[MUSIC] 00:00:00.53\00:00:07.30 >> FROM ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, "THE CARTER REPORT" PRESENTS 00:00:07.43\00:00:10.50 THE LIVING WORD AROUND THE WORLD. 00:00:10.50\00:00:14.10 >> HELLO, I'M DAVE DENO FOR JOHN CARTER 00:00:17.10\00:00:18.93 AND "THE CARTER REPORT," HERE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE 00:00:18.93\00:00:21.63 A PART OF THIS MINISTRY, TO BE A PARTNER IN THIS MINISTRY, 00:00:21.63\00:00:25.80 TO KNOW THE JOY OF GIVING. 00:00:25.80\00:00:28.30 GOD'S WORD TELLS US THAT IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO 00:00:28.30\00:00:31.33 RECEIVE AND I BELIEVE THAT IT IS MORE JOYFUL TO GIVE THAN 00:00:31.33\00:00:35.40 TO RECEIVE. 00:00:35.40\00:00:36.60 BUT THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU WILL KNOW THIS IS TO DO IT YOURSELF, 00:00:36.60\00:00:39.43 TO COME AND JOIN US IN THIS WONDERFUL MINISTRY OF BRINGING 00:00:39.43\00:00:42.63 THE GOSPEL TO HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS, 00:00:42.63\00:00:46.50 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN AREAS AROUND THE WORLD THAT 00:00:46.50\00:00:50.26 PERHAPS YOU AND I MAY NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL TO. 00:00:50.26\00:00:54.46 THIS IS A WAY THAT YOU CAN SUPPORT THE PREACHING 00:00:54.46\00:00:57.63 OF THE GOSPEL, THAT YOU CAN SUPPORT NEW LIVES IN CHRIST. 00:00:57.63\00:01:03.16 NOW WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION AND WE WANT TO 00:01:03.16\00:01:06.03 SHOW YOU THAT APPRECIATION BY SENDING SOMETHING BACK TO YOU 00:01:06.03\00:01:09.76 TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT. 00:01:09.76\00:01:13.03 ONE WOULD BE A TERRIFIC BOOK THAT IS WRITTEN 00:01:13.03\00:01:16.20 BY JOHN CARTER CALLED "THE FATE OF THE HEATHEN." 00:01:16.20\00:01:19.43 NOW THIS IS A GREAT BOOK, NOT ONLY FOR YOU TO READ, BUT ALSO 00:01:19.43\00:01:22.10 TO SHARE WITH FAMILY MEMBERS AND WITH FRIENDS. 00:01:22.10\00:01:24.66 IT'S VERY DIRECT, VERY TO THE POINT. 00:01:24.66\00:01:27.70 AND THEN ANOTHER BOOK THAT JOHN'S A LITTLE SHY ABOUT IS 00:01:27.70\00:01:30.63 THE HISTORY OF JOHN CARTER AND "THE CARTER REPORT." 00:01:30.63\00:01:34.16 YOU CAN SEND YOUR GIFT TO THE CARTER REPORT AT 00:01:34.16\00:01:36.36 P.O. BOX 1900, THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA, 91358. 00:01:36.36\00:01:43.83 IN AUSTRALIA, YOU CAN SEND IT TO TERRIGAL, NEW SOUTH WALES, 00:01:43.83\00:01:48.96 AND THE BOX IS ON THE SCREEN. 00:01:48.96\00:01:50.83 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE A PART OF THIS MINISTRY. 00:01:50.83\00:01:54.00 WRITE TO US AGAIN AT THE CARTER REPORT, BOX 1900, 00:01:54.00\00:01:57.96 THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA, 91358. 00:01:57.96\00:02:02.00 AND IN AUSTRALIA, AT TERRIGAL, NEW SOUTH WALES. 00:02:02.00\00:02:06.36 AGAIN, THE BOX NUMBER IS ON THE SCREEN, THANK YOU. 00:02:06.36\00:02:10.16 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A PART OF THIS MINISTRY. 00:02:10.16\00:02:14.73 >> WELCOME TO "THE CARTER REPORT." 00:02:18.30\00:02:20.76 THE TOPIC TODAY IS "THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS." 00:02:20.76\00:02:26.13 TODAY WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE. 00:02:26.13\00:02:28.90 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT? 00:02:28.90\00:02:31.83 DID YOU KNOW AROUND THE WORLD TODAY THERE ARE 00:02:31.83\00:02:34.96 27 MILLION SLAVES? 00:02:34.96\00:02:38.20 AND THE PRICE OF A SLAVE ON AN AVERAGE IS $90. 00:02:38.20\00:02:42.36 ALL THIS IN THE PROGRAM TODAY, "THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS." 00:02:42.36\00:02:47.70 RIGHT NOW I HAVE WITH ME A BEAUTY LADY, LILA CERVANTES. 00:02:47.70\00:02:52.10 LILA, WELCOME TO OUR PROGRAM TODAY. 00:02:52.10\00:02:55.13 TELL ME, WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? 00:02:55.13\00:02:57.60 >> I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 00:02:57.60\00:03:00.93 WE ARE A MILITARY FAMILY. 00:03:00.93\00:03:02.70 WE HAVE LIVED ALL OVER THE WORLD, SO WE MOVE EVERY 00:03:02.70\00:03:05.33 2 TO 3 YEARS. 00:03:05.33\00:03:07.06 AND CURRENTLY MY HUSBAND SERVES IN THE U.S. ARMY, 00:03:07.06\00:03:09.93 HAS BEEN SERVING FOR 19 YEARS, AND CURRENTLY WE ARE IN 00:03:09.93\00:03:13.03 THE HIGH DESERT. 00:03:13.03\00:03:14.90 >> WELL, WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND 00:03:14.90\00:03:17.93 WITH US TODAY. 00:03:17.93\00:03:19.96 FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC? 00:03:19.96\00:03:23.43 >> WELL, MY PARENTS SAID I WAS-- I HAVE SUNG GOSPEL MUSIC 00:03:23.43\00:03:27.10 SINCE I'VE BEEN A LITTLE GIRL. 00:03:27.10\00:03:28.70 I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A LOVE TO SING FOR THE LORD THROUGH 00:03:28.70\00:03:31.73 MY TEENAGE YEARS AND THROUGH MY ADULT YEARS. 00:03:31.73\00:03:35.80 >> TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST. 00:03:35.80\00:03:39.40 HOW DID YOU FIND JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR? 00:03:39.40\00:03:43.00 >> THAT'S A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION BECAUSE I WAS RAISED A 00:03:43.00\00:03:47.23 CHRISTIAN, RAISED IN THE CHURCH. 00:03:47.23\00:03:50.20 BUT TO BE A CHRISTIAN, TO KNOW CHRIST, TWO COMPLETELY 00:03:50.20\00:03:52.96 DIFFERENT THINGS. 00:03:52.96\00:03:54.33 THROUGH A SERIES OF EVENTS IN MY LIFE, I HAVE ALWAYS HAD 00:03:54.33\00:03:57.23 TO LEARN TO FORGIVE. 00:03:57.23\00:03:59.40 IT WASN'T UNTIL 2005 THAT SOMETHING DRAMATIC HAPPENED 00:03:59.40\00:04:02.93 IN MY LIFE WHERE I NOW NEEDED TO BE FORGIVEN. 00:04:02.93\00:04:06.23 AND CHRIST TOOK ME ON THIS AMAZING JOURNEY OF SHOWING ME 00:04:06.23\00:04:09.23 HIS GRACE, HIS MERCY, AND HIS LOVE. 00:04:09.23\00:04:13.06 >> THAT'S WHAT THE GOSPEL IS ABOUT, GRACE, MERCY, AND LOVE. 00:04:13.06\00:04:18.16 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT GOING TO CHURCH. 00:04:18.16\00:04:21.56 NOT JUST ABOUT GOING TO CHURCH. 00:04:21.56\00:04:22.90 >> EXACTLY. 00:04:22.90\00:04:24.16 >> NOW TODAY YOU'RE GOING TO SING US A BEAUTIFUL SONG. 00:04:24.16\00:04:26.83 WHAT'S IT CALLED? 00:04:26.83\00:04:27.96 >> IT'S CALLED "HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW," A SONG THAT I HAVE 00:04:27.96\00:04:30.60 SUNG FOR YEARS BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE TAKE NATURE FOR GRANTED, BUT 00:04:30.60\00:04:38.43 GOD ALWAYS LOOKS AFTER NATURE. 00:04:38.43\00:04:41.80 HE LOOKS AFTER THE SPARROWS. 00:04:41.80\00:04:43.30 AND IF HE LOOKS AFTER THEM, HOW MUCH MORE IS HE GONNA 00:04:43.30\00:04:45.80 LOOK FOR--AFTER US? 00:04:45.80\00:04:47.33 >> AMEN. 00:04:47.33\00:04:48.20 WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO 00:04:48.20\00:04:50.50 THE MUSIC TODAY. 00:04:50.50\00:04:51.53 >> THANK YOU. 00:04:51.53\00:04:52.43 >> GOD BLESS YOU. 00:04:52.43\00:04:54.46 [APPLAUDING] 00:04:54.46\00:04:57.53 [MUSIC] 00:05:00.76\00:05:05.96 ? WHY SHOULD I ? ? FEEL DISCOURAGED? ? 00:05:29.26\00:05:36.43 ? WHY SHOULD ? ? THE SHADOWS COME? ? 00:05:36.43\00:05:44.90 ? AND WHY SHOULD MY HEART ? ? BE LONELY AND LONG ? 00:05:44.90\00:05:55.10 ? FOR HEAVEN AND HOME? ? ? WHEN JESUS IS MY PORTION ? 00:05:55.10\00:06:10.93 ? MY CONSTANT FRIEND IS HE ? ? HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW ? 00:06:10.93\00:06:28.46 ? AND I KNOW HE WATCHES ME ? ? HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW ? 00:06:28.46\00:06:46.16 ? AND I KNOW HE WATCHES ME ? 00:06:46.16\00:06:54.50 ? I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY ? ? AND I SING BECAUSE I'M FREE ? 00:06:55.96\00:07:17.10 ? I AM FREE FOR HIS EYE ? ? IS ON THE SPARROW ? 00:07:17.10\00:07:38.73 ? AND I KNOW HE WATCHES ? ? YES, I KNOW HE WATCHES ? 00:07:40.00\00:07:51.06 ? HE WATCHES OVER ME ? 00:07:51.06\00:08:06.13 >> PRAISE BE TO GOD. 00:08:14.30\00:08:15.43 AMEN. 00:08:15.43\00:08:18.53 >> THE TOPIC TODAY IS "THE BAD NEWS 00:08:19.70\00:08:23.53 IS THE GOOD NEWS." 00:08:23.53\00:08:25.20 STAY WITH US, BUT FIRSTLY LET ME INTRODUCE MY WIFE, 00:08:25.20\00:08:29.33 BEVERLY CARTER. 