Many revolutionaries have
changed nations with guns,
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tanks, bombs,
and execution squads,
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but amazingly there
was a gentle revolutionary
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who changed the world
with words of peace and love.
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While the bloody
revolutionaries are dead
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and for the most part forgotten,
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this man lives on and
His revolution continues.
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Welcome back, my friend.
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We're talking today
about the gentle revolutionary,
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whose teachings have saved
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the lives of millions
and millions of people.
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And we're going to pick up
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from where I left off
just a little while back.
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I want you to come in
the Bible to Matthew 5:7.
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Matthew 5:7.
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Jesus said this,
"Blessed are the merciful,
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for they shall obtain mercy."
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Many people would say,
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"These are just
crazy teachings."
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But Jesus said, "If
you want to be happy,
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if you want to have peace,
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if you want to have
security, then be merciful."
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Have you heard
of Corrie ten Boom,
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heard of that lady?
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She was a Dutch Christian.
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During the German occupation,
she saved the life...
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with a family, with a father
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and the other
members of the family.
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She saved the
lives of many, many Jews.
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She hid them in her own house.
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And in the end, they
were caught by the Nazis,
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and they were put in
a concentration camp.
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You know, that
was just sort of hell.
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The old man froze to
death, he starved to death.
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Other members
of the family died.
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And after the war,
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Corrie ten Boom
was giving a lecture
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on the grace of God.
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And a man came down the front,
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he said, Corrie,
do you remember me?
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She said, "Oh, dear!"
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He was one of the guards.
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One of the murderers.
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He said, "Are you
going to forgive me?"
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What would you do?
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Now let me ask
you, what would you do?
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What would you do with a Nazi
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who had killed your father
and murdered other people?
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What would you do?
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Well, she forgave him.
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Was it easy?
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No, very, very hard,
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because it is hard to follow
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the teachings of Christ.
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Remember,
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these are the
transforming teachings
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of the gentle
revolutionary, Jesus Christ.
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After the war,
America forgave the Germans.
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Amazing.
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America forgave the Germans,
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and then
America rebuilt Germany.
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Let me tell you,
folks, something.
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America was at her best
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when America was
showing grace and forgiveness.
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That was the
greatness of America
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when she forgave the Germans
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and rebuilt the desolate cities.
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Look at Matthew 5:8.
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Matthew 5:8.
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Jesus said, "Blessed,
happy, are the pure in heart,
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for they shall see God."
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Now, you know it, I know it,
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we live in an age
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of porn and pornstars,
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a world leaders,
politicians in America
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and in other countries
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engage in acts
of sexual depravity.
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The Roman Catholic
Church, the pope says,
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is facing the greatest
crisis since the Reformation.
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You know why?
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Thousands of priests
and members of the hierarchy
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have been abusing children.
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You say these
people are Christians.
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No, these people are
counterfeit Christians,
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I'm telling you.
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A true follower of
Jesus is never a pedophile.
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Jesus said, "Blessed
are the pure in heart,
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they shall see God."
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When you read of
this terrible pedophilia,
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it shows the great
depravity of the human heart.
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There's only one solution,
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the healing and
transforming grace of God.
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Remember the famous
television evangelists
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who went with a
prostitute and he was caught.
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Then he went on television
and he said with tears,
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"I've sinned, I've sinned."
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And lot of
people laughed at him.
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I wasn't laughing.
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That's what a person ought to do
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when a person has
sinned against God,
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when a person has been impure.
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Come with me to Psalm 51:1-4.
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And come over here to
the words of King David
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who also committed adultery.
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Psalm 51:1-4.
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"Have mercy upon me, O God,
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according to
Your loving kindness,
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according to the multitude
of Your tender mercies,
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blot out my transgressions.
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Wash me
thoroughly from my iniquity,
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and cleanse me from my sin.
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For I acknowledge
my transgressions.
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And my sin is always before me.
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Against You, You
only, have I sinned,
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and done this
evil in Your sight,
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that you may be
found just when you speak,
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and blameless when You judge."
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Now, he committed a great sin,
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but he committed
a great repentance.
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"Blessed are the pure in heart."
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You see, you need God inside you
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to live out these
teachings of Jesus.
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Matthew 5:9.
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The peacemakers, Matthew 5:9.
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"Blessed are the peacemakers,
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for they shall be
called the sons of God."
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Bless are the...
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Oh no, no.
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Blessed are the warmongers.
