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>>John Bradshaw:
Nobody expected them to win.
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They were basicalllly
a team of college kids.
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Average age was just 21.
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Now, theirir opponents had won
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the last four
Olympic gold medals.s.
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Th hadn't lost a game at
the Olympics in 12 years,,
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and ththeir record
against the United States
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over the previvious 20 years
was 28 wins against 7 losses.
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And in case
you're forgettinghe era,
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Soviet teams were made up
from the very best plalayers
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from Russia and the
Ukraine d Kazakhstan
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and Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
and Moldldova and Estonia
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and Lithuania--15
different cotries in all.
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The Soviets were the very best.
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They were
full-t-time professionals.
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The United States
didn't he a chance.
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But t that U.S. team,
coached by Minnesotan Herbrooks,
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played their hearts out.
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They beat the Soviets following
a goal fouroals to three, late
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in the game scored by
team captain ke Eruzione.
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Then they went
o to play Finland,
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and they beat Finland,and
they won Olympic gold.
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What helped make that victory
overer the Soviets in 1980
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so memorable,  it took
its place in sports legend,
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was one of the most
famous lines ever uttttered
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in t the history
of sports commentary.
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With just seconds to go
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and victory now in
the grasp of the U. team,
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Al Michaels famously said,
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"Do you believe e in miracles?"
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Now, whahappened at Lake
Placid in 1980 wasn't a miracle.
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It was totally
unexpected, absolulutely.
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ItIt was an upset, no
doubt. But not a miracle.
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You know, when the New
England Patriots camback
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fr being down 28 points
to 3 to win the Super Bowlwl,
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or, or when that littltle
high school team from Indiana
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won the state e
basketball championship,
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oror when Leicester City
won the English PremieLeague,
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no those were
surprises, absolutely.
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But they weren't miracles.
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[s[skids skates to a stop]
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So what's a miracle?
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Aparfrom me being able
to stay up on these skates?
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I've come to Boston to
talk to M Mike Eruzione,
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who was the ptain of
the U.S. Olympic hockey team
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that won that
gold medal in 1980.
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In fact, he scored
the iconic winnining goal.
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I wanted to fifind out
about miracles, the mirae,
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"theiracle on ice"
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from the
perspective of a man who livedt.
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So tell me what
was on your mind,
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the mind of the players, as
you're building up to o this
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game? We look at it now
rough the lens of history,
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but how were you
looking at it then at thtime?
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>>Mike Eruzione:
Uh, an opportunity to,o,
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to win a game and play for
a medal, p play for the gold
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medal. , and I think
that was kind of the mindset.
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You know, you
can't go in too high;
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you can't go in too
low;w; you've got to be focused
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and prepared and
understand what's at t stake.
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AnI think we went in with
all the emotions you havave
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for a big game, you know,
excited, you're nervrvous,
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you're curious, um,
buI think, you know, again,
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our mindsewas,
let's-- one shift at a time,
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one period at a time,
and when the game's over,
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let's see what the enresult is.
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And, you know, we
ended up us wiwinning,
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and now 've got
another game to play.
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>>John: : Did, did you
come into the game with any, ,
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any of that po--
political baggage
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or the historical baggage?
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>>Mike: Yeah, no. To, to
u us it was a hockey game.
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Um, yoknow, we knew a
little bit of what was going on
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around us because
itit was in Lake Placid,
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and we knew a little
bit of the political climate
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because of thehe
people in Lake Placid
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with waving the
flags and "U! USA!" chants,
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so, the game meant a
lot more to a lot of peoe
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than just a hockckey game.
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But fous as a hockey
team, it was a hockey game.
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Um, you know, by us nning,
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didn't solveve all the
world's problems and the crises.
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But what we did, I think, was
we brorought joy and pride back
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to a nion that was
looking for something.
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You know, as aountry we
were looking for something
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to feel good about--
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I mean, almost what
we're dealaling with now.
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>>John: So the game is known
And it happened to bus. as "the
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miracle e on
ice." Was it a miracle?
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>>Mike: No. I, I've never--
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you know, I mean,
"miracle" is a catchchy phrase,
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uh, and it sounds ally nice.
