What About Those Who Have Never Heard About Jesus? Part 2
November 18, 2020
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It seems grossly unfair that people would be condemned to Hell for never trusting in a Jesus they have never heard about.
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What About Those Who Have Never Heard About Jesus? Part 2
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- [ANNOUNCER] FROM THE PULPITOF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
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- OF DALLAS, TEXAS, THISIS PATHWAY TO VICTORY
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- WITH DR. ROBERT JEFFRESS.
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- HI, I'M ROBERT JEFFRESS,AND WELCOME AGAIN
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- TO PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- JESUS SAYS, "NO ONE COMES TOTHE FATHER BUT THROUGH ME."
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- BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHOHAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS?
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- IT SEEMS ONLY FAIR THAT GODWOULD GIVE THEM A PASS, RIGHT?
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- WELL, LAST TIME WE EXAMINEDTWO MAJOR PROPOSITIONS
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- THAT CLARIFY GOD'S POSITIONON THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE.
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- PROPOSITION NUMBER ONE,EVERYONE IS GUILTY BEFORE GOD.
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- AND PROPOSITION NUMBERTWO, NO ONE IS SAVED APART
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- FROM FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
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- TODAY WE'LL IDENTIFYTWO MORE PROPOSITIONS
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- BASED ON GOD'S WORD.
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- WE'RE ANSWERING THE QUESTION,
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- WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVENEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS?
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- ON TODAY'S EDITION OFPATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- [ANNOUNCER] 63% OF AMERICANSBELIEVE THAT MUSLIMS,
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- BUDDHISTS AND CHRISTIANSALL WORSHIP THE SAME GOD.
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- BUT, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE,THAT'S SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
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- EQUIP YOURSELF TODEFEND THE TRUTH
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- WITH THE HELPFUL RESOURCECALLED "CHRISTIANITY,
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- "CULTS AND RELIGIONS."
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- THIS SIDE-BY-SIDECOMPARISON HIGHLIGHTS
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- THE KEY BELIEFS OFBIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY
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- AND EXPOSES FALSERELIGIONS LIKE ISLAM,
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- BUDDHISM AND JEHOVAH'S WITNESS.
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- THE BROCHURE IS OURGIFT TO YOU SIMPLY
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- FOR CONTACTING US TODAYAT PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- IF FAITH IN JESUSCHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY
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- A PERSON CAN BE SAVED,WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE
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- WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUTJESUS, WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM?
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- IS GOD GOING TOSEND PEOPLE TO HELL
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- FOR REJECTING A GOSPELTHEY'VE NEVER HEARD?
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- IF SO, ISN'T THATPATENTLY UNFAIR?
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- AND THAT'S THE QUESTIONMOST PEOPLE RAISE
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- WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT THISISSUE OF THE EXCLUSIVITY
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- OF CHRIST FOR SALVATION.
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- WHAT ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE,THE MILLIONS, THE BILLIONS
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- IN THE WORLD WHO HAVE NEVERHEARD ABOUT JESUS CHRIST?
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- I BET YOU'VE BEEN ASKEDTHAT QUESTION BEFORE
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- SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY.
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- HOW ARE WE TO ANSWERTHAT QUESTION?
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- THE STARTING PLACE FORUNDERSTANDING THE ANSWER
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- TO THIS QUESTION OR THE COMPLEXISSUE OF PRE-DESTINATION
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- AND HUMAN CHOICE, THESTARTING POINT IS TO REALIZE
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- EVERYONE IS GUILTY BEFORE GOD.
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- AND THAT LEADS TOA SECOND TRUTH,
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- NO ONE IS SAVED APART FROMFAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
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- NO ONE IS SAVED APARTFROM JESUS CHRIST.
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- SINCE THE TIME OF CHRIST,THERE IS NOT ONE EXAMPLE
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- IN THE BIBLE OFANYBODY WHO WAS SAVED
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- WITHOUT PERSONALLY EXERCISINGFAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
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- ACTS 4:12 SAYS THERE'S NOOTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN
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- BY WHICH WE CAN BE SAVEDEXCEPT THE NAME OF JESUS.
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- AND THAT LEADS TO THETHIRD BIBLICAL PROPOSITION,
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- AND THAT IS, EVERYONE HASRECEIVED A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
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- WHEN PEOPLE SAY TOYOU, "WHAT ABOUT THOSE
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- "WHO HAVE NEVERHEARD ABOUT JESUS,"
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- YOU CAN ASSURE THEM THATEVERYBODY WHO HAS EVER LIVED
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- HAS RECEIVED A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
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- THE FACT IS, CREATION IS ATESTIMONY OF THE POWER OF GOD.
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- THERE IS INFORMATION ABOUTGOD THAT EVERYBODY CAN HAVE,
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- REGARDLESS IF THEYEVER READ A BIBLE
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- OR EVER HEAR A SERMON.
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- WE CALL THAT INFORMATIONTHAT IS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE
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- ABOUT GOD, WE CALL ITNATURAL REVELATION.
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- IT'S FROM NATURE, IT'SREVELATION INFORMATION
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- ABOUT GOD THATEVERYONE CAN HAVE.
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- LISTEN TO ROMANS 1:20.
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- "FOR SINCE THECREATION OF THE WORLD,
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- "GOD'S INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES,THAT IS HIS ETERNAL POWER
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- "AND DIVINE NATURE,HAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN,
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- "BEING UNDERSTOOD THROUGHWHAT HAS BEEN MADE,
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- "SO THAT THEY AREWITHOUT EXCUSE."
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- WELL, WHAT CAN THEGENTILE OR THE PAGAN
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- WHO LIVES HALFWAY AROUNDTHE WORLD IN A JUNGLE
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- OR THE UNBELIEVER WHO LIVESDOWN THE STREET FROM YOU
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- WHO'S NEVER READ A BIBLE,WHO'S NEVER HEARD A MESSAGE,
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- WHAT CAN HE KNOWABOUT GOD FROM JUST
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- SIMPLY LOOKING AT CREATION?
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- WELL, PAUL SAYS THERE ARETWO THINGS YOU CAN LEARN
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- ABOUT GOD FROM CREATION.
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- FIRST OF ALL, ABOUTGOD'S ETERNAL POWER.
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- LOOK AT VERSE 20,HIS ETERNAL POWER.
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- NOW, I COULD SPEND THEREST OF THE MESSAGE
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- GIVING YOU EXAMPLEAFTER EXAMPLE ABOUT
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- HOW CREATION IS A TESTIMONYTO THE POWER OF GOD.
