.
VERY INTERESTINGLY, THE
DISCOVERIES THAT HAVE
TAKEN PLACE IN THE LAST
DECADE OR SO HAVE SHOWN
THE IMPOSSIBILITY
OF THAT HAPPENING.
FOR EXAMPLE, PROTEIN WHICH
NOT TOO MANY YEARS AGO WAS
THE MOST COMPLEX SUBSTANCE
KNOWN TO MAN, PROTEIN
MOLECULES BY THE HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS GO TO MAKE UP
A CELL.
AND THEY THEMSELVES ARE SO
COMPLEX- SO DIFFERENT FROM
THE WORLD OF CHARLES
DARWIN, 150 YEARS 25 OR 30
YEARS AGO, WHO FREQUENTLY
TALKED ABOUT A SIMPLE
SINGLE CELL.
WE KNOW NOW THAT THE
COMPLEXITY OF THE PROTEIN
MOLECULE ITSELF IS SUCH
THAT LECOMPTE DUNOUY, A
FRENCH NOBEL PRIZE WINNING
MATHEMATICIAN AND ONE OF
THE WORLD'S GREAT EXPERTS
IN PROBABILITY STUDIES,
SAID THAT THE
PROBABILITIES OF EVEN ONE
PROTEIN MOLECULE, ONE OF
THE THOUSANDS OF BUILDING
BLOCKS OF THE CELL COMING
INTO EXISTENCE, IT WOULD
TAKE 10 TO THE 234 BILLION
YEARS TO PRODUCE ONE
PROTEIN MOLECULE.
SOME OF YOU, I AM SURE,
DON'T APPRECIATE WHAT THAT
MEANS.
PROBABILITY EXPERTS
HAVE SAID THAT IF THE
PROBABILITIES OF ANYTHING
COMING INTO EXISTENCE ARE
GREATER THAN 10 TO THE
50TH POWER, IT WILL NEVER
HAPPEN ANYWHERE IN THE
UNIVERSE, REGARDLESS OF
HOW MUCH TIME IN THE
ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE
UNIVERSE, 10 TO THE 50TH.
TO SIMPLY GET ONE PROTEIN
MOLECULE, 10 TO THE 234TH
POWER- NOT 234 BILLION,
BUT 234 ZEROS BILLIONS
OF YEARS.
WELL, THEN THEY DISCOVERED
SOMETHING EVEN MORE
COMPLEX- DNA.
DRS. WATSON AND CRICK
DISCOVERED THE KEY, THE
CENTRAL BRAIN OF LIFE IN
THE NUCLEUS OF A CELL, THE
DNA MOLECULE.
EVERY NUCLEUS OF EVERY
CELL HAS THIS COMPLEX
DOUBLE HELIX, DOUBLE
CIRCULAR STAIR TYPE OF
MOLECULE WHICH IS FILLED
WITH THE MOST COMPLEX
THINGS.
IT IS SO COMPLEX THAT
IF YOU TOOK EACH ONE OF
THOSE DNA MOLECULES OUT OF
YOUR CELL AND STRETCHED
THEM OUT AND LINKED THEM
TOGETHER, YOUR BODY HAS
ENOUGH DNA TO REACH FROM
HERE TO THE SUN AND BACK
400 TIMES.
THAT IS SO COMPLEX THAT
FRANCIS CRICK, WHO
DISCOVERED IT AND WHO IS
AN ATHEIST, SAID THERE IS
NO POSSIBLE WAY THAT EVEN
THE DNA MOLECULE COULD
EVER HAVE ARISEN IN THIS
WORLD BY CHANCE IN EVEN
5 BILLION YEARS.
SO, HE SAID, IT MUST HAVE
COME FROM SOME ADVANCED
BEINGS LIVING IN SOME
OTHER PART OF THE GALAXY.
WHERE THOSE BEINGS CAME
FROM, HE DIDN'T SAY.
THAT'S SIMPLY EXTENDING
THE SHADOW, AN INFINITE
REGRESS IN LOGIC
WHICH WILL NOT WORK.
