>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
Thanks for joining me.
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This is part 3 of
our five-part series,
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"Conspiracy, More
Than Just a Theory."
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There is a massive conspiracy
playing out in the world today.
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Its effects are being
felt right around the globe.
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It's spoken of in the Bible, and
it affects every last one of us.
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There are a lot of
conspiracy theories today,
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and one in particular has gained
a great amount of traction
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over the last several decades.
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It centers in a
very isolated location,
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said to be a hotbed
of paranormal activity.
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It's one of the most secretive,
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one of the most
mysterious places
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in all of the United States--
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it could easily be
said, in all of the world.
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And the secrecy which enshrouds
this place has given rise
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to one of the biggest conspiracy
theories you will ever hear.
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About 80 miles
northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada,
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is a place the L.A.
Times referred to as
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"the holy grail for
conspiracy theorists,"
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a US Air Force
military installation.
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It's a real location,
and it's a busy place.
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Things happen here.
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Exactly what isn't really known.
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In 1955, the site was selected
for testing the U-2 spy plane,
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and since then many other
aircraft have been tested here.
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The A-12, which could
travel at 2,000 miles an hour
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and take clear
pictures of things on the ground
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from 90,000 feet.
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Its successor,
the SR-71 Blackbird,
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was tested here as well,
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as was the F-117
Nighthawk stealth fighter.
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Research, development, and
testing are carried out here
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at this very remote location
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by the government
of the United States.
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There's a lot of
security surrounding the area:
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cameras, guards, barriers,
and helicopter patrols.
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Even though we have no
intention of getting any closer
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than we're allowed,
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there's no doubt
Uncle Sam knows we're here.
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He does not want
people getting too close.
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A large amount of UFO sightings
have been reported in the area.
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Now, many of these
have been explained
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by those who do the
explaining as aircraft flights.
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The U-2 spy plane was
tested, apparently, at Area 51,
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flies much, much higher
than conventional aircraft,
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and so that was
given as a reason
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for some of the
strange things seen in the sky.
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Visitors come here
from all around the world,
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but at the end of the day,
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on Area 51 there is a
military installation.
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What takes place
there is highly secretive
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and under a blanket
of immense security,
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much like many other military
installations around the world.
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In fact, the US government
only acknowledged officially
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the existence of a base
at Area 51 for the first time
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just a few years ago.
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It's that kind of secrecy that
has led many people to speculate
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that there has to be
more going on at Area 51
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than simply mundane,
everyday military operations.
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It has been claimed that
the United States government
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keeps aliens or the
remains of aliens at Area 51.
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The legend goes that late at
night on the 4th of July, 1947,
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a UFO crashed near
Roswell, New Mexico,
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and that the
remains of that crash,
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the UFO and its occupants,
were brought to Area 51.
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The main runway is 4 1/2
miles long--long for a runway.
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Janet flights
come and go from here,
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shuttling workers between
the military installation
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and various locations.
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So the question
that gets asked is this:
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How much of this is simply
the world's last remaining
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superpower doing what it needs
to do to maintain and develop
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its military capability, and
how much of this is a coverup,
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a conspiracy, a concerted effort
on the part of those in power
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to keep the truth about
aliens and flying saucers
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from the people?
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I wanted to ask someone
with a unique understanding
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of the area.
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Pat Travis owns Little A'Le'Inn,
a diner and watering hole
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that's been here in
Rachel, Nevada, for years.
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Pat knows the area as
well as pretty much anyone,
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and she's seen a lot of people
come and go in their pursuit
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for the truth about Area 51.
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How did this whole
Area 51 thing get started?
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>>Pat Travis: Well,
that started a long time ago.
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But they have been able
to test all kinds of things.
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The stealth was
proved from there.
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And if the world had
known what the stealth could do
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when it went on
its first mission,
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we would not have
accomplished what we did.
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I'm proud to be part of
the secrecy that's there.
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So many things have
been developed there.
