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00:07 ♪♪ 00:14 Doug Batchelor: Jesus said in Revelation chapter 2 and 3, 00:17 "To him that overcomes, to him that overcomes, to him--" 00:19 He says it seven times. 00:21 Why would Jesus say to him that overcomes if it wasn't possible 00:23 for you to overcome? 00:25 The question is do you believe Jesus? 00:28 Or do you believe the devil? 00:34 Doug: I don't know if you've ever heard about a nefarious 00:39 character by the name of Grigori Rasputin. 00:43 Sometimes known as the Mad Monk. 00:46 He was a--started as a Russian Orthodox believer, but he kind 00:50 of went on a spiritualistic pilgrimage and became sort 00:54 of a self-proclaimed holy man by the time he got to St. 00:58 Petersburg, and Moscow and some of the Russian capitals. 01:01 He was embraced and during that time in this high society he 01:07 somehow came in contact with the king and his families. 01:11 Tsar Nicholas II. 01:13 The Romanov family had been ruling in Russia for 300 years. 01:19 That dynasty. 01:21 Well, they have a son named Alexei that struggled 01:23 with hemophilia and Rasputin claimed to be able to heal him. 01:28 And it seemed like that when he did his incantations 01:32 or hypnosis. 01:33 They're not exactly sure what happened. 01:34 The boy improved whenever he was having some episode, struggling 01:39 with bleeding. 01:40 And or he was anemic and the parents were very 01:45 anxious then to keep this holy man around. 01:47 Well, he enjoyed the attention, the prestige. 01:50 He was in the press quite a bit. 01:51 And everyone was fawning over him. 01:53 And over a period of months and years, it became where he 01:58 invaded the family, began to manipulate the family 02:02 and control the affairs of the state. 02:05 And many believed that it was because of his evil influence as 02:09 Czar Nicholas was making bad military decisions during 02:13 World War I. 02:14 Eventually the communists overthrew the czar and his 02:19 empire, and a lot of it can be traced back to the bad counsel 02:23 they have from Rasputin. 02:24 Rasputin was assassinated. 02:26 The communists arrested the Romanov family 02:31 and eventually they were all executed. 02:34 They believed the wrong source and it destroyed an empire, not 02:41 to mention the family. 02:43 So we need to guard against believing the wrong 02:46 sources. 02:48 Remember the devil is a wolf who dresses up in sheep's clothing 02:51 to deceive sheep, and his tactics have been very 02:55 successful. 02:57 When Christians believe the devil, it would seem 03:00 like that would be a contradiction. 03:02 Christians are Christians because they don't believe 03:04 the devil. 03:05 Well, there are many who want to be Christians that sometimes 03:08 believe the wrong source. 03:11 Matthew Chapter 7. 03:12 Jesus said, "Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have 03:15 we not prophesied in Your name and cast out devils in Your 03:19 name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?' 03:22 And I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. 03:25 Depart from Me you who practice iniquity.'" 03:27 Here are believers who thought they were listening to the Lord, 03:32 but they were listening to the wrong voice. 03:35 Go to the end of time. 03:36 Look in Revelation 12. 03:38 "That great dragon." 03:39 Who's that? 03:40 That's the devil, Satan, "Was cast out who deceives the whole 03:45 world." 03:46 There are so many who believe the enemy. 03:50 Revelation 19, verse 20, "The beast was captured, and with him 03:53 the false prophet--" and Jesus warns us there'll be many false 03:57 prophets in the last days, "who worked signs in his presence 04:01 by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast 04:05 and those who worship the image." 04:08 Now, so much of the warnings that we read about in the Bible 04:11 are warning Christians against believing the enemy 04:17 because he is a--he's a deceiver. 04:21 Now, the story I'd like to use as a template for the points I 04:24 want to make today is found in the Book of Numbers. 04:27 So if you have your Bibles, you might join me by going 04:29 to Numbers 13. 04:31 And I'll be setting the stage for you hear. 04:35 Numbers chapter 13, here the children of Israel are 04:38 on the borders of the Jordan River. 04:42 Originally, God's plan was save them from Egypt. 04:46 He miraculously fed them on their way to the Mount Sinai. 04:50 There at Mount Sinai they got the Ten Commandments. 04:53 He gave them instructions on building the sanctuary. 