David Jeremiah - A Book That Will Change Your Life

January 26, 2025 | S25:E4

During this special Turning Point event, filmed at Madison Square Garden in New York City, discover how the Bible will change your life.

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - A Book That Will Change Your Life | January 26, 2025
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  • Male announcer: a brighter day and a better year begins
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  • By living in god's light.
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  • Introducing dr. david jeremiah's
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  • Newest 365-day devotional for 2025,
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  • "living in his light."
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  • Dr. jeremiah's inspiring insights and reflections,
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  • Will keep you connected to god's presence
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  • And walking in the brilliance of his love
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  • Day-by-day and all year long.
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  • Yours for a gift of any amount.
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  • Or for a gift of $120 or more,
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  • Receive four copies; perfect for gift giving.
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  • Request "living in his light"
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  • When you contact "turning point" today
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • [audience applauding]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: the bible contains everything we need to know
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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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  • It is the mind of christ between two covers,
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  • Knowledge that enlightens, advice that counsels,
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  • Food that feeds, milk that nourishes,
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  • Honey that sweetens, gold that enriches,
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  • A sword that defends, a hammer that molds us,
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  • And a lamp that guides us.
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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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  • Never-failing, ever-reviving, as old as antiquity,
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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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  • And unique from every book in the history of mankind.
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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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • [audience applauding]
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  • Male announcer: from the theater at madison square garden
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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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  • You'll find these and many more relevant and applicable lessons,
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  • Allowing you to live out the living word.
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  • In appreciation, the first companion volume,
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  • "understanding the 66 books of the bible"
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  • And the "genesis through revelation in 66 scenes" dvd.
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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, my 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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  • ♪ 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 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 to your feet tonight?
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  • ♪ oh ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ water you turned into wine ♪
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  • ♪ you opened the eyes 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 ♪
  • 00:20:13.095 --> 00:20:15.464
  • ♪ then what can stand against ♪
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  • Kari: hallelujah.
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  • C'mon, lift a shout
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  • Of praise tonight,
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  • Hallelujah, hallelujah, give it up.
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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 ♪
  • 00:20:42.824 --> 00:20:45.627
  • ♪ awesome in power ♪
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  • ♪ our god, our god ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:22:26.595 --> 00:22:36.071
  • ♪ i'm finding myself ♪
  • 00:22:36.071 --> 00:22:40.108
  • ♪ at a loss for words ♪
  • 00:22:40.108 --> 00:22:44.045
  • ♪ and the funny thing is ♪
  • 00:22:44.045 --> 00:22:47.182
  • ♪ it's okay ♪
  • 00:22:47.182 --> 00:22:49.918
  • ♪ the last thing i need ♪
  • 00:22:49.918 --> 00:22:53.922
  • ♪ is to be heard but to hear ♪
  • 00:22:53.922 --> 00:23:00.228
  • ♪ what you would say ♪
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  • ♪ word of god speak ♪
  • 00:23:03.098 --> 00:23:06.334
  • ♪ would you pour down like rain ♪
  • 00:23:06.334 --> 00:23:09.905
  • ♪ washing my eyes to see ♪
  • 00:23:09.905 --> 00:23:13.675
  • ♪ your majesty ♪
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  • ♪ to be still and know ♪
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  • ♪ that you're in this place ♪
  • 00:23:19.648 --> 00:23:22.884
  • ♪ and please let me stay 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 ♪
  • 00:23:43.071 --> 00:23:46.842
  • ♪ in the midst of you ♪
  • 00:23:46.842 --> 00:23:50.545
  • ♪ beyond the music ♪
  • 00:23:50.545 --> 00:23:53.715
  • ♪ beyond the noise ♪
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  • ♪ and all that i need ♪
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  • ♪ is to be with you ♪
  • 00:23:59.955 --> 00:24:03.725
  • ♪ and in the quiet ♪
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  • ♪ and hear your voice ♪
  • 00:24:06.728 --> 00:24:09.664
  • ♪ and word of god speak ♪
  • 00:24:09.664 --> 00:24:12.701
  • ♪ would you pour down like rain ♪
  • 00:24:12.701 --> 00:24:16.204
  • ♪ washing my eyes to see ♪
  • 00:24:16.204 --> 00:24:20.308
  • ♪ your majesty ♪
  • 00:24:20.308 --> 00:24:22.811
  • ♪ to be still and know that ♪
  • 00:24:22.811 --> 00:24:26.114
  • ♪ you're in this place ♪
  • 00:24:26.114 --> 00:24:29.084
  • ♪ and please let me stay and rest in your holiness ♪
  • 00:24:29.084 --> 00:24:35.924
  • ♪ and word of god speak ♪
  • 00:24:35.924 --> 00:24:39.227
  • ♪ would you pour down like rain ♪
  • 00:24:39.227 --> 00:24:42.998
  • ♪ washing my eyes to see ♪
  • 00:24:42.998 --> 00:24:46.868
  • ♪ your majesty ♪
  • 00:24:46.868 --> 00:24:49.204
  • ♪ to be still and know ♪
  • 00:24:49.204 --> 00:24:52.607
  • ♪ that you're in this place ♪
  • 00:24:52.607 --> 00:24:55.977
  • ♪ and please let me stay and rest in your holiness ♪
  • 00:24:55.977 --> 00:25:04.586
  • ♪ i'm finding myself ♪
  • 00:25:06.588 --> 00:25:10.058
  • ♪ 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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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:25:30.045 --> 00:25:37.218
  • 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 ♪
  • 00:25:51.600 --> 00:25:55.136
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:26:26.034 --> 00:26:28.803
  • ♪ when i walk by your side ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ what my eyes will see ♪
  • 00:26:37.712 --> 00:26:40.749
  • ♪ when your face is before me ♪
  • 00:26:40.749 --> 00:26:46.421
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:27:02.137 --> 00:27:04.673
  • ♪ will i dance for you ♪
  • 00:27:04.673 --> 00:27:06.574
  • ♪ jesus ♪
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  • ♪ or in awe of you be still ♪
  • 00:27:08.076 --> 00:27:10.645
  • ♪ will i stand ♪
  • 00:27:10.645 --> 00:27:12.047
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:27:19.854 --> 00:27:21.189
  • ♪ at all ♪
  • 00:27:21.189 --> 00:27:22.524
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:27:46.314 --> 00:27:49.751
  • ♪ 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.
