Hello Friends, welcome to
another Bible Study here at the
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3ABN Worship Center.
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It's Wednesday night,
and this is A Shaper Focus,
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and we welcome you
with a hearty Amen.
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Can we say Amen? Amen!
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We have Bibles, our pens.
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We've prayed. We're going to
pray with you in just a moment.
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But we thank you for
taking the time to tune in.
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We're beginning a new topic
entitled The Truth About Jesus.
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You know, you might
think, what else is there
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to know about Jesus?
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Well, that's a big subject
today, because the world is now
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arguing over whether or not
He's a good man, whether or not
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He's a prophet,
whether He is the Messiah,
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whether the
Messiah has yet to come.
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There's so much confusion.
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And what we would like to
do is clear up that confusion,
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as best we can, by
going to the Word of God.
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And we're going
to do that tonight.
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In just a moment
I'll tell you where to
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get a copy of the lesson.
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But before we do anything,
even before we sing our theme
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song, let's bow our
heads and invite the Lord's
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presence to be with us.
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Loving Father, our great God,
You have told us tonight that
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our only hope is in Jesus.
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But there are some
that don't know that.
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There are many in the
world that have put Jesus in the
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category that is not in
harmony with the written word,
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nor the living Word.
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And we pray that tonight
our minds will be unconfused,
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and that we will find in
Jesus our Savior, our Lord,
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our Redeemer, and
our soon coming King.
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In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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Now we always sing our theme
song, but before we do that,
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go to this website to
get a copy of Lesson #36.
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What number did I say? 36.
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Every one of us should
have a copy of lesson #36.
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36 is entitled, The Truth
About Jesus. Download that from:
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And at that website you can
also find the prior lessons,
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the prior videos, and
anything that you have missed
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is on that website.
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And I think, right now I
think we have about 148 videos.
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That's a 148 hours.
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That's 148 program. Amen?
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So you can have a dynamic study.
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We're going to be uploading
some of the earlier ones,
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but I know a few months back,
and also the latest ones are
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there at that website.
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So download, The Truth
About Jesus, Lesson #36.
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And if you download the correct
one, we will have 12 questions.
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So tonight let's
begin with our theme song.
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Our theme song
is, Victory In Jesus.
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Let's sing this song together.
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I heard an old, old story,
how the Savior came from glory.
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How He gave His life on Calvary
to save a wretch like me.
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I heard about His groaning,
of His precious bloods atoning.
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Then I repented of my
sin, and won the victory.
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Oh victory in
Jesus, my Savior forever.
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He sought me and bought
me with His redeeming blood.
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He loved me ere I knew
Him, and all my love is due Him.
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He plunged me to victory
beneath the cleansing flood.
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I heard about a mansion
He has built for me in glory.
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And I heard about the streets
of gold beyond the crystal sea.
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About the angels singing,
and the old redemption story.
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And some sweet day I'll sing
up there the song of victory.
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Key change. Oh victory
in Jesus, my Savior forever.
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He sought me, and bought
me with His redeeming blood.
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He loved me ere I knew
Him, and all my love is due Him.
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He plunged me to victory
beneath the cleansing flood.
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He plunged me to victory beneath
the cleaning flood. Amen!
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This topic tonight, I'd like you
to say the topic with me today.
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Now in the book of Acts; go
with me to the book of Acts.
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I want you to see a very
familiar passage, Acts 4.
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Years ago there was a program
on television, and it was
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called, The Password Is.
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Now if you're young, you may
not have ever heard about it,
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but it was a program
called, The Password Is,
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and the password was
the key word to the answer.
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In other words, if you
didn't know the password,
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you couldn't get in.
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If you knew the
password, you can get in.
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And there are some
places that have that also.
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Well, in order to get
into your Facebook page,
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what do you need to know?
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Right. To get into your
e-mail what do you need to know?
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Not just your e-mail
address, but the password.
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Now, without the
password can you get in?
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You could put
anything you want in that slot,
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and you're not going to get in.
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I remember once we
had an issue with my iPad,
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a number of years ago, and I
called Apple, Apple Computers,
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and they said,
Okay, what's your e-mail?
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Well, I knew that. And they
said Well, what's your password?
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And I, ah, I gave them one.
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They said, That's not it.
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They said, What's your password?
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I went through like
six different passwords.
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They said, Well, they said, Sir,
in order to know that you are
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who you say you are, we
need to know your password.
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I said, Is there any
other way that you can verify
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that I am who I am?
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They said, Sir,
there is no other way.
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I said, Ah, what if I give
you my Social Security number?
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They said, We don't
have access to that.
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What about if I sent
a picture of my drivers
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license; if I faxed that?
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Sir, that's not acceptable.
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If you don't know
your password, there's no
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way we could help you.
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I started getting upset.
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I said, This is my account!
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I want to get in. There's
a, there's something on my
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webpage, I mean that I
want to just get rid of it.
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It just keeps... They said, Sir,
we cannot delete anything from
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your account unless
you know the password.
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I said, Is there
somebody else I can talk to?
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They said, Nobody else
that you talk to is going to say
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anything differently.
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I said, Is there a manager?
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You know how you get.
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Is there a manager?
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Sir, these are the guidelines
that Apple has put in place,
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and they are
not going to change.
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I didn't know how serious they
were until a number of months
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ago, when this terrorist
attack happened in California.
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Remember that? And the
only thing that was left was the
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terrorists cell phone.
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And so the FBI, the State
Department, all these security
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agencies said, We
need Apple to help us to
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break into this device.
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And you know what they asked?
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Do you know the password?
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And they said, Sir, without the
password Apple will not violate
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that person's right.
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But they said, But this
is a suspected terrorist!
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They said, It doesn't
matter what they've done.
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If you don't know the name
you're not going to get in.
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Well, the good news is
I've found out my name,
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and I was able to correct
the problem that was there.
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And so the issue is, If
you don't know the name,
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are you going to get in?
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Let's go to
Acts 4:12, Acts 4:12.
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This is a text to lay the
foundation about our topic,
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because there's so
much being said about Jesus
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that is just not true.
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But what Bible gives us
very clear delineation about
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how important it
is to know Jesus.
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Look at this: Acts 4:12.
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It says, well, let me go
back to verse 10, and then we'll
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go down to verse 12 together.
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Let it be known...
This is Peter and John.
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They're in custody
there testifying about
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their stand in Jesus.
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Let it be known to you all,
and to all the people of Israel,
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that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
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whom you crucified, whom
God raised from the dead,
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By Him this man
stands here before you whole.
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You know, the problem was
they we're saying, By what name
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did you heal this man?
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And they're
answering the question.
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Look at verse 11. This is the
stone which was rejected by you
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builders; not by your
builders, but by you, builders,
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which has become
the chief cornerstone.
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And then he makes
the point very clear.
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Nor is there salvation
in any other... Together.
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...for there is no
other name under heaven,
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given among men by
which we must be saved.
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So what's the password?
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Come on, tell me. Jesus!
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There is no other name!
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You could... I'm
going to be very respectful,
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but I have to be candid.
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You could say
Buddha, you could say Allah,
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you could say Krishna, you
could say Gandhi, and all the
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other millions of god's.
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In India there are millions
of gods, and various movements
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around the world, and
countries that are in Asia,
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and some in the Middle East.
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There are all these
names that people use to,
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so to speak, come to God.
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But Jesus made it
clear; I'm the password.
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Without knowing who I am, there
is no access to the Father.
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Go with me to
another one: John 14.
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Just laying some foundation.
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Look at John 14,
because if you ask people today,
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most people will
say, based on religions...
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Matter of fact, even in
non-Christian religions,
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even in religions that are
very cultic, they all believe
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in some kind of god.
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They all have a god in
their system of beliefs.
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They all have a god,
whether it's a god of darkness,
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the dark lord that they
call god, or Satan is their god,
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whomever; they all have a god.
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But Jesus made it clear.
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It's not just
important to have a god.
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It's not just as important...
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You've got to know the
password to the Father.
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Look at... Huh? And, yes,
not even Mary. Amen, somebody?
