THE REAL MEANING OF THE ZODIAC OR PERHAPS WE WOULD
CALL IT AS I DID, THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS.
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES PRESENTS
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
WELL IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME, BUT WHAT DOES THAT REALLY
MATTER?
JESUS WAS A MAN, HE WAS BORN, HE DIED A TERRIBLE
DEATH OF CRUCIFIXION AND HE WAS RESURRECTED.
AND HOW DO WE KNOW THE CHRISTMAS STORY IS TRUE?
AND SO THIS IDEA THAT, WHO KNOWS WHAT PAUL ORIGINALLY
WROTE IN HIS LETTERS OR WHO KNOWS WHAT THE GOSPEL
WRITERS ORIGINALLY SAID ABOUT JESUS, THERE'S NO
FOUNDATION FOR THAT KIND OF SKEPTICISM.
DISCOVER THE SOLID HISTORICAL BASIS FOR
CHRISTMAS, AS WELL AS HOW THE CONSTELLATIONS IN THE
NIGHT SKY PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL, ALL ON TODAY'S
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
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WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM, A PRODUCTION
OF D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES, WHERE WE ARE
STANDING FOR TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
AS CHRISTMAS APPROACHES AND AS WE MOVE TOWARD THE
END OF 2018, I WANT TO MAKE A SPECIAL APPEAL TO
YOU TODAY TO HELP US FINISH 2018 IN THE BLACK,
ABLE TO MOVE INTO 2019 IN A STRONG POSITION SO THAT
WE CAN BRING BIBLICAL TRUTH TO BEAR ON A FRAYING
CULTURE.
SOME GENEROUS FRIENDS OF THIS MINISTRY HAVE
ESTABLISHED A PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL MATCHING CHALLENGE
FUND.
THEIR GOAL IS TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO DONATE GENEROUSLY
TO HELP US IN OUR VITAL MISSION TO PROCLAIM THE
GOSPEL BOLDLY AND EFFECTIVELY MAKING A REAL
AND LASTING IMPACT ON THE TRAJECTORY OF OUR NATION.
PLEASE CONTACT US RIGHT AWAY TO GIVE A GENEROUS
DONATION, WHICH WILL ESSENTIALLY HAVE DOUBLE
THE IMPACT AT THIS CRUCIAL TIME.
AND WE HAVE SOME OUTSTANDING RESOURCES TO
THANK YOU WITH, THAT WILL SHOW YOU HOW THE STARS IN
THE SKY PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL MESSAGE, WHICH
WE'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
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AS WE CELEBRATE THE ADVENT OF JESUS CHRIST AT
CHRISTMAS TIME, SKEPTICS ABOUND, IN MAGAZINE
STORIES AND TV DOCUMENTARIES.
AND ATTACKS ON THE RELIABILITY OF THE BIBLE
ARE NOTHING REALLY NEW- BUT WE SEE THE SAME
ARGUMENTS ENDLESSLY PACKAGED AND REPACKAGED
FOR NEW AUDIENCES.
DR. SAM LAMERSON IS A PRESIDENT AND PROFESSOR OF
NEW TESTAMENT AT KNOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, AND
HE JOINS ME NOW TO DISCUSS OUR CONFIDENCE IN THE
STORY PRESENTED IN THE GOSPELS.
SAM THANKS FOR BEING HERE, ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE YOU.
THANKS.
NOW ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS THAT SKEPTICS LAY AGAINST
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, LAY AGAINST THE BIBLE IS IT'S
JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW DIFFERENT
CIVILIZATIONS PRODUCE THEIR OWN MYTHOLOGIES, THE
GRECO-ROMAN, WHATEVER OTHER WE MIGHT WANT TO
FOCUS ON, BUT THE BIBLE IS UNIQUELY DIFFERENT THEN
ALL OF THOSE STORIES THAT APPEAR IN OTHER CULTURES.