  • 00:28:08.770 --> 00:28:11.372
  • ♪ surrounded by your glory ♪
  • 00:28:11.439 --> 00:28:14.042
  • ♪ what will my heart feel ♪
  • 00:28:14.042 --> 00:28:16.711
  • ♪ will i dance for you, jesus ♪
  • 00:28:16.711 --> 00:28:19.814
  • ♪ or in awe of you be still ♪
  • 00:28:19.814 --> 00:28:22.684
  • ♪ will i stand ♪
  • 00:28:22.684 --> 00:28:24.052
  • ♪ in your presence ♪
  • 00:28:24.052 --> 00:28:25.854
  • ♪ or to my knees will i fall ♪
  • 00:28:25.854 --> 00:28:28.823
  • ♪ will i sing hallelujah ♪
  • 00:28:28.823 --> 00:28:31.826
  • ♪ will i be able to speak ♪
  • 00:28:31.826 --> 00:28:33.194
  • ♪ at all ♪
  • 00:28:33.194 --> 00:28:34.529
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:28:47.142 --> 00:28:50.078
  • ♪ what will my heart feel ♪
  • 00:28:50.078 --> 00:28:52.714
  • ♪ will i dance for you ♪
  • 00:28:52.714 --> 00:28:54.516
  • ♪ jesus ♪
  • 00:28:54.516 --> 00:28:56.050
  • ♪ or in awe of you be still ♪
  • 00:28:56.050 --> 00:28:58.753
  • ♪ will i stand ♪
  • 00:28:58.753 --> 00:29:00.155
  • ♪ in your presence ♪
  • 00:29:00.155 --> 00:29:01.923
  • ♪ or to my knees will i fall ♪
  • 00:29:01.923 --> 00:29:04.726
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:29:22.510 --> 00:29:28.016
  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine, oh yeah ♪
  • 00:29:34.422 --> 00:29:39.961
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:29:58.613 --> 00:30:03.685
  • ♪ and i can only imagine ♪♪
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • ♪ because he lives ♪
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  • ♪ i can face tomorrow ♪
  • 00:30:33.648 --> 00:30:39.754
  • ♪ because he lives ♪
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  • ♪ all fear is gone ♪
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  • ♪ and because i know ♪
  • 00:30:51.366 --> 00:30:58.172
  • ♪ he holds the future ♪
  • 00:30:58.172 --> 00:31:04.445
  • ♪ and life is worth ♪
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  • ♪ the living ♪
  • 00:31:08.783 --> 00:31:10.985
  • ♪ just because he lives ♪♪
  • 00:31:10.985 --> 00:31:16.624
  • Bart: we think the greatest sound in all the world
  • 00:31:16.624 --> 00:31:18.426
  • Is when the body of christ lifts up the name of jesus.
  • 00:31:18.426 --> 00:31:21.930
  • 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,
  • 00:31:26.601 --> 00:31:29.270
  • All right?
  • 00:31:29.270 --> 00:31:31.506
  • Some of you are, like, "please let me know the song.
  • 00:31:31.572 --> 00:31:33.107
  • Please let me know the song."
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  • ♪ amazing grace ♪
  • 00:31:35.777 --> 00:31:40.715
  • ♪ how sweet the sound ♪
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  • ♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪
  • 00:31:46.487 --> 00:31:56.764
  • ♪ i once was lost ♪
  • 00:31:56.831 --> 00:32:02.570
  • ♪ 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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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:32:20.088 --> 00:32:30.732
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  • "understanding the 66 books of the bible,"
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  • Helping thousands of bible readers
  • 00:32:34.435 --> 00:32:36.104
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  • Dr. jeremiah: jack macdonald was born in san mateo,
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  • California.
  • 00:34:06.094 --> 00:34:07.495
  • He was a military brat who grew up
  • 00:34:07.495 --> 00:34:10.698
  • All over the united states.
  • 00:34:10.698 --> 00:34:13.634
  • Finished high school in new jersey, attended college
  • 00:34:13.634 --> 00:34:15.870
  • At michigan state where he eventually flunked out.
  • 00:34:15.870 --> 00:34:19.874
  • Ultimately he married and returned to california
  • 00:34:19.874 --> 00:34:22.043
  • Where he became a buyer for macy's department stores.
  • 00:34:22.043 --> 00:34:26.147
  • The pressure of his job was incredible and he responded
  • 00:34:26.147 --> 00:34:30.084
  • To his on-the-job pressure by drinking heavily and making
  • 00:34:30.084 --> 00:34:34.055
  • A series of very bad decisions, which eventually landed him
  • 00:34:34.055 --> 00:34:38.159
  • In jail.
  • 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:39.494
  • In fact, he spent time in jail in five different states.
  • 00:34:39.494 --> 00:34:44.265
  • He became a fugitive.
  • 00:34:44.265 --> 00:34:45.600
  • He changed his name and his life story with each new person
  • 00:34:45.600 --> 00:34:48.769
  • That he met so that the warrants that were out for him
  • 00:34:48.769 --> 00:34:52.607
  • Couldn't be traced to him.