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Not even Mary. John 14:1,
Let not your heart be troubled.
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You believe in who? God.
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Believe also in who? Me.
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A lot of people believe in God.
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You know, people say, Oh, I
thank God when the rock stars
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get their awards, when the
movie stars get their awards.
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They say, I want to thank God.
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Well, when you think of
what they do, God Almighty, God,
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righteous God is not into that.
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So He's not
empowering them to do that.
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He's not blessing
them in that vernacular.
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But the question is, Who is God?
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Who is Jesus? You
have to know the password.
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And once you know the password,
you have access to the Father.
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Okay? So we want to dive in our
lesson tonight and look at some
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of the very, very
important questions that are
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listed in the Bible.
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And this is going to be a
lesson that's going stem...
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I would say right now
we have twelve questions.
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I would guarantee we're going
to have about thirty questions
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before this lesson is over.
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Because we're also going to look
at some prophecies in the Bible.
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We're going to look at
the Old Testament prophecies,
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and the New Testament
fulfillment so that we will
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not just establish the fact
that Jesus is who He says He is,
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or the Word says He is.
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But we're also going to
see that even the world,
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the non-religious
world acknowledges Jesus.
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What year is it,
somebody tell me.
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Now I'm dating the program.
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It is 2016. Now if you're
watching this program at another
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time, this
program was from 2016.
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2016 what? We
are in B.C. or A.D.?
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Someone tell me. A.D.
A.D., anno Domini, Latin,
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meaning the year of our Lord.
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Now whatever country we are
on the earth, everybody goes by
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the atomic clock of
A.D., whether it's zero time in
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Greenwich time right there in
that round sundial on the ground
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outside of the Parliament,
whether it's the east coast,
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whether it's the west coast,
whether it's Saudi Arabia,
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or whether it's Australia.
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Wherever it is we are all
in 2016, which means 2016 years
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ago the Lord
established a marker in time.
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It's not data based on Buddha.
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It's not data based on Allah.
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It's not data based
on Krishna, or any...
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Not data based on Mary.
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It's all data based on Jesus.
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In the year of our Lord.
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So we can establish right away
that whether people look at Him
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as the Savior, whether people
say He is the One that we follow
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as a disciple,
that's not the issue.
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The issue is it's a fact right
off the bat that this is 2016,
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anno Domini, the year of our?
of our Lord. Undisputed fact.
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Let's go to Question #1,
and look at a very important
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illustration of how
this begins to unfold,
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how this begins to unfold.
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You know, whenever you know
the password, you can share it
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with somebody else.
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Uh, and we know
how much fun that is.
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Let's go to Matthew 16
and look at that together.
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What question did Jesus ask
that relates to His legitimacy?
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We're going to be in
Matthew for a little bit.
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So if you have your
Bibles and you go there,
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stay there in Matthew 16.
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We're going to look at
some very important questions
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unfolding in this
particular chapter.
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Well, you know, in this chapter,
there was a debate going
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on as to these signs.
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As a matter of fact, the
Jews said, Give us a sign.
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And Jesus said, The
only sign you're going to get
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is the sign of Jonah.
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As Jonah was in the
belly of the whale three days,
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and three nights, so
the Son of man will be in
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the heart of the earth.
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And so they kept
debating over signs.
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And Jesus had to withdraw from
the contention of the signs.
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And then He came down to verse
13, the revelation of who He is.
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And look at Matthew
16:13, and here's the answer.
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What are they saying?
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Who are they
telling you that I am?
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So let's put the question there.
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What question did Jesus ask
that relates to His legitimacy?
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Okay. Who am I? Who
do men say that I am?
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Write that down.
What do they say?
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Who are they saying I am?
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You could abbreviate
that in the way that you could
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understand that best.
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So if you ask people
the question today...
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We had a corner, by the
way, when I was working downtown
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Manhattan, and Wall Street,
Wall Street and Broad Street.
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And every lunch hour, every
day of the week, we called it
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religious debate corner.
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On that corner at lunch time
there were Jews arguing with
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Christians,
Christians arguing with Muslims,
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and they were in...
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Nothing happens in New
York that doesn't have passion.
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And you could hear them as
you're approaching the circle.
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Ahhhh, ahhhh, and sometimes
they're waving their sign,
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sometimes it's the guy with the
little small speaker, Repent!
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The world is coming to an end!
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I mean right in that corner,
always at that same spot,
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it became known
as the debate corner.
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And so, because a lot of Jews
work in the area, when somebody
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will hold up the sign, Jesus
is coming again, the Jews say,
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He has not come at all.
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And they would argue,
and argue, and I would
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I would
periodically stand there.
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But the one thing that I chose
not to do is to get involved in
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the argument, because the
Bible says, Avoid foolish and
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unlearned questions, knowing
that they do gender what?
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It becomes an
argument of strife.
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One striving after the other.
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And, you know, as
realistically as they got there,
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it was almost like they said,
Oh, enough arguing for the day.
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See you tomorrow! Ha! And they
walked away almost in peace,
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which is what men can do.
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I don't say that to spite women,
but it's hard for women to argue
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and say, See you tomorrow!
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But these guys will get there
every day and they had their
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thick Bibles, they had their
Koran, they had their Torah,
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and boy the arguments were...
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And really the
question was, in many cases...
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You'll see some of
the Christians say,
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I believe in Jesus! And
the Jews said, the Messiah,
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the Messiah has not come yet.
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And they're saying, Yes, He has!
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And He's soon to come,
and whatever debate it was.
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So the issue today in the world,
and here's the key why this is
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so vitally important: If
you don't know who Jesus is,
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and there is no other way
to be saved except by His name,
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are you going to
be saved? Yes or No?
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Talk to me, Yes or No?
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No! You're not
going to be saved.
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If you don't know the password
you're not getting in no matter
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how we cry and get into our
tantrums, without knowing the
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name, we are
not going to get in.
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Let's look at the next part of
this question, because there was
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a response to it, and
this is what's happening today.
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Let's go to the next question.
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We're going to
look now at verse 14.
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How did he reply? You know,
the Lord asked for an answer,
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Peter gave an answer.
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What did he say?
Let's look at that.
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Since we're already
there, let me go ahead and go
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back to my question.
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Since he's already there,
look at what the Bible says.
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Alright, and here it is.
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Now, isn't that amazing?
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Isn't that amazing?
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Some say... Let's
look at these answers.
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Some say he is who?
together... John the Baptist.
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Some say he is who? Elijah.
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You know why they said Elijah?
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Because the Bible says, Behold,
I will send Elijah before the
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great and
dreadful day of the Lord.
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So they thought, Oh,
Elijah was reincarnated.
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This must be Elijah.
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The problem with it being
John is John baptized Jesus.
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But evidently those who were
responding are getting these
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answers from the
crowd that wasn't there when
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Jesus was baptized.
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So some said, Jesus
says, Who do men say that
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I, the Son of man am?
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Well, some say
You're John the Baptist.
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Others say You're Elijah.
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Others say You're Jeremiah.
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Because Jeremiah was considered
one of the great prophets.
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Jeremiah and
Isaiah were considered
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great, great prophets.
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And they're thinking, Wow,
if anybody is worthy of this
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kind of attention, it
can't be a minor prophet.
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It's got to be a major one.
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And then others say...
One of them said, Well,
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You're one of the prophets.
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They really don't know.
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So today some people
see Jesus as a prophet.
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Now, let me make it very clear.
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In some disciplines of
religion, even in Islam,
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Jesus is talked about,
but He's the good prophet,
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but He's not talked
about as the way of salvation.
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He's not talked about
as the way of salvation.
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Let me got to another level.
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Wow, this is really amazing.
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I'm going to try
to be candid today.
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Some religions think
of Jesus as a lesser god.
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And they consider
themselves Christian.
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I want to be kind. I'm not going
to say it's Jehovah's Witnesses.
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But it's Jehovah's Witnesses.
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They think of
Jesus as a lesser god.
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I had a discussion with
a young man in California,
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and also in Brooklyn,
when I was in New York.
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That was how I almost said
Brooklyn. It just came out.
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And he was saying to
me, Jesus cannot be God.
