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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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Welcome back.
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Today, we're talking
about the star maker.
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We're talking
about how Yahweh, Elohim,
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the Almighty God was born
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
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in the person of Jesus.
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The great question is this,
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"Why did the
incarnation happen?"
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Why was it necessary for
God to come down to this earth
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and walk around
as a human being?
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I've got three reasons here,
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I'm sure there are many reasons,
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but here are three.
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Here's the first one.
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To show us what God is like.
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Did you know that many people
in the world really hate God?
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They're mad with God.
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People say, "He
just, if He exists
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that He's got to be
just a terrible person,
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because why does He
allow this to happen?
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Why does He allow
cancer, why does He?
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And so, God became a
man firstly to show us
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what God is like.
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I want you to come over
in the Bible to 1 John 4:16,
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dear hearts and
gentle people, 1 John 4:16.
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This is quite
an amazing passage.
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The Bible says,
"And we have known
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and believed the
love that God has for us.
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God is love,
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he who abides in
love abides in God,
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and God in him."
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The Bible says,
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God is a very nice person.
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I want you to think of
the nicest person you know.
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And there are lots of
nice people in this world.
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I want you to think of
somebody you sort of look up to
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and you sort of
idolize that person.
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Well, that person is
just a dim reflection
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of what God is like.
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God is good, God is kind,
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and the Bible says God is love.
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This means His
greatest characteristic
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is that He's just
a loving kind person.
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Some of you here will know
this poem, it's a great poem,
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I'm going to read all the verses
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because it just sort of tears
with my heart, you know it,
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written by Frederick Lehman.
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The love of God...
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You know it.
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Is greater far
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Than tongue or
pen can ever tell,
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It goes beyond the highest star,
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Reaches to the lowest hell,
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The guilty pair, Adam and Eve
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Bowed down with care,
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God gave His Son to win,
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His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.
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Oh, love of God,
how rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song.
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I like these words.
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When hoary time shall pass away,
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And earthly
thrones and kingdoms fall,
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When men who
hear refused to pray,
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On rocks and hills
and mountains call,
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God's love so
sure, shall still endure,
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All measureless and strong,
Redeeming grace to Adam's race
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Saints' and angels' song.
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Could we with
ink the ocean fill,
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That's tough.
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And were this
skies of parchment made,
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That's even tougher.
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Were every
stalk on earth a quill
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And every man a scribe by trade,
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To write the love of God above
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Would drain the ocean dry,
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Nor could the
scroll contain the whole,
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Though stretched sky to sky.
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The universe is
incomprehensible,
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but so then is the
love of the star maker.
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Now, I know you
love your children,
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I love my children.
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I've got three
children, I love them all.
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We've got grandchildren now.
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Can I tell you something?
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Have you ever seen
a grandmother's love?
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Is there anything stronger
than a grandmother's love?
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Yes, there is.
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Love of God is greater afar.
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There was a man
who was scarred, blind,
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seen walking with a
beautiful young woman.
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She was a beautiful girl.
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But he was a
wreck of a human being.
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She held him tight.
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They walked along
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beneath the trees in an
avenue in Washington D.C.
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There he was so
hideous, she was so beautiful.
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Sometimes people would
say, "What does she see in him?
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He's so ugly, he's so scarred."
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But then somebody
told the real story.
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Here it is.
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When he was a young man,
perfect eyesight, perfect skin.
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There was a fire in his house
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and in the bedroom
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there was his little sister.
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And he beat his
way into the bedroom,
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and he picked up
his little sister,
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he covered her with
love and with blankets,
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and he staggered
out through the fire
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and the fire consumed his eyes.
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That's his sister.
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That's his sister
who walks with him.
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Is she ashamed of him?
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No.
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She says, "I am not
ashamed of him and I love him
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because he was
scarred so that I could live."
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Now I want you
to know something.
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There is a person who came
down from the third heavens,
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Yahweh, Elohim,
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and he walked into the fire
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and he's scarred.
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And the scars tell
us that He loves us.
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The greatest
truth in the whole world
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is not the truth
about the big bang
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or the theory of relativity
that I've tried to study.
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It's the truth that He loves us.
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I have here three
reasons why He came.
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I've three reasons,
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and there you could add to them,
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we could all add to them.
