Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000127
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00:01 PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS
00:02 OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:11 >>HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL AND THAT GOD IS 00:14 GOOD WHEN YOU SEE SUCH PURE ABJECT EVIL HAPPENING 00:20 IN THE WORLD? 00:23 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:26 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:29 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:32 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:35 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:45 >>WE ARE LIVING IN VERY INTERESTING TIMES. 00:50 I THINK MOST OF US ARE AWARE - EVEN IF YOU DON'T GET A 00:54 NEWSPAPER, YOU PROBABLY, AT THIS POINT, KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE 00:59 SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING. 01:03 ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 14TH 20-YEAR-OLD ADAM LANZA, HE SHOT 01:08 AND KILLED HIS MOTHER IN THEIR NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT HOME. 01:11 HE THEN DROVE TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HE FATALLY SHOT 01:15 TWENTY CHILDREN AND SIX ADULT STAFF MEMBERS AND THEN HE 01:19 COMMITTED SUICIDE. 01:20 ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC AND BARBARIC AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD A 01:24 NUMBER OF THESE KIND OF EVENTS IN NORTH AMERICA - THE SHOOTING 01:28 IN ARIZONA, IN AURORA, COLORADO, COLUMBINE AND THE LIST GOES ON, 01:35 BUT ESPECIALLY LAST WEEK - I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT 01:39 IT'S GOING TO HAVE - IT'S GOING TO MAKE CHANGES LIKE 9/11 ON OUR 01:43 LAWS AND ON OUR GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THE IDEA OF ALL THOSE 01:51 INNOCENT CHILDREN, IT MAKES PEOPLE ASK THE QUESTION 'WHERE 01:57 WAS GOD IN ALL OF THIS?' AND ATHEISTS, THEY LOVE POINTING 02:03 AT A SITUATION LIKE THIS AND USING IT AS SOME KIND OF PROOF 02:06 THAT IF THERE IS A GOD AND IF GOD IS GOOD AND IF GOD IS LOVE, 02:11 THEN HOW COULD HE ALLOW THIS? AND SO A TRAGEDY LIKE THIS, 02:15 THEY LIKE TO GRANDSTAND IT AND SAY, 'WHERE WAS GOD? 02:18 THERE'S NO GOD.' HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT GOD IS 02:21 ALL-POWERFUL AND THAT GOD IS GOOD WHEN YOU SEE SUCH PURE, 02:27 ABJECT EVIL HAPPENING IN THE WORLD? 02:30 WELL, IT RAISES A LOT OF IMPORTANT QUESTIONS BUT - AND, 02:35 YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S ALL COMPOUNDED RIGHT NOW THAT THIS 02:38 HAPPENED TO THESE CHILDREN RIGHT ON THE EVE OF CHRISTMAS. 02:43 BUT WE JUST READ SOMETHING FROM THE BIBLE DURING OUR SCRIPTURE 02:46 READING - THERE WAS ANOTHER MASSACRE OF CHILDREN AROUND THE 02:50 BIRTH OF CHRIST BEFORE. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEGINS WITH IT. 02:55 MATTER OF FACT, I'D LIKE YOU TO GO THERE WITH ME. 02:58 IF YOU TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, 03:04 "NOW AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA IN THE DAYS 03:08 OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD, WISE MEN FROM THE EAST CAME TO 03:12 JERUSALEM,SAYING, 'WHERE IS HE WHO HAS BEEN BORN 03:15 KING OF THE JEWS? 03:17 FOR WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP 03:20 HIM.' WHEN HEROD THE KING HEARD THIS, HE WAS TROUBLED, AND 03:26 ALL JERUSALEM WITH HIM. AND WHEN HE HAD GATHERED ALL THE 03:29 CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES OF THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, HE INQUIRED OF 03:32 THEM WHERE THE CHRIST WAS TO BE BORN. 03:36 SO THEY SAID TO HIM, 'IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA, FOR THUS IT 03:38 IS WRITTEN BY THE PROPHET: 'BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM, IN THE LAND OF 03:41 JUDAH, ARE NOT THE LEAST AMONG THE RULERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF 03:45 YOU SHALL COME A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.''" 