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Hebrews 11:3
"Through Faith We
Perceive That The Worlds Were Framed By The Word Of God, So That The Things
Which Are Seen Were Not Made Of Things Which Do Appear"---And Modern Physics
Has Just Proven This!
Now,
it says this, by faith, or "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." (verse 3) [Wow! Science, through Albert Einstein and
the BIG BANG has just caught up with this Bible truth, through modern
physics. Read on if you don't
believe me.] Because we believe in
that which is invisible, that which is not seen. Every generation that's ever lived, by the way, since Adam
and Eve, has lived and died, not receiving the fulfillment of the
promises. They've lived in
faith. Verse 39 tells us that,
about those that lived in faith. Not just faith in faith. Faith again is only as solid as, its not an object, its faith in Jesus
Christ [or that he w I'll do something, as with Abraham and Sarah having Isaac]. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1 begins to
tell us 'in many ways, and sundry times has God spoken through the
prophets, but has now spoken in these last days in Son, through his Son, our faith is in h'm and what he
said. We believe in h'm. Paul said 'I know in whom I have
believed. And it is by that faith, it says, 'We
understand, we perceive that the worlds were made by the Word of God [i.e.
Jesus Christ], that the things which are seen are not made of things which do
appear. Its kind of an interesting thing. By faith we understand. Now 'Its by faith we perceive. "To understand"
that is a word, never in the New Testament anywhere is it translated in the
sense of physical sight, "through faith we understand" we don't see that way. Its 'by faith we perceive,
we perceive something. If you can get past the first two
verses of the Bible, the rest of its a breeze, "In the beginning God created [Hebrew "bara": to create something out of nothing] the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters." 'The things that are made are
created from things which do not appear, which are not seen, the Bible tells us that. And that's something we perceive, its
something that we perceive, that the things that are made right now around us
are made of things which do not appear. [i.e. What made the swirling mass of plasma 11 to 13 trillion degrees hot
with a frequency of 13 trillion cycles per second which was the size of a
mustard seed, which was the initial phase of the BIG BANG? Scientist don't know, it appears to
have come out of nothing. They
can't go back beyond that initial appearance of this tiny spec of intensely hot
and dense plasma they call the BIG BANG.] Isn't that interesting? that's why, when I think of resurrection again, the wonderful thing
about resurrection, when I'm thinking about the resurrection, because my dads
gone, I don't just believe in life after death, like oooh, some ethereal plane,
I believe in resurrection. I
believe hes getting up again. And
I believe I want to put my arms around him, and I'm going to hug him again. that's what I believe. Because, I was
there the second he took his last breath, I saw the software leave the
hardware. The software, the
program, is Immaterial, its mass-less, it doesn't weigh anything. [Hes talking about the human spirit,
the spirit-in-man that Paul talked about in 1st Corinthians
2:9-13. For an explanation and
good studies about all this, the
first resurrection to Immortality, and the 2nd resurrection for all
the unsaved dead, see, http://www.unityinchrist.com/corinthians/cor15-16.htm, and again, for what might happen at the 2nd resurrection for all the unsaved dead (including my dad, whom I love dearly)
see http://www.unityinchrist.com/plaintruth/battle.htm. The second link goes to articles that explain about this human software
that gives us our human intellect, and awesome human reasoning power, far
beyond that of animals.] If you
take all of your software and download it on a computer, you've got a new
computer or something, it might be faster, you get an upgrade, you see that's
whats going to happen when we get to resurrection, were going to get an
upgrade [both in hardware and software], everything s going to work faster, but
its going to be the same software that's in there [all our memories, all the
character we developed under the influence of having Gods indwelling Holy
Spirit coupled to our software, the human spirit in us, all of that w I'll be
placed in this new upgraded hardware, our new resurrection bodies, whatever they'll
be like. We know this, because
John tells us in 1st John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be: but
we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him
as he is." How is Jesus now? Later in Johns life, on the Isle of
Patmos, John saw Jesus as he is now, described in Revelation 1:11-18. John says in 1st John 3:2
that our new bodies w I'll be like what he saw in Revelation 1:11-18. Look it up and read it.] And its the software that makes the
program, which is intangible. Resurrection is no problem, he was cremated, some people go 'oh, he
was created, whats going to happen in the resurrection, there is nothing
left? Well, after three years laying
somewhere in a box theres nothing left either. And lots of early Christians were burned at the stake or fed
to lions, there wasn't much left of them either. Lots of them have been buried at sea. You know, the thing we've come to
understand is that atoms are fungible, its the software that determines who I
am, and God has a higher purpose for this space-suit that's wearing out right
now. But what w I'll make it what it
is, is the program that he put in it, its the software, its the
information. I can be recreated
from any atoms, anywhere, because its the atoms that form the molecules, and
the molecules make the proteins and everything else, he can use any old atoms
anywhere to reconstruct the same hardware. It doesn't matter, atoms are interchangeable. And were discovering more and more the
structure of things and the importance of the software of all this, and the
material universe is really made of things that are not seen [i.e. physicists
are now always talking about "dark matter" and "dark energy." And don't forget, God is, dwells,
outside of Space & Time, the Space-Time Continuum.] that's what it just said here. God spoke, he raI'mo, not Logos, he spoke the worlds into
existence. That things were formed
and made by things which are not seen. The Programmer programmed, it was the software that determined how
everything amassed and come together.
