It has stood the
test of time  God's Book,
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The bible  Still
relevant in today's
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complex world  It is written
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Sharing hope around  The Globe
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??? Music ???  One of
the strangest characters
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you're ever likely to hear
about  is the Englishman Jeremy
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Bentham, who was born
in 1748  and died in 1832.
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Now just to give you an idea
of  how, well, different, Mr.
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Bentham was, he willed that his 
body be stuffed and preserved in
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his everyday clothing and
then  put on public display for
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posterity.
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And that's what happened!
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You can see him, to this
day, in  a wooden cabinet at the
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University College in London.
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His head, however, is wax--and 
that's because in the preserving
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process someone messed up, 
robbing his real face of most of
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its expressions and leaving it
 too unattractive for viewing.
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The wax head was therefore 
substituted for his real one,
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and for years the real head, 
with two glass eyes he used to
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carry around in his pockets, sat
 on the floor, between Bentham's
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legs.
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Well you've heard it said that
 nothing's sacred, and time and
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again the college students would
 make off with Bentham's head.
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One time, students stole the
 head and demanded a ransom of
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100 pounds to be paid to
some  local homeless shelter.
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The college agreed to pay
10  pounds and the head was
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returned.
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On another occasion, the head
 was again stolen by students,
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was found in a locker at a
train  station in Scotland.
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But the last straw came when
it  was discovered being used by
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students for soccer practice!
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After that, the head was safely
 secured and is no longer on
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display.
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The rest of Mr. Bentham, 
including his wax head included,
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still is.
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Now Bentham is most famous, 
though, not for his corpse but
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for his social philosophy.
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He was a leading advocate of
 utilitarianism: "the greatest
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happiness of the
greatest  number."
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The idea is this: You try to 
make laws so that they'll bring
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the greatest amount of happiness
 to the greatest number of
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people.
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If law x make five million 
people a little happy, but law y
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make 20 million people
very  happy, then the government
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should make law y
as opposed to  law x.
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Mr Bentham even created a 
mathematical scheme, a calculus,
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that supposedly could determine 
happiness: and it would be great
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to know what makes people happy,
 because you could then create
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laws that will
bring this  happiness.
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At 57-years-old, and still a 
bachelor, he wrote to a woman he
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hadn't seen in sixteen years and
 he explained to her why - based
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on the laws and rules that 
applied to them - they should be
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married.
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Well, surprise of surprises, she
 wasn't that impressed with his
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laws and mathematics and
she  turned him down cold.
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He waited 22 years and then gave
 it another shot, but wouldn't
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you know?
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She turned him down again.
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ou can imagine,.
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Well, darling, I've worked out 
the numbers and the laws and the
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figures, and it seems that,
 according to my mathematical
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calculations, we should
be in  love and get married.
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I'm glad I didn't
propose to  Melissa that way.
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I reckon I'd still be single!
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See, Bentham lived in a time 
when humanity truly believed in
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the ability of logic, and law,
 and reason to answer all human
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needs.
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For many people, law and logic
 and reason were the sacred keys
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to unlock all truth.
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For many people believe reason
 and law, natural law, was all
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that was needed.
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Now all through the gospels
in  the Bible we have stories of
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folks who were also sticklers 
for the law-at least the law as
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they understood it.
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One account in
particular shows  what I mean.
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We are going to
rewinding about  2000 years.
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When you realize that it was 
only in the past 250 years that
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doctors figured it would be a
 good idea to wash their hands
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before surgery, you can only 
imagine what the medicine must
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have been like in ancient
Israel  at the time of Jesus.
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In this context we
come to the  story.
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Jesus and His disciples are
 walking along and they came
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across a man who had
been blind  from birth.
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So what did Jesus do?
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The Bible says this, and we
read  this in the gospels, Jesus
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meeting a blind man.
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What does the Word of God say?
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"He spat on the ground and made
 clay with the saliva; and He
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anointed the eyes of the
blind  man with the clay.
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And He said to him, 'Go,
wash in  the pool of Siloam' .