03:50 VERY CLEAR PROPHECY THAT THE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL - THE RULER - 03:53 WAS GOING TO COME FROM BETHLEHEM AND THAT DIDN'T SURPRISE ANY 03:56 JEWS BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, THE GREATEST KING, DAVID, 03:59 CAME FROM THERE. THE MESSIAH WOULD BE THE SON OF 04:01 DAVID SO THAT MADE PERFECT SENSE. SO WHEN HEROD SECRETLY 04:05 CALLED THE WISE MEN - HE HAD A PRIVATE INTERVIEW WITH THEM - 04:07 HE WAS A SMOOTH OPERATOR. HE WAS EXTREMELY SHREWD. 04:12 WITH ALL OF THE INTRIGUE AND INFIGHTING THAT HAPPENED IN THE 04:14 ROMAN EMPIRE, IT TOOK PRETTY CLEVER POLITICAL SKILL TO BE 04:21 ABLE TO WORK YOUR WAY UP TO HAVE THAT POSITION FOR ALMOST 04:24 40 YEARS. THAT WAS JUST AMAZING. SO HE WAS SMART. 04:29 HE HAD A PRIVATE INTERVIEW WITH THEM AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHEN 04:32 EXACTLY DID THIS STAR APPEAR?' IT MUST HAVE BEEN A FEW MONTHS 04:36 BACK BECAUSE HE LATER GIVES AN EDICT TO KILL ALL THE BABIES TWO 04:39 YEARS OLD AND UNDER BASED ON THE TIME. 04:42 "AND HE SENT THEM TO BETHLEHEM AND SAID, 'GO AND SEARCH 04:47 CAREFULLY FOR THE YOUNG CHILD, AND WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND HIM, 04:51 BRING BACK WORD TO ME, THAT I MAY COME AND WORSHIP HIM ALSO.' 04:55 WHEN THEY HEARD THE KING, THEY DEPARTED; AND BEHOLD, THE STAR 04:59 WHICH THEY HAD SEEN IN THE EAST" - WHICH, EVIDENTLY, HAD 05:01 TEMPORARILY DISAPPEARED, IT REAPPEARED AGAIN AND - 05:04 "WENT BEFORE THEM." 05:05 - THIS WAS A BAND OF ANGELS, NO DOUBT - "TILL IT CAME AND STOOD 05:08 OVER" - THE ACTUAL DWELLING - "WHERE THE YOUNG CHILD WAS." 05:12 - AND IT SAYS THERE WAS A HOUSE - "WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY 05:15 REJOICED WITH EXCEEDINGLY GREAT JOY. 05:18 AND WHEN THEY HAD COME INTO THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE YOUNG CHILD 05:21 WITH MARY HIS MOTHER, AND FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPED HIM..." 05:27 - AND GAVE HIM GIFTS - "PRESENTED GIFTS TO HIM: GOLD, 05:30 FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. THEN, BEING DIVINELY WARNED IN A 05:34 DREAM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN TO HEROD,..." 05:38 - THE ANGEL KNEW WHAT HE WAS UP TO - GOD KNEW HIS HEART - "THEY 05:41 DEPARTED FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY ANOTHER WAY." - THEY THOUGHT 05:44 THEY'D BETTER TAKE THE BACK ROAD AND GET OUT OF TOWN. 05:47 AS TIME WENT BY IT SAYS, "AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO 05:51 JOSEPH IN A DREAM, SAYING, 'ARISE, TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND 05:56 HIS MOTHER, FLEE TO EGYPT, AND STAY THERE UNTIL I BRING YOU 05:59 WORD;'" - I'M TELLING YOU WHEN TO LEAVE, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN TO 06:02 COME BACK - "'FOR HEROD WILL SEEK THE YOUNG CHILD TO DESTROY 06:06 HIM.' WHEN HE AROSE, HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER BY 06:10 NIGHT..." - THEY NEEDED TO GO WHEN NO ONE WOULD KNOW EXACTLY 06:14 WHAT ROAD THEY TOOK AND WHERE THEY WENT. 06:16 SO THEY WENT BY