man the greatest creation of God man the greatest creation of God the Bible
reads in Psalm 8 verse 1 Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all
the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens out of the mouths of babes
and sucklings has thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou might
is still the enemy in the avenger when I consider thy heavens the work of thy
fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art
mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him for thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor thou
madeest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all
things under his feet and the first point that I want to make this morning
is that number one man has the greatest dominion or the greatest authority of
all of God's creation everything that God has created man is the one who has
dominion over all of it the Bible says that man at the end of verse 5 has been
crowned which a crown has to do with authority he's been crowned with glory
and honor and he's been made to have dominion over all the works of God's
hands the Bible says that God put all things under his feet verse 7 all sheep
and oxen yea and the beasts of the field the fowl of the air and the fish of the
sea and whatsoever pass it through the paths of the seas Oh Lord our Lord how
excellent is thy name in all the earth go to Hebrews chapter 2 in Hebrews
chapter 2 Psalm 8 is quoted but man has been given the greatest dominion the
greatest amount of authority God has put all things under the feet of man the
Bible tells us in Genesis chapter 1 while you're turning to Hebrews 2 Genesis
1 26 and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea now what does dominion mean dominion
comes from the Latin word that means Lord it's the same root word where we
get the word dominate it means to Lord over to be the boss of so the Bible says
that we have been given dominion over the fish of the sea over the fowl of the
air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth so God created man in his own image in the image of God
created he him male and female created he them and God blessed them and God
said to them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it
meaning what bring it under control that's what it means to subdue something
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth so we need to understand is
that the animals that are upon this earth were created for us to use for us
to subdue and to have dominion over and to rule over we are as human beings the
greatest creation that God created and we're at the top of the food chain and
we are to dominate and subdue this earth under us and to have dominion over all
fish all animals all fowl we are the greatest creation of God you say why
preach about this why talk about this well first of all I think we should
preach and talk about everything in the Bible and the reason why you never know
what kind of lies or heresy or attacks on the truth are gonna come so it's good
to just preach the whole Bible that way you got the whole armor of God just to
protect you against whatever lies come out there there are some things that we
take for granted and don't preach about and then next thing you know it's under
attack and then you wish that you would have taught that chapter you wish that
you would have taught those truths but today it's pretty obvious why these
truths are so important in a day where man worships and serves the creature
more than the Creator many people today literally worship animals and there's
nothing new under the Sun if you go into ancient history you'll find all kinds of
hieroglyphics and all kinds of artifacts of man worshipping animals people today
will tell us that animals are better than humans they're smarter than humans
they're at more peace with the environment than humans and we need to
strive to be more like animals we've all heard this today in 2018 America but I'm
here to tell you that we don't play second fiddle to dolphins or elephants or
whales or spot we as human beings are the greatest of all of God's creations
because we're the only creation that was made in the image of God himself we
are made in the image of God we've been crowned with glory and honor this whole
earth was created for us to subdue and have dominion over it the animals were
created for us we weren't created for the animals to serve them they're here
to serve us the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 5 for unto the angels
hath he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak now what does
that mean the world to come this is referring to the millennial reign of
Christ and it's also referring to what we know as the new heaven and the new
earth and the Bible says that the angels will not rule over the world to come
unto the angels hath he not put in subjection of the world to come whereof
we speak verse 6 but one in a certain place testified saying what is man that
thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him sound
familiar from Psalm 8 thou made his Tim a little lower than the angels thou
crown it's Tim with glory and honor and it set him over the work of thy hands
thou has put all things in subjection under his feet look at the next phrase
for and that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not
put under him now just in case you wondered whether all really means all
here he says there's nothing that has not been put in subjection under him but
now we see not yet all things put under him so in the world to come will man
truly have the full dominion that God had originally planned verse 9 but we
see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels why because he was made
flesh and dwelled among us as a human being who was made a little lower than
the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he by
the grace of God should taste death for every man go to 1st Corinthians chapter
6 1st Corinthians chapter number 6 when God created man he told him to have
