(MUSIC)
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>>ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
SCIENTISTS HAVE DEMONSTRATED
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THAT PEOPLE, AND EVEN CREATURES,
CAN STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION
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WHEN EXPOSED TO
CONTINUAL DARKNESS.
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THIS CAN BE SEEN EVERY YEAR IN
THE WINTER MONTHS IN THE ARCTIC
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REGIONS. THE
BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF RJUKAN,
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NORWAY IS SITUATED IN A DEEP
VALLEY WHERE MOUNTAINS BLOCK THE
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SUN'S RAYS FOR ABOUT
SIX MONTHS EVERY YEAR.
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THIS, OF COURSE, KEEPS THE 3,400
RESIDENTS IN A STATE OF SHADE
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AND, SOMETIMES, DEPRESSING
DARKNESS THROUGHOUT THE WINTER.
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THEN THE TOWN LEADERS GOT A
BRIGHT IDEA TO HELP ILLUMINATE
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THEIR VILLAGE DURING THE MURKY
MONTHS. IN OCTOBER 2013 RJUKAN
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INSTALLED AN ARRAY OF THREE
GIGANTIC 550-SQUARE-FOOT MIRRORS
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ON A NEARBY MOUNTAIN
1,000 FEET ABOVE THE TOWN.
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THE COMPUTER-CONTROLLED AND
SOLAR-POWERED MIRRORS TRACK THE
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SUN THROUGH THE WINTER MONTHS
AND REFLECT A GIANT BEAM OF
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SUNSHINE DOWN TO THE TOWN
SQUARE, BRIGHTENING THEIR LIVES.
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IF YOU VISIT RJUKAN IN THE
WINTER MONTHS TODAY, YOU CAN
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OFTEN SEE THE PEOPLE GATHERED
OR SITTING ON BENCHES AROUND THE
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TOWN SQUARE, BATHING
IN THE REFLECTED SUNSHINE.
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LIKE THOSE MIRRORS ON THE
MOUNTAIN, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
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CHRISTIANS ARE TO REFLECT THE
LIGHT OF JESUS, WHO IS THE LIGHT
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OF THIS WORLD,
INTO THIS DARK PLANET.
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MATTHEW 5:14 SAYS, "YOU
ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
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A CITY THAT IS SET ON
A HILL CANNOT BE HIDDEN.
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NOR DO THEY LIGHT A LAMP AND
PUT IT UNDER A BASKET, BUT ON A
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LAMPSTAND, AND IT GIVES LIGHT
TO ALL WHO ARE IN THE HOUSE.
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LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE
MEN, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD
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WORKS AND GLORIFY
YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN."
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SO FRIENDS, USE TODAY TO
BRIGHTEN THE LIFE OF SOMEONE
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ELSE BY
REFLECTING JESUS. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
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>>I FELT LIKE I WAS RECEIVING
SOME ANGEL MESSAGES IN AND
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AROUND MY SON'S DEATH. MY
SON JESSE WAS JUST 31 YEARS
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OLD, SO I DIDN'T EXPECT
HIM TO DIE BEFORE I DID, BUT IN
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NOVEMBER OF 2009 WE DECIDED TO
HAVE THANKSGIVING WITH HIM AND -
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WHEN WE NORMALLY GO TO A
FAMILY TO HAVE THANKSGIVING.
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I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO BE
THE VERY LAST TIME THAT I WOULD
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SEE MY SON ALIVE. IN
APRIL OF 2010 I WAS URGED
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TO CALL HIM ON
THE DAY THAT HE DIED.
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I DIDN'T MAKE THAT
CALL. I WAS TOO BUSY.
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I THOUGHT I HAD 'TIL THE NEXT
MORNING TO CALL HIM AND IT TURNS
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OUT THAT I DIDN'T. AND
THEN, MY HUSBAND'S FATHER
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WAS PASSING AWAY IN A NURSING
HOME - SLOWLY, NOT EATING,
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TAKING HIS
MEDICINE, JUST WASTING AWAY.
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>>WE WERE PUTTING OUT AMAZING
FACTS BIBLE STUDY GUIDES AND WE
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HAD SENT OUT CARDS AND WE HAD
THIS CARD, BUT WHEN I KNOCKED ON
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SUE AND KIRK'S DOOR, BY MISTAKE
- >>AND WE WERE CONVINCED THAT
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THIS WAS THE RIGHT HOUSE AND
IT, OBVIOUSLY, TURNED OUT TO OUR
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SURPRISE TO BE THE WRONG
HOUSE. >>WHEN THEY CAME BY, WE
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WEREN'T EXPECTING THEM.
THEY TOLD ME ABOUT THESE
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PAMPHLETS - THESE AMAZING FACTS
- THAT EXPLAIN THEIR DOCTRINE.
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>>WELL, TO OUR SURPRISE,
WHEN THEY ANSWERED THE DOOR, THE
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GENTLEMAN, WHEN HE SAW WHAT WE
WERE DOING, HE SAID, 'WE WOULD
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LIKE TO TAKE THESE STUDIES.'
>>ANYTHING ABOUT THE LORD THAT
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INCREASES MY
FAITH IS ALWAYS OPEN.
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>>THESE LESSONS CAME AT A
TIME WHEN WE DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE
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SEARCHING. WE
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE NEEDED.
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WE WERE JUST HURTING FROM THE
GRIEF THAT WE'D BEEN THROUGH.
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WHEN I SAW THE STUDIES BY
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE SABBATH,
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IT STRUCK A CORD WITH ME BECAUSE
I REMEMBERED WHEN I HAD TALKED
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TO MY MOTHER AS A CHILD ABOUT
THE SABBATH - ABOUT SEEING THAT
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TRUTH WHEN I WAS ONLY EIGHT
YEARS OLD AND ASKING HER WHY WE
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DIDN'T HONOR THE SABBATH
DAY. AND SHE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS
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JUST NOT THE WAY
THAT THEY DID THINGS.
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WELL, THAT WASN'T A GOOD ENOUGH
EXPRESSION - A GOOD ENOUGH
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EXPLANATION.
THERE WAS NO SCRIPTURAL
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BASIS FOR WHAT SHE TOLD
ME. SHE JUST SAID TO FORGET IT.
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AND I'D WENT THROUGH ALL OF THE
STUDIES THAT WE HAD GOTTEN AND I
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WANTED MORE, SO I DECIDED THAT,
WELL, IF THEY PUT OUT THESE
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AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDIES,
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ONLINE
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ABOUT THEM. SO I
DECIDED TO CHECK IT OUT.
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I WENT ON THE COMPUTER TO
AMAZING FACTS AND IT SAID IT
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RIGHT DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
BIBLE STUDIES: AMAZINGFACTS.ORG
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- I CHECKED IT OUT AND THERE
WAS FREE BIBLE STUDIES THERE.
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IT WAS THE VERY SAME ONES
THAT WE HAD BEEN STUDYING.
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AFTER FINDING THE AMAZING FACTS
BIBLE STUDIES ONLINE - AND I DID
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THEM ALL - I THINK THERE WERE 27
OR 28 BIBLE STUDIES, I FELT LIKE
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I WAS FINALLY SEEING THE
TRUTH AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
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WE ORDERED THE AMAZING FACTS
DVDS LIKE THE COSMIC CONFLICT
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AND THE FINAL EVENTS , PROPHECY
FOUNDATIONS AND DIFFERENT
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MATERIALS LIKE THAT - WENT
THROUGH THEM - ENJOYED ALL OF
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THEM, AND THEY
IMPACTED OUR LIVES EVEN MORE.
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>>WELL, I WORKED AT THE POST
OFFICE, I KNEW KIRK AND SUE FOR
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A VERY LONG TIME AND I WASN'T
ALLOWED TO TALK TO ANYONE ABOUT
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THE BIBLE AND BIBLE STUDIES AND
THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE THEY
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HAD TOLD US NOT TO. BUT
ANYWAY, WHEN SUE CAME IN
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AND TALKED ABOUT IT, SHE TALKED
ABOUT THE SABBATH AND I TOLD
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HER, I SAID, 'WELL, SUE,
I GO TO CHURCH ON SATURDAY.'
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SO I INVITED
MYSELF. SHE WAS EXCITED, OF
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COURSE, TO HAVE ME GO. MY
HUSBAND AND I BOTH STARTED
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GOING THAT VERY NEXT SABBATH AND
IT WASN'T BUT JUST FOUR MONTHS
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AFTER THAT THAT WE WERE BAPTIZED
IN THE CHURCH - AND IT FELT LIKE
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THE MOST GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE
I COULD HAVE EVER HAD.
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>>THE THING THAT TOUCHES MY
HEART THE MOST IS MERWYN AND I
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HAD BEEN DOING THIS FOR, OH,
THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO
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YEARS AND SUE IS NOT THE
ONLY ONE THAT HAS RESPONDED TO
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AMAZING FACTS. WE'VE
HAD SEVERAL OTHERS THAT
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HAVE RESPONDED
AND HAD BEEN BAPTIZED.
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SO THIS - THIS IS WHAT
REALLY MAKES IT EXCITING.
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THERE'S TIMES IT'S DISCOURAGING,
BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS EVERY
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TIME YOU SEE SOMEBODY IN
THE WATER BEING BAPTIZED, IT'S A
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THRILL. >>I KNOW
THAT JESUS LOVES ME.
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AFTER ALL OF THE TRAGEDY THAT
I'VE BEEN THROUGH, HE MADE SURE
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THAT THE TWO MEN CAME AND
BROUGHT THE AMAZING FACTS BIBLE
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STUDIES TO ME AND MY HUSBAND.
MY LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
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IT IS FOREVER CHANGED AND I AM
FOREVER A PART OF THE FAMILY OF
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GOD. (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) >>AMAZING
FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
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WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
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THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST
OF SOULS. AMAZING FACTS:
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GOD'S MESSAGE,
OUR MISSION. (MUSIC)
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>>OUR MESSAGE THIS MORNING
IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF
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THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND
IT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
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PROFOUND TRUTHS IN SCRIPTURE -
THE CONCEPT OF THE INCARNATION.
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ONE NIGHT, AFTER A SIX-YEAR-OLD
BOY WENT TO BED, HIS PARENTS
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HEARD HIM CALL, APPARENTLY
FRIGHTENED, FROM HIS BEDROOM AND
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THEY CAME AND HE WAS KIND
OF SITTING IN HIS BED WITH HIS
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SHEETS KIND OF UP OVER HIS HEAD
AND HE SAID, 'I'M SCARED' AND
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THEY SAID, 'YOU HAVE NOTHING TO
BE SCARED OF' AND THEY TRIED TO
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TUCK HIM IN AND CALM HIM DOWN.
HE SAID, 'MOM, DAD, IS IT TRUE
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THAT GOD MADE MAN OUT
OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH?'
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AND THEY SAID, 'YES'. HE
SAID, 'IS IT TRUE THAT WHEN
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HE DIES HE TURNS
INTO DUST AGAIN?'
00:10:00.56\00:10:03.23
THEY SAID, 'WELL, YES, BUT
THAT SHOULDN'T FRIGHTEN YOU.' HE
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SAID, 'I LOOKED UNDER MY BED AND
I CAN'T TELL IF THEY'RE COMING
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OR GOING, BUT SOMEONE'S UNDER
THERE.' (LAUGHTER) THE IDEA OF
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LIFE AND THE CREATION IS A
MYSTERY AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
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BEGINS TALKING ABOUT
THIS MYSTERY WITH AN AMAZING
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DECLARATION. YOU
KNOW, I WAS LOOKING AT A
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SCIENCE PROGRAM CALLED NOVA THIS
WEEK - IT WAS CALLED THE ELEGANT
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UNIVERSE - AND THEY WERE TALKING
ABOUT THE THEORIES OF RELATIVITY
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AND THEY WERE JUST - ALL THE
DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT ORIGINS
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AND TRYING TO UNIFY THE ORIGIN
OF ALL MATTER AND BLACK HOLES.
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IT WAS VERY DEEP AND THE
SCIENTISTS SORT OF - IN THE
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CONCLUSION OF THEIR DISCUSSION
THEY SAID, 'THE LATEST SCIENCE
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IS WE'VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION
- IT'S DIFFICULT TO PROVE - THAT
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ALL OF LIFE IN THE
UNIVERSE EMANATES FROM SOUND.'
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IT'S CALLED 'STRING
THEORY' HAVE YOU HEARD OF THAT?
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NOT TO BE CONNECTED WITH
SPAGHETTI - THIS STRING THEORY -
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THAT ALL MATTER IS COMPOSED
OF THESE VIBRATING STRINGS THAT
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SEND MATTER INTO MOTION AND SO,
THEY'RE SAYING THAT THE WORLD
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AND THE UNIVERSE
WAS CREATED BY SOUND.
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WELL, THAT'S SORT
OF WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
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JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1, "IN
THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD" -
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WHAT CAME FIRST,
THE WORLD OR THE WORD?
