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The central theme is the unparalleled uniqueness of Jesus Christ throughout history, emphasizing his distinct claims and impact on humanity, and exploring the philosophical and theological underpinnings of this uniqueness.

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we are dealing with an extremely

sensitive albeit provocative subject if

this question cannot be answered and the

Christian faith cannot be defended and

the Christian faith cannot be defended

why even bother proclaiming it and in my

second talk particularly as we deal with

the uniqueness of Christ

in the religions of the world I will

make a few preliminary comments at that

point because of that juncture will be

setting him in Contra distinction to any

other claim that points its way or there

espouses as being one amongst many ways

that take us to God or to salvation my

first lecture is entitled as for

assignment the uniqueness of Christ in

history the uniqueness of Christ in

history you can come to this

academically by looking at the New

Testament documents and showing how they

have withstood the onslaught of critics

or any kind of analysis across the

centuries you could look at this from

the perspective of missionary movements

and see how it is many parts of the

world have been conquered by the message

of Christ and that still would be quite

unique but I would like to look at this

from the very person of Christ and try

to set that before you in your thinking

many years ago as a teenager growing up

in India I remember listening to a song

being narrated by one who was well known

in the 1960s a man by the name of Ed

Ames and of course raised in India my

ears perked up because of the specific

nature of the questions he raised in

that song which was chanted quite in an

Eastern fashion with the background of

music almost provoking some kind of

mysticism and he said this it is a

rather long song I'll just quote a

couple of verses at this point he said

this from the canyons of the mind we

wonder on and summer blind wade through

the often tangled maze of starless

nights and sunless days hoping for some

kind of clue a road to lead us to the truth

truth

but who will answer he's our hope in

walnut shells won't

that ecwid temple bells or deeper than

some cloistered walls were hooded

feeders spray in shawls or high upon

some dusty shells or in the Stars or in

ourselves who'll answer and the chorus

goes if the soul is darkened by a fear

it cannot name if the mind is baffled

when the rules don't fit the game who'll

answer who answer who'll answer

notice the specific nature of the

question he does not long for some

abstraction or some dogma he's not

looking for a set of precepts to adhere

to or some system that he can give

allegiance to he is personifying the

very source of his answer by saying who

has the right to be the answer to the

many questions that are plaguing my mind

and indeed he raises dozens of them as a

song unfolds the fact of the matter is

ladies and gentlemen that the name of

Christ has been virtually unique and

unparalleled in history as the one who

claimed in himself to be the locust and

the sum and substance of the answer not

just only what he said or what he taught

but in himself so that if you remove

Christ from the Gospels there is no

gospel message he is a central feature

of his own message you have heard these

words I'm sure but it is most

appropriate to use them for a theme such

as this and title one solitary life he

was born in an obscure village the child

of a peasant woman he grew up in another

village where he worked in a carpenter's

shop until he was thirty then for three

years he was an itinerant preacher he

never wrote a book he never held an

office he never travelled 200 miles from

the place where he was born he did none

of the things one usually associated

greatness he was only 33 when the tide

of public opinion turned against him he

was turned over to his enemies a mental

a mockery of a trial he was nailed to a

cross between two thieves when he was

dead he was laid in a borrowed gray

nineteen centuries have come and gone

and today he is a central figure of the human

human

and a leader of mankind's progress all

the armies that ever marched all the

navies that ever sailed all the kings

that ever reign have not affected a life

of man as much as that one solitary life

I'd like to take the liberty and please

bear with me to read for you a rather

protracted passage I hesitated to do

this but I think if you stay with the

imagination of this writer you will be

as enthralled with it as I was I lived

it out of a book called a 20th century

pulpit and in that is a collation of

some of the fine sermons preached in

this century most of them follow very

straightforward line uncle you come to a

man by the name of Frederick Speakman

who uses his imagination and preaches a

whole sermon on an imaginary

conversation between Pontius Pilate

after he had spelled the death sentence

of Christ that he has in turn with one

of the servants called Gaius so here it

is it breaks up some a message in title

what Pilate said one night please listen

it's very very creative it suddenly

closed in on me guys the impact of how trapped

trapped

I was the proud arm of Rome with all its

boast of justice was to be but a dirty

dagger in the pudgy hands of the priests

I was waiting in the room for him Gaius

that I used for court officially

enthroned with cloak and guard when they

left him in well Gaius don't smile at

this as you value your jaw but I've had

no peace since the day he walked into my

judgment Hall it has been years guys but

these scenes I read from the back of my

eyelids every night you've seen Caesar

when he was young inspect the Legion his

arrogant manner was childlike compared

to the manner of this Nazarene he didn't

have to strut you see he walked towards

my throne arms bound with a strident

mastery in control

their bites very audacity silenced the

room for an instant and left me with a

trembling and an insane desire to stand

up and salute the clerk began reading

absurd list of charges the priestly

delegation punctuating these with the

palm rubbing the beard stroking the eye

Rowling's and the pious gutturals I had

learned to ignore but I'm or felted

biased and heard it I questioned him

mechanically he answered very little but

what he said in the way he said it

he was as it his level gaze had pulled

my naked soul right up into my eyes and

was probing it there and a voice saying

in my ears why you're on trial Pilate

and that the man wasn't even listening

to the charges you have sworn he just

coming out of friendly interest to see

what was going to happen to me and a

very pressure of his standing they had

grown unbearable guys when a slave

Russian all the tremble interrupting

court bringing a message from my wife

Claudia she had stabbed at the stylus in

that childish way that she has when she

is distraught don't judge this amazing

man Pilate she wrote I was haunted in

dreams by him this night Gaius I tried

to free him from that moment on I tried

and I always think he knew it I declared

him out of my jurisdiction being a

Galilean but their native King Herod

discovered he was born in Judea and sent

him right back to me I never peeled to

the crowd that had gathered in the

streets hoping they were his

sympathizers but Caiaphas such station

agitators dupe up the briefs that beats

the cry for blood and you know how any

citizen here loves just after breakfast

to cry for another's blood I hadn't

beaten Gaius

a thorough barracks room beating I'm

really still not sure why to appease the

crowd I guess but do we Romans really

need a reason for beatings that's the

code isn't it for anything we don't

understand guys it didn't work the crowd

roared like some slobbering beast when I

brought him back only you could have

watched him guys they had thrown some

rags of mock purple over spoked and

bleeding shoulders they had Janet

Zappala thorns down on his forehead and

it fitted Gaius it all fitted he stood

there watching them from my balcony

flame from weakness by now but Royal I

tell you know just pain but pity shining

from his eyes and I kept thinking

this is somehow all monstrous upside

down that purple Israel that crown

Israel and somehow these animal noises

the crowd is shrieking should be praised

and then Caiaphas plays his MA played

his master stroke on me he announced

there in public that this Jesus claimed

the crown and that this was treason to

Caesar and the guards began to glance at

one another quickly and that marble

spineless filth began to shout Hail

Caesar Hail Caesar and I knew right then

I was beaten and that's when I gave the

order guys I couldn't look at him then I

did a childish thing I called for water

and there on the balcony I washed my

hands of that whole affair guys as they

led him away I did look up and he turned

and looked at me no smile no pity he

just glanced at my hands and I feel the

weight of his eyes on them from now on

but you're yawning guys I've kept you up

and the fact of the matter is you're in

need of rest and some holidays Claudia

will be asleep by now

rows of lighted lamps lying her couch

she can't sleep in the dark anymore not

since the afternoon you see guys the Sun

went down and my guards executed yes

that's what I said I don't know how or

what I only know I was there and orders

the middle of the day he turned his

black as the tunnels of hell in that

miserable City well I tried to compose

Claudia and they explained how I've been

trapped and she railed at me with her

dream she's had that dream ever since

when she sleeps in the dark some form of

it there was to be a new Caesar and that

I killed him oh we've been to Egypt

editions we've listened by the hours to

the articles the musty temples of Greece

shattering their identities we called it

an oriental curse that we're under and

you tried to make a break in a thousand

ways but there's no breaking it but you

know why I keep going eyes deeper the

curse is the haunting driving certainly

that heat certainty that he saw

somewhere here there are unfinished

business with him that now then as I

walk by the lake he's following me and

much as that strikes terror I wonder if

that isn't the only hope you see guys if

I could walk up to

this time salute and tell them I know

now whoever he is he was the only man

worth the name in all Judea that day

tell them I know I was entrapped that I

trap myself

tell him here's one Roman who really

wishes he were Caesar I believe that

would do it don't you think so I believe

he listened to know that I meant it and

at last I'd see him smile yes quite

tonight guys isn't it a breeze stirring

by the lake good night you'd better run

along no no I think we'll be waken in my

slave outside the door and tell him to

bring me a cloak my heavy one please

I'll walk by the lake yes it's dark out

there guys but I won't be alone I guess

powerful powerful use of imagination

interwoven with the specific biblical

narrative of what really happened when

he was handed over but the line I like

there is that his haunting Spectre still

remains and the writer is writing in the

20th century pulpit 20 centuries later

critics have not been able to

obliterated contrary views have not been

able to smother him and somehow within

the deepest recesses of recesses of the

human heart for millions of people in

this world the name of Jesus Christ

still brings the concept of hope and the

reality that there must be somebody out

there who put my two feet on this earth

and with a reason to give me some hope I

believe it was James Stewart the great

Scottish divine who put it in these

words in a marvelous passage he said

this about Jesus he was the meekest and

lowliest of all the sons of men yet he

spoke of coming on the clouds of heaven

with the glory of God

he was austere that evil spirits and

demons cried out in terror at his coming

yet he was so genial and Vincent

unapproachable that the children loved

to play with him in her little ones

nestled in his arms his presence of the

innocent gaiety of a village wedding was

like the presence of sunshine no one was

half as kind of compassionate to

sinner's yet no one ever spoke such ready

ready

in words against sin a bruised Reed he

would not break his whole life was love

yet on one occasion he demanded of the

Pharisees how they were expected to

escape the damnation of Hell he was a

dreamer of dreams and a seer of visions

