COVID-19 delayed the
teaching of this message
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for the Manila programs.
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However, a pandemic
cannot stop God's truth
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from marching forward.
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John Carter brings us
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the incredible
teaching of the man
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who wrote His own life
story before He was born.
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From his studio in
Los Angeles, California,
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here is John Carter.
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Of course, it's
quite impossible,
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absolutely
impossible for a person
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to tell his own life
story before he is born,
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would you not agree?
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But that's what we're
going to talk about today.
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The man who wrote
His own life story
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before He was born,
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and a very warm welcome to you,
my friends around the world.
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What do you think
about political correctness?
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Do you like it?
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Well, sometimes it's not so
bad if it's done in the attitude
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that you're just
trying to be nice to people.
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And niceness to people is good.
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However, if
political correctness means
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that all ideas
are of equal worth,
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it's an abomination
because it's one big lie.
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I don't believe in
political correctness
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as it is taught today,
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in Hollywood or anywhere else
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on the face of the earth.
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I'm locked up at
home most of the time now
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because of this COVID-19.
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So on the weekend,
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I was watching a
bit of television,
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you do get desperate, don't you?
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And there was a man who
said, "I believe in God."
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Oh, that's interesting.
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He said, "I believe in God.
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I believe in all gods.
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I believe in Buddha,
I believe in the Lord,
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I believe in Christ."
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That sounds good, doesn't it?
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But that which proves too
much proves nothing at all.
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And if you believe in all gods,
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it means that there
is really no God at all.
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We're going to
talk today about the man
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who wrote His own life
story before He was born.
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And this course is impossible,
but it really happened.
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So today, my
friends around the world,
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I want to welcome
you to the Carter Report,
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because we've got
some amazing things
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to share with you today
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and I hope you're doing okay.
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I heard a young preacher
say he was asked the question,
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"Why do you believe
in the resurrection?"
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And he said,
with great confidence,
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"I believe in the resurrection
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because of my faith."
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I don't.
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I believe in the resurrection,
not because of my faith,
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but because it
actually happened.
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And because it
actually happened,
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I put my faith in and
faith is simply trust or belief.
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So today we're not just
talking about blind faith.
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I don't believe in blind faith
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in believing just
what I want to believe.
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That's why Jesus said,
"You'll know the truth,
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and the truth
will make you free."
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So today we're
talking about the man
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who wrote His own life
story before He was born.
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Intriguing, isn't it?
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Quite amazing, isn't it?
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The man who wrote
His own life story,
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not after He was born
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but before He was born.
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The world has seen
some remarkable characters
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and people who've
made a profound impression
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upon the world for
good and some for bad.
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I want you to notice
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some of the
candidates for greatness.
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I guess if we're
looking for great people
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who've made a great impression,
you've got to include Moses,
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he's the man who led
the children of Israel
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out of the land of
Egypt through the Red Sea.
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The Bible says,
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and who gave to the
world from the hand of God
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the Ten Commandments.
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Remember, the movie
with Charlton Heston.
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You know what Charlton
Heston's real name was?
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John Carter.
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You don't believe it?
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Well, go and check it out.
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Then of course,
there was Elijah.
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He was a mighty prophet
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because he brought down
fire from God out of heaven,
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had to be a great
person, don't you think?
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Could you leave out Peter?
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I don't think you
could leave out Peter
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who was called
the big fisherman.
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The Roman Catholic
says he was the first pope.
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Now you might not
believe that, I don't.
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But I do believe that
Peter was a great personality,
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shaped the history of the world.
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But possibly an
even greater character
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was the Apostle Paul
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who gave us the book of Romans
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that gave us
Western civilization,
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there would be no
Western civilization,
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except for the great Paul
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of the New Testament.
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Very great character person,
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I've loved for many years
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is Abraham Lincoln.
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One of the greatest characters,
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the great
emancipator of the slaves,
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a man of great character.
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So I put Lincoln up very high
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on the list of
being a great person.
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But then I move on
from Abraham Lincoln
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and I come to one of
my favorite characters
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in the history of humanity.