Some History Of
Quantum Physics And Relativity
Again,
understanding a little bit more in these last few centuries about these things,
they say if you would take the nucleus of an atom and make it the size of a
basketball, that the closest electron would be in Los Angelos (and hes in
Philadelphia), it would be 3,000 miles away, that everything is mostly
space. If you took all of the
space out of the earth, 8,000 miles in diameter, if you took all of the space
out of it, you could put the earth in a basket. So everything here is mostly space. Some of us more than others, but
[laughter]. And everything that's
made is really made of something that doesn't appear. I had some fun today looking at some history of some quantum
particle physics in this century, you know it was in 1904, 1906 when scientists
started to look at subatomic structure [Einstein, Niels Borr]. You had molecules, and then you got
down to atomic structure, with nucleuses, neutrons, protons and electrons, and
electrons got the photons, and they started to find all of this stuff. And they were staggered, Ludwig
Boltzmann, a leading quantum physicist when the field was blossoming, committed
suicide, because he couldn't handle what he was discovering. Because what he said was that material
(physical matter) is really made of non-material [shimmering balls of pure
energy as some would later say, which is the way the matter started out in the
BIG BANG, and then it cooled and expanded to what we have now, and that
knowledge is now all contained in provable modern physics. Poor Boltzmann, he couldn't handle all
that]. And if what he was
discovering is true, he said "There has to be a Designer," and he couldn't handle it. In 1906 J.J. Thompson received the
Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are particles. In 1937 his son was awarded the Nobel Prize for proving that
electrons are waves [they're both, just like photons which make up light]. The father got the Nobel Prize for
proving that electrons were particles, the son gets the Nobel Prize for proving
electrons are waves, now they discover both father and son are correct. And what makes it even more astonishing
is that there is compelling evidence that the only time Quanta ever manifest as
particles is when someones looking at them. [Order the book Schrödingers Kittens if you want your mind to be
blown.] This is for your
information. Niels Borr pointed
out that if sub-atomic particles only come into existence in the presence of an
observer, then it is meaningless to speak of a particles properties and
characteristics as existing before they're observed [no wonder poor Boltzmann
committed suicide]. Follow me here
[I can't stop laughing]. But if
the act of observation actually helped create the properties, what did that
imply about future science? And he
said, "Anyone who isn't shocked by quantum physics hasn't understood
it." One physicist who was deeply troubled
[only one?] by Borrs assertions was Albert Einstein [my hero of all
physicists]. Despite the role that
Einstein played in the founding of quantum theory, he was not pleased with the
course of the fledgling science [naturally, because quantum physics does not
mesh mathematically with the science of Relativity, which Albert Einstein was
the major discoverer of. Before
Einstein died, his goal was to integrate quantum physics with Relativity, which
scientists continue to try to do, and this is to try to produce what they term
as The Unified Field Theory. Get
and read Greene's The Elegant Universe]. The
problem according to Einsteins Special Theory of Relativity is that nothing
can travel faster than the speed of light. Einstein and his colleagues were convinced that no
reasonable definition of reality would permit a faster thing than light. And to see what they discovered in
quantum physics is if they took an electron or a photon, and they split it off,
and it shot off in one direction, that something just like it shot in the other
direction. If they deflected it
off of a plate, where it deflected, the thing that went in the other direction
deflected in the same place even though there wasn't a plate [is your mind
blown yet?]. So they discovered
that theres some communication between them that they don't understand. And if one of them is traveling at the
speed of light in this direction, the other one is traveling the speed of light
in that direction, somethings happening at twice the speed of light [Warp 2 in
Star Trek terms, for all you Trekkers like me]. And Einstein didn't want to face that, he couldn't hack it
[eventually he did], because he knew it pointed to a Creator, and he didn't
want to deal with it. [Einstein
came to accept that God really existed, though he never darkened the door of a