dominion over the earth and to subdue it to dominate the fish the fowl the
animals even the great whales that God created all of those things God has put
under our feet now we do not yet see all things fully subdued under us but in the
world to come we will continue to rule and reign with Jesus Christ and we will
have that Dominion even over the angels themselves at this time we're a little
lower than the angels right but the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 6 1 dare
any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and
not before the Saints do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world
and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters no ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things that pertain
to this life so number one man has the greatest Dominion man has the greatest
authority as the greatest creation of God but number two man has the greatest
intelligence and if you would flip over to Proverbs chapter 30 man has the
greatest intelligence now this should go without saying you know I shouldn't
really have to park it on this point that man has the greatest intelligence
you know the Bible tells us in in Psalm 73 22 and this is a comparison that the
Bible often uses when it wants to talk about someone being dumb it says that
they're like a beast a beast is an animal you know that they had the
intelligence of a beast right like where ASAP said in Psalm 73 so foolish
was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee okay animals are foolish and
ignorant in comparison with human beings
job 35 10 but none sayeth where is God my maker who giveth songs in the night
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser than the
fowls of heaven all right now a lot of people today though they have this
backwards where they think that the animals are smarter than us I remember
when my son was in the hospital they had these dogs in the hospital that were
there to be a morale booster for the kids that are in the hospital that they
would pet the dog and whatever it's like okay that makes sense you know they have
to have these dogs there put people in a good mood helps them get better a merry
heart do with good like medicine the Bible says so they had these dogs well
apparently all the dogs that are brought into the hospital to perform this
service receive a special blessing before they do this job of going into
the hospital so they had this blessing of the dogs ceremony that happened to be
going on while I was there with my son Isaac so we went out and looked at it
and this this female preacher came in this minister and she was there to bless
all these dogs so that they would bring healing into the the hospital rooms and
she got up and gave a little speech about how you know God is dog spelled
backwards and about how you know there's so much we could learn from these dogs
we should become more like a dog and and we should excel to achieve that you know
what they've achieved and and we need to become more like these dogs and then she
put a blessing on these dogs and my son Isaac claims that I don't believe him he
claims that he heard her say to one of the dogs I baptized you in the name of
the Father the Son the Holy Ghost I'm hoping that he misheard that I told him
I'm like you heard that wrong son I I don't think that's what happened I
didn't hear that but then again it probably wouldn't be that surprising
but that's the mentality today that a lot of people have like like that
basically our animals are better than us and and people get weird about animals
sometimes today and it's it's not a Christian attitude it's not a biblical
attitude it's it's it's a pagan type godless attitude that worships and
serves the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever amen and
if you're gonna worship the Creator you need to understand that man is made in
the Creator's image therefore man is the greatest creation not beast okay now
obviously we should not worship man we should worship the Creator in whose
image man is so man has the greatest intelligence man is more intelligent
than any beast and man is also more intelligent than any computer and if you
just look if you don't believe me just look at the world of robotics they get
all excited when they can get a robot to fold towels or something it's like
whereas we could get the dumbest person to fold towels no problem right we could
find someone who's super low IQ and they can easily out fold that robot any day
of the week and and we don't even understand how much our brains do it's
so complicated I mean even just something as simple as just shooting a
basketball into a hoop I mean the amount of brain that goes in and and you
know there are a lot of dumb people playing a lot of basketball and but I
mean what they're doing is amazing because of the fact that they have to
just have all these nerve endings firing all the right muscles and all the right
tendons in their leg I mean their whole body goes into it their legs their body
their arms and they have to aim it and fire it at the right speed and the right
power in the right direction the rifle I mean it's just amazing I'd like to see
a robot play basketball I mean robots aren't even close to being able to do
that robots can barely even walk around without looking weird you know you know
they can't even walk normal let alone run down the court and shoot a
basketball which a little child could do which even very low IQ people could do
all day long and so it's pretty amazing the intelligence that God has given us
and we are only using a small percentage of our brain science tells us there's so
much more that we even could use of our brain if we would use it to its full
capacity and and just the the powers of learning that we have and the
achievements of the human mind like creating calculus even hundreds of years
ago is just truly amazing but number three not only is number one man had the
greatest Dominion the greatest authority that of God's creation number two man
