Clarity on Crucial Choices: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:35 Today we’re going to look at clarity on crucial choices—whether we make bad choices, we can make better choices, and we can make the best choices. We’re going to be dealing with three choices this morning. In Matthew 13:30, let both the good and the wicked grow together until the harvest at the end of the world. In Malachi 3:18, you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked—first choice, second choice—but then he’s adding another choice between one who serves God, which would be one that does good and right, and one who doesn’t, which could be a humanist that doesn’t believe in God and the Bible, or a Christian that believes in God but does not serve God. So we got these three choices: to choose to be good, which is the best choice; to be wicked, which is the bad choice, the worse; and a choice to try to do good without God, which the humanists try to do. Now being a humanist doesn’t necessarily mean you are wicked, and being a Christian does not necessarily mean you’re not wicked.

▶ 2:03 Now the religion of secular humanism in its Manifesto II tries to separate bad humanists from their manifesto humanist, and they list the different humanist organizations: scientific, ethical, democratic, religious humanist, Marxist humanist, freethought, atheist, deist, rationalism, agnostics, skeptics, ethical cultural, and liberal religions—all claim to be heir to the humanist tradition, they say. And I want to make a note that all of these groups reject Jesus and the Bible. But in trying to separate the different humanist groups they list them and they say this statement: but views that merely reject God and the Bible, theism, are not equivalent to humanism. But they all got one thing that they base their philosophy on, and that is the Bible is a myth and Jesus is a myth and there is no God.

▶ 3:17 Now the Bible said that the wicked and the righteous and the one that don’t serve God are supposed to grow together. So how do we do this? Number one, the humanist and the Bible followers agree on good. The humanists say that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are good without God because they give billions to charity. They also have billboards going all throughout the country: Are you good without God? Millions are. They have another one that says millions of people are good without God—you don’t need religion to be a good moral person. And so humanists say they’re out for good. They believe in good. They believe we should do good. And the Bible says in Galatians 6:10, as we have opportunity let us do good to all people. And so we are in agreement that we’re supposed to do good. So good is the basics for living together and growing together. In the Humanist Manifesto it says, short of harming others, individuals should be permitted to express and pursue their desired lifestyles. The key here is short of harming others. So we must conclude that humanists and Bible followers must deal with bad people—whether they’re bad humanists or bad Bible followers. To get along we must agree that evil must be punished, corrected, or removed from society so they can’t hurt others. And also if humanist or Bible followers do not agree to do good and punish criminals, they are a wicked ideology, a wicked system of faith, a wicked philosophy, because they’re not agreeing to do good.

▶ 5:28 Now some things are disagreed on that may not directly harm others—like killing directly harms others, stealing directly harms others, sexual abuse and drug abuse and any mistreatment of other people directly hurts them. And so we’re going to look at a few things that humanist and Bible followers disagree on that may not directly hurt others. Proverbs 14:5, a faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness will utter lies. The humanists have billboards around the nation that says, I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature; it is founded on fables and mythology—and they say that’s a quote of Thomas Jefferson. And Thomas Jefferson never said that. That is a blatant lie. They also lie about the Bible, Jesus, separation of church and state, thus leaving only secular humanism for free speech in public places. And that makes them an unfaithful, a false witness.

▶ 6:38 On evolution they’ve taught lies like this—Piltdown Man for 40 years they said he was the missing link from fragments of a skull, a human skull, and then the jawbone of an orangutan that they said was human, and some teeth that came from a chimpanzee that they filed down and put in there that say it was human. And they said this was the missing link for 40 years, and they used it in the Scopes trial. That’s an unfaithful witness. John 8:31 says continue in my word and you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. John 17:17, your word is truth. The Bible never says it’s a book of faith. The Bible says it’s a book of truth. They have a billboard that says, you know it’s a myth this season—celebrate reason, celebrate intellect. But this same Bible says not to kill, not to steal, not immoral sex; you work six days; you work, provide for yourself; get knowledge; get love. These things are not myths. The Bible also says that the earth was a sphere, it was hung on nothing, the water cycle—the evaporation and rain coming—and the ocean currents before science even knew these things. And they quote that faith is that which has no proof—it’s based on what has no proof—and they say you want to believe something that is true because you want it to be true—that’s faith. Well, humanist, you have no proof that humanism works, and so you’re basing your humanist philosophy, your humanistic ideas, on faith, because you have no proof. So if you can use faith to back up what you want to get across to America, what is wrong with Christians and Bible followers using faith to back up the Bible?

