My topic is the Irrefutable
Arguments that Jesus is Divine
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I'm going to share with
you some amazing revelations
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from history, from Archeology,
from the Bible itself,
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that Christ is all he
claimed to be and because He is
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Divine, He can change your life.
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Now you already may be
a Christian and recognize
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that Christ is
the Divine Son of God.
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You might say, what value
will this program has for me?
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I'm going to present to you such
clear, powerful arguments for
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His Divinity that you'll by
able to share with your friends
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who may be
questioning who Jesus is.
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This question of who Christ
is has intrigued men and women
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down through the
centuries. Was He a good man?
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Was he simply a
moral-ethical teacher?
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Was He really the
Divine Son of God?
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Let's pray and then we'll launch
right into our presentation.
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Father in Heaven,
How we thank you that the
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evidence is clear on who Jesus
is, that there need be no doubt
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in our mind. And I pray
that as we look at that evidence
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from History, from archaeology,
from the Bible itself
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that our hearts will be
warmed and that we will sense
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the reality that Jesus
is the Divine Son of God
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and that His offer
of Eternal Life is real.
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Thank you for that evidence,
we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen!
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Men and women down through
the centuries asked the question
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was Jesus really Divine?
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Was Christ
everything He claimed to be?
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Now the problem you have
is this, Jesus claimed to be
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Divine, He claimed to be the
Son of God, He claimed to have
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no beginning and no ending,
He claimed to be eternal.
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If Christ is not the Divine
Son of God, then you only have
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really one of two choices,
either He was openly lying
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because He said He was
and He was simply an imposter
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simply one spouting falsehoods
or the other option is that
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He is diluted, if somebody says
something that they are not...
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You know we are a people,
street preaching who is saying
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I am Jesus, you know and
so forth and what do you say
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about those people who
are claiming to be Christ and
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who are kind of a little
bit off...Where I come from
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"off their rocker",
they're really crackpots.
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So is Jesus, what kind of
evidence do you have there?
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Is He lying? Is He a
crackpot? Is He diluted?
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Certainly not, the
evidence doesn't bear that up.
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Now first I want to go
to history and we want to
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raise the question, what
does the historical evidence say
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about Christ? Now when I
talk about historical evidence
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of course, the Bible is
a historical book but I am
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using the term in this sway
this frame of reference that
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what kind of extra-Biblical
sources, what kind of
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historical sources do we have
outside the accurate history
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of the Bible?
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Professor Carnegie
Simson once said this...
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A very famed
professor, he said...
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If the being of God is
beyond your understanding,
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in other words, if
you can't understand God,
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the fact of Christ is
not, He is a fact of history.
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So even people like Professor
Simpson say Jesus Christ
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is a fact of history. If
you are going to be honest
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with the facts of history, you
have to say that Christ existed.
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Sir J.G Frazier was the
Scottish Social Anthropologist,
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many believe he was an atheist,
he certainly was not a believer
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and he said this.
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My theory assumes the historical
reality of Jesus as the great
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religious and moral
teacher who founded Christianity
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and at Jerusalem under
the government ship of Pontus
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Pilate. So here you have a
person who is an unbeliever who
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has a social theory that he says
my theory assumes that Christ
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was the historical figure.
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So you have professors
who are unbelievers that are
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talking about the
reality of Christ.
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Now what documents existed
in the Roman Empire during the
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days of Rome that
spoke about Jesus?
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I mean really, if you have...
If Christ actually existed
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which He did, if He existed
there must be some evidence
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outside of the Bible for
that existence and there is.
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Tacitus was one of the
most famous Roman Historians
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he wrote from A.D. 55 to
A.D. 120, so just shortly after
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25 years after the death of
Christ, Tacitus was writing.
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And Tacitus describes for
example, The Existence of Early
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Christians. He talks about
Jesus' execution by Pontius
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Pilate. Now how could someone so
close to these events talk about
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them if they were not real?
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He talks about the six-day fire
of Rome, that is Tacitus does
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and it was burned of course by
Nero and he then talks about the
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origin of Christianity
and the execution of Christ.
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Tacitus actually
talks about that.
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Now you go even further
than Tacitus, there was a
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Governor of
Bithynia, his name was Pliny,
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there were two Pliny's,
this is Pliny the younger,
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the governor of
Bithynia and he writes in fact
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to the emperor and as he
is writing to the emperor
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he's talking about the
growth of Christianity and how
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Christians are in every
place throughout his province.
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And he says this is what
they affirmed, I'm quoting,
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that the whole of their guilt
or error was that they were
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in the habit of meeting
on a certain fixed day before
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it was light. They
sang an alternative verse,
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a hymn to Christ as to
God, they bound themselves to a
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solemn oath not to do any wicked
deeds, never to commit any
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fraud, theft, adultery, never to
falsify their word, not to deny
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a trust when they should be
called upon to deliver it up.
