Welcome to 3ABN
Spring Camp Meeting.
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Christ, Calvary,
and the Sanctuary
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live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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All right.
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Praise the Lord and welcome,
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welcome back to our
Spring Camp Meeting.
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Apologize about the voice
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but I don't have much to
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and see that I can
sit down and do nothing
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or continue to get up and speak,
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so I'm going to do that
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until I have surgery
scheduled in a couple of months,
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so bear with me.
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I'm still happy
in the Lord, right?
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Whatever is happening so I said
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if I had to I'll
learn to use sign language,
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I'm not very good,
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but we got to keep continuing
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to communicate the
Gospel to the world, right?
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Jesus said, "Go ye
into all the world."
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I don't know about all of you
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but I've been so
blessed this weekend,
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the music, the preaching,
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and to see men of honor
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that have given
their lives and gifts
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to giving the
Three Angels messages
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to a lost and dying world.
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One of those that will be out
right after our special music
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is Pastor John Carter.
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And John Carter and I go
way back for 25 years now,
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1991 he called me and asked me
whether I want to go to Russia.
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I've never been to Russia.
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Long story short,
we were able to go.
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We went in '92, held a
huge evangelistic campaign,
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saw 2,532 Russians baptized
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right after the
fall of communism.
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We began to work together.
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We built the
largest protestant facility
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in all the ex-Soviet Union.
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Literally, thousands of
people are coming to the Lord.
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Sister Julia Outkina is now
general manager of 3ABN Russia
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and we probably have close to
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40 or 50 fulltime
Russian workers there.
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The church, we worked
together with the church,
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continued Carter, Elder Carter,
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is going back
time and time again
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and we are literally seeing
the nation of Russia changed
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because of the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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because of preachers
like Brother John Carter.
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I've traveled with
him around the world.
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He has an
anointing that is amazing.
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I've seen crowds as
big as 100,000 a night,
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sometimes more, places
like India, New Guinea,
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and so, God has gifted him
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so I sell that not
to give credit to John,
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he is a earthly human vessel,
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but he has decided
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that it's
important God has called him
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to do something big
and he is going to do it.
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And that is to take
the gospel of the Kingdom
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and undiluted
Three Angels' messages,
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one who would
counteract a counterfeit
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into all the world.
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But before he comes out
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we have a
special surprise for you.
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Come on out, Mr. Jimmy Rhodes,
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let's everybody make
Jimmy Rhodes welcome.
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Yeah!
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And, yeah...
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Jimmy is among
friends and he knows that.
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Of course, Jim and Pam
have been for many, many years
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and just about two years
ago in the last couple of days
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Pam was laid to rest
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and Jim has not been out playing
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and so we've ask him
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and elder Carter
has asked him and others
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Jimmy come on and
play something for us.
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He has got a
tremendous gift to music.
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How many will pray for Jim,
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because those of you
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that's lost their loved
one you know what it is like.
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The struggles you go through.
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But we appreciate
your love and your support
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and what you do for
the Gospel of Christ
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that you've doing
for many, many years,
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and the special gift
that God has given you.
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What are you going to be
playing for us tonight, Jimmy?
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A Good Camp Meeting Medley.
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A Good Camp Meeting Medley,
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all right,
looking forward to it.
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We love it. Jimmy Rhodes.
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I've known Jimmy
Rhodes for many, many years.
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I also knew his wife Pam.
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The most wonderful people
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you will meet
anywhere in the world.
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Amen. Amen.
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They traveled
with me on one occasion
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overseas to Ukraine
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and they gave wonderful music.
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But Jimmy and Pam will never,
never part from my memory.
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It was two years ago
yesterday when Pam passed away.
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I'm just so privileged
to have Jimmy here tonight.
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I had never
expected Jimmy would be here.
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But tonight I would
like to dedicate this message
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in honor of Pam Rhodes.
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Amen. Amen.
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I also want to say
Danny and I've been friends
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for so, so long.
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The Carter Report has
been on 3ABN now for...
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I think it is 27 years.
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And Danny has been a
loyal, and a faithful,
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and a good, and a funny friend.
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It's all right to
laugh, you know, folks.
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Okay, let me give you the topic.
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The topic is By
Water, By Blood, and By Fire.
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Do you hear it?
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By water, by blood, and by fire,
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that's how the work of God
will be completed in glory.
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I want you to take
your Bibles firstly
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to the portion on water.
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I want you to come over
here to the book of Ezekiel.
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I want you to come over
here to Ezekiel chapter 47
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in the Old Testament to
the Word of the Living God,
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Ezekiel 47:2 and onwards.
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This is, of
course, a symbolic picture.
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He brought me out by
the way of the north gate,
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led me around to the
outside to the outer gate
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that faces east
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and there was water
running out on the right side.
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And when the man
went out to the east
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with the line in his
hand, he measured 1,000 cubits
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and he brought me
through the waters.
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The water came up to my ankles.
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Again he measured 1,000 cubits
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and brought me
through the waters.
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The water came up to my knees.
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Again he measured
1,000 and brought me through.
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The water came up to my waist.
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Again, he measured 1,000
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and it was a river
that I could not cross
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for the water was too deep,
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water in which one must swim,
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a river that
could not be crossed.
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He said to me, 'Son of
man, have you seen this?'
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Then he brought
me and returned me
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to the bank of the river.
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"When I returned there
along the bank of the river,
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were very many trees on
one side and the other."
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And if you look,
please, at verse 12,
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"Along the bank of the river,
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on this side and that will grow
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all kinds of
trees used for food.
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Their leaves will not whither
and their fruit will not fail.
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There will be a
fruit every month
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because their water
flows from the sanctuary.
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Their fruit will be for food
and their leaves for medicine".
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Now, my friend,
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this is a picture of
the Gospel of Christ.
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Amen.
