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Exploring God's Ocean Part 1

November 24, 2020

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In this exciting episode of InGrace; Jim Scudder; Jr. and PHD Marine Biologist; Dr. Robert Carter; travel to Key Largo; Florida to explore God's wonderful creation.

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Exploring God's Ocean Part 1

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male announcer: Fromall of us at "In Grace,"
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we would like towish you a happy Thanksgiving.
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Jim Scudder, Jr.:The ocean is spectacular,
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and God created it.
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Welcome to"Exploring God's Ocean."
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♪♪♪
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male announcer: Buriedbeneath the waves of the
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Florida Keys, the hidden home offearless ocean wanderers, dive
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into these strange surroundings,where creatures of all shapes
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and sizes glide gracefullyoverhead, only to disappear with
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a sudden burst of speed.
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The landscape changes as thedark waters are illuminated by
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the moon and the rarebioluminescent creatures
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that make thisworlds their home.
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Every scale, fin, and color atestimony to the genius of God.
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Join us under the sea on anadventure of a lifetime as we
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explore God's oceanwith Jim Scudder, Jr.
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Hi, I'm Jim Scudder, Jr.
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I grew up around water,loving the ocean.
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I also grew up believing thatGod created the heavens
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and the earth.
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But every time we watch aprogram that features the
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oceans, we're told that we camefrom the oceans and this was
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millions and millions ofyears ago, millions of years
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of evolution.
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Well, I know that thatdoesn't fit with the Bible.
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I also know how amazing theoceans are and how amazing the
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creatures are, so I wanted tofind out more about the ocean,
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and we are going to betalking to a creationist who
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is a marine biologist.
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He has a PhD in marine biology.
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His name is Robert Carter, andhe and I are going to explore
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God's amazing oceans, and we'regonna bring that to you and show
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you how important the oceans areto us, how important the oceans
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are to God.
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I hope that you can beopenminded enough to say, "Okay,
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let's look at the evidence,and let's see if the Bible
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fits the evidence."
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And that's exactly what we'regonna do today on
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"Exploring God's Ocean."
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♪♪♪
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Jim: Ever since I was a boy,I've been fascinated
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with God's creation.
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I'm traveling the planet totell his story about his world.
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I'm Jim Scudder, Jr.
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Come with me on another excitingadventure in grace.
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Jim: All right,we're in Key Largo.
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Key Largo, and we're gonna lookat this amazing thing called
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the underwater world.
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And we're gonna do it a littledifferently, Dr. Carter because
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most of the underwatershows you'll see, and they're
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beautiful, incredible, butthey're done from a evolutionary
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viewpoint, almost like, "Thesea is where we came from."
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And we have a very differentview, a biblical view, and that
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is that God created in six days.
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God spoke, and he created.
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And we're going to findsome pretty amazing things.
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As a preacher, I get to preachabout the past, the present,
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the future.The future's glorious.
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God is remaking theheavens and the earth.
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And, you know, it says, "Youreye has not seen, nor ear heard,
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the things that God has instore for those that love him."
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And if we would love to live inthese types of worlds that are
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so beautiful, so different thanours, then what is it gonna be
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like for eternity as God allowsus perhaps to explore the far
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reaches of his Creation?
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Dr. Robert Carter: It issimply amazing to consider all
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the different types offishes that God made.
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Some are huge, some not.
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Some are bold, some sneaky.
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Some swim together in largeschools while others live a
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solitary existence.
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Some fish eat algae.
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Some eat coral.Some eat other fish.
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Some are stunningly beautiful,and others just as plain
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as could be.
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When we consider all thedifferent fish God made, how
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could we do anything other thanpraise him for what he has done?
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Jim: What we're gonna dotoday is bring it back to right
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here and we'regonna plan our day.
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We need to get fullface-mask certified.
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So we're gonna go get training,and then we're gonna be going
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out on a boat that's based in--Iguess it's kind of a touristy
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area there, going out with a bigboat, and go out to Molasses,
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which is where?
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Dr. Carter: Right here.
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Jim: And Molasses Reef iskind of the major epicenter
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of the reefs righthere in Key Largo.
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You have a ton ofboats going out there.
