1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,280 This is why Nikola Tesla believed that the key to the 2 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:08,720 entire universe is hidden in these three numbers, 36 and 9. 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,200 This is pretty bold, even for Tesla. 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,800 I mean, the man did help invent radio, remote control, the AC 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,200 motor, and even wireless electricity. 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,960 So when he says something like that, I think we're at least 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:25,520 curious to know why Tesla not only believed 369 was special, 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,880 but he structured his life around them with an almost 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,240 unnatural intensity. He'd walk around a building 3 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,080 times before entering. He'd stay in hotel rooms only 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,200 divisible by three. He used 18 napkins, which is 3 * 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,000 6, to wipe down his cutlery before eating. 13 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,400 I mean, these are proper rituals and it sounds like he was very 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,080 regimented. But for Tesla, it was deeper 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,160 than that. It was sacred. 16 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:52,920 For him. It was like these numbers tapped 17 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,240 into something beyond logic. And here's where things get mega 18 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,360 insane. When you start digging into the 19 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,960 mathematics and the geometry of these numbers three, six, and 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,480 nine, they keep popping up in strange ways. 21 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:06,760 Check this out. Like I said, when Tesla said, if 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,400 mankind could understand the significance of three, six and 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:14,040 nine half keys to the universe, Will you play that video for me, 24 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:15,760 Jamie, and just count it as it goes. 25 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:21,920 Just let it let it play. You'll see 123. 26 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,600 And we know this is a magnet magnetism because it's expanding 27 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,160 in the center. Now you'll see 6 of these bonds 28 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,080 and those colors going across. There is basically the periodic 29 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,600 table 5-6. Yep. 30 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,480 And then the last one comes in and now you have your 9. 31 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,440 It's like they're not just in sequence, it's like they're 32 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,800 outside the pattern, not part of the material loop, but floating 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,480 above it somehow, a bit like an invisible framework holding 34 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,600 everything together without being seen in nature. 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,880 The number 9 subtly appears in ways that fascinated Tesla. 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,040 The structure of a sunflower seed, for instance, follows the 37 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,199 Fibonacci sequence, which often loops back to 9 when reducing 38 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,920 the numbers to a single digit. A human pregnancy lasts for 39 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:17,400 about 9 months and we have 9 essential amino acids needed for 40 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,640 survival. Even in time keeping. 41 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:24,760 There are 24 hours in a day and 2 + 4 = 6, but broken into 3 42 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:32,040 segments of eight hours, 8 + 8 + 8 = 24 and 2 + 4 again equals 6. 43 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,680 Keep going deeper and the number 9 often re emerges in cycles of 44 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,400 nature, sounds of frequencies, and even the geometry of the 45 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,640 vortex patterns in water and the galaxies. 46 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:47,080 While nine often gets the spotlight, Tesla also saw three 47 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,480 and six as part of a triad of creation, interconnected forces 48 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,680 that shaped everything from atoms to galaxies. 49 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,160 In nature and science, the number three shows up 50 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,960 everywhere. Atoms have three main 51 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:03,880 components, protons, neutrons and electrons. 52 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,880 Light splits into three primary colors, red, green, blue, and 53 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,880 stable structures like triangles are made of three sides. 54 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,760 DNA's genetic code is red in triplets, called codons, which 55 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,000 build the proteins essential for life. 56 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,480 We experience time as past, present and future, which is a 57 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,320 natural division into three parts. 58 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,120 And our world has three dimensions, length, width and 59 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,480 height. Even the moon cycles through 60 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,600 three main phases, new, full and Crescent, and Christians believe 61 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:36,360 in the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 62 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,200 This again echoes this sense of divine completeness. 63 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,840 The number six also carries strong signals. 64 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,320 Insects have 6 legs, snowflakes form with six fold symmetry and 65 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,360 bees build hexagon shaped honeycombs, a perfect example of 66 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,520 nature's efficient design. Carbon, the building block of 67 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,520 life, has 6 protons, neutrons and electrons, enabling it to 68 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,520 form complex molecules. Human bodies often reveal 6 pack 69 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,040 abs, which unfortunately I don't have one, highlighting that we 70 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,680 have a natural muscular segmentation. 