Welcome to 3ABN's
Spring Camp Meeting:
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Live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Hello and welcome to
the 3ABN Worship Center,
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the Thompsonville SDA church.
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And I almost want
to say Happy Sabbath,
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but you know, I
think I will do that
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because though it is not
technically Sabbath just now
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sometime during the course
of the message the Sabbath
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will come in. So I think we
will get a little leg up on the
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Sabbath and say Happy
Sabbath. Happy Sabbath!
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Praise the Lord! You sound
good and you look even better.
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We welcome you to our third day,
the closing part of the third
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day of this
Spring Camp Meeting 2016:
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Christ, Calvary,
and the Sanctuary.
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And we are so very very pleased
to have those of you who are
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in this house and those of you
who are watching and listening
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from around the world as
together during this night
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we lift up the name of Jesus.
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Our speaker is no stranger
to anyone who is familiar with
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3ABN. He really was
one of the very first
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persons to sort of
buy in to the vision
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that Danny Shelton was given
by the Lord way back in 1984.
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He has been a friend and
supporter of this ministry
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yea these many many years
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while also running his own
ministry: The Carter Report.
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Our speaker is Pastor
John Carter from California.
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Really from the world... and be-
fore California from Australia.
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He and his lovely wife
Beverley have served the Lord
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for so many many years.
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And we are very pleased
to have him here tonight
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to speak on the subject...
Let's see, Pastor Carter
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is speaking on the subject
and it right here in front of me
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that's why I cannot see it.
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I've got his name and
everything else but I don't have
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the subject here in front
of me or either my old eyes are
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deceiving me. But again
he has been on this stage
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and on 3ABN for
so many many years.
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He's a well-known person,
a preacher of righteousness.
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One who loves the Lord
and who loves the Word of God
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and who preaches with
conviction and with power.
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He has a great sense of humor,
a wonderful person... but when
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he gets into this
pulpit he is all business
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because he believes in the
fact that Christ is coming soon.
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And he, along with all of
us, wants to warn the world
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that Jesus is on His way.
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Amen and amen. Our
music for this hour
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is coming to us from
Reggie and Ladye Love Smith.
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They are going to be
singing You Raise Me Up...
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a beautiful, beautiful song and
they do it so very very well.
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So without further
ado we will have prayer
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then we will hear
from Reggie and Ladye Love
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and then the next
voice that you will hear
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will be the voice of our pastor,
our friend, speaker/director of
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The Carter Report:
Pastor John Carter.
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Shall we pray?
Gracious Father, we praise You
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and thank you so very much
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for the privilege that
we have of calling upon You.
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We thank Thee for the call
that brought us from darkness
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to light and
from error to truth.
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And we are thankful, Lord, that
we can, even for a little while,
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sit in heavenly places.
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May I ask from
You for the speaker
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holy boldness and holy unction.
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Anoint him and use him.
Bless him so that he may
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be a blessing to
us. And may I ask, Lord,
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for this waiting congregation
and for those listening and
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viewing around the
world a special touch from You
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so that we may not be
just hearers of the Word
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but doers thereof...
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doing so in the knowledge
that soon Jesus will come.
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So be the
honored guest this night.
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Give us Your
presence and Your power.
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We thank you, Father, in Jesus'
worthy name, Amen and amen.
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When I am down
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and oh, my soul so weary;
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When troubles come
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and my heart burdened be;
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Then I am still and wait here
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in the silence,
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Until You come
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and sit awhile with me.
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You raise me up
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so I can stand on mountains;
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You raise me up
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to walk on stormy seas;
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And I am strong
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when I am on your shoulders;
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You raise me up
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to more than I can be.
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Thank you, Lord...
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You raise me up
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so I can stand on mountains;
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You raise me up
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to walk on stormy seas;
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And I am strong
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when I am on Your shoulders;
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You raise me up
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to more than I
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can be.
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There is no life -
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no life without its hunger;
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Each restless heart
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beats so imperfectly;
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But then You come
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and I am filled with wonder,
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Sometimes I think
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I glimpse eternity.
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You raise me up
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so I can stand on mountains;
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You raise me up
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to walk on stormy seas;
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And I am strong
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when I am on Your shoulders;
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You raise me up
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to more
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than I can be...
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You raise me up
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to more than I can
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be.
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Thank you.
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That was beautiful music, folks.
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Amen! I was blessed.
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It's worth sitting
in the plane for hours
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and driving on
clogged up freeways.
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You know, it took me as
long to get from California
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to 3ABN yesterday
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as it takes for me to fly
from Los Angeles to Sydney.
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So it must be about
10,000 miles from California
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to Illinois. But
it's worth the distance
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just to hear that
wonderful music. Amen!
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Um-hmm...
they're special people.
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Today's topic
is... I understand that
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Elder Murray
didn't know what it was.
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Is this so, folks?
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I was sitting in the
front expecting a presidential
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build-up, and he said
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"Our topic tonight
is... I can't see it. "
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But that's OK. I'm
getting to the place where
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I'm glad I'm seeing you.
Let me give you the genuine
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topic tonight. The topic
is: The Search for Happiness
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and The Cross of Christ.
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Many years ago when
Beverley and I were just
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newly married we were
out driving in our car
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outside a little town
by the name of Mullumbimby.
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Somebody's laughing.
It's not meant to be funny!
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Do you... Think how the folks
in Mullumbimby are going to feel
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tonight when they
hear you laughing.
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Mullumbimby is a little
town in North New South Wales
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in Australia.
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North New South Wales.
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As we were out driving
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we came upon a very pretty
girl walking along the road.
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She was a hippie
girl... this was years ago.
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So we stopped to
see if we could help her
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and we said:
"Where are you going? "
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She said: "I'm going to
find happiness and peace. "
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She said: "I'm going to
go up in the hills behind
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Byron Bay where people can be
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lifted out of themselves
because of what they smoke. "
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And so she was on a
search for happiness
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but going in
the wrong direction.
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Somebody said: "The whole
world is searching for a creed
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to believe and a song to sing. "
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And so tonight I'm
going to talk about the search
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for happiness and
the cross of Christ.
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I want you to take the Bible
and turn with me to the gospel
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of John chapter 10 and verse
10 to the words of our Lord.
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John chapter 10 and verse 10.
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The Bible says... Jesus says:
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"The thief does not come
except to steal and to kill
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and to destroy. I have
come that they may have life
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and that they may
have it more abundantly. "
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The Bible teaches that
there is a path to happiness
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and it's better than
any path that you can find
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from the philosophers and
the teachers of this world.
