CC BY ABERDEEN CAPTIONING 1-800-688-6621 WWW.ABERCAP.COM 00:00:01.73\00:00:05.73 >> FROM ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, "THE CARTER REPORT" PRESENTS 00:00:07.60\00:00:10.40 "THE LIVING WORD" AROUND THE WORLD. 00:00:10.40\00:00:14.03 >> THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT A PASTOR SHOULDN'T DO. 00:00:17.60\00:00:21.40 HE SHOULDN'T TELL LIES, AND HE SHOULDN'T RETIRE. 00:00:21.40\00:00:26.20 THAT'S WHY I PLAN TO KEEP ON KEEPING ON WHILE GOD 00:00:26.20\00:00:29.83 CAN STILL USE ME. 00:00:29.83\00:00:31.63 WHILE THESE LUNGS ARE WORKING, WHILE THIS MOUTH IS TALKING 00:00:31.63\00:00:35.36 AND WHILE JESUS IS STILL ALIVE AND I'M STILL ALIVE, 00:00:35.36\00:00:39.20 I PLAN TO KEEP ON PREACHING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 00:00:39.20\00:00:43.33 WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? 00:00:43.33\00:00:44.50 WILL YOU SUPPORT US IN THIS GREAT WORK? 00:00:44.50\00:00:47.00 LISTEN, WE HAVE RECEIVED AN URGENT INVITATION FROM 00:00:47.00\00:00:49.06 THE CHURCH IN INDIA, THEY'RE SAYING, "COME OVER AND HELP US." 00:00:51.03\00:00:55.93 WHAT A CHALLENGE, MY FRIEND? 00:00:55.93\00:00:57.50 DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN THE LAND OF INDIA? 00:00:57.50\00:01:00.60 MORE THAN A THOUSAND MILLION PEOPLE AND THE PLACE IS FULL 00:01:00.60\00:01:03.93 OF DEMONS AND EVIL SPIRITS. 00:01:05.40\00:01:08.46 THEY DON'T WANT THIS CAMPAIGN, THOSE EVIL SPIRITS, BUT I WANT 00:01:08.46\00:01:12.00 YOU TO KNOW JESUS IS STRONGER THAN THE EVIL SPIRITS. 00:01:12.00\00:01:16.50 LAST TIME WE WENT TO INDIA, WE HAD TREMENDOUS OPPOSITION. 00:01:16.50\00:01:19.86 OUR LIVES WERE THREATENED, BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE'RE 00:01:19.86\00:01:23.26 GOING TO GO BACK BECAUSE JESUS HAS CALLED US TO GO. 00:01:23.26\00:01:26.70 WHEN WE WENT THERE LAST TIME, WE SAW THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE COMING 00:01:26.70\00:01:30.63 TO CHRIST, ONE NIGHT 30,000 PEOPLE CAME TO CHRIST, 00:01:30.63\00:01:34.36 HINDUS AND MUSLIMS. 00:01:34.36\00:01:36.20 WE'RE PRAYING, JESUS, DO IT AGAIN. 00:01:36.20\00:01:39.43 PLEASE SUPPORT US. 00:01:39.43\00:01:41.06 PLEASE WRITE TO ME, JOHN CARTER, POST OFFICE BOX 1900, 00:01:41.06\00:01:45.36 THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA 91358. 00:01:45.36\00:01:48.83 IN AUSTRALIA, WRITE TO ME PLEASE AT BEAUTIFUL TERRIGAL. 00:01:48.83\00:01:54.03 THE ADDRESS IS RIGHT THERE ON THE SCREEN... 00:01:54.03\00:01:56.30 LISTEN, MY FRIEND, I NEED YOUR PRAYERS. 00:01:56.30\00:01:59.63 I NEED YOUR SUPPORT. 00:01:59.63\00:02:01.66 PLEASE PRAY FOR US. 00:02:01.66\00:02:02.86 I'LL BE PRAYING FOR YOU. 00:02:02.86\00:02:04.00 WRITE TODAY AND GOD BLESS YOU. 00:02:04.00\00:02:07.63 >> WE'VE GOT A TERRIFIC 00:02:19.50\00:02:19.56 SUBJECT TODAY. 00:02:20.83\00:02:22.10 I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT DEMONISM, SPIRITUALISM. 00:02:22.10\00:02:27.46 DID YOU KNOW THAT DEMONISM IS BECOMING PREVALENT 00:02:27.46\00:02:30.33 ALL AROUND THE WORLD? 00:02:30.33\00:02:33.00 MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY TALK TO 00:02:33.00\00:02:36.16 THE DEAD AND THAT THE DEAD ARE ACTUALLY TALKING TO THEM. 00:02:36.16\00:02:39.70 YOU SEE IT ALL THE TIME ON AMERICAN TELEVISION. 00:02:39.70\00:02:42.03 I'M SURE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD ALSO. 00:02:42.03\00:02:45.20 THEREFORE, I WANT YOU TO STAY WITH US TODAY FOR THIS PROGRAM 00:02:45.20\00:02:48.60 ON EVIL SPIRITS AND DEMONISM. 00:02:48.60\00:02:52.63 AND WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE WITH US TODAY CHRISTIA MANTZKE AND JOEL. 00:02:52.63\00:02:57.33 AND WE'RE GLAD TO WELCOME YOU TO OUR CHURCH TODAY. 00:02:57.33\00:03:01.16 TELL ME, HAVE YOU BEEN ALONG HERE BEFORE? 00:03:01.16\00:03:04.43 >> I HAVE. 00:03:04.43\00:03:05.26 I'VE COME TO SING FOR YOU GUYS LAST YEAR. 00:03:05.26\00:03:06.40 >> WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE 00:03:06.40\00:03:08.60 WITH US. 00:03:09.43\00:03:10.13 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SING NOW? 00:03:10.13\00:03:11.23 >> GONNA SING "COME YE SINNERS." 00:03:11.23\00:03:13.36 >> WELL, THAT'S A GOOD SONG, "COME YE SINNERS," BECAUSE WE'RE 00:03:13.36\00:03:16.00 ALL SINNERS STANDING IN NEED OF THE GRACE OF GOD. 00:03:16.00\00:03:19.36 SO WELCOME TO OUR CHURCH TODAY AND GOD BLESS YOU. 00:03:19.36\00:03:23.43 [MUSIC] 00:03:26.23\00:03:36.76 ? COME, YE SINNERS, POOR AND ? ? NEEDY, WEAK AND WOUNDED, ? 00:03:41.23\00:03:51.83 ? SICK AND SORE. ? ? JESUS READY STANDS TO SAVE ? 00:03:51.83\00:04:01.10 ? YOU, FULL OF PITY, LOVE, ? ? AND POWER. ? 00:04:01.10\00:04:10.30 ? COME, YE THIRSTY, ? ? COME AND WELCOME, GOD'S ? 00:04:10.30\00:04:17.66 ? FREE BOUNTY GLORIFY. ? ? TRUE BELIEF AND TRUE ? 00:04:17.66\00:04:28.43 ? REPENTANCE, EVERY GRACE ? ? THAT BRINGS YOU NIGH. ? 00:04:28.43\00:04:38.03 ? I WILL ARISE ? ? AND GO TO JESUS. ? 00:04:38.03\00:04:45.23 ? HE WILL EMBRACE ? ? ME IN HIS ARMS. ? 00:04:45.23\00:04:52.20 ? AND IN THE ARMS OF ? ? MY DEAR SAVIOR, OH, ? 00:04:52.20\00:04:58.53 ? THERE ARE 10,000 CHARMS. ? ? COME, YE WEARY, HEAVY-LADEN, ? 00:04:58.53\00:05:14.03 ? LOST AND RUINED BY THE FALL. ? ? IF YOU TARRY 'TIL YOU'RE ? 00:05:14.03\00:05:25.13 ? BETTER, YOU WILL ? ? NEVER COME AT ALL. ? 00:05:25.13\00:05:34.73 ? I WILL ARISE AND ? ? GO TO JESUS. ? 00:05:34.73\00:05:42.40 ? HE WILL EMBRACE ME ? ? IN HIS ARMS. ? 00:05:42.40\00:05:49.36 ? AND IN THE ARMS OF MY DEAR ? ? SAVIOR, OH, ? 00:05:49.36\00:05:55.53 ? THERE ARE 10,000 CHARMS. ? ? I WILL ARISE ? 00:05:55.53\00:06:05.26 ? AND GO TO JESUS. ? ? HE WILL EMBRACE ME ? 00:06:05.26\00:06:12.60 ? IN HIS ARMS. ? ? AND IN THE ARMS OF MY DEAR ? 00:06:12.60\00:06:20.40 ? SAVIOR, OH, ? ? THERE ARE 10,000 CHARMS. ? 00:06:20.40\00:06:30.60 ? YES, THERE ARE ? ? 10,000 CHARMS. ? 00:06:30.60\00:06:37.20 ? OH, THERE ARE 10,000 CHARMS. ? 00:06:37.20\00:06:45.76 ? OH. ?? 00:06:50.56\00:06:57.00 >> [APPLAUDING] 00:07:02.76\00:07:05.26 >> TODAY, WE'RE GOING 00:07:07.20\00:07:07.26 TO TALK ABOUT DEMONS. 00:07:07.83\00:07:09.96 VIRTUALLY ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE IN EVIL SPIRITS. 00:07:09.96\00:07:13.93 WELL, LET ME CORRECT THAT. 00:07:13.93\00:07:16.00 ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE IN ANGELS, BUT THE BIBLE TALKS VERY PLAINLY 00:07:16.00\00:07:20.83 ABOUT GOOD ANGELS AND BAD ANGELS. 00:07:20.83\00:07:26.26 AND THESE BAD ANGELS ARE CALLED IN THE SCRIPTURES DEMONS. 00:07:26.26\00:07:32.10 THE BIBLE TEACHES--NOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SOME FOLKS 00:07:32.10\00:07:35.80 FIND HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 00:07:35.80\00:07:37.00 THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT A DEMON CAN GET INSIDE A PERSON 00:07:37.00\00:07:41.26 AND LIVE INSIDE A PERSON. 00:07:41.26\00:07:44.63 THERE ARE VARIOUS STEPS THAT YOU CAN GO THROUGH, AND PEOPLE GO 00:07:44.63\00:07:47.93 THROUGH THESE STEPS UNWITTINGLY. 00:07:47.93\00:07:50.50 THERE ARE VARIOUS STEPS THAT LEAD DOWN THE ROAD TO 00:07:50.50\00:07:53.66 DEMON POSSESSION. 00:07:53.66\00:07:55.70 WHEN I WAS A BOY GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA, JUST A SILLY 00:07:55.70\00:07:57.80 TEENAGER, 15 OR 16, BORED OUT OF 00:07:57.80\00:08:00.36 MY HEAD WITH SO MUCH ENERGY YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS 00:08:03.90\00:08:07.86 ENERGY, I CAN THINK WHEN I WAS A BOY ON SATURDAY NIGHT 00:08:07.86\00:08:12.36 HOW COULD ANYBODY EVER WANT TO STAY HOME? 00:08:12.36\00:08:15.83 YOU KNOW, YOU HAD SO MUCH ENERGY, YOU WANTED TO BE OUT 00:08:15.83\00:08:18.46 ON THE TOWN. 00:08:18.46\00:08:19.33 AND IF YOU CAME HOME AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, 00:08:19.33\00:08:21.40 YOU STILL HAD TONS OF ENERGY. 00:08:21.40\00:08:23.40 BOY, I LOOK UPON THOSE DAYS WITH GREAT NOSTALGIA. 00:08:23.40\00:08:28.50 ON MOST SATURDAY NIGHTS, I'M GLAD JUST TO BE HOME. 00:08:28.50\00:08:31.76 BUT ON ONE SATURDAY NIGHT, WE BOYS, ALL GOOD LITTLE ADVENTIST 00:08:31.76\00:08:37.76 BOYS, BUT BORED OUT OF OUR HEADS, WE DECIDED WE WERE 00:08:37.76\00:08:41.20 GONNA GO TO A SÉANCE. 