From Arcadia, California,
the Carter report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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This is a special
message for special friends
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in the great land of Australia.
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Also, in New Zealand.
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I'm coming to Australia
for the Avondale Homecoming,
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the last Sabbath of
August this year, 2010.
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I want to see you there.
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We're going to
have a tremendous time.
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I'll be there
preaching the word of the God
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in the College Church.
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The last
Sabbath, Sabbath morning,
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the last Sabbath of
August 2010, it's a Homecoming.
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People are coming
from all over Australia,
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all over New Zealand.
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In fact, my
friend, all over the world.
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I haven't seen some
of you for 30 or 40,
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dare I say, 50 years.
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I want to see you this
year at the Avondale Homecoming.
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It is the last
Sabbath of August 2010.
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I'll be
preaching the word of God
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in the college church
and I want to see you there.
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Then that same day,
during the afternoon,
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right on 4'o clock, at
the Peace Memorial Church,
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that is the great Village Church
at the gates of the college,
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we're going to have a
great evangelism rally.
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And we want to see
you come there, too.
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I'm going to be
showing you pictures
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of God's mighty
works of grace in China,
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in Russia, in India
and around the world.
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That is at the
Peace Memorial Church,
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the Avondale Village Church,
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the last Sabbath of August 2010,
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and the time is 4'o
clock in the afternoon.
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I'm looking forward to seeing
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all of my Aussie
friends, everybody.
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See me there and God bless you.
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Starting today a new series,
it's entitled "This I believe."
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I'll be talking about
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the greatest
subjects in all the world.
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Do you know what
a philosopher is?
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A philosopher?
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A philosopher is a blind man,
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in a room without any
lights or doors or windows,
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looking for cat
that doesn't exist.
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If you go to the
great schools in this land,
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in Great Britain, Australia,
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the United States
of America, Canada,
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and you talk to the
people who are in charge
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of the
departments of philosophy,
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folks, if you
haven't been there,
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just listen,
because this is true.
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If you talk to those
people who are in charge
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of the great
schools of philosophy
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on these great campuses,
Harvard, Yale and so forth,
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the chairmen of the
schools of philosophy
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will tell you very plainly,
you can't prove anything.
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In fact, most of them will tell
you, you can't know anything.
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Truth is unknowable.
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And some professors
say to their students
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before they start the class,
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"I want every
person to pledge to me
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that he will not suicide
at the end of this course."
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Because they walk
out of those classes
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believing
nothing can be defined,
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you can't know anything,
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there's no up,
there's nothing down.
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And that is why after
9/11 some of these philosophers
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grudgingly conceded that there
could be evil in the world.
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This is what
young people are taught.
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You've heard of the great
German philosopher haven't you?
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Schopenhauer.
Famous philosopher.
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I've mentioned
him, I think, before.
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Who was found lying all
disheveled on a park bench.
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He'd slept there
the night before.
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The park attendant didn't
know that he was a great man,
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took him by the shoulder,
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woke him up and said
to him, "who are you?"
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Schopenhauer said,
"I wish to God I knew."
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That's the cry
of the 21st century.
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I wish to God I knew.
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The greatest sickness
of our times, we know,
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is not cancer or
heart disease or diabetes,
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even though these are
plagues here in North America.
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The greatest sickness of
our times is meaninglessness.
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I listened to the great
Dawkins, Professor Dawkins,
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who has written
the book against God.
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I listened to him
being interviewed yesterday.
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A man who said,
"No, there's no God."
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But what the
man doesn't realize,
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because he knows
nothing about philosophy
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or he doesn't understand
anything about theology.
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What he doesn't
understand is this,
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if there is no
God, there is no good.
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And if there is no God,
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everything
completely is relative.
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But today we're
going to start talking,
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we're gonna do this
for a number of weeks.
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We're going to
talk about great truths
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that you and I can
stake our lives on.
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The first great truth that
we're going to discuss today,
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that gives a
reason for living is this.
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I believe in Jesus Christ. Amen.
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That's the first
and the greatest truth,
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I believe in Jesus Christ.
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And I have strong
reasons to tell you
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why I believe in Jesus Christ.
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Please open your
Bibles, my dear friends,
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to John chapter 10 and verse 10.
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Dear hearts and gentle people,
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I want you to turn
to John chapter 10:10.
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And this will be our theme text.
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John chapter 10--
this is really the heart.
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John chapter 10 and verse 10.
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Jesus said, "The thief comes
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only to steal
and kill and destroy.
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I have come that they may
have life," say it with me.
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"And have it to the full."
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Now I want you to know today,
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that if a person
truly, in his own soul,
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not just up here in the mind,
but if a person in his heart,
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and in his soul, if
he has Jesus Christ,
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he will have a
wonderful, wonderful peace.
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And I want you to know today,
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I believe, I
believe in Jesus Christ.
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I believe in Jesus Christ
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because Jesus
Christ of Nazareth not was,
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but is, the greatest person
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with the greatest
influence for good
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in the history
of the human race.
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Far greater than
Moses or even St. Paul
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and greater than
Mohammed or Buddha.
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The greatest person
with the greatest influence
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in the history
of the human race.
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How many slaves were there,
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in the Roman Empire
in the days of Jesus?
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I only discovered
this few years ago.
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How many slaves
in the Roman Empire
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when Jesus was preaching
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and when Paul was
writing a book on Romans?
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How many slaves? Sixty million.
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Sixty million. A fair
slice of the population.
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It was the
teachings of Jesus Christ
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that abolished
slavery in the Roman Empire
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and has been letting the
slaves go free ever since.
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Time Magazine has
made this astounding claim
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and I find it
almost too hard to believe,
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that there are more slaves today
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than at any
other time in history.
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And that's-- I find
that hard to believe.
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More than 60 million slaves?
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We know there are
millions of slaves in Africa.
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And there are large
numbers of slaves right here
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in the United States of
America, did you know this?
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Time Magazine gave the evidence.
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Particularly girls who were
kidnapped from other countries
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and who were brought
here and put in the sex trade.
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Maybe millions, we do know,
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millions and millions and
millions around the world.
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In places like Thailand,
little girls of eight and nine
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are actually
sold by their parents
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into the sex trade as slaves.
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I asked the
question, "Who are the people
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who go to the darkest Africa
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and they buy back the slaves?"
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Did you know?
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There are
organizations from this country
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that have been in
lots of hot water?
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Who had been
prosecuted for daring to do
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what they're doing.
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But they go to Africa and
they go to places like Sudan
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where you can buy a young
man or a young woman for $100.
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And they go with
suitcases of dollar bills
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and they buy back thousands
and thousands of slaves.
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Are they atheists?
No. They are Christians.
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They are people
who believe in Christ.
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Because Jesus Christ is
the greatest of all liberators.
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Most of you have
seen that marvelous movie,
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"Amazing
Grace," that talks about
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William
Wilberforce and John Newton.
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In the days of
Wilberforce and John Newton
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who gave us the
great hymn Amazing Grace,
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the British had
a great slave trade
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and so did the Americans.
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And so did the Africans.
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The Africans
would go out in the bush
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and they would get the slaves
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and then they would sell
them to the white people.
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And the white
people would take them
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to America or any other place.
