All good things
must come to a close.
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We've had one of the most
spiritual times we've ever had
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here at a Camp Meeting.
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Over and over people have
told me "these messages have
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touched our hearts and
they have challenged us
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to reach out and
to share the gospel
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and we have really
been blessed this weekend. "
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And so many good
things... And tonight
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I believe God is going
to bless us one more time.
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We have, I feel,
an evangelistic team
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in John Carter
and Danny Shelton.
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When they were in
Russia at Nizhny Novgorod...
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and I usually,
probably messed that up
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but I do the
best I can with it...
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it was originally or
during the Communist days called
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Gorky. That's a lot
easier for me to say!
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But often Danny would sing
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the song Mending Broken People.
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Now that's the theme of 3ABN.
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The world is broken.
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Lost.
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And when we bring
Jesus to the world
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it mends broken people.
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It's the only mending
that's eternal and that lasts.
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And so tonight, before
Pastor John Carter comes,
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we're going to hear once again
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Danny is going to
sing Mending Broken People.
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When I see
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my brother stumble
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and all his dreams crumble
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let me be there
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for I, too, fail.
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And when I see
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his heart breaking
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from a wrong turn he's taking
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let me be there
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for I remember well.
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I want to spend my life
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mending broken people.
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I want to spend
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my whole life
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removing pain.
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Lord, let my words
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heal a heart that hurts.
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I want to spend my life
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mending broken people.
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When I see a life that's broken
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Lord, give me words
that should be spoken
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for I
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well remember the pain.
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And when I see
teardrops falling, Lord,
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remind me of my calling.
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Help me restore their faith
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in You.
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I want to spend my life
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mending broken people.
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I want to spend
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my whole life
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removing pain.
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Lord, let my words
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heal a heart that hurts.
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I want to spend my life
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mending broken people.
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I want to spend my life
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mending broken people.
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I'll never forget what it
was like to be in Russia and see
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20,000 people every night
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when Elder John
Carter would come out
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and to see the changes
in the thousands of people
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accepting Jesus and seeing
the thousands of people who then
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later joined the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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through baptism. And tonight
we kind of wanted to go back.
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And it's very hard
for me to sing this song.
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I have to try to not concentrate
because I'll never forget
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the impact in the lives and
the souls that are going to be
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in the kingdom because of the
ministry of John and Beverley
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Carter. And so it's a
great privilege tonight
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to be able to work with them.
And it's an honor once again
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have John be, as Jim mentioned,
our last sermon for the
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Camp Meeting. But
this is a man of God
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and he has said so
much about supporting 3ABN.
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And I encourage those of you
as the Holy Spirit is impressing
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you to remember The Carter
Report because they're doing
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an incredible
work around the world.
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And as the Lord is impressing
not only to pray for them
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but to support them financially.
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It's been a great honor -
one of the greatest honors
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of my life - to be able to
work and be a part of the team
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of The Carter
Report because I see a man
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and a woman - John and
Beverley - who have spent their
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life mending broken people.
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Good evening my
friends. Good evening.
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How are you this evening? Well.
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Everybody is
looking good and I am...
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Have you had a
good day today? Amen!
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I've had a sort of super day.
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And what beautiful weather
here in southern Illinois.
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You know, I want to say to
my friends back in California
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"You ought to move
here because the weather's
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a lot better. "
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Only problem is
now I can't go back.
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But it's been a real
privilege to be here with my...
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some of my team, and
we really love you people.
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And I want you to know
that I just love Danny.
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Danny has been a brother
to me down through the years.
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And I have supported
Danny Shelton for these reasons:
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I believe that God gave to
Danny when he was a young man
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a vision... a vision to
take Christ to the world.
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When everybody
said "it can't be done"
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Danny said "by the grace
of God we're going to do it. "
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And I brought some folks
here with me from California
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and they have been impressed.
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As they have driven around and
looked at what has happened here
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we can say: "Surely
the presence of the Lord
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is in this place. " Amen!
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And so I want to encourage
every person here to continue
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to support Danny
Shelton, Pastor Jim Gilley,
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and the team of
3ABN as we work together
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in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
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There were a group of
men in Australia at a hotel
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at a bar or as they call
it in Australia at a pub.
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And they were
discussing - of all subjects -
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what good wives they had.
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What are you folks
laughing about there?
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They were talking about
what good wives they had.
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I know they were a little drunk
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but as they got drunker and
drunker one man made apparently
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some outlandish claims. He said:
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"You know, fellows, it doesn't
matter what time of the night
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I arrive home I can tell
my wife to get out of bed
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and she gets me anything I want.
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She'll get for me
a tremendous meal. "
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The other men knew
what would happen to them
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and so they said: "We
just don't believe it, John,
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this is just a crazy story. "
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And so because he was
tipsy he said: "Well come on.
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We'll get a taxi and I want
you to come to my house now.
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And I'm going to get
my wife to get out of bed
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and get us a big meal.
" They said: "No, no. "
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Well he said: "You
told me it doesn't happen. "
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"Well... " they said. They
were all drunk. So they went out
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and got a taxi.
Went to John's house.
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When John came through the
door he called out and he said:
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"Mary, I'm home and
I've got my friends with me
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and we're starving. "
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Have you noticed that
drunks are always starving?
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He said: "We're starving
and we want a big meal. "
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And she put on her
dressing gown and she came out
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and she said: "John,
what would you like? "
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He said: "Mary,
I've got my mates here
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and we're starving
and we want a good meal. "
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And she said: "If you gentlemen
would just go into the kitchen
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or rather into
the table there...
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into the living room, and
I'll get something for you.
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Give me just a
little bit of time. "
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And after a while she
got them a really good meal.
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And she brought it in
and she served it to them.
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And the men were by this
time - except the husband -
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very embarrassed. And they said:
"John, we feel bad about this.
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We feel bad that
Mary's had to get out of bed
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and get this meal for
us. She looks tired. "
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John said: "No, you sit down
here and you eat the meal. "
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And so they sat
down and had a great meal
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and then she brought
them out some dessert.
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And after they were filled up
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they said: "John and Mary,
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we just want to say thank
you but we've got to go now.
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We've got to go home
now and face our wives. "
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And when they had
gone through the door
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John was sitting at the table.
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By this time he had
sobered up somewhat.
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And Mary was sitting at
the other end of the table
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and he said to her: "Mary,
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I want to ask you a question. "
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"Yes? " "Why do you do it? "
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"Why is it I can come home any
hour of the day or the night?
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I can come home drunk
and you'll get up and get me
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anything that I ask for? "
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And she said: "Do you
really want to know why? "
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"Yes, " he said,
"I've always wondered why? "
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She said: "John, because this
is the only life you're ever
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going to have
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and I want to make it
as good for you as I can
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because you're going
to know nothing else. "
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Then she said:
"John, why do I do it?