yet for sure shock realism he has all of

our self-styled realists soundly beaten

he was the servant of all washing the

disciples feet yet masterfully he strode

into the temple and the money changers

and fell over one another in their mad

rush to get away from the fires missile

blazing in his eyes he saved others yet

the last himself he did not save there

is nothing in history like the union of

contrasts which confronts us in the

Gospels Stuart the mystery of Jesus is a

mystery of divine personality what a

startling coalescence of contrariety see

listen to the songwriter saying who will

answer you heard the anonymous voice

crying out about the solitary life you

heard the imagination haunted that he

still somewhere near you heard the

theologian after the fact of this

startling blending of contrariety our

Lord now we do listen to a secular voice

the voice of the great historian weh

lucky in his book a history of European

morals from gustas to Charlemagne

published in 1969 listen to what he says

the character of Jesus has not only been

the highest pattern of virtue but the

strongest incentive in its practice and

has exerted so deep an influence that it

may be truly said that the simple record

of three short years of active life has

done more to regenerate and soften

mankind then all the dispositions and

all the exhortations of more or less end

of quote and the New Testaments for ever

Bruce responding to lackeys comments

said this that is a non-christian or at

least not distinctively a Christian

judgment of one sense in which Jesus is

not only a historical figure but also

our eternal contemporary he is his

influence lives on

why is it what is that uniqueness how is

it that when he ascended into heaven

though only about 120 people professing

allegiance in Palestine that boasted

four million in population at that time

they were outnumbered one to thirty

thousand what was the uniqueness of that

message mainly just define the term in

one statement and the great English

professor CEM Joe used to be on the

airwaves quite often and used to be

asked a lot of questions and he had a

brilliant way of responding to the many

a question and he would begin his answer

with these words it all depends on what

you mean by it all depends on what you

mean by so when we look at the theme the

uniqueness of his Christ industry let's

ask the question he all depends on what

you mean by the uniqueness doesn't mean

that there is nothing in Christ that you

are his message that you will find

anywhere else in some fragmentary form

no but it does mean that in him there is

such a consummate expression of God and

in his message is the totality of the

expression of what we need for salvation

and life listen ah please select

anything that contradicts it becomes

there may be hints of truth and ideas

that are in other systems but the

consummate expression in Christ is so

geared to a truthfulness in an absolute

sense so that anything that contradicts

it if so facto becomes false and that

I'll be glad to sustain even in the

panel discussion but as I look at the

uniqueness I want to give you five ways

in which Jesus is unique and I raised to

the latter part as I spend more time on

the first first is his eternal

perspective his eternal perspective the

Bible says unto us a child is born unto

us a son is

given the Sun is not born the child is

born the Sun is given because the Sun

eternally existed he prays in his high

priestly prayer restored to me the glory

father that I had in your presence

before this world was made his eternal

perspective and his eternal existence

the Apostle Paul says who being in the

form of God thought it not robbery to be

equal with God but made himself of no

reputation took upon himself the form of

a servant which means he we existed the

form that was presented in his earthly

manifestation he is the only creature in

existence as part of the Godhead the

when I was filling out my doctor no

examination at the Graduate School that

I studied I was sent to the

questionnaire and the first question

said this God is perfect

explain God is perfect

explain and I turned to my wife and said

the only more difficult question I can

think of is to say define God and give

God is perfect explain how do you find

an Aladdin analogy for perfection and

thankfully the space given to answer the

question was yes small because I have no

doubt whatsoever the longer the answer

the greater the possibility of heresy

and so I gave that very simple one-liner

that I gave to you earlier on he is the

only being in existence God is the only

being in existence the reason for whose

existence is in himself every other

creature looks for the reason existence

outside of itself we are all contingent

cause and finite God alone is infinite

uncaused and and has a reason eternity

but doesn't it blow your mind listening

to my brother Lou Albert's talking about

going back and back and back till you

move to 1 and 10 to the power of minus

46 or 47 such abstractions we go to an

essay we got a stop here because we

cannot pull the veil beyond that we're

gonna finish you live our own minds

you know we Lisp about our world we

lists about the universe because we can

never quite come through with a pointed

answer how can we who are locked into

time and space ever talking terms

transcending time and space and that's

what Immanuel Kant the great philosopher

said talking about the categories in

which we understand reality we are

locked into the categories of time and

space but that's not too bad you know we

use words where we actually invoke the

opposite in order to prove the idea for

example when we use the word nothing try

to picture nothing can you picture

nothing while you're using something to

picture nothing do you hear a sound as we

in the background defining nothing it is

no thing so we talk about a thing in

order to deposit his absence that's why

somebody said to Aristotle how do you

define nothing he said it is that which

how do you define Eternity how do you

define eternity when he looks at his

questioners and says before Abraham was

I am an eternal being what does that do

for us in looking at his uniqueness the

first thing it does is it points to the

reality of heaven which is the hearts

deepest longing it points to the reality

of heaven which is a hearts deepest

longing one of the most bizarre and if

you allow me to use the term logically

silly and I'm being very kind

logically silly movies ever to come onto

the screens was nikos kazantzakis book

put on the screen form the Last

Temptation of Christ and Nikos

Kazantzakis got into the problems in his

own theology and he talked about in his

book where Jesus is hanging on I have

seen the movie in his book he talks

about how Jesus is hanging on the cross

and dying and when he's paying the

penalty for his message he married to

Mary or Martha and I supposedly dreams

and some physical relationships with them

them

can you believe that somebody whose home

was heaven and glory is regretting that

he lost his Shack in Bethany it really

doesn't make sense does it who thought

it not robbery to be equal with God the

eternal I am who came into

this tiny little world are created by

his own utterances

who could talk to us of the glories of

heaven one day I am longing to listen to

a whole sermon I don't have the capacity

so I'm borrowing a paragraph from CS

Lewis who talks about heaven in one of

his writings in his own inimitable way

listen to it and listen to it again

when you get back in your mind's in your

mind's hearing hear it again and again

in speaking of this desire for our own

far-off country which we find in

ourselves even now I feel a certain

shyness I'm almost committing an

indecency I'm trying to rip open the

inconsolable secret in each one of you

the secret which hurts so much that you

take your revenge on it by calling it

names like nostalgia and romanticism and

adolescence the secret also which

pierces with such sweetness that when in

very intimate conversation the mention

of heaven becomes imminent imminent we

grow awkward and effects to launch to

laugh at ourselves the secret we cannot

hide and cannot tell though we desire to

do both we cannot tell it because it is

a desire for something that has never

actually appeared in our experience we

cannot hide it because our experience is

constantly longing for it and we betray

ourselves like lovers at the mention of

the name heaven and Jesus Christ in his

embodiment pointed points to the

glorious heaven which was his home how

unique for someone to come from the

glory of heaven and tell you and me in

my father's house are many mansions if

it were not so I would have told you and

I have told you earthly things and you

do not understand it how are you going

to understand how many things there is

no analogy yet we cannot hide it in our

experience he keeps on suggesting it but

not only does his reality points to the

reality of heaven please notice now

he uses every moment of history with

meaning if he is transcending over time

if he is the eternal I am and always is

ever-present our eternal contemporary in

the words of Bruce then the fact of the

matter is he fuses all of time with

significance when you talk to the

existentialist the existentialist lives

in a now living with a passion for the

now is given all the passion you've got

and do it now the song extrapolates the

idea of existentialism if it feels good

do it

or the hedonist extrapolates it eat

drink and be merry for tomorrow we die

so the athlete gets onto the track and

runs 100 meters knowing he's got the

steroids injected him hoping he will not

find nobody will ever find out because

there now is what matters the glory of

the moment go out into the night betray

the promises betray the one to whom you

made your promises indulge in it for the

night because now is all you have how

can it be so wrong when it feels so good

the existentialist slips further now and

think of the havoc existentialism has

created jean-paul Sartre was the

existentialist guru in the 60s his

teaching influenced the ankle a movement

in Cambodia and resulted in the

slaughter resulted in the slaughter of

millions and millions of people as

portrayed in The Killing Fields Sartre

in ethics and Sartre in existentialism

provided the worldview for the uncle a

movement to bring about its slaughter

just as nice as the existentialist lives

further now the traditionalist looks to

the past have you ever seen the play

Fiddler on the Roof and you see Teddy

coming onto the center stage and he's

giving his little monologue they're

talking about how they move from village

to village persecuted Anatevka Tsar home

but as they keep moving along persecuted

tormented he said somehow we keep going

somehow we keep going and you ask me how

I'll tell you says he tradition

tradition tradition and if we did not

have our traditions our existence would

be as tenuous the Hebrew lutes to the

past the existentialist moment the

utopianist looks to the future by in the

sky by and by when I die a la Marxist

philosophy and after seventy years of

living a lie in Russia where millions

have been obliterated in the name of

utopianism experiments in history where

their own in the future he takes a piece

of bread and he breaks it and he says

this as oft as you shall eat of this

bread and drink of this cup now you

proclaim the Lord's death in the past

until he come in the future he used

every moment of history pregnant with

meaning the dog is true if I were to ask

for one sermon that I could listen to

live it would be tough wouldn't it this

great trance temporization idea where he

transcends the temporariness meaning but

he could transport me and say Ravi I'd

like you to listen to one message live

as portrayed in the Old Testaments which

one would you take rowdy oh my I could

think of Elijah on Mount Carmel I can

think of Peter at Pentecost I could

think of Paul on Mars Hill and of course

that summit of all sermons the greatest

of all Sermon on the Mount but I think

as I have weeded through I don't know if

I'm in error but I've latched on to the

one I would love to have listened to

live as those two disciples on the

Emmaus Road in Acts chapter 24 in Luke

24 hour walking are walking by

this time talking despondently of all

that went wrong we had hoped he would

have been the deliverer of Israel as

they are walking this third personage

joins them they don't know who he is

and he says to them what are you boys

talking about and they say to him are