04:55 They built the sanctuary, better understood the plan 04:58 of salvation, and then go on into the promised land. 05:01 That was God's plan. 05:02 But there were some distractions along the way. 05:06 Something went wrong. 05:09 As they got to the borders, right there at the threshold 05:12 of the promised land, the Jordan River, and can look 05:15 across the river and see the promised land. 05:17 They're right there. 05:18 It's right within their reach. 05:20 And don't forget, the reason it's called the promised land is 05:22 because God promised to give it to them. 05:25 But they began to doubt the promise. 05:27 And so they said to Moses, "You know, nobody has been there 05:32 in a long time." 05:33 I mean, you think about it, who were the last Jews that were 05:35 in the promised land at this point? 05:38 When Jacob and his family came out over 200 years earlier, 05:42 there's no record of any of the Jewish people going back 05:44 from Egypt to visit or vacation in the promised land. 05:47 They had not seen it in over two centuries. 05:51 And so they said, "You know we're going to take this land, 05:53 but we don't--nobody here has lived, nobody in this two 05:57 million people that came out of Egypt know anything 06:00 about it. 06:01 We need to send some spies over and take a look at it." 06:05 So the Lord gave them permission. 06:06 Now, when you read it here in Numbers 13, it sounds 06:08 like it's God's idea. 06:10 But you read in Deuteronomy chapter 1, and it says, "The 06:13 people came and said, 'Let's have some spies.'" 06:17 They started having second thoughts. 06:19 So they went up and they spied out the land. 06:20 I'm in verse 21, Numbers chapter 13, "From the wilderness of Zin 06:26 as far as Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. 06:29 And they went through the south and they came to Hebron, Ahiman, 06:33 Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, 06:36 were there." 06:37 Anak was this giant king. 06:40 I think he had a bed that was 13 feet long. 06:44 Now, keep that in mind, Goliath's only 9 1/2 feet. 06:48 So he was the giant of the giants. 06:50 Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol and they cut 06:53 down a branch with one cluster of grapes and they carried it 06:57 between two of them on a pole. 06:59 And it says, "They brought some of the pomegranates 07:01 and the figs. 07:03 And the place where they cut down the grapes was Eshcol, 07:05 because the cluster that the men cut down." 07:07 And that means cluster. 07:09 "And they returned from spying out the land after 40 days." 07:14 Now, I'm gonna stop here and just let you know that there 07:17 was soon discovered a different attitude between two 07:21 of the spies and ten of the spies. 07:25 And it unfolded something like this, after they crossed 07:30 over the Jordan River and the first big city they saw 07:32 there was Jericho, Joshua and Caleb said, "Look at all 07:37 the palm trees. 07:38 Look at the size of the dates. 07:40 Look at the spring--" later known as the Spring of Elisha. 07:43 And Karen and I and some of us here were there this year. 07:47 And they saw the waters and they saw this is like the Garden 07:49 of Eden. 07:51 It's beautiful. 07:52 But ten of the spies said, "Are you guys out of your mind? 07:54 Look at the walls. 07:56 How could we ever conquer a city with walls that are that thick 08:00 and that high and that well fortified? 08:02 Look at the thickness of the gates. 08:04 How are we ever going to conquer a fortress like this?" 08:08 And two of them, they said, "I don't know, that's 08:10 God's problem. 08:11 He'll work it out. 08:13 I mean, look what he just did for us. 08:14 He brought us out of Egypt. 08:15 Have you forgotten all the miracles?" 08:17 A year hadn't gone by since the ten plagues fell 08:19 on Egypt. 08:20 They had overcome the greatest empire in the world. 08:23 So Joshua and Caleb said, "Well, I don't know how God's 08:25 going to do it. 08:27 But hey, He's God. 08:28 He'll do it." 08:30 Believe the Lord. 08:31 He said, "It's the promised land." 08:33 He made a promise. 08:34 Let's believe his promise. 08:35 Ten of them said, "There's no way." 08:37 They go up to the area of Hebron where the Anakim live, 08:41 the giants. 08:42 And from the bushes they looked and they saw the giants coming 08:45 in and out of the gates. 08:47 Bumping their heads every time because they're so tall. 08:50 They said, "Man, we're like grasshoppers in their 08:52 sight." 08:54 And Caleb, he said, "Wow." 08:56 He's sticking his hands in the soil and pulling up this 08:59 rich human soil. 09:01 He said, "You can grow anything here. 09:02 This is great. 09:04 Look at the springs, the southern exposure. 