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Amazing Facts | The Mystery of the Trinity | July 17, 2021
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- -THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
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- AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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- - IN OUR MESSAGE TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE
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- MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY. THERE ARE THREE DIVINE EQUAL,
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- ETERNAL PERSONS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN YOUR CREATION
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- AND IN YOUR REDEMPTION.
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- -IN OUR MESSAGE TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE
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- MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY. THE TRINITY IS PROBABLY ONE OF
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- THE DEEPEST AND MOST SUBLIME, PROFOUND SUBJECTS THAT WE COULD
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- EXPLORE. IN OUR PRAYER, PREPARING FOR THE
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- SERVICE, OUR BROTHER JUST SAID 'WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO PASTOR
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- DOUG EXPLAINING THIS MYSTERY.' I WANT TO TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, IT
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- WILL STILL BE A MYSTERY WHEN THE SERMON IS OVER.
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- SO I'M NOT GOING TO PRESUME THAT I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO UNLOCK
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- ALL THE MYSTERIES OF GOD FOR YOU.
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- THIS IS A MYSTERY THAT WE WILL DELVE INTO A LITTLE BIT TOGETHER
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- AND THERE'LL BE MANY THINGS THAT ARE STILL VERY MYSTERIOUS
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- ABOUT IT. IT'S LIKE YOU AND I TRYING TO
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- LOOK AT THE COSMOS THROUGH A MAGNIFYING GLASS.
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- WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE IT ALL IN.
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- SO IN THE BIBLE, WHEN WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERY OF THE
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- TRINITY, WE'RE VENTURING ON HOLY GROUND.
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- IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR ME TO TAKE MY
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- SHOES OFF DURING THIS SERMON. THE CARPET WOULD FEEL PRETTY
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- GOOD, I KNOW, BUT IT MIGHT BE A DISTRACTION FOR YOU.
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- BUT IT IS HOLY GROUND AND THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR:
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- WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND GOD.
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- LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A FEW VERSES.
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- IN FACT, YOU MIGHT WANT TO HAVE A PENCIL HANDY, WE'LL BE LOOKING
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- AT A LOT OF SCRIPTURE TODAY AND I'LL BE READING THEM QUICKLY
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- SO AS TO COVER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
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- "'FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NOR ARE YOUR WAYS MY
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- WAYS,' SAYS THE LORD, 'FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE
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- EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS
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- THAN YOUR THOUGHTS.'" GOD IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN WE CAN
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- COMPREHEND. PSALM 145, VERSE 3, "GREAT IS THE LORD, AND GREATLY
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- TO BE PRAISED; AND HIS GREATNESS IS UNSEARCHABLE."
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- NOW, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE SAVED - AND I PRAY I AM - I PRAY YOU ARE
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- - THAT'S WHY WE'RE ALL HERE, RIGHT?
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- YOU'LL LIVE FOR HOW LONG? FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
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- WILL YOU EVER SAY 'I UNDERSTAND GOD'?
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- SO IF THROUGH ETERNITY WE KNOW THAT WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO
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- FULLY COMPREHEND GOD - YOU HAVE TO BE GOD TO UNDERSTAND GOD -
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- THEN HOW MUCH CAN WE KNOW IN THIS LIFE?
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- BUT THE LORD DOES WANT US TO KNOW WHAT HE'S REVEALED.
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- BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS A BIG SUBJECT AND WE'RE NOT
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- CLAIMING THAT WE CAN UNPACK IT FOR YOU.
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- AGAIN, ROMANS 11:33, "OH, THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES BOTH OF THE
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- WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! HOW UNSEARCHABLE ARE HIS
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- JUDGMENTS AND HIS WAYS PAST FINDING OUT?"
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- PAST FINDING OUT. JOB 26:14, "INDEED THESE ARE THE
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- MERE EDGES OF HIS WAYS, AND HOW SMALL A WHISPER WE HEAR OF HIM!
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- BUT THE THUNDER OF HIS POWER WHO CAN UNDERSTAND?"
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- HERE IN THIS WORLD WE JUST GET A FRAGMENT OF A WHISPER OF WHAT
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- THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT GOD, BUT WHO CAN COMPREHEND THE THUNDER?
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- 'WHAT'S THUNDER COMPARED TO A WHISPER?'
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- - IS WHAT JOB IS SAYING. WHO CAN UNDERSTAND?
