Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AA
Program Code: AA000001
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00:05 In a world surrounded by darkness.
00:08 There is a voice that whispers to every young heart. 00:13 Urging them to find The Treasure of Truth. 00:23 Those who follow the path will discover eternal 00:25 riches beyond their wildest dreams. 00:28 Join us now for an Amazing Adventure, 00:31 a Journey for Life with Jesus. 00:37 Good evening friends, welcome to Amazing Adventure, 00:40 a Journey for Life with Jesus. My name is Jean Ross, 00:43 I will be your host for this Bible study experience. 00:47 I would like to welcome all of those who are 00:49 watching around the country and around the world. 00:52 We have people watching as far away as Australia, 00:54 South Africa, India, all over the world. 00:58 And we want to welcome all of you to this very 01:00 special program. We're coming to you live from 01:03 Richardson, Texas. And I'd like to welcome our local 01:06 audience here as well. All of the children that have 01:09 joined us here. And you can notice they're all 01:11 wearing some very nice T-shirt, T-shirts that 01:14 say Amazing Adventure. For those of you who are 01:18 watching, if you would like to get a T-shirt 01:20 for your site. I'd encouraged you to go to the 01:22 amazingfactskids website, amazingfactskids.org. 01:28 We also have some very exciting lessons that go 01:32 along with the presentations from night-to-night. 01:34 This evening's study is entitled, The Treasure Map. 01:38 And there is a lesson that goes along with this 01:40 presentation. For those of you who are watching 01:43 you can get more information on the study 01:45 material at the amazingfactskids website. 01:49 And we're gonna hand this out at the end of the 01:50 program, you can go home, fill in the answers 01:53 bring back the answers, and at the end of the 01:55 program you will receive one of these beautiful 01:59 children's Bible. And those of you who are watching, 02:02 if you would like more information about these 02:04 children Bibles, put together by Review & Herald, 02:07 then to go the amazingfactskids website, 02:09 and you will be able to get more 02:10 information on that as well. 02:12 Well, friends we believe in prayer, 02:14 and here at our local site in Texas, 02:17 we're gonna be praying, there is somebody 02:19 who wants to come to this program, 02:21 but he is not invited, his name is Ike. 02:24 Well, Ike's not a real person, he's actually a 02:27 hurricane. We have a hurricane that's bringing 02:30 the Gulf, making its way towards the coast 02:33 and probably tomorrow we'll begin to feel the winds 02:37 and the rain from the hurricane Ike. 02:39 Those of you who are watching, 02:40 please pray for us, we're praying that they won't 02:42 be power outage. So that we'll be able to do 02:45 tomorrow's program. We also would like to at this 02:48 time invite our singers to come forward; 02:51 we have a special theme song that we'll be 02:54 singing throughout the program, 02:55 The Amazing Adventures singers 02:57 will lead us in our theme song. 03:02 Please stand, and lets sing. 03:06 Life is an adventure Following the King 03:10 Everyday with Jesus Makes us want to sing 03:15 Walking in the spirit He will lead the way 03:20 With His word to guide us Glowing deep inside us 03:25 Nothing can divide us Following the King. 03:31 Life is an adventure Following the King 03:35 Everyday with Jesus Makes us want to sing 03:40 Conquering with kindness Everywhere we go 03:45 Voices we are raising Jesus we are praising 03:50 Life is so amazing Following the King 03:55 Life is so amazing Following the King 04:02 Now, some of you are hearing this for the 04:04 first time. Now, if you want to learn a new song, 04:07 you've got to sing it a couple of times and since 04:09 this is short. Why don't we do that one 04:10 more time would that be okay Kelly? 04:17 Life is an adventure Following the King 04:22 Everyday with Jesus Makes us want to sing 04:26 Walking in the spirit He will lead the way 04:32 With His word to guide us Glowing deep inside us 04:36 Nothing can divide us Following the King. 04:42 Life is an adventure Following the King 04:47 Everyday with Jesus Makes us want to sing 04:52 Conquering with kindness Everywhere we go 04:57 Voices we are raising Jesus we are praising 05:02 Life is so amazing Following the King 05:07 Life is so amazing Following the King 05:14 Please remain standing, as we have our scripture 05:16 reading this evening, if you look in front of you, 05:18 you will see a Bible in the pew. You can take out 05:21 that Bible and turned to Psalm 119, verse 105. 05:26 And Manasseh Emanuel will be reading 05:28 our scripture reading for us tonight. 05:32 "Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a 05:34 light unto, and a light unto my path." 05:37 Read that one more time for us. 05:38 "Your word is a lamp unto my feet 05:40 and a light unto my path." Thank you, very much. 05:43 I'm gonna ask you to bow your heads for 05:45 prayer as, Ashera brings us our prayer. 05:49 Bow your heads as we pray. Dear, God thank you 05:53 that the people that are here were able to get 05:55 here safely. Please help us to understand 05:58 and learn more about you, in Jesus name, amen. 06:02 Amen, amen. Well, I'd like to welcome our speaker 06:05 Pastor Doug Batchelor, president of Amazing Facts. 06:08 Pastor Doug, we are so excited about this, 06:10 I know we've been working on this program for quite 06:13 a while, and it's finally here. You can sit also. 06:16 Oh! That's right; you don't have to stand 06:18 through the whole program. 06:19 You're a very obedient group, thank you. 06:22 Alright, well, let's take a few Bible questions, 06:25 as we get started in the program tonight. 06:26 Part of each program, we're gonna give you an 06:28 opportunity to ask questions about the Bible, 06:31 we're beginning the most important adventure in life. 06:34 This adventure, successful leads to eternity. 06:39 And so nothing can be a more important than that. 06:42 And so, we want to encourage all of our friends, 06:44 who are here at our local church, and all of our 06:45 friends who are watching around the world, 06:47 if you got questions about the Bible or about God, 06:50 we'd encourage you to send them in. 06:52 We've got a few that have been pre-recorded 06:54 for the first nights program from Sacramento. 06:57 And we want to give you an opportunity, 06:58 some of you might email a picture of yourself with 07:01 the question. They've got the technology; 07:03 maybe they could even send a little video real quick. 07:06 They know how to do that on YouTube. 07:07 And we want to get your Bible questions, 07:10 but tonight I think we're priming the pump a little 07:12 because we got a few prepared. 07:14 We do, we have two video questions this evening. 07:17 So, if all the equipment works correctly, 07:19 we'll roll that question right now, alright. 07:22 Where is the original Bible? Okay, that's 07:25 Nathaniel in Sacramento who is asking, 07:27 where is the original Bible? This whole program 07:30 tonight is about the Bible. And it's The 07:33 Amazing Treasure Map, that's our study for tonight. 