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He came to show us how to live,
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because what a mess
we've made of this world.
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We've turned paradise into hell.
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Human race has made a
dreadful mess of things,
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even churches torn apart,
people fighting each other.
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In the world, there is so
much hatred, lust, cruelty,
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violence, and today
there are more people...
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Can you believe it,
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there are more people
today in chains as slaves
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than during the
time of Wilberforce
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and the slave trade.
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What a mess we've made of it.
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In America,
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from a nation of
the Pilgrim Fathers,
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pious people, a good people.
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We turn on television,
we see vice, and corruption,
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and meanness, and ugliness.
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He came to show us
the way to happiness.
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Now, I want you to come
over here to John 10:9, 10.
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Please turn in the text.
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And Jesus said these
words, He said, "I am the door.
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If anyone enters by
Me, he will be saved,
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and will go in and
out and find pasture.
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The thief does not come
except to steal, and to kill,
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and to destroy,"
That's what sin does.
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That's what heroin does.
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That's what hate does.
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He said, "I have come
that they may have life,
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that they may have
it more abundantly."
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Jesus did not come
to take away anything
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that is worthwhile from us.
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He came to give us something.
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He came to show us how to live.
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I would suggest to you
sometime that you do this,
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but this will be difficult.
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Read through
slowly Matthew 5, 6 and 7.
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And you'll find there
what Christ really taught.
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Ninety five percent of
people who go to church
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haven't got a clue
what Christ is all about.
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They are religious.
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He came to show us the
way of love, of peace, grace,
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forgiveness, and reconciliation.
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He said some words
that burn in my soul.
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These are the hardest
words I know anywhere in print.
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They came from the
mouth of the star maker.
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He said.
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"Love your enemies"
almost too hard to believe.
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"Love your enemies,
forgive your enemies,"
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you say, no, I can't do it.
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You know, why we don't do it?
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Because we don't
know the star maker.
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He said, "Love your enemies."
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See Him before
the Jewish Sanhedrin
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when they beat Him up,
and they spat in His face.
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Has that ever happened to you?
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Nothing's happened to us,
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that we should be
so wildly indignant
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for our own dignity.
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See Him before
Pilate, this evil man,
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who turned the Roman
soldiers loose on Him.
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And He said,
"Love your enemies,"
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and He did.
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He came to show us
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that love is better than hate.
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So if you want to learn to live,
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then read His teachings,
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Matthew 5-7.
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And here is the
third reason He came.
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And I would suggest
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this could be
the most important.
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He came to slay
the dragon of sin.
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Sin had infested the universe.
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There was a being who
became tremendously proud,
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the fallen angel, Lucifer.
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He had poisoned all
the springs of life,
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and he got a
foothold in this world.
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And Jesus, the star
maker, the great, I AM,
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the eternal Son of God
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came to slay the
dreadful dragon of sin,
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the dragon
being Lucifer himself.
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I want you to come to
these remarkable words.
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These words are not believed
by all Christians today.
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1 John 4:9, 10.
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Those who believe the heresy
of the moral influence theory
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do not believe these words.
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1 John 4:9, 10
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in the Word of
God, 1 John 4:9, 10,
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"In this the love of God
was manifested toward us,
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that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world,
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that we might live through Him.
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In this is love,
not that we loved God,
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but that He loved us
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and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins."
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This word propitiation
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is at the root of many
theological controversies,
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especially in
Southern California.
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Because they say
the word is so nauseous,
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it is so objectionable
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that we cannot believe
that Christ was a propitiation,
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because a
propitiation is a pagan concept.
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And so, this is
why it is rejected
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by the moral
influence theologians
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and that theory incidentally
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is considered by every church
to be the greatest of heresies.
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Then what does it
mean to be a propitiation?
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It means this.
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That God is a
righteous Son of holy God.
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After all, He is the star maker,
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He is a
righteous and a holy God.
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And when we sinned against Him
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and kicked Him in
the face as it were.
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The Bible says that
because God is totally love,
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He is also a holy God.
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And God cannot just
say to the human race,
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"Well, that's
fine, just forget it."
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God cannot forgive
sin without an atonement
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or a propitiation.
