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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Join us with
questions and answers
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with Pastor John Carter.
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Paul from New York says,
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"Christians in
the US get divorced
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as much as anyone else.
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His pastor is
divorced and remarried.
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He wants to know how
many wives have you had?
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What does the
Bible say about divorce?"
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How many wives have, have I had?
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I wonder if I
should confess this
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publicly on television.
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Oh, dear.
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I'm going to tell you,
folk, something Beverley
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will probably get mad with me.
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We're coming up soon.
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Very soon, we will
have been married for,
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I don't know, I don't
know if I should tell you this,
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because Beverley's
going to say to me,
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why would you tell him that?
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Why didn't you?
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I said, because I'm just trying
to get people on this truth.
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That's why,
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that's what we're calling
this program honest truth.
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Well, I'm proud to say
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Beverley and I
were married in 1962.
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That is 59 years ago
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before most of you
folks were even born,
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but you know, I
think we're doing well.
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This is my birthday today,
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and I'm not 20 years of age
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and I'm feeling great.
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And some people even
tell me I don't look bad
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and Beverley
looks better than I do.
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So there you've got it.
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What do I think about divorce?
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Well, it's not what I
think about divorce at all,
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and I don't like to go
around criticizing people
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who are divorced.
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I think today in the world,
we've got too much of this,
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you know,
negativism towards people
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who've made mistakes.
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Now, I think we've
got to preach the truth.
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We've got to
preach the whole truth
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and nothing but the truth,
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but I think we've
got to do it with love.
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And we've got to
be kind to people.
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Is there anybody out
there who believes in kindness?
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Yes, of course you do. Okay.
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Here's a text I'm
going to read it to you
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on divorce.
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I'm going to read it to
you because Jesus said it.
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Matthew 19:3,
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"Some Pharisees
came to him to test him.
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They asked,
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'Is it lawful for a
man to divorce his wife
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for any and every reason?' "
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like she burnt the toast,
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or she was ironing your clothes
and she burnt your shirt?
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So you can get a divorce,
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or even worse
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you just bought
her a brand new car
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and she...
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What did she do?
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Well, she ran it into
a fence, a stone fence?
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You get a
divorce for those things.
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Well, now want to
see what Jesus said.
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Verse 4,
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"Haven't you read,'
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Jesus said,
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'That at the beginning,
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the Creator made
them male and female.'"
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He made Adam and Eve.
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You see this, okay.
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"He made them male and female
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and said, for this reason,
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a man will leave
his father and mother, "
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don't stay with
them, leave them,
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"and be united to his wife,
and the two will become one."
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One man, one woman.
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Adam and Eve,
not Adam and Steve.
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That's a good one, isn't it?
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"The two shall become one flesh.
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So they are no
longer two but one.
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Therefore what God
has joined together,
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let man not separate."
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Jesus seemed to talk
about marriage lasting.
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"Why then,' they asked,
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'did Moses command
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that a man give his
wife a certificate of divorce
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and send her away?' "
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That's what they
used to do, you see.
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They had multiple
marriages, had multiple wives.
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"Jesus replied,
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'Moses permitted you
to divorce your wives
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because your hearts were hard.
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Wow.
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But it was not this
way from the beginning.
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I tell you that
anyone who divorces his wife
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except for
marital unfaithfulness
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and marries another
woman commits adultery."
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What can I say to you?
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You say well,
don't tell me this stuff.
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Well you see, I've
got a bit of a problem.
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I believe in honest truth.
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I believe in
following the Bible.
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I believe in Jesus.
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Jesus is my Lord and my Savior.
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I'm not going to
be deceiving you.
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I won't be lying to you.
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One of the big problems
today in the Western world,
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in the United States of America,
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Australia and other places,
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heaps of people who
call themselves Christians
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haven't got a clue
what is in the Bible.
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They never read it.
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Just don't read it.
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Some people
thought, they did a survey
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and some people thought
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that Sodom and
Gomorrah were lovers.
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Sodom and Gomorrah were lovers?
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Goodness, me.
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So we got terrible ignorance
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about what's
taught in the Bible.
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The Bible teaches
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that marriage is for keeps
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till death do us part,
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so help us God.
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But having said that,
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I want you to know that
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God loves us, God cares for us.
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Jesus died for us
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and there's
forgiveness for every sin.
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And we need to love people
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irrespective of
what they have done.
