Jack Graham - The Transforming Power of God's Word (Part 1)

January 19, 2025 | S25:E3

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 Transforming Power of God's Word (Part 1) | January 19, 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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  • As we begin a brand new year, there's no better time to focus
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  • On what truly matters - your relationship with god through
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  • Jesus! and this is our opportunity for renewal, for
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  • Reset, for fresh commitments and growing deeper and deeper
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  • In our faith.
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  • That's why i want to help you cut through the noise of life
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  • And stand firmly on the word of god, the foundation of truth.
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  • The bible isn't just any book. it is the story of redemption,
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  • A bright hope for today and strength for tomorrow. the
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  • Truth is, its the key to understanding everything,
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  • Including your destiny.
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  • In my new book, “the jesus book - reading and understanding the
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  • Bible for yourself,” i unpack practical applications and
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  • Ideas for reading the bible every day and understanding the
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  • Will of god for your life.
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  • Graham's new book, the jesus book.
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  • The word jesus to 59789 to give your gift today.
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  • Start the new year strong, rooted in scripture
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  • And ready for all god has for you.
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  • [jack graham] so let's go together and make this year a
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  • Year of spiritual transformation that god would
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  • Change our hearts, change our lives
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  • Till the whole world hears.
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  • Take your bible and turn to 2 timothy, chapter 3... 2
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  • Timothy, chapter 3, and we're going to look at verses 16 and
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  • 17 to start. the bible says:
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  • 16) all scripture is given by inspiration of god, and is
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  • Profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
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  • Instruction in righteousness, 17) that the man of god may be
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  • Complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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  • This is the bible. the bible is the best-selling book of all
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  • Time. more copies have been printed and produced of the
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  • Bible and in more languages to more people than any other book
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  • In history. there is a book that is an all-time
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  • Best-seller... not the book of the month, but the book of the
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  • Ages and it's the bible. number one. whatever's second is a
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  • Distant second... runner-up because the bible is the book
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  • Of all books.
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  • Every sunday and every day, the bible is read, studied,
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  • Preached, lived, in every nation on every continent, and
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  • Been translated into every major language in the world
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  • Throughout history and is now currently also being translated
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  • To tribal groups... groups all over the world, every crevice
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  • Of the planet, people groups. it's the word of god. it's the
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  • Word that we preach; it's what we proclaim... the word of god
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  • And testimony of jesus. but what is it about this book that
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  • Is so popular? what is it about the bible that... that still
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  • Lives?
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  • We believe that god wrote a book. this is his book. it's a
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  • Holy book. and that's what sets the bible apart from every
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  • Other book in all of history. when we speak of the
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  • Scriptures... and that's a word that's used in the bible itself
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  • In the bible... the scriptures. these are called the holy
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  • Scriptures. paul spoke to timothy of the holy scriptures
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  • That he had learned since he was a youth. this is the bible.
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  • And when you speak of the bible, this is the very words
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  • Of god.
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  • I listened to a podcast this week... it was actually an
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  • Interview of a psychiatrist, an expert in human behavior. and
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  • He spoke of holding a human brain in his hands. can you
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  • Imagine that? he literally held a brain. and he said when he
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  • Held this brain in his hands, he contemplated all the
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  • Thoughts and the memories and experiences and life... all in
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  • That brain. a soul departed, the brain in effect represents
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  • A life, a person. of course, of your heart, your lungs, your
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  • Circulatory system, your cardiovascular system... but
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  • The brain houses this wonderful history of your life. when you
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  • Hold a brain in your hand, you're holding life and the
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  • Memory of that life.
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  • And as i heard that man talk about holding a brain, i
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  • Thought about holding a book in my hand that contains the mind
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  • Of god, the thoughts of god, the intents of god, the ways
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  • And the wonders of god! that god, of course, way beyond the
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  • Book and way beyond a brain as we could know it, is the brain
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  • Of god, the mind of god! but when you pick up this book,
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  • This contains god. it's alive, this book because he is alive!
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  • He has revealed himself in a multiple of ways.
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  • One, he reveals himself in creation. we just worshipped to
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  • The god of wonders, the god of the galaxies, the god of
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  • Creation. and when we... when we look into the sky and see
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  • The wonders of his glory... "the heavens declare the glory
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  • Of god" ... we realize that god has spoken. and as frances
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  • Schaeffer said a number of years ago, "god has spoken; he
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  • Is not silent, and he speaks in the wonders and the glory of
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  • His creation." this is called among theologians and people
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  • Who study such things, general revelation, in that god has
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  • Revealed himself in the skies, in the wonders of creation.
