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00:02 male announcer: This presentation is brought to you 00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:06 male announcer: Coming to you from New York City, at the 00:09 historic Manhattan Center, with your host, Doug Batchelor. 00:13 Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth 00:17 about Bible prophecy. 00:19 Explore the timeless wisdom of God's Word, and see how it 00:23 relates to our lives today. 00:25 Stay tuned, your "Amazing Facts" adventure begins now. 00:31 Doug Batchelor : We've got a problem and it's called sin. 00:35 And we have an answer called a Savior. 00:39 We've got a problem with this disease of sin in our natures, 00:45 and it is deadly, and Jesus came to take that deadly disease, to 00:50 take the penalty for that and to save us. 00:53 So I've kind of told you what the problem and the answer is 00:55 right here at the beginning, but I always like to start with an 00:58 amazing fact, and so we're going to go to the screen, and see 01:02 what we learn about this important subject along the way. 01:06 The largest meteorite that they've ever found on Earth is 01:10 called the Hoba space rock. 01:13 It was discovered in Namibia in 1920 when a farmer was 01:18 doing--when he was working with his plow, and he struck 01:23 something, and he thought, what is that? 01:25 And he dug around a little bit and it was a piece of iron. 01:28 But he kept digging and it kept getting bigger and bigger and 01:32 bigger, until pretty soon he realized he had found this 01:35 massive rock, they discovered after a while, it was a 01:38 meteorite over 9 feet long and maybe 9 feet wide, and largest 01:46 meteorite that they've ever found. 01:48 Several people have come and tried to chisel off pieces of 01:52 it, but it is so hard it breaks virtually every hacksaw blade 01:56 and chisel that they take to it. 01:59 They've never moved it from the place where it struck the earth 02:04 because it weighs about 66 tons. 02:07 And so it is a massive--a rock of ages you might say, and 02:12 thousands of tourists every year come to look at the 02:15 Hoba meteorite. 02:17 You know the Bible tells us that God, when He gave us the most 02:21 important words, The Ten Commandments, He wrote it with 02:26 finger on stone representing its unchanging nature, and that is 02:31 the law of God. 02:33 So we're going to be talking tonight about this very 02:36 important subject. 02:37 And you know, before we go to our first question, sometimes we 02:40 like to go out on the streets and see what we can learn 02:43 about that. 02:44 And so if--at this time, we're going to go find out what do 02:47 people think about the law, does it still exist, and maybe 02:51 something about the answer as well. 02:54 male: I think it's important that we have laws of society 02:56 because it keeps things stable by creating a level of 03:00 consistency and knowing that justice will be served to 03:05 everyone, hopefully, equally, even though that doesn't 03:08 always happen. 03:09 female: To keep people in line, to know that somebody's going to 03:12 do something, you know. 03:13 male: You got to keep things in order, honestly, really, got to 03:15 keep things in order. 03:17 Run around lawless, it's going to be chaos, you know. 03:20 female: People need guidelines. 03:22 You know, just as a little child, you know, they need rules 03:25 to follow, and if there are no rules which are laws, it could 03:29 be chaos. 03:30 male: Not one in particular that stands out--anything more 03:34 important than the rest. 03:36 female: Probably not to covet your neighbor. 03:41 Be happy with what you have, not worry about what everybody 03:44 else has. 03:45 male: Thou shalt not kill or murder. 03:48 female: I can't name them all, but thou shall not kill, I'm not 03:52 real sure. 03:53 male: Well, that's as if you were--to the Jewish religion, if 03:56 you went into the Jewish religion, because the Old 03:58 Testament's still sort of believed by Christians, but they 04:02 don't believe--you know, they obviously believe the Son of God 04:04 came and gave them a new Bible, so, yeah. 04:09 male: By the law, no. 04:11 female: Yeah. 04:13 male: I'm not sure, I don't know. 04:16 Doug: Once again, we find that people's ideas about how do you 04:20 relate to the law of God are all across the map. 04:24 You know, what we've done before, it's really interesting, 04:25 is you go out on the street and you say, "Have you heard of the 04:28 Ten Commandments?" 