Today, I'm going to take
you into the Valley of the Kings
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and show you
where they discovered
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King Tutankhamun.
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The topic today
is a terrific topic,
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the Search for Immortality.
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The reason the ancient Egyptians
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built the pyramids
and their fantastic tombs
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was because they had a
burning desire in their souls
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to live forever.
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You can read this in
the ancient writings.
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One of the greatest discoveries
was made by one of my relatives
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Howard Carter.
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Well, he is one of my relatives,
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but then so are you too.
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Howard Carter discovered
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the great pharaoh Tutankhamun
or King Tut, as we call him.
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Howard Carter came from England
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and he worked in
the British Museum.
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And then he was
sent out to Egypt
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to do some exploration.
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He discovered, if my memory
is serving me correctly today,
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he discovered the
tomb of Tuthmose I
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and also the
tomb of Tuthmose III.
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I showed you one
of those tombs today,
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but also, he discovered
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the most
sensational tomb of them all,
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because the tomb
was largely intact.
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That was the
tomb of Tutankhamun.
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He was sponsored
by an English man
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whose name was Lord Carnarvon.
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Howard Carter dug for
years in this valley here.
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I know it's too hard,
almost too hard to believe,
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but he and his
workmen uncovered, by hand,
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200,000 tons of dirt and rubble.
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Wow.
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And they came to the last season
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and Lord Carnarvon said
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"We haven't discovered anything,
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I can't afford this anymore."
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And Howard Carter said
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"Look, I'll pay
for the last season
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if you'll simply
allow me to dig."
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And there was one small
area of about 30 feet across
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and they hadn't dug there.
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And so Howard Carter
said "Let's dig in this spot."
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As soon as they started to
dig, they came upon a stair,
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a stair, they
uncovered the stair
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and there was a staircase.
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And they went down, dug
down, and there was a door.
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So Howard Carter sent a message
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back to England
to Lord Carnarvon,
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he said "Come, I think
we've made the discovery,
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I think we have
found pharaoh Tutankhamun."
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And so Lord Carnarvon
took a few weeks to come out,
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they guarded the tomb every day.
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They just wouldn't let
anybody near this tomb.
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This is an amazing story.
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I have read books about
it but it was also told to me
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by a man who was actually there.
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Very, very old man
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he told me the story
more than 40 years ago.
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Old Peter the Coptic Christian,
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he was Howard
Carter's timekeeper.
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He was an old, old man.
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He told me, they
went down the staircase
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and they made a
little hole in the door,
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you know what happened?
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Hot air came out,
almost 3,500 yeas old.
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And then he got a
torch and he looked in.
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And Lord
Carnarvon and his daughter
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were standing there
and some other professors.
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And Lord Carnarvon said, he said
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"What do you see?"
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He said "Wonderful things.
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Wonderful things."
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And took down the door
and they discovered the glory
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and the riches
of King Tut's tomb.
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An amazing, amazing story.
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They discovered of course
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the King Tut's and
rest of the pharaohs
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were searching for
immortality and eternal youth.
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Aren't we all?
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That's why they
built the pyramids.
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I was there not very
long ago with Randy Younker
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in the Valley of the Kings.
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Now I must be a
bit of a romantic,
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'cause as I was walking
through the Valley of the Kings
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with Professor Younker
from Andrews University,
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who is an outstanding
scholar and archeologist,
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he said to me, "Can
you feel this place?
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This is where
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some of the greatest
events in history took place."
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I have gone many times
in to the tomb of King Tut.
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And I've paid the
guards to let me go by myself.
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You know why?
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He's buried there.
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And recently, they've put
him in a glass sarcophagus.
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And I've sat this close to him.
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And I've thought of the
glory of this ancient place
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and how their search
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for eternal life failed.
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But one person got it.
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I want you to know, today, this,
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there is life after
death and the Bible tells me
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Moses is in heaven,
he's not in the Cairo Museum.
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I want you to come
in your Bible over here
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to Matthew 17:1-3,
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come in the
scriptures, the Holy Scriptures.
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Matthew 17:1-3, and
I'm going to read it you
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"Now after six days
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Jesus took Peter,
James, and John his brother,
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led them up on a high
mountain by themselves,
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and He was
transfigured before them,
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His face shone like the sun,
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and His clothes
became white as the light.
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And behold, Moses and
Elijah appeared to them,
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talking with Him."
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So the Bible tells me
that Moses escaped the world.
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The Bible tells me
Moses is in heaven.
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I want you to come over here
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to Hebrews 11:24 and onwards.
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Book of Hebrews
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and onwards.
