Jack Graham - The Jesus Book

May 25, 2025 | S25:E21

Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - The Jesus Book | May 25, 2025
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • Living hope in a hostile world. that's because we are born
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  • Again according to peter unto a living hope because of the
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  • Resurrection of jesus.
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  • In my book the jesus book i have a chapter on the bible and
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  • World view, because what this really is, is a war of world
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  • Views; a biblical world view and a secularist world view.
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  • That's the battle that's going on in our world and in this
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  • Culture. a war that is a spiritual war. supernatural
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  • Things are going on here behind the scenes. and the battle is
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  • Really not against republicans or democrats or denominations
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  • Or various kinds of cultures; it is a battle between truth
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  • And untruth; a battle between truth and lies.
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  • Last week we preached on the blood of christ from 1 peter
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  • And it occurred to me what the old preachers used to say... we
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  • Were built on the blood, the book and the blessed hope of
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  • The lord jesus christ. and that's what 1 peter is about...
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  • The blood and the book and the blessed hope of jesus christ.
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  • I'm calling this sermon "the jesus book" because jesus and
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  • The bible, though not the same, are one. and the more you get
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  • To know your bible, the more you get to know jesus... who he
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  • Is and what he can do to change your life.
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  • This book, beyond the book, the living, breathing word of god.
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  • And no penny ante politician can destroy this [tap] book.
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  • They can defame it, they can deny it, they can dilute it,
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  • But they cannot destroy it. because as we're going to see
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  • In this message, the word of god... well, let's just look at
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  • Our text. it says "since you have been born again (verse 23
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  • In 1 peter 1)
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  • 23) since you have been born again, not of perishable seed
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  • But of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of
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  • God; 24) for “all flesh is like grass and all its glory like
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  • The flower of grass. the grass withers, the flower fades, but
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  • The word of the lord remains forever.”
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  • And this word... what is this word? this word is the good
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  • News that was preached to you. the good news that jesus is
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  • Lord; that christ is king; that he died for you; that he rose
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  • Again; that he's coming again to receive all who trust in
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  • Him. and there is no grave that can hold him back and there's
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  • No grave that can bury this book! because this book is
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  • Alive forevermore. what this country needs more than
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  • Anything is a revival of the bible... a revival of the
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  • Bible, and it starts in the pulpits across this nation and
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  • With christians.
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  • I heard about a little boy who went to sunday school. his
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  • Parents didn't go with him for some reason on this occasion
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  • But when he was in sunday school, he heard about the
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  • Revival that was going to be at the church. there were going to
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  • Be some meetings... revival meetings [sniff] and he went
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  • Home and his mother said, "well, what did they teach in
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  • Sunday school today?" "well", he said, "i learned that we're
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  • Going to have a re-bible at the church." [laughter] she said,
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  • "a re-bible." he said, "yes, we're going to have a
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  • Re-bible." well, i think he was close to what we really need.
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  • Revival is a re-bible. we need a rebirth of the church and a
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  • Renewal and a revival of the bible, god's word.
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  • Francis dixson, the bible teacher said, "it has been
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  • Hated..." talking about the bible... "it's been hated and
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  • Hounded as no other book has ever been and yet
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  • Indestructible, despised and yet honored, derided and yet
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  • Highly esteemed, declared dead and yet alive. mighty emperors
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  • And kings and queens has shunned, no toil and no guilt
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  • In order to exterminate it. wise and scholarly men have
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  • Thoroughly refuted it and now that higher criticism lords
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  • Over it and science has done away with it, it is spreading
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  • Still over the whole earth and millions of copies in hundreds
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  • And hundreds of languages. you can't stop the word of god. it
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  • Is indominable, it is indestructible, it is
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  • Unstoppable. why? because it is the living, breathing word of
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  • God."
