Amen.
Well, it's good to be here tonight.
Just want to say thanks to Pastor Thompson
and the family of Christ that's out here,
that's willing to have me out.
I know I'm a young guy, but I really enjoy preaching.
I enjoy just speaking the Word of God to people
and telling it like it is.
And I'm afraid that in our country today,
there's a lot of people who just don't want
to tell it like it is,
and I don't think we should fear those around us.
And so let's go ahead and focus on verse three of our text
where the Bible says,
knowing this first, there shall come in the last days,
notice this word scoffers,
walking after their own lusts and saying,
where is the promise of his coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were
from the beginning of creation.
Where is your Jesus?
They say, all right.
For this they willingly are ignorant of
that by the Word of God, the heavens were of old
and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.
So the Bible is saying here
that they're willingly ignorant of one fact,
and that's the flawed.
They're also obviously willingly ignorant in verse four
of the creation of Jesus.
They say, well, where is the promise of his coming?
You know, it's just amazing to me
how somebody can be so irrational and so illogical.
And notice how it says they're scoffers.
And so I wanna go ahead,
the Bible says the Lord will mock them.
So here's what we're gonna do tonight.
We're gonna take a look at what atheists believe.
And I'm gonna prove to you tonight
that what they believe is not anything different
from any other false religion in the world.
They believe the same thing
that any other false religion believes.
They say, well, if there is a God,
he'll let me into heaven because it's based on my works
and I lead a good life.
I've never done anything that's deserving of hellfire,
although they've broken pretty much all the 10 commandments
and they couldn't even tell you
what one of the commandments are.
You know, oh, if there is a God, he'd let me in.
Well, does the Bible say that?
They say, oh, well, your God's the spaghetti monster.
Does somebody wanna show me a spaghetti monster in this text?
Because you won't find it.
The Bible says God is a spirit.
So when they say, oh, it's a spaghetti monster,
look, if a spaghetti monster walked in here,
I'd feel pretty good about that.
I like spaghetti, it's tasty.
Tastes good.
It's good food.
You know, I would love to believe in the spaghetti monster,
but I know he doesn't exist.
But I know the God who does exist
and the God that they have to answer to someday.
It's amazing to me how they define themselves.
So let's talk about the definition of atheism.
So atheists, what they define themselves as
is somebody that lacks belief.
They say, well, we don't have any beliefs.
Well, is that your belief that you don't have a belief?
Logic with me.
The Bible says, they say, don't you believe in reason?
Yeah, the Bible says, come let us reason together,
say it the Lord.
Of course I believe in reason.
And it's amazing to me.
The dictionary definition, they say,
well, we don't have any beliefs.
The dictionary definition of atheism is the belief
that there is no God.
We don't have any belief.
Well, wait a minute.
Every dictionary, here's another dictionary,
the belief that God does not exist.
The doctrine that there is no God.
So when they try to imagine up this fake definition
of what they, and here's the thing,
they define themselves by what they don't believe in.
What if I said, well, I'm gonna define myself
as somebody that doesn't like to go fishing.
What kind of sense does that make?
I define myself as a Christian
and what that means is I believe in Jesus.
They define themselves as,
oh, well, I'm a non-believer in Jesus.
What kind of definition is that?
That's wild.
Now this isn't just like,
and Richard Dawkins says,
well, religion is just mental illness.
It's for the, it poisons the mind.
Well, it's amazing to me.
Is that why 99% of school shootings
are done by atheists?
But yet Christians have their minds poisoned,
yet Christians have never committed such an act.
Why is it that if you say
that Christians have their minds poisoned,
why is it then they turn around and say,
oh, well, you guys, religion's so dangerous to the public,
yet atheists lead the world in suicide?
They make the dumbest decisions possible.
I'm sorry, suicide, I don't care where you are,
I don't care who you are.
Suicide's not a good idea, it's a sin.
God said not to do it.
Now we know Saul did it and we know Saul's with the Lord,
but you know what, if you're a Christian here tonight
and you're struggling with that
or you have problems in your life, look to Jesus.
Don't, look, don't be overtaken with such a terrible thought.
You know, and if a prophet in the Bible
could commit an act like that,
that tells me that anybody could commit that.
Don't let yourself get down to that point.
And you know what, they lead the world in suicide,
drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and school shootings,
and yet Richard Dawkins wants me
and everybody in this room to believe
that religion is what poisons the mind.
Yet the atheists do the most mind-poisoning,
dumb things that you could possibly even do.
It makes no sense.
So they define themselves by what they don't believe in,
number one.
Let's talk about the Big Bang Theory.
So obviously I believe in creation.
They believe in something that's known as evolution.
Now everybody's heard of evolution, right?
And evolution basically teaches
that it all started with an explosion.
Let's pretend for a second that evolution is true.
They say, well, nothing caused an explosion.
What if I said nothing caused something over here to explode?
You'd say, well, what caused the explosion?
Was there some type of igniter?
Was there some type of detonator that started this thing?
If I turn around and said, nothing caused it,
you'd look at me like I was crazy.
And by the way, people think that evolution is science.
It didn't win in the science laboratory.
It won in the courts because the American court system said,
we got to push this thing in the schools so that people,
and even J.D. Rockefeller said,
I want to create a generation of people that can't think.
He's like, I want to create a, he said,
I want to create a people that can't think.
And excuse me, I'm having a hard time thinking tonight.
And he says, I want to create a generation of workers instead.
So people that can't think and that can only work.
Blue collar.
And there's nothing wrong with being a blue collar worker.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And so anyway, so let's just enter in a fantasy land
here for a minute with the atheists
because that's what it is.
It's a fantasy.
Let's enter into fantasy land, and let's just
pretend that nothing caused the explosion.