04:30 People will say, "Yeah." 04:32 "Okay, can you name them for me?" 04:34 You know, the average person on the street can only get about 04:37 four out of ten of the commandments. 04:41 It is incredible. 04:42 When our country was founded, everybody knew it, 04:45 I remember--and I, you know, I was raised pretty much 04:47 an atheist, but I went to several 04:49 public schools, and when I was a kid 04:51 they had the Ten Commandments on the wall in public school. 04:55 How many of you remember that? 04:56 Any of the older saints want to date themselves here? 05:00 You know, question number one, we'll begin with, and we're 05:03 going to talk about this, and we've got just a lot of very 05:06 valuable information to share. 05:08 First question, who is symbolized by the Lamb in 05:11 Revelation chapter 5, verse 6? 05:13 Now if you got your Bibles, 05:15 either on your phone or the paper version, you at home, you 05:17 may turn to chapter 5, and if you look in chapter 5, verse 6 05:21 of Revelation, this is a prophecy subject. 05:25 "And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of 05:29 the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, 05:32 stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven heads 05:37 and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out 05:42 into all the earth. 05:44 Then He came and He took the scroll out of the right hand of 05:46 Him who sat upon the throne." 05:49 Well, right away I think that some of you realize, are you 05:54 expecting to see a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes? 05:58 And if you get to Revelation chapter 17, it talks about a 06:01 woman sitting on a beast that's got seven heads and ten horns. 06:06 Some of you, you get out in the country, you'll see a sign that 06:08 says deer crossing, it's got a little picture of a deer. 06:11 You're never going to see beasts crossing with seven heads and 06:14 ten horns. 06:16 These things are Bible symbols, but they're not that hard 06:19 to understand. 06:21 If you want to know who the Lamb is, you can read about this 06:24 right there in the New Testament. 06:27 It says, Jesus is the Lamb of God. 06:29 Now what does it mean by the seven eyes on the Lamb, and the 06:35 seven horns? 06:37 Jesus is the Lamb, seven eyes represent all-knowing, all 06:41 the time. 06:42 The Bible says, the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the 06:45 whole earth. 06:47 And that's in 2 Chronicles, and you can read--what about the 06:50 seven spirits of God? 06:52 Isaiah 11, verse 2 talks about the Messiah would have, "The 06:55 Spirit of the Lord will rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom, 06:59 understanding, Spirit of counsel, might, Spirit of 07:01 knowledge, and the fear of the Lord." 07:03 These are seven facets or attributes of God's Spirit, but 07:07 it's one Spirit and there's one Jesus, it's just telling us that 07:12 he sees everything and he knows everything, and a horn in the 07:17 Bible represented power. 07:19 Luke chapter 1:68, 07:21 "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, he's visited 07:23 his redeemed people," talks about the horn 07:26 of His power and of salvation. 07:29 And so these symbols that you find in Revelation are telling 07:32 us different things about the characteristics of God. 07:36 When you think of the name of Jesus, we typically say it, it's 07:40 connected with a Greek translation. 07:43 If you're Spanish, you say Jesus, Jesus, Hebrew would be 07:47 Yeshua, and it means Savior. 07:50 Jehovah is Savior is what His name means. 07:53 Revelation, you know how many names the Lord has? 07:56 He's the Alpha, the Omega, He is the Door, the Bible says He's 08:00 the Good Shepherd, He's the Way, the Truth, the Life, He is the 08:04 Living Water, He is the Vine, and we are the branches. 08:09 He is the Light of the world, He is the High Priest. 08:12 I mean, there are many names of Christ that tell us different 08:16 attributes of His character, because He's God, He's rather 08:19 complicated, you know. 08:21 He's got a lot of different characteristics. 08:24 So we see this picture there in Revelation chapter 5, of a Lamb 08:29 that was slain. 08:30 It is the solution for the problem of a law that 08:34 was broken. 08:35 We'll be talking about that tonight. 08:37 So next, you can read in John 1, verse 29, we know who the 08:41 Lamb is. 08:43 It says, "John saw," who? 08:44 "Jesus coming towards him, and he said, 'Behold! 08:47 The Lamb.'" 08:48 So who's the lamb? 08:50 Jesus. 08:52 Abraham is going up the mountain with his son Isaac. 