From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: December 26, 2024 | Stakelbeck Tonight | December 15, 2024
- I was 27 years old.
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- I came to lord finally,
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- But i was always intimidated by the bible.
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- Most people, i would dare say, even though the bible
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- Is the bestselling book in the world, always has been.
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- And yet people don't understand it because they miss the plot.
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- They miss the story.
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- People want to know, i mean, what's different about the bible
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- Than the book of islam and another holy book?
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- Why is the bible different?
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- Jesus,
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- Who taught the scriptures, believed the scriptures.
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- He said to the religious crowd.
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- He said, the bible is all about me.
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- And there's a kind of
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- Maybe you've heard of this scarlet thread that runs
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- Through the old testament and throughout the bible,
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- This picture of the
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- Blood of christ and redemption in salvation story.
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- If you had a book, maybe you're studying something
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- That i wish i could just talk to the author.
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- Well,
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- The spirit of god internally speaks to us and opens our eyes.
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- And so now you're walking in wisdom.
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- What is wisdom?
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- Wisdom of seeing things from god's perspective
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- And with the opportunities and responsibilities that we have.
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- We need to hold
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- Up the word of god, like a sword five spiritual battles of when
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- And to fight spiritual battles and win them in jesus name.
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- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight, i'm erick stakelbeck
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- And when you've got sixty-six books written by 40
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- Different authors over a period of 1500 years,
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- You might expect a few inconsistencies.
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- Yet the bible delivers one unified supernatural message.
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- That's because it was divinely inspired
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- Throughout the centuries by god himself.
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- Folks, the word of god forms the very foundation of our faith.
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- But in a world filled with uncertainty and competing
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- Voices, how can we stand firm on biblical truth?
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- Dr. jack graham, senior pastor of preston wood baptist
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- Church, host of the bible in the year podcast.
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- And one of the most influential
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- Voices in the church today
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- Is here to discuss his powerful new book, the jesus book.
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- Dr. graham lays out the case for scriptures accuracy
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- Supported by undeniable historical
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- And prophetic evidence, like the dead sea scrolls
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- And much more.
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- Dr. jack, great to have you with us, as always.
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- Good to be with you, erick. thanks for having me.
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- Congratulations on the book
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- And we were talking in the green room, and i got to say, dr.
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- Jack, kind of late in life, i was 27 years old.
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- I came to lord finally,
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- But i was always intimidated by the bible
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- And i said, man, i can't go near it.
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- It's no pun intended.
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- It's all greek to me.
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- And that's why i think this book is so important.
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- You break it down how the word of god is really,
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- When you dig into it, it's easy to understand.
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- And you said this has been a labor of love for you.
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- This has been years in the making, this book.
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- Tell us a little bit more about.
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- It, really a lifetime in the making.
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- I began telling the story when i was just a little boy
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- And my grandfather.
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- We had the privilege of living
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- With my maternal grandfather and he would put me in his lap
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- Most every night,
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- If not every night, and we would read the scripture.
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- We had a bible
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- And it was an old king james bible
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- With all the shakespeare in elizabethan english.
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- But we read that.
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- And then we had a book called
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- Herbert stories of the bible, which was a a storybook
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- Translation, really, of the bible.
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- And it was really good.
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- And i just reveled in the scriptures.
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- I was blessed in that i had a home and a family and a heritage
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- Where the word of god, the bible was was honored,
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- But it was there as a boy that i learned to love the bible.
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- And ultimately i learned to love
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- The savior who gave us the bible.
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- Yeah.
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- And so that's why i call this book the jesus book.
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- You can call it the bible, obviously,
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- You call it the word of the lord.
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- You can call it the holy bible.
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- But my focus in this book, you said you were,
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- You know, kind of overwhelmed by the bible and intimidated
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- And that is in great part because people don't know
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- The central plot and figure of the bible.
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- For so many people, the bible is that big black
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- Antique book, old book, hard to understand family heirloom.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, you know, you got your obituaries in there.
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- I mean.
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- Yeah, but but the bible is the story of jesus.
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- When jesus was walking
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- With the road on the road to a mass after his resurrection,
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- He came upon, he he showed up in his resurrected body.
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- They didn't even recognize him at first.
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- His presence was so powerful, but yet so natural.
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- He begins walking with them and they're despairing.
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- They're despondent.