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- BUT HERE'S JUST ONE.
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- LET ME REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING.
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- CHANCE IS NOT A POWER, IT'SA MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY.
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- FOR EXAMPLE, IF I TAKE A PENNYAND I FLIP IT IN THE AIR,
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- WHAT ARE THE ODDS THATIT WILL LAND HEADS UP?
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- WELL, THE MATHEMATICALPROBABILITY, THE CHANCE, IS
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- 50/ 50. BUT IF IT DOES LANDHEADS UP, WHAT MADE IT LAND
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- HEADS UP? IT COULD HAVE BEENTHE FORCE OF MY THUMB
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- IN FLIPPING THE COIN,IT COULD HAVE BEEN
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- THE DISTANCE IT TRAVELED,IT COULD HAVE BEEN
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- THE AIR PRESSURE, IT COULDHAVE BEEN A BUNCH OF THINGS
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- THAT DETERMINED WHICHSIDE THAT COIN LANDED ON,
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- BUT CHANCE HADNOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
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- BECAUSE CHANCE IS NOT A POWER,
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- IT'S SIMPLY A MATHEMATICALCALCULATION OF PROBABILITY.
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- IT'S THE SAME THING WITH WHATHAPPENED IN THIS UNIVERSE.
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- THIS UNIVERSE WASN'TCREATED BY CHANCE.
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- THERE HAD TO BE AFORCE THAT CREATED IT.
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- PSALM 19:1 SAYS, "FORTHE HEAVENS ARE TELLING
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- "OF THE GLORY OF GOD,AND THEIR EXPANSE
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- "IS DECLARING THEWORK OF HIS HANDS."
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- ANYBODY CAN KNOW JUST BYLOOKING AT THE CREATION
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- THAT HE DIDN'TCREATE THIS WORLD,
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- THAT THERE IS APOWERFUL GOD AT WORK.
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- BUT PAUL MENTIONS SOMETHINGELSE, NATURAL REVELATION
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- TELLS US ABOUT GOD, ANDTHAT IS HIS DIVINE NATURE.
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- AGAIN, ROMANS 1:20,HIS ETERNAL POWER
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- AND HIS DIVINE NATURE.
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- NOW, THERE ARE SOMETRUTHS ABOUT GOD
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- THAT WE CAN ONLY KNOWTHROUGH THE BIBLE
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- OR THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
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- LET ME SHOW YOU A GREATILLUSTRATION OF THAT IN
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- THE BIBLE. TURN OVER TOACTS 14 FOR JUST A MOMENT.
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- THIS IS THE STORY OF THEAPOSTLE PAUL AND BARNABAS,
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- WHO ARRIVED IN LYSTRA, ANDBECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY
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- TO PERFORM MIRACLES,THE RESIDENTS OF LYSTRA
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- MISTAKENLY THOUGHT PAUL ANDBARNABAS WERE GODS THEMSELVES.
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- THEY STARTED CALLINGTHEM ZEUS AND HERMES,
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- THINKING THEY WEREGODS, AND OF COURSE,
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- PAUL GOT VERYUNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT
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- AND QUICKLY SAID,"WE'RE NOT GODS.
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- "WE ARE HERE TO POINTYOU TO THE TRUE GOD,
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- "THE GOD YOU HAVE NEVERHEARD ABOUT OR READ ABOUT,
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- "BUT A GOD THAT YOU CANKNOW THROUGH CREATION."
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- LOOK AT WHAT HE SAYS INACTS 14 BEGINNING IN
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- VERSE 15. "MEN, WHY ARE YOUDOING THESE THINGS?"
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- THAT IS, WHY AREYOU WORSHIPING US?
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- "WE ARE ALSO MEN OFTHE SAME NATURE AS YOU,
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- "AND WE PREACH THEGOSPEL TO YOU IN ORDER
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- "THAT YOU SHOULD TURNFROM THESE VAIN THINGS
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- "TO A LIVING GOD,WHO MADE THE HEAVEN
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- "AND THE EARTH AND THE SEAAND ALL THAT IS IN THEM.
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- "AND IN THE GENERATIONSGONE BY HE PERMITTED
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- "ALL THE NATIONS TOGO THEIR OWN WAYS,
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- "AND YET HE DID NOT LEAVEHIMSELF WITHOUT WITNESS,
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- "IN THAT HE DID GOOD ANDGAVE YOU RAINS FROM HEAVEN
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- "AND FRUITFUL SEASONS,SATISFYING YOUR HEARTS
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- "WITH FOOD AND GLADNESS."
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- PAUL IS SAYING, THE FACTTHAT GOD SENDS YOU RAINS
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- IN ORDER TO PRODUCE THECROPS YOU NEED TO HAVE FOOD,
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- THAT OUGHTA TELL YOUSOMETHING ABOUT GOD.
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- HE IS A KIND GOD.
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- YOU KNOW, SO OFTENWE ASK THE QUESTION,
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- IF GOD IS GOOD AND LOVING,WHY DOES HE ALLOW THINGS
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- TO HAPPEN, BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN?
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- WHY DOES HE ALLOWFAMINES AROUND THE WORLD?
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- WHY DOES HE ALLOW FLOODS,RIVERS OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS?
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- WHY DOES HE ALLOW EARTHQUAKES?
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- WHY DOES HE ALLOWTERRORIST ATTACKS?
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- IF GOD IS GOOD, WHY DOES HEALLOW BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN?
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- HAVE YOU EVER HEARDTHAT QUESTION BEFORE?
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- YOU SEE, THE FOCUS IS ALL WRONG.
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- THE REASON WE NEED TOSWITCH OUR PERSPECTIVE IS
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- THOSE BAD THINGS AREUSUALLY THE EXCEPTION
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- RATHER THAN THE RULE.
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- HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHTABOUT IT THAT WAY?
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- YEAH, THOSE THINGSHAPPEN OCCASIONALLY,
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- BUT MOST OF THE TIME THERAINS DO COME ON SCHEDULE.
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- MOST OF THE TIME THE RIVERS STAY
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- WITHIN THEIR BOUNDARIESAND THEIR BANKS.
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- MOST OF THE TIME THETECTONIC PLATES DON'T SHIFT,
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- CAUSING AN EARTHQUAKE.
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- MOST OF THE TIME TERRORISTATTACKS ARE THWARTED
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- RATHER THAN EXECUTED.
