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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Oh, welcome back.
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Today, we're talking about
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the greatest game
changer of them all,
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the person who
has changed the world
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more than any
other single individual.
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I want you to
think at this state now
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and this is follow-on
from the last program.
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I want you to
think of His teachings.
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I went to the Soviet
Union for the first time
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in the year 1971.
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I was at Moscow airport,
and as I was standing there,
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a communist
official came up to me
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and started to interrogate
me just a little bit.
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And he started to
deride Christianity saying,
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"You know, like Rostov said,
it's all going to be gone soon.
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We're just going to
take over the world,"
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and blah, blah, blah.
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I said to him, "Do you
know what Jesus taught?"
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Now usually if you
talk to an atheist and say,
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"Do you know what Jesus taught?"
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You know what he's
going to do, don't you?
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He's just going to
give you the blank look.
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He's going to say, "Oh, no, but
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all those people
carried out the inquisitor..."
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"No, no, it had
nothing to do with Jesus,
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don't give me that stuff."
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"Do you know what Jesus taught?"
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Well, I said...
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Well, he said,
"No, I really don't."
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I said, "I've got a Bible that
I'm carrying around the world.
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This is my own personal Bible.
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I really don't want to lose it,
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but I think maybe you
need it more than I do."
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So I gave him my
Bible and I said...
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Let us together do something.
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I want you to come
over here to Matthew 5
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and verses 43 and 44
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and notice what this
Jewish carpenter said.
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Matthew 5:43, 44.
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This is one of the
most extraordinary,
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one of the most
revolutionary teachings
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in the history of the world.
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Jesus said, "You
have heard that was said,
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'You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.'
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But I say to you,
love your enemies,
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bless those who curse you,
do good to those who hate you,
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and pray for those
who spitefully use you
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and persecute you."
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Goodness, how many
people really do that
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who call themselves Christians?
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Jesus said, "You got
to love your enemies."
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You know the man
who lost his daughter
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at the hands of the Irish
Republican Army in Ireland?
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That's where the Catholics
and the Protestants fought
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and killed each
other for the love of God.
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And so this beautiful girl
is dying in her father's arms
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and murdered by the IRA.
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Her last words,
"Daddy, I love you."
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After the funeral,
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he sought so
hard to have a meeting
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with the leaders of this
infamous gang of murderers.
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After a long time, he
was able to meet them.
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They thought perhaps he'd
want to kill him, but he said,
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"I've come with one message.
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I'm a follower of
Christ, and I forgive you."
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That's something
they couldn't understand.
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He said,
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"Haven't we killed enough
in this country of Ireland?
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Isn't it time for
Catholics and Protestants
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to follow the
teachings of Christ
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and love one another?"
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This was the end of the
violence in Northern Ireland.
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The man who
said, "I forgive you."
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You know the biggest problem
today in the Middle East?
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You know why
they can't get peace
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between the Jews and the Arabs?
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Every president
thinks he's going to do it,
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but the problem
is every president
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is fighting against human nature
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because human nature hates.
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But Jesus said,
"Love your enemies."
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The Middle East
will never have peace
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until they accept
the Prince of Peace,
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who taught us to
love our enemies,
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a bitter pill for the
so-called Christian to believe.
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You've heard of the
born fools in Russia,
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where the communists
with militant atheists,
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and tortured, and
beat people to deaths.
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That's what atheism does.
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That's what communism does.
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And they were a
group of Baptists there.
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And they would see the
communists and the atheists
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beating other
communists and atheists
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and they would be
screaming and blaspheming.
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And the Baptists said,
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"Don't beat the
atheists, beat us.
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When you beat them, more
hate will go into the world,
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but when you beat us,
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we will send
love into the world."
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So they did.
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You know what the
atheists call them?
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Born fools.
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They said they've
got to be born fools.
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But I want you to know that
the greatest force in the world
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is not military might
which has failed us completely
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but it is love.
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On one occasion,
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the Pharisees sent
men to arrest Jesus,
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but they came back empty-handed.
