Well, we are once
again coming to you from our
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Worship Center here in West
Frankfort/Thompsonville, IL.
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And we're just so happy
to see each one that's here
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and we know that even more
of you will be coming tomorrow.
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We look forward to
your coming to be with us.
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Our speaker
tonight is John Carter.
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Needs absolutely no
introduction to our group.
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Is so well know by
all the viewers from 3ABN.
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He's the Speaker/Director
of The Carter Report.
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As an evangelist, he's held
meetings all over the world.
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And we love him. And
we're so glad that Beverley
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and two other
members of the team are here.
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Susie... and who is
that with you Susie?
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Ah, Javier. OK... Javier.
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All right. Good
to see you folks.
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We appreciate you
being here with us.
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Well listen: I never
will forget the night
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when John Carter and
Danny Shelton became a team.
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Any of you remember that night?
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I do. I was watching.
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Some of you were watching...
some of you were watching.
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I called them after
that program that night.
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I said: "This is from
God. This is made in heaven. "
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Those two came together
and proposed to do evangelism.
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And I believe it's
untold the number of souls
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that will be reached because
of that partnership together.
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Tonight you're going
to hear from both of them.
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Going to hear Pastor
John as he comes to preach
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to us... to speak to us
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and you're also going to
hear Danny Shelton come and sing
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one of my favorite songs:
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
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But before Danny comes
I'm going to ask his brother
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Kenny to come and to lead
us to the throne of grace.
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Pastor Kenny. Amen. Thank
God for the privilege of prayer.
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Yes. Amen. I'm
going to kneel up here
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and if you want to kneel,
fine. Kneel with me as we pray.
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All right.
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Our most kind,
gracious heavenly Father,
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we do thank you for
the privilege of prayer.
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We thank you that we have
a God in heaven that loves us
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with an everlasting love.
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We're thankful that You have
been showering us with the power
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of Thy Holy Spirit
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on everything that's been said
and done in this Camp Meeting.
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Lord, we thank
you for Your presence.
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Thank you for Your power.
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Thank you for the promise of
victory in each of our hearts
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and our lives. Oh Lord, we want
to be ready when Jesus comes.
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Now Lord tonight we
think of the bread of life
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that's soon to just be
broken once again to us.
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Lord, we're hungering to
hear the truth of God's Word
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that sanctifies us, prepares
us for the coming of Jesus.
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May Your Holy
Spirit accompany everything
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that's said,
everything that's done.
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Again Lord, we're
looking for fresh bread,
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fresh manna, and we know the
Holy Spirit can give that to us.
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We desire it.
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Bless Pastor Carter
in a very special way.
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Anoint him, continue to use him
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for Your honor
and for Your glory.
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We know he has blessed
our hearts through Your power
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and Your strength.
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As Bro. Danny comes to
sing, Lord, anoint his mind,
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his heart, and his lips.
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The most beautiful, beautiful
song, Lord, as he's going to
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sing tonight and bless
us we pray You'll give him
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Holy Spirit power.
Thank you for 3ABN.
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Thank you for all the
work for every individual,
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all the work,
all the preparation.
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We know that all the praise,
honor, and glory goes to You.
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Bless us now we pray.
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Father in heaven, may each
one who's come here tonight,
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those who are
viewing around the world,
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everyone that has a need
Lord I pray in faith believing
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that that need will
be met in Jesus Christ.
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Our loving Lord and our Savior,
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thank you for dying.
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Thank you for the
promise of coming again.
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We long for that day.
Help us to be faithful.
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In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen.
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O soul,
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are you weary
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and troubled?
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No light in
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the darkness you see?
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There's light
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for a look at
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the Savior,
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And life so abundant
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and free!
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Turn your eyes upon
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Jesus,
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Look full in
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His wonderful face;
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And the things of earth
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will grow strangely dim
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In the light of His glory
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and grace.
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His Word
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will not fail you
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He's promised;
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Believe Him and all will
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be well:
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Then go to a world that
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is dying,
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His perfect salvation
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to tell!
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Turn your eyes
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upon Jesus,
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Look full in
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His wonderful face;
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And the things of this old earth
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will grow strangely dim
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In the light of His glory
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and grace.
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In the light
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of Christ's glory
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and grace.
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Amen!
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Good evening my friends.
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Good evening. Let's
have a little talk tonight.
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How're you doing? Are
you pleased to be here?
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I tell folks at my stage of
life I'm pleased to be anywhere.
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I'm just so glad to see you.
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You look so good, so handsome!
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So intelligent.
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They're the sort of people
I like to come to my meetings:
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handsome, intelligent people.
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Now listen to this:
you don't have to be good
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to be saved.
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Oh come on... let's
have a little "Amen. "
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Amen. Every sinner here tonight
ought to shout out "Amen! "
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Aren't you folks? Don't
you know we're all sinners?
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So you don't have
to be good to be saved
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but you've got to
be saved to be good.
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Did you get that now?
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I'm going to say it again.
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All right. You
don't have to be good
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to be saved. What did I say?
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Come on, come on: you don't
have to be good to be saved
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but you've got to
be saved to be good.
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And if you
understand that tonight
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you'll understand the topic.
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The topic tonight
is The Blood Of Christ.
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How long does it
take to be saved?
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How much does it cost?
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How long does it take
for a sinner to be saved?
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How long does it take
for me to be good enough?
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I want you to take your Bibles.
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And remember: we only
guarantee the salvation
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of those people who
bring their Bibles to church.
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You know, that's
one of my sayings.
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I'm glad that you're
still laughing at it.
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Come over here to John chapter
3 and verse 16 and onwards.
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John chapter 3 and
verse 16 and onwards.
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And I've got a sermon
to preach in the morning.
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I wish it were the morning
already because I'm just about
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bursting to preach
the sermon in the morning.
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But I'm going to
preach this one tonight anyhow
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and this is a great sermon.
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John chapter 3
verse 16 and onwards.
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave
His one and only Son
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that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish
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but have everlasting life.
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For God did not send
His Son into the world
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to condemn the world
but to save the world
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through Him.
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Whoever believes in
Him is not condemned,
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but whoever does not
believe stands condemned already
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because he has not
believed in the name
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of God's one and only Son.
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This is the verdict.
Light has come into the world
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and men loved
darkness instead of light
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because their deeds were evil.
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Everyone who does evil
hates the light and will not
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come into the light for fear
that his deeds will be exposed.
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But whoever lives by the
truth comes into the light
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so that it may be seen
plainly that what he has done
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has been done through God. "
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I ran a campaign
years and years ago
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when I was a young...
when I was a younger man.
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I went into death row in Manila,
the great city of Manila.
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We rented the Filipino
International Conference Center
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in the heart of
the city of Manila.
