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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Stewardship vs. Environmentalism 0:00 The environment and climate change is our topic tonight as we look into chapter 26 of the book, Well Burst.0:06 Well, what about this whole issue of the environment and climate change? What's the deal about that anyway? Washington Post a number of years ago had this line, this statement. Al Gore0:18 believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan. Really? The whole world's gonna become a0:30 total frying pan, We have 10 years left. 1 problem. He said that in 2006. We've had over 10 years, sir, and the earth is not a0:42 total frying pan. So what's the deal? Help me understand this. I once listened to a speech by Don Hodel. Don Hodel was the US secretary of energy in 19 83 820:53 to 85 under Ronald Reagan. And then he was also secretary of the interior, 85 to 89. And he gave 1 speech that helped me so much understand the issue of the environment.1:06 And he said, it's not about clean water, clean air, and clean land. All of us want clean water, clean air, clean land. Who doesn't? In fact, if you're a follower of Jesus Christ, if you care about the Bible, God created1:17 this earth and says, we are just to be stewards of it. Genesis chapter 1, he turned it to us and said, I want you to have dominion over it. The word dominion means steward, means we're managing something that's not ours.1:27 You know, if I borrow a car from you, I'll drive your car even more careful than I will my car, and I'm a careful driver. But I'll really drive it careful because it's not mine, it's your car. I wanna be a good steward1:38 of it. This earth belongs to God and I don't own it. God owns it. And I'm to take care of it. I'm to be a steward of it. And so that means I treat this earth very carefully. I want clean water,1:49 clean air, clean land. But that's not what the environmentalism is calling for. Now notice I said ism, environmentalism. That's like a religion, environmentalism, like communism.2:02 Beware of environmentalism. We all care about the environment. We all care about this earth. Creation care is something close to god's heart. It's close to mine too. Every every follower of Jesus I know2:14 cares about the treatment of this earth, but we don't fall in the trap of environmentalism. What is that? Well, first of all, it's the obsession or worship of the earth. They confuse Romans 1, where it says they they2:24 worship creation over the creator. I worship the creator and I thank God for the creation. I take care of it because it's his. But back to Don Hodel, secretary of energy and then secretary of the interior,2:36 under Ronald Reagan. 2 high cabinet positions. And he said again, it's not about clean water, clean air, and clean land that the radical environmentalists want. What is it? He says it's about the way we do2:48 government. Fundamentally, it's a shift in property ownership. They want such control, basically socialism. They want to take effectively control of private property away from private3:00 citizens. That I object to. The Bible acknowledges the legitimacy of private ownership as long as we understood it. I stand it. That the Bible that the, Earth is not ultimately ours. It belongs to God. It'll3:12 always be God's. We are temporary stewards of it for a time. But as temporary stewards, we can own it. Private ownership is appropriate, but not with the radical environmentalists. They3:24 wanna tell you what you ought to do with your land. It's not about clean water, clean air, and clean land. It's about controlling what you have. Is the whole3:35 global warming thing, is it for real? Should we be concerned? Or is it a hoax? In our city of San Diego, there's been a very famous weatherman. His name is John Coleman. He's on a TV3:47 station here called KUSI, and and he has a strange way of, doing the call letters. Instead of just saying KUSI, he goes KUSI. And so he's very well known, elderly3:59 now, k u s I. You can hear him, whatever room you're in in the house, when your weatherman comes on, you can hear him from quite a distance away. He kicks up his heels and gives that k u s okay. I'm irritating you now.4:11 I get that. But the point is, he's the man who founded the Weather Channel, and he did a lawsuit against the radical environmentalists saying, what you're doing is bogus. There are not correct4:23 models upon which you have predicated your work. This earth is not about to self destruct. It's not even remotely close to that. The temperature changes are not what you forecast. I'm not a4:34 scientist, so I'm not gonna make a lot of claims on this. I'll just say this. This earth will not self destruct unless god decides it's gonna self destruct. Humanity is not gonna be able to ruin the entire planet, the4:45 entire earth. And I want you to watch this carefully. Anytime you see a public policy whereby it's built on, oh, this is happening, this is happening, this is happening. Therefore, you have to pay a whole4:57 lot of money. Look at the people who have become billionaires because of carbon footprints. Look at look at the people who've made enormous money, including Al Gore. They made enormous money off of this5:09 enormous some would call it a scam or a hoax. Now do we care about the creation? Of course, we do. I care enormously about the earth. I want clean5:20 water, clean air, and clean land. But I also know, ultimately, God's in charge and it belongs to him.5:29 Did you guys notice the quote that doctor Gollor quoted by Al Gore? Al Gore, in 2006, said that by 2016, we'd all be in frying pans. And last time I checked, you guys are looking5:40 really good I like it.5:41 To be in frying pans.Global Warming: Hoax or Concern? 5:42 Thank you.5:43 Yeah. 1 of the quotes5:44 that stood out to me was by, in the book was by Don Hodel. When discussing the choke hold, rattle in radical environments had placed on Americans, he noted that they had in reality little interest in clean water, cleanBiblical Creation Care 5:56 air, and clean land. Rather, he said that they want to change the way we do government. This is really effectively trying to take away, our right to to build in our land.6:06 At the same time, creation care is biblical. God gave us this earth to be good stewards and to take care of the earth.In this video 0:00 Stewardship vs. Environmentalism5:42 Global Warming: Hoax or Concern?5:47 Biblical Creation Care
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