We're just so glad to
see you folks here today.
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In our new television studio,
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in beautiful Mall Park
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just down the hill from
Ronald Reagan's Library.
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So, you know, we're just keeping
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the very best
company, aren't we?
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That's why we've got
you folks here today.
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Because we consider you
folks to be a part of our team,
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and we just want to
give you the warmest welcome.
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My topic today,
it's sort of a bombshell.
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I'm gonna talk for a little
bit about political correctness
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that I sort of don't like.
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But then I'm
going to talk about,
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The Fate of the Heathen.
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But firstly,
we're glad to welcome
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the pastor, the senior pastor
of the Thousand Oaks Church,
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Pastor Larry Meager.
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And he is going to come out
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and he is going
to say the prayer.
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Our Father,
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when we stop and just
think about those two words,
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it brings us indescribable joy.
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Our Father, a Father who
sits on His throne in heaven
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and sits in our hearts.
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And we thank You for that
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from the bottom of our hearts.
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This is made possible
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through Jesus Christ,
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Jesus Christ our older brother
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who came as one of us,
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who gave His life
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and on the third day
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was resurrected
again and is in heaven.
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But He didn't
leave before He promised
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that He would come again.
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That He would not abandon us.
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That He would
give us the Holy Spirit
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to speak to our
hearts and to our minds.
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And so, for this wonderful gift,
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our Father, we give you thanks
in the name of Jesus Christ,
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the father, the Holy Spirit.
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This in his
name, we do pray, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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The topic today, is
"The Fate of the Heathen."
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What is going to be
the fate of those people
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who don't hear the gospel?
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Firstly today,
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I want to talk just a little bit
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about political correctness.
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I seem to think that
political correctness
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is not only the
curse of America,
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but it can be the curse
of the Christian church.
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Political correctness says,
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"You can't say anything
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that may
somehow offend anybody."
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Now, I want you to
know we should never set out
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and start out to
offend any person.
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We should never
ever say anything
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that is going to offend somebody
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just because we are careless.
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But the Bible tells
us that most importantly
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we need to be able to
teach and to preach the truth,
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because the preaching
of the gospel of Christ
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is going to offend some people.
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Even here in the
United States of America,
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where people are losing
their religious freedoms.
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I want you to
take your Bile today,
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and we're going to
come over here to a text.
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And I'm using the new KJV.
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I'm turning over
here to John 8:32,
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John 8:32, my friend,
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John 8:32.
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I want you to notice
it in the word of God.
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And we put this up
here on this giant screen
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also but I want you
to see it in the Bible
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because Jesus said these words,
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"And you shall know the truth,
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and the truth shall make you..."
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what? Free.
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"Truth shall make you free."
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We need freedom.
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Here in America,
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we believe that freedom
is a very precious word.
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I believe today, we're
in danger of our freedoms
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being taken from us.
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Even Dr. Billy
Graham, patron saint
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of the Christian
church in America said,
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"Christians in North America
are going to be persecuted
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by their government."
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And so the teaching of
truth is tremendously important.
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And today, we
need to take a stand
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and say that whatever it costs,
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we're going to be
preachers of the truth of God,
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so help us God.
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Now today's topic is The Gospel
and The Fate of the Heathen.
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What happens to people
who don't hear the gospel?
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The first truth, I want
to talk about today is this.
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Number one.
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Here it is.
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Jesus alone is the way
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to everlasting life.
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That's politically incorrect
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because it's going to
offend a lot of people.
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But the Bible teaches
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that Jesus is the
way to everlasting life.
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Would you come over
here to Acts 4:11 and 12,
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Acts 4:11 and 12
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the Bible says,
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"This is the 'stone which
was rejected by you builders,
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which has become
the chief cornerstone.'
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Nor is there
salvation in any other,
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for there is no other name
under heaven given among men
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by which we must be saved."
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Listen to me.
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We do not seek to be judgmental.
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God is the judge,
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but the judge has
already told us the truth.
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The Bible says, "Jesus said,
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there is no
other name under heaven
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given among men,
whereby we must be saved."
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So Christ is the way.
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Can I say this to you?
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Can I say it softly?
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Not Muhammad.
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People say no, no, no, no,
no, all roads lead to heaven.
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As long as you are sincere,
you're going to be saved.
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What you're gonna to do
with this text in the Bible.
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There is no other
name, not Muhammad,
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not Moses,
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the great lawgiver
of the Old Testament.
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We're not saved
through Moses and the law.
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Not St. Paul,
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who gave us the Book of Romans
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that talks
about grace and faith.
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Not St. Paul, not,
certainly not Buddha,
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certainly not Kali,
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one of the great
gods of the Hindus.
