Martin Luther,
the Catholic priest,
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kindled a firestorm
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when he told people
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there was a higher
authority than the pope.
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They wanted to
burn him at the stake,
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so dangerous were his teachings.
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But his ideas were
too powerful to suppress,
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and the church
was forced to retreat.
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The result was a tsunami
of freedom and prosperity.
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This battle for personal freedom
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still continues.
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Who talks for God today?
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Find out on the Carter Report.
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Welcome back.
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We're talking
about who speaks for God?
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Is it the pope?
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Is it the pastor?
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Is it the church?
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Is it the hierarchy?
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Now here's a little
booklet that I've written,
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and it's crammed full
of important information,
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"A Christian's Authority."
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It talks about the Dark Ages,
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and it talks about
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what is happening today
in the Christian church,
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and in the world.
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It talks about kingly power.
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And the hierarchy
says, "You've got to do it
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because we tell you,
and we speak for God."
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If you want this little
booklet with a big message,
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write to me at the
address on the screen.
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I want to read you a statement
out of the famous magazine
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called the Review and Herald.
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We publish in that
magazine two pages every month,
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but here's a
statement from 1861 by J. N.
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Loughborough.
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He said this, "The
first step of apostasy..."
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You hear that, apostasy?
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You're lost if
you go into apostasy.
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"The first step of
apostasy is to get up a creed,
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telling us what
we shall believe."
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We tell you this, you see?
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"The second is
to make that creed
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a test of fellowship
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The third is to try
members by that creed.
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The fourth is to
denounce as heretics
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those who do not
believe that creed.
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And fifth, to commence
persecution against such."
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But we believe this,
"No creed about the Bible."
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And we agree
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with the courageous Loughborough
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when we say, "No creed,
but the infallible Word of God,
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the Holy Bible."
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And that controversy,
okay, she wasn't in our own day,
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and prolific author of
the 19th and 20th century,
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Ellen White said this,
"The words of the Bible,
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and the Bible alone,
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should be heard
from the pulpit."
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Pretty plainness about it.
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Why don't people do this?
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Why do we say, "Oh,
we're going to do this,
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but we're not going to do this."
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Now, there's a strong reason
why we do not believe in creeds
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because truth is progressive.
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Come in the Bible to
Proverbs 4:18 and 19.
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Proverbs 4:18 and 19,
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"But the path of the
just is as the shining sun,
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that shines ever
brighter unto the perfect day.
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The way of the
wicked is like darkness,
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they do not know
what makes them stumble."
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The Bible says,
"Truth is like the sun."
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And when the sun
gets up in the morning,
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it starts at just a little
way, just a little bit of light.
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But as the sun gets
stronger and stronger,
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the rays shine around the world.
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And the Bible says,
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that's how it is with the truth.
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God gives us a little bit.
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All that we can have
the capacity to understand,
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but the truth
becomes clearer and clearer.
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Truth is progressive.
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Now, you know
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how the Pilgrims came
across to this great land.
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The Pilgrims were
Puritans that had broken away
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from the Church of England
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because the Church of England
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wasn't following
the truths of the Bible.
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The Church of
England had broken away
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from the Church of Rome,
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but then the Church of
England had settled down.
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They came from
England via Holland.
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And I'm going to
quote Great Controversy,
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page 291, 292,
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and I'm going to
quote their pastor
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that preached to
them before they left,
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his name was John Robinson.
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"Brethren, we are now
erelong to part asunder,
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and the Lord knoweth
whether I shall live ever
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to see your faces more.
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But whether the Lord
has appointed it or no,
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I charge you before God
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on His blessed angels
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to follow me, no farther
than I have followed Christ.
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If God should
reveal anything to you
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by any other instrument of His,
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be as ready to
receive it as ever
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you were to receive
any truth from my ministry.
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For I'm very
confident Lord has more truth
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and light yet to break
forth out of His Holy Word."
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So, my friend, if
truth is progressive,
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we cannot have creeds.
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Then he went on
to say, "For my part,
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I cannot sufficiently bewail
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the condition of
the reformed churches,
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who are come to a
period in religion,
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and will go at
present no farther
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than the instruments
of their reformation.