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  • Let's talk about it for a few moments. the total perfection
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  • Of god's word... the total perfection of god's word. we
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  • Are told that this new birth of ours comes as a result of not a
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  • Perishable seed, but an imperishable ... a living and
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  • Binding word of god. the imperishable seed is the seed
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  • Of god's word. and just as the seed of man coupled with the
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  • Egg produces life, the word of god when it arrives in the
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  • Power of the holy spirit in the hearts of men and women, it
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  • Produces life. martin luther said, "the bible is alive; it
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  • Speaks to me. it has feet; it runs after me. it has hands; it
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  • Lays hold of me. the bible is not antique or modern; it is
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  • Eternal." in fact, the psalmist said, "your word, o lord, is
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  • Forever settled (fixed) in the heavens." in eternity past and
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  • Eternity future the word of god lives! before moses ever laid
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  • Down the law, before the psalmist ever wrote a hymn,
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  • Before jesus ever walked on the earth, before peter or paul
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  • Ever wrote a letter from prison, the word of god was
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  • Formed and fixed in the heart of god forever and ever!
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  • This book is inspired, meaning it is breathed out. you've
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  • Heard of john 3:16: "for god so loved the world..." that's the
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  • Bible in a sentence. "for god so loved the world that he gave
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  • His only begotten son that whoever believes in him would
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  • Not perish but have everlasting life." that's john 3:16. and
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  • John 3:16 is coupled with 2 timothy 3:16, another great
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  • Verse in the bible, which says, "all scripture is given (it's a
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  • Gift from god... what a gift!) is given by inspiration of
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  • God." that is, the word which means to breathe out, breathe
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  • Out. god breathed out his word. the breath of god is in this
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  • Book and cannot, therefore, cease to exist no more than god
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  • Himself can cease to exist. god has preserved and protected his
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  • Word through the generations. truly amazing. and in the
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  • Inspiration of the bible, the book is not just an inspiring
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  • Book. there are many inspiring books and inspiring stories.
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  • And you can listen to inspiring sermons. i hope this is one of
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  • Them!
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  • But the bible is inspired in a different sense, not inspiring
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  • As in human inspiration, but divine. divinely inspired...
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  • Breathed out. just as i am speaking, out of my lungs comes
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  • Breath. and through my larynx and my vocal cords, the breath
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  • Comes and over my tongue words are formed and my breath
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  • Therefore, creates these words and what you're hearing today.
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  • And so it is when god breathed out his life into this book. we
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  • Have the veritable very word of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Thanks again for tuning in to powerpoint today. and we just
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  • Want to take a little break because, we want you to have
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  • Something very important at powerpoint. we like to put
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  • Resources in people's hands that, encourage you to know
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  • Christ and to know him more and more in your life. and, of
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  • Course, that's always god's word, the scripture.
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  • And my friend o.s. hawkins, doctor o.s. hawkins has
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  • Written, a devotional book that we are offering. in fact, this
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  • Is one of many devotional books that doctor hawkins has written
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  • There. over 2 million in print and sold and more to come. but
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  • This one is called the jesus code, and it is a companion to
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  • Your personal bible study and for your gift of any amount, we
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  • Want you to have it.
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  • But o.s. is here with me in the studio today. tell us, o.s.
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  • What the jesus code is all about.
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  • [o.s. hawkins] well, it's just a devotional book, jack, that,
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  • You know, reading devotional through the new testament some
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  • Years ago, i was astounded at how many times jesus asked
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  • Questions in the bible. he was always asking questions. 150 of
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  • Them escaped his lips that are recorded in john. and we know
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  • The bible says at the end of the book of john that if
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  • Everything jesus said and did had been recorded, all the
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  • Books couldn't contain him. but we have 150.
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  • So i picked 52 questions, one for a week of devotional
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  • Throughout the year, 52 questions that i think every
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  • Believer ought to be able to answer before they get to
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  • Heaven. for example, job ask, if a man dies, will he live
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  • Again? in the book, in the gospel of matthew, who do you
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  • Say that i am?
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  • There just 52 questions that all of us should be able to
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  • Answer before we get to heaven.
