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What can we know about the
events of Christmas morning?
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>> I thought, how can I seize
this opportunity of Christmas
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when people, even like me,
atheists, hard-core atheists
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were open spiritually
at that time,
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how can I help them see
the truth of Christmas?
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I learned a lot about
Christmas I didn't know.
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Lee Strobel weighs
the evidence
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to distinguish myth
from truth
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about what
happened in Bethlehem.
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Next on
Life Today!
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♪
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JAMES: Betty, we enjoy
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all the year.
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We talk about
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all the Christian holidays.
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I don't care if it is Easter,
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I don't care if
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it's Christmas,
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I don't care what it is.
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I live like the Jesus
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that we celebrate
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is living in us
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because he is.
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And we live with joy.
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But I'm telling you,
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we do celebrate Christmas.
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And sometimes people wonder,
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should you celebrate it?
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Is it celebrated
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at the right time?
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Is it the right way?
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Does God approve?
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Well, here's a man
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that was an atheist
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who wrote the book called
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The Case for Christ
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because he decided to,
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you know, he had destroyed
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the reality of God in Christ.
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He decided to look him up,
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kind of study him up.
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Well, he became a Christian.
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Well, here he is taking
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on another one of
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these discussions,
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The Case for Christmas.
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Lee Strobel, it's good
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to have you here again.
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LEE: Great to see you.
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JAMES: You have written
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so many great books.
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What moved you
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to write this one?
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LEE: At heart, I want
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to see people come into
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a personal relationship
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with Jesus Christ.
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And, you know, statistically
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speaking, people are more
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open spiritually at Christmas
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than any time of the year.
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JAMES: Wow. That's amazing.
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LEE: Yeah. So I thought,
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why not?
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An inexpensive resource book
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can be a spiritual
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stocking stuffer.
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The gospel is in it.
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But it talks about Christmas.
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And even when I was
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an atheist, I loved Christmas.
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I did! Because people
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were friendlier
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and there were parties
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and people gave gifts.
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What's not to like?
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But when I was at
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the Chicago Tribune,
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as an atheist,
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I was assigned to write
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a 30-part series
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on the destitute of Chicago.
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Each day featuring a family
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that was destitute.
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So, one of the families
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I profiled was the Delgados.
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A woman named Perfecta;
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she was in her 60s.
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She was crippled
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by arthritis.
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She had two grandchildren,
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Jenny and her sister,
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13 and 11 years old.
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They were the most destitute
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family I interviewed.
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They were living
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in this hovel in Chicago.
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They have literally nothing
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in their place.
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I mean, there was not
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a picture on the wall,
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not a rug on the floor,
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not a piece of furniture.
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There was one little
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rickety card table with
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one jar of rice that
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was their only possession.
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So I did an article
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about them that appeared
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on Thanksgiving.
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I put their address
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in the article, on purpose,
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because I thought maybe the
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readers would do something.
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On Christmas Eve, I went back
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and they opened the door
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and people had showered them
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with coats
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because they had no coats
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in the cold Chicago winter,
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with coats, with money,
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with a Christmas tree,
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with furniture,
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with all this stuff.
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But you know what
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I interrupted? Perfecta
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and her granddaughters
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were packing away
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much of this newfound wealth
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to give away
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to their neighbors.
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I said, "What are you doing?"
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In her broken English,
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she said, "Well, we cannot
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have plenty while
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our neighbors have nothing.
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This is what Jesus
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would want us to do."
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I said, "Yeah!
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But isn't this great that
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the readers showered you
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with all this stuff?"
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And she said, "Yes,
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this is a gift from God.
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We didn't deserve it.
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But the greatest gift
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comes tomorrow on Christmas.
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It is Jesus.
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That is our greatest gift."
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Here I am, a successful
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young journalist
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at the Chicago Tribune,
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and I'm thinking
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they have nothing materially,
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and they're rich in
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their relationship with God.
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I had everything I needed
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materially, but I was
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shackled to the material
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and wracked by anxiety.
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They had peace despite the
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fact that they had nothing.
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I just contrasted
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my life with them.
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I said
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there's something here.
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Of course, years later,
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as you mentioned, my wife
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became a Christian
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and I decided to rescue her
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from this cult.
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So, I use my journalism
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and legal training to try
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to disprove Christianity;
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became convinced it's true.
