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Doug Batchelor: It's the
most read  book in the world,
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selling close to 4 billion
copies over the past 50 years.
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The Bible is an
amazing book, unlike any other.
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Although it was written over
a period of around 1500 years,
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by 40 different
people, on three continents,
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the Bible
maintains incredible harmony
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throughout its 66 books.
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A long list of Bible
predictions have come to pass
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that confirm the scriptures
are divinely inspired,
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but none are more
dramatically fulfilled
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than 125
prophecies about the Messiah
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that were fulfilled to
perfection in the life of Jesus.
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Various Old Testament books
predict with great precision,
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the place of His birth,
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His trial, the
manner of His crucifixion,
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the timing of His resurrection,
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and many other
aspects of His life.
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One thing is for certain,
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that dozens of prophecies
and predictions about His life
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could never have
happened by chance alone.
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Jesus is the
Bible central figure,
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but who is He?
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And how is your
life affected by His?
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Join me now, as
we take a closer look
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at this hero of Revelation.
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Doug: Today's lesson is dealing
with the wonders of the Word.
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The story upon
which the study is based
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is found in the
book of Luke chapter 24.
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And if you begin
reading at verse 13,
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it tells us
about these disciples,
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that the day of the crucifixion,
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they're very discouraged.
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They're walking from Jerusalem
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down to a town called Emmaus,
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not the day of the
crucifixion, sorry,
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it was Sunday afternoon,
following the crucifixion,
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and they're very discouraged,
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and they're on their
way down to this town,
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seven miles away, and
they're talking about,
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they're just a
great disappointment.
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They thought that
Jesus was the Messiah,
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and here, He's died, and
they saw Him die on a cross,
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and they thought He
was going to be the one
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to deliver
Israel from the Romans.
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And words are not adequate
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to describe how shocked
and devastated they are.
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But as they're
walking down the road,
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as it often
happened in those days,
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there was someone else,
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the trail intersected,
and they joined Him.
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There's just the three of
them walking down the road,
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some stranger.
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And they politely
invite Him to walk with them,
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and they're talking
about what happened,
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and Jesus'
crucifixion and the betrayal,
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and what the Romans
did. and what the priest did.
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And this stranger,
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who's Jesus, but
they don't recognize Him.
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He says, "What manner
of communication is this
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"you have with one another
as you walk and are sad?"
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Jesus does not want
us to have a sad walk.
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Can you say, amen?
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He's resurrected,
the gospel is good news.
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We're on our way to a feast.
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And they say, "What do you mean,
what manner of communication?
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"Of course, we're sad.
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"Are you a
stranger in Jerusalem?
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"Haven't you
heard what happened?"
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Of course Jesus
knows what happened.
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He was a very
epicenter of what happened.
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But He humors them and
He says, "What things?"
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God asks questions,
not 'cause He doesn't know,
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but He wants us to think, right?
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God said to
Adam, "Where are you?"
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You think God misplaced Adam?
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He knew where he was.
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He wanted him to
think about where he was.
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And they said,
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"Well, the thing
concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
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"who was a prophet,
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"mighty in word and deed
before God and the people,
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"and how our
rulers crucified Him.
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"And we thought He was the one
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"that was going
to redeem Israel."
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And Jesus, "Oh,
fools and slow of heart
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"to believe all the
prophets have spoken.
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"Ought not the Christ to
have suffered these things
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"and entered into His glory?"
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And then
beginning at Moses, Genesis,
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and all the prophets,
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He expounded unto
them in all the scriptures,
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the things concerning Himself.
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And while Jesus was
showing them all the prophecies
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that pointed to
His first coming,
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proving He was the Messiah,
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hope began to
revive within them,
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and pretty soon
their hearts were on fire,
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and said, "Yes,
yes, this makes sense.
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"Of course it was
supposed to happen."
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How much I would
pay to hear that sermon
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where Jesus went
from Genesis to Malachi,
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expounding the scriptures,
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wouldn't that be
a tape to listen to?