00:08:29.33\00:08:30.93 [CONGREGATION APPLAUDING] 00:08:30.93\00:08:34.96 >> RECENTLY SOMEONE SENT ME AN E-MAIL ENTITLED 00:08:42.13\00:08:46.16 "CRITICIZING PEOPLE AND HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY." 00:08:46.16\00:08:50.23 THE ANSWER, BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE SOMEONE, YOU SHOULD WALK 00:08:50.23\00:08:53.90 A MILE IN THEIR SHOES. 00:08:53.90\00:08:55.56 THAT WAY, WHEN YOU CRITICIZE THEM, YOU WILL BE A MILE AWAY 00:08:55.56\00:09:00.40 AND YOU'LL HAVE THEIR SHOES. 00:09:00.40\00:09:03.43 I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR HAD IN MIND. 00:09:03.43\00:09:07.36 IN MATTHEW 7:1-2, JESUS SAID, "JUDGE NOT, THAT YOU BE 00:09:07.36\00:09:12.56 NOT JUDGED. 00:09:12.56\00:09:14.03 FOR IN THE SAME WAY YOU JUDGE OTHERS, YOU WILL BE JUDGED." 00:09:14.03\00:09:18.40 JESUS IS TELLING US NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS WITH A CRITICAL 00:09:18.40\00:09:21.76 AND UNKIND MOTIVE. 00:09:21.76\00:09:23.83 ALTHOUGH THIS IS A SERIOUS SUBJECT, JESUS USES SOME HUMOR 00:09:23.83\00:09:28.30 TO DRIVE THE TRUTH HOME. 00:09:28.30\00:09:30.43 HE TELLS US FIRST TO TAKE THE BIG PLANK OUT OF OUR OWN EYE 00:09:30.43\00:09:35.63 BEFORE WE TRY TO GET THE SPECK OUT OF OUR BROTHER'S EYE. 00:09:35.63\00:09:40.43 JESUS ALSO SAID, "LET HIM WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST 00:09:40.43\00:09:45.46 THE FIRST STONE." 00:09:45.46\00:09:47.26 I THINK WE WOULD AGREE THAT WE ALL HAVE ENOUGH CHALLENGES 00:09:47.26\00:09:50.10 OF OUR OWN WITHOUT TRYING TO FIX OTHERS. 00:09:50.10\00:09:54.20 DOES THIS MEAN WE CAN NEVER MAKE A JUDGMENT? 00:09:54.20\00:09:57.43 JESUS GIVES US THE ANSWER IN VERSES 15 AND 16 OF THE SAME 00:09:57.43\00:10:01.40 CHAPTER WHEN HE SAYS, "WATCH OUT FOR FALSE PROPHETS. 00:10:01.40\00:10:05.43 BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM." 00:10:05.43\00:10:08.30 WE NEED TO JUDGE THE FRUITS OF THEIR LIVES TO KNOW WHETHER 00:10:08.30\00:10:11.20 THEY ARE FALSE OR TRUE. 00:10:11.20\00:10:13.46 IF A CHURCH OR BUSINESS HAS TO FILL AN IMPORTANT POSITION, THE 00:10:13.46\00:10:17.50 COMMITTEE OR BOARD HAS TO MAKE CERTAIN JUDGMENTS SO THEY CAN 00:10:17.50\00:10:21.76 GET THE RIGHT AND THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB. 00:10:21.76\00:10:25.70 THE CRITIQUE OR JUDGMENTS SHOULD NOT BE DONE IN AN UNKIND 00:10:25.70\00:10:30.86 OR MEAN WAY. 00:10:30.86\00:10:32.80 PARENTS HAVE TO MAKE JUDGMENTS ABOUT FRIENDS 00:10:32.80\00:10:35.50 FOR THEIR CHILDREN. 00:10:35.50\00:10:37.00 WE SHOULD BE FRIENDLY TO EVERYONE, BUT WE ALL MAKE 00:10:37.00\00:10:41.53 JUDGMENTS ABOUT WHO WE'RE GOING TO HANG OUT WITH, HOPEFULLY 00:10:41.53\00:10:45.10 NOT IN A SELF-RIGHTEOUS WAY, BUT SIMPLY BECAUSE WE HAVE 00:10:45.10\00:10:47.96 DIFFERENT VALUES AND BELIEFS. 00:10:47.96\00:10:50.50 THE UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD IS OUR FINAL JUDGE SHOULD HELP US 00:10:50.50\00:10:55.43 TO KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE. 00:10:55.43\00:10:58.06 TODAY THERE IS MUCH TALK ABOUT BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT. 00:10:58.06\00:11:01.73 ONE MUST NOT DISAGREE WITH THE MAJORITY OR MINORITY 00:11:01.73\00:11:05.56 AS THE CASE MAY BE. 00:11:05.56\00:11:07.50 ONE MUST NOT JUDGE ANOTHER ON THEIR BEHAVIOR WITHOUT THE RISK 00:11:07.50\00:11:10.73 OF BEING CALLED INTOLERANT OR A BIGOT OR WORSE. 00:11:10.73\00:11:15.23 DO NOT JUDGE DOES NOT MEAN DO NOT THINK. 00:11:15.23\00:11:19.86 THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES THERE ARE TIMES AND SITUATIONS WHEN WE 00:11:19.86\00:11:24.63 HAVE TO EVALUATE WHETHER SOMETHING IS RIGHT OR WRONG, 00:11:24.63\00:11:28.46 GOOD OR BAD. 00:11:28.46\00:11:30.50 HOW DO WE GET THIS WISDOM TO DISCERN BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR? 00:11:30.50\00:11:36.03 WE MUST READ THE BIBLE EVERY DAY. 00:11:36.03\00:11:40.53 AMEN AND THANK YOU. 00:11:40.53\00:11:43.00 [APPLAUDING] 00:11:43.00\00:11:46.16 >> THE TOPIC TODAY IS "THE BAD NEWS 00:11:48.06\00:11:50.86 IS THE GOOD NEWS." 00:11:50.86\00:11:53.70 I'VE JUST BEEN RUNNING A CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA. 00:11:53.70\00:11:56.10 IT HAD GONE FOREVER. 00:11:56.10\00:11:57.86 I WAS BEAT UP, I WAS TIRED, I WANTED TO GET HOME. 00:11:57.86\00:12:02.10 I WENT TO THE MOSCOW AIRPORT AND WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO CHECK IN, 00:12:02.10\00:12:07.16 THEY SAID TO ME, "THE PLANE IS OVERSOLD IN ECONOMY," 00:12:07.16\00:12:14.93 WHICH IS WHERE I WAS. 00:12:14.93\00:12:16.80 THE PLANE IS OVERSOLD. 00:12:16.80\00:12:18.86 IS THAT GOOD NEWS OR BAD NEWS? 00:12:18.86\00:12:21.13 HMM? 00:12:21.13\00:12:22.00 COME ON, WHAT IS IT? 00:12:22.00\00:12:23.03 IT'S BAD NEWS. 00:12:23.03\00:12:24.30 SO THAT'S THE BAD NEWS. 00:12:24.30\00:12:25.86 NOW WHEN I'M STUCK IN MOSCOW AT THE AIRPORT, I GO TO A HOTEL. 00:12:25.86\00:12:32.80 IT'S ABOUT THE WORST HOTEL ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, 00:12:32.80\00:12:36.80 EXCEPT THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE CONGO. 00:12:36.80\00:12:40.23 IT'S AN OLD STALIN RELIC. 00:12:40.23\00:12:43.03 I'VE STAYED THERE SEVERAL TIMES. 00:12:43.03\00:12:46.86 IT'S SORT OF A PLACE WHERE YOU'D PUT PRISONERS AND IT'S EXPENSIVE 00:12:46.86\00:12:52.10 AND THE FOOD IS THE WORST. 00:12:52.10\00:12:55.16 AND SO I THOUGHT, "I'M STUCK IN MOSCOW. 00:12:55.16\00:12:58.16 EITHER I STAY AT THE AIRPORT AND SLEEP AT THE AIRPORT, 00:12:58.16\00:13:01.20 SLEEP SITTING UP, WHERE YOU WALK THAT WAY 00:13:01.20\00:13:03.86 FOR ANOTHER WEEK, OR I'LL GO TO THE PART OF THE GULAG 00:13:03.86\00:13:08.70 ARCHIPELAGO, THIS HORROR HOTEL. 00:13:08.70\00:13:12.46 BUT THEN THE LADY SAID TO ME, "WE'RE COMPLETELY SOLD OUT," 00:13:12.46\00:13:16.00 SHE SAID. 00:13:16.00\00:13:17.60 "THE PLANE IS OVERBOOKED IN ECONOMY." 00:13:17.60\00:13:20.03 SHE SAID, "WOULD YOU MIND IF WE PUT YOU IN BUSINESS CLASS?" 00:13:20.03\00:13:25.40 [LAUGHING] >> IS THAT GOOD NEWS 00:13:25.40\00:13:28.80 OR BAD NEWS? 00:13:28.80\00:13:30.10 >> GOOD NEWS. 00:13:30.10\00:13:30.96 >> IT'S GOOD NEWS. 00:13:30.96\00:13:31.83 SO REMEMBER THIS, MY FRIEND. 00:13:31.83\00:13:34.00 THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS IF YOU HAVE A PERSPECTIVE FROM GOD. 00:13:34.00\00:13:42.96 I WANT YOU TO TAKE YOUR BIBLES, PLEASE, AND TURN 00:13:42.96\00:13:45.40 TO MATTHEW 24:33. 00:13:45.40\00:13:47.80 AND I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE TODAY AND I'M GLAD TO BE HERE 00:13:47.80\00:13:50.83 TODAY TOO. 00:13:50.83\00:13:52.36 MATTHEW 24:33. 00:13:52.36\00:13:55.60 AND IF YOU'VE GOT AN AMEN IN YOU, LET IT OUT BECAUSE IT'LL 00:13:55.60\00:13:58.66 HURT YOU IF YOU KEEP IT INSIDE. 00:13:58.66\00:14:02.43 HEAR THAT, ALAN? 00:14:02.43\00:14:03.46 IF YOU'VE GOT AN AMEN, AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE GOT A 00:14:03.46\00:14:06.00 HALLELUJAH, DON'T KEEP IT INSIDE OR ELSE IT'LL DO SOME DAMAGE 00:14:06.00\00:14:09.50 TO YOUR BODY. 00:14:09.50\00:14:11.60 MATTHEW 24:33. 00:14:11.60\00:14:16.83 THIS BOOK IS CALLED THE LITTLE APOCALYPSE. 00:14:16.83\00:14:19.86 MATTHEW 24:33, "EVEN SO, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, 00:14:19.86\00:14:26.00 YOU KNOW THAT IT OR HE IS NEAR, RIGHT AT THE DOOR." 00:14:26.00\00:14:33.36 WHEN JESUS SAYS, "ALL THESE THINGS," HE IS TALKING ABOUT 00:14:33.36\00:14:38.60 GREAT AND AWESOME EVENTS THAT COME TO THE EARTH THAT STRIKE 00:14:38.60\00:14:45.56 FEAR TO THE HEARTS OF MEN. 00:14:45.56\00:14:51.53 AND FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, THESE GREAT 00:14:51.53\00:14:54.96 EVENTS ARE GOING TO BE BAD NEWS. 00:14:54.96\00:14:58.76 BUT I'M HERE TO TELL YOU TODAY THAT THE BAD NEWS IS 00:14:58.76\00:15:03.26 THE GOOD NEWS. 00:15:03.26\00:15:05.03 I'M GOING TO COME OVER HERE TO THE BLACKBOARD AND I WANT TO PUT 00:15:05.03\00:15:07.93 UP SOMETHING ON THE BLACKBOARD. 