God has given us one job to do on this earth. When we understand this, it will greatly simplify how to know His will for us in many decisions that we must make throughout our lives.

<p>God has given us one job to do on this earth. When we understand this, it will greatly simplify how to know His will for us in many decisions that we must make throughout our lives.</p>

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Collegedale Korean SDA Church

Alistair Huong

You Have One Job

Father in heaven, thank you for bringing us together this beautiful Sabbath morning.

For the snow that fell to remind us that you can make us whiter than snow.

And Father, as we turn our hearts to you and your word today, May you communicate to us that which we need to know, that which we need to hear.

And may you give us clarity on what your will is for our lives and that we might follow that will with all our hearts.

May the Holy Spirit speak now, we pray in Jesus' name.

To begin, I want to share a little bit with you about a fascinating human being, an individual that I have taken a great interest in.

And that man is the man by the name of Elon Musk.

For those of you who know who he is he is the CEO of what company Yeah, most people are like yeah, Tesla Yeah, Tesla Roadster, right?

Well he is the CEO of Tesla That just happens to be 1 company that he's in charge of.

And we think of Tesla as a car company, and that's sort of how they got started.

They have solar panels, they have invented solar roof tiles that can generate power while being a roof tile.

Battery packs, they recently launched or opened the biggest battery system in South Australia.

And he's talking about rebuilding the power infrastructure for the island of Puerto Rico after the big hurricane that came through.

I'm not necessarily saying that you should agree or not agree with him.

Well he's in charge of another company called SpaceX, stands for space exploration.

This company has a vision to take people to Mars.

They pioneered the technology or the ability to reuse rockets.

Because if you are familiar, you remember when we launched people in outer space, to the moon let's say, the big booster rockets that fire them up to escape the gravitational field of the Earth, when it detaches, it just falls back into the ocean and it's a one-use thing.

So you spend millions of dollars, you build this rocket, you fly it up there and then that's it.

And so SpaceX says, if we are going to send people to Mars and to explore the galaxy, so to say, we have to bring the cost down, and that's only possible if we can reuse our rockets.

So you've probably seen the YouTube videos now.

They, not Tesla, sorry, SpaceX, they can fly this giant rocket up into space, deploy the satellites, and then it fires the reverse boosters and it comes back and it lands back on its landing pad.

There's a third business, if you will, that he is involved with.

He's actually involved with a lot of other things.

And link, What is he linking our neurons to?

Well, the simple answer is he's a big investor in this technology to link our human brain with computers.

The idea is to basically turn us into cyborgs and to make us have enhanced human intelligence.

It's because he believes that sooner or later artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence And so we, to keep up, we have to be able to interface with computers.

He's not the CEO, but he's a big investor in that technology.

He's also involved with what's called the Boring Company.

You know, they drill holes under the ground to alleviate traffic.

The Hyperloop, super fast, supersonic transportation, firing little pods that you ride in through tubes of vacuum space.

Lots of other stuff that he's involved with.

This guy sounds like a sci-fi movie hero or villain.

You can go on Google, you can see interviews by him on YouTube.

So when we look at his portfolio, right, the stuff that he's involved with, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, let's just look at these 3.

Like Why are you doing all of this stuff?

Like for 1 person to even have success in 1 of these areas, to make electric cars, that seems pretty amazing already.

Why is he just sort of doing all of this random stuff?

Does he just have too much money that he doesn't know what to do with it?

Is there an order that makes sense of this chaos?

Elon Musk has gone on record to say, and I'm going to be interpreting somewhat of what he said, He operates from a set of very strongly held beliefs and these beliefs originate out of a very secular, atheistic, naturalistic world view, meaning he's not a Christian.

He looks at science and he takes science as the ultimate truth.

He does not share an understanding and belief in the Bible as we do.

And he looks at the world around him and he realizes that this world cannot last forever.

Put in other words, this earth at some point will become uninhabitable for the human race.

I'm not here to say you have to agree with him.

He believes that with the climate change, and he does believe that it is a man-made phenomenon, we are going to destroy the Earth.

And not only that, he believes that the human invention of artificial intelligence, if left to run wild, is an existential risk to human survival.

Maybe he's played too many video games, maybe he's watched too many movies, but that's what he believes.

And maybe, and he's smarter than I am, so maybe he knows something that I don't know, but that's what he believes.

The Earth, this planet, cannot last forever.

Either we're going to destroy ourselves through climate change or we're going to destroy ourselves by creating machines that are smarter than us.

And as a result, as a result, What's the only solution in his mind?

Elon Musk believes that the only solution is to make mankind an interplanetary species.

That's fancy for saying, we need to be able to live on other planets.

So taking a step back, looking from the core world view that he possesses and the beliefs that he has, this world is not going to last forever and The only way that we can survive is if we go colonize other planets.

All of a sudden, all of this stuff that he does makes perfect sense.

Because he wants to prevent machines from taking over.

Why invest in renewable energy like solar panels and batteries and electric cars so that we will not destroy the planet as quickly to delay the destruction?

Because he believes the only chance for us to survive as a species is if we go and we live among the stars.

Again, I am not saying that I agree with him, I don't, But I do find it fascinating that we can find so much order and so much complexity in the life of 1 man when we realize that his beliefs leads him to a very clear and defined life purpose.

You Have One Job

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