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Miracles are to me,
yoyou know, some of the things
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that o our doctors and
nurses do day in and day out,
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the lives that they save,
an you read about, you know,
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uh, a, a building that
cocollapses, and all of a
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sudden, three daysater they
find somebody that's alive--
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I mean, those,
those e are miracles.
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Those e are
things that I look at.
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Uh, I, I don't't consider
sporting events miracles.
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>>John: Was there ever a m
moment looking back where like,
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"Man, I, I might not
have been involved inin that,
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if but for this"?
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>>Mike: Yeah, , I mean, I, What
if I didn't make the team? I got
invited to the tryout.
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What if he cut me?
Which he threatened  do.
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>>John: He did?
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>>Mike: Oh yeah. He threatened
righght before the Olympics.
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And I think heas just
sending a message to the team,
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you know, uh, ife's
willing to cut Mike,
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he's willing to cut anybody.
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We--becacause no,
no guaranteed spots
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until you got to Lake Placid.
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So, yeah, I, you
know,w, always think about that.
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Umyou know, I'll
sit here sometimes
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in my, my living r room,
or I sit out in the backyard,
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look a around, and see
what I have now, and I thin
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"Boy, we could've lost."
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Mike: We didt, and
I'm fortunate and, you know,
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blesessed to, to do the
things I've been able to ,
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but I also
undstand that, uh, you know,
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that there's m
more to life than,
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like my daalways
said, than athletics.
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>>>>John: What do you tell
kids who are lookinto get ahead
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in life? Not, not in hockey
or, --hockey's part of life,
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whether it's hockey,
school, siness--but in life.
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>>Mike: I think it's
just being a good kid.
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Uh, like I told my o own
kids, that what I did in life
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was what I did; what
you dois what you do.
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I don't care if
you make touchdowns
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and, and get winning goalsls.
I want you to be a good kid.
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Be a good
brother; be a good sister;;
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be a good
neighbor; be good friend.
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When the smoke clears,
people--I don'want people
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to remember me aa
guy who won a gold medal.
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I want them to remember me
as the type of pererson I was.
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Be a good kid; make
the right chois in life.
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>>John: Mike, we
could talk all day.
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[Mike laughs] This has
been, this has been ntastic.
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I really appreciate
you taking your time.
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>>Mike: ank you
for that pleasure.
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>>>>John: Appreciate it.
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>>Mike: God bless you,
and thanks for your company.y.
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>>John: Thank you.
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The dictionary defines
a miracle as an n event
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that can't be explned "by
natural or scientific laws
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and d is therefore
[attributable] to a divine
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agcy." And when you come to
the Bible, yofind it's full of
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miracles. In fact, if you were
to open a Bible to i its very
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first page, you'd be
immediaiately confronted
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by one of the
most remarkable lines
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in the histotory of
literature. It says,
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"In the beginning God
[made] the heen and the earth."
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Now, how in the
world did HeHe do that?
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God just made the earth? Really?
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[machinery background
noise, seat tnks upright]
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Well, the Bible
tellus how He did it.
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Back then in t
beginning, "God said,
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'Let there be light';
and there was lighght."
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He spoke it intoto existence.
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Back in the PsPsalms it says,
"He spoke, and it was done;
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He commanded, anit stood fast."
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"B"By the word of the
Lord were the heavens mad
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d all the host of them by
the breath of His moututh."
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God spoke and
creaeated the world.
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Now, isn't that
anncredible thing
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to ask a persoson to believe?
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But the alternative to believing
that is noess incredible.
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In fac it's more incredible.
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Thprevailing alternate
view to Creation is evolutition,
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and evolutionary
theory posits thalong ago,
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like, like
really,really long ago,
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there was absolutely
nothing in existencece,
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nothing at all.
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BuBut then something
in the nothing exploded,
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and out of that explosionn
the universe was formed.
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[swish of skates on ice]
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Two views: one,
something ouout of nothing,
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because an all-powerful
Creator d created something
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out of nothing due
to the creative popower
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that Hpossesses.
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Now, that would be miraculous.
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Two, something out of
nothing because ofof...nothing,
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which woululd also have
to be called miraculous.