08:55 Abraham has been told by the Lord, I want you to offer your 08:58 son as a sacrifice. 09:00 Obediently, he heads up Mount Moriah, the wood is placed on 09:04 Isaac's back, as the cross was placed on the back of Jesus. 09:09 And Abraham has the makings of a fire and Isaac is going, he 09:13 sacrificed with his father many times before, but something's 09:16 missing today. 09:18 Says, "Father," Abraham had been unusually quiet. 09:22 He says, "Yes my son." 09:24 He said, "We've got the wood, and we've got the fire, but 09:29 where is the lamb?" 09:31 And Abraham said, in those words that have echoed down through 09:34 history, "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb." 09:40 And when they got to the top of the mountain, just--Isaac was a 09:45 willing sacrifice as Jesus was. 09:48 He allowed his father to tie him up. 09:50 And before the knife came down, God stopped him and said, 09:53 "Abraham, Abraham, do not harm the lad." 09:56 And He pointed to a ram, a male lamb, caught by his horns in a 10:01 thicket, and the word there in Hebrew is a thorn bush, a male 10:05 ram with a crown of thorns. 10:07 Jesus wore a crown of thorns for you and me. 10:10 Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. 10:14 The whole sacrificial system all pointed to Christ. 10:17 What can wash away in my sins, not the blood of lambs and goats 10:21 and bulls, nothing but the blood of Jesus, amen. 10:26 You know that. 10:27 So Jesus is that Lamb that you see all through the Bible. 10:30 In the beginning, when Adam and Eve had sinned, they tried to 10:34 cover their sin with what? 10:36 Fig leaves. 10:38 God said that will not work. 10:39 First of all, it says they made aprons of leaf, an apron--it was 10:43 like a mini skirt. 10:45 So it was the wrong material and not nearly enough material. 10:48 People still do that today with not nearly enough material. 10:52 And it said God gave them tunics, the word there is robes 10:57 of skin. 10:59 God did not suddenly speak vinyl naugahyde into existence. 11:04 It was an imitation skin. 11:06 God established a sacrificial system. 11:09 A lamb needed to die to cover their nakedness, and Jesus 11:13 needed to die to cover our nakedness, and Revelation tells 11:15 us that He provides beautiful white robes of glory for us in 11:20 heaven, amen. 11:21 Prodigal son comes home, the Father covers his filth with his 11:26 best robe, and Jesus died to provide those robes for you 11:30 and me. 11:31 Question number two: why was it necessary for Jesus to suffer 11:36 and die? 11:38 The Bible tells us, Romans 3:23, "For," how many? 11:43 "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." 11:48 Second part, it says, "For the wages of sin are," what? 11:50 "Death." 11:52 We've all sinned, the penalty is death, but we're 11:56 still alive, why? 11:58 Because God sent His Son into the world to--for a couple 12:01 of reasons. 12:02 One, to die in behalf of those who will accept His sacrifice 12:05 and the new heart He offers, and, why are the wicked 12:09 still alive? 12:11 Jesus died to buy them time to make a decision, otherwise you 12:15 drop dead the first time you sin. 12:18 Everybody's alive because of the grace of God, amen. 12:22 But a lot of people are living under probation and it's going 12:25 to end unless they turn to Christ and accept His sacrifice. 12:31 The Bible says Christ died for our sins. 12:34 We have all sinned. 12:36 We are all guilty and sometimes we think the sins are just 12:40 little things like, oh, I ate a cookie between dessert and 12:43 dinner, and I wasn't supposed to. 12:46 Sin is deadly. 12:49 The Bible says the penalty for sin is death. 12:51 It's contagious and it's deadly. 12:54 1 Peter 3:18, "For Christ also suffered once, the just for 13:01 the unjust." 13:02 He is just, He took our place. 13:06 I used to sing a song, it was He paid a debt He did not owe, 13:12 I owed a debt I could not pay. 13:15 I needed someone to wash my sin away. 13:18 So what is sin? 13:21 The Bible tells us, what does Revelation call this plan to 13:25 save people from death? 13:27 This is from prophecy, Revelation chapter 14, verse 6. 13:30 This is in what they call the first angel's message of 13:33 Revelation 14, "Having the everlasting gospel," the word 13:38 gospel means the everlasting good news. 13:41 The gospel is very good news because of the bad news. 13:45 The bad news is the world is dying. 13:48 The whole creation groans and travails. 13:51 We are dying, from the time you are born, you're about as 13:54 perfect as you're going to be. 13:56 But from that time, you are on a conveyor belt to the grave. 