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Doug Batchelor - Why I Believe

April 24, 2025 | S25:E47

Pastor Doug Batchelor is an energetic speaker of vision and deep spirituality.

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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - Why I Believe | April 24, 2025

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Doug batchelor: it's been many years, but it still feels
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Like yesterday.
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Living in a cave high above palm springs, no money, no prospects
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Just drifting through life, deeply confused about who i was
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And wondering if life held any purpose.
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Coming from a wealthy family, i could have had it all: money,
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Power, fame, but this all struck me as plastic and empty.
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It wasn't until i was at the lowest point in my life when i
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Found true meaning.
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Somebody had left a bible in my cave, and i quickly discovered
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Why this is the number one best seller in the world.
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Friends, i can't even begin to tell you what the bible has done
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For me.
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It's the awe inspiring living word that has the power to
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Transform human hearts.
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Jesus said, "if you abide in my word, you are my
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Disciples indeed.
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And you'll know the truth, and the truth will make
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You free."
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And this is still the truth today.
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And it's the reason that i'm standing here today, thankful to
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Be able to proclaim his word and eager to bring hope to those
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In need.
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I truly believe that today's program is going to fulfill that
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Desire and leave you with a rich blessing.
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And don't forget, stay tuned for our very important free offer at
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The end of this presentation.
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Doug: really, it's the time of year, about 1,992 years ago
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During the passover, jesus died on the cross for our sins.
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He rested in the tomb, even on the sabbath day, from redeeming
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Mankind, and then he rose from the dead.
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And our subject this morning is going to revolve around the
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Subject of the resurrection.
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And i'll be giving you a little bit of personal information on
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Why i believe in the resurrection.
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And keep in mind, i'm coming from a background where i was
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Raised agnostic, but i'd like to begin with something that may
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Surprise you a little bit.
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These are amazing facts about a movie.
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Now, i don't go to movies, but i bet most of you have
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Seen "ben-hur."
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I saw it too.
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It had the largest budget, over $15 million, of any movie made
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Up to that time, about $150 million today.
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That would probably be closer to $500 million today.
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I think titanic was like $500 million budget.
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Can you imagine that?
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It had the largest sets built of any film production at the time.
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A hundred costume wardrobe fabricators, two hundred artists
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And workmen provided the hundreds of freezes and statutes
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Needed for the film.
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Over 200 camels and 2,500 horses were used in making the film.
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Now, you know, amazing facts is involved in completing a film
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Right now called "armageddon: the final events of bible
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Prophecy," and ours is a low budget film, but it's going to
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Be really--it's a big budget for us.
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But i can't imagine working with 2,500 horses.
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I mean, the crew that you need just to handle them.
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Ten thousand extras were in the movie.
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The nine minute chariot race has become one of cinema's most
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Famous action sequences.
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And contrary to urban myths you heard, nobody died during
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That filming.
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It's the longest ever musical score composed and conducted by
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Miklos rozsa.
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It had a $14.7 million marketing budget.
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It was the fastest growing, as well as the highest grossing
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Film of 1959, becoming the second highest grossing film in
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History at the time, only after "gone with the wind."
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It won 11 academy awards.
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No picture has won more.
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Some pictures have tied for 11 academy awards.
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Epic film.
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Now, the reason i shared all that with you is because there's
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A backstory.
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Back in the 1870s, two men got on a train in north america.
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One of them was general lee--i'm sorry, general lew wallace, and
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He encountered another friend who had also fought in the civil
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War with him on the side of the north, his name was
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Robert ingersoll.
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Now, i don't know if you recognize the name robert
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Ingersoll, but he was probably the most famous
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American agnostic.
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He would go around and do seminars and talk about how the
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Bible cannot be trusted and religion is a sham, and he
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Talked to packed houses.
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He was very eloquent, went into politics and became a
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Successful politician.
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They knew each other from the war.
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And ingersoll asked general wallace if he'd like to sit with
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Him in his coach.
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So they sat in their private coach and they had a long ride
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Going to this convention, they were both going to the
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Same convention.
