Thousands of innocent
people are shot to death
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in America every year.
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Is the gun to blame?
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And is the solution
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more governmental
legislation and interference?
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What is the root cause of hatred
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that drives individuals
to commit deeds of violence?
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Is the gun the problem?
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What causes our
culture of violence?
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Find out on the Carter Report.
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Today we're talking
about "Guns in America."
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Guns in America,
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is the solution to get
rid of all of the guns.
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It was Wednesday
night very recently
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and I was out
walking in Thousand Oaks.
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I guess I've gone
walking in Thousand Oaks,
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thousands of times,
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'cause I've lived
there for quite a few years.
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Beverley and I've lived
there for about 30 years.
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We love Thousand Oaks.
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So I'd come home from work
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and I was sort of
feeling a bit stressed out.
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And after eating
something I went for a walk.
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I've been on that walk
hundreds and hundreds of time.
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So walking down this
hill, all by myself I thought,
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strange some of these
things that happen to you.
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And as I was walking alone,
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I was overcome by a
tremendous impression
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that I was in danger.
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This has never happened
before to me in Thousand Oaks.
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It's as so a voice
said to me, almost audibly,
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"Turn around and go home."
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But I was going down this
hill, I came to a little street,
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I crossed over the street,
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but the
impression became stronger.
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Turn around and go home.
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And so with some resistance
and feeling a little silly,
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I turned around and got home.
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Beverley said,
"You're home early."
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I said, "Well,
just came home early."
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Then after a bit I went to bed.
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I emphasize,
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Thousand Oaks
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has been about the
safest place in America.
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We don't have really
crime in Thousand Oaks,
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we don't have killings.
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It's on the
border of Los Angeles
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but in spite of that,
it's tremendously safe.
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The next morning Beverley said
to me 'cause she got up first,
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she said "There's
been a massive shooting.
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Thirteen people are dead."
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A young white man,
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obviously deranged, got his gun,
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went and shot all
of these young people.
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I talked to my neighbor,
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just a little
while later and he said,
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"We are grieving in our
home, these were our friends,
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we graduated together."
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Then the big fires came,
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we were blessed we
didn't lose our home,
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we could've lost our home.
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We had the mass killing
and then the fire started.
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And on the Saturday afternoon,
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Beverley and I saw the
fire at the top of Mount Boney.
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We've seen it there before,
many years before we saw it...
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Unless they get the fire out,
the fires going to come down,
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it's going to wipe us all out.
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Thanks be to God,
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they sent the big air tankers
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and we were saved
by the air tankers.
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These tremendous pilots,
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they must be some of
the best in the world.
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But as we were standing
up next to the water tower,
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watching the air
tankers bomb the fires.
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We were joined by
some folks and they said,
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"You see just down there?"
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"Yeah, that's
where I was walking."
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"That's where the murderer
was loading up his gun."
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This just happened,
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a little while just
happened before them,
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the mass murder.
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So it's a strange thing
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when you've lived in
one of the safest places
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in the world,
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to wake up and find
it's not so safe after all.
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So far in the
United States of America
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there have been more
than 300 mass killings
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this year.
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A mass killing I'm told is,
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when you have
three people or more.
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Violence in
America, what has gone wrong?
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I'm not suggesting today
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that I've got all the
answers to all these problems,
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but I'm going to go literally
to the heart of the problem.
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And I'm not going
to please everybody
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who is watching the telecast.
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This is a polarizing subject,
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but I think basically the
answer is plain and simple,
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if we only had the
courage and the wisdom
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to face the facts.
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I'm going to
turn to the old Bible,
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I'm going to
turn to Galatians 6:7,
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the Book of Galatians 6:7,
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and this is a very,
very significant passage
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because it teaches
a tremendous truth.
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Galatians Chapter 6,
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I believe it is, and verse 7,
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the Bible says,
"Do not be deceived,
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God is not mocked..."
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You can't fool God,
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"Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked,
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for whatever man sows,
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that he will also reap."
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We reap what we sow.
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If we sow barley, we get barley.
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If we sow oats, we get oats.
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If we sow wheat, we get wheat.
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If we sow love, we get love.
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And if we sow hate, we get hate.
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And sadly today,
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there's a lot
of hate in America.
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There's a lot of hate speech.
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I seem to think and
many would agree with me,
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I think you'd agree with me.