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>>THE WORD. >>THE
WORD CAME BEFORE THE
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WORLD. "IN THE
BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,
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AND THE WORD WAS WITH
GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
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HE WAS IN THE
BEGINNING WITH GOD."
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- THAT'S MAKING A PERSONALITY
OUT OF THIS - "ALL THINGS WERE
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MADE THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT
HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS
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MADE." THAT'S WHY
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD
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SAID' AND THEN THINGS CAME INTO
EXISTENCE - THOSE THINGS THAT
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NOW APPEAR CAME FROM NOTHING
BY THE POWER OF THE WORD.
00:12:08.26\00:12:13.50
I THINK MARTIN LUTHER SAID ONE
TIME, 'GOD CREATES FROM NOTHING.
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AND SO, UNTIL WE BECOME NOTHING,
HE CAN MAKE NOTHING OF US.' LEON
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MORRIS, IN HIS BOOK, HE
SAID, 'IN ONE SHORT SHATTERING
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EXPRESSION JOHN UNVEILS
THE GREAT IDEA AT THE HEART OF
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CHRISTIANITY, THE VERY
WORD OF GOD TOOK FLESH FOR MAN'S
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SALVATION. THE ONE
WHO CREATED ALL THINGS,
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THROUGH THE WORD, BECAME
HUMAN.' WORDS ARE VERY POWERFUL.
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IT'S ALWAYS AMAZING TO ME
HOW WORDS SPOKEN CAN EVOKE ALL
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DIFFERENT KINDS OF EMOTIONS.
THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE
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SITTING IN BEGAN WITH WORDS.
I CAN SPEAK WORDS RIGHT NOW AND,
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DEPENDING ON HOW YOU PROCESS
THEM, IT CAN INSPIRE YOUR HEART
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TO GO FASTER OR, IF I PREACH A
NORMAL SERMON, IT CAN PUT YOU TO
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SLEEP. (LAUGHTER) HE
SAID WORDS ARE POWERFUL.
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ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD
SOMEONE DESCRIBE A LEMON?
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YOU'RE TAKING THE LEMON, YOU
CUT THE LEMON OPEN, YOU PUT THE
00:13:07.12\00:13:09.05
LEMON IN YOUR MOUTH AND YOU
BITE DOWN - AND IF YOU DO IT
00:13:09.05\00:13:11.19
ELOQUENTLY ENOUGH, I CAN
MAKE YOU SALIVATE WITH WORDS.
00:13:11.19\00:13:16.56
MATTER OF FACT, THIS IS THE
WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE ADVERTISING
00:13:16.56\00:13:18.49
AND MARKETING INDUSTRIES OF
THE WORLD, IS THEY TRY TO GET A
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RESPONSE IN PEOPLE THROUGH THE
POWER OF WORDS AND WE SHOULD NOT
00:13:21.63\00:13:27.14
- IF MEN CAN DO THIS WITH
THEIR WORDS, WE SHOULD NEVER
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UNDERESTIMATE THE
POWER OF GOD'S WORDS.
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I UNDERSTAND THAT, IN WEBSTER'S
THIRD INTERNATIONAL UNABRIDGED
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DICTIONARY, THERE ARE 470,000
ENTRIES AND, IN SPITE OF THE
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FACT THAT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
WOULD SAY THERE ARE AS MANY AS
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470,000 WORDS THAT COULD BE
CHOSEN, THE AVERAGE PERSON USES
00:13:45.52\00:13:51.13
- THE AVERAGE PERSON KNOWS ABOUT
10,000 WORDS AND USES ABOUT
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5,000 IN EVERYDAY SPEECH.
IF YOU'RE A JOURNALIST, YOU
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MAY USE AS MANY AS 15,000.
AND THEY SAY, IF YOU PLAY
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SCRABBLE, YOUR VOCABULARY IS
BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON.
00:14:02.97\00:14:08.24
SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A
RUN ON SCRABBLE BOARDS NOW IN
00:14:08.24\00:14:13.75
SACRAMENTO, I HOPE.
SOFT WORDS SUNG IN A LULLABY
00:14:13.75\00:14:17.69
- PUT A BABY TO
SLEEP. EXCITED WORDS CAN STIR
00:14:17.69\00:14:20.62
A MOB TO VIOLENCE.
ENCOURAGING WORDS CAN FAN AND
00:14:20.62\00:14:26.09
INSPIRE GENIUS IN
THE MIND OF OTHERS.
00:14:26.09\00:14:30.10
POWERFUL WORDS CAN
MOLD PUBLIC OPINION.
00:14:30.10\00:14:33.54
WELL, THE ENTIRE VOCABULARY
OF GOD - WHAT YOU FIND IN YOUR
00:14:33.54\00:14:37.14
BIBLE - WAS IN CHRIST.
00:14:37.14\00:14:39.87
I DID A SERMON ONE TIME CALLED
A DICTIONARY IN A DIAPER - THAT
00:14:39.87\00:14:45.91
JESUS WAS REALLY THE
WORD OF GOD INCARNATE.
00:14:45.91\00:14:51.22
PEOPLE SAY THAT JOHN KNOX, A
GREAT REFORMER, WHEN HE WOULD
00:14:51.22\00:14:53.52
PREACH IN THE DAYS OF THE
REFORMATION, IT SAID 'THE VOICE
00:14:53.52\00:14:57.63
OF THAT ONE MAN, HIS ELOQUENCE
AND HIS WORDS, PUT MORE COURAGE
00:14:57.63\00:15:00.46
IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE THEN
AS IF TEN THOUSAND TRUMPETS HAD
00:15:00.46\00:15:04.63
BEEN BLARING IN THEIR
EARS.' THE POWER OF WORDS.
00:15:04.63\00:15:09.50
AND IF THE POWER OF A MAN'S
WORDS CAN DO THAT, HOW MUCH MORE
00:15:09.50\00:15:12.77
CAN THE POWER OF
GOD'S WORDS ACCOMPLISH?
00:15:12.77\00:15:16.38
NOW DNA IS AN AMAZING
THING - THIS ACID THAT THEY'VE
00:15:16.38\00:15:22.62
DISCOVERED - THESE
MOLECULES - THEY'RE IN ALL
00:15:22.62\00:15:26.12
CREATED LIFE - THE DOUBLE-HELIX
LADDER-LIKE SPIRALS - AND THEY
00:15:26.12\00:15:32.36
SAY THAT IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THE
DNA IN YOUR BODY AND YOU WERE TO
00:15:32.36\00:15:35.50
UNWRAP THE STRANDS OF DNA
AND PUT THEM END TO END, THAT IT
00:15:35.50\00:15:40.70
WOULD REACH FROM EARTH TO THE
PLANET PLUTO - OF COURSE PEOPLE
00:15:40.70\00:15:46.07
ARE DEBATING IF PLUTO
QUALIFIES AS A PLANET - THE
00:15:46.07\00:15:48.41
ASTEROID/PLANET - WHATEVER
YOU WANT - PLUTO AND BACK AGAIN.
00:15:48.41\00:15:52.91
THE DNA IN ONE HUMAN - AND EVERY
SINGLE PERSON HAS UNIQUE DNA.
00:15:52.91\00:15:59.59
WELL THE DNA OF GOD - HIS WORD
- WAS IN CHRIST - GOD WAS IN
00:15:59.59\00:16:06.36
CHRIST. YOU CAN
READ IN JOHN 1:14 AND
00:16:06.36\00:16:10.73
WE'LL READ THIS AGAIN LATER,
"AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND
00:16:10.73\00:16:13.94
DWELT AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD
HIS GLORY - THE GLORY OF THE
00:16:13.94\00:16:18.44
ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE
FATHER FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH."
00:16:18.44\00:16:22.11
THE WORD OF GOD BECOMING FLESH.
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'VE SEEN ME,
00:16:22.11\00:16:26.31
YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.' AND
IT WASN'T SO MUCH WHAT THEY SAW,
00:16:26.31\00:16:28.85
BECAUSE WHO HERE REALLY
KNOWS WHAT JESUS LOOKED LIKE?
00:16:28.85\00:16:31.99
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT JESUS THAT
CHANGED THE WORLD IS WHAT HE
00:16:31.99\00:16:34.42
SAID. IT'S THE TEACHINGS OF
CHRIST. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE -
00:16:34.42\00:16:39.89
WE'RE FINISHING A PROJECT RIGHT
NOW AT AMAZING FACTS WHERE WE'RE
00:16:39.89\00:16:42.73
NOT QUITE DONE TAPING, BUT
WE FINISHED THE SCRIPT, WHERE
00:16:42.73\00:16:46.57
WE'RE TAKING THE MOST AMAZING
PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE AND, YOU
00:16:46.57\00:16:49.84
KNOW, OF ALL THE PROPHECIES,
ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE
00:16:49.84\00:16:51.81
PROPHECIES THAT NOBODY CAN
DISPUTE THAT JESUS MADE THAT
00:16:51.81\00:16:54.98
CAME TRUE: HERE IS THIS
RELATIVELY UNEDUCATED, UNKNOWN,
00:16:54.98\00:17:00.98
CARPENTER WHO LIVES IN AN
OBSCURE VILLAGE AND HE ONLY
00:17:00.98\00:17:06.42
SPEAKS AND TEACHES
PUBLICLY FOR ABOUT THREE AND
00:17:06.42\00:17:08.42
A HALF YEARS AND HE THEN MAKES
A - HE MAKES A BOLD PREDICTION -
00:17:08.42\00:17:11.69
HE SAID, 'MY TEACHINGS ARE GOING
TO GO INTO THE WHOLE WORLD.'
00:17:11.69\00:17:17.50
WELL, THAT'S A PRETTY OUTRAGEOUS
THING TO SAY, BUT WAS HE RIGHT?
00:17:17.50\00:17:22.74
AND DID IT HAPPEN? AND
WHILE THEY HAD NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF
00:17:22.74\00:17:27.34
JESUS, AND THERE'S ONLY ONE VERY
DUBIOUS DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HE
00:17:27.34\00:17:30.75
MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE.
WHAT CHANGED THE WORLD IS WHAT
00:17:30.75\00:17:34.32
HE SAID - IT WAS
HIS WORDS. >>AMEN.
00:17:34.32\00:17:37.99
>>AND HIS WORDS
CHANGE HEARTS TODAY.
00:17:37.99\00:17:41.39
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED - WHEN
JESUS WAS A BABY, AT SOME POINT
00:17:41.39\00:17:47.93
HE SPOKE HIS FIRST WORD - HOW
MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT THE FIRST
00:17:47.93\00:17:51.50
WORD WAS THAT YOUR CHILDREN -
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PARENTS -
00:17:51.50\00:17:54.17
WAS THAT THEY SPOKE?
WHAT WAS THE FIRST WORD?
00:17:54.17\00:17:56.91
>>DIRT. >>HUH?
00:17:56.91\00:17:58.87
>>DIRT. >>DIRT. DIRT.
00:17:58.87\00:18:01.04
HOW MANY OF YOU - FIRST WORD
WAS 'MOM'? OR 'DAD'? OR 'NO'?
00:18:01.04\00:18:07.55
HOW MANY HAD FIRST WORD, 'NO'?
(LAUGHTER) MY BROTHER'S FIRST
00:18:07.55\00:18:10.02
WORD, MY MOTHER SAID, WAS
'NO' - I SEE A 'NO' OVER THERE.
00:18:10.02\00:18:13.49
ANYONE HAVE THE FIRST WORD
'YES'? ALMOST NOBODY. YEAH.
00:18:13.49\00:18:18.63
NATHAN'S FIRST WORD WAS 'STUCK'
(LAUGHTER) HE WAS OUT IN THE
00:18:18.63\00:18:22.33
FRONT YARD AND WE WERE PLANTING
LITTLE FLOWERS AND I PUT THE
00:18:22.33\00:18:25.00
SHOVEL IN THE GROUND WHILE I WAS
PLANTING FLOWERS AND HE TRIED TO
00:18:25.00\00:18:27.20
PULL IT OUT. I
SAID, 'IS IT STUCK?'
00:18:27.20\00:18:29.14
HE SAID, 'STUCK.' (LAUGHTER)
I THOUGHT, 'HE SPOKE!'
00:18:29.14\00:18:34.31
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
BUT THAT WAS HIS FIRST WORD.
00:18:34.31\00:18:37.81
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE
FIRST WORD OF JESUS WAS?
00:18:37.81\00:18:41.12
MIGHT HAVE BEEN 'ABBA' - FATHER.
I DON'T KNOW - CAN'T PROVE THAT.
00:18:41.12\00:18:46.99
YOU CAN'T DISPROVE
IT, SO I CAN THINK THAT.
00:18:46.99\00:18:49.02
(LAUGHTER) BUT HERE WAS THE WORD
OF GOD THAT NEEDED TO LEARN TO
00:18:49.02\00:18:54.20
TALK. IT'S REALLY SOMETHING.
