Atheists must think
that God is important
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because they
seem to talk about Him
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so much of the time.
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They're right, of course.
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God even matters a great deal
or He doesn't matter at all?
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Science now
shows God's existence
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is highly probable.
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If He really does exist,
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then an
intelligent understanding
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of the original prime
mover is immensely important.
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Who is God?
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Is He a person
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or just a blind
impersonal force?
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Was Jesus God?
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Find out today on
the Carter Report.
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Welcome today.
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The topic is.
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"God, what's He like?"
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In that classic
movie, The Ten Commandments,
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God appears as the
Almighty God who is so amazing,
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so transcendent that
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He comes in a flame of
fire in the burning bush.
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My son David
gave me another movie
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on The Ten
Commandments called The Exodus.
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I was somewhat amazed
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because God in
the movie The Exodus
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appears as a little boy.
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To me that
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just didn't seem to be right
because in The Ten Commandments
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God appears and He
says, "Moses," remember?
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Moses.
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Who are you?
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And He says, "I'm the Almighty."
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But in the movie, The Exodus,
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He doesn't
appear as the great God
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of Charlton Heston,
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but He appears as a little boy.
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And when I thought
about it, I thought,
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"Well, maybe
there's a point there."
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The topic is,
"God, what's He like?"
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The most important statement
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that has ever been made
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in the history of the
affairs of men is Genesis 1:1.
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Look at it in the Bible.
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Book of Genesis,
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it means the Book of Beginnings,
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Genesis 1:1,
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easily the most important words.
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"In the beginning
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God created the
heavens and the earth."
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So in the
beginning whenever that was,
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God was there.
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The most important
statement ever made.
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Now I want to
start with four stories,
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and I'm going to
share these with you.
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The first is about the
great Professor Hubble.
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Now we live in
Southern California,
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this great place.
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And there's this
tremendous picture
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that we've got here,
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and we've put it
up on the screen,
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and it shows the
great Professor Einstein.
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And here, the man
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with the pipe is
Professor Hubble.
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You know the story.
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One of the
greatest of all stories.
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You're not going to hear
this in church too often.
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But Einstein did not
believe in the beginning.
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He said, "There's
never been a beginning.
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The universe has
always been there."
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Greatest mind, Einstein.
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But Hubble
talking to the telescope
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and he showed him some pictures,
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and in the pictures
you have a phenomenon
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that is called the red shift.
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Now scientists know
what I'm talking about.
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It means that the
universe is exploding out,
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it's moving out.
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The galaxies are
moving apart from each other,
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some of them almost
at the speed of light.
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This proves
without a shadow of a doubt
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that the
universe had a beginning.
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And if the universe
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had a beginning, listen to this,
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a beginning implies what?
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A beginner.
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A beginning implies a beginner.
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And Einstein came
to believe in God,
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in Almighty God
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who was the great beginner.
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Story number
one. Story number two.
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Before Einstein
became very, very famous
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here in the
United States of America,
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he used to travel around
from university to university
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and he would explain
the theory of relativity.
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And, of course,
you all understand.
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E equals MC square.
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He had a car driver,
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now nobody knew
Professor Einstein
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in those days.
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They didn't know
what he looked like,
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so he'd go to
Harvard University,
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he'd give this
tremendous lecture,
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and the car driver used
to sit down in the back.
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But he gave the
lectures so many, many, times
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that the car
driver memorized it.
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He got to know it off by heart.
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One night when they
got to Princeton somewhere,
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Einstein wasn't
feeling too good.
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So he said to the
car driver, "Now look,
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I'm not feeling so
good tonight, he said,
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you know my lecture
off by heart, don't you?
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He said, "Yeah, sure
I know it all by heart."
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He said, "Well, I'm
going to sit down in the back
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and I'll pretend
to be the car driver,
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you go up the front
and give the lecture,
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so he went up
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in front of all the
scientists at Princeton someway,
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he gave this
magnificent lecture by rote,
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just off by heart about
the theory of relativity,
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and everything was
great until he got to the end.
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When he got to the end,
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another famous
scientist got up and he said,
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"I'd like to ask
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the great Professor
Einstein a question.
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Then he asked the car driver,
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he asked him this question
about the theory of relativity.
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Well, Einstein was
sweating down in the back,
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he thought what on
earth is he going to do.
