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Speaker 1: for instruction and righteousness. Teco Timothy three sixteen. Thank you

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Speaker 2: Lord.

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Speaker 1: Your word is the embodiment of your son, my Lord

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Speaker 1: and Savior, Jesus Christ. I see your word in living

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Speaker 1: I hear his words of wisdom that teach me the

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Speaker 1: me how to bring Heaven into this earth. By the

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Speaker 1: application of your truth. You teach me how to be

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Speaker 1: righteous in an unrighteous world. Your word inspires me to

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Speaker 1: and truth is relative and no longer absolute. Lord, your

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Speaker 1: others feel or say about it. Your word gives me strength, hope, life,

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Speaker 1: your word is our protection. Your word teaches me how

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Speaker 1: that I might draw near to you and feel your presence.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Lord, and I thank you for your

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Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay

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Speaker 3: Welcome. Thanks for joining Pastor Rick Warren to hear Pastor

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Speaker 2: Now, the Bible's the most read book in the history.

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Speaker 2: It's the best selling book in history, and it is

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Speaker 2: the most translated book in history. Why is it the

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Speaker 2: word of God? How do we know it is the

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Speaker 2: weekend as we start in your outline two Timothy chapter three,

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Speaker 2: the Bible says this, All scripture is God breathed, and

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Speaker 2: it's useful for teaching and rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna explain that in another week, so that the

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Speaker 2: man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna look at this verse again next week, but

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Speaker 2: I want you to look at the phrase all scripture

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Speaker 2: is God breathed. Circle That word God breathed. That word

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Speaker 2: in Greek is theo nustos, theo meaning God nustos being breathed.

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Speaker 2: The Bible is God breathed. Now what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Some of the translations translated the scripture is inspired, But

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Speaker 2: we're not talking about an inspiring writer writing an inspiring book.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about God inspired this book. It is God

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Speaker 2: breathed theo nustos. Right now, you are listening to the

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Speaker 2: what my voice is is breath coming up over my

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Speaker 2: If I didn't have any breath, I wouldn't have any voice.

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Speaker 2: So the breath of Rick Warren is the word of

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Speaker 2: Rick Warren. It is the voice of Rick Warren. And

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Speaker 2: the Bible says that God's word is God's very breath.

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Speaker 2: It's not just a good idea, it is God's word

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Speaker 2: to us. And as a result of that, Psalm one

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Speaker 2: nineteen tells us this all of your commands can be trusted.

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Speaker 2: Everything in the Bible can be trusted as true because

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Speaker 2: it comes from God. Now, it's one thing for the

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Speaker 4: So how do we know that the Bible's historically accurate? Well,

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Speaker 2: they found planets. This year, I read an article just

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago where a guy said the

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Speaker 2: number of stars in the universe is infinite. It is

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Speaker 2: widely accepted today that there are more stars in the

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Speaker 2: universe than there are grains of sand on the planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: They cannot be counted. Now, we didn't know that. I mean,

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Speaker 2: everybody accepted there are one thy and twenty four twenty

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Speaker 2: six stars. But two thousand, six hundred years ago in

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Speaker 2: the Bible, God had said this Jeremiah thirty three twenty two,

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Speaker 2: the number of stars are infinite. Hmm, guess Polemy didn't

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Speaker 2: read that one or anybody else for thousands of years,

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Speaker 2: but it was there because it is the truth. It

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Speaker 2: is always the truth. I mean, I could go into

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Speaker 2: some many different areas into biology and show you what

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Speaker 2: the Bible says about biology, into chemistry, show you what

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Speaker 2: the Bible says about chemistry, into medicine. You know, for

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Speaker 2: many years, people believed that too much blood in your

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Speaker 2: body made you sick. For thousands of years, this was

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Speaker 2: an accepted custom, and they did what was called blood letting.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about, how that they doctors

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Speaker 2: would doctors would cut a sick person and bleed them,

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Speaker 2: thinking that was going to make them healthy. That was

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Speaker 2: accepted science. Everybody knew that was true. It wasn't, but

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Speaker 2: everybody knew it was true science. And you cut the blood,

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Speaker 2: and it was because of Hippocrates. And for two thousand years,

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Speaker 2: in Hippocrates, they believed that all illness came from four

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Speaker 2: bodily fluids yellow bile, black bile, red blood, or blue

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Speaker 2: flam and it also those four fluids also controlled your temperament.

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Speaker 2: Nobody believes that anymore, but for two thousand years that

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Speaker 2: was scientific proof. And so people thought, well, we have

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Speaker 2: to bleed people to get the bad stuff out. Many

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Speaker 2: people don't know that our first president, George Washington, was

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Speaker 2: killed by doctors bleeding him to death. That's how he died.