09:05 Look at the size of these olive trees." 09:08 And Caleb and Joshua were thinking, "What a beautiful 09:11 country." 09:12 And the other guy said, "You guys are out of your mind. 09:16 How can we ever conquer a nation of giants? 09:18 Had nobody like this in Egypt." 09:21 They said, "Well, I don't know. 09:23 But it's God's problem." 09:26 And it just kept happening like that. 09:27 As they went from place to place over 40 days, ten of them kept 09:32 looking at the obstacles, two of them kept looking 09:36 at the promises. 09:38 And two of them refused to be discouraged by the pessimism 09:46 of the majority. 09:49 Now, keep in mind they were all church members. 09:55 Two of them believed all things are possible with God. 09:58 Ten of them did not believe that. 10:00 Ten of them were believing the devil, who is whispering 10:04 doubt and fear to their minds all the time. 10:09 announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 10:12 free resource. 10:13 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 10:15 download a digital copy straight to your computer or 10:18 mobile device. 10:20 To get your copy of today's free gift, simply call us and ask 10:23 for the offer number shown on your screen or visit the web 10:26 address and download a digital copy. 10:29 And be sure to select a digital download option on the 10:32 request page. 10:33 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's word 10:36 with "Amazing Facts" wherever and whenever you want, and most 10:39 important, to share it with others. 10:44 Doug: Now, this is just an old story. 10:45 It would have nothing to do with us today, right? 10:49 So after 40 days, It says, "They returned--" this is verse 25, 10:55 "From spying out the land." 10:57 Verse 26, "And they departed. 10:59 They came back to Moses and Aaron and all 11:02 the congregation of the children of Israel in the wilderness 11:04 of Paran at Kadesh. 11:06 And they brought back word to them and to all 11:09 the congregation." 11:10 The congregation is--they're lookin' through their 11:12 binoculars. 11:13 They didn't have binoculars. 11:15 So they would do this with their eyes. 11:16 They're looking down the road and they keep waiting for these 11:18 spies to return. 11:19 And finally they see some figures on the horizon coming 11:23 in that they say, "They're coming." 11:25 And they blow the trumpet. 11:26 All the congregation comes together. 11:27 They want to hear this report. 11:29 They've been waiting over a month to find out. 11:31 You know, we've come out of Egypt for this moment 11:33 to go into the promised land. 11:34 We don't know what it looks like. 11:36 This is the closest thing we're going to get to video or, you 11:40 know, a newspaper of what's there. 11:43 And so they come back and all the people gather. 11:46 But evidently, I think that two of them outran ten of them. 11:53 Because it seems like the report changes. 11:56 So they came back to Moses and Aaron and all 11:58 the congregation of the children of Israel, and they brought 12:01 back word. 12:03 And they showed them the fruit of the land. 12:04 See, I think Joshua and Caleb were the ones to--the grapes 12:07 were carried between two of them. 12:10 Ten of them thought, Oh, why bother? 12:11 We're never gonna eat these grapes. 12:13 We'll never have this land. 12:15 But Caleb and Joshua said, Oh, we've got to show this 12:16 to the people. 12:18 And knowing how negative their friends were, I think that they 12:20 outran them even though they're probably surrounded by fruit 12:25 flies because they've got grapes and it says figs. 12:29 And they've probably got pomelos and pomegranate and sticky dates 12:33 in their pockets. 12:34 And Joshua and Caleb, they're just thinking about the fruit 12:38 of the land. 12:40 They've come and they bring the report and they come. 12:41 And here's verse 27. 12:43 This is Caleb and Joshua. 12:44 "Then they told them, they said We went to the land where you 12:47 sent us and truly it flows with milk and honey, and this is 12:52 the fruit." 12:54 And you can just hear it all the congregations goin' ooh. 12:57 You know, their plucking off these grapes and they're 12:59 tossing them and saying, "Incoming." 13:01 Tossing the fruit to everybody and everyone's goin' "Yes." 13:03 They're rejoicing and things are really positive until the other 13:07 ten came dragging up. 13:09 And here's where you have the majority report. 13:13 You have to decide today if you want to believe the minority 13:15 report or the majority report. 13:18 The majority report was, "Nevertheless, the people who 13:22 dwell in the land are strong. 