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Billy Graham Crusade Classics | Billy Graham - Who Is Jesus? | March 19, 2026
- In 1949, a bold and dynamic young preacher
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- Set out on a journey that would have an impact
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- On every continent for generations to come.
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- For more than 50 years and to more than 210 million people
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- Billy graham has passionately spoken
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- About the certainty of hope found in jesus christ.
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- There are many things about god
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- That i don't understand or comprehend.
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- I accept his revelation of himself by faith.
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- He's brought races and denominations together
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- Toward a common purpose
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- As he's preached in 185 countries around the world.
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- Christ belongs to all people.
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- He belongs to the whole world.
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- He has stood alongside presidents,
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- Met with dignitaries and world leaders,
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- And today billy graham is recognized
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- Among the most influential religious leaders
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- In the history of the world.
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- From our archives...
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- The billy graham classics.
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- [applause]
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- Now i want you to turn with me, if you will
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- To luke's gospel, luke's gospel,
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- The fourth chapter.
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- Jesus had just been tempted in the wilderness.
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- He had been tempted by the devil.
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- And the devil had tempted him and it was a real temptation.
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- It wasn't just a put up thing.
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- It was a real genuine temptation.
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- Three times the devil tempted jesus
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- And he overcame the devil.
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- And he did it by just quoting scripture.
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- He said, "it is written."
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- He didn't argue with the devil.
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- He didn't debate with him.
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- When the temptation came he just quoted scripture.
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- That's why it's so important to learn
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- As much scripture as you can.
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- Because when temptation comes,
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- The way to make him run
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- Is to quote scripture.
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- Because the scripture is the sword of the spirit.
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- And then after the temptation we begin to read,
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- "and he came to nazareth, where he had been brought up:
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- "and, as his custom was," he went to the church,
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- Or the synagogue, "on the sabbath day,
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- "and stood up to read."
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- Where do you go on sunday?
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- It says as his custom was.
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- Jesus, himself, went to church faithfully.
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- "and there was delivered unto him
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- "the book of the prophet isaiah.
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- "and when he had opened the book,
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- "he found the place where it was written."
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- That the 61st chapter of isaiah, by the way,
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- If you want to look it up in the old testament.
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- And he's quoting from the old testament.
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- He says, "the spirit of the lord is upon me,
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- "because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
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- "he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
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- "to preach deliverance to the captives,
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- "and recovering of sight to the blind,
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- "and set at liberty
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- "them that are bruised,
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- "to preach the acceptable year of the lord.
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- "and he closed the book,
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- "and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
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- "and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue
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- "were fastened on him."
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- Tonight i want us to fasten our eyes
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- On the person of jesus christ.
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- Not only who he was, but what he was
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- And what he can do for you.
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- Who is this jesus?
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- What did jesus claim?
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- When a president gives his inaugural address,
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- Its purpose is to announce to his fellow americans
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- What he hopes to accomplish during his administration
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- Over the next four years.
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- And here in luke the fourth chapter
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- Jesus gave his inauguration address.
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- He gave six reasons why he came to earth from heaven.
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- He said he'd come first
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- To preach the gospel to the poor.
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- The word gospel means good news.
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- He meant those that were poor in spirit, as well as,
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- Those that were physically poor.
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- He said i've come to bring good news to you.
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- I've come to tell you that i can help you
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- Solve your problems and heal your hurts.
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- I've come to tell you that i can save your soul.
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- I can guarantee that when you die you'll go to heaven.
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- Secondly, jesus said i've come to heal the broken hearted.
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- How many broken hearted people there are here tonight?
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- How many broken hearted that are watching on the television?
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- People yearn for good news.
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- He came to heal the broken hearted.
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- And thirdly, jesus came to preach deliverance
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- To the captives.
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- He meant people that were captured by habits
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- And sins that are wrong.
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- Many of you would like to break some of your bad habits,
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- But you can't do it.
