Welcome to the Carter Report.
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With the world
becoming crazier every day,
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a sane person would ask,
what can we really believe?
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Is there something solid
and stable we can hold on to?
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Is there anything we
can teach our children
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and
grandchildren with certainty?
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What is the greatest threat
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facing the survival of our home,
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our nation and our civilization?
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Here's John Carter
with the ultimate guide
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to stability and sanity.
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Why do you believe our society
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and our entire civilization
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is in jeopardy?
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Wayne Hackett,
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thank you for
asking that question.
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Wayne is part of
the Carter Report team.
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What a wonderful team member
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and his beautiful wife, Marilyn.
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And so thank you for
being a part of our team
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and thank you, my friends,
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for being a part of
our team around the world.
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Welcome, my
friends, to our home.
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We're celebrating this
week. Beverley's birthday.
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We're just a
tiny little crew here.
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I've got our son, David
here, he's on the camera.
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Beverley's there
taking care of me.
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And you are our
family, so welcome today.
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And the question is,
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why do I think
society is in jeopardy?
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Do I really think
this? I absolutely do.
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I think society is
facing a tremendous crisis
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because it's a
crisis over what is truth.
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A lot of people say,
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you got your
truth, I got my truth.
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Who cares?
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Everybody can
have his own truth.
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I don't believe this.
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Remember Jesus said,
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"You will know the truth
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and the truth
will make you free."
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There is such a thing as truth.
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You need to
answer these questions.
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This is terribly important.
Where did I come from?
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Why am I here? Where am I going?
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A lot of people
say, well, everybody,
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well, we just, we don't know.
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But there is a
book that tells us
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where we came from.
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It tells us why we are here.
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And it tells us
where we are going.
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There's another
tremendously important question.
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Who am I?
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Am I simply just
the product of time
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plus matter plus chance?
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Am I second cousin to a monkey?
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Or am I a soul made
in the image of God?
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So, Wayne, your question
is tremendously important
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and pertinent.
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Do I think society today
is in chaos and in jeopardy?
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I suggest,
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I don't want to
offend any person.
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I'm not trying
to offend anybody.
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I'm simply
trying to be an obedient
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to my calling to tell the truth.
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I believe in the truth.
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But look at how the
world regards human sexuality.
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Well, not the whole world,
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but many people in the
world regard human sexuality,
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which gets to the very
core of a person's being.
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Today we've got pansexual.
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I'm not criticizing
any of these people.
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We have omnisexuals,
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and lesbians,
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and asexuals,
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and aromantics,
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and bisexuals,
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and transsexuals,
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and polysexuals,
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and heterosexuals,
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and homosexuals,
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and LGBTIQ.
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I want to say this
before we go any further today,
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because some people are
going to get mad with me,
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but I believe that
God loves everybody.
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I believe the
God loves everybody,
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whoever you are,
whatever the color of your skin
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and whatever your sexuality.
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I believe in John 3:16 says,
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that tells us that
"God so loved the world
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that He gave His only Son.
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So that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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I believe in a God of love,
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but I also believe in truth
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because God is the
great originator of truth.
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And I would say that the
people who disagree with me
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on these questions of morality,
I would say this to them.
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You can disagree with me.
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You can dislike me,
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but I will love you
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because God loves you.
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And I want to say
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something else
to you, my friend,
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if you will
consider me your friend.
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I will say this to you.
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I believe in freedom of speech.
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You certainly have it.
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I noticed particularly today
with the extremes in America,
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with the extreme left wing
and the extreme right wing,
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all of those
people believe very much
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in freedom of speech,
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very strong in freedom of speech
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for themselves,
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but not for you,
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not for me.
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I believe in
freedom of religion.
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I believe that I
have the right...
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You listening?
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I believe that I have the right
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to publicly
preach the Word of God
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even if it offends some people,
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because Jesus said,
"You will know the truth
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and the truth
will set you free."
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And the world is in a mess
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because people have
gotten away from the truth.
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That's it.
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Is there a different viewpoint
that you believe is valid?
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I noticed that people
who have extreme viewpoints,
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in my opinion, from
the left and the right,
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who believe they have the
right to teach those ideas,
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even to my grandchildren
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and your children,
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they're pushing all
the time to get these views
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into our public
schools in Australia
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and other places
around the world.
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They believe
they've got the right
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to dominate the ideas
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that are taught to our children.