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The Lutherans cannot be drawn
to go beyond what Luther saw,
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and the Calvinists, you see,
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stick fast where they were
left by that great man of God,
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who yet saw not all things.
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This is a misery
much to be lamented,
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for though they were burning
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and shining
lights in their time,
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yet they penetrated
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not into the
whole counsel of God,
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but were they now living,
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would be as willing
to embrace further light
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as that which
they first received."
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And that's what he
said to the Puritans,
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Pilgrim Fathers,
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that God raised
up the Lutherans,
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God raised up the Calvinists,
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but after the deaths
of Luther and Calvin,
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their followers,
you know what they did?
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They drew up creeds,
and would not advance,
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and so it has been
with the Protestant churches
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that follow them.
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We believe what the
founding fathers believed,
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and we will go no
farther, we have a creed.
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But we must
continue to walk in the light
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because truth is progressive.
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1 John 1:6 and 7,
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"If we say that we
have fellowship with Him,
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and walk in darkness,
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we lie and do not
practice the truth.
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But if we walk in the
light," walk in the light,
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"As He is in the light,
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we have
fellowship with one another,
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and the blood of
Jesus Christ, His Son,
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cleanses us from all sin."
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You gonna only be
cleansed from your sins
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if you walk in the light.
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And that's why we
don't have a creed.
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Therefore our only creed
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is the Holy Bible.
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That is our
authority in all matters
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pertaining to our salvation.
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This, my friend,
is how God speaks.
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This is the final
authority, it is written.
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Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
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out of the mouth of God.
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Now, let me remind you of this,
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the Holy Bible
is totally unique.
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It is God's infallible
source of great spiritual truth,
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infallible source of truth.
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It is written to save my
soul and get me home to glory.
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And you won't get home to glory
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unless you
understand the Word of God.
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Now John 20:31 says this,
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John 20:31,
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"But these are written that
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you may believe
that Jesus Christ...
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Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God,
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and that believing you
may have life in His name."
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The reason God gave
us the Holy Scriptures
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was so that
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we would
believe in Jesus Christ,
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and that's when we
have faith in His holy name,
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we will be saved.
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So the Bible was written
to lead us to Christ, the Son,
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because many
people don't understand
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what I'm going to say now.
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The Bible was not written
to make me an astronomer.
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I love astronomy.
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It wasn't written to
make me an astronomer.
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It was not written
to make me a surgeon.
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If I want my...
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This side, isn't it?
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If I want my cold blood,
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if I wanted my
appendix or my gall bladder out,
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I do not go to a theologian.
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I go to a doctor, you see that?
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The Bible was not written
to make me a paleontologist.
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They are the
people of who mess around
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with old bones.
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It was not written
to make me a zoologist.
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If I want to know how
many teeth a horse has,
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I look in the
mouth of the horse.
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I don't go to the Bible
and say, "Now Holy Bible,
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how many teeth has a horse got?"
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It's not written to
make me as zoologist,
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not written to make
me an archaeologist,
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and I'm tremendously
interested in archaeology.
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It might touch on those
things, but the focus is God,
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truth, and
salvation, you get this?
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And if people understood this,
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they wouldn't get so
mixed up on some things.
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The Holy Bible is not
written to make me worldly wise,
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it is written to save
my soul, transform my life,
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and prepare me for eternity.
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Some people read the Bible
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for argumentation.
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Haven't you met them?
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They like to bash you
over the head with the Bible.
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The Bible was not
written for argumentation,
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it was meant to lead
me to repent of my sins.
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It's a lot easier to argue
over something in the Bible
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than to come to
Christ and repent.
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The Bible is not
a book about science
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because science
changes from year to year.
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When people say,
"It's a book about science.
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I said, "Which
science, today or next year?"
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Because the science next year
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will be different
to the science today.
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It is God's special revelation
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about Christ and His gospel.
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Now look at Hebrews 4:12,
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that's why you
got to read the Bible.
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Don't be lazy.
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This country is
full of lazy churchgoers.
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They're lazy, they
don't read the scriptures.