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Probably by the time
we knew about the stealth,
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it's probably old.
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That's what I can say. [Laughs]
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>>John: Do you
think that explains much
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of what people consider to be
the, the interesting phenomena?
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>>Pat: Um, testing, yes.
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No, I believe that we
work side by side with aliens.
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Can I prove it to you?
No. But I have that feeling.
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>>John: Now, people come
here from all around the world
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hoping to see lights in
the sky and objects up there.
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Do the locals see
odd things flying around?
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>>Pat: We have all
seen a few strange things.
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One of my employees and I
actually were sitting outside
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early one
morning drinking coffee,
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and we saw something we
could not explain in the sky,
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and that was in the morning.
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So, I have no idea
what they're testing.
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You know, maybe what
I saw a long time ago,
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maybe it was a drone.
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I have no idea,
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but I know that there should
not have been anything flying
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in the area where
there was something flying.
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>>John: Can you
describe what that was?
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>>Pat: It was a
saucer-shaped vehicle--
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that's the best I can say--
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in an area where they,
there is no flying as a general.
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But there was
something there that night.
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And my niece and I watched
it do maneuvers for 20 minutes.
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Can I prove it to you?
No. We know where it was.
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It was marked; there is a record
of where the sighting was,
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heighth, and so we could
about judge how big it was.
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>>John: I'm really
interested in your perspective
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because you live out here.
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You, you, you're truly a local.
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What do the locals think
is happening over the hill
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on, on the range?
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What, what, if you hear--
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>>Pat: We do not
discuss any of it.
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Because it is a
top security area.
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And believe it or not,
all of us that live here,
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somebody may know something, but
none of us discuss it at all.
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Because if it was
one of our neighbors,
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and something was said wrong,
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they could lose their
job over just a slight--
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and it actually came
really close to happening.
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Someone told reporters
that a man that used to live
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in the double-wide house
trailer that's right up here
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worked in Area 51.
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He was a truck
driver. That's all he was.
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But he came
really close to losing
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his entire security clearance
because of what someone stated.
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They reworked his
entire security clearance.
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And, you know, we try
and keep our neighbors
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in that secure place.
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It's just like the security
guards that are at the gate.
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We ask people not
to take their pictures,
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not to do these things.
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These are men and
women that have a job to do.
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Is it secure?
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Yes.
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Do they have to do this?
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Definitely.
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Because we probably don't
want to know all the things
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that go on out there,
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and that would be my
best estimation of that one.
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>>John: Tell me something about
the people that get attracted
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to this area.
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>>Pat: There are people
from every country in the world.
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Of course, you spoke to some
people from Italy this morning.
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If you look at the
dollar bills on my ceiling,
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you will see dollar bills that
have been put up on my ceiling
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from every country in the world.
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And it's always fun
to talk to some of them.
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Language
barriers, uh, you know what,
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you can point to things.
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They know what a
cup of coffee is.
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[Laughs] So we can get by.
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>>John: So you're here
in this area where they're,
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essentially, on the
"Extraterrestrial Highway,"
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and you see something;
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what goes through your mind?
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>>Pat: Nothing.
[Laughs, sips coffee]
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It's exciting...
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when you see something
that you can't explain.
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But that's okay.
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We wonder.
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I wonder every day how
did everything get created.
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I wonder why I was brought here,
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and why I feel
compelled to be here,
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why I get up every
morning and I feel happy,
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even if I know
that something else--
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I have two
employees out sick right now.
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So somebody has to cover.
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I don't have a
problem doing that.
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I love the people that
I've employed over the years.
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Some have been disasters; some
have been absolutely awesome.
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You know what?
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We have such a
close family of friends,
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and that's the
best I can tell you.
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>>John: Pat, thank
you, thank you very much.
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We'll be right back
with more in just a moment.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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So, you have
secrecy, the government,
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unexplained phenomena--
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just about everything
you need to convince people
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that aliens are being
kept here at Area 51 in Nevada,
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that the government is involved
in some great conspiracy
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to keep people
from knowing the truth.