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- Jesus, they thought the messiah, everyone.
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- They dream to be their messiah.
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- He was dead and gone, buried in a tomb, too, you know,
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- They thought, you know, and yet jesus is walking with them.
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- And it
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- Says that jesus showed them in all the scriptures.
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- Now, remember, that would have been the old testament.
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- Yeah, you know, that's the old testament.
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- The new testament isn't even written yet.
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- So jesus showed them in all the scriptures,
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- Beginning with moses,
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- And that would be the first five books of the bible,
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- The pentateuch, those five and the prophets.
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- So in the prophets and the patriarchs, jesus showed
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- Them in all the scriptures, those things concerning himself,
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- And which means he explained to them
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- The messiah, who he is and why he came,
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- And what a bible study that must have been.
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- Walter jesus in the word, the living christ.
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- Yeah, and that's what i'm getting at in calling the bible
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- The jesus book, because it is the reality of christ.
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- Jesus believed the scriptures.
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- I mean, of all the evidence of scripture.
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- And there's a chapter in here about
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- The bible is true and trustworthy and accurate.
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- And you can believe it because of manuscripts
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- And you can believe it because of archeology,
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- And you can believe it because of fulfillment of prophecy.
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- And but but one of the primary reasons
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- I believe the bible is because of jesus
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- Who taught the scriptures, believe the scriptures.
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- He said to the religious crowd, he said, you
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- You speak of the scriptures, but they speak of me.
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- And so jesus said, the bible is all about me
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- And running through all.
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- So here's the plot of the bible.
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- That man is separated from god.
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- It starts in genesis. it shows us how man fell.
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- And yet from the beginning, before eternity in eternity
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- Past, god had a plan, and that plan was redemption.
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- And it is revealed all through the scripture.
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- And there's a kind of
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- Maybe you've heard of this scarlet thread
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- That runs through the old testament
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- And throughout the bible, this, this picture of the blood
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- Of christ and redemption and salvation story.
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- And so most people, i would dare say,
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- Even though the bible,
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- A bestselling book in the world, always has been,
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- And yet
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- People don't understand it because they missed the plot,
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- They missed the story.
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- And once you awaken
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- To the living christ,
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- When you believe the resurrection,
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- When you believe in the living christ,
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- Then the living christ steps out of the pages of the bible
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- And into your life, and then the bible becomes a living book.
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- I could go on and on about this, this, this.
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- If this was the only book i ever wrote this,
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- This is really a lifetime in the making,
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- As i said, from my grandfather's lap to a lifetime
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- Of preaching now and teaching god's word.
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- After all these years, i believe the bible more than ever.
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- Amazing. dr.
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- Jack and folks, we know that jesus is found
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- Throughout the pages of the new testament.
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- But did you also know that jesus can be found
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- In every single book of the old testament?
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- Coming up, dr.
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- Jack graham breaks down
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- How both books of the bible are united in christ.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- So we see jesus on every
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- Page of the bible from genesis through revelation through.
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- And a lot of people i think, wouldn't know that.
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- They'd said, well, the new testaments over here,
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- The old testament is over there.
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- But as you said, this is a theme.
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- It runs throughout every book of the bible, all 66 books,
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- Jesus is ever present. that's right.
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- You even had one preacher
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- Suggest several years ago
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- We should unhitched the old testament from the bible.
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- Well, yeah.
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- No, we should not, because it is the old testament
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- That sets up the entire story of christ and the gospel.
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- And the cross is salvation.
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- And this great picture of christ in the old testament
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- Where there's portraits or pictures
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- Or illustrations or types or prophecies.
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- You know, imagine that conversation
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- Jesus had with those two.
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- I mean, you know,
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- Maybe he took them
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- First to the garden of eden when adam and eve sinned,
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- And then an animal was slain and blood was spilled
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- For the first time because of sin.
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- And they covered themselves
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- With the skins of animals.
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- And that's when the scarlet thread,
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- The blood redemption pathway began to flow.
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- And and then maybe he took them
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- To the top of mount moriah with abraham taking his son.
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- And where is the lamb?
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- And god will provide a lamb, abraham said.
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- And just before
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- He took the life of his son at and god didn't want his son,
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- He wanted the obedience of abraham.
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- But before the knife plunged into the
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- To the chest of his son,
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- An angel stayed the hand of abraham,
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- And there was a ram caught in the thick of the lamb.
