Thank you.
Good morning, and welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
Please grab a seat and get a hymnal and turn to number 147,
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
Number 147.
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, Leaning on the everlasting arms,
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, Leaning on the everlasting arms,
Leaning on the everlasting arms Oh how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way
Leaning on the everlasting arms Oh how bright the path grows from day to day
Safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms
What have I to dread? What have I to fear?
Leaning on the everlasting arms
blessed peace with my Lord so near. Leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning,
safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
And let's turn to number 161, our great savior, number 161.
Jesus, what a friend for sinners.
Jesus, lover of my soul, friends may fail.
Sell me
us what a strength and weakness let me hide myself in him tempted tried and
sometimes failing he my strength the victory wins hallelujah what a savior
What a help in sorrow, while the billows o'er me roll.
Even when my heart is breaking, he, my comfort, helps my soul.
Hallelujah, what a Savior.
Just what a guide and keeper, while the tempest still is high.
Storms about me night or takes me, he, my pilot hears my cry.
Hallelujah, what a saint.
I saw
to the end. Amen. Good singing. It's time to advance with Justin Jung. We'll give the announcements.
Good morning to Shoe Foundation Baptist Church. Razor Henny Benita Bulletin, and I'll show what
we'll give the Bulletin to you. And this is the last service in the month of September. So
Time flies and as soon we'll have plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas
So let's look at the verse the week Romans chapter 1 verse 20
the Bible says for the for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the
Things that are made even he sees no power and God has so that so that they are without excuse as a great verse about
Creation everyone should know that there's a God just looking at the sky just looking at nature, right?
Nobody has an excuse to deny God so
Let's look at the inside page we are on YouTube Facebook rumble and X so please give us a follow if you haven't done
So we have service on a morning at 11 Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m.
And once in my Bible study at 7 p.m. This Wednesday will be going over Ecclesiastic chapter number 11
So two more chapters till we finish that book. So if you have so if I so if you have any
Suggestion about the next Bible study, let me know so far. I think I only have one
suggestions so please let me know what book you want to hear and I'll take that into consideration.
And then we have soul winning time this afternoon at 1.30pm.
I think we are going to the Butler student housing area.
So it should be a perceptive.
So looking forward to the soul winning session this afternoon.
And then we'll have our Saturday morning
regular soul winning at 10.30am.
And then we had a great turnout at Gary yesterday.
We have 15 soul winners and 22 salvations.
So praise the Lord for that.
So Gary will be a monthly, monthly event.
So more details to come about what is next month.
do we have the day yet yeah so usually we do the last Saturday of every month
with a gary sony marathon so hopefully you can join us next time
And then the last week's attendance is below for you to see.
And then upcoming events, Dr. Stringer will be preaching both services on Sunday, November 30.
So please save the day. Invite your family, friends, relatives, people you know, to hear him preaching.
And then...
We'll have our pie and praise service during the Sunday afternoon service on November 23rd.
Basically, that will be a special service, kind of like how we did it last year.
We'll do sound requests and I'll preach a very short sermon at, you know, maybe 20 minutes.
I have no idea. And then we're just going to have pies and the time of fellowship.
So again, that will take place during the afternoon service on Sunday, November 23rd.
then Christmas service this year will be on Sunday December 21st. There'll be a
potluck right after the morning service. Invite your family and friends or just
invite those people who only come on Easter and Christmas. That'll be a great
time to you know invite those people. And then Christmas Eve service will be on
Wednesday December 24th.
Yeah, and then the Sony Marathon coming up December 27 is our winter one-land Sony Marathon
That's the event where we'll go someone in for like three four hours straight, and then we'll go for dinner. Okay, rather than the
Sony long Sony this will be a full marathon style just a three four hour marathon straight and
So no matter how cold the weather is we'll be keep pushing and going
and let's see please help us with the cleaning of the church building right after the afternoon service
the October Sunday afternoon preaching schedule is for you to see as well if you want to know how
to be saved or needs to be baptized please see an usher or myself after service the water the water
is always warm and clean and so please you know follow up with your new converts and tell them
about baptism as well as church attendance please make sure you're grabbing the follow-up cards to
Let's flip on the back side and you can see the
birthdays in the month of October if your dates are not in there, please let me know by writing it on the back of the
By writing it in the back of the communication card and drop it when the offering play goes by so I can keep that keep that updated
So with that being said, let's sing one more song and then we'll take up the offering
Alright, let's sing number 332, channels only, number 332.
How I praise thee, precious Saviour, that thy love laid hold of me.
Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me, that I might thy channel be.
Channels only, blessed Master, but with all thy wondrous power.
Every day and every hour
Empty that thou shouldest fill me, a clean vessel in thy hand,
with no power but as thou givest, graciously with each command.
Channels only, blessed master, but with all thy wondrous power,
flowing through us, thou canst use us.
every day and every hour.
Witnessing Thy power to save me,
setting free from self and sin,
Thou hast brought us to possess me
in Thy fullness, Lord, come in.
