Well, good evening, everybody. Glad to have you and welcome to the I don't know, john, you and I were talking. Did we decide it's about twelve years of doing the Bible conferences. Pretty close. About twelve years solid. We've been doing these and I've been here seven. So somewhere around there, I think I came and did one when Bill Lord was pastor, right. And then Nathan Britain had them and I did at least one for him, maybe more. And then we've had them all seven years that I've been here and I led two of them because we can't afford a speaker. But it's exciting to be here tonight and I think we're going to have a fun weekend, serving the Lord together and learning a few things and just having some fun. This and tomorrow morning is one of those come when you can, leave when you must. I understand that there's life going on and you may have to do something. And there are snacks back there. There's ice cold water, there's steaming hot coffee, there's a basket of snacks. Pick through, feel free to get up, stretch if you need to. We will take a break midway and have a formal break and you'll be able to get up there as well. So that'll be fun. And why don't we do a little singing tonight? I have warmed up my singing voice. You all seem doubtful. I'm the guest musician tonight and I'm the guest pianist tonight. And we are going to have a good time. Let's sing a little bit. I'll tell you what, we'll sing a song and then we might introduce some of our guests tonight here. But we are going to start out 255 at Calvary. I don't know. Let's sing till I say stop singing. How's that? Got five verses altogether. I don't think we'll sing all of them, but if you would stand together and number 200. And what did I say? I meant 255. Yeah. Did I say 255? Good. 255 at the Cross. Here we go. Alas and did my savior bleed and did my sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head for sinners such as I at the cross. At the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away. Rolled away it was there by fate and now I am happy all the day due to sacks that did for crimes that I had done be ground upon the tree amazing and love behind cross where I heard all the light and the burden of my heart rolled away rolled away thereby sight and now that you allow us on this Friday night to come together and do something a little different for a Friday night. Do something a little different in terms of our study and learning and just pray that in the end. Dear Heavenly Father. We recognize the cross and the blessings of the cross that are ours and the ultimate blessing of salvation and yet there are so many more blessings that you have given us as well. Going all the way back to in the beginning when God created the heaven and the earth and he gave it to us and put us in dominion over it. And for this, we're grateful. Dear Heavenly Father haven't always done a good job with it and so many times misunderstood it. But we pray that tonight, looking into the Word and looking into the science, looking at the big picture and the very little picture, that we would be able to understand the world that we live in and understanding this world, know better how to have dominion over it. We pray it in Jesus name, amen. And turn around, shake someone's hand. Go ahead, say hi to him real quick. Let's go ahead and sing the chorus again. At the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my high side and now I am happy all the day and I hope you are you may be seated. I hope you had that experience at the cross and I hope you're happy all the day because the day is not over yet. And if you're not happy, sit on attack. How's that? Very glad you're here on this beautiful Friday night. Welcome to Taos First Baptist. Those of you online, welcome as well. Those of you who have come in, welcome. We're glad that you are here. And let's see, we'll do more formal introductions by Sunday, but by then it would be Sunday, and you would hate to wait until then to meet each other. So as for tonight, why don't you say, well, it's Friday night. Let's just go for it. Say who you are, where you're from, and this is just for the out of towners. Who you are, where you're from, and where did you hear about house? First Baptist Church. How in the world did you get here? From some strange town in Texas. Start right here at the front row. The Texans. Scott georgiana. Introduce yourselves. Scott. Georgiana. Texas. And we are glad this is your second time or third time. Second time. To come to a Towers Prophecy Conference. And it was the Tows Prophecy Conference you were at before, right. Okay. Brian Ross and David Reid. Excellent. Yeah. So glad you're here. Let's go to Oregon. Thank you, Scott. And Joyce Paul from Bend, Oregon. I suspect that people searching for Calvinism is the number one way they find me. I guess I'm America's most famous anti Calvinist. Perhaps. I don't know. Louise, welcome here. This is Louise's. First time. Introduce yourself. Amen. Thank you. I appreciate it. She's been listening since 2015. Excellent. That's the year I moved here. So wonderful. And David has a fine looking family here. David, we're very glad you're here. Standing and introducing yourself. Bye. About six or seven years ago, I was doing some research on Bright Division, and I was just looking for someone to do a commentary on the Companion Bible by Bollinger. The only one I found was him, and he actually had really cool. And then eventually I found out that he had a home school academy. John Nelson Darby did some research, but it helped me, and I called him on the phone. And ever since Amen, they drove from Imperial Beach, California, yesterday, all in one drive. But there are six of them to share the drive. I'm hoping not. But anyway, very glad to have the four children and David, joanna I appreciate that. And David does some really good theological work online, too, debating, very few debaters around. And so check out some of his stuff. David Proctor. And I appreciate that. In fact, I think, let's see, a few weeks ago, I preached about salvation in the Old Testament. Remember that? I stole some of David's stuff. He put it together so well. He sent it to me and said, hey, did I do this right? And I said, you did it so right, I'm using it. So David and family from San Diego, Imperial Beach, California, thank you very much. There in the back row. Ed and Nancy have already been here and introduced themselves, but go for it again. Ed. Nancy randy was being interviewed, and I thought, well, I like this guy. I want to find out we got some material. So I emailed him immediately, emailed back and found out that his wife, grandmother and my mom were friends together in church where we grew up. In a small world, I know. K and we're grateful. Ed and Nancy often come down. They've been here longer than anyone else for work week. All these other people, well, excuse me, Scott and Georgiana didn't do any work. All the rest of them have been working here hard. You can see our new artwork over here that they put up this afternoon. Even I'm thinking it needs a mural or something on there, don't you think? But anyway, it's nice to cover up the whole a little bit. Thank you, Nancy. God bless you. Let's see. Well, Pam and Vernon, they came up for the conference because they're normally not here in September, though they're normally here later in the year. We're very glad you all came and made it. God bless you. Thank you. And they've been helping all weekend work week as well. Well, we're going to sing another song here in just a moment before we actually begin, but I do want to say that welcome to Taos, New Mexico, where we can talk about whatever we want to talk about. And so this weekend, we're going to talk about some stuff that I think will be