From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report Presents,
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"The Living Word
around the world."
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I just want to give you
the warmest welcome today.
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It's right here on the
great United States of America
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and around the world.
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This is an extraordinary program
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entitled, "Pentecost Report."
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The Carter Report
team has just come back
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from the South Pacific and
we saw there the power of God.
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We saw the Latter Rain.
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I'd like to give
you this newsletter.
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It's called the
Pentecost Report.
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It's full of amazing pictures.
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For instance,
like this one here.
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We saw night by night
35,000 souls packed into this
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great soccer stadium
to hear the preaching
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of the gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I want you to
write to me John Carter,
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post office box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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And in Australia
write to be at the address
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now appearing on the screen.
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That's
Terrigal, New South Wales.
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So the program
today is astounding.
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You're going to
see the outpouring
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of the Spirit of God.
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You're going to
see 35,000 souls,
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night by night,
listening to the word of God.
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Right now it is my
privilege to introduce
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a great group of people
from the great land Down Under.
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They come from Avondale College.
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Their director is
Dr. Dennis, Robb Dennis.
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The group is
called "The Promise"
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from Avondale College.
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And I'm going to ask them
now to come and sing for us
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and I want us all to give them
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a great welcome
here today. Welcome.
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Ride on, King Jesus
No man can a-hinder me
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Ride on, King Jesus, ride
on No man, can a-hinder me
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For He is King of
kings He is Lord of lords
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Jesus Christ, the first and last
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No man works like Him
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For He is King of
kings He is Lord and lords
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Jesus Christ, the first and last
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No man works like Him
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Ride on, King Jesus
No man can a-hinder me
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Ride on, King Jesus,
ride on No man, can hinder me
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King Jesus rides
on a milky-white horse
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No man works like Him
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The river of Jordan He did frost
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No man works like Him
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King Jesus rides
on a milky-white horse
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No man works like Him
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He calls His
saints from everywhere, oh
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No man works like Him
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Ride on, King Jesus
No man can a-hinder me
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Ride on, King Jesus, ride
on No man, can a-hinder me
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For He is King of
kings He is Lord and lords
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Jesus Christ, the first and last
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No man works like Him
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For He is King of
kings He is Lord and lords
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Jesus Christ, the first and last
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No man works like Him
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Ride on, King Jesus No
man, no man can a-hinder me
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Ride on, King Jesus, ride
on No man, can a-hinder me
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No man, can a-hinder me Amen!
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Many years ago, Dr. Billy Graham
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came here to the
city of Los Angeles
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to run a great
evangelistic campaign.
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This is a place where
there is a lot of opposition
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to the preaching of
the Gospel of Christ.
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I don't know why, but
it seems to be Satan seat.
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There is a lot of hatred towards
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the preachers of the Gospel
in this part of the world.
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Maybe it's because of Hollywood
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or some other
influence, I just don't know.
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But after Dr. Billy
Graham talked about running
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this great--great campaign here
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in the city of the
Angeles, he was talking,
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he was talking to
a group of Ministers,
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you see, he got
all these Ministers
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together to ask
for their support.
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And that's where
the opposition started.
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Opposition often comes to
the preaching of the Gospel
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not from true believers but
from super-religious people.
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And a Minister got up
and he said, Dr. Graham,
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if you run these
series of meetings,
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these series of
meetings you're going to take
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the church back a hundred years.
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A friend of mine Dr. Rex Edward
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from Washington
was in the meetings.
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He told me the story.
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And he said after
this, man got up and said
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you're going to
take the church back
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a hundred years in America.
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He said Billy slowly--Billy
started to get to his feet.
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I'm glad to have
Mrs. Willy Jordon
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with us today too. I'm so glad.
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And she knows Dr. Billy Graham.
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She has been a part of his team.
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But as Dr. Edward said
as the great evangelist
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got to his feet.
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He said he could just about--
hear the wheel is turning.
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Dr. Graham got up when
he turned to the skeptic
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and he said I want to
thank you for your remark
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but I want to make it
very plain here today.
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It is not my intention
to take the church back
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a hundred years.
I want to see God
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take His church
back 2000 years. Amen.
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Back to the days of the Apostles
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and back to the
days of Pentecost.
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And I want to tell you folks
today when we went to Honiara,
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God took His
church back 2000 years.
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Today's topic is
"Pentecost Report."
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And please write for
your copy of this magazine.
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We've just put out
the Pentecost Report.
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And I just want to
thank, "Promise Today"
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from Avondale
College for singing for us.
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I want you to
take your Bibles down
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and turn with me over
here to Romans Chapter 10,
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Book of Romans Chapter
10. Everybody take your Bible.
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We're a Bible carrying
and a Bible reading church.
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Romans Chapter 10 verse 8 to 15.
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Would you hold up your Bible?
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You got a Bible here today
in church. Hold it up high.
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That scares the devil when
he sees people with a Bible.
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So hold up your Bible.
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Romans--put it down, thank you.
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Romans 10 verses 8 and
onwards, are you ready?
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"But what does it
say? The word is near you.
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It is in your
mouth and in your heart,
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that is, the word of
faith we are proclaiming.
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That is, if you confess
with your mouth, Jesus is Lord,
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and believe in your
heart that God raised you
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from the dead,
you will be saved.
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For it is with your heart that
you believe and are justified,
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and it is with your mouth
that you confess and are saved.
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As the scripture says,
'Anyone who trusts in Him
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will never be put to shame.'
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For there is no difference
between Jew and Gentile,
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the same Lord is Lord
of all and richly blesses
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all who call on Him,
for," everyone say it with me.
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"Everyone who calls on the name
of the Lord shall be saved."
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And notice the next
verse because those Ministers
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who criticized Dr. Graham
apparently had never this text.
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"How then, can
they call on the one
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they have not believed in?
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And how can they
believe in the one whom
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they have not heard?
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And how can they hear without
someone preaching to them?
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And how can they
preach unless they are sent?
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As it is written,
'How beautiful are the feet
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of those who bring good news."
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That means the Gospel.
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And verse 17
says, "Consequently,
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faith comes from
hearing the message,
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and the message is heard
through the word of Christ."
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Listen very carefully.
The Bible teaches that
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there is no other name
under heaven given among men
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whereby we must be saved.
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We are not saved
because we are sincere.
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We are not saved because
we try to do what is right.
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We are saved
through the blood of Christ.
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The Bible says,
Jesus is the way,
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the truth, and the life.
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Many, many people even today
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in the Church
don't understand that.
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That Jesus is the way
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and Jesus is the
truth and Jesus is the life.
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Come over here to
Ephesians Chapter 2.
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Ephesians Chapter 2
and verses, let me see,
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Chapter 2 and
verses 1 and onwards.
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I'm glad to see you folks
turning to the Holy Scriptures
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because the power
is in the word of God,
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not in the preacher.
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Ephesians 2
verses 1 and onwards,
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"As for you," you
are what? You are dead.
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So if you're dead
today, "you were dead in your
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transgressions and
sins," without Christ the Bible
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says you're dead, even
though you go to Church,
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even though
you're super religious.
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"In which you used to
live when you followed
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the ways of this
world and of the ruler
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of the kingdom of the air,
the Spirit who is now at work
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in those who are disobedient.
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All of us also lived
among them at one time,
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gratifying the
cravings of our sinful nature
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and following its
desires and thoughts.
