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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How Can I Know Christianity Is The Right Religion? | January 19, 2025
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- [announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas, this is pathway to victory
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- With dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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- In our pluralistic society people
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- From all walks of life are invited
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- To participate in mormonism, islam, buddhism, judaism,
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- Christianity, and everything in between.
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- And while we celebrate religious freedom and tolerance,
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- Not all religions are equally valid, so why do
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- So many people insist that there are multiple paths to god?
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- And what are the implications of embracing that idea?
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- We're answering the question,
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- "how can i know christianity is the right religion?"
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- On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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- ♪ when peace like a river attended my way ♪
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- ♪ whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say ♪
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- ♪ it is well, it is well, with my soul ♪
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- ♪ it is well, it is well ♪
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- ♪ with my soul, with my soul ♪
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- ♪ it is well, it is well with my soul ♪
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- ♪ and lord haste the day when my faith shall be sight ♪
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- ♪ the clouds be rolled back as a scroll ♪
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- ♪ the trump shall resound and the lord shall descend ♪
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- ♪ even so, it is well with my soul ♪
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- ♪ it is well, it is well ♪
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- ♪ with my soul, with my soul ♪
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- ♪ it is well, it is well with my soul ♪
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- ♪ amen ♪
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- (applause)
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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
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- Of life's most important questions.
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- If you've ever wondered how you can know the bible is true
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- Or how you can know if you're going to heaven,
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- This book makes a compelling case
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- For answers you can embrace with confidence.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- We're in a series entitled,
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- "how can i know?
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- Answers to life's 7 most important questions."
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- And last time we began
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- By looking at the foundational question,
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- "how can i know there is a god?"
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- And we said, "you can't prove the existence of god.
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- The atheist can't prove the non-existence of god."
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- But the real question is,
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- "where does the best evidence lead?"
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- And when we look at the evidence,
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- We see god's fingerprints all over this universe.
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- The existence of matter, the design in the universe,
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- The existence of man, and the experiential argument,
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- If god doesn't exist, why do so many people find him anyway?
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- But even if you can see there is a god somewhere
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- Who is responsible for everything we see,
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- The question is, "which god do we worship?"
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- There are thousands of different gods, who is the right god?
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- And if you settle on who the right god is,
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- What is the right way to worship him?
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- That's what religion is all about.
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- It answers the question,
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- "how can i have a right relationship with god?"
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- There are a lot of different ideas.
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- So, out of thousands of gods
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- And thousands of world religions,
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- How can i know christianity is the right religion?
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- That's what we're going to talk about today.
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- Now, some people even bristle
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- At the idea of a right religion.
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- They say that leads to intolerance.
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- They think religion is a matter of opinion,
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- Like the best temperature.
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- If you ask people what is the right temperature,
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- Some will say 72, some will say 68, some will say 76.
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- Everybody has a different idea.
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- But there's a difference between asking,
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- What temperature do you like best
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- To what is the temperature?
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- There's one answer to that.
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- It's whatever the thermometer says.
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- When it comes to religion,
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- People want to say it's a matter of opinion,
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- But no, it's more in the realm of mathematics.
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- Two and two, two plus two isn't whatever you wish it were.
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- Water doesn't freeze at whatever temperature you say,
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- There is a precise answer.
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- And that is true in the world of spiritual things as well.
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- What is the right way to worship god?
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- It's not whatever you think is the right way.
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- There's an objective answer to that question.
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- Some people say to preach exclusivity
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- That any religion is the right religion is first
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- Of all leading to intolerance.
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- Other people say
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- That exclusivity saying there's one religion is unnecessary,
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- Because after all, they say all the world religions teach
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- Basically the same thing.
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- Anybody who says that has never studied the world religions,
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- Because in fact they don't say the same thing.
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- That's why there are thousands of different religions
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- Because of different beliefs,
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- Not because of unanimity of belief.
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- And then thirdly, some people find the idea
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- Of christianity being the right religion as troubling.