00:15:07.93\00:15:10.13 I'M GOING TO PUT UP THE WORD MARANATHA. 00:15:10.13\00:15:13.43 YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS? 00:15:13.43\00:15:16.50 MARANATHA. 00:15:16.50\00:15:21.80 MARANATHA. 00:15:21.80\00:15:24.06 IT IS NOT A GREEK WORD, EVEN THOUGH IT IS FOUND IN THE BIBLE, 00:15:24.06\00:15:28.20 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 00:15:28.20\00:15:29.26 COME OVER HERE TO 1 CORINTHIANS 16:22. 00:15:29.26\00:15:32.26 IT'S THE ONLY TIME YOU'LL READ ABOUT MARANATHA IN THE BIBLE 00:15:32.26\00:15:37.80 BECAUSE IT IS AN ARAMAIC WORD. 00:15:37.80\00:15:40.66 1 CORINTHIANS 16:22. 00:15:40.66\00:15:43.73 IT IS ARAMAIC, WHICH WAS THE VERNACULAR OF THE TIMES 00:15:43.73\00:15:49.16 OF CHRIST. 00:15:49.16\00:15:51.36 1 CORINTHIANS 16:22. 00:15:51.36\00:15:55.40 IT WAS LIKE THE ENGLISH OF THE OLD WORLD. 00:15:55.40\00:15:59.40 "IF ANYONE DOES NOT LOVE THE LORD, A CURSE BE ON HIM." 00:15:59.40\00:16:04.30 THAT'S ANATHEMA. 00:16:04.30\00:16:06.26 AND THEN HE SAYS, "COME, O LORD!" 00:16:06.26\00:16:09.00 AND IF YOU LOOK DOWN IN THE MARGIN, IT SAYS MARANATHA. 00:16:09.00\00:16:14.06 NOW THIS WORD, THIS ARAMAIC WORD, WHICH GETS INTO THE 00:16:14.06\00:16:18.90 WRITINGS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, MEANS "COME, O LORD," 00:16:18.90\00:16:24.56 OR "THE LORD IS COMING." 00:16:24.56\00:16:28.86 NOW WHEN YOU GO TO AFRICA AND WHEN THEY SAY THIS WORD, 00:16:28.86\00:16:31.70 WHEN THE PASTOR SAYS TO THE CONGREGATION, "MARANATHA," THE 00:16:31.70\00:16:36.10 PEOPLE SAY, "JESUS IS COMING." 00:16:36.10\00:16:39.60 SO WE BELIEVE THAT THE LORD IS JESUS CHRIST. 00:16:39.60\00:16:42.83 AND SO WE CAN SAY MARANATHA, WHICH MEANS 00:16:42.83\00:16:47.20 "THE LORD IS COMING." 00:16:47.20\00:16:50.20 NOW THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE LORD IS COMING. 00:16:50.20\00:16:54.93 AND WHATEVER HAPPENS IN THIS WORLD, EVEN THOUGH THOSE THINGS 00:16:54.93\00:16:58.56 MAY BE HORRENDOUS AND STRIKE FEAR TO THE HEARTS OF MEN, 00:16:58.56\00:17:03.03 THE GOOD NEWS IS MARANATHA. 00:17:03.03\00:17:07.80 JESUS IS COMING. 00:17:07.80\00:17:10.23 NOW TODAY, MY BELOVED FRIENDS, I WANT TO GIVE YOU TEN GREAT 00:17:10.23\00:17:17.76 SIGNS, TEN GREAT SIGNS. 00:17:17.76\00:17:21.60 BAD NEWS TO THE WORLD, GOOD NEWS TO THE BELIEVER. 00:17:21.60\00:17:26.10 NUMBER ONE, THE SURGE OF SPIRITISM. 00:17:26.10\00:17:31.30 PLEASE COME OVER HERE WITH ME TO THE APOCALYPSE, 00:17:31.30\00:17:33.53 REVELATION 16. 00:17:33.53\00:17:36.20 REVELATION 16:13-15. 00:17:36.20\00:17:39.46 AND I COULD TAKE YOU TO OTHER PASSAGES THAT ARE EVEN MORE 00:17:39.46\00:17:42.93 EXPLICIT, BUT AT THIS STAGE, REVELATION 16:13-15. 00:17:42.93\00:17:50.50 "THEN I SAW THREE EVIL SPIRITS THAT LOOKED LIKE FROGS; 00:17:50.50\00:17:59.23 THEY CAME OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, 00:17:59.23\00:18:01.90 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST AND OUT OF THE MOUTH 00:18:01.90\00:18:05.96 OF THE FALSE PROPHET." 00:18:05.96\00:18:09.23 HERE YOU HAVE A TRINITY OF UNCLEAN POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:18:09.23\00:18:13.70 "THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS PERFORMING MIRACULOUS SIGNS, 00:18:13.70\00:18:19.03 AND THEY GO OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO GATHER THEM 00:18:19.03\00:18:22.76 FOR THE BATTLE ON THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 00:18:22.76\00:18:29.20 HAVE YOU NOTICED--YOU'D HAVE TO BE BLIND NOT TO NOTICE THE 00:18:29.20\00:18:33.23 TREMENDOUS INTEREST TODAY AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD 00:18:33.23\00:18:37.63 AND THE PEOPLE OF HOLLYWOOD IN SPIRITISM. 00:18:37.63\00:18:40.83 HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT? 00:18:40.83\00:18:41.96 CLINT EASTWOOD, CLINT EASTWOOD HAS DONE A MOVIE ON LIFE 00:18:41.96\00:18:48.13 AFTER DEATH. 00:18:48.13\00:18:49.56 WHY? 00:18:49.56\00:18:50.56 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FASCINATED IN IT. 00:18:50.56\00:18:53.86 WHEN YOU TURN ON TELEVISION, THERE ARE SHOWS WHERE THEY SAY 00:18:53.86\00:18:57.06 THEY CAN ACTUALLY GET YOU IN CONTACT WITH THE DEAD. 00:18:57.06\00:19:03.50 THIS TREMENDOUS SURGE OF SPIRITISM IS A SIGN THAT 00:19:03.50\00:19:09.20 THE LORD IS COMING. 00:19:09.20\00:19:11.73 MAYBE I'LL START TO PUT UP SOME OF THESE SIGNS ON 00:19:11.73\00:19:15.50 THE BLACKBOARD. 00:19:15.50\00:19:16.56 THE FIRST ONE IS THE GREAT REVIVAL OF THE OCCULT. 00:19:16.56\00:19:22.16 IT IS BAD NEWS. 00:19:22.16\00:19:24.70 LISTEN TO ME. 00:19:24.70\00:19:28.00 I CAN PROVE TO YOU FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE THAT IN THE LAST DAYS 00:19:28.00\00:19:34.46 THE WHOLE WORLD BECOMES DEMON POSSESSED. 00:19:34.46\00:19:38.66 YOU THINK THINGS ARE BAD NOW? 00:19:38.66\00:19:41.00 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DEMON POSSESSED. 00:19:41.00\00:19:43.73 I'VE HEARD THE VOICE, THE VOICES OF DEMONS. 00:19:43.73\00:19:48.23 I'VE HEARD THEM COMING OUT OF HUMAN LIPS. 00:19:48.23\00:19:51.70 SO HAS DR. JOHN HAMMOND. 00:19:51.70\00:19:54.70 IT'S BAD NEWS, MY FRIEND. 00:19:54.70\00:19:56.86 THE PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE TELL US THAT IN THE LAST DAYS 00:19:56.86\00:20:00.00 THERE'LL BE TWO CLASSES OF PEOPLE, ONLY TWO CLASSES. 00:20:00.00\00:20:03.23 THOSE WHO ARE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST 00:20:03.23\00:20:06.03 AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO BECOME DEMON POSSESSED. 00:20:06.03\00:20:12.63 THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN DEMON POSSESSION. 00:20:12.63\00:20:15.00 DID YOU KNOW THAT WITH DEMON POSSESSION IT IS SUCH 00:20:15.00\00:20:18.53 A FILTHY THING THERE IS A NAUSEATING ODOR? 00:20:18.53\00:20:22.00 DID YOU KNOW THIS? 00:20:22.00\00:20:23.63 I'VE BEEN IN THE ROOM OF A WOMAN WHO BELIEVED THE TRUTH OF THE 00:20:23.63\00:20:28.06 BIBLE AS YOU AND I BELIEVE IT AND WHO HAD BEEN PLAYING 00:20:28.06\00:20:32.20 WITH THE DEMONS. 00:20:32.20\00:20:33.30 AND THEY HAD COME INTO HER HOME AND THE STENCH WAS OVERWHELMING. 00:20:33.30\00:20:41.63 SIGN NUMBER ONE, THE OCCULT. 00:20:41.63\00:20:46.70 AND IT'S A SIGN OF MARANATHA. 00:20:46.70\00:20:49.36 THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS. 00:20:49.36\00:20:52.13 IT TELLS US THAT JESUS IS COMING. 00:20:52.13\00:20:55.23 THE SECOND GREAT SIGN IS THE COLLAPSE OF MORALITY. 00:20:55.23\00:21:01.83 LET ME TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH IS SENSITIVE. 00:21:01.83\00:21:06.60 THEY TELL ME, ESPECIALLY IN AUSTRALIA, "DON'T TALK 00:21:06.60\00:21:09.96 ABOUT THOSE THINGS." 00:21:09.96\00:21:12.16 BUT I BELIEVE THAT A MINISTER HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO TELL 00:21:12.16\00:21:16.96 THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH. 00:21:16.96\00:21:19.23 IF THE SHEPHERD DOESN'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO TELL THE TRUTH, 00:21:19.23\00:21:22.93 WHERE WILL THE SHEEP GO? 00:21:22.93\00:21:28.60 I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 00:21:28.60\00:21:34.43 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE WHAT I SAY, BUT I HAVE THE RIGHT 00:21:34.43\00:21:38.23 TO SAY IT. 00:21:38.23\00:21:39.90 I BELIEVE THAT GOD LOVES HOMOSEXUALS. 00:21:39.90\00:21:44.46 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 00:21:44.46\00:21:46.00 I BELIEVE HE LOVES THE GAY PEOPLE, HOMOSEXUALS, LESBIANS. 00:21:46.00\00:21:49.76 I BELIEVE HE LOVES THEM AS HE LOVES YOU AND HE LOVES ME. 00:21:49.76\00:21:54.33 I BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED FOR HOMOSEXUALS. 00:21:54.33\00:21:59.03 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD--AND I AGREE WITH 00:21:59.03\00:22:02.66 ALAN REINACH, MY FRIEND, THE ATTORNEY. 