I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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Today, John Carter will teach us
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"The Origin and End of Evil,
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the Great Controversy
between Christ and Satan."
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Hi, friend.
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I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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I'm so glad that you joined us.
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Our topic today
is the origin of evil
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and also the origin of good.
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Almost every
person today recognizes
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that there's good
and evil in the world,
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especially since 9/11.
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Before 9/11, most
philosophers around the world,
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especially those in Europe,
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said there was no
such thing as evil.
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But today, most
thinking folks believe
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that there's
good and, of course,
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there's evil in the world.
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So we're going to talk today
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about the origin of
evil and the origin of good.
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We're going to talk
about the great controversy
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between two super
superhuman personalities.
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One is called Satan or Satan,
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and one is called
Christ the Creator.
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In the scriptures,
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there is an ancient story
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that describes the introduction
of evil to the human race.
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You got to go back to
the book of beginnings,
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that's the book of Genesis.
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I'd like you to get a
Bible if you don't mind, please,
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and turn with me to Genesis 3.
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Come with me to Genesis 3.
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This is a very, very old book.
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It's found in the ancient
Hebrew Christian scriptures.
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Genesis 3:1, it says this,
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"Now the
serpent was more cunning
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than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
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And he said to the woman,
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"Has God indeed said,
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'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?"
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This is quite interesting.
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Because the Bible here
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talks about a being
who is called the serpent.
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There was this supernatural,
superhuman personality,
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and he existed
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before the
creation of this world.
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And the Bible tells us
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that right at the
beginning of the human race,
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he was there in the world.
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It's interesting,
he is called the snake,
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the great
rebel, the great Satan,
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or the great Satan,
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who preceded the
existence of Planet Earth,
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and the human race.
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So evil presided in a
person, a person who was called,
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in the Bible, the serpent.
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If you notice now, verses 2-4,
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"The woman said to the serpent,
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'We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
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but of the fruit of the tree
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which is in the
midst of the garden,
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God has said,
'You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you touch
it, lest you die.' '"
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And then if you notice,
if you don't mind verses...
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let's see, verses...
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let me see now, verse four.
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"Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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'You will not surely die.' "
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That's the biggest
lie that was ever told.
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God said, "If you do
this, you're going to die."
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But there was this being
masquerading as the serpent.
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And he said,
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"I don't care what God said,
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because the
truth of the matter is,
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you're not going to die."
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He is the original big liar.
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And then verses 5-6, verses 5-6,
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and the serpent is talking,
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"For God knows that
in the day you eat of it,
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your eyes will be opened
and you will be like God,
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knowing good and evil."
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In other words,
God is the great liar.
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God is the Great Deceiver.
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And so the serpent is
unmasked here as the great,
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original liar.
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And then if you
come to Genesis 3,
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let me see where it is,
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verses 8-13.
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The Bible tells us that
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Adam and Eve ate
the fruit of course,
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and then
something strange happened.
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And they could
feel it in their bodies,
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a dramatic change,
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because they had rebelled
against the Creator God.
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And later on it says,
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"And they heard the
sound of the Lord God
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walking in the garden
in the cool of the day,
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and Adam and his
wife hid themselves
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from the
presence of the Lord God
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among the trees of the garden.
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Then the Lord God Yahweh Elohim
called to Adam and said to him,
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'Where are you?'
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So he said, 'I heard
Your voice in the garden,
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and I was afraid
because I was naked,
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and I hid myself.'
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And He said, 'Who told
you that you were naked?
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Have you eaten from the tree
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of which I commanded you
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that you
shouldn't eat this tree?'
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Then the man said,
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'The woman whom
You gave to be with me,
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she gave me of
the tree, and I ate.'
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And the Lord God
said to the woman,
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'What is this you have done?'
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The woman said,
'The serpent deceived me,
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and I ate.' "
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And so in this amazing story
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that goes back to the
very, very beginning of time,
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you have this encounter
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between the
originators of the human race,
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Adam and Eve, and this strange,
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mysterious intruder,
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who was called the great
liar and the great Satan.