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How is he gonna
get out of this one.
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And the car
driver's up the front
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and he said
without missing a beat.
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Oh, he said, Doctor, he said,
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"Your question
is a very good one
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but it's so very easy
that anybody could answer."
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And I'm going to
ask my car driver
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who is sitting down the back
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if he'd come up the front
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and if he'd
answer your question.
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But Einstein, this person
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who once did not
believe in a beginning,
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who believed in the
steady state theory,
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because of what
Professor Hubble showed him
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came to believe
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in the beginning of the universe
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and a beginning
implies a beginner.
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A great friend of
mine is Dr. Hugh Ross
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from Reasons to Believe.
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He is a great
scientist, astrophysicist,
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one of the best in the world.
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For years he taught at Celtic.
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Celtic, we're proud to say
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is here in Southern California
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and it is probably
the greatest institution,
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the greatest university
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as far as physics and
astronomy are concerned.
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Dr. Hugh Ross was on
the faculty of Celtic.
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While he was there
he discovered quasars.
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I interviewed him
just a few weeks ago.
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He's a great friend
and a great scientist,
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he told me this.
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He said, "I'll tell
you there are no scientists
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who believe in God.
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You got to be a
fool to believe in God."
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He says, "It's not so."
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He said, "I was
amazed when I went
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to the greatest
university in the world
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as far as physics and
astronomy are concerned
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that I met there
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some of the most devout
followers of Jesus Christ.
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He said,
"Scientists after scientists
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because of science itself
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had been forced to
believe in the beginning."
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And a beginning
implies a beginner.
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Now most of you have
heard of Dr. Richard Dawkins.
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Probably the most famous atheist
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in the world today,
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great brain, he's an Englishman,
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he's had a number of debates
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with the great Dr. John
Lennox of Oxford University.
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Dawkins and Lennox,
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you want to go online
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and you ought to see
these amazing debates.
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In one of the debates,
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Dawkins was ridiculing
the great Professor Lennox,
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who's a mathematician
from Oxford University
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because of his faith.
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He said, "It's stupid.
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You have a blind faith."
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It's stupid,
words to that effect.
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Dr. Lennox said, "Richard,
may I ask you a question."
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He said, "Yes, yes."
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He said, "Do you
have faith in your wife?"
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You'll see this online.
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Do you have faith in your wife?
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And almost with a
little indignation,
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he said, "Yes, of course,
I have faith in my wife."
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He said, "Why do you
have faith in your wife?"
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He said, "Because of
the way she looks at me,
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the things she does."
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Dr. Lennox said, he
said, "Because of evidence,
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he said, yes,
because of the evidence
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that you should."
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He said, "So your
faith rests upon evidence."
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"Yes."
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He said, "That's
exactly the same as my faith.
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I have faith in God.
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It is not a blind faith,
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but I have faith in God
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because of the
overwhelming evidence."
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And so, my friends, I
ask you to believe today
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and I asked the
television audience
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to believe today
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not because of blind
faith which I do not believe in,
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but I believe in
an intelligent faith
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that is based on evidence.
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Listen to this.
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I've discovered this.
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The real reason many
scientists reject God
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is because of the awful things
professing Christians have done
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not because of
the scientific facts.
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Many of the great
atheists in the world today
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have become atheists
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because they were abused
in the church by pedophiles.
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Now I'm not going to
mention some of them by name,
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but some of the most
outspoken critiques of God
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were abused
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in the church by a priest.
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So they're atheists
not because of science,
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but because of the
abuse of so-called Christians.
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I would say this today.
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Try to lay aside your hurts
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and the terrible sins
of so-called Christians
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that we see everywhere
and look at the evidence.
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The great text is
this, the greatest statement.
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In the beginning,
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God created the
heavens and the earth,
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and a beginning
demands a beginner.
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This is why many
atheists for so many years
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have fought the discovery
of the so-called Big Bang.
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It was called the Big Bang
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as a term of derision
for the act of creation
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because scientists did
not want to believe in it.
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But now today we
have overwhelming evidence
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that the universe was made,
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we're not
talking about this earth,
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but the universe was
made 13.78 billion years ago.
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People say, "No, no.
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You can't believe
this, that's against."
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No, no, it's not
against the Bible, goodness.
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We're not talking
about the age of the earth,
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we're talking about
the age of the cosmos.
