Hi, Kids.
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You want to
hear an amazing fact.
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Humming birds
are some of the most
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incredible
creatures that God has made.
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They are beautiful.
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They come in virtually
every color of the rainbow.
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There are some bigger
ones, but they have got
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some hummingbirds in
Cuba, they are like a bee.
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No bigger than a pinto bean
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with wings and
they fly very quickly.
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A hummingbird beats its
wings 70 times a second.
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And they can do
incredible acrobatic maneuvers.
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They are so fast,
they can terrorize birds
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much bigger than themselves.
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The reason they
have so much energy
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is they have to feed
very frequently on nectar.
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Every 10 or 15
minutes, they need to eat
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to keep up their metabolism.
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If you and I
eat as many calories
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as the hummingbird eats,
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well, that'd be about
155,000 calories a day,
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about 50 pounds
of sugar per person.
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They need to do this to
keep their energy level up.
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So something very
interesting happens
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to a number of the hummingbirds
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that live in the
southwest around Texas.
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Once a year, instead of
eating every 5 or 10 seconds,
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they eat almost
constantly trying to store up
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and tank up on the
nectar, because they then make
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a 500-mile epic migration
across the Gulf of Mexico.
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They know they can't
stop and feed along the way.
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So they store up
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all of the calories and strength
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that they can to get
to a virtual paradise
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they find in the
YucatA!n Peninsula,
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where they vacation,
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and they grow more
little hummingbirds.
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So kids, in the same way
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that the
hummingbird stores up nectar
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to take this epic
journey across the sea,
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you and I need to
store up on the Word of God
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to prepare for the last days.
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We're gonna teach you how.
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So come onboard and join us
now for an amazing adventure.
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Good evening, boys and girls,
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and welcome to
Amazing Adventure,
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A Journey for Life with Jesus.
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We are so glad
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to see you all here in Michigan,
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but also like to
welcome those who are joining us
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across the country
and around the world
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for this very exciting adventure
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into the truths of God's Word.
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My name is Jean
Ross, and I'll be your host
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for this special
discovery mission
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that we're gonna be embarking
on in just a few moments.
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Now, as you
notice here on stage,
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the theme for this adventure
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has something
to do with sailing,
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it has to do with voyage,
it has to do with discovery.
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And I think those who built
the set did a fantastic job.
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It looks great.
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You know, the Bible has
a lot to say about voyages,
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talks about
boats, talks about ships.
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And so you'll find out
how that fits into our theme
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that we're gonna be
talking about on this adventure.
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But if we're gonna
hit out on a voyage,
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we need to have
our first officer,
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who's gonna be at
the wheel guiding us
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through this adventure.
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And I'm so glad that
Pastor Doug Batchelor
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is going to be here
and he's gonna lead us
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in our Bible discovery.
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So I'd like to
invite our first officer,
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Pastor Doug to come on stage.
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Hello, boys and girls.
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We are gonna have some fun.
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Of course, I've got
my lieutenant officer
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here Pastor Ross, Captain Ross.
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I put on my hat, Pastor Doug.
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We're ready for the
voyage. You seem in first class.
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You know, before
we begin this journey,
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we're gonna
sing a song together.
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I think some of
you have learned.
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We've got our singers,
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who are gonna
join us on stage now.
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We're gonna begin
singing that song,
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"Life is an Adventure."
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We want the
friends watching at home,
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you can sing along with us.
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You'll probably see
the words on the screen,
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those of you
are following along,
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"Life is an Adventure,"
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and for those
of you didn't know,
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the song was
written by Pastor Doug.
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So be glad he's
here to play the guitar
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and we'll sing together.
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Life is an
adventure Following the King
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Every day with Jesus
Makes us want to sing
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Walking in the
spirit He will lead the way
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With his words to guide
us Glowing deep inside us
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Nothing can divide
us Following the King
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Life is an
adventure Following the King
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Every day with Jesus
Makes us want to sing
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Conquering with
kindness Everywhere we go
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Voices we are
raising Jesus we are praising
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Life is so
amazing following the King
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Life is so
amazing following the King
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Amen. Amen.
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All right, thank you singers.
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At this time, I'd
like to invite Alex
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to come forward and
Alex is going to be having
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our opening prayer
for us this evening.
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And Alex is from Michigan.
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Let's bow our heads as we pray.
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Dear Jesus, thank
You for this opportunity
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for Pastor Doug to
come and speak to us.
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Please help him,
please guide him.
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And thank You for camp meeting,
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and thank You for
Amazing Adventures,
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and all the work
that's gone into it.
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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
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Amen, Thank you Alex. All right.
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Now, Pastor Doug,
we've got some folks
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who are watching us
live, but then we also had
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those who sent in
some Bible questions,
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some video Bible questions,
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and we had kids
ask their question
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from literally
all over the place.
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I know from India,
we had some questions,
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some from the Philippines.
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So we're gonna take
a few moments right now
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to answer some of the
questions that have come in
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from around the world.
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So we're ready to
look at our first question.
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Hello, my name is
Ona, I am 11 years old
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and I'm from
Ypsilanti, North Dakota.
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My Bible question
is, "When did dinosaurs
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go extinct and why?"
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All right. All right.
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When did the dinosaurs
become extinct and why?
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You know,
whenever we say dinosaurs,
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we're always thinking
about just the real big lizards,
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but there are all
kinds of prehistoric animals
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that don't exist anymore.
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We know that God told Noah
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to take two of every creature
on the ark and Noah obeyed.
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But from the time of
the flood until the present,
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a lot of
animals have either died
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from the environment,
or the environment change,
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or they were
hunted into extinction.
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Bible talks about
a man named Nimrod,
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who was a mighty
hunter, and you don't get
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the title mighty
hunter because you kill mice.
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He was probably
killing some big creatures
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and maybe he helped kill off
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some of the first few dinosaurs.
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And someone's gonna ask,
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"How did they get
dinosaurs on the Ark?"
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Well, Noah wasn't
told he had to take
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full grown dinosaurs.
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He could have
taken itty bitty ones.
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He could have taken
two eggs, I don't know.
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But eventually,
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some of these great
mammals and reptiles,
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the dinosaurs were extinct,
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probably
shortly after the flood.
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All right. Thank
you, Pastor Doug.
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I think we have
another Bible question
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that's coming in.
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Hi, my name is Eliah
and I'm 12 years old,
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and I'm from California.
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And my question is,
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"How do we
differentiate the difference
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from good angels
from bad angels?"
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Well, good angels are always
going to impress and guide you
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in doing those things
that correspond with the Bible.
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A bad angel is not
gonna be wanting you
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to follow God's Word.
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The bad angels are gonna try
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and get you to
do the bad things.
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Good angels are always gonna try
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to get you to
follow the Word of God
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led by the Holy Spirit.
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All right, we
got one more question
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that we're gonna be looking at.
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Hey, my name is
Elsa, and I'm from Idaho.
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I'm nine years
old, and my question is,
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"Why does God allow
trials to come upon Christians?"
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Well, the Bible talks
about a man named Job,
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and it tells us that
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he was a good and a perfect man,
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but the Lord
even allowed the devil
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to bring some
temptations and trials on Job.
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Peter tells us that,
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"Our faith grows
through fiery trials."
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Faith is like a muscle.
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Muscles don't get strong
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unless you're
actually lifting something
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or holding something,
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and the heavier the weights,
the stronger the muscles.
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And as you go through trials,
if you want to learn patience,
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you're gonna go through
trials that test your patience
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and you become a
very patient person.
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If you're gonna
want to learn love,
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sometimes you'll be
around some unloving people,
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and that's when
you learn to love.
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And so the Lord helps us
develop the characteristics
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like Jesus as we go through
the different tests and trials.
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Well, Pastor Doug, tonight
is a very important lesson,
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kind of an exciting one.
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It's called, The Treasure Map,
and it kinda gets our bearings
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as we head off
on this adventure.
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So we'll turn
the time over to you.
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Amen.
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Thank you, Pastor Ross,
and I want to welcome you
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again young people
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that have come to
this special program,
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and those who are
watching on television.
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This is the first in a series
on Amazing Adventure series,
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we're gonna take this
our ship, the HMS Adventure,
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HMS means His Majesty Service.
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And we're gonna go on
an adventure talking about
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what the real
purpose of life is.
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We got any
adventurers out there with us?
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I'm gonna be taking volunteers
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during the
program to come up here
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and do some
different things with me.
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And so I'm just giving you a
little heads up, so you know.
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We'll be following
a series of lessons
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and tonight's lesson is
dealing with The Treasure Map.
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Now, have any of you
ever seen a real treasure map?
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Yes.
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You know, a lot
of people thought
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they had treasure maps,
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some probably drew maps
and maybe they lost them.
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There have been some
people that found maps
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where ships went
down in the ocean.
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They knew the longitude
and the latitude, the position.
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And from that map,
they were able to dive down
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and eventually find those ships,
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some of them loaded with gold.
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One called The California
off of South Americans
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and several off
of the Florida Keys,
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they found treasure down there.
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And other people have looked
for treasures in the hills.
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But the real treasure
we're talking about tonight
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is in the Word of God.
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I remember
hearing an amazing fact
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a few years ago.
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In 1992, a man
near Sussex, England
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lost a hammer in
a friend's field.
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He knew his friend, you know,
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a buddy that had
a metal detector,
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you know what those are.
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You put on the
headphones, you walk around,
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and it beeps and
when you find metal,
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it goes beep,
beep, beep and otherwise,
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it's like, boo, boo, boo.
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Then you find the metal,
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
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And he thought
I'll get my friend
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with his metal detector,
we'll find my missing hammer.
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So he went out there and
he started looking around,
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and you know what he found?
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He found one of
the largest hoards,
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a gold find
called the Hoxne Hoard.
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It had 14,000 coins of gold,
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silver, and copper.
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From the time of the
Romans, it had bracelets
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and millions of dollars worth
of treasure over $3 million.
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They don't know how to price it
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because as
artwork, it's priceless.
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But in weight, it was
over $3 million of gold,
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and silver, and copper.