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He is a lesser
god. He was created.
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Well, you know, the problem
with that is if Jesus is created
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He is not sufficient to
save those that are created,
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because He Himself was
created. You see the point?
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So He can't be Elijah,
because Elijah was created.
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John the Baptist was created.
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Jeremiah: created. And all the
other prophets were procreated
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from their mom's and dad's.
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Now, but somebody said, But
didn't Jesus come from a woman?
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Hold onto your horses.
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We'll get there
in just a moment.
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So put the answer down.
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How did Peter reply to
the question that Jesus posed?
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You've got to be
somebody other than the one
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that you think you are. Alright?
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You can put any one
of those answers down
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and you will be correct.
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Let's go to #3. Let's go to #3.
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And we're still in Matthew.
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We're still in Matthew. Alright?
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And here's the question:
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Okay? This is
really interesting.
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And this is Matthew 16:15,
16, is where we're going to find
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the answer to this one. Alright?
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Let's look at... Since
we're already in the book.
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I'm sure you didn't turn
because I said stay there.
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Let's look at the question.
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Let's look at the answer now.
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You know, that's
how he personalizes it.
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And, you know, Jesus went on
and said, Well, flesh and blood
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did not reveal that to...
I mean flesh and blood did
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not reveal that to you.
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That's a spiritual revelation.
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Spiritual things are
spiritually what? discerned.
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So who Jesus is... And
Peter testified to the...
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You are the Christ,
the Son of the Living God.
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Now notice, what's the
personal responsibility?
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Because that's
what I want to pull out.
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How did Jesus
personalize our responsibility?
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Write the answer down.
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What is the answer?
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Somebody tell me. But
who do you say that I am?
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Write that down. We're not
looking necessarily for the
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answer that Peter gave
at the very end of verse 16,
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but the personal responsibility
is you have to have an answer
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when somebody says
to you, Who is Jesus?
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Isn't that right? Because He
is the only hope of humanity.
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If we cannot describe who Jesus
is; if we cannot put Him in the
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proper light, then
somebody can walk away with
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a distorted view of Jesus.
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Let's go to John 3. Let's
look at something else here.
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John 3. John 3 is a conversation
between Jesus and Nicodemus.
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But in that, in those passages
is so much beautiful truth.
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Alright? Ha ha, wow!
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Ha ha, I'm going to give
you a preview, a preview.
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John 3, and let's look together,
hum, I'll start with verse 14.
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Verse 14 and 15. John 3:14, 15.
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This is a
reiteration of what we just read
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a moment ago in
Acts 4:12. Alright?
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Well, let's go to
verse 13, because that pulls
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the context together.
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Are you ready to go to 13?
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No one has ascended to heaven
but He who came down from where?
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from heaven. Where did
Jesus come? He came from heaven.
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That is the Son of man
who is where? in heaven.
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He came from somewhere.
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But look at verse 14 and 15.
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And as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness,
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even so must the Son of man
be what? lifted up, that whoever
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believes in Him
should not perish,
00:26:10.67\00:26:12.17
but have what? eternal life.
00:26:12.20\00:26:14.27
We often read verse 16.
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So who should be lifted up?
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Who should be lifted up?
00:26:18.01\00:26:19.34
Jesus should be lifted up.
00:26:19.37\00:26:20.71
The Son of man should
be lifted up; the One who
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came down from heaven.
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You know, the issue that came
along even after this another
00:26:24.15\00:26:27.48
discussion ensued, because
in John 8, when Jesus continued
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talking to the Jews
about who He is they said,
00:26:31.79\00:26:34.42
Abraham is our father.
00:26:34.46\00:26:36.22
And He said, Before Abraham
was... What did He say? I Am.
00:26:36.26\00:26:40.50
Immediate, present
tense, not I was, or I will be,
00:26:40.53\00:26:44.67
but Jesus is always who? I Am.
00:26:44.70\00:26:47.40
And be careful of that
today because the world,
00:26:47.44\00:26:49.64
in the secular world,
they have done their job.
00:26:49.67\00:26:52.54
Some of these music
artists, some pop stars,
00:26:52.57\00:26:56.91
have taken the name I am.
00:26:56.95\00:26:58.31
Even some
commercials on television; I am.
00:26:58.35\00:27:01.68
They've taken that name
that belongs only to Jesus,
00:27:01.72\00:27:04.49
and have
escribed it to humanity,
00:27:04.52\00:27:06.39
which He is the only I Am.
00:27:06.42\00:27:08.22
And they looked at
Jesus and said, Wait a minute.
00:27:08.26\00:27:11.39
Uh, help us to understand this.
00:27:11.43\00:27:13.09
How old are you? How
could you be before Abraham?
00:27:13.13\00:27:17.07
Even the woman at the
well, in John 4 and Matthew 4...
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Jesus is having a discussion
with the woman at the well.
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John 4. I said
Matthew, didn't I?
00:27:24.07\00:27:26.91
John 4. And the woman said,
Our father gave us this well.
00:27:26.94\00:27:32.08
Well, who is he?
Our father gave it.
00:27:32.11\00:27:36.02
This is Abraham's well.
00:27:36.05\00:27:37.89
And He says to her, If you
only knew who you're standing in
00:27:37.92\00:27:44.26
front of... Can you
imagine standing in front...
00:27:44.29\00:27:48.20
Amen, somebody. Can you
imagine having a conversation
00:27:48.23\00:27:51.93
with Jesus and He's
saying, I'm thirsty?
00:27:51.97\00:27:55.00
And He is the water of life.
00:27:55.04\00:27:57.31
You know, there's got to
be an ulterior motive there.
00:27:57.34\00:27:59.57
I'm thirsty. And then she says,
You don't even, you don't even
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have anything to get water with.
00:28:03.65\00:28:05.31
Jesus could have spoken to the
water, and the water could have
00:28:05.35\00:28:09.98
easily come out of the well.
00:28:10.02\00:28:11.35
But that's not what He intended.
00:28:11.39\00:28:12.95
He wanted to
communicate to her, I am your
00:28:12.99\00:28:15.92
only means of salvation.
00:28:15.96\00:28:17.63
Let me give you
one other example.
00:28:17.66\00:28:19.56
Thank You, Lord,
my mind is flowing.
00:28:19.59\00:28:21.60
John 5:39. Look at this.
00:28:21.63\00:28:23.80
I want to put this in the proper
light, because we often use
00:28:23.83\00:28:26.50
this Scripture for the
intended purpose of saying we
00:28:26.53\00:28:29.74
should study the Bible.
00:28:29.77\00:28:31.11
And we should. But I want you
to see this in the proper light.
00:28:31.14\00:28:34.38
The proper light is
amazing; how this verse is used.
00:28:34.41\00:28:37.81
Okay, ha ha. Jesus had a
hard time breaking down the
00:28:37.85\00:28:47.29
preconceived ideas.
00:28:47.32\00:28:48.66
We're in John 5. And
we're going to look at verse 39.
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Now I want you to
notice this very carefully.
00:28:51.69\00:28:53.83
And we'll go back to
the screen in a moment.
00:28:53.86\00:28:56.33
He says, You search the
what? Scriptures, for in them...
00:28:56.36\00:29:02.30
What are the next two words?
you think you have eternal life.
00:29:02.34\00:29:06.71
And these are they
which do what? testify of Me.
00:29:06.74\00:29:11.38
But look at what He
says in verse 40, verse 40.
00:29:11.41\00:29:14.32
But you are not willing to come
to Me that you may have life.
00:29:14.35\00:29:18.09
You know what he
was in essence saying?
00:29:18.12\00:29:19.55
He was saying to them...
00:29:19.59\00:29:20.92
Look at this. Let me
make the illustration clear.
00:29:20.96\00:29:22.92
Jesus is tapping me on my
shoulder and saying, Ah, John,
00:29:22.96\00:29:28.86
could I have a
conversation with you?
00:29:28.90\00:29:30.23
And I'm saying, Wait!
00:29:30.27\00:29:31.60
I'm studying my Bible.
00:29:31.63\00:29:32.97
I'm studying about Jesus.