intriguing, interesting, not your normal Bible study. And I don't really feel bad about it because we do verse by verse Bible study several times a week, week after week, after week, month after month after month, year after year after year. So we're going to dig into some world view issues that have to do with Genesis one and the way our world is created. And I think it's going to be kind of a fun weekend so it will be enjoyable. And of course, the greatest blessing that we have does come from the cross of Jesus Christ and we rejoice in this. Before we get started in our material tonight, let's turn to Him, number 245 and we will sing at Calvary. And let's sing the first and the last versus stand together, him number 245. I got to find it. Let's turn it up a little bit and then let's back up and do this like a professional. Here we go. Stop right there for just a second because I think, you know, it's either too high or too low for me, but I have a magic button. Last verse. Here we go. Hard to find a good pianist. Hard to find a good pianist. Yes, they don't keep up with the singer like they did. But anyway, mercy there was great and grace was free with that. Let me again leave this another word, prayer. Heavenly Father gets our joy together together tonight on this Friday night. We pray that you would strengthen us and give us insight and guidance and that would be an encouragement to all of us. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated. Thank you for not only those of you who join us here, but those of you who join us online. There is a handout here tonight, two handouts actually. We'll use one of them later on. And we, as I have already mentioned, we're going to talk about creation tonight and we're going to talk about how our world is created. I happen to think that we who are Christians should understand the world better than anyone else because we know the God who made the world, the God who has revealed this world to us in His Word. And we are the ones who, more than anyone else ought to be scientific. That is, that we will look at the evidence and we will weigh it and we will take it and we will do with it. And we, more than anyone else understand that we have a creation that was given to us to have dominion over. Well, if you're going to have dominion over something, you got to sort of figure out what is it? How does this work and how do we bring it about? And so we are going to again look at some interesting kind of topics. I think that this is going to sound odd for someone who over and over and over says, the problem with the church today is that it doesn't study the Bible enough. Now let me give the flip side of that coin. The problem with the church today is it also doesn't study the world enough, it doesn't study creation enough, it doesn't study the things that are around us enough. I think that one of the problems today with Christianity is it has narrowed theology down to about eleven or twelve areas. And so when you come to church, it's supposed to be one of those theological doctrinal areas you would talk about. So nobody would be surprised if I said, hey, that's our Taos Prophecy Conference. We're going to talk about Eschatology or our Tau Conference, we're going to talk about Soteriology salvation, or we're going to talk about the Trinity, or we're going to talk about the law versus grace, all these kind of things. We'd say, yeah, that's exactly what we ought to be talking about. But if I were to come together and say, we're going to talk about electricity, then you say, what? We can't talk about electricity. That's not what we're supposed to talk about. And yet I will remind you that most of you know a little bit of a history of electricity, right? Benjamin Franklin and the kite, right? You got it. And with a little bit of knowledge that we have, I think all of us would come in and say, man did not create electricity and man did not invent electricity. Mankind learned over the years to use electricity to his and her advantage and has taken that as a blessing, and it has become a huge blessing of the world. And aren't we glad that God gave us electricity? Amen. Okay, if God gave us electricity, it is a God given gift, then we ought to look at it and put this together. So eventually we're going to get to electricity here tonight, but we're going to start out in the scripture and just look at God's creation and look at energy in general, and we'll come down to electricity. Now, you say, I have never, ever heard of a preacher preaching about electricity. How ridiculous is this? Well, there was a preacher named John Wesley, remember him? Probably most in the room have heard of John Wesley. He's the founder of the Methodist church. He's the founder of Wesleyism. He's the founder of the Holiness movements. He's the founder of the Nazarene Church. He's the founder of did I say Wesley ism good? The Holiness movement. Did I say that? The Nazarenes. Did I get them all? As a matter of fact, Calvary Chapel came out of the Wesley movement. So there's a huge variety, a huge tract of theology that came out of Wesleyan thinking John Wesley thinking baptist are not typically out of that branch, but we're not typically very good at being Baptist anyway around here, are we? And there's a lot of things theologically we would debate with John Wesley, say, yeah, I agree with you on this. I don't agree with you on that. But John Wesley, the famous preacher, happened to be good friends with a guy named Benjamin Franklin as a matter of fact, Benjamin Franklin, in his autobiography, which is a very interesting read, benjamin Franklin, in his autobiography, talks quite a bit about John Wesley and their friendship. And one of the saddest things he says I'll paraphrase it here just a little bit rather than quote it directly. But one of the things that he says is, he says, my friend, Pastor John Wesley often shared with me the Gospel of Jesus Christ and longed and prayed that I would accept the Gospel. He said he never had his prayers answered. What a sad word do I give in your autobiography? But nonetheless, they were good friends. And of course, Benjamin Franklin, for all of the things we would disagree with him, he certainly was a brilliant mind, was he not? And John Wesley, then the preacher, friends of him, also was a brilliant mind. John Wesley wrote a little book called Electricity the Preacher. John Wesley wrote a book called Electricity. Why in the world would a preacher write about electricity? I think a preacher would write about electricity because the preacher says, that's what we should have sang tonight. Remember the old song, this is my Father's world? Turn on the lights and make them bright. It's my father's. Okay, I made up some of his lines as we were going. But you'll remember saying, this is my father's world, right? Well, if the Father made the world, gave it to us, we live in it. It is ours richly to enjoy. It is ours to have dominion over. It is ours to use. We ought to understand it a little bit. And so Wesley wrote that. Now, in addition to that, there is a pastoral aspect of a preacher teaching about electricity. Let me tell you what that pastoral aspect is. Of course, a pastor, that's a shepherding kind of role. And a pastor certainly should desire that his sheep I'm borrowing some Israel words there. But nonetheless, the shepherd and his sheep the shepherd desires that his sheep are well fed, are well cared for, are fat and sassy, right? Isn't that what you want your sheep to be, fat and sassy? I'm at least 50% there. Thank you for thinking that was funny. I appreciate that. So John Wesley wrote a book about electricity. Incidentally, since we have a publishing house, we made copies available, $5 back there for those of you online. Sorry, it's