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- JOHN WESLEY SAID, 'BRING ME A WORM THAT CAN COMPREHEND A MAN
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- AND I'LL SHOW YOU A MAN THAT CAN COMPREHEND THE TRIUNE GOD.' SO I
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- JUST WANTED TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK HERE THAT I'M NOT
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- PRETENDING THAT I'M NOW GOING TO REVEAL THE MYSTERY OF GOD OR THE
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- TRINITY, BUT LET'S LOOK AT SOME THINGS THAT ARE REVEALED IN THE
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- BIBLE AND UNDERSTAND THIS AS WELL AS WE CAN.
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- NOW THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
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- DO YOU KNOW WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT OVER THIS SUBJECT?
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- IT'S BEEN - NATIONS HAVE BEEN ERADICATED BECAUSE OF
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- DISAGREEMENTS OVER THE BELIEF OF THE SUBJECT.
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- NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO SAY, 'DOUG, YOU'RE TEACHING A
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- DOCTRINE THAT'S NOT EVEN IN THE BIBLE.
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- YOU DON'T FIND THE WORD TRINITY IN THE BIBLE.' THAT'S TRUE.
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- YOU DO NOT FIND THE WORD 'TRINITY' IN THE BIBLE.
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- THE WORD 'TRINITY' SIMPLY MEANS 'TRI' - LIKE A TRICYCLE HAS HOW
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- MANY WHEELS? THREE. TRI-'ENTITY' - THREE ENTITIES.
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- IT'S TALKING - IT'S A WORD THAT WE USE TO DESCRIBE THE DOCTRINE
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- OF THE THREE ENTITIES IN THE GODHEAD.
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- THE BIBLE DOES USE THE WORD 'GODHEAD'.
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- THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WORD TRINITY.
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- YOU DON'T FIND THE WORD. RAPTURE IN THE BIBLE.
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- YOU DON'T FIND THE WORD 'BIBLE' IN THE BIBLE.
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- SO WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE BECAUSE THE WORD 'BIBLE'
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- IS NOT IN THE BIBLE?
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- THERE'S A LOT OF WORDS THAT WE DON'T FIND, PER SE - MILLENNIUM
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- IS NOT IN THE BIBLE BUT IF WE TALK ABOUT THE DOCTRINE OF THE
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- MILLENNIUM IT TALKS ABOUT THE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD THAT YOU
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- SEE THERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20 AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF TERMS
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- THAT WE USE - THEOLOGICAL TERMS TO DISCUSS VARIOUS DOCTRINES AND
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- THIS IS CALLED THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY - THE THREE ENTITIES
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- THAT COMPOSE THE BIBLE GOD. AND SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE
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- DISCUSSING. THERE'S NO CONFLICT IN THAT.
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- LET ME GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE.
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- MATTHEW 28 - SOME OF THE LAST WORDS OF JESUS.
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- AFTER HE SENDS THE DISCIPLES INTO THE WORLD HE SAYS, IN
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- MATTHEW 28:19, "GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE
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- NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE
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- SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT." NOW, IT IS TRUE, IN THE NEW
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- TESTAMENT, IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, WHEN THE DISCIPLES WENT OUT IT
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- SAYS THEY WENT AND THEY BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OR IN
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- THE NAME OF THE LORD, JESUS OR IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
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- BUT JESUS DEFINITELY SAID, 'THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND
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- HOLY SPIRIT.' THAT TELLS ME, SOMETIMES, THAT THE EXACT
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- WORDING IN THE BAPTISM IS NOT THE BIG ISSUE; IT'S THAT YOU'RE
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- GETTING BAPTIZED INTO THE NAME OF THE GOD OF THE BIBLE.
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- AND JESUS SAID, 'FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT'
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- AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME, AMEN?
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- NOW, HERE'S THE QUESTION: CAN GOD BE BIBLICALLY ACCURATE
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- SAYING - COULD THE BIBLE BE ACCURATE - CAN CHRISTIANS BE
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- RIGHT SAYING, 'THERE'S ONE GOD' AND YET SAYING, 'ONE DOESN'T
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- ALWAYS MEAN ONE.' NOW THAT'S THE THING TO UNDERSTAND.
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- NOW THIS ISN'T DOUBLE TALK, THIS IS GOOD SCRIPTURE.
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- AGAIN, I'M JUST GIVING YOU A FEW VERSES. FOR INSTANCE, RIGHT IN
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- THE BEGINNING - GENESIS 1:26 - GOD SAYS, "LET US MAKE MAN
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- IN OUR IMAGE, ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS."
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- NOW, DO YOU HEAR MORE THAN ONE IN THAT?
