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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Welcome back, my friends.
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I'm so glad to
have you here today.
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We're talking
about this amazing man
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by the name of Paul.
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This man who changed the course
of the history of the world,
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and I believe, was responsible
for the rise of America.
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You say impossible,
well, just stay tuned.
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He was, the Bible
tells me first and foremost,
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an impassioned evangelist.
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He was a preacher of the gospel.
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Some people say to me today,
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"Well, you know, we
don't do that anymore."
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I know we don't do it anymore,
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that doesn't mean we
shouldn't do it anymore.
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But if we follow the Bible,
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I want to tell
you, folks, something,
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we'll be doing
it all of the time.
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Paul was an
apostle, it means a person
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who was sent forth by
God to preach the gospel.
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Now I want you
to take your Bible,
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come over here to Romans 1:14.
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I guess these are
his signature verses.
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Romans 1:14, he says,
"I'm a debtor both to Greeks,
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and to Barbarians,
both to wise, and to unwise.
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So as much as is in me,
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I am ready to
preach the gospel to you
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who are in Rome also.
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For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ,
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for it is the
power of God to salvation
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for everyone who
believes, for the Jew first,
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and also the Greek."
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Now here you've got
a number of expressions
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just pregnant with
power, he says, "I'm ready."
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that's in the
King James Version.
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Other versions
say, "I'm obligated."
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"Because I've
heard the good news,
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I'm obligated to
tell other people."
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You see?
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"If you saved,
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you've got to
tell the good news."
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I'm obligated.
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Then he says, "I am eager."
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He's not
getting paid to do this.
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He's not waiting for a
check from the conference.
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He doesn't get a
check from anybody.
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He says, "I am eager,"
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because he's got
a fire in his belly.
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If you don't have
a fire in your belly,
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you're going to be
boring, it doesn't matter
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how many doctorates you got.
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He says, "I'm
obligated, I'm ready, I'm eager,
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and I'm not ashamed."
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Living in the days
of the Roman Empire,
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and you're
worshipping a crucified Jew.
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Can you believe it?
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You're living in the days
of the sophisticated Romans,
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in the days of the
great philosophers,
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and you're worshipping
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a Jew, who was
murdered on the cross.
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Anybody who got
crucified was a bad person.
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Paul says, "I'm not ashamed.
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel."
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Because if you get the
gospel by divine revelation...
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Most folks have never
got the divine revelation.
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Most folks have
got too much religion.
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I don't care
what church you're in,
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most folks have
got too much religion,
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and that is why
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they have this
sanctimonious critical attitude.
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Who'd want to go
along to a place like that
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to a church where
people are sanctimonious
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and they're mean.
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But this man
says, "I'm not ashamed."
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Because this gospel
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that I preach
about a crucified Christ,
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it's the power of
God unto salvation
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to every person who believes.
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I can't help myself here.
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Paul was not an
armchair theologian.
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He was not...
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Oh, goodness, I don't
know if I can press this
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or get this out.
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He was not an administrator
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sitting behind a desk.
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Now I'm sorry, folks.
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You say, "Don't tell us."
I'm just telling you the truth.
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He was an itinerant evangelist,
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an apostle one
sent on a mission.
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If you read 1
Corinthians 12, the Bible says,
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"The most important gift
that was given to the church
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was the gift of
going to all the world
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to preach the gospel."
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Now you can say, "We
don't do it anymore."
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Shame on us.
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Look at the trips that he made.
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These are the places.
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He went on three
great missionary journeys.
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When I travel today,
usually if I can do it,
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I go on the Dreamliner
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because it's very comfortable.
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Paul walked
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thousands of miles.
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He also went by boat.
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Look at all the places.
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The second missionary journey,
the third missionary journey,
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we're talking here
about thousands of miles,
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and then finally
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he went across the
Roman Empire to Rome.
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And why did he do it?
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I've met people
today who tell me
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that everybody is saved
until they reject the gospel.
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Don't believe that at all.
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If that is true, the best thing
you can do is not to tell them
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so they can't reject it.
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Hey, what's
wrong going on up here?
