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Speaker 1: To Michael Barry Show. Now tonight I want you to

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Speaker 1: turn with me to the one hundred and second Psalm.

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Speaker 1: The one hundred and second Psalm and a very strange

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Speaker 1: verse in a way, the fifth through the sixth and

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Speaker 1: seventh verses, I am like a pelican in the wilderness.

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Speaker 1: I'm like an owl of the desert. I watch and

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Speaker 1: him as a sparaw alone upon the house top. This week,

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Speaker 1: President Reagan, in his news conference declared to the world,

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Speaker 1: you can look pessimistically on the world today, or you

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Speaker 1: can look optimistically. He said, I chose the optimistic look,

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Speaker 1: and tonight I want to speak on why I am

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Speaker 1: an optimist. And in this passage of Scripture, an interesting

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Speaker 1: little story surrounds it. In nineteen fifty four we went

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Speaker 1: England and we were holding a crusade that lasted three

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Speaker 1: months at the Harring Gay Arena in London, England. And

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Speaker 1: my wife is a bookworm, and she loves to go

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Speaker 1: to old bookstores and buy old books and just brows

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Speaker 1: through old books. And she has hundreds of them that

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Speaker 1: she's gotten over the years, some of the great classics.

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Speaker 1: And on this occasion she saw a little old man

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Speaker 1: in there. Well he wasn't an old man, about a

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Speaker 1: middle aged man, and he was very discouraged and very

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Speaker 1: despondent looking. And he came up to her and said,

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Speaker 1: are you missus Billy Graham? And she said, yes I am.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, you know, he said, I'm so discouraged.

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Speaker 1: He said my marriage is breaking up. And he said

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Speaker 1: going to do. And she said, well, why don't you

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Speaker 1: come out to the Harring Gay Arena tonight and hear

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Speaker 1: the gospel. And she gave him some tickets that she

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Speaker 1: had in her bag. And she didn't see him again,

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Speaker 1: wondered what had happened to him, prayed for him. One

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Speaker 1: year later, we were back in that same city of London,

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Speaker 1: holding a crusade at Wembley Stadium, where incidentally it poured

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Speaker 1: rain every night in the open air like this, except

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Speaker 1: on the last night, and it was clear and ice cold.

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Speaker 1: So we had a delightful time in the rain and

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Speaker 1: in the cold, but an average of sixty thousand people

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Speaker 1: every night came and on that last day I remember

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Speaker 1: we had ninety thousand people in that cold air. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: she went to that same bookstore. She was browsing around

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Speaker 1: and this same man came and he was bright and chipper,

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Speaker 1: and Ruth said, I've never seen such happiness on the

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Speaker 1: face of anybody. And he said, you know, I took

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Speaker 1: the tickets. I went to the arena that night. I

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Speaker 1: accepted Christ as my savior. My wife accepted Christ. Said,

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Speaker 1: now we have a Christian family. And he said, you

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Speaker 1: know the verse of Scripture that your husband quoted that

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Speaker 1: night that won me to the Lord. He said it

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Speaker 1: was one hundred and second Salmon. He got a Bible

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Speaker 1: and he showed up. I'm like a pelican in the wilderness.

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Speaker 1: I'm like an owl of the desert. I'm watching him

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Speaker 1: a sparrow alone upon the house top. Now I never

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Speaker 1: thought of that as being an evangelistic verse, but it

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Speaker 1: was to him because he said that described my condition.

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Speaker 1: Because he said, I felt like a pelican in the wilderness.

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Speaker 1: A pelican doesn't belong in the wilderness. He belongs down

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Speaker 1: at Galveston in some place. I'm like an owl of

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Speaker 1: the desert. Well, owls don't go to the desert much.

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Speaker 1: And he said that's the way I felt that night,

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Speaker 1: And he said it changed my life. Now the whole

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Speaker 1: world tonight is like a pelican, an owl or sparaw.

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Speaker 1: Dickens wrote of the French Revolution in seventeen seventy five

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Speaker 1: that it was the best and the worst of times,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we're seeing today. Gadamocles in the fourth

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Speaker 1: century BC said something against the King of Syracuse, and

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Speaker 1: he was ordered to sit under an neaked sword suspended

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Speaker 1: by a single hair. Now there's a difference between an

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Speaker 1: optimist and a pessimist. And I heard about one of

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Speaker 1: our prisons. Two convicts were looking out of a cell

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Speaker 1: window one night, and the pessimist saw the bars, but

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Speaker 1: the optimists saw the stars. Yesterday we read of a

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Speaker 1: thirty one year old son of one of America's most

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Speaker 1: wealthy and influential families. You'd know his name if I

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Speaker 1: called it, who left America for India with this result.

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Speaker 1: Here's what he said, quoted in the press. I renounced capitalism,

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Speaker 1: I renounced communism. I come to India to settle here permanently,

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Speaker 1: to have the grace of the Supreme God. And with

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Speaker 1: this he assumed a brand new name forgetting his past,

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Speaker 1: becoming a new name, Hoping that they are somewhere at

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Speaker 1: the feet of a guru, he'll find the answer. One night,

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Speaker 1: we were leaving India about three years ago, and we

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Speaker 1: and at the Delhi Airport it was jammed with American students.

