(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) man the greatest creation of God man the greatest creation of God the Bible reads in Psalm 8 verse 1 Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens out of the mouths of babes and sucklings has thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou might is still the enemy in the avenger when I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor thou madeest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet and the first point that I want to make this morning is that number one man has the greatest dominion or the greatest authority of all of God's creation everything that God has created man is the one who has dominion over all of it the Bible says that man at the end of verse 5 has been crowned which a crown has to do with authority he's been crowned with glory and honor and he's been made to have dominion over all the works of God's hands the Bible says that God put all things under his feet verse 7 all sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever pass it through the paths of the seas Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth go to Hebrews chapter 2 in Hebrews chapter 2 Psalm 8 is quoted but man has been given the greatest dominion the greatest amount of authority God has put all things under the feet of man the Bible tells us in Genesis chapter 1 while you're turning to Hebrews 2 Genesis 1 26 and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea now what does dominion mean dominion comes from the Latin word that means Lord it's the same root word where we get the word dominate it means to Lord over to be the boss of so the Bible says that we have been given dominion over the fish of the sea over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them and God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it meaning what bring it under control that's what it means to subdue something and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth so we need to understand is that the animals that are upon this earth were created for us to use for us to subdue and to have dominion over and to rule over we are as human beings the greatest creation that God created and we're at the top of the food chain and we are to dominate and subdue this earth under us and to have dominion over all fish all animals all fowl we are the greatest creation of God you say why preach about this why talk about this well first of all I think we should preach and talk about everything in the Bible and the reason why you never know what kind of lies or heresy or attacks on the truth are gonna come so it's good to just preach the whole Bible that way you got the whole armor of God just to protect you against whatever lies come out there there are some things that we take for granted and don't preach about and then next thing you know it's under attack and then you wish that you would have taught that chapter you wish that you would have taught those truths but today it's pretty obvious why these truths are so important in a day where man worships and serves the creature more than the Creator many people today literally worship animals and there's nothing new under the Sun if you go into ancient history you'll find all kinds of hieroglyphics and all kinds of artifacts of man worshipping animals people today will tell us that animals are better than humans they're smarter than humans they're at more peace with the environment than humans and we need to strive to be more like animals we've all heard this today in 2018 America but I'm here to tell you that we don't play second fiddle to dolphins or elephants or whales or spot we as human beings are the greatest of all of God's creations because we're the only creation that was made in the image of God himself we are made in the image of God we've been crowned with glory and honor this whole earth was created for us to subdue and have dominion over it the animals were created for us we weren't created for the animals to serve them they're here to serve us the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 5 for unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak now what does that mean the world to come this is referring to the millennial reign of Christ and it's also referring to what we know as the new heaven and the new earth and the Bible says that the angels will not rule over the world to come unto the angels hath he not put in subjection of the world to come whereof we speak verse 6 but one in a certain place testified saying what is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him sound familiar from Psalm 8 thou made his Tim a little lower than the angels thou crown it's Tim with glory and honor and it set him over the work of thy hands thou has put all things in subjection under his feet look at the next phrase for and that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him now just in case you wondered whether all really means all here he says there's nothing that has not been put in subjection under him but now we see not yet all things put under him so in the world to come will man truly have the full dominion that God had originally planned verse 9 but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels why because he was made flesh and dwelled among us as a human being who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man go to 1st Corinthians chapter 6 1st Corinthians chapter number 6 when God created man he told him to have dominion over the earth and to subdue it to dominate the fish the fowl the animals even the great whales that God created all of those things God has put under our feet now we do not yet see all things fully subdued under us but in the world to come we will continue to rule and reign with Jesus Christ and we will have that Dominion even over the angels themselves at this time we're