Welcome back to the
Man who won't go away.
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The more people
try to quiet His voice,
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the stronger it gets.
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Any attempt
made to hide Him away
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will only bring
Him more into the open.
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His followers
won't go away either.
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He is their one true friend.
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Because they know,
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no matter what they do,
He will never leave them.
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He is the One Man
who won't go away.
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How did Jesus treat women?
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Try reading John Chapter 8.
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It's the story of a woman
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caught in the
very act of adultery
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by the Pharisees,
their religious leaders.
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Just try reading that story
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and you see how Jesus
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was the greatest
defender of women in the history
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of the human race.
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Read the story, my
friend, of Mary Magdalene,
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a woman who had been
possessed by seven demons.
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A woman who came from a
life of depravity and sin,
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but Jesus did
not give up on her.
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Jesus loved her.
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And Jesus lifted her
up, Jesus redeemed her.
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In the history of the human race
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there's never, never
been a defender of women,
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such as Jesus
Christ, the Son of God.
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He's done more for women,
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more for the rights of women
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that all the women's
libbers and all the emancipators
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and all the big talkers
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and all the waffling politicians
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in the history
of the human race,
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Jesus Christ is the real deal.
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And if you're a woman,
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you should never
ever criticize Jesus,
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because Jesus is
your very best friend.
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Who were the friends of Jesus?
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Jesus is called
in the scriptures,
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the friend of sinners.
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Now I think
it's Luke Chapter 15,
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where Jesus is going out to
eat with the so-called sinners.
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The Pharisees come
along and they say,
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this man receives sinners,
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and goes to eat with them.
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Oh, dear, how dreadful.
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And Jesus said to the Pharisees,
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how right you are.
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Jesus is the friend of sinners.
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If you feel a sinner today,
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then know this,
Jesus is your friend.
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Jesus died to save sinners.
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The Bible says,
God so loved the world.
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And that's a
world full of sinners.
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"God so loved the world
that He gave His only Son
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so that whoever believes in Him
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shall not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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Jesus is the friend of sinners.
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What was His attitude
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towards people who
made a lot of mistakes?
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Peter messed up pretty badly.
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Haven't you and I on occasions,
messed up pretty badly?
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I certainly have.
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And I guess you have too.
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There's no room
for self-righteousness
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because we're all sinners.
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We've all fallen
short of the glory of God.
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When Jesus needed
a friend, a buddy,
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somebody to stand by
Him, Peter denied his Lord
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with cursing and swearing.
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But Jesus never
gave up on Peter.
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He doesn't give up on anybody.
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And Jesus sent
a message He said,
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"Go tell My disciples
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and Peter to meet
me certain place."
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He redeemed Peter,
He reached out to Peter.
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He loved Peter, even
though Peter had messed up.
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And God loves you, my friend,
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even though you
and I have messed up,
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He loves us.
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At the very end,
the history tells us
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that Peter was
crucified upside down,
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because he didn't feel
himself worthy to be crucified
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in the same way that
his Lord had been crucified.
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Because he just felt
Jesus had done so much for him
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and Jesus had.
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Never, never forget
it, my brother, my sister,
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that Jesus is the
friend of sinners.
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And if you feel a sinner today,
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then remember this,
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God loves you, Jesus
loves you and He is your friend.
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How did the
powerful religious hierarchy,
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the Jewish leaders,
the priests treat Jesus?
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Well, Jesus tried to
get along with the hierarchy
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because He tried to
get along with everybody
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by showing
kindness and goodness.
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But these
people were so obsessed
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with their own
self-righteousness,
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that they hated
Him without a cause
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that's what the Bible says.
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They hated me without a cause.
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And there's another big reason
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that the Pharisees
and the religious leaders
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hated Jesus,
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because they were so insecure.
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They were such politicians
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all the time trying to
climb up the slippery pole.
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And Jesus
threatened their power,
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their security,
and their position.
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That's why these
religious leaders
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conspired to have Him condemned.
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They handed Him over
to the Roman governor
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and they cried out,
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crucify Him,
crucify Him, crucify Him.
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Pilate said,
"What evil has He done?"
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They said, "We don't care,
just put Him on the cross."
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The religious leaders
hated Him in his own day,
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because He revealed
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that they were
simply whited sepulchers,
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good on the outside,
but filthy on the inside.