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Like the rest, we were
by nature objects of wrath."
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The Bible says,
outside of Christ
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we're objects of wrath.
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People say I
don't want to hear this.
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It is the truth. It is the word.
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"But because of
His great love for us,
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God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive with Christ
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even when we were
dead in our transgressions.
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It is by grace
you have been saved."
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You're not saved by your works.
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You're saved by grace.
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"And God raised us up
with Christ and seated us
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with Him in the
heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
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in order that in the
coming ages He might show
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the incomparable
riches of His grace,
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expressed in His
kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
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For it is by grace
you have been saved,
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through faith-- and
this not from yourselves,
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it is the gift
of God not by works,
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so that no one can boast.
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For we are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus
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to do good works, which God
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prepared in
advance for us to do."
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My friend, let
nobody get the idea
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that we can be
saved by climbing up
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the quaking
sides of Mount Sinai.
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We can never be
saved by the Gospel of
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do, do, do, do,
do, cockodoodle-doo.
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The Bible tells me
that I'm saved by Christ
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and I'm saved
by the grace of God
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and this is
communicated to the lost through
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the preaching of the Gospel.
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That is the word of God.
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That is why we believe in
running evangelistic campaigns.
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Look at verse 12,
"Remember that at that time
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you were separate from Christ."
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This is talking about
people outside the kingdom.
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And we're not saved by
belonging to the Church,
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because the
Church needs to be saved.
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"You were separate from Christ,
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excluded from citizenship
in Israel and foreigners
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to the covenants of the promise,
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without hope and
without God in the world."
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The Bible says,
people outside of Christ
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are without hope
and are without God.
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Verse 13 says,
"But now in Christ Jesus
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you who once were far
away have been brought
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near through the
blood of Christ."
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The Bible tells me
that when people come from--
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come to Christ and
they come out of darkness.
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They step out of that darkness
and they step into the light.
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It is our
responsibility to bring them
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the Gospel of Christ,
from darkness to light,
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from despair to
hope, from death to life,
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from Damnation to Salvation.
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That is why I'm so
glad to tell you today
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and to tell our
world wide audience.
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I could not belong
to just any church.
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I couldn't belong to a church
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where Christ was not the center.
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I could not belong to
a church that did not,
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every week, magnify
the blood of Christ.
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And the Bible tells us
we're called as His disciples
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to communicate
to our lost world,
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the unsearchable
riches of Christ.
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Remember what
the Walt Danzy said.
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The Walt Danzy said,
"you shall be missionaries
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or you shall be nothing."
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If you do not have
a mission for Christ
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then you're
nothing, said the Walt Danzy.
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This group who sang for us
so splendidly today come from
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Avondale College and when I went
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to that college it was called
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the Australasian
Missionary College.
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And I can remember
as a boy looking down
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from the front of the church,
down the back of the Chapel
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and there was a great
map of the world and it said
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for a greater
vision of world needs.
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Remember what
the Walt Danzy said,
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"you shall be missionaries
or you shall be...nothing."
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And that is why we
believe we need to go back
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not 100 years but
2000 years to Pentecost
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when the Holy Spirit
was put out upon the church.
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Come with me to Acts Chapter 2,
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verse 16 and onwards.
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My friend, I would
hate to belong to a church
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where the preacher
doesn't turn in the scriptures.
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I'd hate to
belong to that church.
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I'd hate to belong to a
church where the people get
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a lot of freight
tossed to them week after week
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instead of the word of the God.
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The bread of life Acts Chapter 2
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verse 16 and
onwards, "No, this is what
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was spoken by the prophet Joel."
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No these people
are not drunk he says.
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"In the last days, God says,
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'I will pour out my
Spirit on all people.
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Your sons and
daughters will prophesy,
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your young men will see visions,
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your old men will dream dreams.
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Even on my
servants both men and women,
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I will pour out my
Spirit in those days,
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and they will
prophesy or preach the word.
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I will show wonders
in the heavens above
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and signs on the earth below,
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blood and fire
and billows of smoke.
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The sun will be
turned to darkness
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and the moon to
blood before the coming
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of the great and
glorious day of the Lord.
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And everyone who
calls on the name
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of the Lord will be saved.'"
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I want to say today
that I consider that
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the greatest need
of this portal preacher
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is more of the Holy Spirit.
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And the greatest
need of this church
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is for more of the Holy Spirit.
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I want to tell you a
little bit about Kata Ragaso's.
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As you know, we just come
back from the Solomon Islands.
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One of the reasons I
went to the Solomon Islands
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was because of
this man Kata Ragaso.
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While I was
there I also went out
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to his graveyard in the jungle.
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And I went there because I
wanted to show my respects.
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They call this man "a
prince among men" and so he was.
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I met him as a little
boy. He was just a baby.
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His father who
was a head hunter from
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the fearsome Marovo Lagoon
in the Solomon's went fishing.
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And--Ragaso
means devil strength.
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But the father even
though he was a pagan
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and a head hunter and a cannibal
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had some doubts
about the Spirit.
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And when he went fishing
this day he would not put
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the strings on
the front of his boat.
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Thus he provoked the demons.
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But however, he was amazed
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that he caught a number of fish.
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And when he went
back he was the head man,
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he was the head
chief, the chief of chiefs.
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When he went back to
the village they said,
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one of your wives has
given birth to a little boy.
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And so he
didn't call him Ragaso,
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which meant devil strengths,
he called him Kata Ragaso
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that means no devil strengths.
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Around this time an amazing
man came to the Solomon Island.
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His name was Captain
Jones. What a man was he?
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An amazing man. Captain
Jones, he was an Englishman.
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He went to the
Solomon Islands even though
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the British Government
said because they were looking
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after the Solomon
Islands, he shouldn't go there,
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you'll be eaten.
You'll be killed.
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The natives are the
most savage anywhere
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on the face of the earth.
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But he landed safely
without any military escort.
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And he met the
old chief who had this
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little boy, Kata Ragaso.
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And the chief
welcomed the white man
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and welcomed the
white man's cart.
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He started a little
school and Kata Ragaso
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was one of 10 or 12
pupils in this little school.
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Kata Ragaso grew up to
become the chief of chiefs
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of all the Solomon Islands.
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He was instrumental under
guard and leading thousands,
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maybe tens of
thousands of people
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out of Paganism to
Christ, what a man he was.
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During the Second World War,
because he refused to take life
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and because he
refused to break the Sabbath,
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he was taken by
a military officer
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and beaten almost to a pulp.
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His nose was broken.
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His body was covered
in wounds and Kata Ragaso,
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an ordained
Adventist Minister was thrown
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into prison, bleeding.
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And then they said,
because you will not
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take life and break the Sabbath,
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they took him out and
the commanding officer said,
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on the count of
three, shoot him.
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Put him before a firing squad.
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One, two, he
could not say three.
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He said it over and
over and over again.
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One, two, and
could not say three.
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And thus they'd let him
go. "A prince among men."
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Somebody said of this
man, they look upon his face,
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makes you think
the Christ was black.
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As a little boy
growing up in Brisbane,
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Queensland, Australia,
I went to a camp meeting
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and I saw there a man with the
face of an angel, Kata Ragaso.
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And he put his hand upon my head
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and blessed me
in the name of God.
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From that time onwards I
had a passion to be a missionary
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and to win souls out
of darkness to Christ.
