Man, the title of my sermon this morning is,
we believe in science.
We believe in science.
This is a slogan that I've seen out there in the world
among other like anti-Christian slogans.
They'll have like a list of things.
And it's like, hey, we believe in science.
As if this is somehow an attack on the Bible
or an attack on Christianity.
But I'm here to tell you this morning
that I believe in science.
We believe in science.
Christians believe in science.
And if the Bible were against science,
the Bible would say so.
But yet the Bible tells us that the real bad guy
is science falsely so-called,
which the implication is that science in and of itself
is not bad, science is good.
It's the science that's falsely so-called
that's the problem.
There are a lot of bad things, wrong things,
fake things that are masquerading today
as scientific quote unquote fact.
But let me tell you something.
Nothing true, nothing right,
no real knowledge is ever gonna go against the word of God
because the word of God is right
about everything all the time.
The word of God is absolute truth.
Go back if you would to Daniel chapter one
in the Old Testament, the book of Daniel.
So the Bible says that there are oppositions to the Bible,
oppositions to Christianity,
oppositions from science falsely so-called
which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
So people end up getting wrong about the Bible,
wrong about salvation.
They erred from the faith
because they got sucked in by science falsely so-called.
They listened to some so-called scientists
tell them that the Bible was wrong.
They bought into that.
They professed faith in science instead of the Bible
and they erred from the word of God.
But that doesn't make science bad.
It just means that science falsely so-called is bad.
Look what the Bible says in Daniel chapter one, verse three.
It says, "The king spake unto Ashpenaz,
the master of his eunuchs,
that he should bring certain of the children of Israel
and of the king's seed and of the prince's,
children in whom was no blemish but well-favored
and skillful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge
and understanding science and such as had ability in them
to stand in the king's palace
and whom they might teach the learning
and the tongue of the Chaldeans."
So we see that science is nothing new in this world.
We go back thousands of years
and we have just worldly people wanting
to get the captives of Israel that are the smartest,
the best-looking, the fittest,
and they want them to understand science
so that they can teach them the learning
and tongue of the Chaldeans and tap into their knowledge
and use some of that talent
so that they can build their empire even further.
Jump down to verse 19.
This is after God has blessed those children,
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
and he's allowed them to excel
and do well academically, physically, et cetera.
And it says in verse 19, the king communed with them
and among them all was found none like
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Therefore, stood they before the king,
and in all matters of wisdom and understanding
that the king inquired of them,
he found them 10 times better than all the magicians
and astrologers that were in all his realm.
So isn't it interesting that in this passage,
the same people who excelled spiritually,
the same people that were the most godly,
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
are also the ones who are excelling academically,
excelling in knowledge, excelling in wisdom.
It sounds to me like there's not a conflict
between being a good Christian and excelling at science.
Right, you don't have to just abandon science
or think that science is bad,
or oh, you're not gonna be as good of a scientist.
Well, here's the thing,
if we look at some of the greatest scientific discoveries
in the history of mankind,
many of them were actually found by Christians,
or at least people who believed in God,
or at least believed in the Bible,
or some semblance of Christianity.
So there's no conflict between real science and the Bible.
But let me tell you something,
there is a conflict between real science
and liberal left-wing ideology,
and Marxist ideology, and satanic atheistic agendas today.
And what's ironic is that the people
who are putting a sign in their front yard saying,
"We believe in science," here's the irony,
they don't believe in science.
And that's what I'm gonna prove to you this morning.
I have several points this morning.
Point number one, science teaches that there are two genders,
and that's in the Bible.
Okay, here's what the Bible says.
Matthew 19, four says, "Have you not read
"that he which made them at the beginning
"made them male and female, period."
Okay, Mark chapter 10 verse eight,
but from the beginning of the creation,
God made them male and female.
So according to the Bible,
there's two genders, male and female.
That's it, end of story.
You don't need a dropdown menu with four options,
or five options, or 20, or 30 different options.
And I know that they were trying to push
that many years ago, huge numbers of genders
all over the place.
It's madness, it's not science.
In fact, one of the most famous atheists of our time,
if I just said, hey, name a famous atheist,
probably if we were on Family Feud or something,
a lot of people are gonna say,
survey says Richard Dawkins, big time atheist,
author of a book called "The God Delusion."
I mean, this guy thinks that believing in God is delusional.
He's an evolutionary biologist, he hates the Lord.
And you know what he said?
Quote, as the biologist, there are two sexes
and that's all there is to it, period.
Sex is binary.
Sex is a true binary, one of rather few in biology.
Here's another quote.
There are two sexes in mammals and that's that.
Here's another quote.
Sex really is binary.
You're either male or female and it's absolutely clear
you can do it on gamete size, you can do it on chromosomes.
Done.
So folks, who believes in science?
Some weird libtard transvestite
with a rainbow sign in the front yard?
No, it's Bible-believing Christians who believe in science.
The science says that there are two genders,
male and female.
And let me just break it down for you
in case you're not a biologist,
so you're not able to define these things.
Okay, well, let me tell you something.
I am a biologist and I can define these things, okay?
Any human being with a functioning Y chromosome is male.
Any human being that does not have
a functioning Y chromosome is female.
Done, period, end of story.
That's it.
It's that simple, on or off.
Functioning Y chromosome, male.
No functional Y chromosome, female.
It doesn't matter if you're a mutant
that is double XY, triple XY, single X, double X.
Doesn't matter.
Y chromosome, you're male.
No Y chromosome, you're female.
It's that simple.
Scientists believe that.
Scientists understand that.
But then there's this agenda out there
to try to pretend that Christianity's against science.
Christianity is not against science.
Because here's the thing.