00:22:02.66\00:22:05.16 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD DISCRIMINATE AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS 00:22:05.16\00:22:09.63 AND I BELIEVE IT IS AN ABOMINATION FOR CHRISTIANS 00:22:09.63\00:22:14.50 TO PERSECUTE HOMOSEXUALS. 00:22:14.50\00:22:20.70 BUT I BELIEVE, AND HERE IT IS, I BELIEVE THAT GAY MARRIAGE 00:22:20.70\00:22:27.06 IS WRONG. 00:22:27.06\00:22:29.50 I BELIEVE IT IS OPPOSED TO THE WORD OF GOD, IN SPITE OF WHAT 00:22:29.50\00:22:36.26 SOME POLITICIANS WILL TELL YOU, BECAUSE WHAT DO THEY KNOW 00:22:36.26\00:22:40.20 ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD OR THE WILL OF GOD ANYHOW? 00:22:40.20\00:22:43.76 I WANT YOU TO COME OVER HERE TO ROMANS 1:26-27. 00:22:43.76\00:22:47.90 ROMANS 1:26-27. 00:22:47.90\00:22:54.00 ROMANS 1:26-27. 00:22:54.00\00:22:58.76 I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYBODY COULD GET AWAY FROM THESE TEXTS. 00:22:58.76\00:23:04.16 "BECAUSE OF THIS, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO SHAMEFUL LUSTS. 00:23:04.16\00:23:09.06 EVEN THEIR WOMEN EXCHANGED NATURAL RELATIONS 00:23:09.06\00:23:12.73 FOR UNNATURAL ONES." 00:23:12.73\00:23:15.20 THAT'S WOMEN WITH WOMEN. 00:23:15.20\00:23:17.20 "IN THE SAME WAY THE MEN ALSO ABANDONED NATURAL RELATIONS 00:23:17.20\00:23:21.20 WITH WOMEN AND WERE INFLAMED WITH LUST FOR ONE ANOTHER. 00:23:21.20\00:23:26.73 MEN COMMITTED INDECENT ACTS WITH OTHER MEN, AND RECEIVED 00:23:26.73\00:23:31.10 IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR PERVERSION." 00:23:31.10\00:23:37.90 LISTEN TO ME. 00:23:37.90\00:23:39.80 I KNOW--AND THOSE WATCHING ON TELEVISION, UNLESS YOU CAN SHOW 00:23:39.80\00:23:44.96 ME FROM THE BIBLE WHERE I'M WRONG, DON'T BOTHER TO WRITE. 00:23:44.96\00:23:52.00 DON'T BOTHER TO WRITE UNLESS YOU CAN SHOW ME FROM THE BIBLE 00:23:52.00\00:23:55.86 BECAUSE I'M STANDING ON THE BIBLE. 00:23:55.86\00:23:58.93 I BELIEVE TODAY THAT CHRISTIANITY IS UNDER A VICIOUS 00:23:58.93\00:24:04.53 ATTACK IN NORTH AMERICA. 00:24:04.53\00:24:08.90 I BELIEVE THAT CHRISTIANITY IS UNDER ATTACK ALL AROUND THE 00:24:08.90\00:24:12.56 WORLD, IN AUSTRALIA AND IN GREAT BRITAIN, WHEREVER YOU GO. 00:24:12.56\00:24:17.13 AND I BELIEVE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LEADING THIS VICIOUS 00:24:17.13\00:24:21.23 ATTACK AGAINST CHRISTIANITY, MANY OF THEM ARE FOUND 00:24:21.23\00:24:25.43 IN THE MEDIA. 00:24:25.43\00:24:29.70 AND THEREFORE, IF YOU BELIEVE AS I BELIEVE, YOU ARE HELD UP 00:24:29.70\00:24:35.16 TO DERISION AND SARCASM AND PERSECUTION. 00:24:35.16\00:24:41.56 BUT LET IT BE KNOWN WE STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD. 00:24:41.56\00:24:45.70 AND IF YOU STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD, YOU ARE SAFE. 00:24:45.70\00:24:50.56 AND IF YOU DON'T STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD, YOU WILL BE LOST. 00:24:50.56\00:24:56.10 PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, THAT'S PRETTY STRONG TALK." 00:24:56.10\00:24:58.43 DON'T YOU WANT STRONG TALK? 00:24:58.43\00:25:00.63 OR DO YOU WANT A MINISTER WHO'S GOING TO TAKE YOU TO HELL 00:25:00.63\00:25:03.50 WITH HIMSELF? 00:25:03.50\00:25:06.03 SO, NUMBER TWO, WE HAVE THE COLLAPSE, THE COLLAPSE OF 00:25:06.03\00:25:17.23 MORALITY, WHERE ANYTHING GOES. 00:25:17.23\00:25:22.70 ONCE UPON A TIME, EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD, EVERY POLITICIAN, 00:25:22.70\00:25:28.16 EVERY CLERGYMAN WOULD BE SAYING WHAT I'M SAYING HERE TODAY. 00:25:28.16\00:25:31.96 WE HAVE NOT CHANGED. 00:25:31.96\00:25:33.93 THEY HAVE. 00:25:33.93\00:25:37.13 BUT THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS. 00:25:37.13\00:25:40.70 GAY MARRIAGE AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS TELL US MARANATHA. 00:25:40.70\00:25:46.36 JESUS IS COMING. 00:25:46.36\00:25:49.50 NUMBER THREE, GET READY FOR THIS, MY FRIEND. 00:25:49.50\00:25:52.56 GET READY FOR THIS. 00:25:52.56\00:25:53.76 THE SLEEPING CHURCH. 00:25:53.76\00:25:56.20 COME OVER HERE TO MATTHEW 25:1-6. 00:25:56.20\00:26:00.86 MATTHEW 25:1-6, DEAR HEARTS AND GENTLE PEOPLE. 00:26:00.86\00:26:08.90 "AT THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE TEN VIRGINS 00:26:08.90\00:26:12.06 WHO TOOK THEIR LAMPS AND WENT OUT TO MEET THE BRIDEGROOM." 00:26:12.06\00:26:15.33 THAT'S THE CHURCH. 00:26:15.33\00:26:16.66 THE BRIDEGROOM IS JESUS. 00:26:16.66\00:26:18.83 "FIVE OF THEM WERE FOOLISH AND FIVE WERE WISE. 00:26:18.83\00:26:22.56 THE FOOLISH ONES TOOK THEIR LAMPS BUT DID NOT TAKE 00:26:22.56\00:26:25.23 ANY OIL WITH THEM. 00:26:25.23\00:26:27.43 THE WISE, HOWEVER, TOOK OIL IN JARS ALONG WITH THEIR LAMPS. 00:26:27.43\00:26:31.90 THE BRIDEGROOM WAS A LONG TIME IN COMING," IS HE NOT? 00:26:31.90\00:26:36.86 "AND THEY ALL BECAME DROWSY AND FELL ASLEEP. 00:26:36.86\00:26:42.86 AT MIDNIGHT THE CRY RANG OUT, 'HERE'S THE BRIDEGROOM! 00:26:42.86\00:26:46.96 COME OUT TO MEET HIM!'" TODAY, LISTEN TO ME, 00:26:46.96\00:26:53.50 MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD, TODAY 00:26:53.50\00:26:58.66 THERE SEEMS TO BE, AT LEAST IN THE WESTERN WORLD, 00:26:58.66\00:27:03.43 A PARALYSIS IN THE CHURCH. 00:27:03.43\00:27:07.46 THERE SEEMS TO BE AN INDIFFERENCE TO GOD AND THE 00:27:07.46\00:27:12.56 PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL. 00:27:12.56\00:27:15.36 AND THIS IS SHOWN BY THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO CALL 00:27:15.36\00:27:20.20 THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS. 00:27:20.20\00:27:22.96 AND WE SHALL CALL THIS-- THIS POINT A SLEEPING-- 00:27:22.96\00:27:30.53 A SLEEPING CHURCH. 00:27:30.53\00:27:35.23 NOW YOU CAN SEE, MY FRIEND, BY THE INDIFFERENCE TO EVANGELISM 00:27:35.23\00:27:40.03 AND THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE VAST NUMBERS OF 00:27:40.03\00:27:44.93 CHRISTIANS HERE IN NORTH AMERICA AND IN AUSTRALIA. 00:27:44.93\00:27:51.53 IT IS A SIGN OF THE TIMES. 00:27:51.53\00:27:56.93 AND IT MUST REALLY AND TRULY-- IT MUST AMAZE THE ANGELS. 00:27:56.93\00:28:05.20 NOW I KNOW MANY OF MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS ARE ALARMED 00:28:05.20\00:28:09.00 AT THE SPREAD OF ISLAM. 00:28:09.00\00:28:11.90 THEY SAY, "WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP IT?" 00:28:11.90\00:28:15.63 AND SOME SAY, "WELL, WE WILL STOP THEM BUILDING MOSQUES." 00:28:15.63\00:28:20.86 HAVE YOU NEVER READ THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION? 00:28:20.86\00:28:26.86 DO YOU WANT TO GO DOWN THE ROAD OF INTOLERANCE IN BLINDNESS? 00:28:26.86\00:28:34.70 IF YOU WANT TO BUILD THE CHURCH, THEN PREACH THE GOSPEL 00:28:34.70\00:28:39.73 AND DO EVANGELISM. 00:28:39.73\00:28:43.96 GREAT BRITAIN, WHICH SAW THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE GREAT 00:28:43.96\00:28:48.76 PROTESTANT REFORMATION, RULED BRITANNIA. 00:28:48.76\00:28:52.13 BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES. 00:28:52.13\00:28:56.03 LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY. 00:28:56.03\00:28:59.96 COME NOW. 00:28:59.96\00:29:02.16 THERE ARE FAR MORE MOSLEMS WHO GO TO MOSQUE ON FRIDAYS IN 00:29:02.16\00:29:06.40 GREAT BRITAIN THAN CHRISTIANS WHO GO TO CHURCH. 00:29:06.40\00:29:10.20 DON'T BLAME THE MOSLEMS. 00:29:10.20\00:29:12.66 BLAME A SLEEPING CHURCH BECAUSE APPARENTLY THE MUSLIMS BELIEVE 00:29:12.66\00:29:18.36 MORE IN WHAT THEY BELIEVE THAN THE CHRISTIANS BELIEVE 00:29:18.36\00:29:21.76 IN WHAT THEY BELIEVE. 00:29:21.76\00:29:26.70 AND SO THE SIGN OF A SLEEPING CHURCH, IT IS BAD NEWS. 00:29:26.70\00:29:32.13 BUT THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING. 00:29:32.13\00:29:37.70 IT IS A GREAT SIGN OF THE TIMES. 00:29:37.70\00:29:42.33 AND I'M GOING TO TAKE IT EVEN FURTHER. 00:29:42.33\00:29:44.40 WHO KNOWS HOW LONG I WILL PREACH HERE? 00:29:44.40\00:29:46.70 WHEN MANY OF YOU FOLKS TAKE YOUR RELIGION SO CASUALLY, SO 00:29:46.70\00:29:51.66 SLACKLY, YOU ARE A FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE PROPHECY BECAUSE IT 00:29:51.66\00:29:58.03 SHOWS THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE SLEEPING, FOOLISH VIRGINS. 