church or synagogue, as I believe he despised organized religion, and rightly
so. When my dad was at Williams
College he said if you were a math student, you could call up Professor
Einstein on the phone at Princeton University, and get help solving math
problems. He was a very humble
man.] It says, though, Borr
remained unperturbed by Einsteins argument [they were both right]. One factor that contributed to Borrs
following was that quantum physics had proved so secularly successful, they could
do these things, they just couldn't explain them. "In predicting phenomena few physicists were even w willing
to consider the possibility that it might be faulty in some way. The entire industry today of lasers,
micro-electronics, computers have emerged on the reliability of the predictions
of quantum physics. The popular
Cal Tech physicist Richard Frayman summed it all up by saying, "I think it is
safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. In fact, it is often stated, that of
all the theories proposed in this century, the s silliest is quantum theory. Some say that the only thing that
quantum theory has going for it, in fact, is that it is unquestionably correct. There seems to be evidence to suggest
that our world and everything in it are only ghostly Images, projections from
some level of reality beyond our own, that the real reality is literally beyond
both Space and Time [that guy is knocking on Gods door, outside the Space-Time
Continuum!]." The main architect
of this astonishing idea includes one of the worlds most eminent thinkers, the
University of London physicist David Boam, as prestigious as Einstein and one
of the worlds most respected quantum physicists. Boams work in plasma physics in the 1950s is considered a
landmark in science. One of Boams
most startling suggestions is that the tangible reality of our everyday lives
is really a kind of Illusion, its like a holographic Image. Underlying it is a deeper order of
existence, a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the
objects and appearances of our physical world, in much the same way that a
piece of holographic film gives birth to a hologram. [This concept was used in Star Trek, The Next Generation,
with the Enterprises Holo-Deck. What modern quantum physics is saying is were
all living on a huge holo-deck, outside of which, is a higher reality. Remember those 'humans created on the
holo-deck were powerless to leave the holo-deck and step out into the
Enterprise proper, the higher reality?] The holographic paradigm is a st I'll developing concept, and riddled with
controversy. For decades science has chosen to ignore the evidences that do not
fit the standard theories. However
the volume of evidence has now reached the point that denial is no longer an
option." "The Bible, of course,"
one scientist says, "is unique in that it always presented the universe in more
than three dimensions, and revealed a Creator that is transcendent over his
creation. It is the only book that
demonstrates these contemporary insights." [he
laughs] "Paul Davies, a famous
quantum physicist, is reported as summarizing this provocatively, he said, "It
is as if the entire universe was nothing more than a thought in the mind of
God." "By faith we perceive
that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are
seen were not made of things which do appear." (verse 2) Whose crazy now, huh? [laughter] And you know, the truth is, look, this looks like a metal
podium. The truth is, its all space, its an electric field, that's what
quantum physicists can't stand. This is not a solid microphone stand, its made of atomic structure, but
all space, theres nothing there, and what they realize is, is that two
realities can exist within the same space, and for one reality to exist,
Someone had to design it, and put it in order. And here we are, ahuh. I'm glad we can take all this in by faith, and I don't have to do this
with a paper or a pencil or a computer, I'll tell you that. 'By faith, we perceive these
things, that the world we live in right now is an Illusion, its like a vapor,
its passing away, that's
what were told (cf. James 1:10-11), and that the reality behind these things
is the Word of God (another name for Jesus Christ, cf. John 1:1-14). Moses made the tabernacle in regards to
the reality of what he'd seen in heaven, it was a copy, it was a reflection of
what the greater reality was. Man,
created in Gods Image and likeness, what was it like when Adam, before the
fall, walked with God? It was in
more than one dimension if he walked with God [not necessarily, God in the
person of the pre-Incarnate Christ, could have and did step into mans
dimension on earth, like Captain Piccard stepping into the holo-deck. Several possible theological positions
