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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How Can I Know The Bible Is True? (Part 1B) | January 13, 2025
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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- Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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- With dr. robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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- Again to "pathway to victory."
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- Many people see the bible as nothing more than a collection
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- Of creative fairy tales.
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- Few have read it, let alone opened it.
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- But as christians, we need to be prepared to defend the
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- Credibility of god's word with simple and convincing facts, and
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- We need to bolster our personal confidence in the authority of
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- Scripture as well.
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- So how exactly can we do that?
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- We're answering the question, "how can i know
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- The bible is true?" on today's edition
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- Of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ behold, ♪
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- ♪ hanging before you ♪
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- ♪ is the sacrifice of god. ♪
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- ♪ the lamb, pure and holy. ♪
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- ♪ creation stands in awe. ♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ removing all that hinders ♪
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- ♪ the worship of our king. ♪
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- ♪ as he cries, "it is is finished," ♪
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- ♪ heaven sings. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ let the praise go up. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ let the praise go up. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ we're in the presence of the lord. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ let the praise go up. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ let the praise go up. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ we're in the presence of the lord. ♪
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- ♪ hosanna. ♪
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- ♪ in the highest. ♪
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- ♪ hosanna. ♪
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- ♪ in the highest. ♪
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- ♪ hosanna. ♪
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- ♪ in the highest. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ let the praise go up. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ let the praise go up. ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down. ♪
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- ♪ we're in the presence of ♪
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- ♪ the lord. ♪
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- ♪ we're in the presence of ♪
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- ♪ the lord. ♪
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- Announcer: it's okay to have questions about your faith,
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- But you need answers you can trust.
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- In his book "how can i know?"
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- Dr. robert jeffress addresses seven of life's
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- Most important questions.
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- If you've ever wondered how you can know the bible is true or
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- How you can know if you're going to heaven,
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: a few years ago, i was on a popular talk show.
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- It was the most popular talk show of its time, and the host
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- Said, "you know, pastor, i believe the new testament, but i
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- Just can't accept that story in the old testament about noah.
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- I just think it's a myth that couldn't be real."
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- And i said, "well, notice that jesus attached his second coming
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- To that story that you think is a myth.
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- Just suppose jesus had said instead, 'just as it was in the
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- Days of the easter bunny, so shall it be
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- When the son of man comes again.'"
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- If jesus attached his second coming to the easter
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- Bunny, would you have any confidence he's coming
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- Back again?
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- It makes no sense to try to link reality with a fictitious or a
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- Myth of an occurrence.
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- It just doesn't make any sense.
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- The only way to prove reality is with other reality.
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- My point is jesus believed the stories of the old testament,
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- But it didn't stop there.
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- He believed every word of the old testament was inspired
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- By god.
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- For example, in matthew 22, jesus was arguing with the
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- Sadducees, a sect of the jews, about the resurrection.
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- They didn't believe in eternity.
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- They didn't believe in a resurrection.
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- And so, jesus proved to them that the old testament taught
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- The resurrection.
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- Matthew 22:31-32, jesus said, "but regarding the resurrection
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- Of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by
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- God, 'i am the god of abraham, and isaac, and jacob?'"
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- Jesus said, "he is not the god of the dead but of the living."
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- What jesus was doing was going back to exodus 3, verse 6,
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- The story of the burning bush.
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- Remember god appeared to moses in the burning bush and told him
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- To go to pharaoh?
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- And moses said, "if i'm to go to pharaoh, who am i to say
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- Sent me?"
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- He said, "tell them 'i am' sent you.
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- For i am the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob."
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- Now, abraham, isaac, and jacob had been dead hundreds of years.
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- They were dead.
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- They were in the grave when yahweh said that to moses.
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- If they were dead and there was no resurrection, then yahweh
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- Should have said to moses, "tell pharaoh i was the god of
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- Abraham, isaac, and jacob," but jesus said, "that's not what
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- God said."
