Christ And His Creation - A

Jack Hibbs: Nobody would ever say that a watch arose by spontaneous chances. And yet, the very creature, the human, has been duped into an idea that evolution is in fact scientific when today, science itself is saying, as you'll see, that Darwinism and evolution is bunk.
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David J.: That's the Bold Faith Hawaii Cruise with Pastor Jack Hibbs. As you explore the beauty of the islands of Hawaii, you will grow in your faith and knowledge of how the Word of God applies to your daily life. Once again, that's the Bold Faith Hawaii Cruise, June 12th through the 19th, 2027. For more information, go to jackhibbs.com. That's jackhibbs.com. On today's edition of Real Life Radio, Pastor Jack continues in his series called "The Life and Times of Jesus Christ" and a message titled "Christ and His Creation." Now, this is a series about the real Jesus—who Jesus really is. Not the Jesus of popular opinion, but the Jesus of the Bible, God Himself, who stepped into our world. And in this message, we're going to see that Jesus is also the Creator of everything around us. You see, when we look at the world, we're really facing a choice: either everything came from random accidents, or it came from a designer. And the evidence we see in creation points us straight to Jesus Christ. So today, Pastor Jack teaches that creation itself testifies to God, not of evolution. From the stars in space to a single blade of grass, the design we see all around us points towards a Creator behind it all. Before we get into the message, I had a chance to sit down with Pastor Jack and talk about it with him. So let's get into that. "The Life and Times of Jesus Christ," that's our series that we're in, and Pastor Jack, I got to say it, I'm lucky enough to have you in the studio with me today. We're doing "Christ and His Creation," that's the name of today's message. I find it interesting you bring up the woodpecker. I had an opportunity to sit and watch a woodpecker on a tree in my yard. And you bring up its tongue wraps around its brain exactly eight times. Exactly. Seven times it dies, and nine times there's no room. God is very specific, isn't He?
Jack Hibbs: He really is. I mean, I hope there's some atheists listening right now, probably not. But wouldn't it be great if they just listened to what you just said a moment ago? At what point does a woodpecker drive his face into a tree and kills himself, and then winds up evolving quick enough to try it again, knowing, "I'll do it one more time again"? That's ridiculous, friends. By the way, all of creation declares and screams. Technology screams the existence of God. And that's just one of those things where Christ is on display in creation. Now, granted, we live in a fallen world. That's how you and I know that when the lion runs across the landscape and consumes a gazelle, you internally know that something's wrong with that. And good for you because there is something wrong with that. That's a fallen world. But God didn't make it that way originally. And so, we not only see His creative acts of love and genius, but we also can agree with God that we can also see the scars and the death of what a fallen world looks like. So yeah, Christ and His creation—that includes you and I. I don't know when the last time all of our listeners have had a chance to go outside or take a look around, but what led me to talk about that woodpecker was just doing what you did, Davey. I just looked out into my backyard and it inspired me to make that comment in the message. Here's this woodpecker, and I began to look it up. And I love that. Go look up, friends, whales or hummingbirds. Go look up clouds. And you'll be hard-pressed to get any other answer than it's a miracle by the hand of God.
David J.: All right, continuing with "The Life and Times of Jesus Christ" and "Christ and His Creation," here we go.
Jack Hibbs: Colossians chapter 2 verse 9. We're there in the Bible, it says that for in Christ all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form. Boy, what a statement of His deity, isn't it? That all the fullness of the Godhead—the word can be translated effulgence, all of the representation of God. Remember, the Bible says that God is one. "Hear, O Israel," chapter 6 of the book of Deuteronomy, "The Lord our God is one Lord." Well, why is it in Christendom is it taught that there's the Father, Son, Holy Spirit—the Trinity? Well, it's biblical for one thing, and the future study of that is following in our series, our 16-part series on the life and times of Christ. Today we are looking at part six of "Christ and His Creation." And the reason why is because creation is attributed to God, of course. It's either God or what? Evolution. We're going to look real close with just the short time that we have together to look at the evidence for both. And as we get into this study this morning, I'm going to give you quotes from non-Christians regarding creation and evolution. But you cannot escape that debate or that topic when addressing Christ and His creation because it demands that we, the created or the evolved—depends on who you are this morning—it demands of us to think and to think critically. Now, this is a whole another topic, but do you realize that in the last 20 to 30 years, we have not been taught to think critically? I'm talking about critical thinkers. Critical thinkers like the father of astronomy, Kepler. Critical thinkers like Sir Isaac Newton, who both these great giants of science said, "I believe in God the Creator and Jesus Christ His Son, who came and died for man's sin." Isaac Newton believed that God created. In fact, there's a great story about Newton's life. When Newton was talking about the solar system and all, he built this little model. You wind them up and you let them go, and you see the earth as the motor unwinds. The earth is going around the sun and the planets are moving around the sun, and it's a beautiful little model. Newton invented that cool little toy to put into perspective what God was showing him in his heart. Well, while Newton did that, his apprentice, who was an evolutionist and Newton a creationist, fell asleep. He was sleeping. And when Newton got done, Newton went to bed. Well, the young man woke up and he saw this wonderful device, wound it