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00:03 is brought to you by the friends 00:04 of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:08 (chiming music) 00:15 - Who was Jesus? Was He a liar? 00:17 Was He a lunatic or was He the Lord? 00:22 (air whooshing) 00:24 Our message this morning probably could be classified 00:27 as important as anything I could talk about, 00:31 because I'm reminded as every now 00:33 and then I mingle with the people in our culture 00:37 that a lot of folks, 00:38 while they may hear the name of Jesus from time to time, 00:42 they really have no idea who Jesus is. 00:47 And I thought it would be valuable 00:49 and appropriate to talk a little bit. 00:52 And sometimes we need reminding about that subject, 00:56 who is Jesus? 00:58 I wasn't sure how to title this sermon, 01:00 because when you say who is Jesus, 01:02 it sounds like He's present tense. 01:04 And some people think you should title it. 01:06 Who was Jesus, 01:09 but either way you word it, people want to know who is He? 01:13 Where did He come from? 01:15 Somebody wrote this beautiful passage one time 01:18 where they said, 01:19 "All the armies that have ever marched 01:21 and all the Navys that have ever sailed. 01:23 All the parliaments that have ever sat 01:25 and all the Kings that have ever reigned 01:27 put together have not affected life upon Earth is powerfully 01:31 as this one solitary life." 01:33 When you think about the way that Jesus 01:35 was born in comparative obscurity, 01:39 and He never did all the typical things that usually do, 01:42 you know greatness, He never led an army into battle. 01:45 He never led a Navy. 01:47 It doesn't tell us that He ever wrote a book. 01:50 He didn't do any of the things 01:53 that you typically think of with greatness. 01:54 We don't know what He looked like. 01:56 There's a lot of artist renditions of what looked like, 01:59 but there's nothing contemporary from His day. 02:02 And yet He changed all of history. 02:06 While we're talking about history, 02:08 you've got AB and BC and they use new terms today. 02:11 But we used to call that Before Christ and After Death 02:14 or the year of our Lord, 02:16 all of history is dated from His birth. 02:18 So how can you doubt that He lived? 02:19 If you look in the encyclopedia, 02:21 it doesn't cast any doubt on whether or not He lived. 02:24 So we know He lived the real question you've gotta decide. 02:29 Was He a liar? 02:30 Was He a lunatic or was He the Lord? 02:33 Who was Jesus? 02:35 Did God come to our Earth in the form of a man to save us? 02:40 Oh, I want to read something first by A.W Tozer. 02:42 He said, "Christ is not one of many ways to approach God. 02:46 He's not the best of several ways. 02:48 He is the only way." 02:51 Anyone who comes to God must come through Christ. 02:53 And while Buddha may have said a number of profound things, 02:57 and you might have some profound sayings from Krishna 03:01 and Mohamed and the different religions of the world, 03:04 nobody spoke like Jesus. 03:05 And none of them died as a sacrifice 03:09 for the sins of the world. 03:10 There's something very clearly different about Jesus. 03:13 Jesus is the only Redeemer with God. 03:17 He's the only mediator with God. 03:19 Christ is the bridge between heaven and Earth. 03:24 Jesus said to Nathaniel, 03:26 "Hereafter, you will see the angels of God ascending 03:29 and descending on the Son of Man." 03:31 None of the other religious leaders of the world say, 03:33 "I am the way the truth and the life to God." 03:36 He didn't say, "I'm one of the ways." 03:38 He said, "I am the way." 03:40 He didn't say, "I'm one of the truths, 03:42 all rivers lead to the ocean. 03:43 I'm just one of them." 03:45 He said, "I am the truth. 03:46 I am the life." 03:49 So why did Jesus come? 03:50 So where do we look to get the information for this? 03:54 There are over 300 Old Testament prophecies 03:58 that talk about what to expect 04:00 when the Messiah comes through. 04:02 We're not going to look at all 300, 04:04 but we're going to look at some basic categories 04:06 to find out who is Jesus. 04:10 Especially, you'll find a lot in the Psalms. 04:13 Over 300 Old Testament prophecies reference the anointed. 