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- He said, "i am the god," meaning that abraham, isaac, and jacob
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- Are still alive.
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- They were resurrected.
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- My point is, jesus based the entire doctrine of the
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- Resurrection on the tense of one word.
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- The fact that god said "i am" versus "i was" is proof of
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- The resurrection.
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- Jesus believed every word of the old testament was inspired by
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- God, but it doesn't stop there.
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- He believed every letter of every word, every stroke of
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- Every letter of every word was god-breathed.
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- Matthew 5:17 to 18, jesus said, "don't think that i came to
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- Abolish the law of the prophets; i did not come to abolish, but
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- To fulfill.
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- For i say to you, until heaven and earth shall pass away, not
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- The smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the law, until
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- It's all accomplished."
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- The smallest letter in hebrew is the yod.
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- It's about as big as an apostrophe.
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- When he talks about the smallest stroke, the stroke is what could
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- Change one letter of the hebrew alphabet into another letter.
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- For example, in our english language,
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- Think of the word rat, r-a-t.
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- Do you know it only takes one stroke on that r to
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- Change the r into an f and turn "rat" into "fat?"
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- Is there a difference between rat and fat?
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- You probably don't want to be called either one, but the words
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- Are different in their meaning.
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- It changes the meaning of the word, changes the meaning of
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- A sentence.
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- What i'm saying to you is jesus so believed in the inspiration
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- Of the scriptures, he believed every stroke of every letter of
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- Every word of the old testament is god-breathed.
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- That was jesus's view on inerrancy.
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- Well, you've covered the old testament.
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- What about the new testament?
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- You know, the bible treats the new testament as scripture?
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- Paul believed that.
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- For example, in 1 timothy 5, verse 18, paul is talking to
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- Timothy about paying those who are ministers in the church,
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- Paying them well.
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- Now i'm not sneaking in a secret message here.
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- Our church pays our staff wonderfully well,
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- Wonderfully, generously.
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- But this is a great illustration of inspiration.
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- He was saying, "those who work hard preaching and teaching,
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- Compensate them well."
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- And then he cites evidence from the scriptures.
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- He says, 1 timothy 5:18, "for the scripture says, 'you shall
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- Not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,' and," he quotes
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- Another verse, "the laborer is worthy of his wages."
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- Now the first verse paul quotes, we know where that comes from,
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- Deuteronomy 25, verse 4, that's scripture.
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- That's the old testament.
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- But what about this scripture, "the laborer is worthy of his
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- Wages," where is that found in the old testament?
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- Answer: nowhere.
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- You can search the old testament.
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- That scripture isn't there.
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- Instead it's a quotation of luke chapter 10, verse 7.
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- It's a gospel.
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- The new testament was still being written when paul wrote
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- These words, but luke's gospel had already been penned, and he
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- Said, "luke's writing is scripture."
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- It's on the same level as the old testament.
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- Peter believed that even the writings of paul were scripture.
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- In 2 peter 3, verses 15 to 16, peter says, "and regard the
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- Patience of our lord is salvation; just as also our
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- Beloved brother paul," they didn't get along all the time,
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- But peter still loved him, "our beloved brother paul, according
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- To the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all of his
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- Letters, speaking in them of these things, in which some
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- Things are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable
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- Distort, just as they do the rest of scriptures," underline
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- That, "to their own destruction." you know what
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- He's saying?
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- He's saying, "paul's hard to understand something at times."
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- His writings are hard to understand.
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- Do i hear an amen on that?
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- Peter was frustrated.
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- He had these run-on sentences that just didn't seem to make
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- Sense sometimes.
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- But peter said, "nevertheless, evil people will try to distort
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- Paul's words, as they do the rest of scriptures."
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- Paul's writing was considered to be scripture.
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- Now again, i realize that this evidence of what the bible says
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- About itself is probably the least persuasive, but it's
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- Important to know what the bible claims.
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- When we say the bible is inerrant, we are not claiming
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- Anything the bible does not claim.
