Welcome to a new
Carter Report series,
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The Game Changers.
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These rare individuals
appear once in a lifetime.
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Like a blazing
meteor across the night sky,
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they change the
course of history.
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They show us the way forward.
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Welcome to The Game Changers.
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I want to give you today
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a tremendous
welcome to this program
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because you are
going to enjoy it,
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and you're going
to be better after it.
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Starting in 1927 Time magazine,
you'll read Time magazine?
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Time magazine selected a
man or a woman of the year.
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In 1999, the
category was enlarged
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to person of the year,
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someone who had
made a worldwide impact
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for good or for bad.
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In more recent times,
it's basically for the person
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whom they think maybe
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has made an impact for good.
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Hitler in 1938...
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Can you believe this?
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Man of the year,
he made an impact.
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Stalin in 1939
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and a repeat in
1942, the man of blood,
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killed about 60 million people.
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Wallis Simpson in 1936.
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Who's heard of Wallis Simpson?
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You haven't heard
of Wallis Simpson?
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I'm disgusted.
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Wallis Simpson was the lady
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who ran off with
the King of England.
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And he was forced...
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And she was an American,
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a divorcee.
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And so he was
forced to abdicate,
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but she made it,
woman of the year.
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Queen Elizabeth,
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you all know the
Queen of England,
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the great Queen
1952, woman of the year.
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Churchill, the man
of the half-century,
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the man who saved the
world, hopefully the democracy.
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Gorbachev, 1989,
man of the decade,
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you know of
Gorbachev, don't you?
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One of my great heroes,
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the man who broke down the walls
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of separation between
the Soviet Union and us.
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He brought in if
my memory is working,
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glasnost and perestroika.
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Yeah, great man.
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Man of the decade,
Martin Luther King.
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Man of the year in 1963,
who brought in civil rights
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especially for our
black brothers and sisters.
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And in 2016,
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Donald Trump, man of the year.
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All the presidents have become
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man of the year except three.
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Einstein in 1999
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was the person of the century
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because really he
gave us the hydrogen bomb.
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1999 was the year
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where it's changed
to person of the year,
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and in 2015, it
was Angela Merkel.
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You know who she is?
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The Chancellor of Germany
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and really a significant person.
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All of these people
had one thing in common.
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They're all great game changers,
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people who've made a
significant contribution
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in some way or the
other to the human race.
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Now today, we are starting
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a new dynamic
and marvelous series,
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The Game Changers,
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the most
important people in history,
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more important
than Times people.
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Most important
people in history,
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in the history of the world,
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and all of these
people without an exception
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have been game changers
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who changed the
world for the better.
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People show us how
to die and possibly,
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more importantly how to live,
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who reveal the
spiritual secrets of success
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over and beyond.
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We can learn so much
from the game changers,
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God's game changers.
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I promise you the game
changers will change you
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and will bless you.
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And the first game changer
we're starting with today
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is one of the greatest people
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who've ever
walked upon planet earth.
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One of the
greatest of all human beings
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almost without a peer,
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his name is Moses,
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the prince of Egypt,
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the man who
could have been king.
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And I want to turn in the Bible
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to Hebrews 11:23, my friends,
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going to turn over
here to the Book of Hebrews
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in the New Testament.
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And this book, of course,
was written to the Hebrews,
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all the Jewish people.
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Hebrews 11:23, it says,
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"By faith Moses,
when he was born,
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was hidden three
months by his parents,
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because they saw he
was a beautiful child,
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and they were not
afraid of the king's command."
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Egypt, have you been to Egypt?
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Some of you've been to Egypt.
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I've been to Egypt
many, many, many times.
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Did you know this Egypt
was the world's superpower,
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Egypt ruled the
whole of the world,
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all the then known world
for more than 2,000 years.
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Has a history that
goes back thousands
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and thousands of years.
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And Moses was
the prince of Egypt
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who could have been the king.
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The pyramids
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were a thousand years old
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when Moses was born.
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And so he was born
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into a mature
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and advanced civilization.
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Amazing.
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He was born 3,500 years ago
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at the height of Egypt's power.
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I've had the privilege of going
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into the Cairo
Museum on many occasions,
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walking around the
streets of Egypt's great cities
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with my friend Randall Younker,
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one of the world's
greatest biblical archaeologists
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from Andrews University.
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And when you go to this place,
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you have a sense
that you are walking
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in the footsteps
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of the greatest people or
some of the greatest people.
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When Moses was born at
the height of Egypt's power,
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he was born at the time of...
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Now, listen to this
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'cause it's almost
too hard to believe,
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he was born at the
time of the Moses kings.