IN WHAT WAY IS IT DIFFERENT?
WELL IN THE FIRST PLACE, THE STORIES OF JESUS WERE
WRITTEN BY EYE WITNESSES AND THERE ARE MANY
NON-EVANGELICAL SCHOLARS TODAY WHO WILL GRANT THAT
YES THOSE STORIES OF JESUS WERE WRITTEN BY
EYE WITNESSES SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING.
THEY'RE NOT WRITTEN 100 OR 150 YEARS LATER, THEY'RE
WRITTEN VIRTUALLY AT THE TIME THAT THEY HAPPENED.
THE SECOND THING IS THAT THEY WERE WRITTEN VERY
CLOSE TO THE TIME IN WHICH THE EVENTS HAPPENED.
SO IT'S NOT EYE WITNESSES WAITING UNTIL THEY'RE
SENILE, ITS EYE WITNESSES WRITING SOMETIMES 10 OR 15
YEARS AFTER THE EVENT HAD HAPPENED.
AND SO THAT'S IMPORTANT AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO
REALIZE THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT ITSELF CLAIMS
TO BE A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT.
THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS IF JESUS WASN'T REALLY RAISED
FROM THE DEAD THEN WE'RE OF ALL MEN MOST HOPELESS.
WE'RE OF ALL PEOPLE TERRIBLY HOPELESS BECAUSE
WE'VE BOUGHT IN TO WHAT WAS A BIG LIE.
AND PAUL WHO LIVED VIRTUALLY AT THE SAME TIME
AS JESUS WHO MAY HAVE SEEN JESUS IN JERUSALEM WHEN HE
WAS A YOUNG MAN HE SAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
THAT WE CAN RECOGNIZE IS THAT JESUS WAS A MAN, HE
WAS BORN, HE DIED A TERRIBLE DEATH OF
CRUCIFIXION AND HE WAS RESURRECTED.
THESE ARE THE CENTER POINTS SO TO SPEAK OF
HISTORY; ALL OF HISTORY WAS POINTED TO THE BIRTH,
DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST THAT EVERYTHING
AFTER IS SHAPED BY IT, IS THAT HOW WE SHOULD LOOK AT IT?
THAT'S RIGHT, THE RESURRECTION IS WITHOUT
QUESTION THE MOST IMPORTANT MIRACLE OF THE
ENTIRE BIBLE BECAUSE IT SHOWS US THAT JESUS WAS
WHO HE SAID HE WAS.
THAT HE DID WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO.
THAT HE'S NOT LIKE THE MANY OTHER PEOPLE WHO
CLAIMED TO BE THE MESSIAH DURING THAT TIME, HE IS
THE ONE WHO SUFFERED CRUCIFIXION, WAS DEAD
BURIED AND THEN ROSE AGAIN AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT
RESURRECTION THAT WE, WHENEVER WE FOR INSTANCE
CELEBRATE COMMUNION AT CHURCH, WE CELEBRATE
COMMUNION, WE'RE CELEBRATING THE DEATH
OF THE FOUNDER OF OUR RELIGION, WE'RE
CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF OUR GOD WHO BECAME MAN, NO
OTHER RELIGION CELEBRATES THE DEATH OF THEIR HERO.
WE CAN THOUGH BECAUSE OF THE RESURRECTION.
I HAPPEN TO THINK THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE
EVER MADE IS THE CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS BECAUSE
FOR ALL THE OTHER ONES THAT ARE SO APPEALING, THE
CLEAREST PRESENTATION OF THE GOSPEL IS IN THAT
LITTLE PEANUTS CHRISTMAS MOVIE 28 MINUTES LONG.