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There's nothing
really much worse
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than a torrent of hate speech,
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because hate
speech just may push
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an unbalanced
person over the line.
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When are we going to get smart
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and realize that words matter?
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Today in America we have a rise
of anti-Semitism, how amazing.
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How can a person
claim to follow Christ
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and be against
the people of Christ?
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I gave the talk once on the fact
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that Jesus is a Jew.
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I got a flood of hate
mail, Jesus is not a Jew,
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He's an Anglo like
us, I'm telling you.
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And so some person
broke into a synagogue
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while these Jewish people
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are worshipping
God and murdered them.
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Now, my appeal today to
you, my friends and my audience,
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is this, it's for a
kinder, gentler America.
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No more hate
speech, I can't change you,
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you can't change me,
but God can change me.
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And that we stop
the name calling.
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We hear it all over Washington,
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politicians
calling their enemies
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by awful names.
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Why don't they realize
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that usually we
give up name calling
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when we get out of
school for little children?
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Little kids call
each other names,
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but as you know
some people grow older,
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and some people grow up,
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but some people just grow
older and they never grow up.
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Name calling is for babies.
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Remember Louis
Armstrong, Satchmo.
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The great song he used to
sing, "What a wonderful world."
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It could be a wonderful world.
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We mourn the passing
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of the great
President George Bush,
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whom I have always admired.
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He spoke about lighting
a thousand points of light.
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People laughed, wow, how silly.
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Why not?
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Thousand points of light.
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Dr. Robert Schuller,
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the Crystal
Cathedral spoke about going out
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and committing random acts,
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not of violence but
random acts of kindness.
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Just do it.
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That's somebody in
on the freeway, be kind.
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The question is,
this is the questions,
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it's a difficult one,
but it's easy to answer.
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Is this nation that
we believe was raised up
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in the providence of God
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the great United
States of America?
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Is it actually more
dangerous than other places?
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And if so, why?
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I want you to
look at these places
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that are we're
going to put up now
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on the television wall.
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Gun related deaths
per 100,000 per year
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in affluent
countries, Australia is1.04.
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When we say America is
the wealthiest country,
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we're not
talking about per capita.
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Because there are
lots of other countries,
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where people per
capita have got more money,
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but we're talking about
the gross domestic product,
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GDP.
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So America is number one.
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Violent deaths with guns,
one Austria 2.9, Canada 2.05,
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Denmark 1.28,
France 2.83, Germany 1,
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Iceland 0.07, Ireland 0.80,
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Iceland wasn't it
0.07, Ireland 0.8,
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then if you look
over here Italy 1.31,
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Netherlands less than 1,
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New Zealand just over 1
about the same as Australia,
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Singapore look at
this 0.025, Spain 0.62,
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Sweden 1.47,
United Kingdom 0.23,
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people have come
to me and they've said
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"We're thinking
of going to England,
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is it safe to go to England?
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They say, you know,
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is it safe for us
Americans to go to England.
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The UK 0.23,
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the United
States of America 11.96.
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This means that your
chance of being killed
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in the United States of America
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with a gun is 50 times higher
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than if you were
living in England.
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So the reason is, why, why?
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Why? Why?
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The violence.
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Now look at
developing countries,
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Argentina 6.93.
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Let me, let me point
some of these things out.
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Gun related deaths
per 100,000 per year
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in developing countries.
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Argentina about 7,
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Brazil very dangerous
21.9, Chile 2.4, pretty safe,
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Colombia 18.65,
very dangerous, Cuba 0.5,
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one of the safest places
on the face of the earth.
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El Salvador can you believe it,
45.6, tremendously dangerous.
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We've just, we've run
a huge campaign there,
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dangerous.
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Guatemala 34,
Jamaica 30, very dangerous,
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Mexico 7.64,
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and we talk about these Mexicans
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being dangerous people,
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Venezuela almost 60, and
so some of these countries
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are tremendously
dangerous with the use of guns
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and other ways
of killing people.
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But I would point
out to you this fact,
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that most dangerous countries
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usually have a long history
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of a corrupt church.
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Bad religion
pulls down the morals
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and destroys the moral fiber.
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That's what you've
got in Latin America,
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a corrupt church
and corrupt governments,
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like in Venezuela.
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What you believe
apparently does matter,
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but here is the question.
