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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We're really
glad to see you today.
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We welcome,
especially our viewers
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on Fox in Washington, D.C.
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and all our
viewers around the world.
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We've been doing a series
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which is called
The Game Changers.
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And the game changers are
those extraordinary people
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who've changed the
history of the world
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and our lives not
for bad but for good.
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I think this is number five.
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Last week, I spoke about
one of the great game changers.
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Jesus said there was no person
in the history of the world
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who was greater
than John the Baptist,
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who overthrew
kingdoms through his speaking.
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But today, the game changer
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is the greatest
game changer of them all,
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the greatest game
changer of them all.
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Years ago,
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after communism fell,
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I was in the great city of Kiev
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which is one of the
great cities of Europe.
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We'd run a tremendous
campaign in the city of Kiev,
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and we had seen
hundreds of thousands of people
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come to a knowledge of God.
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We're talking about
communists, and atheists,
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and ranked unbelievers.
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And a few months
after that great series,
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I went back to the capital
of Ukraine, the city of Kiev.
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And we had had this vast
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and this magnificent auditorium.
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It was ornate. It
was a masterpiece.
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I had the privilege of
addressing a vast crowd
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of people who'd
been born and bred
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in communism and atheism.
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I stood on the very spot
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where Khrushchev had
delivered his famous oration.
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Khrushchev had predicted that
the day was coming very soon
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when the name of
Christ would be unknown
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in the Soviet Union
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and Christianity would
be blotted from the earth.
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I stood at the very spot
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where Khrushchev made
this deliberate pronouncement,
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and I told the people this,
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"Well, it just
so happens, folks,"
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I told, "That Khrushchev is dead
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and communism is dead
but Jesus is Christ is alive,
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and the church
goes on and on forever."
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That's because the
world can't get rid of Him.
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The biggest game changer
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in the history of
the world is Jesus.
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A carpenter who
came from a little town
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by the name of Nazareth,
He is greater than Moses.
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Moses, the person who
led the children of Israel
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out of the land of
Egypt, He's greater than Moses,
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He's greater than Elijah.
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Elijah was caught up to
God in a flaming chariot.
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He's greater than Elijah.
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He's greater than David.
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We talked about David in one
of our Game Changer programs.
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He's greater than John the
Baptist of whom Jesus said,
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"There was no person
greater than John the Baptist."
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He is greater than Paul,
the great Jewish theologian
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of the first century who
transformed Western thinking.
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There would be no
United States of America,
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no modern democracies
without Paul the Jew,
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greater than Paul,
greater than one of my heroes,
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Winston Churchill.
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Winston Churchill who said,
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"We will fight on the
beaches, on the landing fields,
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we will never surrender."
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Greater than Churchill
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who saved the
world from the Nazis,
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greater than Einstein
who gave us relativity,
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greater than Abraham Lincoln
who emancipated the slaves
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in North America,
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greater than another one
of my heroes Martin Luther
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who gave us the
freedom to think for ourselves,
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greater than any
world leader or politician
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or president living today
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or who has ever lived.
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He is the greatest game changer.
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And the question is this,
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what's so amazing about Jesus?
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In 1992, I went to the
city of Gorki, a closed city.
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I think I was the
first foreigner to go there.
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I went to this place
that is on the screen,
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the Palace of
Sport, wanted to hire it,
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spoke to the old
communist official
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beneath a banner of Lenin.
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He said these words
to me, listen, he said,
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"No one will come to
these meetings about Christ
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because here
we've taught the people
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no longer even to think of Him."
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He said, "In this
part of the world,
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we do not think of God anymore."
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When we came back in May
and started the meetings,
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the crowds were so
vast that this old communist
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was almost trampled to death
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because of Christ.
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You can't get rid of Jesus
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because He is the
biggest game changer
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in the history of the
world, and He is still alive.
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In 1917, the atheists took over.
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The people say,
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"I wonder what it
would be like in America
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if the atheists took over."
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We go to Russia, 1917,
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mass murders,
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bloodshed,
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the communists employed
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demagogues to go
around the country,
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and let you to the peasants,
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and tell them why God was dead.
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And after
lecturing for 60 minutes
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to a vast crowd of peasants,
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the communist demagogue turned
to a little Christian pastor
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and he said,
"There you've heard me.
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I will give you
five minutes to answer."
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The pastor said, "Sir,
I don't need five minutes.
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I need five seconds."
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And he walked to
the front of the stage,
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and he gave the traditional
Russian Easter greeting.
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Do you know what?
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He cried out,
"The Lord is risen."
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The Russians shouted
back, "He is risen indeed."