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So Pliny is saying, these
Christians are followers of
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Christ. And he's writing
here from 62 A.D. to 113 A.D.
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he's writing in the 1st
century and he's talking about
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Christians who were an eye
witness of Christ and they are
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meeting for
worship and praising God.
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Now Josephus was a Jewish
Historian, now you recognize
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that Josephus is not going to
have any motives to talk about
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Christ and Josephus
says: He's again a 1st Century.
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Now there was about this
time a wise man if it be lawful
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to call him a man for he
was as doer of wonderful works
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a teacher of man who received
the truth with pleasure.
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He drew over to him many of the
Jews and many of the Gentiles.
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So here you have a Jewish
Historian speaking about Christ
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who wins many Jews and
who wins many Gentiles,
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there is historical
evidence outside of the Bible
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you can read it in Tacitus,
you can read it in Pliny,
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you can read it in Josephus,
you can read it in Suetonius.
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Here are men who have no motive
to write about the Divine Christ
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but they write
that he did exist.
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Throughout the Bible we
have clear evidence that Christ
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claims to be divine, you
look In John chapter one verse
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one to three, John verse 1:1-3.
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The gospels were written
in for different audiences,
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if you want to know about the
sermons of Christ, you'll read
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the gospels of Matthew. You
want to know about the parables
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of Christ, you
read the gospel of Luke.
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You want to know about
the humanity of Christ,
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you read the gospel of Mark,
but if you want to know about
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the divinity of Christ,
you read the gospel of John.
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John starts in John
chapter one and we are going to
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read verses one to three.
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So here you have very clearly
outlined in the gospel of John
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what John says is the word was
with God and the word was God.
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The word became flesh
John says and dwelt among us.
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The word became flesh
so Christ left the glory
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and splendor of heaven,
tabernacled in human flesh,
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and became a human
being the Divine-human Christ.
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Christ was Divine and he was
a human, it was this combination
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of this Divine-human Christ
but He came and walked among us.
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He walked the dusty streets
of Galilee, the cobblestone
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streets of Jerusalem, He touched
the eyes of the blind and they
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were opened and the ears of the
deaf and they were unstopped.
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He healed the withered
man's arm and caused the lame to
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jump and run again and
this Christ opened His heart
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to forgive sins, to deliver
men and women from the guilt
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and shame and
condemnation of sin.
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He delivered them from the power
and the grip and the chains
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of evil. This Jesus
revealed what God was like,
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He revealed the character of
God here John chapter one says.
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and the word became
flesh and dwelt among us
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so when we look at
Jesus we see what God is like.
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We see God's character of love
but Jesus claimed to be Divine
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He claimed to be
equal with the Father,
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you find this in the gospel
of John 8:58, John:8 and we are
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looking there at verses 58,
and here in John 8: verse 58
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the scripture puts it this way.
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Now I don't want to go
over this text too fast,
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He said before
Abraham was, I am.
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Now the New Testament is
written in the Greek language,
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which is the expression
for I am there is Ego eimi.
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Can you say that?
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I know you can. Ego ami.
It's a Greek expression and
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this is what it means.
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It means the self-existed one,
it means the one who has existed
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from all eternity.
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Remember the time that I
was used Moses comes to the bush
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the bush, the bush does
not burn and as he's coming to
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the bush he sees the
fire, it's burning but it is not
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consumed and the I Am
speaks to him from the bush.
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God and So this term I
Am the self-existent one,
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the one who never had a
beginning or will have an
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ending, this I Am is the
one who Jesus claims to be.
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He claims to be equal with
the Father existing with Him
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for all eternity. The Jews
understood what Jesus meant
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and as a result of
that, they went to stone him.
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Why? Because he
claimed to be God.
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So either Jesus is what He
says He is or He's the liar and
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imposter, the evidence certainly
doesn't bear that, does it?
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You know Charles Lamb,
the great writer said this,
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he said if Shakespeare came
into the room, we would rise up
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to meet him, but if
Jesus walked into the room,
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we would bow at His
feet and cry Holy, Holy, Holy
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in adoration and worship.
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Now let's consider some of the
prophecies in the Old Testament
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that really confirms
the divinity of Christ.
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Prophecies that were centuries
old fulfilled in Christ.
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The first prophecy we're
going to go to is Isaiah,
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if you want to know something
about somebody you look at
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their birth. Where were
they born, when were they born,
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what was the
family of their birth?
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Isaiah chapter seven and
we're looking here at verse 14.
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Isaiah 7:14, Eternal
Truths Matter, the eternal truth
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that the Bible is the Word of
God matters. the eternal truth
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that Jesus Christ is the
Divine Son of God eternal, that
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matters. Isaiah
7:14, the first prophecy
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What does Immanuel
mean? It means God with us.