07:36 Some one might want to know where is the 07:38 original Bible? Well, the Bible originally was 07:41 given by voice, it was the word spoken by God to 07:46 Adam and Eve, and then Adam and Eve passed it 07:48 onto their children. Do you know Adam probably 07:50 had a photographic memory. He could remember 07:52 everything, but as man began to get weaker 07:56 because of sin, his memory started being affected 07:59 by that. And pretty soon, they began to write it down, 08:03 do you know, some of the first of the Bible that was 08:04 written down was written by God when he wrote 08:06 the Ten Commandments. And Moses wrote of course 08:09 the books of Genesis, and Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 08:12 Deuteronomy. Do you know, you see that Bible, 08:14 we got here on the stage. Anyone want to guess 08:17 how old that Bible is? Go ahead, you call out, 08:21 what's, what's your guess. Two thousand. 08:24 No, it's not quite 2,000 years old. 08:25 But it's almost 200 years old. This Bible is 1816, 08:32 1812, oh 1812. But still almost 200 years old, 190, 08:37 but anyway the Bible's been around a long time 08:41 1500 years. But we talk more about that 08:44 in our lesson tonight. Alright, well Pastor Doug 08:45 I have got a Bible question for you. Here it is. 08:49 Tell me how old are you? Can I sneak in, 08:52 these questions are reserved, okay, 08:54 I'm 12 I can get in. Alright, here is the Bible 08:55 question. What is the best way to read 08:58 and study the Bible? That's a very important 09:00 question, let me see, how many of you have a 09:03 Bible at home? Our friends that are watching, 09:07 I hope you have all got Bibles, most of you look 09:09 at that. All most of you kids have Bibles at home, 09:11 that's right, very good. Did some of you bring your own 09:13 Bibles tonight? Good for you and we hope you're 09:16 bringing your Bibles to the meetings. 09:17 We're very thank, well Review & Herald provided 09:19 some Bibles here for our local meeting. 09:21 So, the kids that come at least seven nights, 09:24 you get to take that Bible home with you at the end 09:26 of the meetings. Okay, in case you got to attend. 09:28 What was the question again? Oh! The best way 09:30 to study the Bible. That's right, the best way to 09:33 study the Bible is to start little-by-little, 09:36 you might begin in the beginning with Genesis. 09:39 And if you find out that it gets a little bit 09:42 difficult sometimes, you can jump to what 09:44 they called the New Testament. 09:45 The Bible's divided in a couple of parts here. 09:48 Three quarters of the Bible is the Old Testament. 09:51 The New Testament begins right about here; 09:56 this is the part of the Bible written before 09:58 Jesus was born, the Old Testament. 10:00 The New Testament was written after Jesus was 10:03 born. And so, you can also go to the New Testament 10:06 and read about the life of Jesus. 10:08 When God became a man, if you can't read a lot 10:11 or all at once, start with little verses. 10:16 The best way to get a good beginning in 10:19 Bible study is to have a Bible of course. 10:21 And you use the study guides that go 10:23 with this series, that will really help you. 10:25 Alright, well Pastor Doug, I think we have another 10:27 video question for this evening, alright, 10:29 so be ready for that. Did the miracles in 10:33 the Bible really happen? Okay, Shenelle from 10:37 Sacramento is asking, did the miracles in the 10:40 Bible really happen? Let me ask you, 10:41 what do you think? How many of you think that 10:43 the miracles in the Bible are true? Oh! I knew 10:47 we had a faithful crowd here tonight. 10:48 You're absolutely right. The miracles in the Bible 10:52 are true, and you know God still performs miracles 10:54 today. Did you know that? Everybody alive is a 10:58 miracle, life is a miracle. We're surrounded with 11:01 miracles all the time. But I believe in all the 11:03 miracles of the Bible, I really believe that 11:05 Jesus walked on water. I believe that he could 11:08 raise the death that he could he heal the sick. 11:10 I believe that Moses, when he stretched out his rod, 11:13 that the, the sea parted. And all these miracles 11:17 really happen. You are gonna be hearing more 11:20 about this. By the way, we're praying for a 11:22 miracle right now at this series of meetings that 11:24 the Lord will bless these meetings, 11:26 a thousand things have to work together, 11:28 that he'll bless the weather for our friends 11:30 who are watching all different parts of the 11:32 country. And that God will pour out his spirit. 11:34 I think we're gonna see some miracles. 11:36 Amen, we believe so. Well, Pastor Doug, 11:38 we have a special music at this time. 11:39 I'm gonna invite the Amazing Adventures 11:41 singers to come forward. And you will get to know 11:44 this group quite a bit over the next few nights 11:46 together, as we sing. The song that they will 11:49 be sharing with us is, "From a Child." 11:56 From a child, from a child 12:01 Thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, 12:06 Which are able to make thee wise 12:10 Wise unto salvation. 12:15 Salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 12:25 From a child, from a child 12:29 Thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, 12:34 From a child, Thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, 12:43 Which are able to make thee wise 12:53 From a child, from a child 12:58 Thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, 13:03 Which are able to make thee wise 13:08 Wise unto salvation. 13:12 Salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 13:23 From a child, from a child. 13:27 Thou hast known the Holy Scriptures. 13:40 Amen, thank you very much, that's a perfect 13:44 song for tonight 'cause we're talking tonight 13:46 about the Bible, The Treasure Map. 13:49 Now, this series Amazing Adventure is 13:53 talking about the most important thing in life. 13:56 Life is an adventure, it's the adventure of learning 13:59 how to follow Jesus and get into that city of gold. 14:03 In order to make the trip, you need a map. 14:06 And so, we're gonna talk about that map. 14:08 And I want to remind our friends that are here, 14:10 and our friends that are watching because this is 14:13 the first program, we got ten programs dealing 14:15 with this Amazing Adventure. You can 14:17 bring your friends to come, still not too 14:19 late to invite your friends, right? Maybe you have 14:22 some friends at school, or in your neighborhood 14:24 that you like to talk to and say, Wow! 14:26 We're having a great program at this home 14:28 or this church invite them because you want them 14:31 to find that city of gold that we're all going to. 14:34 Well, tonight we're gonna talk about the lesson 14:39 number one, The Treasure Map. How many of you 14:42 have ever looked for treasure before? 14:44 You ever find, yeah. I used to go digging 14:47 in my dad's backyard; we have dug a tunnel 14:49 one time, looking for treasure. Of course 14:52 I don't know why we just dug in the hillside, 14:53 we never did find anything, but it was fun looking 14:56 for the treasure. A lot of people pretend that 14:58 they've got treasure maps and they're just not real. 15:01 But some people have found real treasures in history. 15:05 Back in 1947, some boys living in the Land of Israel 15:10 were looking for a lost goat. And they saw a 15:13 little cave up against the hillside, they took a rock 15:17 and they threw the rock up in the cave just 15:19 wondering if their goat had wandered in there. 15:21 And they heard a breaking sound like, 15:23 breaking glass. So, they scrambled up to the cave 15:26 and they looked in there. And they saw that there 15:29 were some jars, and in the jars were a bunch 15:31 of scrolls. And they could see they were very old 15:34 scrolls. They thought Wow! This is like a treasure. 15:38 Nobody's been in this cave for maybe a 15:40 thousand years. It was more than a thousand years. 