WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:05.280 Good morning, Saddleback. It's good to see you all, and 2 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.240 if you'll take out your message notes, I want to 3 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.839 welcome you to forty days in the Word we're starting 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:14.919 this week. Yeah. We have been planning and preparing for 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.879 this for about a year and I'm very excited about it. 6 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:21.359 I want to say hi not only to our eight 7 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.679 Saddleback campuses that are joining us in all of our 8 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:27.679 locations this morning, but also to those of you who 9 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:31.679 are joining us online. And there are about four thousand, 10 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:36.640 five hundred other churches here in America that are going 11 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.560 through forty days in the Word with us, So I 12 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.520 want you to welcome those sister, forty five hundred churches. 13 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:49.359 Would you say hi to them too? And we're gonna 14 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.520 have a great time. This is going to change your life. 15 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:55.280 The next six weeks is going to change your life 16 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.960 during the forty days. If you want to understand how 17 00:00:58.000 --> 00:00:59.960 it's going to change and why it's going to change, 18 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.560 I would encourage you to go online this week and 19 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.560 watch the vision message that I did Wednesday, Thursday, and 20 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:09.959 Friday of this last week, and it gives the behind 21 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:13.079 the scenes reasoning of why we do all the what 22 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.480 we do now. The heart of forty days in the 23 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:18.560 Word is going to be what we do in our 24 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.719 small groups, and we're going to be looking at some 25 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.560 material that's I'm going to teach you in your small 26 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.159 groups how to unlock the Word of God for yourself, 27 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.120 so you're not dependent upon me or anybody else, and 28 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:35.640 you're not having to say, well, that's just your interpretation. 29 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:37.519 I'm going to teach you how to interpret the Word 30 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.959 of God yourself, how to feed yourself from the Word 31 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.439 of God. So obviously you're going to want to be 32 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:45.439 in a small group. If you're not in one yet, 33 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.079 this is still not too late. You can go out 34 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.640 on the patio afterwards and sign up to be in 35 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:55.359 a small group. I'm very excited that already over one 36 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.040 thousand people in our church have signed up to host 37 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:05.040 new group. One thousand new groups are starting, and that's fantastic, 38 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.000 And I say to those of you who are new hosts, 39 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.000 who are joining the five thousand hosts who lead our 40 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.080 existing groups, welcome aboard, and we're glad to have you 41 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.360 part of that. You're just not going to learn as 42 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.120 much if you're not in a small group, because that's 43 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.319 the heart of what we're doing. For the next six 44 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.280 weeks in the Bible studies, the DVD studies, and the 45 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:27.439 small group curriculum we're going to be doing together. Now, 46 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:29.400 the second component in forty Days of the World, I 47 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:33.639 already mentioned this to you is a daily video devotional 48 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:35.879 on the Word of God. I went out and I 49 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.719 asked forty of the top Bible teachers in America to 50 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:45.719 videotape a five minute devotional. Starting tomorrow morning, they're going 51 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.240 to be available. And what you need to do is 52 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.879 go to forty four zero ditw dot com forty days 53 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:55.800 in the Word dot com and register and give me 54 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.360 either your email or your cell phone where you can 55 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.120 get a text and it doesn't matter to me which 56 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:03.319 one you want to use. And then each day for 57 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.159 the next forty days, I'm going to text you or 58 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:11.719 email you a link to that devotional. Day Now, tomorrow morning, 59 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.240 I'm teaching the first devotional, so we kind of start 60 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:17.240 with the Barlow and then we're going to raise it 61 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.479 for the next forty days with these top Bible teachers. 