14:01 It is a certain thing. 14:03 You have a life to live. 14:05 Someone said once, one life to live will soon be passed, only 14:09 what's done for Christ will last. 14:12 Most important thing in life is to know God in His love and 14:16 share God and His love. 14:17 That's it. 14:18 Two great commandments, love the Lord with all your heart, love 14:21 your neighbor. 14:23 We've got to learn how to love, and that's the purpose of the 14:25 plan of salvation. 14:26 The good news is we're dying, but Jesus said, I don't want 14:28 you to die, I will die for you. 14:32 I will take all of your sins and die in your place, if 14:35 we believe. 14:36 It's the plan of salvation called the gospel, the 14:39 good news. 14:40 Sometimes it's so good people have trouble believing it. 14:44 They say, "How can I believe that? 14:46 I've got to earn it somehow." 14:49 I remember hearing one time about this man, he worked in a 14:53 mine and a preacher was doing an evangelistic meeting, and the 14:56 evangelist was telling these miners every night, come to 14:59 Jesus, He'll forgive your sins. 15:01 And the minor met the evangelist afterward and he said, "I don't 15:05 understand how--that doesn't seem like it's fair. 15:07 I mean, I've got to do something to earn it. 15:10 How can He just give it to me, I've sinned." 15:14 And the evangelist said, "You go to work every day, right, at 15:18 the mine?" 15:19 "Yeah." 15:21 Says, "You take an elevator way down, don't you?" 15:22 Said, "I do." 15:23 He said, "Do you have to pay for that elevator?" 15:27 He said, "No." 15:28 He said, "Did someone have to pay for that elevator to bring 15:30 you back up?" 15:32 "Yes, very expensive." 15:34 He said, "God has paid for the elevator to get you back up. 15:40 You've gone down, but He'll bring you back up." 15:43 According to the Bible, what is sin? 15:46 Jesus came to save us from sin, what is sin? 15:49 You got several definitions. 15:51 The simplest is found in 1 John 3, verse 4, "Sin 15:54 is lawlessness." 15:57 If you've got the King James Version, it says, "Sin is the 15:59 transgression of the law." 16:02 When you break the law of God, it's a sin. 16:06 Now the Ten Commandments, they talk about things like don't 16:09 lie, don't rob, don't kill, don't steal. 16:13 When you disobey His law, it's sin. 16:17 And the penalty for sin is death, because it destroys, it's 16:23 a cancer that destroys all happiness. 16:25 It is completely contrary to the nature of God and His universe, 16:31 "For by the law," Romans 3:20, "Is the knowledge of sin." 16:35 The law isn't there to save us from sin, the law shows us 16:37 our sin. 16:39 Question number five: can God's moral law be changed 16:44 or repealed? 16:45 Now when we talk about the moral law, we are talking about the 16:48 Ten Commandments. 16:50 There are many laws in the Bible. 16:53 You've got the civil laws that Moses gave. 16:56 Many governments of the world also still follow the civil law. 17:00 In fact, if you go to the Supreme Court building, right 17:03 there at the very pinnacle on the outside, you're going to see 17:05 Moses, it's sitting and he's got the Ten Commandments straddled 17:09 on his lap, because it is the most concise, complete 17:16 coalescing of God's law that you're going to find anywhere. 17:21 So answer--Luke 16, verse 17, Jesus said, "It is easier for a 17:27 heaven and earth to," what? 17:29 "Pass away than for one tittle," the word tittle is--it means a 17:33 crossing of a T, for-- 17:36 "To fail from the law." 17:38 Heaven and earth must pass away first. 17:39 You know, in Revelation, it talks about the ark of God in 17:41 heaven. 17:43 God's got a copy up there. 17:44 You have to get rid of heaven to get rid of God's law. 17:48 Again, Psalm 89, verse 34, "My covenant I will not break, nor 17:55 alter the word that is proceeded from My lips." 17:59 When God gave the Ten Commandments, He spoke it with 18:01 His own mouth, He wrote it with His own finger in the presence 18:05 of an entire nation. 18:07 Never before or since has He done anything like that, where 18:10 people heard the voice of God speak. 18:12 And what did He--He spoke the Ten Commandments, so it must 18:17 be important. 18:19 Again, Psalm 111, verse 7 and 8, "All of his precepts are sure. 18:25 They stand fast for," how long? 18:27 "Forever and ever." 18:30 Malachi chapter 3, verse 6, the Lord says, "For I am the Lord, I 18:35 change not. 18:36 I do not change." 18:38 God is eternal. 