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  • But, of course, general revelation... the revelation of
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  • Creation, that can be ambivalent, can't it? there are
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  • Times we look at tragedies in the world and hurricanes and...
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  • Tornadoes and all the vast kinds of crises of nature, and
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  • All the rest, and we wonder, "well, what does that say then
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  • About god? how can we know or understand a god who created
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  • All of this and yet there is in the wonders of creation the
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  • Horrors of a world and a system that is in distress?
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  • So general revelation, which means a revelation to all
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  • People. everyone can see... paul talked about this in the
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  • Heavens; that in the book of romans, chapter 1, that we see
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  • The invisible hand of god at work in his creation. but what
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  • Does creation say? it's incomplete.
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  • God also speaks in the human consciousness. every person who
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  • Is born, is born with a god-conscious. that is, an
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  • Inclination... an intuitive desire to know god; the one who
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  • Made us... the one who created us and placed in us an
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  • Awareness of being that thinks! we have a conscience and that
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  • Conscience seeks after god. that conscience can be damaged
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  • By sin and the conscience of a human being can even be
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  • Destroyed and so hardened that the conscience can no longer
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  • Speak. but there is a conscience.
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  • All of the people through the ages had it. those big
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  • Questions that human being ask, like: “who am i and why am i
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  • Here?” those college university questions that people ask.
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  • “what is this all about? what am i all about? what is life
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  • All about? is there a god? can i know him?” that's the
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  • Conscience that god has created and the ability to know him.
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  • The conscience, like creation, is incomplete. that's a general
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  • Thing.
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  • But god has given us something more than a natural revelation,
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  • And that is a supernatural revelation, and the
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  • Supernatural revelation is what he has given to us in christ
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  • [strike] in the bible [strike]. christ perfectly reveals who
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  • God is and god has revealed christ in christ himself, who
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  • Is the living word of god, the incarnate word of god. “in the
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  • Beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word
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  • Was god.” speaking of jesus. “and the word became flesh and
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  • Dwelt among us and we beheld his glory; the glory of the
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  • Only begotten of the father.” so jesus is the living word of
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  • God; he walked in a body. but god also recorded this
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  • Revelation in a book and that book is the bible. so in the
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  • Skies, in the spirit of a human being, in the scriptures, in
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  • The savior god reveals himself.
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  • We use three words that describe what we believe about
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  • The bible. one word, you saw it show up in the scripture that
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  • We read just a moment ago. "that all scripture is inspired
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  • By god... breathed out, god breathed. do you know why this
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  • Book lives? it's because the breath of god is in it. the
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  • Life of god is in his word... the living word of god.
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  • Inspired... all scripture... god breathed. god spoke through
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  • Human authors, for sure. but they wrote down his words! god
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  • Wrote this book. inspired in every part... inspired! "all
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  • Scripture is given by inspiration of god."
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  • This is god's book, inspired, breathed out by god. no wonder,
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  • It lasts, because it lives. “grass withers and the flower
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  • Fades, but the word of our god shall stand forever.” so
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  • Inspiration is a word.
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  • Then infallible is another word we use to describe the bible.
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  • Infallible, in that it is the truth of god without any error.
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  • It's all the truth of god, and because all the bible is
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  • True... not just the parts you like, but everything in the
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  • Bible is true. it is therefore, trustworthy. it is infallible!
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  • The infallible word of god.
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  • And there's a third word that we use to describe the bible
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  • And that is inerrant, which means without error. the bible
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  • Is not inspired just in spots or in thought or in big ideas.
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  • But just like mathematics... you cannot have mathematics
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  • Without numbers, you cannot have a message without words;
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  • You cannot have a word without words... the word of god! so
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  • Jesus said, "not a jot or a tittle" ... not even a
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  • Punctuation point in god's word will pass away. all the words
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  • Of god are inspired.