has the greatest intelligence but number three man also has the greatest physical
prowess the greatest physical prowess or even the greatest physical body of all
of God's creatures say wait a minute pastor there are a lot of animals that
have a better physique or a better but no man has the ultimate physical body
now look if you would have Proverbs chapter 30 in verse 29 the Bible says
there be three things which go well yea for are comely and going a lion which is
strongest among beasts so which which beast does the Bible say is the
strongest the lion which is strongest among beasts and turneth not away for
any a greyhound and he go to also and a king against whom there is no rising up
now in this list of greatness the lion which is strongest among beasts is there
but the last person mentioned which is the most prominent is a human being the
king against whom is no rising up now let's see who wins man vs. lion go to
first Chronicles 11 22 man vs. lion who's gonna win of course man will win
because man is the greatest creation has the Dominion over all creatures has the
greatest mind and even the greatest physical power the Bible says in first
Chronicles 11 22 the son of Jehovah the son of a valiant man of capsule who had
done many acts he slew two lion like men of Moab also he went down and slew a
lion in a pit in a snowy day so this guy went into a pit fight with a lion and he
won now you say well pastor Anderson you're wrong because lions are are
stronger than human being but here's the thing even if you find animals that have
certain attributes that are greater than the human attribute human beings have
the full package human beings have the greatest versatility we have the
greatest combination of speed strength intelligence endurance tolerance if you
put all these things together human beings are the strongest creature on
this earth so not only does man if you go to Jeremiah chapter 12 not only does
man defeat a lion in a fight you say well he was armed or it doesn't matter
how he did it he won and you know what men could kill lions all day long today
they say that the adult male lion has no natural predators right except for man
can destroy him easily with his mind and physical prowess and and whatever tools
necessary and obviously we know that Benaiah the son of Jehovah he didn't
have a gun or a bomb or anything I got I mean he was obviously using some kind of
a weapon that was more primitive since this is thousands of years ago that it
took place but not only does man defeat lion in a fight men can even outrun the
greatest running animals even horses themselves are defeated by man in a race
look what the Bible says in Jeremiah 12 5 if thou is run with the footmen and
they have wearied thee then how canst thou contend with horses and if in the
land of peace wherein thou trustest they wearied thee then how wilt thou do in the
swelling of Jordan so here's a verse that mentions a man contending with
horses in running did you know that there are actual races today man versus
horse race and guess who wins human beings win every time you say that's not
true well they're hundred mile races so over the course of a hundred miles even
though the horse would be able to sprint faster than that over the course of a
hundred miles a human being can outrun any animal any animal in fact no other
animals except just a few can even come close to running a hundred miles a human
being can run 200 miles without stopping you say that's crazy that doesn't exist
even right here in Arizona there are races that take place every year where
people run for 24 hours straight with no break 24 hours I mean the Sun comes up
it goes down it comes up again and they're running the whole time that's
right here in Arizona and there are other people who pushed even further than
that and run for days on end run for 40 hours straight 48 hours straight you say
that's great
look man has been created with an amazing mind and an amazing body to be
able to do these exploits now the only animal that could even come close to
outrunning a human being over a hundred miles would be a horse or certain types
of dogs but those dogs can only do it in freezing weather and they outrun a human
being because even in normal weather they'll overheat in that time but only
these type of dogs that would pull sleds in the Arctic those kind of dogs could
you know give a man a run for his money no pun intended but not not in not in
normal weather not in hot weather
no a man is the greatest runner on the planet
that's pretty amazing but not only is man that the greatest fighter the
greatest runner and let's look at some other scriptures on this
flip over if you would to 2nd Samuel 22 2nd Samuel chapter 22
while you're turning there I'll just read for you some other verses that
kind of compare human beings to animals in their prowess 2nd Samuel 1 22 from
the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bow of Jonathan turned
not back and the sword of Saul return not empty
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their
death they were not divided they were swifter than Eagles they were stronger
than lions look at 2nd Samuel 22 verse 34 this is David speaking he maketh my
feet like hinds feet a hind is sort of like a deer that type of animal and
set of me upon my high places he teaches my hands to war so that a bow of steel
is broken by mine arms now it's also given me the shield of thy salvation and
I gentleness have made me great flip over to 1st Kings chapter 18 1st Kings
18 the Bible reads in 1st Chronicles 12 8 and of the Gadites they're separated
themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might and men of
war fit for the battle that can handle shield and buckler whose faces were like
the faces of lions and were as swift as the rose upon the mountains so the Bible
talks about people being able to run like deer and run like rose and hearts
and leaping upon the mountains song of Solomon 2 8 the voice of my beloved