not there. It's not online. I'll get it there. Now, when you open this, you're going to see that the print is not all that great, and there's some ink blotches around, because all we did was take a photocopy off the Internet and put it in bound paper, because it's easier for you to read that way. And even those of you online, you can go and you can look it up and find a copy. Right now. It's free out there because it was written in, I believe, 1790. But I can't read Roman numerals and it's called the Desideratum, or electricity. I went with electricity. The desiderate him, he says, or electricity made plain and useful. Electricity made plain and useful. He goes on to say, Buy here's how he introduces himself by a lover of mankind and of common sense. Now, that's what every preacher ought to be, really, kind of, right? A lover of mankind and of common sense. Common sense. I think obviously it's not so common, but common sense is on the side of Biblical Christianity. If you believe the Bible and you take it literally and you go with it, common sense says, hey, this thing, this energy that's out there, I ought to figure out how to use this and take it. Let me say, this book, for those of you who desire to get it back there, it's for nerds, okay? If you're a nerd, you will like this book. Some of it is wrong, because in 1790, they didn't know everything about electricity. They kind of thought that electricity was some sort of a fluid. And so he talks about electricity, the fluid of electricity, or the fluid of light, sometimes he'll call it. But so much in here, as you read, you'll say, wow, man, you know an awful lot about electricity. I think he'd make a pretty good electrical engineer. He knows about it. One of the purposes of writing this, and there's a quote I would love to share with you, but I don't have my glasses. But what he says is, I think electricity john Wesley said this again in 79. He says, I think electricity could heal almost everybody. And he says, sadly, it will never happen, because, he says there's an apothecary on every corner. Do you know what an apothecary is? A pharmacist. There's a pharmacist on every corner. Therefore, the thing that could heal you is not going to heal you. He says, there's an apothecary on every corner, and they own the doctors. He says, until the doctors free themselves from the apothecary, until the doctors free themselves from the apothecary, then this thing is not going to make it, he says, but I, as a lover of mankind and common sense, I'll put it out there and hope that other men of common sense would at least read it and free themselves from the issue. And I think there's so much in there. So if you only read his book, I don't care if you buy it for $5 or not, it probably cost me $499. But if you only read it for that quote, it's worth it. But some interesting things that are in there, and let's dive into our material and let's go to Creation. Here, of course, we have Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling. Perhaps the most famous religious art ever drawn is those fingers right there. As God is creating Adam. We're actually going to back up a few days in The Creation of Adam, and we're going to go to the first day. Now, if all of you are good students of the Word here, of course if I say, what did God create on the first day of creation? You will say, God created light. Exactly. And I don't know why you leave the rest of the stuff out, but always if you look it up on the Internet, I did. What did God create on the first day? Well, God created light on the first day. That's what he created. We're certainly going to talk about that and I think it has a lot to do with the energy that we're going to talk about tonight. But he did more than that on the first day and we're going to look at that and dig into that and try to understand the very fundamentals and foundations. Wouldn't you agree with me that the common sense would say, anyway, that first thing you do is make the foundation and then you go from there. So we say God created light and God certainly did create light on the first day, but he also did more than just create light on the first day. Let's go up here in the Scriptures and let's just take Genesis, chapter one and we see. I took my pointer, my favorite pointer into the office and it's not there. So I'll have to use this yellow one right here. In the beginning, God created what? The heaven and the earth. And verse seven, the earth was without form and void. We're going to come back to this on Sunday morning and look at this. But here we have it. In the beginning, he created the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God then, in verse five said, let there be light. And there was light at verse three. Excuse me. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day. And the darkness he called night and evening and the morning were the first day. Now, wouldn't you agree with me that he certainly did create light and perhaps that's the most stunning thing that there is in that. But he did a lot more than create light on the first day. It is not until verse five that we get evening and morning become the first day. Now, I think that it makes perfect sense as we are looking at if you just have a normal reading of the text, then you end up saying, what did God create on the first day? Well, he created the heaven and the earth and he created light and he separated the light from the darkness. And then that was the end of the first day. So I want to take all of that together and look at that in a sense of saying. Verses one through five are the first day, I am going to take it. And again, we'll talk Sunday about whether or not there's a gap in there and some added things that we could put. But for tonight's purposes, I am going to say that on the first day, he created the heaven. On the first day, he created the Earth. On the first day, he created light. On the first day, he separated light from darkness. And then after all that was done, he called it a day evening and morning. And that was the first day. Now, let's take a closer look at this. In the beginning, God created the say that again. I'm hearing someone say heavens, but the scripture actually says heaven, the heaven singular, and the Earth, I don't think it makes any huge theological issue. But Louise from Dallas, she is the one that caught me one day and said, you keep saying the truth shall set you free. I said, well, yeah, because the Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. And she said, no, it says the truth, she'll make you free. And what's that? Only King James says the truth. Yeah, the others do say the truth will set you free. So it's my old Nasby stained mind. It does say the truth, she'll make you free. And I try to be correct in my biblical speech, so I'll help you as well. So God created the heaven and the Earth. Now, I think that is a summary statement. God created the heaven and the Earth. Now, somebody says God. Could you tell us more than that? Well, sure. The Earth was formless and void. Now, if he created the heaven and the Earth, and let's take heaven for our purposes here, we could dig into it and understand it. But let's take heaven just as all of the universe, the part that we're not in, but it's all out there, up in the heavens, as we might say some time up in the skies. Not necessarily talking about the abode of God, but he created all that stuff up there. He created all the stuff down here. Now, even at the end of the first day, the Earth as we know it didn't exist, did it? We'll talk Sunday about a flat earth. Well, I don't think there was a flat Earth. I don't think there was a global Earth. There wasn't a sphere Earth. There was just Earth kind of floating around in a plasma kind of