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Can we know with certainty that God is real? When I was five years old, I remember looking at myself in the mirror and thinking to myself, what if there was nothing? I don't know why those thoughts crossed my mind at such a young age but they did. As a believer in Jesus Christ, I came to appreciate and love the word of God so much because it is living and active, but also because it is rational. God has given us so many evidences for His existence yet many believers have completely dismissed and disregarded the abundant resources we've inherited from faithful soldiers of Christ i.e. Moses, Paul the Apostle, St. Augustine just to name a few. It is true that the righteous shall live by faith, but not a faith that is grounded in subjective feelings but rather objective truths. In today's presentation we'll talk about that certainty of the reality of God and the implications that follow.
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hello good morning this is tayiba
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tayyips.com
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and i'm hoping that you're having a good
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friday uh today it's kind of raining and
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kind of gloomy outside
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so this morning i woke up and i did not
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have a plan
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on sharing this this morning but i
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believe it's important that i do it
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because
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maybe someone somewhere needs to hear
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this i don't know
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if you've been struggling with doubts
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about the existence of god
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and how if he's real and and all that
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because uh grown up man i remember when
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i was five years old or six years old i
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used to look
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look at myself in the mirror and i used
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to ask myself
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what if there was nothing what could
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there be now
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and it's interesting because i see
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myself going back to those times where i
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never forgot
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about that and and and that to me it was
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important because
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i believe ever since i was young giving
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those questions about the existence of
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god and his
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uh reality uh was something that was
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embedded
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in my dna and most of us all of us i
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would say
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have the knowledge of god in our minds
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we may
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choose to repress it suppress it but
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it's something that connect cannot exp
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and we cannot escape that kind of uh
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thinking
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now this morning why am i here if you
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if you've seen the taro um i said can we
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know with certainty that god exists or
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god is real
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and this is what i'm here to talk about
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this morning so
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why should we should we even bother with
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this
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like why should we bother with this
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question i'm going to give you the
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reasons but before i do that i want to
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say something on the outside
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now listen like i want to say that god
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does not need me
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or he does not need anybody to prove his
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existence
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his existence because he's sovereign
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okay god has given us so much evidence
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of his existence that
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we cannot deny it and god does not even
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need
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any one of us to do anything but he
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chooses like
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agents human agents sometimes or
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whatever agency that he wants to use
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like his as his
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instrument for the accomplishments of
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his purposes
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so every living being like i say knows
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that god exists and i'm going to show it
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to you later
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but why do i care to actually
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go through an argument to prove his
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existence i'll tell you why i'll give
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you my
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my reasons why number one although god
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is sovereign and god
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knows all things and god has proven
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himself that he exists we are told in
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first peter 3 15
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that but in your heart honor christ
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the lord as holy and always be prepared
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to make a defense
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to anyone who asks you for a reason for
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the hope that i seen you
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yet do it with gentleness and respect so
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we have a responsibility
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as um believers to give a rational
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answer
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to why we believe what we believe okay
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and i'm gonna give you another reason
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um the early church for example they
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were very sound in the faith
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and some of the greatest arguments that
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we have for the existence of god have
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been handed down to us
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by the apostles and others who have
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really stood um the test of time they've
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really
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invested in searching these things so we
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shouldn't just disregard it because
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i believe in our day and age there is a
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tendency to
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completely um shut down any attempt to
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prove the existence of god
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rationally okay so a lot of people
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mention
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well you have to have faith yes faith
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and reason have a symbiotic relationship
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you can't have faith without reason and
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you can't have
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um you can't just use reason because
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faith is backed up
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by a lot of uh rational um
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arguments okay god is a rational god god
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is not just
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a figment of my imagination he has given
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us so many evidences
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objective evidences about his existence
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and
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for us to disregard those things is
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utterly ridiculous so
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i don't think as a believer in christ i
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should completely dismiss any attempt
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to uh affirm certainty that god exists
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it is not good to do that that's
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credulity and that's not good
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because the god that we believe in is
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not a center class or he's not
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on those green men in the sky he is an
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objective god that exists objectively
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and his existence is not giving over to
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subjective feelings
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and all that because there is uh
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certainty
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of his existence and this is why i think
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it is important for us to
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to hold on to this as well now three we
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are living in a very hostile
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world that wants to do everything to
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destroy the god hypothesis like
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if critics can find a way to undermine
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the truth about the existence of god and
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the truth
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claims of the bible then they can win
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our children over
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okay just think about it the things that
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our children are being thought like in
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school
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like they're in even in cartoons things
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that they watch there's always like
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subtle attempts
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to to undermine the truth of the
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existence of god in the bible
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you know so for us it's important to
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to equip our children to know with
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certainty that what they believe in
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is rational is objective and it is
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the truth okay and then the fourth thing
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is there's eternal consequences
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it's a matter of heaven or hell it is no
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laughing matter okay