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Later on when I was
growing up in Brisbane
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on the banks of
the Brisbane River,
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a big ship pulled
up across the river.
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And my mother who
was just a new Christian
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took me on the
Bulimba ferry across the bosom
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of the Brisbane River
and took me into the bells
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of this great ship that was
going to go out to the Islands.
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And I've met there a
woman who was a saint of God.
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I will never,
never ever forget her.
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Her name was Elena Wiles.
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And she took me on her
knee and told me that she felt
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that God wanted me to
do something great for Him.
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I was only perhaps five years,
four or five years of age.
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She'd gone out to the mission
field with her husband Norman.
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And they'd only been
there period of months
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before he got Blackwater fever
and they were no other people
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from Australia
anywhere for hundreds of miles.
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And she was in
head hunted territory.
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And Norman got
Blackwater fever and he died
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and there she was a
girl from Avondale College
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known from the
Australasian Missionary College,
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it was still called Avondale,
had a dual name in those days.
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And she buried her
husband with her own hands
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dug in the sand and buried him.
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And then for days
she sat on the grave
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and did not move
because she knew that
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they would dig
him up and eat him.
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They were a special
breed with these missionaries.
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They had the real
stuff, they were not wimps,
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and they were not
supercilious religious people.
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They were soldiers of Christ.
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A friendly native carried
word to another mission station
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and they sent a boat and
they took her back to Australia.
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And when she recovered
from her grieving she went back.
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She took me on her knee
and said one day you must go.
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And thus when
Pastor Harold Harker,
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who is our overseas manager
suggested we go to Honiara,
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I felt it was a call from God.
And God bless those meetings.
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I want you to
know, listen to me.
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I want to throw out a
challenge to every preacher,
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every Minister, every
elder, every church leader,
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every layperson,
the greatest days
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for the preaching of the
Gospel of Christ are not over,
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the best days are still to come.
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You see, I've
gone to so many places
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where people tell
me it can't be done.
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I want you to know with
God all things are possible.
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And what we need is to get
rid of this negative attitude
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and start to become
followers of Christ.
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Not followers of men.
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When we got there, we
had a lot of work to do.
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I have a small
team, I boastfully say,
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I think it's the best there is.
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We hired this great
outdoor national soccer stadium
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and we had to prepare the stage,
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the screens, the towers.
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David, Donn, Bob, and Daniel
led out in this work assisted
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by the greatest group of
people I've seen anywhere.
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You have a look
at the screen folks,
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we tried to get some people.
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I won't tell you
where, to do it for us.
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They said we can do
it for you for $250,000.
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Oh. We said you're planning
your retirement are you?
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$250,000 the Solomon Island
has stepped into the bricks
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and they built the
stage and the screens
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and the towers for under $20,000
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and they did it more effectively
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and more efficiently than
I've seen anywhere in the world.
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These are the
children of Kata Ragaso.
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These are the
children and the grandchildren
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of the headhunters.
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You can get some idea
of the size of the screens
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and the size of
the football field.
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The largest crowd that
soccer national soccer stadium
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had ever had was 22,000 souls
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who came to see
a national match.
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I want to tell you the Gospel
is more powerful than football.
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You're listening to me?
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The PA system had
been put together by
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Bob Ludwig and Donn Beagle.
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We purchased it here
in the United States.
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A deal that cost,
it cost around $35,000.
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We don't have
all that projectors
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here in the church now.
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That's why the
screens were little not quite
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as strong as
we'd like them to be.
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And we don't have
projectors for the center screen
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but that's okay because
we flew four Giant Projectors
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with 25, 10, no 15, 25,
with 50,000 lumens of power.
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We flew those
out to the Solomon's
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at the cost of $30,000.
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You see, wise, why not?
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It is the greatest,
the most important thing
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in all the world.
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If you want to
spend your money properly
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put it into
preaching the Gospel.
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This world is
going to burn up soon.
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And then we send out a heap of
other stuff also by container.
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And we sent them 10,000 Bibles.
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And you, this
church, and our supporters
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made it possible
and it's the best thing
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you've ever done in
spending your money.
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The soccer stadium, huge place.
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We had a two week
window of opportunity.
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You say, well,
that's not long enough.
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I want you to know, my
friend, the Lord is going to do
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it short work on this
earth in the last days.
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The Lord doesn't need all the
time we think the Lord needs.
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And we had two weeks
and that was to set up
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the stage and the screens
and these tiny black boards,
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but giant black boards
like these but, you know,
00:28:44.64\00:28:47.82
we had, I'd imagine black boards
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eight times bigger than these
and you can see the screens
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down the end
there and we went ahead
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in faith and it was hot.
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It's right near the equator.
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I don't mind going to Russia
in the middle of the winter
00:29:03.90\00:29:05.97
but I don't like the real heat.
00:29:05.98\00:29:08.17
It was hot and steamy.
00:29:08.18\00:29:10.34
It was like taking
a sauna all day long.
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Now who was the audience?
00:29:14.39\00:29:16.36
Well their grandparents
had been devil worshippers.
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And once upon a time
they had been cannibals.
00:29:19.78\00:29:22.26
These had been fierce people.
00:29:22.27\00:29:25.32
And then they came,
the first missionaries.
00:29:25.33\00:29:30.37
It was the great old sea captain
00:29:30.38\00:29:33.25
of whom I've referred today.
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But then they
came, other missionaries
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and my heart is
overwhelmed by the missionaries
00:29:38.02\00:29:43.89
who came to this
part of the world
00:29:43.90\00:29:46.51
because basically
what happened was fizz.
00:29:46.52\00:29:49.74
They came from Australia
00:29:49.75\00:29:51.14
and they were
graduates of the college.
00:29:51.15\00:29:53.88
And the mission boat
basically dropped them off
00:29:53.89\00:29:56.91
on the beach and
said God bless you.
00:29:56.92\00:30:00.57
Take your
suitcases and build a house
00:30:00.58\00:30:04.51
for yourselves
and build a church
00:30:04.52\00:30:06.63
and build a school and win
souls in Christ and they did.
00:30:06.64\00:30:15.32
They never complained.
00:30:15.33\00:30:17.89
And their names are
immortalized in heaven.
00:30:17.90\00:30:23.22
And of course there was malaria.
00:30:23.23\00:30:27.29
So I'm going to
show you the audience now
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that we preached it,
00:30:31.11\00:30:32.08
the audience
backslidden believers.
00:30:32.09\00:30:34.53
People turning
back to the old God say,
00:30:34.54\00:30:36.86
bringing the Gods
back out of the jungle,
00:30:36.87\00:30:40.36
believers of
various faiths and search
00:30:40.37\00:30:43.07
of the word of
God, young and old.
00:30:43.08\00:30:47.46
The meetings went for 10 nights,
00:30:47.47\00:30:50.04
one Sabbath morning,
plus two double sessions.
00:30:50.05\00:30:54.86
I would preach from 7 to 8 and
say can I have a little pores,
00:30:54.87\00:30:59.25
have a drink, yes, then
I'd preach another session.
00:30:59.26\00:31:04.03
And we went through Gospel.
I want people to know this.
00:31:04.04\00:31:08.72
I want to say this to our
friends and our supporters.
00:31:08.73\00:31:12.42
When we go to a place
we have a number of aims.