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So tragically, most
of the religious leaders,
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so some later on
came to believe in Him,
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but most of the
religious leaders
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like Caiaphas, and so forth.
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They hated Him without a
cause and they hated Him,
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because He challenged
their religious superiority.
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Were some religious leaders
of that time bad and corrupt?
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Well, it was Nicodemus,
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the one who came
to Jesus by night.
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That's how he's described
all the way in the gospels.
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They say, Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jewish Council,
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a big shot in Israel,
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one of the chief theologians
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who knew a great
deal about theology,
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but who knew
nothing about truth.
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Jesus said to him,
"You got to be born again."
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He said, "What on
earth does that mean?
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Do I have to go into my
mother's womb and be born."
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That shows you how
spiritually ignorant
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this religious leader was.
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But Nicodemus came good.
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And the Bible tells us
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that a great
company of the priests
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turned to Christ,
and they turned to God.
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Jesus is the
savior of all people.
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He's the savior
of religious people,
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as well as outward sinners.
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Jesus loves us,
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and He is the best news
that this world has ever heard.
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He's the person that
this world needs today
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more than any other
person living on the planet.
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The politicians
don't seem to be helping us
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a great deal today.
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Certainly in the
United States of America
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and other places
that I can mention
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the politicians
don't seem to be helping us
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a great deal.
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What we need is Jesus Christ.
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What did Jesus
tell us about God?
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He said that He was
the very image of God.
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He said, on one
occasion, I think it's John 14.
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He says, you want to see God,
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well, He who has seen Me,
He said, has seen the Father.
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What an amazing statement.
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They said, you
know, just show us God.
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Let us see God, and
then we're going to be happy.
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Jesus said, "You've seen Me,
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therefore,
you've seen the Father."
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Everything Jesus is God is.
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Jesus was the friend of sinners,
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God is.
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Jesus loved little children,
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they loved to
get up on His knees
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and let the little
children come to Me.
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That's what God is like.
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Jesus said,
forgive, forgive 490 times,
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and don't count just
be, that's what God is like.
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Listen to me,
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I want you to think of
the very best person you know,
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the very nicest person you know,
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the person
you'd like to emulate,
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if you could think
of the very best person.
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That person is a
little bit like God.
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But Jesus, God is a
million times better.
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No, no, no, I'm wrong,
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not a million times,
a trillion times better,
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a trillion times better
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than the very
best person, you know.
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He's good, He's kind,
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He's loving, He's forgiving.
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He's the very best person.
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How difficult is it to
practice the teachings of Jesus?
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How difficult where His sayings,
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some of His sayings?
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Well, talking for myself,
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and I think I would
represent a lot of people.
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I find some of His
sayings very difficult indeed.
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I've heard skeptics say,
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oh, it's so easy
to be a Christian.
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Anybody can be a Christian.
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Try being a
Christian, Richard Dawkins.
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Try reading,
try getting a Bible.
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When I was in Russia, in
the days of the communists.
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I'd communists come
to me and they said,
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you know, it's all a
lot of nonsense, your Bible,
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so I would, I gave away ten,
hundreds of thousands of Bibles
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by the grace of God with
the help of my supporters,
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but I would say to them,
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go get your Bible.
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Or take this Bible
that I'm giving to you now,
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and try reading
through here we go.
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Try reading through Matthew 5,
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6 and 7.
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You know, the greatest weakness
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among people who
go to church today
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or people who call
themselves Christians,
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they don't know
what Jesus taught.
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He's the Jesus they never knew.
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They don't even read the Bible.
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They don't ever haven't
got a clue what He taught.
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How difficult are
those teachings? Jesus said,
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or if somebody slapped you here,
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turn the other side
and take a slap there.
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You say, "That's impossible."
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Well, that's why
it's, it's difficult.
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That's why we
need the grace of God.
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Jesus said, you've heard
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it is said,
"Love your neighbor."
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Yeah.
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Well, the
neighbor's very nice person,
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easy to love your neighbor.
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Jesus said, "Love your enemies."
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He's talking about
a supernatural love
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that comes from
the heart of God.
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He said, love your enemies.
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He said, "One of the
disciples, I think was Peter."
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He said, "How many times
shall I forgive my brother,
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seven times."