MEANWHILE, SIR FRED HOYLE,
ONE OF THE WORLD'S TWO
GREATEST MATHEMATICIANS
AND ASTRONOMERS FROM
CAMBRIDGE, MADE A STUDY OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF A CELL
COMING INTO EXISTENCE
ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE
UNIVERSE IN THE WHOLE
HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE,
AND HE DISCOVERED THAT
THE CHANCES WERE ZILCH.
10 TO THE 40,000TH POWER
YEARS TO PRODUCE A CELL.
TEN WITH 40,000 ZEROES
AFTER IT- IT WOULD TAKE
THAT MANY YEARS TO
PRODUCE ONE CELL.
CONCLUSION: SAID ATHEIST
SIR FRED HOYLE, "THE ONLY
WAY THAT LIFE CAN POSSIBLY
EXIST IS THAT IT WAS
CREATED BY AN INFINITE
INTELLIGENCE WHOM YOU MAY
WISH TO CALL GOD."
SO ATHEIST FRED HOYLE
WAS FORCED TO BECOME A
BELIEVER IN GOD BY THE
CONTINUING ADVANCE OF
MODERN SCIENCE.
THIRDLY, LET ME
MENTION WHAT IS CALLED
TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT.
TELOS IN GREEK
MEANS "THE END."
THIS IS THE ARGUMENT
FROM ENDS OR PURPOSES OR
DESIGN- THE ARGUMENT FROM
DESIGN, WHICH SAYS THAT
ALL THROUGHOUT THE
UNIVERSE WE SEE EVIDENCE
OF DESIGN.
YOU LOOK AT A COMPLEX
MACHINE AND YOU CONCLUDE
THAT IT HAS A DESIGNER.
THAT IS THE OLD WATCHMAKER
ARGUMENT BROUGHT UP TO DATE.
EVEN IN THE DAYS OF THE
GREAT ASTRONOMER KEPLER,
WHO HAD AN ACQUAINTANCE
WHO WAS AN ATHEIST WITH
WHOM HE HAD ARGUED MANY A
TIME, AND KEPLER DECIDED
TO HAVE BUILT FOR HIMSELF
A COMPLEX WORKING MODEL OF
THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
WHICH HAD THE SUN, ALL OF
THE PLANETS ROTATING ABOUT
IT, WITH THE MOONS OR
SATELLITES GOING AROUND
THE DIFFERENT PLANETS.
IT WAS A WONDER TO BEHOLD.
ONE DAY HIS ATHEIST FRIEND
CAME INTO HIS STUDY, HE
SAID, "IT'S BEAUTIFUL!
WHO MADE THIS?"
KEPLER SAID, "NO ONE.
IT JUST MADE ITSELF.
GATHER TOGETHER THE DUST
AND THINGS FROM THIS END
OF THE STUDY- THERE MUST
HAVE BEEN A DRAFT COMING
IN THE DOOR.
I JUST CAME IN ONE MORNING
AND THERE IT WAS."
HIS FRIEND SAID "YOU DON'T
EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT?"
HE SAID "NO, I DON'T, BUT
YOU BELIEVE THAT THE REAL
SOLAR SYSTEM WHICH IS
VASTLY MORE COMPLEX THAN
THIS SIMPLE MODEL
JUST MADE ITSELF.
THAT IS EVEN MORE
PALPABLY ABSURD."
WE SEE ALSO, IN THE SAME
MANNER OF DESIGN IN
SOMETHING LIKE THE
CELL, THAT THERE IS NO
POSSIBILITY THAT
THIS JUST HAPPENED.
WHEN YOU STOP TO THINK
THAT NOT ONLY IS A CELL
INCREDIBLY COMPLEX, BUT IT
IS MORE COMPLEX THAN ANY
MACHINE THAT MAN
HAS EVER MADE.
YOU TAKE THE LARGEST SUPER
COMPUTER THAT EXISTS ON
THIS PLANET TODAY.
IT IS A VERITABLE TOY
COMPARED TO THE ENORMOUS
COMPLEXITY OF EVERY ONE OF
THE HUNDRED TRILLION CELLS
IN YOUR BODY, AND YET
WOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THAT
THE LARGEST COMPUTER IN
THE WORLD JUST HAPPENED
TO MAKE ITSELF BY CHANCE?