Let's just pretend for a second.
Well, what exploded?
They say, well, before the big bang, there was nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
And then just this infinite testable amount of space
just exploded and created time, space, and matter.
There you go, boys and girls.
So nothing causes nothing to explode.
Does that make any sense to anybody in here?
It brings a whole new meaning to the verse
where the Bible says, professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools.
And let me tell you something.
If you think that I'm crazy, then why don't you
just go join one of these little reason rallies
and tell everybody how you can be a free thinker
and join these guys.
But you know what?
I'm going to stand on the truth.
I'm sick of people not standing on the truth of the word of God
and compromising and saying, well,
what are they going to think of me
if I don't believe in evolution?
Look, who cares what they think?
Just because the majority believe something
doesn't mean it's true.
Just because the majority of the people in the days of old
thought that the Earth was flat and that even people now,
Christians, doesn't mean it's true.
It doesn't mean it's true, folks.
And evolution is the only theory that's protected by law.
And let me ask you something.
If your theory has to be protected by law,
what does that tell you about your theory?
It can't undergo any scrutiny.
They say, well, why are you speaking against it?
Look, my tax dollars go to that stuff.
I better have a say in it because I'm paying for it
to begin with.
Everybody in here has to pay for it.
This is becoming the land of the slave here in America.
They're not going to take away free speech from Christians.
And you know what?
If they just threw one of us in jail,
if they threw Pastor Thompson in jail or myself in jail,
you know what, we'd just grow that much more.
Because every single time Christians
were persecuted in the Bible, they just grew that much more.
So let's pretend for a minute.
Let's go back to fantasy land.
Nothing caused nothing to explode.
Well, we have planets that are in a perfect orbit.
And Stephen Hawking even said, and I quote,
he said that if the expansion rate would have changed out
of one part out of 100,000 million million,
the universe wouldn't exist.
Everything would be out of place.
So who here thinks that one out of 100,000 million chances
could happen by chance?
OK, let's talk about proteins, the simplest protein
in the world.
That coming into being by chance,
if you put all the elements together,
is 10 to the 164th power.
Who here thinks that 10 to the 164th power
could happen by chance?
Trillions of times over, right?
Because there's trillions of proteins.
Isn't that wild?
They say, well, there's still a chance.
There's still a chance that evolution can be true.
I'm going to lean towards the 10 to the 164th power
and the crazy wild chances.
Well, Stephen Hawking said, and I quote,
he said we're a mathematical impossibility.
Impossible.
Do you know what the definition of impossible is?
A miracle.
So atheists literally believe in miracles.
I was talking to one one time.
He goes, well, you know, I can't believe the Bible
because your God made animal talk.
And I said, well, aren't we all animals according to evolution?
So you believe in 7.8 billion talking animals, 7.8 billion
of us here on Earth, and the Bible only mentions two.
You say, well, that still didn't answer the question.
OK, well, if God created the world from nothing,
do you think it would be rocket science for him
to take something that he designed and make it speak?
The Bible says that the rocks will cry out to God
if we don't lift up our voices and praise him.
I'd better get back on track here.
I feel like I'm making too much sense tonight.
Let me slow down.
All right, so this one atheist responded to me recently.
He's like, there's no logic at all
into believing that one day God just magically poofed us
into existence.
Isn't that what the Big Bang teaches?
It was a poof.
So let me ask you, because they say, well, you Christians
believe in magic.
OK, what's magical?
Somebody creating the universe or matter and energy
creating itself from nothing?
They're hypocrites, folks.
They don't have a leg to stand on.
And you know what?
You say, well, why do you get so worked up about this?
Because all my friends down at the pub, well, not my friends,
I would love to befriend them and help them get saved.
But all these people over at the public fool system
are getting lied to.
All these people are my demographic.
And it bothers me.
It bothers me.
I can't stand it.
They say, well, the flood's a myth.
The creationism's a myth.
Even Bill Nye himself said, creationism
is in and of itself silly.
And he says, you know what, your worldview becomes
so fantastically complicated, boys and girls,
when you don't believe in evolution.
What part of believing that you came from an ape
makes your world less complicated?
Will somebody please explain that to me?
I mean, you know what?
It's good to laugh tonight, amen,
because he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
The Lord laughs at these people.
So the big bang, and I want to get back on track
because I've got a lot to cover tonight.
The big bang teaches that everything just
went from smaller than a single proton, everything
in the universe, and exploded into our known universe
in a trillion trillionth of a second.
They'll try and redefine it.
I've pointed this out to them.
I said, look, do you think an explosion out of chaos
produced order, even though the second law of thermodynamics
states that order things can't go towards disorder?
All the kids know that.
Everything knows that things, every child pretty much
out there knows that things are winding down.
Sun's getting smaller.
The moon's getting further away.
The Earth is slowing down.
Everything's winding down.
Evolution teaches that things are getting better on their own.
Just give it enough time.
Just give us enough time, they say.
Well, and what they try and do is they say,
well, it wasn't really an explosion, Matt.
It was an expansion.
They try and redefine the word and apply a not so kooky word
to it to make it sound like it's not.
Look, if something goes from smaller than a proton
to in a trillion trillionth of a second
larger than our observable universe,
is that not an explosion?
They say, well, it was just an expansion.
Well, if that's not an explosion, I don't know what is.
So let's move on from the Big Bang.
And you mean to tell me that 326 million trillion gallons
of water that are just on Earth alone were crammed into it?
You can only compress water past a certain point.
Yet they want to believe that all the water in the universe,
just imagine, folks.
I don't know if any of you guys saw it.
But in my last documentary, I was talking to the atheist.
And he goes, you know, it takes imagination
to consider all this stuff.
And I said, just imagine.
And I expected him to be like, oh, good one.
