Well, I'm glad to see you today.
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The topic is The
Search For Happiness.
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Many years ago,
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before most of
you folks were born.
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Beverley and I were out driving
in northern New South Wales.
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Does that confusion?
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It's Wales, you know,
sort of part of the UK.
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Then there's Northern Wales.
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Well, this is
North New South Wales.
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And we were
driving near a little town,
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this will confusion you
too, by the name of Mullumbimby.
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If there's anybody watching
the telecast from Mullumbimby,
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just want to say hello to you.
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But as we were driving
along there was a beautiful girl
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standing beside the road.
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And she was thumbing up,
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you know, she was hitch-hiking.
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And so we pulled up and we said,
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"Where are you going?"
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She said, "I'm on
the way to happiness."
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And so we put her in
the car and I said her,
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"Where is the way to happiness?"
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She said "Down at Byron Bay."
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And the people who
come from Byron Bay
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know exactly what
I'm talking about.
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That's the pot
capital of Australia.
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It's a bit of Colorado.
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And so she said, "I'm
going up to Byron Bay,
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at the back of the Byron
Bay, not Byron Bay itself,
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but up in the
mountains" because she said,
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"We're going to be
free from all restrained."
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A beautiful girl, and she said,
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"I'm empty inside but
I'm searching for happiness."
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Never saw her again, obviously.
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But it is true
that the whole world
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is searching for
a creed to believe,
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and a song to sing.
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I want to notice the words
of the most influential person
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who ever lived.
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And that is Christ.
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Would you please
turn in your bible
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to John 10:10,
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the words of the
most influential person
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who ever lived in
history of the human race.
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John 10:10, and Jesus said,
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"The thief does not come
except to steal, and to kill,
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and to destroy."
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There are lots of
thieves, my friend.
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"I have come that
they may have life."
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What did he say?
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"That they may have
it more abundantly."
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The Jesus said,
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I've come to this world.
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He said, it's a
pretty dark place,
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but I've come into
this place to show you
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the path to happiness.
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Every person under the sun
knows that we have a problem.
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The human race got a problem
and thus the hippy girl was,
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you know, up there on the hills,
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going to the
place behind Byron Bay
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searching for the happiness.
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Every year in
this great country,
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the United States of America,
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42,773 people say that,
life, I can't take it anymore,
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and they commit suicide,
including Hollywood stars.
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In fact, I'm told
over the last few years
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the rate of suicide in
the United States of America
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is up some, I think it's...
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my memory is
working today, 40 percent.
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More than a million
Americans every year
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tried to take their own lives,
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including some of the glamorous
and the beautiful people
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that you see on the television.
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The question is,
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what is the root
cause of the deadly malaise,
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and all pervading sense of
discontent and hopelessness?
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Have you heard
the story of the man
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who went alone to
see his physiologist?
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And he said, "I'm
is terribly depressed,
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I don't see any
purpose in living.
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I just feel like ending at all."
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The physiologist
said, "Well, look," he said,
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"we all get the blues."
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He said, "Did you know
the circus has come to town?"
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And he said, "They
have a marvelous clown."
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He said, "He is
the funniest clown
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that you'll ever seen
anywhere in the world."
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He said, "I went
along to see the clown
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just the other night.
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And I laughed, and I
laughed, and I laughed."
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He said to the man,
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"You ought to go
and see the clown."
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The man said,
"Doctor, I am the clown."
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So the whole world, we know,
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is searching for
a creed to believe
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and for a song to sing.
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There has been various solutions
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that has been proposed
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and one solution was given
to us by a very famous man,
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he was a German Jew.
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Some of the great
thinkers, German Jews.
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His name was Karl Marx.
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You've all heard
about the Karl Marx?
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He gave his
communism, he gave his Marxism,
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he said
"Religion is the impotence
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of the human mind to
deal with occurrences
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it cannot understand."
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He said, we are religious
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because we just
can't work things out.
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He believed in
the class struggle.
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We hear these
all the times today,
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the rich against the poor,
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and the problem
of pure capitalism.
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You will remember
the book Animal Farm
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by George Orwell.