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Blessed are the makers
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of the weapons of war.
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I've heard people say in
the last couple of years,
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the best thing that we
can do is to nuke North Korea.
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Just nuke them.
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What's going to happen then?
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I said, "Well, yeah,
well, we got to do it."
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How many are going to die?
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"Well, probably millions."
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I think personally,
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it's a great
thing and a good thing
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that President Trump
is reaching out to Kim
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whom he once called rocket man.
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Oh, some people I
know, let's get over there.
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Let's kill them.
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Hey, they got kids
and grandkids like you.
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They may have a
rotten government
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than of the any
country that does.
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It's a really bad government.
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It's an atheistic government.
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But the
president of this country
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in a display of grace
has reached out to Kim.
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That's good.
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Blessed are the peacemakers
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because grace is
stronger than guns.
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Now, I'm going to say something
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that I don't want
anybody to be offended by this.
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But a lot of
people agree with me.
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Just, just hear me out.
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Look at our recent attempts
to bring peace to the world
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through guns and bombs.
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The Korean War.
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The war in Vietnam.
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How many were killed?
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Millions.
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Fifty five
thousand American soldiers
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and some Australians.
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The war in Iraq.
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And now commentators are saying,
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the war in Iraq bred ISIS.
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That worked out well, didn't it?
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The war in Afghanistan,
Libya, Syria and Yemen.
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Where I read in a magazine,
The Economist yesterday,
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there are now
millions of refugees in Yemen.
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Ever heard of that war?
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This is not to
detract from the courage
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of our brave soldiers.
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Politicians make the decisions
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and the young
men and young women
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marched off to war.
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Jesus said to Pilate,
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"My kingdom is
not of this world.
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Blessed are the peacemakers."
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"I don't want to
believe this," you say.
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Well, you'd really be
arguing with God, wouldn't you?
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Because God said it.
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And He is called
the prince of peace,
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and his kingdom will endure
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after earthly
nations have turned to dust.
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When we are simply
memories in the mind of God,
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the kingdom of God goes on.
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Compose to the peacemakers.
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Then he said,
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"Happy are the
people who are persecuted."
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Crazy, eh?
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Matthew 5:10-14.
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"Blessed are those
who are persecuted..."
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Ouch, I don't want that.
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"Persecuted for
righteousness' sake,
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for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are you
when they revile you
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and persecute you,'
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and say all kinds
of evil against you
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falsely for My sake.
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Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,
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for great is
your reward in heaven,
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for so they
persecuted the prophets
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who were before you.
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You are the
salt of the earth..."
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Wow, tremendous.
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"But if the salt
loses its flavor,
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how shall it be seasoned?
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It is then good for
nothing but to be thrown out
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and trampled underfoot by men.
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You are the light of the world.
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A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden.'"
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Jesus said, "You're
happy and you're blessed
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when you're
persecuted for righteousness."
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I have a friend over in Moscow.
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We call him Paul the prisoner.
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He's a dear friend of mine.
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During the times of the Soviets,
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he was betrayed by
his own church members,
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in his own
little church in Moscow.
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They turned him into the KGB.
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The communists put him in a cell
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in a great prison in Moscow.
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Here he is, Paul the prisoner.
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A refrigerator cell.
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You know what it is?
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They freeze you up.
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Then when you're
just about death,
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they take you and warm you up.
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Freeze you up.
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His teeth rotted and fell out.
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He's a man, I salute him.
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He's not a crybaby.
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No, he's not, not a
namby-pamby, not a wimp,
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a man of God with
fire in his belly.
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I feel humbled
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to stand in his presence.
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Then when he got out of prison,
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his wife got cancer.
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But he has an inner peace.
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He's the salt of the earth.
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I salute him as my friend.
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I've helped him.
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I've helped him to survive.
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I was in Moscow in
1971, my first trip.
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I was talking to
an old communist,
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he started to laugh
because I was a Christian.
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Hey, don't push me.
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I took out my Bible.
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I read to him the
teachings of Christ.
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I said, "These teachings
are far more revolutionary
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than anything Lenin
came up with or Stalin.
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These are the
teachings that overthrew
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the Roman Empire."
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He says, "It's
powerful, isn't it?"
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Said, "Have you
ever read the Bible?"
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"No, of course not."
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Most atheists have
never read the Bible.
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They can only
criticize it, most of them.
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I had only one
Bible. I gave him my Bible.
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That was a big
thing, I was traveling.