13:24 And the cities are fortified and very large. 13:28 Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there--" the giants, 13:32 "And the Amalekites dwell in the land to the South, 13:35 and the Hittites and the Jebusites 13:37 and the Amorites and the Termites, they dwell 13:39 in the mountains. 13:41 And the Canaanites dwell by the sea along the banks 13:43 of the Jordan." 13:45 And the next verse says, Caleb quieted the people. 13:48 Now why did Caleb need to quiet the people? 13:51 What do you think was happening when the ten finally caught 13:54 up and they began to say, "Ooh, they, the people are so big 14:00 and they're so many and their cities are fortified. 14:02 And they're trained and ready for war, and they can defend it. 14:06 And the giants lived there." 14:08 And they had nothing good to say. 14:10 Did you notice that? 14:11 The second part of the report, nothing good to say. 14:15 And so Caleb saw that the opinion was changing 14:19 and the people were becoming discouraged, and he 14:21 quieted them. 14:23 Now, this is the crux of the whole story. 14:25 This is really really important that you catch this 14:28 next passage. 14:29 Verse 30, Numbers 13, verse 30. 14:32 "Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and he said, 14:37 'Let us go up at once.'" 14:40 He said not only can we take it, we can take it today. 14:43 And he had just gone 40 days. 14:45 He said, "Let us go up at once and take possession for we are 14:51 well able to overcome it." 14:55 Based on what? 14:56 How could he say that? 14:58 Based on what had already happened over the last year. 15:00 God had provided everything for them. 15:02 He had given them victory over the most of--these are 15:05 the people who built the pyramids. 15:06 There's nothing that was in the promised land like what 15:08 you find in Egypt. 15:10 God had overcome the Egyptians. 15:11 He says, "This is nothing for God. 15:13 We're well able." 15:14 He had faith based on past evidence. 15:19 Now does God want us to have faith? 15:21 Does He want us to have blind faith? 15:25 All real faith, I believe, is based on evidence. 15:29 Why did David think he could kill Goliath? 15:33 Did he tell Saul? 15:35 He said, "When I was a boy, a bear came. 15:38 And I went out after the bear and I smote It and killed it. 15:42 And then a lion came. 15:44 And I went out after the lion and I smote it and I killed it." 15:46 I believe Goliath will be like the bear and the lion. 15:48 God showed me that he can use me to kill animals that are bigger 15:51 and stronger than I am. 15:53 I think I can kill the giant with God's help. 15:56 So he had evidence. 15:58 Has God ever giving you evidence to believe? 16:01 Has he ever given you any victories? 16:03 Have you had any answered prayers upon which to base 16:06 your faith? 16:09 Caleb said, "We're able." 16:11 He wasn't just having some kind of irrational warm feeling that 16:15 made him think it. 16:16 He said, "I believe based on the evidence of all God has 16:19 provided for us on all the deliverance we've received 16:21 and the victories we've received." 16:23 The Amalekites that attacked them in the wilderness. 16:25 They got victory with Joshua when Moses held up his hands. 16:28 That was behind them now. 16:30 They had that evidence too. 16:31 Said, "I believe that God will give us victory." 16:34 But the other ten spies said, "We are not able." 16:37 Now here you have it, friends. 16:39 "We are able or we are not able." 16:45 Which is it? 16:47 Do you know you have the same decision to grapple with today? 16:51 Now, don't miss these are all church leaders. 16:57 Isn't that right? 17:00 Now what is the giant? 17:02 Are we at war against the Amalekites, 17:04 the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Canaanites, the Amorites, 17:07 the Anakim? 17:09 No. 17:10 It's the devil, right? 17:12 In his many forms. 17:14 And some believe that Christians are just forgiven, that we can't 17:18 overcome. 17:20 And others believe, no we are able to overcome. 17:23 And Jesus said in Revelation chapter 2 and 3, "To him that 17:27 overcomes, to him that overcomes, to him--" 17:29 He says it seven times. 17:31 Why would Jesus say to him that overcomes all these promises if 17:34 it wasn't possible for you to overcome? 17:36 The question is do you believe Jesus? 17:39 Or do you believe the devil? 17:42 "Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present 17:47 you faultless before the presence of his glory 17:50 with exceeding joy." 17:51 Jude commends his book with a benediction saying, "You 17:55 can surrender yourself to the one who is able to keep 17:59 you from falling." 