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- YOU KNOW, THE REAL QUESTION ISNOT WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN
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- TO GOOD PEOPLE, THEREAL QUESTION IS,
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- WHY DO GOOD THINGSHAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE?
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- AND PAUL IS SAYING,LOOK AT IT, GOOD THINGS
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- GOD IS SENDING TO BADPEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
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- HE'S SHOWING KINDNESSTO THEM IN SPITE
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- OF THEIR DISREGARD FOR HIM.
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- AND WHY DOES HE DO IT?
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- ROMANS 2:4 SAYS, "ORDO YOU THINK LIGHTLY
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- "OF THE RICHES OF HISKINDNESS AND FORBEARANCE
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- "AND PATIENCE, NOTKNOWING THAT THE KINDNESS
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- "OF GOD LEADS YOUTO REPENTANCE?"
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- GOD SENDS GOOD THINGS INTOTHE LIFE OF UNBELIEVERS
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- TO TRY TO WOOTHEM, TO CAUSE THEM
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- TO TURN THEIR HEART TOWARD HIM.
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- THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE,EVERYBODY OUGHTA BE ABLE
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- TO LOOK AT CREATION AND KNOWTHAT WE SERVE A KIND GOD.
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- NOW, WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHOHAVE NEVER HEARD THE GOSPEL?
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- THEY'VE ALL BEEN THE RECIPIENTSOF NATURAL REVELATION
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- ABOUT GOD THAT ISAVAILABLE THROUGH NATURE.
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- BUT WHAT HAVE MOST PEOPLE DONE
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- WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GOD?
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- THEY'VE ENGAGED IN THE REJECTIONOF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
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- LOOK AT VERSE 21 OF ROMANS 1.
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- "FOR EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW GOD,
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- "THEY DID NOT HONOR HIMAS GOD, OR GIVE THANKS,
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- "BUT THEY BECAME FUTILEIN THEIR SPECULATIONS,
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- "AND THEIR FOOLISHHEART WAS DARKENED."
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- YOU KNOW, SECULARISTSWILL ARGUE THAT
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- THEIR WHOLE IDEAOF GOD IS TAINTED
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- BY THEIR SCIENTIFICINVESTIGATION.
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- THEY SAY, IN OTHER WORDS,WE'VE REALLY OBJECTIVELY
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- LOOKED AT THE EVIDENCEAND WE JUST CAN'T FIND
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- ANY EVIDENCE OF GOD, ANDTHAT'S WHY WE'VE REJECTED
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- THE IDEA OF GOD, THERE'SJUST NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
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- BUT THE FACT IS THEOPPOSITE IS TRUE.
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- THE PERSON WHO REJECTS GODHAS NOT EXAMINED THE EVIDENCE,
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- HE HAS STARTED WITH THEPRESUPPOSITION THERE IS NO GOD
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- AND HE'S FOUND EVIDENCE TO TRY
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- TO CONFIRM HIS PRESUPPOSITION.
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- RICHARD LEWONTIN ISA HARVARD BIOLOGIST,
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- AND HE ACTUALLYCONCEDED THAT POINT
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- IN AN ARTICLE FOR "THENEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS."
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- HE SAID, "IT IS NOTTHAT THE METHODS
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- "AND INSTITUTIONS OFSCIENCE SOMEHOW COMPEL US
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- "TO ACCEPT AMATERIAL EXPLANATION
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- "OF THE PHENOMENAL WORLD,BUT, ON THE CONTRARY,
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- "THAT WE ARE FORCED BYOUR A PRIORI ADHERENCE
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- "TO MATERIAL CAUSESTO CREATE AN APPARATUS
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- "OF INVESTIGATIONAND A SET OF CONCEPTS
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- "THAT PRODUCEMATERIAL EXPLANATIONS,
- 00:11:31.280 --> 00:11:35.317
- "NO MATTER HOWCOUNTER-INTUITIVE,
- 00:11:35.351 --> 00:11:37.486
- "NO MATTER HOW MYSTIFYINGTO THE UNINITIATED.
- 00:11:37.520 --> 00:11:40.289
- "MOREOVER, THATMATERIALISM IS ABSOLUTE,
- 00:11:40.322 --> 00:11:44.593
- "FOR WE CANNOT ALLOW ADIVINE FOOT IN THE DOOR."
- 00:11:44.627 --> 00:11:50.132
- IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RESTARTING WITH THE IDEA
- 00:11:50.166 --> 00:11:52.902
- THAT ALL THAT IS REALIS WHAT WE CAN SEE,
- 00:11:52.935 --> 00:11:56.438
- AND SO WE ARE GOING TO RIGOUR SO-CALLED INVESTIGATION
- 00:11:56.472 --> 00:12:00.042
- OF SCIENCE TO A CONCLUSIONTHAT SAYS THERE IS NO GOD.
- 00:12:00.075 --> 00:12:04.680
- AND WE'LL ENGAGE IN THATRIGGED INVESTIGATION
- 00:12:04.713 --> 00:12:08.083
- BECAUSE WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABELIEF THAT THERE IS A GOD.
- 00:12:08.117 --> 00:12:13.022
- WE HAVE THIS IDEA THAT ATHEISTSARE THESE HONEST SEARCHERS
- 00:12:13.055 --> 00:12:15.991
- FOR TRUTH, THEY'RE REALLYHONESTLY SEARCHING FOR GOD
- 00:12:16.025 --> 00:12:18.594
- AND THEY JUST CAN'T FIND HIM.
- 00:12:18.627 --> 00:12:21.163
- YOU KNOW WHY ANATHEIST CAN'T FIND GOD?
- 00:12:21.197 --> 00:12:23.065
- IT'S THE SAME REASON A THIEFCAN NEVER FIND A POLICEMAN.
- 00:12:23.098 --> 00:12:27.469
- (CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 00:12:27.503 --> 00:12:29.405
- YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOTLOOKING THAT HARD.
- 00:12:29.438 --> 00:12:32.308
- THEY DON'T WANNA FINDA GOD THAT THEY HAVE
- 00:12:32.341 --> 00:12:34.143
- TO SUBMIT THEMSELVES TO,
- 00:12:34.176 --> 00:12:35.711
- AND THAT'S WHATPAUL IS SAYING HERE.
