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Jesus Calls You by Name...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 to
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  Speaker 2: the nineteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel. The nineteenth chapter, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is passing through Jericho at this point in scripture, and
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  Speaker 2: a blind man screamed out and said, Jesus, thou son
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  Speaker 2: of David, have mercy upon me. And Jesus touched him
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  Speaker 2: and he was healed. And now he's passing right through
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  Speaker 2: the middle of Jericho. And another incident happens at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, and Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And
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  Speaker 2: behold there was a man named Zacheus, which was the
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  Speaker 2: chief among the publicans, and he was very rich, and
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  Speaker 2: he sought to see Jesus who he was, and he
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  Speaker 2: could not for the press that means the press of
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. That doesn't mean the media, because he was
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  Speaker 2: little of stature.
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  Speaker 3: And he ran before and climbed.
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  Speaker 2: Up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he
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  Speaker 2: was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to
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  Speaker 2: the place, he looked up and saw him and said
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  Speaker 2: to him, zach Chius, make haste come down, for today
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to abide at your house and he made haste,
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  Speaker 2: and he came down, and he received him joyfully.
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  Speaker 3: And when they saw it.
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  Speaker 2: They all murmured and saying that he was gone to
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  Speaker 2: be the guest with a man who's a sinner. And
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  Speaker 2: Zachius stood and said, unto the Lord, the O Lord,
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  Speaker 2: half of all my goods, I'm going to give it
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  Speaker 2: to the poor. And if I've taken anything from any
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  Speaker 2: man by false.
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  Speaker 3: Accusation, I restore fourfold.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus said into him this day, this day is salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Come to this house for as much as he also
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  Speaker 2: is a son of Abraham. For the son of Man
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  Speaker 2: is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
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  Speaker 2: The son of Man is come to seek and save
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  Speaker 2: that which was lost. And there are thousands of people
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  Speaker 2: here tonight that are lost. You're not lost from your
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  Speaker 2: parents so much, or lost from your friends. You're lost
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  Speaker 2: from God. You're separated from God. And Jesus has come
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  Speaker 2: to sink you out. And he sought out Zachius. And
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you the story as Jesus was passing through Jericho.
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  Speaker 2: Now you see, Zachius was a public one. That meant
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  Speaker 2: that he was a tax gatherer.
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  Speaker 3: He worked for Rome.
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  Speaker 2: He was rich, he was despised. He was a social outcast.
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  Speaker 2: The people didn't like the tax gatherers gathering taxes for
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  Speaker 2: a foreign country that dominated them. And if Jesus had
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  Speaker 2: considered public opinion, he would have never once glanced at
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  Speaker 2: zach Chius. But Jesus never considered public opinion. The scripture
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  Speaker 2: says that on all occasions Jesus made of himself no reputation.
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  Speaker 2: And I imagine it had been many months since anyone
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  Speaker 2: had ever cross voluntarily into Zachius' house. A man of
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  Speaker 2: great riches, but he was a lonely man. He was
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  Speaker 2: a hated man. He was avoided almost everybody in town.
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  Speaker 2: But his curiosity got the best of him. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see Jesus. He had possibly heard about Jesus, and
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  Speaker 2: he had heard them call him many names. Some people
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  Speaker 2: had called Jesus a devil, some said he was a fanatic,
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  Speaker 2: some said he was a blasphema, some said he was
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  Speaker 2: a heretic, some said he was a prophet, some said
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  Speaker 2: he was impostor, and many said that he was actually
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  Speaker 2: the son of God. So naturally, Zachius had a tremendous
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  Speaker 2: curiosity to see Jesus. But you see to see Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: He had some obstacles in the way to get to Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: There was the press of the crowd, a big crowd,
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  Speaker 2: and he was a little fella, and to try to
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  Speaker 2: push his way through that crowd God was very difficult.
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  Speaker 3: And he was also small of stature.
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  Speaker 2: He was a very small man, and to get through
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  Speaker 2: the crowd was almost an impossibility. Because everybody wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get close to Jesus. And many of you would like
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  Speaker 2: to know Jesus, and you'd like to get close to Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and you'd like to have Jesus in.