18:01 How did the children of Israel ultimately take the promised 18:04 land? 18:06 One day at a time. 18:08 And, you know, it didn't happen in one day or one week or one 18:10 month. 18:12 It was over a year. 18:13 It was several years. But they did take it. 18:16 How are we able to be victorious in our battles with the devil? 18:18 The same way. 18:20 One day at a time. 18:21 Sometimes it's one little temptation at a time. 18:24 Moment by moment, you are able. 18:28 Now, was it true that the Canaanites were better 18:30 armed? 18:32 Yes. 18:33 Were their cities better fortified? 18:36 Yes. 18:37 Were the people there physically bigger and stronger? 18:41 Yes. 18:42 Were the people more numerous? 18:45 Yes. 18:46 Did that matter when you're fighting with God? 18:49 No. 18:51 Because the Bible says one of you will chase a thousand. 18:55 This is why Joshua--I'm sorry, why Jonathan could be victorious 18:58 when he and his armor bearer went against the Philistines. 19:00 He said, "There's no restraint with the Lord, whether to save 19:03 by few or many." 19:04 So the two of them went against 20 and they won. 19:09 One person with faith in God is a majority, whatever the problem 19:15 happens to be. 19:16 So we've gotta decide, do we believe or not? 19:20 The just shall live by faith, faith in God. 19:23 Faith is not faith if you see the obvious. 19:25 Faith becomes important when it doesn't look like you're going 19:29 to win, but you believe in an outside power that's 19:31 greater. 19:33 F. B Meyer said, 19:34 "Unbelief puts our circumstances between us 19:36 and God. 19:37 Faith puts God between us and our circumstances." 19:41 When you've got faith in God, you might see a mountain. 19:43 And you go, "I don't know how we're going to get over that 19:44 mountain." 19:45 Well, don't look at the mountain. 19:47 Put God between you and the mountain. 19:49 And that might be a mountain of temptation or sin or whatever 19:52 the problems are in your life. 19:54 That's what makes a Christian a Christian. 19:56 "A weak faith is weakened by predicaments 19:59 and catastrophes, whereas a strong faith is strengthened 20:03 by them," Viktor Frankl said. 20:06 Someone else wrote, "Faith sees the invisible, believes 20:09 the incredible, receives the impossible." 20:12 So you've got one group says, "We can do it." 20:14 The other group says, "We can't do it." 20:17 I want to go to verse 32 of chapter 13, just finish this 20:19 chapter out. 20:21 "And they--" the ten spies, "gave the children of Israel 20:26 a bad report of the land that they spied out, saying, 'The 20:30 land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours 20:33 the inhabitants.'" 20:34 Isn't it, isn't it amazing how two groups 20:37 can look at the same thing and see something so different? 20:41 They're looking at the same thing. 20:43 One group is saying, "It truly flows with milk and honey 20:45 and it's sweet and here's the produce of it." 20:48 And the other one says, "It eats up the inhabitants." 20:51 Well, which is it? 20:53 Have you ever heard the little quip that says two men looked 20:56 out of prison bars, one saw mud and one saw stars. 21:01 Depends on where you're looking. 21:04 I heard about this guy that worked with a Christian lady. 21:07 And she was just always so positive. 21:08 He was negative. 21:10 He was an atheist. 21:11 And she was a Christian, and she was a believer. 21:14 And she was just always so positive. 21:15 No matter what happened, she'd always turn it around and say 21:18 something positive. 21:19 And it used to irritate him. 21:21 He tried to get her to join him in his bad news and complaining 21:26 about the government and the job and everything else, and that 21:29 they could commiserate together. 21:30 But she'd always turn around make him feel bad because 21:32 she was always positive. 21:35 And he thought, "I got her. 21:38 She's a Christian." 21:39 So he went to her one day. 21:41 He said, "What do you think of that old devil?" 21:45 She said, "Well, he certainly is busy isn't he?" 21:48 Always saying something positive no matter what. 21:53 So these--ten of these spies, they couldn't think of anything 21:55 nice to say. 21:57 "And we were like grasshoppers in our own sight 22:00 before the children of Anak." 22:03 The devil will make you feel so puny. 22:06 "So the congregation--" chapter 14, verse 1, "all 22:09 the congregation lifted up their voices and they cried. 22:12 And the people wept all night. 22:14 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses--" they 22:18 took it out on the leaders, "they complained against Aaron. 