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- They say, "don't you realize, pastor jeffress,
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- There are eight billion people who live on planet earth.
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- Only 2.2 billion can even be categorized as christian,
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- And that's more because of nationality
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- Where they're born than any personal decision."
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- But let's be generous.
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- Let's say there are 2.2 billion people who are christians.
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- That means there are 5.8 billion people who are wrong.
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- How can so many people be wrong?
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- We'll talk about that in a moment.
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- And yet, the bible is clear.
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- Christianity offers the one true way to god.
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- What is the evidence for that?
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- Today i'd like you to consider four pieces of evidence
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- That lead to the conclusion,
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- Christianity is the right religion.
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- First of all, the uniqueness of jesus christ.
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- The uniqueness of jesus christ,
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- It's interesting, few historians doubt that jesus existed.
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- Jesus claimed to be god.
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- No religious leader, no founder of a religion ever claimed
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- To be god himself.
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- They simply claimed to point people
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- To whatever god they believed was the real god.
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- He didn't go to the cross.
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- He wasn't crucified for saying, "turn the other cheek."
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- Nobody was offended by that.
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- He was crucified for claiming to be god.
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- Secondly, jesus claimed to forgive sins.
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- No other religious leader ever claimed the ability
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- To forgive a person of their sins.
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- For example, buddha said,
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- "in reality, there are no living beings
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- To whom the lord buddha can bring salvation."
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- But jesus claimed that he had that authority.
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- Jesus claimed to be god, he claimed to forgive sins.
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- Thirdly, he claimed to conquer death.
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- No other religious leader claimed the power
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- To conquer death, but jesus did.
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- In fact, it was central to his teaching.
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- In matthew 16:21 matthew writes,
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- "from that time jesus began to show his disciples
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- That he must go to jerusalem and suffer many things
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- From the elders and chief priest and scribes
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- And be killed and raised up on the third day."
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- Now, whether you believe jesus really rose
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- From the dead or not is a matter for another sermon.
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- There is ample evidence, lots of evidence
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- That jesus did rise from the dead on the third day.
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- You know what the greatest piece of evidence is?
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- Nobody's found the body of jesus yet in 2,000 years.
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- I mean, he didn't die secretly, he died publicly.
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- He wasn't buried in an undisclosed location,
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- Everybody knew where he was.
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- And yet, jesus rose from the dead.
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- That tomb was empty on easter sunday morning.
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- The fact is, if the romans had known where that body was,
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- If the jewish leaders had known where it was,
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- They would have gone to get it as soon as they could.
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- They would have rolled it through the streets of jerusalem
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- And christianity would be dead at its outset.
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- But you know why they haven't found the body?
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- It's not there.
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- He has risen from the dead just as he promised he would.
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- (audience applauds)
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- But even if you don't believe that,
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- The point is, jesus is still the only leader,
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- The only founder of a religion
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- Who claimed the ability to conquer death.
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- That's what makes christianity unique.
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- And fourthly, jesus claimed that he would return
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- To judge the world.
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- No other religious leader made that grandiose claim
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- That he would come after death back
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- To the earth to judge the world.
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- But that's what jesus taught in matthew 25,
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- Beginning with verse 31,
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- "when the son of man comes in glory
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- And all the angels with him,
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- He will sit on his glorious throne.
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- All the nations will be gathered before him,
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- And he will separate them one for another
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- As a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."
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- Now, this is what makes jesus unique,
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- His unique claims.
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- You can't say he was just a good man,
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- Because he claimed a lot more than that, a whole lot more.
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- And that leads to what is known
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- As c. s. lewis' famous trilemma.
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- C.s. lewis rightly pointed out,
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- "that being a good moral teacher is not an option
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- Because jesus claimed to be god, to forgive sins,
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- To conquer death, and to come back and judge the world."
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- So, given what jesus claimed,
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- You can only come to one of three conclusions.
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- One conclusion you can make about jesus is
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- That he is a liar.