  • 00:34:52.607 --> 00:34:55.143
  • 1980 he went to the phone book and picked a name out of the
  • 00:34:55.143 --> 00:34:58.246
  • Phone book to make it his own.
  • 00:34:58.246 --> 00:34:59.814
  • He decided to call himself jeff andrews because maybe
  • 00:34:59.814 --> 00:35:02.783
  • "a" is the first letter in the alphabet.
  • 00:35:02.783 --> 00:35:06.954
  • From that moment on, that eventually became
  • 00:35:06.954 --> 00:35:09.357
  • His legal name.
  • 00:35:09.357 --> 00:35:11.359
  • But he continued to run and wherever he went he was looking
  • 00:35:11.359 --> 00:35:14.495
  • Over his shoulders and, one day, he just got tired of the whole
  • 00:35:14.495 --> 00:35:19.133
  • Thing and he turned himself in, believe it or not,
  • 00:35:19.133 --> 00:35:24.105
  • And began serving his sentence in danbury, connecticut.
  • 00:35:24.105 --> 00:35:28.276
  • As he tells the story, "some guy named gideon"
  • 00:35:28.276 --> 00:35:32.747
  • Gave him a new testament.
  • 00:35:32.747 --> 00:35:35.283
  • And one night, at 3 o'clock in the morning,
  • 00:35:38.219 --> 00:35:40.621
  • He took that little book to the back of his cell and,
  • 00:35:40.621 --> 00:35:43.624
  • By the light of the full moon, he began to read it.
  • 00:35:43.624 --> 00:35:47.328
  • As he read, something hit him like a thunder bolt
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  • And he knew instantly that this little book was true.
  • 00:35:49.897 --> 00:35:54.101
  • He received jesus christ as his personal savior and,
  • 00:35:54.101 --> 00:35:57.872
  • To make a very long story short, he's now the vice president
  • 00:35:57.872 --> 00:36:01.142
  • Of a computer company where he's worked
  • 00:36:01.142 --> 00:36:02.977
  • For the last 17 years and a part of the ministry
  • 00:36:02.977 --> 00:36:06.247
  • Of charles colson's prison fellowship
  • 00:36:06.247 --> 00:36:08.516
  • For the last 13 years.
  • 00:36:08.516 --> 00:36:11.552
  • There are many stories like that that i could have told you.
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  • The bible's always been a difference maker,
  • 00:36:16.357 --> 00:36:19.160
  • Making bad people good and good people better.
  • 00:36:19.160 --> 00:36:22.863
  • 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
  • 00:36:31.706 --> 00:36:35.209
  • 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.
  • 00:36:45.152 --> 00:36:47.989
  • C.s. lewis believed that this psalm was
  • 00:36:47.989 --> 00:36:50.324
  • The greatest poem in the psalms and one of the greatest lyrics
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  • In all of the world.
  • 00:36:53.227 --> 00:36:55.396
  • Now, the hebrew poets were different than our poets today.
  • 00:36:55.396 --> 00:36:58.499
  • They knew how to arrange their message so that
  • 00:36:58.499 --> 00:37:01.002
  • It was set in exquisite color.
  • 00:37:01.002 --> 00:37:03.938
  • And through the use of comparison and contrast,
  • 00:37:03.938 --> 00:37:06.841
  • They brought truth forward so that the message
  • 00:37:06.841 --> 00:37:09.243
  • Was actually enhanced by the structure
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  • That was given to it.
  • 00:37:12.013 --> 00:37:14.615
  • 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.
  • 00:37:27.361 --> 00:37:28.696
  • They're exactly the way they are in the bible.
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  • The law of the lord is perfect converting the soul.
  • 00:37:31.866 --> 00:37:35.169
  • The testimony of the lord is sure, making wise the simple.
  • 00:37:35.169 --> 00:37:39.640
  • The statutes of the lord are right, rejoicing the heart:
  • 00:37:39.640 --> 00:37:42.843
  • 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."
  • 00:37:54.955 --> 00:37:57.124
  • Now, the hebrew poets would tell you, "read this psalm
  • 00:37:57.124 --> 00:38:00.127
  • 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,
  • 00:38:05.966 --> 00:38:09.670
  • Here are some synonyms he created for it.
  • 00:38:09.670 --> 00:38:12.640
  • 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.
  • 00:38:18.612 --> 00:38:20.448
  • 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.
  • 00:38:29.957 --> 00:38:34.095
  • Judgments and statutes and laws, these are things we obey.
  • 00:38:34.095 --> 00:38:41.001
  • In the second column, the psalmist adds adjectives
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  • For the bible.
  • 00:38:43.671 --> 00:38:45.005
  • 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,
  • 00:38:48.709 --> 00:38:53.280
  • And it is true and righteous.
  • 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.316
  • But it is not until you get to the final column that you
  • 00:38:56.717 --> 00:38:58.719
  • Understand what the psalmist really wanted us to take away
  • 00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:01.922
  • From psalm 19:7 through 11.
  • 00:39:01.922 --> 00:39:05.259
  • He wants us to know what the bible will do for us.
  • 00:39:05.259 --> 00:39:08.562
  • And more than anything else, this is why i've been involved
  • 00:39:08.562 --> 00:39:11.332
  • In this project over these years, because i so believe
  • 00:39:11.332 --> 00:39:14.468
  • In the power of the bible to change lives.
  • 00:39:14.468 --> 00:39:19.173
  • Here in this text, we are told a number of things about
  • 00:39:19.173 --> 00:39:21.308
  • The bible and what it will do.
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  • First of all, it will restore your soul.
  • 00:39:23.411 --> 00:39:26.180
  • Converting the soul, it says.
  • 00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:28.883
  • The bible is god's agent of salvation.