00:18:54.20\00:18:58.87
TURN BACK TO OUR SCRIPTURE VERSE
THAT WE STARTED WITH IN 1 JOHN -
00:18:58.87\00:19:02.70
THE FIRST BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER
1 - I WANT YOU TO NOTICE A FEW
00:19:02.70\00:19:04.87
THINGS: WE READ HERE, IT
SAYS, "THAT WHICH WAS FROM THE
00:19:04.87\00:19:11.15
BEGINNING," - IT'S BEEN FROM
EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING -
00:19:11.15\00:19:15.05
"WHICH WE HAVE HEARD," - WELL,
IT MAKES SENSE THAT YOU COULD
00:19:15.05\00:19:18.39
HEAR WORDS, BUT THEN IT GOES ON
AND SAYS, "WHICH WE HAVE SEEN" -
00:19:18.39\00:19:23.09
HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE WORDS OF GOD WITH SKIN - "WE
00:19:23.09\00:19:26.90
HAVE SEEN WITH OUR EYES, WHICH
WE HAVE LOOKED UPON, AND OUR
00:19:26.90\00:19:31.30
HANDS HAVE HANDLED, CONCERNING
THE WORD OF LIFE" - JOHN KNEW,
00:19:31.30\00:19:37.37
WE HAVE EMBRACED
THE WORD OF LIFE.
00:19:37.37\00:19:40.61
I MEAN, YOU DON'T USUALLY THINK
ABOUT WORDS AS BEING SOMETHING
00:19:40.61\00:19:43.01
TANGIBLE THAT YOU CAN WRAP YOUR
ARMS AROUND, BUT JOHN SAID, 'WE'
00:19:43.01\00:19:47.42
- HE LEANED ON THE BREAST, AT
THE LAST SUPPER, OF THE WORD OF
00:19:47.42\00:19:50.92
LIFE - AND IT WAS 'MANIFESTED TO
US' - NOTICE, SEEN, LOOKED UPON,
00:19:50.92\00:19:56.96
HANDLED, MANIFESTED - "AND
WE HAVE SEEN, AND BEAR WITNESS,
00:19:56.96\00:20:01.33
AND DECLARE TO YOU THAT ETERNAL
LIFE WHICH WAS WITH THE FATHER
00:20:01.33\00:20:06.07
AND WAS MANIFESTED TO US - THAT
WHICH WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD WE
00:20:06.07\00:20:10.74
DECLARE TO YOU, THAT YOU ALSO
MAY HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH US; AND
00:20:10.74\00:20:15.84
TRULY OUR FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE
FATHER AND WITH HIS SON JESUS
00:20:15.84\00:20:19.11
CHRIST. AND THESE
THING WE WRITE TO YOU
00:20:19.11\00:20:21.88
THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE
FULL." THE WHOLE PURPOSE IN HIM
00:20:21.88\00:20:25.32
BEGINNING THIS DISCOURSE ON THE
WORD BECOMING FLESH IS FOR WHAT?
00:20:25.32\00:20:31.29
THAT YOUR JOY MIGHT BE FULL.
IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE WORD
00:20:31.29\00:20:35.50
OF GOD STARTED THE WORLD INTO
MOTION - IT CREATED A PARADISE -
00:20:35.50\00:20:41.20
THE DEVIL QUESTIONING THE
WORD OF GOD BROUGHT THE CURSE.
00:20:41.20\00:20:45.61
AND GOD, THEN, INTRODUCING THE
WORD OF GOD IN HIS PERSON BRINGS
00:20:45.61\00:20:50.61
JOY. WHEN WE EMBRACE
THAT WORD IT GIVES US LIFE.
00:20:50.61\00:20:56.28
AND THEN YOU - AGAIN, I WANT TO
JUMP DOWN TO 1 JOHN - I'M SORRY
00:20:56.28\00:21:00.69
- JOHN 1:14, "AND THE WORD
BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US,
00:21:00.69\00:21:05.93
AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE
GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF
00:21:05.93\00:21:10.20
THE FATHER, FULL
OF GRACE AND TRUTH."
00:21:10.20\00:21:13.94
CHRIST WAS THE WORD OF
GOD BECAUSE HE WAS THE TRUTH
00:21:13.94\00:21:17.34
INCARNATE. YOU KNOW,
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
00:21:17.34\00:21:20.18
HIM TABERNACLING WITH US -
IT SAYS, 'THE FLESH DWELT AMONG
00:21:20.18\00:21:24.25
US' - THAT WORD THERE
- HE TABERNACLED WITH US.
00:21:24.25\00:21:27.48
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, WHAT WAS
00:21:27.48\00:21:30.45
THE CENTER OF THEIR
CAMP? IT WAS THE SANCTUARY.
00:21:30.45\00:21:35.56
THEY CALLED IT THE TABERNACLE.
IT WAS A DWELLING PLACE.
00:21:35.56\00:21:39.86
AND WHAT WAS IN THE
MIDDLE OF THAT DWELLING PLACE?
00:21:39.86\00:21:42.90
THE HOLY OF HOLIES. AND
WHAT WAS IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES?
00:21:42.90\00:21:45.53
ARK OF THE COVENANT
- YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:21:45.53\00:21:48.30
AND WHAT WAS IN THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT?
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.01
>>TEN COMMANDMENTS.
>>TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:21:50.01\00:21:51.74
AND WHAT MADE THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS SPECIAL?
00:21:51.74\00:21:53.98
YOU'VE GOT TWO
ROCKS. >>GOD WROTE THEM.
00:21:53.98\00:21:56.31
>>BECAUSE THE WORDS THAT GOD
HAD SPOKEN HE WROTE WITH HIS OWN
00:21:56.31\00:21:59.61
FINGER. SO THEIR
WHOLE RELIGION WAS
00:21:59.61\00:22:03.22
BUILT AROUND A SUPERNATURAL
WORD THAT HAD COME FROM GOD.
00:22:03.22\00:22:09.39
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS BUILT
AROUND A SUPERNATURAL WORD.
00:22:09.39\00:22:13.73
IT'S - IT'S NOT
LIKE ANYTHING ELSE.
00:22:13.73\00:22:15.53
JESUS SAID, 'THESE WORDS THAT
I SPEAK TO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT
00:22:15.53\00:22:18.80
AND THEY ARE LIFE.' AND DO YOU
REALIZE WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS
00:22:18.80\00:22:20.84
WHEN WE'RE READING THE BIBLE
THAT, IN A SENSE, IT IS CHRIST.
00:22:20.84\00:22:27.11
WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE, A
PICTURE OF JESUS OR KNOW WHAT HE
00:22:27.11\00:22:30.28
SAID? >>WHAT HE SAID.
00:22:30.28\00:22:32.31
>>NOBODY WOULD BE CONVERTED
BY THE PHOTOGRAPH I WOULD THINK,
00:22:32.31\00:22:35.68
BECAUSE PEOPLE HAD TO - NO ONE
REALLY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT HIM
00:22:35.68\00:22:38.42
STANDING OUT IN A GROUP.
WHEN IT CAME TIME TO BETRAY
00:22:38.42\00:22:41.19
THEM - TO BETRAY JESUS - THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID, 'YOU'VE
00:22:41.19\00:22:45.03
GOT TO GO AND POINT HIM OUT TO
US BECAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER
00:22:45.03\00:22:48.06
GALILEAN.' CHRIST, WHEN HE LEFT
THE APOSTLES, HE WAS ABLE TO
00:22:48.06\00:22:51.13
PASS ALL THE WAY DOWN
FROM GALILEE TO JERUSALEM FOR A
00:22:51.13\00:22:54.14
FEAST - NOBODY SPOTTED
HIM. YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS PICTURE
00:22:54.14\00:22:57.21
JESUS WITH THIS MAJESTIC LOOK
AND HE'S GOT THE WHITE ROBE AND
00:22:57.21\00:23:00.38
THE BLUE SASH - OR SOMETHING
LIKE THAT - YOU KNOW, AND
00:23:00.38\00:23:04.65
HE LOOKED LIKE A CARPENTER.
AND IT WASN'T UNTIL HE OPENED
00:23:04.65\00:23:08.02
HIS MOUTH THAT HE
CAPTURED PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
00:23:08.02\00:23:11.69
THERE WAS
SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT HE SAID.
00:23:11.69\00:23:14.12
SO THE WORD OF GOD
TABERNACLED WITH US.
00:23:14.12\00:23:15.86
HE DWELT IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE CAMP.
00:23:15.86\00:23:17.83
YOUR BODY'S THE
TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:23:17.83\00:23:20.86
DOES CHRIST DWELL IN
YOU? DOES THE WORD OF GOD HAVE
00:23:20.86\00:23:25.00
A CENTRAL PLACE
IN YOUR TABERNACLE?
00:23:25.00\00:23:28.34
YOU ARE A SANCTUARY.
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE.
00:23:28.34\00:23:30.77
'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN
MY HEART' - THE HOLY OF HOLIES -
00:23:30.77\00:23:34.01
'THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN
AGAINST THEE' - AND THEN IT DOES
00:23:34.01\00:23:37.28
SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL TO US.
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT NOT
00:23:37.28\00:23:44.09
ONLY, OF COURSE, CAN YOU BE
SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIED BY YOUR
00:23:44.09\00:23:46.69
FINGERPRINT, AND THEY SAY THAT
THEY'VE GOT DETECTION SOFTWARE
00:23:46.69\00:23:51.56
NOW - THEY'VE EVEN GOT ON
COMPUTERS - YOU CAN PUT YOUR
00:23:51.56\00:23:53.76
FINGERPRINT ON YOUR PHONE
AND IT CATCHES YOUR FINGERPRINT.
00:23:53.76\00:23:56.23
I'VE DISABLED MINE BECAUSE,
FOR SOME REASON, I WORE OFF MY
00:23:56.23\00:23:59.70
FINGERPRINTS. I
DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
00:23:59.70\00:24:01.97
BUT, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT
THIS THING, WHEN I COME INTO THE
00:24:01.97\00:24:03.91
COUNTRY, YOU PRESS YOUR FINGERS
AGAINST THE SCREEN - YOU KNOW
00:24:03.91\00:24:06.81
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, DEAR?
IT'S SUPPOSED - MY FINGERS -
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.94
I'VE GOT TO PRESS - I JUST ABOUT
KNOCKED THE KIOSK OVER BECAUSE
00:24:08.94\00:24:11.15
I'VE GOT TO PRESS BEFORE
IT READS MY FINGERPRINTS.
00:24:11.15\00:24:13.15
THEN THEY'VE GOT
THE IRIS IDENTIFICATION.
00:24:13.15\00:24:15.95
YOU, SUPPOSEDLY, HAVE A
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IRIS FROM
00:24:15.95\00:24:20.02
EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD.
AND THEY TELL ME THAT YOUR
00:24:20.02\00:24:22.59
TONGUE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
- YOU KNOW, I CAN'T IMAGINE LIKE
00:24:22.59\00:24:26.70
LICKING SOMETHING TO
PROVE - PLEASE PRESS YOUR TONGUE
00:24:26.70\00:24:29.43
AGAINST THE SCREEN. OR
THEY SAY, YOUR TONGUE IS
00:24:29.43\00:24:32.50
GOING TO BE COMPLETELY UNIQUE
- YOU CAN MAP A PERSON'S TONGUE.
00:24:32.50\00:24:35.74
BUT THEY SAY, NOW, THE FBI
HAS THIS SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARE
00:24:35.74\00:24:39.81
WHERE THEY CAN DO
VOICE RECOGNITION.
00:24:39.81\00:24:42.68
YOU'VE GOT YOUR OWN UNIQUE VOICE
PRINT THAT IS UNLIKE ANYBODY
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.48
ELSE'S VOICE. NOW,
THEY TELL ME THAT WHEN
00:24:45.48\00:24:52.59
PEOPLE CALL OUR HOUSE, SOMETIMES
OUR BOYS WILL PICK UP THE PHONE
00:24:52.59\00:24:55.89
- 'HELLO' - THEY'LL
SAY, 'YEAH, PASTOR DOUG?'
00:24:55.89\00:24:57.86
'NO, I'LL GO GET HIM.' YOU
KNOW, AS THEY GET BIGGER, KIDS
00:24:57.86\00:25:00.86
SOMETIMES START SOUNDING
- YOU EVER RUN INTO THAT?
00:25:00.86\00:25:03.23
KIDS - DAUGHTERS START
SOUNDING LIKE THEIR MOTHERS AND
00:25:03.23\00:25:05.47
BOYS LIKE THEIR FATHERS.
AND THEY GROW UP AND YOU CAN
00:25:05.47\00:25:07.44
SAY, 'WOW, THAT VOICE IS JUST
LIKE THE FATHER'S VOICE.' BUT
00:25:07.44\00:25:11.14
THEY'VE GOT THIS SOFTWARE THAT
SAYS, 'NO, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.