00:31:12.43\00:31:17.56
We have a number of goals.
00:31:17.57\00:31:20.18
But our main
goal is to tell people
00:31:20.19\00:31:22.82
about Christ and His love.
00:31:22.83\00:31:26.35
We believe my
friend that the Gospel
00:31:26.36\00:31:30.62
is still the power
of God for the salvation
00:31:30.63\00:31:34.26
of everyone who
believes, who trusts
00:31:34.27\00:31:38.24
and who relies upon Christ.
00:31:38.25\00:31:40.52
We believe that the
Gospel is the greatest power
00:31:40.53\00:31:44.49
in the world today.
00:31:44.50\00:31:46.06
And if it's not working
my friend, in your life,
00:31:46.07\00:31:49.48
it's because you don't believe.
00:31:49.49\00:31:52.02
But the Gospel received
into the heart changes the soul.
00:31:52.03\00:31:58.40
What an audience? We started
with around 15,000 people.
00:31:58.41\00:32:03.04
We'd asked some of the locals
00:32:03.05\00:32:04.77
how many do you think will come.
00:32:04.78\00:32:06.06
They said 6000. We expect 6000.
00:32:06.07\00:32:12.11
We did television advertising
such as never been done
00:32:12.12\00:32:15.13
before in that
part of the world.
00:32:15.14\00:32:17.60
And we had
15,000 for the opening
00:32:17.61\00:32:20.20
and soon it had
broken the record of 22,000
00:32:20.21\00:32:23.22
to 23,000, 25,000,
then it was 30,000.
00:32:23.23\00:32:28.21
Then it was 35,000
people and we don't know
00:32:28.22\00:32:33.65
if they were more
then 35,000 people because
00:32:33.66\00:32:36.78
every inch of the place
was taken in these--over there
00:32:36.79\00:32:42.94
you could see people--
there's about 2000 people
00:32:42.95\00:32:46.20
in that building
and there was a hospital
00:32:46.21\00:32:49.32
over the road and they
brought out the patients
00:32:49.33\00:32:52.10
to hear the word of
God in the hospital.
00:32:52.11\00:32:54.87
And there was a big
hill back on my right
00:32:54.88\00:32:57.33
at the back and that
hill was filled with people.
00:32:57.34\00:33:03.41
I just want you
to know, my friend,
00:33:03.42\00:33:05.22
it wasn't the doing of a man.
00:33:05.23\00:33:08.03
It was the doing
of the third person
00:33:08.04\00:33:11.80
of the God hit, the Holy Spirit.
00:33:11.81\00:33:14.76
The Holy Spirit is alive
and well on planet earth.
00:33:14.77\00:33:20.04
You know the text. I've
just quoted Romans 1:16.
00:33:20.05\00:33:22.99
I am not ashamed of the Gospel.
00:33:23.00\00:33:25.26
It's the power of God
unto salvation to everyone
00:33:25.27\00:33:28.42
who believes to the Jew
first, and also to the Greek.
00:33:28.43\00:33:34.80
Now...you'll need a
microphone. You're ready madam?
00:33:34.81\00:33:42.31
Mrs. Susan Piraino came with us.
00:33:42.32\00:33:45.20
I can't get any of the
rest of the crew to come up
00:33:45.21\00:33:47.32
because they're
running the program today.
00:33:47.33\00:33:50.72
But Susan you come on over
and let me say good morning.
00:33:50.73\00:33:58.03
Good morning. Are you glad
00:33:58.04\00:34:00.06
that you went to the Solomon's?
00:34:00.07\00:34:01.87
Am I ever glad I
went there? Yes, indeed.
00:34:01.88\00:34:04.11
All right. You like the climate.
00:34:04.12\00:34:06.29
No. It was very hot and humid.
00:34:06.30\00:34:08.73
I know, half the
year was sort of--
00:34:08.74\00:34:10.82
Always wet. Yeah,
I know, you know--
00:34:10.83\00:34:13.21
It sort of just
dripped down your body.
00:34:13.22\00:34:14.83
I know. It's not a
place for you to put on
00:34:14.84\00:34:17.27
a lot of weight that's for sure.
00:34:17.28\00:34:18.47
But you can lose some.
00:34:18.48\00:34:19.87
Tell me, from your
soul, from your heart,
00:34:19.88\00:34:24.96
what moved you,
what touched you?
00:34:24.97\00:34:27.09
Well, I've been to--this
is like my 18th campaign
00:34:27.10\00:34:30.00
but this one for some
reason just hit the heart
00:34:30.01\00:34:34.51
more than any of the
others because I think
00:34:34.52\00:34:37.64
as in Romans says,
we saw the power of God.
00:34:37.65\00:34:40.54
And every night we
saw the power at work
00:34:40.55\00:34:43.43
and I know you're
gonna talk about some things
00:34:43.44\00:34:45.56
that happened there but
just the people that could come
00:34:45.57\00:34:48.56
and how it continued
to grow and the people
00:34:48.57\00:34:52.28
were outside and sometimes
00:34:52.29\00:34:53.73
we saw them
holding up the phones.
00:34:53.74\00:34:55.64
You know, here we have
a problem with everybody
00:34:55.65\00:34:57.27
bringing their phone to text,
take pictures, and we thought,
00:34:57.28\00:35:00.67
oh, here they're
with all their phones now.
00:35:00.68\00:35:03.24
But the reason they
were holding up their phones
00:35:03.25\00:35:05.23
they were like this is
because they had family members
00:35:05.24\00:35:07.80
at home or other
islands that they wanted
00:35:07.81\00:35:09.52
to hear the meetings.
Transmitting to other islands.
00:35:09.53\00:35:10.99
So there were using
their phones as like a radio.
00:35:11.00\00:35:14.48
So their family could hear
00:35:14.49\00:35:16.46
and that was
just amazing to see.
00:35:16.47\00:35:18.57
Was it a noisy
irreverent audience?
00:35:18.58\00:35:21.78
No, as you can see
there were tons of children,
00:35:21.79\00:35:23.74
babies, little once,
it's just thousands of them
00:35:23.75\00:35:27.01
but you didn't
hear a word at all.
00:35:27.02\00:35:29.87
You wouldn't hear them stare,
you wouldn't hear them cry,
00:35:29.88\00:35:32.87
you wouldn't hear anything
and I'm looking at the audience
00:35:32.88\00:35:35.29
'cause I was out taking
pictures and I'm thinking,
00:35:35.30\00:35:37.52
how are these kids so quiet?
00:35:37.53\00:35:39.17
They were sort of
just fixated to the stage
00:35:39.18\00:35:42.13
and to hear you,
hear your preach.
00:35:42.14\00:35:44.59
And one of things that I found
00:35:44.60\00:35:47.02
was incredible
is the day we left.
00:35:47.03\00:35:49.81
We had people coming to the
mission flats to say thank you
00:35:49.82\00:35:52.80
to for coming and for preaching.
00:35:52.81\00:35:55.31
And we had one young
man who was very teary.
00:35:55.32\00:35:57.85
And he came and
he said, you know,
00:35:57.86\00:35:59.70
Pastor Carter we've had many
preachers come to the islands
00:35:59.74\00:36:03.01
and he said but--when you
preached we all understood it.
00:36:03.02\00:36:07.84
We understood everything you
said because they speak pigeon.
