Well howdy pastor Mark Driscollar, thank you for letting me help you learn God's Word.

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we'll help you learn even more of God's Word. We're all here because of one man. What's his name?

His name is Jesus, the most significant, the most important, the most influential person

who has ever lived or will ever live in the history of the world. More songs have been sung

regarding him, more books written concerning him, more paintings painted of him than anyone who

has lived in the history of the world. In fact, we divide history by the life, death, burial,

and resurrection of this man, not just a good man, not just a great man, but the one and only God

man, Jesus Christ. We divided into BC before Christ, AD, and Odomonite, the year of our Lord,

and our holidays are all about him from Easter, celebrating his resurrection to Christmas,

where the whole world stops to remember his birth. No one, no one, no one is in the same

category of history as this man, Jesus Christ. Here's what Napoleon had to say about a man who lived

2,000 years ago, never held a political office, never married, never had children, never made

much money, never wrote a book, and never traveled more than a few hundred miles from home. Napoleon

says, and I quote, I know men, and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and

every other person in the world, there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar,

and Charlemagne, and I have all founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius

upon force? Jesus Christ, he says, founded his empire upon love, and at this hour, millions of men

would die for him, including the men gathered here on this day. And we gather with billions of people

around the world, worshipping Jesus Christ as God, Lord, Savior, and King. And as we gathered

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