3 Reasons for the Existence of God

Now I'm going to ask you to give him praise like he demands, you know, you ought to give it a break so I could remember.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, we do need a fence around us with what's going on today. You need some some way to protect us as we encounter lights likes challenges and and and God is that kind of God who who is able to protect us and to deliver us to breathe in the Bible says we think him faultless Before the Throne of Glory that we give God praise what it is. So good to see you all we have so many I guess it friends with us. I'm not going to try to go down the list, but I do want to tell everybody who's here. Thank you who's visiting with us? Thank you. I do have to say a special. Thank you to Pastor Glenn for Rica. Thank you Glenn for being with me today.

And all the rest of you who were visiting I I just say we are delighted to have you I know some of you are fresh coming into the city of Miss Diana just met you thank you for being with us though being located here and other thank you just for being but there's an old friend. He saw me got up got up and I went and hug a dear friend of mine brother a Morris who was in this ministry with us years ago. So I just wanted to say thank you to everybody. I cannot get into the storm without saying thank you for my graduates Ryan. Where are you?

We are we are happy for Ryan graduated this year from high school. She's going on a college Hallelujah. My my granddaughter's graduated on Thursday. And I thank God for being a God who can yeah, she has a God who can't do anything and she is he graduated and you scored on the Community College as well. So we are grateful. We have to graduate from CSU and Monte and Kiara graduated to a couple of weeks ago. We thank God for them graduated from CSU. So

So so we at we are just thankful for what God is able to do what God is doing in our midst. Amen. James is already wish you a very safe and happy Memorial Day. Let's let's let's get into the word. I know your grills are ready to get grilling and Pan and the baked beans and stuff. So I don't want to keep your to chew long. I would have looked back at last week's sermon on the main text from last week before I connect to this First Corinthian text. If you have this text, I want to pull up Romans 1:18 Romans 1:18 as as we get into days text. I just I need to build off of last week. Romans 8 Romans 1 verse 18 Romans 1 verse 18 is where I was last week. When what went when I talk about for now. We are without excuse before God. There are no excuses and I just want this to be pressed into your nor that this is so it says Romans 1:18. The Rap God is being revealed from Heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Did you hear that? The wrath of God I said a squeak many many of us think when we hear the wrath of God. We we want to see something torn apart something exploding something being heavily on front page news, but that's not what he's saying that that God is doing something in our midst because of something we've done in front of him. Hello. Lots of our current national and World crisis is the result of our own making and our own selfish greed. Hear me some of the stuff and much of the news that you are are seen in front of you. It's the result. choices It's a result of desire and greed. We have a society have made decisions based on our conference. not wearing the clothes to Future Generations One of our decisions are made based on what is in it for me?

Learn how it's going to affect generations to come. And if you would if you would agree with me here now, we are fighting a gargantuan size issues. You can turn on a television or read a newspaper without being bombarded with a way out of control.

And not only are they out of control. There is no sight of the ending or a resolution a man.

Then in the end of all of this.

The result is we see men and women blaming others.

blaming others anyone, but themselves for the unrest

there is a slogan and I think I said last week that we've heard it was from a poem but it says the chickens. Have come home to roost.

Hello. the chickens Have come home to roost you know what that means right there any people raised on farms in him? only on city Folk OK Google But what went with Debbie and I were in Africa, they would let our chickens out. They will let the chickens out during the day they walk around just like people are chickens will go through the yard. They will go through the front and around the back go wherever they wanted. But as the sun came down the chickens came back. It in our Keepers would put them back up in this little room that they had for them to chickens always return back. To where they sleep or where they find comfort in hole. When I hear that term the chickens have come home to roost. It's telling me something it's telling me that the bad Deeds that we've done. The bad decisions that we've made the bad actions that we as a society have returned.

Barry decisions that we made years maybe decades maybe centuries ago on now coming home to roost with them. I wish I had a witness as a people are the result of some bad decision.

So Romans 8:18 declares that this is a direct result. Sort of wickedness and moral Decay to return calls on his own.