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Speaker 2: George Washington had a heart problem and doctors didn't know

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Speaker 2: what to do, so they did the common science of

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Speaker 2: the day and they bled George Washington. He didn't get well,

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Speaker 2: so a few days later they bled him again. They

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Speaker 2: cut him and bled him. He didn't get well, so

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Speaker 2: a few days later they bled him a third time,

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Speaker 2: and he died from blood loss. Now today we know

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Speaker 2: you give people blood when they're sick. It's the exactly

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Speaker 2: we do, the exact opposite of what they did for

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Speaker 2: thousands of years. You give people blood because we know

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Speaker 2: the life source is in the blood, and good blood

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Speaker 2: makes people feel better that that's where the life comes from.

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Speaker 2: It's called a transfusion, and we give people blood today.

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Speaker 2: But they didn't know that for thousands of years. But

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Speaker 2: the Bible knew it. In fact, back in Leviticus seventeen

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Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of years ago Levetica seventeen eleven, God

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Speaker 2: said this, the life of every creature is in its blood.

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Speaker 2: How did Moses know that? That wasn't known for a

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Speaker 2: thousand We didn't even know that blood circulates until around

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Speaker 2: sixteen fifty. It wasn't until the seventeenth century when William

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Speaker 2: Harvey discovered that blood circulates. For thousands of years, nobody

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Speaker 2: even thought it circulated. Everybody bought into Galen, who was

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Speaker 2: the Greek doctor for two thousand years, except that his

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Speaker 2: idea basically that the heart was the source of heat.

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Speaker 2: But nobody knew that actually pumped blood. And yet thousands

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Speaker 2: of years ago, the Bible says the life of every

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Speaker 2: creature is in its blood. They should have just read

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Speaker 2: the Bible. During the Middle Ages, there was the Bubonic plague.

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Speaker 2: The Bubonic plague killed one fourth of Europe. One out

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Speaker 2: of every four people died during the Black Plague because

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Speaker 2: we didn't understand germs, and we didn't understand contagion, and

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Speaker 2: we didn't understand infection, and we didn't understand quarantining people,

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Speaker 2: and so they had sick people with the bubonic plague

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Speaker 2: who were contagious, sleeping right next to healthy people, and

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Speaker 2: people just kept dying because we didn't know about germs

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Speaker 2: and contagion, and it became an epidemic and then a pandemic.

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Speaker 2: I should have read the Bible because thousands and thousands

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Speaker 2: of years before the bubonic plague, God had said in

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Speaker 2: Leviticus thirteen, verse four, this put an infected person in

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Speaker 2: quarantine for seven days. That's thousands of years before we

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Speaker 2: even knew what germs were. God was saying, here's how

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Speaker 2: you take care of people who get infected with an illness.

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Speaker 2: You put them outside the camp for seven days, and

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Speaker 2: if they're still sick, he says in the experts, keep

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Speaker 2: him out there for another seven days. Nobody understood quarantine

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Speaker 2: because nobody understood germs. But God was right. I could

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Speaker 2: go on and on. The Bible is always scientifically accurate.

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Speaker 2: It is always ahead of science. The Bible says this

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Speaker 2: Proverbs thirty verse five, Every word of God is flawless.

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Speaker 2: Mine aren't, Yours aren't. Human beings aren't. But every word

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Speaker 2: of God is flawless. In fact, it's not only flawless.

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Speaker 2: Psalm twelve six says this, the words of the Lord

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Speaker 2: are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay

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Speaker 2: and purified seven times. It's like, is that the right word?

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Speaker 2: Is that the right We're purified seven times? My wife

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Speaker 2: Kay wishes I'd speak like that because the often my

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Speaker 2: mouth gets in gear before my mind gets engaged, and

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Speaker 2: I say words that are flawed, but God's word is flawless.

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Speaker 2: We know we can trust the Bible because it is

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Speaker 2: historically accurate, archaeology confirms it, and it is scientifically accurate.

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Speaker 2: Number three, we know we can trust the Bible because

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Speaker 2: it is prophetically accurate. It is prophetically accurate. What does

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Speaker 2: that mean. It means that the promises and are the

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Speaker 2: predictions in the Bible always come true. Now, the Bible

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Speaker 2: is filled with literally thousands and thousands of prophecies where

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Speaker 2: God says, this is going to happen at such and

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Speaker 2: such a time, in such and such a way. And

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Speaker 2: over all of the centuries, thousands of these prophecies have

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Speaker 2: already been for every one of them exactly as God said,

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Speaker 2: and some of them are still yet to be fulfilled.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are over three hundred prophecies in the

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Speaker 2: Bible about Jesus the Messiah. Up to a thousand years

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Speaker 2: before he was born, and up over a thousand year period,

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Speaker 2: three hundred prophecies said things like this is when he'll