stuff. Here's all the stuff. This is the first day God created the heaven and the Earth, but it was formless and void. Now, if the Earth was formless, it could not have been global on the first day, right? And if the Earth was formless, it could not have been flat because both of those are forms. So it's a blob. How's that? Everything that we've got is there. But it was a blob. He created the heaven and the Earth, but not in any kind of recognizable sense that we've got today. I meant to mark and see where my pictures come. Here we'll go with that one. While we're on the Sistine Chapel here, I may get my pictures off, but when you start looking bored, I'll bring up a picture. How does that sound? Here is Michelangelo's Ceiling. It's the same ceiling that has the finger pointing. And here is God creating the sun. He doesn't get it to the sun, actually, until day four. You win the prize. Yes, the prize is a cup of coffee that you made. But he didn't make the sun until day four, so he created light. It's sort of a hard thing to paint, God creating light. He created light, but nonetheless, there is a little picture. So you have this Earth that is formless and void, but you say, well, wait a minute. The earth is not formless. The Earth has form to it, and yet what else are we going to call it? So he made all the stuff that later became the Earth. Let's just call it the Earth, even though it was formless and void at that point. And he made it. And I keep saying formulas and void. I'm surprised Louise has not stopped the service, because it is without form and void. Not the word formless, but he made it in the first day without form, and it was void. So not the Earth as we know it. Now, from there, he gives the first command, at least expressed in the scripture, and that is Let there be light. Then God said, did he say something prior to that point? I don't know if he did or not. I don't have any reason to believe he didn't say anything. But this is the first recorded statement of God is Let there be light. I don't know about you, but it seems to me like, do they do baby books anymore? I don't think they do, do they? Where you put babies first smile. Babies first. Do they have that? Oh, they do. Okay. My wife says, yes, they do. And looked at me like, you should know this, but I know in looking back through old baby books that there is that thing in their baby's first words. What are baby's first words? Why? Well, we kind of want to know baby's first words. And Halle's, by the way, was Mia. We started her out on Greek. Anyway, wouldn't you agree with me that in the revelation of God, god is revealing Himself that there's got to be something significant in telling us first words ever recorded from God that we have any way that we know are Let there be light? That has to be foundational to the world that he's created? I want to start with light. And then he goes on and it says he divided the light from the darkness. Divided the light from the darkness. So clearly the. Darkness was already there. Let there be light. And he divided that, I think. By the way, I have a picture of that. Not an order, but we'll stick with Michelangelo here. And here we have Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel, god dividing light from darkness. I couldn't fit the whole picture on here. But what you've got is light is over here, darkness is down there at his feet and he's pushing them apart. That's how Michelangelo pictured it. And dividing light from darkness now to build a better worldview. And we've all got a world view, no doubt about it. And we want a better world view. In fact, we want what I would call and prefer to call a biblical world view, right? We want to understand the world in which we live. And that's a biblical worldview. We want to understand where it came from, where it's going to and where it is right now. All of that has to do with right division and dispensationalism and studying the Bible and life in general got to know these things. And so here in our worldview, we're understanding where the world came from. For most of us, I suppose, and probably even for me, until recently, I was kind of comfortable saying, god created it. I'm good with he created it in six days, not so long ago. I'm fine with that. I don't have a problem. Not really that big of an issue to me. Let's move on. But I don't know if it's because I'm getting older and I have a bigger brain. Your brains grow as you get older. I have a bigger brain, so I have more space there to put stuff in, more filing cabinets. As you get older, you forget things and therefore you have more room. I don't know why I am becoming more interested in the atomic level of the world and of life. But to me, I find it to be a very interesting thing and I think a scientific understanding. And by science, because the term science has been so messed up in recent years. But by science, let's just agree here together that we mean science in its purest form. That is, that science looks at the evidence and will agree with the evidence and whether it goes with it or doesn't go with it. There it is. I've given the story once or twice, but I don't know that I've done it from here in the pulpit. And so I'll do it again. The story of a little video I was watching on YouTube and it was a guy trying to make a perpetual motion machine. That's the cat's meow in physics. Energy is a perpetual motion machine. Well, he thought, you know, I could do this and that and the other and get this machine to go. And so it's a very short video clip. I should have brought it for you. It's about less than two minutes and he has the camera going when he starts his perpetual motion machine, and he gets it going, and he looks and he says, it's going, it's going. It didn't work. That's all he says. It stopped. It didn't work. Now science says, okay, throw out that theory. This one doesn't work. He may keep working on a perpetual motion machine, but he's not going to do it that way again because it didn't work. Well, true science is that pure, kind of. I sort of have a theory now. I'm going to test it, and I'm going to see what it says. Or I've got a model, I'm going to see if the evidence lines up with that model, and I'm going to go with it. And so we want to have a scientific world view of the physical world in which we live. And so I think with that, knowing what God created first really does kind of make a difference to us. What is foundational? What is God's first words? What's God's first action and activity? Because we live in a world which is held together and operates by what you and I would be okay, I think, calling natural laws. Now, natural laws don't mean that God is not involved. Natural laws mean that this is what God has embedded into nature. You're not going to overcome natural laws because God wired the world in such a way that this is the way it's going to work. And so we're okay with natural laws. And so if we have these laws, wouldn't you say that those which are laws really would have to be embedded all the way from the beginning of the story of creation? You're going to see evidence of these natural laws. For example, if you take American jurisprudence and the ordinances and the laws and everything of the United States of America in the best of sense, you would understand them. If you understand the Declaration of Independence. Why do we have this set of laws? Well, because we started out with this Declaration of Independence. That's why we have these laws. And so they grow out. And I suspect it's a strange world we live in, but I suspect that it would be a pretty rough go to teach law school and never teach the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, that they might be teaching how to ignore it now, but how to get around