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What released the
slaves from the British Empire?
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It was the preaching of Christ.
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It was the
preaching of the gospel.
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Jesus is the
greatest of all liberators.
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I ask you, I say
this to the person
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who may be an
atheist or an unbeliever,
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like Richard Dawkins,
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because he sneers at
the Christian church.
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He laughs at the sex scandals
in the Roman Catholic Church.
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I say to him, "What
about the Soviet Union?"
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When Christ was thrown
out of the Soviet Union
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and communism embraced
atheism, militant atheism,
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50 or 60 million people
were tortured and put to death.
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It was the
story of amazing grace
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that saved millions
of people from atheism.
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Jesus, of course, I
want the ladies to know,
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is the greatest
liberator of women.
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No woman should
ever criticize Jesus.
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Because it was
Jesus who liberated women
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and if you go to
some countries today,
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that are not so
far from this country,
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you'll find where women are kept
in a very secondary position.
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You know why?
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Because the people,
they do not respect Jesus.
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But in those
countries like the United States
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where Jesus is respected,
there women are completely
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liberated and they
have an equality with men
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which they, of course,
have been given by God.
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He is the greatest liberator.
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See the hospitals and the
orphanages around the world
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that are being built
in the name of Jesus.
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Now Willie Jordan
preached here last Sabbath.
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Did you enjoy
Willie Jordan? Yes. Amen.
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Now Willie Jordan
feeds tens of thousands,
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maybe she's fed millions
of people during her lifetime,
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I'm sure of it.
Downtown Los Angeles.
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What urges Willie
Jordan to help the slaves
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and to help the
people out on the streets
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and to feed the hungry?
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It is Christ. It is Christ.
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It is because she
believes in Christ.
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Because, Jesus, my
friend, is the great liberator
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and the greatest
benefactor of the human race.
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Listen, "Here is a man
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who was born in
an obscure village,
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the child of a peasant woman.
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He grew up in another village.
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He worked in a carpenter
shop until He was thirty.
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Then for three years, He
was an itinerant preacher.
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He never owned a
home. He never wrote a book.
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He never held an
office. He never had a family.
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He never went to college.
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He never put His
foot inside a big city.
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He never
traveled two hundred miles
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from the place He was born.
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He never did one of the things
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that usually
accompany greatness."
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Listen to this line.
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"He had no
credentials but Himself."
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Isn't that great?
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He had no
credentials but Himself.
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"While still a young man,
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the tide of popular
opinion turned against him.
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His friends ran away.
One of them denied Him.
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He was turned
over to His enemies.
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He went through
the mockery of a trial.
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He was nailed upon a
cross between two thieves.
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While He was dying,
His executioners gambled
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for the only piece of property
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He had on earth, His coat.
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When He was dead, He
was laid in a borrowed grave
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through the pity of a friend.
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Nineteen long
centuries have come and gone,
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and today He is the
centerpiece of the human race
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and leader of the
column of progress.
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I am far within the mark
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when I say that all the
armies that ever marched,
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all the navies
that were ever built,
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all the
parliaments that ever sat
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and all the kings that
ever reigned, put together,
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have not affected the
life of man upon this earth
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as powerfully as has
that one solitary life."
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Now, I say this not
wishing to be misunderstood,
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but if you go to
the land of Israel
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it is officially
taught in that land
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that Jesus was an
impostor and that Jesus is dead.
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But Jesus is still the
greatest friend of Israel.
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The greatest
friend. You know why?
00:16:19.40\00:16:22.32
Israel would not exist
without Christian America.
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It is because of
Christians in this country
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that Israel has
a place in the sun.
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And you know another
thing that keeps Israel alive?
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All the pilgrims
that come from America
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and other parts of the world,
00:16:48.41\00:16:50.98
and those who
believe He was an impostor
00:16:51.01\00:16:55.20
show them around and they say,
"This is where He was born."
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He is still feeding Israel.
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You can't get rid of Him.
00:17:05.87\00:17:10.31
He is the greatest person
with the greatest influence.
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And that is why
I believe in Him.
00:17:15.42\00:17:19.52
He is the best, nobody compares.
00:17:19.55\00:17:22.55
Reject Him and
you've got nothing.
00:17:22.58\00:17:26.13
He is the best
friend of sinners.
00:17:26.16\00:17:28.53
He is the best
emancipator of women.
00:17:28.56\00:17:31.95
He is the best
protector of children.
00:17:31.98\00:17:36.67
He is the best
comforter of discouraged people.
00:17:36.70\00:17:40.81
The best restorer of
broken disciples like Peter.
00:17:40.84\00:17:46.31
The best coverer
of dirtied lives.
00:17:46.34\00:17:50.52
The best soldier
of heaven's armies.
00:17:50.55\00:17:54.61
The best lover of
lost men and women.
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The best
teacher of saving truth.
00:17:58.19\00:18:01.75
He is without peer.
And I believe in Christ.
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I believe in Christ
00:18:10.02\00:18:11.39
because Jesus Christ is either
the God man or a raving lunatic.
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C.S. Lewis said,
"Don't patronize him."
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People say, "Of course,
00:18:28.30\00:18:30.03
we know he was a
good man and a great man."
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Don't give me that gunk.
00:18:32.83\00:18:35.07
Jesus claimed to be God,
people who claim to be God
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are crazy unless it's Jesus.
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C.S. Lewis, the
great English author
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and defender of
the Christian faith
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who was once an atheist, says,
00:18:51.28\00:18:53.88
"It is like a man who
claims to be a poached egg."
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Don't say he is a great man
and a good man, he is a mad man.
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Notice the
statements that Jesus made
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and don't patronize him
and say he is a good man
00:19:07.60\00:19:11.47
unless you accept His Godhead.
00:19:11.50\00:19:13.94
Come to John
chapter 8 and verse 58.
00:19:13.97\00:19:18.42
John chapter 8 and verse
58. "'I tell you the truth,'
00:19:18.45\00:19:26.08
Jesus answered, 'before
Abraham was born, I am!'"
00:19:26.11\00:19:33.02
No wonder the Jews got mad.
00:19:33.05\00:19:34.91
"At this, they picked
up stones to stone him,
00:19:34.94\00:19:38.81
but Jesus hid himself,
00:19:38.84\00:19:41.03
slipping away from
the temple grounds."
00:19:41.06\00:19:43.62
He said, "I am the almighty
God, I am Yahweh Elohim."
00:19:43.65\00:19:51.29
They hated him but they
did not say he was crazy.
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Come with me John
chapter 6:35, John chapter 6:35.
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"Then Jesus declared,
'I am the bread of life.
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He who comes to me
will never go hungry,
00:20:06.70\00:20:09.45
and he who believes in
me will never be thirsty.'"
00:20:09.48\00:20:12.87
Look at verse 53 and onwards.
00:20:12.90\00:20:16.44
"Jesus said to them,
'I tell you the truth,
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unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man
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and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
00:20:22.01\00:20:26.91
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life,
00:20:26.94\00:20:30.82
and I will raise
him up at the last day.
00:20:30.85\00:20:33.38
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
00:20:33.41\00:20:37.25
Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood
00:20:37.28\00:20:40.53
remains in me, and I in him.