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And here, Moses is
actually called by name,
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it says "By faith
Moses, when he became of age,
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refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter,
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Choosing rather
to suffer affliction
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with the people of God
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than to enjoy the
passing pleasures of sin,
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esteeming the reproach of Christ
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greater riches than
the treasures in Egypt,
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for he looked to the reward."
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Folks, I've had
some amazing experiences,
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but nothing has moved me
more than going with Dr. Hawass
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and Dr. Randy Younker
into the royal mummy room.
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I've looked down into the
faces of people like this,
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Rameses the Great.
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You'll have heard
of Rameses the Great,
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this is Seqenenre, the
great liberator of Egypt,
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and I have looked into the face,
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I have looked into
the face of Thutmose III
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and as I walked and
there is Hatshepsut,
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and as I walked around
and I looked at these mummies.
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Listen to this
and never forget it,
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if Moses had not
made the right decision,
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Moses would have
been there with this man,
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maybe in the place of this man.
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There he is, you know,
people have said to me,
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"Can you really
believe these Bible stories?"
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Absolutely,
it's absolutely true.
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You can stake your life on it.
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But the Bible says that
Moses made the right decision,
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he choose Christ.
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This man turned
his back on Christ.
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And there you see him today.
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He is a blackened
mummy in the Cairo Museum.
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But the Bible tells me
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that Moses the prince of
Egypt is now a prince in heaven.
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Amen.
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So I want you to know
this, there is life after death.
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There is an eternal
home for God's children,
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the Bible teaches that.
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I want you to know this,
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there is an eternal
home for God's children.
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And I want you
to come to a text.
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I want you to come over here
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to John 14:1-3, in the Bible.
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John 14.
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And I think most of
you will know this text.
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John 14:1-3 Jesus said,
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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,
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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 unto Myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also."
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Folks, there is
a heaven, you know.
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The Bible says there is a place
prepared for God's children
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and Moses has
already gotten there
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because he made
the right choice.
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Now if you come
over to another text,
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if you come over
here to Corinthians,
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come over here with
me to 2 Corinthians 5:1,
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2 Corinthians 5:1,
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the Bible says,
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"For we know that
if our earthly house,
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this tent, is destroyed,
we have a building from God,
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a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens."
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Now when you go
into the Great Pyramid,
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pyramids of Cheops
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which has been standing
there for more than 4,500 years,
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Great Pyramid
was built 2,650 BC,
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you go into that tomb...
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And I showed you,
you can actually see
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the sarcophagus
of the mighty king.
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But these people got
nothing, they got nothing.
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But the Bible says, if a
person puts his faith in God,
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if a person really puts...
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Just think about this.
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If a person puts
his faith in Christ,
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one day he is going to have
a place with God in paradise.
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Pretty amazing,
isn't that? Pretty amazing.
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The Egyptians never got it.
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The Bible teaches...
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This is the next great truth.
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The Bible teaches
that heaven is real.
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We're not talking here about
pie in the sky, the sweet pie.
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The Bible teaches that
heaven is a real place,
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and it's a million
times better than anything
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old King Tut had
my friend, you know.
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We all like beautiful
things, we all like...
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Most people, they
sort of love money.
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That's a very sad thing
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if you just
love money, very sad.
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But these people had more money
then you could poke a stick at.
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But Moses turned his back on
it and Moses went home to glory.
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Amen. Does that
teach you something?
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Heaven is real.
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Would you come over
here to Revelation 21:1-5.
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And this text actually
gives you a description
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of what heaven
is going to be like
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and it's a million
times better than Egypt,
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but I like Egypt too.
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But this is a
million times better.
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You got it?
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"Now I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
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" God is going to not
just do this over a little bit,
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He's going to make a
new heaven and a new earth.
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I spoke about this
when I spoke on astronomy.
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"For the first heaven
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and the first
earth were passed away,
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and there was no more sea.
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I John saw the Holy
City, the New Jerusalem,
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coming down out
of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a loud
voice out of heaven saying,
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Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
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He will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people,
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God himself shall be
with them, and be their God.
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God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes.
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There shall be no
more death." Hear this?
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No more death,
"Nor sorrow, nor crying,
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nor shall there
be any more pain,
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for the former
things have passed away.
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Then He who sat
on the throne said,
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Behold, I make all things new.
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And He said to me,
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Write, for these words
are true and faithful."
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What a place,
what a glorious place,
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better than anything
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that human mind can
conceive or realize.
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Come over to Revelation 22,
pretty much on the same page,
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Revelation 22.
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It says "And He showed me a
pure river of water of life,
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clear as crystal,"
better than the Nile,
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"proceeding from
the throne of God
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and of the Lamb.
