Music Well good morning. Well it's great to be here and to be able to share with all of you this morning. I always say a few things at the beginning so people get used to my deep southern accent. You know, the interesting thing was I didn't even have an accent until I came to America and people told me I got an accent. Didn't even know about it.

So I guess there's something you acquire when you breathe the air in over here, which is really good. So I was travelling down yesterday and I was listening to a TV reality program. It's absolutely incredible. I mean it's like watching Mission Impossible and you're going this way and that way, and a new twist and a new turn, and that's the presidential election. So, you don't need to watch any reality TV programmes, just listen to the news, and it's Really interesting.

I was just over in Australia visiting with my very frail aged mother. She turns 89 in February. And the Australians, they were all telling me, would you please tell them to elect a president and get over and done with, we are sick of all this stuff on the news. And they said, would you, it's, the whole world's watching America right now. And in many ways, America's a laughing stock of the whole world, it's pretty sad.

Well, Anstin Genesis is an apologetics ministry, that doesn't mean we apologise for our faith, you understand that, it means we equip people to be able to defend the Christian faith in today's world, challenge Christians and non-Christians concerning the truth of God's Word and the Gospel. And so we have an apologetics ministry, we opened the Ark, I'm going to talk more about that in the keynote session next, a life-size Noah's Ark that was opened on July 7 and between that and the Creation Museum, we've had over 600 visits, including both places, since July, 600, sorry, a thousand visits, since July 7. That sounds a bit better, doesn't it? 600, 000. So, even the secular media, you know, they're grudgingly admitting, oh, they are coming from all over the world.

And the Creation Museum has actually walked through the Bible. And I want to concentrate a little bit on this this morning and just share a bit about this message because this is what I wanted to talk to you about. But the Creation Museum is actually a walk through the Bible. You see the ministry events in Genesis are not just on about creation, evolution and fossils and the age of the earth. What we're on about is upholding the authority of the Word of God and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

And the way we do it, at the Creation Museum, we actually walk you through what we call the Seven Seas of History. It's that whole linear approach to history. Actually we do something really radical. What we do radical is this. This is so radical it's going to blow you off your seats.

So hang on to your seats. You've probably never heard of this idea before, but we actually present the gospel the way God does it in the Bible by starting at the beginning. Isn't that a radical idea? Who would have thought of doing that? And So what we do is we start at the beginning and we go through those first 11 chapters of Genesis, creation, corruption, catastrophe, confusion You realize that's the geological, biological, astronomical, anthropological history that's actually foundational to all of our doctrines to our morality, to our Christian worldview, to the gospel, and then we present the gospel based on that history.

And the reason we specifically do this is because in this era of history there's been an incredible attack on those first 11 chapters. And we have generations of kids in our churches who have been told that history is not true and sadly most of our Christian leaders have not feared God as they should have, have not stood on the authority of the Word of God. The majority of our Christian leaders, Christian Bible colleges, seminaries have said you don't have to believe Genesis 1 to 11, you can reinterpret it, you don't have to take it as written as long as you trust in Jesus, but generations are now starting to recognise the message of Jesus comes from this book, and if the first part of the book is not true, then how can you trust the rest of the book? And people, that's the bottom line problem that we have in our culture today. And that's one of the reasons why I call on the church for a new reformation because we need to get back to the authority of scripture and we've lost it in this area of Genesis because of the attacks in today's world.

And so the way we do this at the Creation Museum, we have all these life-sized exhibits and a planetarium and special effects theater, and we walk people through the Bible. You know what kids tell us? It makes the Bible come alive. It makes it real, because we connect the Bible to fossils and to dinosaurs and to the Grand Canyon and to death and suffering and to the sun, moon and stars, it makes the Bible a book of history which is what it really is, and we help them understand that. Because many of our kids today, they're growing up in church and I tell you what, they're tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine and the reason I say that is because we got all these issues before us whether it be the abortion issue and now we're talking about the gender issue and the bathroom issue and and then they've got the issue of evolution and creation and you know gay marriage and and here at me out Jesus and the day and and his death and resurrection and all these spiritual things and moral things.

And you know what? It's like a whole mess of different things out there and they don't know how to bring it all together. And you know, one of the reasons for that is because they haven't been taught this linear approach to history where we start with the Bible's history and understand the Bible is actually the foundation for our world view. And because of what's happened in our culture and because of the teaching of evolution, millions of years, 85 to 90% of our kids go to public schools where they're taught ideas that totally contradict the Bible, they go home, they go to their churches and they say, well, wait a minute, they said, no, I couldn't have fit the animals on the ark, there's no evidence for a global flood, we came from ape men, What about the millions of years, carbon dating, and many of our churches and homes, parents are saying, well, I don't know, I'm not a scientist, I don't know about that, Johnny, don't worry about that, trust in Jesus. And then we've got many other pastors who are saying, well, you can believe in evolution, that's okay, we just reinterpret the Bible, you know, you take what men call science and just reinterpret the days and reinterpret the flood that's okay but then the coming generations start to recognize if you do that in Genesis why shouldn't you take man's view of marriage and reinterpret marriage which is exactly what they're doing and people we have a major problem today in our churches and And what's happened is because of the teaching of evolution of millions of years, even for many of our conservative, evangelical, Christian leaders who teach the gospel, who teach wonderful in-depth spiritual things, and moral things, and wonderful theology, and all the rest of it, You know what I found?

Since the 1800s, 1700s, 1800s, because they didn't know what to do with, well, how do you answer questions about carbon dating? What about tree ring dating? What about the Big Bang? And what about dinosaurs? And we don't know how to do all that.