00:20:40.56\00:20:43.85
Just as the
living Father sent me
00:20:43.88\00:20:45.96
and I live
because of the Father,
00:20:45.99\00:20:47.65
so the one who feeds on
me will live because of me.
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This is the bread
that came down from heaven.
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Your forefathers
ate manna and died,
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but he who feeds on this
bread will live forever.'"
00:20:57.76\00:21:01.93
Please think
about it, be logical.
00:21:01.96\00:21:06.03
Think, if I were
to say to you today,
00:21:06.06\00:21:11.37
"If you feed on me,
you will live forever,"
00:21:11.40\00:21:17.20
you would rightly
say, "He is insane."
00:21:17.23\00:21:21.45
If I were to say to you today,
00:21:21.48\00:21:23.05
"I am the bread of life
that came down from heaven."
00:21:23.08\00:21:26.65
If I were to say to you,
00:21:26.68\00:21:28.05
"You must drink my blood
and you must eat my flesh."
00:21:28.08\00:21:32.78
So don't say, as
people have said,
00:21:35.94\00:21:38.88
"He is a good man and a nice man
00:21:38.91\00:21:41.91
and we enjoy what He said."
00:21:41.94\00:21:46.17
He is not just a good
man, He is the God man.
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And if He is not the
God man, He is a mad man.
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That is the alternative.
We need to be honest.
00:21:57.91\00:22:01.39
Look at John
chapter 14 and verse 6.
00:22:01.42\00:22:04.21
Away with this silly
superficial little thinking.
00:22:04.24\00:22:09.57
John chapter 14 and verse 6.
00:22:09.60\00:22:11.99
"Jesus answered, 'I am the
way and the truth and the life.
00:22:12.02\00:22:15.88
No one comes to the
Father except through me.'"
00:22:15.91\00:22:19.12
I am the way.
00:22:19.15\00:22:20.92
Imagine, if I were
to say to you today,
00:22:20.95\00:22:22.99
"Follow me, I am the
way, I am the truth."
00:22:23.02\00:22:28.24
He didn't say,
"I have the truth,"
00:22:28.27\00:22:30.20
He said, "I am the truth."
00:22:30.23\00:22:32.05
He didn't say, "I can
show you the way to life,"
00:22:32.08\00:22:34.70
He says, "I am the life."
00:22:34.73\00:22:38.32
Because he was God.
00:22:38.35\00:22:39.87
Please notice John
chapter 8 and verse 12.
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John chapter 8 and
verse 12, an astounding text,
00:22:48.19\00:22:52.12
notice it in the Bible and let
God talk to your heart today.
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John chapter 8 and verse 12.
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"When Jesus spoke
again to the people,
00:22:59.23\00:23:01.40
He said, 'I am the
light of the world.
00:23:01.43\00:23:05.65
Whoever follows me
will never walk in darkness,
00:23:05.68\00:23:08.86
but will have
the light of life.'"
00:23:08.89\00:23:11.57
You know what the
light of the world is?
00:23:11.60\00:23:13.10
Jesus said these words, "I
am the light of the world."
00:23:15.97\00:23:20.67
He was standing outside
00:23:20.70\00:23:23.40
and the rays of the
sun were kissing the earth.
00:23:23.43\00:23:28.55
He pointed to the sun and said,
"I am the light of the world."
00:23:28.58\00:23:34.19
Could you imagine a
man standingup the front
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saying, "I am the sun."
00:23:36.37\00:23:40.29
"I am the light of the world,
00:23:40.32\00:23:43.32
I bring light and
life to everything."
00:23:43.35\00:23:49.28
Because He is God.
00:23:49.31\00:23:52.83
Would you come
over here, please,
00:23:52.86\00:23:54.23
with me to Luke chapter
20, Matthew, Mark, Luke.
00:23:54.26\00:23:59.24
Luke chapter
20, my dear friends.
00:23:59.27\00:24:02.65
Luke chapter 20 verses 17 to 19.
00:24:02.68\00:24:06.91
So I say to my Hindu friends
00:24:06.94\00:24:09.61
who are watching
the telecast in India,
00:24:09.64\00:24:13.06
"Jesus is not just another God.
00:24:13.09\00:24:16.73
Jesus is the one
God. He is the true God."
00:24:16.76\00:24:21.48
I say that to my Hindu friends
00:24:21.51\00:24:22.88
who are watching
this television program.
00:24:22.91\00:24:25.30
He is not one of your pantheon.
00:24:25.33\00:24:28.95
He is the one great
God who made the universe.
00:24:28.98\00:24:33.06
Look at Luke chapter
20 verse 17 and onwards.
00:24:33.09\00:24:36.81
"Jesus looked
directly at them and asked,
00:24:36.84\00:24:41.48
'Then what is the meaning
of that which is written,
00:24:41.51\00:24:43.69
the stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone?
00:24:43.72\00:24:48.54
Everyone who falls on that
stone will be broken to pieces,
00:24:48.57\00:24:52.55
but he on whom it
falls will be crushed.'"
00:24:52.58\00:24:56.64
He is the stone, He is the rock.
00:24:56.67\00:25:00.35
If we fall on--
imagine if I said,
00:25:03.11\00:25:05.47
"If you fall on me,
you'll be broken to pieces,
00:25:05.50\00:25:10.92
so you can be made again.
00:25:10.95\00:25:12.77
But if I fall on you,
you'll be destroyed forever."
00:25:12.80\00:25:16.72
What a statement. The capstone.
00:25:16.75\00:25:20.04
He is the
foundation, He is the capstone,
00:25:20.07\00:25:22.86
He is the alpha and the omega,
the beginning and the end.
00:25:22.89\00:25:29.51
He is the-- listen to this,
00:25:29.54\00:25:32.31
Richard Dawkins, listen to this,
00:25:32.34\00:25:35.44
all those in America
who are becoming atheists,
00:25:35.47\00:25:39.57
and one of the
biggest unspiritual movements
00:25:39.60\00:25:42.92
in America today is the movement
from religion to atheism.
00:25:42.95\00:25:47.80
Listen to this.
00:25:50.58\00:25:52.11
There's only one man in
history who claimed to be God
00:25:52.14\00:25:55.59
and yet was judged
sane by his contemporaries.
00:25:55.62\00:26:00.34
Jesus.
00:26:00.37\00:26:03.91
I believe in Christ because
he is God in human flesh.
00:26:03.94\00:26:10.93
I believe in
Jesus Christ because--
00:26:10.96\00:26:14.13
now this is a
negative and perhaps
00:26:14.16\00:26:16.12
it should have been a clause
in one of the main points.
00:26:16.15\00:26:19.15
Because He is not like
many who take His name.
00:26:19.18\00:26:23.45
A young woman came to me
and she said, from San Francisco
00:26:28.83\00:26:32.55
"I could never belong to
the church or your church.
00:26:32.58\00:26:37.84
And I could
never be a Christian,
00:26:37.87\00:26:41.99
because of what
the Christians do."
00:26:42.02\00:26:46.82
I said to her, "The
Christians are not doing it."
00:26:46.85\00:26:50.55
The pedophiles are not
the disciples of Christ.