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Speaker 2: be born, this is where he'll be born, this is

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Speaker 2: how he'll be born. You can't control that. If you're

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Speaker 2: trying to make yourself the Messiah. You didn't choose where

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Speaker 2: you were born. This is how he'll die, and the

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Speaker 2: manner he'll die, and what he'll die from, and all

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Speaker 2: of the over three hundred prophecies. If what are the

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Speaker 2: odds of me making three hundred predictions about you and

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Speaker 2: every one of them coming true? The odds are so

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Speaker 2: astronomical you couldn't write that number down. You see, it

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Speaker 2: takes more faith to believe it all just was a

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Speaker 2: coincidence than to believe that God planned it. It takes

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Speaker 2: an enormous faith to believe it's all just random, that

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Speaker 2: it all just happened without a designer, without a creator.

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Speaker 2: Thousand years before Jesus came and died on the cross, David,

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Speaker 2: in one of his psalms describes what death by crucifixion

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Speaker 2: is like. Now he doesn't use the word crucifixion because

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Speaker 2: nobody knew that word. But a thousand years before the

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Speaker 2: Romans are even thinking of crucifixion, David describes what the

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Speaker 2: death of a crucifixion of life? How did he know that?

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Speaker 2: Only God could have told him? Look at these verses.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says in second Peter, no prophecy ever originated

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Speaker 2: from humans. In other words, guys did just said around.

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Speaker 2: Go hey, let's think this one up and write it down.

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Speaker 2: No prophecy ever originated from humans. Instead, it was given

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Speaker 2: by the Holy Spirit as humans spoke under God's direction.

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Speaker 2: You know, during Bible times, nobody wanted to be a prophet.

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Speaker 2: You know why, because the law was this in Israel,

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Speaker 2: a prophet of God had to be correct one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent of the time, and if you were wrong just once,

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Speaker 2: then you were considered a false prophet and would be

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Speaker 2: put to death. So nobody wanted to be a prophet

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Speaker 2: because you had to be accurate one percent of the time.

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Speaker 2: Now there are a lot of people claim to be

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Speaker 2: prophets today. There are pets, false prophets, nonprofits. Okay, I mean,

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Speaker 2: by the way, let me just give you a little tip.

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Speaker 2: Don't ever trust the psychic who asked for your name.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're so psychic, you shouldn't ask for

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Speaker 2: have to ask for my credit card. You should just

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Speaker 2: know it and don't say, well, I know all about you. Okay,

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Speaker 2: then tell me what my credit card number is. Then

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Speaker 2: I'll believe you. Okay, it's prophetically accurate. Jesus said this

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Speaker 2: in Matthew twenty six. But all this is happening to

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Speaker 2: fulfill the words of the prophets as record in scriptures.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, it's all coming true, just like God predicted.

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Speaker 2: Revelation twenty two. John says, the Angel said to me,

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Speaker 2: these words are trustworthy, this prophecy, these words are trustworthy.

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Speaker 2: You can trust it and they're true. Why because it

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Speaker 2: from God, the Lord sent his angel to show his

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Speaker 2: servants the things that must soon take place. It is

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Speaker 2: prophetically accurate. And the odds of all these prophecies happening

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Speaker 2: and just the way they did over thousands of years

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Speaker 2: is astronomical. Number four. The fourth reason I know that

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Speaker 2: the Bible is trustworthy is it is thematically unified. It

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Speaker 2: is thematically unified. What I mean by that it has

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Speaker 2: the same theme through the entire book, from cover to cover,

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Speaker 2: from Genesis to Revelation. It is the same theme of

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Speaker 2: redemption from Genesis to the end. Jesus is the star,

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Speaker 2: and it is a thematically unified book. He said, what's

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Speaker 2: a big deal about that. I know a lot of

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Speaker 2: books that carry the same theme from the beginning to

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Speaker 2: the end, written over sixteen hundred years by forty different authors.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. You see, this book was written

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Speaker 2: over one thousand, six hundred years, from the first book

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Speaker 2: to the last, by forty different authors, on three different continents,

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Speaker 2: in three different languages, and they didn't know about each other.

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Speaker 2: How do you think they all got the same story

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Speaker 2: when it wasn't even collected in one book until a

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Speaker 2: thousand years later after they died in the Old Testament.

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Speaker 2: How do you think they knew that? You see, it'd

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Speaker 2: be one thing if one person wrote this book. See

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Speaker 2: the Koran was written by one person, Muhammed. The analects

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Speaker 2: of Confucius are written by Confucius. Fings of Buddha are

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Speaker 2: written by Buddha. You would expect them to be uniform.

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Speaker 2: The Bible was written by forty different people, in every

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Speaker 2: age and stage of life, as I said, on three

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Speaker 2: different continents, in three different languages, over oney six hundred years,

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Speaker 2: and they got the same story. This book was written

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Speaker 2: by poets and prophets. It's written by princes and kings.

