DECISION MAKING IN A REAL WORLD

WHY WE NEED TWO VIEWPOINTS

Gen. 3:17

Eve should have gotten another viewpoint, or witness, before she decided to do what the serpent wanted her to do. Instead, she decided to trust the serpent instead of asking God what she should do. The result is that she embraced a false account of what God had actually tole her and Adam they could and could not do.

In our decisions we always need to get more than one opinion. Jesus called this two witnesses. In the Declaration of Independence they called it the laws of nature and the laws of Nature's God. Secularism has significantly removed the laws of Nature's God from our decision-making in America, and left us only with the laws of nature. This leaves us with a very lopsided view of reality. This is not the American way.

EVEN GOD RESTS

The God of the Bible is not only a hard-working God but also one who cares deeply for  His creations. He set the example for us by creating the universe and all that it contains in six days and then rested on the seventh.

These teachings show us that there is literal time of seven days and nights as well as teaching us that we are to be fruitful, multiplying, filling, ruling, and subduing all that He has given us as well as taking the time for rest.

EVEN GOD RESTS

Gen. 2: 1-2

Ex.20:8

THE BIBLE PROJECT BELOW TALKS ABOUT THE SABBATH AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SABBATH AND THE LORD'S DAY.

WHAT HAPPENED AT HARVARD AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES

What happened to the University

The Harvard logo represents how secularism has taken over American Universities and therefore, the American mind.

The Original Logo

The original logo shows that truth was what the University was seeking, not just secular truth but “Truth for Christ and the Church.” In the original logo, veritas (truth) is unified in Christ.  The Truth (Christ) is revealed through the three books displayed on the logo: Creation, Reason, and Revelation.  

The bottom book, which is pointed down and open to man, represents the Bible, God's Words, theology which guides the University to truly true truth.
The Logo shows that the University is bringing Christ into all parts of knowledge  which Harvard University viewed as "Education".  The Bible and its theology brought together the different parts of learning and knowledge because it revealed Christ as “The Unifier”.  "The Truth" is what a Harvard Education student was seeking. Thus in a Harvard University, education (knowledge) was unified.

The shift

After the American Revolution through the nineteen hundreds, there was a major shift in thinking at Harvard, and therefore a major shift in the school's beliefs.  They shifted their thinking from allowElites

e person of God being the final authority to chance being final authority, and change being the controlling principle.

This shift meant that now things from nature became all man could know, therefore truth did not come from the Creator of nature but from created things.

The Cosmos became a uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system; the open system of God and His knowledge were gone. God became philosophically excluded from the educational teaching at Harvard.  There was still a seminary and chapel at Harvard but these places did not produce knowledge; they only produced inspiration and feelings.  Thus HARVARD excluded God from their student’s thinking.
This shift meant that HARVARD needed a new logo that reflected this change from God's Truth and Christ's Sovereignty, to chance and changing truth as the new King. Their thinking moved from an unchanging God who gave man certainty, to chance and constant change that molded man with the result of constant uncertainty.

Because of this shift in philosophy, Harvard returned to the Old World beliefs of the Greeks and the Greek God's, and borrowed the wreath of Zeus.

The Closing of The Mind

They surrounded the world of ideas with the Greek wreath and thus they closed the university system to God's Revelation. Next, the books were changed so there was no open book to man. They closed God's book and made truth come only from and through nature, so Truth was no longer personal but the great cosmic machine of the cosmos.  This New Science (as it was called), closed the education of the mind and left only the rule and thinking of HARVARD.  

Man Returns To Elites

The word HARVARD is now large and the most prominent, because only the elite from Harvard reveal the truths of this new science of thought and education; the truth of their educational system is always evolving and changing.

Multiculturalism Is Born

It has become the truth for now, the truth for you, the truth for me, the truth for Harvard.  They are no longer seeking Truly True Truth but have closed their mind to God and have therefore become multicultural. Natural Laws take over and replace an Infinite personal God's Law with a cosmic machine that is always changing. The HARVARD man is now the revelation of this changing truth and believe they have become the ultimate elite who choose what the rest of us us should believe.

Man Can Save Himself

As a result of the new Harvard thinking, man without God becomes his own saviour. Man is forever learning but never comes to a knowledge of the truth.

OUR HOUSE RULE

WHY DID GOD MAKE MANKIND?

After God made all the stuff and put it together, He made the pinnacle of His creation, mankind, to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and to rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

And after all His hard work, God said it was all very good.

TRANSGENDERISM FOLLOWING JOHN LENNON IN THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION

John Lennon did the song Imagine which was a theme song of the sexual Revolution that you can imagine anything you want.
Hugh Hefner built on that Revolution with the sexual lusts of the flesh of Playboy magazine, that open the gate for all the other pornography and sexual issues in our culture.
Since there is only male and female this whole construct of transgenderism is an imaginary reality, like all of secularism.
John MacArthur's explains it to his young friend very well in this video.

SEEK GOD FIRST, HE WILL GIVE YOU STUFF TOO

This is a great audio about how God has supplied our need for cars, through answered prayer, over the last almost 50 years.

Matthew 6 describes how we are to depend on God for not only the big stuff but the daily necessities of living (food, clothing, shelter). When we seek Him first instead of the stuff we need to live, He will provide all that we need to live a simple, abundant life.

HOLLYWOOD THE BIG SEDUCER

For years I have done seminars on how to watch movies. I always have seen that Christians get very upset when you take away their secular entertainment. This is one of the major ways that secularism gets into her brain and controls Our Lives. It is very important that when you watch movies and TV you think. Or as the Bible puts it you set your mind on the things of the spirit not on the flesh.

SPIRITUAL ADULTERY

Spiritual adultery is unfaithfulness to God. It is having an undue fondness for the things of the world. Spiritually adultery is analogous to the unfaithfulness of one’s spouse: “‘But like a woman faithless to her lover, even so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel,’ says the LORD” (Jeremiah 3:20; see also Isaiah 1:21; 57:8; Ezekiel 16:30).

This is a good article on the issue of spiritual adultery.

GOD MADE MAN LIKE HE IS!

Today, we read Gen. 1: 26 -28 as we continue to read about how God used His creativity, labor, and resources to create the heavens, the earth, and all that it contains. We see that on this very busy sixth day of creation, God made man in His own image.
In addition, God  blessed them and told man to, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 Corinthians 15:49:  "Just as we have borne  the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven."

HUNTING, FISHING, AND FARMING IN GOD'S ECONOMY

Last week we talked about hunting and fishing after the 5th day of God creating the creatures of the sea and the birds of the air. 

On the sixth day, God creates the cattle, creeping things, and beasts of the earth.

One critical point to understand is each catagory is "after its own kind" meaning cows produce cows, hummingbirds produce hummingbirds, and whales produce whales.

The birds of the air, the fish in the seas, and the cattle on the earth are all commanded to be fruitful and multiply after their own kind.

What is the difference between morality and values

Values are defined by a finite individuals choice.
Morality is not defined by a infinite individual choice. But,
Morality is defined by an infinite beings choice

To have morality there must be someone who knows everything.
This is what Jesus said He is the truth. He is saying that he knows everything and has come to tell us what is truly true truth.
The Bible also states that he is the Light.  



I Am the Light of the World

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying,

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13 So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” 14 ....“Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. 16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father[a] who sent me.

44Then Jesus cried out, 

“Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

47“If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.