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- He said i can help you break any habit you've got
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- That's wrong, if you'll let me.
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- Newspapers tell us about murders, and rapes,
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- And assaults and robberies,
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- Everything is increasing every year it seems.
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- And we're wondering what in the world
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- Are we going to do about it.
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- And then the drug problem
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- And the habits that people get into.
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- And then fourthly, jesus said
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- He came to bring sight to the blind.
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- And of course, we've seen people that are blind
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- Walking down the streets with their white canes,
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- Trying to find their way and pick their way
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- So they won't get hurt
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- And they're blind, physically blind.
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- But he was talking about the spiritually blind.
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- And there are many of us that have the best physical vision
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- That you could possibly have,
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- But we're spiritually blind.
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- We're blind toward god.
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- We're blind toward the needs of our fellow man.
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- We're blind toward the homeless people.
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- We're blind toward the suffering people.
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- We're blind toward people of another race
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- And their needs and what we could do
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- To go out of our way to help them and to love them.
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- And fifthly, jesus said he came to set at liberty
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- Those that are bruised.
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- How many bruised people are here tonight?
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- You're bruised by a family disorientation.
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- You're bruised by disagreements in the family
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- Or in the business or in your work place
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- Or with your neighbors.
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- Or you're bruised because somebody
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- Said something bad about you.
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- Or you're bruised by jealously,
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- You're bruised.
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- He said, "i've come to set at liberty those that are bruised."
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- And the eyes of all of them in the synagogue were on him.
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- I want you to get your eyes on him tonight.
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- And there are several things i want you to see about jesus.
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- First, he is the creative christ.
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- Now, we've had this great spaceship that's gone out
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- Called hubble.
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- And it's brought back to us visions of a universe
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- That we hardly dare dream about.
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- It's so much bigger.
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- So much beyond anything the scientists ever dreamed.
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- And yet the bible says
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- That jesus created all of it.
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- That's hard to comprehend, isn't it?
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- Its hard for my little brain to take in that
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- He is from everlasting to everlasting.
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- He never had a beginning, he never has an end.
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- And it says for by him were all things created
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- That are in heaven and that are in earth,
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- Visible and invisible.
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- Whether they're thrones or dominions,
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- Or principalities or powers.
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- All things were created by him and for him.
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- And he is before all things and by him
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- All things consist.
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- That word consist means hold together.
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- This podium would explode were it not for that
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- Unknown cohesive thing
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- That science has not yet discovered what it is
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- That holds it together.
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- And that certain something is christ.
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- The power of god holding everything together.
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- So that we set our watches and our clocks
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- By the stars and the moon and the sun.
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- So accurate, so perfect
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- And god created it all.
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- And christ was god.
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- And there are now billions of galaxies
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- That we didn't know existed.
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- But i think about those little insects.
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- I told my wife the other day, i said,
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- "you know, i've gotten so that i even don't step
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- "on those insects because i hate to see
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- "that little life snuffed out."
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- Because i know god put that insect there,
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- That ant or that spider or whatever it is.
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- And when you think about all the things that are in the sea,
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- All the little fish, all the big fish,
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- All the whales, everything; he created it all.
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- You know when they
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- Came back with some of those first reports from hubble,
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- One of the scientist said when he saw the pictures
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- And saw some of the things they were finding out,
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- He said, "makes you believe in god, doesn't it?"
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- It certainly does.
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- I don't see how a person can disbelieve god
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- When they see all of that.
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- Because man could not do it.
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- [applause]
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- Jesus, jesus was
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- The creative christ.
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- But he's also is the compassionate christ.
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- The scripture says he went about doing good.
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- Jesus never met a human need
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- That he didn't attempt to help.
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- He touched and cleansed the lepers.
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- We're living in a world that hurts.
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- He can touch our hurts.
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- He can bring life back to what
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- You thought was dead inside of you.
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- Compassion is a word that is often used,
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- But many people don't know what it means.