Channels only, blessed Master,
Flowing through us, how can't you use us
Every day and every hour
Jesus, fill now with thy spirit, hearts at full, surrender, know
that the streams of living water from our inner man may flow.
Channels only, blessed master, but with all thy wondrous power,
and every hour. Amen. This time the ushers could come forward for the offering. Brother
Rashid, could you pray for the offering? Amen.
Okay, we'll be in Psalm chapter 14 this morning. If need a Bible raise your hands and usher will bring one to you
Psalm chapter 14
While you're turning that I'll begin reading the chapter Psalm 14
The fool hath said in his heart there is no God. They are corrupt. They have done
Abominable works. There is none that doeth good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any
That did understand and seek God. They're all gone aside. They're all together become filthy
There is none that doeth good. No, not one of all the workers of iniquity. No knowledge
who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
There were they in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
Ode at the salvation of Israel will come out of Zion,
when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people.
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Brother Andrew, could you pray for the message?
Amen now this morning I want to preach a different style of sermon and how do the sermon this morning is called answering atheist
objections answering atheist
objections. I just want to bring up some of the objections by the atheists and
how to respond to them and some of the objections are very easy to debunk while
others may be challenging but before I bring up all these objections let me
just say this that atheists are fools.
People who deny the people people who deny God's God's existence are fools based on the Bible go to Psalm 14
Look at verse number one some 14 ones as this the fools have said in his heart
There's no God they are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There's none that doeth and good
So Bob is very clear if someone denied that God exists that person is a fool
Okay, so here's the definition of an atheist
An atheist is a person who does not believe in the existence of God or any gods.
Atheism is defined as a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a God or any gods.
And then we read the verse of the weak Romans 1.20 says,
40 invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.
So we can see the creation that should point us to God, right?
even his eternal power, and God heads so that they are without excuse.
People who deny God are without excuse because the creation of the world are clearly seen.
We can see the stars, we can see the animals, we can see the ecosystem, right?
We can see genetics, DNA, you know.
If you just look at those things objectively, you have to believe there is a Creator.
Right because people have to be
Inductionated to believing atheism, you know little kids. No, there's something greater. Okay, so
And the other thing to realize that is even if we may not know the response for every single argument, you know
That's totally fine because we don't have to know every single response for every single argument because what is faith?
Faith is a substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
So why do we believe God is real by faith?
Why do we believe the King James Bible is perfect by faith?
Why do we believe Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead by faith?
Obviously, we can point to science. We can point to logic, but both of them. We believe what we believe by faith
Okay, and we don't have to you know know every single argument, you know because because because that simply not possible
Okay, so
But let's also not be sucked into Christian apologetics.
I don't want to apologize for my faith, so.
Apologetics is defined as a branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin
and authority of Christianity.
There's nothing wrong with knowing the arguments and knowing how to debunk them, but let's
not be fixated into arguing with atheists.
Okay, turn the Bible to Proverbs 26.
Again, nothing wrong with knowing the arguments and knowing the objections, but ultimately,
we believe, or we believe, by faith.
Proverbs 26, look at verse number 4.
Proverbs 26, verse 4, the Bible says...
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be likened to him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
So verse 4 and 5 are not contradicting each other.
The Bible is telling us to have a proper balance, okay?
Sometimes we should not be answering a fool or an atheist because atheists are fools, right?
We don't want to be, you know, we don't want to bring ourselves down to their levels, right?
But sometimes it's profitable to defend the faith, maybe to just maybe maybe just explain some
the logical reasoning on why we believe God is real, okay? So we have to have a proper balance
because ultimately, you know, creation science is not the gospel, right? Science is not the gospel,
If someone claims to be an atheist, don't go into creation science, because creation science, again, is not a gospel.
Creation science does not save someone's soul.
The word of God saves, the gospel saves, okay?
So don't be so fixated into debunking someone at the door.
I know many of you can, but that's pride, okay?
Focus on the gospel, focus on the word of God.
Sometimes if you walk away after two or three abonitions,
that shows your maturity, right?
Even though you are fully capable
of debunking someone at the door,
but sometimes the most mature way is to walk away.
to leave a good taste in their mouth, okay?
So, when someone claims to be an atheist at the door,
maybe just say, hey, just pretend that the Bible is true.
Can I show you from the Bible how you can go to heaven?
Then maybe at the end, you decide what you want to believe.
At least someone can have the chance to hear what the Bible says,
because the Word of God can change people's life, right?
The Word of God has power.
So don't have some fancy, you know, gospel presentation geared towards an atheist, geared
toward a Catholic.
Just use the same gospel presentation.
So go to Psalm 90, Psalm chapter 90.
the objection of God's existence, the objection of God's existence.
This is arguably the most common argument from the atheist, where did God come from?
How can you prove that there is a God?
But if you think about this logically, there has to be an uncaused cause.
Think about it, use your logic this morning, hypothetically speaking, if there's someone who indeed created God,
you can still ask who created that someone, right? You can keep asking that question, so there has to be a being that's not created.
