God is our most basic need. He reveals Himself and His will in the Bible (Ecc. 12:13). The Bible is truth and fits man's unchanging needs: God is, the Bible is God's word, Jesus Christ is God's Son, Man's purpose is to love God and his fellowman (1 Pet. 1:23). If the Bible outdated and irrelevant? God and His truth are never outdated (Psa. 90:1). The dangers of sin do not change. The problem of sin and evil are resolved by the Bible, NOT by science, medicine, or technology.

2. Evidences for God and His Creation
Word in the Heart Series

3. [By Ron Halbrook, adapted from Evidences for God and His Creation]

4. • Introduction
1. God is our most basic need:
He reveals Himself & His will in the Bible
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man.
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5. • Introduction
2. Bible truth, man’s needs unchanging
23 Being born again,
not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible,
by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth for ever.
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6. • Introduction
3. Basic Bible principles have always been true:
God is
The Bible is God’s Word
Jesus Christ is God’s Son
Man’s purpose is to love God & his fellowman
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7. • Introduction
4. Is the Bible outdated & irrelevant now?
God & His truth never outdated!
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place
in all generations.
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8. • Introduction
4. Is the Bible outdated & irrelevant now?
Dangers of sin not change: lives destroyed
by hatred & murder, drunkenness, immorality
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9. • Introduction
4. Is the Bible outdated & irrelevant now?
Truth in ancient law codes recognized today:
282 ethical, civil, & legal laws in Babylonian
King Hammurabi’s Code (1728-1686 B.C.)—
presumption of innocence;
builder responsible if building unsafe
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10. • Introduction
4. Is the Bible outdated & irrelevant now?
Problem of sin & evil resolved by Bible
NOT by science, medicine, & technology
Science & technology not change our heart,
the origin of sin & evil—the Bible does!
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11. • Introduction
5. How the Bible meets our needs
The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
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12. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
A. Man Cannot Resolve His Own Deepest Needs
Science, medicine, & technology address
our material world & physical needs—
man has deeper moral & spiritual needs
Life’s basic experiences are
the same in all generations
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13. Life’s basic experiences are
the same in all generations
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it:
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;
and that which is done is that which shall be done:
and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said,
See, this is new? it hath been already of old time,
which was before us.
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14. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
B. The Bible Answers Our Deepest Questions
& Needs
Where did I come from?
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15. Where did I come from?
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
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16. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
B. The Bible Answers Our Deepest Questions
& Needs
Why am I here?
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17. Why am I here?
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man.
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good;
and what doth the LORD require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God?
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18. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
B. The Bible Answers Our Deepest Questions
& Needs
Where am I going?
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming,
in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth;
they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life;
and they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of damnation. 18

19. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
C. Atheism Cannot Answer Life’s Deepest Questions
Where did I come from?
Why am I here?
Where am I going?
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20. C. Atheism Cannot Answer Life’s Deepest Questions
Robert Ingersoll: “Life is a narrow vale
between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.
We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
We cry aloud,
and the only answer is the echo of a wailing cry”
(“A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll, by his Brother Robert”
in Robert Ingersoll, The Ghosts, and other lectures, 1892)

21. C. Atheism Cannot Answer Life’s Deepest Questions
Friedrich Nietzsche, “God is dead.”
“Where is my home?
For it do I ask and seek, and have sought,
but have not found it.
O eternal everywhere,
O eternal nowhere,
O eternal-in-vain”
(Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and No One, 1891)

22. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
D. God Gives Us Hope for Time & Eternity
God shepherds us for time & eternity
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23. God shepherds us for time & eternity
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul:
he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
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24. God shepherds us for time & eternity
5 Thou preparest a table before me
in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
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25. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
D. God Gives Us Hope for Time & Eternity
God gives joy & peace
to prayerful hearts
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26. God gives joy & peace to prayerful hearts
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway:
and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand.
6 Be careful for nothing;
but in every thing by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God,
which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus. 26