EXACTLY, AND YOU FIND THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, THE BIRTH
NARRATIVE FROM THE GOSPEL OF LUKE BEING READ AND ONE
OF THE GREAT OVERARCHING THEMES OF LUKE'S GOSPEL IS
THAT THE CHRIST CAME FOR THOSE WHO ARE OUTSIDE, FOR
THE POOR AND FOR THE OPPRESSED AND FOR THOSE
THAT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS DIDN'T WANT IN THE CHURCH
OR THE SYNAGOGUE AT THAT TIME, AND YET CHRIST COMES
AND HE OFFERS THE GOSPEL TO ALL OF THOSE THAT ARE
OUTSIDE JUST LIKE CHARLIE BROWN.
AND LINUS CORRECTS ALL THE PUNDITS OF OUR DAY THAT
ALWAYS WAX ELOQUENTLY ABOUT PEACE ON EARTH AND
GOOD WILL TO MEN, BECAUSE HE SAYS THE GOOD NEWS IS
THAT UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A
SAVIOR, THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS OF THE SCRIPTURES.
SAM THANKS FOR BEING WITH US, ALWAYS A PLEASURE.
MY PLEASURE.
THANKS SO MUCH.
WHAT BETTER WAY TO APPRECIATE THE NIGHT SKY
THAN WITH A STUNNING ILLUSTRATION OF THE STARS
AND CONSTELLATIONS ACCOMPANIED BY BIBLICAL
DESCRIPTIONS OF HOW EACH ONE PROCLAIMS THE GOSPEL
OF JESUS CHRIST.
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES PRESENTS FOR THE FIRST
TIME THE EXCLUSIVE GOSPEL PLANISPHERE, THIS
ONE-OF-A-KIND PLANISPHERE FOLDS OUT TO POSTER-SIZE
AND SHOWS HOW CONTRARY TO PAGAN ASTROLOGY, GOD
PLACED THE ZODIAC IN THE HEAVENS TO PROCLAIM THE
STORY OF REDEMPTION.
CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE THE GOSPEL
PLANISPHERE- A FOLD-OUT GUIDE TO THE GOSPEL IN THE
STARS THAT CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED THROUGH D. JAMES
KENNEDY MINISTRIES.
DESPITE ALL OF THE ATTACKS FROM SKEPTICS ON THE
RELIABILITY OF THE BIBLE, THE GOSPEL NARRATIVES
STAND STRONG AS THE BEST EXAMPLES OF RELIABLE
HISTORY WRITTEN IN ALL OF ANTIQUITY.
BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT THE STORY WRITTEN IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT IS ALSO WRITTEN IN THE STARS ABOVE?
MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY,
THE DAUGHTER OF DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, NOW
JOINS ME.
JENNIFER, ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING MESSAGE SERIES
YOUR DAD EVER PREACHED WAS ON THIS SUBJECT.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE PREACHED IN THE CHURCH?
I DO, AND PEOPLE WERE ASTONISHED TO LEARN THAT
THE GOSPEL MESSAGE CAN BE SEEN CLEARLY IN THE NIGHT
SKY.
MY FATHER WAS A BRILLIANT MAN, AND HE NEVER STOPPED
STUDYING GOD'S TRUTH IN THE SCRIPTURES AND IN THE
WORLD AROUND HIM.
ONE OF HIS DISCOVERIES BECAME A HALLMARK IN HIS
MINISTRY, AND IT REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST
FASCINATING THINGS MY DAD EVER DID.
HE KNEW THAT, AS THE BIBLE SAYS, "THE HEAVENS DECLARE
THE GLORY OF GOD, AND THE SKY ABOVE PROCLAIMS HIS
HANDIWORK."
THAT MESSAGE, MY DAD DISCOVERED, IS PROCLAIMED
IN THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE ZODIAC.
TO BE CLEAR, HE ABSOLUTELY REJECTED PAGAN ASTROLOGY,
WHICH IS A PERVERSION OF THE TRUTH.
HE WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HOROSCOPES AND
DIVINATION, WHICH THE BIBLE FORBIDS.