04:17 First prophecy you're going to find in the Bible regarding 04:20 the Messiah coming is actually in Genesis 3:15. 04:23 We'll put that on the screen. 04:25 Here it says, 04:27 when God was speaking to Adam and Eve after the fall, 04:31 He said, "I will put enmity." 04:33 That's similar to the word enemy. 04:35 It means there's animosity. 04:36 There's friction. 04:37 There's an adversarial relationship 04:40 between the and the woman. 04:41 He was talking to the serpent. 04:43 "Between your seed and her seed." 04:46 The seed of the woman, 04:48 talking about this promised seed 04:50 that was going to come through humanity was the Messiah. 04:54 "He," the seed of the woman, 04:56 "Will bruise your head." 04:58 God says to the serpent or the devil 05:00 that the seed of the woman, Christ would bruise your head. 05:02 A mortal wound to the head. 05:03 "And you will bruise His heel." 05:05 You will impede his progress or slow his walk down. 05:08 So this first prophecies found right 05:10 there in Genesis chapter three, 05:11 they were looking for a savior, 05:12 the seed of the woman that would come, 05:14 that would defeat the serpent that caused the fall of man 05:18 and the loss of paradise. 05:19 Through Christ paradise is restored. 05:23 So let's look at some of those prophecies. 05:25 For one thing, in John 1:45, 05:30 after Philip found Jesus, 05:32 he then goes and he tells Nathaniel, 05:34 "We have found Him of who Moses in the law. 05:37 And also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, 05:41 the son of Joseph." 05:42 He said Moses and the prophets and the law all talked 05:45 about this man. 05:46 It all pointed to this one individual, 05:49 where did Jesus come from? 05:52 Now we alluded to that there in John chapter eight, 05:54 but let's look at some other verses. 05:56 John 19:8, 05:58 matter of fact, Pontius Pilate during the trial of Jesus. 06:01 He asked that very question, "Where are you from? 06:05 Where did you come from?" 06:08 Jesus said in John 6:38, 06:11 "For I have come down from heaven." 06:15 Now, if I said that to you, 06:17 you'd probably asked me to get some counseling. 06:21 So, or you, you know there are people 06:23 out there that would think that I snuck away 06:24 from area 51 in Nevada. 06:27 I was an alien, but Jesus wasn't talking 06:30 about being an extraterrestrial. 06:32 He was saying He came from the Father. 06:34 He made that very clear and we read just a moment ago. 06:36 He said, "I'm going back to the Father." 06:38 This is a messenger. 06:39 And when you talk about the Father, 06:41 we're not talking about a God of a certain solar system 06:45 or a certain galaxy. 06:47 Biblically when you're talking about the Father, 06:48 you're talking about thee God of everything. 06:52 Think about the amenity of space and how big God must be, 06:55 how awesome God is. 06:57 And when Jesus says that I made all that 07:00 and I am the Son of God and I've come from God. 07:03 Wow! That's a pretty bold claim. 07:06 That's a pretty amazing claim that He came from God. 07:10 Again, Jesus answered and said, 07:12 "My kingdom is not of this world." 07:14 He told Pilate if my kingdom was of this world, 07:16 then would my citizens fight 07:18 but my kingdom is not now of this world. 07:22 Did Jesus claim to be God? 07:24 Did He claim divinity? 07:27 Is He just another man? 07:29 Or was He the commingling of the divine and human? 07:33 John 8:58. 07:36 "Jesus said to them, 07:37 'Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.'" 07:44 You remember when Moses was talking to God 07:47 at the burning bush and he said, 07:48 "So exactly which God are you? 07:50 What's your name? 07:51 What shall I say to the people of Israel? 07:53 Who are you that you are sending me? 07:56 Do you have a business card?" 07:58 How did God introduce himself to Moses? 08:01 He said, "I AM that I AM." 08:03 It's not that I once was, or I will be. 08:06 The phrase I Am means, 08:07 I AM everlasting to everlasting. 08:09 I AM the self existent one. I AM eternal. 08:13 Christ was claiming to be God and to be eternal. 08:17 Says there would be something unique about His birth. 08:21 Now everybody alive was born at some point, 08:25 but Jesus was born in a very unique way. 08:28 And a prophecy told this was going to happen 500 years 08:30 before the event. 