00:36:07.85\00:36:11.17
And so some them it's
hard to understand but he said,
00:36:11.18\00:36:13.68
we never understood
the rest of the preachers
00:36:13.71\00:36:15.70
but we understood everything
you said and we understood
00:36:15.71\00:36:18.46
the Gospel, and he was--
00:36:18.47\00:36:20.24
I think that's a miracle.
00:36:20.25\00:36:21.54
Yes, it is,
because that's just shows
00:36:21.55\00:36:23.36
the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:36:23.37\00:36:24.56
Yeah, I know. It's
like the gift for tongues.
00:36:24.57\00:36:26.19
It really is. It
is-- You know, liken he--
00:36:26.20\00:36:28.04
And, you know, he
said he was crying.
00:36:28.05\00:36:30.01
And he said, you
know, I hope I can share
00:36:30.02\00:36:32.36
this with my family because
they're in another islands.
00:36:32.37\00:36:35.16
And I just receive an
email from Pastor Wayne Boehm
00:36:35.17\00:36:37.72
who is the
mission president there.
00:36:37.73\00:36:39.03
What a great guy!
Oh, he is wonderful.
00:36:39.04\00:36:40.74
Yeah, great character
What a job he has there now.
00:36:40.75\00:36:43.20
But he just sent me an email.
00:36:43.21\00:36:44.35
He said that,
they've had various baptisms
00:36:44.36\00:36:47.55
of people from
other denominations
00:36:47.56\00:36:49.58
and--The president
at one of the church.
00:36:49.59\00:36:51.46
Yeah, the president
of one church baptized
00:36:51.47\00:36:53.48
and now he's bringing a
lot of his church members.
00:36:53.49\00:36:55.35
But he has somebody
else baptized as well.
00:36:55.36\00:36:58.16
And he is now,
wanting to go to his islands
00:36:58.17\00:37:01.23
and he said he is
wanting to take the truth
00:37:01.24\00:37:02.88
that he heard
here in Solomon Islands
00:37:02.89\00:37:05.27
to his islands
because he wants his people
00:37:05.28\00:37:07.32
to know the truth as
well. Were you blessed?
00:37:07.33\00:37:09.25
Oh, I was
blessed more than ever--
00:37:09.26\00:37:11.09
Halleluiah. Yes, God bless--
00:37:11.10\00:37:12.83
And He did great
things. Thank you.
00:37:12.84\00:37:14.21
Thank you, Suzie. Good story.
00:37:14.22\00:37:16.51
Now listen, my friends.
00:37:19.27\00:37:21.46
I say this to the glory of God.
00:37:21.47\00:37:24.59
God has given me a little team
00:37:24.60\00:37:28.36
but I think it's second to none.
00:37:28.37\00:37:30.50
David does the television work.
00:37:30.51\00:37:33.06
Donn and Bob on the sound.
00:37:33.07\00:37:35.56
You don't get
better guys on the sound.
00:37:35.57\00:37:37.64
I mean Bob has done the sound
00:37:37.65\00:37:39.86
for the last couple
of presidents of USA.
00:37:39.87\00:37:42.51
Daniel on the computers
with Carlos, great job.
00:37:42.52\00:37:47.54
And Suzie, Javier who
was, guess what Javier did?
00:37:47.55\00:37:52.07
He was a chef. Don't
ever say cook, folks.
00:37:52.08\00:37:54.86
He'll get bad with you.
00:37:54.87\00:37:56.06
Harold Pastor, Harold Harker,
who was the campaign manager.
00:37:56.07\00:38:00.43
Pastor Wayne Boehm, who was
the president of the mission.
00:38:00.44\00:38:04.66
Child of God.
Saints of God, these folks.
00:38:04.67\00:38:07.09
I love them, Carol Boehm,
from my old church at Honiara,
00:38:07.10\00:38:12.58
God bless you, Carol.
00:38:12.59\00:38:15.21
Sharon, who sang like an angle
plus the Solomon Islanders.
00:38:15.22\00:38:22.31
I want to tell you
what it so good about it.
00:38:22.32\00:38:25.95
Sometimes you run a campaign
00:38:25.96\00:38:28.18
and you know that
there is so much antagonism
00:38:28.19\00:38:31.78
to what you're doing.
00:38:31.79\00:38:33.40
But before I
preach there, every night
00:38:33.41\00:38:35.97
there was a big
group of Solomon Islanders,
00:38:35.98\00:38:38.67
men and women, who were
waiting and they would get
00:38:38.68\00:38:42.30
around me and they
would lay their hands on me
00:38:42.31\00:38:46.13
and they would pray for
me and they talked in Pigeon
00:38:46.14\00:38:49.11
but I understood what
they were saying I-I knew,
00:38:49.12\00:38:51.94
what they were saying,
00:38:51.95\00:38:52.97
but to know that
you've been supported
00:38:52.98\00:38:56.37
by the prayers of the saints.
00:38:56.38\00:38:59.61
And they would pray the God
00:38:59.62\00:39:01.28
would hold back the bad weather.
00:39:01.29\00:39:03.60
Now this is--this
is my prayer group.
00:39:03.61\00:39:05.55
A different group every night,
00:39:05.56\00:39:08.07
I want to tell you
folks something the Gospel
00:39:08.08\00:39:11.85
has got power you can
see it in the--in the lives
00:39:11.86\00:39:16.38
that have been changed.
00:39:16.39\00:39:17.85
Now I think I
should read a text to you.
00:39:17.86\00:39:19.64
I want you to come
over here to Ephesians 6.
00:39:19.67\00:39:22.45
Now come over here
fast to Ephesians Chapter 6
00:39:22.46\00:39:26.06
and verse is 10 to 13.
00:39:26.07\00:39:27.61
Ephesians Chapter 6 and
verses 10 to 13, you got it?
00:39:27.62\00:39:33.40
"Finally be strong in the
Lord and in His mighty power.
00:39:33.41\00:39:36.57
The Bible says, don't be a--
Spiritual weak and be strong,
00:39:36.58\00:39:41.04
don't be a complainer.
00:39:41.05\00:39:43.19
Put on the full armor of God
00:39:43.20\00:39:44.90
so that you can take your stand
00:39:44.91\00:39:46.36
against the devil's
schemes." There is a devil.
00:39:46.37\00:39:50.65
"For our struggle is
not against flesh and blood
00:39:50.66\00:39:53.07
but against the rulers,
against the authorities,
00:39:53.08\00:39:56.72
against the
powers of this dark world
00:39:56.73\00:39:59.95
and against the Spiritual forces
00:39:59.96\00:40:02.67
of evil in the heavenly realms.
00:40:02.68\00:40:06.04
Therefore put on
the full armor of God,
00:40:06.05\00:40:09.50
so that when the
day of evil comes,
00:40:09.51\00:40:11.65
you may be able
to stand your ground,
00:40:11.66\00:40:14.57
and after
you've done everything.
00:40:14.58\00:40:16.76
What does it say to stand?"
00:40:16.77\00:40:19.40
Now I'm gonna tell
you folks some things.
00:40:19.41\00:40:23.43
And I want you to
listen very carefully.
00:40:23.44\00:40:25.79
Tonight I was going
to speak on spiritism.
00:40:28.53\00:40:32.41
I felt a strong conviction
00:40:32.42\00:40:36.66
that something
was going to happen
00:40:36.67\00:40:40.54
that we'll be going to be
under attack in the meeting.