It ain't.

hole It's not God. Paul writes in Romans day that the wrath of God is being revealed how I see that's how I understand. It is God is allowing our own decisions to come back.

We often think of God as a dog who so much loving us in so much excusing us and giving us everything we pray for us so we can live large and we can have everything we ask for as if Santa Claus. We have a concept of God. That's just waiting to bring us some candy. He's just waiting to bring something that that that we so much desired. We just saw that Range Rover and we had to have it. Tell everybody I was blessed because my Range Rover, but I got news for you.

What does not into real estate business as much as we want to tell them I asked God to give me this house I think God is more concerned and what is going to make the world that he made how soon can we get back to us? And it was all good.

When it says the wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven against all the godlessness. All about who have walked away from God and all of us who decide we don't need God. Or can I put a, in there? We don't need God today.

We don't need God today. But don't let anything get out of shape.

There's an old saying that says whatever you do today.

Would have direct input on your tomorrow.

What you find yourself? Doing today. Can I tell you that I believe this it has direct influence. When your tomorrow? Ryan and other graduation we are so proud of you. We are thankful that you stayed to the course. But don't stop now.

Don't even tell yourself I can change and do a little of this and catch up with it later. I want you to know as you go into the world and other Brad was going to the world your decisions today. Take it from an old man now. Open to have direct influence on your tomorrow. No matter what you think or say your actions today? deal with your tomorrow Well, I I needed to paint that I needed to open that because the wrath of God is it is being seen from Heaven because of man's wickedness because of man's God.

Godlessness is there is no room for God even though we have made great strides and we've done some important work. Often what we're seeing today is this we don't need God anymore.

Why because we got a apple now?

We got Google. I think some people say well at least it starts with a g.

We got Google.

I need you to know that that our decisions today are definitely going to an affect our tomorrow. The text with the day comes and I'm talking about the existence of God every reason for the existence of God 1st Corinthians 8 5 and 6 James ready for even though there are so-called Gods weather in heaven on Earth Gods and many lords yet for us there is but one God the father from whom all things came in for whom we live in there is but one Lord Jesus Christ for whom all things came through whom we live man what I love that right and I love that reading. But even though I read that text and I I share it with you some of you would argue with me that they do not or you know people who do not believe in God Amen.

We all know some foku. Do not believe in God or gods.

Especially when I run into people and say David if I were to believe in a God Like You talk about how can I believe in a God who allow bad things to happen to good people you never heard that he is God. Why would this happen? Why would this happen if I went this happen when I when I when I come to a conclusion as what they're trying to tell me that is dark standing behind a cosmic curtains pulling strings to manipulate people and the world and his human being God is God must be sadistic.

Baby, because things are happening that we don't like. And I'll say to those persons or anyone else. Much about paying that much of a difference station. It's human inflicted. Are y'all don't want to hear that it's human inflicted. When I think about poverty.

I know that that's not Church stuff. But when I think about poverty the amount of food that goes through this country alone.

And yet we have people in this country who don't know where their next meal is coming from.

We throw away more food, and I know y'all don't y'all don't but more food. Oppa bar tables and out of our restaurants. Have you ever asked yourself? What happens to the food? That restaurants don't use on last night or yesterday much of it is thrown away. Because with the health rules that we want to make sure people are safe, but I scratch my head sometime when you say I love that. I don't know his name of the world renowned Chef in California. He started to take his food and to hire those who lived on the streets to work against kitchen and after he gets through feeding the higher class for who's play two selling at four and $500 a plate.

You know, how many ribs I could get with $500.

Putt-Putt win this man alone says, I don't want to throw away. My precious Cuisine, I'd rather transforming into a meal that my brothers and my sisters on the streets could find enough to fill their bellies. What if more people were restaurants were to do that? We live in cities and towns with people are telling us get the poor off the streets. We do not want to see them. We don't want to know that back here. I can't sleep in alcohol. Something is wrong with us.