08:32 Isaiah 7:14, 08:34 "The Lord will give you a sign; 08:35 Behold, a virgin will conceive and bear a son 08:38 and you will call His name Emmanuel." 08:41 Now that doesn't happen very often, does it? 08:44 Was Jesus born of a virgin? 08:47 Doesn't it say that? 08:49 You can read the next verse here in Matthew 1:18. 08:54 "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows; 08:57 After His mother Mary was betroth to Joseph, 09:01 before they came together." 09:04 This was not some laboratory insemination. 09:07 It said that the Holy Spirit would overshadow her, 09:10 before Joseph and Mary came together. 09:12 She was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. 09:17 And God said that, that would happen. 09:20 The Bible records that it did happen. 09:22 The place of His birth is identified. 09:24 Now you're getting very specific because it's going to mention 09:27 the town of Bethlehem 09:29 and you can read this passage in Micah 5:2, 09:34 he interrogated the scribes and he said, 09:37 "Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?" 09:39 And they said, "We know exactly 09:40 where He's supposed to be born. 09:41 He's supposed to be born in Bethlehem." 09:43 And so there was no question about that. 09:46 Bethlehem, 09:48 there are actually two towns in Israel called Bethlehem. 09:50 I didn't know how many there are, 09:51 but I know there are scores of towns 09:53 in North America called Farmington. 09:55 You know I'm talking about, 09:57 there's a lot some towns that have very common names. 10:00 You can find all over North America. 10:02 I think we've got a few James towns 10:05 and you got a few towns called Paris. 10:07 There's Paris, Maine. There's a Paris, Texas. 10:09 I don't know why you'd come to America 10:11 and name anything Paris. 10:12 But anyway they did. 10:13 Well in the promise land, 10:15 the word Bethlehem means house of bread. 10:18 And there were a couple of Bethlehems, 10:20 but you notice it specifies the Bethlehem 10:22 where Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin, 10:26 which was Bethlehem Efrata, 10:28 which is just outside Jerusalem. 10:30 So this prophecy in Micah not only tells, 10:32 what town it delineates specifically, 10:35 which Bethlehem Jesus was going to come from. 10:38 A matter of fact, 10:40 it was so clear that when king Herod saw the Wisemen coming, 10:45 he interrogated the scribes and he said, 10:47 "Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?" 10:49 And they said, 10:51 "We know exactly where he is supposed to be born. 10:52 He's supposed to be born in Bethlehem." 10:54 And so there was no question about that. 10:57 Now there's a very interesting prophecy. 10:59 This really could be a prophecy that also tells 11:01 the time of his birth in Matthew. 11:03 I'm sorry. 11:04 In Daniel chapter nine, Daniel 9:25. 11:08 There's a prophecy. It's the 490 year prophecy. 11:12 Part of that prophecy is called the 483 Year Segment. 11:16 And that's where it says in verse 25. 11:19 "No one understand, that from the going forth of the command 11:23 to restoring and build Jerusalem," 11:25 which was given in 457 BC by King Ahasuerus. 11:29 "Unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks 11:33 and three score in two weeks." 11:35 So it's actually the decree of Artaxerxes. 11:38 I was getting Esther mixed up with Nehemiah. 11:40 King Artaxerxes in 457 BC gave that decree. 11:44 Seven weeks in Jewish prophecy, 11:48 a day equals a year. 11:50 Now you'll see a few references for this. 11:52 Ezekiel 4:6, "I have appointed you each day for a year." 11:55 You can also read that principle in Numbers 14:35. 11:58 Even the words of Jesus in a parable, 12:00 He tells in Luke 13:32. 12:02 He makes it clear that in a prophecy, 12:04 you use a principle of a day for a year. 12:07 So when you go and you add up the time period 12:11 here in Daniel, where he says seven weeks and 62 weeks, 12:15 seven plus 62 is how much? 12:18 69, 69. 12:20 A week has got how many days? 12:23 A week has how many days? 12:25 I gave you an easy one. Come on, help me. 12:27 Seven days. 12:29 So you add that up and you've got 483 years, 12:35 69 weeks, 483 days, a day is a year, 483 years. 