00:29:33.00\00:29:34.34
Would you stop bugging me?
00:29:34.37\00:29:35.70
He says, John, I'm right here.
00:29:35.74\00:29:38.47
I'm almost done
with my Bible study.
00:29:38.51\00:29:41.24
If you could just wait;
because I'm studying about
00:29:41.28\00:29:43.14
Jesus; a very important person.
00:29:43.18\00:29:44.55
Would you just hold on?
00:29:44.58\00:29:45.91
He said, So John, so here's
the issue: You're searching the
00:29:45.95\00:29:49.22
Scriptures, and you think
you have eternal life in them?
00:29:49.25\00:29:51.02
Hey, they are
pointing you to Me.
00:29:51.05\00:29:53.72
Pay attention to Me!
And He says in verse 40
00:29:53.76\00:29:56.59
but you are not
willing to come to Me.
00:29:56.62\00:29:58.29
There are many
people that read their Bible
00:29:58.33\00:30:01.06
that don't know Jesus.
00:30:01.10\00:30:02.43
Some atheists read their
Bible to argue with Christians,
00:30:02.46\00:30:05.67
but they don't know Jesus.
00:30:05.70\00:30:08.50
They don't know the Man.
00:30:08.54\00:30:10.77
They may know the doctrine,
but it is not knowing the
00:30:10.81\00:30:13.91
doctrine alone, it is
knowing the Man, Christ Jesus.
00:30:13.94\00:30:19.38
Right? So we see clearly when
Peter said, You are the Christ,
00:30:19.41\00:30:24.22
the Son of the living God.
00:30:24.25\00:30:25.92
Jesus said, boy that is
spiritual, flesh and blood
00:30:25.95\00:30:29.39
couldn't have told
you that because I'm in,
00:30:29.42\00:30:31.93
I am with my own
people, they're denying who I am
00:30:31.96\00:30:34.76
the religious
leaders are denying who I am.
00:30:34.80\00:30:36.97
So the popular opinion is
on John the Baptist, on Elisha,
00:30:37.00\00:30:41.74
on Jeremiah or
some other prophet
00:30:41.77\00:30:43.20
so you could not have had that
revelation from anybody in this
00:30:43.24\00:30:46.64
crowd, that's in
essence what he's saying.
00:30:46.68\00:30:48.44
The spirit revealed that to you.
00:30:48.48\00:30:51.45
And Peter in an unconverted
manner, the spirit spoke to that
00:30:51.48\00:30:54.95
young man as he was
still filing Peter down
00:30:54.98\00:30:58.52
to get him ready for ministry.
00:30:58.55\00:30:59.92
Let's go to number 4.
00:30:59.95\00:31:01.29
See so it's important to
know that this man Jesus...
00:31:01.32\00:31:04.89
and Jesus is,
this whole passage...
00:31:04.93\00:31:09.90
um, matter of fact,
are you still in John 4?
00:31:09.93\00:31:14.70
Are you still in John 5?
00:31:14.74\00:31:16.07
Just go very quickly
because a portion of it that
00:31:16.10\00:31:19.77
I want you to see.
00:31:19.81\00:31:21.24
Ok. Huh. Whew. Wow.
00:31:21.28\00:31:30.22
Verse 46, I mean this is
the whole contention verse 39-47
00:31:30.25\00:31:34.66
is the contention about Jesus.
00:31:34.69\00:31:36.02
Look at verse 46. For
if you believed Moses,
00:31:36.06\00:31:41.20
you would have believed
Me for he wrote about Me.
00:31:41.23\00:31:45.67
See, we're not going
to... For he wrote about...
00:31:45.70\00:31:48.20
but if you do not
believe His writings,
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.54
how will you believe my words?
00:31:50.57\00:31:53.04
See you are not even...
You know who he is talking to?
00:31:53.07\00:31:55.68
He's talking to His own people
cause they had the writings
00:31:55.71\00:31:59.35
of Moses. He's talking to the
Jews to whom He gave the message
00:31:59.38\00:32:03.25
for two thousand years.
00:32:03.28\00:32:05.15
And He's saying, you
wouldn't listen to Moses
00:32:05.19\00:32:07.59
so if you ain't
going to listen to him.
00:32:07.62\00:32:09.22
you are not
going to listen to me.
00:32:09.26\00:32:11.49
Because in John 3,
remember we read John3
00:32:11.53\00:32:13.70
As Moses lifted up the serpent,
00:32:13.73\00:32:15.60
so must the Son
of man be lifted up.
00:32:15.63\00:32:17.90
They remember
Moses lifting the serpent
00:32:17.93\00:32:20.14
but they would
not lift up Jesus.
00:32:20.17\00:32:22.20
Wow!
00:32:22.24\00:32:23.57
Now question number 4.
00:32:23.61\00:32:24.94
Sorry about that with
our guys with the graphics,
00:32:24.97\00:32:26.37
I appreciate it very much.
00:32:26.41\00:32:27.74
Question # 4.
00:32:27.78\00:32:29.11
Let's go to a very
difficult book to find.
00:32:38.52\00:32:41.32
Genesis 1:1.
00:32:41.36\00:32:46.80
We're not going to
dive into a beautiful pa...
00:32:46.83\00:32:49.16
Do you need to look it up?
00:32:49.20\00:32:50.60
But let's look it up anyway.
00:32:50.63\00:32:52.53
Huh. Say that again.
00:32:52.57\00:32:55.40
That's right, when the
first man landed on the moon
00:32:55.44\00:33:00.51
they said this...I'm going
to turn to the passage first.
00:33:00.54\00:33:02.41
You know one small
step for humanity...
00:33:02.44\00:33:06.41
and then he read,
In the beginning God
00:33:06.45\00:33:09.62
created the
heavens and the earth.
00:33:09.65\00:33:11.29
You young people
don't remember that...
00:33:11.32\00:33:12.85
It's on You Tube by the way.
00:33:12.89\00:33:14.26
But that was a
moment in history.
00:33:14.29\00:33:18.46
When we heard those
words from the moon and we saw
00:33:18.49\00:33:22.06
the earth in the
yonder, as they would say here
00:33:22.10\00:33:25.07
in the Midwest, way yonder.
00:33:25.10\00:33:26.43
When we saw the earth
from a long distance...
00:33:26.47\00:33:28.60
You know there are
some people still today
00:33:28.64\00:33:30.81
that don't ever believe
that man has gone to the moon,
00:33:30.84\00:33:34.08
but that's their prerogative.
00:33:34.11\00:33:35.44
Let's look at Genesis 1:1
and I want us all to read this
00:33:35.48\00:33:39.01
together.
00:33:39.05\00:33:40.38
Let's put some energy
behind this. Together!
00:33:40.42\00:33:41.75
Isn't that wonderful?
00:33:47.26\00:33:49.29
Beautiful passage.
00:33:49.32\00:33:50.66
I should of
remembered at this point,
00:33:50.69\00:33:52.03
you know I was
thinking about it but my
00:33:52.06\00:33:54.26
electricity went off and
I had to revert to plan B.
00:33:54.30\00:33:57.73
I was going to show
a picture of the earth
00:33:57.77\00:33:59.87
how small and insignificant
and dot, little dot, it's out...
00:33:59.90\00:34:03.84
We're, we're just out there
some...we are one golf ball,
00:34:03.87\00:34:07.68
we are one golf ball
floating on the floor of an
00:34:07.71\00:34:11.65
ocean somewhere.
00:34:11.68\00:34:13.01
You know it's like
saying would you go find that
00:34:13.05\00:34:15.78
golf ball that
fell off of the Titanic
00:34:15.82\00:34:18.35
some 70 years ago?
00:34:18.39\00:34:20.52
It's somewhere in the ocean.
00:34:20.56\00:34:21.89
Can you imagine the search for a
golf ball that emits no signals?
00:34:21.92\00:34:26.13
We're like that...we're
just like a golf ball.
00:34:26.16\00:34:29.83
Let me even go
further than that.