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He thought he was
being magnanimous.
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I'll forgive my
enemy seven times.
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Hey, what a good boy I am.
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Jesus said not seven
times 70 times seven.
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That's 490 times.
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And don't stop
when you get to 491.
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How difficult
are these teachings?
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We need the grace of
God to be Christians,
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and to follow Christians
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and to follow Christ
and to be true believers.
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You see we need to do
more than just talk about it.
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We need to
start to walk the talk
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and stop worldly
religious hype and follow Jesus.
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And that's why we
need amazing grace,
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amazing grace,
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how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
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I once was lost,
but now am found.
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I was blind but now I see.
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The grace of God can
help us to follow Christ.
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Why is His crucifixion
so central to Christianity?
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Crucifixion was a
living and a dying hell.
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I've read
accounts of crucifixions.
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Crucifixion was
predicted in the Bible
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a thousand years before
Christ was put on the cross.
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The victim is
usually stripped naked,
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nailed to the cross
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and often tied
with bits of rope also.
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The cross was not as
high as most people think.
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It was low enough
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so people could
go past quite often
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and gaze into the
tortured faces of the victims
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and spit in their faces.
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Paul says, he
quotes the Old Testament,
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in the Book of
Galatians He says,
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"Cursed is everyone
who is hung on a tree."
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Have you ever thought
about that, my friend?
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Just think about this,
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would you please
think about this.
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Sometimes we're
very, very superficial
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when we talk about these things.
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Cursed is everyone
who was hung on a tree.
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When Christ was hung
on the tree or the cross,
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He came under the
curse of God's law.
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He became sin for us.
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He was not a sinner.
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He had no sin,
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but the sin of the
world was laid upon Christ
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and you know sin, your
sin was laid upon Christ.
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My sin was laid upon Christ.
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Hanging on the cross,
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one person said was the
gospel, the good news of God.
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But hanging on the
cross was the Creator God.
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Can you believe this that
Christ was God in human flesh,
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and hanging on the cross
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was the Creator of the universe?
00:16:01.06\00:16:03.43
The hand that
thronged the stars in space
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was the hand that
was nailed to the cross.
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What does this tell you?
00:16:10.37\00:16:11.70
It tells you that sin
is rotten, degrading, evil,
00:16:11.73\00:16:15.07
and immensely wicked.
00:16:15.10\00:16:16.71
And it also tells you that God
is immensely caring and loving.
00:16:16.74\00:16:22.64
He loved you so much
00:16:22.68\00:16:24.11
that He went to
the cross for you.
00:16:24.15\00:16:28.18
You and I cannot
understand these things fully.
00:16:28.22\00:16:30.72
We can only
partly comprehend them.
00:16:30.75\00:16:33.79
But I want you to know this,
00:16:33.82\00:16:37.19
that God and
Christ went to the cross
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to bear your sins.
00:16:40.96\00:16:43.20
This Christ is not
like any other person.
00:16:43.23\00:16:45.50
He's not like Muhammad.
00:16:45.53\00:16:46.87
He's not like Moses.
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He's not like St. Paul.
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He's not like any one of us.
He is the sinless Son of God.
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And the sin of the
world is laid upon Him.
00:16:54.94\00:16:57.71
That's why He cries
out, "My God, My God,
00:16:57.75\00:17:00.78
why have You forsaken Me?"
00:17:00.82\00:17:04.79
But most
importantly, we must realize,
00:17:04.82\00:17:07.16
comprehend and realize
00:17:07.19\00:17:08.76
your sin and my sin
was laid upon Christ.
00:17:08.79\00:17:14.30
He paid the price
for your sin and my sin.
00:17:14.33\00:17:17.07
If you and I
truly believe in Him,
00:17:17.10\00:17:20.17
our sins are forgiven.
00:17:20.20\00:17:23.41
No wonder we say, oh,
come let us adore Him.
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Christ the Lord, who
is like unto this Christ.
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Is He still dead?
00:17:35.18\00:17:37.35
Where is He buried?
00:17:37.39\00:17:39.49
Will archaeologists
uncover His bones?
00:17:39.52\00:17:43.02
I can assure you,
I've been to Israel
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more times than I can count.
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But I can assure you
of one tremendous truth.