  • 00:39:28.883 --> 00:39:32.086
  • Did you know that you cannot become a christian
  • 00:39:32.086 --> 00:39:33.687
  • Without the bible?
  • 00:39:33.687 --> 00:39:35.022
  • You say, "well, i know somebody that didn't even have a bible
  • 00:39:35.022 --> 00:39:36.991
  • And they became a christian."
  • 00:39:36.991 --> 00:39:38.325
  • Well, if they became a christian,
  • 00:39:38.325 --> 00:39:39.727
  • It was because of something that came out of the bible.
  • 00:39:39.727 --> 00:39:43.264
  • Because you cannot become a christian without the bible.
  • 00:39:43.264 --> 00:39:45.199
  • We would not know how to know god without the bible.
  • 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.568
  • We can know god exists through his creation but we cannot know
  • 00:39:47.568 --> 00:39:51.472
  • How to know god unless god reveals himself to us and in
  • 00:39:51.472 --> 00:39:54.975
  • The bible he has done just that.
  • 00:39:54.975 --> 00:39:57.578
  • He has given to us everything that we need to know to become
  • 00:39:57.578 --> 00:40:01.415
  • A christian.
  • 00:40:01.415 --> 00:40:02.917
  • This book is god's agent of salvation.
  • 00:40:02.917 --> 00:40:06.454
  • And the message of christianity can only be found in one place.
  • 00:40:06.454 --> 00:40:10.024
  • It's not in a history book.
  • 00:40:10.024 --> 00:40:11.358
  • It's in god's book.
  • 00:40:11.358 --> 00:40:13.727
  • Peter says it this way: "we are born again through
  • 00:40:13.727 --> 00:40:17.164
  • The word of god which lives and abides forever."
  • 00:40:17.164 --> 00:40:21.302
  • And the bible also renews your mind.
  • 00:40:21.302 --> 00:40:24.738
  • "the testimony of the lord is sure," said the psalmist,
  • 00:40:24.738 --> 00:40:26.707
  • "making wise the simple."
  • 00:40:26.707 --> 00:40:29.810
  • The bible will give you practical guidance that you need
  • 00:40:29.877 --> 00:40:32.980
  • To know how to do life.
  • 00:40:32.980 --> 00:40:35.049
  • So many times, i have read the word of god and found myself
  • 00:40:35.049 --> 00:40:37.718
  • Thinking, "oh, man, i better not do that,"
  • 00:40:37.718 --> 00:40:41.789
  • Or "i better do this a different way."
  • 00:40:41.789 --> 00:40:44.859
  • The bible is god's wisdom to us, wisdom to help us to know
  • 00:40:44.859 --> 00:40:49.196
  • How to do life.
  • 00:40:49.196 --> 00:40:51.332
  • And the bible is god's owner's manual.
  • 00:40:51.332 --> 00:40:54.034
  • I don't wanna go too far down that road because i know
  • 00:40:54.034 --> 00:40:56.303
  • How most of us treat those owner's manuals.
  • 00:40:56.303 --> 00:40:59.673
  • But let me suggest to you that you should read the bible
  • 00:40:59.673 --> 00:41:02.309
  • Because if you don't, you will wish you had.
  • 00:41:02.309 --> 00:41:06.514
  • The bible, the psalmist says, "will rejoice your heart."
  • 00:41:06.514 --> 00:41:09.416
  • That's right out of the text.
  • 00:41:09.416 --> 00:41:11.352
  • "the statutes of the lord are right, rejoicing the heart,"
  • 00:41:11.352 --> 00:41:14.088
  • Psalm 19.
  • 00:41:14.088 --> 00:41:16.323
  • Did you know that the bible is one of god's best ways
  • 00:41:16.323 --> 00:41:18.526
  • To lift your spirit?
  • 00:41:18.526 --> 00:41:20.528
  • When you're down, when you're troubled,
  • 00:41:20.528 --> 00:41:22.029
  • Where do you go?
  • 00:41:22.029 --> 00:41:23.364
  • I always tell people, "you won't find
  • 00:41:23.364 --> 00:41:24.698
  • A lot of help in leviticus, but go to the psalms.
  • 00:41:24.698 --> 00:41:27.368
  • Go to the psalms and there you will find truth that
  • 00:41:27.368 --> 00:41:29.870
  • Will just lift your spirit."
  • 00:41:29.870 --> 00:41:31.906
  • One day an australian woman named darlene zschech
  • 00:41:31.906 --> 00:41:34.742
  • Was battling depression.
  • 00:41:34.742 --> 00:41:36.544
  • It was back in 1993 to be exact and her burdens
  • 00:41:36.544 --> 00:41:39.179
  • Were just overwhelming.
  • 00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:40.948
  • There seemed no solution for her problems.
  • 00:41:40.948 --> 00:41:43.250
  • But her family was a christian family
  • 00:41:43.250 --> 00:41:45.252
  • And darlene had begun to learn the power of the bible.
  • 00:41:45.252 --> 00:41:47.955
  • So that day, she reached for her bible and,
  • 00:41:47.955 --> 00:41:50.591
  • As she poured over psalm 96, the lord used his word
  • 00:41:50.591 --> 00:41:54.161
  • To meet her needs.
  • 00:41:54.161 --> 00:41:56.163
  • Nearby her at the time was an old piano that her parents
  • 00:41:56.163 --> 00:41:59.433
  • Had given to her when she was five years old.
  • 00:41:59.433 --> 00:42:02.836
  • Going over to the piano, she began to improvise a song
  • 00:42:02.836 --> 00:42:05.339
  • Based on psalm 96 and, as she praised the lord,
  • 00:42:05.339 --> 00:42:09.176
  • Her depression began to lift and her faith and her joy
  • 00:42:09.176 --> 00:42:12.146
  • In the lord returned.