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  • [jack graham] yeah. questions like, what are you doing here
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  • To elijah? and in the beginning, in genesis, has god
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  • Said and on and on. so, so many questions that people have are
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  • Answered in the bible. in fact, all of our questions are
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  • Answered in god's word. that's what this book is about. right
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  • Out of scripture is full of god's word.
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  • It's not just nice thoughts or, good ideas. this is god's word,
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  • The questions of the bible for your gift of any amount. we
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  • Will send you right away that jesus code - 52 scripture
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  • Questions every believer should answer.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • The word of god is perfect and it is pure, every word of it. i
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  • Believe in what we call the verbal plenary inspiration of
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  • The bible. [you say] what does that mean? verbal- that
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  • Obviously means words. so the bible is not just inspired in
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  • Parts or paragraphs, but in words. you can't have
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  • Mathematics without numbers and you can't have truth without
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  • Words. you can't have the bible without words. it was... when
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  • It comes to the word of god, jesus said, "man shall not live
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  • By bread alone, but by every... (what?) ... word that processes
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  • Out of the mouth of god." it is foolish to say that the bible
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  • Was inspired in just the big picture kind of way. no, the
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  • Bible is inspired... truth without any mixture of error.
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  • It is a verbally inspired book. the word of god says... over
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  • 2000 times in the bible phrases like "and god said," or "the
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  • Word of god said..."
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  • And then, of course, the bible as the word of god. my favorite
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  • Term for the bible these days is the jesus book. and the
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  • Reason i say that is because all of the bible, the verbal
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  • Plenary (and that word plenary means all of it) inspiration
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  • Means god breathed. the verbal plenary inspiration, the bible.
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  • But it has one theme. though it was written over a period of
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  • 1600 plus years, 40 different human authors breathed upon by
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  • God, led by the spirit to write. and yet, one central
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  • Theme. there are many subjects in the bible. so many subjects.
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  • I've spent a lifetime preaching on the various themes and
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  • Subjects of the bible!
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  • But there is one central theme, and that theme is that god
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  • Loves you. and yet man sinned against god and broke god's
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  • Commandments. but god had a plan and that plan was to
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  • Redeem us. and so through the centuries god was working out
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  • His plan in order to deliver us his son, the savior, jesus. and
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  • All of the old testament in preparation for the new
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  • Testament message of the apostles... all of that was
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  • Written so that you can know god... so that you can know
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  • God! and the way you know god is through the message of the
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  • Gospel he said which is the message of jesus.
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  • One day after the resurrection, shortly after the resurrection
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  • Two people were walking on the road to emmaus, their hometown,
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  • Having been in jerusalem. they were despondent and hopeless
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  • Because they thought it was all over. they had believed in
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  • Christ the messiah, but now he appeared to be dead and gone
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  • Forever. jesus came out of the grave and he's walking with
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  • These two. they didn't recognize him. we don't know
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  • Exactly why they didn't realize they were walking with the
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  • Risen redeemer. but jesus asked them some questions about what
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  • Was going on and why they were so sad. and they said, "haven't
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  • You heard?" and they said, "we thought he was the messiah but
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  • He wasn't." and then it says, "jesus began with moses and the
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  • Prophets... moses is the human author of the first five books
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  • Of the bible. we call it the pentateuch... the five books.
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  • And then the prophets which carry on the message of the
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  • Gospel in the old testament. so patriarchs and prophets.