00:34:29.86\00:34:31.23
Earth is like a grain
of sand in God's universe
00:34:31.27\00:34:38.24
and if somebody
said, if Sister Zita said,
00:34:38.27\00:34:42.64
I dropped a blue grain
of sand 70 years ago in the
00:34:42.68\00:34:47.78
ocean, would somebody
please find it for me,
00:34:47.82\00:34:50.45
it's valuable to my family?
00:34:50.49\00:34:52.52
You know somebody
would say Sister Zita
00:34:52.55\00:34:54.69
are you feeling
well? Are you feeling well?
00:34:54.72\00:34:56.26
No one would be able to find it.
00:34:56.29\00:34:59.59
Do you realize what
you are asking us to do?
00:34:59.63\00:35:02.66
If you spend time on
astronomy, not astrology
00:35:02.70\00:35:06.20
you will see how insignificant,
the further away you
00:35:06.23\00:35:08.84
pull away from the earth...
Even within our own planetary
00:35:08.87\00:35:12.17
community...you go...
My very educated mother
00:35:12.21\00:35:15.84
just served us nine
pickles. You remember that?
00:35:15.88\00:35:17.65
Those are all the planets,
Mars, Venus, Earth, what was the
00:35:17.68\00:35:21.65
other one? No, Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
00:35:21.68\00:35:29.12
Neptune, Pluto alright, if
I missed one, Uranus, exactly.
00:35:29.16\00:35:37.60
It's all the way out,
that's right, all the way out.
00:35:37.63\00:35:38.97
So you find that in
this little solar system.
00:35:39.00\00:35:43.74
If you defer the
way... you go to, you go to
00:35:43.77\00:35:45.81
Jupiter, you go to Saturn,
it's like somebody help me
00:35:45.84\00:35:49.74
find the earth,
it's out there somewhere.
00:35:49.78\00:35:52.65
Yet when you read passages
like "God so loved the world."
00:35:52.68\00:35:59.65
Amen!
00:35:59.69\00:36:01.02
He didn't think
about us as insignificant.
00:36:01.06\00:36:03.36
We are a dot of
sand on a beach of time,
00:36:03.39\00:36:08.06
and we are dots on a dot.
00:36:08.10\00:36:10.97
Our little dots only last
for the lifetime of a vapor
00:36:11.00\00:36:16.07
and then we are gone.
00:36:16.10\00:36:17.44
People are passing off
into eternity as we sit here,
00:36:17.47\00:36:20.38
others are coming in.
00:36:20.41\00:36:21.78
These dots are blipping
on the screen of life in such
00:36:21.81\00:36:24.75
an insignificant short span
of time and then all of a sudden
00:36:24.78\00:36:27.75
it's gone.
00:36:27.78\00:36:29.12
It's like a digital dot,
we're here and we are gone,
00:36:29.15\00:36:31.55
and God loves us so much.
00:36:31.59\00:36:33.79
Isn't that wonderful?
00:36:33.82\00:36:35.19
So when the Bible
says "In the beginning God
00:36:35.22\00:36:37.13
created the
heavens and the earth"...
00:36:37.16\00:36:38.56
Oh the heavens, the Bible
says, declare the glory of God
00:36:38.59\00:36:42.26
and the earth
shows His handiwork.
00:36:42.30\00:36:44.50
And the Bible, when the
Bible speaks about the skies
00:36:44.53\00:36:47.14
as night after night,
the stars pour forth speech.
00:36:47.17\00:36:52.24
There is no place where
their language is not heard.
00:36:52.27\00:36:56.68
If the stars and the
planets can uplift Jesus
00:36:56.71\00:37:00.05
why can't we?
00:37:00.08\00:37:01.42
See, there's no issue
about who Jesus is to the earth,
00:37:01.45\00:37:05.39
to the planets, to
the things He created,
00:37:05.42\00:37:08.26
so we want to unconfuse
the issue about who Jesus is
00:37:08.29\00:37:14.13
to humanity on earth.
00:37:14.16\00:37:15.53
So write the answer down.
00:37:15.56\00:37:16.97
What truth is accepted
by all Bible believers?
00:37:17.00\00:37:20.37
What's the truth?
00:37:20.40\00:37:22.17
The creation story, the
creation story is accepted.
00:37:22.20\00:37:28.11
God created. That's
right. Praise the Lord for that.
00:37:28.14\00:37:31.61
Now we are going to look
at another aspect of that
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.82
because we're going to
expand on the word God.
00:37:33.85\00:37:35.72
We're going to
expand on the word God.
00:37:35.75\00:37:37.49
There are some people that
have an issue when you mention
00:37:37.52\00:37:40.79
Jesus and God in
the very same breath
00:37:40.82\00:37:42.69
because they forget
that Jesus was pre-existing.
00:37:42.72\00:37:45.29
Matter of fact you
don't find the name Jesus
00:37:45.33\00:37:49.23
anywhere in the Old
Testament, just in the New.
00:37:49.26\00:37:54.57
Is it then therefore conclusive
to say that Jesus did not exist
00:37:54.60\00:38:01.34
until the New Testament?
00:38:01.38\00:38:02.98
Oh I beg to differ.
We're going to see tonight
00:38:03.01\00:38:06.11
that the name
Jesus, the name Jesus
00:38:06.15\00:38:11.45
is what He was given
for His earthly sojourn,
00:38:11.49\00:38:14.72
He still has that name today.
00:38:14.76\00:38:16.99
Even after He ascended
to heaven, the apostles were
00:38:17.03\00:38:20.40
preaching in the name of Jesus.
00:38:20.43\00:38:22.13
It was foreign, you know why
it was so difficult for them?
00:38:22.16\00:38:25.23
Because it wasn't a name
that was heard but for such a
00:38:25.27\00:38:28.10
short period of time.
00:38:28.14\00:38:30.01
Jesus was just in
His 30's when He ascended
00:38:30.04\00:38:32.57
back to heaven.
00:38:32.61\00:38:33.94
That is in His
earthly life but in fact,
00:38:33.98\00:38:36.98
He was from
everlasting to everlasting.
00:38:37.01\00:38:40.75
He had no
beginning, He had no end.
00:38:40.78\00:38:44.25
So to say the name
Jesus... can you imagine if they
00:38:44.29\00:38:48.49
just 30 years ago
started saying Jesus
00:38:48.52\00:38:50.26
and people say, who is this guy?
00:38:50.29\00:38:53.80
I've only heard His
name for the last 30 years.
00:38:53.83\00:38:56.80
So what's the
big deal about Him?
00:38:56.83\00:38:59.03
how long have we been
talking about Abraham?
00:38:59.07\00:39:01.74
Oh, for a couple thousand years.
00:39:01.77\00:39:04.37
What about Isaiah?
00:39:04.41\00:39:05.91
What about
Jeremiah? What about Moses?
00:39:05.94\00:39:07.84
Long time, oh,
maybe longer than that.
00:39:07.88\00:39:11.55
So who is Jesus?
00:39:11.58\00:39:13.78
Can you see the difficulty?
00:39:13.82\00:39:15.65
You know, huh. Yeah, oh yeah.
00:39:15.68\00:39:19.59
Oh a beautiful story I heard.
00:39:19.62\00:39:21.06
A very famous
man, he's passed now,
00:39:21.09\00:39:25.89
he was Ike and Tina
Turner, remember that name?
00:39:25.93\00:39:28.03
If you had been
around long enough,
00:39:28.06\00:39:29.40
you may have heard that name.
00:39:29.43\00:39:30.77
You may have heard that
song Rolling on the River,
00:39:30.80\00:39:33.00
it was an old song.
00:39:33.03\00:39:34.37
When I was in the
secular world, I remember that.
00:39:34.40\00:39:36.07
But we know of a person, I am
going to be very vague about him
00:39:36.10\00:39:41.78
had given Ike
Turner a book about Jesus
00:39:41.81\00:39:45.28
and Ike Turner's
response to him was.
00:39:45.31\00:39:47.52
I never knew that
Jesus died for me.
00:39:47.55\00:39:51.52
I never knew
that He loved me so.
00:39:51.55\00:39:54.76
I never knew that He
came to forgive my sins.
