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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Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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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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That's a bit amazing, isn't it?
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That a man could write
the details of His life
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not after, but
before He was born.
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Was there such a person?
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Absolutely.
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And listen to
what I'm going to say,
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this is pretty important.
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Here in America,
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we read a great deal
and hear a great deal
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about faith-based organizations
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in contrast to
scientific organizations,
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they say you belong to a church.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, you belong to a
faith-based organization.
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And people think that
faith is not based upon truth,
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but it's based upon
what you want it to be.
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Now with many
people, that's true.
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But it's not what Jesus taught.
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Jesus, our Lord said,
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"You shall know the truth,
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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Faith, my friend,
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is simply
another word for belief
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but there is no
efficacy in faith,
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unless it is
based upon the truth,
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unless it is based upon
the great facts of history.
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Now today,
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we're not just talking
about an airy fairy faith.
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We are talking about
the great facts of history.
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I've got a statement
here that I like very much,
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I put it up now
and then because it,
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it sort of fits in with
the theme of my talk today
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and other talks.
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I've used this
with my Russian friends
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and my communist
friends many times.
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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 a man could write his own
life story before he was born,
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that would have to
be a genuine prophecy,
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don't you
think, brother, sister?
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If genuine prophecy exists,
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that's the big question
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and we're going to
prove that it does today.
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Not from faith, but
from the facts of history.
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And what are the
big issues of the aid?
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Well, most folks who've
got these big issues today,
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who am I?
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What am I?
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Am I an animal?
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Am I a cosmic accident?
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Am I a machine?
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Where did I come from?
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Why am I, what is the purpose,
is there any meaning in life?
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What is the
purpose of existence?
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And of course,
where are you going?
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Now if genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main issues of life
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and the main
issues of our age are met.
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Because of this
genuine prophecy,
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I can know who I am,
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why I am here,
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where I came from
and where I am going.
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Jesus said, "You
shall know the truth,
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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He didn't say you're
gonna know about faith,
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and that faith is going,
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that belief is
going to make you free.
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Jesus said,
"You'll know the truth,
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you'll know the facts,
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you will have the evidence
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and the truth
will make you free."
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Now this is a continuation
of the talk I started
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a little while ago on the
man who wrote His own life story
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before He was born.
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And the great
premise of this talk is this
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that Jesus existed
before He was born.
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And through the
Old Testament prophets,
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He predicted the
great events of His life.
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Did you hear this?
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Through the prophets,
the Old Testament prophets,
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He predicted the
great events of His life.
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And now we're going to
come to prophecy number five,
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because we dealt
with one, two, three, four
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in the first part of the talk.
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It was predicted
in the Old Testament,
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it was predicted by
the Spirit of Christ
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that the Messiah
would be, here it is,
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amazing predictions number five,
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He would be
betrayed by a friend.
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And there is a text
I'm going to turn in the,
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in the Bible to a text
that is about 3,000 years old,
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how old did I
say, 3,000 years old.
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And I'm going to
come to Psalm 41.
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And let me see verse, verse 9.
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Here it is.
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Here is the messianic prophecy,
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Psalms 41:9.
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"Even my own familiar
friend in whom I trusted,
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who ate my bread,
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has lifted up
his heel against me."
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It was predicted 1,000
years before Christ was born
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that His confidant,
His familiar friend,
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the person that He shared
so many aspects of His life,
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the person with
whom He broke bread,
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this person would betray Him.
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History tells me that
Jesus had a special friend.
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They trusted him so much,
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they made him the
treasurer of the organization.
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He was in charge of the money.
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And his name was,
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and has today a
note of infamy about it.
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His name was Judas Iscariot.
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And the Bible tells
me the New Testament,
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which is an independent
book to the Old Testament.
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The record of the
New Testament says
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that this
special friend of Jesus
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went and betrayed his Lord.
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The prophecy came to
pass in the act of treachery
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by the disciple of
Christ, whose name was Judas,
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the prophecy was fulfilled.
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Look at prophecy number six
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because it's very
similar to this prophecy.
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Number six, prophecy given
long before Christ was born.
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Prophecy number six,
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He would be sold
for not 20 pieces
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but for 30 pieces of silver.
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And I'm going to
show you the prophecy.