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- And it was at that very place, mount moriah, that ultimately
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- The lamb of god would take away the sin of the world.
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- That very sight of abraham.
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- He no doubt took them into egypt
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- And the passover, putting the blood
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- On the doorsteps, on the on the door post of their house.
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- And when the death angel came,
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- When judgment came, passed over because of the blood.
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- And he no doubt took them to isaiah
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- 53, the suffering servant and and into the prophecies
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- Of bethlehem.
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- And so it is the greatest story ever told
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- Is the story of jesus.
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- When people tell me that the bible's boring, i say, no,
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- You're boring because the bible is not boring.
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- I love the adventures of the bible.
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- I've done this podcast now for the last couple of years.
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- It's one reason i was prompted to do this book.
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- The jesus book we started out with parade.com
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- Is a wonderful app where we're doing
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- An opening
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- To each past of scripture in a closed
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- And then a reading of the scripture.
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- And by the way. in the.
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- Podcast, folks is a runaway hit.
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- Check it out on parade.com.
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- Yeah, they to be
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- Is the number one religious podcast
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- In the world of 50 something million downloads.
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- So what that tells me is that people want to know
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- What is the bible, what is the bible all about?
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- I mean, that many people.
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- Where would you start?
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- By the way,
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- I can't cut you off,
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- But if someone right now is watching,
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- They've never picked up the word of god.
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- Where would be a good place to start, do you think?
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- Well, i would encourage them
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- To go to one of two places and both written human authored
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- The apostle john.
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- One is the gospel of john,
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- Which was written according to the scripture itself.
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- These things are written
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- That you may believe that christ is the son of the living god,
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- And that in believing you may have life in his name.
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- So that's the book.
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- If you're looking for a life,
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- If you want to know the meaning of life,
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- If you want to know who jesus is, then the gospel of john
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- And i often tell people to read the gospel of john or
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- First john,
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- Which first john is about assurance,
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- Knowing for sure that you're a christian
- 00:11:42.415 --> 00:11:44.251
- And so many people don't know, am i am i really a christian?
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- Do i really know the lord.
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- And am i really safe if. i'm really saved?
- 00:11:48.955 --> 00:11:51.591
- Well, first john talks about that.
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- And there
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- Birthmarks of the believer, if you will, identifying
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- Characteristics of christians there
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- That when you read that and look at that you can
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- You can identify yourself as either believer or not.
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- Yeah. so those those would be two.
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- I would also encourage anyone and everyone
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- In the old testament to read the psalms and proverbs.
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- I read the psalms and proverbs most every day in my own
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- Bible study.
- 00:12:15.615 --> 00:12:16.616
- Here's the thing.
- 00:12:16.616 --> 00:12:17.517
- I've been reading the bible seriously.
- 00:12:17.517 --> 00:12:19.452
- You know, most of my whole life, but i don't feel like i'm ever
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- To the end of it.
- 00:12:23.423 --> 00:12:24.591
- Wow. i mean, i've read through the bible many, many times,
- 00:12:24.591 --> 00:12:28.328
- But it never gets old to me. it is.
- 00:12:28.328 --> 00:12:30.730
- It is always new.
- 00:12:30.730 --> 00:12:31.832
- And we have the holy spirit.
- 00:12:31.832 --> 00:12:34.334
- You know, there are several miracles of of the bible.
- 00:12:34.334 --> 00:12:37.971
- There's the miracle of inspiration,
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- How god breathes out
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- The scriptures, the human author's inspired word of god.
- 00:12:41.107 --> 00:12:44.978
- I believe the bible is the inerrant, infallible
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- Word of god.
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- The grass
- 00:12:48.949 --> 00:12:50.116
- Withers, the flower fades, but the word of our god stands
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- Forever.
- 00:12:53.220 --> 00:12:54.120
- So there's the miracle of inspiration.
- 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.790
- And then coming alongside the miracle of inspiration
- 00:12:56.790 --> 00:13:00.193
- Is the miracle of illumination.
- 00:13:00.193 --> 00:13:02.762
- Where the holy spirit, who is the author,
- 00:13:02.762 --> 00:13:05.465
- Teaches us the scriptures.
