I'm John Carter in Moscow...
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the capital of Ukraine.
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Reporting from India...
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I'm John Carter.
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Today, on the Carter Report,
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John Carter talks
about The Star Maker.
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I couldn't be an atheist.
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You know why?
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I just don't have enough faith.
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I really couldn't be an atheist
because to be an atheist,
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you've got to have
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an
extraordinary amount of faith.
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Now let me just give you
one little bit of evidence
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why I couldn't be an atheist.
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Astronomers have
discovered in recent times
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that the universe,
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about 95% of it is
composed of dark stuff.
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So when we put
pictures on the screen today
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that show the stars,
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that's not the dark
stuff, that's the bright stuff.
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And the bright
stuff is only about
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5% of the entire universe.
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The dark stuff is
made up of two parts.
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This is important
if you don't know this.
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And then you see why I
couldn't be an atheist,
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why I don't have enough faith.
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This dark matter,
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that stuff that actually
has a gravitational pull,
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so it's actual stuff
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but nobody knows what it is.
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Nobody can see it,
we know it's there.
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And then there is
another sort of stuff
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that is called dark energy.
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This dark energy
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lives on the...
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on the expanding
face of the universe.
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This dark energy
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controls the
expansion rate of the universe.
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I want you to think about this.
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We know it's a fact
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that the universe is
expanding out like this,
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almost at the speed of light.
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So this shows you
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without getting into
this theological dimension
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that this universe
cannot last forever.
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It's a temporary thing.
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The universe is exploding up,
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one day the universe will expand
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so far out that the stars,
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we won't be able
to see the stars.
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That which determines
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the expansion
rate of the universe,
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that determines our
existence on the planet.
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Did you hear this?
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The expansion
rate of the universe
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determines whether we shall live
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or whether we shall die.
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The expansion
rate of the universe,
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like a lot of other
things in the cosmos
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is fine tuned...
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to such an extreme amount
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that I'm going to
use this illustration
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that I don't understand.
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I want you to think of the whole
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of the United States of America.
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It's a big place,
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about three
million square miles.
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And we're going to
cover it with dimes.
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Not to a foot, not to
six feet but to the moon.
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Is that a lot of dimes?
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United States of
America covered with dimes
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that reach up to the moon.
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Do it a million times.
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A million United
States of America
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covered with dimes
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that reach up to the very...
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Almost touching the moon,
hundreds of thousands of miles.
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How many dimes? How many dimes?
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It's only incomprehensible,
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can't figure out a
trillionth and trillionth.
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One dime has got an
"x" on it, only one dime.
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So you're going
to be blindfolded
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and on a dark night
you're told to walk out
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and there is a
million United State
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dimes up to the
moon and on the first go,
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you pick out the
dime with the mark on it.
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What chances there are of that?
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One in a trillion, trillion,
trillion, trillion, trillion,
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trillion,
trillion, trillion, trillion,
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that's how fine
tuned the dark energy is
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that is driving the
expansion of the universe
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that determines
whether there will be
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life on planet earth.
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So...
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I believe in a
divine watchmaker.
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I don't have enough
faith to be an atheist.
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I don't have enough faith
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to be an atheist.
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Stephen Hawking,
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millions of people
quote him and they say now,
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"He's given us the
secrets of the universe
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and he's shown
that we don't need God."
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He says this in his famous book,
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A Brief History
of Time, page 127,
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"It would be very
difficult to explain
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why the Universe should
have begun in just this way,
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except as an act of a God
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who intended to
create beings like us."
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The topic today is...
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And I present it
before you write down,
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the topic today is
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The Star Maker
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or The Universe Maker.
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The most important statement
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that has ever been
made in time and eternity
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is Genesis 1:1.
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Notice it in the
Bible, Genesis 1:1,
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"In the beginning
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God created
heavens and the earth."
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The very first words of
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the Jewish Christian Bible.
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Listen to this.
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Almost impossible to
comprehend what I'm saying now.
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Our universe, we know,
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I've been saying
this now for a few years.
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Our universe is composed
of 200 billion galaxies.
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When I first
started as a young man
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to talk on this
subject on the stars,
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I told the people
there were 500,000 galaxies,
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500,000...
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Then after a few
years, I found million,
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now they say, "No,
it's not a million,
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it's not a
billion, 200 billion."
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But just a few days ago,
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NASA released a
tremendous statement.
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They said, "The
universe is 10 times bigger than
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we thought it was."
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And so the universe now
is not 200 billion galaxies
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but 2 trillion galaxies.
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I present to you the star maker.
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In each galaxy,
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there are around
2 trillion galaxies.
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In each galaxy,
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there are around
200 billion stars.
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The question is...
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I'll say it once again,
I don't have enough faith
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to be an atheist, I
just couldn't do this.