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The Bible says,
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"Jesus is the only
way to eternal life."
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Now respect is
different to acceptance.
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We respect you as a
person made in the image of God.
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But we may not
accept your belief system
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or your lifestyle.
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So when people
come to me and they say,
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"But I have a certain lifestyle,
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and you don't believe in it,
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but you got to do so
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and so because
this is my lifestyle."
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I say, "I will not."
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Because I have freedom.
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I respect your freedom.
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I ask you to respect mine.
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And there's no
other name under heaven.
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Not all ideas
are of equal value.
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And that's completely
politically incorrect.
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We live in a society that says,
"All ideas are of equal value."
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No, they're not.
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I've been to
Russia now 44 times.
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People said, "Why have you
gone to Russia so many times?
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Do you like it there?"
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Not, not especially.
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When I was there in Moscow,
minus 25 degrees at Red Square.
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No, I go there
because of the gospel.
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And what I saw in Russia
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is a wake-up call
for America today.
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You know what
atheism did in Russia?
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Most people don't know.
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Most young people
haven't got any idea
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about history today.
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They have no idea,
they haven't got a clue.
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The atheists in Russia
over a period of 70 years
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put to death as a minimum
50 million innocent people.
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You're going to tell
me, all ideas are the same.
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When I went to Russia,
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I had to tell the
people you are not an animal.
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You're not a machine.
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You're a child of God.
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There's a God that loves you.
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So don't tell me all ideas
are the same, I won't buy it.
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"Jesus is the only way
because He is Almighty God,
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the Creator in human flesh."
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Now, Muhammad ever
claimed to be that?
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He is a prophet
of God, you know.
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We don't criticize
him and we respect him.
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And we respect the
great faith of Islam.
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But Jesus is the only one
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because He claimed to be
Almighty God in human flesh.
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So would you take your
Bible and turn over here
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to John 8:54 and 59.
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John 8:54 to 59,
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John 8:54 to 59,
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"Jesus answered,
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"If I honor Myself,
My honor is nothing.
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It is My Father who honors Me,
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of whom you say
that He is your God.
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Yet you have not
known Him, but I know Him.
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And if I say,
"I do not know Him,
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' I shall be a liar like you,
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but I do know Him
and keep His word."
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And then he said these words.
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Just, just look at this
on the screen for a moment.
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You got it open in
the Bible which is great
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because it is written,
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"Man shall not
live by bread alone."
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But look at this.
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"Your father Abraham
rejoiced to see My day,
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and he saw it and was glad."
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Then the Jews said to Him,
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"You are not yet fifty years old
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and have You seen Abraham?"
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Jesus said to them,
"Most assuredly, I say to you,
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before Abraham was, I AM."
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And the next text tells us,
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"Then they took up
stones to throw at Him."
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You know why they took up stone?
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Because they knew,
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He was claiming
to be Almighty God.
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No other man, no human
being can say things like that.
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He said, "I am, the great I am."
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These are the words
that belong to Yahweh Elohim,
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the Almighty God.
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So, this religion of Jesus
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is not just like
any other religion.
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So don't give me
the stuff that says
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all religions are the same.
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They've been brainwashed
with this political correctness
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that says all
religions are the same.
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It's not true.
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Come over here
to Exodus Chapter 3.
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Exodus Chapter 3.
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This is a story of
Moses and the burning bush.
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When Moses, was confronted
by God in the burning bush.
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Exodus 3:13
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to 15.
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Exodus Chapter 3,
"Moses said to God,
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"Indeed, when I come
to the children of Israel
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and say to them,
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'The God of your
fathers has sent me to you
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and they say to
me, 'What is His name?'
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What shall I say to them?"
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And God said to
Moses "I AM WHO I AM."
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And He said, 'Thus shall you
say to the children of Israel,
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I AM has sent me to you."
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' Moreover God said to Moses,
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"Thus you shall say to
the children of Israel:
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'The God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham,
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the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob,
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has sent me to you.
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This is My name forever
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and this is My
memorial to all generations."
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I want you to think about this.
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You've all heard of
C.S. Lewis, haven't you?
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He was a Great Oxford Don.
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A member of the old church
of my father's and my mother's,
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the Church of England.
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He said...
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He was one of the
greatest minds in the world.
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He said, "When
people come to me and I say,
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I don't accept the divinity
of Christ but I do believe
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that Christ Jesus,
Jesus was a good man,
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a great teacher."
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C.S. Lewis, said,
"Don't dare patronize him.
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He claimed to be God."
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He said, "What
would you do with a man
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who comes to you and says
that he is a poached egg."