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- Compassion means that we suffer with the person
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- In our minds.
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- It means suffering with.
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- It doesn't mean that you are just sorry they're suffering,
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- It means that you do something about it.
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- You do what you can to help them.
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- As with mercy, compassion is complete
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- Only when actions to help accompany the feelings.
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- I hear about, i saw a cartoon where
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- A man had fallen down a deep well.
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- And another man had tossed him a rope.
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- And the man in the well was saying thanks for the rope,
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- But it would help more if you would hold onto the other end.
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- [laughter]
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- God not only gives us the rope,
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- But he holds the other end and he pulls us up.
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- He'll pull you out of that hole that you're in
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- And that thing that you can't...
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- [applause]
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- And we have so many diseases.
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- Jesus had compassion on the people with disease;
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- The psychological diseases
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- Such as guilt and loneliness
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- And fear and emptiness, and the fear of death and despair.
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- And many people have spiritual diseases.
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- Nicodemus was a great leader,
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- A religious leader.
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- And he came to jesus by night
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- And he wanted to talk to jesus about spiritual things.
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- And jesus said, "nicodemus, you need to be born again.
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- "you need the life of god in you
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- "to give you a new birth.
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- "and unless you have this new birth
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- "you cannot see the kingdom of heaven."
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- And nicodemus said,
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- "well, how can a man be born when he's old?"
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- Jesus said, "there's a mystery to it."
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- It's like the wind that blows.
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- You can see the evidence of it.
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- You can't reach out and grab it
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- And study it under a microscope.
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- But you see the effects.
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- And when christ comes into your heart
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- And you are born again you see the effects.
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- There's a new love, and a new joy,
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- And a new tenderness in your life
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- That you haven't had before.
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- [applause]
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- But he can also take the guilt away.
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- And he can also give the assurance
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- If you died tonight you'd go to heaven.
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- [applause]
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- And wherever you go in the world
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- You see hospitals that have been built by believers,
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- Named after the apostles; many saint paul hospitals
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- Or saint luke's hospitals and so forth.
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- He's helped teach people to read and write,
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- To counsel the depressed, the suicidal, the drug users,
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- People with aids, the homeless.
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- All of that jesus wants us to become involved in.
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- He had compassion.
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- He's interested in all of those people and he loves them
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- And he wants to help them if you'll let him.
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- [applause]
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- Jesus looked on the world
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- And the scripture says that he loved the world, so much so
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- That he was willing to die on the cross
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- And shed his blood
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- So that the world could be saved.
- 00:13:53.003 --> 00:13:55.305
- And i look on the world today and i feel helpless.
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- As i look on the world scenes today
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- And read the newspapers.
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- How can i cope with it?
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- What more can i do?
- 00:14:04.881 --> 00:14:07.484
- Jesus said, "without me you can do nothing."
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- But with me you can change the world.
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- And i believe that we christians could change the world.
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- [applause]
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- You know it's interesting to me when jesus left the scene,
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- When he died on the cross,
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- When he arose from the dead,
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- He had not healed all the people that were sick.
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- He had not fed all the people that were hungry.
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- And yet he said, "i have finished the work which
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- "thou gavest me to do."
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- But jesus said, "the wheat and the tares
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- "are going to grow together."
- 00:14:48.758 --> 00:14:51.261
- In other words, he said that evil is going to get worse
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- And good is going to get better
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- And they're going to grow together.
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- It looks like a paradox.
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- Then he said, "then shall the end come."
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- Now the end in the teachings of jesus
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- Is the end of this age and a new kingdom will be ushered in
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- And we'll live in a new world.
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- Jesus christ is going to come back as the prince of peace.
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- [applause]
- 00:15:21.291 --> 00:15:27.630
- And then he was also the crucified christ.
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- The creative christ
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- And the compassionate christ
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- And the crucified christ.
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- No one living today can imagine what the cross was.