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Who made this wondrous,
incomprehensible vast universe
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that came into
being in a millisecond
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of light and energy?
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It is now...
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Listen, my atheistic friend,
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it is now a scientific fact
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that the universe
came into existence
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in blinding flash
of light and energy.
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There was nothing and
then the universe was created.
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Most scientists
until relatively recently,
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Einstein for instance believed
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in the steady
state of the universe.
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It had always been there,
infinite time, infinite matter,
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therefore evolution
could work, but it's not true.
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Others have believed
in the oscillating theory
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of the universe in, out, in...
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No, no, no.
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It is a scientific
fact that the universe
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came into being
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in a blinding flash
of light and energy.
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And the question is,
who is the star maker,
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who is the universe maker.
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Come with me to John 1:1-3
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and I'm glad that
you've joined us today,
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John 1:1-3, the Bible says,
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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All things were made
through Him," this is Christ,
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"and without Him
nothing was made that was made.
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He was in the world, and
the world," all the cosmos,
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"was made through Him,
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and the world did not know Him."
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The Bible teaches
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that the universe
was created by the Logos.
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And the Logos is another
word in the Bible for Christ.
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Listen to this, my
dear atheistic friend.
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I want to please with
all of us to be intellectual,
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morally honest as
we contemplate this.
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Atheism teaches
that the universe
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started with chaos.
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Richard Dawkins says it,
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meaninglessness
without mind or thought.
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The Bible teaches, the universe
started with intelligence,
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with the Logos.
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I'm going to put up
here so you can notice it
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what atheism teaches.
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You've got to be honest.
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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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unconsciousness
produced consciousness,
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non-reason produced reason."
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I would suggest
to you that this idea
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is the basis
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of all the
discontent in the world today,
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and the meaninglessness.
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I would call this today...
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with all apologies,
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this today is the new insanity
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that is disguised
as sophistication.
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I don't have enough
faith to believe it.
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Now, I want you to come
over here to Colossians 1:15-17
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to the words of
the Apostle Paul.
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And speaking of Christ
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in Colossians 1:15-17,
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he says,
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"He is the image of"
the very, the very essence,
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"of the invisible God,
the firstborn," or the leader,
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"over all creation.
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For by Him all
things were created
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that are in heaven
and that are on earth,
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visible and
invisible," dark energy,
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dark matter,
"thrones, dominions,
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principalities or powers.
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All things were created
through Him and for Him.
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And He is before all things,
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and in Him all things consist."
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The Bible teaches my friend
that Christ is the star maker.
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Before the
creation of the universe,
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Christ, the Logos existed.
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This...
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mighty God.
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Come with me now
over here to John 8:56-59
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in the scriptures,
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John 8:56 and onwards
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which records a conversation
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that Christ had with
the religious leaders
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of His day.
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He said, "'Your father
Abraham rejoiced to see My day,
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and he saw it and was glad.'
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Then the Jews said to Him,
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'You are not
yet fifty years old,
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have you seen Abraham?'
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Jesus said to them,
'Most assuredly, I say to you,
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before Abraham was..."'
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Not I was, "I AM."
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And these people were not fools,
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they knew what He was saying.
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"Then they took up
stones to throw at Him,
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but Jesus hid Himself
and went out of the temple,
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going through the midst of them,
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and so passed by."
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Jesus took
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the unique Hebrew expression
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that refers to
almighty God, the star maker.
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And if you
compare this expression,
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I AM, that is found
in the Gospel of John,
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over here with the
passage about the burning bush.
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In Exodus 3:1-6,
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this is the passage
about the burning bush
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and how Moses actually
meets the Almighty God.
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"Now Moses was tending
to the flock of Jethro,
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his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian.
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He led the flock to
the back of the desert,
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and came to Horeb,
the mountain of God.
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Then the Angel of
the Lord appeared to him
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in a flame of fire
from the midst of a bush.
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So he looked, and behold,
the bush was burning with fire,
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but the bush was not consumed.
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Then Moses said,
'I will now turn aside
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and see this great sight,
why the bush does not burn.'
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So when the Lord saw
that he turned aside to look,
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God called to him
from the midst of the bush
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and said, 'Moses, Moses.'
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And he said, 'Here I am.'
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Then He said, 'Do
not draw near this place.
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Take your sandals
off from your feet,
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for the place where
you stand is holy ground.'
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Moreover He said, 'I
am the God of your father,
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the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac,
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and the God of Jacob.'
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And Moses hid his face,
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for he was afraid
to look upon God.'"
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And so, out of the
midst of this burning bush
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that burned but is not consumed
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came the voice
of the star maker,
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the person who said,
"I am the almighty God."
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Now, my friends, if you
come down little further
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and if you come
down to verse 14,
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"And God said to Moses,"
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because God has a
conversation with Moses,
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the servant of God.