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  Speaker 3: Your heart, and you'd like to have salvation. But you
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  Speaker 3: face many obstacles. What are they. Let's just list a
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  Speaker 3: few of them that you face. First is pride.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible teaches that pride keeps more people from Christ
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  Speaker 2: than any other sin. The sin of pride, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: God resisteth the proud, but give it grace under the humble.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, if any man among you seem it
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  Speaker 2: to be wise in this world, let him become a fool,
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  Speaker 2: that he may be wise. Jesus said, we had to
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  Speaker 2: become his little children to be converted. And if you
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  Speaker 2: had to get close to Christ and have Christ.
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  Speaker 3: In your heart. You may be wise, but you must
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  Speaker 3: become a fool. You must become as a child.
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  Speaker 2: You see, we're all proud and we don't like to
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  Speaker 2: humble ourselves. And then the second thing that keeps us
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  Speaker 2: from Christ is idolatry. And idolatry is another sin all
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  Speaker 2: the way through the scriptures that is mentioned as keeping
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  Speaker 2: more people from God than almost any other sin. And
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  Speaker 2: our idolatry is very unique in our day because we
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  Speaker 2: worship ourselves, we worship man. Whether we realize it or not,
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  Speaker 2: we're worshiping ourselves. The things that we've created, the things
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  Speaker 2: we've made with our hands, whether it's a television center,
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  Speaker 2: a new automobile, materialism, all of these things have become gods.
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  Speaker 2: And God is his sex has become a goddess just
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  Speaker 2: as much as it was in the days of Ephesis,
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  Speaker 2: on the days of Rome. These are the modern gods.
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  Speaker 2: And the scripture says idolatry those that commit it shall
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  Speaker 2: have their part in the lake which burneth with fire
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  Speaker 2: and brimstone, which is the second death. In Revelation twenty
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  Speaker 2: one to eight, God hates idolatry. And then the third
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  Speaker 2: thing that may keep some of you from Christ's worldness.
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  Speaker 2: For what is a man profited if he shall gain
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  Speaker 2: the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what
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  Speaker 2: shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Said
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  Speaker 2: Jesus in Matthew sixteen. There are many of you that
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  Speaker 2: are selling your soul, your eternal spirit, for a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of this world. But Jesus said, suppose you've got all the.
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  Speaker 2: Oil of the Middle East, all the gold in South Africa,
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  Speaker 2: all the diamonds in Holland, all the wealth of the
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  Speaker 2: whole world, and you had it all, all the music,
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  Speaker 2: all the culture, all the philosophy, all the psychology of
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 3: You had it all and lost your soul. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be worth it.
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  Speaker 2: And yet you are losing your soul for just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that doesn't mean that you're not to have money.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere in the Bible does God condemn a wealthy man
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  Speaker 2: unless he misuses it, or unless he got it the
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  Speaker 2: wrong way, then he's condemned.
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  Speaker 3: But the Bible says, know ye not, that friendship with
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  Speaker 3: the world.
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  Speaker 2: Is enmity with God. Who suffer therefore will be a
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  Speaker 2: friend of the world. Is the enemy of God. Now
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  Speaker 2: what does that word world mean. It's cosmos. It means
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  Speaker 2: a world system dominated by evil.
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  Speaker 3: That evil part of the.
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  Speaker 2: World's system in which we live. Friendship with that means
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  Speaker 2: enmity with God. And God says, come out from among them,
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  Speaker 2: and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not.
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  Speaker 3: The unclean thing world.
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  Speaker 2: And this in the New Testament meant the relationship that
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  Speaker 2: people had with their social environment.
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  Speaker 3: We are to be separated from the evils of the world.
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  Speaker 2: And now perhaps you saw those huge pictures on television
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  Speaker 2: a few months ago of some forty quails who for
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  Speaker 2: some unknown biological reason beats themselves and die. They left
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  Speaker 2: their living environment for want of death and die. And
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  Speaker 2: many of you have left the environment of living in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures and living for God and gone out into
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 3: And your soul is dead toward God.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the lemming in Scandinavia. They band together and
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  Speaker 2: for some unknown reason, walk down into the ocean and die.