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They couldn't bring Him back,
and they said to those men,
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"Where is the man
we told you to arrest?"
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And they said, "Never
man spoke like this man."
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His teachings are
totally extraordinary,
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hardly known or
believed by people
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who call
themselves His followers
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let alone the atheists.
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But I have
reserved for the last,
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the greatest reason why He
is the greatest game changer
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and why He is so
extraordinary and so amazing.
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We are born to live.
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Every baby that is
born is born to live.
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But He was not born to live.
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His destiny was to die.
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If you turn to Acts 4: 27, 28,
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these are profound
almost overwhelming thoughts,
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Acts 4:27-28,
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"For truly against
Your holy Servant Jesus,
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whom You anointed, both
Herod and Pontius Pilate,
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with the Gentiles
and the people of Israel,
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were gathered together
to do whatever Your hand,"
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wait for it, "and
Your purpose determined
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before to be done."
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This teaches the
sovereignty of God
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and that Jesus was
the child of destiny.
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He was born to die.
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I want you to notice,
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and we're going
to go through this
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not with any great exegesis
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because we don't have the time,
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but I want you to notice
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ancient predictions
about this child of destiny.
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The place of His
birth was predicted.
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His parents came
from a little town
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by the name of Nazareth.
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But they had to
go down to a town
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by the name of Bethlehem.
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Jesus could have
been born anywhere
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except the prophecy said that
He would be born in Bethlehem.
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And you can read it in
the Jewish Old Testament
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in the book of Micah 5:2.
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The text says, "But
you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
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though You are so little
among the thousands of Judah,
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yet out of you
shall come forth to me
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the one to be ruler in Israel,"
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look at these
words, "whose goings forth
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are from of old
from everlasting."
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He was the one from
billions of years ago.
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It was predicted He
would not be born in Nazareth
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but in Bethlehem.
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The miracle of His
birth was predicted.
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Isaiah 7:14, it was predicted,
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"Therefore the Lord
Himself will give you a sign,
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behold, the virgin
shall conceive and bear a Son,
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and shall call
His name Immanuel."
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Mary was engaged to a
good man by the name of Joseph.
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And before the marriage,
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it was
discovered she was pregnant.
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He was going to put her away.
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But an angel came down and said,
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"Don't be worried about
this beautiful little girl
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because that which is conceived
in her womb is of God."
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People say, "Can't
believe in the virgin birth,
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it's an absolute impossibility."
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How much do you know?
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How much do you know?
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Don't you realize
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that the God who made
the stars can do anything?
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Nothing is too hard.
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It was predicted that
He would live in Egypt.
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Hosea 11:1 says, "When
Israel was a child, I loved him.
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And out of Egypt
I called My Son."
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The Bible tells us that Herod
the Great tried to kill Him.
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And therefore Joseph and
Mary took the little baby
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and took Him down here
to the land of the Pharaohs.
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It was predicted.
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It was written down.
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The year of His baptism
and death was predicted.
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This is so complex.
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I'm not going to
try to prove it to you.
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It was predicted that
there'd be a period of 483 years
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that would come after the decree
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of Artaxerxes Longimanus in 457
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and this brings you
through to the year 27 AD.
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And that was the 15th year
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of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
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and that was the year,
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that was the time
when Jesus appeared
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to the children of Israel.
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This was the year when
John the Baptist baptized Him.
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It was the time when Jesus
said, "The time is fulfilled.
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The kingdom of
heaven is at hand."
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Three and a half years later,
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in the midst of the
final prophetic week, in 31 AD,
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the Messiah was
cut off and murdered.
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It was predicted.
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Let me share quickly
the prophecy with you.
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Daniel 9:25-27,
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"Know therefore
and understand that
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from the going forth
of the command to restore
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and to build Jerusalem," 457,
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"until Messiah the
Prince there shall be
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seven weeks and
sixty-two weeks..."
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483 years, "and
after the sixty-two weeks,
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Messiah shall be cut
off but not for Himself,"
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He'd be murdered, "and
the people of the Prince,"
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the Romans, "who was to
come shall destroy the city
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in the sanctuary."