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Hebrews 4:12 says,
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"For the Word of God
is living and powerful,
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sharper than any
two-edged sword,"
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cuts,
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"piercing even to the
division of soul and spirit,
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and of joints and marrows,
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and is a
discerner of the thoughts
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and intents of the heart."
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The Word of God is powerful.
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When did you read it last?
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You read it every day?
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You say, "Well, look,
I'm just such a weak person.
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I've got so many problems.
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I have this spirit."
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The reason is
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because you don't let
God's Word get inside you.
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Word of God is powerful.
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The Word of God is true.
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It's not fake news,
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it's not a lot of phony baloney,
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it is the truth.
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The word is creative.
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If you read the word,
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and let the word get inside you,
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you'll be recreated
in the image of God.
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It is life
giving, it is convicting.
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When you read the Word of God,
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you will start to feel
how great a sinner you are.
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People who get
around proud as peacocks,
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the self righteous people
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who often go to church
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have never, never
read the Word of God,
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as God gave it.
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Word of God is not written
to make me feel righteous,
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it's convicting.
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It is comforting.
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It is renewing.
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It is disturbing.
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If you sit in church week
after week, year after year,
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and you've never been
disturbed by what you've heard,
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it's because you're dead
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because it
disturbs the conscience.
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When the Bible says,
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"Love your
neighbor as yourself."
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And I can hate
people, I can call them names,
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it's disturbing.
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It's encouraging.
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It is warning. It is saving.
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Will save your soul.
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And that's why I say to people,
read your Bible every day.
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Read it every day.
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Oh, it's so hard. Don't be lazy.
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I have to...
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Do you think I always
find it hard to read the Bible?
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No.
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My mind wants to run everywhere.
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What am I going to do in Manila?
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What am I going to do?
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No, I need to read the Word
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and let the
Word convict my soul.
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And don't just read
books about the Word.
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This country is
full of a billion books
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about the Word.
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I wish we got
rid of 99% of them.
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And people read the Word.
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It is written,
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"Man shall not
live by bread alone."
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Now listen to this,
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as I'm starting
to get warmed up.
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In spite of persecution,
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indifference in the church,
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opposition, lying,
and cheating, politicking.
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Some people are all the
time tied up with politicking.
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If you're tied up
just with politics,
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you're on the road to perdition
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because politics
cannot save your soul.
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Are you listening to me?
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And some people who
are sitting here today,
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and you're saying,
"Oh, my life is politics."
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I say God have mercy on you,
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because unless you're converted,
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you won't see
the kingdom of God.
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And in spite of politicking,
calling people's name,
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people names, what
an abomination that is.
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And every other sin,
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God has always had His preachers
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of the Holy Word.
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Let me tell you
some of my favorites.
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John Wesley, a scholar
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from Oxford University,
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came over here to
America to convert the Indians,
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but he said, "Who's
going to convert me?"
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He was a Church
of England minister,
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Oxford scholar, sophisticated.
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He came back to London,
went along to a little church,
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heard a layman
read Martin Luther's
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preface to the Book of Romans.
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And as this layman,
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who'd never been to
college was reading Luther,
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he got up and he said,
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"I felt my heart
strangely warmed.
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I felt I did trust in Christ."
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Have you ever had your
heart strangely warmed?
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I want to tell you
this, too much religion,
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man-made religion.
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Heart was
strangely warmed by God.
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Then he was up at 4
o'clock in the morning
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preaching to the
miners as they went to work.
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They told him,
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"Oh, Mr. Wesley,
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evangelism
doesn't work anymore."
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People will say that are lazy.
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Preaching at 4 o'clock in
the morning to the miners,
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he saved England
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from the equivalent
of a French Revolution.
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Sometimes they would get
him, and throw him in the river,
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stone him with stones.
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As he is preaching,
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throw rotten
eggs with him, at him.
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He was a man sent from
God whose name was John.
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A mighty man of God.
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He traveled 360,000
miles on the back of a horse,
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sometimes
walking through blizzard,
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and the snow pulling the horse.
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Why? Because of Christ.
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Where are his preachers today?
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George Whitfield,
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another man who
came from Oxford,
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a close friend of John Wesley.
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I love these men.
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He came over to America,
just a young guy preaching.