NIGHT - "...AND DEPARTED FOR EGYPT, AND WAS 06:20 THERE UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH 06:23 WAS SPOKEN BY THE LORD THROUGH THE PROPHET, SAYING, 'OUT OF 06:26 EGYPT I CALLED MY SON.'" IN THE SAME WAY THAT GOD 06:30 BROUGHT ISAAC AND HIS PEOPLE - OR THE ISRAELITES - OUT OF EGYPT 06:36 - ABRAHAM HAD GONE TO EGYPT DURING A FAMINE AND HE WAS 06:39 CALLED OUT - GOD WAS GOING TO CALL HIS SON JESUS BACK OUT OF 06:44 EGYPT - A SYMBOL THAT HE WOULD BE LIKE MOSES, THE GREAT 06:47 DELIVERER, THAT HE WOULD SAVE US AND HE WAS THERE UNTIL 06:51 THE DEATH OF HEROD. 06:52 NOW, GOT A FLASHBACK TO HEROD WHEN HE STARTS LOOKING AT HIS 06:57 WATCH AND CHECKING HIS CALENDAR AND THE WISE MEN HAVEN'T COME 06:59 BACK, HE'S SO PARANOID THAT THERE'S A PLOT AFOOT THAT THIS 07:03 NEW KING HAS BEEN BORN, "...WHEN HE SAW THAT HE WAS DECEIVED BY 07:07 THE WISE MEN, WAS EXCEEDINGLY ANGRY; AND HE SENT FORTH AND PUT 07:13 TO DEATH ALL THE MALE CHILDREN WHO WERE IN BETHLEHEM AND IN ALL 07:18 ITS DISTRICTS, FROM TWO YEARS OLD AND UNDER, ACCORDING TO THE 07:21 TIME WHICH HE HAD DETERMINED FROM THE WISE MEN." 07:24 WHY WOULD THE LORD ALLOW THE BIRTH OF HIS SON TO BE CONNECTED 07:31 WITH THE MASSACRE OF CHILDREN? IF HE'S GOD, 07:34 HOW COULD HE ALLOW THAT?' I MEAN, WHO'S EVER GOTTEN A 07:37 CHRISTMAS CARD THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT ANCIENT PAINTING OF THE 07:41 MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS? YOU DON'T USUALLY SEND THAT AROUND. 07:46 I MEAN, THIS IS PART OF THE STORY OF JESUS' BIRTH, RIGHT? 07:49 WHY IS THAT STORY IN THERE? 07:52 I MEAN, THAT CAN SHAKE UP THE CHILDREN, TELLING THEM THAT PART 07:55 OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY. WHY DID GOD ALLOW THAT? 07:59 IF HE'S GOD, IF HE'S GOOD, WHERE WAS HE BACK WHEN JESUS WAS BORN? 08:04 WHY COULDN'T HE PREVENT THAT? COULD HE HAVE? 08:08 NO, I'M NOT ASKING THESE QUESTIONS BECAUSE I DON'T THINK 08:11 THERE AREN'T ANY ANSWERS - I DO THINK THERE ARE ANSWERS. 08:14 I'M ASKING THESE QUESTIONS SORT OF RHETORICALLY BECAUSE I HAVE 08:18 HEARD SOME OF THE STRANGEST THINGS SAID ABOUT GOD IN THE 08:20 LAST WEEK. DO YOU THINK THE LORD WANTED TO 08:23 PROTECT THOSE BABY BOYS IN BETHLEHEM? 08:27 BUT THERE'S A WAR GOING ON IN THIS WORLD AND GOD CAN ONLY 08:32 INTERVENE WHEN WE PLEAD FOR HIM TO INTERVENE. 08:36 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF PRAYER IF PRAYER MAKES NO DIFFERENCE? 08:40 AND WHEN WE DON'T PRAY, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE TIMES 08:44 WHEN GOD DOESN'T ACT? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 08:48 WILL GOD DO, WHEN WE PRAY, WHAT HE OTHERWISE WOULD NOT DO? 08:52 AND WHEN WE NEGLECT TO PRAY, ARE THERE THINGS THAT ARE NOT DONE 08:55 BECAUSE WE HAVE NEGLECTED TO PRAY? 08:58 WELL, I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT - THIS IS A SERIOUS SUBJECT. 09:02 IT CREATES A NUMBER OF VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. 09:06 FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S A WAR GOING ON. 09:09 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE'S AN ANGRY DRAGON RAMPAGING AROUND 09:13 OUR PLANET. 1 PETER 5, VERSES 8 AND 9 - I'M 09:16 GOING TO GIVE YOU A NUMBER OF SCRIPTURES - "BE SOBER," - THE 09:20 APOSTLE SAYS - "BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL 09:24 WALKS ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. 09:30 RESIST HIM, STEADFAST IN THE FAITH,..." 