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So how, then, doou
reconcile this idea
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of Somne creating the world?
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Well, honestly,
it's nonot that difficult
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if you choose to
believe that the Godf heaven
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capable of
performing supernatural acts.
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You n believe that
God did things for which
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there's no rational explanation
outstside of His creative power.
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You can believe that
God created in six ds
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beforeesting on the seventh.
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You cacan believe that Jesus
fed a crowd of thousan one day
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with a little boboy's lunch of
just five loaves and two fish.
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You cacan believe these things,
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not simply
because the Biblsays so,
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but because when
taken as a whole,
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really there's n no possibility
of believing anything else.
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Now, it's entirely possible
for two differerent people
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to genuinely read the
same passage of theible
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and come to
different conclusions.
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That happens. That's okay.
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That's part of the
process of learning.
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But what doesn't't seem
reasonable is for someone
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to read the Bible d
then say, "I reject that."
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That is, "I reject," let's say,
"the miracacles of the Bible
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because they're not rational."
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Well, that's's not rational,
because miracles are mirulous.
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So let me ask yo
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Is it reasonable t
to believe in miracles?
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And if it't's not, what
are the implications of that?
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I'll be right
back in just a moment
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with a very special guest.t.
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¤[break music builds and ends¤¤
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>>John Bradsw:
Thanks for joining me today
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on It Is Written.
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The Biblble says again and
again that God worked miraes.
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Jesus during His time His
disciples worked miracles. on
earth wked miracles.
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So can you believe in miracles?
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I would suggest you can, b but
can people really work miracles?
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Well, I'm about to introduce
to youou a very special guest,
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someone who can
do the extraoinary.
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His me is Todd Bogue,
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and he is a Florida-based
entertainer and magician.
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ToTodd, thanks for
joining me on It Is Wrten.
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>>To Bogue: Thank you
very much for having me.
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>>John: I appreciate this.
So you work magic,c, do you?
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>>To: Yes, I do.
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>>John: Does that
mean you perform miracles
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>>Todd: I do not.
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>>John: You don't? [laughs]
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>>Todd: I do n.
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>>John: All riright.
>>Todd: Just an entertainer.
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John: An entertainer.
All right, but I know
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you're gonna show me something
that someone's gonna say,
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"How in the woworld did he
do that?" So what have you got?
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Todd: Uh, we're
gonna do two tricks today.
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Sometimes you
go to a magic show,
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and a magician will
steal somedy's watch.
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Todd: Or steal
somebody's walallet.
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Todd: So what
I'm going to do is...
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I'm going to
steal somebody's phone.
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>>John: Okay.
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>>Todd: I'm going to
steal somebody's pho,
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but before that, you're
going to d do a magic trick.
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>>John: Oh, I ?
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>>Todd: You'reoing
to do a magic trick.
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>>John: Oh, , no
joke? >>Todd: Yes, yes.
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>>Jo: All right.
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>>Todd: : So we're going to
do, do the old behind thear--
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I'm gonna reach behind your ear
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and grab a
pretend deck of cards.
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>>John: Well,
look at that. Okay.
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>>Todd: I'm gonna
hand it to you, John.
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I want you to
shuffle those cards,lease.
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>>>>John: All right. Uh...
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>>Todd: : You got to take
them out of the pretend boxirst.
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>>hn: Okay. [both laugh]
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>>Todd: Takeke them out of
the box; lay the box on the tae.
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>>John: Uh, open the
thing up, littlele flaps.
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>>Todd: I like it.
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>>John: Pull them
out, leave the box here.
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>>Todd: Shuffle them up.
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>>John: Now shuffle
themem. >>Todd: Nice.
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>>John: I put th down.
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I'm gonna cut the,
cut the deckdo the--
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>>Todd: I like it. I want
you to pull a random card out.
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>>John: Okay.
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>>Todd: And what
is the rd you chose?
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>>John: This is the
seseven of diamonds.
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>>ToddThe seven of diamonds.
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Could yoshow everyone
the seven of diamonds?
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>>John: Seven of
diamonds. Look at that.
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>>Todd: Can you turn the seven
of diands around backwards?