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It's because I believe in Christ
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and I believe in heaven.
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I believe that one
day I will be with Christ
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in paradise, and
that keeps me going
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and I have hope.
But I know, John, that
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you've got no hope
and you've got nothing.
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And I want to give you
heaven now as much as I can
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because it's the only heaven
you're ever going to know. "
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But she said: "John, I
can take a lot of things
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from you and I can
have a lot of struggles
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and I can have a lot of
pain and I can endure it all
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because I have the
hope of heaven at last. "
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Listen to me.
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Tonight we're going
to talk about going home
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but I want you
dear folks to know this:
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if you've got
the hope of eternity
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and the hope of
heaven in your heart,
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you can go through
almost hell in this world
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and you can carry on
because you will have
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a marvelous and
a wonderful peace.
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And tonight I
want to share with you
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the peace that I
have found in my own soul
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in knowing that
heaven is an absolute reality
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and one day we are going home!
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I want you to take
your Bibles, my friends,
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and turn with me to
the writing of Saint Paul
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in II Corinthians chapter 4.
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Are you glad to be here
in church tonight? Amen!
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I'm glad to be here in church
tonight. It's Saturday night
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and I guess people would think
we're crazy to be in church
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on Saturday night. But
I want to tell you folks
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we're in church on
Saturday night because soon
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we are going
home to glory. Amen!
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II Corinthians
chapter 4 and verses 16
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down to 18. Have
you folks got it?
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I'm reading to you
tonight from the NIV.
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"Therefore we do not lose
heart... " Do you sometimes
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feel like losing heart?
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Do you sometimes feel
that the battle is so bad
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that you've been knocked down?
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I sometimes feel that
the battle is so strong
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that I'm knocked down and I
wonder how am I going to get up.
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I'm not alone. As we
travel through this life
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sometimes we are knocked down.
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But we get up because
we've got the hope of glory
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in our hearts. Keep
reading with me, my friend.
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"Therefore we do not lose heart
though outwardly we are wasting
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away yet inwardly we are
being renewed day by day. "
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The body may be wearing out
but the spirit gets stronger.
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Verse 17: "For our
light and momentary troubles
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are achieving for us
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an eternal glory... "
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King James version: "An
eternal weight of glory. "
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"that far outweighs them all.
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So we fix our eyes
not on what is seen
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but on what is unseen.
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For what is seen is
temporary but what is unseen
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is... is eternal. "
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And so tonight
for a little while -
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last meeting of
this great Camp Meeting -
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I want to talk
about an eternal glory.
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Going home.
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I want you to come
over here to another text
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to the book of Romans, which
I think is my favorite book.
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Well, sometimes I think
John is my favorite book.
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And sometimes I think
Isaiah is my favorite book.
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But right now it's
the book of Romans.
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Romans chapter 8 and
verse 17 and onwards.
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Romans chapter 8 and
verse 17 and onwards:
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"Now if we are
children then we are heirs...
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heirs of God and
co-heirs with Christ
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if indeed we share in His
sufferings in order that we
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may also share in...
" What? "in His glory. "
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My friend, there is no
crown... there is no crown
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of glory without
the cross of suffering.
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And then he says: "I consider
that our present sufferings
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are not worth comparing with
the glory that will be revealed
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in us. The creation
waits in eager expectation
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for the sons of
God to be revealed.
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For the creation was
subjected to frustration
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not by its own choice but
by the will of the one who
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subjected it in hope
that the creation itself
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will be liberated
from its bondage to decay
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and brought into the glorious
freedom of the children of God.
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We know that the whole
creation has been groaning
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as in the pains of childbirth
right up to the present time.
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Not only so, but we ourselves
00:17:55.77\00:17:59.86
who have the firstfruits
of the Spirit groan inwardly
00:18:00.06\00:18:05.31
as we wait. As we
wait we groan inwardly
00:18:05.41\00:18:10.34
as we wait eagerly
for our adoption as sons,
00:18:10.54\00:18:14.65
the redemption of our bodies. "
00:18:14.85\00:18:18.72
One day, my
friends, listen to me
00:18:18.92\00:18:21.79
the groaning is
going to be over.
00:18:21.99\00:18:24.30
I see with so many of my friends
00:18:24.80\00:18:27.81
whom I love I
can feel their pain.
00:18:28.01\00:18:32.39
As I talk to them
they tell me of the pain
00:18:32.59\00:18:36.33
that wracks their bodies.
00:18:36.53\00:18:38.55
One day I say to them
tonight in the name of the Lord
00:18:38.75\00:18:42.58
the groaning is going to be over
00:18:42.78\00:18:45.71
and we are going to
go home to glory. Amen!
00:18:45.91\00:18:49.88
And it is this glory
that keeps us moving.
00:18:50.02\00:18:53.59
And it is this glory
that keeps us... keeps us
00:18:53.89\00:18:58.86
motivated to fight on.
00:18:58.96\00:19:03.74
I was a little boy
growing up in Brisbane
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which is the
capital of Queensland
00:19:09.82\00:19:13.77
which is a state of
Australia Down Under.
00:19:13.97\00:19:19.67
I was a little boy, and
my mother took me to the
00:19:20.59\00:19:24.13
Brisbane City Hall.
00:19:24.23\00:19:26.59
I went back
there some months ago
00:19:26.79\00:19:29.25
and I gazed at the
Brisbane City Hall.
00:19:29.45\00:19:32.95
I send my greetings to my
friends in the city of Brisbane.
00:19:33.15\00:19:37.21
They are renewing
the Brisbane City Hall
00:19:37.41\00:19:40.04
costing hundreds of
millions because the people say
00:19:40.24\00:19:44.02
"It is so historic we
don't want it knocked down. "
00:19:44.22\00:19:46.94
When I was a little
boy growing up in Australia
00:19:48.34\00:19:52.00
after the second World War
my mother with a tremendous
00:19:52.10\00:19:58.07
longing in her soul for
something better, went along
00:19:58.27\00:20:02.01
to what we called in
those days a "mission. "
00:20:02.22\00:20:05.26
Today we call it an
evangelistic campaign.
00:20:06.48\00:20:10.33
And I can remember the
great pipe organ in the Brisbane
00:20:10.53\00:20:16.07
City Hall and I can remember
the roar of the pipe organ
00:20:16.27\00:20:21.60
and the great choir.
00:20:22.93\00:20:25.56
And then a man came
out and started to talk.
00:20:25.87\00:20:30.60
He had come from the
United States of America
00:20:32.93\00:20:38.74
and his name was
Pastor Clifford Reeves.
00:20:38.84\00:20:43.53
And he preached the
Word of God and my mother
00:20:43.73\00:20:48.48
found hope in Christ and
became an Adventist Christian.
00:20:48.58\00:20:54.58
Amen.