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In the book the communist
said, all animals are equal
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but some animals are more equal.
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And they
discovered that the animals
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were most equal
in the Soviet Union
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were the pigs.
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And so the Marxism is an attempt
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to solve the problem,
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the malaise that
afflicts the human heart.
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Didn't see it
worked very well at all.
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He also said,
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religion is the
opium of the people.
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When you think of
Russia, the atheist,
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the communist put
to death in Russia
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around 50 million people.
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It's not a very good
advertisement for communism.
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Not a very good advert...
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and especially, when
you discover in American,
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today people are thinking
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communism may be the
solution to the problem.
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Fifty million people were
murdered by the communist.
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And then if you go to
China, the days of Mao,
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tens of millions
were put into death there.
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Then in
Cambodia, it's unspeakable,
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the millions of people
who were put into death
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because they were considered
to be less than animals.
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Another man who
had a tremendous impact
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upon the human race was Freud.
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He was an Australian Jew.
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He said, "Our problems
are purely psychological,
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" not so much economical
and political, as mark said.
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But Freud said, psychological.
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And most of our
urges have got to do
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with our sexuality.
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He was the person
who discovered or rather
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who implemented psychoanalysis.
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He said,
"Religion is an illusion
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and it derives it's strength
from the fact that it falls in
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with our instinctual desires
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and our drives."
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We've all got
these hidden passions,
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and the solution
is psychoanalysis.
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Perhaps, the philosopher
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who has influenced
America and the world
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more than anybody else is
the great German philosopher
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who wanted to
become a pastor, Nietzsche.
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He was born in the
year that some would say
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was quite
significant, he was born in 1844
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and he died of syphilis in 1900.
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And when nobody else
would take care of this man
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who hated Christianity,
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he was taking care of
by his Christian mother
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and his sister.
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He thought that weakness is evil
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and that power is good.
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He said, "You have
your way. I have my way.
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As for the right
way, the correct way,
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and the only way,
it does not exist."
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It said that the Fuhrer,
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Hitler slept with the
copy of the Antichrist
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under his pillow.
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He believed that might was right
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and the emergence
of the super race.
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Listen to these statements,
almost too hard to believe.
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"All superior men who
were irresistibly drawn
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to throw off the yoke
of any kind of morality
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and to frame new laws had,
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if they were not
actually mad, no alternative
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but to make
themselves or pretend to be mad.
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" So this is the person
who has influenced American,
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British, and
German, and Australian,
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and all the great universities,
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more than any
other person in history.
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Nietzsche, he set
out to be a pastor.
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Then a person, perhaps,
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who was even more
famous than Nietzsche
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is Charles Darwin,
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who also set out to
become a Christian pastor
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because he belong to
the church of England.
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He said, "One general law,
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leading to the advancement
of all organic beings...
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let the strongest live
and let the weakest die."
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Now we should not
think for a moment,
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that Darwin was a bad man,
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he was a kind and a decent man.
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He only became an evolutionist,
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and eventually an Aesthesis,
or the very best an agnostic
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after he prayed to
God to save his daughter.
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And when his
daughter died, he said,
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this is the proof
that there is no God.
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He said this, hard to
believe, he said this,
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"It's the origin of the species,
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it's a mere rag of a
hypotheses with as many flaws
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and holes a sound pots."
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Therefore, the
idea of the evolution
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is not a scientific idea,
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it is a philosophy of
choice, if there is no God.
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He taught of cause,
that life has developed
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purely by chance.
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Neo-Darwinist like
Richard Dawkins say,
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there is no meaning,
no God and no design.
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A famous evolutionist,
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Philip Adams
made this statement,
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can you believe it.
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"We are as significant
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as the eighth
billionth grain of sand
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beyond the final palm
tree in the most distant oasis
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in the Sahara."
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Let see, end result
of cause, of atheism
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and evolution though,
I would say this quickly,
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not all
evolutionists are atheists.
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There are the
theistic evolutionists
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who are Christians,
such as Francis Collins,
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who wrote the remarkable
book The Language of God.
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But pure Darwinism is atheistic
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to the heart.