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and there is a growing number of people
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that think that the existence of god
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is a private and subjective matter for
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example
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people say that if believing in god or a
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higher power makes you feel
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good or is therapeutic then that's okay
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and
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then they kind of go well for me i don't
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need god
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to have meaning in life for me i can
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function without
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thinking about god see when i say
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that god exists i'm not saying that he
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exists in my mind
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or he exists in my mind only or he
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exists because i want him to exist now
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the existence of god is an objective
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reality
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it is not something that's giving over
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to my feelings or
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the way uh i want it to be and and then
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because that's the case
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uh there is eternal consequences because
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if you do not believe in this god that
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i'm talking about this morning
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then you are bound to go to perdition so
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we need to stop playing games with
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people and be authentic
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and tell them listen this is not a game
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man like this is not a laughing matter
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because your eternal life is dependent
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or is contingent on
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whether you believe in in god or not and
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the god that i'm talking about is the
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god of the scripture i'm not talking
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about any created god but i'm talking
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about the one
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that has acidity okay and then so those
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are my reasons now
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how do we go from there to prove that
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god exists how do we
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know with certainty that god exists okay
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the first thing is this like
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you must start with your own
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consciousness like how do you know
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with certainty that you exist how do i
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know that i exist
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because i must start with myself okay
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and remember i don't know if you guys
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know about uh rene descartes he's a
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french philosopher
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okay he was questioning his own
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existence and then he came up with
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something that people
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know now it's called kojito ergo i think
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therefore i am
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basically uh rene descartes says that to
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question his existence is actually to
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prove it
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because uh questioning the fact that
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that exists
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requires me to think okay and if if if
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because i'm thinking about it
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that mean i exist so to question my
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existence is to prove my existence
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okay so this is where we need to start i
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need to start with my own consciousness
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do i
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exist now because i question my own
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existence
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that means that i exist because thinking
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requires a thinker
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and before if i'm thinking about it that
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mean i exist so i'm going gonna start
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with myself
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now i know that i'm real and i know that
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i exist now there are three things that
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follow after that
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now the number one is this we're gonna
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proceed by elimination
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uh if i exist there might be there's
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only three options
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i'm eternal okay and but that's not the
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case that's not possible because i
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cannot be eternal because i had a
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beginning
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because there was a time where i was not
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uh
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in this world okay i was not there was a
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time where i was not i was born on march
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the 24th of 1981 so in 1980
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i did not exist i did not have there was
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no type
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there was not me i was nowhere to be
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seen so i came into this world in 1981.
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on march 24th which means that i'm not
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eternal
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okay i had a beginning i had a beginning
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so i am not
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eternal so i can take that out of the
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way now the second
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option is is that our self self-created
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in a sense that i created myself for i
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came out of nothing
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now for me to create myself i have to
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exist before i can do the job
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okay so that means that that option is
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also
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out of the window because i can't create
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myself
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if i don't exist because for somebody to
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create themself
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i have to exist first okay and
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self-creation is also saying that i came
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out of nothing which is impossible
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because
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out of nothing comes nothing because
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nothing
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is not okay nothing does not exist
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nothing is not so that option two is
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also out of the way now the third option
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is this
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i was created by something okay and
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that's the only one that holds
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because the philosophers they're called
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that's something the necessary being
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a being that explains all
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other existence and that being that
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being
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cannot not be okay that being
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cannot not be because if that being
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is not then we have nothing so therefore
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there is a necessary being okay for god
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to be god he must be eternal
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self-existent
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and we talk about the acidity of god i
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mentioned it earlier
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so we don't even need so to speak
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scripture
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to accuse the fact that god exists okay
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i'm not dismissing scripture i will
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never dismiss scripture
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but what i'm saying is this no one will
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be able to say to god
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i didn't know you existed because you
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didn't give me enough proof
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because guess what god exists and he
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exists
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objectively and i just showed it to you
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you start with your own consciousness
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if you are self-conscious if you know
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that you exist there's only three
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options
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you were you are eternal you are
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self-created which is coming out of
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nothing or you are created by something
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that has a ct
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or someone that is eternal and the
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philosophers call up to
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eternal being the necessary being okay
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so it's important to say that
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now what does scripture say now that
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we've come to this how do we go from
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this to prove that the god of the
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scripture
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is this true god it's easy now if you go
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to exodus 3
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we're going to listen to what moses says
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to in this
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um exchange with god i'm going to read
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it to you in a second i wish i had
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pulled that up before let me get that
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exodus 3.