it, I'm not sure. But nonetheless, you would have to start with the basics. Well, I think you've got the same thing here. You've got the world held together by natural laws. And so God's choice of how he's going to make things, the order in which he's going to make things, I think are fundamental. So what did God do? Well, in the beginning, God created on the first day the heaven and the earth. And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved over the waters and then God said, let there be light, and there was light. He separated the light from the darkness, and that's what he did on the first day. I think we ought to change our answers. By the way, what did God create on the first day? Well, the heavens and the earth, but it was formulas and void. But God's spirit hovered over the face of the deep. And then he said, let there be light and there was light. And then he separated from the light from the darkness, and that was what he did on the first day. I even went, you can check this out. Madison is not in the room because she's taking care of one precious little angel. But we have the days of creation. She's been teaching the days of creation. And on the poster in the fellowship hall, day one, god created light. God created light. Okay, maybe you have to start somewhere with the little kiddos, but I really think you and I are persnickety, right? And we ought to push that a little bit further and say, well, yeah, God did create light. It's not wrong that God created light. It's just not the full story of what he did. And you and I, again, we went the full story. My premise here will be on the first day of creation, god created matter and then he energized it. This is what he did on the first day. So by the end of the first day, we have energized matter. And God is going to take energized matter and he is going to use that as the foundation of all the natural laws that he is integrating into the form and the fullness of the creation that he's got that's empty and void right now, and he will take that. So it comes in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Verse one. Let's take that as a summary statement to say, in the beginning, God created the elements. Now, could I be wrong here that it's not talking about the elements? I could be wrong, but if it's formless and void, I would have a hard time saying, in the beginning, God created a globe and he had oceans and he had the sun. Well, obviously that's not true. In the beginning he had heaven and earth. Let's take heaven and earth as the let me go the right way here as where the elements there's a fuzzy picture of the table of elements. It's about as good as you remember it anyway. Fuzzy, right. Everybody's seen the table of elements, right? The table of elements. Let's assume, and this is an assumption, and you can question the assumptions, but what does it mean he created the heaven and the earth? Could it mean he created the most fundamental building blocks? And that's what these are. These are the building blocks of everything else that is made. Now, this is just a portion of the table of elements. Obviously. And you and I look at it and you say, yeah, I've seen it. And yeah, I kind of understand it's fundamental. It has to do with atoms and molecules. And you could look at nuclear weight and there's a few of you that could explain it all to us, and the rest of us look at it and say, oh, there's oxygen. Yeah, good, I feel better already. So we don't totally understand it, most of us, but we do understand that's the beginning of physics, and physics is just a study of the physical earth. That's the beginning of chemistry. And chemistry is kind of a study of the physical earth as well, how these things mix together and what happens and what comes together. So could it be that in the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth? What you've got is God created all these elements. That's what he did. The building blocks, I started to say he went to the store and got all of his supplies. The thing is, he created the store and the supplies in the store, he made oxygen and helium and gold and iron and OG, whatever the OG is in the corner. Does anybody know? Clearly I picked the wrong topic. I don't know what it is either. But all those things he created in the beginning, let's take that as an assumption. There's 118 of them. Could it be that in the shall we call it the Cosmic Hardware store, maybe there's 119 of them now, I'm not sure. And they've been added to I think the first one had about 27, and we've been discovering more, so we could end up some more. But let's just pretend like we know everything and there's 118 of them. Could it be that in the Cosmic Hardware store there's 118 things and you can make absolutely everything from the 118 things? There it is. You pick how you want to combine it, how you want to put it together, how much of this you want, whether you want one hydrogen and two oxygen. You want to glue those together, you pick it, you can make anything you want. And so we've got in the beginning this is our premise. In the beginning, God created 118 things. That is heaven and earth. And I think that you could take this and we could study this. And as far as we know, everything that we have been able to study anyway is made up of those 118 things. So at the first day, or even before the first day is over, he made the heaven and the earth. He made these 118 things. He made the elements, but it was formless and void. So that doesn't really help us any. There's all the stuff on the shelf and that's what we've got. And so he made these atoms, if you will, atoms and some molecules, and there's the nature of what we have now. The problem is that these let's call them. Adams I know that if we took a fine brush and wanted to paint with accuracy in our study today, that it would take a longer seminar, but most of us were let's call ourselves layman on this issue, right? For those out there who maybe have a degree in chemical engineering or physics or electrical engineering or whatnot, you might want to say, oh, you should tweak this, and I understand all that. No, I don't understand all that, but I understand that, yeah, there's some detail that we are by necessity going to have to give up. Now, my hope and prayer through my study is that I don't say anything that fundamentally changes the whole argument. And I think I've got it down enough to know that it's not going to fundamentally change the whole argument. But these let's call them atoms. Again, we could add some molecules there, but let's call them atoms. And you got 118 different atoms, and maybe God makes billions and trillions and gajillions of them, but they're all floating around. They're kind of formless and void. Let's take that as, okay, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth. There's that stuff. There is one problem with that, and that is that these things are made. We know now these things are made of electrons and protons and neutrons. I think that a neutron. Again, nothing in physics is totally true. There will always be someone who disagree with you. But a neutron is about 99.9% of the substance of these things. It's in the neutron. And then you got the protons and the electrons. That kind of is the glue that holds it together. But the problem is, if you created the heavens and the Earth, you got these atoms. But you can't hold an atom together unless you got some glue to hold it together. So what happens? He creates these elements, but in just a moment, it's all going to fly off, float off, whatever, if you don't have some kind of energy involved in it. And so when you say, okay, we really have to have an electrical charge in order to do this. So let's suppose God creates the neutron and then immediately