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I read my Bible every day.
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I can't survive
without my Bible,
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but he needed it.
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There is a power in the Word.
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This is the great power of God.
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Grace is greater than guns.
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I got a pastor
friend down in El Salvador
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where we've run a
huge evangelistic campaign.
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It's probably the most
dangerous country in the world.
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He went out recently to visit
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some of the folks we're helping,
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and he went into a
gang infested area.
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It's dangerous, my
friend, he came with a Bible
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when the gang
leaders came out to see him.
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Firstly, they
were going to kill him.
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This pastor who has served
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as my translator
is not a crybaby.
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He's not crying in his bed.
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He's not hiding up the
back of the auditorium saying,
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"Oh, what am I gonna do?
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There's a lot of people here."
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Come on!
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Toughen up.
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When the gang leaders met him,
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and said, "What
are you doing here?"
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He said, "I've come to
preach the Word of God."
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He took out his
Bible and they said,
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"Then we're outgunned."
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This is what they said
to him, "We're outgunned."
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They were bristling with guns.
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They said, "You got
the heavy artillery."
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We're talking
today, the heavy artillery.
00:13:47.12\00:13:50.76
Most religion that
we hear about my friend
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isn't worth a dime
00:13:52.79\00:13:54.13
because it's not
the religion of God.
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Only the religion that came
from God can lead us to God.
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And some of you
will say rightly,
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"But you know
this, this is too hard.
00:14:01.17\00:14:02.97
We can't do this.
00:14:03.00\00:14:04.41
I can't forgive
my enemies, I can't.
00:14:04.44\00:14:07.48
Can't even forgive my friends."
00:14:07.51\00:14:11.58
That's why you need grace.
00:14:11.61\00:14:13.31
This is why you
need Christ in you.
00:14:13.35\00:14:16.82
We're not talking
here about religion.
00:14:16.85\00:14:19.25
We're talking here
about the power of God.
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Is anybody listening to me?
00:14:22.36\00:14:24.33
Matthew 5:21-22.
00:14:24.36\00:14:26.76
Matthew 5:21-22.
00:14:26.80\00:14:28.86
"You have heard that it was said
00:14:28.90\00:14:30.33
to those of old,
'You shall not murder,
00:14:30.37\00:14:32.47
whoever murders
00:14:32.50\00:14:33.84
will be in
danger of the judgment.'
00:14:33.87\00:14:35.67
But I say to you that whoever
is angry with his brother
00:14:35.70\00:14:40.58
without a cause shall be
in danger of the judgment.
00:14:40.61\00:14:44.55
And whoever says to his brother,
00:14:44.58\00:14:47.62
'Raca' shall be in
danger of the council.
00:14:47.65\00:14:51.89
But whoever says, 'You fool!'
00:14:51.92\00:14:55.76
shall be in danger
00:14:55.79\00:14:57.96
of the fire of hell."
00:14:57.99\00:15:03.33
Now Jesus didn't do away
with the Ten Commandments.
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I met some people who
were very naive, and they say,
00:15:06.77\00:15:09.67
"We just follow
the New Testament
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because it's a lot
easier than the Old Testament."
00:15:11.34\00:15:13.71
Are you kidding?
00:15:13.74\00:15:16.08
The Old Testament
says, "Don't kill."
00:15:16.11\00:15:19.11
That's not Moses said.
00:15:19.15\00:15:20.48
God said through Moses
in the Ten Commandments,
00:15:20.52\00:15:21.92
don't kill.
00:15:21.95\00:15:23.28
Jesus said, "Hey, you
can't even get angry."
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You say, "It's impossible?"
00:15:26.69\00:15:28.02
Yes, it is.
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That's why we need the
grace of God in our hearts.
00:15:29.42\00:15:34.66
Today in the world and
this land in Australia,
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other countries,
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there's terrible
domestic violence.
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Domestic violence
usually is the sin of cowards,
00:15:41.24\00:15:44.64
because only a
coward would beat up
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somebody smaller than you are.
00:15:46.17\00:15:51.05
Jesus said, "On
a case of violence,
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don't even get angry."
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You say, "It's impossible."
00:15:56.08\00:15:57.42
We need grace in the heart.
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We need grace in the soul.
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This is a revolution,
00:16:01.52\00:16:03.16
it is foreign
00:16:03.19\00:16:05.79
to the vast majority of us.