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And that is
Winston Spencer Churchill,
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the man who said in
the face of the Nazis,
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"Never give up, never
give up, never give up."
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Can't you hear him?
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I respect Winston Churchill,
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I wish we had a
few Churchills today.
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And then, of course,
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there are other
great characters too.
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I'm a little biased, of course,
because of my background,
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but I have great
respect for Mother Teresa,
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a firm Roman Catholic Christian,
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who was venerated as a
saint in the land of India.
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I don't have to
believe everything she believed
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but I respect
her, Mother Teresa.
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And now my
prejudice does come through
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when I say
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Queen Elizabeth II.
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During the Second World War,
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she worked in the army
working on army trucks.
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She gave a
great speech recently,
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and she took some of the
words of Winston Churchill.
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"Never give up, never despair."
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So I respect
some of these people.
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But listen, these
people are not the greatest
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in the history
of the human race,
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because there was somebody else
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who was greater than
all of them put together.
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That was a little baby
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that was born down in the barn
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at the back of Motel 6
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about 2,000 years ago,
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the man whom they
nailed to the cross,
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the man whom we believe
was raised from the dead,
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His name is Jesus.
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And as Richard Dawkins,
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the world's most
famous atheist says,
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Jesus was a real person
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and a real personality.
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And here it is,
before He came to this earth,
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are you listening to me?
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Before He was born, He
wrote through the prophets,
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the story of His own life.
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He's the man who
wrote His own life story
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before He was born.
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And I'm going to
give you a text or two
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out of the book of books.
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We're gonna start
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with these
words of Christ Jesus.
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John 17:3, "And
this is eternal life."
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You want eternal life?
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Then listen,
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"That they may know
You, the only true God,
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and Jesus Christ
whom You have sent."
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Then there's another
verse that comes after it.
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I want you to notice this verse.
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Here it is.
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John 17:5.
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"And now, O Father,
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glorify Me
together with Yourself,"
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now look, listen to this,
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"with the glory
which I had with You
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before the world began."
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Before the world began,
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Jesus Christ existed
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in His preincarnate
form with His father,
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billions and
billions of years ago.
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He lived before He was born.
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And through the
ancient Hebrew prophets,
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He wrote His own life
story before He was born.
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If this is true,
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this is tremendous
proof for Christ and for God.
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And there's a great statement
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that I like to read
to my skeptical friends.
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And I've got many, many
friends who are skeptical,
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and here it is.
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I want you to notice this.
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If genuine prophecy exists,
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then the big issues
of our times are solved.
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If there is, I say, if
there is genuine prophecy,
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if a man could
write his own life story
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before he was born,
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if there is genuine prophecy,
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this answers the big
questions of our age.
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The great questions
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that thinking people
are asking for instance,
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where did I come from?
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Who am I?
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What am I doing here?
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And where am I going?
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These are the big questions.
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And I've talked about
this to vast audiences
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around the world,
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and to hundreds of thousands
of communists and atheists
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in the old Soviet Union.
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If genuine prophecy exists.
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I want you to
notice these prophecies
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inspired by Christ.
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Some of them, 1,000
years before He was born.
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Are you with me
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and are you
listening, my friend?
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Prophecy number one,
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it was predicted
where He would be born,
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the place of His birth.
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And if you take
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the ancient Hebrew
Christian scriptures
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and turn to Micah 5:2,
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you get these words.
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Micah 5:2,
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"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
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though you are little
among the thousands of Judah,
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yet out of you
shall come forth to Me,
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the One to be Ruler in Israel,
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whose goings
forth are from of old,
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from everlasting."
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It talks here about a
person coming to this earth
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who had lived from time eternal,
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billions of years ago
and he comes to this earth
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and he's going to be
born in a little town
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by the name of
Bethlehem Ephrathah.
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Now listen to the facts.
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Jesus was born,
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not in the place
where His parents lived.
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His parents
lived in a little town
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up north in Israel
by the name of Nazareth.
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But the Bible said He'd
be born in this little town
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by the name of
Bethlehem, which is down south.
