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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah

David Jeremiah - A Book That Will Change Your Life

August 10, 2025 | S25 E32 | 58:20

David Jeremiah - A Book That Will Change Your Life
The sound Bible-based teaching of Turning Point carries forward the goal of delivering the unchanging Word of God to an ever-changing world.
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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - A Book That Will Change Your Life | August 10, 2025
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  • For time and eternity.
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  • It is the wisdom of god distilled for human consumption.
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  • Every word of the bible was penned
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  • By a person like you or me,
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  • Yet each word was breathed out by god
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  • As holy men of old spoke as the spirit moved them.
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  • The resulting book is unique, inspired, infallible, inerrant,
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  • As relevant as tomorrow's headlines,
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  • And forever established in heaven.
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  • Just as ribbons of a bible mark the course of our reading
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  • And study of god's word, so god's word is to leave
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  • Its own mark on our lives.
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  • We read it to be wise, obey it to be safe,
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  • Believe it to be happy, and proclaim it to be joyful.
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  • And so, we celebrate the word of god
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  • And the one who breathed it into the hearts of men.
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  • We celebrate the good book for it is matchless, incomparable,
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  • We celebrate scripture that was not written to merely inform us,
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  • But to transform us.
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  • Yes, together we celebrate the bible,
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  • What it says, what it means, and what it means for our lives.
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  • In new york city,
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  • This is "turning point" with dr. david jeremiah.
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  • Male: "great is your faithfulness."
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  • ♪ great is your faithfulness ♪
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  • ♪ oh god ♪
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  • ♪ you wrestle ♪
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  • ♪ with the sinner's heart ♪
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  • ♪ you lead us by still waters ♪
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  • ♪ and to mercy and nothing ♪
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  • ♪ can keep us apart ♪
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  • ♪ so remember your people ♪
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  • ♪ remember your children ♪
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  • ♪ remember your promise ♪
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  • ♪ oh god ♪
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  • ♪ your grace is enough ♪
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  • ♪ heaven reaching down to us ♪
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  • ♪ your grace is enough for me ♪
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  • ♪ for me ♪
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  • ♪ your grace is enough ♪
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  • ♪ i'm covered in your love ♪
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  • ♪ your grace is enough for me ♪
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  • ♪ for me ♪
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  • ♪ for me ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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  • Dr. david jeremiah: you cannot become
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  • A christian without the bible.
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  • We would not know how to know god without the bible.
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  • We can know god exists through his creation, but we cannot know
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  • How to know god unless god reveals himself to us,
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  • And in the bible he has done just that.
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  • Announcer: dr. jeremiah first released
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  • "understanding the 66 books of the bible,"
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  • Helping thousands of bible readers
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  • Fully comprehend the place and purpose
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  • Of every book in the bible.
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  • Now dr. jeremiah wants to help you live out
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  • The entire breadth and depth of scripture
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  • In his companion volume,
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  • "living the 66 books of the bible."
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  • In its pages, dr. jeremiah teaches you
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  • How to put the word of god into action
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  • By identifying each book's purpose,
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  • Theme, challenge, verse, and prayer.
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  • Genesis will give you new perspective
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  • And opportunity to trust the lord.
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  • Exodus will challenge you
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  • To give all your burdens and cares to god.
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  • Judges will help you draw nearer to him.
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  • Colossians will bring encouragement to your life
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  • Through the power of the holy spirit.
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  • Titus will keep you grounded in god's word and promises.
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  • And revelation will compel you
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  • To make each moment count for christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ when i come ♪
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  • ♪ into his presence ♪
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  • ♪ i humble myself ♪
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  • ♪ i lift up both my hands ♪
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  • ♪ and i begin to worship him ♪
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  • ♪ i worship him ♪
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  • ♪ when i come ♪
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  • ♪ into his presence ♪
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  • ♪ i humble myself ♪
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  • ♪ i lift up both my hands ♪
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  • ♪ and i begin to worship him ♪
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  • ♪ i worship him ♪
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  • ♪ for what he's done ♪
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  • ♪ for what he's done for me ♪
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  • ♪ he redeemed me ♪
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  • ♪ and he set me free ♪
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  • ♪ and because ♪
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  • ♪ just because he's god ♪
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  • ♪ when i come ♪
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  • ♪ into his presence ♪
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  • ♪ i humble myself ♪
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  • ♪ i lift up both my hands ♪
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  • ♪ and i begin ♪
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  • ♪ just to worship him ♪
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  • ♪ oh, yes, i do ♪
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  • ♪ i begin to worship him ♪
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  • ♪ when i come ♪
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  • ♪ into god's presence ♪
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  • ♪ i humble myself ♪
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  • ♪ i remember all he's done ♪
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  • ♪ every victory he's won ♪
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  • ♪ so i praise him ♪
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  • ♪ i adore him ♪
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  • ♪ whoa, i praise him ♪
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  • ♪ i praise him ♪
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  • ♪ for all he's done ♪
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  • ♪ for what he's done for me ♪
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  • ♪ jesus redeemed me ♪
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  • ♪ and he set me free ♪
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  • ♪ just because ♪
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  • ♪ just because he's god ♪
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  • ♪ oh, he will never need ♪
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  • ♪ my help ♪
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  • ♪ he's god ♪
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  • ♪ my god ♪
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  • ♪ on and on he's god ♪
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  • ♪ for what he's done ♪
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  • ♪ for you and for me ♪
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  • ♪ he redeemed me ♪
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  • ♪ and he set me free, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ we praise you, lord ♪
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  • ♪ we proclaim your holy name ♪
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  • ♪ we love you, jesus ♪
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  • ♪ we bow down before you ♪
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  • ♪ lord ♪
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  • ♪ just because you are god ♪
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  • ♪ you are god ♪
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  • ♪ for all that you've done ♪
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  • ♪ all that you've done ♪
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  • ♪ everything that ♪
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  • ♪ you've done ♪
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  • ♪ you redeemed me ♪
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  • ♪ and you set me free ♪
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  • ♪ i'm completely free ♪
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  • ♪ thank you, jesus ♪
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  • ♪ we praise your holy name ♪
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  • ♪ you are faithful, my lord ♪
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  • ♪ you are awesome ♪
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  • ♪ you remain the same ♪
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  • ♪ we bow down before you ♪
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  • ♪ jesus ♪
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  • ♪ just because ♪
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  • ♪ just because he's god ♪♪
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  • [audience applauding]
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  • Announcer: in genesis we meet a sovereign creator
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  • With a plan from beginning to end.
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  • In exodus we meet a redeemer who knows the way
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  • Through the wilderness.
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  • In leviticus, we learn to be holy.
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  • Numbers warns against getting lost in life
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  • Through unbelief.
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  • Deuteronomy commands we teach our children to love the lord
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  • With all their hearts.
