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Jim Scudder, Jr.: InGrace | A Tour of Noah's Ark with Bodie Hodge Part 2 | May 16, 2021
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- Jim Scudder Jr.: Is it possible for all the animals
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- to fit on the ark?
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- Find out today on "InGrace."
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- Jim: Ever since I was a boy,
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- I've been fascinated with God's creation.
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- I'm traveling the planet to tell his story about his world.
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- I'm Jim Scudder Jr.
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- Come with me on another exciting adventure in grace.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jim: In Genesis 6 through 8, the Bible describes
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- a global calamity that wipes out our entire human race,
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- except for eight people.
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- Sounds fanciful, but what if it's true?
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- Actually, there are similar legends from around the world
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- of just such an event.
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- Come with me today as we continue a tour of the full-size
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- ark near Cincinnati and find out if this account
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- could've actually happened.
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- Our tour guide is none other than the son-in-law of Ken Ham,
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- the founder of Answers in Genesis.
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- Bodie Hodge has a master's degree in mechanical engineering
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- and is a writer, speaker, and researcher.
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- Come on an exploration for real truth today on "InGrace."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jim: So, this sign is talking about the dinosaurs
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- that would've been on the ark.
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- And these are massive, right?
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- Bodie Hodge: Yeah.
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- Jim: You have a dinosaur at the Creation Museum and it's huge.
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- So, obviously you have a big ship,
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- but is there another explanation of how these huge dinosaurs
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- could've fit on the ark?
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- Bodie: Yeah, really, what it is, they would take the smaller
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- dinosaurs on board the ark.
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- Yeah, there's no sense in taking the great,
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- great grandparents on board the ark.
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- Take the smaller, the younger, the juvenile,
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- less food, less space, less waste.
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- These are all advantages on board the ark.
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- Jim: And they are going to be the ones
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- that will be reproducing longer after the flood is--
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- Bodie: Correct, correct, you want a good breeding stock
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- when they come off.
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- And you know, if you take--I think the maximum number
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- onboard the ark was about 85 kinds of dinosaurs.
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- So, with 85 kinds, I mean, you're looking at,
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- what, 160, 170 individuals onboard the ark.
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- Smaller ones, they easily fit onboard the ark.
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- Jim: See, that's stuff that I don't know everyone
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- has thought through, but it makes sense.
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- Bodie: You know, another thing a lot of people don't
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- think about is certain dinosaurs are actually quite small.
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- There are some dinosaurs as small as a chicken.
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- So, some of these things are actually really little,
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- and so we probably wouldn't have required the juveniles,
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- but they might've done it anyway.
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- Jim: How long did it take Noah to build his ark?
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- Bodie: You know, that's a very popular question as well.
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- In the Bible, you know, there's a 120-year
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- countdown to the flood.
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- And a lot of people think, "Oh, it took him 120 years."
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- They just automatically translate that number,
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- but that's probably not the case.
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- If you look closely, when God says,
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- "Hey Noah, I want you to build an ark," he says,
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- "I want you to build an ark for you,
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- your sons, and your sons' wives."
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- So, his sons had to be born, which he didn't have any
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- of his sons until about 100 years before the flood
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- was when his first son was born, and that would've been Japheth.
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- His next son Shem was actually born after that.
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- He was 100 years two years after the flood,
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- so he would've been two years after Japheth.
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- But the point is they would've been born
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- about 100 years before the flood.
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- Imagine them growing up a little bit,
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- you know, 20 years old, 30 years old,
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- having a wife, and then God makes that statement.
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- So, we've estimated anywhere from about 55 to 75 years
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- is when God first gave that command to Noah
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- to start building the ark.
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- Jim: So, I love how you have the exhibits here,
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- it's not just the ark structure,
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- but you're also helping people to learn.
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- Bodie: That's right, that first deck,
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- you know, it has a lot of the cages
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- and the animals and that sort of thing.
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- Now, we start to do some more of the teaching.
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- For example, right here, we're leading up to the ark,
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- you know, what happened before that.