00:08:41.20\00:08:43.20 WE WEREN'T CHRISTIAN BOYS. 00:08:43.20\00:08:45.76 WE WERE IN THE CHURCH, BUT JESUS WASN'T IN US AT THAT STAGE. 00:08:45.76\00:08:51.53 AND SO WE SET OUT TO GO TO THIS SÉANCE. 00:08:51.53\00:08:54.13 YOU KNOW, KIDS DO STUPID THINGS. 00:08:54.13\00:08:58.30 THEY REALLY DO. 00:08:58.30\00:08:59.80 THAT'S WHY PARENTS HAVE GOT TO BE VERY PATIENT WITH THEIR KIDS. 00:08:59.80\00:09:03.80 KIDS ARE BORN WITH A SINFUL NATURE. 00:09:03.80\00:09:07.70 DON'T BE TOO HARD ON THEM. 00:09:07.70\00:09:09.50 BUT THE CAR WE HAD, IT WAS AN ANCIENT THING. 00:09:09.50\00:09:12.60 IT BROKE DOWN. 00:09:12.60\00:09:15.76 BUT WE WERE ALL KEYED UP AND WE GOT CLOSE TO WHERE WE WERE GONNA 00:09:15.76\00:09:18.30 GO TO THIS SÉANCE, BUT-- YOUNG PEOPLE, NEVER DABBLE 00:09:18.30\00:09:22.56 WITH SPIRITISM. 00:09:22.56\00:09:24.76 DON'T PLAY WITH THE DEVIL. 00:09:24.76\00:09:26.13 IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS. 00:09:26.13\00:09:29.40 SO WE DIDN'T GO AND I WENT HOME I GUESS ABOUT 00:09:29.40\00:09:33.00 1 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. 00:09:33.00\00:09:34.60 MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER CALLED OUT TO ME WHEN I CAME IN 00:09:34.60\00:09:37.93 THE BACK DOOR THROUGH THE KITCHEN, BUT MY MIND 00:09:37.93\00:09:41.73 WAS FILLED WITH GOING ALONG FOR KICKS TO A SÉANCE. 00:09:41.73\00:09:46.93 I GOT INTO BED AND, YOU KNOW, THE WONDERFUL THING IN THOSE 00:09:46.93\00:09:50.56 DAYS, BEFORE I GOT INTO BED, IT'S A WONDERFUL THING WHEN 00:09:50.56\00:09:53.60 YOU'RE A TEENAGER. 00:09:53.60\00:09:54.90 YOU COULD EAT AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE AND IT DOESN'T MAKE 00:09:54.90\00:09:57.13 ANY DIFFERENCE TO YOU. 00:09:57.13\00:09:59.20 ISN'T THAT--ISN'T THAT AMAZING? 00:09:59.20\00:10:01.43 YOU CAN EAT ICE CREAM. 00:10:01.43\00:10:02.56 YOU CAN EAT HALF A GALLON OF ICE CREAM AT 1 O'CLOCK IN 00:10:02.56\00:10:05.23 THE MORNING AND FEEL GREAT. 00:10:05.23\00:10:08.30 IF I DID THAT NOW, I WOULD BE DEAD. 00:10:08.30\00:10:12.00 IF NOT DEAD, I WOULD FEEL DEAD. 00:10:12.00\00:10:14.96 SO I WENT TO THE FRIDGE AND ATE A BUNCH OF ICE CREAM. 00:10:14.96\00:10:18.90 YOU MOTHERS AND FATHERS KNOW THAT IF YOU'VE GOT TEENAGE KIDS, 00:10:18.90\00:10:23.03 THEY CAN EAT LIKE HORSES, BUT MORE SO. 00:10:23.03\00:10:27.40 ONE TEENAGE BOY CAN TAKE, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF LOAVES 00:10:27.40\00:10:30.50 OF BREAD AND EAT IT WITH PEANUT BUTTER. 00:10:30.50\00:10:33.43 AND THEY'RE SKINNY. 00:10:33.43\00:10:35.83 OLDER FOLKS TRY TO DO THAT AND THEY BLOW UP LIKE BALLOONS. 00:10:35.83\00:10:44.06 SO I GOT INTO BED AFTER RAIDING THE REFRIGERATOR. 00:10:44.06\00:10:48.20 MY--THERE HAD BEEN A PROWLER GOING THROUGH THAT AREA. 00:10:48.20\00:10:51.56 THIS AREA WAS SOMEWHAT--A LITTLE BIT--IT WAS A NEW SUBDIVISION. 00:10:51.56\00:10:54.73 IT WAS ALMOST OUT ON THE BUSH. 00:10:54.73\00:10:58.03 I'D HAD TO WALK A LONG WAY FROM THE BUS TO GET HOME AND MY MIND 00:10:58.03\00:11:03.90 WAS FULL OF SPIRITISM, THE DEMONS. 00:11:03.90\00:11:06.86 MY FATHER SAID, "MAKE SURE YOU LOCK THE BACK DOOR." 00:11:06.86\00:11:09.56 SO IT HAD A BOLT ON IT. 00:11:09.56\00:11:11.73 YOU LOCKED IT, THEN THERE WAS A BIG DEADLOCK. 00:11:11.73\00:11:16.03 IT WAS A BOLT, SO I PUT THE BOLT. 00:11:16.03\00:11:18.86 AND I GOT INTO BED AND A LITTLE WHILE LATER, THE DOOR OPENED. 00:11:18.86\00:11:24.00 THE WIND BLEW THROUGH THE HOUSE. 00:11:24.00\00:11:26.43 MY FATHER, USING A FEW CAREFULLY CHOSEN WORDS, GOT OUT OF BED 00:11:26.43\00:11:31.26 AND SAID, "JOHN HAS FORGOTTEN TO LOCK THE KITCHEN DOOR." 00:11:31.26\00:11:34.80 HE WENT OUT, LOCKED IT, AND PUT THE BOLT THROUGH. 00:11:34.80\00:11:37.80 HE GOT BACK INTO BED. 00:11:37.80\00:11:39.20 A LITTLE WHILE LATER, THE WIND BLEW THROUGH THE HOUSE. 00:11:39.20\00:11:41.76 THE DOOR OPENED. 00:11:41.76\00:11:43.20 DURING THE NIGHT, THAT DOOR OPENED AND CLOSED, OPEN AND 00:11:43.20\00:11:48.23 CLOSED ABOUT HALF A DOZEN TIMES. 00:11:48.23\00:11:52.60 WHEN WE WERE HAVING BREAKFAST, MY MOTHER SAID TO ME--SHE SAID, 00:11:52.60\00:11:57.13 "IT ALMOST APPEARS AS THOUGH WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO'S IN SYMPATHY 00:11:57.13\00:12:01.60 WITH SPIRITISM IN THE HOUSE." 00:12:01.60\00:12:04.40 GOODNESS! 00:12:04.40\00:12:06.73 SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO WRING A CONFESSION OUT OF ME. 00:12:06.73\00:12:09.46 I TOLD HER, "I WAS GOING TO GO TO A SPIRITIST." 00:12:09.46\00:12:12.66 SHE SAID, "WELL, YOU INVITED THE DEVIL 00:12:12.66\00:12:15.23 INTO OUR HOUSE LAST NIGHT, AND THE DEVIL ACCEPTED 00:12:15.23\00:12:19.00 THE INVITATION." 00:12:19.00\00:12:20.76 I WANT TO LOOK YOU IN THE EYE AND TELL YOU SOMETHING. 00:12:20.76\00:12:23.00 DON'T INVITE THE DEVIL INTO YOUR HOUSE. 00:12:23.00\00:12:27.56 THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA TODAY AND AROUND 00:12:27.56\00:12:30.76 THE WORLD WHO ARE INVITING THE DEVIL INTO THEIR HOUSES, 00:12:30.76\00:12:35.86 AND THE DEVIL IS COMING. 00:12:35.86\00:12:38.30 AND SO THE TOPIC IS 00:12:35.86\00:12:38.30 "EVIL ANGELS, DEMONS, AND TALKING TO DEAD PEOPLE." 00:12:39.33\00:12:44.73 NOW REMEMBER THIS, JUST BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE IT OR UNDERSTAND 00:12:44.73\00:12:49.20 IT, DON'T SAY, "WELL, IT DOESN'T EXIST." 00:12:49.20\00:12:55.90 YOU CAN'T SEE RADIATION, FOLKS. 00:12:55.90\00:13:00.16 CAN'T SEE IT, WE CAN'T SMELL IT, BUT IT'S THERE. 00:13:00.16\00:13:07.23 JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE IT DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T THERE. 00:13:07.23\00:13:13.46 NOW, BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER TODAY, I WANT TO SAY THIS, 00:13:13.46\00:13:16.16 IT'S REALLY NOT TIED IN WITH THE SUBJECT, 00:13:16.16\00:13:17.96 BUT, YOU KNOW, WHO CARES? 00:13:17.96\00:13:20.03 THIS IS OKAY. 00:13:17.96\00:13:20.03 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE-- WE'RE TALKING ON SPIRITISM, 00:13:21.43\00:13:24.26 BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS; WHOEVER YOU ARE, GOD LOVES YOU. 00:13:24.26\00:13:30.36 HE LOVES YOU WHETHER YOU'RE YOUNG OR WHETHER YOU'RE OLD, 00:13:30.36\00:13:36.20 WHETHER YOU'RE SKINNY OR WHETHER YOU'RE FAT, WHETHER YOU'RE 00:13:36.20\00:13:41.33 PRETTY OR WHETHER YOU'RE UGLY, WHETHER YOU'RE RICH OR 00:13:41.33\00:13:47.00 WHETHER YOU'RE POOR. 00:13:47.00\00:13:49.73 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE, GOD LOVES YOU. 00:13:49.73\00:13:53.63 HE LOVES YOU WHETHER YOU'RE SMART OR WHETHER YOU'RE DUMB. 00:13:53.63\00:14:01.60 WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE PEOPLE BY HOW THEY LOOK. 00:14:01.60\00:14:08.90 YOU KNOW WHO LIKES JUDGING PEOPLE BECAUSE OF HOW THEY LOOK? 00:14:08.90\00:14:13.56 A PHARISEE. 00:14:13.56\00:14:17.06 DID YOU KNOW THAT? 00:14:17.06\00:14:18.90 PHARISEES LIKE JUDGING PEOPLE ACCORDING TO HOW THEY LOOK. 00:14:18.90\00:14:23.83 BUT GOD SAID, "THE LORD--MAN LOOKS ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, 00:14:23.83\00:14:30.86 BUT THE LORD LOOKS," WHERE? 00:14:30.86\00:14:33.26 "LOOKS ON THE HEART." 00:14:33.26\00:14:34.96 SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE, GOD LOVES YOU. 00:14:34.96\00:14:38.00 AND THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE I WANT YOU TO KNOW TODAY, 00:14:38.00\00:14:40.63 AND THIS IS PRETTY IMPORTANT. 00:14:40.63\00:14:42.90 GOD LOVES YOU WHEN YOU'RE GOOD. 00:14:42.90\00:14:46.80 CHILDREN AND OLDER FOLKS, GOD LOVES YOU WHEN YOU'RE GOOD AND 00:14:46.80\00:14:52.60 HE LOVES YOU WHEN YOU'RE BAD. 00:14:52.60\00:14:56.53 WE SHOULDN'T TELL PEOPLE LIKE THAT, THEY'RE GONNA BE BAD. 00:14:56.53\00:15:00.33 NO, NO, NO, YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG. 00:15:00.33\00:15:04.16 OUR HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES US WHEN WE'RE GOOD. 00:15:04.16\00:15:08.10 HE LOVES US WHEN WE'RE BAD. 00:15:08.10\00:15:10.66 HE DOESN'T WANT US TO BE BAD BECAUSE IT'S BAD FOR US, BUT 00:15:10.66\00:15:14.50 THE GREAT TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL IS THAT GOD LOVES PEOPLE 00:15:14.50\00:15:19.06 AS THEY ARE. 00:15:19.06\00:15:20.93 NOW, I WANT YOU TO COME OVER TO A TEXT WHICH IS REALLY 00:15:20.93\00:15:23.10 THE TEXT THAT THIS IS A RADIATION DETECTOR. 