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  • Joshua commands we be strong and courageous
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  • For god will never leave us nor forsake us.
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  • In judges we see the downward spiral of sin
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  • And upward cycle of mercy.
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  • In ruth we learn to build our homes for god
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  • In turbulent times.
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  • 1 and 2 samuel bring us to the throne room of the king.
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  • 1 and 2 kings show us that kings may fall and nations falter
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  • But god is still in control.
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  • According to 1 and 2 chronicles we must pray, seek god's face,
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  • And turn from our wicked ways.
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  • Ezra teaches us to seek the lord in prayer
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  • And submit to his word.
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  • Nehemiah shows us how to be leaders and partners
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  • In the lord's work.
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  • Esther shows how god's unseen hand
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  • Orchestrates human affairs in such a time as this.
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  • The book of job opens with buffeting
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  • But ends with blessing.
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  • The psalms inspire us to make a joyful noise to the lord.
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  • The proverbs inspire us to practice daily wisdom
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  • And godly fear.
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  • Ecclesiastes shows us that life is meaningless without god.
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  • Song of solomon shows us that marriage is meaningless
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  • Without love.
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  • Isaiah trumpets the suffering savior, the prince of peace,
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  • And the joy of mounting up with eagle's wings.
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  • Jeremiah shows us to persevere in ministry,
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  • Even when our efforts appear futile.
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  • In lamentations, god's compassions never fail;
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  • They are new every morning.
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  • Ezekiel shows us how to see god's majesty
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  • Even in a land of exile.
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  • Daniel's theme is, the most high rules
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  • Over the affairs of the human race.
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  • Hosea's theme is god's love is greater than the sins
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  • Of the human heart.
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  • Joel demonstrates how god restores the years
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  • The locusts have eaten.
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  • Amos tells us to be honest, letting justice roll down like
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  • A river and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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  • According to obadiah, god deals with those
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  • Who harm his people.
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  • According to jonah, god deals with those
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  • Who run from his will.
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  • Micah challenges us to do justly, love mercy,
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  • And walk humbly with god.
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  • Nahum reminds us the lord has his way in the whirlwind.
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  • Habakkuk reminds us to rejoice in the lord
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  • Even when there's no fruit on the vine.
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  • Zephaniah reminds us of a god who judges and a father
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  • Who rejoices over us with singing.
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  • Haggai exhorts us to finish the task assigned us.
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  • Zechariah tells us to complete the work god gives us
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  • For the day of the lord is near.
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  • Malachi shakes us from spiritual apathy
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  • To genuine worship and worthy living.
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  • Matthew introduces the messiah, son of david,
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  • The son of abraham.
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  • Mark reveals the urgency of the mission of him who said,
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  • "follow me and i will make you fishers of men."
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  • Luke gives us an orderly account of the gospel so we will know
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  • The certainty of what we believe.
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  • John reveals, "for god so loved the world
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  • That he gave his only begotten son."
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  • The book of acts is all about turning the world upside down.
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  • The book of romans is about the message
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  • That turns the world upside down.
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  • 1 and 2 corinthians tell us how to have healthy churches.
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  • Galatians insists we accept no other gospel.
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  • Ephesians catalogs our riches in christ.
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  • Philippians recommends joy and contentment,
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  • Whatever state we're in.
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  • Colossians exhorts christ with preeminence over all things.
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  • 1 and 2 thessalonians anticipate christ's coming.
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  • 1 and 2 timothy show us how to build god's church
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  • Till he comes.
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  • In titus, god's work must be well ordered
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  • And his workers self-controlled.
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  • Philemon teaches that christian forgiveness knows no boundaries.
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  • Hebrews says we must run with perseverance, looking to jesus,
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  • Our great high priest.
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  • According to james, we must care for widows and orphans
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  • And remain unspotted from the world.
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  • 1 and 2 peter tell us to walk in christ's footsteps,
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  • Always ready to explain our hope to a hopeless world.
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  • 1, 2, and 3 john exhort us to walk in the light
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  • As he is in the light.
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  • Jude commands that we contend earnestly for the faith,
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  • Once for all delivered to the saints.
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  • And the book of revelation teaches us to pray,
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  • "even so, come, lord jesus."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • And that is what the bible means.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Kari jobe: come on. will you stand and lift him up?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ water you turned into wine ♪
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  • ♪ you opened the eyes ♪
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  • ♪ of the blind ♪
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  • ♪ there's no one like you ♪
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  • ♪ oh, none like you ♪
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  • ♪ and into the darkness ♪
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  • ♪ you shine ♪
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  • Kari: c'mon, sing it out tonight.
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  • ♪ out of the ashes we rise ♪
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  • ♪ there's no one like you ♪
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  • ♪ oh, none like you ♪
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  • ♪ our god is greater ♪
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  • ♪ our god is stronger ♪
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  • ♪ god, you are higher ♪
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  • ♪ than any other ♪
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  • ♪ our god is healer ♪
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  • ♪ awesome in power ♪
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  • ♪ our god, oh, our god ♪
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  • ♪ you are greater, yes ♪
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  • ♪ and if our god is for us ♪
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  • ♪ then who could ever stop us ♪
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  • ♪ and if our god is with us ♪
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  • ♪ then what can stand against ♪
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  • Kari: hallelujah.