up, and there it is going on its axis and doing its thing. And immediately things began to click and he woke up Newton and he said, "Look at this! This is wonderful! Where did it come from?" And Newton said, "It just appeared. It just generated itself and there it is." And the man said to Newton, "Do you take me to be a fool?" And Newton said, "The words are yours." The man mocked his own belief because he knew by what he was looking at that it demanded an engineer and a designer. Are you with me? Doesn't take an Einstein or a Newton to figure that one out. Newton projected something into the tangible world of that which is true in the world that we do not easily see. So much so that when an unbeliever looked at it, his own premise or basis of belief was shattered out of his own mouth. This morning we're talking about Christ and His creation. And if you are a believer, that is a Bible-believing Christian, or not, I want both of you—both sides of you—to listen carefully and weigh the evidence yourself. Now, we need to understand that as we look at this, it's always going to be a topic that is going to cause debate. And it has to. You want to know why? This is the fundamental reason why there will always be a great debate, no matter how much evidence is unearthed regarding and supporting the creation model view. No matter how much the Hubble telescope disproves evolution. No matter how much modern technology dismantles the evolutionary belief—because that's exactly what it's doing. There will always be a debate because to introduce the concept of God into someone's thinking is to immediately go against their conscience in light of responsibility. If God becomes true in a man's thinking, then his actions are answerable. He will have to give an account for what he does. If evolution is true, then we can live like an animal and die like one, too, because there is no accountability. Are you with me? In fact, sociologically, the evolutionary theory and the humanistic existential belief system of our recent world that you and I live in, refer to now in these days as situational ethics. In fact, it's all summed up in a bumper sticker: "If it feels good, do it." That's humanistic existentialism. It's "look out for number one," which is who? You. And if I have to crawl over your face and up your back and dismantle your character to get to the top, it's the survival of the fittest. And surely you would do that to me because we are but yet just animals. We have crawled out of the primordial goo through the zoo to now you, which, if I'm an evolutionist, I would say is true. But it's in fact false. It's very important to realize that this morning you are either an evolutionist or you're a creationist. You can be a creationist without being a Christian. This is one of the problems in the world today. There are many scientists who have not yet come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and trust in the Bible, but they also no longer hold to the evolutionary theory of Darwinism. They know that the sciences that exist disprove evolution, but they're not Christians. They are called creationists. And there are more running around in the scientific community than there has been in the last hundred years. Very interesting. I am going to give you quotes today of men who are not Christians, who I think will provoke your thinking. But we are going to look at four areas that need to get our attention. Before we do that, the Bible declares bluntly, as we see in a moment, that God created. It just makes the blanket statement. But consider this. When Paul the Apostle came to a group of great thinkers—in fact, the entire intelligentsia of the day was rooted in this area of Greece—Paul came to them. As he was approaching, he couldn't deny their passion to worship. By the way, that's true in every culture, in every land, everywhere. Man worships. He may worship intellect, he may worship fun, he may worship pleasure, he may worship whatever—gods or a god. But every human being worships. As Paul came into the area, he says in Acts chapter 17 verse 23, he says, "For as I was passing through your city and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription to it, quote: 'To the Unknown God.'" Now, Paul, being the brilliant evangelist that he was, used that as an opportunity just like you would. He says, "Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing, it is Him I proclaim to you." "Oh, cool! Thanks, Paul! Tell us all about Him because we don't know Him. So tell us!" What an open door, huh? He says, "Yeah, okay. He is the God who made the world and everything in it." Since He is Lord of heaven and earth, He doesn't dwell in temples made with hands. He can create this God that he speaks of because they're wide open. He doesn't dwell in temples made with hands or in the earth as though He would need anything, nor is He worshiped by men's hands, since He gives to all life and breath and everything that we have. And He has made from one blood—isn't that an interesting word these days in technology—from one source of blood. We know this to be true now in technology, that we've all come from one woman. This is a scientific fact. That's so cool. I love advancements in technology—that we've come from one blood of all the men who dwell on the face of the earth. And He has determined their pre-appointed times—that is their longevity—and their boundaries of their dwellings. I find it interesting—in fact, if you can find one, buy it, it'd be a collector's item—a globe of pre-1990. If you find a globe that was made before 1990, your globe has got the geographical or the political boundaries of the Soviet Union. Now when you buy a globe, it's Russia. And probably next year it's going to be different again. God says in the Bible, "I pre-appointed all of these boundaries of nations and the people who dwell in them." In other words, there's no accident to God. God is not an accident, nor does He sanction accidents. What might look like an accident to you, God is using. God is redeeming. What looks like a disaster to you—by the way, every accident produces a disaster. When you have an accident, if a 747 flies headlong into the ocean, it doesn't turn into a submarine, though it may be submerged. If you could crash enough aircraft into the ocean, it will never become a submarine. Why? Because accidents