1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,860 Now, there is one final, well, in fact, 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,080 there are really two final reasons that I 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,260 offer as proof that this is the Word 4 00:00:11,260 --> 00:00:11,800 of God. 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:18,280 One is the transformed lives of believers today. 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,100 I have seen what the Word of God 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:25,500 can do in the lives of men and 8 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:25,760 women. 9 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,720 I'm thinking right now of a man who 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,740 listened to this program up in Oakland, California. 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:33,720 I know this man. 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,100 This man was, and I'm not going into 13 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,820 detail in his life at all, but he 14 00:00:39,820 --> 00:00:42,780 probably had as many problems, he had as 15 00:00:42,780 --> 00:00:45,880 many hang-ups, he was in as much 16 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,900 sin as any man that I know anything 17 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:49,400 about. 18 00:00:50,140 --> 00:00:54,020 And did you know that this man began 19 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:57,240 to listen to the radio program, and I 20 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,060 hear people just hear it for the first 21 00:00:59,060 --> 00:01:00,080 time and are converted. 22 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:02,600 That's wonderful, and I think it's possible. 23 00:01:03,140 --> 00:01:06,120 But this man listened to it for week 24 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,280 after week, and he became antagonistic, he became 25 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:10,920 angry. 26 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,160 He said to me that if I could 27 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,260 have got to you when you told me 28 00:01:15,260 --> 00:01:17,360 when you were teaching the epistle to the 29 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,040 Romans that I was a sinner, he said, 30 00:01:20,220 --> 00:01:21,580 I would have hit you in the nose. 31 00:01:21,820 --> 00:01:23,820 And frankly, friends, I think he could have 32 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:24,220 done it. 33 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,420 He's much bigger than I am and much 34 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:27,560 younger than I am. 35 00:01:27,940 --> 00:01:29,400 I'm glad he couldn't get to me. 36 00:01:29,460 --> 00:01:32,580 That's another reason to appreciate this radio, by 37 00:01:32,580 --> 00:01:33,000 the way. 38 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,240 You can keep a big fellow like that 39 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,740 at arm's length, and you can still call 40 00:01:37,740 --> 00:01:38,440 him a sinner. 41 00:01:39,020 --> 00:01:41,740 And so this man now turned to Christ. 42 00:01:41,740 --> 00:01:44,160 May I say to you, it's been wonderful 43 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,500 to see what God has done in his 44 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:46,920 life. 45 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:49,020 Some time ago, I read a letter of 46 00:01:49,020 --> 00:01:51,880 an entire family way back in Indianapolis. 47 00:01:52,780 --> 00:01:55,200 Through the Word of God, they came to 48 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,420 a saving knowledge of Christ, and an entire 49 00:01:58,420 --> 00:02:00,540 family is changed. 50 00:02:01,020 --> 00:02:03,540 May I say to you, friends, that again 51 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:07,180 and again and again and again, this could 52 00:02:07,180 --> 00:02:10,780 be multiplied of those who had their lives 53 00:02:10,780 --> 00:02:13,620 transformed by coming to Christ. 54 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:16,020 Now, let me give you a reason that's 55 00:02:16,020 --> 00:02:17,820 a rather personal reason. 56 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:21,100 And I journal impersonal, but this may be 57 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:22,420 even a little more personal. 58 00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:27,900 When I finished seminary, I was what would 59 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:33,140 be called a preacher who preached in the 60 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:36,100 realm of the defense of the gospel. 61 00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:41,540 And I attempted to defend the Bible. 62 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,280 In fact, I think every message I had 63 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,140 entered into that area. 64 00:02:46,620 --> 00:02:48,400 And I felt that if I could get 65 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,080 just enough answers to the questions that people 66 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,940 have for not believing the Bible, that I'd 67 00:02:55,940 --> 00:02:58,180 be able to just mow them down. 68 00:02:58,180 --> 00:03:01,020 And I attempted to get them. 69 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:03,820 And I found out that in certain cases, 70 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:07,260 though, where I could answer the individual, that 71 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:09,180 the worst thing in the world to do 72 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:11,760 would be to whip a man down intellectually. 73 00:03:12,340 --> 00:03:14,160 The minute that you do that, you've made 74 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,740 an enemy, and you'll never win him for 75 00:03:16,740 --> 00:03:17,300 the Lord. 76 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,160 And so I found out that I was 77 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,180 being self-defeated by that method.