you the only one in Israel who does not

know what has happened ironically he was

the only one in Israel who did know what

had happened and the Bible says that he

unfolded the scriptures and showed them

all from beginning of the prophets all

that had to come to pass and they say

how their hearts burned within them so

that as the time came to the party said

I'll buy you your dinner would you sit

down and continue talking and in a

masterful stroke of the beauty of the

word of God it wasn't some great

exposition at that moment but when he

simply took that piece of bread and

broke it their eyes were suddenly open

and they saw the entire panorama of

history in my office and I have these

words penned in and someone has put it

on a parchment on the frame and it says

this Jesus Christ continued and he

compels us to radically redefined what

we mean by life he encounters us the way

he encounters the disciples Sunday they

were the ones marked out for death those

who had survived him were really the

dead he the dead one was he continually

little using the word football the way

they use it he was a college football

coach one of the greatest talks of the

time that one of the young men on his

team was an outstanding young man in

character but never quite made it to the

front to the top spot he was always a

backup benchwarmer as they called him a

great young man and luleå says many

times I see this young man walking his

father through the college property his

father's arm would be in his sons and

the son would be talking to

the buildings are explaining some piece

of architectural painting and he said

they seemed to be so close as dad and

son then I never quite got to the point

of introducing myself and breaking up

that closeness and one day I got a call

from his mother saying coach little my

son admires you an awful lot he feels

very close to you his father has died

will you please help my boy I want you

you played that for your dad didn't you

he said yes coach but I want to tell you

something my dad was born blind and this

was the first time he was going to watch

me play I granted there's a

sentimentality there I granted she won't

base a doctrine on that story because it

has a romantic imaginative touch to it

let me tell you something he being the

form of God thought it not robbery to be

equal with God and made himself of no

reputation came and dwelt among us there

was nothing romantic about him when he

talked about heaven he knew its stark

reality albeit used to the glory of the

romantic love and the beauty of being in

the presence of his eternal perspective

secondly his internal imperative is it

internal imperative he did not come to

set up a political power that would rule

and constrain from without he came to

touch the hearts of men and women that

would bring the imperative from within

and what a world

Jesus did not come to set up some

political structure in this world

politics swings from one end to the

other and political ideas almost become

like a drunken man moving from one wall

to the other knocking itself senseless

with every hit and almost correct maybe

ideological he was a Hague Aryan

doctrine of how each idea which forms a

thesis sooner or later spawns its

antithesis and somewhere they meet in

the future to form a synthesis but

moving from one wall to the other

knocking itself senseless is what I'm

talking about he did not come to change

humanity by establishing an earthly

government or some political strategy

you see politics inevitably moves

towards power politics inevitably moves

source power and Lord Acton has rightly

said power tends to corrupt and absolute

power corrupts absolutely

he came instead to touch your heart and

to touch mine and that's why Napoleon

said it Napoleon said it well he said a

god Alexander's Kingdom and my kingdom

will ultimately come to naught but

Jesus's kingdom is indestructible

because ours was dominated by power and

force he's dominated the lives of people

with the power of love he changes us

from with him that divine implant

internal imperative that we talk about

CS Lewis describes his conversion in

these words I always wanted above all

things not to be interfered with I had

wanted to call my soul my own I had been

far more anxious to avoid suffering than

to achieve delight I always aimed at

limited liabilities you must speak to me

alone in that room in Marlon

night after night feeling whenever my

mind lifted even for a second from my

work the steady relented approach of him

whom I so earnestly desired not to meet

that which I greatly feared had at last

come upon me in it

in 1929 I gave him and admitted that God

was God and knelt and prayed

perhaps that night the most dejected and

reluctant convert in all of England

I did not see then what I see now the

most shining and obvious thing the

divine humility which will accept a

convert even on such terms the prodigal

son at least walked home on his own feet

but who can duly adore that love which

will open the high gates we go who's

brought in kicking struggling resentful

and guarding his eyes in every direction

for a chance to escape the worst compel

a infra ray compel them to come in have

been so abused by wicked men that we

shudder them but properly understood

they plumbed the depths of divine mercy

the hardness of God is kinder than the

softness of men and his compulsion is

liberation reading his book surprised by

joy he says there was no pressure as he

rolled in that bus that day just that

gentle tug this is right you know Jesus

critical temptation and the devil said

to him turn these stones into bread and

they'll follow you he said no the

marvelous thing about him was he did not

want to draw people by feeding some

earthly appetite of this every leader

sooner or later finds out that

self-centered appetites are insatiable

you can never satisfy the one who wants

more and more and more bread and the

things of this world he works from with

him Billy Graham tells the story of a

man who had lost his life and alcoholism

a medical doctor who marvelously came to

know Christ and one day when he was

sitting in his doctor's office a friend

came to him let me ask you something

please tell me I'm trying to explain

what's happened to you trying to explain

it away as a tell me something they're

all trying to understand you what's

happening on

of liquor tell me if you were to come

back to your home some if your office

some afternoon after a miserable day of

all that's gone wrong and you shut that

door and you are and you know you're

alone and nobody is there with you are

you telling me with that finest bottle

talk to me behind your medical journals

if you had one you're not gonna reach

out and take that drink once more even

though it'll bring back all the memories

of the past and your enslavement are you

telling me but a miserable day locked

behind closed doors nobody with you

you're alone you would yield to that he

said no every contingency you've given

Kenneth sometime probably happen except

one since I have come to know Christ I

came to know Christ on a bed of suicide

as a teenager in all the religiosity

from without had done nothing from me

all the power my dad alienated me

because I was no longer important how he

entered a hospital room and touched the

heart of a young man with the gentleness

and a whiteness of his mercy just as

he's done for many of you here you know

what it is not to be compelled from

without but to have that person to have

that internal imperative from within

Will Durant says this in his book there

is no greater drama in history in

historical record and the sight of a few

Christians scorned or in some way beaten

by a succession of emperors bailing Bay

bearing all trials of the fierce

tenacity multiplying quietly building

audio while their enemies generated

chaos fighting the sword with the word

brutality with hope and at last

defeating the strongest state that

history had ever known Caesar and Christ

had met in the arena and Christ had won

Durant says this Christ won by attaching

the hearts people

you have the eternal perspective the

internal imperative thirdly in quickly

his personal directive as vast as this

world is and as vast as the bosses this

world was Christ had time for the

individual his message is personal in

this cosmic scheme of things in this

cosmic scheme of things I say to you how

marvelous to know that he has time for

you and me personally

we heard statistics earlier on billions

and billions and billions numbers that

stagger the imagination

what is there in man that you are

mindful of him but yet as he walked

through that village with the masses he

got talking to this woman will be

married five times rejected by many

people evidently who was immoral in the

sight of society and in that society

being a woman was even more rejected in

a very gender her ethnicity was against

her she bawled that horrible term called

a Samaritan which was a scourge in that

time despised by the so called pure

there she was more akin morally in her

femininity in her ethnicity all of those

rejections and she runs back to her

village and she says this you'll never

believe what happened I have met

somebody who knew everything about me

and in me I didn't hang me up by a cord

is what she's trying to say I have to

think of a comment made by a great

professor of the major religions in the

world professors in California when a

death sentence was fossum and for

writing a book against us that seemed to

mark that a very foolish thing to have done

done

and it was in what I believe I got so

involved in his cause I don't have time

for the individual anymore and the

secretary paused and said that is

incredible sir even God has not come to

that stage it is nice to know in the

macro cosmic entities of this world he

has a particularity of your need in mine

too and you can come to him by prayer

and call him Holy Father and he hears

you and he hears me his personal

directive so you've got first his

eternal perspective second his internal

imperative thirdly his personal

directive fourthly and critically his

inspirational incentive his

inspirational incentive how he has been

the focal point of musicians and artists

for centuries virtually unparalleled

virtually on

that a man by the name of George

Frederick Handel in 24 days can penned

that great masterpiece called Messiah so

that as he's writing with almost a sense

of inspiration he says it is as if I saw

the heavens open and God presents

himself and the tears are running down

his face and he's writing the marvelous

words and the music to the Hallelujah

Chorus and as he talks about it he says

I felt as though I had a divine

visitation and after the first

performance one of the nobility looks at

him and says he says mr. Hanley said the

people really enjoyed what you have done

and he said I'm disappointed I was

hoping they would be better people

for what they had just heard how God has

inspired the songwriter from the box

from the sailors from the Mendelsohn's

to the handles and the Wesley's and the

Watts and a marvelous hymn writers and

the converted slave trader John Newton

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that

saved a wretch like me I once was lost

but now I'm found was blind but now I

see when we've been there ten thousand

years bright shining as the Sun we've no

less days to sing God's praise and the

young man who went insane under the

influence of William Cooper God moves in

a mysterious way he's wonders to perform

he plants his footsteps in the sea and

rides upon the storm his purposes will

ripen and pass unfolding every hour the

bud may have a bitter taste but sweet

will be the flower blind unbelief is

shorter and scan his works in vain God

is his own interpreter and he will think

of what Christian music has done across

the centuries unparalleled unparalleled

in so many languages of the world you

know what it does he does two things it

has not only bridged a memory to the

imagination with eternal value

but it binds our emotion and stirs

affection across linguistic and cultural

barriers here are the two things broken

down first it knits your heart with your

fellow believer in many parts of the

world where you don't even understand

the language one great evangelist too

much to leave unnamed had one of the

Steam members years ago walking on the

streets of Romania and as he was walking

by looking at this desolate country as a

visitor on incognito as he was walking

