FROM D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES
THIS IS KENNEDY CLASSICS
HI, I'M FRANK WRIGHT, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF D.
JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES.
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I BROKE INTO OUR PROGRAMMING TO
TELL YOU ABOUT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS WE WERE
FACING, AND TO ASK FOR YOUR HELP.
TODAY, I'M PLEASED TO REPORT THAT YOU RESPONDED,
AND THANKS TO THE LORD'S BLESSING AND GENEROUS
DONORS LIKE YOU, WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE UP A GOOD
PORTION OF OUR FINANCIAL SHORTFALL.
THAT SAID, THERE IS MUCH LEFT TO DO, AND THIS YEAR
WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST PIVOTAL IN OUR NATION'S
HISTORY.
SO THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING WITH US, PLEASE
CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US PRAYERFULLY AND
FINANCIALLY, AS WE STAND FOR TRUTH, DEFENDING YOUR
FREEDOM.
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WELCOME TO KENNEDY CLASSICS
WHEN ALBERT EINSTEIN PUBLISHED HIS THEORIES OF
SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY, THE WORLD WAS
BOTH ENTHRALLED AND MYSTIFIED BY THIS
SEEMINGLY NEW CONCEPT.
AS SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S CONCEPTS OF ABSOLUTE TIME
AND ABSOLUTE SPACE GAVE WAY TO THE REALITY THAT
CELESTIAL MOTION AND TIME MUST BE SEEN AS RELATIVE
TO SOME PARTICULAR FRAME OF REFERENCE, WHICH ITSELF
IS ALSO IN MOTION.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF EINSTEIN'S THEORIES ROCKED
THE VERY FOUNDATION OF ASTROPHYSICS.
ODDLY SOME WOULD SAY INEVITABLY THE IDEA OF
RELATIVITY BEGAN TO BE SPOKEN OF IN DECIDEDLY
NON-SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTS.
WE WOULD SAY, FOR EXAMPLE THAT THE VALUE OF MONEY
SAY, $100 DEPENDS ON WHAT YOUR INCOME IS.
A PERSON EARNING $50,000 A YEAR WOULD VALUE THAT $100
BILL ONE WAY.
A PERSON EARNING $50 MILLION A YEAR WOULD
ATTACH A DIFFERENT VALUE TO IT.
IN OTHER WORDS THE VALUE OF THE MONEY IS RELATIVE
TO THE MATERIAL WELL BEING OF THE PERSON RATHER THAN
HAVING AN ABSOLUTE VALUE.
WELL, SO FAR SO GOOD.
BUT HOW DO WE APPLY RELATIVITY TO ABSTRACT
PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS, SUCH AS THE VALUE OF HUMAN
LIFE?
FOR EXAMPLE, I VALUE THE HEBREWS AS A HISTORICALLY
UNIQUE PEOPLE CALLED OUT BY GOD AS A SEPARATE
NATION, DESIGNATED BY GOD AS HIS OWN PEOPLE.
YET ADOLF HITLER DID NOT SEE IT THAT WAY, HENCE THE
HOLOCAUST.
IS THAT TOO MERELY A MATTER OF RELATIVITY?
AND WHAT ABOUT THE UNBORN BABY IN THE WOMB?
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE SLOPE IS GETTING MORE SLIPPERY,
AND WE NEED A FIRM PLACE TO STAND.
WELL, HERE TO HELP US WITH THIS SLIPPERY SLOPE IS
DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, IN A MESSAGE HE DELIVERED AT
YALE UNIVERSITY, CALLED "ABSOLUTES IN A
RELATIVISTIC AGE."
(BELL CHIME)
(APPLAUSE)
I AM DELIGHTED AND HONORED TO BE ABLE TO BE WITH YOU
THIS EVENING IN THIS INSTITUTION WHICH HAS SUCH
A LONG AND PROUD HISTORY, SOON TO BE CELEBRATING
YOUR 300TH ANNIVERSARY, I DISCOVER IN JUST A FEW
MORE YEARS.
HOW WONDERFUL THAT IS.
OF COURSE, I FELT QUITE AT HOME WHEN I WAS INFORMED
THAT THIS ORGANIZATION WAS FOUNDED BY TEN CLERGYMEN
WHO WERE NOTED AS LEARNED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
DESIRING A SCHOOL AND INSTITUTION FOR TEACHING
ARTS AND SCIENCES AND PROPAGATING THE CHRISTIAN
RELIGION.
