My American
friends, what's this?
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That's a dime.
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How far does it go?
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You know, okay.
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When I first discovered
this, I didn't believe it.
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I said to one of the
world's greatest astronomers,
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"No, I don't believe that."
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That's why he said to me,
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"Well, every
educated person does."
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See this dime.
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Very small, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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You know how big
this world is, don't you?
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It's got a lot
of mass, hasn't it?
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Our Milky Way system
made up of 200 million stars.
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Got a lot of mass, hasn't it?
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And there's another
200 billion stars...
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galaxies.
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Okay.
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If the universe were
increased or decreased
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by the mass of a dime,
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there'd be no
life on the planet.
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The universe were...
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If the total
mass of the universe
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were increased or
decreased by the mass of a dime,
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there would be no
life on the planet.
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There would be no planet.
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So I say to my
atheistic friends,
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would you please
consider the evidence.
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It's called by scholars
the anthropic principle.
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It means that every
thing in the universe
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was designed for human life
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which makes you
think, which makes you think.
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Now, this is an illustration
I've used over and over again.
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Some scientists,
atheists, dismiss it,
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but they have no
reason to dismiss it.
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I want you to think
of the greatest airplane
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in my humble opinion
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that has ever been
made and that is a 747.
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That I say we're advancing
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because we've
got these new planes
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which are smaller, and slower,
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and less comfortable but make
more money for the airlines,
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you see.
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But I want you to think of this.
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This great plane, 747-400
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made up of millions parts.
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I want you to
think of this great 747.
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No, not this great 747
but all the parts for the 747.
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There are millions
of different parts.
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They're being stored in
a shed, all of these parts.
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And all of a sudden,
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there comes a tremendous tornado
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and it picks up all of
those millions of parts
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and when the parts come down,
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it's a 747 functioning,
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you see.
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Now, just think about this.
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If it walks like a duck.
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It quacks like a duck.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I'm forced by the evidence
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to believe in a God who made us.
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I want you to come in the Bible,
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come in the Bible to
Psalm 33:6 and onwards please.
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Psalm 33:6 and onwards.
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Psalm 33:6 and
9, the Bible says,
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"By the word of the
Lord the heavens made,
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and all the host of them
by the breath of his mouth."
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Verse 9 says, "For He
spoke, and it was done,
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and He commanded,
and it stood fast."
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We now know, we now know
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that matter can be
converted into energy.
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And it is a scientific fact
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that energy can be
converted into matter,
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and so, this all mighty God,
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He spoke and the
universe appeared.
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What sort of God is this?
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How big is this God?
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And now, what is this God like?
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The Bible tells me,
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He is a God of
love of awesome power,
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of mercy.
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He is our sustainer.
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He looks after us.
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He takes care of us.
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And He is our provider.
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I want you now to share with me
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some amazing insights
into what this God is like.
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Would you come
over here to Isaiah 40,
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the Book of Isaiah Chapter 40
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and we're going to
come to verse 25, 26,
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Isaiah 40:25, 26.
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"To whom then will you liken Me,
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Or to whom shall I be equal?"
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says the Lord, the Holy One.
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Lift up your eyes on high,
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And see who
created these things,
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Who brings out
their host by number,
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He calls them all by name,
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By the greatness of His might
And the strength of His power,
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Not one is missing."
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And if you come now to
verse 28 and onwards, it says,
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"Have you not known?
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Have you not heard?
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The everlasting God, the Lord,
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The Creator of
the ends of the earth,
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Neither faints nor is weary.
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There is no
searching of His understanding.
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He gives power to the weak,
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And to those who have no
might He increases strength.
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Even the youths
shall faint and be weary,
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And the young men
shall utterly fall,
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But those who wait on the
Lord Shall renew their strength,
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They shall mount up
with wings like eagles,
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They shall run and not be weary,
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They shall walk
and not be faint."
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What is this God like?
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You know, you say to me,
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it's over, my
life is overwhelming.