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Did you know this?
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Most of the kings
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during this time have got Moses,
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which is an
Egyptian word in their name,
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Tutmose, Ahmoses, Rameses,
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whom we call
Rameses, and so forth.
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So he was born at the
time of the Moses kings.
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The children of Israel
had been living in Egypt
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for hundreds of years.
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You know the story of how
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Israel or Jacob went
down into the land of Egypt,
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and the people
multiplied tremendously,
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and they became
a security threat
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to the Pharaoh.
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And the Pharaoh
sent out a decree
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that they were to become slaves.
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There is evidence
of Semitic slavery
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in the land of Egypt.
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I've seen it with my eyes.
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And finally, in desperation,
Pharaoh made this decree,
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kill not the
girls but kill the boys.
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And there was this
beautiful little baby boy
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who was born and his
mother in desperation
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took him down to
the mighty Nile River.
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And she placed him
in this little basket
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and she let him go
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upon the bosom
of the Nile River.
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And the Bible tells a story
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that the princess
came down to bathe.
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And she saw this basket
and she opened the basket
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and her heart was
touched by the crying of a baby.
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Now, I'm somewhat convinced
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that we know who
this princess was.
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I think it was the woman
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who created this
great, great marvelous temple
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that is called Deir El-Bahari
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which is on the west bank
of the River Nile at Luxor.
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Dr. Randall Younker, I
believe is a great scholar.
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And I think he would
indicate from the Bible
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that the princess
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was Princess Hatshepsut
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who became the Pharaoh.
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But the
interesting thing is this,
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she goes down,
she sees the baby,
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and then there's
a little girl there.
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And the little girl say...
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The little
girl's name is Miriam.
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I want you to notice the
text however in the Bible,
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Exodus 2:1-3.
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Exodus 2:1-3
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in the Old Testament,
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"And a man of the
house of Levi went
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and took as wife
a daughter of Levi.
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So the woman
conceived and bore a son.
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And when she saw that
he was a beautiful child,
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she hid him three months.
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But when she could
no longer hide him,
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she took an ark
of bulrushes for him,
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daubed it with
asphalt and pitch,
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put the child in it,
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and laid it in the
reeds by the river's bank."
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But here is the little girl,
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the big sister of Moses.
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And when the baby is discovered
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and the baby cries,
the little girl says,
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"Can I help you?
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Can I fetch a Hebrew woman?"
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And she runs off and she
gets the mother of Moses.
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And Moses immediately is
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no longer in fear of his life.
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And what is more,
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the mother who'd been struggling
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to put the money together
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to feed a family immediately
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is on the payroll of Pharaoh.
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And people tell me
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they don't believe in
the providence of God.
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It was in the providence of God
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that Hatshepsut went down there.
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It was in the providence
of God that the baby cried.
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It was in the providence
of God that Miriam was there
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and that the mother was called.
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Now, what I want
you to know is this,
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as we talk about
these great people
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who've changed
the course of history.
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God has a plan and a
destiny for every person.
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God had a plan and a destiny
for the little baby Moses.
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And God has a plan
and a destiny for you.
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Every person
watching the telecast today,
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you are important
in the sight of God,
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and God has got a plan,
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and a purpose,
and a destiny for you.
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He's watching over you,
you are never, never alone.
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Now, I want you to notice
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chapter 2, verses 6 and onwards,
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Exodus 2:6 and onwards,
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"And when she opened
it, she saw the child,
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and behold, the baby wept.
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So she had
compassion on him, and said,
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'This is one of
the Hebrews' children.'
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Then his sister said
to Pharaoh's daughter,
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'Shall I go and
call a nurse for you
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from the Hebrew women,
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that she may nurse
the child for you?'
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And Pharaoh's
daughter said to her 'Go.'
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So the maiden went and called
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the child's mother."
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The word "Moses" is
an interesting word.
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It's an ancient Egyptian
word and it's a Hebrew word.
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And in the Egyptian
language, it means "born of."
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And so when she
called him Moses,
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she could very well have
been using the Egyptian word
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and she could
well have been using
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the Hebrew word which
she probably understood.
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The Hebrew word means drawn out.
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And so he was
drawn out of the river,
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but he was also
born of the river.
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And so he was in her thinking
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a very, very special little baby
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that had the favor of the gods,
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God provides.
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His mother had
him for a few years,
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most likely 12 years.
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During this time,
she did everything
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she could to
teach this little boy
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the great truths
about the great God.
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And that her people
had been called by God,
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and that they were now slaves,
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and that God had a
purpose for this little boy.