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You see?
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And that is why the communists
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and the atheists
could not get rid of Him.
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I want you to
notice the amazing claims
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that Christ made about Himself,
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the claims He
made about Himself.
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John 17:4, 5,
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and the people in the
studio you will have Bibles,
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it'll be good if you turn
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to John 17:5,
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verses 4, 5.
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John 17:4, 5 Jesus says,
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"I've glorified
you on the earth.
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I have finished the work
that you've given me to do.
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And now, O Father,
glorify Me together
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with Yourself, with the
glory which I had with you
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before the world began."
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Apparently, preposterous.
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The Greek word for
world there is cosmos.
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It may mean this earth,
it may mean the universe.
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If it means the universe,
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it means the Christ was
making the staggering claim
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that He existed
with another person
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who is called the Father
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before the cosmos existed.
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We are not talking about
planet earth, you understand,
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but every astronomer,
every scientist understands
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from astronomical observation
and data that the universe
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was born in an event
which they call the Big Bang,
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and we know how long ago it was.
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It happened 13.8
billion years ago.
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People say, "No,
that's all speculation."
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No, it's not
speculation, it's a fact.
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Jesus Christ is saying
that before the cosmos was born
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in unlimited energy and power,
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billions of years ago,
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Jesus was there.
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He was there with His Father.
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Now we need to
have an appeal to logic
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'cause logic still
exists in the minds of those
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who still have minds.
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Jesus was either a good
man and everybody says He was
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or else He was a madman
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and few people
have ever said that.
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Or else He was the god man
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but He could not be all three.
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If He was a good man,
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He would not be saying
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that He existed
billions of years ago.
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He claimed to come from
another universe besides ours.
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He called it the Father's house.
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The concept of other
universes is now in vogue.
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But the Bible
spoke about this cosmos,
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and it spoke about
something beyond time and space
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and called it
the Father's house.
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He came from another world
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and He claimed to
be equal to this person
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whom He called the
Father, who was God.
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In John 8:58,
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He says these strange words
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that made the Jews so angry.
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John 8:58, "Jesus said to them,
'Most assuredly, I say to you,
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before Abraham was,"
not I was but "I AM."
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The Jews became
so angry, so incensed
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that they took up
stones to kill Him
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because they knew, as I know,
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that Jesus was claiming
equality with Almighty God.
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In the Old
Testament, this phrase,
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"I Am that I Am" is
referred to only one person.
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Not to a human being,
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it is referred to
the self-existent God
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who goes in the holy
scriptures by this awesome name
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that we are
hesitant even to mention.
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In the Hebrews, Y-A-H-W-E-H,
and most scholars would say
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it is the word Yahweh, Yahweh.
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It is somewhat
mistranslated Jehovah,
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also it is
translated Lord in caps.
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It is Almighty God, the Creator,
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Jesus Christ claimed
to be Yahweh, Elohim.
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I had a man
coming to my meetings
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many years ago in
the city of Glendale,
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which is a part of the
greatest city of Los Angeles.
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We were running on a
radio station every night.
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I think it was KFSG,
I'm not quite sure now,
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but we are on in prime time.
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And one night, I
spoke about the prophecy
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that said Elijah was
going to return to this earth.
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Of course, it's a
symbolic prophecy.
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But after I spoke on
the return of Elijah,
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the next Sabbath at church,
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a man came to me after church,
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and he said, "I
heard you on the radio
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and I felt I really should
come and introduce myself."
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I said, "I'm so glad."
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And when I saw him, you
know, he's so nicely dressed,
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had a nice suit, I
said, "At last we're appealing
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to very intelligent,
sophisticated people."
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So he said,
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"I enjoyed your preaching
on the return of Elijah."
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He said, "I want to
introduce myself to you.
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I am Elijah."
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I said, "How do
you mean you're Elijah?
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Your name is Elijah?"
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He said, "Yes, it is Elijah.
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But I've come in fulfillment
of the Bible prophecy."
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He said, "I am the Elijah
who was mentioned in the Bible
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and I've come back."
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He said, "I am really Elijah."
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He said, "I'd like to
ask you some questions."
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I said, "You shouldn't
be asking me questions.
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If you're Elijah, I ought
to be asking you questions."
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And he said, "I am Elijah."
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Now when a person
comes to you and he says
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that he is Elijah or Moses,
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there's something
wrong, isn't there?
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You know,
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not saying anything
nasty about that person
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but the elevator
stops here somewhere,
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it doesn't go right up.
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A person who claims
to be Elijah is deluded,
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the same as a person who
says, "I'm Napoleon Bonaparte."