- 00:13:05.465 --> 00:13:07.400
- So i would say to anyone who's having a hard time,
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- You're a christian, having a hard time
- 00:13:09.936 --> 00:13:11.271
- With the bible, maybe just say, lord opened my eyes open
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- My heart helped me see things in the bible
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- That i've never even understood or known.
- 00:13:17.544 --> 00:13:20.146
- That's the subtitle of this book is yeah,
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- Reading and understanding the bible for yourself.
- 00:13:22.015 --> 00:13:24.384
- I did exactly that. dr.
- 00:13:24.384 --> 00:13:25.719
- Jack. by the way, i was 27 years old.
- 00:13:25.719 --> 00:13:27.721
- Finally, i'd heard my dad talk about it for years.
- 00:13:27.721 --> 00:13:30.056
- Tell me bible stories.
- 00:13:30.056 --> 00:13:31.591
- Yeah, but i never actually picked up a bible for myself.
- 00:13:31.591 --> 00:13:34.995
- Then finally i said, god,
- 00:13:34.995 --> 00:13:36.162
- Lift the scales from my eyes and make this make sense.
- 00:13:36.162 --> 00:13:39.366
- And man, it did.
- 00:13:39.366 --> 00:13:40.634
- Speaking of which,
- 00:13:40.634 --> 00:13:41.968
- Some people would say, well, you know,
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- The bible was written, i mentioned at the top
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- Was written over a period of years.
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- And some people say, well, you know,
- 00:13:47.274 --> 00:13:48.742
- The gospels, it was spaced out
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- And some of them weren't jesus's contemporaries, etc..
- 00:13:50.677 --> 00:13:54.114
- How do you answer that?
- 00:13:54.114 --> 00:13:55.315
- And you do answer in the book, but how do you answer people
- 00:13:55.315 --> 00:13:57.117
- Who question the veracity of scripture
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- And saying, well, there are inconsistencies.
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- And a lot of their criticism seems to center around the
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- Timing and kind of the gap in times between some of the.
- 00:14:03.957 --> 00:14:07.861
- Books being, well, i would argue that
- 00:14:07.861 --> 00:14:09.663
- That's one of the miracles of the bible
- 00:14:09.663 --> 00:14:11.498
- Would be the unity of the bible, in spite of all these years,
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- Thousands of years between the scriptures
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- That as they're given old and new testament
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- And the multiplied authors, 40 plus authors, as you noted,
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- The fact
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- That you have this consistent message there,
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- There are no irreconcilable
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- Differences in the bible in terms of the text
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- And the scripture, and that, you know,
- 00:14:33.486 --> 00:14:35.188
- One of the great important studies of the bible has to do
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- With manuscript studies and the comparison of texts
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- And manuscripts from generations,
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- How they were copiously and carefully kept.
- 00:14:44.130 --> 00:14:47.500
- That's that's another miracle of the bible is its preservation.
- 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:50.870
- I talked about inspiration, but and then illumination.
- 00:14:50.870 --> 00:14:55.675
- But then this miracle of the preservation
- 00:14:55.675 --> 00:14:59.012
- Of these texts and how god kept his word.
- 00:14:59.012 --> 00:15:02.949
- Your word. oh, lord.
- 00:15:02.949 --> 00:15:04.150
- Somerset is forever settled in heaven.
- 00:15:04.150 --> 00:15:06.186
- People want to know where the autographs,
- 00:15:06.186 --> 00:15:07.587
- Where the original manuscripts, they're kept in heaven.
- 00:15:07.587 --> 00:15:10.390
- You know, there's a copy there.
- 00:15:10.390 --> 00:15:11.725
- Amen. well, dr.
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- Jack, coming up, one of my favorite topics.
- 00:15:13.093 --> 00:15:15.695
- How does archeology prove the truth of the bible?
- 00:15:15.695 --> 00:15:19.632
- Dr. jack graham breaks that down.
- 00:15:19.632 --> 00:15:21.301
- Plus, how to know god's will for your life.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
- 00:15:28.993 --> 00:15:31.747
- The amazing archeological finds,
- 00:15:32.381 --> 00:15:34.016
- Especially over the past few decades.
- 00:15:34.016 --> 00:15:35.851
- How does that also prove the veracity of scripture?
- 00:15:35.851 --> 00:15:38.620
- You've got that.