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And the Bible tells us that,
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with this transgression
of the law of the Creator,
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darkness came into the
world and a sense of nakedness
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and a sense of fear,
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and man has been running
from God ever since then.
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And this is why,
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my friend,
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we have death and sin
and sorrow in the world.
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And that is why the
human race has this sense,
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this foreboding of
fear, this existential threat,
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"What's going to happen to me?"
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The Bible says,
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it goes back to the
very beginning of time,
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it originated in a superhuman,
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supernatural,
dazzling personality,
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who was called in the
scriptures the serpent.
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And when you
read the scriptures,
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this is the reason
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why God came
down in a human body,
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and He is called Jesus Christ.
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Because of the sin
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that Lucifer
brought into the world.
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Want to talk about something
that's going to interest you.
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It interests lots
and lots of people
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and lots of
people don't get this,
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don't understand it.
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But you'll get it,
you'll understand it.
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We're going to talk about
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the mystery of
the fearsome beasts.
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They did exist.
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I've heard people say,
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"No, no, no, it's all bogus.
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Those creatures did not exist."
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I want to tell you,
T-Rex was a real creature.
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T-Rex, tyrannosaurus rex,
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the word means
king, tyrant lizard.
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He was not a nice sort of guy.
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He was about 40 feet long.
He was 12 feet at the hips.
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Now we're talking about hips.
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He weighed
between 8 and 15 tons.
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He was very mean, very
nasty, and very, very angry.
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He had a very, very big
mouth with very big teeth.
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He was the
perfect killing machine.
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And these things
used to be in the world.
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Thank God we
don't have them today.
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But they used
to be in the world.
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And the question
is, who made T-Rex?
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This is a question for
the thinking Christian.
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Because we believe,
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as Christians, that God is love,
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for God so loved
the world, God is love,
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then if God is love
and if God is the Creator,
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did he make T-Rex?
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It doesn't sound,
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he doesn't sound like something
that a loving God would make.
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So who made him?
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There is evil in the world.
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The question that I want to pose
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to my thinking
audience today is this,
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was a superhuman personality,
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who was called
in the scriptures,
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the serpent,
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this masterful mind,
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is it possible
that this masterful mind
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got a toehold in this world
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and he became the
manipulator of the genes
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and that God made
a beautiful creature
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but Satan made T-Rex.
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This is of course,
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the viewpoint of
the famous doctor
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and ethicists from
Loma Linda University,
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Dr. Jack Provonsha
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from Loma Linda University.
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I've got a
property in Australia,
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as some of you folks
know, on the property,
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which is out in the bush
and I seldom get there because,
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you know, my
program has taken me
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to live here in the
United States of America.
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But on my property,
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there's not one
but there's quite a few
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Eastern brown snakes,
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the second most
deadly snake in the world.
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Did God make the
Eastern brown snake?
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If it bites you,
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you better get to a doctor
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and get some
anti-poison in your vein
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because it's going to kill you.
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I've seen lots of
them out on my property.
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As I said, I don't
go there too often.
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So these things sort
of come out of the bush.
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Some years ago,
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my son David was coming
down from Papua New Guinea,
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and I was going to
prepare the room downstairs
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so he'd have a
nice place to come.
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So I pattered down the stairs.
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It was dark,
nighttime, no shoes on.
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I pattered down the stairs.
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And I was
walking over to the room
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where he used to stay.
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I didn't have my glasses on.
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And I didn't have the lights on.
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You say that's a
really dumb thing.
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Yes, that's a really,
really dumb thing I was doing.
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But sometimes I've
done some dumb things.
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And this was my dumbest,
one of my dumbest things.
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So I was coming down the stairs.
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Then I walked across the tiles.
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Fortunately, it was
winter, and the tiles were cold.
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And snakes
don't like cold stuff.
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They sort of become sleepy.
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And as I was
walking, I stepped over.
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I thought who dropped
that piece of rope there,
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piece of rope,
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and I looked down at the floor.
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It wasn't a piece of rope.
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It was an Eastern brown snake.
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If I had stepped,
well, I got rid of him.