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How old is God?
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Last weekend, Beverley
and I went to San Francisco.
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Ostensibly to see our daughters,
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but really to see
our grandchildren.
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My little granddaughter
Amalie said to me, "Grandpa."
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Yes. "Grandpa."
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Yes, come on.
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"Grandpa."
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Yes, yes, Amalie.
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"Grandpa, how old are you?"
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She said, "Are you
millions and millions?"
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No, not really, Amalie,
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maybe I'm starting to
look millions and millions,
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but no, not
millions and millions
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but God is.
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Universe as we know it
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came into being in a
flash of light and fury
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13.8 billion years ago.
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You say, "I don't believe it."
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Well, do some study.
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We know the universe
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is bursting out like
a big giant firecracker,
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and we know how
fast it's bursting out.
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Can be measured with telescopes.
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You can see it.
No, no, you can't.
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No, well maybe,
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you haven't seen it
but others have seen it.
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And they've measured the speed
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and they can find
out when it started.
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The universe started 13.78
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or let's say 13.8
billion years ago,
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and God was there.
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He was there before Genesis 1:1.
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You ever thought of this?
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Oh, no, God lives up
on a planet somewhere.
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No, no, no.
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He was there before...
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In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth.
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He was there
before time was created.
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Look at Titus 1:2.
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Now this is a text
that is quite extraordinary
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in hope of eternal life
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which God who
cannot lie promised,
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what does it say?
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Please look at
them, what does it say.
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Tell me, come on.
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Before time began.
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People say, "No, no,
no, there's always been."
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No, no, it
hasn't always been time.
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It is now, look at me,
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it is now a scientific fact
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that time came into
being at the point of creation.
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Who believes this?
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Only Christians. No, no, no.
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Richard Dawkins believes it,
all the scientists believe it.
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Time did not exist
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before the
creation of the planet.
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This is a
confirmed scientific truths.
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So God existed before
the beginning of time.
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Now listen to this one.
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Because He existed before time,
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there was never a time
when God did not exist.
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Did you get that?
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So it does away
with the question,
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where did God come from?
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Where did God come from?
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No, that's a silly question now,
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because God is not
in time, time is in God.
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And time came into
being 13.78 billion years ago.
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He was there before Genesis 1:1.
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So God is older
than 13.8 billion years.
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Look at Psalm 90:2.
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Psalm 90:2,
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"Before the
mountains were brought forth,
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or ever You would form
the earth and the world.
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Even from everlasting to
everlasting, You are God."
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So from
everlasting to everlasting.
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No beginning and no ending.
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Do I understand it? No, I don't.
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Look at Exodus 3:14.
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Exodus Chapter 3
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in the Holy Scriptures
written we believe by Moses.
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"God said to Moses,
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'I AM WHO I AM.'
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And He said,
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'Thus you shall say to
the children of Israel,
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'I AM has sent me to you."
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I AM.
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Now this term,
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I AM refers to this being
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whose name is flashing
up on the television war.
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This is a word that
is so sacred and so holy
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that the Jewish rabbis will not
take this name upon their lips.
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I could tell you
stories about this.
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I was in Jerusalem with a rabbi,
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was translating the scriptures.
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And when he came
to the name Yahweh,
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he got, washed his
hands, took a new pen.
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And I said, there
is the name Yahweh.
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He blanched it, looked at me.
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So I were a heathen man.
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And you hear people continually
down the street on television,
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people in church
say, "Oh, my God."
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Do they not realize
whom they are dealing with?
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They're not
dealing with the president
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of the United States.
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They're dealing
with a God of fire.
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The Almighty God,
people think He's just like us.
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No, He's not.
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Almighty God.
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The capital of Australia
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is a city by the
name of Canberra.
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I think it's
very beautiful city.
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I went to the
Australian War Memorial Museum.
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This is the memorial museum.
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We used to live in Canberra.
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This is the new
house of parliament,
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and this is the avenue
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that runs down to
the houses of parliament.
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It's very moving because
it tells you of all the wars
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that the
Australians have been in.
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The only country that has fought
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with the American side by
side for the last 100 years
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have been the Australians.
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You say, "Oh, the
British, the French."
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No, no, no.
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The Australians.
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That's why John
McCain loved Australia.
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But if you go in there,
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high up over this
memorial in other words.
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Deuteronomy 33:27.