00:29:58.03\00:30:05.03 BAD NEWS, BUT JESUS IS COMING. 00:30:05.03\00:30:09.56 POINT NUMBER FOUR, THE FOURTH GREAT SIGN, THE CORRUPTION 00:30:09.56\00:30:15.13 OF CHRISTIANITY. 00:30:15.13\00:30:16.66 I'M GOING TO RUN OUT OF BLACKBOARD, BUT THAT 00:30:16.66\00:30:18.93 DOESN'T MATTER. 00:30:18.93\00:30:20.20 NUMBER FOUR, THE CORRUPTION, THE CORRUPTION OF CHRISTIANITY. 00:30:20.20\00:30:32.20 WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT? 00:30:32.20\00:30:33.63 THE BIBLE SAYS THIS. 00:30:33.63\00:30:35.10 NOW IF I WERE USING MY FAVORITE TRANSLATION, WHICH IS CLOSE TO 00:30:35.10\00:30:39.80 MY HEART, THE OLD KING JAMES VERSION, IT TALKS ABOUT 00:30:39.80\00:30:43.66 THE GREAT FALLING AWAY. 00:30:43.66\00:30:45.56 COME OVER HERE TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3. 00:30:45.56\00:30:50.66 BUT IT DOESN'T SAY IT QUITE LIKE THIS IN THE NIV. 00:30:50.66\00:30:55.06 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3, "DON'T LET ANYONE DECEIVE YOU IN ANY WAY, 00:30:55.06\00:31:04.56 FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME UNTIL THE REBELLION OCCURS AND THE MAN 00:31:04.56\00:31:09.10 OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED, THE MAN DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION." 00:31:09.10\00:31:13.13 IN THE KING JAMES VERSION, IT SAYS WITH GREATER ELOQUENCE, IT 00:31:13.13\00:31:18.46 SAYS, "THAT DAY WILL NOT COME EXCEPT THERE IS A FALLING AWAY." 00:31:18.46\00:31:26.93 AND IN TIMOTHY, IT TALKS ABOUT PERILOUS TIMES COMING 00:31:26.93\00:31:31.50 AND IT TALKS ABOUT IT BEING IN THE CHURCH, A CORRUPTION IN 00:31:31.50\00:31:37.43 THE VERY HEART OF THE CHURCH. 00:31:37.43\00:31:41.93 I'M GOING TO MENTION BRIEFLY THE PLAGUE OF PEDOPHILES. 00:31:41.93\00:31:48.66 IRELAND, THOUSANDS, THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS, 00:31:48.66\00:31:55.33 THOUSANDS OF PEDOPHILES IN THE CHURCH. 00:31:55.33\00:31:58.83 ENGLAND, GERMANY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COVERED UP BY 00:31:58.83\00:32:03.90 THE CHURCH, BY THE HIERARCHY. 00:32:03.90\00:32:07.46 ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL DISGRACES, THERE IS NO SIN 00:32:07.46\00:32:14.10 AS BAD, I THINK. 00:32:14.10\00:32:17.50 YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:32:17.50\00:32:20.16 YOU'RE VERY QUIET. 00:32:20.16\00:32:22.36 I CANNOT THINK OF ANY SIN WORSE THAN THE SIN COMMITTED BY A 00:32:22.36\00:32:28.63 SEXUAL PREDATOR AGAINST A CHILD. 00:32:28.63\00:32:32.63 WATCH OUT, HELL IS COMING FOR YOU UNLESS YOU REPENT AND 00:32:32.63\00:32:38.66 CONFESS AND MAKE RESTITUTION. 00:32:38.66\00:32:42.50 THIS AWFUL PLAGUE IN CHRISTIANITY, THE CORRUPTION OF 00:32:42.50\00:32:48.23 CHRISTIANITY, IT IS BAD NEWS, BUT IT IS GOOD NEWS BECAUSE 00:32:48.23\00:32:53.10 OF MARANATHA. 00:32:53.10\00:32:55.13 JESUS IS COMING. 00:32:55.13\00:32:59.40 AND JESUS IS COMING TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE AND WILL JUDGE 00:32:59.40\00:33:03.33 THE EVILDOERS. 00:33:03.33\00:33:05.96 THE FIFTH GREAT SIGN, THE ENDURING PAPACY. 00:33:05.96\00:33:11.66 THE ENDURING PAPACY. 00:33:11.66\00:33:12.83 WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THAT CHURCH, SHE KEEPS GOING. 00:33:12.83\00:33:15.90 COME OVER HERE TO DANIEL 7:8 & 11. 00:33:15.90\00:33:19.56 DANIEL 7:8 & 11. 00:33:19.56\00:33:25.33 "WHILE I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE HORNS, THERE BEFORE ME WAS 00:33:25.33\00:33:27.90 ANOTHER HORN, A LITTLE ONE, WHICH CAME UP AMONG THEM; 00:33:27.90\00:33:31.13 AND THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE UPROOTED BEFORE IT. 00:33:31.13\00:33:33.80 THIS HORN HAD EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN AND A MOUTH 00:33:33.80\00:33:38.06 THAT SPOKE BOASTFULLY." 00:33:38.06\00:33:39.90 LISTEN TO ME, MY PROTESTANT FRIENDS. 00:33:39.90\00:33:43.60 EVERY PROTESTANT CHURCH, EVERYONE, THE LUTHERANS, THE 00:33:43.60\00:33:48.93 BAPTISTS, THE PRESBYTERIANS, THE ANGLICANS ALL TAUGHT THAT 00:33:48.93\00:33:53.40 LITTLE HORN WAS THE PAPACY. 00:33:53.40\00:33:56.03 YOU CAN DISAGREE WITH ME, ARGUE WITH ME, BUT YOU'RE GOING 00:33:56.03\00:33:58.80 AGAINST THE BIBLE AND YOU'RE GOING AGAINST YOUR OWN CHURCH. 00:33:58.80\00:34:02.30 NOW COME DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER. 00:34:02.30\00:34:04.00 WHAT YOUR CHURCH USED TO BE, AT LEAST. 00:34:04.00\00:34:06.43 VERSE 11, "THEN I CONTINUED TO WATCH BECAUSE OF THE BOASTFUL 00:34:06.43\00:34:10.23 WORDS THE HORN WAS SPEAKING. 00:34:10.23\00:34:12.86 I KEPT LOOKING UNTIL THE BEAST WAS SLAIN AND ITS BODY 00:34:12.86\00:34:17.00 DESTROYED AND THROWN INTO THE BLAZING FIRE." 00:34:17.00\00:34:22.90 THIS IS AMAZING. 00:34:22.90\00:34:24.86 EVERY OTHER POWER RUNS ITS COURSE AND GOES DOWN, 00:34:24.86\00:34:32.20 BUT NOT THIS POWER. 00:34:32.20\00:34:34.16 SHE WITH THE HELP OF PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNMENTS AND BISHOPS 00:34:34.16\00:34:43.26 AND PROTESTANTS CONTINUES ON IN SPITE OF PEDOPHILIA 00:34:43.26\00:34:48.66 AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 00:34:48.66\00:34:49.93 DESPITE REPEATED BLOWS TO THE TRUNK OF THE TREE, 00:34:49.93\00:34:54.30 SHE ENDURES. 00:34:54.30\00:34:58.53 IT'S BAD NEWS. 00:34:58.53\00:35:01.46 BUT THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING. 00:35:01.46\00:35:08.73 THE SIXTH GREAT SIGN, THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD. 00:35:08.73\00:35:11.43 COME WITH ME TO MATTHEW 24:12-14. 00:35:11.43\00:35:15.73 MATTHEW 24:12-14. 00:35:15.73\00:35:21.00 MATTHEW 24:12 AND ONWARDS, "BECAUSE OF THE INCREASE 00:35:21.00\00:35:25.46 OF WICKEDNESS, THE LOVE OF MOST WILL GROW COLD." 00:35:25.46\00:35:28.63 DON'T THINK THE CHURCH IS GOING TO GET BETTER. 00:35:28.63\00:35:30.60 THE BIBLE SAYS, "THE LOVE OF MOST WILL GROW COLD, BUT HE 00:35:30.60\00:35:33.33 WHO STANDS FIRM TO THE END WILL BE SAVED. 00:35:33.33\00:35:36.03 AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE 00:35:36.03\00:35:38.30 WORLD AS A TESTIMONY TO ALL NATIONS, AND THEN THE END 00:35:38.30\00:35:43.76 WILL COME." 00:35:43.76\00:35:45.90 LISTEN TO ME. 00:35:45.90\00:35:46.56 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE INCREASE OF WICKEDNESS IN 00:35:46.56\00:35:49.70 THE WORLD AND IN THE CHURCH. 00:35:49.70\00:35:52.10 THE BIBLE MAKES THE ASTOUNDING REMARK THAT THE LOVE OF MOST 00:35:52.10\00:35:56.30 PEOPLE WILL GROW COLD. 00:35:56.30\00:35:57.96 THAT IS, LOVE OF MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE CHURCH TODAY 00:35:57.96\00:36:01.66 WILL GROW COLD. 00:36:01.66\00:36:03.60 BUT THE BIBLE SAYS IN SPITE OF THIS, IN SPITE OF THE 00:36:03.60\00:36:06.93 LUKEWARMNESS OF THE CHURCH, IN SPITE OF PREVAILING APOSTASY, 00:36:06.93\00:36:11.10 THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO BE PREACHED ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 00:36:11.10\00:36:15.80 MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY. 00:36:15.80\00:36:17.73 I'VE SEEN THINGS THAT FEW PEOPLE HAVE SEEN. 00:36:17.73\00:36:20.63 I'VE SEEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE COME TO CHRIST. 00:36:20.63\00:36:25.26 I CAN'T TELL YOU NOW THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE 00:36:25.26\00:36:28.73 THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL IS ONLY GOOD NEWS. 00:36:28.73\00:36:32.63 AND THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED 00:36:32.63\00:36:35.23 IN ALL THE WORLD. 00:36:35.23\00:36:36.26 LISTEN TO WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY. 00:36:36.26\00:36:38.06 WHILE I AM FULLY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT THAT THE CITY 00:36:38.06\00:36:41.50 OF LOS ANGELES IS ONE OF THE MOST WICKED CITIES 00:36:41.50\00:36:44.30 IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT ANY QUESTION--DID YOU 00:36:44.30\00:36:48.83 KNOW OUR CHURCH THIS WEEK WAS EVEN TAGGED BY A GANG? 00:36:48.83\00:36:53.60 OUR OWN CHURCH. 