Jesus

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

5 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jesus of Nazareth was the son of a carpenter. He never traveled further than 150 miles from his home in his adult life. So how did the movement he founded come to dominate the world, bringing in billions of followers? On this episode, we explore his life, his impact, and how he was able to build such a powerful movement. ----- Sponsors: Speechify - Go to speechify.com/ben to get 15% off Speechify Premium Vesto - Get all of your company's financial accounts in one view at Vesto.com Gains In Bulk - Go to gainsinbulk.com/pages/ben and use code Ben for $20 and a free shaker. HTTOTW Premium - Get all episodes, end notes, mini-episodes, and more at takeoverpod.supercast.com ----- Sources: The New Testament In Its World by NT Wright Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson The New Testament - The King James Version Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm going to show you how great I am.
0:04.6	Yes, let's have mighty power.
0:07.6	I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to
0:11.3	apologize to absolutely nobody.
0:25.3	Hello, and welcome to how to take over the world.
0:26.2	This is Ben Wilson.
0:28.0	Today we are talking about Jesus.
0:31.7	Jesus of Nazareth is the most influential person of all time.
0:32.8	I feel pretty safe saying that.
0:38.5	There are 2.2 billion Christians in the world currently representing about a third of the world's population.
0:39.5	Okay, so you have a third of the world who are making their lives about following this man.
0:43.9	And if you count Muslims as well, because Muslims think of Jesus as a prophet, they don't regard
0:48.3	him as the son of God as Christians do, but they do think of him as a prophet, then that's
0:52.2	over 50% of the world, nearly 60% of the world that follows Jesus and in his teachings in some way
0:58.5	shape or form there's virtually no one on earth outside of a few random
1:01.9	uncontacted tribes who does not know who Jesus is and that seems normal to us
1:07.5	right Christianity has been around for 2,000 years, but if you just forget what you
1:11.7	know, it is so remarkable that this occurred from a man who never traveled more than 150 miles
1:18.1	from home in his adult life, someone with no formal higher education, someone who died before he was
1:23.3	my age. You know, I want you to imagine that you time travel to the year 4,000, okay, 2,000
1:28.3	years from now. And you are looking around at the flying cars and you manage to flag someone
1:32.3	down and talk to them. And he explains what the world is like. And you find out that 10 billion
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