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>>John: Yup, there
i it is right there.
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>>Todd: PuPut it
back in the deck.
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>>John: Just in
the deck anywhere?
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>>Todd: Mm-hmm,
anywhere ithe deck.
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>>John: In the deck.
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>>Todd: Shuffl
them up real good.
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>>Todd: Nice. Put them >>Johnhn:
Shuffle them. back in the box.
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>>John: They're in the box.
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>>Todd: Put the lid
on. >>hn: Lid is on.
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>>Todd: So I'll get ththis
empty bag. I want you to drop
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the deck of cards in the bag...
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just like that.
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>>John: Ooooh!
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>>Todd: That was
pretendnd before; now it's real.
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>>John: All right.
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>>Todd: Now, if you
really turned around
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the seven of diands,
that's going to be pretty cool.
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>>John: I really did.
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>>Todd: [laughs]
You did. >>John: YeYeah.
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>>Todd: We'll see.
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So there s should be one
card turned around backwards.
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[flicks cards] I don't
see any cardturned around--
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there is, there is one card.
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>>John: Uh, there it is.
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>>Todd: Turn the only y
card turned around backwards.
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>>Jo: Okay. >>Todd: Pull it out.
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>>John: Want m to pull that out?
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>>Todd: Yeah. >>John: All right.
00:13:17.83\00:13:19.19
>>Todd: And ow--
>>John: This one?
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>>Todd: Yep.
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>>John: Oh! Get outta here.
Oh, realally? [Todd laughs]
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>>John: Lookt
that. Look at that.
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>>Todddd: [laughs]
Amazing-- >>John: Wow!
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Huh, the sev-- [both
laugh] Well, okay. There it is.
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>>Todd: Good job.
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>>John: I thinI might
have a career in this.
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>>Todddd: [laughs] So
we're gonna do something
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really, really
spectaculalar tonight.
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Uh, David Copperfield once did
>>John: Okay. >>ToTodd: This is
pretty cool. something sisimilar
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to this where he wald through
the Great Wall of China, okay?
00:13:42.28\00:13:45.85
>>John: Yeah, sure.
00:13:45.89\00:13:46.76
>>Todd: But I'm
gonna do somethg similar
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with objects you
are familiarar with.
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>>John: Okay.
00:13:49.22\00:13:50.16
>>Todd: Take my driver's licen.
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We're all familiar
with a driver's license.
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It's a hard ece of
plastic. [flicks license]
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>>John: Oh, yeah. >>John: That's
the real thing. >>Todd: Solid.
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>>Todd: And a cell phone, okay?
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What I d did is I
took a cell phone case;
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I put a little slot
in my y cell phone cover;
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I'm gonna a take
the driver's license
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and go right
through the cell phone.
00:14:06.17\00:14:11.45
>>John: Yeah.
>>Todd: We know there's  way,
00:14:11.48\00:14:12.85
, a solid can
go through a solid.
00:14:12.88\00:14:17.85
>>Johnhn: No,
that's right; that's solid.
00:14:17.89\00:14:18.82
>>Todd: Yeah? >>John: Yeah.
00:14:18.85\00:14:19.79
>>Todd: [t[taps
phone against ring] Solid.
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And earlier I said I was
gonna steal somebody's p phone.
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I'm gonna steal my phone.
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>>John: Okay.
00:14:26.36\00:14:28.06
[clicking und]
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>>dd: Turn my cell phone
into a solid block of steeeel.
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[ts license on
phone] But there's no way...
00:14:33.77\00:14:35.87
[thunks phone onon
table] that a driver's license--
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>>John: Can I touch this?
00:14:38.01\00:14:38.81
>>Todd: s, please do.
00:14:38.84\00:14:40.88
>>John: That's, that's pretty
azing. [thunks phone on table]
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>>Todd: Thank you very much.
00:14:49.55\00:14:50.49
>>John: That's ptty impressive.
00:14:50.52\00:14:51.99
>>Todd: FuFun stuff.
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>>John: That happenened
right in front of my eyes.
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>>dd: Yes, sir.
00:14:56.56\00:14:57.53
>>John: And I have no
idea how you did that.