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And we're going to talk tonight
about the transforming power
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of the cross of Christ.
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Everybody agrees
in the world today
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that the human
race is a problem.
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America has a problem.
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When you look today at
the debates that are going on
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in America you know that a
cancer is eating at the soul
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of America. And that same cancer
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is eating at the
soul of the world.
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Every year in this great land
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42,773 approximately
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people commit suicide.
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Almost 50,000 people find
that life is too difficult
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including many,
many Hollywood stars.
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More than 1 million
people in the United States
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attempt suicide every year.
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And the question is
this: what is the root cause
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of this deadly malaise?
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This all pervading
sense of discontent
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and hopelessness
that is sweeping America
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that is reflected in the debates
that we hear in politics.
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Now varied solutions in
history have been proposed.
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There was a famous German
Jew. His name was Karl Marx
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and he wrote the book
The Communist Manifesto.
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He said the problem
could only be solved
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through class struggle and
the abolition of capitalism.
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We hear people
saying this again today.
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He said the problem
with the world was tied up
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with politics and economics.
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He made this remark:
"Religion is the impotence
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of the human mind to deal with
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occurrences it
cannot understand. "
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He also said: "Religion
is the opium of the people. "
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In January of this
year I went to Russia again
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for my 46th visit.
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And I saw in Russia something
which will tear at your heart:
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a nation that for 70
years turned away from God
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and embraced
Communism and Marxism...
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and in the process of so doing
murdered 50 million people.
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Then there was Dr. Freud...
the great psychoanalyst.
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He said our problems
"are psychological...
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especially sexual. "
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He said: "God is an illusion
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based on the infantile need
for a powerful father figure.
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Religion can now be set
aside in favor of reason
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and science. "
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And then in 1844 a
famous man was born.
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His name was Nietzsche...
and he, too, was a German.
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Perhaps the greatest of the
German philosophers, he died
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of syphilis in 1900.
He rejected Christianity
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totally... and yet the
only people who would take care
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of him as he died:
his Christian sister
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and his Christian mother.
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Nietzsche taught this:
that weakness is evil...
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therefore
Christianity is basically evil
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because it takes
care of the weak.
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He taught that power is good,
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the will to power, and
the coming of the super race.
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It is said that Adolf
Hitler slept with a copy
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of The Antichrist by Nietzsche
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under his pillow every night.
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The teachings of Nietzsche
flooded around the world
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and caused the first
and the second world wars.
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Listen to this... you
may find it hard to believe:
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in the great secular
universities of America
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and Great Britain and Germany
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the most influential
philosopher and thinker
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is Nietzsche.
Nietzsche has influenced
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America more than
any other single soul
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with the exception of Christ.
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The most influential
philosopher of our modern times.
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You wonder why the deep malaise?
Why the riots in the streets?
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It is because of
these godless philosophies
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that have swept over
the world and America.
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He said: "All superior men
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who were irresistibly
drawn to throw off the yoke
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of any kind of
morality and to frame new laws
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had, if they were not
actually mad, no alternative
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but to make themselves
or pretend to be mad. "
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And thus he died as a
raving lunatic with syphilis.
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Another great philosopher
who believed that the old gospel
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was passé was the famous
Englishman Charles Darwin
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who gave us the doctrine
and the theory and the idea
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of evolution. He also said:
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"The origin of species is
a mere rag of a hypothesis
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with as many flaws and
holes as sound parts. "
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Charles Darwin, that
brilliant Englishman,
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believed that life
came from non-life.
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He believed that we
are simply an aberration.
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That we are the product of
time plus matter plus chance
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and that there is no
God because He's not needed.
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This idea today
that there is no God
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and that He is not
needed is believed by 98%
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of scientists in
our universities.
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And this what they are
teaching the young people
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who go to those universities.
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Professor Richard
Dawkins from Oxford University
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is the chief proponent
today of atheism and evolution.
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And Dr. Phillip Adams,
another atheistic evolutionist,
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said this... listen to this:
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"We are as significant
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as the 8 billionth grain of sand
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beyond the final palm
tree in the most distant oasis
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in the Sahara.
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Therefore, you are nothing
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because you are the
product of blind chance. "
00:21:01.69\00:21:06.80
Do you wonder
why so many Americans
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are committing suicide and
why there is such a malaise
00:21:10.43\00:21:14.50
among millions of
American young people?
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They believe
this... listen carefully:
00:21:21.21\00:21:24.98
Nothing produced everything.
00:21:25.18\00:21:29.28
Non-life produced life.
00:21:29.68\00:21:33.19
Randomness produced fine tuning.
00:21:33.42\00:21:37.63
Chaos produced information.
00:21:38.23\00:21:41.63
Unconsciousness
produced consciousness
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and non-reason produced reason.
00:21:45.50\00:21:48.20
That is the doctrine
today that is sweeping America
00:21:49.27\00:21:53.11
and that is believed by almost
every university professor.
00:21:53.31\00:21:57.28
In contrast
tonight, by the grace of God,
00:22:00.22\00:22:03.42
permit me to present to
you the Christian world view
00:22:04.75\00:22:10.03
based on the Old
and the New Testaments.
00:22:10.23\00:22:14.30
We recognize that
our problems in part
00:22:16.56\00:22:21.10
are psychological and political
00:22:21.30\00:22:25.47
and economic and genetic.
00:22:26.37\00:22:30.41
But our basic problem
is the problem of sin.
00:22:33.08\00:22:38.35
Our basic problem
is not psychological
00:22:39.72\00:22:43.89
but spiritual.
00:22:44.29\00:22:46.23
And please... I'm
going to turn to many texts.
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Come now to Romans
chapter 3 and verse 23
00:22:49.73\00:22:53.57
dear hearts and gentle people.
00:22:53.77\00:22:55.47
Romans chapter 3 and verse 23.
00:22:56.84\00:23:01.28
The book of Romans
was called or described by
00:23:01.48\00:23:05.78
Tyndale, the great British
Reformer, as "good, glad,
00:23:05.98\00:23:11.45
and merry tidings
that makes a man's heart
00:23:11.65\00:23:15.52
to sing for joy and
his feet to dance. "
00:23:15.72\00:23:19.26
Martin Luther
said: "This is the purest
00:23:20.13\00:23:24.80
and the perfect gospel. "
00:23:25.00\00:23:27.10
Because in the book of
Romans we have a discussion
00:23:27.30\00:23:33.01
of man's dilemma
and God's solution.