00:26:55.17\00:27:00.83
Don't confuse Jesus with
those who often take His name.
00:27:00.86\00:27:07.76
Don't make that mistake.
00:27:07.79\00:27:09.64
Time Magazine says,
"Why being Pope means
00:27:09.67\00:27:13.65
never having to
say you're sorry."
00:27:13.68\00:27:16.89
No wonder people say,
00:27:19.44\00:27:21.83
"I don't want to be a
member of the church."
00:27:21.86\00:27:25.73
But don't confuse
the church with Christ.
00:27:25.76\00:27:30.97
Any church. Any
church, any church.
00:27:31.00\00:27:38.16
A turn inside is
enough to turn your stomach.
00:27:38.19\00:27:42.92
"Ireland, government reports
in the deeply Catholic nation
00:27:42.95\00:27:48.33
last year revealed
decades of abuse and cover-up,
00:27:48.36\00:27:52.11
implicating
thousands of church officials."
00:27:52.14\00:27:57.55
In Ireland.
00:27:57.58\00:27:58.95
Mexico, "The founder of
the Legionaries of Christ,
00:27:58.98\00:28:03.64
a group favored by John Paul II,
00:28:03.67\00:28:06.56
raped young boys
and women alike."
00:28:06.59\00:28:11.65
She said to me, "I
could never join the church."
00:28:11.68\00:28:14.74
Wisconsin,
Boston, Germany, Belgium,
00:28:16.94\00:28:22.88
Austria, Minnesota,
Brazil, go on and on.
00:28:22.91\00:28:29.90
I would say, "Do not confuse
those who profess, with Christ."
00:28:29.93\00:28:37.17
Then we have terrible scandals.
00:28:39.99\00:28:44.39
Dawkins talks
about it in his book,
00:28:44.42\00:28:46.92
why he's against God.
00:28:46.95\00:28:48.64
Dawkins
completely misses the point.
00:28:48.67\00:28:51.66
He's a smart guy,
but he's not that smart.
00:28:51.69\00:28:54.65
He's tremendously
opposed to intelligent design.
00:28:57.31\00:29:01.16
He says, "That's
absolutely wrong."
00:29:01.19\00:29:04.58
He said, "It
ought to be thrown out,
00:29:04.61\00:29:07.02
it's wrong to teach
intelligent design."
00:29:07.05\00:29:11.32
The interviewer said to him,
00:29:11.35\00:29:12.85
"Dr. Dawkins, you
don't believe it?"
00:29:12.88\00:29:14.46
"No." "Well," he said,
00:29:14.49\00:29:17.01
"I can see there
is design in nature
00:29:17.04\00:29:20.90
and it looks like it comes
from an intelligent source."
00:29:20.93\00:29:27.97
He said, "I believe it came
from somewhere out in space,
00:29:28.00\00:29:33.15
by some super intelligent people
00:29:33.18\00:29:36.89
and by the
method of transpermia,
00:29:36.92\00:29:40.21
it was sent down to this earth."
00:29:40.24\00:29:42.20
So the interviewer who's
a great Jewish gentleman,
00:29:45.15\00:29:48.58
absolutely great, he
said, "Then, do you believe?"
00:29:48.61\00:29:51.97
Well, he said, "I believe
in that intelligent design.
00:29:52.00\00:29:54.61
Intelligent design
from a superior race
00:29:54.64\00:29:58.18
out in space." Thank you.
00:29:58.21\00:30:00.31
But Dawkins riles against
God because of the inquisition
00:30:05.11\00:30:10.41
and because of
these wretched pedophiles.
00:30:10.44\00:30:15.85
Now the inquisition,
00:30:15.88\00:30:18.55
the inquisition
done by the church.
00:30:18.58\00:30:23.78
People who
profess the name of Jesus
00:30:23.81\00:30:26.09
have done some
dreadful things and they still--
00:30:26.12\00:30:29.55
Don't confuse Jesus with
people who come to church.
00:30:33.87\00:30:40.25
Do you know what I'm saying?
00:30:42.03\00:30:44.88
I believe in Christ
because of what Christ is,
00:30:44.91\00:30:49.58
not because of what some
of his disciples are not.
00:30:49.61\00:30:55.24
Here's a good saying.
00:30:55.27\00:30:57.76
The church, the church has many,
00:30:57.79\00:31:01.68
"The Church has
many that God has not
00:31:01.71\00:31:07.42
and God has many
the Church has not."
00:31:07.45\00:31:12.09
Do you like that?
You understand it.
00:31:12.12\00:31:17.76
The church has got
many that God doesn't have.
00:31:17.79\00:31:22.09
And God has got many
that the church hasn't got.
00:31:22.12\00:31:25.63
And so don't confuse
Jesus with the church.
00:31:25.66\00:31:32.29
I believe in Christ,
00:31:32.32\00:31:33.98
I believe in Jesus
not because of some people
00:31:34.01\00:31:39.53
who take his name.
00:31:39.56\00:31:41.36
Jesus is far
better than his disciples.
00:31:45.02\00:31:50.44
I believe in Christ,
because Christ is the kindest,
00:31:50.47\00:31:55.26
the most loving, the bravest,
the purest, the most forgiving,
00:31:55.29\00:32:00.58
the most reliable
person who ever lived.
00:32:00.61\00:32:05.77
He is the real
thing, He is the best.
00:32:05.80\00:32:11.25
Come over here to John
chapter 8 verses 1 to 11.
00:32:11.28\00:32:16.82
As he went along, John
chapter 8, I got John 9.
00:32:16.85\00:32:21.93
John chapter 8, "But Jesus
went to the Mount of Olives.
00:32:21.96\00:32:25.23
At dawn he appeared
again in the temple courts,
00:32:25.26\00:32:28.39
where all the
people gathered around him,
00:32:28.42\00:32:30.47
and he sat down to teach them.
00:32:30.50\00:32:31.91
The teachers of the
law and the Pharisees--"
00:32:31.94\00:32:34.17
Here they come,
the super religious,
00:32:34.20\00:32:36.82
here they come.
The writers from hell.
00:32:36.85\00:32:41.17
"The teachers of the
law and the Pharisees
00:32:41.20\00:32:43.70
brought in a woman
caught in adultery."
00:32:43.73\00:32:45.44
Have you ever wondered how
they caught her? God it's me.
00:32:45.47\00:32:50.20
Well, we have an
idea how they caught her,
00:32:50.23\00:32:52.45
it was a put up thing.
00:32:52.48\00:32:54.41
One of their
members was doing the deed.
00:32:54.44\00:33:00.82
And so they caught her,
00:33:00.85\00:33:02.75
but they didn't bring in a man
00:33:02.78\00:33:04.44
who was caught in
adultery, did they?
00:33:04.47\00:33:06.63
They didn't say,
"here comes Rabbi
00:33:06.66\00:33:08.69
who was caught in adultery."
They bring in this woman.
00:33:08.72\00:33:11.58
Why is that
women have always got
00:33:11.61\00:33:13.53
the wrong end of the pineapple?
00:33:13.56\00:33:17.69
That's the rough end,
why that? You know why?
00:33:17.72\00:33:21.99
Because people don't
follow Jesus, that's the reason.