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"God said to
Moses, 'I AM who I AM.'
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And He said, 'Thus you shall
say to the children of Israel,
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'I AM has sent me to you."'
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This unique expression...
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Not the "I WAS" but the "I AM"
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is the name that is
given to the self-existent God.
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This is an awesome truth
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that the God who spoke
out of the burning bush
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that was not consumed.
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This person, my
friend, was Yahweh, Elohim.
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Now Jewish scholars
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because of their
reverence with God
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will never pronounce this name.
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Were not absolutely
certain how the name is said.
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This is the tetragrammaton.
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The four letters of
the Hebrew language,
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YHWH, Yahweh
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and as you know it's
written in this way across here,
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this person is called in
the scriptures, the Creator,
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the mighty God,
He is the star maker,
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He is the universe
maker, He is the great I AM.
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And Jesus said to
the unbelieving Jews,
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"Before Abraham was, I AM."
00:17:27.84\00:17:31.81
No wonder they took
up stones to stone Him.
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Now, if you come
to 2 Timothy 1:9,
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you come to a
provocative text in the Bible.
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And this is a good text
for those who don't believe,
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those who are unbelievers
and those who are atheists.
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2 Timothy 1:9, it says,
speaking of Jesus it says,
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"Who has saved us and
called us with a holy calling,
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not according to our works,
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but according to His
own purpose and grace
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which was given to
us in Christ Jesus..."
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Scientists didn't believe
this until relatively recently,
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"before time began."
00:18:24.37\00:18:29.70
Which makes
foolish the question,
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where did God come from,
how long has God been there
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because when the
universe was created,
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a number of things
came into being, my friend.
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This is scientific.
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A number of
things came into being
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which had not existed before.
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Time was one of them,
and space, and matter,
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these things had
never existed before,
00:19:01.44\00:19:03.94
it is a scientific fact
00:19:03.97\00:19:06.21
that there was a 'time",
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when there was no time.
00:19:12.11\00:19:14.72
And the Bible
talks about the time
00:19:14.75\00:19:17.59
about Christ
Jesus before time began.
00:19:17.62\00:19:24.43
And before time
began in a place far away,
00:19:24.46\00:19:29.93
beyond time and space
00:19:29.96\00:19:32.43
and everything that
we think is important,
00:19:32.47\00:19:36.30
there was a person
who was called the Logos.
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And He is called in scripture,
"The great I AM, Yahweh,
00:19:42.14\00:19:46.35
Elohim, El
Shaddai, the Almighty God."
00:19:46.38\00:19:50.89
And He spoke with His own mouth
00:19:50.92\00:19:54.92
and the energy was
of such consequence
00:19:54.96\00:19:58.83
that where there was nothing,
00:19:58.86\00:20:00.63
all of a sudden there
was a universe being born.
00:20:00.66\00:20:06.50
And we now know this universe
00:20:06.53\00:20:08.60
consists of
00:20:08.64\00:20:11.54
two trillion galaxies.
00:20:11.57\00:20:16.28
The person who did this,
00:20:16.31\00:20:17.91
we call him
affectionately today,
00:20:17.95\00:20:21.28
the star maker.
00:20:21.32\00:20:25.32
Then there came a day in time
00:20:25.35\00:20:29.46
when the "I AM"
became a human being.
00:20:29.49\00:20:33.90
A man whom I got to
know many years ago in Texas
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down at nameless valley ranch.
00:20:36.77\00:20:39.27
He was a great US astronaut,
00:20:39.30\00:20:42.94
a man of great
courage and decency,
00:20:42.97\00:20:46.21
Colonel James Irwin.
00:20:46.24\00:20:49.31
When he put on a
slideshow for us,
00:20:49.34\00:20:52.05
he didn't show
pictures of his children,
00:20:52.08\00:20:54.65
he showed pictures of
walking around on the moon.
00:20:54.68\00:20:58.75
That's a little bit, you know,
00:20:58.79\00:21:00.59
what are you going
to follow that up with?
00:21:00.62\00:21:03.09
But Colonel
Irwin made this remark,
00:21:03.12\00:21:08.00
"The most significant
achievement of our age
00:21:08.03\00:21:11.57
is not that man
stood on the moon,"
00:21:11.60\00:21:13.67
like he did.
00:21:13.70\00:21:17.84
Wonderful man.
00:21:17.87\00:21:21.14
"The most significant
achievement of our age,"
00:21:21.18\00:21:23.24
said Colonel James Irwin,
00:21:23.28\00:21:25.61
"is not that man
stood on the moon
00:21:25.65\00:21:27.58
but rather that God in
Christ stood upon this earth."
