From Arcadia, California,
the Carter report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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Hello, friend.
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I am John Carter standing
on the banks of Kazan River--
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that's a tributary of
the mighty Volga River
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in the land of Russia.
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This is the city of Kazan
the capital of Tatarstan--
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a Muslim Republic of
the Russian Federation.
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We're here by the
sheer grace of God
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and we say glory be to
God for this opportunity.
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Because during the year 2008,
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the Carter Report team
once again by the grace of God
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baptized hundreds
of Muslims into Christ
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in front of the Muslim mosque.
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People said "It
could never happen."
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But remember this.
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GOD is great and Jesus said,
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"With God all
things are possible."
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I want to thank you today
for your marvelous support
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for standing with us
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in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
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Please continue to pray
for us and pray for Kazan.
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Write to me please,
John Carter, PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks California 91358."
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We're not giving up on
Russia, neither should you?
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Please write to me,
John Carter, PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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That's John Carter, PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks California 91358.
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Support us in this great work.
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Pray for Russia and
thank you in Jesus' name.
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May God richly bless you?
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The topic today is "Mine
eyes have seen the glory."
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I'm going to tell about
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some of the great
miracles that God is working.
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We sometimes think that
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God doesn't seem to
be involved in our lives.
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"Mine eyes have seen the glory."
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But before my talk today,
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would you
please welcome Beverley
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who is going to give you
some great stories about dogs.
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Would you please
welcome Beverley?
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This is a story
for the boys and girls
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and the young people and
parents and other friends.
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Does anyone know
what day this is?
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It's Friendship Day.
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Back in 1935, the US Congress
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proclaimed the first day
of August as Friendship Day.
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Well, yes, I know,
this is not August 1,
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but isn't everyday or shouldn't
everyday be Friendship Day.
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Don't you agree?
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And then, you know, I don't
know what they were thinking,
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August 1 we're friends,
August 2, we're not friends.
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But who am I to
question the US Congress.
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In 1997 the United Nations
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named their world's
ambassador of friendship.
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And boys and
girls guess who it is.
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It's nevertheless than
that illustrious fellow
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"Winnie-the-Pooh." Now
who knew that? I didn't.
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Now I love Winnie, I've him
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in my collection of
teddy bears at home.
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And even though teddy
bears make wonderful friends.
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There is another
animal who rates even higher
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on the friendship list
and let me tell you about him.
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There's a story about
Adam in the Garden of Eden
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and this happened
before Eve was created.
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And he was feeling very
lonely and a bit sad one day.
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So he sat down on the rock
and put his head in his hands.
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And then all of a sudden,
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he felt a cool wet
touch on his hands.
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And looking up,
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he looked into the big brown
eyes of the beautiful Labrador
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and dogs have been
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man's best friend
ever since, true story.
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Well, I'm not
quite sure, but why not?
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You know, dogs are
that kind of person.
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Now, let me tell
you another story
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and this is truly a true story.
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It's about a
lady called Lu Picard
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who lives in
Connecticut here in the US.
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She takes specially
bred pups at 2 months old
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and trains them for 2 years
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to help
physically challenged people.
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Now there are
other groups of people
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who do this kind of work
but she had something to it.
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She takes young
people, adolescents
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who have
emotional and other problems
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and she trains
them to train the dogs.
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And she writes the
effect of this work on the kids
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is wonderful to watch.
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Most of our students are
struggling with anger and pain
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and often feel incapable
of giving or receiving love.
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Working with the dogs helps
even the most difficult children
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establish a sense of self worth
and they learn to trust again.
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They also learn
a strong work ethic
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that becomes invaluable to them.
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Now, over the 2 years,
the dogs learn to perform
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over 80, eight-zero commands.
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Now apart from helping
in everyday activities,
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Lu has also
added another therapy
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and this is to
help returning soldiers
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who have
posttraumatic stress disorder.
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Trained by at-risk teams
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these dogs pick
up dropped objects.
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They can open and close doors
like on cars, refrigerators etc.
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they can pull wheelchairs.
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They remind them
to take their meds.
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They interrupt
nightmares and flashbacks.
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All the while providing
unconditional love and comfort.
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After the 2 years of
training comes graduation.
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And as you can
imagine it's not easy
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for the young people to
say goodbye to the animals.