71 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,360 And then of course, beyond the classic 5 senses, some additions 72 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,640 recognize that there is a sixth sense of intuition. 73 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,560 Sound frequencies and harmonic patterns often align with the 74 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,920 multiples of three and six, further linking these numbers to 75 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,160 the fabric of reality. So what was Tesla really 76 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,520 suggesting? He was claiming that we're only 77 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,800 scratching the surface of three, 6:00 and 9:00, and they are part 78 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,280 of some underlying secret code. So when he saw those numbers on 79 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,840 a clock, on a receipt, a license plate, he didn't just brush it 80 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:44,120 off. He thought it's a little wink 81 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,040 from the universe, or at least a little nudge to pay attention. 82 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,520 Because if Tesla was right, and he was right a lot, then 369 83 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,640 aren't just numbers. Now, you know me pretty well by 84 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,480 now, and you know that I am skeptical about what Tesla is 85 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,320 saying here. I very much doubt a lot of these 86 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,800 claims, although I do see the numbers in nature. 87 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,520 Let's just take what Tesla said of a pinch of salt. 88 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,600 So why did I make this video then? 89 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,840 Well, can I ask you, are you good with numbers? 90 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,000 Because right now there is an opportunity available for you. 91 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,920 You have an opportunity to win $1 million and is all you have 92 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,040 to do is solve a very hard maths problem. 93 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,920 In 1859, Bernard Ryman set a problem. 94 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,280 If you can solve the secret, the mysterious pattern behind where 95 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,400 all prime numbers are hidden, you will get $1 million. 96 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,560 So here's the question, 160 years later, has anyone solved 97 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,720 the problem? No, they haven't. 98 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,840 And this is where the Clay Mathematics Institute made this 99 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,200 offer. They will give $1 million to 100 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,200 anyone who can solve this problem. 101 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,120 But OK, surprise, surprise, I actually do believe there is one 102 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,760 person who does know the answer to this problem, and it's God. 103 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,440 A wiser man than me once said mathematics is just thinking 104 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,200 God's thoughts after him. So over to you. 105 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,240 Have you ever considered that this vast big God is also the 106 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,360 God who counts? The God of the universe is the 107 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,800 God who invented mathematics, and we're just catching up with 108 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,080 his thoughts years later. So there are three things I'd 109 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,600 like to say to you about the counting God. 110 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,720 Firstly, I want to talk about the beautiful things that God 111 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,200 counts. Secondly, I'd like us to look at 112 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,600 the scary things that God counts. 113 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,120 And thirdly, let's consider the one thing that God does not 114 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,000 count. Firstly, a beautiful thing that 115 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,720 God counts. He counts the stars. 116 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,520 Psalm 147 verse 4 says he counts the number of stars. 117 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,200 He calls them all by name. Did you know that there are 100 118 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,000 billion stars in one Galaxy, and there are about 2 trillion 119 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,240 galaxies in the universe? Scientists don't know exactly 120 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,520 how many stars there are, but they estimate there's about 1 121 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,840 septillion. And honestly, I'd never even 122 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,200 heard of that number until I did the research for this video. 123 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,880 And yet, what does the Bible say? 124 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,920 That God knows all of these stars, and not only that, he's 125 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,680 named them all. Apparently the average human can 126 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,480 only remember 150 names. So when all the people say I'm 127 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,400 terrible at remembering names, it's not necessarily because 128 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,440 their memory is going, it's just probably because they've maxed 129 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,640 out their brains capacity by meeting 150 people in their long 130 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:25,160 life. But here is something else 131 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,680 beautiful that God counts. He counts the numbers of hairs 132 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,800 on your heads. Why do I suddenly feel a little 133 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,920 bit conscious about my hairline? Well, it's because obviously for 134 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,120 some of us, it wouldn't take very long to count the numbers 135 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,840 of hairs on our head. But all jokes aside, it does 136 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,560 show us something, doesn't it? It shows us that God cares about 137 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,440 the trivial little things like our hair. 138 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,160 He cares. Here's this huge God who made 139 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,440 this massive universe, and yet he thinks of me. 140 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,640 He knows everything about me. The Bible also says that we 141 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,360 couldn't count the thoughts of God. 142 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,960 They're more numerous than the sand on the seashore. 