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But do you have evidence?
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Well, no, really you don't.
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Or maybe you have
just enough evidence
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to keep the conspiracy
theories alive and well.
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But there's a real conspiracy
that people are missing,
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even though it's playing
out right in front of our eyes.
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[Jet rumbling] The
tendency is to ignore it,
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even though the signs,
the phenomena are visible,
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measurable, and verifiable.
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To miss this one is to
make a really big mistake.
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[Fire crackling and popping]
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According to the Word of God,
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there was rebellion long
ago in heaven, of all places.
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Lucifer, whose name
means "light-bearer,"
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rebelled against God and
wanted to receive worship.
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Isaiah records
that Lucifer said,
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"I will be like the Most High,"
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or "I will make
myself like the Most High."
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Having led a third of heaven's
angels in rebellion against God,
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Satan, which means "adversary,"
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came to the earth and
lied to Adam and Eve about God
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and then led our
first parents into sin.
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Now, you'll notice that in
the same chapter God intervened,
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and He provided Adam and
Eve with a way out of the mess
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that they were in.
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He provided them with
the gift of repentance.
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Genesis 3:15,
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"And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
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and between your
seed and her Seed;
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He shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise His heel."
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In that verse, God promised that
Jesus would come into the world.
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Humanity could be saved--
remember, saved from itself,
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saved from the result of its
own, well, of our own rebellion.
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Adam and Eve chose
to rebel against God,
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and God Himself
stepped in to say,
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"I want to give the human
family a way out of this."
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And think of
what that way out was.
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It was that
which was agreed upon
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in the "counsel of
peace" Zechariah wrote about.
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Jesus would die for
the sins of the world.
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So now the devil realizes
that victory isn't assured.
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His goal is to ruin humanity.
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If he is to lose,
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then he'd do everything he
could to cause everyone to lose.
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And he set out to bring
as much pain as he could
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to the heart of God.
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So what has
happened since that time
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is all part of the devil's
campaign to ruin the world
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and drag humanity to
the lowest depths possible.
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Let's think about where
we are today as a world.
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The internet is awash with sin.
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Think about the
hatred in the world.
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Why do you think it is
that society is so divided
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in many ways?
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You would think that after
being on the planet this long,
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human beings would have
figured out how to get along
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with each other, how
to bridge racial divides,
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how to work for
the good of a country
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rather than for the good of a
political party or a politician.
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And yet well
into the 21st century,
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even though there's an
undeniable amount of good
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in the world,
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there is a massive amount of
dysfunction and hate and evil.
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And that's because the
devil has been goading people
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to live selfishly and
without reference to God.
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It's a plan, a conspiracy,
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a conspiracy to bring
down the entire world.
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[Ominous sounds]
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And now with the internet,
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the devil has what's probably
his most effective tool ever.
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There was a time
when we thought television
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was corrupting our minds.
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Now we carry so much
more than a television with us
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wherever we go.
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Even though you can watch
this program on the internet,
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the internet is a minefield.
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What the devil is doing is
making it as easy as possible
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for you to be
distracted from faith in God--
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as easy as possible and
as accepted as possible.
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And today it's entirely
acceptable to be distracted
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from faith.
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Fewer people than ever
are members of a church.
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More people than ever
claim no religious affiliation.
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I'll give you one more
rather unsavory example
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of where we're
going as a planet.
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Pornography has shown
itself to be absolutely ruinous.
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Marriages are
ruined. Minds are ruined.
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Families are ruined.
Reputations are ruined.
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After 6,000 years of sin,
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Satan has succeeded in
bringing society to the place
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where we promote this
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and make celebrities
of those who make it.
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Freedom of speech?
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Freedom of sin is more like it.
