Good to see everybody.

Happy Independence Day.

Right Joe, let's go.

So glad that you're joining us today.

Can you give it up for our campuses?

Yeah, it's America's 250th birthday.

It's amazing, you know.

I'm a naturalized citizen.

I'm proud to be an American and I don't know why, you know, but you know, I think the best anthem, I don't know if you agree with me.

In my opinion, the best anthem has been sang by Whitney Houston.

I think, you know, by far.

And then I think, is it Chris Steppleton?

Is that his name?

Yeah, he also did a good job.

That was, I think, my top two.

And every time I hear the national anthem, I get goosebumps.

I don't know, it's because you guys have been nice to me.

I don't know, I just feel so good.

So I'm so glad that we're celebrating that.

And as we celebrate this milestone, it's important...

to observe that America and the rest of the world is at a technological apocalypse.

I mean, I don't think this is a coincidence.

How many of you have watched WALL-E, that Disney movie WALL-E?

Yeah?

Wesco Rancho?

Okay, here we go, right?

It's a movie where these robots have been left behind to clean up the trash that humans have left, you know, on Earth.

What's the slogan?

The slogan is, Too much garbage in your face?

There's plenty of space out in...

I'll just say, there you go, some people watched it, all right?

Out in space.

If you lived in 1280, in the year 1200, and you left the village and came back 20 years later, you would find little to no change would have occurred when you came back.

But today, as we celebrate 250 years, technology is moving so fast, extremely fast, you and I...

We cannot even keep up.

You know, SpaceX, Elon Musk is trying to get us to Mars in about six months.

All right?

Here is the mission.

The mission is to have a city on Mars.

This is their mission statement.

Establishing a self-sufficient city on Mars will require upwards of one million people and millions of tons of cargo to be delivered to the red planet.

By launching more than 10 times per day to maximize transfer windows that open up every you every approximately 26 months, several thousand starships will ultimately transfer crew and equipment to build a lasting presence on another city on Mars.

And that's on their SpaceX website.

Okay, they are bent on doing that.

Okay, who can tell me, Rancho Huesco, who can tell me what invention changed the world in the year 1440?

The Gutenberg Press.

All right, it changed the world.

It began...

by mechanizing the production of books.

And this led to three important movements.

The scientific revolution, the renaissance, and the reformation.

All sparked by the Gutenberg press invention.

Then the 18th century, what was another thing that happened?

The industrial revolution, right?

Hey, do I have historians here?

All right.

All right, Rancho Huesco, all right, here we go.

The industrial revolution.

which started in Britain and spread around the world.

It changed the world from aggregarian to mostly industrial.

But however, this technological revolution is a little bit different.

There's something about the age that we live in today that is a little bit different.

There's a new wind, and this movement is challenging the way we think about being human.

So let's go to Genesis chapter 11.

Everybody, Genesis.

Chapter 11.

In your Bibles, you might want to mark and append because there's going to be lots of things to mark.

Alright, are you ready?

West Coast Ranch, here we go.

Now, verse 1.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

Verse 2.

As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, Come, let us make bricks and break them thoroughly.

They used...

brick instead of stone and tar for mortar.

Then they said, come, let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves.

Otherwise, we'll be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that people were building.

The Lord said, If as one people speak in the same language, they have begun to do this, there's nothing they plan to do will be possible.

There's nothing they plan to do will be possible for them.

Come, let us go down and confuse the language so that they will not understand each other.

So the Lord scattered them from all over the earth and they stopped building the city.

That is why it is called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of the whole world.

From there, the Lord scattered them over the face of the hall.

earth very important passage uh very very many people rarely talk about this passage but here we go what's the backdrop here genesis 9 the flood has just happened and a few are quite a few years have passed by and the population now has grown all over the whole earth and god comes down verse 5 says but the lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building now why does God come down.

What?

caught God's eye.

What was going on that God decided to calm down?

Well, let's break it down.

Number one, new technology.

Verse one, the whole world had one language and a common speech.

As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.

They used brick instead of stone and tar for Now, the plane in Shinar is a plane.

also has another name called summer.

In the Bible and in ancient times, people's names and places sometimes had different names, two or three names for the same place.

This is where the earliest civilizations began in Mesopotamia and it was a very comfortable place.