00:40:40.55\00:40:42.67
So when he had lunch together,
00:40:42.68\00:40:45.37
well Xavier, and
Suzy, and all the team
00:40:45.38\00:40:47.65
I said folks, I
have a conviction
00:40:47.66\00:40:50.28
that something is
going to happen tonight
00:40:50.29\00:40:51.88
and we need to be on our guard,
00:40:51.89\00:40:53.72
so I prayed with them.
00:40:53.73\00:40:55.23
And David met with his group
00:40:55.24\00:40:56.66
and said don't laugh about this,
00:40:56.67\00:40:59.26
we're in a place where
the devil is bare faced.
00:40:59.27\00:41:02.42
In America and
Australia he is two faced,
00:41:02.43\00:41:05.36
but here he is bare faced.
00:41:05.37\00:41:07.96
As soon as I
walked out on the stage
00:41:07.97\00:41:10.62
and announce the topic
00:41:10.63\00:41:12.01
that I was going
to talk on spiritism.
00:41:12.02\00:41:14.75
As soon as I said it.
00:41:14.76\00:41:17.40
There came a
tremendous gust of wind
00:41:17.41\00:41:19.71
just about blew
me off the stage.
00:41:19.72\00:41:22.26
And then the heavens opened up
00:41:22.27\00:41:24.48
and this was the first time
00:41:24.49\00:41:25.98
it happened
it's started to rain.
00:41:25.99\00:41:28.41
And the rain you can see
it here the rain came down
00:41:28.42\00:41:31.93
and it came down in buckets.
00:41:31.94\00:41:34.82
So I thought
what's going to happen,
00:41:34.83\00:41:36.40
we're gonna lose this entire
audience of 30,000 people.
00:41:36.41\00:41:41.88
So I walk I was in the
rain across no way to go,
00:41:41.89\00:41:45.53
where would you want to,
00:41:45.54\00:41:46.53
why would you want to runaway?
00:41:46.54\00:41:49.53
So I said to the audience,
00:41:49.54\00:41:52.00
I'm asking you in the
name of Christ to stay with me.
00:41:52.01\00:41:54.92
This is an attack by the
prince of the power of the air.
00:41:54.93\00:41:58.83
And I'm asking you
tonight to stay with me,
00:41:58.84\00:42:01.11
did you-you want
to know something?
00:42:01.12\00:42:02.71
Out of an audience
of more than 30, 000
00:42:02.72\00:42:05.21
we lost less than 50
people maybe 100 people.
00:42:05.22\00:42:10.80
There were mothers who ran
to get out of-out of the rain
00:42:10.81\00:42:13.89
but it doesn't mean
they left the meeting.
00:42:13.90\00:42:15.68
But everybody sat
00:42:15.69\00:42:17.47
and they stayed
right through the meeting
00:42:17.48\00:42:19.82
as the rain came pouring down
00:42:19.83\00:42:21.85
and I asked God, I said God
00:42:21.86\00:42:24.79
in the name of
Christ stop the rain.
00:42:24.80\00:42:28.23
Save your people here
and the rain started to stop.
00:42:28.24\00:42:32.47
As soon the rain
has stopped all together
00:42:32.48\00:42:34.59
I then-went into an altar call
00:42:34.60\00:42:36.75
and you can see it on the screen
00:42:36.76\00:42:38.48
and I guess we had
at least 10,000 people
00:42:38.49\00:42:42.80
maybe 15,000 people come forward
00:42:42.81\00:42:45.51
to acknowledge Christ before men
00:42:45.52\00:42:48.75
to publicly confess Him
00:42:48.76\00:42:50.59
and turn their backs
on the works of darkness.
00:42:50.60\00:42:53.84
My friend He is
alive, God is alive.
00:42:53.85\00:42:56.74
We're on a real conflict
between the devil and Christ.
00:42:56.75\00:43:00.47
What side are you on?
00:43:00.48\00:43:02.41
Have you given
your life to Christ?
00:43:02.42\00:43:04.78
Are you following Christ?
00:43:04.79\00:43:06.45
Or are you trying
to live with the devil
00:43:06.46\00:43:09.54
and trying to live with Christ,
00:43:09.55\00:43:10.81
it's not gonna work.
00:43:10.82\00:43:12.16
When the night came
for the mark of the beast,
00:43:14.32\00:43:16.36
you say you preached the stuff
what the Bible tells you to.
00:43:16.37\00:43:19.02
You say but you're-- no, no, no.
00:43:19.03\00:43:22.18
Unless you can show me why
I shouldn't from the Bible,
00:43:22.19\00:43:25.07
I'm gonna keep
doing what the Bible says.
00:43:25.08\00:43:27.59
Revelation 14 says,
"It's given with the loud voice
00:43:27.60\00:43:30.68
but we ought to do it in love."
00:43:30.69\00:43:33.46
And when I went out
to preach that night
00:43:33.47\00:43:35.53
I was started to preach, I
want to tell you this softly.
00:43:35.54\00:43:40.71
I felt a hand on
my left shoulder,
00:43:40.72\00:43:46.01
strong as anything.
00:43:48.27\00:43:50.40
I immediately
turned around I thought
00:43:50.41\00:43:52.47
its David or
somebody or Pastor Hawker,
00:43:52.48\00:43:55.96
there is nobody there folks.
00:43:55.97\00:43:59.32
I just said Lord, be
merciful to us and protect us.
00:43:59.33\00:44:04.76
We are in the midst of a battle,
00:44:04.77\00:44:07.17
I want you to know this,
00:44:07.18\00:44:08.53
I want this word to go out
around the world in Honiara,
00:44:08.54\00:44:12.86
the Lord Jesus
Christ was magnified
00:44:12.87\00:44:15.66
and He gave us the victory.
00:44:15.67\00:44:17.32
Now listen, that's
true, another night
00:44:18.92\00:44:21.55
I came out to preach.
00:44:21.56\00:44:23.21
This was the night
the Prime Minister came
00:44:24.60\00:44:26.53
and all his cabinet.
00:44:26.54\00:44:28.17
He heard about the meetings
00:44:28.18\00:44:29.46
and he said I want
to come and he came
00:44:29.47\00:44:31.49
and thanked me personally
00:44:31.50\00:44:32.58
on behalf of the
governments are coming.
00:44:32.59\00:44:35.95
When I made an appeal
that night in the altar call,
00:44:35.96\00:44:39.45
he and his ministers responded.
00:44:39.46\00:44:41.85
That's good
folks, glory be to God.
00:44:41.86\00:44:44.69
You know, God can even save
Prime Ministers and Presidents.
00:44:44.70\00:44:49.15
God wants to save
everybody who will be saved.
00:44:49.16\00:44:53.53
But as I arrived at the meeting
00:44:53.54\00:44:57.17
and I want you to
know did we have music,
00:44:57.18\00:45:02.10
did we have music these folks.
00:45:02.11\00:45:04.38
The musical groups we
had were absolutely amazing.
00:45:06.56\00:45:11.16
You ask Bob Bludwick, and Don,
00:45:11.17\00:45:13.79
because they recorded them.
00:45:13.80\00:45:16.07
But when we came that night
00:45:16.08\00:45:17.59
there was a tremendous storm
00:45:17.60\00:45:19.80
over Iron
Bottom Bay, Quadalcanal
00:45:19.81\00:45:23.68
where the Americans
lost the heap of ships
00:45:23.69\00:45:26.08
and the Japanese lost more.