00:20:54.78\00:20:56.15
And I can
remember the choir singing.
00:20:56.18\00:20:59.86
Here I am... I'm
just a little boy.
00:20:59.96\00:21:03.22
And the war is over, but
people are hurting in Australia
00:21:03.52\00:21:07.86
because Australia has
fought almost to a standstill
00:21:08.06\00:21:13.17
to keep the enemy at bay.
00:21:13.37\00:21:15.85
Just a little nation.
And then the choir sang
00:21:16.05\00:21:20.09
in the Brisbane Town Hall
00:21:20.19\00:21:21.76
"When all my labors
and trials are o'er,
00:21:21.96\00:21:24.52
and I am safe on
that beautiful shore... "
00:21:24.82\00:21:29.26
I can see it!
00:21:29.56\00:21:30.98
"Just to be near
the dear Lord I adore
00:21:32.08\00:21:36.77
will through the
ages be glory for me. "
00:21:36.97\00:21:41.25
"When by the gift
of His infinite grace
00:21:41.55\00:21:45.72
I am accorded in heaven a place,
00:21:45.92\00:21:49.63
just to be there
and to look on His face
00:21:49.83\00:21:53.19
will through the
ages be glory for me. "
00:21:53.39\00:21:57.62
"Friends will be
there I have loved long ago,
00:21:57.83\00:22:00.86
joy like a river
around me will flow,
00:22:01.06\00:22:04.78
Yet just a smile
from my Savior I know
00:22:04.98\00:22:09.02
will through the
ages be glory for me. "
00:22:09.22\00:22:13.66
"O that will be glory for me,
00:22:13.96\00:22:19.80
glory for me, glory for me.
00:22:20.10\00:22:23.32
When by His grace I
shall look on His face
00:22:23.63\00:22:27.81
that will be
glory... be glory for me. "
00:22:28.01\00:22:32.97
That was written by
Charles Gabriel of Chicago.
00:22:34.01\00:22:39.99
Inspired by an expression
of Ed Card, the Superintendent
00:22:40.19\00:22:44.55
of The Sunshine Rescue Mission.
00:22:44.65\00:22:47.92
The Sunshine Rescue Mission.
00:22:48.12\00:22:50.52
Isn't that beautiful?
The Sunshine Rescue Mission.
00:22:50.72\00:22:55.40
He usually ended
his prayers with:
00:22:55.60\00:22:58.37
"And that will
be glory for me. "
00:22:58.57\00:23:02.83
It was born here in Illinois.
00:23:03.03\00:23:06.40
O that will be glory!
00:23:06.70\00:23:09.12
My mother was battling the odds.
00:23:10.83\00:23:13.64
My father was a
total unbeliever.
00:23:13.84\00:23:17.69
Days were tough.
00:23:17.89\00:23:20.71
We still had coupons for food.
00:23:21.11\00:23:25.97
Coupons for petrol or gas.
00:23:26.27\00:23:30.72
Four gallons a week or a month.
00:23:31.02\00:23:35.22
Coupons for sugar, for bread.
00:23:35.52\00:23:38.83
We didn't have a house.
00:23:44.82\00:23:47.12
We had just moved down
from summers at Denham.
00:23:50.15\00:23:53.26
I was born in the
little town of Esk.
00:23:53.56\00:23:58.59
Hi to Esk. If you
blink you miss it.
00:23:58.89\00:24:03.04
It's true!
00:24:03.34\00:24:05.00
My folks had moved down
from the summers at Denham
00:24:05.41\00:24:09.39
a war project, to Brisbane.
00:24:09.59\00:24:12.39
My mother walked
the streets of Brisbane
00:24:12.79\00:24:17.14
knocking on doors saying:
00:24:17.34\00:24:21.09
"Have you got a place to rent? "
00:24:21.29\00:24:25.08
And eventually she
found a place to rent.
00:24:28.53\00:24:33.14
The times were tough.
00:24:35.80\00:24:38.46
When I was a
little boy I had no shoes.
00:24:38.58\00:24:41.90
I went to
school... I had no shoes.
00:24:42.34\00:24:45.84
Neither did the other children.
00:24:46.95\00:24:48.75
Everything for shoes
had gone into the war effort
00:24:49.25\00:24:53.81
to beat the enemy.
00:24:53.91\00:24:55.28
The people were
searching for hope.
00:24:57.78\00:25:00.20
My mother found hope,
and she passed it on to me.
00:25:01.84\00:25:05.72
I thank God for the
prayers of my mother.
00:25:07.14\00:25:10.54
Every morning
before I went to school
00:25:13.35\00:25:15.89
she would take me aside
00:25:16.19\00:25:18.34
and she would
put her arm around me
00:25:18.54\00:25:20.45
and she'd say: "Now we pray. "
00:25:20.65\00:25:24.59
And so she'd
say a prayer for me.
00:25:24.89\00:25:27.24
I remember my mother's prayers.
00:25:27.54\00:25:31.00
When my mother became a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian
00:25:31.30\00:25:36.01
when she was baptized
my father gave her hell!
00:25:36.31\00:25:42.23
And I can remember
the hell in the house.
00:25:42.63\00:25:48.26
But my mother said: "Nothing
will drive me from Christ
00:25:49.91\00:25:53.84
and my faith. "
00:25:53.95\00:25:55.80
Inside my soul when I was a boy,
00:25:59.65\00:26:02.88
a little boy, there
came a vision of a man
00:26:02.91\00:26:08.17
standing up the front
preaching the Word of God
00:26:08.37\00:26:11.75
in the Brisbane Town Hall.
00:26:11.95\00:26:14.07
And God said: "I
want you to be like him. "
00:26:14.27\00:26:17.45
When I was a tiny baby
00:26:19.88\00:26:22.06
22 inches long, 8
pounds six ounces,
00:26:23.53\00:26:28.74
my mother - who
did not go to church
00:26:28.94\00:26:32.19
and had not joined the church...
00:26:32.39\00:26:34.43
Obviously in those days
my mother got down on her
00:26:34.63\00:26:37.67
knees and she dedicated
me to God and to the work
00:26:37.77\00:26:42.14
of the ministry.
00:26:42.24\00:26:44.77
Thank God for mothers.
00:26:47.54\00:26:49.50
And because of my mother's
witness my father came to
00:26:49.80\00:26:54.86
one of my meetings
at a great Camp Meeting
00:26:54.96\00:26:58.46
in North New South Wales
00:26:58.66\00:27:00.88
and I preached the
sermon pretty much the sermon
00:27:01.01\00:27:04.14
that I preached last night
on the gospel on amazing grace.
00:27:04.34\00:27:09.77
And I made an altar call
00:27:09.97\00:27:12.12
and my father responded. Amen!