09:32 - BECAUSE JESUS GOT AWAY, THE DEVIL TOOK OUT HIS WRATH ON THE 09:37 CHILDREN IN BETHLEHEM. NOW DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE 09:41 DEVIL KNEW THAT JOSEPH AND MARY HAD GOTTEN OUT OF TOWN? 09:45 I MEAN, DIDN'T THE DEVIL HAVE HIS AGENTS WATCHING WHEN JESUS 09:50 WAS BORN? THE DEVIL DIDN'T KNOW WHEN THOSE ANGELS SANG? 09:54 THE DEVIL DIDN'T KNOW WHEN GABRIEL TALKED TO MARY? 09:58 I THINK HE WAS AWARE OF THAT. THE DEVIL HATES JESUS. 10:04 YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH HE HATES JESUS. 10:05 THINK OF ANY HATE THAT YOU CAN CONJURE UP IN YOUR MIND. 10:08 MAGNIFY THAT - THERE IS NO HATE, THERE IS NO BITTERNESS THAT IS 10:11 ANY GREATER THAN THE HATRED OF SATAN FOR CHRIST. 10:17 WHEN THE DEVIL CANNOT TOUCH JESUS, HE TRIES TO HURT WHAT IS 10:21 CLOSEST TO JESUS, WHICH WOULD BE CHILDREN. 10:26 AND SO THIS WAS JUST A SIGNAL THAT, BECAUSE THE DEVIL COULD 10:31 NOT GET JESUS, HE SAID, 'WELL, I'M GOING TO HURT THE OTHER 10:34 CHILDREN OF BETHLEHEM AS A SIGN.' 10:37 IT'S NOT BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T LOVE, IT'S BECAUSE THE DEVIL 10:40 HATES, THAT THESE CHILDREN SUFFER. 10:43 THERE'S A DRAGON THAT IS ROAMING THROUGH THE PLANET - NOTICE, 10:47 REVELATION 12:9, "SO THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT 10:51 SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN, WHO DECEIVES THE 10:54 WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS CAST TO THE EARTH,..." 10:56 - SO WHERE IS THE DEVIL NOW? HE'S ON THE EARTH. 11:00 AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM. 11:02 IF THE DEVIL'S REALLY BAD, HOW DO YOU THINK HIS ANGELS ARE? 11:07 THIS PLANET IS FILLED WITH DEMONS. 11:10 MATTER OF FACT, INSTEAD OF SAYING, 'WHY DID GOD ALLOW 11:12 THIS?' WE SHOULD BE SAYING, 'WHY DO WE 11:16 HAVE SO MUCH PEACE WHEN THE WORLD IS FULL OF DEVILS?' 11:21 WE'RE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION. INSTEAD OF SAYING, 'WHY DO BAD 11:24 THINGS HAPPEN, WE OUGHT TO BE SAYING, 'SINCE THE PENALTY OF 11:27 SIN IS DEATH, WHY DO SO MANY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN? 11:30 IT'S BECAUSE GOD IS INVADING AND INTERVENING IN OUR LIVES ALL THE 11:35 TIME, THAT WE HAVE ANY OF THE PEACE AND BLESSINGS THAT WE 11:38 ENJOY. IF THE LORD WITHDREW HIS PROTECTION - AND THAT WILL 11:43 HAPPEN SOME DAY WHEN PROBATION CLOSES ON THIS PLANET AND THE 11:47 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL - IT JUST MAKES YOU SHUDDER TO THINK 11:51 ABOUT IT. WITH ALL THE EVIL IN THE WORLD 11:52 TODAY, IT'S ALMOST LIKE THOSE ANGELS ARE LOOSENING THEIR GRIP 11:56 ON THE WINDS OF STRIFE NOW. THE ONLY REASON THAT WE HAVE ANY 12:00 KIND OF PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE WORLD TODAY IS BECAUSE GOD 12:03 IS INTERVENING IN ENEMY TERRITORY. 12:07 REVELATION 12:12 - IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY - IT SAYS, 12:13 "THEREFORE REJOICE, O HEAVENS, AND YOU WHO DWELL IN THEM! 12:16 WOE TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH AND THE SEA!..." 12:19 - WHY ARE THE HEAVENS REJOICING? 12:20 BECAUSE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN EVICTED. AND SO I AM - I AM 12:26 REALLY, REALLY BROKENHEARTED. I AM SO SAD FOR THOSE FAMILIES 12:33 THAT WERE TOLD THAT TERRIBLE NEWS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. 