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People are lost without Christ.
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And because Paul believed
in the primacy of Christ,
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he was driven by a fire
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that was deep down in his belly,
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not a clergyman as
we call them today.
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And Paul operated
outside of the comfort zone.
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I've had...
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Even preachers,
and friends of mine,
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and other people say,
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"Well, look I just don't want
to get out of my comfort zone."
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Well, I wish
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God would get you
out of your comfort zone.
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Because when we're
in our comfort zone,
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we're not in God
zone, I want to tell you.
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He preached out
of the comfort zone.
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Look at 2 Corinthians 11:24-28,
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read it if you're
prepared to look at the facts.
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2 Corinthians 11:24-28,
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"From the Jews
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five times I received
forty stripes minus one.
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Three times I
was beaten with rods,
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once I was stoned,
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three times I was shipwrecked,
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a night and a day
I've been in the deep,
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in journeys often,
in perils of waters,
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in perils of robbers, in
perils of my own countrymen,
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in perils of the Gentiles,
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in perils in the city,
in perils in the wilderness,
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in perils in the sea,
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in perils among false brethren,"
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that's the worst,
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"in weariness and
toil, in sleeplessness often,
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in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often,
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in cold nakedness
besides the other things,
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which come upon me daily.
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My deep concern
for all the churches."
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He talks about being
beaten for his faith.
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Does anybody really understand
what we're talking about?
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You know, I've
been to Russia 49 times.
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I've met with people
like Paul the prisoner,
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these are my blood
brothers, and I appreciate them
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because they are real people.
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Tortured by the Communists,
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Paul was thrown
into a refrigerator cell.
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Three years,
take him in and out,
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warm him up put him back.
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His teeth rotted and fell out.
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You say, "We
could never do this."
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You know why?
Because we're too weak.
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It's because we're
superficial people.
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But great suffering
produces great character.
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It's an old
hymn we love to sing,
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Lord save us from tribulation.
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What a heresy,
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save your church
from tribulation.
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The church is never strong
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when it's in a time
of peace and prosperity.
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He was beaten,
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take the flesh off
his back, stonings.
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On one occasion, he was stoned,
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left for dead.
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Hey, he's a preacher.
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He's a man of
God, he's not a wimp,
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he's not a namby-pamby.
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You say, "Well, you
know, I can't help being..."
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Yes, you can.
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If you're a namby-pamby,
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it's because you've
chosen to be a namby-pamby.
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And you ought to be
ashamed to yourself.
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When you think of Paul,
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when he went over to Rome,
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there was a shipwreck.
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He got out to
collect wood for a fire,
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he was bitten by
a snake, a viper.
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He flung it off into the fire.
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Attacked by
bandits, sleepless nights,
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hunger and thirst,
his care for the churches.
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He had a pastor's heart.
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He cared for people.
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I want to say to my brethren,
who are in the ministry,
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if you're in the
ministry because of security
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and because it's a good check
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every two weeks,
you're in the wrong job.
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And if you're in the church,
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and if you're taking a check
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just so you can
have a comfortable job,
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you're a disgrace
to the name of Christ.
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But this man was a real man.
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Seems to me today,
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we're breeding a lot
of namby-pambies, soaks.
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What was his crime?
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Well, he was seen
as a dangerous man
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who was a threat to
the Jews and the Romans.
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What was his message?
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He preached Jesus was God's Son,
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the creator of the universe,
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that He'd been
rejected by the Jewish leaders,
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that Jesus had been betrayed
by the Jews to the pagan Romans
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who had crucified him.
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Talk about an
informatory message.
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It taught that Jesus had
died for the sins of the world,
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that He'd been
raised from the dead.
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He preached that
He'd seen Jesus in glory,
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that Jesus was alive,
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and that He would come
again to judge the world
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in righteousness,
and deliver His people.
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He preached the
forgiveness of sins,
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salvation by grace
to be received by faith
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and not by works of the law,
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the very opposite
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of the doctrine
of the Pharisees,
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that some of us
still believe, I'm afraid.
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He proclaimed the
power of a new life
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and deliverance
from the power of sin.