AND THAT, I THINK, IS A WONDERFUL THING.
I WAS ALSO DELIGHTED TO SEE THAT YOUR MOTTO IS
LUX ET VERITAS- LIGHT AND TRUTH.
THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT I WILL BE ADDRESSING YOU
ABOUT TONIGHT.
MY SUBJECT AS STATED IS "ABSOLUTES IN A
RELATIVISTIC AGE."
DR. ALLAN BLOOM, PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL THOUGHT AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND FORMER PROFESSOR AT YALE
UNIVERSITY, A SCHOOL LOCATED AROUND HERE
SOMEWHERE I'M TOLD, IS THE AUTHOR OF A VERY BIG BOOK
OF THE PAST 5 YEARS, THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN
MIND.
INTERESTINGLY, IN THAT BOOK, HE SAYS IN THE VERY
FIRST SENTENCE OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE
FIRST CHAPTER, HE SAYS THIS: THERE IS ONE THING A
PROFESSOR CAN BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OF:
ALMOST EVERY STUDENT ENTERING THE UNIVERSITY
BELIEVES, OR SAYS HE BELIEVES, THAT TRUTH IS
RELATIVE.
THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES.
MARK TWAIN SAID THAT THE PROBLEM WITH MOST PEOPLE
IS NOT WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW, BUT WHAT THEY KNOW
FOR CERTAIN THAT ISN'T TRUE.
I THINK THAT STATEMENT APPLIES TO THIS DISCUSSION
THIS EVENING VERY MUCH.
VIRTUALLY ALL OF OUR STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOL
HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES.
YOU PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT THE TEACHER WHO SAID TO
HIS CLASS, "YOU CAN KNOW NOTHING FOR CERTAIN."
ONE STUDENT SAID, "TEACHER, ARE YOU SURE?"
HE SAID, "I'M CERTAIN."
(LAUGH)
IF YOU WERE TO ASK A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE HOW IT IS
THAT THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES, HOW IT IS THAT
EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE AND ALL TRUTH IS RELATIVE, HE
WILL EITHER LOOK AT YOU BLANKLY AND NOT HAVE THE
FAINTEST IDEA WHY THAT IS SO OTHER THAN THAT HE HAS
BEEN TOLD IT IS SO OR HE MAY IF HE IS SOMEWHAT MORE
ERUDITE TELL YOU "HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF
EINSTEIN?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE PAST FIFTY YEARS?
HAVEN'T YOU EVER READ THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY?
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN A RELATIVISTIC
UNIVERSE AND THAT EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE?
AND THAT SETTLES THE MATTER.
EINSTEIN SAID IT, AND IT MUST BE SO."
NO HE DIDN'T.
THIS IS WHAT HE SAID: "RELATIVITY APPLIES TO THE
REALM OF PHYSICS- NOT ETHICS."
SO HOW IS IT THAT EINSTEIN'S THEORY HAS BEEN
TRANSPORTED INTO EVERY OTHER DISCIPLINE AND WE
HAVE ENDED UP IN AMERICA TODAY WITH ALMOST A TOTAL
MORAL RELATIVISM WHICH SOMEHOW HAS BEEN DEDUCED
FROM EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY AND WHICH HAS
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH ETHICS
OR MORALS.
NOW, SOMETIMES STUDENTS DON'T REALIZE THAT WHEN A
TEACHER OR PROFESSOR SAYS THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES,
YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS SAYING.
HE IS ALSO SAYING THERE IS NO GOD.
BECAUSE, YOU SEE, GOD IS THE ULTIMATE ABSOLUTE.
HE IS ABSOLUTELY SUPREME; HE IS ABSOLUTELY INFINITE
IN HIS POWER AND HIS WISDOM AND HIS KNOWLEDGE
AND EVERYTHING, ALL OF HIS ATTRIBUTES.
GOD IS THE ULTIMATE ABSOLUTE AND WHAT HE SAYS
IS THE ULTIMATE AND ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
THEREFORE, KEEP IN MIND THAT WHEN ANYONE SAYS
THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES, THEY ARE SIMPLY GIVING YOU
A VEILED AND CLOAKED ATHEISM.