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In the middle of its street,
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and on either side of the river,
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was there the tree of
life, which bore twelve fruits,
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each tree yielded
its fruit every month,
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the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.
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And there shall
be no more curse,
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but the throne of God and
of the Lamb shall be in it,
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and His
servants shall serve Him.
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They shall see His face;
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and His name shall
be on their foreheads.
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There shall be no night there.
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They need no lamp,
nor light of the sun,
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for the Lord God
gives them light,
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and they shall
reign for ever and ever."
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Amen.
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Can you think about this?
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You know, just let your
imagination think about this,
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the glory of this place.
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The Bible says
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"It is going to be
indescribably glorious."
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Amen.
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And I don't
know about you folks,
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but I sort of love the county.
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Did you know
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that heaven in the Bible
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is called a country?
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And some people
said to me, you know,
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aren't people gonna
sit on rosy-tinted clouds
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and twang guitars and play harps
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and all this stuff,
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you don't read
about this in Bible.
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The Bible says
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that God prepared for His people
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a wonderful place
and it's a country.
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The Bible also
says, it has a great city.
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Did you know this?
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A trillion times better
than New York or Los Angeles
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and all of these and Moscow
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and we've been to
all of these places,
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but God is going to have a place
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that is indescribably
better than anything
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King Tut could have
wanted or dreamed about.
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And this is true.
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And so people
who come to know God
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and believe in
Christ and in the Bible,
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they become the
happiest people in the world.
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The Bible teaches
that God will create
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a new heaven and a new earth.
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Would you come
to 2 Peter 3:8-13,
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2 Peter 3:8
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and onwards.
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Its says "But, beloved,
be not forget this one thing,
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that with the Lord one
day is like a thousand years,
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and a thousand years as one day.
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The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise,
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as some men count slackness,
but is longsuffering toward us,
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not willing that
any should perish,
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but that all
should come to repentance.
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But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night,
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in which the
heavens will pass away
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with a great noise,
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and the elements will
melt with fervent heat,
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both the earth and
the works that are in it
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will be burned up.
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Therefore since all these things
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will be dissolved,
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what manner of
persons ought you to be
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in holy conduct and Godliness,
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looking for and hastening
the coming of the day of God,
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because of which the
heavens will be dissolved,
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being on fire and the elements
will melt with fervent heat?
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Nevertheless we,
according to His promise,
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look for new
heavens and a new earth,
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in which righteousness dwells."
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Folks, in this
wonderful new world
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that is described here
by the ancient prophets,
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they'll be no
gangs, no shootings,
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hear this?
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No murders, no thefts,
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no cheating, no politicians.
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I mean it's gonna
be good, isn't it?
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No politicians, no
doctors, you wont need a doctor,
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you wont need a doctor,
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you won't need Obamacare, folks.
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No partings, no
sickness, no death, no funerals.
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No suffering, no end,
and after a million years,
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it'll just be the beginning.
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Amen.
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And folks I'm very
confident about this today.
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I'm very sure about this.
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And you know why?
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This is all true, all
what I'm telling you today,
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all this stuff about
living forever is true
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because Jesus Christ is alive.
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Okay, I want you to see this.
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Jesus rose from the dead.
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People say, "Well,
that's just faith,"
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No, it's not faith at all.
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I wouldn't believe it
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if it was just an existential
leap in the darkness.
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It is not blind faith.
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I believe He is
alive because He is.
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Amen.
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And come over
here to Matthew 28:1-6.
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Matthew 28:1-6, Matthew 28.
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And I believe in the Bible
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because of the
evidence that I have seen,
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not because I feel like it.
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Matthew 28:1-6,
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"Now after the
Sabbath," which is interesting,
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"after the Sabbath,
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as the first day of
the week began to dawn..."
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Therefore the
first day of the week
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is after the Sabbath,
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"Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary
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came to see the tomb.
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Behold, there was
a great earthquake,
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for the angel of the
Lord descended from heaven,
00:20:36.60\00:20:38.73
came and rolled back the stone
from the door, and sat on it."
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That is to say, see
if you can get me off it.
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"His countenance
was like lightning,
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his clothing as white as snow
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and the guard
shook for fear of him
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became like dead men.
00:20:53.72\00:20:56.32
But the angel
answered and said to the women,
00:20:56.35\00:20:58.65
do not be afraid for I
know that you seek Jesus
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who was crucified.
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He is not here, He
is risen, as He said.
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Come, see the place
where the Lord lay."
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Now in this part of world
and all the civilized world,
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where we have courts and juries,
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we have witnesses,
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we believe in
the witness system,
00:21:24.28\00:21:30.12
now we have
witnesses who say they saw him
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and they weren't frauds.