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- DO YOU KNOW THE WORD THAT'S USED THERE IN HEBREW FOR GOD IS
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- ELOHIM. THAT WORD 'ELOHIM' IS PLURAL.
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- IT'S LIKE 'WE' - 'US' - WHENEVER I SAY THAT THEN - IF I SAY, 'WE
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- ARE GOING TO THE STORE.' KAREN WOULD SAY, 'WHO ARE YOU GOING
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- WITH?' I WOULD SAY, 'I'M TALKING ABOUT
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- MYSELF.' YOU WOULD SAY, 'WHAT'S WRONG?
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- DOUG'S TALKING ABOUT 'WE' - HAS HE BECOME SCHIZOPHRENIC?
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- HAS HE GOT SPLIT PERSONALITY PROBLEMS?'
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- SO WHEN GOD SAYS THIS IT'S NOT BECAUSE GOD IS CONFUSED, THE
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- PRIMARY WORD USED FOR 'GOD' OVER 2.700 TIMES IN THE BIBLE IS
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- 'ELOHIM' - IT'S THE PLURAL. THERE'S THE OTHER WORD 'EL'
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- WHICH IS SINGULAR, BUT THE INSPIRED WRITERS CHOSE TO USE
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- 'ELOHIM' TEN TIMES MORE THAN 'EL'.
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- THIS IS ALL THROUGH THE - MOSTLY OLD TESTAMENT. IT'S A PLURAL.
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- GOD HAS COMMUNICATED HIMSELF TO US AS A PLURAL GOD BECAUSE HE IS
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- COMPOSED OF THESE THREE PERSONS. NOW THIS IS A MYSTERY AND IT MAY
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- STILL BE A MYSTERY WHEN WE'RE DONE.
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- AND THEN, OF COURSE, - AND SOME PEOPLE CHALLENGE THIS VERSE BUT
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- IT'S IN THE BIBLE. I BELIEVE IT.
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- 1 JOHN 5:7, "FOR THERE ARE THREE THAT BEAR WITNESS IN HEAVEN: THE
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- FATHER," - THAT'S FATHER - GOD THE FATHER - "THE WORD," - JESUS
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- IS THE WORD BECOME FLESH - "AND THE HOLY SPIRIT; AND THESE THREE
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- ARE ONE." THAT'S HARD TO MISUNDERSTAND.
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- THE THREE ARE ONE.
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- JOHN 17:20 - NOW THIS IS, I THINK, THE BEST EXAMPLE.
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- THIS IS IN THE SPECIAL INTERCESSORY PRAYER OF JESUS -
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- JOHN 17:20 - I'LL READ ALSO VERSE 21.
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- CHRIST SAID, "I DO NOT PRAY FOR THESE ALONE, BUT ALSO FOR THOSE
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- WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD;" - WHAT'S HE
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- PRAYING? - "THAT THE ALL MAY BE ONE."
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- - NOW HE'S PRAYING FOR THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND HE'S PRAYING
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- THAT THEY CAN BE ONE. HOW? - "AS YOU, FATHER, ARE IN ME,
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- AND I IN YOU." - NOTICE, GOD IS IN JESUS AND
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- JESUS IS IN GOD. THAT'S GOING TO COME UP LATER.
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- - "THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE ONE" - THERE IT IS AGAIN - "IN US, THAT
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- THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME."
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- SO YOU'VE GOT A NATION THAT'S ONE.
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- YOU'VE GOT THE APOSTLES ARE ONE. YOU'VE GOT A COUPLE THAT'S ONE,
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- BUT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S MANY PERSONS INVOLVED IN THOSE.
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- SO IT'S NOT INCONSISTENT FOR US TO SAY THAT THERE'S ONE GOD, BUT
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- IN THE CHRISTIAN - ONE GOD - IT IS COMPOSED OF THREE PERSONS.
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- NOW, I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT 'IS JESUS GOD AND IS
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- THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD?' YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR ME TALK
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- A LOT ABOUT 'IS GOD THE FATHER GOD?' YOU KNOW WHY?
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- I'VE NEVER RUN INTO ANYBODY THAT HAS THAT PROBLEM.
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- MOST CHRISTIANS AGREE THAT GOD THE FATHER IS GOD - THAT HE GETS
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- TO BE THE SUPREME GOD AND HE'S ALWAYS BEEN - THOUGH, YOU KNOW,
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- THERE ARE, ACTUALLY, SOME WHO BELIEVE THAT THE GOD WHO MADE
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- OUR UNIVERSE ONCE WAS A LOWER GOD BUT HE'S WORKED HIS WAY UP
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- TO BEING A BIGGER GOD AND THERE ARE OTHER GODS ABOVE HIM - IF
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- YOU COULD GO FAR ENOUGH INTO SPACE YOU'D FIND THEM.
