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4 - Evidence of God in the World Around Us, LET THE CREATOR GUIDE YOUR…
4 - Evidence of God in the World Around Us
IT IS IMPORTANT TO EXAMINE EVIDENCE OF GOD'S EXISTENCE
Same as question - God or not
Unsure? Always pick?
Heads or tails?
Complete opposites.... Couldn't be further apart
Must be one! Can't be both!
Complete opposites - couldn'b be further apart
Many people doubt
Many say doesn't matter
Need to find out - if we don't & he is there...
missing out!
God or not - closely linked - created or not
created - have a god
How do we know? EVIDENCE
Flipped coin - know outcome?
no - did when saw result
we weren't there at start of our world.
Look at evidence NOW & see what happened
Were we created or not??
One must be true - can't be both!
CREATION GIVES EVIDENCE OF A CREATOR 1
Evidence show? Heads or tails? Evolution or creation?
The orderliness of the physical world gives evidence of a purposeful Designer
All can agree - An orderly system cannot come into existence on it's own.
If I had a box of balls, all different colours / shook / threw / grouped together? NO WAY
Would it be logical, that our universe, so vast and dynamic, came about by an accident?
Or is this more logical.... HEBREWS 3:4
Look at some facts about our universe think - Which is more logical; an accident or intelligence?
SUN - Four million tons of matter PER SECOND
Power! How much power would it take to make and sustain something like that?
Sun - 5,600 Degrees. 40 degrees Cyprus - hot! That power can't come from nowhere
Something nearly as hot? Pistol shrimp!
Little finger - powerful!
Claw - Bubble - 100 Kmph / sound of 218 Decibels (160 to rupture your ear drum)
Bubble - so fast - it's hot 4700 Degrees ( Sun is 5,600!)
So quick, doesn't hurt shrimp - grow back new claw
Universe is highly organised! Organised - someone to organise it
Huge example of power & intelligence, to a small example
Jeh invites us - just look up. Just look a nature - you'll see me.
What's the source of all the amazing things we see in nature? ISA 40:26
Do you think that came about by chance?
CREATION GIVES EVIDENCE OF A CREATOR 2
The physical properties of the earth we live on are fine-tuned to support life / anything that is fine-tuned requires an intelligent person to do the tuning!
Our solar system and the earth we live are precisely located & designed to support life!
Earth atmosphere - layers of gases that surrounded our planet - protect it. How ?
Rock, debris - no protection - hurtle and destroy parts of the earth
Protects us, whilst keeping in air, so we can breathe
Shooting stars - something to protect us, isn't boring, but it's actually beautiful.
When we see all these things - we simple cannot reasonably say - chance!
The fact is - only life can produce life
Our cells
We need different protiens & molecules for each of our cells so they can exist and replicate.
No scientist can explain how these complex molecules which are ESSENTIAL for life came into existence, all at the same time!
Evolutionists may say "complex life arose from simple life"
What part of life is simple?
In reality, no living cells is simple
Science can't answer many things
To illustrate, a scientist may be able to describe every molecule in a chocolate cake, but will his analysis reveal why the cake was made or for whom? For answers to questions like that—which most people would regard as the more important ones—he needs to consult the person who baked the cake. Need to go to chocolate cake maker
Science can tell us how. Not why.
science “gives a lot of factual information,” wrote Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger, “but it is ghastly silent about all . . . that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us.”
Science can't answer these questions:
If our only purpose is to survive why are we kind, why do we dance and sing? Why do we show love, why do we care about people? If we had no purpose, we wouldn't care. But we do.
Why we die, the meaning of life, why we are here?
Go to creator for this. Chocolate maker.
Life is complex. Origin is simple
Simple fact from evidence we had a creator. He is our god. His name is Jehovah.
DNA for example
tiny molecule that contains everything that a cell needs to function, develop and grow.
If you had one teaspoonful of DNA it would carry the instructions to build about 350 times the number of humans alive today.
Creator or by chance?
MLK – our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. Today we have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Logic tell you?
Evolution or creation
Many people say first. Loudest voices aren't always right
It would be virtually impossible to exist by chance. Not only existing. Talking about existing.
Professor Brian Cox (School of Astronomy at university of Manchester) says: “Seeming luck means that the stars around us are just the right strength to allow them to assemble the elements of life, such as carbon, oxygen and iron. Conditions have been just right for four billion years, so we can evolve. We appear to live in a perfect planet, in a perfect universe. It feels as if it's been made for us.” He puts it to perfection down to an accident. Having the appearance of a creator, but coming about by chance.
Looked at universe. Closer to home.... earth!