15:43 And so, what they did is they said, let's, 15:46 let's take some of these scrolls down and let's 15:49 take them to Bethlehem. Sell them see what 15:50 their worth. They sold some of them for $30. 15:54 Do you know how much they were worth? 15:57 Way more than $30 million? They had found the Dead 16:02 Sea scrolls; it was the oldest segments of the 16:06 Bible in existence. These boys out there looking 16:08 for goats, found treasure. And they didn't even 16:11 know what they found? You know, the Bible is a 16:15 treasure, and the most important thing I want 16:18 to share with you tonight is that, you can know 16:20 how to live forever because, if you follow 16:22 this map of the Bible. This map will tell you, 16:26 how to get to God's kingdom, it will guide 16:27 you through this life, it gives you everything 16:29 you need for happiness and eternal life? 16:32 Now, in our study we are gonna be going through 16:34 the lesson and we're gonna do it in like a question 16:36 and answer format. So, I'm gonna go right to the 16:39 lesson, let's look at question number one. 16:41 Someone might have told you that the Bible 16:44 is just a fairytale; any of you ever hear that, 16:46 no you can't believe the Bible, it's just fable 16:49 fairy tales. But can we trust that the Bible 16:52 is true? How do we know, we can trust the Bible 16:56 is true? What does the Bible say about itself? 16:58 If you got your Bibles you can look these verses up. 17:01 Matter of fact, we'll be giving you a lesson here 17:03 after the program. In the Bible it says, 17:06 All Scripture, how much? "All Scripture is given 17:10 by inspiration of God." That's Second Timothy 3:16. 17:14 The whole Bible is a message from God to you. 17:18 Any of you ever get a letter in the mail. 17:20 You excited to get a letter in the mail, 17:23 you want to open it up, you wonder what it is? 17:24 And sometimes our son Nathan, he gets a lego 17:28 magazine in the mail. He's so excited about that 17:30 magazine, he pours over, he takes it up and goes to 17:33 bed with it. And he'll be here later in the, 17:35 in these series, you will see Mrs. Batchelor 17:38 and two of the Batchelor boys. What if you had a 17:41 letter from God? How valuable would that be? 17:44 The Bible is a love letter from God to you. 17:49 And you know, it's especially interesting now 17:52 because right now you and I can buy Bibles 17:54 and we got the whole word of God. 17:55 They used to have to carry around all these camels. 17:58 I remember reading at one time about the 18:01 Grand Vizier of Persia. He had a library with 18:04 about 400,000 books in it. And he had hundreds 18:07 of camels that carried his library with him, 18:10 wherever he went. Hundreds of camels to carry his 18:13 library. Now, you could put it all on a little laptop 18:15 computer. We're lucky to have all of the word of 18:19 God together for us to study. First book ever 18:22 printed on a printing press was the Bible. 18:24 That was by Johann Gutenberg in 1456, 18:27 up till then they used to have to write the 18:30 Bibles down by hand. And the Bible's written on paper 18:33 of course, and that's where you get the word paper 18:36 comes from "Papyrus," it came from an ancient 18:39 Phoenician city called Biblos. And they made 18:43 some many books out of the Papyrus in Biblos 18:46 that they started saying, well that's a book. 18:48 And booker Biblos meant a collection of book. 18:52 And so we can get the word Bible, it's a Latin 18:55 word that means it's a collection of books. 18:57 The Bible has got a lot of books in it that tell about 19:01 God and our relationship with him. 19:03 And so that's a little bit of the history. 19:05 I told you they used to print by hand, 19:10 and then they were able to do it on a printing press 19:12 and now Bibles it's the number one book being 19:15 printed in the world today its the best seller in 19:18 history. And some countries that not allowed 19:21 to read the Bible. Mrs. Batchelor and I once 19:24 went to Russia. And we gave away hundreds 19:27 of Bibles there and the people were so excited 19:29 'cause they hadn't been able to read the Bible 19:31 in 70 years, and they were stroking and petting 19:33 the Bible. One of the most valuable Bibles is the 19:37 first Bible printed on a printing press, 19:38 which was the Gutenberg Bible. 19:40 And I think, I've got a picture of that right there 19:41 on the screen for you. How much do you think 19:44 that would be worth? Be valuable, but you know 19:47 it wouldn't be a worth as much to you. 19:48 Because you can't read German, I don't think 19:51 most of you, some of our viewers can, 19:53 but you can read the real Bible in English, 19:57 or your Bibles in English. And so, take 19:59 advantage of this precious book you know; 20:01 right now they're having a presidential election. 20:03 When the president is elected, he's voted into 20:07 office, he places his hand on what book? The Bible. 20:10 The Bible and he makes a vow. It's such a sacred 20:14 book and it's got this history that goes back 20:16 for hundreds of years. The Bible is the map that 20:19 tells us about life; it tells us how to follow Jesus 20:22 and where to go? Now, you know, more, 20:24 more-and-more of the cars have something 20:26 very special. During our series every now and then, 20:29 we're gonna take a look in our mystery chest. 20:32 This up here's a mystery chest, we're gonna have 20:33 some surprises in here night-after-night. 20:36 I'm gonna grab something out of here, 20:37 out of the mystery chest here for a second. 20:43 Lets see, what we got going on in here. 20:46 Who knows what this is? This is a GPS, 20:51 and my GPS here, let me see how I turn it on? 20:55 Looks like the batteries have gone out on me. 20:57 When you first turn this thing on, what it does 21:00 is it says, it's acquiring satellite. How many have 21:03 you have cars you know they get GPS in them. 21:06 Now, when I travel I take one with me. 21:07 And then it's got a map, but before you can use 21:10 the map on the GPS, it's got to get satellites, 21:14 not just one or two, it needs three or four 21:16 the more you have the better. When you're 21:19 trying to figure out, what the truth is? 21:21 You don't just read one verse in the Bible to find 21:23 out what God wants. Some people confuse the Bible, 21:26 by just reading one verse all by itself. 21:28 You compare the scriptures in the Bible, 21:30 and it guides you like a map and gives you the 21:34 right direction that you should go. 21:35 Someone once said, that the word Bible 21:38 B-I-B-L-E, it stands for, it's an acronym. 21:42 That means the words represents something else. 21:44 Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. 21:50 Can you say that with me? Basic Instructions 21:54 Before Leaving Earth. How many of you want 21:57 to leave earth and go to heaven? The Bible is your 22:00 instruction book, so you can know how you get 22:04 out of this world into the next one. 22:05 And you want to be able to compare the 22:07 verses in the Bible. So, you can arrive at the truth. 22:10 One time, when Jesus was been tempted by the devil. 22:12 The devil misquoted the Bible to him to cause 22:16 confusion. And so, you've got to know the Bible 22:19 because sometimes the devil will try to trick you 22:21 and misquote it. Let me give you an example of that. 22:24 I might need a volunteer, let's come, come up here 22:28 for a second right there Joel, you're on the 22:29 front row, so you got picked. You didn't know 22:30 I was gonna do this, did you? You look like a 22:32 stout boy, so I wanna, want you to do something 22:34 for me. Alright, fold your arms, spread your legs 22:37 a little bit, okay, I going to try and push you over 22:39 with my finger, don't let me push you over, 22:41 okay. Okay. How old are you? Eleven. 