IN FACT, ONE SCIENTIST
SAID THAT THE CELL IS MORE
COMPLEX THAN THE MOST
COMPLEX COMPUTER EVER MADE
BY MAN, OR THE MOST
COMPLEX MACHINE THAT HAS
EVER EVEN BEEN
DREAMT OF BY MAN.
THE INCREDIBLE COMPLEXITY
OF THE EYE GAVE DARWIN,
HE SAID, A HEADACHE.
AND WELL IT SHOULD HAVE
WITH ITS 7 MILLION CONES
THAT SEE THE VARIOUS
COLORS AND ITS 100 MILLION
RODS AND ALL OF THE
INCREDIBLE COMPLEXITIES OF
THIS WONDERFUL CAMERA, AND
YET DARWIN HIMSELF SAID
THAT TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
HAPPENED MERELY BY NATURAL
SELECTION IS ABSURD
IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE.
WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE FACT
THAT THE CARE THAT HAS
BEEN SHOWN IN THE
CREATION OF OUR HABITAT.
IF THE EARTH WERE 10%
CLOSER TO THE SUN,
WE WOULD BURN UP.
10% FURTHER, ALL LIFE
WOULD FREEZE AND DIE.
AND THEN THERE IS THE
EVIDENCE OF CONVERSION-
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE
HUMAN SOUL WHICH IS SO
MONUMENTAL AS TO
DEFY EXPLANATION.
THOUSANDS OF PAGES HAVE
BEEN WRITTEN TRYING TO
EXPLAIN AWAY THE
CONVERSION OF THE APOSTLE
PAUL ALONE.
WHAT TRANSFORMED THIS
MAN FROM THE BITTER AND
HOSTILE CRITIC AND
ADVERSARY OF CHRIST INTO
HIS MOST LOYAL DEVOTEE?
WHAT CHANGED THAT VOLATILE
AND VACILLATING FISHERMAN
PETER INTO THE ROCK THAT
GAVE GREAT STRENGTH TO THE
EARLY CHURCH?
WHAT CHANGED AUGUSTINE,
THE GREATEST INTELLECT OF
THE FIRST 1,000 YEARS
OF THIS AGE, FROM A
PROFLIGATE AND DISSOLUTE
PHILOSOPHER INTO THE GREAT
INTELLECTUAL CHAMPION
OF CHRISTIANITY?
JOHN CALVIN, PERHAPS THE
GREATEST MIND OF THE LAST
THOUSAND YEARS, SAID, "I
WAS SUDDENLY CONVERTED
UNTO GOD."
MARTIN LUTHER, WHO CHANGED
THE FACE OF EUROPE, CAME
FACE TO FACE WITH THE GOD
WHO CHANGED HIS LIFE.
JOHN BUNYAN, THAT SINFUL
TINKER OF BEDFORD, WHO MET
THE LIVING GOD AND WAS
CHANGED INTO A GREAT
PASTOR AND AUTHOR OF
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
JOHN WESLEY, JOHN KNOX, OR
MORE RECENTLY, CS LEWIS,
THE ATHEIST OF OXFORD AND
CAMBRIDGE, WHO WROTE HIS
TESTIMONY IN HIS BOOK
SURPRISED BY JOY AS HE
CAME FACE TO FACE IN THE
PRESENCE OF THAT ONE WHOSE
EXISTENCE HE HAD
ALWAYS DENIED.
OR PERHAPS THE GREATEST
LITERARY MAN OF THE 20TH
CENTURY, THE DOSTOYEVSKY
OF OUR CENTURY IS NO DOUBT
THE GREAT ALEXANDER
SOLZHENITSYN, WHO CAME TO
MEET GOD WHILE HE WAS
IN THE RED BELLY OF THE
DRAGON IN THE
GULAG ARCHIPELAGO.
A BILLY GRAHAM, WHO AS A
YOUNG FRIVOLOUS TEENAGER,
MET THE LIVING GOD
IN JESUS CHRIST.
HIS LIFE WAS TRANSFORMED
AND TENS OF MILLIONS HAVE
BEEN CHANGED AS WELL.