00:25:11.14\00:25:13.34
THERE'S LITTLE NUANCES, THERE'S
CADENCE, THERE'S ALL THIS -
00:25:13.34\00:25:15.81
DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT THEY
PUT IN AND THEY SAY YOU'VE GOT A
00:25:15.81\00:25:21.32
UNIQUE VOICE FROM
ANYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD.
00:25:21.32\00:25:26.32
AND THAT'S ONE REASON, I
UNDERSTAND, THEY FOUND OSAMA BIN
00:25:26.32\00:25:29.16
LADEN IS BECAUSE THEY RAN THIS
VERY FLEETING, SKETCHY, SCRATCHY
00:25:29.16\00:25:34.83
SOUND OF AN AUDIO RECORDING ON A
TELEPHONE AND THEY MATCHED IT UP
00:25:34.83\00:25:39.10
AND THEY SAID, 'THAT'S HIM.' AND
THEY WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY IT.
00:25:39.10\00:25:43.84
WELL, THERE IS A UNIQUE VOICE
IN THE WORD OF GOD THAT'S UNLIKE
00:25:43.84\00:25:48.18
ANY OTHER BOOK. IT IS THE
VOICE OF GOD SPEAKING TO US.
00:25:48.18\00:25:52.18
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN THEY WENT
TO ARREST JESUS, THE OFFICERS
00:25:52.18\00:25:54.85
CAME BACK AND THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS SAID, 'WHY DIDN'T YOU
00:25:54.85\00:25:58.22
BRING HIM?' YOU KNOW
WHAT THEIR ANSWER WAS?
00:25:58.22\00:26:01.09
DUMBFOUNDED - THESE POLICE THAT
WERE SENT - THE SECURITY FORCE
00:26:01.09\00:26:03.99
FROM THE TEMPLE SENT TO ARREST
JESUS CAME BACK AND THEY SAID,
00:26:03.99\00:26:06.86
'NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN.'
NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN -
00:26:06.86\00:26:14.50
THE WORD OF GOD CAME INTO A MAN
AND JESUS IS THE ARTICULATION OF
00:26:14.50\00:26:20.28
GOD IN A PERSON. LUKE
4:22, "SO ALL BORE WITNESS
00:26:20.28\00:26:27.05
TO HIM, AND MARVELED AT
THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH
00:26:27.05\00:26:30.72
PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS
MOUTH." THERE'S SOMETHING
00:26:30.72\00:26:33.32
ABOUT WHAT HE SAID.
PSALM 45, VERSE 2, "YOU ARE
00:26:33.32\00:26:37.89
FAIRER THAN THE SONS OF MEN;
GRACE IS POURED UPON YOUR LIPS;
00:26:37.89\00:26:41.36
THEREFORE GOD HAS
BLESSED YOU FOREVER."
00:26:41.36\00:26:43.43
THAT WAS ONE OF THE
PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS.
00:26:43.43\00:26:45.87
NOW, I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU A
PICTURE WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP ON
00:26:45.87\00:26:47.50
THE SCREEN - I JUST THOUGHT THIS
WAS AN INTERESTING AMAZING FACT
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.11
I WANTED TO THROW IN.
HERE YOU SEE A PICTURE OF JESUS
00:26:50.11\00:26:53.27
PRAYING ON THE RIGHT, BUT WHAT
YOU MAY NOT KNOW IS THAT PICTURE
00:26:53.27\00:26:57.35
ACTUALLY CONTAINS ALL
879 VERSES OF JOHN'S GOSPEL.
00:26:57.35\00:27:02.68
THE ARTIST - I DON'T KNOW IF
HE RAN IT THROUGH SOME KIND OF
00:27:02.68\00:27:05.22
SOFTWARE TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS,
BUT YOU LOOK UNDER A MAGNIFYING
00:27:05.22\00:27:07.82
GLASS YOU'LL SEE EACH LITTLE
LINE OR PIXEL IS ACTUALLY A WORD
00:27:07.82\00:27:12.33
IN THE PICTURE. AND HE TOOK
THE ENTIRE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND HE
00:27:12.33\00:27:17.00
MADE IT INTO A PICTURE OF JESUS.
ISN'T THAT AMAZING? THAT'S
00:27:17.00\00:27:20.40
INCREDIBLE. WELL,
IT'S SORT OF WHAT THE
00:27:20.40\00:27:22.70
BIBLE IS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE IS REALLY A
00:27:22.70\00:27:26.74
PICTURE OF GOD - OF
JESUS - IN THIS BOOK.
00:27:26.74\00:27:31.41
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE COME HERE
FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME, ONE OF
00:27:31.41\00:27:33.45
MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO IS I
GO THROUGH THE BIBLE AND I SAY,
00:27:33.45\00:27:36.05
'I SEE JESUS IN
GENESIS. I SEE JESUS IN EXODUS.
00:27:36.05\00:27:38.92
I SEE JESUS IN LEVITICUS.
I SEE JESUS IN NUMBERS.
00:27:38.92\00:27:41.46
I SEE JESUS ALL THROUGH THE
BOOK.' IT'S ALL TELLING US ABOUT
00:27:41.46\00:27:46.46
HIM - JUST DIFFERENT ASPECTS
BUT, IF, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:27:46.46\00:27:50.67
WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS
DARKLY, BY THE TIME JESUS COMES
00:27:50.67\00:27:54.07
IN FLESH, THEN
IT IS VIVIDLY CLEAR.
00:27:54.07\00:27:57.91
IT'S LIKE GOING BETWEEN STANDARD
DEFINITION AND HIGH DEFINITION.
00:27:57.91\00:28:01.81
YOU KNOW, I WAS HAPPY WITH
STANDARD DEFINITION UNTIL I
00:28:01.81\00:28:04.21
STARTED LOOKING
AT HIGH DEFINITION.
00:28:04.21\00:28:06.61
NOW, IF I GO TO A HOTEL
AND THEY'VE GOT A STANDARD
00:28:06.61\00:28:09.15
DEFINITION TV, I GO, 'OH, MAN.'
I REMEMBER, AS A KID, BLACK AND
00:28:09.15\00:28:14.62
WHITE, AND I THOUGHT, 'THIS
IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE
00:28:14.62\00:28:16.16
WORLD!' AND THEN,
ONCE YOU GET COLOR, I
00:28:16.16\00:28:19.49
MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND IT IS A
00:28:19.49\00:28:23.16
VIVID SPECTACULAR COLOR -
HIGH DEFINITION OF JESUS, AMEN?
00:28:23.16\00:28:29.30
>>AMEN. >>NOW, IN
THE NEXT PART OF WHAT
00:28:29.30\00:28:32.44
I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, I JUST
WANT TO ILLUSTRATE FOR YOU THAT
00:28:32.44\00:28:35.28
THERE IS A - A PARALLELISM
ALL THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:28:35.28\00:28:41.32
REGARDING THE CHARACTERISTICS
THAT YOU FIND ABOUT THE WORD OF
00:28:41.32\00:28:44.82
GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND ARE
THE SAME DESCRIPTIONS OF JESUS.
00:28:44.82\00:28:48.49
AND THE DESCRIPTIONS YOU FIND OF
JESUS ARE THE SAME YOU FIND OF
00:28:48.49\00:28:52.16
THE BIBLE. AND
ONE REASON I LOVE THIS
00:28:52.16\00:28:54.20
SUBJECT IS BECAUSE I WANT YOU
TO TREASURE AND CHERISH THE WORD
00:28:54.20\00:29:00.40
BECAUSE, IN DOING THAT,
YOU'RE CHERISHING JESUS.
00:29:00.40\00:29:03.77
SOMETIMES WE THINK, 'OH, I LOVE
JESUS BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR
00:29:03.77\00:29:06.07
THE BIBLE.' YOU DON'T REALLY
KNOW JESUS THEN, BECAUSE HE IS
00:29:06.07\00:29:11.08
THE WORD. >>AMEN.
00:29:11.08\00:29:12.85
>>LET ME SEE IF I COULD
ILLUSTRATE THIS - OF COURSE, YOU
00:29:12.85\00:29:14.42
KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS THAT CHRIST
IS THE WAY - HE SAID, 'I AM THE
00:29:14.42\00:29:18.19
WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.'
FOR ONE THING, THE BIBLE SAYS
00:29:18.19\00:29:22.72
GOD IS ETERNAL. HIS
WORD IS ETERNAL - ISAIAH 40,
00:29:22.72\00:29:28.80
VERSE 8 - "THE GRASS WITHERS AND
THE FLOWER FADES, BUT THE WORD
00:29:28.80\00:29:33.00
OF OUR GOD STANDS FOREVER."
ISAIAH 63:16, "OUR REDEEMER
00:29:33.00\00:29:38.44
FROM EVERLASTING IS YOUR
NAME." GOD IS EVERLASTING -
00:29:38.44\00:29:42.08
HIS WORD IS EVERLASTING.
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE WORD IS
00:29:42.08\00:29:46.61
BREAD - "MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY
BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD
00:29:46.61\00:29:49.95
THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF
GOD. AND, OF COURSE, JESUS SAID,
00:29:49.95\00:29:52.95
"I AM" - JOHN CHAPTER 6 -
"THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM
00:29:52.95\00:29:56.22
HEAVEN." WORD IS
BREAD - JESUS IS BREAD.
00:29:56.22\00:29:58.99
THE WORD IS WATER - PROVERBS
25:25 - "AS COLD WATER TO A
00:29:58.99\00:30:04.83
WEARY SOUL, SO IS GOOD
NEWS" - OR GOSPEL - "FROM A FAR
00:30:04.83\00:30:08.14
COUNTRY." THAT'S
WHAT GOOD NEWS MEANS.
00:30:08.14\00:30:10.61
THE WORD IS COMPARED TO WATER.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID
00:30:10.61\00:30:14.34
TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL?
"HE WHO RECEIVES ME OUT OF HIS
00:30:14.34\00:30:17.45
SOUL WILL BE LIVING WATERS" -
JOHN 7:37 - "IF ANYONE THIRSTS
00:30:17.45\00:30:21.15
LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK."
THE WORD IS WATER - JESUS IS
00:30:21.15\00:30:24.09
WATER. LIGHT - WE ALL KNOW THE
WORD IS LIGHT - PSALM 119:105,
00:30:24.09\00:30:30.93
"YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY
FEET AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH."
00:30:30.93\00:30:34.46
AND THEN YOU READ IN JOHN 8:12
JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF
00:30:34.46\00:30:37.63
THE WORLD." WHATEVER
YOU FIND ABOUT JESUS -
00:30:37.63\00:30:40.90
AND I JUST - THIS IS JUST A FEW
EXAMPLES - YOU'RE GOING TO FIND
00:30:40.90\00:30:44.04
THAT THAT'S THE
SAME THING AS THE WORD.
00:30:44.04\00:30:46.68
THE BIBLE SAYS THIS HIS
WORD IS THE WAY OF TRUTH.
00:30:46.68\00:30:50.21
JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE WAY.' THE
BIBLE SAYS GOD'S WORD IS TRUTH -
00:30:50.21\00:30:55.25
JOHN 17:17 - THAT'S AN EASY
VERSE TO REMEMBER - "SANCTIFY
00:30:55.25\00:30:58.89
THEM BY YOUR TRUTH;
YOUR WORD IS TRUTH."
00:30:58.89\00:31:02.22
AND JESUS SAID,
'I AM THE TRUTH'.
00:31:02.22\00:31:04.16
NOW WHICH IS IT? IS IT
JESUS OR IS IT THE WORD?
00:31:04.16\00:31:06.63
OR - HOW CAN YOU HAVE THEM - YOU
CAN SAY, 'THIS IS THE TRUTH' -
00:31:06.63\00:31:10.03
'NO, THIS IS THE TRUTH'
UNLESS THEY'RE THE SAME THING.
00:31:10.03\00:31:12.90
THE REASON YOU CAN SAY,
'THE WORD IS THE TRUTH' AND
00:31:12.90\00:31:14.90
'JESUS IS TRUTH'
IS JESUS IS THE WORD.
00:31:14.90\00:31:17.74
YOU KNOW THAT A-B-C
LOGIC/REASONING EQUATION?
00:31:17.74\00:31:23.38
IF TWO THINGS HAVE THE SAME
DEFINITION THEY MUST BE THE SAME
00:31:23.38\00:31:26.72
THING. THE
BIBLE SAYS GOD IS LIFE
00:31:26.72\00:31:34.56
AND HIS WORD IS LIFE.
DEUTERONOMY 32:47, "FOR IT IS
00:31:34.56\00:31:39.49
NOT A FUTILE THING FOR YOU,
BECAUSE IT IS YOUR LIFE, AND BY
00:31:39.49\00:31:42.60
THIS WORD YOU SHALL PROLONG YOUR
DAYS IN THE LAND WHICH YOU CROSS
00:31:42.60\00:31:45.90
OVER THE JORDAN TO POSSESS."