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I believe that I
have the right to teach
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what I believe is the truth
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even though I will
offend some of them
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whom I am determined to love
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in spite of the fact
that they may not love me.
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Then what alternative
worldview do I offer to you?
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Here it is.
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The worldview that
has worked very well
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for thousands of years.
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The worldview that this book
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that we call the
scriptures is true.
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It worked very well
for thousands of years
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when people
believed in right and wrong.
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And we believed that
we were children of God,
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not children of some creature
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that came down from the trees.
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You see, I don't
believe my ancestors
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came down from the trees.
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I believe I came
from the hand of God.
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Now I'm not asking
you to believe this
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without evidence,
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but today I am proposing
to give you some evidence
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why I believe that
the alternative viewpoint
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that comes from this book,
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the ancient Hebrew
Christian scriptures,
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the Bible, is true, valid.
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These viewpoints
are certainly worth
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our most serious
contemplation and consideration.
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Will you simply
give me a hearing?
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That's all I'm saying today.
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Can we not simply
talk about these things?
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Can we stop
shouting each other down?
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And can we simply consider
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that there may
be an alternative,
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there could be a
different viewpoint
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to the one that you and I
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may be holding at this moment.
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Can you give us some
real reasons to believe
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some evidence that the
Bible is not a fairy tale?
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You may be surprised,
but there are many reasons.
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I was talking to a
young man the other day
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who's going off to university.
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And, we were
working together in my yard.
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I said, "Do you believe in God?"
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No.
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He said, "I
don't believe in God.
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He doesn't exist."
Oh, He doesn't exist.
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So I said, "Who made
all this around us here?"
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Oh, he said,
"Well, it made itself."
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No. He said, "Science made it."
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I said to him,
calling him by his name,
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because he's a fine young man.
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I said, "Science
tells us how things work.
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It may even tell us
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how old things are, you know?
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It may even tell us
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some of those
things on occasions,
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but science
doesn't tell us why."
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He said, "No, it
doesn't, does it?"
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No, I said, "It
doesn't tell us why."
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But there is a
book that tells us why.
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There's a book that
tells us where we came from,
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why we're here,
where we're going.
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And most importantly,
it tells us who we are.
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Now, I can give you
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if you will listen to me,
if you will be patient with me,
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if together we
can be intellectually
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and morally honest,
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I can give you
tremendous reasons
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why this book is the
real deal and authentic.
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I can give you real reasons.
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I can give you
historical reasons.
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I can give you
heaps of arguments that,
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no, not arguments.
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I can give you the
facts from archeology.
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Don't have time to do that now,
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but today I am going
to give you some facts
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from an unusual source
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that you'll find
intriguing and interesting.
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The prophecies
make the Bible different
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from other so-called holy books.
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What can you tell
us about the prophecies
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of the Bible?
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Well, this may surprise you,
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but this book, the Bible,
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which has been the foundation
of Western civilization.
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People say, "Is
that so?" Yes, it is so.
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Today, we're dealing
with a tremendous amount
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of ignorance in the world,
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especially in the universities.
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This book claims
to have the capacity
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to tell the future.
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It claims to be a
book of genuine prophecy.
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And as one great
philosopher said,
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if genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main
issues of our age are met.
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I can show you prophecies
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as I've shown to
millions of people
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in Russia and Ukraine.
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In those days, they
still had a brain left.
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They studied and they read,
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they were not
superficial people,
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they'd gone through
terrible persecution.
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Persecution makes people strong.
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Western society on
the whole has made us
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a race of weaklings,
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but I can show you
prophecies, amazing prophecies
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that at least to those people
and millions of other people
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around the world
are absolute evidence
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that the Bible is true.
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Let me give you a few examples,
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if I may.
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Daniel 9:25,
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this was written
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about 2,500 years ago.
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It was written in
the city of Babylon
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by a young prisoner of war.
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Daniel 9:25 says,
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here it is.
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"Know and understand this:
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From the issuing of
the decree to restore
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and rebuild Jerusalem
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until the Anointed One,
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the ruler comes there will be
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seven sevens and
sixty-two sevens."
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Well, you say,
that's gobbly goop.
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No, it's not. Come on.
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Let's use the stuff up here.
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Let's use the little...
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Let's use the little gray cells,
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shall we?
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Here it talks about
the coming of the Messiah.
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That is the Christ.
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It says, from
the decree to restore
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and to rebuild
Jerusalem until the Messiah,
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the Anointed One comes,
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there will be 69 sevens.