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Now Jesus Christ
said, "I am Jehovah."
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So is He a madman?
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But none of His
contemporaries ever said
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that He was insane
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but others say, "Well,
no, no, no, He's not God.
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He's just a good person."
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Now good people don't
say stupid things like this,
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good people don't
tell lies like this,
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good people don't tell lies.
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And so Jesus was
either a good man,
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a madman, or the God-man.
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You can't have
it in any other way,
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and the evidence is that
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He is more than a good
man and he is not a madman.
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Therefore, He must
be whom He said he was,
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the God-man.
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He went on to say
in one of His sermons
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that He was the way,
the truth, and the life.
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John 14:6,
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He said these words,
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"I am the way,
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the truth, and the life."
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Can you imagine
anybody getting up today...
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Can you imagine the
President of the United States
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or Prime Minister
of Great Britain saying
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I am the only way
you can get to God?
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"I am the way, the
truth, and the life."
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Christ is the only way to God.
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"I am the way, I am the truth."
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Truth exists and if you want
to discover ultimate reality,
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you find it in
this Jewish carpenter,
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"I am the way, the
truth, and the life."
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Either He is or else He's crazy.
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He said, "I am the door to God."
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John chapter 10: 9-10,
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He says, "I am the door to God."
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He said, "Everybody else
who came before Me was a liar,
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or a cheat, or a robber."
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He said, "If you
want to be saved,
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you must come in through Me.
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I am the door."
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These are the most
extraordinary claims
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that have ever been made
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in the history
of the human race.
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Remember, good man...
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Good man, bad man, madman...
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God-man.
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Now think of the
claims that the prophets
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and the apostles made about Him.
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Now most of these people
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who made these
claims were Jewish people.
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They claimed that they saw
Him walk on the Sea of Galilee.
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And the Bible tells the story
you can read it in the gospels
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that there was a
tremendous storm,
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disciples were in the boat,
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it looked as though the
boat was going to go down
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and going to be drowned.
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And at the moment of
their uttermost extremity,
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they see...
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Jesus walking on the water.
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Now the great
atheist Richard Dawkins
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derides this and
he says, "It's stupid.
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How can you believe in a person
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who claims that He
can walk on the water?"
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But somebody said to him,
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"Dr. Dawkins, it's not a problem
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if the person who walked
on the water made the water."
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You see?
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And so here is a
person who walked on the water
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and He was seen
by many witnesses.
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The book of Hebrews 1:10-12
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says these words,
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you can notice it in the Bible,
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Hebrews 1,
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it is a book that is
written to the Jewish people
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in the New Testament,
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"You, Lord,"
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and the word there
in the Old Testament
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from which this
passage is taken is Yahweh,
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"You, Lord,
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in the beginning laid
the foundations of the earth
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and the heavens are
the work of your hands,
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they will
perish, but You remain,
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and they will grow
old like a garment,
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but You are the same
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and Your years will not fail."
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And so...
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This person who
wrote the book of Hebrews
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records the conversation
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that God the
Father had with Christ.
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And God the
Father says to Jesus,
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"You, Yahweh, in the beginning
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laid the heavens and the earth."
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So He is called
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by the Father,
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Yahweh and the Creator.
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And those of you
who are interested
00:19:32.90\00:19:35.90
in astronomical
information, listen to this.
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This text teaches that
the universe had a beginning.
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This is a
relatively new concept.
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Einstein for most of his life
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believed in the
steady state theory
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that the universe had
no beginning and no end.
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The text says,
"In the beginning,"
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it teaches that
Christ made the universe.
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It also teaches
this, listen to this
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if you are
interested in scientific fact.
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This text teaches that
the universe is temporary.
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I was even brought up to believe
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that the universe had no
end years, had a beginning
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but it had no ending.
00:20:26.02\00:20:28.82
But the Bible says that
the universe comes to an end
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because we now know it
is an expanding universe
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and that which is
expanding will come to an end.
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And it teaches however
that even though the universe
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or the cosmos
will come to an end,
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Christ has no end
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and lives for eternity.
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Now this is why
Christ is so amazing.
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He was before the cosmos
and will be after the cosmos.
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His disciples and others
saw Him alive after His death.
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If you notice...
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1 Corinthians 15:3-4,
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the Jewish theologian Paul says,
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"For I delivered to
you first of all that
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which I also received
that Christ died for our sins
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according to the scriptures,
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and that He was buried,
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and that He rose
again the third day
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according to the scriptures."
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And then verses 5 and 6,
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"And that He was
seen by Cephas," Peter,
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"and by the 12.