22:44 He's pretty strong for eleven. Okay, pretty 22:47 tough, can't push away with one finger. 22:49 I don't know if I can push him with my hand, 22:51 alright. Now, lift up one leg, hold it up. 22:58 See how easy that is? Thank you, very much 23:00 and you know why I said that? When you're 23:02 discovering, and what the truth is, you don't 23:04 want just one verse of the scripture. 23:06 How much stronger and more stable are you 23:08 with two feet than one foot. So, read the 23:11 different verses in the Bible and it's starts you to 23:13 under, help you understand what the truth is? 23:16 Let's go to our next question in our lesson. 23:18 Question number two, how can you know for yourself 23:22 that the Bible is true? Oh! Maybe some preacher 23:26 say it, your mom and dad hopefully tell you that, 23:29 but how can you know that the Bible is true. 23:32 There is a verse that says, in Psalm 34 verse 8, 23:37 "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!" 23:41 Alright, I'm gonna bring up another volunteer I, 23:44 I have already asked Nathan, if he'd come 23:46 up here for a second. And this is Nathan Nedley 23:49 here, you stand right here Nathan. I'm gonna, 23:51 are you getting hungry Nathan, I'm just wondering. 23:54 Sure. You're a little hungry? Yeah. Well, 23:57 you might get something to eat. 23:58 Let me see here, you're not allergic to anything, 24:00 this is, this sock I want you to know this nothing 24:02 wrong with this sock, it's been at the bottom of 24:04 my laundry hamper for two years. 24:06 I know that it's fine, okay. Could you see 24:08 anything? Nope. How's your smeller work? 24:13 Pretty good. What do you smell? An apple. 24:17 An apple, okay just checking. Hang on a 24:24 second now, I want you to trust me and open 24:27 your mouth, I put something in, there 24:28 is a piece of fruit, are, are you allergic, 24:30 do you have any food allergies. No, okay, 24:32 good bite down, chew that up, it be good for you, 24:35 what was that? A grape. A grape, you know, 24:38 how do you know that was a grape? 24:39 Now, let me show you something that apple 24:41 that you just smelled a second ago, isn't that 24:44 what he smelled? The grape that you ate, 24:49 you can tell the difference between the grape 24:52 and the banana because you tasted it for yourself, 24:56 right? Thank you, very much. Can you, let's give 24:58 him a hand. Thank him for his help. 25:05 So, how we are gonna know that the Bible is true? 25:09 We got to read it for ourselves. I didn't grow 25:12 up reading the Bible and I had to eventually 25:15 read it for myself to find that out. 25:16 Question number three, does God foretell the 25:20 future in the Bible? Wouldn't you like to know what 25:23 the future is? Yes. Listen to what it says, 25:26 in Isaiah chapter 46, verse 9 and 10. 25:30 God says, "I am God declaring the end from 25:34 the beginning, and from ancient times things 25:37 that are not yet done." God sees all of history 25:41 together and he tells the future many times in the 25:44 Bible. The Bible is filled with incredible prophecies. 25:48 Let me give you some examples, God told Noah 25:51 that there was going to be a tremendous flood coming. 25:54 And some people didn't listen; a lot of people 25:56 didn't listen. And they suffered because of that. 25:59 Right now, while we're doing this meeting there 26:03 is a lot of things happening in the news that have 26:05 to do with weather, right? And people who have 26:09 satellite cameras up in the sky, up in the heavens 26:12 are looking down and they see this great hurricane 26:14 heading towards the Texas coast, and the people 26:17 get on the radio. And they tell them in the newspaper, 26:20 there is a serious storm coming, you need to move. 26:23 And I just before I came to the program, 26:25 they said on the news a lot of people aren't moving. 26:29 Now, those folks who are looking from the cameras 26:32 in the sky, they're not using prophecy. 26:35 They're using cameras in the sky; they can see 26:37 what's coming because of their prospective. 26:39 How much does God know? Everything. 26:42 He knows everything. And in the Bible he often 26:46 outlines the history of the world. Do you know Jesus 26:48 foretold, he said in 40 years from A. D 30, 26:53 he said in 40 years the Jewish temple would be 26:56 destroyed, there would not be one stone left upon 26:59 another. And exactly 40 years later the Romans 27:03 came and completely destroyed the temple, 27:05 and they did not leave two stones one on top 27:08 of the other. The Lord foretold so many things 27:11 in the Bible. Matter of fact, I'm gonna need 27:14 one more volunteer here; let me see, 27:16 who am I get, young lady right up here, 27:19 what's your name? Gillian. Gillian, alright. 27:21 Tell you what, you want to look in the mystery box, 27:23 and see if there is a statue in there, 27:24 grab that for me. You can pick them right up, 27:30 that's Ivan the idol, maybe we called it Ike. 27:35 Okay, there is a dream that Daniel has in 27:39 Daniel chapter 2; King Nebuchadnezzar had a 27:42 dream of this strange idol, because all the nations 27:45 of the word were worshiping idols except 27:47 the Jewish back then. And it had a head of gold 27:50 and arms of silver and a belly of bronze, and legs 27:53 of iron, and the feet were iron and clay. 27:55 And the King didn't know what the dream meant? 27:58 So, he called for the prophet Daniel finally, 28:01 he tried his prophets, but they didn't know, 28:03 but the prophet of God came in. And he said, 28:05 that dream that you saw outlines the history of 28:08 the world from the time of King Nebuchadnezzar 28:11 to the end of time. And he said, the head 28:13 of gold represented the Kingdom of Babylon, 28:15 I remember reading about that when I was 28:17 in school and then the arms of silver, 28:20 the Persian kingdom, Medo-Persia would come. 28:22 And the belly and thighs of bronze represented 28:25 the Kingdom of Greece, and then Greece would 28:28 fall to the Romans, and they were the legs of iron, 28:30 and the feet were mixed iron and mixed clay 28:34 that was when the Roman Empire fell apart 28:36 and got mixed up with religion and Romanism. 28:39 And the divided Empire Rome is where we're living 28:41 today. And then a stone comes and strikes the image 28:44 and destroys all the idols and false religions, 28:47 grows into a great mountain and fills the earth, 28:50 that's the second coming of Jesus. 28:52 Everything that Daniel said in the prophecy 28:55 happened in the history books, and he foretold 28:56 that long before it happen. The next thing to happen 29:00 is that stone, Jesus, the rock of ages coming, 29:03 we got a rock right here, and it's gonna come 29:05 down, and it's gonna hit this and it polarize 29:07 the image, it blows away and the rock goes 29:10 into a great mountain and it fills the whole earth. 29:12 God foretold that everything in the prophecy 29:16 happened so far, how many of you believe the 29:18 last part is gonna happen where Jesus comes? 29:20 I believe that too. Thank you, very much for your 29:24 help holding Ike for me. Alright, so the prophecies 29:29 do come true. What about science? Number four; 29:33 does science support the Bible that it's true? 29:37 I believe true science really does support 29:41 the Bible that it's not true, that for instance. 