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There's just one little phrase I want to

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share with you and I want to speak

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on the subject of faith.

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It's a word given to us by John

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the Baptist and he says, he that believes

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on the sun has everlasting life and he

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that believes not the sun shall not see

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life but the wrath of God abides on

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him.

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Just that first clause, he that believes on

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the sun has everlasting life.

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Someone threw the question at me the other

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day in London and said this, can you

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expect modern people living in a scientific world

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to have faith?

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Man is now exploring space, the whole world

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is being computerized.

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Can you expect people who live in this

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scientific age to have faith?

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Well my dear friends I want to say

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this as clearly as I can, a baby

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would not walk without the principle of faith.

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It would be impossible for parents to release

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their children to go to school if they

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did not believe that they were going to

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return.

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Children could not sit an examination, neither could

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students, if they did not have some kind

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of self-confidence.

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It would be totally impossible for two people

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to marry if they didn't have confidence in

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each other.

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And even in the realm of business, a

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businessman could not possibly sell his wares if

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he did not have faith in the product

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that he was selling.

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And even in the realm of science, an

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astronaut would never go into the region of

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the unknown if he did not believe that

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his capsule was going to return to earth.

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And so you can see by those citations

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that faith is one of the main ingredients

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of living.

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Now I must say this in order to

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be honest with biblical facts, there is a

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difference between natural faith and the faith of

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the bible.

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The word belief comes from a brilliant greek

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word, pisteo, and it means three things.

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One, to know what you believe.

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Two, to trust implicitly what you believe.

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And three, to be abandoned to the thing

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that you believe.

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That is why when we understand the new

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testament principle of faith, we can say with

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certainty it's impossible for a person to be

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an uncommitted christian.

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Because the word faith means you're abandoned completely

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to Christ.

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Now what I want to do just for

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a few moments is to go over these

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facts of faith because the word without faith

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it's impossible to please God.

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So we can see if we're going to

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bring pleasure to God we must have faith.

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Now first of all faith is personal.

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Now someone might begin to argue as a

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man said to me quite recently he says

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do you believe that there's one God?

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Yes.

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He says do you know the number of

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people on this earth?

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I said no.

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He says there's now nearly five billion.

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Now this was his problem.

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How can one God be personally interested in

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five billion of us?

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He says that's utterly impossible.

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Do you know where he went wrong?

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In the back of his mind he was

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saying how many people can I be interested

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in?

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No more than a hundred.

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How can God be interested in five billion

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of us?

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The answer is quite simple.

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Because God is greater and bigger than man.

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In fact he is five billion times bigger

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than what we are.

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You see there are more than five billion

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stars swinging in space and he's interested in

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every orbit.

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Ah but you say brother Peter a star

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is bigger than a human being.

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Do you think so?

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Maybe bigger in size but a star never

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creates.

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A star never thinks.

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A star never sings.

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You see there's something about man that's small.

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There's something about man that's vast.

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And this is how the Lord measured him

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and valued him.

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What shall it profit a man if he

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gains the whole world and lose his own

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soul, his own personality?

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But then you will say to me and

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rightly so because quite frankly people are asking

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serious questions now in my own country.

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There seems to be a turn in the

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tide when they're beginning to think all over

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again and this is what we're hearing.

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How can you prove to us in a

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down-to-earth way that God is interested

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in us personally?

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Now my dear friends if you can leave

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this building tonight knowing that God is interested

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in you personally you will never never be

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the same again.

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Think of it.

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The almighty God the creator of heaven and

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earth interested in you.

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If that grips you you will never be

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the same again.

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God was so concerned that we should know

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this that he became involved.

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You say involved?

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Yes.

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He came into this world with a body

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and that is what the scripture means when

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it says great is the mystery of godliness.

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God was manifest in the flesh and therefore

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when Jesus Christ was with us they gave

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him a brilliant name.

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His name shall be called Emmanuel which means

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God with us.

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Now when he came we must ask now

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some questions.

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Was he interested in the milling crowds?

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Yes we often find him with the five

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thousand.

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Was he interested in group society and family

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society?

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Yes we find him with the apostles and

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in families.

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Now the question was he interested in individuals?

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He walked 40 miles on foot through a

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burning wilderness to speak to a prostitute, a

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Samaritan woman.

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He went 19 miles on foot to a

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despised place called Jericho to speak to a

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tax gatherer that was hated by the community.