00:16:05.83\00:16:09.80
"The Sermon on the
Mount doesn't show you
00:16:09.83\00:16:11.73
how to be saved."
00:16:11.77\00:16:14.67
That'll be a comfort.
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"It describes those
who are being saved."
00:16:16.44\00:16:20.68
You don't have to
be good to be saved,
00:16:20.71\00:16:22.74
but you do need to be saved
00:16:22.78\00:16:27.18
to be good and to do good."
00:16:27.22\00:16:30.52
When you read these teachings,
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it doesn't make
you into a Pharisee.
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It makes us want to run to Jesus
00:16:33.76\00:16:36.12
and be cleansed
from all of our filth.
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Look at Matthew 5:27, 28, 29.
00:16:38.43\00:16:41.66
"You have heard that it
was said to those of old,
00:16:41.70\00:16:43.33
'You shall not commit adultery.'
00:16:43.37\00:16:44.83
But I say to you that
00:16:44.87\00:16:46.37
whoever looks at a woman to lust
00:16:46.40\00:16:48.24
for her has
already committed adultery
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with her in his heart."
00:16:51.01\00:16:55.18
Look at verse 29.
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"If your right
eye causes you to sin,
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pluck it out."
00:16:58.15\00:16:59.48
A lot of people
would be walking around
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with only one eye.
00:17:00.88\00:17:02.22
"Pluck it out
and cast it from you,
00:17:02.25\00:17:03.89
for it is more
profitable for you
00:17:03.92\00:17:06.45
that one of your members perish,
00:17:06.49\00:17:08.69
than for your whole
body to be cast into hell."
00:17:08.72\00:17:13.53
Goodness, there's
nobody read the Bible.
00:17:13.56\00:17:18.17
We live in a
time of sexual sins,
00:17:18.20\00:17:21.10
adultery,
fornication, pornography
00:17:21.14\00:17:23.81
and all kinds of sexual
perversions on television,
00:17:23.84\00:17:29.14
put there by the liberals
who are warring against God.
00:17:29.18\00:17:34.82
Jesus said, "Don't even
think lustful thoughts."
00:17:34.85\00:17:38.65
You say, "It's impossible."
00:17:38.69\00:17:40.02
We need Christ in the heart.
00:17:40.06\00:17:42.32
Think what Jesus
did for Mary Magdalene,
00:17:42.36\00:17:44.36
the prostitute, He redeemed her.
00:17:44.39\00:17:48.00
Christ is in the business
of not just all religion,
00:17:48.03\00:17:51.37
Christ is in the
business of redeeming souls,
00:17:51.40\00:17:55.90
cleaning us up inside.
00:17:55.94\00:17:58.71
Matthew 5:37.
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Matthew 5:37.
00:18:00.91\00:18:02.98
"But let your 'Yes' be
'Yes' and your 'No,' 'No.'
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For whatever is more than
these is from the evil one."
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The devil.
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Jesus did say,
00:18:14.89\00:18:16.32
"Yes for yes and no for no.
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In other words, no lies.
00:18:21.23\00:18:24.53
Oops!
00:18:24.57\00:18:25.93
Ouch!
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There is a book
that you can get called
00:18:27.50\00:18:29.54
"The Day
America Told the Truth."
00:18:29.57\00:18:32.97
It's a great study
00:18:33.01\00:18:34.44
on the morality of us Americans.
00:18:34.48\00:18:37.98
It tells us that
the vast majority of us
00:18:38.01\00:18:41.95
are liars.
00:18:41.98\00:18:44.69
Oh, no!
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Yes.
00:18:46.29\00:18:47.69
Read the book. I have a friend.
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I've had a friend, this
man, who is a great scholar,
00:18:50.46\00:18:54.06
known him for
more than 50 years.
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I can say,
00:18:59.00\00:19:01.14
like Dr. Graham
Bradford never would tell a lie,
00:19:01.17\00:19:04.11
would die
rather than tell a lie.
00:19:04.14\00:19:06.44
He lives close to God,
and he's a good person.
00:19:06.47\00:19:10.28
A person who is a liar
00:19:10.31\00:19:14.48
will not be saved.
00:19:14.52\00:19:16.89
He needs to be
redeemed and changed.
00:19:16.92\00:19:21.19
H.M.S. Richards,
00:19:24.39\00:19:25.73
the dean of
Adventist Preacher said,
00:19:25.76\00:19:28.23
"There are two things
00:19:28.26\00:19:29.60
that true minister shouldn't do
00:19:29.63\00:19:32.30
and will not do.
