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Getting a Piece of the Rock...Billy Graham · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: From our archives, the Billy Graham classics.
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  Speaker 2: Now tonight, I want you to turn with me the generonomy,
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  Speaker 2: the thirty second chapter and the thirty first verse generonomy
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  Speaker 2: that's in the Old Testament, over toward the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament, in what is called the Penitude, the
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  Speaker 2: first five books of the Bible, and the verse tucked
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  Speaker 2: away in Moses Farewell addressed to inch at Israel, that
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  Speaker 2: says this. In the thirty first verse, it says this,
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  Speaker 2: for their rock is not our rock.
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  Speaker 3: For their rock is not our rock. In the latter
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  Speaker 3: part of the.
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  Speaker 2: Last century, a man toured America and Great Britain, and
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  Speaker 2: many times he used that text. I'd never noticed that
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  Speaker 2: text until I read one of his sermons a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. D. L. Moody is not our rock. Moses
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  Speaker 2: is now an old man. He has led the children
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  Speaker 2: of Israel for forty years in the desert. He's been
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  Speaker 2: a king, a father, a president, a leader all these years,
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  Speaker 2: and now only Joshua and Caleb are left. All the
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  Speaker 2: other generation are dead, and all the people standing out
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  Speaker 2: before him are young people, young people just like you,
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  Speaker 2: with the same desires, the same aspirations, the same longings,
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  Speaker 2: the same dreams, the same problems, the same sins, the
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  Speaker 2: same temptations.
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  Speaker 3: That you have.
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  Speaker 2: And Moses, looking upon this vast audience, an entirely new generation,
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  Speaker 2: with his long white bed, preaching to them, warning them,
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  Speaker 2: warning them of other gods and false God that are
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  Speaker 2: going to come up to take the place of the
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  Speaker 2: true and the living God. And he said, if you
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  Speaker 2: follow these false gods, the judgment of God will come
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  Speaker 2: upon them. And he referred to God as a rock.
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  Speaker 2: And he referred to these other gods as.
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  Speaker 4: Rocks, spelled with a little R. The rock God was
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  Speaker 4: spelled with a capital AR. Now why did he use
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  Speaker 4: the term rocks as an illustration? The children of Israel
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  Speaker 4: had been wandering around among the rocks for forty years.
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  Speaker 3: They knew what a rock was.
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  Speaker 2: They knew the hard rocks and the salt rocks, and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of rocks. And he said, their rock is
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  Speaker 2: not our rock. What are some of the rocks in
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  Speaker 2: America right now that young people are in danger?
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  Speaker 3: You know? I talked to.
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  Speaker 2: Him man just a few weeks ago, who claimed to
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  Speaker 2: be an atheist. I don't know whether he was really
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  Speaker 2: an atheist, but he said he was an atheist he said,
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  Speaker 2: I've been an atheist all my life. He said, my
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  Speaker 2: father was an atheist. He said, I am now seventy
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  Speaker 2: one years of age. And I said, what do you
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  Speaker 2: have to look foward to? He said nothing, He said,
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  Speaker 2: life has been.
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  Speaker 3: Miserable for me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I said, why don't you give up your atheism?
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you believe in God? He said, my pride
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  Speaker 2: won't let me. Their rock is not our rock. Compared
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  Speaker 2: with Paul the Apostle, Paul said, I fought a good fight,
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  Speaker 2: I've finished my course, I've kept the faith. Henceforth there
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  Speaker 2: is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me. In that day,
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  Speaker 2: contrast between an atheist and a believer. One man was
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  Speaker 2: facing death fearful, empty, the other man was facing death
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  Speaker 2: full of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Their rock is not our rock.
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, young people, many young people are going after materialism.
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  Speaker 3: They've fallen.
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  Speaker 2: For the materialistic god that says things are more important
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  Speaker 2: than anything else. I find across the country today a
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  Speaker 2: deep economic discontent among people. I find it in Europe,
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  Speaker 2: I find it around the world, and people are wanting
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  Speaker 2: more and more things, and we forget that we have
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  Speaker 2: the highest standard of living the world is even known.
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  Speaker 3: We still have poverty.
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  Speaker 2: The government is trying to do something about it, the
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  Speaker 2: church is trying to do something. Hundreds of social agencies
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  Speaker 2: are trying to do something about it. But the people
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  Speaker 2: that we call living in poverty would be considered rich
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  Speaker 2: if they lived in Bangladesh.
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  Speaker 3: Or in many other parts of the world.