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On one occasion,
there was a farmer,
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he saw this
tremendous cloud of smoke.
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It wasn't smoke, it was dust.
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Thousands of people
running, riding horses,
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ladies and gents, and carriages.
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He said to his wife,
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"Get on the
horse," and they galloped.
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They came to this town,
they were putting out a table.
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They helped a young
boy get up on the table.
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Just a boy in his 20s.
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Preached the Word.
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Preached with so much power
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that people were
slain in the spirit,
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thousands, thousands.
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That's because the
Word has got power.
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And there was H. M. S. Richards.
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Perhaps the greatest preacher
we've ever had in our church.
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He came to Avondale
College when I was a boy,
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I heard him
preach on the sermon,
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the unsparing God.
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Anything, basically, I
remember from Avondale.
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God spared not the angels.
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If God didn't
spare the antediluvians,
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if God didn't
spare Sodom and Gomorrah,
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He's not going
to spare you either.
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He's an unsparing God.
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Then He came to Romans 8,
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"He who spared not His own Son."
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The sin of the
world was weighed on Him.
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That sermon changed my life.
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H. M. S. Richards.
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He was a preacher of the Word.
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Then when we were
young people at college,
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Beverley and I went down
with Pastor Heffron to Sydney,
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joined the crowd of well
over 100,000, probably 150,000,
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6,000 in the choir,
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and we heard a man,
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look just like
that, a young man,
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walking around saying,
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"The Bible says,
the Bible says, "
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preaching the
cynical tough Aussies.
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We don't believe in him.
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The Bible says.
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On altar call,
thousands coming forward.
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Tell Billy
Graham it doesn't work.
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It doesn't work for
people who don't let it work,
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who don't have
the Spirit of God.
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Then he told the story.
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He told the
story that one red spot
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spoke about Napoleon
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after Waterloo.
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He pointed out
to England and said,
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"Apart for that one red spot,
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I would have
conquered the whole world."
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Then he said after Calvary,
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Satan and his
generals got around and said,
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pointing to Calvary,
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"But for that one red spot,
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I would have
conquered the whole world."
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That sermon
goes back a long time
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when I was just a boy.
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I've never
forgotten it, the Bible says.
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Then early in our ministry,
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we went to a town on Australia
by the name of Wagga Wagga
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W-A-G-G-A, Wagga
Wagga, great town.
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There was a preacher
there who was preaching.
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We were there to help
him, but properly hindered him.
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His name was George Burnside,
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great Bible preacher.
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One young man,
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rebellious young
man in his teens,
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after Pastor Burnside
had preached for 60 minutes,
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he said to me, "Why
does he have to stop?"
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That's the power of God.
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Romans 1:14-16 please,
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Romans 1:14-16,
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"I am a debtor both to
Greeks and to barbarians,
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both to wise and to unwise.
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So, as much as in me,
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I'm ready to preach the gospel
to you 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 the dunamis of God
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to salvation for
everyone who believes,
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for the Jew first, and
then also for the Greek."
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It's the power of God.
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When God made the universe,
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He poured out tremendous power.
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Now that God, who
made the universe,
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takes that power and pours it
into the preaching of His Word.
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What power!
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What power!
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God's mighty power is directed
to save lost men and women
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through the Word of God.
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1 Peter 1:23-25,
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1 Peter 1,
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"Having been
born again," made new,
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"not of corruptible
seed but incorruptible,
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through the word of God
which lives and abides forever.
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All flesh is as grass,
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and all the glory of man
as the flower of the grass.
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The grass withers,
and its flower falls away.
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But the word of the
Lord endures forever.
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Now this is a word
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which by the gospel
was preached unto you."
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Goodness me.
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I make a promise to you,
and listen very carefully.
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Let it sink
down into your minds.
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Shun
triviality, and foolishness,
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stupidity.
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If you follow the
truths of the Holy Bible,
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not the false teachings
of men, but the words of God,
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you will be
saved for all eternity
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in the kingdom of God.
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That is God's promise to
you, but you've got to read it.
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Do not be lazy. Read the Word.
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Start with the
gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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and John,
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especially the Gospel of John.