00:19:32.33\00:19:35.94
He can't retire if
he's a true minister.
00:19:35.97\00:19:40.91
And he will not tell lies."
00:19:40.94\00:19:44.68
Lying is a filthy sin.
00:19:44.71\00:19:48.18
Matthew 5:40.
00:19:48.22\00:19:50.99
If you keep in company
00:19:51.02\00:19:52.35
with a person
who is telling lies,
00:19:52.39\00:19:53.76
young people, drop
that person, drop them cold.
00:19:53.79\00:19:57.39
"If anyone wants to sue
you and take away your tunic,
00:19:57.43\00:20:01.33
let him have your cloak also."
00:20:01.36\00:20:03.13
Ouch!
00:20:03.16\00:20:06.30
Did you know when Jesus
said no lawsuits, He meant it.
00:20:06.33\00:20:10.94
We have more attorneys
00:20:10.97\00:20:12.74
than any other
country in the world.
00:20:12.77\00:20:15.21
Probably as many attorneys
00:20:15.24\00:20:16.58
as the rest of the
world put together.
00:20:16.61\00:20:18.01
A million attorneys.
00:20:18.05\00:20:20.42
You know why?
00:20:20.45\00:20:21.78
We're so greedy.
00:20:21.82\00:20:25.29
So greedy.
00:20:25.32\00:20:27.59
Let me tell you, God
will take care of you.
00:20:27.62\00:20:30.13
Look at Isaiah 41:14-15.
00:20:30.16\00:20:32.89
"Fear not, you worm Jacob.
00:20:32.93\00:20:34.30
You men of
Israel, I will help you,'
00:20:34.33\00:20:36.03
says the Lord and your Redeemer,
00:20:36.06\00:20:37.80
the Holy One of Israel.
00:20:37.83\00:20:39.17
'Behold, I will make you
into a new threshing sledge
00:20:39.20\00:20:42.44
with sharp teeth,
00:20:42.47\00:20:43.81
and you shall
thresh the mountain
00:20:43.84\00:20:45.17
and beat them small,
00:20:45.21\00:20:46.54
and make the hills like chaff.'"
00:20:46.57\00:20:48.48
Don't worry about people,
00:20:48.51\00:20:50.21
God is going to make you strong.
00:20:50.25\00:20:52.41
Look at this text.
00:20:52.45\00:20:53.85
"No weapon formed
against you shall prosper,
00:20:53.88\00:20:57.39
and every tongue
which rises against you
00:20:57.42\00:20:59.55
in judgment You shall condemn.
00:20:59.59\00:21:02.32
This is the heritage of
the servants of the Lord,
00:21:02.36\00:21:05.19
and their righteousness
is from Me,' says the Lord.'"
00:21:05.23\00:21:08.20
I could tell you stories.
00:21:08.23\00:21:09.56
Look at me.
00:21:09.60\00:21:12.17
I got some good
attorney friends,
00:21:12.20\00:21:14.47
but I don't want to
be using them too much,
00:21:14.50\00:21:17.87
because I don't
believe in suing people.
00:21:17.91\00:21:20.48
Oh, but everybody.
00:21:20.51\00:21:21.84
No, suing is bad.
00:21:21.88\00:21:25.61
Paul in Corinthian says,
00:21:25.65\00:21:28.25
"It is a sin to
sue your brother."
00:21:28.28\00:21:33.09
Oh, well, well...
00:21:33.12\00:21:34.46
Yeah, that's in Corinthians.
00:21:34.49\00:21:37.49
I've had people come
against me try to destroy me.
00:21:37.53\00:21:41.16
I'm not going to
tell you about it.
00:21:41.20\00:21:42.53
But God took care of me
00:21:42.56\00:21:45.03
and no weapon formed
against me prospered.
00:21:45.07\00:21:48.40
This is the truth.
00:21:48.44\00:21:49.77
Matthew 5:41 now.
00:21:49.80\00:21:51.61
Matthew 5:41.
00:21:51.64\00:21:55.14
"Whoever compels
you to go one mile,
00:21:55.18\00:21:57.48
go with him two."
00:21:57.51\00:22:00.18
Oh, it even gets harder.
00:22:00.22\00:22:04.12
This refers to the
custom in the days of Jesus
00:22:04.15\00:22:07.76
that a Roman
soldier could say to a Jew,
00:22:07.79\00:22:11.53
carry my baggage for a mile.