Building blocks of life
CREATION REVEAL'S GOD'S QUALITIES (5 Min)
What can we learn from creation about our creator?
PAINTING
Rom 1:20
Clearly seen & invisible?? Evidence. Wind!
evidence of win - clear / evidence of god clear - creation
Don't see his name / see a quality
so many - inexcusable!
What qualities - 1) WISDOM
Oxygen – plant in carbon dioxide they need, turn it to oxygen we need. No waste.
How do we breath that in? Using something that can create a air and watertight seal in an instant. Lips: how much a company patent?
Remarkable wisdom!
2) JUSTICE
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We have, in all of us an inbuilt justice system called our conscience.
Because of this, we feel good when do good things. It's why we feel bad when we hurt someone.
Tv – children in distress from war or hunger, feel so bad
Justice from Jehovah. He feels the same. Appreciate having that quality from Jehovah.
3) LOVE
All creation made with love. Isn't is so beautiful because of this
Factory. Big, ugly, noisy, it pollutes.
Tree. Silent, beautiful and far more efficient.
Difference? One made with love.
Feel range of emotions becuase we were made to love
Don't learn emotions, made with them.
blind people - smile!
every living thing has been put together, call by cell with love by Jehovah.
Jeh given qulaities to all people - beleive in him or not = love!
THE BIBLE GIVES EVIDENCE OF A DIVINE AUTHOR (7 Mins)
• Cities come and go? One historian said for years couldn't find it. It is a chaos of tumbled walls . . . overwhelmed with sand.
• Many other prophecies: Jesus, last days, his kingdom: all show bible so from god. Do research
Creator of product - manual. Jeh provided?
Manual - more = special
How do we know it's from God?
1) Prophecy
• What did Jehovah foretell?
• Babylon: 732 BCE; Babylon destroyed, Cyrus, river and door open, in one night. Very detailed. Found at isa 44 & 45
• Babylon like? WP. 14 meters thick, 90 meters high. Surrounded by deep river. Over, under or through. Invincible. Jehovah predicted it would be destroyed.
• 200 years later; 539 BCE. Cyrus, river and doors. Prophecy fulfilled.
2) SCIENCE / Is science and the bible compatible? Does it's scientific content proof it’s from god
ISA 40:22
At time when people beloved it was flat
1969: Neil Armstrong – good day for Isaac newton. Jehovah – saw circle of the earth. Proved beyond all doubt
Isaiah – 2500 years ago. Jehovah created it, so he knew that. We are just catching up.
Every time bible speaks of Science, it's correct. Except from the creator of science.
3) POWER
Power? most powerful tool
So much - what does he ask? ISA 48:17
Guide – just listen to me! I know everything about you – I can help you!
Listen to my commandments. Not sure?
Jeh would be happy to study the bible with you. Help you to see
Result? V18
Peace like a river – does a river ever end? Or stop flowing?
No – neither will your peace
Right? Waves of sea
When waves stop – come back. Forever?
Service to Jeh can be unending Like the waves of the sea
Next time you are at the seaside or by a beautfiul river, remember Jeh's promise to you.
Example - someone who listened to Jehovah's promise of happiness
This is Kazumi
She cannot speak, swallow or even drink water due to a car accident
But she can hear
One day someone called at the hospital and she learnt about the bible from the witnesses
She had so many questions and after 13 years of learning at 61, she was baptised as a witness
She listens to all the meetings and even prepares comments to be read at the meetings
This picture of her is writing to every bible student that attends the meetings
What message does she have? After so many years of illness, what advice does she give us
She says
“If you study the bible, you will be happy”
• We have a loving creator who who contacted us to try and help us live our lives in the best way. Will you listen to him?
LET THE CREATOR GUIDE YOUR LIFE (2 MINS)
evidence = creator
• Simple, clear fact – universe, nature, ourselves – intelligent, thoughtful and wise creator
• Learn so much about him – qualities
• Given us more – use of science, prophecies and its ability – bible is from Jehovah
• Personally benefit his guidance. Now the time to learn
• Why?
• Near future – Jeh end wickedness and accomplish purpose.
• Learn about Jeh, his will, his purpose. Big topics.
• JW happy to answers all of these and any you have
• If we do, enjoy everlasting blessings
• Will you follow everyone else? Believe we came by chance and have no hope for the future.
• Or will use your head and follow Jehovah.
• Isaiah 9:15: The elder and highly respected one is the head, but the prophet giving false instruction is the tail
• Don't leave it to chance. Follow your creator, take his invitation to learn about him, so you can live forever.
• Heads or tails?