00:15:23.10\00:15:26.56 NOW, WE'RE ALL THINKING ABOUT JAPAN HERE IN THIS CHURCH 00:15:26.56\00:15:28.83 BECAUSE HERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WE'VE GOT 00:15:28.83\00:15:31.73 JUST A LITTLE, TINY DOSE OF RADIATION IN THE AIR, NOT A LOT. 00:15:31.73\00:15:36.60 ISAIAH 8:19-20, GOT THIS TEXT, ISAIAH 8:19-20. 00:15:36.60\00:15:47.36 "WHEN MEN TELL YOU TO CONSULT MEDIUMS AND SPIRITISTS," AS THEY 00:15:47.36\00:15:51.26 TELL YOU HERE TODAY IN AMERICA ON SOME OF THE BIG TELEVISION 00:15:51.26\00:15:54.86 STATIONS, "WHO WHISPER AND MUTTER, SHOULD NOT A PEOPLE 00:15:54.86\00:15:58.96 INQUIRE OF THEIR GOD? 00:15:58.96\00:16:00.90 WHY CONSULT THE DEAD ON BEHALF OF THE LIVING? 00:16:00.90\00:16:06.46 TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY! 00:16:06.46\00:16:09.40 IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, THEY HAVE NO LIGHT 00:16:09.40\00:16:16.96 OF DAWN." 00:16:16.96\00:16:18.40 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE IN ABSOLUTE AND TOTAL DARKNESS. 00:16:18.40\00:16:24.23 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT DEMONS, THE STATE OF 00:16:24.23\00:16:28.16 THE DEAD, WHATEVER THE SUBJECT, YOU DON'T GO ALONG TO A WITCH. 00:16:28.16\00:16:33.26 YOU GO ALONG TO THE LIVING GOD. 00:16:33.26\00:16:37.96 SO THE BIBLE IS THE RADIATION DETECTOR. 00:16:37.96\00:16:42.50 IT TELLS US HOW WE CAN UNDERSTAND ABOUT THINGS THAT 00:16:42.50\00:16:46.03 WE CAN'T SEE OR SMELL OR FEEL. 00:16:46.03\00:16:50.86 WHEN I WAS A BOY PREACHER IN THE TOWN OF PARKES--ONCE AGAIN 00:16:50.86\00:16:55.73 YOU FOLKS ARE GOING TO GET SOME GEOGRAPHY IN YOUR HEADS. 00:16:55.73\00:16:59.50 AND PARKES IS ABOUT 250 MILES FROM THE GORGEOUS CITY 00:16:59.50\00:17:04.10 OF SYDNEY, JUST A LITTLE TOWN. 00:17:04.10\00:17:07.30 WHEN I WAS THERE, WHEN BEVERLEY AND I WERE THERE, IT WAS 00:17:07.30\00:17:10.43 ABOUT 8,000 OR 9,000 PEOPLE, JUST A LITTLE COUNTRY TOWN. 00:17:10.43\00:17:14.33 WE RAN A CAMPAIGN AND A LADY CAME ALONG AND TOLD ME 00:17:14.33\00:17:19.60 THIS STORY. 00:17:19.60\00:17:22.36 NOW, SHE WASN'T CRAZY. 00:17:22.36\00:17:24.26 BACK IN THOSE DAYS, PEOPLE WERE NOT AS CRAZY AS THEY ARE TODAY. 00:17:24.26\00:17:30.36 THIS LADY WAS NOT CRAZY. 00:17:30.36\00:17:33.43 THIS LADY HAD HAD A LITTLE BABY AND THIS LITTLE BABY HAD DIED. 00:17:33.43\00:17:39.40 AND THIS LITTLE BABY WAS SO CLOSE TO THE MOTHER'S 00:17:39.40\00:17:43.66 HEART AND SHE HAD BEEN TAUGHT BY HER MINISTER THAT THE DEAD 00:17:43.66\00:17:50.53 ARE ALIVE. 00:17:50.53\00:17:52.40 HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THAT? 00:17:52.40\00:17:54.76 VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 00:17:54.76\00:17:58.10 IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MOST CHRISTIANS, MOSLEMS, JEWS, 00:17:58.10\00:18:04.16 THEY DON'T BELIEVE THE DEAD ARE DEAD. 00:18:04.16\00:18:06.63 THEY BELIEVE THE DEAD ARE ALIVE. 00:18:06.63\00:18:10.20 NOW, SOUTH OF HERE, NOT SO FAR IS THE GREAT LAND OF MEXICO, 00:18:10.20\00:18:13.80 AND THERE THEY HAVE THE DAY OF THE DEAD. 00:18:13.80\00:18:16.03 THEY REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE DEAD COME BACK AND THEY 00:18:16.03\00:18:18.16 CAN TALK TO THE DEAD. 00:18:18.16\00:18:20.43 NOW, LIKE A NOMINAL CHRISTIAN, SHE BELIEVED THAT THE DEAD WERE 00:18:20.43\00:18:24.46 NOT DEAD AND THAT HER LITTLE BABY, HER BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BABY, 00:18:24.46\00:18:28.36 WAS ALIVE. 00:18:28.36\00:18:31.30 AND WHEN SHE'D GET INTO BED AFTER THINKING THESE THOUGHTS, 00:18:31.30\00:18:34.60 SHE WOULD PRAY TO GOD AND SAY, "GOD, MAKE MY LITTLE BABY 00:18:34.60\00:18:38.33 COME BACK TO ME TONIGHT." 00:18:38.33\00:18:43.13 AND ON OCCASIONS, SHE TOLD ME SHE'D GET INTO BED, BE WIDE 00:18:43.13\00:18:46.60 AWAKE, SAYING, "I WANT TO FEEL 00:18:46.60\00:18:50.70 THE TOUCH OF MY LITTLE BABY. 00:18:52.73\00:18:55.33 JESUS, YOU KNOW MY LITTLE BABY IS ALIVE, SO SHARE HIM WITH ME." 00:18:55.33\00:19:00.96 AND THE LITTLE BABY WOULD COME AND GET INTO BED WITH HER. 00:19:00.96\00:19:04.70 AND SHE WOULD FEEL THE LITTLE BABY AND SHE'D HOLD THAT LITTLE 00:19:04.70\00:19:10.16 BABY UNTIL IT WAS TIME FOR THE LITTLE BABY TO DIE. 00:19:10.16\00:19:16.20 SUCH AN EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED BY MILLIONS 00:19:16.20\00:19:20.20 AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THE SCRIPTURES. 00:19:20.20\00:19:28.03 THEN I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE LADY IN CONCORD. 00:19:28.03\00:19:30.86 WE RAN A BIG SERIES OF MEETINGS IN THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE. 00:19:30.86\00:19:32.60 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TELL ME 00:19:32.60\00:19:35.16 THE DAYS OF PREACHING THE GOSPEL ARE FINISHED. 00:19:36.66\00:19:38.90 IT MAY BE FOR THEM, BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, WHEN WE RAN 00:19:38.90\00:19:43.53 THE MEETINGS IN THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, WE HAD THE LARGEST CROWDS 00:19:43.53\00:19:45.20 IN THE HISTORY OF THE SYDNEY 00:19:45.20\00:19:48.76 OPERA HOUSE, LARGEST CROWDS. 00:19:50.56\00:19:53.73 PEOPLE SAY PEOPLE DON'T COME TO HEAR THE GOSPEL. 00:19:53.73\00:19:55.53 MAYBE WE DON'T GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY. 00:19:55.53\00:19:59.23 BUT THE NEXT YEAR, WE PUT UP AN EIGHT-POLE TENT. 00:19:59.23\00:20:03.13 THAT'S A BIG TENT, SEAT THOUSANDS IN THE CITY OF 00:20:03.13\00:20:05.20 CONCORD, WHICH WAS A PART OF SYDNEY. 00:20:07.80\00:20:10.53 AND A LADY CAME ALONG AND, BEFORE I PREACHED ON THIS 00:20:10.53\00:20:13.33 SUBJECT, SHE STAYED BEHIND, SAT DOWN IN FRONT ONE NIGHT, 00:20:13.33\00:20:18.80 AND SHE SAID, "MY HUSBAND DIED. 00:20:18.80\00:20:22.26 WE WERE SO CLOSE." 00:20:22.26\00:20:24.20 SHE SAID, "I'VE MISSED HIM SO MUCH." 00:20:24.20\00:20:26.56 SHE ALSO WAS NOT CRAZY. 00:20:26.56\00:20:28.46 SHE WAS AS RATIONAL AS YOU ARE. 00:20:28.46\00:20:31.46 AND SHE SAID, "THE OTHER NIGHT, I WAS IN THE KITCHEN AND I HEARD 00:20:31.46\00:20:35.90 A RUSTLING AT THE KITCHEN DOOR. 00:20:35.90\00:20:39.43 AND I LOOKED UP AND THERE HE WAS IN HIS GARDEN CLOTHES." 00:20:39.43\00:20:46.06 I SAID, "MAYBE IT'S YOUR IMAGINATION." 00:20:46.06\00:20:49.83 SHE SAID, "NO, HE CAME IN AND SAT DOWN AT THE KITCHEN TABLE 00:20:49.83\00:20:55.46 AND WE TALKED ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT ONLY HE AND I WERE 00:20:55.46\00:20:59.63 AWARE OF. 00:20:59.63\00:21:02.03 NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE HAD THAT CONVERSATION." 00:21:02.03\00:21:06.16 I READ HER SOME TEXTS OUT OF THE BIBLE AND SHE SAID TO ME 00:21:06.16\00:21:09.36 WHAT MOST AMERICAN CHRISTIANS WOULD SAY AND MOST AUSTRALIAN 00:21:09.36\00:21:13.43 CHRISTIANS WOULD SAY. 00:21:13.43\00:21:14.66 "NO, YOU'RE WRONG. 00:21:14.66\00:21:16.43 YOU'VE GOT SOME TEXTS OUT OF AN OLD BOOK, BUT I HAVE SEEN 00:21:16.43\00:21:21.10 WITH MY OWN EYES." 00:21:21.10\00:21:24.73 I TOLD HER SO LOVINGLY THAT THIS PERSON WAS NOT HER HUSBAND. 00:21:24.73\00:21:34.73 AND I SAID, "I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU IN THE BIBLE THAT THAT 00:21:34.73\00:21:38.50 PERSON WHO APPEARED TO YOU IN HIS GARDEN CLOTHES WITH 00:21:38.50\00:21:44.53 HIS OLD HAT ON WAS A DEMON, AN IMPERSONATING SPIRIT." 00:21:44.53\00:21:55.30 BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS ME IN THE LAST DAYS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE 00:21:55.30\00:21:59.56 ARE GOING TO BE DECEIVED. 00:21:59.56\00:22:02.06 YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES. 00:22:02.06\00:22:05.53 MOST PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. 00:22:05.53\00:22:08.66 I WANT YOU TO COME OVER HERE TO ACTS 7:59 AND ONWARDS. 00:22:08.66\00:22:13.63 AND AS USUAL, I'VE GOT A LOT OF TEXTS HERE IN THE BIBLE. 