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- Well, God created everything in six days,
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- he rests on the seventh, it's perfect creation,
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- and it gives us a taste of what the Lord did
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- on each of these different day.
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- Jim: There are some Christians that believed
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- that a day wasn't a day.
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- The Bible though, it's-- you know,
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- it's a word that is commonly used for the day,
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- it's morning and evening were the first day.
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- So, how would you explain that to people
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- that don't think this was a literal day?
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- Bodie: Well, here's what's interesting.
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- This idea millions of years actually comes from rock layers.
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- So, instead of looking at the rock layers as being evidence
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- of the flood in Noah's day, they said,
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- "No, no, no, no global flood.
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- These rock layers are evidence of slow,
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- gradual accumulations over millions of years."
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- So, a lot of Christians then started to buy into that idea
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- and they thought, "Well, where do I put these rock layers?
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- Where do I put these millions of years?"
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- Well, you can't put in the genealogies from Adam to Jesus,
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- you just can't put millions of years in there.
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- So, they said, "We got to go back before Adam."
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- So, they tried to put it somewhere
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- in creation week or sometimes even before creation week.
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- But that causes huge problems.
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- One of the biggest problems is a problem called death before sin.
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- If you have--if you have millions of years
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- of rock layers, what do you see in the rock layers?
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- You see death, animals eating other animals and so forth.
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- So, you have death then before Adam sinned,
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- which actually undermines the gospel.
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- You run into other problems, that at the end of the creation
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- week, God said all the animals were vegetarian.
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- Yet you look in those rock layers,
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- animals were eating other animals.
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- Jim: So, you look at the rock layers and say,
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- "You know what that looks like to me?
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- It looks like evidence of global catastrophes by water."
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- And the Bible actually has an episode that is exactly that.
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- Bodie: Exactly.
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- Jim: We're standing in the ark.
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- Bodie: That's exactly right.
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- Now, we've had rock layers since the time of the flood,
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- but most would've come from the flood.
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- You know, you think of volcanoes and tsunamis we have now,
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- but it's nothing compared--
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- Jim: And that's all very localized and small.
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- But this is rock layers with billions and trillions
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- of fossils all over the world and these rock layers
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- are consistent around the world.
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- Bodie: Right, they extend all the way over continents.
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- And they're sometimes paper thin between each other,
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- showing no erosional features and so forth.
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- We'll see some of that as we move on up through the ark.
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- But the point is an all-powerful God made everything in six days,
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- this is not a problem for an all-powerful God.
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- And it was a perfect creation.
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- It's because a man sinned that the world is in the state
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- that it's in now, which is why we need a Savior to save us
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- from that sin and death.
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- Jim: So, six literal days of creation, one day of rest.
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- We have a perfect world, no sorrow,
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- no disease, no bloodshed, no death.
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- We just have no concept of that
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- because we're so used to the sin curse.
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- Bodie: That's right.
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- Jim: And that evidence of the sin curse,
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- something that we're going through right now
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- as we're filming this, is the coronavirus here.
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- Bodie: Yes.
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- Jim: So, that's evidence also of the curse
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- and of the fallen world.
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- Bodie: That's right, that's a repercussion of sin.
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- We expect to see death and disease.
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- You know, whether it's coronavirus,
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- or MERS, or SARS, or even the flu,
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- which is deadly every year.
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- You know, we see all sorts of terrible things like that.
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- That should be a reflection of a taste of what life
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- is like without God.
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- He's given us a taste.
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- As soon as Adam and Eve sinned against God,
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- we received that taste of what life is like.
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- And what we need is Jesus Christ to save us from all that.
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- And we look forward to a time where there'll be no more death,
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- or suffering, or crying, or tears.
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- I'll tell you what, that's an exciting time.
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- ♪♪♪
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- You know, if we think about this,
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- this perfect world, everything was perfect.
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- Adam and Eve were perfect, there--
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- that first marriage was perfect.
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- That's tough for us to imagine, a perfect marriage.
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- Of course, when they sinned,
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- that perfect marriage was then ruined.