27. I. The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
D. God Gives Us Hope for Time & Eternity
God gives strength for every trial
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28. God gives strength for every trial
11 Not that I speak in respect of want:
for I have learned,
in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased,
and I know how to abound:
every where and in all things
I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry,
both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me.
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29. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
A. Christ Gave the Greatest Moral & Social Ethics
of All Time in Matt. 5-7
Resolve conflicts: control temper
& tongue, seek immediate reconciliation
Protect marriage vows & mate from
moral harm
Tell the truth
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30. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
A. Christ Gave the Greatest Moral & Social Ethics
of All Time in Matt. 5-7
Generosity not retaliation heals wounds
Love enemies, avoid hatred’s poison
Judge people fairly, accurately—
not hypercritically & hypocritically
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31. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
A. Christ Gave the Greatest Moral & Social Ethics
of All Time in Matt. 5-7
Treat others as you wish to be treated!
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them:
for this is the law and the prophets.
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32. Do you, ____, desire, & promise
to take the one ____
to become your lawful wedded companion;
II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
to love, honor, & cherish her
B. Bible Principles Make Stable Happy Homes
in sickness as in health,
in adversity as in prosperity; echo this passage
Marriage vows
and forsaking all others become
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father
and be such a husband
and Godmother, you should,
as his directs that
and shall cleave unto his wife:
until death do you part?
and they shall be one flesh.
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33. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
B. Bible Principles Make Stable Happy Homes
Family duties give life order
& stability
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34. Family duties give life order
& stability
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as it is fit in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives,
and be not bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things:
for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger,
lest they be discouraged.
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35. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
B. Bible Principles Make Stable Happy Homes
Balanced discipline shows love
24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son:
but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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36. B. Bible Principles Make Stable Happy Homes
Sin’s dysfunctional destructive conduct
destabilizes the home:
 Uncontrolled anger, bitterness, hatred
 Divorce
 Murder (often family)
 Alcohol & other drugs
 Sexually transmitted diseases
 Lies, stealing
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37. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
C. The Bible Is a Seamless Cloth of Truth
If part of Scripture is false, all falls into doubt
 Unbelievers attack Bible morality by attacking
its accuracy in science, history, & geography
 Accuracy in these fields confirms its moral truth
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38. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
C. The Bible Is a Seamless Cloth of Truth
Bible science is true
 Every effect has an adequate cause
 Seed produces
“after its kind”
 All nations are “made of one blood”
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39. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
C. The Bible Is a Seamless Cloth of Truth
Bible history is true
 Abram’s seed given a promised land
 Cyrus restored Israel to her land
 God’s new kingdom began
in the time of Rome, 4th power from Babylon
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40. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
C. The Bible Is a Seamless Cloth of Truth
Bible geography is true
 Abram from Ur of Chaldees
 Hittites a powerful
nation
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41. HITTITE
EMPIRE
2000 BC-
1200 BC
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42. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
C. The Bible Is a Seamless Cloth of Truth
Archaeology confirms Bible history & geography
 1800’s scholars mocked Bible references
to Hittites; early 1900’s 10,000 clay tablets found
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43. II. The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
C. The Bible Is a Seamless Cloth of Truth
The moral truth of the Bible is confirmed
by its accuracy in science, history, & geography!
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44. • Conclusion
1. God is our most basic need:
He reveals Himself & His will in the Bible
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man.
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45. • Conclusion
2. Bible truth, man’s needs unchanging
23 Being born again,
not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible,
by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth for ever.
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46. • Conclusion
3. Basic Bible principles have always been true:
God is
The Bible is God’s Word
Jesus Christ is God’s Son
Man’s purpose is to love God & his fellowman
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47. • Conclusion
4. How the Bible meets our needs
The Bible Addresses Man’s Deepest Needs
The Bible Reveals Practical Moral Principles
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48. • Conclusion
5. Submit to Christ: get right with God
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism
doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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