This is Part 2 of the message series EXPLORE GOD. This series is designed to help answer the 7 biggest questions of life. The second question is this: "IS THERE A GOD?" In this message, Pastor Chuck Bernal shares evidence of God's existence from the Bible and from science, mathmatics, history and culture. The message gives three specific ways we can know God is real. This message was delivered on September 20, 2015 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.

3. IS THERE
A GOD?

4. THE EXISTENCE
OF GOD
LIFE’S ULTIMATE
REALITY

5. The basic reality of God is plain
enough. Open your eyes and
there it is! By taking a long and
thoughtful look at what God has
created,

6. people have always been able
to see what their eyes as such
can’t see: eternal power,
for instance, and the mystery
of his divine being. So nobody
has a good excuse.
(Romans 1:19-20 – The Message)

8. 1.

9. If you want to know
if there is a God,
just look in the mirror

10. The heavens are telling the glory
of God; they are a marvelous
display of his craftsmanship.
Day and night they keep on
telling about God. Without a
sound or word,

11. silent in the skies, their message
reaches out to all the world.
The sun lives in the heavens
where God placed it . . .
(Psalm 19:1-45 – Living Bible)

12. The Brain

13. The eye,

14. Our DNA

15. The Application:
The most powerful proof
of God may be found by
looking at His creation

16. 2.

17. If you want to know if
there is a God, just think

18. The Lord God who created the
heavens and stretched them out,
who created the earth and
everything in it, who gives
life and breath and spirit to
everyone in all the world.
(Isaiah 42:5 – Living Bible)

19. Who else has held the oceans in
his hand? Who has measured
off the heavens with his fingers?
Who else knows the weight of
the earth or has weighed out the
mountains and the hills . . .

20. God sits above the circle of the
earth . . . He is the one who
spreads out the heavens like a
curtain and makes his tent from
them . . . “To whom will you
compare me?

21. Who is my equal?” asks the Holy
One. Look up into the heavens.
Who created all the stars? . . .
Don’t you know that the LORD is
the everlasting God, the Creator
of all the earth?
(Isaiah 40:12-14, 18, 22-23, 25-26, 28)

22. Order

23. Complexity

24. Purpose

26. The Application:
The Universe is designed
with order, complexity, and
purpose.

27. The better you
understand these facts,
the greater the need for
a designer (GOD).

28. 3.

29. If you want to know
if there is a God,
just look within

30. When outsiders who have never
heard of God’s law follow it more
or less by instinct, they confirm
its truth by their obedience. They
show that God’s law is not
something alien,

31. imposed on us from without,
but woven into the very fabric of
our creation. There is something
deep within them that echoes
God’s yes and no,
right and wrong.
(Romans 2:14-15 – The Message)

32. God has made everything
beautiful and appropriate in its
time. He has also planted
eternity [a sense of divine
purpose] in the human heart

33. [a mysterious longing which
nothing under the sun can
satisfy, except God].
(Ecclesiastes 3:11 – Amplified Bible)

34. We value a builder more than
the house he builds. Every
house is built by someone, but
the builder of all things is God.
(Hebrews 3:3-4 – The Voice)

35. Morality

36. Eternity

37. Divinity

38. The Application:
In every place, in every race,
religion and culture – every
person has the same
“God-shaped” hole inside.
One that only He can fill!

40. This universal belief in a Higher
Being indicates that every
human being may be
pre-wired to acknowledge
and worship a Maker.

41. This phenomenon
has been witnessed in all
cultures without exception.

42. In all of us, there is a God-given
awareness that there is
“something more” than this
transient world.

43. And with that awareness of
eternity comes a hope that we
can one day find a fulfillment
not afforded by anything
else in this world.

44. Long ago, God spoke in many
different ways to our fathers . . .
telling them little by little about
his plans. But now in these days
he has spoken to us through his
Son to whom he has given
everything and through whom

45. he made the world and
everything there is . . .
Take a good hard look at Jesus.
He’s the centerpiece of
everything we believe, faithful
in everything God gave him
to do . . .

46. A builder is more valuable than
a building any day. Every house
has a builder, but the Builder
behind them all is God.
(Hebrews 1:1-2 – Living Bible,
3:13-15 – The Message)

47. Christ

48. Change

49. Conviction

51. He is the God who made the
world and everything in it . . .
He himself gives life and breath
to everything, and he satisfies
every need there is . . .

52. His purpose in all of this was that
the nations should seek after
Him and perhaps feel their way
toward him and find him—
though he is not far from
any one of us.
(Acts 17:24, 25, 27)

53. Let’s Pray