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You must think about it.
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You say, "He's crazy."
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He's not a
great man, he's crazy.
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Jesus made claims that nobody
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in the history of
the world ever claimed.
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He said, "I am the Almighty."
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So he said,
"Either he is a madman
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or the godman.
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And if he's the mad
man, he is not a good man,
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he is a deluder.
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And he is deluded
and he is deceived."
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And so the claims
of Christ extraordinary
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and they cannot be
just brushed aside.
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Come to John 14:6.
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John 14:6.
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These words were read yesterday
at Mrs. Reagan's funeral
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just up the road here.
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In Simi Valley, up
on top of the mountain,
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beautiful place.
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Jesus said to him,
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"I am the way, the
truth, and the life.
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No one comes to the
Father except through Me."
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You can't get to God
except through Jesus.
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So, you know, I
don't want to be--
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I don't want to
sound judgmental,
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I don't want to
sound narrow-minded.
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But I want to
say, Jesus is the way.
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And I don't, I don't care
about all this foolishness
00:15:29.22\00:15:32.96
and this political
correctness that says,
00:15:32.99\00:15:35.53
"Every road leads to heaven.
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All you got to do is
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get in touch
with your inner self,
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the God who is within you."
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There is no good in me.
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My goodness comes down from God.
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You see, "I am the way,
the truth, and the life.
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Jesus is the Christ of
God, it's the next great truth.
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"Jesus is the Christ of God
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and paid for our sins
when He died our death
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on the cross."
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But you say, well, of course
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I believe our Muslim
friends believe this.
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No, no, no, they do not believe
that Jesus died on the cross.
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They say, "They accept him
as a mighty prophet of God."
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God bless them.
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But they say,
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"The Christ of God
could not die on a cross."
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Gandhi, the leader
of the Hindus said,
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"I love your Christ
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but I cannot
believe in this idea
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of one person
dying for another."
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Said I repudiate that entirely.
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The most controversial truth
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is that God in Christ
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came down from glory
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and on the cross
died for our sins.
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Would you come over here
to John 3:14 and onwards,
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John 3:14 and
onwards in the word of God.
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Jesus said,
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"As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness,
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even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up,
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that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
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but have eternal life.
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For God so loved the world
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that He gave his
only begotten Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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Last night I was reading a
little bit about Shackleton.
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Shackleton was the
great British explorer.
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He was an Irishman as
well as being an Englishman.
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And he went down
to the Antarctica.
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And his ship got
caught up in the ice
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and crushed to death.
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He had to leave some of his men,
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most of his men behind.
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And he and some
of his companions
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got into this little boat
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that was about 20 feet long
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and sailed across
to tempestuous seas
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and they came to a place
where there were human beings.
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And with the help of
the Chilean government,
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they got a boat
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and he traveled
back to save his men.
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Shackleton had
a heart condition.
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He passed out
several times on the journey.
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And when he came
back and found his men
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who were starving to death
and half crazed with the cold.
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They said to him,
00:18:51.46\00:18:53.63
"We knew you
would come, brother.
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We knew you would come."
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And so Christ, God in Christ
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comes cross the space
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of a billion galaxies.
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And God the eternal Spirit
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becomes
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God the Man.
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This is the most
controversial truth
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in the world today.
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The most politically
00:19:26.43\00:19:28.96
incorrect truth
that God becomes a man,
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and he is the
only way to salvation.
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Now, the amazing thing is,
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that cradled in the
womb of the Virgin Mary
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for nine months was God.
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Who can understand it,
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it's an
incomprehensible mystery.
00:19:50.52\00:19:53.52
And when he was hung on
the cross, what happened?
00:19:53.56\00:19:56.89
Jesus said, "As a
snake or as the serpent
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was lifted up in the wilderness,
00:20:00.73\00:20:03.03
even so must the Son
of Man be lifted up."
00:20:03.06\00:20:06.33
Now, the serpent
was full of poison.
00:20:06.37\00:20:10.24
And under the curse of God,
00:20:10.27\00:20:13.94
how could this
have any relationship
00:20:13.98\00:20:16.54
to the sinless Christ,
00:20:16.58\00:20:19.61
God in human flesh,
00:20:19.65\00:20:21.15
it's an
incomprehensible mystery.
00:20:21.18\00:20:24.52
Except when we
come to understand as
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Paul pointed out,
00:20:26.49\00:20:28.06
out in the Epistle
to the Corinthians,
00:20:28.09\00:20:32.26
that the poison of
sin was laid upon him.
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The sin of the world.
00:20:38.53\00:20:41.14
And he was treated as though
he were the worst of sinners.