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And then they came
to a fork in the road
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and He made like He
was going to keep on going,
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and they said, "No, no, no,
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"it's getting
late, you stay with us."
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You've heard that song,
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"Abide With Me Fast
Falls the Eventide?"
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It's based on this verse.
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So He came in and they
asked this stranger and said,
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"Would you like to
have the blessing?"
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He said, "Sure."
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So He threw back His hood
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and He stretched out
two nail-pierced hands.
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And He said, (speaking
in a foreign language).
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It's the only
Jewish prayer I remember,
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over the bread.
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And they saw His hands,
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and it says their eyes
were open and they knew Him.
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And He vanished.
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Now they're filled with joy.
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Their eyes were
open and they knew Him.
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When did that happen?
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When He broke and
blessed the bread.
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You must know Him.
When does it happen?
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When He blesses
and breaks the bread,
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that bread is the Word of God.
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The holy Bible contained in
the New and the Old Testament
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is the sacred Word of God.
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This is an anvil
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that has worn out
many hammers of criticism.
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A lot of the critics that said
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that they would
get rid of the Bible,
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they're gone, but
the Bible is still here.
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The reason that the Bible
is still here is very simple.
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It works.
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It has proven
itself over the millennia
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that it does not fail,
it works as the Word of God.
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These prophecies are accurate.
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It's a valuation of humanity,
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how to save man from his sin,
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teaching us how to
get along with each other.
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The Bible addresses everything
from marriage to finances,
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and the principles work.
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All scripture is
given by inspiration of God
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and is profitable, all of it.
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People say, "Well, the
Bible's been translated
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"and retranslated,
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"and how do we
know it's the same?"
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In the 1948,
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some shepherds
boys found these caves
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that contained
scrolls that dated back
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from before the time of Jesus,
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better known as
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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And they found out
that the scrolls in there,
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like the scroll of Isaiah,
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I've seen it
several times in Israel.
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What's in that scroll
2,000 years old is the same,
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of course it's in Hebrew,
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but it's the same words as
what I have in my Bible today,
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I had my guide, who was
trained in the ancient Hebrew.
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I said, read that to me.
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I pointed to a
place on the scroll,
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said, "Read that to me."
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He looked at it,
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and he started
to quote the story
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'cause he's
reading from right to left.
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He started to quote the story
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about Hezekiah being surrounded
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by the
Assyrians and Sennacherib,
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and it's just like in
my Bible, I know my Bible.
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I recognized it.
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God has preserved the Word
of God in a miraculous way.
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They were so careful when
they copied the scriptures,
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that if they made a mistake,
they tear up the whole scroll.
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And so it is the most carefully
documented book in history.
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I believe it is
accurate and it has not changed.
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To whom does
Jesus say the scriptures
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and the prophecies reveal?
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You read there in Luke 24:27,
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it says, "Beginning at
Moses and all the Prophets,
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"He expound it unto
them in all the Scriptures
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"the things concerning Himself."
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It's all revealing Jesus.
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The reason that we
study the prophecies is
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they all talk about Christ.
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First words in Revelation,
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"the revelation
of Jesus Christ."
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If you want to
know Jesus better,
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you can also do
that studying prophecy.
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John 5:39, Jesus said,
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"Search the scriptures
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"for these are they
that testify of Me?"
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And you can read,
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I just gave this to
you in Revelation 1:1.
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It is the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
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The scriptures
are all about Jesus.
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The stories in the Bible
are often allegories of Christ.
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You have the story of Joseph,
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he's betrayed by
his own brothers.
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He's sold to the
pagans for a price of a slave.
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Jesus was betrayed by Judas.
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It was Judah that sold Joseph,
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that suggested selling Joseph.
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They sold him for silver.
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Jesus is sold for silver.
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Joseph forgives his
brother and he saves them
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in spite of what they've done.
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Jesus is willing to
forgive and to save,
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in spite of the fact
that we crucified Him.
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King David is walking
up the Mount of Olives,
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weeping over Jerusalem.