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That happened in 70 AD,
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"Then he shall
confirm the covenant
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with many for one
week," the last week,
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"and in the middle
of the week," 31 AD,
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"He shall bring an end
to sacrifice and offering."
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There's only one thing
that could bring an end
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to all the Jewish
sacrifices in their old temple
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and that was the sacrifice
of the Lamb of God Himself.
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Astounding.
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Astounding.
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I do not believe
because of blind faith.
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I believe in Christ
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because of
overwhelming evidence,
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lived on time, preached on time,
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was baptized on
time, died on time.
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It was predicted He'd
be betrayed by a friend.
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Psalms 41:9 says,
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"Even my own familiar
friend in whom I trusted,"
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Judas, "who ate my bread,
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has lifted his heel against me."
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He was betrayed by one
of His closest friends.
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It was predicted.
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The price of his
betrayal was predicted,
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30 lousy pieces of silver.
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Zechariah 11:13,
"And the Lord said to me,
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'Throw it to the potter'
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that princely
price they set on me.
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So I took the
30 pieces of silver
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and threw them into
the house of the Lord
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for the potter."
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The priests gave Judas
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30 dirty pieces of silver
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to bite Christ.
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How many people have
sold Christ for money,
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and political power,
and to win the votes?
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And after the die was
cast and Christ was arrested,
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Judas took the 30
dirty pieces of silver,
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blood money, and went
into the Jewish temple,
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and threw it to the
priests, and he said,
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"Your blood be on
your own head, serious,
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do it yourselves."
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Judas went out
and hanged himself,
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and the Jewish leaders
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bought the potter's field.
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It was written down
thousands, hundreds of years
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before He was born.
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He was a child of
destiny, not like anybody else,
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not like you and me.
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The manner of His
death was predicted.
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By crucifixion.
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Psalms 22:16, "For
dogs have surrounded Me,
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the congregation of
the wicked has enclosed Me.
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They pierced My
hands and My feet."
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Crucifixion...
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these words written in 1000 BC,
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crucifixion was not known.
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It was predicted
that the Jewish Messiah,
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Yahweh, Elohim,
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God in human flesh
would be crucified,
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the worst type of death.
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Who was this person
hanging on the cross?
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Not a Jewish
renegade, not a heretic,
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this was the
Creator of the universe
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come down to save us.
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People today are mesmerized
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by every little newsflash.
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Breaking news, who cares,
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it's dead in one second.
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It's trivia.
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It's humbug.
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Most of it, it was predicted
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that God would be
manifested in human flesh
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and died for the world.
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The greatest truth in
the history of the world,
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not politics,
none of this stuff,
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it'll all be gone soon.
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But the truth of Christ,
the greatest game changer,
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it was predicted
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that none of His
bones would be broken.
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Psalm 22:17-18, "I
can count all My bones.
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They look and stare at Me.
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They divide My
garments among them," they did,
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"for My
clothing they cast lots."
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They did.
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Jesus was put on the
cross at 9:00 in the morning.
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He was dead at
3:00 in the afternoon.
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Remarkable, man could
live on the cross for a week.
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He was dead in six hours, why?
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Because of the sin of the world.
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So they came before the Sabbath
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to break the
legs of the criminals.
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They were going
to take them down,
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lie them at the
foot of the cross,
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and put them up
on Saturday evening
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'cause they could
live for another few days.
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When they came to Christ,
His bones were not broken
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because He was dead,
because it was written.
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It was predicted that His
death would be for sinners,
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His burial in a rich man's tomb.
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Isaiah 53:9,
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"And they made His
grave with the wicked,"
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in the midst of two thieves,
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"but with the
rich at His death,"
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buried in a rich man's tomb,
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"because He had
done no violence,
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nor was any
deceit in His mouth."
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Buried in a rich man's tomb.
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It was also predicted
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that the grave
could not hold Him.
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In Psalms 16:10,
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written a thousand
years before He was born,
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"For You will not
leave my soul in Sheol
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nor will You allow Your
Holy One to see corruption."