behold he come at leaping upon the mountains skipping upon the hills my
beloved is like a row or young heart so even King Solomon himself was a great
runner that could leap and skip on the mountains the Prophet Elijah in 1st
Kings 18 outruns Ahab and his chariots 1st Kings 1844 and it came to pass at
the seventh time that he said behold there rises a little cloud out of the
sea like a man's hand and he said go up say unto Ahab prepare thy chariot and
get thee down that the rain stop thee not and it came to pass in the meanwhile
that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain and
Ahab rode and went to Jezreel and the hand of the Lord was on Elijah and he
girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel it's like 20
to 22 miles in distance that Elijah runs and beats the chariot there you see in
ancient times they used human beings to run messages not on horseback but just
on foot and in the Bible it talks about men running and bringing messages there
stories like that in the Bible why because a horse can't go over certain
terrain even if it's faster on flat land and the right conditions a human being
can leap on the mountains and skip on the hills and climb and and just more
versatile just a greater fighter a greater runner but not only is man the
one that God has given the greatest Dominion the greatest intelligence the
greatest mind the greatest physical prowess man is also the most complex of
all of God's creation the most complex creature the most complex body is the
human body and the human body is amazing I mean we could just go on and on for
hours about how amazing the human body is but how the human body can just
pretty much adapt to almost anything it can adapt almost anything I mean there
are people today living in scorching hot desert climates with no technology it
were them no I'm just kidding it's us no no we have a lot of technology that
helps us out but anyway there but but here's the thing there were people who
lived here you know Pima and Papago Indians that lived in this area right
here even without the technology in that scorching heat and throughout history
people have been able to live in extremely hot scorching climates and
adapt to it but then man can also adapt to the super cold you got the Eskimos
and and the laps living up in the Arctic Circle and just adapting to freezing
temperatures and then people who live in Botswana and the Kalahari Desert that
are doing you know hot weather dry barely any water in the summer and then
it gets cold in the winter and our bodies can just adapt to these things
and handle these extremes greater than any animal is the human body the human
being there's more complex and can do more now what's also fascinating is that
not only is man powerful and adept on earth to be able to fight and run and
have great strength and endurance in mind but man can also go into the water
and swim in an amazing way and and this goes to show how complicated the human
body is our human body is built in such a way to prevent us from drowning using
all these amazing mechanisms and I don't understand how anybody could think that
it could possibly just evolve that way why would human beings who live on the
earth who are clearly a land creature why would we be built with just all
these amazing functions to be able to go in the water and do all this stuff you
know it's just oh it all just happened by chance it's all just evolution no
it's it's evolution is garbage it's a lie it's a fraud it doesn't happen it
doesn't take place okay people adapt within their surroundings because God
made us so adaptable but we're not going to change species you know there's just
adaptations built in where God allows us today and look a lot of animals they can
adapt to different heat cold different climates you but but humans are the
greatest though okay so think about this when a person jumps into the water right
actually just all these changes happen in their body the moment that they hit
the water the moment that your face touches cold water things change in your
body your your heart rate slows down so that you don't use as much energy so
that you can actually stay underwater longer now how far do you think somebody
can dive underwater and I'm not talking about a scuba diver how far really far
right how far who thinks they know how far a human being can dive underwater a
couple hundred feet yeah and you know what but that's pretty shocking to most
of us who get to the bottom of like a 12-foot pool and our ears and head feel
like they're gonna explode I mean have you ever swum down like 12 or 15 feet I
mean it hurts like you know and and I've been snorkeling before and you know I
didn't really know what I was doing or anything I was just a beginner at it I'm
still a beginner at snorkeling and things like that but anyway I was
snorkeling and you know I wanted to go down deeper though to kind of see some
other stuff so I started swimming down deeper man you get down like 10 or 15
feet below the surface you start feeling that pressure right away it's pretty
intense because all that water is pushing down and it just becomes
exponential as you go deeper and deeper it's a but the human body even though we
think like oh man I got to go up for air you can actually handle it you know
there are people who train themselves to go deeper and they literally swim down
with no equipment hundreds of feet under the surface of the water and in fact
people can go down with no extra equipment just with their bodies the way
God made them they can go down over 300 feet and come back up with no equipment
over 300 now I don't recommend that kids don't try this at home all right but
what's amazing is that when you go down deep into the water your body will slow
down the cold and the water will slow down your body so that you can actually
use the oxygen more effectively and as you go down into the water your body
will literally just adapt and when people go down in that pressure literally