- 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:39.554
- You've got the truth of the word of god,
- 00:15:39.554 --> 00:15:40.889
- And you've got that irrefutable
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- Scientific archeological evidence
- 00:15:42.224 --> 00:15:44.559
- Seems to be an unbeatable combination. well.
- 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.195
- The archeology, of course, always points to the veracity
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- And validity of scripture.
- 00:15:50.265 --> 00:15:51.433
- To me, through the years,
- 00:15:51.433 --> 00:15:53.035
- There were always people who would deny that.
- 00:15:53.035 --> 00:15:54.603
- For example,
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- There were people,
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- Liberal scholars, who said, well, or historians
- 00:15:57.439 --> 00:15:59.875
- Who said, there's no such thing as as belshazzar in the bible.
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- Belshazzar was a king and daniel's there.
- 00:16:03.912 --> 00:16:05.614
- There's no evidence that belshazzar ever existed.
- 00:16:05.614 --> 00:16:09.051
- It must have been fiction.
- 00:16:09.051 --> 00:16:10.986
- And yet they're digging as they're constantly
- 00:16:10.986 --> 00:16:14.056
- Digging in israel these days,
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- And they find an entire testimony to belshazzar
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- And the kingdom of the babylonians.
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- At that point, the.
- 00:16:22.130 --> 00:16:22.964
- Writing on.
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- The wall
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- Could give you many other yeah, i could
- 00:16:24.332 --> 00:16:25.033
- Give you many other examples.
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- But but generally speaking, there's never been
- 00:16:26.234 --> 00:16:29.571
- The turn of the spate of an archeologist that has ever
- 00:16:29.571 --> 00:16:33.809
- Discredited the truth of the bible.
- 00:16:33.809 --> 00:16:36.311
- To the contrary,
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- Every time you turn up
- 00:16:37.579 --> 00:16:38.713
- A manuscript or something from the ancient past,
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- In the old testament or new testament, it it always supports
- 00:16:42.350 --> 00:16:47.189
- The the truth of scripture and the trustworthiness
- 00:16:47.189 --> 00:16:50.258
- Of the bible. yeah, the case is only strength.
- 00:16:50.258 --> 00:16:52.094
- It's amazing to see.
- 00:16:52.094 --> 00:16:53.428
- Okay, we're talking about this incredible book, the greatest
- 00:16:53.428 --> 00:16:56.098
- Selling book of all time, as you said, the bible.
- 00:16:56.098 --> 00:16:58.533
- What can regular bible reading and you write about this
- 00:16:58.533 --> 00:17:01.603
- In the jesus book, dr.
- 00:17:01.603 --> 00:17:02.637
- Jack, what can regular
- 00:17:02.637 --> 00:17:04.272
- Reading of the bible do for a person just to change?
- 00:17:04.272 --> 00:17:06.775
- I know what it did for me just to change their life around.
- 00:17:06.775 --> 00:17:10.479
- Just digging in the word for for a few days each week even.
- 00:17:10.479 --> 00:17:13.782
- Yeah, no question.
- 00:17:13.782 --> 00:17:14.816
- Well, first of all, the bible is very powerful
- 00:17:14.816 --> 00:17:18.019
- Because the holy spirit gave it and the holy spirit works
- 00:17:18.019 --> 00:17:20.922
- Through the scriptures.
- 00:17:20.922 --> 00:17:21.756
- So you have a very spiritual thing
- 00:17:21.756 --> 00:17:23.925
- That's happening when you actually read the scriptures.
- 00:17:23.925 --> 00:17:27.596
- And as i was saying earlier,
- 00:17:27.596 --> 00:17:29.297
- When when you know the lord, when you know christ,
- 00:17:29.297 --> 00:17:31.566
- Then then it becomes
- 00:17:31.566 --> 00:17:32.934
- So much more than black ink on white paper.
- 00:17:32.934 --> 00:17:35.337
- I mean, the natural man, a person without christ,
- 00:17:35.337 --> 00:17:37.272
- Has no understanding of the bible,
- 00:17:37.272 --> 00:17:38.974
- No appetite for the bible, no interest in the bible.
- 00:17:38.974 --> 00:17:42.110
- But once you come to faith in christ, then
- 00:17:42.110 --> 00:17:44.713
- Then you had this new appetite, you had this new desires,
- 00:17:44.713 --> 00:17:48.483
- A hunger,
- 00:17:48.483 --> 00:17:49.718
- You know, for for god's word, god, what did what did you say?