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  Speaker 2: You deliberately bring on your own spiritual death. You promote
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  Speaker 2: your own eternal death by going with the evils of
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  Speaker 2: the world round about you, and the world round about
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  Speaker 2: you squeezes you into its mold, and it becomes a
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  Speaker 2: hindrance to you coming to Jesus Christ, because the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says you're going to have to give up the wrong
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  Speaker 2: things that are in the world, the lust and the greed,
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  Speaker 2: and the hate and the prejudice and the materialism. Part
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  Speaker 2: of the world that's wrong you have to turn from
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  Speaker 2: when you come to Christ. And that's the reason it's
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  Speaker 2: so hard to follow Christ in the modern day.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy to be a Christian. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to fool you.
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  Speaker 2: I would think it's more difficult to be a Christian
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  Speaker 2: right now in modern America or modern Western world than
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  Speaker 2: any other part of the world you see. To be
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  Speaker 2: a Christian in some parts of the Orient or some
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  Speaker 2: parts of the world, you have to really stand for
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  Speaker 2: Christ and you have to suffer. But in a country
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  Speaker 2: where there's no suffering and no physical persecution, it's rather
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  Speaker 2: easy just to slide.
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  Speaker 3: Along really not knowing Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Calling yourself a Christian, but not really being a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: not a.
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  Speaker 3: New Testament Christian. And there are thousands of people like
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  Speaker 3: that that.
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  Speaker 2: On the Church all their lives had been baptized and confirmed,
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  Speaker 2: but still not knowing Christ.
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  Speaker 3: And then another obstacle are secret sins. The Bible says.
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  Speaker 3: The Psalmist prayed cleanse thou me from secret faults, and
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  Speaker 3: Paul wrote to the Romans the day.
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  Speaker 2: When God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: you can keep no secrets from God. Your friends don't
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  Speaker 2: know anything about them. Your family may not even know.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, and God has been speaking to you
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  Speaker 2: about them. It's like the Incredible Hulk on television. I
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  Speaker 2: think I've seen it once, maybe twice, but I read
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  Speaker 2: about it, and if I understand it correctly, it's trying
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of the person inside of him always.
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  Speaker 2: And perhaps you've been battling with the hidden man in
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  Speaker 2: your heart with your secret sins.
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  Speaker 3: Confess them to Christ tonight, come to the cross and
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  Speaker 3: bring those secrets of your heart and lay them before
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  Speaker 3: him and say, Lord, here they are. I surrender.
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  Speaker 2: And then self righteousness is another thing that keeps people
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  Speaker 2: from Christ. There is a generation, the Bible says, that
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  Speaker 2: are pure in their own eyes, and yet they have
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  Speaker 2: not been washed from their filthiness, pure in our own eyes,
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  Speaker 2: patting each other on the back, saying we're good, when
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  Speaker 2: actually we're bad, saying we're good when actually we're sinning
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  Speaker 2: and breaking God's laws. That keeps us from Christ's self righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've seen the obstacles, let's look at Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: It's a personal call.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus turns to Zacheus and calls him by name. He
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  Speaker 2: sees Zachius up the tree. You see, Zachius had climbed
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  Speaker 2: a sycamore tree and was out on the limb, sitting
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  Speaker 2: there watching Jesus. And all of a sudden, the most
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  Speaker 2: unpopular man in town, the most hated man in town,
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  Speaker 2: the most sinful man in town. Here's his name, called
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  Speaker 2: by the great prophet Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesus says that yours.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine how startled he was that out of
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  Speaker 2: all that crowd and those religious leaders, he the worst
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  Speaker 2: sinner in town, called by his name. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the good shepherd. He calleth his own.
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  Speaker 3: Sheep by name, and leadeth them.
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  Speaker 2: In Genesis, we read that God came in the garden
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  Speaker 2: of Eden personally to call Adam.
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  Speaker 3: He said, Adam, Adam, where art thou?
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  Speaker 2: And later he called Abraham, He said, Abraham, Jacob, Moses,
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  Speaker 2: Joshua get in Samuel, David, Solomon.
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  Speaker 3: He called them all.
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  Speaker 2: By name, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, he called him by name.