For those of you who know your history, starting from the Kushite and the Sumerian civilization, which led to the Babylonian civilization, they were very successful.

They built cities, schools, and a musical culture.

Resourcefully though, however, Mesopotamia lacked stones and timber that were being used during that time.

So what did they do?

They had to come up with a new technology to build what they wanted to build.

Verse 3 tells us they used brick and tar.

There's a gentleman named Wilbur Fields.

He says, remains of such structures have been found in Mesopotamia.

Why is this important?

This is early civilization and you may think, well, this is not really such a big deal.

But it is.

Okay, here we go.

Robert Alter says the polemic thrust of the story is against urbanism and the overwinning confidence of humanity in feats of technology.

The polemic, in turn, is lined up with the stories of the tree of life and the Nephilim in which humankind is seen as sparing.

transcend the limits of its creaturely condition.

What's going on here?

This is an age where people were trying to transcend their human capacity to be like God, if you want me to put it in a short way.

There was a technological building boom at this time that inspired the Sumerian civilization and this triggered something.

So are you with me?

So first is new technology.

Are you following with me?

Yeah, okay, it's going to be a lot.

It's going to land at some point, so I'm going to give you a lot of information.

Here we go.

Number two, the technology led to what we call, what I call, reaching for the heavens.

Then they said, come, let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves.

Now, is there anything wrong, Rancho Westco, is there anything wrong with building cities and towers?

No, there's none.

So, because we have lots of them today.

We have the big one in Dubai, that big tall building, you know, that's very pretty, very nice.

We've got lots of them in New York, in L.A.

We've got lots of big, big, big buildings.

So, what's with that?

Now, of course, this didn't catch God by surprise like, oh my goodness, the guys in Babel, they're going to build a really big tower.

What am I going to do?

Right?

It didn't catch God by surprise.

Now remember, every time you read the Bible, the Bible is not written to us.

It's written for us, right?

So what's going on here?

These towers were temples that were shaped like pyramids.

And they had shrines on the top and the bottom.

They had large flat steps on the sides.

And they were called ziggurats, a name that meant hill of heaven or mountain of God.

There was a spiritual implication to this name.

It was the idea that we could access heaven.

It was a symbol of a gateway for a deity to come down and be with humans.

Imagine you're trying to pull God down.

Okay, in fact, there's a name for one of the ziggurats.

It's called the Temple of the Stairway of Pure Heaven.

That's the name of this ziggurat.

It was right in the middle of the city.

I have a picture I want to show you here.

I don't know if you can see it, but right in the middle, this is kind of a redrawing of the archaeologists trying to redraw Babel.

And if you look, there's a number three there.

Okay, that is where the tower might have been.

Okay, it says number three right, a black dot in the middle.

Okay, that is where they think that tower was built.

Okay, what was the motive?

To make a name for ourselves.

That's what the Bible says.

Worship of humanity.

Not to glorify God, but to glorify human being.

Babel's arrogance was to become godlike with access to the realm of God.

Now, Babel, the name Babel in the ancient Kush or Babylonian language meant gateway to heaven, but to the Jews or to the Hebrews, it meant confusion.

Now, is this a new thing?

No, of course.

If you go back to the book of Genesis, what was the problem with Cain and Abel?

They wanted to be like God.

When King Saul fought all the battles against the enemy and he won, what did he do for himself?

He built a monument for himself.

So people can remember his name.

That is what we like to do.

To build things for people to remember us.

Look at me.

I am here.

That is what we do.

Now, who was responsible?

Who was the character responsible for this uprising against God?

Well, Josephus, who is a famous Jewish historian, writes this.

He says, he blames the uprising on a mighty man.

His name is Nimrod.

And those of you who know the Bible, he's in there, but also in ancient history.

Josephus says, now it was Nimrod who excited them to an affront and contempt of God.

So who was Nimrod?

Everybody, turn with me to Genesis chapter 10.

Okay, we're going to find out who Nimrod is.

I hope you brought your Bibles, okay?

This is important.

You've got to follow along.

This is very important.

This is a Bible.

You can underline a few things, right?

You know what I, you know, right?

Yes, okay.

All right, verse 8.

Here we go.

10, 8.

Now, Cush.

Father Nimrod, he was a mighty one on the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

Therefore, it is said, like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord, and the beginning of his kingdom was what?