12:40 If you count from the start of the decree 12:42 to rebuild Jerusalem, 457 BC given by Artaxerxes, 12:47 and then you go 483 prophetic years 12:50 or regular years to 80, 27. 12:54 That's exactly when Jesus was baptized. 12:57 And you can read about that in John 1, 13:00 when Jesus came to the Jordan river, 13:02 He knew His time had come and right at His 30th birthday, 13:06 He was baptized. 13:07 John the Baptist said he saw Jesus coming. 13:10 "Behold! The Lamb of God 13:11 who takes away the sin of the world." 13:14 Jesus was that lamb that they had been looking for. 13:17 Abraham said to Isaac, when Isaac said, 13:19 "Lord, our Father, we've got the wood. 13:22 We've got the fire, but where is the sacrifice?" 13:24 Abraham said, 13:26 "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb." 13:28 Finally, they're all looking for the lamb of God. 13:30 The Anointed, the Messiah. 13:32 John says, "There He is. 13:33 This is the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world. 13:36 This is the seed of the woman. 13:37 This is the one that we've been looking for all this time." 13:40 And he identified Him several times. 13:42 And that's why Philip and Peter and Nathaniel 13:45 all began to follow Him then, 13:47 because He had been flagged by John the Baptist, 13:50 as the Lamb of God. 13:52 Now I told you, 13:54 you could actually figure from Daniel's prophecy 13:56 when Jesus was born. 13:59 By the way, 14:01 there were a couple that were looking for His birth, 14:02 maybe because of Daniel's prophecy, 14:05 because they knew that it was going to be 483 years 14:08 from the command to rebuild Jerusalem 14:10 until the Messiah was anointed and began His ministry. 14:14 They could understand that a priest could not begin to teach 14:18 until he was 30. 14:20 King David did not begin to reign until he was 30. 14:23 Joseph went out to administrate over Egypt when he was 30. 14:27 So all they had to do was count back 30 years 14:30 from 80, 27 14:32 and find the birth of Christ around 4BC. 14:35 So even from that same prophecy, 14:37 you could have calculated about the time of His birth. 14:40 Don't go anywhere friends, 14:42 in just a moment will return 14:43 for the rest of today's presentation. 14:46 What if you had an extraordinary friend, always dependable, 14:50 consistently inspiring you to noble actions, 14:53 bringing out your best character traits 14:55 and loving you no matter what, 14:57 someone who would be with you throughout your entire life. 15:01 Well, according to the Bible, 15:02 you can find that friend in Jesus. 15:05 We have a beautiful full color resource 15:07 we'd like to give you that will help 15:08 you get to know Jesus like never before. 15:11 Thousands have become acquainted 15:13 with Him through this powerful life changing book 15:16 and have found in Him a best friend forever. 15:19 To get your free copy, 15:20 call the phone number on your screen 15:22 and ask for offer number 800 15:25 or visit the web address on the screen. 15:27 And after you read this incredible resource, 15:29 make sure and share it with a friend. 15:31 Well, let's get back now to today's presentation 15:35 and learn some more amazing facts about the word of God. 15:39 You can read there in Acts 10:38, 15:43 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit 15:46 and with power. 15:48 And He went about doing good and healing 15:50 all who were oppressed of the devil, 15:52 for God was with Him. 15:53 When Jesus was baptized, the Holy Spirit came down 15:56 and He was anointed with the Holy Spirit. 15:58 He was the anointed. 16:00 You don't hear about the miracles of Jesus, 16:01 unless you're reading something apocryphal. 16:03 You don't read about the miracles of Jesus before He was 30. 16:07 For the first 30 years of His life, 16:08 He lived as a man among men, just as you and I do. 16:13 And then He was anointed at His baptism. 16:15 He began as public ministry, 16:17 turned the world upside down in three and a half years. 16:20 And then that would be part of that 490 year prophecy. 16:26 And then it tells the nature of His ministry. 