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Dr. Carter: Ton of boatsbecause it's right here--
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it's so easy to get to.
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Jim: It's right there.
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It's a pretty big reef, butwe're gonna go there more just
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for the training, but we'realso gonna see some things.
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I think we'll be ableto see some corals.
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You'll see maybe a shark.
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Dr. Carter: I'm expectingwe're gonna see a lot of soft
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corals, a lot of thingswaving in the breeze.
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And there'll be some hardcorals, and there'll be some
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big colonies there.
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Look for, you know,jellyfish in the water.
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Look for little teeny fish.
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Everyone always focuses onthe big things, but the little
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things in the ocean, there's alot more of them, and there's
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a lot more diversity, andthey're weird and usually
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really interesting.
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So let's look for tiny thingsand see if we can
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find something unusual.
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Jim: Okay, and thatshould be great too.
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Are you ready for an adventure?
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Dr. Carter: I am ready.
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Jim: Let's go diving.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: Robert, we're on ourway to learn how to put a full
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face mask on for diving, whichI've always wondered about it.
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The upside is you getto talk underwater.
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I'm very good at breathingunderwater, and I'm gonna lose
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all my air 'cause I'm gonnabe talking the whole time.
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Jim: After driving throughthe beautiful heart of Key
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Largo, we made it to a populardive shop, and here we met our
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instructor who is going to teachus all about the full face mask.
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We signed some papers, probablysigning our life away, and then
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we headed to a local poolwhere we would officially
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start our training.
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We prepped our dive tanks.
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We checked our respirators andthe masks, and it was finally
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time to get into the water.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: How doyou copy me, Rob?
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Dr. Carter: Big ten four!
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I hear you loud and clear.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: What was your impressionof the full face mask?
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Dr. Carter: I love it.
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Once I got the hang ofit, that was really fun.
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Jim: Well, what this is gonnaallow us to do is communicate
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underwater, which is the wholepoint of the TV show is you're
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gonna show me some of the stuffhere in the Keys and we're gonna
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try to talkthrough these things.
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But it's also kinda nice becauseyou don't have to have something
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in your mouth.
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It kinda feels alot more natural.
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I really like it, and Ilike the field of vision too.
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Dr. Carter: Yeah.
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announcer: Coming up,an adventure under the sea.
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Dr. Carter: Little nurseshark we've got here.
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Jim: Now, this is awesome.
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We just got into a hugeschool of yellowtail.
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Jim: We've got amoray eel sighting.
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They are scary-lookin' animals.
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They have huge teeth, andthey're beautiful green.
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Jim: The time finally camefor us to put on our gear as we
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prepared to jump infor the first time.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: There's a queen angel.
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There I see a parrot fish.
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Jim: So beautiful!
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Jim: So, our first dive,Molasses Reef, just a
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few miles offshore.
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It was only a 30-minute trip.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: Now, nurse sharksusually aren't something that
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you'd get too nervous about.
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I've swam with them.
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I've seen them.
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But they actually do attackpeople, and it's mostly because
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people bother them.
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Dr. Carter: Yeah, they'llyank on the tail of this shark
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that doesn't eat people.
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No, it's still a shark.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: And I also read aboutthe nurse shark and other sharks
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replace their teeth often.
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And you'll find, some beachesyou'll find a lot of
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sharks' teeth.
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And I think it was, like, everyseven to ten days, it would have
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a whole new row of itsfirst line of teeth.
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Dr. Carter:That's a lot of teeth.
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Jim: And so they'll be ableto, you know, lose teeth and
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grow teeth very quickly.
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And it's because they're eatinga lot of things that are hard,
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bony, and their teethare getting ripped out.
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And so that God designedsomething in there so that they
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can reproducethose teeth quickly.
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Dr. Carter: Yeah.
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These are gastropods.
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That is an animal that uses itsstomach for its foot, gastropod.
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Jim: The question that everykid wants to ask you right now,
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how is it that when you pick upone of these shells, usually
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a bigger one, youcan hear the ocean?
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Dr. Carter:That's a great question.
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Jim: I hear a verysmall ocean in this one.
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Dr. Carter: Yeah, thisone you can hear a--whoa.