00:45:26.09\00:45:28.23
The battle for the South Pacific
00:45:30.08\00:45:31.82
really started at
Guadalcanal, the great battle.
00:45:31.83\00:45:35.07
That turn the
forces of evil back
00:45:35.08\00:45:38.14
and Suzy had a camera there
00:45:38.15\00:45:39.73
and we were looking at
over-looking at over the bay
00:45:39.74\00:45:43.54
and there was
the tremendous storm.
00:45:43.55\00:45:45.69
It was just roaring.
00:45:45.70\00:45:47.25
I said God
don't send this storm,
00:45:47.26\00:45:49.04
don't let it come tonight.
00:45:49.05\00:45:50.79
That was on my left side
and I looked on my right side
00:45:50.80\00:45:54.78
and there was a
tremendous storm coming up.
00:45:54.79\00:45:58.31
And it was talking, it
was thundering and growling
00:45:58.32\00:46:04.57
and the lightning was
flashing on both sides
00:46:04.58\00:46:08.35
and we cried out to the
Lord in the name of Jesus.
00:46:08.36\00:46:11.46
I want you to know these folks
00:46:11.47\00:46:13.53
we didn't get a
drop of rain, not a bit.
00:46:13.54\00:46:17.42
The Lord held it back.
00:46:17.43\00:46:20.31
I want you to have faith today.
00:46:20.32\00:46:23.27
I want you to know He is alive.
00:46:23.28\00:46:27.64
I made a call for baptism.
00:46:27.65\00:46:30.32
And we have a
special way of doing it.
00:46:30.33\00:46:33.02
We give out cards and
then we collect the cards
00:46:33.03\00:46:36.89
in these containers
and we bring down the cards
00:46:36.90\00:46:41.27
and about 4000 souls in
the first call for baptism
00:46:41.28\00:46:46.15
signed their names in
the covenant with God.
00:46:46.16\00:46:50.52
We had a sense
that God was there.
00:46:50.53\00:46:53.99
Then the Sabbath morning came
00:46:54.00\00:46:56.77
when we're going
to have the baptism.
00:46:56.78\00:46:59.19
We had a great choir from
Betikama, Betikama College.
00:46:59.20\00:47:05.72
We had wonderful music.
00:47:05.73\00:47:08.34
And we have--
these are the people
00:47:08.35\00:47:09.92
who got baptized
dressed in white,
00:47:09.93\00:47:14.43
and then we took
them down to a river
00:47:14.44\00:47:17.13
which is
infested with crocodiles.
00:47:17.14\00:47:19.55
Last year a woman was taken
by a crocodile near Betikama.
00:47:21.39\00:47:27.79
Her husband went to save her
00:47:27.80\00:47:29.70
and the crocodile let her go
00:47:29.71\00:47:31.27
and turn on him, it killed him.
00:47:31.28\00:47:34.38
So we had some boys who
was sitting beside the baptism
00:47:34.39\00:47:38.36
with longs
sticks hitting the water
00:47:38.37\00:47:40.97
but we had tens of
thousands of people there
00:47:40.98\00:47:44.98
and we saw these precious and
beautiful and wonderful souls.
00:47:44.99\00:47:51.21
I want you to know my
friend Jesus is alive and well.
00:47:51.22\00:47:54.91
Pastor Hawker said to me
00:47:54.92\00:47:56.29
'cause he-he's an old missionary
00:47:56.30\00:47:58.03
a great missionary.
00:47:58.04\00:47:59.21
He said today we have
experienced Pentecost.
00:47:59.22\00:48:03.88
I want you to know
my friend God is alive.
00:48:03.89\00:48:06.94
You know what the problem is?
00:48:06.95\00:48:09.49
Would you like to
know what the problem is?
00:48:09.50\00:48:11.16
Problem is with us.
We don't have faith.
00:48:11.17\00:48:14.80
We don't believe as we used to.
00:48:14.81\00:48:17.63
I have some conclusions,
listen to these conclusions.
00:48:17.64\00:48:20.82
You're listening, the
gospel is still the power.
00:48:21.91\00:48:26.69
If you go to a church
where the gospel is not preached
00:48:28.68\00:48:31.07
you better go and
find another church.
00:48:31.08\00:48:33.50
But the gospel is
still the power of God.
00:48:33.51\00:48:37.04
It's the greatest
force in the universe
00:48:37.05\00:48:40.26
and if it's not making a
change in your life my friend
00:48:40.27\00:48:43.35
is because you're
not letting the gospel
00:48:43.36\00:48:46.51
do what the gospel does.
00:48:46.52\00:48:48.75
Still the power.
00:48:48.76\00:48:50.02
Number two the world
needs more than religion
00:48:50.03\00:48:54.31
with its rites and ceremonies.
00:48:54.32\00:48:57.18
Almost all man made religion
is not only nasty, it is bad.
00:48:57.19\00:49:04.36
World needs more than religion
with its rites and ceremonies,
00:49:04.37\00:49:07.90
it needs the Holy Spirit.
00:49:07.91\00:49:10.74
We need people
filled with the Holy Spirit.
00:49:10.75\00:49:14.14
And here's the third truth
00:49:14.15\00:49:15.33
and I say this to the
people who don't believe.
00:49:15.34\00:49:18.97
Great crowds will still come
to hear the gospel preached,
00:49:20.04\00:49:24.21
I've seen it around the
world, South Africa, Russia,
00:49:24.22\00:49:28.89
millions came in
Russia and Ukraine.
00:49:28.90\00:49:30.86
I've seen huge crowds.
00:49:30.87\00:49:34.05
And point number
four, we need to reappraise
00:49:34.06\00:49:38.67
what we consider is important.
00:49:38.68\00:49:42.29
Jesus said, "Seek
first the kingdom of God
00:49:42.30\00:49:48.80
and His righteousness."
00:49:48.81\00:49:50.93
The Bible tells us do not
seek that which is important,
00:49:50.94\00:49:55.84
seek that which
is beyond important.
00:49:55.85\00:49:58.46
Seek that which is
vital and necessary,
00:50:00.19\00:50:03.54
the most important.
00:50:03.55\00:50:06.27
I bring you this report
today that you may know.
00:50:06.28\00:50:10.65
That the Holy Spirit is
alive and well on planet Earth
00:50:14.66\00:50:21.33
and we have seen the
glory of the coming of the Lord.
00:50:21.34\00:50:28.13
Amen.
00:50:28.14\00:50:29.27
I want you to all now to kneel,
00:50:29.28\00:50:31.83
we're going to pray.
00:50:31.84\00:50:33.20
Now those of you who
have a look at this fan here
00:50:34.53\00:50:36.51
as you get down on you knees.
00:50:36.52\00:50:38.43
Just have a look at this fan.
00:50:38.44\00:50:39.92
People goes far
as the eye can see.
00:50:39.93\00:50:44.91
Let's get down on your knees.
00:50:47.41\00:50:48.98
Our Father on our
knees we worship you,
00:50:52.53\00:50:55.90
we bless you, we praise you,
00:50:55.91\00:50:59.77
we thank you that
the work is not of man
00:50:59.78\00:51:02.18
but the work is of God.