- 00:17:49.718 --> 00:17:53.421
- And so you just you start and you get some guidance.
- 00:17:53.421 --> 00:17:56.324
- I encourage people, first of all, get in a good church
- 00:17:56.324 --> 00:17:59.661
- Where the bible is being taught and preached.
- 00:17:59.661 --> 00:18:02.364
- You know, if you go to a church, for example,
- 00:18:02.364 --> 00:18:05.367
- And you don't hear the pastor say when he gets up to preach
- 00:18:05.367 --> 00:18:08.937
- Or speak or whatever he's doing up there,
- 00:18:08.937 --> 00:18:10.872
- If you don't hear him say
- 00:18:10.872 --> 00:18:12.274
- Within the first 5 to 10 minutes,
- 00:18:12.274 --> 00:18:14.142
- Open your bibles to then saturate that place for
- 00:18:14.142 --> 00:18:18.246
- That church with your absence.
- 00:18:18.246 --> 00:18:19.781
- So hear the word of god and then read it for yourself.
- 00:18:19.781 --> 00:18:22.484
- And there are, you know, so many ways that programs
- 00:18:22.484 --> 00:18:27.222
- I mean, you can go on the internet
- 00:18:27.222 --> 00:18:28.290
- And find great numbers of ways that you can read
- 00:18:28.290 --> 00:18:31.359
- Through the bible, read certain sacred pod
- 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.361
- Before you go the podcast, for sure.
- 00:18:33.361 --> 00:18:35.931
- But then you move from reading to reflecting on the bible.
- 00:18:35.931 --> 00:18:39.601
- And so when i'm reading
- 00:18:39.601 --> 00:18:41.069
- The bible and we talk about it in the book, there's
- 00:18:41.069 --> 00:18:43.305
- There's meditation
- 00:18:43.305 --> 00:18:45.507
- In psalm one.
- 00:18:45.507 --> 00:18:47.142
- He said, you know,
- 00:18:47.142 --> 00:18:48.210
- The successful the blessed man
- 00:18:48.210 --> 00:18:50.111
- Meditates on god's word day and night.
- 00:18:50.111 --> 00:18:52.514
- So what does that mean?
- 00:18:52.514 --> 00:18:53.281
- That's not eastern mysticism,
- 00:18:53.281 --> 00:18:55.283
- Kind of meditation where you empty your brain.
- 00:18:55.283 --> 00:18:58.053
- And this is a key point, by the way. yeah.
- 00:18:58.053 --> 00:18:59.955
- Where you're emptying your brain and, you know,
- 00:18:59.955 --> 00:19:03.225
- Getting in a lotus position and humming.
- 00:19:03.225 --> 00:19:06.161
- But no, you are actually engaging your brain
- 00:19:06.161 --> 00:19:09.598
- With the word of god and opening your brain to
- 00:19:09.598 --> 00:19:12.734
- To the work of the holy spirit is god's word.
- 00:19:12.734 --> 00:19:14.936
- So meditating these reflecting on it is person losing it.
- 00:19:14.936 --> 00:19:19.441
- It's making it your own.
- 00:19:19.441 --> 00:19:21.009
- And as you're reflecting on a passage you may be reading,
- 00:19:21.009 --> 00:19:24.045
- Then you know you can ask yourself
- 00:19:24.045 --> 00:19:26.448
- Familiar questions like, is there a command here
- 00:19:26.448 --> 00:19:30.352
- That i need to keep?
- 00:19:30.352 --> 00:19:31.286
- Is there a promise that i need to believe?
- 00:19:31.286 --> 00:19:35.156
- Is there a sin that i need to kind of confess?
- 00:19:35.156 --> 00:19:38.860
- Is there a pathway that i need to take?
- 00:19:38.860 --> 00:19:41.796
- Is there a ministry that i need to undertake?
- 00:19:41.796 --> 00:19:45.800
- So you're always reflecting on god's work.
- 00:19:45.800 --> 00:19:50.071
- Since i
- 00:19:50.071 --> 00:19:51.139
- Was a young christian, i memorized the bible passages
- 00:19:51.139 --> 00:19:54.309
- Of scripture, memorized the scripture, and i always read
- 00:19:54.309 --> 00:19:58.213
- My bible, virtually always with a highlighter,
- 00:19:58.213 --> 00:20:00.982
- A pen in my hand.