18:40 He wrote His law down. 18:42 Now the reason this subject is important is you'd be surprised, 18:45 there are even pastors now that are saying, well, Jesus came to 18:48 do away with the law. 18:50 How many of you have heard that? 18:52 That's what you call a doctrine of devils. 18:56 You know why the devil hates the law? 18:58 Because the law shows us our sin. 19:01 Transgression of the law is sin. 19:04 If people don't think there's a law, they don't think they've 19:07 got sin, if they don't think they have sin, who needs Jesus? 19:11 So the devil wants to get rid of the need for the Savior, so he's 19:15 even got preachers saying we're not under the law. 19:17 Now the Bible talks about not being under the law, but it 19:20 doesn't mean you're not under obligation to obey, it means 19:23 because of Christ we are not under the penalty of the law, 19:28 but you're not free to disobey His commandments, Paul says, 19:31 "What shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 19:33 God forbid." 19:35 We don't continue to sin--because we say, "I'm under 19:38 grace now, I can just sin." 19:40 Jesus did not die to give us a license for sin. 19:44 Because if He could do that, He didn't need to die, it's because 19:47 there was no other way, He had to die. 19:50 I'll tell you another reason God's law cannot change. 19:53 God says, "I do not change." 19:55 The law is an expression of God's character. 19:58 For example, I've got the slide up on the screen I want you to 20:00 look at. 20:02 The Bible describes characteristics of God. 20:05 You'll notice on the left side here it says God is good. 20:09 Then it also says in another verse, Romans 7:12, the law 20:12 is good. 20:13 The Bible says God is holy. 20:16 You can read that Isaiah 5:16. 20:18 It says, the law is holy. 20:21 The Bible says that God is perfect, Matthew 5:48. 20:25 The law is perfect, Psalm 19, verse 7. 20:28 1 John 4: 8, God is love. 20:31 The law is love. 20:32 We're not done. 20:34 Get your credit card out, there's more. 20:35 We'll double your order. 20:37 It says, God is righteous, I'm not even going to read 20:39 all these. 20:41 You can take your phone out and snap it, 20:42 it's also in your lesson. 20:43 God is righteous, the law is righteous; God is truth, the law 20:46 is truth; God is pure, the law is pure; God is spiritual, the 20:48 law is spiritual; God is unchangeable, the law is 20:51 unchangeable; God is eternal, the law is eternal. 20:54 So how can any Christian or Jew say that the law was changed, 20:59 you've got to get rid of God. 21:02 See, the law doesn't need changing. 21:03 The purpose for the plan of salvation is to change us, we 21:07 need changing. 21:09 We're the ones who fell. 21:12 The law is there to show us our need of Christ. 21:16 Question number six, ultimately Christ is our example, amen. 21:22 Did Jesus keep the Ten Commandments? 21:25 Answer, yes, he did. 21:27 The Bible says, "For I have kept My Father's commandments." 21:32 "But wait, Pastor Doug, doesn't the Bible say that Jesus was 21:36 a winebibber?" 21:37 No, it says his enemies accused Him of being a winebibber. 21:43 "Well, doesn't it say that He was a glutton?" 21:46 No, it says his enemies accused Him of being a glutton. 21:51 The scribes and the Pharisees, they accused Him of being a 21:54 Samaritan, He was not a Samaritan. 21:56 They said He was Beelzebub, He was not. 21:59 They said He was a deceiver, He was not. 22:01 Some people say, "Well, Jesus, you know, He didn't keep 22:03 the law." 22:04 Of course He kept the law, that's why He could die in 22:06 our behalf. 22:07 He was a perfect Savior. 22:09 It says, who committed no sin. 22:14 Jesus committed no sin, He lived a holy life, so He could be 22:18 our example. 22:19 See, Jesus came for three reasons. 22:22 He said, I've come to show you the Father. 22:26 People don't know who God is, they misunderstand. 22:28 They think God is a great big sadistic policeman in the sky 22:31 wanting to beat us up every time we do something wrong. 22:35 And Jesus said, if you've seen Me, you've seen the Father, 22:37 Jesus was patient, and loving, and compassionate, and good. 22:41 He came to show us the Father. 22:44 He came to show us how to live. 22:47 He lived 33 and a half years as a human, face--tempted in every 22:51 way as we are tempted, yet without sin. 22:54 And He said, the Bible says He's given us an example that we 22:57 should walk as He walked. 22:59 A Christian is a follower of Christ, amen. 23:02 And then He came as our substitute, our sacrifice. 