lift up the word and repeat after me i believe this is the word of god i believe what god says

because it is impossible for god to lie well tonight i'd like to talk to you about something that

might be considered a little controversial and the reason it would be considered controversial is because

people don't like to talk about it especially in church because it seems a little

strange and it's something that sounds a little science fictiony it's something that

churches argue about and there's different theories even

within the church. And what it is I want to talk about is the early earth and the first flood.

Now, sometimes people say, well, what do you mean the first flood? We haven't had the second

flood yet. Well, the reality is what do you mean the first flood? We haven't had the second flood yet. Well, the reality is

what you're considering the first flood actually was the second flood. And the Bible clearly

tells us these things. The Bible talks about a civilization that existed before us. The Bible

talks about this. The Bible talks about this.

The Bible talks about a lot of things

that we really don't think it talks about,

and part of the reason is

is because we've gotten such a religious mindset

of the way things are

that we fall into this rut

of just believing Hollywood theology.

And sometimes Hollywood theology is given to us in such a soft way. There's a lot of different television shows out there that have priests in them.

Now I'm talking about good shows. I mean, how many have you ever seen Father Brown on television? You know, and there's all

these detective shows, they have a priest, and there's always these certain things that are expected

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