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It teaches this, listen,
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nothing produced everything,
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non-life produced life,
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randomness produced fine-tuning.
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Chaos produced information,
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unconscious produced conscious,
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and non-reason produce reason.
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Let us be honest.
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Such an idea is totally
unscientific, unattainable,
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and some would
say a form of madness.
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A form of madness.
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And so these are
some of the worldviews
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I presented to you today,
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but I believe they
would not hold water.
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Today, I want to
present the Christian worldview
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based on the Holy Scriptures.
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And the bible teaches
that first and foremost
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our problem is
not psychological,
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it is not political,
or economic, or sexual,
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or any those things.
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The bible teaches
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that basically our
problem is spiritual.
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Would you please
turn in your Bible
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to the Romans 3:23.
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Turning to Romans 3,
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by the great
Jewish theologian Paul.
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The bible says,
"For all have sinned
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and fall short of
the glory of God."
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So the teaching of the bible
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is that our problem is
basically a spiritual problem
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and it has to do with sin.
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The hardest
truth for any person,
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whether he is a Darwinist
or psychoanalyst, or Marxist,
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is to recognize
that our problem is sin.
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It was only after,
could you believe this,
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it was only after 9/11
that many American philosophers
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in our best universities
considered the facts
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that there was
evil in the world.
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Well, you see, if ultimately,
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and you got to be
honest in your thinking.
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And the problem
is with many people,
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they are not
honest in their thinking,
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but they are carried
away by their emotions.
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But if there is no God,
there is no good, you see.
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There is no right
and there is no right...
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There is no right and no wrong
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if these men are right.
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The evidence of sin
is everywhere apparent,
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my friends, think about it.
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Hate, anger, lust,
lying, bigotry, white,
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black and brown racism.
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But people say, no,
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I can understand a person being,
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like you being a white racist
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but it's impossible
to be a black racist,
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that's absurd.
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Because if we cut
open a black person
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he's exactly the
same inside as I am.
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And the skin is simply something
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that is very superficial.
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And we are all born
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with a tendency towards racism
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whether we are
white, brown, red or yellow,
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whatever the color
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because the
heart of man is sinful.
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And so you can see
racism and racism is becoming
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more of a problem in the
United States of America.
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And all parts of the race
are equally guilty, I think.
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You see, the intolerance, greed,
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sexual provisions, slavery
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which is on the increase.
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There are most slaves today
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than even in the
days of the slave traders.
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Violence, and perhaps
the chief characteristic
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or the chief
identifying mark of sin
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which lives in us
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is our essential restlessness.
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Now the great Roman Catholic
St. Augustan said these words,
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"Thou hast made us for thyself,
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O Lord, and our
heart is restless
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until it finds
its rest in Thee."
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Or to put it in a more
up-to-date phraseology,
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"Our souls were made for God,
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in God."
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And so when you look
around the world today,
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you see an all
possessive sense of restlessness
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and people are
searching and searching,
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and they cannot find
it because they do not...
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and they rushing off
to their psychologist,
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and psychiatrist,
and psychoanalysis,
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and every person under the sun,
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and I don't suggest
they stop doing that.
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But they need to recognize
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that our basic
problem is not psychological,
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our basic problem
is spiritual problem.
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Man naturally is empty inside.
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Doctor Billy Graham talks about
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going somewhere
years and years ago
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to run a campaign in this
great United States of America.
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And he spoke to
one of the leaders
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of the Hollywood industry
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and he said, "Dr. Graham,
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I would love to come
and hear you preach tonight,
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" but he said, "I cant
get out this," he said,
00:18:01.34\00:18:04.18
"because I'm
desperately empty inside."
00:18:04.21\00:18:08.02
And he was one of the
comedians of Hollywood.
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And the reason that we
need so many comedians today
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is because we are searching
and searching and searching
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and not finding,
00:18:19.63\00:18:20.96
because we are
looking in the wrong place.
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We are empty inside, we
have a black hole inside.
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And we try to fill
the black hole with drugs,
00:18:28.00\00:18:31.37
alcohol, illicit
sex, consumerism.
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That's why
television commercials
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are so anonymously successful,
00:18:39.01\00:18:41.82
because they appeal sin inside.