he puts the protons and the electrons in there to hold all that together, and he makes it work. Now, how would he have done it? Obviously, God could do it however he wanted. He could have used Elmer's glue, whatever it is, to stick that in to make that work. He could have done that. But it's not, as far as we know, not what he did. So does Genesis, chapter one, verses one through five, explain how God took and very quickly, I would say, created these elements and put the glue to hold them together. Now, it could have done this from the beginning, but I think the text gives us some clues. Let's go back here to the Scripture and we've got, again, verse where are we here? Verse two. So he created the heaven and the earth, but the earth was without form and void. Darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. Now the spirit of God moved. Why does it tell us that the Spirit of God moved again? Probably most of us in all of our lives, we said, who cares? So the spirit of God moved on. Yeah. And if anything, we probably just took this as a warm fuzzy. God created everything and then he moved over it. As a matter of fact, I can remember several presentations. I don't think I ever gave any because I've never been really much of a warm fuzzy. But I can remember hearing some that talks about how this word here, where are we? The spirit of God. It moved. And it talks about how that phrase is in the feminine. And this is kind of like a mother hen brooding over her checks. And this is just I'll go ahead and get weird here. I don't believe this. But they almost say God the loving mother, took his new baby and brought him close to her and just hugged her. Now, you must admit, an evangelicalism, other than maybe calling it God the Mother, most evangelicalism is not quite that out there, though some of it is. But with an evangelicalism, however you want to put that kind of like the warm fuzzies. Is he moving in your heart tonight? Is the Spirit of God hovering over this place again? I want to look, and I being kind of the I'll say, Dr. Spock, the guy with no emotion. I just want to know, well, why do you move? What's that all about? Why does it tell us? Why does it reveal to us? It seems to me it's got to be fundamental. And so the spirit of God moved. You know, this word moved here, the Hebrew word for moved is only used, I believe it's three times. Yeah. Genesis one two, Deuteronomy 23 nine and Jeremiah 30 211. The only time that particular word moved is used, that Hebrew word move. Now, you can look up the English word moved and you'll find it a whole bunch of times. Abraham moved from Heron down to the land of Canaan. And Terra moved from Earth. The calities. There's a lot of that, but it's a different word. The word moved here. As a matter of fact, if we were to look up the other two times, it is translated here. It's moved in Deuteronomy, it's translated shake. And in Jeremiah it's translated fluttered. That's kind of interesting. Moved is not I don't know when I think of this, the Spirit of God moved. I think, like drone footage sort of looking at it. It's not really the word. It really is more of a word for the other two as it's translated there to shake or to flutter. Okay, so the Spirit of God was over and he was he nervous or what? Shaking, fluttering what have I done? What have I done? What have I done? What have I done? Again, I think that when we're persnickety, we have to look at and say, could God have been, shall we say, energizing his creation in moving over it? And that the very movement of God energized the atoms of everything we've got here been energized ever since. Now, we're going to go on, obviously, in story, but could it be I know that doesn't just expressly say that, but could it be that this is where the energy comes in? By the way, you probably know this would be very rudimentary and it would be I started to say oversimplification, and there's a sense in which it would but you can take a wire and two magnets and you can move the wire between the two magnets and guess what? You get? Electricity. Yeah, you create electricity just like that. Now, you're going to have to really do some shaking and fluttering to turn on a light bulb, but you can get it. That is the basic general principle of electrical generation, if you will, is moving, fluttering, shaking. I suspect that every bit of electricity in our world today took place by something moving in comparison to the other thing that's the way electricity comes about is something has to move. You get water that moves it, or you get a theme that moves it, or you get coal that heats up and makes steam that moves it, or you get nuclear energy that moves it, or you get windmill that moves it. Whatever. I suppose the only exception to that would be that which is chemically made or that which is light made. Solar electricity, obviously, nothing's really moving there. Perhaps we'll talk about it, but fundamentally, this is the way that you do it. As a matter of fact, if you wanted to generate some electricity tonight, the thing that you would do is maybe take off your shoes and come up here to this carpet and move right and move enough and you're generating some electricity. And if you keep at it, you will have more of an electrical charge than the metal around you or the person next to you. And what happens when you touch them? Zoom. It leaves from you and goes to them. It balances out in the equation. So again, I think, though, this doesn't say in the beginning, God created all the elements and he energized them by his movement into electrons and protons and neutrons and held them together. It doesn't say that. But does the model fit? This is what scientists have to do when they can't test it out. And here you can't test this. So we just got a model that we have to take. And I would say, okay, it looks to me like this is a model that fits. So could it be again that God is energizing. The I think I called it here, the primordial soup, the stuff out there that's formless and void. So by this point, then let's presume. We're going to go with 118. We've got 118 elements now that are energized. They've got this balance of energy, protons, neutrons, it works magnetically to kind of hold it all together. It's still not in a globe or a flat Earth. Stay tuned to see which one. It's still not in any kind of form, but nonetheless, it's out there and it's energized. That's our hypothesis. But then he comes along in verse three, and God said, let there be light, and there was light. Again, my premise has been, how many times have I said it already? That there's got to be something to doing this first. So first he moves, and then he says, let there be like now, I find it interesting that it said the spirit of God moved, not that the spirit of God was moving, but that the Spirit of God moved. Now, why is that kind of interesting to me? Because that looks like he moved for a little bit, but then he quit moving. It's not what he's doing now. And the spirit of God moved. And then having created the energy, he says, let there be light. Now, light obviously comes from energy. You got it. And so light comes from this, but also light can create energy. And so now that you've got this process going of energy creating light and light creating energy, you can sort of back away and let that process keep going. And when I look at the world that God has given us, it's kind of a world in which God got it in motion, set it in motion, let it go, and then said, okay, I don't have to continue to hover over this thing and flutter over this thing and move over this thing. I am creating some natural laws that this is the way the universe is going to work. And so this is the reason that he creates this movement and then he creates light. Now, light