00:39:54.79\00:39:57.43
I never knew that with tears
in his voice, I never knew that.
00:39:57.46\00:40:00.46
That truth can transform
a life from hopelessness
00:40:00.50\00:40:04.60
to hopefulness.
00:40:04.63\00:40:06.47
As one person says, life without
Jesus is the hopeless end,
00:40:06.50\00:40:14.41
But life with
Jesus is an endless hope.
00:40:14.44\00:40:17.68
Amen to that. Beautiful!
00:40:17.71\00:40:20.28
So we look now at the
creation of the world,
00:40:20.32\00:40:22.78
the heavens and the earth.
00:40:22.82\00:40:24.15
Let's look at John the
apostle how he added to this.
00:40:24.19\00:40:27.86
There are in fact, I refer to it
as three Genesis' in the Bible.
00:40:27.89\00:40:31.76
Genesis is the first
one, John is the next one
00:40:31.79\00:40:35.06
and Hebrew is the third one.
00:40:35.10\00:40:36.60
Let's look at the
second Genesis as it is.
00:40:36.63\00:40:39.00
Question number 5.
00:40:39.03\00:40:40.50
Now if we went to Genesis 1.
00:40:53.08\00:40:55.65
Where should we go
in the book of John?
00:40:55.68\00:40:57.45
John 1. In the beginning.
00:40:57.49\00:41:01.29
Ok. Let's go to John 1.
00:41:01.32\00:41:03.93
We're going to John 1:1-2.
00:41:03.96\00:41:10.83
Alright. Beautiful passage.
00:41:10.87\00:41:14.00
Ok, here it is.
00:41:14.04\00:41:16.00
So how does the apostle John
record the account of creation?
00:41:30.62\00:41:35.62
What title does
he give to Jesus?
00:41:35.66\00:41:38.79
What description
does he give to Jesus?
00:41:38.83\00:41:41.40
The Word!
00:41:41.43\00:41:42.80
This could be
confusing if you think of it
00:41:42.83\00:41:47.30
in terms of humanity.
00:41:47.34\00:41:49.44
Come here Janeck, hurry,
quickly, you're athletic,
00:41:49.50\00:41:52.24
come over here. Hurry up.
00:41:52.27\00:41:54.98
That's not Russian.
00:41:55.01\00:41:56.88
This is Janeck.
00:41:56.91\00:41:58.25
Yaneck is from
Russia, no Poland.
00:41:58.28\00:42:01.68
Ok, sorry.
00:42:01.72\00:42:03.05
I'm giving him a
wrong point of origin.
00:42:03.08\00:42:05.52
Now, in the
beginning was Janeck,
00:42:05.55\00:42:09.79
wow, this is going to be hard.
00:42:09.82\00:42:13.86
I said it was
going to be hard, right?
00:42:13.90\00:42:15.93
Ok, In the beginning was
the word, okay, the word was
00:42:15.96\00:42:22.80
both of us and the
word was with both of us.
00:42:22.84\00:42:28.78
Is that hard to do?
00:42:28.81\00:42:31.81
It is, because I have to
you and you have to be me.
00:42:31.85\00:42:35.25
So you are with me but you
are me but we are together.
00:42:35.28\00:42:40.36
Is that difficult to
do in the human sense?
00:42:40.39\00:42:42.66
Ok you may be seated,
we're already confused.
00:42:42.69\00:42:45.29
That's my
point. That's my point.
00:42:45.33\00:42:49.56
Some people say wait
a minute, wait a minute.
00:42:49.60\00:42:52.17
How can the word be
with God and the word be God?
00:42:52.20\00:42:58.81
I don't know about that.
00:42:58.84\00:43:01.81
Let me get this again. In
the beginning was the word,
00:43:01.84\00:43:07.38
the word was with
God and the word was God.
00:43:07.42\00:43:14.16
I don't know. So who was first?
00:43:14.19\00:43:18.99
That was the big question.
00:43:19.03\00:43:21.23
People are still struggling
today to find out who was first.
00:43:21.26\00:43:26.37
So let's go ahead, we are
going to walk through this
00:43:26.40\00:43:28.50
tulip garden slowly, we're
going to tip toe through the
00:43:28.54\00:43:31.77
scriptures to make this
point clear, so write it down...
00:43:31.81\00:43:34.91
How does the Apostle John
record the account of creation?
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.51
Word was God, Word was with God.
00:43:37.55\00:43:40.52
You can even highlight that
and refer to the first verse.
00:43:40.55\00:43:44.35
Word was with God, word was God.
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.16
Wow!
00:43:47.19\00:43:48.52
Then it says in verse two.
00:43:48.56\00:43:51.26
He was in the what?
00:43:51.29\00:43:53.29
Beginning with God.
00:43:53.33\00:43:57.33
Wait a minute.
00:43:57.37\00:43:58.97
Ok, I am really confused now,
He was in the beginning with God
00:43:59.00\00:44:02.10
and He is God?
00:44:02.14\00:44:03.47
Which one is it?
00:44:03.51\00:44:05.24
Exactly.
00:44:05.27\00:44:06.81
Did you follow me?
00:44:06.84\00:44:08.21
He is with God and He is
God and He was in the beginning
00:44:08.24\00:44:14.98
with God so which one is God?
00:44:15.02\00:44:17.29
Exactly.
00:44:17.32\00:44:18.65
The word is God and the
word is with God. Exactly.
00:44:18.69\00:44:21.59
In the sense of humanity,
somebody once described it
00:44:21.62\00:44:26.83
this way and we are
going to get deeper into this
00:44:26.86\00:44:28.90
in just a moment.
00:44:28.93\00:44:30.27
I want you to go now to
questions...as you are going...
00:44:30.30\00:44:32.50
Well you are already in
John, just wait, we are going to
00:44:32.53\00:44:34.64
walk through this a little bit
but let me just make this point.
00:44:34.67\00:44:36.40
Somebody says
okay, if you have an egg,
00:44:36.44\00:44:41.18
anybody know what an egg is?
00:44:41.21\00:44:42.54
Have you ever seen
an egg before Nori?
00:44:42.58\00:44:46.38
It's got a funny thing.
00:44:46.41\00:44:47.88
Pastor what are you asking me?
00:44:47.92\00:44:50.89
How many
components does an egg have?
00:44:50.92\00:44:53.79
Let's start.
00:44:53.82\00:44:55.16
What's the first
thing you see about an egg?
00:44:55.19\00:44:56.79
The shell. Ok.
00:44:56.83\00:44:59.09
So if we saw shells on the
ground, what do we call that?
00:44:59.13\00:45:03.40
Egg shells.
00:45:03.43\00:45:05.70
Now if we boiled it, have you
ever had a boiled egg before?
00:45:05.73\00:45:11.14
and you crack the shell,
now what do you have next?
00:45:11.17\00:45:16.18
Huh! The white, the egg
white. Do we still have an egg?
00:45:16.21\00:45:21.82
Yes.
00:45:21.85\00:45:23.22
Now if you go past the
egg white, what do you have?
00:45:23.25\00:45:26.12
The yolk. Do we
still have an egg?
00:45:26.15\00:45:28.92
So if you separate them all,
egg shell, egg white, egg yolk,
00:45:28.96\00:45:35.00
are they still
described as an egg?
00:45:35.03\00:45:36.87
Yes.
00:45:36.90\00:45:38.23
But wait a minute,
the shells are there,
00:45:38.27\00:45:40.50
the egg white is
there, the yolk is there.
00:45:40.54\00:45:42.77
What are they all together? Egg.
00:45:42.80\00:45:44.34
What are they
separately? Egg. Egg.
00:45:44.37\00:45:47.11
The name is egg as in
all three of them, egg shell,
00:45:47.14\00:45:50.51
egg white, egg
yolk, egg, egg, egg.
00:45:50.55\00:45:53.95
Three yet one.
00:45:53.98\00:45:59.95
I know you know where I
am headed but we're going to
00:45:59.99\00:46:02.76
drag it out and
pull you with us.
00:46:02.79\00:46:04.89
Let's go to the next question.
00:46:04.93\00:46:06.73
Question number six.