Christianity, at its core, is the love of truth.
Jesus said, "I'm the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father but by me."
You know, and the Bible says
that people who don't believe in Jesus,
it's because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
And for this cause,
God shall send them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie,
that they all might be damned,
who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Sounds to me like saved born-again Christians
are lovers of truth.
And if that truth comes in the form of scientific truth,
we love it.
No, we don't hate scientific truth.
We love it.
We embrace anything that's true,
whether it's biblical truth or truth in the natural world.
We just love truth, period.
And you know what?
People who don't love the Lord,
people who do not believe in Jesus,
they're the ones who have a problem with the truth.
And that problem with the embodiment of truth,
Jesus Christ, is gonna spill over into other areas of life
where they don't love the truth in other areas either.
And this is one of them.
Here's another example.
How about this one?
Life begins at conception.
Is that scientific or what?
Here's what the Bible says.
If you would flip over to Hebrews chapter 11,
while you're turning to Hebrews 11,
I'm gonna read for you from our favorite book, Hosea,
that we loved so much last year.
Hosea chapter nine, verse 11.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird
from the birth and from the womb and from the conception,
though they bring up their children,
yet will I bereave them,
that there shall not be a man left, et cetera, et cetera.
The bottom line is that when God talks about
the development of a child,
he talks about the conception, the womb and the birth.
Why?
Because that child starts at conception
and then it's in the womb and then it's born.
That's what the Bible says.
Look at Hebrews chapter 11,
because obviously when the child is conceived,
it's a child being conceived.
It's a human being.
It's alive.
We know that John the Baptist leapt in his mother's womb
when he heard the voice of Jesus Christ.
That's not a blob of tissue.
It's a living creature.
It's a living soul.
It's a human.
But some people will try to change the definition
of conception and make it something else
than what we all know it is,
which is when the seed fertilized the egg.
That's conception.
But some people will try to twist that.
So look what the Bible says in Hebrews 11, 11.
It says, "Through faith also,
Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed
and was delivered of a child when she was past age
because she judged him faithful who had promised."
Notice that conception involves the seed.
The man provides the seed.
The Bible calls it man's seed.
I'm not going to use the English term for it
because it's a bit crass.
But that word is literally just from the Greek word
that just means seed.
That's all it means.
And the King James Bible for that emission
will use the word seed, okay?
The seed is involved in conception.
Well, here's the thing.
Conception is the seed hits the eggs, boys and girls.
Okay, that's when conception has taken place.
Now there's no more seed.
There's no more egg.
Now you have a new life there, right?
And so the seed, a week later, two weeks later,
six weeks later, eight weeks later,
there's no seed there, my friend.
You just have a child at that point.
The seed is only there at the very beginning,
at the moment of conception.
You have the seed and the egg, conception.
That's the beginning.
My friend, life begins at conception.
That's when it starts.
That's when the Bible teaches it starts.
But not only that,
that's when science teaches that it starts.
In fact, there was a survey done of 5,577 biologists, okay?
And 5,337 of them basically believed
that life began at fertilization, okay?
And so it ended up being 96% of biologists
believed that life begins at the moment of fertilization,
or what we would call conception.
And not only that, this same group of respondents, okay?
It says this held across subgroups,
including 85% of respondents identifying as pro-choice,
89% as liberal, 63% as non-religious,
and yet 96% of them are saying
life begins at fertilization.
Think about that.
So these are, the lion's share of them
are pro-choice liberals who don't believe in God,
don't believe in the Bible, not religious,
and even they're saying, "Well, duh."
Yeah, as a scientist, I have to admit
that yeah, life begins at fertilization.
I remember one time watching a political debate
between two Democrats in a primary,
and it was somewhere on the East Coast,
and they asked them both the same question,
"When do you believe life begins?"
They both said, "Birth."
Birth.
It's not alive until birth.
Okay, this is not science.
This is their evil, Marxist, feminist,
satanic, communist ideology.
It has nothing to do with science.
You know who believes in science?
I do.
You know who believes in science?
We do.
Christians believe in science.
We just don't believe in science falsely so-called.
Here's another good one.
Turn if you would to Deuteronomy chapter 32.
Deuteronomy chapter number 32, fifth book of the Bible.
Here's another scientific fact.
Only life begets life.
Life cannot come from non-life.
Life leads to more life.
That's it.
And even if you think about it,
everything that we eat is living stuff, right?
And what's funny is, you know, somebody say like,
man, I just don't want to eat anything that died, man.
You know, it's like, you know,
I don't want to eat some living thing that died.
It's like every plant lived and died, right?
So it doesn't matter how vegan your diet is.
You know, you're eating living things that died.
Unless you're eating them while they're still alive,
like those videos coming out of the Philippines,
sometimes, you know, where they'll eat some wild things
that are still alive.
But the thing is, I mean, it looks fun, I'd try it.
But the point is, you know, it's gonna die on the way down.
If it didn't die when you popped it in your mouth,
it's gonna be dead by the time you're done chewing it
or whatever, okay?
Bottom line is that, you know, we as human beings, okay,
we literally live off of eating other living things
and every living thing came from another living thing
before it.
In fact, there's a famous quote.
Let's see, 'cause I have a bunch of quotes
from scientists here.
This is from the German pathologist, Rudolph Firkov.
And he said, "Omnis chelulae chelulae."
All cells come from preexisting cells.
Every cell comes from another cell
that was already alive, right?
Through reproduction, okay?
Here's some other quotes from science textbooks.
This is from Miller and Levine biology textbook
published by Prentice Hall.
Pasteur, like Reddy and Spallanzani before him,
had shown that life comes only from life.
Living things arise from living things through reproduction.