When we cease to see people. and we see What is encroaching Upon Our person? Who would I thought I would say this again much of our pain that we see I didn't say all.

comes from my own human choices for those who do not believe in a god with a capital G. OD shooting you would agree with me that there are some little dogs out there. Hello. You just don't call him go.

But what face with these little guys even the little Gods fight the church. But these little guys everywhere because Paul says even though there are many gods and many lords. There's only one. I just want to be what we all live in a time where there are many guards there everywhere those little gods in our power grabs.

We're coming up to elections again.

and I love it with the number of people from the Democratic Party

I was thinking about running.

I just I just thinking that maybe just maybe I could get me a couple of boats in the up to and you know and get me some of that. What what what bothers me is when everybody now is just saying I got the answer.

Why did it take you to become president that help make the world a better place a class. That's a power grab. I think people are saying I got to answer me cuz you know, I wish I had just a little time to reach them people people people people are saying I got what you want, but you going to have to pay me to get it was a little girl.

Lugoff opposition's of privilege

I've had this conversation. I've had this conversation. I've had this conversation. I've had this conversation around around my travel most times. I'm confronted by old white man. Who tell me Dave. I just do not like that word privilege. Dave I don't like that word and I'm saying I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Number one I didn't make it. I did not make it. But all I tried to tell people is sometimes some of us have been given opportunities that others will never ever had that's war and some of us benefit certain privileges.

I don't come in here with a hoodie. I was zip it all the way up. I'm a whole life what's going on in this church, but you know the truth of the matter by the young Brothers in the Hood from priest of the church. Y'all didn't know that did you?

There's a stereotype that if you have a hood stand.

My brothers and sisters. There's a privilege all around us and is not only in only in race. Some of us are privileged with our

And so we at times hold our heads we say we are above those eyes to black liberation. And what it says to me, it says even in the African American community.

Even in the African American Community we have class.

Why poke check this out? Let me tell y'all come get y'all some inside.

the Michael Jordans the different from the Dave Williamson Hello, if I want to go to Michael's business in North Carolina and try to see him.

There are promises even inside our own personal cultures and others down.

based on class I'll say this again many of our problems are not God issue. Many of our challenges are human issue. I grew up in the dark. Hope you were just not nice. Now I'm going to Chelsea.

You get it? I grew up in her class came into my own community.

It's something about how we separate ourselves.

I would say that's a human construct. Racism is a human construct.

God didn't do this to us.

But I think he's a small gods quest for fortune and fame looking every game show it how can you get richer?

Oh, yeah, I got to do with it. How can you become a millionaire?

We make a fool of ourselves. I think it was a little God. There's a sensational effort for us to become a fine the Fountain of Youth. I love those beautiful commercials.

YouTube. Suck your wrinkles right out your face would just come just like it was when you were 16. What baby you 69 you are you are not going to look like you used to look at 6. That is just not going to happen stuff done. The gravity's of alive are already at work the laws of nature already 16 United States just stay there has happened. I had a little business here.

But we trying to I'm trying to look like Preston. I want to look like I want to have you ain't going to have Preston skin.

Is these a little gods? We have gods and all sorts of fashion. All I'm trying to say is how do we deal with God? We may not want the god of creation, but we create our own Gods Paul's letter to the Corinthians spells out how the clintons were living amongst a Time Roman mythology amongst the time of Greek mythology and the Christians in corwith came to came to Paul and they asked Paul a deep question when you read it. It was sound like Paula just making a statement but it's the return of people saying hey Paul, we know there are other God, but what you told us is we only have one guard, right? I think Paul wanted to admonish them to tell them. Yes, you are truth. That's when I taught you we have one God one Lord One Faith one baptism now they're out there, but he wanted the prisons to be clear. We have only one God.