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  • C'mon, let's just shout
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  • And pray tonight,
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  • Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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  • ♪ our god is greater ♪
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  • ♪ our god is stronger ♪
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  • ♪ god, you are higher ♪
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  • ♪ than any other ♪
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  • ♪ our god is healer ♪
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  • ♪ awesome in power ♪
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  • ♪ our god, our god ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:22:27.551 --> 00:22:37.027
  • ♪ i'm finding myself ♪
  • 00:22:37.027 --> 00:22:41.065
  • ♪ at a loss for words ♪
  • 00:22:41.065 --> 00:22:44.902
  • ♪ and the funny thing is ♪
  • 00:22:44.902 --> 00:22:48.072
  • ♪ it's okay ♪
  • 00:22:48.072 --> 00:22:50.775
  • ♪ the last thing i need ♪
  • 00:22:50.775 --> 00:22:54.779
  • ♪ is to be heard but to hear ♪
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  • ♪ what you would say ♪
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  • ♪ word of god speak ♪
  • 00:23:03.988 --> 00:23:07.258
  • ♪ would you pour down ♪
  • 00:23:07.258 --> 00:23:08.926
  • ♪ like rain ♪
  • 00:23:08.926 --> 00:23:10.728
  • ♪ washing my eyes to see ♪
  • 00:23:10.728 --> 00:23:14.465
  • ♪ your majesty ♪
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  • ♪ to be still and know ♪
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  • ♪ that you're in this place ♪
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  • ♪ and please let me stay ♪
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  • ♪ and rest in your holiness ♪
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  • ♪ word of god speak ♪
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  • ♪ and jesus speak to me ♪
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  • ♪ i'm finding myself ♪
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  • ♪ in the midst of you ♪
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  • ♪ beyond the music ♪
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  • ♪ beyond the noise ♪
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  • ♪ and all that i need ♪
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  • ♪ is to be with you ♪
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  • ♪ and in the quiet ♪
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  • ♪ and hear your voice ♪
  • 00:24:07.518 --> 00:24:10.454
  • ♪ and word of god speak ♪
  • 00:24:10.454 --> 00:24:13.491
  • ♪ would you pour down ♪
  • 00:24:13.491 --> 00:24:14.825
  • ♪ like rain ♪
  • 00:24:14.825 --> 00:24:17.094
  • ♪ washing my eyes to see ♪
  • 00:24:17.094 --> 00:24:21.232
  • ♪ your majesty ♪
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  • ♪ to be still and know that ♪
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  • ♪ you're in this place ♪
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  • ♪ and please let me stay ♪
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  • ♪ and rest in your holiness ♪
  • 00:24:32.176 --> 00:24:36.847
  • ♪ and word of god speak ♪
  • 00:24:36.847 --> 00:24:40.217
  • ♪ would you pour down ♪
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  • ♪ like rain ♪
  • 00:24:42.019 --> 00:24:43.854
  • ♪ washing my eyes to see ♪
  • 00:24:43.854 --> 00:24:47.691
  • ♪ your majesty ♪
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  • ♪ to be still and know ♪
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  • ♪ that you're in this place ♪
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  • ♪ and please let me stay ♪
  • 00:24:56.834 --> 00:24:59.370
  • ♪ and rest in your holiness ♪
  • 00:24:59.370 --> 00:25:05.576
  • ♪ i'm finding myself ♪
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  • ♪ at a loss for words ♪
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  • ♪ and the funny thing is ♪
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  • ♪ it's okay ♪♪
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  • [audience applauding]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bart millard: if you know christ, then i think
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  • You can agree that we're just passing through, amen?
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  • That he's gone before us to prepare a place.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ we're coming home ♪
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  • ♪ we're coming home ♪
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  • ♪ we're coming home ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ what it will be like ♪
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  • ♪ when i walk by your side ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ what my eyes will see ♪
  • 00:26:38.669 --> 00:26:41.705
  • ♪ when your face is before me ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • Bart: you sing.
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  • ♪ surrounded by your glory ♪
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  • ♪ what will my heart feel ♪
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  • ♪ will i dance for you ♪
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  • ♪ jesus ♪
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  • ♪ or in awe of you be still ♪
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  • ♪ will i stand ♪
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  • ♪ in your presence ♪
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  • ♪ or to my knees will i fall ♪
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  • ♪ will i sing hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ will i be able to speak ♪
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  • ♪ at all ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ when that day comes ♪
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  • ♪ and i find myself standing ♪
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  • ♪ in the son ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ when all i will do ♪
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  • ♪ is forever ♪
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  • ♪ forever worship you ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • Bart: sing it loud.
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  • ♪ surrounded by your glory ♪
  • 00:28:12.396 --> 00:28:14.998
  • ♪ what will my heart feel ♪
  • 00:28:14.998 --> 00:28:17.668
  • ♪ will i dance for you, jesus ♪
  • 00:28:17.668 --> 00:28:20.771
  • ♪ or in awe of you be still ♪
  • 00:28:20.771 --> 00:28:23.640
  • ♪ will i stand ♪
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  • ♪ in your presence ♪
  • 00:28:25.008 --> 00:28:26.810
  • ♪ or to my knees will i fall ♪
  • 00:28:26.810 --> 00:28:29.780
  • ♪ will i sing hallelujah ♪
  • 00:28:29.780 --> 00:28:32.783
  • ♪ will i be able to speak ♪
  • 00:28:32.783 --> 00:28:34.151
  • ♪ at all ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ yeah, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ surrounded by your glory ♪
  • 00:28:48.098 --> 00:28:51.034
  • ♪ what will my heart feel ♪
  • 00:28:51.034 --> 00:28:53.670
  • ♪ will i dance for you ♪
  • 00:28:53.670 --> 00:28:55.472
  • ♪ jesus ♪
  • 00:28:55.472 --> 00:28:57.007
  • ♪ or in awe of you be still ♪
  • 00:28:57.007 --> 00:28:59.710
  • ♪ will i stand ♪
  • 00:28:59.710 --> 00:29:01.111
  • ♪ in your presence ♪
  • 00:29:01.111 --> 00:29:02.880
  • ♪ or to my knees will i fall ♪
  • 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.682
  • ♪ will i sing-- ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ yeah, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine, oh yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine, oh yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ and i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ when all i will do ♪
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  • ♪ is forever ♪
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  • ♪ forever worship you ♪
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  • ♪ and i can only imagine ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ because he lives ♪
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  • ♪ i can face tomorrow ♪
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  • ♪ because he lives ♪
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  • ♪ all fear is gone ♪
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  • ♪ and because i know ♪
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  • ♪ he holds the future ♪
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  • ♪ and life is worth ♪
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  • ♪ the living ♪
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  • ♪ just because he lives ♪♪
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  • Bart: we think the greatest sound in all the world
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  • Is when the body of christ lifts up the name of jesus.
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  • Now, we don't want you to not be singing along
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  • 'cause you don't know the words or anything so if you
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  • Don't know this next song, you need to go to church more,
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  • All right?
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  • Some of you are, like, "please let me know the song.
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  • Please let me know the song."
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  • ♪ amazing grace ♪
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  • ♪ how sweet the sound ♪
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  • ♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪
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  • ♪ i once was lost ♪
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  • ♪ but now i am found ♪
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  • ♪ was blind, but now i see ♪♪
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  • [audience applauding]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Dr. jeremiah: jack macdonald was born in san mateo,
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  • California.
  • 00:34:07.050 --> 00:34:08.452
  • He was a military brat who grew up
  • 00:34:08.452 --> 00:34:11.655
  • All over the united states.
  • 00:34:11.655 --> 00:34:14.591
  • Finished high school in new jersey, attended college
  • 00:34:14.591 --> 00:34:16.827
  • At michigan state where he eventually flunked out.
  • 00:34:16.827 --> 00:34:20.831
  • Ultimately he married and returned to california
  • 00:34:20.831 --> 00:34:22.999
  • Where he became a buyer for macy's department stores.
  • 00:34:22.999 --> 00:34:27.104
  • The pressure of his job was incredible and he responded
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  • To his on-the-job pressure by drinking heavily and making
  • 00:34:31.041 --> 00:34:35.011
  • A series of very bad decisions, which eventually landed him
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  • In jail.