NOT ONLY IS IT TRUE THAT WHEN PEOPLE SAY THERE ARE
NO ABSOLUTES, ARE THEY SAYING THAT THERE IS NO
GOD, BUT THEY ARE ALSO SAYING THERE IS NO WORD OF
GOD- THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE NOT THE WORD OF GOD.
NOW, THE BIBLE SAYS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
JESUS SAID OF THE WORD, "THY WORD IS TRUTH" (JOHN 17:17B).
AND THAT, "HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT
ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW SHALL IN NO WISE
PASS AWAY TILL ALL BE FULFILLED" (MATTHEW 5:18).
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT IT IS TRUTH; IT IS TRUTH
REVEALED FROM GOD.
THEREFORE, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
WHEN GOD'S WORD SAYS SOMETHING THAT IS THE WORD
OF GOD AND THAT IS TRUE.
NOW THAT IS NOT BASED MERELY ON SOME
PREDILECTION ON MY PART OR THOSE WHO BELIEVE, BUT
IT IS BASED UPON EVIDENCE.
GOD GIVES EVIDENCE WHEREBY WE MAY KNOW THAT THE
SCRIPTURES ARE INDEED THE WORD OF GOD- EVIDENCE
WHICH HAS CONVINCED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS.
NOW, WHEN PEOPLE SAY THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES, THEY
ARE ALSO SAYING THAT JESUS CHRIST IS NOT THE SON OF
GOD, BECAUSE AS GOD THE SON, HE HIMSELF IS
ABSOLUTE.
HE IS WITHOUT SIN, WITHOUT IMPERFECTION- HE WAS THE
ALTOGETHER PERFECT ONE.
KEEP IN MIND THAT WHENEVER A PERSON SAYS THERE ARE NO
ABSOLUTES, THEY ARE SAYING THERE IS NO GOD, THE BIBLE
IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST IS NOT
THE SON OF GOD.
I THINK WE NEED TO SEE THAT THAT IS QUITE A LOT
OF TRANSPORTING THE TRUTHS FROM PHYSICS INTO THE
REALM OF RELIGION AND MORALITY.
NOW, WITH RELATIVISTIC MORALS, THERE ALSO COMES
SUBJECTIVISM.
THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE STANDARD OUTSIDE, AND NOW
TODAY WE NO LONGER TALK ABOUT MORALS, WE TALK
ABOUT "VALUES," A TERM THAT NIETZSCHE GAVE TO US.
VALUES ARE SIMPLY ANYTHING THAT ANYONE CHOOSES TO
PLACE A VALUE UPON.
SOMEHOW, WE HAVE COME TO A PLACE OF BELIEVING THAT
EVERY PERSON HAS SOME AUTHORITY TO DECIDE
WHATEVER IS GOOD OR BAD FOR HIM, WHATEVER IS RIGHT
OR WRONG, WHATEVER IS OF VALUE AND WHAT IS NOT OF
VALUE.
OF COURSE, A COROLLARY OF THAT IS THAT HE CANNOT
IMPOSE THAT UPON ANYONE ELSE.
YOU CAN'T IMPOSE YOUR VALUES ON SOMEONE ELSE,
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE, AS LONG AS YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT MERELY VALUES WHICH WE HAVE SIMPLY ACCEPTED.
GOD'S LAW, HOWEVER, APPLIES TO ALL CREATED
BEINGS, BECAUSE HE IS THE CREATOR AND HE WILL APPLY
IT TO ALL OF THEM WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
ANOTHER COROLLARY OF THAT IS THAT SINCE OUR VALUES
AND MORES DO NOT COME FROM GOD, THEY MUST COME FROM
SOME SOURCE THAT INFLUENCES US, AND THAT IS
CULTURAL.
SO THESE VALUES, THESE MORALS, ARE RELATIVISTIC,
THEY ARE INDIVIDUAL, THEY ARE SUBJECTIVE, AND THEY
ARE CULTURALLY INDUCED.
ONE PERSON SAYS, "WE DON'T LIVE OUR LIVES
RELATIVISTICALLY."
IF YOU ARE WAITING IN YOUR CAR AT A TRAIN CROSSING,
AND A THERE'S A TRAIN, HUGE TRAIN COMING AT 60
MILES AN HOUR.
YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU GET YOUR CAR OUT IN FRONT OF
THAT TRAIN, YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE
"RELATIVELY" DEAD- YOU ARE GOING TO BE "ABSOLUTELY"
DEAD.
