From Arcadia, California, the Carter report presents 00:00:07.50\00:00:10.65 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:00:10.68\00:00:13.62 Hello, friend. 00:00:17.57\00:00:19.03 I am John Carter standing on the banks of Kazan River-- 00:00:19.06\00:00:23.88 that's a tributary of the mighty Volga River 00:00:23.91\00:00:27.83 in the land of Russia. 00:00:27.86\00:00:30.16 This is the city of Kazan the capital of Tatarstan-- 00:00:30.19\00:00:35.34 a Muslim Republic of the Russian Federation. 00:00:35.37\00:00:39.13 We're here by the sheer grace of God 00:00:39.16\00:00:42.99 and we say glory be to God for this opportunity. 00:00:43.02\00:00:47.21 Because during the year 2008, 00:00:47.24\00:00:50.78 the Carter Report team once again by the grace of God 00:00:50.81\00:00:54.75 baptized hundreds of Muslims into Christ 00:00:54.78\00:00:58.72 in front of the Muslim mosque. 00:00:58.75\00:01:01.78 People said "It could never happen." 00:01:01.81\00:01:04.67 But remember this. 00:01:04.70\00:01:06.51 GOD is great and Jesus said, 00:01:06.54\00:01:09.87 "With God all things are possible." 00:01:09.90\00:01:14.42 I want to thank you today for your marvelous support 00:01:14.45\00:01:17.97 for standing with us 00:01:18.00\00:01:19.91 in the preaching of the everlasting gospel. 00:01:19.94\00:01:23.23 Please continue to pray for us and pray for Kazan. 00:01:23.26\00:01:27.23 Write to me please, John Carter, PO Box 1900, 00:01:27.26\00:01:33.25 Thousand Oaks California 91358." 00:01:33.28\00:01:38.61 We're not giving up on Russia, neither should you? 00:01:38.64\00:01:42.08 Please write to me, John Carter, PO Box 1900, 00:01:42.11\00:01:47.35 Thousand Oaks, California 91358. 00:01:47.38\00:01:51.47 That's John Carter, PO Box 1900, 00:01:51.50\00:01:55.71 Thousand Oaks California 91358. 00:01:55.74\00:01:59.95 Support us in this great work. 00:01:59.98\00:02:03.02 Pray for Russia and thank you in Jesus' name. 00:02:03.05\00:02:08.84 May God richly bless you? 00:02:08.87\00:02:11.74 The topic today is "Mine eyes have seen the glory." 00:02:18.14\00:02:23.70 I'm going to tell about 00:02:23.73\00:02:24.76 some of the great miracles that God is working. 00:02:24.79\00:02:28.86 We sometimes think that 00:02:28.89\00:02:30.22 God doesn't seem to be involved in our lives. 00:02:30.25\00:02:34.41 "Mine eyes have seen the glory." 00:02:34.44\00:02:37.33 But before my talk today, 00:02:37.36\00:02:39.27 would you please welcome Beverley 00:02:39.30\00:02:40.57 who is going to give you some great stories about dogs. 00:02:40.60\00:02:44.25 Would you please welcome Beverley? 00:02:44.28\00:02:45.87 This is a story for the boys and girls 00:02:52.86\00:02:55.57 and the young people and parents and other friends. 00:02:55.60\00:03:01.53 Does anyone know what day this is? 00:03:01.56\00:03:05.22 It's Friendship Day. 00:03:05.25\00:03:07.70 Back in 1935, the US Congress 00:03:07.73\00:03:10.82 proclaimed the first day of August as Friendship Day. 00:03:10.85\00:03:14.34 Well, yes, I know, this is not August 1, 00:03:14.37\00:03:17.84 but isn't everyday or shouldn't everyday be Friendship Day. 00:03:17.87\00:03:22.22 Don't you agree? 00:03:22.25\00:03:24.35 And then, you know, I don't know what they were thinking, 00:03:24.38\00:03:27.33 August 1 we're friends, August 2, we're not friends. 00:03:27.36\00:03:31.81 But who am I to question the US Congress. 00:03:31.84\00:03:35.18 In 1997 the United Nations 00:03:35.21\00:03:38.15 named their world's ambassador of friendship. 00:03:38.18\00:03:41.13 And boys and girls guess who it is. 00:03:41.16\00:03:45.47 It's nevertheless than that illustrious fellow 00:03:45.50\00:03:49.45 "Winnie-the-Pooh." Now who knew that? I didn't. 00:03:49.48\00:03:53.79 Now I love Winnie, I've him 00:03:53.82\00:03:55.58 in my collection of teddy bears at home. 00:03:55.61\00:03:59.04 And even though teddy bears make wonderful friends. 00:03:59.07\00:04:02.45 There is another animal who rates even higher 00:04:02.48\00:04:06.46 on the friendship list and let me tell you about him. 00:04:06.49\00:04:10.23 There's a story about Adam in the Garden of Eden 00:04:10.26\00:04:12.79 and this happened before Eve was created. 00:04:12.82\00:04:15.44 And he was feeling very lonely and a bit sad one day. 00:04:15.47\00:04:18.87 So he sat down on the rock and put his head in his hands. 00:04:18.90\00:04:23.69 And then all of a sudden, 00:04:23.72\00:04:25.38 he felt a cool wet touch on his hands. 00:04:25.41\00:04:30.10 And looking up, 00:04:30.13\00:04:31.26 he looked into the big brown eyes of the beautiful Labrador 00:04:31.29\00:04:36.16 and dogs have been 00:04:36.19\00:04:37.36 man's best friend ever since, true story. 00:04:37.39\00:04:41.10 Well, I'm not quite sure, but why not? 00:04:41.13\00:04:44.67 You know, dogs are that kind of person. 00:04:44.70\00:04:49.74 Now, let me tell you another story 00:04:49.77\00:04:52.72 and this is truly a true story. 00:04:52.75\00:04:55.54 It's about a lady called Lu Picard 00:04:55.57\00:04:58.46 who lives in Connecticut here in the US. 00:04:58.49\00:05:01.51 She takes specially bred pups at 2 months old 00:05:01.54\00:05:04.79 and trains them for 2 years 00:05:04.82\00:05:06.72 to help physically challenged people. 00:05:06.75\00:05:09.40 Now there are other groups of people 00:05:09.43\00:05:11.58 who do this kind of work but she had something to it. 00:05:11.61\00:05:15.44 She takes young people, adolescents 00:05:15.47\00:05:20.12 who have emotional and other problems 00:05:20.15\00:05:24.90 and she trains them to train the dogs. 00:05:24.93\00:05:28.50 And she writes the effect of this work on the kids 00:05:28.53\00:05:31.97 is wonderful to watch. 00:05:32.00\00:05:34.05 Most of our students are struggling with anger and pain 00:05:34.08\00:05:37.94 and often feel incapable of giving or receiving love. 00:05:37.97\00:05:42.40 Working with the dogs helps even the most difficult children 00:05:42.43\00:05:46.77 establish a sense of self worth and they learn to trust again. 00:05:46.80\00:05:52.53 They also learn a strong work ethic 00:05:52.56\00:05:55.49 that becomes invaluable to them. 00:05:55.52\00:05:58.36 Now, over the 2 years, the dogs learn to perform 00:05:58.39\00:06:01.27 over 80, eight-zero commands. 00:06:01.30\00:06:05.58 Now apart from helping in everyday activities, 00:06:05.61\00:06:08.14 Lu has also added another therapy 00:06:08.17\00:06:10.88 and this is to help returning soldiers 00:06:10.91\00:06:13.23 who have posttraumatic stress disorder. 00:06:13.26\00:06:16.82 Trained by at-risk teams 00:06:16.85\00:06:19.51 these dogs pick up dropped objects. 00:06:19.54\00:06:22.47 They can open and close doors like on cars, refrigerators etc. 00:06:22.50\00:06:26.68 they can pull wheelchairs. 00:06:26.71\00:06:28.86 They remind them to take their meds. 00:06:28.89\00:06:31.52 They interrupt nightmares and flashbacks. 00:06:31.55\00:06:35.15 All the while providing unconditional love and comfort. 00:06:35.18\00:06:40.82 After the 2 years of training comes graduation. 00:06:40.85\00:06:43.80 And as you can imagine it's not easy 00:06:43.83\00:06:45.44 for the young people to say goodbye to the animals. 00:06:45.47\00:06:48.69 But they do it with a sense of pride and accomplishment. 