00:18:41.85\00:18:45.29
We need more stuff, comedy,
violent games, and movies.
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And violent games,
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and pornography, and searching,
00:18:53.16\00:18:55.53
and people can't get to
the next sale fast enough,
00:18:55.56\00:19:00.37
and they got to,
00:19:00.40\00:19:01.74
because it gives them
high for a little bit.
00:19:01.77\00:19:05.97
And the television people
understand this far better
00:19:06.01\00:19:08.24
than anybody else, they
know that we need to have a high
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even if we're
playing video games.
00:19:12.85\00:19:17.12
And it has been said today,
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one of the
biggest problem in America
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and the rest of the world
00:19:19.89\00:19:21.69
is the ubiquitous cell phones,
00:19:22.79\00:19:27.76
where by we
cannot live without it.
00:19:27.83\00:19:30.70
Even people who
go into the church,
00:19:30.77\00:19:32.43
and they cannot live without it,
00:19:32.47\00:19:33.87
they got be
texting all the time.
00:19:33.94\00:19:36.57
And you see people, it is...
00:19:36.60\00:19:38.94
Listen, it is a
sickness, it is a sickness.
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It is a symptom
of our emptiness.
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And you see the
people going to restaurant
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and they sit opposite each other
00:19:47.92\00:19:49.65
and they don't talk
but they have cell phones,
00:19:49.68\00:19:52.02
and they are doing
this on their cell phones.
00:19:52.05\00:19:55.09
They even
communicating with the people
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across the table
with the cell phone.
00:19:56.93\00:19:59.33
And driving has became
almost a paralysis occupation
00:20:01.80\00:20:04.73
here in Southern California
because you see people texting,
00:20:04.77\00:20:08.64
actually texting
as they're driving.
00:20:08.67\00:20:11.77
They are addicted to
it as much as a person
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is addicted to
alcohol or heroin.
00:20:15.31\00:20:20.02
It is the
symptom of the emptiness,
00:20:20.08\00:20:25.42
it is the symptom of
the hole that is within us.
00:20:25.45\00:20:29.06
Remember, our
souls were made for God,
00:20:29.09\00:20:31.23
and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him.
00:20:31.26\00:20:36.30
Now what I'm telling
you today is the teaching
00:20:36.33\00:20:38.93
that has been taught
by the greatest thinkers,
00:20:38.97\00:20:42.14
and
theologians, and photospheres
00:20:42.17\00:20:44.37
in the history
of the human race.
00:20:44.41\00:20:46.81
We have a problem, it is true.
00:20:46.84\00:20:50.51
But our problem
is the sin problem.
00:20:50.58\00:20:53.45
They say, you
know, I like to read,
00:20:53.48\00:20:56.92
keep up whether it's science
or economics or anything,
00:20:56.95\00:21:00.59
and I read and people say,
00:21:00.66\00:21:01.99
well, we got to
have more laws pass.
00:21:02.02\00:21:04.69
We got to have
the president involve,
00:21:04.73\00:21:06.39
and we got to outlaw racism.
00:21:06.43\00:21:10.43
You can't
outlaw the human heart.
00:21:10.47\00:21:13.00
We got a fix Baltimore,
00:21:13.03\00:21:15.70
we got to fix this place
00:21:15.74\00:21:17.07
and we got a pour
billions and billions...
00:21:17.11\00:21:19.04
did you know, this
country has poured more money
00:21:19.07\00:21:22.18
into trying to outlaw poverty
than the rest of the world
00:21:22.21\00:21:25.61
in the history
of the human race?
00:21:25.65\00:21:28.12
And we should try
to outlaw poverty.
00:21:28.15\00:21:30.25
But throwing money at a
problem does not solve it.
00:21:30.29\00:21:35.36
We seem to think, no,
we can solve every problem
00:21:35.39\00:21:37.63
if we throw enough money at it.
00:21:37.66\00:21:40.26
But the problem is not economics
00:21:40.30\00:21:42.36
and the problem
is not in racism.
00:21:42.40\00:21:44.23
If we were throwing
money at the problem
00:21:44.27\00:21:45.93
then we have no
racism left in America.