a little lower than the angels right but the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 6 1 dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters no ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things that pertain to this life so number one man has the greatest Dominion man has the greatest authority as the greatest creation of God but number two man has the greatest intelligence and if you would flip over to Proverbs chapter 30 man has the greatest intelligence now this should go without saying you know I shouldn't really have to park it on this point that man has the greatest intelligence you know the Bible tells us in in Psalm 73 22 and this is a comparison that the Bible often uses when it wants to talk about someone being dumb it says that they're like a beast a beast is an animal you know that they had the intelligence of a beast right like where ASAP said in Psalm 73 so foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee okay animals are foolish and ignorant in comparison with human beings job 35 10 but none sayeth where is God my maker who giveth songs in the night who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven all right now a lot of people today though they have this backwards where they think that the animals are smarter than us I remember when my son was in the hospital they had these dogs in the hospital that were there to be a morale booster for the kids that are in the hospital that they would pet the dog and whatever it's like okay that makes sense you know they have to have these dogs there put people in a good mood helps them get better a merry heart do with good like medicine the Bible says so they had these dogs well apparently all the dogs that are brought into the hospital to perform this service receive a special blessing before they do this job of going into the hospital so they had this blessing of the dogs ceremony that happened to be going on while I was there with my son Isaac so we went out and looked at it and this this female preacher came in this minister and she was there to bless all these dogs so that they would bring healing into the the hospital rooms and she got up and gave a little speech about how you know God is dog spelled backwards and about how you know there's so much we could learn from these dogs we should become more like a dog and and we should excel to achieve that you know what they've achieved and and we need to become more like these dogs and then she put a blessing on these dogs and my son Isaac claims that I don't believe him he claims that he heard her say to one of the dogs I baptized you in the name of the Father the Son the Holy Ghost I'm hoping that he misheard that I told him I'm like you heard that wrong son I I don't think that's what happened I didn't hear that but then again it probably wouldn't be that surprising but that's the mentality today that a lot of people have like like that basically our animals are better than us and and people get weird about animals sometimes today and it's it's not a Christian attitude it's not a biblical attitude it's it's it's a pagan type godless attitude that worships and serves the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever amen and if you're gonna worship the Creator you need to understand that man is made in the Creator's image therefore man is the greatest creation not beast okay now obviously we should not worship man we should worship the Creator in whose image man is so man has the greatest intelligence man is more intelligent than any beast and man is also more intelligent than any computer and if you just look if you don't believe me just look at the world of robotics they get all excited when they can get a robot to fold towels or something it's like whereas we could get the dumbest person to fold towels no problem right we could find someone who's super low IQ and they can easily out fold that robot any day of the week and and we don't even understand how much our brains do it's so complicated I mean even just something as simple as just shooting a basketball into a hoop I mean the amount of brain that goes in and and you know there are a lot of dumb people playing a lot of basketball and but I mean what they're doing is amazing because of the fact that they have to just have all these nerve endings firing all the right muscles and all the right tendons in their leg I mean their whole body goes into it their legs their body their arms and they have to aim it and fire it at the right speed and the right power in the right direction the rifle I mean it's just amazing I'd like to see a robot play basketball I mean robots aren't even close to being able to do that robots can barely even walk around without looking weird you know you know they can't even walk normal let alone run down the court and shoot a basketball which a little child could do which even very low IQ people could do all day long and so it's pretty amazing the intelligence that God has given us and we are only using a small percentage of our brain science tells us there's so much more that we even could use of our brain if we would use it to its full capacity and and just the the powers of learning that we have and the achievements of the human mind like creating calculus even hundreds of years ago is just truly amazing but number three not only is number one man had the greatest Dominion the greatest authority that of God's creation number two man has the greatest intelligence but number three man also has the greatest physical prowess the greatest physical prowess or even the greatest physical body of all of God's creatures say wait a minute pastor there are a lot of animals that have a better physique or a better but no man has the ultimate physical body now look if you would have Proverbs chapter 30 in verse 29 the Bible says there be three things