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But they do it with a sense
of pride and accomplishment.
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Now for those of
us with good health
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and who are able bodied,
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we may not see the
full significance of this.
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But if we had a
child who had a disability
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or a friend who is a paraplegic
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or had to return soldier son
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or a husband with
posttraumatic stress,
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we would realize what a blessing
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and a life saving work this is.
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I'd encourage you to visit
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Lu's website at ecad1.org.
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What a friends--
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the best of
friends can change a frown
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into a smile when we feel down.
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The best of
friends will understand
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our little
trials and lend a hand.
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The best of friends
worth more than gold,
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give all the
love, a heart can hold.
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May God help us to
be that kind of friend?
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Today's topic is "Mine
eyes have seen the glory"
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of the coming of the Lord.
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I want you to
take your Bibles out.
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I want you to
hold them up please.
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And I want you to
repeat after me these words
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that I guess you've
got into your souls now.
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This is my
Bible. This is my Bible.
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Come on, this is God's
word. This is God's word.
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God has a message for me today.
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God has a message for me today.
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This message will
give me everlasting life.
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This message will
give me everlasting life.
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And make me a better person.
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And make me a better person.
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I now open my
heart. I now open my heart.
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To receive God's
words. To receive God's words.
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In Jesus' name amen and amen.
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Please turn in your
Bibles to Matthew 25.
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Are you glad to
be here today? Amen.
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Matthew 25:14 and onwards.
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Jesus said, "Again, it will be
like a man going on a journey,
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who called his servants
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and entrusted
his property to them.
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To one he gave
five talents of money,
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to another two talents
and to another one talent,
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each according to his ability.
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Then he went on his journey.
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The man who had received
the five talents went at once
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and put his money to
work and gained five more.
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So also, the one with the
two talents gained two more.
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But the man who had received
the one talent went off,
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dug a hole in the ground
and hid his master's money."
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After how long? A long time.
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It seems a long time
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we have been
talking about Jesus' coming.
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"After a long time the master
of those servants returned
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and settled accounts with them."
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Look at me
friend, the day is coming
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when God is going to
settle accounts with us.
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And he is talking here
about people in the church.
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God is going to
settle accounts with us.
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And all the pious
talk and all the world
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will not eliminate
this last judgment.
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"The man who had
received the five talents
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brought the other five.
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'Master,' he said,
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'you entrusted me
with five talents.
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See, I have gained five more.'
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His master replied, 'Well
done, good and faithful servant!
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You have been
faithful with a few things.
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I will put you in
charge of many things.
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Come and share your
master's happiness!'
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The man with the
two talents also came.
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'Master,' he said,
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'you entrusted
me with two talents,
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see, I have gained two more.'
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His master replied, 'Well
done, good and faithful servant.
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You have been
faithful with a few things.
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I will put you in
charge of many things.
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Come and share your
master's happiness!'
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Then the man who had
received the one talent came.
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'Master,' he said, 'I
knew that you are a hard man,
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harvesting where
you have not sown
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and gathering where you
have not even scattered seed.
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So I was afraid and went out
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and hid your
talent in the ground.
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See, here is
what belongs to you.'
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His master replied,
'You wicked, lazy servant!
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So you knew that I
harvest where I have not sown
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and gather where I
have not scattered seed?
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Well then, you
should have put my money
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on deposit with the bankers,
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so that when I returned
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I would have received
it back with interest.
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Take the talent from him
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and give it to the one
who has the ten talents.
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For everyone who
has will be given more
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and he will have an abundance.
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Whoever does not have,
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even what he has
will be taken from him.
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And throw that
worthless servant outside,
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into the darkness,
where there will be weeping
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and gnashing of teeth."'
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Every person who
has received Christ
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and the gift of the Holy Spirit
is endowed with certain gifts
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and God has given us those gifts
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to use for preaching the gospel.
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The day is going to come
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when there's going
to be an accounting.
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And God is going to
call us all in one by one.
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And God is going to
say "What did you do
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with the gift that I gave to you
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for the building
up of His kingdom."
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You've all heard of
mustard seed, haven't you?
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Jesus told story
of the mustard seed.
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It's only a tiny little thing.
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But Jesus said,
"The mustard seed
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has the capacity because
God puts His spirit in it
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to grow into something big."
