When Moses was distressed because of the greatness of the task of leading the children of Israel through the wilderness, God commanded him to gather seventy elders to help him carry the burden (Numbers 11:16). Moses gathered the seventy round about the tabernacle and the spirit that was on Moses rested on the seventy (Numbers 11:24-25).
Seen today on a magazine cover in the grocery aisle: "Lose a Pound a Day on the DaVinci Code Diet - Hidden Inside the Best Seller: The Secret, Scientific Formula that Unlocks Fat." Leaving God and turning to the certainties of science has really gotten us away from the superstitions of scripture, hasn't it? Or perhaps it has plunged us back toward the Dark Ages.
An underwater creature described as being halfway between a shrimp and a mud lobster showed up after it was supposed to have been dead for 60 million years. The five-inch creature has huge eyes, redish spots, and a thickset body. According to marine biologist Philippe Bouchet, "the group is less completely extinct than was thought." Evidently, the fossil record had been silent for 60,000,000 years. Of course, another possibility is that the records are not nearly as clear as is claimed.
One of the most common "proofs" of the Calvinists for irresistible grace and the need for regeneration before faith is the analogy which compares the lost person to a dead person. The argument goes like this:
One of the highlights of the Baptist History Tour I took last week was a service at the old building for the Silver Creek Baptist Church at Charlestown, Indiana. Walter Ziglar preached a powerful message and the presence of God was very real with us at the end of the service. We stood for several minutes in silence as the Lord worked in our hearts. We can only praise the Lord for His continuing presence. A cemetery adjoins the church building in which are buried William and Elizabeth McCoy. William McCoy founded the church in 1798 and it was the first non-Catholic church in Indiana territory. His son, Isaac McCoy, was saved and ordained out of this church. He went on to be a great missionary to the Indians. It was for Isaac McCoy that the Baptist Historic Preservation Society placed a beautiful marker at the First Baptist Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana, last week.