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Somebody had buried
their treasure in the field,
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and they probably made a
map and then they got arrested,
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or put in prison, or
they died, or got taken away.
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And they never came
back for their treasure.
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And you know, the
good part of the story is,
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the man also
found his hammer too.
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So he found his hammer
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and they found this
incredible treasure,
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so people do
sometimes find treasure.
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The biggest
treasure is the Word of God.
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I want to tell you a
story, true story about a boy
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who is taking care of
some sheep back in 1948.
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And we were just
there a few months ago
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in Israel by the Dead Sea.
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And the boy was
looking for some missing goats.
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And he was out there
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and it was hot and he was bored,
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and so he picked up a rock
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and he saw some
holes up on the hillside
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and he threw a rock,
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and he used to see if I wonder
if, you know, like a pitcher.
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I wonder if I can get
that rock inside that hole
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and he threw a rock in there
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and then he
threw a rock in there,
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but when he threw a
rock in one of the holes,
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something happened.
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I need a volunteer.
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Okay, you're close to
the edge and you were first,
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so why don't
you come on up here.
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All right.
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Let's see if we
can locate our...
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I got so many treasures here.
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Oh, why don't you
look in the treasure chest?
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See if you can find a pot.
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This is the legal kind of
pot we're talking about here.
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Look around. There you go.
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Grab the whole thing. Okay.
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You can put that down.
And what was your name?
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Samuel. Samuel, good Bible name.
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You reach in here and see
if you can find some rocks.
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Find a big one. All right.
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We're gonna put you
up on the deck here.
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You can come up here with me.
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Isn't it a cool set? Yeah.
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Now, drop the rock on the wood.
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Okay, now drop
the rock on the pot.
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Did that sounds
a little different?
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You gotta buy me a new pot, now.
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I didn't tell you
about that part of the story.
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The boy, when he threw the rock,
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when it hit dirt, it
doesn't make a sound,
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but it went...
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And he said, "What is that?"
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Let's give Samuel a hand.
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Thank him very
much for his help.
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You get to keep
the bag of rocks.
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He heard that sound.
He said, "What is that?"
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He climbed up in there
and you know what he found?
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A bunch of clay jars
that were filled with scrolls
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of the oldest versions
of the Bible that they know.
00:14:01.44\00:14:04.57
They were called,
"The Dead Sea Scrolls."
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It was probably one of
the greatest treasures.
00:14:07.08\00:14:09.34
If you go to Israel today,
00:14:09.38\00:14:11.21
they built a
whole museum with alarms
00:14:11.25\00:14:13.68
and three foot
thick reinforced concrete,
00:14:13.72\00:14:16.25
and its high security.
00:14:16.28\00:14:17.79
And it's guarding a book.
00:14:17.82\00:14:20.62
It's guarding
their national treasure,
00:14:20.66\00:14:22.52
the oldest
scriptures they've got,
00:14:22.56\00:14:24.86
because the Jewish
people, like most Christians,
00:14:24.89\00:14:29.16
believe the Bible
is the Word of God.
00:14:29.20\00:14:31.30
And that's a
picture of the cave.
00:14:31.33\00:14:33.34
And that's what one
of the pots look like.
00:14:33.37\00:14:35.04
And that's on the
screen, what they call,
00:14:35.07\00:14:37.31
"The Isaiah Scroll,"
00:14:37.34\00:14:38.67
that has almost the
entire Book of Isaiah was there.
00:14:38.71\00:14:42.38
And it has not changed.
00:14:42.41\00:14:44.65
It's almost identical
00:14:44.68\00:14:46.01
to what you have
in your Bibles today.
00:14:46.05\00:14:48.48
God has done something
to protect the Word of God.
00:14:48.52\00:14:52.32
You know, the
most important decision
00:14:52.35\00:14:54.06
a young person can make
00:14:54.09\00:14:55.42
is that decision to follow Jesus
00:14:55.46\00:14:57.43
and begin that
amazing adventure to eternity.
00:14:57.46\00:15:00.46
That's why we're
so excited to tell you
00:15:00.50\00:15:02.03
about the new
Amazing Adventure programs
00:15:02.06\00:15:04.13
that are available.
00:15:04.17\00:15:05.60
During these nearly 10 hours
00:15:05.63\00:15:07.27
of exciting high
definition programs,
00:15:07.30\00:15:09.54
the young people will
do science experiments,
00:15:09.57\00:15:11.81
learn about history, nature,
encounter some wild animals,
00:15:11.84\00:15:15.24
and most of all,
they will learn about
00:15:15.28\00:15:17.15
Jesus from the Word of God.
00:15:17.18\00:15:18.85
There's a beautifully
illustrated Bible Study Guide
00:15:18.88\00:15:21.62
to go along with each
of the video presentations.
00:15:21.65\00:15:24.59
These beautiful
illustrated study guides
00:15:24.62\00:15:26.72
are full of pictures, and
puzzles, and Bible stories.
00:15:26.76\00:15:29.46
They will lead your kids
00:15:29.49\00:15:30.83
through an
incredible journey with Jesus.
00:15:30.86\00:15:32.96
And for me, the
most exciting thing
00:15:32.99\00:15:34.56
is this new
Amazing Adventure series
00:15:34.60\00:15:36.67
goes along with
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00:15:36.70\00:15:38.40
Adventure Bible.
00:15:38.43\00:15:39.77
The Bible, the study guides,
00:15:39.80\00:15:41.27
the DVDs are all designed
to lead your young person
00:15:41.30\00:15:44.77
on a Journey
for Life with Jesus.
00:15:44.81\00:15:47.18
Call the number on
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at afbookstore.com.
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Now, someone may have told you
00:15:53.08\00:15:54.65
that the Bible is
just a fairy tale.
00:15:54.68\00:15:56.85
You ever heard that before?
00:15:56.89\00:15:58.65
But what does the
Bible say about itself,
00:15:58.69\00:16:00.86
"All scripture is
given by inspiration of God,
00:16:00.89\00:16:04.03
and is profitable."
00:16:04.06\00:16:05.39
This is not the words of men.
00:16:05.43\00:16:06.90
The Bible is not just
black ink on white paper.
00:16:06.93\00:16:10.37
These are
supernatural and powerful words
00:16:10.40\00:16:13.13
that will change your life.
00:16:13.17\00:16:15.00
It could change hearts too.
00:16:15.04\00:16:17.11
Now the original Bibles
were written on papyrus.
00:16:17.14\00:16:20.78
God wrote the Ten
Commandments on stone.
00:16:20.81\00:16:23.61
And then about 1500,
a man named Gutenberg
00:16:23.65\00:16:26.45
invented who knows what?
00:16:26.48\00:16:28.62
The printing press and
they used to have to write
00:16:28.65\00:16:32.22
their Bibles out by hand.
00:16:32.25\00:16:33.59
All of a sudden
Bibles began to go
00:16:33.62\00:16:35.72
like crazy all around the world.
00:16:35.76\00:16:38.23
And there was a great revival.
00:16:38.26\00:16:40.16
This is a picture
00:16:40.20\00:16:41.53
of the Gutenberg printing press.
00:16:41.56\00:16:43.77
And, you know,
someone bought in 1992,
00:16:43.80\00:16:47.07
a Gutenberg Bible,
00:16:47.10\00:16:49.04
and they paid $3
million for a Bible,
00:16:49.07\00:16:52.74
because it was one of
the first printed Bibles.
00:16:52.77\00:16:55.68
And so people recognize
00:16:55.71\00:16:57.15
that this is a great
treasure in the Bible.
00:16:57.18\00:17:00.98
You know,
whenever you go to court,
00:17:01.02\00:17:02.45
sometimes they
tell you to take a vow,
00:17:02.48\00:17:05.09
you take an oath.
00:17:05.12\00:17:06.45
They put their
right hand on the Bible.
00:17:06.49\00:17:08.56
When a new
president is inaugurated,
00:17:08.59\00:17:11.03
he takes his oath of office.
00:17:11.06\00:17:12.89
He puts his hand on the Bible.
00:17:12.93\00:17:15.30
George Washington did that
too and at the end, he said,
00:17:15.33\00:17:17.73
"So help me God."
00:17:17.77\00:17:20.27
Great people through
history have known that
00:17:20.30\00:17:22.10
this is not an ordinary book.
00:17:22.14\00:17:24.07
This is a book that helps
us find our way to heaven.
00:17:24.11\00:17:27.04
It is the great treasure map.
00:17:27.08\00:17:31.01
Some of you have smartphones.
00:17:31.05\00:17:33.85
I got a smartphone
that's smarter than me.
00:17:33.88\00:17:36.55
When I come from the hotel,
00:17:36.58\00:17:38.55
my hotel is back
through the country
00:17:38.59\00:17:40.09
and if it wasn't for
my GPS, I would get lost.
00:17:40.12\00:17:43.32
I'm so thankful now,
for these smartphones.
00:17:43.36\00:17:45.76
I used to look at maps.
00:17:45.79\00:17:47.13
Whenever I had to go
visit people as a pastor,
00:17:47.16\00:17:49.16
I'd say, "That street is on A,
00:17:49.20\00:17:51.90
D" and a little bitty
lines going everywhere
00:17:51.93\00:17:54.94
and I'd be driving
up and down streets
00:17:54.97\00:17:56.40
and asking for
directions, it took forever.
00:17:56.44\00:17:58.61
Now I just said, "Take
me to 4911, Lexington Way."
00:17:58.64\00:18:02.84
And all of a sudden it
tells me which way to turn.
00:18:02.88\00:18:06.98
It's got the map built-in.
00:18:07.02\00:18:08.65
When you read your Bible,
the Holy Spirit will help it
00:18:08.68\00:18:12.55
become an internal GPS for you,
00:18:12.59\00:18:15.76
to guide you in the
decisions that you make,
00:18:15.79\00:18:18.03
because there's a lot
of very important decisions
00:18:18.06\00:18:19.93
you got to make.
00:18:19.96\00:18:21.30
All right, I need a volunteer.