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  Speaker 2: We're our rich nation, but still with all of our riches,
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  Speaker 2: we're dissatisfied.
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  Speaker 3: We want more, more, more, more. The more we get,
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  Speaker 3: the more we want.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, you cannot serve God and Mammon. He said,
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  Speaker 2: a man's life consisted not in the abundance of the
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  Speaker 2: things that he possessed. A famous man was quoted in
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  Speaker 2: the paper the other day is saying, I'm worth millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars. But I can tell you this, that's not
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  Speaker 2: where it's at. I'm worth millions, but that's not where
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  Speaker 2: it's at. Add Off Beryl, in his study of power,
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  Speaker 2: points out riches make people solitary, lonely, and often afraid.
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  Speaker 2: Many times a rich man has a loneliness and a fear.
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  Speaker 2: Because you see, if you make riches your god, if
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  Speaker 2: you make things your god, if you make money, you'll God.
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  Speaker 3: It leaves you empty.
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  Speaker 2: George Bernard Shaw said, there are two tragedies in life.
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  Speaker 2: One is not to get your heart's desire, and the
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  Speaker 2: other is to get it. You think if you had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money, you'd be happy. Some of you
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  Speaker 2: have already got a lot, and you're not happy.
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  Speaker 3: Two tragedies. You didn't get it and you did get it.
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  Speaker 2: You see, without God, life loses its zest and its
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  Speaker 2: purpose and its meaning, even though you may have money.
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  Speaker 2: Young people in America today are revolting against affluency, and
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  Speaker 2: yet today many young people are prisoners of a culture
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  Speaker 2: which puts a premium on things rather than moral values.
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  Speaker 2: Their rock is not our rock. Don't make money your God.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with having money if you got it
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  Speaker 2: legitimately and honestly.
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  Speaker 3: It's what you do with it. It's your attitude taught it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you love it?
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  Speaker 2: Has it become your God? Does it dominate you? Does
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  Speaker 2: it have such a hold on you that you don't
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  Speaker 2: have time for God? Their rock is not our rock.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the rock we want. And then, thirdly, their
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  Speaker 2: aims and objectives are not our rock. What are the
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  Speaker 2: objectives of the average person in America today, power, pleasure, leisure, money.
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  Speaker 3: What is the objective of a Christian?
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  Speaker 2: To glorify God, to live for God, to do the
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  Speaker 2: will of God, to love your neighbor, to help your neighbor,
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  Speaker 2: to make an impact in society for God, and to
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  Speaker 2: leave the world a little better place because you were here.
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  Speaker 3: What is your objective?
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  Speaker 2: Is your objective to get all the leisure time you can,
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  Speaker 2: to have all the pleasure you can have, to make
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  Speaker 2: all the money you can make?
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  Speaker 3: What is your objective? What's your goal in life? Where
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  Speaker 3: are you're headed?
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  Speaker 2: Their rock is not our rock? And then fourthly, there's pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in America today we're searching for new thrills.
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  Speaker 3: We've worn out the old amusements.
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  Speaker 2: You are not to become solb solved, The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: be temperant.
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  Speaker 3: In all things. There are legitimate pleasures that can.
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  Speaker 2: Take most of your time and occupy most of your thinking,
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  Speaker 2: that are legitimate in themselves, but they soon become sin
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  Speaker 2: because they've taken the place of God. In thy presence
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  Speaker 2: is fullness of joy at thy right hand. There are
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  Speaker 2: pleasures forevermore, said the Psalmist.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have that kind of pleasure?
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  Speaker 2: The kind of pleasure that's not dependent on circumstances, the
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  Speaker 2: kind of pleasure that's not dependent on how you feel,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of pleasure that runs deep, that has been
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  Speaker 2: brought there by the spirit of God. When the tide
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  Speaker 2: comes in, the rock of pleasure will turn into a sand.
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  Speaker 2: The sweetness of pleasure turns to bitterness and disappointment. Life
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  Speaker 2: becomes empty, sick, and a tragic thing. When pleasure is
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  Speaker 2: put first and becomes your god. Their rock is not
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  Speaker 2: our rock. There's the rock of revolution. All over the
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  Speaker 2: country we hear the word revolution, and many young people
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  Speaker 2: have fixed their hopes and their dreams on change in
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  Speaker 2: the political system, and they believe that if they can
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  Speaker 2: get this revolution, it'll fix everything. I was with one
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  Speaker 2: of these young leaders, whose name is known to many
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  Speaker 2: of you, in New York some time ago, and I
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  Speaker 2: looked out across Manhattan. He said, we're going to burn
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  Speaker 2: it down. I said, what are you going to rebuild
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  Speaker 2: in its place? He said, we haven't gotten that far.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, before you destroyed the American ship, you
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  Speaker 2: better be sure that you can know how to build
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  Speaker 2: a raft. Many people have an idea that they I
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  Speaker 2: think they it's the excitement of revolution for revolution's sake.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every utopia has turned out to be a
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  Speaker 2: pipe dream in the history of the human race.