  • 00:34:39.116 --> 00:34:40.450
  • In fact, he spent time in jail in five different states.
  • 00:34:40.450 --> 00:34:45.222
  • He became a fugitive.
  • 00:34:45.222 --> 00:34:46.556
  • He changed his name and his life story with each new person
  • 00:34:46.556 --> 00:34:49.726
  • That he met so that the warrants that were out for him
  • 00:34:49.726 --> 00:34:53.563
  • Couldn't be traced to him.
  • 00:34:53.563 --> 00:34:56.099
  • 1980 he went to the phone book and picked a name out of the
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  • Phone book to make it his own.
  • 00:34:59.202 --> 00:35:00.770
  • He decided to call himself jeff andrews because maybe
  • 00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:03.740
  • "a" is the first letter in the alphabet.
  • 00:35:03.740 --> 00:35:07.911
  • From that moment on, that eventually became
  • 00:35:07.911 --> 00:35:10.313
  • His legal name.
  • 00:35:10.313 --> 00:35:12.315
  • But he continued to run and wherever he went he was looking
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  • Over his shoulders and, one day, he just got tired of the whole
  • 00:35:15.452 --> 00:35:20.090
  • Thing and he turned himself in, believe it or not,
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  • And began serving his sentence in danbury, connecticut.
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  • As he tells the story, "some guy named gideon"
  • 00:35:29.232 --> 00:35:33.703
  • Gave him a new testament.
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  • And one night, at 3 o'clock in the morning,
  • 00:35:39.176 --> 00:35:41.578
  • He took that little book to the back of his cell and,
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  • By the light of the full moon, he began to read it.
  • 00:35:44.581 --> 00:35:48.285
  • As he read, something hit him like a thunder bolt
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  • And he knew instantly that this little book was true.
  • 00:35:50.854 --> 00:35:55.058
  • He received jesus christ as his personal savior and,
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  • To make a very long story short, he's now the vice president
  • 00:35:58.828 --> 00:36:02.098
  • Of a computer company where he's worked
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  • For the last 17 years and a part of the ministry
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  • Of charles colson's prison fellowship
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  • For the last 13 years.
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  • There are many stories like that that i could have told you.
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  • The bible's always been a difference maker,
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  • Making bad people good and good people better.
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  • The bible's pages glow with the grace of god, provide hope
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  • And meaning for everyone who will look to it for help.
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  • The bible's power to transform lives is best described in
  • 00:36:32.662 --> 00:36:36.166
  • The last half of one of the most beautiful psalms in the bible.
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  • More than any other psalm, psalm 19 reflects the beauty
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  • And splendor of hebrew poetry.
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  • C.s. lewis believed that this psalm was
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  • The greatest poem in the psalms and one of the greatest lyrics
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  • In all of the world.
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  • Now, the hebrew poets were different than our poets today.
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  • They knew how to arrange their message so that
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  • It was set in exquisite color.
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  • And through the use of comparison and contrast,
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  • They brought truth forward so that the message
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  • Was actually enhanced by the structure
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  • That was given to it.
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  • Let me show you what i mean.
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  • Here are the words of david's tribute to the bible found
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  • In psalm 19:7 through 11, but they're not written
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  • In prose.
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  • They're written in a chart, and i'd like to read them
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  • From the chart.
  • 00:37:28.318 --> 00:37:29.653
  • They're exactly the way they are in the bible.
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  • The law of the lord is perfect converting the soul.
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  • The testimony of the lord is sure, making wise the simple.
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  • The statutes of the lord are right, rejoicing the heart:
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  • The commandment of the lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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  • The fear of the lord is clean, enduring for ever:
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  • And the judgments of the lord are true and righteous.
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  • Moreover by them your servant is warned: and in keeping them
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  • There is great reward."
  • 00:37:55.912 --> 00:37:58.081
  • Now, the hebrew poets would tell you, "read this psalm
  • 00:37:58.081 --> 00:38:01.084
  • Across and then read it down.
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  • Read it down the columns that are there.
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  • If you wanna know what the psalmist thinks about the bible,
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  • Here are some synonyms he created for it.
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  • He said the bible is the law of the lord.
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  • It is the testimony of the lord.
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  • It's the statutes of the lord.
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  • It's the commandment of the lord.
  • 00:38:19.569 --> 00:38:21.404
  • It's the fear of the lord.
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  • It's the judgments of the lord.
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  • These are all synonyms for the bible.
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  • And these six synonyms portray the bible not just as a book
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  • To be read, but a book to be obeyed.
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  • Judgments and statutes and laws, these are things we obey.
  • 00:38:35.051 --> 00:38:41.958
  • In the second column, the psalmist adds adjectives
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  • For the bible.
  • 00:38:44.627 --> 00:38:45.962
  • He says this is what the bible is like,
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  • And he gives us six words.
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  • It is perfect, it is sure, it is right, it is clean,
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  • And it is true and righteous.
  • 00:38:54.237 --> 00:38:56.272
  • But it is not until you get to the final column that you
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  • Understand what the psalmist really wanted us to take away
  • 00:38:59.676 --> 00:39:02.879
  • From psalm 19:7 through 11.
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  • He wants us to know what the bible will do for us.
  • 00:39:06.216 --> 00:39:09.519
  • And more than anything else, this is why i've been involved
  • 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:12.288
  • In this project over these years, because i so believe
  • 00:39:12.288 --> 00:39:15.425
  • In the power of the bible to change lives.
  • 00:39:15.425 --> 00:39:20.130
  • Here in this text, we are told a number of things about
  • 00:39:20.130 --> 00:39:22.265
  • The bible and what it will do.
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  • First of all, it will restore your soul.
  • 00:39:24.367 --> 00:39:27.137
  • Converting the soul, it says.
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  • The bible is god's agent of salvation.
  • 00:39:29.839 --> 00:39:33.042
  • Did you know that you cannot become a christian
  • 00:39:33.042 --> 00:39:34.644
  • Without the bible?
  • 00:39:34.644 --> 00:39:35.979
  • You say, "well, i know somebody that didn't even have a bible
  • 00:39:35.979 --> 00:39:37.947
  • And they became a christian."
  • 00:39:37.947 --> 00:39:39.282
  • Well, if they became a christian,
  • 00:39:39.282 --> 00:39:40.683
  • It was because of something that came out of the bible.
  • 00:39:40.683 --> 00:39:44.220
  • Because you cannot become a christian without the bible.
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  • We would not know how to know god without the bible.
  • 00:39:46.156 --> 00:39:48.525
  • We can know god exists through his creation but we cannot know
  • 00:39:48.525 --> 00:39:52.429
  • How to know god unless god reveals himself to us and in
  • 00:39:52.429 --> 00:39:55.932
  • The bible he has done just that.