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Thousands
across the Roman Empire
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accepted his gospel
and joined the church.
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Satan trembled for his kingdom.
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He was hated and persecuted
by the Jews and the Romans.
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He was fervently loved
by those he'd won to Christ.
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He was no incipit,
so called clergyman,
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who was afraid
of his own shadow.
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Look at 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.
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2 Corinthians 4:16-18,
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"Therefore we do not lose heart.
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Even though our
outward man is perishing,
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yet the inward man is
being renewed day by day.
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For our light
affliction," who're you kidding?
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Our light affliction.
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It only last for a moment.
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"It's working for
us a far more exceeding
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and eternal weight of glory,
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while we do not look at
the things which are seen,
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but of the things
which are not seen.
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For the things which
are seen are temporary,
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but the things
which are not seen,"
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what does it say?
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"They're eternal."
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Paul believed
there was glory ahead.
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He was driven by a passion
to save the lost for Christ.
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If you're a pastor, I'd ask you,
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"Do you have a
passion for the lost?
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Or do you have a
passion for retirement?
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Thus he endured the
beatings and the stonings,
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the hunger and the
cold, and maybe some crabby,
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critical, church members.
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He was one of the bravest humans
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who had ever lived.
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He wasn't a crybaby,
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he was one of
the bravest soldiers
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who had ever lived.
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Now we talk
about his magnum opus
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that I shall discuss
more fully next week.
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While working in Corinth,
Paul wrote the Book of Romans,
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his magnum opus.
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It was carried, we believe,
by Phoebe from Corinth to Rome.
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She, under her robe,
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carried the
future of the church,
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and the future of the world.
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Romans was the book
that inspired Martin Luther,
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who gave to the world
the Protestant Reformation
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that brought about
the rise of America.
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No. Yes.
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And the birth of freedom.
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Most of us have forgotten
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what the world was like
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before Luther.
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There was a
corrupt, all powerful church.
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No freedom of
speech or religion,
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great poverty of the masses,
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then Luther
discovered the Book of Romans.
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Have you discovered it?
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Tyndale, the
great British reformer
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called it "Good,
glad, and merry tidings
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that makes a man's
heart to sing for joy,
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and his feet to dance."
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Why are there
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so many sour religionists?
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I'll tell you why.
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They've never had
a divine encounter.
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They're in the
church to be seen.
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They want to be seen,
00:15:08.54\00:15:10.07
but they don't want to be clean.
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They want to be an elder or
somebody else in the charge.
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Good morning, sister.
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Good morning, brother.
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I think the Bible calls
00:15:23.08\00:15:24.42
that the
abomination of desolation.
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But when a person
discovers the Book of Romans
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or when the Book of
Romans discovers a person,
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and that person has
a divine revelation,
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his life is changed.
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Now let me tell you
about this divine revelation.
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I talked about it
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in the first
part of this program.
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Some of you may
think you've had it.
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You think because you
were born in the church,
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you're baptized in the church
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that you're somehow saved.
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What happens is like Paul,
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and others have a
divine revelation.
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They see themselves as
a stinking filthy sinner,
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have you?
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Not me.
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Oh, you haven't had
the revelation, have you?
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In their heart of
hearts, they're racist.
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They're proud, very
confident of themselves,
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very, very religious,
00:16:21.84\00:16:27.15
and on their way to hell.
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Like Paul...
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say, you got to have
the divine revelation.
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Don't go to bed
tonight till you get it.
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Look at your sins,
ask God to show your sins.
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That's a good start.
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Book of Romans shows the sinner,
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how the sinner
gets right with God
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and stays right with God.
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It is the
revelation of God's revolution
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that destroys the power of sin.
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Romans 1:1-4,
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"Paul, a
bondservant of Christ Jesus
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called to be an apostle,
separated to the gospel of God
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which He promised before
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through the prophets
in the Holy Scriptures
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concerning..."
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We don't read these
words, we don't believe it,
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"concerning His Son
Jesus Christ our Lord,"
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people say, "It's all about me."
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No, it's not about you at all.