  • 00:42:12.146 --> 00:42:14.415
  • Little did she know that the song she wrote would become
  • 00:42:14.415 --> 00:42:17.117
  • One of the most popular praise and worship songs of all time.
  • 00:42:17.117 --> 00:42:20.988
  • We sing it in all of our churches these days.
  • 00:42:20.988 --> 00:42:23.290
  • It's called, "shout to the lord,"
  • 00:42:23.290 --> 00:42:25.526
  • And when we sing that song, we need to remember that
  • 00:42:25.526 --> 00:42:28.195
  • It was written by someone who was depressed
  • 00:42:28.195 --> 00:42:30.531
  • Until they read the psalms.
  • 00:42:30.531 --> 00:42:32.700
  • When you read the word of god, it will lift your spirit.
  • 00:42:32.700 --> 00:42:35.035
  • That's what david says.
  • 00:42:35.035 --> 00:42:37.037
  • And it will also refocus your vision.
  • 00:42:37.037 --> 00:42:38.806
  • Notice verse 8.
  • 00:42:38.806 --> 00:42:40.140
  • He says, "the commandment of the lord is pure,
  • 00:42:40.140 --> 00:42:42.576
  • Enlightening your eyes."
  • 00:42:42.576 --> 00:42:45.279
  • God's word gives us clarity of vision.
  • 00:42:45.346 --> 00:42:47.748
  • Is there anything we need more in this life today than to be
  • 00:42:47.748 --> 00:42:50.184
  • Able to see things as they are?
  • 00:42:50.184 --> 00:42:52.786
  • If you see things as they are, you can stay
  • 00:42:52.786 --> 00:42:55.155
  • Out of a lot of trouble.
  • 00:42:55.155 --> 00:42:56.490
  • I heard a sportscaster this week that i listen to sometimes
  • 00:42:56.490 --> 00:42:58.826
  • On the radio talking about a guy and he said about this guy
  • 00:42:58.826 --> 00:43:01.829
  • That he was the president of the state of denial.
  • 00:43:01.829 --> 00:43:06.800
  • And i know a lot of people that live in that state who are
  • 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:08.669
  • Citizens of the state of denial.
  • 00:43:08.669 --> 00:43:10.337
  • Don't you?
  • 00:43:10.337 --> 00:43:11.672
  • But you can't live in the state of denial if you read the bible.
  • 00:43:11.672 --> 00:43:14.341
  • The bible will bring you up short.
  • 00:43:14.341 --> 00:43:16.243
  • It will help you to see yourself as you really are
  • 00:43:16.243 --> 00:43:18.012
  • And it will refocus your vision.
  • 00:43:18.012 --> 00:43:20.014
  • And it will reinforce your life.
  • 00:43:20.014 --> 00:43:21.849
  • Notice: "the fear of the lord is clean,
  • 00:43:21.849 --> 00:43:24.018
  • Enduring forever."
  • 00:43:24.018 --> 00:43:26.053
  • Forever.
  • 00:43:27.021 --> 00:43:28.355
  • Something that lasts.
  • 00:43:28.355 --> 00:43:29.690
  • What do you know about that?
  • 00:43:29.690 --> 00:43:32.126
  • The bible is forever, it doesn't change,
  • 00:43:32.192 --> 00:43:34.495
  • It will never fail, it won't let you down.
  • 00:43:34.495 --> 00:43:37.164
  • It is never out of date.
  • 00:43:37.164 --> 00:43:41.201
  • You can count on it to be there when you need it.
  • 00:43:41.201 --> 00:43:43.804
  • It endures forever.
  • 00:43:43.804 --> 00:43:45.139
  • The psalmist says in psalm 119: "forever, o lord,
  • 00:43:45.139 --> 00:43:48.642
  • Your word is settled in heaven."
  • 00:43:48.642 --> 00:43:51.679
  • I was watching cnn one night and some personalities
  • 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.683
  • Were interviewing a preacher.
  • 00:43:55.683 --> 00:43:57.918
  • 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,
  • 00:43:59.887 --> 00:44:02.456
  • But this guy was brave and he decided to do it.
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  • And during the interview, the interviewer said
  • 00:44:06.226 --> 00:44:08.762
  • To the preacher and i quote, "when are you christians
  • 00:44:08.762 --> 00:44:11.965
  • Gonna drag your bible into the 21st century?"
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  • End of quote.
  • 00:44:16.336 --> 00:44:18.038
  • Now i knew immediately that the interviewer
  • 00:44:18.038 --> 00:44:19.807
  • 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
  • 00:44:23.410 --> 00:44:26.180
  • 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.
  • 00:44:39.893 --> 00:44:41.361
  • 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]
  • 00:44:45.432 --> 00:44:49.269
  • And then the psalmist said that the bible will replace
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  • Your doubts, "the judgment of the lord
  • 00:44:51.638 --> 00:44:53.741
  • Is true and righteous altogether."
  • 00:44:53.741 --> 00:44:57.010
  • 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.
  • 00:45:00.114 --> 00:45:02.149
  • Sometimes you think you know something's true
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  • And you find out it's not.
  • 00:45:04.084 --> 00:45:05.886
  • But every part of god's word, all of it, from the beginning
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  • To the end, is true.
  • 00:45:08.222 --> 00:45:09.757
  • And i make that statement as a man
  • 00:45:09.757 --> 00:45:11.892
  • Who has watched in history as minds far more brilliant
  • 00:45:11.892 --> 00:45:14.862
  • Than mine would ever be, who have tried
  • 00:45:14.862 --> 00:45:17.297
  • To destroy the bible, saying it is full
  • 00:45:17.297 --> 00:45:19.566
  • Of contradictions and it doesn't have any integrity.