Make sense? Because even if someone created God, you can keep asking the question, who made that someone?
So if you backtrack all the way back there has to be a being that's not
Created the Bible says in the beginning God created heaven and the earth you are in Psalm 90 look at version number 2
Psalm 90 verse 2 the Bible says
before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
So verse 2 is very clear. God has existed before he formed the earth and the world, and he is from everlasting. That proves he is not created.
Thou turnest men to destruction and sayest return ye children of men for a thousand years in thy sight
Or but as yesterday when when it is passed and as a watch in the night
So verse 4 said proves that God is outside of time, right?
Because God knows the end from the beginning 1,000 years is like a day
you know, sometimes, you know, just a thousand years, maybe it's like three hours in the night,
like a watch in the night, okay? So God is outside of time because God created time, right?
And God has been there before the creation of the heaven and the earth. He is from everlasting
to everlasting, and God has been there before the very creation of time. He is the uncost cause,
right? He has always existed because He is God. That's the very definition of God, right? God is
uncreated, okay, but it's Psalm 19, Psalm chapter 19.
Now, Psalm 19 is a very famous passage about creation. Psalm 19 verse 1, the Bible says,
the heavens declare the glory of God.
Now the Bible says heavens as in you know as in plural form because there are three heavens
Right the first heaven is the sky the firmament of heaven
You know tongue about where bird flies and the second heaven is the cosmos the stars and the planets or like whatever
And in the third heaven is where God dwells.
So that was just the heavens declared the glory of God.
When we see the birds flying, when we see the stars,
comets, you know, it declares the glory of God.
And the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Now the firmament is basically another word for heaven.
Can mean the sky can mean the cosmos based on the context verse to day on to day
others speech and night on to night show it knowledge
So the creation of God is talking to us right obviously is this is
symbolically speaking when we see the sounds rising and falling that's
You know, that's the creation figuratively talking to us, night after night, short knowledge.
We can see the stars, constellations, and the moons.
So God is, you know, quote-unquote, speaking to us through the creation, and it clears the glory of God.
Verse 3 says, there's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
So the creation of God, the glory of God, is without borders.
It doesn't matter if you speak Chinese, Spanish, English, the voice of the creation is heard everywhere.
Even those people in Africa who have not heard about the gospel, they have known the creation.
They have seen the glory of the Lord.
There's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
God's glory is without borders.
So don't let people fool you saying they don't know that God is real in some remote part of the world, okay?
We've all seen creation. No same person will look at the creation and just conclude that everything comes by chance.
We have to be indoctrinated into believing in the Big Bang Theory as well as the evolution.
So, what does atheism teach where the work came from?
The Big Bang, right?
The Big Bang theory.
Now the Big Bang theory points to about 13.8 billion years ago, although that number changes
every single year, apparently.
So about 13.8 billion years ago, all matter, energy, space, and even time itself were concentrated
into an unimaginably small heart and dance point,
also known as the singularity.
This singularity began to expand rapidly.
It wasn't an explosion in space, but rather the expansion of space itself.
As the universe expanded, it cooled down.
Subatomic particles formed than atoms, mostly hydrogen and helium form.
Over time, gravity pulled matter together to form stars, galaxies.
and eventually planets, okay?
So that's the summary of the Big Ben Theory.
Now the Big Ben Theory actually does not explain
what caused the universe to begin.
The big man theory only describes the fact of what happened after the beginning because we can still ask to ask
The question who created this singularity, right? There has to be something
Okay, so I think it takes more faith to believe in the big band then you know to believe in in the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth right just somehow singularity exploded
If you're Stephen Hawking, somehow gravity created everything, you know, just ridiculous sci-fi stuff, okay, so
So modern cosmology, the Big Bang Theory, cosmic background radiation, entropy points to the universe
indeed does have a beginning, so if the universe had a beginning, then it could not have created itself, right?
Just like simple logic, okay?
to exist before it existed, also known as a contradiction.
And then we have the physicist often explore the naturalistic explanations,
such as quantum fluctuation.
That's the idea of that the universe arose from a quantum vacuum.
Again, sci-fi stuff, okay?
Multiverse theories.
They will claim that there is an infinite amount
of universes where hours happen by chance.
But you can still ask the question,
who created the multiverse, okay?
We don't live in a Marvel-like universe
with multiverse theories, okay?
But all these theories assume something already exists, the quantum fields, law of physics,
or a multiverse generator, okay?
So they do not explain why there's something rather than nothing.
So logic proves that the universe cannot come from nothing, from the basic principle of
causality everything that begins to you know begins to exist must have a cause so
the universe begin to exist it must have a cause outside of itself okay like the
Bible says he is from everlasting to everlasting and for the universe to
create itself it would have to exist before it existed which is logically
Go to first Peter chapter 3 first Peter chapter chapter number 3
so number one I talked about the
The objection of God's existence point number two
The objection of evil and suffering the objection of evil and suffering now
This is this is another common common objection by the atheist
If God is real, then why are there so many evils and sufferings and shootings in the world, okay?