23:06 After He showed us the Father and after He gives us an 23:09 example, He says, now you're not going to make it without Me. 23:12 You've sinned, your penalty is death, but I don't want to 23:14 lose you. 23:15 I love you so much I will die for you. 23:18 I will take what you deserve and I will give you what I deserve. 23:20 I will take your badness, I will give you My goodness. 23:25 I will take your sin, I'll give you My righteousness. 23:28 He trades places with us, if we believe it and accept it. 23:34 Without faith, it's impossible to please God, you must 23:36 believe it. 23:38 It's like, He gives you a check, if you don't cash it, it does 23:40 you no good. 23:41 You got to take it to the bank, friends, can you say amen? 23:44 Believe it. 23:45 He committed no sin, I read this to you. 23:48 1 Peter 2, verse 22, "Nor was deceit found in His mouth." 23:53 He lived a holy life. 23:55 Are New Testament Christians required, then, to keep the 23:59 Ten Commandments? 24:01 Oh, I thought--but we're not under the law, now we're under 24:03 grace, it's okay to disobey. 24:04 What does the Bible say, from cover to cover. 24:08 Matthew 19, verse 17, "If you want to enter into life, keep 24:13 the commandments," those are Jesus's words. 24:15 John 14:15, Christ again is speaking, 24:18 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 24:21 "Oh wait, but Pastor Doug, you're thinking, you got the Ten 24:24 Commandments, then you've got the commandments of Jesus." 24:27 Don't fall for that, friends, they're the same thing. 24:31 Let me give you a scripture. 24:32 The Bible says all things that were made were made by Him. 24:36 Gospel of John, right? 24:39 How many things? 24:41 Who wrote the Ten Commandments? 24:44 All things that were made were made by Him, do you think Jesus 24:46 has said, well, Father, You got Your commandments, but I 24:48 got mine. 24:50 He said, I and My Father are one. 24:53 So when He says, "If you love Me, keep My commandments," it's 24:57 certainly the Ten. 24:59 And He says, "Here is the patience of the saints; here are 25:02 those that keep the commandments of God," 25:04 and the faith of Jesus, right? 25:08 That's Revelation 14, verse 12, and you can even go to the last 25:12 chapter in the Bible, Revelation chapter 22, and it says 25:15 blessed--last chapter in the Bible, blessed are those that do 25:18 His commandments that they might have a right to enter through 25:21 the gates of the city and to eat from the tree of life. 25:24 Now, has anything happened since, the last few moments--is 25:28 a little distracting. 25:31 What is the problem? 25:34 There's something wrong with my appearance? 25:36 You think so? 25:38 You know, before I came out here, I'm really careful--you 25:41 can ask Ken, I'm very fastidious, I brush my teeth, I 25:43 gargle, I deodorize, and I check my gig line, used to go to 25:47 military school, New York military. 25:50 So--but you think there's something wrong? 25:52 Are you aware that I don't see anything wrong? 25:56 How am I going to see if there's anything wrong? 26:00 Your testimony, or maybe I need to see for myself. 26:03 Where am I going to find a mirror? 26:05 Oh, look here, how convenient. 26:09 All right. 26:10 So I feel pretty good right now, we've been having a good time 26:13 studying together. 26:16 Oh my, that's not right, I felt great until I looked in 26:21 the mirror. 26:22 Doug: Friends, I hope you've been blessed by today's message, 26:25 but really the reason we do this is so that people might 26:28 know Christ. 26:29 You know, information is not going to save us, it's a 26:32 relationship with Jesus, the one who died on the cross for 26:34 your sins. 26:36 You must personally accept Him. 26:37 And that's the most important thing, and why we do 26:39 these programs. 26:41 If you've not asked Him into your heart before, then I'd 26:43 encourage you to do it right now. 26:45 His arms are open wide, just come to Him as you are, and 26:48 ask Him. 26:50 Doug: Hi friends, I trust you're being blessed by what 26:52 you're watching. 26:53 If you want to be doubly blessed, then you're going to 26:55 want to get the Prophecy Odyssey study guides that go along with 26:59 these presentations. 27:00 There's 15 study guides, they're beautifully illustrated, and 27:04 they will greatly enhance your Bible comprehension. 27:07 So if you'd like to get them, simply follow the instructions 27:09 that you see on the screen, you will be glad you did. 27:20 Doug: Can anybody really keep the law of God? 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