62 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.000 Then the third part of it, of course, is the 63 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.879 six weekend messages. And I hope you'll be here all 64 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.960 six weeks. Not only will I be teaching these but 65 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.719 across America, forty five hundred other pastors will all be 66 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.319 teaching the same text and the same topics from the 67 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:42.159 Word of God. Now, the Bible is the most read 68 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.439 book in the history, it's the best selling book in history, 69 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:51.520 and it is the most translated book in history. Why 70 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.560 is it the word of God? How do we know 71 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.400 it is the word of God. We're going to look 72 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:00.919 at that this weekend as we start in your outline 73 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:08.000 two Timothy, chapter three, the Bible says this, all scripture 74 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:15.000 is God breathed, and it's useful for teaching and rebuking, correcting, 75 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.720 and training in righteousness. I'm gonna explain that in another week, 76 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.040 so that the Man of God may be thoroughly equipped 77 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.199 for every good work. We're gonna look at this verse 78 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.800 again next week, but I want you to look at 79 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:31.680 the phrase all scripture is God breathed. Circle that word 80 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:38.839 God breathed. That word in Greek is theo nustos, theo 81 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:43.759 meaning God nustos being breathed. The Bible is God breathed. 82 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.279 Now what does that mean? Some of the translations translated 83 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.800 the scripture is inspired, But we're not talking about an 84 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:54.240 inspiring writer writing an inspiring book. We're talking about God 85 00:04:54.399 --> 00:05:00.959 inspired this book. It is God breaed theo Nustos. Right now, 86 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.839 you are listening to the breath of Rick Warren. You're 87 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.519 listening to my breath, because what my voice is is 88 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:13.800 breath coming up over my vocal cords, vibrating those vocal 89 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.120 courts and coming out a sound. If I didn't have 90 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:20.759 any breath, I wouldn't have any voice. So the breath 91 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.600 of Rick Warren is the word of Rick Warren. It 92 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.040 is the voice of Rick Warren. And the Bible says 93 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.759 that God's word is God's very breath. It's not just 94 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:36.519 a good idea. It is God's word to us. And 95 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.319 as a result of that, Psalm one nineteen tells us this, 96 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:45.399 all of your commands can be trusted. Everything in the 97 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:51.240 Bible can be trusted as true because it comes from God. Now, 98 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.480 it's one thing for the Bible to claim that it's 99 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.800 the word of God. It's one thing for the Bible 100 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:00.480 to say it can be trusted. But how do I know, really, really, 101 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.319 how do I know this is the word of God. 102 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:05.680 It's not just some bunch of fables or a bunch 103 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.439 of stories that were put together It's a valid, legitimate, 104 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:11.920 important question, and we need to ask before we ever 105 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.160 start studying the Bible. How do I know I can 106 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:18.480 trust it? Time Magazine thought this was such an important 107 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.959 question it put it on its cover twice. Look at 108 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.160 this one. Here was a cover of Time magazine a 109 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.399 while back that said, how true is the Bible? It's 110 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.079 a good question. And here's another cover of Time magazine 111 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:35.839 is the Bible fact or fiction? This morning, we're going 112 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:42.240 to settle this issue because there are incredible proofs, evidences, 113 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.959 and facts that you need to know to help you 114 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.879 make up your mind. So you're not making up your 115 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.319 mind based on what you've heard other people say, but 116 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:54.000 what the Bible actually claims for itself, and what history, science, 117 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.639 and all these other things teach us about the Bible. 118 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.879 We're going to look today to start off forty days 119 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:06.800 on inspiration. How do I know I can trust the Bible? Well, 120 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.120 there are seven reasons. Pastor Tom's going to help me 121 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.399 with these this weekend, but I want you to write 122 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:18.519 down the first one. It is historically accurate. The Bible 123 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.560 is historically accurate, and for that reason, I know I 124 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.240 can trust the Bible. In other words, the Bible isn't 125 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.959 just doctrinally correct. It's not just theologically correct. It's not 126 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:35.920 just accurate regarding morals and regarding ethics. It's true history, 127 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.560 real people, real places, real time. It is true historically. 128 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:47.439 Now why is that even important? Because the Bible tells 129 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:55.959 us this, God cannot lie. God cannot lie. A lot 130 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.360 of people ask me all the time, is there anything 131 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:58.839 God can do? Oh? Yeah, there's a lot of things 132 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:05.560 God can't do. God cannot deny himself, God cannot not 133 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:12.240 be God. God cannot lie because God is truth. In fact, 134 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.600 the Bible says this on the screen Hebrews six eighteen. 