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God with us. So here it says
a virgin is going to bear a son
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and call his name
Emmanuel, God with us.
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Now when you go to the
New Testament and you look for
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example at the
gospel Luke 1: 26 and 27.
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The angel comes to Mary
and the angel declares to Mary
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that this
prophecy was fulfilled.
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Luke Chapter 1 verses 26, 27,
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And so the angel comes
to her and He says, Mary
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you are highly favored above
all women, you are going to
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bear a son and she's perplexed
as a virgin, how am I ever
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going to bear a
son, I've known no man?
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And, the angel says what's
conceived in you is done of
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the Holy Spirit, so you have
Isaiah predicted that Jesus had
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be born of a virgin, you
have both the gospel of Luke
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and the gospel of
Matthew applying this prophecy.
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Now also, if you are
studying somebody's lineage,
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you want to know
where they were born.
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Did you know that
hundreds of years in advance,
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centuries in advance the
prophecies in Micah predict
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that Jesus would
be born in Bethlehem?
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I mean really,
it's quite remarkable.
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Micah, the fifth
chapter and the second verse.
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And you'll notice how
scripture puts it there
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Micah chapter 5:2.
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Here is the one who's going
forth should have been from all
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eternity, that one
would be born in Bethlehem.
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How did Micah know that Christ
would be born in Bethlehem,
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how did he know that
hundreds of years in advance?
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And if you want to see the
fulfillment of that you go to
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Luke chapter two, see
Jesus is more than a good man
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philosopher, He is
the divine Son of God.
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You have irrefutable arguments
of Christ being Divine both
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in History and Prophecy
in His life that He lived,
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Luke Chapter Two Verse four
shows the fulfillment of that.
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Notice what scripture says?
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Being great with child.
So they come to this town of
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Bethlehem and Christ
is born in Bethlehem.
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They travel from Nazareth
to Bethlehem is some 90 miles
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so Mary doesn't
have the baby on the way,
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she's nine months pregnant,
she has it the very night
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that she is
coming into Bethlehem.
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Jesus is more than a good man.
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More than an ethical
philosopher, more than a moral
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teacher, prophecy after prophecy
reveals He is the divine Son of
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God. And you know the amazing
thing? Prophecy talks about His
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life, that He would heal
the sick, raise the dead,
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deliver the demoniacs,
set free the captives.
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You find that
throughout the book of Isiah.
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but most of the prophecies
that are so remarkable
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so precise, so accurate
come to fulfillment right around
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the time of Christ's death.
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Did you know that it was
actually predicted hundreds
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of years in advance that Jesus
would be sold for 30 pieces
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of silver? Isn't that the
money that He was sold for,
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betrayed for by Judas
would be used to buy a Potter's
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Field? You say, is
that prophecy in the Bible?
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Indeed it is.
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Take your Bible and turn
to Luke, rather Zachariah 11
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verse 13 and 14 and we're going
to pick up verse 12 as well
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You're looking at Zachariah,
you find that little tiny book
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in the Old Testament written
hundreds before the birth
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of Christ and
here's what Zachariah says,
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get ready for this because
what he says is really amazing.
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Are you ready? Here we go.
Zachariah 11: verse 12 and 13.
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How in the world would
Zachariah knows the exact
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price of a slave would
be 30 pieces of silver when
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Christ came? And how would
he know that money would be cast
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in for the temple and the
priest wouldn't know what to do
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with is so they would take
it and buy a Potter's Field?
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How does Zachariah know that
hundreds of years in advance?
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because the Bible is divinely
inspired book and Jesus is
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the divine Son of God.
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Now, you look at the fulfillment
of that prophecy in Matthew 26
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verse 15. So you can take
these Old Testament Prophecies
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and you can compare them
to what the New Testament says
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and you find that they are
fulfilled exactly, minutely,
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specifically. Matthew 26,
we're looking there at verse 15
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and you see the
fulfillment of this prophecy.
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The gospel of Matthew is
very detailed in its records.
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Why are these so accurate?
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Because God wants us to
know the Word of God is accurate
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So here you have mentioned
the thirty pieces of silver
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and other gospels talk
about the fact that Jesus came
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that Judas came with the
betrayal money that he had
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from Jesus and he threw
it on the floor of the temple
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and the priest didn't know what
to do with it, what'd they do?
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they went out and
bought a Potter's Field.
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Prophecy is so incredibly
accurate, Jesus is born
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of a virgin exactly
like the Bible teaches.
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Jesus is born in Bethlehem
exactly as the Bible teaches.
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He performed the works of a
Messiah, exactly like it said in
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Isaiah 61 and Luke chapter 4.
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Jesus Christ the Divine Son
of God sold for thirty pieces
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of silver, when he was
taken used the Potter's Field.
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Jesus indeed was
crucified like Psalms predicted.
