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“Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.” Psalm

66.5 God of Wonders

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“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being

understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they

are without excuse.” Romans 1:20 In the beginning God created the heavens and

the earth, the sea, and all that is in them.

And since the dawn of creation, God´s attributes are seen

and know by all. As a building requires a builder,

creation demands a Creator. And as an outstanding design points to a gifted

designer, our amazing universe reveals the glory of

an awesome Creator. God´s wonders surround us.

And these marvels reveal much about our Creator. Through creation we glimpse His power and

wisdom, His majesty and care.

Creation is speaking to those who will listen. I´m Dr. John Whitcomb.

Join us as we explore the message of creation, conscience, and the glory of God!

God of Power Throughout creation God´s power is displayed.

From the new growth of plants in the spring, to new life forming in the womb;

Wherever we turn the Creator´s energizing power

Is unmistakable. He guides the stars in their courses above,

He formed the majestic mountains, He maintains the beneficial seasons,

And in His hand is the life of every living thing.

The fact that we have a universe tell us that we need a Creator.

Because, you see, the universe has a beginning and therefore requires a cause.

The energy in the universe has a beginning and therefore requires a cause.

And people say “Well, okay, fine. God made the universe, but then who made God

?” But you see, God is eternal.

God doesn´t have a beginning and therefore doesn´t require a cause.

And that may be a little hard to grasp, but there´s nothing irrational about an eternal

being. There is something irrational about something

popping into existence from nothing, ‘cause that

violates causality. “Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You

are God.” Psalm 90.2 You know, a famous evolutionist was once asked,

where did the Big Bang come from? And he said simply, “If somebody ever asked

you “where mass energy came from,

just ask them where God came from.” And I think he really said something much

more meaningful than he thought.

Something had to be eternal. Either mass energy is eternal or God is eternal.

Well, science has taught us a lot about mass energy.

One of the things is it wears out. Mass energy eternal doesn´t make any sense

at all. God is eternal, does make sense.

As we read in that first chapter of Hebrews: The heavens

The whole universe is growing old and wearing out

like a garment to be cast off but Thou, O Lord, endureth forever.

The Bible explains there´s one God who is the Creator

and the source of all life and energy. The forces of nature are energized and guided

by His hand. Who hasn’t´felt the rumble of an approaching

storm and considered God´s might?

Thunder clapping Thunder clapping

“His lightnings light the world; the earth sees and trembles.” Psalm 97.4

Thunder clapping Thunderstorms are an amazing display of the

Creator´s might. An average thunderstorm pours down

several hundred million gallons of water Equivalent to the amount of water that flows

over Niagara Falls every 6 minutes. The same storm releases 10 million kilowatt

– hours of energy – equivalent to a 20 kiliton nuclear

warhead. And large, severe thunderstorms can be 10,

of even 100 more energetic. At any given moment, hundreds of storms are

occurring somewhere aroung the world.

This amounts to about 16 million thunderstorms each year!

Thunder clapping The accompanying lightning illuminates an

entire skyline. A bolt may reach over 5 miles in length,

contain over 100 million electrical volts, and soar the temperatures approaching

50.000 degrees Fahrenheit in a split second hotter than the surface of the sun.

On average, lightning strikes the earth 100 times

every second. Several million bolts reach earth each day.

The tremendous power, the incredible speed, and the glaring flash are clear manifestations

of our Creator´s majestic power. Thunderstorms are an incredible phenomenon

in the atmosphere. They´re awesome. They´re powerful.

They´re frightening. They have all kinds of energy releases.

That´s basically what´s happening is a thunderstorm is releasing large quantities of energy in

our atmosphere By vertical motions.

Thunderstorms contribute a major amount to the water cycle.

The hydrologic cycle—water is evaporated from the oceans.

the vapor is drifted over the continents and then it falls

as rain and then flows back into the sea. Thunderstorms are a major part of that cycle,

where it converts that water vapor back into liquid water or rain and falls to the

earth. Lightning and thunderstorms in Scripture are

often used as a symbol of God´s wrath against rebellious

people. But everybody has been struck by the awesome

beauty of lightning and storm and the smell of the fresh air.

The lightning itself puts together two gases in the air—

nitrogen and hydrogen—to make fertilizer. When the lightning stroke goes through the

air, it releases the nitrogen in the vapor form

and absorbs it into the water and it falls down and fertilizes

the ground. By thunderstorms.

Four thousand years ago job pondered the Almighty´s display

with these words: “He binds up the water in His thick clouds,

yet the clouds are not broken under it. He stirs up the sea with His power,

and by His understanding He breaks up the storm.

Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!

But the thunder of His power who can understand?” so thunderstorms and natural events

that are highly energetic. I think they are a lesson about if God can

do this, what must He be like ?

While we may not fully grasp this cumulative power,

these grand display should cause all to stand in awe of our great God.

“Lift up yours eyes on high, and see who has created these things,…by the greatness

of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing.” Isaiah 40.26

Our sun is immense and its energy output enormous. The core of the sun is a scorching

27 million degrees Fahrenheit! Though the sun is 93 million miles from earth,

sunlight is our main source of energy. Energy leaves the sun at the ferocious rate

of 5 million tons of matter per second.

This goes on day and night, year after year. There are many examples of God´s power in

nature. The whole universe came about by His word.

Psalm 33.9 says that God spoke it was finished. He commanded and it stood fast.

As one good example, consider our nearest star, the sun

the sun gives off more energy in one second than mankind

has produced since Adam and Eve. The sun actually provides its energy by nuclear

fusion, converting hydrogen into helium on a grand

scale. And this is true of all the stars.

In our own Milky Way Galaxy, we estimate 100 billions stars.

And beyond that, in deep space, we see 100 billion more galaxies.