The mistaken idea that living things can arise
from non-living sources is called spontaneous generation.
So here's a secular biology textbook saying,
every living thing comes from reproduction
from another living thing.
Every living cell comes from another living cell.
Now, obviously, when I talk about us eating living things,
that's a different situation,
but I'm just pointing out the fact
that when we eat living things,
all those biological materials that we need for life
are created by other living things,
which came from other living things.
We are the product of reproduction,
every single one of us.
There's no such thing as something just coming to life
from non-living matter or non-living substances
producing living substances.
It doesn't exist.
And this is fundamental in all of biology.
And I'm reading from certain textbooks,
every single textbook will tell you this.
I have several biology textbooks
and they all said the same thing.
In the first chapter, they said,
only life can produce life.
Non-living material can never produce living things.
It doesn't work.
Here's from the OpenStax microbiology textbook.
It says, in a subsequent lecture in 1864,
Pasteur articulated omne vivum ex vivo, right?
Life only comes from life.
Everything alive comes from something else
that's alive already.
Here's another foundational biology textbook.
Biogenesis is the widely accepted principle
in modern biology that states that life arises
only from pre-existing life.
Here's another textbook called
A Search for Order and Complexity.
The point of view that life comes only from life
has been so well established through the facts
revealed by experiment that it is called
the law of biogenesis.
And so, you know, we could go on and on.
I could just read you quotes all day
from every biology textbook on the planet
telling you that life can only come from life
and that non-living material cannot produce life.
But here's what's funny.
These same textbooks will then go on to say like,
well, I wonder, you know,
we wonder where the first life came from.
Maybe it was like this, maybe it was like this.
And here's the thing, if you ask them for evidence
of the fact that at some point non-life created life,
this is what they say, well, here we are.
But of course, there's another explanation
for where life came from.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
And so here's the thing.
Life originally came by the special creation of God.
And since then, it just keeps reproducing.
And you can't make life in a laboratory.
It's never been done.
It never will be done.
And it doesn't matter how many scientific advancements
that they make, they will never create a living thing
in a laboratory.
Scientists don't even know what life even is.
They don't even have a hypothesis, let alone a theory,
let alone have any solid idea of what life is,
where it came from.
No, because life is a special creation of God.
And everything on this earth is just reproducing
and just living things, living off of other living things,
living things, eating other living things,
and then reproducing new living things, and that's it.
What does the Bible say?
Is the Bible with science on this?
Well, it says in Deuteronomy 32 verse 39,
it says, "See now that I, even I am he,
and there is no God with me."
He's saying, look, there's not a bunch of gods,
there's not another God with me,
there's just me.
I am the only God, I am the true God,
I am the one God, that's what he's saying here.
He says, "There's no God with me,
I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal,
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand."
You know, the Lord says, look, I'm God,
there's nobody else, I kill, I make alive, right?
God breathed into man's nostrils, the breath of life,
and man became a living soul, that's what the Bible says.
So the first human beings were created by God,
and Adam received the breath of life into his nostrils,
man became a living soul,
and then where did the woman come from?
The woman is taken out of the man.
So again, this is cells coming from other cells,
life coming from other life, right?
You have a living man and a living woman is produced,
then those two reproduce and bear children,
Cain, Abel, and many, many other sons and daughters,
the Bible tells us.
And so only life begets life, this is what science teaches.
So do we believe in science around here or what?
I mean, I believe in science.
I don't see any issue here with science,
but it's funny how the left-wing liberals,
they reject science.
They reject two genders.
They reject life beginning at conception.
They reject the fact that only life can produce life,
even though that's everything that we've ever observed
in biology and scene.
But here's a fourth area.
And if you would go to Romans one, Romans chapter one,
here's a fourth area where the liberals reject science
is that they will try to claim that homos are born that way.
And yet they have wanted this.
This is like the holy grail of liberal scientists
to find the gay gene.
I remember when I was like a teenager or a young adult,
I mean, we're going back 20 years, 25 years,
like back to the 90s.
And there'd be stuff on TV, you know,
searching for the gay gene, the quest for the gay gene.
Because here's the thing, in the late 90s,
the big thing in science was mapping the human genome.
And they were mapping the human genome.
And that human genome project was a huge project
with literally over a thousand scientists
working on this thing.
And they're just working on it all day long.
And you have just literally billions of dollars
being spent to map the human genome.
Just huge undertaking, massive thing.
It was a big deal at the time.
And I remember, 'cause I lived near
the University of California in Davis,
and I would work on the fire alarms there and everything.
And yeah, they were big on that there.
They were working on it at UC Davis, a big deal.
Now, the cost, so mapping the first human genome
was like, you know, we're talking like
just insane amounts of money,
thousands of scientists, billions of dollars.
Now, I think last I heard,
and this is probably already obsolete,
to completely map someone's genome.
Like, let's say I gave them my DNA
and they just mapped every aspect of my DNA,
a complete genome map for Steven Anderson.
Last I checked, and this was like a few years ago,
it was like $800.
One scientist could do it, it'll cost 800 bucks.
And that's continually going down.
So it went from billions of dollars, thousands of sites.
So I mean, there's been a lot of advancement.
And I remember in the 90s,
they're like questing for the gay gene.
You know, they wanted to find this.
And we used to joke about it, even when we were in school,
if there was an effeminate kid, we'd say,
well, he's not gay, but he's got the gay gene, or whatever.
You know, I'm not saying that we should have done that,
but I'm just saying that was a thing
that kids would say when I was in school
because it was just something that was on the news,
and you heard about it, and it's like,
do you have the gay gene, or what?
Like, what's wrong with you?
And obviously, you know, that was an unkind thing to say.