00:18:21.33\00:18:24.57
The young lady on
the front over here.
00:18:24.60\00:18:27.70
Now, you can take a
peek in the treasure chest,
00:18:27.74\00:18:29.64
and what's your name?
00:18:29.67\00:18:31.01
Katie. Katie.
00:18:31.04\00:18:32.37
All right, you're gonna find
00:18:32.41\00:18:33.74
something in the treasure chest.
00:18:33.78\00:18:35.11
It's in a little
vinyl case brown.
00:18:35.14\00:18:37.38
Right, you can open it up.
00:18:37.41\00:18:38.91
You find a little
brown vinyl case in there?
00:18:38.95\00:18:40.95
You got it and see if
you can close it, very good.
00:18:40.98\00:18:44.12
So you want to open that up?
00:18:44.15\00:18:48.12
Do you know what
that is? Periscope.
00:18:48.16\00:18:51.03
It's a not quite a
periscopes on a submarine.
00:18:51.06\00:18:55.16
Pull on the end of
it. Watch what happens?
00:18:55.20\00:18:56.53
Here, I'll hold that for you.
00:18:56.56\00:18:58.53
This way? This way? Yeah.
00:18:58.57\00:19:00.64
Oh, kinda looks like
00:19:00.67\00:19:03.91
what we got on the
screen up there now.
00:19:03.94\00:19:06.11
That's a
telescope or spotting scope.
00:19:06.14\00:19:08.04
They used them on ships
back before they had binoculars.
00:19:08.08\00:19:11.31
Now, that's kind
of neat to look at.
00:19:11.35\00:19:13.82
But did they make
those to look at them
00:19:13.85\00:19:16.08
or do you look through them?
00:19:16.12\00:19:17.45
Through them.
00:19:17.49\00:19:18.82
You look
through them, don't you?
00:19:18.85\00:19:20.19
Is the Bible something
that we're supposed to look at?
00:19:20.22\00:19:22.02
How many of you own the Bible?
00:19:22.06\00:19:24.29
How many of you look
at your Bible every day?
00:19:24.33\00:19:26.90
Does it help you
to look at your Bible?
00:19:26.93\00:19:30.37
I got a Bible right here.
00:19:30.40\00:19:31.73
You can look at it all
day, it's not gonna save you.
00:19:31.77\00:19:34.24
You got to look at
life through the Bible.
00:19:34.27\00:19:36.50
You want to take a
peek through there.
00:19:36.54\00:19:37.87
I'll show you how that works.
00:19:37.91\00:19:40.21
I can't see directly.
Well, yeah, you gotta turn it.
00:19:40.24\00:19:43.11
There you go.
00:19:43.14\00:19:44.48
Oh, I'm looking
at the kid's smiling
00:19:44.51\00:19:45.85
right up front here.
00:19:45.88\00:19:47.22
Now he knows I'm looking
at him and he's not smiling.
00:19:47.25\00:19:51.02
Now you see it? Mm-hmm.
00:19:51.05\00:19:52.99
There's a lot more
fun to look through it
00:19:53.02\00:19:54.36
than look at it, huh?
00:19:54.39\00:19:55.72
I got good news.
That's a gift for me to you.
00:19:55.76\00:19:58.49
So kids who come
up, some of you will be
00:19:58.53\00:20:00.76
able to keep some things.
00:20:00.80\00:20:02.56
You can give Katie a hand.
Tell her thank you very much.
00:20:02.60\00:20:04.50
All right.
00:20:04.53\00:20:08.07
Next question.
00:20:08.10\00:20:11.17
Now we're going through
about eight questions tonight,
00:20:11.21\00:20:13.44
just so you know.
00:20:13.48\00:20:14.81
How can you know for
yourself that the Bible is true?
00:20:14.84\00:20:18.81
Because Pastor Doug tells you?
00:20:18.85\00:20:21.45
I hope you believe me, but
that's not the best reason.
00:20:21.48\00:20:24.45
The Bible says,
00:20:24.49\00:20:26.55
"Oh, taste and see
that the Lord is good!"
00:20:26.59\00:20:30.23
Psalm 34:8.
00:20:30.26\00:20:31.69
You gotta taste for
yourself that the Lord is good.
00:20:31.73\00:20:35.76
All right, I need a volunteer.
00:20:35.80\00:20:38.83
You saw the telescope go out
00:20:38.87\00:20:40.20
and, boy, you're
all willing spirits now.
00:20:40.24\00:20:42.30
All right, let me see here.
00:20:42.34\00:20:43.67
If you can get out
young man back there,
00:20:43.71\00:20:45.47
yeah, yep that's
you, come on out.
00:20:45.51\00:20:47.81
I don't want to just ignore
some of you that are deeper.
00:20:47.84\00:20:50.55
But front seats,
get to the front here.
00:20:50.58\00:20:53.31
All right.
00:20:53.35\00:20:54.68
You're gonna find, you
know, if you got a good boat,
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.45
and if anyone's
gonna walk the plank,
00:20:56.48\00:20:57.89
you need a blindfold.
00:20:57.92\00:20:59.25
So open that up there
and see, wave to the camera.
00:20:59.29\00:21:02.02
No, the one inside the chest.
00:21:02.06\00:21:04.66
Open up, go and open it
up. And what's your name?
00:21:04.69\00:21:06.73
Jack. Jack, open it up.
00:21:06.76\00:21:08.10
You see a blindfold in there?
00:21:08.13\00:21:09.93
Why don't you
grab that? All right.
00:21:09.96\00:21:11.30
Now will you allow
me to put that on you?
00:21:11.33\00:21:16.10
Yeah, you can
trust me. Now come on.
00:21:16.14\00:21:19.37
I'm gonna blindfold you.
00:21:19.41\00:21:20.74
Now you got it, we're
using the honor system.
00:21:20.78\00:21:22.11
I want to make
sure you can't see.
00:21:22.14\00:21:23.48
Can you see anything? No.
00:21:23.51\00:21:25.11
I can make sure.
00:21:25.15\00:21:26.55
This is my headband.
00:21:26.58\00:21:29.08
I'm sure, I washed
it about a year ago.
00:21:29.12\00:21:32.25
Okay, can you see anything? No.
00:21:32.29\00:21:34.42
Do you like fruit? Yeah.
00:21:34.46\00:21:36.79
Okay, you do like
fruit, right Jack?
00:21:36.83\00:21:38.39
Mm-hmm.
00:21:38.43\00:21:39.76
All right, hang
on one second here.
00:21:39.79\00:21:41.73
I'm gonna hold a piece
of fruit up front of you,
00:21:41.76\00:21:44.23
and I want you to tell me
00:21:44.27\00:21:45.60
if this is an
apple or an orange?
00:21:45.63\00:21:46.97
I'm gonna let you smell.
00:21:47.00\00:21:48.34
Is your smell are
working pretty good?
00:21:48.37\00:21:49.70
Mm-hmm. Pretty good.
00:21:49.74\00:21:51.07
All right, don't touch it now.
00:21:51.11\00:21:52.77
Smell, apple or orange?
00:21:52.81\00:21:56.34
Apple. Apple.
00:21:56.38\00:21:59.21
Right now, do you
have any food allergies?
00:21:59.25\00:22:01.22
Nope.
00:22:01.25\00:22:02.58
I'm going to ask
you to open your mouth.
00:22:02.62\00:22:03.95
I'm gonna put
something in your mouth,
00:22:03.99\00:22:05.32
but you gotta trust me.
00:22:05.35\00:22:06.69
Lean your head
back a little bit,
00:22:06.72\00:22:08.06
because I don't want
to like stick my fingers
00:22:08.09\00:22:09.42
in your mouth, all right.
00:22:09.46\00:22:10.79
Now what is that?
00:22:10.83\00:22:12.16
A grape. A grape.
00:22:12.19\00:22:13.53
How do you know it's a
grape? You didn't see it?
00:22:13.56\00:22:15.26
It tastes like a grape.
00:22:15.30\00:22:16.63
Because you
tasted it for yourself,
00:22:16.67\00:22:18.00
you know what it is.
00:22:18.03\00:22:19.37
Now you want to see
what the apple looks like?
00:22:19.40\00:22:20.74
You can take off your blindfold.
00:22:20.77\00:22:23.20
See, you can't trust pastors.
00:22:23.24\00:22:25.77
They don't always
tell you the truth.
00:22:25.81\00:22:27.54
All right, you know what?
00:22:27.58\00:22:29.24
You get to keep the banana,
00:22:29.28\00:22:30.61
because I gotta
keep my headband.
00:22:30.65\00:22:32.38
All right, thank you.
Let's give him a hand.
00:22:32.41\00:22:34.25
Thank you, Jack.
00:22:34.28\00:22:36.42
So how do we know...
00:22:36.45\00:22:41.29
How do we know
that the Bible works?
00:22:41.32\00:22:45.16
We tasted for ourselves.
00:22:45.19\00:22:47.33
Interesting man in
history was Menelik.
00:22:47.36\00:22:51.20
He was the Emperor of
Ethiopia, born in 1844.
00:22:51.23\00:22:54.67
He was one of the great
kings that helped liberate
00:22:54.70\00:22:57.07
and consolidate Ethiopia.
00:22:57.11\00:22:58.87
He was very
religious man. Good Christian.
00:22:58.91\00:23:01.64
He read in the Bible that,
00:23:01.68\00:23:03.85
"Man doesn't
live by bread alone,
00:23:03.88\00:23:05.51
but by every Word of God."
00:23:05.55\00:23:08.42
And he thought,
"Well, whenever I get sick,
00:23:08.45\00:23:10.12
if I would just
eat some of the Bible."
00:23:10.15\00:23:13.02
And so when he got
sick, he would tear out a page
00:23:13.05\00:23:16.12
or two of the Bible and eat it.
00:23:16.16\00:23:18.29
And he said,
00:23:18.33\00:23:19.66
"It always made him
feel so much better."
00:23:19.69\00:23:23.37
Until the last time,
00:23:23.40\00:23:24.97
when he got
old, he had a stroke.
