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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. we have from the very beginning the first man. And God says the first man, Adam, not the second third or fourth. The first man was Adam, who said that? God’s word says that. So if God says the first man was Adam, I just believe what God said. I don’t put a billion before him walking wrong, I don’t believe that.

I believe God created the first man. And at the first man, was the most intelligent man because he was able to, well, I guess you could say name everything that God ever made. And because of that, it’s very, very important to realize that the first man had a language because no man ever created languages. Start one, create your own language. But we’re supposed to believe that a blob that can’t think originated a mouse, and eyes, and ears. And they didn’t even know ahead of time there was light waves, or sound waves, or that there would be words to communicate to somebody else.

Why? Because they didn’t know anybody else existed. Why? Because you couldn’t see them. They couldn’t hear them, because they can’t hear. So what came first, the light of the eye? So every step in evolution is a a great miracle than creation itself. Why? Because it did it by itself. It’s easier for me to believe that in the beginning God did something. So I believe that God created the heavens and the earth. And that I believe that God could create with the appearance of age.

God said that he made man. Take your Bible and look in chapter 2 of the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter 2, and look there in verse 7, verse 7, verse 7 says, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. Now stop right there. That means he took something he had already made from something that he created out of nothing because he there wasn’t anything. So God made something and then he was able to take something and make a man and he formed the man but he wasn’t yet the man until God breathed into his but the breath of life and man became a living soul.

So he already formed the body But he didn’t create or form it in vain. He didn’t do that for no purpose. He wasn’t through yet. He formed the body. Then he breathed into it. Is it possible that in the beginning God can create out of nothing the heavens and the earth and then he starts making what he wants to out of it? And not that he created it and it became void or in vain or empty or what God not through with what he did.

And so we have, I believe, the good possibility that the earth could be a young earth, not an older. Nobody can tell me that I do not understand the old age theory. I know it very well. I know every bit of the logic that’s used. I know every scripture that someone uses to present the old age theory and that there was a judgment from the word was. And we have everything else that’s come from that. So I know the thought, the theory.

But I’m not sure that it’s the truth, the total truth. So is there a possibility that it could be another explanation? Let’s just pretend that God created the heavens and the earth just like He said. Now, can He create with the appearance of age? I mean, God made a rock. There’s a rock. Ah, how old is that rock? Well, we can check and see how old this rock is. Wait a minute, God just made it. It’s brand new. God laid the foundations of the earth.

Well, these down here had to get here first, and then those on top of it. So therefore, it takes thousands of years. Is it possible that God could create and make oil and put oil wherever he wants it in the earth? And it didn’t have to come because of vegetation that over the millions and millions of years, you’re trying to tell me my God can make gold and my God can make silver, but my God can’t make oil? I believe he can.

I believe God can create with the appearance of 8 when He made Adam an Eve. Do you think they were capable of bearing children? Let off the bat. When He made a tree. Well, we’ll just look at it. Look at this tree. See there in Genesis in chapter 1. Look what He says there in verse 11. And God said, let the earth grain forth grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so.

God is able to create the seed and the tree all at one time and it can bear fruit and it was an evening and the morning. See there verse 13, an evening and the morning was the third day. In one revolutionary turn of the earth, lo and behold, a tree that can bear fruit. Well, how old was the tree? Twenty-four hours old. Well, just by the mere fact that there’s a tree, what it takes so long for this tree to develop, it has to come from the seed and grow up.

It has to be twenty-thirty years old. No, it’s brand new. How old was Adam? He was brand new. Couldn’t God make a a brand new earth? Is it possible? I believe it was a possibility. And God said he made everything where it would recreate after its own kind, the power of recreation, the power of procreation, we call it. And everybody and even people, we are able to reproduce after our own kind. That’s the way God set it up in the very beginning.

Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Exodus in chapter 20, the book of Exodus. And you’ll notice there’s a statement made here that I think you’ll find pretty interesting. Exodus chapter 20. Remember this, God used Moses to write the first five books of the Bible. True? If he understood what he says here in the book of Exodus, but God also used him to write the book of Genesis. So it was done by the same writer. So what Moses wrote here as a reference to back there.

But look what he says there in verse 11, for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the see and all that in them is and rested the seventh day. He says here, six days and he’s talking to Israel and talking to them about the Sabbath day which mentions up there in verse eight and and so forth and he’s talking about a literal 24 hour period or a one revolutionary turn of the Europe and these six days they’re not long geological ice ages, they’re literal days and he’s the one that that God used to write this, and he’s the same one that wrote the book of Genesis.