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we're gonna go to exodus three and we're
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gonna read verse
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um verse 13 to
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14. now now this is when moses meets
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god and burning bush and
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does a seriously they're having a
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conversation and then moses says to god
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in verse 13
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then moses said to god if i come to the
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people of israel and say to them
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the god of your fathers has sent me to
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you and they asked me
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what is his name what shall i say to
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them and god said to moses
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i am who i am and he said
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saintly say this to the people of israel
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i am
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has sent me to you okay i am has sent me
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to you
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now you have to understand something
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when god says
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i am has sent me to you that's his name
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that's who he is the self-existent one
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the eternal i
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am mean that he has no beginning and no
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end now
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this is moses okay moses a person that
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people call
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a primitive person that is reasoning
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like this
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he's writing those words he's pained
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those words down under the
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inspiration of the holy spirit i am has
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sent me to you okay
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now this is pre-philosophers okay this
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is before
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plato uh sacrilege and aristotle now
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listen to what moses is saying here he's
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talking about
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i am the great i am the one that has a
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ct
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the one that is that exists and for all
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eternity
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so moses knew this before renee
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descartes
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before plato before aristotle before
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socrates even
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talked about the necessary being okay
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this is incredible because
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uh when i want to prove that the
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scripture is truly the word of god
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okay i'll look at the intersections
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between uh the word of god and
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philosophy the word of god and science
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the word of god and archaeology
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the word of god and and biology there is
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so many evidence
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that she cannot deny the veracity of the
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word of god
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again this being is having a
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conversation with moses and he makes
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an assertion that is consistent with
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what the philosophers call the necessary
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being there is so many other evidences
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that i can talk about
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but i want to zero in on this alone also
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if you look at genesis 1 1 the scripture
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says that in the beginning
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god created the heavens and the earth
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okay science rejected for the longest
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time
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that uh the world was created they said
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that the universe was eternal
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and then in 1960s then it's there
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there was a telescope that showed that
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the
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the universe was expanding because i
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don't know you see edwin
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what was the scientist name i forgot his
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name he showed that the expansion of the
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universe
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showed that he had a beginning so it
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take it took science pretty much
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1900 years to come to that conclusion
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when they could have just looked at
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scripture and then accused the truth of
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scripture so what am i saying why am i
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saying this
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i'm saying all this to prove you to
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prove to you that the scripture is
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consistent with what
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science with what philosophy and what
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archaeology with what history is saying
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so you got to look at those point of
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intersections to see that god is a god
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of order
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god is a rational god and he shows us so
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many evidences for his existence
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that for us to reject it is to be
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foolish
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okay so again i just told you can we
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know with certainty that god exists i
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just showed it to you
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now i want to go to romans and i want to
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show you something important there
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now there's two things about god we have
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what we call the immediate the immediate
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revelation of god and the immediate
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revelation of god
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now the immediate revelation of god is a
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general revelation he has given us
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uh through his word through his creation
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okay through his created
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um um the creation the entire universe
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that we see
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the trees people all things that we see
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okay and if you go to romans 1 verse 15
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to 23
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the apostle paul under the inspiration
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of the holy spirit
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is saying that mankind has rejected a
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certain truth and i want us to read
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that before i i give you some
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explanation here let's go to romans 1
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verse 15 to 23. i'm gonna show it to you
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in a second
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listen to what paul says so
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paul say therefore i am not ashamed of
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the gospel
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for it is the power of god for salvation
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to everyone who believes to the jew
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first and also to the greek
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and he says this for the wrath of god
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taken from uh beginning from
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verse 18 for the wrath of god is
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revealed
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from heaven against all ungodliness
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and unrighteousness of men who by their
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unrighteousness suppress the truth and
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we need to know what truth they are
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suppressing
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for what can be known about god is plain
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to them for god has shown it to them
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for his invisible attribute namely his
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eternal
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power and divine nature have been
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clearly perceived