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Jesus is on the Mount of Olives,
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weeping over Jerusalem.
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Samson stretches out his arms
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and lays down his
life to save God's people
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from their enemies.
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Jesus stretched out His arms
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that He might save
us from our enemies.
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The Bible says Samson
killed more by his death
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than he did by his life.
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Jesus did more to
defeat the devil by His death
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than even by His life,
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through the sacrifice of Christ.
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Children of Israel are
fighting in the wilderness
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against the Amalekites.
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Moses stands on a hill,
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stretches out his arms.
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And when they can see Moses
with his arms stretched out,
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they get the victory.
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His arms go down,
'cause he's tired,
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they start losing.
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They lift up his arms
again, they get the victory.
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When we see Christ
as before the Father,
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interceding with His
nail-pierce hands for us,
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we get the victory.
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All these Bible stories,
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everything from Jonah,
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sleeping in a boat like
Jesus was sleeping in a boat,
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all through the Bible,
it's telling us about Christ.
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It's one of my favorite subjects
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to see Christ in all the Bible.
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Who helps us to
understand the Bible?
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You read in John 16:13,
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"When He, the
Spirit of truth has come,
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"He will guide
you into all truth."
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And again, you can read here.
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It says in John 14:26,
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"But the
Helper, the Holy Spirit,
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"he will teach you all things."
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You might say,
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"But I read it and I
don't understand it."
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Keep reading.
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It'll get clear.
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Are you aware that
when you were born,
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you didn't speak
English very well.
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(congregation laughing)
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So did you stop
listening to English
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because you couldn't speak it?
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No, your parents
kept talking to you
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and pretty soon you picked it up
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and now
hopefully you understand.
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Well, don't feel bad
when you first read the Bible,
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you don't understand it all.
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Fortunately the
Bible's written in a way
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where I think everybody
can get something out of it.
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And the more you read it,
the more you'll understand it.
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And it's like a mind
that gets deeper, and deeper,
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and you find more
treasure all the time.
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Read your Bible's friends.
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What must I do to be certain
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that the Holy Spirit is
guiding me in my Bible study?
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Answer,
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so I say to you,
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ask, and it will be given you.
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Now since God is the author,
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you would say, "All right, Lord,
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"will You help me understand?"
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Will He help
you, if you ask Him?
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The Bible promises,
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if you read here in Luke 11:13,
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"If you then being evil,
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"know how to give good
gifts to your children,
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"how much more will
your Father in heaven
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"give the Holy Spirit
to them that ask Him?"
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And then John 7:17,
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"If anyone is willing."
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When you read the Word,
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do it with a willing heart.
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"If you're
willing to do His will,
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"he shall know
concerning the doctrine,
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"whether it is from God."
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So pray for wisdom
when you study the Word,
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and He will open things up.
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I can't tell you
how many times...
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Now, I'll tell you
what my practice is, first.
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Is every morning I wake up,
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I do most of my Bible study,
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actually on my computer now,
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'cause I can access different
resources very quickly.
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I am always
reading through the Bible.
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And as I'm
reading through the Bible,
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I always pray first. I
knee there in my office.
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I pray, say, "God,
help me to understand."
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As I study, it's uncanny.
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I'm always
reading through the Bible,
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whatever my segment was
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that I was to read that morning.
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Something
happens during that day
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where I needed
that bit of advice.
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I needed that guidance,
or someone else needed it
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and God gave it to me so
I could share it with him.
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I wouldn't have known that.
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And you gotta keep reading it
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because we don't
retain everything we read.
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It's like that little
boy asked his grandfather.
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He said, "Grandpa, have
you memorized the whole Bible?"
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He says, "No, not at all."
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He says, "But you
read it all the time.
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"Why do you keep reading it?"
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He said, "I'll tell you why."
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He said that,
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see the coal
basket there by the stove.
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"Yeah."
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He said, "I want
you to run to the creek,
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"fill the basket up with
some water and bring it to me."