135 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:20.639 It is impossible for God to lie because God is truth. 136 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.240 The only reason the universe works is because God is 137 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.120 a God of truth, which means stuff is true all 138 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.079 the time. Can you imagine, for instance, if the law 139 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:34.600 of gravity only worked on Tuesday and Thursday, it'd be 140 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:39.320 a pretty weird thing. But the laws of physics are true. 141 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.200 God bought him up, He created the laws of mathematics 142 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.039 are true. God created the laws of mathematics on which 143 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:51.519 the universe runs. And so God cannot lie. If this 144 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:56.600 book has one lie in it, it's not a godly book. 145 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.679 It's not a book of God, because God cannot lie. 146 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:05.399 Psalm thirty three, verse four says this, the word of 147 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:10.120 the Lord is right, and it is true. Now that's 148 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:14.639 not only true. And write about salvation it's true. And 149 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.919 write about history. I want you to give a warm 150 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.320 welcome to Pastor Thomas. He talks to us about this. 151 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.519 So how do we know that the Bible's historically accurate? Well, 152 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.960 by the same way you know any other history is accurate. 153 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.919 You just go by the tests of good history. For instance, 154 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.519 one of the ways that you test good history is 155 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.679 is it from eyewitness accounts? And historian would go in 156 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.320 and say, is this written down by somebody who saw it, 157 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:45.240 or is it secondhand or third hand, or is it 158 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.159 a legend written down one hundred years later. The Bible 159 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.919 is primarily eyewitness accounts. That's why it's good history. Moses 160 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.480 was there when the Red Seas split. Joshua was there 161 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:00.000 when the walls of Jericho fell. The disciples of Jesus 162 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.120 stood in the upper room, sat in the upper room 163 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.720 and saw the resurrected Jesus appear, and then they wrote 164 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:06.799 down what happened, and we read about it. 165 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:09.240 Matthew was there and he wrote it down. John was 166 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.039 there and he wrote it down. Peter was there. 167 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:12.519 He told a guy by the name of Mark. He 168 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:14.600 wrote it down in the Gospel of Mark, and Luke 169 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.200 talked to all of them, including Jesus's mother, and heard 170 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.840 about what had happened. So it's eyewitness accounts of what 171 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:24.000 had happened. Now, the other test of history by which 172 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.080 we know the Bible as accurate is the extreme care 173 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.799 with which the Bible is copied. You may have heard 174 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.639 people say, you know, I'm sure it was right when 175 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:35.799 it was first written, but it's been passed down generation 176 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.080 after generation, all these changes have come in. 177 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:38.840 You ever heard that. 178 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.399 If you hear that, you know someone hasn't just hasn't 179 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:44.679 taken the time to study it, to look into it, 180 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:46.960 because when you look into it, you find out the 181 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.799 extreme care with which the Bible is copied. The Old 182 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.960 Testament copyist the scribes, and when they would copy these 183 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.559 scrolls from one to the other, they would copy it 184 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:57.480 like we would copy a xerox copy. It had to 185 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.960 be exact, and they had this long list of rules 186 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.440 that had to go by to make sure that it 187 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:03.039 was exact. 188 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:04.240 Rules like when they. 189 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:04.720 Had a scroll. 190 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:08.039 It had had a specified number of columns throughout it, 191 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:10.080 so it would always be the same, and the link 192 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.200 of those columns always had to be from forty eight 193 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.879 to sixty in linked, and it always had to be 194 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.879 thirty exactly thirty letters white, so they could always check 195 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.120 it out to make sure that it was always right. 196 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:20.679 They had this. 197 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:22.960 Rule that you had to copy letter by letter and 198 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.960 not word by word, so that well, you know, on 199 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.200 your phone, like it does text prediction and sends the 200 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.440 wrong word to somebody, the word you didn't want to send. 201 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.440 They wanted to make sure that didn't happen. 202 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:34.600 So they could only copy letter by letter, and they 203 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.879 went by these tests to make sure that it was right. 