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- Jim: But even the concept of marriage,
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- without a proper understanding of Genesis,
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- we don't know where marriage came from.
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- Bodie: That's right, and Jesus, when he was asked
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- about divorce and marriage, he actually went back to Genesis
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- chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 2, quoted from it, said the basis
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- for marriage is because God created a man and a woman and
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- the two will become one flesh.
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- Eve was made from Adam, so she also is made
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- in the image of God.
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- Man and woman are both made in the image of God,
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- and the two of them become one flesh at marriage again.
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- So, the basis for marriage actually goes back to the Bible.
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- Now, what's interesting is cultures all over the world
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- have marriage as well.
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- Now, sometimes they deviate from it, sometimes it's warped.
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- We see that in our own culture right now,
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- people are warping marriage and destroying it.
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- But the point is they keep borrowing marriage
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- from a biblical viewpoint.
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- And we expect this because God created a man and a woman
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- in the beginning, marriage survived through the flood.
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- At the Tower of Babel, as people went to different parts
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- of the world, they took the doctrine of marriage with them,
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- so they have a basic understanding of it,
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- but sometimes they don't know where it came from.
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- It actually comes from God and his work.
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- Jim: But without this worldview,
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- we're really going to get messed up in a lot of areas.
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- We're not gonna understand gender, sexuality, marriage.
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- You're gonna not know why is there death,
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- why is there pain and suffering.
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- But with a biblical understanding,
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- this all now makes sense.
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- I mean, it's still hard because we're in this world,
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- but now we can understand why it has happened.
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- Bodie: Yeah, and you know what?
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- When I look out in the secular culture and I see all sorts
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- of sexual deviancy, I see all sorts of murders and rapes,
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- and all sorts of just terrible things,
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- and sometimes Christians go, "Why is the world like this?"
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- They've been raised to be like this.
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- You got to think the majority of kids nowadays,
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- about 90% of kids, even in church homes,
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- are actually attending state schools.
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- What are you being taught in a lot of these state schools?
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- You're taught that you're just an animal,
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- everything came from a big bang,
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- there was no God, it created itself.
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- We've got millions of years of death,
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- pain, struggling, and suffering, and then at the end you die.
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- There is ultimately no right or wrong.
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- And so, people are living their lives that way.
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- They see a brokenness within that.
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- We as Christians, we look at that
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- and we see a brokenness in it too.
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- And we're crying out, saying, "We've got the answers.
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- You've got a wrong worldview.
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- You rightly recognize these things are bad,
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- there's so much evil, so much atrocity.
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- Let me help explain to you why that stuff exists
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- and what the answer to it is in the blood of Jesus Christ."
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- Jim: And there's hope. There's salvation.
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- Bodie: Right.
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- Jim: If you're enjoying today's exciting "InGrace"
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- Bodie: And here we have the problem.
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- Jim: The first two chapters of Genesis,
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- everything's fine, everything's great, very good.
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- But now we have the serpent.
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- Bodie: Right, right.
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- The serpent is being influenced by Satan,
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- who himself has now rebelled against God.
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- And when Satan fell, it affected himself.
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- It didn't affect the creation.
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- Dominion was given to man and woman,
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- so immediately Satan goes after those who have dominion,
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- and he went after the woman.
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- And in the form of a serpent, he asked a question that gets
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- the woman to basically question the Word of God.
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- "Did God really say not to eat from the fruit of the tree
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- of the knowledge of good and evil?"
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- Now, it's interesting, the woman's response
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- was not necessarily the best.
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- But then, you know, the response wasn't initially given to her,
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- it was given to Adam, it's been transferred through.
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- But her response was, "We're allowed to eat from the tree."
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- She took out the word "freely."
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- Freely eat from any tree, she took out both of those.
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- And then she said, "We weren't allowed to touch the tree
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- of the knowledge of good and evil or we'll die immediately."
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- And it's interesting, because she made a few changes in there,
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- the serpent was all over her.