00:23:33.21\00:23:36.54
Look at Romans 3 and
think about these texts.
00:23:37.15\00:23:40.38
The greatest of all
theologians, Paul said:
00:23:42.58\00:23:45.35
"For all have sinned...
" This is past tense...
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"For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God. "
00:23:49.32\00:23:53.40
"Fall short of the glory of God"
is present perfect continuous.
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The Bible teaches
that we all have a problem
00:23:59.63\00:24:02.44
and the problem is sin.
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.91
Because all of us sitting
here tonight have a problem
00:24:05.31\00:24:08.24
because we are
in a state of sin.
00:24:08.44\00:24:11.61
Evidence of sin is everywhere!
00:24:14.85\00:24:17.92
It is seen in hate.
00:24:18.22\00:24:21.39
We see it
everywhere today in America.
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.56
Hate... anger... lust.
00:24:24.76\00:24:28.90
Millions... tens of
millions of Americans
00:24:29.40\00:24:33.70
indulging their carnal natures.
00:24:33.90\00:24:36.40
Men and women with pornography
00:24:36.81\00:24:39.91
day after day.
00:24:41.14\00:24:44.11
Hate, anger,
lust, lying, bigotry.
00:24:44.31\00:24:48.95
White racism, black racism,
00:24:49.35\00:24:53.66
brown racism.
People have said to me
00:24:53.86\00:24:58.33
"But racism is
confined only to one group:
00:25:00.33\00:25:04.27
people who look like you. "
00:25:04.43\00:25:06.97
Let me tell you folks something:
00:25:08.67\00:25:10.31
if you look inside a white
man and look inside a black man
00:25:12.11\00:25:17.45
and look inside a
yellow man or a brown man
00:25:17.65\00:25:21.95
it is exactly the same. Amen!
00:25:22.15\00:25:24.95
And that is why we
all need the undiluted
00:25:25.85\00:25:30.43
grace of God. Nothing
else is going to work!
00:25:30.63\00:25:33.80
So... white
racism, black racism,
00:25:35.80\00:25:39.03
brown racism. I see it
all the time on television.
00:25:39.23\00:25:43.57
Intolerance,
greed, sexual perversions
00:25:43.97\00:25:49.91
such as the United
States Supreme Court
00:25:50.11\00:25:54.08
seems so willing to
back and push and encourage.
00:25:54.28\00:25:59.49
You know it's the truth.
00:26:00.59\00:26:02.19
You know it's the truth.
00:26:02.59\00:26:04.19
But let me tell you something:
when the Supreme Court
00:26:04.39\00:26:07.86
passed those laws
they were shaking a fist
00:26:08.06\00:26:12.27
in the face of Almighty God!
00:26:12.47\00:26:15.24
And it's not
over until it's over
00:26:15.64\00:26:18.37
and then it's not over!
00:26:18.57\00:26:20.38
I wouldn't want
to mess with God.
00:26:22.54\00:26:24.91
I wouldn't want to
change what made America great
00:26:27.42\00:26:33.29
for a sexual perversion.
00:26:34.46\00:26:36.96
Slavery. There are more
slaves in the world today
00:26:38.29\00:26:42.30
than in the days of
the slaves in America.
00:26:42.50\00:26:45.63
Slavery, violence, and
here is the worst of all sins:
00:26:46.53\00:26:51.61
spiritual pride.
00:26:51.81\00:26:53.58
That is not the
sin of the prostitute.
00:26:55.18\00:26:59.25
It's usually not the sin
of the person who is deluded
00:26:59.75\00:27:04.45
with pornography.
Spiritual pride is the sin
00:27:04.65\00:27:10.39
of the churchgoer...
00:27:10.59\00:27:14.00
and especially those
00:27:16.13\00:27:18.47
who call
themselves the remnant church.
00:27:18.87\00:27:23.14
And that, my friend,
stinks in the nostrils
00:27:23.84\00:27:28.54
of a holy and a
righteous God. Hallelujah!
00:27:28.74\00:27:31.55
It's the worst of sins.
00:27:32.78\00:27:34.65
God can do a lot
with a prostitute
00:27:35.85\00:27:38.19
but He can't do
much with a Pharisee.
00:27:38.39\00:27:40.59
And remember: the prostitutes
did not put Christ on the cross.
00:27:41.99\00:27:47.66
But the Pharisees did...
00:27:48.20\00:27:50.63
the people who claimed
to be the church of God.
00:27:51.43\00:27:54.34
Saint Augustine,
the great theologian
00:27:55.47\00:28:00.04
of the Catholic
church, said these words.
00:28:00.24\00:28:02.88
Listen carefully.
He said: "Our souls...
00:28:03.91\00:28:07.35
our souls... our
souls were made for God
00:28:07.55\00:28:12.22
and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him. "
00:28:13.89\00:28:18.13
Inside every person
00:28:19.53\00:28:22.53
outside of the grace
of God is an empty soul.
00:28:22.73\00:28:28.40
This restlessness. And
if Christ doesn't fill it,
00:28:29.94\00:28:35.88
somebody else
is going to fill it
00:28:36.28\00:28:38.55
or some other power or some
other force or some other thing!
00:28:39.05\00:28:43.82
Our souls were made for
God and they cannot rest
00:28:44.79\00:28:49.09
until they rest in
Him... hence the suicides.
00:28:49.29\00:28:52.83
Without God we're empty inside;
00:28:54.73\00:28:58.33
without God we have
a black hole inside.
00:28:58.73\00:29:01.64
And we try to fill
this black hole with drugs,
00:29:02.04\00:29:05.54
alcohol, illicit
sex, consumerism.
00:29:05.74\00:29:11.05
More stuff... more stuff.
00:29:11.25\00:29:13.58
You listen to the
television in America
00:29:13.78\00:29:16.08
and in other
places it is a crazy song
00:29:16.28\00:29:21.79
that says if you get more stuff
00:29:21.99\00:29:24.76
you're going to
be filled inside.
00:29:24.96\00:29:26.63
It's the devil's lie.
00:29:26.83\00:29:28.80
It's the devil's lie.
00:29:29.96\00:29:31.47
Consumerism. Comedy.
We've gotta have comedians
00:29:32.57\00:29:36.94
because we can't laugh any more.
00:29:37.14\00:29:39.14
Gotta pay people
so that we can laugh.
