"One of the ideas involved in the concept of entropy is that nature tends from order to disorder in isolated systems."

Tonight, we had a lecture about the thermodynamic principle of  entropy. Isaac Newton’s Second Law of Thermodynamics says: Everything in the universe, on the molecular level, will go from hot to cold and from an orderly state to a disorderly state (chaos) until everything reaches a common state. Bro Joe explained that an example of enthropy is when something, when left alone, automatically goes from hot to cold, from order to disorder (sort like a young person's bedroom).  :) The best example would be a cup of hot water. When left alone with no external influence, it will cool down. Ice melting is a common example of "entropy increasing".

Heat naturally dissipates and order naturally decays. We have seen this principle as true through simple scientific observances. The sun though large and beautiful, is slowly dimming down and burning out. Our food, preserved in a sealed, air-tight can or jar, will over time, break-down. Medicines will do the same. This is why we see expiration dates on these cans and bottles.

Also, just look in the mirror. Do you see the same perfect, wrinkle free skin you one time loved to pamper? Do you see the same number of hairs we once did? The observable world is in fact experiencing, entropy. It is breaking down. A song says: ‘Salvation richer far than gold, than glittering gems that turn to mold…’

II Corinthians 4:16 says; ‘…don’t faint, though the outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.’ Our outer man is earthly and subject to break down or entropy overtime. At some point, our fundamental, molecular structures are going to fail to a point where we will eventually die. We are, in fact, dying already. Again, a look in the mirror is a simple reminder.

Bro Joe explained that this principle only applies to the temporal material world. For instance, we are all aging. Our blood cells are breaking down. We start to see gray hair, wrinkles, etc... We become forgetful.

But spiritually, we can be renewed daily. Thank God! Our inner man is renewed by our prayer life, our feasting on the Word, our witnessing to the lost, our times of meditation with  the Lord, etc...

However, if we neglect these things, "spiritual entropy" can settle in and we will go from being hot for the Lord to being lukewarm, and eventually to being cold.

Our inner man is eternal. The soul, the spirit, is not earthly and not subject to break down or entropy over time. Our inner man, though an old man (unsaved) or new man (saved), is not subject to this world’s deterioration. But, if we live and serve the Lord, II Corinthians 4:16 reminds us we are renewed day by day. Natural sugar will lose its sweetness and salt will lose its savor, but we will stay sweet and stay preserved forever. So, we could say…We are not for Entropy…we are for Eternity.

While we cannot avoid entropy in the natural sense, we can avoid it in the spiritual.

It was a time of good interaction, particularly with the young people. They enjoy classes like this and the challenge to "think" and reason together.