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I want every person watching
the telecast to know today
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that there is a
divine providence,
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and God has got a
purpose for every life,
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and the purpose of God for you
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is that you will
fulfill this purpose
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and find true greatness.
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This is the purpose of God.
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His education, Acts 7:21 and 22,
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would you look at it please.
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"But when he was set out,
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Pharaoh's daughter took him away
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and brought him
up as her own son."
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Palace of Pharaoh.
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"And Moses was
learned in all the wisdom
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of the Egyptians,
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and was mighty in
words and in deed."
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Some people who
don't know a great deal
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about ancient
history think that these
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ancient people were barbarians.
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The ancient Egyptians
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were some of the
most amazing people
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on the face of the earth.
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Moses got through Pharaoh,
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the best education that
the world could provide.
00:16:06.19\00:16:10.87
These were the people
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who did astounding
engineering marvels.
00:16:12.27\00:16:16.91
I've seen them many, many times.
00:16:16.94\00:16:19.84
A marvelous system of writing,
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they studied the stars.
00:16:22.34\00:16:25.75
Moses went to the
Oxford, or the Cambridge,
00:16:25.78\00:16:29.88
or Harvard of his
day, all expenses paid.
00:16:29.92\00:16:34.62
God wanted this
young boy to get the best
00:16:34.66\00:16:37.36
that the world could give him.
00:16:37.39\00:16:40.10
God provided for his education.
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Listen,
00:16:44.10\00:16:47.07
God will provide for your needs.
00:16:47.10\00:16:51.57
If you are in the
right relationship with God,
00:16:51.61\00:16:56.38
God will even
provide for your education
00:16:56.41\00:17:00.15
because you're
the son of the king.
00:17:00.18\00:17:05.02
Then the great crisis came
00:17:05.05\00:17:06.39
when he was
about 40 years of age,
00:17:06.42\00:17:08.82
he was a mighty prince of Egypt,
00:17:08.86\00:17:11.43
one of the greatest.
00:17:11.46\00:17:13.53
He could have
become the Pharaoh.
00:17:13.56\00:17:16.56
And one day, he saw an Egyptian
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beating a Hebrew.
00:17:18.10\00:17:20.14
And Moses was a
hot-headed man and Moses...
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The Bible says,
"Looked this way and that way."
00:17:23.37\00:17:25.91
And then he took the law
00:17:25.94\00:17:28.24
and God's purpose
into his own hands
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and he killed the Egyptian.
00:17:31.41\00:17:33.38
That's found in
Exodus 2:12, it says,
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"So he looked
this way and that way,
00:17:38.49\00:17:40.86
and when he saw no one,
00:17:40.89\00:17:42.79
he killed the Egyptian
and hid him in the sand."
00:17:42.82\00:17:48.36
Therefore the most
astounding truth is this,
00:17:48.40\00:17:52.73
that Moses who gave us
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the first five
books of the Bible,
00:17:54.40\00:17:58.27
the most important
words ever said by human lips
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"in the beginning,
00:18:02.64\00:18:03.98
God created the
heavens and the earth"
00:18:04.01\00:18:06.51
came from Moses.
00:18:06.55\00:18:07.88
He wrote Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
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and Deuteronomy.
00:18:11.25\00:18:14.32
And Moses was a murderer.
00:18:14.36\00:18:15.69
Sometimes we like to
think, well you know,
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he didn't know what he's doing,
00:18:21.80\00:18:24.27
he looked this way
and he looked that way.
00:18:24.30\00:18:28.00
It was premeditated murder.
00:18:28.04\00:18:33.01
But it shows you
the amazing power
00:18:33.04\00:18:36.61
of the grace of God.
00:18:36.64\00:18:38.78
I want you to know this,
00:18:38.81\00:18:40.38
God's grace is
greater than all of our sins.
00:18:40.42\00:18:45.12
I want you to know this.
00:18:45.15\00:18:46.49
You know, the
amazing old English hymn
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"Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound,
00:18:49.79\00:18:53.09
that saved a wretch like me."
00:18:53.13\00:18:56.97
You know who
wrote it, don't you?
00:18:57.00\00:18:59.20
John Newton, a
Church of England minister.
00:18:59.23\00:19:02.20
He was the
captain of a slave ship.
00:19:02.24\00:19:06.34
Do you know what they used to do
00:19:06.37\00:19:07.71
to some of those black slaves?
00:19:07.74\00:19:09.88
They used to throw them
overboard out on the ocean,
00:19:09.91\00:19:13.28
they'd throw them overboard,
men, women, and children.
00:19:13.31\00:19:17.25
You know why?
00:19:17.29\00:19:19.09
They could claim the insurance.