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You can read it
yourself. Go, get a Bible.
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Sixty-nine sevens or 483 years.
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Now, Jerusalem
had been overthrown
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by the
Babylonians, you know that.
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Then there came
this Persian king
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by the name of
Artaxerxes Longimanus.
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How would you like to
have a name like that?
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Sure it beats John Carter.
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Artaxerxes Longimanus,
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and in the year 457 BC,
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he made a decree that Jerusalem
should be completely restored.
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If you add 483
years onto those 400
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and back to 457 BC,
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it brings you through to 27 AD.
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You say, "No, it
doesn't." Yes, it does.
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You say, "Well, can you prove?"
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Yes. I can prove it to you.
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It's a fact from 483
years added on to 457 BC
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brings us through to 27 AD,
00:14:09.78\00:14:11.81
and you've got to recognize
there's no year zero in the BC,
00:14:11.85\00:14:16.08
you go from one BC to one AD.
00:14:16.12\00:14:18.62
So it brings
you through to 27AD.
00:14:18.65\00:14:20.96
So what happened
in 27 AD, you ask me?
00:14:20.99\00:14:23.93
Luke, who was a doctor
in his book in Chapter 3,
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he says that Jesus appeared
00:14:26.80\00:14:29.63
in his public role in
the land of Israel in 27 AD.
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He writes down the dates.
00:14:35.00\00:14:36.57
He says,
00:14:36.60\00:14:37.94
the 15th year of the
reign of Tiberius Caesar,
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27 AD,
00:14:41.91\00:14:43.24
that's when Jesus started
His preaching, got baptized.
00:14:43.28\00:14:46.41
Went out preaching, He said,
00:14:46.45\00:14:48.02
"Repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand,
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and the time is fulfilled."
00:14:51.22\00:14:54.29
Think of it.
00:14:54.32\00:14:56.26
Five hundred years
previous, it had been predicted
00:14:56.29\00:14:59.73
that the Messiah
would appear in 27 AD.
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Jesus appeared in 27 AD.
00:15:03.06\00:15:07.14
The prophecy came to pass.
00:15:07.17\00:15:09.54
Hey, there must be a God.
00:15:09.57\00:15:12.44
The Bible must be
true. What do you think?
00:15:12.47\00:15:17.48
That was a long, long time ago.
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Is this truth stable?
00:15:20.72\00:15:22.62
Something that
won't change over time?
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Of course, it was very long ago,
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but we've got history.
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We know ancient history.
00:15:34.23\00:15:35.63
We know about the Caesars.
00:15:35.66\00:15:37.33
We know about the Babylonians.
00:15:37.37\00:15:39.50
We know about the Assyrians.
00:15:39.53\00:15:41.67
We've got the cuneiform tablets.
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We've got the scrolls.
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I bless my soul.
00:15:45.84\00:15:49.28
These facts can be proven
00:15:49.31\00:15:51.61
according to the
ancient writings.
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Jesus was a real person.
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Even Richard Dawkins,
00:15:57.42\00:15:59.32
the most famous
atheist in the world
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has made a confession.
00:16:02.46\00:16:05.59
Richard Dawkins, who
has written the book,
00:16:05.63\00:16:08.36
The God Delusion,
which is a delusion.
00:16:08.40\00:16:13.27
Richard Dawkins
has come out and said,
00:16:13.30\00:16:15.24
"Yes, I confess Jesus was
a real person of history."
00:16:15.27\00:16:20.81
Thank you, Richard.
00:16:20.84\00:16:23.48
There was a Jesus.
00:16:23.51\00:16:25.45
He started His
preaching in 27 AD
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according to the Word of God,
00:16:28.18\00:16:30.35
and according to the
prophecy of Daniel Chapter 9.
00:16:30.39\00:16:35.52
When the atheists
heard these things
00:16:35.56\00:16:37.43
in Russia and Ukraine,
00:16:37.46\00:16:38.86
they said, "Thank
God there is a God.
00:16:38.89\00:16:42.10
I know where I came
from. I know why I'm here.
00:16:42.13\00:16:44.80
I know where we're going."
00:16:44.83\00:16:46.47
Today, we are
talking about the facts,
00:16:46.50\00:16:50.27
not fairy tales.
00:16:50.31\00:16:54.11
Are there other
prophecies in Daniel 9
00:16:54.14\00:16:57.08
that go beyond
human explanation?
00:16:57.11\00:17:01.98
Yes, there are.