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We're gonna go to the prophecies
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out of the Old Testament,
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and it goes back
hundreds and hundreds of years
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before Christ was born.
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It is a prophecy
found in Zechariah 11:13.
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Would you kindly
look at this text
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and think about
it, brother, sister.
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"The Lord said to me,
'Throw it to the potter'
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that princely
price they set on me.
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So I took the
thirty pieces of silver
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and throw them into the house
of the Lord for the potter."
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What an amazing,
amazing text, what happened?
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Well, Judas went
along to the Jewish priests,
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and they were hungry
for the blood of Christ,
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because he was a national
threat to their security.
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And he said, "I'm, I
want to do a deal with you.
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I'm prepared to
sell this man to you,
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and what will you give me?"
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And they said, "What
about thirty pieces?"
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Judas said, "Done."
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And then later on
when Christ was captured
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and when he was being tortured,
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Judas became
filled with remorse.
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Judas took the
30 pieces of silver,
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and he ran into the temple
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and he flung down
the 30 pieces of silver,
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as was predicted by
the ancient prophet.
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Amazing.
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Here's evidence
that there's a God.
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And prophecy came to pass.
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And the priest said,
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"What are we
gonna do with this money
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because we can't put
this into the treasury
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because this is,
this is blood money."
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And somebody said,
"We know what we'll do,
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we'll buy that
potter's field with it,
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and we'll use it
as a burial place
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for strangers."
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You couldn't make
this stuff up, my friend,
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you couldn't make it up.
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Every word of the prophecy
came to pass, here is proof,
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here is absolute evidence
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that Jesus
Christ is the Messiah,
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and that He is the
Savior of the world.
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Every word of the
ancient prediction
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came to pass.
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Prophesy number seven,
the most amazing prophecy,
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I think, in the Bible,
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given about 1,000 years
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before Christ was
born in Bethlehem.
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And the prophecy says
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that the Messiah
would be crucified.
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Can you believe this?
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It was predicted
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that the Messiah
would be crucified.
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And in those days
prophecy was unknown.
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They didn't crucify
people back there, 1000 BC.
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Let me show you the text.
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Text is found Psalm 22:16.
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These words were written,
don't forget this place.
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These words were written
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1,000 years
before Christ was born,
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but Christ
inspired this prophecy.
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He's a man who
wrote His own life story
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before He was born.
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Notice it.
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"For dogs have surrounded Me.
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The congregation of
the wicked has enclosed Me.
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They pierced My
hands and My feet."
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I say to the skeptic,
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what are you gonna do with that?
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When these words were written,
crucifixion was unknown.
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But the Bible says
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that they would get the Messiah,
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and they would pierce
His hands and His feet.
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This is an
amazingly apt description
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of the barbaric
practice of crucifying a person.
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It was predicted
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that the Jewish
leaders would betray Christ,
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that they would pass
Him over to the Gentiles
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and that He would be crucified.
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If I had nothing
else but that text
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and the history of Christ,
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I would be forced to
believe there's a God in heaven
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and that the Bible is true,
and that Jesus is the Messiah.
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And let me tell you
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just a little bit
of personal history.
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Many years ago when I was a boy,
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and my hair wasn't
this color or this long,
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I studied under the
great German archaeologist,
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Dr. Siegfried Horn.
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One of the greatest
archaeologists in the history
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of, of archaeology,
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an absolute scholar
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and in his own
way, a great scientist
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because he was interested
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not just in talking
airy fairy nonsense,
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he was interested in the facts.
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I'm interested in
the facts, my friend,
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and we don't have
alternative facts.
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You can't say I've got my facts
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and you've got
your facts, no, no, no.
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You can have your opinion.
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It may be
right, it may be wrong,
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but you can't have your facts.
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There's only one set of facts.
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And that's why Jesus
said you will know the truth,
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you'll know the facts,
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and the facts will set you free.
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That is why I believe in a faith
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that is based upon not
just what I want to believe,
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not make-believe religion,
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I want a faith that is
based upon the facts of history.
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And here's a statement
from my great old teacher,
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Dr. Siegfried Horn, the
great German archaeologist.
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"Crucifixion, crucifixion
as a mode of execution
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was inflicted
throughout the Roman Empire
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on the lowest
classes of people, slaves,
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who were
considered chattels anyway,
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common criminals, and
unruly foreign subjects.
