[Music] Colossians 1:1 15 he is the image of the invisible God the firstborn of every creature for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether they be Thrones or dominions or principalities or Powers all things were created by Him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consisted Paul tells us that Jesus Christ created the universe he not only created the universe but he controls the universe and he not only controls the universe but he claims the universe by
him he says were all things created now that's not what our kids are taught in school but it doesn't alter the fact what we're dealing here with here is the ultimate origin of the me material universe and science knows nothing of Origins Dr Asar gry once called the greatest botanist in the history of American Science once said a beginning is quite beyond the can and scope of science which is concerned with how things go on and has nothing to say as to how they begin sir Oliver LOD a British Scientist knited by the crown for
his contributions to science in his day stated ultimate Origins are inscrutable let us admit as scientific men the real origin even of the simplest thing we know nothing not even a pebble and th Huxley they used to call him Darwin's Bulldog always yapping at the heels of the theologians yet have never heard of Darwin's theories if it hadn't been for th Huxley Huxley was the man who saw the immense potential of the theory of evolution as a working hypothesis for atheism some way to explain the universe without being bothered by God towards the end of
his life however Huxley was a little more honest he said it appears to me that the scientific investigator is wholly incompetent to say anything at all about the first origin of the material Universe science knows nothing of Origins suppose we had a clock up here with a pendulum and for the sake of our illustration a scientist comes in who's never seen a clock with a pendulum before he's very interested and he makes some measurements he observes the swing of the pendulum and how it's related to the movement of the hands and he comes up with
an equation with that equation he can tell you exactly where that pendulum will be at any given moment in the future and he can even tell you the exact moment it will cease to swing having tested his equation and found it accurate he decides he'd like to inquire into the past he wants to know now what happened before he came upon the scene and particularly how it all got started in the first place well you see for a while the answers make sense the further back he goes into the past the greater was the swing
of the pendulum but he discovers if he goes back too far the answers no longer make sense for if he goes back too far he actually comes to a point where that pendulum was swinging in two directions at the same time which he concludes is an absurdity he comes to the further conclusion that what is now happening does not explain how it started he can explain the laws that now govern the swing of that pendulum but those laws do not explain how it started something quite different from what is now happening must have happened to
get it going in the f first place but what it is he doesn't know he can come up with a theory he can say I think this is what happened and I think it must have happened about this time but he can never say for sure in fact the only way he could speak with authority on how it got started in the first place would be if someone who was there when it happened would have tell him other words you see this kind of information is not derived by a process of reasoning but by a
process of Revelation and thus it is with the origin of the universe we can measure the laws that now govern in the material universe but those laws do not explain how it started in fact something quite different from was what is now happening must have happened in the beginning to get it started in the first place but what it is the scientist doesn't know he can come up with a guess he can say I think this is how it started and I think it was about this time that it started but he doesn't know no
way he can know for this kind of information is not derived by a process of reasoning but by a process of Revelation the only way we can know how it all started in the first place would be if someone who was there when it happened were to tell us how well you see somebody was there when it happened the Holy Spirit was there and the Holy Spirit tells us that Jesus Christ created the universe there is no scientist on this planet that can contradict that statement on scientific ground when a scientist speaks concerning the origin
of the universe he is not speaking as a a scientist he is speaking as a philosopher he's not saying this is what we know he's saying this is what I think and if he's honest he'll admit that what he's thinking today is not what he was thinking 10 years ago and what he's thinking today probably won't be the same as what he's thinking 10 years from now he cannot speak to the origin of the universe science knows nothing of origin therefore we are on perfectly safe ground when we insist that Jesus Christ created the universe
that's a tremendous concept of the Lord Jesus trouble with most people is that their concept of the Lord Jesus is too small when we think of Christ we kind of picture him as somebody who lived 2,000 years ago in a foreign country but that's not the way it was altogether you see that's perfectly true but that's not all the truth the truth is that that same person who invaded these scenes of time stepped out of out of Eternity into time incarnated himself in human flesh and lived amongst us for 33 and a half years was
the great Eternal uncreated self-existing second person of the godhead that's who he was and he created the universe we're living in a very complex universe nobody can know everything there is to know even about his own particular area of specialty still less can he know everything there is to know but has it ever occurred to you that our Lord Jesus Christ knows every law that is known to science and he knows every law that is not yet known to science and he knows these laws not because he has investigated them but because he has invented
them it was Kepler a famous astronomer of a past generation who after a series of 18 experiments that unlock the secrets of astronomy who said oh God he said I am thinking thy thoughts after thee that's all anyone can do it's a tremendously complex Universe the Mind behind the universe is the mind of omniscient genius it's the mind of Jesus it's not only a tremendously complex Universe it's an enormously vast Universe they tell us for example that there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy just in our own backyard in space but then the astronomer
comes along and says yeah but you see that's uh just our galaxy there are 100 million other galaxies in known space besides our own and then Einstein comes along and says yeah but you see known space is only one billionth of theoretical space it is no wonder that Sir James jeans a British astronomer once said that there there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on all the seash shores of all the world and my Bible tells me that Jesus made them [Music] all but then Paul reminds us that he also