And you know what's happened? That even the conservative ones, by and large, not all, but a lot of them, have basically said, well, we're not going to deal with Genesis, we can just teach all the moral things and the spiritual things and relationships and all that sort of thing, and people, what's happened is we have generations of kids now who don't have a foundation for their worldview. Because once you disconnect that history from your worldview, then they have no foundation for it. And that's why they're out there and they're floundering. You know, I've been to many, many churches where I've had parents come up to me in this sort of situation.

My teenagers say church is boring. They don't want to sit through church. It's all boring. They say it's all the same old stuff. And they say, and then they don't want to come to church.

And then you spoke this morning, and then they said to me, Mum and Dad, we want to come back tonight and hear the rest of this. And they say, what happened? How come my kids are dragging me back to church when I've been the one trying to drag them to church? And when you talk to the kids, they say but you helped us understand the Bible is real, it's a book of history and all these things, they're the doubts we have, all those issues that you talked about in regard to fossils and millions of years, they're the things that are causing us to wonder, we don't know what to believe and when you have answers to that and you show us the Bible as a book of history and it connects to that, wow we start to realise it's real. People, we're missing that from most of our homes and churches.

Look let me illustrate, as I've travelled all around the world and for the past 40 odd years, one of the things I've noticed is it doesn't matter what country you're in, whether you're in the Dominican Republic or whether you're in France or whether you're in Australia or America or Canada, it doesn't matter whether you are a third world country or not. You know what I found? In this era of history, when people hear that you're on about the Bible, you're on about Christianity, they ask the same basic questions. You know how those questions go? You believe the Bible?

We live in a scientific age. Science has disproved the Bible. Hey, wait a minute, what about the Big Bang? Well, where did God come from? Well, who made God?

You believe in Adam and Eve? Where did Cain get his wife? What about the ape men? Don't dinosaurs contradict the Bible? Carbon-14, doesn't that disprove the Bible?

And anyway, What about the ape men? Didn't we all come from ape men? What about all these transitional forms that they find? Isn't the fossil record millions of years old? There's no evidence for a global flood.

Just for interest, how many of you have heard those sorts of questions or statements in today's world? Put your hand up. Do you see all the hands? People, it doesn't matter what church, what conference I go to, people all put their hands up. You've heard all those, but you know the sad thing?

In the majority of our homes and churches, most people don't know how to deal with them and they don't deal with them and we know that they're the questions being asked and they say, oh, don't worry about it, just trust in Jesus, Johnny. But you see, they're the very things that are causing the generational loss from the church and why coming generations doubt and don't believe the Bible. You know, at the creation museum, my favourite exhibit is this one. Has a picture of my mother and my father. My father went with the Lord about 22 years ago and there's a Bible with all his notes in there, open to the book of Genesis, you'd be astonished by that, and has a little Noah's Ark my father built me many, many years ago not knowing that one day we'd build a life-size ark.

And do you know why that is there? It's there because I want people to think of one word as I stand in front of this little exhibit. And the word is legacy. Because do you realise that really the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter, the Ministry of Answers and Genesis is reaching millions of people around the world. I mean our website, 25 million unique users a year and and and we've had 3 million people come to the creation museum looks like between 1.4 2.2 million people a year are going to come to the arc I mean and all the books millions of books that are gone out people do you realize that's a legacy of parents who taught their children to stand on the authority of the Word of God boldly and uncompromisingly and unashamedly and to have a heart for reaching people with the gospel.

And you know what's interesting, I grew up in a country, it's a pagan country, less than 1%, probably born again Christians. My father's a teacher and he got transferred every three years, he was promoted to little country areas of Queensland, they started Sunday schools, they had a heart for reaching people with the Gospel. My father also would always be researching what the liberal critics are saying to get answers to them, to teach us, because he didn't want us being led astray by what these people attacking the Bible were saying. You know, I praise the Lord for that. He was really teaching us apologetics.

We didn't even know the word back then, but that's what he was doing. He wasn't just teaching us what the Bible said, but preparing us for the attacks on God's word. He was being a father to make sure we were founded in God's word and we knew how to defend our faith. I think that affected me. That's the only reason I believe I'm here today is because of the way my father and mother taught us to stand on God's Word.

And you know what? Because of the spiritual legacy they passed on to us, my wife and I have passed it on to our children who are now passing it on to their children. And by the way, you can tell that was before the arc was open. So since then, we've had another grandchild and then another one's on the way. We're a very procreationist family.

So In our family, there's always one on the way in our family, that's one of the things I found, you know, just wonder who's next, there's another one on the way. So we're up to number 16 grandchild in January. But I put that up there as a challenge to us, because people, here's what I want to say to you. It is so thrilling for us as parents to see our kids passing that spiritual legacy onto the next generation to raise up godly offspring. But in the majority of instances in our churches that is not happening.

I mean whether it's LifeWay, George Barna, many others, we've done our own research with America's research group, do you realize we're losing generations from the church? Two-thirds of young people have left the church, leave the church, by the time they reach college age, very few return. If that keeps happening, where's the church going to be in another generation or two? People, even the secular world is doing research to talk about the secularisation of the culture and the exodus from the church. We published a book in 2009 called Already Gone, we had America's research group go and find these young people in their 20s, the millennials, who used to go to church regularly, no longer go to church, and we said find out why they no longer go to church, and you know what, there are lots of different reasons, but this is real carefully done research, where they asked them and let them tell them and they recorded it and went back and it just wasn't multiple choice answers.

And you know what we found? Overwhelmingly it had to do with the fact they were not taught how to defend their faith and answer sceptical questions. You know what came up over and over again? Millions of years. The age of the Earth was one of the top issues that came up.

And yet, even in many of our conservative churches, many people don't want to touch that because it is so radical to believe in thousands of years. You know why? Because the secular world will so intimidate you and scoff at you and call you intellectually inferior and and you're anti-academic and anti-scientific if you believe in thousands of years because if they don't have the millions of years they can't even propose evolution. You see not only that issues like how can you believe in a loving God with all the death and suffering in the world and what about there's no evidence for the flood and evolution and science conflicts with the Bible. Those things came up over and over again.

