Creation, Fall, Flood Series

So that is an easy way to talk to an atheist or an evolutionist. Talk heart to heart because if you are someone who has set apart Christ as Lord, you are very equipped to engage in that kind of discussion with anybody of any intellectual capacity. When it all boils down, it is not about being able to argue or convince somebody about the old creation origins. What you are trying to do is convince people that you are a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has gone, the new has come.” When you convince yourself that you are part of the new creation, you automatically create a link back to the old creation. When you are confident, you are able to tell people yes I do believe that story. I do believe it. I have that connection that goes way back there.

That is really all I have today. I mentioned before that I would like to get testimonies from people to come up and summarize what I am trying to say. But I really didn’t have a testimony for today. I really didn’t think about it. This morning, in my quiet time when I am preparing the service, God said you got a video a while back last year from one of your members. Some of you know Jennifer. You know she has been confined to a wheelchair all of her life, but she has not been confined to Pittsburgh all of her life. In fact, she travels the world freely and attends and speaks at conferences and organizes conferences and facilitates discussions. She sent me this video sometime last year while she was at a conference in Toronto I believe. She said use this sometime. I thought you would be interested in that. So I thought, in close, I would show a brief portion of the video just so you can begin to see what it means to be prepared to give an answer or the hope that is in you. (Video clip shown here.)

That is a picture of what it means to be prepared to give an answer for the hope that you have within you. It was in a secular conference and somebody asked who is God to you. If you think you are not equipped to answer that question, watch that video a couple times. You realize you are more than equipped to give an answer for the hope that you have within you. It is because Jen, a long time ago as a little girl, she set apart Christ as Lord in her heart. If you haven’t set apart Christ as Lord in your heart, you are not equipped. You don’t have a testimony. When you have decided that you are going to set Christ apart as Lord in your heart, you are not only confident that you are a new creation, but you are confident you are going to be part of the creation that has come and is becoming. When you are able to do that, you really don’t care what the evolutionists think. You don’t care what the atheists think. You know what you believe and you believe that first line of the Bible that says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Let us pray.