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When he was actually doing his dying he

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took the trouble to say to a penitent

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thief today you shall be with me in

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paradise.

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When he went back to heaven he saw

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a son of Africa an Ethiopian who was

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searching for God with every fiber that God

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had given him and do you know what

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he did?

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He took one man all the way from

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Samaria where he was seeing a mighty revival.

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He put him down in a desert called

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Gaza in order to speak to that one

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man.

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Now ladies and gentlemen I want to say

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something that's perfectly true.

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I know you may feel it's an exaggeration

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but this is perfectly true.

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God may have sent me all the way

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to Australia for one soul and that could

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be you, could be you, could be you.

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And for one soul it would be worth

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Can I go further?

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God would send one of his servants seven

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times around the world just for one man

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and you can be that one man tonight.

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Let me say this to you from my

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heart God loves you and God will dog

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your footsteps until he finds you.

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That's why he says he that believes.

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This is a personal matter and when you

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become a Christian you can't have proxies for

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your children.

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It's an individual faith and they too must

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have an individual faith in the law.

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Now what about the meaning of this word

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faith?

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Now I've been looking at you and I

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think now my assessment is right.

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If we had a cup of tea together

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and we were sitting in your dining room

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or your lounge whatever you call it and

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I said to you do you believe in

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God?

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You would all say yes.

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Good.

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Then if I said to you do you

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believe in Jesus Christ who was the son

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of God?

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I think you would say yes.

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Then if I went further and said do

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you believe the Easter message that he died

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upon the cross for our sins?

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I think you would say yes.

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Then if I went a little further and

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said do you believe that he was raised

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again from the dead?

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I find it hard to understand but I

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believe it.

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Then if I said to you do you

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believe there's only one person in the world

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or the universe that can put our world

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right and that is Jesus Christ?

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I think you would say yes.

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So that makes you a believer.

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I'm afraid not.

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You know James says something that rather upset

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me when I first read it years ago.

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He said this.

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You believe in God you do well the

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devils believe and tremble.

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That's hard isn't it?

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That means if we could see a demon

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sitting on this chair and I said to

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the demon do you believe Jesus is the

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son of God?

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He would say yes.

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cross for the sins of the world?

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And if I said to him now come

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on do you believe that God raised Jesus

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from the dead?

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He would say we all believe that and

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tremble.

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You see they just believe academically.

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comes from the heart.

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Let me quote you the scripture.

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Romans 10 and 9 says if thou shalt

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confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord and

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believe in thine heart that God has raised

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him from the dead thou shalt be saved.

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Now what does it mean to believe in

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the heart?

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A little woman came to the Lord Jesus

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who had been to all the doctors with

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her blood disease she was no better but

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rather worse and she took one look at

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him and she said that man can heal

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me.

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And you know what she did?

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She put her hand right the way through

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the crowd and clutched his garments and Jesus

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said who touched me?

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The disciples nearly went mad with bewilderment.

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Why they said they're all touching you.

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He says someone has touched me with our

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faith.

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Peter was in a boat and it was

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almost about to sink and the Lord Jesus

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came near to them in the storm and

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he blurted out Lord if it's you bid

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me come and he said come.

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When he looked down at those dangerous waters

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they said listen Peter the law of gravity

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says if you put your feet on this

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water you will sink like a stone.

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The law of faith said all things are

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possible only believe.

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And he stepped out and trusted Christ and

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did the impossible.

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That said there comes a moment when you

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really trust Christ to save you.

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I shall never forget the first time we

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took our boys to the sea and may

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I say this your sea is lovely.

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In fact the first time I went in

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up there in the coast of Queensland it

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was too warm for me.

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It was like a bath never been in

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water like it.

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Our waters you go blue you go in

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red and you come out blue.

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Well our little boys were very young and

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they used to put their tummies on the

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chair and they would show their mother all

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the strokes they were going to do in

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the sea.

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And they were going to do the breaststroke

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and they were going to do the crawl

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and then they were going to do the

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backstroke all on dry land with their tummies

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on a chair and sometimes with their.

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Well Monday morning came and we took them

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to the sea of Frinton-on-Sea.

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It was a lovely day and the moment

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we got the water their teeth shattered.

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They had the belts all round them.