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I have so many problems.
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I don't know how I'm
going to pay my bills.
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I don't know
how I'm going to pay
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for these
television cameras here today.
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I want to tell
you, the Almighty God
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who made the stars
can do a few things
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that you and I can't understand.
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Amen.
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He is an awesome.
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Now come over here.
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Hey, you folks,
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what's happening to
you, you're coming alive.
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Come over here.
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Come over, this is really good.
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Come over here to Book of
Job, Job Chapter 26, some say,
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this is the oldest book
that was written in the Bible.
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It's Job 26:7 says,
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"He stretches out the
north over empty space,
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He hangs the earth on nothing."
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Look at this picture.
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Thousands of years ago,
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the Bible spoke
about an Almighty God
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who flung the stars in space
and hung the earth on nothing.
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Come to Job 38:4-7, Job 38:4-7,
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"Where were you when I laid
the foundations of the earth?
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Tell Me, if you
have understanding.
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Who determined its measurements?
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Surely you know!
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Or who stretched
the line upon it?
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To what were its
foundations fastened?
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Who laid its cornerstone."
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Now this is the verse.
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"When the morning
stars sang together,
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And all the sons of
God shouted for joy?"
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Listen to this.
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Before creation
there was no time.
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The Bible actually
says before time began,
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did you know that.
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There was no space
and there was no matter,
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but there was God.
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And the sons of God...
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beings from
beyond time and space.
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And when the universe was made,
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they were there and rejoiced
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at the power of
the Almighty God.
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Would you come over here
to the Book of Nehemiah 9:6.
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Nehemiah 9:6.
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It says, "You
alone are the Lord,
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You have made heaven,
The heaven of heavens,
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with all their host..."
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Notice the heaven of
heavens, beyond our heavens.
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"The earth and all things on it,
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The seas and
all that is in them,
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And You preserve them all.
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The host of
heaven worships You."
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There are many
things I don't understand,
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but beyond time and space.
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The Bible spoke
about the Father's house.
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The Father's
house is not on Mars
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or Venus or Andromeda.
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It existed before the
universe came into being.
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And when the universe
came into being, these beings,
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beings that we do not comprehend
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a bit like dark matter,
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they sang and rejoiced.
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So the Bible teaches
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that we humans on
this planet are not alone.
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You hear this.
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We are not alone.
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In fact, the Bible teaches that
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some of them have
come down to this planet.
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Would you come over
here to Matthew 28:3-5,
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Matthew 28:3-5,
in the New Testament,
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Matthew 28:3-5.
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"His countenance
was like lightning,
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and his clothes
as white as snow.
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And the guards
shook for fear of him,
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and became like dead men.
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But the angel..."
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The Greek word
means the messenger,
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the messenger, the messenger,
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"And said to the
women, "Do not be afraid,
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for I know that you
seek Jesus who was crucified.
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He has been
raised from the dead."
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Now, I want to say
something to the skeptics.
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And I meet them all the time.
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They say, "I could
never believe in Christ
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being raised from the dead."
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Are you kidding me?
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You kidding me?
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If you can't believe in that,
then believe in this, the dime.
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Believe in the great
forces of dark matter.
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Believe it.
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Believe in the four great forces
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that came into
being electromagnetism,
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gravity, strong
nuclear, the weak nuclear,
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believe that 'cause
we know that it's true.
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And don't tell me that the God
who made the stars can't do it,
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you see.
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Don't tell me that, please.
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Now, come over
here to Matthew 25:31.
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Now, what we're
dealing with today.
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What we're doing today.
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We're giving you some hard,
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solid evidence why
people can believe in God.
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Matthew 25:31,
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"When the Son of
Man comes in His glory,
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and all the
holy angels with Him,
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then He will sit on
the throne of His glory."
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The bible teaches us.
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Now this a remarkable concept
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but it should not be
so remarkable for people
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who believe in space
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and who have seen
the glory out there,
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this inconceivable universe.