00:46:06.76\00:46:08.36
We want to remove
any fleeting doubt.
00:46:08.40\00:46:12.53
Alright.
00:46:12.57\00:46:13.90
What function does
John the Apostle give?
00:46:13.94\00:46:17.67
What function does he
give to the word of God?
00:46:23.68\00:46:26.78
John 1:3. Wow!
00:46:26.82\00:46:31.59
And both translations
are beautiful on this.
00:46:31.62\00:46:36.26
The King James says...
00:46:36.29\00:46:37.93
Well let's read the New
King James then I'm going to
00:46:37.96\00:46:41.03
keep King James in my head,
00:46:41.06\00:46:42.40
I was raised with
the King James Version.
00:46:42.43\00:46:43.77
Let's look at the answer here.
00:46:43.80\00:46:45.53
John 1:3. It says...
What's the first word?
00:46:45.57\00:46:49.07
What is the first two words?
00:46:49.10\00:46:50.44
What's the King
James Version say?
00:46:54.24\00:46:55.78
By Him.
00:46:55.81\00:46:57.51
What else
00:46:58.91\00:47:00.68
So let's pause and
ask the question now.
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.75
Was anything made that
wasn't made by Jesus? yes or no?
00:47:05.79\00:47:10.73
So therefore, now
this is a quandary
00:47:10.76\00:47:13.76
This could really confuse you.
00:47:13.96\00:47:15.40
If nothing was made
that wasn't made by Jesus,
00:47:15.66\00:47:20.47
what was made by Jesus?
00:47:20.50\00:47:22.90
Hey...You
got... Praise the Lord.
00:47:22.94\00:47:27.28
Say it together.
What was made by Jesus?
00:47:27.31\00:47:29.91
Everything. Say
it again. Everything.
00:47:29.94\00:47:33.08
Everything was made by Jesus.
00:47:33.11\00:47:35.82
How many things
are made by Jesus?
00:47:35.85\00:47:37.39
Everything.
00:47:37.42\00:47:38.75
So, my wife cooks, if
you're expecting dinner
00:47:38.79\00:47:42.32
and you come to my house,
nothing will be made by me.
00:47:42.36\00:47:45.96
How many did I say?
00:47:45.99\00:47:48.13
Nothing. I made... I
can't even make the napkins
00:47:48.16\00:47:50.63
and the knives and the forks.
Nothing will be made by me.
00:47:50.67\00:47:53.67
So...but if you come to
my house and there is dinner
00:47:53.70\00:47:57.21
on the table, I can say to you
all things were made by Angie
00:47:57.24\00:48:01.01
and without her
was not anything made
00:48:01.04\00:48:03.65
You get my point.
00:48:03.68\00:48:05.45
From the vegie
scallops to the mashed potatoes
00:48:05.48\00:48:09.45
to the, oh, I'm getting
hungry, just cut it out.
00:48:09.48\00:48:12.89
Everything was
made by her right?
00:48:12.92\00:48:15.36
So let's look at this again.
00:48:15.39\00:48:16.73
Question number six.
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.29
All things...together
say that with me.
00:48:18.33\00:48:20.90
All things were
made through or by Him
00:48:20.93\00:48:23.87
and without Him,
nothing was made that was made.
00:48:23.90\00:48:27.97
So right away... Let's put
this answer down in number six.
00:48:28.00\00:48:30.94
On your page question
number six and John 1:3.
00:48:30.97\00:48:35.31
So how does the Bible confirm
that the Word is the creator?
00:48:35.34\00:48:39.55
Sorry. What function does John
the Apostle give to the Word?
00:48:39.58\00:48:44.25
What function does he give?
00:48:44.29\00:48:45.69
Creator!
00:48:45.72\00:48:47.06
All things. All things.
00:48:47.09\00:48:49.26
This is important because
some people will in the, in the
00:48:49.29\00:48:53.46
theological world,
there's a phrase used called
00:48:53.50\00:48:55.90
exegesis which
means you exegy the text.
00:48:55.93\00:48:58.93
Simply you describe or
you read from the text,
00:48:58.97\00:49:01.04
you take from the
text what it says.
00:49:01.07\00:49:02.80
There's another phrase
called isojesus which means
00:49:02.84\00:49:05.47
you added to the
text what is not there.
00:49:05.51\00:49:07.51
You know what is not there?
00:49:07.54\00:49:09.38
It doesn't say
everything was made by Jesus
00:49:09.41\00:49:12.51
after He was made.
00:49:12.55\00:49:13.88
You follow me?
00:49:13.92\00:49:16.02
Because that's
what some people say.
00:49:16.05\00:49:17.55
Some people say yeah, yeah,
everything was made by Jesus
00:49:17.59\00:49:19.69
but after He was made.
00:49:19.72\00:49:21.06
No, that's not what it says.
00:49:21.09\00:49:22.76
How many things were
made by Jesus Bro Hutchison?
00:49:22.79\00:49:24.89
All things. How many Janeck?
00:49:24.93\00:49:27.33
Jane. All things.
00:49:27.36\00:49:29.46
Everybody, how many things?
00:49:29.50\00:49:30.83
All. That means
without Him, what was made?
00:49:30.87\00:49:34.67
Zero!
00:49:34.70\00:49:36.04
So you look at this big
limitless place called space
00:49:36.07\00:49:39.01
and what do you find out
there that wasn't made by Him?
00:49:39.04\00:49:41.41
Nothing!
00:49:41.44\00:49:42.78
Everything was made by Jesus.
00:49:42.81\00:49:45.48
So let's go on the verse ten.
00:49:45.51\00:49:47.55
Let's go on to verse
10 now. Verse 10. Okay.
00:49:47.58\00:49:54.32
Did I put verse 10 in there?
00:49:54.36\00:49:55.89
Okay, let me see.
00:49:55.92\00:49:57.46
I must have missed it.
00:49:57.49\00:49:58.93
That's okay, that's
the human side of me.
00:49:58.96\00:50:01.06
I think that's when the
power went off right there.
00:50:01.10\00:50:03.33
But let's go ahead,
they are not going to put it
00:50:03.37\00:50:06.07
on the screen, but
let's read it in our Bible's.
00:50:06.10\00:50:07.47
Thank the Lord for the
written Word. Amen somebody.
00:50:07.50\00:50:09.84
Let's look at verse 10
and this is in our Bible's.
00:50:09.87\00:50:13.58
It says:
00:50:13.61\00:50:14.94
"He was in the world,
and the world was made how,
00:50:14.98\00:50:20.22
through Him and the
world did not what, know Him."
00:50:20.25\00:50:24.95
So was the world
made through Jesus?
00:50:24.99\00:50:29.06
Was the world made by Jesus?
00:50:29.09\00:50:31.46
He made His own place to live.
00:50:31.49\00:50:36.87
He made His own planet. He
made His own constellation.
00:50:36.90\00:50:41.90
He made His own solar
system and we'll find out
00:50:41.94\00:50:44.77
in just a moment some beautiful
things about this whole
00:50:44.81\00:50:47.38
creation aspect.
00:50:47.41\00:50:48.74
So write it
down under John 1:10.
00:50:48.78\00:50:51.28
He was in the world and
the the world was made how?
00:50:51.31\00:50:56.62
By Him.
00:50:56.65\00:50:58.05
So put John 1:10, Jesus
is the creator of the world.
00:50:58.09\00:51:01.46
Jesus is the creator
of the world. John 1:10
00:51:01.49\00:51:03.96
Okay.
00:51:03.99\00:51:10.13
Okay, now let's look
at the next question.
00:51:10.17\00:51:12.83
Question number
7. Question number 7.
00:51:12.87\00:51:15.74
You know where
we are going next?
00:51:23.71\00:51:25.31
We're going to
Hebrews chapter one.
00:51:25.35\00:51:27.85
Now this is the third Genesis.
00:51:27.88\00:51:30.99
Genesis chapter one
is the first Genesis.
00:51:31.02\00:51:34.62
John chapter one
is the second Genesis.
00:51:34.66\00:51:37.56
And by the way are you
ready to get blown away?