which go well yea for are comely and going a lion which is strongest among beasts so which which beast does the Bible say is the strongest the lion which is strongest among beasts and turneth not away for any a greyhound and he go to also and a king against whom there is no rising up now in this list of greatness the lion which is strongest among beasts is there but the last person mentioned which is the most prominent is a human being the king against whom is no rising up now let's see who wins man vs. lion go to first Chronicles 11 22 man vs. lion who's gonna win of course man will win because man is the greatest creation has the Dominion over all creatures has the greatest mind and even the greatest physical power the Bible says in first Chronicles 11 22 the son of Jehovah the son of a valiant man of capsule who had done many acts he slew two lion like men of Moab also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day so this guy went into a pit fight with a lion and he won now you say well pastor Anderson you're wrong because lions are are stronger than human being but here's the thing even if you find animals that have certain attributes that are greater than the human attribute human beings have the full package human beings have the greatest versatility we have the greatest combination of speed strength intelligence endurance tolerance if you put all these things together human beings are the strongest creature on this earth so not only does man if you go to Jeremiah chapter 12 not only does man defeat a lion in a fight you say well he was armed or it doesn't matter how he did it he won and you know what men could kill lions all day long today they say that the adult male lion has no natural predators right except for man can destroy him easily with his mind and physical prowess and and whatever tools necessary and obviously we know that Benaiah the son of Jehovah he didn't have a gun or a bomb or anything I got I mean he was obviously using some kind of a weapon that was more primitive since this is thousands of years ago that it took place but not only does man defeat lion in a fight men can even outrun the greatest running animals even horses themselves are defeated by man in a race look what the Bible says in Jeremiah 12 5 if thou is run with the footmen and they have wearied thee then how canst thou contend with horses and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustest they wearied thee then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan so here's a verse that mentions a man contending with horses in running did you know that there are actual races today man versus horse race and guess who wins human beings win every time you say that's not true well they're hundred mile races so over the course of a hundred miles even though the horse would be able to sprint faster than that over the course of a hundred miles a human being can outrun any animal any animal in fact no other animals except just a few can even come close to running a hundred miles a human being can run 200 miles without stopping you say that's crazy that doesn't exist even right here in Arizona there are races that take place every year where people run for 24 hours straight with no break 24 hours I mean the Sun comes up it goes down it comes up again and they're running the whole time that's right here in Arizona and there are other people who pushed even further than that and run for days on end run for 40 hours straight 48 hours straight you say that's great look man has been created with an amazing mind and an amazing body to be able to do these exploits now the only animal that could even come close to outrunning a human being over a hundred miles would be a horse or certain types of dogs but those dogs can only do it in freezing weather and they outrun a human being because even in normal weather they'll overheat in that time but only these type of dogs that would pull sleds in the Arctic those kind of dogs could you know give a man a run for his money no pun intended but not not in not in normal weather not in hot weather no a man is the greatest runner on the planet that's pretty amazing but not only is man that the greatest fighter the greatest runner and let's look at some other scriptures on this flip over if you would to 2nd Samuel 22 2nd Samuel chapter 22 while you're turning there I'll just read for you some other verses that kind of compare human beings to animals in their prowess 2nd Samuel 1 22 from the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bow of Jonathan turned not back and the sword of Saul return not empty Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided they were swifter than Eagles they were stronger than lions look at 2nd Samuel 22 verse 34 this is David speaking he maketh my feet like hinds feet a hind is sort of like a deer that type of animal and set of me upon my high places he teaches my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms now it's also given me the shield of thy salvation and I gentleness have made me great flip over to 1st Kings chapter 18 1st Kings 18 the Bible reads in 1st Chronicles 12 8 and of the Gadites they're separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might and men of war fit for the battle that can handle shield and buckler whose faces were like the faces of lions and were as swift as the rose upon the mountains so the Bible talks about people being able to run like deer and run like rose and hearts and leaping upon the mountains song of Solomon 2 8 the voice of my beloved behold he come at leaping upon the mountains skipping upon the hills my beloved is like a row or young heart so even King Solomon himself was a great runner that could leap and skip on the mountains the Prophet Elijah in 1st Kings 18 outruns Ahab and his chariots 1st Kings 1844 and it came to pass at the seventh