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In the beginning was the
Word, the Word was with God.
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Read it.
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So we come back to
Luther, we started with Luther,
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we'll end with Luther.
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If you fill up
your soul on the Word,
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you'll be able to sing
with Luther these words.
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What a hymn.
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A mighty fortress is our God,
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a bulwark never
failing, Our helper He,
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amid the flood of
mortal ills prevailing,
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For still our ancient
foe doth seek to work us woe,
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His craft and pow'r are great,
and, armed with cruel hate,
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On earth is not his equal.
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Did we in our
own strength confide,
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our striving would be losing,
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Were not the
right Man on our side,
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the Man of God's own choosing.
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Dost ask who that may be?
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Christ Jesus, it is He,
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Lord Sabaoth, His Name,
from age to age the same,
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And He must win the battle.
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And though the
world, with devils filled,
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should threaten to
undo us, We will not fear,
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for God hath willed His
truth to triumph through us,
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The Prince of Darkness
grim, we tremble not for him,
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His rage we can endure,
for lo, his doom is sure,
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One little word shall fell him.
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That word,
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that word above
all earthly pow'rs,
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no thanks to them, abideth...
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That was the Dark Age's church.
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No thanks to them, abideth,
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The Spirit and the
gifts are ours through Him
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Who with us sideth,
00:25:23.39\00:25:25.89
Let goods and kindred go,
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this mortal life also,
The body they may kill,
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God's truth abideth still,
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His kingdom is forever.
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Now...
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that's what changed the world.
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That's what gave
us the reformation.
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That's what raised up
and enlightened people.
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It is that word
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received into the
heart on a daily basis
00:25:57.45\00:26:02.59
that will change
and save your soul
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because Jesus said,
00:26:06.19\00:26:07.76
"It is written,
00:26:07.80\00:26:09.66
Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:26:09.70\00:26:13.00
but by every word that preceded
out of the mouth of God.
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And all the people said,
00:26:18.51\00:26:20.98
'Amen, and amen.'"
00:26:21.01\00:26:26.58
There's only one thing
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that really
counts in this lifetime,
00:26:27.98\00:26:30.59
your relationship to Christ.
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And then if you have
00:26:33.32\00:26:34.66
a right
relationship with Christ,
00:26:34.69\00:26:37.03
you want to tell
people about Christ.
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That's why Jesus said,
"Go into all the world,
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and preach the
gospel to every creature."
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By the grace of God,
we're going to do that,
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we are doing that.
00:26:49.20\00:26:51.07
That is why we're
going back to Cuba,
00:26:51.11\00:26:53.54
to this communist
land, to preach Christ.
00:26:53.58\00:26:58.11
We're accepting an
invitation to go to the vast,
00:26:58.15\00:27:02.15
huge city of Manila, the
capital of the Philippines,
00:27:02.18\00:27:06.29
been there before,
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but by the grace of
God, we're going back.
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Please support us.
00:27:11.53\00:27:13.29
Please stand with us
00:27:13.33\00:27:15.66
in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
00:27:15.70\00:27:18.43
You say, "How do you do it?
00:27:18.47\00:27:20.10
Who pays the bills?"
00:27:20.14\00:27:21.67
We do.
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.04
"Do you get any help,
00:27:23.07\00:27:24.41
financial help from the church?"
00:27:24.44\00:27:25.87
No, my friend, we don't,
00:27:25.91\00:27:27.68
but we get a lot
of help from God,
00:27:27.71\00:27:30.65
and from His children.
00:27:30.68\00:27:32.21
Please support us
00:27:32.25\00:27:33.98
in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
00:27:34.02\00:27:36.99
It's the most
important work in all the world.
00:27:37.02\00:27:39.92
Everything else
is almost trivia.
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So would you please write to me,
00:27:43.16\00:27:46.80
John Carter, P.O. Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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Do your best for Jesus.
00:27:55.10\00:27:57.14
Do your best for the gospel.
00:27:57.17\00:27:59.47
And in Australia,
write to me at Terrigal,
00:27:59.51\00:28:03.35
and we promise you
this, every dime, every dollar
00:28:03.38\00:28:08.55
is going to be used
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