143 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,320 OK, but here's the third beautiful thing that God counts, 144 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,360 and it's this. He counts our tears. 145 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:11,720 Psalm 56, verse 8 says you keep track of all my sorrows. 146 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,760 You've collected all all my tears in your bottle. 147 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:16,960 You've recorded each one in your book. 148 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,840 Isn't that a beautiful picture? That not one of your tears goes 149 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,840 unnoticed? Not one of your tears is 150 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,280 forgotten by the Lord God. He collects them in a bottle and 151 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,680 then records them in his book. I can't remember who said it, 152 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,200 but a lady of the past once remarked, yes. 153 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,159 But the problem is this God, there would not be a bottle big 154 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:39,799 enough on earth to collect all the tears that I've cried over 155 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,640 the years. What is God trying to say here? 156 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,480 He's trying to say that you are important. 157 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:49,160 You matter not in the sense of your ego or pride, but in your 158 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,760 value. You are deeply valuable to the 159 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,840 Lord God. No one in this world has the 160 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,600 right to say no one loves me because all you have to do is 161 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,680 look at the God who counts, who cares for you, who sent his Son 162 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,720 to die in a cross for you. My grandma sadly passed away in 163 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,240 her 50s, but you know what her favorite Bible verse was Cast 164 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,360 all of your cares on him, for he careth for you. 165 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:12,400 That's the God who are talking about. 166 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,520 Secondly, here are the scary things that God counts. 167 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,920 The first on this list is sin. Revelation 20 verse 12 says, and 168 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,880 I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne and 169 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,640 the books were opened. The dead were judged according 170 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,760 to what they had done, as is recorded in the books. 171 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,200 Have you ever thought about this? 172 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,880 Imagine you sin. Let's put a number on it 15 173 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,000 times a day. Do you think that's realistic? 174 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,640 Maybe you lose your temper. Maybe you think a rude thought. 175 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,080 Maybe you're prideful, maybe you gossip, maybe you watch 176 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,480 something you shouldn't or you laugh at something that you 177 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,440 shouldn't laugh at. 15 sins a day, I don't think that's 178 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,440 unrealistic. Well, for me at least, I think 179 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,920 that's being generous. I think I sin way more than 15 180 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,120 times a day. But how many sins is that? 181 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,440 In one week, that's 105 sins. What about in one year? 182 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,600 That's 5200 sins. Over 10 years, how many sins 183 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,720 have you committed? 52,000 sins. 184 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:11,000 And if you live into your 70s or into your 80s, that's 308, 185 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:15,080 83,000 sins. Yet many people say I'm a good 186 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,440 person. Many people say I'm OK, God sees 187 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,880 my life and he'll say, come into heaven, You've been a good boy, 188 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,480 You've been a good girl. Do we honestly think with 189 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,920 hundreds of thousands of sins written to our name, with the 190 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,320 books opened, with the God that sees every single one of our 191 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,240 sins and records them in his book, Do we honestly think that 192 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,960 we're just going to waltz into heaven and say, I'm a good 193 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:36,640 person? God, I've done all of these many 194 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,440 good things, of course you're going to let me. 195 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,920 And I'm not like those people you hear about on the news. 196 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,680 I'm a really good, upstanding citizen. 197 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,640 But OK, I can hear exactly what you're saying. 198 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,320 Joe, I really do think you're over exaggerating things. 