00:21:33.39\00:21:36.42
There was Mary
the ex-prostitute,
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she said I saw him.
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Two people on the road
to Emmaus, the 11 disciples,
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a bit later, doubting Thomas,
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Peter more than 500 and Paul...
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This is evidence that
would stand up in a court
00:21:57.48\00:22:01.92
that Christ is alive.
00:22:05.19\00:22:09.72
Richard Dawkins in one
of his famous debates said
00:22:09.76\00:22:12.96
"I can't believe in any
of this Christianity nonsense
00:22:12.99\00:22:16.73
because it is
all based on faith."
00:22:16.77\00:22:20.44
He said "Science
is based on truth."
00:22:20.47\00:22:27.38
The great professor John Lennox,
00:22:27.41\00:22:30.51
true Christian
from Oxford University
00:22:30.55\00:22:33.28
and a great mathematician,
00:22:33.31\00:22:34.88
he said "Oh, is
that so, Richard?"
00:22:34.92\00:22:37.72
He said "Do you
have faith in your wife?"
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And Richard took the bait,
00:22:42.32\00:22:44.63
the world
greatest atheist he said,
00:22:44.66\00:22:47.30
"Of course, I
have faith in my wife."
00:22:47.33\00:22:50.07
And Dr. Lennox said,
00:22:50.10\00:22:51.93
"Why do you have
faith in your wife?"
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He said, "Because of
the evidence, of course."
00:22:53.80\00:23:00.31
Dr. Lennox said "Of
course, it's like us.
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We have faith
because of the evidence.
00:23:04.65\00:23:09.15
We are not dumb simpletons.
00:23:09.18\00:23:13.42
He who has faith
in faith is deluded.
00:23:13.46\00:23:20.40
That's the greatest darkness
and the greatest dispersible.
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I just believe.
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We have faith in evidence
00:23:28.90\00:23:32.44
and the evidence
says that He is alive."
00:23:32.47\00:23:38.51
Now come to the greatest
text in the Bible, John 3:16.
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Most famous text,
and the greatest text,
00:23:43.99\00:23:47.02
John 3:16, you know the text.
00:23:47.06\00:23:52.16
"For God so loved the world
00:23:52.19\00:23:54.76
that He gave His
only begotten Son
00:23:54.80\00:23:56.77
that whosoever believes in Him
00:23:56.80\00:23:59.17
should not perish but
have everlasting life."
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It is the greatest text.
00:24:01.74\00:24:03.74
And I will tell you why
it is the greatest text.
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It talks about
the greatest person
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"God," He gave
the greatest emotion,
00:24:09.18\00:24:12.75
"He loved."
00:24:12.78\00:24:16.25
"The world, "
the greatest number,
00:24:16.28\00:24:18.85
"He gave, " the
greatest transaction,
00:24:18.89\00:24:22.82
"His only Son, "
the greatest gift.
00:24:22.86\00:24:27.00
"Whoever believes, "
the greatest opportunity.
00:24:27.03\00:24:31.07
"Believes," the greatest step.
00:24:31.10\00:24:34.47
"Shall not
perish," the greatest loss.
00:24:34.50\00:24:38.97
"But have everlasting life,"
00:24:39.01\00:24:40.88
which is the greatest salvation.
00:24:40.91\00:24:47.02
So really, it's quite simple.
00:24:47.05\00:24:49.65
I'll try to show
you this evidence
00:24:49.68\00:24:51.45
to believe in the Bible
00:24:51.49\00:24:52.82
from just a tiny
bit of archeology.
00:24:52.85\00:24:56.96
I usually spend four
or five sessions on that,
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went through it very fast.
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But there is a
little bit of evidence
00:25:01.63\00:25:04.13
where you can believe
that the Bible is true.
00:25:04.17\00:25:06.84
And if the Bible is
true, then Moses is alive.
00:25:06.87\00:25:11.37
And if Moses is alive,
00:25:11.41\00:25:13.61
there's hope for us
that we will conquer death,
00:25:13.64\00:25:17.05
and we can, not
because we are good enough
00:25:17.08\00:25:20.88
and not because we're
born in a certain country
00:25:20.92\00:25:24.12
or because
we're a certain color,
00:25:24.15\00:25:27.79
but because of Christ.
00:25:27.82\00:25:30.13
You see, because of Christ.
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And the Bible says
00:25:35.63\00:25:36.97
that Moses, the prince of Egypt
00:25:39.97\00:25:44.44
choose Christ
00:25:44.47\00:25:48.71
and today he is
not in the Cairo museum
00:25:48.74\00:25:51.08
with Tuthmose or
Hatshepsut, he's home in glory.
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Amen.
00:25:57.19\00:26:00.29
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