00:51:37.59\00:51:40.56
Are you ready to get blown away?
00:51:40.60\00:51:42.60
John one goes further
back than Genesis one.
00:51:42.63\00:51:49.14
Did you know that?
00:51:49.17\00:51:51.27
Now we're going to go further
back than Genesis one again.
00:51:51.31\00:51:56.14
Because the Bible says
"In the beginning God created
00:51:56.18\00:51:58.85
the heavens and the earth right?
00:51:58.88\00:52:01.25
If the world is dated to
be about 6,000 years old,
00:52:01.28\00:52:05.85
then 6,000 years ago
God created the what?
00:52:05.89\00:52:10.03
Heavens and the what? Earth.
00:52:10.06\00:52:12.26
But when we read
John. When we read John,
00:52:12.29\00:52:15.76
we know that this is not...
00:52:15.80\00:52:18.07
We know that this is
not the only world, is it?
00:52:18.10\00:52:23.34
According to astronomy there
are millions and they suggest
00:52:23.37\00:52:28.64
billions of galaxies
which each one suggested
00:52:28.68\00:52:33.08
since we haven't
gone to any of them.
00:52:33.11\00:52:34.45
It is suggested that each
galaxy, life is possibly there.
00:52:34.48\00:52:38.75
Well, if there is
life in our galaxy,
00:52:38.79\00:52:41.76
can we conclude that
there's life in other galaxies?
00:52:41.79\00:52:44.09
Well let's not even speculate,
let's let the Bible speak.
00:52:44.13\00:52:48.43
Alright. Let's go
question number seven.
00:52:48.46\00:52:51.40
Hebrew's chapter one, let's
go to Hebrew's chapter one.
00:52:55.70\00:52:58.24
Okay.
00:52:58.27\00:53:00.78
Hebrews chapter
one. There we are.
00:53:00.81\00:53:03.41
Okay
00:53:03.45\00:53:04.78
Somebody once said ahh,
what could we possibly learn
00:53:04.81\00:53:09.95
about Jesus? Are
you learning anything?
00:53:09.98\00:53:11.72
Praise the Lord.
00:53:11.75\00:53:13.76
Okay, look at this.
00:53:13.79\00:53:15.39
Wow-man. This is beautiful.
00:53:15.42\00:53:19.93
I'm actually giving
you verse eight and ten,
00:53:19.96\00:53:21.83
but I want to go ahead
and read verse one and two
00:53:21.86\00:53:23.90
before I ask those,
our generator guys to bring
00:53:23.93\00:53:27.40
the slides up on the screen.
Let's look at verse one and two
00:53:27.44\00:53:29.20
first of all.
00:53:29.24\00:53:30.57
Hebrews one
verse one and two says:
00:53:30.61\00:53:32.91
"God who at various
times and in different ways,
00:53:32.94\00:53:36.98
spoke in times past to
the fathers by the prophets,"
00:53:37.31\00:53:40.52
has in these last days
spoken to us by His what?
00:53:40.55\00:53:45.05
"His Son, whom He appointed
heir of all things through whom
00:53:45.09\00:53:50.73
also He made the what? Worlds."
00:53:50.76\00:53:56.00
Is that more than one?
00:53:56.03\00:53:57.93
Yes, more than one.
00:53:57.97\00:54:01.07
But now let's go
right to the answer.
00:54:01.10\00:54:02.74
How does the Bible confirm
that the Word is the Creator?
00:54:02.77\00:54:05.41
Look at Hebrews
1:8, it's on the screen.
00:54:05.44\00:54:07.84
But to the Son He
says: Look at this.
00:54:07.88\00:54:13.42
He calls the Son.
What does He call the Son?
00:54:30.43\00:54:36.81
What does the
Father call the Son?
00:54:36.84\00:54:40.84
God! Right there.
To the Son He says:
00:54:40.88\00:54:46.72
"Your throne, O
God, is forever and ever;
00:54:46.75\00:54:50.02
A scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of Your kingdom.
00:54:50.05\00:54:53.72
He calls the Son God.
God calls the Son God.
00:54:53.76\00:55:00.16
Now who called
the Son God? God did.
00:55:00.20\00:55:04.07
Does God make mistakes? NO!
00:55:04.10\00:55:07.17
If anybody
wouldn't make a mistake,
00:55:07.20\00:55:10.31
the Father wouldn't
make a mistake about
00:55:10.34\00:55:12.41
the title of the Son.
00:55:12.44\00:55:13.78
Somebody said
Ah ha, got you now.
00:55:13.81\00:55:16.75
If He's the
Father and He's the Son
00:55:16.78\00:55:20.45
is it possible that
the Father created the Son?
00:55:20.48\00:55:26.22
We're going to answer
that. We're going to answer that
00:55:26.25\00:55:28.02
in just a moment, so
write the answer down.
00:55:28.06\00:55:30.59
How does the Bible confirm
that the Word is the Creator?
00:55:30.63\00:55:33.60
Hebrews 1 verse 8 calls
Jesus... What does he call Him?
00:55:33.63\00:55:37.90
God. G- O-D.
00:55:37.93\00:55:41.30
That's right and by the
way he doesn't say A god,
00:55:41.34\00:55:47.61
he says God.
00:55:47.64\00:55:49.94
Let's look at now
verse 10, Hebrews 1:10.
00:55:49.98\00:55:54.82
Wow! And here it is:
00:55:54.85\00:55:59.12
Jesus, the Father
saying to the Son,
00:56:14.20\00:56:16.81
You laid the foundation
of the earth and the heavens
00:56:16.84\00:56:21.24
are the work of Your hands.
Is there any in heaven about
00:56:21.28\00:56:24.55
who did it? None at all.
00:56:24.58\00:56:26.72
The Father saying you
did that and you did that.
00:56:26.75\00:56:30.95
He's the Creator, only the
Creator can be the Redeemer.
00:56:30.99\00:56:36.42
Isn't that wonderful?
00:56:36.46\00:56:37.99
Matter of fact...They have this
thing called parental rights,
00:56:38.03\00:56:41.46
not grandparents
rights but parental rights.
00:56:41.50\00:56:46.23
You know they have
this...and it's called a...um,
00:56:46.27\00:56:50.77
let me use the right word...
I might be, I might be incorrect
00:56:50.81\00:56:54.71
in my order of
terminology I'm using.
00:56:54.74\00:56:57.35
But it's something that if
the father...if somebody dies
00:56:57.38\00:57:03.12
and the property
left goes to the who?
00:57:03.15\00:57:07.06
To the who? To the next of kin.
00:57:07.09\00:57:11.69
It might be a son or
daughter. To the next of kin.
00:57:11.73\00:57:14.53
If that next of kin...let's
just say there's a father
00:57:14.56\00:57:19.97
and there's son and
the son already died,
00:57:20.00\00:57:23.10
but the son had children.
So if the son doesn't get it,
00:57:23.14\00:57:26.57
who gets it next?
00:57:26.61\00:57:27.98
The grandchildren.
00:57:28.01\00:57:29.71
There's this
continual line of heredity,
00:57:29.74\00:57:33.05
in other words,
the inheritor's of.
00:57:33.08\00:57:35.22
We have been called
sons and daughters of God,
00:57:35.25\00:57:37.49
Jesus died, He rose again
and He's made us inheritor's of
00:57:37.52\00:57:43.09
what belongs to Him.
00:57:43.12\00:57:44.59
Now you might be frustrated
that our topic is coming to an
00:57:44.63\00:57:48.06
end and so am I, but I want
you to stay tuned for the next
00:57:48.10\00:57:51.93
round of the truth about Jesus.
He's...You see, in the world
00:57:51.97\00:57:55.44
there is so much said
about Him...He's not Elijah,
00:57:55.47\00:57:57.74
He's not John the
Baptist, He's not Mohammad,
00:57:57.77\00:57:59.74
He's not Buddha, He's not
Christian, He is the Christ.
00:57:59.77\00:58:02.44
Keep studying and one day it
will come into a Sharper Focus.
00:58:02.48\00:58:05.61
God Bless you!
00:58:05.65\00:58:06.98