199 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,720 I'm really not as bad as you're making out. 200 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,960 I certainly don't do 15 sins a day. 201 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,920 It's it's just one or two. Maybe it. 202 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,040 I am a good person. I really am. 203 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,560 Stop trying to make me seem worse than I am. 204 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,880 Well, let me put it another way to you Now. 205 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,520 I don't know how many pieces of paper there are here, but let's 206 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,080 imagine there's a hundred pieces of paper, and I want you to 207 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:14,040 imagine that each piece of paper represents one sin. 208 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,440 Now if I put this in front of me, I want you to imagine now in 209 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,200 front of me is the face of God. And my sins right here, all 210 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,120 these sins, they block me from the face of God. 211 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,760 That's what our sin does. The Bible says it's separated us 212 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,160 from a holy God. It stops us from having a 213 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,720 relationship with God. It stops us from having 214 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,760 friendship with this beautiful God. 215 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,960 So here it is. I've got these many sins that 216 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,000 are blocking the way. They're a barrier. 217 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,200 But watch what happens when I do this. 218 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,920 I've only got 1 sin. Now. 219 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,080 Does this one sin block the way block the face of God? 220 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,320 Of course it does. Even one sin is enough to keep 221 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,160 you out of heaven. Even one sin is enough to 222 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,480 separate you from a holy, holy God. 223 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,240 So whether your pile is message, if you have a huge pile of 224 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,680 thousands and thousands of sins, or if you just have a few sins, 225 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,680 it still blocks us from seeing the face of God. 226 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,440 It still stops us from seeing our Father in heaven. 227 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,760 You see, if the pass rate for a test is 100 and you get 99%, 228 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,720 have you passed the test? No, you haven't. 229 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,280 And yet did you know this? God's pass rate is 100%. 230 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,200 We can never meet it by ourselves, but I'm going to tell 231 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,080 you how we can get into heaven despite the fact every single 232 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,800 one of us has failed the test. So what's the second scary 233 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,000 thing? That God counts. 234 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,640 He counts our days. The Bible says teach us to 235 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,560 number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 236 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,680 Did you know this? The Lord God has allocated you a 237 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:55,720 certain amount of days, your days, your hours, your seconds. 238 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,160 They've been sovereignly decreed by the Lord God, and He knows 239 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,080 the very day that you're going to live until He knows the 240 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,200 length, He knows the span. Your death day is written on 241 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,520 God's calendar, and it will never exceed that, and neither 242 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:11,880 will it go shorter than that. It will be precisely when the 243 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,400 Lord God has sovereignly decreed. 244 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,120 And that's why we see people, you know, they go to the gym, 245 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,480 they're really healthy, they cycle, they eat organically. 246 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,280 And we say, why is it they passed away in their 30s, in 247 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,760 their 40s, their 50s? What happened? 248 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,280 And then you get someone who smokes like a chimney and drinks 249 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,240 like a fish and they live all the way into their 90s. 250 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,640 How does that happen? It happens in God's mysterious 251 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,800 Providence that God has numbered our days. 252 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,120 And that's the thought that perhaps you've never considered 253 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,520 before. Now, please don't misunderstand 254 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,360 me. Anyone who knows me well knows 255 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,600 that we do try to eat well. We do try to look after 256 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,920 ourselves. The Bible teaches that our body 257 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,000 is a temple of the Holy Spirit. So we are to look after our 258 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,440 bodies, but at the same time never forget just who is on the 259 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,120 throne. We're not as in control as we 260 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,480 think we are. The third scary thing that God 261 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:12,120 counts is He counts souls. Revelation 20 verse 15 says if 262 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:17,440 anyone's name was not found written in the book of Life, He 263 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,800 was thrown into the lake of fire. 264 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,600 So just picture that right now here. 265 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,800 It's saying in the Bible, it tells us that there is a great 266 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:30,360 big book of life, a book with all the names of all the people 267 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:34,080 who've ever trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ, all these names of 268 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,640 people who've asked Jesus Christ to wash away their sins, who've 269 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,120 asked Jesus to be their Lord and Saviour. 270 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,600 There is a book in heaven with a big long list of names. 271 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,560 And I want to ask you a very personal question, perhaps the 272 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,520 most important question anyone has ever asked you. 273 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:56,080 And it's this is your name written in that book? 274 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,560 Is your name written in the Lamb's book of life? 275 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,800 You've heard of Jesus disciples, of course. 