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- THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS THAT WOULD IMPLY THAT GOD IS LEARNING
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- AND HOW COULD YOU KNOW EVERYTHING AND STILL LEARN?
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- ASK A TEENAGER (LAUGHTER) IN HIGH SCHOOL.
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- SO GOD, OBVIOUSLY, IF HE KNOWS EVERYTHING, AND IF HE IS
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- ALMIGHTY, HOW CAN HE BE MIGHTIER THAN ALMIGHTY?
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- BUT MOST PEOPLE AGREE THAT GOD IS SUPREME, BUT THEY STRUGGLE
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- WITH 'WHAT IS THE ROLE OF JESUS AND WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE
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- SPIRIT?' BY THE WAY, ANOTHER VIEW OF
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- ARIANISM IS THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT A PERSON - NOT ONLY THAT
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- HE WAS CREATED BY JESUS - BUT THAT HE'S NOT A PERSON BUT HE'S
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- 'THE FORCE' - KIND OF AN IMPERSONAL FORCE
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- THAT GOD WORKS THROUGH.
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- AND SO, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE CONCEPTS.
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- FIRST OF ALL, IS JESUS FULLY GOD?
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- WELL, LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
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- MATTHEW 1:23, "'THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL,' WHICH IS
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- TRANSLATED, 'GOD WITH US.'" THE INCARNATION IS GOD - FULLY A
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- HUNDRED PERCENT GOD BECOMING A MAN - THAT'S A MYSTERY.
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- YOU'VE GOT A MYSTERY OF GODLINESS IN THE BIBLE AND
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- THAT'S HOW GOD BECAME A MAN. YOU HAVE A MYSTERY OF INIQUITY
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- IN THE BIBLE AND THAT'S HOW A CREATURE - THE DEVIL -
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- WANTED TO BE GOD. HOW COULD THE CREATURE THINK,
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- 'I CAN OVERTHROW THE CREATOR'? THAT'S A CRAZY THOUGHT.
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- THAT'S A MYSTERY TO ME - HOW THE DEVIL THINKS THAT HE CAN SOMEHOW
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- LAUNCH A WAR - HE'S A CREATION - AGAINST HIS CREATOR.
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- HOW SOMETHING THAT HAD A LIMITED EXISTENCE COULD LAUNCH A WAR AND
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- SAY, 'I AM GOING TO TAKE OVER THE PLACE OF THE ONE WHO IS
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- SELF-EXISTENT AND ETERNAL. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
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- BUT THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
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- OPTION ON THE REQUEST PAGE.
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- IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH
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- AMAZING FACTS WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT.
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- AND MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS.
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- - SO THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF GOD - GOD LOWERING HIMSELF AND
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- BECOMING A MAN - AND THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY - THE
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- CREATURE TRYING TO EXALT HIMSELF AND BECOME GOD.
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- WHAT DID THE DEVIL SAY TO ADAM AND EVE?
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- 'LISTEN TO ME, YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD.' WHY DID HE SAY THAT?
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- THAT'S WHAT HE WANTED. PEOPLE OFTEN SUPERIMPOSE ON
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- OTHERS THEIR DESIRES. HEBREWS 1:8, IS JESUS GOD?
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- "BUT UNTO THE SON HE SAITH, 'THY THRONE, O GOD.'" NOW WAIT A
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- SECOND - HEBREWS 1:8, "BUT UNTO THE SON" - GOD, THE FATHER -
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- "UNTO THE SON HE SAITH, 'THY THRONE, O GOD.'" TO THE SON, THE
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- FATHER SAYS, 'THY THRONE, O GOD IS FOREVER AND EVER.' SO WHAT
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- DOES THE FATHER CALL THE SON? 'O GOD'. "FOR EVER AND EVER:
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- A SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTER OF THY KINGDOM."
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- WHEN JESUS AROSE FROM THE DEAD - REMEMBER, THE FIRST WEEK HE
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- APPEARED THOMAS MISSED IT - HE SAID, 'I WON'T BELIEVE UNTIL I
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- SEE THE PRINT IN HIS HANDS AND THE SCAR IN HIS SIDE.' AND THEN
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- JESUS APPEARED THAT NEXT WEEK AND HE SAID, 'THOMAS, YOU
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- BELIEVE BECAUSE YOU'VE SEEN.' THOMAS FALLS DOWN AND YOU KNOW
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- WHAT HE SAYS? "MY LORD AND MY GOD." BY THE WAY,
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- THAT'S JOHN 20, VERSE 26 AND ON THROUGH VERSE 29.