But instead, he's like, oh, yeah, just imagine.
Just use your imagination.
And I think we should use our imagination and be creative.
But science is not based on just imagination.
It's based on facts.
And anybody that believes that matter and energy could create
itself from nothing doesn't believe in science.
And that's what I want to establish here real firmly
tonight, is that if you are an atheist,
if you're listening to this sermon, and you're an atheist,
you don't believe in science, period.
And I'm sick of Christians saying, well,
we've got to compromise.
And we've got to give in to theistic evolution.
And we need to get Brother Thompson to join us,
and Brother Powell to join us, and try and win them
over by being more like them.
The Bible says, come ye out from among them and be separate.
I don't want to be like the world.
The Bible says, love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world, folks.
These people, it just goes to show
they don't know the Bible.
So, of course, they come at us when I bring these things up
to them with the blanket statements
that we've all heard a million times.
They'll say, well, you know, must take a lot of faith
there to think that a virgin could conceive there, buddy.
You know what, these people think a rock conceived.
Yeah.
You know, and one guy was in a debate
a while ago with this guy, the raging atheist.
And he goes, and I'm sure a lot of you probably know him.
I feel bad for the guy.
I hope he gets saved.
But anyways, the guy goes, he's like, well, you know,
I don't know how anybody could have enough faith to believe
that a Jewish man like Jesus would resurrect from the dead.
And I'm just thinking, man, you think that every living cell
came to life out of non-existence
and from dead material to begin with.
You believe you and I and every other life form
came to life out of non-existence.
I believe Jesus died and resurrected.
Jesus said, I have the power to lay down my life,
and I have the power to take it again into myself.
And so Jesus had that power.
But to say that you believe that every living life
form resurrected from non-living material, that's crazy.
That's madness.
That's a greater resurrection than I believe in.
Look, I just believe Jesus resurrected.
And I believe he'll resurrect me because whosoever liveth
and believeth in him shall never die.
Right?
Let me go ahead and get back on track here.
Atheists will often say that, you know,
life came about from non-living material.
And we've already established, those of us
who know any science, that the law of biogenesis
states that life cannot come from non-life.
So I don't care how they try to repackage it.
The law of biogenesis states the law
that they don't believe of science
states that life cannot come from non-life.
The law of biogenesis.
And I've had them admit, well, I guess
I don't believe in the law of biogenesis.
Well, then do you believe in science?
And I've had some of them admit and say,
well, maybe not.
Maybe I need to relook at this.
You know?
And you know what?
If you're in a discussion like that with an atheist
and they're like, maybe I need to relook at things,
pull out the Bible.
You know, don't use man's wisdom and apologetics.
And you know, I'm not going to apologize for anything
that I believe.
The Bible says that the word of God
is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword.
Apologetics are defense.
The word of God is offense.
It's a two-edged sword.
They say, well, how was he winning the debates?
I was in a debate a while ago.
And it's not hard to win these.
I am not a great debater, but I like to use the Bible.
And they're like, well, how is he winning the debate?
Because 40% of the time, he's quoting the Bible.
Because the word of God has power, folks.
No weapon formed against the Lord shall stand.
So they say, well, give it enough time
and anything will happen.
All right.
So give it enough time.
Let's just pretend.
I'm just going to pretend I got a pencil here
and I put a dot on the page of the pulpit here.
And we're all going to sit here for however long.
Maybe we can get into the time machine
and go forward a few billion years
and wait for this thing to explode.
Because that's what they believe.
Let's just say, oh, just give it more time.
It doesn't matter if you have a billion years, a trillion
years.
No matter how much time you have,
that little period on the page is just going to disintegrate.
We're nothing without the Lord, folks.
And you know, I'm going to disprove that using
very basic logic here.
Because I heard a preacher say one time,
put the cookies on the bottom shelf
so that everybody can reach them.
And you know what?
I don't want to complicate a simple matter.
I'd rather simplify a complicated matter.
And that's why R and Ra and all these freaks, Richard Dawkins,
and I said they're freaks, folks,
they all complicate everything.
They sound so smart and so complicated.
A great teacher isn't somebody that just makes everything
sound so complicated.
So therefore, he must be true because he's using big words.
I could use big words, too, R and Ra.
I could talk about phylogeny and paleozoic, mesozoic layers
and all that stuff and sound intelligent.
But in reality, I might not know anything.
And the guy doesn't know anything.
But let's just debunk this idea that it'll
take billions of years for anything to happen.
So I have here a blue hymnal and a red hymnal.
Now, I'm going to put these two things right here.
Now, how long?
I'll give you 10 chances.
Remy, I'll give you 10 chances to go ahead and grab
one of these books.
Now, let's pretend it's concealed.
It's in a bag.
So you've got a 50-50 chance.
How long is it going to take you to pull out a yellow hymnal?
Just give it enough time, Remy.
Just give it more time.
Keep going.
I'll give you a billion tries.
I'll give you 100 trillion tries.
No matter what, you're not going to come up
with a yellow hymnal.
Because, and look, life cannot design itself.
We already established that with the law of biogenesis.
I don't even know why this is a debate.
It shouldn't even be a debate.
It's done.
But you know what?
Because people like me are being censored
all the time and being referred to as haters
and just terrible hate speech for men.
How could you not believe in evolution?
That's child abuse, they say.
You know what?
You need to be able to give people the other side, folks.
You know what?
I just want to say to the public school system,
I'm sure there's some decent people in there.
But you know what?
If you're teaching evolution, you
need to give the other side.
Give the other side.
They say, well, you guys are a cult
because you exercise information control
and you don't tell all your members.
Look, I can tell you guys anything about evolution.
And you can all walk away knowing that it's a fraud
and that it's a lie.