00:36:53.60\00:36:55.43 THIS IS A CITY THAT HAS 100,000 GANG MEMBERS. 00:36:55.43\00:37:02.26 BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW OUT OF LOS ANGELES, GOD IS GOING 00:37:02.26\00:37:05.06 TO BRING A MULTITUDE OF SAINTS. 00:37:05.06\00:37:08.63 SO THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL, LET'S PUT IT IN SOMEWHERE. 00:37:08.63\00:37:12.33 THE BIBLE SAYS THE GOSPEL, THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO BE PREACHED 00:37:12.33\00:37:17.30 IN ALL THE WORLD. 00:37:17.30\00:37:19.13 I WANT TO SAY TO YOU TODAY, HOW ARE YOU SPENDING YOUR MONEY? 00:37:19.13\00:37:26.90 I KNOW PEOPLE SAY TO ME, "WELL, WE GOT LOTS OF MONEY 00:37:27.83\00:37:30.20 FOR TRIPS OVERSEAS. 00:37:30.20\00:37:32.70 WE GOT LOTS OF MONEY TO GO TO BIG MALLS. 00:37:32.70\00:37:35.70 WE GOT NO MONEY FOR JESUS." 00:37:35.70\00:37:39.66 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO BE PREACHED. 00:37:39.66\00:37:43.20 MAYBE YOU WON'T BE PART OF IT. 00:37:43.20\00:37:45.16 MAYBE YOU'RE GONNA FALL OUT. 00:37:45.16\00:37:47.46 MAYBE YOU'RE GONNA BE LOST. 00:37:47.46\00:37:49.83 BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THE GOOD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS, THAT 00:37:49.83\00:37:53.66 THE GOSPEL IS GONNA BE PREACHED AND THE END IS GOING TO COME. 00:37:53.66\00:37:57.80 SIGN NUMBER SEVEN, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. 00:37:57.80\00:38:01.03 COME OVER HERE TO REVELATION 11:18. 00:38:01.03\00:38:03.93 REVELATION 11:18. 00:38:03.93\00:38:07.06 SO WHEN I SEE THESE TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, 00:38:07.06\00:38:09.60 I SAY, "HALLELUJAH, PRAISE THE LORD, MARANATHA." 00:38:09.60\00:38:13.73 REVELATION 11:18. 00:38:13.73\00:38:17.36 THE BIBLE SAYS, THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY; AND YOUR WRATH HAS COME. 00:38:17.36\00:38:23.03 THE TIME HAS COME FOR JUDGING THE DEAD, AND FOR REWARDING YOUR 00:38:23.03\00:38:25.96 SERVANTS THE PROPHETS AND YOUR SAINTS AND THOSE WHO REVERENCE 00:38:25.96\00:38:29.23 YOUR NAME, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, AND FOR DESTROYING THOSE 00:38:29.23\00:38:33.13 WHO DESTROY THE EARTH." 00:38:33.13\00:38:35.96 PLEASE LOOK AT ME. 00:38:35.96\00:38:40.56 I THINK DICK CHENEY WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID, 00:38:40.56\00:38:45.03 "IT'S NOT A CASE OF IF. 00:38:45.03\00:38:47.23 IT'S A CASE OF WHEN." 00:38:47.23\00:38:49.43 IT'S GONNA COME TO NORTH AMERICA. 00:38:49.43\00:38:53.33 GOD IS GOING TO SHAKE THE CHURCH. 00:38:53.33\00:38:56.93 WE HAD A PROPHET IN OUR CHURCH. 00:38:56.93\00:38:58.16 HER NAME WAS ELLEN WHITE. 00:38:58.16\00:39:00.43 SHE SAID, "WE'LL STAND FOR THE TRUTH WHEN THE MAJORITY 00:39:00.43\00:39:03.50 OF OUR BRETHREN FORSAKE US." 00:39:03.50\00:39:04.96 THAT MEANS THE MAJORITY ARE GONNA LEAVE THE CHURCH. 00:39:04.96\00:39:08.43 BUT THEN GOD IS GOING TO BRING IN THE GREAT MULTITUDE. 00:39:08.43\00:39:11.70 I WANT YOU TO THINK TODAY OF NORTH KOREA. 00:39:11.70\00:39:15.73 I WANT YOU TO THINK OF IRAN. 00:39:15.73\00:39:18.50 I WANT YOU TO THINK OF PAKISTAN, A HAVEN FOR THE TERRORISTS. 00:39:18.50\00:39:24.53 I WANT YOU TO THINK OF A VAST NATION LIKE INDIA, ARMING TO THE 00:39:24.53\00:39:28.60 TEETH WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. 00:39:28.60\00:39:30.70 I WANT YOU TO THINK OF CHINA, THAT DOESN'T BELIEVE IN THE 00:39:30.70\00:39:33.76 FREEDOMS THAT WE HAVE, DOESN'T HAVE THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS 00:39:33.76\00:39:37.93 THAT WE HAVE OR THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUT A NATION WHICH IS 00:39:37.93\00:39:41.40 COMING ON SO FAST, ARMED TO THE TEETH WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. 00:39:41.40\00:39:47.93 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT ONE DAY THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH ARE 00:39:47.93\00:39:52.83 GOING TO LET THESE THINGS OFF. 00:39:52.83\00:39:56.53 AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT JESUS IS GOING TO COME IN THE MIDST 00:39:56.53\00:40:00.76 OF MEN TRYING TO DESTROY THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH. 00:40:00.76\00:40:05.40 WHEN I LOOK AT THE NEWS AND I SEE NORTH KOREA AND SOME 00:40:05.40\00:40:09.30 OF THESE CRAZY PEOPLE, I SAY, "MARANATHA. 00:40:09.30\00:40:12.93 THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING." 00:40:12.93\00:40:17.50 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THE NEXT SIGN. 00:40:17.50\00:40:19.60 HERE IT IS, HERE IT IS. 00:40:19.60\00:40:21.16 NUMBER EIGHT, HERE IT IS, THE BREAKDOWN OF CIVILITY 00:40:21.16\00:40:24.33 AND EVENTUALLY ALL OF SOCIETY. 00:40:24.33\00:40:26.73 MATTHEW 24. 00:40:26.73\00:40:27.86 NOW GET YOUR BIBLES. 00:40:27.86\00:40:29.16 YOU FOLKS SITTING DOWN THE BACK, OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES. 00:40:29.16\00:40:32.00 START TO LISTEN WHILE YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY. 00:40:32.00\00:40:34.53 MATTHEW 24. 00:40:34.53\00:40:36.43 BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO COME LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT FOR YOU 00:40:36.43\00:40:39.13 AND FOR ME. 00:40:39.13\00:40:40.33 MATTHEW 24:10-12, "AT THAT TIME MANY WILL TURN AWAY FROM THE 00:40:40.33\00:40:46.73 FAITH AND WILL BETRAY AND HATE EACH OTHER, AND MANY 00:40:46.73\00:40:49.83 FALSE PROPHETS WILL APPEAR AND DECEIVE MANY PEOPLE. 00:40:49.83\00:40:52.46 BECAUSE OF THE INCREASE OF WICKEDNESS, THE LOVE OF MOST, 00:40:52.46\00:40:55.63 THE LOVE OF MOST PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH, IS GOING TO GROW COLD." 00:40:55.63\00:40:58.96 AND THEN VERSE 28 SAYS-- NOW THIS IS THE TEXT. 00:40:58.96\00:41:01.96 WE OFTEN PASS BY THIS TEXT BECAUSE MANY OF US SAY 00:41:01.96\00:41:04.46 WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT. 00:41:04.46\00:41:05.66 JESUS SAID, "WHEREVER THERE IS A CARCASS, THERE THE VULTURES 00:41:05.66\00:41:12.13 WILL GATHER." 00:41:12.13\00:41:13.36 I WONDER WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 00:41:13.36\00:41:16.36 JESUS SAID IT'S GONNA GET SO BAD AT THE END OF TIME--RUN OUT 00:41:16.36\00:41:21.66 OF BLACKBOARD TO PUT UP THESE SIGNS. 00:41:21.66\00:41:24.53 BUT IF WE WERE PUTTING UP SIGNS, WE'D CERTAINLY PUT THIS ONE. 00:41:24.53\00:41:28.56 THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION. 00:41:28.56\00:41:33.46 JESUS SAID--YOU FOLKS LOOKING IN YOUR BIBLES OR ARE YOU 00:41:33.46\00:41:36.83 JUST GAZING AT ME? 00:41:36.83\00:41:39.76 JESUS SAID, "THE WORLD BECOMES LIKE A ROTTING CARCASS," 00:41:39.76\00:41:46.70 BECOMES LIKE A CORPSE. 00:41:46.70\00:41:50.13 AND IT'S ROTTING AND THE BIRDS ARE GETTING AROUND. 00:41:50.13\00:41:56.06 JESUS SAID THE WORLD BECOMES THE ROTTING CARCASS. 00:41:56.06\00:42:03.93 I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE LIVING IN THE TIMES OF THE FULFILLMENT 00:42:03.93\00:42:10.60 OF THESE PROPHECIES. 00:42:10.60\00:42:13.10 KARL BARTH QUOTES SOME OBSCURE THEOLOGIAN, WHO SAID, 00:42:13.10\00:42:17.13 "WHEN THE HOLY DAY BECOMES THE DAY OF MAN, 00:42:17.13\00:42:20.70 SOCIETY AND HUMANITY WITHER AWAY AND THE DEMONS RULE." 00:42:20.70\00:42:26.70 WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS THIS. 00:42:26.70\00:42:29.00 WHEN THE SABBATH GOES, EVERYTHING GOES. 00:42:29.00\00:42:32.90 IN NORTH AMERICA, THE SABBATH'S GONE. 00:42:32.90\00:42:35.60 I ASK YOU THE QUESTION, WERE THE CHURCHES BETTER WHEN THEY 00:42:35.60\00:42:39.16 PROPERLY KEPT SUNDAY, THINKING IT WAS THE SABBATH, 00:42:39.16\00:42:42.43 THAN THE CHURCHES TODAY? 