When's the summer is about ready to get going? I want to make sure you know that that God. Some of us have come to church and we are not yet clear about who is God. We don't even have a Theology of what we believe. We know that you go to church. We know that you sing. We know that you sit in a chair. But when we go home, we're not clear about who is our God, but I just want to make it clear this morning coming back from last week. We don't have really any excuse for not living our lives for the grace of God when we are the people who just celebrate the resurrection of Christ. It's more than he went to the Cross is more than he bled and died. It's more that they Christian is more you got to celebrate when he went to the Cross. He screaming from the cross. It's finished.

You endure, already made a way for you to get through in Spanish.

Well, well Moses in the desert y'all remember that old guy by the name of Moses Moses in the desert had a run-in with this gods and was commanded to go back to Federal and tell him to let the Hebrews go with Moses just couldn't go back from that experience with a Burning Bush Moses have some questions of his own. That's all just wanted to know. Who are you speaking to me? Are you determining that I should go back and tell this very powerful man pharaoh to let the Hebrew children. Let them go free. Let Liberation happen that there be a difficult experience for them. How can I go there when I don't have any evidence of Who You Are And you remember what God I swear it's the Moses was. Tell them. I am that I am. Mom know that blowed Moses this head. I know that's blew him away by going. Hold on. You want me to go? The most powerful man in all of civilization at this time and tell him I demand for you to stop this slavery that's going on. And God, I in my mind sis.

and Moses as any person would say

God of at least can you give me your business card?

And God said no, I don't have a business card.

Can you give me an address?

I could tell them you live over on such and such a street. I think God had in my mind was telling my my current address is pretty large if you give me something. Says to Moses tell them. I am that I am.

sending you I'm sending you. only this knowledge I am I think about that. I am you need to know that the I am means that God's existence is not caused.

It's not caused. What is I am I am? That's not dependent on something else.

I think God is trying to make it clear to Moses that I am not from anything, you know.

Matter fact according to Romans. He says what I need and everything. And I make everything happen. So if you need to know anything, just tell the people. The I am that that you are because of the I am it's asking y'all to get ready to go with my eye and I'm hitting it that far and I miss you to know today is your deliverance. and they were going to put What you talkin bout Willis

What About Bob was trying to tell Moses he was trying to tell him that rather from him and through him and to him and all things flow created things exist according to his purpose and his friend I need y'all to hear this creative things happen or exist according to God's power is his purpose and his friends you exist because of God's power his purpose and his plan I wish I would get them everything that isn't because of God his power is perfect and his friends no matter what you're trying to achieve it will only happen because it's part of God's power and purpose and his friends.

What pasta I graduated according to his power? if purpose just play God exists of himself creative things

creative things when I talk about God God is the type of thing. That's not created. But everything outside of that God creates and they're all depended upon something else. God depends on nothing.

It would be an error. If God was created. Because if God was created there would mean there had to be something greater than be created God.

It's a while himself says no, I'm the only thing that always is. I'm the only thing that never was not. Bad English I know. But God is Santa Moses. I am that that always has bid. It didn't I didn't come in to be. I've always been.

God is what he is.

He's not what biology says about me and you. God doesn't have to check into his into his family history. To know is a piece of septic to play that. God is cultural background. I think I told you I was back in December. I checked my DNA and had it done and they found out that I was 49% Congolese.

That makes sense while in brothers and sisters. I was over there working with look just like my family.

God didn't take a DNA test because there's no DNA test to take God can't do that because God is God. God is a type of a cup of beans. that everything else models after

Everything else that exist exist because of God. everything that is is because of God but God is a type of being according to grease a he's a type of being who cannot not be. He has to be but everything flows from his purpose plans is design. That's God. The show when you worship this God, you're not worshiping Santa Claus. Well, I'm waiting on Christmas so we can get excited and talk about the little baby know. The little baby is part of the Trinity, which is part of God talks about that. Just trying to understand the Trinity makes you dizzy. Because God is one God. But he's seeing three personalities the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, but they only make one God they're not God one God to Godfrey their God and God and God. That's what you would Jesus was in the garden now father help me deal with this. Who is he talking to? Is talking to dog? When Jesus ascended a few days when we go to penn lacrosse it goes back to

goes back to God, but he saves dog back. He still got back from gone at least a man, but God Saves dog from the house when Jesus comes back in his parents and his parents is no longer. Will I live outside of you? I would not live.