It's very obvious. They were not taught how to defend their faith and answer these questions. 85 to 90% of them went to public schools, with their by and large showing God out, the prayer out, Bible out. People, we have to be honest. It's about time we stood up and said the reality of the situation.

Most public schools are nothing but churches of atheism. In their textbooks they say science can only explain things by natural processes. What is naturalism? Naturalism is atheism. We send kids there for what, five, six hours a day, five days a week, and we think an hour at church on Sunday is going to deal with that?

It's one of the major contributing factors as to why so many have left the church and they're so secularised. And fathers haven't taken on their God-given, commanded responsibility to be the head of their house and to equip the coming generations and you know you can look at that but then we have an additional problem What about those that are left in the church? We had America's research group in 2014, we published a book in 2015, do research on what about the 20th generation left in the church? What do they believe? And did a very in-depth research project and published the results in the book Ready to Return.

And I tell you what, I'm just going to give you a few of the results. You should read the rest of the results. You think we've got a problem in the culture? People, we have a massive problem in the church and the reason for the problem in the culture is because of the problem in the church. The 20th generation who regularly attend church in America.

Do you consider yourself born again 40% outright? No. Do you believe all other holy books including the Quran are inspired by God? 20% yes, 10% don't know. 30% think there could be other inspired books.

Do you believe if you're a good person you'll go to heaven? 65% say yes. Should gay couples be allowed to marry? 40% yes, 10% don't know. People, that's 50% of the coming generations in our churches wouldn't speak against gay marriage.

And you should see the rest of the results. In 2015, we had America's research group do research into how many people would come to the Ark when we opened the Ark. But we also had them, because they were doing a general population survey, we had them do some research, ask questions about the spiritual state of the nation. And one of the questions they asked was this. This is general population.

If you went to church, if you went to church as kids, regularly as kids, do you still attend most Sundays or did you stop attending? People, here is the state of what's happening. In the 60s generation, 22% that went to church have stopped attending. But in the 20's generation, 53% that went to church have stopped attending. Do you want to know where America is heading?

Look at Europe. Look at England. That's where America is heading. And you know whose fault it is? It's the church's fault because we have not stood on the authority of the Word of God, we have not prepared the coming generations with answers to the skeptical questions, we haven't taught them as we should, we've accommodated to the world's religion You know what I see has happened in the church?

The majority of our Christian leaders, we've done the research on this, the majority of our professors, our academics at our seminaries, at our Bible colleges, the majority of pastors, the majority of leaders in the church, elders, deacons, not all but certainly the majority will not take a stand on six literal days and young earth and they've accommodated in some way with the world's teaching. You know it is no different than the Israelites adopting the pagan religion of the age of the Canaanites and others, and compromising God's word. There is nothing new under the sun. We are no different, because you know what evolution of millions of years really is? And we need to stand up and say it in the church.

Do you know what evolution millions of years is? That is the pagan religion of this age to explain life without God. That's what it is. And much of the church has adopted that pagan religion? You know, in the Bible, God has a warning for us.

2 Corinthians 11, 3. So God through Paul, you know, it used to be that when you preach you could say, now Paul said and Peter said, but it was understood that this is the word of God, that it's God breathed. Do you know because of the way things are being taught in many churches now, I don't even like to say Paul says anymore. That's why I like to say God through Paul says, Because you see so many churches saying, well Paul was battling with this here and he said this and of course he didn't know this and wait a minute isn't all scripture inspired by God? God breathed, God moved people by his spirit to write his word.

So you know the state of the church is such a burden to think about. But here God has a warning for us. I feel as though somehow as the serpent is eaved by his craftiness, your mind shall be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. OK, let me paraphrase it for you. I want to warn you, mums and dads, I want to warn you.

I want to warn all of you that the devil is going to use the same method on you, on your children, on your grandchildren, on your neighbors, on your friends. The devil is going to use the same method on us as he did on Eve to get us to a position of not believing the things of God. Wow, if God's giving us a warning that the devil's going to use the same method, we'd better go figure out what that method is. Oh, by the way, there happens to be a reference to Eve in the New Testament, which means, must be a literal Eve. So we go back to Genesis 3.

The servant was more crafty than any of the animals God made and he said unto the woman, did God really say? What was the first attack? The first attack was on the authority of the Word of God. I call it the Genesis 3 attack. So what is God warning us?

The attack is going to be on the Word. That's what's going to happen. The devil is going to attack the word and I call it the Genesis 3 attack and the Genesis 3 attack has manifested itself in different ways in different areas of history you know we should be asking ourselves how does the Genesis 3 attack manifest itself today and I'm going to suggest you that the teaching of evolution millions of years it's all part of the Genesis 3 attack today and most of the church succumbed. Let me put it really bluntly for you. See, I'm an Australian, we just say things as we, that's just the way it is.

You just have to put up with that. I think we need more of that in our churches, actually. We need more Aussie preachers, right? Blunt, talent, the way it is. See, look.

Here's what I believe has happened. Think about all those questions that you all know about that most Christian families are not teaching their children answers to and most churches aren't dealing with. Think about that in relation to 2 Corinthians 11 and Genesis 3. Here's what I think has happened. Here's what the devil has done, I believe in this era.

You Christians, you know what? Go on and teach your kids about the resurrection and the virgin birth and all that theological stuff and That's okay, you can do that. Teach them about Jesus walking on water and feeding 5, 000. You can even teach them about the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. You go teach them all about that.