276 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,120 Well, one day they'd come back and they'd done all kinds of 277 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,360 amazing things. They'd cast out demons. 278 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,600 They'd done loads of miracles and once they've done all of 279 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,440 these things, they came back to Jesus thinking that they were 280 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,120 the best thing since sliced bread. 281 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,200 They thought they were the bees knees and Jesus sort of rebuked 282 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,760 them. He said don't rejoice that the 283 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,560 demons tremble to you. Rejoice in this, that your name 284 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:31,160 is written in heaven, and that's something that we should see as 285 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,760 the greatest thing. If your name is written in 286 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,480 heaven, there is no greater gift than that. 287 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,080 But I would like to tell you right now, if your name isn't 288 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,320 written in heaven, there is a way that it can be. 289 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,800 And that leads us lastly to the one thing that God doesn't 290 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:53,200 count, and that is sin. Wait a second, Joe. 291 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:58,080 Sorry, Joe, Literally just a few seconds ago you told us that God 292 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,200 counts sin, and now you're saying he doesn't count sin. 293 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,960 Which one is it? Joe, you're really contradicting 294 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,200 yourself here. Well, just hear me out on this. 295 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,680 The Bible says blessed is the one whose transgression is 296 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,680 forgiven, Whose sin is forgiven. Blessed is the man against whom 297 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,920 the Lord God counts. No iniquity. 298 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,600 Did you catch that? If your sin has been forgiven, 299 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,400 in other words, it's gone. That word iniquity means sin. 300 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,800 And once the Lord God has forgiven you, He won't count 301 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,880 your sin to you anymore. If you've come to the Lord Jesus 302 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,080 Christ and asked Him to wash away your sins, the Lord stops 303 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,720 counting your sins. It's like your big pile of sin 304 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,240 goes down to 0. Now I do wonder how many of you 305 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,840 have been very observant. Have you noticed this stone 306 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:53,160 behind me? Well, OK, it says subscribe. 307 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,920 Now, if you want to subscribe, that's fine. 308 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,200 But this is a much more important lesson. 309 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,760 This stone represents your sin. I don't know what sin you've 310 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,800 committed. I don't know what sin you often 311 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:10,400 fall into, but what is the one sin that keeps you up at night? 312 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,079 What is the one thing you say? I wish I've never done that 313 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:16,680 before? Well, I want to picture whatever 314 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,520 sin that is written on this stone right now. 315 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,000 And if we can do this without being frivolous or 316 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,480 disrespectful, I want you to picture the very hand of God 317 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,200 taking this stone and throwing it like a javelin, throwing it 318 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:35,320 right into the air so, so high. And then it falls right to the 319 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,680 bottom of the ocean and it sinks and sinks right to the deepest 320 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,520 part of the ocean. Let's imagine the Mariana 321 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,720 Trench, it's gone now, isn't it? Is your sin ever going to come 322 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,840 back if it's at the very bottom of the ocean? 323 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,240 No, it's not. And A and a lovely Christian 324 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,320 lady called Corrie Tamboom once said where the Lord God casts 325 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:02,160 our sin, he also puts a sign there that says no fishing 326 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,200 allowed. So can I ask you, would you like 327 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,440 that for yourself? Would you like your sins to be 328 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,960 gone? Would you like the Lord God to 329 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,280 stop counting your sins? Because here's how it works. 330 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,040 Here we have this huge, big debt. 331 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,160 Here we have these thousands, hundreds of thousands of sins, 332 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,160 my sins, your sins, the sins of the entire world, every person 333 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,800 who has ever lived. I truly do believe all of these 334 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,480 sins, all the weight of that sin, this big pile of sin was 335 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:37,200 laid on Jesus Christ. And here the innocent one who 336 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,640 had no sin, the Lord God never had to count the amount of sins 337 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,160 of Christ, His Son. Why? 338 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,800 Because it would be 0. There was 0 sin in Him. 339 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,760 If you looked at His pile you would see nothing. 340 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,640 But yet He took all of our sins in His body, and there He died 341 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,520 in our place. There He endured the wrath, the 342 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,120 punishment for our sin. All our wrongdoing was placed on 343 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:10,160 Him, all our sins were laid on Him, and He died in our place. 