Don't let me put this away.

So this is the god that impacting the world. There are three reasons I declare God exist.

I think they're more but I said if God didn't exist these people stand up. If there was no God. There was no God.

Life is ultimately meaningless without God.

So whenever you want to sit here and say what day I like the church, I like you, but I don't like God. I want you to know whenever one life is ultimately meaningless. without God if God does not exist. All of life is meaningless.

When we die, we just did it.

It doesn't matter. What you doing this life if there is no God. If there is no God nothing that you are I achieved as in a marriage. In the end nothing makes a difference. Even when you were born. You will be birth and then die and have no imprint or no power or nothing left about you because there is no God to compare you with.

If God does not exist everything that's going on everything that is is meaningless.

Your significance is meaningless.

Ryan there's no reason for you to go to college if God doesn't exist.

What you going to do you graduate catch up with your sister. You're both have these wonderful degrees will be so proud of you little all mean nothing. Why would you help why would you get a further degree to help make the world better when it's all meaningless? I wish I got to witness meeting is if there is no God. There is nothing for you to compare it with. It's a throw to you that that it's all meaning of scientists. There's no need for you to try to find different Avenues to help the human race because doctors don't try to fix anymore a medical problem. It's all me to Glenn Close a Hospital's down. It's all meaningless.

Suffering and pain are here. There's no reason for us to do anything because there is no God makes no sense.

Sacrifices of good people when he was talking about the men and women who gave their lives in in battle in the military, they gave their lives for nothing. Because it's all.

I was thinking any of you who know or are teetering on atheism. If you choose it, you must know that they are declaring that nothing has true purpose.

I was growing up on you was a song Say It's Your Thing.

Do what you want to do? I know y'all don't know this song.

I Can't Tell You. Who the f*** at you? It's your thing. Do what you want to do if there is no God you can do whatever you want to do. You can do it in my ride what you want to do you can do and I don't know what you want to do. You can do to your nana what you want to do. That's only if there is no. Because there's no consequence. Secular. Let me get out of here. The second reason I say if there is no God. We live without hope.

Without God we live without hope this all the weights, y'all up. If God does not exist then we must ultimately be hopeless.

If there is no God, there is no possibility of deliverance from our shortcoming.

Your bear is I just want to get this in your head if there is no God. Person cannot be rectified. If there is no God the things that are happening or impression upon you or the things that we're seeing around on Country community on the racism are the challenges of life destroying one another if there is no God.

Be there is no reason to wake up with hope things are going to get better. How are they going to get better? There's nothing to hang your better on. You can hang your whole on something. That's not bad. If God does not exist, we are locked within a without hope in this world. There is nothing redeemable in this world suffering will always take first priority in our lives. If there is no God, we don't have any hope of suffering to bring itself to an inch and worse than that. If there is no God will take his rightful place at running this world into extinction because there's nothing for us to hang out all the bad things that you received. There's nothing to put them into that frightful checks because we all went out there is no hope if your life is broken is going to remain broken if your gas is going to remain stashed there is no hope for you.

That's only if there's no hope. If there is no God, there is no hope. And third and final if there is no God is Paul debates with a Corinthians. Yes. There is one God if there is no God, but God does not exist the battle of the fetus will win.

And that scared of a Jeep is on the front of us.

know that you know

I understand none. I don't like I don't like to put myself up and out. You going to get it.

I'm going to rule.

but

Somebody say but I wish I had a witness here, but I don't appreciate it. I don't go ahead and put off my money on hold. You just have to do in Vegas. I'm putting it all on God today. I am believing that God is not the kind of God who will leave my leave my life without who is the strongest Royal for the week. The battle is not given to the Swift. Tell us strong, but he that endureth I know it who My Redeemer Lives.

You think that's what wakes me up every morning.