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I thought, how can I seize
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this opportunity of Christmas
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when people even like me,
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atheists, hardcore atheists
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were open spiritually
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at that time, how can
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I help them see the truth
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of Christmas?
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I learned a lot about
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Christmas I didn't know.
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For instance, one of the most
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fascinating misunderstandings
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I think about Christmas,
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this comes from
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one Greek word, kataluma.
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It's only used one other time
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other than the Christmas
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story in the Bible,
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and it refers to the place
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where Jesus was born.
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So, the traditional story
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is Mary and Joseph go
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to Bethlehem because
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the census has been called.
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They get there and
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they barely make it in time
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for Mary to have
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her baby Jesus.
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There's no room at the inn,
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and so they couldn't have
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admittance to the lodging
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at the inn.
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So they go to a cave
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or to a stable
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and they have the baby.
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Well, most scholars would say
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the word kataluma,
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which is translated as inn,
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is probably not
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the best translation.
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The best translation
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is guestroom.
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It's a guestroom.
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We see it in the story
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in the Bible, where Jesus
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has the Last Supper,
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and he has it in a guest room,
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in a residence,
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not in a commercial
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establishment.
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So many scholars would say
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that there was no inn,
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there was no innkeeper.
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That guest room,
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that kataluma refers to
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is a room that some people
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would add to their house.
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The typical house in
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the first century in Bethlehem
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was one large room,
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divided into two parts.
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The smaller part was where
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they'd bring the animals
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at night, the donkey,
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the sheep, whatever they had.
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It was slanted so they could
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clean it out easily,
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and there were stairs
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up to the main area
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and that was the living area.
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They had mangers in both
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the area for the animals
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and in the living area,
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because often the donkey
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would come up the stairs
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and visit; they were
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like pets to them.
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So that was what
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a first century house -- but
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some houses had a kataluma,
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a guest room with
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a separate entrance.
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That is what I think
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the Bible is talking about
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that wasn't available for Mary
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because people had come
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for the census and there was
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no room in the kataluma,
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the guest room of the house.
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It would have been socially
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unthinkable for an innkeeper
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to turn away
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a pregnant Jewish woman
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in the first century.
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I mean, you just did not
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do that.
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It would not have happened.
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There probably wasn't
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a commercial lodging
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establishment
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in Bethlehem anyway.
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It was a small town,
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and it wasn't on main roads.
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So, I think that kataluma
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refers to this guest room.
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There was no room for them
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at the kataluma.
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They gave birth, and they put
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the baby in the manger,
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and some of the animals,
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no doubt, came up to see
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what was going on.
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The Bible seems to suggest,
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to some people, that
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there was an urgency that
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the baby was coming quickly.
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But when you read it
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carefully, it says in Luke,
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the baby came while
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they were in Bethlehem.
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It doesn't say they were
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there five minutes
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or five days or five weeks.
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There's some
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fictional stories written.
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There was one written
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in AD 200, that says
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that the baby was coming
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so quickly that they didn't
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even make it to Bethlehem;
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that they gave birth
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three miles outside
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of Bethlehem in a cave.
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But that's fiction.
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So, I think we don't know
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whether the baby came
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real quickly or maybe
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after a period of time.
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It's interesting, too,
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in 1395, John Wycliffe
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in his Bible translation
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into English, translated
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kataluma as room, guest room.
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The King James Version
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in 1611, translated as Inn,
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and that's what kind of made
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people think of the inn
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and the innkeeper
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and everything.
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But many translations today,
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like the NIV, translate it
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as the guest room.
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To me, that just makes sense
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in terms of the historical
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setting in the first century.
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But either way, the story
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is who was --
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JAMES: My mind right now
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keeps seeing this manger
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scene that's for cattle
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or sheep, or whatever.
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I even see where as men,
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camels are standing around.
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That's what I see.
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It's not necessarily
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to be proven wrong, but
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it still gives me just
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the humility of it.
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The fact that the King
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of Kings and Lord of Lords
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was born in a situation
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like that.
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LEE: Yeah. Philippians two
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talks about maybe
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the first Christmas carol,
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you know, because that
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was probably based on a hymn
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where it talks about Jesus,
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fully God and yet, he didn't
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resist the giving up
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of the perks of heaven.