▶ 8:41 In Matthew 19:17 there is none good but God. Ecclesiastes 7:20, there’s not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin. Yet you humanists have this billboard around the nation: In Good We Trust—on our quarter instead of In God We Trust. You have more than three leaders, nations, that have killed 20 and some million people since the French Revolution—Mao of China, Pol Pot of Cambodia, and Stalin of Russia. That’s not good. Again you are—good without God, millions are—and what you’re telling us is you never lie, you never steal, you never commit sexual immorality, you don’t mistreat people, you don’t hate people. You are deceiving yourself. Even us Christians are trying and working at being good people. We make mistakes.

▶ 9:50 Numbers 15:16, there’s one law and one custom for citizens of a nation and the stranger that comes into a nation. Ecclesiastes 3:13, all must eat, drink, enjoy the good of his labor—must labor; it is a gift of God. And the Bible says if you don’t work you don’t eat. Yet you have a billboard that says we don’t have an immigration problem, we have a capitalism problem, because in your manifesto you said that you want to guarantee a yearly salary, minimum salary, to everyone in the nation—when the Bible says that the poor work for wealth, field droppings, corners of the field left for them, or they had to beg, or they had to sell themselves to someone in the nation for six years. When you promote something for nothing you’re just like false religions that promote eternal life without any obligation to do good. And a lot of religions are promoting something for nothing—all I got to do is believe in Jesus or believe in Allah or believe in something, and everything’s going to be okay, I’m going to go to heaven, and I don’t have to do good and I don’t have to do righteous. That is something for nothing.

▶ 11:10 Now how can God’s people and humanists and the wicked grow or increase together? We’re going to summarize it. How can this possibly work out? Okay, we’ve given you the steps. We’re going to sum those steps. First of all, humanist nor God followers may lie to other people or do harm to other people physically, financially, mentally, or spiritually if we’re going to grow together and work together as a community, as a nation. Neither humanists that don’t believe in God nor God followers that believe in God have an excuse to hurt other people. All right. Secondly, when humanists or God followers hurt others they must be punished. You know, just because you’re a believer in Christ does not give you permission to hurt others, and because you don’t believe in God doesn’t give you permission to hurt others. And when we do we need to be punished or corrected for the wicked behavior, as we are no longer just believers or non-believers but we are criminals—and criminals need to be corrected, punished, and if we don’t change our harmful ways we need to be separated from society.

▶ 12:50 Now we’ve got to remember and recall that God cannot lie, that God is love, and love does no harm to a neighbor. And in Romans 13:10 it says love fulfills the law. Every law written should be written to protect its citizens from harm, both from government and other citizens—and that’s the kind of laws that work. We got to remember these things, these high priorities. Next is we got to remember in the Humanist Manifesto they said, short of harming others, individuals should be permitted to express their likings and pursue their lifestyles as they desire. But the key is short of harming others. They agree with the Bible that they believe is a myth—we don’t have a right to hurt others. So we can unite around good, around not hurting others, and live amongst each other though one of us believes in God and the other doesn’t. So summing it up, there’s three choices: follow Jesus, the Bible, and don’t harm others; reject Jesus, the Bible, and don’t harm others—that would be the humanist; and number three, follow or reject Jesus in the Bible but we hurt others by criminal wicked behavior requiring punishment. In summation, we cannot just talk about doing good—we must do good.