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- Death by crucifixion was a lingering death,
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- Which took sometimes hours and days
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- Before the victim died;
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- The mocking, the scoffing, the insults hurled at him.
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- And when they mocked him,
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- He said, "don't you know that i can pray to my father
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- "and he can send 72,000 angels to rescue me?"
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- Why didn't he do it?
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- Why did he stay on the cross?
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- Why did he die?
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- Not because he'd sinned, he had broken no laws.
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- He wasn't guilty of anything.
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- He died in your place.
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- He died in my place.
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- Because the bible teaches that you and i are sinners.
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- We have broken god's laws.
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- I've broken the laws, the laws of god,
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- The ten commandments, the sermon on the mount.
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- I haven't lived up to the sermon on the mount
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- And i haven't kept all the commandments.
- 00:16:47.977 --> 00:16:51.347
- And the scripture says if you've ever broken one commandment
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- You've broken them all.
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- So i'm guilty of all in the sight of god
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- And so are you.
- 00:16:58.788 --> 00:17:00.857
- And the result of that
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- Breaking of the law is death.
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- Not only natural death
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- That we know all about when we see the tombstones
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- And we see those crosses at normandy.
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- Each one standing for a person that died.
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- Died so that we can have the freedoms
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- That we have today.
- 00:17:24.013 --> 00:17:26.216
- But they were people too
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- And they have to stand before god as individuals.
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- All the suffering and the shame and the disgrace
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- And the dishonor that you and i deserve
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- He bore for you.
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- The scriptures says he was made a curse for you.
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- The sin that you and i committed he took on the cross.
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- He became guilty of your sins and mine.
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- He became guilty of murder, of adultery.
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- He had never committed a sin.
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- And you can imagine what it must have meant
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- To have that on him.
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- "for he hath made him to be sin for us
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- "who knew no sin
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- "that we might be made the righteousness of god in him."
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- Because of the cross
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- God offers forgiveness to you.
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- He offers to place you before him
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- As though you had never committed a sin.
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- Yes, there's going to be a judgment.
- 00:18:23.173 --> 00:18:25.141
- God is a god of love and mercy.
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- But he's also a god of judgment.
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- There's going to be a great judgment day
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- In which you're going to stand before god some day
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- And give an account of your life here and now.
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- How are you going to stand?
- 00:18:37.820 --> 00:18:39.656
- Life is so short.
- 00:18:39.689 --> 00:18:41.090
- Somebody asked me what was the greatest surprise of my life.
- 00:18:41.124 --> 00:18:44.294
- I said, "the brevity of life."
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- I didn't dream that life was so quick.
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- It seems like only yesterday
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- That i was just a boy.
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- And here all these years have passed
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- You don't know when your moment is going to come
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- When you have to stand before god.
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- And the sin that god cannot forgive,
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- Think of it, he cannot forgive this sin,
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- He cannot forgive the sin
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- Of your turning jesus christ down.
- 00:19:13.823 --> 00:19:17.093
- If you say no to christ he can't forgive it.
- 00:19:17.126 --> 00:19:21.331
- Because he's made that as the road to heaven
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- By the way of the cross.
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- The man and the woman who does not flee to the cross
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- To accept the shelter that god offers is doomed.
- 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:36.512
- He's also the conquering christ.
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- That means that he rose again.
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- He didn't stay on a cross.
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- He rose again and tonight he's alive.
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- He's a living christ.
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- [applause]
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- He's a living christ.
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- And i don't offer you a dead christ on a cross.
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- I offer you a christ who's alive
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- And who is someday going to
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- Be king of kings and lord of lords.
- 00:20:09.612 --> 00:20:12.649
- [applause]
- 00:20:12.649 --> 00:20:14.317
- He said, "i am the resurrection
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- "and the life and he that believeth in me
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- "though he were dead yet shall he live."
- 00:20:17.553 --> 00:20:20.023
- His resurrection is mentioned more than a hundred times
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- In the new testament.