00:23:25.00\00:23:27.04
He was feeling very bad,
so he ate the entire book
00:23:27.07\00:23:30.84
of 1 and 2 Kings
and then he died.
00:23:30.87\00:23:36.24
When the Bible tells
us to eat God's Word,
00:23:36.28\00:23:38.61
it's the bread of life.
00:23:38.65\00:23:39.98
It doesn't mean
literally eat the pages.
00:23:40.02\00:23:42.08
You don't want to tear
the pages out of your Bible.
00:23:42.12\00:23:44.65
Question three.
00:23:44.69\00:23:46.02
Does God foretell
the future in the Bible?
00:23:46.05\00:23:49.86
Does it? What's
the Bible say about it?
00:23:49.89\00:23:51.69
God says in Isaiah 46:9-10.
00:23:51.73\00:23:54.90
He says, "I am God
00:23:54.93\00:23:56.83
declaring the end
from the beginning,
00:23:56.87\00:23:59.33
and from ancient times
things that are not yet done."
00:23:59.37\00:24:02.60
We know that God is God,
because He can see the future
00:24:02.64\00:24:06.57
and everything He says
is gonna happen it happens.
00:24:06.61\00:24:10.31
I need a volunteer.
00:24:10.35\00:24:13.52
Which side, I forget
which side I went to last time,
00:24:13.55\00:24:15.32
let me go over there.
00:24:15.35\00:24:16.69
I see a young man's
raising his hand the highest.
00:24:16.72\00:24:18.85
Okay, just play,
altitude does help.
00:24:18.89\00:24:20.46
Come on up here.
00:24:20.49\00:24:22.49
I need you to go
in the treasure chest,
00:24:22.52\00:24:24.13
and your name?
00:24:24.16\00:24:25.49
Sam. Sam.
00:24:25.53\00:24:26.86
You can open up the chest,
00:24:26.90\00:24:28.23
you're gonna see
a statue in there.
00:24:28.26\00:24:30.67
See a statue in there somewhere?
00:24:30.70\00:24:33.20
Yeah, and also there's a rock.
00:24:33.23\00:24:34.74
You wanna get the rock out
too. Here, let me help you.
00:24:34.77\00:24:37.67
See a little rock, it
says, "Jesus" on it there.
00:24:37.71\00:24:39.54
Yeah, grab that. Okay.
00:24:39.57\00:24:42.14
All right, and turn around.
00:24:42.18\00:24:43.51
I want you to hold
this up here for us?
00:24:43.55\00:24:45.01
How many of you
know what this is?
00:24:45.05\00:24:47.12
There's about a
story in the Bible.
00:24:47.15\00:24:49.88
This is a dream
that King Nebuchadnezzar
00:24:49.92\00:24:52.32
had in Daniel Chapter 2.
00:24:52.35\00:24:55.29
And in that dream,
Daniel told the king
00:24:55.32\00:24:58.43
that vision of images
00:24:58.46\00:25:00.26
represents the
religions of the world
00:25:00.30\00:25:02.10
and the kingdoms of the world.
00:25:02.13\00:25:04.03
Starts with the
kingdom, who knows the gold
00:25:04.07\00:25:06.07
was called the
Kingdom of Babylon,
00:25:06.10\00:25:09.00
and the silver was Medo-Persia,
00:25:09.04\00:25:12.21
and the bronze, you
gotta hold his legs here,
00:25:12.24\00:25:14.54
so Greece, and the legs were...
00:25:14.58\00:25:17.35
The Rome.
00:25:17.38\00:25:18.71
They were Rome, and the feet
00:25:18.75\00:25:20.08
were a mixture of the
church and the Roman State.
00:25:20.12\00:25:24.62
And then the
division of the Roman Empire
00:25:24.65\00:25:26.79
is 10 toes here.
00:25:26.82\00:25:28.52
And then the
next thing that comes,
00:25:28.56\00:25:29.92
you got the gold, and
the silver, and the bronze,
00:25:29.96\00:25:31.93
and the iron, and the clay,
and the iron, and then a rock.
00:25:31.96\00:25:36.97
Who is the Rock of Ages?
00:25:37.00\00:25:38.87
What's it say on the
front of your rock there?
00:25:38.90\00:25:40.37
You gotta show me. Here we go.
00:25:40.40\00:25:43.67
Who's the rock?
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.04
Jesus. Jesus.
00:25:45.07\00:25:46.41
This is the rock then it strikes
00:25:46.44\00:25:47.78
the image on the feet,
00:25:47.81\00:25:49.21
and it blasts it all,
pulverizes it to smithereens
00:25:49.24\00:25:52.68
and it blows
away and the rock...
00:25:52.71\00:25:54.52
He's very good at what he does.
00:25:54.55\00:25:56.28
And the rock turns
into a great mountain
00:25:56.32\00:25:58.89
and fills the whole earth.
00:25:58.92\00:26:00.76
And so God...
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.42
And this will happen before...
00:26:02.46\00:26:04.53
The prophecy in the dream
were given before it happened.
00:26:04.56\00:26:06.90
You can keep
these now and you can,
00:26:06.93\00:26:09.16
that's my gift from me to you.
00:26:09.20\00:26:10.53
You can't play with them
while I'm preaching, okay.
00:26:10.57\00:26:14.37
That outlined all
the kingdoms of the world
00:26:14.40\00:26:17.61
from the time of
Daniel up until Jesus comes
00:26:17.64\00:26:21.38
and everything has happened,
00:26:21.41\00:26:22.74
God sees the future perfectly.
00:26:22.78\00:26:24.78
He foretold all these
kingdoms just as they would come
00:26:24.81\00:26:28.38
and He then interpreted
that for King Nebuchadnezzar.
00:26:28.42\00:26:32.59
Does science support
that the Bible is true?
00:26:32.62\00:26:36.42
Yes.
00:26:36.46\00:26:38.06
Bible's even a
very scientific book.
00:26:38.09\00:26:40.60
You know, years ago in Europe,
they were having problems
00:26:40.63\00:26:45.60
because they had
a Bubonic plague.
00:26:45.63\00:26:49.00
Well, you know,
Bubonic plague comes from fleas
00:26:49.04\00:26:52.47
that are on rats and mice.
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.14
And the fleas were there
because there were no cats.
00:26:55.18\00:26:58.85
Because some
people in the church said,
00:26:58.88\00:27:00.42
"Cats are evil."
00:27:00.45\00:27:02.28
They started killing
all the cats in Europe.
00:27:02.32\00:27:04.69
And then what happens
when there're no cats?
00:27:04.72\00:27:07.26
The mice and rats
begin to multiply,
00:27:07.29\00:27:09.46
and people got these fleas
00:27:09.49\00:27:10.83
from the rats and
they all got sick,
00:27:10.86\00:27:12.19
and they didn't know what to do.
00:27:12.23\00:27:13.73
And so some of the
church leaders said,
00:27:13.76\00:27:15.13
"Maybe we should
look in the Bible."
00:27:15.16\00:27:17.53
And the Bible talked
about the laws of sanitation.
00:27:17.57\00:27:21.00
They began to follow the
laws of sanitation in the Bible,
00:27:21.04\00:27:23.97
and it finally
stopped the Bubonic plague.
00:27:24.01\00:27:27.41
In the Bible, it says,
00:27:27.44\00:27:28.78
"God hangs the
earth on nothing."
00:27:28.81\00:27:30.78
Way back in the Book of Job,
00:27:30.81\00:27:32.18
one of the oldest
books in the Bible.
00:27:32.21\00:27:33.88
He said, "The earth is not,
00:27:33.92\00:27:35.25
it's not sitting on
the shoulders of Atlas."
00:27:35.28\00:27:38.45
And some that's
what the Greeks said,
00:27:38.49\00:27:40.46
"That Atlas was holding
the world on his shoulders
00:27:40.49\00:27:43.02
or that the
world was on the back
00:27:43.06\00:27:44.39
of the big tortoise."
00:27:44.43\00:27:45.76
I used to think, "Well,
00:27:45.79\00:27:47.13
what's the
tortoise standing on?"
00:27:47.16\00:27:48.50
And they had all
these myths about
00:27:48.53\00:27:49.96
what the world was sitting on.
00:27:50.00\00:27:51.90
But the Bible says,
"The earth is suspended
00:27:51.93\00:27:53.90
in space on nothing."
00:27:53.94\00:27:55.67
Furthermore, the Bible says,
00:27:55.70\00:27:58.14
"He sits above the
circle of the earth."
00:27:58.17\00:28:01.38
And back when the
Bible was written,
00:28:01.41\00:28:02.84
some people thought
that the earth was flat.
00:28:02.88\00:28:05.98
If you remember, the story about
00:28:06.01\00:28:07.42
when Christopher Columbus
said that he wanted to get
00:28:07.45\00:28:09.42
some ships from Queen Isabella.
00:28:09.45\00:28:11.99
So he could sail
from the West to the East
00:28:12.02\00:28:17.03
going around the
world and they said,
00:28:17.06\00:28:18.49
"You'll sail off
the edge of the earth,
00:28:18.53\00:28:20.00
the earth is flat."
00:28:20.03\00:28:21.63
Said, no, the earth is round.
00:28:21.66\00:28:23.57
So even as late as
Christopher Columbus,
00:28:23.60\00:28:25.83
many educated people
thought the earth was flat,
00:28:25.87\00:28:28.80
but the Bible way back
in the Old Testament, said,
00:28:28.84\00:28:31.81
"He sits on the
circle of the earth,"
00:28:31.84\00:28:33.24
that's in the Book
of Isaiah 600 years B.C.
00:28:33.27\00:28:37.38
Does the message of
the Bible all fit together?
00:28:37.41\00:28:41.55
Perfectly, even though
the Bible is written by
00:28:41.58\00:28:44.42
who knows how many?
00:28:44.45\00:28:46.12
Roughly 40 people
00:28:46.15\00:28:48.96
over a period of 1,500 years,
00:28:48.99\00:28:52.56
some were
shepherds, some were kings,
00:28:52.59\00:28:55.10
some were in
palaces who wrote the Bible,
00:28:55.13\00:28:57.37
some were in
prisons who wrote the Bible.