- 00:12:35.744 --> 00:12:38.080
- THE UNBELIEVER IS ONE WHOHAS RECEIVED A REVELATION
- 00:12:38.113 --> 00:12:41.750
- ABOUT THE TRUE GOD AND HE'SREJECTED THAT REVELATION
- 00:12:41.784 --> 00:12:44.887
- OF THE TRUE GOD, WHATHAS HE DONE INSTEAD?
- 00:12:44.920 --> 00:12:47.122
- SECONDLY, HE HASREPLACED THE REVELATION
- 00:12:47.156 --> 00:12:49.558
- OF THE TRUE GOD WITH THECREATION OF A FALSE GOD.
- 00:12:49.592 --> 00:12:53.195
- LOOK AT VERSES 22AND 23 OF ROMANS ONE.
- 00:12:53.229 --> 00:12:55.664
- "PROFESSING TO BE WISE,THEY BECAME FOOLS,
- 00:12:55.698 --> 00:12:59.301
- "AND THEY EXCHANGED THE GLORYOF THE INCORRUPTIBLE GOD
- 00:12:59.335 --> 00:13:03.372
- "FOR AN IMAGE IN THEFORM OF A CORRUPTIBLE MAN
- 00:13:03.405 --> 00:13:07.009
- "AND OF BIRDS AND OFFOUR-FOOTED ANIMALS
- 00:13:07.042 --> 00:13:09.245
- "AND CRAWLING CREATURES."
- 00:13:09.278 --> 00:13:11.547
- IF YOU EVER TAKE A COURSEIN COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS,
- 00:13:11.580 --> 00:13:13.949
- HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL HEAR.
- 00:13:13.983 --> 00:13:15.351
- YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THEEVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
- 00:13:15.384 --> 00:13:18.954
- THE IDEA IS JUST AS MANHAS EVOLVED FROM AMOEBA
- 00:13:18.988 --> 00:13:23.559
- TO A TADPOLE TO A FISH TO A MAN
- 00:13:23.592 --> 00:13:26.128
- AND MAN IS GETTING BETTERAND BETTER AND MORE COMPLEX,
- 00:13:26.161 --> 00:13:29.231
- SO IS HE IN HISRELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
- 00:13:29.265 --> 00:13:31.667
- THAT IS, MAN STARTEDOUT AS A PRIMATE
- 00:13:31.700 --> 00:13:34.870
- AND ALL HE COULD WORSHIP WERETHINGS AND OTHER ANIMALS.
- 00:13:34.904 --> 00:13:38.474
- THAT'S ANIMISM, THE IDEA THATWE'RE GONNA WORSHIP THINGS
- 00:13:38.507 --> 00:13:42.278
- OR OTHER OBJECTS.
- 00:13:42.311 --> 00:13:43.879
- BUT AS MAN HAS EVOLVED,HE WENT FROM ANIMISM
- 00:13:43.913 --> 00:13:46.682
- TO POLYTHEISM, THEWORSHIP OF MANY GODS.
- 00:13:46.715 --> 00:13:49.818
- AND THEN HE EVOLVED AND HESTARTED INTO MONOTHEISM,
- 00:13:49.852 --> 00:13:53.289
- THE WORSHIP OF ONEGOD, HE EVOLVED
- 00:13:53.322 --> 00:13:55.591
- IN HIS RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
- 00:13:55.624 --> 00:13:57.092
- NOW, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA,EXCEPT IT CONTRADICTS HISTORY.
- 00:13:57.126 --> 00:14:00.729
- THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE.
- 00:14:00.763 --> 00:14:02.698
- PAUL TALKS ABOUT NOT THEEVOLUTION OF RELIGION
- 00:14:02.731 --> 00:14:05.367
- BUT THE DEVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
- 00:14:05.401 --> 00:14:08.771
- IN OTHER WORDS,AT THE BEGINNING,
- 00:14:08.804 --> 00:14:11.540
- MAN HAD KNOWLEDGEOF THE ONE TRUE GOD.
- 00:14:11.573 --> 00:14:13.809
- ADAM AND EVE WORSHIPED THEONE TRUE GOD IN THE GARDEN.
- 00:14:13.842 --> 00:14:17.579
- THEY WERE PERFECT AND THEYBELIEVED IN THE ONE PERFECT GOD.
- 00:14:17.613 --> 00:14:20.950
- BUT BECAUSE OF SIN,MAN BEGAN TO DEVOLVE
- 00:14:20.983 --> 00:14:24.720
- AND HE EXCHANGED THEKNOWLEDGE OF THE ONE TRUE GOD
- 00:14:24.753 --> 00:14:27.589
- AND HE BEGAN WORSHIPINGOBJECTS AND ANIMALS AND IDOLS.
- 00:14:27.623 --> 00:14:32.361
- HE BEGAN CREATING FALSERELIGIOUS SYSTEMS.
- 00:14:32.394 --> 00:14:35.230
- HE REPLACED THEKNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD
- 00:14:35.264 --> 00:14:37.733
- WITH A GOD OF HIS OWN MAKING.
- 00:14:37.766 --> 00:14:40.736
- AND MAKING A CONSCIOUSCHOICE TO CREATE THEIR OWN
- 00:14:40.769 --> 00:14:44.373
- GOD THAT THEY WANT TO FOLLOW.
- 00:14:44.406 --> 00:14:46.275
- THAT'S THE BASIS OFALL FALSE RELIGIONS,
- 00:14:46.308 --> 00:14:49.812
- REJECTING THE KNOWLEDGEOF THE TRUE GOD
- 00:14:49.845 --> 00:14:51.914
- THAT EVERYBODY HAS AND CREATINGA GOD THEY WANT TO WORSHIP,
- 00:14:51.947 --> 00:14:56.785
- MAKING GOD IN THEIR OWN IMAGE.
- 00:14:56.819 --> 00:14:59.788
- AND BY THE WAY, IT'SNOT JUST CULT FOLLOWERS
- 00:14:59.822 --> 00:15:05.961
- AND FALSE RELIGIOUSFOLLOWERS WHO DO THAT.
- 00:15:05.995 --> 00:15:07.629
- SOME PROFESSING CHRISTIANSDO THE VERY SAME THING.
- 00:15:07.663 --> 00:15:11.166
- THEY CREATE GOD INTHEIR OWN IMAGE.
- 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.169
- A.W. TOZER ONCE SAID,"WRONG IDEAS ABOUT GOD
- 00:15:14.203 --> 00:15:17.373
- "ARE NOT ONLY THE FOUNTAINFROM WHICH THE POLLUTED WATERS
- 00:15:17.406 --> 00:15:21.010
- "OF IDOLATRY FLOW, THEYARE THEMSELVES IDOLATROUS.