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- AND DID JESUS SAY, 'NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, DON'T SAY THAT.
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- LET'S NOT GET CARRIED AWAY.' OR DID HE ACCEPT THAT?
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- 'MY LORD AND MY GOD' HE CALLED JESUS BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
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- NOW, QUICKLY, SOME DEFINITIONS: THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULD ONLY
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- WORSHIP GOD. IS THAT ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS?
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- EVEN JESUS CITED THAT BACK TO SATAN.
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- MATTHEW 28 - SHOULD WE WORSHIP JESUS?
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- "AND AS THEY WENT TO TELL HIS DISCIPLES, BEHOLD, JESUS MET
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- THEM, SAYING 'ALL HAIL.'" - HAIL MEANS 'WORSHIP' - "AND THEY CAME
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- AND HELD HIM BY THE FEET, AND WORSHIPPED HIM."
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- AND HE RECEIVED THE WORSHIP.
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- BUT THE BIBLE SAYS ONLY WORSHIP GOD.
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- HEBREWS 1:6 - IT SAYS WE'RE ONLY SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP GOD BUT ALL
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- THE ANGELS WORSHIP JESUS - THAT'S IN HEBREWS 1:6.
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- REVELATION 7:11 - YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT - THAT'S THE
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- CONVENIENT VERSE IN REVELATION - "AND ALL THE ANGELS STOOD ROUND
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- ABOUT THE THRONE, AND ABOUT THE ELDERS AND THE FOUR BEASTS, AND
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- FELL BEFORE THE THRONE ON THEIR FACES, AND WORSHIPPED GOD."
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- SO THE ANGELS WORSHIPPED GOD AND, YET, IT SAYS THE ANGELS
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- WORSHIPPED JESUS. WELL, IF JESUS IS GOD, IT'S NOT A PROBLEM.
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- YOU CAN ONLY WORSHIP HIM - YOU CAN ONLY WORSHIP GOD - BUT IF
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- THEY WORSHIPPED JESUS HE MUST BE GOD. THE BIBLE SAYS GOD CREATED.
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- YOU'VE READ THE FIRST VERSE IN THE BIBLE BEFORE - 'IN THE
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- BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.'
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- ALRIGHT, WHO IS THAT GOD THAT CREATED?
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- 1 JOHN - NOT 1 JOHN, SORRY - JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1, "IN THE
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- BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD
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- WAS GOD." - WHO IS THAT WORD?
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- THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US - THAT'S JESUS, RIGHT?
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- - "THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD.
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- ALL THINGS" - AND THIS IS VERY CLEAR IN THE GREEK - "ALL THINGS
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- WERE MADE BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT
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- WAS MADE." NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE, WITHOUT JESUS.
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- THAT MEANS THAT JESUS WAS NOT MADE. HE HAS ALWAYS EXISTED.
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- HE SAYS, 'I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.' THAT MEANS AS FAR AS YOU
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- CAN GO - THE BEGINNING AND THE END - AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO IN
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- THAT DIRECTION - AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO - 'ETERNITY TO ETERNITY
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- I AM GOD' - HE'S ALWAYS BEEN THERE.
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- HEBREWS 1, VERSES 1 AND 2, "GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN
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- VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS,
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- HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS
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- APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE
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- WORLDS;" IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED. JESUS IS GOD.
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- EPHESIANS 3:9, "AND TO MAKE ALL SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF
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- THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AGES HAS BEEN
- 00:16:06.081 --> 00:16:09.651
- HIDDEN IN GOD WHO CREATED ALL THINGS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST;"
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- JESUS IS GOD AND GOD MADE ALL THINGS.
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- THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE'S ONLY ONE SAVIOR - THAT GOD IS
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- OUR SAVIOR. ISAIAH 43 - ONE SAVIOR - 43,
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- VERSE 11 - ISAIAH, "I, EVEN I, AM THE LORD, AND BESIDES ME
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- THERE IS NO SAVIOR." BUT WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
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- JUDE 25, "TO GOD OUR SAVIOR" - SO ONLY ONE SAVIOR - GOD IS OUR
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- SAVIOR IN JUDE 25 AND THERE ARE MANY VERSES IN THE NEW
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- TESTAMENT, INCLUDING THIS ONE, 1 JOHN 4:14, THAT SAY JESUS IS OUR
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- SAVIOR - "AND WE HAVE SEEN AND TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT
- 00:16:50.192 --> 00:16:54.063
- THE SON AS SAVIOR OF THE WORLD." NOW, AM I MAKING SENSE?