00:42:42.43\00:42:44.56 YOU KNOW WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE LIKE TODAY, MOST OF THEM. 00:42:44.56\00:42:48.33 YOU GO TO CHURCH, YOU GET THERE LATE, YOU DON'T READ YOUR BIBLE, 00:42:48.33\00:42:52.33 YOU GET THERE LATE, YOU SUFFER FOR AN HOUR, AND THEN THE 00:42:52.33\00:42:56.66 AFTERNOON YOU JOIN THE PASTOR AND YOU GO AND PLAY GOLF. 00:42:56.66\00:43:01.86 THAT'S THE SABBATH. 00:43:01.86\00:43:03.86 OR ON THE SABBATH--IF THEY THINK IT'S THE SABBATH AND WE KNOW 00:43:03.86\00:43:07.80 SUNDAY'S NOT THE SABBATH, THE MALLS ARE FULL. 00:43:07.80\00:43:12.73 AND SO, WHEN THE SABBATH GOES, I WANT TO TELL YOU FOLKS 00:43:12.73\00:43:15.70 SOMETHING. 00:43:15.70\00:43:16.66 WHEN THE SABBATH GOES, AS IT HAS GONE IN NORTH AMERICA 00:43:16.66\00:43:19.40 AND IN AUSTRALIA, HUMANITY AND SOCIETY WITHER AWAY. 00:43:19.40\00:43:26.40 WHEN THE SABBATH WENT, THERE CAME A SPIRIT OF LYING, 00:43:26.40\00:43:30.23 FRAUD, DISHONESTY. 00:43:30.23\00:43:32.16 YOU KNOW IT'S SO. 00:43:32.16\00:43:33.73 PEOPLE SAY TO ME, "WHOM CAN WE TRUST? 00:43:33.73\00:43:37.13 CAN WE TRUST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS?" 00:43:37.13\00:43:39.46 THEY SAY. 00:43:39.46\00:43:40.43 "CAN WE TRUST THE BANKS? 00:43:40.43\00:43:41.53 CAN WE TRUST WALL STREET? 00:43:41.53\00:43:43.56 WHOM CAN WE TRUST?" 00:43:43.56\00:43:49.23 SOCIETY IS BECOMING A ROTTEN CARCASS. 00:43:49.23\00:43:52.83 DON'T BECOME PART OF IT. 00:43:52.83\00:43:56.30 DID YOU KNOW WHEN WE WANTED TO TRY TO GET AN ACCOUNTANT TO LOOK 00:43:56.30\00:44:00.23 AFTER OUR BOOKS, WE INTERVIEWED 35 PEOPLE AND 35 OUT OF 35 WERE 00:44:00.23\00:44:09.20 LIARS AND CHEATS AND FRAUDS? 00:44:09.20\00:44:12.26 THAT'S HERE IN LOS ANGELES. 00:44:12.26\00:44:14.30 THIRTY FIVE ALL LIED ON THEIR RESUMES AND IN THE END 00:44:14.30\00:44:18.70 THEY SAID, "YEAH, BUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH LYING?" 00:44:18.70\00:44:25.33 DON'T BECOME PART OF IT BECAUSE THIS SOCIETY IS RIPE 00:44:26.60\00:44:31.93 FOR JUDGMENT. 00:44:31.93\00:44:33.40 THE BAD NEWS, HOWEVER, IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE MARANATHA. 00:44:33.40\00:44:39.76 JESUS IS COMING. 00:44:39.76\00:44:42.70 WHAT WOULD WILBERFORCE SAY TODAY? 00:44:42.70\00:44:45.50 WILBERFORCE. 00:44:45.50\00:44:47.93 WILBERFORCE, THIS GREAT, WONDERFUL ENGLISHMAN WHO FOUGHT 00:44:47.93\00:44:54.06 TO ABOLISH THE SLAVE TRAFFIC. 00:44:54.06\00:44:56.43 TODAY THERE ARE MORE SLAVES THAN EVER BEFORE, 27 MILLION OF THEM. 00:44:56.43\00:45:04.43 AND THE AVERAGE PRICE OF A SLAVE IS $90. 00:45:04.43\00:45:10.36 GET READY FOR THIS. 00:45:10.36\00:45:13.40 THERE ARE UP TO 300,000 SLAVES IN AMERICA, THE UNITED STATES 00:45:13.40\00:45:22.83 OF AMERICA. 00:45:22.83\00:45:24.53 LITTLE CHILDREN FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION. 00:45:24.53\00:45:33.23 BAD NEWS, BUT THE BAD NEWS TELLS ME MARANATHA. 00:45:33.23\00:45:40.26 JESUS IS COMING. 00:45:40.26\00:45:41.70 TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS. 00:45:41.70\00:45:43.26 DON'T LAUGH ABOUT IT. 00:45:43.26\00:45:44.60 TAKE IT SERIOUSLY BECAUSE JUDGMENT IS COMING FOR YOU 00:45:44.60\00:45:49.40 AND FOR ME. 00:45:49.40\00:45:52.06 THE ROTTING CARCASS. 00:45:52.06\00:45:53.16 NUMBER NINE, SIGN NUMBER NINE, NATURAL DISASTERS. 00:45:53.16\00:45:57.20 COME TO LUKE 21. 00:45:57.20\00:45:58.50 MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE. 00:45:58.50\00:45:59.76 LUKE 21. 00:45:59.76\00:46:00.93 LUKE CHAPTER 1--21:25-27. 00:46:00.93\00:46:03.63 SOME FOLKS HAVE SAID TO ME--SOME FOLKS HAVE ACTUALLY COME TO ME 00:46:03.63\00:46:07.53 AND THEY'VE SAID, "STOP PREACHING THE WAY YOU PREACH. 00:46:07.53\00:46:11.93 TELL US LOTS OF JOKES." 00:46:11.93\00:46:16.80 CAN I TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING? 00:46:18.06\00:46:19.56 THE JOKERS ARE GONNA BURN IN THE FIRE JUST AS MUCH 00:46:19.56\00:46:25.40 AS THE PEDOPHILES. 00:46:25.40\00:46:28.16 THE LORD IS COMING. 00:46:28.16\00:46:29.76 AND REMEMBER SIGN NUMBER THREE, A SLEEPING CHURCH. 00:46:29.76\00:46:34.83 I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING AS THE PASTOR OF THIS CHURCH. 00:46:34.83\00:46:38.46 THIS CHURCH IS A SLEEPING CHURCH. 00:46:38.46\00:46:42.36 THIS CHURCH IS A SLEEPING CHURCH. 00:46:42.36\00:46:48.96 A REGULAR, ORTHODOX, SLEEPING CHURCH. 00:46:48.96\00:46:54.56 MARANATHA. 00:46:54.56\00:46:56.56 NATURAL DISASTERS, LUKE 21:25-27. 00:46:56.56\00:47:00.46 YOU DON'T LIKE HEARING THAT? 00:47:00.46\00:47:01.56 IT'S THE TRUTH. 00:47:01.56\00:47:03.16 "THERE WILL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE STARS. 00:47:03.16\00:47:05.76 ON THE EARTH, NATIONS WILL BE IN ANGUISH AND PERPLEXITY AT THE 00:47:05.76\00:47:08.86 ROARING AND TOSSING OF THE SEA. 00:47:08.86\00:47:13.16 MEN WILL FAINT FROM TERROR, APPREHENSIVE OF WHAT IS COMING 00:47:13.16\00:47:16.23 ON THE WORLD, FOR THE HEAVENLY BODIES WILL BE SHAKEN. 00:47:16.23\00:47:18.80 AT THAT TIME THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD 00:47:18.80\00:47:21.83 WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY," MARANATHA. 00:47:21.83\00:47:26.30 "WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO TAKE PLACE, STAND UP AND LIFT UP YOUR 00:47:26.30\00:47:28.76 HEADS, BECAUSE YOUR REDEMPTION IS DRAWING NEAR." 00:47:28.76\00:47:31.36 YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT YELLOWSTONE. 00:47:31.36\00:47:32.66 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HAS DONE RESEARCH IN IT. 00:47:32.66\00:47:35.30 IT'S GETTING READY TO BLOW. 00:47:35.30\00:47:36.70 WHEN IT BLOWS, IT'LL BE THE END OF MOST OF THE UNITED STATES 00:47:36.70\00:47:41.56 OF AMERICA. 00:47:41.56\00:47:43.90 GOD WILL PUNISH US BECAUSE OF OUR SINS. 00:47:43.90\00:47:50.60 DO I BELIEVE THAT? 00:47:50.60\00:47:51.66 YES. 00:47:51.66\00:47:52.66 TIDAL WAVES, STORMS. 00:47:52.66\00:47:54.40 WE'RE GONNA SEE IT MORE AND MORE. 00:47:54.40\00:47:57.03 IT IS GOING TO BE BAD NEWS FOR THE LOST, BUT GOOD NEWS 00:47:57.03\00:48:01.10 FOR THE CHILD OF GOD. 00:48:01.10\00:48:02.63 GOOD NEWS. 00:48:02.63\00:48:03.90 THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING. 00:48:03.90\00:48:08.26 AND SIGN NUMBER TEN, PERSECUTION. 00:48:08.26\00:48:11.16 MATTHEW 24:9-10. 00:48:11.16\00:48:13.70 PERSECUTION. 00:48:13.70\00:48:15.16 MATTHEW 24:9-10. 00:48:15.16\00:48:20.13 MATTHEW 24:9-10, SIGN NUMBER TEN, "THEN YOU WILL BE HANDED 00:48:20.13\00:48:28.76 OVER TO BE PERSECUTED AND PUT TO DEATH. 00:48:28.76\00:48:31.23 YOU'LL BE HATED BY ALL THE NATIONS BECAUSE OF ME. 00:48:31.23\00:48:34.03 AT THAT TIME MANY WILL TURN AWAY FROM THE FAITH AND WILL BETRAY 00:48:34.03\00:48:37.33 AND HATE EACH OTHER." 00:48:37.33\00:48:38.63 THIS IS IN THE CHURCH. 00:48:38.63\00:48:39.83 "AND MANY FALSE PROPHETS WILL APPEAR AND DECEIVE MANY PEOPLE. 00:48:39.83\00:48:42.93 BECAUSE OF THE INCREASE OF WICKEDNESS, THE LOVE OF MOST 00:48:42.93\00:48:45.53 WILL GROW COLD, BUT HE WHO STANDS FIRM TO THE END 00:48:45.53\00:48:48.46 WILL BE SAVED. 00:48:48.46\00:48:49.46 AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE 00:48:49.46\00:48:52.13 WORLD AS A TESTIMONY." 00:48:52.13\00:48:54.76 DID YOU KNOW THIS? 00:48:54.76\00:48:57.13 THE 20TH CENTURY SAW MORE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS THAN ANY 00:48:57.13\00:49:02.13 OTHER SIMILAR TIME PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY. 00:49:02.13\00:49:07.80 IN THE SUDAN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, 1,000 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES 00:49:07.80\00:49:15.03 HAVE BEEN BURNED BY MOSLEM EXTREMISTS. 00:49:15.03\00:49:19.56 A THOUSAND CHURCHES, WHY DON'T YOU HEAR ABOUT IT? 00:49:19.56\00:49:25.20 IN THE USA, CHRISTIANS ARE BEING PERSECUTED BECAUSE 00:49:25.20\00:49:28.76 OF THEIR BELIEFS. 00:49:28.76\00:49:30.26 IN ONE CITY, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HAD AN ADOPTION AGENCY. 00:49:30.26\00:49:35.10 AND BECAUSE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN GAY MARRIAGE, THEY WERE 00:49:35.10\00:49:40.23 FORCED TO CLOSE BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 00:49:40.23\00:49:47.00 CHRISTIANS WILL BE PERSECUTED MORE AND MORE AND THE DAY 00:49:47.00\00:49:53.10 WILL COME WHEN THIS SERMON WILL BE FORBIDDEN IN AMERICA. 