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And ingersoll took in talking to wallace about there is no god.
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The bible cannot be trusted, and he waxed eloquent, it flowed
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Like a river for hours.
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And wallace was not especially religious.
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He was rather indifferent to religion, but he was so rattled
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By what ingersoll said that he resolved, you know, i need to
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Study into this for myself, because if what he's saying is
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True, nothing really matters, and he needed to find out.
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So he did a personal study on is there a god?
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Is the bible true?
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And by the way, wallace, while he was once a general, afterward
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He was an attorney.
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So he looked at it from a logical, defensible position as
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A lawyer.
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Here's what he says.
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"to write all of my reflections would require many pages.
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I passed them to say simply that i resolved to study the subject.
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It only remains to say that i did as resolved, with results.
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The first result is i wrote the book 'ben-hur.'
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The second is a conviction amounting to absolute belief in
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God and the divinity of christ."
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So that whole movie that became an epic film about the
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Resurrection, it's what you would call historical fiction,
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It grew out of someone being challenged on the subject of is
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The bible true?
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Did jesus really live?
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Did he rise from the dead?
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Now when i first heard this, i was a little shook.
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You know, i went to--i'm not catholic, but i went to two
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Different catholic schools.
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And i remember hearing one time them talk about one of the
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Prayers, they were teaching me the beatitudes in one of our
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Bible classes.
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And they said, you know, jesus, you know, he taught, and then he
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Died on the cross, and he rose from the dead the third day, and
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Then he told his disciples to go out, and i said, wait, wait,
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Wait, let's back up.
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He what?
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He rose from the dead?
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I was only in third grade at the time.
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But i said, well, that doesn't happen every day.
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And i kind of struggled with it even back then.
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And so i was pretty much an agnostic until i began to search
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For is there a god when i was about 16, 17.
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How did i come to the point where i could believe in
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The resurrection?
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Well, i've got seven primary points, i may take a few rabbit
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Trails along the way.
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First of all, two thirds of american adults, there was a
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Survey that was done by the life study, and two-thirds of
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Americans, 66% say they do believe in the biblical account
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Of the physical resurrection of jesus.
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But it's troubling when you realize that those that are
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Between 18 and 30, 18 and 34, 59% do not believe.
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Meaning that the generation that is coming along, as you probably
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Already heard from numerous studies, is becoming more and
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More agnostic, and less and less believing in christianity,
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Believing in god.
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Things are changing in our culture, and i'd like to
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Especially appeal to that group in my comments this morning.
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Why do i believe in the resurrection?
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One, it was foretold in the bible.
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Paul says in 1 corinthians, he said that jesus rose the third
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Day as the scriptures say, according to the scriptures.
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There are many scriptures.
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You can look in the old and the new testament, old testament,
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Psalm 16, verse 10, "you will not leave my soul in the grave."
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This is speaking of the messiah.
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He didn't say i want to go to the grave.
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He said, you want to leave it there, "nor will your holy one,"
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The messiah, "see corruption.
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Wouldn't be there long enough to decompose, which happens after
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The third day.
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Jesus walking around when he was alive, he told them over and
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Over, "from that time," matthew 16:21, "jesus began to show to
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His disciples that he must go to jerusalem and suffer many things
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From the elders and the chief priests, be killed, and rise the
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Third day."
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He said it very frequently.
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He said it so frequently that even his enemies remembered this
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After he was crucified, they went to pilate.
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You find this in matthew 27:63.
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They say, "sir, we remember while he was still alive, how
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That deceiver said after three days, i will rise."
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They remembered it.
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That's why they requested a guard at the tomb, which of
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Course, just further proves that it did happen, increased the
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Number of witnesses.
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So there are so many prophecies.
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I mean, jesus said, "no sign will be given to this
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Generation, but the sign of jonah."
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And the the big sign of jonah is, you know, it's not very
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Likely that a person is going to come out of a fish alive after
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Three days.
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Jonah's experience is a type of a resurrection.
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Indeed, daniel coming out of the lion's den is a type of
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The resurrection.
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Shadrach, meshach, and abednego surviving the fiery furnace is a
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Type of the resurrection.