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A seven-year-old wondered
how that was going to work out.
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But he went down obediently
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and he scooped up
some water from the creek
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and he tried to run back.
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But as soon as he
got to his grandfather,
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basket was, all
the water had run out.
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He said, "You gotta go quicker."
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So he went down,
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he tried to scoop up
some more water in the basket,
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came back again, it was gone.
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He said, "Try it one more time."
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So he took the coal basket,
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and he went down to the creek
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and he scooped it up and
he ran as quick as he could.
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And he set it down,
it was all seeping out.
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And he said, "I can't
do it. "It just runs out."
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He says, "That's
right, "it does run out."
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He said, "But have you noticed
what happened to the basket?"
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He said, "Yeah, it's clean now."
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He says, "It may
be going through,
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"but it's doing a cleansing."
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He says, "I keep
reading God's Word.
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"Not because I
expect to contain it all,
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"but it has an ongoing
cleansing aspect to it."
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And so as you're
reading the Word,
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it's changing
you from day to day,
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doesn't mean you're
going to retain it all,
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but it has a
sanctifying influence.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends,
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we'll be back in just a moment
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with the rest of
today's presentation.
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No, the Bible never
says that Eve ate an apple,
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nor does it say
that three wise men came
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to see Jesus in the manger.
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Neither does the Bible
say that God made a devil.
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So how well do
you know your Bible?
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And what does it really
say about heaven and hell,
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the origin of the devil,
and the second coming of Jesus?
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There are so many
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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Doug: What method of Bible study
do the scriptures recommend?
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Answer,
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"For precept
must be upon precept,
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"line upon line,
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"here little, there a little."
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You compare
scripture with scripture,
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is how you learn these things.
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And it's kind of like,
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how many of you got a GPS?
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Some of you have
one on your phone?
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I used to have one in my plane.
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And you realize
when you go outside
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and you begin to use a GPS,
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the way it is able
to tell your location
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is using these satellites.
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Sometimes they
use towers to do it.
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And it's something
called triangulation.
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Now, when I would
first turn on my GPS,
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as I would take
off with my plane,
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I'd get a little
message on my GPS.
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And it would say,
"One satellite located,
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"not adequate to fix position."
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I'd wait and it
would send out the signals
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and then say, "Two satellites."
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I could figure
out that I was there,
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but I couldn't
tell how high or low,
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and It'd say, "Three satellites,
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"we can now fix your position."
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If you know geometry,
you know how that works.
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And then as I
got more satellites,
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it would not only tell
me where I am on the map,
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but more satellites would
tell me how high or low I was.
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So now they actually
have cockpits in planes
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where it's an
artificial screen goes on,
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you could have total white
out conditions in the weather.
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You put this picture goes up
on the inside of your cockpit
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and it comes in,
you come in for landing
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and you are
flying a virtual screen.
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The GPS is so accurate within
four feet of where you are.
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It can land you on the runway
using satellite technology
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because it's got a
multitude of satellites
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that are giving you
a pinpoint position.
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If you want to
know what truth is,
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don't take one verse
and build a (indistinct).
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I've seen people
do that, haven't you?
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Try and build a whole church,
that's been built on one verse.
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Now I believe that
every word of God is inspired.
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Sometimes one verse
can be misunderstood
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if you take it by itself.
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It's like
someone takes that verse
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where it says Judas
went out and hung himself.
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Then they get another
verse where Jesus said,
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"Go thou and do likewise."
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Well you put those two together,
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you can make it sound
like we're all being told
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to go hang ourselves.
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And that's the way
some people study the Bible,
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but you need,
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Jesus said, "When
two or three witnesses,
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"let this all be established."
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So precept must be upon precept.
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And again it says,
"But the Holy Spirit..."
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Which teaches comparing
spiritual things with spiritual,
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make sure you read
things in their context.
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Again, 2nd Peter 1:20,
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"No prophecy as of any
private interpretation."
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You've probably
seen Bible studies before
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where everyone
kind of goes around.