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- The one out of those variations in there,
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- the one that he went at was the word "die," to die immediately.
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- In Hebrew, we're told not to eat from the fruit of the tree
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- of the knowledge of good and evil, otherwise we will die.
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- And that's Hebrew "die, die."
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- They use the word twice.
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- Now, we don't do that in English,
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- but in Hebrew, what that does is it slightly varies the meaning.
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- It means surely die or begin to die.
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- If you'd have just said die once,
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- it means die immediately.
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- Jim: So, she's not accurately conveying what God said.
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- And it's very important for us to first know what God said,
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- but also to remember exactly what he said,
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- because every word does matter.
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- Bodie: That's right.
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- So, the serpent then comes back and says,
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- "You'll not die, die."
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- It's actually a very clever deception because basically
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- the serpent quoted what the Lord said back against her.
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- And all of a sudden, she goes, "Oh yeah, that's right."
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- And so, at that moment, she goes,
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- "Okay, well, I'm gonna decide."
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- She looks on the fruit, it's desirable for gaining wisdom.
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- She took some and she ate.
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- And then she gave some to Adam, he knew exactly what it was,
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- and he ate as well.
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- So, that plunged us into a world of sin.
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- You know, man and woman had dominion over the earth,
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- that's why God cursed the ground.
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- The whole of creation, according to Romans chapter 8,
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- feels the effects of this curse.
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- So, when Adam and Eve fell, the whole dominion fell.
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- The animals fell, everything fell
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- as a result of that particular sin.
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- But when we go back, we sometimes miss
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- that in our English translations.
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- This deception was very clever.
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- Jim: We also see Jesus answering the devil differently.
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- He's answering the devil with the words of God,
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- the exact words of God.
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- So, I think there's a lesson for us there, right?
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- Bodie: There really is, yeah.
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- Satan's not afraid to use the Word of God,
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- but he'll twist it.
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- That's what he did back here with Eve,
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- that's what he tried to do with Jesus.
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- Jesus saw right through it.
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- Bodie: All right, so here we have Adam and Eve
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- being kicked out of the garden of Eden.
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- And if you think about what happened,
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- there's some irony in this.
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- You know, the Lord plants a garden, it's a perfect garden.
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- He presents it to Adam and Eve, all they have to do is tend it.
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- It's ready, but then they elevated
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- their own thoughts to supersede God
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- and decide that they were going to eat from the fruit
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- that God told them not to eat from.
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- So, what's the Lord do?
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- You're kicked out of the garden, go make your own garden.
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- That's really what it is.
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- Jim: And a very sad chapter.
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- Bodie: Yes, we have Cain murdering his brother Abel.
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- Now, if you remember, Abel offered a fat portion,
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- this was a blood sacrifice.
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- He mimicked what God did.
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- Cain brought from his firstfruits,
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- not that firstfruits were bad,
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- but it was not a sufficient sacrifice.
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- And the Lord says, "You know, if you would've done well
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- and done the right sacrifice, you too would've been--
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- it would've been an acceptable sacrifice."
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- So, it makes you wonder, you know,
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- what was running through Cain's mind?
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- "Oh, you want a blood sacrifice?
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- Here, take my brother."
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- Well, that's not a blood sacrifice, that's murder.
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- We saw with Cain, we started to see evil
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- really start to progress.
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- Now, we see lines and lines of it all the way up.
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- You know, Lamech, you know, had murdered someone
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- and had become a polygamous person.
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- You know, so we started to see a deviation from God's created
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- order leading up to the time just before the flood.
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- Jim: And that leads us to intense godlessness
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- in the world.
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- Bodie: Yes, we see rampant sin.
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- We see massive amounts of violence according to the Bible.
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- Every thought was evil all the time.
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- I mean, just try to imagine that for a moment,
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- the murder, the violence, the rape.
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- Just imagine if the whole world's murderers,
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- the population cuts in half in one day.
- 00:15:55.848 --> 00:15:58.016
- I mean, there was probably a population decline.
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- Usually in an evil culture, the first group of people
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- that gets attacked the most are the children.