22:22 And they said, 'If only we had died in the land of Egypt.'" 22:25 Be careful what you pray about. 22:28 "Or if only we had died in this wilderness. 22:30 Why has the Lord brought us out to destroy us and our 22:34 children by the sword, that we should be victims? 22:38 Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?" 22:42 So they said let's select a different leader and return 22:44 to Egypt. 22:46 They said let's find a leader that believes like us. 22:49 They didn't want one that would tell them the truth. 22:51 They said let's find one that'll tell us what we want to hear. 22:54 "And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces 22:56 before the assembly of the congregation 22:58 of the children of Israel. 23:00 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, 23:03 who were among those who had spied out the land, they tore 23:06 their clothes and they spoke to all the congregation 23:09 of the children of Israel saying, 'The land through which 23:11 we passed to spy out is an exceedingly good land.'" 23:15 It's not just a good land. 23:16 He said, "It's an exceedingly good land. 23:19 If the Lord delights in one--" says "it's a land that devours 23:23 the inhabitants." 23:24 Well, if they devours the inhabitants and how did all 23:26 their enemies seem to be thriving? 23:28 "If the Lord delights in us, he'll bring us into this land 23:31 and give it to us, a land that flows in milk and honey. 23:34 Only do not rebel against the Lord or fear 23:37 the people of the land, for they're our bread. 23:39 We'll eat them up. 23:40 Their protection has departed from them. 23:42 And the Lord is with us." 23:44 This is why Caleb and Joshua, they can look right out there. 23:47 Here they are complaining God's never going to bring us 23:49 into the promised land. 23:50 Are you aware that right there within sight they could see 23:52 the Shekinah glory above the tent? 23:56 And they still were neglecting the evidence of God's presence. 24:01 You know I'm convinced that all you've got to do is listen 24:03 to the devil for five minutes. 24:04 You might have 50 years of miracles. 24:06 You will forget those 50 years of miracles in five minutes 24:09 of listening to the devil. 24:12 The ones who believed that God could save them were saved. 24:17 The ones who believe they would make it to the promised land 24:20 made it to the promised land. 24:23 It doesn't say that Joshua and Caleb were smarter than 24:26 everyone else. 24:27 It doesn't say they had bigger muscles than everyone else, they 24:30 had more self control than everybody else. 24:32 They had more faith than the others. 24:36 Their faith, their trust, was that God could do it for them. 24:41 And God did it because they believed. 24:45 Do you associate with positive people? 24:50 He that walks with wise men will be wise. 24:54 He that walks with complainers will complain. 24:58 You know, I think it's important for Christians--and we all have 25:00 friends that might want to, you know, bend our ear 25:02 with a problem. 25:04 And you can pray with them. 25:05 And we want to encourage each other. 25:06 But, you know, I think we ought to search out, we ought to try 25:09 to be people of faith and encouragement. 25:12 People who believe in victory, that God can give us victory not 25:15 just always talk about grace and defeat. 25:17 I believe that God forgives sin. 25:19 I thank God for his grace. 25:20 But if we're always focusing on Jesus on the cross, and we 25:24 don't focus on Jesus risen, that he can live a new life in us, 25:28 then it's always about just being forgiven, and it's not 25:31 about victory. 25:34 And Christ wants his people to be a people who believe 25:36 in old things are passed away. 25:38 All things are made new. 25:40 I am a new creature. 25:41 I am born again. 25:43 It's the new birth. 25:45 This is the power of the gospel. 25:47 Amen. 25:52 announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 25:54 free resource. 25:56 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 25:58 download a digital copy straight to your computer or mobile 26:01 device. 26:02 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, simply 26:05 text the keyword on your screen to 40544 or visit the web 26:09 address shown on your screen, and be sure to select a digital 26:13 download option on the request page. 26:15 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's word 26:18 with "Amazing Facts" wherever and whenever you want, and most 26:22 important, to share it with others. 26:26 announcer: What if you could know the future? 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