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so he went and
washed, and came  back seeing"
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John 9:6, 7 NKJV).
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That's Incredible.
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A man, blind from
birth, is  instantly healed.
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As you can imagine,
this caused  quite the stir.
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In fact, some people had a hard 
time believing that this was the
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same man who used
to sit around  begging.
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After all, how could someone,
 blind from birth, now suddenly
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see?
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Eventually, they brought him to
 the religious leaders, who had
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to acknowledge the
incredible  miracle.
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But there was one problem.
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Jesus had performed this amazing
 miracle on the Sabbath day, and
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according to their understanding
 of the law, you weren't
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supposed to do any
kind of on the  Sabbath.
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Thus they were arguing that 
Jesus couldn't have been from
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God because He, at least in 
their thinking, had violated the
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law.
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"So they again called the man 
who was blind, and said to him,
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'Give God the glory!
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We know that this
Man  is a sinner.'"
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(John 9:24,
NKJV)  Can you imagine?
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A man blind all his life is 
healed, instantly, and all that
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the leaders can think about
is  the fact that it was done in
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violation of a law, at least
the  law as they understood it.
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Talk about taking the
idea of  law to an extreme!
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Now don't get me wrong.
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I am not talking against law.
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On the contrary - I would uplift
 law, especially God's law.
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Laws are supposed to be good 
things, but sometimes they can
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be terrible, with
disastrous  effect.
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I'll give you an example
of that  in just a moment.
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[Music]
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It's time for today's
Bible  question, and here it is.
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As a kid, I remember going
to  church about once or twice a
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year with my parents.
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I'm not really into religion,
 but I don't want to go to hell
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when I die.
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A friend of mine died in a car
 accident last month and I don't
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know if he is in heaven or hell.
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If I don't want to end up
in  hell, what do I need to do?
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A serious
question you're  asking.
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I tell you what, I don't
want to  go to hell either!
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So what do we do to
make sure we  don't go there?
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There's a great
verse in the  Bible.
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It's in the book of first
John,  chapter 5 and verse 12.
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It says, "He that has the Son
 has life, he who does not have
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the Son of God 
does not have life."
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Everlasting life is the 
gift God wants to give you.
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And the way to receive 
everlasting life is to possess
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Jesus - to have faith in Him.
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Simply not going to hell
isn't  going to get a person too
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terribly far, but faith in Jesus
 will take care of you in the
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world to come, and will
bless  you in this life.
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If you don't have a whole lot
of  background with the Bible or
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with faith in God, let me 
recommend something to you.
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Get a Bible, and start reading
 in say, the book of John or the
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book of Matthew.
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As you read, look for Jesus.
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And when you come to Jesus, ask
 yourself, What is this person
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Jesus like?
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And when you get an idea of what
 Jesus is like, ask yourself, Is
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this the kind of
Person I'd like  to know?
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Do I want to have this
person  involved in my life?
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And if your answer to that 
question is Yes, then tell God
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that.
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Tell him "God, I want Jesus,
and  I want You in my life."
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And go from there.
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Your focus is going to be on 
Jesus, and you won't be worrying
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too much about going to hell.
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To get your questions to us at
 It is Written, please go to or
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website itiswritten.com, click
 on Questions tab, submit your
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question there and in a future 
TV program, I'll do my very best
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to answer your Bible question.
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[Music]
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Laws ought to be for
the benefit  of everyone.
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But that's not
often far from  the case.
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Here's a painfully
familiar  example of that.
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At one time in many American
 states, slavery was legal.
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America's own beloved 
Constitution made a legal
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provision for it.
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Even closer to our time, many 
people can remember the Jim Crow
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Laws, the segregation
laws in  the American south.
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Now let me read
some of them  to you.
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Let me read you a few:  "Nurses:
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No person or corporation
 shall require any white
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female nurse to nurse in wards
 or rooms in hospitals, either
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public or private, in
which  negro men are placed.
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Buses: All passenger stations
in  this state operated by any
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motor transportation company
shall  have separate waiting
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rooms or space and separate
ticket  windows for the white
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and colored races.
