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Here is the headline in a BBC news report on Thursday, 2nd January.

UK’s biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed

It is about the discovery of fossilised footprints of large dinosaurs. Of course you have the ‘evolutionist’s folly’ displayed in that they dated at some 166 million years ago.

The report details how they were uncovered. “The tracks were first spotted by Gary Johnson, a worker at Dewars Farm Quarry, while he was driving a digger.

I was basically clearing the clay, and I hit a hump, and I thought it’s just an abnormality in the ground,” he said, pointing to a ridge where some mud has been pushed up as a dinosaur’s foot pressed down into the earth. But then it got to another, 3m along, and it was a hump again. And then it went another 3m – hump again. Another trackway site had been found nearby in the 1990s, so he realised the regular bumps and dips could be dinosaur footprints.

“I thought I’m the first person to see them. And it was so surreal – a bit of a tingling moment, really,” he told BBC News.

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The Evolutionist — ‘So near yet so far away from God’s truth’!

This was offered by way of explanation for the wonderful preservation of the very old footprints: “Something must have happened to preserve these in the fossil record,” said Prof Richard Butler, a palaeobiologist from the University of Birmingham. We don’t know exactly what, but it might be that there was a storm event that came in, deposited a load of sediments on top of the footprints, and meant that they were preserved rather than just being washed away.” (more…)

“‭And Uzziah‭ . . .‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭ when he was strong‭, his heart‭ was lifted up‭‭ to ‭his‭ destruction‭‭: for he transgressed‭‭ against the LORD‭ his God‭, and went‭‭ into the temple‭ of the LORD‭ to burn incense‭‭ upon the altar‭ of incense‭.‭ ‭And Azariah‭ the priest‭ went in‭‭ after‭ him, and with him fourscore‭ priests‭ of the LORD‭, ‭that were‭ valiant‭ men‭:‭ ‭And they withstood‭‭ Uzziah‭ the king‭, and said‭‭ unto him, ‭It appertaineth‭ not unto thee, Uzziah‭, to burn incense‭‭ unto the LORD‭, but to the priests‭ the sons‭ of Aaron‭, that are consecrated‭‭ to burn incense‭‭: go out‭‭ of the sanctuary‭; for thou hast trespassed‭‭; neither ‭shall it be‭ for thine honour‭ from the LORD‭ God‭.‭ ‭Then Uzziah‭ was wroth‭‭, and ‭had‭ a censer‭ in his hand‭ to burn incense‭‭: and while he was wroth‭‭ with the priests‭, the leprosy‭ even rose up‭‭ in his forehead‭ before‭ the priests‭ in the house‭ of the LORD‭, from beside the incense‭ altar‭.‭ ‭And Azariah‭ the chief‭ priest‭, and all the priests‭, looked‭‭ upon him, and, behold, he ‭was‭ leprous‭‭ in his forehead‭, and they thrust him out‭‭ from thence; yea, himself hasted‭‭ also to go out‭‭, because the LORD‭ had smitten‭‭ him,‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬”‬ 2 Chronicles 26:14, 16-20.

Paul wrote, “‭For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,” ‬Romans 15:4. There is much to be learned from the verses from 2 Chronicles 26 which I have quoted above. I read them on the Lord’s Day, 22nd December.

How very relevant they are for the Free Presbyterian Church today!

The first thing I would have you notice in the verses is that:

I. GOOD MEN CAN MAKE VERY SERIOUS MISTAKES!

1. Without a shadow of doubt, Uzziah was a good man, a great man! We can take God’s word on that!

“‭Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper,”‬ 2 Chronicles 26:3-5.

2. Yet despite his undoubted regeneration by the grace of God, he committed a dreadful sin. We are told the ‘source’ of his sin. “And his name‭ spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.‬ When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction,” verses 15-16. That phrase simply means that when his kingdom became wonderfully strong for the Lord “marvellously‭ helped‬” him, he became proud and haughty, and that to his “destruction”. (more…)