204 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.039 After they copied it. 205 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.519 They knew in a book how many letters of the 206 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.200 alphabet were in each book, So for instance, like our 207 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.840 letter A, they would know that there were one thousands, 208 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.639 six hundred and fifty three a's in this book, and 209 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.960 if it had one thousands, six hundred and fifty four 210 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.799 when they counted it, they threw the scroll away and 211 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.320 they started over. They were so exact. They knew the 212 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.679 middle letter of the first five books of the Bible, 213 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:02.720 the Pentitude. They knew the middle letter of the whole 214 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.519 Old Testament, and after they copied all of this, they 215 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.159 would go to that middle letter and count forward and backward, 216 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.120 and if it didn't come out exactly the number. 217 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.799 It should, they'd throw it away and they'd start over. 218 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:13.240 That's how exact they were. 219 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:16.000 There's a lot of reasons we can ways that we 220 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.720 can see that they're exactly. But one of the ways 221 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.200 we can see is through something called the Dead Sea Scrolls. 222 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:21.279 We've all heard of those. 223 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.279 What's so significant about the Dead Sea Scrolls? Well, the 224 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.320 Dead Sea Scrolls were written about one hundred years before Jesus, 225 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.200 and they have in them copies of all of the 226 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.919 Old Testament books except Esther, all the other Old Testament books. 227 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.399 When we found those scrolls. 228 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.840 The earliest copies we had before that were from nine 229 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.759 hundred years after Jesus of many of those books. 230 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.480 So there's this thousand year gap. 231 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.399 All of a sudden, we get to check out how 232 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:49.279 much change came in in those thousand years. You don't 233 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.960 wonder know how much, about five percent, and that was 234 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.039 almost all and just in the spelling of words, the 235 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:54.960 spelling of names. 236 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:56.879 Over a thousand years. 237 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.320 Those copies were proved to be right as they copied 238 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.720 again and again and again and made it right. It's 239 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.799 another proof of the historical accuracy of the Bible. Another 240 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.399 proof is in archaeology. You look at archaeology and it 241 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:11.320 proves again and again that the places and the people and. 242 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.240 All that the Bible talks about are true. It's not fiction. 243 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:14.679 You can go and find these places. 244 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.279 We've dug up these places, the Areopagus where Paul was, 245 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:21.039 the theater in Athens where there was this riot, We've 246 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:21.639 dug them up. 247 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:22.679 We can see them today. 248 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.840 The pool of Saloon where the blind men was healed, 249 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.480 portions of Herod's temple, all these places that are talked 250 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:28.240 about in the Bible. 251 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.000 They've dug them up. We can see them. 252 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.279 The Book of Acts is all about historical accuracy. Luke 253 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.919 an historian as well as a doctor. As he wrote 254 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:40.240 the Book of Acts, he talks about fifty four cities, 255 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:45.360 thirty nine countries, and nine different islands, complete historical accuracy. 256 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.639 One of the great things about how archaeology it works 257 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.759 with the Bible is how it's again and again shown 258 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.399 that actually the Bible is more accurate than our ideas 259 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.960 of history. There's been many times when we've had an 260 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.360 idea of what's historical and said, well, the Bible must 261 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:02.759 be wrong, and the Bibles. 262 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:03.440 Proved itself to be right. 263 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.559 For instance, for a long time, historians said, well, we're 264 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.600 not sure that guy named Solomon lived in the Old Testament, 265 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.120 and we're certainly sure they didn't have horses like it 266 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.200 talks about. They only had camels back then, so that 267 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:17.639 can't be right. In tell at Megiddo, they discovered one 268 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:23.320 of Solomon's chariot cities with thousands of stalls for guess what, horses. 