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I hope you got that.
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When you look at
through the Hubble Telescope,
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when you can see what
they can show us today,
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this 200 billion galaxies,
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plus 10 times
more smaller galaxies.
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Just remember this.
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We are seeing less
than half of 1 percent
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because the rest you can't see.
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And so, just get
it into your mind.
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It's not because it's not there
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and because the
telescope is not working.
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No, it's because
it's composed of material
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that nobody at
present understands.
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It has force.
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It can be measured
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this drivingly
expansion of the universe.
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We've never lived in the time
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when there has
been so much evidence
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to believe in God.
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Never been such a time.
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So the Bible says,
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the man who made it
all came to this earth,
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is put to death, He
came back to life again.
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And it says,
"He is going to come
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and He is going to come back
with beings from outer space."
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They will be visitors
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as we call them
from other worlds.
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Would you come to John please,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
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this is a
superlative text, John 14: 1:3,
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dear hearts and general people.
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John 14:1-3,
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John 14:1-3,
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you got it.
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"Let not your heart be troubled,
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you believe in God,
believe also in the Me..."
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You should not worry
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when you know
that the Almighty God
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who made the
universe is our friend.
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When I'm as a poor boy
going through Avondale College,
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I came to my last year
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and I've been
there for six years.
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I was as poor as a church mass.
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And a church mass is poor.
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I had one shirt left.
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Beverly will tell you this.
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I couldn't take my coat off.
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You know why?
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I only had one coat,
couldn't take my coat off.
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No, I had a shirt
but I had no sleeves,
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sleeves have fallen out.
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No, I'm okay now.
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You don't have to
feel sorry for it.
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It's a long time ago.
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I was so skinny.
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We had a club at
Avondale College,
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we call it the Bones Club,
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because you can
count all of our bones.
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I was poor till
we have toothpaste.
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No, we couldn't.
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We didn't have soap,
except if our girlfriends
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would give us a
little bit of soap,
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something like that.
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We say put on occasions
so we'd be more bearable.
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But listen, let me tell you.
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I had no idea how I was
going to pay all my fees.
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Accountants generally
have no grace and no mercy.
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God bless all the accountants.
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We love the accountants.
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But you know
that's not a profession
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that encourages
grace or mercy, you know.
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But I remember one night
going out under the stars
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on the Avondale campus,
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a black, black night
and looking up at the stars.
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No streets lights.
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Sky is black as ink.
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And all of the
stars shining so brightly.
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It came into my
mind like a revelation
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from beyond the stars.
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Is there anything
too hard for the God
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who made all of this,
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you see.
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So when you got
problems out, you know,
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we've been talking science,
we've been giving you evidence,
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but now let's have it therefore.
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If what I've told
you today is true,
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all of these stars,
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the vast numbers, the galaxies.
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We haven't talked
about the black holes.
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We know there are black holes.
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Inconceivable power.
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Just a week or so ago,
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astronomer saw
explosion of a tremendous star.
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They're seeing at as
it happened so long ago,
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the brilliance of that
exploding star was greater
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than the brilliance of
the whole Milky Way system.
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Where there is
200 billion stars.
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What sort of God is this God?
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That's why C.S. Lewis,
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the great Oxford scholar
said, "Your God is too small."
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He is talking to Christians.
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No faith, no trust,
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no belief, little thinking.
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When the God who made us
is the God who become a man.
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The Bible says
the word became flesh
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dwelled amongst us.
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And it says He
created all things.
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And it says, He spoke.
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We read the words, He spoke.
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You think God was
there, what is He like?
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What a person?
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He is a person and He says,
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I'm going to have me a
universe of billions of galaxies
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and I'll have black
holes and then after a bit,
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I'm going to have a planet
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and it's going to
be as the Bible says,
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'the apple of my eye'.
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It's going to be
my chief treasure.
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So he said, I'm going
to dwell all these things
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and I'm going to have
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these full big
forces working together.