You compare the truth to darkness,
you're going to go with the truth.
And the Bible says that they hated the light
and would not come to the light lest their deeds should
be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
that his deeds may be made manifest,
that they are wrought in God, the Bible says.
So they think a rot conceived.
They think it's crazy to believe that an animal talked.
Yet they believe we're all talking animals.
What else do they believe that we can look at?
Well, let's get into more Bible.
So let's go ahead and go over to Romans 1.20.
The Bible says in Romans 1.20, it
says, for the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly
seen being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power in Godhead,
so that they are without excuse.
So they're without excuse, folks.
Anybody that believes these things is without excuse.
So let's talk about the dinosaurs.
Pastor Thompson brought some dinosaurs here tonight.
And I love dinosaurs.
I've always loved dinosaurs.
I've enjoyed thoroughly the Land Before Time movies.
I don't know if anybody saw those back in my day, which
wasn't that long ago.
And they say that dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago.
Now, in 1990, a scientist, a paleontologist,
went out looking for dinosaur bones, right?
Because this paleontologist was really
determined to find some dinosaur bones, which
I congratulated for doing so.
Her name was Dr. Mary Schweitzer.
And in 1990, she discovered a dinosaur fossil
with blood inside of it, still contained,
with the hemoglobin still in the blood.
Now, kids, do you think that dinosaur blood could
last for 65 million years?
I mean, you look outside, an animal that dies,
it gets eaten by the birds and the other animals.
Blood doesn't last very long, does it?
So these dinosaurs had to have been big, right?
Because number one, they didn't get eaten
by the other creatures.
And number two, we know that that one was probably
buried in the flood.
Let's talk about the flood for a minute.
They say the flood is the biggest myth out there
that creationism teaches.
It's the number one death blow to creationism,
because we can all prove that there was never
a global flood.
I've heard them say that.
And they'll say, well, if you can find a dinosaur and man
in the same layer, then we'll believe that dinosaurs and man
live together.
Well, we have.
We actually have.
The Ashley phosphate beds were discovered back
in the late 1800s, mid-1800s.
And in the late 1860s, scientists
discovered dinosaur bones in the same 18-inch layer
with human bones.
Now, the evolutionists just said,
if you find dinosaur bones with human bones
in the same layer of strata, that
proves that they lived at the same time,
and we'll believe the flood.
You bring that fact forth to them.
Do they believe it?
No, because a foolish man stiffeneth his neck.
They're fools.
The Bible says that the fool has said in his heart,
there is no God.
So it doesn't matter how many times you correct them.
They're not going to listen.
What about fossilized seashells up on the top of Mount Everest?
How'd they get there?
Evolutionists say, well, they were pushed up
through millions of years of plate tectonics.
Plate tectonic shifts put them up there.
Well, let's go back to fantasy land and pretend that's true.
Plate tectonic shifts do happen, yes.
But the fossilized seashells that we found up there
are closed.
Now, when these sea creatures died,
naturally they would open up.
They would only die closed if they were in a flood.
And so you know what that proves?
If they're on the top of Mount Everest and they're closed,
it proves that they were buried by a flood.
And by the way, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain
in the world.
So to say, well, you know, there was no global flood
and these things were pushed up through billions
of years of plate tectonics, well, then how to,
or millions of years, excuse me.
You know, they always pull out the big numbers.
Sound like a magician, you know?
And then when I pull out the numbers, they're like,
hey, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
But the numbers, you know what?
Keep pulling out the numbers because it just makes God
that much greater.
I mean, his creation is powerful,
greater in the sense that we see him.
You know, when I look at proteins and get a chance
to look under microscopes and stuff and see all this,
it's amazing.
The Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God.
Now, whole whales have been found
throughout the United States on the top of mountains.
Now, how do you think they got there?
I wonder how.
Oh, it couldn't have been a global flood.
They'll say, oh, well, plate tectonics,
they always go running to plate tectonics
to solve all their problems.
Plate tectonics pushed them up there.
Look, folks, when a whale dies,
what happens is it floats to the surface
because whales are made of fat.
They're nothing but fat.
They come up to the surface and then the birds
just eat them away, the fish eat them
because they mainly just have cartilage for bones
and there's nothing left.
Whales don't get fossilized anymore.
So if these whales died naturally
and then over millions of years
were pushed up the mountain,
wouldn't they have been eaten by some creatures?
Or wouldn't the bones have been deteriorated
from the sun hitting it?
It proves that there are a whole whale
found in the middle of mountains in Michigan,
where I'm from, that there was a global flood.
There's no denying it, folks.
They can sit there and come up with every excuse
as to why they think that the flood never happened.
But let's look at what evolutionists say about,
and now this is gonna sound very hokey, okay?
Some of the things I'm about to share with you.
Now, I do not believe these things,
but this is what evolutionary theory actually teaches, okay?
Because squids and octopuses, they say,
well, we all evolved from different animals.
And Pastor Thompson will definitely talk about
how we all came from a common ancestor,
not a primate, but a human being, okay?
And even just the thought of evolution sounds silly to me,
and it would be a joke if people weren't
so seriously into believing it.
I was talking to a guy one time, he's like,
well, you mean to tell me you don't think
we're related to that grass outside?
He's like, well, we have similar DNA.
The grass has DNA, and we have DNA.
Well, number one, then why are you walking
on your ancestors?
For crying out loud, get some respect for your ancestry.
You know, and the rocks are your ancestors, too.
The rocks are the grass's ancestors.
So wherever you walk, you might be walking on grandfather.
Okay?
Number one, and then number two,
they say, well, dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago,
and they say grass came into being 55 million years ago.
So dinosaurs never saw grass.
Well, they just recently did a test this past year
on dinosaur feces that they discovered,
and guess what the dinosaur ate?