00:22:11.56\00:22:15.00
And then at the end of the mile,
00:22:15.03\00:22:17.13
the man would throw it down
preferably in a heap of mud.
00:22:17.17\00:22:20.74
Jesus said, "After you've gone
a mile, carry it another mile.
00:22:20.77\00:22:25.77
If you're told to do something
by an enemy, do it twice."
00:22:25.81\00:22:29.74
You say, "I can't do
that, can't do that."
00:22:29.78\00:22:33.38
Well, Jesus here is
describing His disciples.
00:22:33.42\00:22:37.99
No hate, it's easy to be saved,
00:22:38.02\00:22:41.42
but it's not easy to stay saved.
00:22:41.46\00:22:44.59
Look at Matthew 5:43, 44 and 45.
00:22:44.63\00:22:48.90
Matthew 5.
00:22:48.93\00:22:50.27
"You have heard
that it was said,
00:22:50.30\00:22:51.63
'You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.'
00:22:51.67\00:22:54.57
But I say to you,
love your enemies,
00:22:54.60\00:22:56.77
bless those who curse you.
00:22:56.81\00:22:58.47
Do good to those who hate you,
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.21
and pray for those
who spitefully use you
00:23:00.24\00:23:02.68
and persecute you,
00:23:02.71\00:23:04.05
that you may be the sons
of your Father in heaven,
00:23:04.08\00:23:06.65
for He makes His sun
00:23:06.68\00:23:08.02
rise on the
evil and on the good,
00:23:08.05\00:23:09.85
and sends rain on the
just and on the unjust."
00:23:09.88\00:23:15.22
Love your enemies?
00:23:15.26\00:23:16.69
No, let's shoot them.
00:23:16.73\00:23:20.43
Well, this shows
00:23:20.46\00:23:21.80
whether you're a
Christian or not.
00:23:21.83\00:23:23.53
The word here in
the Greek is agape.
00:23:23.57\00:23:26.37
It refers not
to just human love,
00:23:26.40\00:23:29.77
but a love that
comes down from God.
00:23:29.80\00:23:32.31
For God so loved
the world, agape.
00:23:32.34\00:23:35.18
The love in 1
Corinthians 13, agape.
00:23:35.21\00:23:39.38
Love your enemies.
00:23:39.41\00:23:40.85
Love the people who
are criticizing you.
00:23:40.88\00:23:42.88
Love that crooked attorney,
00:23:42.92\00:23:46.79
so that you may be the
sons of your Father in heaven.
00:23:46.82\00:23:50.46
It takes a miracle.
00:23:50.49\00:23:53.86
Now, this is not bogus
religion we're talking today.
00:23:53.90\00:23:56.73
We are talking about
genuine Christianity.
00:23:56.77\00:24:02.30
The story of Will is
one of my favorite stories.
00:24:02.34\00:24:04.94
Will was a young man
who was given a gift of land
00:24:04.97\00:24:07.48
from the king.
00:24:07.51\00:24:09.14
The king said, "I want
you to plant some trees
00:24:09.18\00:24:11.28
and build a house.
00:24:11.31\00:24:12.71
Fence it and put a big gate up."
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.98
And he said, "Here's a warning,
00:24:15.02\00:24:16.55
there is someone out to get you.
00:24:16.58\00:24:18.79
The mysterious stranger.
00:24:18.82\00:24:20.36
If he comes, he will destroy
00:24:20.39\00:24:23.22
your peace and your happiness."
00:24:23.26\00:24:26.80
So Will got the
house everything free,
00:24:26.83\00:24:31.67
happy days.
00:24:31.70\00:24:33.07
He planted trees,
peace, joy, love, purity.
00:24:33.10\00:24:37.51
You know about those trees?
00:24:37.54\00:24:39.01
Oh, they're hard to grow.
00:24:39.04\00:24:41.44
They grew so slowly,
00:24:41.48\00:24:43.95
but he'd eat and he was
happy, and happy, and happy.
00:24:43.98\00:24:47.85
On one evening there was
a knocking down at the gate.
00:24:47.88\00:24:52.15
And he went down
00:24:52.19\00:24:53.52
and there was the
mysterious stranger.
00:24:53.56\00:24:55.49
He said, "Let me in Will,
00:24:55.52\00:24:56.86
I'm going to make
you even more happy.
00:24:56.89\00:24:58.93
Let me in."