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He came into our world
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in a humble way, even to
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the torture of the cross.
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It is a mind-blowing thing.
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The fact that the Magi came,
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and we don't know
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a lot about the Magi.
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It's kind of vague
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in stories, in developed
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legends and stories,
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and that's fine.
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But the key thing about
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the Magi is,
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in the first century,
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the Jewish perception
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of the Messiah who would come
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is that he would restore
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the nation of Israel
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to the exclusion
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of other cultures.
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The fact that the Magi came
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represents the Gentile world.
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The fact that Jesus came
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for everybody, not just
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the Jewish nation,
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but for everybody.
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That's the story that
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I think we want to get across
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with the Magi visiting.
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But there's so many
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fascinating things.
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One of the interesting things
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to me was how did we end up
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with December 25th
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being Christmas?
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Because it doesn't say
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in the Bible.
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JAMES: Can you explain that?
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LEE: Yeah! It's fascinating
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what I learned.
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The Bible doesn't tell us
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when Jesus was born.
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We don't know.
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It doesn't give us the month.
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In the year 200,
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some theologians went off
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to Egypt and tried
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to figure out,
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because in first century
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Christian culture,
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they didn't care
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about birthdays.
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They used to criticize
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the Romans because
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they observed birthdays.
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In the Christian culture,
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you didn't observe a birthday,
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you observed the day
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they were martyred.
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That's the day
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you were remembered for.
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So nobody cared
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in the first century
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the day Jesus was born.
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It was irrelevant to them;
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birthdays didn't matter.
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But then later
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it did start to matter.
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In the year 200,
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these theologians went off
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and they said, Let's calculate
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when he was born.
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They walked away saying
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it was May 10th, because
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the sheep were in the fields
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bearing their young
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and so forth, and so
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they came up with May 10th.
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But here's what's fascinating.
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In about the year 212 or so,
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we begin to see people
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referencing December
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as the time Jesus was born.
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Here's the thing.
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In that early Christian
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culture, there was such
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a connection between creation
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and redemption that there was
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the conviction that when
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the Messiah came and the day
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he is executed would be
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the same day that
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he was conceived.
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So the same day of the year.
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So, in the early 200s A.D.,
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Tertullian, the great
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church father, said,
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As best we can determine
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from the calendar,
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our calendar,
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Jesus was executed,
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he died by crucifixion
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on March 25th.
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Therefore, he was probably
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conceived in the womb
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of the Virgin Mary
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on March 25th.
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Well, nine months later
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is December 25th.
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And that's the date that
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we celebrate as Christmas.
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JAMES: That's how
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it came about.
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LEE: That is one
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interpretation,
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one possibility,
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that it was that connection
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between conception
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and redemption that ended up
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pointing us toward
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December the 25th.
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Another theory is that
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the winter solstice is around
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December 25th, and a lot
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of these pagan cultures
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had these festivals.
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They were just debauchery.
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Just horrible, sex-filled,
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drunken festivals
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that they would have.
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And there was a sense that,
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wait a minute.
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If we observe December 25th
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as the birth of Jesus,
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we could bring
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a counterpoint to that.
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We could bring the goodness
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of the worship of God
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into that debauchery
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and be a light for good.
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Some people think maybe
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that was a factor
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in December the 25th.
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It wasn't until the fourth
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century that the Pope
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at the time declared
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December 25th
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as being Christmas.
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But there's good reason
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to think that yeah, it could
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have very well have been.
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It goes back, and this idea
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of conception, redemption
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is very interesting to me.
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It's kind of odd to our ears.
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Why would they put
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those two together?
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But they did back then,
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and that would explain
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December 25th.
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JAMES: And even though he was
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conceived by the Holy Spirit
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That wouldn't change
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the nine-month-birth cycle.
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Connect it all.
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We don't know.
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But The Case for Christmas
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as far as I'm concerned is
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it gets people talking
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about Christmas,
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talking about Christ.
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Also, it gets people
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in a giving mood where
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they love to give, they love
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to see children receive,
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and it's a beautiful thing.
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You love to see children
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that get excited about giving,
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about sharing.
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I think one of the most
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beautiful things is when
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you see children learn
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to want to share something
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rather than, "It's mine!"
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And they want to share.