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Restaurants: It shall be 
unlawful to conduct a restaurant
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or other place for the serving
 of food in the city, at which
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white and colored people are 
served in the same room, unless
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such white and colored persons
 are effectually separated by a
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solid partition extending from
 the floor upward to a distance
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of seven feet or higher, and 
unless a separate entrance from
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the street is
provided for each  compartment.
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These laws tell us about the 
character of the lawgiver, don't
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they?
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The laws reflect the attitude 
and thinking of the entity that
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has created them, don't they?
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And in these cases, the laws 
reveal a deep-seated racism and
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bias.
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The laws of a nation can tell us
 something about the character
00:12:02.58\00:12:05.52
of the law-making
power of that  nation.
00:12:05.52\00:12:08.66
Now think about this
in relation  to God's law.
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Just as the laws of a land
 reveal something about the
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law-makers of that land, God's
 law reveals something about Him
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as well.
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His law tells us
what God is  like.
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His law, the Ten Commandments,
 are a reflection of His
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character.
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Think for a moment about the Ten
 Commandments and what they tell
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us about God.
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But before we begin, I'd like to
 dismiss right off the bat the
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idea, sometimes expressed by 
well-meaning people, that God's
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moral law has been abolished,
 that Jesus death on the cross
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wiped out our obligation
and our  need to keep the Ten
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Commandments.
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Look at this text, however.
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It's 1 John 3:4, the Bible
says,  "Whosoever committeth sin
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transgresseth also the law: for
 sin is the transgression of the
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law"  (KJV 1 John 3:4).
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Sin is the
transgression of the  law.
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Now what law could that be?
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Jim Crow law?
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The law of the
scribes and the  Pharisees?
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No, it is talking about God's
 law, the Ten Commandments.
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How do I know?
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Well, it's
pretty easy,  isn't it?.
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If I steal, which is a violation
 of one of the Commandments,
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have I sinned?
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If I commit adultery, which is
a  violation of one of the Ten
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Commandments,
have I sinned  then?
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What about if I lie, if I lie.
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have I sinned?
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I think in all cases, we know
 pretty well that the answer is
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yes.
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Yes, if I do any of those things
 I have violated God's law and I
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have sinned.
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So, it's clear to me that sin
is  a violation of God's law.
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The apostle James
certainly  thought so.
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Read what he wrote
in the Book  of James.
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"For whoever shall keep the 
whole law, and yet stumble in
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one point, he is guilty of all.
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For He who said, "Do not commit
 adultery," also said, "Do not
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murder."
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Now if you do not commit 
adultery, but you do murder, you
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have become a
transgressor  of the law."
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(James 2:10,11, NKJV)  That text
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just doesn't make sense if
the  Ten Commandments had been
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abolished, does it?
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Now didn't Jesus say the two 
greatest commandments were love
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to God and love to others?
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Isn't that the
essence  of the law?
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Yes, Jesus did say that; and 
yes, that is the essence of the
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law; and yes, I'm glad you asked
 because it gets precisely to my
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point, which is that God's
law  is an expression of His
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character, and love is at the 
center of God's character, which
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is why love-love for God,
and  love for others, forms the
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foundation of God's law.
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When asked about the greatest
of  the commandments, Jesus
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answered this way
in Matthew, Chapter 22.
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Jesus said: "Thou shalt love
the  Lord thy God with all thy
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heart, and with all thy
soul, and with  all thy mind.
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This is the first
and great  commandment.
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And the second is like unto it, 
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
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thyself" That's
Matthew  22:37-39.
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Notice - love God,
love your  neighbor.
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Love is the foundation of God's
 law, and that's because God
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Himself is love.
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This doesn't negate the
Ten  Commandments; no, the Ten
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Commandments are the way in 
which we show our love for God
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and our love for our neighbor.
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The first four commandments, no 
false gods, no idols, not taking
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the Lord's name in vain, and
 keeping the Sabbath-these all
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deal with a person's 
relationship with God.