That's fine. You can do that. Jonah and the great fish, you do that. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get them not to believe the book, and you're going to help me do that because I'm going to get you to send them to an education system where I can attack the book and undermine the book and I'm going to get you to help me because you're not going to teach them answers to those questions You're just going to keep teaching them about Jesus on the cross and the resurrection.

That's okay, you keep doing that, but once they don't believe the book, they're not going to believe that either. Now don't get me wrong, we want people to understand about Jesus. The whole Bible is all about Jesus. There's no greater message than the message of salvation in Christ. That is the message for us.

The whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation is about Jesus. But the point I want to make to us is that message comes from a book. You don't get it by looking at a tree or a rock. It comes from the Word of God and people do you know what we've done in the church? For most of us we've said I don't know how to deal with this bit doesn't matter as long as we concentrate on this bit and you think about it most of our churches concentrate on the moral things, the spiritual things, relationships, they're dealing with all those things and doctrinal things.

In the meantime, the devil has taken generations of our kids and undermined the book because of the Genesis 3 attack here and we have neglected to deal with it. And now we wonder why there's a generational loss from the church. That's why at the Creation Museum, let me get back to it, what do we do? We say we're going to start at the beginning, a perfect world marred by sin. That's why there's death in the world, because of sin.

There wasn't death millions of years before sin. You can't have a fossil record with all that death and disease millions of years before man. There was a flood. If there really was a flood, you'd explain to all these fossils all over the world, which you do. The fossil record is a graveyard of the flood, most of it anyway, not record of millions of years after the flood.

The Tower of Babel, God gives languages, that's why you have different people groups, not different races, we're all one race, you're not going to be able to deal with prejudice and racism in our culture and in the church until you understand that history in Genesis. Why is not the church leading the way dealing with prejudice and racism in America? Because most of the church has abandoned the first 11 chapters or doesn't deal with them. People don't have that history. They can't put it all together.

And then the message of the gospel that's based in that history. Think about it, a perfect creation, it'll be perfect in the future. Sin and death entered the world, that's why Jesus died on the cross, because death was a penalty for sin. The flood of Noah's day, a judgment because of man's wickedness, but a message of salvation, those who went through the one door of the ark was saved God's Son steps into history and said I am the door by me if any man Andrew and he'll be saved the Tower of Babel reminds us we're all related to Adam and Eve so we're all relatives so we just having a great big family get-together here today isn't that great just think even people you don't like you're related to We're all related to even Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Think about that.

We're watching our two relatives have an interesting time. The Tower of Babel reminds us that we're all related so we're all sinners that's why the gospel message is for every tribe and nation. But here's what's happened in this day and age This history has come under incredible attack. First 11 chapters. Most of our churches and that have given up on that history and said it doesn't matter, or they don't know how to deal with it.

Just tell them about Jesus. And people, do you know what we've seen in the church? I tell you, I travel. I see a lot more perspective on the church than many people because I speak in churches all across the nation and around the world. And I travel extensively.

You know what I've seen? Much of the church has become more entertainment oriented. There's a focus on music rather than the teaching of the word. Don't get me wrong, I love music. But, you know, I go to churches where, I mean, they'll have an hour, what they call praise and worship, and then they give me 15 minutes to speak.

The church is trying to say, how do we cope with this problem we've got? But they're not dealing with the elephant in the room, they're not dealing with the issues of, wait a minute, they've been taught evolution for millions of years, and I've got to take a stand on the Bible and the Genesis re-attack here, and Genesis, they're recognising there's a conflict here, but they don't want to take a stand and be different. In Noah's day, if they were told to build the ark, they wouldn't have. Because they would have succumbed to the praise of men rather than the praise of God. And so what do they do?

They're looking for all these other things to try to solve the problem. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example of what's happening in the leadership in our churches in America. Many of you might have heard of Andy Stanley, son of Charles Stanley, has a big church in Georgia. You know, there are many that look to him to say, well, he knows what he's doing.

I want you to see something. He recognises the problem, he recognises the conflict in regard to what the world's teaching in Genesis, so he has a solution. Let's see what his solution is. First of all, let's hear what he says here. You sent them to college with a, the Bible says it, that settles it.

And then a professor got up and says, well, there's problems with the Bible. And they begin to talk about things that maybe aren't true or historically verifiable, and your smart son or daughter that you spent thousands and thousands of dollars to get them educated come home and suddenly they're smarter than you. And they already thought they were smarter than you, but now they have a professor saying, hey, you really are smarter than your Sunday school teacher and your parents. If the Bible is the foundation of our faith, here's the problem, it is all or nothing. Christianity becomes a fragile house of cards religion.

Now, what he's saying is, okay, you taught them the Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it, but then they go to college and they hear all these things that conflict with the Bible. If you've taught them that the Bible, that you can trust it all and you can read it as written in Genesis, then you've got a problem because now they realise that that's not true, the rest can't be true. And just to show you what he sees as some of that conflict with Genesis. We really believe, whether you take it literally or figuratively, whatever. How's that for a Christian leader?

If we really believe, talking about Genesis, whether you take it literally, figuratively, you know, it doesn't really matter. We really believe that God is the creator of the universe, that all time, space and matter, all time, space and matter were created by God. And we take seriously What science has told us, that it all began with a singularity, that's what it's referred to, right before there's not such thing as before the Big Bang, because before it's time and time began. So if we go to the singularity that was the Big Bang, that unfurled the universe, that continues to expand. Okay, so he obviously accepts the Big Bang.

And by the way, we've been careful to watch the whole series. We know we haven't taken any of this out of context. And so you believe in the Big Bang, that's science. So you've got a conflict. It was interesting that, and this is what really concerns me, Russell Moore at a Southern Baptist sponsored convention recently had Andy Stanley there and interviewed him and asked him this question.

