From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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I want to give you
just a warmest welcome today
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to the Carter Report
because this is a great program.
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Have you ever wondered
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what's happened
to the human race?
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We're going to talk
today about the soul
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and the worth of a human soul.
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But firstly would you
please welcome Reuben Capistrano
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who is going to come and
sing for the glory of God.
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Welcome today, Reuben.
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Why should I feel
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Discouraged
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And why
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should the shadows come
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Why should my heart
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Be lonely
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And long for heaven and home
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When Jesus is my portion
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My portion
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My constant
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Friend is He
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His eye
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is on the sparrow
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And I know
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He watches me
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For His eye
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is on the sparrow
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And I know
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He watches me
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I sing
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because I'm happy
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I sing
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because
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I'm free
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For His eye
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is on the sparrow
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And I know
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He watches me
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Yes, His eye
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is on the sparrow
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And I know
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He watches me
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And I sing
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because I'm happy
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Yes, I sing
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because I'm free
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For His eye
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is on the sparrow
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And I know
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He watches me
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Oh, His eye
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is on the sparrow
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And I know
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He watches me
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Today, we're gonna talk
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about "The Worth of a Soul."
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Now if you take your Bibles
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and if you come over
here to the Book of Genesis
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we read here about the
creation of a human soul.
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We're gonna come over here
to the Book of Genesis 2:7.
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Genesis 2:7, the
Bible says, "The Lord God
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formed the man from
the dust of the ground
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and breathed into his
nostrils the breathe of life,
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man became a living being."
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It's says, in the
King James Version,
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which we all love.
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It's says "The
Lord God formed the man
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from the dust of the ground
and breathed into his nostril
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the breathe of life, and
man became a living soul."
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In the NIV it's says,
"living being or a person."
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A soul is not
something that you can't see.
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A soul is sitting next
to you today here in church.
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The Hebrew word
is Nephesh, Nephesh
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and you find this word many,
many parts of the Old Testament
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across it's a Hebrew
word and the word soul means
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for the most part it's
got various meanings but folk,
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for the most part
one of its basic means is
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"a person, a person."
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So when we say,
what is the soul worth,
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we're saying,
what is a person worth?
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What is the worth of a soul?
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Come over here
quickly, would you?
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Mark 8:36, we come to the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Mark 8:36, Jesus
said, "What good is a it
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for a man to
gain the whole world,
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yet forfeit his soul?"
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Now this text tells us
why we ought to follow Christ
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but it also tells
us something else.
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It tells us that a soul
is worth more than the world.
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Can you believe this?
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How much is a soul worth?
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A soul is worth more
than the whole world.
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Listen to me,
never put yourself down.
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Never feel inferior.
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Never put yourself down.
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Never feel like
some people have said,
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you know, you're just an animal,
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you're just a machine.
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No, you are more
important than a whole world.
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You've all heard of the
Great Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Some have called him
the greatest Christian
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of the 20th-century.
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And he was a great
critic of the Soviet system
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that diabolical empire.
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He was being tortured
for his faith by a woman
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in the Gulag Archipelago.
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Have you read it,
you ought to get it.
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The Gulag
Archipelago then you'll realize
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what was it like
in the Soviet Union.
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And as he was
tortured by a communist guard
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and when the pain
become so intense,
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he cried out in his pain,
don't you know, I'm a soul.
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And the woman said, "we
can't help breaking eggs,
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when we're making omelets."
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The omelet was the Soviet State
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and the individual was nothing.
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I'm here to tell you today
the individual is everything,
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worth more than a world.
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The death of God always
leads to the death of man,
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don't forget that.
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Philosophers like Nietzsche
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got rid of God
in the 19th century
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and the following century saw
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the greatest
bloodbath in history.
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When I was in Kiev being
taken down into the dungeons
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beneath a great
auditorium in the city of Kiev
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and I preached in that
place where Chris Chafe said,
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"we will get rid of Christ,
and we will get rid of God."
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And they took me
down into a place where
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thousands of the
creams of society
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were tortured to
death by the communist.
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I went for a walk in a park,
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I walked past
these saintly trees
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and all the trees
they were photographs
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some people who
where tortured to death
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and then shot with the
bullet to the back of the neck.
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In Eastern
Siberia there is a city
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by the name of Magadan.
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Ever heard of it?
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The streets of
the city up heaved
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it was human bones
covered with tar now.