00:21:45.97\00:21:49.07
But we got more racism today
00:21:49.10\00:21:50.87
than in the history
of the United States.
00:21:50.91\00:21:54.81
And money is not the
solution, and let me tell you,
00:21:54.84\00:21:57.08
speeches by politicians,
00:21:57.11\00:22:00.15
that is not the
solutions either.
00:22:00.22\00:22:03.08
The problem is sin and
Christ is the solution.
00:22:03.12\00:22:08.29
Sin is deadly and
humanly incurable.
00:22:08.32\00:22:13.09
I want you to
look at Romans 6:23,
00:22:13.13\00:22:15.16
and you know that
what I'm saying is true.
00:22:15.20\00:22:18.03
You know, you know it's true.
00:22:18.07\00:22:19.67
Romans 6:23.
00:22:19.70\00:22:22.64
Romans 6:23, the first bit,
00:22:22.67\00:22:26.41
"For the wages of sin is death."
00:22:26.44\00:22:30.01
We're going to read
the rest in a moment.
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Sin is deadly, "The
wages of sin is death."
00:22:33.05\00:22:38.42
Years ago, I heard
about a lady doctor
00:22:38.45\00:22:42.09
who was works in Africa.
00:22:42.12\00:22:44.83
She was a medical
missionary, best sort of people.
00:22:44.86\00:22:48.56
She was a Baptist.
00:22:48.60\00:22:51.10
And she was working
00:22:51.13\00:22:52.47
in the little village of Lasa.
00:22:52.50\00:22:56.27
And they discovered
that a plague had broken out
00:22:56.30\00:22:58.81
among the people there,
and they would get the fever,
00:22:58.84\00:23:02.08
ulcers, back of their
throat, pounding head,
00:23:02.11\00:23:06.55
and I think, on the fourth
or the fifth day they die.
00:23:06.58\00:23:09.52
They could do nothing for them.
00:23:09.55\00:23:11.19
So this lady
carried out a postmortem.
00:23:11.49\00:23:17.36
Because they want
to send the tissues
00:23:17.43\00:23:19.46
back to the
United States of America
00:23:19.49\00:23:21.36
and find out what
this demon from hell was.
00:23:21.40\00:23:25.00
And as she was
doing the postmortem,
00:23:25.03\00:23:27.84
the knife slipped and
she nicked the finger.
00:23:27.87\00:23:31.71
She ran over to the
tap and turned it on hard
00:23:31.74\00:23:35.28
and washed her hands with soap,
00:23:35.31\00:23:39.38
but a few days
later she got a headache,
00:23:39.41\00:23:42.52
ulcers at the
back of the throat,
00:23:42.55\00:23:44.99
and on the fourth day she died.
00:23:45.02\00:23:47.86
There was a demon from
the hell lose upon the world,
00:23:47.89\00:23:51.66
if it got out on
the streets of New York,
00:23:51.69\00:23:53.76
nobody would live.
00:23:53.80\00:23:56.70
They discovered
later, its spread by rats.
00:23:56.73\00:24:00.17
It is still living
today in the jungle of Africa.
00:24:00.24\00:24:04.34
It is like sin, it is deadly.
00:24:04.37\00:24:10.35
But the Bible teaches
00:24:10.38\00:24:12.88
that while we
all have a problem,
00:24:12.91\00:24:15.12
whether you go to church
or not, we all have a problem.
00:24:15.15\00:24:19.42
And the problem is sin problem.
00:24:19.45\00:24:22.19
The Bible tells us
that there is a cure
00:24:22.22\00:24:24.56
for the sin problem.
00:24:24.59\00:24:26.83
Would you look at
Romans 6:23, the second part.
00:24:26.90\00:24:30.83
First part we'll read it again,
00:24:30.87\00:24:32.27
it says "For the
wages of sin is death."
00:24:32.30\00:24:35.67
If you hold on to the sin
or if sin holds on to you,
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.71
the bible says,
you're going to die.