- 00:15:21.043 --> 00:15:25.781
- "THE IDOLATER SIMPLYIMAGINES THINGS ABOUT GOD
- 00:15:25.814 --> 00:15:31.653
- "AND ACTS AS IF THEY WERE TRUE."
- 00:15:31.687 --> 00:15:35.758
- THAT'S WHAT THE FOLLOWEROF FALSE RELIGIONS DO.
- 00:15:35.791 --> 00:15:37.626
- THEY IMAGINE A GOD, THEYIMAGINE GOD TO BE A CERTAIN WAY
- 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:40.362
- AND THEY CREATE A GOD ANDFOLLOW HIM AS IF THAT WAS TRUE.
- 00:15:40.396 --> 00:15:43.632
- BUT SO DO MANY CHRISTIANS.
- 00:15:43.665 --> 00:15:44.933
- HAVE YOU EVER HEARDCHRISTIANS SAY,
- 00:15:44.967 --> 00:15:46.435
- "I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE A GODWHO WOULD SEND PEOPLE TO HELL
- 00:15:46.468 --> 00:15:52.674
- "SIMPLY FOR NOT BELIEVINGTHE RIGHT THINGS ABOUT JESUS.
- 00:15:52.708 --> 00:15:55.677
- "I CANNOT IMAGINE AGOD WHO WOULD CONDEMN
- 00:15:55.711 --> 00:16:00.282
- "A HOLY, PURE LOVE EVEN IFIT WAS A SAME-SEX ATTRACTION.
- 00:16:00.315 --> 00:16:04.086
- "I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE THAT."
- 00:16:04.119 --> 00:16:05.821
- OR, "I CAN'T IMAGINE A GODWHO WOULD TELL CHRISTIANS
- 00:16:05.854 --> 00:16:09.058
- "THEY NEED TO STAY INAN UNFULFILLING MARRIAGE
- 00:16:09.091 --> 00:16:11.827
- "IF THEY'RE NOT HAPPY.
- 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:13.028
- "I JUST CAN'T IMAGINEA GOD LIKE THAT."
- 00:16:13.062 --> 00:16:15.264
- AND, "I CAN'T IMAGINE A GODWHO WOULD ALLOW BAD THINGS
- 00:16:15.297 --> 00:16:18.200
- "TO HAPPEN IN THE WORLD, IFHE HAD THE POWER TO STOP THEM.
- 00:16:18.233 --> 00:16:20.602
- "I JUST CAN'T IMAGINEA GOD LIKE THAT."
- 00:16:20.636 --> 00:16:23.138
- THE OPERATIVE WORDTHERE IS IMAGINE.
- 00:16:23.172 --> 00:16:26.809
- PEOPLE ASSUME THATGOD IS THE SUM
- 00:16:26.842 --> 00:16:30.746
- OF PEOPLE'SIMAGINATIONS ABOUT HIM,
- 00:16:30.779 --> 00:16:33.215
- AND THAT IS THE BASISFOR ALL IDOLATRY.
- 00:16:33.248 --> 00:16:36.151
- THAT'S WHAT THEUNBELIEVER HAS DONE.
- 00:16:36.185 --> 00:16:37.820
- HE HAS RECEIVED THEKNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD,
- 00:16:37.853 --> 00:16:40.889
- HE HAS REJECTED THEKNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD,
- 00:16:40.923 --> 00:16:43.392
- AND HE HAS REPLACED THEREVELATION OF THE TRUE GOD
- 00:16:43.425 --> 00:16:46.161
- WITH THE CREATIONOF HIS OWN GOD.
- 00:16:46.195 --> 00:16:49.765
- AND THEREFORE, PAUL SAYS,HE IS WITHOUT EXCUSE.
- 00:16:49.798 --> 00:16:54.036
- HE'S WITHOUT EXCUSE.
- 00:16:54.069 --> 00:16:56.271
- NOW, I KNOW SOMEOF YOU ARE SAYING,
- 00:16:56.305 --> 00:16:57.506
- "HEY, WAIT JUSTA MINUTE, PASTOR.
- 00:16:57.539 --> 00:16:59.575
- "BUT YOU SAID IT'S ONLYTHROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST
- 00:16:59.608 --> 00:17:03.078
- "THAT A PERSON CAN BE SAVED.
- 00:17:03.112 --> 00:17:06.248
- "I MEAN, WHAT GOODIS NATURAL REVELATION
- 00:17:06.281 --> 00:17:09.184
- "IF A PERSON CAN'T BE SAVED?
- 00:17:09.218 --> 00:17:12.254
- "ARE YOU SAYING APERSON CAN'T BE SAVED
- 00:17:12.287 --> 00:17:14.256
- "JUST BY BELIEVING THAT THERE'SA GOD AND THAT HE'S KIND?"
- 00:17:14.289 --> 00:17:16.959
- THAT'S RIGHT, THEBIBLE SAYS THE PERSON
- 00:17:16.992 --> 00:17:19.027
- WHO ACCEPTS THATREVELATION ABOUT GOD
- 00:17:19.061 --> 00:17:21.063
- IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY SAVED,
- 00:17:21.096 --> 00:17:22.831
- IT'S ONLY THROUGHFAITH IN JESUS.
- 00:17:22.865 --> 00:17:24.433
- WELL THEN, WHAT GOODIS NATURAL REVELATION?
- 00:17:24.466 --> 00:17:26.969
- IF SOMEBODY RECEIVESTHIS REVELATION BY GOD,
- 00:17:27.002 --> 00:17:30.672
- HE'S NOT AUTOMATICALLY SAVED.
- 00:17:30.706 --> 00:17:33.175
- BUT IF HE REJECTS THATREVELATION OF GOD,
- 00:17:33.208 --> 00:17:36.378
- HE IS CONDEMNED, HEIS WITHOUT EXCUSE.
- 00:17:36.411 --> 00:17:41.283
- YOU SEE, NATURALREVELATION IS A TEST
- 00:17:41.316 --> 00:17:44.052
- TO SEE IF SOMEBODY REALLYWANTS TO KNOW GOD OR NOT.
- 00:17:44.086 --> 00:17:48.423
- IF THEY REJECT THATKNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD
- 00:17:48.457 --> 00:17:50.926
- AND CREATE THEIR OWNGOD, THEN THEY'RE NOT
- 00:17:50.959 --> 00:17:53.328
- REALLY INTERESTEDIN KNOWING GOD.