00:17:02.02\00:17:04.32
When I first
read these prophecies,
00:17:04.35\00:17:05.92
I was completely blown away.
00:17:05.95\00:17:09.39
It talks about the city
of Jerusalem being destroyed
00:17:09.42\00:17:12.19
because the people back
there had murdered the Messiah.
00:17:12.23\00:17:15.76
It actually talks
about it right here
00:17:15.80\00:17:17.77
in Daniel Chapter 9.
00:17:17.80\00:17:19.13
It talks about the
destruction of the city
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and the
destruction of the temple,
00:17:21.40\00:17:23.24
which was in Jerusalem.
00:17:23.27\00:17:25.77
It also says that
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there'd be a
certain type of person
00:17:28.34\00:17:30.55
who would destroy the temple.
00:17:30.58\00:17:32.81
It says the people of
the prince who will come,
00:17:32.85\00:17:35.95
will destroy the
city and the sanctuary.
00:17:35.98\00:17:39.45
It says the
people of the prince.
00:17:39.49\00:17:41.56
The prince was Titus.
00:17:41.59\00:17:43.63
Titus was in charge of
the destruction of Jerusalem
00:17:43.66\00:17:47.03
and the temple,
00:17:47.06\00:17:48.40
but he wanted to save the temple
00:17:48.43\00:17:49.76
because he said,
00:17:49.80\00:17:51.13
it's the temple of Almighty God.
00:17:51.17\00:17:54.14
And he rushed
down to the temple site
00:17:54.17\00:17:56.17
where the Roman
soldiers were filled with rage
00:17:56.20\00:17:59.04
against the Jews
00:17:59.07\00:18:00.41
and wanted to
destroy the temple.
00:18:00.44\00:18:02.08
And he said, "I forbid
you to destroy the temple,"
00:18:02.11\00:18:06.85
but they wouldn't listen.
00:18:06.88\00:18:08.52
Wouldn't listen.
00:18:08.55\00:18:09.88
Wouldn't listen to their prince.
00:18:09.92\00:18:11.25
They wouldn't listen to the man
00:18:11.29\00:18:12.62
who was eventually
to become the Caesar.
00:18:12.65\00:18:15.62
And they burnt the temple down
exactly as the prophecy said.
00:18:15.66\00:18:19.69
The people of the
prince who shall come
00:18:19.73\00:18:22.43
shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary.
00:18:22.46\00:18:28.24
All of this was
written hundreds of years
00:18:28.27\00:18:30.41
before it came to pass.
00:18:30.44\00:18:33.54
I don't want you to
believe it, my friend,
00:18:33.58\00:18:35.48
because I'm telling it to you.
00:18:35.51\00:18:36.85
I want you to believe it
because I'm giving you facts.
00:18:36.88\00:18:39.35
Jesus said,
00:18:39.38\00:18:40.88
"You will know the truth
00:18:40.92\00:18:42.25
and the truth
will make you free."
00:18:42.28\00:18:45.05
And when you have the
truth and when you are free,
00:18:45.09\00:18:48.19
you will be happy
00:18:48.22\00:18:49.82
because you will
know who you are.
00:18:49.86\00:18:52.29
You want to know who you are.
00:18:52.33\00:18:54.83
You're not second
cousin to a monkey.
00:18:54.86\00:18:57.03
You didn't come
down from the trees.
00:18:57.07\00:18:59.50
You're a child of God and Jesus,
00:18:59.53\00:19:02.97
the created God
came to this earth
00:19:03.00\00:19:05.91
because He loves you.
00:19:05.94\00:19:08.31
You are precious,
you are important.
00:19:08.34\00:19:13.25
It would help
00:19:13.28\00:19:14.62
if there were more
prophecies about Christ,
00:19:14.65\00:19:18.19
then we'd have more confidence
in what you are saying?
00:19:18.22\00:19:23.73
The Bible is full of prophecies
00:19:23.76\00:19:25.63
about the coming of the Messiah.
00:19:25.66\00:19:28.06
It was
predicted a thousand years
00:19:28.10\00:19:30.53
before Christ was born,
00:19:30.57\00:19:32.20
that the Messiah
would be crucified.
00:19:32.23\00:19:37.54
And in those days, crucifixion
had not been invented.
00:19:37.57\00:19:41.94
In the days of
the Book of Psalms,
00:19:41.98\00:19:43.68
it says here, I'm
going to read it to you.
