an important and powerful chapter in front of us this evening and really one that is noteworthy

and it has to do with jesus sort of summing up um his life and his work which is kind of

interesting when you think of jesus's purpose and why he came.

It's pretty intense when you try to sum up a person's life.

Interesting story.

And there was a time where Alfred Noble, he woke up and read his own obituary in the paper.

It was in 1888. He reads his own obituary in the paper. It was in 1888. He reads his own obituary, and it was printed as a journalistic error. It was actually his brother that had died, but the reporter accidentally

put his name instead. And so this whole article about Alfred Noble and, and, you know, they actually were talking

about Alfred Noble, not even talking about his brother. It wasn't just the, it was the whole thing

was written about Alfred Noble, the famous guy. And anybody be in shock, I think you'd be in

shock to see your own obituary in the newspaper. You'd walk around saying, I see dead people. But anyway,

that's not, that's a separate issue. Anyway, anyone would be in shock to see that. But he, he saw

himself something in his obituary that horrified him. You know, he was called certain noteworthy

names in that obituary, dynamite king, that he made an immense fortune

making explosives. That was one of the things. And in fact, part of the obituary even talked

about him as a merchant of death. Can you imagine that? General public opinion, you know, as the obituary

wrote, his life was, the entire purpose of his life was destruction. And all his inventions caused

destruction. That's kind of what it said about him. But as it turns out, I guess he was a pretty nice guy, and he was horrified to think that

that was the legacy he was about to leave in his life.

So what did he do?

As he read his own obituary, he thought of ways to resolve that narrative.

And as a rewritten last will and testament testament what he did is he included an endowment for five

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