00:27:12.32\00:27:16.02
And he was baptized
and he learned to sing
00:27:17.10\00:27:22.18
"O that will be glory for me! "
00:27:22.38\00:27:25.42
My mother died when
she was 97 a few years ago.
00:27:25.82\00:27:30.32
My father
preceded her by 20 years.
00:27:30.62\00:27:33.58
I took my mother's
funeral in Australia.
00:27:33.88\00:27:37.45
But I told the people
at my father's funeral
00:27:37.69\00:27:41.07
and I told them at
my mother's funeral
00:27:41.17\00:27:43.53
that one day we will see
them again because one day
00:27:43.73\00:27:48.95
this earth is going to pass
away and we're going to go home!
00:27:49.16\00:27:53.64
Amen!
00:27:53.94\00:27:55.31
I believe in heaven.
00:27:56.17\00:27:58.78
What will the
glory land be like?
00:27:59.28\00:28:04.34
I tried to find
it on the Internet.
00:28:04.64\00:28:07.06
I've finally been forced
00:28:08.43\00:28:10.87
into the 20th century.
00:28:11.07\00:28:15.57
You say the 21st? No, the 20th.
00:28:15.97\00:28:18.61
But I tried to look up
the song that I heard in the
00:28:21.85\00:28:25.59
Brisbane Town Hall
with a song leader dressed
00:28:25.69\00:28:30.54
all in white and the great choir
singing Up in the glory land
00:28:30.74\00:28:36.58
there's a place prepared
for you. Couldn't find it.
00:28:36.78\00:28:40.41
Up In The Glory Land.
00:28:40.61\00:28:42.95
What will it be
like in the glory land?
00:28:43.05\00:28:47.41
Would you turn please
to Hebrews chapter 11?
00:28:48.28\00:28:51.41
Hebrews chapter 11.
00:28:52.65\00:28:55.47
I want to tell you folks
I'm longing for the glory land.
00:28:55.67\00:28:59.18
Hebrews 11 verse 13 and onwards.
00:28:59.58\00:29:03.34
Hebrews 11... which
is the chapter of faith.
00:29:03.64\00:29:08.11
"All these people were still
living by faith when they died.
00:29:08.61\00:29:13.70
They did not
receive the things promised,
00:29:14.00\00:29:16.81
they only saw them and
welcomed them from a distance
00:29:17.01\00:29:21.33
and they admitted that
they were aliens and strangers
00:29:21.64\00:29:26.27
on earth. People who say
such things show that they are
00:29:26.47\00:29:30.42
looking for a
country of their own.
00:29:30.62\00:29:34.12
If they had been thinking
of the country they had left
00:29:34.32\00:29:37.95
they would have had
opportunity to return.
00:29:38.06\00:29:40.75
Instead they were
longing for a better country...
00:29:40.95\00:29:45.97
a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed
00:29:47.64\00:29:51.89
to be called their God for He
has prepared a city for them. "
00:29:52.09\00:29:57.80
The glory land, my
beloved friend, is described
00:29:58.00\00:30:02.31
as a country.
00:30:02.51\00:30:04.24
And the Bible says
it's a better country.
00:30:04.54\00:30:08.50
I want you folks to
know something tonight:
00:30:08.70\00:30:10.90
I love the United
States of America.
00:30:11.10\00:30:15.32
I have dual citizenship.
00:30:16.60\00:30:19.73
I have two passports.
00:30:20.13\00:30:22.90
You say: "Which
one do you use? "
00:30:23.99\00:30:25.78
Depends on how I'm being
received in that country.
00:30:25.98\00:30:29.23
I can bring out either one.
00:30:29.43\00:30:31.49
I have Australian citizenship
00:30:31.79\00:30:35.15
and I'm proud to be an American.
00:30:35.35\00:30:39.21
I live in America and
I'm proud to be an American.
00:30:39.51\00:30:44.38
And I'm proud of America.
00:30:44.68\00:30:47.82
I think it is a
wonderful country
00:30:48.12\00:30:51.65
but the Bible says
"a better country. "
00:30:51.75\00:30:54.70
Better than the
United States of America.
00:30:54.90\00:30:58.45
Can you say Amen? Amen!
00:30:58.85\00:31:01.04
Because people are still dying
in the United States of America.
00:31:01.25\00:31:06.75
It is better than America.
It is better than Australia.
00:31:06.95\00:31:12.21
In England they sing:
"Land of hope and glory,
00:31:12.51\00:31:17.14
Mother of the free. "
00:31:17.34\00:31:19.03
But this country, my
friend, the heavenly country,
00:31:19.23\00:31:22.64
is better than England.
00:31:22.84\00:31:25.31
It is better than Sweden.
00:31:25.51\00:31:27.27
The wealthiest country in the
world I believe is Switzerland
00:31:27.47\00:31:32.80
but it is better
than Switzerland.
00:31:34.09\00:31:36.68
It is better than New Zealand.
00:31:36.88\00:31:39.21
It is better than Canada
00:31:39.41\00:31:42.61
because it is a
heavenly country.
00:31:44.10\00:31:48.90
It's better. Let me
tell you why it's better.
00:31:51.15\00:31:53.43
It's better
because there is no death.
00:31:53.63\00:31:58.04
People are not going to die.
00:31:59.46\00:32:01.69
Now you might
think this is trite
00:32:03.27\00:32:06.64
but people will not be
shooting animals either.
00:32:06.94\00:32:10.81
Animals are not going to die!
00:32:11.21\00:32:13.46
You know, we do things in this
lifetime... I know people say:
00:32:13.76\00:32:17.62
"It's our culture. "
But it's a culture of sin.
00:32:17.82\00:32:21.58
It's a better country because
there won't be any funerals
00:32:22.94\00:32:27.96
and there's
going to be no hunger.
00:32:28.16\00:32:31.59
It's a better country
because there is no crime.
00:32:31.80\00:32:35.88
It is a better country
because there is no pain.
00:32:36.08\00:32:40.18
It is better
because everyone is healthy,
00:32:40.38\00:32:43.93
happy, and wealthy.
00:32:44.13\00:32:47.25
Did you know this?
00:32:48.62\00:32:50.50
You say: "Pie in the sky
in the sweet bye and bye?
00:32:50.90\00:32:54.19
Give us some pie tonight. "
00:32:54.39\00:32:56.66
Listen to me:
00:32:56.86\00:32:58.32
as you stand
beside the open grave
00:32:59.94\00:33:04.27
and you lower into
the mouth of the earth
00:33:04.47\00:33:09.14
the dearest on earth -
your loved one - I ask you:
00:33:09.34\00:33:13.54
"Where is your
heaven on earth? "
00:33:13.75\00:33:15.70
You can't have heaven
on earth until Jesus comes.
00:33:16.78\00:33:20.63
I was talking to a
precious friend today
00:33:21.91\00:33:25.75
and she told me that she
is going through suffering.