is not an easy thing to define. You can look it up tonight when you go home if you want, because I know you'll be energized. Thank you. And you'll find that scientists have a hard time defining light. Okay, it's waves, it's photons. But look up a photon and read the definition. Just if you're real bored right now, you can get your phone out. What is a photon? And you'll read it, and you will not know what a photon is after you read it. And it might even say, we don't know what a photon is, but it's the thing of light. We don't know if it has mass or it doesn't have mass. It kind of bounces along at the speed of light, and it arrives, and then it hits stuff. When it hits stuff as far as we know, we don't really know too much about it, but it doesn't really carry electrons and say, hey, I'm delivering some more electrons for you, here you go. But it sure does bounce those electrons and excite those electrons and make them do the thing that they do for energy. And that, by the way, is why light hits silicon, which is sand, isn't it? And you plug it in, right, and it makes a solar panel. It's not that the light brought any kind of electricity to it, it's just that the light energized the electrons, the electricity that was already there. So he brings about this now self sustaining system that begins to go. So here, just in case you haven't got it, here is our hypothesis. God created the elements, but without a positive and a negative electrical charge that would hold them together, those elements would very quickly just disintegrate. And so to overcome that problem, the spirit of God moved over those formless and void elements. And that movement of God created positive and electrical positive and negative charge is what I should say. Positive and negative charge, which would hold all things together. And then to make this become a self sustaining matter issue law, he created light to use to energize all these atoms on a continual basis. And now the matter was held together by magnetism, shall we say, electric magnetism, positive and negative, here comes and it's energized and it pulls it together. And God has created something that's not just going to fall apart. You know, the scripture does say that he's the one that holds all things together. All he's got to do is turn off the switch and every atom that there is doesn't have any glue anymore, it falls apart. And the universe, all the 118 building blocks of the universe now held together by the push and pull of the positive and negative elements that he has put in there. And then it comes and says that God in verse four, god saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. Now that one I find kind of interesting too. I used to always say, well, this was evidence of a sphere, could almost be evidence of anything mass. But darkness in our world, out here tonight, our darkness comes because of shadow, basically, right? The light doesn't bend around to our side, it doesn't reach over here. But you can create darkness. If the sun is too bright or the lights are too bright, what do you do? You shade yourself from it. But still to this point, we know nothing other than it's formless and void. So it's not really that there's a shadow of something and the lights on the top side and the darkness is on the bottom side or however you want to put that. We're still formless and void. We just got all these elements out there. So how do you separate well, again, follow my hypothesis here a little bit. He got 118 things, and when you energize them, he energized them in such a way that some of them are attracted to others of them, kind of like happened to some of you all 60 years ago. Some are attracted to others. And so when he energized and said, let there be light, instead of all this, what I called earlier, that primordial soup, what happened? It magnetically comes together. And now you have water and you have whatever else, all the compounds that begin to come together. And by doing that, you automatically separate light from darkness. How? Well, all of the stuff that we have is here in our atmosphere, right? All these elements are here in our atmosphere, outside of our atmosphere. Just from the pictures you've seen, you haven't been there, but from the pictures you've seen, is it light or dark out there? Get outside of our atmosphere. It's dark. Every picture I saw was dark right out there. Why was it dark? Well, because none of these elements are there. Photons really aren't anything until they have something to reflect off of, something to bounce against, something to hit. And so when you energize and it does pull together as a solid mass or a gaseous mass, that which is outside of those elements dark. So this pulls together the elements at least into clumps, not necessarily into one great big globe, but it pulls together the elements into clumps. And this is what God has done on the first day. And again, my hypothesis is almost that you could say in verse five god called the light the areas where the matter was and he called the darkness the areas where there was no matter. He called the darkness. Let's call it the outer space. And so the hypothesis then begins to work as God energizes this. Now, that means that we have been given a world, a created order in which God made matter. And then he energized matter, and in just a few days, he's going to give it to mankind. You and I have all this matter that has been energized and we have dominion over it. According to Genesis one, verse 26 a dominion of a world that at its very nature has a supply of energy for everything that we will ever want or need to do. Want to grow some corn? I got the energy for you. Want to build a steam engine? I got the energy for you. What is it that you want to do? I'm giving you a world that has that energy in it, down to the very atomic nature. As a matter of fact, we know that the greatest energy there is is on the nuclear level, right? The nucleus is just the inner part of the atom, and therein lies the great deal of energy. And so I think that as long as matter exists, we'll talk about that in the. Morning. But as long as matter exists, we are going to have energy. If energy ever runs out, then we don't just die a slow death. We'll never know what hits us. If electrons and protons don't work, you won't say, oh, my, it's dark. Oh, it's getting cold in here. Well, I'm getting hungry. You won't be going through any of that. I mean, everything will just instantly disintegrate, and there will be nothing to hold it together. Now, let's take all that we've got, this energized world, with that energy. I think there's no better thing to call that energy than electricity. Electricity is in every atom. It's in everything. You're sitting on an electric chair. Sorry to make you uncomfortable, but there's electricity. It literally is everywhere again. That's why you have just walked along on a carpet and gotten yourself shocked when you touch the doorknob, because the carpet is electric and the doorknob is electric, and there's this electricity out there. Sometimes it is static and therefore not of much use. Other times it is moving and you're channeling it and you're guiding it to where you need to be, like to a light bulb, for example, where all those little electrons are going to come in and they're going to take filaments, and they're going to cause the electrons that are already there in the filaments to shake, rattle and roll. And when they shake, rattle and roll, they're going to generate heat and light. And there's your light bulb. I don't know what took Thomas Edison so long. I knew that's the way it worked. He was the light bulb guy, right? Yeah. So it's electricity. Electricity is taking those fundamental elements that are there, every one of