Robert Jeffress - How Can I Know Christianity Is The Right Religion?

January 19, 2025 | S25:E32

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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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  • ♪ when sorrows like sea billows roll ♪
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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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  • Request your copy of "how can i know?"
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  • To support the ministry of pathway to victory.
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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."
  • 00:14:40.269 --> 00:14:43.672
  • 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,
  • 00:14:49.244 --> 00:14:51.213
  • "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."
  • 00:15:10.766 --> 00:15:14.069
  • Jesus taught there is both a heaven and a hell.
  • 00:15:14.069 --> 00:15:18.340
  • Secondly, jesus said, this will blow your mind.
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  • "the majority of mankind will spend eternity in hell."
  • 00:15:21.710 --> 00:15:26.515
  • 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."
  • 00:15:55.644 --> 00:15:59.181
  • 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.
  • 00:16:05.654 --> 00:16:07.022
  • 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,
  • 00:16:23.539 --> 00:16:26.141
  • 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."
  • 00:16:32.448 --> 00:16:35.951
  • But you know, jesus is not the only one
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  • Who taught that there's only one way to heaven.
  • 00:16:38.487 --> 00:16:41.090
  • Consider the teaching of the entire new testament.
  • 00:16:41.090 --> 00:16:45.427
  • Throughout the new testament the writers affirmed
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  • That their salvation only through jesus christ.
  • 00:16:48.363 --> 00:16:52.301
  • 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.
  • 00:17:01.210 --> 00:17:04.113
  • In fact, he was so zealous in his faith,
  • 00:17:04.113 --> 00:17:06.715
  • Remember what happened?
  • 00:17:06.715 --> 00:17:07.983
  • He went on to damascus
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  • To stamp out the heresy known as christianity.
  • 00:17:09.818 --> 00:17:12.754
  • 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.
  • 00:17:24.266 --> 00:17:25.534
  • And in romans 10, he said,
  • 00:17:25.534 --> 00:17:26.902
  • "this is my prayer that all of israel be saved."
  • 00:17:26.902 --> 00:17:30.639
  • Or think about peter.
  • 00:17:30.639 --> 00:17:32.107
  • Again, peter wasn't a baptist, he wasn't a catholic.
  • 00:17:32.107 --> 00:17:35.410
  • He was a jew.
  • 00:17:35.410 --> 00:17:36.945
  • 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."
  • 00:17:45.854 --> 00:17:50.092
  • And in acts 10:42-43 we find peter's final words
  • 00:17:50.092 --> 00:17:54.963
  • To cornelius.
  • 00:17:54.963 --> 00:17:56.265
  • "and jesus ordered us to preach to the people,
  • 00:17:56.265 --> 00:17:59.301
  • 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.
  • 00:18:05.107 --> 00:18:06.675
  • 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."
  • 00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:15.317
  • Cornelius and his household believed
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  • That gospel message and they were saved.
  • 00:18:17.586 --> 00:18:21.590
  • What is it that makes christianity different?
  • 00:18:21.590 --> 00:18:24.226
  • Consider the uniqueness of jesus christ.
  • 00:18:24.226 --> 00:18:26.995
  • Secondly, the teaching of jesus christ.
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  • Thirdly, the teaching of the new testament.
  • 00:18:29.531 --> 00:18:31.533
  • And finally, christianity offers the unique solution
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  • To man's dilemma.
  • 00:18:36.271 --> 00:18:38.073
  • It offers the unique solution to man's dilemma.
  • 00:18:38.073 --> 00:18:41.710
  • You know, not all religions are all wrong about everything.
  • 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:45.948
  • There's some common denominators in religions.
  • 00:18:45.948 --> 00:18:49.151
  • For example, most religions say, "that man is flawed.
  • 00:18:49.151 --> 00:18:52.254
  • He's got some problems."
  • 00:18:52.254 --> 00:18:53.855
  • Do you remember back in high school
  • 00:18:53.855 --> 00:18:55.724
  • Or maybe college where you would take some classes
  • 00:18:55.724 --> 00:18:58.460
  • That were pass/fail?
  • 00:18:58.460 --> 00:19:00.028
  • Remember the pass/fail classes?
  • 00:19:00.028 --> 00:19:01.630
  • I used to love a class that was pass/fail,
  • 00:19:01.630 --> 00:19:04.233
  • Because as long as you met a minimum standard, you passed.
  • 00:19:04.233 --> 00:19:07.869
  • You didn't have to worry about studying harder,
  • 00:19:07.869 --> 00:19:10.072
  • Make a better grade, didn't matter,
  • 00:19:10.072 --> 00:19:12.074
  • 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.
  • 00:19:16.511 --> 00:19:19.881
  • God judges us on the pass/fail system,
  • 00:19:19.881 --> 00:19:24.653
  • That's the good news.
  • 00:19:24.653 --> 00:19:26.154
  • Here's the terrible news.
  • 00:19:26.154 --> 00:19:28.390
  • The minimum amount necessary
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  • To be accepted by god is 100%.
  • 00:19:30.826 --> 00:19:36.298
  • You have to keep all the laws.