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  • Jesus began with moses and the prophets and showed them in all
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  • The scriptures those things concerning himself. he walked
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  • With them, talked with them and explained to them. can you
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  • Imagine this bible study? he explained to them those things
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  • In the old testament that applied to him. he, no doubt,
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  • Took them to the garden of eden and spoke of adam and eve's sin
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  • And the animal that was slain that covered their shame, and
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  • The blood that began to flow. he, no doubt, would have taken
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  • Them to mount moriah with abraham when the hand of god
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  • Stayed abraham from taking his son, and a ram was provided in
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  • The thicket. he, no doubt, took them into egypt and spoke of
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  • The passover and the blood. he, no doubt, took them to isaiah
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  • 53 when he spoke of the suffering servant. he walked,
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  • He talked, he showed them in all the scriptures. it doesn't
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  • Say he showed them all the things in the scripture
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  • Concerning himself or they'd still be out there walking! but
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  • It says “in all the scriptures”"
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  • And again, this is the old testament scriptures. if you're
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  • Missing christ in the old testament, you're missing the
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  • Meaning of the bible! because christ is present always on
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  • Every page in some way in type, in symbol, in form, in
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  • Prophecy, in teaching, in truth. and the old testament is
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  • Saying someone is coming. and the new testament... the gospel
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  • Says someone has come. and the new testament book of acts
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  • Shows us how to get this gospel to the world. and then the
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  • Epistles ... the letters that are written tells us who jesus
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  • Is and how we are to grow in our faith. and then the
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  • Revelation that christ is coming again.
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  • Yes, this is the jesus book. and as i said at the outset of
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  • This message, the more you get to know your bible, the more
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  • You get to know jesus. and that's the goal. as the apostle
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  • Paul said, “to know him and to love him more and more. so
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  • There is this perfect book, god's total perfection.
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  • And then there's the saving purpose of the bible which
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  • Really, i've already talked about, but verse 23 says,
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  • “since you've been born again by the living word of god.” we
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  • Have new birth because the word of god and the testimony of
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  • Jesus has transformed our lives. “faith comes by hearing
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  • (romans 10:17) and hearing through the word of god.”
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  • Now i have loved the bible since i was a little boy. i
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  • Really have. and the reason that i have known the scripture
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  • Like timothy, since i was a child is my parents, my
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  • Brother... older brother, but my grandfather taught me the
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  • Scripture as a child. in fact, i learned how to read reading
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  • My bible as a little boy on my grandfather's lap. virtually
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  • Every evening i would crawl up in his lap and he would read
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  • The stories of the bible or read the bible itself. i didn't
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  • Learn to read with dick and jane and spot. i learned of
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  • Moses and david and goliath and samson and i reveled in those
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  • Old testament stories... i loved them... all the adventure.
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  • If you think the bible is boring, you must not have read
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  • It. i think you're boring if you think the bible is boring.
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  • It's not the bible; it's you that boring. because the bible
  • 00:18:54.790 --> 00:18:59.094
  • Is so exciting and so full of adventure and excitement. but
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  • At some point in my life, like those two walking along with
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  • Jesus on that road to emmaus, jesus stepped out of
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  • The pages of those stories and the message of the gospel, the
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  • Good news became real to me. and that's the reason as a
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  • Small boy i professed my faith and confessed myself to be a
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  • Follower of jesus christ.
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  • Now flash-forward to seven decades later. dr jerimiah
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  • Johnston and i, along with our two sons, jason and josh... we
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  • Were in england and for the first time i got to go to
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  • Oxford to see that. and because dr. johnston had studied at
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  • Oxford, he still had his library card and he still knew
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  • The librarian. you're not surprised by that, are you? and
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  • So he got us into the bowels of the library, down deep where
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  • They kept the most precious artifacts and books and
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  • Materials.
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  • And we're there, waiting as the librarian, the specialist in
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  • The archives came forward with a piece of plastic, and in that
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  • Plastic were fragments, four pieces of parchment penned in
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  • Letters of greek. this piece here, there, there, there. it
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  • Was the gospel of matthew... a portion of it. it's called the
  • 00:20:33.955 --> 00:20:39.895
  • Jesus fragment because in it are the words of jesus in this
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  • Portion of god's word.
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  • And i looked at it, held it in my hands, and it was a very
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  • Moving, emotional moment for me because i truly did just flash
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  • Back to my grandfather's chair and how i read the word of god
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  • And learned to love god's word as a little boy. now here i am
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  • All these years later, not just still believing, or barely
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  • Hanging on, but believing god's word now more than ever! my
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  • Childhood faith is now matured over a lifetime of study and
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  • Devotion and commitment to understanding what this book is
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  • Talking about, what this book is saying. and as my friend and
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  • Mentor adreian rogers used to say, “i'm not finding hidden
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  • Flaws in the bible; i'm finding hidden beauties!” what a beauty
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  • That was to hold that ancient fragment in my hands and
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  • Remember this is the jesus book. this is what the bible is
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  • All about. it's the word of god that brought to me and to you
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  • The salvation in jesus christ.