But, you know, boys shouldn't act faggotty either, so, hey.
But the bottom line is that, you know,
they're searching for this, they're looking for this,
they wanted it to be there so bad.
I mean, I just read for you these biologists
are predominantly not Christians, you know?
I mean, a lot of them are saved Christians,
but a lot of them aren't.
You know, 80 some percent of those polled
in that other thing were like pro-choice and whatever.
These people, they love to find the gay gene or whatever.
And there's been all kinds of studies,
all kinds of effort made on this.
And here we are now,
the genomes of not just human beings have been mapped,
but literally millions of organisms.
I mean, you name the species, the genome is online.
You can download it to your computer.
Like you want a giraffe genome, complete giraffe genome,
every single locus, you know what?
You just go online and you can download it
in less than 60 seconds.
The whole thing to your computer
and you can do whatever you want with it.
So I mean, we've come a long way in genetics
in the last 25 years.
I mean, there's a lot.
And you know what?
They found Zilch, Jack Squat.
And they've done even studies on identical twins
and showed that even identical twins
that have the same genes, right?
Because identical twins will have the same genes.
And yet, one of them being a sodomite
doesn't make the other one a sodomite.
You know, it's not statistically relevant.
And so the bottom line is that it is not genetic.
They are not born that way.
And I remember there was an interview
with the president of Uganda.
And he said, you know, that if the science was there,
then he would have backed off on some of their legislation
about executing homos and stuff.
'Cause they had death penalty for homos in Uganda.
And he said, but the science isn't there.
All the scientists looked into it.
All the scientists that work for me,
international scientists, it isn't there.
It's not real.
But then in pop culture though,
you'll have to say, well, most scientists agree
that they're born that way.
Most doctors agree they're born.
No, that is just a talking point by wicked people
who wanna defend this gross perversion, okay?
It's not biblical and it's not scientific.
The science shows that people are not born that way.
And what does the Bible teach?
Well, let's look what the Bible says in Romans chapter one.
In fact, let's just park it in Romans one
for the rest of the sermon,
because the entire sermon is really found in Romans one.
Look at Romans chapter one, verse 18.
It says, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
"against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
"who hold the truth in unrighteousness,
"because that which may be known of God
"is manifest in them, for God has showed it unto them.
"For the invisible things of him
"from the creation of the world are clearly seen
"being understood by the things that are made,
"even his eternal power and Godhead,
"so that they are without excuse."
You know, the Bible's telling us
that the creation actually points us to God,
points us to the creator, points us to truth.
And in fact, the more that you study biology
or any other science for that matter,
you should just be in awe of God's creation
and realize that every living thing
is a thousand times more complicated than you even thought.
You see, even when Darwin came out
with his theory of evolution back in the mid 1800s,
and he's coming out and saying,
every living creature on the earth has a common ancestor
and humans evolved from apes,
and he's teaching all this stuff.
This is before things like DNA had even been discovered.
This is before the science of genetics
had even been founded at all, okay?
So what's funny is, over at Arizona State University,
you wanna take the evolution class,
you have to take the prerequisite of the genetics class.
Well, that's funny that Darwin never had that class, right?
You know why?
'Cause it hadn't been discovered yet.
It hadn't been, the father of modern genetics
is Gregor Mendel, someone who was concurrent with Darwin,
who didn't get popular until long after his death.
And his work wasn't studied or understood
until the 20th century, Gregor Mendel's work on genetics.
That's when the science of genetics begins
in the 20th century.
And here's the thing, is that when Darwin
or somebody talks about, oh, a single celled organism,
you know, then evolving into something more complicated,
here's what Darwin and the rest of them didn't realize
is that a single celled organism
is already incredibly complicated.
In fact, here's a great example.
Human beings and their DNA,
as far as the information found in that DNA,
there's about 2.9 billion base pairs, okay?
So it's sort of like a computer is ones and zeros.
I'm not gonna get all super technical.
Don't tune me out.
You know, computers are binary, sort of like gender.
Zero, one, zero, one.
It's either a zero or one in every slot, okay?
Whereas DNA, there are four options in each slot,
but it's similar to that.
It's a chain of data, but it's not gonna be a zero or one.
It's gonna be an A, a T, a C, or a G.
So if I were to download a giraffe genome or something,
that's what it's gonna be.
It's just gonna be a series of As, T's, C's, and G's.
How many?
How many am I gonna find?
Well, if I were looking at a human being,
it's like 2.9 billion base pairs.
But here's the thing.
There's a single-celled organism of a paramecium, right?
And you probably remember learning about this in school.
It's kind of shaped like a shoe or something.
Paramecium, that has DNA with 290 billion base pairs.
So we're talking about like a hundred times
the genetic data of a human.
What's going on here, my friend,
is that every single organism on this planet
is super complex.
You could go down to the simplest living organism
and it's going to have just incredible amounts
of DNA material.
And not only that, what about just the fact
that even just looking at a diagram of a cell,
it's like a little city.
There's like a little shipping department.
There's like a post office.
It's like a factory, the trash dump, recycling, landfill.
There's all kinds of industry and residential
and all kinds of, okay, there's no residential.
But the point is, if you look at a cell diagram,
it's extremely complicated.
But then here's the thing,
then the deeper you go, it gets even more complicated.
It's like irreducible complexity.
And so, yeah, it might've made sense in the 1800s to think,
oh, well, these simple organisms evolved into
more complicated organisms.
But hold up, where did that simple organism come from?
Simple organism is super complicated.
There is no simple, show me a simple organism
on this planet.
The simplest organisms on this planet,
and they're not even usually really considered alive,
are like viruses, right?
There's kind of like, people will argue,
is a virus even a living thing or not, you know?