BUT GOD PLACED THE STARS IN THE SKY HIMSELF, AND
WHEN LOOKED AT RIGHTLY, THE DISPLAY IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT WE COULD EVER RECEIVE.
HERE'S MY DAD, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, WITH A PORTION OF
THE FIRST OF 13 MESSAGES HE PREACHED ON THIS
INTRIGUING TOPIC, CALLED "THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS."
THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD
MADE TWO GREAT LIGHTS, THE GREATER LIGHT TO RULE THE
DAY AND THE LESSER LIGHT TO RULE THE NIGHT.
AND HE MADE THE STARS ALSO.
AND WE'RE ALSO TOLD IN THAT SAME FIRST CHAPTER
THIS, "AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE
FIRMAMENT OF THE HEAVEN TO DIVIDE THE DAY FROM THE
NIGHT; AND LET THEM BE FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS, AND
FOR DAYS AND YEARS."
NOW, DOES ONE OF THOSE SEEM OUT OF PLACE?
IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE WITH A MODICUM OF
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ASTRONOMY THAT THE HEAVENLY BODIES
HAVE A GREAT DEAL TO SAY ABOUT OUR YEARS, ABOUT OUR
DAYS, AND ABOUT OUR SEASONS.
BUT, HOW ARE THEY SIGNS?
WHAT IS A SIGN?
A SIGN IS SOMETHING WHICH PROCLAIMS A MESSAGE.
WHEN YOU PUT UP A SIGNBOARD, YOU DO IT
TO PROCLAIM A MESSAGE.
BUT WHAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS PROCLAIMED BY THE
STARS ABOVE?
WELL, THAT IS A SUBJECT OF OUR INVESTIGATION THIS
MORNING.
I'M GOING TO BE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT WHAT MIGHT BE
CALLED "BIBLICAL ASTROLOGY."
NOW, THAT IS CERTAINLY A RARE CONNECTION OF WORDS.
BIBLICAL ASTROLOGY.
OR PERHAPS THE REAL MEANING OF THE ZODIAC.
OR PERHAPS WE WOULD CALL IT, AS I DID, "THE GOSPEL
IN THE STARS."
LET US THEN, LOOK, BRIEFLY, AT A FEW OF THE
PICTURES OF THE ZODIAC.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MAY NEVER HAVE LOOKED AT
THIS MATTER AT ALL, AND UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF
ITS CORRUPTIONS AND ITS SATANIC ASPECTS, IT'S WELL
THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MODERN ASTROLOGY
WHATSOEVER, BUT IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT APPRECIATE
WHAT GOD HAS DONE, LET ME JUST TELL YOU SOMETHING
ABOUT IT, WHAT IT'S LIKE.
IF YOU PAINT THE WHOLE PICTURE OF THE SKY ON THE
CEILING ABOVE, YOU WOULD HAVE A GREAT CIRCLE, WHICH
IS CALLED THE ECLIPTIC, THE ECLIPTIC OF THE SUN.
NOW, ON THE ECLIPTIC THERE ARE 12 MAJOR
CONSTELLATIONS KNOWN AS THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE
ZODIAC OR THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
ZODIAC IS THOUGHT TO MEAN THE CIRCLE OF ANIMALS,
THOUGH BETTER LINGUISTS SAY THAT IT COMES FROM AN
ANCIENT HEBREW WORD MEANS ACTUALLY "A PATH" OR "STEP."
THAT IT ACTUALLY IS DISPLAYING "THE WAY," THAT
IS THE "WAY OF SALVATION."
LET'S BEGIN THEN WITH VIRGO.
VIRGO IS A PICTURE OF A WOMAN.
AND THIS WOMAN IS CLEARLY IDENTIFIED AS A VIRGIN,
EVEN THE NAME OF THE CONSTELLATION VIRGO, THE
VIRGIN, FROM LATIN.