00:06:48.72\00:06:52.75 Now for those of us with good health 00:06:52.78\00:06:55.44 and who are able bodied, 00:06:55.47\00:06:57.04 we may not see the full significance of this. 00:06:57.07\00:07:00.09 But if we had a child who had a disability 00:07:00.12\00:07:03.55 or a friend who is a paraplegic 00:07:03.58\00:07:05.93 or had to return soldier son 00:07:05.96\00:07:07.71 or a husband with posttraumatic stress, 00:07:07.74\00:07:10.22 we would realize what a blessing 00:07:10.25\00:07:12.76 and a life saving work this is. 00:07:12.79\00:07:15.58 I'd encourage you to visit 00:07:15.61\00:07:17.31 Lu's website at ecad1.org. 00:07:17.34\00:07:24.32 What a friends-- 00:07:24.35\00:07:26.09 the best of friends can change a frown 00:07:26.12\00:07:28.40 into a smile when we feel down. 00:07:28.43\00:07:31.37 The best of friends will understand 00:07:31.40\00:07:33.37 our little trials and lend a hand. 00:07:33.40\00:07:36.43 The best of friends worth more than gold, 00:07:36.46\00:07:39.31 give all the love, a heart can hold. 00:07:39.34\00:07:42.68 May God help us to be that kind of friend? 00:07:42.71\00:07:46.18 Today's topic is "Mine eyes have seen the glory" 00:07:52.83\00:07:58.08 of the coming of the Lord. 00:07:58.11\00:07:59.95 I want you to take your Bibles out. 00:07:59.98\00:08:01.44 I want you to hold them up please. 00:08:01.47\00:08:03.85 And I want you to repeat after me these words 00:08:03.88\00:08:07.01 that I guess you've got into your souls now. 00:08:07.04\00:08:09.55 This is my Bible. This is my Bible. 00:08:09.58\00:08:13.17 Come on, this is God's word. This is God's word. 00:08:13.20\00:08:16.89 God has a message for me today. 00:08:16.92\00:08:19.37 God has a message for me today. 00:08:19.40\00:08:21.39 This message will give me everlasting life. 00:08:21.42\00:08:24.58 This message will give me everlasting life. 00:08:24.61\00:08:27.01 And make me a better person. 00:08:27.04\00:08:29.16 And make me a better person. 00:08:29.19\00:08:30.36 I now open my heart. I now open my heart. 00:08:30.39\00:08:32.57 To receive God's words. To receive God's words. 00:08:32.60\00:08:34.86 In Jesus' name amen and amen. 00:08:34.89\00:08:39.41 Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew 25. 00:08:39.44\00:08:42.94 Are you glad to be here today? Amen. 00:08:42.97\00:08:46.08 Matthew 25:14 and onwards. 00:08:46.11\00:08:52.19 Jesus said, "Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, 00:08:52.22\00:08:56.52 who called his servants 00:08:56.55\00:08:58.09 and entrusted his property to them. 00:08:58.12\00:09:01.28 To one he gave five talents of money, 00:09:01.31\00:09:03.15 to another two talents and to another one talent, 00:09:03.18\00:09:06.29 each according to his ability. 00:09:06.32\00:09:08.41 Then he went on his journey. 00:09:08.44\00:09:10.00 The man who had received the five talents went at once 00:09:10.03\00:09:13.03 and put his money to work and gained five more. 00:09:13.06\00:09:16.76 So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. 00:09:16.79\00:09:21.78 But the man who had received the one talent went off, 00:09:21.81\00:09:24.85 dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money." 00:09:24.88\00:09:30.69 After how long? A long time. 00:09:30.72\00:09:35.71 It seems a long time 00:09:35.74\00:09:36.89 we have been talking about Jesus' coming. 00:09:36.92\00:09:39.47 "After a long time the master of those servants returned 00:09:39.50\00:09:43.21 and settled accounts with them." 00:09:43.24\00:09:44.94 Look at me friend, the day is coming 00:09:44.97\00:09:47.60 when God is going to settle accounts with us. 00:09:47.63\00:09:50.75 And he is talking here about people in the church. 00:09:50.78\00:09:53.11 God is going to settle accounts with us. 00:09:53.14\00:09:56.66 And all the pious talk and all the world 00:09:56.69\00:10:00.05 will not eliminate this last judgment. 00:10:00.08\00:10:04.79 "The man who had received the five talents 00:10:04.82\00:10:07.03 brought the other five. 00:10:07.06\00:10:08.99 'Master,' he said, 00:10:09.02\00:10:10.06 'you entrusted me with five talents. 00:10:10.09\00:10:12.56 See, I have gained five more.' 00:10:12.59\00:10:14.28 His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! 00:10:14.31\00:10:17.24 You have been faithful with a few things. 00:10:17.27\00:10:19.60 I will put you in charge of many things. 00:10:19.63\00:10:22.86 Come and share your master's happiness!' 00:10:22.89\00:10:25.49 The man with the two talents also came. 00:10:25.52\00:10:27.58 'Master,' he said, 00:10:27.61\00:10:28.81 'you entrusted me with two talents, 00:10:28.84\00:10:30.34 see, I have gained two more.' 00:10:30.37\00:10:32.51 His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. 00:10:32.54\00:10:35.49 You have been faithful with a few things. 00:10:35.52\00:10:37.70 I will put you in charge of many things. 00:10:37.73\00:10:41.01 Come and share your master's happiness!' 00:10:41.04\00:10:44.22 Then the man who had received the one talent came. 00:10:44.25\00:10:47.68 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, 00:10:47.71\00:10:52.72 harvesting where you have not sown 00:10:52.75\00:10:54.55 and gathering where you have not even scattered seed. 00:10:54.58\00:10:58.28 So I was afraid and went out 00:10:58.31\00:11:00.01 and hid your talent in the ground. 00:11:00.04\00:11:01.57 See, here is what belongs to you.' 00:11:01.60\00:11:06.13 His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! 00:11:06.16\00:11:13.01 So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown 00:11:13.04\00:11:16.16 and gather where I have not scattered seed? 00:11:16.19\00:11:18.56 Well then, you should have put my money 00:11:18.59\00:11:20.64 on deposit with the bankers, 00:11:20.67\00:11:22.31 so that when I returned 00:11:22.34\00:11:23.85 I would have received it back with interest. 00:11:23.88\00:11:27.73 Take the talent from him 00:11:27.76\00:11:29.44 and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 00:11:29.47\00:11:31.69 For everyone who has will be given more 00:11:31.72\00:11:35.05 and he will have an abundance. 00:11:35.08\00:11:37.97 Whoever does not have, 00:11:38.00\00:11:39.56 even what he has will be taken from him. 00:11:39.59\00:11:43.43 And throw that worthless servant outside, 00:11:43.46\00:11:48.38 into the darkness, where there will be weeping 00:11:48.41\00:11:54.00 and gnashing of teeth."' 00:11:54.03\00:11:58.68 Every person who has received Christ 00:11:58.71\00:12:02.82 and the gift of the Holy Spirit is endowed with certain gifts 00:12:02.85\00:12:08.98 and God has given us those gifts 00:12:09.01\00:12:11.82 to use for preaching the gospel. 00:12:11.85\00:12:16.11 The day is going to come 00:12:19.61\00:12:21.78 when there's going to be an accounting. 00:12:21.81\00:12:25.81 And God is going to call us all in one by one. 00:12:25.84\00:12:30.93 And God is going to say "What did you do 00:12:30.96\00:12:36.43 with the gift that I gave to you 00:12:36.46\00:12:39.77 for the building up of His kingdom." 00:12:39.80\00:12:42.42 You've all heard of mustard seed, haven't you? 00:12:42.45\00:12:45.69 Jesus told story of the mustard seed. 00:12:45.72\00:12:48.64 It's only a tiny little thing. 00:12:48.67\00:12:51.04 But Jesus said, "The mustard seed 00:12:51.07\00:12:53.44 has the capacity because God puts His spirit in it 00:12:53.47\00:12:56.64 to grow into something big." 00:12:56.67\00:13:00.07 God can take little things and little people 00:13:00.10\00:13:05.09 and little churches and do great things for His glory. 00:13:05.12\00:13:11.62 And mine eyes have seen the glory 00:13:11.65\00:13:15.92 of the coming of the Lord. 00:13:15.95\00:13:17.93 Would you come over here to Zachariah 4? 