somewhere in the streets of Bucharest he

heard a man walk by on a cold wintry day

whistling a tune and a common tune it

was from this hymn the Great Physician

now is here the sympathizing Jesus and

this man paused looked at him walked by

him and started to whistle the tune

along with him they looked at each other

couldn't speak then the Romanian points

to the heavens and then touches his

heart this American points to the heaven

and touches his heart too and they both

walk each other in embrace the gift of

music transcending mere verbiage the

uniqueness that God has given in this

inspirational incentive but not only

that it talks about the joy that comes

into our hearts of the loneliest times

in our lives

I recall three years ago being in China

in the town of Shanghai visiting that

agent evangelist wang ming dao who died

very recently wang ming dao hit the

church news many years ago because when

mom house they don't took over he put

one mean Dao into prison in Beijing and

they was being she was suffering greatly

he suffered so much that one being Dao

denied the name of his Lord and somehow

they doing released him but after he was

released he was so gnawed by sadness and

by remorse he walked through the streets

of Beijing shouting at the top of his

voice my name is Peter I denied my Lord

my name is Peter I've denied my lord

Mao Zedong had him arrested again and

put him behind prison bars for over 20

years after he'd been released

so I had the privilege of being with him

in his tiny little room in Shanghai

along with another evangelist we were

there and as we sat there this man with

his head phone back hands gnarled mouth

unable to close his tongue was not

easily controllable through to some

deformity he developed over the years

his wife completely blind and some young

listening to our conversation and all of

a sudden before I left he said would you

mind if I sing for you the song that I

sang in prison every day so that first

the guards hated it then they began to

tolerate it then they loved it and were

disappointed if I didn't sing it and he

sang all the way my Saviour leads me

what have I to ask beside can I doubt

his tender mercy who through life has

been my guide heavenly peace - comfort

here by grace with him to dwell for I

know whatever before me Jesus with all

things well I can never listen to that

song again without listening to it in a

Chinese accent the inspirational

incentive I don't have time to tie this

thought together with a marvelous quote

from GK Chesterton who talks about why

Jesus never laughed from us was his

mirth an eternal mirth that there is no

analogy for in her earth again he wept

he was then he was sad at times but the

laughter has no peril the laughter of

heaven has nothing like that on earth

alone but have you seen his eternal

perspective his internal imperative his

personal directive his inspirational

incentive and lastly his incarnation or

distinctive his incarnation or

distinctive as the word became flesh and

dwelt among us full of grace and truth

what we have your ladies and gentlemen

is the embodiment God becoming flesh

giving this body dignity so that I don't

have to be like a Gnostic thinking

matter is evil nor do I be like the

hedonist who indulge

without restraint now I know this body

is a temple of the Living God and

consummating in that monogamous

heterosexual union the marvelous gift

that God has given to us in marriage the

consummate physical expression that

points to a greatest spiritual reality

for we now are his bride and he is the

bridegroom but God in the flesh giving

the body a dignity so that when we erase

again it is a glorified body and while

he himself takes that body it is not

essentially evil he shows us how to live

in this mortal frame Victor Hugo said

the world was made for the body but a

body for the soul and the soul for God I

had requested from clothes now with this

quote and we talked about the uniqueness

of Christ in history perspective is

internal imperative his personal

directive is inspirational incentive and

his incarnation of distinctive my

favorite quote and most in order to use

it here it is so unique it comes from

the mouth of Malcolm Muggeridge who had

the world he says this we look back upon

history and what do we see

empires rising and falling revolutions

and counter-revolutions wealth

accumulated and wealth dispersed

Shakespeare has spoken of the rise and

fall of great ones that even flow with

the moon I look back upon my own fellow

countrymen once upon a time dominating a

quarter of the world most of them

convinced in the words of one still

popular song that the God who made the

mighty shall make them my world I've

seen an Italian clown saying he was

going to swap and restart the calendar

with his own ascension to power i met a

murderous georgian brilliant in the

kremlin acclaim by the intellectual

elite of the world as a wiser than

solomon more humane than marcus aurelius

more enlightened ashoka I have seen

America wealthier and in terms of

military weaponry more powerful than the

rest of the world put together so that

had the American people Saudis

they've done a Caesar or an Alexander in

the range and scale of their conquests

all in one lifetime all gone

Gone with the Wind England part of a

tiny island of the coast of Europe

dismemberment and even bankruptcy

Hitler muscled me dead remember only in

infamy Stalin a forbidden name in the

regime he found in dominate for some

three decades an America haunted by

fears of running out of those precious

foods that keep some always worrying and

a small settling with troubled memories

of a disastrous campaign in Vietnam and

the victories of the donkey hoodies of

the media as they charged the windmills

of Watergate all in one lifetime all in

one lifetime gone said behind the degree

of these styles on Superman and Imperial

diplomatists sand the gigantic figure of

one person because of whom by whom in

whom and through whom mankind might

still have hope the person of Jesus

Christ yes there were many who tried to

be many men who tried to be God but only

the one true God who was willing to

become man and in his uniqueness

he gives us perspective on history may

with us this is not an easy subject that

has been assigned to me although my

field of study is philosophy of religion

and I do an awful lot of lecturing on

the theme around the world I also want

to be very very sensitive because it is

easy to bring offense when you're

dealing with something like this it is

easy to trample underfoot truths and

ideas that others greatly treasure and

none of us once had done to that which

we believe and why end up doing it to

what someone else believes that is the

positive and the noble ascetic side of

it but the counterpoint is how does one

really ever come to grips with truth if

it is not put in contrast with

conflicting truth claims what do you do

when there are conflicting truth claims

and therefore what I would like to do

ladies and gentlemen as I introduce my

message is first of all set the

foundation for the laws of logic that

two contradictory statements both cannot

be true only one of them may be true

both of them may be false but both of

them cannot be true unless the laws of

logic do not apply to reality and if one

denies are the laws of logic applied to

reality how do we ever even converse the

moment you open your mouth you assume a

meaningful statement is about to be made

and if somebody challenges that

statement how do you anchor anything in

reality I mean a scientist like Roberts

cannot possibly take two conflicting

measurements for the same thing

a pilot listening to the guide that or

the guidance that is coming from the

tower is not going to take two opposite

numbers both to be true unless in one

sense one of them becomes qualified

asserting something else so what I'd

like to do is first establish the laws

of logic some of you may be familiar

with that argument but many of you may

not be and so I'd like for you to hear

that but the second thing I want to do

is deal with the major attacks that

Christianity has had to face

particularly from Islam

so I'm not going to deal with Islamic

doctrine I'm not going to try and debunk

any of their doctrines I'm just going to

try to present to you what is the

problem the Christian faces in trying to

communicate somebody to who also a

Muslim world view what is the difficulty

the Christian faces in communication and

I can assure you I will do that as

sensitively as I can but I have the

privilege by many Islamic governments

around the world to be in their country

and lecture and dialogue and this year

is no exception I will be in three

Muslim countries speaking and they are

kind enough to host me I want to be

respectful of the fact that they are

willing to give us a hearing and the

other thing is I have the greatest

respect for one or two fine Islamic

scholars around the world today

particularly one by the name of Jamel

Bala we in the United States who is a very fine gentleman and makes dialogue

very fine gentleman and makes dialogue much easier as we talk I will highlight

much easier as we talk I will highlight the tensions that I have presented in

the tensions that I have presented in such situations and they realize it but

such situations and they realize it but it is important to know that having said

it is important to know that having said the logical base then having said the

the logical base then having said the greatest tension in a dialogue with the

greatest tension in a dialogue with the ala moana theistic worldview that is

ala moana theistic worldview that is principally trying to in some way

principally trying to in some way undermine the Christian faith explicitly

undermine the Christian faith explicitly then I will move on to the uniqueness of

then I will move on to the uniqueness of Christ in world religions I won't have

Christ in world religions I won't have time to deal with the pantheistic

time to deal with the pantheistic worldview

worldview there are other Eastern beliefs here too

there are other Eastern beliefs here too if those of you are interested we have a

if those of you are interested we have a lot of material where you analyze

lot of material where you analyze pantheism again rather than just a

comparison one of the finest books he has written is called Christianity and

has written is called Christianity and world religions Sir Norman Anderson

world religions Sir Norman Anderson operating out of England was a scholar

operating out of England was a scholar scholar

scholar still writing all those seniors very

still writing all those seniors very much an authority in history philosophy

much an authority in history philosophy and law and in his book Christianity in

and law and in his book Christianity in world religions he gives three major

world religions he gives three major distinctives that come under the

distinctives that come under the category of a unique Proclamation a

category of a unique Proclamation a unique salvation

unique salvation unique disclosure I greatly encourage

unique disclosure I greatly encourage you to get a hold of that it is very

you to get a hold of that it is very succinct and very well done by a fine

succinct and very well done by a fine contemporary thinker here is the law of

contemporary thinker here is the law of logic as it applies to reality I

logic as it applies to reality I remember speaking please bear with me

remember speaking please bear with me for those of you familiar with this

for those of you familiar with this illustration it is the most incisive one

illustration it is the most incisive one that I can give to you I remember

that I can give to you I remember speaking in one of khaki in the United

speaking in one of khaki in the United States Western cities when one of the

States Western cities when one of the professor's was attending a lectureship

professor's was attending a lectureship and asked me to speak against an Eastern

and asked me to speak against an Eastern religion which I said I would not do he

religion which I said I would not do he said I'm an American I belong to that

said I'm an American I belong to that other Eastern religion let's just call

other Eastern religion let's just call it X and he said and I have taught this

it X and he said and I have taught this X religion in my lectures and so on I

X religion in my lectures and so on I want you to speak on the subject why you

want you to speak on the subject why you do not subscribe to the dogma religion X