00:24:58.96\00:25:00.30
And Will,
00:25:00.33\00:25:02.06
being an
inexperienced Christian said,
00:25:02.10\00:25:04.80
"Come on in."
00:25:04.83\00:25:07.17
And the first thing
the evil stranger did
00:25:07.20\00:25:10.31
was to start to
uproot these trees.
00:25:10.34\00:25:12.71
He got rid of them.
00:25:12.74\00:25:15.24
And then he said,
00:25:15.28\00:25:16.61
"Will, we're going
to do something else.
00:25:16.64\00:25:18.35
We're going to put
in some more trees."
00:25:18.38\00:25:20.78
And so he started
to plant more trees.
00:25:20.82\00:25:23.55
And he put in
trees that were called...
00:25:23.59\00:25:26.99
Wait for it, lust, envy,
00:25:27.02\00:25:30.83
hate, jealousy, anger.
00:25:30.86\00:25:34.96
The other trees
took a long time to grow.
00:25:35.00\00:25:36.93
These came up
almost straight away.
00:25:36.97\00:25:38.93
That's how it is.
00:25:38.97\00:25:40.30
Not hard to grow them, is it?
00:25:40.34\00:25:43.20
And then he
started to eat those trees,
00:25:43.24\00:25:45.44
he ate them, oh, it's good.
00:25:45.47\00:25:48.04
It was great to eat those trees,
00:25:48.08\00:25:51.21
but soon he was feeling sick.
00:25:51.25\00:25:53.98
Then he was vomiting,
but then he wanted some more.
00:25:54.02\00:25:58.62
And so he was wanting
more, eating more, feeling sick,
00:25:58.65\00:26:04.49
vomiting, that was his life.
00:26:04.53\00:26:07.30
That's the life of the sinner
away from the grace of God,
00:26:07.33\00:26:11.53
eating, vomiting,
00:26:11.57\00:26:15.34
wanting more,
00:26:15.37\00:26:17.77
and at last when he
was completely desperate,
00:26:17.81\00:26:20.51
wanted to die.
00:26:20.54\00:26:22.88
One evening he heard
a voice from the gate,
00:26:22.91\00:26:27.72
he went down to the gate,
00:26:27.75\00:26:32.62
and there was a
tall, handsome Prince,
00:26:32.65\00:26:34.39
who looked a lot like the king.
00:26:34.42\00:26:38.56
He held up the lantern and said,
00:26:38.59\00:26:39.93
"Behold, I stand
at the door and knock.
00:26:39.96\00:26:43.03
If anyone hears my voice..."
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The stranger cried out,
00:26:47.44\00:26:48.77
"Don't let him in, Will,
he will destroy all my work."
00:26:48.80\00:26:51.11
That's the best
news, Will had heard.
00:26:51.14\00:26:53.04
He let him in.
00:26:53.07\00:26:55.11
When the Prince came in,
00:26:55.14\00:26:56.48
the evil
stranger left and he said,
00:26:56.51\00:26:59.95
"We got to get
rid of these trees."
00:26:59.98\00:27:01.82
Hard to get rid of
them. He didn't want to die.
00:27:01.85\00:27:05.59
And then he helped
build to plant some new trees
00:27:05.62\00:27:09.06
and they were hard to plant,
00:27:09.09\00:27:11.29
and he planted
new trees like love,
00:27:11.33\00:27:16.16
and joy, and longsuffering,
00:27:16.20\00:27:19.23
and peace, and he was eating,
00:27:19.27\00:27:23.61
but he wasn't vomiting.
00:27:23.64\00:27:27.14
And one evening they
were sitting together
00:27:27.18\00:27:28.78
in the cool of the
evening on the veranda,
00:27:28.81\00:27:31.68
Will said, "I'm so
happy," he said to the prince.
00:27:31.71\00:27:34.88
"But what save
you should leave me?"
00:27:34.92\00:27:37.72
And the Prince said,
00:27:37.75\00:27:39.09
"Will, I will
never, never leave you
00:27:39.12\00:27:44.63
nor forsake you."
00:27:44.66\00:27:48.13
And the good news, He never did.
00:27:48.16\00:27:53.23
And what we need in our hearts
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is the Lord Jesus Christ
00:27:57.21\00:28:00.44
who will give us the
trees of righteousness.
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I commend to you today,
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the greatest and the most gentle
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of all revolutionaries,
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the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:28:16.06\00:28:17.86
Amen. Amen.
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