WE CAN'T LIVE BY THAT.
NUMEROUS SOCIAL CRITICS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SOCIAL
SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING THAT IT IS THIS VIEW OF MORAL
RELATIVISM THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CAUSING THE
MORALITY OF THIS NATION TO CRUMBLE BEFORE OUR EYES,
BUT OVER AGAINST THE MORAL RELATIVISM OF OUR TIME, I
THINK WE NEED DESPERATELY TO REASSERT THE FACT OF
WHAT JESUS CHRIST SAID.
HE SAID: "YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH
SHALL MAKE YOU FREE" (JOHN 8:32).
"YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"
NOW WE ARE TOLD THAT WE CAN'T KNOW TRUTH- THAT WE
CAN'T KNOW ANYTHING FOR CERTAIN.
GRANTED, SCIENCE ONLY GIVES HIGH PROBABILITIES,
BUT THROUGH REVELATION AND RELIGION, WE CAN KNOW
TRUTH.
THE SCRIPTURES SAY, "THESE THINGS ARE WRITTEN THAT
YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE" (I JOHN 5:13).
I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT I KNOW THAT I HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE.
I KNOW THAT SHOULD I DIE TODAY, I WILL BE WITH
CHRIST FOREVER.
I HAVE NOT ALWAYS KNOWN THAT.
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN, ABOUT TWO YEARS AFTER
COLLEGE, I HEARD THE GOSPEL, AND I CAME TO KNOW
THAT.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU, MY FRIEND, DO YOU KNOW
THAT?
DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE?
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT THESE THINGS ARE WRITTEN
THAT WE MAY KNOW THAT.
NOW SAD TO SAY, MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE REJECTED
SCRIPTURAL TRUTH HAVE NOT DONE IT FOR THE REASONS
THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY HAVE.
FOR EXAMPLE, NIETZSCHE REJECTED THE SCRIPTURES.
HE REJECTED CHRISTIANITY.
HE HATED RELIGION.
HE HATED CHRISTIANITY, IN PARTICULAR, AND HE IS, OF
COURSE, THE ONE WHO SAID GOD IS DEAD.
THE AMAZING THING IS THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
BELIEVED HIM.
HE NEVER PROVED IT; HE JUST ASSEVERATED IT.
IT'S ONE THING TO DECLARE SOMETHING; IT IS ANOTHER
THING TO PROVE IT.
SOMEBODY WROTE UPON A BUILDING GRAFFITI IT SAID,
"GOD IS DEAD -NIETZSCHE."
SOMEONE ELSE CAME ALONG AND WROTE, "NIETZSCHE IS
DEAD -GOD."
(LAUGH)
IT IS BETTER TO DEBATE AN ISSUE BEFORE SETTLING IT,
SAID ONE PHILOSOPHER THAN SETTLING AN ISSUE BEFORE
DEBATING IT.
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT NIETZSCHE DID.
LET ME TELL YOU, NO ONE HAS EVER PROVED THAT GOD
IS DEAD OR THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST.
IN FACT ATHEISM, IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT, IS
IRRATIONAL.
I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THAT.
TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO GOD IS TO ASSERT WHAT IN
LOGIC IS CALLED A "UNIVERSAL NEGATIVE."
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT NO HUMAN BEING CAN PROVE ANY
UNIVERSAL NEGATIVE.
YOU CANNOT PROVE THAT NOWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE
ARE THERE LITTLE GREEN MEN, YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT.
YOU CANNOT PROVE THAT NOWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS
THERE A BEING SUCH AS GOD.
IN ORDER TO PROVE THAT, YOU WOULD HAVE TO KNOW
WHAT IS IN EVERY PART OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, WHICH
IS TO SAY: IN ORDER TO PROVE THAT THERE IS NO
GOD, YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE GOD.
THEN YOU WOULD HAVE PROVED YOURSELF WRONG.
(LAUGH)
NO, MY FRIENDS, GOD IS NOT DEAD.
THAT HAS NEVER BEEN PROVED, BUT THOSE WHO HAVE
COME TO KNOW HIM HAVE COME TO KNOW THAT HE IS VERY
MUCH ALIVE.