00:13:17.96\00:13:20.86 This is a minor prophet with a major message. 00:13:20.89\00:13:26.55 Daniel, Hosea, then you get over there little bit further 00:13:26.58\00:13:30.83 and just take your time because I want you to find it. 00:13:30.86\00:13:34.81 Zachariah 4:6-7. Have you found it? 00:13:34.84\00:13:39.98 Zachariah 4:6-7. 00:13:40.01\00:13:43.13 "So he said to me, 00:13:43.16\00:13:44.26 'This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel. 00:13:44.29\00:13:47.80 Not by might nor by power, 00:13:47.83\00:13:49.81 but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty. 00:13:49.84\00:13:54.01 Who are you, O'mighty mountain? 00:13:54.04\00:13:57.80 Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. 00:13:57.83\00:14:02.06 Then he will bring out the capstone 00:14:02.09\00:14:04.01 to shouts of God bless it! God bless it!'" 00:14:04.04\00:14:08.22 And so as you see this mighty mountain-- 00:14:08.25\00:14:10.82 well by the grace of God 00:14:10.85\00:14:12.44 this mighty mountain is going to become a plain 00:14:12.47\00:14:16.02 and on the plain we're going to build a temple. 00:14:16.05\00:14:20.44 Now look at verse 10, 00:14:20.47\00:14:23.05 "Who despises the day of small things? 00:14:23.08\00:14:28.41 Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line 00:14:28.44\00:14:32.24 in the hand of Zerubbabel..." 00:14:32.27\00:14:35.50 And I like it best in the King James Version 00:14:35.53\00:14:37.61 because it says in that beautiful old English 00:14:37.64\00:14:40.82 that goes back to the 15th century. 00:14:40.85\00:14:43.67 "Who has despised the day of small things. 00:14:43.70\00:14:50.07 It is God's glory to beat a mountain with a worm." 00:14:50.10\00:14:58.07 We read in the Book of Isaiah. 00:14:58.10\00:15:02.25 And mine eyes have seen the glory. 00:15:02.28\00:15:09.68 I have been blessed to see what God has done 00:15:09.71\00:15:15.24 with the 3ABN Center. 00:15:15.27\00:15:16.89 The Christian Cultural Center in Russia. 00:15:16.92\00:15:22.91 When people said, it cannot be done. 00:15:22.94\00:15:28.32 And I want to tell everybody today 00:15:28.35\00:15:30.99 that this magnificent center was build by people 00:15:31.02\00:15:36.26 who believed in spreading the gospel of Christ. 00:15:36.29\00:15:41.00 They take these words seriously "Go into all the world." 00:15:41.03\00:15:45.62 Danny Shelton got a burden from God and God moved him. 00:15:45.65\00:15:52.54 People around the world particularly here 00:15:52.57\00:15:55.75 in the great United States of America 00:15:55.78\00:15:58.10 gave to build what I believe is the largest 00:15:58.13\00:16:02.61 Protestant Evangelistic Center in all of Russia. 00:16:02.64\00:16:07.78 And people said, "No, it could never happen." 00:16:07.81\00:16:10.90 But how did it start? 00:16:10.93\00:16:13.16 I want you tell you very briefly how it started. 00:16:13.19\00:16:17.93 It happened because of a miracle that happened in '92. 00:16:17.96\00:16:24.87 When we ran by the grace of God, 00:16:24.90\00:16:27.05 a campaign in the city of Nizhni Novgorod. 00:16:27.08\00:16:33.06 Just a little team. With a little budget. 00:16:33.09\00:16:38.84 And the people came out to the meetings 00:16:38.87\00:16:41.55 by the hundreds of the thousands. 00:16:41.58\00:16:47.09 I remember the old communist director 00:16:47.12\00:16:49.96 of the palaces body, said to me, "They will not come 00:16:49.99\00:16:53.71 because here we've taught the people 00:16:53.74\00:16:55.99 not even to think of Him anymore, He's dead to us." 00:16:56.02\00:17:00.88 And we saw baptized in the river 00:17:00.91\00:17:04.31 up to that point of time the largest baptism 00:17:04.34\00:17:08.53 in the history of Russia in a river. 00:17:08.56\00:17:13.47 These are historical pictures and out of that baptism came 00:17:13.50\00:17:20.24 the dream to supply these people with a church. 00:17:20.27\00:17:26.43 And 3ABN, God bless them, 00:17:29.45\00:17:34.25 moved by the Spirit of God moved in, 00:17:34.28\00:17:39.06 and this great evangelistic center 00:17:39.09\00:17:42.20 was build to the glory of God. 00:17:42.23\00:17:46.49 It was done by pastors and lay people working together. 00:17:46.52\00:17:53.39 Now sometimes we hear those obnoxious terms, 00:17:53.42\00:17:56.79 the clergy and the laity. 00:17:56.82\00:17:59.08 Don't talk about it to me 00:17:59.11\00:18:01.11 because those terms come from our beloved friends 00:18:01.14\00:18:05.63 in the Roman Catholic Church. 00:18:05.66\00:18:08.50 There is a word that is used 00:18:08.53\00:18:10.65 for laity in the Bible and here it is. 00:18:10.68\00:18:14.60 The word is laos and it means the people of God. 00:18:14.63\00:18:21.58 And in the scriptures 00:18:21.61\00:18:23.56 the ministers are a part of the laos, 00:18:23.59\00:18:27.50 the people of God. 00:18:27.53\00:18:31.19 And this work is been done by the laity. 00:18:31.22\00:18:34.74 The people of God working together. 00:18:34.77\00:18:38.37 As I saw them in the great Bible conference over there. 00:18:38.40\00:18:41.56 What a blessing that was. 00:18:41.59\00:18:43.40 To mix with so many pastors and so many as they call them 00:18:43.43\00:18:50.31 erroneously lay people doing this work 00:18:50.34\00:18:54.39 of preaching the gospel in a land my friend, 00:18:54.42\00:18:57.69 that is been ruled by despots and tyrants. 00:18:57.72\00:19:03.66 I want to remind every person today 00:19:03.69\00:19:06.16 and I want this to sync down into your minds 00:19:06.19\00:19:08.86 because my authority is the Word of God. 00:19:08.89\00:19:12.77 If I have the Bible, that is the only authority that I need. 00:19:12.80\00:19:18.48 My authority is the Bible, the Word of God. 00:19:18.51\00:19:21.92 And the Bible tells me that in the church of the living God, 00:19:21.95\00:19:25.63 there is no hierarchy. 00:19:25.66\00:19:29.31 I want you to come over here to 1 Corinthians 12. 00:19:29.34\00:19:33.77 1 Corinthians 12:27 and onwards. 00:19:33.80\00:19:41.68 The Bible says, Paul writing 00:19:41.71\00:19:44.01 under the inspiration of the Spirit of God said. 00:19:44.04\00:19:46.56 1 Corinthians 12, "Now you are the body of Christ." 00:19:46.59\00:19:50.80 That's the church. 00:19:50.83\00:19:52.01 "And each one of you is a part of it. 00:19:52.04\00:19:55.86 And in the church God has appointed 00:19:55.89\00:19:58.31 first of all apostles, second prophets, 00:19:58.34\00:20:02.68 third teachers, then workers of miracles, 00:20:02.71\00:20:06.72 also those having gifts of healing, 00:20:06.75\00:20:10.66 those able to help others, 00:20:10.69\00:20:13.38 those with gifts of administration." 00:20:13.41\00:20:17.37 Never despise the gift of administration 00:20:17.40\00:20:20.62 even though it is number 7. 00:20:20.65\00:20:25.15 God has placed administration in the church 00:20:25.18\00:20:28.75 to coordinate the functions of the church. 00:20:28.78\00:20:34.19 And you notice the next gift. 00:20:34.22\00:20:36.69 It says, "And those speaking in different kinds of tongues." 00:20:36.72\00:20:44.08 What I'm going to put over here on the blackboard 00:20:44.11\00:20:47.71 is that which I do not believe in. 00:20:47.74\00:20:51.88 I do not believe in the system of the pyramid 00:20:51.91\00:20:56.00 which is the system of a hierarchy. 00:20:56.03\00:20:59.71 Well, you have an infallible leader 00:20:59.74\00:21:03.16 and it goes down through various status of hierarchy. 00:21:03.19\00:21:08.20 The Bible says, "That god has placed 00:21:12.15\00:21:15.28 in his church certain gifts." 