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And I was asked to go
and preach to young men
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who were on death row.
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As I preached... These
young men were locked up
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and as I preached others
came and stood by the bars
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with their hands on the bars.
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What do you tell young men
who are going to be executed
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in a few days?
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How long does it
take to be saved?
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Is it going to take
them an hour? A day?
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A month? A year? A lifetime?
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I told them they could
be right with God right now.
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Amen.
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I told them that Jesus
had gone to the electric chair
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on their behalf.
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That's the language
that they understood.
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Then there was a man
who came into the meeting
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in the Filipino
International Conference Center
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and he sent me a note.
And he said: "Pastor Carter,
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I came to this
meeting tonight was a dagger
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because I've been
following a man all day
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and I had planned tonight
to kill him in your meeting. "
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But he said: "As you were
preaching about the love of God
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and the power of the gospel, the
Word of God changed my heart.
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And I've now
given my life to Christ
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and I'm going to be baptized
when you have the baptism. "
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How long did it take
that man to be saved?
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I told him: "You can be
right with God right now. "
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Now what do Seventh-day
Adventists believe on this?
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I want every person watching
on television, my friends
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in Australia... and I still have
some friends in Australia...
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I want to say to my
friends in Australia
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and my friends right
across this great land of the
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United States of America,
I want to say to the people
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up in the highlands
of Papua, New Guinea,
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where I was recently
and I came to your village,
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I want to say
this to every person:
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what do Seventh-day Adventists
believe on this subject?
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Do we believe in
the Trinity? Absolutely.
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We are Trinitarians.
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Do we believe in the
blood atonement of Christ
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on the cross? Yes and Amen.
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Do we believe the
moral influence theory
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that is so popular
in Southern California?
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What is the moral
influence theory that is held by
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a number of
so-called theologians?
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It is the idea that Christ
died to show us the love of God
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but on the cross He did
not make an atoning sacrifice
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for our sins. Tonight
we repudiate that doctrine.
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Amen! It is not
the truth of the Bible.
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Are we saved as some
people have charged us
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as believing that we
are saved by obedience
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to the law. We categorically
reject tonight that we are saved
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by our obedience to the law.
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We say to every person tonight
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who is watching the telecast:
you don't have to be good
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to be saved but you do
have to be saved to be good.
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Amen. I want you to
come over... You are
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a most excellent audience.
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You are listening to me
and you are saying "Amen. "
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And sometimes I hear some
people get overcome by emotion
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and they even clap their hands.
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Would you please come over
here to Ephesians chapter 2?
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Come over here to
Ephesians chapter 2
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and verses 8 to 10.
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Some people have said to
me: "You must never never
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clap your hands. " I said:
"Don't tell that to the trees
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because the Bible said
'all the trees of the field
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will clap their hands. ' "
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Come over here to
Ephesians chapter 2.
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But then perhaps the trees
know how to worship God better
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than some of the saints.
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Ephesians chapter 2.
Let's move on and stay off
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something that could
be slightly controversial.
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Ephesians chapter
2 and verses 8 to 10.
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Are you ready to go?
"For it is by grace...
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it is by grace... it is
by grace you have been saved
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through faith. And
it's not from yourselves;
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it is the gift of God.
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Not by works so
that no one can boast.
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For we are God's workmanship
created in Christ Jesus
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to do good works which
God prepared in advance
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for us to do. "
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The Bible tells me... and I
want every person watching the
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telecast who is not
a member of this church
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to understand this:
that Seventh-day Adventists
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are not legalists
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any more than Baptists or any
other branch of Christianity.
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We believe in the
great principle of this.
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Now listen, I'm going to go back
to the Protestant Reformation.
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We believe in sola scriptura.
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Amen. That means only scripture.
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I've had people come
to me in my own church
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and they say: "No, we
Adventists do not believe
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in sola scriptura.
We believe in the Bible
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plus this plus this plus
this plus church authority. "
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That is not the
teaching of the Bible.
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I believe in the
doctrine of sola scriptura:
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the Bible and the Bible alone.
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You know who else
believed in that? Ellen White.
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She said: "The words of
the Bible and the Bible alone
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should be heard
from our pulpits. "
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Why don't we do
what she tells us to do?
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Amen. "The words of the Bible
and the Bible alone should be
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heard from our pulpits. "
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I believe in sola scriptura
and I believe in sola Christus:
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only Christ. Amen.
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Only Christ... sola Christus.
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Sola gratia... only grace.
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Sola fide... only faith.
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That is the battle
cry of the Reformation,
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and I am a
Christian first and foremost.
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People come to me and
they say around the world:
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"What is your
religion? " I say to them:
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"First and
foremost I am a Christian. "
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"Oh, " people say, "no,
no, no. You're an Adventist. "
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No! First and
foremost I am a Christian.
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Secondly I am a Protestant.
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I believe in the Word
of God first and foremost.
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I am a Protestant. And thirdly
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I am a Seventh-day Adventist.
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But if you get
that round the wrong way
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you will neither be a Christian
nor a Seventh-day Adventist.
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Amen. So let us settle
this once and for all tonight
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and let everybody watching
the telecast hear it because
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it is the Word of God. We
believe in sola scriptura.
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You may say: "I don't like it. "
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Well then you are wrong. Amen.
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Sola scriptura, sola Christus,
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sola gratia and sola fide.
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I throw that in so
people think I know Latin.
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We all need grace
because we are a part
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of fallen, sinful humanity.
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Come over here to
Romans chapter 5 and verse 12.
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Are you folks having a good
time here in church tonight?
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Amen. I'm having a good
time here in church tonight.
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I feel like preaching tonight.
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That's always dangerous
when I feel like preaching.
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If I'm feeling tired,
the congregation is somewhat
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protected, but
tonight I'm feeling good.
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Come over here to
Romans chapter 5 verse 12.
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This is a text that
most people don't understand,
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and they don't understand
it because they don't read
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their Bibles. "Therefore
just as sin entered the world
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through one man...
" Who was that? Adam.
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"and death through sin
and in this way death came
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to all men because all sinned. "
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The Bible tells me...
If you read the context
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it says: "All sinned.
" Our own commentary says
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we sinned... When it
talks about we all sinned
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in this context it says
"we all sinned in Adam. "
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Understand that? When
Adam was driving the car
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we were sitting
in the back seat.
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People say: "I wasn't there. "
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Where do you think you were?
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Where did you come from?
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When Adam sinned and when
he took humanity off the road
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we came off the road.
And this is why David says
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in Psalm 51... he says:
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"I was born in sin
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and in sin did my
mother conceive me. "
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And that is why the
great preacher Spurgeon said:
00:20:14.91\00:20:16.93
"We have the black
blood of Adam coursing
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through our veins. " You wonder
why children are disobedient?