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God can take little
things and little people
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and little churches and do
great things for His glory.
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And mine eyes
have seen the glory
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of the coming of the Lord.
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Would you come over
here to Zachariah 4?
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This is a minor
prophet with a major message.
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Daniel, Hosea, then you get
over there little bit further
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and just take your time
because I want you to find it.
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Zachariah 4:6-7.
Have you found it?
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Zachariah 4:6-7.
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"So he said to me,
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'This is the word of
the Lord to Zerubbabel.
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Not by might nor by power,
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but by my Spirit,
says the Lord Almighty.
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Who are you, O'mighty mountain?
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Before Zerubbabel you
will become level ground.
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Then he will
bring out the capstone
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to shouts of God
bless it! God bless it!'"
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And so as you see
this mighty mountain--
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well by the grace of God
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this mighty mountain
is going to become a plain
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and on the plain we're
going to build a temple.
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Now look at verse 10,
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"Who despises the
day of small things?
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Men will rejoice when
they see the plumb line
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in the hand of Zerubbabel..."
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And I like it best in
the King James Version
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because it says in
that beautiful old English
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that goes back
to the 15th century.
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"Who has despised
the day of small things.
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It is God's glory to
beat a mountain with a worm."
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We read in the Book of Isaiah.
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And mine eyes
have seen the glory.
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I have been blessed
to see what God has done
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with the 3ABN Center.
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The Christian
Cultural Center in Russia.
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When people said,
it cannot be done.
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And I want to
tell everybody today
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that this magnificent
center was build by people
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who believed in
spreading the gospel of Christ.
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They take these words seriously
"Go into all the world."
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Danny Shelton got a burden
from God and God moved him.
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People around the
world particularly here
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in the great
United States of America
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gave to build what I
believe is the largest
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Protestant Evangelistic
Center in all of Russia.
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And people said, "No,
it could never happen."
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But how did it start?
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I want you tell you
very briefly how it started.
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It happened because of a
miracle that happened in '92.
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When we ran by the grace of God,
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a campaign in the
city of Nizhni Novgorod.
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Just a little team.
With a little budget.
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And the people
came out to the meetings
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by the hundreds
of the thousands.
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I remember the
old communist director
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of the palaces body, said
to me, "They will not come
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because here
we've taught the people
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not even to think of Him
anymore, He's dead to us."
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And we saw baptized in the river
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up to that point of
time the largest baptism
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in the history of
Russia in a river.
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These are historical pictures
and out of that baptism came
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the dream to supply
these people with a church.
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And 3ABN, God bless them,
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moved by the
Spirit of God moved in,
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and this great
evangelistic center
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was build to the glory of God.
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It was done by pastors and
lay people working together.
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Now sometimes we hear
those obnoxious terms,
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the clergy and the laity.
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Don't talk about it to me
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because those terms
come from our beloved friends
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in the Roman Catholic Church.
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There is a word that is used
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for laity in the
Bible and here it is.
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The word is laos and it
means the people of God.
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And in the scriptures
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the ministers are
a part of the laos,
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the people of God.
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And this work is
been done by the laity.
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The people of
God working together.
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As I saw them in the great
Bible conference over there.
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What a blessing that was.
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To mix with so many pastors
and so many as they call them
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erroneously lay
people doing this work
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of preaching the
gospel in a land my friend,
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that is been ruled
by despots and tyrants.
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I want to remind
every person today
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and I want this to
sync down into your minds
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because my
authority is the Word of God.
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If I have the Bible, that is
the only authority that I need.
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My authority is the
Bible, the Word of God.
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And the Bible tells me that
in the church of the living God,
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there is no hierarchy.
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I want you to come over
here to 1 Corinthians 12.
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1 Corinthians 12:27 and onwards.
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The Bible says, Paul writing
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under the inspiration
of the Spirit of God said.
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1 Corinthians 12, "Now
you are the body of Christ."
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That's the church.
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"And each one of
you is a part of it.
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And in the
church God has appointed
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first of all
apostles, second prophets,
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third teachers,
then workers of miracles,
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also those
having gifts of healing,
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those able to help others,
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those with gifts
of administration."
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Never despise the
gift of administration
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even though it is number 7.
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God has placed
administration in the church
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to coordinate the
functions of the church.
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And you notice the next gift.