00:33:25.95\00:33:30.21
She has... she's
fought... she's fought
00:33:30.42\00:33:34.92
and she continues to
fight but she is suffering.
00:33:35.12\00:33:39.09
I want her to know tonight
if she's watching the telecast:
00:33:39.29\00:33:42.65
no more death; no more pain;
00:33:42.85\00:33:45.85
no more suffering; no
more cancer; no more diabetes.
00:33:46.05\00:33:50.57
None of those things
"for the former things
00:33:50.70\00:33:53.79
are passed away" the Bible says.
00:33:53.99\00:33:56.13
I want you to turn over here
to the last book of the Bible.
00:33:57.41\00:34:00.38
Revelation chapter
21 verses 1 down to 5.
00:34:00.58\00:34:06.32
I want these verses to
sink down into your souls.
00:34:06.55\00:34:10.03
I want you to feel
warm in your heart tonight.
00:34:10.23\00:34:14.07
Revelation 21
verses 1 down to 5.
00:34:15.59\00:34:19.36
"And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth
00:34:19.67\00:34:24.70
for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away
00:34:24.90\00:34:28.51
and there was no longer any sea.
00:34:28.71\00:34:31.26
I saw the Holy City
- the New Jerusalem -
00:34:31.46\00:34:34.55
coming down out
of heaven from God
00:34:34.75\00:34:37.18
prepared as a bride beautifully
dressed for her husband.
00:34:37.38\00:34:41.46
And I heard a loud
voice from the throne saying:
00:34:41.76\00:34:45.44
'Now the dwelling
of God is with men
00:34:45.74\00:34:48.76
and He will live with them.
00:34:48.96\00:34:50.77
They will be His people and
God Himself will be with them
00:34:50.97\00:34:54.72
and be their God. '
00:34:54.75\00:34:56.94
He will wipe every
tear from their eyes.
00:34:57.14\00:34:59.98
There'll be no more
death or mourning or crying
00:35:00.18\00:35:04.21
or pain for the old order
of things has passed away. "
00:35:04.42\00:35:09.01
Hallelujah! Thanks be to God.
00:35:09.21\00:35:11.77
"He who is seated
on the throne said:
00:35:12.18\00:35:15.31
'I am making everything new. '
00:35:15.41\00:35:18.58
Then He said: 'Write this down
00:35:18.78\00:35:21.27
for these words are
trustworthy and true. ' "
00:35:21.47\00:35:26.16
So everybody is
going to be healthy.
00:35:26.36\00:35:29.87
Everybody is going to be happy.
00:35:30.08\00:35:33.59
There'll be no depression.
00:35:33.99\00:35:38.21
One of the great
problems of our society
00:35:40.11\00:35:45.93
is depression.
00:35:46.53\00:35:48.83
The people are
subjected to so many stresses.
00:35:50.05\00:35:55.56
There are so many
hurts, so many pains,
00:35:55.86\00:36:00.12
and people sometimes
slip into depression.
00:36:00.32\00:36:05.05
The greatest of the
saints get depressed.
00:36:05.25\00:36:08.33
You read about
depressed saints in the Bible.
00:36:08.63\00:36:12.96
But they day is going
to come when everybody
00:36:13.16\00:36:16.36
is going to be
lighthearted and full of joy
00:36:16.56\00:36:20.99
and everybody is
going to feel eternal youth.
00:36:21.19\00:36:26.00
Every person when he
starts his day's activity
00:36:26.20\00:36:30.33
will feel the
freshness of the morning.
00:36:30.53\00:36:33.31
You know why
it's a better country?
00:36:35.87\00:36:38.48
It's a better country
because it has a King...
00:36:39.60\00:36:43.78
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:36:46.31\00:36:47.88
Would you look at Revelation
22 verses 1 down to 5?
00:36:48.18\00:36:53.74
Revelation 22
00:36:53.94\00:36:57.40
and verses 1 down to 5.
00:36:58.75\00:37:02.26
"Then the angel showed me
the river of the water of life
00:37:02.56\00:37:05.21
as clear as crystal
00:37:05.41\00:37:07.97
flowing from the
throne of God and of the Lamb
00:37:08.37\00:37:11.21
down the middle of the
great street of the city.
00:37:11.61\00:37:14.75
On each side of the
river stood the Tree of Life
00:37:14.95\00:37:17.45
bearing 12 crops of fruit,
00:37:17.65\00:37:19.29
yielding its fruit every month.
00:37:19.49\00:37:21.49
And the leaves of the tree are
for the healing of the nations.
00:37:21.69\00:37:25.74
No longer will
there be any curse.
00:37:25.94\00:37:29.16
The throne of God and of
the Lamb will be in the city
00:37:29.36\00:37:33.26
and His servants will serve Him.
00:37:33.46\00:37:36.40
They will see His face. "
00:37:36.70\00:37:39.73
I want you to think about this.
00:37:39.93\00:37:42.01
We will see the face of Christ.
00:37:42.31\00:37:44.82
"They will see His face,
00:37:45.02\00:37:47.42
and His name will
be on their foreheads.
00:37:47.62\00:37:50.61
There will be no more night.
00:37:50.82\00:37:52.69
They will not need the
light of a lamp or the light
00:37:52.89\00:37:56.15
of the sun for the Lord
God will give them light.
00:37:56.35\00:37:59.96
And they will
reign forever and ever. "
00:38:00.16\00:38:04.37
What will heaven be like?
00:38:05.81\00:38:08.13
More amazing, more wonderful
00:38:10.68\00:38:14.69
than we can
comprehend or realize.
00:38:14.89\00:38:20.62
Many years ago the
little church in Abyssinia
00:38:22.01\00:38:26.02
got some delegates from
their conference and sent them
00:38:26.22\00:38:30.41
to the General Conference in
the United States of America.
00:38:30.61\00:38:34.30
Those people from Abyssinia
00:38:35.29\00:38:38.16
had never been out of Abyssinia
00:38:38.36\00:38:42.56
and when they got home
what a story they had to tell.
00:38:44.03\00:38:48.88
That church put on
a big Saturday night
00:38:50.15\00:38:54.45
and they had the delegates
come and tell their story -
00:38:54.65\00:38:58.28
this was a long time ago -
00:38:58.49\00:38:59.89
what they saw in the
United States of America.
00:39:00.09\00:39:03.29
Now the first
delegate got up and said
00:39:03.39\00:39:06.08
"Brothers and sisters,
the Americans don't do things
00:39:06.28\00:39:10.76
like us. They don't
just put one hut by itself
00:39:10.96\00:39:15.93
but they put one
hut next to a hut
00:39:16.13\00:39:19.83
next to a hut
next to a hut. Rooms. "
00:39:20.03\00:39:24.21
Oh, the elder of the
church got up and he said:
00:39:25.29\00:39:28.40
"No, that is not so.
