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.

1. IS THERE A GOD?
Message Series – Explore God
Part 2 - 09-20-15
Pastor Chuck Bernal
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD –
LIFE’S ULTIMATE REALITY
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, 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 goodexcuse.
(Romans 1:19-20 – Msg)
If you want to knowif there is aGod, just look in the __________
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,
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 – LB)
__________________ __________________ __________________
The Application:
The most powerful proof of God may be found by looking at His creation
If you want to knowif there is aGod, just ____________________
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.
(Isaiah42:5 – LB)
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 . . . 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?
Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One. Look up intothe 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)
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The Application:
The Universe is designed with order, complexity, and purpose. The better you
understand these facts, the greater the need for a designer (GOD).
If you want to knowif there is aGod, just look ________________

2. 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,
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 – Msg)
God has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted
eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which
nothing under the suncan satisfy, except God].
(Ecclesiastes 3:11 – Amp)
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 – Voice)
__________________ __________________ __________________
The Application:
The better you understand the facts, the greater the need for a God!
This universal belief in a Higher Being indicates that every human being may be pre-
wired to acknowledge and worship a Maker. This phenomenon has been witnessed in
all cultures without exception. In all of us, there is a God-given awareness that there is
“something more” than this transient world. 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.
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 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 . . . 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 – LB,
3:13-15 – Msg)
__________________ __________________ __________________
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 . . . 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)
If you want to knowif there is aGod, just look in the mirror

3. Your brain, your eye, your DNA
The Application:
The most powerful proof of God may be found by looking at His creation
If you want to knowif there is aGod, just think
Order – Complexity - Purpose
The Application:
The Universe is designed with order, complexity, and purpose. The better you
understand these facts, the greater the need for a designer (GOD).
If you want to knowif there is aGod, just look within
Morality – Eternity - Divinity
The Application:
The better you understand the facts, the greater the need for a God!
Christ – Change – Conviction