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- That is he made all of these claims,
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- But he knew there were false.
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- So, jesus is a liar.
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- How many of you today would be willing
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- To stand up and say, "jesus christ is a liar?"
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- How many of you are certain enough about heaven
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- And your eternal destiny that you'd be willing
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- To stand up and call him a liar?
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- Do you think jesus is a liar?
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- Well, if he's not a liar,
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- Then lewis said another alternative is he's a lunatic.
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- "he would have the mental ability of a poached egg,"
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- Lewis said.
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- He made all these claims
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- Because he really thought they were true.
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- He was deluded, he thought he was the son of god.
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- He thought he would conquer death.
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- Now again, from what you know about jesus,
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- Do you believe jesus was a madman, a lunatic?
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- Well, if he's not a liar, he's not a lunatic,
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- Everybody knows he lived and made these claims,
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- The only other alternative is,
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- He is who he said he was, he is lord.
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- He said these things because they're true.
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- That's what makes christianity unique.
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- Now, that leads
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- To the second distinguishing thing about christianity,
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- The teaching of jesus.
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- Now, if jesus, will you follow me on this?
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- If jesus is right about who he is,
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- Then it means we better pay attention
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- To what he says about everything.
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- Because if he's telling the truth about his own identity,
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- Everything else he speaks about is true as well.
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- So, what did jesus have to say
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- About this idea of exclusivity?
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- Did jesus believe that there are many ways to heaven?
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- Did jesus believe all different world religions are kind
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- Of like different pathways up the same mountain
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- That lead to the same truth?
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- Or like others say,
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- "different religions are like different tributaries
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- That flow into the same river and lead to truth."
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- What did jesus say about exclusivity,
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- There being one way to heaven?
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- Well, first of all, jesus taught,
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- "there are two possible eternal destinations for people."
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- There are two possible destinations, not one.
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- Everybody's not going to the same place when they die.
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- Everybody's not going to heaven.
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- Jesus said in matthew 25:46,
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- "the unrighteous will go away into eternal punishment,
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- But the righteous into eternal life."
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- Jesus taught there is both a heaven and a hell.
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- Secondly, jesus said, this will blow your mind.
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- "the majority of mankind will spend eternity in hell."
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- Jesus said, "there are only two roads.
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- One leads to heaven, one leads to hell,
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- And more people are on the road
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- To hell than are on the road to heaven."
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- Where does he say that?
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- One place is matthew 7:13 and 14,
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- "enter through the narrow gate,
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- For the gate is wide,
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- And the way is broad that leads to destruction.
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- And there are many who enter through it,
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- But the gate is small
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- And the way is narrow that leads to life.
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- And there are what?
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- Few who find it."
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- Jesus said there are two possible destinations.
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- There are more people headed toward the wrong destination
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- Than the right one.
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- Thirdly, jesus offers the exclusive way to heaven.
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- Jesus didn't come to point us to the way,
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- The way to heaven is not
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- Through believing the right things or creed.
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- It's not through religious rituals like baptism.
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- It's not trying to be a nice person.
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- Jesus didn't come to point us to the way,
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- In john 14:6 he said, "i am the way,
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- The truth, and the life.
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- No man comes to the father, but by me."
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- But you know, jesus is not the only one
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- Who taught that there's only one way to heaven.
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- Consider the teaching of the entire new testament.
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- Throughout the new testament the writers affirmed
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- That their salvation only through jesus christ.
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- Think about the example of the apostle paul.
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- Paul was a hebrew of the hebrews.
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- He kept the law as well as he could.
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- He was a sincere follower of judaism.
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- In fact, he was so zealous in his faith,
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- Remember what happened?
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- He went on to damascus
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- To stamp out the heresy known as christianity.
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- But on his way there he met jesus on that road to damascus
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- And jesus transformed his life.
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- And the greatest accuser
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- Of christianity became the greatest defender
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- Of the christian faith.