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It was considered
an effective deterrent
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for which reason
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crucifixions were usually
carried out in public squares,
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in order that the
greatest number of people
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could witness them
and be scared to death.
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The victims were
usually first flogged
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in such a cruel way
that some were half dead
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when the actual
crucifixion began.
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They were nailed to
the crosses stark naked,
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and the legs were bent sideways,
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as shown by the
skeleton of a crucified man
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that was found in a
tomb near Jerusalem in 1968.
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Now remember, remember
this is from Dr. Siegfried Horn.
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Often the rough and
heartless legionnaires
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even drove a big nail
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through the private
parts of the victims,
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as Seneca tells us.
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Affixed to the
cross for hours, yes,
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sometimes for
days, before they died,
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they could not care
for their bodily needs,
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and were the objects
of mockery and indignities
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from passersby.
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Crucifixion in the Roman
world was the most shameful,
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and the most dishonorable death
any person could experience.
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Now let this sink
down into your minds,
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and in the name of
God, think about it.
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Christ through the
Old Testament prophets
00:14:30.10\00:14:33.20
predicted the details
of His life and His death.
00:14:33.23\00:14:36.84
He predicted in
the book of Psalms,
00:14:36.87\00:14:41.68
that His hands would be pierced
00:14:41.71\00:14:44.38
and His feet would be pierced.
00:14:44.41\00:14:48.35
It was predicted 1,000
years before it happened,
00:14:48.38\00:14:52.65
that the Messiah
would be crucified.
00:14:52.69\00:14:57.56
Horror of horrors
00:14:57.59\00:15:00.20
because who was this
man hanging on the cross?
00:15:00.23\00:15:04.43
That is the question
you've got to think of.
00:15:04.47\00:15:08.44
Do you have the
courage to think about it?
00:15:08.47\00:15:11.11
I ask you, my friend,
do you have the courage?
00:15:11.14\00:15:15.71
Shall we think about
the identity of this man
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who is being crucified?
00:15:19.18\00:15:21.28
The Bible tells me
that He was the Messiah,
00:15:21.32\00:15:24.85
who had, wait for it, He
had created the universe.
00:15:24.89\00:15:29.19
Say, I can't believe this.
00:15:29.22\00:15:30.73
Whether you believe it or
not, it doesn't alter the truth.
00:15:30.76\00:15:34.20
You can't have your facts
00:15:34.23\00:15:36.10
and I have a
different set of facts.
00:15:36.13\00:15:38.23
We need to have the facts.
00:15:38.27\00:15:39.87
And the facts, as
proven by Bible prophecy,
00:15:39.90\00:15:43.77
tell us that this Man
who was nailed to the cross
00:15:43.81\00:15:48.94
was more than
just a human being.
00:15:48.98\00:15:53.01
The Bible says
that He was the one
00:15:53.05\00:15:55.05
who created the
universe out of nothing.
00:15:55.08\00:15:58.15
He is the great I am,
the Lord God Almighty,
00:15:58.19\00:16:03.39
the Promised Messiah,
the Savior of the world,
00:16:03.43\00:16:07.76
and He was hung to a cross.
00:16:07.80\00:16:13.10
Incomprehensible, why
was He hung on a cross?
00:16:13.13\00:16:17.71
He was hung on
the cross, my friend,
00:16:17.74\00:16:20.98
because He was bearing
00:16:21.01\00:16:23.58
the sin of the world.
00:16:23.61\00:16:27.62
As I would say to the communists
00:16:27.65\00:16:29.15
and the atheists
00:16:29.18\00:16:30.52
by the hundreds of thousands,
in the former Soviet Union,
00:16:30.55\00:16:34.62
behold your God,
what a God He is,
00:16:34.66\00:16:37.99
how much He loves you,
00:16:38.03\00:16:40.66
how much He loves you.
00:16:40.70\00:16:44.07
Amazing predictions.
00:16:44.10\00:16:46.10
Here we go, number eight.
00:16:46.13\00:16:48.50
It was predicted
00:16:48.54\00:16:50.01
that the Messiah
would become the substitute
00:16:50.04\00:16:54.64
for the sins of the human race.
00:16:54.68\00:16:58.35
And this was predicted
00:16:58.38\00:16:59.85
in the Old
Testament prophecy of Isaiah,
00:16:59.88\00:17:04.05
and I'm going to
turn to this prophet.