344 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,320 He had nails driven through His hands, not because he'd ever 345 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,920 done anything wrong with His hands. 346 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:20,040 Every time He laid His hands on people, it was to heal them, it 347 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,760 was to help them. But He had nails driven through 348 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,280 his hands. For all the times that you and 349 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,080 I, I've done horrible things with our hands. 350 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,240 We've touched things, we've hurt people with our hands. 351 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:37,080 He had nails driven through his feet for all the times that you 352 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,240 and I have walked to places we shouldn't have. 353 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,560 And we knew that we should get out of that place. 354 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,240 We knew we shouldn't stay there. Our conscience said run away 355 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,840 from here, but we stayed there and didn't listen to the voice 356 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,520 of God, even though we knew we shouldn't be in that place. 357 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,160 He wore a crown of thorns on his head, not because he'd ever 358 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,080 thought wrong thoughts in his mind, but because you and I have 359 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:04,440 thoughts, evil, rotten, bad thoughts in our minds many 360 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,400 times. And then the Lord Jesus Christ 361 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,440 was put up on a cross as a spectacle. 362 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,120 Not because he deserved to be laughed at, not because he 363 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,600 deserved to be a spectacle, or not because he deserved to be 364 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:18,960 ashamed of anything he'd ever done. 365 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,280 He was innocent, but he became a spectacle. 366 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,080 He took our shame on the cross, dying there for all of the 367 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,000 embarrassing, terrible things we've ever done, our rottenness. 368 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,000 He died in our place on the cross. 369 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,160 If anyone puts their trust in the righteous Son of God, if 370 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:44,000 anyone calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible 371 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,960 says they will be saved, not they might. 372 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:52,360 They will be saved. And that is the only way you get 373 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:54,720 into heaven. Good people don't go to heaven. 374 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,800 You know, there will be many good, upstanding citizens like 375 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,280 we've talked about, and they will not get into heaven. 376 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,720 It's only forgiven people who go to heaven. 377 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,600 And the only way you can be forgiven is coming to the Lord 378 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,800 Jesus Christ and saying, have mercy on me. 379 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,480 I'm a Sinner. And then the Bible says, if we 380 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,160 put our trust in him, if we put our trust in the one who died on 381 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,200 the cross, the one who was put in a tomb. 382 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,480 And as you know, as Christians, we believe this, that one of the 383 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,160 best attested facts in history is that Christ Jesus rose from 384 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,000 the dead. This is what makes him so 385 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,720 special that he proved that he was the Son of God, that he 386 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,400 alone is the only one who can have the power to wash away our 387 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,200 sins. He alone is the only one to 388 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,920 conquer our death because he is the only one who really did 389 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,400 conquer the grave, who rose from the dead. 390 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,120 And it says in the Scripture, if we put our trust in him, the God 391 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:46,320 who counts the stars, the God who counts the hairs on our 392 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,480 head, the God who counts and numbers are tears. 393 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:55,320 It says this God will suddenly choose to stop counting our sins 394 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,800 anymore. The Bible says that he will 395 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,440 remember our sins no more. It says he will separate them as 396 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,360 far as the east is from the West. 397 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,560 So far our sins will be removed from us. 398 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,120 You can't get any further than the east is from the West. 399 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,040 And yet Jesus Christ says he can do that for you right now. 400 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:16,320 Whoever you are, whatever you've done, wherever you're watching 401 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,880 this from right now, Jesus can do that for you. 402 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,640 And the only question that needs to be asked right now is do you 403 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,520 want this for yourself? Let me leave you with one final 404 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,120 thoughts. There was a Brazilian woman a 405 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:34,800 number of years ago, and she'd been brought up in a very loving 406 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,960 home. Her parents smothered her with 407 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,080 love. They cared about her, they did 408 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:40,760 everything. They sacrificed a lot. 409 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,240 They worked hard, many long hours to give her the best life. 410 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,600 But very sadly, in her teenage years, she got into the wrong 411 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,200 crowds and eventually their only daughter ran away from home. 412 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,240 And you can imagine the kind of things she did in those crowds. 