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Even the thought when
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you were talking a moment ago
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about the poor family
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that received the help
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and wanted to share
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with all their neighbors,
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that's really and truly
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the way.
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We are so poor without Christ
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when he comes into us,
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and we know him,
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I want to share him.
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Betty, you and I want
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to share Jesus because
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he became real to us
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as a very young couple.
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Now that we've been married
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a long time, over 60 years,
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and I'm telling you,
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life has never been sweeter.
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You've never been
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any more beautiful.
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But isn't Jesus wonderful?
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BETTY: He is!
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I just want you to know
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in your heart how much
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Jesus loves you,
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how much he cares for you.
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He gave his only Son for you,
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that you might have
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eternal life.
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That is precious to me.
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When there's times
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when I feel lonely,
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times when we lost our child,
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she was 40 years old,
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she was still our child.
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I was at my lowest point
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and God lifted me up.
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He lifts me up every day.
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When I get up in the morning,
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I'll say, Thank you, Jesus,
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for a new day!
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I'm going to have days with
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you for the rest of my life.
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I want you to know that
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relationship with him,
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that sweet, sweet,
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gentle spirit of Jesus.
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He loves you.
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He loves you!
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So please, if you don't
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know him today,
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for the first time, say,
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Jesus, come into my heart.
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I did that as a 19-year
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or 18-year-old girl.
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Said for the first time
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and I'd studied about him
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all my life, been in church
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every day, went to everything
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they had at church.
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But I didn't know him until
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I said, Please come
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into my heart.
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It makes such a difference.
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You can play church,
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but God is real.
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So please at this moment say,
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Jesus, come into my heart.
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You can call and let us know.
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We'd love for you to do that.
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JAMES: You know, Betty, I was
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watching you on the monitor,
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and just listening to Betty
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talk to you, look at her
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on camera, the love
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I could tell
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coming through her.
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That love she wants you
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to know, that's Jesus
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living in us,
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the living Jesus.
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And The Case for Christmas
00:16:46.672 --> 00:16:49.475 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68%
is really all about Christ.
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He's born.
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We can be born again because
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he's born to be born in us
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and lives in us.
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I'm just telling you,
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this is a wonderful time
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to give your life to Jesus.
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Father, I pray every person
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watching would just hear
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the still, small voice.
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It could sound
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like roaring thunder,
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but it's still your voice
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and you're inviting them
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to receive your life,
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your love, and release
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that love, release that love.
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God, change the lives
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of every person right now
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who will simply say, Jesus,
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become my Lord, my Savior.
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Jesus, I receive you.
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I hope you do that.
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Lee, I'm praying that
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as we talk about The Case
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for Christmas, it's
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a wonderful time of the year.
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But the fact that
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he was born, and the fact
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that we can be born again,
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and he lives his
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resurrected life through us.
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Betty and I are living proof
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that he can do it.
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I didn't have a home.
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I didn't have a father.
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You know, I became
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a Christian as a teenager.
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She did too.
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I didn't know much
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about Jesus, but I knew him,
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and she realized she was
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in church and she was
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the best girl in the church
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they said, but
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she didn't know Jesus.
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She came to Jesus.
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Don't miss Jesus.
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What a wonderful time
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to receive him.
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Lee, I want to thank you
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for being with us.
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LEE: My pleasure.
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JAMES: We're going to give
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this book to every single
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person watching
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who would like to have it.
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I tell you what I want
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to ask you to do.
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I want to ask you to put
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your arms around those
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who will die if somebody
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doesn't reach out
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and offer them life.
00:18:45.390 --> 00:18:47.059 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63%
We have found the hungry,
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we have found the starving,
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and we have the answer.
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You can become the miracle
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that provides life, the life
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that Christmas represents.
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You can give that life
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to those who are dying
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of starvation.
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We meet their need,
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and they meet Jesus because
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of his love flowing
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through you like a river.
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Please watch closely and
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then respond as God leads.
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You become the miracle,
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providing the miracle
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that someone longs for
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and desperately,
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desperately needs.
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Thank you.
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RANDY: I'm here
in South Sudan
00:20:06.138 --> 00:20:08.907 align:center line:63% position:50% size:68%
with a mother named Pamela,
and this is her child.
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Her name is Mawndai;
she's a twin.
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Pamela also has
a third child.
00:20:14.313 --> 00:20:18.584 align:start line:79% position:20% size:60%
There was another child,
a little girl named Ana.
