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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

Jean Ross

When the Rubber Meets the Road

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Now, Here's your host from Amazing Facts International, Pastor Doug Batchelor.

Every time a jet plane lands, you see a little puff of white smoke as the wheels make contact with the ground.

This is because each tire leaves about 1 and a half pounds of burnt rubber on the runway.

Aircraft tires are stationary until touchdown when the sudden contact with the ground causes tremendous friction, quickly whipping them up to speeds of more than a hundred and 50 miles an hour and producing temperatures of around 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Jumbo planes, like the Airbus 380 with 22 tires, leave as much as 30 pounds of rubber on the runway with each landing.

In case you're wondering, a jet tire is only good for about 200 landings before it needs to be retreaded or replaced.

As you might guess, this rapid buildup of rubber can make runways very slick when wet.

At larger airports, Specialized crews must go out at night 3 or 4 times weekly to remove hundreds of pounds of excess tire rubber from the runways and clean it from the runway lights.

It's estimated that 10, 000 pounds of aircraft tire rubber is removed from US airports runways annually.

You've probably seen that Pastor Ross when the planes come in you see a big poof when they first make contact.

You know, you always wonder, why don't they figure out a way to turn the tires?

But I guess they're going to have to spin them real fast to get 150 miles or whatever it is to touchdown without the puff of smoke.

I thought maybe they could find some air pressure to get them spinning so there's not so much friction when they make contact.

But yeah, I'm glad that they clean off the rubber every now and then.

And they have to wait until the last planes come in at night.

Sometimes it might be 2 in the morning, then the crew gets out there real quick, and the lights on, and they clean off the runway and get it ready for the next day or next few days.

And it just reminded me that, you know, as we go through this life, even though we come to the Lord and we've accepted Jesus and we're baptized and our sins are washed away, sometimes we need a refreshing, we need to be recleansed.

And Jesus actually established something at the Last Supper where he washed the disciples' feet.

And he said, you know, not only are we to remember the Lord's death and sacrifice through the communion of the bread and the grape juice.

But Jesus said, if I, your Lord and master, have washed your feet, you ought to wash 1 another's feet.

But it makes me think of that verse that, if we confess our sins, and this is 1 John 1, verse 9, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So We're cleansed by coming to the Lord, we repent and we confess our sins.

Well, you know, you mentioned, Pastor Doug, the communion or the foot washing is a miniature baptism, but the Bible's clear that when 1 receives Christ as his personal Savior, He needs to make a public profession of that and that is through baptism.

Jesus said, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, cannot enter the kingdom of God.

So that public confession of our faith to be baptized by immersion following the example of Jesus, It's an important step and it's a wonderful step for the 1 being baptized.

You can claim the promise of the verse you just read that if we confess our sins, Christ will forgive us and cleanse us.

And you come up out of the water and you have a new walk with Christ.

And then when we have the Lord's Supper, communion, and even foot washing, that's sort of like cleaning the runway every now and then.

Well, I think we have a free offer that talks about that.

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But let's begin this broadcast with prayer.

Then we have other exciting announcements to share along the way.

Dear Father, once again, we are grateful for the opportunity to be able to open up Your Word and study.

As we always do, Lord, we ask for your presence to be with us here in the studio, And also be with those who are listening, if they're in their car or at home, wherever they might be.

And Lord, lead us to a clear understanding of truth, for the Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Thank you for your promise to be with us.

Well, we're ready to go to the phone lines.

Our first caller this evening is calling from Texas.

You know, science always tries to outdo God.

Are we able, is science able to look back in time, the days of Hezekiah, when the sun was turned back 10 degrees.

You know, I was thinking about that, and I don't know that science would be able to do it because, you know, what markers would they have in the sky that would demonstrate that?

I was wondering, was there any historical account?

You'd think maybe there was some other nation.

Now, it does say in the Bible that the Maggii in Babylon noticed it.

Of course everyone noticed it and they actually sent emissaries to find out about the wonder that had been done.

So in the Bible it says other nations took note of it But I don't know of extra biblical history where it's mentioned.

I mean, God can do anything, but if you stop the earth spinning on its axis for that period of time and then start it up again, there would be nothing in nature to indicate that, other than just the long day that the people had when they were there.

Yeah, And people would say, well, that was a really long day.

I haven't heard of anything, but I might poke around on the internet and see if there's anything in history.

Next 1 that we have is Lois from Florida.

My question is from Revelation 21, verse 4, the ending, where it says, The former things have passed away.

It's telling us that all the painful memories will be gone.

I think that not only are we hurt by painful events, we often are hurt when we remember them.

And you can see tears coming to a person's eyes when they talk about someone they love the past way.

They're just visiting that in their mind and it brings pain.

But I think that God is gonna cleanse us from the painful memories.

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