413 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,640 You can imagine where it eventually ended up leading her. 414 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,440 Many, many late nights walking on the streets. 415 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,800 And one night, after a particularly difficult night on 416 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,320 the streets, she got home. Picture her in a little tiny, 417 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,880 unclean flat, and then she sort of slumped on the floor. 418 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,400 As she sat on the floor, she saw there was an envelope that had 419 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,560 come through the letterbox. As she opened it, there in front 420 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,560 of her was a picture of her mother and father. 421 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,800 As tears started to fill her eyes, she turned it around and 422 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,880 saw that there was a message on the back. 423 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,320 It simply read these words. We don't care what you've done, 424 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,760 we just want you to come home. And my dear friend, the God of 425 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,480 the universe, the one who made all of this and counts all these 426 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:52,080 many different things, is saying the exact same message to you. 427 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,360 I don't care what you've done, I just want you to come home. 428 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,360 You might think you're too far gone. 429 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,640 You might think you've messed up far too much and God will never 430 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,360 have you anymore. But is all the Lord God cares 431 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:09,600 about is that you come home is all he cares about is that you 432 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,920 run into his arms right now and he'll save you. 433 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,760 He'll wash away all of your sins and he'll restore your dignity 434 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,680 and give you a new beginning. So if there's anyone listening 435 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,280 right now and you're picturing that book that has all these 436 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,800 names of all the Christians, all the believers in the world, the 437 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,680 Lamb's Book of life, If you're picturing that book and right 438 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,520 now you know your name is not written there, how does it go 439 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,880 into that book right now? If you can see that you're a 440 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,480 Sinner right now. If you can see the only one who 441 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,800 can save you is Jesus Christ, just tell him quietly. 442 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,560 Stop this video and just have quietness now you with the Lord 443 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:54,880 and ask him to save you, ask him to have mercy on you, ask him to 444 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,840 come and live inside of you and change your life and give you 445 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,160 eternal life. And once you do that, within a 446 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,760 second, your name will be written in the Lamb's book of 447 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,400 life because you've asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord and 448 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,320 Savior. And if you have done that, what 449 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,040 would be my next piece of advice? 450 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,920 Well, I would say now you're a Christian, you need to start 451 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,680 reading the Bible every day. Take in, learn about God, learn 452 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,680 about his messages, and let that entrance you go deep and it'll 453 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,520 guide you in your life. The next thing I'd say to you is 454 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,200 join a good local evangelical church that doesn't save you. 455 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,720 As I've said, the only thing that's saves you is the blood of 456 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,120 the Lord Jesus Christ washing away your sins. 457 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,120 But going to church will help you on this journey. 458 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,240 You need friends. You need Christians who will 459 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,440 help you and keep you on the right path. 460 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,320 And also when we worship together as a church, there's 461 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,640 nothing more beautiful than that and you'll find great joy there. 462 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,400 And then very lastly, if you signed up to my newsletter, we 463 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,240 do do very occasional every few months. 464 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:01,440 We do discipleship meetings on Zoom where we have a chat. 465 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,880 We look at a Bible study and, and we get a chance to talk and 466 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,320 ask questions. If you'd like to be part of that 467 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,640 and if you'd like to ask me any questions or you'd like to, or 468 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,360 you'd like to be encouraged by other believers, please do join 469 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:16,760 that by going to our website offthecurb.org. 470 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,760 And very, very lastly, if you are already a Christian and 471 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,200 you've hit the like button, you've subscribed and you want 472 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,240 to know a little bit more about Nikola Tesla from a Christian 473 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,800 perspective, you want to hear a video about him, Well, maybe you 474 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,280 should watch this one right here because I think you'll find it 475 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,760 very, very interesting. God bless you all and thank you 476 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:36,560 for watching.