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They say, "Well, what
is this verse say to you?"
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"Well, here's how I
feel about this verse."
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How do you feel
about... Well, I feel this way.
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Okay well, that's true for you
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and this is true for me.
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That's not how God
wants us to study the Bible.
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You realize there
is absolute truth.
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And if you want to
know what absolute truth is,
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God's Word has
the answer to that.
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According to Jesus,
where do we find the truth?
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Jesus said, "I am the way,
"the truth, "and the life."
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And again, John
17:17, "Your word is truth."
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I've got some beautiful
quotes from some historians
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and famous people
regarding the Word of God
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that I thought you might enjoy.
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Gypsy Smith said,
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"What makes the difference
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"is not how many times
you've been through the Bible,
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"but how many times has
the Bible been through you."
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Someone else said, "A
Bible that is falling apart
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"usually belongs to a person
who is not falling apart."
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John Bunyan said,
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"Read the Bible
and read it again,
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"and do not despair of help
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"to understand
something of the will
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"and the mind of God
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"as they are fast,
locked up from you.
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"Neither trouble yourself,
00:18:31.67\00:18:33.11
"though you may not have
commentaries or expositions,
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"pray and read,
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"read and pray.
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"for a little from God
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"is better than a
great deal from man."
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Someone else said, "The
Bible is like a telescope."
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Telescope
doesn't do you any good
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if you look at a telescope,
00:18:49.06\00:18:50.89
but you see
wonders and worlds of far
00:18:50.93\00:18:53.23
when you look
through a telescope.
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For the believer,
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this becomes the telescope
that provides your worldview.
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When you see
everything from the Bible,
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see, you can't be happy
00:19:02.00\00:19:03.84
unless you know something
about where did I come from?
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What am I doing here?
00:19:07.14\00:19:08.61
And where am I going?
00:19:08.64\00:19:10.41
Those are the big
questions in life.
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The Bible
answers those questions.
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It helps us develop a
worldview of where we came from,
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what we're doing here,
00:19:18.32\00:19:19.62
and where we're
going. Abraham Lincoln said,
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"I believe the
Bible is the best gift
00:19:21.99\00:19:23.49
"that God has ever given to man.
00:19:23.53\00:19:25.76
"All the good from
the savior of the world
00:19:25.79\00:19:28.50
"is communicated to
us through this book."
00:19:28.53\00:19:31.73
George Mueller said,
00:19:31.77\00:19:33.50
"The vigor of our spiritual life
00:19:33.54\00:19:35.60
"will be in exact proportion
00:19:35.64\00:19:37.24
"to the place held by the Bible
00:19:37.27\00:19:39.64
"in our thoughts
and in our life."
00:19:39.67\00:19:42.18
The vigor of our spiritual life
00:19:42.21\00:19:43.68
will be in proportion to
the high place of the Bible
00:19:43.71\00:19:46.88
in our lives.
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What warnings regarding the
Bible are given in scripture?
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What warnings regarding
Bible study, I'm sorry,
00:19:53.09\00:19:55.39
are given in the scriptures?
00:19:55.42\00:19:56.62
Answer, 2nd Timothy 2:15.
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It said, "Be
diligent to present yourself
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"approved to God, rightly
dividing the word of truth."
00:20:02.73\00:20:06.87
Now, the reason
I'm emphasizing this
00:20:06.90\00:20:09.40
is because I
think all of us know
00:20:09.44\00:20:12.54
that Christianity is
the most divided religion
00:20:12.57\00:20:15.28
in the world.
00:20:15.31\00:20:16.68
You don't have as many
different divisions in Judaism,
00:20:16.71\00:20:19.11
or Islam as you have,
00:20:19.15\00:20:20.32
or Buddhism as you
have in Christianity.
00:20:20.35\00:20:22.45
There are more different
teachings and divisions,
00:20:22.48\00:20:24.69
this was never God's plan.
00:20:24.72\00:20:26.19
Do you know why there
are so many different ideas?