Grass.
Yet grass came into being 10 million years after?
Doesn't make any sense, folks.
It just, again, them coming up with these stupid objections
to Jesus and to the Bible just gives themselves away.
They set their sights against the Lord
and against his anointed and every time they fail.
Because you know what?
I'm not the only person speaking out on this stuff.
We got a whole weekend of this stuff coming up here, folks,
and I'm gonna make sure that the truth is plain, you know?
And we're not gonna butter this thing over.
All right, so they say, well, you're not,
how can you think that you're not related to the grass?
Well, number one, just because grass has DNA
and we have DNA, that's like saying,
well, aren't birds and airplanes related
because they have wings?
Isn't an octopus and an ink pen related
because they both squirt ink?
Look at the logic behind these people.
It's crazy.
It's literally madness, you know?
So anyways, let's continue here.
So now this is the hokey stuff, folks.
So since they think that we all came from an amoeba
that found some other amoeba to marry, of course,
because you gotta have two.
You must have found something to eat,
slowly evolved into where we are today.
Let's just grant all that.
Squids and octopuses have a different genetic build
than any other creature in the world.
So they couldn't, scientists have come to the conclusion
that they couldn't have come from any other sea creature.
So here's what evolutionary theory states
about how they got here.
Evolution says, or evolutionists claim,
it says one plausible explanation.
In our view is that the genes are likely new
extraterrestrial imports to Earth.
These scientists declare that, quote,
the squid eggs hitched a ride to Earth
on the back of asteroids.
That is what evolution teaches, folks.
I am not kidding.
I was in an interview with a friend of mine
who's got, he's an actual creation scientist.
Now him and I don't see eye to eye on everything,
but he brought this up
and I thought he was joking with me.
I said, are you serious?
We cut for a moment.
I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
This is what they teach?
He said, yeah, it's what they teach.
I looked it up.
Sure enough, evolution teaches that they hitched a ride
on the back of asteroids.
Doesn't that sound fun?
And they don't get along anyways.
Squids and octopuses are constantly fighting each other,
so I don't know how they made it here to begin with.
But of course they were eggs,
and the article goes on to say
that they were fertilized, they don't know how,
but they were fertilized so that they could hatch
when they hit the water.
Evolutionists also claim that monkeys,
because monkeys had to have somehow gotten
to South America from Africa.
That's what evolutionary theory states,
and they have a problem figuring out how,
so their best conclusion,
that their best scientists have come up with,
is this idea that monkeys surfed across the ocean,
across the ocean to a land anew over in South America.
Now that has a lot of problems.
There's tides out there.
They probably get blown off their surf.
Who has ever seen a monkey surf?
I don't even think they can.
But this is what happens, folks,
when you go into fantasy land,
and when you think that the world created itself
from nothing, magically I might add that.
Evolution won in court, not the lab.
Let's always remember that.
It never, and that's why they're teaching it in schools.
It's not because of the lab.
It's because the US government said,
we have to teach evolution.
We have to teach it to our students.
And it's the only theory protected by law, folks.
Now, a lot of evolutionists will say,
well, believing in God takes away from your ability
to be a real human being and to think for yourself.
And it degrades people, they say.
Who's ever heard that?
I'm sure you guys have all heard that.
They'll say, it degrades your character.
Live your own life.
Be your own God.
But let me ask you something.
What gives us more,
I'm just gonna ask questions here tonight.
Questions will get people to think.
What degrades a person?
If we came from billions of years of plasma
in the galaxy that just exploded and somehow created us,
or if a God loved us and designed us
for his glory and his pleasure.
God, God loved us.
The Bible says for God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
but have everlasting life.
Believeth.
And you know what?
Recently I was online listening to Pastor Thompson
talk about these people that make repentance unclear.
Guys, we gotta stop that.
There's new people that are coming into this movement
if that's what you wanna call it,
and coming into Christianity
and they're hearing repent of your sins.
Well, what does that even mean?
Stop confusing the gospel.
The Bible in John never uses the word repent one time.
Yet that's the book where it says these things are written
that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the son of God, and that believing on him
you might have life through his name.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
not turn from all your sins.
We aren't Mormons here, folks,
but I better not get off track.
I need to stay on track
because we're talking about creation.
It's repent of your sins people, man.
And you know what?
It's just about every apologist out there,
and it's frustrating.
It really frustrates me.
You say, well, why are you angry?
The Bible says be angry and sin not.
So they say, well, you know,
it's so degrading to think that God created us.
Okay, well, let me ask you, Mr. Atheist,
is it morally acceptable to own animals?
Are people animals?
Think about that.
Charles Darwin thought it was okay.
Charles Darwin, the founder of your religion,
taught that it was okay to own animals.
The title of his own book is,
the original title, by the way,
is The Preservation of Favored Races
in the Struggle for Life.
You know what that tells you?
That he was favoring certain races.
And that's the person that,
they say the Bible promotes racism.
No, it doesn't.
The Bible says we're all of one blood.
All of us are of one blood.
Red, yellow, black, and white,
they're all precious in his sight.
And I'm sick and tired of people straw manning the Bible.
Oh, a bunch of goat herders wrote your book.
Why are you saying that all goat herders are bad?
And number one, Paul wasn't a goat herder,
he was a scholar.
So shut your big mouth.
And he wrote over half the New Testament.
They say, well, I only believe in what I can see.
This is where you get to,
Pastor Thompson remembers this
because we interviewed quite a few of them
down there at ASU.
They're like, well, it just comes down to this.
I only believe what I can see.
Well, have you ever seen an animal change kinds?
I believe what I can see and what I can see
is that animals bring forth after their kind.
That's what I can see and I believe that.