00:28:57.40\00:29:00.07
There were priests,
and there were apostles,
00:29:00.10\00:29:02.17
they were pastors,
00:29:02.20\00:29:03.54
there are all
kinds of different,
00:29:03.57\00:29:04.91
there were
shepherds, as I mentioned.
00:29:04.94\00:29:08.08
But it's all one
concise complete message
00:29:08.11\00:29:11.55
that talks about God's
plan for us who He's like.
00:29:11.58\00:29:15.98
The Bible says in 2
Peter Chapter 2, it says,
00:29:16.02\00:29:19.22
"Holy men of God
spoke as they were moved
00:29:19.25\00:29:22.69
by the Holy Spirit."
00:29:22.72\00:29:24.76
The Bible is
miraculous in its harmony.
00:29:24.79\00:29:28.30
It all fits together perfectly.
00:29:28.33\00:29:29.76
The different
writers in the Bible
00:29:29.80\00:29:31.63
support each other.
00:29:31.67\00:29:33.70
The Bible is
miraculous in its origin.
00:29:33.74\00:29:37.11
It's fantastic, how?
00:29:37.14\00:29:39.07
Just all the way back
from the time of Moses,
00:29:39.11\00:29:42.34
how God inspired him to write,
00:29:42.38\00:29:44.55
and man was able to
supernaturally receive
00:29:44.58\00:29:48.78
these original conversations
00:29:48.82\00:29:50.52
all the way back
to the Garden of Eden.
00:29:50.55\00:29:52.62
God gave this to them in vision
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.02
and He preserved
it in its accuracy.
00:29:55.06\00:29:58.49
As I mentioned in
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:29:58.53\00:30:00.86
Now if we started
something right now
00:30:00.90\00:30:02.36
where I told you
something, and you told her,
00:30:02.40\00:30:04.97
and you told
her, and you told him,
00:30:05.00\00:30:06.33
you told him, you
told her, you told him.
00:30:06.37\00:30:08.80
If I whispered in
your ear a sentence
00:30:08.84\00:30:11.87
and you whispered in her ear,
00:30:11.91\00:30:13.24
and we went all the way back,
00:30:13.27\00:30:14.61
and all the way up
here, and then I finally say,
00:30:14.64\00:30:16.51
"Okay, what did she
whisper in your ear?"
00:30:16.54\00:30:18.58
Do you know, that
message is gonna change.
00:30:18.61\00:30:21.42
I might start out and
say, "Please pass the sugar."
00:30:21.45\00:30:24.75
And by the time the
message gets to you,
00:30:24.79\00:30:26.62
it'll say, "Pigs are greasy."
00:30:26.65\00:30:28.49
Can be a totally
different message.
00:30:28.52\00:30:30.29
Because as it goes from person
to person, and people say,
00:30:30.33\00:30:33.36
"How could the
Bible be so consistent
00:30:33.40\00:30:36.00
even though it's been translated
00:30:36.03\00:30:38.70
and printed so many times?"
00:30:38.73\00:30:40.74
God has miraculously
preserved its accuracy
00:30:40.77\00:30:45.44
and the Bible is
miraculous in its message.
00:30:45.47\00:30:49.78
The message of the Bible is
that God has a plan for you,
00:30:49.81\00:30:53.95
He has a plan for
you to live forever,
00:30:53.98\00:30:56.75
and that He wants
to save you from evil
00:30:56.79\00:30:59.22
and take you to a kingdom.
00:30:59.25\00:31:00.59
We had a lesson
00:31:00.62\00:31:01.96
where we talked
about that kingdom,
00:31:01.99\00:31:03.32
where you will
have glorified bodies
00:31:03.36\00:31:04.99
and you will
live forever and ever.
00:31:05.03\00:31:08.16
What's one of
the greatest proofs
00:31:08.20\00:31:10.30
that the Bible is true?
00:31:10.33\00:31:12.90
It says in the Bible
in 2 Corinthians 5:17.
00:31:12.93\00:31:16.74
"Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ,
00:31:16.77\00:31:18.77
He is a new creation."
00:31:18.81\00:31:20.21
The greatest proof for the Bible
00:31:20.24\00:31:21.68
is the way He transforms people.
00:31:21.71\00:31:24.31
You can also read
in 2 Corinthians 5:17,
00:31:24.35\00:31:26.98
"Old things have
passed away, behold,
00:31:27.02\00:31:29.72
all things have become new."
00:31:29.75\00:31:31.85
Now, I know the Bible
is miraculous in the way
00:31:31.89\00:31:34.46
that it transforms people,
00:31:34.49\00:31:35.82
because I was
one of those people
00:31:35.86\00:31:37.33
transformed by the Bible.
00:31:37.36\00:31:39.23
Now, that's a picture of
me when I was 11 years old.
00:31:39.26\00:31:42.73
And I'm smiling,
but I wasn't very happy.
00:31:42.76\00:31:46.43
My parents
didn't believe in God.
00:31:46.47\00:31:48.90
And my mother, she
had a Jewish background,
00:31:48.94\00:31:51.14
but she wasn't religious
00:31:51.17\00:31:52.51
and my father had
a Baptist background,
00:31:52.54\00:31:54.14
but he became an
agnostic or an atheist.
00:31:54.18\00:31:56.88
He didn't believe in God.
00:31:56.91\00:31:58.58
And they sent me to
14 different schools.
00:31:58.61\00:32:02.15
That time, I was actually
in New York Military Academy.
00:32:02.18\00:32:05.85
That's the same school
where President Trump went.
00:32:05.89\00:32:07.89
But I didn't know him
because he was older than me.
00:32:07.92\00:32:10.46
But in New York, and I
got into a lot of trouble
00:32:10.49\00:32:14.16
because I didn't
think there was a God.
00:32:14.20\00:32:16.43
And I used to think
about killing myself,
00:32:16.46\00:32:19.50
because it seemed like
people weren't very happy.
00:32:19.53\00:32:22.24
My mother was an
actress in movies.
00:32:22.27\00:32:25.64
I don't know if any of
you ever saw the movie,
00:32:25.67\00:32:27.21
The Ten Commandments.
00:32:27.24\00:32:28.71
My mother had a little
part in that movie, very little.
00:32:28.74\00:32:31.91
Whenever the kids watch it,
00:32:31.95\00:32:33.28
I say, "Look,
there goes, grandma."
00:32:33.31\00:32:34.65
That's it, she's
gone. She was a songwriter.
00:32:34.68\00:32:37.75
She used to write
songs for Elvis Presley.
00:32:37.79\00:32:39.69
She was a film critic.
00:32:39.72\00:32:41.06
She knew different actresses
and actors all over the world.
00:32:41.09\00:32:46.39
But they weren't very happy.
00:32:46.43\00:32:47.96
And we knew these
people, we went to their homes
00:32:48.00\00:32:49.76
and they came to our home.
00:32:49.80\00:32:51.70
They had millions of
dollars, they were talented,
00:32:51.73\00:32:53.34
they were good looking
00:32:53.37\00:32:54.70
and I knew some
that killed themselves,
00:32:54.74\00:32:56.20
because they were so unhappy.
00:32:56.24\00:32:58.67
My father was very wealthy.
00:32:58.71\00:33:00.64
My father actually owned
two airlines at one time,
00:33:00.68\00:33:03.88
millions of
dollars, private jets,
00:33:03.91\00:33:06.25
Rolls-Royce, Ferrari,
Maserati, all these fancy cars,
00:33:06.28\00:33:10.32
lived in a mansion on
an island in Miami Beach,
00:33:10.35\00:33:13.82
butler and a maid.
00:33:13.86\00:33:16.02
And he used to drink
himself to sleep every night,
00:33:16.06\00:33:19.03
he wasn't happy.
00:33:19.06\00:33:20.50
So I didn't want
to be a Christian.
00:33:20.53\00:33:22.03
I thought the
Bible is a fairy tale.
00:33:22.06\00:33:24.23
So I got into all
these other religions.
00:33:24.27\00:33:25.93
I was into Buddhism,
and yoga, and mind control,
00:33:25.97\00:33:29.50
and meditation, and
I was just looking for,
00:33:29.54\00:33:32.84
"What's the meaning of life?"
00:33:32.87\00:33:34.91
My father came to
Boston, and he said, "Doug,
00:33:34.94\00:33:36.64
you've got to
go back to school."
00:33:36.68\00:33:39.01
And he said, "I found a
school, it's on a boat."
00:33:39.05\00:33:42.45
Not quite like this boat.
This is a picture of the boat.
00:33:42.48\00:33:45.99
Except when I was on that boat,
00:33:46.02\00:33:47.42
I got this
picture off the Internet.
00:33:47.46\00:33:49.42
The sails weren't red.
00:33:49.46\00:33:50.96
It was a boat called, The Vega.
00:33:50.99\00:33:53.43
And it was part of a school
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.16
that sailed around the world.
00:33:56.20\00:33:57.53
I thought, "Yeah,
I'd like to do that."
00:33:57.57\00:33:59.40
See, I've lived on
two different boats,
00:33:59.43\00:34:01.74
and I thought that'd be fun.
00:34:01.77\00:34:03.57
And so I went to the school.
00:34:03.61\00:34:04.94
My father flew me to
Italy and we got on this boat
00:34:04.97\00:34:07.01
and it was sailing, but
now the school I went to,
00:34:07.04\00:34:09.94
it's a special school,
they taught there was no God.
00:34:09.98\00:34:13.21
They taught
evolution, they taught atheism.
00:34:13.25\00:34:16.48
But now I'm meditating.
00:34:16.52\00:34:17.85
I said, now I
think there's a God,
00:34:17.89\00:34:19.22
too many strange
things are happening.
00:34:19.25\00:34:21.89
And I learned something.
00:34:21.92\00:34:23.26
We were sailing from
Northern Africa over to Spain,
00:34:23.29\00:34:27.53
and we got into
a terrible storm.