But when we talk about this objection, we have to tailor it to the person.
Here's what I mean. Look at 1 Peter 3, verse 15.
1 Peter 3, verse 15, the Bible says,
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer, notice,
to every man, not to every question.
Don't miss this, to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with
meekness and fear.
And the reason I want to emphasize that we should be able to answer every man, not to every question is,
sometimes people will ask us why there are so many evils and sufferings in the world because his mom just died.
Because something horrible happened to that person.
So when answering those questions, let's read the room and not just jump into some theological and logical arguments.
Makes sense because someone may sincerely ask those questions because something horrible happened to them
That's why we need to you know give an answer to every man
Tailor it to the person right now tailor it to the questions necessarily speaking now go to Genesis chapter 1
Genesis chapter 1
Genesis chapter 1 look at verse 31
Genesis 1 verse 31 the Bible says and God saw everything that he had made and
behold it was very good and the evening and the morning wore the sixth day so
when God made everything in six days everything was very good nothing was
evil
Nothing was bad. Okay, six days of creation. Everything is good. Now look at Genesis chapter 2
So what happened same happened Genesis 2 look at verse 15 the Bible says
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
Thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."
Okay?
So six days of creation, everything is good.
But now in chapter 2, God told them to not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
but what happened? They ate the fruit anyway, right? So Stain entered into the world, okay?
Now go to Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5.
Now I do believe that the devils fail sometime between chapter 1 and chapter 2 because after 6 days everything is good, right?
So somehow between chapter 1 and chapter 2 the devils fail, rebel against God.
So Romans chapter 5, look at verse number 12.
Romans chapter 5 verse number 12.
The Bible says, wherefore, as by one man, talking about Adam, sin entered into the world and death by sin.
And so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Why do people die? Because everyone has sinned.
Now, some people may argue, you know, why did God put a tree in the garden in the first place?
To respond because God wants us to obey him and to love him freely, right?
God wants to give us the option to choose because he does not want robots
Okay, he wants us to choose him freely to love him freely to follow him freely
So who is ultimately?
Responsible for the evils and sins in the world us
Not God because God made everything good and the creation
people chose to rebel against him
And if you think about it, evil does not disapprove God, evil proves sin, and our need for Christ.
Right? Because God wants real love, okay?
And you can argue this logically outside from the Bible.
Because if someone asks you, you know, if God is real, then why does he allow evil to exist?
Then you can respond by, well, define evil.
And then someone will say evil is like murder, bank robberies, thefts, mass shootings, okay?
And then you can respond, hey, why do you say these are evil?
Because based on an atheistic perspective, nothing is objectively evil.
Why are they even telling us that such things are evil?
Why do you think murder is evil? Why do you think shooting is evil?
Because based on their worldview, nothing is truly inherently objectively bad.
How do you know they are bad unless there is a moral law and you know it fully well?
The Bible actually proves that
There's a reason why most sane people even the unsafe people know that murder is wrong
They know that killing you know any some people is is wrong because there is inherently a moral law in our hearts
Romans chapter 2 look at verse number 14
The Bible says, so when the Gentiles, which have not the law, they do not have the law
of Moses, due by nature that things contain in the law, these having not the law are a
law unto themselves, which show the work of the law, the mystics, written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts demeaning while accusing or
Law, written in our hearts, that's also in our conscience, okay?
That's why even unsafe people know that mass murder is wrong,
robberies are wrong, right? Because if atheism is true, then
then we cannot say that murder is wrong objectively. Then we cannot say incest, rapes, or wrong
objectively. There has to be a moral law by which we can execute those judgments
in the first place, okay? So the very reason that the atheists are asking us
why are there so many evil proves there is a God, proves there is a moral law,
and if there is a moral law there has to be a moral law giver, right? And we know
that the moral law giver is God, okay? So
So, when they ask those questions, those questions are contradictions themselves.
How do you even know these are evil?
Because you have a moral law, because you are made by God, okay, so.
So point number one, I talk about the objection of God's existence.
Point number two, the objection of evil and suffering.
Point number three, the objection of the Bible.
Now this is another common objection
saying that the Bible is full of contradictions, okay?
Now the first question I would ask is, which Bible?
I can show you contradictions from the NIV, STD, HIV,
but the King James Bible has zero contradictions, okay?
And most contradictions are misunderstandings and verses taken out of context.
For example, why are there apparent contradictions found in the four Gospels, because they are from four different perspectives?
Why does John say no man had seen God at any time, because he's talking about God the Father and not God the Son?
How many angels were at the tomb of Jesus?
Matthew said one, Luke said two.
That's not a contradiction.
This simply proves that there were at least two angels.
Makes sense?
Those were eyewitness accounts, okay?
If I say I saw two dogs as so many,
and if by the method I saw three dogs,
that proves there were at least three dogs as so many.
Makes sense?
So it's not a contradiction.
Now, personally, I would not spend too much time on this point, but whatever contradictions
people bring up about the Bible, don't believe them.