Jesus said, blessed are you who have not seen
and have yet believed.
So they say, well, I can only believe what I can see.
Well, have you ever seen a biogenesis?
Life come from non-life?
Who thinks that a rock is gonna start life?
And number three, what about the missing links?
They say, well, we're still looking,
yet they only believe what they can see with their eyes.
Yet the missing links are still missing.
They're like, well, I'm not sure if they're missing.
Dude, that's why they're called the missing links
because they're missing.
They're not there, folks.
And you know what?
So let me tell you, Mr. Evolutionist,
you can keep having faith, faith in what you believe,
which is science falsely so-called
is what the Bible calls it.
Go ahead and turn over to 1 Timothy 6.20.
1 Timothy 6.20.
Bible says, oh, Timothy, keep that which is committed
that I trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings
and oppositions of science falsely so-called.
So the Bible warned us before science came about
that science falsely so-called would come about
and would deny the flood,
which we see people do all the time.
They say, and Christians will say,
well, let's compromise a little bit.
It was a local flood.
Well, you mean to tell me
that Noah's gonna spend over 100 years
to flee a flood that was local to his area?
Why wouldn't you just get out of Dodge?
And their response is, they say,
well, it's just so that Noah could show all those people
that God was supreme.
What's it proving to those people?
They're all dying.
It doesn't prove anything to them.
It makes no sense, folks.
These theistic evolutionists, Hugh Ross,
everybody probably knows who he is.
The guy needs to get it right.
The guy needs to get it, and you know what?
He'll probably never get it right
because he's a false teacher and he's making money.
They say, creationism is where all the money is.
No, it's not.
Every good creation scientist that I've ever known
has lost money coming into this.
Look, I could be a millionaire teaching evolution.
I can learn to speak words a certain way
or to say things how they want me to say them,
to make money, but you know what?
The truth is more bright than darkness,
and I'd have to be accountable to God for that.
So I'm not gonna go along with the flow.
They're like, well, you're just going along
with what you've been taught.
All your life.
Look, pretty much everybody out there is secular.
We're the ones that are going against the flow, folks.
And you know what?
People say, well, don't you have peer pressure?
No, I don't have peer pressure.
You know, a guy came into my job one time in my office
and he's like, man, I just gotta smoke, man.
He's an atheist.
I just gotta smoke for my friends.
I'm like, why?
I'm like, do you like to smoke?
He's like, no, but I gotta do it.
There's so much peer pressure.
Look, why don't I just start a peer group
where we don't smoke and where we live for God?
That's what I want.
They say, well, why are you speaking these truths
so blatantly and straightforward?
Because I want people to know what the truth is.
I'm sick of people being lied to.
So there are no missing links.
And Stephen Gould, who's one of the top paleontologists
in the world, said, and I quote, he said,
there are no missing links.
The whole chain's missing.
So when they say, well, what do the scientists say,
Mr. Powell?
There's what the scientists actually say.
Science is on our side.
The Bible's on our side.
And you know what?
I don't believe the Bible because of science.
And a lot of atheists will say,
well, you believe that the word of God is the word of God
because the Bible says it's the word of God.
So you've got a circular argument there.
Look, I don't care what shape the argument is.
The Bible has power.
Never a man spake like this man.
They say, well, that's not good enough.
Okay, well, if truth is a real thing, which it is,
they say, well, there is no truth.
Is that true?
Because if it's true that there's no truth,
how can the statement be true that there is no truth?
They say, well, I can't be sure of anything.
Well, you seem sure that you're not sure of anything else.
That's for sure.
Mr. Agnostic.
The agnostic people say, well, we can't have certainty.
Well, you're certain of that.
And that's all I know.
And look, they say, well,
you've got a circular argument on your hands.
How are you gonna get your way out of this one?
Look, I don't have to.
If the Bible's authority was dependent upon my reasoning
to give it authority,
then my reasoning would be the final authority, right?
But if the Bible is true, which it is,
it should be its own authority.
I shouldn't have to defend the Bible
because the Bible defends itself.
Never a man spake like this man.
And no matter how many times you tell these buffoons,
you say, you shouldn't call names.
Jesus did.
You say, what would Jesus do?
That's what Jesus would do.
They say, well, what about the holy wars?
Religion causes so much trouble
and religion is the reason that we've had
so many people die in this world
and it's just so terrible.
Look, over 110 million people have died
under atheistic communism here.
More than the holy wars, 10 times more, at least,
than religion ever thought of doing any killing.
So they say religion's dangerous.
Well, Adolf Hitler wasn't religious
and yet he killed him.
They say Adolf Hitler was a Christian.
No, Adolf Hitler said that he wanted
to exterminate Christianity from the land.
That's what he actually said, folks.
They say, well, you gotta do your research, Mr. Powell.
No, you need to do your research.
I've already done mine.
I know what the sources say.
They're like, all he can do is quote scientists.
Look, if you're appealing to science,
shouldn't you be quoting some scientists?
Shouldn't you be sharing some of the information
and some of the data that they found and the processes
that they brought these things about on?
Drives me nuts.
So, almost done, folks.
Go ahead and turn it over to Psalm 2.
Just curious, we're still looking to see
if an explosion out of chaos has ever produced life.
Anybody ever see that?
Still looking.
We'll give a million dollars to the first person
that can say that they have.
That's what they say.
All right, so Psalm 2 says, why did the heathen rage?
And the people imagine a vain thing.
The kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord
and against his anointed, saying,
let us break their bands asunder
and cast away their cords from us.
You know, sometimes it gets overwhelming
when you have the world attacking you.
Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming.
You got protesters outside the church
that wanna hang them high with you
because the truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
It's too hard for them to see it.
Yet they claim to believe the truth,
but they don't know what truth is.