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Because where the
Gospel of Christ goes,
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where the mighty flood
of the grace of God goes,
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you've got healing and you have
got hope for the people of God.
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Amen.
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Now let me tell you this,
what the church needs today,
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you're listening, what
the church needs today,
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what America needs today,
what the world needs today,
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salvation not from politics.
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Are you listening to me? Amen.
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The politicians
have failed America
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and they have failed the world.
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We don't need it from politics
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and we don't need it
from manmade religion.
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And we do not need
it from the philosophers
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and we don't need it
from the human people
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who are talking
about their human theories.
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We don't need it from
all of these philosophies,
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what we need is
the water of life
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which is the Gospel of Christ.
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Amen.
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Now as some of you folks know
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because I talk
differently to you,
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I come from Australia,
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but I've lived in
this pleasant land
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now for 30 years.
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The outback of Australia
is a vast, vast, region.
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It is a desert in many places
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like Death Valley in California.
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In South
Australia there is a place
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that is called Lake
Eyre, it is a great salt lake.
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It is 144
kilometers by 77 kilometers,
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a 100 miles about by 50 miles.
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It is hot, it is dry.
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They use it for
racing motor cars.
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So, it is flat, it is dead,
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and apparently
nothing lives in that area.
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It is 50 feet below sea level.
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But then something happens.
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Up in Queensland, more
than 1,000 miles to the north,
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almost 2,000 to the north,
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comes the mighty monsoon.
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And it rains and it rains.
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And then the Diamantina,
which is almost dried up,
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and Cooper's
Creek, they go into flood.
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And those rivers that
were just a few yards across
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are now 100 miles across
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and the water starts to flow.
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It takes six to eight weeks
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to flow the
thousands of the miles
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down to this
barren and desolate place.
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When it gets there,
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it is met by 200,000 pelicans.
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You tell me, how
do the pelicans know?
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And hundred even
millions of seabirds
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get there as the water arrives
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and you tell me there is no God.
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You see?
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This happens, a
really big flood,
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happens every 25 years,
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a smaller flood every 10 years,
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and a lesser
flood every 3 years.
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The lake fills up to 20
feet, 100's of miles across
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with literally
millions and millions of fish.
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And around it
the dessert rejoices
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and blossoms as the rose.
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This is not the work of
man this is the work of God
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because water brings life.
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Amen.
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And what the church needs
is not the philosophy of man.
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We do not need more
politicians telling us
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how to live we need
the Gospel of Christ.
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I want you to come
to a great prophecy,
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the Prophecy of
Joel 2:23 and onwards.
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Joel, 2:23, "Be glad
then, you children of Zion,
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and rejoice in
the Lord, your God,
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for He's given you
the former rain faithfully
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and He will cause the
rain to come down for you,
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the former
rain," what does it say?
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"And the latter
rain in the first month.
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The threshing floors
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shall be full of
wheat and the vats
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shall overflow
with new wine and oil.
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So I will restore you the years
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that the
swarming locust has eaten,
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the crawling locust,
the consuming locust,
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and the chewing locust,
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my great army
which are set among you,
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you shall eat in
plenty and be satisfied
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and praise the name
of the Lord, your God,
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who has dealt
wondrously with you
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and my people shall
never be put to shame,
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then you will know that
I'm in the midst of Israel,
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I'm the Lord, your
God, and there is no other.
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My people shall
never be put to shame".
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Now listen to what
He is talking about.
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"And it shall
come to pass afterward
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that I will pour out
my spirit on all flesh.
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Your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy.
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Your old men shall dream dreams,
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your young men
shall see visions.
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And also on my menservants
and on my maidservants
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I will pour out my
spirit in those days.
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And I will show wonders
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in the heavens and in the earth,
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blood and fire,
and pillars of smoke".
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Listen.
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I want you to know something.
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The rain is coming.
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Amen. Mm-hm.
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I want you to know something.
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Nothing can stop it
because it is the work of God.
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Pentecost is coming.
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Amen. Yes.
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The early rain was
the time of Pentecost
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but the latter rain
is going to be greater
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than the days of Pentecost.
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I want you to know this, listen.
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We are living in the
time of the latter rain.
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I want to say this in
the fear of God tonight,
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I have experienced personally,
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I say carefully,
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I have experienced a
foretaste of the latter rain.
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I've seen the glory and
I've seen the power of God.
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I'm not an armchair theologian.
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I'm talking about the things
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that I've seen with my own eyes.
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When we went to Papua New Guinea
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not so long ago,
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we started... it's the most
dangerous city in the world.
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People would say,
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"Why go to the most
dangerous city in the world?"
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Because it has
a great need. Yes.
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The need is desperate.
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And there is only one way
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that you can solve
the problems in the world.
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The only way you
can solve the problems
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and the shootings
in the city of Detroit,
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and other cities,
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and Chicago is with
the Gospel of Christ.
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Now in PNG we started
with a crowd of 70,000 people,
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the next night 80,000,
then 90,000, then 100,000,
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then 130,000, then 150,000.
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And some say by the last night
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we had a crowd, Glory be to God,
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can I hear hallelujah coming on?
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Hallelujah.
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Somebody said,
"Don't keep it inside
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because it's going to
hurt you, let it out."
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On the last night,
well, no, it wasn't,
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going back a little bit,
about the third last night
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I was preaching on the
ministry of the Holy Spirit,
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we put up on
these colossal screens,
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the symbol of the Spirit
of God which is the dove,
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and after the meeting
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some of the local
pastors came to me
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and they said, "Pastor Carter,
some of our church members
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have come to us
with an amazing story".
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They came out to the
university where I was staying
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and they said,
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"The church members
came to us with a story,
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they said as you were
preaching on the Holy Spirit",
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this is between us and God,
this is the truth, they said,
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"A great white
dove, a giant white dove
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that doesn't live in
that part of the world
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flew over the congregation
and our people saw it."
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Amen.