269 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.000 So the Bible was proved right. One of the greatest, 270 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:29.320 probably the greatest example of that, is an empire called 271 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.080 the hit Tites. There's this whole empire called the hit 272 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.000 Tites talked about in the Bible that was not talked 273 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.759 about anywhere else. So for centuries historians said the Bible 274 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:40.720 just made it up. Intel in the early nineteen hundreds 275 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:43.360 of professor by the name of Hugo Winkler discovered at 276 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.039 Boguskoy ten thousand clay tablets at the capitol of guess 277 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:49.200 what the hit Tites. 278 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:51.120 Now everyone believes in the hit Tits. 279 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:52.799 In fact, during a break in the game today you 280 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.919 can go on Wikipedia and you can read about the 281 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:55.519 hit tites. 282 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:04.000 Not only is the Bible historically accurate, it every time 283 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:09.360 archaeology backs it up, but it is scientifically accurate. That's 284 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:14.720 the second reason the Bible is scientifically accurate. Now, there 285 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:19.600 is so much misunderstanding and belooney about this in the world. 286 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:21.559 I want to spend a majority of time on this 287 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.240 point because people who think the Bible is scientifically and 288 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.200 accurate mean a they've never studied the Bible, and b 289 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:33.240 they probably don't know science. Because the truth is God 290 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:36.360 always sets up the laws of science, and he made 291 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:40.039 sure that his word does not contradict the laws of science. Now, 292 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.080 the Bible was not given to be a scientific textbook. Obviously, 293 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.480 you don't study the Bible to build a rocket, and 294 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:49.960 the Bible doesn't use scientific language. But the Bible never, never, 295 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.879 never gives bad science quack science. Not once in over 296 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.039 sixteen hundred years in which this book was written does 297 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:01.639 it give bad science. In fact, it is always ahead 298 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.360 of science. There are things in the Bible the Bible 299 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.480 says were true that we just discovered one hundred years ago, 300 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.799 two hundred years ago, three hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler, 301 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:16.240 the famous mathematician, the famous astronomer. You know. Kepler said, 302 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:21.679 science is simply thinking God's thoughts after him. No other words. 303 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.840 God established the laws of physics, and then we discover them. 304 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.960 God established the laws of biology, and we discover them. 305 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.399 God established the laws of mathematics, and we discover them. 306 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.679 One of the reasons why we know the Bible can 307 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:37.159 be trusted is because it's scientifically accurate. And the reason 308 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.000 it's accurate is because the laws of the universe were 309 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:45.200 invented by God. So he obviously understands them, even in 310 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.720 years past when we didn't, because for thousands of years 311 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.679 we've misunderstood different things. See, the one thing about truth 312 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.039 is it never changes. But the one thing about science 313 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.360 is it constantly changes. There's nothing more worthless than an 314 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:04.640 obsolete science book. I guarantee you that the science book 315 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.519 you had in the third grade is not being used 316 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.319 in the third grade today, and a lot of things 317 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.799 in that book are no longer believed or even taught. 318 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.720 Nothing is more worthless than a five year old computer book. 319 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.720 You can find them on any garage sale, and nobody 320 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.200 wants them because things get out of date. So fast. 321 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.960 They get out of date so fast. Science things that 322 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.160 we thought we believed, we now know more about it, 323 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.759 and we go, oh, in fact, in medical science it 324 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:35.039 happens all the time. I had to go to a 325 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:37.000 doctor this week and he was talking to me about 326 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.200 a particular condition and I said, oh, well, then I 327 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:40.839 assume we're going to do this, this, and this, and 328 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.240 he goes, oh, no, we don't believe that anymore. I said, 329 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:46.039 you got to be kidding me. Everybody knew that. No, no, 330 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.039 we don't believe that anymore, and we don't use that 331 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.079 in medicine anymore. How many articles have you read that 332 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.759 now say that something you thought was good for you 333 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.720 now causes you cancer, or stuff that they said it's 334 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.519 fine for a pregnant woman to take, and then ten 335 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:05.400 years later it's not fine. Science constantly changes. Do you 336 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.400 know if you've ever been to Paris, you've probably gone 