time that he said behold there rises a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand and he said go up say unto Ahab prepare thy chariot and get thee down that the rain stop thee not and it came to pass in the meanwhile that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain and Ahab rode and went to Jezreel and the hand of the Lord was on Elijah and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel it's like 20 to 22 miles in distance that Elijah runs and beats the chariot there you see in ancient times they used human beings to run messages not on horseback but just on foot and in the Bible it talks about men running and bringing messages there stories like that in the Bible why because a horse can't go over certain terrain even if it's faster on flat land and the right conditions a human being can leap on the mountains and skip on the hills and climb and and just more versatile just a greater fighter a greater runner but not only is man the one that God has given the greatest Dominion the greatest intelligence the greatest mind the greatest physical prowess man is also the most complex of all of God's creation the most complex creature the most complex body is the human body and the human body is amazing I mean we could just go on and on for hours about how amazing the human body is but how the human body can just pretty much adapt to almost anything it can adapt almost anything I mean there are people today living in scorching hot desert climates with no technology it were them no I'm just kidding it's us no no we have a lot of technology that helps us out but anyway there but but here's the thing there were people who lived here you know Pima and Papago Indians that lived in this area right here even without the technology in that scorching heat and throughout history people have been able to live in extremely hot scorching climates and adapt to it but then man can also adapt to the super cold you got the Eskimos and and the laps living up in the Arctic Circle and just adapting to freezing temperatures and then people who live in Botswana and the Kalahari Desert that are doing you know hot weather dry barely any water in the summer and then it gets cold in the winter and our bodies can just adapt to these things and handle these extremes greater than any animal is the human body the human being there's more complex and can do more now what's also fascinating is that not only is man powerful and adept on earth to be able to fight and run and have great strength and endurance in mind but man can also go into the water and swim in an amazing way and and this goes to show how complicated the human body is our human body is built in such a way to prevent us from drowning using all these amazing mechanisms and I don't understand how anybody could think that it could possibly just evolve that way why would human beings who live on the earth who are clearly a land creature why would we be built with just all these amazing functions to be able to go in the water and do all this stuff you know it's just oh it all just happened by chance it's all just evolution no it's it's evolution is garbage it's a lie it's a fraud it doesn't happen it doesn't take place okay people adapt within their surroundings because God made us so adaptable but we're not going to change species you know there's just adaptations built in where God allows us today and look a lot of animals they can adapt to different heat cold different climates you but but humans are the greatest though okay so think about this when a person jumps into the water right actually just all these changes happen in their body the moment that they hit the water the moment that your face touches cold water things change in your body your your heart rate slows down so that you don't use as much energy so that you can actually stay underwater longer now how far do you think somebody can dive underwater and I'm not talking about a scuba diver how far really far right how far who thinks they know how far a human being can dive underwater a couple hundred feet yeah and you know what but that's pretty shocking to most of us who get to the bottom of like a 12-foot pool and our ears and head feel like they're gonna explode I mean have you ever swum down like 12 or 15 feet I mean it hurts like you know and and I've been snorkeling before and you know I didn't really know what I was doing or anything I was just a beginner at it I'm still a beginner at snorkeling and things like that but anyway I was snorkeling and you know I wanted to go down deeper though to kind of see some other stuff so I started swimming down deeper man you get down like 10 or 15 feet below the surface you start feeling that pressure right away it's pretty intense because all that water is pushing down and it just becomes exponential as you go deeper and deeper it's a but the human body even though we think like oh man I got to go up for air you can actually handle it you know there are people who train themselves to go deeper and they literally swim down with no equipment hundreds of feet under the surface of the water and in fact people can go down with no extra equipment just with their bodies the way God made them they can go down over 300 feet and come back up with no equipment over 300 now I don't recommend that kids don't try this at home all right but what's amazing is that when you go down deep into the water your body will slow down the cold and the water will slow down your body so that you can actually use the oxygen more effectively and as you go down into the water your body will literally just adapt and when people go down in that pressure literally their lungs just all that pressure just makes their lungs like shrink down to just these tiny little balls all that everything just compresses because if you were to bring a basketball down