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You wonder why
little babies show symptoms
00:20:23.90\00:20:28.31
of bad temper?
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It is because we are
born in a state of sin.
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That is the
teaching of the Bible
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and you cannot
understand the gospel unless you
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understand that. And
that's why Jesus said:
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"You've got to be born again. "
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Our problem is more
than economic as Mark said.
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More than
social. In America today
00:20:54.71\00:20:58.00
we think we're
going to save the world
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by a new set of elections.
00:21:00.46\00:21:02.60
Dream on.
00:21:02.80\00:21:04.22
It is not political.
00:21:04.52\00:21:06.64
Salvation is not found
in the Democratic Party
00:21:06.85\00:21:10.32
and it's not found
in the Republican Party.
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Salvation is found in
the Jesus Party. Amen!
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You need to know that.
00:21:16.99\00:21:18.36
Our problem is not basically
psychological or sexual
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as Freud said.
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We may have all of these
problems but they're only
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symptoms.
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We have a
disease... every one of us.
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In Africa many years ago
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a young Baptist lady -
missionary - was treating
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patients and they
were dying like flies.
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The symptoms were all the same:
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a terrible
headache on the third day,
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ulcers in the mouth,
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and by about the fifth or the
sixth day the person was dead.
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They could do
nothing... the Lassa virus.
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And then one day after
she had treated a patient -
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done a post-mortem
- the knife slipped.
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She ran to the tap
and turned on the pressure
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and sponged it as
much as she could.
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About three days
later she had a headache.
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Then the ulcers at
the back of the tongue.
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And then on the sixth or
the seventh day she died.
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They flew the
organs to New York City
00:22:19.61\00:22:22.15
and doctors - scientists
- worked... Are you folks
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listening on television?
00:22:25.61\00:22:26.99
Hey, you better listen to this
00:22:27.29\00:22:29.49
because you may
get saved tonight.
00:22:29.69\00:22:31.78
And when they looked
at the organs they worked
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in space suits as it were.
00:22:38.44\00:22:40.62
But after a week or two
00:22:40.82\00:22:43.08
of these scientists
working on the organs
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several of the
scientists got a headache.
00:22:45.26\00:22:47.21
And then the ulcers in
the mouth and then they died.
00:22:48.32\00:22:52.33
The American people were not
told this as they are not told
00:22:52.53\00:22:56.07
many things.
00:22:56.27\00:22:58.28
You're told what the
government wants you to know.
00:22:58.88\00:23:02.72
They thought: "If this
thing gets out on the streets
00:23:04.95\00:23:07.66
of New York
we're a dead nation. "
00:23:07.77\00:23:09.95
Then they discovered that
this terrible virus in Africa
00:23:11.29\00:23:15.09
was spread by rats.
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.35
If you were bitten
you were a "gonner. "
00:23:18.34\00:23:21.14
But the Bible teaches
me that there is something
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that is more deadly
than the Lassa virus
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and you and I are born with it.
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And that is why we find
it so hard to think straight.
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It is called sin.
00:23:36.66\00:23:38.42
Romans 6:23.
00:23:38.62\00:23:40.80
Now folks, unless you
understand the truth about sin
00:23:41.91\00:23:44.82
you won't
understand the good news.
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Who needs good news
unless you know the bad news?
00:23:46.87\00:23:51.05
Romans 6:23.
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"For the wages
of sin is death... "
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That's why everybody dies:
00:23:55.63\00:23:57.30
because we are
a race of sinners.
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If we were a
race of perfect people
00:24:00.39\00:24:03.21
we would stop dying.
00:24:03.41\00:24:05.03
"For the wages of sin is death
00:24:05.34\00:24:08.42
but the gift of
God is eternal life
00:24:08.62\00:24:11.86
in Christ Jesus our Lord. "
00:24:12.06\00:24:14.20
Are you listening? Amen!
00:24:14.40\00:24:16.50
We are all alike sinners
00:24:16.80\00:24:20.89
but we are not
all sinners alike.
00:24:21.10\00:24:24.82
We all have our specialties.
00:24:25.88\00:24:28.95
Sin is everywhere manifested
00:24:30.03\00:24:34.27
including the
church... especially the church.
00:24:34.47\00:24:38.93
Hate, lying...
lying. Christians lie.
00:24:39.14\00:24:44.29
Not if you're a born
again Christian you don't.
00:24:45.09\00:24:48.87
Hate, lying,
stealing, slandering, lust,
00:24:50.70\00:24:56.42
the love of
power. Not in the church?
00:24:56.63\00:24:59.24
Especially in the church.
00:24:59.44\00:25:01.89
The love of POWER
00:25:02.19\00:25:04.21
so I can dictate to people.
00:25:05.44\00:25:08.29
The love of money,
spiritual superiority,
00:25:08.49\00:25:12.76
I am better than you
are, racial superiority,
00:25:12.96\00:25:16.97
pride.
00:25:17.17\00:25:19.25
And of course,
the sins of the spirit
00:25:19.85\00:25:23.71
are worse than
the sins of the flesh.
00:25:23.91\00:25:28.40
Jesus had a great deal
of success with prostitutes
00:25:28.60\00:25:33.76
but virtually no
success with Pharisees...
00:25:33.96\00:25:36.84
the people in the church.
00:25:36.94\00:25:38.32
It is far harder to save
a bunch of religious people
00:25:38.52\00:25:43.83
than it is to save
a bunch of atheists...
00:25:44.03\00:25:48.42
and I know.
00:25:48.62\00:25:50.30
Remember the story of the man
who worked in the big factory?
00:25:53.03\00:25:57.84
And every night at 5
o'clock when he finished work
00:25:58.85\00:26:02.73
he would walk through
the gate of the factory
00:26:02.83\00:26:06.51
pushing a wheelbarrow.
00:26:06.71\00:26:09.02
And they wondered: "What
on earth is he stealing? "
00:26:10.03\00:26:14.56
And they would each
night take that wheelbarrow
00:26:15.52\00:26:19.06
to pieces and they would search
to see what he was stealing.
00:26:19.26\00:26:24.32
After a few
months they discovered
00:26:24.52\00:26:26.35
he was stealing wheelbarrows.
00:26:26.55\00:26:29.00
Now listen: we are all
pushing wheelbarrows...
00:26:31.07\00:26:36.94
wheelbarrows of
one sort or another.
00:26:37.34\00:26:41.77
And that is why we
all need redemption.
00:26:41.97\00:26:47.04
Now listen to
you... listen to me.
00:26:47.34\00:26:49.47
You... watching the telecast.
