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Paris Was Laughing at Jesus, Until Christians Started Boycotting the Olympics · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  It has just been announced that one of the Olympics largest
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  sponsors has pulled out all advertising over this ceasefire.
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  The 6th largest wireless provider to the USA found the
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  mockery of Jesus Christ so disrespectful that it can no
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  longer be associated with the 2024 Olympics.
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  But you will not believe what Elon Musk tweeted about this
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  too. Unless there is more bravery to
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  stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish.
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  Is Elon Musk right or is he wrong?
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  He's right because if we as Christians stand back and let
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  the whole world laugh at our Saviour, no one's going to get
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  saved. If we ourselves do not take our
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  message seriously and stand next to the Lord Jesus Christ and be
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  prepared to be counted and count the cost, no one is going to
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  believe us when we say Christ Jesus is the most special thing.
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  He is the most precious person in the world.
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  So right now, today is not the day to be silent.
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  Today is not the day to be a doormat.
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  Today is the day to speak up and say this is wrong.
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  We do not agree with this and we stand with ceasefire.
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  We stand with those who say no, we will not watch the Olympics
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  this year because you are mocking our saviour and he means
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  far more to me than a bit of sports than a bit of
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  entertainment. Clearly there was never an
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  intention to to show disrespect to any religious group.
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  On the contrary, I think that to imagine he really tried to
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  really intend to to celebrate community tolerance.
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  That was his word yesterday. And looking at the result of the
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  polls that we shared, we believe that this ambition was was
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  achieved. If people have taken any
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  offense, we are of course, really, really.
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  Sorry, listen to me. God is no man's debtor, and I'm
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  going to ask you to do something right now.
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  I hope this video reaches many, many people.
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  And if you're in the USA right now and you're ready, you're
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  coming up to the end of your subscription and you're ready to
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  switch wireless providers, would you please, please consider
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  switching to Ceasefire? They're not sponsoring me to
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  make this video, but I want to. Something that's hit me, really
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  this these guys will have lost millions for what they've
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  decided to do. Millions of opportunities,
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  millions of eyeballs to pull out all advertisements.
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  And yet they're doing it because they are saying no.
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  The Lord Jesus Christ is more precious.
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  So as Christians, let's get behind this company and let's
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  support them. If I was in the USA, I'd support
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  them. So if you are, please do
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  consider this. And guys, listen, it does kind
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  of remind me ceasefire. This decision they've made at
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  the 2024 Olympics reminds me of a huge decision that a man
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  called Eric Liddle made at the 1924 Olympics.
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  Eric Liddle was a Christian man and he was a sprinter.
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  His best race was the 100 meter Sprint.
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  But when it came to the day when the heats were all put on, all
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  the dates were put on the calendar, he's found out that
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  the date that he was going to run was on a Sunday on what he
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  believed was the Lord's Day. He had a deep conviction about
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  this, that this day should be special.
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  This day should be different to all other days.
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  And whether you agree with that principle or not, you've got to
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  admire him for sticking to it and for saying, no, I will not
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  run on a Sunday. I will not run on the Lord's
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  Day. Now, because he was a gifted
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  athlete. Well the organizer said well why
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  not try yourself at the 400 metres.
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  Now Eric Little had no hope of winning this by human standards.
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  As I said he was a sprinter on the day of the race his friend
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  sent him a little note and it simply said this in the old book
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  it says he the honours me, I will honour wishing you the best
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  of success. So Eric Little, he entered the
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  race and what do you think happened?
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  He won, he broke the record and he got a gold medal because he
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  honoured the Lord God. Now I don't know what this
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  decision that ceasefire has just made.
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  I don't know what it will affect, how it will affect them
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  in business, but I hope it's a similar story to Eric Liddell
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  that the Lord honours them for standing up for, for making a
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  cost and saying no, the Lord Jesus Christ is more precious.
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  But what about you and me? What are we going to do when we
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  see the whole world mocking our saviour?
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  What are we going to do? Are we going to count the cost?
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  Now, I'll be honest with you, I love the Olympics.
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  In 2004 I went to the Olympics in Athens and I loved watching
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  the swimmers, basketball, all of it.
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  I love sport. But this year, I've got to ask
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  myself the question, will I watch it after everything that
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  I've just seen? And I think if I really do ask
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  myself, deep inside, I don't think I can in good faith
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  support what they have done this year because I do believe a
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  message has to be sent out to these organizers that this is
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  not acceptable. But am I the only one who finds
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  this really saddening? I mean, for years, the Olympics
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  has been known as wholesome, something that all the family
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  can enjoy. The Apostle Paul, in the Bible,
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  he uses many analogies talking about the Olympics because
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  obviously in Greece and then in that time in Europe where he was
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  witnessing the Olympics was huge.
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  It's always been known as something that all of us can get
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  alongside. We can all cheer for our country
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  and we can have a great time. But here's the crazy part.
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  As the candle of our timeline gets thinner and thinner as we
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  get into these last, last days, suddenly all the things that
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  were once wholesome, even they will become evil.
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  And we as Christians are going to become more and more separate
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  from this world. And soon there's going to be
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  very, very little that we can take part in.
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  Because as the enemy rises up and up, as these days get
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  shorter and shorter before the Lord Jesus Christ returns,
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  things are going to get a lot worse.
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  The Bible says things will wax worse, so you and I as
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  Christians need to be prepared, whatever the cost will be.