00:17:04.09\00:17:06.82
There's no writing quite
like the writings of, of Isaiah.
00:17:06.86\00:17:12.69
They're absolutely
splendid and magnificent.
00:17:12.73\00:17:16.03
Isaiah 53:5, 6.
00:17:16.06\00:17:20.87
"But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
00:17:20.90\00:17:23.84
He was bruised
for our iniquities.
00:17:23.87\00:17:26.78
The chastisement for
our peace was upon Him,
00:17:26.81\00:17:29.48
by His stripes we are healed.
00:17:29.51\00:17:32.38
All we like
sheep have gone astray,
00:17:32.41\00:17:34.22
we've turned every
wonder His own way.
00:17:34.25\00:17:36.05
And the Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all."
00:17:36.08\00:17:39.95
The Bible teaches that
the sin of the human race
00:17:39.99\00:17:45.03
would be laid upon
Christ, your sin and mine.
00:17:45.06\00:17:49.16
How much does He love you?
00:17:49.20\00:17:51.27
With His own blood.
00:17:51.30\00:17:53.20
With His own suffering.
00:17:53.23\00:17:54.94
With His own pain.
00:17:54.97\00:17:56.47
What is God like?
00:17:56.50\00:17:59.61
God is like this
man hanging on the cross
00:17:59.64\00:18:01.64
because Christ was
a revelation of God.
00:18:01.68\00:18:06.75
Over in London,
many, many years ago,
00:18:06.78\00:18:11.89
18th century I
think, or the 19th century,
00:18:11.92\00:18:16.12
they had a sludge vessel,
00:18:16.16\00:18:17.59
they would take all
the sewage of that great,
00:18:17.63\00:18:20.26
magnificent city of London
00:18:20.30\00:18:23.87
and every day
they'd bring the sewage
00:18:23.90\00:18:25.87
and they'd put it on this boat.
00:18:25.90\00:18:29.37
Pretty filthy.
00:18:29.40\00:18:31.51
The sludge of London.
00:18:31.54\00:18:34.08
The boat would go out
into the British channel,
00:18:34.11\00:18:36.64
the North Sea,
00:18:36.68\00:18:38.58
and there it
would drop its cargo
00:18:38.61\00:18:40.98
down into the
blackness of the, of the ocean,
00:18:41.02\00:18:46.59
taken away.
00:18:46.62\00:18:48.32
And the Bible tells
me that on the cross,
00:18:48.36\00:18:50.93
the sludge of the
world was placed upon Christ,
00:18:50.96\00:18:54.00
your sin and mine.
00:18:54.03\00:18:55.76
Our problem is we
have no comprehension,
00:18:55.80\00:18:58.20
no understanding of the
depth of human depravity
00:18:58.23\00:19:01.97
that Christ did
because Christ had,
00:19:02.00\00:19:04.37
He was sinless and innocent
00:19:04.41\00:19:06.61
and yet the sin of the world
00:19:06.64\00:19:08.61
was laid upon Christ.
00:19:08.64\00:19:12.85
So what is this God like?
00:19:12.88\00:19:14.82
Infinitely better
than you can believe
00:19:14.85\00:19:17.89
or comprehend or realize,
00:19:17.92\00:19:21.19
and He loves you.
00:19:21.22\00:19:23.89
Christ is the man who
wrote His own life story
00:19:23.93\00:19:26.23
before He was born.
00:19:26.26\00:19:27.70
Therefore, believe in Him.
00:19:27.73\00:19:29.36
Prophecy number
nine, here we come.
00:19:29.40\00:19:32.60
Prediction number nine,
00:19:32.63\00:19:35.20
it was predicted not one
of his bones would be broken.
00:19:35.24\00:19:38.54
Amazing.
00:19:38.57\00:19:39.91
Here is the text, I
want to show it to you.
00:19:39.94\00:19:42.04
I'm gonna put it here,
prediction, Psalms 34:20,
00:19:42.08\00:19:46.78
"He guards all his bones.
00:19:46.82\00:19:48.78
Not one of them is broken."
00:19:48.82\00:19:50.52
It is predicted that not
one of the bones of Christ
00:19:50.55\00:19:52.99
would be broken.