00:20:26.22\00:20:29.26
Because a lot of people
00:20:29.29\00:20:30.49
are not reading
the whole Word of God.
00:20:30.53\00:20:32.66
And it also tells us,
00:20:32.69\00:20:34.23
"In all of his epistles,
00:20:34.30\00:20:35.93
"there are some things
that are hard to understand
00:20:35.96\00:20:38.60
"which those who are
untaught and unstable
00:20:38.63\00:20:41.24
"twist to their own destruction,
00:20:41.27\00:20:43.17
"as they do the
rest of the scriptures."
00:20:43.20\00:20:45.74
In the last days, we
especially need to know,
00:20:45.77\00:20:48.18
because is Satan
going to impersonate Christ?
00:20:48.21\00:20:51.01
Then Jesus say they'll be false
Christs and false prophets.
00:20:51.05\00:20:54.02
Do you think those false Christs
00:20:54.05\00:20:55.28
are going to
quote from the Bible?
00:20:55.32\00:20:57.69
They are.
00:20:57.72\00:20:59.02
And they may misquote.
00:20:59.05\00:21:00.32
And most people
will not spot it.
00:21:00.36\00:21:02.92
It's like so many people think,
00:21:02.96\00:21:04.13
"God helps those
that help themselves."
00:21:04.16\00:21:05.89
Is in the Bible.
It's not in the Bible.
00:21:05.93\00:21:07.66
It's Benjamin Franklin.
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.53
There's a lot of people that,
00:21:09.56\00:21:11.20
they think they know the Bible
and they don't really study it.
00:21:11.23\00:21:13.97
And they're going to be
sitting ducks for the devil,
00:21:14.00\00:21:16.07
in the last days.
00:21:16.10\00:21:17.91
I heard that a tourist
was visiting Yellowstone
00:21:17.94\00:21:22.48
and they got signs everywhere.
00:21:22.51\00:21:23.75
It says, "Please do
not feed the bears."
00:21:23.78\00:21:26.28
And this man who was
there for the first time,
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he saw this line
of cars coming in,
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the bears were
coming up to the windows.
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And this may have
been several years ago.
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And the tourists
were feeding the bears,
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they had snacks and
cookies and things they had.
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And the cute little
black beers would come up
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and they'd stick
something through the window
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and they'd eat it.
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And then they'd
snap a bunch of pictures.
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This man walked
over to a park ranger
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and he said, "You
got signs everywhere,
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"it says don't feed the bears,
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"but it looks like the
tourists are ignoring the signs
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"and feeding the bears."
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And he says, "Yeah, it's
very dangerous for one thing,
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"'cause sometimes
the bears become ugly.
00:21:55.44\00:21:58.01
"They expect to be fed.
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"And if you don't feed
them, "they'll try and take it."
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So the other thing
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is that they don't
learn to feed themselves.
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And when winter comes says,
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"We go around with a forklift
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"and we pick up the frozen
bodies of the bears that starved
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"because they got
so used to the snacks
00:22:12.89\00:22:14.73
"that the tourist gave them,
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"they did not know how to
feed themselves good bear food."
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And that's what's
happening in the world today,
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is we're so used to just getting
a little dessert every week
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from the preacher.
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People are not studying
the Bible for themselves
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in their home.
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You cannot survive
on a snack once a week
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that the pastor gives you.
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We need to learn to
feed ourselves, amen.
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Read our Bibles.
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What happened when
Jesus explained the scriptures
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to the two discouraged disciples
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on the road to Emmaus?
00:22:44.96\00:22:47.23
They said, "Did
not our hearts burn."
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We all want that
heavenly heartburn, don't we?
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"Did not our
hearts burn within us
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"while He talked
with us on the road,
00:22:54.47\00:22:56.17
"and while He opened
the Scriptures to us."
00:22:56.20\00:22:58.47
I've heard
sermons many times before
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.18
where I'm hearing the preacher.
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And I say,
00:23:01.68\00:23:03.14
"You know, I don't think
it's the preacher anymore.