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It's about Christ.
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"Who was born of
the seed of David
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according to the flesh,
00:17:20.67\00:17:22.00
and declared to be
the Son of God with power
00:17:22.04\00:17:24.51
according to the resurrection
to the spirit of holiness
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by the
resurrection from the dead."
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The gospel is not about us.
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People say, "No,
it is all about..."
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No, it is not.
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There's no good
news about you or me.
00:17:36.28\00:17:39.85
You say, "I don't believe this."
00:17:39.89\00:17:41.56
Well, that's because
you're walking in darkness.
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You never had the revelation.
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You're super religious...
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but you never
had the revelation.
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The gospel is
about what God has done.
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The gospel, it says,
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"It's about what
Christ has done."
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The God has
invaded time and space
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in the person of His Son.
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Lived among us, the only
sin this person has ever lived.
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Some people say,
"Oh, no, but I'm sinless."
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You're deluded.
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There are no sinless people.
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That's a delusion.
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It's about Christ, who
died for us on the cross.
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When we come to him,
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live is never the same again.
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Listen, wherever Romans
went, it brought new life,
00:18:33.48\00:18:37.35
health, and healing,
it destroyed corruption.
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It's not easy to read,
00:18:42.05\00:18:43.39
that's why lazy
people don't read it.
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It unmasked the
paganized church.
00:18:46.29\00:18:49.06
It brought hope,
life, and liberty.
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It was carried to America
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by the Pilgrim Fathers.
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Without Paul
there would have been
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no Romans.
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Without Romans, there
would have been no reformation.
00:19:01.84\00:19:05.81
Without the reformation,
00:19:05.84\00:19:07.24
there would have
been no Puritans.
00:19:07.28\00:19:09.21
Have you ever
heard of the Puritans?
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Ever heard of them?
00:19:11.48\00:19:12.81
People say, "Oh, no, we don't...
00:19:12.85\00:19:14.18
That's not us."
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Get informed.
00:19:16.99\00:19:19.59
Without the reformation,
no Puritans, and no Puritans,
00:19:19.62\00:19:23.56
no America, but
another Venezuela.
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How would you like that?
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The other religion got there.
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You say, "It doesn't
matter what you believe."
00:19:31.90\00:19:35.10
Please, please,
let's not be ignorant.
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No democracies in the
world, no women's rights.
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Women are the freest
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where the gospel is preached,
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it is.
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No freedom of speech,
no freedom of religion,
00:19:48.62\00:19:51.25
no separation of
church and state,
00:19:51.29\00:19:53.22
no life liberty,
00:19:53.25\00:19:54.86
and the pursuit of happiness.
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Thank you, Paul.
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Now I'm going to
start two meetings,
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a synopsis of Romans
00:20:04.03\00:20:08.80
that very, very few
people in the church
00:20:08.84\00:20:11.84
know anything about.
00:20:11.87\00:20:14.04
And that's why we
have the problems we do.
00:20:17.08\00:20:20.18
Now we come to Paul,
Nero, the burning of Rome,
00:20:20.22\00:20:24.92
and decapitation.
00:20:24.95\00:20:27.39
Paul was arrested in Jerusalem.
00:20:27.42\00:20:29.72
It came about this way.
00:20:29.76\00:20:31.96
Because Paul
was being criticized
00:20:31.99\00:20:33.90
by the Jews,
00:20:33.93\00:20:35.63
the leaders of the
church, good people,
00:20:35.66\00:20:38.17
thought it would
help the situation
00:20:38.20\00:20:40.00
if Paul engaged in a
Jewish religious ceremony.
00:20:40.04\00:20:45.41
So he did what they said.
00:20:45.44\00:20:48.38
It led to his
imprisonment and death.
00:20:48.41\00:20:53.45
While Paul was in the temple
00:20:53.48\00:20:55.08
carrying out the right
of Jewish purification,
00:20:55.12\00:20:57.45
he was attacked by a Jewish mob.
00:20:57.49\00:21:00.49
And remember, Paul was a Jew,
00:21:00.52\00:21:02.82
Jesus was a Jew, the
Bible writers were Jews.