And most of the people who bring up those contradictions, they are not saved in the
first place, so they don't even have the authority to even tell you what the Bible
says.
Because an unsaid person cannot understand the Bible.
So like most people who bring up those contradictions,
they are not qualified to teach us what the Bible says in the first place.
So look at 1 Corinthians 2 verse 14, the Bible says,
That's talking about the unsaved, but the natural man received not the things of the Spirit of God.
The Bible is a spiritual book, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, okay?
That's why I will now have a, you know, sincere biblical discussion with anyone who is unsaved, or who is not King James only.
Because we don't even have the same starting point.
We're gonna have we're gonna have the same in a common ground, right?
That's why personally I would not debate, you know, some other false teachers about the Bible because they are not saved in the first place
They're not even qualified, right?
You have to be saved and you have to be King James only or you know, at least use the King James Bible during during the argument, okay?
And you know at the end of the day, we believe the Bible is perfect by faith
The words of the Lord are pure words. Okay, so
point number four
the objection of
miracles the objection of miracles
They will say miracles are just not possible. Okay, so how can the rest see be parted?
How how could man a fall from heaven?
How could Sarah conceive in an old age? How could the sun stand still for Elijah?
How could Daniel survive in the lions then? How could Jesus be born of a virgin?
How could Jesus feed the five thousand and the four thousand?
By the way, some Christian apologetics
Christian apologists, they would try to explain these things with science.
They are the most faithless people in the world.
We believe those things are actual miracles.
Miracles, by definition, cannot be explained by science.
So why are those people trying to apologize for the faith?
These are miracles caused by God.
It's not the Red Sea. It's the Red Sea.
The lions, they were actually hungry
in the lion's den. Mary was a virgin,
not just a young woman. The sound
actually still appeared to stand still from a different
angle. I believe those are actual miracles. So
look chapter one.
Here's the definition of a miracle. It's an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs.
So if miracles happen all the time, then they won't be called miracles. It's an extraordinary event.
So what's more of a miracle, by the way? The world came from nothing or God made everything.
Look chapter 1 verse 36 the Bible says and behold thy cousin
Elizabeth she had also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth
month with her who was also buried this is a miracle that you know she was
conceived when she's very old but look at verse 37 the Bible says for with God
nothing shall be impossible as Christians we believe this verse we
believe everything is possible and God has the power to create any miracles
But again ultimately we believe those miracles in the Bible did happen by faith
Okay, because the Bible says so
I hope when we go to heaven, we can ask God to play back the real footage of the miracles.
Okay? I think that would be really cool. Okay?
Maybe, you know, when we go to heaven, there's a season one, episode one, Tongba Decoration.
Season one, episode two, about Noah's flood.
Season one, episode three, with the towel babble, you know, real, like, footage.
I think that would be really cool, right?
So, hopefully that will happen.
Habakkuk chapter one Habakkuk Habakkuk however how you want to pronounce this Habakkuk chapter one
So point number one I said the objection of God's existence point number two
The the objection of evil and suffering point number two point number three
The objection of the Bible point number four the objection of miracles point number five
The objection of hell
the objection of hell
Why would the loving God send people to hell? We know heard that many times as well
Now let me just give you a simple answer, right? You know God is just he is holy case closed
Okay, but look at Habakkuk chapter 1 verse 13
Habakkuk chapter 1 verse 13 the Bible says
Thou art of pure eyes, then to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.
Wherefore, lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoured the man that is more righteous than he."
So here the Bible says that God the Father cannot even look on sin.
He cannot even look on evil.
That's why there is a hell, okay, because God is just, God is holy, and no sin can enter into the presence of God.
There's not even a lie that can enter into the presence of God.
hell wasn't even made for us to begin with. Look at Matthew 25 verse 41. Bible
says, then shall he also say unto them on the left hand. Those are the
unsaved leftist goats. Okay, depart from me. He cursed into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels. So here we have the unsaved people, you
know, because God is separating the sheep.
sheep on the right hand and then the ghosts on the left, right?
Those people who are on the left, these ghosts,
and say people, they will be cast into a lake of fire,
which is prepared for the devil and his angels.
So here, so hell was intended for the devil
and his angels, right?
So hell was not even made for us to begin with,
but when someone reject God, reject salvation,
then God is just for casting them into hell.
By the way, God has provided us a way out of hell by sending his son Jesus Christ to die for our sins
This is both loving and just right because God loves us so much that he sent his only begotten son
But also as he gave his only begotten son
He gave him up so that you can go to heaven, you know if you don't think that's love then I don't know what is okay?
Go to Romans chapter 6 Romans chapter 6
Romans 5 says,
but God commanded his love toward us
in that while we were yet seen as Christ died for us.
So God elevates his love,
his love is greater than our love.
He's willing to sacrifice his own sons to save our souls.