00:22:13.63\00:22:16.53 WE ARE A BIBLE-READING, BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCH. 00:22:16.53\00:22:20.13 WE'RE NOT HEAVY INTO CHURCH TRADITION OR HIERARCHIES 00:22:20.13\00:22:23.30 OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS. 00:22:23.30\00:22:25.20 ACTS 7:59, "WHILE THEY WERE STONING HIM, STEPHEN PRAYED, 00:22:25.20\00:22:33.70 'LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.' THEN HE FELL ON HIS KNEES AND 00:22:33.70\00:22:39.56 CRIED OUT, 'LORD, DO NOT HOLD THIS SIN AGAINST THEM.' 00:22:39.56\00:22:43.90 WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS--" HE WENT TO HEAVEN. 00:22:43.90\00:22:48.23 DOES IT SAY THAT? 00:22:48.23\00:22:51.03 WELL, WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT? 00:22:51.03\00:22:53.10 THE BIBLE SAYS, "HE FELL ASLEEP." 00:22:53.10\00:22:58.16 SO LISTEN TO ME. 00:22:58.16\00:22:59.73 THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WHEN A PERSON DIES, HE FALLS ASLEEP. 00:22:59.73\00:23:07.36 COME OVER HERE. 00:23:07.36\00:23:08.63 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH TO FALL ASLEEP. 00:23:08.63\00:23:11.93 COME OVER HERE TO JOHN 11. 00:23:11.93\00:23:16.16 WHEN I SAID ONCE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE SAINTS ARE SLEEPING, 00:23:16.16\00:23:19.10 THEY THOUGHT I WAS TALKING ABOUT SOME CHURCH. 00:23:19.10\00:23:21.93 COME OVER HERE TO JOHN 11:11 AND ONWARDS. 00:23:21.93\00:23:25.60 YOU GOT IT? 00:23:25.60\00:23:27.33 "AFTER HE SAID THIS, HE WENT ON TO TELL THEM, 'OUR FRIEND 00:23:27.33\00:23:31.23 LAZARUS HAS FALLEN ASLEEP; BUT I AM GOING THERE TO WAKE HIM UP.' 00:23:31.23\00:23:35.73 HIS DISCIPLES REPLIED, 'LORD, IF HE SLEEPS, HE WILL GET BETTER.' 00:23:35.73\00:23:40.60 JESUS HAD BEEN SPEAKING OF HIS DEATH, BUT HIS DISCIPLES THOUGHT 00:23:40.60\00:23:46.43 HE MEANT NATURAL SLEEP. 00:23:46.43\00:23:49.00 SO THEN HE TOLD THEM PLAINLY, 'LAZARUS IS DEAD.'" 00:23:49.00\00:23:53.36 NOW LISTEN, MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, I DON'T WANT TO SHOCK 00:23:53.36\00:23:56.00 YOU, I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND YOU, BUT I WANT YOU TO READ 00:23:56.00\00:24:00.33 THE BIBLE. 00:24:00.33\00:24:01.33 WHEN YOU COME INTO THIS CHURCH, DON'T BE AFRAID TO PICK UP 00:24:01.33\00:24:03.86 A BIBLE. 00:24:03.86\00:24:04.83 IT'S NOT GOING TO HURT YOU. 00:24:04.83\00:24:07.13 THERE'S ONE PERSON WHO DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ THE BIBLE 00:24:07.13\00:24:10.63 AND THAT IS THE PRINCE OF THE DEMONS. 00:24:10.63\00:24:13.83 SO THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT LAZARUS, ONE OF THE SAINTS 00:24:13.83\00:24:18.46 OF JESUS, WAS SLEEPING. 00:24:18.46\00:24:21.46 NOW WOULD YOU COME OVER HERE TO 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-6? 00:24:21.46\00:24:26.03 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-6, PAUL SAYS, "FOR WHAT I RECEIVED I PASSED ON 00:24:26.03\00:24:33.46 TO YOU AS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE." 00:24:33.46\00:24:36.53 NOW HERE'S THE GOSPEL, "THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS 00:24:36.53\00:24:41.10 ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES." 00:24:41.10\00:24:43.10 WE BELIEVE IN THE SACRIFICIAL DEATH OF CHRIST FOR OUR SINS. 00:24:43.10\00:24:49.03 "THAT HE WAS BURIED, THAT HE WAS RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY 00:24:49.03\00:24:52.86 ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND THAT HE APPEARED TO PETER, 00:24:52.86\00:24:59.03 AND THEN TO THE TWELVE. 00:24:59.03\00:25:00.73 AFTER THAT, HE APPEARED TO MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED OF 00:25:00.73\00:25:04.00 THE BROTHERS AT THE SAME TIME, MOST OF WHOM ARE STILL LIVING, 00:25:04.00\00:25:09.20 THOUGH SOME HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 00:25:09.20\00:25:14.43 SO LISTEN, THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD. 00:25:14.43\00:25:18.20 THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT STEPHEN IS SLEEPING, PETER IS SLEEPING. 00:25:18.20\00:25:26.80 SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY-- AND THEY'RE SINCERE PEOPLE, 00:25:26.80\00:25:29.63 THEY SAY, "MY CHURCH IS BUILT UPON PETER." 00:25:29.63\00:25:35.13 I WOULDN'T WANT TO BELONG TO A CHURCH THAT IS BUILT 00:25:35.13\00:25:38.76 UPON A DEAD PERSON, A PERSON WHO IS NOT CONSCIOUS. 00:25:38.76\00:25:45.30 PETER IS SLEEPING. 00:25:45.30\00:25:47.56 I WANT TO BELONG TO A CHURCH THAT IS BUILT NOT 00:25:47.56\00:25:50.53 UPON A SLEEPING SAINT, BUT UPON A LIVING CHRIST. 00:25:50.53\00:25:55.83 SO YOU SEE, STEPHEN IS ASLEEP, PETER IS ASLEEP. 00:25:55.83\00:26:01.03 ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE IS ASLEEP. 00:26:01.03\00:26:04.93 PAUL, THE GREAT WRITER OF THE GOSPEL IN ROMANS AND 00:26:04.93\00:26:09.23 GALATIANS, HE'S ASLEEP. 00:26:09.23\00:26:10.90 AND ST. MARY IS SLEEPING. 00:26:10.90\00:26:13.76 YOU SAY, "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT." 00:26:13.76\00:26:17.10 MARY NEEDED A SAVIOR. 00:26:17.10\00:26:19.53 MARY IS GOING TO LIVE AGAIN WHEN JESUS RETURNS. 00:26:19.53\00:26:24.33 SO CAN YOU SEE IT IS A TERRIBLE DECEPTION TO PRAY TO THE BLESSED 00:26:24.33\00:26:30.03 VIRGIN MARY BECAUSE SHE'S SLEEPING, AWAITING 00:26:30.03\00:26:35.76 THE RESURRECTION? 00:26:35.76\00:26:37.80 YOU SAY, "THIS IS-- THIS IS A TERRIBLE HERESY." 00:26:37.80\00:26:40.13 NO, IT'S THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE. 00:26:40.13\00:26:42.70 AND CAN YOU UNDERSTAND NOW WHY SOME CHURCHES DON'T WANT YOU TO 00:26:42.70\00:26:46.60 READ THE BIBLE AND WHY YOU SO EASILY COMPLY? 00:26:46.60\00:26:51.33 SOME CHURCHES SAY, "YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND." 00:26:51.33\00:26:53.73 THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW IT. 00:26:53.73\00:26:56.30 BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW IT, THEY'RE GOING TO BE REVEALED 00:26:56.30\00:26:59.23 AS DECEIVERS. 00:26:59.23\00:27:02.26 SO THE BIBLE TEACHES PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING. 00:27:02.26\00:27:08.16 SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE SCARED ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONES. 00:27:08.16\00:27:12.20 YOU KNOW THAT. 00:27:12.20\00:27:13.96 MORE THAN A BILLION SOULS, NO, NO, NO, PROBABLY CLOSE TO 00:27:13.96\00:27:17.53 A BILLION SOULS, OUR BELOVED FRIENDS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 00:27:17.53\00:27:21.76 COMMUNION, AND MANY OF OUR DEAR PROTESTANT FRIENDS, BELIEVE THAT 00:27:21.76\00:27:27.20 THEIR DEAD LOVED ONES--WELL, THE CATHOLICS BELIEVE IN PURGATORY. 00:27:27.20\00:27:32.73 PEOPLE SAY, "THAT'S NOT SO BAD." 00:27:32.73\00:27:34.43 HOW DO YOU KNOW? 00:27:34.43\00:27:37.20 IT'S FIRE AND PEOPLE ARE BEING BURNED FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS. 00:27:37.20\00:27:43.30 ANYBODY KNOW WHAT A MILLION YEARS IS? 00:27:43.30\00:27:45.40 GOODNESS, WHAT ABOUT A YEAR? 00:27:45.40\00:27:47.70 AND SO PEOPLE ARE WORRIED FRANTIC. 00:27:47.70\00:27:50.90 "THERE IS MY HUSBAND, MY WIFE, MY CHILDREN, MY BABY 00:27:50.90\00:27:55.70 BEING BURNED." 00:27:55.70\00:27:59.40 AND MY BELOVED PROTESTANT FRIENDS BELIEVE THAT THE VAST 00:27:59.40\00:28:02.30 MAJORITY OF THE HUMAN RACE TODAY IS CRYING OUT IN HELL. 00:28:02.30\00:28:07.33 NOW, THE BIBLE DOES TALK ABOUT HELL. 00:28:07.33\00:28:09.13 JESUS SPOKE ABOUT HELL. 00:28:09.13\00:28:12.73 BUT THERE'S NOBODY IN HELL TODAY. 00:28:12.73\00:28:14.86 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE DEAD, WHETHER THEY'RE RIGHTEOUS 00:28:14.86\00:28:18.83 OR WHETHER THEY'RE UNRIGHTEOUS, ARE ASLEEP. 00:28:18.83\00:28:24.20 SO THE DEAD ARE NOT IN HELL, HEAVEN, OR PURGATORY. 00:28:24.20\00:28:28.00 YOU OUGHT TO JUST GET THAT INTO YOUR MIND. 00:28:28.00\00:28:30.16 COME OVER HERE TO ACTS 2:34. 00:28:30.16\00:28:32.20 ACTS 2:34, MY FRIEND. 00:28:32.20\00:28:37.63 ACTS 2:34. 00:28:37.63\00:28:43.36 NOW THIS IS TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THE GREAT SAINTS OF THE BIBLE, 00:28:43.36\00:28:46.46 THE MAN WHO GAVE US THE BOOK OF PSALMS. 00:28:46.46\00:28:49.23 THE BIBLE SAYS, "FOR DAVID DID NOT ASCEND TO HEAVEN." 