00:21:27.62\00:21:31.79
That's the most amazing thing
00:21:31.82\00:21:34.49
and this is what
the colonel said to me
00:21:34.52\00:21:37.89
as we walked
around the hills in Texas.
00:21:37.93\00:21:41.43
And he shared
his faith in Christ
00:21:41.46\00:21:44.00
and he talked about looking back
00:21:44.03\00:21:45.87
and seeing the
earth rise over the moon.
00:21:45.90\00:21:52.41
And he said that his
mind came pulsating the words,
00:21:52.44\00:21:56.75
"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth."
00:21:56.78\00:22:00.05
My friend, I could not
possibly be an atheist.
00:22:00.08\00:22:04.82
I don't have
enough faith, you see.
00:22:04.85\00:22:09.99
I cannot believe
00:22:10.03\00:22:11.86
that which I consider to
be irrational, illogical,
00:22:11.89\00:22:16.53
and pardon my
saying it, nonsensical.
00:22:16.56\00:22:22.10
But around 2,000 years ago,
00:22:22.14\00:22:24.51
a young woman
accompanied by her husband
00:22:24.54\00:22:28.18
gave birth to a baby boy.
00:22:28.21\00:22:32.88
This happened outside a hospital
00:22:32.91\00:22:35.55
without doctors or nurses.
00:22:35.58\00:22:39.69
It happened in the shed,
00:22:39.72\00:22:41.06
at the back of
an overbooked motel
00:22:41.09\00:22:43.12
in a small town by
the name of Bethlehem.
00:22:43.16\00:22:46.96
Most women today
would have been appalled,
00:22:47.00\00:22:51.00
even terrified by
the circumstances.
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.67
But here is a slip of a
girl, just a young girl,
00:22:55.70\00:22:59.67
most likely a peasant girl.
00:22:59.71\00:23:03.61
And she is a long way from home,
00:23:03.65\00:23:05.51
and from family, and friends.
00:23:05.55\00:23:08.25
And she is with her husband
00:23:08.28\00:23:10.02
who has been given the honor
00:23:10.05\00:23:12.42
of taking care of
the mother of our Lord.
00:23:12.45\00:23:17.76
And one night...
00:23:17.79\00:23:20.73
Can you believe this?
00:23:20.76\00:23:22.76
Because if you can believe this,
00:23:22.80\00:23:24.57
nothing will be
impossible to you.
00:23:24.60\00:23:28.87
Amid the lowing of cattle
and the bleating of sheep,
00:23:28.90\00:23:34.71
the star maker was born,
00:23:34.74\00:23:38.31
most likely with
tears, and crying,
00:23:38.35\00:23:41.92
and maybe with blood.
00:23:41.95\00:23:45.55
Most women today
00:23:45.59\00:23:47.06
would be afraid of
the lack of hygiene.
00:23:47.09\00:23:49.42
He was born in a
shed at the back...
00:23:49.46\00:23:55.30
of an overbooked motel six.
00:23:55.33\00:23:57.47
The baby was the
Lord of the universe,
00:24:03.57\00:24:06.01
the star maker.
00:24:06.04\00:24:08.11
He had many names.
00:24:08.14\00:24:12.68
He was called
Almighty God, El Shaddai,
00:24:12.71\00:24:17.15
the Creator, the I AM,
00:24:17.19\00:24:21.99
the word that we say
with great reverence,
00:24:22.02\00:24:26.73
the word that the
Hebrew scribes will not say.
00:24:26.76\00:24:33.10
When I was in
Jerusalem with a Hebrew scribe
00:24:33.13\00:24:36.04
and said the name...
00:24:36.07\00:24:39.54
the man trembled, he said,
00:24:39.57\00:24:42.04
"Do you know what you've said?"
00:24:42.08\00:24:44.21
So what we are talking about?
00:24:47.25\00:24:48.58
We are talking
about this person,
00:24:48.62\00:24:50.65
the I AM, Yahweh,
00:24:50.69\00:24:54.16
Elohim, the Lord.
00:24:54.19\00:24:58.93
His parents called Him Jesus.
00:24:58.96\00:25:02.43
And when Mary took
this little baby boy,
00:25:07.17\00:25:12.87
maybe eight pounds,
00:25:12.91\00:25:15.48
nestled Him,
00:25:15.51\00:25:18.21
and gave Him His
first drink of warm milk.
00:25:18.25\00:25:23.05
She was holding...
00:25:26.05\00:25:28.79
incarnate...
00:25:28.82\00:25:32.99
the Creator of the universe,
00:25:33.03\00:25:37.63
the Logos who would come down...
00:25:37.67\00:25:41.27
to save us.
00:25:44.54\00:25:45.87
This tells me
that the star maker
00:25:49.74\00:25:53.72
must be a very nice person.
00:25:53.75\00:25:59.49
We'll be back with
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