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But a person went to Magadan,
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his life expectancy
was measured in months
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because it didn't matter.
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When in Russia I shouted
to the people of millions
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who came to the
meetings, "you're not an animal,
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you're not a machine,
you are a child of God."
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Jesus said, "One soul one person
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is worth more than the world."
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Never put yourself down,
never put anybody else down.
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Jesus got in human flesh
treated people with respect,
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compassion,
consideration, dignity and love.
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So should we, if
we are His disciples.
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Why? Come to Genesis 1:27.
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Genesis 1:27,
Genesis 1:27, "So God."
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Elohim, this is Yahweh Elohim.
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Genesis 1:27,
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"So God created
man in his own image,
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in the image of
God he created him,
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male and female
he created them."
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We are not the
product of nothingness,
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we came from the hand of God
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and we were made
in the image of God.
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We are not related
to the animals or trees.
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Man is distinct and glorious
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because only man was
made in the image of God.
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What is a soul worth?
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Listen to the famous
atheist, the great debater,
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the great scientist
from Oxford University.
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I heard he make the statement,
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the universe came from nothing.
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Atoms, molecules, everything
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it came from nothing.
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He said it was
the straight faith.
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One of the greatest
scientist in the world
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but walk in darkness he said
"man is the product of chance."
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The evolutionary process he said
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has no meaning it
is totally random.
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It is based on
the Darwinian concepts
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of the Survival of the
Fittest and Natural Selection.
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Of course said some truths,
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in the Survival of the
fittest we all know that
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and Natural Selection.
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But man is more than that.
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And because this
doctrine is permeated society
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we have today the great despair,
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why do famous Hollywood
stars who got more money
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then they can procastic
at why do they suicide?
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Why do so many people suicide?
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What has gone
wrong with society?
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
said, as he looked over the
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utter chaos of the
former Soviet Union he said,
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"Man has forgotten God
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and all of these
things that come upon us
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man has forgotten God.
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The death of God always
leads to the death of man."
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What's going wrong
in American Society?
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Why do we have a
culture of rudeness?
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Whatever happened to civility
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and good manners and respect?
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But a man is
simply a cosmic accident
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than really he
is a cosmic nothing.
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But I suggest you today he
is made in the image of God
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and man is
tremendously important.
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Seeing hell,
Jesus treated people,
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they must have been worth a lot.
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Come over here to John
8:1-11, John Chapter 8.
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Aren't you're glad
you're in church here today?
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John 8:1-11,
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"But Jesus went out
to the Mount of Olives."
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Been there many times.
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"At dawn he appeared
again in the temple courts,
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where all the
people gathered around him,
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and he sat down to teach them.
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The teacher of the
law and the Pharisees
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brought in a woman
caught in adultery.
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They made her stand before
the group and said to Jesus,
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'Teacher, this woman was
caught in the act of adultery.
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In the Law Moses commanded
us to stone such women.
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Now what do you say?'
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They were using
this question as a trap,
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in order to have a
basis for accusing him.
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But Jesus bent down
and started to write
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on the ground with his finger.
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When they kept
on questioning him,
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he straightened
up and said to them,
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'if any one of
you is without sin,
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let him be the first
to throw a stone at her.'
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Again he stooped down
and wrote on the ground.
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At this, those who heard
began to go away one at a time,
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the older ones first,
until only Jesus was left,
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with the woman
still standing there.
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Jesus
straightened up and asked her,
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'Woman where are they?
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Has no one condemned you?'
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'No one, sir, 'she said.
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'Then neither do I
condemn you, 'Jesus declared.
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'Go now and leave
your life of sin.'
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" Look at me, he
did not condemned her,
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he did not damn her,
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he did not even
disfellowshipped her.
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He forgave her and restored her
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because she was more valuable,
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worth more than a
billion worlds in space.
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Would you come over
to Luke 15, Luke 15:11,
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"Jesus continues, 'There
was man who had two sons.
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The younger one said
to his father, Father,
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give me my share of the estate.
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So he divided his
property between them.
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Not long after that,
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the younger son got
together all he had,
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set off to a distant country
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and there squandered
his wealth in wild living.
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After he spent everything,
there was a severe famine."
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Verse 25, "Meanwhile, the
older son was in the field.
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When he came near the house,
he heard music and dancing."
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Goodness.
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"So he called one of
the servants and asked him,
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what was going on?