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- Secondly, fulfilled prophecy.
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- Did you know no other religious book, the book of mormon, the
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- Qur'an, any other religious book, no religious book has any
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- Example of fulfilled prophecy.
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- There's not one prophecy that was made that can show to
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- Be fulfilled.
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- But the bible has dozens of fulfilled prophecies.
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- Let me just give you two examples: one from the old
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- Testament, a prophecy considering a king named cyrus.
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- In 700 bc, isaiah the prophet made a prophecy.
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- He said, "at some point in the future, judah," the southern
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- Kingdom of israel, "is gonna be taken captive by the nation
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- Of babylon."
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- He made that prophecy in isaiah 39, verses 5 to 6. one day
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- Babylon will overtake the southern kingdom.
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- Now, that's interesting because babylon was a minor player on
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- The world stage.
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- It wasn't a superpower, but isaiah said they're gonna
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- Overtake judah and take them captive.
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- He made that a hundred years before that happened.
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- And guess what?
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- In 586 bc, that's exactly what happened.
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- But isaiah didn't stop there.
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- He said, "furthermore, in the future after judah's taken
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- Captive, another king is going to take babylon captive,
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- Overthrow babylon," and that was fulfilled in 539 bc when persia
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- Overtook babylon.
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- But isaiah didn't stop there.
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- He said not only that, but that king of persia, who overtakes
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- Babylon, will issue a decree that allows israel to go back
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- And rebuild the city of jerusalem, and that's what
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- Happened in 538 bc.
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- But isaiah didn't stop there.
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- A hundred and fifty years before the fact, he identified the name
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- Of that king who would issue the edict for israel to go back to
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- Judah, cyrus the great.
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- Isaiah 44, verse 28, "it is i who says of cyrus, 'he is
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- My shepherd!
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- And he will perform all my desire,' and he declares of
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- Jerusalem, 'she will be built,' and of the temple,
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- 'your foundation will be laid.'"
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- Now this was made, this prophecy by isaiah,
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- 150 years before it all came to fruition.
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- Let me illustrate how unbelievable that is.
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- Just imagine that in 1850, someone made this prediction:
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- One day in the future, america will suffer an invasion on its
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- Own soil by terrorists from other countries.
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- Furthermore, in response to that invasion, the united states will
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- Launch an attack against afghanistan and iraq.
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- And furthermore, the name of the president at that time who will
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- Issue the command for those attacks is george w. bush.
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- Could you believe that would happen?
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- That is just exactly what happened when 150 years before
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- The fact, isaiah predicted not only the future of judah but of
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- Persia and identified the name of a man who hadn't even been
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- Born yet who would be the one who would fulfill this prophecy.
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- That's just one example of many fulfilled prophecies in the
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- Old testament.
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- What about the new testament?
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- Let's consider the prophecies concerning jesus.
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- Now, there's 61 major prophecies about the life, and ministry,
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- And death of jesus.
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- Hundreds of prophecies, probably not, but 61 major ones that are
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- Found in the old testament, and they were fulfilled, all of
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- Them, by jesus.
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- Now some skeptics might actually ask a question you've wondered
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- About: couldn't jesus have just arranged his life so that he met
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- Those qualifications, he fulfilled those prophecies?
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- In other words, he self-fulfilled them to deceive
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- People into thinking he was the messiah.
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- For example, psalm 22 says that the messiah, when he's
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- Crucified, will say, "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?"
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- Jesus knew the old testament.
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- Could he have just repeated those words on the cross?
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- The honest answer is yes, there are some of those prophecies
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- That could have been fulfilled in an attempt to deceive people.
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- But most of those prophecies, jesus had no way, if he were
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- Just a human being, of fulfilling those prophecies.
- 00:16:45.194 --> 00:16:48.130
- For example, 700 years before the fact, micah the prophet
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- Prophesied the place that jesus would be born, in bethlehem.
- 00:16:53.368 --> 00:16:58.574
- Now i don't know about you, did you get to choose the place you
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- Would be born?