WHO IS GOING TO EXPLAIN
THESE AND HUNDREDS AND
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF
CONVERSIONS OF OTHERS WHO
HAVE LED THEM ACROSS THE
WIDEST OCEANS, UP THE
HIGHEST MOUNTAINS, THROUGH
THE DENSEST JUNGLES TO
PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF
JESUS CHRIST TO CANNIBALS,
AND HEADHUNTERS, AND
TRIBESMEN OF EVERY SORT.
GOD HAS USED THEM AND
THEIR SACRIFICES TO ATTEST
TO THE FACT THAT THERE IS
A LIVING GOD WHO CHANGES
HUMAN SOULS AND MAKES THEM
NEW CREATURES IN CHRIST.
BUT ALL OF THIS WILL STILL
BE BUT THEORY UNTIL YOU
COME AT LAST TO THAT GREAT
EXPERIMENT, WHERE IN THE
LABORATORY OF YOUR OWN
SOUL, YOU MEET WITH THE
ULTIMATE PROOF.
HOW DO I ULTIMATELY KNOW
THAT THERE IS A GOD?
BECAUSE, MY FRIENDS, ONE
DAY 35 YEARS AGO I MET HIM
FACE TO FACE, PERSON
TO PERSON, IN MY OWN
APARTMENT, WHEN HE CAME TO
A YOUNG MAN WHO SOUGHT HIM
NOT AND LAID HIS HAND UPON
MY SHOULDER AND TURNED ME
AROUND.
HE TRANSFORMED MY HEART,
GAVE ME TOTALLY DIFFERENT
REASONS FOR LIVING AND FOR
35 YEARS HE HAS KEPT ME
GOING IN A COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT WAY.
I KNOW THERE IS A GOD,
BECAUSE EVERY DAY I MEET
HIM AND TALK WITH HIM.
I KNOW THERE IS A GOD
BECAUSE HE HAS CHANGED
MY LIFE.
AND HE CAN CHANGE
YOURS, TOO.
WHEN YOU COME TO SEE HIM
IN ALL OF HIS GRACE, WHEN
YOU COME TO SEE HIM IN
THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST
HANGING UPON A CROSS, WHEN
YOU SEE HIS WONDROUS LOVE
AS HE GAVE HIMSELF FOR US
IN CHRIST, WHEN YOU SEE
HIS MATCHLESS GRACE, WHEN
HE IS WILLING TO FORGIVE
YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SINS
AND TO ACCEPT YOU JUST AS
YOU ARE AND FREELY FORGIVE
YOU, AND GRATUITOUSLY
GRANT UNTO YOU THE GIFT
OF EVERLASTING LIFE, WHEN
HE'S WILLING TO GIVE YOU
THE GIFT OF HEAVEN, PAID
FOR BY HIM AT INFINITE
COST, AT THE SWEAT AND
BLOOD AND AGONY OF THE
CROSS, THE WRATH OF HIS
FATHER, THE
PAYMENT OF HELL.
WHEN YOU COME TO SEE A
LOVE LIKE THAT, THEN MY
FRIEND, YOU WILL KNOW THAT
THERE IS A GOD- WHEN YOU
KNOW THAT GOD AS THE LORD
AND SAVIOR OF YOUR HEART.
MAY WE PRAY: FATHER, THERE
ARE SOME HERE THAT DO NOT
KNOW THEE, AND I WOULD ASK
THAT RIGHT NOW YOUR SPIRIT
WILL REACH DOWN AND
TOUCH THEIR LIVES.
OPEN THEIR BLIND EYES THAT
THEY MAY SEE IN THE FACE
OF CHRIST, THE LIVING GOD,
AND THEY MAY SURRENDER
THEIR LIVES TO HIM,
REPENTING OF THEIR SINS
AND INVITING HIM TO TAKE
HIS PLACE UPON THE THRONE
OF THEIR HEARTS, PLACING
THEIR HOPES OF ETERNAL
LIFE IN HIS ATONING DEATH.
I PRAY IT IN HIS
MOST MATCHLESS NAME.
AMEN.
IF YOU JUST PRAYED THAT
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ONE OF DR. KENNEDY'S
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ANSWER SOME OF THE
TOUGHEST QUESTIONS PEOPLE
HAVE, SUCH AS, "HOW I
KNOW THERE IS A GOD?"
GENERATIONS HAVE
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HOW I KNOW.
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