Because it's not necessarily an actual living organism,
you know, and there's debate about that and, you know,
whatever.
But the point is that even a virus is gonna have like
44,000 base pairs or 75,000 base pairs or something
of genetic data going into it.
And it's just, life is extremely complicated is the point.
And so the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made.
So the idea here is that if we look at the creature,
that should point us to the creator.
We look around and see all the natural beauty of our world.
We see all the wonderful animals and plants
and things that God has created.
We look up at the heavens and we say,
what is man that thou art mindful of him, right?
Or the son of man that thou visitest him, why?
Because the heavens declare the glory of God.
And so here's the thing, studying science,
some people think like, oh, if you study science,
it's gonna shake your faith in the word of God.
Here's the thing, the people who study science
and then that like shakes their faith in the word of God,
you know, they probably were screwed up in their faith
going in, because honestly, I would think
that a person who believes in God,
it's gonna actually just strengthen their faith,
saying like, wow, this is so insanely complex.
This is so incredible.
This is so mind-blowingly complicated.
There's no way this could just come about by itself.
It's clearly a creation of God.
People are without excuse, the Bible says in verse 20,
'cause they can just look at the natural world
and see that there's a God, that God's real.
But then it says in verse 21, here's the problem,
because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God.
Neither were thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations,
and their foolish heart was darkened,
professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
And so people get puffed up in their knowledge,
and instead of finding all these wonderful things
in nature and saying, wow, isn't God amazing?
Isn't the creation amazing?
Instead, they get puffed up in their own fleshly mind,
and they profess themselves to be wise,
and they become fools, why?
Because the fool has said in his heart
that there is no God.
It's bizarre and stupid to think
that this world created itself from nothing,
and that there's no God.
Professing themselves to be wise,
and it's funny, a lot of these people are called professors,
and they profess themselves to be wise, they became fools,
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things,
wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves,
who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshiped and served the creature
more than the creator who is blessed forever, amen, right?
So they're worshiping animals, worshiping humans,
worshiping mankind, or worshiping nature, or whatever.
They're worshiping the creature instead of the creator.
And because they did this, because when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God,
because they rejected the truth
that was right in front of their faces,
that was right under their noses,
because they didn't even want to retain God
in their knowledge.
The Bible says, "For this cause, God gave them up."
Now, what does that mean?
Like, I don't think this passage is hard to understand,
but it kind of blows my mind
how many people refuse to understand this passage.
What does it mean to give someone up?
If I said, "Hey, you know what? I'm giving him up."
You know what it kind of sounds like to me?
Kind of sounds like I'm never gonna have anything to do
with that person again.
I mean, you could even say this about things.
Like if I said, "Hey, you know, I gave up cereal."
Now that would never happen.
But I'm saying like, you know, "Hey, I gave up smoking."
You know, "I gave up cereal. I gave up drinking milk."
You know, not gonna happen on that score either.
But the point is that if you gave them up,
you're basically saying, "I'm done. I'm done. I give up.
I'm giving this up. I give up in general."
I mean, I think that these are pretty clear words.
I don't think it's that complicated.
What about giving someone over?
You know, because the Bible says in verse 24,
God gave them up to uncleanness.
In verse number 26, it says,
God gave them up unto vile affections.
And then in verse 28, it says,
even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over (coughs)
to a reprobate mind. (coughs)
Now, just stop and think for a second.
What if I said, I gave so-and-so over?
That's not really a complete thought
'cause you'd need to know like,
well, who did you give him over to?
What did you give him over to?
But what are some possible sentences that we could fill in?
If I said, I gave Daniel over, you know,
it'd be like, I gave Daniel over to the police, right?
The police are like, where's Daniel?
And I'm like, he's in here.
He's hiding behind the pulpit, you know?
Here you go, I gave Daniel over to the police, right?
Or what if, you know, we were talking about
maybe two armies are fighting or something
and it's like, we gave him,
it's World War II or something
and we gave him over to the Germans
or we gave over these prisoners, you know.
It'd be like, you're giving them over
to usually probably a bad fate.
Like, you know, the enemy army
dealing with the police or whatever.
You gave them, does everybody understand what I'm saying?
The Bible says here,
God gave them up unto vile affections.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
It sounds like it's like, I'm done with you.
I'm turning you over to these people.
Let them deal with you, right?
Like, let's say someone stole something
and I gave them over to the police.
I'm not dealing with them anymore.
It's like, well, it's up to the police now.
They're gonna handle it.
The justice system, whatever, I'm done.
Anybody who knows English can understand
God gave them up, God gave them up,
God gave them over, is God saying, I'm done.
And then what is he giving them over to?
He's giving them over to vile affections.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
He's basically just turning them over to the wolves,
turning them over to vile affections,
giving them over to a reprobate mind.
Does everybody understand the language here?
It's real simple.
He says here, "For this cause,
God gave them up unto vile affections,
for even their women did change the natural use into that,
which is against nature.
And likewise, also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another,
men with men, working that which is unseemly,
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error,
which was meat."
So the Bible's talking about here,
women changing the natural use into that,
which is against nature,
men leaving the natural use of the woman
and burning in lust one toward another, men with men.
This is not normal.
This is not natural, okay?
Why are they doing it?
What is wrong with these people?
They've been given up.
They've been given over.
Now here's the thing,
God is not the author of this perversion.
How do I know that?
Because look what the Bible says in verse 24,
"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts."
So where's this stuff coming from?
It's coming from the lusts of their own hearts,
but God gave them over to those vile affections.
God gave them up unto vile affections.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things that are not convenient, okay?
Now what does that mean in verse 28 when it says,
"God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient."