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- You know, throughout evil cultures of the past,
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- people would sacrifice their children to Molech.
- 00:16:09.595 --> 00:16:12.297
- We're in a same type of a culture.
- 00:16:12.297 --> 00:16:13.799
- Abortion is rampant and horrible.
- 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:15.968
- All throughout the world today, China, it's terrible.
- 00:16:15.968 --> 00:16:17.870
- The United States, we've lost over 60 million babies.
- 00:16:17.870 --> 00:16:22.274
- This is what happens when people deviate from God
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- and his Word and they buy into evil that's going on.
- 00:16:24.176 --> 00:16:27.212
- Same sort of thing was probably happening at the times before
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- the flood 'cause some of these exhibits
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- depict some of that evil.
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- Jim: So, it all comes to a climax when God says,
- 00:16:33.252 --> 00:16:35.554
- "Enough is enough, and I'm gonna do something about this."
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- And he did.
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- Bodie: He did. He sure did.
- 00:16:41.160 --> 00:16:42.828
- And you know, a righteous God would judge righteously.
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- Jim: And I think all of us would demand a judge to punish
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- someone that would rape our daughter.
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- And if the judge just said, "Don't worry about it,"
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- we would be incensed by that.
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- Bodie: Oh my, yeah.
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- Jim: Because we demand righteousness if we were made
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- by a righteous God.
- 00:17:02.481 --> 00:17:03.849
- But we're upset when he demands righteousness
- 00:17:03.849 --> 00:17:06.518
- and we don't have it.
- 00:17:06.518 --> 00:17:08.687
- So, that would leave us dependent and trusting in his,
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- Jesus's righteousness.
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- Bodie: I mean, we look at the time before the flood
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- and we see all sorts of evil and terrible atrocities.
- 00:17:16.595 --> 00:17:18.597
- But sometimes remember just one sin is enough to deserve
- 00:17:18.597 --> 00:17:23.435
- that punishment from a perfect God, perfectly pure,
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- perfectly holy God.
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- So, that's a reminder for us to want to hate sin.
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- Jim: Yeah, and there's enough people that say,
- 00:17:31.510 --> 00:17:32.945
- "I've never murdered anybody."
- 00:17:32.945 --> 00:17:34.513
- And I'll hear that from a ton of people.
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- Have you ever had hatred in your heart towards someone?
- 00:17:36.715 --> 00:17:39.718
- Well, Jesus said that's heart murder.
- 00:17:39.718 --> 00:17:41.920
- Bodie: That's the same thing as murder.
- 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:43.288
- Jim: So, we all really are in the same boat.
- 00:17:43.288 --> 00:17:45.757
- We all need a Savior.
- 00:17:45.757 --> 00:17:47.125
- Bodie: And that should humble us.
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- That should humble us before Christ.
- 00:17:48.493 --> 00:17:50.262
- And what we need to realize is, you know,
- 00:17:50.262 --> 00:17:52.698
- people before Christ that believed in the Lord, that
- 00:17:52.698 --> 00:17:55.801
- followed the Lord, they were looking forward to the cross.
- 00:17:55.801 --> 00:17:58.237
- In the same way, we today, we look back to the cross
- 00:17:58.237 --> 00:18:01.173
- at what Jesus did.
- 00:18:01.173 --> 00:18:02.541
- When he took that infinite punishment on our behalf,
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- I'll tell you what, there's a reason
- 00:18:05.410 --> 00:18:08.180
- they call it Good Friday, don't they?
- 00:18:08.180 --> 00:18:10.249
- Because Christ took that punishment
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- that we all deserve right there--
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- Jim: The worst points, the worst time in the world
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- was also the best because without that, we have nothing.
- 00:18:16.521 --> 00:18:21.827
- We are just purposeless and suicide would almost make sense.
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- Bodie: Yes, and that's the culture we're living in.
- 00:18:26.898 --> 00:18:28.867
- We're in a culture that's very secularized and kids are taught,
- 00:18:28.867 --> 00:18:32.237
- "There's no God, there's no right and wrong."