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We should not love the sin,
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but we should love the sinner.
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Don't you think?
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This is the
honest truth, my friend.
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"Francis
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who attends a
university in Berlin wrote that
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all of her
professors believe in evolution
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and say that the
Bible is a crazy book
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because it teaches
unscientific ideas.
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Do you believe in evolution?
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Do you believe in science?"
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I believe in
science, true science.
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I don't believe in stuff
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that is just manufactured
in the name of science.
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I don't believe in that stuff.
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There are many
wonderful scientists.
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We owe our lives to
many scientific inventions.
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I believe in true science,
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but I don't
believe in hocus-pocus.
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Hocus-pocus, what's this?
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I don't believe in hocus-pocus.
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I don't believe in science
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being used to cover
a multitude of sins.
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I don't believe
in that nonsense.
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Do I believe in evolution?
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Well, I don't
want to start confusing
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some of my great friends,
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but you know,
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there's microevolution
and there's macroevolution.
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Microevolution
is what we're seeing
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with the Coronavirus thing.
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It changes a tiny little bit,
but it is still a Coronavirus.
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And that's why the vaccine
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has got to be
tweaked a little bit.
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You understand this.
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Scientists call
this microevolution.
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Everybody believes in this,
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but I do not
believe in macroevolution.
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Macroevolution
teaches that we came from,
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and I'm not criticizing
people who believe this,
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because there
are some great people
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who believe some
ideas that I don't believe.
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I believe in loving people.
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I don't believe
in this bitterness
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that if a person
belongs to that party
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and it's not your
party, you got to hate him.
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And here is another person
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who doesn't think
the same way as you do.
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He's in another church.
You got to hate him too.
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I don't believe in this stuff.
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I think this is so much
opposed to the Gospel of Christ,
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but some scientists,
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many of them
teach, not all of them.
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They teach that we
came from a common source,
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a single cell creature
in some primordial swamp.
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And that man has
over billions of years,
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evolved through the animals
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until he's become
what we are today.
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I don't believe this.
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I believe that the human
race was created a brand new
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and distinct and
a marvelous species.
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I don't believe that
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I am related to
the monkeys or the apes
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or the trees or the
worms or any of those things.
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And I believe I've
got good evidence for it.
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I can give you,
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I think I don't have time today
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but I've studied this for years.
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And I believe
there is tons of evidence
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to believe in the Creator God.
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The Bible says in the
beginning was the Word,
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The word was with God.
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In the beginning
was the Word, the logos.
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The Bible says that
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everything
started with the logos,
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which is the Word.
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That means information.
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This is truth.
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Of course, that was Christ.
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But the atheist says,
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no, everything
started with complete chaos.
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It was all chaos
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and then from the
chaos came information.
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That is ballyhoo.
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Information came first,
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you are just a remarkable being
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that is filled
with trillions of bits
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of information.
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That is why I
believe in a Creator God.
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And that is why I do not believe
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that I happened
as a cosmic accident.
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I believe that I came from God
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and one day I will go to Him.
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This is, my
friend, the honest truth.
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"Catherine from
the Ukraine wrote,
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please explain to
me the post-truth era.
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Can everyone have his own truth?
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Would you vote for a liar?"
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That's a super good
question, post truth.
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This is sort of a new idea
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that's dawned upon the
consciousness of millions,
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even billions of people
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because I know many, many
people in America are now,
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and in Australia and
in Britain, other places,
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they're talking
about post truth.
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We've come to an
era beyond truth.
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And this is
entered into politics.
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It is in, it's got into
our political institutions
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because people
now are talking stuff
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that is not the truth.
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Once upon a time we used to say,
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they were telling lies.
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But now we say no, no,
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they're not telling lies
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because everybody
can have his own truth.
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Truth is now a private matter.
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Now when people
have asked me about this
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and I've endeavored
to give an honest answer,
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I've taken them back to Germany
a couple of hundred years ago
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where the philosophers
were leading the world
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in their speculation
and in their conclusions,
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this is hypothetical.
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But I want you to think
sitting around the table,
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there are a group of
great German philosophers.
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And one of them says,
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"You know, Germany's in a mess."
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Another one says,
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"Yes, it's true,
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but the whole
world is in a mess.
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Well maybe we're
the philosophers,
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we're to blame for the
world being in a mess."
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And then one of the
great philosophers says,
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"Have you ever thought that
maybe the way we have thought
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and reasoned
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has been the problem?"