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Now history tells me
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that the Romans
decreed a census,
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and this census said
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that every person had
to go back to his hometown.
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And the hometown of His
parents was not Nazareth,
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but the little
town of Bethlehem.
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And so Mary,
pregnant with Christ,
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and Joseph traveled down
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that long, bumpy road.
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They travel down, I
guess, on the back of a camel.
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Oh, no, don't
think... not a camel.
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They would do this later,
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perhaps when they
went down to Egypt.
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But they travel on
the back of a donkey.
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Though there are camels
over there in Israel too
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but most likely they traveled
on the back of a donkey.
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And when they got to Bethlehem
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which is the place
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that was predicted in the Bible,
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Jesus was born not in a palace,
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not at the White House,
not in Buckingham Palace.
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No, He was born in a shed
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at the back of Motel 6.
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At Motel 6 or the inn
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didn't have room
for the Son of God,
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the Creator of the universe.
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Isn't this amazing?
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The blindness of the world.
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And so, through the prophets,
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Christ predicted
the place of His birth.
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Prophecy number two.
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Prophecy number two.
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The miracle of His conception,
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and I use the word miracle.
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If you turn to the
prophet Isaiah Chapter 7,
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and I turn to these texts
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because I believe that
this is here we find truth
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and on truth, we
can build our faith.
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We don't build faith on faith
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or fiction or supposition,
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we build faith on truth.
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Isaiah 7:14 says,
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"Therefore the Lord
Himself will give you a sign,
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behold, the virgin
shall conceive and bear a Son,
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and shall call
His name Immanuel."
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And this means "God with us"
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is referring to the
coming of the Messiah,
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God with us.
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Now, you know the story.
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If you know the Bible at least,
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you know the story
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that Mary becomes pregnant
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and Joseph, her
husband, being a good man says,
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I don't want to disgrace her.
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So he's just
going to put her away.
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But he's told by an
angel from God, "No, no, no,
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that which is
conceived in her womb
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is of the Holy Spirit."
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Because the ancient prophet
700 years before Christ said,
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"The virgin shall be with
child and shall bear a Son,
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and shall give His
name, call His name Immanuel."
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The Bible teaches
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that Christ was
conceived in the womb,
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not by a man,
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but by the
Almighty Spirit of God.
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Now some folks will say to me,
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"But, John Carter, you know,
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this is absolutely absurd.
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This can't happen."
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Hey, are you kidding me?
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Don't you realize that
the God who made the stars
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is the God of the impossible?
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Are you listening to me?
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He is the God of the impossible.
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God can do amazing things,
00:17:33.15\00:17:35.75
and God can do
impossible things.
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And the Bible tells
me that the Almighty God,
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the spirit of the Almighty God,
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the God who made a trillion
trillion stars, planets.
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This Almighty God,
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through His
Spirit came upon Mary
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and Jesus was conceived
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of the Holy Spirit.
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Christ predicted this,
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He wrote His own life
story before He was born,
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He inspired the prophets.
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Prophesy number three,
inspired by the Messiah,
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long, long, long before
He came into this world.
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Listen carefully,
00:18:20.20\00:18:21.90
the year of His
coming out to preach,
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His preaching, His baptism,
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and His death were prophesied
in the Holy Scriptures.
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At least 600 BC.
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Now listen carefully to this.
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In the prophet Daniel,
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I'm not gonna take time
because we don't have time.
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I always seem to
have too much material.
00:18:41.22\00:18:43.25
So my guy said,
00:18:43.28\00:18:44.62
"You got to cut out
some of the material,
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you're talking too much."
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So, but in Daniel Chapter 9,
there is a remarkable prophecy.
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Please listen.
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This remarkable prophecy
was given by God to a prophet
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by the name of Daniel,
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who was living in the
great city of Babylon.
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And the Bible said
Jerusalem would get destroyed,
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it was, it was destroyed.
00:19:06.41\00:19:08.78
But then the Bible says,
after Jerusalem was destroyed,
00:19:08.81\00:19:12.18
there would commit a decree,
00:19:12.21\00:19:13.55
to restore and
to build Jerusalem.