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- THERE'S ONLY ONE SAVIOR - GOD IS OUR SAVIOR - AND THE BIBLE SAYS
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- JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN RECONCILE
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- THOSE IS TO SAY JESUS IS GOD. SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
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- SO DID JESUS CLAIM EQUALITY WITH GOD? WOULDN'T THAT SETTLE IT?
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- NOTICE - JOHN 5:17 AND VERSE 18, "BUT JESUS ANSWERED THEM, 'MY
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- FATHER HAS BEEN WORKING UNTIL NOW, AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING.'
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- THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT ALL THE MORE TO KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE
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- NOT ONLY BROKE THE SABBATH," - OR AT LEAST THEY ACCUSED HIM OF
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- THAT - "BUT ALSO SAID THAT GOD WAS HIS FATHER, MAKING HIMSELF
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- EQUAL WITH GOD." I MEAN, JESUS KNEW WHAT HE WAS
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- SAYING AND THE JEWS KNEW WHY THEY WANTED TO KILL HIM.
- 00:17:38.140 --> 00:17:41.076
- AGAIN, JOHN 10:30, "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE."
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- SO THERE, AGAIN, YOU HAVE THE IDEA OF, CAN GOD BE ONE AND
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- STILL BE MORE THAN ONE PERSON? THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES TO
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- STONE HIM AGAIN BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT HE MEANT BY THAT.
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- JOHN 14:9, "JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'HAVE I BEEN WITH YOU SO LONG,
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- AND YET YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN ME, PHILIP?
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- HE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER, SO HOW CAN YOU SAY,
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- 'SHOW US THE FATHER?' " IT SAYS, 'WE'RE THE SAME.'
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- NOW, WHAT EVERYONE GETS STUMPED ON - IF YOU TALK TO AN ATHEIST
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- ABOUT GOD OR AN AGNOSTIC AND THEY SAY, ALRIGHT, I CAN TELL
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- YOU WHERE THE UNIVERSE CAME FROM.
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- WHERE DID GOD COME FROM?' I'LL SAY, 'WELL, I DON'T KNOW
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- WHERE GOD CAME FROM BUT YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHERE THE UNIVERSE
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- CAME FROM BECAUSE WHAT YOU'LL DO IS YOU'LL SAY, 'OUR WORLD CAME
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- FROM OUR SOLAR SYSTEM WHEN IT FORMED AND THE SUN EXPLODED AND
- 00:18:30.959 --> 00:18:33.662
- SENT THESE PLANETS SPIRALING OUT INTO SPACE.' 'WHERE'D THE SUN
- 00:18:33.662 --> 00:18:36.732
- COME FROM?' 'WELL,' - THEY'LL SAY - 'THE SUN
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- CAME FROM, YOU KNOW, A SUPERNOVA OUT THERE WHEN THERE WAS AN
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- EXPLOSION AND ALL THESE SUNS WERE SENT WHIRLING OFF INTO
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- SPACE.' I'LL SAY, 'OKAY, WHERE'D THAT COME FROM?'
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- 'WELL, THESE NEBULOUS GAS PARTICLES COLLIDED AND EXPLODED
- 00:18:50.712 --> 00:18:54.249
- AND THERE WAS A BIG BANG.' I'D SAY, 'ALRIGHT, WHERE'D THE STUFF
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- COME FROM - THAT COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL THAT CAUSED THE BIG
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- BANG?' AND, EVENTUALLY, EVOLUTIONISTS, ATHEISTS,
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- AGNOSTICS WILL ALL SAY, 'WELL, THERE'S A MYSTERY. SOMETHING
- 00:19:06.094 --> 00:19:09.898
- ALWAYS EXISTED.' SO THEY'RE AT THE SAME PLACE YOU'RE AT.
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- THE DIFFERENCE IS OUR SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS EXISTED WAS
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- INTELLIGENT AND POWERFUL. THEIRS IS ALL A BIG ACCIDENT.
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- SO YOU CAN DESCRIBE EVERYTHING YOU SEE AROUND YOU AS THE RESULT
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- OF AN INTELLIGENCE WITH PURPOSE OR JUST A BIG ACCIDENT.
