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Sacramento Central SDA Church

Chris Buttery

Never Alone

You know what's interesting and I was listening to, listening on the radio here this week, still the energy and the interest that people have in finding life outside of life on planet Earth.

Some image this week apparently was captured on film of something, some object on the south side of the moon, It kind of protruded and apparently it wasn't there before.

And so some folk got a little excited and got a little happy that perhaps, perhaps some type of alien life-form came to the moon and planted something there and then left, giving evidence that perhaps they are alive, just a sneak peek, a hint, that there is life outside of planet Earth somewhere.

You know, the search for life on other planets in our universe has really been the ambition of many.

Since earliest recorded times, man has always been fascinated with the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Modern attempts to find life outside our sphere have caused flurries of excitement and disappointment.

Today, astronomers search for extra solar, what they call extra solar planets that they believe would be conducive to life.

Planets very similar to the planet Earth, for example, and the atmosphere and so on.

They say future telescopes will be able to image planets around nearby stars which may reveal the presence of life.

Darwin is a European search agency mission designed to find Earth-like planets and analyze their atmosphere for life.

The launch date is next year, that'd be the year after, 2016.

Another mission initiated by the French Space Agency was launched in 2006 and is currently looking for extra solar planets.

Now the failure of the SETI program, the search for extraterrestrial intelligences to detect anything resembling an intelligent radio signal after 4 decades of effort has at least partially dimmed the prevailing optimism of life out there somewhere.

The question is, is there life on other planets?

Are we alone in this vast complex universe?

Can we claim to be the only galaxy housing intelligences in over 400 billion discovered galaxies in space?

The question as to whether there are other worlds that are inhabited is a vital concern as it leads us to a much deeper issue that we'll be dealing with here today.

I think we have a even a picture of our solar system and and the pin dot of the earth that shows where we are in our solar system.

Yeah, there it is, this is the Milky Way and we are there.

You can't even see where we are here is really, but we are a pin dot in the Milky Way and Milky Way is 1 of over 400 billion galaxies, discovered galaxies, known of galaxies in this universe and when we use the word billion and I know we use the word billion carelessly sometimes cheaply because we we hear the government spending so many billion dollars on this program and this program but if you counted to a billion it would take you a very long time to get there very long time to get if you worked out at 12 hours a day 7 days a week it take you more than several years to count to a billion.

And so we are truly 1 fine speck in this vast universe.

But the question as to whether there are other worlds that are inhabited is a vital concern to us because it does lead to a much deeper issue that we're going to deal with here today.

Science and education haven't been able to help us answer this question as hard as they've tried.

Consider that our nearest star is 3 and a half light years away.

Light travels at the speed of 186, 000 miles per second.

So we would need to travel at that speed, 186, 000 miles per second for 3 and a half years to reach our nearest star.

And yet as marvelous as it is, we've only been able to send probes up there to our nearest planet, Mars.

Now, of course, we've got satellites floating around out there, taking pictures and doing different things.

But as only as we explore the content of Scripture, can we discover the truth of this matter?

I'd like to invite you to turn with me to Hebrews 11, and we're gonna read verse 3.

We're gonna look at several verses here this morning in our study together.

The Apostle Paul, and I believe it was Paul who wrote the book of Hebrews, says through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." God...

Notice that God said, or the Bible says that God made the worlds plural...

Now we can only understand that this took place through faith.

Evolution must also be accepted on the premise of faith as there's no proof of evolving life forms according to this theory.

Man can take matter and turn it into energy, but God took energy and he turned it into matter.

And we understand this according to what the Apostle Paul writes here we understand this by or through a thing called faith science now agrees that matter hasn't always existed as once believed but that is that it had a beginning so The question would be why not accept biology's 101's premise, life begets life, that an intelligent creator made all that there is.

So the Bible says that God made the worlds, plural, which begets or begs rather a question.

Was it to simply fill the vacuum of space only to be left out there unattended, uninhabited, without any purpose or plan?

Now I'm gonna invite you to go to the Old Testament with me.

Isaiah 45, I've had lots of practice, I've been working on it.

I want you to notice what the gospel prophet tells us here.

Why is it that the world was, Why is the world inhabited?

Look at this, Isaiah chapter 45 and verse 18.

It says, for thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it, He hath established it.

God made the world and we could say the worlds to be inhabited.

He decided to be filled to the brim with the work of his hands.

It wasn't to exist in vain for no purpose at all.

God definitely had a plan in mind when He created the worlds.

Like a parent, for example, who readies their homes for a new arrival, making sure the crib is bought, the clothes are in the drawer, all the necessities are accounted for, not in vain.

Not in vain, but for the arrival of that someone special.

You see, God made the world in readiness for our entrance.

He made the world in 6 days, and on the sixth day, He created man and woman, and planted us here.

He made everything in readiness for it to be inhabited, you see.

Now over in Isaiah chapter 40, verse 22, we read something interesting.

Isaiah chapter 40, we're gonna be in Isaiah a little bit here this morning.

It is He, talking about God, the Creator, it is He that sits upon the circle of the earth and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers that stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to do what?

Notice the heavens are spread out like a tent to dwell in.

By the way, long before we discovered the shape of the earth, a sphere, The Gospel prophet, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, declared God's sitting, as it were, upon the circle of the earth.

Now, Greek mythology, Greek mythology taught that Atlas held up the world.

Greek mythology taught that Atlas held up the world and that an elephant actually was propping up Atlas.

But no 1 ever cared to explain what was keeping the elephant up, you understand.

And so the Bible says that God hung the world in space, you see, and he sits, as it were, upon the circle of the earth.

The inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers.

And it says that God spread out the heavens as a tent to dwell in look at verse 15 same chapter Isaiah 40 verse 15 it says behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are as counted as the small dust of the balance.

Behold, he taketh up the aisle as a very little thing.

God says here that we are like a drop of water in a bucket.

If I were to reach in and put my hand in a full bucket of water and I were to pull my finger out and on the very tip of my finger would be a drop of water.

If you were to look into the bucket, could you tell if something were missing from the bucket if I pulled my hand out and I had a drop of water on the tip of my finger?

Would you be able to tell any substantial difference or any difference at all with regards to the amount of water in the bucket?

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