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JACK: The Bible warns us in the book
of Romans chapter 1. If you get your
eyes off of God, you will wind up interpreting Romans 1
says, nature to be your God. It says that when you no longer
believe in God, you'll believe in four footed beast and
creeping things on the earth and things that fly, and you'll
make those your origins in the Bible.
Romans chapter 1, read it for yourself.
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JACK: Hey everybody, I hope you stay tuned
after I announced you what the title
of this message is and it's this "Can Man Save the
World." I mean that's all we're hearing about today. Well, the
Bible tells us in the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth and he didn't walk away from it after he created it. God
is built in scientifically in this world of ours, incredible
checks and balances regarding our environment. So who's right,
who's wrong? Are the environmentalists right? Is God
right? What's truth out there about this ecosystem that you
and I live in? Isn't it amazing that here we are in the 21st
century and I kind of think we've become educated beyond our
intelligence? We think that we can create all of these things
that were really wonderful and now all of a sudden they're all
bad. We went from riding a horse to traveling through space to
now it's best to go back to riding a horse. Friends, that's
not advancement. In fact, living in Southern California where we
used to be the smog capital of the world, now we've got the
freshest air. It's amazing living here. What's going on?
Technology used the right way can be a big blessing, but is it
of God? Is it scientific? The argument about global warming,
climate change, fossil fuels, carbon footprint. Friends,
listen, if we listen to one side of that story, we're going to
get all messed up. I think today people are choosing to either
make man as the God who is going to try to save his world or let
God be God who knows how to run the world. So friends, listen,
God cares. He knows exactly what he is doing and we can trust
him. And it was here in this world long ago that God placed
you and I originally with our mom and dad, Adam and Eve in a
perfect world. Now we don't have that perfect world anymore, but
God has given us the ability to mitigate issues we've been
created in His image. We are truly special people having been
created in his image. And so friends listen, man can't save
the world, but we are to be good stewards of it. There is a
balance. God gave it to us and let's take care of it, but by
all means, let us not worship it. So let's get into the word
and see what God has to say about these things.
JACK: Nature is suffering because of
the sins of man. You look around this
world, people will say, I can't believe in your God. Look
at this horrible world. Say, dude, I agree with you with this
horrible world. You got the blame going in the wrong
direction. We did this. Our mom and dad did this, not your mom
and dad, Adam and Eve, they're the ones that crush this thing.
God creates a perfect, Hey, listen, God creates a perfect
ecosystem, man ruins it. I'm going to step on some toes here.
We have to save the planet. Really? What makes your life so
great that you can save the planet? Oh, it's going to be a
collective effort. Yeah? What are we going to do? We're going
to recycle. That's great. What else? Have you ever stopped to
consider how God cleans things up in this world? After us. We
crash a bazillion gallons of oil in Alaska with the Exxon Valdez
in whatever name of that harbor was. I forget, and we supposedly
destroy the ocean seabed for a thousand years, they said, and
everybody's crying and we've destroyed the world. We should
all just you know end it all and you ought to go look at the
documentaries and find out what happened. It seems now we know
that God built into the system, the ocean's ability to scrub
itself and clean itself in the face of disasters and there's no
problem or evidence of that oil spill now at this time, and it's
a matter of a documentary that you should see. Oh my gosh, this
is happening, but a volcano goes off and pollutes the entire
world and it winds up actually increasing the carbon. Carbon
don't say the word. No, no, no. You can't have trees or grass
without carbon. Nope. Got to have it. I digress, but your
battery ain't helping anybody out here. We need to. No,
serious. It's amazing how God's no, we got to stay the planet.
Wait a minute, it was here before you got here and it's
going to be here after you leave and it doesn't need our help.
That just got me knocked off of YouTube right there. I can feel
it. Nature itself is waiting for the redemption of the sons of
God. That's us. It's remarkable. Listen to what Dr. D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones said. By the time we have lived Dr. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones, great preacher of yesteryear, pastor, great
expositor at the Westminster Chapel in London, England, and
he was a medical doctor on top of it, and you can hear him by
the way, even though he, he's been dead and gone for many
decades, you can go to his YouTube channel and listen to
him. He says the pains of childbirth are real pains,
severe pains, but they're not endless pains. Such pain only
endures for a time, nor are they hopeless pains. On the contrary,
they're filled with joyful expectations. Since under normal
circumstances, these pains produce the birth of a brand new
child. That so describes the believers suffering. It's not
something that befalls us, it's something that prepares us and
it's only for a season. Well, yeah, but what if ends in death?