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And the different size cavitywill give you a different tone.
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The same thing happens insidea tuba verses a flute
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or a pipe organ.
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It's a very similar principle.
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In fact, the way they create it,if you see the spiral shape, the
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animal used to bevery, very small.
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And it would just live in thislittle thing right here,
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only this much of it.
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It doesn't go all the way back.
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It's only this deep, andthat's where the animal is.
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And as he grows, he turnshis house and adds a new edge.
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And you can se these lines here.
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That's his growth rings,essentially, similar to a tree.
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And it's just grow and grow andgrow and turn and turn and turn.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: Getting our full maskcertification, but it seemed
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to go good.
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We got a weird swell out here.
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We're on MolassesReef just off Key Largo.
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And sometimes the tide and thewaves are crossed so the boat,
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this is a big boat, butwe're really rockin'.
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And it's kinda hardto always hang on.
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All of the tanks are shifting,and some people
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are getting seasick.
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So, hopefully, you're not.
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But it's amazing to be able todive with a PhD marine biologist
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and one that believes inCreation on top of it,
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it's awesome.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: At Pleasure Reef, andwe're going to go down and check
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it out and see what it's like.
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Supposed to be a really prettyledge along here, and a lot of
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moray eels are supposed to livehere, and so we've gotta
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see a moray eel.
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Let's see if we canget him to come out.
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Dr. Carter: One, two,three, four, five, Jim here.
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Jim: Test, six,seven, eight, nine, ten!
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Dr. Carter: Cool!
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We have this scrawled filefish.
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And I think we saw alittle one at the last dive.
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Jim: He tried to eatthis coral right here.
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Dr. Carter: Little rays.
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Jim: Now this is awesome!
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We just got into a hugeschool of yellowtail.
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There's fish everywhere.
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This is just incredible,hundreds of these yellow fish.
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Jim: We've got a moray eelsighting, so we're gonna go try
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to get some video of that.
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You can see him from right here.
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He's a beautiful eel.
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A little scary lookin' though.
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Doesn't look super happy so Idon't think I'll get any closer
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than this, but they arescary-lookin' animals.
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They have huge teeth, andthey're beautiful green.
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Dr. Carter: Yeah, thisone's not too happy either.
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Jim: Definitely avery beautiful reef.
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Dr. Carter: Yeah, here comesa nurse shark, comin' at us.
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These nurse sharks really arekind of the bottom feeders.
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They clean this whole area up.
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Jim: I'm thinking thisis a very pleasurable reef.
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Major fish activity.
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I mean, life everywhere.
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Dr. Carter: You know, theseledges are just full of fish.
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A little strawberry grouper.
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Oh eel!
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Look at this little eel.
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It's a moray.
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Jim: These fishseem very hungry.
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Dr. Carter: But hopefullythe sharks aren't as hungry.
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Jim: I'm running low on airso I'm gonna be going up in just
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a couple minutes.
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Dr. Carter seems to be able tonot breathe while he's down here
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so he has lot of air.
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He'll stay down alittle bit longer.
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But you always need to go upwhen you still have 500 pounds
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of pressure.
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And so therefore I only have afew more minutes and I'll have
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to go up.
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♪♪♪
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Jim: All right, PleasureReef lives up to its name.
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That was really a pleasure.Full of fish.
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I don't think I've seen so manyfish in one place in the Keys,
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just fish everywhere,schools and schools of snapper,
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yellowtail, mangrove,schoolmaster, just beautiful.
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And then a lot ofsharks, a lot of big eel.
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They're kinda tuckedaway a little bit.
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One guy was kinda gettin' alittle too friendly, so we
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wanted to kinda backhim out a little bit.
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Dr. Carter: It's agreen moray eel, a big one.
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Another parrot fish.
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It's as beautiful parrot fish.
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White sponges, glass sponges.
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The thing about this site isthat there is a lot of soft
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coral though.
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Divers are returning to surface.
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♪♪♪
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Dr. Carter: My thoughts arethat it's amazing that a coral
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that died a while ago canprovide so much area for
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fish to live.