there it'll just go anything will so when you get in the water at first have you ever tried to swim down and you can't really go down because you're so buoyant right and you're you have to really struggle well here's the thing once you get down to like 30 or 40 feet though you stop floating to the top because all that air just goes your lungs are your internal organs are okay everything just tightens up it sounds fun right your whole your whole chest cavity tightens up and what happens is when you get to like 30 or 40 feet all of a sudden it starts pulling you down because you're no longer buoyant now you're being pulled down so you swim hard to get to 30 or 40 feet and then you just start sinking you start dropping down and people have been doing this for thousands of years people would go down and dive for pearls and they would spend like literally up to like 10 minutes down there I mean it was just good they would just build up to it they would go down like 125 feet and be down there for like 10 minutes and then swim back to the top and your body just adapts there your heart rate will slow down to like less than half its normal speed at those depths everything slows down and then when you swim back up your body does it all in reverse now here's what's interesting too let's say you're underwater and you black out of lack of oxygen right well then your body has this automatic switch where it shuts your mouth and shuts your throat automatically to not let water get in and then you'll just be blacked out for like two minutes like that and then a couple minutes later your body will make one last-ditch effort to make you breathe again and if you're underwater when that happens you die because you'll suck in the water in your lungs and die if you're out of the water you'll come back to life and be fine now I'm not recommending any of this all right I'm just saying it's just amazing how God built all these switches and you know when you think about a baby being born it's kind of the same way like when a baby's born it's underwater and when it's born and some people give birth underwater also my wife is giving birth to I think about maybe half of them underwater and when you give birth in like a tub they're under there they don't breathe it's only when they come out of the water right and the air hits their face and then it's like a switch goes off and then and then all of a sudden now they're breathing but they don't need to breathe when they're underwater and even a newborn baby they have these like swimming classes for newborn babies you can put don't do this don't try this all right disclaimer people on the internet none of this this is for educational and entertainment purposes only anyway they'll literally take a newborn baby and just put it underwater and automatically the the throat and mouth will shut and it won't suck in the water and everything it has that instinct but then as we get older we kind of lose that instinct and and so it has to be trained you know but little babies can swim I've seen these videos where these little newborns almost I mean less than a year old are swimming in the water by themselves and a lot of people they they take these classes because they don't want their kid to drown in the pools they teach it how to like do a back float or whatever but isn't that just amazing I mean just the way the child develops in the womb and it's underwater and they just goes from the water to just being out of the water and then as an adult you can go back into the water and go down deep and and and all your intestines and everything get all and you but you could survive though you're still alive at the end of it all I mean it's truly amazing what God has created in the human body that it can even be amphibious in that sense to be able to swim way down and do all that and go now here's what's interesting let's say a scuba diver tried to do the same thing let's say a scuba diver went down to 200 feet if a scuba diver just went down to 200 feet hung around for an hour and then swam to the surface they'll die because they because they'll get compression decompression sickness so what happens is if they have compressed air in their tank and they go down to 200 feet for an hour it takes them 10 hours to go back to the surface if they go faster than that they'll die and if they went to 300 feet with compressed air they'll just die period there's no there's no way to decompress from that because what we breathe is actually nitrogen predominantly it's it's it's what 76 percent nitrogen 23 percent oxygen 1 percent carbon dioxide and other gases I remember that that lesson in elementary school and so you know the nitrogen gets in their blood and then when they're down there breathing all that compressed air on the scuba gear and then when they come up that the nitrogen like bubbles in their blood and will kill them so even a scuba diver has to be real careful go down real slow come up super slow follow all these rules there's a ton of training to go that deep and you got to get all these certifications you got all this gear or you can just literally just jump in and just swim down that level in the body that God made you and swim back up it's pretty amazing and again I'm not recommending it so the point the point is human beings have all these capabilities that we don't even think about because obviously we have all this technology we kind of live a sedentary life we've become kind of soft and weak but our bodies have these capabilities and look our brains we might let them atrophy a little bit right sitting in front of the idiot box rotting our brain in front of the television but you know people who train their minds people who memorize scripture and read books and and study and learn things you know they can do great things with their mind people who train their bodies can do