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They had the knowledge in their heads and

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so we steered them out mind you it

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was cold and when it was thigh deep

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I said now boys take your feet off

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the bottom and trust the life belt and

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all they said nervously was no no no

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no no no.

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And do you know for 14 days I

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worked on them but I couldn't get them

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to take their feet off the bottom.

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They had the knowledge in their heads they

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had the life belt all around them but

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they wouldn't trust it.

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Now there's a streak of Jewishness in our

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family and you will see it how I

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move my hands like that and I took

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from my pocket a half a crown.

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I've never done this.

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I said boys would you do it for

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that and they wouldn't.

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Now that shows there was something seriously wrong.

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Well the next year we went to Frinton

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and we had the same experience and I

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saw my two boys sitting on the circumference

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of the sea watching all the children splashing

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in the water and they wouldn't go in

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and take their feet off the bottom.

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The third year we went there again and

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I didn't bother with them and I was

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reading a book in one of those old

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-fashioned deck chairs.

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I'll tell you what I was reading CHM

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on Genesis and it was tremendous and then

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I saw my elder boy bounding up the

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beach and you know when a boy's excited

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the hair speaks the eyebrows speak everything speaks

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and he came around me like a dancing

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charismatic and he said this I've done it

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I've done it.

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I said what have you done dear I've

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taken my feet off the bottom and it

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worked.

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The last holiday we had together was at

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Luggs there at the pencil and Gwen and

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I we went out a quarter of a

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mile that was our limit and my two

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boys nearly went to the other side of

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Millport nearly three miles and it all started

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when one boy took his feet off the

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bottom.

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Dear friends I want to pray this in

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you right from my heart.

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There comes a moment when you say Lord

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Jesus I've heard that you died for me.

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I've heard how that God raised you from

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the dead.

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I've heard how that you can forgive sins

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and save souls and now I'm going to

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take my feet off the bottom and I'm

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going to trust you.

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Wouldn't it be lovely if someone did that

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right now?

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Don't wait to the end of the meeting.

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Switch off from the preacher.

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Get to the Lord and trust him.

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But then someone will say something like this

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but how do we get that faith to

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take our feet off the bottom?

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One lady speaking for all the others that

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were in her home whom she invited in

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for a coffee morning there in London said

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this.

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Mr Brandon you're lucky you were born with

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a religious spoon in your mouth.

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We're down to earth people.

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We're in the midst of smoke.

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That's London.

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How can people like us do it?

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Well I said my dear I can assure

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you I wasn't born with a religious spoon

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in my mouth and I said people who

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are right down to earth who know the

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nitty-gritty of life these are the people

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that he wants.

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But she says how can we get the

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faith?

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She says if I could get that faith

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it would be everything to me.

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I says well my dear I'm going to

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help you.

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You'll never get faith looking inside you.

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The moment you look inside your inner life

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all you'll see is failure, failure, failure, disappointment.

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You've got to look away from yourself.

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You've got to look to the Lord and

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this is what the scripture says.

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He that believes on the sun.

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You see lots of people believe it's faith

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in faith.

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In other words you're believing in your faith.

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That's not it at all.

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It's believing in the sun.

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Now who is the sun?

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There was only one man who ever lived

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that never sinned and that was Jesus Christ.

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There was only one man who ever lived

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that could claim to be co-equal with

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God.

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That was Jesus Christ.

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There was only one man who ever lived

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that could die for the sins of the

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whole world and bear them.

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And hallelujah oh this thrills my heart.

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He not only came and said he could

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deal with the sins of the world.

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He actually bore them in his own body.

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And when Jesus Christ suffered on the cross

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there on the cross he was bearing the

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sin of the world because he loved us.

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And when he said with a mighty voice

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finished the scriptures is this.

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Behold the Lamb of God which takes away

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the sin of the world.

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But more.

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There was only one man who ever lived

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who died and here it comes who was

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raised again from the dead never to die

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again.

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Never.

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You see there's a man in the glory

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and I want to say this with holy

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excitement who is genuinely infallible.

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He cannot blunder.

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And I want to say this right from

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my heart.

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There's only one man that's never lost the

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case and that's the Lord Jesus.

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The best surgeon that ever lived has blundered

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in surgery.

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There's only one man that is completely infallible.

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That's Jesus Christ and this is what the

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scripture says.

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I want to worship as I say it.

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He that believes on the sun.