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Psalm 22, Psalm 22 predicts
that Jesus Christ Himself
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would be crucified. You know
the story and you know it well.
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Psalm 22 verses 16, 17, and 18.
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Here it says they
pierced Christ's hands and feet
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crucifixion was not
introduced in the days of David.
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David wrote the Psalms
1,000 years before Christ,
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crucifixion was not introduced
until the time of the Romans
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150 years before Christ.
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But yet, over 850 years
in advance before crucifixion
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existed...See the Jewish
method of capital punishment was
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stoning or hanging, you
stoned them or you hung them.
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But here, the Bible
said they pierced my hands,
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they pierced my feet and
obviously, it's crucifixion
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and as they parted
garment they played dice
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they parted my
garments among them.
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Such a small detail,
why do we have these details
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given to us? The reason we
have them given to us is because
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God wants us to know the
Bible is not some common book
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or some ordinary book...
That Jesus is much more than
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a good man, that there
are irrefutable arguments that
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Jesus Christ is divine.
Here in Matthew 27 we read the
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confirmation story of the
crucifixion, Matthew chapter 27
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and we read the confirmation
story of the crucifixion
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verse 5, verse 6, prophecies
centuries-old for fulfilled
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in the life of Christ.
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That's Judas.
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Confirmation of the
events that took place right at
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the crucifixion, you go on
and you read how the nails were
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driven through Christ's
hands exactly as the Bible said.
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Christ is different than any
philosopher, certainly different
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then Socrates,
certainly different than Plato,
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certainly
different from Aristotle.
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You know Socrates taught
for 50 years, for 40 years,
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Plato taught for 50 years,
and Aristotle for 40 years.
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So that's 130 years if you take
Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle
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but yet Christ only taught
for three and a half years
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yet His teachings have been
more impactful in the 130 years
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than the 130 years. Jesus
never painted a picture...
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But when you think about
it the paintings of Raphael
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and Michelangelo and Leonardo
Da Vinci all received their
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inspiration from Him and
you think about the fact that
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Jesus wrote no poetry but
you have Daunte and Milton,
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and scores of the
world's greatest poets who
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are inspired by Christ.
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Jesus composed no music,
but you have Hayden, and Hendo,
00:24:55.42\00:25:01.46
and Beethoven, and Bach,
and Mendelssohn reach their
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.33
highest perfection of melodies,
and hymns, and symphonies,
00:25:04.37\00:25:07.04
and oratories in His praise.
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See, every sphere of human
existence has been impacted
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by the living Christ and
He can impact your life too.
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If Jesus is divine and He is, if
He is the Son of God, and He is
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then His offer of
eternal life is real.
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And Jesus says to you and me
today, if we confess our sins,
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He is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins and
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cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
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Are you burdened
with guilt this day?
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Does condemnation for
your past weigh you down?
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Is it like a great weight upon
your shoulder that you can't
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seem to get off?
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Jesus speaks to you today
you did not watch this telecast
00:25:57.75\00:26:03.46
by accident, you didn't tune
in to Three Angels Broadcasting
00:26:03.49\00:26:09.26
just by chance. God designed
that you hear this program today
00:26:09.30\00:26:15.00
and it is this within
Christ, this Christ of scripture
00:26:15.04\00:26:20.94
this Christ who is
divine that wants to speak to
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your heart right now. Do
you long for forgiveness?
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Do you long for
freedom of guilt?
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Although it may be
that you are struggling
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you're struggling
with some sin in your life.
00:26:34.86\00:26:37.63
You're struggling with
some habit and it just appears
00:26:37.66\00:26:42.50
that you cannot
in any way overcome,
00:26:42.53\00:26:45.23
you've failed on this
thing again and again and again.
00:26:45.27\00:26:50.81
Jesus is there for you,
He faced temptation by Satan
00:26:50.84\00:26:56.41
full force and as He
did, He came off victorious.
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Scripture says in all things
He was tempted like we are
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yet without sin.
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May I pray for you
right now then you will sense
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His forgiveness, that
you'll sense His grace?
00:27:13.76\00:27:17.00
that you'll sense His strength,
that you'll sense His power,
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right now, let's pray.
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Father in Heaven, I
thank you for those who have
00:27:22.84\00:27:26.54
turned into the broadcast
today that are looking for
00:27:26.57\00:27:29.38
meaning and purpose in
their life, they are looking for
00:27:29.41\00:27:32.05
only the peace that Jesus Christ
can give, that are looking for
00:27:32.08\00:27:35.48
forgiveness and freedom
from condemnation and new power
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I just pray right now
that you touch somebody
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May the peace of
Christ flood into their heart,
00:27:41.46\00:27:44.33
may they sense that your
open arms are forgiveness
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and for those struggling with
habits may the power of Christ
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touch them and change them now.
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We pray, in the precious,
wonderful name of Jesus. Amen!
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