00:16:28.32\00:16:30.52
But keep in mind when someone
is being tempted to click
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on a link of that nature,
00:16:33.42\00:16:35.26
it's because there's a real
devil trying to lure that person
00:16:35.29\00:16:38.53
into a real web of sin.
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The stakes are not
small. They are immense.
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And the one who knows that
the most, after God, is Satan.
00:16:45.67\00:16:51.44
And how has the devil
succeeded in getting us
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to where we are today?
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I'll answer that question
and more in just a moment.
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>>John Bradshaw:
Thanks for joining me today
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on It Is Written.
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Just a moment ago I asked how
it is that the devil has been
00:18:44.09\00:18:47.62
so successful in getting
the world to where it is today.
00:18:47.66\00:18:52.13
Well, think about this.
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When the devil used a serpent as
a medium in the Garden of Eden
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and spoke to Eve, he
said in Genesis 3, verse 1,
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"Has God indeed said,
00:19:00.84\00:19:02.37
'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?"
00:19:02.40\00:19:05.61
Now, don't miss that.
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"Did God really say that?
00:19:07.04\00:19:08.14
Did God really suggest
you shouldn't eat that fruit?"
00:19:08.18\00:19:10.41
In other words, "You
don't need to listen to God.
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Don't take what He
says too seriously.
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He didn't really mean it.
Just do whatever you want."
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Now, that's rebellion.
00:19:19.72\00:19:21.12
Satan's rebellion in
heaven resulted in one third
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of the angels in
heaven turning against God.
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When he brought his
rebellion here to the earth,
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he tried to turn people
away from God here as well.
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But how do you do that?
00:19:33.54\00:19:35.04
Well, you have to turn
them against the Word of God.
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"God says it, but you don't
have to take that seriously."
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That's what he did
in the Garden of Eden.
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The Bible tells us that we
are saved by grace through--
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through what?
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Through faith.
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And what is faith?
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To put it simply, faith
is believing the Word of God
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and living
according to the Word of God,
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expecting God's Word to
do what it says it will do.
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That is faith.
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So when Satan said to Eve, "Did
God really mean what He said?"
00:20:01.36\00:20:04.90
he was encouraging her
to manifest a lack of faith,
00:20:04.93\00:20:08.00
distrust in God's Word,
rebellion against God's Word.
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Think with me about what
Jesus said in Matthew 19:17.
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Speaking to a man we've come
to know as the rich young ruler,
00:20:16.44\00:20:19.75
a man who asked Him what
good thing he needed to do
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in order to be
saved, Jesus said,
00:20:22.95\00:20:25.32
"If you want to enter into
life, keep the commandments."
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In John 14:15, Jesus said,
00:20:29.29\00:20:31.83
"If you love me,
keep my commandments."
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Now, be careful here.
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This isn't Jesus
contradicting Paul.
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Salvation is by grace
alone, through faith alone,
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in Christ alone.
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No one is saved by obedience.
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But God makes clear to us
that the lives of saved people,
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filled with the
presence of Christ,
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will be
characterized by obedience.
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When you come to faith in
God, your desire is to obey God.
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Satan knew that.
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He also knew that if he
could lead people into sin,
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he'd be able to
accomplish his aims.
00:21:04.83\00:21:08.30
But how do you
lead people into sin
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when the Bible so
clearly warns us against sin?
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Listen to Jesus
and you notice a thread
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running through His words.
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John 15:10,
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"If you keep my commandments,
you will abide in my love,
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just as I have kept
my Father's commandments
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and abide in His love."
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John was more than
clear in 1 John 2 and verse 3:
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"And hereby we do
know that we know Him,
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if we keep His commandments."
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Matthew 4:4 speaks to this.
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After having been tempted
to turn stones into bread,
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a ravenously hungry Messiah
turns to the devil and says,
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
00:21:51.34\00:21:55.58
So Satan turned his
attack to the Word of God.
00:21:55.61\00:22:00.85
Where's the respect
for the Word of God today?