Psalm 85 verse 10 says,
mercy and truth are met together,
righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Here's why a loving God sent people to hell because he's both loving and he's also just right
That's why there's a cross
It's a perfect loving God and a perfect just God and a perfect intersection
That's why we should believe the cross
That's why we should be saved
Now, here's another common argument is what about those people who have never heard about the gospel, okay?
I think that can be a legit question, but let's reason together, shall we?
Ask yourself, why do people go to hell?
Is it because that they have not heard about the gospel, or is it because of their sin? Think about it. Why do people go to hell?
People don't go to hell for not have heard the gospel.
People go to hell is because they have sinned.
Makes sense?
Romans 6, 23 says,
for the wages of sin is death,
but a gift of God is,
it's no life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So again, reason, reason with me,
what about those people in like Africa
who has never heard about a gospel?
Okay, well, have they sinned?
Then they deserve to go to hell.
logical answer right from the Bible for the wages of saying yes death okay so go
to Acts 17 Acts chapter 17 now personally I do believe that that if
someone sees the creation
And if those people are searching, then I do believe that God will send a so-winner to that person.
Because everyone can see the creation, and they have a conscience of the moral law, right?
So if someone is truly searching, I do believe that they will have a chance to hear the gospel, okay?
Go to Acts 17, look at verse 26. Acts 17, verse 26.
The Bible says,
and have made of one blood all nations of man
for to dwell on all the face of the earth
and has determined the times before appointed
and the bounds of their habitation.
That they should seek the Lord.
If happily they might feel after him and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us."
Notice the wording in verse 27.
God wants people to seek him to feel after him because God is not for from every one of us
Because again God has revealed himself to us through the creation
So if someone is truly want to find God
You know God is gracious and I do believe God will send a soul in there
Let me prove that to you go to Acts chapter 10 Acts chapter 10
Look at verse number one Acts chapter 10 verse number one
Acts chapter 10 verse 1, the Bible says,
there was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius,
a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man,
and one that feared God with all his house, which
gave much arms to the people and prayed to God always.
Now, this man, Cornelius, he is devout.
He is charitable, but he is not safe think about your average Joe who wants to go to heaven
Who's trusting in their good works to go to heaven, right?
They were even prayed to quote-unquote God because they are sincere people look at verse number three
He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming into him and saying unto him
Cornelius and when he looked on him, he was afraid and said what is it Lord?
And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine arms are come up for a memorial before God.
Notice Cornelius.
Though he was unsaved he is praying that means that he is searching for truth
He is sincerely wanted to do one want to do the right thing think about someone who sees the creation and knows there has to be a
Creator and that person is seeking
Searching and he wants the truth and God hears that person and God will send a
Summoner to that person to preach the gospel to him. That's why look at version 5 the Bible says
and now sent men to Joppa and call for one Simon, who's surname is Peter.
He lodged with one Simon, a tenor, whose house is by the seaside.
He shall tell thee what all this to do.
Later, you know, Peter actually got coinly as safe.
So here we have a perfect example of someone who is
Seeking searching for God someone who is even calling
Calling calling out to God and God sends a soul in her to him, right?
That's why I believe that if a
Person responds to to light and God will send him more light. Okay, so
And we see that in so many as well, right?
You know, people will tell us, you know,
I've been praying an hour ago.
I've been praying yesterday for someone
to tell me how to go to heaven, right?
So that's the story of Cornelius, okay?
So go to Genesis chapter 18.
Genesis chapter 18.
Let me also say this, that everyone who goes to hell
deserve to be there.
And that God is always just, doesn't matter how, you know, what kind of circumstance there is, you know, God is always just.
Now, Genesis 18, look at verse 24.
Now the context is Abraham was reasoning with God.
He was asking God not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah by reasoning. You know, if there are 50 righteous
Eventually they couldn't even find 10 righteous people but look at verse verse 24
Genesis 18 verse 24 the Bible says
Per adventure there be 50 righteous within the city without also destroy and not spare the place for the 50 righteous that are there in
that be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be as the
Wicked that be far from thee don't miss this phrase shall not the judge of all the earth do right
Later God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and based on verse 25 God
Was just for doing that, okay?
and the reason I bring up this story is
Like I said, everyone who goes to hell deserves to be there because they made their own choice.
People will try to sugarcoat by saying that, you know, God does not send anybody to hell.
People send themselves.
In a sense, that is true, but God did cast people into hell, right?
Because God is a just God, okay?
Because the judge of the earth will do right all day, every day.
Hypothetically speaking, even if someone indeed who has never heard about the gospel and if that person goes to hell
That person deserves to be there because by faith God is always just so I think so I think the better question is
Why don't we just go out and preach the gospel?
That should be a better question, right?
You know, we see the sword coming. We should be blowing the trumpet, right so that God would not require the blood at our hand
So go to Genesis chapter 2, Genesis chapter number 2.
Lastly, point number 6, the objection of science.
We hear this a lot, science contradicts the Bible.
The fossils were dated millions of years old. We found the missing links, okay?
So first, let me just say this that, you know, that if any science
contradicts the Bible, then that science is wrong, period. I
don't care about what it is. I don't care about if that person has a PhD.
or piece of hypocritical down, the Bible is right all the time, okay, so...
