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Who Really Has the Final Word in Your Life? · 5-Minutes of Good News

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, Christians.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: This is Dallas Beacham.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Stand by for good news.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: For nearly 2,000 years, men have argued, divided, marched, preached, voted, ruled, and even died over one question.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: Who has the final word?
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  SPEAKER_00: Not just in government, not just in courts, not just in church councils, but in the soul of man.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Who has the right to tell a sinner what truth is?
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Who has the right to bind the conscience?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Who has the right to say this is the way?
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk you in it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Through the centuries many voices have tried to claim that place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kings have claimed it, popes have claimed it, councils have claimed it, traditions have claimed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scholars have claimed it, the crowds claim it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes, if we're honest, each one of us has tried to claim it for ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Word of God asks a deeper question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Has God spoken?
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  SPEAKER_00: And if God has spoken, then no man, no office, no institution, no majority, no age has the right to stand above what God has said.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the thunder behind the Reformation movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the fire in Luther's stand.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the courage in Tyndall's translation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the blood of the martyr's witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were not merely fighting Rome.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were fighting for the right of God's word to be heard without chains.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Christians?
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  SPEAKER_00: That question has not gone away.
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  SPEAKER_00: The battle today is still over authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: Will the church stand under Scripture or will Scripture be forced to stand under the church?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will the Bible correct us or will we correct the Bible?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will God's word govern our doctrine, our worship, our conscience and our life?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or will we use the word only when it agrees with what we already want?
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: The good news is this.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has not left his people guessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has spoken.
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  SPEAKER_00: His word is not hidden in heaven unreachable.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: It is not chained to a pulpit, it is not locked behind a priest.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: It is open before us, living and powerful, calling the church back to the voice of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the question for this generation is not whether God has spoken, He has.
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  SPEAKER_00: The question is, will we bow to His Word?
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  SPEAKER_00: Scripture first means God has the final word, not the crowd, not the priest, not the state, not tradition, not even you or me.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: God has spoken and He has the final word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when God has the final word, confusion loses its throne.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Listen tomorrow for the continuation of this message.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope this message today has touched your heart and causes you to have a good day.