00:51:02.19\00:51:03.90
We pray today that you lift us
00:51:03.91\00:51:05.51
at about little safe zones,
00:51:05.52\00:51:09.54
out of our
bubbles of religiosity.
00:51:09.55\00:51:12.77
And introduce us
00:51:12.78\00:51:15.07
to the power of
the gospel to Christ,
00:51:15.08\00:51:18.56
help us to become
true disciples of Christ,
00:51:18.57\00:51:22.60
people who feed
on the word of God.
00:51:22.61\00:51:25.72
Not people who was supercilious
00:51:25.73\00:51:27.66
and just religious, but people
00:51:27.67\00:51:29.48
who know in their own
hearts that Christ is alive.
00:51:29.49\00:51:32.87
Thank you for the great crowds.
00:51:32.88\00:51:35.67
Thank you for the multitudes
00:51:35.68\00:51:38.08
who came to Christ by
the tens of the thousands.
00:51:38.09\00:51:41.41
Thank you for the prime minister
00:51:41.42\00:51:42.96
and the cabinet who all came.
00:51:42.97\00:51:45.71
Thank you for the
new believers today.
00:51:45.72\00:51:49.01
Thank you for the supporters
00:51:49.02\00:51:50.43
in this church
who made it possible.
00:51:50.44\00:51:53.32
We worship you, we bless you,
00:51:53.33\00:51:55.95
we praise you, we give you glory
00:51:55.96\00:51:58.51
and we thank you
with all our hearts
00:51:58.52\00:52:01.36
in Jesus name, amen.
00:52:01.37\00:52:04.22
We man with these all Jacob
00:52:12.77\00:52:16.92
And his way my chosen
00:52:16.93\00:52:21.35
I have made you Appointed you
00:52:21.36\00:52:24.80
I've covered your sin
00:52:24.81\00:52:29.03
Don't forget me
I won't forget you
00:52:29.04\00:52:33.13
Hear me now, O Jacob
and Ishmael my servant
00:52:36.73\00:52:44.58
I have found you I
will help you fear not
00:52:44.59\00:52:52.12
Don't test me I
won't neglect your sin
00:52:52.13\00:52:55.73
I know you heavens
now Lord has redeemed
00:52:55.74\00:52:58.97
Shall all you
valleys now Lord has redeemed
00:52:58.98\00:53:02.60
Wait for there to send
in you mountains and trees
00:53:02.61\00:53:06.51
The Lord has redeemed
00:53:06.52\00:53:10.66
Those who make image
00:53:10.67\00:53:14.04
All of which I used this
00:53:14.05\00:53:17.11
Along with all the
things of this world
00:53:17.12\00:53:21.20
That they count as precious
00:53:21.21\00:53:24.34
Seem to be lost
who made their God
00:53:24.35\00:53:27.79
And surely
prophets they're nothing
00:53:27.80\00:53:31.63
Whether it's
silver or silver or gold
00:53:31.64\00:53:34.98
or power of position or money
00:53:34.99\00:53:39.22
Don't neglect me,
I won't neglect you
00:53:39.23\00:53:42.46
I know you heavens
now Lord has redeemed
00:53:42.47\00:53:46.04
Shall all you
valleys now Lord has redeemed
00:53:46.05\00:53:49.48
Wait for there to send
in you mountains and trees
00:53:49.49\00:53:53.19
The Lord says,
you're not a Jacob
00:53:53.20\00:53:57.00
The Lord is thy king
00:53:57.01\00:53:58.82
I know though where
the Lord had redeemed
00:53:58.83\00:54:02.17
Wait for there to send
in you mountains and trees
00:54:02.21\00:54:05.99
The Lord has redeemed
00:54:06.00\00:54:09.46
And no one can declare it as He
00:54:09.47\00:54:13.48
I the Lord had redeemed
00:54:13.49\00:54:17.29
The Lord had redeemed
00:54:17.30\00:54:25.29
Amen. Amen.
00:54:28.91\00:54:30.62
I've just come back
from Solomon Islands
00:54:34.62\00:54:36.59
and I've seen the
glory and the power of God.
00:54:36.60\00:54:40.21
We saw 35,000 people
coming to the meetings
00:54:40.22\00:54:42.91
night after night,
tens of thousand of people
00:54:42.92\00:54:46.69
coming to our knowledge
of Christ and the truth.
00:54:46.70\00:54:51.23
We now want to
continue this work.
00:54:51.24\00:54:53.49
We want to build out
there our radio station.
00:54:53.50\00:54:58.05
It will cost at least a 150,000
U.S., Australian dollars.
00:54:58.06\00:55:04.76
I want you please to help
me to build our radio station
00:55:04.77\00:55:09.33
in the Solomon
Islands for the South Pacific
00:55:09.34\00:55:12.49
only a $150,000, you say.
00:55:12.50\00:55:16.31
Yeah, but it's a
lot if you don't have it
00:55:16.32\00:55:17.81
and I don't have it.
00:55:17.82\00:55:19.41
But if you believe
in this great work,
00:55:19.42\00:55:21.84
if you believe
that evangelism is
00:55:21.85\00:55:24.14
what the church is called to do
00:55:24.15\00:55:26.20
and by evangelism
00:55:26.21\00:55:27.33
I mean preaching
the gospel of Christ
00:55:27.34\00:55:30.27
telling people
about the blood atonement
00:55:30.28\00:55:32.86
preaching Christ
and His soon return.
00:55:32.87\00:55:35.65
And please write to me
and help me to raise the money
00:55:35.66\00:55:39.07
for our radio station
in the Solomon Islands,
00:55:39.08\00:55:42.54
write to me John
Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
00:55:42.55\00:55:45.96
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
00:55:45.97\00:55:48.51
And in Australia
write to me at Terrigal
00:55:48.52\00:55:51.79
the address on the screen
00:55:51.80\00:55:53.74
and please do it
today don't put it off,
00:55:53.75\00:55:56.80
we just comeback.
00:55:56.81\00:55:58.55
And even though we've
seen thousands come to God
00:55:58.56\00:56:02.06
the work is only just beginning.
00:56:02.07\00:56:05.31
Write to me today,
00:56:05.32\00:56:07.03
thank you for your
support and God bless you.
00:56:07.04\00:56:09.59
Write to us again,
00:56:11.49\00:56:12.76
Carter report at PO Box 1900,
00:56:12.77\00:56:16.25
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
00:56:16.26\00:56:20.13
We're pilgrims on the
journey of the narrow road
00:56:49.29\00:56:55.96
And those who've gone
before us line the way
00:56:55.97\00:57:02.75
Cheering on the
faithful, encouraging the weary
00:57:02.76\00:57:09.16
Their lives a stirring testament
00:57:09.17\00:57:12.63
To God's sustaining grace
00:57:12.64\00:57:17.66
Surrounded by so
great a cloud of witnesses
00:57:17.67\00:57:23.68
Let us run the race
not only for the prize
00:57:23.69\00:57:30.17
But as those
who've gone before us
00:57:30.18\00:57:33.54
Let us leave to those behind us
00:57:33.55\00:57:36.86
The heritage of faithfulness
passed on through godly lives
00:57:36.87\00:57:44.75
Oh, may all who come
behind us find us faithful
00:57:44.76\00:57:51.50
May the fire of our
devotion light their way
00:57:51.51\00:57:58.47