do not subscribe to the dogma religion X and my students will take you apart to

and my students will take you apart to do that I said I will speak on that

do that I said I will speak on that subject at the end of the talk he said

and even sorry it is his food had become congealed in front of him and he had

congealed in front of him and he had taken off his paper place mats of all

taken off his paper place mats of all the tables to draw his argument and

the tables to draw his argument and basically what he was trying to say was

basically what he was trying to say was this that there are two kinds of logic

this that there are two kinds of logic actually he was wrong there are more but

actually he was wrong there are more but he said there are two kinds of logic one

he said there are two kinds of logic one is the law of non-contradiction the law

is the law of non-contradiction the law of non-contradiction means if something

of non-contradiction means if something is true the opposite of it is false if

is true the opposite of it is false if something is true the opposite is a

something is true the opposite is a sauce it is called an either/or logic if

sauce it is called an either/or logic if i say to you for example there is a red

i say to you for example there is a red car

car immediately outside the steps there if

immediately outside the steps there if that statement is true the opposite of

that statement is true the opposite of it is false I'm not at the same time

it is false I'm not at the same time saying that red car is not parked out

saying that red car is not parked out there it is either true or false

there it is either true or false I just given you a simple illustration

I just given you a simple illustration if it is a then it is not non a at the

if it is a then it is not non a at the same time you basically established the

same time you basically established the either/or dogma and he says Robbie that

either/or dogma and he says Robbie that is the law of non-contradiction that is

is the law of non-contradiction that is either-or that is a Western way of

either-or that is a Western way of thinking

thinking Westerners think either/or I said I

Westerners think either/or I said I disagree with the last statement why

disagree with the last statement why don't you ride with Rob Rob it off he

don't you ride with Rob Rob it off he wouldn't do it so then he moved to the

wouldn't do it so then he moved to the eastern way of thinking he said in the

eastern way of thinking he said in the east you do both and it is a dialectic

east you do both and it is a dialectic you don't say either this or that is a

you don't say either this or that is a bonus and that Karl Marx used the

bonus and that Karl Marx used the dialectical system he was either the

dialectical system he was either the employer or the employee you put them

employer or the employee you put them together and you find a classless

together and you find a classless society both employer and employee talk

society both employer and employee talk about that there is a bolt and Dogma in

about that there is a bolt and Dogma in the dialectic tuples of an argument

the dialectic tuples of an argument there and he says you see Robbie he said

there and he says you see Robbie he said the dialectical system is Eastern the

the dialectical system is Eastern the dialectical system is Eastern what he

dialectical system is Eastern what he was trying to say was this I had talked

was trying to say was this I had talked about the many contradictions in certain

about the many contradictions in certain pantheistic worldview very strong

pantheistic worldview very strong contradictions and he said you see

contradictions and he said you see Robbie if you took the dialectical

Robbie if you took the dialectical system to be true anytime you came into

system to be true anytime you came into a contradiction you won't

both of them are right so if you asked one follower religion X is yes he says

one follower religion X is yes he says that's a we son way of thinking so you

that's a we son way of thinking so you got you got the healer or which is

got you got the healer or which is Western the both hand which is Eastern

Western the both hand which is Eastern he was waxing

finally I said can I say something to you sir he said yes and he picked up his

you sir he said yes and he picked up his knife and food and as he was cutting

knife and food and as he was cutting into the morsel of food I said here's

into the morsel of food I said here's what you throw me there is an either-or

what you throw me there is an either-or which is Western there is a both hand

which is Western there is a both hand which is Eastern and you want me to

which is Eastern and you want me to study religion X right now here's my

study religion X right now here's my question to you doctor

question to you doctor are you telling me when I'm studying

are you telling me when I'm studying religion X I either use the both hand

religion X I either use the both hand system or nothing else is that right

there I either use the whole time system or nothing else is that right

or nothing else is that right do you know what he did he put his knife

do you know what he did he put his knife and fork down and with a very nervous

and fork down and with a very nervous expression I wish I had the cameras

expression I wish I had the cameras there to film it he says to me the

there to film it he says to me the either-or does seem to emerge doesn't it

either-or does seem to emerge doesn't it I said yes in fact I've got some

I said yes in fact I've got some shocking news for you even in India we

shocking news for you even in India we look both ways before we cross the

look both ways before we cross the street

street he does either the bus or me not both of

he does either the bus or me not both of us do you see what he was doing

us do you see what he was doing he was using me either or we this should

he was using me either or we this should prove the both hand he was telling me I

prove the both hand he was telling me I either use this system or nothing else

either use this system or nothing else and he was staggered to realize that he

and he was staggered to realize that he used it every day so it's not good

used it every day so it's not good nothing to do he's got everything to do

nothing to do he's got everything to do with that which best reflects reality

with that which best reflects reality and when Jesus says I am the way the

and when Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the

truth and the life no man comes to the Father but by me it is the most

Father but by me it is the most reasonable segment the question is is it

reasonable segment the question is is it true it is the most reasonable statement

true it is the most reasonable statement because truth by definition is exclusive

because truth by definition is exclusive the moment you affirm something you

the moment you affirm something you exclude anything that challenges that

exclude anything that challenges that and the way you prove the law of

and the way you prove the law of non-contradiction is there by just

non-contradiction is there by just talking and if anyone else stands up and

talking and if anyone else stands up and challenges you against it by challenging

challenges you against it by challenging you they're proving you right what

you they're proving you right what you're saying over there saying now the

you're saying over there saying now the Eastern understands this malady that's

Eastern understands this malady that's why the Easterner says when the mouth

why the Easterner says when the mouth opens all our fools but the problem is

opens all our fools but the problem is is mouth opens to tell us that

is mouth opens to tell us that or as one of the famous Mystics said he

or as one of the famous Mystics said he who knows does not speak he who speaks

who knows does not speak he who speaks does not know well did he speak anybody

does not know well did he speak anybody spoke then he does not know does it

spoke then he does not know does it really matter he spoke the law of

really matter he spoke the law of non-contradiction must apply to reality

non-contradiction must apply to reality if you deny the law of non-contradiction

if you deny the law of non-contradiction you may as well talk about a one and

you may as well talk about a one and it's stick it cannot even be pictured

it's stick it cannot even be pictured leave alone stated because the opposite

leave alone stated because the opposite poles are very much in your mind of an

poles are very much in your mind of an either/or there now it is therefore more

either/or there now it is therefore more logically possible that all the

logically possible that all the religions in the world are wrong but it

religions in the world are wrong but it is not logically sensible to say that he

is not logically sensible to say that he just can't be the pantheist affirms

just can't be the pantheist affirms something very different to the theists

something very different to the theists the theist affirms something very

the theist affirms something very different to the atheist and you go on

different to the atheist and you go on and on and right down the line and you

and on and right down the line and you find out that contrary to the contrary

find out that contrary to the contrary now this is really the fundamental

now this is really the fundamental problem that I find as a Christian

problem that I find as a Christian lecturer dealing with the Islamic world

lecturer dealing with the Islamic world you I find at least four basic

you I find at least four basic challenges that they give to us that are

challenges that they give to us that are impossible to meet that are absolutely

impossible to meet that are absolutely impossible to meet because in the

impossible to meet because in the process of them stating those arguments

process of them stating those arguments against Christianity those arguments end

against Christianity those arguments end up in a sense of disrupting and by the

up in a sense of disrupting and by the way I have debated some of the best they

way I have debated some of the best they are not they have never really responded