  • 00:45:19.566 --> 00:45:23.070
  • It seems like every time they set out to destroy the bible,
  • 00:45:23.070 --> 00:45:25.305
  • They end up becoming followers of christ because they examine
  • 00:45:25.305 --> 00:45:28.942
  • The evidence and they find out the evidence is worthy.
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  • When you read the bible, you can have the confidence
  • 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:34.615
  • That it has withstood centuries of attempts to discredit it.
  • 00:45:34.615 --> 00:45:37.484
  • People still read it.
  • 00:45:37.484 --> 00:45:39.386
  • Why do they read-- if a book is no longer relevant,
  • 00:45:39.386 --> 00:45:41.421
  • Why would you read it?
  • 00:45:41.421 --> 00:45:43.423
  • But it is relevant and we know it's relevant.
  • 00:45:43.423 --> 00:45:45.159
  • And you know, i've often said that the bible is
  • 00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:47.027
  • A self-authenticating book.
  • 00:45:47.027 --> 00:45:49.263
  • That means you don't have to have anything else
  • 00:45:49.263 --> 00:45:50.864
  • To tell you that it's true.
  • 00:45:50.864 --> 00:45:52.199
  • Just in the reading of it, something witnesses
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  • In your heart that says, "wow, this is different.
  • 00:45:54.468 --> 00:45:58.438
  • This is true.
  • 00:45:58.438 --> 00:45:59.940
  • This must be a god book."
  • 00:45:59.940 --> 00:46:02.442
  • And the bible will reorder your values.
  • 00:46:02.442 --> 00:46:04.311
  • Notice verse 10: "more to be desired are they than gold,
  • 00:46:04.311 --> 00:46:07.815
  • Yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey
  • 00:46:07.815 --> 00:46:10.884
  • And the honeycomb."
  • 00:46:10.884 --> 00:46:12.920
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:46:14.655 --> 00:46:15.989
  • It means the bible's far more value than we give credit
  • 00:46:15.989 --> 00:46:17.591
  • For it to be.
  • 00:46:17.591 --> 00:46:18.926
  • One of my friends and a pastor who's retired from the church
  • 00:46:18.926 --> 00:46:23.230
  • Now, but continues to write, is a man by the name
  • 00:46:23.230 --> 00:46:25.299
  • Of john piper, and he made the following comments
  • 00:46:25.299 --> 00:46:27.868
  • About this particular verse.
  • 00:46:27.868 --> 00:46:29.369
  • He said, "if you have a choice between the word of god
  • 00:46:29.369 --> 00:46:32.072
  • And gold, choose the word of god.
  • 00:46:32.072 --> 00:46:35.542
  • If you have a choice between the word of god and much gold,
  • 00:46:35.542 --> 00:46:38.212
  • Choose the word of god.
  • 00:46:38.212 --> 00:46:40.214
  • And if you have a choice between the word of god
  • 00:46:40.214 --> 00:46:41.782
  • And much fine gold, choose the word of god.
  • 00:46:41.782 --> 00:46:44.852
  • The point is plain.
  • 00:46:44.852 --> 00:46:46.186
  • The benefits of knowing and doing the word of god
  • 00:46:46.186 --> 00:46:48.021
  • Are greater than all that money can buy.
  • 00:46:48.021 --> 00:46:51.425
  • If you're tempted," he went on to say this
  • 00:46:51.425 --> 00:46:54.127
  • And this is a pretty bold thing for him to say.
  • 00:46:54.127 --> 00:46:56.897
  • He said, "if you're tempted to read the stock page before you
  • 00:46:56.897 --> 00:46:58.899
  • Read the bible in the morning, remind yourself that this is not
  • 00:46:58.899 --> 00:47:01.735
  • Very shrewd behavior.
  • 00:47:01.735 --> 00:47:04.137
  • It's like the child who chooses the penny over the dime
  • 00:47:04.137 --> 00:47:06.540
  • Because it's bigger.
  • 00:47:06.540 --> 00:47:09.710
  • Adults look on and shake their heads and try to teach children
  • 00:47:09.710 --> 00:47:11.912
  • How to see what is really more valuable.
  • 00:47:11.912 --> 00:47:14.281
  • There is no doubt the way the angels in heaven look down
  • 00:47:14.281 --> 00:47:16.717
  • At childish businessmen who study the stock page
  • 00:47:16.717 --> 00:47:19.720
  • Before they study the bible.
  • 00:47:19.720 --> 00:47:21.788
  • There's a difference, however, in that the benefits
  • 00:47:21.788 --> 00:47:24.591
  • Of the word of god over the benefits of gold
  • 00:47:24.591 --> 00:47:27.227
  • Are greater than 10 to 1, and that doesn't mean
  • 00:47:27.227 --> 00:47:30.898
  • You shouldn't study the stock page
  • 00:47:30.898 --> 00:47:32.633
  • And learn all you can about the financial world.
  • 00:47:32.633 --> 00:47:34.835
  • But when you mix in the truth of god's word,
  • 00:47:34.835 --> 00:47:37.170
  • It takes it to an entirely different level,"
  • 00:47:37.170 --> 00:47:39.740
  • And i know so many people have told me that
  • 00:47:39.740 --> 00:47:42.075
  • From their own experience.
  • 00:47:42.075 --> 00:47:44.745
  • And then the bible will redirect your path:
  • 00:47:44.745 --> 00:47:47.247
  • "moreover by them your servant is warned."
  • 00:47:47.247 --> 00:47:49.750
  • Did you know the bible is full of warnings?
  • 00:47:49.750 --> 00:47:51.752
  • And that's why some people don't like to read it because it
  • 00:47:51.752 --> 00:47:53.487
  • Tells them not to do something that they wanna do.
  • 00:47:53.487 --> 00:47:56.757
  • But you know, if you really think this through,
  • 00:47:56.757 --> 00:47:58.825
  • Warnings are great value to us.