12:38 THAT COMMUNITY - YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN IMAGINE - 12:41 SMALL COMMUNITY - SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HURTS ME 12:48 EVEN MORE? IS THAT PEOPLE THINK THAT SOMEHOW GOD IS HAPPY OR 12:54 THAT GOD DOESN'T CARE. ONE THING I CAN PROMISE YOU - NOBODY - 12:59 NOBODY IS MORE HURT THAN GOD. THE REASON THAT JESUS CAME INTO 13:04 THE WORLD IS TO STOP THE PAIN AND THE MISERY AND 13:08 THE SUFFERING. THE LORD HATES ALL OF THAT. 13:13 GOD WANTS A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING IS GOOD, GOOD, VERY 13:15 GOOD - WHERE THERE'S PEACE. BUT THIS PLANET HAS BEEN 13:17 KIDNAPPED BY AN ENEMY. A FEW MORE VERSES. 13:21 FIRST OF ALL, THE DEVIL GOES AFTER WHAT JESUS LOVES. 13:25 JESUS ESPECIALLY LOVES CHILDREN. YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORST SINS 13:31 AND YOU'VE GOT, OF COURSE, HOMICIDE AND THERE'S GENOCIDE, 13:36 BUT INFANTICIDE - KILLING CHILDREN. 13:40 PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN WONDERED IF THAT'S THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 13:43 MATTHEW 19:13, "THEN LITTLE CHILDREN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM 13:47 THAT HE MIGHT PUT HIS HANDS ON THEM AND PRAY, 13:49 BUT THE DISCIPLES REBUKED THEM." - 'HE'S TOO BUSY' - 13:52 AND JESUS - NO, HE WAS VERY DISPLEASED. 13:54 "BUT JESUS SAID, 'LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME, AND DO NOT 13:57 FORBID THEM; FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' 14:01 AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON THEM AND DEPARTED FROM THERE." 14:04 AND AGAIN, MATTHEW 18 - GO BACK ONE CHAPTER - JESUS SAID, 14:07 "ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS YOU ARE CONVERTED AND BECOME AS 14:11 LITTLE CHILDREN,...'" - THAT'S ANOTHER REASON 14:13 THE DEVIL HATES CHILDREN SO MUCH. 14:15 WE NEED TO BE LIKE CHILDREN TO BE SAVED. 'UNLESS YOU BECOME 14:18 LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN YOU WILL BY NO MEANS ENTER THE KINGDOM OF 14:21 HEAVEN.' THAT'S WHY THE DEVIL DELIGHTS IN GOING AFTER THOSE 14:27 BABY BOYS IN EGYPT AND IN JERUSALEM AND THEN IN BETHLEHEM 14:34 AND OTHER PLACES. 14:36 THIS IS NOT GOD INSPIRED, THIS IS DIABOLICAL. 14:44 MASS MURDER IS THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS. 14:46 JESUS SAID IN JOHN 8:43, "WHY DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND MY SPEECH?" 14:53 - RED LETTER IN YOUR BIBLE - JOHN 8:43 AND 44, "BECAUSE YOU 14:57 ARE NOT ABLE TO LISTEN TO MY WORD. 15:00 YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, AND THE DESIRES OF YOUR 15:02 FATHER YOU WANT TO DO." YES, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE 15:05 WORLD AND THEY DON'T EVEN REALIZE THAT THEY'RE NOT SONS 15:06 AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD BUT THEY'RE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. 15:09 BECAUSE UNTIL YOU GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE LORD - UNTIL YOU'RE 15:12 BORN AGAIN, AS CIVILIZED AND SOPHISTICATED AS YOU MIGHT ACT, 15:15 UNLESS YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT FATHER. 15:19 BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD GUIDING YOU TO DO 15:21 GOOD - YOU MAY EVEN ACT MORALLY. 15:24 THE SOCIETY MIGHT THINK YOU ARE A WONDERFUL, UPSTANDING CITIZEN 15:27 - YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY TRAFFIC TICKETS - BUT UNLESS 15:31 YOU'VE BEEN BORN AGAIN YOU ONLY HAVE ONE OTHER ALTERNATIVE: 15:33 CHRIST SAID, 'YOU'RE WITH ME OR YOU'RE AGAINST ME.' 15:37 HE EVEN TOLD THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 'YOU'RE OF YOUR FATHER 15:39 THE DEVIL. "...AND THE DESIRES OF YOUR FATHER YOU WANT TO DO. 15:45 HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING..." WHO IS THE 15:48 MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING? IT'S THE DEVIL. AND