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  Speaker 3: It is not our rock.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we need change in America, but let's chief our freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Let's don't have a revolution just for revolution's sake, or
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  Speaker 2: we will destroy everything that's been built in the greatest
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  Speaker 2: nation in the history of the world. Seventhly, religiosity can
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  Speaker 2: become a god. You know, there's a great emphasis today
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  Speaker 2: on their cults. I was asked about it on television
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  Speaker 2: today in an interview.
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  Speaker 3: Satan worship.
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  Speaker 2: People today that are going after all kinds of false
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  Speaker 2: spirits across the country and in Europe and in the
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  Speaker 2: Far East as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's become a big thing in a big business.
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  Speaker 2: And many young people across the country are being fooled
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  Speaker 2: by all kinds of cults and spirits and devils and demons.
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  Speaker 3: You're dealing with the dark powers that are very real.
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  Speaker 2: How did Jesus overcome the devil by arguing no? By
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  Speaker 2: debating no, he quoted scripture. The Bible says that he
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  Speaker 2: was filled with the Holy Spirit. He was walking according
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  Speaker 2: to the will of God, and he quoted the Bible
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  Speaker 2: and every time he quoted the Bible, the.
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  Speaker 3: Devil was defeated.
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  Speaker 2: That's the reason it's important to memorize scripture, study the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm so anxious that young people across America now
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  Speaker 2: that are finding Christ by the thousands will get into
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures, get into the Word of God, learn it,
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  Speaker 2: desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may
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  Speaker 2: grow thereby, because if you don't, we are going to
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  Speaker 2: have a backlash in the next generation.
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  Speaker 3: And young people who have had.
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  Speaker 2: An experience with Christ and don't become taught in the
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  Speaker 2: scriptures are prime targets.
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  Speaker 3: For the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Get into the scriptures, get to work for Christ. Their
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  Speaker 2: rock is not our rock. Eighthly, their cure is not
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  Speaker 2: our cure. That's one of the problems of psychiatry. I'm
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  Speaker 2: for a psychiatrists and psychologist. I send many people to them,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a point.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond which a psychiatrist who is not a believer, there's
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  Speaker 3: a point beyond which he can't help. In many cases,
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  Speaker 3: he has no cure.
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  Speaker 2: And many of them have admitted this to me privately,
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  Speaker 2: and some of them are beginning to do it publicly,
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  Speaker 2: and they're doing it in books. Now you see the
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  Speaker 2: cure the world. The Fraudian cure is one direction, but
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  Speaker 2: the Christian cure is another.
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  Speaker 3: The Christian cure is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The cure for domestic problems. There's a father having problems.
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  Speaker 3: With a son. What is the cure?
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  Speaker 2: The son in rebellion, the son going out on his own,
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  Speaker 2: seeking his own identity, doing things.
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  Speaker 3: That appalls the father.
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  Speaker 2: The father becomes angry, the parents become upset.
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  Speaker 3: There is a Christian cure. The cure is Christ.
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  Speaker 2: To go to our knees. And you know, I love
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  Speaker 2: the young people of this generation. I can see why
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them have rebelled. They've rebelled against the
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  Speaker 2: hypocrisies they've seen in us. They've seen us tell lies.
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  Speaker 2: They've heard us tell them not to smoke their pot,
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  Speaker 2: and seen us drink our alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: They've heard us use those swear words.
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  Speaker 2: They've seen father and mother flirting with the next door neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: They've seen the sharp business deals that they knew were
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  Speaker 2: not right. They've seen the emphasis has been on things,
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  Speaker 2: even while you went to church on Sunday, Yet the
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  Speaker 2: whole emphasis of your life is materialistic. They've seen the hypocrisy,
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  Speaker 2: and they said, we don't want it. But let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you this, you young people, if you'd lived a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago, your life expectancy wouldn't have been very long.