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Acropora palmata that formedthe surface of this reef is not
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there anymore, but there ismoray eels, and there's grunts,
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and there's snappers, andall this stuff living in the
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structure that the corals made.
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It's actually still interesting,still exciting to see it.
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Dr. Carter: Sharks arethe most feared and often most
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misunderstoodanimals in the oceans.
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They're superbly designed andcruise through the water with
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almost effortless efficiency.
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Most people are afraid ofthem because they're
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fierce predators.
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But most sharks are harmless toswimmers in most circumstances.
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During active feeding periods,nurse sharks can replace all
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their front-row teethevery week or two weeks.
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This is one reason why sharkteeth are so often found on
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beaches and are an abundant partof the fossil record in many
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parts of the world.
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A shark's method of breathingis similar to most fish.
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They draw water through themouth, they pass it over the
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gills, and eject itthrough gill slits.
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But unlike most fish, mostsharks need to keep swimming
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in order to breathe.But not nurse sharks.
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They can often befound lying on the bottom.
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This nurse shark iscovered by pesky remoras.
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These fish had a modifieddorsal fin that acts more like a
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suction cup, allowing them tostick onto larger fish and get
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carried along for a free ride.
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Sharks have a variety ofways to swim efficiently.
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Some haver long upperfins on their tails.
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This helps drive the back enddown and head up as they swim.
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Hammerhead sharks have a wingon the front of their heads that
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does the same thing.
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Typically found offshore, thelargest shark in the ocean is
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the whale shark.
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Adults typically average between18 and 32 feet long, but the
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largest ever seen was agiant 61 and a half feet long.
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Unlike most shark species, itsmouth is located at the front of
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the head instead of underneaththe front of the--
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The whale shark's huge mouth canreach up to 4 feet across,
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but don't be afraid.
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This fish's diet consists ofzooplankton, krill, jellies,
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copepods, coral spawn, and smallfishes, and they could never
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swallow a person.
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One of the least-known factsabout this beautiful shark is
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that its throat is very narrow,maybe about the size
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of a quarter.
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These gentle giants are atestimony to the brilliance
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of the Creator.
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Jim: Wow, we learned a lottoday about God's oceans, and
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we have a lot more for you.
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Right before we go today, I wantto make sure that you know the
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God that created the sea, thatyou have a personal relationship
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with the Lord Jesus Christ, thatyou have put your faith,
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your trust in the Creator.
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We were created inthe image of God.
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He loves you so much that hesent his Son, the Lord Jesus
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Christ, to die ona cross for you.
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He is God in the flesh.
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See, he was born of Mary, andhe lived among us,
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and he never sinned.
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God came andlived on this planet.
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Why?
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So that he couldredeem his Creation.
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We've seen a lot of the beautyand variety of the ocean and
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amazing creatures that Godcreated, but the most amazing
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part of Creation is you.
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Jesus loves you.
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He died for you.
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He rose again the third day.
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And if you'll simply believe inhim, the Bible says,
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"You have eternal life."
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So many people think, "Ican be religious enough
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to go to heaven."
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The problem withthat is you can't.
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Our sin separates us from aperfect and holy God, therefore
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you must receive as a gifteternal life by trusting Jesus
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as your only way to heaven.
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"For God so loved the world,that he gave his only begotten
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Son, that whosoever believeth inhim should not perish, but have
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everlasting life."
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Let me show you areal quick illustration.
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Let this be you andme, and let this be sin.
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All of us have sinned and fallenshort of the glory of God.
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Jesus had no sin.
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It says, "He was made sin forus that we might be made the
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righteousness of God in him."
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Did you see that sinseparates us from God?
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We cannot pay for sin ourself,therefore Jesus paid for it
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on the cross.
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And if you'll simply believe inhim, you'll have eternal life.
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My friend, that's not good news.
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That's great news.
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And I hope today's program hasbrought you to a decision to put
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your trust in Jesus Christas your Savior.
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♪♪♪
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a plunge into dark waters.
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Dr. Carter: We're going toshow you God's underwater world
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at night!
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Jim: It's like we are ona different planet own here.
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Diving at night is abrand-new experience.
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Dr. Carter: We've got aturtle right with this shark.
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Turtle and a shark!
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