29:43 Let me give you some examples. You can read 29:46 in Job chapter 26, verse 7, "He hangs the earth 29:50 upon nothing." Long time ago, one of the first books 29:54 in the Bible was the Book of Job. When you look 29:57 at the Book of Job, first time I read it I thought it 29:59 said Job, because I didn't grow up reading the Bible, 30:01 it's spell J-O-B, but you don't call him job, 30:04 we call him Job. And the Book of Job says, 30:07 God hangs the earth on nothing. 30:09 Well, you know, back when Job wrote that many 30:12 of the nations of the world had all these strange 30:14 superstitions, they thought that the world rested 30:16 on the back of a giant tortoise, they thought 30:19 that the world rested on the shoulders of a man 30:22 named Atlas, they had all these superstitions, 30:24 but the Bible said, no the world hangs on nothing. 30:28 And when you look at a picture of earth in space, 30:32 the Bible knew that way back then that the world 30:35 hung on nothing, you could also look in 30:37 Isaiah chapter 40, verse 22, there it says, 30:41 "He sits above the circle of the earth." 30:46 Now, you remember the story of Christopher 30:47 Columbus. How many of you have read about 30:48 Christopher Columbus? Did some people think 30:51 that Christopher Columbus was a little bit crazy, 30:54 do you know, why? Because he said, 30:56 I believe that I can get from the east, 31:02 from the west to east by sailing west, 31:05 and he went and he said, the world is round. 31:07 They said, Oh! Everybody knows, science knows 31:10 the world is flat. If you sail too far, you're gonna 31:13 sail off this great big old water fall and dragons 31:16 will get you. They had all these superstitions 31:18 that the world was a big square flat place, 31:21 like a table. And the Bible said, a long time ago 31:27 that the earth was round and that it was a circle. 31:30 And so, all through the Bible you'll find out 31:32 that the, the science and the Bible is true. 31:35 You know, back in the Dark Ages. Some people 31:42 were very superstitious about cats. 31:44 And they got rid of all the cats, they said 31:46 cats are evil, they're with witches, 31:47 they're from the devil. And they started killing 31:49 all the cats in Europe, but do you know what 31:52 happened when there is no cats around who knows? 31:54 Mice. Mice and rats, and the mice and the rats 31:58 began to multiply spread everywhere and they 32:01 carried these little bitty fleas, bubonic disease 32:04 was on these fleas. And people got something 32:07 called the bubonic plague. And they all started 32:08 dying from this terrible sickness. 32:10 And they didn't know what to do to stop it. 32:13 Finally, some of the church leaders looked 32:15 in the Bible and they read what it said in the 32:17 Book of Leviticus about sanitation and containment. 32:21 And the science from the Bible is what finally 32:24 stopped the bubonic plague from spreading. 32:26 So, the Bible is full of very accurate science. 32:30 Let's go to question number five, does the 32:34 message in the Bible all fit together? 32:37 You know, it's amazing about the Bible is that, 32:41 it was written about 40 different authors, 32:44 but these were not just the average people. 32:46 You can read in Second Peter chapter 1, verse 21, 32:49 "Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by 32:54 the Holy Spirit." These Holy men were inspired 32:58 by the Holy Spirit. And they wrote what God 33:00 told them to write. And even though these men 33:04 wrote from so many times in history over a period 33:07 of 1,500 years. They lived on three different 33:11 continents. Some of them were poor shepherds 33:13 like King David, some of them were educated like 33:17 the Apostle Paul from all different backgrounds, 33:21 and yet when you read the Bible, the message is 33:24 all united. So, it's like someone one time the 33:27 Bible is many miracles. One miracles, it's Miraculous 33:30 in its Harmony, it's got the same consistent 33:33 message about God and his love for you. 33:36 The Bible is miraculous in his origin. 33:39 Do you know there is several times in history 33:41 that people have tried to destroy the Bible? 33:42 Some people have burned them, mountains of Bibles, 33:47 they burned them, they've tried to destroy 33:48 the scrolls, emperors of Rome and Kings of 33:51 Europe have tried to stamp out the Bible. 33:53 And yet God has preserved this book, 33:55 that's why we should be very careful to 33:58 respect the Bible. Let me stop right here 33:59 and say something. You know, when I'm doing 34:02 my program, you'll notice I never set anything 34:05 on my Bible, because the Bible is a Holy Book. 34:07 And in the Batchelor home, we, treat the 34:11 Bible with respect. We don't stuff it at the bottom 34:14 of a bunch of magazines and throw the TV guide 34:18 on top of it, something just doesn't sound right 34:19 about that, does it? We treat this Bible; 34:22 this is the most important sacred book in the world. 34:26 Remember those boys, when they found the scrolls 34:27 in the cave, they were worth millions. 34:30 I've been to the museum where they have got 34:32 the Dead Sea scrolls. And they've got this, 34:34 this great big three and a half foot concrete 34:37 iron reinforced vault over these scrolls, 34:41 it's protecting the Bible because it's the most 34:44 important treasures in Israel. So, we should 34:47 treat our Bibles respectfully. 34:48 When you turn the pages, you want to be careful 34:50 to turn them carefully. This is a sacred book; 34:52 'cause it's the voice of God to you and me. 34:54 The Bible is Miraculous in it's Accuracy. 34:58 It's amazing as you go from cover-to-cover 35:01 in the Bible that it never misdirects you. 35:04 You know, I got one of these little GPS's in my car, 35:08 and GPS is really great, but they are computers, 35:11 and sometimes computers are dumb. 35:12 And, and sometimes I'm following the GPS 35:15 and it's telling me to go somewhere, 35:17 but the GPS doesn't know that the road is 35:19 closed because of construction or stuff 35:22 like that and, and it doesn't know, 35:23 but God he knows everything all the time. 35:27 He doesn't, his computer never goes down, 35:29 does it? So, it's Miraculous in it's Message as well. 35:33 The message of the Bible is about God's love for 35:36 you and how he came to save us from our sins, 35:40 to give us new hearts, to transform us to be like 35:44 his son. The miracles in the Bible are true; 35:47 it's the most powerful book in the world. 35:50 And I'm gonna be telling you a little bit 35:52 tomorrow night about how you can use the 35:54 power of the Bible, by reading it, and by 35:56 memorizing the scripture. I want to encourage 35:58 you every night to remember some of the Bible. 36:01 Who remembers, what verse did we read tonight 36:04 as our opening scripture? Our memory verse, 36:09 I know that he read it, no you're cheating, 36:11 you read it, you know, it. Someone else, 36:13 you know what it was? "Thy word is a lamp unto 36:18 my feet. And a light unto my path." 36:21 Psalms 119, verse 105. Could you say that 36:24 with me? "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. 36:29 And a light unto my path." Psalms 119, 36:33 verse 105. That is a very important verse for you 36:37 to remember because God's word is gonna guide you. 36:39 Number six, still in our lesson. What is one of 36:43 the greatest proofs that the Bible is true? 36:46 What's some of the most powerful evidence that 36:49 we can trust the Bible? In Second Corinthians 36:52 chapter 5 verse 17 it says, "Therefore, if 36:55 anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." 