are not they have never really responded to this challenge I'm not talking about

to this challenge I'm not talking about their fundamental doctrines I'm talking

their fundamental doctrines I'm talking about their assumptions this you see if

about their assumptions this you see if their profit is espoused by them which

their profit is espoused by them which he is as being a prophet to the world he

he is as being a prophet to the world he is espoused by them as being a prophet

is espoused by them as being a prophet to the world not just to Arabia or to

to the world not just to Arabia or to the Middle East he is the last and the

the Middle East he is the last and the final prophet to the world and he they

final prophet to the world and he they say performed no miracles because there

say performed no miracles because there was no need for it

was no need for it the Quran is

the Quran is in itself a miracle but here's the

in itself a miracle but here's the problem the Quran is in Arabic and I do

problem the Quran is in Arabic and I do not I am not given the privilege of even

not I am not given the privilege of even challenging its word usage please

challenging its word usage please remember this is Bible because you see

remember this is Bible because you see when you take words or changes in the

when you take words or changes in the Quran which they will tell you have

Quran which they will tell you have never been made although some great

never been made although some great scholars the fact of the matter is

scholars the fact of the matter is unless I know the language I cannot

unless I know the language I cannot perceive the miracle unless I know the

perceive the miracle unless I know the language I cannot perceive the miracle

language I cannot perceive the miracle which basically means there are millions

which basically means there are millions of people in the world to whom the

of people in the world to whom the language language it can never be tested

language language it can never be tested in your experience because the English

in your experience because the English translations they tell you and any other

translations they tell you and any other translations are not accurate how does

translations are not accurate how does one deal with a miracle that is not

one deal with a miracle that is not recognizable by the masses in society

recognizable by the masses in society that problem they abolish our Authority

that problem they abolish our Authority which is the scriptures without an

which is the scriptures without an original with which to condemn ours so

original with which to condemn ours so we are told by the scholars representing

we are told by the scholars representing that you that the Bible we have is not

that you that the Bible we have is not the original Bible given it is a corrupt

the original Bible given it is a corrupt Bible there are many contradictions in

Bible there are many contradictions in it it is not accurate reflection of

it it is not accurate reflection of Jesus Christ for example their spouses

Jesus Christ for example their spouses Jesus never really died on the cross and

Jesus never really died on the cross and therefore the resurrection was purely a

therefore the resurrection was purely a fabrication of later collectors of the

fabrication of later collectors of the ideas now let me ask you this how does

ideas now let me ask you this how does one ever know something to be truthful

one ever know something to be truthful if there is not a unit by which to

if there is not a unit by which to measure it there is no point of

measure it there is no point of reference if I were presented with an

reference if I were presented with an original that clearly debugged amongst

original that clearly debugged amongst what we do have then the dialogue can

what we do have then the dialogue can begin but if I'm told what I have is

begin but if I'm told what I have is error-prone and wrong on the basis of

error-prone and wrong on the basis of something they have never shown to me

something they have never shown to me how does one

it is like talking about the moon being so far away from here but saying we have

so far away from here but saying we have no way to measure it but take my word

no way to measure it but take my word for it that's all parties it has been it

for it that's all parties it has been it has destroyed our original authority and

has destroyed our original authority and told us we have no authority now

told us we have no authority now therefore the Bible has been taken away

therefore the Bible has been taken away from and how does one begin a dialogue

from and how does one begin a dialogue with that thirdly and very importantly

with that thirdly and very importantly here now as you know the Quran was

here now as you know the Quran was written about six centuries after Jesus

written about six centuries after Jesus Christ now was that the original

Christ now was that the original absolute has been lost but the original

has been lost now comes the final three and number four this is a sad one but it

and number four this is a sad one but it is true many scholars of that

is true many scholars of that Soula thought reserve the right to

Soula thought reserve the right to impugn and debunk truths that we hold

impugn and debunk truths that we hold about our Lord but you cannot do the

about our Lord but you cannot do the same with the names are precious to them

same with the names are precious to them follow I'm saying I can be told in the

follow I'm saying I can be told in the Quran that Jesus never died which is

Quran that Jesus never died which is what is said out there and I can have

what is said out there and I can have people look at me and say that he Jesus

they're all kinds of concepts that are treasured truths the very cross and the

treasured truths the very cross and the empty tomb are so precious to us and how

empty tomb are so precious to us and how does one dialogue with two people

does one dialogue with two people talking to me I want to say to you about

talking to me I want to say to you about that system and I believe in the heart

so let me take the person of Christ and his uniqueness in the religions of the

his uniqueness in the religions of the world the applications move from one

world the applications move from one mind to another each with its

mind to another each with its distinctive strengths first is Jesus's

distinctive strengths first is Jesus's description on the reality of human

description on the reality of human nature the reality of human nature he

nature the reality of human nature he knew what was in the hearts of men and

knew what was in the hearts of men and women many times as he talked to his

women many times as he talked to his antagonists or as he talked to those who

antagonists or as he talked to those who had bitter questions about him or

had bitter questions about him or against him when he replied to them the

against him when he replied to them the Bible says he knew what was in the heart

Bible says he knew what was in the heart of man and he faced the temptations that

of man and he faced the temptations that Satan caused his way also without

Satan caused his way also without sinning himself but he showed us the

sinning himself but he showed us the real

real of the human nature with which we all

of the human nature with which we all live I have not gone into a detailed

live I have not gone into a detailed study of this hellish act that has taken

study of this hellish act that has taken place recently of that little

place recently of that little two-year-old child so brutalized and

two-year-old child so brutalized and savagely murdered by two ten-year-olds

savagely murdered by two ten-year-olds how do you in England how do you explain

how do you in England how do you explain that where does all this come from where

that where does all this come from where does one come up on a Hitler or a Stalin

does one come up on a Hitler or a Stalin or where does one come up on racism and

or where does one come up on racism and the bitter specter of it in many many

the bitter specter of it in many many parts of the globe not just in the

parts of the globe not just in the United States but in even the Far East

United States but in even the Far East or even in the land of my birth where

or even in the land of my birth where there is such tension between different

there is such tension between different colors of people in a land how does one

colors of people in a land how does one explain it

explain it are we really going to change the human

are we really going to change the human heart by better education are you really

heart by better education are you really going to take away the lust in my heart

going to take away the lust in my heart by writing some great book on

by writing some great book on physiological theories are you going to

physiological theories are you going to take pride away from me by just telling

take pride away from me by just telling me that somebody else had a downfall

me that somebody else had a downfall because of his all pride are you going

because of his all pride are you going to take lead away from me just by

to take lead away from me just by telling me look what happened to Donald

telling me look what happened to Donald Trump we mess this whole thing up so you

Trump we mess this whole thing up so you should be how does one change the

should be how does one change the longings of the human heart Malcolm

longings of the human heart Malcolm Muggeridge put it best when he said this

Muggeridge put it best when he said this he said the doctrine of depravity is the

he said the doctrine of depravity is the most debated doctrine in society but it

most debated doctrine in society but it is also the most empirically verifiable

is also the most empirically verifiable you cannot cannot deny it let me give

you cannot cannot deny it let me give you a classic illustration that comes to

you a classic illustration that comes to me from the pen of Muggeridge himself

me from the pen of Muggeridge himself and when he began to realize what kind

and when he began to realize what kind of a person he was punch magazine I had

of a person he was punch magazine I had the privilege of being with Malcolm

the privilege of being with Malcolm Muggeridge in a few months before he

Muggeridge in a few months before he died the great truths of my life in his

died the great truths of my life in his beautiful home as we walked his gardens

beautiful home as we walked his gardens and talked about all that he had learned

and talked about all that he had learned in these 80 some years of his and

in these 80 some years of his and Margaret said he was teaching journalism

Margaret said he was teaching journalism in India and how all of a sudden one

in India and how all of a sudden one morning he went out to swim in the river

morning he went out to swim in the river nearby and when he went out to swim in

nearby and when he went out to swim in that Sun sunrise there was nobody there

that Sun sunrise there was nobody there but way out in the distance

so he swims towards her and he describes a passion within his heart raging like a

a passion within his heart raging like a swirling river within him even though

swirling river within him even though something within him said don't don't

something within him said don't don't don't

don't he said I swam harder to get away from

he said I swam harder to get away from the from that which was restricting me

the from that which was restricting me and as I came closer and closer and

and as I came closer and closer and emerged from the water and shoot the

emerged from the water and shoot the water off my eyes I was face to face

water off my eyes I was face to face with this Indian woman until I suddenly

with this Indian woman until I suddenly realized as she lifted her hands up no

realized as she lifted her hands up no fingers the next day the eyelashes and

fingers the next day the eyelashes and the eyebrows all gone and eroded away

the eyebrows all gone and eroded away with that dreadful nerve disease almost

with that dreadful nerve disease almost animal-like at him with her eyes sunken

animal-like at him with her eyes sunken in a state of shock

in a state of shock what are you doing so near a leper sir

what are you doing so near a leper sir he said of saying to her what a

he said of saying to her what a lecherous woman when it hit me between

lecherous woman when it hit me between the heart as hard as it could be it what

the heart as hard as it could be it what a lecherous heart I had just a few days

a lecherous heart I had just a few days ago I was in a city that I should leave

ago I was in a city that I should leave unnamed on a very high floor the top

unnamed on a very high floor the top floor or the building by one of the most

floor or the building by one of the most powerful businessmen in the country

powerful businessmen in the country extraordinarily wealthy and he and I

extraordinarily wealthy and he and I talked for about two hours after a talk

talked for about two hours after a talk that I had just given and he kept

that I had just given and he kept talking about the fact that he doesn't

talking about the fact that he doesn't want to believe in God but he does want

want to believe in God but he does want to believe and he said I see this right

to believe and he said I see this right or wrong around me every day in morality

or wrong around me every day in morality and as we dialed the

and as we dialed the businessmen who taken me to top him

businessmen who taken me to top him suddenly broken with a brilliant

suddenly broken with a brilliant question he said to this businessman he

question he said to this businessman he said you know that I love you and so I

said you know that I love you and so I think I have the right to ask you this

think I have the right to ask you this he said you've been telling me all along

he said you've been telling me all along how much you despise the immorality that

how much you despise the immorality that you see around you he called him by name