HE DOESN'T 15:53 STAND IN THE TRUTH BECAUSE THERE'S NO TRUTH IN HIM. 15:55 WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE HE SPEAKS HIS OWN BECAUSE HE'S A LIAR AND 15:57 THE FATHER OF IT. JOHN 10, VERSE 9 - CHRIST SAID, "I AM THE DOOR. 16:02 IF ANYONE ENTERS BY ME, HE WILL BE SAVED, AND WILL GO IN AND OUT 16:06 AND FIND PASTURE. THE THIEF DOES NOT COME EXCEPT" - HERE'S WHY 16:10 THE DEVIL COMES - "TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY." 16:16 SO WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? THERE IS AN ENEMY IN THE WORLD. 16:21 MATTER OF FACT, MATTHEW 13:28 - YOU REMEMBER THE PARABLE OF 16:24 THE WHEAT AND THE TARES? 16:26 WHEN JESUS LATER EXPLAINS THAT AND THE ANGELS ARE WONDERING - 16:29 'WE SOWED GOOD SEED IN THE FIELD, WHAT HAPPENED?' 16:34 JESUS ANSWERED BY SAYING, 'AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS.' 16:38 THERE IS AN ENEMY IN THIS WORLD. WE ARE LIVING IN ENEMY TERRITORY 16:43 RIGHT NOW. NO, GOD DOES NOT HAVE COMPLETE 16:45 CONTROL OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY. 16:48 IF GOD HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD 16:51 TODAY, WHY DO WE PRAY 'THY WILL BE DONE'? RIGHT? 16:57 LUKE CHAPTER 4, VERSE 5, "THEN THE DEVIL, TAKING HIM UP ON A 17:02 HIGH MOUNTAIN, SHOWED HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN A 17:04 MOMENT OF TIME. AND THE DEVIL SAID TO HIM, 'ALL 17:08 THIS AUTHORITY I WILL GIVE YOU, AND THEIR GLORY; FOR THIS HAS 17:12 BEEN DELIVERED TO ME, AND I GIVE IT TO WHOMEVER I WISH.'" - 17:17 YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE MAKING DEALS WITH THE DEVIL. 17:19 THE DEVIL CLAIMS THIS WORLD IS HIS TERRITORY. - 17:23 "'THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL WORSHIP BEFORE ME, ALL WILL BE 17:25 YOURS.'" - JESUS SAID - "'GET BEHIND ME SATAN!... YOU SHALL 17:28 WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY YOU SHALL SERVE.'" 17:29 YOU NOTICE THE DEVIL - JESUS DOES NOT CONTEST THE DEVIL'S 17:32 CLAIM. MATTER OF FACT, CHRIST SAID - JOHN 12:31 - 17:37 WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 17:39 "'NOW IS THE JUDGEMENT OF THIS WORLD; NOW THE RULER OF THIS 17:42 WORLD WILL BE CAST OUT.'" WELL, HE WAS CAST OUT OF 17:46 HEAVEN AND HE WAS GOING TO, ULTIMATELY, BE CAST OUT OF THE 17:48 WORLD - CAST INTO A BOTTOMLESS PIT - LAKE OF FIRE, RIGHT? 17:53 WHO IS - JESUS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF WHEN HE SAYS 'THE 17:56 RULER OF THIS WORLD'. HE ACKNOWLEDGES SOMEBODY IS THE 17:59 RULER OF THIS WORLD. JOHN 14, VERSE 30, "I WILL NO 18:05 LONGER TALK MUCH WITH YOU, FOR THE RULER OF THIS WORLD IS 18:07 COMING, AND HE HAS NOTHING IN ME." 18:10 THE DEVIL HAS SOMETHING IN EVERYBODY ELSE BECAUSE HE'S 18:12 TEMPTED EVERYBODY ELSE TO SIN, BUT HE NEVER WAS ABLE TO TEMPT 18:15 JESUS TO SIN. SO HE SAID, 'HE'S GOT NO GOODS ON ME. 18:18 HE HAS NOTHING ON ME.' BUT HE CALLS HIM 'THE RULER OF 18:21 THIS WORLD'. SO WHERE WAS GOD? WHY DID HE ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN? 18:27 SEE, THIS PLANET IS A CONTESTED KINGDOM. 18:31 GOD ORIGINALLY MADE THE WORLD AND WHEN ADAM AND EVE CHOSE TO 18:36 LISTEN TO THE WORD OF THE DEVIL INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND 18:40 OUR PLANET FELL, THE DEVIL MOVED DOWN HERE. 18:44 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHOEVER YOU OBEY, THAT'S WHOSE SERVANTS YOU 18:46 ARE.' AND WHEN HE FOUND SUPPORTERS 18:49 DOWN HERE, HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE FOR HIS 18:51 HEADQUARTERS AND HE HAS BEEN STAGING HIS REBELLION AGAINST 18:54 HEAVEN FROM THIS PLANET EVER SINCE. 