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Ana was a year-and-a-half when
she died from malnutrition.
00:20:24.323 --> 00:20:26.625 align:start line:79% position:20% size:58%
This mother's concerned
because right now
00:20:26.692 --> 00:20:28.694 align:center line:79% position:50% size:40%
she doesn't have
enough food
00:20:28.760 --> 00:20:31.530 align:center line:79% position:50% size:48%
for her twins
or her other child.
00:20:31.597 --> 00:20:33.599 align:start line:79% position:23% size:55%
They'll try to collect
some berries
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or try to collect some seeds
that can actually
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make the situation worse
because some are toxic.
00:20:40.439 --> 00:20:45.277 align:start line:79% position:15% size:70%
She also risks her life
to go far from this village,
00:20:45.344 --> 00:20:47.679 align:center line:79% position:50% size:40%
in order to try
to find firewood
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that she can take
to the market and sell.
00:20:51.717 --> 00:20:53.986 align:start line:79% position:25% size:50%
What is the solution
for her?
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She doesn't have
a lot of choices,
00:20:56.288 --> 00:20:59.291 align:center line:79% position:50% size:60%
but you and I can change
that situation.
00:20:59.358 --> 00:21:01.293 align:start line:79% position:28% size:45%
We can
change it quickly.
00:21:01.360 --> 00:21:03.729 align:start line:79% position:18% size:63%
Mission feeding is ready
to move into this village
00:21:03.795 --> 00:21:06.198 align:center line:79% position:50% size:58%
and many other villages
just like it
00:21:06.264 --> 00:21:09.034 align:center line:79% position:50% size:45%
where children are
right on the edge.
00:21:09.101 --> 00:21:12.070 align:start line:79% position:18% size:65%
That's this mother's hope;
she just simply prays
00:21:12.137 --> 00:21:16.174 align:center line:79% position:50% size:60%
that she would have food
for her children.
00:21:16.241 --> 00:21:20.612 align:start line:79% position:18% size:63%
I'm asking you to be
the answer to her prayer,
00:21:20.679 --> 00:21:25.283 align:center line:79% position:50% size:75%
not just her prayer, but
so many mothers just like her.
00:21:25.350 --> 00:21:27.986 align:start line:79% position:25% size:50%
Know that when
we partner together,
00:21:28.053 --> 00:21:31.623 align:center line:79% position:50% size:55%
we are answering
the prayers of so many
00:21:31.690 --> 00:21:36.862 align:center line:79% position:50% size:60%
and saving the lives
of precious little ones.
00:21:41.800 --> 00:21:44.169 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53%
JAMES: Betty, this is
00:21:44.236 --> 00:21:45.370 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55%
a very difficult thing
00:21:45.437 --> 00:21:47.406 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33%
for me to do,
00:21:47.472 --> 00:21:48.807 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63%
to look at those mothers.
00:21:48.874 --> 00:21:50.442 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68%
By the way, that area there
00:21:50.509 --> 00:21:53.011 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40%
is so much nicer
00:21:53.078 --> 00:21:54.446 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58%
than many of the places
00:21:54.513 --> 00:21:55.881 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40%
that we've been,
00:21:55.947 --> 00:21:57.349 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50%
and where we started
00:21:57.416 --> 00:21:59.284 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60%
where there was nothing,
00:21:59.351 --> 00:22:04.022 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53%
a grass hut, mud hut.
00:22:04.089 --> 00:22:05.824 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58%
But they were all dying
00:22:05.891 --> 00:22:07.959 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35%
of starvation.
00:22:08.026 --> 00:22:10.095 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60%
By the tens of thousands
00:22:10.162 --> 00:22:13.231 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75%
we saw where they were buried.
00:22:13.298 --> 00:22:14.700 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43%
And then we begin
00:22:14.766 --> 00:22:16.034 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38%
to save them by
00:22:16.101 --> 00:22:17.269 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55%
the tens of thousands.
00:22:17.335 --> 00:22:19.037 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68%
So where we plant the money
00:22:19.104 --> 00:22:21.907 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73%
in needs and meet those needs
00:22:21.973 --> 00:22:24.009 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55%
of the least of these,
00:22:24.076 --> 00:22:26.678 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45%
it opens hearts of
00:22:26.745 --> 00:22:30.248 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68%
the families of the others.