Babel, Erech, Echad, Kelna, in the land of Shinar. Okay, so he was the guy who started this city.

You may think and read, oh man, it says Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

Yeah, he must have been a great guy.

But really, was he an amazing guy?

Whenever there's repetition in the Bible, you ask yourself, why is there repetition?

Why is the Bible repeating this?

Okay.

Augustine, one of our church fathers, among other believers, believes the title hunter indicates he was a tyrant, a deceiver, and an oppressor.

Now, do you see the connection here?

He was a very ambitious man.

And the Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Bible.

said he might have been a descendant of the Nephilim, which were the giants.

And so when Genesis says he was a mighty man, it meant it negatively.

He was a tyrant and an oppressor.

If this is true, if this is true, we can conclude that Nimrod was this rebellion tyrant who might have been a descendant of the Nephilim, who led an aspiration to defy God's commands, and he wanted to reach for deity and to worship humanity.

According to Ben Wilder, the archaeologist, he says there's a ziggurat named after this great man named Nimrod.

What's the conclusion here?

Technology exposed the human heart and was used to bring glory to themselves and to try to access deity.

Technology reflected or revealed something deep in man's or humanity's heart that they wanted to access God and be like God.

So then the Bible says, God comes down.

They build a tower, and God wants to come down to investigate.

Why does God come down to investigate a tower?

Couldn't he see Nimrod and just say, oh, why is he building a tower?

Why does the Bible say God comes down?

Well, one theologian explains that it was one way.

The Bible, Moses who wrote Genesis, showed us that God was making a mockery.

This whole thing is like hey guys.

I am gonna come down to see this little tower that you've built You think you've built a big tower?

I have to come down to see this little bitty tower that you've built.

It is not big enough to reach me, right?

He says, you think your tower is tall enough to get to me?

It is so small, I have to stoop low to come and see it.

God is making fun of this tower that they think they can reach him.

When we think we've made the baddest technology, God says, hmm.

You think that's all you got?

That's all you got?

God is showing this early civilization the limits of their technology.

This is not always the case, but new technology can inspire us and test our limits.

And this, by the way, can lead to desecration of what it means to be human.

So, what are three?

As we mark 250 years.

America, the West, we're on this road to the best technology ever.

I am concerned about three areas.

AI, transhumanism, and transgenderism.

So, round-shot, West Coast, here we go.

What are the three areas?

Here we go.

Artificial intelligence.

Everyone now, apart from a few people that I met yesterday who didn't even know what AI was, which was like, okay, what's happening?

Everyone is aware of what...

AI is.

This is a giant that has been hiding and now has exploded all over the whole world.

AI has been used in some shape or form all over the world.

I mean, I talk to my siblings in Uganda and they know what AI is right now, okay?

It has been used.

It's redefining work.

It's helping in many redundant tasks, areas that you could be wasting time.

It actually does a good job sometimes for outlining projects.

Students are using it for projects.

A number of pastors, Are using it to write sermons.

Not a good thing.

Right?

Okay.

Not good.

Okay.

The danger is, as I've done my research, there are so many big warnings.

Now, unlike a hammer, okay, or a car, these tools have a limit, right?

When we built the atomic bomb, we knew what its capabilities were.

you every expert that I've listened to about AI, from Elon Musk to others that you're going to hear from in a little bit, they're all saying we're moving into an era of super intelligence where AI is going to dominate everything that we do.

The problem is that these people are creating something that has no moral conscience and no boundaries.

Has no boundaries.

Geoffrey or Geoffrey Hinton.

Who is considered the godfather of AI?

He said on Dare of a CEO's podcast with Steve Butler.

He said, AI is out of control because governments, countries, and companies are in an AI race.

Who produced the most powerful machine?

And the race is between China and the US.

It's like the arms race before World War I between Britain and Germany.

Or the race to the moon.

or the atomic race.

Except this is a little bit different.

Dr.

Raman Jampolsky, I think that's how you say his name, one of the world's leading safety experts on AI, said that there's a race to create a system smarter than humans in all domains.

It could make a new AI itself.

He said on the same podcast there of a CEO that we don't know yet how to make AI safe.

When we switch, he says, to super intelligence, we will regret it most likely.

This is within five to 20 years.

Who will make the best AI machine?