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When Christ took
our sins upon Him
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and hung on the cross,
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it was God hanging on the cross
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and being punished for my sin.
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The holiness of God
demanded a propitiation
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and an atoning sacrifice.
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And God didn't
just say to His Son,
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"You're the third person,
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you go and clean
up the dirty mess."
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God said, "I will come
down in the person of My Son.
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And I will bear the wrath of God
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because of transgression."
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Of course, this
viewpoint I'm teaching today
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has been accepted in history
by all the learned theologians,
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only repudiated by,
pardon my saying it,
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the great heretics.
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When I was a little boy
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and I would get
sick with an upset tummy,
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my mother would
get out the castor oil.
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I'm sure they don't have
that abominable treatment
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here in these
enlightened United States.
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But when I was
brought up in Australia,
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that oil was the cure for
every sickness under the sun.
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And my mother
would get out this stuff,
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but you know what she would do?
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She would take it herself.
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And that's the expression
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he or she took his
or her own medicine.
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We say He took His own medicine,
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that means He
took that upon Himself
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which was awful and nauseating.
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And can you understand this
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that when God in
Christ hung upon the cross,
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He was taking His own medicine.
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His own medicine said,
00:17:22.30\00:17:25.74
"You must drink
the poison that kills,"
00:17:25.77\00:17:29.78
so He said, "I will drink it."
00:17:29.81\00:17:32.65
He said to the human race,
00:17:32.68\00:17:34.02
"You are going to
drink the cup of poison."
00:17:34.05\00:17:38.69
And the human race
drank the cup of poison
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in the person of Christ
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and on the cross.
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This is the doctrine
that is called the atonement.
00:17:47.10\00:17:50.93
And without the atonement,
there is no Christianity.
00:17:50.97\00:17:54.44
I want you to
turn to Isaiah 53:3-6,
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we must not become
superficial believers.
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We must believe
the texts of the Bible.
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Isaiah 53:3-6,
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"He is despised
and rejected by men,
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a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief:
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and we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him,
00:18:15.49\00:18:18.23
He was despised, and
we did not esteem Him.
00:18:18.26\00:18:21.03
Surely He has borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows,
00:18:21.06\00:18:24.73
yet we esteemed Him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted."
00:18:24.77\00:18:28.20
Now, listen to this,
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"But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
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He was bruised
for our iniquities.
00:18:32.31\00:18:35.11
The chastisement for
our peace was upon Him,
00:18:35.14\00:18:38.71
and by His
stripes we are healed.
00:18:38.75\00:18:41.98
All we like sheep have
gone astray, we have turned,
00:18:42.02\00:18:45.49
every one, to his own way..."
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Don't forget these words.
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"And the Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all."
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The iniquity of all the world,
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from the first
sinner to the last sinner,
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it was laid upon Christ.
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And in Christ, God
took His own medicine.
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And that's why He came
down, that's the main reason.
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I've told you this story before,
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because Russia has made
such an impact upon my life,
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because I've gone there
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preaching the gospel
for so many years, 50 times.
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But during the days
of the Gulag Archipelago,
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when the communists,
the atheists, I remind you,
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the atheists were murdering
00:19:30.10\00:19:32.50
and killing tens of millions
of people, don't forget it.
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In Russia, the
atheists murdered millions
00:19:37.34\00:19:40.94
and even of their own.
00:19:40.98\00:19:43.31
And on one occasion,
in one of the Gulags,
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there was a group,
00:19:45.28\00:19:46.61
a vast group of
atheists and some believers.
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And some of those
believers were the Baptists.
00:19:49.42\00:19:54.16
And these Baptist Christians
would say to the guards
00:19:54.19\00:19:57.23
when they were
beating up an atheist,
00:19:57.26\00:19:59.43
who was polluting the air
with cursing, and swearing,
00:19:59.46\00:20:04.50
and blasphemy of
God, they would say,
00:20:04.53\00:20:06.80
"Don't beat him, beat me.
00:20:06.84\00:20:11.34
Because when you beat me,
guard, I will not curse God,
00:20:11.37\00:20:15.61
but I will praise God,
00:20:15.64\00:20:17.05
and the world
would be a better place
00:20:17.08\00:20:19.15
because of my beating."
00:20:19.18\00:20:20.52
And the Russians called
them, they are born fools.