Are you a Christian? Yes, you're going to heaven. Think of that,
but we need to remember something. All of creation is
under this expectancy, which is an interesting term. If you
remove the emotional suggestion away from it, it means that the
created universe is laboring in its mechanics as it were to do
what it was designed to do. It's laboring. Think about you. That
describes us. We're part of the physical creation. The sun's not
the only thing burning out. Everything is slowing down,
including light itself. It's wearing out. Do you resemble
that remark? You ever feel like that? It's okay for the
believer. I told you before, I'll say it again. When you're
young, it's great. You're supposed to be young. Do that.
When you're older as a believer, I don't know man, if I was not a
Christian, I'd freak out. But as you get older as a believer,
it's like sweet. See? Yeah, but you know those golden years.
Golden my foot. What does that mean? Golden? Oh, it means that
your hospital gown is made out of yellow color, the golden
years. But Paul, the apostle would say, what's the problem?
Well, Paul, don't you see? You're wired up to these tubes.
They got this- on you. You're plugged into a machine. Paul
would say to live is Christ, to die is gain. Think about that.
That's true for all of us as believers. For sure you know?
It's amazing. And then finally, we will end with this part just
in verse 20. We'll pick it up next time, but it's the fact
that when hope is increasing, we can know that the plan of God is
unfolding. Friends, nothing's falling apart. It's all coming
into place. Yes, I am very, very much aware of the World Economic
Forum and the EU and the USA and I don't know, whatever those
acronyms are, we're all aware of them. Yeah, don't worry about
it. It's all coming together. You read your Bible, it's like,
wow, look at this. Even though I know we're all going to do the
right thing, don't get me wrong, but the results are in God's
hands and I'm glad he wrote us his Bible, but God's plan is
unfolding. Man has his plans. Like how man's going to save the
world. How man's going to save himself. So man creates
artificial intelligence to save himself and now it looks like
it's turning on us to eat us alive. I just find that, I'm
sorry, I find that very funny. We don't want God no, we don't
want God. We deny God. We'll play God. We'll create
something. And boy, that thing turned on us real quick, huh?
Back in the day when Clinton was running for office, Bill
Clinton, was running for office. He had his campaign manager.
What Bill? I'm talking about Bill. 1992, James Carville.
Remember James Carville? He said, listen, he's trying to
tell the team. This is famous now, as soon as I say it, you'll
know. He was instructing the whole Campaign Team, you don't
need to talk about anything else. The economy is so bad. The
issue's this, it's the economy stupid. Remember those famous
words? Those are legendary words now. It's the economy, stupid.
James Carville. You can look it up later. It's famous. Well, for
the believer, listen for us, it's the creation. Smartypants.
We can look at what God has made and it even announces to us that
things are a skill. Logic and reason demand the outcome of,
what's the word? Progress or progression. No and never has
order ever come out of disorder. For those of you who've had
basic physics in the seventh grade, entropy, is the second
law of thermal dynamics, everything is going from an
ordered condition to a destroyed condition. Everything is running
out, entropy. That's evidence of what God's Bible says, isn't it?
But he's going to reverse that someday. His plan is unfolding.
When it says that he subjected it in futility. In hope. It
means that God, when sin happened in the Garden of Eden
and there was this seismic wave throughout the entire universe,
both spiritual and physical, God had built into that explosion
the plan that in that futility and it was subjected to
emptiness or nothingness, that even in that God had a plan to
bring it back together before it ever fell apart. In other words,
God was not surprised that Adam and Eve would turn their back on
him and yet he loved them. That should comfort you. It's been
subjected in hope and so I'll end with this. The Bible tells
us, the world that's to come in Isaiah chapter 35 verse 1, in
fact, this is a remarkable portion of scripture you guys,
because it's one of the evidences that Jesus, and I'm
curious if you can catch it. Jesus used Isaiah 35 to tell
John the Baptist disciples. Remember when John was in
prison? He got arrested. John's in prison, John the Baptist, and
his disciples come and they ask Jesus, Jesus, John wants to
know, are you the one? Are you the Messiah? Or do we wait for
somebody else? Well, number one, that's a shock because John knew
exactly who Jesus was, but guess what? John was just like us.
Sometimes we have laps in faith. John's in prison doesn't look
like the kingdom to me. Hey, I'm following Jesus and I'm behind
bars? What kind of a gig is this? Flies in the face right?