00:33:22.02\00:33:26.85
And when you go to
those countries, I tell you,
00:33:26.88\00:33:29.00
these countries that are
really, is the word "macho?"
00:33:29.03\00:33:33.79
and women are put down.
00:33:33.82\00:33:38.07
A man said to me
once, it's good if you--
00:33:38.10\00:33:40.54
wives, he was
talking about wives,
00:33:40.57\00:33:42.70
marry a woman from
such and such a country,
00:33:42.73\00:33:45.24
because they're so subservient.
00:33:45.27\00:33:47.81
They're brought up,
they're bashed around.
00:33:47.84\00:33:49.80
If the husband--
"yes, yes, yes, yes--"
00:33:49.83\00:33:53.79
That's not
Jesus, that's not Jesus.
00:33:53.82\00:33:57.35
That's the devil.
00:33:57.38\00:34:00.53
And I've seen it here in
the United States of America,
00:34:00.56\00:34:02.92
I've had people
coming along to me
00:34:02.95\00:34:04.60
and they've said
awful things about women.
00:34:04.63\00:34:08.85
They've treated
women like second rate--
00:34:08.88\00:34:11.16
I said, "Don't you know
00:34:11.19\00:34:12.56
that's wrong?"
That's our culture.
00:34:12.59\00:34:15.29
Yeah, yeah, cultures
of the devil. Hear it?
00:34:15.32\00:34:19.02
Oh, you want me to say it again.
00:34:19.05\00:34:20.64
Your culture's of the
devil if it puts down women.
00:34:20.67\00:34:26.18
So they grabbed this woman,
dragged her along to Jesus.
00:34:26.21\00:34:31.85
Verse 5, can't you imagine them?
00:34:31.88\00:34:35.23
"'In the Law Moses commanded
us to stone such women.'"
00:34:35.26\00:34:40.19
The more pious they get,
usually, the worse they are.
00:34:40.22\00:34:43.61
"'Now what do you say?'
00:34:43.64\00:34:45.02
They were using
this question as a trap,
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.87
in order to have a
basis for accusing him.
00:34:46.90\00:34:49.33
But Jesus bent down
00:34:49.36\00:34:50.73
and started to write on
the ground with his finger.
00:34:50.76\00:34:53.60
When they kept
on questioning him,
00:34:53.63\00:34:55.66
he straightened
up and said to them,
00:34:55.69\00:34:57.31
'If any one of
you is without sin,
00:34:57.34\00:34:59.80
let him be the first
to throw a stone at her.'
00:34:59.83\00:35:03.14
Again he stooped down
and wrote on the ground."
00:35:03.17\00:35:05.81
I wonder what he was writing.
00:35:05.84\00:35:07.45
The times and the
dates and the names?
00:35:07.48\00:35:12.10
"At this, those who heard
00:35:12.13\00:35:13.60
began to go away one at a
time, the older ones first."
00:35:13.63\00:35:18.39
Well, there you
are, the older ones too.
00:35:18.42\00:35:21.04
"Until only Jesus was left
00:35:21.07\00:35:22.93
with the woman
still standing there.
00:35:22.96\00:35:24.80
Jesus
straightened up and asked her,
00:35:24.83\00:35:26.51
'Woman, where are they?
00:35:26.54\00:35:28.10
Has no one condemned
you?' 'No one, sir,' she said.
00:35:28.13\00:35:31.22
'Then neither do I
condemn you,' Jesus declared.
00:35:31.25\00:35:34.58
'Go and leave
your life of sin.'"
00:35:34.61\00:35:39.68
Can you imagine a wiser person,
00:35:39.71\00:35:42.82
a better
person, a kinder person?
00:35:42.85\00:35:49.17
You know how Jesus
dealt with the children?
00:35:49.20\00:35:52.76
Disciples say,
"They're making too much noise,
00:35:52.79\00:35:54.60
put them out, don't
want them here today."
00:35:54.63\00:35:58.47
Jesus said, "Suffer--"
00:35:58.50\00:35:59.95
It says in the KJV,
it's the old English word,
00:35:59.98\00:36:02.89
it means, "allow the little
children to come unto me."
00:36:02.92\00:36:08.20
You can usually tell if
a person is a good person
00:36:08.23\00:36:12.43
if two types of
life like that person,
00:36:12.46\00:36:18.85
dogs and children. Now
if dogs don't like you,
00:36:18.88\00:36:23.38
it's usually because the
dogs might be quite smart.
00:36:23.41\00:36:28.36
If dogs don't--generally
if a dog doesn't like you,
00:36:28.39\00:36:34.69
and kids don't like
you. But children love Jesus.
00:36:34.72\00:36:41.00
Because Jesus was not religious
in the normal sense of the term.
00:36:41.03\00:36:48.24
Think of how when Mary came
and Mary was anointing his feet,
00:36:48.27\00:36:55.40
pouring this
wonderful perfume on him.
00:36:55.43\00:36:59.34
And the disciples,
all born Pharisees,
00:36:59.37\00:37:03.01
were all upset.
00:37:03.04\00:37:05.37
And they started to criticize,
00:37:05.40\00:37:06.91
"well, this
money could have gone
00:37:06.94\00:37:08.31
into the church building fund.
00:37:08.34\00:37:11.64
Oh, we could have fed a
lot of poor with this money."
00:37:11.67\00:37:17.53
Some great words
Jesus said, "Let her alone."
00:37:17.56\00:37:22.95
Three words, "Let her alone."
00:37:22.98\00:37:29.18
He's a good person, the best.
00:37:29.21\00:37:33.40
I like how he confronted
00:37:33.43\00:37:35.48
the religious
leaders of his day.
00:37:35.51\00:37:37.45
Now we don't wanna
try to emulate this,
00:37:37.48\00:37:39.48
because we're not Jesus.
00:37:39.51\00:37:40.88
And we don't have
the love that He's got,
00:37:40.91\00:37:42.72
but come over
here to Matthew 23,
00:37:42.75\00:37:45.16
and notice how he dealt
with the religious leaders.
00:37:45.19\00:37:50.59
Matthew 23 verse 25 and onwards.
00:37:50.62\00:37:55.65
Matthew 23, "Woe to you,
00:37:55.68\00:37:57.83
teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites!
00:37:57.86\00:38:02.07
You clean the
outside of the dish and cup,
00:38:02.10\00:38:04.71
but inside they are full
of greed and self-indulgence.
00:38:04.74\00:38:09.54
Blind Pharisee! First clean
the inside of the cup and dish,
00:38:09.57\00:38:14.97
and then the
outside also will be clean."
00:38:15.00\00:38:17.81
No namby pamby is Jesus.
00:38:17.84\00:38:20.91
"Woe to you, teachers of the law
and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
00:38:20.94\00:38:26.44
You are like whitewashed tombs,
00:38:26.47\00:38:28.53
which look
beautiful on the outside
00:38:28.56\00:38:31.17
but on the inside are
full of dead men's bones
00:38:31.20\00:38:37.26
and everything unclean.
00:38:37.29\00:38:41.37
In the same way, on the outside
00:38:41.40\00:38:43.30
you appear to
people as righteous
00:38:43.33\00:38:45.47
but on the inside you are full
of hypocrisy and wickedness."