- 00:17:53.362 --> 00:17:54.830
- BUT IF THEY ARE RECEPTIVETO THAT NATURAL REVELATION,
- 00:17:54.863 --> 00:17:59.568
- THEN THAT LEADS TOTHE FOURTH TRUTH
- 00:17:59.601 --> 00:18:01.703
- THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTANDABOUT THIS COMPLEX ISSUE,
- 00:18:01.737 --> 00:18:04.139
- AND THAT IS, ANYONE WHOWANTS FURTHER KNOWLEDGE
- 00:18:04.173 --> 00:18:07.509
- OF GOD WILL RECEIVE IT.
- 00:18:07.543 --> 00:18:09.745
- ANYONE WHO WANTS FURTHERKNOWLEDGE OF GOD WILL RECEIVE
- 00:18:09.778 --> 00:18:13.148
- IT. REMEMBER, GOD'S DESIRE IS TOSAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
- 00:18:13.182 --> 00:18:17.586
- NOT AS FEW PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
- 00:18:17.619 --> 00:18:19.621
- YES, GOD WOULD BE JUST INSENDING EVERYBODY TO HELL,
- 00:18:19.655 --> 00:18:22.724
- BUT THAT IS NOT HIS DESIRE.
- 00:18:22.758 --> 00:18:24.393
- HE WANTS EVERYONE TO COMETO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
- 00:18:24.426 --> 00:18:27.129
- FOR EXAMPLE, JOTDOWN EZEKIEL 33:11.
- 00:18:27.162 --> 00:18:30.465
- "AS I LIVE," DECLARESTHE LORD GOD,
- 00:18:30.499 --> 00:18:33.268
- "I TAKE NO PLEASURE INTHE DEATH OF THE WICKED,
- 00:18:33.302 --> 00:18:36.205
- "BUT RATHER THAT THE WICKEDTURN FROM HIS WAY AND LIVE.
- 00:18:36.238 --> 00:18:39.942
- "TURN BACK, TURN BACKFROM YOUR EVIL WAYS!
- 00:18:39.975 --> 00:18:43.011
- "FOR THEN WILL YOU DIE,FOR O, HOUSE OF ISRAEL,
- 00:18:43.045 --> 00:18:47.983
- "WHY THEN WILL YOU DIE?"
- 00:18:48.016 --> 00:18:50.352
- OR LUKE 19:10, JESUSSAID ABOUT HIMSELF,
- 00:18:50.385 --> 00:18:52.854
- "FOR THE SON OF MAN HASCOME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE
- 00:18:52.888 --> 00:18:55.724
- "THAT WHICH WAS LOST."
- 00:18:55.757 --> 00:18:57.859
- DO YOU SEE THAT?
- 00:18:57.893 --> 00:18:59.061
- GOD DESIRES THATALL PEOPLE BE SAVED.
- 00:18:59.094 --> 00:19:02.731
- HE'S NOT SAYING ALLPEOPLE WILL BE SAVED,
- 00:19:02.764 --> 00:19:04.900
- BUT HIS DESIRE IS THATALL PEOPLE BE SAVED.
- 00:19:04.933 --> 00:19:08.003
- BUT THE ONLY WAYTHEY CAN BE SAVED IS
- 00:19:08.036 --> 00:19:10.339
- BY COMING TO A KNOWLEDGE OFTHE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:19:10.372 --> 00:19:16.712
- SO THEN, PASTOR, ANSWERYOUR OWN QUESTION,
- 00:19:16.745 --> 00:19:19.348
- WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVENEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS?
- 00:19:19.381 --> 00:19:22.084
- THE WOMAN WHO HASNEVER READ A BIBLE,
- 00:19:22.117 --> 00:19:24.920
- HAS NEVER HEARD THENAME OF JESUS CHRIST,
- 00:19:24.953 --> 00:19:27.489
- WHAT ABOUT HER ETERNAL FATE?
- 00:19:27.522 --> 00:19:30.058
- IF SHE LOOKS UPINTO THE HEAVENS,
- 00:19:30.092 --> 00:19:33.328
- SEES ALL OF THE EVIDENCEOF GOD'S CREATION
- 00:19:33.362 --> 00:19:35.831
- THROUGH NATURAL REVELATION,AND REJECTS THAT KNOWLEDGE,
- 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:40.435
- CREATES HER OWN GOD TO FOLLOW,
- 00:19:40.469 --> 00:19:42.704
- PAUL SAYS SHE IS WITHOUT EXCUSE.
- 00:19:42.738 --> 00:19:47.175
- BUT, IF SHE RECEIVESTHAT KNOWLEDGE,
- 00:19:47.209 --> 00:19:50.445
- IF SHE SAYS, YOU KNOW WHAT WHAT,
- 00:19:50.479 --> 00:19:52.180
- I DIDN'T CREATE THISWORLD AROUND ME.
- 00:19:52.214 --> 00:19:54.182
- THERE MUST BE SOMEONEGREATER THAN I,
- 00:19:54.216 --> 00:19:56.985
- AND I WANNA KNOW THAT SOMEBODY,
- 00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:58.754
- I WANNA KNOW THAT BEINGWHO IS GREATER THAN I.
- 00:19:58.787 --> 00:20:02.824
- IF SHE RESPONDS THATWAY, YOU CAN BE CERTAIN
- 00:20:02.858 --> 00:20:06.094
- THAT GOD WILL SENDHER FURTHER KNOWLEDGE
- 00:20:06.128 --> 00:20:08.664
- AND REVELATION OF THETRUTH OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:20:08.697 --> 00:20:11.933
- YOU SAY, "WAIT A MINUTE,PASTOR, HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?"
- 00:20:11.967 --> 00:20:15.103
- EVERY DAY WE HEAR STORIESHERE AT OUR CHURCH,
- 00:20:15.137 --> 00:20:19.975
- PEOPLE WHO SAY, FROMALL OVER THE WORLD,
- 00:20:20.008 --> 00:20:23.679
- WHO SAY, "I JUSTHAPPENED TO BE IN MY CAR
- 00:20:23.712 --> 00:20:27.115
- "LISTENING TO THE RADIOWHEN I ACCIDENTALLY
- 00:20:27.149 --> 00:20:29.885
- "CAME UPON YOUR PROGRAM,"OR "I JUST HAPPENED
- 00:20:29.918 --> 00:20:32.087
- "TO BE FLIPPING THROUGHTHE TELEVISION DIAL
- 00:20:32.120 --> 00:20:34.256
- "AND I ACCIDENTALLY CAMEUPON PATHWAY TO VICTORY
- 00:20:34.289 --> 00:20:37.693
- "AND I LISTENED TO THE MESSAGE
- 00:20:37.726 --> 00:20:38.960
- "AND I TRUSTEDCHRIST AS MY SAVIOR."