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- WE CAN ALL GO HOME NOW AND THERE IS NO PURPOSE TO LIFE.
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- SO I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THERE IS A PURPOSE.
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- I SEE TOO MANY THINGS THAT SEEM TO REFLECT INTELLIGENCE.
- 00:19:33.655 --> 00:19:36.725
- SO JESUS HAS ALWAYS EXISTED. JOHN 17:5, "AND NOW, O FATHER,
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- GLORIFY ME TOGETHER WITH YOURSELF, WITH THE GLORY WHICH I
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- HAD WITH YOU BEFORE THE WORLD WAS." SEE, JESUS LAID ASIDE
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- THE GLORY - THE PERFECT EQUALITY HE SHARED WITH THE FATHER
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- BEFORE THE WORLD WAS - HE CAME AND HE LIVED AMONG US.
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- HE WAS THEN RECEIVED BACK UP INTO GLORY.
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- HE IS, AGAIN, GLORIFIED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER.
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- HE IS A HUNDRED PERCENT GOD.
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- SO, HOPEFULLY YOU CAN SEE THAT JESUS IS GOD - AND I DIDN'T
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- COVER ALL THE EVIDENCE. WHAT ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT?
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- NOW, MOST PEOPLE WILL SAY, 'WELL, IF JESUS IS GOD, WE DON'T
- 00:20:11.226 --> 00:20:13.428
- HAVE A PROBLEM BELIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD, BUT HE'S NOT
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- A PERSON, HE'S THE FORCE OF GOD THAT GOD USES' - I THINK THE
- 00:20:16.064 --> 00:20:20.669
- HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD. HE'S NOT JUST AN IMPERSONAL
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- VEHICLE, BECAUSE GOD SAYS SO. FIRST OF ALL, IS THE HOLY SPIRIT
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- GOD? ACTS 5:3 AND 4 - PETER SAID TO ANANIAS - REMEMBER WHEN
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- ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA LIED? - "BUT PETER SAID,
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- 'ANANIAS, WHY HAS SATAN FILLED YOUR HEART TO
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- LIE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT...YOU'VE NOT LIED TO MEN BUT TO GOD."
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- WHEN YOU LIE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT YOU'VE LIED TO GOD.
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- GOD SAID, "MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN."
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- GENESIS 6, VERSE 3 - GOD THE SPIRIT. AND I'VE TALKED TO YOU
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- ABOUT THE SEVEN SPIRITS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD.
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- IT SAYS THAT THE SPIRIT LEADS US OR GUIDES US.
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- IT'S NOT AN IMPERSONAL FORCE THAT LEADS US OR GUIDES US.
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- I'VE GOT A GPS IN MY CAR - HAVE YOU - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A GPS
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- ON YOUR PHONE OR IN YOUR CAR? LET ME JUST SEE. BECAUSE THEY'RE
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- MAKING THEIR WAY AROUND. ALRIGHT, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
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- RIDDEN WITH SOMEBODY THAT HAS A GPS?
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- I'VE SET A DESTINATION BEFORE, IN MY CAR, MAYBE I'LL GO VISIT
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- SOMEBODY - ON THE WAY I'LL SEE A STORE OR I'LL THINK OF SOMETHING
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- ELSE - AN ERRAND I NEED TO DO - AND I'LL SAY, 'OH, I DIDN'T KNOW
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- THAT STORE WAS HERE.' I'LL TURN OFF AND MY GPS SAYS, 'TURN, MAKE
- 00:21:23.832 --> 00:21:29.504
- CORRECTION, RE-ROUTING, TURN LEFT HERE.' AND I'M THINKING,
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- 'OH, I'M SORRY, DID I OFFEND YOU?'
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- MINE'S A LADY VOICE, YOU KNOW, AND I JUST ALWAYS THINK OF MY
- 00:21:36.712 --> 00:21:41.149
- MOTHER, 'TURN HERE.' 'OKAY.' AND I DON'T WANT TO HURT HER
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- FEELINGS SO I'LL TURN. 'I WAS GOING TO GO TO THE STORE
- 00:21:45.721 --> 00:21:48.123
- BUT YOU TOLD ME TO TURN.' IS THAT WHAT I SAY?
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- I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE SAYS, IT'S A COMPUTER. IT'S JUST A FORCE,
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- RIGHT? I'M NOT GOING TO HURT IT'S FEELINGS.
- 00:21:55.630 --> 00:21:57.866
- I NEVER HEAR IT SAY TO ME, 'OH, COME ON, PLEASE TURN HERE.