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  Speaker 2: Because you see, this generation was able to make some
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  Speaker 2: breakthroughs in medicine and in science that has given you
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  Speaker 2: all these marvelous drugs. So you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 2: today about smallpox and polio and all of these other
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  Speaker 2: things that preoccupied people a generation or two ago and
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  Speaker 2: sent terror and fear through this community of Charlotte many
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  Speaker 2: times through disease. There are many wonderful things that this
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  Speaker 2: generation has brought. Television, radio brought the world into our
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  Speaker 2: living rooms. And this generation of people, my generation, worked hard.
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  Speaker 3: We came through the depression.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't want you to ever have to go through
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  Speaker 2: a depression again.
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  Speaker 3: We came through World War two.
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  Speaker 2: And we determined that we were going to do all
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  Speaker 2: we could to keep out.
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  Speaker 3: Of another great world war.
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  Speaker 2: And you young people must understand that this generation has
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  Speaker 2: done some good things, even though we've done some bad things.
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  Speaker 3: And we want to help.
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  Speaker 2: You as we hand the torch to you, we want
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  Speaker 2: to help you change it and make it better. But
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  Speaker 2: We've got to, in all fairness, say that the problem
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  Speaker 2: lies deeper than we thought. The problem lies in the
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  Speaker 2: human heart. We've found that we cannot legislate morals. We
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  Speaker 2: found we cannot pass a law and settle a race problem.
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  Speaker 2: We can help, but that doesn't solve at all. It's
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  Speaker 2: got to come from the human heart. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said you must be born again. Their rock is
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  Speaker 2: not our rock. Their cure is not our cure. Our
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  Speaker 2: cure says you must be born again. Now, what is
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  Speaker 2: this rock that is ours? With the big capital are?
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  Speaker 2: The rock is God? And the Bible tells us that
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  Speaker 2: the rock in the Old Testament was actually Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: He was the Rock, king of kings and Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Of lords, born of the Virgin Mary, died on the
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  Speaker 2: cross by our sins, rose again for our justification. He
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  Speaker 2: is the rock that we're to put our confidence and
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  Speaker 2: our faith in, and he's called in the Bible the
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  Speaker 2: Rock of defense. When we put our trust in him,
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  Speaker 2: he takes our side, he takes our part.
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  Speaker 3: He helps us carry the load.
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  Speaker 2: And when you come to Jesus Christ to save you,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to you don't have to live a
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  Speaker 2: life by yourself. You can't live the Christian life alone.
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  Speaker 2: Christ will be there. He is the rock that will
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  Speaker 2: help you to live the life. If God is far us,
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  Speaker 2: who can be against us? I'm glad that my defense
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  Speaker 2: at the great judgment of God is going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the hands of the greatest lawyer in the universe,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Now advocate.
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  Speaker 2: And the devil is going to say, look at Billy Graham, haha,
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  Speaker 2: look at the sins he committed, look at the things
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  Speaker 2: he did that are wrong. Jesus Christ is going to
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  Speaker 2: step up and be.
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  Speaker 3: My representative, and he's never lost the case. And then
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  Speaker 3: he is a high rock. The Bible says, a watchtower,
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  Speaker 3: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that the Christian has a vantage point
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  Speaker 2: that the world doesn't have. Everybody's wringing their hands and saying,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: In the world, What's wrong with the world? Why is
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  Speaker 3: the world in such a mess? I can tell you.
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  Speaker 2: The simplest Christian in this audience tonight, with no education
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  Speaker 2: at all, can tell you exactly what's wrong with the world.
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  Speaker 2: Because the Christian has an insight that nobody else has.
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  Speaker 2: The Christian can tell you what's wrong with the world,
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  Speaker 2: and the Christian can tell you what could put the
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  Speaker 2: world right. Because you see, we have a rock a
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  Speaker 2: vantage point. Then the Bible teaches that our rock is
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  Speaker 2: a refuge. The Bible speaks of the cleft in the rock,
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  Speaker 2: a hiding place from the storms of life, a place
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  Speaker 2: where we can go and pray and meditate and think
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  Speaker 2: and worship God. Rock is a foundation for other foundation
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  Speaker 2: can no man lay then that was laid in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is Jesus Christ the foundation of your life. There
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  Speaker 2: were two men that Jesus told about. One built his
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  Speaker 2: house on the sand, one built it on the rock.