The question is, after someone has done all that, will they say, I created a God.

I created a God that can do anything.

Who is AI serving?

Who is AI serving?

Elon Musk says in five years, AI will exceed the sum of all human intelligence, and there will be at least, listen to this, 100 million humanoid robots.

Robots.

Maybe, he says, a billion.

Did you guys, let me see if you guys see this.

This is going to be interesting, okay?

Roger Wesko, here we go.

Did you guys see this?

Let's see if it's there.

Did you guys see that on the news in Poland?

This robber chasing pigs?

Did you guys see that?

Watch, the pigs are somewhere there.

They're gone.

He's chasing some wild boars.

They're there running.

Ta-da Imagine that thing chasing you, right?

Imagine that thing chasing you.

And then, okay, there was a robot, a humanoid robot that was just made a Buddhist monk.

Okay?

It was in the news.

Seriously, this is not a joke.

This is very, yeah.

Okay?

This is weird.

Okay?

One of the biggest areas of research and development in AI right now is empathy and emotion.

They call it emotion, empathy, or personality.

It is trying to mimic the human heart.

It can prey on the desires that God put in us to be fully known and to be fully loved.

Kerry Newhoff, who is a former lead pastor, and he is a leadership expert and researcher, says this, one, 72% of teenagers have turned to AI for companionship.

Parents?

Did you hear that?

Grandparents, 72% of your youth have turned to AI for companionship.

And we're not talking about extreme cases here of people having crazy things they're doing with robots.

I'm talking about generally speaking.

Okay, two, chat GBT, listen to this, chat GBT alone receives 700 million messages of personal self-reflection every week.

Three, Barnard Research Group says 40% of church members go to AI for spiritual guidance.

That means 40% of people in this room, Rancho, West Coast, 40% of you go to AI for spiritual guidance.

That is scary.

Okay?

What does it mean to be human?

So number one is we looked at AI.

Number two, transhumanism.

Transhumanism is the merging of the human and machine.

Remember RoboCop?

Remember RoboCop?

Right?

Darth Vader?

Okay, that is transhumanism.

Transhumanism is a growing movement whose goal is to transform humanity by improving human intelligence, physical strength, and the five senses by technological means.

That is Jacob Schatzau.

The view is that humanity, listen to this, the view is that humanity can overcome humanity.

What does that sound like, church?

In this view of transhumanism, life is unsatisfactory because it's marked by suffering, by death, by aging.

And so they're trying to make death not final.

And they believe that there's a way out of death.

So universities in Silicon Valley are on a technological quest for immortality.

The vision is that if we can eradicate aging, which is the cause of death, oh, it will be awesome.

This technology can be used to augment our bodies, and that should merge with machines.

And that we should merge with machines.

Remaking ourselves finally in the image of our own higher ideals.

That is what they believe.

So, question for you.

Are we playing God now?

Are we playing God?

Are we trying to modify the jump line to the extent of reprogramming our genetic makeup?

Is being human open and changeable?

So what does it mean to be human?

Number three, transgenderism.

We have seen the pictures.

Oh, that boy who took all the girls' medals at CIF.

We've seen them, okay?

And I'm passionate about this because my girl is an athlete, okay?

My daughter is an athlete.

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior, does not conform to the typically associated with the sex to which they are assigned at birth.

Now, if you're listening to this and you're in this room, you're at Rancho, you're at Westco, and you struggle with your sexuality, I cannot tell you that I understand what you're going through.

And I'm really sorry if you genuinely struggle with this.

There's one thing I know.

God can heal you.

That's one thing I know.

You just got to submit to him.

Amen?

Amen.

However, this whole thing is being abused.

Anyone can claim to be female because they feel female because they need a scholarship.

So I'll just go change my sex.

And that is wrong.

Why is this possible?

Because there's medical technology now, including surgeries and blockers, that are now available to anyone if you want.

It is your right anyway.

But no one sits down with these young men and women and tells them the truth.

What does it mean to be human?

There is a documentary that I want all of you to go watch.

Every one of you, it's called Truth Rising by Focus on the Family.

Every one of you, go watch it.

It's fantastic.

There's a young adult named Chloe Cole. I think she's also testified in Congress, okay?

Who struggled with her identity.

She felt she was born with a male brain.