00:19:43.71\00:19:46.65
Here we go.
00:19:46.68\00:19:48.02
Psalm 22:16 says,
00:19:48.05\00:19:51.65
"Dogs have surrounded me,
00:19:51.69\00:19:53.69
band of evil man
has encircled me.
00:19:53.72\00:19:56.29
They've pierced my hands
00:19:56.32\00:19:59.49
and my feet."
00:19:59.53\00:20:03.16
This is talking
about crucifixion.
00:20:03.20\00:20:05.00
When these words were written,
they didn't crucify people.
00:20:05.03\00:20:08.20
Christ was crucified.
00:20:08.24\00:20:11.51
Then the prophecies
tell us other things,
00:20:11.54\00:20:13.61
he'd be betrayed by a friend.
00:20:13.64\00:20:17.21
They would
gamble over his cloak.
00:20:17.25\00:20:20.22
It was predicted
00:20:20.25\00:20:21.58
that he would be
raised from the dead.
00:20:21.62\00:20:24.29
And He was raised from the dead.
00:20:24.32\00:20:25.82
Hundreds of people saw Jesus.
00:20:25.85\00:20:29.92
These are facts.
00:20:29.96\00:20:31.93
We're talking
here about prophecy
00:20:31.96\00:20:34.10
and we're talking
about the facts of history.
00:20:34.13\00:20:39.20
I believe not
because of blind faith.
00:20:39.23\00:20:42.14
I believe, my friend, because
00:20:42.17\00:20:46.44
of overwhelming evidence.
00:20:46.47\00:20:51.01
You've been to
Russia and Ukraine 49 times.
00:20:51.05\00:20:55.28
What impressed you the most?
00:20:55.32\00:20:59.12
Yeah, I've been
to Russia 49 times,
00:20:59.15\00:21:01.56
Russia and Ukraine.
00:21:01.59\00:21:03.02
I was working in
there the other day.
00:21:03.06\00:21:04.39
I think actually it's 50 times.
00:21:04.43\00:21:06.26
I've been blessed
to go to those places.
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.43
What impressed me the most?
00:21:12.47\00:21:13.80
I went there during the
heyday of communism and atheism.
00:21:13.84\00:21:18.67
Life without God is very bleak
00:21:18.71\00:21:22.71
and dreary and lonely.
00:21:22.74\00:21:25.71
A man came up to
me once in Moscow,
00:21:25.75\00:21:27.88
when communism was falling
00:21:27.92\00:21:30.32
and he raised his
hands, he could speak English.
00:21:30.35\00:21:33.05
He said, "This is a
hell that we have created."
00:21:33.09\00:21:37.33
Terrible
depression, terrible alcoholism.
00:21:37.36\00:21:41.26
Why do we have so
many suicides today
00:21:41.30\00:21:43.40
in the Western world?
00:21:43.43\00:21:45.60
Why are so many young
people taking their lives?
00:21:45.63\00:21:48.74
Life without God.
00:21:48.77\00:21:50.51
Why so much violence?
00:21:50.54\00:21:52.31
Life without God.
00:21:52.34\00:21:54.01
Why so much domestic violence?
00:21:54.04\00:21:56.34
Life without God.
00:21:56.38\00:21:58.45
Why so many mental problems?
00:21:58.48\00:22:01.92
Life without God.
00:22:01.95\00:22:05.75
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said,
00:22:05.79\00:22:08.32
the great Russian
patriot of the 20th century.
00:22:08.36\00:22:11.59
He said, "We have rejected God,
00:22:11.63\00:22:15.53
and all these
things have come upon us."
00:22:15.56\00:22:18.70
Seventy million people murdered
00:22:18.73\00:22:24.07
in Russia and Ukraine.
00:22:24.11\00:22:27.01
We turned a
beautiful place into a hell.
00:22:27.04\00:22:31.81
Life without God.
00:22:31.85\00:22:33.35
Is there an
alternative to the view
00:22:33.38\00:22:37.19
that says that there's nothing,
00:22:37.22\00:22:41.36
that there is no God and
every man is his own law.
00:22:41.39\00:22:45.29
Yes, there is.
00:22:45.33\00:22:46.66
Belief in God.
00:22:46.70\00:22:48.20
Belief in Jesus.
00:22:48.23\00:22:49.80
Belief in Scripture.
00:22:49.83\00:22:53.20
Belief in marriage.
00:22:53.23\00:22:55.17
Belief in the Ten Commandments.