  • 00:19:36.932 --> 00:19:39.801
  • In fact, james 2:10 says, "whoever keeps the whole law
  • 00:19:39.801 --> 00:19:43.705
  • And yet stumbles in one point has become guilty of all.
  • 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:48.443
  • That means you can be doing everything right,
  • 00:19:48.443 --> 00:19:51.413
  • The bible says, one slip up and you're a goner.
  • 00:19:51.413 --> 00:19:56.652
  • "god took jesus who knew no sin and made him sin for us,
  • 00:19:57.786 --> 00:20:01.556
  • That we might become the righteousness of god in him."
  • 00:20:01.556 --> 00:20:05.727
  • It's all has to do with grace.
  • 00:20:05.727 --> 00:20:07.929
  • Every other religion is about works, only christianity says,
  • 00:20:07.929 --> 00:20:12.567
  • "the solution to our dilemma is grace.
  • 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:15.937
  • For by grace," paul said, "for by grace you have been saved
  • 00:20:15.937 --> 00:20:19.841
  • Through faith and that not of yourselves,
  • 00:20:19.841 --> 00:20:22.144
  • It is a gift of god,
  • 00:20:22.144 --> 00:20:23.512
  • Not of works lest any man should boast."
  • 00:20:23.512 --> 00:20:27.683
  • Years ago there was a conference
  • 00:20:28.317 --> 00:20:29.751
  • On world religions in great britain.
  • 00:20:29.751 --> 00:20:32.888
  • And scholars were debating what was unique
  • 00:20:32.888 --> 00:20:35.357
  • About christianity as opposed to other religions.
  • 00:20:35.357 --> 00:20:39.394
  • And in the middle of a heated debate,
  • 00:20:39.394 --> 00:20:41.163
  • C.s. lewis walked into the room.
  • 00:20:41.163 --> 00:20:43.999
  • He said, "what's the ruckus about?"
  • 00:20:43.999 --> 00:20:45.934
  • And they said, "well, we're trying to decide what is it
  • 00:20:45.934 --> 00:20:48.904
  • That makes christianity unique."
  • 00:20:48.904 --> 00:20:51.273
  • Lewis smiled and said, "that's easy, it's grace, grace."
  • 00:20:51.273 --> 00:20:56.445
  • And when you think about it,
  • 00:20:57.045 --> 00:20:58.180
  • That is the distinguishing feature.
  • 00:20:58.180 --> 00:21:00.649
  • There are thousands of religions in the world,
  • 00:21:00.649 --> 00:21:03.418
  • And they're all spelled the same way.
  • 00:21:03.418 --> 00:21:06.421
  • Do, d-o, do this, do this, do this.
  • 00:21:06.421 --> 00:21:11.393
  • Don't do this, do this, do this
  • 00:21:11.393 --> 00:21:14.363
  • And you might earn god's forgiveness.
  • 00:21:14.363 --> 00:21:16.898
  • Only christianity is spelled d-o-n-e, done.
  • 00:21:16.898 --> 00:21:23.538
  • Everything we need has been done by jesus christ.
  • 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:29.845
  • That's why he said tetelestai on the cross,
  • 00:21:30.712 --> 00:21:32.147
  • "it is finished, paid in full."
  • 00:21:32.147 --> 00:21:36.918
  • And perhaps that's worth applauding for.
  • 00:21:36.918 --> 00:21:39.521
  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:21:39.521 --> 00:21:45.260
  • And that's what makes christianity different.
  • 00:21:46.194 --> 00:21:49.097
  • Christianity offers the unique solution to man's dilemma.
  • 00:21:49.097 --> 00:21:54.403
  • It's the dilemma job first talked about in job 9:2
  • 00:21:55.404 --> 00:21:57.439
  • When he said, "how can a person be right with god?"
  • 00:21:57.439 --> 00:22:02.811
  • Ain't that the bottom line question?
  • 00:22:03.578 --> 00:22:04.646
  • We're all going to die.
  • 00:22:04.646 --> 00:22:06.615
  • How can we make sure we're in a right relationship
  • 00:22:06.615 --> 00:22:09.584
  • With our creator?
  • 00:22:09.584 --> 00:22:11.386
  • How can a person be right before god?
  • 00:22:11.386 --> 00:22:14.990
  • Every other religion in the world says,
  • 00:22:14.990 --> 00:22:17.793
  • "it's through work."
  • 00:22:17.793 --> 00:22:19.561
  • Only christianity says, "it's by grace.
  • 00:22:19.561 --> 00:22:23.999
  • For by grace, you have been saved through faith."
  • 00:22:23.999 --> 00:22:28.703
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  • Almost every religion recognizes
  • 00:22:33.675 --> 00:22:35.877
  • That mankind has a serious internal problem,
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  • But christianity alone offers the solution to man's dilemma,
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  • And world-class dining.
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  • You'll experience breathtaking views, famous beaches,
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  • And crystal clear water in beautiful island destinations
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  • Like santorini, mykonos, and crete.
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  • Walk with me and other believers in the very places
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  • Where god's word was written.
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  • Join us as we study his word together.
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  • Surrounded by natural beauty
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  • We will seek our creator in his creation.
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  • On the pathway to victory journeys
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  • Of paul mediterranean cruises.
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  • Call 888-280-6747, or visit ptv.org.
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