Truth is what the facts are.
R.N. Roy always says the truth is what the facts,
he doesn't even know what the facts are.
He doesn't care.
And you know what, there's a reason why he'll never show up
on certain debate channels of friends of mine
that defend young earth creationism
because he knows that he has nothing.
He knows he's willingly ignorant.
Now, notice what the Bible says here in verse four.
It says, he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
The Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath
and vex them in his sore displeasure.
So let me tell you something.
If you're leaning towards being an atheist
and diving into a fantasy,
I wanna remind you that the Lord's wrath
is gonna be on your life.
I don't want the Lord's wrath on your life.
I love you.
You may be my brother in the flesh
if you're an evolutionist, but you know what?
You need to be my brother in the spirit.
You need to get saved.
The Bible says, not by works of righteousness,
which we have done, but according to his mercy,
he saved us.
Saved, past tense, by the washing of regeneration.
So to kind of wrap this up here,
Arin Ra made a response to me recently,
and I felt that it would be appropriate to bring it up
because he made a really good point,
and I just felt that it would be so good to share
with everybody here.
He says, well, even if there was a God,
it wouldn't be your God, referring to mine,
or anything like it, because you worship the Bible God.
Does that make any sense?
Well, if there was a God, it wouldn't be your God
because you worship the Bible.
That doesn't make any sense.
These people are enraged against the Lord,
and they all have fantasy named for themselves.
They're all stuck in fantasy land, man.
I'm just trying to get them to wake up
and realize there's purpose to life.
They make their purpose to tell everybody
that there is no purpose, but you know what?
As a Christian, we should tell people
that there is purpose to life.
God designed you to be a soul winner
and to lead people to Jesus,
and it drives me nuts when people fall for these people,
and you know why little children fall for them?
Because they use cartoons.
They have fantasy names.
These kids that watch these movies,
it's no different than Star Trek to them,
but it's like the real thing,
and you've got these guys
that all have their fantasy name,
the Godless Cranium, the Raging Atheist.
You know, it's interesting.
The definition of rage is out-of-control emotions,
so when I say, oh, I'm raging,
you know what you're actually saying?
I'm out of control,
so a lot of atheists will say, well, you know,
okay, Matt, there's a God.
I know it, which they pretty much knew it all along.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out
if you have a painting, you have to have a painter.
If you have a building, you have to have a designer.
They say, well, I can't see God.
Do you see the people who built this building?
No.
Probably meet them someday if they were Christians,
if they were saved,
but you know what?
It's amazing to me.
They say, well, you know, how do you know which God it is?
Well, let me tell you something.
History is filled with a lot of dead options, okay,
dead messiahs, but there's only one
living messiah.
Only one.
Only one came back from the dead
and shook up history so much.
They say, how do you have so much faith
to believe the resurrection?
Look, how can you have enough faith not to believe
the resurrection?
It's just not possible.
It's just not possible, folks.
It takes more faith not to believe it.
I've always stood on that.
I've always said that.
It takes more faith,
and yet you want to claim you don't have faith?
It's just as crazy to me,
and that's irrational faith what they have.
They have faith in science falsely so-called, folks.
Now, there's one more thing
that I wanted to cover tonight in closing.
Two more things.
Make them quick.
This guy,
Mr. Atheist
is his YouTube name, and he's growing on YouTube,
so I figure it's appropriate.
The Bible says, mark them.
So that's what we're going to do tonight.
This guy literally put out a video
a year ago,
and you say, well, it's a year later.
You're still frustrated about it?
Yes, I'm frustrated about it.
He attacked a good friend of mine,
Pastor Tommy McMurtry,
and he's demanding, he's holding up a red sign.
You know, this YouTube channel
of Tommy McMurtry's got to stop.
Tommy McMurtry is
he's not the heaviest
preacher out there.
He's not necessarily a lightweight,
but he doesn't rant like all of us other guys do,
you know, which is fine.
You know, there's softer, lighter, harder,
more rants, less rants.
It's fine. Everybody has their own style.
Let everybody be persuaded in their own mind.
But you know what?
He came out against Pastor Tommy McMurtry,
and I responded back,
and you know what he said?
He said, well, abortion rights are in real danger
with this guy around.
So his right
to go and murder
an unborn baby is in danger.
And you think that I'm not going to get frustrated
about that?
You think I'm not going to
put up a fight?
You know what? I'm going to speak for those who can't
speak for themselves tonight.
And you know what?
I know of several people in this church that are
expecting child, and you know what?
It would be the most hateful thing
to harm that baby.
That would be hateful. That would be selfish.
Yet they claim, oh, we live in the generation
of love.
And I always, whenever I knock
their door to try to give them the gospel,
you know what they always say?
They always say, well, you shouldn't push your beliefs
on other people. Stay away.
Well, hello, you're pushing
your belief of telling me not to push my beliefs
on other people onto me.
That's a logical
fallacy.
It's like, have you ever
heard what logic is?
Have you ever heard what reason is?
The Bible says all men have not faith
and that there are wicked and unreasonable men
who have not faith.
So the people that have not faith in
Jesus, the Bible says they're wicked
and they're unreasonable.
And no matter how many times you bring
these facts forward to them, it doesn't matter.
You say, man, Brother Powell, you seem
really worked up tonight. You bet I'm worked up.
It's frustrating, man,
to see all my people
in my demographic over here
in the public fool system getting taught
how not to think.
And then when they graduate, they think they know
how to think.
But they know how to be told what to think.
They don't know how to think for themselves.
It's crazy.
The last thing that I have,
and I'm sure some of you have
probably heard this,
and other Christians,
when I took
the raging atheist guy
and I debated him, if that's what you want to call it,
other Christians were coming
to this guy and saying,
Ronnie, Ronnie's his real name,
you're so smart, Ronnie.