If you were real, the evangelical pope, and you really had the authority to say, this is how it's gonna be, within American evangelical Christianity, what would you do? I would ask preachers and pastors and student pastors in their communication to get the spotlight off the Bible and back on the resurrection. Let's get people's attention back on Jesus as soon as possible, that the issue for us is always who is Jesus, that he rise from the dead, and that we would leverage the authority we have in the resurrection as opposed to scripture not because I don't believe scriptures inspired in terms of reaching this culture we've already talked about that one how do I know about the resurrection by the way even Jesus said if you don't believe the writings of Moses how can you believe my words? John 5 and so then and this is not quite as good a quality sound so then here's what he's really saying. The foundation of our faith is not the infallibility of the Bible.

The foundation of our faith is something that happened in history, and the issue is always, who is Jesus? Once you get your focus off scripture, then you can believe whatever the world believes. And people, instead of saying, no, we've got to get back to the authority of the word of God, we've got to stand unashamedly and boldly in the word of God, and we need to be raising up generations who can answer these sceptical questions, He's saying there's a conflict here, instead of doing that, what do you do? Let's take our focus off the Scriptures and just tell them about Jesus. How do we know Jesus rose from the dead?

How do we ultimately know that? You don't have a movie re-run of it. How do you know that? Where did you get that from? And you know, Psalm 11 3 says, if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Here's a barn that had a foundation that was collapsing and when the foundation collapsed, the barn came down. That collapsing barn to me represents a collapsing world view we see in our Western world it represents to me the collapsing Christian worldview even in our churches why? Because a foundation has come under attack the foundation of the authority of the word of God and this day and age the focus of the attack is squarely on Genesis 1 to 11. That is the Genesis 3 attack of our age. You know it's interesting when so many people will say about all answers in Genesis yeah they're all about creation and stuff.

We're all about the authority of the Word of God and dealing with the Genesis 3 attack in this age that is focused on the first 11 chapters. And see when you don't believe the first 11 chapters and you say it doesn't matter, you can reinterpret it, you do two things. One, you undermine the foundation of all of our doctrines and the Gospel, because they're all founded in Genesis, but two, and this is the bigger issue, you undermine the authority of the Word of God itself. Look, I want to show you, I just want to give you a few little examples of how when you take Genesis's history, how the history, the geology and the biology and the astronomy and the anthropology is all intertwined with the doctrines and the gospel and our Christian worldview. But let me show you how practical it is for teaching in today's world.

Genesis 1.27 says, So God created man in his image, and the image of God created him. Male and female he created them. Stop right there for a moment. Male and female? Who would have ever thought we would have to in this world, in this age, start talking to people about there's actually male and female.

In fact, at the Creason Museum and the Arc Encounter, we actually have male and female restrooms. And when people say, why, say because God made them male and female. Who would have thought we'd have to deal with that issue? Oh, by the way, if you told generations of kids you don't have to take Genesis as history you can understand why they're saying why shouldn't there be transgender and whatever and they can use whatever bathrooms and it doesn't matter it's only when you take God at his word is the absolute authority of a basis for that and by the way any thinking person knows biologically anyway there's male and female. There's actually a difference.

It says that God made man in his own image. That's very important. Because you know what God did? He brought the animals to Adam after he made Adam to name and he saw that there was none like him. He was all alone.

He didn't look at a female chimp and say she's close enough I'll date her. I mean he recognised there was none like him so what did God do? Well the Bible says God made man of dust and then he made woman from his side. He had to make a woman for the man because there wasn't one among the animals. You know, it's interesting.

I've met many pastors, I've said, you know the Bible says God made man from dust, yeah? Well, you believe in evolution, yeah? God used evolution. Well, it says dust to man, not ape-like creature to man. Oh, I believe the dust is symbolic of the ape-like creature that God breathed into to become a man.

Interesting. The Bible says from dust we come and to dust we return when we die. What ape do we return to when we die? Not only that, what do you do with this? And Adam saw that he was alone, so God put him to sleep, and from his side he made the first woman, brought her to the man, and Adam said, wow, well that's the Australian translation, Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my flesh, she came out of man. Oh that's interesting because in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 11, 8 it says man is not from woman, woman from man. Wow. Of course, if that's just not true in Genesis and woman came from an ape woman, if you believe in evolution then obviously the New Testament is wrong too. Verse 11 is wrong because it says woman came from man.

But if you believe in evolution, woman came from ape woman. What are you going to do with that? You see, they take man's beliefs and they twist the scriptures Because they don't want to take God and his word. Adam said, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and then, therefore, this is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife and there will be one flesh. God made them male and female, he made the male from dust, he made the female from the male, you are one flesh, so therefore a man leaves his father and mother and cleaves unto his wife, male and female, and you become one because you are one flesh.

How much clearer can it be that marriage is one man and one woman? How much clearer can it be? Oh, it can be clearer. Because in the New Testament, Jesus Christ, the God-man, the Son of God, the creator, who doesn't tell a lie, who's the word, when asked about marriage said, "'What is wrong with you people? "'Haven't you read the book of Genesis?'" Well, that's my paraphrase.

"'Have you not read he which made the beginning made the male and female Genesis 1 27 and said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and there be one flesh Genesis 2 24. Jesus is quoting the same passages we read there in Genesis, the history concerning the creation of man and woman, this is the foundation for marriage. Marriage is to be one man and one woman, and I have a message for the President of the United States and a message for the Supreme Court Justices. You people did not invent marriage, God did. But people, can you understand, if you raise up generations of kids in the church and tell them Genesis is not history and it doesn't matter and you can believe in evolution, would you be surprised that 50% of the 20th generation in our churches will not stand against gay marriage.

And you know you hear things like, but isn't it all to do with love? What happens if a man loves his dog? See once you abandon an absolute authority, anything goes. It's not going to stop at two men and two women. Polygamy's next, paedophilia, abortion, euthanasia, people.