  • 00:39:55.932 --> 00:39:58.535
  • He has given to us everything that we need to know to become
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  • A christian.
  • 00:40:02.372 --> 00:40:03.873
  • This book is god's agent of salvation.
  • 00:40:03.873 --> 00:40:07.410
  • And the message of christianity can only be found in one place.
  • 00:40:07.410 --> 00:40:10.980
  • It's not in a history book.
  • 00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:12.315
  • It's in god's book.
  • 00:40:12.315 --> 00:40:14.184
  • Peter says it this way: "we are born again through
  • 00:40:14.184 --> 00:40:17.620
  • The word of god which lives and abides forever."
  • 00:40:17.620 --> 00:40:21.758
  • And the bible also renews your mind.
  • 00:40:21.758 --> 00:40:25.195
  • "the testimony of the lord is sure," said the psalmist,
  • 00:40:25.195 --> 00:40:27.163
  • "making wise the simple."
  • 00:40:27.163 --> 00:40:30.266
  • The bible will give you practical guidance that you need
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  • To know how to do life.
  • 00:40:33.436 --> 00:40:35.505
  • So many times, i have read the word of god and found myself
  • 00:40:35.505 --> 00:40:38.174
  • Thinking, "oh, man, i better not do that,"
  • 00:40:38.174 --> 00:40:42.245
  • Or "i better do this a different way."
  • 00:40:42.245 --> 00:40:45.315
  • The bible is god's wisdom to us, wisdom to help us to know
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  • How to do life.
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  • And the bible is god's owner's manual.
  • 00:40:51.788 --> 00:40:54.491
  • I don't wanna go too far down that road because i know
  • 00:40:54.491 --> 00:40:56.759
  • How most of us treat those owner's manuals.
  • 00:40:56.759 --> 00:41:00.129
  • But let me suggest to you that you should read the bible
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  • Because if you don't, you will wish you had.
  • 00:41:02.765 --> 00:41:06.970
  • The bible, the psalmist says, "will rejoice your heart."
  • 00:41:06.970 --> 00:41:09.873
  • That's right out of the text.
  • 00:41:09.873 --> 00:41:11.808
  • "the statutes of the lord are right, rejoicing the heart,"
  • 00:41:11.808 --> 00:41:14.544
  • Psalm 19.
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  • Did you know that the bible is one of god's best ways
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  • To lift your spirit?
  • 00:41:18.982 --> 00:41:20.984
  • When you're down, when you're troubled,
  • 00:41:20.984 --> 00:41:22.485
  • Where do you go?
  • 00:41:22.485 --> 00:41:23.820
  • I always tell people, "you won't find
  • 00:41:23.820 --> 00:41:25.154
  • A lot of help in leviticus, but go to the psalms.
  • 00:41:25.154 --> 00:41:27.824
  • Go to the psalms and there you will find truth that
  • 00:41:27.824 --> 00:41:30.326
  • Will just lift your spirit."
  • 00:41:30.326 --> 00:41:32.362
  • One day an australian woman named darlene zschech
  • 00:41:32.362 --> 00:41:35.198
  • Was battling depression.
  • 00:41:35.198 --> 00:41:37.000
  • It was back in 1993 to be exact and her burdens
  • 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:39.636
  • Were just overwhelming.
  • 00:41:39.636 --> 00:41:41.404
  • There seemed no solution for her problems.
  • 00:41:41.404 --> 00:41:43.706
  • But her family was a christian family
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  • And darlene had begun to learn the power of the bible.
  • 00:41:45.708 --> 00:41:48.411
  • So that day, she reached for her bible and,
  • 00:41:48.411 --> 00:41:51.047
  • As she poured over psalm 96, the lord used his word
  • 00:41:51.047 --> 00:41:54.617
  • To meet her needs.
  • 00:41:54.617 --> 00:41:56.619
  • Nearby her at the time was an old piano that her parents
  • 00:41:56.619 --> 00:41:59.889
  • Had given to her when she was five years old.
  • 00:41:59.889 --> 00:42:03.293
  • Going over to the piano, she began to improvise a song
  • 00:42:03.293 --> 00:42:05.795
  • Based on psalm 96 and, as she praised the lord,
  • 00:42:05.795 --> 00:42:09.632
  • Her depression began to lift and her faith and her joy
  • 00:42:09.632 --> 00:42:12.602
  • In the lord returned.
  • 00:42:12.602 --> 00:42:14.871
  • Little did she know that the song she wrote would become
  • 00:42:14.871 --> 00:42:17.574
  • One of the most popular praise and worship songs of all time.
  • 00:42:17.574 --> 00:42:21.444
  • We sing it in all of our churches these days.
  • 00:42:21.444 --> 00:42:23.746
  • It's called, "shout to the lord,"
  • 00:42:23.746 --> 00:42:25.982
  • And when we sing that song, we need to remember that
  • 00:42:25.982 --> 00:42:28.651
  • It was written by someone who was depressed
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  • Until they read the psalms.
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  • When you read the word of god, it will lift your spirit.
  • 00:42:33.156 --> 00:42:35.491
  • That's what david says.
  • 00:42:35.491 --> 00:42:37.493
  • And it will also refocus your vision.
  • 00:42:37.493 --> 00:42:39.262
  • Notice verse 8.
  • 00:42:39.262 --> 00:42:40.597
  • He says, "the commandment of the lord is pure,
  • 00:42:40.597 --> 00:42:43.032
  • Enlightening your eyes."
  • 00:42:43.032 --> 00:42:45.234
  • God's word gives us clarity of vision.
  • 00:42:46.469 --> 00:42:48.871
  • Is there anything we need more in this life today than to be
  • 00:42:48.871 --> 00:42:51.307
  • Able to see things as they are?
  • 00:42:51.307 --> 00:42:53.910
  • If you see things as they are, you can stay
  • 00:42:53.910 --> 00:42:56.279
  • Out of a lot of trouble.
  • 00:42:56.279 --> 00:42:57.614
  • I heard a sportscaster this week that i listen to sometimes
  • 00:42:57.614 --> 00:42:59.949
  • On the radio talking about a guy and he said about this guy
  • 00:42:59.949 --> 00:43:02.952
  • That he was the president of the state of denial.
  • 00:43:02.952 --> 00:43:07.924
  • And i know a lot of people that live in that state who are
  • 00:43:07.924 --> 00:43:09.792
  • Citizens of the state of denial.
  • 00:43:09.792 --> 00:43:11.461
  • Don't you?
  • 00:43:11.461 --> 00:43:12.795
  • But you can't live in the state of denial if you read the bible.
  • 00:43:12.795 --> 00:43:15.465
  • The bible will bring you up short.
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  • It will help you to see yourself as you really are
  • 00:43:17.367 --> 00:43:19.135
  • And it will refocus your vision.