00:19:19.12\00:19:23.16
Amazing grace.
00:19:23.19\00:19:26.39
And God redeemed him.
00:19:26.43\00:19:27.76
Therefore, I would say this,
00:19:27.80\00:19:29.26
every person who is discouraged,
00:19:29.30\00:19:31.60
never despair,
never give up hope,
00:19:31.63\00:19:35.40
never, never, never
00:19:35.44\00:19:36.87
because the grace of God
00:19:36.91\00:19:38.24
is greater than all
of our sins, you see.
00:19:38.27\00:19:42.71
Now the story
goes on and says this,
00:19:42.74\00:19:44.91
Moses fled to
Midian in the wilderness.
00:19:44.95\00:19:49.98
Pharaoh said, "I'm
going to kill you."
00:19:50.02\00:19:51.35
So he fled, had to leave Egypt,
00:19:51.39\00:19:53.76
he fled to Midian.
00:19:53.79\00:19:56.49
And there he met
seven women at the well,
00:19:56.52\00:20:02.23
the daughters of
Jethro, the priest,
00:20:02.26\00:20:07.04
a Midian, a man of God.
00:20:07.07\00:20:09.20
Later on, he married Zipporah.
00:20:09.24\00:20:12.47
God provided him with a wife.
00:20:12.51\00:20:15.34
The great God of
the Bible is the God
00:20:15.38\00:20:18.51
who provides people
with all of their needs
00:20:18.55\00:20:22.05
including their spouses.
00:20:22.08\00:20:24.25
God has got a
partner for you, He has.
00:20:24.29\00:20:28.96
Then he became a
shepherd in the wilderness,
00:20:28.99\00:20:32.23
wait for this, for 40 years.
00:20:32.26\00:20:35.40
I wish every one of you
could come with me to Egypt
00:20:35.43\00:20:38.30
and see the glory
of that ancient land.
00:20:38.33\00:20:41.40
And we see it not as it was,
00:20:41.44\00:20:44.21
now as it is broken down
00:20:44.24\00:20:46.24
and decayed after
thousands of years.
00:20:46.27\00:20:49.08
But he left the
glory of Pharaoh's palace
00:20:49.11\00:20:52.28
and was driven
into the wilderness.
00:20:52.31\00:20:54.75
And he is there for 40 years,
00:20:54.78\00:20:57.85
can you believe this?
00:20:57.89\00:21:00.99
A shepherd in the wilderness
00:21:01.02\00:21:02.72
looking after sheep for 40 years
00:21:02.76\00:21:06.63
in the
university of God almighty.
00:21:06.66\00:21:10.90
I want you to know this, folks,
00:21:10.93\00:21:12.33
before you can
stand on the mountain,
00:21:12.37\00:21:15.20
you've got to go
down to the valley.
00:21:15.24\00:21:18.97
Before you can go to
the land of milk and honey,
00:21:19.01\00:21:21.51
you've got to
live in the desert.
00:21:21.54\00:21:24.78
Before you can
live with the saint,
00:21:24.81\00:21:26.55
you've got to
live with the sheep.
00:21:26.58\00:21:31.95
I know of a
minister in Australia
00:21:31.99\00:21:34.26
and his wife who've
gone through a terrible time,
00:21:34.29\00:21:37.36
treated so unjustly,
00:21:37.39\00:21:40.03
had a great job,
00:21:40.06\00:21:42.46
dismissed from his
job for no lawful reason,
00:21:42.50\00:21:46.37
just done in.
00:21:46.40\00:21:47.84
But I want him to know if
he's watching this telecast,
00:21:51.37\00:21:54.88
your best days
are still to come.
00:21:54.91\00:21:58.11
Want you to know this.
00:21:58.15\00:21:59.91
You may be down in the valley,
you may be in the wilderness.
00:21:59.95\00:22:05.05
I can think of a lady
00:22:05.09\00:22:06.42
who's had a terrible
sickness for years and she said,
00:22:06.45\00:22:10.29
"Why doesn't God
do something for me?
00:22:10.33\00:22:14.16
I feel depressed, I feel sick."
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.93
I want to tell you, I
want you to know this.
00:22:16.97\00:22:19.20
You may be down
in the wilderness,
00:22:19.23\00:22:21.64
but one day you're gonna
stand on top of the mountain,
00:22:21.67\00:22:24.67
and one day you're going
to go to the promised land,
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.41
you see, the
best is still to come.
00:22:27.44\00:22:33.08
Away from the glory of Egypt,
00:22:33.11\00:22:35.75
Moses saw the glory of God.