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I got him outside.
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But if I had stood on
that Eastern brown snake,
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it's quite likely
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I would not be
talking to you today.
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The question is that a
Christian has to answer
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who made T-Rex?
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Who made the
Eastern Brown Snake?
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I would suggest to you
that Jesus didn't do this.
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I don't think so.
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I don't think a
loving God would do this.
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Have you heard of
the box jellyfish?
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I ask my friends
today, my audience.
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Have you heard of
the box jellyfish?
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North Queensland is
very, very beautiful.
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But it's not usually a
good idea to go swimming
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just off the coast in
North Queensland in summertime
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because, in the waters,
there is the box jellyfish.
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He's got these
long, long tentacles.
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And they're about 10 feet long.
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Are you listening to
me? It's a jellyfish.
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So you wouldn't think
it's too smart, would you?
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let me do something about it?
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Tentacles,
invisible, 10 feet long.
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It weighs about 4 pounds.
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It swims at 4 miles an hour.
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And it's got 24 eyes.
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24 eyes that are
marvelously advanced.
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The question is, who
made the box jellyfish?
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Did God?
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Let me talk a moment
about another creature
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that's even more
deadly than the box jellyfish
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and the Eastern brown snake,
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we're talking now
about human beings,
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once made in the image of God.
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What about 9/11?
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Think of the disaster there.
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Before 9/11, many philosophers,
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as I told you just a moment ago,
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they denied that
there was such a thing
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as good and evil.
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I talked about things that were,
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you know, more
convenient or something else.
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But now every philosopher,
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virtually every philosopher
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since the horrendous
attack upon America at 9/11,
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they believe that
there is evil in the world.
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And that evil is not caused
primarily by the box jellyfish.
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It is caused by human beings
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that are
influenced by the serpent.
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Are you listening?
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Let me tell you some stories.
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Let's think about the
great tyrants like Stalin,
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Mao Tse Tung,
Hitler, Pol Pot in Cambodian.
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When we talk about this,
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we're talking about something
far more deadly than T-Rex
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because these
people put to death
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hundreds and hundreds
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and hundreds of
millions of people.
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Hundreds over a
period of time, yes.
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The Russians
killed about 70 million.
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The atheists there
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who believe that
there's no such thing as God,
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and everything was relative.
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And then the Chinese
came along with Mao Tse Tung
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and he killed in a short time
period of time 40 million...
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So we're over 100 million.
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So he has become...
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The human being
is now the greatest,
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the greatest of all predators.
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I got something here
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that you might be interested in.
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Know what this is?
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This is a spike
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from the
Trans-Siberian railway line
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along which I have traveled.
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Now they didn't
cover it with gold.
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But I got a number of
these and I brought back...
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some of these back to America.
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And because I wanted
to put it on my desk,
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so I would never,
never, never forget
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what happens to the human race
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when man denies
the existence of God.
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This is a spike,
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along the
Trans-Siberian railway line,
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tens of millions
of ordinary people
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like you and me
travel to their deaths.
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Why?
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One great philosopher said,
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listen to this, he said,
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"God died in the 19th century
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and man died in
the 20th century."
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Another man said, quite aptly,
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this is true, he said,
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"The death of God
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always leads to
the death of man."
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And so if there is no creator,
there is really no human being.
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And so we see the deaths
and the deaths of millions.
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So there is evil in the world,
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and this evil
comes from a being.
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I want you to notice the
text over here in Matthew 13.
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This is quite
an astounding text.
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Matthew 13, dear
hearts and gentle people,
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Matthew 13:24-27.
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Now please listen up.
I want you to hear this.
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"Another parable he
put forth to them saying,
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"The kingdom of
heaven is like a man
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who sowed good
seed in his field,
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but while men slept,
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his enemy came and sewed tares
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among the wheat
and went his way.
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But when the grain had
sprouted and produced a crop,
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then the tares also appeared."
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"So the servants of the
owner came and said to him,
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'Sir, did you not sow
good seed in your field?
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How then does it have tares?' "
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And verse 28, says,
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"He said to them, 'An enemy, '"
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are you listening,
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"'An enemy has done this.' "
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So don't blame the Creator.