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And endured the wrath
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of an unspeakably righteous God.
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No other religion believes this.
00:20:57.09\00:21:00.89
The message of the
gospel is God loves you,
00:21:00.92\00:21:05.89
because God sees
you and He loves you
00:21:05.93\00:21:08.80
whoever you are.
00:21:08.83\00:21:11.63
And salvation is
found in no one else.
00:21:11.67\00:21:14.30
And now I come to the most
politically incorrect statement
00:21:14.34\00:21:19.74
I've ever made.
00:21:19.77\00:21:21.71
And I've taken a
talk like this before.
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And this talk
you will be amazed,
00:21:23.85\00:21:26.08
you may not be amazed.
00:21:26.11\00:21:27.45
But I will tell you,
00:21:27.48\00:21:29.72
this is the talk that
gets people more upset
00:21:29.75\00:21:33.79
than any other
talk I've ever given.
00:21:33.82\00:21:38.03
And I will get phone
calls and I will get letters.
00:21:38.06\00:21:41.33
And I'm talking from
believers and they will say,
00:21:41.36\00:21:45.17
"This was the worst
thing I've ever heard."
00:21:45.20\00:21:48.97
Because we do not believe it,
00:21:49.00\00:21:50.54
we believe that
people are going to be saved
00:21:50.57\00:21:56.31
by their righteous deeds,
00:21:56.34\00:21:59.41
and they're going to be saved
because they're in ignorance.
00:21:59.45\00:22:04.32
And because they
are in ignorance,
00:22:04.35\00:22:06.39
they will be saved.
00:22:06.42\00:22:08.99
But what I'm saying
is that it's not true.
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People without Christ are lost.
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I just want you to
think about this for a moment.
00:22:19.97\00:22:22.10
You may find it
totally unacceptable.
00:22:22.14\00:22:25.37
You may say, "I can
accept so many other things,
00:22:25.41\00:22:28.58
but I cannot accept the idea
00:22:28.61\00:22:30.78
that people
without Christ are lost."
00:22:30.81\00:22:33.92
Who do we think we are?
00:22:33.95\00:22:40.56
But it is the
teaching of the Bible.
00:22:40.59\00:22:42.69
Would you come over
here to Ephesians 2:1 and 2?
00:22:42.72\00:22:47.56
And as you know we live today
00:22:47.60\00:22:49.03
in an intellectually
and spiritually barren race.
00:22:49.06\00:22:53.54
People no longer
read Holy Scripture.
00:22:53.57\00:22:56.94
Would you come over
here to Ephesians 2:1 and 2?
00:22:56.97\00:23:02.94
And remember, not all
opinions are the same.
00:23:02.98\00:23:06.55
The most important opinion
is the opinion of scripture.
00:23:06.58\00:23:12.75
Ephesians 2:1 and 2,
"And you He made alive,
00:23:12.79\00:23:16.32
who were dead in
trespasses and sins..."
00:23:16.36\00:23:19.66
The Bible says without
Christ we are as dead as can be.
00:23:19.69\00:23:24.37
"In which you once walked
00:23:24.40\00:23:25.73
according to the
course of this world,
00:23:25.77\00:23:27.44
according to the prince
of the power of the air,
00:23:27.47\00:23:29.90
the spirit who now is at work
in the sons of disobedience."
00:23:29.94\00:23:33.94
The Bible says
00:23:33.98\00:23:35.74
that before I come
to Christ, I am dead.
00:23:35.78\00:23:40.38
It doesn't say I am saved.
00:23:40.42\00:23:43.85
"And you He made alive,
00:23:43.89\00:23:45.32
who were dead in
trespasses and sins,
00:23:45.35\00:23:48.16
in which you once walked."
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.93
So a person
without Christ is dead.
00:23:50.96\00:23:56.83
And that is why
we preach the gospel,
00:23:56.87\00:23:59.93
because the
preaching of the gospel
00:23:59.97\00:24:02.07
is a resurrection for the dead.
00:24:02.10\00:24:05.17
Would you come over
here to Ephesians 2:12?
00:24:05.21\00:24:09.14
This is perhaps
the most politically
00:24:09.18\00:24:12.21
incorrect text in the Bible.
00:24:12.25\00:24:15.45
He says, "That at that
time you were without Christ,
00:24:15.48\00:24:20.26
being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel
00:24:20.29\00:24:23.63
and strangers from
the covenants of promise."
00:24:23.66\00:24:27.63
Oh dear,
00:24:27.66\00:24:30.13
"Having no hope and
without God in the world."
00:24:30.17\00:24:34.80
I don't know what
you think about this.