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- And in romans 10, he said,
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- "this is my prayer that all of israel be saved."
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- Or think about peter.
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- Again, peter wasn't a baptist, he wasn't a catholic.
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- He was a jew.
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- And yet in acts chapter four, he stood before the crowd
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- And said, "there is salvation in no one else.
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- There is no other name given among men
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- By which we must be saved, other than the name of jesus."
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- And in acts 10:42-43 we find peter's final words
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- To cornelius.
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- "and jesus ordered us to preach to the people,
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- And solemnly to testify that he is the one
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- Who has been appointed by god as judge
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- Of the living and the dead.
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- Of him all of the prophets bear witness
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- That through his name everyone
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- Who believes in him receives the forgiveness of sins."
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- Cornelius and his household believed
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- That gospel message and they were saved.
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- What is it that makes christianity different?
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- Consider the uniqueness of jesus christ.
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- Secondly, the teaching of jesus christ.
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- Thirdly, the teaching of the new testament.
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- And finally, christianity offers the unique solution
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- To man's dilemma.
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- It offers the unique solution to man's dilemma.
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- You know, not all religions are all wrong about everything.
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- There's some common denominators in religions.
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- For example, most religions say, "that man is flawed.
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- He's got some problems."
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- Do you remember back in high school
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- Or maybe college where you would take some classes
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- That were pass/fail?
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- Remember the pass/fail classes?
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- I used to love a class that was pass/fail,
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- Because as long as you met a minimum standard, you passed.
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- You didn't have to worry about studying harder,
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- Make a better grade, didn't matter,
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- Just meet the minimum requirement, and you pass.
- 00:19:12.074 --> 00:19:16.511
- Now, i've got some good news and bad news for you today.
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- God judges us on the pass/fail system,
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- That's the good news.
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- Here's the terrible news.
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- The minimum amount necessary
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- To be accepted by god is 100%.
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- You have to keep all the laws.
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- In fact, james 2:10 says, "whoever keeps the whole law
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- And yet stumbles in one point has become guilty of all.
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- That means you can be doing everything right,
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- The bible says, one slip up and you're a goner.
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- "god took jesus who knew no sin and made him sin for us,
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- That we might become the righteousness of god in him."
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- It's all has to do with grace.
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- Every other religion is about works, only christianity says,
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- "the solution to our dilemma is grace.
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- For by grace," paul said, "for by grace you have been saved
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- Through faith and that not of yourselves,
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- It is a gift of god,
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- Not of works lest any man should boast."
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- Years ago there was a conference
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- On world religions in great britain.
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- And scholars were debating what was unique
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- About christianity as opposed to other religions.
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- And in the middle of a heated debate,
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- C.s. lewis walked into the room.
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- He said, "what's the ruckus about?"
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- And they said, "well, we're trying to decide what is it
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- That makes christianity unique."
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- Lewis smiled and said, "that's easy, it's grace, grace."
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- And when you think about it,
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- That is the distinguishing feature.
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- There are thousands of religions in the world,
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- And they're all spelled the same way.
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- Do, d-o, do this, do this, do this.
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- Don't do this, do this, do this
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- And you might earn god's forgiveness.
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- Only christianity is spelled d-o-n-e, done.
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- Everything we need has been done by jesus christ.
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- That's why he said tetelestai on the cross,
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- "it is finished, paid in full."
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- And perhaps that's worth applauding for.
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- (congregation applauds)
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- And that's what makes christianity different.
- 00:21:46.194 --> 00:21:49.097
- Christianity offers the unique solution to man's dilemma.
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- It's the dilemma job first talked about in job 9:2
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- When he said, "how can a person be right with god?"
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- Ain't that the bottom line question?
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- We're all going to die.
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- How can we make sure we're in a right relationship
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- With our creator?
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- How can a person be right before god?
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- Every other religion in the world says,
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- "it's through work."
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- Only christianity says, "it's by grace.
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- For by grace, you have been saved through faith."
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