great things with their body the potential is there they're even blind people who've actually lost their eyesight but they can walk around no problem like as if they can see because they click their tongues and use sonar like a bat and this is something blind people are learning how to do now where they just use their hearing and they click their tongues and they can find things about I mean our bodies are capable of amazing things why because man is the greatest creation of God the most adaptable the most intelligent the strongest the most probably because we were created to dominate every part of this planet and we were created in his image and of course he's perfect and he created us to be like him so we are truly an amazing creature but not only that number four man has the greatest value man has the greatest that man is much more valuable than any animal when given the choice between saving an animal's life and a human's life we must say the human's life in fact Jesus Christ sent 2,000 innocent poor little piggies off a cliff in order to save one man he saved one man and killed 2,000 pigs and he didn't even care the Bible says in Matthew 10 31 if you would turn to Romans chapter 1 will close in Romans chapter 1 go to Matt go to Romans 1 but in Matthew 10 31 the Bible says fear you not therefore year of more value than many sparrows so that means we're of more value than many spotted owls or whatever else too you know we are of greater value than any animal or any creature and that's why it's sickening the way people got upset that they shot a gorilla or something because they were trying to save a toddler's life well you didn't have to shoot that gorilla well so what you know if the toddler if there's any chance that the toddlers in danger shoot the gorilla save the child because that toddler is of more value than many gorillas okay animals they die and they go to the dust they're not going to heaven period and when the rapture happens every animal will be left behind every single one not one of them is gonna go up in the rapture and people say well the Bible talks about animals being in heaven yeah it's gonna be different animals in heaven these ones are gone these ones are toast it's gonna be a different animals because God's creates new animals they don't have a soul that that continues on and lives so what what's the moral of all this you know why are we talking about how man has the greatest Dominion the greatest authority the greatest intelligence the greatest physical power the most complexity and the greatest adaptation and also the greatest value you know what's the point of all this why is that well first of all like I said earlier we're being brainwashed that animals are better than us all the time by the left-wing environmental wacko kind of crowd but look what the Bible says in Romans chapter 1 verse 18 for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and 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 as eternal power and Godhead so that they're without excuse the Bible saying look when you look at the creation that God has made it's not that you kind of see that maybe there's a God no it's clearly seen that there is a God it's not fuzzy or muddy or foggy or controversy it's just it's just clear there must be a God to have created our amazing bodies and not to mention all the millions of amazing animals that have been created and then the pinnacle of God's creation we don't even have to go on a zoological expedition just look at our own bodies just look at our own children being born to see the Marvel of God's power and God's creation even to just look at the heavens the Bible says the Sun the moon the stars and we look at those things and they declare the glory of God and we look at those things and we know clearly God's power and his Godhead and it says look nobody has an excuse because God has showed it unto us that he is our Creator but the Bible says in verse 21 because they when they knew God meaning not that they were saved but just they knew God meaning that they were confronted with God or they they knew him from the natural world they saw him clearly in those things it says 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 so instead of looking at the natural world and just marveling and saying wow thank you God thank you for this amazing creation that you've given us being thankful to God and saying wow you did such a good job and that's what a lot of the Psalms are doing when they're praising God for all of his handiwork and the work of his hands and and the physical world and the creatures that he's made instead of being thankful and saying wow God you gave us these amazing minds that we that we could use to achieve all kinds of things the amazing bodies that could achieve all kinds of works and and and achieve all kinds of actions instead they became vain in their imagination and said well you know maybe this all just came from nothing or they they started instead of looking at that ape and just marveling at the creation they started thinking well maybe that's where we came from because he looks a little bit like us I was at the zoo just a few weeks ago which animal was it was it the was it the baboon that we were looking at where this this this guy I overheard a guy saying this is the closest relative that we have as human beings which one was it John do you remember it was the baboon have you ever looked at a baboon now baboons are pretty weird-looking and they're not intelligent it's like oh look we taught this monkey to do sign language right look we can do a lot more than that as humans they did just say Apple or whatever you know we do a lot more than that I'm not impressed but this is not even a monkey not even an ape not even a gorilla the guys staying in front of the baboons telling us oh this baboon is our closest relative