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When abraham goes up the mountain with isaac and he's
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Going to the place of sacrifice and there's a substitute, and
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Isaac comes back alive, paul tells us that that is a type of
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The resurrection.
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And so you've got all these different examples in the bible
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Where it looks like it was hopeless, and then things
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Turned around.
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So the prophecies foretold this.
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Point number two, jesus's after death appearances, all the
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Different times that he appeared after he died.
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According to the apostle paul's letters, as well as the four
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Gospel accounts, jesus appeared alive after his death on
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Numerous occasions in diverse and varied ways.
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They saw him in the upper room, they saw him on the mount of
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Olives, they saw him fishing at the sea of galilee.
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They saw him walking between jerusalem and emmaus, and many
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Other occasions that are not even recorded.
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It says over a period of 40 days he appeared.
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Now look at how paul describes this in 1 corinthians chapter
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15, verse 3, and i think you're going to see this on the screen.
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1 corinthians 15, verses 3 through 8, "for i delivered to
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You first of all that which i also received: that jesus christ
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Died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was
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Buried, and that he rose again the third day according to
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The scriptures."
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Notice he says, according to the scriptures, this is what it said
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Was going to happen.
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"and that he was seen by cephas."
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Cephas is one of the names for peter, same name, "then by
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The twelve."
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Notice 12, speaking those who are of the team of 12 apostles.
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"after that he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once."
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Now, friends, if i came, you know, running in the room here
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And i said, oh, you won't believe it.
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I just talked to gabriel.
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You say, you talk to gabriel?
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Yeah, gabriel, the angel.
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You sure?
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Yeah, i saw this shadow and then i heard this voice, and i'm sure
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It was gabriel.
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You'd go...
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Well, four people come in and say we just saw gabriel.
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They say, well, still they maybe all had the same hallucination.
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But if we all came in and we said, we saw gabriel and we
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Touched him, then you say, what?
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Then if we all came here, we said, we saw him, he spoke to
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Us, we spoke to him, we touched him, and we ate together.
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If people don't believe that, what evidence would you accept?
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What did jesus have to do after the resurrection to prove he
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Was real?
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What would you accept?
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If you won't accept that he walked, and he talked, and he
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Ate, and he appeared to them, and they could touch him.
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He wasn't a phantom, and this is not one or two people.
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This is hundreds of people that saw him.
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I would think that's pretty compelling.
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Then it says he was also seen, the greater part, let me see,
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"after that he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once,
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Of whom the greater part remain to the present."
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He said, when paul writes this, he say many are still alive.
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If you want living witnesses, he's writing to the church in
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Corinth, "but some have fallen asleep," some have died.
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"after that he was seen by james."
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This is james, the brother of jesus who ends up becoming a
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Leader of the church.
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Jesus especially appeared to his brother because you know, the
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Bible says, even his brethren did not believe, so he appeared.
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The other reason i believe, point three, the short time
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Frame between the events and the actual eyewitness claims.
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Now, so many people, when they tell a fantastic story, the
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Story is written years later.
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It's like, you know, they say the city of rome was founded by
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Romulus and remus who were nursed by a wolf.
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And this legend is written, you know, hundreds of years after
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They had all been dead and gone, and they just make up, you know,
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It's as true as hercules or anything else.
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There's all kinds of interesting stories.
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When you read "homer's odyssey," you wonder how much about the
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Battle of troy and the trojan horse, how much of that is true.
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Were there really sirens on the island calling the men into
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The rocks?
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Was there really a cyclops with one eye?
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Was there really a medusa with snakes coming out of its head?
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I mean, because of some of the things in greek mythology and
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These things they say, how can that be true?
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But the bible is written very differently.
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The bible gives a lot of very accurate accounts of history,
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And events of empires, and customs of the day in
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Great detail.
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And it not only talks about the good things the heroes do, it
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Talks about their embarrassing failures.
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It is one of the most objective books of history that you could
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Ever read, where the other ones, you know, they always make the
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Hero out to be this almost a divine champion that is
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Beyond reality.