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They're never going to
find the bones of Jesus.
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Are you getting
what I'm saying today?
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They're never going to
find the bones of Jesus
00:18:05.01\00:18:08.78
because the bones are
not in any tomb in Jerusalem.
00:18:08.82\00:18:12.39
Jesus was
resurrected from the dead.
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That is a fact.
00:18:15.56\00:18:17.43
You say, "No,
it's just a story."
00:18:17.46\00:18:19.46
No, it's not just a story.
00:18:19.49\00:18:20.90
Hey, get real, my friend.
00:18:20.93\00:18:23.80
This is a fact.
00:18:23.83\00:18:25.83
It's historical.
00:18:25.87\00:18:28.70
I don't have a blind faith.
We don't want blind faith.
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We want a faith
that is based upon truth.
00:18:31.31\00:18:34.21
Now, here's a question for you.
00:18:34.24\00:18:37.28
What happened to
the body of Jesus?
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Would you please tell me,
00:18:39.88\00:18:41.22
what happened to
the body of Jesus?
00:18:41.25\00:18:42.68
Somebody is going to say,
00:18:42.72\00:18:44.15
"Well, the disciples came
00:18:44.19\00:18:45.75
and they stole
the body of Jesus."
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That's nonsense.
00:18:47.96\00:18:49.76
Could you imagine a
dozen dispirited men and women
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are storming the Roman tomb
00:18:54.93\00:18:57.17
with all those Roman soldiers?
00:18:57.20\00:18:58.97
Now it's silly.
00:18:59.00\00:19:01.30
Don't insult our intelligence.
00:19:01.34\00:19:04.21
Others say, "Well,
the Jews got the body.
00:19:04.24\00:19:07.34
The Jews took the body."
00:19:07.38\00:19:08.78
Well, why didn't
they produce the body
00:19:08.81\00:19:12.08
when the disciples started
to preach the resurrection?
00:19:12.11\00:19:15.65
The Jews get the body, absurd.
00:19:15.68\00:19:18.05
Others say the
Romans got the body.
00:19:18.09\00:19:19.89
No, that's just as silly
00:19:19.92\00:19:21.82
because the Romans wanted to
put down this Christian thing.
00:19:21.86\00:19:25.96
The best way to put
down the Christian church
00:19:25.99\00:19:28.36
is by producing
the body of Christ.
00:19:28.40\00:19:32.73
Would you like to
know where the body is?
00:19:32.77\00:19:34.24
What happened to the body?
00:19:34.27\00:19:36.17
Well, the body was resurrected.
00:19:36.20\00:19:39.57
Jesus was raised from the dead.
00:19:39.61\00:19:42.84
He was seen by
hundreds of witnesses.
00:19:42.88\00:19:46.15
Witnesses are the basis
of the other law system.
00:19:46.18\00:19:50.95
We have judges
and we have juries
00:19:50.99\00:19:53.56
and we have witnesses.
00:19:53.59\00:19:58.29
Ask Mary, she saw Him.
00:19:58.33\00:20:01.00
Mary, is He raised? Yes.
00:20:01.03\00:20:03.03
He called my name Maria.
00:20:03.06\00:20:06.33
Ask Peter, yes, I saw Him.
00:20:06.37\00:20:08.34
Ask Thomas, he
said, I've felt His hands.
00:20:08.37\00:20:12.04
I've felt the
marks of the nails,
00:20:12.07\00:20:14.21
I felt the side.
00:20:14.24\00:20:16.34
Ask the disciples. Yes.
00:20:16.38\00:20:18.41
On one occasion, He
appeared to 500 people.
00:20:18.45\00:20:23.05
They saw Him,
they talked with Him.
00:20:23.08\00:20:26.49
On one occasion, Jesus
met with some of His disciples
00:20:26.52\00:20:29.72
beside the Sea of
Galilee, and He had a meal.
00:20:29.76\00:20:33.13
He had breakfast,
00:20:33.16\00:20:34.50
He had fish and bread with them.
00:20:34.53\00:20:35.86
Why do you think
millions of people died
00:20:39.53\00:20:41.77
as martyrs were
tortured, were butchered,
00:20:41.80\00:20:44.51
were thrown to the
lions in the Circus Maximus,
00:20:44.54\00:20:47.71
not the Colosseum,
in the Circus Maximus?