16:29 Matter of fact, Jesus quotes these very words in Nazareth 16:31 when He began His ministry, 16:33 Isaiah 61:1, 16:35 "Christ stood up in the synagogue of Nazareth, 16:37 His hometown church in Galilee. 16:40 And He said, 'The Spirit of the Lord God 16:42 is upon me because He has anointed me.'" 16:45 He's the anointed. 16:46 "To preach the good tidings to the meek. 16:48 He sent me to bind the brokenhearted, 16:51 to proclaim liberty to the captives 16:53 and the opening of prison to them that are bound, 16:55 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord 16:58 and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort 17:00 all that mourn." 17:02 Furthermore, 17:03 it tells us that He would speak and teach in parables. 17:06 King David said in Psalm 78. 17:09 "I will open my mouth in a parable. 17:11 I will utter dark sayings of old, 17:13 which we have heard and known. 17:14 And our fathers have told us regarding Christ." 17:17 It said that He spoke and He taught them in parables. 17:21 Without parable, He didn't say anything. 17:23 He often taught in allegories and illustrations. 17:27 And those that heard Him talk, say, 17:29 "Never, ever did a man speak like this man." 17:33 There's no man that could teach like Jesus. 17:36 People who went to arrest him, came back and said, 17:38 "Wow! Nobody speaks like this man." 17:42 It goes on. 17:44 And it tells us about His betrayal. 17:46 For instance, Psalm 41:9, 17:50 "Even my own familiar friend and whom I trusted, 17:53 who ate my bread has lifted up his heel against me." 17:57 Did Jesus eat a meal with bread with Judas 18:01 and Judas walked right out that door 18:03 and went to the priest and then led them to Christ? 18:07 It gives us even more detail about the betrayal of Jesus, 18:09 Zachariah 11:12 and 13. 18:13 "Then I said to them, 'If it is agreeable to you, 18:15 give me my wages and if not refrain.' 18:18 So they weighed out for my wages 30 pieces of silver." 18:22 Not only tells that He was sold for the price of a slave. 18:25 It tells what kind of metal it could have been copper. 18:27 It could have been gold. 18:29 It could have been bronze or silver says it was silver. 18:31 Tells how many pieces of silver. 18:35 "And the Lord said to me, 'Throw it to the potter,' 18:36 that princely sum and they set on me. 18:39 So they took 30 pieces of silver 18:41 and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter." 18:45 Now I don't have time to read it all, 18:46 but all the verses are in Matthew 27:3-7. 18:50 You can look that up. Matthew 27:3-7, 18:52 it tells how during the trial of Christ, 18:55 Judas overwhelm with a sense of guilt, 18:57 you know once the devil had used him, 18:59 he didn't need Judas anymore. 19:01 And Judas finally realizing what he had done, 19:03 came to his senses. 19:04 He betrayed the Son of God 19:06 and they were preparing to crucify Him. 19:08 He just was crushed by a sense of his guilt. 19:10 He went into the outskirts of the temple, 19:14 where He was being tried. 19:16 The Sanhedrin was meeting. 19:19 He said, I'd betray innocent blood. 19:20 He threw down the 30 pieces of silver. 19:23 They didn't want to take it because it was blood money. 19:25 They called it. 19:26 So they bought a potters field to bury strangers 19:28 in with the money. 19:29 That's all in the New Testament. 19:31 You know I don't know if I'm I, 19:33 lemme just say something here on the outset, 19:35 just to give you an idea. 19:37 All right, here we've got the book of Matthew. 19:38 Here's the New Testament. 19:40 This is the Old Testament. 19:43 Old Testament of course starts with Moses, 19:44 New Testament doesn't begin until the birth of Jesus. 19:48 These prophecies I'm reading to you about the Messiah. 19:50 They come from the Old Testament. 19:52 Not only do they come from the Old Testament, 19:54 even though there's no page here, 19:56 there ought to be a page in your Bible that says 400 years. 20:00 One page that just says 400 years silence. 20:03 There are 400 years between all these prophecies. 20:06 And when Jesus finally comes. 20:08 That prophecy I just read to you from Zachariah. 20:11 They couldn't have concocted 20:12 and made that up 400 years went by. 20:14 We know from the Dead Sea Scrolls 20:16 that these things were written before Jesus was born. 20:19 How could you fabricate? 