That means these things don't come naturally.
They don't come easily, right?
If something's convenient, it's really easy to get it.
If it's a convenient store, it's just super easy
to stop there, grab a drink, grab some snacks, whatever.
It's easy, it's convenient.
Having food delivered to your door is for convenience, okay?
This stuff is not convenient.
This stuff does not come naturally.
This stuff doesn't just happen easily, simply on its own.
No, this stuff is against nature.
This stuff is not normal.
Why would anyone wanna do these perverted things?
I'll tell you why.
Because they've been given over to vile affections.
They've been given over to a reprobate mind.
That's the only people who are capable
of desiring such things, okay?
And this is the way I've often explained it in the past.
It's sort of like back in, I think it was the '70s,
this was before I was born, so you know,
this is what I've been told.
I was born in 1981, but I think in the '70s,
cars had like a governor on it.
And this was a thing, and I'm sure it's still a thing.
Maybe certain businesses might put a governor on a vehicle.
I'm not sure if that's still a thing or not.
But who knows what I'm talking about,
a vehicle with a governor on it.
And correct me if I'm wrong,
but isn't this a device to keep you
from going crazy with the car?
Like you can't go too fast.
So in the '70s, there was like a gasoline shortage.
Again, I'm speaking about all this
without having firsthand knowledge,
but there was like a gasoline shortage.
And so the nationwide speed limit
was reduced to 55 miles an hour, if you can imagine.
I mean, we live in Arizona, it's 75, amen?
You know, we love that.
Let's get it up to 85.
My wife was telling me they were thinking about
doing away with the speed limit in Arizona in rural areas
and just making it full Autobahn.
Let's go.
Y'all bull.
But here's the thing is that, you know,
the governor is basically putting a limit
on what this car can do.
And here's the thing, we as human beings,
we all have a certain governor.
In fact, we have a lot of governors
of just things that we just can't do, right?
Like for example, if I just tried to just fall flat
on my face right now, right?
If I just stop right here and I just go limp
and just fall flat, I can't do it.
I couldn't do it if I wanted to, right?
'Cause I'm just automatically gonna stop myself.
I can't just be like, okay, Hart, stop beating.
You know, like there's certain things that we can't control.
I can't get myself to punch myself in the face
as hard as I can, right?
If I, oh, I wanna look like, you know,
people beat me up and do a false flag.
You know, that sodomite faggot, whatever,
small it or whatever.
He had to hire other people to beat him up.
Can't beat himself up.
He had to pay someone else to beat him up.
He can't beat himself, why?
Because it's just, you can't beat yourself.
It's just, you try and you're just,
you're pulling the punches.
I can't beat myself up.
I can't fall on my face.
Here's the thing, there's certain things
that you just can't eat, right?
And like, if someone put some disgusting filth
in front of you and you tried to eat it,
you wouldn't even be able to eat it.
You'd be choking, you'd be vomiting,
your mouth would reject it, your body would reject it.
You just can't do certain things
'cause they're too gross, they're too painful,
they're too weird.
You have these governors that keep you
from doing weird stuff.
Well, here's the thing, the normal human being
has a governor where they're grossed out
by being intimate with the same gender.
It's like, whoa, that's gross, no, sick, bad, right?
But what happens is what God does
to punish these wicked reprobates,
people who hate the Lord,
don't wanna retain God in the knowledge,
unthankful, rejectors of God, haters of God.
You know what he does to them
is he basically just gives them over to vile affections,
meaning he just removes the governor.
And here's the thing, animals,
they'll do all kinds of wild things, won't they?
You'll see animals that will eat gross things,
do gross things.
And here's the thing, and I hesitate to bring this up
'cause it's a crude illustration,
but we had a dog named Gizmo one time.
We bought a dog and the dog was a, was it a beagle?
I wanna say it was a beagle.
We bought this dog Gizmo and this dog had a big problem.
This dog had no governor
when it came to the reproductive system.
And so, you know, I'm putting this as delicately as I can,
but this dog just basically attacked everything,
living and non-living and just, and just, yeah.
And it was obscene.
And so we had to get rid of this dog.
We got rid of this dog within a couple of days
because this dog was just a pervert, okay?
And here's the thing, every dog is a pervert to an extent,
but this dog was like a big old pervert.
And so we're like, we can't have this dog, this is gross.
Get this dog out of here.
And then it was this, and then the name,
it was too much, you know?
And so basically we're like, get this dog out of here.
But here's the thing, you know,
that's the type of thing that you will see animals do.
And what's funny is when sodomites will try to point out
some weird thing in nature like that,
it's like, yeah, bro, we know you're an animal.
We get it, but we're humans.
We're men created in the image of God.
We don't want to live like animals.
We don't want to be animals.
We can, in fact, there's certain lines
that we can't even cross because, you know,
we're just wired to have some normalcy and a governor,
we're not just going to start eating, you know, filth.
We're not, we're not going to just, you know,
I don't want to be gross or anything and just list
all the things that we won't eat or whatever.
But I'm just saying like,
we're not going to eat a bowl of filth or something.
We're not going to eat raw sewage.
I'll put it that way, right?
Nobody, you couldn't, if you tried to,
you wouldn't be able to.
The governor is there.
What is God doing?
When God gives them over to the reprobate mind,
he's simply removing the governor.
He's removing the governor.
So things that they would have thought
were just gross, sick, evil, horrific.
Because folks, when you see things in the news,
don't you wonder like, how could anyone even do this?
You know why you're wondering that
is because you're a normal human being.
I'm a normal human being.