00:29:39.64\00:29:42.64
Violent games and
movies. Man-made religion:
00:29:42.84\00:29:47.75
an abomination in
the eyes of the Lord.
00:29:47.95\00:29:52.15
And the lust for power... "I
will be like the Most High. "
00:29:54.26\00:29:59.26
Sin is deadly, and
humanly, my dear friends,
00:30:01.60\00:30:06.70
incurable. Come
here to Romans chapter 6
00:30:06.90\00:30:10.81
and verse 23.
00:30:11.01\00:30:13.14
Roman 6 and verse
23 the Bible says:
00:30:13.64\00:30:19.41
"For the wages of sin is death
00:30:19.61\00:30:23.55
but the gift of
God is eternal life
00:30:23.95\00:30:27.42
in Christ Jesus our Lord. "
00:30:27.62\00:30:29.76
Now you'll notice when
I'm preaching tonight -
00:30:31.89\00:30:36.33
whenever I preach - I
use the Bible a great deal.
00:30:36.53\00:30:40.30
I know I'm in danger of
boring the carnal heart.
00:30:42.30\00:30:47.41
I know that. I know
we've come to a stage
00:30:47.58\00:30:51.01
in the history of the
world that even in churches
00:30:51.21\00:30:54.75
people come to church not
to hear the Word of the Lord
00:30:54.95\00:30:58.65
but to be told some
flippant, funny little story.
00:30:58.85\00:31:02.29
I'm telling you the truth...
00:31:03.06\00:31:04.86
as we have clowns in the pulpit.
00:31:05.26\00:31:07.86
We've got 'em in the pulpit.
00:31:08.26\00:31:09.90
But tonight we are going
to be preaching, God help us,
00:31:10.33\00:31:13.84
from the Word of God
because the power is not
00:31:14.04\00:31:18.07
in the church.
Hey! You hearing me?
00:31:18.27\00:31:21.81
The power... I'm
going to take it further:
00:31:22.01\00:31:24.21
the power is not
in the Conference.
00:31:24.58\00:31:27.08
The power is not in
the General Conference.
00:31:27.48\00:31:31.79
Do you hear what
I'm saying tonight?
00:31:32.19\00:31:34.02
Some people are
mesmerized by organizations
00:31:35.56\00:31:38.96
and they think
that's where the power is.
00:31:39.16\00:31:41.50
The power is in
the Word of God. Amen!
00:31:41.80\00:31:45.33
And that's why tonight we're
not quoting the church manual
00:31:46.23\00:31:50.67
and we're not
quoting this church council
00:31:51.84\00:31:55.01
or that church
council because quite frankly
00:31:55.21\00:31:58.55
we don't care a great deal.
00:31:58.75\00:32:00.82
But we are desperately
interested in finding that there
00:32:01.48\00:32:06.55
is a word from the Lord.
00:32:06.76\00:32:08.22
Now are you folks
hearing me tonight? Amen.
00:32:08.62\00:32:11.33
Um-hmm. In Africa some years ago
00:32:11.59\00:32:15.66
a virus broke out in
the little town of Lassa.
00:32:16.06\00:32:19.67
And the patients complained
of getting headaches, neck
00:32:21.00\00:32:25.67
aches, and they'd get ulcers
at the back of the throat,
00:32:25.87\00:32:29.38
high pounding fever, and on
the fourth day they would die.
00:32:29.88\00:32:33.78
There was a
Baptist missionary doctor
00:32:34.65\00:32:37.72
who was taking
care of the patients.
00:32:37.92\00:32:41.22
And so she decided she
was losing all the patients
00:32:42.22\00:32:45.69
she would do an
operation post-mortem
00:32:46.09\00:32:51.30
and she'd send some of
the tissues back to America
00:32:51.50\00:32:55.40
to try to trace
this deadly thing down.
00:32:55.70\00:32:59.57
But she was so tired that night
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.91
that as this Baptist
missionary was operating
00:33:02.11\00:33:05.68
on the corpse she
slipped with the knife
00:33:05.88\00:33:10.29
and cut her finger.
00:33:10.49\00:33:12.19
And she ran over
straightaway to the tap,
00:33:12.92\00:33:15.86
turned on the faucet,
and washed it with soap.
00:33:16.06\00:33:20.00
But a few days
later she got a headache
00:33:20.40\00:33:23.03
and the blisters. She
died on the fourth day.
00:33:24.27\00:33:27.80
When they got
this thing in New York
00:33:29.47\00:33:31.81
the people who worked on
it put on those white suits.
00:33:32.41\00:33:36.61
But after they had
worked on it with great security
00:33:38.98\00:33:42.72
two of the doctors, the
scientists, got ulcers and died.
00:33:42.92\00:33:47.22
They thought: "What's going
to happen if this thing gets
00:33:47.69\00:33:50.19
out on the streets of New York?
00:33:50.39\00:33:52.66
It's going to
wipe out America! "
00:33:52.86\00:33:54.73
They did discover
where it came from,
00:33:55.60\00:33:57.73
and even though there was
no cure they could prevent it.
00:33:59.30\00:34:02.64
Sin that came into the
world through our first parents
00:34:04.11\00:34:08.21
is more deadly
than the Lassa virus.
00:34:08.41\00:34:12.18
But the Bible
says there's a cure.
00:34:12.75\00:34:14.75
Romans 6:23 again.
00:34:14.95\00:34:16.99
"For the wages of sin is death
00:34:18.19\00:34:20.29
but the gift of
God is eternal life
00:34:21.82\00:34:24.89
in Christ Jesus our Lord. "
00:34:25.09\00:34:27.60
Now I want you to come
to this other text now.
00:34:28.73\00:34:31.70
I want you to come
to Romans chapter 5
00:34:31.90\00:34:34.64
verses 6 to 8. Turn
in your Bibles, folks.
00:34:35.94\00:34:38.74
"For when we were still
without strength in due time
00:34:40.54\00:34:43.61
Christ died for the ungodly.
00:34:43.81\00:34:45.78
For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die
00:34:46.68\00:34:49.82
yet perhaps for a good man
someone would even dare to die
00:34:50.05\00:34:53.72
but God demonstrates
His own love toward us
00:34:54.86\00:34:58.79
in that while we
were still sinners
00:34:58.99\00:35:02.46
Christ died for us. "
00:35:02.76\00:35:05.50
This is the cure to the
problem of the human race:
00:35:06.10\00:35:09.14
that God came into this
world and Christ died for us.