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Yeah. What do you mean?
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Well, we have always
reasoned for thousands of years
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on the basis of antithesis.
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Now, you getting heavy.
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Antithesis, what do you mean?
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Well, antithesis says
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that if this is
A, then it's not B.
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And if this is
one, it's not seven.
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If this is right,
then this is wrong.
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You got contrast,
you have absolutes.
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And for thousands of years,
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we've reasoned on
the basis of there being
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things that are right
and things that are wrong.
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Well said another
German philosopher,
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maybe he, we were
on the wrong track.
00:13:29.64\00:13:35.78
Maybe we ought to reason
on the basis of synthesis.
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Then one can be seven.
00:13:42.65\00:13:45.85
That black can be white.
00:13:45.89\00:13:48.42
Then a man can be a woman.
00:13:48.46\00:13:53.03
And they said,
00:13:53.06\00:13:54.40
"Let's give it a go."
00:13:54.43\00:13:57.70
And this idea of synthesis
00:13:57.73\00:14:01.97
permeated the thinking
of the German philosophers.
00:14:02.00\00:14:08.61
And soon it spread
across the continent
00:14:08.64\00:14:12.41
and it went to England
00:14:12.45\00:14:15.45
and people started to
think one can be seven.
00:14:15.48\00:14:18.92
Black can be white.
00:14:18.95\00:14:21.06
There's no such
thing as an absolute.
00:14:21.09\00:14:23.66
And after
another a hundred years,
00:14:23.69\00:14:25.53
it jumped across the pond
00:14:25.56\00:14:27.20
and it went to the
United States of America.
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And it got
inside the universities
00:14:29.50\00:14:35.00
where it is taught today.
00:14:35.04\00:14:39.01
I find, I don't
find what to tell him,
00:14:39.04\00:14:41.64
John Carter could be true.
00:14:41.68\00:14:43.48
I'm telling you
the truth, my friend,
00:14:43.51\00:14:45.41
it's the honest truth.
00:14:45.45\00:14:47.02
We've come to a brave new world,
00:14:47.05\00:14:51.69
where for millions and
even billions of people,
00:14:51.72\00:14:54.89
there are no longer absolutes
00:14:54.92\00:14:59.86
that wrong can be
right, and right can be wrong.
00:14:59.89\00:15:02.60
And you can have your own truth.
00:15:02.63\00:15:06.77
And some people say today,
00:15:06.80\00:15:08.34
and they're
saying this in America
00:15:08.37\00:15:09.77
and the great
universities and in Australia
00:15:09.80\00:15:12.84
and especially in Great Britain,
00:15:12.87\00:15:14.84
and certainly in Germany,
00:15:14.88\00:15:17.11
they are saying this,
00:15:17.15\00:15:19.21
you got your beliefs,
00:15:19.25\00:15:21.78
you got your truths.
00:15:21.82\00:15:23.69
We've got our truths.
00:15:23.72\00:15:26.86
And there's no such
thing as absolute truth.
00:15:26.89\00:15:30.83
And there's no such
thing as absolute wrong.
00:15:30.86\00:15:35.43
Jesus and the Bible
plainly teach not post truth,
00:15:35.46\00:15:40.37
but the truth of objectivity.
00:15:40.40\00:15:43.24
Here are the
words of Jesus again,
00:15:43.27\00:15:45.37
you will know the truth
00:15:45.41\00:15:47.81
and the truth
will make you free.
00:15:47.84\00:15:51.01
That, my friend,
is the honest truth.
00:15:51.05\00:15:56.89
"Vanessa from Melbourne wonders,
00:15:56.92\00:15:59.32
what happens when we die?
00:15:59.35\00:16:01.79
She's afraid of death.
00:16:01.82\00:16:03.46
Can you tell her
if life has meaning?
00:16:03.49\00:16:06.23
She has friends who have
tried to kill themselves.
00:16:06.26\00:16:08.86
Is there an answer?"
00:16:08.90\00:16:12.47
This is a terrific question.
00:16:12.50\00:16:15.44
And I hope that I
can be a help to you,
00:16:15.47\00:16:18.57
but that's a
tremendous question.
00:16:18.61\00:16:22.38
There are a number of
questions we've got to answer
00:16:22.41\00:16:24.68
before we get
answered this question.
00:16:24.71\00:16:28.42
Number one, who am I?