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- He's the contemporary christ.
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- He's the one that can transform you
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- And change you.
- 00:20:30.266 --> 00:20:31.401
- And people could stand up all over this stadium
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- And say yes christ changed me.
- 00:20:33.503 --> 00:20:36.005
- Christ came into my heart.
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- [applause]
- 00:20:37.874 --> 00:20:47.250
- And then lastly, he's the coming christ.
- 00:20:47.283 --> 00:20:50.887
- Jesus said, "i will come again."
- 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:56.526
- The scripture says, "in such an hour as ye think not
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- "the son of man cometh.
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- "behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him."
- 00:21:00.997 --> 00:21:05.034
- And the whole world, you can sense it, i can sense it.
- 00:21:05.068 --> 00:21:07.437
- The whole world seems to be reaching some sort of a climax.
- 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:12.342
- And that climax is christ
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- And he's going to sit on the throne
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- And he's going to rule.
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- [applause]
- 00:21:20.316 --> 00:21:26.923
- Now what do you have to do?
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- There are three things that you must do.
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- And you should do it tonight, don't wait.
- 00:21:32.295 --> 00:21:34.964
- Because you may never have another moment like this
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- As long as you live.
- 00:21:37.066 --> 00:21:41.304
- The first thing you must do is repent.
- 00:21:41.337 --> 00:21:43.373
- "repent ye therefore and be converted
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- "that your sins may be blotted out,"
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- The scripture says.
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- "god commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent."
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- Repentance means that you say, i'm sorry i have sinned.
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- I'm willing to turn from my sins.
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- I'm willing to go in a new direction,
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- If you will help me, lord.
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- I can't repent by myself.
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- But with your help, i'll repent.
- 00:22:08.331 --> 00:22:11.434
- And then the second thing is,
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- You must have faith to believe in christ.
- 00:22:12.568 --> 00:22:15.004
- Get your eyes on him.
- 00:22:15.037 --> 00:22:17.774
- Don't trust in your own religious background
- 00:22:17.807 --> 00:22:21.711
- Or your own good works.
- 00:22:21.744 --> 00:22:23.379
- Say to god, oh god i know that i have sinned.
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- You may be a leader in the church.
- 00:22:32.054 --> 00:22:33.890
- You may be a minister in the church.
- 00:22:33.923 --> 00:22:37.126
- You may be a bishop in the church.
- 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:39.962
- I've had bishops come to me in private
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- And tell me they're not certain that they're ready to meet god
- 00:22:42.331 --> 00:22:45.701
- And they want me to pray for them.
- 00:22:45.735 --> 00:22:48.137
- I had the head of a great church, a few years ago,
- 00:22:48.171 --> 00:22:52.742
- Call me to his bedside when he was dying
- 00:22:52.775 --> 00:22:57.847
- And i prayed with him.
- 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:00.450
- You can be in the church, a leader in the church
- 00:23:04.454 --> 00:23:08.157
- And still not certain that you know christ.
- 00:23:08.191 --> 00:23:11.894
- You can know him before you leave here.
- 00:23:11.928 --> 00:23:13.696
- You can know that your sins are forgiven.
- 00:23:13.729 --> 00:23:15.665
- You can know that if you died tonight you'd go to heaven.
- 00:23:15.698 --> 00:23:19.368
- I'm going to ask you to make that kind of a commitment.
- 00:23:19.402 --> 00:23:25.174
- You're not here tonight by accident.
- 00:23:25.208 --> 00:23:27.844
- You're here because in the providence of god
- 00:23:27.877 --> 00:23:29.879
- He arranged for you to be here to hear what
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- The gospel is tonight.
- 00:23:32.982 --> 00:23:35.017
- I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat
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- As we've seen thousands of people do on every continent.
- 00:23:36.819 --> 00:23:40.857
- I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat and come
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- And stand in front of the platform here.