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  We must stand up next to the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who
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  went to the cross for our sins, and we must seek to emulate our
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  Saviour who was willing to die for what was right.
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  But I can hear exactly what some of you are saying, some of you
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  are saying. But Joe, come on.
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  Why do you always have to take everything so seriously?
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  Why do you Christians always have to feel like, oh, woe is
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  me, the whole world is is pointing their finger at me and
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  laughing at me? Why are you always doing that?
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  Well, I can understand why you say that.
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  And some of you will be saying this was just arts.
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  But the question doesn't need to be asked at one time.
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  Maybe you could use that argument at one time when
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  Madonna did it, it was quite, you know, different.
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  It was quite avant-garde. No one had done it before and
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  everyone was like, wow, this is arts now.
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  Obviously I don't believe it was ever arts.
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  I believe there was a bigger agenda going on, but right now
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  it's become so common that everyone thinks we can laugh at
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. We've had little baby, we've had
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  little NAR sex, we've had little Uzi, we've had Madonna.
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  As I said, Kendrick Lamar. You say Kendrick Lamar wasn't
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  mocking the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, only one Christ can wear a
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  crown and a diamond encrusted crown of thorns.
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  That is not anything that the Lord Jesus Christ would want one
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  of his disciples to do is wear a glorious crown saying that I'm
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  Christ. When you have not died, you have
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  not shared in the death that the Lord Jesus Christ died so
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  suddenly. It's not just art that one or
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  two people are doing just to get attention.
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  No, all of the artists are coming together.
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  In fact, so many people are doing it right now.
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  Dare I say this? It's becoming rather quite
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  boring, you know. Can you not think of anything
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  more creative than laughing at our Savior, the Lord Jesus
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  Christ? And yet, why are they doing
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  this? Well, the answer is simple.
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  Because the one who runs the music industry, the one who runs
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  all of entertainment, the enemy, the evil one, he has it in for
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  Christians. He does not pick other religions
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  because he knows other religions will not save you.
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  He knows other religions will send you to the place where he's
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  going, but only Christianity, only the Saviour who went on a
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  wooden cross and died there and rose from the dead, only he can
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  save. And I've got a friend called
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  Josh who I recently met. Just eight months ago.
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  He became a Christian and he told me he's been coming out
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  with me in the open air. We've been doing evangelism.
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  And he told me I was actually watching your videos before I
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  was a Christian. And that question that really
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  led me to the Lord Jesus Christ was this.
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  Why is it always Christianity? One of my close friends, a man
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  called Vinny Commons, who's also an evangelist, he has a very
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  interesting way of putting it. He says, you know, suppose
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  there's a great big boxer like Tyson Fury does.
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  Tyson Fury, who knows? He's got challenges like Usyk or
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  AJ. If those guys retire, if let's
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  just say I hope this doesn't happen, but they're removed from
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  the earth, does Tyson Fury worry about AJ anymore?
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  Does he worry about Usyk? No, because they're gone.
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  So why is it the atheist? Why is it the man who's secular
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  in Paris that the organisers, Why, if Jesus Christ never
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  existed, if he's just a fairy tale, if he's all a load of
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  nonsense, why are they always aiming at him?
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  Why is it always against him? I think you've got to say the
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  answer is clear because Jesus Christ really is the Son of God.
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  And I want to know, will you put your trust in him?
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  Now, I don't mean to sound rude, but please, again, just use your
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  mind now and think about this. You know, so much thought, so
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  much intention would go behind this opening ceremony of the
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  Olympics. Organizers would have sat around
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  a board and talked and had different plans, different
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  sketches. What are we going to do?
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  And they, he chose very intentionally to mock the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. Why?
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  Why? Because Jesus Christ is Lord,
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  and they don't like that the world hates it because man has
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  loved darkness rather than light.
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  And did you notice all of this activity?
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  It happened in the dark. That's when the evil one acts,
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  when everything's gone out, when the lights are dim.
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  My dear friend, do you love darkness over the light?
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  Will you come to the Lord Jesus Christ because you realise there
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  is a target on his back? Christians are the ones that
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  everyone's shoving to the side and they do not get an opinion.
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  And you're starting to wake up. You're starting to see the truth
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  because there is only one way and the Son of God, whether you
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  think he's a fairy tale or not, your sin is not a fairy tale.
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  And on the cross, all the wrongdoings you've done, all of
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  those evil things you've done were laid on Christ and there he
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  died in your place as a substitute for your sin so you
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  can be forgiven. And then this righteous one, he
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  was buried, He was put in a tomb like many, many people, but he
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  did something that no man has ever done and that's what makes
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  him special. That is why the evil 1 does not
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  like him, because He is different to all men, because he
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  he is God in a flesh. The Lord Jesus Christ rose from
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  the dead and that is why you'd be very wise to put your faith
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  in Him because He can conquer your grave and give you eternal
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  life. So yes, this is very sad what
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  has happened, but the same time it just shows, it just shows the
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  world there is one Saviour. And I hope that this has got
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  your attention today and you too will find Jesus Christ and make
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  him your Lord and your Saviour and you too will speak out
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  against all of this wrongdoing towards Christianity.
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  Now, if you would like to hear more about this man, Eric
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  Liddle, one of my least viewed videos on my YouTube channel is
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  all about him. I really want you to see this
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  because I think he's a very special person that we should
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  consider. So go and check it out there.
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  I think it should be just there on your screen.
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  We'd love to see you again. God bless you all and thank you
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  for watching.