February 2018

Do you want the joy of a personal relationship with God? Do you want to be confident that one
day He will take you home to heaven? Here are four essential truths you need to know.

Our Delemma: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).” We are by nature
sinners who stand guilty and condemned before our Creator and Judge. In our thoughts and
actions, we have disobeyed His perfect standards.

Our Inability: “The wages of sin is (spiritual) death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord (Romans 6:23).” We are helpless to save ourselves. Forgiveness is a gift to be received,
not a reward that can be earned (like trying to be good person or through our own efforts).

Our Saviour: “God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).” Because of His love for us, God provided salvation through His
Son, Jesus. He became a member of the human family at Bethlehem, lived sinlessly, and died on
the cross to pay the penalty for our sins.

Our Response: “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God
had raised Him from the dead, you will be saved (Romans 10:9). Salvation is an individual matter
and requires a personal response on the part of anyone who wants to be saved. All who
acknowledge that they are sinners and place their faith and trust in Christ are adopted as God’s
children and their ticket to heaven is assured.

Do you believe this? If you want to begin a relationship with God, you can do so right now by
asking Him to come into your heart and to be the Lord of your life. If you believe in your heart and
want to make this commitment but you are not sure how to put it into words, this may help:
“Lord Jesus, I need you. Thank you for dying for the forgiveness of my sins and for offering me
your righteousness and your resurrected life. I now accept by faith your gift of salvation and I ask
you to come into my heart and to be my Lord and Saviour and my very best friend. Through your
Holy Spirit, teach me about your love and grace and about the new life that you have given me.
Please begin the work of making me into the person you want me to be.  Amen”

These words will not save you, there is nothing magical in them; anyone can repeat a sentence. It
is when you believe with your heart and put your faith in Christ Jesus; that’s what saves you.
There is no magic formula in what to say or how to say it but it’s your attitude and expression of
your heart that really counts. If you truly believe in your heart and you prayed this prayer, the
Spirit of God has come to dwell within you forever and you have begun the great adventure for
which you were created as a child of God. You are now born-again with God’s spirit alive in you.
Now, you and I are brothers or sisters in Christ. Welcome to God’s family. Welcome to Christ’s
body of believers. The true Church of Jesus Christ is not comprised of programs or buildings
made with the hands of men, but of Christ Himself within the heart of every true believer. The
Kingdom of God is inside of you and not just in buildings of wood and stone.

Bottom line: All who welcome Jesus into their lives as their Saviour are freely forgiven and
brought into a personal relationship with God (John 1:12). They are now born-again of the spirit –
born from above with God’s spirit now dwelling in them (John 3:8; 1Cor. 6:19). They are now
called “Children of God” and their home is in heaven ( John 1:12).

February 2018
I needed new glasses so while I was having my eyes examined I asked the optometrist this
question: “How did our eyes evolve, what came first” to which she replied, ” What do you mean?”
I told her that I’m not a professional but I do know that the eye is made up of different parts such
as the lens, pupil, iris, cornea, and retina and if the eye evolved what part came first. She said
that the eye parts could not come separately over time but that they all had to come together at
once to make the eye work. I must’ve shocked her when I said, “Well there goes the theory of
evolution which would suggest that the various components of the eye evolved over time.” The
expression on her face was blank – she didn’t know what to say.

Charles Darwin described the eye as one of the greatest challenges to his theory. How could he
explain it? The eye, after all, is simply incompatible with evolution. He simply admitted, “that the
eye with all its inimitable contrivances…….. could have been formed by natural selection, seems,
I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree” (On the Origin of Species, 1909, page 190).

The essential problem for Darwinists is how so many intricate components could have
independently evolved to work together perfectly when, if a single component didn’t function
perfectly, nothing would work at all. Scientist Francis Hitching tells us, “that if the slightest thing
goes wrong en route – if the cornea is fuzzy, or the pupil fails to dilate, or the lens becomes
opaque, or the focusing goes wrong – then a recognizable image is not formed. The eye either
functions as a whole, or not at all.”

Charles Darwin should have considered two passages in the Bible. “The hearing ear and the
seeing eye, the Lord has made them both,” wrote King Solomon (Proverbs 20:12).

The same can be said of the brain, nose, palate and dozens of other complex and highly
developed organs in any human or animal. It would take a quantum leap of faith to think all this
just evolved. Yet that is commonly taught and accepted. What I have a hard time wrapping my
head around is that out of nothing comes everything – all the things we see in this world – the
plant kingdom, insect kingdom, animal kingdom, sea creatures and the birds of the air all
evolved from nothing. Evolution is not science – it’s science fiction. Somehow from nothing we
get everything. Think! Be honest. Does this make sense > time+ nothing= everything.

Still don’t believe in creation? One needs only to look carefully at any living creature to gain
some concept of their enormous complexity. For instance, if you have a pet, consider the
complexities that must be involved enabling that “package of matter” to move around, play,
remember, show signs of affection, eat and reproduce. Yet, even with all of modern man’s
accumulated scientific and technological knowledge, advanced tools, and experience today, we
still could not construct a similar living pet from carbon, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, etc. – the
pets basic constitutent parts. Yet, all the chemical information needed to construct your pet is
contained in a tiny speck (the fertilized egg cell).

Doesn’t that just boggle your mind that somehow evolution can do this (create something from
nothing) while we with all our modern advancements that we’ve made in physics, biology and
chemistry, cannot. This just shows you the myth of evolution – that dead chemicals somehow
produced the first living cells out of nothing. This is why I call evolution a religion. It would take a
lot more faith to believe in evolution than it would to believe in God’s creation.