And the Bible warns us against the oppositions of science falsely so-called, okay?
But let me also say this, that real science does not contradict the Bible,
because the Bible is a scientific book.
The Bible says in Psalm 119 verse 160 that I award is true from the from the beginning and
Every one of the righteous judgments in dual forever. You are in Genesis Genesis chapter 2 look at verse number 7 the Bible says
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
So the Bible says God formed man from the dust of the ground.
Modern science confirms that the human body contains the same elements as earth soil
like carbon, iron, calcium.
So the Bible is true by saying that God formed man out of dust.
Okay, now go to Leviticus chapter 17, Leviticus chapter 17, let me show you, you know, some basic
scientific discoveries that a Bible already knows, you know, hundreds of years ago.
Leviticus 17, look at verse number 11. Leviticus 17 verse number 11, the Bible says
For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altars to make an atonement for your souls
For it's the blood
Then make it an atonement for the soul. Okay, so the vows is the life of the flesh is in the blood and
Modern science confirms that because blood carries what oxygen and multiple nutrients, right?
And if we lose a certain amount of blood, you will not survive.
Right? So life is truly in the blood.
That's why we should not eat blood, drink blood, and things like that.
Okay? I know there's some debates on that, but, you know,
I think the Bible prohibits eating blood before the law,
during the law, and after the law. Okay?
So, go to Job 26. Job 26.
Leviticus 13 to 14 tells us the principle of isolating lepers, washing garments, and just checking for the symptom.
Again, medical science, you know, biblical quarantine, you know, leprosy, you know, wash your clothes, dishes, that's mowed on it.
Again, very, very wise, right from the beginning.
Job 26, look at verse number seven. Job 26, verse number seven.
The Bible says he stretched out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
because the cosmos, the universe is a vacuum, right?
So it's practically nothing.
Obviously, people argue there's dark matters
that you cannot see, but we cannot see it.
It's basically nothing, right?
Practically nothing, okay?
Look at version eight.
He binded up the waters in his thick clouds
and the cloud is not rent under them.
So clouds contain moisture.
That's why we have rain.
By the way, Job was written, you know, Job was one of the first books ever written, right?
It's from the very beginning, six, some thousand years ago, you know, the Bible already shows
that clouds contain rain and clouds contain moisture.
So go to Job 28.
Look at verse 25, Job 28, verse 25.
The Bible says Job 28 verse 25 to make the wait for the winds and he waiteth the waters by measure
So Job 28 25 says air has wait right to make the way for the winds by the way
This was only discovered in the 17th century by Galileo and
Torricelli, okay that the air has weight they did some kind of experiment to prove that air has you know
Air carries weight, but the Bible already proves that all the way back in a book of Job go to Psalm chapter 8
Psalm chapter 8
Look at verse number 8 some chapter 8 verse number 8
The Bible says, the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea, and what so ever passes through the path of the sea.
So the seas have paths, okay?
Matthew Moray is the father of oceanography.
He discovered sea currents after reading this verse.
So the Bible already knows everything.
discovered all the scientific principles.
Go forward to Ecclesiastes chapter one.
Ecclesiastes chapter one, look at verse number six.
The Bible says,
the wind go toward the south
and turn about onto the north.
It wordeth, it wordeth about continually, and the wind returned it again according to his circuits.
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
Onto the place, from whence the rivers come, there they return again.
Again, the wind, cyclical cycle, water cycle, you know, it's all proven from the Bible.
Isaiah 40 and 22 says it is he that sat upon the circle of the earth and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. So the earth is a sphere. By the way, the
circle of the earth does not prove a flat earth, okay? It's talking about it to the
sphere that's called a circle, okay? So don't even get down into that rabbit
trail. Go to actually turn to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11.
Jeremiah 32 verse 22 says as the host of heaven cannot be numbered neither the
sand of the sea measured. So Thalau says the stars in heaven cannot be
numbered because we have innumerable stars. Okay, nobody knows
exactly how many stars there are. Hebrews 11, look at verse number 3. This
verse may be controversial at our church.
Let me explain Hebrews 11 verse 3 says through faith
We understand that the world's war will frame by the word of God so that things which are seen
We're now made of things which do
Appears the Bible says things we see
are made of unseen particles such as atoms
and subatomic particles, right?
Things which are seeing,
we're not made of things which do appear, right?
Makes sense?
You know, we have all the atoms and particles,
you know, neutrons, electrons that we cannot see,
you know, with our naked eye.
But they do compose all of the elements that we have, right?
H2O, carbon dioxide, and so forth.
Anyway, so.
Well, the other argument that we have is what about a fossil that's carbon dated back to
like 13 million years old, okay?
So let me just you, let me give you an analogy used by Ken Hovind, obviously he has multiple
concubines, you know, I don't like support that, but he does have some good like content
Choose what you learn from him wisely, okay?
So here's his argument against carbon dating.