Her parents were told that they could have an alive son or a dead daughter.

The only choice given to her parents was transition or die.

That was the only choice they gave her.

So at 12 years old, Chloe began the transition journey.

Okay?

Now, she's a Christian and an advocate, and you can find her story in that on YouTube, but also on that documentary.

But people, who is playing God here?

Who is playing God here?

What does it mean to be human?

This ambition to replicate humanity in artificial forms echoes the hubris of the Bible builders.

Now I owe this section to Carl Truman.

In his book, a new book called The Desecration of Man.

With all this, Carl Truman believes that we are desecrating what it means to be human.

By desecration, he means intentional abuse of something holy, something of more than ordinary significance.

If you graffiti a car or the tarmac or the road, there's nothing.

But if you graffiti a grave, that is sacred.

You're touching something sacred.

Okay?

Being human is sacred.

It is holy.

Because according to the Bible, All of us are created in God's image.

That's why Christians oppose abortion or should oppose abortion.

Christians claim that we are made for ends given to us.

Natural ends such as friendships, love, marriage, procreation, and supernatural ends like love and worship of God.

Now, if we replace these ends, We are supplanting what God has set us to do, and we're becoming our own personal gods.

Now let's go back to that passage, Genesis 11.

Are you still with me?

Are you following?

I know it's a lot, but I got to give it to you, okay?

All right, here we go.

Genesis 11 verse 3 in your Bibles.

Then they say to each other, come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.

They used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar.

Then they said, come, let us build for ourselves a city.

with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves.

The people in this book, in Genesis, were setting up their own ends, their own telios, which enabled this deep desire.

What enabled this deep desire to bring glory to themselves?

It was a sinful heart and new technology.

Sinful heart, new technology.

Self-glorification means we are on the road to...

desecration of what it means to be human.

Now, I want to do a comparison that I think that you will like here.

When we're reading the Bible, when you go to seminary, they teach you to look at certain things, certain ways in which the writer writes, you know, the book, whatever it is.

And you're looking for repetitions for different genres.

They're called genres.

And you're looking for formula, what you call formula.

So I'm going to put something up.

And I'm going to ask you to read it real quickly.

Okay, just read it real quickly.

You know, glance at it and see if there's any repetition that you see.

All right?

Okay, read it carefully.

All right, let's go to the next slide.

Do you see that?

You see that?

Okay.

Now start with Genesis, the bottom verse.

God says, let us make mankind.

okay?

Genesis 11, 7, come let us go down.

If you go to the top verse, what does humanity sound like?

Are we trying to replicate God?

It sounds like they're talking like God, right?

We are talking like God.

We want to be like God all the time.

That is crazy.

Are humans trying to speak like God?

He's the author giving us an inside look into the motives of building the Tower of Babel.

Now, according to the Christian view, humanity has limitations, obligations, and ends given to us by God to help us flourish.

But when we aspire, listen to this, when we aspire to break those barriers and boundaries, it becomes a desecration.

If I want to be romantic with a robot, if I want to have an emotional relationship with AI, if I want to talk to AI about my depression, if I want to build super intelligence without boundaries, if I want to become transhuman, or I want to be transgender, or if, you know, why shouldn't I?

My limits, my obligations, and my ends come down to my choice.

What does that sound like?

I have to decide who I am.

And the I has been destabilized.

So what happens, church, when we try to defy ourselves?

Listen, God acts.

Verse 7, Genesis 11.

God says, come down.

He's talking to the Trinitarian.

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand each other.

So the Lord scattered them from all over the whole earth and they stopped building the city.

That is why it's called Babel.

Because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world.

From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

There is a point here that God is saying.

Sometimes God says, this far and no farther.

This far and no farther.

John Lennox in his book, 2084 and the AI revolution, which I think you can read if you want to.

It's deep, but it's good.

It tells us, listen to this.

This is interesting.

There is an AI language translator right now called Ann Babel.

Okay?

Yeah.

I was like, oh.

And he wonders and I wonder as well whether humans are trying to undo what God did.

Is this a reversal of Bible?

Will this try to bring unity again?

Trying to break our God-given limitations, obligations, and ends will always cause God to act.

Always.

The higher we build the tower to transcend our limits, the more spectacular the fall.

I'm going to repeat that the higher the tower we build to transcend our limits, the more spectacular the fall.