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Can you imagine someone saying
 that he loves Jesus, and yet
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every time he mentions the name
 "Jesus," it's used as a curse?
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Now that's not love.
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And the last six commandments,
 about honoring your parents,
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about not committing adultery, 
not stealing, not murdering, not
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lying, not coveting-these all
 have to do with how we reveal
00:16:09.96\00:16:14.00
our love to others.
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Can you imagine someone telling
 his neighbor, "Oh, yes, I love
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you!"
00:16:18.11\00:16:19.04
and then stealing from him?
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No, of course not.
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God's moral law was given to us
 as a means of guiding us in how
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we live, in how we can express
 love to Him and to others.
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You don't usually think of the 
law and love together, but don't
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tell that to apostle John.
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Here's what John wrote: "By
this  we know that we love the
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children of God, when we love 
God, and keep his commandments.
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For this is the love of God, 
that we keep his commandments:
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and his commandments are not
 grievous" (1 John 5:2,3:KJV).
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Anyone can say that they love
 God, but according to John, by
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keeping His commandments we 
reveal the reality of that love.
00:16:59.65\00:17:04.29
Here's what John said again.
00:17:04.29\00:17:07.72
This is from 2nd John: "And this
 is love, that we walk after his
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commandments" (2 John 6, KJV).
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Again, love is manifested by 
obedience to the commandments.
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Here's Jesus Himself: John 
14:14, he said, "If you love me,
00:17:19.50\00:17:24.74
keep my
commandments" (John  14:15NKJV).
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How much simpler could it be?
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I've heard people say, "Well,
 the Ten Commandments don't
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matter.
00:17:33.18\00:17:34.78
What matters is
that you love  others."
00:17:34.78\00:17:36.65
Well, on the surface that sounds
 nice but if you think about it,
00:17:36.65\00:17:39.79
it makes about as much sense as
 saying, "Murdering you neighbor
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doesn't matter, just
as long as  you love him."
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Just as you give your children 
rules to follow because you love
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them and want what's best for 
them, God does the same for us,
00:17:47.90\00:17:50.80
and those basic rules
are found  in the law of God.
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It's that simple.
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In just a moment, The United
 States, just moments away
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from a military crisis, 
In Matthew 4:4 the Word of God
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says "It is written 'Man shall
 not live by bread alone but by
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every word that proceeds
out of  the mouth of God'."
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Every Word is a one minute 
Bible-based daily devotional
00:18:15.09\00:18:18.29
presented by Pastor John 
Bradshaw and designed especially
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for busy people like you.
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Look for Every Word on selected
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Here's a sample.
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Integrity is very
important to  God.
00:18:45.39\00:18:47.86
In Proverbs 16:8 we
read,  "Better is little with
00:18:47.86\00:18:51.06
righteousness than great
 revenues without right."
00:18:51.06\00:18:55.10
The devil tempts people to 
cheat, cut corners, to rip other
00:18:55.10\00:18:57.77
people off, just
to get a little  MORE.
00:18:57.77\00:19:01.40
A friend of mine was featured in
 an article in an international
00:19:01.40\00:19:04.34
magazine for the simple fact 
that he was an honest mechanic.
00:19:04.34\00:19:08.28
When one shop wanted to charge
 the writer hundreds of dollars
00:19:08.28\00:19:11.18
for a job, my friend told
him he  could do it for 25.
00:19:11.18\00:19:14.48
Now, he could have charged
more,  but his integrity meant
00:19:14.48\00:19:17.32
something to him.
00:19:17.32\00:19:18.99
I once pointed out to a cashier
 that she hadn't charged me for
00:19:18.99\00:19:21.49
something.
00:19:21.49\00:19:22.46
She said, "Oh, I'd
have never  known."
00:19:22.46\00:19:24.36
And I said to her,
"Yes, but I'd  have known."
00:19:24.36\00:19:27.70
Its better to have less and
 retain your honour, than to
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reach for more...
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and lose your integrity.
00:19:32.30\00:19:35.00
I'm John Bradshaw
 for It Is Written.