That I know when my paycheck is not stretch or stretch as far as it can go. I know there's a God who can make up that difference in that check. That's my home this morning. I believe that racism will not always be.

But I believe it's going to it's going to go for quite a while until man come back from that construct of their own self and began to say that this world is big enough for people of all colors of all statue of old wolf.

Then we move down the street. when we moved on the Block We determine. Who can live here?

That wasn't God. That is not God. We can build. Vigor wolves cuz we have the money.

We have the resources.

There are people Holland. Don't let any more come in.

I hear what you're saying.

They said that when I came from, Ohio.

I came to Colorado. I heard people using that language is taking over. Colorado They come in please tell me what you didn't say nothing when your cousin was coming from Nebraska when your cousin from coming from Montana who was coming from you was telling him. Come on down here. We got room for you. I got to ask you this question. What is that your name? Got the trees that it was God. And I actually believe I can take care of us.

They help.

There is no more excuse. For us to tell ourselves there is no God.

There's got to be a god.

I came through the 60s and in the 60s. It was a continuation discussion from the fifties. some of our major Theological Seminary colleges starch kind of deal with Is God dead.

in the sixties There was a push. They got it. nowadays

If a people start you wonder what we going to do.

And God is gay.

What's the musician got by the piano think he was a black guy? He got down on the piano to start to write these words. If God is dead. Can you tell me where his body last you're gone is dead who made the moon and the stars of God is dead. Somebody gotta tell me who was it that killed him because he got any greater than dogs.

We serve one God.

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when Christ you may have other gods, but they are not God God.

How do we get this back into our spirit and we are not. Because of our intellect. It's been part of our intellect that has almost destroyed much of the human race every 100 or 150 years. There is a major genocide.

is weird about every 100 years you hear of another possible genotype it is though. We're saying we are now God. Certain people cannot be here. My brothers and sisters you're not God. Your life is not in your hands. Your life is in the hands of a God who actually wants to know you. Who actually wants to be with you? Who actually wants you to achieve all that he already purpose and playing for you. That's The God Who We Serve today I asked you where the closest sermon to close this two-piece series you are without excuse trying to tell it yourself because you were so busy because you are so what your business is you and your so I don't recommend.

God will allow. Our old selves. I witnessed her decision that we we're so busy. We don't need you God, but we're saving the world. You can't save the world without God. you can't you don't have that that ability.

But with one man in the world can be changed. I think that's because there's a guy who's working with him a junior Siwon man not knowing how but they was a daughter was advocating with him.

You look at a guy who says I can change the world. I can change a condition of a people. I can't do it by myself.

Both of these men were extremely smart. They couldn't do it by themselves. You don't do anything at your highest level without God. And please stop trying to put on hold as if you want to telephone, please.

Your Homie don't play that. Don't play that. That I'll get back to you. But let me go and let me first go. No, Jesus is no that's not how it works.

Earthbind what God who God is in your own personal life. Begin to wrap your vision of yourself around that God. Like I blew in you. Watch you affect others. Watch others begin to feed. Wow. I want to know that God. What if you reverse it and say look at me first? the results of so much smaller 3 reasons to believe in God, I think they're Brothers. Those are quick and I thought I said no we need to know who is God. Who is this God whose rap is let loose that we might live our life the way we want it when when you live your life the way you wanted you get what you live.

Y'all know my mom and dad had a lot of sayings.

But you know, if you don't get up in the morning planning to succeed you probably going to be today. If you're not planning to go with me, even if you were most powerful.

start with thought remember, there's nothing outside of him. God doesn't exist because of us God exist outside of us. And everything that happens happens because of God.

Wrap your head around this is not just your story because God story. I made you perfect man made you with a plan. That was his purpose. You say you got a secret the one you seek me you will find me. Stop right now somebody's dumb books that are out there. how to get rich how to how to get happy how to have the wealth that you always wanted Do they serve dog? I said do the things that you're capable of doing? And watch God work through you the most and with me.