00:20:47.74\00:20:50.95
Think of being
thrown to wild beasts
00:20:50.98\00:20:53.42
and torn to bits?
00:20:53.45\00:20:56.15
Why did they do this?
00:20:56.18\00:20:58.62
Would you do this
if you didn't believe?
00:20:58.65\00:21:01.19
They did it
because of their faith
00:21:01.22\00:21:04.69
that was based
upon historical reality
00:21:04.73\00:21:09.76
upon fact.
00:21:09.80\00:21:13.23
My friend, He's alive.
00:21:13.27\00:21:15.40
Make no doubt about
it. He's alive, He's well.
00:21:15.44\00:21:18.67
And He's the person
who's not going to go away
00:21:18.71\00:21:23.18
and He's the person
the world can't get rid of.
00:21:23.21\00:21:26.15
He is the living Christ,
00:21:26.18\00:21:29.05
the Son of God, Yahweh,
00:21:29.08\00:21:31.49
Elohim our Savior.
00:21:31.52\00:21:36.29
Is this the end
of the Jesus' story?
00:21:36.32\00:21:41.86
Is this the end
of the Jesus' story?
00:21:41.90\00:21:45.97
Is this the end
of the Jesus' story?
00:21:46.00\00:21:49.27
Almighty God became a man
00:21:49.30\00:21:52.67
born of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
00:21:52.71\00:21:56.58
This is incredible.
00:21:56.61\00:22:00.32
He grew up as a little boy,
00:22:00.35\00:22:02.05
then He became a carpenter,
00:22:02.08\00:22:03.45
then He became an
itinerant preacher.
00:22:03.49\00:22:06.79
He showed us what God is like.
00:22:06.82\00:22:10.09
And then He went to the
cross and died for our sins.
00:22:10.13\00:22:13.80
Is this the end of it?
00:22:13.83\00:22:16.40
Let me read you His words.
00:22:16.43\00:22:18.93
John 14:1-3,
00:22:18.97\00:22:20.47
"Let not your
hearts be troubled,
00:22:20.50\00:22:23.27
you believe in
God, believe also in Me.
00:22:23.30\00:22:26.91
In My Father's house are
many mansions, many rooms,
00:22:26.94\00:22:30.81
if it were not, so
I would have told you.
00:22:30.85\00:22:33.52
I go to prepare a place for you.
00:22:33.55\00:22:35.68
And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
00:22:35.72\00:22:38.59
I will come again
00:22:38.62\00:22:42.52
and receive you unto Myself
00:22:42.56\00:22:44.89
that where I am,
there you may be also."
00:22:44.93\00:22:50.83
Listen, He's coming back.
00:22:50.87\00:22:54.60
It is written, He's
coming back in power,
00:22:54.64\00:22:59.51
and in glory.
00:22:59.54\00:23:01.14
The King of the
universe is coming back.
00:23:01.18\00:23:05.51
He's coming back
to do away with sin,
00:23:05.55\00:23:08.32
and to set up His kingdom.
00:23:08.35\00:23:13.05
And you and I can be part of it.
00:23:13.09\00:23:19.29
My appeal to you is
this, from my heart to yours,
00:23:19.33\00:23:23.63
believe in
Christ, look to the Son.
00:23:23.67\00:23:27.87
See the Son, trust in the Son,
00:23:27.90\00:23:31.71
except the Son.
00:23:31.74\00:23:34.11
Believe in Him and
you will have eternal life
00:23:34.14\00:23:38.91
and live for eternity.
00:23:38.95\00:23:41.55
This is the Word of God.
00:23:41.58\00:23:44.75
How can I receive forgiveness?
Can I have a new life?
00:23:48.19\00:23:54.00
Is there hope for me?
00:23:54.03\00:23:55.66
Because of the love of
God, and because of Jesus,
00:23:58.67\00:24:02.37
there is hope for every person.
00:24:02.40\00:24:05.67
There is hope for
the great atheist,
00:24:05.71\00:24:08.01
the great cynic,
the great skeptic,
00:24:08.04\00:24:11.21
the profligate, the
terrible sex pervert.
00:24:11.25\00:24:15.78
There's plenty of those today.
