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In times like these...

In times like these. Christians Are Needed to Establish God’s Kingdom through Fulfilling the Cultural Mandate. Great growth of Christianity. Ratio of Christian to total world population: In 1430, 1 to 99 In 1790, 1 to 49 In 1940, 1 to 32 In 1994, 1 to 7

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In times like these...

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  1. In times like these... Christians Are Needed to Establish God’s Kingdom through Fulfilling the Cultural Mandate

  2. Great growth of Christianity Ratio of Christian to total world population: • In 1430, 1 to 99 • In 1790, 1 to 49 • In 1940, 1 to 32 • In 1994, 1 to 7 • Today, 1 in 3 are nominally Christian and 1 in 7, to 1 in 10, are Bible-believing Christians

  3. In times like these . . . Battle of worldviews: Secular v. Christian, Muslim v. Christian Culture wars: value of life, defining the family, freedom to believe in Truth, origins, public expression of faith Rendering to Caesar the things that are God’s Worshiping the golden calf of statism/socialism – “shall we fall down before a block of wood?” (Isa. 44: 19)

  4. The Great Commission “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matt. 28:18-20

  5. Creator Creation Commission or Cultural Mandate (Gen. 1:26-28) Redeemer Redemption Commission orEvangelistic Mandate (2 Cor. 5:17-19) The Great Commission(Mt. 28:18-20)

  6. “Occupy till I come.” (Luke 19:11-27) • “Do business with this [minas] until I come back” (v. 13) • Minas – the talent, skills, and abilities God has given each of us. • We are to work as partners with Him to take dominion over the earth (Gen. 1:26-28) by using the talents He has given us. • Our work is a vital part of God’s plan for us and the nations. • We occupy through our occupation.

  7. Fulfilling the cultural mandate requires us to: • Discover truth through sciences • Apply truth through technology • Interpret truth through humanities • Implement truth through commerce and social action • Transmit truth through education and arts • Preserve truth through government & law

  8. Discover truth through sciences • Scientists/inventors : Johann Kepler, William Herschel, Isaac Newton, James Maxwell, Francis Bacon, Blaise Pascal, Gregor Mendel, Carolus Linneaus, James Joule, Michael Faraday, John Herschel, Robert Boyle, Lord Kelvin

  9. Isaac Newton “We are to ... acknowledge one God, infinite, eternal, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, the Creator of all things, most wise, most just, most good, most holy. We must love him, fear him, honor him, trust in him, pray to him, give him thanks, praise him, hallow his name, obey his commandments, and set times apart for his service, as we are directed in the Third and Fourth Commandments, for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous (1 John 5:3).” Philosophy of Nature

  10. Newton’s book was published in 1733, six years after his death.

  11. Michael Faraday – “our hope is founded on the faith that is in Christ.” • One of the greatest experimental scientists of all time. He laid the foundation for new fields of science – electromagnetism, magneto-optics, and diamagnetism. • He invented the dynamo and electric motor, which became the foundation for the modern day electrical industry.

  12. Michael Faraday – “our hope is founded on the faith that is in Christ.” • Faraday’s Biblical worldview: • He saw scientific laws originating from the Creator as beneficial to man when he discovered and applied them. • He spoke of the “gifts of God” given for man’s benefit, of nature operating “for our good.”

  13. Apply truth through technology Colonizers/Explorers: Columbus, Richard Hakluyt, the Pilgrims, Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, William Penn, Jedidiah Smith, Marcus Whitman, Jason Lee, Johnny Appleseed

  14. Christopher Columbus “It was the Lord who put into my mind, I could feel His hand upon me, the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies.” Book of Prophecies, 1502

  15. Richard HakluytDiscourse of Western Planting, 1584 “Wee shall by plantinge there inlarge the glory of the gospell and provide a safe and a sure place to receave people from all partes of the worlds that are forced to flee for the truthe of Gods worde.”

  16. The Pilgrims “A great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing of the Gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world.” William Bradford, Of Plimouth Plantation

  17. William Pennon the colony of Pennsylvania, 1681 “My God that has given it to me ... will, I believe, bless and make it the seed of a nation.”

  18. Marcus Whitman • A medical missionary who converted many Indians and saved the Oregon Territory. • He fulfilled the evangelistic and cultural mandates Statue in the U.S. Capitol with Bible and medical bag.

  19. Apply truth through technology • Inventors: Johann Gutenberg, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel F.B. Morse, R.G. LeTourneau

  20. Johannes Gutenberg • “Through it [the press] God will spread His Word. A spring of pure truth shall flow from it! Like a new star, it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine among men.” The Bible was the first book published with movable type, 1455.

  21. Gutenberg Bible in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. One of three printed on vellum in the world. Gutenberg printing press.