00:21:15.31\00:21:17.47 You say to me "Why is it that 00:21:17.50\00:21:20.00 I as an individual are so impotent 00:21:20.03\00:21:23.95 in my Christian outreach." 00:21:23.98\00:21:25.71 Could it be that you have not accepted the gift 00:21:25.74\00:21:30.43 that God has been wanting to give you? 00:21:30.46\00:21:33.64 And you have swallowed the idea 00:21:33.67\00:21:35.81 that the laity are the people 00:21:35.84\00:21:38.04 who do the praying and the giving 00:21:38.07\00:21:40.28 and the clergy are the people 00:21:40.31\00:21:42.34 up the front who give the direction. 00:21:42.37\00:21:46.93 That is not the teaching of the Bible. 00:21:46.96\00:21:48.85 The teaching of the Bible 00:21:48.88\00:21:51.00 that God has placed in His church 00:21:51.03\00:21:53.81 certain gifts at the very center. 00:21:53.84\00:21:57.19 This is what I believe. 00:21:57.22\00:21:58.76 At the very center of the church is Christ. 00:21:58.79\00:22:03.74 Christ is the center of our church. 00:22:03.77\00:22:07.37 And Christ is the head of our church. 00:22:07.40\00:22:11.95 And we're saved by looking to Christ. 00:22:11.98\00:22:16.79 Remember Solus Christus, 00:22:16.82\00:22:19.65 Sola Scriptura, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, 00:22:19.68\00:22:24.31 only Christ, only scripture. 00:22:24.34\00:22:27.05 And in the church, God has placed certain gifts, apostles. 00:22:27.08\00:22:32.88 What is this word apostle mean? 00:22:32.91\00:22:34.66 It is from the Greek word Apostello 00:22:34.69\00:22:37.76 and it means sent forth. 00:22:37.79\00:22:40.89 If we use the word today, 00:22:40.92\00:22:42.70 we would say God has placed in the church missionaries. 00:22:42.73\00:22:46.41 People don't be afraid of the word. 00:22:46.44\00:22:49.03 People with the sense of mission 00:22:49.06\00:22:51.70 who are sent forth to go into all the world. 00:22:51.73\00:22:54.78 Apostles and prophets and teachers 00:22:54.81\00:23:00.48 and all of these gifts are centered upon Christ 00:23:00.51\00:23:04.46 because Christ is the head of the church. 00:23:04.49\00:23:07.04 And when the Spirit of God comes upon us, 00:23:11.43\00:23:13.85 my beloved brethren, 00:23:13.88\00:23:15.45 we will shake off this deadly lethargy 00:23:15.48\00:23:19.81 and we'll be alive for God. 00:23:19.84\00:23:22.18 I want you to meet Dr. Julia Outkina. 00:23:22.21\00:23:26.78 I have the privilege, my team had the privilege 00:23:26.81\00:23:30.22 back in 1992 of baptizing this saint. 00:23:30.25\00:23:36.64 Here she is a saint but then every person 00:23:36.67\00:23:39.08 who truly believes in Christ is the saint. 00:23:39.11\00:23:43.04 Dr. Julia has a doctorate in from Leningrad, 00:23:43.07\00:23:47.96 St. Petersburg University in Linguistics. 00:23:47.99\00:23:52.13 She came to hear English spoken by a foreigner. 00:23:52.16\00:23:57.89 Over there they have a center 00:23:57.92\00:24:00.91 for winning souls in Nizhni Novgorod 00:24:00.94\00:24:04.33 and Dr. Julia who once was an atheist, 00:24:04.36\00:24:09.76 a Jewish atheist 00:24:09.79\00:24:12.72 is now preaching Christ on a 165 stations. 00:24:12.75\00:24:17.84 I say, "Mine eyes have seen the glory." 00:24:17.87\00:24:23.06 And when I visited her and her team, 00:24:23.09\00:24:26.46 my heart lift up with joy. 00:24:26.49\00:24:30.86 Because she said to me, 00:24:30.89\00:24:32.15 "Pastor Carter, I say this in humility." 00:24:32.18\00:24:35.68 She said, "90% of our staff 00:24:35.71\00:24:38.69 were either baptized by your team 00:24:38.72\00:24:43.40 or were brought into church by people 00:24:43.43\00:24:45.92 who were baptized by your team." 00:24:45.95\00:24:48.03 And I want to say to the people 00:24:51.52\00:24:53.13 watching throughout the land of the United States 00:24:53.16\00:24:55.84 and Australia and the rest around the world-- 00:24:55.87\00:24:58.73 but especially to those two great countries. 00:24:58.76\00:25:04.23 You have had a part in something 00:25:04.26\00:25:07.53 which is historic and significant. 00:25:07.56\00:25:12.58 Humanly speaking, 00:25:12.61\00:25:14.47 if we as a church had not gone to Russia in 1992, 00:25:14.50\00:25:20.19 2,530 people would not have been baptized in the Volga River 00:25:20.22\00:25:25.64 and some of you came with me. 00:25:25.67\00:25:29.11 And if that didn't happened, 00:25:29.14\00:25:32.06 then 3ABN would not have been there 00:25:32.09\00:25:34.84 and they would not have come 00:25:34.87\00:25:36.28 and build this great building for the glory of God. 00:25:36.31\00:25:42.65 "Mine eyes have seen the glory." 00:25:42.68\00:25:48.08 I made up my mind years ago 00:25:48.11\00:25:53.46 that I was not going to be person 00:25:53.49\00:25:57.45 who spend his time simply solving church problems. 00:25:57.48\00:26:04.30 You know why, because when he goes 00:26:04.33\00:26:06.88 the same problems will be there. 00:26:06.91\00:26:09.88 Problems have got a way of growing legs. 00:26:09.91\00:26:14.70 I made up my mind 00:26:14.73\00:26:17.04 and I didn't know how I was going to do it. 00:26:17.07\00:26:20.34 But I'm going to do it by the grace of God 00:26:20.37\00:26:24.76 until I go home to glory when Jesus comes. 00:26:24.79\00:26:30.63 I made up my mind 00:26:30.66\00:26:32.13 that I would obey the words of Christ. 00:26:32.16\00:26:35.24 Go into and it says all the world. 00:26:35.27\00:26:38.04 People say to me, but it doesn't mean that. 00:26:38.07\00:26:42.29 Who are you to argue with God? 00:26:42.32\00:26:44.63 Jesus said, "Go into all the world." 00:26:44.66\00:26:47.50 And because this church and 3ABN 00:26:47.53\00:26:51.98 and our supporters caught the vision. 00:26:52.01\00:26:57.96 We have the work there that makes the angels glad. 00:26:57.99\00:27:02.98 And I'm proud unto to God 00:27:03.01\00:27:06.07 to had a small part in it. 00:27:06.10\00:27:11.58 I want to talk to you 00:27:11.61\00:27:13.44 about the tragedy of a great church 00:27:13.47\00:27:16.43 that has lost its way. 00:27:16.46\00:27:19.91 Because history has a way of repeating itself. 00:27:19.94\00:27:24.61 The tragedy of a great church that has lost its way. 00:27:24.64\00:27:30.45 It is a church with a beautiful liturgy. 00:27:30.48\00:27:36.02 I love the liturgy. 00:27:36.05\00:27:38.32 When I go into these great churches 00:27:38.35\00:27:43.24 and I see the priest 00:27:43.27\00:27:45.42 in their gorgeous robes and I hear the choir 00:27:45.45\00:27:49.93 and the music goes up to the domes. 00:27:49.96\00:27:56.52 I'm moved... 00:27:56.55\00:27:58.09 but I have plenty of room to enjoy those ceremonies. 00:28:02.06\00:28:08.49 Because there's no body else there. 00:28:08.52\00:28:11.84 On Sunday morning or hardly anybody. 00:28:11.87\00:28:16.43 So let me tell you about this great 00:28:16.46\00:28:19.03 and marvelous and wonderful church. 00:28:19.06\00:28:22.81 Great soul stirring music. 00:28:22.84\00:28:26.86 Great soul stirring music doesn't save a church. 00:28:26.89\00:28:33.53 Though I love it and wanted. 00:28:33.56\00:28:39.51 A great liturgy, gorgeous robes, don't save a church. 00:28:39.54\00:28:45.90 Talented preaching, don't save a church. 00:28:45.93\00:28:48.98 This church has got some of the most talent-- 00:28:49.01\00:28:52.16 there you see it, that's Sunday morning, 00:28:52.19\00:28:55.32 in the cathedral in Kazan. 00:28:55.35\00:28:58.24 Kazan is the city of more than a million souls 00:28:58.27\00:29:03.89 and Sunday morning 8 or 9 people go to church 00:29:03.92\00:29:08.69 in this great Orthodox Church. 