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  • "jack graham, how can you be so sure?" and, no doubt, there are
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  • Some skeptics among us, or listening today, or maybe
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  • You're wondering, or maybe you've had questions and maybe
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  • You grew up knowing about the bible, believing the bible. now
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  • One of the problems we've got in church and churches today is
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  • That many people grow up around the bible but they don't know
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  • Their bible. the lack of understanding and reading of
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  • The bible among christians is a disaster today. many people
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  • Don't know what their bible... the first thing about what
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  • Their bible is even about. you say, "i'm a christian but i
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  • Don't know about the bible." and you read all the numbers
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  • And all the data and all the statistics that are out there
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  • Today and you see that many professing christians and
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  • Church-members do not have a biblical view of life, a
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  • Biblical view of the world.
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  • What we're talking about when we are speaking of the bible is
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  • That we learn to live and... and give our lives through the
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  • Lens of scripture, that we don't look at the world... we
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  • Don't look at the scripture through the lens of the world,
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  • But we look at the world through the lens of scripture.
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  • That we see everything through what god has said!
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  • How can you be so sure? what's the evidence?
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  • I can't prove the bible to you or to anyone else. not my role
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  • To prove the bible. i can only point a person to the evidence.
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  • And you choose to believe the evidence or not. but this is
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  • The bible. let me start by challenging you to investigate
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  • The claims of the bible. in the moments that we have left,
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  • Let's talk about the claims of god's word... the claims of the
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  • Bible. the bible itself. and the bible claims inspiration
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  • For itself.
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  • In 2 peter, chapter 1 and verse 21, the bible says that "holy
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  • Men of old spoke as they were carried along by the holy
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  • Spirit." not by the will of man, but men spoke from god.
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  • You often see in the bible... you read it, both testaments of
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  • The bible, god speaking with words like this: "and the word
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  • Of lord said..." and then he spoke it through a person. "god
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  • Declared...", "god spoke..." these authors there wrote it
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  • Down, this supernatural... remember, we use the word not
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  • Natural but supernatural... this supernatural spiritual
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  • Breathed... spirit breathed, powerful word of god.
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  • Jeremiah 1:9 says: "i have put my words in your mouth."
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  • There's no better declaration of inspiration of scripture
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  • Than that! "i have put my words in your mouth." so this is way,
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  • Way, way beyond human inspiration; this is holy
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  • Inspiration! and the word holy... we just sang of the
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  • Holiness of god... it means unique, distinct, altogether
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  • Different. the scriptures are the holy spirit inspired word
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  • Of god. so not inspiration like an inspired human author.
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  • Shakespeare may be inspiring to some who like such things. i
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  • Actually like shakespeare. but that's inspiring but it's not
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  • Inspiration; it's not god-breathed;
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  • It's human breathed.
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  • God has written a book and it's the story of salvation and
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  • Redemption in christ. and i would suggest that you read the
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  • Last chapter of the book before you even get started in the
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  • Bible because the last chapter in the book tells us of a risen
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  • Savior, a god who wins! jesus won and has won for us! and our
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  • Victory is in him! and the whole story that begins in
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  • Genesis, chapter 1 and creation and all the prophecies, all the
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  • Patriarchs and all of the pentateuch and all of the
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  • Gospels and all the letters... all of this is about this one
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  • Story of a god who loves you and gave his son on the cross
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  • To die for you.
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  • All of the story... to rise again on the third day... is
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  • All about this story of jesus! it is direct, it is dynamic, it
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  • Is deified! these are not human computers writing this... like
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  • Machines. this is not just dictation, for sure. the
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  • Vocabulary of the writers from moses to david to paul to the
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  • Rest, you see their personalities, their
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  • Background, their experience. but when they wrote, they wrote
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  • What god gave them; they wrote the very words of god! and so
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  • There's not anything in your bible that doesn't need to be
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  • There; nor is there anything omitted from your bible that
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  • Needs to be there!
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  • These human authors by divine inspiration gave us this word!
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  • And whatever you may say or think about the bible, you have
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  • To agree that the bible claims this for itself! that's why the
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  • Devil has tried to distort it, deny it, disrupt the message of
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  • The bible; it's been banned; it's been booed; it's been
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  • Burned; canceled; criticized; scrutinized, but the word of
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  • God lives! and millions and millions of people throughout
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  • The generations have staked their lives on the truth of its
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  • Message!
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  • Whatever you say about the bible, start there. what does
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  • The bible say about itself. today, before we go, what did
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  • Jesus say about the bible? because i want to know what
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  • Jesus said.
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  • And what jesus said is that "i have not come to destroy the
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  • Law or the prophets (the old testament) but to fulfill it."