them having some electrons and just getting those electrons kind of moving again, it could be static, but electricity as we use it is just moving electrons. If we can get electrons to move, then we can use the pattern. And honestly, every single one of those elements you can get electrons to move through. Some of them are much more difficult to get the electrons to move through. Some of them are very easy, like copper, for example. We use copper wire because it's kind of easy. Those electrons in copper are, like, just laid back and free and easy. Where do you want to go? I'm ready. And so it doesn't take much to get them to move through, but you take some other elements, and you really got to kind of work at it to get them, too. So that's electricity. And I think that electricity then is fundamental to everything that is around us. And everything that has made this God has given us an electric world. This is probably not true, but I'll go ahead and give you something to chew on. Everyone I read told me this was not true. But I didn't believe them fully that maybe gravity is nothing than electrons and neutrons pulling things together. That there's not a gravitational force which they tell us there's a gravitational force. But maybe it's a magnetic force that's caused by electricity and protons and neutrons. They start to pull together and you get them all in the right mix and that's the reason we're not floating off and that our atoms are not floating apart. Maybe it's there. We got some young people here tonight. Would you all do some scientific work and prove that there is no such thing as gravity, but it's actually electrons. It's electricity holding we live in electric world and electricity is holding it all together and that works. Now, maybe I'm wrong on that, but one of these kids will find out one of these days. We're going to take a break here in just a moment. But if we are given a world that is at its atomic core, it is what we are going to define as electric. Here's the spirit of God moving on the face of the water as a Russian artist painted it. I'll just give you that picture to feel good about this. Russian artists like to paint the scenes. And so there it is once again. You could say I don't really care. And you might have been thinking that somewhere along the last hour and two minutes. I don't really care. There is a sense in which you don't really have to. I mean, your concern can be, am I going to have hot water in my shower? That's really all I'm concerned about right now. Am I going to have hot water in the shower? Am I going to have lights? That's good enough for me. I do think for everyday life you're right, that's good enough. We don't have to dig much deeper than that. But I think there is something very interesting that is found. Let's go quickly to Romans, chapter one, verse 20. And this amazing verse right here, Romans 120, says, for the invisible things of him that's God the invisible things of God. I'd like to know the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Oh, wait a minute. How are the invisible things of God seen? What it says being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal what power. So being understood by the things that are made. If you and I can understand the world on a molecular level, we see God. Now, I don't mean that in that God is hydrogen, but God is the energizing force. I know that can be used in such a new age way, but nonetheless, that is what he is, isn't he? He's the energizing force, he's the magnetic force, the electromagnetic force that holds all together all these so from the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse. So we come here and we say, digging into the things that are made, if we just had a good quality physics guy explaining the way the world worked tonight. He wouldn't have used the scripture perhaps, but he would have said all of the world is made out of 118 elements and their molecules and they have the neutrons that kind of have the substance of it, but then they have protons and electrons that sort of hold that thing together. And then because of that energy, there some of them hooked together and they make compounds. And that's the world we work. And if we were to ask that physicist, is everything we've got electric? Well, yeah, I think you could say it that way. It's all kind of static electric, but yeah, it's electric and it's there. So we could say, okay, so energy is fundamental to every atom that's out there. Oh yeah, energy is very fundamental to everything that's out there. Okay. Now you and I, as Christians say, well, that being the case, does the Bible reveal that in any way? I'd like to know if the Bible reveals that in any way. And does that say something about God? If every atom in the universe is energized, then the God who made him must be a God of power, in fact, eternal power. And so we learned something about God right here. His eternal power are seen in the things that are made. I kind of think that's fairly phenomenal to think on that level. Now we are going to take a break here for about ten to twelve minutes and then when we're done with our break, we have some special music. And then after that we're going to talk about not the elements which we've been talking about. They're empowered, but we're going to talk about ourselves. Our cells are a little different than elements. Cells are living things, the elements are not living things. And so we're going to talk about our human bodies and our cells and the energies within them and hopefully make ourselves healthy. I say to you as a lover of mankind and of common sense, that will be our presentation. Let me say before we go close out this session, those of you online, it'll be a new online session, so you'll close out this one, catch the next one, that will again start in about twelve to 15 minutes. We are taking an offering for our town's prophecy conference here. The offering goes to our building fund. Not that we would ever need anything in the building fund, but you never know when the wall is going to cave in or something like that. So any offerings go to the building fund. There's a box back there, you can just put it in and if you're trying to give to something else like missions or just general budget, be sure to market that way. But other than that, everything this weekend in the box will go to the building fun here. And we have no expenses for this weekend. So 100% to our sticks and bricks which is literally all we have is sticks and bricks, mud bricks, actually. But those of you online, you can go to Taos FBC, just in case you don't know that's. T-A-O-S-F-B-C like first baptist church, taosfbc.org. There's a little online giving button anywhere over the weekend, you can just click that and give a donation, and you don't even have to say what it's for. If it comes in this weekend, we know what it's for, and so we appreciate that. And the system will hold as many zeros as you want to put before the number nine. Thank you all. Let's do take a little break here, and then we'll start with some music and fellowship. Again, there's coffee, there's water, there are snacks out there, and there's fellowship. And there are books where you can buy John Wesley's book about electricity or electricity made Plain and useful by John Wesley. I think it's kind of interesting. I think you'll like it. I think you'll say, oh, wow, I didn't know that. It's for nerds, but if you're a nerd like me, you'll like it. Madison, I don't know. You're not really a nerd, so you might not, but the rest will. And later, I'm going to talk about this book here, rapid Virus the Recovery. That has a little bit what we'll say that's back there also. But I won't talk about it now because it's past time for break. Let's break.