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Prophecy Watchers

Studies with Stearman: Sight and Insight

Prophecy Watchers

Gary Stearman

Religion & Spirituality

4.6850 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Continuing our study on the Words of Jesus, Gary takes us through John 15 and 16 this week and explains the role of Holy Spirit.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

0:06.1

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

0:10.3

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

0:15.5

And now, here's Gary.

0:17.6

We've been working our way through the upper room discourse of Jesus.

0:22.9

We've been through John 14.

0:25.0

Last week we went into chapter 15, 1 through 17, and today we're going to begin in the 18th

0:30.7

verse, which says, as Jesus is addressing the disciples, if the world hate you, you know that it hated me before

0:42.6

it hated you. Now that's quite a statement and it is a key statement concerning Christianity.

0:50.1

It begs a question, why does the world hate Jesus?

0:56.4

And there's just one really good reason,

0:58.9

because it destroys their God concept.

1:02.9

It's easy to say, I believe in God.

1:07.0

Everybody believes in God, everybody,

1:10.5

except for a few atheists who don't believe in anything,

1:13.8

but if you would catch one of those atheists in the middle of the night, you'd probably find

1:18.6

out that he really believes in some kind of God, which he's not willing to discuss with you.

1:24.1

Because of pride and because of various sorts of intellectual conceits, he just thinks

1:30.3

it's better for him to say there is no God, even though he knows better. Why does the world

1:36.3

hate Jesus? Because he destroys the God concept. Philosophy has a concept of God. God is the

1:43.3

unknown prime mover. Asceticism has a God concept.

1:47.0

God is a God who responds to self-sacrifice. That is if you can figure out a way to torture

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