SHE HOLDS IN HER RIGHT HAND A BRANCH AND IN HER
LEFT HAND SOME SHEATHS OF CORN OR WHEAT SEEDS OR
BARLEY SEEDS.
VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS GIVEN OF THAT.
AND WE SEE THAT, OF COURSE, IT IS THE SEED OF
THE WOMAN, THAT IS THE VIRGIN WHO WILL CONCEIVE
AND BRING FORTH A CHILD, AS ISAIAH TELLS US,
"BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BRING
FORTH A SON."
THAT HER SEED WILL PRODUCE THIS.
AND FURTHERMORE, A BRANCH.
WE READ IN ZECHARIAH, "FOR BEHOLD, I WILL BRING FORTH
MY SERVANT, THE BRANCH."
AND IN ZECHARIAH 6:12, "BEHOLD THE MAN WHOSE NAME
IS THE BRANCH."
AND THEN IN ISAIAH 4:2, "THE BRANCH OF JEHOVAH
SHALL BLOSSOM PROSPEROUSLY."
THAT HE IS THE SERVANT, HE IS A MAN, HE IS GOD.
HE IS THE MAN-GOD SERVANT JESUS, WHO HAS COME.
I HOPE, THAT AS YOU GO OUT ON A GIVEN NIGHT AND LOOK
UP AT THE GLORIES OF THE STARRY SKIES, THAT YOU
WILL BE MORE IMPRESSED THAN EVER WITH THE
GREATNESS AND WONDER OF OUR GOD.
AND THE MAJESTY OF HIS GRACE AND MERCY.
THE GOOD NEWS, ANNOUNCED EVEN IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE,
IS THAT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN WILL DESTROY THE
SEED OF THE SERPENT AND SAVE HIS PEOPLE.
THIS PROPHECY WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED IN GENESIS
CHAPTER THREE AND WAS FULFILLED IN CHRIST AS HIS
DEATH AND RESURRECTION DEFEATED SIN AND SATAN,
SECURING THE SALVATION OF THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM.
IN JUST A FEW MINUTES, WE WILL TELL YOU HOW YOU CAN
OBTAIN ALL OF THESE AMAZING MESSAGES FROM
DR. KENNEDY ON THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS, AND WE WILL
SHOW YOU AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING GOSPEL
PLANISPHERE THAT GRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATES
THE STORY OF SALVATION IN THE CONSTELLATIONS.
TO SOME, THIS AMAZING STORY OF CHRIST'S ADVENT
SOUNDS LIKE A MYTH FROM ANTIQUITY.
BUT TODAY, EVEN SKEPTICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND
SCHOLARS ARE DISCOVERING HOW MUCH MORE RELIABLE THE
NEW TESTAMENT IS THAN THEY EVER KNEW BEFORE.
IT TRULY IS THE BEST ATTESTED AND MOST
TRUSTWORTHY BOOK OF ANTIQUITY.
OUR OWN DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE HAS MORE.
HOW GOOD ARE THE MANUSCRIPTS ON WHICH THE
NEW TESTAMENT IS BASED?
SOME HAVE SAID THAT THE TEXT HAS BEEN DELIBERATELY
CHANGED.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL TEXT THAT HAS
SURVIVED FROM ANTIQUITY.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO THE EXPERTS WHO KNOW BEST.
JOIN US ON OUR QUEST FOR THE "FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH."
DR. CRAIG EVANS, A PROFESSOR AT HOUSTON
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, HOSTS A NEW DOCUMENTARY,
CALLED "FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH," WHICH DEALS WITH
THE ISSUE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS.
HERE ARE SOME SCENES FROM THIS POWERFUL NEW FILM.
SOME SCHOLARS HAVE ALLEGED THAT THE SCRIBES WHO
COPIED THE NEW TESTAMENT CHANGED THE TEXT
SUBSTANTIALLY, WHETHER UNINTENTIONALLY OR
INTENTIONALLY.