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  • And then the transforming power of god's word. talk about that.
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  • It is the word of god who satisfies us... which satisfies
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  • Us. it is the bread of heaven that meets our deepest needs;
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  • It strengthens us for the daily challenges of life. it is god's
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  • Word that saves us, strengthens us, satisfies us. it's the word
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  • Of god stored in our hearts that meets our very need. so
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  • How should we respond?
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  • Number one, let's start with: you are to hear god's word...
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  • Hear the word of god. that's what you're doing right now,
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  • Isn't it? that's what you're doing, those of you who are
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  • Watching online. you connected so that you get worship and
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  • Then hear the word of god. and so throughout the bible you
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  • Have instances in which people gather to hear the word of god.
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  • When jesus would gather people, he said, "he who has ears, let
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  • Him hear." so it starts there; it starts with our opening our
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  • Ears and hearing with the ears of our heart the word of god.
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  • And in hearing the word of god... that's just... there's
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  • Power in simply hearing it, just hearing it. that's why you
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  • Showed up today. you know, a lot of reasons to come to
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  • Church, a lot of good reasons... the community, the
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  • Connection, the family, the friends, the worship. and we do
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  • All of these things.
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  • But the one thing we do [tap, tap, tap, tap] is to stand in
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  • This pulpit and teach and preach the word of god. and
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  • That's why god has chosen to bless this congregation! that's
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  • Why god has chosen to keep this church going and growing with
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  • The message of hope to the world! it's all [tap]
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  • Represented [tap]by what [tap] stands here, the pulpit [tap],
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  • The proclamation of the gospel, so that you come and you hear
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  • The word of the lord!
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  • Then read the word of god for yourself; read the word of god.
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  • We've got all kinds of bibles and bible translations and yet
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  • Unfortunately too many christians don't read their own
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  • Bibles. you might admit to yourself, “i just don't read
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  • God's word.” i can tell you that reading the word of god
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  • Has been the secret of life for me. reading it every single
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  • Day. because in reading the word of god, the spirit of god
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  • Begins to move in your life in ways that you could not expect.
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  • Hear god's word; read god's word, and then meditate upon
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  • God's word. memorize and meditate upon the word of god.
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  • I can tell you the most important discipline in my life
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  • And i did this before i was a preacher, not just because i'm
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  • A preacher, and i'll do it for the rest of my days, and that
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  • Is to memorize the bible... portions of it, passages in it,
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  • Scriptures, text. and the blessed person, according to
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  • Psalm 1, is the person who meditates on god's word day and
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  • Night. so memorization.
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  • You say, "well, you know, i... i'm really not that good at
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  • Memorizing, especially now that there's a lot of diet coke over
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  • My life and i just don't remember things like i used to
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  • Remember things." i guarantee you if i gave you $100 for
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  • Every scripture you memorized, you would be a memory machine.
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  • [laughter] yes, you would, you know you would. it's all about
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  • Motivation. and so i'm always motivated to memorize
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  • Scripture. and you can write them on little passages on
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  • Cards, or do it online, all kinds of ways. but just do it.
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  • And so when you meditate upon god's word, you will discover
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  • That the word of god fills you and flows in you and through
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  • You.
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  • And the final thing is we are to share the word of god,
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  • Proclaim the word of god because this is too good to
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  • Keep to ourselves. this is why we proclaim god's word, this is
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  • Why we teach god's word. so love god's word. lean upon it
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  • Hard by faith. love it, learn it, live it and you will find
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  • That your life is full of jesus. at the end of the day
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  • The word of god and the testimony of jesus will
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  • Transform you and in heaven we will have eternity to celebrate
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  • The living, eternal, abiding word of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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