20:21 How could you counterfeit? 20:23 How could you manufacture that prophecy would be fulfilled. 20:29 That Jesus would be betrayed 20:30 by a friend who ate bread with Him for 30 pieces of silver, 20:33 who would then throw it to the potters field 20:35 in the house of the Lord. 20:37 I mean, that's just one of thousands. 20:40 Oh, actually 300. 20:41 I got carried away. 20:43 Prophecies, there might be more, 20:45 but someone counted 300 and I believe it. 20:48 Tells about the manner of His death. 20:50 Now this is an incredible prophecy you read in Psalm 22. 20:53 "The congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. 20:56 They pierced my hands and my feet. 20:58 They divided my garments among them, 21:00 for my clothing they cast lots." 21:03 This is prophesy nearly 800 years before Jesus was born. 21:07 How could you know that? 21:09 And that's all in that one Psalm 21:11 and there are many Psalms, Psalm 34. 21:13 "He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken." 21:16 They've broken the bones of the thief on the right 21:18 and the left of Jesus because Jesus was the Passover Lamb. 21:21 And they were never to break the bones of the Passover Lamb. 21:24 They didn't break any of His bones, 21:26 just as the prophecy had said, "He guards my bones." 21:30 Jesus also claimed to be the Son of God, 21:34 not in the sense that we are all sons of God, 21:37 but in the unique sense 21:38 that He is the only begotten Son of God. 21:41 And He claimed to have the prerogatives 21:43 or the powers of the divine. 21:45 He claimed to be God. 21:47 Now those are some pretty bold claims. 21:50 What are you going to do with what Jesus says about Himself? 21:53 C.S. Lewis puts it this way. 21:55 "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things 21:57 that Jesus said, wouldn't be a great moral teacher. 22:00 He'd be a lunatic on the level of a man 22:02 who says He's a poached egg, 22:04 or else he'd be the devil of hell. 22:06 You must make your choice. 22:07 Either this man was and is the son of God 22:10 or else He's a mad man or something worse." 22:13 Someone else put it this way. 22:14 "Christ was either a conscious deceiver, diluted or divine. 22:20 He is either lunatic, liar, or Lord." 22:24 There is no escaping one of these three options. 22:27 You know there's three principle reasons that Jesus came. 22:30 First, He came to be our example. 22:34 He says in John 13:5, sorry, John 13:15, 22:38 "For I've given you an example 22:40 that you should do as I have done." 22:42 Part of the reason Jesus lived for 33 and a half years 22:45 among men is He said, "I want to show you how to live, 22:48 how to love each other, how to forgive. 22:51 I'm not just going to tell you to turn the other cheek. 22:53 I'm going to show you how it's done." 22:55 And He did, didn't He? 22:56 When He went through His trial, 22:59 I'm going to show you how to love and forgive each other. 23:01 The way He forgave. 23:03 He came point number two, to reveal the Father. 23:08 This world is very confused about who God is. 23:12 You know, 23:15 I don't know why it is that as I intermingle with people, 23:19 I hear Jesus name being used in profanity so frequently. 23:23 I've never heard people get mad, 23:25 hit their finger with the hammer and say, "O Buddha." 23:29 I don't hear them cite Muhammad's name or Allah or Krishna. 23:35 Why is it this diabolical focus 23:38 to especially scoring the name of Jesus? 23:44 That in itself ought to tell you there's a spiritual battle 23:46 out there. 23:48 World doesn't know who the Father is. 23:49 Jesus came to show us what the Father is like. 23:53 He said, "Have I been with you so long? 23:55 And you don't know me, Philip? 23:56 He that has seen me has seen the Father." 23:59 By the way that's John 14:9. 24:02 And then most importantly, 24:03 Jesus came to trade places with us. 24:06 We are all under a death sentence because of our sin 24:08 and our selfishness and Christ does not want to lose us. 24:12 He loves us and He said, " 24:13 I will come. I will take the penalty for your sin. 24:16 Not only take it, I will give you my strength and power. 24:19 I am going to be your substitute. 