00:29:08.72\00:29:12.98 But it's a gorgeous church. 00:29:13.01\00:29:16.32 Yeah, I love to see the candles flickering. 00:29:16.35\00:29:20.82 I even like to look at the icons 00:29:20.85\00:29:24.24 but once again I'll tell you 00:29:24.27\00:29:25.89 I have not been pushed out of the way 00:29:25.92\00:29:28.27 by a great tumultuous crowd. 00:29:28.30\00:29:30.72 I'm there up basically by myself. 00:29:30.75\00:29:35.22 When my team and I came into that church, 00:29:35.25\00:29:39.51 we immediately doubled the congregation. 00:29:39.54\00:29:44.44 And thus we were made tremendously popular 00:29:44.47\00:29:48.35 because that church 00:29:48.38\00:29:54.72 with all its glory is dead. 00:29:54.75\00:29:58.55 I noticed one thing in that church 00:29:58.58\00:30:01.24 besides the lack of people. 00:30:01.27\00:30:03.48 I notice one thing in that church. 00:30:03.51\00:30:06.83 Nobody including the preacher had a Bible. 00:30:06.86\00:30:13.90 Reminds me of a preacher in this part of the world. 00:30:13.93\00:30:16.36 This is true. 00:30:16.39\00:30:17.42 He said, "I never take my Bible to church on the Sabbath." 00:30:17.45\00:30:21.08 He said, "I think I may lose it." 00:30:21.11\00:30:25.47 Well he's lost it. He lost it a long time ago. 00:30:25.50\00:30:29.79 I want to tell people watching overseas, 00:30:29.82\00:30:32.66 this is what we face today. 00:30:32.69\00:30:36.65 I don't take my Bible to church, I might lose it. 00:30:36.68\00:30:43.56 In that church, 00:30:43.59\00:30:46.46 there's no thundering from the Word of God. 00:30:46.49\00:30:53.32 Let me tell you what happens many time in the west. 00:30:53.35\00:30:56.45 Right here in the United States of America 00:30:56.48\00:30:58.77 because it leans the world in religion. 00:30:58.80\00:31:01.90 I didn't say in Christianity. 00:31:01.93\00:31:05.82 This is the most religious country 00:31:05.85\00:31:08.47 on the face of all the earth and what happens here 00:31:08.50\00:31:11.54 is going to happen somewhere else. 00:31:11.57\00:31:13.82 And Southern California leads America in religion. 00:31:13.85\00:31:17.87 Therefore I say "God helped the world." 00:31:17.90\00:31:21.37 Let me tell you what happens. 00:31:25.89\00:31:27.67 Churches discover and preachers discover-- 00:31:27.70\00:31:34.29 there's a dreadful vacuum. 00:31:34.32\00:31:38.35 People are dissatisfied, 00:31:38.38\00:31:40.60 they're bored, they're empty 00:31:40.63\00:31:45.24 and so what they do is this. 00:31:45.27\00:31:48.69 They'll say, "There's a solution." 00:31:48.72\00:31:51.22 And they have a meeting. What's the solution? 00:31:51.25\00:31:52.93 Let's get a rock band. 00:31:52.96\00:31:56.12 Hey, that happens everywhere here in Southern California. 00:31:56.15\00:31:58.79 Let's get a rock band. 00:31:58.82\00:32:01.25 And that after the rock band, they'll say well to make it 00:32:01.28\00:32:03.84 even more congenial, let's dance. 00:32:03.87\00:32:08.61 Let's all dance and so in some churches 00:32:08.64\00:32:11.48 they'd push back to pews and the people dance. 00:32:11.51\00:32:15.04 How sad? How spiritually dead? 00:32:19.03\00:32:25.59 And then they put on the seminars on finances. 00:32:25.62\00:32:29.63 How you gonna make more money? 00:32:29.66\00:32:31.47 And if you do invest in certain sorts of ways, 00:32:31.50\00:32:34.52 the prosperity gospel. 00:32:34.55\00:32:36.12 You'll become a millionaire. They call it Christianity. 00:32:36.15\00:32:42.17 Well, the people don't know any difference 00:32:42.20\00:32:43.75 because they don't read their Bibles anymore. 00:32:43.78\00:32:49.72 But when this is going on and also to generally speaking 00:32:49.75\00:32:54.35 the preacher preaches a many sermon. 00:32:54.38\00:32:59.31 Remember sermonites make Christianites. 00:32:59.34\00:33:02.53 And so and also they'd stopped 00:33:02.56\00:33:05.30 even bringing their Bibles to church 00:33:05.33\00:33:07.08 and they get it on their iPhone. 00:33:07.11\00:33:10.14 Ah, this is a cute. It never happened before. 00:33:10.17\00:33:12.78 I got an iPhone. Hey, I got it. 00:33:12.81\00:33:16.12 Listen everybody's got a cell phone. 00:33:16.15\00:33:19.05 Doesn't make you smart or anything like that. 00:33:19.08\00:33:22.18 So don't think it gives you prestige. 00:33:22.21\00:33:23.86 Something people say oh, look I get to do-- 00:33:23.89\00:33:26.42 moved it all around. 00:33:26.45\00:33:28.02 And look I can bring up the text. 00:33:28.05\00:33:29.53 Look I've got the text. 00:33:29.56\00:33:32.53 Come on, please, please, 00:33:32.56\00:33:38.18 don't you know what they're saying. 00:33:38.21\00:33:40.29 They're saying that we are breeding a race, 00:33:40.32\00:33:43.43 a people who are monumentally ignorant. 00:33:43.46\00:33:49.72 And in the great seminaries 00:33:49.75\00:33:51.84 they're saying to the young preachers 00:33:51.87\00:33:54.64 "10 minutes brother, that's all I can take." 00:33:54.67\00:33:56.88 That's probably true. 00:33:56.91\00:33:58.87 The sermons happening up here, it's all done. 00:33:58.90\00:34:01.93 He said at the most 00:34:01.96\00:34:02.99 if you want to preach a long sermon, 15 minutes. 00:34:03.02\00:34:05.36 Three points and a poem. 00:34:05.39\00:34:08.23 Three points and a poem 00:34:08.26\00:34:09.70 and if you can dance around the front 00:34:09.73\00:34:11.87 and if you can tell lots of jokes, 00:34:11.90\00:34:14.72 it works for a while. 00:34:14.75\00:34:15.92 And then, you know, what happens? 00:34:15.95\00:34:17.41 They're bored again. 00:34:17.44\00:34:19.08 I know a church in Australia had sort of a semi rock band. 00:34:19.11\00:34:23.72 You couldn't dignified by the term rock band. 00:34:23.75\00:34:26.38 But I'd a people jigging around up a front. 00:34:26.41\00:34:29.04 They stopped wearing shoes to church. 00:34:29.07\00:34:31.43 Oh, that's the hip and thing. 00:34:31.46\00:34:33.14 You don't wear shoes to church. 00:34:33.17\00:34:34.70 So the band is up the front with no shoes 00:34:34.73\00:34:37.29 and not much else-- and this went on for years. 00:34:37.32\00:34:43.72 And I've discovered they've swung the arms at extreme. 00:34:43.75\00:34:48.11 Now they've become a bunch of legalists 00:34:48.14\00:34:52.73 because they're empty inside. 00:34:52.76\00:34:58.09 There's a great church I shouldn't mention the city 00:34:58.12\00:35:00.73 because you know where it is. 00:35:00.76\00:35:02.10 Great church, great preacher and a good man. 00:35:02.13\00:35:06.61 You know what he has he discovered. 00:35:06.64\00:35:09.08 After all this stuff, his congregation of 20,000 00:35:09.11\00:35:14.56 virtually non of them know Jesus. 00:35:14.59\00:35:18.25 And they've had a big emergency meeting. 00:35:18.28\00:35:20.20 I'd say our people are monumentally ignorant. 00:35:20.23\00:35:22.92 They don't know Jesus. 00:35:22.95\00:35:27.29 One of the saddest things is 00:35:27.32\00:35:29.01 that when people get this bug in them, 00:35:29.04\00:35:32.28 they don't take advice. 00:35:32.31\00:35:34.72 Don't want to take any counsel. 00:35:34.75\00:35:35.97 "Hey, we're going to try it." 00:35:36.00\00:35:40.09 That's what the Russian Orthodox Church did. 00:35:40.12\00:35:44.20 Let me tell you some facts. 00:35:44.23\00:35:48.83 There are one million Russian orthodox people 00:35:48.86\00:35:51.31 who go to church once a year. 00:35:51.34\00:35:55.60 They have a 140 million on their roll. It's 140. 00:35:55.63\00:36:01.66 Protestant churches are tiny minority so are Advents. 