00:26:49.67\00:26:51.82
I say it again:
Jesus had a lot of success
00:26:52.12\00:26:56.06
with
prostitutes, with adulterers,
00:26:56.27\00:27:00.66
but the hardest
person to help is the person
00:27:00.86\00:27:04.80
who feels that
somehow he is spiritually
00:27:05.00\00:27:10.29
superior.
00:27:10.49\00:27:12.52
Hell is reserved
00:27:13.84\00:27:17.31
with its hottest fires
for the religious person
00:27:17.51\00:27:22.22
who is puffed up with pride
00:27:22.42\00:27:25.02
and who wants to
control his brethren
00:27:25.22\00:27:27.61
because that's the wheelbarrow
that the devil invented
00:27:31.41\00:27:35.13
especially. Would you come
over here to Romans chapter 3
00:27:35.23\00:27:38.71
and verse 9?
Romans 3 and verse 9.
00:27:38.81\00:27:42.02
Now all you've got to do
tonight as you listen to this
00:27:42.22\00:27:45.05
is not say: "Do I believe
this or do I not believe this? "
00:27:45.25\00:27:49.70
All you've got
to say tonight is:
00:27:50.00\00:27:51.37
"Is this what
the Bible teaches? "
00:27:51.52\00:27:53.55
That's what you've got to do.
00:27:53.75\00:27:55.12
We go by sola scriptura.
00:27:55.15\00:27:56.93
Romans 3 verse 9.
00:27:57.23\00:27:59.19
"What shall we conclude
then? Are we any better?
00:28:00.29\00:28:02.70
Not at all. We have
already made the charge
00:28:02.90\00:28:05.95
that Jews and Gentiles
alike are all under sin.
00:28:06.15\00:28:11.58
As it is written:
'there is no one righteous
00:28:13.41\00:28:16.82
not even one. ' "
00:28:17.13\00:28:19.02
Verse 23:
00:28:19.23\00:28:20.94
This is a verse we seldom
read... seldom believe it.
00:28:22.18\00:28:26.38
"For all have sinned...
" That is the past tense.
00:28:27.48\00:28:31.00
"For all have
sinned and fall short
00:28:31.20\00:28:35.38
of the glory of God. "
When it says "fall short
00:28:35.58\00:28:39.06
of the glory of God"
00:28:39.26\00:28:41.88
that is in the
Greek present continuous.
00:28:41.91\00:28:47.35
It means that we
continue to fall short
00:28:47.55\00:28:51.99
of the glory of God.
00:28:52.19\00:28:54.81
And every one of us
at this meeting tonight
00:28:55.01\00:28:58.47
is a sinner falling
short of the glory of God.
00:28:58.67\00:29:04.01
And that is why we need
the blood of Jesus. Amen!
00:29:04.21\00:29:08.43
You know what we need also?
00:29:10.31\00:29:11.93
We need a revelation
00:29:12.33\00:29:17.05
like John Newton: a
revelation by the Holy Spirit.
00:29:17.25\00:29:22.26
John Newton - converted through
the preaching of the Wesleys -
00:29:24.44\00:29:30.36
an Anglican clergyman,
00:29:30.56\00:29:33.91
wrote the great British hymn
00:29:34.21\00:29:36.80
Amazing grace...
how sweet the sound
00:29:37.00\00:29:42.36
that saved a wretch like me.
00:29:42.66\00:29:46.67
I once was lost
00:29:46.88\00:29:49.28
but now I am found;
00:29:49.48\00:29:51.28
I was blind but now I see.
00:29:51.58\00:29:54.17
Amen.
00:29:54.38\00:29:55.75
Just before
Newton died he went blind
00:29:55.78\00:30:00.72
and he said these words.
00:30:01.98\00:30:03.93
Listen to them: "My
memory is almost gone.
00:30:04.14\00:30:08.35
I can remember
but two great truths:
00:30:08.55\00:30:12.78
I am a great sinner
00:30:13.08\00:30:16.09
and Christ is a great Savior. "
00:30:16.29\00:30:19.88
I wish every
person here tonight,
00:30:20.18\00:30:22.55
I wish every person in
the General Conference,
00:30:22.85\00:30:25.70
I wish every person
in this 3ABN outfit,
00:30:26.01\00:30:30.55
I wish every
person in my church,
00:30:30.75\00:30:33.84
I wish every person on the
staff of The Carter Report,
00:30:34.04\00:30:38.08
I wish that every
person in every church
00:30:38.39\00:30:42.11
could cry out
tonight to God and say:
00:30:42.31\00:30:44.76
"I am a great sinner... " Amen.
00:30:44.96\00:30:48.67
"but Christ is a
great Savior. " Amen!
00:30:50.09\00:30:54.44
But remember: sin makes us blind
00:30:57.39\00:31:02.74
to our own faults
but very conscious
00:31:02.94\00:31:06.00
of the faults of others.
00:31:06.20\00:31:07.72
Let me talk
about the great Savior.
00:31:08.02\00:31:12.08
There was a Russian nobleman
00:31:13.62\00:31:15.51
hopelessly in debt like
the United States government.
00:31:15.71\00:31:19.58
And so he got a catalog
00:31:23.71\00:31:26.99
honestly of all his debts.
00:31:27.09\00:31:30.16
And he wrote them down with
a shaking and trembling hand
00:31:30.19\00:31:36.10
on a manuscript.
00:31:36.34\00:31:38.50
And then he wrote
across this awful list/catalog
00:31:38.70\00:31:43.88
of his debts: "Who
can pay all my debts? "
00:31:43.98\00:31:48.69
And then he fell across
the page in nervous exhaustion.
00:31:48.89\00:31:54.28
By the grace of God
the Czar of Russia -
00:31:54.58\00:31:58.21
Peter the Great - came
that day to see his old friend.
00:31:58.42\00:32:02.17
And he came in through
the door of the lord's palace
00:32:02.37\00:32:06.86
and he walked into his study
00:32:07.06\00:32:09.50
and there he saw his friend
lying prostrate across the list.
00:32:09.70\00:32:15.31
And he noticed the words
00:32:16.38\00:32:18.71
"Who will pay
00:32:19.01\00:32:22.41
all my debts? "
00:32:22.61\00:32:25.72
And the Czar of
Russia - Peter the Great -
00:32:26.02\00:32:29.29
picked up the pen
and he wrote across it
00:32:29.60\00:32:32.52
"I Peter the
Great, the Czar of Russia,
00:32:32.72\00:32:37.66
will pay all your
debts. " And he did.
00:32:37.86\00:32:42.10
The Bible tells
me that on the cross
00:32:45.73\00:32:50.07
the Son of God
opened up His veins
00:32:50.37\00:32:55.15
and He wrote cross
the parchment of our guilt
00:32:55.35\00:32:59.41
and our sins He wrote the words
00:32:59.61\00:33:02.47
"I, Jesus Christ -
Lord of the universe -
00:33:02.67\00:33:07.70
will pay all your debts. "
00:33:07.90\00:33:10.90
And He did. Praise God. Amen!