Of modern day so-called Christianity. Hey, come and be a
Christian. Send us your money and you'll be rich. How does
that work? Right? Oh, if you just believe you'll never have
any bumps in the roads that you drive on. Oh, if you just have
enough faith, you'll never get sick. Really? Jesus says, why
don't you go back and tell John the things that he has seen and
heard and Jesus eludes, or in some areas directly quotes
Isaiah 35, written 743 years before Christ was born. It's
talking about the kingdom of God coming. So technically it's
about the second coming of Christ, the wilderness and the
wasteland shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and
blossom as the rose. Think of the California desert. Think of
the Arizona Sonora desert. Every needle on a cactus is a flower
that never develops. Can you imagine the desert when Jesus
comes back? I don't know he is going to snap his fingers. Is he
going to speak a word? I dunno what he's going to do, but the
desert. Can you imagine? You're going to hold a barrel cactus
and it's going to look like a bouquet. Wow. It shall bloom
abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of
Lebanon shall be given to it. The excellence of Carmel and
Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of
our God. Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble
knees. Say to those who are fearful hearted, be strong. Do
not fear. Behold your God will come with vengeance. You want
justice. You want God to settle the score against evil? Oh, he
will, with the recompense of God, he will come and save you.
Verse 5, then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. Hey,
that's what Jesus did when he walked on earth. And the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped. Deaf people. They got their
hearing back when Jesus walked on earth. Verse 6, then the lame
shall leap like a deer and the tongue of the dumb sing for
water shall burst forth in the wilderness and streams in the
desert. The parched ground shall become a pool and thirsty land,
springs of water. Is that awesome? That's what God is
going to do. Friends, listen, the Bible warns us in the book
of Romans chapter 1, if you get your eyes off of God, you will
wind up interpreting Romans 1 says, nature to be your God. It
says that when you no longer believe in God, you'll believe
in four footed beast and creeping things on the earth and
things that fly, and you'll make those your origins. In the
Bible. Romans chapter 1, read it for yourself. Why would you do
that when all of creation is groaning under the sway of the
effect of sin? Let's be honest, believer and non-believer, we
all agree this place is hurtful and painful, but God's not
responsible for any of it. He bought us the way out of it and
our suffering in it. It's like being pregnant for nine months
and you start feeling contractions. I'm told, I just
want to make that clear here in California, you start having,
whoa, what's this is going on? And then get the car, we're
going. And to me, I think I speak on behalf of all of us
guys. Women are a special creation because most men faint
during delivery. It's like what? Wait, this is happening here,
right? This. You've heard the mom to be saying, I can't wait.
I can't wait to get this kid out of me. You ever heard mom say
that? Mom to be, I've had enough of this. I can't wait for this
kid to come. And it was like, you do know what's going to
happen, right? Oh yeah. Listen, it's so Christian. Oh yes I do
know, I'm willing to go through the pain because it's only for a
season and the results are joy. Jesus said a woman has pain and
travail until the baby's born and then she's singing with
great joy. I've seen it when our kids came out, all the screaming
and hollering and all that stuff that happens and then the baby
comes out and then Lisa goes in 30 seconds screaming, crying to
crying with a smile. Jesus says that's how it is. And for us as
believers, we're in this world. It's not long, and soon we'll
enter the kingdom of heaven. That's why Jesus said, you got
to be born again into the Kingdom of God and our crying
will be turned into joy, our weeping into laughter.
JACK: So friends, listen, the question
remains, can man save the world? Well, lemme
ask you this. What has man been able to save so far?
In fact, the last time I checked, man gets us into a lot
of trouble. But you know Jesus said that the end of the world
will come like a woman who's in labor pains, but after it's
delivered, she begins to weep for joy, for our new life has
come into the world. Listen, has new life come into you? Or are
you stuck in a groove thinking, what am I going to do? How am I
going to save the world? Friends, listen, man cannot save
the world. All of creation is groaning. We all agree under the
effect of sin. Doesn't take a look out the window long to
figure that one out. This world is hurtful and painful. This
world is a tough place to live and God doesn't like it and
neither do you. He didn't make it this way and you should
appreciate that. But God bought us the way out of this world.
It's called salvation in Jesus Christ through the blood that he
offered up for us when he went to the cross. Jesus Christ died
on the cross for your sins, and my sins, we're in this together
and that when he said, look to me all ye ends of the earth and
be saved for I am the Lord. He's asking you today to look to him.
He paid the price that you could never afford to give you what
you could never have. You see, listen, God is not abandoning
this earth. Man's not going to save this world. This world is
cursed because of sin, but Christ came to set us free. So
listen, I want to pray with you quickly and then tell you how
you can get more information. Lord Jesus, I ask in your name
that you would open up the eyes of so many right now that are
thinking that they are lost and hopeless and this world is their
only salvation. When in reality you are their only salvation.
They can be found, they can be rescued, and they can be saved
in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, my friends, listen. If
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