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But wait on.
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We come to the last
night and I'm about to preach.
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The soloist was out
singing to the crowd,
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I'm standing at the
back of this massive,
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massive stage
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and I'm meeting
the representatives
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of the government
they've come to say,
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"Hallelujah, come and
pray for the government."
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That's what they
said, "Come and pray
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for the Prime
Minister, he needs prayer.
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Come and pray for
the minister of justice."
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And as I was standing there,
I heard as it is described
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in the Bible, the voice,
like the sound of many waters.
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And so I heard
the people shouting
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and when I went
out every person,
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in a crowd of
150,000 to 200,000 people,
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they were standing,
and they we're pointing,
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and they were praising God,
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and as I watched in
spellbound fascination,
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a tremendous white dove
swooped in over the audience
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and flew over my
head and disappeared.
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Amen. Amen.
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You know what the people said?
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I don't know what
you're going to say about it,
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but the people said in
that part of the world,
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"God has visited His people."
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God sent the Holy Spirit.
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And in the
congregation that night
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there were hundreds and
hundreds of gang members.
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The toughest people in the world
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and standing to their feet
and praising God, hallelujah.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Amen.
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And that day we had a baptism.
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And then, after
the final meeting,
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I had an altar call.
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And because God had sent
the symbol of the Holy Spirit,
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when I appealed
for Christ and I said,
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"God, take over the meeting
because I cannot do this."
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And as I appealed
in the name of God,
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I would think a
crowd of 50,000 people
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came down the front.
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Amen. Amen.
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Have you ever seen a
crowd of 50,000 people?
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Fifty thousand
people came down the front
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raising their
hands and praising God.
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I want you to know we live
in the time of the latter rain.
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Amen.
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And I'm not talking
like a college professor
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or an armchair theologian.
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Mine eyes have seen the
glory of the coming of the Lord.
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Amen.
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"He is trampling out the vintage
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where the grapes
of wrath are stored."
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When we ran the
campaign in El Salvador,
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we hired the football stadium,
you know what the people said?
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"The people won't come."
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You have always got
people like that in the church,
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the people who've
never done anything,
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and have one
ambition to stop the work.
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That's right.
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And they're the most pious ones.
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They're the ones who
talk the most religion
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because religion is
often a cloak that covers sin.
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Did you hear what I said? Yes.
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False religion is
often a cloak that covers sin
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and sometimes the people
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who have the
greatest pretensions
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for piety have
the greatest sins.
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And that is why we
are told to come to God
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and repent for our sins.
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In El Salvador, a
vast football stadium,
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when the people came
the stadium was packed.
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The largest crowd in the history
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of Central America
came not to a football match
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but to hear the
gospel of Christ.
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Hallelujah. Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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We had to hire 763 busses.
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Praise the Lord.
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Before that
occasion I didn't know
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there were 763 busses.
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That's a vast number of buses.
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Now the carnal heart says,
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it cannot
happen, it won't happen.
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The problem is
not with the world,
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the problem often
is with the church,
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lack of faith.
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There are many of us
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who are living in
the desert of sin.
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Let me say this to you.
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It's not good to spend
precious time with doubters
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who tell you it can't happen
because if it doesn't happen
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they are the reason.
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Shouldn't spend time with
them. Don't listen to them.
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Come over here to Joel, 2:28.
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"And it shall
come to pass afterward
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that I will pour out
my spirit on all flesh.
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Your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy.
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Your old men shall dream dreams,
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your young men
shall see visions,
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and also on my menservants
and on my maidservants,
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I will pour out my
spirit in those days."
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Look at verses 15-18
because it is terrific.
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"Blow the trumpet of
Zion, consecrate a fast,
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call a solemn
assembly, gather the people,
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sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders,
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gather the
children and nursing babes,
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let the bridegroom
go out of his chamber
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and the bride
from her dressing room,
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let the priests, who
minister to the Lord,
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weep between the
porch and the altar,
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let them say, spare
your people, O Lord.
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And do not give you
a heritage to reproach
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that the nation
should rule over them.
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Why should they
say among the people,
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where is their God?
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Then the Lord would
be zealous for his land
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and pity his people."
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Listen to me.
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There is something I want
to be more than anything else.
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I want to be true to God
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and I want to be
true to the gospel,
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and I want to be
true to the Bible,
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and I want to be
true to the truce.
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Amen. Amen.
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I do not want to sell my soul.
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The Spirit of God
will manifest himself
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when we repent of our sins
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and believe the
Gospel of Christ.
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What is the Gospel?
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People come to me and they say,
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"You make it too
easy to be saved."
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I want you to
know I don't make it
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too easy to be saved, God did.
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Yes. Amen.
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What's easier than the
text "For God so loved the world
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that He gave His son so
that whoever believes in Him
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shall not perish but
have everlasting life"?
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There is life for a
look at the Crucified One,
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there is life at
this moment for thee,
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then look, sinner,
look and be saved, unto Him
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who was nailed to the tree.
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Any person can look.
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You don't have to
be wealthy to look.
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You don't even have
to be smart to be look.
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Salvation is
easy, salvation is free.
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I want you to come over here
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to the story of
Elijah 1 Kings 18.
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1 Kings 18.
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I'm so glad we've
got this lady tonight
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who is helping me along.
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That's a big
blessing to me, it really is.
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It really is. I'm
so glad you're here.
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1 Kings, 18:41 and
onwards, notice this text.
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"That Elijah said to
Ahab, 'Get up eat and drink.
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For there is the
sound of abundance of rain.
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Put it in your mind'.
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So Ahab went up to eat and drink
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and Elijah went up
to the top of a Carmel,
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then he bared
down on the ground,
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put his face between his
knees and said to his servant,
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'Go up now,
look toward the sea'.
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So he went up and looked
and said 'There is nothing.'"
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That's what people
say, "There is nothing".