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Speaker 2: It's written by sailors and soldiers. This book was written

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Speaker 2: by attorneys and a doctor, an MD. It's written by kings,

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Speaker 2: it's written by prisoners, it's written by common people, it's

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Speaker 2: written by prophets. All kinds of people wrote the Bible,

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Speaker 2: and it was written in all kinds of locations. Some

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Speaker 2: of the Bible was written in a cave, some of

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Speaker 2: the Bible is written on a ship. On ships, some

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Speaker 2: of it was written in homes, some of us written

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Speaker 2: in palaces, some of it was written in prison. And

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Speaker 2: they all come up with the same theme. You got

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Speaker 2: to be kidding me. It has the same theme of

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Speaker 2: redemption from cover to cover over one thousand, six hundred years.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't get a more diverse group fishermen and tax

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Speaker 2: collectors and scholars and businessmen an over a period of

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Speaker 2: over almost two thousand years coming up with the same story.

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Speaker 2: I mean, let me give you an example of this.

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Speaker 2: If I were to take fifty pieces of paper right now,

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Speaker 2: and there's sixty six books of the Bible. But let's

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Speaker 2: just say I were to take fifty pieces of paper,

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Speaker 2: and I were to hand them out to people today,

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Speaker 2: and I said to each of you, I want you

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Speaker 2: to tear this piece of paper any way you want to,

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Speaker 2: in any shape you want to I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: tell you how I'm gonna use it, and I just

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Speaker 2: want you to tear it into shape. And so you

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Speaker 2: tear it up in a shape, and then I take

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Speaker 2: the fifty pieces back. What would be the odds that

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Speaker 2: all fifty of those pieces of paper would form a

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Speaker 2: perfect map of the United States of America and the

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Speaker 2: fifty states. You wouldn't believe it. You'd say it's trick.

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Speaker 2: The odds are too astronomical to just accept that they

649
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Speaker 2: all unify and fit together. But the Bible's more than that.

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Speaker 2: It was on many places, many people, and many centuries,

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Speaker 2: and yet it all fits together with the same unified theme.

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Speaker 2: Here's what Jesus said, Luke twenty four. Beginning with Moses,

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Speaker 2: that's the first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Viticus, Numbers, Deuteroni,

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Speaker 2: first five books of the Bible written by Moses. Beginning

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Speaker 2: with Moses, and all the prophets. That's the rest of

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Speaker 2: the New Testament, I mean of the Old Testament. Jesus

657
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Speaker 2: explained to them what was said in all the scriptures

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Speaker 2: concerning himself. Did you get that? See? Most people think

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Speaker 2: the New Testaments about Jesus and the Old Testaments about

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Speaker 2: Israel wrong. The New Testament, it wasn't even written when

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Speaker 2: Jesus said that. He's talking about the Old Testament. It

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Speaker 2: says he went through all the scriptures and showed what

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Speaker 2: it said about him. The story is about Jesus, from

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Speaker 2: beginning to end. The pictures, the metaphors, the analogies, the illusions,

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Speaker 2: everything in scripture from the beginning to end is about

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Speaker 2: God's plan to redeem people and build a family for eternity.

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Speaker 2: It all began with him. His star of the story

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Speaker 2: is Jesus. You can see him in every book. And

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Speaker 2: John six, verse thirty nine. Jesus says, you search the

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Speaker 2: scriptures because you believe that they give you eternal life.

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Speaker 2: But the scriptures point to me. Now, remember New Testament

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Speaker 2: hasn't been written when he said this. He's talking about

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Speaker 2: the Old Testament. All the scriptures point to me. Now,

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Speaker 2: while we're talking about Jesus, Tom is going to come

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Speaker 2: and talk to you about the fifth way that we

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Speaker 2: know we can trust the Bible is the word of God.

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Speaker 4: Fifth way I know I can trust the Bible is

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Speaker 4: because it's confirmed by Jesus. Because Jesus trusted the Bible,

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Speaker 4: you may have heard somebody say, you may have even thought,

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Speaker 4: you know, I trust what Jesus said. I'm just not

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Speaker 4: sure about those other guys. Well, here's the challenge to that.

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Speaker 4: Jesus trusted the rest of the Bible. So if I

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Speaker 4: trust Jesus, then I gotta trust the rest of the Bible.

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Speaker 4: Because Jesus trusted the rest of the Bible. Jesus proclaimed

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Speaker 4: the Bible as a unique book above all others. Look

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Speaker 4: at this next verse in your outline, Matthew five eighteen.