00:24:15.82\00:24:19.09
And there's hope
for the run and mill,
00:24:19.12\00:24:23.02
the ordinary
sinner like all of us,
00:24:23.06\00:24:27.10
is hope for all of us,
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.40
because Christ died for us.
00:24:29.43\00:24:32.00
And the way to
salvation is a simple way.
00:24:32.03\00:24:35.14
Now I'm going to read you
00:24:35.17\00:24:36.64
a profound text
out of the Bible.
00:24:36.67\00:24:38.44
I urge you to
read the New Testament,
00:24:38.47\00:24:41.11
especially the gospels.
00:24:41.14\00:24:42.64
I read, urge you to
read the whole Bible,
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.11
but especially read
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
00:24:45.15\00:24:48.82
and overcome the
natural inclination
00:24:48.85\00:24:51.92
to spiritual slough.
00:24:51.95\00:24:55.52
Read it and you will
see the glory of God.
00:24:55.56\00:24:59.03
Now here is this
text, John 6:37-40,
00:24:59.06\00:25:04.97
"All the Father
gives Me what come to Me,
00:25:05.00\00:25:08.67
and the one who comes to Me
I will by no means cast out."
00:25:08.70\00:25:12.51
If you come to
Christ as a penitent,
00:25:12.54\00:25:14.98
He won't kick you out.
00:25:15.01\00:25:17.85
He says this,
00:25:17.88\00:25:20.12
"For I have come
down from heaven,
00:25:20.15\00:25:21.48
not to do My own will,
00:25:21.52\00:25:23.69
but the will of Him who sent me.
00:25:23.72\00:25:26.19
This is the will of
the Father who sent Me,
00:25:26.22\00:25:28.39
that of all He has given
me I should lose nothing,
00:25:28.42\00:25:31.66
but should raise
it up at the last day.
00:25:31.69\00:25:34.86
And this is the
will of Him who sent Me,
00:25:34.90\00:25:37.80
that everyone who sees
the Son and believes in Him
00:25:37.83\00:25:42.20
may have everlasting life,
00:25:42.24\00:25:43.81
and I will raise
him up at the last day."
00:25:43.84\00:25:48.41
Look at me and listen.
00:25:48.44\00:25:51.91
Jesus said,
00:25:51.95\00:25:54.28
"We will be saved
if we will see the Son,
00:25:54.32\00:25:57.55
if we will look at
Him, and believe in Him.
00:25:57.59\00:26:01.96
Anybody can look.
00:26:01.99\00:26:04.33
You can look, there's
no excuse not to look.
00:26:04.36\00:26:08.73
The rich man can look,
the politician can look,
00:26:08.76\00:26:13.13
the proud person can
look, old people can look,
00:26:13.17\00:26:16.94
if we look and believe in Him,
00:26:16.97\00:26:21.31
we will have everlasting life.
00:26:21.34\00:26:22.94
I invite you
today, look to Christ.
00:26:22.98\00:26:27.25
Look to Christ and be saved.
00:26:27.28\00:26:29.15
Believe in Him,
00:26:29.18\00:26:31.15
and you will
have everlasting life
00:26:31.19\00:26:32.95
and in spite of
the powers of hell,
00:26:32.99\00:26:37.46
you will be raised
up at the last day,
00:26:37.49\00:26:40.26
you will live for eternity.
00:26:40.30\00:26:41.96
This is the Word of the Lord,
00:26:42.00\00:26:45.00
believe it.
00:26:45.03\00:26:46.37
Many people no
matter what their age
00:26:51.11\00:26:53.98
still have their
first teddy bear.
00:26:54.01\00:26:56.85
It's hard to let them go.
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.88
Their stitches might be
loose, the stuffing flat,
00:26:58.91\00:27:02.88
one ear a little lopsided,
00:27:02.92\00:27:05.15
but they were
always there for us.
00:27:05.19\00:27:07.89
Imagine giving a child
their very first teddy bear,
00:27:07.92\00:27:11.93
especially when
they are sick and lonely.
00:27:11.96\00:27:15.06
They will always remember
00:27:15.10\00:27:16.70
that someone
they didn't even know
00:27:16.73\00:27:19.03
cared enough to
bring them a new friend
00:27:19.07\00:27:21.40
when they needed it most.
00:27:21.44\00:27:23.17
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