00:35:09.34\00:35:14.41
And so tonight I'm talking
on the glory of the cross.
00:35:14.61\00:35:18.51
I want you to come over
here to the gospel of John
00:35:18.91\00:35:21.55
chapter 1. John
chapter 1 and verse 1.
00:35:21.75\00:35:26.76
I want you to
notice these words:
00:35:27.16\00:35:28.92
John 1:1: "In the
beginning was the Word
00:35:30.33\00:35:33.93
and the Word was with
God and the Word was God. "
00:35:34.30\00:35:37.60
Then if you come to
verse 3: "All things were made
00:35:37.80\00:35:41.17
through Him and
without Him nothing was made
00:35:41.37\00:35:43.91
that was made. "
And verse 10 says:
00:35:44.11\00:35:46.68
"He was in the world and
the world was made through Him
00:35:46.88\00:35:50.41
and the world did not
know Him. " Please look at me.
00:35:50.61\00:35:53.01
It has been my privilege in
the last few years to associate
00:35:54.65\00:35:58.09
with some of the world's
great Christian scientists.
00:35:58.29\00:36:01.96
Scientists who are Christians...
who are born again.
00:36:02.16\00:36:05.73
They have told me some
things about the universe
00:36:07.56\00:36:10.30
that is
incomprehensible to my mind.
00:36:10.50\00:36:13.00
Some things we can
grasp such as the universe
00:36:14.54\00:36:19.54
that we know of is made
up of 200 billion galaxies...
00:36:19.74\00:36:24.68
each galaxy as big
as the milky way system.
00:36:25.55\00:36:28.65
In recent years
- almost months -
00:36:29.62\00:36:32.72
we've come to realize that
most of the universe is made
00:36:32.92\00:36:36.16
out of stuff that is called
dark matter and dark energy.
00:36:36.36\00:36:40.03
More than 99% of the
universe cannot be seen.
00:36:40.93\00:36:45.80
So what we see out
there with the telescopes
00:36:46.30\00:36:49.20
is less than 1%
of what is there...
00:36:49.40\00:36:51.71
and the rest we do
not know what it is.
00:36:52.31\00:36:54.48
More than 99%. We
know that the universe
00:36:55.71\00:36:59.25
is expanding out...
thus it had a beginning.
00:36:59.45\00:37:02.08
It is expanding out
almost at the speed of light
00:37:03.22\00:37:07.86
and it is being driven by dark
energy that nobody understands.
00:37:08.06\00:37:12.46
The Bible says: "In the
beginning was the Word. "
00:37:15.33\00:37:17.90
The Bible teaches that
the God who made all of this
00:37:18.10\00:37:21.80
which is incomprehensible
to our puny minds
00:37:22.00\00:37:24.57
the Almighty God
who made all of this
00:37:24.77\00:37:27.88
tabernacled for 9
months in the womb of a girl
00:37:28.08\00:37:31.58
and then was born
with crying and blood.
00:37:32.48\00:37:35.12
This little baby
that she held in her hands
00:37:36.22\00:37:40.36
was the Creator God.
Who can believe this?
00:37:40.56\00:37:42.99
This is the incomparable
mystery of the goodness of God.
00:37:44.09\00:37:48.80
The Bible says the
universe was made by Him.
00:37:50.13\00:37:53.74
And the Bible tells me that
this God came down to this world
00:37:54.24\00:37:58.54
and eventually was
crucified on the cross
00:37:58.74\00:38:02.11
because there was no other
way. What sort of God is this?
00:38:03.48\00:38:07.05
What sort of person is He?
00:38:08.38\00:38:10.32
Verse 10 says: "He was in
the world and the world was made
00:38:12.52\00:38:16.66
through Him and the
world did not know Him. "
00:38:16.86\00:38:20.13
And then the most famous text
of all: John 3 and verse 16 says
00:38:20.33\00:38:26.00
John chapter 3... you
hardly need to turn to it.
00:38:26.20\00:38:29.04
"For God so loved the world... "
00:38:30.31\00:38:32.04
Have you got it? "For
God so loved the world
00:38:32.97\00:38:35.58
that He gave His
only begotten Son
00:38:35.78\00:38:37.95
that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
00:38:38.35\00:38:41.48
but have everlasting life. "
00:38:41.68\00:38:44.22
And if you come back a little
bit before there to verse 14
00:38:44.62\00:38:48.29
I want you to notice
this. It says: "As Moses
00:38:48.49\00:38:51.33
lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness
00:38:51.53\00:38:53.50
even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up
00:38:53.70\00:38:56.26
that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
00:38:56.46\00:38:59.37
but have eternal life. "
00:38:59.57\00:39:01.80
I want you to think of this.
00:39:03.84\00:39:05.57
Why on earth? Please
tell me, think about this:
00:39:07.34\00:39:10.38
the Bible says: "As
Moses lifted up the serpent
00:39:11.31\00:39:15.75
in the wilderness...
" Why did He not say
00:39:15.95\00:39:18.82
"As Moses took the lamb...
" "As Moses butchered the lamb
00:39:19.12\00:39:25.03
with his own hands.
" It doesn't say that.
00:39:25.23\00:39:27.40
Why on earth would it
ever say "As Moses lifted up
00:39:29.53\00:39:33.47
the serpent in the wilderness
even so must the Son of Man
00:39:33.67\00:39:37.21
be lifted up? " Let me give you
00:39:37.41\00:39:42.28
what I think is a
reasonable answer.
00:39:42.48\00:39:45.28
The serpent was
the symbol of sin.
00:39:47.22\00:39:51.05
In two weeks' time
I'll be preaching in Sydney
00:39:53.19\00:39:55.89
and I have a little property I
go to: Northern New South Wales.
00:39:56.59\00:40:00.93
And because I'm never there
and because there's so much bush
00:40:01.90\00:40:06.03
there and rivers and ocean
00:40:06.23\00:40:08.84
it is a place for brown snakes.
00:40:09.24\00:40:12.17
The brown snake grows
this high, this thick.
00:40:13.34\00:40:18.25
It is the second most
deadly snake in the world
00:40:18.45\00:40:20.98
after the inland taipan
00:40:21.18\00:40:23.18
which is 20 times
worse than a cobra.
00:40:23.59\00:40:26.15
So is the brown snake.
00:40:27.22\00:40:29.26
And the brown
snake is not docile...
00:40:29.46\00:40:31.93
he is a fighting snake.