00:20:24.95\00:20:30.26
Born fools, God became,
00:20:30.29\00:20:34.23
and I say this
with great reverence,
00:20:34.26\00:20:36.36
He became the born fool.
00:20:36.40\00:20:39.83
He was born of the
Blessed Virgin Mary,
00:20:39.87\00:20:42.24
and He was born
to bear our sins,
00:20:42.27\00:20:47.61
and He didn't have to.
00:20:47.64\00:20:50.71
He became the propitiation.
00:20:50.75\00:20:53.38
The question I ask you is this.
00:20:53.42\00:20:55.02
Here it is.
00:20:55.05\00:20:56.69
Who is the man
hanging on the cross?
00:20:56.72\00:21:01.59
Who is the man?
00:21:01.62\00:21:03.36
The man hanging on the
cross is the star maker.
00:21:03.39\00:21:09.96
How can we ever hope
00:21:10.00\00:21:11.70
to understand that
with our peanut minds.
00:21:11.73\00:21:16.37
With our tiny little minds
00:21:16.40\00:21:18.57
that are being
destroyed by our society.
00:21:18.61\00:21:24.81
Hanging on the cross,
00:21:24.85\00:21:26.75
taking His own
medicine was the star maker.
00:21:26.78\00:21:30.75
Therefore, there are
decisions we should make today.
00:21:30.79\00:21:34.26
Number one,
believe in the star maker.
00:21:34.29\00:21:38.26
Believe how big,
strong, and loving He is.
00:21:38.29\00:21:42.33
One night at
Avondale, no money, long hours,
00:21:42.36\00:21:45.03
falling behind in my studies,
sick and tired, just a boy,
00:21:45.07\00:21:49.17
but praying to
God beneath the stars,
00:21:49.20\00:21:52.74
and hearing the voice
of God say from the stars,
00:21:52.77\00:21:56.28
"I will take care of you."
00:21:56.31\00:21:59.21
Believe in the star maker
00:21:59.25\00:22:01.78
and accept His
death for our sins.
00:22:01.82\00:22:03.79
1 John 1:5-9,
00:22:03.82\00:22:08.16
I want you to
notice these words.
00:22:08.19\00:22:11.43
"This is the message
which we have heard from Him
00:22:11.46\00:22:14.20
and declare to you,
00:22:14.23\00:22:15.56
that God is light and in
Him is no darkness at all.
00:22:15.60\00:22:19.07
If we say that we
have fellowship with Him,
00:22:19.10\00:22:21.50
and walk in darkness, we lie
and do not practice the truth.
00:22:21.54\00:22:26.17
But if we walk in the
light as He is in the light,
00:22:26.21\00:22:28.71
we have
fellowship with one another,
00:22:28.74\00:22:30.85
and the blood of
Jesus Christ, His Son
00:22:30.88\00:22:33.45
cleanses us from all sin.
00:22:33.48\00:22:35.25
If we say we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves,
00:22:35.28\00:22:39.02
and the truth is not in us.
00:22:39.05\00:22:40.82
If we confess our
sins, He is faithful
00:22:40.86\00:22:44.46
and just to forgive us our sins
00:22:44.49\00:22:46.96
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
00:22:47.00\00:22:51.33
You see.
00:22:51.37\00:22:53.27
Therefore,
believe in the star maker.
00:22:53.30\00:22:58.01
Accept His death for our sins.
00:22:58.04\00:23:02.94
Let me read you
statement from Philip Yancey
00:23:02.98\00:23:05.98
and what's so
amazing about grace.
00:23:06.01\00:23:08.18
You can follow it.
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"In 1987, an IRA bomb went off
00:23:10.12\00:23:14.12
in a small town west of Belfast,
00:23:14.16\00:23:16.49
amid a group of Protestants
00:23:16.52\00:23:17.86
who had gathered to honor
the war dead on Veteran's Day.
00:23:17.89\00:23:21.46
Eleven people died
00:23:21.50\00:23:22.83
and sixty-three
others were wounded.
00:23:22.86\00:23:24.63
What made this act
of terrorism stand out
00:23:24.67\00:23:26.90
from so many
others was the response
00:23:26.94\00:23:29.14
of one of the
wounded, Gordon Wilson,
00:23:29.17\00:23:31.27
a devout Methodist
who had emigrated north
00:23:31.31\00:23:33.58
from the Irish
Republic to work as a draper.