00:33:12.19\00:33:15.35
I want you to notice tonight
the greatest of all truths.
00:33:15.65\00:33:19.35
Now you may think this is
an easy subject to preach on
00:33:21.46\00:33:25.97
because it is the gospel.
00:33:26.17\00:33:28.24
The gospel is the
hardest subject I ever preach on
00:33:28.64\00:33:32.10
because for most people it's
an incomprehensible mystery.
00:33:32.50\00:33:38.45
And I speak about
people in the church as well.
00:33:38.65\00:33:43.24
I've been a pastor for 50 years
00:33:43.44\00:33:46.34
and when this subject
is preached unless we have
00:33:46.74\00:33:50.35
a divine revelation we
will stay in our sickness
00:33:50.45\00:33:54.13
and in our sin
and in our darkness.
00:33:54.33\00:33:56.99
Please open your
Bibles and turn with me
00:33:58.13\00:34:01.18
to II Corinthians
chapter 5 and verses 20 and 21.
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II Corinthians chapter 5
00:34:07.36\00:34:10.92
and verse 20 and onwards
dear hearts and gentle people.
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II Corinthians chapter
5 and verses 20 and 21.
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Those of you watching on
television: listen carefully.
00:34:22.28\00:34:25.01
Tonight may be the time
when you're going to be saved.
00:34:25.31\00:34:28.27
II Corinthians
chapter 5 verse 20.
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Are we ready to go?
00:34:31.36\00:34:33.20
The Bible says: "We are
therefore Christ's ambassadors
00:34:33.60\00:34:39.05
as though God were
making His appeal through us.
00:34:39.35\00:34:41.84
We implore you
on Christ's behalf
00:34:42.04\00:34:44.58
be reconciled to God.
00:34:44.78\00:34:47.51
God made Him who had no
sin... " This is Christ.
00:34:47.71\00:34:51.88
"God made Him who had
no sin to be sin for us
00:34:52.08\00:34:57.64
so that in Him we might become
the righteousness of God. "
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Listen carefully.
00:35:04.29\00:35:05.95
In my campaigns when
I spoke in Port Moresby
00:35:06.90\00:35:11.06
on this subject we had
125,000 people listening.
00:35:11.16\00:35:15.90
Not a stir; not a murmur
00:35:16.20\00:35:19.49
as the Word of God
was carried by the Spirit
00:35:19.69\00:35:23.59
into the hearts of
the great multitude.
00:35:23.79\00:35:26.47
But I went to my blackboards
00:35:26.67\00:35:28.96
and I wrote it up and
the cameras came in close
00:35:28.99\00:35:32.22
and they put it up
on the giant screens
00:35:32.42\00:35:35.00
you must use your imagination.
00:35:35.20\00:35:37.93
I put up the
cross like a giant T.
00:35:39.28\00:35:45.19
On one side I put Christ;
00:35:45.49\00:35:48.14
on the other
side I put humanity.
00:35:48.45\00:35:53.17
On the side of
Christ I put sinless.
00:35:54.14\00:35:57.27
On the side of
humanity I put sinful.
00:35:58.55\00:36:02.02
On the side of
Christ I put righteous.
00:36:02.42\00:36:05.97
On the side of
humanity I put unrighteous.
00:36:06.37\00:36:11.52
On the side of
Christ I put peace with God.
00:36:12.03\00:36:15.75
On the side of
humanity I put despair...
00:36:16.71\00:36:21.16
damnation.
00:36:21.56\00:36:23.77
On the side of
Christ I put eternal life
00:36:24.65\00:36:28.10
and on the side of
humanity I put eternal death
00:36:28.31\00:36:32.37
with all its terrors.
00:36:32.48\00:36:34.09
On the side of
Christ I wrote up heaven
00:36:34.81\00:36:39.05
and on the side of
humanity I put down hell.
00:36:40.40\00:36:44.99
And then I said to
the great multitude
00:36:47.22\00:36:50.31
"The great Savior came
and stood in our place. "
00:36:50.51\00:36:56.12
On the cross... on the
cross of Christ in the sight
00:36:58.24\00:37:02.84
of Almighty God Christ
became in the sight of God
00:37:03.04\00:37:08.94
the most sinful of men.
00:37:09.14\00:37:11.21
Unrighteous.
00:37:12.43\00:37:14.73
His soul was filled
with despair and He cried out
00:37:15.13\00:37:20.75
the cry of dereliction:
00:37:20.95\00:37:23.47
"My God, My God: why
have You forsaken Me? "
00:37:23.67\00:37:27.87
Christ did not
die as a Christian.
00:37:28.07\00:37:31.83
He died as a doomed, lost soul.
00:37:32.97\00:37:37.17
Unless that penetrates
the consciousness of your mind
00:37:37.37\00:37:41.68
you cannot be saved.
00:37:41.88\00:37:43.40
The horror of an awful
darkness came upon Him.
00:37:46.00\00:37:50.43
He tasted eternal
death; He went through hell.
00:37:50.63\00:37:55.07
He felt the
darkness of the atheists...
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the doom of the damned.
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That is why from a
heart that was panting
00:38:09.13\00:38:14.49
and a soul in terrible distress
00:38:14.69\00:38:18.29
He said: "Oh My Father,
why have You forsaken Me? "
00:38:21.75\00:38:26.88
He went through this so that
you and I by the grace of God -
00:38:27.95\00:38:32.47
listen to the words and
don't misunderstand them -
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might be accounted...
might be accounted...
00:38:35.79\00:38:40.68
might be accounted
sinless, righteous,
00:38:40.88\00:38:44.37
have peace with God,
00:38:44.57\00:38:46.35
and have eternal life now
00:38:46.55\00:38:49.40
and have heaven in our soul
00:38:49.60\00:38:51.76
and live forever.
00:38:51.96\00:38:54.56
That is the gospel.
00:38:54.86\00:38:56.60
So it means this:
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that our blessed Lord
with His blessed blood
00:39:06.08\00:39:10.58
made an atoning sacrifice
00:39:10.78\00:39:13.55
for the sins of every
lost son and daughter.
00:39:13.75\00:39:17.66
For all the descendants of Adam.
00:39:17.96\00:39:20.93
The guilty human race
He made an atonement for
00:39:20.96\00:39:25.42
so that if tonight I
come as one of those young men
00:39:25.62\00:39:30.02
in Manila who was about
to go to the electric chair
00:39:30.22\00:39:34.62
if I come in
penitence and faith in Christ -
00:39:34.92\00:39:39.42
sola fide; sola
gratia; sola Christus -
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I truly believe in
that moment I am saved
00:39:45.86\00:39:50.33
and I pass from
death to life tonight.
