✝ Daily Encouragement (10/31/23) "Refusing To Believe"
Published: Tue, 10/31/23
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"Refusing To
Believe"
Message summary: A statement the Lord made to Moses in Numbers 14:11 concerning the rebellious children of Israel has a broader application in our view, speaking not only to its time but of the overall condition of many in the human race. "How long will they refuse to believe in Me". Rather than refusing to believe let us most assuredly declare, “I believe!"
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“The Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will these people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?’” (Numbers 14:11). “Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way” (Acts 19:8,9). Saturday evening we joined a group from our ABF class (Sunday School) to have a fall gathering on the large dairy farm of one of our class member s. We had a meal together along with fellowship and a wagon tour of the farm, where some 1600 Holstein cows are milked 3 times each day. We'll share some photos below. ![]() Years ago I came across this photo of a Holstein. Most (I hope!) will recognize that the marking appears as a world map and immediately assumed it had to be photo shopped. I first saw the photo from a creation ministry with this thought-provoking comment:
“Was the cow born with these markings or are the spots the handiwork
of a skilled Photoshop artist? Obviously, this cow’s spots were put there by a designer. But our question for evolutionists is this: If you agree that the cow’s spots are designed, why won’t you agree that the actual cow – which is so much more complex than the arrangement of its spots – was designed as
well?”
Evolutionists and atheists will agree that the pattern of the cow’s spots was designed, but they will not agree that the cow itself was designed. That’s because they are committed to their faith – yes, faith! – a faith built on the premise that there is no Designer. Though they can see the complexities of nature all around them, they say that everything was the result of mindless, natural processes. And that’s why Darwinists have a cow, pun intended, whenever they hear a Bible-believing Christian say that things which appear to be designed actually are designed! If they weren’t so biased against God they’d know that the cow’s spots reveal the incredibly huge blind spot, pun intended again, in their own minds.” A statement the Lord made to Moses in Numbers 14:11 concerning the rebellious children of Israel has a broader application in our view, speaking not only of the people of its time but also of the overall condition of many in the human race. Consider it being asked today by the Almighty God of the universe:
“How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long
will they refuse to believe in Me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?”
Concerning the Kingdom of God in Ephesus Paul preached boldly and persuasively but “some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way". ![]() Yet many people believe in a scheme that is far more nonsensical. That is: the material universe with all it's obvious design and complexities is merely a result of random chance and time. Billions of years ago it just simply appeared out of nowhere, asserts the non-believer in God. In this outlook the origin of what we see and experience is not the work of the Creator God. Now that takes real faith from a far different source! Last week I was at an apologetics banquet sponsored by the Associates for Biblical Research. The main speaker, Dr. Jason Lisle, who has a PhD in astrophysics, contended strongly for the veracity of the Creation account in Genesis, a foundation for our faith. We urge you to accept the matter of fact statement from Hebrews 13:4, "God is the builder of everything". Many in the world mock at such a belief. “It’s too simple” or “it’s not scientific” or “it’s old-fashioned” they say. Atheists and agnostics vehemently deny it but they also have faith, placing their faith in the fallible, changing notions of human wisdom and refusing to believe in the overwhelming evidence for a Creator God. And as described in Acts 19 they malign those of us who do believe in God.
When I was at the banquet last week I sat near a nuclear physicist who
attends my brother's church and is a professor at Lehigh University, a top ranked research university in Bethlehem, PA. He shared with me how other professors malign him for his faith but he stands strong as a contender. In fact in one way or another we are all likely to be maligned just as the early disciples were.
Just store in your memory bank the painted Holstein cow and all the sand art bottles that have an original designer. Let us unashamedly place our faith in the God of the universe for He is indeed the builder of everything!
Rather than refusing to believe let us most assuredly declare,
“I
believe!"
Be encouraged today,
(Hebrews 3:13
)
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
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Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"I Believe"
Watch on Youtube Phil Wickham We opened our worship service with this song last Sunday. What a great expression of expressing our living faith! Here's the version from our church service
Watch on
Youtube
Bible
Science Institute (the apologetics ministry of Dr. Jason Lisle whom I heard speak at a banquet last week).
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Group from our class watching the milking up
close.
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