00:22:55.20\00:22:58.11
Belief in the holy laws of God.
00:22:58.14\00:23:00.58
Belief in the
teachings of the Bible.
00:23:00.61\00:23:02.78
Belief in the beatitudes.
00:23:02.81\00:23:05.48
Belief in the golden rule.
00:23:05.51\00:23:08.98
Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.
00:23:09.02\00:23:13.39
I say to you, my
friend, there is a better way
00:23:13.42\00:23:16.69
than the way of the chaos
00:23:16.73\00:23:18.89
that we find in the world today.
00:23:18.93\00:23:22.26
It is the way of God.
00:23:22.30\00:23:24.13
It is the way of Christ.
00:23:24.17\00:23:26.50
It is the way of
the commandments.
00:23:26.53\00:23:28.70
I say to you,
00:23:28.74\00:23:30.07
believe in the God
who believes in you.
00:23:30.11\00:23:33.14
Amen. And God bless you.
00:23:33.17\00:23:37.25
If we base our
faith on this evidence,
00:23:37.28\00:23:40.82
will it help us to live a saner
00:23:40.85\00:23:43.52
more stable life?
00:23:43.55\00:23:46.96
Truth is important.
00:23:46.99\00:23:49.82
We don't want to
be like the blind man
00:23:49.86\00:23:51.63
who says there's no sun.
00:23:51.66\00:23:56.26
Truth is important
because truths gives us
00:23:56.30\00:23:59.00
the ability to see
beyond the present.
00:23:59.03\00:24:04.71
Truth gives us the ability
00:24:04.74\00:24:06.94
to see ultimate reality.
00:24:06.98\00:24:11.75
You see the great theologian,
00:24:11.78\00:24:14.62
the Roman Catholic theologian
who lived many years ago,
00:24:14.65\00:24:17.15
Saint Augustine
was absolutely correct
00:24:17.19\00:24:19.15
when he said, "Our
souls were made for God,
00:24:19.19\00:24:23.79
and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him."
00:24:23.83\00:24:27.50
Inside us there is a vacuum.
00:24:27.53\00:24:30.83
There is this loneliness.
00:24:30.87\00:24:34.97
You see it
everywhere in the world today.
00:24:35.00\00:24:36.87
That's why
people are trying this
00:24:36.91\00:24:39.01
and trying this, trying
this sexual development,
00:24:39.04\00:24:42.01
trying this development,
trying this philosophy.
00:24:42.04\00:24:46.68
People are on a crazy search
00:24:46.72\00:24:49.98
trying to find ultimate reality.
00:24:50.02\00:24:53.96
But ultimate reality is
found in the truth of God.
00:24:53.99\00:24:59.63
Our souls were made for God.
00:24:59.66\00:25:02.36
They cannot rest
until they rest in Him.
00:25:02.40\00:25:04.80
My friend, I can give you
my own personal testimony.
00:25:04.83\00:25:08.87
I was a young
teenager, lost and lonely
00:25:08.90\00:25:11.94
until I found
that there was a God
00:25:11.97\00:25:14.94
and He came in
00:25:14.98\00:25:16.31
and He filled
the hole in my heart.
00:25:16.34\00:25:20.02
I've seen it happen in the lives
00:25:20.05\00:25:21.38
of hundreds of thousands,
tens of thousands of atheists,
00:25:21.42\00:25:24.85
unbelievers, communists,
Marxists around the world.
00:25:24.89\00:25:28.82
But particularly
in Russia and Ukraine
00:25:28.86\00:25:30.86
where the
communists were in charge.
00:25:30.89\00:25:34.06
I've seen the
depression, the loneliness,
00:25:34.10\00:25:39.73
the hopelessness, the despair.
00:25:39.77\00:25:42.30
But when you find
God, you find everything,
00:25:45.71\00:25:49.88
everyone that you need.
00:25:49.91\00:25:52.95
Jesus said,
"You'll know the truth.
00:25:52.98\00:25:55.12
My peace I give unto you.
00:25:55.15\00:25:57.59
Not as the world
gives do I give it to you,
00:25:57.62\00:25:59.82
I give you a
special kind of peace."
00:25:59.85\00:26:03.56
I invite you to have this peace
00:26:03.59\00:26:06.43
by believing in
the God who made you.
00:26:06.46\00:26:10.30
You are special.
00:26:10.33\00:26:12.43
You are important.
00:26:12.47\00:26:14.44
You are loved.
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