18:57 AND THE WHOLE REASON JESUS CAME WAS TO REDEEM THE PLANET - TO 19:01 RESCUE THE PLANET THAT'S BEEN KIDNAPPED BY AN ENEMY - 19:05 THE ARCH VILLAIN. SO, YES, WE'RE GOING TO SEE 19:08 TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN IN THE WORLD. 19:11 THIS PLANET IS A CONTESTED KINGDOM. 19:14 IN THE LORD'S PRAYER WE SAY, 'THY WILL BE DONE.' 19:17 WHY DO WE PRAY? WHY DOES JESUS SAY, 19:19 'PRAY THAT GOD'S WILL BE DONE'? IS GOD'S WILL DONE ALL THE TIME? 19:24 IF HIS WILL'S DONE ALL THE TIME, WE DON'T NEED TO PRAY IT. 19:27 BUT THE FACT IS, HIS WILL IS NOT DONE. SO YOU THINK IT'S SAFE 19:30 TO ASSUME THAT WHEN THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN AND INNOCENT 19:33 CHILDREN - BEFORE EVEN THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - ARE 19:37 SLAUGHTERED, WAS THAT GOD'S WILL? NO. 19:42 WHILE THIS WORLD HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY THE ENEMY, WITH 19:48 PRAYER, REPENTANCE, HUMILITY, WHEN WE TURN TO GOD, HE WILL 19:53 INTERVENE AND PROTECT. 19:56 HE WILL NOT FORCE HIS PROTECTION ON US WHEN WE DON'T SEEK IT. 20:03 YOU READ DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28 - IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR BIBLES - 20:06 GOD SAYS THERE THAT 'IF YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS, IF YOU FOLLOW 20:11 ME, AND IF YOU SERVE ME, ALL THESE BLESSINGS WILL FOLLOW. 20:15 YOU'LL BE BLESSED WHEN YOU GO OUT. YOU'LL BE BLESSED WHEN YOU 20:17 COME IN. YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN THE BARN. YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN 20:19 YOUR HOUSE. YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE BLESSED. AND IF YOU TURN FROM 20:24 ME AND YOU FOLLOW AFTER ALL THE PAGAN GODS AND YOU NEGLECT ME, 20:30 YOU'LL BE CURSED WHEN YOU GO OUT. YOU'LL BE CURSED WHEN YOU 20:32 COME IN. YOU'LL BE CURSED IN YOUR FIELD. YOU'LL BE CURSED IN 20:35 YOUR HOME.' AND THOSE CURSES PLAY OUT IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. 20:40 I'M NOT SO SURE, AS A COUNTRY, THAT WE ARE SURRENDERED TO THE 20:44 LORD RIGHT NOW AND SO WHEN WE SEE TRAGEDY HAPPENING, I THINK 20:49 WE DO HAVE TO ASK THE BIG QUESTION. 20:51 IS THERE MAYBE A CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE HUMBLE 20:55 OURSELVES AS A NATION? NO GOD DOESN'T WANT THESE THINGS TO 20:59 HAPPEN. NO GOD WAS NOT CAUSING THESE THINGS. 21:02 BUT THERE'S AN ENEMY IN THE WORLD. 21:04 THERE'S GREAT EVIL IN THE WORLD AND IF WE WANT THE LORD TO COME 21:07 AND TO STAND UP AGAINST THOSE THINGS, WE NEED TO REACH OUT FOR 21:10 HIS HELP. GOOD NEWS IS IT WON'T LAST FOREVER. 21:15 RIGHT NOW, JESUS SAID, 'INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND AND THE LOVE OF 21:19 MANY WILL WAX COLD.' THESE ARE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 21:22 WHEN PEOPLE - AS PAUL SAYS IN 2 TIMOTHY 3, "...IN THE LAST DAYS 21:27 PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME. 21:29 FOR MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES, COVETOUS, BOASTERS, 21:32 PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, 21:38 WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTIONS..." THE NATURAL RESPONSE IS FOR 21:42 ADULTS TO WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN. 21:45 HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14, "INASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN 21:50 HAVE PARTAKEN OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE HIMSELF" - JESUS - 21:54 "LIKEWISE SHARED IN THE SAME," - HE CAME INTO THIS WORLD AND HE 21:57 BECAME A HUMAN - HE BECAME A BABY - "THAT THROUGH DEATH HE 22:01 MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE 22:06 DEVIL." DOES THAT MAKE IT CLEAR WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? 