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- YOU'RE GOING TO HURT MY FEELINGS IF YOU DON'T - I'M GOING TO WEEP
- 00:22:02.571 --> 00:22:05.774
- LITTLE TRANSISTOR TEARS OUT OF MY CIRCUITS IF YOU DON'T TURN
- 00:22:05.774 --> 00:22:09.378
- HERE.' DOES IT CARE? NO. BUT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT CARE?
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- IF HE'S JUST A COMPUTER - IF HE'S JUST AN IMPERSONAL FORCE -
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- HE CANNOT BE GRIEVED.
- 00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:21.089
- BUT THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN GRIEVE THE SPIRIT.
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- MATTER OF FACT, JESUS SAYS - JOHN 16:13, "WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT
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- OF TRUTH, HAS COME, HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH."
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- YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT YEARS AGO, BEFORE GPS, WHEN THE
- 00:22:33.869 --> 00:22:38.039
- ARABS WERE GOING ACROSS SOME OF THESE VAST DESERTS IN SAUDI
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- ARABIA, SOMETIMES THEY'D HAVE SANDSTORMS - THEY COULDN'T EVEN
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- SEE THE SUN TO DETERMINE EAST FROM WEST.
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- IN MANY OF THOSE CARAVANS THEY KEPT A DOVE WITH THEM - A HOMING
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- PIGEON - THEY KEPT A THREAD TIED ON ITS LEG AND THEY WOULD
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- RELEASE IT AND IT WOULD ALWAYS FLY TOWARDS HOME.
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- IT WOULD MAKE A BEELINE TOWARDS HOME AND THEY WOULD HOLD IT IN
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- THEIR HAND TO FIND OUT WHICH WAY.
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- AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL LEAD US AND HE'LL GUIDE US.
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- YOU'LL FEEL, SOMETIMES, THAT TUGGING IN YOUR HEART.
- 00:23:06.635 --> 00:23:08.437
- HE'LL NEVER LEAD YOU CONTRARY TO THE WORD BECAUSE THE HOLY
- 00:23:08.437 --> 00:23:11.807
- SPIRIT IS ONE WITH JESUS WHO IS THE WORD.
- 00:23:11.807 --> 00:23:14.810
- THEY'LL NEVER CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER.
- 00:23:14.810 --> 00:23:16.545
- I'VE MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT SAY, 'I KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS THIS, BUT
- 00:23:16.545 --> 00:23:21.383
- THE SPIRIT IS TELLING ME...' - AS THOUGH IT'S DIFFERENT OR
- 00:23:21.383 --> 00:23:24.119
- FRESH INFORMATION. THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL NEVER
- 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.922
- CONFLICT WITH THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT
- 00:23:26.922 --> 00:23:29.558
- THAT INSPIRED MEN TO WRITE THE THINGS THAT THEY WROTE.
- 00:23:29.558 --> 00:23:34.763
- ISN'T THAT RIGHT? HOLY MEN WROTE AS THEY WERE
- 00:23:34.763 --> 00:23:38.033
- INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDES
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- THEM. YOU KNOW THAT - I THINK THERE'S
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- 15 TIMES JESUS REFERRED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AS 'HE'.
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- HE COULD HAVE SAID 'IT'. WHY DID HE SAY 'HE'?
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- THAT WAS HIS CHOSEN WORD.
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- THE BIBLE TELLS US THE HOLY SPIRIT COMFORTS.
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- NOW IF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS JUST A POWER, WHO GETS COMFORT FROM,
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- YOU KNOW, HUGGING AN ELECTRIC POLE?
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- THAT'S NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU COMFORT - IF HE'S JUST A POWER
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- WITH NO PERSONALITY. YOU FIND COMFORT FROM A PERSON.
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- CONVICTION I FELT WAS SOMETIMES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOOK.
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- CONVICT THE WORLD OF SIN, AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF JUDGMENT."
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- AND IF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS JUST A FORCE, YOU NOTICE WHAT THE
- 00:24:31.419 --> 00:24:34.489
- GREATEST SIN IS? WHAT'S THE SIN THAT CANNOT BE PARDONED?
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- BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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- MATTHEW 12:31 AND 32, "THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, EVERY
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- SIN AND BLASPHEMY WILL BE FORGIVEN MEN."
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- BUT BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT CANNOT BE FORGIVEN - IN
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- THIS LIFE OR IN THE NEXT. HE'S GRIEVED.
- 00:24:54.776 --> 00:24:57.045
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- HE'S A REAL FORCE.
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