00:39:50.53\00:39:54.24
Now!
00:39:54.55\00:39:56.39
Do you believe that? Amen.
00:39:59.07\00:40:01.20
Why do you think
it's called gospel?
00:40:02.20\00:40:05.02
Because it means good news.
00:40:05.22\00:40:08.01
People tell me: "No,
no, no, no... it's not so.
00:40:08.31\00:40:10.73
You've got to work
harder. You can't do this.
00:40:10.83\00:40:13.08
You've got to be perfect
before you go to heaven. "
00:40:13.28\00:40:15.65
My friend, that
is not good news.
00:40:15.75\00:40:17.85
That is the worst
news you've ever heard
00:40:17.96\00:40:19.68
because you'll
never do it. Amen.
00:40:19.88\00:40:22.90
The good news is that
everything that God requires
00:40:23.13\00:40:28.36
of me for time and eternity
00:40:28.56\00:40:31.85
has already been
accomplished for me
00:40:32.06\00:40:35.61
in the person of Christ. Amen!
00:40:35.81\00:40:38.94
Now listen:
00:40:42.31\00:40:43.86
to understand this you
need a revelation from God.
00:40:44.17\00:40:48.44
What do you say?
"No... but I'm an Adventist. "
00:40:48.74\00:40:52.10
Being an
Adventist doesn't save you.
00:40:52.50\00:40:55.25
Did you hear what I'm saying?
00:40:55.65\00:40:57.88
Being an
Adventist doesn't save you.
00:40:58.08\00:41:01.72
Adventists in the last days...
some of them will even get
00:41:01.92\00:41:05.56
the mark of the beast because
they are such conformists
00:41:05.67\00:41:09.40
and because they
follow the teachings of men
00:41:09.71\00:41:13.62
rather than the teachings of
God. Are you listening to me?
00:41:13.82\00:41:17.56
So what we need is
a revelation from God.
00:41:19.20\00:41:22.64
Do you know why
God has blessed me?
00:41:22.84\00:41:24.63
Do you know why we had the
largest crowds in the history
00:41:24.84\00:41:27.88
of the Adventist church?
00:41:28.18\00:41:31.17
The largest crowds in
the history of that part
00:41:31.37\00:41:33.65
of the world? I
will tell you why:
00:41:33.75\00:41:35.73
it is because of
the blood of Christ.
00:41:35.93\00:41:39.17
It is because of the
power of the blood of Christ
00:41:39.37\00:41:42.75
ministered by the Holy Spirit.
00:41:42.95\00:41:45.25
And what you need to understand
this is a revelation from God.
00:41:46.36\00:41:50.13
People say:
"I've never had it. "
00:41:50.33\00:41:51.80
Then, perhaps,
friend you're not saved.
00:41:51.90\00:41:53.51
Come over here to Galatians
chapter 1 verses 11 and 12.
00:41:54.76\00:41:57.82
Are you folks still
listening? Amen! Uh-huh.
00:41:58.02\00:42:00.83
Now my aim in this sermon
00:42:01.03\00:42:05.15
as in every one of my sermons
00:42:05.35\00:42:06.72
is not to win a
popularity contest.
00:42:06.88\00:42:09.42
It is to see people
saved in the kingdom. Amen!
00:42:09.62\00:42:12.53
Galatians chapter
1 verses 11 and 12.
00:42:12.66\00:42:15.47
Galatians 1 verses 11 and 12.
00:42:15.67\00:42:19.36
Look at these words.
00:42:21.18\00:42:22.75
We don't read Galatians too much
because we say "it's too hard. "
00:42:22.85\00:42:25.74
That's what the devil
tells you: "Don't read it. "
00:42:26.18\00:42:29.35
I want you to know, brothers,
that the gospel I preach
00:42:29.55\00:42:34.61
is not something
that man made up.
00:42:35.01\00:42:38.18
I did not receive it from
any man nor was I taught it.
00:42:38.48\00:42:43.61
Rather I received
it - say it with me -
00:42:43.81\00:42:46.33
by... come on, come
on... by revelation.
00:42:46.53\00:42:49.81
How? By revelation.
00:42:49.91\00:42:52.31
How? By revelation
from Jesus Christ. Amen!
00:42:52.41\00:42:56.87
Now look at me.
00:42:57.07\00:42:58.52
You can go to
church for 100 years
00:42:59.64\00:43:04.31
and sit in the pew.
00:43:04.61\00:43:06.85
You can be the
pastor of the church.
00:43:07.05\00:43:10.43
You can be the head...
00:43:10.63\00:43:12.29
No, you can't be
the head of the church
00:43:12.50\00:43:14.14
because the head of
the church is Jesus. Amen!
00:43:14.34\00:43:17.14
But you can work your
way up in the hierarchy
00:43:17.27\00:43:22.20
but unless you've
had a revelation from God
00:43:22.40\00:43:26.78
you're not
going to heaven. Amen.
00:43:26.98\00:43:30.39
Now what
revelation am I talking about?
00:43:30.62\00:43:32.66
The Bible tells me that
Paul got a revelation from God.
00:43:33.06\00:43:38.69
We are born with a
knowledge of the law.
00:43:39.86\00:43:43.93
You know it's wrong to steal.
00:43:44.34\00:43:46.48
We are born with a
knowledge of the law
00:43:46.68\00:43:50.52
but we are not born with
a knowledge of the gospel.
00:43:50.72\00:43:53.74
The gospel has got
to be revealed to me.
00:43:54.84\00:44:00.40
I've had people come to me
00:44:00.60\00:44:02.30
who've been brought up in
the church all their lives -
00:44:02.40\00:44:05.37
officers,
ministers - and they've said:
00:44:05.57\00:44:08.77
"After the sermon
tonight for the first time
00:44:08.97\00:44:12.56
I am right with God right now
00:44:12.76\00:44:15.00
because God
revealed it to me tonight. "
00:44:15.20\00:44:19.94
John Wesley was
an Anglican minister.
00:44:22.19\00:44:25.78
That's about as close to earthly
perfection as you can get.
00:44:26.08\00:44:30.22
He was an Oxford
scholar, a clergyman.
00:44:31.27\00:44:36.29
He had a wig that
came down to his shoulders.
00:44:36.62\00:44:40.58
Bless your heart.
00:44:40.98\00:44:42.84
He was a very dapper man.