00:30:05.00\00:30:08.84
"Seven times he said go
again, then it came to pass
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the seventh time that
he said, 'There is a cloud
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as small as a man's
hand rising out of the sea'.
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So he said, 'Go up, say to Ahab,
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prepare your chariot
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and go down before
the rain stops you.'
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Now it happened in the
meantime that the sky became
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black with clouds, and
wind, and there was heavy rain.
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So Ahab rode away
and went to Jezreel.
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Then the hand of
God came upon Elijah
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and he girded up his lions
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and ran ahead of Ahab to
the entrance to Jezreel."
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Listen to me, look at
me, as I need to tell you.
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In spite of the
Ahabs and the Jezebels,
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the rain is coming.
00:31:02.02\00:31:03.83
Amen. Amen.
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Hear this?
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In spite of the
Ahabs and the Jezebels
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in the political
world, in the government,
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and in the church,
the rain is coming.
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My message to you is this.
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There is sound of
abundance of rain.
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Yes. Amen.
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So it's going to come
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and I've seen a
foretaste of the latter rain.
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Amen.
00:31:30.35\00:31:32.32
By water, number two, by blood,
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and listen very
carefully to this.
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I won't say anything
more important than this.
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By blood,
00:31:42.80\00:31:45.53
John Stott a famous
Church of England minister
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wrote in his book,
the "Cross of Christ",
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"Unless the cross is
the center of our religion,
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it is not the
religion of Jesus."
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Lord, have mercy.
00:32:02.32\00:32:04.42
How many Christless
sermons are preached
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that don't even
talk about the blood?
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"Unless the cross is
the center of our religion,
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it's not the religion of Jesus."
00:32:17.60\00:32:23.97
Now, my friend, I know
some people will take offence
00:32:24.01\00:32:29.08
when I say this,
but I say it in love,
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I say it
because it is the truth,
00:32:31.98\00:32:34.92
and our blessed Lord
said, "You will know the truth
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and the truth
will make you free"
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and a true minister of
God is not called to please
00:32:41.46\00:32:45.03
the congregation
or the conference.
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Did you hear this? Amen.
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Amen. Are you listening to me?
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A true man of God is not
called to preach in such a way
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that will necessarily
00:32:55.30\00:32:56.84
even please the
general conference.
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That's right. That's right.
00:32:59.21\00:33:00.68
A man of God is called
not to please the people
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but the God who
sent him to preach.
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Amen. Amen.
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Now listen, we are saved by
becoming members of the church
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though I have
baptized tens of thousands
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who become
members of the church.
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We are not saved
by the act of baptism.
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Baptism simply is
an outward indication
00:33:25.37\00:33:30.61
that God has touched my
heart and I've been redeemed.
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We're saved in one
way, listen my friends,
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let every person know this.
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Let our Roman
Catholic friends know this,
00:33:41.15\00:33:43.45
let the Baptists know this,
let the Methodists know this,
00:33:43.49\00:33:46.49
let every person know
this that we, Adventists,
00:33:46.52\00:33:51.06
in our hearts, at least
we, who believe the bible,
00:33:51.09\00:33:54.56
we believe that we are saved
by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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Amen. Amen.
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Now come over
here to Ephesians 1:7
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over in the New
Testament, Galatians.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke,
John, Acts, Romans, Corinthians,
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Galatians, Ephesians chapter 1.
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I'm glad you have your Bibles.
00:34:13.62\00:34:16.45
Ephesians 1:7.
00:34:16.48\00:34:19.35
Dear hearts and gentle
people, it says, Paul says,
00:34:19.39\00:34:23.36
"In Him, in Christ,
00:34:23.43\00:34:26.33
we have
redemption through His blood,
00:34:26.36\00:34:30.43
the forgiveness of sins
00:34:30.47\00:34:32.93
according to the
riches of his grace".
00:34:32.97\00:34:38.07
Let us read it again.
00:34:38.11\00:34:40.04
"In Him, we have
redemption through His blood,
00:34:40.08\00:34:44.91
the forgiveness of sins
00:34:44.95\00:34:47.92
according to the
riches of his grace."
00:34:47.95\00:34:52.42
Amen. Listen to this.
00:34:52.45\00:34:55.26
I say this to my
fellow ministers,
00:34:55.29\00:34:58.43
I say to the leaders of
the church, listen to this.
00:34:58.46\00:35:04.07
There is power in
the blood of Jesus
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to awaken the conscience,
00:35:08.17\00:35:10.41
to convict our sin,
to stir the emotions, to
00:35:10.44\00:35:15.14
break the controlling
power of sin in the life,
00:35:15.18\00:35:19.81
to justify the guilty,
00:35:19.85\00:35:22.42
and to cleanse from
all unrighteousness.
00:35:22.45\00:35:25.62
Yes.
00:35:25.65\00:35:26.99
There is mighty power
in the blood of Jesus.
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How do I know it?
Because I've seen it.
00:35:31.16\00:35:34.66
Praise the Lord.
00:35:34.73\00:35:37.13
Now, as I told
you, I think last night,
00:35:37.17\00:35:40.74
God has taken me to
Russia and Ukraine 46 times.
00:35:40.80\00:35:45.31
I've not gone
because I like vacations.
00:35:45.34\00:35:49.34
It is not a vacation.
00:35:49.38\00:35:51.25
It is hard work.
00:35:51.28\00:35:53.38
Long days.
00:35:53.42\00:35:56.85
When I was there
and my dear friend
00:35:56.89\00:35:59.05
Danny Shelton alluded to this
00:35:59.09\00:36:00.89
and Danny has been my friend now
00:36:00.92\00:36:02.69
for 28 years.
00:36:02.72\00:36:08.26
I had a vast
audience of atheists
00:36:08.30\00:36:11.80
and members of the KGB.
00:36:11.83\00:36:15.84
I wondered, "How can I reach
the hearts of these people?