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- I was born down the street at saint paul hospital, but i had
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- No say in the matter.
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- I didn't confer with my parents about it.
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- They picked it.
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- It was decided for me.
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- The time of his birth, daniel 9:25, the manner of his birth,
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- That he was born of a virgin.
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- That he would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, that was
- 00:17:19.061 --> 00:17:24.233
- Prophesied almost 800 years before it happened.
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- The manner of his death, crucifixion, that was prophesied
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- Hundreds of years before crucifixion was even invented by
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- The romans.
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- His burial in a rich man's tomb, isaiah 53:9, all prophesied, and
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- All of these prophecies came true.
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- What are the chances that one man in history could have
- 00:17:44.419 --> 00:17:47.523
- Accidentally fulfilled just 8 of those 61 prophecies?
- 00:17:47.523 --> 00:17:52.928
- You've heard me say this before.
- 00:17:52.928 --> 00:17:54.396
- Mathematician peter stoner says the odds of one man fulfilling
- 00:17:54.396 --> 00:17:58.534
- Eight of these prophecies is 1 in 10 to 17th power.
- 00:17:58.534 --> 00:18:03.639
- That's a 1 with 17 zeros behind it.
- 00:18:03.639 --> 00:18:06.775
- Now, to give you an idea of how improbable that is, peter stoner
- 00:18:06.775 --> 00:18:12.581
- Says 1 in 10 to the 17th would be like filling the state of
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- Texas with silver dollars 2 feet deep.
- 00:18:16.418 --> 00:18:20.055
- Just imagine waiting around texas in silver dollars 2 feet
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- Deep and imagine taking one of those silver dollars, he says,
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- And putting a black x on it, throwing it in the pool of
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- Silver dollars, mixing it up real well, and then to start
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- Walking from el paso to tyler, from amarillo to brownsville.
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- And at a random moment, you stop, you lean over, and you
- 00:18:40.175 --> 00:18:43.679
- Pick up one of those silver dollars.
- 00:18:43.679 --> 00:18:46.148
- The chance that it's the one with the x on it is 1 in 10 to
- 00:18:46.148 --> 00:18:50.519
- The 17th power, the same odds that jesus could have
- 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:55.324
- Accidentally fulfilled 8 of these 61 prophecies.
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- You have prophecies like that throughout the scripture that
- 00:19:00.495 --> 00:19:03.665
- Argue for the trustworthiness of the bible.
- 00:19:03.665 --> 00:19:06.668
- And finally, the unity of the bible, the unity of the bible.
- 00:19:06.668 --> 00:19:11.907
- Contrast the bible with another well-known religious book, the
- 00:19:11.907 --> 00:19:15.510
- Qur'an of islam.
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- Mohammad wrote the qur'an over a period of 23 years.
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- He claims that the angel gabriel came and delivered to him the
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- Message that became the qur'an.
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- And though it was written just by one man in a short period of
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- Time 23 years ago, there's an amazing amount of disunity in
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- The qur'an.
- 00:19:38.300 --> 00:19:39.635
- By the way, that's not just coming from me.
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- Ken woodward, writing in "newsweek" magazine, contrasted
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- The qur'an from the bible, and he said, quote, "as sacred
- 00:19:45.741 --> 00:19:50.212
- Texts, however, the bible and qur'an could not be
- 00:19:50.212 --> 00:19:53.515
- More different.
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- To read the qur'an is like entering a stream.
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- At almost any point one may come upon a command of god, or a
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- Burst of prayer, a theological pronouncement, the story of an
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- Earlier prophet or a description of a final judgment.
- 00:20:05.761 --> 00:20:09.364
- None of its 114 chapters focuses on a single theme." isn't
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- That interesting?
- 00:20:15.570 --> 00:20:17.105
- No unity, no theme, contrast that to the bible.
- 00:20:17.105 --> 00:20:20.876
- Bible wasn't written by one man.