00:28:49.23\00:28:54.70 THE BIBLE SAYS DAVID DID NOT ASCEND TO HEAVEN. 00:28:54.70\00:29:00.66 MANY CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT DAVID IS RIGHT THERE BESIDE THE 00:29:00.66\00:29:03.46 THRONE OF GOD, WRITING BEAUTIFUL POEMS AND PSALMS, THAT HE'S 00:29:03.46\00:29:08.96 ALIVE AND HE'S CONSCIOUS. 00:29:08.96\00:29:11.20 BUT THE BIBLE SAYS HE 00:29:08.96\00:29:11.20 DIDN'T ASCEND TO HEAVEN. 00:29:12.46\00:29:13.86 CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THE DEVIL, THE CHIEF DEMON OF 00:29:13.86\00:29:18.96 ALL THE DEMONS, DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ YOUR BIBLE? 00:29:18.96\00:29:23.53 CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY SOME CHURCHES BURNED THE BIBLES 00:29:23.53\00:29:27.83 AND TOLD PEOPLE, "YOU'RE TOO DUMB TO UNDERSTAND IT. 00:29:27.83\00:29:30.53 ONLY THE CLERGY CAN UNDERSTAND IT"? 00:29:30.53\00:29:32.96 IT'S BECAUSE THE DEVIL WANTS US TO REMAIN IN DARKNESS. 00:29:32.96\00:29:38.00 I WANT TO COME OVER HERE AND I WANT TO PUT THIS 00:29:38.00\00:29:40.06 ON THE BLACKBOARD. 00:29:40.06\00:29:42.06 THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT NO ONE, THAT MEANS NO ONE, NO ONE TODAY, 00:29:42.06\00:29:52.66 NOT A SINGLE, SOLITARY SOUL, NO ONE TODAY IS IN HELL, 00:29:52.66\00:29:56.83 PURGATORY. 00:29:56.83\00:30:04.13 NOW WAIT FOR THIS BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE IT GETS 00:30:05.46\00:30:08.20 A LITTLE CONTROVERSIAL. 00:30:08.20\00:30:10.40 MOST FOLKS ARE GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 00:30:10.40\00:30:12.96 THEY SAY, "HURRAY, NO ONE'S IN HELL, SO IT'S NOT SO BAD." 00:30:12.96\00:30:18.03 BUT THE BIBLE TEACHES NOT ONLY IS NO ONE TODAY IN HELL, 00:30:18.03\00:30:22.76 BUT NO ONE TODAY IS IN HEAVEN WITH SOME FEW EXCEPTIONS, LIKE 00:30:22.76\00:30:32.06 ENOCH AND ELIJAH AND MOSES. 00:30:32.06\00:30:37.26 AND THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN THE SCRIPTURES. 00:30:37.26\00:30:41.33 BUT THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, 00:30:41.33\00:30:45.73 THE VAST MAJORITY, NOBODY IS IN HELL AND NOBODY IS IN HEAVEN. 00:30:45.73\00:30:51.50 PEOPLE SAY, "THAT'S A MONSTROUS IDEA." 00:30:51.50\00:30:56.40 I WANT TO PUT THIS THOUGHT INTO YOUR MIND. 00:30:56.40\00:30:59.46 AND THIS, I GOT TO TREAD SOFTLY HERE. 00:30:59.46\00:31:03.26 I KNOW WE WANT EVERYBODY TO GO TO HEAVEN WHEN THEY DIE, 00:31:03.26\00:31:08.63 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TEXTS THAT INDICATE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY 00:31:08.63\00:31:12.33 OF PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO BE SAVED? 00:31:12.33\00:31:15.53 HAVE WE EVER THOUGHT IF THAT DOCTRINE IS TRUE, THEN THE VAST 00:31:15.53\00:31:19.63 MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TODAY, BILLIONS OF THEM ARE SCREAMING 00:31:19.63\00:31:24.50 IN THE FIRES OF HELL? 00:31:24.50\00:31:27.10 WHO WANTS TO BELIEVE THAT? 00:31:27.10\00:31:29.36 AND THE BIBLE TEACHES THERE IS A COMING JUDGMENT DAY. 00:31:29.36\00:31:33.86 CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? 00:31:33.86\00:31:34.90 THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS A COMING JUDGMENT DAY. 00:31:34.90\00:31:37.76 CAN YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD WHO GETS PEOPLE AND THROWS THEM 00:31:37.76\00:31:42.23 INTO HELL AND BURNS THEM FOR THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS, 00:31:42.23\00:31:46.86 AND THEN HE BRINGS THEM OUT AND HAS A JUDGMENT? 00:31:46.86\00:31:52.73 YOU HAVE, USUALLY, THE TRIAL AND THE SENTENCE AND THE JUDGMENT. 00:31:52.73\00:32:01.26 BUT THIS TURNS IT AROUND. 00:32:01.26\00:32:04.96 SO THE BIBLE SAYS THE DEAD ARE SLEEPING AND THE BIBLE TEACHES 00:32:04.96\00:32:11.66 THAT ALL PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO BE RESURRECTED. 00:32:11.66\00:32:17.60 COME OVER HERE TO JOHN 5. 00:32:17.60\00:32:20.26 JOHN 5. 00:32:20.26\00:32:21.66 I'M SO GLAD FOR JESUS AND THE BIBLE, AREN'T YOU? 00:32:21.66\00:32:26.36 JOHN 5:24 AND ONWARDS, DEAR HEARTS AND GENTLE PEOPLE. 00:32:26.36\00:32:32.23 JOHN 5:24, "I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, WHOEVER HEARS MY WORD 00:32:32.23\00:32:38.23 AND BELIEVES HIM WHO SENT ME HAS ETERNAL LIFE AND WILL NOT BE 00:32:38.23\00:32:43.36 CONDEMNED; HE HAS CROSSED OVER FROM DEATH TO LIFE." 00:32:43.36\00:32:46.46 CAN YOU SAY, "THANK YOU JESUS"? 00:32:46.46\00:32:49.63 THANK YOU, JESUS. 00:32:49.63\00:32:50.96 WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS? 00:32:50.96\00:32:52.20 YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR GOD'S WORD. 00:32:52.20\00:32:54.10 HOW CAN YOU HEAR GOD'S WORD IF YOU DON'T GO TO CHURCH? 00:32:54.10\00:32:57.53 HOW CAN YOU HEAR GOD'S WORD IF YOU DON'T READ IT? 00:32:57.53\00:33:01.36 VERSE 25, "I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, A TIME IS COMING AND HAS NOW 00:33:01.36\00:33:06.80 COME WHEN THE DEAD WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD 00:33:06.80\00:33:10.76 AND THOSE WHO HEAR WILL LIVE. 00:33:10.76\00:33:13.73 FOR AS THE FATHER HAS LIFE IN HIMSELF, SO HE HAS GRANTED 00:33:13.73\00:33:18.56 THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF. 00:33:18.56\00:33:21.73 DO NOT BE AMAZED AT THIS, FOR A TIME IS COMING WHEN ALL 00:33:21.73\00:33:25.30 WHO ARE IN THEIR GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE." 00:33:25.30\00:33:28.43 THAT'S EVERYBODY. 00:33:28.43\00:33:30.20 AND THEY'RE NOT IN HEAVEN AND THEY'RE NOT IN HELL. 00:33:30.20\00:33:32.93 THE BIBLE SAYS IN THEIR GRAVES. 00:33:32.93\00:33:36.13 "AND COME OUT; THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD WILL RISE TO LIVE, 00:33:36.13\00:33:39.96 AND THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL WILL RISE TO BE CONDEMNED." 00:33:39.96\00:33:45.53 THE BIBLE SAYS-- THINK ABOUT THIS. 00:33:45.53\00:33:48.53 EVERYBODY IN HIS GRAVE. 00:33:48.53\00:33:51.76 CAN YOU THINK THIS THROUGH? 00:33:51.76\00:33:54.06 YOU GO ALONG TO A FUNERAL AND THE MINISTER SAYS, "OUR BELOVED 00:33:54.06\00:33:58.93 FRIEND IS NOW IN HEAVEN." 00:33:58.93\00:34:00.93 THEY NEVER SAY, "OUR BELOVED FRIEND IS NOW IN HELL." 00:34:00.93\00:34:03.76 BUT OUR BELOVED FRIEND-- EVERYBODY AT A FUNERAL 00:34:03.76\00:34:06.93 GOES TO HEAVEN. 00:34:06.93\00:34:08.56 AND THEN THE MINISTER SAYS, "JESUS IS GOING TO COME BACK 00:34:08.56\00:34:12.20 AND HE'S GOING TO RAISE HIM FROM THE DEAD." 00:34:12.20\00:34:16.73 THAT'S A BIT ODD. 00:34:16.73\00:34:19.50 THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 00:34:19.50\00:34:23.40 IT TEACHES THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 00:34:23.40\00:34:26.80 AND THE BIBLE SAYS EVERY PERSON IS GOING TO COME FORTH FROM 00:34:26.80\00:34:30.90 THEIR TOMBS. 00:34:30.90\00:34:33.66 WHAT ABOUT STALIN? 00:34:33.66\00:34:35.10 YEAH, STALIN IS GOING TO COME FORTH. 00:34:35.10\00:34:38.46 WHAT ABOUT HITLER? 00:34:38.46\00:34:39.43 HE'S GOING TO COME FORTH, MY FRIEND, WITH ALL THE ARROGANCE. 00:34:39.43\00:34:44.46 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO CARRIED OUT THE INQUISITION ARE GOING TO 00:34:44.46\00:34:48.00 COME FORTH. 00:34:48.00\00:34:49.40 EVERY--ALL OF YOUR RELATIVES, ALL OF MY RELATIVES, 00:34:49.40\00:34:53.40 GOOD AND BAD. 00:34:53.40\00:34:54.36 THE BIBLE SAYS--NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT. 00:34:54.36\00:34:57.20 IT SAYS THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD FOR THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE, 00:34:57.20\00:35:03.16 AND THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL TO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. 00:35:03.16\00:35:07.23 THERE ARE TWO FATES AND TWO CLASSES. 00:35:07.23\00:35:09.60 AND JESUS DIDN'T SAY THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOT A LOT 00:35:09.60\00:35:13.00 OF FAITH, THOSE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND ALL THE THEOLOGY. 