00:44:43.14\00:44:46.58
He came to America
to save the Americans
00:44:46.78\00:44:50.43
but he cried out: "Oh
my God, who will save me? "
00:44:50.63\00:44:54.43
There's nothing worse -
no greater abomination -
00:44:58.00\00:45:00.52
than a dead man in the pulpit
00:45:00.73\00:45:02.66
talking to dead
people in the pews.
00:45:02.96\00:45:05.65
Amen!
00:45:05.95\00:45:07.32
He was invited to
go to a gospel meeting
00:45:10.11\00:45:13.48
in Aldersgate Lane in
London on a snowy night.
00:45:13.78\00:45:17.85
He went reluctantly
00:45:18.03\00:45:19.44
and a poor, unlettered layman -
of course, laymen can't preach -
00:45:19.74\00:45:23.54
Hey, if you're called by
God you CAN preach - amen -
00:45:23.75\00:45:27.40
whether you're a man or a woman.
00:45:27.60\00:45:29.59
If you're called by
God, you can preach.
00:45:29.89\00:45:31.91
You say: "I
don't believe that. "
00:45:32.11\00:45:33.48
Well you don't
believe the Bible.
00:45:33.51\00:45:34.92
This poor, unlettered
man got up... a lay person.
00:45:36.06\00:45:40.25
There are no... there's no
clergy and there's no laity
00:45:40.35\00:45:44.07
in the church. The
word laos is the Greek word
00:45:44.17\00:45:48.06
that means the people of God.
00:45:48.26\00:45:51.19
I am a part of
the people of God...
00:45:51.39\00:45:52.84
not a clergyman. Goodness.
00:45:53.24\00:45:55.93
I want to be a clergyman? No!
00:45:56.23\00:45:58.32
In Australia they say
there are three sexes:
00:45:58.52\00:46:01.09
men, women, and clergymen.
00:46:02.18\00:46:05.19
I want to tell you I
belong to the people of God
00:46:05.39\00:46:09.43
but I'm a
preacher of the gospel.
00:46:09.63\00:46:11.56
This unlettered layman who
had no theological training
00:46:14.65\00:46:18.45
thanks be to God
was reading the preface
00:46:18.55\00:46:21.16
of Martin Luther
to the book of Romans.
00:46:21.36\00:46:24.15
When Martin Luther
describes some of these verses
00:46:24.45\00:46:28.21
and John Wesley
got up and he said
00:46:28.41\00:46:31.92
as the man was
reading what Dr. Luther said
00:46:32.22\00:46:35.84
"I felt my heart
strangely warmed.
00:46:36.70\00:46:39.51
I felt I did
indeed trust in Christ
00:46:40.79\00:46:43.76
and an assurance was
given me that He'd taken away
00:46:44.06\00:46:47.13
my sins - even mine - and
saved me from sin and death. "
00:46:47.33\00:46:52.26
Pray tonight that your
heart will be strangely warmed.
00:46:52.46\00:46:56.62
The worldly person
watching in Australia:
00:46:56.83\00:47:00.26
you go to church but
you've never had your heart
00:47:01.98\00:47:05.36
strangely warmed,
you're not going to heaven
00:47:05.46\00:47:08.06
if you should die.
00:47:08.16\00:47:10.16
We are saved when we
come with broken hearts.
00:47:12.98\00:47:18.33
Martin Luther was a Roman
Catholic theology... steeped in
00:47:21.92\00:47:25.17
Roman Catholic... in theology.
00:47:25.27\00:47:27.71
A Roman Catholic theologian
steeped in Roman Catholic
00:47:28.21\00:47:31.21
theology. He had
no peace you know.
00:47:31.41\00:47:35.38
Like Mother Teresa, no peace.
00:47:35.81\00:47:39.56
They discovered her letters.
An earnest, sincere believer:
00:47:39.76\00:47:43.92
"I'm trying... I'm
trying. I want to be like God.
00:47:44.12\00:47:47.94
I want to be like
God; I want to be better. "
00:47:48.14\00:47:51.73
She said: "I never
knew one day peace with God.
00:47:52.13\00:47:55.26
I seriously contemplated...
" she said... "becoming
00:47:56.36\00:47:59.91
an atheist. "
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.70
Like Martin Luther,
she had the wrong theology.
00:48:03.82\00:48:07.73
Martin Luther read the
expression: "the righteousness
00:48:09.20\00:48:11.60
of God" in the Bible.
00:48:11.70\00:48:13.07
Martin Luther - the character-
istic German theologian - said
00:48:13.13\00:48:16.59
when he read about
the righteousness of God
00:48:16.79\00:48:18.62
he said with the mind
of a lawyer: "I hate it. "
00:48:18.83\00:48:21.83
The old confessor said:
"Martin, you can't hate it. "
00:48:23.92\00:48:26.18
He said: "Not only do
I hate it, I hate God! "
00:48:26.28\00:48:28.85
He said: "How can you hate God?
00:48:29.90\00:48:31.44
You must love God.
" He said: "I hate God
00:48:31.64\00:48:34.23
because God hates me.
00:48:34.43\00:48:35.86
God is righteous; I am sinful.
00:48:36.83\00:48:40.31
How can a righteous
God love a sinful man? "
00:48:40.51\00:48:44.80
"All He does, father...
00:48:45.20\00:48:47.58
all He does is condemn me.
00:48:47.78\00:48:50.29
Forgive me, father, " he
said to his old confessor.
00:48:50.49\00:48:53.97
Need to study these
things. Become thinkers...
00:48:55.91\00:48:59.99
not followers.
00:49:00.19\00:49:01.97
One day they found Martin Luther
kneeling before a crucifix
00:49:03.79\00:49:07.54
saying: "For me, for me. "
00:49:07.84\00:49:11.91
That was the birth of a
great spiritual movement
00:49:12.51\00:49:15.67
that shook the world
called the Reformation.
00:49:15.87\00:49:18.17
There would have been
no America without that.
00:49:18.37\00:49:21.14
Martin Luther made
the amazing discovery
00:49:22.35\00:49:25.35
that when the Bible talks
about the righteousness of God
00:49:25.45\00:49:28.39
it doesn't mean in the
book of Romans to condemn us
00:49:28.59\00:49:31.80
but it means a righteousness
that comes from God
00:49:32.10\00:49:36.36
and is credited to
the sinner's behalf
00:49:36.56\00:49:39.70
because of the blood of Christ.
00:49:40.00\00:49:42.65
That is the gospel.
00:49:43.05\00:49:45.63
Now come to what some
people say is the most difficult
00:49:45.93\00:49:48.80
passage in the Bible. That's
what the devil tells them.
00:49:49.00\00:49:51.73
Come over here
to Romans chapter 3.
00:49:51.93\00:49:53.80
I would recommend that every
person learn these passages
00:49:54.00\00:49:56.72
off by heart. The best preachers
know the book of Romans
00:49:56.92\00:50:00.24
off by heart. Romans
chapter 3 verse 20 and onwards.