controls the universe by him he says all things consist by him everything holds together why is it that the center of the atom which contains protons all positively charged does not Sly disintegrate according to kul's law which states that like charges re repel you you can see that you bring the two positive poles of a magnet together they won't stay together by the same principle the center of the atom ought to disintegrate nobody knows why it does I know what holds it all together it's held together by The Genius of Jesus he not only created
the universe he controled the universe all things were made by him by him all things consist you ever stop to think about the sun the sun is losing weight by radiation at the incredible rate of 4,200,000 tons every second it's a start it's incredibly hot it's constantly converting hydrogen into helium at inconceivable temperatures but somebody set the thermostat so that our little planet in space never gets too hot it never gets too cold it stays at the right average temperature to sustain life Life as We Know It On This Planet could only exist within a
very n narrow bargin of temperature if it got much hotter for much longer the whole planet would become a Sahara Desert if it got much colder for much longer the whole planet would become a frozen Arctic it doesn't do either one or the other it just stays at the right temperature to sustain life who set the thermostat his name was Jesus he not only created the universe he controls the universe John tells us that the word the word was made flesh and dwelt Among Us and he says thinking back over those marvelous years when as
a young man he had trod the Galilean Lake in the company of Jesus he said we beheld his glory the glory of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth one day when Jesus lived down here he borrowed Simon Peter's boat as they shoved off from Shore he was tired and went and wrapped himself up in a boat cloak and lay down in the boughs of that boat that was his Humanity you see he got tired like anybody else went sound asleep you know that's the only time in the gospels you ever
read of Jesus being asleep and instantly all hell was let loose on that Lake Simon Peter was scared to death it says the boat was now full well what happens when a boat is full of water it sinks to the bottom doesn't it not that one no water can swallow the ship where lies the the master of ocean and sea and sky but there's that boat a wash with water and Simon Peter waiting through the water to where the living Son of God sleeps still didn't bother him he's up to his neck and what didn't
bother him a little bit went on sleeping nothing get worried about Simon Peter woke him up he said carest thou not that we perish and he stood up there in that boat and listened to the howling winds and looked at the heaving waves and he said be still but instantly there was a great calm they said what manner of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey him he controls the universe he not only created the universe and he not only controls the universe but he claims the universe all things were made
by him it says and for him he claims the universe every star in space every single Speck of Cosmic dust It All Belongs to him it's his this world is his you have that magnificent picture in Revelation chapters 4 and five as the Lord Jesus steps into the spotlight of Eternity and becomes the center of everything the question had just been asked who is worthy to take the scroll and un loose the seals thereof didn't say who is willing that was the title Deeds of the planet you know didn't say who was willing it said
who is worthy If he if he asked who is willing there' have been a stampede John stood there and all of a sudden those High Halls of Heaven were shaken with a sob they'd seen plenty of Tears on Earth those Angel hosts they'd never seen tears in heaven they stood and stared at John standing there with tears running down his cheeks for shame for the human race that of all the people that have lived on this planet not a single one fit to govern the globe not Abraham or Isaac or Jacob not even David or
Daniel not Peter James or John nobody he said I wept much then he was told to look behold he said the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed and there in the midst well where else would you find him he's always in the midst and the the astounding thing is John had just been looking at that Throne he'd just been looking at those 4 and 20 Elders he had just must been looking at those four living creatures and there in the midst of them all he saw him he turned to see the lion and
looked straight into the face of the Lamb you see the Lord Jesus go to the throne and put out that pierced hand to take possession of that which was rightfully his to claim this little corner of the universe as token of the whole claim it have you ever wondered what he would have said if the one upon the throne had said to him well what is your right to these titled Deeds oh I know what he would have said he would have said that world belongs to me by right of creation because I made it
that world belongs to me by right of Calvary I bought it that world belongs to be by right of Conquest for since the only language that the unregenerate heart of man seems to understand is the language that might is right I'll go back and get it that way too it's his he created the universe he controlls the universe he claims the universe Jesus Christ created you what an amazing thought you ever stopped to think about it you had absolutely no say whatsoever in the circumstances of your birth nobody asked you if you'd even like to
be born nobody asked you if you'd like to be born into a poor family or a rich family nobody asked you if you'd like to be born in the United States of America or in the country where they speak the language properly nobody asked you nobody asked you if you'd like to be born in this Century or some other Century nobody asked you anything Jesus Christ created you he knows all about you he made you he made you and he claims you as every right to rule in your heart and mind as Savior and Lord
he claims us we don't belong to ourselves we've been bought with a price we belong to him he claims us and he controls us you know if there's someone here this morning and you have not not accepted Christ as your savior he controls you you know you don't have the last say he does he controls you oh yes you can say I will or I won't when you are presented with the gospel you can say I will I will accept the Lord Jesus Christ as my own personal savior from sin you can do that or
you can say I won't I won't and get up and walk out and in effect tell the Lord Jesus keep your hands off my life leave me alone well that's your decision but you don't have the last say he does and what will happen one of these days is simply this that he will say to you well have it your own way you didn't want me to be your savior and your lord well have it your own way do without me forever Jesus Christ created the universe he controls the universe he claims the Universe I
am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end sayth the Lord Lord which is and which was and which is to come the almighty he which testifieth these things sayth surely I come quickly amen even so come Lord Jesus [Music]