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00:21:06,660 --> 00:21:10,400
Forgive me using common parlance but it's getting

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the claws of your faith in the sun.

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Have you done that?

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And the more you hear about the Lord

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00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,540
Jesus the more it will stimulate and provoke

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faith.

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Let me give you a case in point

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to help you.

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Being bred and born in the east end

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of London I got to know them.

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00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,140
And the old cockneys were dead scared of

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hospitals.

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In fact they used to call the operating

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table the slab.

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And I even heard my own mother say

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they'll never get me on the slab.

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There was a lady and she was in

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great pain.

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She should have seen the doctor years ago

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00:22:05,210 --> 00:22:07,290
but it was only the pain that drove

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her to see old Dr Mitchell.

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After a very superficial examination he sent her

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to Bath to be examined to see a

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brilliant surgeon.

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And all the time she was in the

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bath she was saying to her George a

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very quiet man they'll never get me on

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the slab.

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If she said it once she said it

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twenty times.

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There wasn't an ounce of fat on him

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because they usually say in London a nagging

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wife will strip the flesh of your body.

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Well she got into this particular surgery and

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she he started to count the patients 14.

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And he thought I've got almost an hour

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and a half listening to my girl.

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And she was saying as everyone came out

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they'll never get me on the slab.

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The 14th bell went in went and she

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went in and then she was sent for

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x-rays and there were blood tests and

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she came up radio and this is what

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she said.

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Don't worry George I'm going to have the

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operation on Thursday.

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I'm going in on Wednesday and it's going

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to be all right don't worry.

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You say what caused the transformation?

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Note she met the surgeon.

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Friend when you meet that lovely son when

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you meet the Lord Jesus by faith he'll

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stimulate that.

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00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,960
Now with this I close.

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I can almost hear someone saying well how

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00:24:00,020 --> 00:24:02,040
do I know if I've got this real

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00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:02,860
heart faith.

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00:24:03,780 --> 00:24:07,240
If faith is absolutely essential for salvation.

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00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:09,880
It's right that I should have the right

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faith.

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Now may I say this carefully to you

508
00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:12,900
in love.

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Yes it is.

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Now I want to close this in love.

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I'm absolutely sure when the Lord comes lots

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00:24:22,510 --> 00:24:24,330
of evangelical Christians.

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00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,840
They just had this awful thing of a

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00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:30,820
mechanical faith.

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00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,800
That's why you never see any joy in

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00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:35,340
their life.

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00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,180
They haven't got the real thing.

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00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,100
So can you see it's absolutely sure that

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00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:45,020
we should have if I may use the

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00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:47,260
Greek word this pisteo faith.

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00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,500
This heart faith.

522
00:24:48,860 --> 00:24:49,960
Now how can we tell.

523
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,420
The moment you believe that Christ died for

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00:24:54,420 --> 00:24:56,140
your sins you will have a.

525
00:24:58,260 --> 00:25:01,200
You will say oh dear how serious it

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00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,400
is that Christ should die for my sins.

527
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,340
Now this needs an illustration.

528
00:25:07,860 --> 00:25:09,740
There was a young man that was given

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00:25:09,740 --> 00:25:12,460
a sport car before he reached the age

530
00:25:12,460 --> 00:25:13,400
of responsibility.

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00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,180
May I say this the parents if you

532
00:25:17,180 --> 00:25:20,520
have money be careful what you do with

533
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:20,680
it.

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00:25:22,830 --> 00:25:25,410
This young man was warned over and over

535
00:25:25,410 --> 00:25:27,450
again that there would be a fatality.

536
00:25:29,050 --> 00:25:31,770
He was driving along a feed road to

537
00:25:31,770 --> 00:25:35,990
the M1 and felt a bang on his

538
00:25:35,990 --> 00:25:40,110
right wing and still careered on.

539
00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:44,110
When he came home about half past nine

540
00:25:44,110 --> 00:25:46,150
at night he was met by a London

541
00:25:46,150 --> 00:25:49,770
policeman and asked him if this was his

542
00:25:49,770 --> 00:25:50,110
number.

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00:25:50,590 --> 00:25:51,230
He said yes.

544
00:25:52,690 --> 00:25:55,130
He said were you moving along this road

545
00:25:55,130 --> 00:25:56,050
at such a time.

546
00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:56,630
Yes.

547
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,000
Didn't you feel a bang on your wing.

548
00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:03,040
Yes I hit a bird.