00:39:28.60\00:39:30.12
The Americans wouldn't
do that. They're smart.
00:39:30.42\00:39:33.12
They wouldn't do that because
if one hut caught on fire
00:39:33.32\00:39:36.47
the rest would catch on fire.
00:39:36.67\00:39:38.45
Therefore we
don't believe that. "
00:39:38.65\00:39:41.39
Well another
delegate got up and he said:
00:39:41.59\00:39:44.05
"They do more than that.
Not only do they put one hut
00:39:44.25\00:39:47.27
up against another hut
00:39:47.47\00:39:48.98
they put one hut
on top of another hut.
00:39:49.08\00:39:51.67
And another hut and another hut
00:39:51.78\00:39:53.80
and another hut
and another hut. "
00:39:54.00\00:39:56.08
Well that just about
broke the meeting up completely.
00:39:56.28\00:39:59.30
Then another elder
got up and he said:
00:40:00.81\00:40:03.79
"We can't believe
this... we can't believe this
00:40:04.00\00:40:07.22
because how would you
get from the bottom hut
00:40:07.42\00:40:11.54
into the top hut? "
00:40:11.74\00:40:13.26
And one of the delegates
who'd been to America got up
00:40:13.56\00:40:16.42
and he said: "Well, they've
got a little hut that runs up
00:40:16.62\00:40:20.34
and down and takes you there. "
00:40:20.44\00:40:22.66
Now, the
Seventh-day Adventist church
00:40:26.75\00:40:30.30
in Abyssinia passed a motion -
00:40:30.50\00:40:33.74
moved and seconded -
00:40:34.04\00:40:37.25
that the next time
they sent delegates to the
00:40:37.45\00:40:40.90
General Conference
they would choose people
00:40:41.00\00:40:43.45
who didn't tell lies.
00:40:43.65\00:40:46.12
What did they know about it?
00:40:51.47\00:40:53.92
They could not believe what they
had not already experienced.
00:40:54.22\00:40:59.07
I want you to know the glory
land is going to be so wonderful
00:40:59.38\00:41:05.08
that right now
we can't take it in.
00:41:05.28\00:41:09.69
When Ellen White would
have a vision, you know,
00:41:09.89\00:41:12.52
the first word she cried
as she'd go into a vision
00:41:12.82\00:41:16.27
she'd cry out "glory! glory! "
00:41:16.47\00:41:21.15
And then when she
came back she would say:
00:41:21.29\00:41:24.00
"The earth seems so dark. "
00:41:24.20\00:41:28.22
I want you to know
that the glory of heaven
00:41:28.42\00:41:30.94
makes the best palace on
earth look like a garbage dump.
00:41:31.24\00:41:37.15
And heaven is near.
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.57
Let me tell you why it's near.
00:41:42.97\00:41:45.77
I want you to come over
here to Philippians chapter 1
00:41:46.07\00:41:48.29
and we're going to look at this
text in a different way tonight,
00:41:48.32\00:41:53.21
even though you will believe
what I'm going to tell you.
00:41:53.41\00:41:56.57
We're going to come to
the book of Philippians
00:41:56.87\00:42:00.05
chapter 1 and
verse 21 and onwards
00:42:00.25\00:42:04.37
dear hearts and gentle people.
00:42:04.57\00:42:05.94
Philippians chapter
1 verse 21 and onwards.
00:42:05.98\00:42:09.77
And Paul is writing. He says:
00:42:09.98\00:42:11.92
"For to me to live is Christ
00:42:12.22\00:42:15.07
and to die is gain.
00:42:15.27\00:42:17.85
If I am to go on
living in the body
00:42:19.30\00:42:21.84
this will mean
fruitful labor for me.
00:42:22.04\00:42:24.77
Yet what shall I
choose I do not know.
00:42:24.97\00:42:28.06
I am torn between the
two. I desire to depart
00:42:28.46\00:42:33.52
and be with Christ
which is better by far.
00:42:33.72\00:42:38.06
But it is more necessary for
you that I remain in the body. "
00:42:38.46\00:42:44.37
Paul said: "I have a desire
00:42:44.57\00:42:49.38
to depart and to
be with Christ. "
00:42:49.58\00:42:53.86
He said: "I want to be with
Christ. It will be better. "
00:42:54.06\00:42:59.96
Those who don't understand the
truth on the state of the dead
00:43:04.12\00:43:09.91
believe that this text teaches
00:43:10.21\00:43:13.25
that as soon as you die
you go straight to heaven.
00:43:13.66\00:43:19.57
If this were the
only text in the Bible
00:43:20.47\00:43:23.14
on the state of the dead
00:43:23.35\00:43:24.93
we all might be
excused for believing this.
00:43:25.13\00:43:28.30
But there are many, many,
many, many, many other texts.
00:43:28.50\00:43:31.53
But I want you
to think about this.
00:43:31.73\00:43:33.91
Some little while ago I
had a medical procedure.
00:43:37.55\00:43:41.97
Not life threatening... it was
just sort of a check-up thing.
00:43:42.37\00:43:47.25
The doctor said to me as he
put the needle in my hand...
00:43:47.87\00:43:51.27
he said: "Count to ten. "
00:43:51.57\00:43:54.89
So I started: "One,
two... " and I was gone.
00:43:55.49\00:43:59.47
And after a little while... No!
00:44:00.57\00:44:03.32
after a second I woke up.
00:44:05.92\00:44:10.72
I said: "How long
have I been out for? "
00:44:11.42\00:44:16.10
He said: "You have
been out for three hours. "
00:44:16.30\00:44:19.42
I said: "I just
had the greatest sleep
00:44:21.17\00:44:23.99
I've ever had in my life.
Where do you get that stuff? "
00:44:24.09\00:44:26.65
Now he said: "No no no
no no no no no no no no.
00:44:29.63\00:44:33.46
That's what Michael
Jackson did. No no no" he said.
00:44:33.66\00:44:36.51
"Can't get any of that stuff. "
00:44:36.71\00:44:39.57
But I was not conscious
of the passing of time.
00:44:39.78\00:44:44.05
If I should die tonight,
00:44:44.35\00:44:46.95
the next thing I will know
will be the coming of the Lord
00:44:47.15\00:44:51.50
in power and great glory
00:44:51.53\00:44:54.18
and I will be with
the Lord forever. Amen!
00:44:54.38\00:44:57.66
So my friend, the
worst that the devil can do
00:44:57.96\00:45:02.19
to you and to me is to put
us to sleep for a little while.
00:45:02.39\00:45:06.47
And then it will be
glory... glory, glory, glory,
00:45:06.77\00:45:11.41
glory hallelujah!