are possible here, and we just do not know which is true]. It was the fall that bound us to our
existence now. And it says the
creation is groaning and travailing, waiting to be released from the bondage
that its in (cf. Romans 8:19-22). What w I'll that be like? What w I'll that be like? I
can't Imagine. When you get to
heaven [which according to all these physics lessons we've just had, when we
are able to step outside of Space-Time and into Gods realm, which is the
ultimate reality, like us being able to step off the holo-deck we all exist on,
where the holographic Images we once were become a "solid" reality, stepping
into Eternity], were all going to be 30-something, 29, whatever, wherever you
were your best, I guess, I'll see my dad young, my grandpa young again. I'm looking forward to seeing Jesus
Christ, that w I'll be my joy of joys. I'm looking forward to getting ahold of my dads ear again, same ear,
upgraded, and rubbing it with my fingers, by faith, by faith. Maybe you're here tonight and you don't
believe, you think were insane, and you think everybody here is more insane
because they listen to me, and you know I'm insane. You know, were not giving out Cool-Aid at the doors or
something. Look, Paul puts it this
way, 'What if what we believe is not real? What if Christ isn't risen from the
dead, what if there isn't another realm? What if that's the reality, and we live our lives with hope, and joy,
and were able to face death, and were able to face difficulty, because of
faith, and we live our whole lives with hope and with joy, and if none of its
real and we live that way, and we die, what have we lost? But if its true, and you don't
believe, what have you lost? (this paraphrase possibly referring to 1st Corinthians
15:12-23) If that tomb in Jerusalem is empty, if
on the 3rd day he did rise from the dead, if in that new upgrade,
same body, but upgraded, spirit driven [now Calvary Chapels believe this is
Christs new body, and well have the same, "flesh and bone" theology. Others believe spirit is more solid
than matter (outside this realm of Space-Time, the holo-deck we live on), and
our new bodies, like Christs w I'll be composed of pure spirit. Again, two differing theological
positions, one of which w I'll prove true, and well find out at the time of the
1st resurrection to Immortality], software driven instead of
blood-driven, all his blood was drained out. Stepping through walls, coming into the midst of the
disciples, the new body, the new model, I can't wait. Traveling at the speed of light? No, Einstein only had half the speed, the quantum physicists
have proved there are things going twice as fast. I don't want to travel at the speed of light, I want to
travel at the speed of thought, much faster than the speed of light [Pastor
Joe's biggest pet peeve is getting stuck in traffic, or behind someone going
barely under the speed-limit]. And
Ive figured out that's why I'm frustrated in traffic now, because I was
designed to travel [loud laughter] at the speed of thought. You know, if I could have just studied
at home tonight until 7:30 and thought myself over here, thought myself
showered and dressed, just thought myself over here, there'd be no problem. If I could just think myself healthy
again, if I could just eat junk-food and think myself healthy, that's what I'm
frustrated about. Id like to do
that. If I could just think my
house painted, if I could think the trash out [remember that old TV comedy Bewitched?] If I could just think the furniture and the paint,
everything perfect so my wifes completely happy. But you see, when we get to heaven [into the Kingdom of God
as well, which w I'll be on earth, but also into this realm outside of
Space-Time, our present existence on this holo-deck] God w I'll have thought
ahead of us. And the thought of
the place where were going to is thought out with an infinite mind (cf.
Revelation 21:1-23, the New Jerusalem, that heavenly city Abraham was longing
for, Hebrews 11:8-10, 13-16). And
what w I'll happen when we get there is then we w I'll be allowed to just let our
minds go, and it w I'll never reach its end. We w I'll step into a place where every color is beyond what
we've ever imagined is perfect, and we w I'll run with it and never come to the
end of it. Every sense, every
light, every smell, every sensation, beyond the speed of thought, the reality, 'faith,
right now, is the foundation of the things that were hoping for, its the
conviction of things we have not yet seen. [partial transcript of a connective expository
sermon on Hebrews 11:1-4, covering Hebrews 11, verse 3, given by Pastor Joe
Focht, Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia, 13500 Philmont Avenue, Philadelphia,
PA 19116]
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