you see around you he called him by name and leaned forward and said what do you

and leaned forward and said what do you do with the evil that you see in your

do with the evil that you see in your own heart I don't know I guess I would

own heart I don't know I guess I would have to say that whenever I express it

have to say that whenever I express it it is a victimless Act I said do you

it is a victimless Act I said do you recall sir when Prime Minister Connery

recall sir when Prime Minister Connery of Japan died committed suicide he left

of Japan died committed suicide he left on his night table the book by Oscar

on his night table the book by Oscar Wilde April Furness and he had

Wilde April Furness and he had underlined one line there which said

underlined one line there which said this as terrible as it was what I had

this as terrible as it was what I had done to others nothing was as terrible

done to others nothing was as terrible as what I had done to myself

as what I had done to myself evil is no longer the same person what

evil is no longer the same person what do you do with this how are we going to

do you do with this how are we going to change it how are we going to change it

change it how are we going to change it I have a beautiful story that I tell I

I have a beautiful story that I tell I love it so much for these two very

love it so much for these two very wealthy men who were immoral both of

wealthy men who were immoral both of them were pretty bad in their behavior

them were pretty bad in their behavior and in the city and I'll pay you what I

and in the city and I'll pay you what I said I would challenge and the funeral

said I would challenge and the funeral came and he wax eloquent and he said the

came and he wax eloquent and he said the man you see lying here in the coffin is

man you see lying here in the coffin is a murderer he's a liar he's an adulterer

a murderer he's a liar he's an adulterer he does is that every dirty rotten

he does is that every dirty rotten stinking thing your mind can think of

stinking thing your mind can think of but compared to his brother he's the

but compared to his brother he's the same

who are you compared to someone else maybe a saint compared to someone else

maybe a saint compared to someone else the Bible describes sin not only in

the Bible describes sin not only in transgression he describes sinners

transgression he describes sinners coming short of the glory of God coming

coming short of the glory of God coming short of the glory of God and I want you

short of the glory of God and I want you to know that the powerful treatment that

to know that the powerful treatment that Jesus gives to this whole issue of the

Jesus gives to this whole issue of the nature of man and sin is felt more and

nature of man and sin is felt more and more in our world today than ever before

more in our world today than ever before just think about it the 20th century has

just think about it the 20th century has been the most bloodletting century in

been the most bloodletting century in history think about that supposedly in

history think about that supposedly in the age of progress I think of what's

the age of progress I think of what's going on in Yugoslavia I think of the

going on in Yugoslavia I think of the hurts around the world I think of the

hurts around the world I think of the slaughter of infants in all the rights

slaughter of infants in all the rights that we now claim to ourselves I think

that we now claim to ourselves I think of the tragedy so much so that one

of the tragedy so much so that one recent appointee of President Clinton

recent appointee of President Clinton when he was being quizzed by the

when he was being quizzed by the committee for his confirmation described

committee for his confirmation described the world as a thousand points of

the world as a thousand points of darkness a thousand points of darkness

darkness a thousand points of darkness one of the men I had as a hero in my

one of the men I had as a hero in my teenage years was the great tennis

teenage years was the great tennis player Arthur Ashe who just died of AIDS

player Arthur Ashe who just died of AIDS very recently in the last two to three

very recently in the last two to three weeks he was a gentleman on and off the

weeks he was a gentleman on and off the court and through a blood transfusion

court and through a blood transfusion contracted their disease and died I will

contracted their disease and died I will I do not hear it directly but my sister

I do not hear it directly but my sister quoted it to me and I was using it at

quoted it to me and I was using it at Harvard University some time ago

Harvard University some time ago speaking and all of the students nodded

speaking and all of the students nodded their head exactly he said I have lived

their head exactly he said I have lived with a lot of pain in my life including

with a lot of pain in my life including AIDS

AIDS having gained it innocently he said but

having gained it innocently he said but nothing has hurt me more

nothing has hurt me more please show me then the pain that I have

please show me then the pain that I have felt for the rejection of my race

think of that a man dying of AIDS saying to you not to me you need to the world

to you not to me you need to the world nothing has hurt me more than the pain I

nothing has hurt me more than the pain I had experienced dying man son of mine

had experienced dying man son of mine how are we going to change this how are

how are we going to change this how are we going to change this please believe

we going to change this please believe me it will never happen just because

unless we understand the nature of the human heart and the unique answer that

human heart and the unique answer that Christ gives we will never be able to

Christ gives we will never be able to change it listen to Association the

change it listen to Association the whole matter of making but at length we

whole matter of making but at length we have discovered that to be free in this

have discovered that to be free in this sense that is happy excuse of being sick

sense that is happy excuse of being sick rather than sinful the danger also

rather than sinful the danger also becoming lost this danger is I believe

in becoming a moral ethical neutral and free we have being asking Who am I what

free we have being asking Who am I what is my deepest the reality of human

is my deepest the reality of human nature is best portrayed in the teaching

nature is best portrayed in the teaching of Christ and even secular Mara was that

of Christ and even secular Mara was that something has been lost when we lost the

something has been lost when we lost the understanding of the dogmas and he said

understanding of the dogmas and he said he will see more letters to him than any

he will see more letters to him than any other thing he ever written just trying

other thing he ever written just trying to recover a concept ascend the reality

to recover a concept ascend the reality of human nature secondly is the

of human nature secondly is the spirituality of genuine worship the

spirituality of genuine worship the uniqueness of Christ the spirituality of

uniqueness of Christ the spirituality of genuine worship Jesus rescued us from

genuine worship Jesus rescued us from the tyranny of limiting worship to

the tyranny of limiting worship to geographical boundaries and buildings

geographical boundaries and buildings here that he rescued us from that

here that he rescued us from that tyranny of restricting worship to

tyranny of restricting worship to tropical locations and buildings you

tropical locations and buildings you know that entire tragedy which India

know that entire tragedy which India today captured under two words on the

today captured under two words on the front page India's shames were called

front page India's shames were called the destruction of the mosque by some

the destruction of the mosque by some fanatics because they said it was holy

fanatics because they said it was holy ground and belonged to one of the gods

ground and belonged to one of the gods how tragic to inflict things like this

how tragic to inflict things like this while men and women were killed children

while men and women were killed children were killed because the worship was

were killed because the worship was restricted to a certain geographical

restricted to a certain geographical location when you go to the Old

location when you go to the Old Testament you see something fascinating

Testament you see something fascinating happening God is describing the

happening God is describing the dimensions of the temple and Moses

dimensions of the temple and Moses complied but you see in our day we have

complied but you see in our day we have church buildings we don't have temples

church buildings we don't have temples were given why is that because as Christ

were given why is that because as Christ taught us we don't go to the temple

taught us we don't go to the temple anymore we take the temple with us

anymore we take the temple with us so when 300 people gather together for

so when 300 people gather together for worship it is not 300 people going into

worship it is not 300 people going into a century but 300 sanctuaries gathering

a century but 300 sanctuaries gathering at a point so that we could be rescued

at a point so that we could be rescued from the tyranny of a locational worship

from the tyranny of a locational worship and how this body has become sacred

and how this body has become sacred because of that to think that on these

because of that to think that on these flesh and bones God himself has branded

flesh and bones God himself has branded the fact that I can house the very

the fact that I can house the very Living God Christ in me that's what

Living God Christ in me that's what David lives from the last words he saw

David lives from the last words he saw Christ in me

Christ in me David listen Christ in you as a believer

David listen Christ in you as a believer Jesus gave us a reality of human nature

Jesus gave us a reality of human nature the spirituality of genuine worship

the spirituality of genuine worship thirdly the purity of his own person

thirdly the purity of his own person talking about that the purity which of

talking about that the purity which of you convinces me a sin I find no fault

you convinces me a sin I find no fault in this man but what I think I want to

in this man but what I think I want to draw

draw here is very significant I know the last

here is very significant I know the last time I was here I gave you that

time I was here I gave you that beautiful thought which is like a

beautiful thought which is like a treasure in my own life now I mentioned

anything you create from you anything you create from you only that which is

you create from you only that which is begotten is identical to the beginner

begotten is identical to the beginner and Jesus Christ is the begotten of the

and Jesus Christ is the begotten of the father I and the father are one and in

father I and the father are one and in that garden of gethsemane this one whose

that garden of gethsemane this one whose begotten of the father impeccable and

begotten of the father impeccable and spotless praise and in his praising the

spotless praise and in his praising the first prayers he refers to God as his

first prayers he refers to God as his holy father as his holy father now

holy father as his holy father now here's the dramatic truth in Christian

here's the dramatic truth in Christian faith

faith when the Holy Spirit works within our

when the Holy Spirit works within our heart that internal touch we become

heart that internal touch we become begotten of the Spirit and when we are

begotten of the Spirit and when we are begotten of the Spirit and the Christ

begotten of the Spirit and the Christ comes and lives within us we can lay

comes and lives within us we can lay claim because of his purity his work and

claim because of his purity his work and his regeneration we too can turn to God

his regeneration we too can turn to God and call him Holy Father

and call him Holy Father so the purity of Christ is not merely an

so the purity of Christ is not merely an abstract Dhamma that purity which is so

abstract Dhamma that purity which is so marvelous that light knowledge and glory

marvelous that light knowledge and glory converges

converges there is no religious teacher in history

there is no religious teacher in history I repeat that there is no profit in

I repeat that there is no profit in history there is no apostle in history

history there is no apostle in history none of them can ever affirm what Jesus

none of them can ever affirm what Jesus did even in fact the Quran refers to him

did even in fact the Quran refers to him as born of the Virgin without any fault

softening word but there is that sinlessness about our Lord and then we

sinlessness about our Lord and then we see the reality of the purity of his own

in the American universities do you realize in order to explain diversity in

realize in order to explain diversity in the unity and diversity in the affect

the unity and diversity in the affect I'm more and more convinced or would

I'm more and more convinced or would have to be unity and diversity in the

have to be unity and diversity in the first course and only in the Christian

first course and only in the Christian dogma is the unity and diversity in the

dogma is the unity and diversity in the doctrine of the Trinity you see the

doctrine of the Trinity you see the unity and diversity and a community that

unity and diversity and a community that is established distinction yet identity

is established distinction yet identity and purpose

and purpose how does this work out in life my own

how does this work out in life my own life my own life in the worship of

life my own life in the worship of Christ in boundaries established by his

do you remember the film Chariots of Fire how the Scottish runner Eric little

Fire how the Scottish runner Eric little is charged or challenged by his sister

is charged or challenged by his sister in that film

in that film she says Eric you're giving up so much

she says Eric you're giving up so much to order to win this gold medal and he

to order to win this gold medal and he says to her Jenny God has made me for a

says to her Jenny God has made me for a purpose for China but he's also made me

purpose for China but he's also made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure

fast and when I run I feel his pleasure you see not only his missionary activity

you see not only his missionary activity was an expression of worship of God so

was an expression of worship of God so this is running on the track and field

this is running on the track and field and it was over with a bonnet he was

and it was over with a bonnet he was gone on to a missionary in China and he

gone on to a missionary in China and he lived his life of worship which was

lived his life of worship which was score extensive with all that he did so

score extensive with all that he did so he worshiped not only when you take the

he worshiped not only when you take the Lord's Supper we worship even if we are

Lord's Supper we worship even if we are out in a tennis court taking the

out in a tennis court taking the exercise that the body needs as an

exercise that the body needs as an expression of my gratitude to God

expression of my gratitude to God worship the unity in diversity so we've

worship the unity in diversity so we've got here in Jesus the reality of human

got here in Jesus the reality of human nature the spirituality of genuine

nature the spirituality of genuine worship the purity of his own person the

worship the purity of his own person the unity in diversity and lastly the

unity in diversity and lastly the continuity of life beyond the grave the

continuity of life beyond the grave the continuity of life beyond the grave

it is interesting to read in the Quranic writings where they describe that Jesus

writings where they describe that Jesus did raise people from the dead found in

did raise people from the dead found in the Quran very interesting he did raise

the Quran very interesting he did raise people from there

people from there of course today our entire Christian

of course today our entire Christian doctrine hangs on that peg in G and Paul

doctrine hangs on that peg in G and Paul said of Christ put yourself in the place

said of Christ put yourself in the place of the disciples all of a sudden lost it

of the disciples all of a sudden lost it to pieces of timber dying such a

to pieces of timber dying such a shameful death and then his body is

shameful death and then his body is taken and tucked away they were hiding

taken and tucked away they were hiding like a bunch of frightened Boy Scouts

like a bunch of frightened Boy Scouts themselves as they pondered that in the

themselves as they pondered that in the marvelous breaking of the chains of

marvelous breaking of the chains of death as Jesus emerged alive as he

death as Jesus emerged alive as he prophesied he would destroy this temple

prophesied he would destroy this temple he said and three day and in three days

he said and three day and in three days I will raise it up and you go back right

I will raise it up and you go back right to the Old Testament you see the

to the Old Testament you see the prognostication of his resurrection you

prognostication of his resurrection you see it in the New Testament two very

see it in the New Testament two very different to some of these mythical

different to some of these mythical legends that people espouse from some

legends that people espouse from some remote mystery religions somewhere but

remote mystery religions somewhere but here it is he said that would not be

here it is he said that would not be able to hold him he was going to go back

able to hold him he was going to go back to being glory with his father prepare a

to being glory with his father prepare a place so that we could go and that dogma

place so that we could go and that dogma of the resurrection uses life with such

of the resurrection uses life with such hope and such guarantee because our home

hope and such guarantee because our home is not just here for now but our home is

is not just here for now but our home is ultimately have you ever pawned

ultimately have you ever pawned have you ever pondered on this one idea

have you ever pondered on this one idea what would you do to frighten Lazarus

what would you do to frighten Lazarus after he'd been raised from the dead is

there anything you could do to say to him I'm going to scare you Lazarus ie

him I'm going to scare you Lazarus ie I'm going to kill you there is a

I'm going to kill you there is a well-known play by Eugene O'Neill

well-known play by Eugene O'Neill entitled Lazarus laughed because going

and the argument goes back and forth and finally says Lazarus one more hahaha out

finally says Lazarus one more hahaha out of you and you're going to be a dead man

of you and you're going to be a dead man and Lazarus bends over and

and Lazarus bends over and uncontrollable laughter now comes up for

uncontrollable laughter now comes up for air and says having to hurt Caligula

air and says having to hurt Caligula death is dead death is dead how do you

death is dead death is dead how do you frighten somebody who's already been

frighten somebody who's already been there and knows the one GK Chesterton

there and knows the one GK Chesterton wrote it so beautifully in the word

wrote it so beautifully in the word secret words into Lazarus is bound body

secret words into Lazarus is bound body coming out of the tomb he says this

coming out of the tomb he says this after one moment when I bowed my head

after one moment when I bowed my head and the whole world turned over and came

and the whole world turned over and came up right I walked again where the old

up right I walked again where the old road sean whyte the SATA and heard what

road sean whyte the SATA and heard what men said the sages have a hundred maps

men said the sages have a hundred maps to give that trace they're calling

to give that trace they're calling cosmos like a tree they rattle reason

cosmos like a tree they rattle reason out through many a sieve that stores the

out through many a sieve that stores the dust and that's the gold go free and all

dust and that's the gold go free and all these things are less than dust to me my

these things are less than dust to me my name is Lazarus and I know all these

name is Lazarus and I know all these things are less than dust to me for my

things are less than dust to me for my name is Lazarus and I live Billy Graham

name is Lazarus and I live Billy Graham said once he was in the offices of

said once he was in the offices of konrad adenauer the mayor of cologne and

konrad adenauer the mayor of cologne and the Chancellor of germans and then he

the Chancellor of germans and then he went over to the window looking across

went over to the window looking across the ruins to say and he says Mr Graham I

the ruins to say and he says Mr Graham I want to ask you a question he said do

want to ask you a question he said do you really believe that Jesus rose from

you really believe that Jesus rose from the dead do you really believe in the

the dead do you really believe in the resurrection of the Dead those were in

resurrection of the Dead those were in Christ as he looked over the debris city

Christ as he looked over the debris city I didn't believe I would not be

I didn't believe I would not be preaching the gospel and had an hour

preaching the gospel and had an hour continued to look outside and this great

continued to look outside and this great twentieth-century statesman said this to

twentieth-century statesman said this to the histogram

the histogram outside of the resurrection of Jesus

outside of the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Christ I know of no hope

outside of the resurrection of Jesus Christ I know of no other hope for

Christ I know of no other hope for mankind I promise to read you these

mankind I promise to read you these words earlier on at the end with this

words earlier on at the end with this through believe me I flipped a lot to

see with these words we see him face to face our Lord in all of his security and

face our Lord in all of his security and his splendor and in his high priestly

his splendor and in his high priestly prayer he prayed that he would be with

prayer he prayed that he would be with him so that we could see him in his

him so that we could see him in his glory

glory I think of Peter Paul Peter James and

I think of Peter Paul Peter James and John at the top of the mountain so

John at the top of the mountain so stunned by the Transfiguration what is

stunned by the Transfiguration what is heaven going to be like because was it

heaven going to be like because was it not gone words from the songwriter who

not gone words from the songwriter who said when engulfed by the terror of

said when engulfed by the terror of tempestuous

tempestuous unknown ways before you go at the end of

unknown ways before you go at the end of trials and so on is your destiny and in

trials and so on is your destiny and in fear in conflicts he seizes your soul he

fear in conflicts he seizes your soul he said oh just think or stepping on shore

said oh just think or stepping on shore and finding it heaven touching a hand in

and finding it heaven touching a hand in finding you air and finding up in glory

finding you air and finding up in glory and finding it home that's the joy I

and finding it home that's the joy I open again the strange small book from

open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came and I'm

which all Christianity came and I'm again haunted by a kind of confirmation

again haunted by a kind of confirmation this tremendous figure of Jesus which

this tremendous figure of Jesus which fills the Gospels towers in this respect

fills the Gospels towers in this respect as in every other out of all the

as in every other out of all the thinkers his faith was natural almost

thinkers his faith was natural almost the Stoics ancient and modern were proud

the Stoics ancient and modern were proud of concealing that is he never conceived

of concealing that is he never conceived this years he showed them plainly on his

this years he showed them plainly on his face at any daily site city yet he did

face at any daily site city yet he did conceal something some supermen an

conceal something some supermen an imperial diploma to stop proud of

imperial diploma to stop proud of restraining their anger he never

restraining their anger he never restrained his anger he flung down the

restrained his anger he flung down the damnation of Hell yet he restrained

damnation of Hell yet he restrained something I say it with reverence

something I say it with reverence there wasn't a shattering personality a

there wasn't a shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness there

thread that must be called shyness there was something that he hid from all men

was something that he hid from all men when he went up to a mountain to pray

when he went up to a mountain to pray there was something that he covered

there was something that he covered constantly by abrupt silence or a better

constantly by abrupt silence or a better style isolation there was some one thing

style isolation there was some one thing that was too great for God to show us

that was too great for God to show us when he walked upon our earth and I have

when he walked upon our earth and I have sometimes fancied that it was his mirth

sometimes fancied that it was his mirth I have sometimes fancied that it was his

I have sometimes fancied that it was his mirth his joy his laughter and I say to

mirth his joy his laughter and I say to you that is the glory that John saw in

you that is the glory that John saw in Revelation and the beauty of what was

Revelation and the beauty of what was going on no longer everyone fell down

going on no longer everyone fell down and said holy holy holy this Christ who

and said holy holy holy this Christ who understood the reality of human nature

understood the reality of human nature through his purity bringing unity and

through his purity bringing unity and diversity ultimately has a continuity in

diversity ultimately has a continuity in our lives to take a strawberry heavenly

our lives to take a strawberry heavenly learning there is no one in history

learning there is no one in history Jesus and that is the truth as he is

Jesus and that is the truth as he is unique

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