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Speaker 1: They were lying all over the place, university students. And

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Speaker 1: going back disillusioned young people searching for something, anything, to

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Speaker 1: have gone mad and insane. Nothing seems to make sense

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Speaker 1: to some of our young people anymore. And then they

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Speaker 1: read about some of their heroes. I can remember fifteen

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Speaker 1: years ago and twenty years ago, people went absolutely wild

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Speaker 1: over Elvis Presley. Now the trial has just finished and

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Speaker 1: we've read all in the press about how terribly he

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Speaker 1: had gotten in his latter days on drugs, and how

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Speaker 1: these drugs probably contributed to his early death. And many

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Speaker 1: of the people that are your heroes, and many of

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Speaker 1: the people that you think are at the top are

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Speaker 1: really in their hearts at the bottom searching. They don't

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Speaker 1: find it in all this popularity. They don't find it

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Speaker 1: the popularity. They don't find it in money, they don't

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Speaker 1: find it in some other philosophy. But they can find

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Speaker 1: it in Jesus Christ, and so can you. There's a

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Speaker 1: telephone number there on your screen right now. If you

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Speaker 1: counsel is standing by to say a word to you.

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Speaker 1: You can find the answer in the person of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Many of you here tonight have an unfulfilled longing in

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Speaker 1: your soul. A New York taxi driver about, Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: been a year ago, now, I suppose ask me if

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Speaker 1: there was anything to cheer about where I came from.

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Speaker 1: And I said, certainly, there's many things to cheer about.

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Speaker 1: And I thought about at least four times. Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: be of good cheer. The first time Jesus said it

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Speaker 1: was to a paralytic. He said, son, be of good cheer.

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Speaker 1: Your sins have forgiven you. Now, this man was sick

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Speaker 1: of palsy. But Jesus knew that he had deeper knees.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, man shall not live by bread alone. Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: a man's life consisted not in the abundance of the

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Speaker 1: things which he possesses. There's something deeper in your life

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Speaker 1: that you need. That materialism cannot satisfy. Money cannot satisfy,

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Speaker 1: pleasure cannot satisfy. And one of the things that you

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Speaker 1: need is the forgiveness of sin, because all of us

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Speaker 1: have sinned against God und The word sin means law breaker.

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Speaker 1: You are a breaker of the laws of God, and

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Speaker 1: so am I. And the Bible says that if you

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Speaker 1: have broken in one point, you have broken all of

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Speaker 1: God's laws. So we are breakers of all of God's laws.

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Speaker 1: And there is a penalty for breaking the law of God,

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Speaker 1: and that penalty is death and destruction and judgment in hell.

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Speaker 1: That's the penalty. And we're all under sentence, will idemically

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Speaker 1: sitting under that naked sword. We're already under condemnation. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to be condemned when we die. We're condemned now.

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Speaker 1: We're already under condemnation. And Jesus came to save us

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Speaker 1: Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a

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Speaker 1: man soweth, that shall he also reap. You see, man

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Speaker 1: is trapped by sin. We're in a trap, very much

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Speaker 1: featured film in Houston this week is the first deadly sin.

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Speaker 1: And the first deadly sin was committed by Adam and

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Speaker 1: Eve in the Garden of Eden when they rebelled against

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Speaker 1: Abel and Kane killed his brother. He became jealous, he

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Speaker 1: took place writing just outside the Garden of Eden, and

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Speaker 1: not only that, but we suffer spiritual death and eternal death.

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Speaker 1: And that means that when your body dies, you're sould.

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Speaker 1: The spirit that lives in your body goes out into eternity,

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Speaker 1: away from God lost. And that's why it's so important

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Speaker 1: while you can. We're trapped in sin. We saw today

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Speaker 1: his guilt, he committed suicide. The Bible thank God assures

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Speaker 1: wonderful forgiveness for all sin. Blessed are they whose iniquities

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Speaker 1: you because of the cross, Because on the cross, Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ died for our sins, and because he was willing

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Speaker 1: You see, God had a problem. How could God forgive

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Speaker 1: That's the reason the word blood is used in scripture,

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Speaker 1: his son, cleanseth us from all sin. And it's wonderful

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Speaker 1: Air Force I read recently, was trying to locate a

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Speaker 1: major who is lost in flight. And it costs ten

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Speaker 1: million dollars to search for that one man. But God

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Speaker 1: gave far more than that for each of us. The

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles writer Alice Ramrez wrote in her syndicated column

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Speaker 1: this week, in this Year of the Handicapped, she spent

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Speaker 1: a day in a wheelchair as an assumed paraplegic. It

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Speaker 1: But you see God in Christ came down and became

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Speaker 1: mighty God of Heaven went into a man's body, as

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Speaker 1: finally died on the cross. And when he died, he

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Speaker 1: come to rescue him. He said, no, forgive them. They

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