00:45:11.61\00:45:14.44
And heaven is near for
another reason. Heaven is near
00:45:14.74\00:45:18.05
because the Lord is coming.
And the coming of the Lord
00:45:18.25\00:45:23.17
is at hand. I say it to
you in the name of the Lord.
00:45:23.37\00:45:27.40
Now my friend, look
over here. Revelation 11.
00:45:27.60\00:45:30.72
Heaven is near because the
coming of the Lord is at hand.
00:45:30.92\00:45:36.24
This burns in my soul.
00:45:36.44\00:45:39.44
Revelation 11 verse 15:
"The seventh angel sounded his
00:45:39.64\00:45:43.24
trumpet and there were
loud voices in heaven which said
00:45:43.34\00:45:46.35
'The kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms
00:45:46.55\00:45:49.67
of our Lord and of His Christ.
00:45:49.87\00:45:52.23
And He will reign
forever and ever. '
00:45:52.43\00:45:54.96
And the twenty-four elders
who were seated on the thrones
00:45:55.16\00:45:57.90
before God fell on their
faces and worshiped God saying:
00:45:58.10\00:46:01.59
'We give thanks to
You Lord God Almighty -
00:46:01.79\00:46:04.39
the One who is and who was -
00:46:04.59\00:46:06.93
because You have taken
Your great power and have begun
00:46:07.13\00:46:10.18
to reign. ' The
nations were angry. "
00:46:10.38\00:46:13.96
They're angry
tonight, my friend.
00:46:14.06\00:46:15.87
"And Your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging
00:46:16.07\00:46:19.50
the dead and for rewarding
Your servants the prophets
00:46:19.70\00:46:22.80
and Your saints and
those who reverence Your name
00:46:23.00\00:46:26.38
both small and great
and for destroying those
00:46:26.58\00:46:29.74
who destroy the earth.
Then God's temple in heaven
00:46:29.94\00:46:33.68
was opened. "
Listen: before Jesus comes
00:46:33.88\00:46:39.02
the nations are going
to be in a frenzy of hatred
00:46:40.23\00:46:46.05
destroying the earth.
00:46:46.39\00:46:50.40
We are living
tonight I assure you
00:46:50.60\00:46:53.98
in the age of the apocalypse.
00:46:54.18\00:46:57.35
I have had people say to me
00:46:57.55\00:46:59.54
"No... we've heard this story
so often we are not going to
00:46:59.74\00:47:04.77
believe it any more. "
00:47:04.88\00:47:06.70
If you do not take it from
my lips then read Time Magazine
00:47:06.90\00:47:11.21
or Newsweek or The Economist.
00:47:11.41\00:47:14.85
And turn on television and
then look at the prophecies
00:47:15.05\00:47:18.37
of the Bible. We are
living at the very end of time
00:47:18.57\00:47:22.84
and heaven is
around the corner. Amen!
00:47:23.05\00:47:26.23
Jesus is coming soon.
00:47:26.33\00:47:28.34
Heaven is near.
00:47:28.64\00:47:30.72
And there's some good news.
00:47:32.08\00:47:33.60
Heaven is for everyone.
00:47:33.70\00:47:36.20
This is the good thing.
00:47:36.50\00:47:37.96
Come over here to
Revelation 21 verse 16.
00:47:38.16\00:47:41.31
It is for everyone.
00:47:41.51\00:47:42.91
Revelation 21
verse 16 in the Bible:
00:47:44.42\00:47:48.63
"The city was laid
out like a square. "
00:47:48.74\00:47:50.76
This is the New Jerusalem.
00:47:50.96\00:47:52.33
"As long as it was wide.
He measured the city with
00:47:53.28\00:47:55.91
the rod and found it to be
twelve thousand stadia... "
00:47:56.01\00:47:59.67
That is 1,400 miles.
00:47:59.88\00:48:02.11
"in length and as wide
and as high as it is long. "
00:48:02.31\00:48:06.93
Do we take these
figures literally? I don't know.
00:48:07.13\00:48:09.60
But I will tell you
this: God is trying to tell us
00:48:09.90\00:48:12.76
it is so big
there's room for everyone.
00:48:12.96\00:48:16.43
Did you hear this?
00:48:16.63\00:48:18.19
There's room for everyone
irrespective of your color,
00:48:18.39\00:48:22.60
your nationality, your society.
00:48:22.80\00:48:25.30
I have preached to
thousands of white Australians.
00:48:25.50\00:48:29.20
In PNG I preached
every night to around 130,000
00:48:29.40\00:48:33.91
black brothers and
sisters every night.
00:48:34.12\00:48:36.34
In Africa I have
preached to the Zulus.
00:48:36.54\00:48:40.01
In Africa I have also spoken
to the Dutch and the English.
00:48:40.21\00:48:43.95
In China I have
preached to the Chinese people.
00:48:44.15\00:48:47.00
In Manila to the Filipinos.
00:48:47.20\00:48:49.26
In Los Angeles to everybody.
00:48:49.47\00:48:52.00
But I want you to know this:
there is room for everybody.
00:48:52.50\00:48:57.59
And it doesn't matter,
my friend, your nationality.
00:48:57.73\00:49:01.52
It doesn't matter about
the accident of your birth.
00:49:01.72\00:49:05.07
It matters whether you
believe in Christ or not. Amen.
00:49:05.27\00:49:09.43
Heaven is for everybody.
00:49:10.50\00:49:13.70
And how good it
will be to get home.
00:49:14.10\00:49:17.68
When I've been
traveling for months
00:49:19.11\00:49:21.59
strange countries with dangers.
00:49:21.79\00:49:24.82
In Iraq... I've spent
a lot of time in Iraq.
00:49:25.02\00:49:27.38
Africa. Sometimes sick.
00:49:27.58\00:49:30.16
Hard to get food;
hard to get water; lonely.
00:49:31.40\00:49:36.73
Can I tell you: the best
sight, the very best sight
00:49:36.93\00:49:40.81
that I've ever seen
when I'm traveling overseas
00:49:41.01\00:49:44.66
the best sight is
the plane back home.
00:49:44.86\00:49:47.59
And the best sight
for the people of God
00:49:49.22\00:49:52.29
will be the coming of
Christ in power and great glory.
00:49:52.50\00:49:57.21
Amen!
00:49:57.31\00:49:58.68
I would remind you of this:
heaven is not for the proud,
00:49:59.04\00:50:04.62
the self-sufficient,
but for those who feel
00:50:04.82\00:50:10.80
their need.
00:50:11.21\00:50:13.66
Some time ago I visited
the battlefield of Gettysburg.
00:50:16.84\00:50:22.70
I had read about it.
I went there and I spent
00:50:23.90\00:50:27.40
a fair bit of time
walking and thinking.
00:50:27.50\00:50:31.83
The battle took place in 1863...