00:50:00.44\00:50:05.26
Now you can understand
it if you concentrate.
00:50:07.66\00:50:10.04
"Therefore no one will be
declared righteous in His sight
00:50:10.54\00:50:14.40
by observing the law.
00:50:14.60\00:50:15.97
Rather through the law we
become conscious of sin. "
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The law cannot save
because none of us have kept it.
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The law tells us
that we are all sinners
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falling short of the glory
of God pushing wheelbarrows.
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"But now... " verse 21, "But
now a righteousness from God
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apart from
law... " Apart from law.
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"has been made known to
which the law and the prophets
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testified. This
righteousness from God
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comes through faith in
Jesus Christ to all... "
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who keep the commandments? No!
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"to all who believe. "
There is no difference.
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"For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God... " -
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continue to fall
short of the glory of God -
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"and are justified...
" - declared righteous -
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"freely by His grace
through the redemption
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that came by Christ Jesus.
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God presented Him as
a sacrifice of atonement
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through faith in His blood.
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He did this to
demonstrate His justice
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because in His forbearance
He left the sins committed
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beforehand unpunished.
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He did this to demonstrate
His justice at the present time
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so as to be just and
the One who justifies. "
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Those who have faith
in Jesus - listen to me -
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God cannot work a shrewdie.
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God is not a confidence man.
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God says the
sinner has to be punished
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and the sinner has got to die.
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That's what the law
says. That's what God says.
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God cannot be a fraud.
00:51:53.89\00:51:56.53
He cannot be a put-off
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so He says the
sinner must be punished.
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And the sinner was punished
to the uttermost part of the law
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when God put his
sins upon Christ.
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When God put our
sins upon Christ.
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The sinner was
punished in Christ.
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The sinner has paid the
price of his guilt in Christ.
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Therefore this
is not a shrewdie.
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This is legal.
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You and I come in
true faith to Christ
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not because of my attainment...
not because of my attainment...
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not because of my attainment...
because of His atonement -
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Amen! - I am declared righteous
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and I am right
with God right now
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tonight if I
believe with all my heart.
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That is the gospel. Amen.
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To justify means to
declare... not to make.
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Mother Teresa's theology:
justification... to make...
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so was never made.
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Hers was the
theology of attainment.
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Ours is the
theology of atonement.
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We are saved by
works... His works.
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We are saved by
obedience... His obedience.
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There are two words you should
get into your heads tonight:
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standing and state.
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My state is never good.
00:53:46.29\00:53:49.06
Look at me... look at yourself.
00:53:49.26\00:53:52.68
Our state is never, never good.
00:53:53.56\00:53:56.91
We are falling and
stumbling and rising
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but by standing
00:54:00.76\00:54:04.36
my status is perfect
because of Christ. Amen.
00:54:04.56\00:54:10.79
Standing and state.
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So the proud becomes humble.
00:54:16.08\00:54:19.71
He understands that he's
animated mud on the way to dust.
00:54:19.91\00:54:23.30
The money loving
becomes the money giving.
00:54:24.24\00:54:26.77
The cold becomes warm.
00:54:26.97\00:54:29.15
The self-righteous
becomes a penitent.
00:54:29.45\00:54:32.32
The power hungry
becomes a meek servant.
00:54:32.52\00:54:35.72
The immoral becomes pure.
00:54:35.92\00:54:37.80
The proud becomes humble.
00:54:37.90\00:54:39.56
You don't get humble by saying:
"Oh, today I'm going to try
00:54:39.76\00:54:42.71
to be humble. " The
lazy becomes hard working.
00:54:42.81\00:54:46.63
The legalist becomes merciful.
00:54:46.66\00:54:48.73
The devious becomes transparent.
00:54:48.93\00:54:50.94
The dishonest becomes honest.
00:54:51.15\00:54:53.36
The soul
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is changed.
00:54:58.54\00:54:59.91
You don't get holiness -
listen, my Adventist friend,
00:54:59.94\00:55:03.34
my Baptist friend, my
Roman Catholic friends -
00:55:03.64\00:55:07.49
you don't get
holiness by trying for it.
00:55:07.69\00:55:10.37
You don't get
holiness by striving for it.
00:55:10.57\00:55:13.22
It is a by-product
of coming to Christ.
00:55:13.42\00:55:18.04
When Cinderella
marries the prince
00:55:19.47\00:55:22.65
she's rich.
00:55:22.96\00:55:25.78
You don't have to
be good to be saved
00:55:26.18\00:55:29.65
but you do need to
be saved to be good.
00:55:29.85\00:55:33.90
Now listen to me.
00:55:34.30\00:55:36.32
You may not
make it home tonight.
00:55:36.72\00:55:39.05
I may not see the morning.
00:55:39.55\00:55:41.91
All the religious
palaver will not save us.
00:55:42.11\00:55:46.15
Imagine waking up
and smelling the sulphur.
00:55:46.55\00:55:50.81
You say: "No, no,
no... that's awful. "
00:55:51.01\00:55:53.50
No it's true.
00:55:53.64\00:55:55.01
But you and I tonight
can pass from death to life.
00:55:55.30\00:55:58.75
We can know that we're
right with God right now
00:55:59.05\00:56:02.35
and we can hear
Christ say to us tonight
00:56:02.56\00:56:06.35
"Truly, truly I say to you
00:56:06.55\00:56:09.70
tonight you will be
with Me in paradise. " Amen!
00:56:09.90\00:56:14.45
You can know tonight.
00:56:15.27\00:56:18.82
Contrary to a million sermons
00:56:21.09\00:56:23.85
the gospel is not good
advice: do this, do that.
00:56:24.05\00:56:26.85
The gospel is good news.
00:56:27.71\00:56:31.64
The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanses us
00:56:31.94\00:56:35.80
from all sin and we say
00:56:36.00\00:56:40.11
"glory
hallelujah. " Let us pray.
00:56:40.31\00:56:45.48
Our Father, Lord we worship You.
00:56:46.45\00:56:49.80
We bless You.
00:56:50.10\00:56:51.47
We praise You.
00:56:51.74\00:56:53.11
We thank you for
the blood of Christ.
00:56:53.19\00:56:55.32
Help us to realize
tonight two great truths:
00:56:55.82\00:56:58.90
that we are all great sinners
00:56:59.20\00:57:01.54
but Christ is a great Savior.
00:57:01.84\00:57:05.60
We come to Christ tonight
in penitence with broken hearts
00:57:05.80\00:57:11.13
and we say "we truly believe. "
00:57:11.43\00:57:15.19
In Jesus' name, Amen.
00:57:15.80\00:57:19.82