00:38:45.50\00:38:51.80
Verse 33, "You
snakes! You brood of vipers!
00:38:51.83\00:38:57.61
How will you escape
being condemned to hell?"
00:38:57.64\00:39:02.38
I believe in the little ditty,
00:39:06.61\00:39:09.47
"Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild,
Look upon our little child."
00:39:09.54\00:39:16.89
Find to teach
little children that,
00:39:16.92\00:39:19.93
but that is not the whole story.
00:39:19.96\00:39:24.86
Jesus was the one,
true, great, real man,
00:39:24.89\00:39:31.88
that the world has ever seen.
00:39:31.91\00:39:35.00
And who were these Pharisees?
00:39:35.03\00:39:37.29
They were the power
brokers, they were the big guys,
00:39:37.32\00:39:41.18
they were the guys
who ran the church,
00:39:41.21\00:39:44.25
they were the
super religious people,
00:39:44.28\00:39:46.81
they were the
people who, inside--
00:39:46.84\00:39:49.21
they were rotten inside
00:39:49.24\00:39:50.75
but they put on a
great show on the outside.
00:39:50.78\00:39:54.95
Jesus was one man
against the whole mob.
00:39:54.98\00:40:00.43
And when they're
attacking the people of God,
00:40:00.46\00:40:04.42
he turned and Jesus
never had a kind word
00:40:04.45\00:40:09.46
to a religious
Pharisee who was a hypocrite.
00:40:09.49\00:40:13.93
Jesus looked him
in the eye and said,
00:40:13.96\00:40:16.77
"You're a bunch of snakes."
00:40:16.80\00:40:21.26
I don't know how Jesus--
Well, I do think, I don't know.
00:40:21.29\00:40:24.08
I don't think Jesus
would get on too well today
00:40:24.11\00:40:29.20
because Jesus was not suave.
00:40:29.23\00:40:32.60
Jesus was not
politically correct.
00:40:32.63\00:40:36.94
Jesus was not a politician.
00:40:36.97\00:40:40.84
Jesus didn't go
around schmoozing people.
00:40:40.87\00:40:45.47
When I came to California,
00:40:45.50\00:40:47.34
a prominent
religious leader took me aside.
00:40:47.37\00:40:50.06
He said, "Brother John,
you have a heart for God."
00:40:50.09\00:40:53.80
I thought, "Oh, my,
what's gonna come now?"
00:40:53.83\00:40:56.05
He said "You
need to raise money."
00:40:56.08\00:40:59.01
Yes, of course, I know.
00:40:59.04\00:41:01.40
You didn't need to tell me that,
00:41:01.43\00:41:02.80
how am I gonna pay
for all this? I know that.
00:41:02.83\00:41:04.64
He said, "I'll teach
you how to schmooze people."
00:41:04.67\00:41:09.57
I said, "What's that?
00:41:09.60\00:41:11.40
It sounds like
something filthy."
00:41:11.43\00:41:14.22
"Oh," he said, "I
do it all the time.
00:41:14.25\00:41:17.24
You just got to get rid
of some of those mannerisms,
00:41:17.27\00:41:20.85
particularly
those Australianisms
00:41:20.88\00:41:24.66
and you got to
learn to schmooze."
00:41:24.69\00:41:28.52
Well, he's been
schmoozing all his life.
00:41:33.28\00:41:38.14
Nobody likes him or trusts him.
00:41:38.17\00:41:42.87
Jesus was not a schmoozer.
00:41:42.90\00:41:47.46
Jesus loved people too much.
He wanted people to be saved.
00:41:47.49\00:41:52.76
I want to tell
you, folks. Look at me.
00:41:52.79\00:41:57.00
I know that some Americans don't
like plain talk, I know that.
00:41:57.03\00:42:01.62
I know that some Australians
don't like plain talk, either.
00:42:01.65\00:42:05.21
But I'm afraid, I am what I am.
00:42:05.24\00:42:08.17
With all the wart and
everything that come with it.
00:42:08.20\00:42:11.71
But I want to
tell you something.
00:42:11.74\00:42:14.24
My job is not to get
you to like me and say,
00:42:14.27\00:42:18.67
"Oh, he was so funny
today. Isn't he cute?"
00:42:18.70\00:42:23.84
I've never been called cute.
00:42:23.87\00:42:27.34
My job is to
get you into heaven.
00:42:27.37\00:42:31.57
What are you gonna
say to the cute pastor
00:42:31.60\00:42:34.25
who gets you into hell?
00:42:34.28\00:42:38.07
When you'd lean over, you
say, "How's the fire, brother?
00:42:38.10\00:42:40.41
Isn't it great?" Gonna say that?
00:42:40.44\00:42:44.16
Jesus was as
straight as an arrow.
00:42:44.19\00:42:50.01
He was the real thing
and I believe in Christ.
00:42:52.95\00:43:00.57
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment
00:43:00.60\00:43:03.13
of all the Old
Testament messianic prophecies.
00:43:03.16\00:43:06.31
I say this to my Jewish friends.
00:43:06.34\00:43:09.01
I've a great Jewish doctor,
just a great friend of mine.
00:43:09.04\00:43:12.42
I'm going to
invite him to church.
00:43:12.45\00:43:14.85
I said, "would you like to?"
00:43:14.88\00:43:16.25
He said, "I'd love
to come to church."
00:43:16.28\00:43:17.65
I said, "Then I'll
take you to Javier's place."
00:43:17.68\00:43:19.37
I haven't told Javier.
00:43:19.40\00:43:20.77
I said, "And we'll have
00:43:20.80\00:43:22.17
some great Jewish
food and we'll see."
00:43:22.20\00:43:24.15
I said, "I have a
wonderful group of people."
00:43:24.18\00:43:27.86
I said this. "I'll
introduce you to Bert.
00:43:27.89\00:43:30.84
And Bert that day
will wear his little hat.
00:43:30.87\00:43:33.12
And I said, "Also Blake."
00:43:33.15\00:43:34.69
I said, "Blake
looks more like a Jew
00:43:34.72\00:43:37.00
than a Jew ought
to look like a Jew."
00:43:37.03\00:43:42.01
One of my Jewish
doctors said to me,
00:43:42.04\00:43:45.18
when I talked to him
about these prophecies,
00:43:45.21\00:43:47.02
he said, "You know
what our problem is?"
00:43:47.05\00:43:49.25
He didn't say, "You're wrong,"
00:43:49.28\00:43:53.20
he said, "Some of us
are dreadfully stubborn."
00:43:53.23\00:43:56.68
We don't want to
see these things.
00:43:56.71\00:43:59.56
Yeah, not only the Jews
are dreadfully stubborn,
00:43:59.59\00:44:01.71
I have Christian friends
who are dreadfully stubborn.
00:44:01.74\00:44:04.46
That hear the word of the God,
00:44:04.49\00:44:05.94
they know what's going on,
00:44:05.97\00:44:07.45
they know what they ought to do,
00:44:07.48\00:44:08.85
but they say,
"No. Not gonna do it."
00:44:08.88\00:44:13.66
If you hear truth, I
don't care what it is.
00:44:13.69\00:44:16.48
My friends sitting down
the front, of all of you.