00:36:15.87\00:36:22.51
This must be
00:36:22.54\00:36:23.95
the most difficult
congregation in the world".
00:36:23.98\00:36:28.82
We were running
three sessions a day,
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3 o'clock, 5
o'clock, and 7 o'clock,
00:36:32.92\00:36:36.62
each time with
about 7,000 people.
00:36:36.66\00:36:39.63
Atheists, unbelievers,
men with their hands
00:36:39.66\00:36:44.23
that were stained crimson
with the blood of the saints.
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Glory be to God, I
say this to His glory.
00:36:50.51\00:36:53.04
I believe I'm the
only Protestant minister
00:36:53.07\00:36:56.48
who has ever preached to
the KGB on two occasions.
00:36:56.51\00:37:01.52
They sent around
their black Limousines
00:37:01.55\00:37:04.32
and took my team
and I, took us there,
00:37:04.35\00:37:08.76
took us there
00:37:08.79\00:37:10.16
and asked me to preach
the word of God to them.
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Amen.
00:37:12.23\00:37:13.56
I wondered how
can I reach the hearts
00:37:13.63\00:37:16.06
of all of these atheists,
00:37:16.10\00:37:18.37
these depressed people,
00:37:18.40\00:37:20.64
these people who
had been brainwashed
00:37:20.67\00:37:22.84
by atheistic
Marxism, Darwinian ideas,
00:37:22.87\00:37:27.48
the ideas of Nietzsche.
00:37:27.51\00:37:32.05
I had
commissioned a great painting.
00:37:32.08\00:37:35.02
It was about 40 feet
long and about 30 feet high.
00:37:35.05\00:37:40.46
Now I hung it up at front
00:37:40.49\00:37:41.82
without the
great pictorial aids.
00:37:41.86\00:37:46.16
It was a picture
of Christ on the cross
00:37:46.19\00:37:50.57
holding on to the nails.
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Christ on the
cross, His body lacerated,
00:37:54.00\00:38:00.61
and after
preaching on the cross,
00:38:00.64\00:38:03.14
I turned to the
Russian people and I said,
00:38:03.18\00:38:05.75
"I want you to look at the cross
00:38:05.78\00:38:07.95
because, Russia,
this is your God.
00:38:07.98\00:38:13.39
This is your God.
00:38:13.42\00:38:16.42
This is the God who made you.
00:38:16.46\00:38:19.89
You're not an
animal, you're not a machine,
00:38:19.93\00:38:22.93
you're a child of God,
00:38:22.96\00:38:24.83
and the God who made
the universe came down
00:38:24.87\00:38:29.30
and was nailed by
wicked men and women
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to the cross
00:38:33.21\00:38:35.48
and died in agony
bearing the sin of the world."
00:38:35.51\00:38:41.72
Now, I could've gone
00:38:41.75\00:38:43.08
and given splendid
talks in psychology
00:38:43.12\00:38:46.69
and every other ideology.
00:38:46.76\00:38:50.33
It would've
been so much heartier
00:38:50.36\00:38:53.90
but when I preached on the cross
00:38:53.93\00:38:56.10
and made an altar
call in every session,
00:38:56.13\00:39:00.57
I would see 7,000 people
00:39:00.60\00:39:03.84
including the
leaders of the KGB,
00:39:03.87\00:39:07.11
not walk down the front but run
00:39:07.14\00:39:11.35
and with their hands raised
00:39:11.38\00:39:13.65
crying to God for mercy.
00:39:13.68\00:39:16.58
Amen.
00:39:16.62\00:39:19.55
Where was the power?
00:39:19.59\00:39:22.22
The power is
00:39:22.26\00:39:23.86
in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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Now I saw it in
India, they told me there
00:39:30.10\00:39:32.23
it's absolutely futile.
00:39:32.27\00:39:36.14
The people in the
church said to me,
00:39:36.17\00:39:37.91
"Well, firstly they won't come.
00:39:37.94\00:39:39.84
Secondly, if they do
come, they won't stay
00:39:39.87\00:39:42.44
and even if they do
stay they won't listen.
00:39:42.48\00:39:45.81
Don't spend time
with those people.
00:39:45.85\00:39:48.05
They don't have
the spirit of God".
00:39:48.08\00:39:51.42
But one night
we had a vast crowd
00:39:51.45\00:39:53.79
as far as the eye could
see of Hindus and Muslims.
00:39:53.86\00:40:00.53
Amen.
00:40:00.60\00:40:01.90
Hindus and Muslims.
00:40:01.93\00:40:03.47
When I preached on the cross,
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and the spirit
of God came upon me.
00:40:07.64\00:40:12.14
I made an altar call
00:40:12.17\00:40:15.04
and virtually
the whole audience,
00:40:15.08\00:40:17.05
the Muslims and Hindus,
00:40:17.11\00:40:19.41
the whole audience was moved
00:40:19.45\00:40:22.22
and flooded down
like a sea of humanity
00:40:22.25\00:40:27.06
with hands raised
worshipping Christ.
00:40:27.12\00:40:30.49
Amen.
00:40:30.53\00:40:32.36
How do you explain that?
00:40:32.39\00:40:35.53
How do you explain it?
00:40:35.56\00:40:37.97
We are talking
tonight about "by water."
00:40:38.00\00:40:42.80
That is a flood of water
that's coming Holy Spirit.
00:40:42.84\00:40:45.41
Number 2, by blood.
00:40:45.44\00:40:50.28
There is power in
the blood of Christ.
00:40:50.31\00:40:52.65
Amen.
00:40:52.68\00:40:55.02
That's what the church needs
00:40:55.05\00:40:57.42
and that's what the world needs.
00:40:57.45\00:40:58.79
Amen.
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And Number 3, by fire.
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The work of God will
be finished by water,
00:41:03.83\00:41:06.70
by blood, and by fire.