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And the Bible said,
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there would be a period of time
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483 years after the decree,
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to restore and
to build Jerusalem.
00:19:23.86\00:19:25.86
That decree was
given by the Persian in,
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Persian Emperor in 457 BC.
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This is a fact, not
just telling you something,
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this is a fact.
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And the Bible
says, in this prophecy,
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even read it
yourself in Daniel 9,
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there will be 483 years
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and then you would have
the coming of the Messiah.
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You think of this.
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You can work out the dates,
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it teaches that the Messiah
would appear in the year 27 AD.
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You say, I can't believe,
yes, you can believe this.
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I'm going to turn over
here to Luke Chapter 3,
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because this is an
independent commentary
00:20:04.73\00:20:09.80
on the prophecy of Daniel.
00:20:09.84\00:20:11.57
I'm going to
read Luke Chapter 3,
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and I'm going to take
it right out of the Bible
00:20:14.74\00:20:16.58
and I want you folks to listen.
00:20:16.61\00:20:18.31
Luke 3:1 says,
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"Now in the fifteenth year
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of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar,"
00:20:21.82\00:20:24.32
you know, when that happened,
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what date that was,
according to Jewish reckoning,
00:20:25.99\00:20:29.39
that was 27 AD.
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"The fifteenth year
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of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar."
00:20:32.39\00:20:34.86
It says, "Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea,
00:20:34.90\00:20:38.43
Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
00:20:38.47\00:20:41.30
his brother
Philip Tetrarch of Iturea
00:20:41.34\00:20:44.14
and the region of Trachonitis,
00:20:44.17\00:20:45.64
and Lysanias
tetrarch of Abilene."
00:20:45.67\00:20:50.01
Here we have some
great historical facts,
00:20:50.05\00:20:54.58
brother, sister,
00:20:54.62\00:20:56.58
we're talking
here, not just faith,
00:20:56.62\00:20:58.55
we're talking about the facts,
00:20:58.59\00:21:01.19
talking about the 15th year
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of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
00:21:02.69\00:21:04.49
and that is 27 AD.
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And I'm going to
read now verse 23.
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And it actually talks
about the coming of Christ
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to be baptized
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and to start His
messianic role in the world.
00:21:16.64\00:21:20.61
Luke 3:23, says,
let me see, verse 23.
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Here it is.
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"Now Jesus
Himself began His ministry
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at about thirty years of age,
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being (as was
supposed) the son of Joseph,"
00:21:34.89\00:21:39.39
and then it gives His
genealogy but the text tells me
00:21:39.43\00:21:43.77
that Jesus
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when He was
about 30 years of age,
00:21:45.77\00:21:50.47
in the 15th year of the
reign of Tiberius Caesar,
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Jesus was baptized,
00:21:54.81\00:21:57.28
and the Spirit
of God came upon Him
00:21:57.31\00:21:59.18
and He went forth to
preach the kingdom of heaven
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is at hand.
00:22:01.98\00:22:03.32
Now have a look over here again.
00:22:03.35\00:22:06.22
483 years it says
00:22:06.25\00:22:10.16
in Daniel Chapter 9,
00:22:10.19\00:22:12.46
you had the 483 years
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on to 457 BC,
00:22:15.06\00:22:18.70
the decree of Artaxerxes
Longimanus, have you got it.
00:22:18.73\00:22:23.04
And this brings you
through to the year 27 AD,
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which is the 15th year
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of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.
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Christ predicted the time
when He would start to preach
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and the time of His baptism.
00:22:39.69\00:22:42.22
Jesus Christ is a man
who wrote His own life story
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before He was born.
00:22:46.09\00:22:48.53
Now if this is true,
my friend, and it is true,
00:22:48.56\00:22:50.77
if it is true, if
genuine prophecy exists,
00:22:50.80\00:22:53.94
then the main
issues of our age are met.
