Licking God

     On the morning of April 18, 1906, there was an earthquake in San Francisco, which started more than 50 fires.  The next day, a newspaper boy was showing a dazed man the way through the rubble, and as they walked, the lad said, "You know mister, it took men a long time to put all this stuff up, but God tumbled it all over in a minute—'taint no use for a feller to think he can lick God."  As we proceed into the month of February and Valentine's Day, our thoughts are brought back to God and His love.  And yet, so many spend so much time balking at it and insisting on their own ways.  They think they can lick God.

     As we move ever deeper into the last of days, individuals, as well as whole nations, follow the perilous pattern laid out in Psalm 2:2-3, which reads, "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His anointed, saying, 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'"  We see it in our courts.  In two separate rulings, a U.S. Court of Appeals ordered that a 100 foot cross, which stood on San Francisco's highest peak for 60 years, must come down, while a 10-ton statue of a pagan Aztec serpent god be constructed in San Jose, California—at the taxpayer's expense.  What kind of response is this to the love that the Lord of the Universe manifested when He died to take away the sin of the world?  You see, it isn't enough for Him to have done it—what are you going to do with it?  The emphasis today in this ungrateful society is to "break the bands" of the Bible's commands, and "cast away" the cords of Biblical values that were the foundation of this nation.  They think they can lick God.

     It began when Satan got Eve to doubt God's word, then deny it, and finally, see herself as God.  It has been Satan's plan since his fall, to see people fall, and he has been quite successful by getting God and His word out of the picture.  This is what evolution is all about—doubting God’s Word, denying it, and replacing God with yourself.  You've heard it all—the world and all that is in it just happened to come about.  A cosmic "Big Bang," followed eons later by a flash of lightening and a pond of primordial ooze and voilá, after millions of years, here we are.  And God is not—He has been licked.  Much of this has been attributed to Charles Darwin and several other atheistic thinkers.   It is very interesting to note, however, that, late in life, Darwin recognized the error of his theories, and encouraged the scientific community to drop them.  Why didn't they?  It was Satan's plan to lick God, not just Darwin's.  And what a clever plan it is—have 1st graders read in their schoolbooks that the world is 4 ½ billion years old, and most will believe it.  Have 2nd graders read in theirs that life has evolved, and you are on your way to all of society believing the lie.  Adolph Hitler once said, "If you tell a lie long enough, loud enough, and often enough, then people will believe it."  Well, they have done that, all right, most of modern society believes their lie.  Many religious people have not been willing to throw God out altogether, so they hold to evolution, but insist that that is how God created.  No—you either believe God and His word all the way, or you do not believe Him at all!

     To show their lie to be a lie, I would like to focus on two of their hinge pins—the Big Bang and an ancient earth.  In simplified terms, they suggest that about 18 to 20 billion years ago, all of matter was in a vacuum, compressed into a very hot, very dense spot that may have been smaller than a period on this page.  Finally, BOOM, or BANG, as they would put it, and the result was an extremely organized solar system—about as likely as a bomb going off in a print shop, and a dictionary being the result.  Well, even if you could believe that this happened, you have a very big problem.  It is called the Conservation of Angular Momentum—spin something fast enough, and the pieces that break off will do so spinning in the same direction.  This would mean that all of the planets must be spinning in the same direction as each other, and yet, two of them, Venus and Uranus, are spinning backwards.  Out of the sixty moons in this solar system, at least eleven are going in the opposite direction.  Something doesn't fit.  Oh, I do believe in a "big bang," but it didn't happen at the beginning—it will happen at the end.  We find it in 2 Peter 3:10—"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...?"  Lick God?

     Evolutionary theory also depends on the earth being very, very old.  You wouldn't even begin to believe that one animal could evolve into another in the span of only 6 or 7,000 years, the likely age of the earth, but throw millions of years into the mix, and people believe about anything.  Actually, there are no fossil records that support the transition of one species to another, which of course, supports God’s “theory” that He created everything “after their kind” in a very short span of time.  "Java Man", for example, is constructed from skull fragments, later found to be those of a gibbon, and a leg bone, found over fifty feet away.  "Lucy", their “best” specimen, is comprised of bones found one mile from each other, and some even 200 feet deeper than others.  This is science? 

     If all of this were not enough to debunk evolution, consider this: Over the past 300 years, it has been documented at the Royal Observatory that the sun is shrinking approximately five feet every hour.  In other words, the sun used to be larger.  If the universe is billions of years old, the sun, being huge, would have fried the earth long, long ago.  It has also been demonstrated that the earth is losing the moon, by two inches every year.  Throw billions of years into the situation, and you end up with a very big problem.  The Inverse Square Law would suggest that the tides would have been so high, that the entire earth would have drowned twice every day—a very bad situation for all of the life forms that were trying to evolve.  Furthermore, our space program has revealed that space is filled with dust, so much so, that scientists speculate that the moon, for example, would accumulate one inch of dust every 10,000 years.  When the lunar module landed in July of 1969, and Neil Armstrong stepped down, few people heard the second thing he said—"It's solid!"  In fact, it only had a coating of dust 3/4 inch thick—suggesting the moon to only be about 6,000 years old—sound familiar?  If it were as old as the evolutionists say, the dust would have been over 50 feet deep.  It is also widely held that the earth is slowing down, about 1/1000 of a second every day.  If it is billions of years old, at one time it would have been spinning over 5,000 mph—making it flatter than a pancake and blowing everything off the surface.

     Population studies, core-cooling data, levels of saltiness of the oceans, and the degree of erosion found all over the world, all point to one thing—a young world, and therefore, a great God.   I don't need all of these proofs to believe in a Creator God, and neither do you—we can believe Him, and His Word…by faith!  I simply put these things before you because many have fallen for the persistent lie—“God has been licked!”  I do, however, know of a way that God can be licked.  The most common word in the New Testament Greek for "worship" is "proskuneo", meaning to bow down adoringly, and to kiss, like a dog licking the hand of his master.  Believe me, this is the only way you will "lick" Him—repent of your sin, submit to His authority, walk in the fullness of His Spirit instead of your flesh, and worship only Him.  He loves you! Love Him!

Throughout the year 2000, we will be providing you with Bible readings from Genesis to Revelation to help you grow under His authority and in His love.

February 1      Num. 8-11                              16                    Deut. 32-Josh. 1

2                      Num. 12-15                            17                    Joshua 2-5

3                      Num. 16-19                            18                    Joshua 6-9

4                      Num. 20-23                            19                    Joshua 10-13

5                      Num. 24-27                            20                    Joshua 14-17

6                      Num. 28-31                            21                    Joshua 18-21

7                      Num. 32-35                            22                    Joshua 22-Judges 1

8                      Num. 36-Deut. 3                    23                    Judges 2-5

9                      Deut. 4-7                                 24                    Judges 6-9

10                    Deut. 8-11                               25                    Judges 10-13

11                    Deut. 12-15                             26                    Judges 14-17

12                    Deut. 16-19                             27                    Judges 18-21

13                    Deut. 20-23                             28                    Ruth 1-4

14                    Deut. 24-27                             29                    1 Sam. 1-4

15                    Deut. 28-31                            

 

March 1          1 Sam. 5-8                              3                      1 Sam. 13-16

2                      1 Sam. 9-12                            4                      1 Sam. 17-20