Matty (Headwind)

January 26, 2019January 26, 2021

Rejoice in the Lord Always

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:4-7) ESV

We’re going to take a moment to step back from methodically interleaving the Bible with science, just for a day. This is a snapshot of our life taken this day in 2019.

January 25, 2019March 14, 2021

Make all Things According to the Pattern

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. ( Hebrews 8:3-5 )

Hydrogen atoms, H+, are necessary for nucleosynthesis, but also for life.
If we said that all metabolism is based on a process that produces a supply of H+ it would not be an exaggeration.

January 24, 2019March 14, 2021

The Written Word

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ( John 1:14 )

The Bible, the Word of God, the written form of he whom Jesus of Nazareth was incarnated to embody, was encoded as DNA on the first day of creation.

Could we have the Bible as non-coding DNA in every cell of our bodies?

January 24, 2019

Why Art Thou Cast Down?

If the Bible is a source of wisdom and knowledge which covers all life situations, then where does it talk about depression?

We have found three ways in which the Bible describes depression:

A spirit of heaviness ( Isaiah 61:3 )
Discouragement ( Isaiah 42:4 )
Cast Down ( Psalms 42:5-6, 11; 43:5 )

January 23, 2019January 30, 2019

Open Door Baptist Church

{To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. ( Psalms 42:1-11 )

We have talked before about depression.

If the Bible is a source of wisdom and knowledge which covers all life situations, then where does it talk about depression?

We found that it is described in the Bible in a couple of ways:

A spirit of heaviness ( Isaiah 61:3 )
Discouragement ( Isaiah 42:4 )

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. ( Isaiah 61:3 )

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. ( Isaiah 42:3-4 )

Here we may be seeing it again described as feeling cast down. Today we would call this being downcast.

(of a person’s eyes) looking downward.”her modestly downcast eyes”
(of a person) feeling despondent. synonyms: despondent, disheartened, discouraged, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited, in low spirits, hopeless, cast down, crestfallen, down, low, disconsolate, in despair, despairing, wretched, oppressed;

Disquieted isn’t in this list but it certainly is appropriate.

Being downcast means we are looking downward feeling discouraged. Depression can affect the outward appearance:

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. ( Genesis 4:1-7 )

Is it possible that Cain was depressed? Abel’s offering was better than Cain’s. Animal husbandry doesn’t happen overnight, it takes generations of breeding to produce the type of offering that God was satisfied with. What if Cain watched Abel raising his livestock for years and knew the whole time that he really wasn’t putting in the effort like Abel was?

We know when we aren’t working hard enough or applying ourselves. Then we get depressed and unmotivated and it is hard to break out of it. We may get warnings at work or poor evaluations and we have to buck up. We know what will happen if we don’t:

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. ( Hebrews 10:26-27 )

So how do we snap out of depression and get back on track?

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. ( Psalms 43:1-5 )

We have to praise the Lord. This is the third time we have been able to find depression in the Bible and again we find that the cure is to praise the Lord!

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise himfor the help of his countenance. ( Psalms 42:5 )
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. ( Psalms 42:11 )
to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; ( Isaiah 61:3 )
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. ( Psalms 43:5 )

January 23, 2019March 14, 2021

Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ( Matthew 27:46 )

IF earthly things are patterned after heavenly,
AND Christ’s death on the cross is patterned after the sacrifice God made on day 1,
THEN Christ’s cry is patterned after the noise of the water molecules spliting.

January 23, 2019March 14, 2021

Christ Was Once Offered

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. ( Hebrews 9:23-28 )

The sacrificial death on the cross of Jesus of Nazareth is the fulfillment of the purpose of creation, given symbolically so that the meaning would be apparent to a world without knowledge of subatomic physics.

January 23, 2019March 17, 2021

Slain From The Foundation Of The World

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. ( Revelation 13:8-9 )

If God knew the consequences of making creation before he created it but he chose to create it anyway, it means that the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary was Plan A, not Plan B.

January 23, 2019March 14, 2021

By Whom Also He Made The Worlds

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. ( Hebrews 1:1-4 )

“By whom,” can also be translated as “through whom,” drawing us even deeper into the conclusion that the waters of “the deep,” and the Word of God are the same person: the physical manifestation of God.

January 23, 2019January 23, 2021

Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ( Matthew 27:46 )

Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross was the symbolic fulfillment of the sacrifice that was made on the first day when God said, Let there be light, and caused formerly pure water to become corrupted with the general messiness that is necessary for life to form.