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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

Bible’s Love Stories- Part 1

Father, thank you so much again for this time.

Thank you for all the decisions that have been made.

And now, Lord, we just pray and ask you would bless us, that you would speak to us.

God, we know that just 1 Sabbath a week and attempting to be a Christian is not enough.

But every day, we must receive the daily baptism of the Spirit.

And so, Father, we pray and ask that you would bless us in a mighty way and teach us, God, the things we need to understand.

It's wonderful seeing those people get baptized.

We have a few more taking place in the coming Sabbaths.

And as much as we love to celebrate baptism, the real work begins now.

This is what determines the strength of a body, whether or not they can work together to keep people growing in the faith.

Now, if you say, pastor, it's up to you to do this.

I can only invest, truly invest, in probably about 5 or 6 people max.

You could probably only invest in about 5 or 6 people max.

And if you leave it up to me to do this kind of work or to Pastor Ted or just to the Bible worker, we could probably keep about maybe 15 people tops over the course of a year.

However, if everybody is doing this great work, ladies and gentlemen, then we will see greater retention and greater growth happening.

She says, it is fatal to think that the work of saving souls is dependent upon the minister alone.

And so that's why it's very important that we take advantage of all these training classes that we're doing, any opportunity that we can get involved because God wants to do some special things.

Can we have 1 of the deacons turn the air condition on?

Thank you very much, whoever is doing this work right now.

The name of the sermon is called Love Stories in the Bible.

This is going to be a very unique sermon.

You're going to be learning some very interesting things about love stories.

You don't need to go to some movie or some theater to learn about the greatest love stories.

If you want to learn about love stories you can go to the Bible and you will be so inspired by what you read.

I'm going to be heading out to Loma Linda tonight, and I'll be doing a series for about 2 weeks there at Loma Linda University, as well as Campus Hill Church.

And part of the morning sessions that I'm going to be doing are called 10 Love Stories in the Bible.

Now, do you think that's going to attract a lot of college students?

And so we're doing 10 love stories in the Bible.

I'll be starting with Adam and Eve and I'll be ending with Christ and the Church.

And so I've been studying this out the last few weeks.

So I want to share some of these studies with you.

Something I think was very, very interesting.

God has been really speaking regarding His church.

Part of the presentations that I'll be doing, I'll be dealing with space.

I'll be dealing with all sorts of things, trying to not give faith, but create room for faith.

Sometimes people just don't have enough room for faith.

And so reason steps in and is able to produce some kind of flexibility for faith.

Now when it comes to things that deal with like what took place millions of years ago or thousands of years ago, ladies and gentlemen, we don't have to have all the answers.

We just need to have reasonable ones, right?

And when we have reasonable ones, that creates room for faith.

I actually knew somebody who was working on the Hubble telescope, And it was very interesting.

He was able to share some of the most insane pictures of what the Hubble telescope was actually capturing.

And within those galaxies, thousands of planets that were there.

And this star, or that star, or nebulae, you name it.

In fact, you'll actually find less atheists in the cosmology department or the astronomy department than you will find in, like, say, molecular science.

And the reason why is because as they're able to see the vast expanse of space and all the things that are out there, it is utterly mind blowing.

Now what is really crazy, I've been actually doing some study On the probability, according to a scientific standpoint, the probability of the universe coming into existence by chance.

Now, obviously, we don't believe it's by chance, but imagine if we're going from just completely a naturalistic standpoint, a scientific standpoint.

Roger Penrose, who actually worked with Stephen Hawking, who's also written some books, he said this.

Roger Penrose of Oxford University has calculated that the odds of our universe's low entropy condition, in other words, the basic condition for the universe to exist out of chance, obtaining by chance alone are on the order of 1 part in 10 to the power of 123.

Now you may say, wow, that's impressive, but I don't know what that means.

Now imagine, let's just do a little bit of a fraction.

You place a 1 over a line, and then you take another 1 underneath the line, and what you do is you add 1, 123 zeros.

Imagine if you were to take a decimal point.

You would take decimal point and you would take 1, 000, wait, 1, 229 zeros followed by a 1.

That is the chance, And this is just based upon 1 of the top scientists that exists there when it comes to astrophysics regarding the chances of this universe just coming into existence.

And what I also did, I did some more research and I went, okay, I wonder what scientists believe when it comes to the galaxies.

The galaxies coming into existence by chance or randomness.

And what was amazing, this is what Roger Penrose said as well, the odds of our solar system being formed instantly by the, not galaxy, solar system, by the random collision of particles is 1 part in 10 to the power 10 to the power 60.

A vast number, but inconceivably smaller than 1 part in 10 to the power 10 to the power 123.

By the way, if you go to the Powerball Lottery Jackpot site, do you know what your chances are of winning that lottery ticket?

It's 1 out of 175 million of winning a Powerball lottery jackpot.

I actually had my friend who's a math teacher down in Delano, he's a math professor at the college there, and I said, can you do some calculations for me?

Based upon the Powerball jackpot probability, if you were to win the lottery every month for 10 years straight, out of chance, would you come close to even that number?

He did the calculations really quickly and he says, not even close.

It is so astronomical, just the probability of the galaxy or the solar system coming into existence.

In fact, what is so interesting, Hugh Ross, who's well respected in astrophysics, he says this, and he's a Christian, the results of his calculation, talking about this, This is the results of his calculation of finding all 123 of his parameters in other words the anthropic principles basic conditions for causing life or having life exists Less than 1 chance in 10 to the hundred and 30 ninth power.

That's 10000 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion Trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion Exists that even 1 such planet would occur anywhere in the universe Now if you think that's crazy You're like wow, that is so improbable that the universe could come by chance, so improbable that our Earth-like planet could just come about by chance.

By chance, if they were to develop, this is what scientists are saying right now.

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