This is no different to what happened in the time of the Israelites and the pagan cultures of those days, it's no different because when you decide that we determine truth ultimately anything goes And not just marriage. Do you realise every biblical doctrine of theology directly or indirectly is founded in the first 11 chapters of the Bible? Why did Jesus die on the cross? Genesis 1 to 11. Why is there sin in the world?

Genesis 1 to 11. Why did we die? Genesis 1 to 11. Why do we die, Genesis 1 to 11. Why do we need new heavens and new earth, Genesis 1 to 11.

Why is Jesus called the last Adam, Genesis 1 to 11. Why are you wearing clothes, and you all are, but why? Because the animals in our petting zoo don't wear clothes. Do you know what's interesting, I don't know whether you saw that Facebook is going to restrict it, is going to take restrictions of standards they've had in the past. Because you know what they're saying?

We've got a problem of discrimination. Because we let men be pictured without shirts on, and we're not letting women be pictured without shirts on, they've got to be treated equally. And there are women's groups all across America now that are actually demonstrating in cities, saying if men can have their shirts off, why can't we? This is discrimination. People this is this is another movement that you're going to see just just right across the TV screens and and and permeate this culture because once you abandon the absolute authority of God's Word, God gave clothes because of sin it's a picture of the gospel and so on, but clothing, we wear clothes because of sin and because God gave clothes because of sin.

People, once you abandon God's Word anything goes. That's what's happening in our culture, It's all to do with an attack on the word. That's why I said to you we need a new reformation. People are out there looking at all these issues, abortion and gay marriage, they're all symptoms of a deeper problem. You know what the problem is?

People no longer build their thinking on God's Word, they build their thinking on man's word and you know where the problem lies? In the church because God's people didn't stand on God's word. Even many of our conservative preachers basically put their head in the sand like an ostrich where I don't know what to do with the problem we're going to tell them about Jesus. And the devil undermines the book. You know at the end of creation of man, God said everything he made was very good.

Hmm, it's interesting. God made man, everything was very good, and then the Bible says death entered because of sin. One of the big questions in the world today, and one of the big questions that came up in the millennials that left the church, and the millennials that are in church, how can you believe in a loving God with all the death and suffering in the world? Here's what I would say, because even the majority of our conservative pastors have said you can believe in millions of years, that doesn't matter. When, if you believe in millions of years, you're saying God's responsible for all the death and disease in the world, not our sin.

And I found that a lot of the young people today in our churches do not have an understanding of the fear of God the holiness of God because of the issue of millions of years and it came up in the research over and over let me explain to you what's the origin of death Adam you can eat of all the trees, one tree you don't have to eat of, because if you do you surely what? Die. Death came into the world because of sin. Not just death of man, death. I'd say death of animals, bloodshed.

What happened when man sinned? The Bible says God made coats of skins and clothed them. There's one of our museum exhibits, the sacrifice scene, the first blood sacrifices are covering for their sin, a picture of what was to come in Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. You see without the shedding of blood, there's no remission. And the life of the flesh is in the blood.

A man brought sin and death into the world, a man would have to pay the penalty for sin. We're all descendants of Adam, Adam sinned, what he did, we did, he's the head of the human race And he brought sin and death into the world. We're all sinners. So we forfeited our right to live because of sin. So a life would have to be given to pay the penalty for sin.

But the Bible says it's not possible the blood of bulls and goats could take away our sin. You see the Israelites sacrificed animals over and over and over and over and over again, but we don't sacrifice animals today. You didn't come in here for your first service and slaughter a sheep down the frontier because God's son stepped into history. This was pointing towards the one who had come to be the ultimate sacrifice because it needs to be a man to pay the penalty for sin but has to be a perfect man it can't be any one of us. What did God do?

He stepped into history in the person of his son to become one of us, of our family, because we're all one race, we go back to Adam and Eve. To be the God-man, perfect man, to die on the cross, be raised from the dead, offers a free gift of salvation. People, if you've got millions of years of death, bloodshed and suffering before sin, then what does the Bible mean without the shedding of blood? There's no remission of sins if there was a shedding of blood for millions of years before sin. In the fossil record there's lots of examples of animals eating each other, bones in their stomachs, the Bible says originally Adam and Eve ate fruit and the animals were plant eaters.

We weren't told to eat meat until after the flood when God said just as I gave you the plants Now I give you all things, everything. The reason you can eat a hot dog, because it is everything. See, even the origin of a hot dog is in Genesis. Do you realize that? In the fossil record, think about this.

Do you know what's in the fossil record said to be millions of years before man? Evidence of brain tumors, cancer, arthritis, all sorts of diseases in the bones. After God made man, he said everything's very good. If you put millions of years before man, then God's saying cancer's very good and brain tumors are very good. There are thorns in the fossil record saying hundreds of millions years old people, the Bible says thorns came after the curse, these two things can't be true at the same time and here's the point that I'm making to you.

When you bring up generations of kids and Christian leaders have said to them you can believe in millions of years it doesn't matter and our research shows that's exactly what's happened. They have no concept of what our sin has done, they have no concept of the holiness of God, they have no concept of fearing God for who he is because they have the wrong understanding of history and we wonder why they have major problems and people that is one of the major issues how can you believe in loving God with all this death and suffering? It's not God's fault. We sinned against a holy God. This world's groaning because of our sin.

He stepped into history to save us from what we do. You know, even answering questions like, even had pastors say to me, well what do I say to my people? And they say, why would a loving God sentence people to hell? Wait a minute, we committed high treason against God. We separated ourselves from God.

He wants to save us from hell. He doesn't want us in hell. It's not His will that any should perish. See this means when you look at the fossil record which is full of death and disease and suffering and thorns, wait a minute. That kind of existed when God said everything was very good.