  • 00:43:19.135 --> 00:43:21.137
  • And it will reinforce your life.
  • 00:43:21.137 --> 00:43:22.972
  • Notice: "the fear of the lord is clean,
  • 00:43:22.972 --> 00:43:25.141
  • Enduring forever."
  • 00:43:25.141 --> 00:43:27.176
  • Forever.
  • 00:43:28.144 --> 00:43:29.479
  • Something that lasts.
  • 00:43:29.479 --> 00:43:30.813
  • What do you know about that?
  • 00:43:30.813 --> 00:43:33.249
  • The bible is forever, it doesn't change,
  • 00:43:33.316 --> 00:43:35.618
  • It will never fail, it won't let you down.
  • 00:43:35.618 --> 00:43:38.287
  • It is never out of date.
  • 00:43:38.287 --> 00:43:42.325
  • You can count on it to be there when you need it.
  • 00:43:42.325 --> 00:43:44.927
  • It endures forever.
  • 00:43:44.927 --> 00:43:46.262
  • The psalmist says in psalm 119: "forever, o lord,
  • 00:43:46.262 --> 00:43:49.766
  • Your word is settled in heaven."
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  • I was watching cnn one night and some personalities
  • 00:43:54.003 --> 00:43:56.806
  • Were interviewing a preacher.
  • 00:43:56.806 --> 00:43:59.042
  • I always thought that was a really risky thing to do,
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  • To let cnn interview you if you were a preacher,
  • 00:44:01.010 --> 00:44:03.579
  • But this guy was brave and he decided to do it.
  • 00:44:03.579 --> 00:44:07.350
  • And during the interview, the interviewer said
  • 00:44:07.350 --> 00:44:09.886
  • To the preacher and i quote, "when are you christians
  • 00:44:09.886 --> 00:44:13.089
  • Gonna drag your bible into the 21st century?"
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  • End of quote.
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  • Now i knew immediately that the interviewer
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  • Had never read the bible.
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  • I knew that immediately.
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  • The bible speaks to the issues of our day and the fact that
  • 00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:27.070
  • We don't like what it has to say does not render it irrelevant.
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  • There is certainly a need for change, you know.
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  • There is--there's a tremendous need for change but it is not
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  • The bible that needs to change.
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  • We need to drag our culture back in line with the bible,
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  • Don't you know, yeah.
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  • [audience applauding]
  • 00:44:46.322 --> 00:44:50.159
  • And then the psalmist said that the bible will replace
  • 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.528
  • Your doubts, "the judgment of the lord
  • 00:44:52.528 --> 00:44:54.630
  • Is true and righteous altogether."
  • 00:44:54.630 --> 00:44:57.900
  • In this life there are not many things you can know
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  • For sure that are true.
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  • You think you do.
  • 00:45:01.003 --> 00:45:03.039
  • Sometimes you think you know something's true
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  • And you find out it's not.
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  • But every part of god's word, all of it, from the beginning
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  • To the end, is true.
  • 00:45:09.112 --> 00:45:10.646
  • And i make that statement as a man
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  • Who has watched in history as minds far more brilliant
  • 00:45:12.782 --> 00:45:15.752
  • Than mine would ever be, who have tried
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  • To destroy the bible, saying it is full
  • 00:45:18.187 --> 00:45:20.456
  • Of contradictions and it doesn't have any integrity.
  • 00:45:20.456 --> 00:45:23.960
  • It seems like every time they set out to destroy the bible,
  • 00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:26.195
  • They end up becoming followers of christ because they examine
  • 00:45:26.195 --> 00:45:29.832
  • The evidence and they find out the evidence is worthy.
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  • When you read the bible, you can have the confidence
  • 00:45:33.770 --> 00:45:35.505
  • That it has withstood centuries of attempts to discredit it.
  • 00:45:35.505 --> 00:45:38.374
  • People still read it.
  • 00:45:38.374 --> 00:45:40.276
  • Why do they read-- if a book is no longer relevant,
  • 00:45:40.276 --> 00:45:42.311
  • Why would you read it?
  • 00:45:42.311 --> 00:45:44.313
  • But it is relevant and we know it's relevant.
  • 00:45:44.313 --> 00:45:46.048
  • And you know, i've often said that the bible is
  • 00:45:46.048 --> 00:45:47.917
  • A self-authenticating book.
  • 00:45:47.917 --> 00:45:50.153
  • That means you don't have to have anything else
  • 00:45:50.153 --> 00:45:51.754
  • To tell you that it's true.
  • 00:45:51.754 --> 00:45:53.089
  • Just in the reading of it, something witnesses
  • 00:45:53.089 --> 00:45:55.358
  • In your heart that says, "wow, this is different.
  • 00:45:55.358 --> 00:45:59.328
  • This is true.
  • 00:45:59.328 --> 00:46:00.830
  • This must be a god book."
  • 00:46:00.830 --> 00:46:03.332
  • And the bible will reorder your values.
  • 00:46:03.332 --> 00:46:05.201
  • Notice verse 10: "more to be desired are they than gold,
  • 00:46:05.201 --> 00:46:08.704
  • Yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey
  • 00:46:08.704 --> 00:46:11.774
  • And the honeycomb."
  • 00:46:11.774 --> 00:46:13.810
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:46:15.545 --> 00:46:16.879
  • It means the bible's far more value than we give credit
  • 00:46:16.879 --> 00:46:18.481
  • For it to be.
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  • One of my friends and a pastor who's retired from the church
  • 00:46:19.816 --> 00:46:24.120
  • Now, but continues to write, is a man by the name
  • 00:46:24.120 --> 00:46:26.189
  • Of john piper, and he made the following comments
  • 00:46:26.189 --> 00:46:28.758
  • About this particular verse.
  • 00:46:28.758 --> 00:46:30.259
  • He said, "if you have a choice between the word of god
  • 00:46:30.259 --> 00:46:32.962
  • And gold, choose the word of god.
  • 00:46:32.962 --> 00:46:36.432
  • If you have a choice between the word of god and much gold,
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  • Choose the word of god.
  • 00:46:39.101 --> 00:46:41.103
  • And if you have a choice between the word of god
  • 00:46:41.103 --> 00:46:42.672
  • And much fine gold, choose the word of god.
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  • The point is plain.
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  • The benefits of knowing and doing the word of god
  • 00:46:47.076 --> 00:46:48.911
  • Are greater than all that money can buy.
  • 00:46:48.911 --> 00:46:52.315
  • If you're tempted," he went on to say this
  • 00:46:52.315 --> 00:46:55.017
  • And this is a pretty bold thing for him to say.
  • 00:46:55.017 --> 00:46:57.787
  • He said, "if you're tempted to read the stock page before you
  • 00:46:57.787 --> 00:46:59.789
  • Read the bible in the morning, remind yourself that this is not
  • 00:46:59.789 --> 00:47:02.625
  • Very shrewd behavior.