Same guy. And he says back then it was one revolutionary turn. One evening and a morning was the first day. Evening and morning was the second day. And how did the Jewish people count their time? Evening and a morning. I’m not making it up. But sometimes, you know, there’s another way of looking at something. Does it mean you don’t believe the Bible? No, there’s just sometimes not everybody sees everything exactly the same way. So you can hold a, it’s really old, and then you’ve got room to put in all the things that evolutionists teach.

Because if they got enough time, it’s possible. And sometimes it’s because we don’t know how to explain some of these things that, well, where did they come from? Where did they go? So I want you to take and think about this. Go now to the book of Ezekiel in chapter 28. Ezekiel, chapter 28. Ezekiel 28, there’s a statement that’s made here about the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Eden. Wouldn’t you like to have been there? Seen that? That would have been wonderful.

In Ezekiel 28, talk about the King of Tyre, but we know behind the scenes that the devil is the prince of the power of the year. In the kingdom that he offered to Christ, he showed them to him in a moment of time achievers whenever he was talking to him about, he tempted him. So therefore he promised him the kingdoms of the world. So in Ezekiel 28, talking about here, somebody that’s behind the scene, behind the man, that does the wrong, there’s a reason for it.

And I want you to see there in verse 12. This is on page 871, Son of Man, take up a lamentation upon the King of Tyros, say unto Him, Thus saith the Lord God, Thou sealeth up the sum, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Now this is a statement about the devil, Lucifer, when he was an anointed cherub, when he was an angel of light. This is when he was in his beauty.” And he says in verse 13, you ought to underline this in your Bible.

Thou hath been in Eden the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covenant, the start of the toe, as the diamond and the barrel and the onyx and the jasmine, the sapphire, the emerald and the car, the muckle and the gold and the workmanship of thy tablets and of thy pipes, prepared in thee in the day that thou was created, thou art the anointed cherub that covered and not bla bla bla bla bla. In verse 15, thou was perfect in thy ways.

From the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee. Now this we believe that is a reference to Satan himself, but this is a reference to him when he was in the garden and yet he was perfect in beauty, but now when was the garden done? So all the way back back there to the book of Genesis again, back to the book of Genesis in chapter 2. And chapter 2, look now in verse 8. Look in verse 8.

And the Lord God planted a garden. Isn’t that wonderful? God planted a garden? Imagine what it looked like. When did He plant this garden? Well look what He says in verse 7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, was nostles, the breath of life. Man became a living soul and the Lord, God planted the garden. So he planted the garden right there at the time when he made the man. And he put the man in the garden.

So the garden was there when God made the man. Satan before he fell was in the garden before he fell. So then that means it could not have been a prehistoric judgment upon the earth because of the angels or the devil that sinned against God and brought all this judgment upon the earth. Another thing, take your Bible and turn over there with me to the book of Romans in chapter 5. Romans and chapter 5. Romans chapter 5 and look there in verse 12.

Romans chapter 5 and verse 12, this is on page 1197. In verse 12 it makes this statement, Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin. Now if there was death upon the earth before God made Adam and Eve then that means that there had to be sin men upon the earth before Adam and Eve. And if there was all these animals and whatever it was, and they all died back then because of that, then sin did not come into the world by a man but by the devil.

God says by one man, now get this. So in verse 14, nevertheless death reign from Adam, from Adam. Not before Adam, from Adam. Now we can twist all of this if we want and try to make it say something else, but if you go strictly by what God says, you can’t do the other way. Only by twisting, making it say something it does not say. So he says, death passed upon all men for that all have sinned the last part of verse 12.

So is there a possibility? Now let’s take and do something else. Let’s take another look now at Jeremiah chapter 4. Go to Jeremiah and chapter 4. We were there just a moment ago, but let’s visit there one more time. Jeremiah chapter 4 And notice something here. Look in verse 23. As you look at the scripture in its context. Verse 23, I beheld the earth and lo it was without form and void. And that’s because God wasn’t finished yet. And the heavens and they had no light.