It had to come after corruption. How on earth could you explain fossils all over the earth in rock layers laid down by water? Wow, is there anything in the Bible that could explain that? If there was a global flood, and I'll talk about that next as you talk about the ark, you'd expect to find what? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

And that's exactly what you find. And of course we have a lot of research that we've done, a lot of books that we do, and other things teaching people about layers and rock layers and fossils and the Grand Canyon and how it all fits with that. And then after that, the Tower of Babel, and then we have all sorts of books and lectures that we do, showing everyone, even genetically, the Human Genome Project said we're all one race. And once you understand, we're all the same skin colour, just different shades, just a pigment called melanin. There aren't black people, there aren't white people.

People don't understand that. People think I'm a white person. I don't want to be a white person. I'd look like that. You'd all be calling 911.

There's a white person talking to us, he needs help. But do you realise all these issues? How to explain the races of people, how to get black people, white people, they're all causing doubts in generations of young people. People, the answers are simple. They're not that hard, we just haven't been taught them.

That's why I believe the Lord has raised up ministries like Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum. And I want to finish this off with a challenge to us here. And I want to tell you a bit about some of the resources we have to help you. Because there's a lot of people coming to me, I don't know what to do with dinosaurs, I don't want to do with carbon-40. Hey, that's why the Lord has raised up ministries like Answers in Genesis to give you these apologetics material.

I believe they're the cutting edge material today to equip you so you can give those answers to your children, train them, equip them and get ready for the Genesis 3 attacks. So I have people who say to me okay so are you saying then that if you don't believe in six literal days in a young earth, you can't be saved. That's what people often say to me. No, I didn't say that. Let's see what the Bible says.

Romans 10, 9, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart God has raised him from the dead and believe in a young earth in six literal days, you'll be saved. We know the Bible doesn't say that. Salvation is conditioned upon faith in Christ. Christ alone. Grace alone.

So people say to me, so you can believe in millions of years and still be a Christian? I know Christians who believe in millions of years. You can believe in evolution and be a Christian? I know Christians who believe in evolution. Then it doesn't matter.

Oh yes it does. You know why it matters? What's the Genesis 3 attack on the authority of the Word? It's an authority issue And stand back and think about it. Do people believe that Jesus Christ bodily rose from the dead?

How do you know? Got a movie rerun? Were you there? No. You know because the Bible says.

But you know Richard Dawkins, that famous atheist, he says a man can't rise from the dead and he's a scientist, shouldn't we take what he says and reinterpret the resurrection? You say you can't do that, you can't take what an atheist says and change God's Word, why not? Because many of our Christian leaders take what he says about origins and change Genesis. Do you believe in the virgin birth? What, did you talk to Mary?

Gabriel came down and talked to you? How do you know there's a virgin birth? The Bible says. How do you know Jesus walked on water? The Bible says.

How do you know Jesus fed thousands is a miracle? The Bible says. How do you know the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and the Jordan River is miracles? The Bible says. How do you know the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years and their clothes didn't even wear out and shoes didn't wear out, opposite of what normally happens to us, the Bible says.

How do you know that a man was swallowed by a fish, lived in a fish for three days and went and preached to a city, the Bible says. But in this day and age as soon as you go to most of our churches, our church homes, our Christian leaders, Christian colleges, Bible colleges, seminaries, news, say in Genesis, the Bible says, God created in six days, the Bible says he made them male and female, the Bible says woman came from man, man from dust, The Bible says there was a flood that covered the highest hills under the whole of heaven. The Bible says God created in six days. The Bible says death came after sin. What do you hear?

Oh no, oh no because of what the scientists are saying, because of what what they're saying out here doesn't mean that, no no doesn't mean that. Trust in Jesus and people what has happened if you stand back and look at the big picture in this day and age there's been a Genesis re-attack on Genesis 1 to 11 Most of our church has accommodated the pagan religion of the age in some way or another. Many of us have been brought up not having been taught how to answer these skeptical questions. We ignore the book of Genesis and we say it doesn't matter or we don't deal with it. Or we say you can believe in millions of years, doesn't matter, but as long as you trust in Jesus, Johnny, and you know what happens?

A door was unlocked. Many of us might have believed in the Gap Theory, put a millions of years in a gap between Genesis 1-1 and 1-2. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? We want to believe the Bible, just shove it in there and as soon as you do that, you've unlocked the door. You know the door you've unlocked?

You do not have to take this as written here and you can take man's ideas without question and reinterpret God's word. And as that door gets unlocked, the next generation unlock it further and then further and then further and then further until what? Generations walking away from the church, the secularization of the culture, the church not dealing with the issues, so they resort to entertainment and whatever they can to try to attract people in. We have generations in our church who are so secular in their thinking we're in an absolute mess because people we need a new reformation in our churches to get people back to the authority of the Word of God as I say to people I know when Luther nailed those theses on the door of the church right he was really calling the church back to the authority of God's Word. We need to be nailing Genesis 1 to 11 on the doors of churches all across this nation.

Because that's where we lost it in today's era. Probably get arrested for vandalism but... Hey, when you apply it practically, do you realize what's going on? What's happening is this, ever since Genesis 3 there's been a battle between two religions, God's Word and man's Word. Because It's always been a battle between two religions since Genesis 3.

It's a battle between two world views because it's a battle between two starting points. We're seeing the collapse of Christian morality, the collapse of the Christian world view and the secularisation of our culture because We have generations that no longer build their thinking on God's word, they build their thinking on man's word. And when you look at that, you start to realise abortion is not the problem, transgender is not the problem, gay marriage is not the problem, The bathroom issue, that's not the problem. Euthanasia is not the problem. They're all the symptoms.

And it's not hard to understand. What does Judges 21, 25 say? When there was no king to tell them what to do, they all did what was right in their own eyes. Why cannot the church understand once you abandon the absolute authority of God's Word, ultimately anything goes? It's very simple.