THEIR MISTAKES OBSCURED THE READINGS OF THE
ORIGINAL TEXT TO THE POINT WHERE WE NO LONGER KNOW
WHAT THE ORIGINAL WRITERS WROTE IN THE GOSPELS.
THAT'S A VERY SERIOUS ALLEGATION AGAINST THE
RELIABILITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT- ESSENTIALLY
THAT SCRIBES SUPPOSEDLY CHANGED THE TEXTS.
THE FILM DOCUMENTS HOW SUCH AN ALLEGATION HAS NO
BASIS IN FACT.
SOME HAVE CHARGED THAT CHRISTIAN SCRIBES AT FIRST
WERE BARELY LITERATE, WELL-MEANING CHRISTIANS
AND NOT PROFESSIONAL SCRIBES.
PEOPLE OFTEN ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW RELIABLE THE NEW
TESTAMENT IS, NOT JUST IN WHAT IT REPORTS BUT DO WE
ACTUALLY EVEN HAVE THE NEW TESTAMENT AS IT WAS
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN?
SO SOME PEOPLE SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, WELL, THERE MAY
HAVE BEEN A NICE PRISTINE EARLY VERSION OF THE
GOSPEL OF MARK, BUT HASN'T IT BEEN SORT OF SOUPED UP,
BEEFED UP OVER THE CENTURIES?
HASN'T JESUS BEEN TURNED FROM AN INNOCENT JEWISH
RABBI INTO SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS TO FORGIVE SIN?
WELL, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS THEORY IS THAT
WE'RE VERY, VERY HARD-PRESSED TO FIND ANY
MANUSCRIPT WHERE WE CAN SEE THAT A SCRIBE HAS,
WITH ANY CONSISTENCY AT ALL, CHANGED THE TEXT,
WHETHER IN AN ORTHODOX DIRECTION OR AN UNORTHODOX
DIRECTION.
MANUSCRIPTS, OF COURSE, WERE COPIES MADE BY HAND.
ALL COPIES OF ANY WRITING NEW TESTAMENT OR OTHERWISE
PRIOR TO THE GUTENBERG PRESS IN 1456 HAD TO BE
MADE BY HAND.
WRITING EVERYTHING OUT BY HAND ALWAYS INTRODUCES THE
POSSIBILITY OF VARIANTS- TINY VARIATIONS FROM ONE
TEXT TO ANOTHER, SUCH AS SPELLING DISCREPANCIES.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF THESE VARIANTS CANNOT EVEN BE
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
THE MANUSCRIPTS WE HAVE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, THERE'S
5700 MANUSCRIPTS IN GREEK, THERE'S OVER 10,000 IN
LATIN, THE OTHER ANCIENT VERSIONS, GEORGIAN,
ARMENIAN, SERIATE COPTIC.
99% OF THE VARIANTS THAT WE HAVE, EITHER CANNOT BE
TRANSLATED, OR THEY DON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.
THE NEW TESTAMENT CONTAINS SEVERAL THOUSAND LINES OF
TEXT, HOW MANY LINES OF TEXT ARE POSSIBLY IN
QUESTION?
AND OF THOSE LINES OF TEXT IN QUESTION, WHAT DO WE
KNOW ABOUT THEM?
TEXT CRITIC GREAT BRUCE METZGER REMARKED THERE
WERE ONLY 40 LINES OUT OF 20,000 WHERE THERE WAS ANY
DOUBT AT ALL ABOUT HOW IT SHOULD ORIGINALLY READ.
AND THOSE 40 LINES DON'T INVOLVE ONE SINGLE,
SIGNIFICANT CHRISTIAN TEACHING.
RECENT ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES HIGHLIGHTED BY
THE FILM, "FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH," PROVE THAT ANCIENT
PAPYRI COULD SURVIVE FOR CENTURIES INSTEAD OF
DECADES, WHICH IS WHAT SCHOLARS PREVIOUSLY HELD.