36:59 He becomes a new creature. "Old things 37:02 have passed away; all things have become new." 37:06 God makes us new creatures, you know, 37:08 the greatest evidence of the Bible is how the 37:10 Lord changes lives. You know one reason that 37:13 I'm sharing this seminar with you and this is so 37:16 important to me, and this topic tonight is so 37:18 important to me is when I grew up, my mom 37:22 and my dad they didn't take me to church, 37:25 I know very little about the Bible. And I got into 37:29 lots of trouble because I didn't have the map, 37:32 and when you don't have the map, 37:33 when you don't have a GPS, what happens? 37:35 You get lost. You get lost, can you find the 37:37 treasure? No. No, when I was finding everything 37:40 but the treasure. Matter of fact, here is a little 37:42 picture I grabbed a picture today of me, 37:44 is when I went to military school, when I was about 37:47 12 years old, about the age of you folks, 37:50 anyone here 12 years old? Let me see your hands, 37:52 yeah we got a lot of 12 year-olds here. 37:54 And I, do you know, I went to 14 different schools 37:58 growing up. Lot of the reason was because 38:03 I was getting in trouble, my parents moved 38:05 a little bit, but I went to school in Maine, 38:07 I went to school in California, 38:09 I went to school in New York, 38:11 I went to school in Florida, I went to 38:12 school in Europe, plus various public schools 38:16 and Catholic schools and Jewish schools, 38:19 and I was all mixed up, life didn't have any 38:21 purpose for me. I didn't know about Jesus and 38:24 his love. And so I thought like a lot of people in the 38:27 world, you live a little while. And then you die, 38:31 and I believed in evolution. And then 38:34 you just turn into fertilizer when you die. 38:36 And I thought you know, life doesn't bring very 38:39 much happiness, what's the purpose of life? 38:41 So, I got in lots of trouble. Now, my father was 38:45 a very wealthy man that owned two airliners, 38:49 he lived on an island in Miami Beach. 38:52 We had a butler and a maid, dad had a private Learjet, 38:56 drove Rolls Royce, had a lot of money, 38:59 but he wasn't very happy. Every night he had to 39:02 drink alcohol to go to sleep very unhappy. 39:04 He didn't have God in his life. My mother thought 39:08 happiness came from being famous. 39:09 So, she was an actress, she was in movies, 39:13 she was a film critic, she wrote songs for people 39:16 like Andy Williams and Frank Sinatra, 39:18 and Elvis Presley. And I don't know, 39:20 if you know any of those people, I'm getting old. 39:22 But she was the president of the film critics in 39:26 Beverly Hills, and knew all these famous people 39:28 that came to our houses, but they weren't very 39:31 happy. I know some of them who are child actress 39:34 and everybody knew who they were, 39:36 and they killed themselves, rich, beautiful, smart, 39:40 but without God they got lost. And they didn't want 39:44 live anymore. And I used to think if there is no God, 39:47 there is really no purpose in life. And so, 39:50 when I lived in New York city, sometimes 39:52 I like climb up to the top of these tall 39:54 apartment buildings. And I used to think all 39:56 of those people running around like ants down 39:58 there. They have no purpose in life, 40:00 why don't I just jump and kill myself? Amen. 40:04 I did, I used to think about that. 40:06 My dad was so busy with his work and my mom 40:08 was so busy with her career, they didn't seem 40:10 to have time for me, and I thought I don't even 40:12 want to live. And so, I used to go to the top of 40:15 these apartment buildings and I put my toe over 40:17 the edge and I look down 20 storeys. 40:19 And I go like this, and see how far out 40:22 I could go like I'm doing right now. 40:24 Until I felt my center of gravity 40:26 and I stopped myself. And you know, 40:28 afraid of, I didn't jump because I thought, 40:30 what if I jump and I live through it, 40:32 and I'm all broken up and sick, 40:34 I didn't wanna do that. And sometimes 40:37 I used to think, well maybe if I just took pills; 40:39 I just take a whole lot of pills and go to sleep 40:41 and never wake up nobody will know. 40:43 Now, let me tell you something. 40:45 You know what they called that? Suicide, 40:48 that's really murder; it's when you murder yourself. 40:52 Is murder a sin? Yes. Yeah, murdering yourself 40:56 is a sin too. Did you make yourself? 40:59 You were created by God, you are his property. 41:01 And some people kill themselves because 41:04 they think; I just want my problems to go away. 41:06 So they kill themselves, but think about this, 41:09 if a person dies and they're lost. 41:11 What's the first thing they know after they die? 41:15 They wake up and they're facing a lake of fire, 41:19 that's not very good, does that solve their 41:21 problems or do their problems get worse. 41:23 When you're alive there's hope. And so don't ever 41:27 get so discourage you think about something crazy like 41:29 that, that's what the devil wants you to do. 41:32 So, I finally thought you know, I'm not gonna 41:35 take pills and I'm not gonna jump, 41:36 I'm just gonna try and have as much fun as 41:38 I can before I die. So, I started getting into all 41:41 kinds of trouble, I started drinking, 41:43 when as I with my dad I drink, and then 41:46 I started using alcohol and I started taking drugs 41:49 and smoking pot. And when I live with mom, 41:52 a lot of the people in Hollywood use drugs. 41:54 And I was using drugs and I was getting into 41:56 trouble. First time I ran away from home I was 41:59 13 years old. I want to just go live in the mountains, 42:03 I got arrested, I was in jail several times 42:06 and big trouble by that time I was 15 years old, 42:10 I left home for the last time. And I was living 42:14 in Boston, I, by the time I was 16 I had a 42:18 drivers license that said I was 18 years old, 42:21 I was working as a security guard. 42:23 And at night I was breaking into homes and stealing. 42:26 So, here I had a job guarding places during 42:29 the night actually it was guarding things at night, 42:31 and I was stealing during the day. 42:33 And I just wasn't very happy, and I used all 42:35 my money on drugs. And my father came to visit me, 42:40 and he said Doug. He said, why don't you go to 42:43 this special school, I found a school, 42:45 lots of adventure, it's on a boat, it sails around 42:48 the world. And that sounded pretty exciting, 42:51 I've always wanted adventure. 42:52 So, my dad flew me from Boston, I was 16 to Europe 42:56 and I went to school that was on a sailboard. 42:59 And there's a bunch of boys and girls on this boat. 43:02 And it was like a high school and they sailed around 43:04 the world, but then I found that he sort of 43:06 tricked me, the boat was something like a prison, 43:08 and they take away your passport and they didn't 43:11 let you go anywhere and, and I and most of the 43:14 people on the boat didn't believe in God. 43:16 And I was thinking you know, it's just no purpose 43:20 in life and this didn't seem like much fun, 43:22 but I noticed something. One day we were sailing 43:26 from Northern Africa over to Spain, 43:29 it was winter time. And during that trip 43:33 we got into a serious storm out on the ocean. 