One cannot begin to grasp the kind of energy and power

that we´re talking about, all created by God´s Word.

The sun heats the earth and it drives all of the weather systems on the earth

tornados, hurricanes, thunderstorms, just plain rain clouds, winds, all of that

is driven by the energy coming from the sun.

And the energy that we have on earth is only one billionth

of the amount of energy that´s coming from the sun!

To gain perspective, with the gain, of computer animation,

Lets now travel with the earth to then sum. At one hundred times the speed of light.

From this view we begin to appreciate the manigtude

of our home star. Over one million earths would fit inside the

sun. yet our sun is an average size star

many stars in our own galaxy dwarf it. Arcturus is the forth-brightest star in the

night sky. Though 200 trillion miles away, this orange

giant is visible to the naked eye.

by moving our sun next to Arcturus we can grasp

its immensity. Arcturus is 100 times brighter with a radius

20 times greater than the sun´s.

yet even Arcturus appears small when compared with the super-giant Betelgeuse.

Betelgeuse has a radius 600 times that of our sun.

A reddish star, it shines a remarkable 60.000 times

brighter than the sun. However even Betelgeuse is not the largest

star in our galaxy. Several red super giants in the Milky Way

are even larger some with a radius 1500 times that of our

sun. One of the things in creation that I think

really exhibits God´s power, is the power released in stars.

The sun releases more energy in one second than a billion

major cities on the earth—if there were a billion—

would produce in a year And that´s just released in one second –

you can imagine that! And of course there are stars that are even

more powerful than the sun.

And just imagine all that power. All those stars, billions of stars that are

in our galaxy, Billion of stars in other galaxies,

and yet the Bible describes the creation of all that energy, all that power,

With a single phrase: “He made the stars also.”

When we consider that these ratios present only a sliver

of our Creator´s power, certainly we can agree

with the psalmist when he exhorts: “Let all the earth fear the Lord.”

Of course the stars reveal more than raw power. Without the light of the sun, all life on

earth would soon perish.

The sun´s life-giving energy provides a constant reminder

of our Creator´s steadfast love – the God who shines His gift of light on all.

“He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. Great is our Lord, and mighty

in power; His understanding is infinite.” Psalm 147:5-5

The visible universe contains more than 100 billion galaxies.

Each of these galaxies has a diameter millions of trillions

of miles wide; and each contains hundreds of billions of stars

though incomprehensible, it is now estimated that the universe holds over a billion trillion

stars. Long before the introduction of the telescope,

scripture declared that man would be unable to determine

the exact number because there are so many. Of course the Creator knows the exact number,

and Psalm 147 declares that He even calls each star by name!

The power to create each of these stars, the wisdom to maintain their stellar courses,

and the incredible beauty displayed throughout the universe, combine to affirm

the Creator´s majesty and care. God has made the universe so vast.

All man can do is just marvel at this universe, the vastness of it.

And I say, God, You are so – You are so great!

And I think of what David said, “When I consider Your heavens,

“the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars

“that You have made, what is man “that Thou art mindful of him, or the son

of man that You should visit Him ?”

It´s estimated that there are over 100 billion stars

in our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy. It is estimated that there are over 100 billion

galaxies in the universe.

Of course the Bible tells us that as the heavens are higher

than the earth, so are God´s ways above our ways and His

thoughts above our thoughts, so chew on that for a little bit - -

Think about how big the universe is compared to the earth,

Which is just the head of a pin by comparasion. Just how big is God´s universe ?

Travelling at the speed of light - - 186.000 miles per second - -

We could circle the earth seven times in one second.

However, to travel across the know universe at the speed of light would take 28 billion

years or more! Today most astronomers acknowledge that the

universe appears to be expanding.

This also agrees with the Bible which says God

“stretches out the heavens like a curtain.” There are some examples in the Bible

of scientific foresight. One example that comes to mind in particular,

is in Isaiah 40:22 which talks about God stretching out

the heavens as a tent or as a curtain. And you might say, “Well, that is written

in a poetic way, so we´ve got to be careful.”

And yet, there are at least ten other places in the Bible where it talks about this stretching

out of the heavens.

And that is something that was only discovered in

the twentieth century when we found that, indeed,

all the galaxies appear to be, or virtually all of them appear to be moving

away from each other, as if the entire universe is being,

lo and behold, stretched out and expanded, just like the Bible says.

That´s obviously not something that people could have observed

in ancient times. That´s something that had to have been revealed

to them from above.

Unimaginably large, containing spectacular galaxies

and stunning nebulae, truly: “The heavens declare

the glory of God.” It´s not just the visible forces of nature

or our immense universe that reveals God´s might.

It turns out that there is tremendous energy present

in all matter - - even the tiny atom. Let´s explore one more example of the Creator´s

infinite power. “Consider the wondrous works of God” Job

37:14 In the last century scientists have uncovered

the vast energy present in all matter.

The now well-know relation E=mc Squared states that

the potential energy of any matter is equal to its mass

times the speed of light squared. One of the great discoveries of the twentieth

century was the discovery E = mc Squared, that little

equation that most people have heard of

but maybe they don´t know what it means. What it really means is that energy has mass.

That doesn´t mean that energy can be exchanged for mass,

but rather, energy actually possesses mass. Energy weighs something, if you could put

it on a scale. Even light.

Even the light that is coming from this room, if I could put it on a scale, it would weigh

just a little bit. In the past century, scientists have explored

the concept of nuclear energy. It involves the formula E = mc Squared

made famous by Albert Einstein. In this formula, the “m” stands for mass

or matter, and “c” is the speed of light.

What the expression says is that it is possible to take matter

or mass and convert it entirely into energy. You take a mass and you annihilate it and

off comes light and sound and power and energy

and that also means that if we could take just a little bit