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Don't blame
Christ. Don't blame God.
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Jesus said, "No, no,
no, don't blame the master."
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He said, "An
enemy has done this."
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And so there is a fearsome enemy
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at loose on Planet Earth.
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And he is the
originator of evil.
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I want you to know this.
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a supernatural being
who preceded this planet,
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the enemy of God and
man, an enemy has done this.
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But listen to this.
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But there is also
good in the world.
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And this good
goes back to a source.
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There's good in the world.
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I want you to just
think about this for a moment.
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I want you to think.
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You're thinking.
Are you listening?
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I want you to
think of a baby's smile.
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I want you to
think of a mother's love.
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I want you to think
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of the self-sacrificing
love of a good person
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my Father Kolbe.
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Father Kolbe was a
Roman Catholic priest
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at Auschwitz.
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The Nazis who also derided
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the concept of a
loving Creator God
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and who believed in the
concept of Germany first
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and becoming a super race...
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they were killing
people by the thousands
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and by the millions.
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And there was a man
being led away to the slaughter
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and he cried out,
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"My wife and my children...
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Who will take care of
my wife and my children?"
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And Father Kolbe,
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who was a Roman
Catholic priest said,
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"I will take his place."
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Now the evolutionist
has got a problem here
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because this is
self-sacrificing love.
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He's not doing it...
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This Roman Catholic
priest is not doing it
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with some personal reason
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whereby he's going to be better.
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No, no, no.
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Self-sacrificing love,
where does it come from?
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Then they were the born fools
in the Russian death camps.
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Now I've been
to Russia 49 times.
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I have visited some of these
terrible places in Siberia.
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There was a group
of Baptist Christians.
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And when the
communists were beating up
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and torturing some atheists,
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and that person
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would be compulsively
cursing and swearing,
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the Baptist
would step up and say,
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beat us
instead, beat us instead.
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The communist said,
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"Why should we
beat you instead?"
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And they said,
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"Because when you beat up
one of your fellow atheists,
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poison and hatred is
poured out into the world.
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But when beat treat
us, we are going to,
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we're going to
praise the name of God,
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even though we
are in terrible pain,
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we will praise the name of God."
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And so the communists
called them born fools.
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They were God's people.
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And they were reflecting a love
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that is not found
naturally in the human heart.
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It comes from the Creator God.
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There's lots of
good in the world,
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more good than bad.
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I think when I was in Sydney,
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I left my little bag
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containing my
passport and all of my papers.
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And this is a
really dumb thing to do.
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I tell you, I've
done some dumb things.
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I had my
passport. I had my wallet.
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I had my credit
cards. I had my cash.
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I was trying to
get on the plane.
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Oh, don't have a passport.
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I've lost it.
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I can't even make a phone call.
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I've got everything in that bag.
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I mean, how dumb can you get?
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Just before the
plane was due to leaving,
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it was United,
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the attendant at the desk,
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waving her arm
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and I came
running over she said,
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a young couple
brought you your bag.
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They went through your money.
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They found out that
you were flying United.
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They found your ticket.
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I don't know who they are.
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Never met them.
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Can't give them a reward.
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They will get it one day.
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What I'm trying to tell you
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is that there is more
good than bad in the world.
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A friend of mine went to Russia,
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a close friend of mine.
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He was sick. He got the flu.
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Never been to Russia before.
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He was not a young man.
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He got so sick he went
and lay down on a park bench.
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A Russian came along
and took off his overcoat,
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his coat and he
covered up my friend.
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Where does it come from?
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This impulse to help others.
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So I say there's more
good than evil in the world.
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Look at the
beauty of the redwoods.
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How can you look at
these beautiful trees?
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Look at the
beauty of the redwoods.
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Go to Yosemite.
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No other place like it
in the world, Yosemite,
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look at the roses,
look at the sunsets,
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look at the waves breaking
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and realize that good
originates in a good person
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who created the world.
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So now I asked this question.
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So please think this through
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because we're
dealing with issues.