  • 00:47:02.625 --> 00:47:05.027
  • It's like the child who chooses the penny over the dime
  • 00:47:05.027 --> 00:47:07.430
  • Because it's bigger.
  • 00:47:07.430 --> 00:47:10.600
  • Adults look on and shake their heads and try to teach children
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  • How to see what is really more valuable.
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  • There is no doubt the way the angels in heaven look down
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  • At childish businessmen who study the stock page
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  • Before they study the bible.
  • 00:47:20.610 --> 00:47:22.678
  • There's a difference, however, in that the benefits
  • 00:47:22.678 --> 00:47:25.481
  • Of the word of god over the benefits of gold
  • 00:47:25.481 --> 00:47:28.117
  • Are greater than 10 to 1, and that doesn't mean
  • 00:47:28.117 --> 00:47:31.787
  • You shouldn't study the stock page
  • 00:47:31.787 --> 00:47:33.522
  • And learn all you can about the financial world.
  • 00:47:33.522 --> 00:47:35.725
  • But when you mix in the truth of god's word,
  • 00:47:35.725 --> 00:47:38.060
  • It takes it to an entirely different level,"
  • 00:47:38.060 --> 00:47:40.630
  • And i know so many people have told me that
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  • From their own experience.
  • 00:47:42.965 --> 00:47:45.568
  • And then the bible will redirect your path:
  • 00:47:45.635 --> 00:47:48.137
  • "moreover by them your servant is warned."
  • 00:47:48.137 --> 00:47:50.640
  • Did you know the bible is full of warnings?
  • 00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:52.642
  • And that's why some people don't like to read it because it
  • 00:47:52.642 --> 00:47:54.377
  • Tells them not to do something that they wanna do.
  • 00:47:54.377 --> 00:47:57.647
  • But you know, if you really think this through,
  • 00:47:57.647 --> 00:47:59.715
  • Warnings are great value to us.
  • 00:47:59.715 --> 00:48:03.319
  • Warnings keep us out of trouble.
  • 00:48:03.319 --> 00:48:06.756
  • Warnings protect us from danger.
  • 00:48:06.756 --> 00:48:09.859
  • We used to have a discussion among our pastors
  • 00:48:09.859 --> 00:48:12.528
  • Some years back about what we do in preaching as opposed
  • 00:48:12.528 --> 00:48:17.133
  • To what we do in counseling and we came up
  • 00:48:17.133 --> 00:48:19.635
  • With this little image that maybe helps us.
  • 00:48:19.635 --> 00:48:22.171
  • The preacher of the word of god in today's world takes
  • 00:48:22.171 --> 00:48:24.740
  • The scripture and opens it up and he puts signs of warning
  • 00:48:24.740 --> 00:48:27.543
  • Down in the sand to tell people don't go this way.
  • 00:48:27.543 --> 00:48:30.179
  • You're going over the cliff.
  • 00:48:30.179 --> 00:48:32.415
  • So often our counseling ministries run ambulance
  • 00:48:32.415 --> 00:48:34.617
  • Services at the bottom of the cliff.
  • 00:48:34.617 --> 00:48:37.687
  • Now there's nothing wrong with either one but isn't it
  • 00:48:37.687 --> 00:48:40.289
  • Much better not to have to use the ambulance service by just
  • 00:48:40.289 --> 00:48:43.292
  • Taking note of the word of god?
  • 00:48:43.292 --> 00:48:44.827
  • And one of the reasons why our culture's
  • 00:48:44.827 --> 00:48:46.696
  • Where it is today is because so many people refuse,
  • 00:48:46.696 --> 00:48:49.265
  • Absolutely refuse, to stand up in their pulpit and say,
  • 00:48:49.265 --> 00:48:51.867
  • "this is wrong.
  • 00:48:51.867 --> 00:48:53.202
  • Don't do this.
  • 00:48:53.202 --> 00:48:54.537
  • This is what god says."
  • 00:48:54.537 --> 00:48:57.306
  • And you don't have to be-- you don't have to be
  • 00:48:57.373 --> 00:48:59.575
  • Mean-spirited about it or mean-spirited
  • 00:48:59.575 --> 00:49:01.644
  • About it or angry.
  • 00:49:01.644 --> 00:49:03.312
  • All you gotta do is just reflect what the word of god says
  • 00:49:03.312 --> 00:49:05.414
  • And the bible will tell you when something's gonna get
  • 00:49:05.414 --> 00:49:07.149
  • You in trouble.
  • 00:49:07.149 --> 00:49:08.484
  • And if you wanna get in trouble, go for it, but get ready to ride
  • 00:49:08.484 --> 00:49:11.153
  • In the ambulance, right?
  • 00:49:11.153 --> 00:49:13.756
  • And the bible will reward your obedience.
  • 00:49:13.823 --> 00:49:16.492
  • It says here: "and in keeping the things of the bible
  • 00:49:16.492 --> 00:49:19.328
  • There is great reward."
  • 00:49:19.328 --> 00:49:21.297
  • I stand here today after 40 years of studying
  • 00:49:21.297 --> 00:49:23.799
  • This book and doing my very best to follow its truth
  • 00:49:23.799 --> 00:49:26.068
  • To tell you it's the most rewarding thing you can ever do.
  • 00:49:26.068 --> 00:49:30.673
  • To know that you're in the will of god, to know that
  • 00:49:30.673 --> 00:49:32.842
  • You're doing what you believe god wants you to do.
  • 00:49:32.842 --> 00:49:35.344
  • I remember when i first started to travel years ago,
  • 00:49:35.344 --> 00:49:38.180
  • And we started our television and radio ministry
  • 00:49:38.180 --> 00:49:40.683
  • And i was traveling, i went through a little period
  • 00:49:40.683 --> 00:49:43.753
  • Of fear because i would get on an airplane
  • 00:49:43.753 --> 00:49:45.354
  • And i wasn't worried so much about me but i had
  • 00:49:45.354 --> 00:49:47.023
  • A young family and i would just go through a little fear
  • 00:49:47.023 --> 00:49:49.425
  • That something might happen and i'd leave my children
  • 00:49:49.425 --> 00:49:51.394
  • Without a father, my wife without a husband.
  • 00:49:51.394 --> 00:49:55.331
  • One day a friend of mine who was a real student
  • 00:49:55.331 --> 00:49:58.000
  • Of the word of god gave me a little saying
  • 00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.869
  • And i put it in my bible and this is what it says:
  • 00:49:59.869 --> 00:50:02.738
  • "god's man in the center of god's will is immortal
  • 00:50:02.738 --> 00:50:07.209
  • Until god is done with him."