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Why should the
wealthiest country compared
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to other wealthy
country be such a violent place?
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Now I'm not suggesting to you
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naively that
there are simple answers
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to this most
profound of questions.
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But why is America
such a dangerous place.
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Look at the text
again, Galatians 6:7,
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think of the text, read
it, "Do not be deceived,"
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don't be taken
in, the Bible says,
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"God is not mocked:
for whatever a man sows
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that he will also reap."
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It is true,
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it's unpalatable but it is true.
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If you sow to the wind,
you will certainly reap what?
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The whirlwind.
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If you say sow hate,
you're gonna get hate.
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If you sow violence,
you're gonna get violence.
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If you sow racism,
you're gonna get racism.
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If you sow anti-Semitism,
you're going to get it.
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If you sow white supremacy,
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you're going to get it.
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Whatever you sow,
you're going to get it.
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If you sow love,
you're going to get it.
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Now as I pondered this question,
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and this is a profound
and difficult question,
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and I've spent
many hours trying to,
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in my own mind
work out this mystery.
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I love America,
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been here now for
33 years this month.
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Love America,
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but why is it no
longer safe at nighttime
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to walk around Thousand Oaks.
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Why the violence?
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I want you to
come now to John 12:35.
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Open your Bible,
turn to the text.
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We supply Bibles
in these meetings.
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John 12:35.
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John 12:35, now
Jesus is talking here,
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"Jesus said to them,
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'A little while
longer the light is with you.
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Walk while you have the light,
lest darkness overtake you,
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he who walks in darkness
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does not know
where he is going.'"
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What I'm going to tell
you now is rather scary.
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Jesus said,
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"If you've got
light, walk in it.
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Because if you
don't walk in the light,
00:16:37.56\00:16:39.19
you know, what's gonna happen?
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You gonna get darkness.
00:16:41.93\00:16:44.00
Don't forget this,
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there is no darkness
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so black as light
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resisted and rejected.
00:16:53.74\00:16:58.65
So the more light that you have,
00:16:58.68\00:17:02.68
the greater the
spiritual dynamic,
00:17:02.72\00:17:06.09
so Jesus said,
"I'm giving you light."
00:17:06.12\00:17:10.46
So Jesus said,
"Walk in the light,
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lest darkness come upon you."
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Now here's
something I'm going to say
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that'll make some
people mad, so be it.
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But I'm telling
you what I believe,
00:17:25.44\00:17:28.18
and I still believe
in freedom of speech.
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Listen to this.
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The problem is
really not the gun at all,
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because if you
get rid of the guns,
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people are gonna do
it with something else.
00:17:44.39\00:17:46.39
And when I was a little
boy growing up in Australia
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that was and still is,
00:17:52.37\00:17:54.34
relatively
speaking a very safe place.
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There were still drunk drivers
00:17:59.14\00:18:00.98
and some people would
say back in those days,
00:18:01.01\00:18:04.98
you know, we
ought to get the cars
00:18:05.01\00:18:06.98
off the road, it's
better when we had horses.
00:18:07.02\00:18:11.75
I'm not that old, folks.
00:18:11.79\00:18:15.22
You know, what my mother said?
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My mother was
right, had a lot of wisdom.
00:18:17.19\00:18:21.90
She said, "It's not the car,
it's the nut behind the wheel."
00:18:21.93\00:18:28.80
Mm-hmm.
00:18:28.84\00:18:30.94
It's the nut behind the
wheel, it is not the car.
00:18:30.97\00:18:36.28
Now this is totally
politically incorrect
00:18:36.31\00:18:39.21
and you may hate me forever.
00:18:39.25\00:18:42.35
It's not the gun,
00:18:42.38\00:18:45.25
it's the nut behind the wheel.
00:18:45.29\00:18:48.49
Here's a little aside.
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I realized that guns
00:18:51.76\00:18:53.09
should not be sold to criminals,
00:18:53.13\00:18:54.50
I know that.
00:18:54.53\00:18:55.86
That's crazy to sell guns
to criminals, it's insanity.
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All crazy people
00:19:01.00\00:19:02.44
who have a record
of mental illness.
00:19:02.47\00:19:06.44
That seems to be a
lot of people today.
00:19:06.47\00:19:10.15
But this is not
the main problem.