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I'm going to have it so
that even it were increased
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by the size of an American dime,
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it's going to whack.
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I'm going to use all the forces,
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the billions of galaxies
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so that people
today can do this.
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You say, I don't believe it.
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It's true.
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I have mixed with
some of the world's
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greatest scientists, it is true.
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It's true.
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So what is this God like?
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Well, the amazing
thing about this God,
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He is going to come again.
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Let me read the
text, John 14:1-3.
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Now have a look at
it, please John 14:1-3.
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"Let not your heart be troubled,
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you believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My Father's house are
many mansions, many rooms,
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if it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and
receive you to Myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also.
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Listen,
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Christ...
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He is not just the smart guy.
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You should never patronize Him.
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Unbelievers have
a tendency to say,
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"Oh, we accept He
was a great teacher."
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Oh, that's nonsense,
because He claimed to be God.
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He claimed to be God.
He said, "I am that I am."
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He said, "I'm God."
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If He wasn't
whom He said He was,
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then He was a fool and a liar
and a cheat and a charlatan,
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so don't patronize Him,
don't give me that stuff.
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He was what He was so,
Oh, He was the greatest liar,
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fraud and cheat.
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But he said, one who made it all
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from the stars in the space,
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He said, "I will come again."
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I'm going to come again.
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Now, okay.
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Let's hold with me now.
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Okay.
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We're just going to
keep this picture up here.
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I want to talk about this.
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Last week in that
series we took you to Babylon.
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You know why I've
got strong confidence
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in what I'm telling you
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because I'm not an
armchair theologian.
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I had been to those places.
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I've been to Babylon,
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of course, I
have, heaps of time.
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Been locked up
by Saddam Hussein,
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put under house
arrest by Saddam Hussein,
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taken through the
streets of Baghdad at night,
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interrogated.
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The survived okay,
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they're all
right, they've lasted.
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No, I've been
there, I have seen it.
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I've been to
Nebuchadnezzar's palace.
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I've been to the place
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where the great
prophecy was given.
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Into Babylon, been to Persia
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and all around
Persia, called it Iran,
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old ancient
remarkable civilization.
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Most of us done
nothing about Iran.
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Great civilization.
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Been to Greece, been
to all of those places.
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Been to the islands,
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landed on Patmos
with a helicopter.
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Seen these thing.
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Been to Rome, all
around Rome, been there.
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Been through the Vatican.
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Been into the room
where they elect the popes.
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Seen all of this.
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Gone through the prophecies.
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And last week we talked
about the coming of the stone
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that strikes the metal man.
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And that is a space
age invasion led by the God
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who made the stars.
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So the God who made the
stars and who made the planet
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has not forgotten us.
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He says, "I will come again."
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You hear what I'm telling you.
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And on that great metal man,
00:22:13.90\00:22:15.76
we're not up in
the head or the chest,
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not down on the
belly fortunately.
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But we're not even in the legs
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but we're in the toes of time.
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There was a
young American solider
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in the Second World War
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he had been
brought up in some place
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where they taught
him there was no God.
00:22:36.52\00:22:39.79
And the next day he was
going to go into battle.
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Let me remind you
something as a minister.
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There are not too
many dying atheists.
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There are not many
atheists who die atheists.
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Believe me.
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I haven't seen any.
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But they found this poem
on his body the next day.
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Look, God, I have
never spoken to You.
00:23:05.78\00:23:09.45
But now I want to
say, "how do you do."
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You see, God, they
told me You didn't exist.
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And like a fool I
believed all of this.
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Last night from a
shell-hole I saw Your sky
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I figured right then,
they had told me a lie.
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Had I taken time to
see the things You made,
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I'd known they weren't
calling a spade a spade.
00:23:29.47\00:23:33.81
I wonder, God, if
You'd take my hand.
00:23:33.84\00:23:36.31
Somehow I feel that
You will understand.
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Funny, I had to come
to this hellish place,
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Before I had the
time to see Your Face.