And you know, I guess this sermon,
even though this sermon has nothing to do with this,
I guess it's kind of relevant or timely
in light of all this Epstein material
that was released over the last couple of days,
where you just have all these gross,
horrific, graphic, sick things that these elites are doing,
where these billionaires get together with Epstein
and do all these horrific things.
And you just wonder like,
why would anyone even wanna do these things?
No matter how much money you have.
It's not like, oh, well, if you have that kind of money,
it's like nobody wants to do that.
But you know why they wanna do it is because they're sick,
because they're reprobate, because they're animals,
because the governor has been removed.
God in his wrath has given them over to a reprobate mind,
given them over to vile affections.
Now look, a lot of people don't believe what I just said.
In fact, I would say the majority
of evangelical Christianity doesn't believe it.
And yet you're sitting here in church this morning
with a Bible in your lap, I hope.
Otherwise, get one out of the lobby,
we got Bibles back there.
It's right in front of you.
God gave them up.
God gave them up unto vile affections.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things, men with men.
Why are there men with men, women with women?
Because God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
God gave them up.
You say, "Well, it doesn't make any sense."
I don't care whether it makes sense to you.
It's what the Bible says.
It's clear scripture.
But the problem is people don't want to face it
because of their faggot uncle or whatever.
I don't care if it's your Siamese twin, all right?
Kill them anyway.
But anyway, the point is, you know,
the Bible says that this is vile affection.
And the Bible says that they did not get that way
by getting bad genes.
First of all, the stupidity of thinking this is genetic,
wouldn't those genes die out pretty quick?
Like think about it, if there's some gay gene,
I'm pretty sure it's gonna go extinct.
Since two dudes can't reproduce,
since two women can't reproduce,
the genes, you know, are obviously going the other way.
Genes are making men be attracted to women,
women be attracted to men.
That's the normal situation.
Now look, some people will try to twist what I'm preaching
and claim that I'm saying that this is some kind
of an unpardonable sin or unforgivable sin.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
I never said such a thing.
Because here's what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that normal people
don't even want to do it.
Now I know that today there are kids getting brainwashed
and messed with and molested and corrupted.
And even in elementary school,
you have these evil, sick freaks perverting them
and corrupting them and trying to influence them
in this way.
So it's possible that people growing up could get confused
or mixed up and maybe dabble in something
or experiment with some horrible sin.
And I'm not saying that that makes them unsavable,
but I'm telling you that these people
that the Bible's talking about are unsavable,
'cause they've already been given over to a reprobate mind.
They hated God and don't even wanna retain him
in their knowledge.
So the full, I'm sorry, and look, if you don't like this,
sorry, this will never change.
I've been preaching this for 20 years.
Homosexuals cannot be saved.
They're damned and going to hell and they can't be saved.
Now look, if they believed in Jesus, they'd be saved.
Anyone who believes in Jesus, whosoever believeth in Him,
should not perish but have eternal life.
But it's kind of hard to believe in someone
when you hate him and don't even want to remember
that he exists.
And that's what the Bible says about homos.
The Bible literally says that the reason
they're even a homo in the first place
is because they did not want to retain God
in their knowledge.
They did not want to even remember that God even existed.
They hated the Lord.
And so God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things.
That's why they're doing them.
I noticed, I didn't say Jesus didn't die for them.
I didn't say it's an unforgivable sin.
Jesus did die for them.
It is not an unforgivable sin,
but in order to have your sins forgiven,
you have to believe in Jesus.
They don't believe in Jesus.
They never will believe in Jesus.
They have already been given over to a reprobate mind.
They hate the Lord.
And the Bible says in John chapter 12,
that people who have been,
minds have been darkened by God,
eyes blackened, given over, hardened their hearts.
The Bible says they could not believe.
They can't believe.
They're warped, they're demented.
It's too late for them.
They can't be saved.
It's done.
Doomed, what do you do?
Stay away from them.
Cut them out of your life.
Have nothing to do with them.
Now look, that's not the whole sermon this morning.
And if you think I'm wrong about that,
you know, go listen to any of my sermons on this
where I show you Bible on this for an hour,
just on that one point.
'Cause I could show you that for one hour easily.
I've done it many times.
Just go on our church website
and just search the sermon page for the word
sodomite or something, homo.
It'll pop up, something will come up.
I have, there's over 2000 sermons on there
and there'll be a few, promise you that.
And look, it's true, what I'm saying is true.
It's right in the Bible in front of you.
And what does the Bible say about these people?
It says, "Even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient."
Verse 29, "Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whispers, back-biters, haters of God."
That's what they are, folks.
"Despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding,
covenant-breakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful, who, knowing the judgment of God,
that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
The Bible says they're filled with all unrighteousness,
they hate God, they're murderers,
and they're worthy of death.
That's what the Bible says.
Does the Bible say they're born that way?
Is there any inkling in this entire book, cover to cover,
that would indicate that sodomites are born that way?
No, there's nothing like that.
Well, guess what?
In science, there's nothing to say
that they're born that way either.
Even though scientists would love for that to be true,
they've been trying and failing for 30 years
to prove that they're born that way,
and they just keep proving the opposite,
that they're not born that way.
They have chosen to go down that road.
And you can bring up some anomaly of some person
who has a birth defect or is born in a mutilated manner
or something like that.
But here's the thing, behavior of men,
desiring other men, is reprobate.
It's not normal, it's not convenient,
it's a vile affection that people are giving over to.
All of us normal people have a governor that would stop us
and be like, "Ugh, no thanks."
Everybody understand?
I mean, that's what the Bible teaches.
And you know what, you say, "I don't like it."
Well, then hit the road jack and don't you come back no more.
Because guess what?
I'm gonna preach that until I die.
'Cause I've studied this my entire life.
I've read the Bible.
I know what it says.