43:35 And the boat was rocking back and forth 43:38 in the waves were like 25 to 30 just great big 43:42 old waves and a lot of waves were washing 43:44 over the front of the boat. And things were getting 43:46 washed over board and water was very cold cause 43:49 it was around Christmas time. And the captain said 43:52 if you fall overboard, we're not even gonna 43:54 turn the boat around because we will never 43:55 find you. And all of the people on the boat 43:58 said that they were atheists. Until they got 44:03 in the storm and they thought they were gonna die, 44:04 what do you think they started doing, 44:06 when they thought they were gonna die? 44:07 Praying. They started praying, and they started 44:11 making promises to God. Oh! Lord if you will 44:13 just save me; help me get through this storm. 44:15 And of course we survived the storm; 44:18 I wouldn't be here to tell you, were they? 44:20 But God doesn't want us to serve him 44:23 because we're afraid. Well, I was soon as 44:25 I got home for Christmas vacation, 44:27 I ran away for the last time. 44:29 Now, I thought there must be a God, 44:31 too many amazing things happened. 44:33 One quick story I'll tell you. I was hitchhiking 44:37 you know you get on the road and you beg 44:38 for a ride. I was hitchhiking from Florida 44:42 to California like 4000 miles. I got stuck it's 44:47 still Christmas time in Oklahoma, freezing cold 44:50 weather. I stood on the road for hours begging 44:53 for ride, nobody would pick me up. I got hungry, 44:56 I was a little bit sick because I had been 44:58 drinking the night before, alcohol can make you sick. 45:01 And I prayed, and I didn't grow up really knowing 45:05 how to pray. And I prayed, the Lord I believe that 45:07 there is a God there because I saw so many amazing 45:10 things happen. I said, will you please help me 45:13 and I prayed that God would give me four things, 45:16 I said please help me get some money, 45:18 I had no money. Help me get a ride to California, 45:22 had 2000 miles still to go. I said, Lord please help 45:25 me get some food I was hungry. And then I prayed 45:28 God please help me get a ride with somebody normal, 45:31 because I was getting picked up by very strange 45:33 people. As soon as I finished praying, a van stopped 45:38 and pick me up; the man took me 2000 miles right 45:43 to the door of where I was going. He fed me all the 45:47 way out to California, I didn't ask him to. 45:50 He gave me $40, when he drop me off that 45:53 I didn't asked for, something I didn't ask for, 45:56 I didn't ask him to preach to me, all the way from 45:58 Oklahoma to California. He was a Christian, 46:01 and he was telling me all about the Bible, 46:03 I thought, Oh! Bible is a fairytale, I mean 46:05 I believe in all these different new age religions 46:07 and reincarnation and, and he's telling me about 46:10 the Bible. And I had to listen to him. Or jump out, 46:14 and then I said I'm gonna try and find God 46:16 through nature. And I moved up into the mountains 46:19 and I moved into a cave. And I lived like a hermit 46:23 for about year and a half up there in that cave. 46:24 And I never even wore clothes because it was a 46:27 hot desert in the mountain and I thought 46:29 I'm gonna be natural. And one of the miracles 46:32 is once or twice a week I'd come to town 46:34 and I beg for money. One of the miracles was that 46:38 somebody had left a Bible in the cave. 46:40 And I stared to read the Bible and it changed my life. 46:44 And even though I was living like a hermit back 46:47 then, now I'm going around the world, 46:49 telling people about Jesus. The Bible became the 46:52 map to truth for me, and God has a big plan 46:55 for your life too. Now, I took a lot of time 46:57 telling you my story, but I wanted you to know, 46:58 why the Bible is so important. 47:00 Question number seven, when we accept the 47:03 Bible as God's Word, can we know things that 47:06 others are still searching for? Oh! Yes, he can. 47:08 It says, in Psalm 119 verse 100, 47:11 "I understand more than the ancients, 47:14 because I keep your precepts." 47:16 When you keep the commandments of God 47:18 you are wiser than the ancients. 47:19 And again your commandments have 47:22 made me wiser than my enemies, for they 47:24 are ever with me. God's word will make you wise. 47:27 See the word of God is a weapon that 47:29 we can use to fight against the enemy. 47:32 It's like a sword, it's like a shield, see we got 47:35 a sword up here right under the Bible because 47:37 the Bible says that the word of God is quick 47:39 and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword. 47:42 Whenever Jesus was tempted by the devil, 47:44 what did he do? He quoted the Bible. 47:48 You know, I heard a story we're not too far away 47:49 from Houston. And you probably heard of Sam 47:53 Houston. Well, he had a son Sam Houston Junior. 47:56 And something amazing happened one time. 47:59 He was in the Battle of Shiloh, and during the 48:03 midst of the battle he got shocked by a bullet, 48:06 got knocked down, and when he picked himself up 48:09 and he recovered, he realized that the bullet 48:11 hit his backpack, and when he finally got out of 48:14 that midst of the battle he pulled out his backpack 48:17 and he found that there was his Mother's Bible 48:19 that was in his backpack is what the bullet hit. 48:21 And you know, inside that Bible, the bullet stopped 48:25 right on the verse, it said the word of God is like 48:27 my shield and my protection, that's right 48:30 where the bullet stopped. God's word will be a shield 48:33 for you. It's a sword, it's like Jesus used to protect 48:36 him from temptation, it will protect you. 48:38 See Jesus is like the Bible. Bible says Jesus is bread 48:44 and the Bible is bread. Jesus is the light of world; 48:49 the Bible is the lamp and light unto my feet. 48:51 The Bible tells us that the word of God is eternal, 48:54 it says, Jesus is eternal. Everything you find out 48:58 about the word, you'll also find is true about Jesus. 49:01 So, when you read the Bible? Jesus is the word, 49:04 you're getting to know him, the son of God 49:08 and he wants a personal relationship with you. 49:10 So, how can we understand the Bible? 49:13 We got to read it. Taste and see that the Lord 49:17 is good. I'm just wondering, how many of you know 49:20 how to read? What's the most important thing 49:23 you should read? The Bible. Bible. It's the map 49:27 to the treasure, to heaven, everyday 49:29 we should read the Bible; it will completely 49:31 change your life. You know there is an amazing 49:34 story in history, some of you have probably 49:36 heard this story about the Mutiny on the Bounty. 49:39 Back in 1779, there was an English ship called the 49:45 Bounty. The captain was a very difficult man named 49:48 Captain William Bligh, and his crew got so tired 49:51 of him they Mutinied. They put him and some 49:53 of the officers into a boat and pushed them away, 49:56 but then they knew they would have the entire 49:58 British Navy looking for them trying to hunt them 50:01 down. And so they said, well we better hide 50:04 and where in the world are we gonna hide, 50:06 so that the British Navy is not gonna find us, 50:09 because if you mutinied, do you know what they 50:10 did to you? They'd hang you till you were dead. 50:14 Mutiny they didn't fool around with that. 50:16 It's amazing the Captain Bligh, he went 3000 miles 50:20 with his officers, he was a good sailor, 50:22 he went 3000 miles in that little life boat with 50:25 his officers and they lost one man, but they, 50:28 the rest of them all survived, but Fletcher 50:32 Christian, the leader of the Mutineers, 50:35 they went back to the Island of Tahiti 50:37 and there in the Island of Tahiti, they, they 50:41 some of the men off and they got eleven women, 50:43 'cause they thought we're gonna have to just go 50:44 find somewhere to hide from the rest of the world. 