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Look at them in the Bible.
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Deuteronomy 33:27.
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In the Australian War Memorial,
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"the eternal God is your refuge,
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the eternal God,
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and underneath are
the everlasting arms,
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He will thrust out
the enemy from before you
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and will say, 'Destroy.'"
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Eternal God.
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Let me tell
you, folk, something.
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When you go into battle
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and there's blood,
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you want the eternal God.
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There are no
atheists on the front lines.
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When we are
confronted by death and loss,
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the cry of the human heart
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is for the warm
embrace of the eternal God.
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He was our refuge.
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Just recently,
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the former governor
general of Australia,
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the honorable Bill Hayden,
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who was a
confirmed outspoken atheist,
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came in out of the
cold and confessed.
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All of my arguments were weak,
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and has become a
believer in Christ.
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We all hunger for the
embrace of the eternal God.
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So what is God like?
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Let us see
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if we can paint a picture
today of this eternal God.
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Firstly the Bible
says, "God is a Spirit."
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Not like us.
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Jesus referred to His
Father in John 4:23 and 24.
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And I would like
you to turn to this text
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in John 4:23
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and 24.
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"But the hour is
coming, Jesus said,
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and now it is when
the true worshipers
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will worship the
Father in spirit and truth,
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for the Father is
seeking such to worship Him."
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What does it say?
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God is Spirit
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and those who worship Him
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must worship in Spirit
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and in truth now.
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A Spirit does not have
flesh and blood and bones
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as you see that I have.
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What is the Spirit?
We have no idea really.
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We do know that the
vast mass of the universe,
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99% of the universe,
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this is pretty new,
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this material,
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99% percent of the
universe is composed of stuff
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that is called Dark
Matter and Dark Energy.
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Out in the universe you
have 2 trillion galaxies.
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You can see them,
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but you can't see dark matter.
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99.7 percent not of
the observable universe,
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but of the
universe that we know exists
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is composed of dark
matter, you can't see it.
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Nobody knows what it is.
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We couldn't exist without it.
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It's a newly
discovered phenomenon.
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And God's a bit like that.
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You can't see Him,
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but everything
is dependent on Him.
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So He's not an
impersonal Spirit.
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The Bible says,
"He is a person."
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Genesis 1:26 and 27.
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Look in the Bible,
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come back to Genesis 1:26
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and 27.
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Genesis 1:26 and 27,
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"And God said, 'Let
us, that's interesting us,
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make man in Our image
according to our likeness,
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let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air,
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and over the
cattle of all the earth
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and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.'
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So God created
man in His own image,
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in the image of
God He created him,
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male and female
He created them.'"
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So even God doesn't have a body
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as you see that I
have a flesh and bones.
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God is a person.
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He has emotions,
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He has feelings,
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He can be stirred,
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He can bind everything
that is good in everyone.
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Let us make man in our image
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and He made men
and women, you see.
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And we are a dim
reflection of Yahweh, Elohim,
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He is all loving.
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He's full of love,
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He's the source of love,
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His main characteristic is love.
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1 John 4:8 are the words.
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1 John, "He who does not
love does not know God..."
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If you don't love,
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if you don't have
love in your heart,
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then you don't know God.
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"For God is love."
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It doesn't say that love is God,
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but it says that God is love.
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And He filled the
world with beauty,
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because He loves us
and wants us to be happy.
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I'm just amazed as you go around
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and you see the
beauty even in my own yard
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in Thousand Oaks,
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and the roses, and the
flowers, and the petals.
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And when you go
to your cemetery,
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you see it all.
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It's very hard to be an atheist
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and say there is no
God when you see all this,
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and there is more good
than evil in the world.
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Did you hear what I said?
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Sometimes we see
the terrible things
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that are happening in the world.
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We see the chaos of Washington.
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We see some bad
things in the church
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and we say, "Where is God?"
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But there is more good
than evil in the world,
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but evil is a problem.
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If God is almighty,
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why does He put up with it?
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Now, in the next segment,
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I'm going to
answer the question,
00:25:55.38\00:25:57.15
why does a God of
love permits suffering,
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but the Bible says,
00:26:02.36\00:26:04.59
"God is love."
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We'll be back in a moment.
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The greatest
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it is the truth
that God loves you.
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It has
completed changed my life,
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and I'm going to be
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