their lungs just all that pressure just makes their lungs like shrink down to
just these tiny little balls all that everything just compresses because if
you were to bring a basketball down there it'll just go anything will so
when you get in the water at first have you ever tried to swim down and you
can't really go down because you're so buoyant right and you're you have to
really struggle well here's the thing once you get down to like 30 or 40 feet
though you stop floating to the top because all that air just goes your
lungs are your internal organs are okay everything just tightens up it sounds
fun right your whole your whole chest cavity tightens up and what happens is
when you get to like 30 or 40 feet all of a sudden it starts pulling you down
because you're no longer buoyant now you're being pulled down so you swim
hard to get to 30 or 40 feet and then you just start sinking you start
dropping down and people have been doing this for thousands of years people would
go down and dive for pearls and they would spend like literally up to like 10
minutes down there I mean it was just good they would just build up to it they
would go down like 125 feet and be down there for like 10 minutes and then swim
back to the top and your body just adapts there your heart rate will slow
down to like less than half its normal speed at those depths everything slows
down and then when you swim back up your body does it all in reverse now here's
what's interesting too let's say you're underwater and you black out of lack of
oxygen right well then your body has this automatic switch where it shuts
your mouth and shuts your throat automatically to not let water get in
and then you'll just be blacked out for like two minutes like that and then a
couple minutes later your body will make one last-ditch effort to make you
breathe again and if you're underwater when that happens you die because you'll
suck in the water in your lungs and die if you're out of the water you'll come
back to life and be fine now I'm not recommending any of this all right I'm
just saying it's just amazing how God built all these switches and you know
when you think about a baby being born it's kind of the same way like when a
baby's born it's underwater and when it's born and some people give birth
underwater also my wife is giving birth to I think about maybe half of them
underwater and when you give birth in like a tub they're under there they
don't breathe it's only when they come out of the water right and the air hits
their face and then it's like a switch goes off and then and then all of a
sudden now they're breathing but they don't need to breathe when they're
underwater and even a newborn baby they have these like swimming classes for
newborn babies you can put don't do this don't try this all right disclaimer
people on the internet none of this this is for educational and entertainment
purposes only anyway they'll literally take a newborn baby and just put it
underwater and automatically the the throat and mouth will shut and it won't
suck in the water and everything it has that instinct but then as we get older
we kind of lose that instinct and and so it has to be trained you know but little
babies can swim I've seen these videos where these little newborns almost I
mean less than a year old are swimming in the water by themselves and a lot of
people they they take these classes because they don't want their kid to
drown in the pools they teach it how to like do a back float or whatever but
isn't that just amazing I mean just the way the child develops in the womb and
it's underwater and they just goes from the water to just being out of the water
and then as an adult you can go back into the water and go down deep and and
and all your intestines and everything get all and you but you could survive
though you're still alive at the end of it all I mean it's truly amazing what
God has created in the human body that it can even be amphibious in that sense
to be able to swim way down and do all that and go now here's what's interesting
let's say a scuba diver tried to do the same thing let's say a scuba diver went
down to 200 feet if a scuba diver just went down to 200 feet hung around for an
hour and then swam to the surface they'll die because they because they'll
get compression decompression sickness so what happens is if they have
compressed air in their tank and they go down to 200 feet for an hour it takes
them 10 hours to go back to the surface if they go faster than that they'll die
and if they went to 300 feet with compressed air they'll just die period
there's no there's no way to decompress from that because what we breathe is
actually nitrogen predominantly it's it's it's what 76 percent nitrogen 23
percent oxygen 1 percent carbon dioxide and other gases I remember that that
lesson in elementary school and so you know the nitrogen gets in their blood
and then when they're down there breathing all that compressed air on the
scuba gear and then when they come up that the nitrogen like bubbles in their
blood and will kill them so even a scuba diver has to be real careful go down
real slow come up super slow follow all these rules there's a ton of training to
go that deep and you got to get all these certifications you got all this
gear or you can just literally just jump in and just swim down that level in the
body that God made you and swim back up it's pretty amazing and again I'm not
recommending it so the point the point is human beings have all these
capabilities that we don't even think about because obviously we have all this
technology we kind of live a sedentary life we've become kind of soft and weak
but our bodies have these capabilities and look our brains we might let them
atrophy a little bit right sitting in front of the idiot box rotting our brain
in front of the television but you know people who train their minds people who
memorize scripture and read books and and study and learn things you know they
can do great things with their mind people who train their bodies can do