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It says, "And those speaking
in different kinds of tongues."
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What I'm going to put
over here on the blackboard
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is that which I
do not believe in.
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I do not believe in
the system of the pyramid
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which is the
system of a hierarchy.
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Well, you have
an infallible leader
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and it goes down through
various status of hierarchy.
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The Bible says,
"That god has placed
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in his church certain gifts."
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You say to me "Why is it that
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I as an
individual are so impotent
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in my Christian outreach."
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Could it be that you
have not accepted the gift
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that God has been
wanting to give you?
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And you have swallowed the idea
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that the laity are the people
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who do the
praying and the giving
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and the clergy are the people
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up the front who
give the direction.
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That is not the
teaching of the Bible.
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The teaching of the Bible
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that God has
placed in His church
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certain gifts
at the very center.
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This is what I believe.
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At the very center
of the church is Christ.
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Christ is the
center of our church.
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And Christ is the
head of our church.
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And we're saved
by looking to Christ.
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Remember Solus Christus,
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Sola Scriptura,
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide,
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only Christ, only scripture.
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And in the church, God has
placed certain gifts, apostles.
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What is this word apostle mean?
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It is from the
Greek word Apostello
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and it means sent forth.
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If we use the word today,
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we would say God has placed
in the church missionaries.
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People don't be
afraid of the word.
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People with the sense of mission
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who are sent forth to
go into all the world.
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Apostles and
prophets and teachers
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and all of these gifts
are centered upon Christ
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because Christ is
the head of the church.
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And when the Spirit
of God comes upon us,
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my beloved brethren,
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we will shake off
this deadly lethargy
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and we'll be alive for God.
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I want you to
meet Dr. Julia Outkina.
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I have the privilege,
my team had the privilege
00:23:26.81\00:23:30.22
back in 1992 of
baptizing this saint.
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Here she is a saint
but then every person
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who truly believes
in Christ is the saint.
00:23:39.11\00:23:43.04
Dr. Julia has a
doctorate in from Leningrad,
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St. Petersburg
University in Linguistics.
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She came to hear
English spoken by a foreigner.
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Over there they have a center
00:23:57.92\00:24:00.91
for winning souls
in Nizhni Novgorod
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and Dr. Julia who
once was an atheist,
00:24:04.36\00:24:09.76
a Jewish atheist
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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
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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.
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You have had a part in something
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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.
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I made up my mind
00:26:30.66\00:26:32.13
that I would obey
the words of Christ.
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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.
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They went back to their bosses
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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
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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.
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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.
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And they forgave him.
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We're talking here
today about what God can do.
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I love this hymn.
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It was Winston
Churchill's favorite hymn.
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He loved it. I loved it.
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Mine eyes have seen the
glory of the coming of the Lord,
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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
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of a hundred circling camps,
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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
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by the dim and flaring
lamps, his day is marching on."
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You cant stop it.
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Men may have their hour
00:49:58.01\00:49:59.73
but our God will have
His day and it's coming.
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The signs and the judgments
are already in the earth.
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Suzy Perino said something
this week that shook me up.
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And I wish she had not said it.
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She said I think
perhaps we should--
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don't know if I can
say. I'll break it down.
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She said, it may be a good thing
that we have a huge earthquake.
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And then you won't
fit the people in church.
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1 session, 2
session, 3 sessions,
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we have got so far from God.
00:50:33.45\00:50:36.19
God is going to
send us a earthquake.
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It's coming.
00:50:39.73\00:50:40.76
"I have read a fiery gospel
writ in burnished rows of steel.
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As you deal with my contemners,
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so with you my grace shall deal.
00:50:52.48\00:50:55.17
Let the Hero, born of woman,
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crush the serpent with his heel,
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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.
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He is sifting
out the souls of men
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before His judgment-seat.
00:51:11.22\00:51:13.33
Oh, be quick, my
soul, to answer Him!
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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.
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As He died to make men holy,
00:51:35.84\00:51:38.35
let us die to make them free,
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While God is marching
on." What a song it is, glory.
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Glory, hallelujah.
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Glory, glory hallelujah.
00:51:54.34\00:51:59.45
Glory, glory hallelujah.
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His truth is marching
on, nothing will stop it.
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In the name of the
Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
00:52:16.65\00:52:19.96
Amen. Let us kneel.
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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