AND YOU KNOW LIFE WITHOUT MEANING, THAT'S THE REASON
SO MANY COLLEGE STUDENTS COMMIT SUICIDE TODAY
BECAUSE LIFE HAS BEEN ROBBED OF ALL OF ITS
MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE, AND IF ALL THERE IS AT THE
END IS A PILE OF ASHES AND A SKULL.
THAT IS JUST NOT GOING TO SUFFICE, BECAUSE THE SOUL
IS GOING TO PEEK OUT AROUND THE DAY AFTER
TOMORROW AND DESIRE SOME ASSURANCE OF A CONTINUING
EXISTENCE IN A BETTER AND FINER WORLD.
GOD HAS PLACED IMMORTALITY WITHIN THE HEART OF MAN
AND WE CAN'T GET AROUND IT.
LIFE CANNOT BE LIVED WITHOUT MEANING AND HOPE.
AS A YOUNG MAN, I HEARD THE GOSPEL FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN MY LIFE.
I LIVED TO BE 24 WITHOUT EVER KNOWING IT, BUT I
HEARD OF THIS INCREDIBLE LOVE OF ONE THAT LOVED ME
SO MUCH AS TO BE WILLING TO COME DOWN FROM GLORY
AND GO TO A SHAMEFUL CROSS TO HANG NAKED UPON THAT
AGONIZING TREE.
THERE TO HAVE IMPUTED BY HIS FATHER, MY GUILT, UPON
HIM AND TO TAKE IN MY PLACE THE PENALTY FOR SIN
THAT I CONDIGNLY DESERVED TO TAKE MYSELF.
WHAT HE ENDURED WE CANNOT KNOW, WE CANNOT
UNDERSTAND, THE PAINS THAT HE HAD TO BEAR, BUT I
BELIEVE IT WAS FOR US HE HUNG AND SUFFERED THERE.
I CAME TO SEE A LOVE THAT I HAD NEVER KNOWN BEFORE.
A PERSON WHO LOVED ME NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING THAT I
WAS, BUT IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING THAT I WAS; A
PERSON WHO LOVED ME PURELY AND ONLY BECAUSE OF WHAT
HE WAS; A GOD OF ALL GRACE AND A GOD OF LOVE; A GOD
THAT WAS WILLING UNCONDITIONALLY TO
FORGIVE ME OF ALL OF MY SINS AND TO ACCEPT ME INTO
HIS FAMILY; TO MAKE OF ME A NEW PERSON; TO CREATE A
NEW HEART WITHIN ME; TO CLOTHE ME IN THE ROBES OF
HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TO MAKE ME HIS SON, AN
HEIR ETERNAL; AND TO ASSURE ME A PLACE IN
PARADISE WHICH HE PAID FOR ON THE CROSS AND
ASCENDED TO PREPARE IN HEAVEN.
I KNOW THIS DAY THIS NIGHT THAT I WILL BE WITH HIM,
AND I HAVE KNOWN THAT FOR A NUMBER OF DECADES NOW
AND IT GETS MORE GLORIOUS AND MORE WONDERFUL WITH
EVERY PASSING YEAR.
MY LIFE HAS MEANING.
I KNOW THAT I AM A CHILD OF THE KING!
I AM OF A ROYAL FAMILY!
MY FATHER IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!
I KNOW THAT I HAVE BEEN CLEANSED AND GIVEN A GREAT
AND GLORIOUS PASSION FOR THIS WORLD AND A PURPOSE
FOR THIS WORLD, THAT I SHOULD INDEED PROCLAIM THE
GLORIOUS GLAD TIDINGS THAT GOD LOVES SINNERS AND IS
WILLING TO ACCEPT THEM AS THEY ARE, IF THEY WILL
REPENT OF THEIR SINS AND PLACE THEIR TRUST IN THE
DIVINE SON OF GOD, WHO SO LOVED THEM AND SO SUFFERED
IN THEIR PLACE.
AND DEAR FRIEND, I SAW THAT LOVE THAT NIGHT AS I
WAS SEATED ALONE IN MY APARTMENT, AFTER HAVING
LIVED A VERY PROFLIGATE LIFE.
WHERE GOD AND CHRIST HAD NO PLACE IN MY LIFE.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT MY HEART MELTED BEFORE THAT
LOVE AND I SLIPPED OUT OF THAT EASY CHAIR ONTO MY
KNEES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY ADULT LIFE AND I
SAID, "OH, GOD, I DIDN'T KNOW.