Now, I hope this is not a downer to my friends who love technology.

You know, there's some of you probably who work in AI and stuff like that.

But you probably know this more than me because I'm just a pastor.

I'm not an AI guy, right?

However, sometimes as a church, we're a little bit too far removed from technology, from trends.

John Lennox, we've talked about, shares some good things that AI has done.

Like comparing cancers and making quick diagnosis, scanning the human heart for quick analysis to help doctors.

AI is helping to design new energy efficient buildings and help astronomers identify fast radio bursts from distant galaxies.

It's also being used to make fun of pastors.

Okay?

It is being...

Where's that?

Come on.

Is it coming?

Is it coming?

Oh, it didn't come.

Okay.

That's okay.

It did not come.

That's all right.

Okay.

Oh, there it is.

Yeah, someone did that.

Someone did that.

That was crazy.

Okay.

Exactly.

Thank you.

Give it up for those guys back there.

All right.

However, there's a shift coming.

Okay.

And my job as a pastor is to help you get ready for certain things that happen and change that happen around the world.

Okay.

So When we put all this together, what must we do?

To be human again, what must we do?

Number one, are you writing notes?

Beware of counterfeit hope.

Beware of counterfeit hope.

Whenever we are at a technological and cultural crossroads, humanity tends to put all its hope in a new technology.

This is what happened at the Tower of Babel.

Nimrod gave people a false hope.

Technological advancements are great, but they're not the ultimate hope.

When we look at human achievements, you must ask yourself, is this a firm foundation on which humans rest?

When we know, all of us know that our hearts are evil.

And it's not just technology that offers counterfeit hope.

Different religions, Buddhism, offers detachment from suffering.

How is that possible?

How can they detach from suffering?

That doesn't even make any sense.

You know?

Hinduism, oh, you're going to reconnect.

How many times do I have to reconnect myself in order to become one with the universe?

It doesn't even make any sense whatsoever.

Okay?

Keep reconnecting for better hope.

I mean, I've been to India, and these people are miserable.

I'm telling you.

Is that the best hope that we can give people?

Listen, God will crush all counterfeit hopes before us.

God will either frustrate us or allow those counterfeits to frustrate us.

They make us less human.

But here is where the real hope sounds like.

My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.

I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.

On Christ the solid rock I stand.

All other ground is sinking sand.

All other ground is...

Man, all other ground is sinking sand.

So be aware of counterfeit hope.

Number two, look to Jesus, the true human.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset.

This is Paul writing, as Jesus, or Christ Jesus, who being in the very nature of God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage, but rather he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

Notice Jesus became human and showed us how to live in relationship with God and with each other.

He was so perfect that Stanley Grimes calls him the true ideal human.

And Paul, the apostle, calls him the second Adam.

For he writes this.

For it is by trespass of the one man that death reigned through that one man.

How much more will those who receive God's apparent provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through one man?

Romans chapter 5.

In verse 19 of the same chapter, Paul tells us that the first Adam brought disobedience, sin, and death.

But the new Adam, he brought life and obedience through obedience to God.

Jesus is the new human who shows us how to live by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So this new Adam seemingly lives this seemingly paradoxical life of independence through obedience to God.

To the Father, to God the Father, and through and drew his life from the Father.

So in the same way, Listen, church, in the same way, we must live not like the sons of Babel, but through obedience to God.

Jesus is our model.

Transhumanism will not give us better humans.

Because transhumanism doesn't change the heart.

Amen.

It doesn't change the heart.

It doesn't solve the problem with us.

Jesus, the true human, defeated death.

Therefore, death is dead.

Amen.

There is no need for a transhuman movement.

Amen.

Because Christians, listen, because we were already bitten death through the power that raised Christ from the dead.

Jesus' bodily resurrection tells me and you, when I die, I will go to heaven and I'll have a bougie body.

It is going to be awesome.

I do not need a machine.

Amen?

There is hope for us.

Amen?

There is absolutely hope.

Why would I want to be a part of machine?

There is superhuman hope already for us Christians.

Number three, humans must go to church.

That is cliche.

Yeah, thank you.

It is important, right?

Since Jesus is a true human and he bids us to follow him in the power of the Holy Spirit.

We must follow the example he lived.

Jesus showed us how to live.