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You said a moment ago you're
not miracle worker, but, um,
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w in the world do you do
this if it's not miracululous?
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>>ToTodd: Years of practice.
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>>John: Anybody
ever worry about you?
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Ever get any feedbac
where people are concerned
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about t what you're doing?
00:15:14.28\00:15:15.01
>>Todd: Yes, yes, yes.
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Sometimes people think
that, uh, what I do o is...evil.
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>>Jo: Uh-huh?
>>Todd: Like my mother.
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One time, we
were at her c church,
00:15:21.82\00:15:23.72
and after the service she
asked d me to go backstage
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so her and her
pastor could pray fore.
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>>Jo: Okay, sure.
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>>Todd: And I asked
her what w was wrong, uh.
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And she says, "Wre
worried about you."
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She says, "You d didn't have
these powers when you were a kid
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And I'm like, "Mom,
don't, I don't have powers.
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I'm--I just do fun stuff."
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And I actually had to show her
how a couple tricks were done.
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>>John: And what did
she say when she saw that?
00:15:47.34\00:15:48.44
>>ToTodd: She saw
that, well, that's not magic.
00:15:48.48\00:15:50.41
That's... [both laugh] that's--
anand of--it's all an illusion.
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>>Todd: You know, ,
there's a-- >>John: Yeah.
00:15:54.02\00:15:55.82
>>ToTodd: You
could explain all of it.
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>>John: So, not miracles?
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>>Todd: No, isisn't.
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>>hn: Just a man
who's good at what he does.
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>>Todd: I
appreciate the compliment.
00:16:01.56\00:16:03.19
>>JohnHey, thank you,
appreciate you being here.
00:16:03.22\00:16:04.86
Thanyou so much.
>>Todd: Thank you very much.
00:16:04.89\00:16:06.19
>>Jo: Thank you.
00:16:06.23\00:16:07.76
We both know
magicians en't really magicians.
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They're, they're
illusionists,masters of
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misdirection, causing
you to see whatidn't happen
00:16:14.14\00:16:15.80
and sometimes to
miss what really did.
00:16:15.84\00:16:18.47
Now, there is
another kind of magic
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that people ought to
stay well away y from.
00:16:20.68\00:16:22.84
The supepernatural
occult magic is evil.
00:16:22.88\00:16:26.51
It's something you wa to avoid.
00:16:26.55\00:16:27.85
It'seal. The devil is real.
00:16:27.88\00:16:29.65
He's a deceiver, and
he' still in the business
00:16:29.68\00:16:32.32
of pulling peoplover
into the realms of darkness.
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Now, pululling a rabbit
out of a hat isn't miraculou
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Causing a driver's license to
go throuough a block of steel,
00:16:38.89\00:16:43.20
it's incredible,
but it's not miracous.
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Yomight call it clever.
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It's e entertainment,
but we wouldn't say that
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about anythingng that crosses
Illusions, party tricks, the
line into the occult. sawing
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someone in halflf--
they're illusions, t magic, not
00:16:56.64\00:17:01.42
miracles. But
what's way beyond clever,
00:17:01.45\00:17:03.49
what's absoluty
jaw-droppingly miraculous
00:17:03.52\00:17:06.62
is God's ability
to perform miracles.
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Now,f your faith
won't allow you to accept
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that miracles
happen, I'd encourage you
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to reconsider the
size o of your God.
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In a moment we'llook at some
great miracles of the Bible,
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and I'll share a couple with
you, too. of modern racle
stories I'll be right back.
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me how u did that?
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>>Todd: Sure. >>John:
ThThe cell phone thing.
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>>Todd:
Yeah.>>John: So what did you do?
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>>John: The Bible is filled
wiwith stories of flawed human
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beings d called to
serve Him in incredible ways.
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He took a violent,
impulsive, racacist fisherman
00:18:17.39\00:18:20.83
and transformemed him into
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He was overly confident. He
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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Miracles--there's no doubt
they happened inible times,
00:19:12.01\00:19:15.65
but do miracles
still happen today?
00:19:15.68\00:19:19.09
I'll share a couple e
of miracle stories with you
00:19:19.12\00:19:21.32
in just a momement.