00:16:28.45\00:16:31.59
Or what am I?
00:16:31.62\00:16:32.95
Am I just a thing?
00:16:32.99\00:16:34.32
Am I a cosmic accident?
00:16:34.36\00:16:36.49
Who am I?
00:16:36.52\00:16:37.86
The Bible teaches
that I'm a child of God.
00:16:37.89\00:16:41.33
The Bible teaches that
God made me in His own image.
00:16:41.36\00:16:44.47
That's what the Bible
says in Genesis Chapter 1,
00:16:44.50\00:16:47.94
I am not a son of the slime.
00:16:47.97\00:16:50.21
I'm not related to the beast.
00:16:50.24\00:16:52.57
I didn't come
down from the trees.
00:16:52.61\00:16:56.78
I was made by
the very hand of God.
00:16:56.81\00:16:58.75
So I want you to know today
00:16:58.78\00:17:00.52
that you are
tremendously important.
00:17:00.55\00:17:04.39
The Bible starts
with these amazing words
00:17:04.42\00:17:07.52
in the beginning
00:17:07.56\00:17:09.46
God created the
heavens and the earth.
00:17:09.49\00:17:13.33
In the beginning God,
00:17:13.36\00:17:15.90
in the beginning was the Word,
00:17:15.93\00:17:17.67
the Word was with
God, and the Word was God,
00:17:17.70\00:17:20.30
and the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us.
00:17:20.34\00:17:23.07
This is talking
about Jesus becoming a man.
00:17:23.10\00:17:26.68
You are made in the
very, very image of this God.
00:17:26.71\00:17:29.58
And therefore you are
tremendously important.
00:17:29.61\00:17:33.18
Where did I come from?
00:17:33.21\00:17:34.55
I came from the hand of God.
00:17:34.58\00:17:35.92
Why am I here?
00:17:35.95\00:17:37.42
I'm here for a purpose.
00:17:37.45\00:17:40.16
There's a purpose in my life.
00:17:40.19\00:17:41.62
I'm not simply
a cosmic accident.
00:17:41.66\00:17:44.29
I am here because
God has a purpose for me.
00:17:44.33\00:17:47.86
The Bible says that
all work together for good
00:17:47.90\00:17:50.37
to those who love God.
00:17:50.40\00:17:51.77
There is a divine providence.
00:17:51.80\00:17:54.90
I want you to know something.
00:17:54.94\00:17:56.71
You are important.
00:17:56.74\00:17:58.07
When I used to preach in Russia
00:17:58.11\00:17:59.47
to a hundreds of
thousands of people,
00:17:59.51\00:18:02.38
even to millions of people,
00:18:02.41\00:18:04.41
I would tell those people
00:18:04.45\00:18:05.78
who'd been brainwashed
by the awful doctrines
00:18:05.81\00:18:08.72
of Marxism and
communism and atheism
00:18:08.75\00:18:12.35
and who would
come into the meetings
00:18:12.39\00:18:13.72
with their heads down like this.
00:18:13.76\00:18:15.59
So discouraged, so
depressed, I would tell them,
00:18:15.62\00:18:19.19
you are a child of God.
00:18:19.23\00:18:21.60
You are a beautiful person.
00:18:21.63\00:18:23.80
You are made in
the image of God.
00:18:23.83\00:18:26.17
You are distinct.
00:18:26.20\00:18:28.50
You are glorious in God's sight.
00:18:28.54\00:18:30.64
I say this to you today.
00:18:30.67\00:18:32.17
This is the honest
truth, you are important.
00:18:32.21\00:18:36.75
What about the
future? Where did I come from?
00:18:36.78\00:18:38.51
Why am I here? Where am I going?
00:18:38.55\00:18:40.65
The Bible teaches that
Christ is going to come.
00:18:40.68\00:18:43.95
And the Bible teaches that
00:18:43.99\00:18:45.72
we are going to
have everlasting life.
00:18:45.75\00:18:47.89
The Bible teaches
that death is a sleep.
00:18:47.92\00:18:50.89
Jesus said of Lazarus.
00:18:50.93\00:18:52.73
Lazarus is
sleeping. Lazarus is dead.
00:18:52.76\00:18:57.77
I'm now an old man.
00:18:57.80\00:19:01.47
Today is my birthday.
00:19:01.50\00:19:04.17
But one day soon,
00:19:04.21\00:19:05.67
I'm going to be
a young man again.