00:22:35.78\00:22:39.55
He graduated
00:22:39.59\00:22:40.92
from the
University of Hard Knocks
00:22:40.96\00:22:43.02
whose colors are black and blue.
00:22:43.06\00:22:46.39
But ahead was the mountain
and the land of milk and honey.
00:22:46.43\00:22:51.83
God has a
glorious destiny for you
00:22:51.87\00:22:54.14
when you are a child of
God, God has not forgotten you.
00:22:54.17\00:22:57.77
You have a glorious future.
00:22:57.81\00:23:01.78
You can divide Moses'
life up into three parts,
00:23:01.81\00:23:05.98
40 years learning,
00:23:06.01\00:23:09.18
and 40 years unlearning,
00:23:09.22\00:23:12.45
and the last 40 years
doing the will of God.
00:23:12.49\00:23:17.13
He had to
unlearn a lot of things.
00:23:17.16\00:23:22.16
And then after 40 years,
00:23:22.20\00:23:25.93
he led the flock to
the back of the mountain.
00:23:25.97\00:23:30.47
And as he led the flock
to the back of the mountain,
00:23:30.51\00:23:34.24
he saw the most
amazing spectacle
00:23:34.28\00:23:38.41
that I could have
ever, ever, ever see,
00:23:38.45\00:23:41.72
he saw a bush that was on fire
00:23:41.75\00:23:46.25
and the bush was not consumed.
00:23:46.29\00:23:49.32
And when he got
over near the bush,
00:23:49.36\00:23:53.76
he heard a voice that said,
00:23:53.80\00:23:57.27
"Moses.
00:23:57.30\00:24:00.10
Moses."
00:24:00.14\00:24:02.07
He said, "Who are you?"
00:24:02.10\00:24:05.14
The person said,
00:24:05.17\00:24:07.64
"I am Yahweh, Elohim.
00:24:07.68\00:24:11.38
I am the Almighty God."
00:24:11.41\00:24:15.48
Moses was afraid
to look upon God.
00:24:15.52\00:24:19.39
And Moses heard the
voice of God saying,
00:24:19.42\00:24:22.32
"Moses, you've
been in the wilderness
00:24:22.36\00:24:24.93
in My university for 40 years.
00:24:24.96\00:24:30.00
You're now an old
man of 80 but now...
00:24:30.03\00:24:35.14
the time for which
you were born has come.
00:24:35.17\00:24:39.01
I've heard the
cry of your people
00:24:42.74\00:24:45.71
and My people in
the land of Egypt.
00:24:45.75\00:24:48.52
Now,
00:24:48.55\00:24:49.88
therefore go to Pharaoh.
00:24:49.92\00:24:55.06
And when you go to Pharaoh,
00:24:55.09\00:24:57.93
take this rod,
00:24:57.96\00:25:01.13
your rod,
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.03
and go and stand before Pharaoh,
00:25:04.07\00:25:06.97
the greatest and the most
powerful person in the world.
00:25:07.00\00:25:12.91
Go stand before
the great Pharaoh
00:25:12.94\00:25:15.41
whom I think was Thutmosis III
00:25:15.44\00:25:20.92
and say to him...
00:25:20.95\00:25:23.69
And this is the God
speaking out of the fire.
00:25:23.72\00:25:26.65
And He says, "Let my people go."
00:25:26.69\00:25:31.23
After that time,
00:25:35.40\00:25:37.20
that was the greatest meeting
00:25:37.23\00:25:40.07
in the history of the world.
00:25:40.10\00:25:44.07
A man who was
burnt with the sun,
00:25:44.11\00:25:48.74
a man who'd been out in
the desert for 40 years,
00:25:48.78\00:25:52.05
and he stands
before Pharaoh and says,
00:25:52.08\00:25:55.92
"Let my people go."
00:25:55.95\00:26:00.99
Now please stay with us.
00:26:01.02\00:26:02.62
We'll be back in
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Time, it takes only a
minute to have eternal life.
00:26:18.47\00:26:22.34
How can you get
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00:26:22.38\00:26:24.11
It's simple.
00:26:24.15\00:26:25.48
First, believe that
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00:26:25.51\00:26:28.08
Second, accept His
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00:26:28.12\00:26:31.05
and then you're saved.
00:26:31.09\00:26:33.05
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Pray with me,
00:26:38.93\00:26:40.26
"Lord God, I
realize that I am a sinner.
00:26:40.30\00:26:43.06
My sin has
separated me from You.
00:26:43.10\00:26:45.43
I accept that Your Son
Jesus Christ died for me.
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I ask Jesus into my heart."
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00:27:06.09\00:27:08.92
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00:27:08.96\00:27:10.96
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