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- It was written by over 40 authors over a span of
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- 1,500 years.
- 00:20:25.914 --> 00:20:28.250
- It was written in geographical locations 2,000 miles away, from
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- Babylon to jerusalem to rome.
- 00:20:33.088 --> 00:20:35.824
- Those who wrote the bible were from various backgrounds, kings,
- 00:20:35.824 --> 00:20:41.897
- Sheepherders, doctors, men who, for the most part, didn't know
- 00:20:41.897 --> 00:20:47.269
- One another or converse with one another, and yet there is a
- 00:20:47.269 --> 00:20:51.239
- Single clear theme throughout the bible, as dr. criswell
- 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:54.743
- Called it, the scarlet thread of redemption.
- 00:20:54.743 --> 00:20:57.646
- It's woven through every one of the bible's books.
- 00:20:57.646 --> 00:21:01.049
- And not only that, there's a consistency in imagery.
- 00:21:01.049 --> 00:21:04.586
- The images you have in genesis are the same as the images you
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- Have in the revelation.
- 00:21:08.590 --> 00:21:10.926
- How amazing is that that 40 authors over 1,500 years in
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- Countries 2,000 miles apart, never talking to one another,
- 00:21:15.864 --> 00:21:20.068
- Could come up with a bible that is unified?
- 00:21:20.068 --> 00:21:23.739
- My friend erwin lutzer describes it this way.
- 00:21:23.739 --> 00:21:26.875
- To describe the miracle of the unity of the bible, he said,
- 00:21:26.875 --> 00:21:31.046
- "imagine various pieces of a great cathedral, arriving from
- 00:21:31.046 --> 00:21:35.684
- Different countries and cities, converging at a single location.
- 00:21:35.684 --> 00:21:40.622
- In fact, imagine that investigation proves that 40
- 00:21:40.622 --> 00:21:44.526
- Different sculptors made a contribution over a period of
- 00:21:44.526 --> 00:21:49.131
- Many centuries.
- 00:21:49.131 --> 00:21:51.166
- Yet, the pieces fit together to form a single
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- Magnificent structure.
- 00:21:55.036 --> 00:21:57.472
- Would this not be proof that behind that project was a
- 00:21:57.472 --> 00:22:00.909
- Single mind?
- 00:22:00.909 --> 00:22:02.477
- One designer who used his workmen to sculpt a
- 00:22:02.477 --> 00:22:06.481
- Well-conceived plan?
- 00:22:06.481 --> 00:22:08.617
- The bible is that cathedral,
- 00:22:08.617 --> 00:22:12.421
- Overseen by one super intelligent architect."
- 00:22:12.421 --> 00:22:18.627
- What is the evidence that the bible is true?
- 00:22:18.627 --> 00:22:22.497
- We've talked about what the bible claims about itself.
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- We've talked about the fulfilled prophecies, hundreds of them, in
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- The bible.
- 00:22:30.272 --> 00:22:31.606
- We've talked about the unity of theme.
- 00:22:31.606 --> 00:22:33.608
- Next week, we'll look at the final piece of evidence that
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- Makes the bible trustworthy and i'm gonna answer three of the
- 00:22:36.812 --> 00:22:40.215
- Most commonly asked questions: what about all of the
- 00:22:40.215 --> 00:22:43.685
- Contradictions, so-called contradictions, in the bible?
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- How do we handle mistakes copyists may have made in
- 00:22:48.457 --> 00:22:52.461
- Copying the manuscripts?
- 00:22:52.461 --> 00:22:54.396
- And how do we know that we've got the right books in
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- The bible?
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- I'll answer those questions next week as we continue to answer
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- The question, "how can i know the bible is true?"
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: so many have dismissed the bible as just another
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- Religious book, but i hope today's message has equipped you
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- To defend the beautiful tapestry of grace and redemption woven
- 00:23:18.253 --> 00:23:22.691
- Throughout the bible with the clear evidence that scripture is
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- God's word to man.
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