00:35:13.00\00:35:16.80 HE SAID, "THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD AND 00:35:16.80\00:35:19.40 THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL." 00:35:19.40\00:35:21.80 WE ARE GOING TO BE JUDGED IN THE JUDGMENT NOT ACCORDING 00:35:21.80\00:35:27.03 TO OUR PROFESSION, BUT ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS. 00:35:27.03\00:35:32.23 PEOPLE SAY, "YOU'RE TEACHING SALVATION BY WORKS." 00:35:32.23\00:35:34.50 NO, I'M NOT, BUT WORKS SHOW WHERE YOUR HEART IS. 00:35:34.50\00:35:40.63 WORKS SHOW WHETHER CHRIST HAS GOT YOUR HEART OR WHETHER 00:35:40.63\00:35:44.36 THE DEVIL HAS GOT YOUR HEART. 00:35:44.36\00:35:45.86 AND SO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE RAISED, TWO GREAT CLASSES 00:35:45.86\00:35:50.83 AND THEY'RE ALL JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. 00:35:50.83\00:35:54.90 AND SO THERE'S COMING A TREMENDOUS, 00:35:54.90\00:35:58.33 AMAZING RESURRECTION DAY. 00:35:58.33\00:36:02.50 AND THIS IS A GREAT COMFORT. 00:36:02.50\00:36:04.23 I WANT TO READ YOU AN OLD FASHIONED HYMN, SORT OF READ BY 00:36:04.23\00:36:09.80 AN OLD FASHIONED PREACHER. 00:36:09.80\00:36:12.43 "HOW SWEET ARE THE TIDINGS THAT GREET THE PILGRIM'S EAR AS 00:36:12.43\00:36:16.90 HE WANDERS IN EXILE FROM HOME. 00:36:16.90\00:36:19.43 SOON, SOON WILL THE SAVIOR IN GLORY APPEAR. 00:36:19.43\00:36:23.06 SOON WILL THE KINGDOM COME." 00:36:23.06\00:36:25.10 THIS IS A GREAT ADVENT HYMN. 00:36:25.10\00:36:28.00 "HE'S COMING, COMING, COMING SOON, I KNOW, COMING BACK TO 00:36:28.00\00:36:31.60 THIS EARTH AGAIN. 00:36:31.60\00:36:33.23 AND THE WEARY PILGRIMS WILL TO GLORY GO WHEN THE SAVIOR COMES 00:36:33.23\00:36:39.10 TO REIGN. 00:36:39.10\00:36:41.20 THE MOSSY, OLD GRAVES WHERE THE PILGRIMS SLEEP SHALL OPEN AS 00:36:41.20\00:36:46.20 WIDE AS BEFORE, AND THE MILLIONS THAT SLEEP IN THE MIGHTY 00:36:46.20\00:36:51.56 DEEP SHALL LIVE ON THE EARTH ONCE MORE." 00:36:51.56\00:36:56.90 WHAT A DAY, MY FRIEND, WHEN JESUS COMES BACK AND THE GRAVES 00:36:56.90\00:37:02.16 ARE OPENED AND THE SAINTS WILL BE RAISED TO EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:37:02.16\00:37:11.33 IF THE DEAD ARE UNCONSCIOUS, WHO ARE THE SPIRITS? 00:37:11.33\00:37:18.73 COME OVER HERE TO REVELATION 12:7-9. 00:37:18.73\00:37:22.90 REVELATION 12:7-9. 00:37:22.90\00:37:28.73 WHAT A TEXT THIS IS. 00:37:28.73\00:37:30.86 OPENS OUR EYES UP, REVELATION 12:7-9, DEAR FRIEND. 00:37:30.86\00:37:35.30 DO YOU GOT IT? 00:37:35.30\00:37:36.53 "AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN." 00:37:36.53\00:37:37.80 IMAGINE THAT. 00:37:37.80\00:37:39.03 "MICHAEL," ANOTHER NAME FOR JESUS, "AND HIS ANGELS." 00:37:39.03\00:37:42.93 SO JESUS HAS GOT ANGELS. 00:37:42.93\00:37:45.70 "THEY FOUGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON, AND THE DRAGON AND HIS ANGELS 00:37:45.70\00:37:49.46 FOUGHT BACK." 00:37:49.46\00:37:50.30 ANGELS ARE SPIRITS. 00:37:50.30\00:37:52.66 "BUT HE WAS NOT STRONG ENOUGH, AND THEY LOST THEIR PLACE 00:37:52.66\00:37:57.03 IN HEAVEN. 00:37:57.03\00:37:58.13 THE GREAT DRAGON WAS HURLED DOWN, THAT ANCIENT SERPENT 00:37:58.13\00:38:01.33 CALLED THE DEVIL, OR SATAN, WHO LEADS THE WHOLE WORLD ASTRAY. 00:38:01.33\00:38:06.00 HE WAS HURLED TO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WITH HIM." 00:38:06.00\00:38:09.56 NOW FOLKS, THIS IS MINDBOGGLING. 00:38:09.56\00:38:12.86 I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THIS HAPPENED, BUT THERE WAS 00:38:12.86\00:38:16.20 A TREMENDOUS WAR IN HEAVEN. 00:38:16.20\00:38:20.06 THERE WAS A MIGHTY, MIGHTY ANGEL WITH A MASSIVE MIND 00:38:20.06\00:38:24.76 AND A DAZZLING PERSONALITY, LOTS OF CHARISMA. 00:38:24.76\00:38:30.50 AMAZING. 00:38:30.50\00:38:33.06 ONE-THIRD OF ANGELS WERE DECEIVED BY HIS SMOOTH TALK. 00:38:33.06\00:38:40.13 WATCH OUT FOR SMOOTH, RELIGIOUS TALKERS. 00:38:40.13\00:38:45.43 NOW HOW MANY OF THESE ANGELS JOINED WITH LUCIFER IN REBELLION 00:38:45.43\00:38:49.20 AGAINST GOD WE DON'T KNOW, BUT MAYBE BILLIONS AND BILLIONS 00:38:49.20\00:38:55.40 AND BILLIONS. 00:38:55.40\00:38:56.86 AND THEY WERE CAST DOWN TO THIS EARTH AND THEY ALL HAVE MASSIVE 00:38:56.86\00:39:01.73 INTELLIGENCE. 00:39:01.73\00:39:03.53 THEY'RE SPIRITS. 00:39:03.53\00:39:04.96 THEY DON'T HAVE BODIES LIKE WE HAVE, THEY CAN GO ANYWHERE. 00:39:04.96\00:39:09.76 I BELIEVE THEY CAN TRAVEL AT TREMENDOUS SPEED, MAYBE FASTER 00:39:09.76\00:39:14.13 THAN--SURELY FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT. 00:39:14.13\00:39:19.53 AND SO THIS WORLD TODAY, IF OUR EYES COULD BE OPENED, WE WOULD 00:39:19.53\00:39:24.83 SEE VAST NUMBERS OF GOD'S GOOD ANGELS AND VAST NUMBERS OF EVIL 00:39:24.83\00:39:31.13 ANGELS, WHO ARE CALLED DEMONS. 00:39:31.13\00:39:34.56 THERE ARE TWO SIDES AND A GREAT WAR RAGES. 00:39:34.56\00:39:39.16 I WANT YOU TO COME TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12 00:39:39.16\00:39:44.03 BECAUSE THE NAME OF THE GAME IS DECEPTION. 00:39:44.03\00:39:49.63 2 THESSALONIANS 2. 00:39:49.63\00:39:54.20 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9 AND ONWARDS, "THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE 00:39:54.20\00:40:00.53 WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORK OF SATAN DISPLAYED IN 00:40:00.53\00:40:05.16 ALL KINDS OF COUNTERFEIT," LOOK AT THIS, "COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES, 00:40:05.16\00:40:09.46 SIGNS AND WONDERS, AND IN EVERY SORT OF EVIL THAT DECEIVES 00:40:09.46\00:40:13.36 THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. 00:40:13.36\00:40:15.83 THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO LOVE THE TRUTH AND BE SAVED. 00:40:15.83\00:40:21.20 FOR THIS REASON GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION SO THAT THEY 00:40:21.20\00:40:27.83 WILL BELIEVE THE LIE AND SO THAT ALL WILL BE CONDEMNED WHO HAVE 00:40:27.83\00:40:32.26 NOT BELIEVED THE TRUTH BUT HAVE DELIGHTED IN WICKEDNESS." 00:40:32.26\00:40:36.53 THESE BEINGS, CONTROLLED BY SATAN, ARE MASTERS OF DECEPTION. 00:40:36.53\00:40:46.20 AND THE DECEPTIONS ARE SO GREAT THAT THE GREATEST HUMAN MIND 00:40:46.20\00:40:51.30 IS NO MATCH FOR THEM. 00:40:51.30\00:40:55.46 THANK GOD FOR JESUS. 00:40:55.46\00:40:58.26 THANK GOD FOR THE BIBLE. 00:40:58.26\00:41:01.03 I CAN SHOW YOU TEXTS IN THE BIBLE THAT TELL US THAT 00:41:01.03\00:41:05.43 THIS GREAT BEING, LUCIFER, 00:41:05.43\00:41:10.03 HAS THE ABILITY TO IMPERSONATE. 00:41:10.10\00:41:13.23 THERE'S A FOOLISH IDEA THAT GOES AROUND RELIGIOUS CIRCLES IS THAT 00:41:13.23\00:41:18.36 HE LOOKS LIKE A DRAGON AND HE'S A FUNNY SORT OF CHARACTER 00:41:18.36\00:41:22.93 AND PEOPLE LAUGH AT HIM. 00:41:22.93\00:41:24.56 MY FRIEND, NEXT TO GOD, HE IS THE GREATEST MIND 00:41:24.56\00:41:28.56 IN THE UNIVERSE. 00:41:28.56\00:41:29.73 WE ARE NO MATCH FOR HIM. 00:41:29.73\00:41:31.36 THANK GOD FOR JESUS. 00:41:31.36\00:41:33.43 COME OVER HERE, PLEASE, 00:41:31.36\00:41:33.43 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14. 00:41:34.63\00:41:37.63 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14, MY DEAR FRIENDS. 00:41:37.63\00:41:44.26 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14. 00:41:44.26\00:41:50.00 VERSE 14 SAYS, "AND NO WONDER, FOR SATAN HIMSELF MASQUERADES 00:41:50.00\00:41:54.96 AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT." 00:41:54.96\00:41:57.63 IF YOU WERE TO SEE SATAN TODAY, HE WOULD NOT APPEAR AS A DEMON. 00:41:57.63\00:42:02.70 MAYBE HE WOULD EVEN LOOK LIKE JESUS. 00:42:02.70\00:42:07.90 HE'D BE CHARMING AND KIND. 00:42:07.90\00:42:12.76 HE HAS THE CAPACITY TO PREACH THE GREATEST SERMONS. 00:42:12.76\00:42:19.00 AND THAT IS WHY GOD HAS GIVEN US THE BIBLE AND IT'S WHY WE NEED 00:42:19.00\00:42:25.53 TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE PACK AND BECOME BIBLE CHRISTIANS. 00:42:25.53\00:42:31.93 WE DON'T HAVE TIME TODAY TO GO TO 1 SAMUEL 28, BUT YOU OUGHT TO 00:42:31.93\00:42:35.76 READ IT AT HOME SOMETIME BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT HOW SAUL WENT 00:42:35.76\00:42:40.53 ALONG TO THE WITCH OF ENDOR AND SHE SUPPOSEDLY BROUGHT UP 00:42:40.53\00:42:45.80 THE DEAD PROPHET SAMUEL, WHO WAS DEAD. 00:42:45.80\00:42:51.56 AND THE LEADER OF THE CHURCH BACK THERE WAS DECEIVED 00:42:51.56\00:42:55.86 IN A SÉANCE BY A DEMON WHO PRETENDED TO BE 00:42:55.86\00:43:00.83 THE LIVING PROPHET. 