00:22:30.315 --> 00:22:32.551 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48%
We save their lives
00:22:32.617 --> 00:22:34.753 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60%
and they come to Christ,
00:22:34.820 --> 00:22:37.055 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68%
and then they share Christ,
00:22:37.122 --> 00:22:38.590 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65%
because the transformation
00:22:38.657 --> 00:22:40.358 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45%
is so magnificent.
00:22:40.425 --> 00:22:41.893 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48%
Father, I just pray
00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:43.562 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45%
that right here at
00:22:43.628 --> 00:22:46.031 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53%
the Christmas season,
00:22:46.364 --> 00:22:48.700 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70%
everybody watching will say,
00:22:48.767 --> 00:22:51.136 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
I'm going to feed ten,
00:22:51.203 --> 00:22:54.206 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
I'm going to feed 100.
00:22:54.272 --> 00:22:55.607 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43%
I'm going to give
00:22:55.674 --> 00:22:56.942 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40%
the largest gift
00:22:57.008 --> 00:22:59.778 align:start line:10% position:10% size:75%
I've ever given to save lives.
00:22:59.845 --> 00:23:01.747 align:start line:10% position:10% size:30%
God, please!
00:23:01.813 --> 00:23:03.648 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48%
Or if someone says,
00:23:03.715 --> 00:23:05.016 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43%
I can only afford
00:23:05.083 --> 00:23:08.653 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48%
to help one, three.
00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.624 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53%
God, just direct them
00:23:12.691 --> 00:23:15.060 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68%
and fill them with your joy
00:23:15.127 --> 00:23:17.662 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70%
at loving others and putting
00:23:17.729 --> 00:23:19.264 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
your arms around them;
00:23:19.331 --> 00:23:21.166 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35%
in Jesus name.
00:23:21.233 --> 00:23:22.701 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
We've got gifts that
00:23:22.768 --> 00:23:24.836 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58%
you'll see that we want
00:23:24.903 --> 00:23:26.004 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58%
to send you, but you're
00:23:26.071 --> 00:23:27.272 align:start line:10% position:10% size:63%
giving the greatest gift,
00:23:27.339 --> 00:23:28.907 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48%
you're giving life.
00:23:28.974 --> 00:23:30.342 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45%
$30 will give life
00:23:30.408 --> 00:23:31.843 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45%
to three children,
00:23:31.910 --> 00:23:34.546 align:start line:10% position:10% size:63%
$50 to five, $100 to ten,
00:23:34.613 --> 00:23:36.548 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35%
$1,000 to 100.
00:23:36.615 --> 00:23:38.383 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
Would you right now go
00:23:38.450 --> 00:23:39.584 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
and get your bank card
00:23:39.651 --> 00:23:41.253 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60%
and use it like a check?
00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:42.387 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
If you write a check
00:23:42.454 --> 00:23:45.056 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
make it out to LIFE,
00:23:45.123 --> 00:23:46.324 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48%
but call the number
00:23:46.391 --> 00:23:47.926 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60%
or go online and tell us
00:23:47.993 --> 00:23:50.128 align:start line:10% position:10% size:75%
you're putting it in the mail.
00:23:50.195 --> 00:23:51.296 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
This is a tough time
00:23:51.363 --> 00:23:52.864 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
of the year for people
00:23:52.931 --> 00:23:54.866 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
to do this, sometimes,
00:23:54.933 --> 00:23:57.135 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70%
but it's still a needy time.
00:23:57.202 --> 00:23:58.336 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58%
Right now, while people
00:23:58.403 --> 00:24:01.406 align:start line:10% position:10% size:65%
are giving, would you give
00:24:01.473 --> 00:24:03.475 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35%
to save lives?
00:24:03.542 --> 00:24:04.743 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45%
Thank you so much.
00:24:04.810 --> 00:24:06.311 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55%
We have gifts for you,
00:24:06.378 --> 00:24:08.013 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60%
as we always do, because
00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:10.148 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
we want to bless you
00:24:10.215 --> 00:24:12.217 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50%
as you bless others.
00:24:12.284 --> 00:24:14.019 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45%
Thank you so much.
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I want to tell you something.
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You're going to give somebody
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a great Christmas.
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What a gift -- life!