00:23:03.18\00:23:04.61
"I think God is speaking
to me through those words."
00:23:04.65\00:23:07.55
And you can feel
this resonating heartburn,
00:23:07.58\00:23:10.39
the Spirit is going,
"Yes, yes, that's true."
00:23:10.42\00:23:13.72
Sometimes it's conviction,
00:23:13.76\00:23:15.49
but if you love the
truth, you're happy for it.
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And that's what God
wants us to experience.
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And then question 16.
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After these two disciples
knew that Jesus was alive
00:23:25.70\00:23:29.07
and heard Him
explain the prophecies.
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What did they do?
00:23:30.77\00:23:32.51
Once the Word of
God is open to you,
00:23:32.54\00:23:34.41
it's like when I
was up in the cave,
00:23:34.44\00:23:35.74
and I was praying and
said, "Lord, this is good news.
00:23:35.78\00:23:37.95
"I just feel like I
should tell people."
00:23:37.98\00:23:40.15
The first thing you
want to do is tell others.
00:23:40.18\00:23:42.45
And even though
the sun had gone down
00:23:42.48\00:23:44.12
and it was dark,
00:23:44.15\00:23:46.09
and they were hungry,
00:23:46.12\00:23:48.29
they dropped
what they were doing,
00:23:48.32\00:23:49.56
and they went all the
way back, seven miles,
00:23:49.59\00:23:51.59
back to Jerusalem
00:23:51.63\00:23:52.89
to tell their
friends in the upper room,
00:23:52.93\00:23:54.46
the good news
that Jesus was alive.
00:23:54.50\00:23:57.23
They could not
keep them to themselves.
00:23:57.27\00:23:59.93
Well friends,
it's more important now
00:24:00.04\00:24:02.44
than it ever has been
00:24:02.47\00:24:04.91
that we acquaint
ourselves with the Word of God,
00:24:04.94\00:24:07.61
because I believe we're
living in the last days.
00:24:07.64\00:24:10.95
You know, several years ago,
00:24:10.98\00:24:12.35
John, and Angie, and I, had
been involved in evangelism.
00:24:12.38\00:24:15.18
We worked together and
we were doing some meetings
00:24:15.22\00:24:18.09
in Northern California.
00:24:18.12\00:24:20.02
And I was speaking at a
seminar like this in Redding,
00:24:20.06\00:24:23.39
but I needed to be
speaking the next morning
00:24:23.43\00:24:25.93
in Crescent city.
00:24:25.96\00:24:27.40
I said, "Well,
we're in the plane.
00:24:27.46\00:24:28.60
"We'll fly over there."
00:24:28.63\00:24:30.27
It's a long drive,
it's a short flight.
00:24:30.30\00:24:33.64
So John and Angie reluctantly
got in an airplane with me
00:24:33.67\00:24:38.04
and we took off
and we began to fly.
00:24:38.07\00:24:41.24
And I've made trips like
that across Mendocino Forest
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.91
and Trinity Alps many times.
00:24:43.95\00:24:45.51
And I thought, "No problem."
00:24:45.55\00:24:47.28
Along the way you get up there,
00:24:47.32\00:24:48.75
and all you see
is a sea of trees.
00:24:48.78\00:24:50.15
There's no roads,
there's no railroad track,
00:24:50.19\00:24:51.72
there's no towns--
00:24:51.75\00:24:52.95
It's a sea of trees.
00:24:52.99\00:24:55.76
And I'm following what I
thought was my VOR radio.
00:24:55.79\00:24:59.19
But the radio was
out at Crescent City
00:24:59.23\00:25:00.96
and I realized, "Oh, I
don't know where I'm at."
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.90
And I pull out a map,
and there's no landmarks,
00:25:03.93\00:25:06.23
and I'm trying
to keep them calm.
00:25:06.27\00:25:07.87
I said, "You know, I think
the radio's out at Crescent city
00:25:07.90\00:25:11.37
"and I've been
following this false signal.