00:24:38.91\00:24:41.94
But the Bible says,
00:24:41.98\00:24:45.08
"At that time you
were without Christ,
00:24:45.11\00:24:48.08
being aliens
00:24:48.12\00:24:50.52
from the commonwealth of Israel,
00:24:50.55\00:24:52.39
the people of God, and strangers
00:24:52.42\00:24:54.52
from the covenants of promise,
00:24:54.56\00:24:56.56
having no hope, no hope,
00:24:56.59\00:25:01.73
and without God in the world."
00:25:01.76\00:25:06.40
One of my colleagues
came to me and he said,
00:25:06.43\00:25:09.80
"You say these things
because, you are an evangelist."
00:25:09.84\00:25:15.41
He said, "You say these
things because of what you are."
00:25:15.44\00:25:21.35
I said, "No, I am what I am."
00:25:21.38\00:25:24.72
Because of these truths,
it's the other way around.
00:25:24.75\00:25:29.79
I do this work
00:25:29.82\00:25:31.43
because I believe
that Christ is the way
00:25:31.46\00:25:33.70
the truth and the life.
00:25:33.73\00:25:36.03
And people are
lost without Christ.
00:25:36.06\00:25:39.67
I've spoken to millions
and millions of lost souls.
00:25:39.70\00:25:45.57
And I've seen vast
numbers find salvation.
00:25:45.61\00:25:50.61
Let me mention some
commonly believed myths.
00:25:50.65\00:25:56.42
Number one.
00:25:56.45\00:25:57.79
People are saved if
they don't know better,
00:25:57.82\00:26:00.49
if they are ignorant.
00:26:00.52\00:26:03.53
Well, keep them
in ignorance then
00:26:03.56\00:26:05.63
because then they're saved.
00:26:05.66\00:26:07.00
Don't tell them.
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.93
People are saved if
they are in darkness.
00:26:08.96\00:26:11.97
If that is true,
keep them in darkness.
00:26:12.00\00:26:14.90
People are saved
until they actually reject.
00:26:14.94\00:26:20.21
Well, don't give them
the opportunity of rejecting.
00:26:20.24\00:26:23.21
Sounds as some churches operate.
00:26:23.24\00:26:25.98
People are born saved is
one of the greatest heresies,
00:26:26.01\00:26:30.49
totally unbiblical.
00:26:30.52\00:26:31.92
People are saved
by their good works.
00:26:31.95\00:26:37.49
I don't believe any of this.
00:26:37.53\00:26:39.09
Come over here to Romans 2:12.
00:26:39.13\00:26:43.03
Romans 2, I need
to have a theology
00:26:43.06\00:26:49.57
that is not based upon
what I want to believe,
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.97
but what is based
upon the word of God.
00:26:53.01\00:26:55.94
Romans 2:12 says,
00:26:55.98\00:27:01.45
"For as many as
have sinned without law
00:27:01.48\00:27:03.89
will also perish without law..."
00:27:03.92\00:27:05.65
There's the answer.
00:27:05.69\00:27:07.06
"People who sin
without a knowledge of God
00:27:07.09\00:27:11.93
will perish
without a knowledge of God.
00:27:11.96\00:27:14.36
But as many as
have sinned in the law
00:27:14.40\00:27:17.57
will be judged by the law."
00:27:17.60\00:27:21.14
And then the
text goes on to say.
00:27:21.17\00:27:24.61
"For not the hearers of the law
are just in the sight of God,
00:27:24.64\00:27:27.74
but the doors of the
law will be justified,
00:27:27.78\00:27:30.25
for when Gentiles, who
do not to have the law,
00:27:30.28\00:27:33.01
by nature do the
things in the law,
00:27:33.05\00:27:36.22
these, although
not having the law,
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.49
are in law to themselves,
00:27:38.52\00:27:40.09
who show the work of the
law written in their hearts,
00:27:40.12\00:27:43.56
their conscience
also bearing witness,
00:27:43.59\00:27:48.20
and between themselves
their thoughts accusing
00:27:48.23\00:27:51.50
or else excusing them."
00:27:51.53\00:27:54.77
Some people say,
"Well, that text proves
00:27:54.80\00:27:56.50
that people are
going to be saved
00:27:56.54\00:27:58.97
by their obedience
to the law on the heart,
00:27:59.01\00:28:01.64
the text does not say that.
00:28:01.68\00:28:04.98
The text says
00:28:05.01\00:28:07.18
that their thoughts
are accuse or excuse them.
00:28:07.22\00:28:11.22
It doesn't say they are saved.
00:28:11.25\00:28:14.32
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