24:21 I will trade places with you." 24:24 He said, 24:26 "I will give you my goodness and I'll take your badness. 24:27 I will give you my strength and I'll take your weakness. 24:31 I will give you my life and I will take your death. 24:33 I will give you my peace and I will take your sufferings 24:36 and your misery." 24:37 He's offering that all as a gift that we receive by faith. 24:41 But you need to believe that He is who He said He is. 24:45 (air whooshing) 24:50 - [Announcer] Don't forget 24:51 to request today's life changing free resource. 24:53 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, 24:56 you can download a digital copy straight to your computer 24:58 or mobile device. 25:00 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, 25:02 simply text the keyword on your screen to 40544, 25:06 or visit the web address shown on your screen 25:09 and be sure to select the digital download option 25:11 on the request page. 25:13 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's Word 25:16 with Amazing Facts, 25:17 wherever, and whenever you want 25:19 and most important to share it with others. 25:24 female announcer: Let's face it, it's not always easy 25:26 to understand everything you read in the Bible. 25:29 With over 700,000 words contained in 66 books, 25:32 the Bible can generate a lot of questions. 25:35 To get biblical, straightforward answers, call into 25:38 "Bible Answers Live," a live, nationwide call-in radio program 25:42 where you can talk to Pastor Doug Bachelor, 25:44 and ask him your most difficult Bible questions. 25:47 For times and stations in your area, or to listen 25:49 to answers online, visit BAL.AmazingFacts.org. 25:55 female announcer: Have you ever skipped a meal? 25:57 Not a bad idea if you need to watch your waistline, 26:00 but there's a heavenly food you should never skip, 26:02 God's Word. 26:03 Yet, how can you dive in daily when you're so busy? 26:06 Amazing Facts has you covered, and it's as easy as signing up 26:09 for our daily devotional and verse of the day, 26:12 both sent directly to your inbox, 26:14 ready to bless, inspire, and inform you. 26:16 To start receiving the Amazing Facts Daily Devotional 26:19 and Verse of the Day, visit amazingfacts.org and click 26:23 on Bible Study in the main menu. 26:25 You'll be glad you did. 26:26 - Hello friends, 26:28 Pastor Doug Batchelor here with Amazing Facts. 26:30 When Susan's and Michael's whirlwind relationship led 26:33 to a wedding, 26:35 they had no idea how hard married life could be, 26:38 before they knew it, 26:39 they were on the stormy path towards divorce, 26:42 but that's when God led them to an Amazing Facts broadcast. 26:46 And there they saw the biblical view of marriage 26:49 as presented in knowing Jesus. 26:51 Finally, they understood what it meant 26:53 to love sacrificially like Christ. 26:55 And today, Susan and Michael are joyfully married, 26:58 sharing what they learned with others. 27:00 Now you friend have an opportunity to help someone today 27:04 and to make an eternal difference 27:05 for more people like Michael and Susan. 27:08 Your simple investment of faith in Amazing Facts, 27:11 will keep growing 27:13 and reaching more people with God's life changing word. 27:16 Would you preferably consider sending a gift today 27:19 to help others know Christ 27:20 and the wonderful truth that you've learned? 27:22 And it's easy to make a donation. 27:24 Give us a call at 877-506-1751. 27:30 The number again, 27:32 877-506-1751 27:36 or just visit give.amazingfacts.org 27:40 or send your gift to PO Box 1058, 27:44 Roseville, California 95678. 27:48 Thank you friends for watching Amazing Facts television. 27:51 Don't forget, share with others the amazing Bible facts 27:54 you're learning here every day. 27:56 (chiming music) 28:01 - [Announcer] Don't forget to request today's free offer. 28:03 It's sure to be a blessing, 28:05 and thank you for your continued support 28:07 as we take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. 28:10 We hope you'll join us next week 28:12 as we delve deep into the word of God 28:15 to explore more amazing facts. 28:24 This presentation was brought to you 28:25 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. |
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