00:22:53.97\00:22:57.41
And if this is true
what I'm telling you,
00:22:57.44\00:23:02.04
if genuine prophecy exists,
00:23:02.08\00:23:03.88
then there is a God
00:23:03.91\00:23:05.88
and Jesus Christ
00:23:05.91\00:23:08.48
is the predicted Messiah.
00:23:08.52\00:23:12.79
You can believe it
not because of blind faith
00:23:12.82\00:23:16.76
but you can believe it
00:23:16.79\00:23:18.13
because it is the truth.
00:23:18.16\00:23:23.37
Jesus Christ is the author
00:23:23.40\00:23:25.03
of the Old Testament prophecies.
00:23:25.07\00:23:27.94
He wrote His own life
story before He was born,
00:23:27.97\00:23:32.27
and around the world,
00:23:32.31\00:23:33.64
especially in
Russia and Ukraine,
00:23:33.68\00:23:35.51
I've had
literally tens of thousands,
00:23:35.54\00:23:38.21
hundreds of thousands
of atheists and communists
00:23:38.25\00:23:42.35
and cynics say,
00:23:42.38\00:23:43.72
"We can no longer
deny the evidence.
00:23:43.75\00:23:47.02
The Bible is the Word of God
00:23:47.06\00:23:48.96
and Jesus is the Son of God."
00:23:48.99\00:23:53.16
Prophecy number
four, here it comes.
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It was predicted
in the Old Testament
00:23:55.60\00:23:58.73
that the Messiah
would be rejected
00:23:58.77\00:24:00.57
by His own people.
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.14
Now as you all
know, Jesus was a Jew.
00:24:02.17\00:24:05.64
And He came to
the land of Israel,
00:24:05.67\00:24:07.68
He came to His
people who were Jews.
00:24:07.71\00:24:10.45
Isaiah 53:3,
00:24:10.48\00:24:13.72
written 2,700 years
ago, said these words.
00:24:13.75\00:24:19.25
Isaiah 53:3,
00:24:19.29\00:24:21.52
"He is despised
and rejected by men,
00:24:21.56\00:24:25.43
a Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief.
00:24:25.46\00:24:28.40
And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him.
00:24:28.43\00:24:32.20
He was despised, we
did not esteem Him."
00:24:32.23\00:24:37.87
Jesus was a Jew.
00:24:37.91\00:24:40.08
Jesus comes
through His own people,
00:24:40.11\00:24:41.88
comes to the chosen
people, the special people,
00:24:41.91\00:24:46.92
and instead of rolling out
the bands and praising God,
00:24:46.95\00:24:52.29
His own people rejected Him.
00:24:52.32\00:24:56.46
The Jewish people, His
own people rejected Him
00:24:56.49\00:24:59.73
and handed Him
over to the Romans.
00:24:59.76\00:25:02.40
And the Romans took Him
00:25:02.43\00:25:04.43
and they nailed Him on a cross.
00:25:04.47\00:25:10.01
Every word, every
single word of the prophecies
00:25:10.04\00:25:14.08
came to pass.
00:25:14.11\00:25:16.98
Listen very
carefully, may these sayings,
00:25:17.01\00:25:19.48
may these words sink down
00:25:19.51\00:25:21.62
into the
molecules of your minds.
00:25:21.65\00:25:25.65
Jesus Christ is the man
who wrote His own life story
00:25:25.69\00:25:31.46
before He was born.
00:25:31.49\00:25:34.30
If this is true,
00:25:34.33\00:25:36.00
then Jesus
Christ is the Messiah,
00:25:36.03\00:25:39.47
He is the Son of God, He
is the Savior of the world,
00:25:39.50\00:25:44.47
He is your Savior
and my Savior too.
00:25:44.51\00:25:48.61
And remember, if
genuine prophecy exists,
00:25:48.64\00:25:52.81
then we know who we
are, we know why we're here,
00:25:52.85\00:25:56.69
we know where we came from
00:25:56.72\00:25:59.29
and we know where we are going.
00:25:59.32\00:26:04.03
I have more amazing
prophecies to share with you.
00:26:04.06\00:26:09.23
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