337 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:12.640 to the Louver, the famous art museum and library, world 338 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:14.960 class library. Do you know that in the Louver Library 339 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.799 there's one section that has three and a half miles 340 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:24.200 of obsolete science books, three and a half miles because 341 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.720 stuff they thought was scientifically fact fifteen hundred years ago 342 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:29.880 was disproven a thousand years ago, and what we thought 343 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.319 a thousand years ago was disproven seven hundred and fifty 344 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.119 years ago. And what we thought twenty five years ago 345 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.240 was proven ten years ago. And what we thought ten 346 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.119 years ago is now changed to today. And if you 347 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:43.640 had been reading the Bible a thousand years ago or 348 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:46.359 seven hundred years ago or five hundred years ago, what 349 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.880 the Bible says would not have matched the science of 350 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:55.279 that day because it wasn't up to date. God understands 351 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:58.039 stuff even when we don't, and his rules don't change. 352 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.559 The Bible says this and saw one forty eight. Let 353 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.720 every created thing that's the whole universe, give praise to 354 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.240 the Lord, for he issued his command. God set these 355 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:11.640 rules in motion, the laws of thermodynamics, the laws of physics. 356 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:14.720 He issued his command, and they came into being, and 357 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.920 he established them forever and ever, and his orders will 358 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.079 never be revoked. The second law of thermodynamics doesn't work 359 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.799 today and not work tomorrow. It always works because it 360 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:32.880 was true and it was made by God. Truth doesn't change, 361 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.279 you know. In eighteen sixty one, there was a very 362 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:42.519 famous book that came out called fifty one incontrovertible proofs 363 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:47.640 that the Bible is scientifically inaccurate. It's a very famous book. 364 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.960 Fifty one incontrovertible scientific facts that we know this is 365 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:56.880 eighteen sixty one that the Bible does not agree with. 366 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:01.640 And we know that the Bible is scientifically inaccurate. The 367 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:04.759 only problem is today, one hundred fidy years later, you 368 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.200 couldn't find a single science on the science on the 369 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.119 planet who would agree with any one of those incontrovertible facts. 370 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:18.519 They have all been disproven by science. Truth does not change. Now. 371 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:21.319 One of the proofs that we know that this book 372 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:26.279 is not simply man made, that this book came from God, 373 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:31.200 that God directed men and women to talk and speak 374 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.920 and wrote write things down, and we know that it's 375 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.519 the word of God. Is what's not in it? What's 376 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:43.240 not in it? Because if this were a human book, 377 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:47.720 you would expect it to be filled with scientific facts 378 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:51.519 of the prevailing day. But they're not here. They're not 379 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:56.759 in the book. For instance, for thousands and thousands of years, 380 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.839 people believed that the Earth was flat. It wasn't. Copernicus 381 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.200 and Galileo and Columbus. The people realize the world's not 382 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:09.359 flat it's round, it's a sphere, it's a ball. And 383 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.480 so you would expect the Bible to say the Earth 384 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.680 is flat, because it was in existence and being written 385 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.079 during those thousands of years when everybody thought the world 386 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:20.000 said not every single verse in the Bible says the 387 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:24.440 Earth is flat, not at all. In fact, it says 388 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:28.720 the exact opposite. Two thousand and six hundred years ago. 389 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.599 God said this in the Book of Isaiah forty, verse 390 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:38.839 twenty two. God is enthroned above the sphere of the Earth. 391 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:42.960 Two thousand, six hundred years ago. The Bible says the 392 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:46.319 Earth is round, the Earth is a sphere, the Earth 393 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:51.200 is a globe. Long before anybody knew it. Everybody when 394 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.880 that was written, nobody believed it. But God said it, 395 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.920 and it was true whether anybody believed it or not. 396 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.920 In thousands of years, people believed the earth had to 397 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.640 be held up by something, and depending on the culture 398 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:09.359 you were in, you got certain different beliefs on what 399 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:12.400 held it up. For instance, if you were Greek in 400 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:14.839 Greek culture, you believe that the world was held up 401 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.839