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  Speaker 2: The storm came and the one that was built on
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  Speaker 2: the sand crumbled, and the one that was built on
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  Speaker 2: the rock lasted.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you building your life? Is it on the rock?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it on a false rock, a sandy rock
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  Speaker 2: that will trumble in a road, a shay rock. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's some things that are eternal in our rock. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says God is eternal. The eternal God is thy refuge.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that spiritual truth is eternal. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that God gives us eternal life. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 2: us that heaven is eternal. The Bible says God's judgment
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  Speaker 2: is eternal.
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  Speaker 3: He is an eternal rock.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, prepared to meet Thy God. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: if in this life only we have hope, where of
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  Speaker 2: all men most miserable, even his enemies recognize that their
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  Speaker 2: rock is not our rock. Paul says of the rock
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness in one Corinthians ten, that rock was Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Are the rocks humble and slide and erode and fall,
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  Speaker 3: but not Christ? Is he your rock?
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  Speaker 2: Is He your Lord and your Master and your savior?
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  Speaker 2: Have you surrendered everything to him without reservation?
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  Speaker 3: You can? Tonight?
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  Speaker 2: You say, what do I have to do? You have
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  Speaker 2: to be willing to turn from your sins. You have
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  Speaker 2: to be willing to receive Him as your lord and
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  Speaker 2: your master and your savior. And you have to be
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  Speaker 2: willing to do it publicly. Jesus said, if you're not
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  Speaker 2: willing to acknowledge me openly and publicly, I'll not acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: you before my father, which is in heaven. There's no
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  Speaker 2: such thing as secret discipleship. You come publicly. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I ask people to come forward to receive Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Openly.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of it. It's an open acknowledgment that he
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  Speaker 2: is your rock. But I want to tell you what
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  Speaker 2: I said across Japan and India and across Africa. When
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  Speaker 2: you come to Jesus Christ and make him your rock
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  Speaker 2: where the capital are, you must turn from the other rocks.
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  Speaker 2: And it will cost you something because some of the
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  Speaker 2: rocks in your life are wrong. Will you make Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ your rock of Gibraltar and state your eternal destiny
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  Speaker 2: on him. I'm asking you to do that tonight, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking hundreds of young people to make him their
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  Speaker 2: rock tonight and go out of here saying, from this
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  Speaker 2: ow on I'm going to follow him and serve him,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to help change the world for Christ.
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  Speaker 2: That's the revolution we need. I'm going to ask you
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  Speaker 2: to do it right now. I'm going to ask hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of you to get up out of your seat. Men, women,
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  Speaker 2: young people, come and stand in front of the platform,
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  Speaker 2: say tonight, I want Christ to be my rock. I
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  Speaker 2: want him to be my lord and my savior. I
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  Speaker 2: want him to forgive my past sins. I want to
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  Speaker 2: know that I have eternal life. Men, women, young people,
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  Speaker 2: you may be a member of the church. You may
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  Speaker 2: not be a member of any church. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who you are, what you are, but you want Christ tonight.
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  Speaker 3: You get up and come. We're going to wait.
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  Speaker 1: As hundreds are responding to mister Graham's invitation to make
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  Speaker 1: a public commitment to Jesus Christ. You can make that
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  Speaker 1: same commitment right where you are. Just pick up the
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  Speaker 1: phone and call the number you see on your screen.
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  Speaker 1: Special friends are waiting to talk with you and pray
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  Speaker 1: with you about this most important decision.
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  Speaker 2: To you that are watching by television. I'm sure that
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  Speaker 2: you can see that hundreds of people are coming here
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  Speaker 2: in the Great Charlotte Colosseum to make their commitment to
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ as the Rock of Ages, the one that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to give allegiance to tonight and surrender to
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  Speaker 2: His Lord and Master and Savior to receive everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: Where you are, in your home or a bar, or
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  Speaker 2: a hotel lobby, wherever you are, you can receive Christ
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  Speaker 2: into your heart. I hope you'll make that commitment. It'll
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  Speaker 2: change your life. God bless you.
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  Speaker 5: If you just prayed that prayer with my father, or
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  Speaker 5: if you have any questions about a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 5: I would just call that number that is on the screen.
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  Speaker 5: There'll be some one there to talk with you, pray
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  Speaker 5: with you, and answer those questions, and remember God loves you.
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  Speaker 1: If you would like to commit your life to Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Or you can write to us at Billy Graham, one
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  Speaker 1: the same helps to you that we give to everyone
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  Speaker 1: who responds at the invitation on behalf of Franklin Graham
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  Speaker 1: and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Thank you for watching,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for your prayers.
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  Speaker 2: Ray hear the sound of brand new Day.
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  Speaker 1: Witnessed the story that.
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