IN PROVERBS 4 - AND YOU CAN READ
00:31:45.90\00:31:49.04
VERSES 20 TO 22, "MY SON, GIVE
ATTENTION TO MY WORDS...FOR THEY
00:31:49.04\00:31:53.11
ARE LIFE TO THOSE WHO FIND THEM,
AND HEALTH TO ALL THEIR FLESH."
00:31:53.11\00:31:57.71
AND JOHN 6:63 "...THE WORDS THAT
I SPEAK TO YOU ARE SPIRIT, AND
00:31:57.71\00:32:01.75
THEY ARE LIFE." CHRIST IS THE
LIFE. 1 JOHN 5:12, "HE WHO HAS
00:32:01.75\00:32:07.69
THE SON HAS LIFE; HE WHO DOES
NOT HAVE THE SON...DOES NOT HAVE
00:32:07.69\00:32:11.63
LIFE." IF YOU SAY, 'WELL, I'VE
GOT THE SON.' BUT YOU DON'T HAVE
00:32:11.63\00:32:13.70
THE WORD, YOU DON'T HAVE THE
SON. IF YOU SAY, 'I'VE GOT THE
00:32:13.70\00:32:17.37
WORD - I BELIEVE THE BIBLE
BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IN JESUS.'
00:32:17.37\00:32:20.10
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE,
BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME THING.
00:32:20.10\00:32:24.41
GOD IS PURE. HIS WORD IS PURE.
00:32:24.41\00:32:27.31
PSALM 119, VERSE 140, "YOUR WORD
IS VERY PURE; THEREFORE YOUR
00:32:27.31\00:32:32.01
SERVANT LOVES
IT." AND JESUS IS PURE.
00:32:32.01\00:32:35.45
DO YOU LOVE THE WORD? >>AMEN.
00:32:35.45\00:32:37.85
>>YOU KNOW, IT JUST - THE REASON
I GUESS I GET HUNG UP ON THIS IS
00:32:37.85\00:32:41.12
- ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR
- EVERYBODY LOVES - AND I'VE GOT
00:32:41.12\00:32:44.86
SOME ON THE SCREEN I'M SHOWING
- THE INCARNATION - THERE'S
00:32:44.86\00:32:48.66
NOTHING ABOUT A BABY - THERE'S
NOTHING QUITE AS ADORABLE AS A
00:32:48.66\00:32:51.23
BABY. IT WAS SO
FUN TO HOLD THAT BABY
00:32:51.23\00:32:52.83
A FEW MINUTES AGO AND JUST SAY,
'JESUS WAS A CUTE LITTLE BABY.'
00:32:52.83\00:32:56.40
WE HAVE TROUBLE, YOU KNOW, JESUS
GROWN UP, AND SOMETIMES HE SAID
00:32:56.40\00:32:58.37
SOME DIFFICULT THINGS AND - BUT
EVERYONE GETS CAUGHT UP IN THE
00:32:58.37\00:33:01.91
SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS AND THE
GIFT OF THE BABY AND THEY DON'T
00:33:01.91\00:33:05.11
REALIZE THAT ALL OF
IT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE
00:33:05.11\00:33:07.32
GIFT OF THE WORD. OH,
THAT BABY WAS ALL ABOUT THE
00:33:07.32\00:33:12.65
WORD INCARNATE - THE WORD OF GOD
BECAME A MAN AND JESUS CAME INTO
00:33:12.65\00:33:18.79
THE WORLD TO COMMUNICATE TO
US - IT'S WHAT REALLY SEPARATES
00:33:18.79\00:33:24.17
HUMANS FROM SO
MANY OTHER ANIMALS.
00:33:24.17\00:33:25.83
SOME ANIMALS CAN COMMUNICATE
ON DIFFERENT LEVELS BUT NOT LIKE
00:33:25.83\00:33:28.57
MAN. THERE'S JUST NO COMPARISON.
00:33:28.57\00:33:32.24
THE ABSTRACT WAY - LOOK AT YOU
- JUST LOOK AT YOU RIGHT NOW.
00:33:32.24\00:33:35.34
YOU'RE ALL SITTING THERE
BEHAVING YOURSELVES, PAYING
00:33:35.34\00:33:37.48
ATTENTION. I'M
SENDING SOUND WAVES -
00:33:37.48\00:33:40.68
HOPEFULLY - YOU'RE MIND MIGHT BE
A THOUSAND MILES AWAY BUT YOU'RE
00:33:40.68\00:33:43.15
LOOKING LIKE YOU'RE
LISTENING - THAT'S VERY GOOD.
00:33:43.15\00:33:45.32
AND WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?
I'M SUPPOSED TO BE, RIGHT NOW, A
00:33:45.32\00:33:47.62
VEHICLE WHERE GOD IS SUPPOSED
TO BE GIVING YOU SOME WORDS - A
00:33:47.62\00:33:50.69
MESSAGE - BECAUSE IT'S SUPPOSED
TO DO YOU SOME GOOD, RIGHT?
00:33:50.69\00:33:55.13
IT'S NOT JUST TO GLORIFY HIM
THAT WE GATHER - WE'RE HOPING WE
00:33:55.13\00:33:57.77
GAIN SOME INSPIRATION,
SOME INSTRUCTION - FROM WHAT?
00:33:57.77\00:34:01.77
THESE SOUND WAVES THAT CONTAIN
THOUGHTS THAT ARE ABSTRACT -
00:34:01.77\00:34:05.31
THAT CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE
YOU - THAT ARE BEING SPOKEN.
00:34:05.31\00:34:08.18
THAT'S REALLY MARVELOUS
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
00:34:08.18\00:34:09.98
>>AMEN. >>SOME PREACHERS YELL.
00:34:09.98\00:34:16.82
I DON'T LIKE IT SO
MUCH WHEN PREACHERS YELL.
00:34:16.82\00:34:18.95
SOME PEOPLE LIKE IT
WHEN PREACHERS YELL; THEY GET
00:34:18.95\00:34:20.62
EXCITED. I TEACH. I
WENT TO ONE CHURCH ONE TIME -
00:34:20.62\00:34:25.23
I WON'T TELL YOU WHERE -
AND I KNEW THE PASTOR THERE AND
00:34:25.23\00:34:27.46
HE YELLED ALL THE TIME. I
THOUGHT, 'HOW AM I GOING TO DO
00:34:27.46\00:34:29.13
- I DON'T KNOW WHAT
I'M GOING TO DO HERE.
00:34:29.13\00:34:30.63
I CAN'T YELL.' I SAT THERE AND
I TAUGHT AND THEY WERE SO QUIET.
00:34:30.63\00:34:35.97
AND I'D BEEN TO THE CHURCH
BEFORE AND THE PREACHER THERE,
00:34:35.97\00:34:40.04
HE'D PREACH AND PEOPLE WOULD
YELL BACK WHEN HE WAS YELLING -
00:34:40.04\00:34:43.88
IT WAS VERY EXCITING.
(LAUGHTER) BUT I JUST - I TAUGHT
00:34:43.88\00:34:47.42
AND THEY ALL JUST SAT
THERE AND - BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:34:47.42\00:34:51.15
I LOOKED AROUND AND NOBODY WAS
SLEEPING AND I THOUGHT, 'I THINK
00:34:51.15\00:34:54.76
I'VE GOT THEM BUT THEY'RE NOT
SURE HOW TO ACT BECAUSE I'M JUST
00:34:54.76\00:34:58.93
TEACHING.' BECAUSE
THERE'S POWER IN WORDS.
00:34:58.93\00:35:07.84
THE BIBLE SAYS 'YOUR WORD
IS VERY PURE; THEREFORE, YOUR
00:35:07.84\00:35:10.17
SERVANT LOVES IT.' I
DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THE
00:35:10.17\00:35:15.14
DAYS - I KNOW DURING WORLD WAR I
OR II AND EVEN THE VIETNAM WAR,
00:35:15.14\00:35:19.65
SOLDIERS NOW GET E-MAIL, BUT
THEY USED TO GET LETTERS AND THE
00:35:19.65\00:35:23.49
WIFE OR THE GIRLFRIEND WOULD
SEND A LETTER AND SHE'D PUT
00:35:23.49\00:35:29.99
LIPSTICK ON AFTER SHE
LICKED THE ENVELOPE AND CLOSED
00:35:29.99\00:35:32.33
IT, AND SHE'D KISS IT. AND
THIS GUY WOULD GET A LETTER
00:35:32.33\00:35:35.60
AND IT HAD A BIG, YOU KNOW, RED
LIPSTICK SMUDGE ON IT - IT MEANT
00:35:35.60\00:35:38.47
'SEALED WITH A KISS' AND,
YOU KNOW, THAT WAS PRECIOUS.
00:35:38.47\00:35:41.74
I DON'T LIKE GETTING LIPSTICK ON
- IF YOU GET YOUR CUPS AND STUFF
00:35:41.74\00:35:44.84
AT THE RESTAURANT AND THERE'S
STILL LIPSTICK ON IT - IT'S KIND
00:35:44.84\00:35:46.74
OF CREEPY, ISN'T
IT? (LAUGHTER) YOU KNOW
00:35:46.74\00:35:49.58
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
YOU SAY, 'PLEASE TAKE THIS
00:35:49.58\00:35:50.68
BACK AND WASH IT AGAIN. I
DON'T WANT - A LOVE LETTER
00:35:50.68\00:35:53.15
FROM MOM DURING
SUMMER CAMP, THAT'S OKAY.
00:35:53.15\00:35:54.85
I DON'T WANT IT
ON MY SILVERWARE.
00:35:54.85\00:35:58.92
BUT THEY USED TO DO THAT TO
ILLUSTRATE 'SEALED WITH A KISS'.
00:35:58.92\00:36:02.76
AND THE BIBLE IS
REALLY SEALED WITH LOVE.
00:36:02.76\00:36:06.09
>>AMEN. >>BUT IT'S NOT LIPSTICK,
00:36:06.09\00:36:08.10
IT'S BLOOD. AND
WHEN YOU OPEN THIS BOOK,
00:36:08.10\00:36:12.20
IT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE
BLOOD OF GOD - SPONSORED - YOUR
00:36:12.20\00:36:17.57
SPONSOR - THE BLOOD OF
CHRIST - THE LOVE OF GOD.
00:36:17.57\00:36:21.98
NOW, IT'S A MYSTERY FOR US TO
UNDERSTAND HOW JESUS COULD BE A
00:36:21.98\00:36:25.81
HUNDRED PERCENT HUMAN AND A
HUNDRED PERCENT DIVINE, BUT IT'S
00:36:25.81\00:36:29.45
TRUE. JESUS WAS ALL GOD AND YET
HE WAS ALL MAN, AND THE BIBLE
00:36:29.45\00:36:33.36
CALLS THAT A MYSTERY - AND I'M
OKAY WITH THAT - BUT IT'S GOOD
00:36:33.36\00:36:37.13
FOR US TO KNOW THAT HE BECAME
ONE OF US TO HELP US UNDERSTAND
00:36:37.13\00:36:41.26
HE UNDERSTANDS. NOW,
DID JESUS BECOME A MAN -
00:36:41.26\00:36:45.37
DID JESUS BECOME A MAN SO
THAT HE COULD KNOW HOW WE FEEL?
00:36:45.37\00:36:48.14
>>NO. >>NO?
00:36:48.14\00:36:53.14
BECAUSE GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING; SO
FOR GOD TO SAY, 'WELL, I'M NOT
00:36:53.14\00:36:56.58
QUITE SURE' - I KNOW IT CONFUSES
PEOPLE WHEN GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM,
00:36:56.58\00:37:00.15
'I'VE COME DOWN TO FIND OUT
IF THE CRY OF SODOM IS AS BAD AS
00:37:00.15\00:37:02.65
I'VE HEARD.' WELL,
GOD, YOU SHORT ON THE NEWS?
00:37:02.65\00:37:05.65
HE DIDN'T KNOW? HE
KNEW, BUT HE WANTED PEOPLE
00:37:05.65\00:37:07.92
TO KNOW THAT HE KNEW
THROUGH FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE.
00:37:07.92\00:37:15.46
AND IN THE SAME WAY, JESUS CAME
DOWN, NOT THAT HE COULD KNOW,
00:37:15.46\00:37:18.20
BUT SO THAT WE WOULD KNOW HE
KNOWS HOW WE FEEL BECAUSE HE,
00:37:18.20\00:37:23.10
AS THEY SAY,
WALKED IN OUR MOCCASINS.