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Well, I guess there
isn't much more to say.
00:23:47.12\00:23:51.03
But I'm sure glad, God,
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I met You today.
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I guess "zero
hour" will soon be here.
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But I'm not afraid
since I know You're near.
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The signal!
00:24:09.38\00:24:11.98
Well, God, I'll have to go.
00:24:12.01\00:24:17.02
I like You lots,
I want You to know.
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Look, now this will
be a horrible fight.
00:24:20.96\00:24:24.23
Who knows I may come
to Your house tonight.
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Though I wasn't
friendly to You before
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I wonder, God if
You'd wait at Your Door.
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Look I'm crying!
00:24:38.57\00:24:41.74
Me! Shedding tears!
00:24:41.78\00:24:45.98
I wish I'd known
You all these years.
00:24:46.01\00:24:51.39
Well, I have to go now, God.
00:24:51.42\00:24:52.92
Goodbye.
00:24:56.06\00:24:59.09
Strange now since I met You,
00:24:59.13\00:25:04.40
I'm not afraid to die.
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Neither will you be.
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When you get to know...
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the God of the universe,
the God who made the stars.
00:25:17.21\00:25:21.75
You will be afraid of nothing.
00:25:21.78\00:25:24.85
And remember,
00:25:24.89\00:25:26.59
this same great God
00:25:26.62\00:25:30.23
who made this universe,
00:25:30.26\00:25:36.03
He said, "I will come again."
00:25:36.06\00:25:42.40
I have just come from
Russia via Switzerland
00:25:49.81\00:25:53.15
and I'm now in Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine.
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This place has got
huge memories for me
00:25:57.39\00:26:01.46
because back in '95 we
ran a campaign in the city
00:26:01.49\00:26:05.69
and in spite of
terrific opposition,
00:26:05.73\00:26:08.80
by the grace of God we baptized
00:26:08.83\00:26:10.90
3,530 precious souls
in the Dneiper River.
00:26:10.93\00:26:17.77
I'm back here
today because I believe
00:26:17.81\00:26:20.61
that we need to
take care of the people
00:26:20.64\00:26:22.91
we baptized.
00:26:22.94\00:26:24.78
I don't believe it's
right to baptize people
00:26:24.81\00:26:28.08
and then to walk away
00:26:28.12\00:26:29.88
and to leave them
literally in the cold.
00:26:29.92\00:26:33.66
When I read my Bible,
00:26:33.69\00:26:35.39
I find where the Apostle
Paul went back time after time
00:26:35.42\00:26:39.93
to visit the people
that he had baptized.
00:26:39.96\00:26:43.40
And so I'm back here
today for the 43rd time
00:26:43.43\00:26:48.84
in Russia and Ukraine
together to visit the people.
00:26:48.87\00:26:53.17
I'm back here to
preach the gospel of Christ.
00:26:53.21\00:26:56.24
I'm back here to
explain the Word of God
00:26:56.28\00:26:58.85
and let these people know
that they are not forgotten
00:26:58.88\00:27:02.75
and never will be forgotten.
00:27:02.78\00:27:06.32
We believe that there
is a tremendous opportunity
00:27:06.35\00:27:10.53
for the preaching
of the gospel of Christ
00:27:10.56\00:27:13.50
in this part of the world.
00:27:13.53\00:27:15.60
The soul hunger still exists
00:27:15.63\00:27:19.80
and the Carter
Report has got a goal
00:27:19.83\00:27:23.17
to take the gospel of
Christ to the people of Russia
00:27:23.20\00:27:27.11
and the people of Ukraine.
00:27:27.14\00:27:29.34
I just want to say
to you, dear friend,
00:27:29.38\00:27:31.81
my heart is
overwhelmed with thankfulness
00:27:31.85\00:27:35.18
for your magnificent support.
00:27:35.22\00:27:37.19
Thank you in Jesus' name.
00:27:37.22\00:27:39.92
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