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Thank you.
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Right now, across
the continent of Africa,
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children are suffering,
facing severe malnutrition
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and even
death.
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With food reserves
critically depleted
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and many areas experiencing
devastating famine,
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we urgently need
to replenish supplies
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to keep feeding
the 350,000 children
00:24:40.946 --> 00:24:43.715 align:center line:10% position:50% size:55%
who are counting on us
every single day.
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Through LIFE's
mission feeding outreach,
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your gift of love
can be an answer
00:24:47.819 --> 00:24:50.388 align:center line:58% position:50% size:65%
to a prayer for
a hurting and hungry child
00:24:50.455 --> 00:24:52.390 align:center line:58% position:50% size:33%
in their time
of need.
00:24:52.457 --> 00:24:54.559 align:start line:10% position:40% size:50%
Call now with
your lifesaving gift
00:24:54.626 --> 00:24:57.462 align:center line:10% position:75% size:30%
of $30, $50,
or $100
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to help feed and care for
three, five or ten children
00:25:01.433 --> 00:25:03.501 align:center line:10% position:25% size:30%
for three
full months.
00:25:03.568 --> 00:25:05.604 align:start line:10% position:10% size:38%
With your gift,
we'll send you
00:25:05.670 --> 00:25:07.706 align:center line:10% position:30% size:38%
“Happy, Healthy
and Free.”
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A powerful 31-day journey
to help you embrace
00:25:10.075 --> 00:25:12.711 align:center line:10% position:50% size:48%
God's promises for
healing, wholeness,
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restoration,
peace, and joy.
00:25:15.280 --> 00:25:19.184 align:start line:10% position:15% size:68%
Step into the abundant life
God has prepared for you.
00:25:19.251 --> 00:25:22.254 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58%
With your gift of $100
or more, please request
00:25:22.320 --> 00:25:25.190 align:center line:10% position:40% size:58%
the beautiful and soft
“Perfect Peace” blanket
00:25:25.257 --> 00:25:27.726 align:center line:10% position:33% size:43%
bearing the words
of Isaiah 26:3
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as a meaningful reminder
that those
00:25:29.961 --> 00:25:32.497 align:center line:10% position:38% size:53%
who trust in the Lord
are never alone.
00:25:32.564 --> 00:25:35.433 align:start line:10% position:10% size:63%
Finally, this is the last
opportunity to request
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our 2025 majestic bronze
sculpture, “Lion of Judah”
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with your gift
of $1,000 or more,
00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.242 align:center line:10% position:50% size:50%
which will help feed
00:25:44.309 --> 00:25:46.845 align:center line:10% position:50% size:45%
100 children
in desperate need.
00:25:46.912 --> 00:25:50.949 align:start line:10% position:13% size:75%
So please call, write, or make
your gift online today.
00:25:52.217 --> 00:25:53.418 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53%
JAMES: Betty, we have
00:25:53.485 --> 00:25:54.819 align:start line:63% position:10% size:70%
a lot of great grandchildren
00:25:54.886 --> 00:25:55.987 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
that are pretty excited
00:25:56.054 --> 00:25:57.222 align:start line:63% position:10% size:25%
right now.
00:25:57.289 --> 00:25:58.356 align:start line:63% position:10% size:70%
I don't know what's going on
00:25:58.423 --> 00:25:59.958 align:start line:63% position:10% size:35%
in your house,
00:26:00.025 --> 00:26:01.793 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
but children get happy.
00:26:01.860 --> 00:26:02.894 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
I love to make children
00:26:02.961 --> 00:26:04.162 align:start line:63% position:10% size:15%
happy.
00:26:04.229 --> 00:26:05.330 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40%
I guarantee you,
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when you save a child's life
00:26:06.531 --> 00:26:07.632 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55%
or you give them food,
00:26:07.699 --> 00:26:08.733 align:start line:63% position:10% size:33%
you make that
00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:09.935 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48%
whole family happy.
00:26:10.001 --> 00:26:11.102 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
The case for Christmas,
00:26:11.169 --> 00:26:12.203 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68%
if you'd like to have this?
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It's a fabulous little book.
00:26:13.405 --> 00:26:14.439 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50%
You just make a gift
00:26:14.506 --> 00:26:15.573 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
to help us help others,
00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:16.942 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63%
and we'll send it to you.