00:19:53.02\00:19:55.16
But late in the
day on the Friday,
00:19:55.19\00:19:57.19
the Romans came to break
the legs of the criminals,
00:19:57.23\00:20:02.56
crucified on
either side of Christ.
00:20:02.60\00:20:07.47
They came and
they broke their legs,
00:20:07.50\00:20:09.07
but when they came to Christ,
00:20:09.10\00:20:10.77
they discovered
He was dead already.
00:20:10.81\00:20:14.61
So, they got a sword
and pierced His side,
00:20:14.64\00:20:17.25
blood and water came out.
00:20:17.28\00:20:20.92
But they didn't break His bones,
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.69
because it is written
00:20:23.72\00:20:25.05
that none of His
bones would be broken.
00:20:25.09\00:20:27.99
Here is undeniable evidence
that Christ is the Messiah,
00:20:28.02\00:20:31.56
the Savior of the
world, your Savior.
00:20:31.59\00:20:35.40
And here is
undeniable evidence this God,
00:20:35.43\00:20:38.47
He made you, and He loves you.
00:20:38.50\00:20:40.64
Therefore, believe in this God
00:20:40.67\00:20:42.24
who believes in
you and do it today.
00:20:42.27\00:20:45.94
It was predicted,
prophecy number 10,
00:20:45.97\00:20:49.14
that He would be
raised from the dead.
00:20:49.18\00:20:52.81
Prophesy number
10, His resurrection.
00:20:52.85\00:20:57.75
And here is the
ancient prophecy.
00:20:57.79\00:21:00.22
Psalms 16:10, 11.
00:21:00.26\00:21:04.59
Psalms 16:10, 11.
00:21:04.63\00:21:09.26
"For You will not
leave my Sheol," the grave.
00:21:09.30\00:21:14.64
"Nor will You
allow Your Holy One
00:21:14.67\00:21:17.01
to see corruption.
00:21:17.04\00:21:19.91
You will show me
the path of life.
00:21:19.94\00:21:23.31
In Your presence
is fullness of joy,
00:21:23.35\00:21:26.61
at your right hand
00:21:26.65\00:21:28.18
are pleasures forevermore."
00:21:28.22\00:21:32.69
So, it is predicted
00:21:32.72\00:21:34.06
that His body
would not see decay
00:21:34.09\00:21:37.09
and that He would
not be left in the grave.
00:21:37.13\00:21:39.43
Listen very carefully.
00:21:43.26\00:21:44.63
The Romans seal the tomb,
going to keep Him in there.
00:21:48.34\00:21:51.51
You're going to
keep Him in there?
00:21:55.98\00:21:57.75
Who are you kidding?
00:21:57.78\00:21:59.55
So they seal up the tomb.
00:21:59.58\00:22:01.58
But on the Sunday morning,
00:22:01.62\00:22:04.59
a mighty angel
comes down from heaven,
00:22:04.62\00:22:07.29
and just throws away the stone.
00:22:07.32\00:22:12.53
And Jesus, the Son of God,
00:22:12.56\00:22:17.37
the human divine Son of
God walks out of the tomb
00:22:17.40\00:22:21.34
and He says, "I
am the resurrection
00:22:21.37\00:22:24.54
and the life."
00:22:24.57\00:22:25.91
So much for the Roman soldiers.
00:22:25.94\00:22:28.48
So much for the
Jewish high priests.
00:22:28.51\00:22:32.55
Death could not
keep Him in the tomb.
00:22:32.58\00:22:34.45
He's the man who
wrote His own life story
00:22:37.59\00:22:39.45
before He was born.
00:22:39.49\00:22:41.16
In the Old Testament,
00:22:41.19\00:22:43.06
the Spirit of Christ
inspired the prophets,
00:22:43.09\00:22:45.59
and they wrote down
all these prophecies.
00:22:45.63\00:22:48.13
I've shown 10 of
these prophecies to you.
00:22:48.16\00:22:50.97
I could have shown
100 prophecies to you,
00:22:51.00\00:22:53.34
and these prophecies
are undeniable evidence
00:22:53.37\00:22:57.34
that the Bible is true,
that there is a God in heaven.
00:22:57.37\00:23:00.88
Are you listening to me?
00:23:00.91\00:23:02.58
There's a God in heaven,
and that Jesus is the Messiah.