Say if you walk into a room,
found a candle burning on the table,
and I ask you, when was it lit?
You have no idea, right?
Now let's do some science
and measure the height of the candle.
Say that the candle is seven inches tall.
Can you tell me when it was lit?
No idea. Let's do more science and just measure the rate of burning.
Suppose it's burning one inch every hour. When was it lit?
You still have no idea.
You will have a hard time telling me
when it's lit unless you're willing to make some assumptions, right?
Same thing with carbon dating. You can find a fossil in the dirt
measuring how much carbon-14 is in it and how fast it's
decaying
Very very accurately
But you know, this is just like asking when the candle was lit
You will have no clue because because you still have to make all kind of us all kinds of all kinds of
Assumptions makes sense. You have no idea carbon dating
will not give you an accurate date.
By the way, the carbon dating only goes up to 50,000 years old.
So if people say certain fossil is carbon
date to be 30 million years old, that person is lying.
Because the half-life of the carburetor, you can only measure to 50,000 years old anyway, okay?
So the point is science does not contradict the Bible. Real science conforms with the Bible, and we have many scientists
they made discoveries after reading the Bible.
Let me just read you a quote from the astronomer Robert
Jastrow. He said this,
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason,
the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance.
He is about to conquer the highest peak. As he pulls himself over the final rock,
he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been there sitting for centuries.
That's true people people try to discover everything by science
As they are reaching the peak of science. We have Bible-believing Christians already believing all that so I
That's a pretty cool quote go forward to Genesis chapter one Genesis chapter one
Here's another reason why carbon dating
potassium argon dating are not accurate because
What if God makes certain things look old from day one?
Think about that
Jens chapter 1 look at verse
27
Jens chapter 1 verse 27
the Bible says
So God created man in his own image, in the images of God,
in the image of God, created him, male and female, created them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveeth upon the earth.
and God told them on day six, be fruitful and multiply.
So do you think Adam was a baby?
Or do you think he was a grown man?
Right, think about it.
On day six, God made Adam and Eve
and God told them to be fruitful and multiply.
How can you multiply if you are a baby?
So I believe Adam is a grown man,
but technically, his age is zero.
Makes sense?
In the same way, I believe God made fully grown trees and plants.
So if you look at the rings of the tree, it will be like 300 years old.
But in reality, it was three days old.
Make sense?
And also think about Starlight from other stars.
They may have been visible immediately, right?
But if you measure it by science, that
might take millions of years, a lot of years away,
to travel to the Earth.
So.
So I do believe God makes certain things appear old from day one, so if you date it using science, you'll get the wrong data.
Makes sense?
So, now I don't believe the apparent age is the answer to every creation question, by the way.
Just like I don't think science can explain everything concerning creation because the creation itself is a miracle.
Okay?
For example, some people are very adamant that God made a perfect moon with no craters on it.
And later, due to asteroid comments, we have all the craters on the moon, right?
But some people are also very adamant that God made the moon with the craters on it already, okay?
So personally, I don't think we should be dogmatic on either side, because there are a lot of things that we just don't know, okay?
Maybe God made craters on the moon, maybe God made the perfect moon, I have no idea.
That's John and me, right? So
There's the point real science does not contradict the Bible science needs to be
Interpreted in light of the Bible not the other way around because the Bible is the ultimate truth
Okay, so go to Jude chapter one Jude chapter one
So what's the point of the sermon
Atheists may raise many objections against the Bible, but everyone crumbles at a word of God because the Bible has the answer to everything.
For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
But, ultimately, we should just remember our duty, which is first and foremost, is not to
win an argument, but to win souls to Christ.
Nothing wrong with knowing the arguments, I think, will strengthen our faith, but, ultimately,
the Word of God saves.
of some have compassion making a difference and others say with fear
pulling them out of the fire hating in the garment spotted by the flesh we can
now wing souls to Christ with our without creation science fancy fancy
you know logical arguments but the word of God right because the word of God
can even changes an atheist heart
The gospel is effective once we preach the word, when we preach the word of God, it will not return void
No, like the Bible says, okay
So have faith in God and focus on the gospel. That's closing a water prayer. Thank you Lord for you know
Just making us. Thank you for giving us the chance to worship you and to honor you
Well, I pray that your blessed is church
I pray that many people will know the truth that you made the heaven and earth that you are the God
of the whole world. And I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you,
evangelist Justin Zhang. Let's sing number 472. Number 472. This is my father's
world. Number 472.
This is my father's world, and to my listening ears,
all nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my father's world.
I rest me in the thorn.
Books and trees of skies and seas, His hand the wonders wrought.
This is my father's world, The birds their carols raced.
The morning light, the lily white, Declare their makers pray.
This is my father's world
He shines in all that's fair
The rustling grass I hear him pass
He speaks to me everywhere
This is my father's world
Oh, let me never forget
seems off so strong. God is a ruler yet. This is my father's
world. The battle is not done. Jesus who died shall be
satisfied and earth and have be won. Amen. Brother Wade,
you're dismissed.