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  Speaker 3: And then when the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ came, he called his disciples by name. He
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  Speaker 2: went down for the sea shore, and he called out Simon.
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  Speaker 3: Peter, Andrew, James.
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  Speaker 2: John, and from the receipt of custom, another man like
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  Speaker 2: zach kias a tax gatherer.
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  Speaker 3: Matthew, come and follow me.
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  Speaker 2: And he rose and followed Jesus immediately. And on the
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  Speaker 2: Damascus road he said, Saul, Saul, Saul, why do you
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  Speaker 2: persecute me? And on the isle of Patnas, he said, John,
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  Speaker 2: he called you by name.
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  Speaker 3: What is your name? Jim, Mary, Susie, Peter. He called
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  Speaker 3: you by name tonight. He knows your name, he knows
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  Speaker 3: all about you. And he called you, and he says, Mary,
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  Speaker 3: get up out of your seat and come and receive me. Tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I want to come into your house and into your heart.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, you need me, you know you need me to
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  Speaker 2: help you, to forgive you, to take you to Heaven.
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  Speaker 3: Get up out of your seat and come. He called
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  Speaker 3: you by name.
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  Speaker 2: He looked up in the tree and said zach Kis.
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  Speaker 2: And he was an urgent call. He said, zach Kis,
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  Speaker 2: make haste. Hurry. We don't have long.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what he says to you. Hurry, make haste.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to come to Christ, come now. You
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  Speaker 3: may never have another moment like this.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere does the Bible promise tomorrow you can be saved.
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  Speaker 3: It's today.
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  Speaker 2: Today is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time.
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  Speaker 2: There may not be a tomorrow for you. There's a
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  Speaker 2: little verse in your.
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  Speaker 3: National anthem that sometimes I miss when I hear.
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  Speaker 2: It sung, and it's a beautiful Oh Lord, our God,
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  Speaker 2: arise on thee our hoops we fix. God save us
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  Speaker 2: all tonight. That would be my prayer for you, God
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  Speaker 2: save us all. And that's what our Lord Jesus came
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  Speaker 2: to seek and to save that which is lost. Today
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  Speaker 2: he's urgently calling you by name. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: successful call because Zachis did make haste.
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  Speaker 3: You know what he did. He didn't wait to climb
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  Speaker 3: down the tree. He jumped and Dial Moody, the.
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  Speaker 2: Evangelist of the last century, said that Zachis was converted
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  Speaker 2: from the limb to the ground. And I expect that's
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  Speaker 2: about truth. The rich young ruler came to Jesus. He
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  Speaker 2: fell down before Jesus. He was running to Jesus, making
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  Speaker 2: haste to get to Jesus, and he got to Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: but he couldn't pay the price, and he was lost,
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  Speaker 2: even though Jesus loved him, and Jesus tried, and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: talked with him and gave him precious time.
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  Speaker 3: Yet that young man never came to Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: But Zachius, the great Sinner, did come to Jesus, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus went to Zachius home.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think that Jesus probably took Matthew with him, and
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  Speaker 2: I expect that Matthew and Zachius got into a conversation
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  Speaker 2: late into the night, and Matthew told him about his
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  Speaker 2: own experience, how he had been also a tax gatherer,
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  Speaker 2: how he had been a sinner, and how Jesus had
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  Speaker 2: called him by name, and he said, follow me, and
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  Speaker 2: Matthew said, I got up right then and followed him.
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  Speaker 2: And I've never regretted one minute of it.
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  Speaker 3: He changed my life.
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  Speaker 2: He's given me assurance, he's blessed my family, he's brought
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  Speaker 2: our family together.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I die for him.
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  Speaker 2: I've given in my life, and Zachias heard them, and
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  Speaker 2: I imagine that Matthew told him that night. You know, Zachius,
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  Speaker 2: if you come to Christ, if you come to Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to have to make some restitution.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have to change your.
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  Speaker 2: Whole way of living, and you're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: declare openly your allegiance for Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: We have to be in the world, but not of it.
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  Speaker 3: We live in two worlds. We live in this.
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  Speaker 2: World, but we're also citizens of another world, the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of Heaven, and our first allegiance is always to the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, I imagine Matthew told him all of
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  Speaker 2: those things.