always ruin. Very important, because the evolutionary theory demands that we came about through a mistake and a collection of accidents—of a perpetuity of related, somehow unrelated ideas and thoughts and mechanisms and mechanics, and presto, we've come to be who we are through random events. It's insane, but it's believed. It has been said that there are two Bibles. And I like this saying, so some of you calm down. There's only one Bible, but it's been said that there are two. And it's been said because of Romans chapter 1 verse 18, it begins there and it says in the Bible that all of God's created powers and His authority and His godhead is revealed in the very things that He has made, whatever those things may be, so that they are without excuse. You know the little man running around in South America in the jungles that we have not yet discovered? Do you know, according to the Bible, Romans chapter 1, even if a missionary doesn't reach that man, God in His fairness and in His wisdom will reach out to that little guy running around in the jungles? And He will reveal Himself to that little man somehow. He says that creation is without excuse so that all of us stand before God having had the opportunity to know Him. But it goes on to say in Romans chapter 1, there are those who, knowing God exists and that internal witness of that truth, turned their back on Him and began to worship and serve the creation rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. They changed the glory of God into creeping things, four-footed things, and flying things. Evolution mentioned or the pagan belief of it in Romans chapter 1. And then in verse 22, Paul says, "Professing themselves to be wise in these things, they have in fact become fools." The two Bibles? One is written here on your lap, bound in leather. The other is the universe that is both around us and outside the walls of this church. Meaning that you could go outside and if you are intellectually honest, you can pluck a leaf off of a liquid amber tree that's out front here and put it under the scrutiny of an electron microscope and find data so vast and so mind-boggling, technology so fantastic, that it's greater than the technology used to put the shuttle up into space and in fact even build it. It's a technology more advanced in a blade of grass that man cannot produce it, yet we can produce atomic watches that we have on our wrists. And nobody would ever say that a watch arose by spontaneous chances. And yet the very creature who stands at the precipice of decision, the human, has been duped into an idea that evolution is in fact scientific when today, in the advancement of modern sciences, that science itself is saying, as you'll see, that Darwinism and evolution is bunk. It's amazing. It's exciting. Look with me at our first point as we delve into this "Christ and His Creation," and that is: the creation testifies of God. Listen, creation has to testify of something. Does it testify of evolution or does it testify of God? Well, let's take a look and see. The first thing that we see is that the Bible presumes a special creation. Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. My friend, if you can get past the first verse of the Bible, it's downhill from there on. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Doesn't apologize for it, doesn't put its tongue in its cheek about it, states it as a fact. "In the beginning"—that is of the material universe—"God created the heavens and the earth." Don't ask me to explain it; we don't know how, we can't. When it says "God," it is Elohim—El, God; -him, plural. A singular plurality. That's, by the way, a hint concerning who the Creator is. In the beginning, God, who is a singular plurality—go figure in the Hebrew language—whoever He is, He's one, but there's a plurality of it. That God who is one is both Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is one. That's what the Bible declares. God created the heavens and the earth. No apology, states it as a fact. In fact, the ancient world assumes this to be true. It doesn't matter what culture you go into. If it's not the Hebrew or the Oriental custom of that realm, if you go into places removed, far removed from the cradle of civilization, that area of the Middle East, and you go to the extenuating areas of the world and you look at those ancient cultures, they believed in God or gods having created. And so the Bible presumes a special creation. In Isaiah chapter 40 verse 28, he says, "Do you not know? Have you not heard that the Lord is the everlasting God? He is the Creator of the ends of the earth and He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding you cannot fathom." I like that. "Well, I want a God I can handle." Well, then go think of some cult god that you can handle because the Bible says about the God of the Bible: He's past finding out. What a challenge to us. Concerning creation, it's either evolution, a series of accidents that has brought you here today, or it is what is called special creation, where there is an advanced design engineer. If you don't want to call him God, just for argument's sake, can you just think right now and write it down any way you want: Designer, Engineer, Planner? Because there's nothing that you can point to in this world that is void of a designer. Nothing. Pastor and Bible teacher Jack Hibbs here on Real Life Radio and his message called "Christ and His Creation." Thanks for spending time with us today. You know this message is part of Pastor Jack's series called "The Life and Times of Jesus Christ." It's a series about the real Jesus of the Bible, God in the flesh, and why knowing Him more deeply changes everything. And we'll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio. Hey everybody, we're very excited about this special offer. It's called Bold Stand. It's a back-to-school faith guide for your young ones. It's going to help them take a stand for Christ even in the public school culture. It's very, very well done. It's a pamphlet they can put in their backpack or put within the pages of any book. It's very colorful, it's in cartoon style, and I think your kids are going to love it. So please get a copy for yourself, Bold Stand: Back to School Faith Guide. Get this and more at jackhibbs.com.
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