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ever since the creation of the world in
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the things that have been made so they
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are without excuse for although they
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knew god
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they did not honor him as god or give
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thanks to him but they became futile
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in their thinking and their foolish
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hearts were darkened
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claiming to be wise they became fools
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and exchanged the glory of the immortal
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god
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for images resembling mortal men and
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birds and animals and creeping things
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now you see this so what is paul saying
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to us paul is saying that
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mankind has rejected a certain truth
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because of their own immorality and
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ungodliness
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and that truth is the truth about his
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existence okay
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paul is saying that mankind rejects the
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reality of the existence of god
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because of their own immorality so
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basically
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the reason why people reject god isn't
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because
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there's not enough evidence but it's
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because they hate that he exists
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okay if you reject god it's not because
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you don't have enough evidence
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it's because you hate that he exists
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because you know
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that your immorality the way you leave
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is not pleasing to him so you don't want
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there to be a god because you don't want
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to be accountable
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this is why you reject god it's not
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because he doesn't exist
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it's because you hate that he
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exists because accusing to that truth is
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going to show and expose your duplicity
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and your lie and your immorality so you
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don't want there to be a god so you
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reject it
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this is why people reject god it's not
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because they don't have
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evidence it's because they
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hate that he exists okay
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and then this is the immediate
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revelation there's also the immediate
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revelation okay
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it is the internal revelation god has
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imposed on the mind of every living
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being
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and he gets through because god makes
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sure
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he gets through god has imposed the
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knowledge
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of his existence in our minds and we
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can't get rid of it
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and i made reference to that when we
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talked about self-consciousness okay
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but if you go to scripture romans 12
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romans 2 verse 14 to 16 we're going to
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read something here listen to what the
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scripture says in romans 2.
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we're going to read that romans 2 verse
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14 to 16.
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okay for when gentiles we do not have
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the law by nature do what the law
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requires
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you here for when gentiles would not
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have the law
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by nature by nature
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do what the law requires they are a law
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to themselves
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even though they do not have the law
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they show
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that the work of the law is written on
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their heart
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while their conscience also bears
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witness and their conflicting
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thoughts accuse or even excuse them
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on that day when according to my gospel
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god judges the secret of man by christ
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jesus so you can see that the law of god
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is written on our hearts so it's not
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like something that we can escape
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god himself has imposed that law on our
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mind so we cannot escape it and we
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know we know it because you don't have
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to know
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the 10th commandment to know that
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stealing is bad
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so we were created to reflect the
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character of god this is why by nature
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okay by nature we do the things of the
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law and there's a universal moral law
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within our heart
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then there is a law giver who's
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transcendent and who constitutes
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the absolute because he is the absolute
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and for that matter
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okay you cannot escape his knowledge
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okay now here's the thing it's important
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to prove that god exists
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but it is equally important to prove
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that the bible is his word and i just
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showed it to you a little while ago
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now what are the implications of this
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the implication of these are eternal
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do you believe in the god of the
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scripture because if you don't believe
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in the god of the scripture then you are
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on your way to hell
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and i'm not here to preach brimstone and
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all that but this is the reality of it
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i'm not gonna play games with you i'm
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gonna tell you the truth
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and let the truth set you free if you
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don't believe in his god if you haven't
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put your faith in jesus christ
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as his son and who took the penalty for
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your sins and my sins
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you are on your way to hell to suffer
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the wrath of god and it's not a laughing
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matter
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i'm not saying to scare you but i'm
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saying it to scare you
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yes i am because it is real it is not a
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scat tactic
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tactic because it is a reality that if
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you don't believe in this god if you not
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you have not placed
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your faith in jesus christ to take the
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penalty for your sins
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the expiation and propitiation for your
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sins then you are on your way
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to perdition to eternal wrath you can
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dislike what i say
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but you can't shake it out of you
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because it is truth
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okay so that's all i'm gonna say to you
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today have a wonderful day
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and i'll see you next time