549
00:26:03,580 --> 00:26:07,460
He said not a bird a little child

550
00:26:09,340 --> 00:26:12,540
and he fatally injured a little girl.

551
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,980
Foolishly he went to the funeral and when

552
00:26:18,980 --> 00:26:24,720
he saw 200 people sobbing and a mum

553
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,260
and dad that were broken to smithereens around

554
00:26:29,260 --> 00:26:33,660
that sacred hole and when he knew indirectly

555
00:26:33,660 --> 00:26:37,500
that he was the murderer he will never

556
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,660
drive again.

557
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,880
His mind went.

558
00:26:43,970 --> 00:26:46,510
When you stand at the cross and you

559
00:26:46,510 --> 00:26:49,510
see Jesus Christ dying there for your sins

560
00:26:49,510 --> 00:26:54,200
you will say Lord Jesus did you die

561
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,360
for my bad temper.

562
00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:56,100
Yes.

563
00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:59,860
Did you die for my private lust.

564
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:00,520
Yes.

565
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,740
Did you die for my irritations.

566
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,340
Yes.

567
00:27:05,130 --> 00:27:08,220
Did you die for my worldliness and materialism.

568
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:08,960
Yes.

569
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,240
Forget the drama it will hit you like

570
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:13,620
that.

571
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,340
You'll say this oh my god I never

572
00:27:18,340 --> 00:27:20,180
knew sin was so serious.

573
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,720
Supposing now this didn't happen.

574
00:27:26,860 --> 00:27:31,870
That mother bought a gold watch and went

575
00:27:31,870 --> 00:27:34,970
to the boy that had indirectly caused the

576
00:27:34,970 --> 00:27:38,950
death of their child and said look I

577
00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:40,810
want to give you this to show that

578
00:27:40,810 --> 00:27:44,850
there's no acrimony in my life and I

579
00:27:44,850 --> 00:27:45,770
still love you.

580
00:27:46,070 --> 00:27:48,410
That would even break him more wouldn't it.

581
00:27:50,340 --> 00:27:53,240
When you look at the cross you see

582
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,770
God's love for you for you for you

583
00:27:58,770 --> 00:28:04,470
not with mechanical words but in the glorious

584
00:28:04,470 --> 00:28:09,120
reality of Calvary's love and that's how much

585
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:09,780
he loves you.

586
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:15,960
And so there's shock there's surprise and then

587
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:16,560
there's surrender.

588
00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:20,980
You see he doesn't ask us to surrender

589
00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:24,460
to force he asks us to surrender to

590
00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:24,900
love.

591
00:28:27,060 --> 00:28:29,020
During the war and I was in the

592
00:28:29,020 --> 00:28:31,080
navy there were a group of our boys

593
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,700
in France when they were evacuating from France

594
00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,720
and a German officer came up for they

595
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,280
were in a circular trance and held over

596
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,840
their heads a grenade and said I'll give

597
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:44,820
you 10 seconds.

598
00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:51,240
Unfortunately they surrendered but it was the grenade

599
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,040
that did it.

600
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,080
The Lord never does that.

601
00:28:55,260 --> 00:28:58,420
He opens his hands and shows you that

602
00:28:58,420 --> 00:28:59,640
they're pierced.

603
00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,360
He pours aside as it were his garment

604
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,240
and shows that his side is pierced.

605
00:29:05,420 --> 00:29:08,120
And in the presence of divine love he

606
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,620
says surrender and there comes a moment in

607
00:29:13,620 --> 00:29:16,660
the quietness of your heart where you kneel

608
00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:19,640
before him and you say that lovely prayer

609
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:25,620
just as I am without one plea but

610
00:29:25,620 --> 00:29:28,200
that thy blood was shed for me and

611
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,880
that thou bid'st me come to thee O

612
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,040
Lamb of God I come.

613
00:29:33,420 --> 00:29:35,240
Would you mind if I asked a question?

614
00:29:37,850 --> 00:29:40,090
Is there someone there that would like to

615
00:29:40,090 --> 00:29:46,660
take their feet off the cross?

616
00:29:46,780 --> 00:29:48,220
Is there someone there?

617
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:50,400
And there?

618
00:29:52,140 --> 00:29:56,520
Come right now and quietly trust him and

619
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,280
you'll find that God will give you immediately

620
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,180
the gift of eternal life.