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After that He was
seen by over 500 brethren,"
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not including women,
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so you got a crowd of
probably well over a thousand,
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"the greater part
remain to the present,
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but some have fallen asleep."
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Now our legal system
00:22:03.08\00:22:04.75
is based upon
00:22:04.79\00:22:06.12
the validity of witnesses.
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We try people, we condemn people
00:22:11.79\00:22:14.53
on the validity of witnesses.
00:22:14.56\00:22:18.47
We cross question them.
00:22:18.50\00:22:20.70
But the validity of a witness
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is of overwhelming significance.
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I would like to remind you
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that the people who
wrote down these stories
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were not charlatans
and frauds or liars.
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They so believed in this
faith that almost all of them
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were put to
death for their faith.
00:22:43.96\00:22:47.30
Generally, you
don't die for something
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that you don't
really believe in.
00:22:49.46\00:22:53.13
And so these witnesses
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who were basically all Jewish
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said that they had seen Him,
00:22:59.17\00:23:01.48
He had died, and
He was resurrected.
00:23:01.51\00:23:05.01
So we are forced by
the weight of the evidence
00:23:05.05\00:23:07.85
to believe that
Jesus is truly amazing,
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the greatest game changer
in the history of the world,
00:23:12.25\00:23:16.22
and that He is alive today.
00:23:16.26\00:23:18.06
So you can't dismiss Him.
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Either He matters nothing at all
00:23:22.96\00:23:25.70
or He matters
tremendously, you see.
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There's another reason
why Jesus is so amazing.
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I want you to think about this.
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You ready?
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Another reason He is so amazing,
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no one has ever truthfully
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accused Him of adultery.
00:23:46.42\00:23:52.09
Nobody ever said
that He hung out with...
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ladies...
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Of bad repute.
00:24:05.27\00:24:08.14
Nobody ever said
that He slept around
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and lied about it.
00:24:13.21\00:24:16.89
Nobody accused Him
of being a playboy.
00:24:16.92\00:24:19.89
Sure, He hung
out with prostitutes.
00:24:19.92\00:24:22.59
You know how he
hung out with them,
00:24:22.62\00:24:24.49
He redeemed them,
00:24:24.53\00:24:26.59
He saved them, He elevated them.
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.56
That's what He did.
00:24:29.60\00:24:32.00
No one ever accused
Him of being a liar.
00:24:32.03\00:24:36.64
Nobody ever accused
Him of being a cheat.
00:24:36.67\00:24:40.48
Nobody ever accused Him of
being guilty of tax evasion,
00:24:40.51\00:24:44.95
guilty of fraud,
00:24:44.98\00:24:47.62
guilty of mistreating women.
00:24:47.65\00:24:50.32
He didn't need
lawyers to defend Him.
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And you know this?
00:24:56.09\00:24:57.63
He was the
champion of women's rights.
00:24:57.66\00:25:00.60
He elevated women,
00:25:00.63\00:25:02.10
He saved women.
00:25:02.13\00:25:03.47
Do you want to see where
women are the most respected?
00:25:03.50\00:25:07.17
Go to those countries
00:25:07.20\00:25:08.80
where the Bible
is read and studied,
00:25:08.84\00:25:12.47
go to those countries.
00:25:12.51\00:25:13.98
Go to the other
countries that reject Him
00:25:14.01\00:25:17.11
and women are down in the dirt.
00:25:17.15\00:25:20.88
The greatest
emancipator of women
00:25:20.92\00:25:23.49
in the history
of the human race.
00:25:23.52\00:25:26.19
None of His
enemies accused Him of sin.
00:25:26.22\00:25:28.79
The dying thief said,
00:25:28.82\00:25:30.66
"This man has
done nothing wrong."
00:25:30.69\00:25:34.10
He said, "We're being
crucified because of our sins.
00:25:34.13\00:25:36.30
This man has
done nothing wrong."
00:25:36.33\00:25:39.33
And the centurion
00:25:39.37\00:25:41.87
who helped to drive the nails
00:25:41.90\00:25:45.31
through the
quivering flesh said,
00:25:45.34\00:25:51.35
"Truly, this man
was the Son of God."
00:25:51.38\00:25:57.35
The testimony of His enemies.
00:25:57.39\00:26:00.42
Jesus is like a
mighty mountain peak,
00:26:00.46\00:26:03.86
the towers over the
swamps of the lowlands.
00:26:03.89\00:26:08.06
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If the dead are unconscious,
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This is such a
person as the devil.
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What is the
essence of Antichrist?
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