- 00:20:00.982 --> 00:20:01.950
- Yeah, i'm taking notes. i keep a journal.
- 00:20:01.950 --> 00:20:04.286
- So because i'm serious, i want to know
- 00:20:04.286 --> 00:20:06.254
- And i want to keep what god is saying to me.
- 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:08.657
- So that's why i write some things down.
- 00:20:08.657 --> 00:20:10.191
- But then. said, there's always new. revelation.
- 00:20:10.191 --> 00:20:11.860
- It's just always,
- 00:20:11.860 --> 00:20:12.794
- Yeah, it's just always god is always speaking.
- 00:20:12.794 --> 00:20:15.830
- And then those verses that you memorized, then
- 00:20:15.830 --> 00:20:20.602
- Just when you need them the most, maybe you're
- 00:20:20.602 --> 00:20:23.071
- Talking to a friend and god reminds you of a verse.
- 00:20:23.071 --> 00:20:26.174
- I know when, when i experience
- 00:20:26.174 --> 00:20:28.043
- Great grief in my life, my pastor gave me a verse
- 00:20:28.043 --> 00:20:31.680
- 57 one which said, be merciful and to behold, god be merciful.
- 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:35.684
- And to me, for my soul, trust
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- In you, in the shadow of your wings.
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- Will i take my refuge till these calamities?
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- B overpass.
- 00:20:41.523 --> 00:20:42.390
- So i memorize that as a young person.
- 00:20:42.390 --> 00:20:44.592
- My father was actually brutally
- 00:20:44.592 --> 00:20:46.061
- Murdered in my pastor gave me that verse.
- 00:20:46.061 --> 00:20:48.463
- I don't know how many times
- 00:20:48.463 --> 00:20:49.664
- I've shared that verse with others
- 00:20:49.664 --> 00:20:51.533
- Because i memorized i made it my own,
- 00:20:51.533 --> 00:20:53.868
- And with the comfort that i'm comforted now
- 00:20:53.868 --> 00:20:55.770
- I can comfort others, but that's just an example.
- 00:20:55.770 --> 00:20:58.306
- One example
- 00:20:58.306 --> 00:20:59.240
- When you get the word of god in you, the
- 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.242
- The god of the word gets in you, right?
- 00:21:01.242 --> 00:21:03.878
- Yeah.
- 00:21:03.878 --> 00:21:04.913
- And, and, and so now you're walking in wisdom.
- 00:21:04.913 --> 00:21:07.849
- What is wisdom?
- 00:21:07.849 --> 00:21:08.917
- Wisdom is seeing things from god's perspective.
- 00:21:08.917 --> 00:21:12.787
- It is not common sense, but uncommon sense.
- 00:21:12.787 --> 00:21:15.857
- What god gives us.
- 00:21:15.857 --> 00:21:17.692
- And we get that in the word, the will of god.
- 00:21:17.692 --> 00:21:19.561
- I've got a chapter in the book
- 00:21:19.561 --> 00:21:20.595
- On the word of god in the will of god.
- 00:21:20.595 --> 00:21:22.364
- You want to know the will of god is then the word of god.
- 00:21:22.364 --> 00:21:24.833
- The bible is the will of god for your life.
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- Amen. doctor jack graham.
- 00:21:27.702 --> 00:21:29.204
- Truer words were never spoken.
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- Thank you, my friend, for those great insights.
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- Folks, again,
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- For you and for our nation.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- What a great conversation with our good friend, dr.
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- Jack graham.
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- I love how he broke down,
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- How the answers to all of life's questions, all of its problems
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- Can be found.
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- Yes, in the word of god, it's no coincidence
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- That sales of the bible are skyrocketing right now.
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- People are hungry for the truth.
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- Here's the good news the gospel of john chapter 14.
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- Jesus says, i am the way, the truth and the life.
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- No one comes to the father except through me following
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- Jesus, quite literally, will change your life, folks.
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- Take it from me. from personal experience.
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- You become a new creation in christ.
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- You truly are born again.
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- So it works certainly on an individual level.
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- But what about for nations?
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- Well, the book of psalms says blessed is the nation
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- Whose god is the lord, and the blueprint
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- Is all laid out in the word of god.
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- The bible read it.
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