00:22:00.88\00:22:02.92
Well, it's in rapid decline.
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In the late 19th century,
modernism promoted the idea
00:22:04.85\00:22:07.82
that religious and
moral principles should not be
00:22:07.86\00:22:11.13
the main influence
in social progress.
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God was left out of
the equation altogether.
00:22:14.00\00:22:17.83
Charles Darwin claimed
that human beings are the result
00:22:17.87\00:22:20.57
of natural selection and not
the product of a Creator God.
00:22:20.60\00:22:26.51
See what's happening?
00:22:26.54\00:22:28.21
Between modernist
thinkers and Charles Darwin,
00:22:28.24\00:22:31.18
God suddenly becomes
unimportant to our origins
00:22:31.21\00:22:34.92
or to where we're
going as a civilization.
00:22:34.95\00:22:37.92
We can get by
without God, we're told.
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The World Health Organization
estimates that 125,000 abortions
00:22:40.42\00:22:44.66
are performed a
day around the world.
00:22:44.69\00:22:46.96
Tens of thousands occur every
month in the United States,
00:22:47.00\00:22:50.73
even though even atheists
know that the Bible says,
00:22:50.77\00:22:53.84
"Thou shalt not kill."
00:22:53.87\00:22:55.80
God speaks, yet we
seem to be able to say,
00:22:55.84\00:22:59.04
"I'm doing
completely the opposite.
00:22:59.07\00:23:01.61
That doesn't apply to me."
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.85
Seems as though the devil
has been highly successful
00:23:03.88\00:23:06.28
in causing people
to think his thoughts.
00:23:06.31\00:23:11.19
Revelation 22:14, God says,
00:23:11.22\00:23:14.06
"Blessed are they
that do His commandments,
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that they may have
right to the tree of life,
00:23:16.93\00:23:19.53
and may enter in through
the gates into the city."
00:23:19.56\00:23:23.13
It's been hundreds of
years since the Catholic Church
00:23:23.16\00:23:25.97
removed the commandment
about worshiping idols
00:23:26.00\00:23:28.67
from its teachings and
replaced the missing commandment
00:23:28.70\00:23:32.41
by dividing the
commandment about coveting.
00:23:32.44\00:23:35.04
Rome was also responsible
00:23:35.08\00:23:36.51
for changing the
weekly day of worship
00:23:36.54\00:23:38.75
from the seventh day
of the week to the first.
00:23:38.78\00:23:41.38
God's commandments have
been under attack historically,
00:23:41.42\00:23:45.09
and they still are today.
00:23:45.12\00:23:46.32
And this isn't like ignoring
the speed limit or jaywalking.
00:23:46.35\00:23:49.96
"The wages of sin
is death," Paul wrote.
00:23:49.99\00:23:54.40
It's serious.
00:23:54.46\00:23:56.10
But it's what Satan wants.
00:23:56.13\00:23:58.10
Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 59:2 that
sin separates a person from God.
00:23:58.13\00:24:03.24
That's the aim;
that's the agenda:
00:24:03.27\00:24:06.14
to separate people from God.
00:24:06.17\00:24:08.34
And if you could do that while
convincing them it's harmless
00:24:08.38\00:24:11.61
or fashionable or
that times have changed
00:24:11.65\00:24:14.88
or that the
church is out of touch,
00:24:14.92\00:24:17.49
then you've just succeeded
in justifying rebellion
00:24:17.52\00:24:20.86
against God.
00:24:20.89\00:24:22.76
But is it ever justified?
00:24:22.79\00:24:25.06
No, it's not. Not ever.
00:24:25.09\00:24:28.13
And is it ever wise?
00:24:28.16\00:24:29.60
Oh no, of course
it isn't ever wise.
00:24:29.63\00:24:32.07
Is it ever necessary?
00:24:32.10\00:24:33.60
Oh no, it's not necessary.
00:24:33.64\00:24:36.00
What would make perfect sense is
to read the Word of God and say,
00:24:36.04\00:24:40.38
"This is a God I can trust.