00:43:00.83\00:43:05.13 BISHOP PIKE WAS A FAMOUS ANGLICAN MINISTER, 00:43:05.13\00:43:09.30 CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 00:43:09.30\00:43:11.23 HIS SON DIED. 00:43:11.23\00:43:13.73 HE WROTE A BOOK, "I SPOKE TO MY DEAD SON." 00:43:13.73\00:43:18.86 PEOPLE IN CHURCHES EVERYWHERE BELIEVE THAT THE DEAD ARE ALIVE. 00:43:18.86\00:43:30.26 THE DECEIVING POWER OF EVIL SPIRITS IS MANIFESTED 00:43:30.26\00:43:33.23 IN DIFFERENT WAYS. 00:43:33.23\00:43:35.63 IN MELBOURNE, PEOPLE COME TO MY MEETINGS AT THE GREAT 00:43:35.63\00:43:38.46 DALLAS BROOKS AND THEY TOLD ME, "WE'VE COME BECAUSE WE WANT 00:43:38.46\00:43:42.46 YOU TO JOIN US." 00:43:42.46\00:43:44.06 THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD ME. 00:43:44.06\00:43:45.93 THEY SAID, "COME AND SEE US. 00:43:45.93\00:43:47.86 AND IF IT'S INCONVENIENT FOR YOU TO COME TO SEE US, WE WILL LEAVE 00:43:47.86\00:43:51.53 OUR BODIES AND WE WILL COME AND SEE YOU." 00:43:51.53\00:43:55.20 YOU SAY THOSE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN. 00:43:55.20\00:43:57.30 DON'T MOCK THE DEVIL. 00:43:57.30\00:44:00.46 PEOPLE SAY, "WOULD YOU EVER GO TO A SÉANCE SO THAT YOU COULD 00:44:00.46\00:44:04.56 SHOW THAT JESUS IS GREATER?" 00:44:04.56\00:44:06.83 NO, NO, NO. 00:44:06.83\00:44:08.50 I KNOW THAT JESUS IS GREATER. 00:44:08.50\00:44:10.93 I SHOULD NOT WALK ON THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY. 00:44:10.93\00:44:13.76 WHEN I GO ON THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY WILLINGLY, 00:44:13.76\00:44:21.86 I GO BY MYSELF. 00:44:21.86\00:44:25.26 DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL. 00:44:25.26\00:44:28.03 SOUTH OF THE BORDER HERE, THERE ARE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF 00:44:28.03\00:44:31.36 EARNEST, GOOD PEOPLE WHO PRAY TO THE DEAD. 00:44:31.36\00:44:34.80 THEY CALL IT THE DAY OF THE DEAD. 00:44:34.80\00:44:38.13 THEN THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE 00:44:38.13\00:44:41.33 DECEIVED BY ASTROLOGY. 00:44:41.33\00:44:44.06 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN ISAIAH 47:13-14, 00:44:44.06\00:44:47.96 FOR IT PRONOUNCES A CURSE UPON THOSE WHO PRACTICE ASTROLOGY. 00:44:47.96\00:44:56.60 SO MANY PEOPLE DO. 00:44:56.60\00:45:00.43 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE HAVE--WE DON'T LIKE TO TALK 00:45:00.43\00:45:03.60 ABOUT, AND THAT IS DEMON POSSESSION. 00:45:03.60\00:45:08.46 IT IS REAL AND IT HAPPENS. 00:45:08.46\00:45:11.80 I WANT YOU TO COME TO LUKE 8. 00:45:11.80\00:45:14.50 LUKE 8. 00:45:14.50\00:45:16.80 I THANK GOD FOR JESUS AND I THANK GOD FOR THE BIBLE. 00:45:16.80\00:45:21.46 LUKE 8:22 AND ONWARDS, "ONE DAY JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, 00:45:21.46\00:45:27.66 'LET'S GO OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE.' 00:45:27.66\00:45:30.06 SO THEY GOT INTO A BOAT AND SET OUT. 00:45:30.06\00:45:32.00 AS THEY SAILED, HE FELL ASLEEP. 00:45:32.00\00:45:33.96 A SQUALL CAME DOWN ON THE LAKE, SO THAT THE BOAT WAS BEING 00:45:33.96\00:45:37.13 SWAMPED, AND THEY WERE IN GREAT DANGER. 00:45:37.13\00:45:39.73 THE DISCIPLES WENT AND WOKE HIM, SAYING, 'MASTER, MASTER, 00:45:39.73\00:45:42.46 WE'RE GOING TO DROWN!' HE GOT UP AND REBUKED THE WIND 00:45:42.46\00:45:45.03 AND THE RAGING WATER; THE STORM SUBSIDED, AND ALL WAS CALM. 00:45:45.03\00:45:48.76 'WHERE IS YOUR FAITH?' HE ASKED HIS DISCIPLES. 00:45:48.76\00:45:52.96 IN FEAR AND AMAZEMENT THEY ASKED ONE ANOTHER, 'WHO IS THIS? 00:45:52.96\00:45:55.53 HE COMMANDS EVEN THE WINDS AND THE WATER, AND THEY OBEY HIM.'" 00:45:55.53\00:45:59.86 HE'S LORD OF ALL, MY FRIEND. 00:45:59.86\00:46:02.53 "HE SAILED TO THE REGION OF THE GERASENES, WHICH IS ACROSS 00:46:02.53\00:46:07.06 THE LAKE FROM GALILEE. 00:46:07.06\00:46:08.90 WHEN JESUS STEPPED ASHORE, HE WAS MET BY A DEMON-POSSESSED 00:46:08.90\00:46:12.36 MAN FROM THE TOWN." 00:46:12.36\00:46:14.70 DON'T PROFESS TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE 00:46:14.70\00:46:19.80 IN THE DEMONS BECAUSE JESUS BELIEVED IN THE DEMONS. 00:46:19.80\00:46:26.73 HE WAS A MAN DEMON-POSSESSED. 00:46:26.73\00:46:29.23 "FOR A LONG TIME THIS MAN HAD NOT WORN CLOTHES 00:46:29.23\00:46:31.76 OR LIVED IN A HOUSE, BUT HAD LIVED IN THE TOMBS. 00:46:31.76\00:46:35.53 WHEN HE SAW JESUS, HE CRIED OUT AND FELL AT HIS FEET, SHOUTING 00:46:35.53\00:46:39.16 AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE, 'WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME, JESUS, 00:46:39.16\00:46:42.16 SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD? 00:46:42.16\00:46:43.66 I BEG YOU, DON'T TORTURE ME!' FOR JESUS HAD COMMANDED THE EVIL 00:46:43.66\00:46:49.56 SPIRIT TO COME OUT OF THE MAN. 00:46:49.56\00:46:52.10 MANY TIMES IT HAD SEIZED HIM, AND THOUGH HE WAS CHAINED HAND 00:46:52.10\00:46:55.80 AND FOOT AND KEPT UNDER GUARD, HE HAD BROKEN HIS CHAINS AND 00:46:55.80\00:46:59.70 HAD BEEN DRIVEN BY THE DEMON INTO SOLITARY PLACES. 00:46:59.70\00:47:03.66 JESUS ASKED HIM, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?' 00:47:03.66\00:47:06.56 'LEGION,' HE REPLIED, BECAUSE MANY DEMONS HAD GONE INTO HIM. 00:47:06.56\00:47:11.96 AND THEY BEGGED HIM REPEATEDLY NOT TO ORDER THEM TO GO INTO 00:47:11.96\00:47:15.30 THE ABYSS. 00:47:15.30\00:47:17.00 A LARGE HERD OF PIGS WAS FEEDING THERE ON THE HILLSIDE. 00:47:17.00\00:47:20.20 THE DEMONS BEGGED JESUS TO LET THEM GO INTO THEM, AND HE GAVE 00:47:20.20\00:47:23.83 THEM PERMISSION. 00:47:23.83\00:47:25.93 WHEN THE DEMONS CAME OUT OF THE MAN, THEY WENT INTO 00:47:25.93\00:47:28.10 THE PIGS, AND THE HERD RUSHED DOWN THE STEEP BANK INTO 00:47:28.10\00:47:31.16 THE LAKE AND WAS DROWNED. 00:47:31.16\00:47:33.66 WHEN THOSE TENDING THE PIGS SAW WHAT HAD HAPPENED, THEY RAN OFF 00:47:33.66\00:47:36.90 AND REPORTED THIS IN THE TOWN AND THE COUNTRYSIDE, 00:47:36.90\00:47:40.20 AND THE PEOPLE WENT OUT TO SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED. 00:47:40.20\00:47:42.86 WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS, THEY FOUND THE MAN FROM WHOM 00:47:42.86\00:47:46.66 THE DEMONS HAD GONE OUT, SITTING AT JESUS' FEET, 00:47:46.66\00:47:51.23 DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND." 00:47:51.23\00:47:54.76 LOOK AT ME. 00:47:54.76\00:47:55.53 I'M GOING TO TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING. 00:47:55.53\00:48:02.10 IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A MAN OR A WOMAN TO BECOME 00:48:02.10\00:48:07.23 FILLED WITH DEMONS. 00:48:07.23\00:48:10.63 I'VE SEEN IT. 00:48:10.63\00:48:13.66 I BELIEVE THAT MUCH OF THE CRIME AND THE ACTS OF TERRORISM THAT 00:48:13.66\00:48:17.96 WE SEE IN THE WORLD TODAY ARE THE RESULT OF DEMONISM, 00:48:17.96\00:48:23.16 EVIL SPIRITS. 00:48:23.16\00:48:25.13 AND I'VE GOT SOMETHING ELSE TO TELL YOU. 00:48:25.13\00:48:28.76 AND I ONLY PRAY THAT YOU WILL HAVE EARS THAT ARE OPEN AND THAT 00:48:28.76\00:48:33.26 GOD WILL SOMEHOW SHAKE US TO BECOME NO LONGER PROFESSORS, 00:48:33.26\00:48:39.96 BUT POSSESSORS OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPEL. 00:48:39.96\00:48:44.86 THE BIBLE TEACHES, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GIVE YOU THE TEXT, THAT 00:48:44.86\00:48:49.36 DEMONISM IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD IN THESE LAST DAYS. 00:48:49.36\00:48:54.83 THE PROPHECIES OF REVELATION ARE CLEAR AND THEY TEACH THAT 00:48:54.83\00:49:00.46 THE VAST MAJORITY OF HUMAN BEINGS IN THE LAST DAYS 00:49:00.46\00:49:04.16 WILL BECOME THE HABITATION OF UNCLEAN SPIRITS. 00:49:04.16\00:49:10.03 THERE'LL BE A MINORITY, A REMNANT, WHO ARE FILLED WITH 00:49:10.03\00:49:13.50 THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND WHO REFLECT THE IMAGE OF CHRIST 00:49:13.50\00:49:18.00 AND WHO ARE SAVED BY GRACE ALONE THROUGH FAITH ALONE. 00:49:18.00\00:49:20.93 BUT THE REST OF THE WORLD BECOMES DEMON-POSSESSED. 00:49:20.93\00:49:30.83 THIS IS NOT BABY TALK. 00:49:30.83\00:49:36.13 THIS PERHAPS IS THE MOST 00:49:30.83\00:49:36.13 IMPORTANT TALK YOU'VE EVER HEARD BECAUSE UNLESS CHRIST 00:49:38.10\00:49:43.76 IS ON THE THRONE OF MY HEART, ANOTHER POWER WISHES TO OCCUPY 00:49:43.76\00:49:52.03 THAT POSITION. 