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'Your brother has
come,' he replied,
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'and your father has
killed the fattened calf
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because he has him
back safe and sound.'
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The older brother became angry
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and refused to go in.
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so his father went
out and pleaded with him.
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But he answered
his father, 'Look!
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All these years
I've been slaving for you
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and never
disobeyed your orders."
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There you have
salvation by works.
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I've been slaving do,
do, do, do cock-a-doodle-doo,
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and you still don't love me.
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"Yet you never gave
me even a young goat
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so I could
celebrate with my friends.
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But when this son of yours
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who has squandered your property
with prostitutes comes home
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you kill the
fattened calf for him.'
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He is also prodigal.
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He is prodigal in meekness.
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"My son,' the father
said, 'you are always with me,
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everything I have is yours.
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But we had to
celebrate and be glad,
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because this brother of yours
was dead and is alive again.
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He was lost and is found.'
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" You have two
types of sinners here.
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The disrespectable sinner,
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there people out in the world
sleeping with the prostitutes,
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and sleeping around.
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But then there is
the other class of sinner
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and that's the elder brother
and he is a respectable sinner,
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he goes to church every Sabbath.
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And everybody says,
"What a great elder he is,
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what a great person he is."
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And he's slaving away.
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But I would I
remind you something,
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God loved both sons
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and He treated
both sons with respect,
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love and compassion.
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Why, because they were good?
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No, because a soul is
more important than the world.
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One person,
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time will fell me today
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to tell of Peter the denyer,
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presumptuous a
man who run his mouth.
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Have you met people like that?
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All grunts and no bacon.
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All thunder and no rain.
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Always talking but not doing
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and he denied the Lord of glory.
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But Jesus sent a
message through the angel,
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"go tell my
disciples and Peter."
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Why, because of
the worth of a soul.
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There was Thomas
the doubter who said
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"unless I can
see the nail prints
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and see the mark in the
side I will not believe."
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And Jesus did not cast him
aside even though he had doubts
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because the doubter is a soul
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worth more than the world.
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Then there is
the remarkable story
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of the woman in the big
crowd with the issue of blood.
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Lately she had cancer
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and she had been
bleeding for years
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and she came to see Jesus
with hope burning in her breast.
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Because hope burns
eternal in the human heart.
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And as Jesus went by He
reached out a trembling finger
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and touched Him and
Jesus turned around and said,
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"Who touched me?"
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The disciples logically said,
"Everybody is touching You."
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But He said no,
some one has touched me."
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He could tell the
difference between an idle touch
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and touch of faith.
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She came and fell at
His feet and He said,
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"your faith has saved you,
you're healed go in peace."
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Why did He treated this way?
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Why didn't He
just say, I'm busy?
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Because, she is a soul.
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And then there is another story,
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the story that gives
hope to the leader of the IRS.
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The Internal Revenue Service,
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as it is affectionately called
here in the United States.
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It tells when
Jesus was out one day
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and the leader of
the tax collectors
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was up in a tree.
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He wanted to see Jesus.
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He was little man.
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And Jesus said to him,
"Zacchaeus, you come down
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because I'm going
to your house today."
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How did He know his name?
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He knew his
name a man in a tree,
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He knew his name.
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Because there is nothing
more precious than a soul,
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nothing more precious.
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Listen to this,
people matter most,
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not grand
institutions, not this building,
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not powerful organizations,
not material positions,
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America, not
houses, lands and gadgets.
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The most important thing
in the universe is a soul.
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Next, if people matter most--
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what is the most important thing
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that I can do with my life?
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Alma, we're so delighted
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to have you here
in our church today.
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You've been a
member of this congregation
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from many years we
appreciate and love you.
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What is your profession, Alma?
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I'm an actress and a filmmaker.
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Tell me some of the
shows that you've been in?
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In Living Color,
television shows,
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Touched by an Angel, ER
and films were Mo' Money,
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The Other Sister.
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Now there're been
certain great African Americans,
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who've had a profound
impact around the world,
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tell me about
some African Americans
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who have influenced
you touched your life?
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There's been quite
a few, Pastor Carter,
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to name a few
Frederick Douglass,
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George Washington Carver.
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And of course I have to
always mention my parents
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Bonnie McBrown and Willie Dixon
they were my biggest mentors.
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But the one that
really touched me
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with her story
was Harriet Tubman.