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Speaker 4: Jesus said, I tell you the truth, and tell heaven

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Speaker 4: and earth disappear. Not the smallest letter, not the least

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Speaker 4: stroke of a pen, will disappear from the law and

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Speaker 4: till everything is accomplished. Jesus looks at the Bible and says,

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Speaker 4: it's going to last until the end of the time.

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Speaker 4: It's going to accomplish what God wants to accomplish in

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Speaker 4: this world. Here's what Jesus had to say about it.

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Speaker 4: Up on the screen, John ten thirty five. Jesus said,

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Speaker 4: let's read this one together. Jesus said, scripture is always true.

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Speaker 4: Jesus proclaimed the truth of the Bible. And when Jesus

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Speaker 4: talked about the truths of the Bible. I've got to

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Speaker 4: listen to that in my own life. When Jesus says

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Speaker 4: that every sentence and word of the Bible is true,

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Speaker 4: That's why I believe that every sentence and word of

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Speaker 4: the Bible is true. When you read how Jesus talked

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Speaker 4: about the Bible with people, he would often base his

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Speaker 4: argument about the truth of the Bible on a single

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Speaker 4: sentence or even a single word from the Bible. So

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Speaker 4: he believed every single sentence, every single word.

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Speaker 5: So why wouldn't I? Because I trust Jesus.

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Speaker 4: And when Jesus talks about the Bible, he doesn't just

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Speaker 4: talk about poetry and history. He talks about it as

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Speaker 4: something that's life changing. Look at this next verse up

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Speaker 4: on the screen, Luke, Chapter eleven, verse twenty eight.

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Speaker 5: Here's what Jesus had to say.

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Speaker 4: Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God

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Speaker 4: and do what and obey it? And do it so

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Speaker 4: not just read it like poetry, Oh isn't that nice?

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Speaker 5: But obey it because God wrote it to our lives.

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Speaker 4: Jesus, as he talked about the Bible, he talked about

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Speaker 4: it as a real book, talking about real people in

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Speaker 4: real places. Whether the real gods who's really work in

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Speaker 4: our lives up on the screen. Let me just put

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Speaker 4: for you just a real quick list of some of

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Speaker 4: the people and places that the Bible talks about is real,

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Speaker 4: and that Jesus also confirmed as he taught that were real.

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Speaker 5: Jesus believed in the prophets.

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Speaker 4: If you want to write down a couple of these verses,

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Speaker 4: I'll leave that up there for a couple of seconds.

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Speaker 4: He talked about all the prophets being really. He talked

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Speaker 4: about Daniel being real. Jesus believed in Noah. Everything that

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Speaker 4: happened with the flood he talks about. That he believed

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Speaker 4: in Adam and Eve. Jesus believed in the tragedy of

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Speaker 4: Sodom and Gomor and what happened there. He taught on

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Speaker 4: that he believed in Jonah and what happened there. Now

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Speaker 4: here's the interesting thing, particularly those last four Noah, Adam

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Speaker 4: and Eve, Sodom and Gomora, Jonah, those are the most

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Speaker 4: disputed stories in the Bible by people who say, oh,

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Speaker 4: it's just a bunch of fables, and they're good stories,

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Speaker 4: they're good moral stories, but they didn't really happen.

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Speaker 5: Well, Jesus believed they really happened.

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Speaker 4: In fact, he used some of these as illustrations of

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Speaker 4: the fact of what was going to happen in his resurrection.

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Speaker 4: If Jesus really believed in Jonah, I believed in what happened.

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Speaker 5: Now, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: How God created a fish that could swallow a guy,

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Speaker 4: but he did.

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Speaker 5: He did. I trust in it because Jesus trusted in it.

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Speaker 4: And it always It sort of makes me smile when

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Speaker 4: two thousand or three or four thousand years later we

747
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Speaker 4: look back at the Bible and we go, well, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to trust that part and I'm not going

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Speaker 4: to trust that part based on my subjective or emotional feelings.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to accept that part and I'm not going

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Speaker 4: to accept that part. Jesus trusted it. Jesus trusted it,

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Speaker 4: and so I trust it. Augustine said, if you believe

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Speaker 4: in the Bible what you like, and you don't believe

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Speaker 4: what you don't like, it's not the Bible you trust

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Speaker 4: but yourself.

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Speaker 5: And I don't know about you. I've found that my emotions,

757
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Speaker 5: my opinions are not always trustworthy.

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Speaker 4: I trust Jesus. He trusted the Bible. That's one of

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Speaker 4: the main reasons why I trust the Bible.

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Speaker 2: The sixth reason that you can trust the Bible as

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Speaker 2: the absolute authoritative word of God, God breathe Theonustus is

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Speaker 2: that it has survived all at time, and that makes

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Speaker 2: it an unusual book. The Bible is the most despised book,

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Speaker 2: the most derided, the most denied, the most disputed, the

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Speaker 2: most dissected, the most debated, the most outlawed, the most destroyed,

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Speaker 2: the most banned book ever in history. Millions of people

767
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Speaker 2: have died because they refuse to give up their Bible.