00:34:27.56\00:34:30.80
And water started
to come over the boat,
00:34:30.83\00:34:33.23
and it was dark,
00:34:33.27\00:34:34.60
and it was Christmas
time, and it was cold.
00:34:34.64\00:34:37.01
And I thought, "I'm gonna die."
00:34:37.04\00:34:39.84
And all the people on the boat,
what do you think atheists do
00:34:39.87\00:34:42.84
when they think
they are gonna die?
00:34:42.88\00:34:45.55
Pray. Praying.
00:34:45.58\00:34:46.92
All of them
they started to pray.
00:34:46.95\00:34:50.05
But does God want us to
pray because we're afraid?
00:34:50.09\00:34:53.86
It might be a starting
point, but He wants us to pray
00:34:53.89\00:34:56.56
because we love Him.
00:34:56.59\00:34:58.73
And so I was praying too.
00:34:58.76\00:35:00.10
Well, I got back and came home
00:35:00.13\00:35:02.90
from that school for Christmas,
00:35:02.93\00:35:04.47
and I ran away
for the last time.
00:35:04.50\00:35:05.90
I've never lived at home
since I was still 16 years old.
00:35:05.93\00:35:10.71
And I got stuck on
the highway hitchhiking
00:35:10.74\00:35:12.94
from Florida to California.
00:35:12.97\00:35:15.34
And I stood there for hours
00:35:15.38\00:35:16.71
begging someone
to give me a ride.
00:35:16.75\00:35:18.78
And nobody would pick me up.
00:35:18.81\00:35:20.78
And finally I tried praying.
00:35:20.82\00:35:23.22
I said, "Lord, I know
I've been a terrible person.
00:35:23.25\00:35:26.15
Will you please forgive me?
00:35:26.19\00:35:27.69
Help me get a ride,
help me get some food."
00:35:27.72\00:35:30.53
And I prayed God would give
me a ride with someone normal.
00:35:30.56\00:35:34.20
I said, "I need some money."
00:35:34.23\00:35:35.56
See I asked God for four things,
00:35:35.60\00:35:36.93
a ride to where I was
going, some money, some food,
00:35:36.97\00:35:39.77
and a ride with someone normal,
four things I prayed for.
00:35:39.80\00:35:42.30
I didn't know about
praying in Jesus name.
00:35:42.34\00:35:44.57
I just prayed to
God and asked Him
00:35:44.61\00:35:46.27
to forgive me and help me.
00:35:46.31\00:35:47.88
Soon as I finished praying,
a van stopped, he picked me up.
00:35:47.91\00:35:52.51
He took me nearly 2,000 miles
00:35:52.55\00:35:54.68
right to where I
was going in California.
00:35:54.72\00:35:57.85
He fed me all the way,
00:35:57.89\00:35:59.79
even though I
didn't ask him too.
00:35:59.82\00:36:02.32
He gave me $40
when he dropped me off,
00:36:02.36\00:36:04.29
that was a lot
of money back then
00:36:04.33\00:36:06.36
and I didn't ask for it.
00:36:06.39\00:36:07.76
I also did not ask
for him to preach to me
00:36:07.80\00:36:10.10
all the way from
Oklahoma to California.
00:36:10.13\00:36:13.34
He was a Christian and
he was quoting the Bible
00:36:13.37\00:36:15.64
and he was talking to me
about Jesus and I'm going,
00:36:15.67\00:36:18.41
"Oh, the Bible is a fairy tale.
00:36:18.44\00:36:19.77
I don't believe the Bible."
00:36:19.81\00:36:21.81
But I had to listen to
him or jump out of the car.
00:36:21.84\00:36:24.31
And he was so nice to
me, so it got me thinking.
00:36:24.35\00:36:27.78
So now I wanted to
find God through nature.
00:36:27.82\00:36:30.69
So I moved up into the mountains
00:36:30.72\00:36:32.05
and I lived in a
cave, like a hermit
00:36:32.09\00:36:34.82
for a year and a half by myself.
00:36:34.86\00:36:37.93
And I thought,
I'm gonna find God,
00:36:37.96\00:36:39.39
I was tired of the city,
money didn't bring happiness,
00:36:39.43\00:36:41.83
fame didn't bring happiness.
00:36:41.86\00:36:43.20
What is the purpose of life?
00:36:43.23\00:36:45.17
And the miracle is somebody
00:36:45.20\00:36:47.20
had been in the
cave camping before me.
00:36:47.24\00:36:49.67
They left a Bible in the
cave. I ignored it for a while.
00:36:49.70\00:36:54.88
But eventually I said,
"I'm gonna read the Bible,
00:36:54.91\00:36:56.68
so I can argue with Christians."
00:36:56.71\00:37:00.05
And, boy, I tell you,
the Bible is a powerful book.
00:37:00.08\00:37:03.75
I started reading
Genesis like this can't be true.
00:37:03.79\00:37:06.92
Adam and Eve,
Noah and the flood,
00:37:06.96\00:37:09.09
that can't be
true, Tower of Babel,
00:37:09.12\00:37:11.36
I thought it was
all a fairy tale.
00:37:11.39\00:37:12.93
But a voice inside
kept saying that's true.
00:37:12.96\00:37:15.40
And then I saw the prophecies
00:37:15.43\00:37:16.77
all happened just like God said,
00:37:16.80\00:37:18.53
and the wisdom
of what Jesus said,
00:37:18.57\00:37:20.54
so you grown up in the church.
00:37:20.57\00:37:22.04
I didn't know that Jesus
said, "Turn the other cheek."
00:37:22.07\00:37:24.97
I heard it all my life,
but I didn't know He said that.
00:37:25.01\00:37:27.91
I said, "Oh, Jesus said that."
00:37:27.94\00:37:30.45
Go the second mile, do
not cast the first stone,
00:37:30.48\00:37:33.05
love your enemies.
00:37:33.08\00:37:34.42
I'm going, "Wow,
Jesus was really smart."
00:37:34.45\00:37:37.82
Finally, I got on my knees up
in the cave and I said, "Lord,
00:37:37.85\00:37:41.29
if you're real, I've
tried everything else.
00:37:41.32\00:37:43.53
Will you forgive my
sins and come into my heart?"
00:37:43.56\00:37:46.66
My whole life changed.
00:37:46.70\00:37:49.10
And it was the
power of the Bible
00:37:49.13\00:37:50.67
that changed it all for me,
and it'll change your lives.
00:37:50.70\00:37:53.03
The Bible can transform us.
00:37:53.07\00:37:55.37
Number seven.
00:37:55.40\00:37:56.81
When we accept the
Bible as God's word,
00:37:56.84\00:37:59.64
can we know things that
others are still searching for?
00:37:59.67\00:38:03.71
Yeah, you know, the Bible says,
00:38:03.75\00:38:05.31
"The Word of God
will make you smart."
00:38:05.35\00:38:07.18
It says, "I understand
more than the ancients,
00:38:07.22\00:38:10.92
because I keep your precepts."
00:38:10.95\00:38:13.86
And the Bible tells us
that, Shadrach, Meshach,
00:38:13.89\00:38:16.36
and Abednego were 10 times
wiser than all the wise men,
00:38:16.39\00:38:20.86
because they
believed the Word of God.
00:38:20.90\00:38:23.37
And there're some other
reasons I'll tell you later.
00:38:23.40\00:38:26.13
It tells us in Psalms
119, "Your commandments,
00:38:26.17\00:38:29.10
make me wiser than my enemies,
for they are ever with me."
00:38:29.14\00:38:33.84
And the Bible also says,
00:38:33.88\00:38:35.58
"The Word of God
is quick and powerful,
00:38:35.61\00:38:38.55
and sharper than
any two edged sword."
00:38:38.58\00:38:41.38
So the Word of
God is like a sword.
00:38:41.42\00:38:43.72
Now, I'll tell you
a little amazing fact.
00:38:43.75\00:38:45.19
How many of you have
heard of the Pony Express?
00:38:45.22\00:38:48.62
See, we live in
Sacramento now, Pony Express.
00:38:48.66\00:38:51.36
It only lasted
for about three years.
00:38:51.39\00:38:53.73
But it went from
St. Louis to Sacramento.
00:38:53.76\00:38:56.93
And these riders were
the best riders in the world.
00:38:56.97\00:38:59.37
They'd get
powerful strong horses
00:38:59.40\00:39:01.14
and it took hundreds of horses.
00:39:01.17\00:39:02.57
They ride 50
miles, they would jump off
00:39:02.60\00:39:04.87
another rider would
jump on a fresh horse.
00:39:04.91\00:39:06.84
They would ride 50 miles,
00:39:06.88\00:39:08.48
and they jump off another rider,
00:39:08.51\00:39:10.08
and they carried
very thin pieces of mail.
00:39:10.11\00:39:13.18
And it was very expensive,
it was $5 a letter back then,
00:39:13.21\00:39:15.65
and that was a lot of
money, but they had no train,
00:39:15.68\00:39:18.82
they had no telegraph.
00:39:18.85\00:39:20.19
The only way to get a
message was Pony Express.
00:39:20.22\00:39:23.53
It used to be the fastest way.
00:39:23.56\00:39:25.83
But the Pony Express
Riders, they had to be light,
00:39:25.86\00:39:29.06
so the horses could go faster.
00:39:29.10\00:39:30.80
The saddles were thin
as they could make them.
00:39:30.83\00:39:33.70
The riders could not wear spurs,
00:39:33.74\00:39:35.70
they did not let
them carry a gun,
00:39:35.74\00:39:37.74
because a gun was too heavy,
00:39:37.77\00:39:39.27
even though they
were going through
00:39:39.31\00:39:40.64
some dangerous country.
00:39:40.68\00:39:42.64
But every Pony Express Rider
00:39:42.68\00:39:44.91
was given a Bible
to take with them.
00:39:44.95\00:39:47.75
Because the people that
founded the Pony Express
00:39:47.78\00:39:49.82
believed the Word
of God was so important
00:39:49.85\00:39:52.25
that it should go
with every messenger
00:39:52.29\00:39:54.69
and so they all carried a Bible.