AND SO THIS IDEA THAT, WHO KNOWS WHAT PAUL ORIGINALLY
WROTE IN HIS LETTERS OR WHO KNOWS WHAT THE GOSPEL
WRITERS ORIGINALLY SAID ABOUT JESUS, THERE'S NO
FOUNDATION FOR THAT KIND OF SKEPTICISM.
THIS HAS BEEN COMMENTED ON, FRED WISSE, LONG-TIME
PROFESSOR AT YALE, REMARKED ONE TIME THAT THE
STABILITY OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT TEXT IS SUCH
THAT HE CONSIDERED IT NOTHING LESS THAN A
MIRACLE.
OVER THE CENTURIES, THE SCRIPTURES THAT PROCLAIM
THE GOSPEL STORY HAVE HELD UP THROUGH ALL MANNER OF
SKEPTICAL INQUIRY.
AND THE SCRIPTURES RECORD THE STORY THAT GOD
ORDAINED THE SENDING OF HIS SON TO DIE FOR OUR
SINS.
THIS IS THE MAJESTY AND THE GRACE OF CHRISTMAS.
AND THE HEAVENS ABOVE ALSO PROCLAIM THIS STORY, WHERE
WE SEE THAT GOD CREATED THE STARS, NUMBERED EACH
ONE, AND ORDERED THEM IN THE HEAVENS.
AND THAT DIVINE ORDERING BEARS A POWERFUL AND
UNMISTAKABLE WITNESS TO THE COMING CHRIST.
FRIENDS, WE HAVE SOME UNIQUE AND OUTSTANDING
RESOURCES TO ENABLE YOU TO SEE THIS MORE CLEARLY.
THE FIRST IS THIS AMAZING GOSPEL PLANISPHERE.
TODAY YOU HEARD DR. KENNEDY'S POWERFUL
PRESENTATION ON THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS, AND THIS
FOLD-OUT, POSTER-SIZED PLANISPHERE BEAUTIFULLY
ILLUSTRATES THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF WHICH
DR. KENNEDY CALLED THE "PROTEVANGELIUM"
THE FIRST GOSPEL.
AS YOU UNFOLD THIS PLANISPHERE YOU WILL BE
ASTONISHED BY THE CLARITY OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE
WRITTEN IN THE CONSTELLATIONS WE SEE IN
THE NIGHT SKY ABOVE.
WITH THIS REMARKABLY HELPFUL RESOURCE YOU CAN
EASILY EXPLAIN THE GOSPEL MESSAGE TO SOMEONE ELSE.
THERE IS SIMPLY NOTHING ELSE LIKE THIS AVAILABLE
TODAY.
YOU'LL WANT TO SHARE IT WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND
GRANDCHILDREN, AND IT ALSO MAKES A TERRIFIC
HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCE.
WE WILL SEND YOU THIS EXCLUSIVE GOSPEL
PLANISPHERE AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION
TO THIS MINISTRY.
YOUR DONATIONS WILL US FINISH 2018 IN THE BLACK
AND BE WELL-POSITIONED FOR THE NEW YEAR AHEAD.
THIS GOSPEL PLANISPHERE IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE
ELSE.
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SOME GENEROUS FRIENDS OF THIS MINISTRY HAVE
ESTABLISHED THE PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL MATCHING
CHALLENGE FUND, SO IF YOU GIVE RIGHT NOW TO MATCH
THEIR GIFT, THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATION IS VIRTUALLY
DOUBLED.
AND IF YOU ARE ABLE TO DONATE $50 OR MORE, WE
WILL SEND YOU THE INCREDIBLE GOSPEL
PLANISPHERE, PLUS DR. KENNEDY'S REVEALING
BOOK, THE REAL MEANING OF THE ZODIAC, WHICH FILLS IN
THE TRUE PICTURE ON HOW EACH CONSTELLATION OF THE
ZODIAC PLAYS A PART IN DEMONSTRATING THE GOSPEL
STORY, CONTRARY TO MODERN PAGAN ASTROLOGY.