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But it'll tell you about king david killing goliath, and it'll
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Tell you about david and bathsheba.
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There's a short time frame for the bible.
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You know that the first history of alexander the great was
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Written by theodora silas 300 years after alexander was dead.
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Now today, you know, when we're writing about christopher
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Columbus, we can't get our heads together about what to think
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About him, because after hundreds of years go by, you
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Just don't have that many documents.
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Nobody ever questions alexander the great, even though the first
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History was written 300 years after he was dead.
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One of the most compelling points i've got listed as point
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Number four is the sincerity of the witnesses.
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They absolutely believed what they were saying because they
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Put their lives literally on the line.
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Most of the apostles died of unnatural causes, generally from
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Persecution because they were preaching and teaching the
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Resurrection of jesus, they had seen it.
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They were totally unafraid of death because they knew death
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Had no fear for them, because jesus rose and it should have no
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Fear for you, because jesus rose.
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They had absolute confidence.
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Peter, at first, he was so afraid there in the trial
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Of christ, he denies jesus, but after the resurrection, when
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They threatened peter, he said, "you decide whether i ought to
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Obey god or you."
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And they continued preaching about jesus even though they
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Were whipped and flogged for doing it.
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So you look in the first century, the gospel, it takes
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Off like a cannon shot.
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It goes from no christians to covering the roman empire.
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Why?
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How could they do that so quickly?
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Because they believed what they were preaching was true.
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They put their lives, i mean, you know, some people will make
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Up stories and deceive, but how many of you would be willing to
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Die for something you knew to be a lie?
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So they were absolutely sincere.
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Then you've got the extra-biblical accounts.
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It's not just the bible talking about this.
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There are historians outside of the bible that talk about it.
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You got christians and non-christians, believers and
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Unbelievers, and they admit it, not only in the new testament,
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You got tacitus, he was a roman historian that had nothing good
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To say about christians, but he acknowledged jesus, he
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Acknowledged that jesus was crucified.
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He says jesus was crucified by pilate, he was a historian
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During the time of emperor tiberius.
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You've got josephus, lucian, the clement of rome, ignatius,
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Polycarp, barnabas, justin martyr, et cetera.
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They're all living outside of the bible.
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They're all recent reports.
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Many of them contemporaries with those who witnessed it and
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They talk about the events as though they're absolute history.
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You know, friends, if you're going to believe anything you
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Ever read in history, you're not going to find more in ancient
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History than you're going to find on the resurrection of
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Jesus in the times of jesus.
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There is a reason that history today is dated from his birth.
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The other reason i believe is, it is a central pivotal teaching
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Throughout the new testament.
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The teaching of jesus rising is really the axle on which the
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Gospel rotates.
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Acts chapter 2, as soon as the holy spirit poured out, what
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Does peter say?
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Acts chapter 2, verse 23.
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"him being delivered by the determined purpose and
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Foreknowledge of god, you have taken by lawless hands and have
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Crucified and put to death, put to death, whom god raised up
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Having loosed the pains of death, because it was not
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Possible that he should be held by it."
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Paul acts 17, verse 2, "then paul as his custom was," what
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Did paul do as a regular custom?
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"he went into them and three sabbaths, he reasoned to them
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From the scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the
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Christ had to suffer, rise again from the dead."
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Paul is explaining from the scriptures, not the new
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Testament, that the messiah would rise from the dead.
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"this jesus whom i preach to you is the christ."
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Paul would have had nothing to gain by doing that.
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And on many occasions, he got stoned because to say that jesus
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Could rise from the dead was putting them on a level
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With god.
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They called that blasphemy.
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Acts 5:29, "but peter and the other apostles answered and
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Said, 'we ought to obey god rather than men.
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The god of our fathers raised up jesus who you murdered by
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Hanging on a tree.'"
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The whole message, the punctuation, the exclamation
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Mark that jesus makes on everything else he said earlier
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Is that he would rise from the dead.
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If you wondered if he was the son of god,
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He said, well, i'll prove it.
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He said, "i lay down my life and i take it up again."