great things with their body the potential is there they're even blind
people who've actually lost their eyesight but they can walk around no
problem like as if they can see because they click their tongues and use sonar
like a bat and this is something blind people are learning how to do now where
they just use their hearing and they click their tongues and they can find
things about I mean our bodies are capable of amazing things why because
man is the greatest creation of God the most adaptable the most intelligent the
strongest the most probably because we were created to dominate every part of
this planet and we were created in his image and of course he's perfect and he
created us to be like him so we are truly an amazing creature but not only
that number four man has the greatest value man has the greatest that man is
much more valuable than any animal when given the choice between saving an
animal's life and a human's life we must say the human's life in fact Jesus
Christ sent 2,000 innocent poor little piggies off a cliff in order to save one
man he saved one man and killed 2,000 pigs and he didn't even care the Bible
says in Matthew 10 31 if you would turn to Romans chapter 1 will close in Romans
chapter 1 go to Matt go to Romans 1 but in Matthew 10 31 the Bible says fear you
not therefore year of more value than many sparrows so that means we're of
more value than many spotted owls or whatever else too you know we are of
greater value than any animal or any creature and that's why it's sickening
the way people got upset that they shot a gorilla or something because they were
trying to save a toddler's life well you didn't have to shoot that gorilla well
so what you know if the toddler if there's any chance that the toddlers in
danger shoot the gorilla save the child because that toddler is of more value
than many gorillas okay animals they die and they go to the dust they're not
going to heaven period and when the rapture happens every animal will be
left behind every single one not one of them is gonna go up in the rapture and
people say well the Bible talks about animals being in heaven yeah it's gonna
be different animals in heaven these ones are gone these ones are toast it's
gonna be a different animals because God's creates new animals they don't
have a soul that that continues on and lives so what what's the moral of all
this you know why are we talking about how man has the greatest Dominion the
greatest authority the greatest intelligence the greatest physical power
the most complexity and the greatest adaptation and also the greatest value
you know what's the point of all this why is that well first of all like I
said earlier we're being brainwashed that animals are better than us all the
time by the left-wing environmental wacko kind of crowd but look what the
Bible says in Romans chapter 1 verse 18 for the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the
truth and unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest
in them for God has showed it unto them for the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are
made even as eternal power and Godhead so that they're without excuse the
Bible saying look when you look at the creation that God has made it's not that
you kind of see that maybe there's a God no it's clearly seen that there is a
God it's not fuzzy or muddy or foggy or controversy it's just it's just clear
there must be a God to have created our amazing bodies and not to mention all
the millions of amazing animals that have been created and then the pinnacle
of God's creation we don't even have to go on a zoological expedition just look
at our own bodies just look at our own children being born to see the Marvel
of God's power and God's creation even to just look at the heavens the Bible
says the Sun the moon the stars and we look at those things and they declare
the glory of God and we look at those things and we know clearly God's power
and his Godhead and it says look nobody has an excuse because God has showed it
unto us that he is our Creator but the Bible says in verse 21 because they when
they knew God meaning not that they were saved but just they knew God meaning
that they were confronted with God or they they knew him from the natural
world they saw him clearly in those things it says they glorified him not as
God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their
foolish heart was darkened professing themselves to be wise they became fools
so instead of looking at the natural world and just marveling and saying wow
thank you God thank you for this amazing creation that you've given us being
thankful to God and saying wow you did such a good job and that's what a lot of
the Psalms are doing when they're praising God for all of his handiwork
and the work of his hands and and the physical world and the creatures that
he's made instead of being thankful and saying wow God you gave us these amazing
minds that we that we could use to achieve all kinds of things the amazing
bodies that could achieve all kinds of works and and and achieve all kinds of
actions instead they became vain in their imagination and said well you know
maybe this all just came from nothing or they they started instead of looking at
that ape and just marveling at the creation they started thinking well
maybe that's where we came from because he looks a little bit like us I was at
the zoo just a few weeks ago which animal was it was it the was it the
baboon that we were looking at where this this this guy I overheard a guy
saying this is the closest relative that we have as human beings which one was it
John do you remember it was the baboon have you ever looked at a baboon now
baboons are pretty weird-looking and they're not intelligent it's like oh
look we taught this monkey to do sign language right look we can do a lot more
than that as humans they did just say Apple or whatever you know we do a lot
more than that I'm not impressed but this is not even a monkey not even an