00:49:52.03\00:49:56.83 FOR A PERSON WHO IS WATCHING THE TELECAST AND YOU ARE BEING 00:49:56.83\00:50:01.93 HARASSED BY DEMONS--WELL, MAYBE THERE'S SOMEBODY WATCHING 00:50:01.93\00:50:06.36 THE TELECAST AND YOU ARE POSSESSED BY A DEMON. 00:50:06.36\00:50:09.66 I WOULD TELL YOU THIS. 00:50:09.66\00:50:11.06 WITH ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE, JESUS IS LORD OVER EVERY DEMON 00:50:11.06\00:50:13.00 AND YOU NEED NOT BE AFRAID 00:50:13.00\00:50:18.83 IF CHRIST IS IN YOUR HEART. 00:50:21.93\00:50:28.20 BUT YOU AND I MUST MAKE THE ULTIMATE DECISION. 00:50:28.20\00:50:31.53 NOBODY CAN MAKE IT FOR YOU. 00:50:31.53\00:50:33.26 YOU CAN DISREGARD THIS TALK AND YOU CAN WALK AWAY AND YOU CAN 00:50:33.26\00:50:36.43 LAUGH, BUT ONE DAY HIS INFERNAL MAJESTY WILL COME CALLING. 00:50:36.43\00:50:45.33 AND IN THAT DAY, YOU'LL BE GLAD THAT YOU OPENED YOUR HEART TO 00:50:45.33\00:50:49.93 THE SAVIOR. 00:50:49.93\00:50:51.53 REMEMBER THIS, THE SAME LORD WHO STOOD IN THAT LITTLE BOAT AND 00:50:51.53\00:50:57.46 SAID TO THE RAGING ELEMENTS, "PEACE, BE STILL," CAN SAY TO 00:50:57.46\00:51:04.66 THE RAGING STORM IN YOUR HEART, "PEACE, BE STILL." 00:51:04.66\00:51:10.70 REMEMBER, UNLESS CHRIST IS LORD OF ALL, HE IS NOT LORD AT ALL. 00:51:10.70\00:51:19.13 WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A GREAT WAR, I FEEL IT. 00:51:19.13\00:51:23.46 NO MORE IS THIS WAR MORE EVIDENT THAN HERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 00:51:23.46\00:51:27.96 THAT IS GIVING ITSELF OVER TO DEMONS AND EVERY OTHER CRIME 00:51:27.96\00:51:31.56 AND SIN. 00:51:31.56\00:51:33.66 WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF THE WAR. 00:51:33.66\00:51:37.20 AND YOU AND I MUST CHOOSE, CHRIST OR SATAN. 00:51:37.20\00:51:49.10 AND I SAY AGAIN, IN THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET, AS FOR ME AND MY 00:51:49.10\00:51:54.73 HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD. 00:51:54.73\00:51:58.93 LET US PRAY. 00:51:58.93\00:52:04.23 OUR FATHER, ON OUR KNEES WE COME TO YOU TODAY. 00:52:13.53\00:52:17.30 WE THANK YOU, FIRST AND FOREMOST, ABOVE ALL ELSE, 00:52:17.30\00:52:21.96 FOR JESUS. 00:52:21.96\00:52:24.20 WE THANK YOU THAT HE IS LORD OF ALL, AND THAT AT THE NAME OF 00:52:24.20\00:52:29.96 JESUS THE DEMONS QUAKE IN FEAR AND RUN AWAY. 00:52:29.96\00:52:36.33 WE THANK YOU THAT ON THE CROSS HE DEFEATED THE HORDES OF 00:52:36.33\00:52:39.56 DARKNESS AND SATAN WAS CAST DOWN. 00:52:39.56\00:52:45.40 WE KNOW FROM THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE--AND MANY OF US, SADLY, 00:52:45.40\00:52:51.30 OUR FATHER, ARE SO DECEIVED BY THE GREAT MASTER OF DEMONS THAT 00:52:51.30\00:52:57.63 WE NO LONGER READ OUR BIBLES. 00:52:57.63\00:53:00.06 WE'D RATHER WATCH TELEVISION AND TRASH. 00:53:00.06\00:53:05.40 LORD, FORGIVE US FOR OUR SICKLY CHRISTIANITY, 00:53:05.40\00:53:09.53 OUR WEAKNESS, OUR APOSTASY. 00:53:09.53\00:53:15.26 BUT WE KNOW FROM THE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE THAT OUR LORD 00:53:15.26\00:53:19.06 JESUS CHRIST IS LORD OF ALL. 00:53:19.06\00:53:22.63 AND HE CAN SAY TO OUR HEARTS, "PEACE, BE STILL." 00:53:22.63\00:53:25.80 WE THANK YOU TODAY FOR THE REVELATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE 00:53:25.80\00:53:28.50 THAT TELLS US THAT OUR LOVED ONES ARE NOT BURNING IN HELL 00:53:28.50\00:53:31.70 OR PURGATORY, AND THEY HAVE NOT YET GONE HOME TO GLORY BECAUSE 00:53:31.70\00:53:36.50 THE BOOK OF HEBREWS TELLS US WE ALL GO TOGETHER. 00:53:36.50\00:53:41.20 HOW SLOW WE HAVE BEEN TO BELIEVE YOUR WORD. 00:53:41.20\00:53:44.60 FORGIVE US, LORD. 00:53:44.60\00:53:46.50 AND BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF THIS GREAT BATTLE, WE KNOW IT 00:53:46.50\00:53:49.76 IS DANGEROUS AND FOOLISH TO REMAIN NEUTRAL BECAUSE 00:53:49.76\00:53:55.36 WE ARE NOT NEUTRAL. 00:53:55.36\00:53:56.66 IF WE DO NOT CAST OUR VOTE FOR CHRIST, WE'VE CAST OUR VOTE 00:53:56.66\00:54:01.50 FOR THE LORD OF THE DEMONS. 00:54:01.50\00:54:03.53 AND TODAY WE WOULD CAST OUR VOTE FOR CHRIST AND WE WOULD SAY, 00:54:03.53\00:54:09.83 "WE WANT TO HAVE CHRIST FIRST AND LAST AND BEST IN EVERYTHING. 00:54:09.83\00:54:16.83 WE WANT HIM TO BE THE LORD OF OUR HEARTS AND THE LORD OF 00:54:16.83\00:54:20.30 OUR LIVES." 00:54:20.30\00:54:22.00 IF THAT IS YOUR PRAYER TODAY IN OUR BEAUTIFUL CHURCH, 00:54:22.00\00:54:24.93 YOU WILL RAISE A HAND. 00:54:24.93\00:54:26.13 LIFT UP BOTH YOUR HANDS AND SAY, "I CHOOSE CHRIST. 00:54:26.13\00:54:30.56 I CHOOSE CHRIST AS THE LORD OF MY LIFE, 00:54:30.56\00:54:35.46 AS THE LORD OF MY HEART." 00:54:35.46\00:54:38.26 BLESS THESE UPRAISED HANDS. 00:54:38.26\00:54:40.00 WE THANK YOU THAT NOW GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN US 00:54:40.00\00:54:47.50 THAN HE WHO IS IN THE WORLD. 00:54:47.50\00:54:50.40 WE BLESS YOU, WE PRAISE YOU, WE THANK YOU, GIVE YOU GLORY 00:54:50.40\00:54:55.96 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 00:54:55.96\00:54:59.23 AMEN AND THANK YOU, GOD. 00:54:59.23\00:55:04.33 THANK YOU, GOD. 00:55:04.33\00:55:06.60 >> HELLO, I'M JOHN CARTER. 00:55:08.96\00:55:09.03 I FIRST CAME HERE IN 1971. 00:55:10.53\00:55:13.53 THAT'S A LONG TIME AGO. 00:55:13.53\00:55:14.90 I'VE BEEN BACK 39 TIMES. 00:55:14.90\00:55:17.70 MORE RECENTLY IN 1991 WHEN WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE UNDER 00:55:17.70\00:55:22.26 GOD OF CONDUCTING THE FIRST EVER EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN 00:55:22.26\00:55:26.63 IN THE OLD SOVIET UNION. 00:55:26.63\00:55:28.80 SINCE THEN, WE HAVE BEEN PREACHING RIGHT AROUND 00:55:28.80\00:55:31.73 THIS GREAT COUNTY, ST. PETERSBURG, MOSCOW, 00:55:31.73\00:55:36.10 AS THEY CALL IT, MOSKVA, NIZHNY NOVGOROD, DZERJINSK. 00:55:36.10\00:55:40.80 I CAN JUST GO ON AND ON. 00:55:40.80\00:55:42.83 AND WE HAVE SEEN THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF SOULS COME TO 00:55:42.83\00:55:47.60 A KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 00:55:47.60\00:55:50.76 I WANT TO THANK YOU TODAY FOR YOUR MAGNIFICENT SUPPORT, FOR 00:55:50.76\00:55:55.90 STANDING WITH US IN TOUGH TIMES AND IN GOOD TIMES IN 00:55:55.90\00:55:59.96 THE PREACHING OF CHRIST TO THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. 00:55:59.96\00:56:03.56 MY FRIEND, IT'S NOT OVER YET. 00:56:03.56\00:56:06.46 WE'RE NOT GIVING UP ON RUSSIA BECAUSE THE NEEDS HERE 00:56:06.46\00:56:10.03 ARE TREMENDOUS. 00:56:10.03\00:56:12.50 PLEASE PRAY FOR THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE AND PLEASE, 00:56:12.50\00:56:16.43 IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WRITE TO ME JOHN CARTER, 00:56:16.43\00:56:20.50 POST OFFICE BOX 1900, THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA 91358. 00:56:20.50\00:56:27.26 LET ME GIVE IT TO YOU AGAIN, JOHN CARTER, 00:56:27.26\00:56:29.70 POST OFFICE BOX 1900, THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA 91358. 00:56:29.70\00:56:35.23 FOR MY FRIENDS IN AUSTRALIA, LOOK AT THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW. 00:56:35.23\00:56:39.70 WE'RE PUTTING UP OUR ADDRESS. 00:56:39.70\00:56:41.86 WRITE TO ME AND HELP US TO KEEP THE LIGHT BURNING AS THE SUN 00:56:41.86\00:56:47.30 GOES DOWN IN THE LAND OF RUSSIA. 00:56:47.30\00:56:51.16 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST. 00:56:51.16\00:56:54.73 PLEASE WRITE TO ME. 00:56:54.73\00:56:56.03 PLEASE PRAY FOR US. 00:56:56.03\00:56:57.33 PRAY FOR RUSSIA. 00:56:57.33\00:56:59.20 THIS IS JOHN CARTER SAYING TO YOU FROM THE KREMLIN 00:56:59.20\00:57:02.86 THANK YOU IN JESUS' NAME AND GOD BLESS YOU. 00:57:02.86\00:57:08.33 ? SING ALLELUIA, ? 00:57:10.90\00:57:10.96 ? SING ALLELUIA. ? ? FOR HIS INFINITE LOVE, ? 00:57:13.93\00:57:20.20 ? SING ALLELUIA. ? ? SING ALLELUIA, ? 00:57:20.20\00:57:26.50 ? SING ALLELUIA. ? ? PRAISE THE FATHER ABOVE. ? 00:57:26.50\00:57:32.96 ? SING ALLELUIA. ? ? SING ALLELUIA, ? 00:57:32.96\00:57:39.26 ? SING ALLELUIA. ? ? FOR HIS INFINITE LOVE, ? 00:57:39.26\00:57:45.36 ? SING ALLELUIA. ?? 00:57:45.36\00:57:51.50