  • 00:47:58.825 --> 00:48:02.429
  • Warnings keep us out of trouble.
  • 00:48:02.429 --> 00:48:05.866
  • Warnings protect us from danger.
  • 00:48:05.866 --> 00:48:08.969
  • We used to have a discussion among our pastors
  • 00:48:08.969 --> 00:48:11.638
  • Some years back about what we do in preaching as opposed
  • 00:48:11.638 --> 00:48:16.243
  • To what we do in counseling and we came up
  • 00:48:16.243 --> 00:48:18.745
  • With this little image that maybe helps us.
  • 00:48:18.745 --> 00:48:21.281
  • The preacher of the word of god in today's world takes
  • 00:48:21.281 --> 00:48:23.850
  • The scripture and opens it up and he puts signs of warning
  • 00:48:23.850 --> 00:48:26.653
  • Down in the sand to tell people don't go this way.
  • 00:48:26.653 --> 00:48:29.289
  • You're going over the cliff.
  • 00:48:29.289 --> 00:48:31.525
  • So often our counseling ministries run ambulance
  • 00:48:31.525 --> 00:48:33.727
  • Services at the bottom of the cliff.
  • 00:48:33.727 --> 00:48:36.797
  • Now there's nothing wrong with either one but isn't it
  • 00:48:36.797 --> 00:48:39.399
  • Much better not to have to use the ambulance service by just
  • 00:48:39.399 --> 00:48:42.402
  • Taking note of the word of god?
  • 00:48:42.402 --> 00:48:43.937
  • And one of the reasons why our culture's
  • 00:48:43.937 --> 00:48:45.806
  • Where it is today is because so many people refuse,
  • 00:48:45.806 --> 00:48:48.375
  • Absolutely refuse, to stand up in their pulpit and say,
  • 00:48:48.375 --> 00:48:50.978
  • "this is wrong.
  • 00:48:50.978 --> 00:48:52.312
  • Don't do this.
  • 00:48:52.312 --> 00:48:53.647
  • This is what god says."
  • 00:48:53.647 --> 00:48:56.416
  • And you don't have to be-- you don't have to be
  • 00:48:56.483 --> 00:48:58.685
  • Mean-spirited about it or mean-spirited
  • 00:48:58.685 --> 00:49:00.754
  • About it or angry.
  • 00:49:00.754 --> 00:49:02.422
  • All you gotta do is just reflect what the word of god says
  • 00:49:02.422 --> 00:49:04.524
  • And the bible will tell you when something's gonna get
  • 00:49:04.524 --> 00:49:06.259
  • You in trouble.
  • 00:49:06.259 --> 00:49:07.594
  • And if you wanna get in trouble, go for it, but get ready to ride
  • 00:49:07.594 --> 00:49:10.263
  • In the ambulance, right?
  • 00:49:10.263 --> 00:49:12.933
  • And the bible will reward your obedience.
  • 00:49:12.933 --> 00:49:15.602
  • It says here: "and in keeping the things of the bible
  • 00:49:15.602 --> 00:49:18.438
  • There is great reward."
  • 00:49:18.438 --> 00:49:20.407
  • I stand here today after 40 years of studying
  • 00:49:20.407 --> 00:49:22.909
  • This book and doing my very best to follow its truth
  • 00:49:22.909 --> 00:49:25.178
  • To tell you it's the most rewarding thing you can ever do.
  • 00:49:25.178 --> 00:49:29.783
  • To know that you're in the will of god, to know that
  • 00:49:29.783 --> 00:49:31.952
  • You're doing what you believe god wants you to do.
  • 00:49:31.952 --> 00:49:34.454
  • I remember when i first started to travel years ago,
  • 00:49:34.454 --> 00:49:37.290
  • And we started our television and radio ministry
  • 00:49:37.290 --> 00:49:39.793
  • And i was traveling, i went through a little period
  • 00:49:39.793 --> 00:49:42.863
  • Of fear because i would get on an airplane
  • 00:49:42.863 --> 00:49:44.464
  • And i wasn't worried so much about me but i had
  • 00:49:44.464 --> 00:49:46.133
  • A young family and i would just go through a little fear
  • 00:49:46.133 --> 00:49:48.535
  • That something might happen and i'd leave my children
  • 00:49:48.535 --> 00:49:50.504
  • Without a father, my wife without a husband.
  • 00:49:50.504 --> 00:49:54.441
  • One day a friend of mine who was a real student
  • 00:49:54.441 --> 00:49:57.110
  • Of the word of god gave me a little saying
  • 00:49:57.110 --> 00:49:58.979
  • And i put it in my bible and this is what it says:
  • 00:49:58.979 --> 00:50:01.848
  • "god's man in the center of god's will is immortal
  • 00:50:01.848 --> 00:50:06.319
  • Until god is done with him."
  • 00:50:06.319 --> 00:50:08.388
  • Did you ever think about that?
  • 00:50:08.388 --> 00:50:10.424
  • "god's man in the center of god's will is immortal
  • 00:50:10.424 --> 00:50:14.194
  • Until god is done with him."
  • 00:50:14.194 --> 00:50:15.862
  • One of these days god'll be done with me and when he is i'm gone.
  • 00:50:15.862 --> 00:50:19.266
  • But as long as i stay in his will i can live and be useful
  • 00:50:19.266 --> 00:50:23.770
  • And have the joy of the lord in my heart.
  • 00:50:23.770 --> 00:50:27.441
  • You know, i wanna end my little talk with you tonight
  • 00:50:27.441 --> 00:50:32.679
  • With a story.
  • 00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:34.114
  • You all know i love stories 'cause i fill my radio program
  • 00:50:34.114 --> 00:50:37.250
  • And television program up with 'em.