- 00:20:38.994 --> 00:20:42.030
- YOU KNOW, THE OLDER IGET THE LESS I BELIEVE
- 00:20:42.064 --> 00:20:44.299
- IN ACCIDENTS AND COINCIDENCES.
- 00:20:44.333 --> 00:20:47.536
- LISTEN TO ME, WHENEVERGOD SEES A MAN OR A WOMAN,
- 00:20:47.569 --> 00:20:52.374
- A BOY OR A GIRL, WHOREALLY WANTS TO KNOW HIM,
- 00:20:52.407 --> 00:20:56.912
- HE'LL MAKE SURE THATTHAT PERSON RECEIVES
- 00:20:56.945 --> 00:20:59.514
- THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:20:59.548 --> 00:21:01.350
- WHETHER IT'S THROUGHAN INTERNET CONNECTION
- 00:21:01.383 --> 00:21:04.486
- OR A TELEVISION SIGNALOR A RADIO BROADCAST,
- 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:08.023
- BECAUSE GOD IS EVENMORE INTERESTED
- 00:21:08.056 --> 00:21:10.125
- IN THAT PERSON'S SALVATIONTHAN YOU AND I COULD EVER BE.
- 00:21:10.158 --> 00:21:14.663
- HE'S NOT WILLING THATANY SHOULD PERISH,
- 00:21:14.696 --> 00:21:17.666
- BUT ALL SHOULD COME TO AKNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
- 00:21:17.699 --> 00:21:20.936
- ANYONE WHO WANTS FURTHERKNOWLEDGE OF GOD WILL RECEIVE
- 00:21:20.969 --> 00:21:25.474
- IT. BUT NOW LISTEN TO THIS,YES, GOD HAS ORDAINED
- 00:21:25.507 --> 00:21:29.044
- THE END RESULT, THATPEOPLE SHOULD BE SAVED
- 00:21:29.077 --> 00:21:31.380
- BY TRUSTING IN CHRIST,BUT HE'S ALSO ORDAINED
- 00:21:31.413 --> 00:21:34.383
- THE MEANS BY WHICHTHEY HEAR THE GOSPEL.
- 00:21:34.416 --> 00:21:37.886
- GOD WILL SEND THAT TRUTH, YES,
- 00:21:37.919 --> 00:21:39.921
- BUT HE DOES IT THROUGHPEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME.
- 00:21:39.955 --> 00:21:44.893
- AND THAT'S WHYHE'S LEFT US HERE.
- 00:21:44.926 --> 00:21:47.996
- MATTHEW 28:19-20,JESUS SAID,
- 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:50.932
- "THERE IS ONLY ONE REASONI'M LEAVING YOU HERE
- 00:21:50.966 --> 00:21:53.635
- "AND NOT TAKING YOUTO HEAVEN WITH ME.
- 00:21:53.668 --> 00:21:56.138
- "IT'S SO THAT YOU WILLGO INTO ALL THE WORLD
- 00:21:56.171 --> 00:21:59.574
- "AND PREACH THE GOSPEL,MAKE DISCIPLES."
- 00:21:59.608 --> 00:22:02.477
- IN ACTS 1:8, BEFORE HEASCENDED INTO HEAVEN,
- 00:22:02.511 --> 00:22:05.647
- HE REMINDED THEM ONEMORE TIME, HE SAID,
- 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:07.449
- "NOW BEFORE I GO,REMEMBER, YOU ARE
- 00:22:07.482 --> 00:22:09.851
- "TO BE MY WITNESSES INJERUSALEM, JUDEA, AND SAMARIA,
- 00:22:09.885 --> 00:22:13.321
- "TO THE UTTERMOSTPARTS OF THE EARTH."
- 00:22:13.355 --> 00:22:16.525
- FOLKS, HAS THAT SUNK IN WITH YOU
- 00:22:16.558 --> 00:22:18.827
- THAT'S THE REASON YOU'RE HERE?
- 00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:20.829
- YOU'RE NOT HERE FORANY OTHER REASON.
- 00:22:20.862 --> 00:22:22.397
- GOD LEFT YOU HERE INSTEADOF RAPTURING YOU TO HEAVEN
- 00:22:22.431 --> 00:22:24.866
- WHEN YOU WERE SAVED, LEFT YOUHERE TO FULFILL THAT MANDATE
- 00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:28.637
- TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO EVERYONE.
- 00:22:28.670 --> 00:22:30.472
- NOW, NONE OF US BYOURSELVES CAN DO THAT.
- 00:22:30.505 --> 00:22:32.941
- NONE OF US CAN GO TO THEREMOTEST PARTS OF THE EARTH,
- 00:22:32.974 --> 00:22:35.544
- THE REMOTEST PARTSOF EVEN THIS COUNTRY,
- 00:22:35.577 --> 00:22:38.313
- AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO ESSENTIAL
- 00:22:38.346 --> 00:22:40.382
- IF WE'RE GONNA BE OBEDIENTTO GOD, WE FOLLOW GOD'S PLAN,
- 00:22:40.415 --> 00:22:44.352
- AND THAT IS BANDINGTOGETHER AS CHRISTIANS,
- 00:22:44.386 --> 00:22:46.888
- BANDING TOGETHER AS A CHURCHTO FULFILL THAT MANDATE
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- IN MATTHEW 28 AND THATSTRATEGY OF ACTS 1:8.
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- NONE OF US CAN FULFILL THEGREAT COMMISSION ALONE.
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- WE TRULY NEED ONE ANOTHER.
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- AND AT PATHWAY TO VICTORY,WE'RE BANDING TOGETHER
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- TO TURN UP THEVOLUME ON THE GOSPEL.
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- I'M PLEASED TO REPORTTHAT OUR MINISTRY
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- IS PICKING UP MORE LOYALPARTNERS EVERY DAY.
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- THERE'S A MOVEMENTALL ACROSS AMERICA
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- TO FINANCIALLYSUPPORT THIS MINISTRY.