One, he lived in fellowship and obedience to the Father.

Two, he lived in fellowship with others.

The church in this new age is going to be very vital in the next chapter of humanity.

If we choose God and human connection instead of machine and technology.

To be human means carrying out the biblical one another.

There are about 59 of them.

Love one another.

Honor one another.

Care for one another.

Comfort one another.

Bear with one another's burdens.

Forgive one another.

Those can't happen with a machine.

They can't.

These one another's only make sense if we become human again.

These one another's help us remember our limitations, obligation, and ends as human beings.

There's a single mother that I've got to know at our church, and she has little kids, two little kids, and she has stage four cancer.

Okay?

Now, how is a machine going to help her?

How is a humanoid going to help her?

How is AI going to help her?

No.

You.

You.

You.

You.

The church.

We have to be the church again.

We have to.

She needs human touch.

Christians in the church must act like the new Adam, Jesus.

We must act like the new Adam.

And this is a personal decision you, Rancho West Coast, you have to make and reminds you and I of our limitations, obligations, and ends.

In the words of Switchfoot in their song, okay?

I have a pretty good song that Pastor Heather Jarvie reminded me of.

It says, the bridge says, You have created me.

Take me out of me into a new way to be human.

To a new way to be human.

You are a new way to be human.

Talk about Jesus.

Where my humanity bends to a new way to be human, redemption begins.

She also told me that she has been contemplating on when she's looking for a Why does she go to the computer first instead of calling her mother or a friend?

We've lost that human connection.

We need to be more on guard against diminishing our humanity and degrading the imago dei by prioritizing machines more than our fellow human beings.

This is why at One Old Church, we are passionate about you being in a community group.

From kids, our kids do community groups.

Our youth do community groups.

Our adults, young adults do community groups.

If you're not in a community group in the next 20 years, I don't know what's going to happen to you.

You need to become human again.

How many days, how many hours a day are your children on social media and the computer?

Is there a Sabbath day for your family of technology?

Ooh.

Right?

Your kids know how to look you in the eye.

I can always tell when kids come and greet me, I can always know, oh, this kid is not in technology because they look me in the eye.

Oh, their parents are doing a good job.

Right?

So today if you're here on one of our campuses and you're feeling lonely, you're feeling maybe that, you know, no one is connecting with you.

Hey, I want you to go to our prayer team, go to the patio and ask for help.

Don't leave here being lonely.

As we end, God is always coming down.

He came down in Genesis 3 to talk to Adam and Eve as they walked in the garden.

He came down in Genesis 11 to disrupt humanity's rebellion.

He came down to talk to Abraham and to talk to Moses.

He came down 2,000 years ago as man, as humanity waited for a savior.

The true Homo Deus, God-man.

He saw our rebellion.

And He chose to come down and suffer and then a cross that you and I can become truly human.

Finally, God the Holy Spirit came down on Pentecost.

And He came down to dwell in the lives of those believers who decide to put their trust and hope in Jesus.

To put trust in the God-man, Jesus.

And even though Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, He is going to come again in glory on a white horse to judge the living and the dead.

Machine or not, you will be judged.

Whether you go to Mars or Neptune or Jupiter, you're going to be judged by Jesus.

So if this new technology revolution is an attempt for humanity to defy itself, hmm, will God intervene?

I don't know.

I'm not a prophet.

But I look at the Bible and I'm like, I don't know.

Is it going to do something about AI?

I don't know.

Okay?

In the meantime, we Christians wait.

And right now, we are going to respond right now by taking communion together on all our campuses, Rancho Huesco.

If you can get your elements out.

And if you didn't get one, you can raise your hand on the campuses.

I shall get it to you.

This is a very sacred ritual that reminds us that we are truly human.

By eating that piece of bread, it reminds us his body was broken.

The juice, by drinking it, reminds you that you're human, but reminds us that Jesus' blood was spilled for the forgiveness of your sins and mine.

But when Paul tells us that every time you do this, you celebrate the Lord's death and proclaim his death until he returns, the Greek word there is prolepsis, which means that we anticipate the Lord's return.

We wait.

In this world of chaos and constant change, We wait.

And so right now, as we take communion, I want to ask you to just listen to this devotion that's going to be on the screen and let it lead you in this moment as remember the death and resurrection of Jesus.