00:23:02.61\00:23:07.08
There was a great
battle many years ago
00:23:10.15\00:23:11.95
between the
French and the English,
00:23:11.99\00:23:14.59
Wellington and Napoleon.
00:23:14.62\00:23:18.09
Well, at the end of the day,
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.46
the British defeated the French.
00:23:19.49\00:23:23.57
And they had to send a
message back to England
00:23:23.60\00:23:25.83
because England was
waiting, what's happened?
00:23:25.87\00:23:29.17
And so, they
sent out this message,
00:23:29.20\00:23:31.41
spelt it out,
00:23:31.44\00:23:32.77
"Wellington defeated"
00:23:32.81\00:23:37.78
and then the fog came down.
00:23:37.81\00:23:40.52
And the British in Great Britain
00:23:40.55\00:23:42.35
were in despair.
00:23:42.38\00:23:44.09
Wellington defeated
but then the fog lifted
00:23:44.12\00:23:48.42
and the message went out,
00:23:48.46\00:23:50.09
"Wellington defeated Napoleon."
00:23:50.13\00:23:55.13
Made a big difference.
00:23:55.16\00:23:57.90
On the Friday when Jesus died,
00:23:57.93\00:24:00.44
I imagine the message
went out around the universe,
00:24:00.47\00:24:04.71
"Jesus, Jesus,
00:24:04.74\00:24:09.71
Jesus defeated."
00:24:09.74\00:24:12.88
But on the Sunday morning,
00:24:12.91\00:24:14.38
Christ walked out of
the tomb, it's a fact.
00:24:14.42\00:24:18.65
And the message was fresh
from universe to universe.
00:24:18.69\00:24:23.19
"Jesus defeated
00:24:23.22\00:24:28.26
Satan and death."
00:24:28.30\00:24:30.97
So I want you to know this.
00:24:31.00\00:24:32.33
He's alive, He's
well, He's all powerful.
00:24:32.37\00:24:38.17
And the Bible tells me
He's coming back in power
00:24:38.21\00:24:41.58
and great glory,
though this world
00:24:41.61\00:24:44.55
that most people
don't believe in Him,
00:24:44.58\00:24:46.82
but they can't get rid of Him.
00:24:46.85\00:24:49.48
He is alive,
00:24:49.52\00:24:51.42
He is King of
kings and Lord of lords,
00:24:51.45\00:24:55.26
and He's coming back
in power and great glory.
00:24:55.29\00:25:00.83
Judgment,
there's a judgment day?
00:25:00.86\00:25:03.57
Yes, there is.
00:25:03.60\00:25:05.67
Is there
salvation for God's people?
00:25:05.70\00:25:07.30
Absolutely.
00:25:07.34\00:25:08.67
He's coming back to
raise the dead and to capture,
00:25:08.70\00:25:13.34
to lift up His people.
00:25:13.38\00:25:15.24
He's going to lift them up.
00:25:15.28\00:25:16.68
He's going to take the ransoms,
the captives from the graves,
00:25:16.71\00:25:20.98
and He's going to
take the living saints,
00:25:21.02\00:25:23.08
and they're going to
be taken home to glory.
00:25:23.12\00:25:27.69
Is that good news?
00:25:27.72\00:25:29.22
It's great news and this
world has got so many problems.
00:25:29.26\00:25:32.79
Jesus said, "I will come again."
00:25:32.83\00:25:36.67
Christ.
00:25:36.70\00:25:39.43
Christ is the man who
wrote His own life story
00:25:39.47\00:25:43.71
before He was born
00:25:43.74\00:25:45.07
because He inspired the prophets
00:25:45.11\00:25:47.31
of the Old Testament.
00:25:47.34\00:25:49.08
He is the Son of God,
00:25:49.11\00:25:52.11
He is King of
kings and Lord of lords,
00:25:52.15\00:25:55.72
He is your Savior,
00:25:55.75\00:25:57.95
He is my Savior
00:25:57.99\00:26:02.06
and He loves you.
00:26:02.09\00:26:04.39
I ask you today,
00:26:04.43\00:26:06.16
believe in Him,
believe in Jesus.
00:26:06.19\00:26:09.10
Do it now, by the act of faith,
00:26:09.13\00:26:12.77
believe in the God
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