  • 00:50:37.250 --> 00:50:39.152
  • Stories are windows to the soul, don't you know?
  • 00:50:39.152 --> 00:50:42.522
  • There is a man who decided along the way in his life that god
  • 00:50:42.522 --> 00:50:47.461
  • Wanted him to be a missionary.
  • 00:50:47.461 --> 00:50:50.230
  • He was a doctor and a very, very good one, to be exact.
  • 00:50:50.297 --> 00:50:56.036
  • He decided to go to a foreign field where doctors were not
  • 00:50:56.036 --> 00:50:58.772
  • Really ever used and known.
  • 00:50:58.772 --> 00:51:01.475
  • As he went there and gave himself to the ministry,
  • 00:51:01.475 --> 00:51:05.879
  • Trying to help people, he stayed there
  • 00:51:05.879 --> 00:51:09.116
  • For two whole years and he didn't have one single person
  • 00:51:09.116 --> 00:51:11.751
  • He could look to and say, "that person's life was changed
  • 00:51:11.751 --> 00:51:14.554
  • Because i went there."
  • 00:51:14.554 --> 00:51:16.923
  • There just wasn't any evidence.
  • 00:51:16.923 --> 00:51:18.258
  • Doesn't mean they weren't but he didn't know of anybody who was.
  • 00:51:18.258 --> 00:51:21.761
  • If you want to write a tragedy, you might want to write
  • 00:51:21.761 --> 00:51:23.864
  • About his life because his life actually ended when
  • 00:51:23.864 --> 00:51:26.066
  • He was killed in a plane crash attempting to take supplies
  • 00:51:26.066 --> 00:51:29.136
  • To a remote village and you might be tempted to say,
  • 00:51:29.136 --> 00:51:32.339
  • "what in the world is that all about?
  • 00:51:32.339 --> 00:51:33.974
  • What a waste.
  • 00:51:33.974 --> 00:51:35.308
  • He should never have done that."
  • 00:51:35.308 --> 00:51:37.811
  • But in the wreckage of the plane, this is a true story,
  • 00:51:37.811 --> 00:51:41.314
  • The natives discovered a well-marked bible
  • 00:51:41.314 --> 00:51:44.151
  • In their language and they began to read it.
  • 00:51:44.151 --> 00:51:47.420
  • And they told others what they had read and before long
  • 00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:49.556
  • They were reading it together in what we would call churches
  • 00:51:49.556 --> 00:51:53.360
  • Because they began to sprout up all over the place.
  • 00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:56.363
  • From one well-marked copy of the scripture,
  • 00:51:56.363 --> 00:51:59.299
  • Men and women became christians.
  • 00:51:59.299 --> 00:52:02.469
  • Now the southern baptists who had sent missionaries there
  • 00:52:02.469 --> 00:52:04.971
  • Did not know any of this so they put together a plan to send
  • 00:52:04.971 --> 00:52:08.275
  • Some new missionaries to take the place of the missionary who
  • 00:52:08.275 --> 00:52:11.111
  • Was killed in the plane crash.
  • 00:52:11.111 --> 00:52:13.146
  • Took 'em a while to pull it together but they finally
  • 00:52:13.146 --> 00:52:14.915
  • Got the people together and sent them and when they sent
  • 00:52:14.915 --> 00:52:17.417
  • Their first missionary team back into the area, they discovered
  • 00:52:17.417 --> 00:52:20.120
  • That he wasn't needed.
  • 00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:22.522
  • The place had already been fully evangelized,
  • 00:52:22.522 --> 00:52:25.592
  • And people already knew god.
  • 00:52:25.592 --> 00:52:27.027
  • They knew the god from one little fragment of scripture
  • 00:52:27.027 --> 00:52:29.462
  • That had been left in a wreckage of a plane.
  • 00:52:29.462 --> 00:52:35.936
  • When the missionaries asked the people how did this happen,
  • 00:52:35.936 --> 00:52:39.806
  • How has it happened that you all have become christians,
  • 00:52:39.806 --> 00:52:43.310
  • The colombians went and pulled out the bible
  • 00:52:43.310 --> 00:52:45.845
  • That they had found in the wreckage of the plane
  • 00:52:45.845 --> 00:52:47.781
  • And said, "this is what we've been reading
  • 00:52:47.781 --> 00:52:50.116
  • And this has changed our life."
  • 00:52:50.116 --> 00:52:53.053
  • We had a wonderful privilege as a church to help commission
  • 00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:57.157
  • A new bible in a tribe that, before our missionaries went,
  • 00:52:57.157 --> 00:53:01.795
  • Had no bible, did not even have a written language.
  • 00:53:01.795 --> 00:53:05.398
  • Can you believe that?
  • 00:53:05.398 --> 00:53:06.733
  • They didn't have any written language.
  • 00:53:06.733 --> 00:53:08.068
  • The missionary went there and he took their oral words
  • 00:53:08.068 --> 00:53:11.104
  • And he put them down in a way so he basically
  • 00:53:11.104 --> 00:53:14.841
  • Put the language together.
  • 00:53:14.841 --> 00:53:16.743
  • Then he taught them to read by teaching them to read
  • 00:53:16.743 --> 00:53:19.379
  • The new testament.
  • 00:53:19.379 --> 00:53:21.314
  • We dedicated the first full bible for, listen to this,
  • 00:53:21.314 --> 00:53:25.051
  • The yembiyembi tribe in papua new guinea.
  • 00:53:25.051 --> 00:53:28.588
  • They have their own bible and, in the years that that
  • 00:53:28.588 --> 00:53:31.124
  • Missionary has been there, over 60% of the people in
  • 00:53:31.124 --> 00:53:34.661
  • That culture have come to know jesus christ in a personal way.
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