As a Christian, you and I share this in common. I see things clearly. I see the world clearly. In fact, I often wonder why I'm not on more programs giving the right answer to everything. It's all very clear to me. Everything is clear to me. I understand where the world came from, where it's going. I understand all of that. I understand why things happen the way they happen. I understand life and death and life after death and heaven and hell and morality and immorality. I understand it all. I understand why the world is the way it is, why people act the way they act. Am I particularly intelligent? No. Am I particularly wise? No. I just have the mind of Christ here in this book.

I remember one time years ago being invited to Cal State Northridge to speak to the philosophy class and the professor was a former rabbi who liked to chew on an occasional fundamentalist. And so I was going to be the bone for that experience. I went to the class. And I was supposed to talk on the subject of Christianity and culture. Well I didn't want to talk about Christianity and culture, I wanted to talk about the gospel.

I think I opened by saying, if I remember right, something like, I'm here to tell you this, I know this is a philosophy class and I know that you're searching for the truth and I'm here to bring your search to an end. That was enough to lose them all. They looked like somebody had shot off a gun in the room.

So I said, I'm here to tell you the truth, tell you the truth about the origin of the universe, tell you the truth about why the universe holds together, things that Einstein couldn't figure out. I'm here to tell you where the universe is going in the future, how it will end. I'm here to tell you about life and death and the afterlife, morality, everything you want to know, I'm here to tell you all of it.

And then I said this, and the rabbi professor was as stunned as everybody else, I said, but no matter what I say, you're not going to understand it and you're not going to believe it. And one student at that moment spoke for all of them and said, How do you know? How do you know we won't understand it, we won't believe it?

I said, Because there's a prerequisite. For you to understand this, you have to have been transformed by faith in Jesus Christ so that your understanding is opened. To which he replied, well, how does that happen? And I said, good, now we'll talk about how you become transformed by Jesus Christ. And so I went into the gospel, which was no small irritation to the professor. I remember an extended time of sharing the gospel with some of the students out in the hall after the class was over. A number of them came to church and a couple of them actually joined our ministry here and professed Christ. The Word brings light to absolutely everything.