AND AS OUR THANKS FOR A DONATION OF $100 OR MORE,
WE'LL SEND YOU THE PLANISPHERE, THE BOOK, AND
DR. KENNEDY'S 13-MESSAGE SET, THE GOSPEL IN THE
STARS, WHICH IS AVAILABLE ON DVD OR AUDIO CD, AND
INCLUDES MESSAGES ON EACH SIGN OF THE ZODIAC.
THESE ARE THE MOST REQUESTED MESSAGES
DR. KENNEDY EVER PREACHED, AND THEY ARE AVAILABLE TO
YOU NOW IN THIS COMPELLING PACKAGE.
SO PLEASE, CONSIDER GIVING A GENEROUS DONATION TO
HELP US DEFEND TRUTH AND STAND FOR FREEDOM.
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CHRISTMAS IS A SPECIAL TIME OF THE YEAR, AS WE
CONSIDER THE AWESOME GRACE OF GOD IN SENDING THE VERY
PRINCE OF PEACE FOR US.
ON THE NIGHT OF HIS BIRTH, THE ANGEL PROCLAIMED:
"PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO THOSE, ON WHOM HIS
FAVOR RESTS."
EVEN THOUGH WE SEE THE WORLD AROUND US DEVASTED
BY SIN, CHRISTMAS IS THE SHINING REMINDER THAT GOD
DID NOT CREATE IT THAT WAY AND THAT THE COMING OF THE
CHRIST CHILD WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE
RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS.
IN OUR OWN NATION, WE SEEM TO BE STANDING AT AN
HISTORICAL JUNCTURE, WITH POLITICAL DISCORD AND
VIOLENCE NOT SEEN SINCE THE TURBULENT DECADE OF
THE 1960S.
WHY NOW?
WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL THESE CONFLICTS?
C.S. LEWIS WAS PERHAPS THE GREATEST CHRISTIAN WRITER
OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
THIS WHAT HE SAID ABOUT A SEEMINGLY CHAOTIC WORLD:
WHAT LEWIS CALLS "SABOTAGE" IS OUR OWN
STAND FOR TRUTH AGAINST THE DIVISION AND HATED
WROUGHT BY THE KING OF THIS WORLD, SATAN.
ONE SHINING EXAMPLE OF THAT TRUTH LIVED OUT
OCCURRED DURING WORLD WAR ONE AT CHRISTMASTIME ON
THE GREAT BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE.
FOR A FEW SHORT HOURS, BATTLE-WEARY MEN EMERGED
FROM THE TRENCHES ON BOTH SIDES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR
COMMON BOND IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
THEY SANG CHRISTMAS CAROLS TOGETHER, THEY EXCHANGED
SOME MODEST GIFTS, AND EVEN PLAYED A LITTLE
SOCCER TOGETHER.
IN THE MIDST OF GREAT DIVISION, THAT IS THE
UNIFYING POWER OF CHRIST.
AS CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE THE TRUE HOPE THAT ONE DAY THE
REIGN OF CHRIST THE KING WILL EXTEND NOT ONLY TO
THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM, BUT WILL
EXTEND TO ALL THE EARTH.
AND THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE FILLED WITH THE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD.
WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE WILL TRULY SEE "PEACE ON EARTH
AND GOOD WILL TO MEN."
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES IS STANDING FOR TRUTH AND
DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THIS EDITION OF TRUTHS
THAT TRANSFORM.
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
NEXT WEEK ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE
NOT ONLY BY A BLIND UNINFORMED FAITH
BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE HISTORICAL FACTS.
A VIRGIN BIRTH I BELIEVE IS A FACT AND NOT ONLY A
FACT BUT A FOUNDATIONAL FACT OF OUR FAITH.
THAT'S NEXT WEEK.
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