00:19:05.71\00:19:10.48
The bloom of eternal youth
00:19:10.51\00:19:11.85
is going to be upon my forehead.
00:19:11.88\00:19:14.32
I'm going to have a new body.
00:19:14.35\00:19:16.69
I'm going to run.
00:19:16.72\00:19:18.05
I'm going to jump like a deer.
00:19:18.09\00:19:21.16
I will never,
never, never get tired.
00:19:21.19\00:19:23.66
I will never ever get sick.
00:19:23.69\00:19:27.20
I will live for
eternity in the kingdom of God,
00:19:27.23\00:19:29.96
with Jesus
Christ who died for me.
00:19:30.00\00:19:33.44
Listen, the future is glorious.
00:19:33.47\00:19:36.30
The future is tremendous.
00:19:36.34\00:19:38.17
The future is great
00:19:38.21\00:19:41.78
and you are
special, and God loves you.
00:19:41.81\00:19:46.18
And God has a very
wonderful future for you.
00:19:46.21\00:19:50.39
My dear friend,
this is the truth.
00:19:50.42\00:19:55.76
"Laura from Florida has
a very personal question.
00:19:55.79\00:20:00.20
What do you tell a young woman
who has just had an abortion?"
00:20:00.23\00:20:06.57
Well, I'm a dad
00:20:06.60\00:20:08.00
and I'm a grandpa also.
00:20:08.04\00:20:14.21
I've seen a lot of things.
00:20:14.24\00:20:15.58
I've seen a lot of suffering.
00:20:15.61\00:20:18.25
I know the world is
completely mixed up.
00:20:18.28\00:20:21.85
We've got this
post truth garbage.
00:20:21.88\00:20:26.19
This stuff that is
destroying the minds of people
00:20:26.22\00:20:29.46
and destroying their
bodies and their souls.
00:20:29.49\00:20:32.33
And you turn on
television and you get,
00:20:32.36\00:20:34.83
pardon my saying
this, you get this garbage,
00:20:34.86\00:20:38.43
you get all of this.
00:20:38.47\00:20:39.80
So often you get
filth and immorality,
00:20:39.83\00:20:43.14
wherever you go
from country to country,
00:20:43.17\00:20:45.17
it's just, it's pouring out
00:20:45.21\00:20:47.41
and people are
being brainwashed.
00:20:47.44\00:20:52.21
Firstly, I wanna say this,
00:20:52.25\00:20:53.72
that every person is important.
00:20:53.75\00:20:57.09
Every little baby is
precious in the sight of God.
00:20:57.12\00:21:03.09
Every boy, every girl,
00:21:03.12\00:21:06.16
every man, every woman,
00:21:06.19\00:21:08.70
whatever their color,
00:21:08.73\00:21:10.60
whether they're
black, whether they're brown,
00:21:10.63\00:21:12.53
whether they're
white, like I am.
00:21:12.57\00:21:15.57
Every person is
important in the sight of God.
00:21:15.60\00:21:18.61
And every
little baby in the womb
00:21:18.64\00:21:23.58
is important.
00:21:23.61\00:21:27.62
One of the Bible prophet says,
00:21:27.65\00:21:29.32
"Before I was born,
00:21:29.35\00:21:32.52
you saw me in the womb
00:21:32.55\00:21:36.46
and called me by my name."
00:21:36.49\00:21:39.89
But what would I
say as a grandfather
00:21:39.93\00:21:43.53
or as an old pastor?
00:21:43.57\00:21:45.83
What would I
say to a young woman
00:21:45.87\00:21:47.80
who's had an abortion
00:21:47.84\00:21:52.21
and probably is going
through a very traumatic time
00:21:52.24\00:21:56.95
with a million
thoughts raging in her head.
00:21:56.98\00:22:01.15
I would tell her this.
00:22:01.18\00:22:02.62
And some of you
may disagree with me.
00:22:02.65\00:22:04.89
Some of you may say,
00:22:04.92\00:22:06.25
well, you ought to
really tell her off,
00:22:06.29\00:22:10.66
lambasted, tell her off.
00:22:10.69\00:22:12.79
I would tell her,
00:22:12.83\00:22:15.33
my dear, God loves you.
00:22:15.36\00:22:20.47
Jesus loves you.
00:22:20.50\00:22:23.00
Jesus loves you so
much that He died for you.