00:36:01.69\00:36:05.95 There are more Protestants in Russia 00:36:05.98\00:36:07.55 who go to church every weekends 00:36:07.58\00:36:09.57 than the Russian orthodox people do 00:36:09.60\00:36:11.92 during the entire year. 00:36:11.95\00:36:14.72 So when I'm preaching in Kazan, 00:36:14.75\00:36:16.53 I have a congregation 00:36:16.56\00:36:18.31 which is probably 50 or 60 times bigger 00:36:18.34\00:36:24.33 than the Great Russian Orthodox Church. 00:36:24.36\00:36:28.40 You know why? 00:36:28.43\00:36:30.17 Because there's some Bible preaching. 00:36:30.20\00:36:33.20 And because we're not relying 00:36:33.23\00:36:35.58 upon those silly little peripheries, 00:36:35.61\00:36:38.67 we're relying upon the Word of God 00:36:38.70\00:36:41.87 and the Spirit of God. 00:36:41.90\00:36:44.33 And if you get away from that my friend, you're dead. 00:36:44.36\00:36:47.79 You're dead in the water. 00:36:47.82\00:36:50.35 Would you like to know why 00:36:50.38\00:36:51.48 the Russian Orthodox Church is persecuting the Protestants? 00:36:51.51\00:36:55.38 Because they're jealous. 00:36:55.41\00:36:58.06 They say, if we can't beat on with liturgy, 00:36:58.09\00:37:01.35 we're going to put them out of business 00:37:01.38\00:37:04.41 by persecuting them, closing down their churches. 00:37:04.44\00:37:08.72 That's going to happen one day here 00:37:08.75\00:37:10.29 in the United States we know that. 00:37:10.32\00:37:13.04 Now I want to tell you folk something, 00:37:13.07\00:37:14.80 I'm just an old fashioned preacher, 00:37:14.83\00:37:18.70 who believes the Bible but who has seen the glory. 00:37:18.73\00:37:23.84 So when people come to me and they say, 00:37:23.87\00:37:25.87 but you know, you belong to our past era. 00:37:25.90\00:37:28.73 I say I do. The Bible era. 00:37:28.76\00:37:33.85 When Dr. Billy Graham came here 00:37:33.88\00:37:36.03 and Dr. Rick Edwards told me this story 00:37:36.06\00:37:37.88 because he attended the meeting. 00:37:37.91\00:37:39.51 He was one of the ministerial secretaries 00:37:39.54\00:37:42.67 in our General Conference. 00:37:42.70\00:37:44.35 And Billy Graham came here 00:37:44.38\00:37:45.45 and he said, we're going to have a campaign. 00:37:45.48\00:37:47.71 They've got all their pastors from this part of the world, 00:37:47.74\00:37:50.22 all the Protestant pastors. 00:37:50.25\00:37:51.48 He said, "We're going to preach Christ. 00:37:51.51\00:37:53.84 We're going to do evangelism. 00:37:53.87\00:37:55.53 We're going to have altar calls. 00:37:55.56\00:37:57.33 We're going to preach against sin 00:37:57.36\00:37:59.20 and we're going to preach about Christ." 00:37:59.23\00:38:01.92 The one pastor from Southern California, 00:38:01.95\00:38:07.89 not of our church but one pastor got up 00:38:07.92\00:38:10.05 and he said with a sneer, he said, "Dr. Graham, 00:38:10.08\00:38:15.99 you're going to take the church back 200 years." 00:38:16.02\00:38:22.76 Dr. Rick Edwards said, he saw the evangelist 00:38:22.79\00:38:27.49 and he could see the wheels spinning. 00:38:27.52\00:38:29.81 And he got to his feet. And he went to the pulpit. 00:38:29.84\00:38:32.99 He said, "It's not my plan 00:38:33.02\00:38:36.57 to take the church back 200 years. 00:38:36.60\00:38:39.50 If I do that'll be a great failure." 00:38:39.53\00:38:43.07 He said, "It is my plan to take the church back 00:38:43.10\00:38:46.79 not 200 years but 2,000 years." 00:38:46.82\00:38:52.01 And that's our plan. 00:38:52.04\00:38:53.07 Now I know I'm going to be in the minority 00:38:56.01\00:38:59.12 but I won't be in the minority when Jesus comes. 00:38:59.15\00:39:05.20 Boy, that was a tepid sort of applause, wasn't that. 00:39:05.23\00:39:08.91 Look like it was dying before it got out. 00:39:08.94\00:39:12.55 You folks, I want to talk to you folks. 00:39:12.58\00:39:15.49 Sometimes you folks are good preach to 00:39:15.52\00:39:17.20 and sometimes you're not. 00:39:17.23\00:39:18.77 So get good to, preach to 00:39:18.80\00:39:20.69 and if you like something I'd say-- 00:39:20.72\00:39:23.80 squeeze out if you can, amen. 00:39:23.83\00:39:28.08 It won't kill you. 00:39:28.11\00:39:31.39 If you suppress it, it might choke you or something. 00:39:31.42\00:39:36.63 Now I want to tell you folks something, 00:39:36.66\00:39:38.33 this is a rambling sort of sermon but that's okay. 00:39:38.36\00:39:40.82 I believe God still answers prayer. 00:39:40.85\00:39:43.95 Pastor Vadim Butov told me a story that warmed my heart. 00:39:43.98\00:39:47.61 You know, I'm not a charismatic. 00:39:47.64\00:39:49.17 I'm not a faith healer. 00:39:49.20\00:39:50.23 I don't do any of those things. 00:39:50.26\00:39:52.18 I just preach the Word of God and tell people about Jesus. 00:39:52.21\00:39:55.54 And I can't stand a lot of spiritual gunk. 00:39:55.57\00:39:58.46 I really can't. I can't stand a lot of smooth talk. 00:39:58.49\00:40:01.71 I can't stand that. 00:40:01.74\00:40:02.78 I can't stand a lot of pious 00:40:02.81\00:40:05.13 stuff that doesn't mean anything. 00:40:05.16\00:40:07.77 Well, last January I got a call when I was in Nizhni Novgorod 00:40:07.80\00:40:12.18 and it broke me up 00:40:12.21\00:40:13.27 because it is from the same hospital 00:40:13.30\00:40:15.70 where Anna died... back in 93. 00:40:15.73\00:40:21.79 And so got in a car drove to the same hospital, 00:40:21.82\00:40:26.36 put on the gown when you go into the emergency place. 00:40:26.39\00:40:32.16 They wouldn't let us go in but an old babooshka 00:40:32.19\00:40:35.47 who is a nurse brought out this poor little baby boy. 00:40:35.50\00:40:38.21 I told you about him. 00:40:38.24\00:40:39.84 He was sniffling and he was dying. 00:40:39.87\00:40:42.12 He couldn't raise his head. 00:40:42.15\00:40:43.54 The poor little fellow was dying. 00:40:43.57\00:40:44.97 You say, show me a picture. 00:40:45.00\00:40:46.18 I couldn't take a picture of him. 00:40:46.21\00:40:48.19 How could I say can I take a picture of this baby. 00:40:48.22\00:40:50.74 The mother was there. 00:40:50.77\00:40:53.54 Her husband had been baptized by us 00:40:53.57\00:40:55.71 but he'd given up the faith. 00:40:55.74\00:40:58.05 Only the mother was there. 00:40:58.08\00:41:00.60 And I couldn't hold the little baby 00:41:00.63\00:41:03.30 because the baby has so many tubes. 00:41:03.33\00:41:05.91 But I put my hands on the little baby 00:41:05.94\00:41:08.10 and I prayed for the little baby in faith. 00:41:08.13\00:41:11.58 And they would said, the baby it is too late, 00:41:11.61\00:41:14.26 better for the baby to die 00:41:14.29\00:41:16.07 because the baby had brain damage." 00:41:16.10\00:41:20.59 Vadim told me something. 00:41:20.62\00:41:24.03 He said, "The baby is getting better." 00:41:24.06\00:41:27.06 And the baby doesn't have brain damage. Amen. 00:41:27.09\00:41:29.57 And they think the baby is going to make a full recovery. 00:41:29.60\00:41:32.36 It's bit amazing, isn't it? 00:41:36.03\00:41:39.99 May be we'd see more miracles here, 00:41:40.02\00:41:41.68 we'd a little bit more faith 00:41:41.71\00:41:43.80 and stop grizzling and complaining. 00:41:43.83\00:41:48.02 And trust to God 00:41:48.05\00:41:49.69 and got rid of the criticism out of our souls. 00:41:49.72\00:41:54.89 I like you to pray for this young woman. 00:41:54.92\00:41:57.99 Bless her heart, her name is Anna too, Anna. 00:41:58.02\00:42:02.43 She's got muscular dystrophy. 00:42:02.46\00:42:07.36 I anointed her in the name of Lord. 00:42:07.39\00:42:11.09 If there's a doctor out here out there 00:42:11.12\00:42:14.90 watching the telecast can you do anything. 