00:23:33.61\00:23:36.61
The bomb buried Wilson
and his 20-year-old daughter
00:23:36.64\00:23:40.22
under five feet of
concrete and brick.
00:23:40.25\00:23:42.32
'Daddy, I love you very much,'
00:23:42.35\00:23:44.55
with the last
words iMarie spoke,
00:23:44.59\00:23:46.86
grasping her father's hand
00:23:46.89\00:23:48.32
as they waited for the rescuers.
00:23:48.36\00:23:50.39
She suffered severe
spinal and brain injuries,
00:23:50.43\00:23:52.99
and died a few hours
later at the hospital.
00:23:53.03\00:23:56.63
A newspaper later proclaimed,
00:23:56.67\00:23:58.70
'No one remembers
what the politicians
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.70
had to say at that time.
00:24:00.74\00:24:02.24
No one who heard Gordon Wilson
00:24:02.27\00:24:04.21
will ever forget
what he confessed...
00:24:04.24\00:24:06.24
His grace towered over
00:24:06.27\00:24:07.61
the miserable
justification of the bombers.'
00:24:07.64\00:24:10.45
Speaking from his
hospital bed, Wilson said,
00:24:10.48\00:24:13.35
'I have lost my
daughter, but I bear no grudge.
00:24:13.38\00:24:16.89
Better talk is not
going to bring Marie Wilson
00:24:16.92\00:24:19.52
back to life.
00:24:19.55\00:24:20.89
I shall pray,
tonight and every night,
00:24:20.92\00:24:22.56
that God will forgive them.'
00:24:22.59\00:24:25.16
His daughter's last
words were words of love,
00:24:25.19\00:24:28.33
and Gordon Wilson
determined to live out his life
00:24:28.36\00:24:31.00
on that plane of love.
00:24:31.03\00:24:33.54
'The world
wept,' said one report,
00:24:33.57\00:24:35.64
as Wilson gave a
similar interview
00:24:35.67\00:24:37.87
over the BBC radio that week.
00:24:37.91\00:24:40.78
After his release
from the hospital,
00:24:40.81\00:24:43.28
Gordon Wilson led a crusade
00:24:43.31\00:24:45.08
for Protestant-Catholic
reconciliation.
00:24:45.11\00:24:48.12
Protestant
extremists who had planned
00:24:48.15\00:24:49.92
to avenge the bombing decided,
00:24:49.95\00:24:51.85
because of the
publicity surrounding Wilson,
00:24:51.89\00:24:54.72
that such behavior
would be politically foolish.
00:24:54.76\00:24:57.96
Wilson wrote a
book about his daughter,
00:24:57.99\00:25:00.10
spoke out against violence,
00:25:00.13\00:25:01.70
and constantly
repeated the refrain,
00:25:01.73\00:25:03.93
'Love is the bottom line.'
00:25:03.97\00:25:06.00
He met with the IRA,
00:25:06.03\00:25:08.60
personally forgave
them for what they had done,
00:25:08.64\00:25:10.84
and asked them to
lay down their arms."
00:25:10.87\00:25:13.38
Is anyone listening?
00:25:13.41\00:25:15.81
"I know you've lost loved ones,
just like me,' he told them.
00:25:15.84\00:25:18.91
'Surely, enough is enough.
00:25:18.95\00:25:20.78
Enough blood has been spilled.'
00:25:20.82\00:25:23.39
The Irish Republic
ultimately made Wilson
00:25:23.42\00:25:26.45
a member of its Senate.
00:25:26.49\00:25:28.69
When he died in
1995, the Irish Republic,
00:25:28.72\00:25:32.06
Northern Ireland,
00:25:32.09\00:25:33.43
and all of Great Britain
honored this ordinary Christian
00:25:33.46\00:25:36.50
who had gained fame for
his uncommon spirit of grace
00:25:36.53\00:25:41.70
and forgiveness.'"
00:25:41.74\00:25:44.64
Listen, what made it possible?
00:25:44.67\00:25:49.71
What made it possible?
00:25:53.88\00:25:56.85
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