00:50:32.13\00:50:35.76
the climax of the
American Civil War.
00:50:36.07\00:50:39.29
Brother against brother.
00:50:39.59\00:50:41.86
General Meade against
General Robert E. Lee.
00:50:42.06\00:50:44.93
During the battle
there were between 46,000
00:50:46.80\00:50:50.59
and 51,000 casualties.
00:50:50.79\00:50:53.84
During those three
days... few days...
00:50:54.24\00:50:56.91
over 7,000 young Americans died.
00:50:57.11\00:51:03.04
On the third day of
the battle of Gettysburg
00:51:08.16\00:51:11.11
the South made
their bid for the mastery.
00:51:12.47\00:51:16.17
12,500 Southerners... brave men.
00:51:16.37\00:51:20.31
It's called Pickett's Charge.
00:51:21.75\00:51:24.21
They charged up Cemetery Ridge
00:51:24.41\00:51:27.11
and they were met with
withering fire from the North.
00:51:27.51\00:51:31.66
And that night a
pale moon looked down
00:51:34.17\00:51:40.13
upon a scene of awful
00:51:40.33\00:51:44.90
and dreadful carnage.
00:51:45.10\00:51:47.26
Tens of thousands
of young men groaning,
00:51:48.47\00:51:52.27
some with their legs off.
00:51:52.47\00:51:55.14
More than 7,000 young men dead
00:51:56.41\00:52:00.76
and so many injured
and crying... crying.
00:52:01.06\00:52:07.01
Don't glamorize
war. It's of the devil.
00:52:07.97\00:52:12.65
Sometimes we've got a tendency
to think it's a great thing.
00:52:14.87\00:52:17.72
Not the people who go.
00:52:21.39\00:52:23.78
The blood, the horror, the fear,
00:52:24.08\00:52:27.98
the agony.
00:52:28.29\00:52:30.60
This is true. That
night an old Quaker farmer
00:52:33.33\00:52:38.69
came looking for his
son. You know the story.
00:52:38.89\00:52:41.81
The old Quaker farmer
came carrying a lantern
00:52:42.21\00:52:47.59
and he'd hold the lantern high.
00:52:47.73\00:52:50.42
And he'd stop and then
he'd put down the lantern
00:52:50.63\00:52:54.12
and he'd cry out:
00:52:54.32\00:52:56.27
"John Hartman, thy
father seeketh thee. "
00:52:56.97\00:53:02.79
And then he'd go
on a little further
00:53:03.09\00:53:06.01
where the men were
groaning and crying
00:53:06.21\00:53:09.48
"Lord, Lord, " and
others were crying "Oh, mother,
00:53:09.78\00:53:14.42
mother, I wish
I had my mother. "
00:53:14.62\00:53:17.69
And he'd lift up the lantern
and shine it in the faces
00:53:19.19\00:53:23.72
of Southern boys
and Northern boys.
00:53:23.75\00:53:27.02
And he'd cry out: "John Hartman,
00:53:28.34\00:53:33.29
thy father seeketh thee. "
00:53:33.49\00:53:37.29
And then the
soldiers took up the cry
00:53:37.59\00:53:40.05
"John Hartman...
your father's here, John.
00:53:40.26\00:53:43.89
Where are you, John? "
00:53:44.19\00:53:45.82
And across the field
of Gettysburg there rose
00:53:46.02\00:53:49.97
a cry from the dying:
"John Hartman, your daddy's here
00:53:50.17\00:53:56.12
and he's seeking for you. "
00:53:56.22\00:53:57.78
The old father went on,
stooped, holding the lantern,
00:53:58.58\00:54:04.37
gazing: "John Hartman,
thy father seeketh thee. "
00:54:04.57\00:54:09.12
And then finally
one poor broken boy
00:54:09.32\00:54:14.04
got himself up on the
elbows and he cried out:
00:54:14.24\00:54:18.02
"Here, Father. "
00:54:18.32\00:54:21.20
"Here, Father. "
00:54:21.40\00:54:24.31
The father couldn't hear.
00:54:24.62\00:54:26.12
And the other
soldier boys cried out:
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"He's over here.
00:54:28.91\00:54:31.11
I wish to God that
were my father seeking me. "
00:54:31.41\00:54:35.84
And the old
Quaker farmer went over
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and put down the lantern
00:54:40.70\00:54:43.73
and got down and
picked up his boy
00:54:44.13\00:54:49.01
and he carried him home.
00:54:50.86\00:54:54.68
Tonight you may feel as weak
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as that poor soldier boy.
00:55:03.46\00:55:06.52
But I want you to know tonight
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your Father is
seeking you. Amen.
00:55:12.38\00:55:16.58
And He's come a
long way, my friend.
00:55:16.88\00:55:19.36
He's walked a long way
and His feet are bleeding.
00:55:20.73\00:55:25.74
And He comes
across the field of earth
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and He holds high a
lantern and He says:
00:55:30.36\00:55:33.26
"Mary,
00:55:33.57\00:55:35.34
John,
00:55:36.74\00:55:38.54
Bill,
00:55:39.52\00:55:41.08
your Father is seeking you. "
00:55:44.26\00:55:47.48
I want you to know tonight
00:55:49.71\00:55:52.32
you may feel as weak
00:55:52.72\00:55:57.08
as that poor
American soldier boy
00:55:57.28\00:56:01.48
but if you look up
into His face tonight
00:56:03.33\00:56:06.55
and say: "Yes,
Father... " He'll stoop down.
00:56:07.69\00:56:12.27
He'll put His arms around you.
00:56:13.70\00:56:16.37
It doesn't depend
upon your strength.
00:56:16.57\00:56:18.98
He'll lift you up
and He'll take you home
00:56:19.38\00:56:24.44
to glory. Amen.
00:56:24.84\00:56:28.60
I want you to bow your heads.
00:56:30.29\00:56:32.53
Our Father, we thank
you tonight that across
00:56:33.85\00:56:37.89
the bloody battlefield
there comes a Man with hands
00:56:38.09\00:56:42.63
that are scarred. And
He cries out and says:
00:56:42.73\00:56:45.95
"John Hartman, thy
Father seeketh thee. "
00:56:46.15\00:56:48.53
"Mary, I've been
looking for you. "
00:56:48.83\00:56:51.45
"Julie, I've been
looking for you. "
00:56:52.05\00:56:55.24
"Tom, I've been
looking for you. "
00:56:55.54\00:56:58.29
And tonight as
we're praying here
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how many will
raise a hand and say
00:57:04.96\00:57:07.65
"Oh my Father, I am weak
00:57:08.05\00:57:11.53
but I want You to
stoop down and lift me up
00:57:11.93\00:57:16.62
and take me home. " Can
you raise your hand tonight
00:57:16.92\00:57:20.19
if that is your prayer?
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