Understanding Our Relationship with God: The Ultimate Question

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Now I say that whatever our views and whatever our attitude tonight, we should recognize if we think at all and are concerned seriously about our existence in this world that all this denotes tremendous possibilities. It is indeed a tremendous matter that men has been able to do what he has succeeded in doing. [00:03:05]

I say that this question that is put before us here by the psalmist transcends all those other questions in importance. And that is why this evening I am not going to preach to you about the satellite, and neither am I going to preach to you about hydrogen bonds nor about the labor Party Conference nor the forthcoming Conservative Party Conference nor any one of these matters. [00:03:41]

The fool ha said in his heart there is no God. Now the thing I want to emphasize is this, that the psalmist is making a universal statement. He doesn't say some of the people who say that there is no God are fools. He says every one of them is. He doesn't say of course there are fools who say this sort of thing. [00:07:26]

Here is a man I say who is a fool because he listens to his heart and his desire instead of listening to that sense which is within him as it is within the whole of the human race, the sense of God. Now there is in every men and women born into this world a sense of God. [00:11:54]

The argument today is that these people don't believe in God because of their knowledge, because of their understanding, because of their great brains, because of their wonderful abilities. And they say the only people who still believe in God are these primitive types who haven't yet developed or these psychological cases. [00:22:50]

We know perfectly well that for every learned intelligent men you can show me in the world tonight who doesn't believe in God, I can show you a man who is unlearned and ignorant and lacking in intelligence and lacking in ability. Well, I know it's a wonderful thing to hear people on the brains trust. [00:23:41]

The argument you see was a very simple one. I first had to show him that he arrived at that tremendous conclusion on that one bit of evidence alone. Had he ever thought that perhaps it was a part of the purpose of God to allow this in order to bring something else to pass? [00:29:41]

I say a man who reasons and argues like that, though he may be a very learned and very brilliant men as such, is just behaving like a fool. Well then look at the other evidence, the evidence from the so-called proofs of psychology. Of course, they say psychology now has taught us or psychology proves and demonstrates. [00:31:14]

I rarely do mean the evidence of creation. I rarely do mean the world in which we live. I really do mean the cosmos in which we are existing. I'm, I confess, I'm baffled that anybody should believe that this amazing Universe in which we find ourselves is but the result of accident and chance. [00:35:16]

Have you ever considered the evidence of Prophecy as we find it in the Old Testament? Have you ever considered the fact that there were things foretold 800 years and more before they ever happened? Have you ever written down on paper the facts concerning the birth and the life and the death and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ? [00:39:57]

My third reason for calling such a man a fool is that because in that way and for those two reasons that I've just been giving you, he doesn't hesitate to risk his whole eternal life and his whole Eternal future. Ah, but he says I don't believe there is anything after death. [00:44:23]

You know there is no life even in this world that is comparable to The Godly life. It's a clean life, it's a Pure Life, it's a holy life, it's a life lived in fellowship and communion with God and with Christ. It's a life I say lived amongst the people who have done the greatest amount of good in this world. [00:49:36]

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