00:42:14.93\00:42:17.75 Here's a beautiful girl in walk to grave. 00:42:17.78\00:42:20.11 Can we do something? 00:42:20.14\00:42:21.55 I don't know what to do, I prayed for her. 00:42:21.58\00:42:25.16 Look at this beautiful girl. And she is dying. 00:42:25.19\00:42:31.86 It makes me think of the words of a song, 00:42:31.89\00:42:34.56 do you know the world is dying, 00:42:34.59\00:42:37.56 for the story of his love. 00:42:37.59\00:42:42.59 How can I be saved any how? 00:42:42.62\00:42:44.32 What must I do to be saved? 00:42:44.35\00:42:47.11 Well, the good news is that in the last day, 00:42:47.14\00:42:50.75 there is going to be a multitude of people saved. 00:42:50.78\00:42:54.91 I want you to come over here to Revelation 7:9. 00:42:54.94\00:42:58.55 You know, what my problem is in these sermons. 00:42:58.58\00:43:00.92 I get to the same spot every time, each Sabbath 00:43:00.95\00:43:04.78 and then I find I'm running out. 00:43:04.81\00:43:07.24 And so I put that on 00:43:07.27\00:43:08.37 at the beginning of the sermon the week after. 00:43:08.40\00:43:10.93 Revelation 7:9, "After this I looked 00:43:10.96\00:43:15.65 and there before me was a great multitude 00:43:15.68\00:43:18.58 that no one could count, 00:43:18.61\00:43:20.15 from every nation, tribe, people and language, 00:43:20.18\00:43:22.62 standing before the throne and in front of Lamb. 00:43:22.65\00:43:25.76 They were wearing white robes 00:43:25.79\00:43:27.25 and were holding palm branches in their hands." 00:43:27.28\00:43:29.95 These are people who were saved in the last days. 00:43:29.98\00:43:33.12 And the Bible says, they come from Mexico, 00:43:33.15\00:43:36.61 they come from Spain, they come China, 00:43:36.64\00:43:39.64 they come from India, they come from Africa 00:43:39.67\00:43:42.70 and they even come from Los Angeles. 00:43:42.73\00:43:44.79 I want you to come over here to the words of Jesus. 00:43:44.82\00:43:46.91 Matthew 7:13-14. 00:43:46.94\00:43:50.58 Matthew 7:13-14. 00:43:50.61\00:43:55.09 And notice the words of Jesus here 00:43:55.12\00:43:57.06 because these words seem to be a contradiction 00:43:57.09\00:44:00.22 but they're not. 00:44:00.25\00:44:01.56 Matthew 7:13-14, our blessed Lord said, 00:44:01.59\00:44:06.53 "Enter through the narrow gate. 00:44:06.56\00:44:08.34 For wide is the gate and broad is the road 00:44:08.37\00:44:12.20 that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 00:44:12.23\00:44:15.92 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life," 00:44:15.95\00:44:19.24 What does it say? "And only a few find it." 00:44:19.27\00:44:22.97 God is going to have a multitude saved in the last days 00:44:23.00\00:44:26.31 but that multitude in comparison to the vast numbers, 00:44:26.34\00:44:32.89 is a tiny little remnant. Just a few. 00:44:32.92\00:44:36.80 There are many deceptions today. 00:44:36.83\00:44:40.72 There are many besetments, that are trying to pull us down. 00:44:40.75\00:44:45.56 But the good news is this. 00:44:45.59\00:44:49.32 God is going to have in His kingdom a great multitude. 00:44:49.35\00:44:55.78 I showed you pictures last week 00:44:55.81\00:44:57.20 of a Vasilly and Ildar, the Russian mafia man. 00:44:57.23\00:45:00.95 How were they saved? 00:45:00.98\00:45:05.03 I'm interviewing Vasilly there. 00:45:05.06\00:45:09.49 We couldn't play everything but he told us. 00:45:09.52\00:45:15.97 But firstly they felt their need. 00:45:16.00\00:45:18.54 That's what you got to do. Do you feel your need? 00:45:18.57\00:45:21.60 Remember the Publican and Pharisee. 00:45:21.63\00:45:25.50 Pharisee had no need. 00:45:25.53\00:45:26.66 He said, "I'm better than everybody." 00:45:26.69\00:45:29.60 But the Publican, and tax collector said, 00:45:29.63\00:45:31.39 "Lord be merciful to me a sinner." 00:45:31.42\00:45:34.81 You got to feel your need. 00:45:34.84\00:45:37.40 If you don't feel your need today... 00:45:37.43\00:45:42.14 God can't help you. 00:45:42.17\00:45:44.13 But you can ask God to help you to feel your need. 00:45:44.16\00:45:48.52 And then they looked to Christ. 00:45:48.55\00:45:51.29 You know the text as well as I do. 00:45:51.32\00:45:53.49 John 3, you know the text. 00:45:53.52\00:45:57.56 John 3 it says "As Moses lifted up the serpent 00:45:57.59\00:46:01.98 even so the son of God must be lifted up. 00:46:02.01\00:46:04.68 Son of man. 00:46:04.71\00:46:06.31 So that whoever believes in him will not perish 00:46:06.34\00:46:09.60 but have everlasting life." 00:46:09.63\00:46:12.05 My friend we've got a look to Jesus. 00:46:12.08\00:46:14.17 Not look to the church organization 00:46:14.20\00:46:16.67 even though that may be great 00:46:16.70\00:46:19.44 but you're not saved by the church organization. 00:46:19.47\00:46:21.60 You're saved by looking to Jesus. 00:46:21.63\00:46:24.19 And then like Vasilly and Ildar you got to believe. 00:46:24.22\00:46:28.27 Somebody said that faith or belief is like a small boy 00:46:28.30\00:46:35.12 and is invited to a banquet 00:46:35.15\00:46:37.76 and he says, "All I want is a knife 00:46:37.79\00:46:40.26 and a fork and an opportunity." 00:46:40.29\00:46:42.76 That's faith. I'm going eat it. 00:46:42.79\00:46:46.98 I can't afford it. I believe its trust. 00:46:47.01\00:46:52.04 I believe those guys over there repented, 00:46:52.07\00:46:59.50 they said "I'm sorry." 00:46:59.53\00:47:01.47 That's what you and I got to do. 00:47:01.50\00:47:04.10 You and I cannot be saved 00:47:04.13\00:47:07.16 while we're hanging on to our sins. 00:47:07.19\00:47:10.94 One of the biggest sins today in the church. 00:47:10.97\00:47:13.71 Can I whisper it to you? 00:47:13.74\00:47:15.87 Is gossip. 00:47:15.90\00:47:17.60 It's telling lies. It's slander. 00:47:17.63\00:47:21.74 You can't be saved with those sins. 00:47:21.77\00:47:24.70 Those mafia guys had to repent and they did it 00:47:24.73\00:47:29.66 and then they had to confess it to God 00:47:29.69\00:47:32.01 and to the people that they had sinned against. 00:47:32.04\00:47:34.78 And they made restitution. 00:47:34.81\00:47:38.74 Started giving back money to people. 00:47:38.77\00:47:41.99 Going to people and saying, "We stole, we did bad things." 00:47:42.02\00:47:45.98 You say, it doesn't sound like American Christianity. 00:47:46.01\00:47:49.64 It's Bible Christianity that happens to-- 00:47:49.67\00:47:52.56 they believe by lot of Americans too... 00:47:52.59\00:47:56.18 making restitution. 00:47:56.21\00:47:58.84 And then we got to testify. 00:47:58.87\00:48:01.28 Sergei, he is head elder of our church 00:48:01.31\00:48:05.09 in Nizhni Novgorod which is our biggest church 00:48:05.12\00:48:08.54 in Russia established by this ministry. 00:48:08.57\00:48:12.17 Glory be to God. 00:48:12.20\00:48:15.46 He got baptized with two other mafia chieftains. 00:48:15.49\00:48:18.63 They went back to their bosses 00:48:18.66\00:48:21.59 and they said, "We'd become Adventist Christians." 00:48:21.62\00:48:26.66 The mafia bosses said, 00:48:26.69\00:48:28.06 "We're going to blow your brains out." 00:48:28.09\00:48:30.56 Sergei said, "Blow away, I'm not giving up." 00:48:30.59\00:48:34.43 The other two guys because of cowardice 00:48:34.46\00:48:37.36 gave in and gave up their faith. 00:48:37.39\00:48:40.96 But Sergei, he didn't, he stood up for Christ. 00:48:40.99\00:48:45.44 You know what the mafia guys did, they forgave him, 00:48:45.47\00:48:49.47 they said we're going to say you're insane. 