00:21:02.86\00:21:06.66
Never be anti-Jewish.
00:21:06.70\00:21:08.53
Look at Acts 21:27,
00:21:08.56\00:21:12.97
"Now when the seven
days were almost ended,
00:21:13.00\00:21:15.80
the Jews from Asia,
seeing him in the temple,
00:21:15.84\00:21:19.54
stirred up the whole crowd,
00:21:19.57\00:21:22.61
laid hands on him."
00:21:22.64\00:21:26.31
And so Paul is pulled
this way, and that way,
00:21:26.35\00:21:28.82
and they're going to murder him.
00:21:28.85\00:21:32.05
The Roman soldiers saved Paul,
00:21:32.09\00:21:34.49
and he was
delivered from the mob,
00:21:34.52\00:21:36.29
who would have
torn him to pieces,
00:21:36.32\00:21:38.09
that's shows you what
bigotry, religious bigotry does.
00:21:38.13\00:21:43.43
He was thrown into prison,
00:21:43.47\00:21:44.80
and the Roman
stretched him out to flog him,
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.54
stretch him out,
going to soften him up.
00:21:47.57\00:21:51.17
Paul says,
00:21:51.21\00:21:53.74
"Is it lawful to
flog a Roman citizen?"
00:21:53.78\00:21:55.71
They released him.
00:21:58.88\00:22:00.22
He went through
several bogus trials.
00:22:00.25\00:22:03.08
Attempts were made
on his life by the Jews.
00:22:03.12\00:22:06.82
Eventually, Paul, as
a Roman citizen, said,
00:22:06.86\00:22:09.32
"I appeal to Caesar."
00:22:09.36\00:22:11.79
He was sent by boat to Rome.
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.46
Along the way,
ship was shipwrecked
00:22:14.50\00:22:16.16
on the coast of Malta,
00:22:16.20\00:22:17.53
there he was
bitten by the snake.
00:22:17.57\00:22:20.54
When he finally arrived in Rome,
00:22:20.57\00:22:22.60
he was placed in prison.
00:22:22.64\00:22:24.44
Eventually, he
stood trial before Nero.
00:22:24.47\00:22:27.11
Nero was one of
the most evil men
00:22:27.14\00:22:28.81
in the history of the
world, born 37, died 68.
00:22:28.84\00:22:32.41
It would have been good
if he'd never been born.
00:22:32.45\00:22:35.08
Emperor from 54 to 68,
00:22:35.12\00:22:37.42
best known for his debaucheries,
00:22:37.45\00:22:39.62
his political
murders, his passion for music,
00:22:39.65\00:22:42.69
and the
persecution of Christians,
00:22:42.72\00:22:44.59
he murdered his
own mother in 59 AD.
00:22:44.63\00:22:49.80
And Paul stands strong.
00:22:49.83\00:22:51.67
2 Timothy 4:6,
00:22:51.70\00:22:55.57
13, 16, 17.
00:22:55.60\00:22:57.71
2 Timothy 4:6, he says,
00:22:57.74\00:23:00.41
"I'm already being
poured out as a drink offering,
00:23:00.44\00:23:03.38
and the time of my
departure is at hand..."
00:23:03.41\00:23:06.92
Then he says, he's cold.
00:23:06.95\00:23:09.02
"Bring the cloak that I
left with Carpus at Troas
00:23:09.05\00:23:12.49
when you come and the books,
especially the parchments..."
00:23:12.52\00:23:15.06
He said, "Give me my Bible."
00:23:15.09\00:23:18.03
"At my first defense
no one stood with me,
00:23:18.06\00:23:20.30
but all forsook me."
00:23:20.33\00:23:21.66
Where were they?
00:23:21.70\00:23:24.43
"May it not be
charged against them.
00:23:24.47\00:23:26.57
But the Lord stood
with me and strengthened me,
00:23:26.60\00:23:29.14
so that the
message might be preached
00:23:29.17\00:23:31.47
fully through me,
00:23:31.51\00:23:32.84
and that all the
Gentiles might hear.