00:40:32.33\00:40:34.13
I've seen twenty
since I've been going there.
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.27
And you don't try to kill them.
00:40:39.20\00:40:41.14
You let them go
because if you let them go
00:40:41.64\00:40:45.41
the chances are
you'll be all right.
00:40:45.81\00:40:48.51
But if a brown snake attacks you
00:40:49.44\00:40:51.78
you've gotta get to a
hospital very quickly.
00:40:51.98\00:40:54.52
It has poison! Now
let me tell you something:
00:40:55.68\00:41:00.86
I want you to think
about this. When Christ
00:41:00.99\00:41:03.73
hung upon the cross,
the poison of the serpent
00:41:03.93\00:41:08.06
was placed on Him.
There was no poison in Him.
00:41:08.26\00:41:13.10
He was the holy Son of God,
00:41:13.70\00:41:16.20
but the poison of
sin was placed upon Him
00:41:16.60\00:41:21.51
and He was
punished for the poison.
00:41:21.71\00:41:26.72
People say: "Do
you really believe that
00:41:28.15\00:41:30.35
Christ was punished? " My
friend, if He were not punished
00:41:30.55\00:41:34.02
then you and I
certainly will be.
00:41:34.22\00:41:36.12
He came and He stood
in our place to redeem us.
00:41:37.33\00:41:41.53
Jesus was not an
old man with white hair.
00:41:44.63\00:41:47.70
He was strong... suntanned.
00:41:49.00\00:41:52.81
When he was 35 years of
age the tide of popular opinion
00:41:53.21\00:41:58.28
turned against Him. He was
betrayed by the church leaders
00:41:58.48\00:42:03.79
to the Romans... the hierarchy.
00:42:03.99\00:42:05.85
The Jewish hierarchy.
00:42:06.25\00:42:08.12
This person they
betrayed was God...
00:42:09.29\00:42:12.56
God in human flesh.
00:42:13.80\00:42:15.80
We talk about the
glory of the cross
00:42:17.37\00:42:19.43
because usually we
don't understand it.
00:42:19.63\00:42:21.67
A crucifixion had
nothing glorious about it.
00:42:22.94\00:42:26.47
The person was
usually put on the cross
00:42:27.44\00:42:30.51
hung on the cross
or nailed on the cross
00:42:30.71\00:42:32.85
usually stark naked.
00:42:33.05\00:42:34.55
And the cross was not very high.
00:42:34.95\00:42:37.75
It was low enough
so people could go past
00:42:38.15\00:42:41.26
and abuse the victim
and spit in their faces.
00:42:41.46\00:42:45.53
He had already been
beaten by the Romans
00:42:45.73\00:42:49.40
and abused by the hierarchy.
00:42:49.80\00:42:52.60
He was half dead
when He got to the cross.
00:42:52.80\00:42:55.04
But the cross would not
kill a man in six hours.
00:42:57.14\00:43:00.28
You all know this, don't you?
00:43:00.48\00:43:01.81
A man could live on a cross
for up to a week or even more.
00:43:02.21\00:43:07.22
Gangrene would set in.
00:43:07.42\00:43:09.08
The body would
start to putrefy and rot
00:43:09.28\00:43:12.82
and the birds would
come and pick out the eyes.
00:43:13.02\00:43:17.33
And the only way to breathe
was to reverse the process.
00:43:18.49\00:43:23.73
You couldn't just breathe in.
00:43:24.80\00:43:26.94
It caused an agony
that nobody could understand
00:43:28.10\00:43:31.84
except the crucified.
Hanging on the cross was God!
00:43:32.04\00:43:36.08
What sort of God is He?
00:43:39.55\00:43:40.98
Why did He cry
out: "My God, My God,
00:43:42.42\00:43:46.45
why have You forsaken Me? "
00:43:46.65\00:43:48.76
Now there is a
theory in the world today
00:43:52.06\00:43:54.20
taught in some
parts of the church.
00:43:54.36\00:43:56.30
It's called The
Moral Influence Theory.
00:43:56.50\00:43:59.13
It is a heresy from hell.
00:44:00.84\00:44:02.90
It says Christ
came down to this world
00:44:03.30\00:44:07.28
and He died to
show us an example
00:44:07.48\00:44:10.58
of how a man should die.
00:44:10.78\00:44:13.08
To show us how far God
will go to show us love.
00:44:13.95\00:44:18.89
But that's not the
teaching of the Bible.
00:44:20.09\00:44:22.89
The Bible teaches the
doctrine of the wrath of God.
00:44:24.23\00:44:28.20
You can read this all the
way through the Old Testament
00:44:29.10\00:44:31.63
and in the New Testament,
00:44:31.83\00:44:33.17
especially the book of
Romans, that talks about
00:44:33.30\00:44:35.80
"Now the wrath of
God is revealed. "
00:44:36.00\00:44:37.97
God is righteous
and holy and love.
00:44:40.44\00:44:45.41
How can He combine both
of these opposing attributes:
00:44:45.61\00:44:51.05
righteousness,
holiness, and love?
00:44:53.22\00:44:56.83
Sometimes a mother
will say to a child:
00:45:01.16\00:45:03.90
"I want you to take
this oil, the castor oil. "
00:45:04.30\00:45:07.77
It's not nice. And
the mother will say:
00:45:07.97\00:45:11.41
"I will take some. "
00:45:11.61\00:45:13.68
From that we have the
expression: "She took, he took
00:45:13.98\00:45:18.05
his own medicine. "
00:45:18.25\00:45:20.52
Listen: on the cross
00:45:21.55\00:45:25.29
God took His own medicine.
00:45:25.69\00:45:28.42
The holiness of God
said that sin and the sinner
00:45:30.96\00:45:35.83
must be punished
to the "nth" degree...
00:45:36.03\00:45:40.70
and no mercy.
00:45:40.90\00:45:43.97
And Christ on the cross
00:45:45.21\00:45:47.58
took all the poison of sin.
00:45:47.78\00:45:50.31
He carried the
poison of sin on His soul.
00:45:50.71\00:45:56.15
The Bible says, listen
to these words in Galatians:
00:45:58.82\00:46:02.32
"Cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree. "
00:46:02.52\00:46:06.19
You say: "No, no, no...
Christ. I don't believe that. "
00:46:06.39\00:46:09.50
That is because we do
not understand the gospel.
00:46:09.90\00:46:13.67
The holiness of God
and the love of God.