00:41:06.73\00:41:10.67
I come to Acts, 2:1-3.
00:41:10.73\00:41:14.84
Acts, 2:1-3.
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Dear hearts and gentle people,
00:41:19.54\00:41:24.45
"When the day of
Pentecost was fully come,
00:41:24.48\00:41:28.08
they were all with
one accord and one place.
00:41:28.12\00:41:31.42
Suddenly there
came a sound from Heaven
00:41:31.45\00:41:34.12
as if a rushing mighty wind
00:41:34.16\00:41:37.09
and it filled the whole
house where they were sitting.
00:41:37.13\00:41:40.40
Then there appeared to
them divided tongues as a fire
00:41:40.46\00:41:45.87
and one sat upon each of them".
00:41:45.90\00:41:51.11
Fire is the symbol
00:41:51.14\00:41:54.11
of the spirit of God.
00:41:54.14\00:41:58.31
I want you to notice a text
00:41:58.35\00:42:00.75
which I will
illustrate by contrast
00:42:00.82\00:42:03.89
in the
Apocalypse Revelation 13:13.
00:42:03.92\00:42:09.69
Revelation 13:13.
00:42:09.72\00:42:15.96
Dear hearts and gentle people,
00:42:16.00\00:42:20.60
and this is a
picture of the last days.
00:42:20.64\00:42:24.31
Revelation 13:13.
00:42:24.34\00:42:27.74
"He, the
antichrist, performs great signs
00:42:27.78\00:42:32.21
so that he even makes
00:42:32.25\00:42:33.68
fire come down
from heaven on the earth
00:42:33.72\00:42:35.92
in the sight of men".
00:42:35.95\00:42:37.69
What is this talking about?
00:42:37.72\00:42:40.76
This is talking
about the antichrist.
00:42:40.82\00:42:43.09
The Bible says, in the last days
00:42:43.12\00:42:45.19
he is going to bring
fire down from heaven to earth
00:42:45.23\00:42:48.23
in the sight of men.
00:42:48.26\00:42:49.70
This is an
obvious allusion to whom?
00:42:49.73\00:42:54.94
Elijah.
00:42:54.97\00:42:57.24
Elijah, the
prophet, the true prophet
00:42:57.27\00:42:59.71
brought down fire from heaven
to earth in the sight of men.
00:42:59.74\00:43:03.68
The antichrist is
going to counterfeit it.
00:43:03.75\00:43:10.22
But the Bible tells me
00:43:10.29\00:43:14.16
that God will
answer the great delusion
00:43:14.19\00:43:19.83
of the false Pentecost
00:43:19.86\00:43:21.90
by a mighty outpouring
of supernatural divine power
00:43:21.93\00:43:28.14
which will be the fire of God.
00:43:28.17\00:43:29.74
Amen.
00:43:29.77\00:43:31.71
So the Bible
says in the last days,
00:43:31.74\00:43:34.88
"The fire, a representative
of the spirit of God,
00:43:34.91\00:43:39.25
will come down on the people
00:43:39.28\00:43:41.82
and the Bible
says in Revelation,
00:43:41.85\00:43:44.59
I think, it's 18,
00:43:44.62\00:43:45.95
and the earth was
lightened with the glory of God.
00:43:45.99\00:43:50.19
The whole earth,
and whole of America,
00:43:50.23\00:43:53.70
and the whole wide world
00:43:53.76\00:43:55.50
as far as you can imagine
before the end of this world
00:43:55.53\00:44:01.07
is going to be illuminated
00:44:01.10\00:44:03.07
by the fire of
the Spirit of God.
00:44:03.10\00:44:05.61
Amen. This is
the Word of the Lord.
00:44:05.64\00:44:08.41
Come over here to
Matthew chapter 3.
00:44:08.44\00:44:10.78
Now, I give you lots of text
00:44:10.85\00:44:12.45
because I believe
in preaching the Bible.
00:44:12.48\00:44:14.55
The authority is the Bible.
00:44:14.58\00:44:17.85
I want you to know
this. Don't forget this.
00:44:17.89\00:44:19.79
The authority is the Bible.
00:44:19.82\00:44:21.86
If you can't get
it out of the bible,
00:44:21.89\00:44:23.36
then leave it alone.
00:44:23.43\00:44:25.03
This is true.
00:44:25.06\00:44:26.39
I'm talking about
theology and doctrine.
00:44:26.43\00:44:28.63
People come to me and
they quote this author
00:44:28.66\00:44:30.23
and this author.
00:44:30.27\00:44:31.60
I say, what does the Bible say?
00:44:31.63\00:44:32.97
"Oh, well, we
don't really care."
00:44:33.00\00:44:34.34
I do care
00:44:34.37\00:44:35.70
because I believe in the
great Protestant principle
00:44:35.74\00:44:39.04
and you should learn it,
Solus Christus only Christ,
00:44:39.07\00:44:43.04
Solus Scriptura only scripture,
00:44:43.08\00:44:46.21
Solus Gratia only grace,
00:44:46.25\00:44:48.52
solus fide only faith.
00:44:48.55\00:44:50.59
That is the battle cry of
the protestant reformation.
00:44:50.65\00:44:54.22
Amen.
00:44:54.26\00:44:55.59
And I'm a protestant,
so I believe only Christ.
00:44:55.62\00:45:01.20
I don't worship
or follow any Pope.
00:45:01.23\00:45:04.87
Amen.
00:45:04.90\00:45:06.23
I do not worship or follow
any protestant church leader.
00:45:06.27\00:45:11.04
I follow Christ.
00:45:11.07\00:45:13.17
Solus Christus, Solus Scriptura,
00:45:13.21\00:45:17.35
only the Bible, the authority.
00:45:17.38\00:45:20.75
You know Ellen White
believed exactly the same.