00:37:23.10\00:37:26.98
'WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST
WHO CANNOT SYMPATHIZE WITH OUR
00:37:26.98\00:37:30.45
WEAKNESS, BUT HE WAS IN ALL
POINTS TEMPTED AS WE ARE AND YET
00:37:30.45\00:37:34.18
WITHOUT SIN.' ROMANS 1:3,
"CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST
00:37:34.18\00:37:40.59
OUR LORD, WHO WAS BORN OF THE
SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE
00:37:40.59\00:37:43.39
FLESH," - NOW THIS DELVES INTO
A SUBJECT THAT'S MUCH DEBATED IN
00:37:43.39\00:37:47.23
THE CHURCH TODAY, NOT ONLY
OUR CHURCH, OTHER CHURCHES.
00:37:47.23\00:37:49.96
YOU KNOW, WAS JESUS - DID HE
HAVE ANY HUMANITY? YOU KNOW, HOW
00:37:49.96\00:37:54.74
WAS HE? WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF
CHRIST? AND I JUST NEED TO LET
00:37:54.74\00:37:58.11
YOU KNOW THERE WAS DEFINITELY
SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND
00:37:58.11\00:38:00.34
MYSTERIOUS ABOUT JESUS THAT WE
CAN'T GLIBLY EXPLAIN BECAUSE IF
00:38:00.34\00:38:04.55
YOU COULD EXPLAIN
GOD, YOU'D HAVE TO BE GOD.
00:38:04.55\00:38:06.72
THE BIBLE SAYS HE
IS PAST FINDING OUT.
00:38:06.72\00:38:09.02
HE SAYS, 'AS THE HEAVENS ARE
HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH, SO ARE MY
00:38:09.02\00:38:11.42
WAYS ABOVE YOUR WAYS.' SO LET'S
JUST ALL ADMIT THERE'S SOMETHING
00:38:11.42\00:38:14.06
THAT WE CAN'T,
MAYBE, PERFECTLY EXPLAIN.
00:38:14.06\00:38:16.56
BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE
00:38:16.56\00:38:19.66
WRESTLED WITH THE SAME KIND
OF TEMPTATIONS THAT WE WRESTLE
00:38:19.66\00:38:22.96
WITH. HE GOT
HUNGRY, HE GOT TIRED, AND
00:38:22.96\00:38:25.73
HE INHERITED, IN HIS BODY,
THE VERY DNA OF HIS ANCESTORS.
00:38:25.73\00:38:31.11
THAT'S WHY THE GOSPELS BEGIN BY
SAYING HE WAS THE SON OF DAVID
00:38:31.11\00:38:36.91
AND ABRAHAM AND - YOU LOOK
AT THE INTERESTING FAMILY TREE -
00:38:36.91\00:38:40.92
IT'S LETTING US KNOW HE'S GOT
THE DNA OF ALL THESE PEOPLE IN
00:38:40.92\00:38:43.49
HIS LIFE AND YET, IN SPITE OF
THAT HUMANITY - I NEEDED TO READ
00:38:43.49\00:38:47.49
THE STORIES ABOUT TAMAR
AND RAHAB AND THESE DIFFERENT
00:38:47.49\00:38:50.56
CHARACTERS THAT ARE THERE
AND THEIR UPS AND DOWNS AND YET
00:38:50.56\00:38:53.36
SAYING JESUS WAS HOLY - IT'S
TO REMIND US THAT HE DEPENDED ON
00:38:53.36\00:38:57.30
THE FATHER FOR A HOLY LIFE AND
WE CAN HAVE A HOLY LIFE THROUGH
00:38:57.30\00:39:00.40
THE FATHER TOO.
BUT HE WAS TEMPTED IN
00:39:00.40\00:39:02.17
ALL POINTS LIKE WE ARE.
LET ME READ A QUOTE TO YOU FROM
00:39:02.17\00:39:04.54
THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES - THIS
IS PAGE 48, "IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
00:39:04.54\00:39:09.58
ALMOST INFINITE HUMILIATION
FOR THE SON OF GOD TO TAKE MAN'S
00:39:09.58\00:39:13.01
NATURE EVEN WHEN ADAM
STOOD IN HIS INNOCENCE IN EDEN."
00:39:13.01\00:39:16.69
- SO SHE'S TALKING ABOUT, YOU
KNOW, BEFORE HIS FALL - IN HIS
00:39:16.69\00:39:19.09
INNOCENCE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HUMILIATION
00:39:19.09\00:39:22.02
AT THAT POINT FOR GOD
TO TAKE THE NATURE OF MAN.
00:39:22.02\00:39:25.16
EVEN THOUGH GOD MADE MAN
IN HIS IMAGE, IT WAS OBVIOUSLY
00:39:25.16\00:39:27.86
DIMINISHED FROM THE
INFINITE GLORY OF GOD.
00:39:27.86\00:39:33.03
"BUT, JESUS ACCEPTED HUMANITY
WHEN THE RACE HAD BEEN WEAKENED
00:39:33.03\00:39:37.11
BY FOUR THOUSAND YEARS OF
SIN. LIKE EVERY CHILD OF ADAM HE
00:39:37.11\00:39:42.04
ACCEPTED THE RESULTS OF
THE WORKING OF THE GREAT LAW OF
00:39:42.04\00:39:44.75
HEREDITY. WHAT THESE RESULTS
WERE IS SHOWN IN THE HISTORY OF
00:39:44.75\00:39:49.22
HIS EARTHLY ANCESTORS.
HE CAME WITH SUCH HEREDITY
00:39:49.22\00:39:53.02
TO SHARE OUR SORROWS AND
TEMPTATIONS AND TO GIVE US THE
00:39:53.02\00:39:56.89
EXAMPLE OF A SINLESS LIFE" - IN
SPITE OF ALL THAT HE INHERITED.
00:39:56.89\00:40:03.80
JESUS HAD MURDERERS IN HIS
FAMILY TREE. HE HAD ADULTERERS
00:40:03.80\00:40:08.20
IN HIS FAMILY TREE. HE HAD LIARS
IN HIS FAMILY TREE. AND THERE'S
00:40:08.20\00:40:12.47
THE WHOLE GAMUT OF SIN THAT YOU
COULD NAME. HE HAD THAT SO YOU
00:40:12.47\00:40:15.58
CAN'T SAY, 'OH PASTOR DOUG, I'M
A VICTIM OF MY ANCESTORS.' NOW,
00:40:15.58\00:40:20.38
WHEN IT COMES TO CHOLESTEROL,
YOU WANT TO CHOOSE YOUR
00:40:20.38\00:40:23.05
ANCESTORS VERY CAREFULLY.
(LAUGHTER) BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND
00:40:23.05\00:40:25.99
THAT THAT IS A BIG FACTOR.
BUT THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN
00:40:25.99\00:40:28.99
DO, ALSO, TO INCREASE YOUR
TRANQUILITY, BUT YOU CAN'T EVER
00:40:28.99\00:40:34.20
BLAME - WELL, YOU CAN BLAME,
BUT YOU'RE STILL WITHOUT EXCUSE.
00:40:34.20\00:40:38.23
YOU CAN SAN, 'WELL, I AM THE WAY
I AM BECAUSE ALL THE BAGGAGE IN
00:40:38.23\00:40:40.37
MY PAST AND HOW I GREW UP AND
WHAT I WAS' - YEP, YOU'VE GOT
00:40:40.37\00:40:43.07
YOUR UNIQUE EXPERIENCE, BUT YOU
ARE NOT TOO DIFFICULT FOR THE
00:40:43.07\00:40:48.84
POWER OF THE WORD. >>AMEN.
00:40:48.84\00:40:51.01
>>THE WORD CAN CREATE
SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING.
00:40:51.01\00:40:55.28
THE WORD CAN TAKE THE SICK AND
MAKE IT WELL. YOU KNOW, OFTEN,
00:40:55.28\00:40:57.62
WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE,
SOMETIMES HE'D TOUCH THEM,
00:40:57.62\00:41:00.76
SOMETIMES HE'D MAKE MUD AND TELL
THEM TO GO WASH, BUT MORE TIMES
00:41:00.76\00:41:04.23
THAN NOT, WHEN JESUS HEALED
PEOPLE, HE SPOKE. MATTER OF
00:41:04.23\00:41:08.20
FACT, THIS ONE CENTURION
SENT A MESSENGER AND SAID, 'MY
00:41:08.20\00:41:11.70
SERVANT'S SICK.' JESUS WAS ON
HIS WAY TO GO HEAL AND HE SAID,
00:41:11.70\00:41:14.97
'OH NO, I'M NOT EVEN WORTHY
YOU SHOULD COME TO MY HOUSE, BUT
00:41:14.97\00:41:16.97
YOU'RE A MAN OF AUTHORITY, SPEAK
THE WORD' - SPEAK THE WORD.
00:41:16.97\00:41:23.61
I REMEMBER READING, DURING
WORLD WAR II, JUST BEFORE D-DAY,
00:41:23.61\00:41:27.78
EISENHOWER HAD TO FINALLY GIVE
THE ORDER - THEY HAD ALL THESE
00:41:27.78\00:41:30.15
FORCES AMASSED THERE IN ENGLAND
AND DIFFERENT PLACES READY FOR
00:41:30.15\00:41:33.99
THE BIGGEST ASSAULT - WARTIME
ASSAULT IN THE HISTORY OF
00:41:33.99\00:41:36.93
HUMANITY AND WEATHER WAS BAD AND
EISENHOWER, IN CHARGE OF ALL OF
00:41:36.93\00:41:46.17
THE FORCES - THE ALLIED FORCES -
HE HAD TO MAKE THE DECISION AND
00:41:46.17\00:41:50.41
HE FINALLY GAVE THE ORDER AND HE
SAID, 'WE'RE GOING NOW' - AND HE
00:41:50.41\00:41:55.34
SPOKE THOSE WORDS AND AN
ARMY SWEPT ACROSS THE ENGLISH
00:41:55.34\00:41:59.78
CHANNEL, OF HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS, TO LIBERATE EUROPE
00:41:59.78\00:42:04.35
AND IT CAME FROM
THE WORD OF ONE MAN.
00:42:04.35\00:42:09.12
WHO'S MORE
POWERFUL, JESUS OR EISENHOWER?
00:42:09.12\00:42:10.93
>>JESUS. >>I KNEW
YOU'D GET THAT BUT I
00:42:10.93\00:42:14.13
JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE
WITH ME. (LAUGHTER) SO JESUS CAN
00:42:14.13\00:42:17.70
GIVE THE WORD AND GIVE YOU
VICTORY - AND THAT'S WHY HE
00:42:17.70\00:42:19.70
CAME. THAT'S WHY IT SHOULD BRING
US JOY. SO THE INCARNATION IS
00:42:19.70\00:42:25.07
SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL
- DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.
00:42:25.07\00:42:28.28
'A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH A CHILD
AND BEAR A SON AND THEY WILL
00:42:28.28\00:42:31.35
CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL' -
QUOTING THERE, OF COURSE FROM
00:42:31.35\00:42:34.45
ISAIAH - 'GOD WITH US.' MORE
SPECIFICALLY, 'THE WORD OF GOD
00:42:34.45\00:42:39.35
WITH US.' ALL THINGS WERE
BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE BY THAT
00:42:39.35\00:42:43.06
WORD AND IT'S THAT
SAME WORD THAT MAKES US NEW.
00:42:43.06\00:42:47.20
ROMANS 8, VERSE 2, "FOR THE LAW
OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST
00:42:47.20\00:42:51.73
JESUS HAS MADE ME FREE
FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.
00:42:51.73\00:42:55.34
FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO
IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE
00:42:55.34\00:42:57.67
FLESH, GOD DID BY SENDING HIS
OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF" -
00:42:57.67\00:43:02.98
WHAT KIND OF FLESH? -
"SINFUL FLESH," - LIKE US -
00:43:02.98\00:43:06.21
"ON ACCOUNT OF SIN: HE CONDEMNED
SIN IN THE FLESH," - IN HIS LIFE
00:43:06.21\00:43:10.39
HE DID NOT SUCCUMB TO SIN -
"THAT THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENT
00:43:10.39\00:43:15.02
OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN
US WHO DO NOT WALK ACCORDING TO
00:43:15.02\00:43:19.76
THE FLESH BUT
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT."
00:43:19.76\00:43:21.43
HE GIVES US THE GIFT OF THE
SPIRIT THROUGH HIS EXAMPLE -
00:43:21.43\00:43:24.13
THROUGH THE POWER OF THE
WORD - A MIRACLE TAKES PLACE - A
00:43:24.13\00:43:27.47
CREATION TAKES PLACE. JUST
AS MIRACULOUS AS IT WAS FOR
00:43:27.47\00:43:31.17
MARY, A VIRGIN, TO CONCEIVE,
IT IS A MIRACLE FOR US TO HAVE A
00:43:31.17\00:43:37.01
NEW BIRTH - AND THAT
HAPPENS THROUGH JESUS.