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In Bible times?
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To begin wh, God called
the universe into existence
00:19:24.86\00:19:27.86
from out of
nothin That's a big one.
00:19:27.86\00:19:31.37
Did the Israelites
really cross theed Sea
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on their way out of Egyp
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ll, we know that the
Israelites were enslaved
00:19:34.80\00:19:36.81
in Egypt and that
they got out of Egypt
00:19:36.84\00:19:39.24
and went to the promised land.
00:19:39.27\00:19:40.88
So t the facts are the
Exodus really happened.
00:19:40.91\00:19:45.45
It says in the Bible that "the
rd caused the sea to go back
00:19:45.48\00:19:48.98
by a strong east wind."
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Some have said that t that wind
was simply a natural occurrence,
00:19:51.52\00:19:54.79
a weather event.
00:19:54.82\00:19:56.22
Now, I'm not sure wh kind
of wind you would have to have
00:19:56.26\00:19:58.36
that would create
an opening ia sea,
00:19:58.39\00:20:00.33
one th allows thousands
and thousands of people
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to walk through the middle
of that sesea on dry ground--
00:20:03.03\00:20:05.73
and what a coincidence
tha a strong wind happened
00:20:05.77\00:20:09.60
right as Israeael
was fleeing Egypt.
00:20:09.64\00:20:13.01
There really
isn't another planation.
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The sea was very
shallow a certain place?
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No, that's absurd.
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And what you've got here
is a f fundamental issue.
00:20:21.38\00:20:23.99
The minute you start
decidg that certain portions
00:20:24.02\00:20:26.62
of the Bible
can'n't be believed,
00:20:26.65\00:20:28.76
you've setourself up
as the judge of the Bible,
00:20:28.79\00:20:31.66
and you become the one who
decidedes which parts of the
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Bible are inspir
and which are not.
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.30
You've chosen to play God.
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Remember what
Paul wrote to Timothy:
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"All Scrture is given
by inspiration of God."
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Second Timothy 3:16.
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Did Jesus tuturn water
into wine, grape juice?
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The Bible writers
were convinced Hdid.
00:20:51.38\00:20:54.18
Now, you might think
it psible, of course,
00:20:54.22\00:20:55.65
that thehe Bible writers
were lying about all this.
00:20:55.68\00:20:58.52
Sure, it's possible,e, I
guess, but thousands of people,
00:20:58.55\00:21:02.16
eventually millions of
people, were prepared toto die
00:21:02.19\00:21:05.73
because they
believed what wasas written
00:21:05.76\00:21:08.46
in the Gospel of Johohn,
where that story is found.
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Ha to imagine the
Bible writers were lying.
00:21:11.53\00:21:15.17
So what about miracl today?
00:21:15.20\00:21:16.81
Leme give you a
couple of firsthand accounts.
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Early in 2017, our
It Is s Written crew
00:21:21.14\00:21:24.75
was on the
beautiful west coast of Ireld,
00:21:24.78\00:21:27.38
the fabled
Cliffs of Mer. Stunning!
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We were filming for r our "500"
series about the Reformation.
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We filmed my pararts,
and then my two colleagues
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got some aerial
footage with a drone.
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They flew the drone along the
clcliffs and then nearly a mile
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out to sea so they could
get some spectacular f footage
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of t the beautiful cliffs.
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There e was a strong wind
blowing, and as the dronflew
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into this s wind, the
guys noticed the battery
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was draining fast.
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It started plunging:0
percent, 58 percent, 31 percent,
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and with this drone,
whe the battery level drops
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to five percent, it lands--
So at 500 et above the Atlantic
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whererever it is. and still
a third of a mile fromom land,
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the battery level of the
drone rehed five percent.
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But they prayed,
"Lo, bring the drone back.
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"Bring back the
footage we've shot.
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"Bringack the equipment so
we don't have to replace itt
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and we don't los
an afternoon's work."
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The drone was atat five
percent and kept flying.
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Four, three,wo, one, zero!
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No power left in the batattery,
and the drone kept flying.
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ItIt eventually got
above land; they brought idown.
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came in and landed
gently on the grass.
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The drone was s saved.