- 00:23:43.860 --> 00:23:45.695
- There's plenty of room.
- 00:23:45.728 --> 00:23:47.830
- You might have been in the choir.
- 00:23:47.864 --> 00:23:50.166
- You might be a leader in the church.
- 00:23:50.199 --> 00:23:52.368
- You might have been baptized.
- 00:23:52.401 --> 00:23:53.669
- You might have been confirmed.
- 00:23:53.703 --> 00:23:55.338
- I don't know, but you need christ.
- 00:23:55.371 --> 00:23:57.940
- You're not certain how you stand before god,
- 00:23:57.974 --> 00:24:00.676
- You come.
- 00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:03.179
- And everyone else be in prayer.
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- ♪
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- ♪ just as i am without one plea... ♪
- 00:24:07.617 --> 00:24:18.060
- (announcer) as hundreds are responding to mr. graham's invitation
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- To make a public commitment to jesus christ,
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- You can make that same commitment
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- Right where you are.
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- Just pick up the phone
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- And call the number you see on your screen. special
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- Friends are waiting to talk with you and pray with you
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- About this most important decision.
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- ♪ ...come to thee ♪
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- ♪ oh, lamb of god, i come ♪
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- ♪ i come ♪
- 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:59.302
- (cliff barrows) just as these many have done here in cleveland,
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- There's time for you to make that important decision
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- Yourself, to follow christ.
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- Just call the number on the screen.
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- It could be the most important phone call you ever make,
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- So call right now.
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- ♪ with many a conflict, many a doubt ♪
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- ♪ fightings within and fears without ♪
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- ♪ o lamb of god i come ♪
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- ♪ i come ♪
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- ♪♪
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- And i want you that are watching by television to know
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- That you can make the same commitment
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- That the people that are here
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- In this great stadium in cleveland, ohio,
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- Are making tonight.
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- You can say yes to christ.
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- You can say, lord come into my heart.
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- I repent of my sins. i receive you.
- 00:26:21.250 --> 00:26:24.754
- And christ will come into your heart wherever you are;
- 00:26:24.754 --> 00:26:28.357
- Whatever state you're in, whatever city,
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- Whatever village, whatever farm, or whatever country.
- 00:26:30.092 --> 00:26:36.599
- You may be in a place you shouldn't be
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- And you're watching with some friends
- 00:26:40.136 --> 00:26:42.304
- And maybe you've been laughing and making fun of all this.
- 00:26:42.304 --> 00:26:45.908
- You can make that commitment quietly
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- In your heart right now.
- 00:26:47.743 --> 00:26:49.712
- If you just prayed that prayer with my father,
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- Or if you have any questions
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- About a relationship with jesus christ,
- 00:26:53.816 --> 00:26:56.285
- Why don't you call the number on the screen.
- 00:26:56.285 --> 00:26:58.921
- There will be someone there to talk with you, pray with you and
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- Answer those questions.
- 00:27:01.924 --> 00:27:03.359
- And remember, god loves you!
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- If you would like to commit your life to jesus christ,
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- Please call us right now, toll free at
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- 1-800-380-6804.
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- 00:27:18.274 --> 00:27:22.078
- Or you can write to us at:
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- 1 billy graham parkway
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- Department c
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- Charlotte, nc 28201
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- Or you can contact us on the web 24/7 at billygrahamtv.org.
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- Who responds at the invitation.
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- On behalf of franklin graham and
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- The billy graham evangelistic association
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- Thank you for watching and
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- Thank you for your prayers.
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- It's anne, she's in trouble.
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- If you don't take it to the edge every chance you get,
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- You're dead already, baby.
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- I was in trouble
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- And i didn't know what to do.
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- (slap) "ow!"
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- (nazi) where are the jews?
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- I knew that i could take on the world.
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- It's like you're in a dream, but not really a dream,
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- This is reality.
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- I don't really believe in all this but
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- I know something crazy
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- Is happening right now.
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