00:24:38.74\00:24:41.98
"For the wages of sin is death,
00:24:42.01\00:24:43.85
but the gift of
God is eternal life
00:24:43.91\00:24:47.48
in Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:24:47.52\00:24:51.19
The bible teaches this,
00:24:51.22\00:24:52.89
and we're going
to talk about this
00:24:52.92\00:24:54.36
in the next part of the program,
00:24:54.39\00:24:57.83
that even though we
have an incurable problem,
00:24:57.86\00:25:00.46
humanly
speaking, it's incurable.
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.87
The Bible teaches
that the gift of God
00:25:03.90\00:25:07.70
is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:25:07.74\00:25:11.81
We are going to
discover in the second part,
00:25:11.84\00:25:14.18
the next program,
that the creator God
00:25:14.21\00:25:17.88
who made the stars
and who made the universe,
00:25:17.91\00:25:20.42
this is an
incomprehensible idea.
00:25:20.45\00:25:23.49
Richard Dawkins
said, what a childish idea.
00:25:23.52\00:25:27.92
What a childish man.
00:25:27.96\00:25:31.83
But the Bible teaches the idea
00:25:31.86\00:25:34.36
that the almighty
God became incarnate.
00:25:34.40\00:25:37.83
The one who made the
universe became a man.
00:25:37.87\00:25:42.74
And when he became a
man, he grapples with sin,
00:25:42.77\00:25:48.28
the monster and slew It.
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.21
And that's the next
part of our program.
00:25:52.25\00:25:55.12
As we talk about The
Search For Happiness.
00:25:55.15\00:25:59.82
Hello, friend.
00:26:10.20\00:26:11.60
I'm John
Carter, in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:11.63\00:26:15.04
I'm standing here in
Revolutionary Square.
00:26:15.07\00:26:19.41
This great square is dedicated
00:26:19.44\00:26:21.54
to the great
communist revolution
00:26:21.58\00:26:23.58
under Fidel,
00:26:23.65\00:26:24.98
that came to this
country back 50, 60 years ago.
00:26:25.01\00:26:29.18
This place is still
undergoing a revolution.
00:26:29.22\00:26:33.19
We've come to check out
the reality of the situation.
00:26:33.22\00:26:37.79
Freedom of Speech is
not allowed here still,
00:26:37.83\00:26:41.30
preaching the
gospel out of doors
00:26:41.33\00:26:43.63
is not allowed here still.
00:26:43.67\00:26:45.73
Whatever you hear
about reconciliation,
00:26:45.77\00:26:48.17
nothing has really changed.
00:26:48.50\00:26:51.44
We've been told, we cannot
run public campaigns in Cuba
00:26:51.47\00:26:57.21
in any part of this world.
00:26:57.25\00:27:00.15
We can run meetings in
churches, that's allowed.
00:27:00.18\00:27:03.72
So what are we going to do?
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.45
We're going to
support the people of God
00:27:05.49\00:27:07.09
in this part of the world.
00:27:07.12\00:27:08.46
We're going to
step through those doors
00:27:08.49\00:27:10.76
as God opens those doors.
00:27:10.79\00:27:13.53
We're not going to
come and cause a commotion
00:27:13.56\00:27:17.90
and cause trouble
to the people of God.
00:27:17.93\00:27:20.94
We will work diligently
and as wise as serpents
00:27:20.97\00:27:26.98
and as harmless as doves.
00:27:27.01\00:27:29.81
Stand with us in the
preaching of the gospel,
00:27:29.84\00:27:32.71
wherever it is, stand with us.
00:27:32.75\00:27:35.05
Write to me,
Post Office Box 1900,
00:27:35.08\00:27:37.59
Thousand Oaks California, 91358.
00:27:37.62\00:27:40.06
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00:27:40.09\00:27:42.26
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And let us go forward
00:27:46.06\00:27:47.66
for a mighty
spiritual revolution
00:27:47.66\00:27:51.00
as we take the Gospel of Christ
to the lost around the world
00:27:51.03\00:27:56.40
as God opens the doors.
00:27:56.44\00:27:58.61
This is John Carter,
in Revolutionary Square,
00:27:58.64\00:28:02.74
in Havana, Cuba,
00:28:02.78\00:28:04.11
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