00:44:16.51\00:44:18.32
If you hear truth and
if you harden your mind,
00:44:18.35\00:44:22.33
week after week, to the truth,
you commit the unpardonable sin.
00:44:22.36\00:44:26.61
You can commit the
unpardonable sin in this church.
00:44:26.64\00:44:30.48
This is the best
place to commit it. Why?
00:44:30.51\00:44:35.84
Because the word is
preached with power.
00:44:35.87\00:44:37.49
If you go along to a church
and you hear sweet nothings.
00:44:37.52\00:44:41.13
you probably won't even
be brought to conviction.
00:44:41.16\00:44:43.71
But if the spirit of
God brings you to conviction
00:44:43.74\00:44:47.06
on a certain
subject, and you say,
00:44:47.09\00:44:49.41
"No, I'm not going to do it.
00:44:49.44\00:44:50.81
Not gonna do it.
Not gonna do it."
00:44:50.84\00:44:52.50
You're gonna come to the place
00:44:52.53\00:44:54.00
when I'm preaching or
somebody else is preaching
00:44:54.03\00:44:56.54
under the power
of the Holy Spirit
00:44:56.57\00:44:58.41
and your heart is
going to get like a rock.
00:44:58.44\00:45:01.16
That's the unpardonable sin.
00:45:04.08\00:45:08.00
The place where you
commit the unpardonable sin,
00:45:08.03\00:45:11.53
it's not on Hollywood boulevard,
but in church, usually.
00:45:11.56\00:45:16.31
You didn't know that?
00:45:16.34\00:45:17.71
Well, just think
it through, would you?
00:45:17.74\00:45:20.98
Jesus is the only one
who fulfills the prophecies.
00:45:21.01\00:45:24.80
Come quickly to Isaiah
53. There's nobody else.
00:45:24.83\00:45:28.71
So as my dear
doctor said, you know,
00:45:28.74\00:45:31.73
looks right but
we're just stubborn people.
00:45:31.76\00:45:36.59
Well, you better get
over your stubbornness.
00:45:36.62\00:45:39.90
Isaiah 53, verses 3 and onwards,
00:45:39.93\00:45:42.11
"He was despised
and rejected by men,
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.92
a man of sorrows and
familiar with suffering."
00:45:44.95\00:45:47.66
Only one person
fulfills these verses.
00:45:47.69\00:45:49.96
"Like one from whom
men hide their faces,
00:45:49.99\00:45:52.03
he was despised and
we esteemed him not."
00:45:52.06\00:45:55.51
Nobody else, only Jesus.
00:45:55.54\00:45:57.55
"Surely he took
up our infirmities
00:45:57.58\00:45:59.36
and carried our sorrows,
00:45:59.39\00:46:01.20
yet we considered
him stricken by god,
00:46:01.23\00:46:03.72
smitten by him and afflicted.
00:46:03.75\00:46:06.40
But he was pierced," crucified,
"for our transgressions,
00:46:06.43\00:46:10.28
he was crushed
for our iniquities.
00:46:10.31\00:46:12.52
The punishment that
brought us peace was upon him
00:46:12.55\00:46:15.55
and by his
wounds we are healed."
00:46:15.58\00:46:17.42
Nobody else in
history but Jesus.
00:46:17.45\00:46:20.64
I say to my Jewish friends,
nobody else. This is your book.
00:46:20.67\00:46:24.28
This is your
Jewish prophet Isaiah,
00:46:24.31\00:46:26.56
nobody else. It's Jesus.
00:46:26.59\00:46:28.85
I believe in Jesus
Christ. Look at verse 11.
00:46:28.88\00:46:34.17
"After the
suffering of his soul,
00:46:34.20\00:46:36.98
he will see the
life and be satisfied."
00:46:37.01\00:46:40.84
That means he'll be resurrected.
00:46:40.87\00:46:43.38
He'll see eternity. And he was--
00:46:43.41\00:46:48.83
Come over to Daniel 9 verse 25.
00:46:48.86\00:46:51.87
I was down at the
western wall in Jerusalem,
00:46:51.90\00:46:55.43
and I love the Jewish
people and I love Jerusalem
00:46:55.46\00:47:00.00
and I was down
at the western wall,
00:47:00.03\00:47:02.56
and as some of you folks know,
tact is not my second name.
00:47:02.59\00:47:07.96
And I went along to a
rabbi and I opened up my Bible
00:47:07.99\00:47:11.57
and I read to him from
Daniel 9, this verse, 25.
00:47:11.60\00:47:16.42
I said, "Rabbi, I'm a visitor.
I'm not a trouble maker.
00:47:16.45\00:47:22.20
I'm not trying to embarrass
you. Explain it to me."
00:47:22.23\00:47:25.44
Well, he never
explained it to me.
00:47:29.73\00:47:31.93
He asked me to get out of there.
00:47:31.96\00:47:34.78
But I want you
to know something,
00:47:34.81\00:47:37.47
whether I get
out of there or not,
00:47:37.50\00:47:38.91
or whether he
explains it or not,
00:47:38.94\00:47:40.59
it's still written
down there, it's there.
00:47:40.62\00:47:44.38
You can run away,
you can criticize,
00:47:44.41\00:47:46.50
you can get mad, you
can fight with people,
00:47:46.53\00:47:48.64
but you can't get away from it.
00:47:48.67\00:47:50.53
Verse 25, "Know
and understand this,
00:47:50.56\00:47:52.90
from the issuing of the decree,"
00:47:52.93\00:47:55.23
457 BC "to restore
and rebuild Jerusalem
00:47:55.26\00:47:59.08
until the anointed one,"
00:47:59.11\00:48:00.99
it's the same in
the Jewish Bible.
00:48:01.02\00:48:03.18
Until the messiah comes,
00:48:03.21\00:48:04.58
"the ruler comes,
there will be seven 'sevens,'
00:48:04.61\00:48:06.93
and sixty-two
'sevens'" or 483 years.
00:48:06.96\00:48:12.46
The Bible says
that from this decree
00:48:12.49\00:48:16.40
by Artaxerxes Longimanus in 457,
00:48:16.43\00:48:21.14
there would be a period
of 483 years and in 27 A.D.,
00:48:21.17\00:48:28.98
Jesus walked
down the muddy banks
00:48:29.01\00:48:31.78
into the river Jordan and said,
00:48:31.81\00:48:36.01
"The time is fulfilled
00:48:36.04\00:48:39.12
and the kingdom of
heaven is at hand."
00:48:39.15\00:48:42.73
Now if you're waiting for
Jesus to come as the messiah,
00:48:46.59\00:48:50.31
you're 2,000 years
too late because he came.
00:48:50.34\00:48:54.89
According to the
Jewish prophecies,
00:48:54.92\00:48:58.73
in a Jewish book,
about a Jewish messiah.
00:48:58.76\00:49:03.53
We don't want to be too
hard on the Jews, my friend,
00:49:03.56\00:49:06.51
because a lot of
us just the same.
00:49:06.54\00:49:13.78
We want to hold
on to our traditions.
00:49:13.81\00:49:16.47
We don't want to be disturbed.
00:49:16.50\00:49:18.22
That was the
problem with Judaism.