00:43:37.01\00:43:41.42
THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS - AND
THIS WILL BE MY LAST VERSE -
00:43:41.42\00:43:44.05
1 TIMOTHY 3:16, "AND WITHOUT
CONTROVERSY, GREAT IS" - OR
00:43:44.05\00:43:48.39
WITHOUT DEBATE - "GREAT IS THE
MYSTERY OF GODLINESS: GOD WAS
00:43:48.39\00:43:52.06
MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH,
JUSTIFIED IN THE SPIRIT, SEEN BY
00:43:52.06\00:43:56.03
ANGELS, PREACHED AMONG THE
GENTILES, BELIEVED ON IN THE
00:43:56.03\00:44:00.17
WORLD, RECEIVED UP IN GLORY."
THE WORD CAME DOWN AND LIVED
00:44:00.17\00:44:05.04
AMONG US AS OUR EXAMPLE TO SHOW
US WHAT THE FATHER IS LIKE AND,
00:44:05.04\00:44:09.04
ULTIMATELY, TO SHOW US HIS
LOVE BY DYING IN OUR BEHALF.
00:44:09.04\00:44:12.78
I REMEMBER HEARING A STORY ABOUT
THIS YOUNG PRINCE IN A FAR OFF
00:44:12.78\00:44:17.69
KINGDOM WHO, HE GOT TO THE AGE
WHERE HE KNEW IT WAS TIME TO BE
00:44:17.69\00:44:21.59
LOOKING FOR A WIFE AND IN THE
PALACE AND IN THE CAPITAL, ALL
00:44:21.59\00:44:25.33
THE GIRLS GUSHED OVER HIM AND
THEY ACTED LIKE THEY LOVED HIM
00:44:25.33\00:44:29.60
AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, HOW CAN
I KNOW THAT THEY LOVE ME FOR WHO
00:44:29.60\00:44:34.97
I AM AND NOT FOR THE STATUS
OF BEING THE PRINCE AND THE
00:44:34.97\00:44:38.64
POSSESSIONS AND THE TITLES
THEY'RE GOING TO RECEIVE AND THE
00:44:38.64\00:44:41.88
WEALTH AND' - HE SAID, 'I WANT
TO MARRY SOMEONE WHO WILL LOVE
00:44:41.88\00:44:46.05
ME BECAUSE OF WHO I AM ASIDE
FROM ALL OF THAT.' AND AFTER
00:44:46.05\00:44:49.92
PONDERING THAT FOR A LONG TIME
HE THOUGHT, 'THE ONLY SOLUTION
00:44:49.92\00:44:52.15
IS I NEED TO, SOMEHOW, LEAVE MY
THRONE AND GET OUT THERE WHERE
00:44:52.15\00:44:57.76
THE PEOPLE ARE AND DEVELOP A
RELATIONSHIP WHERE SOMEONE IS
00:44:57.76\00:45:00.76
GOING TO KNOW ME OUTSIDE OF
ALL THE GLORY THAT I HAVE IN THE
00:45:00.76\00:45:03.83
PALACE.' ONE DAY HE WAS RIDING
IN HIS CARRIAGE AND HE SPIED A
00:45:03.83\00:45:09.47
BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN FROM HIS
CARRIAGE AND HE NOTED THE SPOT
00:45:09.47\00:45:12.91
AND HE THOUGHT, 'THIS IS
WHAT I'M GOING TO DO AND THIS IS
00:45:12.91\00:45:15.08
WHERE I'M GOING TO GO.' SO HE
TOOK OFF HIS ROYAL ROBES AND HE
00:45:15.08\00:45:19.55
PUT ON THE, YOU KNOW, THE RAGGED
AND HAGGARD CLOTHING THAT THE
00:45:19.55\00:45:23.89
PEASANTS WORE. HE
MANAGED TO FANAGLE A JOB AS
00:45:23.89\00:45:27.99
AN ASSISTANT IN THE BLACKSMITH
SHOP AND HE WASN'T VERY GOOD AT
00:45:27.99\00:45:31.86
IT, BUT HE KEPT HIM ON
BECAUSE HE WAS SO ELOQUENT AND
00:45:31.86\00:45:34.60
HE SEEMED SO EDUCATED. AND
HE FOUND, WHEN SHE WOULD GO
00:45:34.60\00:45:37.70
TO THE MARKET EACH DAY, AND
HE MANAGED TO ORCHESTRATE HIS
00:45:37.70\00:45:40.94
TIMING SO THAT HE KEPT RUNNING
INTO HER UNTIL, PRETTY SOON,
00:45:40.94\00:45:45.84
THEY STRUCK UP A CONVERSATION.
HE BEGAN TO TALK TO HER.
00:45:45.84\00:45:48.58
THEN SHE WAS BRINGING HER FARM
TOOLS OVER TO THE SHOP FOR HIM
00:45:48.58\00:45:51.38
TO SHARPEN AND THEY
GOT TO TALK MORE AND MORE.
00:45:51.38\00:45:54.82
AND EVEN THOUGH SHE SAW HIS
HANDS WERE A LITTLE SOFTER THAN
00:45:54.82\00:45:56.85
MOST OF THE OTHER YOUNG MEN IN
TOWN AND HE DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE
00:45:56.85\00:46:01.72
ALL THE SAME BURLY MUSCLES AS
SOME OF THE OTHER YOUNG MEN IN
00:46:01.72\00:46:04.79
TOWN, SHE FELL FOR
HIM BECAUSE OF HIS WORDS.
00:46:04.79\00:46:09.53
HE WOULD TELL HER POEMS AND
HE WOULD SPEAK ELOQUENTLY AND HE
00:46:09.53\00:46:13.23
WON HER OVER BY HIS WORDS.
AND THIS IS WHAT THE POWER
00:46:13.23\00:46:17.51
OF THE WORD DOES FOR US.
GOD SENT HIS SON IN THE PACKAGE
00:46:17.51\00:46:21.81
OF JESUS - IN THIS BABY -
WAS THE WORD OF GOD ENCAPSULATED
00:46:21.81\00:46:26.31
AND IT'S CHANGED THE WORLD.
IT'S WHAT JESUS SAID - IT'S
00:46:26.31\00:46:30.19
THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
AND THAT'S WHY I'D APPEAL TO
00:46:30.19\00:46:32.25
YOU, FRIENDS: IF YOU WANT TO
KNOW WHAT JESUS IS LIKE - IF YOU
00:46:32.25\00:46:37.13
WANT TO KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE
- IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HIS
00:46:37.13\00:46:38.99
CHARACTER IS, YOU'RE GOING
TO FIND THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
00:46:38.99\00:46:42.36
ABOUT THE BIBLE IT
ALSO SAYS ABOUT THE BABE.
00:46:42.36\00:46:46.07
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
THE BIBLE IT SAYS ABOUT JESUS.
00:46:46.07\00:46:49.40
THIS IS THE BREAD, THE IS THE
LIFE, THIS IS THE TRUTH, THIS IS
00:46:49.40\00:46:52.47
THE WAY. JESUS IS
THE BREAD, HE IS THE
00:46:52.47\00:46:54.18
WATER, HE IS THE LIGHT, HE
IS THE TRUTH, HE IS THE WAY.
00:46:54.18\00:46:56.88
AND SO, WHAT A PRIVILEGE THAT WE
COULD HAVE GOD'S SON, THE WORD,
00:46:56.88\00:47:02.28
IN OUR HANDS. IT'S
NOT GOING TO DO YOU ANY
00:47:02.28\00:47:05.09
GOOD IF YOU LEAVE IT WITHIN
THE VOLUMES OF IT'S COVER,
00:47:05.09\00:47:07.79
YOU NEED TO OPEN IT UP.
YOU NEED TO DIGEST IT AND THEN
00:47:07.79\00:47:10.86
IT HAS A TRANSFORMATIONAL
POWER. IT RECREATES THE SAME WAY
00:47:10.86\00:47:15.00
IT BROUGHT THE
WORLD INTO EXISTENCE.
00:47:15.00\00:47:18.23
GOD WITH US - EMMANUEL.
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
00:47:18.23\00:47:20.57
HAVE THAT MIRACLE
HAPPEN IN YOUR HEART?
00:47:20.57\00:47:23.71
THAT MIRACLE
BIRTH OF JESUS WITHIN?
00:47:23.71\00:47:26.17
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
00:47:26.17\00:47:29.28
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:47:29.28\00:47:32.98
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
00:47:32.98\00:47:37.42
TO GET BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD
ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS
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00:47:53.34\00:48:15.52
>>FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS
JEEPNEYS HAVE BEEN THE VIRTUAL
00:48:15.52\00:48:17.89
KING OF THE ROAD,
HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
00:48:17.89\00:48:20.23
THESE UNIQUE VEHICLES THAT ARE
FESTIVE WITH COLORFUL STICKERS,
00:48:20.23\00:48:23.67
LIGHTS, AND CHROME HAVE
GROWN INTO THE CHIEF SOURCE OF
00:48:23.67\00:48:26.50
TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTRY.
LET'S GO! THESE ICONIC FOUR-
00:48:26.50\00:48:35.14
WHEEL DRIVE MILITARY VEHICLES,
MADE BY THE WILLYS COMPANY, WERE
00:48:35.14\00:48:38.68
KNOWN AS 'JEEPS' BECAUSE IT
STOOD FOR GENERAL PURPOSE, BUT
00:48:38.68\00:48:42.88
IT ALSO CAME FROM A CHARACTER IN
A POPEYE CARTOON THAT WAS KNOWN
00:48:42.88\00:48:47.29
AS 'EUGENE THE JEEP' HE WAS AN
IMAGINARY DOG THAT COULD CRAWL
00:48:47.29\00:48:51.06
ACROSS THE CEILINGS AND
THE WALLS - AND THESE JEEPS
00:48:51.06\00:48:53.33
COULD GO ANYWHERE.
WHEN THE AMERICANS LEFT THE
00:48:53.33\00:48:55.73
PHILIPPINES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR
II, IT WAS JUST CHEAPER FOR THEM
00:48:55.73\00:48:59.33
TO LEAVE THESE THOUSANDS OF
MILITARY VEHICLES BEHIND RATHER
00:48:59.33\00:49:02.40
THAN TO TRANSPORT
THEM BACK TO THE STATES.
00:49:02.40\00:49:05.04
THE CREATIVE FILIPINO PEOPLE
MODIFIED THESE MILITARY VEHICLES
00:49:05.04\00:49:08.58
BY EXTENDING THE FRAME ABOUT
SIX FEET. THEY ADDED A COUPLE OF
00:49:08.58\00:49:11.78
OPPOSING BENCHES THAT ARE
DESIGNED TO CARRY ABOUT 18
00:49:11.78\00:49:14.88
PEOPLE, THEY PUT A CAB OVER IT
TO PREVENT THE WATER FROM COMING
00:49:14.88\00:49:18.52
IN, BUT I'VE SEEN WHAT
LOOKS LIKE ABOUT 20 TO 25 PEOPLE
00:49:18.52\00:49:22.49
HANGING OFF EVERY POSSIBLE EDGE
AND LEDGE OF A JEEPNEY - JUMPING
00:49:22.49\00:49:26.56
OFF AND JUMPING ON AS IT
GOES THROUGH CONGESTED MANILLA
00:49:26.56\00:49:29.96
TRAFFIC. EVERY JEEPNEY
IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
00:49:29.96\00:49:34.80
SOME ARE JUST HELD TOGETHER
WITH PATCHES OF BALING WIRE AND
00:49:34.80\00:49:37.67
BUBBLE GUM AND A LITTLE BIT
OF DUCT TAPE; SOME ARE A LITTLE
00:49:37.67\00:49:40.54
MORE ORNATE AND MODERN - THEY'VE
GOT CHROME AND STAINLESS STEEL -
00:49:40.54\00:49:43.85
AND THERE'S GOOD REASON
THAT THE CEILINGS ARE PADDED.
00:49:43.85\00:49:49.55
WHEN ONE OF THE LOCAL FILIPINOS
WANTS A RIDE ON A JEEPNEY, THEY
00:49:49.55\00:49:52.72
JUST FLAG THEM DOWN, THEY SHOUT,
THEY TAP ON THE HOOD, AND THEN
00:49:52.72\00:49:55.52
THEY JUMP ON BOARD - THEY MAY
NOT EVEN SLOW DOWN WHEN THEY DO
00:49:55.52\00:49:58.56
THIS - THEN THEY PAY ABOUT EIGHT
PESOS, WHICH IS THE EQUIVALENT
00:49:58.56\00:50:02.20
OF 16 CENTS FOR US - IT'S, BY
FAR THE MOST ECONOMICAL WAY TO
00:50:02.20\00:50:06.23
GET AROUND IN
THE COUNTRY. (MUSIC)
00:50:06.23\00:50:12.71
SOME JEEPNEYS ARE EVEN EQUIPPED
WITH THEIR OWN EMERGENCY PRIVY.