00:45:20.82\00:45:23.99
At the last General Conference
00:45:24.02\00:45:25.85
she held up a
copy of the word of God
00:45:25.89\00:45:28.86
and she said, "I
command to you the word of God."
00:45:28.89\00:45:35.63
So solus scriptura, Solus Gratia
00:45:35.66\00:45:38.47
which means only grace,
00:45:38.50\00:45:42.00
only grace.
00:45:42.04\00:45:44.67
Could we be
saved in any other way
00:45:44.71\00:45:47.44
when you think
what sinners we are?
00:45:47.48\00:45:49.54
Solus Gratia,
Solus Fide, only faith.
00:45:53.21\00:45:58.95
So memorize it.
00:45:58.99\00:46:00.39
Take it home from camp.
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.12
Solus Christus, Solus Scriptura,
00:46:02.16\00:46:05.36
Solus Gratia, Solus Fide.
00:46:05.39\00:46:09.10
Now, I'm going to
tell you something else
00:46:09.13\00:46:11.30
not to scandalize you,
00:46:11.33\00:46:14.54
but I tell it to you
because I hope I'm honest
00:46:14.57\00:46:18.44
and I hope I'm true to God.
00:46:18.47\00:46:20.28
People come to me and they say,
00:46:20.31\00:46:21.98
"What is your religion?"
00:46:22.01\00:46:25.25
Let me tell you
what I tell them.
00:46:25.28\00:46:28.25
And this may
scandalize some of you.
00:46:28.28\00:46:30.49
If it does, then
you have the problem.
00:46:30.52\00:46:34.92
Listen, what is your religion?
00:46:34.96\00:46:37.46
I say first and
foremost I'm a Christian.
00:46:37.53\00:46:42.46
I follow Christ.
00:46:42.50\00:46:46.74
Solus Christus. I'm a Christian.
00:46:46.80\00:46:49.50
Secondly, I'm a protestant.
00:46:49.54\00:46:53.34
I do not follow I do not worship
00:46:53.38\00:46:56.01
a church organization.
00:46:56.04\00:46:59.35
I follow the Bible
and the Word of God.
00:46:59.38\00:47:03.02
My authority is not
the church, it's the Bible.
00:47:03.05\00:47:07.22
Amen. I'm a protestant.
00:47:07.29\00:47:10.96
And thirdly, I'm an Adventist.
00:47:10.99\00:47:14.76
Now if you get those
words around the wrong way,
00:47:14.83\00:47:17.90
you'll neither be
Adventist-Protestant,
00:47:17.93\00:47:20.54
or Christian.
00:47:20.57\00:47:23.41
And so our authority is
the word of the Living God.
00:47:23.44\00:47:28.84
And if you go and
read Great Controversy,
00:47:28.88\00:47:30.68
it was the
authority of Ellen White.
00:47:30.75\00:47:33.52
Matthew 3:1 and onwards,
'In those days John the Baptist
00:47:33.55\00:47:37.59
came preaching in
the wilderness of Judea
00:47:37.62\00:47:40.76
and saying,
00:47:40.79\00:47:42.12
'Repent for the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.'
00:47:42.16\00:47:44.33
For this is he who is spoken of
00:47:44.36\00:47:46.29
by the prophet Isaiah saying,
00:47:46.33\00:47:48.40
'The voice of one
crying in the wilderness,
00:47:48.43\00:47:50.77
prepare the way for the
Lord, make his path straight.'"
00:47:50.83\00:47:54.67
Then come down a
little bit further
00:47:54.70\00:47:56.54
and John says in verse 11,
00:47:56.57\00:47:59.71
"I indeed baptize you
with water and repentance,
00:47:59.74\00:48:03.58
but He, who is coming
after me is mightier than I,
00:48:03.61\00:48:06.65
whose sandals I'm
not worthy to carry.
00:48:06.68\00:48:09.08
He will baptize you
00:48:09.12\00:48:10.95
with the Holy
Spirit and with fire."
00:48:11.02\00:48:16.12
So the Bible tells me
00:48:16.16\00:48:18.43
that Christ is going
to baptize these people
00:48:18.46\00:48:21.63
with the Holy
Spirit and with fire.
00:48:21.66\00:48:23.97
Amen.
00:48:24.00\00:48:25.47
Fire illuminates.
00:48:25.50\00:48:30.11
If you are in a dark
place, fire illuminates.
00:48:30.14\00:48:34.71
In Australia, I
have a dear friend
00:48:34.74\00:48:37.58
Dr. John Hammond,
00:48:37.65\00:48:40.62
who told me how
he was brought up.
00:48:40.65\00:48:42.82
His parents were missionaries,
I believe in Boneo.
00:48:42.85\00:48:47.09
And one night he and his father
00:48:47.16\00:48:48.92
were out in the jungle.
00:48:48.96\00:48:51.19
They'd been out to
deliver a little baby.
00:48:51.23\00:48:53.93
His father was a doctor.
00:48:54.00\00:48:56.33
And as they we're coming back,
the sun went down like thunder
00:48:56.36\00:49:02.40
and there was blackness.
00:49:02.44\00:49:04.44
And there was a river
running along beside the path,
00:49:04.47\00:49:08.18
and as they walked
along beside the path
00:49:08.21\00:49:11.18
they could hear a
sliding slippery sound
00:49:11.21\00:49:15.62
and then a plop.
00:49:15.65\00:49:19.39
They were the giant king cobras
00:49:19.42\00:49:21.42
coming down from the mountain,
00:49:21.46\00:49:23.79
crossing the grassy path,
00:49:23.86\00:49:26.43
and dropping into the stream.
00:49:26.46\00:49:30.00
Back home, Mrs. Hammond
and the rest of the family
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were praying for Dr.
Hammond and her boy John.
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"Save him, they're
late getting home."
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And as she was praying for them,
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as they were walking
along on this path in Boneo,
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all of a sudden
there was a blaze of light.