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  Speaker 3: What was the result.
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  Speaker 2: The result was that Zachius received Christ. Now, receiving Christ
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  Speaker 2: involves an act.
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  Speaker 3: Of faith beyond mere human reason.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, the natural man received if not the
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  Speaker 2: things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness under him,
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  Speaker 2: neither can he know them, because they're spiritually deserned. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, a natural person like you just cannot come
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  Speaker 2: and reason his way to the Kingdom of God. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot reason your way to Christ. I don't imagine zach
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  Speaker 2: he has sat down and went through all the philosophy
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  Speaker 2: and all the theological debates about Jesus. He just joyfully
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  Speaker 2: received him by faith, simply like a little child. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus received him and forgave him. You see, Christ is
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  Speaker 2: knocking on our heart's door tonight. He's asking people like
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  Speaker 2: you to receive him. And they accused him of saying
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  Speaker 2: They accused him by saying, this man receiveth sinners.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a sinner? Have you broken God's law? I'm
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  Speaker 3: a sinner? Are you sure you are?
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  Speaker 2: He receiveth sinners. Isn't that a wonderful thing? That he
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  Speaker 2: receiveth sinners? And when I stand and if they should
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  Speaker 2: ask me at the gates of heaven.
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  Speaker 3: When I die, what is the password? I'm going to say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here by the grace and the mercy of God
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  Speaker 2: because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not here by any good works Billy Graham ever did.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to heaven because I've preached in a
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  Speaker 2: big stadium full of people like this tonight. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to heaven because I've read the Bible. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to heaven because I prayed. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: heaven because of a wonderful Christian wife and five Christian children.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to heaven because of the grace and the
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  Speaker 2: mercy of God. I'm a sinner. I deserve judgment, I
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  Speaker 2: deserve hell. I'm going because of Christ. And I have
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  Speaker 2: received Christ. I've let him come into my heart and
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  Speaker 2: I've come to the cross.
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  Speaker 3: He's forgiven my sin.
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  Speaker 2: I have eternal life. I know I'm saved tonight. I
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  Speaker 2: know where I've come from, I know why I'm here,
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  Speaker 2: I know where I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: And if he should come tonight, I'm ready. Do you
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  Speaker 3: know that? Are you sure about that?
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  Speaker 2: This man receiveth sinners, but as many as received him to.
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  Speaker 3: Them, gave him power to become the sons of.
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  Speaker 2: God, even to them that believe on his name. You
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  Speaker 2: receive him and let him come into your life, and
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  Speaker 2: you'll find what it means to be joyful without Christ
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  Speaker 2: to fill that empty void in your life.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing else satisfies. Sex doesn't do it, Drugs doesn't do.
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  Speaker 2: It, Power, popularity, all of that is nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Christ is everything.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you have Christ, you're ready to live
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  Speaker 2: here and now life for a capital l When you
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  Speaker 2: really know Christ as your savior, yes, Zychius received Christ joyfully.
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  Speaker 3: I notice another thing.
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  Speaker 2: Zachius openly confessed Christ publicly in front of all of
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  Speaker 2: his friends in the whole town. And he said, I've
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  Speaker 2: been wrong, I've been a sinner. I'm ready to restore
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  Speaker 2: everything I ever did, if necessary, whatever it takes. From
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  Speaker 2: now on, I'm following Jesus Christ. He is my Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and he is my savior. He came to seek and
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  Speaker 2: to save me in this town of Jericho.
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  Speaker 3: He came to.
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  Speaker 2: Halifax in the form of this crusade to seek and
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  Speaker 2: to save you. And he calls you by name, and
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  Speaker 2: he says, make haste, come while there's time.
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  Speaker 3: Because you see, the scripture says.
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  Speaker 2: Whose siver denieth the son the same hath not the father?
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  Speaker 2: He that confesseth the son openly hath the Father.
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  Speaker 3: Also also the.
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  Speaker 2: Scripture says, whos server shall confess that Jesus is the
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  Speaker 2: Son of God, do well within him and he in God.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesus said, if you deny.