00:22:23.04\00:22:28.04
And then when I
had the opportunity,
00:22:31.95\00:22:33.75
maybe I could help her
00:22:33.78\00:22:36.05
to find a better way,
00:22:36.08\00:22:41.52
but I want you
to know something.
00:22:41.56\00:22:45.26
You will never
win a person to Christ
00:22:45.29\00:22:48.53
by being harsh
and cold and hard.
00:22:48.56\00:22:54.10
I asked the
question as an old pastor,
00:22:54.14\00:22:57.04
how many people
have left the church
00:22:57.07\00:23:01.31
because of the harshness
00:23:01.34\00:23:04.88
they found with some
people inside the church.
00:23:04.91\00:23:08.22
Not all by any
means, but with some,
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.49
you know what I'm talking about,
00:23:10.52\00:23:11.95
don't you?
00:23:11.99\00:23:13.32
A friend of mine told me that
00:23:16.12\00:23:17.63
he hadn't been in a
church for many, many years.
00:23:17.66\00:23:20.26
This was in the United States
00:23:20.30\00:23:22.70
and he decided with a
friend to go along to a church.
00:23:22.73\00:23:26.40
He was scared to go
00:23:26.43\00:23:27.77
because he thought, you know,
00:23:27.80\00:23:29.14
am I going to find some people
who are going to condemn me
00:23:29.17\00:23:32.14
and sensor me and blast me?
00:23:32.17\00:23:35.78
He said, there was an
old lady at the front door.
00:23:35.81\00:23:40.55
She was a deaconess.
00:23:40.58\00:23:44.25
She came to him
and she welcomed him
00:23:44.29\00:23:46.62
and she hugged him.
00:23:46.65\00:23:50.19
She said, "I'm so glad
that you've joined us today."
00:23:50.23\00:23:53.40
She said, "What are you doing?"
00:23:53.43\00:23:55.96
She said for lunch,
00:23:56.00\00:23:57.40
"We have a lunch here.
00:23:57.43\00:23:58.97
And we would be so honored
00:23:59.00\00:24:00.60
if you would
stay and eat with us.
00:24:00.64\00:24:02.60
We're not wealthy folks,
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.44
but we'd like you to
share what we've got."
00:24:04.47\00:24:06.84
He said,
00:24:06.88\00:24:08.21
it broke his heart,
00:24:11.25\00:24:13.28
the kindness he
found in that church
00:24:13.31\00:24:17.09
from that old deaconess,
00:24:17.12\00:24:20.02
that lady who was standing,
00:24:20.06\00:24:22.42
looking for lost sheep.
00:24:22.46\00:24:25.06
I think we've got to
start treating people
00:24:25.09\00:24:26.66
like our sheep.
00:24:26.70\00:24:29.46
And when Jesus
found the lost sheep,
00:24:29.50\00:24:31.40
He didn't kick the lost sheep.
00:24:31.43\00:24:34.14
He picked it up
and He kissed it.
00:24:34.17\00:24:38.24
I think we should be
trying to help people
00:24:38.27\00:24:40.68
and lift people
up and love people.
00:24:40.71\00:24:42.91
I think we've all been
to pharisaical in the past.
00:24:42.94\00:24:48.72
We should speak out against that
00:24:48.75\00:24:50.35
which is wrong.
00:24:50.39\00:24:52.59
Don't misunderstand me.
00:24:52.62\00:24:56.62
I believe in the
sanctity of life.
00:24:56.66\00:24:58.83
But I believe in winning
00:25:02.73\00:25:07.14
and not repulsing,
00:25:07.17\00:25:10.81
I believe we can learn a
lot from that old deaconess
00:25:10.84\00:25:15.28
in a church in the deep South,
00:25:15.31\00:25:18.18
somewhere in Georgia who said,
00:25:18.21\00:25:22.95
God loves you and so do I.
00:25:22.98\00:25:25.82
And that's my message
to you on my birthday.
00:25:25.85\00:25:31.36
Not in my television
studio because of COVID-19,
00:25:31.39\00:25:37.80
but sensing the presence of God,
00:25:37.83\00:25:40.94
thanking God
for another birthday
00:25:40.97\00:25:43.94
and saying to you,
00:25:43.97\00:25:47.44
God loves you and so do I.
00:25:47.48\00:25:52.11
And thank you
for joining me today.
00:25:52.15\00:25:55.78
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00:25:55.82\00:25:58.02
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