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I mean, you got to be pretty powerful to raise yourself.
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Wouldn't you say?
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And then of course, point number seven, the empty grave.
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I think that is actually a point.
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They went to the grave.
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They had put his body in the grave.
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You got all these gospel testimonies, they laid him in
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The grave.
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He was dead.
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Tells where the grave came from.
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Tells how the body got to the grave.
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Joseph of arimathea, who was one of the sanhedrin that did not
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Support the decision, he was not invited to the kangaroo court
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When they convicted jesus.
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He went and begged the body of jesus from pilate.
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Once it was confirmed he was dead, he was given the body, he
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And nicodemus worked together to buy the ointment.
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They delivered the project to the women who oversaw the
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Wrapping of his body.
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I mean, they're wrapping his dead body.
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He would have suffocated if he was just in a coma.
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They wrapped up his head, the empty grave.
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Well, they could have snuck his body away.
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You know, the roman soldiers were later paid to say that they
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Stole the body away.
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But really, i mean, can you picture the apostles, the guards
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There around the tomb?
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They quietly tipped over over these roman soldiers that are
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All snoring so heavily, they don't hear them wrestling this
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Stone aside from the tomb and they don't wake them up.
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They all sleep through it.
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And a roman soldier, if it loses its charge, they lose
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Their life.
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That's why they said the soldiers were afraid, and the
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Priest said we'll pay pilate if it comes to his ears.
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Don't worry.
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We'll pay you, we'll cover it.
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And that's how they got that false testimony.
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But you know what?
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I think some of the soldiers couldn't keep it to themselves.
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They said, yeah, we got paid. but yeah, we saw the angels.
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How could you forget that? what evidence would you accept?
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Some people just refuse to believe.
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The seed falls on the stony ground and they just don't
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Realize that there is evidence for your faith.
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I remember reading a story about a missionary in brazil, and he
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Was working with this remote tribe in the amazon, and many of
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Them were struggling with illness, and they had a clinic
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Not too far away from this river, but they would not cross
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The river, because-- and it's not
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That they were afraid of rivers.
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They crossed many rivers, but this one river that went between
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Them and where the clinic was, they believed it was filled with
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Evil spirits.
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And a plague started going through the whole tribe and many
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Were dying.
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And the missionary begged them to follow him across the river
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And he said all will be well.
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He said you go to the hospital, they'll give you medicine.
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They said we can't go in there, there's evil spirits.
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And so the missionary went down by the edge of the river and he
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Put his feet in the river.
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They said, look nothing's happening to me come.
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They said no, no, no, no.
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And he got down knee deep and he splashed in the water and they
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Looked at him waiting for something bad to happen to him.
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And he said, you can make it.
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And they said no, evil spirits.
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Finally, he realized his only hope was he dove in the river,
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He's a good swimmer, he disappeared, and he swam as far
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As he could underwater and he came up on the other side, and
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Then he waved at them and they all jumped on the shore and they
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Cheered, and they were then willing when they saw that he
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Had gone across to the other side to take the plunge
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Of faith.
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Now, we have someone that has gone before us, and he came up
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Alive on the other side.
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This life is not it.
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This life is preparation for the life that really matters.
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Death is not the end for the christian.
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Because he lives, we can live a new life then, but we can live a
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New life now because of the resurrection.
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That same power and spirit that brought him back to life can
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Change your heart.
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It can give you a new heart.
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It can give you victory over your sins and the devil, just
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Like it gave victory to jesus over death.
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If you believe, all things are possible.
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Doug: the bible never says that eve ate an apple, nor does it
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Say that three wise men came to see jesus in the manger.
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Neither does the bible say that god made a devil.
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So how well do you know your bible?
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And what does it really say about heaven and hell, the
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Origin of the devil, and the second coming of jesus?
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Well, it all begins by simply turning towards the lord.
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He will draw near to us.
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You can turn to him right now and ask for forgiveness
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And a new heart and he's ready to forgive and receive you.
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That's why jesus came; whether do you know it or not,
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Doug Batchelor - Why I Believe

April 24, 2025 | S25:E47

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