00:50:12.71\00:50:18.58
ONE LITTLE DOWNSIDE TO THIS
JEEPNEYS IS, BECAUSE THE CABS
00:50:18.58\00:50:20.95
ARE OPEN LIKE THIS, THEY'RE NOT
AIR-CONDITIONED, IT GETS PRETTY
00:50:20.95\00:50:24.12
HOT IN THE SUMMERTIME AND ALL OF
THE FUMES FROM THE STREET COME
00:50:24.12\00:50:26.96
IN, WHICH CAN MAKE IT AN
EXHAUSTING EXPERIENCE - WHEW.
00:50:26.96\00:50:31.86
PART OF THE DOWNSIDE OF THE
JEEPNEY IS THEY DON'T HAVE ALL
00:50:31.86\00:50:33.70
OF THE MODERN SAFETY FEATURES -
NO SEAT BELTS - YOU HAVE TO TAKE
00:50:33.70\00:50:37.30
ADVANTAGE OF THE PADDING IF YOU
HIT A HARD BUMP AND, IF YOU'RE
00:50:37.30\00:50:40.70
IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, THERE'S
NO AIRBAGS OTHER THAN THE
00:50:40.70\00:50:43.71
FRIENDS THAT MIGHT
BE SITTING AROUND YOU.
00:50:43.71\00:50:45.94
AND THAT'S THE UPSIDE OF THE
JEEPNEY, BECAUSE YOU'RE UP CLOSE
00:50:45.94\00:50:48.54
AND PERSONAL WITH EVERYBODY,
YOU MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS.
00:50:48.54\00:50:52.21
RIDING ON A
JEEPNEY REQUIRES TEAMWORK.
00:50:52.21\00:50:54.65
IF YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM ONE
OF THE VENDORS, YOU ALL SORT OF
00:50:54.65\00:50:56.92
PASS IT BACK TO EACH OTHER AND
WHEN PASSENGERS GET ON BOARD,
00:50:56.92\00:51:00.12
YOU JUST PASS YOUR
MONEY UP FRONT. THANKS A LOT!
00:51:00.12\00:51:13.23
FRIENDS, IT'S SAFE TO SAY THERE
ARE NO TWO JEEPNEYS THAT ARE
00:51:13.23\00:51:15.94
EXACTLY THE SAME - THEY'RE
ALL UNIQUE AND DISTINCT -
00:51:15.94\00:51:19.87
AND SO ARE YOU. HAVE
YOU EVER FELT THAT YOU GET
00:51:19.87\00:51:22.48
LOST IN THE MASS OF HUMANITY
AND GOD DOESN'T NOTICE YOU?
00:51:22.48\00:51:26.38
THE BIBLE TELLS US
THAT HE KNOWS YOUR NAME.
00:51:26.38\00:51:28.38
THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD
ARE NUMBERED AND HE HEARS YOUR
00:51:28.38\00:51:30.79
PRAYERS. MORE THAN THAT, THE
LORD WANTS TO TAKE YOU TO HIS
00:51:30.79\00:51:33.92
KINGDOM - YOU JUST HAVE
TO GET ON BOARD. (MUSIC)
00:51:33.92\00:51:50.21
>>(DRAMATIC MUSIC) (RAIN
FALLING) (CREAKING DOORS)
00:51:50.21\00:52:00.68
THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY
TALES OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS
00:52:00.68\00:52:04.45
COULD BE FOUND IN FOLKLORE
IN NEARLY EVERY COUNTRY AND
00:52:04.45\00:52:08.46
CULTURE. THE
EGYPTIANS BUILT PYRAMIDS TO
00:52:08.46\00:52:11.93
HELP GUIDE THE
SPIRITS OF THEIR LEADERS.
00:52:11.93\00:52:15.13
ROME SANCTIONED HOLIDAYS TO
HONOR AND APPEASE THE SPIRITS OF
00:52:15.13\00:52:18.90
THEIR DEAD. EVEN THE
BIBLE TELLS OF A KING
00:52:18.90\00:52:22.40
THAT USED A WITCH TO CONTACT THE
SPIRIT OF A DECEASED PROPHET.
00:52:22.40\00:52:27.21
TODAY, ANCIENT FOLKLORE OF
SPIRITS AND APPARITIONS HAVE
00:52:27.21\00:52:30.68
GONE FROM MERE SUPERSTITIONS
TO MAIN STREAM ENTERTAINMENT AND
00:52:30.68\00:52:35.25
REALITY.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
00:52:35.25\00:52:38.39
INVESTIGATE STORIES OF HAUNTINGS
AND SIGHTINGS, TRYING TO PROVE,
00:52:38.39\00:52:42.32
ONCE AND FOR ALL,
THE EXISTENCE OF GHOSTS.
00:52:42.32\00:52:49.26
EVEN WITH ALL THE NEWFOUND
TECHNOLOGY AND CENTURIES OF
00:52:49.26\00:52:52.63
STORIES ALL OVER THE WORLD,
THERE IS STILL NO CLEAR-CUT
00:52:52.63\00:52:57.47
ANSWER. SO HOW DO
WE KNOW WHAT'S TRUE?
00:52:57.47\00:53:04.41
WHY DO THESE STORIES
PERSIST? DOES IT EVEN MATTER?
00:53:04.41\00:53:11.89
WE INVITE YOU TO LOOK INSIDE
AND FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF.
00:53:11.89\00:53:18.76
VISIT DEATHTRUTH.COM.
00:53:18.76\00:53:29.37
>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
00:53:29.37\00:53:38.01
>>I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT I
HAD A WONDERFUL CHILDHOOD.
00:53:38.01\00:53:40.88
GROWING UP, I WENT TO A PRIVATE
SCHOOL UP UNTIL THE SEVENTH
00:53:40.88\00:53:44.29
GRADE - UNTIL JUNIOR HIGH. I
BELIEVE IT WAS AT THAT POINT,
00:53:44.29\00:53:46.99
IN JUNIOR HIGH, THAT
MY LIFE BEGAN TO CHANGE.
00:53:46.99\00:53:51.76
GOING FROM A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS A BIG
00:53:51.76\00:53:55.50
DIFFERENCE. THERE
WAS A LOT OF SECULAR
00:53:55.50\00:53:58.63
INFLUENCE - PEER PRESSURE - AND,
FOR ME, IT WAS MUSIC. I STARTED
00:53:58.63\00:54:05.04
LISTENING TO HEAVY METAL
MUSIC. EVERY CONCERT THAT WOULD
00:54:05.04\00:54:07.41
COME TO TOWN I WAS THERE.
IT HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON ME.
00:54:07.41\00:54:11.51
I STARTED USING MARIJUANA,
PROBABLY AT THE AGE OF 14.
00:54:11.51\00:54:17.65
I STARTED DRINKING - USING A
LOT OF COCAINE AND THAT LED TO
00:54:17.65\00:54:20.79
METHAMPHETAMINE AND THAT
COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE.
00:54:20.79\00:54:25.16
I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL MY
SOPHOMORE YEAR AND WENT TO WORK.
00:54:25.16\00:54:30.63
I WOULD GET OFF OF WORK AND
WE'D GO TO BAR UNTIL 2:00 IN THE
00:54:30.63\00:54:33.67
MORNING AND I'D GET BACK UP AT
5:00 AND GO BACK AT IT AGAIN -
00:54:33.67\00:54:37.61
SIX, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
AT THE AGE OF 20, I LOST
00:54:37.61\00:54:44.58
MY DAD TO A HEART ATTACK. I
DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE
00:54:44.58\00:54:48.48
LOSS SO I TRIED TO MASK MY
PAIN WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.
00:54:48.48\00:54:53.89
I GOT THREE DUIS IN
ONE YEAR. I WAS ARRESTED.
00:54:53.89\00:54:57.19
THEY GAVE ME ONE YEAR IN THE
COUNTY JAIL AND THE MOMENT I GOT
00:54:57.19\00:55:01.80
OUT I WENT BACK TO DOING
THE SAME THING, HANGING WITH THE
00:55:01.80\00:55:04.97
SAME PEOPLE - THE SAME CROWD.
I WAS INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN
00:55:04.97\00:55:08.70
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AND I
WAS CHARGED WITH A FELONY DUI.
00:55:08.70\00:55:12.54
EVEN THOUGH AT THE TIME OF
THE ACCIDENT I WAS NOT UNDER THE
00:55:12.54\00:55:14.74
INFLUENCE, I STILL HAD
METHAMPHETAMINE IN MY SYSTEM.
00:55:14.74\00:55:18.48
AT MY SENTENCING DATE I LEFT
THE COURTROOM AND I DIDN'T COME
00:55:18.48\00:55:22.22
BACK. AND THAT LEFT
ME WITH A FELONY WARRANT.
00:55:22.22\00:55:26.76
AND I HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AT
A PARK AND I WOKE UP TO A PARK
00:55:26.76\00:55:31.03
RANGER KNOCKING ON MY WINDOW.
I KNEW THAT I WAS WANTED AND I
00:55:31.03\00:55:34.96
KNEW THAT I WAS NOT
GOING TO JUST TURN MYSELF IN.
00:55:34.96\00:55:39.60
I TURNED TO HIM AND I MADE THE
COMMENT, 'NOT TODAY.' AND I TOOK
00:55:39.60\00:55:42.77
OFF. I LED FIVE
DIFFERENT AGENCIES ON
00:55:42.77\00:55:46.34
ABOUT A 35-MINUTE CHASE AND
I REALIZED AT ONE POINT THAT I
00:55:46.34\00:55:50.48
WASN'T GOING TO GET AWAY AND
THIS WAS GOING TO END UP EITHER
00:55:50.48\00:55:53.38
ME KILLING SOMEBODY OR
MYSELF. AND SO I MADE A
00:55:53.38\00:55:57.59
DECISION TO PULL OVER.
AT THAT POINT, EVERYTHING
00:55:57.59\00:56:01.16
THAT I HAD, I LOST. I
WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN
00:56:01.16\00:56:04.23
STATE PRISON AND IT WAS
THERE THAT GOD GOT AHOLD OF ME.
00:56:04.23\00:56:12.43
AND IT WAS THROUGH
AMAZING FACTS MINISTRIES.
00:56:12.43\00:56:15.50
I REMEMBER LISTENING ON MY
RADIO TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:56:15.50\00:56:19.47
I WANTED TO GET
TO KNOW THE BIBLE.
00:56:19.47\00:56:20.98
I WANTED TO KNOW GOD. AND
SO MY AUNT MARILYN SENT ME
00:56:20.98\00:56:26.35
THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY
GUIDES AND IT WAS THERE THAT MY
00:56:26.35\00:56:31.82
RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST BEGAN.
I HAD CALLED HOME AND I KNEW MY
00:56:31.82\00:56:38.23
MOTHER WASN'T DOING
WELL, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT
00:56:38.23\00:56:43.20
SHE HAD CANCER. SHE
HAD ABOUT A 30-PERCENT
00:56:43.20\00:56:48.97
CHANCE OF MAKING IT
THROUGH HER SURGERY.
00:56:48.97\00:56:51.74
SHE HAD TOLD THE DOCTORS THAT
SHE WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE CHEMO
00:56:51.74\00:56:54.21
AND SHE WAS NOT
GOING TO HAVE RADIATION.
00:56:54.21\00:56:55.34
THAT, IF HER GOD WAS
GOING TO SAVE HER, THEN HE WOULD
00:56:55.34\00:56:57.31
SAVE HER. I
REMEMBER HANGING UP THE PHONE
00:56:57.31\00:57:01.95
TO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MY
LAST CONVERSATION WITH MY MOM.
00:57:01.95\00:57:07.02
I TURNED AROUND, I GOT DOWN ON
MY KNEES, AND I PRAYED TO GOD.
00:57:07.02\00:57:12.46
I SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE
THERE, PLEASE SAVE MY MOTHER.
00:57:12.46\00:57:16.56
WHEREVER YOU LEAD ME IN LIFE,
WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO DO, I AM
00:57:16.56\00:57:20.64
YOURS.' AND I
HAD A FEELING OF SUCH
00:57:20.64\00:57:24.37
PEACE, THAT I KNEW THAT MY
MOTHER WAS GOING TO BE OKAY
00:57:24.37\00:57:28.84
AND THAT MY LIFE WAS GOING TO
CHANGE. THERE ARE NO WORDS THAT
00:57:28.84\00:57:33.25
I CAN ADEQUATELY EXPRESS TO
AMAZING FACTS AND PASTOR DOUG -
00:57:33.25\00:57:37.25
TO SAY, 'THANK YOU' TO ALL THOSE
PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE MINISTRY.
00:57:37.25\00:57:41.09
I AM A PRODUCT OF YOUR SUPPORT.
MY LIFE IS CHANGED BECAUSE OF
00:57:41.09\00:57:45.76
THIS MINISTRY AND I THANK
YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
00:57:45.76\00:57:53.57
(MUSIC)
00:57:53.57\00:58:08.65