Well, that’s because later on God said, let the spirit moved upon the face of the alt waters and God said, let there be light and there was light. But look in verse 24. I beheld the mountains, and lo they trumpet, and all the hills move lightly. I beheld and lo, there was no man. All the birds of the heavens were fled. Well, of course, if they hadn’t been created yet, if they hadn’t been created yet, I could understand that.

But that’s not what he’s saying. You see, look down in verse 29, the whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen in the bowman. There they shall go into the thicket and climb upon the rocks and get to every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.” This is not talking about before God ever made the heavens and the earth. This is talking about a judgment coming upon Israel. Look what He says down there in verse 1 of chapter 5, Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek and the broad places thereof.

Underline that statement, if ye can find a man. So you think I think we’re talking about back there in the dinosaur days. We’re talking about back there in the prehistoric days with the crow man, you’re on the Heidelberg man, and all that. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about a judgment where God says, there’s no man left and there’s no birds. It’s all like, there’s judgment coming up on the earth. This is a future one, not a past one.

At least that’s my humble opinion. But if I’m gonna use this verse, then I need to keep this verse. in its context and in the context, it’s not saying that. I think it’s a misapplication of the scripture. A look there in Isaiah 24, since we’re close and we’ll look back at the other one, look back there at Isaiah 24. Isaiah 24 and look in verse one.

I believe this is in the future. This is a judgment that is coming, not one that has passed. See there in verse one of Isaiah 24, verse one, behold, the Lord make it the earth empty and make it that waste and turn it that upside down and scatter the broad the inhabitants thereof. Oh, you don’t scatter the inhabitants. So you can’t separate it from the inhabitants. Oh, look down in verse six. Therefore have the curse devoured the earth and they that dwell therein are desolate.

Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men, now you think it’s talking about past or future. You can twist it all you want, But if you go about what it says, you can’t use these scriptures to validate something else. And even though I love the old Schofield reference Bible, I believe it’s in here. Oh, look what it says in verse five. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the what you think is talking about animals.

These animals transgress the laws of God. I don’t think so. I think he’s talking about people that have received the law and have transgressed the law and God’s gonna judge. It’s not what God wants. Is it God in the future gonna recreate this or earth? And this whole world’s gonna be destroyed? And we’re gonna have a new heavens and a new earth? I think the Bible says something like that. I do believe it’s in there. Look in chapter 45, since you’re right here, Isaiah chapter 45.

Isaiah 45 and verse 18. In verse 18, I believe that it’s a reference to the Lord in what is going to take place. See the verse 17, “…but Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. The thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the herb, made it, he had to establish it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.

I am the Lord and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret. And this says in the last part of verse 19, see me. I said not unto the seed, seek me in vain. Does it mean there’s no people? No, there were people, but they believed in vain. creative the heavens and the earth. But he didn’t create the earth to be void and empty. He created it for a reason. All these things that God has placed in His word.

We’re supposed to read and study and so forth. So look in verse 22. Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is none else. So it’s a reference to what God is going to do in his salvation. And there’s people that don’t listen. God says they’re going to be a great judgment coming upon the earth. They’re going to be a great tribulation, period. Many people are going to be destroyed upon the face of the earth.

And so, yes, I believe that this is a good possibility, but maybe the earth isn’t that old. But when it comes to the future, it’s not going to change anything, whether you believe it’s on old earth or on young earth. There’s good people on both sides and it’s not going to change the present or the future. But I do believe that we should not be afraid of looking at the scriptures and seeing what it says and maybe something that you want to study a little bit more so on your own.

Let me explain this. Because this is the Word of God and I believe it’s true, but it’s so easy to show how that you can read a couple verses and come up with one way and then read a couple more and it seemed like you’re going the other way. This is how people are doing it with the gospel. and they’ll read some scriptures in this world of God that talks about you’ve got to earn it and work and be, no, according to your faith and work hard and church and praying and giving and all these things, but then they put it to salvation.

And then you read some other verses and then simply by faith and faith alone. And then you’ll read a verse that says, and not by faith only. And you go, woo, what’s he talking about? See, when you’re talking about salvation, to heaven, it’s by grace and not by works. After you trust Christ as your Savior, God wants us to realize that we’re going to be rewarded in this life and in heaven by our work, the things that we do.

So therefore, it’s not just the standard answer, well, I believe, I believe, I believe, what you may go to heaven by faith alone, but the rewards that you earn is because of what you’ve done for the Lord. So there’s a lot of verses in the Bible that talks about serving and working, but you’re not doing it to get to heaven. You see, I did not have to promise my mother and dad how I was going to live before they let me come into the world.