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She was one of the
most inspirational figures
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not only
African American history
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but in history,
world history itself.
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She was born back in the 1800s
to Harriet Green and Ben Ross.
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And they-- her birth
name was Araminta Ross.
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And she made her life
passion to free slaves
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from the tyrannous slavery.
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And her early years in slavery
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she was regularly
beaten by her master.
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She was beaten
so severely one time
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her master threw
a heavy metal object
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which hit her in the head
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and she had a scar
for the rest of her life.
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And it created debilitating
circumstances for her.
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She had epileptic
seizures and bad nightmares
00:25:02.73\00:25:08.81
and visions because of that.
00:25:08.84\00:25:11.23
Early on she got
married to John Harbet.
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Back then it was
not uncommon for this
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to be considered
a mixed marriage,
00:25:20.57\00:25:23.06
not because he was a white
man but because he was a freeman
00:25:23.09\00:25:26.31
and she was still a slave.
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So they consider
that a mixed marriage.
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And so she was able to
really save thousands of souls
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and deliver them
from the curse of slavery.
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Tell me about the man,
they've even called him
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I think the "Peanut King"
because what he did with a
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humble little peanut.
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Oh, yes, George
Washington Carver,
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who also knew Harriet
Tubman, they met along the way.
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Getting back to Harriet
Tubman though, Pastor Carter,
00:25:57.15\00:25:59.79
she got involved with
the underground railroad.
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And she got involved with
that through William still
00:26:02.62\00:26:04.76
who introduced to
her in Pennsylvania
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where she made
her way over there.
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And through her trips she
actually freed 300 slaves.
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And each time she
went back to the plantation
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where she was a slave,
she put her life on the line.
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Yes.
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But she-- she says
she was told by God that
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this was her
duty to free slaves.
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And she say, as long as I
live this is what I'm gonna do
00:26:24.81\00:26:27.79
and she did that
to her till dying day
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in 1930 at 93 years of age.
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What a saint?
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Alma, what does Jesus
mean to you personally?
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You know, growing up my
patents who always in church
00:26:40.39\00:26:43.08
especially my mom
always sent us to church,
00:26:43.11\00:26:45.99
every weekend.
00:26:46.02\00:26:49.98
You'll hear about Jesus
and you'll hear about God
00:26:50.01\00:26:52.61
and sometimes as a
child it does really you know
00:26:52.64\00:26:56.01
kind of like within two
years psyche would that means.
00:26:56.04\00:26:59.60
So I really understood
what that meant as an adult.
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And I'm not trying
to give you a kudos but
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I really understood it when
I came to one of your meetings
00:27:08.36\00:27:10.62
before I've
became a true Christian
00:27:10.65\00:27:13.74
and understood it
through the archaeology
00:27:13.77\00:27:15.82
of how we got
here and everything.
00:27:15.85\00:27:18.38
And for me
because my mother did die
00:27:18.41\00:27:21.24
when I was young
and all I have left
00:27:21.27\00:27:24.16
because I was
really closed to my mom
00:27:24.19\00:27:25.61
so all I have left was the Bible
00:27:25.64\00:27:27.63
to really hold on to
really start reading it.
00:27:27.66\00:27:30.08
And then come in to
really understand the Bible
00:27:30.11\00:27:31.78
more through
some of your programs.
00:27:31.81\00:27:34.76
Jesus Christ I
honestly, I don't--
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I really don't know
how people can make in life
00:27:39.33\00:27:41.59
without having
Christ in their life
00:27:41.62\00:27:43.18
because it's such
a rough roll life.
00:27:43.21\00:27:46.28
And if I didn't
have Christ in my life
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I really don't think I
would be stand here right now.
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Alma, we love you and we
appreciate your testimony
00:27:52.25\00:27:56.55
and thank God for you.
00:27:56.58\00:27:58.38
And so many people
like you in this country
00:27:58.41\00:28:00.94
who make this place,
this world a better place,
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God bless you,
Alma. Thank you very much.
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Thank you. All right.
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Thank you, thank you.
00:28:06.42\00:28:08.37
The city was Jerusalem
00:28:12.78\00:28:20.40
The time was long ago
00:28:20.43\00:28:25.12
The people called Him, Jesus
00:28:28.50\00:28:36.25
The crime was the love
00:28:36.28\00:28:40.00
He showed
00:28:40.03\00:28:44.43
And I'm the one to blame
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I caused all the pain
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