Boy, what a difference if we were to raise up generations who know what they believe, who are able to defend their faith, who've got the answers to the sceptical questions of this day, who have parents and Christian leaders who understand the Genesis 3 attack of our day, who equipped them to be able to deal with that so they don't doubt and disbelieve the scripture. Wow, what a difference that would make. And I believe you'd find, and I find young people who understand all this, they get on fire for the gospel. Because they want to go out there, And you know what's the problem with many of us? Do you know why we're not out there standing up against, whether it's the racism issues or whatever's going on?

Do you know what our problem is? We're worried we're going to be intimidated because they're going to ask us questions we can't answer. Let's face it, many of us are like that. And we're not bold because, yeah, but I don't know how to answer these questions, and not today, and whatever. I can tell them about Jesus, but I don't know how to answer the question.

That's the problem. Well, anyway, that's the introduction. So, if you go to our resource table, we want to help equip you with apologetics resources for today. We have a YouChoose program, you can put together all sorts of combinations of books, DVDs, and get them discounted prices. My book, The Lie, that's really the message I'm giving you today.

That is it, That's the message of our ministry. Other than the Bible, this is the textbook of our ministry. And then already gone, the research that was done. People, chapter two in this book, you know what we found out? Kids that went to Sunday school regularly were actually spiritually worse off than those that didn't.

Because in Sunday school they're more likely to hear a teacher tell them they can believe in millions of years. That's what the research showed. Most of our Sunday school material today, if we're honest, is fluff and stuff. We actually produce a whole three year Sunday school curriculum that's used by thousands of churches now, it's turning into a four-year curriculum next year, thousands of home-schoolers are using it, it's called ANSYS Bible Curriculum, A for Apologetics, B for Biblical Authority, C for Chronological, and we take people chronologically through the Bible, it's based on the seven Cs, but from Genesis to revelation, we teach doctrines, we connect Old and New Testament and teach them how to defend their faith. It's unique in the world.

The book Ready to Return, the research was done on those that are still in the church. Hey, if you want to understand where kids are at today, where young people are at today, where the church is at today, those two books, I believe it's the definitive research for the church today. The Answers books, four biggest selling creation apologetics books in the world, 120 of the most asked questions with detailed answers. Most of the questions you're going to get, your kids are going to get, will be in those books, most of them, because they're the ones we get the most and have done for the past 40 years, dealing with the Genesis 3 attack of our age. We also have books that deal with things in more detail, one race one blood, dealing with we're all one race going back to Adam and Eve and skin colour and so on.

The six day issue, you know it's amazing to me that the Hebrew word for days used 2301 times in the Old Testament and we know what it means everywhere it's used except Genesis 1. It's because of the millions of years and this book deals definitively with the day's issue which is one of the major problems why so many Christian leaders will not take a stand on Genesis. Then we have books for little kids, A is for Adam, D is for dinosaur, N is for Noah. They rhyme books and they have teacher notes if you want them but they connect the Bible to the real world for kids. And for instance, Adam and Eve, Middle Brown, it talks about fossils, it makes the Bible real.

And How many animals are on the ark? Middle school and upwards. Even adults need to read that because that's one of the questions that causes doubts today. Books on dragons and dinosaurs. Tara Bable, my son-in-law, Bodhi wrote that.

Do you know that there are names in all the cultures of the world today that trace back to Ham, Shem and Japheth? Do you know The evidence confirming the Bible's history is overwhelming. How do we know the Bible is true? Apologetics books like that. Books on dinosaurs, because they're used probably more than anything.

Actually our parents need to read the kids' books anyway. Many parents tell me they like the kids' books because I understand them. So they deal with dinosaurs. A big book of history. You can fold this out 15 feet and it starts with the six days of creation.

Adam even shows you how everything all fits together to teach kids this is a real book of history. And then we have a more detailed version. Books dealing with world religions and cults and answering those questions. Volume 3 coming out soon, atheism is one of the religions. Yes, atheism is a religion.

And this is called our Ready for Reformation pack. It has the research we've done on the church and on Christian colleges as well and Christian seminaries. And then when I debated Bill Nye two years ago, of course you know you can't answer a lot of things in a debate, you've got such a short time, so we wrote a book and answered everything he brought up, another book called Confound the Critics, we got the whole Bill Nye debate there and recently we released a DVD called The Second Debate. He came to the ARC with his video crew, and we had our video crew there, and this is unedited, the whole two hour walk through the ARC, where I challenged Bill Nye all the way through, it's very interesting. Some people believe it's even more powerful than the first debate.

So we just got that available. And then the Foundations curriculum, six of my major talks done up as 12-30 minute programs and a whole curriculum that goes with it. That's used by many, many churches now and many homes for the young people, for the adults. It's really an apologetics foundational curriculum to start with. And then I mentioned to you our Answers Bible curriculum.

You can see some samples of that. Our magazine, Answers magazine, it's an award-winning magazine and it's one of the top Christian magazines in the world and it even has a mini magazine for kids in the middle and if you subscribe here at the conference we'll give you a free DVD for each year, subscribe. By the way, coming up is Halloween and we actually have a DVD all about Halloween done by my son-in-law Bodhi, it tells you the origins of Halloween and it says Halloween, Paganism and the Bible. And then we have tracts that we're going to have at our door when people come and knock on the door. We're going to give them these tracts with some candy and witness to them.

The secularists are really upset with us and you should see some of the articles written about us because we're making a big deal of witnessing at Halloween and using it as a time to witness for the Lord Jesus. Of the church and the family to the Word of God. And for more information about the National Center for Family Integrated Churches, where you can search our online network to find family integrated churches in your area, log on to our website ncfic.org. At AFIC.org.