I say you know what if that's our closest relative that's quite a missing link like this is a that's not admit that's a missing chain that's not a missing link that's a missing that's all the whole chains missing because we're nowhere even close to that baboon it's not even similar and it's like oh well you know two eyes two you know a nose a mouth I mean that's what these evolutionists say Richard Dawkins said he said you know a real designer because one time I was driving in the middle of the night and Richard Dawkins came on the radio and I was like you know I'm just gonna listen to what he says see if he has any arguments that make any sense because this is supposedly the smartest you know evolutionary biologists that every atheist like worship this guy they say that it's the greatest book they've ever read and and I I even heard this atheist that was like an expert swimmer saying that that she when she's on these like really long like 25-mile swims and stuff she like quotes Richard Dawkins book in her head like like like other like Christians would like quote scripture she's like quoting the God delusion while swimming or so I mean it's just that's how the that's how these atheists are with Oh Richard I the guy's at an imbecile not to mention a pedophile but the guy is an imbecile I mean this is what he literally said because the radio host asked him a pretty good question the radio host said hey just give me your your your go-to argument for evolution for the people who don't believe in it you know just kind of give me on the back of a postage stamp what's just your quick way to prove it he said oh well I mean the way to prove it more than anything is just how similar all animals are on this earth you know and how the DNA is so similar now when they start talking about the DNA being similar just just keep this in mind all the DNA is it's just a schematic for what the creature is so we don't have to go look at the DNA to find similarities you can also just look at the creature I mean if you look at the creature and they both have two eyes and a nose and a mouth four limbs then yeah okay there's gonna be similarities in the DNA right since there's similarities in the organism they both have a heart they both have a brain that yeah there's a lot of I mean look you can find a lot of similarities between us and that baboon if you if you start thinking along those lines you know knees elbows a backbone both vertebrate you know brain stem you know so so you know he's just like oh it's so similar and this is what Richard Dawkins said he said you know a real designer he goes back to the drawing board every single time what kind of a designer goes back to the drawing board every single time actually what intelligent does it because he's like if it was intelligent design everything could be different but it's all similar because they're all related that's not true because you know what designers actually do they design one thing and then they tweak it a little and make it better make it better make it better make it better make it better and you know what that's why God created all the best stuff on the last day right why because he's he's building up to it now all of God's creatures are amazing but a real designer builds in complexity but they don't go back to the drawing board look at all the cars in the parking lot let's do a DNA test on all the cars they all have a couple of headlights I mean remember that weird car that had three headlights that didn't go over right who knows what I'm talking about was it a what was it called I I don't remember but there was some car like 50 years ago three headlights where you know remember the DeLorean the doors that open up you know what I mean yeah they're gonna be a little few genetic anomalies out there but you know most of the DNA out in that parking lot is either gonna be a two door a four door there's a trunk over and over again headlights tail lights right pistons four pistons six pin pistons eight pistons there's not 20 pistons or three piston right there's a lot of things that are just kind of the same why because they found something that worked four wheels it works you don't see a bunch of like tricycle cars out there with like one wheel in the front yeah they find something that works and they stick with it right look all those cars in the parking lot they're all clearly related so that proves that they all came from nothing and that one evolved into the next I mean stupid no all these cars in the parking lot were created by the same companies the same businesses that learn from each other they're all intelligently designed and you know what this world that we live in yeah it's filled with animals that are similar because God created designs that work and he just used different variations on those designs that work you know every animal that we see is is built for a reason the way it is even weird animals and we look at it and think it's weird but if you study it more you'll realize it was created exactly for its environment for its purpose what it's supposed to be doing you know it's created that way for a reason and it wasn't just all evolution natural selection it's garbage lies we need to be thankful and we need to give glory to God you say why is this sermon important I'll tell you why because when you don't thank God and when you don't give the glory to God and when you don't marvel at his creation and praise him for his creation you go down this road in Romans 1 where you become vain in your own imagination and they profess themselves to be wise and they're fools today the fullest said in his heart there is no God but they call themselves what a professor they profess themselves to be wise they're fools but man they think they're smart don't they the Bible says they change 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 worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever amen here's what we need to take away from the knowledge of the Word of God and the knowledge of the natural world is that we need to spend our lives serving God serving the Creator what do we use our minds for to serve God what do we use our bodies for to serve God why because he said that we're to serve him with all our heart and with all our mind we're to love him with our mind love him with our strength right so what do we use our physical bodies that God created to be so adaptable for we use them to serve him to obey him to work for him to preach the gospel to every creature to work hard provide for our families and raise up godly children it's to serve the Lord not to serve animals not to serve the environment but to use the environment to serve God and obviously we shouldn't be trashing the creation but that you know the biggest trasher of creation is the government with all their nuclear testing and all their dirty bombs and everything else and then they tell us we're putting out too much carbon when they're putting out more carbon than we ever thought of putting out but they see you know obviously we shouldn't be trashing the place but we're to use it to subdue it to have dominion over it but it's all in the end to bring glory to God all things were created for his pleasure the Bible says in Revelation 11 or Revelation chapter 4 verse 11 all things are created for his glory his pleasure not for dogs or animals or dolphins or owls or whales all the glory goes to God it's not for us to worship ourselves it's not for us to say oh God's given us this amazing body let me just go stare at myself in the mirror in the gym right and just worship the body right let me just post selfies of myself all day long just flexing every muscle on my body to worship the body right look no why don't you use that body to go do something for the Lord you know if you have great stamina and great endurance and great strength why don't you go out and be a great worker for the Lord right I'm not I'm for being strong I'm for those things but use them I'm for being smart but you know what there are a lot of very intelligent people though who are just like that bodybuilder at the gym except instead of just doing bicep curls in front of the mirror they do that mentally you ever get around these people that are just mentally kind of like like they're not instead of using their brain to serve God instead of using their brain to do something right it's just a showing off you know what I mean like instead of using great Bible knowledge to preach a great sermon or to win souls to Christ or to teach the Word of God to babes instead they just show off their Bible knowledge and their degrees of this scholarly book you know it's just it's just a mental a mental bodybuilding competition for them it's like a brain builder okay and you know what bodybuilders look like goofballs to normal people they do I mean when we see these guys that are just like and look I'm all for being fit I'm all for being strong getting in shape but I'm talking about these guys who take it too far and then their head is like too small for their body it's like their arms are just like way too big for their torso they're just totally out of proportion and they're just like bulging with just every vein and everything they look like you're about to have a heart attack we look at that and think they look like a goofball especially when they wear that circus outfit that's like it's like a one-piece outfit that goes from like shorts into a tank top like as a onesie you know like a clown would wears you know what I mean and they wear that and they're just like yeah I look so good and you know what everybody else is thinking like no you don't look good you look like a freak because you went too far yeah and then those guys it's not even healthy because they're not even building strength that's these bodybuilding is not even about how strong you are it's just about how you look it's about posing on a stage or something you know and all these different poses you know look it looks goofy but you know what we look at a lot of these theologians and that's how they look to us you know we tune into their sermons it's just like and we're just like change the channel right who even wants to listen to that somebody just all puffed up puffed up you know they're they're like I'm going to pop you up you know they're just all puffed up and the Bible says knowledge puffeth up but charity edify if so we need to make sure that we use our strength we use our brains we use the Dominion and the authority and the the charge that God has given us and that we use these things for the glory of God it's about getting something done for the Lord not just about how strong we can get for the sake of looking in a mirror or how smart we can get just to show off how smart we are you know and just tell everybody hey look what I know look what I can do no no it's just about getting something done because he gets all the glory we're to bring glory him inspired never word of prayer father we thank you so much for this marvelous creation that you've given us Lord and we just pray that no one would would go down that Romans one route where they start getting puffed up and and they they stopped giving you the glory they stopped thanking you and and they start just getting vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind Lord help us to humble ourselves and to have David's attitude that says what is man that thou are mindful of them even though we're the greatest creation we're still lower than the angels and we still have to marble that you're even mindful of us when we think about the vastness of the universe Lord thank you for dying for us thank you for giving us eternal life and in Jesus name we pray amen