Ronnie, we just think the world
of you, Ronnie, and you're
the most single, honest person
we've ever met.
Trying to win him over to
Jesus by lying to him
and pretending that he believes in science.
Tell them the truth.
I told Ronnie the truth.
And he rejected it. And you know what?
If he continues to reject the truth,
if he continues to stiffen his neck,
he'll be destroyed and that without remedy,
the Bible says.
Without remedy.
There's some people for whom it's too late.
I took time out of my
schedule to go visit
with that guy and try to help
him. I saw anger
in that man.
And I saw hatred for me
and other people, other Christians.
I didn't necessarily see hatred towards God
at that point. But you know what?
He started hating God.
He started hating the Lord.
And it's a shame.
Don't end up like
Ronnie the rager.
The out of control atheist
is what he should be called because that's what his name even means.
His fantasy name.
Last thing I want to cover tonight.
So I'm sure
back in my worldly days,
I used to love
Christian rock and roll.
And it's something I'm not proud of.
Never get into Christian rock and roll, kids.
Never. It's bad.
Rock and roll is bad.
It hurts your health.
It brings you down.
Even Harvard just did a study where they put
rock and roll around plants and it started
playing and the plants died.
You want to see what it does to
life? It kills life.
At these rock and roll concerts,
there's constantly people coming and shooting
up the place. It brings out
the devil in people, man.
So
Hawk Nelson. Who's heard
of Hawk Nelson? You probably know what's going on.
So Hawk Nelson just
came out. He's one of the biggest Christian
rock stars in the world.
And this guy,
the leader of the Hawk Nelson band,
John Steingard,
came out just a couple
days ago as an atheist.
Now, keep in mind, folks,
this guy has got hundreds of thousands
of listeners, little
children that watch his stuff,
and he's coming out and saying, oh, you
know, I'm wrong about God.
There is no God.
Just live your life how
you want to live it. Follow what
feels good. Can you always trust your feelings?
Absolutely not. Yes.
You can't trust your feelings. It's not
like a Hollywood movie where it's like,
trust your feelings, Luke.
This isn't Star Wars.
This is reality.
This is the Bible we're talking
about tonight. And this is a book
that is being censored in this country.
And you know what? We need to defend
the word of God.
And stand up. So the
band had some words about
John Steingard, their leader, coming out
as an atheist. And they
said, you know, the bandmates of John
Steingard wrote a statement that is
supportive of their front man.
They wrote,
one of our best friends,
one of whom we have
walked and worked and lived alongside
of for 20 plus years,
revealed some of his
innermost feelings on his faith
journey
this past week.
God is still
for John.
He's still for John.
The Bible says
that friendship with the world is
enmity with God.
The Bible says,
if sinners entice thee,
consent thou not.
And yet they say, oh, well
God is still for John. That's not what the Bible
says.
You know what? Maybe John never
heard the gospel. I don't know.
You know, sometimes
I don't hope that, you know,
I really don't hope that there's any reprobates,
but there are reprobates. I'm not
going to deny it.
There are people who are too far gone.
And you know what? It would do
these people good that are questioning
their faith because a singer who got
up and said he's an
atheist now, these people need to know
what the truth is. You say, you're
trying to create click bait, Brother Powell.
In a way, yes.
Because I don't want them to
believe the nonsense that this guy
believes. So, you know what?
Pastor Thompson and I, Pastor Thompson
might talk more about him. And I tell you what,
we'll put out some content online
and hopefully it doesn't get censored
and tell what the truth
is. And direct people to
sermons like Pastor Anderson's sermon
about professing themselves
to be wise. We'll
refer them to documentaries about
serial killers and
stuff like Pastor Thompson
has put out. And they'll get to hear
the word of God. Amen.
God could use something
that was evil for good here.
So we need to call this out
for what it is. God is not for
John Steingard.
He's not for that.
That's not honorable to God.
So
that's all I've got tonight, folks.
You know, if any of you guys have any
questions,
definitely feel free to ask me after the service.
But it's been a blessing
giving this message. And
I think that we should close in a word of prayer.
But before we close, we need
to always remember that not
every atheist out there is a reprobate.
And
a lot of them are. And even news articles
have come out and said that atheists are the
most high into the LGBTQ.
They're the most high
demographic. Even though they only make up 3-5%
of the human population.
Most of them are
LGBTQ.
Obviously those people in that community
I'm not going to witness to them.
I'm not going to waste time with them.
But there are some atheists out there
that need to be given the benefit of the
doubt. They need to hear a
sermon like this that will shake their
faith in the wrong thing
that they have and put it in Christ.
You know, and to any
people that are struggling
with their faith, talk to me.
We live in a generation
where people are just, they're not
sure of anything.
They don't know what the facts
are. They don't know what the Bible says.
The Bible
says, so you can either believe one or two
things here tonight in closing.
You can either believe that in the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth
and the earth was without form and void.
Or you can believe that monkeys
surfed the ocean blue to find a
place anew.
You can either believe that in the beginning
was the word and the word was with God
and the word was God.
Powerful, amen. Or
you can believe that squids hitched
a ride on the back of
asteroids to get here to us.
You have to make
that choice, folks, and
a wise person, an honest person
will come to the light. He that doeth truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds
may be made manifest that they are wrought in God. Let's pray.
Lord, thank you for this opportunity.
Thank you for Pastor Thompson
and Brother Remy and this great church
that you have here, Father.
I just pray that you'd
help this sermon to really hit home with people
and that they would see the truth
and see the light
and see that the light shines brighter
than darkness. Thank you for what
you've done here tonight. I pray you'll bless
everybody as they go their separate ways
later on this evening. In Jesus' name, amen.