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Speaker 2: People were killed. It was illegal. It's still illegal in

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Speaker 2: some countries like today. You take a Bible into Korea,

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Speaker 2: you can get killed for it North Korea, not South Korea.

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Speaker 2: South Korea is a Bible country, but North Korea, you

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Speaker 2: take a Bible in you can get arrested, thrown in jail,

773
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Speaker 2: and you can be killed for it. This Bible has

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Speaker 2: been underttacked for century after century after century by every

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Speaker 2: imaginable thing can imagine, and yet it is still the

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Speaker 2: most read book in the world, the most published book

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Speaker 2: in the world, the most translated book in the world,

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Speaker 2: the best seller book in the world, and it is

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Speaker 2: still making a difference in people's lives. The Bible is

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Speaker 2: the source, the greatest source, single source of music. The

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Speaker 2: Bible is the greatest single source of art, and the

782
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Speaker 2: Bible is the greatest single source of architecture throughout history.

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Speaker 2: If you take the Bible out of culture, you have

784
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Speaker 2: basically destroyed most of the major music, most of the

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Speaker 2: major art, and most of the major architecture for almost

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Speaker 2: two thousand years. It is the source of our culture.

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Speaker 2: You speak the English language you do because of the

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Speaker 2: King James version of the Bible. If the King James

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Speaker 2: version of the Bible had not been written, you would

790
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Speaker 2: not be speaking the way you speak right now. But

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Speaker 2: four hundred years ago they published the King James version,

792
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Speaker 2: and the words you use today, most of those words,

793
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Speaker 2: many of them, were made up in the King James version.

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Speaker 2: Most of those words came out of that book, out

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Speaker 2: of the Bible. And Jesus said this in Matthew twenty

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Speaker 2: four to thirty five. Heaven and earth will pass away,

797
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Speaker 2: but my words will never pass away. The only thing

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Speaker 2: on this planet that's going to last is the Word

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Speaker 2: of God. It's eternal. Everything else is going to burn up,

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Speaker 2: but the Word of God is eternal. Because truth is

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Speaker 2: lasting forever. You know, Voltaire, the famous French philosopher, is

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Speaker 2: a brilliant man, flat out brilliant man. He was an atheist,

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Speaker 2: but he was flat out brilliant. He wrote a number

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Speaker 2: of tracks deriding the Bible, and girl r made a

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Speaker 2: very famous statement in which he said, one hundred years

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Speaker 2: from today, the Bible will be a forgotten book. Everybody's

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Speaker 2: forgotten that quote. After Voltaire died. For nearly one hundred years,

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Speaker 2: his homestead was used as the book, the pository for

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Speaker 2: the French Bible Society. They sold bibles out of his house.

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Speaker 2: It's now a museum. People have forgotten Voltaire. Nobody forgets

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Speaker 2: the Bible. Heaven and earth will pass away. My word

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Speaker 2: will never pass away. One Peter won twenty four to

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Speaker 2: twenty five. The grass withers and the flower falls away.

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Speaker 2: In other words, the contemporary stuff, it just wilts. Today's

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Speaker 2: news is worthless tomorrow. You don't read last week's newspaper.

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Speaker 2: It didn't worth anything. And so he said that that stuff,

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Speaker 2: that the temporary, contemporary stuff, it doesn't last. It's fo

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Speaker 2: our faith. But the Word of God stands forever, and

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Speaker 2: the truth will always be the truth. Whether I believe

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Speaker 2: it or not, it's the truth. I could say I

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Speaker 2: believe the moon is made of cheese. Now we know

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Speaker 2: and have proven that the moon is made of rock.

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Speaker 2: We've brought rocks back from the moon. And no matter

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Speaker 2: how much I say I believe the moon is made

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Speaker 2: it chief, it doesn't change it. It's still made out

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Speaker 2: of rock. I told you that I once saw a

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Speaker 2: bumper Stickert said God said it. I believe it. That

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Speaker 2: settles it. Well, that's a dumb way to say it,

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Speaker 2: because really what you ought to say is God said it.

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Speaker 2: That settles it whether I believe it or not, Because

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Speaker 2: whether I believe it or not doesn't change it at all.

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Speaker 2: The fact is there are a lot of things that

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Speaker 2: are true. I don't want them to be true. So

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Speaker 2: I say, well, I don't believe it because I don't

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Speaker 2: want it to be true. It doesn't make it not true. Isaac,

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Speaker 2: I don't want that to be called immral. Well doesn't

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Speaker 2: matter whether I want it or not. What God says

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Speaker 2: is moral is moral. What God says I moral is

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Speaker 2: not immral. And it's he gets to make the choice.