00:46:13.87\00:46:17.04
The holiness of God
says Christ must bear
00:46:19.71\00:46:25.61
the punishment
of every one of us.
00:46:25.81\00:46:31.09
And that is why He
cried out, a strong young Man,
00:46:31.82\00:46:35.39
not a wimpy individual,
00:46:35.79\00:46:39.09
not a cry baby but
a strong young Man:
00:46:40.23\00:46:43.26
up from His belly
came the utterance that
00:46:43.47\00:46:48.80
forced its way
through His throat
00:46:49.00\00:46:52.04
and out his
bloodstained, caked lips
00:46:52.24\00:46:54.78
"My God, My God, why
have You forsaken Me? "
00:46:54.98\00:46:57.41
On the cross as
far as He was concerned
00:46:59.25\00:47:03.62
He was a lost soul.
00:47:03.82\00:47:06.92
Ellen White said
He could not even see
00:47:07.32\00:47:10.49
through the portals of the tomb.
00:47:10.69\00:47:12.23
He had no hope!
00:47:12.63\00:47:14.20
He had no hope that
you and I might have hope.
00:47:14.73\00:47:18.00
He had no mercy so that
you and I might have mercy.
00:47:19.10\00:47:22.34
So how does this work?
00:47:25.11\00:47:27.64
I want you to
think of the cross.
00:47:31.21\00:47:33.62
I want you to think on
one side the human race,
00:47:33.82\00:47:36.38
sinful... that's
us. Guilty, unrighteous.
00:47:36.79\00:47:40.86
Doomed to eternal
death... that's us!
00:47:41.26\00:47:44.66
Sinful. When you hear people
talking and trying to tell you
00:47:45.26\00:47:49.43
that they're sinless they're
a million miles from God.
00:47:49.63\00:47:52.43
They've never seen
the holiness of God.
00:47:53.44\00:47:55.94
They've never seen
the righteousness of God.
00:47:56.77\00:47:59.81
The doctrine that
says "I can be sinless now
00:48:00.11\00:48:04.08
and I am sinless
now, hallelujah! "
00:48:04.28\00:48:06.85
is a delusion of
blind, blind foolish people.
00:48:07.05\00:48:11.95
But the Bible teaches that we
are sinful, guilty, unrighteous,
00:48:15.09\00:48:20.63
and we deserve eternal death.
00:48:21.00\00:48:23.77
And Jesus... He's sinless.
00:48:24.57\00:48:28.34
Not like us... He's sinless.
00:48:28.94\00:48:30.81
He's guiltless; He is righteous;
He enjoys eternal life.
00:48:31.11\00:48:37.05
But on the cross He
came and stood in my place
00:48:37.91\00:48:42.15
and in the eyes of God
He became sinful, guilty,
00:48:42.35\00:48:47.26
unrighteous... and tasted HELL -
00:48:47.46\00:48:51.66
eternal death - so
that I might have by grace
00:48:51.86\00:48:56.93
as a gift His sinlessness.
00:48:57.13\00:49:01.30
That I might be
seen to be guiltless.
00:49:01.70\00:49:03.84
That I might be
seen to be righteous.
00:49:04.04\00:49:06.27
That I might have eternal life
even though none of those things
00:49:06.47\00:49:10.08
are mine... but they're His.
00:49:10.28\00:49:13.11
Now if you get those
things into your mind
00:49:16.72\00:49:19.05
then you'll have a lot of peace
00:49:20.69\00:49:22.96
and a lot of
tolerance with other people.
00:49:23.36\00:49:26.76
A Russian nobleman
had tremendous debts.
00:49:28.90\00:49:33.54
He didn't know
what he was going to do.
00:49:33.84\00:49:35.64
Hopelessly in debt. He
broke down all the debts...
00:49:36.91\00:49:41.24
millions of rubles.
Then he wrote across the page
00:49:41.44\00:49:45.18
"Who can pay all my debts? "
00:49:45.58\00:49:47.65
and fell asleep. This
happened in St. Petersburg.
00:49:48.95\00:49:52.55
Peter the Great,
the Tsar of all Russia,
00:49:54.26\00:49:57.03
that day came to visit him.
00:49:57.23\00:49:58.79
The man, the noble, did
not know that his friend Peter
00:50:00.20\00:50:03.03
was coming. Peter came in
and saw the man in a sleep
00:50:03.43\00:50:06.70
of exhaustion. And
he pushed his hand aside
00:50:06.90\00:50:10.57
and he saw the list of
his debts and the question
00:50:10.77\00:50:13.44
"Who will pay all my debts? "
00:50:13.64\00:50:15.18
And Peter the Great
took his pen and he wrote
00:50:16.14\00:50:19.58
across this great
catalog of crimes and sins
00:50:19.78\00:50:23.75
"I, Peter the Great,
will pay all your debts. "
00:50:24.15\00:50:27.02
And he did!
00:50:27.52\00:50:29.02
When Christ died -
listen to the good news.
00:50:29.99\00:50:32.73
Why is the gospel good news?
00:50:32.93\00:50:35.13
For many many people
including maybe some of you
00:50:36.60\00:50:39.97
the gospel is not good news.
00:50:40.17\00:50:41.74
The gospel is
what you've gotta do.
00:50:42.14\00:50:44.27
It's do, do,
do... cock-a-doodle doo!
00:50:44.47\00:50:46.91
I've gotta do
more... I've gotta try more.
00:50:47.31\00:50:50.48
If I don't do this,
I'm a slack Christian.
00:50:50.68\00:50:54.42
The gospel is not about you.
00:50:54.62\00:50:57.82
Do you hear this? The
gospel is not about you.
00:50:58.89\00:51:01.86
There's no good
news about John Carter.
00:51:02.06\00:51:05.03
There's no good news about you.
00:51:07.30\00:51:09.43
The good news
is about God. Amen!
00:51:09.63\00:51:12.97
What is the gospel?
00:51:13.44\00:51:15.07
The gospel is that God
comes down to this world
00:51:15.47\00:51:19.94
and in the person of Christ
00:51:20.14\00:51:24.21
takes hold of the
serpent and kills the serpent.
00:51:24.71\00:51:29.28
And everything He is
He gives to me as a gift.
00:51:29.48\00:51:33.09
And I don't deserve it.
00:51:34.29\00:51:36.16
That's the good
news... it's not good advice.
00:51:36.79\00:51:39.63
Come over here to
Romans 5 and verse 1.