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He was dead at 3:00 on Friday.
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He was anointed,
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put in the tomb
before the Sabbath.
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But on the Sunday morning,
there was a mighty earthquake,
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and Jesus the
Creator of the universe
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walked out of the tomb,
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walked out of the
tomb and said to the world
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and the hosts of evil,
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"I am the
resurrection and the life."
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He is the greatest game
changer because He's not dead,
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He's alive.
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He's alive.
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He's alive.
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Every baby boy, every baby girl,
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every baby is born to live.
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He was completely different.
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He was God in human flesh.
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Some people say,
"Well, of course,
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it doesn't
matter what you believe,
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it doesn't matter
what your religion is."
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It's, of course, very shallow
thinking, it's really puerile.
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Either He is
whom He claimed to be
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or else He's a crazy lunatic.
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But if He is whom
He claimed to be...
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And this is why
astronomy fascinates me
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and why I study it,
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the one who made the black holes
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and 400 billion galaxies,
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400 billion,
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one who made all
of these things...
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slept for 9 months in
the womb of a peasant girl,
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completely
apart from the priests
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and the political establishment.
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And then went to the cross,
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hanging on the
cross was the gospel.
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One of the strangest
texts is Matthew 27:45-46,
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"Now from the sixth
hour," twelve o'clock,
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"until the ninth
hour," three o'clock,
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"there was
darkness over all the land.
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And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried out with a loud voice,
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saying, 'Eli,
Eli, lama sabachthani?'
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That is, 'My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?"'
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This is an
extraordinary way to die.
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I do not want to
die as Jesus died
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because He did not
die as a saved soul,
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He died under the wrath
of the broken law of God.
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And all of our
sins were laid upon Him.
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And He was
punished in our place.
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And that is why He
said, "My God, My God,
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why have You forsaken Me?"
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Every person outside of Christ
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one day is going
to say those words.
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In the second judgment
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when people come up
in their brilliance,
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they're going to cry
out, "My God, My God,
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why have You forsaken me?"
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But they don't need to
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because He bore
the price of our sins.
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There may be some things
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that our dull, dumb
minds can't comprehend,
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but I can
understand a little bit.
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John 3:16,
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you know the words,
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John 3:16,
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"For God so loved the world"
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how big "that He gave
His only begotten Son,"
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the Monogenes, the one and only,
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"so that whoever
believes in Him should not,"
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or shall, "not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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So that's why He's
the greatest game changer.
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That is why as a Christian,
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I find it quite
extraordinary to see
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Christians playing
around in mud puddles
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and other people completely
obsessed with politics.
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It's all going to be gone soon.
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It's all trivia.
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But Christ endures forever.
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We get caught up in other things
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because we really
have never met Him.
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Not only is he the
greatest game changer
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in the history of the planet,
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the good news is He
will change your life
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if you let Him.
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If you let Him, He
will come into your life
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and He'll make
you into a new person.
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And because of His grace,
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He will take you to
be with Him in paradise.
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That's His promise.
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And so we say "Amazing grace,
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how sweet the sound
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that saved a wretch like me.
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I once was lost,
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but now I'm found.
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I was blind,
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but now I see."
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Many years ago,
I heard this poem,
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Oh, It's Him
because the Bible says,
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He will come again,
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and He comes again
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as King of kings
and Lord of lords.
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"Look ye Saints!
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The sight is glorious.
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See the man of sorrows now,
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from the fight
returned victorious,
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every knee to Him shall bow,
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crown Him, crown Him,
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crown Him, crown Him.
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Crowns become
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the Victor's brow."
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I present to you
today Jesus Christ,
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the greatest game
changer of them all.
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In the name of the
Father, and of the Son,
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and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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Jesus said, "All
authority has been
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given to Me in
heaven and on earth.
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Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations.
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Baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son,
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and of the Holy Spirit."
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John Carter reports
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as the gospel of Christ
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India, Russia,
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El Salvador, and
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