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  Speaker 2: Me before men, if you deny me publicly, I'll not
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  Speaker 2: confess you before my father, which is in heaven. You
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  Speaker 2: see Jesus Christ hung on the cross publicly in front
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  Speaker 2: of hundreds of people dying bleeding for you, and he
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  Speaker 2: asks you to publicly receive him.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to ask you to do that in
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  Speaker 3: a moment. There are three things you have to do.
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  Speaker 2: First, listen to this so you can never stand at
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  Speaker 2: the judgment and say I never knew. First, you must
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  Speaker 2: repent of your sin. How do you repent? The word
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  Speaker 2: repent means to change your mind. It means to turn.
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  Speaker 2: You're going in this direction in your life, you turn
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  Speaker 2: around and start in a new direction. Now you may
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  Speaker 2: not be able to turn by yourself. In fact, you can't.
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  Speaker 3: You have to say, Lord, help me to turn, help
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  Speaker 3: me to repent.
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  Speaker 2: It means that you're willing to let Christ come into
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  Speaker 2: your life and help you change your whole pattern of living,
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  Speaker 2: your lifestyle, everything if necessary. And then the second thing,
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  Speaker 2: by faith you receiving. Now that word faith may cause
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  Speaker 2: you to stumble. It means that you commit that you
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  Speaker 2: so renda your total life to Jesus Christ. You're not
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  Speaker 2: trusting any other God, You're not trusting any other religion.
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  Speaker 2: You're not trusting anything but Jesus Christ and him alone.
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  Speaker 3: To save you.
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  Speaker 2: That's faith, total commitment to Christ. And then thirdly, you're
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  Speaker 2: willing to follow him. You're willing to be his disciple. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the word disciple means learner or discipline. It means discipline learning.
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  Speaker 2: You're following him, growing in the grace and knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: Christ by studying the Bible, by prayer, by witnessing, by
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  Speaker 2: tendenc at church. You say, well, Billy, you know most
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  Speaker 2: of those things I'm already doing.
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  Speaker 3: But do you really know Christ? Are you sure of it?
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  Speaker 3: If you are not sure, if you.
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  Speaker 2: Are not certain that Christ is in your heart tonight
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  Speaker 2: and that your sin is forgiven, He's calling you by name,
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  Speaker 2: He sees you, and he says, make haste and come.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you to get up out of
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  Speaker 2: your seat right now, hundreds of you from everywhere, as
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  Speaker 2: we've seen every night, get up out of your seat
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  Speaker 2: and come and stand in front and say, by coming,
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  Speaker 2: I want to come to the Cross by faith tonight,
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  Speaker 2: and I want my sins forgiven. I want to know
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  Speaker 2: that I have eternal life. I want to know I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to heaven. You get up and come right now,
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  Speaker 2: quickly and stand here. If you're with friends or relatives,
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  Speaker 2: they'll wait. And after you've come, I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: a word to you and have a prayer with you,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll give you some literature to help you in
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  Speaker 2: your Christian life, and then you can go and join
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  Speaker 2: your friends. But I'm going to ask no one to
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  Speaker 2: leave the stadium now at this holy moment, everyone in
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  Speaker 2: an attitude of prayer. As people are already coming. You
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  Speaker 2: get up and come right now too. God is calling
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  Speaker 2: you by name. Jesus is looking in your direction, and
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  Speaker 2: he knows your heart, and he says, come you, get
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  Speaker 2: up and come quickly.
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  Speaker 3: 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: You that are watching at home, all in a bar,
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  Speaker 2: or in a hotel room, wherever you are. By television,
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  Speaker 2: you have been able to see that there are hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of people here in Halifax, Nova Scotia coming to commit
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  Speaker 2: their lives to Jesus Christ. You too, I like zach Chius,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus is calling you by name. And he's saying, come,
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  Speaker 2: make haste, make your commitment where you are now, and
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  Speaker 2: be sure and go to church next Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you.
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  Speaker 4: If you just prayed that prayer with my father, or
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  Speaker 4: if you have any questions about a relationship with Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 4: I will just call that number that is on the screen.
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  Speaker 4: There'll be someone there to talk with you, pray with you,
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  Speaker 4: 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: We'll get the same helps to you that we give
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  Speaker 1: to everyone who responds at the invitation. On behalf of
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