  22. Samuel F.B. Morse He shrunk the world through his invention of the telegraph in 1832.

  23. Morse invented the telegraph in 1832. • A message was sent from Washington to Baltimore in 1844. Morse’s 1837 Telegraph Instrument

  24. “What hath God wrought!” Nothing could have been more appropriate than this devout exclamation, at such an event, when an invention which creates such wonder, and about which there has been so much scepticism, is taken from the land of visions, and becomes a reality. Samuel F.B. Morse Plaque in U.S. Capitol Building

  25. Samuel F.B. Morse That sentence of Annie Ellsworth’s was divinely indited, for it is in my thoughts day and night. “What hath God wrought!” It is His work , and He alone could have carried me thus far through all my trials and enabled me to triumph over the obstacles, physical and moral, which opposed me. “Not unto us, not unto us, but to Thy name, O Lord, be all the praise.”

  26. Apply truth through technology • Scientists: Jedediah Morse, John Fleming, Joseph Lister, James Simpson, Matthew Maury, G. W. Carver, Nathaniel Bowditch, Crawford W. Long, Ephraim McDowell

  27. Dr. Ephraim McDowell Performed the first abdominal surgery in 1809 in his home in Danville, Kentucky. The patient, Mrs. Crawford had no anesthesia. Before removing a huge ovarian cyst, Dr. McDowell prayed asking God to bless his patient and guide him in the operation. Mrs. Crawford sang psalms while being operated on.

  28. Dr. Crawford W. Long Discoverer of the use of sulphuric ether as an anaesthetic in surgery on March 30, 1842 at Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia U.S.A. “My profession is to me a ministry from God.” Engraving on base of statue in US Capitol.

  29. Dr. Joseph Lister • Applied Biblical medical principles and saved millions of lives. • First developed antiseptic surgery in mid-1850s.

  30. George Washington Carver He applied the truth and transformed the economy of the south.

  31. “The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, ‘In all they ways Acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.’ ” George Washington Carver

  32. George Washington Carver In his laboratory, “God’s little workshop”, at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

  33. Carver discovered over 300 uses for the peanut and 107 for the sweet potato.

  34. George Washington Carver “My purpose alone must be God’s purpose – to increase the welfare and happiness of His people.”

  35. Matthew Fontaine MauryPathfinder of the Seas • Father of Oceanography • Charted the ocean and wind currents • Mapped out and proposed sea routes

  36. Maury Monument, Richmond “The fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.” Psalm 8:8

  37. Maury Monument “If God says there are paths in the sea, I am going to find them.”

  38. Maury Monument “Against his chair is the Bible, from which he drew inspiration.” Richmond Times, 1929

  39. Maury Monument, Goshen Pass MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY Pathfinder of the Seas The Genius who first Snatched From Ocean & Atmosphere The Secret of their Laws. Born January 14th, 1806 Died at Lexington, Va., February 1st, 1873 . . . Every Mariner For Countless Ages As he takes his Chart to Shape His course across the Seas, Will think of thee His Inspiration Holy Writ Psalms 8 & 107, Verses 8, 23, & 24 Ecclesiastes Chap. 1, Verse 8 A Tribute of his Native State Virginia 1923

  40. Maury’s Physical Geography Conclusion: In a word, the science of Physical Geography unfolds to us this grand view of our planet, that in all its arrangements there is proof of All-wise and beneficent design. The study leads to a deeper understanding of the Psalmist’s words, “The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord; so is the great and wide sea also.”

  41. Interpret truth through humanities • Historians — William Bradford, Cotton Mather, Charles Rollin, David Ramsay, Mercy Otis Warren, Daniel Neal, George Bancroft, Noah Webster • Authors — Geoffrey Chaucer, John Donne, John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan, Lew Wallace, Charles Dickens, John Whittier, Longfellow, Samuel Coleridge, Harriet Beecher Stowe

  42. Gen. Lew Wallace Wallace was converted to Christianity during research for his great Christian classic, Ben Hur, one of the best sellers of all time. Statue in the United States Capitol

  43. Interpret truth through humanities • Theologians/Religious Leaders — Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Augustine, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, John Knox, Cotton Mather, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Richard Allen, Charles Spurgeon

  44. Interpret truth through humanities • Political, Governmental, and Economic Philosophers — John Calvin, Samuel Rutherford, John Locke, Adam Smith, Hugo Grotius, John Wise, William Blackstone

  45. William Blackstone(1723-1780) “Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily he subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being . . . And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker’s will . . . this will of his Maker is called the law of nature. . . . Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1748

  46. William Blackstone(1723-1780) “These laws laid down by God are the eternal immutable laws of good and evil . . . . This law of nature dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.” Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1748

  47. Implement truth through commerce and social action • Businessmen — Cyrus McCormick, Cyrus Field, George Pullman, Peter Cooper, John Wanamaker, Jack Eckard

  48. Cyrus Hall McCormickA reaper in the Kingdom He advanced civilization and destroyed famine by fulfilling his Kingdom business.

  49. Providential Preparation of Cyrus McCormick • Cyrus’ father had worked to invent a reaper • Cyrus was often in his father’s workshop

  50. McCormick’s Invention • The reaper was first tested in July 1831. • He cut 6 acres of oats in an afternoon – the work of 6 to 24 men.

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