00:24:40.41\00:24:42.41
This is a
Savior who died for me.
00:24:42.44\00:24:44.85
This is a Jesus who one
day is coming back to take me
00:24:44.88\00:24:49.18
to be with Him in heaven."
00:24:49.22\00:24:50.95
Following God is the
pathway to a glorious future,
00:24:50.99\00:24:55.02
a bright future, a happy future.
00:24:55.06\00:24:58.16
You can believe the propaganda,
you can listen to the lies,
00:24:58.19\00:25:00.86
you can be caught
up in the conspiracy,
00:25:00.90\00:25:03.67
or you can look into
the face of Jesus and say,
00:25:03.70\00:25:06.80
"Now, that's
Somebody that I can love."
00:25:06.84\00:25:10.84
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00:25:17.48\00:25:19.08
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>>John Bradshaw: So what's
the answer to a conspiracy
00:25:44.01\00:25:46.17
that's led people
to feel free to obey
00:25:46.21\00:25:49.24
basically whatever they want,
basically to obey themselves--
00:25:49.28\00:25:53.15
which means to
be their own god--
00:25:53.18\00:25:56.62
what's the answer?
00:25:56.65\00:25:58.02
Well, the answer is this:
00:25:58.05\00:25:59.85
a radical commitment to
God, a commitment to Jesus,
00:25:59.89\00:26:03.96
and a complete surrender to
Christ and to the Word of God,
00:26:03.99\00:26:07.83
including the law of God.
00:26:07.86\00:26:10.23
If God said it, that's enough.
00:26:10.27\00:26:12.80
And how's that going with you?
00:26:12.83\00:26:14.80
We're in a battle here on Planet
Earth, a real spiritual battle.
00:26:14.84\00:26:20.01
Only as we
surrender to the Word of God
00:26:20.04\00:26:22.08
are we safe in the face
of this relentless attack.
00:26:22.11\00:26:26.82
Let's pray for
that true surrender
00:26:26.85\00:26:29.28
and pray that God
would keep us safe,
00:26:29.32\00:26:31.85
not just now but always.
00:26:31.89\00:26:33.59
Let's pray now.
00:26:33.62\00:26:34.49
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Our Father in heaven,
00:26:34.52\00:26:36.52
caught up in this war,
this battle, we turn to You.
00:26:36.56\00:26:39.96
Jehoshaphat in the Bible
was caught up in a battle
00:26:40.00\00:26:42.16
he knew he couldn't
win, but he turned to You,
00:26:42.20\00:26:44.30
and he prayed and he
said, "Our eyes are upon You."
00:26:44.33\00:26:48.67
And so, Lord,
that's what we say to You.
00:26:48.70\00:26:50.11
We're looking in Your direction.
00:26:50.14\00:26:51.61
Friend, are your eyes on Jesus?
00:26:51.64\00:26:54.08
If they're not, you'll
be pushed this way and that,
00:26:54.11\00:26:57.45
swayed this way and that,
00:26:57.48\00:26:58.68
but if your eyes are on Him,
focusing on the risen Savior,
00:26:58.71\00:27:03.22
looking upon a God who is love,
00:27:03.25\00:27:04.99
then you'll receive His
presence and His strength
00:27:05.02\00:27:07.19
and His blessing.
00:27:07.22\00:27:08.42
And this great God will
live His life out in you.
00:27:08.46\00:27:10.49
Lord, that's our prayer.
Is it your prayer, friend?
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If it is, open
your heart to God.
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Say to God, "Yes,
God, that's my prayer.
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Yes, Lord, I want Jesus to
be my Savior now and forever."
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Keep us, Lord, in
this great conspiracy,
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this great battle.
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Thank You that when Jesus comes
back, we will be able to say,
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"Victory,
victory is ours forever."
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We pray
gratefully in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Thank you so very
much for joining me.
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Looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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