00:49:53.10\00:50:00.03 SIGN NUMBER TEN, PERSECUTION. 00:50:00.03\00:50:04.53 AND PERSECUTION IS BAD NEWS, BUT FOR US IT IS GOOD NEWS 00:50:04.53\00:50:09.63 BECAUSE OF MARANATHA. 00:50:09.63\00:50:11.63 JESUS IS COMING. 00:50:11.63\00:50:14.63 NOW LISTEN TO ME. 00:50:14.63\00:50:16.43 HE'S COMING IN JUDGMENT. 00:50:16.43\00:50:18.76 WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO TURN TO THE TEXT. 00:50:18.76\00:50:20.76 MY SERMONS ALWAYS HAVE TOO MUCH IN THEM. 00:50:20.76\00:50:22.76 BUT HE'S COMING IN JUDGMENT. 00:50:22.76\00:50:23.90 HE'S COMING IN FIRE. 00:50:23.90\00:50:25.50 HE'S COMING WITH BRIMSTONE. 00:50:25.50\00:50:27.10 HE'S COMING WITH GREAT HAILSTONES THAT WEIGH MORE 00:50:27.10\00:50:30.10 THAN 100 POUNDS. 00:50:30.10\00:50:31.43 HE'S COMING IN JUDGMENT AND DON'T THINK JUST SAYING, 00:50:31.43\00:50:34.83 "HEY, I'M A CHRISTIAN." 00:50:34.83\00:50:36.56 EVERYBODY SAYS THAT. 00:50:36.56\00:50:37.63 EVEN THE DEVIL SAYS THAT TODAY. 00:50:37.63\00:50:39.16 THE DEVILS EVEN BELIEVE AND TREMBLE. 00:50:39.16\00:50:42.40 HE IS COMING IN JUDGMENT. 00:50:42.40\00:50:47.76 AND HE'S COMING TO SAVE HIS CHILDREN. 00:50:47.76\00:50:54.83 HE SAYS HE'S GONNA SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS. 00:50:54.83\00:50:57.93 THEY'RE GOING TO GATHER OUT HIS CHILDREN FROM ALL OVER 00:50:57.93\00:51:00.63 THE EARTH. 00:51:00.63\00:51:04.20 JESUS COMPARED HIS COMING TO THE DAYS OF NOAH. 00:51:04.20\00:51:10.80 JESUS SAID, "AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL IT BE." 00:51:10.80\00:51:16.63 EXACTLY THE SAME. 00:51:16.63\00:51:17.96 THE SAME SORT OF STUFF HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF NOAH. 00:51:17.96\00:51:22.40 IT'S HAPPENING TODAY. 00:51:22.40\00:51:23.46 WE ARE LIVING IN THE DAYS OF NOAH WHETHER YOU WILL 00:51:23.46\00:51:26.36 BELIEVE THIS OR NOT. 00:51:26.36\00:51:28.43 IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. 00:51:28.43\00:51:30.43 IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:51:30.43\00:51:34.40 AND IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, NOT MANY PEOPLE GOT IN THE ARK. 00:51:34.40\00:51:39.56 WOULD YOU HAVE GOT IN IT? 00:51:39.56\00:51:41.83 NOT MANY PEOPLE GOT IN THE ARK, BUT LET ME TELL YOU FOLKS, GOD 00:51:41.83\00:51:45.50 HAD AN ARK AND PEOPLE GOT IN THE ARK AND THEY GOT SAVED. 00:51:45.50\00:51:50.10 DID YOU KNOW THE ARK SYMBOLIZES CHRIST? 00:51:50.10\00:51:54.30 THE ARK HAD A DOOR IN ITS SIDE. 00:51:54.30\00:51:58.56 JESUS HAD A SPEAR IN HIS SIDE AND THAT SPEAR OPENED UP 00:51:58.56\00:52:04.76 THE WAY TO THE HEART OF GOD. 00:52:04.76\00:52:07.30 THE ARK IS NOT RELIGION. 00:52:07.30\00:52:12.90 THE ARK IS CHRIST. 00:52:12.90\00:52:15.90 IT IS NOT PIOUS TALK, 'CAUSE WE GOT TOO MUCH RELIGION, 00:52:19.90\00:52:25.83 TOO MUCH PIOUS TALK. 00:52:25.83\00:52:28.46 WE NEED CHRIST AND WE NEED TO GET IN THE ARK. 00:52:28.46\00:52:34.16 MY MESSAGE TO YOU IS THIS AND HERE IT COMES. 00:52:34.16\00:52:40.56 THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS. 00:52:40.56\00:52:47.33 MARANATHA. 00:52:47.33\00:52:50.36 MARANATHA. 00:52:50.36\00:52:52.76 MARANATHA. 00:52:52.76\00:52:54.86 JESUS IS COMING. 00:52:54.86\00:52:57.10 HALLELUJAH, AMEN. 00:52:57.10\00:53:00.26 LET US KNEEL. 00:53:00.26\00:53:02.56 [APPLAUDING] 00:53:02.56\00:53:05.90 >> OUR FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE SURE WORD OF BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:53:10.83\00:53:15.56 WE THANK YOU THAT THE BAD NEWS IS THE GOOD NEWS BECAUSE JESUS 00:53:15.56\00:53:20.06 IS COMING. 00:53:20.06\00:53:22.73 AS WE LOOK AROUND THIS WORLD, WE CAN SEE IT'S BECOMING LIKE 00:53:22.73\00:53:25.70 A FILTHY, ROTTING, STINKING CARCASS AND MANY OF US ARE 00:53:25.70\00:53:31.36 BEING POLLUTED BY IT. 00:53:31.36\00:53:34.26 SO MANY OF US WHO GO TO CHURCH, WE LIE, WE'RE DISHONEST, 00:53:34.26\00:53:40.40 WE MAKE PROMISES, WE BREAK THEM, WE'RE FLAKEY, 00:53:40.40\00:53:43.60 WE'RE LATE, WE DON'T STUDY OUR BIBLES, WE CAN'T EVEN 00:53:43.60\00:53:47.33 GET OUT OF BED AND COME TO CHURCH ON TIME. 00:53:47.33\00:53:51.46 CONVICT US. 00:53:51.46\00:53:53.60 SPEAK TO US. 00:53:53.60\00:53:55.43 DO WHAT PREACHING WILL NOT DO TO US BECAUSE MANY OF US HAVE 00:53:55.43\00:53:59.63 HARDENED OUR HEARTS AND THE SOIL IS FALLING NOT INTO GOOD SOIL, 00:53:59.63\00:54:06.96 BUT BY THE ROADSIDE. 00:54:06.96\00:54:10.10 ON THE 101 FREEWAY IS WHERE THE SOIL IS GOING, ON THE 405. 00:54:10.10\00:54:14.60 IT'S BEING RUN OVER BY SEMI TRAILERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, 00:54:14.60\00:54:18.10 CADILLACS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 00:54:18.10\00:54:21.46 BUT MAY THE SOIL GET INTO SOME DEEP SOIL, CONVICT US OF OUR 00:54:21.46\00:54:26.30 SINS, BREAK THE L.A. ATTITUDE THAT RULES OUR HEARTS, 00:54:26.30\00:54:33.40 THIS ATTITUDE OF FLAKINESS, LAWLESSNESS, REBELLION, 00:54:33.40\00:54:37.03 SELFISHNESS, EGOTISM, AND SUCH SHALLOWNESS AND PETTINESS. 00:54:37.03\00:54:46.50 MAY WE BECOME A HOLY SOCIETY FOR YOU AND MAY WE ENTER 00:54:46.50\00:54:51.50 THE ARK THROUGH THE DOOR. 00:54:51.50\00:54:55.63 WE THANK YOU THAT THE THRUST OF THE SPEAR IN HIS SIDE OPENED 00:54:55.63\00:55:01.90 A WAY TO THE HEART OF GOD. 00:55:01.90\00:55:03.66 MAY WE GO THROUGH THAT DOOR TODAY. 00:55:03.66\00:55:06.50 AS WE'RE PRAYING IN CHURCH ON OUR KNEES, WITH OUR HEADS BOWED, 00:55:06.50\00:55:11.06 WHILE GOD IS GIVING US PERHAPS OUR LAST OPPORTUNITY, SOME OF 00:55:11.06\00:55:14.30 US, HOW MANY WILL RAISE A HAND AND SAY, "I WANT TO ENTER BY 00:55:14.30\00:55:18.90 THE DOOR AND FIND MY WAY TO THE HEART OF GOD"? 00:55:18.90\00:55:25.03 WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HAND? 00:55:25.03\00:55:27.50 REMEMBER, MY FRIEND, IT TOOK A LOT OF BLOOD 00:55:27.50\00:55:30.76 TO OPEN THAT DOOR. 00:55:30.76\00:55:32.76 IT TOOK A LOT OF SUFFERING. 00:55:32.76\00:55:34.66 IT TOOK A SPEAR THRUST IN THE SIDE OF THE SON OF GOD, JESUS. 00:55:34.66\00:55:41.90 AND HIS SIDE WAS OPENED UP SO THAT YOU AND I COULD FIND 00:55:41.90\00:55:45.06 A WAY TO THE HEART OF GOD. 00:55:45.06\00:55:47.63 OH FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT YOU LOVE US. 00:55:47.63\00:55:51.33 YOU LOVE EVERY LITTLE BOY AND GIRL. 00:55:51.33\00:55:53.80 YOU LOVE EVERY PERSON IN THIS CHURCH. 00:55:53.80\00:55:56.10 YOU LOVE THE HOMOSEXUALS. 00:55:56.10\00:55:58.16 YOU LOVE THE PRIESTS. 00:55:58.16\00:56:00.66 YOU LOVE EVERY ONE OF US. 00:56:00.66\00:56:02.16 YOU LOVE THE FOOLISH VIRGINS AS YOU LOVE THE WISE VIRGINS. 00:56:02.16\00:56:06.50 WE THANK YOU THAT YOU LOVE US. 00:56:06.50\00:56:08.43 WE THANK YOU THAT YOU LOVED US SO MUCH THAT YOU GAVE CHRIST TO 00:56:08.43\00:56:13.16 DIE FOR OUR SINS SO THAT IF WE TRULY BELIEVE AND ENTER IN 00:56:13.16\00:56:16.16 THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR, WE WILL NOT PERISH 00:56:16.16\00:56:19.23 BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:56:19.23\00:56:21.46 MAY THIS SERMON STRIKE A CHORD TODAY THAT'LL RESOUND FOR ALL 00:56:21.46\00:56:27.03 ETERNITY FOR YOUR GLORY. 00:56:27.03\00:56:29.03 BLESS THESE PEOPLE. 00:56:29.03\00:56:30.23 WE WORSHIP YOU, THANK YOU, AND BLESS YOU, LOVE YOU 00:56:30.23\00:56:33.90 IN JESUS' NAME. 00:56:33.90\00:56:35.46 AMEN, AMEN. 00:56:35.46\00:56:38.06 [MUSIC] ? IT IS FAITH THAT MOVES ? 00:56:39.23\00:56:45.00 ? THE MOUNTAINS ? ? IT IS FAITH THAT CALMS ? 00:56:45.00\00:56:51.80 ? THE SEA ? ? AND WITH GOD LIVING ? 00:56:51.80\00:57:01.90 ? INSIDE OF ME ? ? OH, I CAN HAVE ? 00:57:01.90\00:57:10.63 ? OH, I CAN HAVE ? ? SWEET VICTORY ? 00:57:10.63\00:57:25.30 ? OOH, SWEET VICTORY ? ? OH, SWEET ? 00:57:26.83\00:57:45.06 ? OOH, SWEET VICTORY ?? 00:57:45.06\00:57:53.66 >> AMEN. 00:57:54.86\00:57:55.83 THANK YOU, JESUS. 00:57:55.83\00:57:58.66