00:25:11.41\00:25:13.48
"And I don't know where I am."
00:25:13.51\00:25:14.94
Hadn't been watching my compass.
00:25:14.98\00:25:16.88
So I said, "Well, I know that
it's at the end of this river.
00:25:16.91\00:25:19.85
'So you guys just hang tight.
00:25:19.88\00:25:22.22
"I'll fly under the cloud."
00:25:22.25\00:25:23.45
Some fog had come in
on the coast and I said,
00:25:23.49\00:25:25.39
"I'll go underneath the fog.
00:25:25.42\00:25:27.46
"I'll fly up this canyon,
at the end of the canyon,
00:25:27.49\00:25:29.32
"it'll be
Crescent City we'll land."
00:25:29.36\00:25:31.59
So I drop down below
the clouds and I'm flying.
00:25:31.63\00:25:33.63
You got mountains on
one side, mountain...
00:25:33.66\00:25:36.33
This is very
dangerous, don't do this.
00:25:36.36\00:25:38.43
Mountains on
one side, mountains,
00:25:38.47\00:25:40.30
clouds above you.
00:25:40.34\00:25:42.60
And I looked back and
I saw Angie was sleeping.
00:25:42.64\00:25:45.47
I said, "Well, I'm
glad Angie could relax."
00:25:45.51\00:25:46.98
And John's
clinging to his arm rest.
00:25:47.01\00:25:48.44
He said, "She fainted."
00:25:48.48\00:25:52.05
It's true.
00:25:52.08\00:25:54.05
I got to the end
of the mountains.
00:25:54.08\00:25:55.52
All of a sudden I got
nothing under me but ocean.
00:25:55.55\00:25:58.19
And we're heading to Japan,
00:25:58.22\00:25:59.55
which I wanted to see,
but I didn't have enough gas.
00:25:59.59\00:26:02.82
And I realized,
00:26:02.86\00:26:04.09
"Oh man, I gotta go
back up through the clouds."
00:26:04.13\00:26:06.53
So I pulled up and all of
a sudden everything's white.
00:26:06.56\00:26:10.67
You don't know,
you can't see anything.
00:26:10.70\00:26:13.00
You can't see out your window.
00:26:13.03\00:26:15.30
And I thought, "I'll just
pull up through the clouds."
00:26:15.34\00:26:17.11
And it was taken a long time
to get up through the clouds.
00:26:17.14\00:26:19.24
And I thought, "I
better look at my instruments."
00:26:19.27\00:26:21.58
I looked at my
instruments and it said,
00:26:21.61\00:26:23.45
"You are turning
and you are going down."
00:26:23.48\00:26:26.65
I thought, I didn't
feel like I'm turning.
00:26:26.68\00:26:28.95
So I feel like I'm doing okay,
00:26:28.98\00:26:30.99
but they drill it in you
00:26:31.02\00:26:32.22
when you take
your flight training,
00:26:32.25\00:26:33.42
trust your instruments.
00:26:33.46\00:26:36.66
And so I said, ah, I turned it,
00:26:36.69\00:26:39.16
and I pulled back,
and I gave it the gas,
00:26:39.19\00:26:41.03
and I fought the,
00:26:41.06\00:26:42.23
and it felt now
like I was turning,
00:26:42.26\00:26:44.20
but the instrument said,
00:26:44.23\00:26:45.40
"Now you're level
and you're climbing."
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.07
And I just
stayed on that course.
00:26:47.10\00:26:48.67
I came up out of the clouds
00:26:48.70\00:26:50.07
and there was a
mountain just to the left
00:26:50.11\00:26:51.61
that we would've hit.
00:26:51.64\00:26:54.14
If I had not resisted
the urge to follow my feeling
00:26:54.18\00:26:57.58
and follow my instruments.
00:26:57.61\00:26:59.05
Friends, only way we're
going to get out of this alive
00:26:59.08\00:27:00.95
is by following the Word of God.
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That is our instrument, amen?
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