00:48:49.50\00:48:53.92 And they forgave him. 00:48:53.95\00:48:59.63 We're talking here today about what God can do. 00:48:59.66\00:49:07.23 I love this hymn. 00:49:07.26\00:49:09.51 It was Winston Churchill's favorite hymn. 00:49:09.54\00:49:13.67 He loved it. I loved it. 00:49:13.70\00:49:15.72 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, 00:49:15.75\00:49:21.37 he is trampling out the vintage 00:49:21.40\00:49:23.65 where the grapes of wrath are stored. 00:49:23.68\00:49:27.00 He has loosed the fateful lightning 00:49:27.03\00:49:29.03 of his terrible swift sword, 00:49:29.06\00:49:32.53 his truth is marching on. 00:49:32.56\00:49:37.17 I have seen him in the watchfires 00:49:37.20\00:49:38.96 of a hundred circling camps, 00:49:38.99\00:49:41.66 they have builded him an altar 00:49:41.69\00:49:44.12 in the evening dews and damps. 00:49:44.15\00:49:47.37 I can read his righteous sentence 00:49:47.40\00:49:49.80 by the dim and flaring lamps, his day is marching on." 00:49:49.83\00:49:55.41 You cant stop it. 00:49:55.44\00:49:57.98 Men may have their hour 00:49:58.01\00:49:59.73 but our God will have His day and it's coming. 00:49:59.76\00:50:04.92 The signs and the judgments are already in the earth. 00:50:04.95\00:50:09.66 Suzy Perino said something this week that shook me up. 00:50:09.69\00:50:12.59 And I wish she had not said it. 00:50:12.62\00:50:14.15 She said I think perhaps we should-- 00:50:14.18\00:50:17.39 don't know if I can say. I'll break it down. 00:50:17.42\00:50:21.52 She said, it may be a good thing that we have a huge earthquake. 00:50:21.55\00:50:26.77 And then you won't fit the people in church. 00:50:26.80\00:50:30.28 1 session, 2 session, 3 sessions, 00:50:30.31\00:50:33.42 we have got so far from God. 00:50:33.45\00:50:36.19 God is going to send us a earthquake. 00:50:36.22\00:50:39.70 It's coming. 00:50:39.73\00:50:40.76 "I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel. 00:50:45.01\00:50:50.07 As you deal with my contemners, 00:50:50.10\00:50:52.45 so with you my grace shall deal. 00:50:52.48\00:50:55.17 Let the Hero, born of woman, 00:50:55.20\00:50:57.60 crush the serpent with his heel, 00:50:57.63\00:51:01.31 Since God is marching on. 00:51:01.34\00:51:04.57 He has sounded forth the trumpet 00:51:04.60\00:51:06.23 that shall never sound retreat. 00:51:06.26\00:51:08.46 He is sifting out the souls of men 00:51:08.49\00:51:11.19 before His judgment-seat. 00:51:11.22\00:51:13.33 Oh, be quick, my soul, to answer Him! 00:51:13.36\00:51:16.36 Be jubilant, my feet! 00:51:16.39\00:51:21.03 Our God is marching on. 00:51:21.06\00:51:24.29 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea. 00:51:24.32\00:51:30.63 With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. 00:51:30.66\00:51:35.81 As He died to make men holy, 00:51:35.84\00:51:38.35 let us die to make them free, 00:51:38.38\00:51:45.32 While God is marching on." What a song it is, glory. 00:51:45.35\00:51:50.85 Glory, hallelujah. 00:51:50.88\00:51:54.31 Glory, glory hallelujah. 00:51:54.34\00:51:59.45 Glory, glory hallelujah. 00:51:59.48\00:52:05.63 His truth is marching on, nothing will stop it. 00:52:05.66\00:52:13.24 In the name of the Father and of the Son 00:52:13.27\00:52:16.62 and of the Holy Spirit, amen. 00:52:16.65\00:52:19.96 Amen. Let us kneel. 00:52:19.99\00:52:21.82 Our Father, we thank You 00:52:31.70\00:52:34.15 for the privilege of coming to church 00:52:34.18\00:52:37.16 before the earthquake strikes. 00:52:37.19\00:52:40.36 So that we can right with You. 00:52:40.39\00:52:44.44 We thank You for what You've done through this church, 00:52:44.47\00:52:48.98 through this ministry, a little flock. 00:52:49.01\00:52:53.35 But Lord, You've beaten the mountain with a worm. 00:52:53.38\00:52:57.78 And who has despised that they've small things 00:52:57.81\00:53:01.47 because it is not by might nor by power 00:53:01.50\00:53:03.84 but by the spirit of living God. 00:53:03.87\00:53:05.74 Hallelujah, praise the Lord. 00:53:05.77\00:53:08.62 His truth is marching on. 00:53:08.65\00:53:12.58 Our Father, You've given us talents and abilities. 00:53:12.61\00:53:15.18 You've given us money. You've given us time. 00:53:15.21\00:53:17.95 You've given us the ability to talk 00:53:17.98\00:53:21.50 because if we are part of the church 00:53:21.53\00:53:23.10 then You have given to us gifts by the Holy Spirit. 00:53:23.13\00:53:28.55 Oh, God do something for us today 00:53:28.58\00:53:30.98 and put those gifts so firmly in our hearts 00:53:31.01\00:53:33.99 and make us aware of them 00:53:34.02\00:53:36.33 that we will break from the spell 00:53:36.36\00:53:38.13 of this false theology of clergy and laity, 00:53:38.16\00:53:43.47 two distinct classes in the church. 00:53:43.50\00:53:45.68 Help us all to realize 00:53:45.71\00:53:46.98 that we are a part of the people of God. 00:53:47.01\00:53:52.03 And that we're all equal 00:53:52.06\00:53:55.44 and as we stand at the foot of cross 00:53:55.47\00:53:57.34 there is neither male nor female, 00:53:57.37\00:53:59.93 Jew nor Gentile, we're all one in Christ Jesus. 00:53:59.96\00:54:04.70 We thank You for what you've done. 00:54:04.73\00:54:07.93 We thank You for what You're going to do. 00:54:07.96\00:54:12.32 And as You used Sergei 00:54:12.35\00:54:16.31 and as now you're using Ildar and Vasilly 00:54:16.34\00:54:20.32 who are organizing hundreds of Bible studies a week. 00:54:20.35\00:54:24.20 Help us to know in this church 00:54:24.23\00:54:27.67 that we are not called to mediocrity 00:54:27.70\00:54:32.21 but we're called to greatness. 00:54:32.24\00:54:35.75 The greatness of the gospel 00:54:35.78\00:54:38.44 and the greatness of your redeeming grace. 00:54:38.47\00:54:41.74 As we are praying in our church today 00:54:41.77\00:54:43.69 how many will raise a hand and say, oh Lord, 00:54:43.72\00:54:48.03 wash me in the blood and use me. 00:54:48.06\00:54:51.12 Raise your hand if that's your prayer. 00:54:51.15\00:54:53.56 Lift it up high, while you have an opportunity 00:54:53.59\00:54:56.29 to say that aloud, 00:54:56.32\00:54:57.83 Lord wash me in the blood 00:54:57.86\00:55:01.33 and use me 00:55:01.36\00:55:04.35 and fill me today with the spirit. 00:55:04.38\00:55:09.03 So I worship You and I bless You 00:55:09.06\00:55:12.53 and I thank You and I give You glory 00:55:12.56\00:55:17.50 in Jesus' precious name. 00:55:17.53\00:55:20.42 Amen and amen. Amen. 00:55:20.45\00:55:24.76 Great is Thy faithfulness 00:55:41.02\00:55:47.03 O God my Father 00:55:47.06\00:55:52.48 There is no shadow 00:55:52.51\00:55:57.38 Of turning with Thee 00:55:57.41\00:56:03.44 Thou changest not Thy compassions 00:56:03.47\00:56:10.55 They fail not 00:56:10.58\00:56:14.87 As if Thou hast been 00:56:14.90\00:56:17.75 Thou forever wilt be 00:56:17.78\00:56:24.90 Great is Thy faithfulness 00:56:24.93\00:56:30.19 Great is Thy faithfulness 00:56:30.22\00:56:35.44 Morning by morning 00:56:35.47\00:56:40.13 New mercies I see 00:56:40.16\00:56:46.34 All I have needed 00:56:46.37\00:56:50.86 Thy Hand hath provided 00:56:50.89\00:56:56.80 Great is Thy faithfulness 00:56:56.83\00:57:03.21 Lord, unto me 00:57:03.24\00:57:07.06 Summer and winter 00:57:17.46\00:57:22.37 Springtime and harvest 00:57:22.40\00:57:27.77 Sun, moon and stars 00:57:27.80\00:57:31.10 In their courses above 00:57:31.13\00:57:37.68 Join with all nature 00:57:37.71\00:57:42.55 In manifold witness 00:57:42.58\00:57:47.82 To Thy great faithfulness 00:57:47.85\00:57:53.25 Mercy and love 00:57:53.28\00:57:57.58