22:09 JESUS IS GOING TO DESTROY THE ONE WHO HAS THE POWER OF DEATH. 22:13 IT ALSO TELLS US IN REVELATION HE'S GOING TO COME DOWN WITH 22:15 GREAT WRATH BUT YOU READ IN REVELATION 20 AN ANGEL COMES 22:18 DOWN AND BINDS HIM. SATAN IS GOING TO BE BOUND. 22:22 YOU KNOW, IN MATTHEW, WHEN ALL THOSE BABIES DIED IN BETHLEHEM, 22:26 HE QUOTED FROM AN INTERESTING PROPHECY IN JEREMIAH. 22:29 YOU KNOW - AND I HOPE SOME OF THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN 22:33 TOUCHED BY THIS TRAGEDY MIGHT, BY SOME CHANCE, FIND THIS 22:36 MESSAGE - AND I KNOW THEY'RE ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS - AND 22:40 THE ONE THING YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IS DOUBT GOD'S LOVE BECAUSE 22:44 HE'S THE ONE WHO'S GOING TO HEAL THE PAIN. 22:47 WELL, THAT STORY IN JEREMIAH - MATTHEW QUOTES FROM JEREMIAH - 22:51 JEREMIAH 31:15, "THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'A VOICE WAS HEARD IN 22:55 RAMAH, LAMENTATION AND BITTER WEEPING'..." 22:58 NOW WHY DOES IT SAY THAT? 23:00 RACHEL DIED JUST OUTSIDE OF BETHLEHEM IN A PLACE CALLED 23:05 RAMAH, GIVING BIRTH TO THE LAST OF JACOB'S BOYS - BENJAMIN. 23:10 AND THERE WAS GREAT MOURNING FOR RACHEL. BUT HERE NOW IT SAYS, 23:14 "...RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN, REFUSING TO BE 23:20 COMFORTED FOR HER CHILDREN, BECAUSE THEY ARE NO MORE." 23:22 AND MOST PEOPLE STOP RIGHT THERE. 23:24 BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CONTINUE TO READ THAT PROPHECY, GOD SAYS 23:27 THAT HE'S GOING TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE WEEPING. 23:31 "THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'REFRAIN YOUR VOICE FROM WEEPING, AND 23:35 YOUR EYES FROM TEARS; FOR YOUR WORK SHALL BE REWARDED,' SAYS 23:39 THE LORD, 'AND THEY SHALL COME BACK FROM THE LAND OF THE 23:42 ENEMY.'" THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE WEEPING FOR CHILDREN THAT WERE 23:47 TAKEN BY THE ENEMY, THEY WILL COME BACK FROM THE LAND 23:50 OF THE ENEMY. 23:51 'THERE IS HOPE IN YOUR FUTURE' SAYS THE LORD 'THAT YOUR 23:54 CHILDREN SHALL COME BACK TO THEIR OWN BORDER.' 23:57 YOU KNOW, THESE CHILDREN - ESPECIALLY WHO DIE BEFORE THE 24:01 AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - THE LORD SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I CAN GET THEM 24:05 BACK FROM THE LAND OF THE ENEMY.' 24:06 WHO IS IT THAT HAS THE POWER OF DEATH? THE DEVIL. 24:09 CAN JESUS CONQUER THAT POWER OF DEATH? 24:13 GOD'S OWN SON - HIS BABY - HE WAS MASSACRED IN A TERRIBLE WAY 24:19 - BRUTALLY - BY THE DEVIL. DID GOD BRING HIS SON BACK? 24:23 AND HE CAN ALSO RESCUE THE OTHER CHILDREN. 24:26 THIS LIFE IS TEMPORARY. 24:28 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT WHY JESUS CAME. 24:31 SO HERE'S THAT QUESTION. WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENS - WHEN ALL 24:34 THESE TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN - WHERE WAS GOD? 24:38 WELL, WHEN THAT MASSACRE HAPPENED 2,000 YEARS AGO IN 24:41 BETHLEHEM, WHERE WAS JESUS? HE WAS RIGHT HERE ON THE PLANET 24:46 LIVING AS A HUMAN AMONG US AND IT STILL HAPPENED. 24:50 DOES IT MEAN THAT GOD DOESN'T LOVE US OR DOES IT MEAN THAT 24:53 THERE'S A WAR? 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