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- BECAUSE MEN AND WOMENARE EMBRACING OUR VISION
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- TO PIERCE THE DARKNESS WITHTHE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
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- AND I WANNA THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
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- FOR YOUR GENEROUSFINANCIAL SUPPORT
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- WHICH ALLOWS THIS PROGRAMTO CIRCUMVENT THE GLOBE.
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- YOUR GIFT IS THEFUEL THAT EMPOWERS US
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- TO BROADCAST THIS URGENT MESSAGE
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- THAT NOT ALL ROADSLEAD TO HEAVEN.
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- NOW, STAY RIGHT THERE,I'LL BE BACK WITH MORE
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- IN JUST A MOMENT.
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- THE MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO ATTEND
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- AMERICAN EVANGELICALCHURCHES BELIEVE
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- THAT THERE'S MORE THANONE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE.
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- THERE'S ONLY ONEPROBLEM WITH THAT IDEA,
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- IT'S JUST NOT TRUE.
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- [ANNOUNCER] IN HISBEST-SELLING BOOK,
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- "NOT ALL ROADS LEAD TO HEAVEN,"
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- DR. ROBERT JEFFRESSANSWERS QUESTIONS LIKE,
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- WHAT HAPPENS TO SINCEREFOLLOWERS OF OTHER RELIGIONS
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- WHO WORSHIP A GODBY ANOTHER NAME?
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- AND WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHOHAVE NEVER HEARD THE GOSPEL?
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- IN OUR INCLUSIVE CULTURE,THE EXCLUSIVE MESSAGE
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- OF JESUS IS VERY UNPOPULAR.
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- BUT JESUS WAS CLEARTHAT, "NO ONE COMES
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- "TO THE FATHEREXCEPT THROUGH ME."
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- MY BOOK EQUIPS YOU TOSHARE THIS IMPORTANT TRUTH
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- WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
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- [ANNOUNCER] A COPY OF "NOTALL ROADS LEAD TO HEAVEN"
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- IS YOURS WHEN YOUGIVE A GENEROUS GIFT
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- TO PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- AND WHEN YOUR GIFTIS $75 OR MORE,
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- WE'LL ALSO SEND YOU THE COMPLETE
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- "NOT ALL ROADS LEAD TOHEAVEN" TEACHING SERIES
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- ON CD AND DVD.
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- WHAT SATAN IS DOINGIS USING RELIGION
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- AS A DISTRACTION TO PEOPLE.
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- HE'S USING RELIGIONAS A FALSE LIGHT
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- THAT WILL LEAD PEOPLEAWAY FROM THE TRUE LIGHT
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- OF JESUS CHRIST, WHO ILLUMINATES
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- THE ONLY PATHWAY TO HEAVEN.
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- [ANNOUNCER] THETRUTH OF GOD'S WORD,
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- NO MATTER HOW UNPOPULARAND INTOLERANT,
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- IS THE ONLY TRUTHTHAT CAN SAVE LIVES,
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- RESTORE OUR NATION,AND IMPACT OUR WORLD.
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- AND THROUGH YOURPRAYERS AND GIVING,
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- WE'RE ABLE TOPIERCE THE DARKNESS
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- WITH THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
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- A SHOCKING NUMBER OFEVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS BELIEVE
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- THAT ANY PURSUIT OFGOD IN ANY EXPRESSION
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- WILL ULTIMATELYLEAD TO SALVATION.
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- BUT THE BIBLE IS CLEAR, ONLYTHOSE WHO PUT THEIR FAITH
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- IN CHRIST WILL SPENDETERNITY IN HEAVEN.
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- AND THAT'S WHY WE OUGHTTO BE SHARING THIS MESSAGE
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- FAR AND WIDE.
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- NOT BECAUSE WE HATEPEOPLE IN OTHER RELIGIONS,
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- BUT BECAUSE WE LOVE THEM.
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- WELL, BECAUSE IT'S TRUE THATNOT ALL ROADS LEAD TO HEAVEN,
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- IT RAISES THE QUESTION,DOES OUR LOVING GOD ALLOW
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- FOR ANY EXCEPTIONS TO THAT?
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- FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT HAPPENSWHEN LITTLE CHILDREN PASS AWAY
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- BEFORE THEY'RE ABLE TOPLACE THEIR TRUST IN JESUS?
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- STAY TUNED FOR A VERY SPECIALEDITION OF PATHWAY TO VICTORY
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- COMING UP NEXT TIME.
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- [ANNOUNCER] TODAY WHENYOU GIVE A GENEROUS GIFT
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- TO SUPPORT THE MINISTRYOF PATHWAY TO VICTORY,
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- WE'LL SAY THANKS BYSENDING YOU A COPY
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- OF DR. JEFFRESS'SBEST-SELLING BOOK CALLED,
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- "NOT ALL ROADS LEAD TO HEAVEN."
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- PLUS, THE BROCHURE,"CHRISTIANITY, CULTS &
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- RELIGIONS" IS OUR GIFT TO YOUSIMPLY FOR CONTACTING US TODAY
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- AT PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- AND WHEN YOUR GIFTIS $75 OR MORE,
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- WE'LL ALSO SEND YOU THE COMPLETE
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- "NOT ALL ROADS LEAD TOHEAVEN" TEACHING SERIES
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- ON BOTH CD AND DVD.
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- THESE PROGRAMS AREMADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE
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- OF YOUR GENEROUSSUPPORT, SO THANK YOU
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- FOR CALLING, WRITING, ORGOING ONLINE TO GIVE TODAY.
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- NOW, COMING UP NEXT TIMEON PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- JESUS WAS USING CHILDREN ASAN ILLUSTRATION OF HUMILITY.
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- BUT NEVERTHELESS, HEGATHERED THEM UP IN HIS ARMS
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- AND HE SAID, "YOU NEED TOBE LIKE THESE CHILDREN."
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- NOW AGAIN, IF THESE CHILDRENWERE DESTINED TO HELL
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- IF THEY DIED, ITDOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE
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- THAT HE WOULD SAY THATABOUT THE CHILDREN.
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- IT EVEN MAKES LESS SENSE THATHE WOULD BLESS THESE CHILDREN,
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- LAY HANDS ON THEMAND BLESS THEM,
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- IF THEY WERE CONDEMNED TO HELL.
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- [ANNOUNCER] SET YOUR DVRAND JOIN US NEXT TIME
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- FOR THE MESSAGE, "ARECHILDREN WHO DIE IN HEAVEN?"
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- HERE ON PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- ♪ MUSIC
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