00:19:10.18\00:19:11.85
Here it is.
00:19:11.88\00:19:13.38
This is gonna get so
many people mad with me.
00:19:13.42\00:19:15.68
Here it is.
00:19:15.72\00:19:17.49
The problem is
that the liberal media
00:19:17.52\00:19:23.06
and other parts of the
media and others have developed
00:19:23.09\00:19:29.30
sometimes with the
help of the government
00:19:29.33\00:19:32.03
a culture of violence.
00:19:32.07\00:19:34.17
We live in a
culture of violence.
00:19:37.51\00:19:42.58
It's not the gun,
00:19:42.61\00:19:44.48
it's the person holding the gun.
00:19:44.51\00:19:47.95
The person who thinks problems
can be solved with violence.
00:19:47.98\00:19:52.25
Now, I'm gonna take it further,
00:19:52.29\00:19:54.09
this will
alienate the rest of you.
00:19:54.12\00:19:56.06
We have cultivated our culture
00:20:00.16\00:20:04.67
where we
glorify killing and war.
00:20:04.70\00:20:10.17
Eisenhower, one of America's
greatest president said this,
00:20:10.21\00:20:13.31
"If the joint military complex,
00:20:18.41\00:20:23.75
the industrial military complex
gets in control of America,
00:20:23.79\00:20:29.52
there will never be a day
when America is not sending
00:20:29.56\00:20:34.33
her sons and their daughters off
00:20:34.36\00:20:35.96
to be shot down
on the battlefield."
00:20:36.00\00:20:40.54
So when you turn on
television, we glorify war,
00:20:40.57\00:20:45.21
and children are
brought up in a culture
00:20:49.24\00:20:51.98
where we glorify war,
00:20:52.01\00:20:54.22
and we think that problems
can be solved with violence.
00:20:54.25\00:21:00.99
That's the
problem, it's not the gun.
00:21:01.02\00:21:04.79
We've created a monster.
00:21:04.83\00:21:06.59
Now I was brought up with guns.
00:21:06.63\00:21:09.63
When I was a kid
growing up in Australia,
00:21:09.66\00:21:14.00
some of my
relatives owned farms.
00:21:14.04\00:21:15.97
My uncle Reggie
had a great farm.
00:21:16.00\00:21:17.97
My sister's husband, her folks,
they had farms, they had guns.
00:21:21.04\00:21:27.85
I was brought up around guns.
00:21:27.88\00:21:31.05
I learned to shoot with a gun,
00:21:31.09\00:21:35.32
but none of us were tempted
to go and shoot somebody.
00:21:35.36\00:21:39.06
We were never
tempted to go and get a gun
00:21:39.09\00:21:42.60
and to walk into a
place in Thousand Oaks
00:21:42.63\00:21:46.13
and kill a bunch of people,
00:21:46.17\00:21:48.24
because I thought that
the way to solve my problems
00:21:51.84\00:21:55.81
was with violence.
00:21:55.84\00:21:58.85
It's the nut behind the wheel.
00:21:58.88\00:22:01.25
Now I want you to
come to John 3:3-7,
00:22:01.28\00:22:05.92
and I'm going to suggest to you,
00:22:05.95\00:22:07.36
my friends, today, I
think this is the solution.
00:22:07.39\00:22:13.73
Some will say, "It won't work."
00:22:13.76\00:22:18.90
It will work, if we let it work.
00:22:18.93\00:22:22.34
John 3: 3-7,
00:22:22.37\00:22:28.84
"Jesus answered and said to him,
00:22:28.88\00:22:30.38
'Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again,
00:22:30.41\00:22:34.28
he cannot see
the kingdom of God.'"
00:22:34.32\00:22:36.08
You got to be born again.
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.45
"Nicodemus said to Him,
00:22:38.49\00:22:39.82
'How can a man be
born when he is old?
00:22:39.85\00:22:41.19
Can he enter a second time
00:22:41.22\00:22:42.66
into his mother's
womb and be born?'"
00:22:42.69\00:22:45.49
He's a theology
professor, knew nothing.
00:22:45.53\00:22:49.13
"Jesus answered, 'Most
assuredly, I say to you,
00:22:49.16\00:22:51.80
unless one is born
of water and the Spirit,
00:22:51.83\00:22:56.07
he cannot enter
the kingdom of God.