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Speaker 2: He's God and you're not. I could say to you,

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Speaker 2: I don't believe in the law of gravity. It's just

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Speaker 2: fine for you. And you may be a religious person,

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Speaker 2: but I don't need the law of gravity. So you know,

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Speaker 2: let's all be copa setic. What's good for you is

845
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Speaker 2: good for you. What's good for me is good for me.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe in law gravity. So you and I

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Speaker 2: go up on the uh, you know, the Empire State Building,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to say, I don't believe the law

849
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Speaker 2: gravity applies to me because I don't believe in it.

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Speaker 2: And so I jump off the Empire State Building. Now

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Speaker 2: as I'm floating down at a rather rapid speed, about

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Speaker 2: the one hundredth floor down, a guy looks out the

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Speaker 2: wind and goes, how's it going, Rick, And I say,

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Speaker 2: so far, so good. And that's the way most people

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Speaker 2: are living their lives. You see, God gives you the

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Speaker 2: freedom to totally thumb your nose to Him and rebel

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Speaker 2: against Him your entire life. But that's not the end

858
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Speaker 2: of the story. You can run from God the rest

859
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 2: of your life, but then you can't run anymore. Sorry,

860
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 2: You're going to come face to face with God one day,

861
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 2: whether you believe in him or not. And all of

862
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 2: that I don't believe him. Isn't going to stop that

863
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 2: event from happening. And the truth is, at some point,

864
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 2: I'm my face is going to hit the ground. And

865
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 2: the truth is, you don't break God's laws, they break you.

866
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 2: When I ignore what God says in his inspired, inerrant, infallible word,

867
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Speaker 2: When I ignore what it says because I don't like

868
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Speaker 2: that part, I only hurt myself. I don't hurt God.

869
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 2: I only hurt myself. The seventh one is the dearest

870
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 2: one to me. It's the most subjective one, but it's

871
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 2: the one I have seen personally the most, and that

872
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 2: is it is transforming power. It has transforming power. Nothing

873
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 2: can change the lives of people like the Bible. Your

874
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: life has been changed by tens of thousands of lives

875
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 2: have been changed. I've seen flat out drunks, irresponsible addicts

876
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: get their life's clean and sober because they started reading

877
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 2: the Bible. I have seen the most self centered, narcissistic

878
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 2: it's all about me. Men who abuse and misuse women

879
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 2: think only of themselves and would rip off anybody simply

880
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 2: to make themselves feel better. Read the Bible, have their

881
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 2: lives transformed and become godly husbands, wonderful dads and upstanding

882
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 2: citizens in the community. If I thought that you could

883
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 2: change human behavior by laws, I would become a politician.

884
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 2: You can make a law that outlaws racism and bigotry,

885
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,919
Speaker 2: but no law is going to turn a bigot into

886
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 2: a lover. God's got to do that. God's got to

887
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 2: change his heart. And I've invested my life in the

888
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 2: heart changing business, and I've seen it happen thousands of

889
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 2: times because of this book. It changes people you would

890
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 2: never imagine it could change. Jesus said it like this

891
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 2: on the screen John eight thirty one. Jesus said, if

892
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Speaker 2: you continue in my word, if you continue in my word,

893
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 2: then you're my disciples indeed, and you will know the truth,

894
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 2: and the truth will make you free. I want you

895
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 2: to be free. Now. You know what's the most amazing

896
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 2: thing is secular universities all around the world have the

897
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 2: second half of this verse printed in stone on buildings.

898
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 2: Universities all over the truth will make you free. And

899
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 2: then they ignore God and ignore the Bible. They forget

900
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 2: the first part. If you continue in my word, you

901
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 2: will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

902
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 2: If you continue in my word, you will know the

903
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 2: truth because this book never lies to you. It always

904
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 2: tells you even when I don't like what it says,

905
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,479
Speaker 2: even when I disagree with it, even when it hurts,

906
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 2: and even wh it's uncomfortable, it will always tell me

907
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 2: the truth. That's why it's called Holy Bible. Do you

908
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 2: believe everything you read online?

909
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 6: No?

910
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 2: Do you believe everything you watch on TV? No? Why

911
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: do we spend more time reading and watching stuff we

912
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 2: know is a lie than BEU reading what we know

913
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 2: is the truth? You see, the fundamental question, the most

914
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 2: important question you're going to ask yourself in life is

915
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 2: what is going to be the final authority for my life?

916
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 2: What is gonna be the final authority for my life?

917
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 2: You need to decide that. I recommend you decide today.

918
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 2: Is it gonna be the word or is it going

919
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 2: to be the world? Am I going to listen to

920
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 2: what God's says it's true? Am I going to listen

921
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 2: to public opinion or my own set of feelings? Who's

922
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 2: going to be the authority in my life? God? Or me?