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You know, for decades the United
 States government kept under
00:20:35.26\00:20:38.27
wraps a secret: at the same time
 that the United States and the
00:20:38.27\00:20:42.60
former Soviet Union almost went
 to war over the Cuban Missile
00:20:42.60\00:20:46.07
Crisis, an America U2 spy plane
 accidentally blundered into
00:20:46.07\00:20:50.45
Soviet airspace, bringing
the  world dangerously close to
00:20:50.45\00:20:53.52
nuclear war.
00:20:53.52\00:20:57.12
On the night of Oct 27, 1962,
a  very seasoned American pilot
00:20:57.12\00:21:01.66
named Captain Charles Maultsby
 was flying on a secret mission
00:21:01.66\00:21:05.76
to the North Pole, where he was
 to collect radioactive samples
00:21:05.76\00:21:10.37
from Soviet Nuclear tests.
00:21:10.37\00:21:12.53
On his long, seven hour flight,
 Maultsby was going to rely on
00:21:12.53\00:21:16.17
ancient navigation technique-he
 would follow the stars, because
00:21:16.17\00:21:20.78
at 70,000 feet in the air,
he  didn't need to worry about
00:21:20.78\00:21:23.31
clouds.
00:21:23.31\00:21:25.48
After a few hours, though,
the  sky suddenly filled with
00:21:25.48\00:21:28.85
beautiful bright lights.
00:21:28.85\00:21:31.25
It was the aurora borealis, the
 Northern Lights, and the air
00:21:31.25\00:21:34.02
outside his cockpit exploded 
with awesome flashes of orange
00:21:34.02\00:21:38.26
and violet and crimson colors.
00:21:38.26\00:21:41.13
He might have enjoyed the show
 except for one problem: those
00:21:41.13\00:21:45.30
lights blocked his view of the
 stars and by the time the light
00:21:45.30\00:21:48.67
show was over, Maultsby
knew  that something was wrong.
00:21:48.67\00:21:53.11
He wasn't where
he should have  been.
00:21:53.11\00:21:55.81
What he didn't realize, at
least  at first, was that he had
00:21:55.81\00:21:58.41
veered into Soviet air space.
00:21:58.41\00:22:00.52
He was more than a
thousand  miles of course.
00:22:00.52\00:22:04.32
Now, under any circumstances,
 this would have been dangerous
00:22:04.32\00:22:06.89
enough, but with the Russians
 and the Americans already in
00:22:06.89\00:22:10.13
each other's hair over over 
events in Cuba, the situation
00:22:10.13\00:22:14.23
was on a knife edge.
00:22:14.23\00:22:16.26
The Russians had already sent 
fighters in the air, to try and
00:22:16.26\00:22:19.77
intercept the plane, because
for  all they knew, this was a
00:22:19.77\00:22:23.44
bomber coming
down to attack them!
00:22:23.44\00:22:26.24
Fortunately, in just the nick of
 time, Maultsby was able to get
00:22:26.24\00:22:29.84
the plane back safely, and the
 tensions settled down, though
00:22:29.84\00:22:34.45
later the Soviets warned the
 United States that something
00:22:34.45\00:22:37.62
like this could have
pushed them  over the edge.
00:22:37.62\00:22:41.06
Charles Maultsby needed 
something to guide him, and that
00:22:41.06\00:22:44.16
was the stars, and when he lost 
site of his guide, he veered off
00:22:44.16\00:22:48.66
track.
00:22:48.66\00:22:50.73
It's the same with God's law.
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.27
It's a guide for us; it sets 
parameters for us; it tells us,
00:22:52.27\00:22:56.97
not to veer this way or that 
way, because if you get too far
00:22:56.97\00:23:01.08
off course, bad
consequences  can occur.
00:23:01.08\00:23:05.58
And that's what
the law is  there for.
00:23:05.58\00:23:08.68
It's not there to save us.
00:23:08.68\00:23:09.48
Keep in mind: trying to be saved
 by the law is like staring in a
00:23:09.48\00:23:13.29
mirror hoping that the mirror
 will remove your wrinkles.