00:39:54.72\00:39:56.32
You know what else,
00:39:56.36\00:39:57.69
not only is the
Bible a special message,
00:39:57.73\00:40:00.33
and it's a sword, it's a shield.
00:40:00.36\00:40:03.16
Okay, I need a volunteer.
00:40:03.20\00:40:06.47
All right, let me see here.
00:40:06.50\00:40:07.84
Boy on the end
here. Yeah, come on up.
00:40:07.87\00:40:10.84
I want you to look
inside the treasure chest
00:40:10.87\00:40:12.44
and see if you can find
some round red balls in there?
00:40:12.47\00:40:18.35
Go and wave, you're on camera.
00:40:18.38\00:40:22.18
You see some round red
balls in there, in a box?
00:40:22.22\00:40:26.82
You find them?
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.19
Good job. Okay.
00:40:28.22\00:40:30.26
You think you could
hit me with one of those?
00:40:30.29\00:40:32.16
Yeah.
00:40:32.19\00:40:34.10
All right, go and
take them out of the box.
00:40:34.13\00:40:35.86
And what was your name?
00:40:35.90\00:40:37.33
Steph. Steph.
00:40:37.37\00:40:38.80
Okay, come over here.
00:40:38.83\00:40:42.20
Now, I want you to throw
one of those ping pong balls
00:40:42.24\00:40:44.41
and pass, and see if
you can hit me in the head.
00:40:44.44\00:40:46.01
You can get a little closer.
00:40:51.81\00:40:53.15
Oh, good job. All right.
00:40:53.18\00:40:55.65
Now I want you to
hit me in the head.
00:40:58.72\00:41:00.42
Throw again.
00:41:05.06\00:41:06.39
See, because this in the
Bible says that the devil
00:41:10.23\00:41:13.67
is throwing fiery darts at us
00:41:13.70\00:41:16.47
and we're to put up
the shield of faith.
00:41:16.50\00:41:18.51
Amen?
00:41:18.54\00:41:20.01
Okay, you get to keep
all the ping pong balls
00:41:20.04\00:41:21.38
after you pick them up.
00:41:21.41\00:41:22.74
Let's thanks
Steph for helping us.
00:41:22.78\00:41:27.12
You know, the
most important decision
00:41:27.15\00:41:28.72
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00:41:28.75\00:41:30.09
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00:41:30.12\00:41:32.19
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00:41:32.22\00:41:35.16
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You know, the Bible tells us
that Jesus is like the Bible.
00:42:27.71\00:42:31.68
Everything about the
Bible tells us about Christ.
00:42:31.71\00:42:34.58
For instance, Bible tells
us, Jesus is the bread of life.
00:42:34.62\00:42:39.09
The Bible is the bread of life.
00:42:39.12\00:42:40.89
Jesus is called the Word.
00:42:40.92\00:42:42.89
The Bible is called the Word.
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.96
Jesus is...
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.59
All the stories in the Bible.
00:42:46.63\00:42:47.96
When you read in the
Bible, for example, about...
00:42:48.00\00:42:51.37
Let me see.
00:42:51.40\00:42:52.73
How many of you
remember reading the Bible
00:42:52.77\00:42:54.20
about Abraham taking
his son up on the mountain
00:42:54.24\00:42:59.17
to offer his son.
00:42:59.21\00:43:00.88
What do you think that
story's also telling us about?
00:43:00.91\00:43:04.48
Did God bring his
son up on the mountain?
00:43:04.51\00:43:07.72
He did.
00:43:07.75\00:43:09.08
What about in the Bible
00:43:09.12\00:43:10.45
when Joseph was
sold by his brothers?
00:43:10.49\00:43:12.55
How many of you
remember that story?
00:43:12.59\00:43:14.72
Was Jesus sold by
one of his apostles?
00:43:14.76\00:43:17.99
Matter of fact, it was
Judah that sold Joseph.
00:43:18.03\00:43:20.36
It was Judas that sold Jesus.
00:43:20.40\00:43:23.57
They sold him for silver.
Joseph was sold for silver.
00:43:23.60\00:43:27.37
Jesus was sold for silver.
00:43:27.40\00:43:29.84
Do you remember the story
in the Bible, where it says,
00:43:29.87\00:43:31.57
"David went up on the
Mount of Olives and he wept
00:43:31.61\00:43:34.04
when Absalom chased
him out of the kingdom?"
00:43:34.08\00:43:37.01
The Bible says
that Jesus went up
00:43:37.05\00:43:38.98
on the Mount of Olives
and He wept over Jerusalem.
00:43:39.01\00:43:43.28
All the stories that
you see in the Bible,
00:43:43.32\00:43:45.05
how many remember the story,
00:43:45.09\00:43:46.52
what did Samson do
at the end of his life?
00:43:46.55\00:43:49.72
He went between the two pillars,
00:43:49.76\00:43:51.93
he stretched out his
arms, and it says that
00:43:51.96\00:43:55.43
he knocked the
temple of Dagon down
00:43:55.46\00:43:57.77
and he killed more by his
death than he did by his life.
00:43:57.80\00:44:02.10
The Bible is telling us
that Samson is even type of...
00:44:02.14\00:44:05.47
Jesus stretched out
His arms when He died,
00:44:05.51\00:44:07.88
and He did more to
defeat the enemy then
00:44:07.91\00:44:10.25
than He did any other
time by His death on the cross.
00:44:10.28\00:44:14.82
So all of the
stories in the Bible
00:44:14.85\00:44:17.19
are telling us
something about Jesus.
00:44:17.22\00:44:20.32
It's like a puzzle
piece, the whole...
00:44:20.36\00:44:22.46
Jesus said, "You read the Bible,
00:44:22.49\00:44:24.36
these are they
that testify of Me."
00:44:24.39\00:44:28.16
So how can we
understand the Bible?
00:44:28.20\00:44:32.30
We need to study it.
00:44:32.33\00:44:34.20
Here a little, there a
little, line upon line,
00:44:34.24\00:44:37.44
precept upon precept.
00:44:37.47\00:44:39.54
When you're studying the Bible,
00:44:39.57\00:44:40.91
you don't read one
verse and then just go on.
00:44:40.94\00:44:45.38
You want to compare
scripture with scripture.
00:44:45.41\00:44:48.55
And then the Bible says
in two or three witnesses,
00:44:48.58\00:44:51.15
so when you're wanting
to find out what's true?
00:44:51.19\00:44:52.52
If you want to find out
00:44:52.55\00:44:53.89
what the Bible
says about salvation,
00:44:53.92\00:44:55.42
read several
verses about salvation.
00:44:55.46\00:44:57.69
If you want to find
out what the Bible says
00:44:57.73\00:44:59.06
about heaven or hell.
00:44:59.09\00:45:00.66
Don't read one verse.
00:45:00.70\00:45:02.60
The more verses you have,
00:45:02.63\00:45:04.47
the more stable you
are in your understanding.
00:45:04.50\00:45:07.54
It's like putting
several nails in the truth
00:45:07.57\00:45:09.94
to give us more clarity.
00:45:09.97\00:45:12.51
All right, I don't know if
you've ever heard the story
00:45:12.54\00:45:15.28
about the Mutiny on the Bounty.
00:45:15.31\00:45:17.01
Anyone here ever
heard that story?
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It's a true story,
1889 there was a ship
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called the HMS Bounty.
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This is the HMS Adventure.
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And they were
sailing down in Tahiti
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and they had a captain.
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His name was Bligh,
Captain William Bligh,
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and he was sort of notorious
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for being a little bit
difficult to get along with.
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And Captain Bligh,
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the sailors got so tired of him,
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they mutinied.
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And they rose up against
him and they put Captain Bligh
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and some of his loyal
officers in a small lifeboat,
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and they pushed them out.
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They said, "We're
not gonna have you
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be our captain anymore."
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But the problem
is when you were part
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of the British Navy,
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if you committed
mutiny, they hung you.
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It was a death sentence.
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So the sailors
that took the ship,
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they said,
"Now, where do we go?"
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The British have
ships all over the world,
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how are we gonna hide?"
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Well, they went back to Tahiti.
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Some of the men got off the boat
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in the island of Tahiti,
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it's like a little paradise,
but eventually the British came
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and caught and arrested them.
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The other ones took the boat.
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They got some women in Tahiti,
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they knew they'd have to just go
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find a deserted
island somewhere.
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And then they
got a few extra men
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to help as sailors.
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They sailed the ship
and Fletcher Christian,
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who was the first
maid who rebelled.
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He found a map and he said,
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"There's an island
called Pitcairn Island.
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It's got water and it's
got some natural resources,
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and nobody lives on it,
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and it's out in
the middle of nowhere.
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We will go out there and
start our own new community."
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So they got the boat,
they parked it in Pitcairn.
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They took everything
they could off the boat
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that was any good,
then they burnt the ship,
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so the British
sailing by would not see it.
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And for a little
while they did okay,
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they all made little huts,
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and they had their own
wives and their families,
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but one of the sailors
he took some of the supplies
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from the ship
and he made a still
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so he could make alcohol.
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And the men began to drink
and then they started to fight.
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And pretty soon over
the years, one by one,
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there was anarchy
and problems on the boat,
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so that they
killed each other off
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until there were only 2 men,
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11 women, about 23 children.
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And eventually,
John Adams, the one man,
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he went to the bottom
of Captain Bligh's chest
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and he found the ship's Bible.
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And he took the Bible
and he started to read it,
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and he told the
women and he just said,
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"We've gotta stop drinking,
we've gotta stop fighting.
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He destroyed the still."
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And he kept reading the Bible,
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pretty soon the
whole family came together
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to hear the
stories from the Bible.
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They had no books on the
island and they began to pray.
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They had morning
and evening worship,
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they would pray before they ate,
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they would pray after they ate,
they began to keep the Sabbath.
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They became a very
religious community.
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So about 19 years later, a
whaler stopped on Pitcairn.
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They had not seen
anyone in 19 years.