50:48 And they got about six Polynesian men, 50:51 and the other eight Mutineers they took the Bounty, 50:55 and Fletcher Christian was looking through Captain 50:57 Bligh's logbook, and he saw that where 51:01 Captain Cook had one time made a note on one 51:04 of these voyages that there was an island called 51:06 Pitcairn that had a water on it, that had a harbor 51:09 on it, it had some vegetation and food, 51:12 and that's all it said. You know, it was out the 51:14 middle of nowhere. And they thought we'll go hide 51:18 on this island, there is water, there is food, 51:21 we got men and women, it'll be like the Garden 51:23 of Eden we'll make a paradise, but you know 51:26 what happened? Those sailors they didn't have 51:28 the Lord in their lives, and they got on that island, 51:32 and they burned the ship, they took everything 51:33 off the ship, they could keep, they burned it. 51:35 So, that the Navy would not sail by and find them. 51:37 They thought we can hide here , we've got our 51:39 Garden of Eden, our paradise, but you know 51:43 what happened? They didn't have the Lord, 51:45 they all started to fight, and they got jealous, 51:48 and the men and women started to fight, 51:50 men were fighting for other men's wives 51:52 and one of men learned how to make alcohol out 51:54 of the some of the plants on the island, 51:56 they began to drink, pretty soon they began to kill 51:58 each other. And the men all began to fight, 52:01 and argue and kill each other until pretty soon, 52:04 there was one man left, and his name was Adams. 52:09 John Adams and he thought what's become of us. 52:13 This was supposed to be a paradise; 52:14 we're all killing ourselves off at this point now. 52:16 He's got 11 women and 23 children and him. 52:22 He was digging through the chest of Captain Bligh, 52:26 in the bottom of the chest there was a Bible, 52:28 they noticed it before, but they never looked at it. 52:30 And he pulled it out and they all began to read the 52:33 Bible. And he began to teach the women and 52:36 the children to read the Bible. And they all learned 52:39 about the truths in the Bible pretty soon they all 52:41 began to get along and they was harmony, 52:43 and they were praying, and they were trusting God. 52:45 About nine years after they've landed on the island 52:48 they were discovered by a whaling vessel, 52:50 and when the captain of the whaling vessel went 52:53 on the Island of Pitcairn, he said I met all these 52:56 people that spoke kind of an English gibberish, 52:59 and they were also loving and they were so happy, 53:02 and they were so kind, he said, I have never seen 53:04 such a pious group of people. They not only prayed 53:08 before they ate, they prayed after they ate. 53:12 And they realized that without God they could 53:14 never have happiness. Now, there's a lot of things 53:17 that you could read, there's a lot of programs 53:19 that you could watch, and some of you, 53:21 you have your little computer games. 53:23 There's a lot of things you can do with your 53:24 time where you can waste your life. 53:26 And never learn about God. And you won't find 53:30 real happiness. You know, what the real treasure is? 53:32 The treasure is to be learning about Jesus, 53:35 so that you can have everlasting life. 53:37 During these series of meetings we are gonna 53:40 tell you how you can find the treasure. 53:42 You know, years ago, when they used to sell these 53:48 treasure maps, most of the treasures maps 53:51 were frauds. And a lot of people would, 53:55 these sailors would make money they'd say, 53:57 you know, I was on the ship, and the captain 53:58 of the ship he buried a treasure and here's a map. 54:01 And if you follow this, I will sell you this map, 54:04 you'll find the treasure and some people would 54:06 pay money. Even today people pay for phony 54:09 treasure maps, but you know there were a few 54:13 real treasure maps, I heard some stories about 54:17 treasure hunters that found maps where ships went 54:19 down during a hurricane off the Florida Keys 54:23 and they found mountains of gold. 54:25 Another ship off the Coast of California, 54:28 another one by South America went down loaded 54:30 with gold. And some people found real treasure maps. 54:35 You know the real map sometimes in the pirate 54:38 stories, they would show the map and they would 54:43 put a big X in blood where the treasure was buried. 54:46 You know, there is a treasure map, 54:49 and it's called the Bible. The Bible is marked 54:53 and you know, what the X is, the X in red, 54:56 it's the cross. See Jesus, he's the one 55:01 who is the treasure. This book is all about Jesus, 55:05 I know when you look at the Bible, 55:06 you think that maybe this is just, just black 55:10 ink on white paper, how can this be so special, 55:13 but there's something amazing about this book 55:16 that changes people lives, there's power in the words. 55:20 And I wanted to encourage each of you to come 55:24 to this series. If I'm gonna be telling you through 55:27 the Bible during this series, how you can live 55:30 forever, how you can have a happy life, 55:33 how you can know what God's plan is for your life, 55:35 does God know the future, does he know 55:38 what your future is? Will he make you do what 55:42 he wants you to do? No. You get to choose to give 55:45 him your heart and to follow him. Jesus has marked 55:48 this treasure map with a red cross, it's, 55:51 it's his life, he sacrificed his life, God came down 55:55 to this world, he took on the form of a man, 55:57 his name was Jesus. He lived a perfect life to show 56:01 you how to live? And then he died for your sins 56:04 because he loves you so much, he doesn't want 56:05 you to die for your sins because the penalty 56:07 for sin is death. You can get to know about him 56:11 and fall in love with him from reading your Bibles. 56:14 How many of you would like to say I'd like to read 56:17 my Bible everyday? Our friends who are watching 56:21 around the country and around the world, 56:23 I'm hoping in your group right now, 56:24 you'll raise your hands and say, I want to know 56:26 about God and his love for us. And I would like 56:29 to invite you, how many of you would like to say, 56:32 everyday now, I'm gonna read my Bible. 56:35 I might start with the little bit, but then it will 56:37 get bigger, but everyday I'm gonna read my Bible. 56:39 Best time is in the morning, how many of you would 56:42 like to say, by God's help I'm wanna read my Bible 56:45 everyday and get to know Jesus. 56:47 This is the map to eternal life, the city of gold; 56:50 don't be like those boys that sold it for $30, 56:53 when it's worth 30 million. This is the treasure 56:56 map to eternal life. Would you like to pray with me 56:59 right now that we could all have Jesus in our hearts, 57:02 that we can have that gift of eternal life, 57:04 you can have him in your heart right now by asking. 57:07 Would you like to pray with me? Father in heaven, 57:10 tonight we've talked about the most important 57:13 book in the world, the Bible. And we know that Jesus 57:17 is called the word of God, he is the bread of life. 57:21 Lord, we want to know you better; 57:22 we want to know what your plan is for our lives. 57:24 Pour out your spirit on each person, 57:26 all of these young people who are watching 57:28 and help us be ready when Jesus comes, 57:30 we pray in his name, amen. God bless you friends 57:35 don't forget the next meeting tomorrow 57:37 night and be praying, invite your friends. |
Revised 2014-12-17