Wouldn’t that have been interesting? My momma said, not listening to me, Yankee. You’re not getting out of here unless you promise me, You’re going to live right. I promise. Well, did anybody have to do that? No. You don’t promise God how you’re going to serve Him and live for Him in order to be born into His family. You’re born by simply accepting the payment Christ made for you. Now, after you’re saved, there’s a lot of things God wants us to do, but we don’t do it to get to heaven.

We do it because because we’re God’s children, because we’re going to heaven. Look up here, this hand represents you and me. And the wallet represents sin, we all have sin on us. You see, God says that sin came in the world because there was a sinner, a man sinned against God. And because of sin, death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. Since we’ve all sinned, we’re all condemned. But God loves us and He wants us to go to heaven.

And to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. We’re not good enough to go to heaven because we’ve all sinned. We have an old sinful nature, so we can’t go to heaven. So how am I gonna get there? Well, God says you can’t earn your way there. You can’t be good because you’re already bad. You’ve already done things wrong. And if you try to live perfectly for the rest of your life, It’s impossible because you can’t.

You can’t live a perfect life. Impossible. You may want to, desire to, but you can’t. This ends in Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord, God. Came into the world. He made the world and He came into the world. But the world received Him not. But to as many as would be lead that He paid for their sins. To them gave He the right of the power, the authority, to become the sons of God. Only God’s children get to go to heaven, because all of God’s children in God’s eyes are perfect, because Christ paid for all of their sins.

See, all my sins are paid for, so God doesn’t see my sins. They’re all paid because the wages in debt Christ died for my sins. And so all I had to do was believe He did it for me. And He would put this payment to my account and I get to go to heaven on what He did for me. Best news in all the world. If you’re here this morning and you never trusted Christ as your Savior, wouldn’t it be a good logical thing that if all of this is true and God did create you and you are a sinner and you have sinned, and you’re going to die, and there is a heaven, and there is a hell, doesn’t it make sense to trust Christ as your Savior?

So you can go to heaven when you die? A man would have to be a fool to turn down a free gift. Because there’s no tricks to it, there’s no gimmicks to it. We’re not asking you to stop anything, join anything. We’re just saying, well, you receive what Christ did for you. Well, you believe He did it for you. He died and paid for your sins. What that means is you don’t have to pay for them. If he paid for them.

He means all those bad things I’ve done or ever will do, I don’t have to pay for them in hell. He paid for them, all of them. He said, well, you don’t deserve that. I know God calls it grace. By grace are you saved through faith. That not in yourself is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ Would you just talk to the Lord?

See, I can’t save you. So don’t no sense trying to trust me or this church. But will you trust Jesus Christ? He’s the Lord. You can’t make a mistake by trusting the only true and living God there is. Would you believe that He died and paid for your sins? And if you will trust Him right now, God said He would save you right now and give you the free gift of eternal life. Doesn’t that make sense? Will you trust Him?

If you will, I’d like to have prayer for you. And so I’m going to ask in just a moment, I’m going to ask you if you’ll raise your hand, raising your hand is just to let me know that what I said made sense. And you like for me to have prayer for you in closing, and I sure would. So anyone before we close, yes, that made sense to me. And I’ll trust Christ as my Savior. Just slip it up very quickly and then write that down.

Yes, God bless you, hon. I see that. God bless you, sir. I appreciate that. It’s just a sign of good judgment. Anyone else before we close? that made sense to me and I will trust Christ as my Savior. Anyone else? If you trust that Christ is your Savior, you don’t have to do it again. But if you’ve never done it, don’t leave without trusting the Lord. Our Father, we thank You so much for all You’ve done for us. We’re thankful for the free gift of eternal life.

We ask your blessings upon these that indicated by an uplifted hand that this day, this moment, they accepted Jesus Christ as their their Savior. By doing so they become your child, your child forever, that you’ll never cast them out and never lose them. And Father, we ask Your blessings upon this church. We do pray especially for the Bibleline, the radio ministry. Father, there’s people out there that can be able to give and support it, but Father, we have to leave that in your hands.

And we just trust Your will will be done. Thank you so much for this day. Bless each one in and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free, 1-800-576-3771.

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Thanks for joining us on Bibleline and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound and we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.