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A Captain name Folger.
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He came ashore and he said,
"There's people on this island
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and they speak kind
of English gibberish,
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but it's the
most godly community
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we've ever found."
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It's because everything
they did on this island now
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was based on the
principles from God's Word.
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You know, what the
Bible did on that island
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it will do in your life.
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Someone once said,
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"Either the Bible
will keep you from sin
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or sin will keep
you from the Bible."
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Do you read your Bibles?
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Now you may not
understand everything
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when you first read it.
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How many of you
understood your parents
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when you were babies?
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How many of you
understand your parents now?
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How many of you
sometimes pretend you
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don't understand your parents?
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When you really do, huh, I
don't know what do you mean?
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But when you keep
listening as a baby,
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you didn't
understand your parents.
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And your parents probably talked
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a little bit of baby
gibberish to you too.
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It's amazing to
learn to talk at all.
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Now you hear some parents,
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"Oh, my little pookey dookey..."
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But, then as the parents
keep talking to the children,
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you start understanding more.
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So when you first
started reading in the Bible.
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I know when I first
started reading the Bible,
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when I was up there in the
cave and reading the Bible,
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it says, "The
brethren came together."
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I didn't know what brethren was.
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I thought that meant breathe
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and I thought that
it was talking about
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the breathing came together
and what does that mean?
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And whenever it said,
You or ye, therefore shew,
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and I thought I
didn't speak King James.
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I didn't know what that meant.
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But you know
what? I kept reading.
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So if you don't
first understand the Bible,
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what do you do?
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Keep reading.
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If you don't first
understand it, what do you do?
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Keep reading.
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You know, the reason you
speak English, most of you,
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is because you've been
hearing English all your life.
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And as you
listen, you understand.
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Now I read this,
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there's scarcely a
sentence in the Bible
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I can read now, I understand
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what the words are
all through the Bible,
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and it changed my life,
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and it gave me
real joy and happiness.
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You know, my mom has gone now
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and my father has gone,
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and my brother, I
had one real brother,
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I still have a stepbrother.
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My real brother has passed away.
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And I think I'm probably
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the happiest
person in the family
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because of what
the Bible did for me,
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it totally changed my life.
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And what God did for me,
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He wants to do
for each one of us
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is by your
putting the Bible first.
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Now we're gonna read
on a little more here.
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You know, in the Bible,
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the central theme of
the Bible is the cross.
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It's when Jesus
died on the cross,
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that's where you see
Satan's love of power
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and God's power of love.
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And in the
ancient treasure maps,
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some of them they'd
have a map and they'd say,
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"You know, you go 50
yards from this rock,
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and there'll be a
rock that looks like,
00:51:36.66\00:51:38.69
you know, a
shark and then you go
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another 50 paces this way,
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and there's gonna
be a cluster of trees,
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and then you go to the left,
and there will be dotted line,
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and then you'll see a spring,
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and then you go another 50 paces
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north from there,
an X marks the spot.
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And sometimes they would draw
at least in the old stories,
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they draw an X in red
and that would mark the spot
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where the treasure is.
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Well, you know, in the
Bible, there is a treasure.
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The Bible is a treasure.
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But the map in the Bible
is taken us to the treasure
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where X marks the spot.
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Who knows what
that X is in the Bible?
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It's the cross of Jesus.
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The main theme of the Bible
is all the way from Genesis
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to Revelation is
about the love of God
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that was shown for you and
me when Jesus died on the cross.
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You know, when I
decided back then
00:52:30.45\00:52:32.28
to accept the Lord in my life,
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everything in my life changed.
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I wish, when I was your
age, I had known more about God,
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I made so many
mistakes, I wish I could forget.
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But if I was young, if
I could have been like,
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8, 9, 10 years old
and known about the Bible
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and known about Jesus,
I would have saved myself
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a lot of trouble,
a lot of heartache,
00:52:50.80\00:52:52.97
would have had a
better education.
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But God was
still merciful to me,
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but it all happened
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because of the
power that's in the Bible.
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I've had such an amazing life.
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I never would have thought
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that God would
give me an opportunity
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to travel around the world,
and talk to people about Jesus,
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and have so many
exciting experiences.
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When you're a
Christian, it's not boring.
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The Christian life is
the most exciting life.
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I like to have fun.
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I mean, I fly planes, I
ride motorcycles and quads,
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I like playing racquetball.
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We're gonna probably play
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some racquetball
while we're here.
00:53:27.94\00:53:30.37
Photography, I
scuba dive our family,
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we go scuba diving,
go underneath the water.
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I've had the
chance to live on boats,
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and sail, and see
some wonderful things
00:53:37.98\00:53:40.62
and kayaking down rivers,
and life is really adventurous.
00:53:40.65\00:53:44.15
Being a Christian
doesn't mean life is boring.
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When I was young,
before I knew about Jesus,
00:53:47.22\00:53:49.02
I thought the
excitement in life came from,
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I used drugs, I drink,
I was using dirty words,
00:53:51.83\00:53:57.27
my mind was not
in the right place.
00:53:57.30\00:53:59.27
But once I gave
my heart to Jesus
00:53:59.30\00:54:01.54
and He moved into my
life, the Bible says,
00:54:01.57\00:54:04.61
"Christ wants you to
have an abundant life."
00:54:04.64\00:54:07.18
That's when life
got really exciting.
00:54:07.21\00:54:09.41
And I started having
all the fun in the world
00:54:09.44\00:54:11.78
because of what
Jesus did for me.
00:54:11.81\00:54:13.58
And He wants to do that for you.
00:54:13.62\00:54:15.38
Question is, are you willing
for God to teach you His truth
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and have this new life?
00:54:20.39\00:54:22.56
How many of you would
like to have this new life
00:54:22.59\00:54:25.16
that Jesus is offering you?
00:54:25.19\00:54:27.10
He's got a special plan for you.
00:54:27.13\00:54:29.60
Do you read your Bible each day?
00:54:29.63\00:54:31.97
Even if you don't
read, you're gonna get
00:54:32.00\00:54:35.27
some new Bibles
connected with this program.
00:54:35.30\00:54:37.87
Even if you don't
read a whole chapter,
00:54:37.91\00:54:41.18
even if you read just
a few verses, you know,
00:54:41.21\00:54:46.58
there're so many
beautiful promises.
00:54:46.61\00:54:48.28
Who knows what the
last words of the Bible are?
00:54:48.32\00:54:50.95
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Now, how many of you know
00:54:58.83\00:55:00.16
what the first
words in the Bible are.
00:55:00.20\00:55:03.33
You know that one,
that's the first few words
00:55:03.37\00:55:05.03
in Genesis, right?
00:55:05.07\00:55:06.40
Yes.
00:55:06.43\00:55:07.77
In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
00:55:07.80\00:55:09.54
Who knows the last
five words in Genesis?
00:55:09.57\00:55:14.88
In a coffin in
Egypt. That's what it is.
00:55:14.91\00:55:20.02
But you know, the Bible says,
00:55:20.05\00:55:21.42
as you store God's
Word in your heart,
00:55:21.45\00:55:24.25
it keeps you from sin,
00:55:24.29\00:55:25.69
"Thy word have I
hid in mine heart,
00:55:25.72\00:55:27.66
that I might not sin."
00:55:27.69\00:55:29.06
And so God wants
to save you from sin,
00:55:29.09\00:55:31.36
because He wants to save you
00:55:31.39\00:55:32.73
from all the misery
and the unhappiness.
00:55:32.76\00:55:34.76
And how many of you would
like to have that experience?
00:55:34.80\00:55:38.00
Amen? Amen.
00:55:38.03\00:55:39.73
He's got a special
plan for each one of you.
00:55:39.77\00:55:42.70
The question is, are
you willing to follow
00:55:42.74\00:55:44.47
that plan that
God has for your life?
00:55:44.51\00:55:45.97
I'd like to pray for you
before we close our program.
00:55:46.01\00:55:49.01
And as well as with those of you
00:55:49.04\00:55:51.01
who are watching at home,
00:55:51.05\00:55:53.08
and can we just bow
our heads where we are?
00:55:53.11\00:55:57.15
Loving Father in Heaven,
00:55:57.19\00:55:58.52
we thank You so
much for Your blessings.
00:55:58.55\00:56:00.49
We thank You for
the wonderful gift
00:56:00.52\00:56:01.99
You gave us in Your Word.
00:56:02.02\00:56:04.23
We ask Lord that You will be
00:56:04.26\00:56:05.73
with each of the
young people here.
00:56:05.76\00:56:07.43
Help them to see that
00:56:07.46\00:56:08.80
the Bible truly
is a treasure map
00:56:08.83\00:56:11.03
to take us to Your kingdom,
00:56:11.07\00:56:12.63
and that they will make
it a priority in their lives
00:56:12.67\00:56:14.64
to seek first Your
kingdom and Your righteousness.
00:56:14.67\00:56:17.57
Guard them with Your
angels, we pray, Lord,
00:56:17.61\00:56:19.77
fill them with the Holy Spirit.
00:56:19.81\00:56:21.54
And I pray that
they can get onboard
00:56:21.58\00:56:23.21
for this
adventure to Your kingdom,
00:56:23.24\00:56:25.25
because we pray
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:56:25.28\00:56:29.65
Thank you very
much and God bless you
00:56:29.68\00:56:31.52
and you who are watching.
00:56:31.55\00:56:32.89
Hi, friends, you know,
the most important decision
00:57:00.05\00:57:02.68
a young person can make
00:57:02.72\00:57:04.05
is that decision to follow Jesus
00:57:04.09\00:57:06.12
and begin that
amazing adventure to eternity.
00:57:06.15\00:57:09.09
That's why we're
so excited to tell you
00:57:09.12\00:57:10.66
about the new Amazing Adventure
programs that are available.
00:57:10.69\00:57:14.30
During these nearly
10 hours of exciting
00:57:14.33\00:57:16.60
high definition programs,
00:57:16.63\00:57:18.20
the young people will
do science experiments,
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learn about history, nature,
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and most of all, they
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