- 00:18:32.237 --> 00:18:34.339
- So, why not commit suicide?
- 00:18:34.339 --> 00:18:36.908
- You know, why not go out and commit all these thefts
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- or do all these evil atrocities?
- 00:18:39.811 --> 00:18:42.581
- And why not lie?
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- That's the culture that we're living in because that's what
- 00:18:43.949 --> 00:18:45.751
- they've been raised up with.
- 00:18:45.751 --> 00:18:47.252
- And what we need to do is start giving answers to the world,
- 00:18:47.252 --> 00:18:50.322
- answers to questions about Noah's Ark
- 00:18:50.322 --> 00:18:52.224
- or about the garden of Eden, about why sin and death
- 00:18:52.224 --> 00:18:54.526
- is in the world, why you need a Savior in the first place,
- 00:18:54.526 --> 00:18:57.496
- why the Bible is true,
- 00:18:57.496 --> 00:18:58.930
- and why it's the authority in your lives.
- 00:18:58.930 --> 00:19:00.465
- And all of a sudden, you start to see perspectives change
- 00:19:00.465 --> 00:19:03.235
- when the Holy Spirit can use that sort of stuff to go in
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- and change people's hearts and minds.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jim: I hope that today, this program
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- has given you some answers.
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- This is the picture of salvation.
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- People are finding themselves hopeless.
- 00:19:23.021 --> 00:19:26.091
- They're finding that--they're trying to satisfy their longings
- 00:19:26.091 --> 00:19:31.163
- and they're not finding anything to satisfy it.
- 00:19:31.163 --> 00:19:34.566
- Somebody said there's a God-shaped vacuum in our soul.
- 00:19:34.566 --> 00:19:38.770
- We need God, but we're trying to find him by our own efforts,
- 00:19:38.770 --> 00:19:42.174
- by our own way.
- 00:19:42.174 --> 00:19:43.742
- There's only one way and that's through the door.
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- There was only one way for Noah
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- and his family to go into the ark.
- 00:19:49.014 --> 00:19:50.949
- They had to go through that door.
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- But there was a time when that door closed.
- 00:19:53.352 --> 00:19:56.922
- There is a coming judgment.
- 00:19:56.922 --> 00:19:59.558
- You have a door that's open to you today.
- 00:19:59.558 --> 00:20:02.894
- Jesus, the Son of God, said that he is the door.
- 00:20:02.894 --> 00:20:07.199
- He said he is the way, the truth, and the life,
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- that there's no other way to get to heaven but by him.
- 00:20:09.835 --> 00:20:14.406
- You say, "Well, I'm not sure about all this."
- 00:20:14.406 --> 00:20:16.375
- Here's my challenge to you, to say,
- 00:20:16.375 --> 00:20:18.610
- "God, if you're real, show yourself to me."
- 00:20:18.610 --> 00:20:21.513
- Jesus, the Son of God, came and died for your sins.
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- And the door is open, and I just urge you and challenge you
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- to walk through that door.
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- You don't know when that door will close.
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- The Bible says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
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- and thou shalt be saved."
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- We're gonna be rafting the Colorado River for seven days
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- with an incredible geologist named Andrew Snelling and
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- wonderful astronomer named Danny Faulkner.
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- We're going to film a deserving family having this adventure
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- with us, and you can submit an application to get that trip.
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- Go to our website for all the details.
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- announcer: Join us next week for part three
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- of "A Tour of Noah's Ark" with Bodie Hodge.
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- Bodie: When you're talking to kids, where do you start?
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- You start in Genesis. God creates everything.
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- And they try to make it cartoonish,
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- they try to make it fun.
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- But I like to see the biblical proportions
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- still come out through it.
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- And as soon as you start deviating on the size
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- and shape on Noah's Ark, it actually affects people.
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- So, it leads to misconception.
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- Jim: And we're talking to children,
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- and they are so impressionable.
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- I mean, they soak it up, and so that will stay with you.
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- Bodie: It sure will.
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