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The footage wasn't l
lost. The program was made.
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No, th isn't someone
being raised from the dead,
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but it was divine
intervention nonetheheless.
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Thers no other
explanation for it.
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Whenen that drone
arrived back, it was out of por.
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A friend omine
tells an incredible story
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abouout his faithful mother.
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Dad didn't want mother
going to church with the k kids,
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and he didn't like
t them taking the car.
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One ve, very wet day he
decided that he would make suree
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she couldn't go to church.
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He removed the
distributor cap from the car.
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The vehicle can't runn
without that distributor cap,
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just imposble.
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He w went off to work
happy that she and the kid
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wouldn't be going to church.
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When he came back from work,
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he was amazed that s was gone
and that the car was gone, too.
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He waited for her
to return om church.
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Dad said, "Where have you been?"
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Mom said, "Church."
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Dad, agitated:
"How did youet there?"
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Mom, confused: "I
drove thcar, of course."
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Dad, incredulous: "How did
you drive the car to c church?"
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Mom, bewildered:d:
"The same way I always do."
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She explned. They went and
got in the car, turned the key;;
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the cawould not start.
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She said to ththe
kids and the neighbor kids,
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"Let's pray that
God would start the car.
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There must be a a problem."
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Theyey prayed, she turned
the key, and it roared tlife.
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But dad d had the distributor
cap in his pocket the enre time.
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God still works micles.
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n we believe the
miracles of the Bible?
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Of course we can.
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Can we believe God
works miracles tod?
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Absolutely.
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Does He alwa work
miracles when we want Him to?
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No, not always.
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And He understands
why, and we can trustim.
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The greatest miracle of all is
the miraclcle of divine grace.
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Every person alive ia sinner,
and the wages of sin is death.
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But Jesus s died for your sins
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and to work the miracle
of salvatioin your life.
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The Bibltells us again and again
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th we cannot save ourselves.
It's just not possible..
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But Jesus does for us
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whatt is impossible
for us to do for ourselves.
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If sin is burdening you
down, Jesus can save you.
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If youeel like you're not
worthy, Jesus can save you..
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If you're far from God
right nonow, Jesus can save you.
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Yes, that's a mirae,
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maybe greater miracle
than parting the Red Sea.
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But this is the miracle
that Jesus came to the earth
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to perform.
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Now, this miracle requires
your permissioion; that's all.
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Just a yes from you, a
susurrender to God's will.
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Can you makeke that decision?
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If you've made it
before, make it agn.
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Tell God you accept salvation,
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and the God who o
saves you can uphold you,
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just likHe holds up
the sun, moon, and stars.
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Miracles still happen.
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That famous
commentary from Lake Plid,
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the broadcaster
Al Michaels asked,
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"Do you believe in miracs?"
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And then he said, "Yes."
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Now is your chance to
say yes to a true miracle,
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great miracle, the
greatest of all miracles.
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Say s to Jesus now,
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and His peace and
grace will flood your lilife.
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>>John: Let's pray together now.
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r Father in heaven,
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we are grateful that Y
are the God of miracles.
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You u called this world into
existence from out onothing.
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You opened up the Red Sea,
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carpeted theround with manna,
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brought war out of a rock,
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and today Yostill work
miracles; we see them around us.
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We have the
opportunity every dayy
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to expererience
the miracle of grace.
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We thank You that You
cann still call something
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out of the
nothing of a broken life.
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Heavenly Father,
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we thank You for the g
gift of salvation in Jesus.
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And, fend, would you
accept that gift now?
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Would you say to
the God of heaven,
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"I believe in the
miracle of salvationon.
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"I believe in the miracle of
gracece. You have my permission.
Take my heart and m make it
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Yours." Lord God, we
make that decisision now
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anand believe that we are
children of the heavly King,
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at eternity awaits us,
and that You will grow us.s.
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Keep us now, deaear
Lord, we pray, and we thank You
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for Your great miracacle-working
power in our lives.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Thanks so much for joininge.
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I'm lookg 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 alalone,
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but by every word that
proroceeds from the mouth of
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God.'" ¤[dramatitheme
music]¤ [music ends]¤¤
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