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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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
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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
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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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Jack Graham - The Jesus Book

May 25, 2025 | S25:E21

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