00:49:18.25\00:49:20.59
It was so entrenched
00:49:20.62\00:49:21.99
and they didn't
want to be disturbed.
00:49:22.02\00:49:24.60
Some people have said to
me, "We like what you do,
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but we don't
want to be disturbed."
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If you're not disturbed now,
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you're gonna disturbed
when the fire falls from heaven.
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You better believe
it. I believe in Jesus.
00:49:42.11\00:49:47.88
I believe in Christ
because only one man
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in all history fulfills
all the messianic prophecies.
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I believe in Christ.
00:49:56.51\00:49:59.13
This I believe because Christ
is the healer of broken hearts
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and the mender of broken dreams.
00:50:04.70\00:50:10.27
Now Danny Shelton is
a good friend of mine.
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I love Danny, known
him for about 25, 26 years.
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We've been
broadcasting about the longest
00:50:19.80\00:50:21.91
of any ministry on
3ABN. Twenty three plus years.
00:50:21.94\00:50:26.44
Probably going
into our 24th year.
00:50:26.47\00:50:29.85
Danny used to sing
a song and Danny's--
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I heard him singing
up there in Illinois
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and Danny can really sing.
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Jim Gilley, who
is a very dear friend
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of mine said to me
when Danny was singing,
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"He's got a great
voice" and he's right.
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But Danny used to sing
a song with his guitar.
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I want to spend my whole
life mending broken people.
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That's what Jesus did.
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Olga came from
Ukraine when she was a girl.
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The Nazis came, they took
the village out into the snow.
00:51:04.66\00:51:08.03
They had a
bulldozer, they dug a big hole.
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Every body was made to
strip of all their clothes
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and they were taken
right down into the hole,
00:51:14.13\00:51:17.36
and then the Nazis
open up with machine guns.
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She and a young man
stark naked, got out and ran.
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And after a long journey got
up to Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.
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Where the Nazis hadn't got.
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You know why Nazism,
or the Nazis were so bad?
00:51:37.82\00:51:42.29
They hated Jesus.
00:51:42.32\00:51:44.63
Not the German people
but the Nazis hated Jesus.
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She married.
00:51:52.15\00:51:54.02
After she'd been
married for a year or two,
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there's a knock on
the door, went to--
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the husband went to the
door, she never saw him again.
00:51:58.26\00:52:03.00
Stalin took care
of him and killed him.
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Why? Because he dared to think.
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In the Soviet Union, when
the atheists were in charge,
00:52:08.75\00:52:11.58
there was no freedom.
00:52:11.61\00:52:13.21
Mr. Dawkins, you
came to our meetings.
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Atheist, no hope, no joy.
00:52:23.81\00:52:27.05
No peace, no
hope, no hope, no hope.
00:52:27.08\00:52:30.33
And found Christ.
00:52:30.36\00:52:33.76
What a difference Jesus makes.
00:52:33.79\00:52:38.39
He spent His whole
life mending broken people.
00:52:38.42\00:52:43.60
I believe in Christ.
00:52:43.63\00:52:47.05
I am what I am
because I believe in Christ.
00:52:47.08\00:52:54.48
I could be sitting on the beach,
00:52:54.51\00:52:58.87
on the Gold coast of
Australia, sipping orange juice.
00:52:58.90\00:53:05.72
People say,
"Why don't you do it?
00:53:05.75\00:53:08.06
You can do it
anytime you want to."
00:53:08.09\00:53:10.24
Haven't they heard of Christ?
00:53:10.27\00:53:13.06
I believe in
Christ. I believe in Christ.
00:53:14.83\00:53:21.93
He's the greatest person
with the greatest influence.
00:53:21.96\00:53:26.91
He is the God man.
00:53:26.94\00:53:29.53
He's not to be confused
00:53:29.56\00:53:30.98
with these people
who take His name.
00:53:31.01\00:53:36.15
I believe in Christ
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.57
because He's the
kindest, the most loving,
00:53:37.60\00:53:40.13
the bravest, the
purest, the most forgiving,
00:53:40.16\00:53:43.30
the most
reliable. He's the best.
00:53:43.33\00:53:50.20
I believe in the Christ
because he is the fulfillment
00:53:50.23\00:53:54.83
of all the Old
Testament messianic prophecies.
00:53:54.86\00:53:58.93
I believe in Christ
00:53:58.96\00:54:01.13
because Christ is the
healer of broken hearts
00:54:01.16\00:54:05.21
and the mender of
the shattered dreams.
00:54:05.24\00:54:09.93
And there's one final
truth, and here it is.
00:54:09.96\00:54:16.03
He's alive and He's coming back.
00:54:16.06\00:54:20.77
This I believe. Amen.
00:54:24.91\00:54:31.07
Life, because you loved us
00:54:33.73\00:54:39.94
I was guilty then
00:54:39.97\00:54:44.13
Here I am again
00:54:44.16\00:54:48.78
Against you only have I sinned
00:54:48.81\00:54:55.37
Change me now
00:54:55.40\00:54:59.82
Never let you heart grow cold
00:54:59.85\00:55:04.45
Change me somehow
00:55:04.48\00:55:08.16
Purify this needy soul
00:55:08.19\00:55:14.45
Look into my heart
00:55:14.48\00:55:18.21
Tell me what you see
00:55:18.24\00:55:22.38
Cleanse me when you find
00:55:22.41\00:55:26.54
Any wicked way in me
00:55:26.57\00:55:31.76
What tender touch
00:55:31.79\00:55:35.01
Lord I need you so much
00:55:35.04\00:55:39.53
To change me now
00:55:39.56\00:55:42.98
Seeds I've sown
00:55:46.37\00:55:51.16
The deeds I've done
00:55:51.19\00:55:54.62
By the power of your blood
00:55:54.65\00:56:00.07
Please remove them
00:56:00.10\00:56:03.87
Restore my joy
00:56:03.90\00:56:07.70
I need you, Lord
00:56:07.73\00:56:12.40
I need more of your love
00:56:12.43\00:56:16.78
So you can use me
00:56:16.81\00:56:21.86
Would you search my heart
00:56:21.89\00:56:26.86
With your holy light
00:56:26.89\00:56:31.09
Take every wrong
00:56:31.12\00:56:33.86
And make it right, lord
00:56:33.89\00:56:39.80
Hear my cry,
please Change me now
00:56:39.83\00:56:46.23
Never let this heart grow cold
00:56:46.26\00:56:50.82
Change me somehow
00:56:50.85\00:56:54.59
Purify this needy soul
00:56:54.62\00:57:00.16
Will you look into my heart
00:57:00.19\00:57:04.30
Tell me what you see
00:57:04.33\00:57:08.25
Cleanse me when you find
00:57:08.28\00:57:12.22
Any wicked way in me
00:57:12.25\00:57:16.25
This very hour
00:57:16.28\00:57:20.53
Fill me with your power
00:57:20.56\00:57:24.73
I wanna be so close to you Jesus
00:57:24.76\00:57:28.53
Till nothing comes between us
00:57:28.56\00:57:32.82
With your tender touch
00:57:32.85\00:57:38.28
Lord I need you so much
00:57:38.31\00:57:43.13
Change me now
00:57:43.16\00:57:49.97