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  • What jesus said is that "not one word of god's word will be
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  • Broken, that it is pure, that it is whole." we'll talk about
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  • The unification of the bible and how it has one unique,
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  • Unifying theme throughout it, and that unique, unifying theme
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  • Of the bible is jesus himself. jesus said, "you search the
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  • Scriptures (in john chapter 5, verse 39) because they testify
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  • Of me." this is the story of salvation. it is the testimony
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  • Of jesus christ from the revelation or pardon me, from
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  • The book of genesis... from creation to the revelation and
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  • Everything through and through, it is in preparation...
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  • Announcement of the coming of christ and the one who's coming
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  • Again, jesus our lord. it's all about him!
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  • Can i just give you in closing a testimony... a personal
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  • Testimony about the bible, my bible? i've had many of them
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  • Through the years, but my first one was given to me by my
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  • Family. specifically, my grandfather. i'm grateful for
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  • Parents who believed the bible and a grandfather who read the
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  • Scriptures to me. some of you have heard of me speak of this
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  • Before, and again, i'm grateful for sunday school teachers as a
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  • Little boy. i feel like timothy when paul spoke of timothy and
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  • Said, "you've known the holy scriptures since your youth
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  • Because of your mother lois and your grandmother."
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  • And as a little boy i reveled in the stories of the bible,
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  • The adventures of the bible. my grandfather would read to me a
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  • Book called hurlbut's story of the bible. it had pictures. i
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  • Loved the pictures. before i learned to read, the bible was
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  • Read to me! i learned to read hearing the bible read, really.
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  • Not with spot and jane and whoever jane was with. who was
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  • Jane...? oh, thank you. mine was more peter and paul and
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  • Mary... these were the characters that i grew up
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  • Reading and reading about! and so, it's so important parents
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  • And grandparents, that you read the scriptures to your
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  • Children, and that you help your children understand the
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  • Bible.
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  • But i'm saying, i'm so grateful that... that the bible has been
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  • Such an integral part of my life, and i've spent these
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  • Years learning more and more about the bible.
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  • And when i was in london this summer at oxford university
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  • With dr. johnston and our two sons, jason and josh, we were
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  • Taken back to see the manuscript... one of the first
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  • Manuscript of the gospel of matthew... just pieces, just
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  • Fragments. probably end of second century. —we'll talk
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  • About the manuscript evidence of the bible and for the bible
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  • Next week-- but i held in my hand once again pieces of the
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  • Bible so old... 2000 years plus. and i looked at that and
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  • I realized now as a man with ever increasing birthdays, i
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  • Thought about when i first held a bible as a little boy, i
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  • Truly did; thought about the first time i held my little new
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  • Testament given to me by my grandfather. now i'm looking at
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  • This ancient fragment of manuscript [clears throat] and
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  • I realize that i believe the bible now after all these years
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  • More than ever!
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  • With all the doubts and experiences that come in life
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  • And stuff that happens in life, i've leaned on the lord and his
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  • Word throughout my days. and i'm standing here as a
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  • Testimony to you that you can believe the bible all your
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  • Life. you don't have to say, “well, that's a storybook for
  • 00:24:21.816 --> 00:24:24.586
  • Children.” no! it's god's book for you! it's the transforming
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  • Power of the scripture.
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  • And there's convicting power, because when god's word is
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  • Preached, we're convicted of our sin and our need of a
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  • Savior and salvation; it's converting power... "faith
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  • Comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god."; it is
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  • Counseling power because psalm 119, verse 105... i hung it in
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  • My room as a youth... "your word is a light to my path and
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  • A lamp to my feet..." so we have counsel in god's word. we
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  • Have comfort in god's word, there's comforting power in
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  • God's word. how many times have we opened the scripture to
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  • Someone with a broken heart and shared god's word and seen god
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  • Bring comfort through the scriptures to people's lives.
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  • There's cleansing power in the word of god... "jesus said,
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  • 'sanctify them with your truth, your word is truth, o god."
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  • "how shall a young man cleanse his ways? by giving attention
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  • To your word, o god."
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  • Yes, there's convicting power and converting power and
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  • Counseling power and comforting power and conquering power!
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  • Taking the sword of the spirit which is the word of god. we
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  • Can defeat every enemy, subdue every stronghold in our lives
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  • By the power [clap] and the authority [clap] of the word
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  • [clap] of god [clap]! know it! love it! believe it! live it!
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  • Lean on it! because the bible through jesus christ our lord
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  • Will transform your life.
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