00:23:13.29\00:23:17.09
God's law was never
meant to  bring salvation.
00:23:17.09\00:23:20.70
If we could be saved by keeping
 the law, Jesus wouldn't have
00:23:20.70\00:23:23.80
come and died for us.
00:23:23.80\00:23:25.60
How it works is if you, like 
me, have compared your life to
00:23:25.60\00:23:29.20
God's law, you have seen
just  how short you have fallen.
00:23:29.20\00:23:34.21
Before God's law, we
all stand  condemned.
00:23:34.21\00:23:37.71
The law is what
shows that we  are sinners!
00:23:37.71\00:23:41.35
The good news is Jesus.
00:23:41.35\00:23:42.82
He died because we
have not kept  God's law.
00:23:42.82\00:23:47.12
He paid the penalty for
our  transgression of the law.
00:23:47.12\00:23:51.53
And by faith in Him, we are 
forgiven that transgression and
00:23:51.53\00:23:55.43
we can stand perfect before God
 and under no condemnation for
00:23:55.43\00:23:59.53
our violation of the law.
00:23:59.53\00:24:03.04
Yes, God's law
still is in  effect.
00:24:03.04\00:24:05.24
It shows us our sin, and that
 leads us to Jesus, who will
00:24:05.24\00:24:09.41
forgive us for our sin, when we
 give ourselves to Him and claim
00:24:09.41\00:24:15.15
that forgiveness for ourselves.
00:24:15.15\00:24:16.85
Have you done that?
00:24:16.85\00:24:18.19
Have you given
yourself to  Jesus?
00:24:18.19\00:24:20.66
And have you claimed
his  forgiveness for you?
00:24:20.66\00:24:22.96
To not do that leaves you under 
the condemnation that comes from
00:24:22.96\00:24:27.46
having broken God's law,
 something we've all done.
00:24:27.46\00:24:31.27
But today you can say, Lord
 Jesus, I know I am a sinner.
00:24:31.27\00:24:35.30
I know therefore, that I am 
condemned because of my sin, but
00:24:35.30\00:24:39.21
I don't want to be condemned.
00:24:39.21\00:24:41.38
Jesus died for me.
00:24:41.38\00:24:43.78
I want to accept that.
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.15
I want to get out from under
the  death sentence of having
00:24:45.15\00:24:48.78
committed sins and
having broken  God's law.
00:24:48.78\00:24:51.19
I want to be free.
00:24:51.19\00:24:52.49
I want to be clean.
00:24:52.49\00:24:53.82
I want to be forgiven.
00:24:53.82\00:24:55.29
Are you ready to say
that to  Jesus today?
00:24:55.29\00:24:57.66
Let's say that together.
00:24:57.66\00:24:58.99
Pray with me.
00:24:58.99\00:25:00.10
Our father in
heaven,  we thank you today
00:25:00.10\00:25:03.67
for your goodness to us.
00:25:03.67\00:25:05.13
I know there are times, perhaps,
 that some of us might feel as
00:25:05.13\00:25:09.77
though your will, your
way, your  law is restrictive.
00:25:09.77\00:25:14.41
But what we know by reading the
 Bible is that in truth what you
00:25:14.41\00:25:17.78
are wanting to do is to keep us
 from back harm, to keep us back
00:25:17.78\00:25:21.22
from sin and to keep us close to
 you and safe under the shadow
00:25:21.22\00:25:25.22
of your wings.
00:25:25.22\00:25:26.79
So please, forgive us for our 
sins and thank you that through
00:25:26.79\00:25:32.26
Jesus, through accepting him 
Lord, live in our lives, through
00:25:32.26\00:25:35.43
accepting Jesus we can have
not  the penalty that comes from
00:25:35.43\00:25:41.34
having sinned but forgiveness
 and grace and cleanness and
00:25:41.34\00:25:48.94
purity.
00:25:48.94\00:25:50.81
Today we thank you for the gift
 of eternal life in Jesus and we
00:25:50.81\00:25:54.45
pray grateful in
Jesus' name,  amen.
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