00:51:40.06\00:51:42.20
Romans chapter 5
and verse 1. It says:
00:51:43.80\00:51:47.84
"Therefore having
been justified by faith
00:51:48.04\00:51:53.41
or through faith
we have peace with God
00:51:53.61\00:51:56.54
through our Lord Jesus Christ. "
00:51:56.78\00:51:58.48
How can I get peace?
00:51:58.68\00:52:00.42
How can I get this
emptiness in my soul filled?
00:52:00.72\00:52:06.52
It is through Jesus Christ.
00:52:06.76\00:52:08.59
It is through what He has done.
00:52:08.99\00:52:11.06
Now come with me to perhaps
the most difficult passage
00:52:11.26\00:52:13.90
in the Bible that we
should memorize off by heart.
00:52:14.10\00:52:17.03
Some say it is the
high point of all scripture.
00:52:17.43\00:52:20.70
Romans 3:21 and onward.
00:52:21.07\00:52:22.90
"But now the
righteousness of God
00:52:23.51\00:52:27.04
apart from the law is revealed
00:52:27.24\00:52:30.15
being witnessed by the
law and the prophets. "
00:52:30.85\00:52:33.68
The Bible is in favor of it.
00:52:33.88\00:52:35.42
"Even the righteousness of God
through faith in Jesus Christ
00:52:35.82\00:52:40.02
to all who believe. "
00:52:40.22\00:52:43.89
This is a bit amazing, isn't it?
00:52:44.09\00:52:45.63
"If you believe... for there
is no difference for all have
00:52:45.83\00:52:49.76
sinned and fall short
of the glory of God. "
00:52:50.00\00:52:52.53
We sin and we continue to
fall short of the glory of God.
00:52:52.73\00:52:55.80
Verse 24:
"Being justified freely
00:52:56.20\00:53:01.28
by His grace through the redemp-
tion that is in Christ Jesus
00:53:01.48\00:53:05.55
whom God set forth as a
propitiation by His blood
00:53:05.75\00:53:09.82
through faith to
demonstrate His righteousness
00:53:10.02\00:53:12.95
because in His forbearance
God had passed over the sins
00:53:13.15\00:53:17.03
that were
previously committed. " Listen:
00:53:17.23\00:53:19.49
I'm going to run out of time.
00:53:19.69\00:53:21.13
The Bible says we are justified.
00:53:22.26\00:53:25.13
Justified does not
mean to make righteous.
00:53:27.84\00:53:31.34
That is the teaching of the
Jesuits in the Council of Trent
00:53:31.54\00:53:35.38
that some of you might believe.
00:53:35.58\00:53:37.51
When God
justifies a man or a woman
00:53:38.81\00:53:42.82
He doesn't make him righteous.
00:53:43.02\00:53:45.55
The making of righteousness
is called regeneration
00:53:46.52\00:53:49.29
or the new birth.
00:53:49.49\00:53:50.83
It's distinct
but never separate.
00:53:51.33\00:53:53.46
Justification is the
declaration of the Judge.
00:53:53.66\00:53:59.13
And the Judge says:
"Even though you are a sinner
00:53:59.53\00:54:04.31
because you come to
My Son in true faith,
00:54:05.77\00:54:11.25
because My Son
wrestled with the serpent,
00:54:11.45\00:54:15.75
because My Son bore your guilt,
00:54:16.35\00:54:21.82
I now as a
righteous and holy God
00:54:22.02\00:54:25.09
declare that you are sinless
00:54:25.29\00:54:29.93
and holy just as Jesus
is... even though you're not. "
00:54:30.13\00:54:35.10
Even though I'm not? No,
no. Of course you're not.
00:54:36.87\00:54:38.97
Don't get deluded.
00:54:39.77\00:54:41.41
It's a gift... it's a gift.
00:54:41.61\00:54:45.05
And this is why
Tyndale called it:
00:54:47.18\00:54:50.99
"Good, glad, and merry tidings
00:54:51.19\00:54:53.02
that makes a man's
heart to sing for joy
00:54:53.22\00:54:56.62
and his feet to dance. "
00:54:57.03\00:54:59.89
Now let me try
to illustrate this.
00:55:01.23\00:55:03.67
Now I'm going to tell you this;
you've got to think about this.
00:55:03.87\00:55:06.20
What I'm going to tell you
now I tell you from experience
00:55:08.07\00:55:11.74
and the words of the Bible.
The Bible says - Paul says
00:55:12.81\00:55:15.61
He wasn't taught this. It
was revealed to him by God.
00:55:16.01\00:55:20.05
He says that in
the book of Galatians.
00:55:20.92\00:55:23.39
To understand this you
must have a revelation by the
00:55:25.62\00:55:30.33
Holy Spirit. And as
you open up your heart
00:55:30.53\00:55:35.20
God will say and
reveal to you your sins.
00:55:37.47\00:55:40.44
Umm. You won't
feel a goodie-goodie.
00:55:41.84\00:55:44.77
You won't. You won't be
critical of other people
00:55:44.97\00:55:48.58
because you know
what you are yourself.
00:55:48.78\00:55:50.35
And then God
gives the gift of faith.
00:55:50.75\00:55:55.42
And you say: "I
believe that Christ
00:55:55.62\00:55:59.62
died for me and bore my guilt
00:55:59.82\00:56:03.76
and I accept this now. "
00:56:04.16\00:56:07.30
In that moment - listen -
00:56:08.33\00:56:10.97
I pass from death to life
00:56:11.33\00:56:15.54
and my name is
written down in glory
00:56:16.04\00:56:19.74
NOW!
00:56:20.38\00:56:21.91
And it is this
gospel that saves our souls.
00:56:26.28\00:56:31.39
And when the big God comes in
00:56:32.55\00:56:35.12
all the little gods go out.
00:56:35.62\00:56:39.09
Let's pray. Our Father,
00:56:40.70\00:56:43.53
we thank you for
the story of the gospel.
00:56:43.73\00:56:46.37
Tonight we glory
not in our own goodness
00:56:46.80\00:56:50.17
or in our church affiliation
00:56:50.37\00:56:53.34
but we glory in
the cross of Christ.
00:56:53.54\00:56:56.01
We thank you that God
became a Man. How amazing!
00:56:56.41\00:56:59.35
He slept for nine
months in the womb of a girl.
00:57:00.75\00:57:03.85
He was born; He
went to the cross
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and bore our sins; and
if we truly believe tonight
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we are justified
and saved. Hallelujah!
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Amen!
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