I DIDN'T KNOW.
FORGIVE ME.
I DIDN'T SEE ANY ANGELS; I HEARD NO ANGELIC CHOIRS,
BUT I STOOD UP FROM THAT PRAYER A DIFFERENT MAN!
THE NEXT MORNING, WHILE I WAS SHAVING, I REMEMBER
THE THOUGHT CAME INTO MY MIND: JESUS CHRIST THE SON
OF GOD DECLARES THAT I AM GOING TO LIVE WITH HIM IN
PARADISE FOREVER.
A CHILL WENT RIGHT DOWN MY SPINE, AND THAT, MY DEAR
FRIENDS, IS THE GREATEST ABSOLUTE I HAVE EVER
LEARNED AND IF YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED IT, IF YOU
HAVE NOT CLAIMED IT, GOD INVITES YOU TO COME TO HIM
AND RECEIVE THE FREE GIFT OF EVERLASTING LIFE.
MAY WE PRAY.
O GOD, THOU HAST MADE US FOR THYSELF AND OUR HEARTS
ARE RESTLESS TILL THEY REST IN THEE.
THERE ARE SOME HERE TONIGHT LORD, WHOSE HEARTS
ARE JUST THAT WAY.
THEY HAVE SOUGHT FULFILLMENT, AS AUGUSTINE
DID, IN LEARNING, IN EDUCATION, IN KNOWLEDGE,
BUT THAT GOD-SHAPED BLANK WITHIN THEIR HEARTS HAS
NOT BEEN FILLED.
LORD, I PRAY THAT RIGHT NOW, YOU WILL ENABLE THEM,
AS SO MANY HAVE DONE BEFORE, TO SAY: "O,
CHRIST, I SURRENDER MY LIFE TO YOU.
I KNOW I AM A SINNER UNDERNEATH ALL OF THE
PRETENSIONS.
I KNOW THAT I HAVE DONE MANY THINGS THAT I AM
ASHAMED OF.
HOW MUST YOU, THE ALL-HOLY GOD LOOK UPON THEM?
AND YET, AMAZING TO SAY, YOU ARE WILLING TO WASH ME
WHITER THAN SNOW, TO FORGIVE ME, TO CLEANSE ME,
AND TO ACCEPT ME AS YOUR CHILD, NOW AND EVERMORE.
WHEN THE STARS HAVE BURNT INTO CINDERS, AND THIS
UNIVERSE HAS COLLAPSED, I WILL STILL BE WITH YOU AND
WILL ONLY HAVE JUST BEGUN TO LIVE WITH YOU FOREVER.
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, MY LORD AND MY GOD, I PRAY."
AMEN.
IF YOU JUST PRAYED THAT PRAYER WITH DR. KENNEDY,
SINCERELY FROM YOU HEART, THEN WE WOULD LIKE TO
OFFER YOU A SPECIAL GIFT.
IT'S THE BOOK, BEGINNING AGAIN, WRITTEN BY
DR. KENNEDY FOR NEW BELIEVERS.
IN THESE PAGES YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO STUDY THE
BIBLE, HOW TO PRAY AND EVEN HOW TO TELL OTHERS
ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND THE DECISION YOU'VE MADE
TODAY.
TO RECEIVE YOUR COPY, JUST WRITE TO THE ADDRESS ON
YOUR SCREEN OR CALL OUR TOLL-FREE NUMBER.
AND BE SURE AND ASK FOR BEGINNING AGAIN.
GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO!
DR. KENNEDY'S MESSAGE IS PERHAPS MORE TIMELY EVEN
NOW THAN IT WAS WHEN HE DELIVERED IT.
OUR COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, MEDIA, AND
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS HAVE ONLY GROWN MORE
RELATIVISTIC IN RECENT YEARS.
AND YET, IT ONLY LEADS TO MADNESS.
WE ONLY HAVE HOPE IN THIS LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST,
WHO ALSO GIVES US HOPE FOR ETERNITY.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS MESSAGE FOR YOUR OWN
LIBRARY, OR TO SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE, PERHAPS
A COLLEGE STUDENT YOU KNOW WHO NEEDS TO SEE IT, WE'D
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THEM.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THIS EDITION OF KENNEDY
CLASSICS.
WE'RE STANDING FOR TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR
FREEDOM.
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
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