00:26:17.008 --> 00:26:18.443 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48%
Lee, you've written
00:26:18.510 --> 00:26:22.113 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73%
so many books to help people.
00:26:22.180 --> 00:26:23.315 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43%
What a great gift
00:26:23.381 --> 00:26:24.749 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40%
God's given you.
00:26:24.816 --> 00:26:25.884 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
Betty and I want to say
00:26:25.951 --> 00:26:27.319 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40%
thank you to you
00:26:27.385 --> 00:26:29.354 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
and your precious wife,
00:26:29.421 --> 00:26:30.722 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43%
for your journey,
00:26:30.789 --> 00:26:32.157 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45%
your faithfulness.
00:26:32.223 --> 00:26:33.959 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60%
Thank you for loving us.
00:26:34.025 --> 00:26:35.026 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60%
I remember when you were
00:26:35.093 --> 00:26:36.361 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58%
moved to say, I'm going
00:26:36.428 --> 00:26:37.929 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40%
to drill a well.
00:26:37.996 --> 00:26:39.064 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55%
You and your wife just
00:26:39.130 --> 00:26:40.332 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68%
immediately drilled a well.
00:26:40.398 --> 00:26:41.566 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48%
Thank you for that.
00:26:41.633 --> 00:26:42.801 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50%
LEE: It was an honor
00:26:42.867 --> 00:26:44.069 align:start line:63% position:10% size:23%
to do it.
00:26:44.135 --> 00:26:45.270 align:start line:63% position:10% size:70%
JAMES: Well, just thank you.
00:26:45.337 --> 00:26:46.504 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45%
Hey! Thank you for
00:26:46.571 --> 00:26:47.706 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50%
watching Life Today.
00:26:47.772 --> 00:26:48.907 align:start line:63% position:10% size:33%
Thank you for
00:26:48.974 --> 00:26:50.108 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48%
sharing life today.
00:26:50.175 --> 00:26:51.142 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45%
Lee, thank you for
00:26:51.209 --> 00:26:52.143 align:start line:63% position:10% size:35%
being with us.
00:26:52.210 --> 00:26:53.244 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43%
LEE: My pleasure.
00:26:53.311 --> 00:26:54.279 align:start line:63% position:10% size:65%
JAMES: Thank you for being
00:26:54.346 --> 00:26:55.947 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55%
a blessing to so many,
00:26:56.014 --> 00:26:57.148 align:start line:63% position:10% size:38%
the overlooked,
00:26:57.215 --> 00:26:59.584 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48%
the least of these.
00:26:59.651 --> 00:27:01.686 align:start line:63% position:10% size:25%
Thank you.
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♪
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♪
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♪
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Through
Life Planning Services,
00:27:49.801 --> 00:27:52.070 align:center line:10% position:50% size:60%
we offer estate planning
and giving solutions
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that provide tax advantages,
income, and the satisfaction
00:27:55.373 --> 00:27:57.776 align:center line:10% position:50% size:53%
of supporting a cause
close to your heart!
00:27:57.842 --> 00:28:00.879 align:center line:10% position:50% size:73%
Call or visit
Life Planning Services today!
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Randy Robison shares how
the ministry of Life Today
00:28:04.949 --> 00:28:07.018 align:center line:63% position:50% size:28%
has changed
his life.
00:28:07.085 --> 00:28:09.387 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48%
>> It was like God
was going, Wake up!
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I've got something
for you to do.
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LIFE Today is made
possible by the supporters of
LIFE Outreach International.
00:28:16.127 --> 00:28:19.164 align:center line:10% position:50% size:70%
Your gift will be
used exclusively for
the exempt purposes of LIFE.
00:28:19.230 --> 00:28:21.232 align:start line:10% position:23% size:53%
The ministry features
specific outreaches
00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:23.301 align:center line:10% position:50% size:68%
as examples of the programs
it supports and conducts.
00:28:23.368 --> 00:28:25.370 align:start line:10% position:18% size:63%
Gifts are considered
to be without restriction
00:28:25.437 --> 00:28:27.505 align:center line:10% position:50% size:68%
as to use unless explicitly
stipulated by the donor.
00:28:27.572 --> 00:28:29.808 align:center line:10% position:50% size:60%
The ministry is a member
of the ECFA.