ape not even a gorilla the guys staying in front of the baboons telling us oh
this baboon is our closest relative I say you know what if that's our closest
relative that's quite a missing link like this is a that's not admit that's
a missing chain that's not a missing link that's a missing that's all the
whole chains missing because we're nowhere even close to that baboon it's
not even similar and it's like oh well you know two eyes two you know a nose a
mouth I mean that's what these evolutionists say Richard Dawkins said
he said you know a real designer because one time I was driving in the middle of
the night and Richard Dawkins came on the radio and I was like you know I'm
just gonna listen to what he says see if he has any arguments that make any sense
because this is supposedly the smartest you know evolutionary biologists that
every atheist like worship this guy they say that it's the greatest book
they've ever read and and I I even heard this atheist that was like an expert
swimmer saying that that she when she's on these like really long like 25-mile
swims and stuff she like quotes Richard Dawkins book in her head like like like
other like Christians would like quote scripture she's like quoting the God
delusion while swimming or so I mean it's just that's how the that's how
these atheists are with Oh Richard I the guy's at an imbecile not to mention a
pedophile but the guy is an imbecile I mean this is what he literally said
because the radio host asked him a pretty good question the radio host said
hey just give me your your your go-to argument for evolution for the people
who don't believe in it you know just kind of give me on the back of a postage
stamp what's just your quick way to prove it he said oh well I mean the way
to prove it more than anything is just how similar all animals are on this earth
you know and how the DNA is so similar now when they start talking about the
DNA being similar just just keep this in mind all the DNA is it's just a
schematic for what the creature is so we don't have to go look at the DNA to find
similarities you can also just look at the creature I mean if you look at the
creature and they both have two eyes and a nose and a mouth four limbs then
yeah okay there's gonna be similarities in the DNA right since there's
similarities in the organism they both have a heart they both have a brain that
yeah there's a lot of I mean look you can find a lot of similarities between
us and that baboon if you if you start thinking along those lines you know
knees elbows a backbone both vertebrate you know brain stem you know so so you
know he's just like oh it's so similar and this is what Richard Dawkins said he
said you know a real designer he goes back to the drawing board every single
time what kind of a designer goes back to the drawing board every single time
actually what intelligent does it because he's like if it was intelligent
design everything could be different but it's all similar because they're all
related that's not true because you know what designers actually do they design
one thing and then they tweak it a little and make it better make it better
make it better make it better make it better and you know what that's why God
created all the best stuff on the last day right why because he's he's building
up to it now all of God's creatures are amazing but a real designer builds in
complexity but they don't go back to the drawing board look at all the cars in
the parking lot let's do a DNA test on all the cars they all have a couple of
headlights I mean remember that weird car that had three headlights that
didn't go over right who knows what I'm talking about was it a what was it
called I I don't remember but there was some car like 50 years ago three
headlights where you know remember the DeLorean the doors that open up you know
what I mean yeah they're gonna be a little few genetic anomalies out there
but you know most of the DNA out in that parking lot is either gonna be a two
door a four door there's a trunk over and over again headlights tail lights
right pistons four pistons six pin pistons eight pistons there's not 20
pistons or three piston right there's a lot of things that are just kind of the
same why because they found something that worked four wheels it works you
don't see a bunch of like tricycle cars out there with like one wheel in the
front yeah they find something that works and they stick with it right look
all those cars in the parking lot they're all clearly related so that
proves that they all came from nothing and that one evolved into the next I
mean stupid no all these cars in the parking lot were created by the same
companies the same businesses that learn from each other they're all
intelligently designed and you know what this world that we live in yeah it's
filled with animals that are similar because God created designs that work
and he just used different variations on those designs that work you know every
animal that we see is is built for a reason the way it is even weird animals
and we look at it and think it's weird but if you study it more you'll realize
it was created exactly for its environment for its purpose what it's
supposed to be doing you know it's created that way for a reason and it
wasn't just all evolution natural selection it's garbage lies we need to
be thankful and we need to give glory to God you say why is this sermon important
I'll tell you why because when you don't thank God and when you don't give the
glory to God and when you don't marvel at his creation and praise him for his
creation you go down this road in Romans 1 where you become vain in your
own imagination and they profess themselves to be wise and they're fools
today the fullest said in his heart there is no God but they call themselves
what a professor they profess themselves to be wise they're fools but man they
think they're smart don't they the Bible says they change the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds
and four-footed beasts and creeping things wherefore God also gave them up
to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own
bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever
amen here's what we need to take away from the knowledge of the Word of God
and the knowledge of the natural world is that we need to spend our lives
serving God serving the Creator what do we use our minds for to serve God what
do we use our bodies for to serve God why because he said that we're to serve
him with all our heart and with all our mind we're to love him with our mind
love him with our strength right so what do we use our physical bodies that God
created to be so adaptable for we use them to serve him to obey him to work
for him to preach the gospel to every creature to work hard provide for our
families and raise up godly children it's to serve the Lord not to serve
animals not to serve the environment but to use the environment to serve God and
obviously we shouldn't be trashing the creation but that you know the biggest
trasher of creation is the government with all their nuclear testing and all
their dirty bombs and everything else and then they tell us we're putting out
too much carbon when they're putting out more carbon than we ever thought of
putting out but they see you know obviously we shouldn't be trashing the
place but we're to use it to subdue it to have dominion over it but it's all in
the end to bring glory to God all things were created for his pleasure
the Bible says in Revelation 11 or Revelation chapter 4 verse 11 all things
are created for his glory his pleasure not for dogs or animals or dolphins or
owls or whales all the glory goes to God it's not for us to worship ourselves
it's not for us to say oh God's given us this amazing body let me just go stare
at myself in the mirror in the gym right and just worship the body right
let me just post selfies of myself all day long just flexing every muscle on my
body to worship the body right look no why don't you use that body to go do
something for the Lord you know if you have great stamina and great endurance
and great strength why don't you go out and be a great worker for the Lord right
I'm not I'm for being strong I'm for those things but use them I'm for being
smart but you know what there are a lot of very intelligent people though who
are just like that bodybuilder at the gym except instead of just doing bicep
curls in front of the mirror they do that mentally you ever get around these
people that are just mentally kind of like like they're not instead of using
their brain to serve God instead of using their brain to do something right
it's just a showing off you know what I mean like instead of using great Bible
knowledge to preach a great sermon or to win souls to Christ or to teach the Word
of God to babes instead they just show off their Bible knowledge and their
degrees of this scholarly book you know it's just it's just a mental a mental
bodybuilding competition for them it's like a brain builder okay and you know
what bodybuilders look like goofballs to normal people they do I mean when we
see these guys that are just like and look I'm all for being fit I'm all for
being strong getting in shape but I'm talking about these guys who take it too
far and then their head is like too small for their body it's like their
arms are just like way too big for their torso they're just totally out of
proportion and they're just like bulging with just every vein and everything they
look like you're about to have a heart attack we look at that and think they
look like a goofball especially when they wear that circus outfit that's like
it's like a one-piece outfit that goes from like shorts into a tank top like as
a onesie you know like a clown would wears you know what I mean and they wear
that and they're just like yeah I look so good and you know what everybody
else is thinking like no you don't look good you look like a freak because you
went too far yeah and then those guys it's not even healthy because they're
not even building strength that's these bodybuilding is not even about how
strong you are it's just about how you look it's about posing on a stage or
something you know and all these different poses you know look it looks
goofy but you know what we look at a lot of these theologians and that's how they
look to us you know we tune into their sermons it's just like and we're just
like change the channel right who even wants to listen to that somebody just
all puffed up puffed up you know they're they're like I'm going to pop you up you
know they're just all puffed up and the Bible says knowledge puffeth up but
charity edify if so we need to make sure that we use our strength we use our
brains we use the Dominion and the authority and the the charge that God
has given us and that we use these things for the glory of God it's about
getting something done for the Lord not just about how strong we can get for the
sake of looking in a mirror or how smart we can get just to show off how smart we
are you know and just tell everybody hey look what I know look what I can do no
no it's just about getting something done because he gets all the glory we're
to bring glory him inspired never word of prayer father we thank you so much
for this marvelous creation that you've given us Lord and we just pray that no
one would would go down that Romans one route where they start getting puffed up
and and they they stopped giving you the glory they stopped thanking you and and
they start just getting vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind Lord help us to
humble ourselves and to have David's attitude that says what is man that thou
are mindful of them even though we're the greatest creation we're still lower
than the angels and we still have to marble that you're even mindful of us
when we think about the vastness of the universe Lord thank you for dying for us
thank you for giving us eternal life and in Jesus name we pray amen