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.51
Also, I was delivered out
of the mouth of the lion."
00:23:34.54\00:23:37.61
When he stood before Nero,
00:23:37.65\00:23:39.25
he preached such a mighty sermon
00:23:39.28\00:23:42.75
that that evil man was overcome
00:23:42.78\00:23:45.92
by the passion of Paul,
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.39
and he released him.
00:23:48.42\00:23:51.63
And some time
later, Nero, the monster,
00:23:51.66\00:23:55.96
who's going to
burn for a long time.
00:23:56.00\00:23:58.67
"Oh, no, he's not."
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.57
Wait and see.
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.00
Nero to make room
for some new buildings
00:24:02.04\00:24:04.81
burned Rome.
00:24:04.84\00:24:07.28
The people were enraged,
00:24:07.31\00:24:08.64
so he blamed Paul
and the Christians,
00:24:08.68\00:24:10.78
they did it.
00:24:10.81\00:24:12.35
Paul was
rearrested and found guilty.
00:24:12.38\00:24:16.18
He was beheaded alone, alone,
00:24:16.22\00:24:21.22
but it's not over.
00:24:21.26\00:24:23.93
2 Timothy 4:7, 8,
00:24:23.96\00:24:27.03
he writes from
the prison in Rome,
00:24:27.06\00:24:30.50
"I fought the good fight,
00:24:30.53\00:24:34.20
I have finished the race,
00:24:34.24\00:24:37.67
I have kept the faith.
00:24:37.71\00:24:40.48
Finally, there is laid up for me
00:24:40.51\00:24:42.31
the crown of righteousness,
00:24:42.34\00:24:43.85
which the Lord,
the righteous judge,
00:24:43.88\00:24:46.98
will give me on that day,
00:24:47.02\00:24:48.92
and not to me
only but also to all
00:24:48.95\00:24:52.65
who have loved His appearing."
00:24:52.69\00:24:55.42
He says, "By the grace of God
00:24:59.83\00:25:01.96
I've been faithful."
00:25:02.00\00:25:04.47
I haven't apostatized,
00:25:04.50\00:25:05.83
I haven't run
away from any battles.
00:25:05.87\00:25:08.47
He said, "I've
fought the good fight,
00:25:08.50\00:25:10.34
I finished my
course, I've kept the faith."
00:25:10.37\00:25:13.44
Then they take him out.
00:25:16.44\00:25:19.18
Because he's a Roman
citizen, he is not crucified
00:25:19.21\00:25:22.25
or anything like
that, he is beheaded.
00:25:22.28\00:25:24.59
But one thing is
00:25:28.12\00:25:29.99
absolutely certain, my friend.
00:25:30.03\00:25:34.73
This mighty Jewish man of God,
00:25:34.76\00:25:39.67
who gave us the true
gospel in the Book of Romans,
00:25:39.70\00:25:46.01
he will be with Christ in glory.
00:25:46.04\00:25:50.11
He will have the crown of life.
00:25:50.15\00:25:54.72
And I think, I'm right,
00:25:54.75\00:26:00.12
a very special place
in the kingdom of God.
00:26:00.16\00:26:05.93
I present to you today,
00:26:05.96\00:26:08.50
the prince of the apostles,
00:26:08.53\00:26:12.53
the great Apostle Paul
00:26:12.57\00:26:14.80
for the glory of God.
00:26:14.84\00:26:17.67
Amen and Amen.
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.18
Jesus said,
00:26:26.98\00:26:28.32
"All authority
has been given to Me
00:26:28.35\00:26:30.09
in heaven and on earth.
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.45
Go therefore,
00:26:32.49\00:26:33.82
and make disciples
of all the nations.
00:26:33.86\00:26:36.89
Baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
00:26:36.93\00:26:39.46
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
00:26:39.49\00:26:44.67
John Carter reports,
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00:26:44.70\00:26:48.04
as the gospel of Christ
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00:26:48.07\00:26:53.44
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00:26:53.48\00:26:56.01
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00:26:56.04\00:26:58.65
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00:27:16.90\00:27:19.90
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