923
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 2: Because see, when I say I don't really accept this book,

924
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: it's not that I can't, It's that I don't want

925
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 2: to accept it. And The reason I don't want to

926
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 2: accept it as my authority is because I want to

927
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 2: be boss. I want to be Lord. I want to

928
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 2: be God of my own life. And I don't want

929
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 2: God telling me what's moral and immral, what's right and

930
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 2: what's wrong. I want to do it my way. I

931
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: want to be Lord. Okay, so let me ask you,

932
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Speaker 2: how's that working for you? Is that solving all your problems?

933
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 2: Has all your stress and worry and and you know,

934
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 2: irritations vanished because you're God. If you're God, you're in charge.

935
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 2: How's that work in your life? Everything turning out the

936
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 2: way you want it? I don't think so to rebel

937
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: against God is flat out stupidity. You're not going to

938
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 2: win that battle. Your arms are too short the box

939
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 2: of God. So the big question is what's going to

940
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 2: be the authority of my life? Now? Why is the

941
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 2: inerrancy and the infallibility and the flawlessness of God's words

942
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:13,240
Speaker 2: so important? Because, friends, if this book is not true,

943
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 2: you're in a heap of trouble, and so am I

944
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: because my salvation depends on this book being right, and

945
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 2: so does yours. This is the book that tells you

946
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Speaker 2: your life is not an accident. Science doesn't tell you that.

947
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 2: This is the book that tells you there is an

948
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Speaker 2: overarching purpose for your life. Science doesn't tell you that.

949
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 2: This is the book that says God made you to

950
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 2: love you. This is the book that says you can

951
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,240
Speaker 2: be forgiven. This is the book that says your past

952
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 2: can be forgiven, you can have a purpose for living,

953
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 2: you can have a home in heaven. This is the

954
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: book that says, no matter what problem you go through,

955
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 2: God can use it for good in your life. This

956
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 2: is the book that says there is a reason for hope.

957
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 2: If this this book is a lie, you're in a

958
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 2: heap of trouble, because this is the book that tells

959
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 2: you how to get to heaven. The Bible says in

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00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 2: Romans chapter twelve, this do not conform any longer to

961
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 2: the pattern of this world. It's talking about the world's

962
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 2: way of thinking, the world's worldview. It's the opinions and

963
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 2: this you know, the attitudes of the world. Don't conform

964
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 2: any longer the pattern of this world, but be transformed

965
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind. You're either a conformist

966
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 2: or you're a transformist. You're either conformed to the way

967
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 2: the world thinks, or you're transformed by the truth, he says,

968
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Speaker 2: be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll

969
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 2: be able to test, You'll be able to know. This

970
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 2: is how you make good decisions and approve. What God's

971
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 2: will is is good and pleasing and perfect will. God's

972
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 2: plan for your life is good. God's plan for your

973
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 2: life is pleasing, and God's plan for your life is perfect.

974
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Speaker 2: But You're only going to know it through the perfect

975
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Speaker 2: word of God. Let's bow our heads. I want you

976
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Speaker 2: to settle this issue today, to accept the Bible as

977
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Speaker 2: the flawless word, as the final authority for your life,

978
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Speaker 2: because if you don't, then you're basically making it on

979
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: your own opinions of what You're setting yourself up as

980
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 2: the authority. And I would ask you again, how's that working.

981
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 2: How's that working in your life? You find it pretty effective?

982
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 2: I would pray this prayer right now. Say it in

983
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 2: your mind, Dear God. From this day forward, I will

984
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 2: accept the Bible as your flawless word to me. I

985
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 2: will make it the final authority for my life. Not

986
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 2: what television says, not what popularity says, not what I

987
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 2: feel like doing or what I think sounds best. I'm

988
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: going to make the Bible the final authority for my life,

989
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 2: even when I don't understand it, even when it's not popular,

990
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 2: even when it's not easy, or even when I don't

991
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 2: like it. You are God, and I'm not. Thank you

992
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Speaker 2: God for loving me enough to speak to me through

993
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Speaker 2: your word. Thank you that you are not silent. Thank

994
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Speaker 2: you that you spoke through about forty men and women

995
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 2: over sixteen hundred years, on three continents and three languages,

996
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Speaker 2: to tell me one story, that you wanted me in

997
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 2: your family, and you wanted me to know you, and

998
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 2: that you made me for a purpose. Thank you that

999
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 2: you're not psigned. I want to love your word, I

1000
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Speaker 2: want to learn your word, and I want to live

1001
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Speaker 2: your word. Use forty days in my life to set

1002
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Speaker 2: me on the right path. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Speaker 6: help you master wisdom from the world's greatest book. In

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1012
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