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And John had
his leg up like this
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and there on the path
beneath his trembling foot
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was a great king cobra.
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And his father
said, holding the shotgun,
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"John, don't move, I'll kill it
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but he said not now, I
may miss and kill you."
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He said, "My son,
stand firm and do not move.
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Keep your foot raised."
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And then all of a
sudden out of nowhere
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from a cloudless sky,
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there came a burst of lightening
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and it illuminated the scene,
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and the doctor blew
the head of the snake.
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God sent the light
when he needed the light.
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Amen.
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And fire, my
friend, gives you light
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and what we need is the
fire of the spirit of God.
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God's fire warms.
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God's spirit is
not like a fake fire
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that looks good but is cold.
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You've seen those fake
fires and those fake flames.
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Some people
have got a fake fire.
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God's fire warms the soul.
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Let me tell you about a man,
the man with the shining face.
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We just had a
huge baptism in Russia.
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I was standing beside
the road on the street
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watching the crowd go by.
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I was somewhat overwhelmed
by what had happened.
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I thought to myself,
"Could this all be true?
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Is this right?"
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And then I saw a man
coming along out of the crowd.
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He was across the road.
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And then he came and
crossed the road to me
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but as he was coming
along, he stood out in the crowd
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because his face was on fire.
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His face was shining.
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It was shining
with the Spirit of God.
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The Spirit of God illuminates
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and God's fire brings
the power upon the church,
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power to live and power to go.
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Many years ago,
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there was an Indian
man going through a museum
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and there was a
tremendous locomotive.
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It was marvelous.
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It was all shiny.
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It was all greased up.
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It was well oiled.
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And the Indian man
looked it over and they said,
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"What do you think about it?"
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He said it's
wonderful but no fire inside.
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There was no fire inside.
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There was no fire
inside, it was dead.
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Now we're gonna have
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a magnificent
church organization,
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it can be polished
and it can be shiny
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but what the
church needs, my friend,
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is fire inside.
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Amen.
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We need the fire of God.
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Let me give you a testimony.
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In Russia, sometimes I
would be weary and frayed
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preaching all day.
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You know, I'm still
going and I'm no longer a boy.
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Sometimes in Russia
I'd be wearied and frayed
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and all my
strength would be gone.
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Let me tell you this.
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This is the truth.
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I know what I'm talking about
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'cause this has happened to me.
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I would be feeling
nervously exhausted.
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I would be feeling hungry.
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I would be feeling fatigued.
00:53:30.71\00:53:33.48
And as I would
walk out on the stage
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to preach to a vast
audience of men and women
00:53:37.05\00:53:40.78
who were dying,
00:53:40.82\00:53:42.95
as I would walk out,
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I would feel
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the mantle of His
power come upon me
00:53:48.19\00:53:52.19
and I would have fire inside.
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Amen.
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How would I feel?
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Relaxed.
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I would feel warm.
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I would be based
and immersed in love.
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People would say,
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my team would say,
"It's happened again.
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He's got fire inside."
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Amen.
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And as I would
walk off the stage,
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as I would
literally walk off the stage,
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it would lift off me
00:54:27.66\00:54:30.83
and I'd be weak again.
00:54:30.87\00:54:32.20
By water,
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by blood,
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and by fire.
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Amen.
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God's work would
be finished by water,
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by blood, and by fire.
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Let me say this to you.
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As an old whitehead
preacher of the gospel,
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I've been preaching
now fulltime for 54 years.
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Amen. Mm-hm.
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Praise the Lord.
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I've experienced the water,
I've experienced the blood,
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and I've experienced the fire.
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How many in this
tremendous audience
00:55:24.12\00:55:27.82
here at 3ABN in
Southern Illinois
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in the United States of America,
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.69
how many here tonight would say,
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"I want to be covered
by the blood of Jesus"?
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Raise your hands.
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Amen.
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I want to be covered
Lord by the blood of Jesus.
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When I'm under the
blood of Jesus, my friend,
00:55:42.37\00:55:45.47
I'm safe, I'm
secure, and I'm saved.
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Amen.
00:55:50.05\00:55:51.38
I want to be
covered by the blood
00:55:51.41\00:55:53.18
and, Lord, I want the
water of the Spirit of God.
00:55:53.21\00:56:00.09
Put your hands up.
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I want the flood to
come down upon Lake Eyre.
00:56:01.49\00:56:05.89
I want the birds to come.
00:56:05.93\00:56:08.40
I want the desert to rejoice
and blossom as the roads.
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I want the water.
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And who wants
with this old preacher?
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Who wants to have
fire inside for Jesus?
00:56:19.14\00:56:23.85
Put both your hands up.
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Lord, I want the blood
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and I want the water,
00:56:30.12\00:56:32.65
and I want fire inside.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
00:56:37.36\00:56:38.83
Praise God. Praise God.
00:56:38.86\00:56:40.60
Mine eyes have seen the glory.
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Now...
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I want to bring you to God.
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Please bear your heads.
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My Father, we just thank you.
00:56:54.08\00:56:56.91
We worship you, we
bless you, and we praise you.
00:56:56.95\00:57:00.75
We thank you that our
needs are met in Christ.
00:57:00.78\00:57:03.92
We thank you for
giving us the Holy Bible.
00:57:03.95\00:57:06.89
We thank you
00:57:06.92\00:57:08.26
that we are
members of your church.
00:57:08.29\00:57:11.49
Wash us in the blood,
00:57:11.53\00:57:14.50
fill us with the
water of the spirit
00:57:14.56\00:57:17.57
and, dear Father, give
us fire inside, please,
00:57:17.60\00:57:22.60
for Jesus' sake.
00:57:22.64\00:57:24.74
Amen. Amen.
00:57:24.77\00:57:26.51
Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:57:26.54\00:57:28.91
Praise God. Praise God.
00:57:28.94\00:57:30.95
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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