  • 00:50:07.209 --> 00:50:09.278
  • Did you ever think about that?
  • 00:50:09.278 --> 00:50:11.313
  • "god's man in the center of god's will is immortal
  • 00:50:11.313 --> 00:50:15.084
  • Until god is done with him."
  • 00:50:15.084 --> 00:50:16.752
  • One of these days god'll be done with me and when he is i'm gone.
  • 00:50:16.752 --> 00:50:20.156
  • But as long as i stay in his will i can live and be useful
  • 00:50:20.156 --> 00:50:24.660
  • And have the joy of the lord in my heart.
  • 00:50:24.660 --> 00:50:28.330
  • You know, i wanna end my little talk with you tonight
  • 00:50:28.330 --> 00:50:33.569
  • With a story.
  • 00:50:33.569 --> 00:50:35.004
  • You all know i love stories 'cause i fill my radio program
  • 00:50:35.004 --> 00:50:38.140
  • And television program up with 'em.
  • 00:50:38.140 --> 00:50:40.042
  • Stories are windows to the soul, don't you know?
  • 00:50:40.042 --> 00:50:43.412
  • There is a man who decided along the way in his life that god
  • 00:50:43.412 --> 00:50:48.350
  • Wanted him to be a missionary.
  • 00:50:48.350 --> 00:50:51.120
  • He was a doctor and a very, very good one, to be exact.
  • 00:50:51.187 --> 00:50:56.926
  • He decided to go to a foreign field where doctors were not
  • 00:50:56.926 --> 00:50:59.662
  • Really ever used and known.
  • 00:50:59.662 --> 00:51:02.364
  • As he went there and gave himself to the ministry,
  • 00:51:02.364 --> 00:51:06.769
  • Trying to help people, he stayed there
  • 00:51:06.769 --> 00:51:10.005
  • For two whole years and he didn't have one single person
  • 00:51:10.005 --> 00:51:12.641
  • He could look to and say, "that person's life was changed
  • 00:51:12.641 --> 00:51:15.444
  • Because i went there."
  • 00:51:15.444 --> 00:51:17.813
  • There just wasn't any evidence.
  • 00:51:17.813 --> 00:51:19.148
  • Doesn't mean they weren't but he didn't know of anybody who was.
  • 00:51:19.148 --> 00:51:22.651
  • If you want to write a tragedy, you might want to write
  • 00:51:22.651 --> 00:51:24.753
  • About his life because his life actually ended when
  • 00:51:24.753 --> 00:51:26.956
  • He was killed in a plane crash attempting to take supplies
  • 00:51:26.956 --> 00:51:30.025
  • To a remote village and you might be tempted to say,
  • 00:51:30.025 --> 00:51:33.229
  • "what in the world is that all about?
  • 00:51:33.229 --> 00:51:34.864
  • What a waste.
  • 00:51:34.864 --> 00:51:36.198
  • He should never have done that."
  • 00:51:36.198 --> 00:51:38.701
  • But in the wreckage of the plane, this is a true story,
  • 00:51:38.701 --> 00:51:42.204
  • The natives discovered a well-marked bible
  • 00:51:42.204 --> 00:51:45.040
  • In their language and they began to read it.
  • 00:51:45.040 --> 00:51:48.310
  • And they told others what they had read and before long
  • 00:51:48.310 --> 00:51:50.446
  • They were reading it together in what we would call churches
  • 00:51:50.446 --> 00:51:54.250
  • Because they began to sprout up all over the place.
  • 00:51:54.250 --> 00:51:57.253
  • From one well-marked copy of the scripture,
  • 00:51:57.253 --> 00:52:00.189
  • Men and women became christians.
  • 00:52:00.189 --> 00:52:03.359
  • Now the southern baptists who had sent missionaries there
  • 00:52:03.359 --> 00:52:05.861
  • Did not know any of this so they put together a plan to send
  • 00:52:05.861 --> 00:52:09.165
  • Some new missionaries to take the place of the missionary who
  • 00:52:09.165 --> 00:52:12.001
  • Was killed in the plane crash.
  • 00:52:12.001 --> 00:52:14.036
  • Took 'em a while to pull it together but they finally
  • 00:52:14.036 --> 00:52:15.804
  • Got the people together and sent them and when they sent
  • 00:52:15.804 --> 00:52:18.307
  • Their first missionary team back into the area, they discovered
  • 00:52:18.307 --> 00:52:21.010
  • That he wasn't needed.
  • 00:52:21.010 --> 00:52:23.412
  • The place had already been fully evangelized,
  • 00:52:23.412 --> 00:52:26.482
  • And people already knew god.
  • 00:52:26.482 --> 00:52:27.917
  • They knew the god from one little fragment of scripture
  • 00:52:27.917 --> 00:52:30.352
  • That had been left in a wreckage of a plane.
  • 00:52:30.352 --> 00:52:36.825
  • When the missionaries asked the people how did this happen,
  • 00:52:36.825 --> 00:52:40.696
  • How has it happened that you all have become christians,
  • 00:52:40.696 --> 00:52:44.200
  • The colombians went and pulled out the bible
  • 00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:46.735
  • That they had found in the wreckage of the plane
  • 00:52:46.735 --> 00:52:48.671
  • And said, "this is what we've been reading
  • 00:52:48.671 --> 00:52:51.006
  • And this has changed our life."
  • 00:52:51.006 --> 00:52:53.943
  • We had a wonderful privilege as a church to help commission
  • 00:52:54.009 --> 00:52:58.047
  • A new bible in a tribe that, before our missionaries went,
  • 00:52:58.047 --> 00:53:02.685
  • Had no bible, did not even have a written language.
  • 00:53:02.685 --> 00:53:06.288
  • Can you believe that?
  • 00:53:06.288 --> 00:53:07.623
  • They didn't have any written language.
  • 00:53:07.623 --> 00:53:08.958
  • The missionary went there and he took their oral words
  • 00:53:08.958 --> 00:53:11.994
  • And he put them down in a way so he basically
  • 00:53:11.994 --> 00:53:15.731
  • Put the language together.
  • 00:53:15.731 --> 00:53:17.633
  • Then he taught them to read by teaching them to read
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  • The new testament.
  • 00:53:20.269 --> 00:53:22.204
  • We dedicated the first full bible for, listen to this,
  • 00:53:22.204 --> 00:53:25.941
  • The yembiyembi tribe in papua new guinea.
  • 00:53:25.941 --> 00:53:29.478
  • They have their own bible and, in the years that that
  • 00:53:29.478 --> 00:53:32.014
  • Missionary has been there, over 60% of the people in
  • 00:53:32.014 --> 00:53:35.551
  • That culture have come to know jesus christ in a personal way.
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  • Using it to help them come to know the one he sent the bible
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  • For us to read about and that's the person of jesus christ.
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