I can defend it all day long.
I've got hours and hours of preaching
that I've already done defending it.
And so I'm right and I'm not gonna change
because it's popular.
Stone them with stones.
Who cares?
So that was a little bit of a rabbit trail,
but I have no regrets.
Conclusion is that just because there's science falsely
so-called, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater
and start rejecting real science, right?
We don't wanna be science rejecting people.
We believe in logic.
We believe in science.
We believe in facts.
We believe in observations.
We believe what we see with our own eyes
and hear with our own ears.
We're not out there to try to deny reality.
And so yeah, there's science falsely so-called.
Here's some science falsely so-called.
Teaching that all living things on this earth
came from a single ancestor, false.
In the beginning, God created the basic kinds of animals.
God created human beings as a separate creation
from the animals.
We are not evolved apes.
We are a separate, unique creation by God.
What's science falsely so-called?
You know, teaching that, oh, sodomites are born that way.
That's not science, okay?
But here's the thing.
Just because there is science falsely so-called,
we don't wanna reject real science.
Here's some real science that we should not reject, okay?
How about this?
Heliocentricity, okay?
400 years ago, it was proven beyond any shadow of a doubt
that the earth is going around the sun and not vice versa.
The earth and all the planets are going around the sun.
We have known this for a fact for like 400 years.
So don't try to take us back into the dark ages
by proposing that the earth is stationary
at the center of the universe.
It's foolish, it's absurd.
It can be disproven six ways to Sunday.
Do not go down that stupid road.
Or how about this?
Rejecting the theory of relativity
and saying that relativity is fake.
I mean, I heard people say nuclear weapons are fake.
Tell that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But that's the kind of goofball stuff
because people are like,
oh, science is wrong about this.
So they're just wrong about everything.
Science isn't wrong about anything.
That's science falsely so-called.
Science is real, my friend.
Rejecting relativity.
You know that relativity was discovered 120 years ago.
It came out in 1905
and has been one of the most rigorously tested phenomena
in the history of science.
It has been studied to the point of ridiculousness.
It has been observed to the point of ridiculousness.
It is just a phenomenon that is apparent.
All kinds of technology relies on it.
Your GPS technology, like all kinds of things rely on it.
So to sit there and reject something
that came out 120 years ago
and couldn't be debunked in the last 120 years.
120 years of rigorous study and testing
has just borne it out and proven it to be true
over and over again.
But you wanna just, oh, you know,
I got this edgy new take, geocentricity,
theory of relativity's false or whatever.
You know, or how about this?
Rejecting microevolution.
Now what is microevolution?
Microevolution is that, yes, plants and animals
and even humans are evolving all the time.
But the thing is, they're still staying
within the basic kinds.
God created the basic kinds of animals in the beginning,
the kinds of creatures.
So here's the thing.
Yeah, you have all kinds of, you know,
bacteria mutating and diseases will mutate and so forth.
But here's the thing, there are all kinds of changes,
but it's still, you know, it started out of bacteria
and it ends a bacteria.
I mean, look at dogs.
I mean, dogs can go some pretty wild directions.
Everything from a teacup poodle to a Great Dane is a dog.
And I do believe that every single one of those dogs
came from a common ancestor.
You know, it's not like God had every dog breed
get on the Ark with Noah or something.
There's two dogs on the Ark, period, okay?
And the thing is that, yeah,
you could have all these wild variations
because micro evolution is happening all the time.
It's observable fact.
And here's the thing.
If you do go down to Devil State University
and go to their high level biology classes,
evolution classes and so forth, you know what?
They're all gonna teach like 99% is micro evolution
'cause that's really the only thing
you could really talk about intelligently
and actually have data and facts and do math.
How are you gonna do math on this stuff
that can't be studied or observed that's conjecture?
You know, it's 90% studying things that are real
because micro evolution is real.
So then what happens is the enemy will come out
and just say like,
"Oh, there's so much evidence for evolution."
Yeah, there is micro evolution, but not macro evolution,
not banana and dog being related.
You know, dog and dog, yeah, you know,
coyotes and wolves and all kinds of dogs are related.
But the dog doesn't become a cat.
You know, the horse doesn't become a hippopotamus
even though they both, you know,
even though it literally means river horse.
It's not a horse.
How about germ theory?
There are people now who are rejecting belief in germs
and they just, they just will never wash their hands.
They think cleanliness is all a conspiracy.
You know, folks, the Bible was a head of science
on germ theory.
The Bible is the one telling you to wash your hands
and running water.
If a sick person's on the bed, you gotta wash the bed,
wash the sheets.
That's all straight from the Bible.
Or how about people who just reject all medicine
or all medical interventions, you know,
and like the Jehovah's false witnesses
who believe that blood transfusions are wrong or something,
you know.
The bottom line is we don't wanna throw out the baby
with the bathwater.
Just because you got falsely science so-called,
you know, that kind of stuff, yeah,
let's avoid those oppositions of science falsely so-called.
That's what the Bible said.
But let's not become these science denying,
reality denying flat earth types
who are, you know, are really into the geocentric view
of the universe or whatever.
We don't wanna throw out the baby with the bathwater
because frankly, we as Christians
are the ones who believe in science
because we believe in knowledge,
because we believe in truth 'cause we love truth.
And we should not let the enemy, you know,
put us in a position where we're anti-science
and they're pro-science or something like that
because it's false.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
We thank you so much for all of the truth,
even scientific truth that's found
within the pages of the Bible.
Lord God, help us not to be tossed to and fro
with every wind of doctrine.
Help us not to believe every wild conspiracy
on the internet, Lord.
But help us rather to understand that all true science
is in accord and in harmony with your word.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.