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This is not baby stuff.
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This isn't a baby talk.
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I want you to think about this.
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What is God like?
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Well, the Bible teaches
that God is the Creator,
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He's powerful,
He's self-existence.
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He has a name in the scriptures.
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And this name is
overwhelmingly awesome.
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The name of Almighty God
in the Scriptures is Yahweh.
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The
self-existent, the Almighty God.
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The person who could speak
the universe into existence,
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what a big God.
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And the Bible teaches
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that this
self-existent God became a man
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to rescue us from the serpent.
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Believe it or
not, it's the truth.
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His name is Jesus,
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totally loving,
totally understanding,
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totally good, totally pure.
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When it came to this
earth, the self-existent God,
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Yahweh Elohim,
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when this Almighty God
became a man on occasions,
00:23:46.22\00:23:50.49
the religious leaders
dragged up some poor woman
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they'd caught in
the act of adultery.
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They were the
adulterers, of course,
00:23:55.46\00:23:57.70
these humbugs
and these hypocrites.
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And Jesus protected
her, He took her aside.
00:24:01.40\00:24:05.17
He's been taking the
side of women ever since.
00:24:05.21\00:24:08.64
And He said, "He
who is without sin,
00:24:08.68\00:24:10.68
let him be the first
to cast a stone at her."
00:24:10.71\00:24:13.55
So what is this God like?
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This almighty Yahweh Elohim
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who made the universe has
a super, super, super enemy
00:24:18.35\00:24:24.49
whose name is the serpent.
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He's a very, very good person.
00:24:30.87\00:24:33.64
He's a very kind person.
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But listen, there is...
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Are you listening to me?
00:24:41.84\00:24:43.18
There is a
sinister originator of evil.
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You better believe it, friend.
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You better believe it.
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.05
This is not just talk.
00:24:52.09\00:24:55.02
If you turn to Isaiah 14:12-14,
00:24:55.06\00:24:59.53
this goes back
to primordial days,
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back before we
were even thought of,
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back before Planet Earth.
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It says, "How you have
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, "
00:25:08.20\00:25:12.41
there's his name.
00:25:12.44\00:25:14.04
"Son of the morning!
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How you were cut
down to the ground,
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.28
who weakened the nations.
00:25:17.31\00:25:20.45
For you have said
in your heart, "I..."
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He had I trouble.
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"I will ascend into heaven,
00:25:23.92\00:25:25.29
I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God,
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.92
I will also sit on the
mount of the congregation
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on the farthest
side of the north.
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I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds.
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I will be like the Most High."
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Please listen to this.
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There was a
supernatural being next to God.
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But somehow
something got inside him
00:25:50.98\00:25:54.32
and he changed from being
00:25:54.35\00:25:56.02
a star to the serpent.
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We're talking today
about the origin of evil,
00:26:01.49\00:26:04.83
about the great controversy.
00:26:04.86\00:26:08.30
And we'll be back
00:26:08.33\00:26:09.90
with more
information in a moment.
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Hi, friend.
00:26:25.15\00:26:26.48
I'm John Carter
overseas, locked up in a hotel,
00:26:26.51\00:26:30.69
outside in the hallway,
00:26:30.72\00:26:32.65
there are police to make sure
00:26:32.69\00:26:35.22
that we don't break
this dreadful quarantine
00:26:35.26\00:26:38.86
because of COVID.
00:26:38.89\00:26:40.43
Everything has changed.
00:26:40.46\00:26:42.03
The Carter Report goes on,
00:26:42.06\00:26:44.10
and we continue to preach
the gospel around the world.
00:26:44.13\00:26:47.77
By the grace of God, we
continue to do evangelism.
00:26:47.80\00:26:51.71
But listen,
00:26:51.74\00:26:53.07
we need your
support as never before.
00:26:53.11\00:26:55.88
We desperately need your help
00:26:55.91\00:26:58.35
to continue to
preach the gospel in India
00:26:58.38\00:27:02.08
and other countries
00:27:02.12\00:27:03.45
that are
desperately needing Christ.
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My friend, please
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