00:22:56.10\00:22:58.01
That which is born
of the flesh is flesh,
00:22:58.04\00:23:00.78
that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit.
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.35
Do not marvel
that I said to you,
00:23:03.38\00:23:05.31
'You must be born again.'"
00:23:05.35\00:23:09.98
What on earth is
Jesus talking about
00:23:10.02\00:23:12.92
and why don't preachers preach
about these things anymore.
00:23:12.95\00:23:17.99
Not everybody
talking about heaven
00:23:18.03\00:23:20.30
is going to heaven.
00:23:20.33\00:23:22.30
Jesus said, "You've
got to be born again."
00:23:22.33\00:23:26.43
The Spirit of God has
got to get down inside you,
00:23:30.14\00:23:35.58
and he's got to take the
poison out of your heart.
00:23:35.61\00:23:42.58
One of the greatest
preachers in the history
00:23:42.62\00:23:44.52
of the United States of America
00:23:44.55\00:23:46.12
was Dwight Moody.
00:23:46.15\00:23:48.62
He preached great deal
in the city of Chicago.
00:23:48.66\00:23:52.16
He came from Chicago.
00:23:52.19\00:23:54.50
Moody told a tremendous story.
00:23:54.53\00:23:58.53
He told about a
farmer who had a well,
00:23:58.57\00:24:02.14
and they discovered that
the well had got poisoned.
00:24:02.17\00:24:05.41
We've done this graphic
here, so you can see the well,
00:24:05.44\00:24:10.38
but down at the
bottom is full of poison.
00:24:10.41\00:24:16.25
Poison in the well.
00:24:16.28\00:24:17.65
Moody tells about the farmer,
he's got poison in the well.
00:24:17.69\00:24:22.19
You know what he did?
00:24:22.22\00:24:23.56
He went and
white washed the pump.
00:24:26.90\00:24:30.77
He got a poison
well and so what he does?
00:24:30.80\00:24:34.90
He white washes the pump.
00:24:34.94\00:24:38.17
That's what we're doing.
00:24:38.21\00:24:40.78
We've got poison in the well
00:24:40.81\00:24:43.38
and we're whitewashing
the pump, I'm telling you.
00:24:43.41\00:24:47.92
Moody said, "It's no
good to whitewash the pump,
00:24:47.95\00:24:51.45
you've got to
get down in the well,
00:24:51.49\00:24:53.89
and it's got to be cleansed out.
00:24:53.92\00:24:57.66
You see, all these
programs are here on television
00:24:57.69\00:25:01.26
from the
politician, I sort of get tired,
00:25:01.30\00:25:04.30
I get sick to death of listening
00:25:04.33\00:25:06.53
to some of these politicians
00:25:06.57\00:25:08.50
because all they're
telling me and telling America
00:25:08.54\00:25:11.37
is whitewash the pump.
00:25:11.41\00:25:15.34
You know, what we need to do?
00:25:15.38\00:25:17.85
Need to clean out the well.
00:25:17.88\00:25:21.45
Need to take the poison
out, that's the solution.
00:25:21.48\00:25:28.12
What's the solution
to a violent culture?
00:25:28.16\00:25:31.46
What's the
solution to hate, and envy,
00:25:31.49\00:25:35.76
and resentment
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.13
and all of these
negative emotions?
00:25:37.17\00:25:40.80
It's not another
government program.
00:25:40.84\00:25:42.40
Jesus said, "You
got to be born again."
00:25:45.54\00:25:48.24
When the Spirit of
God comes inside a man,
00:25:48.28\00:25:52.61
God doesn't whitewash the
pump, God changes the heart.
00:25:52.65\00:25:59.32
Today, we're talking
about God and guns in America.
00:25:59.35\00:26:04.06
Why is this the
most violent society?
00:26:04.09\00:26:07.36
We'll be back in a
moment, please stay with us.
00:26:07.40\00:26:10.90
The antichrist is
in the temple of God.
00:26:25.71\00:26:31.15
I read you the actual words
00:26:31.19\00:26:33.62
of the great
Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:33.66\00:26:38.13
More than a billion
people pray to the dead.
00:26:38.16\00:26:43.53
But the Bible talks very plainly
00:26:43.57\00:26:45.17
about good
angels and bad angels.
00:26:45.20\00:26:48.20
Why on earth
were you and I born?
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